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Set new Genius Spanish as well.
It's been it's been a quick summer.

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One week, two weeks. We
had an episode. I forgot the rest

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of the lyrics. An episode.
We got quite a few emails. Oh

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have you? I'm assuming you guys
have come across some better answers to our

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tub question now that have people?
We got a lot of emails. There

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were a couple of occurring answers,
a lot of cotton candy. Yeah.

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Importantly, I was at a poker
game with my entire family last night and

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my sister, who does not play
video games or listening to video game podcast,

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brought it up. She saw the
video pop up on Instagram and she

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posed it to the whole family and
said all of us have to answer,

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and it was a unanimous yes.
We would eat the poop. Oh,

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you're talking about Mary and I.
Mary and I don't ever need that much

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money where we grew up rich kids. We have to clarify because that's not

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true. And the whole point is
that, like we have been misconstrued.

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And no, no, no,
no, no no no, I'm not

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doing people. We're not We're not
I'm not giving them oxygen. Well,

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I want to talk about the food. I'm talking about the food just because

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one hundred and twenty five k is
nothing to you high rollers. Some of

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us real Americans here are struggling and
I could use one hundred and twenty five

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day. I don't what food,
Okay, So a lot of people said

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cotton candy. To Jake's credit,
while he was editing the episode, long

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before any of these emails rolled in, he did DM me saying cotton candy

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is the right answer. A man
said's popcorn. A lot of people found

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it funny that we I just automatically
assumed that we would be naked. I

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think so, I mean, yeah, I think be less uncomfortable if we

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were. Imagine getting like mac and
cheese out of your jeans. Yeah,

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it's just gonna weigh you down.
You're gonna feel like you weren't a wet

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shirt. You ever going? You
ever wrote an amusement park and you take

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one of the water rides and you're
just fully dressed for a normal amusement park,

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not the water park, but there's
a water ride and you just get

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absolutely slashed and you got to walk
around with the squishy socks and the heavy

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shirts. That's not good. It's
not fun. Someone else mentioned oranges because

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they have a natural casing that would
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Yeah, you still have to poop, right, but at least it

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doesn't fix that. Nothing's gonna fix
that. I guess things kind of fix

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that unless you have to eat the
peels too. But yeah, cotton candies

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a good answer. We got through
a lot of emails, like doing the

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math of how many bags of Skittles
it would take. It was like,

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I think it's like one hundred twenty
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three party size bags. Party size
is that big? There's like families maybe

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family size. Yeah, his family
one of the ones that has like the

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fucking zip block in there because they
assume no one's that we're going to finish

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it, and you're not gonna do
this in one sitting. Yeah, okay,

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that seems like too much Skittles.
Anytime Candy has a zip block bag,

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that's Candy saying don't fucking eat this
all at once. It's candy underestimating

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me. And my result is what
I think that has. But yeah,

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we realized that, we learned that
Mary Mary sneezes at one hundred and twenty

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five K. I guess is the
lesson we all learn. Well you too,

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like me. Look, I'm the
only one who sees the value of

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dollar around here. HI would like
one hundred and twenty five K. I

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just value not eating poop a little
higher. Yeah, oh, Ivory Tower,

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Yeah, my not eating poop tower. You up on your high horse

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without poop in your stomach? Year. Yeah. And Dan the king of

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shit eating City. Look, I'm
just here to earn an honest buck.

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That's not an honest buck, that's
a poop buck. That's some gross bus.

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Some other big developments I saw Oppenheimer. Finally, Lincoln Square in New

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York has been booked solid. I
like that movie quite a bit. I

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loved it. It's I mean this
as a compliment and I say, this

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is someone who does like Christopher Nolan's
movies a lot. There were times during

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that movie when I actually forgot it
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similar to dun Kirk, although Dunkirk
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all those like showy kind of time
travel stuff until a lot of the sound

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stuff going on too, a lot
of like hey, check out what I'm

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doing with my sound here that yeah, and like until Hans Zimmer's score would

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creep back. I was like,
oh, right, this is a Christopher

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Nolan movie. And I do think
it dragged in some parts, but by

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and large I liked it a lot. I thought it was great. So

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the movie's really long. And as
I was sitting down with my popcorn and

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my big corona because the movie theater
I went to you could get one giant

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can of beer those like tall boys. So I had a huge corona and

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a huge popcorn, and my buddy
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I heard there's a scene where the
brother comes in to give Oppenheimer his

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new badge. When that happens,
you can go pe because it's a good

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like three to four minutes where nothing
really happens, And I said, I'm

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glad you told me that, because
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experience. But my response to you, Nolan is, if there is any

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portion of this film in which I
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lost or gained, why is your
movie so fucking long? Like, just

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don't have the scene where the brother
gives him the badge or an intermission like

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it did that, did it?
Or whatever? All these movies don't need

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to be three hours. I think
my major point is is like, sure,

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Brake would be nice so that I
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to be this long. And that's
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Mission Impossible was close to that.
Do you remember in the early days of

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the iOS app store it wasn't the
first iPhone. I think it was the

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second one, the three G one
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of the most popular apps at the
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like gimmick like you know, would
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or here's like a little ball rolling
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P and it was specifically supposed to
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It would tell you specific time stamps. It was like user submitted stuff of

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like places, times to pe,
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like, oh okay, so at
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this. You can set it to
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and go p real quick. Yeah. Yeah, there's a website now.

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I forget the name of it.
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friend got the time to do that. The spoiler free image, spoiler free

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scenes or whatever, it's like,
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scene where X does this. That's
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and you can come back without missing
crucial plot details. Which, yeah,

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I think that movie is a bit
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least Irishman came out like on a
streaming service and I was at home.

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Yeah, but I TMNT with the
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a really great movie to watch in
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absolutely im plan on watching it.
I just don't know if I have to

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see it in a theater where it's
like this is my personal opinion. Both

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Barbie and Oppenheimer are great theater experiences
for very different reasons. Oppenheimer has excellent

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excellent audio design, I mean some
of the best in the business, and

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being able to hear that in the
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the audio to create tension or build
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don't. I don't think most home
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in theaters because of the theatre of
the entire experience. All the people in

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pink, all the women like freaking
out at the end and being like I

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say that all the time, like
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Like all the kids like loving the
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both of them. Theater theater experiences
also visually Barbie. I saw Barbie a

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few days ago and fucking loved it. Visually. All the stuff specifically like

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in Barbie Land, was so visually
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even if, like you know,
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the brand or anything, but like
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if you're watching something Nickelodeon, where
it's like, you know, the doll

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floating down from the top to the
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and bend and stuff. It's like
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care with that. And they obviously
used some CGI throughout it. There's lots

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of opportunities where you'll be like,
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the amount of effort they put into
physical sets, and that is valuable and

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something you see less and less of, especially with all these Marvel films.

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You can just tell that someone's essentially
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everything in this Mark, this Barbie
film. Those houses are real, those

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sets are real. When they make
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it's real she's holding in her hand. They do that a lot throughout

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the sequence of this movie. And
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just think I'm a fan of that. Maybe that's a product of our age

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or something, but I really appreciate
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as opposed to using CGI. Yeah, and the thing that really blew me.

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First of all, it was hilarious. I did not expect it to

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be as funny as it was,
but I was like laughing all the whole

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opening thing. I won't spoil it
for Mike, but the whole opening thing

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with like spelling out the P I
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me. And like the thoughts of
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that. We're really interesting, but
I just you know, we've all worked

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for giant corporations before, and giant
corporations like to play things safe, you

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know. I remember like at w
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brand and their IP and everything has
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and everything that's sanded down and nothing
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It's just the homogenized goop that comes
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Mattel to take Barbie, which is
obviously like I know, they have a

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bunch of hot wheels and all sorts
of stuff, but like Barbie, I

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feel like it's this like iconic,
iconic. Okay, you don't want to

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mess with her image. You probably
don't want to like mess with the Mattel

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brand. And they they they do
roll Mattel in dog shit, that whole

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thing when they show the office and
it's just this drabbed thing with these cubicles

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is great cubicles and the CEO stuff
and all the like this the parody stuff

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like you Will Farrell and the CEO
stuff and all the mid like it is

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like, I can't I didn't know
he was. He's in the credits.

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He's in the credits. Wait wait, how would I know he's in the

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credits if I haven't seen the movie
yet? Wells and stuff trailers, he's

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an every trailer. Yeah, that's
the bar for a spoiler. Now there's

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actors that are in the movie.
That's insane. Okay, hold on a

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second, fuck both of you.
I have the least I give a shit

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about spoilers, the least of anybody
I know. I was just saying,

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like, if it's a cameo the
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no, no, he is like
a big role in Mike scot one

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hundred and twenty five k. And
if you tell him what actors were lead

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in a film? Yeah, well
okay, well he's not a lead in

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the film, so that joke doesn't
work. So jokes on you if I

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answer that it's a spoiler. That's
the twist of Barbie is that Will Ferrell

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isn't the lead. He's main,
he's the main care. It's actually all

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about well would. It's crazy how
critical they are of just Mattel's history of

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the place Barbie has, you know, the spot that toy has played in

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a lot of girls lives growing up
and everything. It's highly fucking critical the

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whole. They clearly we're given a
huge level of creative control when writing this,

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and I have to respect that.
I also feel like I wonder if

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the executives of Mattel are going to
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it's made a billion fucking dollars that
like they've already like greenlit seventeen o.

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They're like, oh no, in
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this magic. This is like had
say over Greta Gerwig being attached, I

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would imagine, right, I heard
that, So Robbie got brought on,

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and she was brought on as a
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who pushed for Greta Gerwig because she
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is what I Yeah, But like
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signed off on Greta Gerwig doing it
and Naven the freedom because like you do

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like five minutes of research on Greta
Gerwig. You know she's borderline art house.

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She's not going to make a straight
Barbie movie, which thank god,

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because it's a fucking fascinating, awesome, hilarious movie that, like, I

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just can't believe that came out of
Mattel approving this thing that actually has things

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to say and it does it well
and a man, I was, I

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loved it. I think it's a
good reaction. I'm glad to hear you

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say that I had that action too, which is like what a fever dream,

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Like what a crazy thing that they
got through the door at all.

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Obviously, from scripting to shooting it
to editing, it was just such a

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fever dream of a film that they
tried to get through. And I think

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what I hope Hollywood takes from this, and I don't think this will happen,

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but what I hope the lesson is
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good. Doing what we don't expect, Trying the unknown is what we're hoping

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for, and I genuinely believe.
I know, I'm like, I'm pretty

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hard on Marvel, but it's like
after the generation where we have come to

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expect all of the same stuff from
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They're practically right themselves, and you
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going to happen in these scripts.
They gave us a film where you had

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no idea what would ever happen next, and if you tried, you were

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absolutely wrong because he just kept changing
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And I think that's great. I
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I also think we should hopefully see
more like female focus stories, like female

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directors, female lead It's more like
films like this is hopefully a really nice

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direction, and so I think it's
a huge win for society. We should

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all go see it and support it. But I criticized the film as well.

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I think it was hard to follow, and I think some of the

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message stuff in the back half it's
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wait, hang on, what's happening? Like, Yeah, there's I think

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everybody complex at times for what it
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do a lot. There's like eight
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the audiences. And I feel bad
for any young children that see that film

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because I saw a bunch of like
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like, what is going on?
This film is not for kids. It

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doesn't make sense. It's got way
too many complex moving parts for like young

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kids to understand and ink Disney,
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I won't tell you what it is, but there's a part you're gonna love

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where Ken goes outside of his bubble
and basically gets inspiration for his entire life

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and fashion sense based off just seeing
something. And I malready know what I'm

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referring to, Wait, say it
one more time. What Ken bases his

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new fashion sense on when he Okay, he just sees a couple images and

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bases his entire persona. I'm thinking
of no Hoo hanks bloodborne outfit from a

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Pinnacle of Men. Really, really, you really can't beat no Hank.

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by time people hear this, but
seeing it tomorrow, I'm interested in what

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you say about it and like your
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other movie that's in theaters, uh, I learned recently that Amanda had never

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seen or at least remembers seeing any
of the Mission Impossibles that last season you

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were episode weren't you going through all
of them or something? Yea beginning we

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are. We're finally into I mean
it's taken us a bit because we're we've

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been busy, but we're finally about
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New Era. Whatever you want,
like Full four. I just watched three

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last night. I like three more
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Philip Hoffman is great. The rest
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he can't say that film. I
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like, oh yeah, here,
I remember seeing now. I So

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one was cool because it was like, you know, like it was pretty

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like nostalgic in nineties, like grainy
vhs or Intrigue, you know, spy

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stuff. Yeah, and then mister
Wu come in. Yeah. So and

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then all of a sudden it's like
a John Wu film. And I was

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like, and I know, like
jj abrams debut was three. That was

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jj abrams first movie was Mission Impossible
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who did four before McQuary came in
too. It might be it was Road

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Nation four. No, that was
fine. Those protocols for right, it

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might be Christopher McQuary because he's he's
basically he's basically Brad Bird who just did

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what did Bradbird just don like this
movie guy? This last year, I

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know Bredbird just did something? Was
it? Bat Man? Before I dive

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into Mission Impossible too, he story
four The Incredibles to Okay, a bunch

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of finding Okay, all good movies
though, So I saw it was a

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John wu film and I was like, wait a minute, hold on a

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second, and I was an Amanda's
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that's the guy who did face Off. I do not remember him doing

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a Mission Impossible movie. And then
turns out, if you are rewatching the

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movies like we are, and you
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to be spoiled turned off the next
ten seconds the first scene, he rips

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off some his Tom Cruise's face to
reveal the villain. And obviously there was

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face changing stuff in the first movie, like light stuff, right the second

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one they go all out with it. And then I looked up and I

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was like, he did this movie
three years after Face Off, if I'm

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not mistaken, or three years okay? So maybe I'm mistaken it maybe a

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Mission Impossible two is two thousand,
let me see, so that sounds right.

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Just continued he just continued doing face
swapping movies. But in like and

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of course Mission Possible two was not
like the peak of popularity for that movie

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series, but it was already a
TV show. Tom Cruise is a big

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thing, so it wasn't a small
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It's coming out, you know it
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Metallica song was like for the movie. It featured video that was kind of

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like the pinnacle of his career,
Like that was tight, wasn't it?

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Ninety seven? No, not the
pinnacle. He was definitely like big though.

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Yeah it wasn't big for three decades, but he was huge then.

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And John Loui was coming off Faceoff
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You might have been coming He came
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ninety seven, the Broken Air and
ninety six that was is big, like

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us coming out party based off ninety
seven, and they give him a big

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time Mission I Possible too, Like
I remember I was I was sixteen when

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am I two came out, and
like that was a big fucking like marketing

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tie in, like it wasn't like
a tiny little movie by any means.

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at any point said it was a tiny

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movie. In fact, I don't
think I did say it's hard house.

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It's hard house. No, I'm
saying it's all the more. It's all

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the funnier that they give the second
movie to John Woo when the last movie

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he made was just this or you
know, one of the you know,

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face off was the surrealistic actor swapping
and swapping back and swapping like I don't

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even know how you described that like
for a mainstream Hollywood action movie. It

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was just fucking insane. Yeah,
And I couldn't believe it. And then

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there were points way early in the
movie during the rock climbing scene where I

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was like, oh, this already
feels like a John wu movie, Like

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when he gets the glasses and blow
up. But before that, when they

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shoot the guy from the helicopter shoots
the message at him with that like rocket

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thing, he's got that like like
that smile on it. It's like the

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most of the group are like or
like what hot American summer, like like

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that B movie leaning that he does
like John Woo does in a really great

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way, but done earnestly. It's
like not done is extremely earnest and I

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love And I couldn't believe they got
all of these actors like I would.

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I can't believe all these people were
super on board to do this type of

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thing because for most of the movie, I'm like, okay, I feel

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like the John wunas has cooled off
a bit. And then in the final

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action sequence there are doves flying around. There's a white dove that flies out

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basically from Tom Cruise's crotch. Want
to be the flaming door, right,

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and all the doves come out.
It's not just him, you know,

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like the more modern movies, the
combat hand to hand combats more Jason Bourn

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kind of like brutal, knock this
dude out as quickly as you can with

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as like quick as a puff of
punch as you can't. And it's just

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Tom Cruise running at people across open
fields, dodging their bullets, flipping and

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then drop kicking their the top of
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Oh my god, that was the
scene where they come up and they

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are facing and they do. They
both do a wheelie on the way.

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Yes, that's just a dick measuring
contest. And then I saw them the

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trailer. They showed them the trailer
and I was like, what, I

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have to see this. They leap
off the motorcycles going probably seventy five and

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somehow don't break every bone in their
body when they collide midair. He's doing

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like slow, little pale kicks to
the back of the guy's head, and

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oh man great. And then the
fight, the hand to hand fight between

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them was like all good hand to
hand combat fights, just the twin the

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Twins fighting on top of the nuclear
summary at the end of Guns of the

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Patriots. Oh yes, of course
that movie was incredible, and the whole

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time, like I was, I
just could not believe it. You do

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it. You have to not watch
it with the same expectations as the rest

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of the series because it's not nearly
as smart. You just have to look

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at this, look at it as
this anomaly where it's like, what if

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John WU got a Mission impossible movie? Yeah, and it happened. You

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know, I still can't believe it
happened, because I at that time I

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would have been I would have been
nine. The first mission Impossible I saw

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when it was new was three and
God, and I don't like again.

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I appreciate three a little bit more
now. But going from John wu to

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JJ Abrams, just going from this
like signature weirdo like just to b movie

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autour earnest to JJ Abrams the most
sterile director ever with a lot of his

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stuff is so jarring. But I
told him and I was like, basically

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from here on out, every movie
is incredible. Yeah, that's six.

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All get better. And I've not
seen Dead Reckoning. We're gonna go.

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We're trying to see these and time
to go see it in the theme,

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I hope you get it. We
saw it in theaters and I think I

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think it's a pretty neat theater experience
too because of the intense action sequences.

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So it's fun to see in theaters. But I for the record, I

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think if you saw it in your
living room that would be fun. Would

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you would be really missing out?
I think we just want to keep the

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Barbenheimer Street going of like it's just
nice to get excited about going to theater

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again. So we're like, oh, let's build up to this, you

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know, Dead Reckoning and like,
I feel like I owe it to Tom

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Cruise because he saved movies last year
with Top Gun, And that's right.

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But that's the joke I've seen going
around is that like he saved movies and

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now we thank him by I don't
know. I don't know that Dead Reckoning

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has done poorly in the box office, but I know it's done below expectations,

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especially compared to Barbie. Did one
hundred and twenty million, and it's

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opening weekend, I believe over a
billion worldwide. Now, yeah, that's

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that's crazy. Like theaters did a
good job coming out of the pandemic where

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it's like, okay, so the
pandemic happens, everyone is like, holy

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shit, we're never going with theater
again. We're just gonna watch at home.

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New movies are coming out and streaming, the new Madrins is streaming all

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this stuff. And then during that
time it seems like theaters really up their

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games in terms of like reclining se
and features and stuffing like being able to

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like, you know, put a
bar in heresh. Honestly, it's better.

