Hello, everyone, don't don't start with the diddling thing. No, lete,
come in, Come in with I don't care about anything. Don't have
any of the beginning that would explain why we're talking about fingers. Just come
in with Mike saying, I don't care about any fingers unless they're diddling me.
I have a reputation to uphold. It's very pristine. You don't very
clean people. Well, first of all, Happy New Year to both of
you. It's actually not New Year's yet, but if you're listening to us,
it is. You thought we wouldn't have an episode on January first,
and we fucking wrong. Yeah, a lot of people, they text me
all the time. We do this. Two weeks one, I didn't do
an episode. Have we ever missed an episode? We There might have been
like one time that there was like an upload issue or something, and maybe
we came in like an hour later or something, but we read for it
to be a day or too late to hit an embargo. But that doesn't
mean yeah, that doesn't mean we missed it that right. Have we ever
taken an episode off? Though? I don't think so. No, we're
very professional, man. But it's twenty twenty four we're thinking. I'm going
to ask you, guys, thinking a few days ahead to twenty twenty four,
what do you think has changed by the time this episode goes up?
How many times have you farted in those two days, Dan, since the
clock struck, since the ball fell in times square until the time this episode
goes up. No, from right now when we're recording it, till right
this episode goes up, until it is, Oh, my times you fart
into twenty eight in one each day or total total? Oh, that's just
what you know about. I bet you that you fart all the time in
your sleep and you're not like aware of them. Those are probably like aware
of farts. But I would kind of like if there was like a little
like odometer thing on my buttthole that counted the farts. I think that's what
it would say at the end, like an objective sign and typic, not
just me. Oh, I think twenty eight, Like twenty eight like on
your phone when it's like, oh, I got my steps in and it's
like, oh, I've hit my farcal apple watching your ass for a couple
of days and then tells you, yeah, it's a weird ass. We're
all much more mature in twenty twenty four that we can tell with certainty nothing
nothing else is I don't think anything will change. Oh wait, actually I've
got a quick interior decor update for video patrons. I guess you could describe
it. Amanda got this from me for my birthday. I finally put it
up. Yeah, fire escape candle plant holder. It's like escape. It's
a it's a metal fire escape like shelf. I'm describing for people who aren't
looking at it, and I'm using it. It's got good sunlight on that
wall. I'm using it for the propagating plants. You see some in water.
Those are I trimmed off certain plants. You can put them in the
water for a bit and they'll grow roots, and then the ones in the
pots are I repotted them. So that's like my my neonatal care ward for
plants. I think it wouldn't make sense. It's funny that you said it
would be a candlehold, because it wouldn't make any sense a fire escape candle
holder, because every candle would be burning the level above it with the fire.
The whole ideal fire holder does not have another level right above the candle
as the fire escapes are for escaping fire, not housing it. That's true.
That's true. You do not want fire on your fire escape. I
don't know what the fuck this wall is for, but we're in like a
brownstone townhouse right next to another one. So my father in law and I
were drilling into the wall and we hit concrete, and I don't know,
you could see there's like inset bookshelves below it. And I found it funny
and maybe appropriate that we're actually drilling a fire escape into concrete as they are
in real life. I think I'm not an architect, so it's functional,
that's what you're saying. It's functional, and it's yes, on a miniature
scale. Okay, drilling into concrete's not fun though, but yeah, that's
it's a nice it's a nice little uh. I guess it's not even on
camera until I move the camera, but it's there. Reminds me of this
reminds me of that show we all do. Yeah, I'm reminded of the
show when we're also doing the show, which is like coincidentally, we're both
reminded of the show right now. Yeah, Yeah, just kind of crazy
feedback loop. Yeah, I start fires and I always think about our show.
Yeah, you're the Beavis of fire Escape. I fart and think about
our show. Yeah. Ah, the guys would love this. As I
light up another mall would Mary would be proud as I rip ass I saw.
We talked about Stop Making Sense going back to theaters in September the remastered
version. We missed it because of wedding and COVID and preparing for our own
wedding the next month. I saw it last night. It's awesome. For
those who don't know, it's the Talking Heads, one of the first like
concert films. Jonathan Demi, who did Silence the Lambs, directed it.
David Byrne wrote a for the stage. We saw it in the village last
night. It's fantastic. It's phenomenal if you can get it or go see
it. It's back in theaters for like a week in certain places. I'm
not sure if it's just a New York thing or not, but it's unreal.
It's very weird to see the crowd on the blu ray we have that's
like on constant loop in our apartment. You can't see the crowd. It's
too fuzzy, and you can see little details like on their clothing. That's
I never noticed before. The sound sounds much better, like the guitar strings,
the drums, the snare drums sounds much crisper. It's it's unreal.
I'm not like, I'm not usually big on like if a remastered video game
comes out, I'm like, sure, this looks better like Metroid Prime remastered.
I get it, it looks better. I'm not usually that I don't
normally care about that stuff. But seeing something like this that I've been watching
basically weekly in my apartment on the big screen in remastered formats eye opening.
That's awesome. Yeah, I like it a lot. Best ever saw Iron
Claw a couple of nights ago. It was really good. Is zach Efron
good in that? Yeah, it's really good. Like everyone's really good,
and it like, I think the worry whenever there's like a mainstream thing about
wrestling, is wrestling pant or conditioned to be like, oh, this is
just gonna be like made by people that don't understand anything about wrestling, and
they just like boil it down to something it's not. And this was clearly
made by people who like cared about the history of the family, about the
business and things like that there were definitely things that like as a wrestling upsess,
so I was like, that's not what Rick Flair sounds or looks like.
But ultimately like as a wider mainstream Hollywood movie about wrestling, like it's
just below i'd say the wrestler as far as like, oh, this is
actually very respectful of the business and does a good job. Is what was
the Steve Carell movie about wrestling? Suff Okay? I think actually that was
like act like Olympic wrestling not I don't know what you're talking about. It
was like Oscar. I think it won a few oscars, like you can
wrestle in the Olympic years ago. I thought it was just interested, Yeah,
really muscular people. You really like those stupid guy like yeah, like
earguards and and uh the assex shoes. That kind of wrestling and that shoot
wrestling. Yeah, that's what's called. That's the Do you know who like
the people that made Iron Claw Are they from wrestling industry? Are they fans
who make movies? I know, I don't know these specific writers or directors
or anything like that, but it's just very clear based on like who they
worked with and like they were bringing in the right people, and like historically,
most of the stuff they were saying was was correct and stuff, even
if some of the depictions were kind of like eh, it's not. I
mean, that's always the thing once I historic, like, I know very
well what Rick player looks and sounds like. And I've seen this specific promo
a million times. It's in the movie, and it's like, Okay,
well, to me, this feels weird because that's not really what it looks
or sounds like. But like to someone who's not into wrestling, who sees
this well made movie, it's just like, okay, yeah, that's Rickclayer.
So I try not to get mothered by that. You know, could
you imagine if there was an Olympic wrestling that was stupid, where it's all
pred but you still got like a gold medal and it was still like Russia
versus America, but everyone's just throwing each other around and we just like predetermined
who wins. I would argue against that being in the Olympics. If that
was the case, no place in the real sporting world, nobody would suspect
it. It's just so calculated to go to that level and have it still
be a farce. I think you could really like. I think it would
really unite the countries. I think keep wrestling stupid is my thing. You
know there's the like keep Austin weird stuff. I think keep wrestling stupid is
my twenty twenty four. You know that's my mantle. Don't allow it to
be important. No, no, I want I'm stupid. I'm just looking
up the actor who played Rick Flair, Aaron Dean Eisenberg. The first article
I saw. I don't know. The website fightful. I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know what their reputation's like. They had an
op at about how his portrayal Rick Flair is the best part of the movie.
The differing opinions, I guess which happens. Obviously, it's not terrible.
It just I think they just got the wrong guy to like. The
guy didn't seem like a bad actor or anything. It's just I think it
was the wrong guy. But I think people are super mad about it on
the internet. But I don't know, it's not that big of a deal.
Really. Gamers are like that too, where if they don't feel like
the actor was the exact person to play their beloved gaming character, they go
crazy, but it doesn't have to be this one on one identical replica.
Yeah, but like god forbid, tomb Raider doesn't look exactly like tom Raider
too, tomb Raider to have this like very specific look. I feel like
maybe people on the internet just need to chill out across the board mostly should
they get mad about it is not at all worth getting mad about. I
agree. Sometimes it's also I've never ablem of people's opinion on the Internet.
I don't know what, Well, you're just super online. Mike Maharty's always
goes hot, takes hot, take Mahardy over here, fucking reviews editor with
his opinions. You probably have like a bunch of nerve accounts, which is
how you get out all your angst. So you're like, I really don't
have an issue with anyone, and then you're just like hot Rod for twenty
is just like each ship, you piece of ship. I fucking hate you.
I'm gonna find you and kill you, and then you Marris Bangs on
the video version, Oh my god, what the book is? War is
for men? Of War is for men. That's what I always say.
Drudge is an indie those things that one isn't that bad. That's the most
vanilla you're talking about, Like really sexist takes here. Yeah, Mike,
if we're doing an impression, Mike, it's just got to be way more
sexist. That's kind of I love. I love the bits where you just
create an entirely different version of me and then send it out the masses.
It's a good time. It's going to come back and bite me in the
butt at some point. No, we defend you. We'd be like,
hey, check the context. We were clearly just check check the context where
I that I created to get him in trouble, I fully vouch for him.
I mean, we're all in trouble with the sound bites from this show.
