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Hello, everyone, don't don't start
with the diddling thing. No, lete,

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come in, Come in with I
don't care about anything. Don't have

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any of the beginning that would explain
why we're talking about fingers. Just come

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in with Mike saying, I don't
care about any fingers unless they're diddling me.

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I have a reputation to uphold.
It's very pristine. You don't very

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clean people. Well, first of
all, Happy New Year to both of

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you. It's actually not New Year's
yet, but if you're listening to us,

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it is. You thought we wouldn't
have an episode on January first,

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and we fucking wrong. Yeah,
a lot of people, they text me

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all the time. We do this. Two weeks one, I didn't do

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an episode. Have we ever missed
an episode? We There might have been

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like one time that there was like
an upload issue or something, and maybe

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we came in like an hour later
or something, but we read for it

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to be a day or too late
to hit an embargo. But that doesn't

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mean yeah, that doesn't mean we
missed it that right. Have we ever

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taken an episode off? Though?
I don't think so. No, we're

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very professional, man. But it's
twenty twenty four we're thinking. I'm going

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to ask you, guys, thinking
a few days ahead to twenty twenty four,

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what do you think has changed by
the time this episode goes up?

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How many times have you farted in
those two days, Dan, since the

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clock struck, since the ball fell
in times square until the time this episode

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goes up. No, from right
now when we're recording it, till right

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this episode goes up, until it
is, Oh, my times you fart

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into twenty eight in one each day
or total total? Oh, that's just

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what you know about. I bet
you that you fart all the time in

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your sleep and you're not like aware
of them. Those are probably like aware

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of farts. But I would kind
of like if there was like a little

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like odometer thing on my buttthole that
counted the farts. I think that's what

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it would say at the end,
like an objective sign and typic, not

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just me. Oh, I think
twenty eight, Like twenty eight like on

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your phone when it's like, oh, I got my steps in and it's

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like, oh, I've hit my
farcal apple watching your ass for a couple

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of days and then tells you,
yeah, it's a weird ass. We're

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all much more mature in twenty twenty
four that we can tell with certainty nothing

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nothing else is I don't think anything
will change. Oh wait, actually I've

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got a quick interior decor update for
video patrons. I guess you could describe

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it. Amanda got this from me
for my birthday. I finally put it

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up. Yeah, fire escape candle
plant holder. It's like escape. It's

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a it's a metal fire escape like
shelf. I'm describing for people who aren't

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looking at it, and I'm using
it. It's got good sunlight on that

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wall. I'm using it for the
propagating plants. You see some in water.

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Those are I trimmed off certain plants. You can put them in the

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water for a bit and they'll grow
roots, and then the ones in the

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pots are I repotted them. So
that's like my my neonatal care ward for

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plants. I think it wouldn't make
sense. It's funny that you said it

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would be a candlehold, because it
wouldn't make any sense a fire escape candle

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holder, because every candle would be
burning the level above it with the fire.

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The whole ideal fire holder does not
have another level right above the candle

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as the fire escapes are for escaping
fire, not housing it. That's true.

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That's true. You do not want
fire on your fire escape. I

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don't know what the fuck this wall
is for, but we're in like a

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brownstone townhouse right next to another one. So my father in law and I

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were drilling into the wall and we
hit concrete, and I don't know,

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you could see there's like inset bookshelves
below it. And I found it funny

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and maybe appropriate that we're actually drilling
a fire escape into concrete as they are

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in real life. I think I'm
not an architect, so it's functional,

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that's what you're saying. It's functional, and it's yes, on a miniature

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scale. Okay, drilling into concrete's
not fun though, but yeah, that's

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it's a nice it's a nice little
uh. I guess it's not even on

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camera until I move the camera,
but it's there. Reminds me of this

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reminds me of that show we all
do. Yeah, I'm reminded of the

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show when we're also doing the show, which is like coincidentally, we're both

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reminded of the show right now.
Yeah, Yeah, just kind of crazy

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feedback loop. Yeah, I start
fires and I always think about our show.

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Yeah, you're the Beavis of fire
Escape. I fart and think about

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our show. Yeah. Ah,
the guys would love this. As I

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light up another mall would Mary would
be proud as I rip ass I saw.

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We talked about Stop Making Sense going
back to theaters in September the remastered

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version. We missed it because of
wedding and COVID and preparing for our own

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wedding the next month. I saw
it last night. It's awesome. For

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those who don't know, it's the
Talking Heads, one of the first like

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concert films. Jonathan Demi, who
did Silence the Lambs, directed it.

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David Byrne wrote a for the stage. We saw it in the village last

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night. It's fantastic. It's phenomenal
if you can get it or go see

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it. It's back in theaters for
like a week in certain places. I'm

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not sure if it's just a New
York thing or not, but it's unreal.

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It's very weird to see the crowd
on the blu ray we have that's

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like on constant loop in our apartment. You can't see the crowd. It's

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too fuzzy, and you can see
little details like on their clothing. That's

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I never noticed before. The sound
sounds much better, like the guitar strings,

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the drums, the snare drums sounds
much crisper. It's it's unreal.

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I'm not like, I'm not usually
big on like if a remastered video game

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comes out, I'm like, sure, this looks better like Metroid Prime remastered.

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I get it, it looks better. I'm not usually that I don't

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normally care about that stuff. But
seeing something like this that I've been watching

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basically weekly in my apartment on the
big screen in remastered formats eye opening.

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That's awesome. Yeah, I like
it a lot. Best ever saw Iron

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Claw a couple of nights ago.
It was really good. Is zach Efron

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good in that? Yeah, it's
really good. Like everyone's really good,

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and it like, I think the
worry whenever there's like a mainstream thing about

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wrestling, is wrestling pant or conditioned
to be like, oh, this is

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just gonna be like made by people
that don't understand anything about wrestling, and

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they just like boil it down to
something it's not. And this was clearly

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made by people who like cared about
the history of the family, about the

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business and things like that there were
definitely things that like as a wrestling upsess,

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so I was like, that's not
what Rick Flair sounds or looks like.

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But ultimately like as a wider mainstream
Hollywood movie about wrestling, like it's

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just below i'd say the wrestler as
far as like, oh, this is

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actually very respectful of the business and
does a good job. Is what was

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the Steve Carell movie about wrestling?
Suff Okay? I think actually that was

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like act like Olympic wrestling not I
don't know what you're talking about. It

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was like Oscar. I think it
won a few oscars, like you can

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wrestle in the Olympic years ago.
I thought it was just interested, Yeah,

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really muscular people. You really like
those stupid guy like yeah, like

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earguards and and uh the assex shoes. That kind of wrestling and that shoot

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wrestling. Yeah, that's what's called. That's the Do you know who like

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the people that made Iron Claw Are
they from wrestling industry? Are they fans

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who make movies? I know,
I don't know these specific writers or directors

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or anything like that, but it's
just very clear based on like who they

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worked with and like they were bringing
in the right people, and like historically,

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most of the stuff they were saying
was was correct and stuff, even

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if some of the depictions were kind
of like eh, it's not. I

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mean, that's always the thing once
I historic, like, I know very

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well what Rick player looks and sounds
like. And I've seen this specific promo

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a million times. It's in the
movie, and it's like, Okay,

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well, to me, this feels
weird because that's not really what it looks

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or sounds like. But like to
someone who's not into wrestling, who sees

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this well made movie, it's just
like, okay, yeah, that's Rickclayer.

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So I try not to get mothered
by that. You know, could

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you imagine if there was an Olympic
wrestling that was stupid, where it's all

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pred but you still got like a
gold medal and it was still like Russia

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versus America, but everyone's just throwing
each other around and we just like predetermined

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who wins. I would argue against
that being in the Olympics. If that

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was the case, no place in
the real sporting world, nobody would suspect

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it. It's just so calculated to
go to that level and have it still

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be a farce. I think you
could really like. I think it would

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really unite the countries. I think
keep wrestling stupid is my thing. You

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know there's the like keep Austin weird
stuff. I think keep wrestling stupid is

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my twenty twenty four. You know
that's my mantle. Don't allow it to

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be important. No, no,
I want I'm stupid. I'm just looking

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up the actor who played Rick Flair, Aaron Dean Eisenberg. The first article

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I saw. I don't know.
The website fightful. I don't know.

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Yeah, yeah, I don't know
what their reputation's like. They had an

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op at about how his portrayal Rick
Flair is the best part of the movie.

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The differing opinions, I guess which
happens. Obviously, it's not terrible.

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It just I think they just got
the wrong guy to like. The

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guy didn't seem like a bad actor
or anything. It's just I think it

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was the wrong guy. But I
think people are super mad about it on

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the internet. But I don't know, it's not that big of a deal.

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Really. Gamers are like that too, where if they don't feel like

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the actor was the exact person to
play their beloved gaming character, they go

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crazy, but it doesn't have to
be this one on one identical replica.

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Yeah, but like god forbid,
tomb Raider doesn't look exactly like tom Raider

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too, tomb Raider to have this
like very specific look. I feel like

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maybe people on the internet just need
to chill out across the board mostly should

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they get mad about it is not
at all worth getting mad about. I

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agree. Sometimes it's also I've never
ablem of people's opinion on the Internet.

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I don't know what, Well,
you're just super online. Mike Maharty's always

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goes hot, takes hot, take
Mahardy over here, fucking reviews editor with

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his opinions. You probably have like
a bunch of nerve accounts, which is

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how you get out all your angst. So you're like, I really don't

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have an issue with anyone, and
then you're just like hot Rod for twenty

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is just like each ship, you
piece of ship. I fucking hate you.

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I'm gonna find you and kill you, and then you Marris Bangs on

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the video version, Oh my god, what the book is? War is

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for men? Of War is for
men. That's what I always say.

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Drudge is an indie those things that
one isn't that bad. That's the most

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vanilla you're talking about, Like really
sexist takes here. Yeah, Mike,

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if we're doing an impression, Mike, it's just got to be way more

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sexist. That's kind of I love. I love the bits where you just

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create an entirely different version of me
and then send it out the masses.

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It's a good time. It's going
to come back and bite me in the

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butt at some point. No,
we defend you. We'd be like,

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hey, check the context. We
were clearly just check check the context where

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I that I created to get him
in trouble, I fully vouch for him.

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I mean, we're all in trouble
with the sound bites from this show.

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Nobody escapes that. You know,
I've I've said some things that are

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not fair that I don't condone that
could look bad if if soundbited. I

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said I could eat a tough of
macaronio cheese, and I looked like a

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damn pool afford, couldn't that One's
just that's innocent stupidity. You're not gonna,

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like not get a government job because
of that. People will just think

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you're slow, right, have liked
really controversial, problematic presidents, and we

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have assumed that Mike really loves people
in jail for horrible crime. I just

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love war. Is that my thing? War an advertisement, especially when they

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collide. But yeah's about to have
companies and ads. That's great pro war

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Abrams with their new M eighteen tanking
And check this out, guys. For

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only thirty million, you can have
an M eighteen in the driveway. They

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sent me one. It's sick,
guys, It's sick. I'm a influencer,

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weird. Check out the cannon on
this, babe. Oh my god,

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it's got arranged. You can hit
a fly from here to Iran with

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it. It's crazy. Dan,
Dan, Relax, I'm just doing a

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bunch of gun YouTube videos of brock
Lesner. Yeah, that's my new career.

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Is he a gun guy? His
name is brock Lesner and he looks

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like that? What do you think
that's a very good point. I'd actually

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be surprised. I think it's more
like, oh, he is a gun

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influencer, Like there's now there are
YouTube videos he's done with companies. I

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swear to god, it looks like
he's holding a mini gun and he is

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just vaporizing prairie dogs. Like,
there is a YouTube video of him just

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annihilating gophers and prairie dogs for real. Yeah, it is insane and people

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like this man, well, what's
your definition to like, there's a lot

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to find interesting about him. I
don't know. Like we've talked before,

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he is a genuinely horrifying, like
terrifying. I would not want to be

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in the same the most city as
him if he was angry. I have

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talked to the man and looked in
his eyes, and he has shark eyes.

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He is. He is a terrifying
human being. Imagine speaking of shoot

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wrestling, dude used to shoot wrestle
for Minnesota, right, he was a

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champion, He was a UFC champion. He is like, I can imagine,

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how did he ever lose anything?
Has he lost anything? Like?

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Actually, he lost the UFC title
and a couple of his fights in uf

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because he was fighting with diperticulitis.
Oh it took a disease since they were

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like falling out and he was still
basically kicking people's asses. Jesus Christ.

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Scary guy. Of course, he
likes tanks and missiles related. No,

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I saw Past Lives. I watched
Past Lives, very good movie. Have

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you either seen that, Dan,
I don't think it's your thing. It

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would be your thing. It's a
romance from Selene song to like Childhood's sweethearts

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from Korea go separate ways. She
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in New York, and then the
Korean guy from her childhood comes back to

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visit her in New York. I
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It's been a hot minute. I
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comms. I just don't care for
that. You, Okay, So Past

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Lives, I will say, is
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It is. That's why I liked
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rom comms. But Past Lives is
incredible. I think it might be my

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Granted, I've not seen every movie
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seen fewer movies than any of maybe
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But Past Lives is my favorite i've
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Okay. I just went to my
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movies I've seen, which is like
fourteen hundred movies, and it does say

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that by genre. I've seen one
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counts like Titanic as a romance film, but a lot of people die in

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that, you know, Like that's
what I consider like so romantic. The

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person who I see are Joe Dirt
and Entrapment. Joe Dirt is not a

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romance. Comedy parts of Entrapment,
Yeahart, Trapped Guy, Sky Punch Shrunk

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Love zero zero a romance, say, is not a romance? Punshrunk Love.