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Movie theaters feel better post pandemic.
They totally do. Like I like

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them a lot better. Yeah,
I don't know. It's just like I'm

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thirty two, basically, and it's
so fun to be like sneaking drinks and

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the I mean, we don't get
you know, Rambow last Blood, We'll

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never forget. Oh my god,
what just swimming in a pool of white

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claw that I was spilled all over
us, yep sort of thing, and

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they probably they had to close just
for that. After they saw that,

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they were like, there's like,
there's like a gallon of white claw in

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this carpet. We're gonna have to
close. That was patient zero for everything

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My white Claws soap jeans coming out
began. I went, I took a

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train the next day. I spread
it immediately. Oh yeah, yeah,

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oh my god, Mission Impossible,
Mission IPOs too. What a movie you're

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not seen in a while, and
I want to rewatch one of them.

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I would recommend it. I gotta
do. I wonder if we should do

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a movie thought when you come visit
me. I think it'll be fun because

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we usually watch something altogether, you
know, whether it's Jackass four or I

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should have like some kind of thing
that we watch everything in succession. That

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would be really fun. I remember
marying like twenty seventeen or so, I

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came back for Game of the Year
to the San Francisco office and we just

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first night, got a bunch of
booze and watched mcgrouber at the Giant bonb

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in the office. Yeah, that
was really funny, and I think it

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was Abby's first time or something like
that. There was like a first timer

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in that space, and it was
just like a funny experience being like why

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not, like here we go or
I'll watch Grouper and you know, get

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in it. But that's such a
funny thing, like your very first night

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in the city, and that's what
we did. Welcome to San Francisco.

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That's a good night. That's fun. But yeah, we're looking forward to

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Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation, Fallout. I can't wait to watch Fallout.

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The first time I watch Fallout,
Dan, we was at your apartment in

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Connecticut. I th yeah, it
would have been like twenty twenty. Yeah,

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we watched it and streamed it and
yeah, I remember you loved it,

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Jesus Christ. Like, I mean, I've seen it once, but

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one of the best action movies I've
ever seen. It's very good. And

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I which is the one with the
underwater vault. That's the four or five.

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I think that's five Rogue Nation.
I think four is the one with

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the birds Dubai. Five is the
one with the underwater vault where he actually

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held his breath forever, the birds
Galifa. I remember that scene too,

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That is nuts, But the underwater
vault I remember being like, this is

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intense, and I love how the
further the series goes, the more they

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become like just as much heist movies
as they are action movies, Like they

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have these long and so top Gun
Maverick is basically a heist movie as well.

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They have these Most of the movie
is them planning for one big thing

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or it's like mass effect too kind
of. I like that structure of story.

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So I'm looking forward to watching these
next few. It's been good.

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I don't have anything else outside of
that. I don't think when you guys

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been up to I rented a boat? Oh yeah, Instagram, Yeah I

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00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:22.839
Instagram. Renting a boat is really
fun. Did anybody in your party need

406
00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:26.920
a license? No? But Josh
got one anyway, because he's kind of

407
00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:33.319
boat, you know, interested,
and so we thought it would be fun

408
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.000
for him to have because you never
know when you might need a boat safety

409
00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:40.079
course. So for the record,
he doesn't have a boat license. He

410
00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:47.599
took the boat safety course, which
basically includes doing some kind of internet review

411
00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:51.319
that takes an hour or two where
they tell you, like, be careful

412
00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:55.480
how you turn the boat, and
you know, really take care in docking

413
00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:57.559
the boat. Anyway, here's your
digital license. You can take a photo

414
00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:02.559
of this. Yeah, but you
didn't, Like I'm surprised. Maybe it's

415
00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:06.240
maybe it's a state thing, like
maybe Oregon doesn't require it. I'm just

416
00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:10.559
surprised, Like if you were to
get pulled over by any authority that you

417
00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:15.559
wouldn't need a license. You need
a car license in order to rent the

418
00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.119
boat on the same thing with jet
skis, so you do have to have

419
00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.880
a license, and then the boat
has to be registered and they show you

420
00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:26.359
where the registration is in the boat
in case you get pulled over, and

421
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.519
it can I believe impact your driving
license. So like if you drove the

422
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.640
boat drunk and like got in trouble
for it, I think it counts as

423
00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:38.039
a dewey. I think you had
to be absolutely it does. I was

424
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:41.000
asking him when I was at Lake
of the Ozarks, because like everyone there

425
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.200
is always just drinking on a boat. Everybody always do you do on there?

426
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:49.000
So yeah, I was asking about
that and they were saying, like,

427
00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:52.880
yeah, technically you can get that, you can get the dui and

428
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.920
everything, but like you have to
really be like like on a lake,

429
00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:57.240
you got to be like trying to
get a duy. You gotta be like

430
00:29:57.279 --> 00:30:00.039
fucking with people or being like super
loud in the middle of the night or

431
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:03.400
something. I agree. I think
you have to be a total dickhead.

432
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:07.680
And if you're gonna do that,
just get a jet ski because you're not

433
00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.759
gonna damage anyone on a jet ski. Most likely, you'll probably just fall

434
00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:17.279
off and act a fool. But
like boats, anything that's big and heavy

435
00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:22.839
and speedy, you gotta keep your
shit together. I definitely feel like we

436
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.440
had a really good time and we're
like down to have a drink, but

437
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:29.799
you you had to keep your wits
about you on a boat, you know,

438
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.519
you don't want to mess around with
that stuff. Also, like I

439
00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:37.599
don't really much about like marritime rules
and licenses and stuff like that. That's

440
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:44.559
exactly how you pronounce it, marie
time. I'm that's it's maime. That's

441
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:53.599
a little bit marritime every day maritime
clause or page twenty three, clause sixteen.

442
00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:59.200
Let me look, pull out your
little book and like, shall not

443
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:04.799
not drink tall? I don't know
because I wrote it. It's my diary

444
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:11.480
and it just has merry time on
it. It sounds fun, though.

445
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:18.359
Were you on a river or a
lake? Uh river Portland has a few

446
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.799
of those, so you can go
up, go lammet uh and kind of

447
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.039
go back and forth on that one. And so we did that a lot

448
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:30.119
and hooked up our radio. It
was really fun because we had a I

449
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.480
didn't know you could do this,
but you can have a joint Spotify playlist

450
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:37.960
and anyone can add to the playlist. You send a link around to everybody,

451
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:41.920
so anyone can add to the playlist. So we're like listening to eighties

452
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:45.720
rock, which is probably like,
uh, Josh's addition, and then Katrina

453
00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:52.480
probably put in like some some nineties
classics that we grew up with, and

454
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.880
then I put on this is Halloween, and uh, everybody was like,

455
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:00.880
god damn it, Mary. But
it became a little bit of a theme

456
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:08.119
throughout the day because we'd be listening
to a tropical beat song and the afternoon

457
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:12.839
heat would kick in and then all
of a sudden it would be like this

458
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:19.400
on a lake. Loved it by
the end, I think it became funny.

459
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.640
I'd recommend the Lake of the Ozarks
if you want to only hear Jason

460
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:29.680
Aldean all the fucking time. Oh
oh, you will be on a boat

461
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:35.240
blaring Jason Aldean, passing three ducks
Blarry Jason Aldean. People have Jason fucking

462
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:42.039
aldin fucking Couzi's on their beer.
Oh boy, he's basically yeah and on

463
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:47.319
a dirt road. Is that cold
bear hanging at the window? And then

464
00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:52.039
my old chuck, it's a forward
you know what song? I random uh

465
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:57.880
neither aman alright, really listen to
That's a much country but just randomly,

466
00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:00.240
if I'm bored or it's too quiet
in the apartment, I'll start shouting,

467
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:02.960
Uh, what's the beer? Is
a good thing song? I don't know

468
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:09.039
who sinks there is a good thing? Makes carn, carn, makes whiskey?

469
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:15.279
Why nice and frisky? Let me
see thee you're making that. I

470
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:17.400
want to see if you guys have
heard these Yeah, have you guys heard

471
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:21.079
these songs? Or is it just
a Kansas thing? Because I've heard these

472
00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:23.640
a million times in every bar I've
been to for twenty years Upstate New York.

473
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:29.359
I think my track, or she
thinks my track, or okay,

474
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:32.160
you know that one. He would
check out. I don't care honk,

475
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:35.839
but you know that one too.
These are like early two thousands, like

476
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:39.759
they're still played every fucking night.
Another one, Yeah him my red MC

477
00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:47.079
moment ain't no high class brown.
There's the h I took a forty four

478
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:55.480
shamy to both head like Louisville.
Yeah, that's carry Colin carry way down

479
00:33:55.480 --> 00:34:02.960
the under in the Chattahoo you never
knew everybody if little Live want more times

480
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:08.079
the speed you sound like a TikTok
a little on the trash. You're sad?

481
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:16.960
You know that one on a dart
right out up state New York.

482
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:22.360
Really likes country music as well,
at least really the circles I was kind

483
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:25.719
of on the periphery of when I
was coming up. The entirety of my

484
00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:31.199
knowledge of this type of music comes
from working at a Texas roadhouse, and

485
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:36.880
I heard I ate it one last
night all get out. Did you do

486
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:39.800
the thing where you bring saddle and
rolls from scratch the Cinning rolls. There's

487
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:45.639
a bag filled with those rolls upstairs
right now. No, they were really

488
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:47.360
fucking good. Do they do that
thing where they bring the saddle out and

489
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:52.400
if someone's birthday and everyone has to
say ye to do all that? Oh

490
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:55.000
yeah, I drolled that saddle out. Oh wow. We make all of

491
00:34:55.039 --> 00:35:00.239
the dressings from scratch as well.
So the ranch is made with mannaise and

492
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:04.239
spices. I got the chicken critters
with barbecue and ranch. Oh yeah,

493
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:07.679
that ranch was made in house,
sir. Good is ranch the base of

494
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:14.400
ranch dressing mayonnaise? Most of the
time, I always assumed it was like

495
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:20.639
sour cream based. I think it's
got like cream and mayo and five.

496
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:22.800
Oh no, I guess that makes
sense. Mayo makes sense. Yeah,

497
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:29.239
yeah, cool ranch. The ritos
are cool ranch. I got some popcorn

498
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.159
that'school ranch flavor. Now, yeah, that sounds good. So when I

499
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:36.519
was sixteen, I probably lived off
of those roles, Dan, because those

500
00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:38.360
roles. At the end of the
day, after I swept up all the

501
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:43.719
fucking peanuts, I would grab a
bag of those rolls and butter and then

502
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.000
eat them in my car. Yeah. Kayla asked for a bag of them

503
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:51.400
when we were leaving, which because
they bake them fresh every day, so

504
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:53.760
they can't keep them, so they
give them to all the staffs because they're

505
00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:58.320
so soft. They're so good.
But I do not personally believe that they

506
00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:01.239
survive a day, do you know
what I mean? I'm not I'm not

507
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:05.039
hating them up. I think she's
like air frying the man. They're gonna

508
00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:07.079
be rough, I think on the
second, on the second eating, but

509
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.159
the boter is still so good.
The cinnamon butter. Yeah, it's fucking

510
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:15.639
I can't believe we're hyping up this
place. I hated this fucking place.

511
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:19.639
And it's like such a classic.
You know. My boss was like nineteen

512
00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:22.000
and he was a manager, and
he was like, yeah, are late

513
00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:23.599
by five minutes, and it's like, shut up, you're drunk like all

514
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:28.840
the time. I do not take
this job. Seriously, you guys cannot

515
00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:31.320
control me. I'm going to do
drugs as soon as I leave this,

516
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:38.199
play podcasts about video games when I'm
molder, and I'm gonna talk shit about

517
00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:45.119
you. I'm gonna talk shit about
you. Ron speaking speaking of I really

518
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:50.960
like those roles. I like,
well, everybody likes lob red lobsters,

519
00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:54.000
cheddar biscuits. Oh, I'm box
of that and made those at home.

520
00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:59.119
Yeah, you can this like,
but a decade ago they actually released it

521
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:01.239
to the wild. It was mark
crazy. It's like talking about fire sauce

522
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:04.039
and souff. We sell it on
sores. Now it's like, oh yeah,

523
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:10.519
why weren't they doing that malive garden. They're dressed dressing game changer changed

524
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:14.599
mall off. But if you never
had all of garden dressing, I know

525
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.840
it's not endless. I just get
a bowl of Alfredo and eat like thirty

526
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:21.840
fucking bread six with it. I
think you know it's in your hot tub.

527
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:32.679
Make money filled with alfredo. Now
we're talking. Okay, it's local,

528
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:44.760
right, had masks that comes?
What? No whos suck? No?

529
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:46.199
Jake just piped in on the mic. Here you just stop the zoom

530
00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:55.719
Scott into growlings, Jake, Jake
Decker. Come on, dude, it's

531
00:37:55.719 --> 00:38:00.679
a gross person. It's just so
stumbled in here. Oh, what's a

532
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:07.800
social security? Are you gonna face
off Jake Decker? God, I would

533
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:09.280
love to. It's a lot taller
than you. You got to be a

534
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:15.159
similar height. Yeah, he is
like, keep your keep your silts.

535
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:21.360
Just have his face weirdly like painted. He's sitting on my shoulders and we

536
00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:23.480
have a trench coat. All of
a sudden, I'm taller and skinnier,

537
00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:28.400
and I'm on stilts. It's like, what the fuck is this guy doing?

538
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:30.760
Clearly it's you. I didn't change, but I don't bother changing my

539
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.880
voice. Jake got a bunch of
new tattoos. Who would you who?

540
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:40.199
If you had the chance for one
week to face off with somebody else,

541
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:45.159
who would you do? Or who
would you be? I've always said John

542
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:47.199
Drake, John Drake, and I
would just go to a bunch of like

543
00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:52.480
Disney meetings, like big executive stuff, and just be farting and saying stupid

544
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:57.719
ship career. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh okay, interesting,

545
00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:01.880
Yeah, I shouldn't be surprised do
yeah. But it'd be funny. It'd

546
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:07.440
be worth it, he would laugh. I think I would go Who would

547
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:12.679
I be? I got you cut
you fucker ruined your life, your degree,

548
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:17.920
God, your wife and baby hate
you now. I farted all over

549
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:25.119
that kid. They are you know, let's let's say they're like in a

550
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:30.440
healthy induced coma. No that's not
healthy. They're in a healthy like they're

551
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.119
taking a healthy like they're put into
cryo sleep for a week. I mean

552
00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:36.239
that happened to cast you Troy,
and you saw what happened, so you

553
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:38.760
got we have president Mary, who
would you be? I don't know.

554
00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:44.880
You just sprung this on me.
I'm not prepared. Could It doesn't work

555
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:52.320
with birds? No bird faced across
your human head. I don't want to

556
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:55.880
fly. You would cover your nose. Mary. This is clearly you.

557
00:39:55.920 --> 00:40:00.559
No, you're not getting it's a
bill like et finch into a bird like

558
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:04.199
this is a you're swapping faces.
You're gonna suck up that bird skins.

559
00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:08.599
No, you definitely were not ready
for this question. Clearly I'm not saying,

560
00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:14.320
and you don't know how to fly
just because you would do we surgically

561
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:15.800
attach your head and brain to a
bird? Is that what you're asking?

562
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:21.480
Oh my god, imagine a bird
body trying to fly with Mary's actual size

563
00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:24.519
like big cartoons, stitches like Frankenstein's. It's not the fead. It's not

564
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:28.760
like I have a head on like
a pigeon. It would be like my

565
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.559
face on an albatross, look like
a soft, wrinkly softball flying through the

566
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:36.639
air. But then we got a
bird, you would have a bird face

567
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:39.559
on your nose, cover dress,
your nose. But but I'm the other

568
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:44.039
one, right, Well, your
brains in the same body, so that

569
00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:46.039
would suck up. So you're just
gonna have a weird, fucked up bird

570
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:51.639
face. You're you're still you why
but you're a very convincing clone of another.

571
00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:54.559
First thought, you're facing off,
You're not You're not swapping. It's

572
00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:59.480
not called body off. Are you
taking this back? Are you officially we'recanting?

573
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:04.119
Are you going to double down?
Okay, yeah, we'll come back

574
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:09.159
off. Can come back to me, Dan, John Drake, I have

575
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:15.360
someone in mind. I have someone
in mind, but I'm worried they're boxing

576
00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:23.000
skills. Are I'm too good of
a boxer to pull them off? I

577
00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:29.599
think my Irish accents also too convincing. I don't know who would I be.

578
00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:36.480
No, this is a good question. I'm trying to think. If

579
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:38.559
you remember, you have the same
body, it's just you're getting someone else's

580
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:42.000
face, so you have to deal
with your same body. We learn from

581
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.599
the bird ex right, But like
right and John Trakes, you could wear

582
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:52.400
like baggy clothes so people don't like
notice that you've fluctuated, and I can

583
00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:55.000
shove my beard into the John Drake
face. Skin, so it might be

584
00:41:55.039 --> 00:42:00.360
coming out the mouth. But I
would be this. Maybe I'd be like

585
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:09.000
Chris Plant in like a company meeting, like like an all hands give yourself.

586
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:14.639
I would be like, hey,
hey, he's here on the call

587
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:19.320
somewhere, but we're actually giving like
Ma Hardy a five hundred thousand dollars a

588
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:22.400
year. Well, I don't know
why would I would announce the monetary rays

589
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:30.079
Uh, he's also head of he's
gonna be h. He's also we're giving

590
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:32.119
him New York City like the city
itself. I don't know how he'd have

591
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:36.960
the power. Do you sign all
of Chris plants plants benefits and life insurance

592
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:38.440
and stuff over to you as the
benefits? Yeah? I take all of

593
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:42.239
his four oh one k. Yeah, you could do that with anybody.

594
00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:45.480
I'm just targing Chris Plant now because
he came to mind. Sure. Yeah,

595
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:50.320
you guys are just yeah, well
you're just doing it to bully someone

596
00:42:51.239 --> 00:42:54.280
theirs John Drake. Oh, I
would addresses Chris Plant and go to a

597
00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:58.880
soup kitchen and feed the homeless and
give him a really good reputation. Is

598
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:01.880
that what you want to hear?
Mary? No, Mary wants the fucking

599
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:08.960
strap her face to a bird around
a bird. Yeah, you can cover

600
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:13.960
the whole bird with your fucking face
fully for Toado over here. I just

601
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:21.400
said, I like, that's your
theme song. Not's the song's about.

602
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:27.000
Yeah, that's the joke. And
then she tries to fly away, and

603
00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:35.599
then the bird wrote promiscuous yep,
and then Jada to fly Oh. I

604
00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:38.559
would be a basketball player, but
like only at the press conference is and

605
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:45.440
not on the question just bedazzled.
Oh yeah that happens. Oh my god,

606
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:50.760
so bad. Yeah. I would
never want to be a sport person

607
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:53.199
because you need brain for sport and
I could never get away with it.

608
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:59.800
And it's your same body. If
if I put you're still you. If

609
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.440
I would wayne Bob's face on my
face, I still have my body.

610
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.079
You could drink yeah, because you
drink the seventy beers on the way to

611
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:10.440
I don't know if there's seventy though. But I definitely couldn't play baseball.

