Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the fire Escape Cast. It is Nope,
no, that's it. That's what's up is episode eighty one. This
is the show where we talk about video games, politics, world issues,
and bodily functions. I'm Mike, here's always with Dan, Hi and Mary
and married. Do it like a like a zippy straw that has all the
little curves in it? Okay, I'm here as always with Dan. Mm
hmmm and boom he very kitsch. That's the joy deserves. How's it going?
What's up? What are you doing? Either one of you jump in,
talk about each other, each other, not being a poland with Jake
Decker, our producer, what happens? My head's bad and I'm on steroids.
My head's bad. I have to take steroid to not drink for a
month. Who my knife is terrible? No, actually the other stuff.
So I am on the gas. I'm wrote it up. Man, it's
helping with my runs. That's good, right, I bet. But it's
like the thing it does for it's well, it stops inflammation, like I
guess that's the whole deal with this stuff is like, because my whole fucking
cavernous head is filled with inflammation, and it's supposed to like settle all that
down. So now it's like I think what's happening is like I'm running like
crazy. Now I'm doing these long runs. I'm running four or five days
a week, and then I'm not feeling shitty afterwards, like I'm not sore.
Everything's like I'm running better. I've got better cardio than I think I've
ever had. But I wonder at what costs? Like if I fall in
my beamur shatters, is like blood just keep coming out and then it doesn't
patch up, or like what is the side there has to be downside of
these steroids. Well, I guess it's my head hurting and I getting I
can't sleep, and a whole bunch of other stuff. But downside to steroids
is that you cannot stay on them forever, and so what you are doing
is temporary and eventually you need to train your body to exist without them,
like tapering schedule. So yes, I do have to taper down. So
I know. I know because I have to do it with my dog.
Every time I have a my dog has like a severe allergic reaction. He's
got to go on steroids and then we have to like wean him off and
he's hyper and he's crazy and he barks at the door like a mongrel.
I think you guys are probably really similar right now? Does he does?
He crash too, because like I get kind of hyper and then I'll have
like weird crashes, and then I'll just get like confused. Sometimes like more
than usual. He like power naps and then like, yeah, walks around
like like a pit bull. He's like who wants this? Who wants some
of their Then yeah, trying to start fights with gizmo and stuff. Yeah,
you get confused as in like other people say something that you don't understand,
or you just find yourself walking to another room in the house and then
stop and we're like what is going on? Sometimes it's kind of hard to
follow stuff. But like, for instance, the other night, I was
I just wanted to like drive down the road a little bit to see the
northern lights when that was happening, and like, as I was driving like
a three minute thing, I got like randomly confused and scared, and I
was like, what the fuck is this? But like I had my wits
about me enough to where it's like this is weird. I've never had this
Like I've had anxiety and stuff like that and weird times, but this was
like more of a like acute, like I'm feeling fucked up all of a
sudden. And again maybe your panic attacks were on steroids. Oly Like it
doesn't just like boost your lungs and like your immune system, it also like
makes your anxiety free. Think it's so powerful. Your anxiety is like I
am unstoppable. I'm gonna fuck you up. Dan Oh that sounds real good.
That's what you want. He's like he's lifting way it's inside of there
and he's like, oh, you wait to go to sleep? Camere.
Anxiety is the boy. I get just a little, a little scared boy
inside my head. Yet I tell all the time I gender all sorts of
stuff I shouldn't. I gender negative things often masculine, but you know,
like boats are usually women where they're like, what's your name? Er?
I do that one hundred percent. If I love it, I'll be like,
she's amazing. It's just my instinct, weird little anxiety goblins a dude
in my head. One hundred percent. I would do it with Paris and
that would be it would be a lady for sure, Paris. She's great,
she's incredible. Ohios, Ohio, aunt who smokes too much? And
then you also don't really. She also brings like a ham over whenever she
visits. Cool you just got a little freezer you had to buy because she
brings too many hams. Damn it, Ohio, I don't want any more
ham She collects rosaries. She has an xbox rosary. What the fuck?
I don't know. Well, yeah, well, best of luck to your
head and uh, the best of luck to Jake Decker and Poland on his
own. I told him, I told him to take some moody, lonesome
photos and be melancholy while he's there. Oh, without me looking after him,
he's gonna get in trouble. Yeah, we were talking. We were
saying, he's probably in a gutter somewhere. Yeah. Well the first well,
I guess at this point anymore, I guess I shouldn't talk specifics about
the thing, since I don't know if it's embargod or anything. But it
was like cool stuff like to go to It was only like a day and
a half on the ground, but it was like at some cool spaces and
like there was some drinky stuff involved too. That. I guess even if
I was able to go, I wouldn't be able to drink right now,
able to drink him? Yeah yeah, But you know what I actually I
went to a brewery this last weekend. And you know, I associate social
stuff with drinking always. That's how it's always been as an adult. But
I was like, well, I can't hear and everyone else is probably gonna
be drinking instead of brewery. And I did try like the NA stuff.
They had this like orange cream soda. They had this like NA beer and
stuff like that and kombucha, and I was like, fuck it, they
got this whole NA menu. I mean, what else am I gonna do
to drink water? I try everything, And I was there for like hours
and hours and hours, and there was like, actually, it turns out
you can still just have a good time just hanging out with people tend to
be drunk, but you know, it's not torture to not be. The
n A industry is like at an all time high. Uh, it's a
good time to you know, be sober. What have you? Let me
look at North American industry YEP. According to the report, global demand for
the NA beverage market was valued that's not the same thing as profit obviously,
at approximately nine oh two point one four billion in twenty twenty three, and
is expected to generate revenue of around what That can't be right. Hold on
a second, that's who's this guy on LinkedIn saying that who's Who's No,
it's the fucking it's Google's like AI overview that so far has been inaccurate.
Every time I've looked at it, I scrolled straight past that ship every time.
I don't. I mean, let me look this up. It was
a lot. This makes a lot AI. Okay, this looks way more
realistic because the numbers they were showing me is literally no industry makes that much
except for porn. The structor's very point has already seen that she already increase
by nine point nine percent for value. Okay, it's valued at one four
point three billion. Jesus Christ, I mean, I get it. It's
a nice thing to like. Also like THC beverduce and stuff. I feel
like if you're someone who doesn't like drinking alcohol, now it's probably a pretty
great time. Like at least in Minnesota, like every brewery has like THC
drinks and stuff like that, and it's you know, like a five miligram
thing to sip on and that'll get to you for a few hours. You
know. That's uh good options Portland before they cracked down on it, they
used to just put it in everything. They would be like, if you
want to add a shot of CBD to any drink, just let us know.
And then like, of course, like the government overlords came in and
was like, you have to regulate this shit. You just can't put as
much CBD in someone's drink as CB. I know. But they came for
us, they might come for you too. I'm just telling you. Like
Portland was like the mecca of CBD where they just put that shit. Literally,
like I could be like I want a burger and like put put the
squirt of CBD in there and they'd be like, you got it, honey.
But now it's all regulated and it has to be in a closed canister,
like you have to be able to pop it. Does that make sense?
They can't just squirt it into a drink, and you can't if it's
a if it's like a CBD on draft, it has to be in a
sealed canister. They won't they won't let you just add it. No more
here THHC like TC is fine here. I'm I'm just telling you believe that's
very conservative. The man, the man, the man came in and they
regulated the ship out of our drugs, which really upset me because I like
to just add it to whatever. I'm like a huge advocate for CBD and
THHC in liquid form as a tincture. It's like my favorite way to do
drugs now, it's my struggle choice is a liquid tincture that I just add
into like whatever bevy. I've also been drinking less, so I appreciate this.
I realized that I wanted to lose a little bit of weight and just
kind of like check my health. I drink a lot, there's no question,
and there's a lot of empty calories in a bevy. So I thought,
if I if I just do less, like let's say I have it
or I have the days that I'm drinking a week, that's an incredible amount
of calories that I'm not having anymore. So I did start doing that,
and it's been really effective for me, and I've also found that I still
have a good time. I got invited to a girls night last week and
it was at a bar, but I used my scooter. I drove my
scooter, and I do not drink when I'm riding my scooter because if I
even get tapped, I would die. So I'm like hyper vigilant on my
scooter. And so I had two mocktails at the bar. I had a
great time. No one knew, not that I had to hide it,
but like nobody was the wiser. I just drank like everybody else did,
and I went home super clear headed. I thought it was great. I
mean, if the age were at if anybody would give you shit for like
not like fuck you, like fuck you if you're eighteen in doing that,
but like if a were adult ass adults, if somebody's like, ooh,
it's a fuck off, I'm not hanging out with you anymore. Yeah,
at that time has come and gone. Do you remember that movie Coyote Ugly?
I think I worked at a movie theater when the poster was on the
wall and I was fourteen. Yes, I poster very well. Yes,
I'm glad you have such a vivid memory of it. And in Coyote Ugly,
there's like an iconic part where a guy at the bar orders a water
and they all boo him and make him leave the bar, and they go,
what do we not serve? The bar goes water and they look chastize
him for ordering a water. I thought that he was ahead of its time.
Oh yeah, well, I I've always been very I am against the
idea of peer pressure. I don't agree with any of this. Really,
wait too early, Mary's broke? Dan is right? Wow you rip ally's
voices? I hate you, Dan, that's minaughty. God. That one
doesn't even make sense. I didn't like it. It just sounds funny.
God, damn it. Look you just shouldn't peer pressure people. Oh my
god, Mary using me all week on light club. I have been getting
people. How do you know? How do you know? You send me
your stupid show? Dan? It's a great heaven you on as a guess.
I wasn't what. He's probably got something, I tell you right,
No last time. No, no, no, I don't know. I
wouldn't do that. No, No, he uses it only to spite me.
I I want you to know that I was sent multiple endangering clips of
you, Dan, and I did not add them to a soundboard because time
stamps better than you. I'm always responsible with this You're right. I'm not
responsible with this. You are abusing it. Every second you push that button.
You have to averyone agrees with me. Right, Aw Wrestlers, Evil
Uno and Adam Cole, You're probably right Dan Dan is right. Thanks guys.
Oh my god, how many soundboards do you have? It's just a
giant glowing table in front of me. You like the Wizard of Oz for
the stupidest reason. Dan sucks and he's dumb as a butt. Disagree.
I knew, I knew it. I was waiting for that oneree what Okay,
I don't know his voice it was that's Manti. I knew it immediately.
He has a very distinct voice. There's a musical voice. Think about
it, and I'd be like, I'm not sure, but like, there's
a couple of people. Minati has like a voice I could pick out of
a lineup on my worst day. I'd be like, I know exactly who
that is very distinct. He sounds like Billy Crystal got kicked in the nuts.
Yeah, Summer Wait what this is going? Uh? This will go
up on the twentieth. We'll have one more episode before Summer Games Fest.
Yeah. I will not going. I won't be there. You guys should
come. I'll be It's hard. It's not the France, which I will
so like to be, yet it's that I was invited. I'm a fan
to say, it just won't be the same if Mary isn't with me on
my honeymoon in Paris from and so I'm considering it, but it's also really
close to TwitchCon and everything I do. I really still I hate bringing this
up, but everything I do I still in the back of my mind,
I'm like, what are the statistical chances that I will get COVID? And
I have to think about it because I can't afford to get it before I
go to Europe, And so usually a few weeks before I go, I
stay home and I just make sure that I don't, you know, accidentally,
you know, get myself sick. You know what I've what I've been
doing recently that's not good for my health that I wanted to share with you
guys. I've been getting into smoking cigars. Oh nice. I go to
cigar and I have a cigar, and I don't know anything about cigars,
so I can't really tell you a lot about it. I've been going to
a bar and they chop off the ends, just like in the movies,
and they give me some matches, and I have a cigar and a bar.
Sometimes you're with a drink and sometimes by it's lonesome. It's been great.
I like, yeah, yeah, if you don't chop off the end,
you're just sucking on paper that's not letting to smoke through. I used
to smoke a lot of cigars. I have so little about it. Do
they have like calories? No? No, I guess you're not eating them.
It's probably not good for you because it's smoke. But I mean the
worst case scenario, you smoke a lot of them, you get a mouth
kit. It's on steroids. You can't fight a little bit of smoke.
He's dead already. Its steroids. I could have cigars. Yeah, yeah,
if anything, you kind of want to like build up your system a
little bit, like come on, like let me come over and like slap
you around a little bit before you go into surgery. Let me shake you
once today, just to make sure that you're like, you know, you're
tepid. You've like you've processed everything, and you know your body is like
we gotta keep you on your toes. We want like all your white blood
cells to be like what she wanna do? Is she gonna come out?
I gotta scare you and stuff like that, and then you'll never die.
Just put my head in like one of those paint canshakers before my surgery.
Just make sure it's all loose and ready to go. Like, uh,
yes, you won't shut up about Corky Romano. He's been bringing up.
Oh, just like Casablanco when Rick gets his head in the Shaker Classic.