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Sure, I see that, But
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of like when someone is like,
what if I made a super fucked up

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romance movie Andica is on here?
What that's not a roman dude, all

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the American pies, mister Deeds,
Mike Meyers, the love Guru, oh

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forgetting Sarah Marshall. Yeah, that's
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think like generally what they're saying is
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if it contains a romance, they
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don't think that's the actual you know, that's a tag. That's a tag.

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The wrestler is here. I don't
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that new romance movie The Wrestler with
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daughter and the guy has a fucked
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and you watched it in the last
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watched but Dazzled pretty often. I
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there's the one woman towards the end
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interest. But I wouldn't. I
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a rom com Her, the one
we're walking in Phoenix, wants to fuck

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his phone. I guess that it's
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a romance in the sense that her
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a guy loving a woman. It's
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like subversive. I guess. I
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Dan. I'm not recommending it to
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But Passlives is very good if you're
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hard. Wait, leaving Las Vegas
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That's what I would call that movie. Dysfunctional Mask The Mask is under romance.

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One of the most romantic movies I've
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don't know what Letterbox is talking about. I don't either the mask. Imagine

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like being like, honey, we
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long time. Go make some popcorn. I'm gonna pop a bottle of wine,

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and we're gonna watch soul Plant on
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suit. Let me put on the
Grinch and let's see what happens. It's

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just like, yes, there are
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but at no point can you possibly
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have a romance in them at some
point. It's so weird. Mars Forgetting

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Sarah Marshall is still very good.
We watch it like twice a year.

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That's the only one that I think
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imagine watching that twice a year.
You guys are fucking weird. That movie

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is not that good. And I'm
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that good twice a year or you
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We're watching Forgetting My Sarah Marshall again
March at October once or twice a

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year. You read a billion hobbies
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very deep into. You also to
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and a very active social life.
How are you watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall twice

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a year? I would take an
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crafted movie twice. Ye. Sorry, I don't monetize watching movies. Read

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back me up right and talk about
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I saw when I came out,
and I remember thinking it was quite good.

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I remember thinking it was quite good
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which was like three months ago.
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so like I that he's tough,
he's canceled. It's I mean, he's

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a he's a he's a weirdo.
He was an unsurprising one, right.

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I feel like from the time I
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first time, I was like,
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thousand. I was never intended to
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It's always been really weird because his
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weirdo that like uh, tends to
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people like looked up to him and
it's like, oh, he got over

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addiction. He's talking to all positive
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snake oily with that guy. And
I've I've, yes, absolutely, I've

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seen him come on a few talk
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ayah tribes about like I think we
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and everybody's thoughts are valid, and
I'm like, okay, in a

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perfect world, I get that.
But then he doesn't really actually say anything

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when someone challenges him. It's it's
he's just a pain. I just don't

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like him. I mean, there's
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also just viscerally cleared the air no
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you can't watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall anymore
anything anymore. I know I can't watch

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I can't watch
a fucking certain third movie and a boxing

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trilogy anymore. It's there's a lot
of think but Dazzle's fine, right,

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I hope, so Dazzled is still
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Elizabeth Hurley came out as like a
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that. I also like, hope
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up, because that has happened on
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be kind of shocking. I think
she's doing fine. I'm heavily assuming she's

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doing fine. But we'll see by
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we'll see how she's faring. Yes, God, I hope I don't

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kill Elizabeth Hurley. That would Please
don't kill Elizabeth Hurley. That would be

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such a weird Freudian like not at
a pole. She's not my mom,

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but like I kind of wish she
was. What, let's talk about video

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games. So yes, I think
we should pull this thread a little bit.

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Yea, let's go after this break. So you said, so Peter

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did not go to the cabin,
right, And this is what's sad.

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He decided to only do New Year's
because he was like, he's he didn't

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really feel like snowboarding, and he
was like, I'll just chill with you

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guys as soon as you're done with
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done with the cabin. Everyone got
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Like, we had a really good
time. We played uh we like snowboarded

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every day and then at night we
would just like watch really shitty movies or

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good movies. Katrina had never seen
the Thing, and then I played Escape

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from New York. Nice. Yeah, the Kurt Russell Yeah trilogy, Yeah

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good John Carpenter, Kurt Russell going
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amazing. Obviously Escape from New York
is like not as good as the Thing,

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but it was really good. And
she doesn't like scary movies, and

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so it's really good to be like
you can handle this because it's not it

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is scary. But I was like, it's not so much that it's like

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terrifying. It's more like a who
done it? And I think that's what

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makes that movie so good, is
like you don't actually know who's who's bad

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in it, And I think that's
so good. Ud it holds up fantastic

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and every time I see it,
I'm like, holy shit, this is

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still so intriguing to me. I'm
still actually not sure. And and they

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did this purposefully. You never really
know when everybody gets infected. There's lots

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of theories of when a character gets
infected in the Thing, but not all

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the time. Sometimes there's no conclusive
event that is it. Who's the guy

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who's with him at the end?
Uh, there's no conclusive evidence that that

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guy is infected. There's a heavy
assumption that he's infected, and there's a

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lot of reasons to assume he's infected, but there's no definitive proof that that

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dude is infected. And then if
you keep going backwards each character until it's

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like conclusive that they are infected,
and they start like freaking out, you

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don't really know yet. Yeah,
I find that they don't ever explain which

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is hell is? Why can't I
remember it? It's he's the actor is

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a I want to say it's Chibes, but it's not David. It's Keith

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David's character. Yeah, it's Keith
David's character. But childs That sounds good.

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Hold on, uh, like they
could either either of them could be

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the thing at the end. It's
like knives or something. But yeah,

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there's a there's a really good one
about like Child's child his name is Child's

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I was pretty close with and Chives
I was like I was like, it's

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like it's like knife Chibes childs.
I literally like threaded the needle, but

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like incorrectly. Both times. There's
this really good character, the doctor,

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and he starts freaking out halfway through
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They catch him ripping apart the helicopter, and then later and he's like he

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destroys their audio system, which is
really interesting, and he's like nobody's getting

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out, nobody's getting in or out, which to me makes me believe he's

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not infected, right, because the
thing wants to leave right transport, they

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shove him in a room and isolate
him because he's going crazy and he's shooting

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people, so they can't have him
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and he's got h a noose in
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mind and like possibly like gonna hang
himself, who knows. And then they

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check on him a second time and
he's like, I'm all better, I

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need to get out, let me
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because the thing would never make a
noose because the thing wants to live,

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It would never try and kill itself. But at some point when he's

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like, I'm good now when they
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was the fucking doctor that was building
a ship to leave. That was him.

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So when did he turn? He
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when they don't say why, they
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it is such a good mystery of
like when was the timeline when the doctor

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flipped positions and then started building a
goddamn like what do you call it?

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Spaceship underneath the ice to peace out? Such a good fucking movie. I

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think we should keep this SoundBite in. I think the Thing is like me,

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watching the Thing twice a year is
so much better than watching forgetting Sarah

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Marshall twice a year. That's fine, I have nothing to say about that

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is the thing, or forgetting Sarah
Marshall better. It's like, I feel

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like that's been done to death on
the internet, learned from Sarah Marshall on

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like the tenth watching when are you
like, oh my god, I've never

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noticed. I never saw this before, like you. Just last night I

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was like, hey, honey,
Russell Brand's kind of he sucks. She's

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not super too. She sprints into
the Living. She's like, oh my

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god, you're right. Look and
listen to this guy and everything about him.

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Maybe he sucks. Huh, I
have this guy seems cristy. Are

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you playing anything? Sorry, Harry, what you know? Russell Brand thoughts,

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I think we've I think we've really
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what I call it now. Russell
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Year, I had so many like
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funny all night. I said,
I said, it goes together like peanut,

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butter and butter. Oh yeah,
Now it's a common household saying.

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People say that all the time.
Since our Game of the Year show,

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God fucking people were like pointing out
we did an entire work day's worth of

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a show eight hours. Yeah.
Yeah. I came to a realization afterwards

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that I had like four Saturdays in
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like like three of my four big
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Jesus Christ, no wonder, I'm
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long while we were doing the show. And then as soon as we stopped

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rolling, my body was like,
oh my god, please, that's the

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sign of like if you're doing a
show you like, you know, it

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goes by so fast, Like I've
been on podcast episodes that aren't really and

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you do check your right. It's
like when you work a shitty job and

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you're so keenly aware of like,
Okay, I'm an hour and a half

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from break. I can take a
break in an hour. I can take

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a break, okay, thirty minutes, thirty more minutes, and I take

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a break and you're taking shits and
just you know, you're done shitting and

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you're just dried up, and you're
still just sitting there checking your phone because

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you don't want to go back to
your fucking call center desk. That's what

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I say after I go too,
I'm dry. There's nothing else in there.

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You know how Pegel I played sitting
on a toilet in the late two

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thousands in Kansas because I didn't want
to go back to my desk to answer

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GPS TEX support questions. I cover
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like a stuffed animal or something,
because when I'm driving and it's like a

403
00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.000
forty five or it's an hour long
drive. I will check the clock every

404
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:48.559
two minutes to be like, how
much left is on this drive, and

405
00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.160
it drives me up the wall so
I can't look anymore. I love having

406
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.799
something that just distracts me music or
podcast while I'm driving, just so that

407
00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:00.039
I'm not looking at that clock because
it's evil. Just reminds you of how

408
00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.759
much left you have to go,
especially we're doing something dry like driving,

409
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:11.680
like into pooping, so dry poopy
is more fun than driving. Use well,

410
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:14.039
it depends on the car, depends
on the road, depends on the

411
00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:18.039
poop. You can't poop for three
hours though, Okay, I gets to

412
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:22.519
rid the next challenge next time you're
in town. Jake with a stop Watch

413
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:30.400
with binoculars in the bathroom, can't
make me that was just me on this

414
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:36.799
one. No, it's fact check
it Jake, Mary and I. On

415
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:40.119
the other side of a one way
mirror and or two way mirror. I'm

416
00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:42.839
always confused by the nomenclature. Why
is it one way? Well, two

417
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:47.000
way mirror is just a window,
I know, but that's why I think

418
00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:52.200
that's what they're called. Like I
said, this called the windows. That's

419
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:56.200
a one way mirror is one person
can look and the other person gets a

420
00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:02.119
mirror like the interrogation window types.
One way mirror, also called two way

421
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.839
mirror is a reciprocal mirror that appears
reflected. And once I know that,

422
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:10.200
because a one way mirror is just
a mirror, and then a two way

423
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.880
mirror is a window, we got
to figure out a new interrogation screen.

424
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.680
Yeah, there's gotta be something better. But I want I want to make

425
00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:22.759
a house made of whatever we call
those. And then I roam around the

426
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.359
outside of the house while my Airbnb
guests are sound asleep. Wait, so

427
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:29.400
everyone on the outside can see everything
on the inside, and if you're on

428
00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:32.480
the inside, you can't. It's
a glass house. It's a glass I

429
00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:33.960
think. I don't know. Man, Frank Lloyd right, did it?

430
00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:40.640
Nah? He didn't. I but
they're not gonna find out noted pervert Frank

431
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:44.079
Lloyd right. Also, when the
airbnb guests show up to the house,

432
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:47.599
I'm pretty sure they'd catch on when
they see the house. Yeah. Well

433
00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:49.240
maybe it's like you know, they're
the bathroom stall things that have like the

434
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:52.640
frosted glass when you go in,
like there are a way that they have

435
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:56.720
the technology now to where it could
be opaque until you flip a switch or

436
00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.079
something and then YEA three of Ted
Lasso had that in her office. Have

437
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.240
you ever seen the bathrooms that are
glass doors and you can see the toilet

438
00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:10.680
and then when you lock it,
Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah. I

439
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:12.839
don't like that because what if you
accidentally don't lock it all the way and

440
00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:15.680
then you just poop it in a
mirror like in a window. I like

441
00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:21.759
having the option to let people watch
me. It's a nice I feel like

442
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:29.640
it. And then who I didn't
lock it? I hope no one's watched.

443
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:37.039
I hope no one's watching with a
megaphone. Apparently I'm screaming being loud.

444
00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:41.160
I think you're just screaming. I
hope no one's watching me poop.

445
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.000
I think it's the content of my
scream rather than the volume that's alarming my

446
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:51.079
wife. But have you guys played
video games of a break? Would you

447
00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:55.519
play? I have been? Go
ahead, Dan, Okay, A couple

448
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.279
quick ones? Okay, there you
go, you go first. You got

449
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:02.720
anything? Chaos? He's calling you
right. A big one I started playing

450
00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:07.640
was Cobalt Corp. Bank suggested it
to me. It is a indie game

451
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:13.680
that I would describe as Into the
Breach meets Slay the Spire. You're controlling

452
00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:17.079
these ships and like Into the Breach
you can see exactly what it's like a

453
00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:21.000
deck builder, and so you can
see exactly what the ship is going to

454
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:22.000
do your opponent ship is going to
do to you next turn, Like,

455
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:27.000
Okay, it's going to shoot me
for two damage from this cannon and then

456
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.240
it's gonna you know, heal itself
and do this. And so you can

457
00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:30.200
kind of plan ahead and be like, all right, if I put myself

458
00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:34.559
in this position and then I can
shoot this weak point. It's you've got

459
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:37.160
action points for your card. So
it's kind of got that Slay the Spire

460
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.759
element, but also has the positioning
and knowing what your enemy is going to

461
00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:44.680
do from Into the Breach and man, it got me real real quick.