612
00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:15.400
No, baseball is hard. It
sets me someone with an important face like

613
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:22.320
Biden. That would look weird if
you put Biden. Yeah, but I'd

614
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:24.800
probably still get in the room if
I wore like sweatpants. Are you cutting

615
00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:29.480
your hair? I would you just
set your stuff in your beard under so

616
00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:31.480
like hair, Yeah, all right, but it might come out of the

617
00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:34.840
eye holes and then like when you're
up in the podium, people are gonna

618
00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:37.159
be like, what's wrong. Joe's
consider the top of your head and you

619
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:40.920
wear like a big hat with the
flaps over there. Everything that sprouts from

620
00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:46.760
the neck up is considered. Yeah, hair sprouts, I guess from the

621
00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:52.400
neck up. But still like I
think there's height and other bodily things going

622
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:55.119
on with If you put Joe Biden's
face on yours where people would notice he's

623
00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:59.880
photographed a lot, I think people
would notice people. People, people will

624
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:05.719
Fox News would be like Fox News
would have Biden. I can tell Fox

625
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:12.079
News to go fuck itself and Mary
could go into the to the press conferences

626
00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:15.800
and just thrash people. I assume
we get the microchip that changes your voice

627
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:22.679
too, right, Yeah, just
sound like my ass Fox says Joe Biden.

628
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:31.559
We're protecting all the amendments, all
of them liked you. I'm old.

629
00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:37.719
Let's come back to listen the email
section, get maybe think about some

630
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:43.519
more answers. Feel good now and
my warm up? I feel good and

631
00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:49.840
I would be Kamala and I'd be
there waiting with a sharpened blade, and

632
00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:54.679
it's the perfect crime. Guys.
I changed, Okay, I changed.

633
00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:59.880
I changed my answer. Mary,
what's the name of your best friend?

634
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:04.400
How dare you? I won't tell
you it's a bird. I would just

635
00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:08.239
I would just be your best friend. Can get in real close, and

636
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:15.000
then it's the perfect crime. If
I was like, you're my best friend,

637
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:23.960
Oh, get the face off yourself
seems unnecessary. Really, yeah,

638
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:29.400
at that point, I might as
well just do the thing. Oh,

639
00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:37.000
Mary, that's so sweet. There's
twenty five new holes in your Do you

640
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:40.320
guys want talk about video games?
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lot of the video game section the
last two episodes talking about how excited I

678
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am for Balder's Gate three shot up
about it that excitement was warranted. I'm

679
00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:30.320
like, in that game a whole
bunch, all right, tell me what

680
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:34.159
you like about it. I also
like it, but I'm curious, Like

681
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:38.320
I've had a couple of people say
to me, this is the pinnacle of

682
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:44.480
storytelling and will essentially become like the
new gold standard by which we judge story

683
00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:51.199
games. I'm the story has me
hooked, for sure. My appreciation of

684
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:53.400
the game or admiration of the game
is not just on story. I actually

685
00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:57.960
think they're I mean, it's a
super dense game with hundreds, if not

686
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:02.440
thousands of characters that you can just
chat with that some of them, you

687
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:07.239
know, it runs the gamut in
terms of dialogue quality and storytelling, and

688
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.280
I think there are some parts in
the story where I was shaking my head

689
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:15.000
a bit and kind of flabbergast did
that this happened that way? X and

690
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:17.519
Y. But just in general in
terms of the role playing and the like,

691
00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:21.760
it's so funny to see this coming
off of Tears the Kingdom. I

692
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:29.239
feel like twenty twenty three, we're
finally seeing like emergent gameplay immersive sim elements

693
00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:32.280
really leak into everything. This isn't
the first time Larry And Studios has done

694
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:37.280
this. Divinity Original Sin two was
basically the reason. You know, I

695
00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:39.760
imagine that Balder's Gate. You know, they got the rights to Balder's Gate

696
00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:45.920
to make this, But just the
density of this world and the amount of

697
00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:50.239
times in the last two weeks that
I've been playing where I'm like, oh

698
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:54.000
my god, I never even once
considered doing this puzzle like that, or

699
00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:59.719
like doing anything like this with that
character, or holy shit, that's the

700
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:02.639
same class I'm running, and I'm
seeing someone do something super cool on social

701
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:06.800
media or my friend text me,
or like Jake, who's played way more

702
00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:10.760
than me, he has three characters. Just the sheer breadth of things that

703
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:17.039
Larry And Studios has accounted for in
the immersive sim elements of this game,

704
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:22.800
puzzle solving, combat, character storytelling. Of course, you're you're gonna push

705
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.840
up against the limits every once in
a while, but oh my god,

706
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:30.920
like I have to keep every once
in a while, I do something,

707
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:32.519
I'm like, all right, that
was weird, that was off the beaten

708
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:35.960
path. There's no way Larry and
is going to account for that and then

709
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:38.880
they do, and I have to
keep reminding myself not to underestimate them.

710
00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:42.840
And it's not perfect. There are
a lot of annoying things about this game

711
00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:45.239
as well, but it just pals
in comparison to how fun this is.

712
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:52.159
It feels like playing a BioWare RPG
in their golden age, but times three

713
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:55.800
hundred. I can't get enough of
it. I'm it's the most obsessed with

714
00:51:55.800 --> 00:52:00.639
the game I've been, like,
I liked and I'm not going to start

715
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:05.079
comparing it to other games yet really
in terms of how much I'm liking it,

716
00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:08.280
But like, oh my god,
I played a lot of Tears the

717
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:13.440
Kingdom and I liked that game a
whole fucking lot. But I don't think

718
00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:16.480
I thought about that game as much
when I'm not playing it as I'm thinking

719
00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:21.800
about Balder's Gate three. It's amazing
what they let you get away with,

720
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.519
and I agree with you. There's
decisions that you make really early on.

721
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:30.039
You're like, it's a little early
to make such a dramatic choice in this

722
00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:31.760
game, and I feel like within
the first hour they're just like, well,

723
00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:35.719
we're all turing the entire game because
you've made a decision. Good luck,

724
00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:37.559
fuck. Oh. I do appreciate
the fact that they have given the

725
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:40.840
create the player so much power,
but it's like, to your point,

726
00:52:40.880 --> 00:52:45.079
A lot of times you're like,
you can't let me get away with this

727
00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:49.119
already, can you? And they
do. I fuck myself over that much.

728
00:52:49.159 --> 00:52:51.960
There's there's no way they'll let me
fuck myself over like that, Like,

729
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:54.840
oh, yeah, you just kill
any character pretty much, right,

730
00:52:54.840 --> 00:52:59.320
even like critical Okay, I know
I was going to test in that on

731
00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:02.280
a joint bomb streaming. I think
I killed like the cover stars of the

732
00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:07.199
game immediately upon meeting them, so
I think you can do that. I

733
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:12.280
think basically killed There's characters in the
very first area where it says very clearly

734
00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:15.599
I would be careful pressing any buttons
in here. I immediately pressed a button

735
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:20.480
and killed someone and went I shouldn't
have pushed that button. Oh, just

736
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:24.480
kept going. Are you guys on
a console? No? Okay? PC?

737
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:29.079
Both? Okay? Controller either you? Uh no, but I've heard

738
00:53:29.119 --> 00:53:32.159
you good, Yeah, you can
hear it. Yeah. So it doesn't

739
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:37.480
actually release on consoles until September six
Xbox in twenty twenty four. However,

740
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:42.639
you can play with the game head
and apparently I have a co worker Joshua

741
00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:45.000
Rivera, who wrote a quick thing
today I'm Polygon, who was saying,

742
00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:49.880
if you can try it out,
you might like it if you're playing on

743
00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:54.159
PC, as you've seen, if
you're not super used to CRPGs or MMOs.

744
00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:57.960
Not that this is an MMO,
but they have similar uy's. It's

745
00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:02.039
like my character has forty five different
spells they could cast. It's overwhelming.

746
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:07.719
However, apparently there are radial dials
on game pad that kind of the game

747
00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:13.960
itself boils down for you what you
can do at any one moment, so

748
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:16.159
it makes it a bit more digestible. Apparently I still would play mouse and

749
00:54:16.199 --> 00:54:23.199
keyboard personally, but supposedly you can. It kind of distills your possible actions

750
00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:25.760
at any one moment on game pad, which I want to check out.

751
00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:32.320
I like that idea of I would
prefer because I like the idea of putting

752
00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:37.440
it on a TV and playing with
a controller. That's like my storytelling game

753
00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:44.440
preferred method. But I could not
get it's a function with a controller myself,

754
00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:46.760
and I found it confusing, and
I went back and played it with

755
00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:51.960
keyboard and mouse, and I had
just such a better experience. Yeah,

756
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:59.079
I'm playing mouse keyboard. It's I
Mary, what a Dan? Are you

757
00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:00.400
so? Actually? Dan? And
I think I want to ask you because

758
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:07.800
I would assume, knowing Mary's love
of divinity original sin too, I would

759
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:12.559
assume Dan, you're probably not as
committed to your playthrough or I'm already done.

760
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:19.119
Okay for me? Yeah wow,
good job. Yeah my third character

761
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:22.239
beat it with that. Yeah,
well maybe if we don't count the Belgian

762
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:27.239
stuff I played there. I've played
about hour hour and a half away,

763
00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:29.719
did a stream that was maybe a
couple of hours, then I made a

764
00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:32.119
character on my own. But uh
yeah, it's it's one of those games

765
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:36.400
I can just completely respect what it's
doing, and it seems like it's between

766
00:55:36.440 --> 00:55:38.400
a lot of fascinating things that I
would like to see in the experience,

767
00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:40.880
Like Mike you're saying, they're like, oh, there's no way they accounted

768
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:44.159
for this, and then you can
do it like that stuff is I always

769
00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:46.880
love that shit. It's just at
the end of the day, the UI,

770
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:51.079
the amount of like, I don't
know any I've never played a CRPG

771
00:55:51.239 --> 00:55:54.079
before, I've never played an MMO
before, I've never played Dungeons Dragons really

772
00:55:54.159 --> 00:55:59.400
before. It is just too much
for me, it's too much talking,

773
00:55:59.480 --> 00:56:01.719
it's too many systems. So I
think it's just something that I have to

774
00:56:01.800 --> 00:56:07.400
like, uh respect from Afar,
but it's it's not for me. I

775
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:09.800
said that out loud. I said
this is too talkie. Dan will never

776
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:14.119
survive this. Oh no, there's
way too much going on. Yeah,

777
00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:16.679
it's it's also well, I have
quite a lot of this game that's annoying

778
00:56:16.679 --> 00:56:22.599
me, several which I'm confident they'll
they'll patch out. But Mary, what

779
00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:24.559
do you have one character right now? Are you focusing on one? Are

780
00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:30.039
you kind of running? I've built, but I'm only playing one. I'm

781
00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:35.639
currently playing a half elf sorcerer.
I made her real hot, nice,

782
00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:45.000
I made her super hot. What
she's joke? She's Oh, it was

783
00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:47.320
like you'd be like, I'm confused, I'm not. Do you have a

784
00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:50.920
photo anywhere? Have you like tweeted
or anything? Yeah, I'll put or

785
00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:52.760
have you streamed it? Because I
want to see did you just wrap your

786
00:56:52.840 --> 00:57:00.480
character's face around a bird? Are
you? I love that body of a

787
00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:04.360
bird? Right, Yeah, that's
my big thing. He's just human faces

788
00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:13.599
wrapped around birds, That's right.
Daniel, little freak on the Airborne needs

789
00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:19.320
the airborne. Yeah, I like
my women in the sky. That's what

790
00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:25.400
I say. What does that mean? You know what it means? You're

791
00:57:25.400 --> 00:57:30.079
a little Dan. Dan randomly stops
when we're on the side. I points

792
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:34.320
to a burden the sky like that's
where women belong. And I'm like,

793
00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:37.440
Dan, they're late for dinner.
What are you doing? Keep the stuff

794
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:43.039
to himself. He does it all
the time. Stop the car. I

795
00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:51.039
respect them so much in the air. I like that. And You're like,

796
00:57:51.039 --> 00:57:52.559
wait, is this like a weird
is this a bad thing? And

797
00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:57.719
You're just like, no, I
have such a profound respect. He's good

798
00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:07.679
sky women. This insane Mary.
I'm I'm doing a Gnome an Earth Gnome

799
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:15.599
Druid with the Circle of the Lands
subclass, so I'm kind of vascillating between

800
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:23.199
shape shifting. But also I'm like
my party's healer and castor yes, I

801
00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:30.559
am doing a playthrough first. And
that's the thing that's like, that's the

802
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:34.000
the double side of coin of games. This dense. It's like, while

803
00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:37.440
I'm playing this playthrough, ideally,
I'm like, oh man, I can't

804
00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:38.599
wait to do another play through,
whether I even finish this one or not.

805
00:58:38.599 --> 00:58:43.960
And I'll use will Way more and
my party I'll have. I'll have

806
00:58:44.039 --> 00:58:46.559
house in and my party way more. I'll have like Carlac, I'll play

807
00:58:46.559 --> 00:58:51.239
with her more. But it's like
right now, I'm kind of enjoying sticking

808
00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:54.000
to my one party that I really
like and just seeing things through with them.

809
00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:59.159
I've got a Starian, got Lazelle
and shadow Heart. I'm romancing to

810
00:58:59.159 --> 00:59:02.719
shit out of shadow Heart because she's
a babe. Dancing people is fun.

811
00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:09.079
Being a little slut is fun.
Being caught is super fun. My gnome

812
00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:15.840
is a little babe. Shit sounds
like we're both having sorry, really sexy

813
00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:20.239
time. I have a little song
that I sang when I play it.

814
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:30.400
What is it? Two sexy ladies? This is Halloween Mary. That was

815
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:34.079
the boat song. Leave it on
the boat. We've got in international waters.

816
00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:36.960
Put her, I put her in
the discord. I got sidetracked by

817
00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:42.920
Paramon. Did you oh, what's
the face? Dots on the face dots?

818
00:59:43.159 --> 00:59:45.400
I the maace dots. I gave
her scars. I gave her smoky

819
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:52.119
eyeshadow romeos. She has two different
colored eyes. It gus. I'm gonna

820
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:54.199
go for a few minutes. Come
on a breath when I get back.

821
00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:59.000
I was just I was running.
It was I went for it. I

822
00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:01.519
had so much much fun. And
the whole last part was like I chose

823
01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:06.840
everything based on aesthetics, so like
she's a sorcerer and she's really good,

824
01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:08.679
like she ya throws a mean fireball. But I did it all because I

825
01:00:08.679 --> 01:00:14.199
thought she looked good in those ros. She looks she's got a Margot Robie

826
01:00:14.920 --> 01:00:19.079
type one thing. Yeah, as
if that was an accident. What's her

827
01:00:19.119 --> 01:00:27.880
name, Barbie aesthetics? Uh,
Gabbo Gabo wasn't a puppet from the Simpsons.

828
01:00:27.960 --> 01:00:30.239
I always do a joke name.
I got a breath. I was

829
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:32.599
just, I was just. I
was Janet to Gabbo in the bathroom.

830
01:00:34.440 --> 01:00:44.039
Gabbo, Yeah, Gabbo anyway,
Yeah, I'm sticking to a starian who

831
01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:46.360
Okay, I'm also seeing one of
two camps. A lot of people are

832
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:51.559
saying they're having a really hard time
romancing everybody, and people are just throwing

833
01:00:51.599 --> 01:00:55.320
themselves in my character left and right. My theory is that the game for

834
01:00:55.519 --> 01:01:02.119
most characters is tailored to appreciate respectable
actions, and the people that I'm a

835
01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:06.519
polygon who I know are just like
doing homicidal runs or having a tougher time.

836
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:08.159
I'm like, I think it's because
I'm actually kind of playing the Optimists.

837
01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:10.639
He's like the therapist of the group. They're all just fucking confiding in

838
01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:19.559
me. And shadow Heart, of
course, is my gift. But I

839
01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:23.519
people like Astarian. I don't want
to spoil anything, but you know,

840
01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:29.480
I'm letting him do his thing as
a vampire Gail. I'm helping him out

841
01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:36.519
with his basically addiction. I'm helping
Will out with his demonic stuff. I

842
01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:40.679
don't know. I'm I'm torn between
trying out a bunch of new characters in

843
01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:44.559
the party, but I'm also I've
got a I've got a good party.

844
01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:52.039
The storylines so far, the wider
storylines I'm finding less enjoyment and the overall

845
01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:58.280
plot than in finding these little pockets
of the world where there are these interesting

846
01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:00.400
side quests going on, which isn't
a s I think that's most RPGs,

847
01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:04.159
And you can't really see the overall
arc until you finished the game. And

848
01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:07.199
by all means, if I finished
this game, it'll take me ninety hours.

849
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:09.440
And if I don't finish it,
it's not because of its quality,

850
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:15.159
It's because I got stuff going on, you know, I don't know this

851
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:22.679
just this game is incredibly nuanced but
also just vast as hell, and it's

852
01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:28.360
intimidating in a many ways. It
is intimidating. I promise myself I would

853
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:31.639
not save scum and just see where
things took me. But again, to

854
01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:37.519
your point, Mary, it's like
it's it's you can really fuck up that

855
01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:40.239
universe. Oh my god, you
like it's crazy too. Like it's like

856
01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:45.280
I was thinking to myself, Okay, what if I didn't rescue that person

857
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:49.800
on this ship right at the beginning
of the game, they would crash and

858
01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:52.920
die at a certain point. And
that's not a spoiler, that's that's that's

859
01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:54.280
right at the beginning. But then
people are like, oh, no,

860
01:02:54.360 --> 01:02:57.280
there are ways you could bring them
back to life. And I'm like,

861
01:02:57.320 --> 01:03:00.239
oh, it must have been this
story based side quest that I didn't find.

862
01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:01.440
They're like, no, it's like
an item in your inventory. Like,

863
01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:07.480
oh Jesus right, Like there are
certain simple things that this game that

864
01:03:07.639 --> 01:03:10.639
I take for granted because I've played
every other video game ever made, and

865
01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:15.840
this game really actually takes a lot
of that into account. It's like,

866
01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:17.800
no, you have the simple item
in your inventory. You got to start

867
01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:22.400
thinking like this character. This character
had this magical item, which in this

868
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.880
world is part and parcel. It's
just part of this world. They would

869
01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:30.679
use it without a second thought.
I'm like, oh right, Like Larion

870
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:40.440
has just so all encompassingly created this
believable world for as dumb as the shit

871
01:03:40.480 --> 01:03:46.079
I'm doing. And I'm doing the
crate stacking Lazelle my like my high strength

872
01:03:46.199 --> 01:03:51.639
character. Her inventory is all huge
boxes in her clown car pockets, and

873
01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:54.440
I'm just stacking like twelve crates before
I get into hard fights so I can

874
01:03:54.480 --> 01:04:00.400
put my archer on top of those
to get the advantage. It's like like

875
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:03.119
Skyrim or something. There are but
high strength characters have a pretty high carry

876
01:04:03.159 --> 01:04:08.159
capacity and boxes do not take up
as much way as they should, so

877
01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:12.719
you can I saw a stream where
Matt Mercer from Critical Role and the guy

878
01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:18.880
who voices Mensk was streaming with Larry
and he got to Balder's Gate the titular

879
01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:25.320
city and stack forty seven boxes and
use an arrow of teleportation to get over

880
01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:30.599
the ramparts way before he should have, and I was like, sequence breaking.