Oh sorry, I did watch like doctor Oh sorry, I didn't watch Fritz
Lang Silent Classic Metropolis before we recorded, and I can only references Corky Romano.
I'm a film major. I have more important things to with my time.
I watched it is the new Copola trailer that Megalopolis. Yes it looks
weird. Apparently it was a I mean, like any movie he's ever made.
Apparently it was just an absolute nightmare to make. Yeah, like all
the good ones wound up being like a nightmare to make. But then,
like you know, Jack was probably a breeze like, so, I don't
know, maybe this one's good. Speaking of which have you watched? Talking
about SGF and cinematic weirdness. Have you guys watched Everybody's in La. I've
seen the first episode. Yes, Yeah, it's funny. It reminds me
of when everybody's in La for SGF and you guys have them on your couch.
Yeah, because they're there for Sketch Week or Netflix is Netflix is a
joke Festival. Yeah. I was there the same week. I was in
La last week for a thing work. I did not see any of them.
Unfortunately, I've been seeing my buddy Nikki Glazer blowing up like crazy,
even more than she has the last like ten years. The HBO special,
She's on the Malayiy thing, the Brady Rose like, she's killing it.
I mean, yeah, Brady Roast I think is the number one thing.
She absolutely murdered it with John Mulaney for the show. The show's funny,
it's weird, and it's also just like about you know, John Mulaney settling
in La with Olivia mun they're his kid, and wait, it's real,
it's about real stuff. It's it's it's every All these comedians for Netflix as
a joke like Comedy Week are in La. So he's like, oh,
everybody's here, I might as well have them onto this loose kind of seventies
poor no vibe talk show, and we're gonna do a variety show. There
will be some sketches, only like one one out of every five sketch was
actually funny. We're gonna have every comedian a bunch of friends, and we're
gonna also we're gonna do a weird theme. We're gonna have we have a
weird theme for every episode about like Tie to La, like coyotes, earthquakes,
palm trees, the future of La driving and it's just funny. It's
like, well, this is you know, giant bomb does this with everybody's
in La, so let's bring them on our couch for a bit. But
I like Collins segments like people and just called the Netflix show lives. Yeah,
Marror of La called in for one, and then they had like plants
that called in and impersonated like Bob Dylan. But it was pretty fun.
I liked it. I didn't watch any of them live. I've missed them
all. Oh yeah, will fare on the audience was funny, and then
Flee was in the last episode, but it was good. I also and
the only other TV thing I'll mention because I know I talked mainly about TV.
Last episode is uh. I watched one episode of Conan O'Brien Must Go.
I've seen them, yeah, and I can't get the image of him
singing with the Irish tenors out of my head. Oh they're looking at the
fjord salmon and the sea that they Yeah, it's when they're they're in He's
singing with these famous in the bar, in the bar, but also the
practice thing and they're like, all right, you know you get like sing
from your diaphragm, like let it out. And he I've never heard someone
like scream a song like that, and even they started laughing. It's a
it's very good. But yeah, he does very well with the remote stuff,
and I'd like, I think that's a really cool way for his later
career now is like podcasting and this occasional run of travel shows versus the like
grind of the every night late night talk show, which is the revolving door
of celebrity interviews and stuff. He seems a lot happier doing this. Yeah,
it's very funny. I was losing my land my mind laughing the whole
time. Yeah, it's it was very fun very very funny show. Conan
has still got it and it kind of reminds me of just I don't know.
I grew up watching Conan on Late Night and I always thought he was
the funniest host. And it's probably like your love of norm Dan, Like,
I just really relate and associate with Conan's style of humor. It's super
self deprecating. It's uh, I just really appreciate it. And there's so
many times where he's in a tricky situation. You'll see this a lot like
culturally in the show. It's like are you gonna be good here? You
know? Are you gonna do this right? And I love like he always
finds way to completely thread the needle. In one of the ones, he
was like, hey, can you tell me all of the ways that I
can respect social norms so that I can ignore them? And the person answered
him genuinely and honestly, and he like like listened authentically the whole time.
I was just like he was making a little joke. There was one where
he's like, I heard here that you really appreciate your personal space? Do
you mind if I invage a personal space? Guy's like okay, he gets
his consent he's like okay, and then Conan by the end of it licks
this guy's face, yeah, and he's so uncomfortable, but it's so like
it's just so thoughtful and sweet and like nobody's getting hurt, nobody's getting like
he's found a way to make really really funny comedy without I don't know,
disrespecting a culture or a people. He's found a way to do it,
and it just he's a genius. It's never mean spirited. And he also
has that just like nuclear weapon in a comedic arsenal of just like no issue
at all with looking like the biggest horses ass in the world. Like half
of this travel shows him looking like the dumbest asshole from America and all these
different like just being an idiot and screaming and like rolling around on the ground
in a cheese shop or whatever, like he's, oh yeah, he's fucking
intro from Werner Herzog is perfect, Yes, like an unspoiled landscape begging to
be filed. And it cuts to cone with like a chicken hat on going
down a canal in Vietnam or wherever you dull eyes, dead dull eyes at
one's interview like I feel like there was like a generation that was introduced to
him, like, God, this guy's going for it. This guy,
Yeah, turns out it's so funny. Yeah, this guy has always been
good, but they've found a way to just really let him shine that.
The self deprecation is so good. There's like this one where he's he's knitting
and crocheting with a group of women. He makes himself a little f and
you're like, you're gonna need a couple more rounds of knit there, and
he was like, no, I'm not. I'm very small. This is
so funny. Like a whole group of women who can't really understand what he's
saying, just absolutely laughing because they know he's talking about small, small conan.
It's so funny. God, he's hilarious. What just probably the legendary
comedy career of like our lifetimes. Between The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live,
Late Night, he had the Tonight Show, at the TVs show. Now
he's got this super successful podcast, a podcast network, now this HBO show.
Like he has had such a run like the entire time we've been alive.
Yeah, I don't know anybody else that's done as many different things him
I mean, it's all within the world of comedy, but there's a lot
of writers. Writer like Bill Hayter is approaching that, but he hasn't had
a talk show. And also he's not doing podcasting like Bill. Header's also
more like going for I think he's doing some more quote un quote artistic movie
making these days. Yeah, and if you looked at someone like like someone
like Robert Smigel, if you were to look at his like filmography, you
know, his career is as impressive as Conan, but he's not as forward
facing. He showed up in a couple of halfataw movies or whatever, but
like Conan has been like front and center from the moment that he was like
not at all ready for it. I mean he was shoved out there by
Lauren, you know, after Letterman left and he had a real rock a
few years and then just turned it into one of the best comedy careers of
all time. It's goddamn. It's great that. I was funny seeing mulaney
do Everybody's in la because you know, he wrote for SNL, he was
on SNL. He has had several very successful stand up shows. He sold
out the Hollywood Bowl recently doing stand up. But he's also I mean,
he was briefly in The Bear. It was a very good episode. I
think he did well. But like if he did a I feel like,
if he did a talk show for how long to Conan do it? Twenty
years? Ninety three until he took over the Tonight Show in like two thousand
and nine, I want to say two thousand and eight, and that last
time I mean TBS, I mean fuck, we're talking like ninety three to
like the twenty tens, Like, yeah, the mid mid to late twenty
tens. I would say, like twenty ish something years. If Laney did
a talk show for twenty years and then started doing like whatever the fuck the
new podcast is twenty years from now, I think he would be on the
same a similar level. Yeah he's incredible, Yeah he's got He has this
one bit and I don't even want to really spoil it because and I also
will butcher it so it won't be funny. But they talk about how La
I think La is hosting the twenty eight Olympics or they're in a bid to
host the twenty eight Olympics, and half the show is just him. It's
a like he jokes about it being a selfish bid to try to figure out
what the fuck is going on with La, Like it just feels like this
big accident everywhere he goes. So he has a lot of these local experts
at like the labrets, harpits, earth seismologists, palm tree experts, et
cetera. Come on, and he's got one bit where it's the most John
mulaney joke ever. He's like, so La trying to host the Olympics or
like, you know, having La host the Olympics is like you have a
friend whose house is on fire. She just found out she's terminally ill.
She her like entire family just died, and to help her out, you
make her host the Olympics. And it's just like delivered of the most millennious
uh, you know, like intonation. It's really good. So he does
the monologue and then he does again. It's a it's more of a variety
show than anything. And uh, it's very loose and weird and like dreamlike
and fever trippy. It's a it's it's you should watch the rest of It's
good nice. I enjoyed it. I like comedy. It's all right,
it's pretty good. I like comedy and pizza and the office, traveling and
traveling. Who's this? It's just like every person's bio on dating apps back
when I was oh sure sarcasm fluent in sarcasm. I can only be tamed
with tequila. I love the office and pizza. Here's me doing a yoga
pos on Machu pichu. Yeah, I get all friends references. Yes.
Meanwhile, my profile is just like I'll suck your butt for money. That's
not what it's do. Dogs and dicks. Yeah, we officially we fish
dogs and Dixon cats. We fish officially finished booking everything for France. We're
done. Oh nice set, it's gonna be great. So you bought a
bunch of special wine holders for your luggage. Oh the yeah, the protective
bubble wrap packages for sending them back. We're bringing that check to the big
the third big checked away bag for like checking a whole bag for wine.
Well, so we're there for two weeks in France, so we're bringing we're
each bringing our own suitcase and like smaller underseat carry on, and then we
got a bigger suitcase for extra like shoes and just incidentals. And then on
the way back, Yeah, we're gonna pack it with wine as much as
we can because like, drink it all on drink it all on the plane.
Well, I mean, I'm sure we'll get a bunch of bottles and
bring them back to these airbnbs and hotels, et cetera. But when you
get them certain producers that we're going to be going to and the whole trip
isn't a wine just a wine trip, but that's a focus of it.
But some of these producers either don't export to America or they're hard to find
this specific bottle or vintage of But it's also generally cheaper straight from the source.
So we're going to send back some pretty some bottles from We're going to
Chateau Fijiac for people who are into Bordeaux. If you need if you need
tips for there, you got my dad's tell me which vintage is your favorite.
I'll look for that and then I'll try to get you a bottle because
I know you well, I don't want it to sell out, So talk
to my dad. Just text him on the side. I'll help you out.
Yeah, I'll try get me a cigar falling out, get me a
Frons cigar. We are way closer to good cigars here than France's. I
want what can you get me in France? Get me something in France that
for something from France first, Dan, give me something more expensive than what
you get Dan. Will be in Pace and then Bordeaux, and then we're
going across the Lais Valley and we're gonna be in a lot of good cheese
spots. Do they have any like exclusive like easy cheese flavors there that we
can't get here? I don't know. I could check, you know what,
I would love French easy cheese. Yeah? Good, you shoot it
out instead of just like a stream of goo, it's an actual full like
Brie block of bris out of this block form. Yeah, France is crazy.
Yeah, they're crazy over there. That's what I've always heard. Oh
man, a travel show like Conan travel show where it's just Mike and my
dad going to France on like a wine trip would be amazing. He leaves
every wine bar shouting I'm from the dirt, and then he trips into river
parts of some parts of France that will be in I'm sure there's some locals
that would get along with Paul absolutely mm, Like, well, I don't
know, they're They're probably like they probably see Kansas as this uh you know,
this exotic locate. I'm joking. Exotics the word I would use for
cancers always say, yeah, palm trees as far as the eye can see
the dirt. Yeah, dirt and palm trees. Yeah, it'll be fun.
I will not be at SGF because I'll be there most of half the
juice. It's gonna be sick. It's gonna be sick. It's gonna be
sick. I I think there are plans for me to go to Disneyland with
Mike Manattis, so that will be awesome. It'll be interesting. Yeah,
that be sick. I've done it before, but it was just for like
a video game event, and so we just did the Star Wars stuff real
quick. But I think we're going to try to like do a proper visit
before we fly out. So fine, here's here's what we need to do.
You should find the most disney ass, disney adult ass thing you could
do there and then FaceTime me while I'm in like a linen suit somewhere in
Bordeaux. If it's like two in the afternoon in Anaheim, what is it
in France? Land? Three eight hours ahead, nine hours eight Okay,
awake drinking eight hours he be awake and drinking. Yeah, yeah, time
today, It's likely I'm awake in drinking. I'll be having a dull whip
on a log ride and you'll whatever a chateau is. Dan's got a piece
of celery with peanut butter and raisins on it, going down this water spout,
and I'm in palmer sipping the nectar the Calm of the Gods, and
in my linen suit. Oh that looks great, Dan. I wish I
was there instead of dichotomy of man, tell Goofy, what up this Goofy
talk? Yes, none of them talk. Goofy absolutely talks. I met
like characters, oh, like the mascots at the or like in the cartoons
or whatever. Does he talks? Yes, he talks. He's got that's
just a sound. That's not a sentence. He talks. I think he's
talking. He's like Scooby. I think he fought a clue. Scooby's a
different guy. They don't know each other. So that's Shaggy. Scooby doesn't
say his own name. Shaggy is the one who would say that line.
