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Excerpt from Episode 420 of "The Motoshow" with returning guest Panam Palmer

"Thank you for the five eddies arasucka69, very cool! And as for your suggestion, no I don't think having a fan meetup in front of Arasaka tower would be a good idea. I mean don't get me wrong! I'm all for it personally, but Arasaka PR didn't really care for our last livestream - I guess having the big 'H' Hanako Arasaka making it to third place on our Most Pretentious Corpo Heiress Countdown really pissed them off…"

Panam raised an eyebrow. "Really? That high up? Doesn't the daughter of SovOil's CEO wear a fur coat made from cloned minks?"

The stream hostess winked her eyes playfully. "It's the golden fingers. That, and the whole "Princess of Arasaka" theme she seems to be going with. Look Panam, I'm just the champion of democracy! The people went to the poll and I just counted the votes." Motoko crossed her cyber arms in self satisfaction.

Panam shrugged her shoulders and sipped her chilled Broseph Ale. Motoko smiled at the camera and she moved on to the next tab on her screen.

"Sorry ghosties, but I think that will be our last super chat I'm going to read for now. I know, I know, you all have been so generous today! But we gotta take a break with some meaty content that most of our viewers want to see."

Panam paused.

"Wait, I thought we were finishing up the stream? It's been almost 3 hours."

Motoko returned a determined glare. "Not quite my nomad friend. There's an important topic that I absolutely have to report to the public."

The older woman sighed and leaned back on her purple gamer chair. "Motoko, I swear if you bring up your hateboner for XXL burritos again…"

[TIME ELAPSED: 15 MINUTES]

"It's perfectly doable!" Motoko yelled.

"Look, I'm just saying that trying to legally ban burritos from Night City would be a huge waste of time and money…" Panam tiredly rubbed her eyes. How does she keep ending up in these situations? Why does she keep accepting Motoko's invites?

Honestly, being a frequent guest on Motoko's little livestreams was pretty fun but holy hell was it tiring being the voice of reason against the insanity pouring out of her host's mouth. It felt super awkward and sometimes she wondered if this is what it felt like for Saul every time they had one of their recurring arguments.

She was currently in the girl's "studio" which was really pushing that definition seeing as it was just Motoko's living room - albeit one that underwent an impressive makeover every time a livestream was scheduled. An explosion of purple-themed decorations covered every surface of the room: Purple table cloth, purple chairs, purple curtains covering the windows, and even purple tech. Even the anime figurines and plushies on display were purple. Panam grudgingly admitted to herself that the large neon sign behind Motoko's chair was…slightly creative…but the glowing words ruined the effect for her.

Panam couldn't help but sigh every time she saw "THE MOTOSHOW" in bright radiant letters. It was just…so…gonkish and unpreem and so Motoko.

Motoko clicked her chromed fingers against the repurposed dining table in excitement. "And that's where I disagree. I have info from a verified source that proves…"

Her nomad guest raised an eyebrow. "What source? Your ass?"

"...that proves that there's a definite connection to crime in Night City and the consumption of XXL burritos! You can't deny the facts!" Motoko yelled into her mic as she slammed her fists on the table for emphasis.

Panam's expression clearly showed that she wasn't convinced. She rolled her eyes at the sudden increase in alerts from her laptop showing that the viewers didn't like her skepticism.

An explosion of "boos" and "purge the nonbeliever" and "you tell her kusanagi-sama" erupted from the live chat box in the corner of the screen. There were currently 10000+ active accounts texting and donating on chat, desperately hoping for their online goddess to show them attention.

Say what you want, but Motoko's core audience were a loyal, albeit zany, bunch.

Panam rubbed her eyes and groaned. "Motoko, if this is another conspiracy theory that you got from Gary then I'm going to leave…"

She knew it was a mistake letting Motoko invite that street preacher as a guest star.

Motoko looked genuinely offended at that. "But Gary's awesome! He was funny and passionate and he tells it as it is!"

She waved her hands at the chat window. "And my ghosties loved him! They're already begging for him to come back!"

"Please don't call your fandom that. How did that become a thing again?" Panam knew they were going off topic, but because the current topic was so stupid she really couldn't find it in herself to care.

Thankfully Motoko was easy to distract.

The purpled haired merc rubbed her hair sheepishly. "It was unintentional. Some of my fans caught me in Yoko's tavern when I was netrunning in my Ghost persona and it kinda grew from there…"

Panam couldn't help but laugh. "Really, your Icon name is Ghost? Why don't you change your alias to 'Enigma' or 'Zero'? It's about the same level of originality for a hacker."

"Wow, rude! I'll have you know that, while there might be many so-called 'ghosts' on the net, I'm the greatest of them all! I earned my Ghost credentials!" Motoko growled back playfully.

It was now Panam's turn to raise an eyebrow. "Should I be worried? Because if you mess with the numbers on my agent again then we're going to have words."

There was a dangerous silence as Motoko actually rubbed her chin in contemplation. "Hmmm…I know that was both a warning and a threat…but another prank war would do wonders for my ratings…"

"We are NOT doing another prank war! No one liked seeing the last one!" Panam practically screamed. Her poor baby still hasn't fully recovered from the last war. The trunk of her ride still smells like shaving cream…

"Excuse you, everyone loved our prank war!" Motoko jumped on the table and pointed her hand dramatically at Panam. "This is the Motoshow! I can guarantee that you're not going to see better content in NC!"

"Motoko, when Ziggurat offered you that special discount to host on their Garden site, I don't think this is what they had in mind." Panam feebly replied.

"Says you, I just reached 800K subscribers last week. So suck it."

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[SYSADMIN NOTE: I love this gonk kid so much lmao]
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