881
01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:34.480
It's like we've been doing fire Escape
long enough, and some people who

882
01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:39.360
listen to fire Escape have been following
my work and my collective work with you

883
01:04:39.400 --> 01:04:43.239
guys for long enough where I think
people know it's like that's the kind of

884
01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:46.159
gameplay at Cream my jeans over is
like sequence breaking and immersive some elements and

885
01:04:46.239 --> 01:04:49.199
immergent gameplay, And I feel like
it's your version of a bird with a

886
01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:54.599
lady faced on it. Exactly.
That's my bird. That's my face off

887
01:04:55.719 --> 01:05:00.079
in here, fucking Gabbo. It's
still got I mean gone on my desktop

888
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:04.000
background. She just looked at me
right now. I feel like twenty twenty

889
01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:09.480
three, it's just been an incredible
year. Like games just have been fucking

890
01:05:09.599 --> 01:05:15.840
awesome. The kind of games that
I just seek out are now like this

891
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:21.000
massive RPG that is like continuing this
series that Biour kind of passed the torch

892
01:05:21.199 --> 01:05:25.840
on, maybe not willingly, but
like a fucking Nintendo is doing this with

893
01:05:25.960 --> 01:05:30.960
Zelda now. It's like I love
all the dorics that we're whining for like

894
01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:34.719
the last ten plus years about like
they're trying to kill single player games.

895
01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:41.000
It's all got to be multiplayers.
Pretty sure we're doing okay on Gable.

896
01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:44.559
I know this is multiplayer as well, but like just single player, you're

897
01:05:44.599 --> 01:05:46.639
You're gonna be all right in a
lot of different ways. If ever,

898
01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:51.880
two games were the most, like
pay seventy bucks, here's three hundred and

899
01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:57.599
fifty hours of stuff you won't even
repeat content. Ye, it's these two.

900
01:05:58.239 --> 01:06:00.760
I was like, it's all cyclical, but and I don't know.

901
01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:03.920
I'm Mary, I'm sorry, I've
been rambling. I love this game and

902
01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:08.559
I want to keep seeing it through. But yeah, I don't know.

903
01:06:08.679 --> 01:06:13.280
Have you what are some characters you've
liked so far? I'm really early on.

904
01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:20.480
I spent probably five hours building characters
just because it's fun to make them

905
01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:26.639
as hot as humanly possible. What
what? What? What? What type

906
01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:30.119
did you go with for gabbo?
Oh, Vulva two? Nice? Thanks

907
01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:34.039
for asking. I was Penis.
Which penis did I go with? Come

908
01:06:34.039 --> 01:06:39.559
on, you have to remember I
know what fuck penis type. I wish

909
01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:45.039
everybody should watch Dan's reaction when I
said Vulva two. I don't think I

910
01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:49.239
got them Slider or whatever. I'm
just a gnome called Dorf on golf.

911
01:06:50.800 --> 01:07:09.440
I'm circumcised, and then my gnome
drew Oh my god, here, Oh

912
01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:13.199
really miss that mixer? Yeah,
I'm really on. I spent a lot

913
01:07:13.199 --> 01:07:15.679
of time on character creation. I
had fun in the early stages. I've

914
01:07:15.719 --> 01:07:20.239
been making some dumb decisions. I've
killed several characters already before we're really getting

915
01:07:20.280 --> 01:07:25.039
to know them. I did not
kick the squirrel. I feel like that's

916
01:07:25.079 --> 01:07:29.760
important. I don't know if everybody's
had this decision, but there's a decision

917
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:33.199
early on about whether or not you
kick a squirrel. It's a little bit

918
01:07:33.239 --> 01:07:38.320
of a does the dog die type
situation, so you have to be like,

919
01:07:38.599 --> 01:07:42.760
heads up, like you can kill
a lot of stuff. People don't

920
01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:46.280
animals. I know. But it's
funny because I've killed people willy nilly and

921
01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:49.039
will not go back on it.
I won't be like I should restart,

922
01:07:49.079 --> 01:07:53.000
like that's a good I think that's
a good character. I've just killed whoever

923
01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:56.000
I want. But if an animal
is in the mix, it's like I

924
01:07:56.039 --> 01:08:00.800
gotta protect, protected, save.
Almost always same here in most games.

925
01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:06.519
However, as a Druid, I
immediately had the option to talk to animals.

926
01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:10.960
Some of them are dicks and getting
hearing like the human voices. I'm

927
01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:15.479
like, oh now I don't feel
so bad about fucking rocking you, but

928
01:08:15.560 --> 01:08:18.239
yeah, the animals I can understand. It's like I don't want to broach

929
01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:26.319
this. I don't want to broach
this loss of translation with violence served to

930
01:08:26.319 --> 01:08:30.239
be talked down to by animals like
we're bad first, and you know we

931
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:36.039
shot first. If animals are like
untrusting of us and nefarious and even a

932
01:08:36.039 --> 01:08:40.359
little sneaky, I say, God, love, that's us. Though.

933
01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:44.600
My druid fucking grew up in the
woods. He's a Paul Bunyan folk hero

934
01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:49.199
type. Speak for yourself, you
buggle, you could never speak for the

935
01:08:49.239 --> 01:08:55.720
trees, gambo you fucking forests.
All the animals are like, we don't

936
01:08:55.760 --> 01:09:00.279
trust her, but god damn,
she's so hot. Are you guys doing

937
01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:02.239
any co op at all? Are
you guys just doing a single Blair?

938
01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:06.840
Yeah? I play co op.
Like I said, we both go with

939
01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:15.399
hot ladies and then we're two sex
ladies, says Halloween. Weird with the

940
01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:20.920
conversations and stuff like can you both
be having separate conversations? No, the

941
01:09:21.039 --> 01:09:24.880
game. I think. One thing
I want to credit this game with is

942
01:09:25.319 --> 01:09:30.479
how it controls the camera and the
fighting sequences is really fluid. You can

943
01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:35.600
rotate the camera really easily and very
easily, like I can plan my next

944
01:09:35.640 --> 01:09:41.960
move or even can I can move
other AI characters while my friend is thinking

945
01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:45.039
about their next move, and I
think that's nice to move things along.

946
01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:50.560
When a person in my party strikes
a dialogue, it talks for both of

947
01:09:50.640 --> 01:09:56.600
us, so the voting system,
right, I get that window on my

948
01:09:56.760 --> 01:10:00.359
screen, and when they make a
decision, I see their dice, okay,

949
01:10:00.439 --> 01:10:03.119
which I think is neat because then
I'm like kind of seeing whether or

950
01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:08.039
not they deserve to have, like
like sometimes they make a gamble they shouldn't

951
01:10:08.079 --> 01:10:12.159
have made, and there they need
eighteen and it's like, you don't have

952
01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:15.479
the dice for this, dude,
Like you shouldn't have gone there. I

953
01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:17.800
think the dice thing is a big
thing that took me out of it because,

954
01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:19.680
like I guess it's because I don't
play D and D so I don't

955
01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:23.239
really get the context. So it's
like I just don't understand. Like I'm

956
01:10:23.279 --> 01:10:27.039
talking to someone and then I choose
something and then I see a fucking physical

957
01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:29.680
dice. Like I know this is
just a mean thing, but I see

958
01:10:29.680 --> 01:10:31.119
a dice and I'm like, why
the fuck is that dice involved in this

959
01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:36.359
conversation? You know, like it's
yeah, it's I mean the number and

960
01:10:36.439 --> 01:10:39.880
I know you know this too.
I don't mean to be patronizing the number

961
01:10:39.880 --> 01:10:43.079
of video games you played in the
last two years that are using dice but

962
01:10:43.159 --> 01:10:45.920
just not showing you probably, But
that's the thing. It takes me out

963
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:49.079
of it when I see sure for
sure, and it's Larian is very much

964
01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:53.800
like doing that, like pull back
the curtain and kind of embrace its tabletop

965
01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:59.079
roots. Yeah. I to me, I like it because it's like,

966
01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:03.600
as deep as the role playing is
in this game, I'm still fucking pulling

967
01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:10.600
forty two boxes out of this this
toad woman like pockets to do something dumb.

968
01:11:10.680 --> 01:11:15.439
So I'm already taking myself out of
it willingly just to do like silly

969
01:11:15.479 --> 01:11:18.479
shit. But yes, I can
see how it clashes if you're not like

970
01:11:19.760 --> 01:11:24.199
it is. It's just it's just
a very obvious, like, hey,

971
01:11:24.239 --> 01:11:27.760
this is how the game works,
fourth wall breaking kind of stuff. To

972
01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:30.319
me, it's like, yeah,
if I was watching Oppenheimer and then there's

973
01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:32.920
a scene and then it like pans
out and I see Nolan like a camera,

974
01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:35.039
It's like, I got It's like, and then it goes the next

975
01:11:35.039 --> 01:11:38.399
scene like that would take me out
of it. It's yeah, and I

976
01:11:38.399 --> 01:11:40.840
know that stuff's happening in the background. I know D and D stuff is

977
01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:43.439
influenced games for fucking ever, but
like, I don't want to see a

978
01:11:43.439 --> 01:11:46.760
fucking dice on the screen, get
that. But I think it's fun to

979
01:11:46.840 --> 01:11:53.279
kind of see the randomness that comes
with the choices that you make. So

980
01:11:53.479 --> 01:11:59.119
let's say you're really smart but you're
weak. I think it's interesting to me

981
01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:02.840
that if you choose to, let's
say, like persuade someone, you have

982
01:12:02.920 --> 01:12:05.600
like a lot of automatic dice,
will be like, we're just gonna add

983
01:12:05.640 --> 01:12:11.720
eight to whatever you roll because you're
really smart and you're probably gonna understand the

984
01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:16.039
situation. Whereas if you're saying that
you're gonna like hold two pieces of a

985
01:12:16.039 --> 01:12:18.760
bridge together so that someone can walk
over it, and you're weak, it's

986
01:12:18.760 --> 01:12:21.119
gonna be like, listen, whatever
you roll, it's negative too, because

987
01:12:21.119 --> 01:12:26.319
you're a weak little bitch. And
that's interesting to me that it's essentially like

988
01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:30.119
you are making these choices. But
at the end of the day, Dan,

989
01:12:30.600 --> 01:12:32.760
I can still roll a Gnat twenty, Like I can still have a

990
01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:39.680
really lucky role and do something that
my character shouldn't be able to do,

991
01:12:40.039 --> 01:12:44.000
and the dice for whatever reason,
is the bridge that allows me to understand

992
01:12:44.119 --> 01:12:47.479
that sometimes I'm doing something that shouldn't
happen with my character because I got lucky

993
01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:54.680
because the environment allowed it, because
the world said, shit, even a

994
01:12:54.720 --> 01:12:57.880
blind pig finds an acorn once in
a while, so you can have it.

995
01:12:58.079 --> 01:13:00.920
But it is rare, and so
the roll of the dice to me

996
01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:03.720
is a it's a fourth ball break
for you, but for me, it's

997
01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:09.479
what allows me to understand that that
crazy stuff happens. Yeah, And I

998
01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:11.800
don't know why it doesn't bother me
when, like, you know, if

999
01:13:11.800 --> 01:13:15.640
I'm playing x com and I see
four percent chance of a sniper shot landing

1000
01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:18.760
or something like that doesn't bother me, and it gives me the same type

1001
01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:20.560
of thing. I'm like, oh
my god, I hit it. Holy

1002
01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:23.720
shit, the odds on that were
so low. I don't know why.

1003
01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:28.239
It's just the physical die die that
I see on the screen. I think

1004
01:13:28.239 --> 01:13:30.479
it's just because I don't know D
and D and I don't get it,

1005
01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:33.199
like you know, I think that's
why the die thing throws me off.

1006
01:13:33.239 --> 01:13:36.760
I'm just not used to sing that
in conjunction with a video game. You

1007
01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:45.119
know. You know, it's funny
that I know dice from Yatzi and Craft.

1008
01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:46.119
Those are my two things. So
to see it when I'm like,

1009
01:13:46.159 --> 01:13:48.119
oh, what is you're talking to
a merchant, It's like, what the

1010
01:13:48.119 --> 01:13:53.079
fuck is a dice involved here?
Like Yaz doing it my fucking lens thing.

1011
01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:57.880
It's funny that Starfield is releasing a
month after this, well same day

1012
01:13:57.880 --> 01:14:02.039
as the PS five version, because
Elder Scrolls came over, and a big

1013
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:09.520
thing with Bethesda's RPGs, basically all
of them, is this stuff is happening.

1014
01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:12.039
I don't know if you remember,
like Elder Scrolls, I think Oblivion

1015
01:14:12.079 --> 01:14:15.520
to this as well. And then
fall Out three, when you were attempting

1016
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:18.239
a persuasion check in dialogue, it
would give you the percentage in brackets right

1017
01:14:18.279 --> 01:14:21.279
next to it, right yeah,
So no, it would not show the

1018
01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:26.840
die rolling and then you would have
to wait for it. That would be

1019
01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:29.239
happening. And I think, and
I might be butchering this, I think

1020
01:14:29.239 --> 01:14:31.880
it was fall Out four. They
went even further in removing that where it

1021
01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:36.279
wasn't a dice roll anymore. It
was if you had a certain level of

1022
01:14:36.319 --> 01:14:40.880
the stat that was needed to pass
this check, you would automatically get it.

1023
01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:44.039
So that's what was the what was
the thing fall out to, like

1024
01:14:44.479 --> 01:14:46.479
you your thing when you were a
kid, like the scoring thing. It

1025
01:14:46.520 --> 01:14:50.000
was an acronym. Yeah, what
the fuck was that? You know what

1026
01:14:50.039 --> 01:14:57.319
I mean? The not your aptitude
stuff or something like yeah, your vaults

1027
01:14:57.479 --> 01:15:00.439
or I don't know, oh I
don't. It's just like one of those

1028
01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:03.399
automated school things that they did with
the children. It was one of those

1029
01:15:03.399 --> 01:15:06.960
things where it's like basically the stats
you got when you like started your character,

1030
01:15:08.439 --> 01:15:14.960
that's the smart one. Why am
I? Man? I can't,

1031
01:15:15.199 --> 01:15:20.279
I can't remember what the the name
of that was Fallout falls statude test character

1032
01:15:20.920 --> 01:15:30.239
the GOAT generalized is that special perception
charisma intelligence of Gevy and that's all made

1033
01:15:30.279 --> 01:15:33.479
up garbage. It was the ghosts
the generalized occupational aptitude tests. Okay,

1034
01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:38.760
that's something, but yeah, no, I get that, like because they're

1035
01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:43.119
just going all out in again,
like Bethesda was like further and further trying

1036
01:15:43.159 --> 01:15:46.000
to get rid of that stuff.
When then I can't remember whether Skyrim was

1037
01:15:46.039 --> 01:15:49.279
percentages or just you had to hit
a baseline and you passed it automatically.

1038
01:15:49.319 --> 01:15:54.199
But like I think Skyrim great out
the things. Your character wasn't good enough

1039
01:15:54.199 --> 01:15:56.880
that so you could leave the conversation
and come back with that. But yeah,

1040
01:15:56.920 --> 01:15:58.439
you could see it. So it'd
be like, oh, you need

1041
01:15:58.479 --> 01:16:00.560
intelligence thirty for this, and then
level up a couple of times, come

1042
01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:02.800
back and have the conversation. Yeah, and that. Yeah, and that

1043
01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:05.720
would make sense because it was like
a very intelligent character you were trying to

1044
01:16:06.159 --> 01:16:12.359
hoodwink and it would be hard.
It makes sense. But yeah, it's

1045
01:16:13.439 --> 01:16:17.119
I appreciate that Larry In, for
as good as they are making these things,

1046
01:16:17.239 --> 01:16:21.520
never takes themselves too seriously to be
like, no, we gotta make

1047
01:16:21.560 --> 01:16:27.880
this feel like this. Uh we
we gotta cover up all these systems that

1048
01:16:27.920 --> 01:16:30.079
are at play here. It's like
I like that they kind of embrace it,

1049
01:16:30.119 --> 01:16:31.800
but I want thousand percents. See
how that would also not be for

1050
01:16:31.800 --> 01:16:34.159
everybody. But I know it's a
meat thing, and I know the audience

1051
01:16:34.159 --> 01:16:39.279
that interest this does not bother them, Like I this is not this is

1052
01:16:39.319 --> 01:16:42.960
a It's impeding my enjoyment of it
a little bit, but like, I

1053
01:16:43.000 --> 01:16:45.920
don't think it's like a problem with
the game or a bad decision or anything,

1054
01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:48.159
you know. But but to your
point about coop, you can actually

1055
01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:53.960
even way more than I loved playing
co op and Original Sin too. However,

1056
01:16:54.079 --> 01:16:57.960
and we talked about this last episode, it did feel like it was

1057
01:16:58.000 --> 01:17:01.840
more Instead of one coher of co
op campaign, it was four separate players

1058
01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:06.760
doing their own ship and then kind
of convening in the overworld for combat baldr

1059
01:17:06.840 --> 01:17:10.800
Gate three. From the limited time
I've spent and from everything I've heard I'm

1060
01:17:10.840 --> 01:17:15.279
seeing in our slack channel at work, it's like, you can sincerely fuck

1061
01:17:15.439 --> 01:17:19.680
with your part your friends campaigns.
All the stuff we're saying about killing off

1062
01:17:19.720 --> 01:17:26.000
people in your own campaign I've heard. I've seen people saying that one person

1063
01:17:27.159 --> 01:17:31.239
has started a critical quest for like
one of the main storylines, and they're

1064
01:17:31.279 --> 01:17:33.439
like, we're gonna be I'm gonna
be a pacifist. I do not have

1065
01:17:33.479 --> 01:17:36.880
good combat stats. I'm trying to
be a pacifist for this run. They're

1066
01:17:36.880 --> 01:17:41.359
like, well, I'm kind of
a homicidal maniac. So and then they'll

1067
01:17:41.359 --> 01:17:43.880
walk up and kill the quest giver
right after they were done. They can't

1068
01:17:43.880 --> 01:17:48.960
return it. And I actually don't
know how like quick saves would work.

1069
01:17:49.000 --> 01:17:54.720
I imagine it would just you would
have to appoint someone the host and then

1070
01:17:54.760 --> 01:17:57.039
they would be the ones quick saying
anything like this, you should have a

1071
01:17:57.079 --> 01:18:00.319
bunch of save slots. I would
think, Oh yeah, So I don't

1072
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:05.319
know. I would love to play
more co op at some point because I

1073
01:18:05.319 --> 01:18:12.560
don't know. And as someone who
I love the idea of tabletop RPGs.

1074
01:18:12.760 --> 01:18:17.520
And I've done like three campaigns in
my life and I had a blast every

1075
01:18:17.520 --> 01:18:20.840
time, even for the ones that
even one of them was genuinely good because

1076
01:18:20.840 --> 01:18:25.960
I had a good GM, but
the other two were still fun. It's

1077
01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:31.840
like I've loved Larryan's RPGs. I
love CRPG specifically because it gives me the

1078
01:18:31.920 --> 01:18:38.760
thrill of those kind of campaigns,
but without having to you know, meet

1079
01:18:38.800 --> 01:18:42.680
at someone's house once a week or
like I can binge like four hours of

1080
01:18:42.720 --> 01:18:45.239
the game or something. So that's
why I'm enjoying it. But there's just

1081
01:18:45.279 --> 01:18:47.359
so many people that work we're bouncing
off it because they're like, oh,

1082
01:18:47.399 --> 01:18:50.159
i'll it's Polish Gate three. It
sounds like it's like a Biowaress kind of

1083
01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:54.079
thing, and then you know,
they get into and they're like, oh

1084
01:18:54.119 --> 01:18:57.600
man, there's a lot here that
is pushing me away. That's the thing.