Scooby says his own name. Isn't that All he can say is like,
I guess that's true. He does say Scooby Dooby Doo, but he's not
like he says themed after Scooby Doo on Zombie Island. That ship was whack?
I love? Are they not six flags? Isn't six flags like a
Warner thing? Peanuts? Peanuts are at six flags? Sounds right? Snoopy
is the cartoon dog there. I saw the New Monkey movie last night,
went with Ben Hansen and Bank, and I was thrown off because I saw
the first three or the most recent three. There were three of the like
Modern trilogy, the one that started with Rise Rise Don in War, this
one and no No Rise don in War was that trilogy. This is Kingdom,
but this is like Way in the Future that was even like the old
sixties and seventies one. It's always like beneath the planet of the beneath the
you know, like that worry are you at? You know? Give me
like a nice two out of three is what I'm looking for After a movie
title, you know, you can't name them all, like MacBook operating services,
you know, like I don't know if what leopard is. I don't
know if that's better. I did, well, this is a kingdom.
It's like it is like a monkey kingdom. Now it seems like the monkeys
have taken over whatever. Is it the first of a new trilogy. I
don't know if they're doing a trilogy, but it is like they reference things
from the course they are. Nobody makes one of anything anymore. I just
wasn't expecting all the monkeys to just be chatting the whole time, like it
was a good movie. But it's like I remember there's like one word,
like Caesar's went like no in the Rise and it's whoa, he said a
word? And then I can't really remember much of Dawn and War, but
in this one there's like, hey, what's up man, Hey, let's
go find that eagle and you want to go get that egg color? Man,
let's go just sleep with chats to dream, Let's go fuck up humans.
Yeah, they're just talking the whole goddamn time. Oh hang in that
one is like Ruby Rock. The King Monkey in this one is though he's
a great like wrestling promo, he's like really charismatic, like King Monkey.
He doesn't get a lot of screen time, but he's he's a good ud
heal in that King Monkey, it's a good King Monkeys. It's like Proximus.
That's a cool name. Anything in Romans cool. It was a pretty
it was pretty fun. I wouldn't say it's like incredible, but I enjoyed
it. I haven't seen any of those films, and I have heard good
things about them. Like I agree with you, I just haven't seen them.
I don't know why, but I haven't been compelled to see war.
It's hard to like motivate me for War, the New One, any War
Kingdom, just war them in general. I haven't seen any war Monkey Wars,
specifically Monkey Wars, saying, Mike, have you've seen Saving Private Ryan?
This movie's sick. That was a shoot that was Those are real dudes.
Well, they're playing real dudes. Mary always says that she watches Saving
Private Ryan every night. Right, she does say that. I read to
turn it around because I know it says Dan, Well, shit, I
have to agree. She's like this Vin Diesel guy is hot. I have
never said that. Actually, didn't he do? Riddick chronic? Yeah,
he's yeah, he's butchered by I was very young when Reddick came out and
I remember being like that guy is good looking. But that's when it fell
off. You can you can fill me in on this here, And I
think I might have just been absolutely blind this, but I you know,
like Brendan Fraser is having this like career renaissance or something. Yeah, good
for him. I think, yeah, yeah, he's a great actor.
I've enjoyed a lot of us. I think I've seeing a clip from min
Max where they were talking about the Ummy movie and stuff and everyone was like,
oh my god, Brendan Fraser was so hot back then, And like
I remember thinking back then that like I thought he was supposed to be like
a doofy goofy guy because it was always like deadly do right and George with
the Jungle, Like did people find Brendan Fraser like across the board? Yes,
but not in every film. I think they're racked off to Bedazzled VHS
cover every night. Well there are factors play, No, there's not.
Everybody knows that if they were jacking off to Bedazzle, it was for Brendan
Frasier. Yes, there was no other No, no, I told you
on this podcast before I jade into that cover. I love bedazzled and Brendan
Fraser and no, he was a he had his moment. There was a
couple where was it in Sino Man he was having that too. There's a
couple where he like had his his like attractive era. And absolutely the Mummy
with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss, both of them are smoking hot. Still
yes, God, no one deserves her. But I'm just saying in that
film, there's a time where you know where they do that like attractive male
lead thing where the hair is like it's kind of like bang for boys,
and there's just it just kind of goes off to the side like little like
like bug things in front of the eyes. That's when you know they're a
fuck boy. On the second those little bangs are in front of their eyes,
everybody wants a piece of that ass. And that was like a universal
thing like like bangs as it's the bangs. Once you get the boy bangs,
you're in And uh, this is also true with other films, Uh,
like Titanic, Right, Yeah, that's Leon's Leon Kennedy. Things that
everybody heart throbs. I have to play resident evil. Yes, boy bangs
are banging, and the grilies love it one hundred percent, and he had
boy bangs in that film strictly nineties things like if a dude did that like
right now, would right now? Still nineties are like back in fashion,
so it makes sense that like these nineties early two thousands heart throbs or I
don't. I don't know that Brenda Fraser was a heart throb when that movie
first came out. I also knew it was by the end of it.
The Mummy, Yeah, it was a something throb, you know what I
mean, he wouldn't by what's that. I watched The Mummy recently on to
hold up my phone. Yeah, it's entertaining. It was on a flight.
It's still good. It still holds up. Yeah, I love it.
That's not the one where the Scorpion King shows up at the end,
right, yes, and then the Scorpion King. We don't talk about that
movie. Yeah, okay, good movie. I think the third one is
the Scorpion King. Just to be clear, Mummy returns though he shows up
at the end. Yeah, the cg like scorpion Yeah, the worst c
ridiculous, it's awful. Yeah, yeah, we don't talk about those.
But the first one still I think, I think I just watch you know
what I watched for the It still holds up fifth element, still good.
I've been meaning to I've been meaning to watch that for like fifteen years now.
That's fun. I remember Gary Oldman just having a good time in that
movie. There a bunch of actors were like, fuck it, I really
am here. This place is crazy, like everybody like really committed to their
roles. Bruce willis also fucking super hot in that film, as is Leelu
Dallas multi pass super hot Leelu Dallas. Yes, I forgot there was Nip
in that. There's a wait are you talking, Miller Jobo bitch. Yes,
that's the is the character name? Okay, got it? Yeah,
one hundred percent. And she's smoking hot in that and everybody talks about her.
But this movie, I don't know what year this was made. I
was like, oh my gosh, young Bruce willis in his prime, like
fit, looking good. He's got like a little bit of his toft left.
He's like got like just a couple of baby hairs up there, and
it's all you need. That's all you need. Quite frankly, he looks
great. I'm gonna do the thing where I compare myself because I always remember
thinking that Bruce willis like John McLain and Fifth Element, being like, oh,
that's like an older action guy or whatever. And now I'm gonna see
if I'm older than he. Okay, he was born in fifty five.
He was born in Germany, so by nineteen ninety five he was forty.
So yeah, he had been in like three Diehard movies. And I'm older
than him in the first three Diehard movies. Okay, all right, older
than him in the after the die Hard movies. I'm older than the first
three John McLain movies him in those movies. Yeah, okay, we're getting
older, I think. Yeah, in that film, he's still absolutely got
it, Like, hey, they've sheened his muscles, he's shiny, he
looks great, he's kicking around, he punches a couple people. He looks
really good. Miil and Jojovish obviously like steals the show. She's outrageous.
In all these examples where I'm talking about hot like hot fuck boys, the
women are absolutely just ungodly hotter. Though it's wild to me when we're like
we're like, yeah, Brendan Fraser was pretty hot in the Mummy, but
Rachel es Jesus, have you seen Enemy at the Gates? No? Yes,
Stalingrad World War two movie with Jude Law and Rachel Weiss. She gives
she gives him an h J in the middle of a bunch of like sleeping
Russian. Yes, Jude Law, she judes him off. It's great.
I love it. Yeah, that's good. It's he staling with Ed Harris
is the Germans. Isn't that the one where the guys like, I'm going
to show you where the sniper is at the Ron Pearlman. Uh yeah.
So Ron Perlman is like his mentor, and he goes to like there's this
thing with the snipers, like in their spot or it's like if you're jump,
if you're going out into the open to the next cover, like you
want to go first because the sniper who's watching you doesn't have time to line
up a shot against the first person. But then he knows you're there,
so he's ready for the second person. So he's like he defers to Ron
Peerlman. At one point he's like, all right, you can. He's
like, it's your turn to go first. To Ron Pearlman jumps across this
gap and gets shot in the head halfway through, and then Jude Law knows
he's dealing with someone good. Oh ship, but it's at Harris. I
bet I'd like the movie. It's awesome, sounds cool. I was jump
before he's the mistake of rob jumping across the gap? Is that ron forman,
We're like jumping like a normal person. Why didn't he like dive or
like, yeah, I would do? Would hell divers die a cartwheel over
sniper? Would suspect that? To clarify, they didn't know for sure in
this instance that anybody was watching them. It's just a cautionary thing because they
knew there were snipers and stelling gram auctionary cart wheels the dangerous gap. Then
he gets shot in the dick instead, and then he's still dead. Would
you rather get shot in your head or in your dick? I'd rather die
right away. Co come back to me. We'll break after the emails and
then come back. Yeah, uner meet the Gates is yeah. Bob Hoskins
plays Nikita Khrushchev. Who else is in it? Joseph not yes, Joseph
finds fiends josephine jo there's a Joseph Uh. I think it's Finn's finesse finds
you recognize me, You've seen him. He's always a good like character actor.
Oh that guy, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like Jude Law's
kind of admirer who becomes his propagandist, because part of the the whole point
of Jude Law becoming this like, uh, skilled hunter from Siberia coming in
to save Stalingrad from the attacking Nazi forces, occupying Nazi forces, that like
it's very much about propaganda, like putting him as the hero up and like
giving Stalingrad hope. And then Ed ed Harris's character, I forget his last
name. The enemy sniper comes in. He's called in specifically to hunt Jude
Law. He comes in on this luxury train car with like he's got his
like metal case of German cigars that he's smoking Ed Harris, and he starts
just annihilating people left and oh my god, I love Harris. Movie becomes
in like the half of the second act and the third act, a duel
in the City of Stealing between Jude Law, this dude, this hunter from
Siberia and Ed Harris, this like upper crust Nazi sniper. Ooh, it's
really cood. Okay, that sounds interesting. I watch it maybe once a
year. Still, when I just see it pop up, it's I think
it's on It's on some streaming thing. But yeah, Rachel Weiss is in
it. Yeah. Oh. Also you can see like where three of the
Call of Duty games got oh sure their missions? Yeah, the early two
ones. Yeah. Yeah. But Bob Hoskins gives a speech about how he's
like, this is not Peter's or no, I forget he said. Yeah,
He's like, this is not Moscow, this is Stollingrad and Stalin is
still alive. Uh, Stalin was fucked up, dude, though I've heard
yeah, and Savory, I haven't heard. That's what I said. You
guys want to talk about video games. Yeah, let's do that. Dude.
The guy killed like fifty million people. It took me a beat and
I was like, wait, I can press it. Yeah, he killed
a lot of people, arguably more than Hitler. She's gone from liking Nixon
to be in a Stalin mark. If I could, I wouldn't shoot you
in the head and in the deck do the head first? No, got
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let's talk about Animal. Well, the game I see everybody talking about,
and I hear that everybody has little like different friend circles playing it and bouncing
ideas off of each other. I don't know if that's how you've been playing.
What is going on with this game? I know Donkey's company published it?
Yeah, which Mary, I saw you were streaming some of this the
other night status on it. How far are you. Let's let's dance around
the spoilers at all. I mean it's not very well. I kind of
don't think it is, because like there's no story at all, and like
the stuff you can do is like I could mention an item. But as
long as I'm not saying specifically, well, use this, use okay,
we can dance around this like Fez or Outer Wilds was potential spoiler in mind
for the Witness. You know, yes, the Witness had that. It's
kind of like the exciting part. What makes this game so special is the
aha moment because this is the most dewey game of the year, And I
am using that aggressively because no one should say that, because it's fucking may
and you shouldn't have said it last episode. This game is so doing.
It has no text or like any written stuff at all. Week next none
And when you get too dark to see the map, pedantic piece of shit,
you can draw on the map and then I hate this. Actually I
didn't know you could draw on the map because it didn't explain it. There's
like no copy in this game, so they don't tell you how to do
stuff. The very first time I got an item, and I'm going to
avoid spoilers, but the very first time, my very first item, I
thought that I was supposed to go somewhere and like, you know, yes,
I didn't know that it was an item that I could use in the
world. I didn't know that it could be a weapon. I didn't know
that it could be used for traversal. I didn't know anything. I just
got this item, and they never explain anything. So when you start manipulating
your items in fun ways and you realize when you come across the puzzle and
you're like, I don't know if I can beat this. The first thing
you do is just cycle through all your items and just start throwing them in
the space and be like, is this how it's done? And you just
fuck around until you find out, and sometimes you'll learn things just by accident.