462
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:47.000
It's very much a rogue light.
You're like end of the Breach, you're

463
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:51.559
getting different like captains that have different
sets of cards and abilities and things like

464
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.480
that, and uh, just the
battles are very quick. It's very very

465
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:58.839
good on Steam deck. It's I
heard it runs great on Switch that's what

466
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.480
banks playing on. And uh,
it's it's just been great since I've done

467
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:05.599
about six or seven pole runs of
it now and I'm still going trying to

468
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:08.519
like unlock everything, get all the
different cards, but highly recommend it if

469
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:13.160
you liked into the preachorst Lay.
The spire looks like, uh, it's

470
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.799
the divot. It looks yeah,
I was gonna say, like space ships.

471
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:20.440
It's also it looks like each of
your characters is like on a different

472
00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:24.319
turret on your space ship. Yes, like module section of your ship will

473
00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:27.359
do a different thing, so like
one of them will be like, oh,

474
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.680
it has these two cannons that you
can toggle between based on what's better

475
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.240
for positioning, and some of them
you can add you can like shuffle your

476
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.000
ship parts so like there's like actually
an empty spot between so like you could

477
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.319
position it so enemy shots will go
between there and not hurt you. So

478
00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:45.119
yeah, it's uh. I haven't
been quite like it, but well outside

479
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:50.240
of the two games I keep comparing
it to, but it looks good your

480
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:53.799
PC. Uh. I've played mostly
on steam Deck because I've been traveling for

481
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:58.039
the holidays, so yeah, yeah, so mainly on on steam Deck.

482
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:02.839
Also decided to play Doom Eternal again
because I never played all the way through

483
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:06.680
it, and I was like,
well, I forgot who was I was

484
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:07.920
talking to somebody in the last month
or so and they're like, man,

485
00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:10.599
that game kicks ass and said,
shit, I never beat that. And

486
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:15.079
it runs weirdly good on the steam
Deck. It's for for a game that

487
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:17.880
looks as good as it does.
It runs very smoothly on steam Deck,

488
00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:21.880
and it's really good. I see
why I kind of fell off before it

489
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:24.519
does, like there's almost too much
going on. For the first like two

490
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:28.079
missions, there's just way too much, like, Okay, well, here's

491
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:30.519
this flamethrower that you used to get
armor, and then here's this thing you

492
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:34.519
used to get this, and here's
one of seven different upgrade systems and the

493
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:37.320
collectibles and stuff. But once you
kind of get used to that and it

494
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:43.000
doesn't take super long. The action
is incredibly good in that game. I

495
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:46.880
would say the traversal stuff sometimes it
goes a little too hard on it,

496
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:51.800
and some of it is not very
clear, like where you're supposed to go

497
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.480
next or how you're supposed to get
to the next area, so it does

498
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:55.880
slow down. Like the pacing is
a little weird in the game. But

499
00:34:55.960 --> 00:35:00.559
whenever I'm in a like Combat Arena
in that game. It is pretty unmatched

500
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:05.920
in terms of just like fps,
mayam stuff. Okay, yeah, I've

501
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:08.280
been doing that quite a bit.
Yeah sorry, I just look at Coble

502
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:10.880
Car. Looks really good. I
feel like it's something. I'm going back

503
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:17.719
to Cobalt Core. But the image
of Cobalt Core looks like a child's cartoon,

504
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.840
and I think it's I don't want
to say it's not good. I

505
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:24.559
think it's adore. I think the
characters are really adorable. I think it's

506
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:29.039
great that they did that. But
I actually think that the image on Steam

507
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:34.559
on the store is really misleading.
When I'm like a visual novel or something,

508
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:43.119
it looks like an adorable like everything's
pastel and everyone has cute little button

509
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:47.079
noses and everyone like bubble. It
looks like a merry game, just to

510
00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:52.000
judge, because it looks like it
looks like you're about to bake a cake

511
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:54.239
for you know, in space,
and it's going to be like a Who's

512
00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:59.039
gonna bake the best tasting cake and
outer space game. That's what it looks

513
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:01.599
like to me. Yeah, yeah, from that keyard I'm looking at it

514
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:04.639
now, it totally does. But
then you look at the actual gameplay,

515
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:07.440
and it's just like, here's a
bunch of spaceships, like blowing tactical card

516
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:12.920
based battle. Yeah, I think
it's great. It's just really funny to

517
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:15.440
see the characters. What I will
say about this is like, I think

518
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:22.199
that that assumption is not great right
on my part. We should leave room

519
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:30.119
for really interesting tactical space games where
all the players look like adorable rodents.

520
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:34.920
Uh you know that bake great cakes. I think this is kind of nice,

521
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.840
and we shouldn't lead that assumption that
this kind of game can only occur

522
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:45.400
with like really brutal looking Uh,
you know, guys with stubble can be

523
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.159
in the cockpit here, Like,
why can't they be adorable little cartoon?

524
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.360
Why do they have to be dudes
with beards? Mike? Because video games

525
00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:00.119
are for men? How many talks
about it we did in the first segment.

526
00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:06.320
I'll do cat is over all.
Yeah, that's it, just so

527
00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:12.119
exhausted by his own stereotypes. God, that's our our new merges. Jake

528
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.679
Maharty twenty twenty four campaign stickers video
games are for men, men only.

529
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:21.920
Uh, I'm just that's how I
get on the ballot in all these states.

530
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:25.039
That are dropping Trump and men you
pick up that base. That's how

531
00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:30.440
my hearty guy, he knows.
And then they find out I hated Ragnarok,

532
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:34.639
They're like, no, never mind
vote for I don't know, you

533
00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:38.480
just didn't like the women in it, said, get out of my game.

534
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:44.280
Teach my son. I'm trying to
teach my son how not to cry

535
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:46.400
when a dog dies. Get the
fuck out of here. That's my sister.

536
00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:49.679
My sister does not like the new
guy of Wars at all. She

537
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:52.440
is obsessed with the original trilogy and
like the old cradles and she does not

538
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:58.440
like. Uh, well, we've
agreed that your sister's opinion is not not

539
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:02.880
something that we really like, consistently
agree with on this thing. Right now,

540
00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:07.519
Cayla, do you hear what Mary
said about you? I heard your

541
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:14.039
Resident Evil ratings, and I have
judged you that is the truth, and

542
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:20.079
I like you as a person.
I question your game rating. Okay,

543
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:22.679
that's fair. I forgot about the
Resident. I like that you torture your

544
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:25.440
brother and it looks like you could
chug a beer, and I think that's

545
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:34.199
cool. Systems are questionable. I
did one mean to bring up that.

546
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:38.079
I was just reminded of Paul Raikert
challenged me to a trivia contest. Yeah,

547
00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:42.039
we were drunk and he yelling about
you. I woke up. I

548
00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:45.440
woke up whatever. A few days
ago when Dan was in Kansas for the

549
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:51.519
holidays, and I woke up to
a missed FaceTime call from Dan. I

550
00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:54.360
don't know what time I had gone
to bed at a relatively allowed it was

551
00:38:54.440 --> 00:39:00.480
late. Yeah, And then a
follow up video in which Dan and uh,

552
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:06.880
your other sister and your dad were
at a bar and Paul was I

553
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.360
don't know, I'll i'll look back
at it. But basically, Paul was

554
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:13.599
just a claiming he was smarter than
me, and he challenged me to a

555
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:16.519
trivia contest to prove it. Yeah. He thinks since you like wine and

556
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:19.800
boats and stuff, that you're just
putting on airs and trying to be a

557
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:23.079
fancy guy. Most trivia is about
wine and boats. He's fun, so

558
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:25.800
he thinks he's over. He kept
yelling, He kept going to bars,

559
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:29.719
and this is my code. This
is a working man's bar. I'm from

560
00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:31.679
the dirt. This is like we're
this is where real men go. This

561
00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:35.719
is where it is dirt, dirt. Your parents are own a grocery store,

562
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:38.840
like you're talking about, Yeah,
how many how many like fucking nails

563
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:43.000
have you hit with a hammer in
your life? Paul, Yeah, a

564
00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:47.800
he fucking I had to tell him. We went to a bar in Kansas

565
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:53.079
City Christmaster. Yeah. He kept
saying that a gallant kind of a good

566
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:55.800
line though, but yeah, he's
not from I'm more dirty than he is.

567
00:39:55.840 --> 00:40:00.320
I'm dirtier than he is. At
a bar on Christmas Day. He

568
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:04.519
wanted to go to watch the Chiefs
game in Kansas City. So obviously the

569
00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:07.960
Chiefs are very big in Kansas City. Everyone's wearing Chief stuff. He wanted

570
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:09.679
to go to like root against them. And I was like, Dad,

571
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:14.400
if you get your ass kicked by
Chiefs fans for being an asshole, I'm

572
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:16.320
not going to defend you because I've
seen him do this before. And it's

573
00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:21.559
like like the Chiefs will throw an
interception and he'll be like yay yayo,

574
00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:23.760
I mean oops, like he'll like
be coy about it, like, oh,

575
00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:27.960
I didn't want that to happen,
yeah, you know, And so

576
00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:30.360
like Patrick Mahomes at one point got
tackled and as he was walking off the

577
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:32.760
field, my Dad's like, ooh, he's limp and he might be hurt,

578
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.239
he might be heard yay, and
I'm like, Dad, you're going

579
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.559
to get your ass kicked and a
monster. I cannot fucking defend you,

580
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:44.920
Like I don't even do about sports
or anything. That is just some troll

581
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:47.000
shit that I cannot get behind it
all. I mean, let's say for

582
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:51.800
a second though, that like he
is a good person and he got into

583
00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:55.159
a fight, you wouldn't defend him. You're not capable. You're not a

584
00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:00.360
fighting person. I like how dance
painting it as like this, this secret

585
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.400
weapon is no longer in Paul's art. Sorry, I can't defend you because

586
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:10.599
you're bad and this is morally wrong
the bar. Sorry, Paul, So

587
00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:15.440
I be your bodyguard? No,
no, I do have the weapon of

588
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:19.360
diffusing. I could get in and
be like, sorry, he's drunk,

589
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:22.079
he's just being like I'm a good
diffuser. I've never been in a fight,

590
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:23.519
you know. Like, so,
I'm not going to go in there

591
00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:27.599
and kick someone's ass on behalf of
my dad. But I could maybe diffuse

592
00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:30.920
a bit your political defense. You
would, you would be a buffer.

593
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:34.320
I mean, I think at the
very worst, maybe you could throw your

594
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.559
soft body in there to take a
few punches while your dad gets away.

595
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:39.960
I think that that's also a possibility, which I would not do in the

596
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.880
scenario at the bar. No,
No, well you can't because he's a

597
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:47.360
monster. If your dad takes a
punch, it's because your dad should have

598
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:52.519
taken that punch. Ye. If
you tell me a story later about how

599
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:55.760
your dad got beat up, my
response, much like Russell Brand, would

600
00:41:55.760 --> 00:42:01.679
be what did he do? And
say what happened before he took that punch,

601
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:06.800
because he probably said something. Were
people noticing that he was doing that?

602
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:09.440
Not because he wasn't drinking that day, but I have been at bars

603
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:15.320
with him when he's drinking, and
like he will be louder and more obvious

604
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:17.760
about it if he's drinking. But
no, he was just kind of like

605
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:22.400
silently rooting against them, and like
he likes seeing everyone get bummed out.

606
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:25.519
When the sports Shodenfreud, He's like, oh, look at him. They

607
00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:29.559
all these few big fans. They
don't yell. Yeah, you know,

608
00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:31.519
like, isn't he a big does
he? He's a big baseball fan,

609
00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:36.119
right, he loves the Royals.
But he said he almost got to the

610
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.719
point where he rooted against them because
they started getting too popular when they won

611
00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:42.840
the World Series. Because he's from
the dirt. He's from the dirty,

612
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:47.000
from the dirt, unlike us from
the clouds. Yeah, I'm from Jupiter.

613
00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:54.639
Oh oh god, Weeds because Boulevard
is like the local brewer in Kansas

614
00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:58.519
City and it is a Boulevard.
Weed just had normal ass beer and had

615
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:00.639
order him. Hey, look everyone, look at his pretentious wheat. He's

616
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:07.559
got a pretentious wheat, like a
default beer anytime Midwest if it is not

617
00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:10.440
Cores or Miller or Bud or PBR, Like I ordered a PBR once and

618
00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:13.480
he's like, are you gonna be
okay with that? Mister, big city?

619
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:20.559
Okay with that class beer? It's
a dollar Well he said, at

620
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:22.760
what points you? Oh, you
didn't get that at one of your fancy

621
00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:23.920
big city bodegas. Are you gonna
be okay? And it was like,

622
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:29.440
Dad, you don't know what ada
is. Bodegas aren't fancy. That's like

623
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:34.760
saying small castle that that's small castle. You can be okay with that.

624
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:36.800
That's a working man's beer. Are
you sure you can handle that? And

625
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:43.840
God, like Paul, I'm sponsored
by bud Light. I literally make them

626
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:49.119
money. Although I actually am now
a local breweries. Yeah, that's unpretentious

627
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.239
again, Yeah your hipster now,
but yeah, that was a fun video

628
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:59.360
to wake up to. And then
but I don't know trivia. I'm I'm

629
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:01.360
hit or miss with trivia. I
would facilitate it. I would love to

630
00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:07.360
make that happen sometime. I it
would very much depend on what the trivia

631
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:09.000
contest is fun because it's not at
all a measure of intelligence, but we

632
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:12.840
can use it for bragging rights whenever
we win. Exactly, Yes, it's

633
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:20.400
good for that. I've been on
a an old I've so okay. Actually,

634
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:24.199
here's something cool. Battle for middle
Earth too? Uh? When it

635
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:30.239
and Battle for Middle Earth? Electronic
Arts published Lord of the Rings. Real

636
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:34.519
time strategy games from the early two
thousands are not in any digital storefronts.