1085
01:18:57.600 --> 01:19:00.199
If it was more BioWare, I
think I could do it. You

1086
01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:03.119
know, like I played through all
the Mass Effects outside of Andromeda, and

1087
01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:08.119
even though that's not my usual thing
like super talking, heavy thing or whatever,

1088
01:19:08.159 --> 01:19:11.600
I appreciated those games. That's kind
of what I was kind of hoping

1089
01:19:11.640 --> 01:19:13.840
I would have that type of experience
with this at front time, with it

1090
01:19:13.840 --> 01:19:18.680
in Belgium. But yeah, it's
just it's the systems and the game and

1091
01:19:18.720 --> 01:19:21.439
the D and D elements has ever
just kind of a little beyond me.

1092
01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:27.119
So yeah, I don't think it's
happening. Oh yeah, it's It's funny.

1093
01:19:27.159 --> 01:19:30.720
It's like Mass Effect as well.
It's like BioWare, who started Father's

1094
01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:34.279
Gate as a series, went and
with Mass Effect obscured a lot of these

1095
01:19:34.319 --> 01:19:38.239
systems as well, and I think
they did a great job of bringing it

1096
01:19:38.279 --> 01:19:41.560
to a wider audience. I loved
Mass Effect as well. But yeah,

1097
01:19:41.680 --> 01:19:49.319
I'm gonna keep playing this. I've
got I've got some DLC for a game

1098
01:19:49.359 --> 01:19:53.319
that I've talked about this podcast a
lot, which I'll be talking about next

1099
01:19:53.319 --> 01:19:57.880
episode that is taking me away from
Father's Gate. Three s Tro I saw

1100
01:19:57.920 --> 01:20:00.159
saying tro has some new deals you
out yea, it's gotta be you know

1101
01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:06.479
me Diehard Saints Row Mark I'm playing
other stuff now, but there's Gate three

1102
01:20:06.479 --> 01:20:10.640
I think is going to be the
one I go back to between everything else.

1103
01:20:12.479 --> 01:20:16.399
Dan, you've been playing wrestle Quest. Yeah based, it's yeah on

1104
01:20:16.880 --> 01:20:21.840
paper, this make it sounds like
RPG for wrestling. It is, it

1105
01:20:23.039 --> 01:20:28.079
is, that's what it is.
Yes, no, no, no,

1106
01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:33.800
it's on paper. You would think
that this is a me game where it's

1107
01:20:33.800 --> 01:20:39.039
like, oh, it's wrestling focused
and it's like paper Mario type, you

1108
01:20:39.119 --> 01:20:43.800
know, combat where there's qts during
the fight and stuff. I don't like

1109
01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:47.039
this game. I don't like it. I also I'm also not like I'm

1110
01:20:47.039 --> 01:20:49.760
fine with my wrestling being in my
wrestling and my video games being in my

1111
01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:53.560
video games. I don't really need, Like I love wrestling, so I

1112
01:20:53.640 --> 01:20:57.119
need to have like a story wrestling
Like, No, I'm I don't need

1113
01:20:57.199 --> 01:21:00.359
that. And like I do think
that you're mileage on this game is going

1114
01:21:00.439 --> 01:21:04.079
to vary wildly based on how much
of a mark you are for just references

1115
01:21:04.399 --> 01:21:11.079
to things and they It is such
a wide focus this game has where it's

1116
01:21:11.119 --> 01:21:14.520
like, yes, it's wrestling centric
in the story, but it's full on

1117
01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:16.840
like Ready Player one, it's like, hey, remember blank and blank and

1118
01:21:16.840 --> 01:21:20.840
Blank and Ninja Turtles and Pettus Mensers
and sa Same Street and this and this,

1119
01:21:21.079 --> 01:21:25.920
and it's like, I know they're
leaning on like eighties wrestling stuff.

1120
01:21:25.920 --> 01:21:28.600
There's a lot of like Macha Man, Jake the Snake, Sergeant Slaughter type

1121
01:21:28.640 --> 01:21:30.920
stuff. But it's also like the
mini music is like scinth Wave, and

1122
01:21:31.000 --> 01:21:34.560
it's like, okay, listen,
I said, I don't associate scinth Wave

1123
01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:39.119
with wrestling. You're just kind of
like doing this big eighties barf on the

1124
01:21:39.159 --> 01:21:42.920
screen along with a bunch of other
stuff. And it's just weird. Like

1125
01:21:43.199 --> 01:21:46.039
Machu Man Randy Savage exists in the
game, but you play this game Muchacho

1126
01:21:46.119 --> 01:21:51.159
Man Randy Santos, who is just
like a he's just a parody of Macho

1127
01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:56.159
Man, but like he admires like
his hero is the Macho Man. It's

1128
01:21:56.680 --> 01:21:59.199
there's a lot of guys that obviously
didn't get the license for and they just

1129
01:21:59.319 --> 01:22:00.359
made like, oh, this is
the Bret Hart stand in, this is

1130
01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:03.319
the Rick Flair stand in, this
is the Sting stand in. But then

1131
01:22:03.319 --> 01:22:08.399
there's also some like okay, that
is actual Jeff Jarrett or Diamond Dallas Page

1132
01:22:08.479 --> 01:22:11.520
or whatever. It's just kind of
weird but I don't know. I just

1133
01:22:12.319 --> 01:22:15.479
I don't find any of the writing
particularly clever, and it just the fact

1134
01:22:15.560 --> 01:22:17.840
that it is a reference for reference's
sake isn't enough to like get me,

1135
01:22:17.960 --> 01:22:20.199
Like, oh, I know that
it's a sting reference, you know,

1136
01:22:20.279 --> 01:22:25.399
I don't. I don't. Yeah. Yeah. It feels very funko pop

1137
01:22:25.640 --> 01:22:28.520
Marvel fucking Ready Player one to me, and I don't like it at all.

1138
01:22:28.760 --> 01:22:30.359
And like, I love as much
as I'm not an RPG guy,

1139
01:22:30.439 --> 01:22:33.840
typically, I love paper Mario.
I love Mario and Luigi because they bring

1140
01:22:33.920 --> 01:22:38.840
action into the turn based combat where
it's like, Okay, I'm timing when

1141
01:22:38.880 --> 01:22:41.319
this gumbo jumps in my head.
If ay it's the last second, Mario

1142
01:22:41.359 --> 01:22:44.680
will kind of block some of the
damage. This tries to do that kind

1143
01:22:44.720 --> 01:22:48.279
of But it's it's all just QT. It's all just a face button.

1144
01:22:48.359 --> 01:22:50.920
So you're just waiting for a face
button to show up on screen. Okay,

1145
01:22:50.920 --> 01:22:54.119
I'm gonna hit. Why I countered
that, Okay, I'm gonna hit.

1146
01:22:54.119 --> 01:22:57.640
Actually, your basic attack you have
to do like a QTE twice every

1147
01:22:57.760 --> 01:23:00.960
fucking time, So every fight you
do, it's not a lot of specific

1148
01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:04.399
Oh, in this move, I
have to hit the button. Now it's

1149
01:23:04.439 --> 01:23:06.880
a lot of just waiting for a
face button to show up and hitting it,

1150
01:23:08.319 --> 01:23:12.199
and it's a laborious Immediately there's a
system for like pinning the opponent at

1151
01:23:12.239 --> 01:23:15.479
the end, and you'll, I
think everyone will want to immediately turn it

1152
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:18.239
off and just turn on the auto
pen thing. It's I don't know,

1153
01:23:18.479 --> 01:23:25.039
it's I don't like it. If
you're someone who just likes references for reference's

1154
01:23:25.079 --> 01:23:29.119
sake, sure maybe, But like
the over it's supposed to be this big,

1155
01:23:29.159 --> 01:23:31.640
sprawling RPG, but the overworld has
very little things to do. The

1156
01:23:31.760 --> 01:23:35.319
Hut elements in the map are like
not they don't work well all they're like

1157
01:23:35.399 --> 01:23:41.880
puzzles and stuff in the overworld are
just really straightforward and basic. And I

1158
01:23:41.920 --> 01:23:44.399
don't know, I feel like it
had very, you know, grand ambitions

1159
01:23:44.439 --> 01:23:47.520
and wanted to be this big,
sprawling RPG, and ultimately the writing's not

1160
01:23:47.600 --> 01:23:50.600
there to back it up. The
combat which pops up all the time isn't

1161
01:23:50.640 --> 01:23:55.199
there to back it up. It's
ye, and I had glitches with it.

1162
01:23:55.239 --> 01:23:57.720
I had problems where it's like an
animation loop in the middle of a

1163
01:23:57.800 --> 01:24:00.560
fight, like a long boss fight. I had to read start an old

1164
01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:02.840
save. If you're listening to this. It was supposed to launch on the

1165
01:24:02.920 --> 01:24:08.680
eighth today as we're recording this,
but fucking the eleventh hour they delayed it

1166
01:24:08.760 --> 01:24:13.159
two weeks. So they found out
there's some like save progression type stuff that

1167
01:24:13.239 --> 01:24:15.640
you'd lose a whole save. So
it's got a lot of problems. I

1168
01:24:17.159 --> 01:24:20.720
don't I don't like it. I
appreciate that, Like, you know,

1169
01:24:20.800 --> 01:24:25.680
people that made it obviously have a
love for wrestling. There's you can tell

1170
01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:28.039
in the way that they were writing
it and stuff in the dialogue that like

1171
01:24:28.359 --> 01:24:31.680
they were trying to do something different
with the wrestling genre and wrestling and video

1172
01:24:31.760 --> 01:24:36.079
games for the last I don't know
ten years has been a pretty ugly spot,

1173
01:24:36.239 --> 01:24:39.920
Like the two K games are not
great, the AW game is not

1174
01:24:40.039 --> 01:24:43.600
great, and it's like there was
room for something that was trying something different

1175
01:24:43.800 --> 01:24:46.520
in this space, and uh,
this ain't it. But I appreciate that

1176
01:24:46.560 --> 01:24:49.479
they try. So do you think
there is an audience for this game?

1177
01:24:51.640 --> 01:24:56.439
There's no audience for Funco pops.
I don't know. People like fucking seeing

1178
01:24:56.520 --> 01:24:59.479
references to ship that they like Ready
Player one was popular. I don't know,

1179
01:25:00.119 --> 01:25:02.359
It's like not my shit at all. I think people wanted this game

1180
01:25:02.359 --> 01:25:05.000
to be good. I wanted this
game to be good, you know.

1181
01:25:05.239 --> 01:25:10.079
I A good love letter to wrestling
sounds fun to me, but it's just

1182
01:25:10.279 --> 01:25:15.760
this is, uh, this is
not doing it. Did you play Golf

1183
01:25:15.840 --> 01:25:18.279
Story? I did, and I
love golf video games. I don't give

1184
01:25:18.279 --> 01:25:20.760
a shit about actual golf, but
like golf video games are so much fun.

1185
01:25:20.920 --> 01:25:23.520
And I was like, oh,
man, if we built a JRPG

1186
01:25:23.680 --> 01:25:27.960
or like an RPG around golf,
that's such a cool idea. I remembered.

1187
01:25:27.960 --> 01:25:30.239
I mean that was years ago at
this point, and I played maybe

1188
01:25:30.279 --> 01:25:32.520
a couple hours before. I was
like, this isn't like the concept and

1189
01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:35.960
very like kind of high concept that
I liked a lot, but it I

1190
01:25:35.960 --> 01:25:41.279
remember not liking the game play that
much. Yeah. I liked Golf Story.

1191
01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:44.640
And then they released this year or
last year Sports this story, right

1192
01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:47.640
Sports with that this year it was
resonally that was recently. Yeah, I

1193
01:25:47.800 --> 01:25:51.520
like those because I think they're a
bit low lift. They're nice to just

1194
01:25:51.640 --> 01:25:56.359
kind of relax with the Steam deck
helped. I was hoping Wrestle Quest was

1195
01:25:56.399 --> 01:25:59.520
going to be kind of the Golf
Story for wrestling. I know it's not

1196
01:25:59.760 --> 01:26:02.399
at all the same developer that those
two were sidebar games. But I was

1197
01:26:02.439 --> 01:26:06.119
hoping wrestle Quests would be like,
oh, cool term based wrestling like with

1198
01:26:06.399 --> 01:26:12.520
like the fact that it's laden with
little like inside baseball references makes me not

1199
01:26:12.720 --> 01:26:15.039
want to try it out. Well, it's not even inside baseball like wrestling

1200
01:26:15.119 --> 01:26:19.279
references. It's just like a shitload
of just like eighties nineties stuff where it's

1201
01:26:19.319 --> 01:26:21.880
like it's just throwing everything in the
wall. And even that though, like

1202
01:26:23.560 --> 01:26:30.199
even that, it's like golf story
wasn't like frequency frequently referencing like Arnold Palmer

1203
01:26:30.520 --> 01:26:33.960
or like these older golfers like Phil
Nicholson. Those are the two I know.

1204
01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:38.720
But like that's why I could enjoy
it, because I can enjoy the

1205
01:26:38.800 --> 01:26:42.880
mechanics of the sport in like this
cute, kind of relaxed RPG world.

1206
01:26:43.039 --> 01:26:47.000
But I don't. I knew from
a glance that wrestle Quest was not the

1207
01:26:47.079 --> 01:26:49.399
same thing, but I was kind
of hoping it could be like that,

1208
01:26:49.760 --> 01:26:53.960
like wrestling light game I get into, But it does not sound like that's

1209
01:26:54.000 --> 01:26:57.039
the case. No, there's a
place where this could have worked, but

1210
01:26:57.520 --> 01:27:00.479
this is not the one, not
the one. Huh m. Hmm,

1211
01:27:01.720 --> 01:27:06.720
Mary, you did you finish Venba? I know it's like an hour long,

1212
01:27:08.199 --> 01:27:11.760
it's an hour and a half to
two hours, and I did finish

1213
01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:14.359
it. What do you think of
it? So, yeah, this is

1214
01:27:14.399 --> 01:27:16.600
for anybody who doesn't know. This
has been making a round at Polygon as

1215
01:27:16.640 --> 01:27:26.520
well. Uh like kind of half
visual novel, half simple cooking puzzles about

1216
01:27:27.319 --> 01:27:31.359
some an immigrant family. He plays
the mother coming to Canada and they are

1217
01:27:31.600 --> 01:27:35.319
she's making meals for her family.
Basically, that's the premise i'd say,

1218
01:27:35.439 --> 01:27:40.239
But yeah, I don't know you
take it from there because I have not

1219
01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:45.000
played it. I've heard great things
about It's on your description. It seems

1220
01:27:45.039 --> 01:27:48.960
like you have it takes uh stuff
about it. It's such a short game

1221
01:27:49.119 --> 01:27:55.319
that you really can experience this in
a in just a piece of your evening.

1222
01:27:55.439 --> 01:28:00.479
So I really have to recommend this
game. It's on game Pass.

1223
01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:04.960
I did not kiss it. I
was recommended it because I was playing other

1224
01:28:05.760 --> 01:28:14.520
wholesome esque games, And I would
say the main gameplay mechanics is your mom

1225
01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:20.840
has a recipe book, but it's
been a little ruined and so pieces are

1226
01:28:20.920 --> 01:28:28.399
missing out of it, and you
get to make those decisions and decide how

1227
01:28:28.439 --> 01:28:36.399
you should be cooking authentic Indian dishes. They are extremely delicious looking and sounding,

1228
01:28:36.680 --> 01:28:40.479
and they do a great job at
the audio and the video, and

1229
01:28:40.560 --> 01:28:45.039
they have a radio that plays original
tunes while you're while you're making the food,

1230
01:28:45.079 --> 01:28:47.720
and it's fun. I don't know
how to make any of those dishes.

1231
01:28:47.800 --> 01:28:51.680
I learned a lot about how to
make some of those those dishes.

1232
01:28:51.760 --> 01:28:59.119
But it's also a very authentic and
genuine sneak peek into a family's life and

1233
01:28:59.279 --> 01:29:03.920
what it's like when you are a
first gen immigrant moving to Canada, and

1234
01:29:05.159 --> 01:29:12.800
it's extremely passive in how it allows
you to see and understand what's going on

1235
01:29:12.920 --> 01:29:15.640
in these characters lives. I'll give
you a couple examples, but I'll be

1236
01:29:15.960 --> 01:29:17.760
careful not to give away too many. Because this game is so short,

1237
01:29:18.279 --> 01:29:21.640
I could accidentally give away the point
of playing it, so I want to

1238
01:29:21.680 --> 01:29:26.439
be careful not to give away too
much. But one of the examples is

1239
01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:31.039
that the mom wears a lot of
jewelry, and they make a active effort

1240
01:29:31.479 --> 01:29:34.920
that every time she's in a scene
she kind of jingle jangles when she walks,

1241
01:29:35.199 --> 01:29:40.560
which is such a classic mom move. And I don't know about you

1242
01:29:40.600 --> 01:29:44.159
guys. But my mom always had
her keys and I could always hear her

1243
01:29:44.239 --> 01:29:45.920
keys and her purse when she would
walk around, And he's like, my

1244
01:29:46.000 --> 01:29:48.800
mom is nearby because I can hear
them keys. It's kind of like that,

1245
01:29:48.920 --> 01:29:51.479
where like she has this iconic audio
to her. So they did a

1246
01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:58.279
good job kind of characterizing her in
her outfits, in her style and her

1247
01:29:58.319 --> 01:30:01.880
design and her audio to you feel
like she's just like that classic mom doing

1248
01:30:01.920 --> 01:30:08.039
her thing. But then they will
explain pieces about what's going on in the

1249
01:30:08.119 --> 01:30:14.239
family's live with small visual or audio
cues that hopefully you pick up on.

1250
01:30:14.760 --> 01:30:18.560
One of them is it's a mom
and a dad and a child. And

1251
01:30:18.880 --> 01:30:26.399
in one of the scenes that they're
trying to spell out the dad's name and

1252
01:30:26.840 --> 01:30:31.239
they have to say it like six
times because it's not a standard American name

1253
01:30:31.319 --> 01:30:36.279
and as is tradition where we can't
process it because the name isn't you know,

1254
01:30:36.760 --> 01:30:43.359
Vince, And they show him later
and his name tag for his company

1255
01:30:43.439 --> 01:30:46.800
that he works for is misspelled,
and I feel like, and they never

1256
01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:50.359
comment on it doesn't come up.
It's just shown for very brief moment,

1257
01:30:50.439 --> 01:30:56.560
and I think that's such a telling
expression that this game is explaining it's very

1258
01:30:56.640 --> 01:31:00.720
difficult to come from another culture and
have people just constantly not know how to

1259
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:04.039
pronounce your name, spell your name, not give a shit about the way

1260
01:31:04.079 --> 01:31:08.479
your name is shown on his ID
badge, right, that he goes into

1261
01:31:08.520 --> 01:31:14.039
work every day and it's wrong.
So it's just these like small moments that

1262
01:31:14.199 --> 01:31:17.399
let you really feel for this family
and what they're going through. But again,

1263
01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:21.640
they do it very passively. I
don't think that it's too heavy handed.