It's it's like a meaning to use. Oh I got the item,
what the fuck does this do? And I'll press a button in a different
way. I'll oh that can do that. Holy shit, that changed.
And then you look at the whole match, which, by the way,
way to give some context if you don't know Animal, well, it's like
a thirty four megabyte game. It is, uh, it's a metroid Vania
with like nob yeah. Yeah, So it's like there, it's very puzzle
heavy, so like there will be enemies, but it's more like you walk
into a room and oh, there's this big animal here, and they're doing
this to me, and that's scary. It's not about combos. It's not
Prince of Persia, it's not Tales of whatever Zoo. It's a very different
you mentioned Fez, you know, it is more along the lines of a
Fez or a Witness, that type of puzzle heavy like in a metroid Vania
wrapping. It does have the map, it's got the map markers and stuff
that kind of breath the while Prince of Persias style thing, which is helpful,
But there is a there's a deep mystery to this game that keeps getting
Like, for instance, this is not a spoiler. Pretty early on you're
going to be exploring around and you'll get a treasure chests. It's like,
oh, I wonder what I'm getting here? A new items like fucking egg?
Like what is an egg? And then it's like, oh, another
treasure chests, Great, what's my reward? And that's another egg. Like
It's like for a while it was like what the fuck am I doing with
all these eggs? And then you eventually find out. It never leads you,
by the hand. Everyone I've talked to you about this game has had
a different path, different items they're getting in different orders, different revelations.
It's a it's pretty special. I would say, what are you playing on
Dan? Very very special? I played on Steam. I saw credits.
Now I know that there is more there is. It seems like a game
that can go about as deep as you want it to go. I've heard
of people saying they be eat it in five hours. I've heard of people
saying they're on fifty hours. That's insane. How did you get credits?
I think I'm on let me check my Steam. I think I've let it
runs. This probably isn't accurate because I do this a lot. It says
I'm at fifteen hours and I have four flames. I see okay, I
think you could see credits in the near future. But again I saw credits.
But I think there's If I want to put another twenty hours in this
game, I think there's enough stuff there. It seems like there is.
I one spent two hours getting a fucking egg. Yeah, yes, just
getting an egg. That was like it was it seemed impossible. Have you
ever also had this moment where you like come across something and you're like,
I must not have the item to do this yet, and then you find
out that you did have it all along, you just need to putts around
there a little bit more and figure it out. It's so good, it's
super satisfying. And there's also the times too, where it's like you'll just
kind of be stuck and then you'll be in a room and you'll see or
hear notice something and be like, ah, I wonder if like could this
do this? And sometimes you'll just try something that you're no way this is
going to fucking work, and then something will happen You're like, whoa,
holy shit, I did not expect that and that changes everything, and then
I need to go explore this entire map again and need to change have this
knowledge, like how is this going to apply? I'll look at rooms in
a different way now that I know this is possible. It's really cool,
really neat how it very subtly teaches the player how to do something. I
think the level design is quite well done, where you will be in an
area, an environment, and it is very softly teaching you how to use
a new skill, very metroidvenia right, and then you'll be in another area
and that same skill won't work and it turns out you need to use it
with another item and combine them in order to solve the puzzle. So the
game is teaching you through mechanics, you know. I absolutely love when games
do this, when the game is not literally telling you what to do,
there's nothing clear. But a good example of this would be a door and
there's three markers on it and none of them are lit, and there's three
buttons in the space, and you're like, all right, I got to
push these buttons right. That tells you everything you need to know as a
player. So you don't need to really, you don't really get told anything,
and you have to actually be very thoughtful when you're playing this game.
What is the game trying to convince me to do in this space? I
was never casually just platforming in this game. I was constantly stuck and needing
to think about what the game was trying to get me to solve. I
also just want to call out it's called animal. Well, we really haven't
talked about the animals yet. It's a very like fun concept where throughout the
game you will come across various creatures. A lot of them are beautiful,
some of them are mythical, some of them are animals. You have one
hundred percent seen in your daily life like a dog. And they all have
different behaviors that play around with the mechanics of the game. So the items
that you have may benefit you, it may hurt you. It's really interesting.
And some of the animals are like, I fucking hate that, and
if you bring that out in front of me, I will fucking kill you.
I will ruin you, And all of a sudden, yeah, I
will destroy you. I will eat your skin. And it's it's kind of
a horror In some ways. I don't think it's that scary, but there
have been times where I screamed or like yelled out loud because an animal reacted
in such a hostile way and I wasn't prepared and I got eaten alive.
You're having somewhere and you're like, I'm safe down here, and it's like
you hear a horrible sound. You're like, oh, exactly what you're talking
about. That scene is fucking awful. I actually like I had someone else
who was watching me play. I was like, Hey, why don't you
play this? It's really fun. There's some thing I need under the ground
here, Why don't why don't you go get it and see what happens.
It's a nightmare fuel. But there's like a couple of really good examples of
like a time where I went into a scene and there were these beautiful,
oh my god, I don't know what they're called, long legged birds,
stork. I think they're prettier than ostriches. They're like herons. I think
they're herons, like long legged birds, and stop guessing birds and I have
gold benches. I'm going to accept herons and I'm going to move on.
There's no reason to name. But you're just trying to stay breasts anyway.
You walk doves have morning boners. I'll also accept mourning doves. You're walking
across these birds and you're not in the space with them yet, you're just
seeing them, and they're actually very beautiful, and it's kind of just this
visual spectacle. It reminds me a little bit of hollow night have Sometimes it'll
like let you see a new space and how pretty it is, and then
uh, and then you can't interact with it yet. Get your hand off
that motherfucking soundboard. I don't want to see both your hands. I want
them both in the air. I want them in the air. I want
your hands. I want them up in the air, the hands in the
air. I'm not going to have this conversation with you. You mentioned hollow
Night, and I just think we can both agree that this is clearly when
your head. Dan is right, dan is right, Dan is right,
Dan is right, dan is dan is right, Strong and stupid. Sorry,
I'm gonna have a panic attack. I'm gonna need steroids so that I
can live from these episodes because I am so upset from doing this to me.
Stop it. The birds birds. You're walking by it, and the
birds are really pretty, but you can't interact with them. And then like
three hours later it turns out that you can interact with the birds in a
later area. And so the game's teasing you constantly with like really cool areas
that you can't interact with yet. But as you progress the game, you
do get to see all these cool spaces and interact with them and like interact
with all these funky animals. It's really cool. Have you also done the
thing where it's like, as you're trying to kind of get the feeling of
every animal, it's like there's always the formers, Like I'll just throw firecrackers
at it and see what the hell happens. Yeah, see what they think
of fire crackers. You have to you have to try different items. One
of my favorite ones is like, it's so hard to do this, so
spoiled. I don't think this is a big spoil But there's an animal that
hates bubbles, and it's so funny to me, Like, it's just a
bubble hat it animal that bubbles. Yeah, it's a bird. It's not.
It's not just it's a different bird. I think it's name. It's
more birds for me. You're spoiling it more no bard owls now borrowed house,
black capped chickaties. It's got a long beak like a poker flamingo,
woodpecker, ostriche. I think it's like a hummingbird. A hummingbird also have
long beaks, but they have a Yeah. Anyway, Uh, it's just
funny to watch how the animals interact with the world, whether or not they
hate you, whether or not they like you. It's very interesting to me,
and it's also very It's kind of like being dropped off in a zoo
and you're like, oh, I don't know how these animals are going interact
with me, and you gotta figure it out. Sometimes they eat you alive
and sometimes they help you. It's it's really it's really uh creative, and
it makes me feel absolutely like I'm just I'm in death's door and I'm hoping
what will happen, but you never know, I'm predicting. It's also really
fun to talk to people who are further along than you and be like you
can just kind of like you don't want spoilers, but you be like,
hey, am I barking up the wrong tree here? Or hey, I
just got this thing. Am I supposed to know what to do with this?
Or is there a way to get over here faster? And like I
love you know, the friends I've been talking to about it, they're like,
oh, maybe you know, maybe don't worry about that yet, or
oh maybe you've got something here, like oh maybe tried this general realm of
activity with it, and you know, just kind of like softly pushing you
towards solutions rather than just like what do I do with they? Yo?
I think that's really nice too. I had someone when I was streaming it.
I was stuck on a puzzle and someone in my chat said, I'm
not telling you anything except you don't need anything, and so what he's basically
saying is is like you have everything you need, you can figure this out.
Just take your time and over you're against it for a bit. Sometimes
you know it takes twenty thirty minutes for you to like figure it out.
But the AHAs are really good, they really are. This game has some
I just dinked my mic. This game has some really good AHAs. So
I really do recommend this game. I think it is very up there for
me. I have not beat it. My negatives are that there's a couple
Here's the thing too, I'm not sure Dan if my experience is the same
as yours, and I can't go over this without spoiling it. My negatives
are that there's been a couple things the game has asked me to do that
I think are absurdly hard. Like I think they are. You have to
be so freaking good at the game in order to get through it. That
it seems platform related brutal. It's platforming and enemy related, like there's an
enemy and platforming simultaneous. I think it seems too hard. Okay, I'm
going to be very vague here. Does it have something to do with getting
something to another place. Yep, well okay, that was hard, but
you can do it. I it just it's really difficult. And I was
surprised how hard the game is. I had to spend some time trying different
courses and you know, routes that I was going to take and stuff,
and eventually, like I was like, oh I can do this. Yeah,
yeah, I believe you. I think, uh, I've been I
don't know if being hard is a good uh and you know negative of this
game. I think what I'm saying is is like there were times where I
was like, this challenge seems unnecessarily cruel to the player. Sure, yeah,
just so a massive spike because everything else is like what a fun little
puzzle. This bird does not like bubbles. I have to figure this one
out. The other ones are like I get murdered and it takes me fifteen
minutes to get back into this area. Goddamn it. Oh I know what
bird you're talking about that hates bubbles. I know what you're talking about now.
Yeah, And there are like early on it is kind of frustrating,
like some of the like checkpoint type stuff and getting around, but like through
learning things, there are ways that kind of make things better as far as
that stuff goes, Yeah, it's it's fine. I really do recommend this
game. I think it is this year's puzzle experience that everyone should try.
I absolutely, very very much recommend this game. I would compare it.
I know this kind of sounds weird, but I recommend it a little bit
to Cocoon. Oh as far as like a lot of yeah, I could
see it where it's like, it's not leading by the hand, You're gonna
learn the mechanics, so you're gonna figure out the puzzles on your own.
Yeah, it's I could see that. Yeah, there's no portals, it's
not a portally thing. But actually, never mind, all right, let's
move on. I accidentally I'll spile the game. Just yeah, the no
communication, here's an environment solve. It is like very much this game,
and I think it's brilliant. I think it's extraordinarily well made. And I
can't wait to see what this dev does next, because I think this is
like one of those singular or like solo dev situations, like this is a
very small it is very small team. Congrats to them. And also,
hey, with Donkey, you know, like he announced that thing and saw
a lot of Twitter experts coming out of the you know and be like,
oh, you know YouTuber things. He can come do this thing and knows
how to public and it's like, look, obviously it's not. I'm sure
that people are helping him. He had a great developer working on it,
but like he picked a good one. The first one out of the gate
is a success, has off to him. Prove them wrong, fuck him,
you know, like good for good for Donkey. I am foreign era
where a YouTuber can replace the suits of a publisher that says that I will
accept that. I will not accept everyone congratulating Donkey for what a good game
is. When I fucking single dev made this game and killed it, all
praise should go to the dev and Donkey was the suit that maybe helped bankroll
him and marketed the ship out of it, and for that I will give
him absolute credit. But I mean, there is a curation thing and knowing
which ones to pick and the first one is very important and stuff, and
like yeah, like he did not make the game, that credit goes to
the dev. But like Billy, yeah, so Dan, what are you
didn't? What was Mary saying recently about her Oh yeah, yeah, Yeah,
she doesn't like him. She wants everything to be like Assassin's Creed level
dev team, and she says, once the game's out the door, get
rid of them. They're out the door. Do you ever say that?
That's what she says. I don't even off have ever beaten an Assassin' screen
my entire life. For people that aren't on the patron level, they don't
see the video of you wearing the shirt that says crunch is good. That
suck my dick. Why do you have any of my good soundbites? You
gotta get a Nixon one. Now we need stalin things. Your voice to
a AI, well, now he's got dick clear as day, yelled use
it, learn it, learn it, suck it. I hate you your
live laughlows. I just want to get a pillow. What's our next piece
of merch? Everything you just said incursive on like a pillow. Live it,
love it, learn it, suck it. That's our beach towel.
Their next Patoo's in the summer catalog. In that script, all right,
Mary, you tried out the game. Dan recommended many shoot adventures I did.
I also streamed this game for a little over three and a half hours.