637
00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:37.760
EA's license with Lord of the Rings
ran out, and so it's not on

638
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:42.800
Origin. They can't put it on
there. They also like, I don't

639
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:47.559
know what the back room dealings are
where no one's really like letting anyone remaster

640
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:52.760
it. I really don't know.
But basically, you cannot play these games

641
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:59.159
legally unless you have the original CD. It was the era of PC games

642
00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:01.719
where you when you installed the game, you had to use the key on

643
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:06.559
the back of the game manual.
So every time I go back to my

644
00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:09.360
parents, I'm looking for them.
But my dad found this like stray box

645
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:13.840
in the back of the storage room
that basically I found Battle of Middler two

646
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:16.800
with the manual with the cdkey and
Which King of Angmar with the expansion with

647
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:22.239
the cdkey. My PC does not
have a disk drive, so my dad

648
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.800
also just had an external disk drive
that I can connect. It's like USBN

649
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:29.800
one side, micro USB on the
other. I've been playing those games and

650
00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:30.719
it is the weird and I got
them running. I had to down I

651
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:34.719
had to mess with the inne files
a bit to get them to launch correctly

652
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:38.400
on Windows ten. But I've been
playing those and I've also been playing Star

653
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:44.440
Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, just doing like
a nostalgic. I intended it as more

654
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:45.800
of an nostalgic. I want to
play some RTS games I used to play

655
00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:49.880
when I was like way too much
when I was young, But it turns

656
00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:54.119
out they're all still very good even
by today's standards. Galactic battleground is way

657
00:45:54.119 --> 00:45:59.280
better than I remember. I remember
having a lot of balance issues, but

658
00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:02.920
it's just like not as smart back
then. Definitely, that's exactly what it

659
00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:07.400
was. My taste was worse as
well, and I'm much smarter now and

660
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:09.960
my taste is impeccable, and now
I'm playing this game and it's it's still

661
00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:14.760
really good. I believe ages really
well. I mean, there's something about

662
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:16.599
just the look and just the tactical
nature of it that, like when we

663
00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:20.840
played Command and Conquer when they did
the remaster and me and you didn't frames

664
00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:22.840
with that just as fun as I
remember it. It's and it's also you

665
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:28.320
get such different things from these games
too. It's like Galactic Battlegrounds. I

666
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:30.840
believe it's on the age of Empires
two engine. So there's actually a lot

667
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:37.639
of nuance for a licensed Star Wars
game. It's astounding how many strategy nuances

668
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:43.159
there are and options for like different
unit behavior. The pathing is generally good.

669
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:45.000
I wouldn't say the same thing for
Battle for mid Earth, but like

670
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.960
even Battle fro mid to Earth,
so much care and attention went into representing

671
00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:53.159
the licenses really well, but also
just being very good games in their own

672
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:58.880
right. But then you go over
to Command and Conquer and it's just bullshit.

673
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:02.559
Cartoony awesome, some nukes and you
can destroy a building with one dude

674
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:07.079
with an assault rifle if you're patient
enough where you cannot do that in the

675
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:10.679
Star Wars game. But then you
go over to what do you want?

676
00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:15.320
Like they are billions and it's this
zombie defense Turtler's dream kind of thing.

677
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:22.800
Like the amount of craft in the
RTS space basically since its inception is just

678
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:25.400
as sound. I mean, obviously, StarCraft two Warcraft three are still very

679
00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:30.000
good even by today's standards. They
age well. I don't think they all

680
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.559
look good. I Warcraft three I
don't think looks good anymore, but something

681
00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:37.960
like Age of Empires two still looks
gorgeous. It's almost like sprites. They're

682
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:42.880
not sprites, but they almost are. I know, I never really liked

683
00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:46.480
once things started moving into three D. You know, the gameplay was very

684
00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:51.599
similar like Warcraft three Command of Conquer
Generals like these are the ones that like

685
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:54.519
moved it into actual like polygons,
and I think you lost something there.

686
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:58.960
Like I feel like Redtler two is
my ideal look for ANOTHS game. You

687
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:04.199
know, General's got way too General's
was going for like a hyper realistic I

688
00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:07.719
mean the Zero Hour. The expansion
to Generals if you've never played it is

689
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:10.159
awesome because you get all those themed
generals leaders you can use, and one

690
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:15.920
dude just is obsessed with lasers,
so all his ship has lasers. But

691
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:22.840
General's definitely also the enemy. The
three factions were absolutely just thinly veiled stand

692
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:25.760
ins for like what was going on
in the world and two thousand and six

693
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:28.719
or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
it was mid two thousands. It was

694
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:30.000
full on like Iraq, and it
was just like it was just everything was

695
00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:36.480
kind of like, yeah, and
Red Alert was always so fucking goofy,

696
00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:38.760
even you know, the it was
based around World War Two, but it

697
00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:42.920
was like wacky, like you know, warping Einstein around. It was a

698
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.239
weird still alternate history post War Wars. Yeah, yeah, it was Red

699
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:51.880
Dawn, but with Nikola Tesla was
you know, inducted into the Soviet to

700
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.920
like for weaponry. But yeah,
and then Home World three is not far

701
00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:59.760
off on the way, like one
of the original artists is getting another game.

702
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.119
It's been fun. I'm also still
like finishing Jedi Survivor and I'm playing

703
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:09.360
a shit ton of Marvel's Midnight Suns. Finally, I Dove into that.

704
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:14.280
That's a whole separate thing. Really
quickly. I'll just say real timee strategy

705
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.719
games are still very good genre and
some of the best. I wish it

706
00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:22.360
wasn't so niche as I mean,
it's it's almost not niche, but it's

707
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.440
still pretty niche compared to a lot
of things today. I think it's intimidating

708
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:34.159
for like regular average people to get
into. Like I remember my introduction to

709
00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:40.079
RTS was going to bars and watching
professional StarCraft tournaments. It was so so

710
00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:45.679
many rules and so much to absorb. I felt like I was completely out

711
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:52.119
of my element playing my first StarCraft
game. I felt like I just there

712
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:57.880
was too much to climb. And
I did enjoy it, but I never

713
00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:02.280
really got super into it competitively because
it's so intimidating. Same thing, actions

714
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:05.800
per minutent and stuff like that.
Yeah, I mean, same thing with

715
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:08.920
like DODA or League of Legends.
It's there's just so much to absorb.

716
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:15.159
I find it to be difficult for
newcomers. Also, it's a very toxic

717
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:21.800
environment. Not that all games don't
have toxicity in their player base, but

718
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:28.400
being a new player in DODA,
I have seen what happens to those players

719
00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:32.559
and they're just constantly yelled at.
It's really hard unless you have a group

720
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:37.039
of people that are like you will
play with us, we will teach you,

721
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:39.719
and then you can turn off chat
outside of the people that are your

722
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:44.280
friends so that nobody screams at you
all the time. I think that's the

723
00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:46.719
thing, is like, because I
don't have any memories of like toxic stuff

724
00:50:46.719 --> 00:50:50.239
with RTS or anything like that,
because the way I always played was I

725
00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:52.360
would play the campaign and learn kind
of the mechanics and stuff, and then

726
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:57.840
I would do skirmishes where I'm just
doing like a war against AI players.

727
00:50:58.239 --> 00:51:00.920
And when I played multiplayer, it
was as my friends. I remember I

728
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:02.360
played a ton of Reddler two in
the dorms where it's like we would get

729
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:06.199
like five or six of us on
the same network on the same dorm floor

730
00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:07.679
playing against each other, so like
none of us were Like the idea of

731
00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:10.880
like actions per minute and stuff like
that is not a concept I even heard

732
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:15.639
of until like I was working at
Game Informer and covering StarCraft and stuff.

733
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:20.159
So like online play, I've never
ever really been big on with like randos

734
00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:23.320
at least I play against friends or
do AI and that its like Doda and

735
00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:27.280
Mobia and League and stuff like that. Like, I've never had any interest

736
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.000
in that whatsoever, because like everyone's
going to take it so fucking seriously,

737
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:34.480
it's playing against Rando's. It's like, none of that sounds appealing to me.

738
00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:37.800
If you for those who haven't seen
it, was it with Giant Bomb

739
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:40.719
Dan the Redduler two thing we did, or was that on our streams on

740
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:45.639
my stream early pandemic that's I'm assuming
still archives on your Twitch channel. Maybe

741
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:49.880
it's it's like a sixtubing. I
don't know, it's I don't know if

742
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:52.079
it's anywhere. Did we not up
do a vod? That was super fun?

743
00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:54.920
I mean I would have the vile
somewhere, but I don't think we

744
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:58.679
actually have it. No, it's
not on there, you just put it

745
00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:01.280
on. We could put it on
our YouTube channel for people want to watch

746
00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:06.000
on fire Escapes. But yeah,
if you find it again, we should

747
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:07.960
do something like that. No,
that's what I say. That was super

748
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:09.760
fun. The Super Mega Baseball thing
was fun. But the Commandic Cock Reddler

749
00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:13.880
two for those who didn't see it, like three years ago or whenever we

750
00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:16.119
did it, we just set up, we figured out what do we have

751
00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:20.599
to do because the Comandic Cocker Remaster
collection came out several years ago. It's

752
00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:24.360
incredible. Petrick Glift did an amazing
job. Also all the archival stuff behind

753
00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:30.119
the scenes, the development stuff,
all the cutscene like outtakes that they included

754
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:34.840
with that. One of the best
like remasters in terms of archival and preservation,

755
00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:37.719
and also just the game's work really
well. We did have to do

756
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:43.440
some I forget the site. We
had to use the like fan run servers

757
00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:47.599
for Redler two because you can't play
those player versus player anymore online. I

758
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:51.400
think you could probably still do land, but you can download them on like

759
00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:52.880
it was EA Origin at the time. But then you had to get like

760
00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:58.199
certain files to throw in. Yeah, cause but we what do we do?

761
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:01.480
We did like Best of seven team
was it was a lot you.

762
00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:05.480
You definitely came out. I think
you won like double the numbers I did.

763
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.039
I buy the because you're you were
fun to play against, and it's

764
00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:14.079
also fun to do a series because
you start to learn the other person's habits.

765
00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:16.840
And I definitely rushed you like three
times in a row and got those

766
00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:21.599
wins, so then you started building
up. But I remember there was several

767
00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:27.480
times. There's such Reddler two is
so fun because it's so imbalanced. There's

768
00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:30.039
some units that are basically useless,
like the Chrono Legionnaire guys who warp and

769
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:37.119
then make buildings like cease to exist. Like dogs. They suck. Dogs

770
00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:40.679
suck. Yeah, like a hundred
rocketeers in your andre. But no,

771
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:45.760
you there was that one. The
the like quintessential Reddlert two match is like

772
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:49.920
when I'm building an army of laser
prism tanks and then all of a sudden,

773
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:53.039
as I'm coming towards your base,
I see this lone chinook with eight

774
00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:57.639
of the same woman with dual wielding
pistols climbing out at the back of my

775
00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:00.880
base to put t and t on
all of my buildings. Like god,

776
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:05.000
damn it, and I didn't clicking
eight different times. You blow that up?

777
00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:07.719
You get that. I just hear
in the distance, like I forget

778
00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:10.840
what her voice line is. She's
like, wack a load, let's do

779
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:14.679
it. Yeah, it's on my
radar. Damn it. Every time I

780
00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:15.880
think of that game, I just
want to play it. That game.

781
00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:20.599
Yeah, it's it's one of the
best ever. But which is all to

782
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:23.000
say it's been again, I meant
it more as like a nostalgic exercise going

783
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:27.679
back. I was sorting through my
the games I left at my parents twelve

784
00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:34.159
years ago, and I'm like fully
into all the Galactic Battlegrounds campaigns. Really

785
00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:37.000
good game if you haven't played it, and there's a you can doubt that

786
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:40.360
is easily available on Steam. Actually
I need to double check. But a

787
00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:45.159
few days ago there was an absurd
Star Wars selle on Steam. They weren't

788
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:49.719
specifying when it would end or what
the occasion was, but you could get

789
00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:53.199
some classic Star Wars games for like
two dollars. I got the Galactic battleground

790
00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:58.199
Saga, which is the base game, and the Clone Wars expansion for two

791
00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:01.960
dollars, which is crazy. Even
in twenty twenty three, like the Force

792
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:05.639
and Leash games were on there.
Jedi Fallen Order was like eight dollars.

793
00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:07.480
If it's still there, go do
this. I don't know when it ends

794
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:10.960
because they didn't say, but I
mean there are some good Star Wars games

795
00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:16.119
and Steam has that crazy sell right
now? Mary, have you been playing

796
00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:20.639
anything else ysides the Lethal Company?
You know Lethal Company has been I didn't

797
00:55:20.679 --> 00:55:22.599
talk about it yet. Oh yeah, that was off camera. Sorry,

798
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:29.199
you completely. You have not asked
me what I've been playing yet, so

799
00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:34.840
I can't tell you what have you
been playing? Well, Mary, you

800
00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:38.039
know how he feels about women in
video games, So you've been playing video

801
00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:44.440
games? Verry? What the fuck? Sorry? I was just the men

802
00:55:44.480 --> 00:55:49.840
were talking him on the side,
Marry what she's playing? He's like,

803
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:59.000
fuck that satire anymore. I don't
like that joke. Mary, How's Leafing

804
00:55:59.079 --> 00:56:07.320
Company? Do you sound up saying
that? Mary, how's the video game

805
00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:14.599
you've been playing? Okay, it's
true. Before we were recording, I'm

806
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:20.840
trying to convince Mike and Dan to
play Lethal Company with me because it's so

807
00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:23.440
fun. And Jake. I actually
tried to get Jake to play two nights

808
00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:28.320
ago and he said to me,
I don't have a computer right now.