Nobody escapes that. You know, I've I've said some things that are
not fair that I don't condone that could look bad if if soundbited. I
said I could eat a tough of macaronio cheese, and I looked like a
damn pool afford, couldn't that One's just that's innocent stupidity. You're not gonna,
like not get a government job because of that. People will just think
you're slow, right, have liked really controversial, problematic presidents, and we
have assumed that Mike really loves people in jail for horrible crime. I just
love war. Is that my thing? War an advertisement, especially when they
collide. But yeah's about to have companies and ads. That's great pro war
Abrams with their new M eighteen tanking And check this out, guys. For
only thirty million, you can have an M eighteen in the driveway. They
sent me one. It's sick, guys, It's sick. I'm a influencer,
weird. Check out the cannon on this, babe. Oh my god,
it's got arranged. You can hit a fly from here to Iran with
it. It's crazy. Dan, Dan, Relax, I'm just doing a
bunch of gun YouTube videos of brock Lesner. Yeah, that's my new career.
Is he a gun guy? His name is brock Lesner and he looks
like that? What do you think that's a very good point. I'd actually
be surprised. I think it's more like, oh, he is a gun
influencer, Like there's now there are YouTube videos he's done with companies. I
swear to god, it looks like he's holding a mini gun and he is
just vaporizing prairie dogs. Like, there is a YouTube video of him just
annihilating gophers and prairie dogs for real. Yeah, it is insane and people
like this man, well, what's your definition to like, there's a lot
to find interesting about him. I don't know. Like we've talked before,
he is a genuinely horrifying, like terrifying. I would not want to be
in the same the most city as him if he was angry. I have
talked to the man and looked in his eyes, and he has shark eyes.
He is. He is a terrifying human being. Imagine speaking of shoot
wrestling, dude used to shoot wrestle for Minnesota, right, he was a
champion, He was a UFC champion. He is like, I can imagine,
how did he ever lose anything? Has he lost anything? Like?
Actually, he lost the UFC title and a couple of his fights in uf
because he was fighting with diperticulitis. Oh it took a disease since they were
like falling out and he was still basically kicking people's asses. Jesus Christ.
Scary guy. Of course, he likes tanks and missiles related. No,
I saw Past Lives. I watched Past Lives, very good movie. Have
you either seen that, Dan, I don't think it's your thing. It
would be your thing. It's a romance from Selene song to like Childhood's sweethearts
from Korea go separate ways. She moves to New York, Mary's Jewish guy
in New York, and then the Korean guy from her childhood comes back to
visit her in New York. I don't know if I've seen a romance movie.
It's been a hot minute. I saw a fan of romance or rom
comms. I just don't care for that. You, Okay, So Past
Lives, I will say, is not at all. It's very atypical.
It is. That's why I liked it. But I mean, I like
rom comms. But Past Lives is incredible. I think it might be my
Granted, I've not seen every movie this year. This year, I've actually
seen fewer movies than any of maybe any year ever in terms of new releases.
But Past Lives is my favorite i've seen so far. It's very good.
Okay. I just went to my letterbox and I sorted by all the
movies I've seen, which is like fourteen hundred movies, and it does say
that by genre. I've seen one hundred and eight romance films. It probably
counts like Titanic as a romance film, but a lot of people die in
that, you know, Like that's what I consider like so romantic. The
person who I see are Joe Dirt and Entrapment. Joe Dirt is not a
romance. Comedy parts of Entrapment, Yeahart, Trapped Guy, Sky Punch Shrunk
Love zero zero a romance, say, is not a romance? Punshrunk Love.
Sure, I see that, But like all of these are just examples
of like when someone is like, what if I made a super fucked up
romance movie Andica is on here? What that's not a roman dude, all
the American pies, mister Deeds, Mike Meyers, the love Guru, oh
forgetting Sarah Marshall. Yeah, that's a romance. That's a rom com I
think like generally what they're saying is that if it has romance at all,
if it contains a romance, they can put romance under it. But I
don't think that's the actual you know, that's a tag. That's a tag.
The wrestler is here. I don't think anyone's been like I'm gonna see
that new romance movie The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke between a strange father and his
daughter and the guy has a fucked up career, Mike, Dazzled's done here
and you watched it in the last year. No, no, just I've
watched but Dazzled pretty often. I am trying to think of like, because
there's the one woman towards the end that like it kind of becomes a love
interest. But I wouldn't. I think that's more of a comedy, not
a rom com Her, the one we're walking in Phoenix, wants to fuck
his phone. I guess that it's a romance movie that's a romance. Is
a romance in the sense that her is. It's like really not about like
a guy loving a woman. It's more, well it is, but it's
like subversive. I guess. I don't know. I know, I can't
Dan. I'm not recommending it to you, Mary, maybe not even you.
But Passlives is very good if you're into that sort of thing. It's
hard. Wait, leaving Las Vegas is under romance. I don't know.
That's what I would call that movie. Dysfunctional Mask The Mask is under romance.
One of the most romantic movies I've ever seen in my life. I
don't know what Letterbox is talking about. I don't either the mask. Imagine
like being like, honey, we haven't had a date night in a really
long time. Go make some popcorn. I'm gonna pop a bottle of wine,
and we're gonna watch soul Plant on the Green Face paint in my yellow
suit. Let me put on the Grinch and let's see what happens. It's
just like, yes, there are there is like a romance in that film,
but at no point can you possibly that those are romances. They just
have a romance in them at some point. It's so weird. Mars Forgetting
Sarah Marshall is still very good. We watch it like twice a year.
That's the only one that I think is a rom com. And I can't
imagine watching that twice a year. You guys are fucking weird. That movie
is not that good. And I'm just gonna say that good. It's not
that good twice a year or you like it's June, honey, sit down,
We're watching Forgetting My Sarah Marshall again March at October once or twice a
year. You read a billion hobbies that are extremely time consuming that you dive
very deep into. You also to watch a cat job in a side podcast
and a very active social life. How are you watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall twice
a year? I would take an hour twenty minutes to watch a really well
crafted movie twice. Ye. Sorry, I don't monetize watching movies. Read
back me up right and talk about how it's a fucking masterpiece of a rock
I saw when I came out, and I remember thinking it was quite good.
I remember thinking it was quite good the last time I watched it,
which was like three months ago. Although Russell Brand I cannot fucking stomach anymore
so like I that he's tough, he's canceled. It's I mean, he's
a he's a he's a weirdo. He was an unsurprising one, right.
I feel like from the time I saw him and Forgetting Sarah margin for the
first time, I was like, I don't think I like this guy one
thousand. I was never intended to be like someone that you should trust.
It's always been really weird because his character has always been kind of a skeazy
weirdo that like uh, tends to be interested in all women. Weird going.
Oh the dude, dude constantly do podcast and shows and stuff, and
people like looked up to him and it's like, oh, he got over
addiction. He's talking to all positive and something like. I always felt very
snake oily with that guy. And I've I've, yes, absolutely, I've
seen him come on a few talk shows and it's the most fucking like soapbox
ayah tribes about like I think we need to like just like listen to everybody,
and everybody's thoughts are valid, and I'm like, okay, in a
perfect world, I get that. But then he doesn't really actually say anything
when someone challenges him. It's it's he's just a pain. I just don't
like him. I mean, there's reasons to not like him, but I
also just viscerally cleared the air no longer a huge Russell Brand fan. So
you can't watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall anymore anything anymore. I know I can't watch
Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I can't watch a fucking certain third movie and a boxing
trilogy anymore. It's there's a lot of think but Dazzle's fine, right,
I hope, so Dazzled is still safe to like, right, imagine if
Elizabeth Hurley came out as like a weirdo, I don't even want to google
that. I also like, hope she doesn't die now that we brought her
up, because that has happened on this podcast three times before. That would
be kind of shocking. I think she's doing fine. I'm heavily assuming she's
doing fine. But we'll see by the time this goes up in two days,
we'll see how she's faring. Yes, God, I hope I don't
kill Elizabeth Hurley. That would Please don't kill Elizabeth Hurley. That would be
such a weird Freudian like not at a pole. She's not my mom,
but like I kind of wish she was. What, let's talk about video
games. So yes, I think we should pull this thread a little bit.
Yea, let's go after this break. So you said, so Peter
did not go to the cabin, right, And this is what's sad.
He decided to only do New Year's because he was like, he's he didn't
really feel like snowboarding, and he was like, I'll just chill with you
guys as soon as you're done with the cabin and as soon as we were
done with the cabin. Everyone got sick and the cabin was fucking rad.
Like, we had a really good time. We played uh we like snowboarded
every day and then at night we would just like watch really shitty movies or
good movies. Katrina had never seen the Thing, and then I played Escape
from New York. Nice. Yeah, the Kurt Russell Yeah trilogy, Yeah
good John Carpenter, Kurt Russell going on there. Yeah, I mean it's
amazing. Obviously Escape from New York is like not as good as the Thing,
but it was really good. And she doesn't like scary movies, and
so it's really good to be like you can handle this because it's not it
is scary. But I was like, it's not so much that it's like
terrifying. It's more like a who done it? And I think that's what
makes that movie so good, is like you don't actually know who's who's bad
in it, And I think that's so good. Ud it holds up fantastic
and every time I see it, I'm like, holy shit, this is
still so intriguing to me. I'm still actually not sure. And and they
did this purposefully. You never really know when everybody gets infected. There's lots
of theories of when a character gets infected in the Thing, but not all
the time. Sometimes there's no conclusive event that is it. Who's the guy
who's with him at the end? Uh, there's no conclusive evidence that that
guy is infected. There's a heavy assumption that he's infected, and there's a
lot of reasons to assume he's infected, but there's no definitive proof that that
dude is infected. And then if you keep going backwards each character until it's
like conclusive that they are infected, and they start like freaking out, you
don't really know yet. Yeah, I find that they don't ever explain which
is hell is? Why can't I remember it? It's he's the actor is
a I want to say it's Chibes, but it's not David. It's Keith
David's character. Yeah, it's Keith David's character. But childs That sounds good.