It is as was mentioned to me, it is a Zelda bullet hell
adventure that looks so simple. The audio is disappointing to me. I think
that from a game design perspective, it's very well done. It is so
clean. You are basically learning shortcuts in this environment, and you are upgrading
your little shooter cannon to have more bullets. Faster bullets make you speedier,
better dodging. Very fun to traverse the area and especially get into a new
space and figure out what it's trying to teach you or what the new skill
is. This is again very Zelda or Dungeony, where you get a new
skill, then it puts you an environl where all of a sudden you can
jump around and use it, and it's teaching you to use it properly.
I got lost a couple of times where I was I have no idea where
this is what this game wants me to do next, or where it wants
me to go. That can be a little frustrating, but I always figured
it out. I always solved it. I do think it's a good game.
I have not beaten it. I don't know animal well has taken up
all of my time, and I think like Animal Well is absolutely my shit.
I think that Mini Shoot Adventures has its moments, and I will agree
it is a solid game. Yeah. If you would have gone to my
head ask like, okay, you haven't played either Animal Well or Mini Shoot
Adventures. Which game do you think Mary is going to like more? I
do think I would say Animal Well is definitely more your style. But yeah,
I mean you can see why. Yeah, it was a big I
can see why you recommended it. And if it wasn't for you stealing my
voice and use it against me, I would even give you some credit.
But fortunately, because you have harmed my trust, I will just say it's
not a bad game, and I appreciate the recommendation. Well, I can
earn it back by saying, like, you know it is I think the
indie game of the year. Damn right, it's not trust not even it's
specifically why I said that Animal Well is really dewey because I think they do
the same thing, which is PLoP you in a world with no text and
be like figure it out. I do. Well. I think you have
to agree that Animal Well is way more thinking than Many Shoot. It's more
thinky, But that has nothing to do with Dewey's. It's hoey. A
Dewey can be a thinkye, yeah do and think you're not talking about yeah.
Deys and thinks aren't mutually exclusive. It can be a Dewey think them
that's right, And this one is a think them that also has you do.
The thing that we're avoiding is when it has a ship ton of text
and you're like, I don't want you to talk to me. You talk
sitting here listening either talking many shoot straight up Dewey an well is dewey think
this is not This is not three things. This isn't a triangle. It's
Dewey talky. It is just a line of Dewey and talky. But maybe
it's a triangle for muscular skinny. But it's like maybe we throw a thinkum
in there. No, this isn't a fucking rhombus. It's just a lot.
I don't I don't care. You would have added one if you could.
It's either Dewey or it's talky, and I'm saying it's very dewey.
Can we have a best think them of the year, A game of the
year danyes? What's the anti thinkham though? Dewey Vampire Survivors. Yeah,
well you gotta kind of plan some stuff out there. You're your build,
which, by the way, I'm playing that right like that transition Daddy Mikey's
getting good at this kind of do way best. The kids are arguing,
Daddy's got to step in and transit show. Just think come, I added
it to the dock Per Game of the Year. Okay, yes, I
am playing Operation Guns for Vampire Survivors. It is a good DLC for Vampire
Survivors. Did not love the among us one. Did not think the aesthetics
or the weapons really worked with the Vampire Survivors for that. This is Contra.
It's got contra music, it's got contrac characters, got a bunch of
suff Contra hardcore, my favorite Contra. All the weapons make perfect sense.
It's spread guns, it's homing missiles, it's things that you're leveling up and
evolving, Contra sprites, Contra areas. It's just it is. They put
Contra onto Vampire Survivors. How the fuck is that not going to be good?
Like Castlevania onto Dead Cells two years ago Tasmania. Yeah, that was
it. That was deal C for Dead Cells, right, correct. Is
this man that was so much fun? Yeah? That was good. That
was really smart. Yeah, yeah, it's it's similar. It's just this
one that you just hear the Pitchford and you're just like, oh yeah,
of course, of course that makes perfect sense. So it's got me playing
more Vampire Survivors. That's never a bad thing. It does the thing where
like sections some of it off into its own like little adventure thing if you
don't want to just like be in the big general pool of the main menu.
But yeah, I feel like Vampire Survivors, you like contract, it's
a no brainer. Still good on steam Deck, It's like you, oh
yeah, definitely. Does it age well in the sense that, like the
game is casual and simple. Do you feel like you've played it or are
you like excited to go back into it, because that's like my hesitation is,
like I've beaten that game, don't. I don't have much more I
want to get into. I'm not at the like obsession level I was when
it first came out, because it's like, you play enough of that game,
and I've played through it on like three consoles. Now, yeah,
you kind of know how this goes where it's like if I get a good
build and I'm just destroying everything and I barely have to move. But it's
like, okay, well I got a winning run here and it's only twelve
minutes in, so I guess I'll just walk around for you know, eighteen
more minutes. So like it's a long time. Thirty minutes too, is
it is? And so like, I mean, once you played enough for
you kind of know what you're getting into, but like it's ideal, like,
oh, I'm watching something in the background, I'm you know, I'm
playing. I'm podcasting something. Yeah, yeah, you podcasting listening. I
guess podcasting implies you could. Is that what that hand motion has been this
whole time? Never a hand motion? Yeah, you're like you do that
a lot, and then you do the Yeah, you're being filthy with your
jokes. Now, No, you've got the soundboard. Oh that's the nice
that's the one, okay, because that might makes that noise all the time
doing it. Oh he's not here, Well, it's good playing, stupid
man. That's a transition. Another thing you last I talked to you,
you're gonna wait on full release for Haities two. But looks like you caved.
No not really. I think I did it exactly the way I want
to, Like, I wanted to play it enough towards like everybody seems very
excited about it. I want to get a sense of it. So I'm
waiting till the whole release. That's what I do. So do you emit?
You caved? I played about an hour a bit. I peeked in
the door. I was like, I don't think I caved. I don't
consider that a cave. That was a curios I said, you said you
were going to wait until one point zero and then you didn't. If that
constitutes caving, then I caved. Thank you. Yes, Mary Rry got
it. I got you a sound clip thank you, very specific use case
saying like the stupidest ship. He says so many stupid things all the time.
If I wanted to, if I wanted to have a soundboard of Dan
saying dumb things about how he's horny for games and what I have it?
Yeah, like out of a can it exists? It exist? How is
it so far? I see why people are enjoying it. I see why
they're excited about it. It is for an early access thing, technically it
is. It feels pretty far along. It's the moment to moment combat and
everything, and even like the hub world and the character interactions and stuff seem
like mostly there, and so yeah, I was really enjoying it and kind
of getting into the vibe aginn of like oh yeah, here's or the routine
of like, okay, this is it's fun building these out and like,
oh, I've got this. These powers are working really well together. I
was remembering why I loved Hades. But then it's like I loaded it up
one time and I saw they had a thing where oh, click to see
content roadmap, and it's like, oh, by the end of the year,
we'll have a whole new area and then we're going to build out customization
stuff and then we're going to have this and that and balancing, and it's
like, okay, well, yeah, I kind of want to play when
that's all done, you know, like I've seen enough towards like I've reignited
my excitement for Hades, but I'm okay with putting it on the shelf until
it's done. The characters seem really hot, and I rated someone at the
end of my stream who was playing it, and that boss fight looked pretty
intense. And so I think, you know, obviously fans of the first
one are going to enjoy that. It's going to give you some like really
intense boss fights where you're gonna have to have a really good build in order
to survive, very chaotic, a lots of shit on the screen. At
the same time, I think it seems like it's just going to be more
of the good good and that sounds great to me, But I would rather
wait until it's until it's ready. Yep, yep. I think we're in
the same boat. It'll be good. What is Pools? It's a fucking
game where Mary. I think this has been an interesting one for you to
go in blind. Yeah, I have heard about this someone, someone at
a party two weeks ago told me. Let me tell you what they said
to me, and you tell me if this is accurate. Okay. I
was at a party two weeks ago and a guy was like, I've been
playing Pools. It's fucking crazy. And I was like, what is it?
And he was like, it's a game that's kind of like playing a
dream where you're slowly descending into madness and it is a scary game but nothing
happens, but it will mortify you. And I was like, what does
that even mean? Like what happens in and he was like nothing, I
yeah, yeah, I think they prepared you pretty well for it. It
is not necessarily a jump scare thing. It is more of like a sense
of unease. And I hadn't thought of it in terms of like a dream
like, but it is kind of like a dream. It's like what is
this place? Where am I? Why am I just walking around all these
like hallways with pools and you're just walking through like a bunch of like Waiste
high water and going down dark hallways and just kind of seeing weird things that
don't seem like a real place. And there's you know, it's not enemies.
I haven't beaten in, but it's just like it's, uh, it's
very wet. It's very it's a very wet game. It's a lot of
walking around to be like what am I doing here? Where am I going?
And then something will happen and you'll be like, wait, I want
to go that way? Was that something I I'd been there? And then
something different will happen. It's like, oh, what is this fucking place?
Can I do this? And like it's unlike anything I've played. I
would say, it's it's you're just walking around pool, but it is uneasy.
What's the point taking in the space. I don't think there's anything,
there's nothing to figure out. I don't think there's a story that's going to
like give you answers or anything. There's no dialogue, there's no context.
It's just it's all about just this your surroundings, and just how kind of
creepy it is. It's it's it's like like not a nightmare, but it's
just a fucked up fever dream in why nightmare kind of creepy. It's just
kind of creepy in these big, open wet rooms and there's holes and hallways
and uh, it is hard to describe, but it is. It was
different enough that I was like, I want to try this out for myself,
and I was like, Okay, this is an interesting experiment here weird.
I mean, that person who was telling me about it was like,
I really do recommend that you give it a shot. But it's just so
hard, hard when people can't describe it like with any words. It's a
very hard one. Yes, yeah, yeah, And it's hard to be
like you got to play it, but it's like, I think it's interesting
that it exists, and I'm glad I tried it. Okay, I don't
know. There's a lot of indies that just dropped that I'm really excited about.
There's been kind of like an indie mecha going on right now, and
I'm I was bummed I didn't have time because I put so much time into
Animal Well that I didn't have time to play Crow Country or a little Kitty
Big City or I heard this about this game called A Thousand Resist, Like
there's all these games. I really want a Kitty Big City, Like this
is a merry ass game right away. Well, that's really cute, I
do hear cat. Yeah, and you do like cute things. You'd like
knock off cute things off your list, like being a little scamp like Goose
Game, but with a cat. It reminds me of Goose Game. Yeah,
it's like a black Cat too. It looks really cute. I'm telling
you, amidst all of the troubles in Triple A right now, this is
like the era for smaller indie games. There has been some real bangers coming
out, and I want to I want to play more of this type of
game, crip Master. Have you heard of this three D dungeon crawler?
And I think like when you type or speak it changes things in the game.
Oh that's cool, I think. So that's cool. Huh. It's
like supposed to be like really experience. I'll put it in our discord.
It's called crip Master. Really. I want to play all these games,
and this game came out May ninth, Like it's like primo for us to
like play right now. But like I've run out of time for all these
different games, so I think we should like try and uh, you know,
check some of these off the next time we record, because I was
really looking forward to playing a bunch of these. Yeah, if you start,
yeah, let me know. I'm curious about that. If that's fine,
I would check that out as well. Keep popping out of a hedge
talking to the little kitty. This kit. This cat looks like Scarlet,
my cat, but without the white spots like big green eyes black. I'm
looking at my list and stuff I've been playing. It's all wet games.
You got pools. I tried Endless Ocean, that switch game. I didn't
know what the fuck that was all about. I Animal well is pretty wet,
and there's some wet areas. And then I've been playing wind Waker HD
on my Steam deck, which is a fucking great way to play that game.
So I'm just wet central over here. There's another clip, just fucking
wet central over here. What nobody's wetter than me? Dan record? Do
you guys? Want your emails? All right? As always, you can
run into Firescape cast at gmail dot com. Question comments, concerns, anything,
questions might get read on the show. We've got three tonight. We've
got one from Justin Mary. Can you read this first one? Sure?
Hello? Escape Ease. I'm currently replaying help how I can do this?
I'm currently replaying hell Blade Senua's Saga in preparation for the sequel next week.
It remains a clever and nuanced exploration of mental illness. For whatever ridiculous reason,
when I originally played through this game in twenty seventeen, I ignored the
suggestion to wear headphones, and I truly have no idea why, nor any
credible defense to mount. That game's audio design is everything, and the feeling
of inhabiting Senua's head as she's bombarded by all sides of constant, contradictory,
intrusive thoughts is simply impossible to appreciate without headphones. I'm really glad I finally
did it right, and it brings me to my question. Can any of
you think of any other game which depends so much on how you play it
in order for its ideas to be fully realized? And no plastic guitar for
guitar hero that's cheating. Smooches. Justin still the original and undisputed biggest fire
Escape fan from San Marcos, Texas. Thank you, Justin smooches. So
let's take out any like music like sammitdem Ego, musical instrument, d DR
pad like that. Let's take out just like controller specific stuff, racing games
for the wheel. Yeah yeah, I remember. Yeah, that's all cheating,
was it. Stephen Taitillo Kataku a while back wrote an article was like
ten years ago about like played Red Dead Redemption on mute and it was like
what why why well you turned the music off or something, and he's like,
oh yeah, I just like, you know, I forgot what the
angle was. It was probably like when Red Dead one came out, but
everyone has been like, how what the fuck the sound is so good in
this game. That's weird, huh. I say, it's not an easy
like one to answer right away, Like I feel like I have to put
some thinkums into it. This is a thinkum of the year. I like
a good question. Love playing. I mean this is kind of opens up
a whole lot of the can of worms, like oh, if you play
multiplayer games better, but like I love playing Red Alert too, solo all
the time, skirmishes, but like the way we set up that Red Alert
to stream was extremely fun. Dan for a giant bomb because pandemic twitch streams.