1264
01:31:23.439 --> 01:31:25.640
Most of the game play, again
is learning how to cook, which

1265
01:31:25.720 --> 01:31:29.439
is fun and lighthearted, and then
every once in a while a cut scene

1266
01:31:29.479 --> 01:31:32.920
I'll get you, and I would
say this might have beaten my record for

1267
01:31:33.279 --> 01:31:40.560
game to cry. I cried within
ninety minutes, Flats. I absolutely cried

1268
01:31:41.920 --> 01:31:45.800
towards the end cut scene, and
I absolutely texted my mom that I loved

1269
01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:51.760
her that evening. These are real
stories that happened to me after playing Venvia.

1270
01:31:51.920 --> 01:31:56.000
I do encourage you to play.
It's such a short amount of your

1271
01:31:56.039 --> 01:32:00.319
time, Like, even if it's
not Holy your cup of tea, you

1272
01:32:00.399 --> 01:32:03.680
can play this game by the time
somebody builds a character in Balder's Gate,

1273
01:32:03.720 --> 01:32:08.880
Like, it's a really good story. And I do think it's worth everyone

1274
01:32:09.000 --> 01:32:12.800
playing. I think it's well told. It is short, and it's simple,

1275
01:32:13.560 --> 01:32:17.520
but the themes and what it's trying
to say is important. I think

1276
01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:23.079
it nails the things that it's trying
to accomplish. And it'll make you love

1277
01:32:24.560 --> 01:32:28.840
your parents because they went through a
lot of shit for your stupid ass,

1278
01:32:28.960 --> 01:32:33.479
you know. The oddly enough the
and again I've not played, but yet

1279
01:32:33.479 --> 01:32:38.840
I intend to. But the idea
that you're it's telling this kind of bite

1280
01:32:38.880 --> 01:32:48.000
size story, emotional story in like
through cooking reminds me of Florence, that

1281
01:32:48.119 --> 01:32:53.239
mobile game about that relationship building and
then like kind of breaking up. It's

1282
01:32:53.279 --> 01:32:57.399
a good comparison that was also like
an It's like not not a heavy this

1283
01:32:57.600 --> 01:33:00.239
is not a difficult game to play. This game I actually want to play

1284
01:33:00.279 --> 01:33:03.800
with my mom. I bet you
my mom would appreciate this game and enjoy

1285
01:33:04.479 --> 01:33:08.960
learning recipe. I'll also say I'm
very interested in eating one of these dishes

1286
01:33:09.000 --> 01:33:12.760
now because I haven't heard of many
of these dishes before. These are not

1287
01:33:12.960 --> 01:33:17.520
your like standard dishes exactly. And
that comes up in the game as well,

1288
01:33:17.560 --> 01:33:20.840
which is like can't you make a
vindoloo? And they're like all right,

1289
01:33:21.039 --> 01:33:25.319
you are not on the same where
we are not on the same level

1290
01:33:25.399 --> 01:33:30.920
here. These are very authentic dishes
that I have never seen, let alone

1291
01:33:31.279 --> 01:33:35.159
made, so I'm very out of
my comfort zone. But having the recipe

1292
01:33:35.199 --> 01:33:40.399
say don't forget to blank or it's
gonna get all soggy, And I'm like,

1293
01:33:40.840 --> 01:33:43.960
what is it? Because I don't
know how to make this, let

1294
01:33:44.039 --> 01:33:47.239
alone what I'm supposed to do to
stop it from being ruined. It's it's

1295
01:33:47.239 --> 01:33:49.880
a it's an interesting concept to see, like how you ruin the food and

1296
01:33:50.119 --> 01:33:54.680
it's just it immediately snaps and lets
you try again. There's like no punishment.

1297
01:33:54.720 --> 01:33:56.920
It's not like your kids like I
hate you, mom, you ruin

1298
01:33:57.520 --> 01:34:00.319
my dinner. It just it just
lets you try again. I do want

1299
01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:03.800
to check it out. It helps
that it's like ninety minutes, but also

1300
01:34:03.960 --> 01:34:10.600
between the bear and parts unknown coming
back to max now as it's called,

1301
01:34:11.560 --> 01:34:15.680
I'm very much in the mindset of
like storytelling through food and cooking, So

1302
01:34:15.720 --> 01:34:23.079
I feel like Venba might a company
compliment those two shows valid job of explaining

1303
01:34:23.279 --> 01:34:29.199
culture, family dynamics, and also
how you express yourself. And that happens

1304
01:34:29.239 --> 01:34:33.439
in the first five minutes of the
game. You will learn how food is

1305
01:34:33.520 --> 01:34:40.640
it just a means of fuel or
like the way you survive. It's how

1306
01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:45.439
they communicate. It's a piece of
us, and that is true for most

1307
01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:47.479
of us, if not all of
us. That maybe like the dishes that

1308
01:34:47.600 --> 01:34:51.920
you cook or the dishes that you
ate as a child do define you,

1309
01:34:53.319 --> 01:34:56.119
and you will absolutely get You will
watch it's so fun to watch someone get

1310
01:34:56.199 --> 01:34:59.600
ratitu eid, you know, like, watch someone get ratitu eied in this

1311
01:34:59.720 --> 01:35:01.479
game is really funny. They just
like eat a dish and they're like my

1312
01:35:01.800 --> 01:35:05.479
mother, Like that happens to all
of us. I feel like I have

1313
01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:09.560
dishes that I ate as a kid
that if I have now, I'll be

1314
01:35:09.680 --> 01:35:12.520
like my mom used to cook that. My mom used to always make this.

1315
01:35:12.560 --> 01:35:15.000
I mean these are very generic and
classic, but my mom always made

1316
01:35:15.079 --> 01:35:18.680
chicken noodle soup when I was sick, and as she made it mostly from

1317
01:35:18.720 --> 01:35:21.119
scratch, and I just like,
not the noodles, you know, but

1318
01:35:21.239 --> 01:35:26.079
like I haven't chicken. A little
soup reminds me of my mother, just

1319
01:35:26.199 --> 01:35:29.199
like it's it's like sends me right
back, man, And I think this

1320
01:35:29.399 --> 01:35:32.319
this game really does that, and
it does it with heart so fully recommend

1321
01:35:32.399 --> 01:35:35.239
it, and again it's it's an
hour and a half and it's free on

1322
01:35:35.359 --> 01:35:40.319
game Pass, Like, yeah,
give it a whirl. Yeah, I

1323
01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:43.159
want to try it out. I
might do that like over a lunch break

1324
01:35:43.199 --> 01:35:45.600
at some point if I can't finish
it by that, Dan, you should

1325
01:35:45.640 --> 01:35:49.439
try it too, because I was
worried about you because it is talkie is

1326
01:35:49.520 --> 01:35:55.199
talkie, but the Dewey is really
fun, Like it's it's fun to try

1327
01:35:55.279 --> 01:35:58.680
and cook, and I think you
might like those aspects of it if you

1328
01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:01.279
can get through the talkie. I
like the like cooking related game stuff like

1329
01:36:01.359 --> 01:36:03.760
you know, even like cooking mama
and all that stuff. Like that's it.

1330
01:36:04.039 --> 01:36:06.720
It's a fun thing that translates to
games better than you think it would,

1331
01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:11.560
or whether it's serving food like a
cook served delicious or actually preparing it

1332
01:36:11.640 --> 01:36:14.720
so like yeah, but I mean
I can see myself enjoyant. Yeah,

1333
01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:21.439
make an emotional whenever I make a
Totino's party pizza because I made it.

1334
01:36:21.600 --> 01:36:25.600
I made it. Yeah, my
mom was working at Macaroni Grill. But

1335
01:36:25.720 --> 01:36:29.520
yeah, it just makes you nostalgic
for your own cooking when you were young.

1336
01:36:29.680 --> 01:36:31.399
Yeah, yeah, when I eat
a quarter pounder or make a Totino's

1337
01:36:31.399 --> 01:36:35.439
party pizza. I get nostalgic for
my own feeding myself. Like when you

1338
01:36:35.760 --> 01:36:42.560
if if you pretend I'm your kid, you are my kid. Yep,

1339
01:36:42.880 --> 01:36:50.600
okay, And in sick seventy years, when you're dead, all I have

1340
01:36:50.760 --> 01:36:56.560
left of you is your cookbook and
it's just a microwave recipe for totinos.

1341
01:36:56.600 --> 01:36:59.399
I'll do it. I'll like know, you just have memories of me dropping

1342
01:36:59.439 --> 01:37:02.720
you off at the fire station and
never saying you again. Do kids get

1343
01:37:02.800 --> 01:37:05.159
dropped off at fire station? You
can. It's legal. You can just

1344
01:37:05.239 --> 01:37:09.359
drop them off. It's a safe
it's a safe thing if you don't want

1345
01:37:09.359 --> 01:37:12.039
your kid. Yeah. I can't
believe people don't talk about this more.

1346
01:37:12.520 --> 01:37:15.079
This seems like a great way out
if you don't like having a kid.

1347
01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:16.840
It's just like they have signs at
the fire station being like, hey,

1348
01:37:16.920 --> 01:37:19.039
drop off your kids if you don't
want them. Like, I don't know

1349
01:37:19.159 --> 01:37:21.680
what people aren't doing this all the
time. They have little dirts and they

1350
01:37:21.720 --> 01:37:27.000
get you Are you serious? That's
a real deal? Yeah? Like all,

1351
01:37:27.079 --> 01:37:28.760
let me look at what the actual
name is. It seems like a

1352
01:37:29.279 --> 01:37:34.560
station's like sanctuary places for children drop
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so like,

1353
01:37:35.399 --> 01:37:38.760
yes, yeah, safe haven location. If you have to, you

1354
01:37:38.840 --> 01:37:42.000
can surrender your baby to a safe
haven location like a fire station. No

1355
01:37:42.199 --> 01:37:45.359
matter your age, you will never
get in trouble for surrendering a baby safely

1356
01:37:45.560 --> 01:37:49.399
or contacting adoption agency, even if
you're under eighteen. So you can just

1357
01:37:49.479 --> 01:37:51.119
if you're not into it, if
you have a kid and you're like,

1358
01:37:51.199 --> 01:37:53.880
oh, this is more than I
thought it would be, just put it

1359
01:37:53.920 --> 01:37:56.279
in a basket, drop it off
at the door, and bring the doorbell.

1360
01:37:56.319 --> 01:38:01.039
You're fucking done, home free.
What other methods? What other places

1361
01:38:01.119 --> 01:38:04.239
can you drop kids off? I
don't know, say it has to be

1362
01:38:04.319 --> 01:38:06.760
other places. Oh, police stations, I guess are cool. All right,

1363
01:38:06.920 --> 01:38:12.119
Okay, so government government buildings,
safe haven laws. Okay, that's

1364
01:38:12.119 --> 01:38:15.560
what it's called safe haven laws.
Okay, you drop a kid off.

1365
01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:20.199
Because of the implication the just you
don't want the kid, it seems like

1366
01:38:20.279 --> 01:38:25.920
a good system. I do think
there should be a better system for being

1367
01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:30.199
like I'm a bad parent, I'm
going to do a bad job, so

1368
01:38:30.239 --> 01:38:33.800
I'd rather not do it. We
have a better system to pre empt that.

1369
01:38:33.960 --> 01:38:38.000
But oh, just not having kids? Oh right, I was just

1370
01:38:38.039 --> 01:38:42.079
saying a lot of states outlawed it
recently. I'm not having kids not to

1371
01:38:42.159 --> 01:38:47.600
go. It also seems like a
good system. Yes, it feels like

1372
01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:53.520
a better system. Also in favor
of that system, yees feel like we

1373
01:38:53.600 --> 01:38:57.000
had a better system than now.
It's like now fire stations are flooded everywhere?

1374
01:38:58.479 --> 01:39:02.119
How often you don't know that.
I'm shocked. It's not I'm shocked.

1375
01:39:02.159 --> 01:39:05.079
Then every time you drive by a
gas or a fire station, there's

1376
01:39:05.119 --> 01:39:11.439
not thirty kids in front. Your
little Freddian slip is just infants crawling over

1377
01:39:11.560 --> 01:39:16.039
a BP terrible trying to fuel up, and they're crawling in the backseat and

1378
01:39:16.079 --> 01:39:19.199
you gotta pull them out. Yea, the fine warm fire going off,

1379
01:39:19.239 --> 01:39:21.920
and all the firemen get they got
the hose. They're spraying them off the

1380
01:39:23.000 --> 01:39:27.199
driveway, like get the out.
Would kill a baby. That would murder

1381
01:39:27.279 --> 01:39:29.840
a baby. They're just trying to
be friends with you so that you take

1382
01:39:29.880 --> 01:39:33.600
them home unleaded Papa, away from
the driveway. The driveway, we got

1383
01:39:33.680 --> 01:39:36.520
to move the trucks out here.
Okay, a hose at a gas station.

1384
01:39:36.680 --> 01:39:39.840
I thought you met the fire station. No, I'm talking about the

1385
01:39:39.880 --> 01:39:43.439
fire hose. Okay, that would
kill me. I'm saying we need to

1386
01:39:43.520 --> 01:39:45.840
move these babies quick because we have
a fire to put out. We're turning

1387
01:39:46.000 --> 01:39:51.720
fire hose. I'm doing what should
have been done two trimesters ago. Should

1388
01:39:51.720 --> 01:39:55.479
we cut that? I'm bad?
Oh, it's fine. Baby seem annoying?

1389
01:40:00.279 --> 01:40:04.520
The baby kids seems like a great
that's great. Yeah, we we

1390
01:40:04.760 --> 01:40:10.199
just we figured everything out in this
country. What else about? What?

1391
01:40:13.119 --> 01:40:17.680
So? Uh? Frog Song?
Sorry? Frog Song is a game I

1392
01:40:17.960 --> 01:40:24.600
found through Wholesome Games, which is
the opposite of this podcast. Wholesome Games

1393
01:40:24.960 --> 01:40:29.800
is ah. It's just like a
little group. They have a Twitter and

1394
01:40:29.920 --> 01:40:33.920
a TikTok and they explain like cozy, comfortable games that aren't stressful, and

1395
01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:38.760
I like them. And they teamed
up with Steam and they did a sale

1396
01:40:38.840 --> 01:40:42.680
on Wholesome Games, and so I
picked out a couple of games through that

1397
01:40:42.840 --> 01:40:45.640
sale, and one of them is
frog Song. This came out this year.

1398
01:40:48.319 --> 01:40:53.560
It's pretty cute. It's a heartfelt
adventure and you're just a little frog.

1399
01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:59.640
You have a backpack and a cute
little butt and you want to protect

1400
01:41:00.399 --> 01:41:02.680
the world. But your previous village, I guess I didn't believe in you

1401
01:41:03.000 --> 01:41:08.439
or kind of thought negatively of you. So they leave. I thought this

1402
01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:11.279
was neat because it's not very common. But the frog is non binary,

1403
01:41:11.439 --> 01:41:15.000
so it's kind of like a non
binary hero and they're just like running around.

1404
01:41:15.720 --> 01:41:21.079
They got a little sword and they're
fighting the bugs and really big monsters

1405
01:41:21.239 --> 01:41:28.199
out in the world kind of to
prove themselves to the universe. It's got

1406
01:41:28.279 --> 01:41:33.960
some really fun action elements to it. I would say the combat's really simple.

1407
01:41:34.000 --> 01:41:38.119
It's one button. There's also a
dash, but it really doesn't come

1408
01:41:38.119 --> 01:41:42.000
into play that much. It's essentially
you just you hit a button to swing

1409
01:41:42.079 --> 01:41:45.640
your sword, but you know it
gets the job done. There's a lot

1410
01:41:45.760 --> 01:41:49.439
of fun little mechanics where you sharpen
your sword. There's a person you could

1411
01:41:49.439 --> 01:41:53.560
buy sweet treats from like every shop
so that you can have food in your

1412
01:41:53.600 --> 01:41:56.720
backpack in case you need to eat
when you're in the world so that you

1413
01:41:56.800 --> 01:42:00.359
don't die. You can deckor at
your home. I thought this was fun.

1414
01:42:00.960 --> 01:42:04.800
You can buy things from various vendors
in the areas that you meet,

1415
01:42:05.000 --> 01:42:11.119
and then you decorate your little frog
dwelling with it. I bought some cute

1416
01:42:11.159 --> 01:42:14.640
stuffed animals and hung them on my
like put them on my shelf at home

1417
01:42:14.800 --> 01:42:17.880
and made it feel a little bit
more comfortable. It's cozy and kind of

1418
01:42:17.920 --> 01:42:20.199
sweet, but it is in action
games. There is fighting in it.

1419
01:42:20.840 --> 01:42:26.319
Another thing I thought was neat is
that this game, you get a bug

1420
01:42:26.920 --> 01:42:29.199
that's in your backpack and he just
kind of hangs out with you, and

1421
01:42:29.319 --> 01:42:31.640
for whatever reason, if you're like
I no longer want to be stressed,

1422
01:42:32.439 --> 01:42:35.159
you take the bug out and he
helps you fight, and then you're like,

1423
01:42:35.760 --> 01:42:40.399
honestly just kind of over, You're
just op and it takes a lot

1424
01:42:40.439 --> 01:42:44.520
of the stress out of combat.
But if you're like me, you keep

1425
01:42:44.560 --> 01:42:47.199
the bug in the backpack and you
fight and sometimes you die. Zo.

1426
01:42:48.319 --> 01:42:53.640
Yes, Yeah, it's like it's
a simplified it's a nice, seamless way

1427
01:42:53.680 --> 01:42:55.840
to essentially be like, if you
don't want to worry about it, just

1428
01:42:55.960 --> 01:43:00.600
take the bug out. There's a
map. A lot of it is exploration

1429
01:43:00.840 --> 01:43:04.640
to get to the next destination.
You're constantly helping the villagers with their deeds

1430
01:43:04.760 --> 01:43:09.000
or their tasks. Eventually, when
you get to the end of an area,

1431
01:43:09.119 --> 01:43:14.239
you'll typically find uh like a boat, and the boat is fast travel

1432
01:43:14.359 --> 01:43:17.640
and travels you to the next area. The cut scenes are stupid adorable,

1433
01:43:17.960 --> 01:43:21.800
like when you're when you're fast traveling. It's just like a frog like on

1434
01:43:21.920 --> 01:43:26.079
the edge of the boat being like, where are we going? You look

1435
01:43:26.199 --> 01:43:29.640
ridiculous. You just look so cute
in this game. I don't think that.

1436
01:43:30.119 --> 01:43:33.439
If you look up the images for
Frog's song, almost immediately you'll see

1437
01:43:33.439 --> 01:43:38.239
this just like outrageously cute frog with
a little dagger being like, oh what

1438
01:43:38.359 --> 01:43:43.720
do I do? It's just it's
a cute. It's a cute. But

1439
01:43:44.079 --> 01:43:45.760
I don't see any butts in the
images. Well, I don't think that

1440
01:43:45.880 --> 01:43:50.920
in any of these images they had
the character walk away. But if you

1441
01:43:51.000 --> 01:43:54.800
point the character away from you,
you get a good little butt shot.

1442
01:43:55.920 --> 01:43:59.439
All right, I found one.
I'll put this in the in our discord.

1443
01:44:00.399 --> 01:44:06.600
It's just a don't know, I'm
using the bumping gabble Gabbo with this

1444
01:44:06.800 --> 01:44:13.720
frog's but oh, imagine a face
swap of Gabbo and this frog. You

1445
01:44:13.760 --> 01:44:17.720
need to put an adult tag on
this discord. There's just like he's got

1446
01:44:17.920 --> 01:44:20.640
I don't know. I don't want
to say it's a it's a simple game.