Hold on, uh, like they could either either of them could be
the thing at the end. It's like knives or something. But yeah,
there's a there's a really good one about like Child's child his name is Child's
I was pretty close with and Chives I was like I was like, it's
like it's like knife Chibes childs. I literally like threaded the needle, but
like incorrectly. Both times. There's this really good character, the doctor,
and he starts freaking out halfway through the film and he's like ripping apart.
They catch him ripping apart the helicopter, and then later and he's like he
destroys their audio system, which is really interesting, and he's like nobody's getting
out, nobody's getting in or out, which to me makes me believe he's
not infected, right, because the thing wants to leave right transport, they
shove him in a room and isolate him because he's going crazy and he's shooting
people, so they can't have him in society. And they check on him
and he's got h a noose in the place, so he's like losing his
mind and like possibly like gonna hang himself, who knows. And then they
check on him a second time and he's like, I'm all better, I
need to get out, let me out. And I believe he's infected then,
because the thing would never make a noose because the thing wants to live,
It would never try and kill itself. But at some point when he's
like, I'm good now when they check underneath his house later and he it
was the fucking doctor that was building a ship to leave. That was him.
So when did he turn? He obviously turned. They never fucking explain
when they don't say why, they don't say who did it. All of
it is such a good mystery of like when was the timeline when the doctor
flipped positions and then started building a goddamn like what do you call it?
Spaceship underneath the ice to peace out? Such a good fucking movie. I
think we should keep this SoundBite in. I think the Thing is like me,
watching the Thing twice a year is so much better than watching forgetting Sarah
Marshall twice a year. That's fine, I have nothing to say about that
is the thing, or forgetting Sarah Marshall better. It's like, I feel
like that's been done to death on the internet, learned from Sarah Marshall on
like the tenth watching when are you like, oh my god, I've never
noticed. I never saw this before, like you. Just last night I
was like, hey, honey, Russell Brand's kind of he sucks. She's
not super too. She sprints into the Living. She's like, oh my
god, you're right. Look and listen to this guy and everything about him.
Maybe he sucks. Huh, I have this guy seems cristy. Are
you playing anything? Sorry, Harry, what you know? Russell Brand thoughts,
No, that's it. That's all I have to say on Russell Blant.
I think we've I think we've really explained that way got up. That's
what I call it now. Russell dumb say at our Top Ten of the
Year, I had so many like accidental bad statements because I was so accidentally
funny all night. I said, I said, it goes together like peanut,
butter and butter. Oh yeah, Now it's a common household saying.
People say that all the time. Since our Game of the Year show,
God fucking people were like pointing out we did an entire work day's worth of
a show eight hours. Yeah. Yeah. I came to a realization afterwards
that I had like four Saturdays in a row where I was doing like extra
like like three of my four big Saturday shows were like over seven hours long.
Jesus Christ, no wonder, I'm tired. I it didn't feel that
long while we were doing the show. And then as soon as we stopped
rolling, my body was like, oh my god, please, that's the
sign of like if you're doing a show you like, you know, it
goes by so fast, Like I've been on podcast episodes that aren't really and
you do check your right. It's like when you work a shitty job and
you're so keenly aware of like, Okay, I'm an hour and a half
from break. I can take a break in an hour. I can take
a break, okay, thirty minutes, thirty more minutes, and I take
a break and you're taking shits and just you know, you're done shitting and
you're just dried up, and you're still just sitting there checking your phone because
you don't want to go back to your fucking call center desk. That's what
I say after I go too, I'm dry. There's nothing else in there.
You know how Pegel I played sitting on a toilet in the late two
thousands in Kansas because I didn't want to go back to my desk to answer
GPS TEX support questions. I cover I cover my clock when I drive with
like a stuffed animal or something, because when I'm driving and it's like a
forty five or it's an hour long drive. I will check the clock every
two minutes to be like, how much left is on this drive, and
it drives me up the wall so I can't look anymore. I love having
something that just distracts me music or podcast while I'm driving, just so that
I'm not looking at that clock because it's evil. Just reminds you of how
much left you have to go, especially we're doing something dry like driving,
like into pooping, so dry poopy is more fun than driving. Use well,
it depends on the car, depends on the road, depends on the
poop. You can't poop for three hours though, Okay, I gets to
rid the next challenge next time you're in town. Jake with a stop Watch
with binoculars in the bathroom, can't make me that was just me on this
one. No, it's fact check it Jake, Mary and I. On
the other side of a one way mirror and or two way mirror. I'm
always confused by the nomenclature. Why is it one way? Well, two
way mirror is just a window, I know, but that's why I think
that's what they're called. Like I said, this called the windows. That's
a one way mirror is one person can look and the other person gets a
mirror like the interrogation window types. One way mirror, also called two way
mirror is a reciprocal mirror that appears reflected. And once I know that,
because a one way mirror is just a mirror, and then a two way
mirror is a window, we got to figure out a new interrogation screen.
Yeah, there's gotta be something better. But I want I want to make
a house made of whatever we call those. And then I roam around the
outside of the house while my Airbnb guests are sound asleep. Wait, so
everyone on the outside can see everything on the inside, and if you're on
the inside, you can't. It's a glass house. It's a glass I
think. I don't know. Man, Frank Lloyd right, did it?
Nah? He didn't. I but they're not gonna find out noted pervert Frank
Lloyd right. Also, when the airbnb guests show up to the house,
I'm pretty sure they'd catch on when they see the house. Yeah. Well
maybe it's like you know, they're the bathroom stall things that have like the
frosted glass when you go in, like there are a way that they have
the technology now to where it could be opaque until you flip a switch or
something and then YEA three of Ted Lasso had that in her office. Have
you ever seen the bathrooms that are glass doors and you can see the toilet
and then when you lock it, Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah. I
don't like that because what if you accidentally don't lock it all the way and
then you just poop it in a mirror like in a window. I like
having the option to let people watch me. It's a nice I feel like
it. And then who I didn't lock it? I hope no one's watched.
I hope no one's watching with a megaphone. Apparently I'm screaming being loud.
I think you're just screaming. I hope no one's watching me poop.
I think it's the content of my scream rather than the volume that's alarming my
wife. But have you guys played video games of a break? Would you
play? I have been? Go ahead, Dan, Okay, A couple
quick ones? Okay, there you go, you go first. You got
anything? Chaos? He's calling you right. A big one I started playing
was Cobalt Corp. Bank suggested it to me. It is a indie game
that I would describe as Into the Breach meets Slay the Spire. You're controlling
these ships and like Into the Breach you can see exactly what it's like a
deck builder, and so you can see exactly what the ship is going to
do your opponent ship is going to do to you next turn, Like,
Okay, it's going to shoot me for two damage from this cannon and then
it's gonna you know, heal itself and do this. And so you can
kind of plan ahead and be like, all right, if I put myself
in this position and then I can shoot this weak point. It's you've got
action points for your card. So it's kind of got that Slay the Spire
element, but also has the positioning and knowing what your enemy is going to
do from Into the Breach and man, it got me real real quick.
It's very much a rogue light. You're like end of the Breach, you're
getting different like captains that have different sets of cards and abilities and things like
that, and uh, just the battles are very quick. It's very very
good on Steam deck. It's I heard it runs great on Switch that's what
banks playing on. And uh, it's it's just been great since I've done
about six or seven pole runs of it now and I'm still going trying to
like unlock everything, get all the different cards, but highly recommend it if
you liked into the preachorst Lay. The spire looks like, uh, it's
the divot. It looks yeah, I was gonna say, like space ships.
It's also it looks like each of your characters is like on a different
turret on your space ship. Yes, like module section of your ship will
do a different thing, so like one of them will be like, oh,
it has these two cannons that you can toggle between based on what's better
for positioning, and some of them you can add you can like shuffle your
ship parts so like there's like actually an empty spot between so like you could
position it so enemy shots will go between there and not hurt you. So
yeah, it's uh. I haven't been quite like it, but well outside
of the two games I keep comparing it to, but it looks good your
PC. Uh. I've played mostly on steam Deck because I've been traveling for
the holidays, so yeah, yeah, so mainly on on steam Deck.
Also decided to play Doom Eternal again because I never played all the way through
it, and I was like, well, I forgot who was I was
talking to somebody in the last month or so and they're like, man,
that game kicks ass and said, shit, I never beat that. And
it runs weirdly good on the steam Deck. It's for for a game that
looks as good as it does. It runs very smoothly on steam Deck,
and it's really good. I see why I kind of fell off before it
does, like there's almost too much going on. For the first like two
missions, there's just way too much, like, Okay, well, here's
this flamethrower that you used to get armor, and then here's this thing you
used to get this, and here's one of seven different upgrade systems and the
collectibles and stuff. But once you kind of get used to that and it
doesn't take super long. The action is incredibly good in that game. I
would say the traversal stuff sometimes it goes a little too hard on it,
and some of it is not very clear, like where you're supposed to go
next or how you're supposed to get to the next area, so it does
slow down. Like the pacing is a little weird in the game. But
whenever I'm in a like Combat Arena in that game. It is pretty unmatched
in terms of just like fps, mayam stuff. Okay, yeah, I've
been doing that quite a bit. Yeah sorry, I just look at Coble
Car. Looks really good. I feel like it's something. I'm going back
to Cobalt Core. But the image of Cobalt Core looks like a child's cartoon,
and I think it's I don't want to say it's not good. I
think it's adore. I think the characters are really adorable. I think it's
great that they did that. But I actually think that the image on Steam
on the store is really misleading. When I'm like a visual novel or something,
it looks like an adorable like everything's pastel and everyone has cute little button
noses and everyone like bubble. It looks like a merry game, just to
judge, because it looks like it looks like you're about to bake a cake
for you know, in space, and it's going to be like a Who's
gonna bake the best tasting cake and outer space game. That's what it looks
like to me. Yeah, yeah, from that keyard I'm looking at it
now, it totally does. But then you look at the actual gameplay,
and it's just like, here's a bunch of spaceships, like blowing tactical card
based battle. Yeah, I think it's great. It's just really funny to
see the characters. What I will say about this is like, I think
that that assumption is not great right on my part. We should leave room
for really interesting tactical space games where all the players look like adorable rodents.