Yeah, because yeah, I enjoyed like having the audience see both of
our stuff, but also like we could hear they could hear us both strategizing
out loud. That was a fun, really creative way to play that.
It's not exactly answering the question, but that was that was fun. Yeah,
one baseball like World Series Fundraiser was also like I had way more fun
with that than I would have because we made it into a world series.
Sure. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to do on like the technical end,
like you know, him bringing up headphones and things like that, or
it's like, oh, you gotta play this NBR, you got to play
this on this console, you gotta play this portable or this is if you're
not playing this on you played that game on a Steam deck. That's fucked
up. Like hmmm, I don't know if these are like correct, but
i'll give a couple. I remember the first time I played Undertail, I
just played it as anyone would, like, you know, I would fight
when I wanted to fight, and I wouldn't when I didn't. And it
turns out that the game alters dramatically if you always fight and kill or always
avoid. And playing it again with that context made me truly appreciate the nuance
and the intricacy of Undertail and what they did. Uh, And so I
think that's really neat. I don't know if you have to play it that
way, but I think it's really important to have that context, and you
don't. Actually, I don't think you can have that context the first time
you play the game. The intention is to play it and then find out
that your choices mattered throughout the entire experience. And I find that to be
like really interesting and valuable. Near Automata's new game, plus playing it twice
or three times, like you're not really playing that game. If you only
quote unquote beat it once. It's a lot of rogue lights, hades,
volatro. It's like, wait, don't stop. The first time you have
a good run, you know, right one? I got one until dawn
because I think if I had played that solo, I I don't know.
It's not really my type of game typically and not really like that type of
narrative horror game guy, but like that was remember Bonk and I. I
think it just started dating when that came out, and we were like,
you know, okay, I'll be the guy characters, you'd be the girl
characters, and we'll hand the controller back and forth depending on who's being controlled
here. And it's like, oh okay you oh two years died now I
just lost one of mine. Like just kind of that like shared story where
we're both kind of in charge of different characters. I think made it.
That would not have been a memorable game for me if I was playing solo,
but it turned into something I have great memories of. I think there's
probably multiple games like that where like, yes, you can play it alone.
The joy is playing this other people. The first time I played No
talk, Wait keep talking and no one explodes. I played it like I
think I played it alone. It's just like I don't know if I like
understood how you were supposed to do it. And then I played it with
people and I was like, oh, that's a good example my my thing.
Off that with my my brother. When I was like telling him how
it played, He's like, it doesn't really seem like my thing. He
plays a decent amount of games. But when I finally I was like,
hey, Dad, could you before I get home for Christmas, when we're
both gonna be could you print off these pages and put them in that binder.
Joe's like, oh, you get the physical pages. It's like you
don't have to. You can use the PDF on an iPad, but it's
way more fun when you're flipping through pages like special binder, like cold War
era shit. Yeah, diffusing a bomb ya. I mean, this one's
obvious and applies to a bunch of like four player games. But Mario Party,
I think it's like this is it's late. You're with a bunch of
friends that you're closing up with to just talk constant shit too. You're having
drinks, you know, like that's the context for that burial Cart. Yeah,
that's the way to play beer. I've played bureau Cart in a long
time, I think in general, but like that's also fair for what Justin
said, which is it should be so obvious that you should play a game
like help Blade with headphones. Right, some of these they are obvious,
which is the audio of a game is very integral to most games design.
Hell Blade very much so because it is about her mental health. But think
about how many games would absolutely abysmally suffer if you were like, nah,
I just don't want to listen to the game because so many of them use
audio cues or their music is phenomenal, Like I wow them in their intended
environment is important. I loved Tetris effects that I first played it on four.
When I went to VR and I on VR, I was like,
oh man, this is how this game should be played if you can.
That is one of the thirty people best VR examples, because you can't say
half Flight Alex because that's only VR. You know, it's not like you
have the option. Wh'res like tet Respect you can play in VR or not,
and it's way better in VR. Yeah, it's really good. Oh,
broad streaming Star Wars Squadrons. I didn't really love it when I played
it on screen, and then I again, granted this was when I was
like testing the PSVR two or whatever, but I was like, okay,
sitting in this cockpit in VR, like now it's more exciting. I mean,
there's that Steel Battalion game on Xbox that like, I don't even know
if you can play with the normal controller, but you want the giant stupid
mech controller, Like that's another controller one. You know, horror games or
scary games in general, if you're not in the proper environment, you might
actually be doing a disservice to what that game is trying to cultivate. I
have seen people play Amnesia in a very bright room with a bunch of friends
and like the window is open and the birds are singing. That game is
intended for you to play alone in a dark space with headphones to make you
piss your pants, and it will be successful if you do that recipe.
So like, if you want to play a horror game, I suggest you
do it right and appreciate it for what it is. It will absolutely scare
the ever shit out of you. But if you're not doing it in the
correct environment. I don't know how scary it probably is. Obviously jack Box.
If it's just like the three of us hanging out, we're not going
to play jack Box. But if you're home for me alone playing jack Box,
Yeah, I keep voting for myself. Yeah, that was really funny.
Yeah, t shirt from Saddest Story by t k O And it's just
me. If any other come come up over the next another thing. I'm
sure there's like even better examples of that, but on like you know,
on the fly, I would say, like, yes, make sure you're
playing the game the way it's intended. If someone tells you, all games
I think should be played with good audio and the proper ambient lightings that you
can actually get immersed in the experience. So yeah, listen to new episode
of my favorite podcast, Deadlock. And they just flew to Japan and they
had the movies on the screen in front of them on their flight. Yeah,
and one of the guys watched the new Wonka movie, the Timothy Schallamey
one with closed captions on mute and no headphones. It's like the other guys,
this is the weirdest thing. Watching the whole movie in closed captions,
but he had he didn't he had with him, I think, but like
he just didn't listen to the sex is just like I love chocolate, I
children. That guy has bodies in his basement. Thank you, justin the
original and unisputed biggest Firescape fan from San Marcos, Texas. Dan, do
you want to read this one from Raz? Yes, Dear fire Crew,
longtime listener, first time caller. I'm wondering why nobody ever brings up the
Sherlock TV Show with Benedict Cumberbatch when discussing the best TV shows of all time?
Is it because it's not American? Do you have a TV show that
nobody brings up when discussing the best TV shows of all time? Love the
show, Keep up the good work. That's Raz from Romania twenty four.
I think it is because it's not America. I think I think he's right.
I don't know. I never see bring up We never bring up internationals.
Like the most way we do is like Monk like I will, I
will bring up anime Python like other than that, that's a movie, a
show flying circus Monty Python was Yeah, they had a whole time. Were
about the movies. No, those are good too. If you thought you
aged yourself with the previous movie discussion, you have really done it this time
bringing up a Monty Python's TV show Flying Circuses on Comedy Second in the nineties.
It's fine. Well, I was ten and the show was from like
the seventies, but they were showing it in the nineties at four in the
morning. Sometimes you're like sixty five years old. Don't tell anyone. I
wouldn't say that this is like the best show of all time, but I
fucking look like it's one of my top five's. At the Flight of the
Concords, which is New Zealand, season two was not nearly as good as
season one. They kind of like had to a bunch of songs as well.
They've got They've got that bit with Murray when they're talking about they're like,
yeah, it's like a he's like a Stevie Nixon, Lindsay Buckingham.
They wrote they wrote a whole album about their breakup and then they performed it
on stage. He's like yeah, rumors. He's like no, no,
this was all true. When was like, oh, yeah, these guys
are like from Australia, They're like, no, it's New Zealand probably what
it was awesome, but no, yeah, in terms of shows that like
no one brings up in like best of chats, like The Terror is one
of the best shows ever made. I think what what year did even come
out at this point? It was am C, AMC was AMC. They
did two seasons. The first season was the two British ship ships, the
HMS Terror in the HMS Erabis might be butchering that. The other one the
British two British Royal Navy crews trying to find the Northwest Passage passage through the
Arctic Ocean. Basically that would like cut their trip around the world in half
before the whole before they could go farther south in the Atlantic. Jared Harris
is one of the captains Unreal who plays Lord Tully in Game of Thrones.
He's in it Unreal show. It's it's kind of horror. Uh, there's
aspects of a monster that's stalking them when they get stuck in the ice,
but it's also like this very extremely well written character study of a bun like
a bunch of these dudes, and like the my mark of a good show
is like or at least I really enjoy shows similar to Search Party, where
like it ends up in a completely fucking different place. I mean, Search
Party is the absolute extreme of that. But the Church Party is a great
answer for this too. No one's ever talked about Church Party. It's like
five great seasons, yeah, five of different genres. Yeazz. But but
the Terror, like each character I could not have imagined where they ended up
if they survived toward the end, and then it just gets so fucking bleak.
But The Terror is incredible, just really gorgeous show, despite the fact
that it's mostly snow and the interior halls of ships. Really good characters.
I have not seen the second season that's about Japanese and tournament camps. I
need to watch it. Yeah, the Americans, I don't think it's talked
about enough. I think that shows incredible that honestly, I think deserves in
the count to be in the conversation with like the Wire no men, the
Sopranos. The Americans is just unreal. Those are probably mine. I comedy
wise, I always preferred The British Office, you know, I thought it
was just much more contained. It's like twelve episodes in the Christmas Special.
I thought they were just like you know, I've seen most of the American
Office and it definitely had its moments for sure, but overall, I definitely
prefer the British one and then Nirvana the band. The show I don't think
anyone ever talked about because it was on fucking Vice Land or something I ever
heard of that. Have you seen the we Shop music thing that you know,
Ninja Guide into You know that that meme that's from that show and it's
the guy that made that, he made the BlackBerry movie that came out recently.
Yes, yes, but I mean this guy was on Nirvana. The
band of the show Before the Sun is Nirvana with two Ends's legally distinct.
It's it's very weird and very very funny and Merbanka. I really like that.
I have ones that I think are very important that anyone who watches anime
would be like, well, obviously, but I think if you don't watch
animated shows, you probably don't know of these, and you absolutely are missing
out on some of the greatest pieces of television of all time. And I
am I am begging you. You might be like, I don't want to
get into anime, and I'm like, just try to watch fully coolly,
Like give it a whirl. It's phenomenal. It's really well made. The
animation is incredible, really good story. Yeah. F O O L Y
c O O L Y one word? Why cool? Why trying to kind
of space? I think fully coolly. I have never even like I feel
like even stuff like you know, I don't know what like Narudo or what's
the Pirate one, but like I could picture them like I've seen the guy
with the straw hat. I've seen the guy with the mirkey tail, like
I've seen the Pirate Okay, yeah, I've seen that because they had like
video games and stuff. I've never seen this fully COOLi just has like an
abbreviation. Yes, a lot of people call it f L C L.
Yes, it's called coly. Uh, there's a lot of what is Throat
doing? You're becoming scandi. You're talking about my favorite anime, fool.
You've never been speaking it in Swedish when you say it. Look, man,
just check out stupid. I don't know why that's making me last so
stupid. I can't I can't even do it. It's like I'm trying to
impersonate an act, a famous actor. So when a lot of people think
of anime, they think of something you hear your beard when you say it
can't do it. Sorry, Mary go on, I'm being like, sorry,
Mike's being a maniac. I'm sorry, Mike just can't handle us talking
about our anime. Fool stupid. People talk about animes, they usually are
thinking of something like Narudo that has like four hundred seasons and ten thousand episodes
and it feels overwhelming. Fool Coolly or flcl is one season, oh how
many? How many episodes? Sixty seven? I don't know, but it's
built to end okay. So it's got like just an arc. It's not
like, oh, well, this is my life now. It's got an
arc and it concludes okay, And that's what makes it special. I have
a couple if anyone's like, ooh, I like things that are one season.
Kill l Kill has one solid ass, incredible season. Gurn Logan has
two. That's it, solid ass seasons. It's like, there's a character
in gern Logan named Simoon. Do you know him? My dash because I
think it's like one of the best animes of all time. And I also
feel I feel very strongly about a full Metal Alchemist brotherhood, So there's a
lot. I know that sounds like crazy because you can't have that many favorites.