1447
01:44:20.960 --> 01:44:25.199
It is not a complicated game.
I wouldn't say this is for people

1448
01:44:25.199 --> 01:44:29.920
who are looking for a more serious
adventure game. This is lighthearted, it's

1449
01:44:30.039 --> 01:44:33.119
cute, it's quaint. Your life
is lily pads, So you have like

1450
01:44:34.119 --> 01:44:40.560
like four lily pads. It's super
easy to acquire more life more lily pads,

1451
01:44:40.560 --> 01:44:44.199
and so towards the end of the
game you have like twelve lily pads.

1452
01:44:44.479 --> 01:44:49.119
If you use that plus your bug
yate Diane, uh, you basically

1453
01:44:49.199 --> 01:44:54.640
just get to like run around,
fight bugs, protect your frog friends,

1454
01:44:54.800 --> 01:44:58.159
and you defend your honor a lot. This game is a lot of tones

1455
01:44:58.359 --> 01:45:05.079
of people not believing in you or
tough relationships. This frog ends up going

1456
01:45:05.159 --> 01:45:09.359
back to the village that they originally
left, and everyone in the village is

1457
01:45:09.439 --> 01:45:12.000
like, your back, huh.
We kind of knew you weren't going to

1458
01:45:12.079 --> 01:45:17.279
make it. And it's just like
there's tones of this frog being wronged in

1459
01:45:17.359 --> 01:45:21.000
their life significantly over time, which
is basically like fuck you guys, I'm

1460
01:45:21.079 --> 01:45:26.840
leaving and dealing with that and dealing
with the process of that. And Mike,

1461
01:45:26.920 --> 01:45:31.199
I know previously there were games that
you and I liked, the one

1462
01:45:31.239 --> 01:45:35.560
where you paint stuff, the one
where you paint the world chicky. Yeah,

1463
01:45:35.960 --> 01:45:39.600
that game I think was similar where
it kind of touches your heart a

1464
01:45:39.640 --> 01:45:43.239
little bit and you're like, there's
some serious tone stuff in here about what

1465
01:45:43.439 --> 01:45:47.880
it's like to look deep and down
inside yourself and get strength and move forward.

1466
01:45:48.279 --> 01:45:50.960
I think frog Song has some of
that too, although it's a bit

1467
01:45:51.039 --> 01:45:56.399
more watered down, but it's got
heart. You know. It's about overcoming

1468
01:45:56.640 --> 01:46:00.560
obstacles and people not understanding who you
are are or your identity or why you

1469
01:46:00.680 --> 01:46:03.479
choose the things you choose. And
I think that's great. So I think

1470
01:46:03.479 --> 01:46:09.239
it's very wholesome. It's adorable.
You look cute with your little frog butt

1471
01:46:09.279 --> 01:46:13.279
in your backpack, and I've I've
enjoyed it. But I say so with

1472
01:46:13.359 --> 01:46:16.880
the caveat that if you're looking for
a tough adventure game, this ain't it.

1473
01:46:17.199 --> 01:46:20.560
This is a very sweet, adorable
game that allows you to have some

1474
01:46:21.119 --> 01:46:27.960
combat and feel good about yourself.
Sounds like a nice compliment to Bather's Gate

1475
01:46:28.039 --> 01:46:31.680
three. What is a dense adventure
game? This is a palate cleanser.

1476
01:46:31.880 --> 01:46:36.560
Also, it's very dewy. It
does have dialogue, but predominantly you're fighting

1477
01:46:36.640 --> 01:46:42.600
bugs, like predominantly you are in
the midst And then every once in a

1478
01:46:42.600 --> 01:46:45.359
while you talk to someone and they
say that they never really thought you would

1479
01:46:45.359 --> 01:46:49.359
make it and you tell them to
eat shit. That's kind of the main

1480
01:46:49.520 --> 01:46:57.680
two halves of this game. Cool
thing else, I'll say real quick,

1481
01:46:58.279 --> 01:47:01.279
Pickman four one hundred percent of it
forty five hours and Pickman four. That

1482
01:47:01.439 --> 01:47:05.399
game kicks so much ass. It
is so much better than I expected.

1483
01:47:05.479 --> 01:47:10.319
And that's I played every Pickman before
and enjoyed them all before. This one

1484
01:47:10.720 --> 01:47:14.199
is the best one. It is. I would have played another forty five

1485
01:47:14.239 --> 01:47:15.560
hours of it. It was so
much fun. I could play it on

1486
01:47:17.039 --> 01:47:21.399
not Steam Deck, but on the
Switch. Yeah. Is it a good

1487
01:47:21.439 --> 01:47:24.880
switch game? Or did you play
it somewhere else? I like it?

1488
01:47:26.279 --> 01:47:28.920
No, I mean like, is
it a good switch game? Does that

1489
01:47:28.960 --> 01:47:30.399
make sense? Oh? Yeah,
yeah, Like I played some on TV

1490
01:47:31.560 --> 01:47:33.840
and it but it's not it's not
this big, like you know, I

1491
01:47:33.880 --> 01:47:36.199
could see the argument like Tears the
Kingdom or something where it's like, oh,

1492
01:47:36.239 --> 01:47:39.800
it's this big epic adventure and all
this stuff. Yeah yeah, and

1493
01:47:39.920 --> 01:47:43.720
four is like, I know it
came from you know, GameCube and what

1494
01:47:43.880 --> 01:47:46.000
we use kind of portable issue,
but you know, it doesn't need to

1495
01:47:46.039 --> 01:47:48.000
be It doesn't need to be on
a big screen to be appreciated. I

1496
01:47:48.119 --> 01:47:54.560
played probably eighty percent of it undocked, portable, and just what a fucking

1497
01:47:54.600 --> 01:47:56.560
delight. It is so good.
It's a great game too. If you

1498
01:47:56.600 --> 01:47:59.119
just want to put something on in
the background, have it on back there

1499
01:47:59.159 --> 01:48:00.680
while you're playing. There's a lot
of story to take in everything. It

1500
01:48:00.800 --> 01:48:05.399
just keeps you super engaged the entire
time. Never got an old consestly felt

1501
01:48:05.399 --> 01:48:10.159
like was making progress. It's a
It's an absolute delight. My number two

1502
01:48:10.279 --> 01:48:12.399
of the year with a bullet for
sure. I love that. I think

1503
01:48:12.640 --> 01:48:15.079
Mike, we should probably play it
because it's gonna come up for Goadi and

1504
01:48:15.119 --> 01:48:19.600
I want to make sure we're paired. Yeah, so I'll I'll give that

1505
01:48:19.720 --> 01:48:26.920
a whirl. You get a dog, that's that's a pro. Does it

1506
01:48:27.640 --> 01:48:30.399
as an astronaut's helmet? Is it? What gives the pickman when you leave

1507
01:48:30.439 --> 01:48:32.399
them behind? No, you don't. Any pickman he helps. They can

1508
01:48:32.439 --> 01:48:34.560
all hop on him. So if
you want to go across a lake or

1509
01:48:34.600 --> 01:48:38.920
something, you hop on and all
the pickmen jump on Ochi and then OCHI

1510
01:48:38.960 --> 01:48:42.239
will dog paddle over and like all
the pickman and you are writing him.

1511
01:48:42.319 --> 01:48:46.439
Oh, it's the fucking best,
so cute. Yeah, there's several dogs

1512
01:48:46.479 --> 01:48:50.239
in that game. I'm not sure. It's always interesting. It's too early

1513
01:48:50.319 --> 01:48:53.960
to ask me if like the games
I played this week will come up with

1514
01:48:54.000 --> 01:48:59.600
GODI because really good stuff could hit
and it could be bumped down, so

1515
01:48:59.720 --> 01:49:02.279
you just never really no, But
I would say I'll probably do another wholesome

1516
01:49:02.359 --> 01:49:05.119
category, So I think these could
come up in that space. I don't

1517
01:49:05.119 --> 01:49:10.920
know if they're like Godie worthy,
but they are absolutely like category worthy.

1518
01:49:11.600 --> 01:49:14.520
Yeah, I can already tell,
like Balder's Gate is definitely gonna come up,

1519
01:49:14.520 --> 01:49:16.359
I'm sure in Game of the Year
discussions. And despite the fact that

1520
01:49:16.359 --> 01:49:18.680
I've only played, you know,
a couple of hours of it or whatever,

1521
01:49:18.760 --> 01:49:20.880
and I'm not going to play more, it's not gonna be one.

1522
01:49:20.880 --> 01:49:26.640
I'm gonna like argue hard against because
it's I can recognize the obvious quality.

1523
01:49:26.880 --> 01:49:30.079
Yes, you will, you'll argue. You'll start stabbing at it the second

1524
01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:32.640
we're like, we think Balder's Gate
should be higher than Pickman for okay,

1525
01:49:32.680 --> 01:49:35.720
well, okay, okay, though
we're gonna say some way crazier. But

1526
01:49:36.279 --> 01:49:41.479
I could have the Pickman versus Balder's
Gate conversation. But let's not get crazy

1527
01:49:41.560 --> 01:49:45.439
with perhaps other switch games and Boulder's
Gate there are, then we might have

1528
01:49:45.560 --> 01:49:47.720
some. There are people who would. I'm not saying I'm one of them.

1529
01:49:47.760 --> 01:49:51.039
There are people who, by the
end of Balder's Gate three, I

1530
01:49:51.159 --> 01:49:56.520
could see saying that, not Fire's
Gate related, just in general. I

1531
01:49:56.560 --> 01:50:00.680
don't want to meet these people.
They're a little out. No, they

1532
01:50:00.760 --> 01:50:09.880
can't come in. I'm The only
other thing I'm playing is I have Total

1533
01:50:09.960 --> 01:50:15.880
War Warhammer three's Shadow of Change dealc
which I know you're both cream your jeans

1534
01:50:15.960 --> 01:50:17.439
for. I creamed a couple times. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I

1535
01:50:17.520 --> 01:50:21.680
can't wait. I'll talk about that
more on the next episode. We have

1536
01:50:21.840 --> 01:50:28.359
to work towards it. Uh.
Oh cool, Do you too want to

1537
01:50:28.399 --> 01:50:30.880
do some emails? Yeah, Jake, pick it up here we're back.

1538
01:50:31.800 --> 01:50:39.720
Yeah, okays, this is Joe, This is Joe Biden. Let me

1539
01:50:39.840 --> 01:50:42.840
do my Biden, my best Biden
impression. I do voices only if it's

1540
01:50:43.159 --> 01:50:51.399
President Alight us with the taft William
Taft. Yeah there was. Yeah,

1541
01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:57.560
we're coming for you. I'm just
doing like Grover Cleveland. All right,

1542
01:50:57.960 --> 01:51:04.800
come on, gotta get job,
ned van Buren. I'm gonna cut your

1543
01:51:04.920 --> 01:51:09.800
neds often keep them for myself.
Give them, would say nads, some

1544
01:51:09.920 --> 01:51:14.399
of them that you have to change
it. William Harding, Yeah, oh

1545
01:51:14.640 --> 01:51:20.680
dude, Oh that's easy. McKinley, Oh, McKinley is tough one.

1546
01:51:20.720 --> 01:51:26.680
That's a good. Ye. Gave
me Hi, please, Hi, please

1547
01:51:26.760 --> 01:51:32.600
have here, please hair balls please
JFK now, hair I'd like to have

1548
01:51:32.760 --> 01:51:36.319
you on neds please, that'd be
great. Ask not what you add,

1549
01:51:36.600 --> 01:51:42.640
what your testicles can do for this
country? Trump vice versa. No,

1550
01:51:42.720 --> 01:51:49.840
I don't. I don't know how
to trump. God. I love it's

1551
01:51:49.880 --> 01:51:53.880
it's stupendous. I love. I
love your neds. That'd be great.

1552
01:51:54.119 --> 01:51:57.960
Give them so those guy's balls that
I gotta have these balls. Saw these

1553
01:51:58.000 --> 01:52:01.159
guy's balls, and saw these guy's
balls. I saw this guy's balls.

1554
01:52:02.000 --> 01:52:13.840
I actually come and think of it. I don't know what. There's a

1555
01:52:13.920 --> 01:52:21.880
Simpsons episode with Bush Senior and he's
like, we gotta get that guy's balls,

1556
01:52:27.600 --> 01:52:30.079
and how he spoke right, he
was fairly. I get it,

1557
01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:33.880
but I want those balls. I'll
get them. That's what he talks like.

1558
01:52:34.680 --> 01:52:38.600
That's my best impression. But I'm
really bad at impressions. Yeah,

1559
01:52:38.880 --> 01:52:43.199
I think we all might be to
the Persians pretty spot on. He just

1560
01:52:43.359 --> 01:52:48.439
did twelve that's true. Yeah,
what is this Persian golf sport everybody keeps

1561
01:52:48.479 --> 01:52:54.079
talking about. I'm not talking about
Persian tennis. If you want to write

1562
01:52:54.119 --> 01:52:58.279
into fire Escape, you can send
questions, comments, concerns. Uh,

1563
01:52:59.199 --> 01:53:02.479
you can. You can rash Mary
for not wanting one hundred twenty five Ki.

1564
01:53:02.880 --> 01:53:04.800
No, no, no, it's
not that she doesn't want it.

1565
01:53:04.920 --> 01:53:11.199
It's that she doesn't need it,
and neither just Mike, I understand the

1566
01:53:11.239 --> 01:53:14.960
value of a dollar. Yeah,
you're still got a touch Mary, value

1567
01:53:14.960 --> 01:53:19.960
of a dollar. You just want
to eat poops so bad eat a I

1568
01:53:19.960 --> 01:53:25.880
don't do it for fifty cents,
honestly on the dollar. If the turd

1569
01:53:26.079 --> 01:53:30.560
was gabbos, then yes, I'd
eat it for no less than five no

1570
01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:34.199
less than five figures. I'm gonna
give you exactly ten thousand dollars. I

1571
01:53:34.199 --> 01:53:39.560
couldn't work you down. Yeah,
no question. It's not the yearly thing.

1572
01:53:39.640 --> 01:53:45.079
It's the one time, one time. That's post tax. I don't

1573
01:53:45.119 --> 01:53:53.520
think the government's gonna tax eating twenty
bucks for one rabbit pellet twenty No,

1574
01:53:53.680 --> 01:53:56.239
I'm not doing for twenty bucks.
That's something like kid on a playground eating

1575
01:53:56.279 --> 01:53:59.199
worms. Shit, I'm not lowering
myself to that. Shove your face on

1576
01:53:59.279 --> 01:54:04.920
it sounds like a very specific memory
like that whe when Gary, when Gary

1577
01:54:05.039 --> 01:54:09.399
tells you that your mom and him
had sex on the playground, So then

1578
01:54:09.439 --> 01:54:12.960
you're like, oh, Gary,
I bet you wouldn't eat this worm poop

1579
01:54:13.039 --> 01:54:16.239
And then Gary, I'm just pretending
it was like an act combody else you

1580
01:54:16.319 --> 01:54:19.760
had. Oh okay, and then
Gary comes in the next day with a

1581
01:54:19.800 --> 01:54:23.680
worm and you have to eat a
ship, and this is Barlow gets pissed.

1582
01:54:24.079 --> 01:54:27.199
No, no, I would need
a hefty sum for any any poop

1583
01:54:27.239 --> 01:54:31.920
eating you. Getting right into Fireskipe
casting gmail dot com for questions, we

1584
01:54:32.000 --> 01:54:35.560
got a couple tonight. Uh.
We did shorten this one a bit because

1585
01:54:35.560 --> 01:54:40.840
there was a longer example, but
uh we got one here, more video

1586
01:54:40.920 --> 01:54:46.079
game oriented one to kick things off
for from Sean from There's a Place called

1587
01:54:46.199 --> 01:54:49.319
show Low Arizona. I might be
mispronouncing that I like it. I like

1588
01:54:49.399 --> 01:54:53.000
it, think I am, But
that sounds cool. Mary. Do you

1589
01:54:53.039 --> 01:54:58.520
want to read this first one from
Sean from Sholo okay fo show showlow Hi

1590
01:54:58.640 --> 01:55:01.960
fire Escape. What's the first game
you remember finishing when you were younger and

1591
01:55:02.279 --> 01:55:05.920
how do you think this affected your
current gaming habits? My example, when

1592
01:55:05.960 --> 01:55:12.439
I was younger, the one hundred
percent SATIS sensation and lack of money for

1593
01:55:12.560 --> 01:55:15.920
more games kept me focused on doing
everything I could in a game, and

1594
01:55:16.039 --> 01:55:20.399
that completionist mindset stuck with me for
years. As my love of games grew,

1595
01:55:20.439 --> 01:55:24.680
I put one hundred hours into each
Fallout three, New Vegas, Skyrim,

1596
01:55:25.600 --> 01:55:30.399
Kingdoms of Alamer, Reckoning which Or
three, and Assassins Creed Valhalla.

1597
01:55:30.760 --> 01:55:33.079
Having Game Pass and getting to play
so many different games helps me appreciate shorter

1598
01:55:33.159 --> 01:55:36.920
indie games and finally break that completionist
mindset. But I struggled to not waste

1599
01:55:36.960 --> 01:55:42.319
hours walking all over the map and
games like Yakuza and Persona five. Love

1600
01:55:42.399 --> 01:55:45.199
the show and love you guys.
Thank you, Sean from show Low Arizona.

1601
01:55:45.640 --> 01:55:51.159
Thank you. That's a good well, it's a really good one.

1602
01:55:51.199 --> 01:55:56.479
I think about that for a bit. If I had to guess, maybe

1603
01:55:56.520 --> 01:56:00.079
the first one was like Mario three, but I probably, like if I'm

1604
01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:03.079
not kind of like game genie stuff, I feel like I probably learned about

1605
01:56:03.119 --> 01:56:09.119
the warp whistles and Mario three and
beat that. But that's my guests.

1606
01:56:09.239 --> 01:56:12.439
The one I know for sure because
I distinctly remember beating it was linked to

1607
01:56:12.439 --> 01:56:15.079
the best. I remember just like
okay, defeating Ganon and like feeling like

1608
01:56:15.159 --> 01:56:19.520
I had been on like a month's
long quest or oh my god, it

1609
01:56:19.600 --> 01:56:23.520
was forever. I remember waiting for
a Stragedy Guide for Christmas, and I

1610
01:56:23.560 --> 01:56:26.319
think it took me like two Christmases
to actually get the Tragic Guide because my

1611
01:56:26.399 --> 01:56:28.800
parents couldn't find it, and so
I mean it could have been like over

1612
01:56:28.920 --> 01:56:30.560
a year I was trying to beat
that game, and I do remember like

1613
01:56:30.680 --> 01:56:34.359
finally getting to that Gannon fight and
the silver arrows and all that, and

1614
01:56:34.479 --> 01:56:38.479
like just in the end where it
says that Zelda ending where the credits are

1615
01:56:38.520 --> 01:56:40.880
playing, Everyone's waving at you in
the town like, oh you did it

1616
01:56:40.960 --> 01:56:45.279
link and like I distinctly remember like
watching those credits and me like the world.

1617
01:56:45.079 --> 01:56:48.560
But I probably beat like an nes
platformer or like a Mario three or

1618
01:56:48.600 --> 01:56:53.880
something before that. Yeah, mine
was the one I vividly remember was Acarina.