809
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:31.079
And I called him a bitch and
he said, for not having a computer,

810
00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:39.239
it's so good. I think you
should the end of that I did,

811
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:44.679
Okay, Sorry, Yeah, he
should have had a computer. This

812
00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:51.000
game is absolutely worth everybody here playing. It is so simple in its design

813
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:59.360
but so beautifully executed. The easiest
way I've been comparing it is Pasmophobia,

814
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:05.159
which we're wires about four people to
get together collaborate to find ghosts. But

815
00:57:05.440 --> 00:57:08.280
in fasmophobia can take like forty five
minutes for you to get scared and figure

816
00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:14.039
out what you're doing and how to
do all the rules of the game.

817
00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:16.880
This is so easy you don't need
to know anything going into it. I

818
00:57:17.159 --> 00:57:22.159
got an incredible experience within twenty minutes. Twenty minutes, I had a really

819
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:25.320
fucking good time. You're on a
ship with a bunch of people, you

820
00:57:25.400 --> 00:57:30.320
run out, you go into different
rooms. They're all seated, so you

821
00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:32.840
never know what you're going to see. In these procedurally generated spaces, you're

822
00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:37.079
just trying to get items that you
can sell them to survive another day.

823
00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:42.880
But there's monsters in there too,
and holy shit, the variety in the

824
00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:49.559
monsters allows you to be so scared
consistently. The very first monster I ever

825
00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:52.320
had was a blob, which is
not that scary. They're pretty slow,

826
00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:58.000
but over time they just slowly go
towards you, so you and your friends

827
00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:00.840
are trying to dodge it or run
away from it. It can kill you,

828
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:06.199
but it's very slow. The next
time I played, there was a

829
00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:14.239
horrible humanoid covered in spikes that like
shook towards me that scared the absolute shit

830
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:17.599
out of me and killed me.
It's a very scary game, but shockingly,

831
00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:22.880
most of it is funny. It's
just extremely funny how you die and

832
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:25.719
how your friends die, and how
you sacrifice each other or run like hell,

833
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:30.079
just like a total baby running away. Well, and the way it's

834
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:34.239
presented adds to the humor because like
it's proximity like fastmophobia. It's got that

835
00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:37.559
proximity based voice chat and you can
buy walkie talkies and stuff like that.

836
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:39.960
But there's one clip that I was
just dying watching where we play it with

837
00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:44.239
Giant Bomb and Mike Natty was getting
chased by a spider at one point,

838
00:58:44.280 --> 00:58:46.679
and you're just walking, You're running
through all these like very just kind of

839
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:51.039
metal hallways and stuff like that.
So it's like a cartoon. You're just

840
00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:53.719
seeing Mike's character run down a hallway
being chased by a spider, and you

841
00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:58.159
hear him screaming and his voice is
trailing off. But then as he starts

842
00:58:58.199 --> 00:59:00.559
coming back, you start hearing it
it louder, and he's still getting chased

843
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:04.679
by the spider. It's like a
cartoon. It's fucking hilarious and it's pretty

844
00:59:04.679 --> 00:59:07.800
good. I really, I'm with
you. I think we should play this

845
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:09.280
together. That sound because I'm only
played with the group of like nine.

846
00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:13.599
We had to do a mod where
you could play with more people, So

847
00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:15.960
I would love to see like a
more focused, like, you know,

848
00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:17.199
the three or four of us playing
it. Like, I think that'd be

849
00:59:17.239 --> 00:59:22.079
great. Nine sounds like a nightmare
to be able to know who's talking and

850
00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:25.639
what's happening. I think it's really
I deal with three or four people,

851
00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:30.320
and it's really interesting when you've learned
to min max the game a little bit.

852
00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:34.639
We found that if you keep someone
at the ship, it's they get

853
00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:37.960
to scan, which means they can
see where all the prizes are. They

854
00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:40.119
can also see where prizes you know, the items, and they can also

855
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:44.480
see where the monsters are, and
so on a walkie talkie they can tell

856
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:46.679
you where to go to find all
the items to avoid monsters. If you

857
00:59:46.719 --> 00:59:50.559
do that, we were able to
actually accrue a lot of money and go

858
00:59:50.639 --> 00:59:53.239
to the further planets. But the
further planets that you go to, the

859
00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:59.719
more fucked the monsters are. Actually, I was pretty shocked at some of

860
00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:05.039
the the just frightening level of monsters
that they had one of them. It's

861
01:00:05.159 --> 01:00:07.599
just so funny the variety. But
like one of them was just like a

862
01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:12.039
little girl and she's dressed in like
a little blue dress and she explodes you

863
01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:15.079
with her brain. She doesn't need
to touch you. If you look at

864
01:00:15.079 --> 01:00:20.760
her, she'll just explode you.
No, I watched my friend like pop

865
01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.920
pop from looking at her, which
just makes me want to play more because

866
01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:28.400
I've just had the one session.
I've only seen like the Spider and Wells.

867
01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:30.039
The main thing I've seen is like
the Spider. I'll tell you another

868
01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:35.039
one there was. I think it's
I say this like with Spoils a little

869
01:00:35.079 --> 01:00:37.599
bit because I think some of the
joy is finding a new monster, because

870
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:42.679
there's so much variety in some of
the things that will absolutely terrify you.

871
01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:50.519
One of the ones that I'll never
forget is I watched Uh, I watched

872
01:00:50.559 --> 01:00:52.599
this. It looks like a book
or something maybe, and it attaches to

873
01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:57.960
someone's face and it kills them,
but then it becomes them like a mask

874
01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:05.039
and it it essentially is a mimic
and it kind of looks like one of

875
01:01:05.039 --> 01:01:09.039
the characters and it takes their voice
chat and sounds like them. And I

876
01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:14.960
knew that the person was a mimic, and so I left. You know,

877
01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:17.320
you can leave the space if you're
scared, and we all as a

878
01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:22.480
group left the space, and the
mimic left the space too, and it

879
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:25.559
sounds like your friend. It's like, yes, eh, that's creepy.

880
01:01:25.719 --> 01:01:30.679
It can't say a lot. Yeah, it was awful. Was we were

881
01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:34.719
terrified. We were all running down
the stairs and if I looked up,

882
01:01:34.760 --> 01:01:37.960
I could see it kind of running
down after us. We're screaming, we're

883
01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:43.519
freaking out. We run to another
set of stairs and I see my friend

884
01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:45.920
Peter and I'm like, Peter,
you're you right, and he's like yeah,

885
01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:51.280
I'm me And then I turn around
and it killed me. And so

886
01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:54.199
the mimic was either Peter, which
I actually never determined, or it was

887
01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:58.679
another It was the thing was behind
us and it killed me and Peter at

888
01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:01.239
the same time. It was just
like fucked up. We really weren't able

889
01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:06.760
to determine like what happened, but
it was very much the thing, which

890
01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:09.559
is like nobody could trust anybody.
We were scared shitless. We were just

891
01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:14.639
like running around freaking out. It's
a brilliant design. It is silly.

892
01:02:14.679 --> 01:02:17.599
It's made by one person, so
it's kind of there's like some glitchiness to

893
01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:20.960
it, but I also think that
adds to its charm, which is like

894
01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:24.079
you look silly when you're running and
jumping and there's no guns, Like it's

895
01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:31.599
so hard to defend yourself, but
it leads to really delightful results with your

896
01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:36.039
friends. And so I like,
I can't push this enough, Like we

897
01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:37.719
have to play this game. I'm
playing it all the time. I put

898
01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:40.880
like it's crazy how many hours I
put to over a break, but I

899
01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:44.880
keep playing it every night. I'm
texting. I am the annoying friend that's

900
01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:46.239
texting people saying, come play this
game with me right now. And I

901
01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:50.599
think it is a game that does
it does help to have one person that

902
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:52.519
has like I've done that one session
with it, but you obviously know way

903
01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:58.280
more about it. So I agree
what to do? Yeah, I mean

904
01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:01.719
even then, I'm not like that
good, but like I could functionally get

905
01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:06.000
you through this game. Well,
I mean, we'll die. But that's

906
01:03:06.039 --> 01:03:07.840
also kind of like a brilliant thing
about this game is the loop is really

907
01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:14.119
quick and easy. So every day
in this game, it's it's twelve,

908
01:03:14.159 --> 01:03:15.599
like you basically like wake up at
eight in the morning and the ship takes

909
01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:17.960
off at midnight, so you only
have so much time and it goes quickly.

910
01:03:19.079 --> 01:03:22.159
I want to say, a day
in this game is like fifteen maybe

911
01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:27.519
twenty minutes. It's short, so
if you die, you just start a

912
01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:30.159
new day. It's not a big
deal. And you die a lot in

913
01:03:30.199 --> 01:03:32.199
this game, and that's okay.
Nobody gets mad if you die, like

914
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:37.519
you just respawn the next day.
So it's it's a really seamless loop that

915
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:44.199
encourages you to play play dumb,
play for fun, die, rinse,

916
01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:46.519
repeat, And I think something like
that should be eligible, like next year

917
01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:49.920
when we're doing like best Play with
Buds of the Year, like that was

918
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.119
after the cutoff, Like I think, I think anything that we started playing

919
01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:57.159
after you guys were here, I
think that should be eligible. Form I

920
01:03:57.159 --> 01:03:59.679
would have put this in my top
ten with how much I've been playing it

921
01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:05.599
over break. I really do think
it's it's a brilliant design and it's it's

922
01:04:05.679 --> 01:04:11.599
worth everybody. It's also ten bucks. If it's on game Pass, I

923
01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:15.519
will jump out the window. It's
ten dollars, which is such a good

924
01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:20.119
price point for a game. A
lot of games today, even indies or

925
01:04:20.159 --> 01:04:23.800
smaller games, they're twenty five dollars, which is like, uh, like,

926
01:04:23.800 --> 01:04:27.159
do I want to spend twenty five
dollars today? Ten bucks? It's

927
01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:31.559
a lunch. You can spend ten
bucks on a game that you can spend

928
01:04:31.639 --> 01:04:35.440
this much time on. I think
it's a great, great price point.

929
01:04:35.719 --> 01:04:39.079
Let's let's get on the calendar and
really make a point to play it,

930
01:04:39.079 --> 01:04:42.119
because I do think. You know, we wanted to do multiplayer games for

931
01:04:42.159 --> 01:04:44.840
so long together, and it's just
with all of our schedules it's been impossible.

932
01:04:44.880 --> 01:04:46.559
But like, let's let's just plan
for it. And three it didn't

933
01:04:46.599 --> 01:04:50.119
work for the Flairs like month,
I know that was that was sad because

934
01:04:50.119 --> 01:04:54.320
we were all into it. But
this game works. Oh yeah, yeah

935
01:04:54.320 --> 01:04:56.280
we tried for one. Yeah,
yeah, go to that too. I

936
01:04:56.360 --> 01:04:58.880
wanted to play that, but yeah, Lethal Company is the priority. I

937
01:04:59.159 --> 01:05:00.920
hear such great thing and I've edited
stories about it at work, but I

938
01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:03.599
have not touched it yet. Yeah, let's past track it. We should

939
01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:10.719
do that. Let's do it any
other games. I'll briefly say I've played

940
01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:14.039
a good amount of House Flip for
two. It's good. It's satisfying in

941
01:05:14.039 --> 01:05:15.760
that way that like Powerwash simulator is
where you walk into a place and it's

942
01:05:15.800 --> 01:05:17.519
like, man, this place is
all fucked up, and then you do

943
01:05:17.559 --> 01:05:20.559
a bunch of stuff and it looks
really good. It just has more variety

944
01:05:20.599 --> 01:05:24.719
in the stuff you're doing than like
a Powerwash simulator, which you know,

945
01:05:25.280 --> 01:05:28.000
I don't know there. I like
the simplicity of Powerwash, but I also

946
01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:30.880
do appreciate the like like I have
my own system where it's like, Okay,

947
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:31.599
first I pick up all the trash, then I clean up all the

948
01:05:31.639 --> 01:05:34.119
stains, and then I start stripping
off the wallpaper and changing it. Like

949
01:05:34.159 --> 01:05:38.239
it's it's very, very satisfying.
So I didn't play a ton of the

950
01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:42.440
first one, but I'm seeing the
appeal of this one. I brought up

951
01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:46.400
Marvel's Midnight Suns I'll say briefly as
well. Still don't really care about Marvel,

952
01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:50.159
and I am very into this game. Though I mean anything, I

953
01:05:50.199 --> 01:05:56.960
love anything for Axis puts out.
The writing. The voice acting in this

954
01:05:57.039 --> 01:06:00.440
is not my favorite, but it
it sucks because you kind of start the

955
01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:03.199
game with two of the most boring
characters, Doctor Strange and Iron Man,

956
01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:08.519
but then you start unlocking some better
written characters. All that aside, I'm

957
01:06:08.559 --> 01:06:13.840
still not like playing it for the
story or I'm playing it because I'm enjoying

958
01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:18.599
the three houses sclop of going back
and doing these kind of persona gamified relationship

959
01:06:18.639 --> 01:06:24.320
dialogue trees, et cetera, exploring
the abbey grounds, finding little like collectibles

960
01:06:24.360 --> 01:06:29.960
and whatnot. But then, God, the combat. The deck based deck

961
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:34.280
building, turn based combat in that
is just incredible. Like it's a shame.