I'm just saying they're all really iconic, and if you don't watch anime,
you might be like, I'm not watching that shit. They're really really
good. You're doing yourself at a service. This is six episodes long.
Well, the is a six episodes watch watch fully Coolly and see what you
think. I'm curious what Bonk thinks as well. I feel like I've had
a couple of misses with you guys on shows, but I really like fully
Cooly. It looks like a lady having sex with a guitar on the cover.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him it is. It is has one
of those like, uh, I'm trying how to describe it if, Mike,
have you ever watched Kill Kill? No? Okay, let me try
and describe this one for you. It is a girl whose school girl uniform
is alive and gets really hyper short and revealing to show off her powers.
Why would that interest me? And she's a cartoon perfect because because I watch
a lot of hen Tie, I get it her her like boobies and butt
are the entire focal point of the show, and then she kills things with
a giant like sword. It's super fun. Visually, it's amazing. Yeah,
it doesn't do it for you yet, not really. Here's a cartoon.
And then on her outfit, the eyeballs of the outfit are where her
boobs are, and he like looks around and stuff, geez okay, yeah,
no, she's not really wearing much. That's not bedazzled. I think
it's just it's just a bit like I'm looking for more tasteful stuff. You
are not likedled another shower and bedazzled another show. It's not the best show
for me, but it's really fucking Funny's peep Show and Jeremy, uh what
again. One of my favorite scenes ever is when Jeremy is like freaked out
by how well he's doing during an interview and you hear his inner monologue.
He's like, oh my god, you're doing well. You're not ready for
this. You got a panic make a crazy face, and then you hear
that, and then you see him go like at the guy and then he
doesn't get the job. If you like that, have either of you seen
Black Books? It's also dark British comedy Black Boots, Black Boots. Black
Books is like a black Books. It's an alcoholic running a bookstore, okay,
and it sounds like the most British show. And it's a dark comedy
like it's kind it's kind of fucked up, but it's very funny, and
I just think it's it's really brilliantly written. And I was surprised that I
had found it and watched it, but I watched all of it. I
thought it was great. It reminds me of it crowd, you know where.
It's just like a bunch of rap scallions hanging out in the middle of
nowhere. So yeah, Black Books is pretty cute. All right. Well,
thank you raz from Romania. We've got listen in Romania. That's pretty
cool, all right. Last one, Hey, fire Escape, Why is
this the only podcast where all the ads are in Spanish? I don't mind
having the ads to support, but I don't understand why yours is the only
podcast I get ads in Spanish? And then what was this? No,
it's and then there's just no other transition. The second paragraph is what's the
worst month of the year. I live in the south and have moderate allergies,
so April is rough for me. I hate when my normal two to
three sneezes turns into ten plus and visibly seeing pollen fly in the wind.
I also feel like as climate change has gotten worse, the change from hives
in the fifties, sixties to eighties plus has gotten shorter. I swear the
temp change over two to three days a year. Matthew from Barcelona, I'd
says. To be clarify, Matthew, He's not actually from Barcelona. I
just thought that'd be funny if I put that there. I don't know why
you're getting Spanish ads. I'd prefer that to the English ads I hear.
So if you figure out why you're getting them, let me know. I
just this this This answer will depend largely, I think on where we live.
Yes, like here Minnesota, it's like February or March, because that's
like the deep winter, and it's like near the end where it's like,
Okay, it's already been cold for like four or five months. We just
want April and May to bring some better weather. And then it's like,
oh my god, it's fucking snowing. It's snowing in April, what the
fuck? So like kind of that like end of winter. Like I think
March is probably the worst for Minnesota. Yeah, I was gonna say March
or February. I am like at my wits end. Portland has a very
long rainy season that starts sometimes in November, November, December, January,
February by like March, I'm ripping my hair out. I'm like, stop
fucking raining now. Usually in February we have something called the February fake out,
which is when we have two weeks of summer. It's nuts. It's
like upper seventies, sunny and gorgeous, and everyone's like, we did it,
everyone, and they're fools because winter isn't over, you, stupid sons
of bitches. It's going to rain and go back to forty for another month,
sometimes two months, and usually like even in April it's raining, and
then somewhere around May it actually gets nice. And right now we're like we're
in it and it's stunning. Yeah, God damn. Like that February March
era, I just want to die. And especially like as it gets near
the end, every week it goes where it's still kind of shitty. It's
like that is a week eaten up of a good spring or a good summer,
Like, goddamn it, this is like crucial time. Yeah, it's
also I don't love March. It's also New York. Growing up at Syracuse,
especially, the joke is that there's only three seasons. It's winter,
summer, and construction. There's always a construction starting when it's semif not winter.
But then again it's just slush and cold. But March is also like
compare it to January, for instance, it's a long month and you don't
get any days off in March. I always didn't mind it because half my
family has birthdays in March, and there's Saint Patti's Day, So I always
had fun growing up in March. But now that you know, like I'm
not around my family as much, March is long, for sure, I
don't. I guess I have a follow up question, what is the most
underrated month? October is nice? I think October is I wouldn't even call
it underrated. I guess gets rated exactly where October. Oh my god,
let's fuse every month. Oh yeah yeah, wait, wait quick, My
My answer is growing up, I did not always love August because that was
the end of summer. Vacation. There's not really any holiday going on in
August, but like these days, I fucking love August because everybody in New
York leaves so we can get reservations fucking anywhere. We have the city like
quote unquote to ourselves. And it's not I mean, you can get those
dog days of summer when it's really hot, but like it's the city is
wherever you live. If you're in a city, they're probably or even in
like suburbs, people are probably going elsewhere. If you're going elsewhere, cool,
it's a time to go on vacation. If you're not, then you
get way more you know, pikachuoza restaurants. I love August these days.
All right, January, if you sit three January three out of ten.
Yeah, yeah, it's low for me. I would also put it,
uh yeah, maybe maybe a three because it's like right after Christmas, Like
what is January done for me? Yeah? New Year said, the very
New Year's is basically a December thing, you know, January. He doesn't
get to claim New Years. No, maybe it's a two January as winter
ahead. Yet it's the two okay then the reason I think it could be
a three not a two is because you usually don't work New Year's Day,
so you're getting a holiday in there. Sure there's also no holidays like suckers.
February when is is? M okay, January January President Day, that's
one of those is up there? Yeah, I think it's mlkay. Now,
I got to look this up because I feel I feel like this is
something. MLKA Day is in January, January fifteenth, right in the middle,
So you do get three three, three. I'm going five because January
around here nowadays. I don't know if this was not always a case growing
up at Syracuse, but in New York that's the first month these days where
we get legit snow as opposed to like this pussy shit, I want like
real snow. And oftentimes these recent years it's January and we finally get like,
yeah, dump on it or not dump on me. Make me wet,
all right? Uh? Five? Three? Don't write that down,
No, alright, make me wet. Go to February. I don't like
February either. What's going on in February. I'll give it a four because
we're getting closed here to the end of winter. And also it's a short
one, so it's like you get pasted it a little quicker than like the
thirty one of January. February has the February fake out, which I love.
So I'm going to give it a four because it's not as shit as
January, but February at least has the excuse to go on like a big
date night. We do that a lot. Though I hate Valentine's Day.
It's basically, don't like go out on either end of the stupid mentality.
And you know what a lot of wrestlers are like, we're up in our
prices and serving you like some shit dessert because we know you're trying to fuck
tonight. They take advantage of people I don't like Valentine's Day, like,
take your date out on a regular ass Tuesday. You don't need the fourteenth
of February as an excuse to do it, you piece of shit. Go
make a reservation right now. They deserve it. You need to do it
right now before you lose them. Listen to me, make a reservation.
Just do it, Just do it. We have date night every single week
of our lives. We don't have kids. We both have you know know,
we've both got busy jobs every single Thursday of every week we go out
on a date. I still like have like just an excuse every once in
a while to bring my wife flowers in like out of nowhere, and I
do. I still do that all the time. It's kind of like Mother's
Day. Have you seen like how they like they like jack up the prices
of like flowers Mother's Day and they're like, you need to do this,
you piece of shit. Your mother's like did so much for you. And
it's like, just tell your mom you love her all the time. No,
I got I get my mom gifts for Mother's Day, all right?
March. Wait, I didn't fuse February four. Well, then hurry the
fuck up. I just said four March. March is two. I'm going
three. No three shamrock shakes. Oh good one. Yeah, I forgot
about patties. Five patties is awesome. Also, my birthday is in March,
so you're you're against a day that celebrates uh people go on dates,
but you're for one of the biggest corporations in the world releasing a commodity that
is like price to get you into the restaurants they have beer. Mike,
Okay, hypocrite who is McDonald's. McDonald's great. Yeah, but you're against
them commodifying this one date night. But I'm not against anyone commodifying anything.
No, I'm talking to Marry, Okay, just putting out her hypoc hop.
There's nothing hypocritical about it. I think you're an idiot. Like Valentine's
Day is about commercialization of love, which is ridiculous, commercialization, commercialization of
my people. I'm the most commercialized. Can profit off of it. Go
for it, honey, I'll give you extra money for green beer, giving
money to Ireland. There's no reason I don't care about like most Irish person
in the games industry. I heard this mad because I told you to be
nice to your mom more. I'm Marry, be honest. You are anti
mother dan is right. I love my mom as Amar yours you like.
But Mother dan is right, that's not right. Mary. You and I
both know. I'm the most Irish person in the games industry. I'm the
best boxer in the games industry. I have a lot of things going for
me. I just don't take kindly to Mickey D's stepping on my toes in
Irish. No, I don't know what McDonald I never thought that McDonald was
Scottish historically the name I think, I know that Donald's is pleasantly neutral,
to be like, we're a little bit of everybody, and they just like,
won't they McDonald's. Wait, Mickey from Rocky was Irish, and I
realized that that's his first name, and also I don't know if he's Irish,
so I don't know where my logic is Donald Mickey mick, Like was
his last name? Donald McDonald mick? There? You really do not use
mickey if you're not Irish. Can you imagine her name was Nick Donald's.
I know, I feel bad gold all right? So that was March.
I'm giving March a five. We're on to April. I like April's a
solid seven. It's like spring. That's when we get the stutter step of
spring. Kind of these days early April April still sucks here. I'm gonna
go back down four. I actually like six. I'm gonna go six.
It does still snow here. I like rainy spring. That's when my wife's
birthday is, and I love her and I give her flowers and I go
on dates even when it's not Valentine's Day. You fuck from fucking gonna give
you one of these next stories. I'm gonna text her and be like,
how often does he take you out? I want to know. No,
don't, those are unrelated. You just need to take her out just because
she deserves it, because she's a queen. Yeah, I know, I
treat her like one. April. What else is going on? Why do
I feel like there's something else going on? April? Uh? Is that
Fleet Week in New York? Because it's October in San Francisco, WrestleMania.
You're probably going to WrestleMania. That happens a lot. I confuse Fleet Week
in WrestleMania. April I'll go. I'll go like seven. I like the
spring rain and it's a it's a you know, like you're coming out of
winter ish sort of. It's so rainy. May Love map eight May guy
a big May Love May. I'm going like eight because it's not I don't
like I don't love heat. I like the in between hot. It's too
hot in June and July. I think May is really ideal for me.
I want to say, May I sleep so well in May and like September
when you can have the windows open. Yeah, I'll say I'll say,
like I'm saying eight just because I've got a few months coming up that I
don't I'm saving my nines for these months coming up. Yeah, I don't
want to. I don't want to rate like Forbidden West and a nine right
before Tears of the Kingdom comes out, right, I see what you're saying.
Yeah, four game June Birthday. It's summer vacation when you're a kid.
It was E three and now Summer games Fest. Bunch of big,
dumb fun movies are coming out. It's nice out. June's for me,
maybe maybe a ten, nine point five my second favorite month. I think
June is really popping for me. I'm going to give it an eight only
because it starts to get kind of hot. It does, but it's I
really like it starts getting there. Yeah, yeah, it's getting there.
Okay, I love it. It's great. July's eight point five. I'm
going out to seven because the heat gets July is gets hot. I love
July fourth too, God, I love July fourth. What a wonderful,
wonderful Holidayea so fun. If you three years ago, I would have given
it a six. However, now fourth America that much? No, Well,
well, so now fourth July has become my family's like big holiday.
It used to be Christmas, but it's just harder for us to like combine.
But like the in laws, families don't do anything for Fourth of July.
So now my parents we all go back to their house fourth July weekend.
We camp out intense like surrounding the house and then swim all all weekend
and grill. It's just grill. It's like nine to me times, it's
great, but it also is like super hot. I think July because of
all the like American traditions, all of the fanfare, and just like the
abs of love. Even though it's hot, I gotta I gotta give July
and nine. I think it's really a lovely a lovely months. It's a
better month. I will say, like if we were to go to like
Cape Cod near the ocean, but like landlocked Central New York gets hot in
July, but like Cape Cod in July, Well, I've never been to
Cape con Joly's. Maybe it's an eight. I'm between an eight and nine.