Uh you know that bake great cakes. I think this is kind of nice,
and we shouldn't lead that assumption that this kind of game can only occur
with like really brutal looking Uh, you know, guys with stubble can be
in the cockpit here, Like, why can't they be adorable little cartoon?
Why do they have to be dudes with beards? Mike? Because video games
are for men? How many talks about it we did in the first segment.
I'll do cat is over all. Yeah, that's it, just so
exhausted by his own stereotypes. God, that's our our new merges. Jake
Maharty twenty twenty four campaign stickers video games are for men, men only.
Uh, I'm just that's how I get on the ballot in all these states.
That are dropping Trump and men you pick up that base. That's how
my hearty guy, he knows. And then they find out I hated Ragnarok,
They're like, no, never mind vote for I don't know, you
just didn't like the women in it, said, get out of my game.
Teach my son. I'm trying to teach my son how not to cry
when a dog dies. Get the fuck out of here. That's my sister.
My sister does not like the new guy of Wars at all. She
is obsessed with the original trilogy and like the old cradles and she does not
like. Uh, well, we've agreed that your sister's opinion is not not
something that we really like, consistently agree with on this thing. Right now,
Cayla, do you hear what Mary said about you? I heard your
Resident Evil ratings, and I have judged you that is the truth, and
I like you as a person. I question your game rating. Okay,
that's fair. I forgot about the Resident. I like that you torture your
brother and it looks like you could chug a beer, and I think that's
cool. Systems are questionable. I did one mean to bring up that.
I was just reminded of Paul Raikert challenged me to a trivia contest. Yeah,
we were drunk and he yelling about you. I woke up. I
woke up whatever. A few days ago when Dan was in Kansas for the
holidays, and I woke up to a missed FaceTime call from Dan. I
don't know what time I had gone to bed at a relatively allowed it was
late. Yeah, And then a follow up video in which Dan and uh,
your other sister and your dad were at a bar and Paul was I
don't know, I'll i'll look back at it. But basically, Paul was
just a claiming he was smarter than me, and he challenged me to a
trivia contest to prove it. Yeah. He thinks since you like wine and
boats and stuff, that you're just putting on airs and trying to be a
fancy guy. Most trivia is about wine and boats. He's fun, so
he thinks he's over. He kept yelling, He kept going to bars,
and this is my code. This is a working man's bar. I'm from
the dirt. This is like we're this is where real men go. This
is where it is dirt, dirt. Your parents are own a grocery store,
like you're talking about, Yeah, how many how many like fucking nails
have you hit with a hammer in your life? Paul, Yeah, a
he fucking I had to tell him. We went to a bar in Kansas
City Christmaster. Yeah. He kept saying that a gallant kind of a good
line though, but yeah, he's not from I'm more dirty than he is.
I'm dirtier than he is. At a bar on Christmas Day. He
wanted to go to watch the Chiefs game in Kansas City. So obviously the
Chiefs are very big in Kansas City. Everyone's wearing Chief stuff. He wanted
to go to like root against them. And I was like, Dad,
if you get your ass kicked by Chiefs fans for being an asshole, I'm
not going to defend you because I've seen him do this before. And it's
like like the Chiefs will throw an interception and he'll be like yay yayo,
I mean oops, like he'll like be coy about it, like, oh,
I didn't want that to happen, yeah, you know, And so
like Patrick Mahomes at one point got tackled and as he was walking off the
field, my Dad's like, ooh, he's limp and he might be hurt,
he might be heard yay, and I'm like, Dad, you're going
to get your ass kicked and a monster. I cannot fucking defend you,
Like I don't even do about sports or anything. That is just some troll
shit that I cannot get behind it all. I mean, let's say for
a second though, that like he is a good person and he got into
a fight, you wouldn't defend him. You're not capable. You're not a
fighting person. I like how dance painting it as like this, this secret
weapon is no longer in Paul's art. Sorry, I can't defend you because
you're bad and this is morally wrong the bar. Sorry, Paul, So
I be your bodyguard? No, no, I do have the weapon of
diffusing. I could get in and be like, sorry, he's drunk,
he's just being like I'm a good diffuser. I've never been in a fight,
you know. Like, so, I'm not going to go in there
and kick someone's ass on behalf of my dad. But I could maybe diffuse
a bit your political defense. You would, you would be a buffer.
I mean, I think at the very worst, maybe you could throw your
soft body in there to take a few punches while your dad gets away.
I think that that's also a possibility, which I would not do in the
scenario at the bar. No, No, well you can't because he's a
monster. If your dad takes a punch, it's because your dad should have
taken that punch. Ye. If you tell me a story later about how
your dad got beat up, my response, much like Russell Brand, would
be what did he do? And say what happened before he took that punch,
because he probably said something. Were people noticing that he was doing that?
Not because he wasn't drinking that day, but I have been at bars
with him when he's drinking, and like he will be louder and more obvious
about it if he's drinking. But no, he was just kind of like
silently rooting against them, and like he likes seeing everyone get bummed out.
When the sports Shodenfreud, He's like, oh, look at him. They
all these few big fans. They don't yell. Yeah, you know,
like, isn't he a big does he? He's a big baseball fan,
right, he loves the Royals. But he said he almost got to the
point where he rooted against them because they started getting too popular when they won
the World Series. Because he's from the dirt. He's from the dirty,
from the dirt, unlike us from the clouds. Yeah, I'm from Jupiter.
Oh oh god, Weeds because Boulevard is like the local brewer in Kansas
City and it is a Boulevard. Weed just had normal ass beer and had
order him. Hey, look everyone, look at his pretentious wheat. He's
got a pretentious wheat, like a default beer anytime Midwest if it is not
Cores or Miller or Bud or PBR, Like I ordered a PBR once and
he's like, are you gonna be okay with that? Mister, big city?
Okay with that class beer? It's a dollar Well he said, at
what points you? Oh, you didn't get that at one of your fancy
big city bodegas. Are you gonna be okay? And it was like,
Dad, you don't know what ada is. Bodegas aren't fancy. That's like
saying small castle that that's small castle. You can be okay with that.
That's a working man's beer. Are you sure you can handle that? And
God, like Paul, I'm sponsored by bud Light. I literally make them
money. Although I actually am now a local breweries. Yeah, that's unpretentious
again, Yeah your hipster now, but yeah, that was a fun video
to wake up to. And then but I don't know trivia. I'm I'm
hit or miss with trivia. I would facilitate it. I would love to
make that happen sometime. I it would very much depend on what the trivia
contest is fun because it's not at all a measure of intelligence, but we
can use it for bragging rights whenever we win. Exactly, Yes, it's
good for that. I've been on a an old I've so okay. Actually,
here's something cool. Battle for middle Earth too? Uh? When it
and Battle for Middle Earth? Electronic Arts published Lord of the Rings. Real
time strategy games from the early two thousands are not in any digital storefronts.
EA's license with Lord of the Rings ran out, and so it's not on
Origin. They can't put it on there. They also like, I don't
know what the back room dealings are where no one's really like letting anyone remaster
it. I really don't know. But basically, you cannot play these games
legally unless you have the original CD. It was the era of PC games
where you when you installed the game, you had to use the key on
the back of the game manual. So every time I go back to my
parents, I'm looking for them. But my dad found this like stray box
in the back of the storage room that basically I found Battle of Middler two
with the manual with the cdkey and Which King of Angmar with the expansion with
the cdkey. My PC does not have a disk drive, so my dad
also just had an external disk drive that I can connect. It's like USBN
one side, micro USB on the other. I've been playing those games and
it is the weird and I got them running. I had to down I
had to mess with the inne files a bit to get them to launch correctly
on Windows ten. But I've been playing those and I've also been playing Star
Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, just doing like a nostalgic. I intended it as more
of an nostalgic. I want to play some RTS games I used to play
when I was like way too much when I was young, But it turns
out they're all still very good even by today's standards. Galactic battleground is way
better than I remember. I remember having a lot of balance issues, but
it's just like not as smart back then. Definitely, that's exactly what it
was. My taste was worse as well, and I'm much smarter now and
my taste is impeccable, and now I'm playing this game and it's it's still
really good. I believe ages really well. I mean, there's something about
just the look and just the tactical nature of it that, like when we
played Command and Conquer when they did the remaster and me and you didn't frames
with that just as fun as I remember it. It's and it's also you
get such different things from these games too. It's like Galactic Battlegrounds. I
believe it's on the age of Empires two engine. So there's actually a lot
of nuance for a licensed Star Wars game. It's astounding how many strategy nuances
there are and options for like different unit behavior. The pathing is generally good.
I wouldn't say the same thing for Battle for mid Earth, but like
even Battle fro mid to Earth, so much care and attention went into representing
the licenses really well, but also just being very good games in their own
right. But then you go over to Command and Conquer and it's just bullshit.