962
01:06:34.320 --> 01:06:36.920
If you don't like Marvel, you
probably wouldn't pick this game up.

963
01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:41.880
However, you're like me, don't
really care about Marvel but love for Access,

964
01:06:41.880 --> 01:06:44.519
and you haven't played this game yet. There's several new DLC characters out,

965
01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:48.079
just give it more of a shot. It's it's really well made.

966
01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:56.559
There's some rough edges in, especially
in the social interactions between fights, but

967
01:06:57.559 --> 01:06:59.960
god, the fights, the boss
fights, like the clever stuff they do

968
01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:04.000
with some of the combat puzzles.
You have to figure out the character upgrades

969
01:07:04.039 --> 01:07:08.559
and deck building. It's also like
I get overwhelmed by a lot of deck

970
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:12.039
building games, but because each character
only has I think eight slots, it's

971
01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:15.079
easy to build out a deck and
be viable. Really liking that game that's

972
01:07:15.079 --> 01:07:19.679
the thing I'm deepest into now outside
of all those RTS games. Nice,

973
01:07:20.159 --> 01:07:25.679
do you want to do emails?
Yeah? Or okay. It is a

974
01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:30.360
new year, which means we have
gone through most of our questions from twenty

975
01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:32.800
twenty three, and it's also been
a few weeks since we did our last

976
01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:39.159
like normal episode, so we're resetting. So we need questions for this third

977
01:07:39.199 --> 01:07:44.960
segment as we go into our next
episode on January fifteenth, right into fire

978
01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:48.760
State Past at gmail dot com.
Fun questions. Game related questions are fine.

979
01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:51.320
We talk about video games on this
year podcast, but we enjoyed the

980
01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:54.920
weird ones, like if you had
to eat your way out of a bathtub,

981
01:07:54.920 --> 01:07:59.719
what would be the best food?
And we also really enjoy proving a

982
01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:02.159
certain someone wrong when they were pretty
adamant about being able to do it with

983
01:08:02.159 --> 01:08:10.360
a certain food. Yeah, we
filled about some with watermelon. So firescape

984
01:08:10.360 --> 01:08:13.440
cast at gmail dot com, get
in your questions, get them in our

985
01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:16.520
inbox so we can stock them up
for the next few episodes and maybe we'll

986
01:08:16.560 --> 01:08:21.720
read it. That's firescape cast at
gmail dot com. Today. We have

987
01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:25.560
a bit of a quiz. It's
not gonna be We're not gonna like keep

988
01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:28.359
score anything. We're just gonna do
more of a fun, breezy one rather

989
01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:34.239
than pausing to check the score after
every question. But Dan, this one

990
01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:39.119
is or I guess I'll read it
so you two can do the actual quiz.

991
01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:43.920
It's from Piston Hondai, a who's
written in a bunch before. Hey,

992
01:08:43.920 --> 01:08:45.840
fire Escape cast, Sorry, hey
fire Scape Gang, it's been a

993
01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:49.640
while since the last quiz. On
a recent Giant Bomb live stream, Dan

994
01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:57.600
discovered the insufferably British world of Commodore
Amiga games thanks to Jockey Wilson's Companion of

995
01:08:57.720 --> 01:09:00.600
Darts and its incredible box art.
Said it was the most British sounding video

996
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:03.840
game he's ever seen. But that's
just the tip of the iceberg. Attached

997
01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:10.319
there's a list of very real,
very British Amiga game titles alongside a separate

998
01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:15.199
list of names of old newspaper comic
strips. As I am convinced the two

999
01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:19.359
share naming conventions that are damn near
indistinguishable. Wow, so of course your

1000
01:09:19.399 --> 01:09:23.880
task is to do just that.
Instead of deciding for you, I've left

1001
01:09:23.880 --> 01:09:27.000
them unordered, so whoever's reading the
email can pick names at will and decide

1002
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:30.960
how long the quiz goes. Thank
you, Piston. The superstructured quizzes can

1003
01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:32.800
be not the best radio, so
we appreciate it. That and there's so

1004
01:09:32.800 --> 01:09:35.479
many good ones to this is back
to Piston. That and there are so

1005
01:09:35.479 --> 01:09:39.920
many good ones to choose from that
I couldn't in good conscious whittle them down.

1006
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:42.000
So again, we're not going to
keep score. I'm just going to

1007
01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:45.920
kind of jump around between these and
Dan and Mary. I'll give you both

1008
01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:50.439
the chance to say whether it is
an Amiga game title or an old newspaper

1009
01:09:50.479 --> 01:09:56.039
comic strip. Okay, Amiga or
comic yep, and you don't need to

1010
01:09:56.039 --> 01:09:59.159
write a thing down. Just both
sound off. Okay, I like writing

1011
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:02.920
you can if you want, I
will, Okay, go for it.

1012
01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:12.239
My finger is broken. We're really
we really dusted over that this episode.

1013
01:10:12.279 --> 01:10:15.920
But yeah, Dan is a broken
finger from the from the tub incident.

1014
01:10:16.239 --> 01:10:20.960
Yeah, I feel bad that we
broke your finger. That was an unintended

1015
01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:26.119
No. You did not make me
to close the window that we had opened

1016
01:10:26.119 --> 01:10:30.479
to allow the cheese humidity to escape, so we're partially responsible. Connection.

1017
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:34.279
Yeah, but I would also say
because I triple cleaned your tub, because

1018
01:10:34.279 --> 01:10:40.520
I I obviously don't want you to
have a cheesy tub. So after this,

1019
01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:44.840
which is not captured on film,
I by hand and I think that's

1020
01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:48.000
gross. So I just want you
to know, by hand scooped out all

1021
01:10:48.039 --> 01:10:54.279
that mac and cheese and then diligently
cleaned every tile of your tub with like

1022
01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:59.880
a lot of cleaner and a lot
of like soap. And I want Kyle,

1023
01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:02.479
there's one tile that's not right by
the tub. It's on the wall

1024
01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:05.199
and there's just a little yellow thing
and I see it when I walk in

1025
01:11:05.239 --> 01:11:08.279
there, and I think about cleaning
it every time. But I'm like,

1026
01:11:08.319 --> 01:11:12.159
no, that's no. I was
like, it's small and it's not obtrusive,

1027
01:11:12.359 --> 01:11:14.840
and I'm like, you know what
it's. It's a reminder I should

1028
01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:23.960
be reminded of that. You don't
want a cheese reminder, the cheese reminder.

1029
01:11:24.439 --> 01:11:29.560
I triple washed the tiles that I
saw, uh, And I think

1030
01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:31.920
it probably made your tiles slippy?
No, I thought, no, you

1031
01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:36.239
bonk and a test. I am
numerous times a day slamming my feet and

1032
01:11:36.319 --> 01:11:41.720
into things and tripping over things and
just yelling and sometimes bleeding out of my

1033
01:11:41.800 --> 01:11:45.359
head, and you know, like
it's it's a constant thing. So this

1034
01:11:45.399 --> 01:11:47.960
is not a you thing. This
is a me thing. She's literally just

1035
01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:51.079
heard me yell and walk into a
room and I'm laying on the ground with

1036
01:11:51.119 --> 01:11:57.800
like blood pooling around my head.
What connecticuse I just stand in the because

1037
01:11:57.800 --> 01:12:00.199
I'm always thinking of a million different
things. I was got so much shit

1038
01:12:00.279 --> 01:12:02.800
going on my head all the time
that I'm not prioritizing thinking like, oh,

1039
01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:05.520
there's a thing my put's about to
hit, because you know, up

1040
01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:08.840
in my head with other stuff.
You got to get back into meditation and

1041
01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:11.159
clear your head. I I've been
trying to. I don't want to.

1042
01:12:11.159 --> 01:12:15.279
I don't want to prescribe and be
an armchair psychologist. But no, I

1043
01:12:15.319 --> 01:12:17.640
will say, I don't think it's
healthy to have blood pooling around your head

1044
01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:24.199
when you fall. Oh, doctor
Maharty, blood in your body drinking?

1045
01:12:24.279 --> 01:12:30.560
Is PBR told me not to bleed? All right? Comic strip or Amiga

1046
01:12:30.640 --> 01:12:35.920
game title? Right right, right
back to the all right, dufis comic?

1047
01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:42.399
You say comic? I think that
could be a game? Is that

1048
01:12:42.600 --> 01:12:45.680
final answer? Amiga game? Yeah? I say comic. It is an

1049
01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:50.680
Amiga game. Yes, I'm winning. Let me tile one, Mary.

1050
01:12:51.520 --> 01:12:57.159
We're not going to keep score.
We're not going to be married, the

1051
01:12:57.159 --> 01:13:03.399
one keeping score? All right?
Next one donk exclamation point, donk comic

1052
01:13:05.279 --> 01:13:15.479
gay comic. Mary is correct again, it's an Amiga game. Piston sent

1053
01:13:15.560 --> 01:13:18.479
through no joke like they're like maybe
eighty here. I'm not. I'm doing

1054
01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:23.600
I'll do like a dozen. I
wonder if any of them are games based

1055
01:13:23.600 --> 01:13:27.359
off comics, because they're like Garpield
games. I mean, he is definitely

1056
01:13:27.560 --> 01:13:31.840
Piston has definitely stumble on something.
There are some like there's some similar vibe,

1057
01:13:32.079 --> 01:13:40.720
like in all the naming conventions here. Sparky Watts comic strip dances.

1058
01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:45.079
Yeah, I agree, that sounds
like a comic. Sparky Watts correct,

1059
01:13:45.119 --> 01:13:48.880
it's a it's a comic. They
cancel each other out, all right.

1060
01:13:49.319 --> 01:13:57.479
We Willie Winkies World, that's a
game. Amiga game dances. Yeah,

1061
01:13:57.960 --> 01:14:03.640
we Willies. We will wee Willie
Winky's World. The old triple w huh

1062
01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:13.279
quadruple? Oh right, there's four, Mary, all right, the difference

1063
01:14:13.319 --> 01:14:16.720
between three and four is so small. One yeah, world War Yeah,

1064
01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:21.680
never mind, wee Willie Winky's World. Comic. It's a comic. You're

1065
01:14:21.720 --> 01:14:28.239
correct, Mary, You're correct,
yea, I'm killing it. I'm not

1066
01:14:28.319 --> 01:14:30.279
competitive here. I was like,
so not paying attention that I didn't know

1067
01:14:30.319 --> 01:14:35.399
if I won. All right,
let's find another fun one. I think

1068
01:14:35.439 --> 01:14:38.119
I've heard of that. I don't
want to do that. If I've heard

1069
01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:41.880
of it, I feel like Dan
probably has all right, Oswald of the

1070
01:14:41.920 --> 01:14:50.880
Ice flows Jesus comic comic game.
It isn't Amiga game. God, oh

1071
01:14:51.039 --> 01:14:55.640
my god. You know what my
tactic is. It's just disagreeing with Dan.

1072
01:14:55.840 --> 01:15:01.720
I know, all right, let's
let's okay, let me let's find

1073
01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:08.479
a stumper. You know it's five
to one. I gave you a point

1074
01:15:08.640 --> 01:15:12.079
for us both being right, thank
you, but you also gave yourself a

1075
01:15:12.119 --> 01:15:21.920
point. So they did f l
o ok fluke comic Mary f l o

1076
01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:28.159
okay, yes, a different you
are both correct. That's a com so

1077
01:15:28.159 --> 01:15:31.960
I'll tell you why. It's a
pun and comics are like notorious, like

1078
01:15:32.079 --> 01:15:35.439
u k f l u k that's
why I did it. Yeah, that's

1079
01:15:35.479 --> 01:15:38.279
a good point. I was like, why does she care about the spelling?

1080
01:15:38.359 --> 01:15:43.319
That's good because because if it yes, games give a ship. I'm

1081
01:15:43.319 --> 01:15:45.479
giving Dan all the inside chips and
he needs them because he sucks at this

1082
01:15:47.560 --> 01:15:51.840
games. Just Mary can be out
of nowhere. The s c O games

1083
01:15:53.159 --> 01:16:01.319
want to be spelled correctly. Comics
not a book. Amiga was all about

1084
01:16:01.680 --> 01:16:08.079
as maybe like a band loved it? Okay, comics newspapers, Hello,

1085
01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:12.720
they don't care. Yeah, okay, okay, this is a fun one.

1086
01:16:14.239 --> 01:16:19.720
Scarf Ad twenty one. That's a
comic game. It's a comic,

1087
01:16:19.800 --> 01:16:25.560
Dan, you got one damn scarth
sc a r thh. Al right,

1088
01:16:27.720 --> 01:16:35.760
Ingrid's back comic. I'm gonna say
comic because they didn't make games for women

1089
01:16:35.800 --> 01:16:40.399
back then. In an ideal world, I'd agree with you, Mary,

1090
01:16:40.399 --> 01:16:45.560
but no, it's a game,
damn it. I really didn't think they

1091
01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:49.800
would make any games with the lady
in the title. These game names are

1092
01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:54.920
very dumb. What was the Amiga? What if they look England's weird?

1093
01:16:54.960 --> 01:16:58.880
Man? I never been there,
yes, but I never I like it.

1094
01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:02.039
But they got weird different stuff there. Okay, wait, this sounds

1095
01:17:02.039 --> 01:17:13.079
familiar, but I want to just
say it anyway. Boob McNutt to t's

1096
01:17:13.159 --> 01:17:16.720
at the end of course, Yeah, obviously, just state the obvious.

1097
01:17:17.000 --> 01:17:20.760
That's a comic game. It's a
comic. Dan, you're on a roll.