I really thinking about now. It's real good here in Minnesota, and
I have been back for July every day. Yeah, explosions. It's all
real good boats and stuff. Yeah, and the books. I'm getting excited
about July and Minnesota. Now, yeah, it's gonna be real good.
Yeah, July is fucking poppin all right, So August eight. I love
August these days. August is nice. I think it gets and August gets
hotter than July. Often here, however, the city is like can be
dead in August, and often the beginning of August, we actually do leave
as well. But I kind of prefer staying here because then like my neighborhood
and our favorite neighborhoods, like, oh, we don't even need a reservation
at this place that's usually impossible to get into. And then you get into
a bar, and if it's a nice August day, the windows are open,
but if it's not, you at least duck in and hide out with
the ac you have a few like mohitos or something. It's awesome. I
like August eight. It's just a solid month. It's not it's pretty hot,
it's unpretentious. It's it's not like boasting about anything. It doesn't think
it's a June, and it knows that, and I respect that. It's
like the shennon Blanc of months. As we were all thinking, I was
thinking that September. I fucking love September because my mid Oh yeah, when
I was a kid. Well, I think when anybody was a kid,
they hated September. It's when school started again. Yeah, now though that's
my birthday. The weather's great in September, although again, early September you
could still get balls hot. Sometimes. I'm going to give September eight,
but nine September is really nice because it's leaf season. That's too. Yeah,
when the leafs start to change that. Yeah, we all live in
good leaf areas. I would venture to say, well, I don't live
in New England, but New England leaf season is pretty nuts here. It's
insane. You just get buried. Where I'm at would be two. Yeah,
I'm gonna say it. Ten September. I really love leaf season.
I hated September in uh, San Francisco, that was the hot month.
Not not anymore. San Francisco doesn't get to talk about months, truely.
Yeah, it's the same like all the time. San Francisco is gorgeous.
In October, I'm giving a ten. October is a ten. Weather's perfect
You're right, I got too excited. October is the ten. Yeah,
I think that's my favorite month now, and I'm not like so much fun
Halloween it's funny. Yeah, the weather's like it's like it can be seventy
and gorgeous and then like once the sun starts to go down and can go
down to like sixty five and then it's like a fire outside fire. But
you could also wake up and it's like a sunny morning and like seven to
go on a bike ride and yeah, fucking wedding or fucking wedding. The
weather was like the most oh, sublime night I've ever seen in my fantastic
Yeah. Perfect, That's a ten of the season. I like November quite
a bit too. November drops down to about a seven point five for me.
Yeah, November gets a little chilli. It is nice, but I'm
gonna have to give November a seven. And I'm not a big Thanksgiving guy.
There's just too much weird food that I never liked, you know,
I didn't like I'm not getting presents in the food. There's all this food
I'm expected to eat getting. Yeah, I'm getting candy. July I get
to blow things up and eat hot dogs. You know. Christmas Birthday,
I get the presents. Thanksgiving is like, oh good, I have to
go to someone's house and they're gonna they're gonna all give me shipped for like
just eating a roll. I like November because that's that's when like fall really
kicks in, and I love Fall. I'll go eight and I like I
we got to host Thanksgiving last year, which was the maybe one of the
best Thanksgiving me my life. It was fucking posting it. You would think
it would be annoying, like doing a lot of the cleaning and whatnot.
I mean people everybody pitched in, but it was so nice to not leave
our home. Sure, oh it was awesome. I'll go quiet. Oh
wow, wait December November. Oh November, Oh five is so low.
Seven December is so high. I think it's Christmas. The lights on people's
houses. You get like at least a week off of work because they just
have to or you're a monster. Like the the atmosphere, like the the
feeling and that you know I'm talking about the most it's got the most distinct
personality of any month feel and they treat each other is better. In December,
you get gifts you give gifts, it's a nine. It's so good,
I'd say nine. Yeah, I'll go nine point five for December.
I really like December. It's a busy one. It can be overwhelming,
especially when New Year's comes around. It's like a fuck stuff. But yeah,
actually I'm gonna lover it a bit because the last I don't know,
like growing up and then or even until into college, people are like,
hey, remember, like the holidays can be a stressful time for some people,
Like you know, I'm not talking about like you know, like how
it can be a big trigger for depression. I totally get that. That
sucks. I'm talking about it's like, hey, like adults have a lot
of responsibilities around holidays, and as a kid and teenager in like college,
dudents like fuck you you know. Yeah. And then now I'm getting to
the point where i' was like, oh yeah, the travel weird, especially
after Thanksgiving just happened. Could stack up. That's the thing. It's a
tough one. It's a huge family specifically with what we do because like I
think about this and like, yeah, we're coming off of Thanksgiving first week
of December. I'm always doing the Game Awards the second week. It seems
like we've been doing our Game of the Year stuff. To see Matt maroony
filled hell whole of a house. Absolutely, this is really nice Christmas.
It's all very good stuff. Like I love the TGAs. I love doing
our game Game of the Year. We've got to do Giant Bombs. Game
of the Year. I got Christmas, got New Year's. There's just so
much in terms of bad. Yeah, you get a week off it's and
then a week before Christmas, like, oh fuck, I have not gotten
a single gift outside of like it is. Or I get my gifts usually
in the summer. I know that sounds crazy, but I usually pocket my
gifts for months in advance. I start the process usually not always because it
depends on if I'm doing anything cool that year. But like this was years
ago, but years ago, when I went to TGS, I bought every
Christmas gift in Japan because I was like, you're all getting something cool from
Japan, and like this year, if you know, like whenever I travel,
it's like you're all getting something from wherever I travel. I love doing
that. I think it's really fun. And then I don't stress in December
because it's like I already got everybody, and it's something. It's a good
idea. I just I guess I gotta find a summer when I don't have.
I feel like the summer sometimes is even busier. Maybe it's July.
It will be a good time. So I've got five trips. I have
like five trips in July. It's I think July might actually be the only
month in twenty twenty four I know were. I mean, we're going to
again my parents first weekend, simple train up and down. But outside of
that, I don't think we're That's the only month I think without a flight
this year. Jeez. But yeah, December is really good. But I
think are my number one is October. Yeah, and then I think May,
yep, June, September, August, December. I'll probably not say
December yet. No, Oh, December is higher up than I put it.
I don't know. Some people you know put it in the top four.
It's in my top twelve. I said June and October, June,
October, in May, if I had to pick a top three. Thank
you Matthew from Barcelona. I think he says he in the South. I
just assumed he meant of Spain because he's getting Spanish ads. Thank you.
He's probably like, what, Matthew, you actually miss Matteo misspelled his name.
But you can write in let us know where you actually live. Well,
thank you everybody. Again. You can write a fire Skip cast at
gmail dot com as always. That is episode eighty one. Really quick,
before we get into some other stuff, I want to plug our Patreon as
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We also have new merch for the sum we have we have all our old
merch. If you don't have any of that that you're stocked up on,
speaking of getting Christmas gifts early, go buy some of that. But Mary
tell him about our summer line that J Crew has called the most electrifying threads
of twenty twenty four. They did say that they did sixty months. It's
high season. Get the fuck out of here. Alexander McQueen. We have
released an exclusive set of jorts with our logo on it. That's not true.
I haven't done that. I was just lying. What. No.
We have release banana yellow bathing suits. We have released really slutty two piece
bikinis. We have released a tied I shirt that is specifically for when you
are on drugs. We've released a tank top to show off your guns,
a hat to cover up your noodle. We have released so much good swag
and ten percent off when you use the code fire sale. I'm only now
just seeing that they like put our merch on models, and I'm seeing that,
No, we hired those models. Oh yeah, that's just that's Jess
and that's Katalda. I'm now seeing it for the first time. Oh she,
Oh my god, camera loves Katalda. But now I'm seeing the bikini
on them and it's it's just a sick, fucking piece of cloth. It
really is. Yeah, go go get those. I will, Can I
can I spoil what the biggest cellar is so far? Sure, go for
it. People are loving the tied ice shirt. It looks like for this
it is good. It is good. I want to get that it's fun
and it has the logo on the arm. We've never done that on a
shirt before. So if you want to try something different, I think it's
festive. You will walk around and everyone will say you crazy, clown you,
you are crazy with those collars. Get out here, I really will,
That's what they'll say. I really should get this tank top and then
wear it on an episode. You should. I just don't know. I
don't know if anybody like I don't want to show. Thank you Mom told
this. Yeah, that's me on the web soon live, laugh, fuck,
suck whatever suck. And then Dan another another shirt says I only play
wet games. Yeah, I hate that stupid uh shirt. I have had
a lot of people say that we should have a Dana's Right shirt, So
be a good one, be a good one. I saw somebody say that
there should be dueling dan is Right and Dana's Wrong shirts. It's a pull
and a's shirts at the same time. Which one wins in the sales?
Well, that's uh. Is that fire Escape merch dot com? Or is
that the one the other one? So that the summer line the summer line
is on fourth Wall. Yeah, fire Skate Merch. Just go to fire
skate merch dot com and you'll find it. And then the summer line is
literally the first ones you see when you scroll down. Correct plus the T
shirt and you get something. We're doing the fire sale. You get some
some bonus percentage off. We uh only off the summer line, so it
won't work like the mug because that's for winter, you bitch. Until the
fourth of July weekend you can get. Don't you fucking buy that mug?
If you wait until after fourth of July, you will not get the discount
unless we forget to turn off the discount, in which case you will have
it auto, have it set to turn off. Oh has an auto set?
God, it's only good for summer, the summer months. Okay,
well that's great, Dan. What can people do with those stars and ratings
on different platforms and what I mean? They can give us the good ones.
I don't even know if that matters anymore for podcasts, but if you're
bored, I mean, just give us the good stars. That'd be good.
I don't know if it helps us, but Time's day. Our gifts
can be five stars. Do it now, don't do it, don't wait
for February. That is so boring of you? How dare you? Five
stars? And Dan is right? Just a bunch of reviews to say Dan
is right? No, don't put the review in there. Yeah, I
remember. Just comment on anything Mary says on the internet and tell the end
of time what the words? Dan is right? Thank god? Like social
media is and so exhausting, had all these boobs in My reply is just
call somebody is right? So I am right now? Who are you keep
that up? Folks? What is going on? I just I went to
Twitter to respond to something you said, and there's just two like Scandinavian children
leading pigs at each other with these batons. But there is this Eurovision something
from it. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I don't
know either. Well, this has been a good episode, Dan, What
do you have going on in your outside of fire escape? Giant Bomb?
If you're hearing this, when it goes up, you got time to get
yourself a ticket to our live show June ninth in a Los Angeles. We'll
be doing a show downtown at a music video but it's called the Bell Weather.
I want to say, but yeah, Special guests. Fun Times hosted
by Jeff grub. We'll all be there doing a VIP meet and greet all
that stuff. So hope to see the fans out at SGF. Other than
that, uh, you know, personal Instagram, Twitch is Dan record is
Mike Bnati going SGF? He is, Fuck, I can't make it,
Mary, what do you have going on? I am streaming every Monday on
the Twitch and I think that's all I do with my life besides this podcast.
Super fun. Go also go, uh subscribe to our YouTube channel just
so you know when new episodes of Cane. Oh yeah, we really need
to record. Yeah, we don't. There's no schedule for this season,
but we record when we can, which is not often, but we will.
We try as often as we can. And Mary's you're literally on the
way to the island, so you're home. We're on there, We're we're
getting there. Yeah. Well but also actually we put up bonus episodes as
well, which I guess you wouldn't get unless you subscribe to our video tier.
But again, just subscribe anyway, because that's where we put stuff that
doesn't always make the uh doesn't make the cut on our normal channels. Well,
anyway, that was episode eighty one, Happy May What did we there.
We're in the middle of a good one. Yeah, we're in the
middle of a good one. I won't be at SGF. I'm getting ready
for two weeks in France. It's gonna be fucking sick. Sounds amazing,
It's gonna be fucking sick. It's gonna be so sick. I'm gonna be
waiting burrito trucks at three in the morning after long shows and made Dan and
grabbing Manatti just getting a bunch of burritos. That is so paris I know.
Yeah, Oh, that's that's so sant. I can't wait for burrito
trucks. It's gonna be sick. By joining, that's Spanish, thank you
for joining. It's been a fun episode, you know what I mean?
It was fun fine, so vehement. I just have to yell at any
moment, so it is. It's just like it's so triggering if you yell
over it to justify that it's not me. Want everyone to know that I
am I am in control. I don't I'm a control yea. We will
be back, literally, what's happening. We will be back June third.
I think I will be here. I mean, I won't be here when
that publishes. All right, thank you ever Rady for joining. We'll talk
to you in two weeks. Do say close up with my name? Do
it like with Dan Riikert and Mary. We'll be back in two weeks with
Dan Riikert Yes, and Mary yay. I don't usually close off with names.
I know I wanted it, I deserved it. Okay. I don't
agree with O goodbye, good bye. He's like a little trauma. No,