Cartoony awesome, some nukes and you can destroy a building with one dude
with an assault rifle if you're patient enough where you cannot do that in the
Star Wars game. But then you go over to what do you want?
Like they are billions and it's this zombie defense Turtler's dream kind of thing.
Like the amount of craft in the RTS space basically since its inception is just
as sound. I mean, obviously, StarCraft two Warcraft three are still very
good even by today's standards. They age well. I don't think they all
look good. I Warcraft three I don't think looks good anymore, but something
like Age of Empires two still looks gorgeous. It's almost like sprites. They're
not sprites, but they almost are. I know, I never really liked
once things started moving into three D. You know, the gameplay was very
similar like Warcraft three Command of Conquer Generals like these are the ones that like
moved it into actual like polygons, and I think you lost something there.
Like I feel like Redtler two is my ideal look for ANOTHS game. You
know, General's got way too General's was going for like a hyper realistic I
mean the Zero Hour. The expansion to Generals if you've never played it is
awesome because you get all those themed generals leaders you can use, and one
dude just is obsessed with lasers, so all his ship has lasers. But
General's definitely also the enemy. The three factions were absolutely just thinly veiled stand
ins for like what was going on in the world and two thousand and six
or whatever. Yeah, yeah, it was mid two thousands. It was
full on like Iraq, and it was just like it was just everything was
kind of like, yeah, and Red Alert was always so fucking goofy,
even you know, the it was based around World War Two, but it
was like wacky, like you know, warping Einstein around. It was a
weird still alternate history post War Wars. Yeah, yeah, it was Red
Dawn, but with Nikola Tesla was you know, inducted into the Soviet to
like for weaponry. But yeah, and then Home World three is not far
off on the way, like one of the original artists is getting another game.
It's been fun. I'm also still like finishing Jedi Survivor and I'm playing
a shit ton of Marvel's Midnight Suns. Finally, I Dove into that.
That's a whole separate thing. Really quickly. I'll just say real timee strategy
games are still very good genre and some of the best. I wish it
wasn't so niche as I mean, it's it's almost not niche, but it's
still pretty niche compared to a lot of things today. I think it's intimidating
for like regular average people to get into. Like I remember my introduction to
RTS was going to bars and watching professional StarCraft tournaments. It was so so
many rules and so much to absorb. I felt like I was completely out
of my element playing my first StarCraft game. I felt like I just there
was too much to climb. And I did enjoy it, but I never
really got super into it competitively because it's so intimidating. Same thing, actions
per minutent and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, same thing with
like DODA or League of Legends. It's there's just so much to absorb.
I find it to be difficult for newcomers. Also, it's a very toxic
environment. Not that all games don't have toxicity in their player base, but
being a new player in DODA, I have seen what happens to those players
and they're just constantly yelled at. It's really hard unless you have a group
of people that are like you will play with us, we will teach you,
and then you can turn off chat outside of the people that are your
friends so that nobody screams at you all the time. I think that's the
thing, is like, because I don't have any memories of like toxic stuff
with RTS or anything like that, because the way I always played was I
would play the campaign and learn kind of the mechanics and stuff, and then
I would do skirmishes where I'm just doing like a war against AI players.
And when I played multiplayer, it was as my friends. I remember I
played a ton of Reddler two in the dorms where it's like we would get
like five or six of us on the same network on the same dorm floor
playing against each other, so like none of us were Like the idea of
like actions per minute and stuff like that is not a concept I even heard
of until like I was working at Game Informer and covering StarCraft and stuff.
So like online play, I've never ever really been big on with like randos
at least I play against friends or do AI and that its like Doda and
Mobia and League and stuff like that. Like, I've never had any interest
in that whatsoever, because like everyone's going to take it so fucking seriously,
it's playing against Rando's. It's like, none of that sounds appealing to me.
If you for those who haven't seen it, was it with Giant Bomb
Dan the Redduler two thing we did, or was that on our streams on
my stream early pandemic that's I'm assuming still archives on your Twitch channel. Maybe
it's it's like a sixtubing. I don't know, it's I don't know if
it's anywhere. Did we not up do a vod? That was super fun?
I mean I would have the vile somewhere, but I don't think we
actually have it. No, it's not on there, you just put it
on. We could put it on our YouTube channel for people want to watch
on fire Escapes. But yeah, if you find it again, we should
do something like that. No, that's what I say. That was super
fun. The Super Mega Baseball thing was fun. But the Commandic Cock Reddler
two for those who didn't see it, like three years ago or whenever we
did it, we just set up, we figured out what do we have
to do because the Comandic Cocker Remaster collection came out several years ago. It's
incredible. Petrick Glift did an amazing job. Also all the archival stuff behind
the scenes, the development stuff, all the cutscene like outtakes that they included
with that. One of the best like remasters in terms of archival and preservation,
and also just the game's work really well. We did have to do
some I forget the site. We had to use the like fan run servers
for Redler two because you can't play those player versus player anymore online. I
think you could probably still do land, but you can download them on like
it was EA Origin at the time. But then you had to get like
certain files to throw in. Yeah, cause but we what do we do?
We did like Best of seven team was it was a lot you.
You definitely came out. I think you won like double the numbers I did.
I buy the because you're you were fun to play against, and it's
also fun to do a series because you start to learn the other person's habits.
And I definitely rushed you like three times in a row and got those
wins, so then you started building up. But I remember there was several
times. There's such Reddler two is so fun because it's so imbalanced. There's
some units that are basically useless, like the Chrono Legionnaire guys who warp and
then make buildings like cease to exist. Like dogs. They suck. Dogs
suck. Yeah, like a hundred rocketeers in your andre. But no,
you there was that one. The the like quintessential Reddlert two match is like
when I'm building an army of laser prism tanks and then all of a sudden,
as I'm coming towards your base, I see this lone chinook with eight
of the same woman with dual wielding pistols climbing out at the back of my
base to put t and t on all of my buildings. Like god,
damn it, and I didn't clicking eight different times. You blow that up?
You get that. I just hear in the distance, like I forget
what her voice line is. She's like, wack a load, let's do
it. Yeah, it's on my radar. Damn it. Every time I
think of that game, I just want to play it. That game.
Yeah, it's it's one of the best ever. But which is all to
say it's been again, I meant it more as like a nostalgic exercise going
back. I was sorting through my the games I left at my parents twelve
years ago, and I'm like fully into all the Galactic Battlegrounds campaigns. Really
good game if you haven't played it, and there's a you can doubt that
is easily available on Steam. Actually I need to double check. But a
few days ago there was an absurd Star Wars selle on Steam. They weren't
specifying when it would end or what the occasion was, but you could get
some classic Star Wars games for like two dollars. I got the Galactic battleground
Saga, which is the base game, and the Clone Wars expansion for two
dollars, which is crazy. Even in twenty twenty three, like the Force
and Leash games were on there. Jedi Fallen Order was like eight dollars.
If it's still there, go do this. I don't know when it ends
because they didn't say, but I mean there are some good Star Wars games
and Steam has that crazy sell right now? Mary, have you been playing
anything else ysides the Lethal Company? You know Lethal Company has been I didn't
talk about it yet. Oh yeah, that was off camera. Sorry,
you completely. You have not asked me what I've been playing yet, so
I can't tell you what have you been playing? Well, Mary, you
know how he feels about women in video games, So you've been playing video
games? Verry? What the fuck? Sorry? I was just the men
were talking him on the side, Marry what she's playing? He's like,
fuck that satire anymore. I don't like that joke. Mary, How's Leafing
Company? Do you sound up saying that? Mary, how's the video game
you've been playing? Okay, it's true. Before we were recording, I'm
trying to convince Mike and Dan to play Lethal Company with me because it's so
fun. And Jake. I actually tried to get Jake to play two nights
ago and he said to me, I don't have a computer right now.
And I called him a bitch and he said, for not having a computer,
it's so good. I think you should the end of that I did,
Okay, Sorry, Yeah, he should have had a computer. This
game is absolutely worth everybody here playing. It is so simple in its design
but so beautifully executed. The easiest way I've been comparing it is Pasmophobia,
which we're wires about four people to get together collaborate to find ghosts. But
in fasmophobia can take like forty five minutes for you to get scared and figure
out what you're doing and how to do all the rules of the game.
This is so easy you don't need to know anything going into it. I
got an incredible experience within twenty minutes. Twenty minutes, I had a really
fucking good time. You're on a ship with a bunch of people, you
run out, you go into different rooms. They're all seated, so you
never know what you're going to see. In these procedurally generated spaces, you're
just trying to get items that you can sell them to survive another day.
But there's monsters in there too, and holy shit, the variety in the
monsters allows you to be so scared consistently. The very first monster I ever
had was a blob, which is not that scary. They're pretty slow,
but over time they just slowly go towards you, so you and your friends
are trying to dodge it or run away from it. It can kill you,
but it's very slow. The next time I played, there was a
horrible humanoid covered in spikes that like shook towards me that scared the absolute shit
out of me and killed me. It's a very scary game, but shockingly,
most of it is funny. It's just extremely funny how you die and
how your friends die, and how you sacrifice each other or run like hell,
just like a total baby running away. Well, and the way it's
presented adds to the humor because like it's proximity like fastmophobia. It's got that
proximity based voice chat and you can buy walkie talkies and stuff like that.
But there's one clip that I was just dying watching where we play it with
Giant Bomb and Mike Natty was getting chased by a spider at one point,
and you're just walking, You're running through all these like very just kind of
metal hallways and stuff like that. So it's like a cartoon. You're just
seeing Mike's character run down a hallway being chased by a spider, and you
hear him screaming and his voice is trailing off. But then as he starts
coming back, you start hearing it it louder, and he's still getting chased
by the spider. It's like a cartoon. It's fucking hilarious and it's pretty
good. I really, I'm with you. I think we should play this
together. That sound because I'm only played with the group of like nine.