1098
01:17:21.399 --> 01:17:26.119
I'm going to google Boob McNutt.
Yeah, it looks like if it

1099
01:17:26.159 --> 01:17:30.479
is indeed a dude, Boob mcnut's
got to be a dude. Yeah,

1100
01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:33.319
okay, that's not what I wos
like an idiot. I'll look them up

1101
01:17:33.359 --> 01:17:36.640
later. All right, that does
sound like a comic name, The Flipperty's

1102
01:17:38.560 --> 01:17:45.800
the Flippert's comic game comic dant Yeah, oh man, Boob McNett looks exactly

1103
01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:50.800
like you would expect them to.
Dan, you're only down one now,

1104
01:17:50.199 --> 01:17:55.479
look a here we go. What
how many? You said you were going

1105
01:17:55.520 --> 01:17:57.640
to do a dozen? So?
How many more do you have? How

1106
01:17:57.640 --> 01:18:02.119
many do I do so far?
I didn't tick us for I'll do three

1107
01:18:02.159 --> 01:18:05.239
more. No, I'll do keeping
score because I'm not. Yeah, he

1108
01:18:05.359 --> 01:18:09.000
is, we're going, We'll go, I'll do five more. I feel

1109
01:18:09.039 --> 01:18:15.560
like these are going. These are
pretty these are pretty breezy. How about

1110
01:18:16.199 --> 01:18:27.039
rolling Ronnie game comic? Dan is
right, it's a game. Sounds trying.

1111
01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:29.760
He's trying not to look excited that
he just tied it up. He's

1112
01:18:30.039 --> 01:18:34.800
so excited, arbitrary, We're just
guessing. Why would I I'm not what

1113
01:18:34.960 --> 01:18:41.520
is mary? I'm I should be
impartial, but I Dan's been okay.

1114
01:18:42.279 --> 01:18:48.399
The Cool Croc Twins game comic.
Dan is correct, it's a game.

1115
01:18:49.319 --> 01:18:55.279
Dan's winning. How many was that? Three more winners each? Dan?

1116
01:18:56.119 --> 01:19:08.960
Goodness? Three more? Uh bad
Lands Pete game game. You're both correct,

1117
01:19:10.520 --> 01:19:17.960
Pinky p I n K I E
comic game. Mary is correct.

1118
01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:21.439
It's a game. I believe it's
tied up. Is this a tiebreaker?

1119
01:19:21.800 --> 01:19:28.479
Yes? Eight to eight? All
right for the win or we'll go until

1120
01:19:28.640 --> 01:19:39.239
someone gets one wrong? Eeke and
Meek with an amper sand comic that sounds

1121
01:19:39.239 --> 01:19:41.800
like a comic to man? Can
you can guess what Dan guessed? You

1122
01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:46.199
don't have to go different comic.
You're both correct, nine to nine.

1123
01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:50.119
All right, let's find out.
I'm trying. I keep I keep saying

1124
01:19:50.119 --> 01:19:53.159
I want to try to find a
real stumper. I guess they all are,

1125
01:19:53.239 --> 01:19:56.960
but some of them, any of
these. I know, what's a

1126
01:19:57.079 --> 01:20:00.680
what's a weird one? What's the
Okay, this isn't weird, but might

1127
01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:12.319
Stumpy c J in the U s
A game? Game? You both said

1128
01:20:12.359 --> 01:20:20.600
game. You're both correct. Have
I done? Okay? Granny's garden,

1129
01:20:26.039 --> 01:20:30.079
come on, game, Come on, Granny, you won't and we have

1130
01:20:30.119 --> 01:20:41.199
a winner. It was a game
Merry one. They're like they're like forty

1131
01:20:41.239 --> 01:20:47.039
more of these all up. I'm
a lot like your dad. Actually,

1132
01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:56.199
look you you're a granny gamer.
If I called the granny gamers this is

1133
01:20:56.920 --> 01:21:02.079
this is just a bonus one.
If I were to do nu Nut Bros.

1134
01:21:02.239 --> 01:21:08.119
Nutbros Dot Com. No, it's
just Bros. Game. Oh okay,

1135
01:21:08.239 --> 01:21:12.159
what is it a comic or game
game? It's a comic strip.

1136
01:21:12.199 --> 01:21:16.600
I should have used that one game. Here's here's what I'm going clear on,

1137
01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:23.920
Piston. Are these comic strips also
British or are these just all the

1138
01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:28.039
comic strips. I'm curious because they
sound very British. They do. Yeah,

1139
01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:31.279
Man Drake the Magician Frontiers of Science. Anyway, thank you, Piston,

1140
01:21:31.479 --> 01:21:36.760
Mary Reigning quiz Champ. All right, like I said, get h

1141
01:21:36.840 --> 01:21:40.680
we did, though it's here.
I have it written down. Get those

1142
01:21:40.760 --> 01:21:43.880
questions that are in. Get us
stocked up for the first few months of

1143
01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:47.000
twenty twenty four. Send in your
send here, ideal world. Send in

1144
01:21:47.039 --> 01:21:50.640
a question that could one day lead
to us pranking Dan again at the twenty

1145
01:21:50.680 --> 01:21:57.000
twenty four Game of the Year Extravaganza. Make us like, figure out a

1146
01:21:57.039 --> 01:22:00.359
question that's going to make Dan show
his hubris, and then we can fill

1147
01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:03.479
his tub with something else next year. I'm a monk at this point,

1148
01:22:03.640 --> 01:22:08.680
I have no Huberts. Look at
Mary's the one laughing and tackling at other's

1149
01:22:08.720 --> 01:22:11.920
misfortune. We would have seen we
would have seen it all. If you

1150
01:22:11.920 --> 01:22:15.239
would have the comeback story of the
year, he would have said, like

1151
01:22:15.319 --> 01:22:17.520
it was, it was neck and
neck, it was ten to ten.

1152
01:22:18.680 --> 01:22:24.760
We're just having fun here. Dan's
no longer an angry not I've never been

1153
01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:30.960
an angry man. Dan's no longer
a prideful young man. I am a

1154
01:22:31.039 --> 01:22:39.319
winning young lad. Winning Young Lad
is my favorite Amiga game. I'm a

1155
01:22:39.399 --> 01:22:45.800
victorious little boy. All right,
fire skatecast gmail dot com. Get your

1156
01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:48.800
questions in. I want them,
I need them. Do it. Uh.

1157
01:22:48.840 --> 01:22:53.279
That's our episode. It's a fun
it's a breezy first kickoff the year,

1158
01:22:53.359 --> 01:22:55.800
New Year's Day episode. I love
that. An hour and a half

1159
01:22:55.920 --> 01:23:00.680
is like, wow, we really
like phone in guy. It's like half

1160
01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:04.560
the wheel. We earned a little
fun episode after the fucking eight hour live

1161
01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:08.479
stream we did see that was crazy. Do you remember the day before?

1162
01:23:08.520 --> 01:23:11.720
No, it was the morning of. We were going over all of the

1163
01:23:11.760 --> 01:23:15.319
categories just to make sure that they
made sense and that we weren't just like

1164
01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:18.960
phoning it in and we were adding
categories that we thought we were light.

1165
01:23:19.079 --> 01:23:23.840
Yeah, we added stinkiest, I
think, and like a couple others because

1166
01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:27.399
we were like just to make sure, like literally, like six hours in.

1167
01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:29.319
I was like, do we still
need to read all these? And

1168
01:23:29.399 --> 01:23:31.279
Dan was like, yes, we
have to read every one of them.

1169
01:23:31.319 --> 01:23:36.079
These are all solid categories stinkiest,
most, fuck fun. Look, no

1170
01:23:36.119 --> 01:23:42.039
one else is answering that question.
Pretty good. Yeahs really fun. But

1171
01:23:42.119 --> 01:23:46.199
yeah, Happy twenty twenty four to
future Dan and Mary, and happy New

1172
01:23:46.279 --> 01:23:49.880
Year. Happy twenty twenty four to
everybody listening around the world. Another I'm

1173
01:23:49.880 --> 01:23:54.560
sure another great yearhead Twenty twenty three
was fire Escape's best year yet. I'm

1174
01:23:54.600 --> 01:23:58.680
sure that will that trend will continue
upward. I'm already looking forward to Game

1175
01:23:58.720 --> 01:24:01.079
of the Year twenty twenty four.
I don't even know. I don't know

1176
01:24:01.079 --> 01:24:03.960
what to like. Twenty twenty three
is a crazy year for big releases.

1177
01:24:04.119 --> 01:24:06.800
Twenty twenty four, it seems like
it's going to be. I think it's

1178
01:24:06.840 --> 01:24:11.880
gonna be one of the drier ones, which which I usually end up enjoying

1179
01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:15.119
more. Though I'll make a prediction
here. Switch two is gonna come out.

1180
01:24:15.199 --> 01:24:17.039
There's gonna be some launch game that's
going to be like a big mainline

1181
01:24:17.039 --> 01:24:19.640
Mario and that'll be my Game of
the Year. I'll make that prediction.

1182
01:24:19.760 --> 01:24:24.920
Now, that's a good prediction,
right, it's a safe prediction. Yeah,

1183
01:24:25.159 --> 01:24:31.199
yeah, Yeah. There's going to
be a new hit indie game among

1184
01:24:31.319 --> 01:24:38.600
us style that is going to have
celebrities like tweeting about video games again,

1185
01:24:38.800 --> 01:24:43.960
and it'll like be that weird mesh
of worlds that we hate but will agree

1186
01:24:44.000 --> 01:24:47.439
to it because when celebrities play video
games, it like somehow acknowledges our industry.

1187
01:24:47.720 --> 01:24:51.520
It'll be AOC playing among us again. It'll be something else. It'll

1188
01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:59.479
be like Jason Momoa will be playing
some kind of like a Battlestar jump rope

1189
01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:08.399
simulator. Okay, my prediction is, uh, Hades two will just will

1190
01:25:08.479 --> 01:25:14.760
win Game of the Year at fire
Escape and maybe at the Akilles And it's

1191
01:25:15.119 --> 01:25:18.600
another safe prediction, but that's my
prediction fire Escape. And have we ever

1192
01:25:18.640 --> 01:25:25.640
aligned with the game awards on the
winner. Definitely not, yes, because

1193
01:25:25.720 --> 01:25:30.159
we had Zelda one win. When
Zelda one won, God, the game

1194
01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:33.039
wards are older than I. No, I did one one game year.

1195
01:25:33.600 --> 01:25:36.840
We weren't doing this. That was
twenty seventeen. We were Yeah, yeah,

1196
01:25:36.800 --> 01:25:42.520
there was three this. Well,
if we were in existence then I

1197
01:25:42.560 --> 01:25:45.760
think we would have haities definitely did
I'm pretty sure Returnal did not. I

1198
01:25:45.800 --> 01:25:53.319
don't think win Game of the Year
for Coody for for a Killes? Did

1199
01:25:53.359 --> 01:25:56.000
it not? What was what else
was twenty twenty? We do this all

1200
01:25:56.000 --> 01:25:59.079
the time. We forget I'm looking
it up. Let's Ring. We probably

1201
01:25:59.079 --> 01:26:05.720
aligned on eldon Ring, right we
That was definitely the one to elden Ring.

1202
01:26:06.319 --> 01:26:11.199
It takes two Jesus Christ, you
remember that. We were all laughing

1203
01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:14.119
about that. It didn't even make
our top ten. That was good book.

1204
01:26:14.279 --> 01:26:18.800
What was the game that year that
was a Returnal? I think twenty

1205
01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:24.039
Last of Us Part two beat Hades
for the Game Awards. Okay, that's

1206
01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:29.560
bullshit. Yeah we uh we made
it. So elden Ring is the only

1207
01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:33.359
time we have aligned. We have
a sure fire system of like what we

1208
01:26:33.520 --> 01:26:39.279
actually played, and there's no politics
or mumbo jumbo. We literally shit on

1209
01:26:39.520 --> 01:26:44.319
very popular Triple A games because we
owe nobody nothing, and that's what separates

1210
01:26:44.399 --> 01:26:47.079
us from the Killies. What Dan
do you have the list up of game

1211
01:26:47.079 --> 01:26:51.800
Wars winners. Yeah, what other
years would we probably have aligned besides twenty

1212
01:26:51.840 --> 01:26:56.079
seventeen, As Mary said, I
agree, we'd probably do Breath of the

1213
01:26:56.119 --> 01:27:00.840
Whole. Twenty nineteen was seci Row. That was Wilds. For me,

1214
01:27:00.920 --> 01:27:03.039
we would have given into Desk Tranding. I think, yeah, resonable to

1215
01:27:03.159 --> 01:27:08.840
remake was that year to remake?
Or Control? Control? Also, I

1216
01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:13.239
still would have gone Wilds had a
huge pull on both of you. I

1217
01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:16.039
was like, okay on Control I
love, but Outer Wilds was my twenty

1218
01:27:16.159 --> 01:27:19.880
nineteen game. I feel like I'm
pro Outer wild that was mine. Yeah,

1219
01:27:19.880 --> 01:27:23.520
I feel like we marry. Did
you liked out of Wilders a lot?