We had to do a mod where you could play with more people, So
I would love to see like a more focused, like, you know,
the three or four of us playing it. Like, I think that'd be
great. Nine sounds like a nightmare to be able to know who's talking and
what's happening. I think it's really I deal with three or four people,
and it's really interesting when you've learned to min max the game a little bit.
We found that if you keep someone at the ship, it's they get
to scan, which means they can see where all the prizes are. They
can also see where prizes you know, the items, and they can also
see where the monsters are, and so on a walkie talkie they can tell
you where to go to find all the items to avoid monsters. If you
do that, we were able to actually accrue a lot of money and go
to the further planets. But the further planets that you go to, the
more fucked the monsters are. Actually, I was pretty shocked at some of
the the just frightening level of monsters that they had one of them. It's
just so funny the variety. But like one of them was just like a
little girl and she's dressed in like a little blue dress and she explodes you
with her brain. She doesn't need to touch you. If you look at
her, she'll just explode you. No, I watched my friend like pop
pop from looking at her, which just makes me want to play more because
I've just had the one session. I've only seen like the Spider and Wells.
The main thing I've seen is like the Spider. I'll tell you another
one there was. I think it's I say this like with Spoils a little
bit because I think some of the joy is finding a new monster, because
there's so much variety in some of the things that will absolutely terrify you.
One of the ones that I'll never forget is I watched Uh, I watched
this. It looks like a book or something maybe, and it attaches to
someone's face and it kills them, but then it becomes them like a mask
and it it essentially is a mimic and it kind of looks like one of
the characters and it takes their voice chat and sounds like them. And I
knew that the person was a mimic, and so I left. You know,
you can leave the space if you're scared, and we all as a
group left the space, and the mimic left the space too, and it
sounds like your friend. It's like, yes, eh, that's creepy.
It can't say a lot. Yeah, it was awful. Was we were
terrified. We were all running down the stairs and if I looked up,
I could see it kind of running down after us. We're screaming, we're
freaking out. We run to another set of stairs and I see my friend
Peter and I'm like, Peter, you're you right, and he's like yeah,
I'm me And then I turn around and it killed me. And so
the mimic was either Peter, which I actually never determined, or it was
another It was the thing was behind us and it killed me and Peter at
the same time. It was just like fucked up. We really weren't able
to determine like what happened, but it was very much the thing, which
is like nobody could trust anybody. We were scared shitless. We were just
like running around freaking out. It's a brilliant design. It is silly.
It's made by one person, so it's kind of there's like some glitchiness to
it, but I also think that adds to its charm, which is like
you look silly when you're running and jumping and there's no guns, Like it's
so hard to defend yourself, but it leads to really delightful results with your
friends. And so I like, I can't push this enough, Like we
have to play this game. I'm playing it all the time. I put
like it's crazy how many hours I put to over a break, but I
keep playing it every night. I'm texting. I am the annoying friend that's
texting people saying, come play this game with me right now. And I
think it is a game that does it does help to have one person that
has like I've done that one session with it, but you obviously know way
more about it. So I agree what to do? Yeah, I mean
even then, I'm not like that good, but like I could functionally get
you through this game. Well, I mean, we'll die. But that's
also kind of like a brilliant thing about this game is the loop is really
quick and easy. So every day in this game, it's it's twelve,
like you basically like wake up at eight in the morning and the ship takes
off at midnight, so you only have so much time and it goes quickly.
I want to say, a day in this game is like fifteen maybe
twenty minutes. It's short, so if you die, you just start a
new day. It's not a big deal. And you die a lot in
this game, and that's okay. Nobody gets mad if you die, like
you just respawn the next day. So it's it's a really seamless loop that
encourages you to play play dumb, play for fun, die, rinse,
repeat, And I think something like that should be eligible, like next year
when we're doing like best Play with Buds of the Year, like that was
after the cutoff, Like I think, I think anything that we started playing
after you guys were here, I think that should be eligible. Form I
would have put this in my top ten with how much I've been playing it
over break. I really do think it's it's a brilliant design and it's it's
worth everybody. It's also ten bucks. If it's on game Pass, I
will jump out the window. It's ten dollars, which is such a good
price point for a game. A lot of games today, even indies or
smaller games, they're twenty five dollars, which is like, uh, like,
do I want to spend twenty five dollars today? Ten bucks? It's
a lunch. You can spend ten bucks on a game that you can spend
this much time on. I think it's a great, great price point.
Let's let's get on the calendar and really make a point to play it,
because I do think. You know, we wanted to do multiplayer games for
so long together, and it's just with all of our schedules it's been impossible.
But like, let's let's just plan for it. And three it didn't
work for the Flairs like month, I know that was that was sad because
we were all into it. But this game works. Oh yeah, yeah
we tried for one. Yeah, yeah, go to that too. I
wanted to play that, but yeah, Lethal Company is the priority. I
hear such great thing and I've edited stories about it at work, but I
have not touched it yet. Yeah, let's past track it. We should
do that. Let's do it any other games. I'll briefly say I've played
a good amount of House Flip for two. It's good. It's satisfying in
that way that like Powerwash simulator is where you walk into a place and it's
like, man, this place is all fucked up, and then you do
a bunch of stuff and it looks really good. It just has more variety
in the stuff you're doing than like a Powerwash simulator, which you know,
I don't know there. I like the simplicity of Powerwash, but I also
do appreciate the like like I have my own system where it's like, Okay,
first I pick up all the trash, then I clean up all the
stains, and then I start stripping off the wallpaper and changing it. Like
it's it's very, very satisfying. So I didn't play a ton of the
first one, but I'm seeing the appeal of this one. I brought up
Marvel's Midnight Suns I'll say briefly as well. Still don't really care about Marvel,
and I am very into this game. Though I mean anything, I
love anything for Axis puts out. The writing. The voice acting in this
is not my favorite, but it it sucks because you kind of start the
game with two of the most boring characters, Doctor Strange and Iron Man,
but then you start unlocking some better written characters. All that aside, I'm
still not like playing it for the story or I'm playing it because I'm enjoying
the three houses sclop of going back and doing these kind of persona gamified relationship
dialogue trees, et cetera, exploring the abbey grounds, finding little like collectibles
and whatnot. But then, God, the combat. The deck based deck
building, turn based combat in that is just incredible. Like it's a shame.
If you don't like Marvel, you probably wouldn't pick this game up.
However, you're like me, don't really care about Marvel but love for Access,
and you haven't played this game yet. There's several new DLC characters out,
just give it more of a shot. It's it's really well made.
There's some rough edges in, especially in the social interactions between fights, but
god, the fights, the boss fights, like the clever stuff they do
with some of the combat puzzles. You have to figure out the character upgrades
and deck building. It's also like I get overwhelmed by a lot of deck
building games, but because each character only has I think eight slots, it's
easy to build out a deck and be viable. Really liking that game that's
the thing I'm deepest into now outside of all those RTS games. Nice,
do you want to do emails? Yeah? Or okay. It is a
new year, which means we have gone through most of our questions from twenty
twenty three, and it's also been a few weeks since we did our last
like normal episode, so we're resetting. So we need questions for this third
segment as we go into our next episode on January fifteenth, right into fire
State Past at gmail dot com. Fun questions. Game related questions are fine.
We talk about video games on this year podcast, but we enjoyed the
weird ones, like if you had to eat your way out of a bathtub,
what would be the best food? And we also really enjoy proving a
certain someone wrong when they were pretty adamant about being able to do it with
a certain food. Yeah, we filled about some with watermelon. So firescape
cast at gmail dot com, get in your questions, get them in our
inbox so we can stock them up for the next few episodes and maybe we'll
read it. That's firescape cast at gmail dot com. Today. We have
a bit of a quiz. It's not gonna be We're not gonna like keep
score anything. We're just gonna do more of a fun, breezy one rather
than pausing to check the score after every question. But Dan, this one
is or I guess I'll read it so you two can do the actual quiz.
It's from Piston Hondai, a who's written in a bunch before. Hey,
fire Escape cast, Sorry, hey fire Scape Gang, it's been a
while since the last quiz. On a recent Giant Bomb live stream, Dan
discovered the insufferably British world of Commodore Amiga games thanks to Jockey Wilson's Companion of
Darts and its incredible box art. Said it was the most British sounding video
game he's ever seen. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Attached
there's a list of very real, very British Amiga game titles alongside a separate
list of names of old newspaper comic strips. As I am convinced the two
share naming conventions that are damn near indistinguishable. Wow, so of course your
task is to do just that. Instead of deciding for you, I've left
them unordered, so whoever's reading the email can pick names at will and decide
how long the quiz goes. Thank you, Piston. The superstructured quizzes can
be not the best radio, so we appreciate it. That and there's so
many good ones to this is back to Piston. That and there are so
many good ones to choose from that I couldn't in good conscious whittle them down.
So again, we're not going to keep score. I'm just going to
kind of jump around between these and Dan and Mary. I'll give you both
the chance to say whether it is an Amiga game title or an old newspaper
comic strip. Okay, Amiga or comic yep, and you don't need to
write a thing down. Just both sound off. Okay, I like writing
you can if you want, I will, Okay, go for it.
My finger is broken. We're really we really dusted over that this episode.
But yeah, Dan is a broken finger from the from the tub incident.
Yeah, I feel bad that we broke your finger. That was an unintended
No. You did not make me to close the window that we had opened
to allow the cheese humidity to escape, so we're partially responsible. Connection.