1220
01:27:23.600 --> 01:27:28.079
Right? I think it was mine? Then I think won for sure

1221
01:27:28.199 --> 01:27:30.319
because Outer Wilds is, like I
think, in like the last decade,

1222
01:27:30.319 --> 01:27:34.640
it's one of the best games I've
ever played. Wilds is phenomenal for the

1223
01:27:34.720 --> 01:27:40.800
killies. That your Outer Worlds was
nominated but not Outer wild that is again

1224
01:27:41.199 --> 01:27:45.399
political mumbo jumbo, because I I
swear to God what happens sometimes I can't

1225
01:27:45.439 --> 01:27:46.800
see it, but like what I
would assume happens behind the scenes is someone

1226
01:27:46.840 --> 01:27:50.279
will be like they worked on this
game for like eight years and it's like

1227
01:27:50.319 --> 01:27:55.640
who gives a fuck? Like it's
like they'll be like they knew someone who

1228
01:27:55.720 --> 01:28:01.119
like really cared about you know,
when we send in our ballots Polygon and

1229
01:28:01.199 --> 01:28:04.039
the sites we send in the ballots. So I guess that would be a

1230
01:28:04.079 --> 01:28:11.960
result of not enough sites even suggesting
outer wilds not I'm I'm not disagreeing to

1231
01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:15.520
Mary. There's definitely a lot of
politics involve but like they might have changed

1232
01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:18.319
the system. I wasn't at Polygon
back then, but these days Polygon we

1233
01:28:18.399 --> 01:28:23.920
get together several of us and send
in like five nominees for each category,

1234
01:28:23.960 --> 01:28:27.640
and then I think they just tally
up what was two thousand and eighteen?

1235
01:28:28.039 --> 01:28:30.600
I bet but I bet you that's
not what makes the nominees. I bet

1236
01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:34.920
you. It's like a factor,
it's like weighted. I agree twenty eighteen

1237
01:28:34.960 --> 01:28:39.720
was got of or for what would
that hold? That would have been contentious

1238
01:28:39.720 --> 01:28:42.079
for us. I would have read
dead redention too. I would have been

1239
01:28:42.079 --> 01:28:45.279
fighting hard for Dan. I would
have gone nuclear against it. Let me

1240
01:28:45.319 --> 01:28:53.720
see. You know what's funny is
because like the death stranding, you were

1241
01:28:53.760 --> 01:28:58.319
against death stranding year it came out
like very very hard against it. Well

1242
01:28:58.359 --> 01:29:02.159
gotta where was my number one that
year got very ten resifect for me twenty

1243
01:29:02.239 --> 01:29:05.399
eighteen married. Do you know what
years would have been? Offhand? Did

1244
01:29:05.439 --> 01:29:09.319
you like Red Dead? I don't
think you like Red twos? Was there

1245
01:29:09.479 --> 01:29:13.680
dead dead cells? Dead cells?
Although I kind of slept on dead cells

1246
01:29:13.680 --> 01:29:18.399
and then became obsessed with dead cells
with the new uh Caslvania thing Castlevania update.

1247
01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:23.359
I liked the Castlevania update more than
I liked the original game. Dead

1248
01:29:23.359 --> 01:29:27.800
Ceales was seventeen. It's on my
top ten. You know, he had

1249
01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:30.239
a long yeah, but he doesn't
listen to dates, and sometimes when the

1250
01:29:30.279 --> 01:29:32.680
game didn't come out that year,
Dan will put it on his list,

1251
01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:35.800
that doesn't I wonder if we would
have gone with dead cells, because we

1252
01:29:35.800 --> 01:29:39.680
would have been in a deadlock with
Red de Redempt two, God of War

1253
01:29:40.319 --> 01:29:43.199
hit Man two was also that year. Oh never mind, we all I

1254
01:29:43.199 --> 01:29:45.199
think all three of us would have
gone for that, And if Jake was

1255
01:29:45.239 --> 01:29:48.640
with us, absolutely would have been
hit Man two. Yep. If Jake

1256
01:29:48.800 --> 01:29:54.680
was there, he would have overruled
us as the judge and just completely like

1257
01:29:54.800 --> 01:29:58.960
he would have Supreme courted us and
just like whatever, he would have scorched

1258
01:29:59.000 --> 01:30:05.640
Earth seventeen Breath of the Wild sixteen, sixteen, Doom sixteen, Overwatch one.

1259
01:30:05.800 --> 01:30:10.159
I don't think I would have given
it to domn Titan two, hit

1260
01:30:10.239 --> 01:30:13.680
Man. I wasn't insisting. I
wasn't into it until you two came out.

1261
01:30:14.279 --> 01:30:16.159
I would have gone for titan Fall
two. I think I was I

1262
01:30:16.199 --> 01:30:20.560
a game spot then, because I
remember arguing for titan Fall two because the

1263
01:30:20.560 --> 01:30:25.560
campaign was so goddamn good. The
game was fantastic. Yeah, that I

1264
01:30:25.560 --> 01:30:28.920
didn't like or I didn't. I
wasn't into Hitman yet until the second game

1265
01:30:28.960 --> 01:30:30.600
came out. Then I went back
after Jake when I lived with Jake and

1266
01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:34.800
he was like forcing it on me. I don't think I was into hit

1267
01:30:34.880 --> 01:30:38.600
Man at that time, which is
weird. My game my number one,

1268
01:30:38.880 --> 01:30:42.800
hang on. I looked at my
number one, Started Valley. That wouldn't

1269
01:30:42.800 --> 01:30:45.279
have been I like, Started Valley. I wouldn't have. I didn't like.

1270
01:30:45.439 --> 01:30:47.199
I wasn't into it the year it
came out again, unfortunate, I

1271
01:30:47.239 --> 01:30:53.319
would have gone nut by democratic process, we would have. I mean,

1272
01:30:53.359 --> 01:30:56.880
I was obsessed with Stardoo Valley same, I would not. I remember.

1273
01:30:56.920 --> 01:31:00.760
I still remember your tweets I got
a horse, you were so like I

1274
01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:04.359
was. It was awesome to watch
people like flip their ship over the stuff

1275
01:31:04.359 --> 01:31:08.640
you could get in that game.
The year No, wait, hold on

1276
01:31:09.840 --> 01:31:15.760
Rock and Paigne League sixteen when is
haunted Chocolate Tears. No, Rocket League

1277
01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:19.279
was fifteen because at GameSpot we had
there were people arguing about Rocket League over

1278
01:31:19.359 --> 01:31:26.760
the Witcher three. League was fifteen. Jake would have three Metal Year five,

1279
01:31:26.920 --> 01:31:30.239
Mario Maker. That was a good
year. I still think I would

1280
01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:38.720
have gone Metal Gear five. Maybe
I would have gone Mario Maker or Metal

1281
01:31:38.800 --> 01:31:41.840
Year. No, I feel like
I would have gone Rocket League anyway.

1282
01:31:43.800 --> 01:31:46.199
It'd been a fun It would have
been a Actually we got an email about

1283
01:31:46.279 --> 01:31:49.880
that. That was a good question. It's like not really question there,

1284
01:31:49.880 --> 01:31:56.279
it's like, have you ever considered
doing a retroactive game of the year conversation

1285
01:31:56.319 --> 01:31:59.680
about the years where we didn't exist? Grub and Minati do that on their

1286
01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:02.119
pot cast and they always post I
haven't heard it, but they always post

1287
01:32:02.119 --> 01:32:06.159
their top five every time, and
I always like, it is very fun

1288
01:32:06.199 --> 01:32:09.399
for me to like look back,
what would my top five be there?

1289
01:32:09.560 --> 01:32:13.880
Because like starting in like twenty ten
or so, I have all mine posted

1290
01:32:13.960 --> 01:32:15.319
so I can see it. But
it would be fun too, Like what

1291
01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:18.079
government I do? Sounds like it's
a lot of fun. We should do

1292
01:32:18.079 --> 01:32:20.239
that, like maybe as a bonus
or even not, like just maybe like

1293
01:32:20.279 --> 01:32:25.319
a midway through twenty twenty four,
we go back and like try it in

1294
01:32:25.359 --> 01:32:29.840
a reasonable amount of time, try
to map out our fire escapes top five

1295
01:32:29.920 --> 01:32:33.520
from like twenty ten to when we
started. But yeah, the decade before

1296
01:32:33.560 --> 01:32:38.359
we go lightning round, Like yeah, but yeah, get those questions in

1297
01:32:38.359 --> 01:32:41.359
Firescape pastgmail dot com. Dan,
what do you have going on in your

1298
01:32:41.760 --> 01:32:45.159
spirit or not spare time? What
else do you have going on professional?

1299
01:32:45.239 --> 01:32:47.000
Hope not a lot. I hope
a lot. I just want to play

1300
01:32:47.039 --> 01:32:50.479
video games and watch wrestling for a
month and not fly anywhere. So that's

1301
01:32:50.479 --> 01:32:53.800
that's all I'm trying to make happen. Now, you've been busy. I

1302
01:32:54.119 --> 01:32:57.680
genuinely hope that is the case.
You get the chance to do that.

1303
01:32:57.680 --> 01:33:02.960
That's very Yeah, what about you? I am just getting ready for a

1304
01:33:03.000 --> 01:33:08.319
new year, so just prepping my
mentals. I would say I'm a nothing

1305
01:33:08.399 --> 01:33:13.279
right now. I'm doing nothing.
I have no plans, no things that

1306
01:33:13.319 --> 01:33:16.039
I'm trying to achieve. I wake
up every morning when I feel like it.

1307
01:33:16.279 --> 01:33:19.199
Sometimes I'm like I guess I'll have
lunch and it's like three pm.

1308
01:33:19.720 --> 01:33:24.399
I am worthless to society and I
will continue that trend for at least another

1309
01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:29.399
few days. Hell yeah, I
do have something exciting. I've told you

1310
01:33:29.399 --> 01:33:33.479
before. I'm working toward eventually taking
the intensive course to get my Smalia certification.

1311
01:33:33.640 --> 01:33:36.079
All right, congratulations, Well no, no, no, sorry,

1312
01:33:36.119 --> 01:33:41.159
that's not going to happen immediately.
There there's more money involved with that and

1313
01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:44.319
more timing concerns, so I'm figuring
that out maybe later in twenty twenty four.

1314
01:33:44.359 --> 01:33:47.479
In the meantime, though, I
have I'm taking the w Set Wine

1315
01:33:47.479 --> 01:33:54.359
certification. Just like it's not building
toward. It's not the same certification as

1316
01:33:54.399 --> 01:33:59.039
getting your certification from the Court of
Master smaal AA's, but it is going

1317
01:33:59.079 --> 01:34:01.039
to help. It's basically, if
you wanted to eventually teach wine or like

1318
01:34:01.119 --> 01:34:09.079
be a wine historian, you take
these courses. So I'm starting that later

1319
01:34:09.079 --> 01:34:12.159
in January. It's not again,
it's it's not gonna hurt to have that

1320
01:34:12.199 --> 01:34:16.239
when I go into eventually doing the
Master of Smalia stuff. Sorry Smalia certification,

1321
01:34:17.000 --> 01:34:21.000
I wouldn't be a Master Somalia for
another like fifteen years. I'm excited

1322
01:34:23.479 --> 01:34:26.720
wine and then be like this,
I know what kind of wine this is.

1323
01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:30.399
This is more theory and history's growing
my reductionist view of a Somalia.

1324
01:34:31.159 --> 01:34:35.880
I'm pretty sure I know what kind
of wine this is. That's yeah,

1325
01:34:36.199 --> 01:34:39.319
let me tell you. Give me
one sip, I'll know what that is.

1326
01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:44.239
I think I can tell you that
is. And you have to you

1327
01:34:44.279 --> 01:34:46.039
have to talk like that to people, like there's all these people who have

1328
01:34:46.079 --> 01:34:48.880
like saved up a lot of money
to go to a really nice restaurant and

1329
01:34:49.359 --> 01:34:51.279
take a bottle of wine. And
you come up to them and you're like,

1330
01:34:54.079 --> 01:34:56.520
I think I know what kind of
wine that is. And you can

1331
01:34:56.520 --> 01:35:01.800
blindfold me right away, you guys. You guys are really uh and you're

1332
01:35:02.439 --> 01:35:08.680
in front of them. Oh maybe
I don't. Of course, this is

1333
01:35:08.680 --> 01:35:15.119
an hundred dollars model of white whatever. You spit it out, all right,

1334
01:35:15.399 --> 01:35:21.520
Yeah, this was a it was
a pino from the sunset. I

1335
01:35:21.560 --> 01:35:26.279
wanna, I wanna. I want
to get Paul into wine. That'd be

1336
01:35:26.399 --> 01:35:30.159
that's my ultimate Oh, Mike,
just you would want to kill him so

1337
01:35:30.279 --> 01:35:35.000
quickly. And you can't get your
smell license without getting Dan Dan's dad into

1338
01:35:35.039 --> 01:35:40.079
wine. Everybody would come out of
that more upset. Yep, I know

1339
01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:45.800
that I was just theoretically, but
anyway, first episode, first episode of

1340
01:35:45.800 --> 01:35:49.199
twenty twenty four, on the first
day of twenty twenty four. Love the

1341
01:35:49.239 --> 01:35:53.760
show, Thank you as always to
everybody for helping us keep it going,

1342
01:35:54.439 --> 01:35:56.880
and uh yeah, we'll be back
in a couple of weeks. In January

1343
01:35:56.920 --> 01:36:01.239
fifteen, we get deeper into the
year. Last of Us Part two remastered.

1344
01:36:01.239 --> 01:36:04.680
We'll be able to talk about next
episode if you guys are playing it.

1345
01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:08.079
If you guys are playing it,
me out, Okay, I believe

1346
01:36:08.199 --> 01:36:11.399
the fourteenth I don't know. We'll
double check. I might have that might

1347
01:36:11.439 --> 01:36:15.600
have been a false promise. Yeah, marry dancing you a couple of weeks

1348
01:36:15.600 --> 01:36:19.159
and everybody listening watching see you in
a couple of weeks. Bye bye, folks,