Yeah, but I would also say because I triple cleaned your tub, because
I I obviously don't want you to have a cheesy tub. So after this,
which is not captured on film, I by hand and I think that's
gross. So I just want you to know, by hand scooped out all
that mac and cheese and then diligently cleaned every tile of your tub with like
a lot of cleaner and a lot of like soap. And I want Kyle,
there's one tile that's not right by the tub. It's on the wall
and there's just a little yellow thing and I see it when I walk in
there, and I think about cleaning it every time. But I'm like,
no, that's no. I was like, it's small and it's not obtrusive,
and I'm like, you know what it's. It's a reminder I should
be reminded of that. You don't want a cheese reminder, the cheese reminder.
I triple washed the tiles that I saw, uh, And I think
it probably made your tiles slippy? No, I thought, no, you
bonk and a test. I am numerous times a day slamming my feet and
into things and tripping over things and just yelling and sometimes bleeding out of my
head, and you know, like it's it's a constant thing. So this
is not a you thing. This is a me thing. She's literally just
heard me yell and walk into a room and I'm laying on the ground with
like blood pooling around my head. What connecticuse I just stand in the because
I'm always thinking of a million different things. I was got so much shit
going on my head all the time that I'm not prioritizing thinking like, oh,
there's a thing my put's about to hit, because you know, up
in my head with other stuff. You got to get back into meditation and
clear your head. I I've been trying to. I don't want to.
I don't want to prescribe and be an armchair psychologist. But no, I
will say, I don't think it's healthy to have blood pooling around your head
when you fall. Oh, doctor Maharty, blood in your body drinking?
Is PBR told me not to bleed? All right? Comic strip or Amiga
game title? Right right, right back to the all right, dufis comic?
You say comic? I think that could be a game? Is that
final answer? Amiga game? Yeah? I say comic. It is an
Amiga game. Yes, I'm winning. Let me tile one, Mary.
We're not going to keep score. We're not going to be married, the
one keeping score? All right? Next one donk exclamation point, donk comic
gay comic. Mary is correct again, it's an Amiga game. Piston sent
through no joke like they're like maybe eighty here. I'm not. I'm doing
I'll do like a dozen. I wonder if any of them are games based
off comics, because they're like Garpield games. I mean, he is definitely
Piston has definitely stumble on something. There are some like there's some similar vibe,
like in all the naming conventions here. Sparky Watts comic strip dances.
Yeah, I agree, that sounds like a comic. Sparky Watts correct,
it's a it's a comic. They cancel each other out, all right.
We Willie Winkies World, that's a game. Amiga game dances. Yeah,
we Willies. We will wee Willie Winky's World. The old triple w huh
quadruple? Oh right, there's four, Mary, all right, the difference
between three and four is so small. One yeah, world War Yeah,
never mind, wee Willie Winky's World. Comic. It's a comic. You're
correct, Mary, You're correct, yea, I'm killing it. I'm not
competitive here. I was like, so not paying attention that I didn't know
if I won. All right, let's find another fun one. I think
I've heard of that. I don't want to do that. If I've heard
of it, I feel like Dan probably has all right, Oswald of the
Ice flows Jesus comic comic game. It isn't Amiga game. God, oh
my god. You know what my tactic is. It's just disagreeing with Dan.
I know, all right, let's let's okay, let me let's find
a stumper. You know it's five to one. I gave you a point
for us both being right, thank you, but you also gave yourself a
point. So they did f l o ok fluke comic Mary f l o
okay, yes, a different you are both correct. That's a com so
I'll tell you why. It's a pun and comics are like notorious, like
u k f l u k that's why I did it. Yeah, that's
a good point. I was like, why does she care about the spelling?
That's good because because if it yes, games give a ship. I'm
giving Dan all the inside chips and he needs them because he sucks at this
games. Just Mary can be out of nowhere. The s c O games
want to be spelled correctly. Comics not a book. Amiga was all about
as maybe like a band loved it? Okay, comics newspapers, Hello,
they don't care. Yeah, okay, okay, this is a fun one.
Scarf Ad twenty one. That's a comic game. It's a comic,
Dan, you got one damn scarth sc a r thh. Al right,
Ingrid's back comic. I'm gonna say comic because they didn't make games for women
back then. In an ideal world, I'd agree with you, Mary,
but no, it's a game, damn it. I really didn't think they
would make any games with the lady in the title. These game names are
very dumb. What was the Amiga? What if they look England's weird?
Man? I never been there, yes, but I never I like it.
But they got weird different stuff there. Okay, wait, this sounds
familiar, but I want to just say it anyway. Boob McNutt to t's
at the end of course, Yeah, obviously, just state the obvious.
That's a comic game. It's a comic. Dan, you're on a roll.
I'm going to google Boob McNutt. Yeah, it looks like if it
is indeed a dude, Boob mcnut's got to be a dude. Yeah,
okay, that's not what I wos like an idiot. I'll look them up
later. All right, that does sound like a comic name, The Flipperty's
the Flippert's comic game comic dant Yeah, oh man, Boob McNett looks exactly
like you would expect them to. Dan, you're only down one now,
look a here we go. What how many? You said you were going
to do a dozen? So? How many more do you have? How
many do I do so far? I didn't tick us for I'll do three
more. No, I'll do keeping score because I'm not. Yeah, he
is, we're going, We'll go, I'll do five more. I feel
like these are going. These are pretty these are pretty breezy. How about
rolling Ronnie game comic? Dan is right, it's a game. Sounds trying.
He's trying not to look excited that he just tied it up. He's
so excited, arbitrary, We're just guessing. Why would I I'm not what
is mary? I'm I should be impartial, but I Dan's been okay.
The Cool Croc Twins game comic. Dan is correct, it's a game.
Dan's winning. How many was that? Three more winners each? Dan?
Goodness? Three more? Uh bad Lands Pete game game. You're both correct,
Pinky p I n K I E comic game. Mary is correct.
It's a game. I believe it's tied up. Is this a tiebreaker?
Yes? Eight to eight? All right for the win or we'll go until
someone gets one wrong? Eeke and Meek with an amper sand comic that sounds
like a comic to man? Can you can guess what Dan guessed? You
don't have to go different comic. You're both correct, nine to nine.
All right, let's find out. I'm trying. I keep I keep saying
I want to try to find a real stumper. I guess they all are,
but some of them, any of these. I know, what's a
what's a weird one? What's the Okay, this isn't weird, but might
Stumpy c J in the U s A game? Game? You both said
game. You're both correct. Have I done? Okay? Granny's garden,
come on, game, Come on, Granny, you won't and we have
a winner. It was a game Merry one. They're like they're like forty
more of these all up. I'm a lot like your dad. Actually,
look you you're a granny gamer. If I called the granny gamers this is
this is just a bonus one. If I were to do nu Nut Bros.
Nutbros Dot Com. No, it's just Bros. Game. Oh okay,
what is it a comic or game game? It's a comic strip.
I should have used that one game. Here's here's what I'm going clear on,
Piston. Are these comic strips also British or are these just all the
comic strips. I'm curious because they sound very British. They do. Yeah,
Man Drake the Magician Frontiers of Science. Anyway, thank you, Piston,
Mary Reigning quiz Champ. All right, like I said, get h
we did, though it's here. I have it written down. Get those
questions that are in. Get us stocked up for the first few months of
twenty twenty four. Send in your send here, ideal world. Send in
a question that could one day lead to us pranking Dan again at the twenty
twenty four Game of the Year Extravaganza. Make us like, figure out a
question that's going to make Dan show his hubris, and then we can fill
his tub with something else next year. I'm a monk at this point,
I have no Huberts. Look at Mary's the one laughing and tackling at other's
misfortune. We would have seen we would have seen it all. If you
would have the comeback story of the year, he would have said, like
it was, it was neck and neck, it was ten to ten.
We're just having fun here. Dan's no longer an angry not I've never been
an angry man. Dan's no longer a prideful young man. I am a
winning young lad. Winning Young Lad is my favorite Amiga game. I'm a
victorious little boy. All right, fire skatecast gmail dot com. Get your
questions in. I want them, I need them. Do it. Uh.
That's our episode. It's a fun it's a breezy first kickoff the year,
New Year's Day episode. I love that. An hour and a half
is like, wow, we really like phone in guy. It's like half
the wheel. We earned a little fun episode after the fucking eight hour live
stream we did see that was crazy. Do you remember the day before?
No, it was the morning of. We were going over all of the
categories just to make sure that they made sense and that we weren't just like
phoning it in and we were adding categories that we thought we were light.
Yeah, we added stinkiest, I think, and like a couple others because
we were like just to make sure, like literally, like six hours in.
I was like, do we still need to read all these? And
Dan was like, yes, we have to read every one of them.
These are all solid categories stinkiest, most, fuck fun. Look, no
one else is answering that question. Pretty good. Yeahs really fun. But
yeah, Happy twenty twenty four to future Dan and Mary, and happy New
Year. Happy twenty twenty four to everybody listening around the world. Another I'm
sure another great yearhead Twenty twenty three was fire Escape's best year yet. I'm
sure that will that trend will continue upward. I'm already looking forward to Game
of the Year twenty twenty four. I don't even know. I don't know
what to like. Twenty twenty three is a crazy year for big releases.
Twenty twenty four, it seems like it's going to be. I think it's
gonna be one of the drier ones, which which I usually end up enjoying
more. Though I'll make a prediction here. Switch two is gonna come out.
There's gonna be some launch game that's going to be like a big mainline
Mario and that'll be my Game of the Year. I'll make that prediction.
Now, that's a good prediction, right, it's a safe prediction. Yeah,
yeah, Yeah. There's going to be a new hit indie game among
us style that is going to have celebrities like tweeting about video games again,
and it'll like be that weird mesh of worlds that we hate but will agree
to it because when celebrities play video games, it like somehow acknowledges our industry.
It'll be AOC playing among us again. It'll be something else. It'll
be like Jason Momoa will be playing some kind of like a Battlestar jump rope
simulator. Okay, my prediction is, uh, Hades two will just will
win Game of the Year at fire Escape and maybe at the Akilles And it's
another safe prediction, but that's my prediction fire Escape. And have we ever
aligned with the game awards on the winner. Definitely not, yes, because
we had Zelda one win. When Zelda one won, God, the game
wards are older than I. No, I did one one game year.
We weren't doing this. That was twenty seventeen. We were Yeah, yeah,
there was three this. Well, if we were in existence then I
think we would have haities definitely did I'm pretty sure Returnal did not. I
don't think win Game of the Year for Coody for for a Killes? Did
it not? What was what else was twenty twenty? We do this all
the time. We forget I'm looking it up. Let's Ring. We probably
aligned on eldon Ring, right we That was definitely the one to elden Ring.
It takes two Jesus Christ, you remember that. We were all laughing
about that. It didn't even make our top ten. That was good book.
What was the game that year that was a Returnal? I think twenty
Last of Us Part two beat Hades for the Game Awards. Okay, that's
bullshit. Yeah we uh we made it. So elden Ring is the only
time we have aligned. We have a sure fire system of like what we
actually played, and there's no politics or mumbo jumbo. We literally shit on
very popular Triple A games because we owe nobody nothing, and that's what separates
us from the Killies. What Dan do you have the list up of game
Wars winners. Yeah, what other years would we probably have aligned besides twenty
seventeen, As Mary said, I agree, we'd probably do Breath of the
Whole. Twenty nineteen was seci Row. That was Wilds. For me,
we would have given into Desk Tranding. I think, yeah, resonable to
remake was that year to remake? Or Control? Control? Also, I
still would have gone Wilds had a huge pull on both of you. I
was like, okay on Control I love, but Outer Wilds was my twenty
nineteen game. I feel like I'm pro Outer wild that was mine. Yeah,
I feel like we marry. Did you liked out of Wilders a lot?
Right? I think it was mine? Then I think won for sure
because Outer Wilds is, like I think, in like the last decade,
it's one of the best games I've ever played. Wilds is phenomenal for the
killies. That your Outer Worlds was nominated but not Outer wild that is again
political mumbo jumbo, because I I swear to God what happens sometimes I can't
see it, but like what I would assume happens behind the scenes is someone
will be like they worked on this game for like eight years and it's like
who gives a fuck? Like it's like they'll be like they knew someone who
like really cared about you know, when we send in our ballots Polygon and
the sites we send in the ballots. So I guess that would be a
result of not enough sites even suggesting outer wilds not I'm I'm not disagreeing to
Mary. There's definitely a lot of politics involve but like they might have changed
the system. I wasn't at Polygon back then, but these days Polygon we
get together several of us and send in like five nominees for each category,
and then I think they just tally up what was two thousand and eighteen?
I bet but I bet you that's not what makes the nominees. I bet
you. It's like a factor, it's like weighted. I agree twenty eighteen
was got of or for what would that hold? That would have been contentious
for us. I would have read dead redention too. I would have been
fighting hard for Dan. I would have gone nuclear against it. Let me
see. You know what's funny is because like the death stranding, you were
against death stranding year it came out like very very hard against it. Well
gotta where was my number one that year got very ten resifect for me twenty
eighteen married. Do you know what years would have been? Offhand? Did
you like Red Dead? I don't think you like Red twos? Was there
dead dead cells? Dead cells? Although I kind of slept on dead cells
and then became obsessed with dead cells with the new uh Caslvania thing Castlevania update.
I liked the Castlevania update more than I liked the original game. Dead
Ceales was seventeen. It's on my top ten. You know, he had
a long yeah, but he doesn't listen to dates, and sometimes when the
game didn't come out that year, Dan will put it on his list,
that doesn't I wonder if we would have gone with dead cells, because we
would have been in a deadlock with Red de Redempt two, God of War
hit Man two was also that year. Oh never mind, we all I
think all three of us would have gone for that, And if Jake was
with us, absolutely would have been hit Man two. Yep. If Jake
was there, he would have overruled us as the judge and just completely like
he would have Supreme courted us and just like whatever, he would have scorched
Earth seventeen Breath of the Wild sixteen, sixteen, Doom sixteen, Overwatch one.
I don't think I would have given it to domn Titan two, hit
Man. I wasn't insisting. I wasn't into it until you two came out.
I would have gone for titan Fall two. I think I was I
a game spot then, because I remember arguing for titan Fall two because the
campaign was so goddamn good. The game was fantastic. Yeah, that I
didn't like or I didn't. I wasn't into Hitman yet until the second game
came out. Then I went back after Jake when I lived with Jake and
he was like forcing it on me. I don't think I was into hit
Man at that time, which is weird. My game my number one,
hang on. I looked at my number one, Started Valley. That wouldn't
have been I like, Started Valley. I wouldn't have. I didn't like.
I wasn't into it the year it came out again, unfortunate, I
would have gone nut by democratic process, we would have. I mean,
I was obsessed with Stardoo Valley same, I would not. I remember.
I still remember your tweets I got a horse, you were so like I
was. It was awesome to watch people like flip their ship over the stuff
you could get in that game. The year No, wait, hold on
Rock and Paigne League sixteen when is haunted Chocolate Tears. No, Rocket League
was fifteen because at GameSpot we had there were people arguing about Rocket League over
the Witcher three. League was fifteen. Jake would have three Metal Year five,
Mario Maker. That was a good year. I still think I would
have gone Metal Gear five. Maybe I would have gone Mario Maker or Metal
Year. No, I feel like I would have gone Rocket League anyway.
It'd been a fun It would have been a Actually we got an email about
that. That was a good question. It's like not really question there,
it's like, have you ever considered doing a retroactive game of the year conversation
about the years where we didn't exist? Grub and Minati do that on their
pot cast and they always post I haven't heard it, but they always post
their top five every time, and I always like, it is very fun
for me to like look back, what would my top five be there?
Because like starting in like twenty ten or so, I have all mine posted
so I can see it. But it would be fun too, Like what
government I do? Sounds like it's a lot of fun. We should do
that, like maybe as a bonus or even not, like just maybe like
a midway through twenty twenty four, we go back and like try it in
a reasonable amount of time, try to map out our fire escapes top five
from like twenty ten to when we started. But yeah, the decade before
we go lightning round, Like yeah, but yeah, get those questions in
Firescape pastgmail dot com. Dan, what do you have going on in your
spirit or not spare time? What else do you have going on professional?
Hope not a lot. I hope a lot. I just want to play
video games and watch wrestling for a month and not fly anywhere. So that's
that's all I'm trying to make happen. Now, you've been busy. I
genuinely hope that is the case. You get the chance to do that.
That's very Yeah, what about you? I am just getting ready for a
new year, so just prepping my mentals. I would say I'm a nothing
right now. I'm doing nothing. I have no plans, no things that
I'm trying to achieve. I wake up every morning when I feel like it.
Sometimes I'm like I guess I'll have lunch and it's like three pm.
I am worthless to society and I will continue that trend for at least another
few days. Hell yeah, I do have something exciting. I've told you
before. I'm working toward eventually taking the intensive course to get my Smalia certification.
All right, congratulations, Well no, no, no, sorry,
that's not going to happen immediately. There there's more money involved with that and
more timing concerns, so I'm figuring that out maybe later in twenty twenty four.
In the meantime, though, I have I'm taking the w Set Wine
certification. Just like it's not building toward. It's not the same certification as
getting your certification from the Court of Master smaal AA's, but it is going
to help. It's basically, if you wanted to eventually teach wine or like
be a wine historian, you take these courses. So I'm starting that later
in January. It's not again, it's it's not gonna hurt to have that
when I go into eventually doing the Master of Smalia stuff. Sorry Smalia certification,
I wouldn't be a Master Somalia for another like fifteen years. I'm excited
wine and then be like this, I know what kind of wine this is.
This is more theory and history's growing my reductionist view of a Somalia.
I'm pretty sure I know what kind of wine this is. That's yeah,
let me tell you. Give me one sip, I'll know what that is.
I think I can tell you that is. And you have to you
have to talk like that to people, like there's all these people who have
like saved up a lot of money to go to a really nice restaurant and
take a bottle of wine. And you come up to them and you're like,
I think I know what kind of wine that is. And you can
blindfold me right away, you guys. You guys are really uh and you're
in front of them. Oh maybe I don't. Of course, this is
an hundred dollars model of white whatever. You spit it out, all right,
Yeah, this was a it was a pino from the sunset. I
wanna, I wanna. I want to get Paul into wine. That'd be
that's my ultimate Oh, Mike, just you would want to kill him so
quickly. And you can't get your smell license without getting Dan Dan's dad into
wine. Everybody would come out of that more upset. Yep, I know
that I was just theoretically, but anyway, first episode, first episode of
twenty twenty four, on the first day of twenty twenty four. Love the
show, Thank you as always to everybody for helping us keep it going,
and uh yeah, we'll be back in a couple of weeks. In January
fifteen, we get deeper into the year. Last of Us Part two remastered.
We'll be able to talk about next episode if you guys are playing it.
If you guys are playing it, me out, Okay, I believe
the fourteenth I don't know. We'll double check. I might have that might
have been a false promise. Yeah, marry dancing you a couple of weeks
and everybody listening watching see you in a couple of weeks. Bye bye, folks,