1619
01:56:54.960 --> 01:56:58.159
I actually didn't finish Linked to the
Past until I was older, but

1620
01:56:58.840 --> 01:57:02.840
I remember playing Linked to the Past
Super Mario Bros. Three. I remember

1621
01:57:03.279 --> 01:57:09.359
vaguely playing the first Super Mario Bros. On Anys, but the first one

1622
01:57:09.399 --> 01:57:13.079
I remember like vividly like anticipating finishing
and then finishing and being proud of it

1623
01:57:13.159 --> 01:57:19.600
was Akarina because several times through it, I just got very intimidated with all

1624
01:57:19.640 --> 01:57:25.199
the underwater, not just the water
temple, but like Jabu Jabu's belly just

1625
01:57:25.319 --> 01:57:29.479
for some reason struck me as very
dating. Yeah yeah, and it wasn't

1626
01:57:29.520 --> 01:57:31.800
carrying her around and like which thing
do I throw her in to make her

1627
01:57:31.880 --> 01:57:34.760
land on the thing I want her
on? Like yeah, thinking back,

1628
01:57:34.960 --> 01:57:42.359
and it was so effective at the
time and still somewhat today. Everything including

1629
01:57:42.760 --> 01:57:45.119
and this is coming off a dungeon
where many of the floors were lava in

1630
01:57:45.199 --> 01:57:50.640
Dodnggo's cavern, but like everything in
Jabu Jabu's Belly felt dangerous, the walls,

1631
01:57:50.720 --> 01:57:55.359
the floor, the ceiling because you're
in the boomerang fucking membrane stuff that

1632
01:57:55.359 --> 01:57:57.640
you got hit with the boomrang and
then slash it up like yeah, it's

1633
01:57:58.239 --> 01:58:01.119
up. I don't even mean like
annoying, although it definitely is not a

1634
01:58:01.159 --> 01:58:06.000
well designed dungeon by Zelda standards today
or you know what Zelda dungeon standards were

1635
01:58:08.319 --> 01:58:12.479
several years ago, But like I
just I remember being like, okay,

1636
01:58:12.479 --> 01:58:15.359
I'm getting swallowed by this fish.
The dungeon is inside an animal that's scary.

1637
01:58:15.439 --> 01:58:23.279
At the time I was when that
game came out, I was five.

1638
01:58:24.199 --> 01:58:28.359
No Acarina would have been ninety seven
ninety eight, so I was six

1639
01:58:28.399 --> 01:58:30.960
when it came out, so and
then I when I started playing it like

1640
01:58:31.119 --> 01:58:33.920
for real. Later on even I
had to have my brother do Jabu jabu

1641
01:58:34.000 --> 01:58:38.319
in the water Temple, and the
water Temple just played into my actual real

1642
01:58:38.359 --> 01:58:42.520
life fear of deep water, which
I largely have gotten over through scuba diving

1643
01:58:42.560 --> 01:58:45.960
and confronting it. But I was
like, finally actually doing that whole game

1644
01:58:45.960 --> 01:58:49.079
myself for the first time, a
game that I know better than any other

1645
01:58:49.119 --> 01:58:54.760
game I've played in my life.
It was definitely like, I think the

1646
01:58:54.840 --> 01:58:58.000
thing that, to answer the question, the thing that that instilled in me

1647
01:58:58.239 --> 01:59:01.640
was like from software games today,
elden Ring. There was a part,

1648
01:59:01.720 --> 01:59:05.359
there was a point where I'm like, fuck, I might be this game

1649
01:59:05.439 --> 01:59:09.960
might be getting the best of me. And that's not saying you can't find

1650
01:59:10.039 --> 01:59:12.960
value in games without pushing through the
challenge, because you can get There's other

1651
01:59:13.000 --> 01:59:15.840
people I know who played elden Ring
completely different than being in a less challenging

1652
01:59:15.880 --> 01:59:18.680
way they love that game more than
I do. But it was like it's

1653
01:59:18.760 --> 01:59:24.920
it's a completionist thing. But it's
also like, I do really appreciate when

1654
01:59:24.960 --> 01:59:29.640
a game is challenging me and I
have to push through, like a really

1655
01:59:29.760 --> 01:59:32.439
tough spell Bather's Gate three, I've
gotten that in Act one already, and

1656
01:59:32.520 --> 01:59:36.039
I'm like appreciating the games so much
more. On the other side, x

1657
01:59:36.119 --> 01:59:44.000
Com two, it took me eight
playthroughs to finally succeed and not just have

1658
01:59:44.159 --> 01:59:50.600
to to wipe. I think Acorino
was very much my like, Okay,

1659
01:59:50.800 --> 01:59:59.039
I get I can get how the
sense of the sense of what the fuck

1660
01:59:59.119 --> 02:00:04.920
is the word I'm looking for,
very obvious word discovery, no satisfaction,

1661
02:00:06.640 --> 02:00:11.359
sense of reward, achievement, thank
you, holy shit, sense of achievement

1662
02:00:11.359 --> 02:00:14.800
I can get from finishing something like
that. Instilled that back when I was

1663
02:00:14.880 --> 02:00:16.359
like not playing as many games.
To Sean's point, I was like,

1664
02:00:17.119 --> 02:00:19.640
Okay, I got this. I
bought this game. I saved up the

1665
02:00:19.680 --> 02:00:24.800
sixty bucks. I'm going to play
this at the time, like that was

1666
02:00:25.119 --> 02:00:27.199
a big deal when I could buy
my own video game when I was that

1667
02:00:27.279 --> 02:00:30.159
age, and then just like fighting
through it and enjoying it and finding ways

1668
02:00:30.199 --> 02:00:35.399
to enjoy the challenge. Was Acarina
definitely was the jumping off point for that.

1669
02:00:40.880 --> 02:00:45.520
There's probably a couple of examples I
can think of, but the best

1670
02:00:45.560 --> 02:00:50.479
one, I think is when I
was younger having a Sega Genesis and playing

1671
02:00:50.520 --> 02:00:58.600
with my sisters and getting a game
that we all started competing in and wanting

1672
02:00:58.760 --> 02:01:03.079
to be the best. I learned
very early on that I'm pretty competitive and

1673
02:01:03.159 --> 02:01:06.680
that it was important for me to
probably try and obtain the best score.

1674
02:01:09.319 --> 02:01:15.079
So Miss pac Man is probably one
of the most important games of my childhood,

1675
02:01:15.079 --> 02:01:18.319
and I think what it instilled in
me was the importance of winning Miss

1676
02:01:18.439 --> 02:01:24.119
pac Man against anyone who's a lesser
gamer. And that really came into play

1677
02:01:24.880 --> 02:01:30.880
during Mike's bachelor party when I beat
Dan Reichert's high score in Miss pac Man

1678
02:01:30.960 --> 02:01:35.119
at our event and I didn't just
keep I got a very important text you

1679
02:01:35.239 --> 02:01:42.119
keep talking about, Mike. Yeah, Yeah, forty thousand, two hundred

1680
02:01:42.119 --> 02:01:45.840
and fifty as the top score when
Dan couldn't beat it, and I do

1681
02:01:46.319 --> 02:01:53.359
have photos of the tape that prove
it. I think really instilled me as

1682
02:01:53.399 --> 02:01:57.560
a as a young girl that I'm
a better gamer than Dan and that that

1683
02:01:57.680 --> 02:02:01.800
was really meaningful to me. That's
the end of my my point. You

1684
02:02:02.640 --> 02:02:08.239
beat me, you beat me,
fair and square. I will very much

1685
02:02:08.359 --> 02:02:11.640
enjoying how like wholesome it was.
And then Mary took her turn to just

1686
02:02:12.000 --> 02:02:15.159
threshed, No, no, she's
right. She's like, I love computing,

1687
02:02:15.239 --> 02:02:18.159
but if I lose. No,
no, that's it. I was

1688
02:02:18.199 --> 02:02:23.199
getting text from my friend who found
a miss pac Man place where he's at

1689
02:02:23.239 --> 02:02:25.800
this weekend, and look at what
the hell. I don't know if this

1690
02:02:25.920 --> 02:02:30.880
is going to focus one hundred and
seventy fourth. That's my buddy Ross.

1691
02:02:30.279 --> 02:02:33.760
He uh, yeah, he did
that. He's insane. Yes, he

1692
02:02:33.840 --> 02:02:36.239
says, we're out a vacation of
a small resort up north and they have

1693
02:02:36.279 --> 02:02:40.199
a miss Pacman machine in the lodge. Time to get serious, And then

1694
02:02:40.239 --> 02:02:43.520
he got one hundred and seventy four
thousand. It's such a good thing to

1695
02:02:43.640 --> 02:02:47.439
put in an airbnb for like people
coming in. Yeah, no, it's

1696
02:02:47.600 --> 02:02:53.039
very smart. We got a lot
of use out of that. And Mary,

1697
02:02:53.079 --> 02:02:56.840
Mary, I did my fun little
gag of oh, I acted like

1698
02:02:56.960 --> 02:02:59.640
I ripped the thing and I got
the higher thing. But no, I'm

1699
02:02:59.680 --> 02:03:01.640
saying right now, Mary, straight
at baby was much better than me,

1700
02:03:01.720 --> 02:03:08.439
and that so congrats. I'm a
sportsman above all else. I'm shocked that

1701
02:03:08.520 --> 02:03:12.239
it's going this way. I saved
uning for last that I could just watch

1702
02:03:12.319 --> 02:03:15.920
you squirm, and he's being the
bigger man, and I'm confused. Won

1703
02:03:15.199 --> 02:03:18.439
you won? You won? You
beat me, you were better just when

1704
02:03:18.479 --> 02:03:28.119
you think you locked in down.
He's being a good person. Sometimes I

1705
02:03:28.199 --> 02:03:30.479
gotta do it every once in a
while. You know, five minutes ago

1706
02:03:30.600 --> 02:03:33.439
he was talking about hosing babies.
Okay, no, Mary, though,

1707
02:03:33.560 --> 02:03:36.199
no, fireman, we're doing it
so they could go put out fires,

1708
02:03:36.239 --> 02:03:40.319
not married. It's from your brain. Well, I just yeah, it's

1709
02:03:40.359 --> 02:03:43.239
a good idea. But Mary,
this is what he wants to happen.

1710
02:03:43.800 --> 02:03:45.920
You know Dan, Well, I
would venture. I would venture to say

1711
02:03:45.960 --> 02:03:48.680
I know him better, and there
are people to know him better than me,

1712
02:03:48.760 --> 02:03:50.800
but I know him good enough,
well enough to know that. This

1713
02:03:51.199 --> 02:03:58.159
is part of the game. Like
playing the the the gracious, the deferring

1714
02:03:58.239 --> 02:04:00.840
to you card is very much part
of continuing what is the point? What

1715
02:04:00.960 --> 02:04:04.279
do I gain by lying about wedding
when I did? It's not lying,

1716
02:04:04.359 --> 02:04:11.399
she's straight up. Being such a
benevolent loser is part of Dan's the ongoing

1717
02:04:11.600 --> 02:04:15.840
competition just cut throat. Next time
he gets his hand on a silver medal,

1718
02:04:15.960 --> 02:04:18.600
is still a metal? I feel
good about it? Well, thank

1719
02:04:18.640 --> 02:04:25.680
you, Sean. Dan. Do
you want to read this one from Piston

1720
02:04:25.760 --> 02:04:29.039
Honde? Oh? Bisda? I
all right, Hey, virus Gape.

1721
02:04:29.039 --> 02:04:31.359
A few episodes ago, you said
Dan was at a Hot Pockets convention while

1722
02:04:31.399 --> 02:04:41.359
he was out. He did say
that indulgent a year ago or something when

1723
02:04:41.399 --> 02:04:45.279
you were gone, when, oddly, I guess appropriately enough, Vinnie and

1724
02:04:45.399 --> 02:04:47.000
Jake were here and I said that
Dan, you were at a Hot Pockets

1725
02:04:47.039 --> 02:04:51.439
convention and Mary was at a how
to Get Better at Miss pac Man training

1726
02:04:51.479 --> 02:04:56.039
camp. Oh okay, okay,
all right, well okay, so Dan

1727
02:04:56.199 --> 02:04:58.359
was at a Hot Pockets convention while
he was out, And that got me

1728
02:04:58.439 --> 02:05:00.680
to thinking, if you were to
go to a invention centered entirely around a

1729
02:05:00.720 --> 02:05:04.880
single video game, either a standalone
game or a specific entry from an established

1730
02:05:04.920 --> 02:05:09.359
franchise, what game would you go
with and what kind of panels would you

1731
02:05:09.439 --> 02:05:13.119
want to see? For example,
I can imagine Dan having a blast with

1732
02:05:13.239 --> 02:05:17.560
cos players and speed runners at a
Mike Tyson's punch Out convention, Mike relapsing

1733
02:05:17.600 --> 02:05:21.800
a ten Ocon and Mary attending a
panel where the developers of Hollow Knight discussed

1734
02:05:21.840 --> 02:05:29.119
the importance of engaging your audience early
by having absolutely nothing of interest happened in

1735
02:05:29.199 --> 02:05:32.079
the first twenty minutes. Love the
show, Piston Hunda. Piston Hunda is

1736
02:05:32.119 --> 02:05:40.359
a very big fan of Piston Hundai. Yeah. I never will forget this,

1737
02:05:42.199 --> 02:05:45.840
the fact that you could actually have
a convention around Hollow Night because of

1738
02:05:45.920 --> 02:05:51.840
the depth in the gameplay and mechanics. Is there one the lore? The

1739
02:05:53.000 --> 02:05:57.319
depth? A guy's a bug and
he jumps around for a while. Don't

1740
02:05:57.399 --> 02:06:00.039
do this, Piston, What the
fuck is wrong with you? I'm not

1741
02:06:00.119 --> 02:06:03.159
reading your emails anymore? Mary,
I was actually asking, is there a

1742
02:06:03.279 --> 02:06:06.920
Hollow Night convention? I don't think
so, as far as I'm aware.

1743
02:06:08.079 --> 02:06:12.960
I think after Silk Song we got
ourselves a stew go in. But right

1744
02:06:13.079 --> 02:06:16.439
now it's still early on. Okay, So before you guys, are you

1745
02:06:16.600 --> 02:06:19.760
let me say, as Piston has
pointed out, I have been to a

1746
02:06:19.800 --> 02:06:24.319
convention based around one video game.
Jake and I went and shot that documentary

1747
02:06:24.319 --> 02:06:27.760
at ten o'con, which I maintained
was the best work I ever did a

1748
02:06:27.840 --> 02:06:31.039
game spot. Jake and I did
a really good behind the scenes video about

1749
02:06:31.039 --> 02:06:38.520
that. I would one thousand percent
go to a convention. It would likely

1750
02:06:38.600 --> 02:06:43.640
be in the UK based entirely around
Total War as a franchise, or Total

1751
02:06:43.720 --> 02:06:47.800
War Warhammer three specifically, or the
trilogy Total War Warhammer. I would go

1752
02:06:47.880 --> 02:06:53.720
to a panel about each of the
twenty seven factions, each of the ninety

1753
02:06:53.840 --> 02:06:57.159
faction leaders. I would spend a
week there and I would not get enough

1754
02:06:57.199 --> 02:07:00.600
of it. It would be fucking
nirvana that the geek like. That would

1755
02:07:00.600 --> 02:07:03.279
be the geekiest thing I would do, and I would I would find people,

1756
02:07:03.399 --> 02:07:06.960
and I would recognize all their the
ship that they're wearing, and I

1757
02:07:08.039 --> 02:07:12.000
would It would be awesome. I
would be lost in the sauce of Total

1758
02:07:12.079 --> 02:07:18.920
War war Hammer three. I would
say, imagine a wide focus Mario convention

1759
02:07:19.439 --> 02:07:24.199
where, okay, in the main
like the south hall of the La Convention

1760
02:07:24.319 --> 02:07:27.960
Center, if we're going there,
is all the mainline Mario games, the

1761
02:07:28.039 --> 02:07:30.680
single player you know, like the
main big titles, and the people doing

1762
02:07:30.760 --> 02:07:34.279
speed running all sorts of stuff like
that, like races four, people racing

1763
02:07:34.279 --> 02:07:36.600
through Mario six four at the same
time, blah blah blah, and then

1764
02:07:36.680 --> 02:07:41.479
all the side rooms in Kencha Hall, and everything is like, Okay,

1765
02:07:41.560 --> 02:07:44.680
here's the Mario party thing, here's
the Mario Kart thing, here's the Mario

1766
02:07:44.760 --> 02:07:49.079
tennis thing. Mari havingbbits, Mario
We're having Yeah, we're having We're having

1767
02:07:49.119 --> 02:07:54.760
tournaments of everything. So here's Larti's
wasted the Mario Rabbits room. Sorry,

1768
02:07:54.840 --> 02:07:58.079
I don't mean that's is where I
would be hanging out drinking. That's thing.

1769
02:07:58.119 --> 02:08:00.800
I think there's a wide focus to
the Mario thing. There's just so

1770
02:08:01.159 --> 02:08:03.880
much and so much single player,
multiplayer, speed run all that stuff.

1771
02:08:03.880 --> 02:08:09.640
I think that could actually be like
that could justify a large convention hall which

1772
02:08:09.720 --> 02:08:13.880
just a bunch of Mario shit.
It'd be fun. Dang, I think

1773
02:08:13.880 --> 02:08:18.239
that would be super fun. I
wonder if there's like trying to think of

1774
02:08:18.359 --> 02:08:22.439
like something that would be just stupid
fun to attend, you know, like

1775
02:08:22.680 --> 02:08:28.119
you don't go so much for the
game and for like how good it is

1776
02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:33.760
at home. I can play that
at home. Yeah, I don't come

1777
02:08:33.840 --> 02:08:37.920
here to play the game. I
come here to like interact with a bunch

1778
02:08:39.000 --> 02:08:43.680
of like dumb dumbs and just like
have fun and run around. Yeah,

1779
02:08:43.800 --> 02:08:50.039
what is the Barbenheimer to your no, no, no, like, what

1780
02:08:50.199 --> 02:08:54.199
is the Barbenheimer to your hollow night
at home? What is the game thing

1781
02:08:54.279 --> 02:08:58.279
that would get you out of your
house that you could have at home?

1782
02:08:58.319 --> 02:09:01.680
It's crazy. I need like more
time to think about it. I feel

1783
02:09:01.720 --> 02:09:05.520
like there's got to be a couple
like old school games, like something old

1784
02:09:05.760 --> 02:09:09.760
that we just think we all agree, this would be very funny if everybody

1785
02:09:09.840 --> 02:09:15.399
caused played as this game and it
had this whole world around it and it's

1786
02:09:15.520 --> 02:09:20.399
just stupid. I like the idea
of the Barbenheimer for games just outside of

1787
02:09:20.439 --> 02:09:22.319
the convention, Like what is that
if you want to do a back to

1788
02:09:22.399 --> 02:09:28.640
back thing like flick through the Metal
Gear Solid series and then Benjo. Yeah,

1789
02:09:28.760 --> 02:09:33.039
yeah, it's two opposite world.
What's one game and then the next

1790
02:09:33.680 --> 02:09:37.359
series is do one game and then
one game? Well, now, first

1791
02:09:37.399 --> 02:09:41.239
Mary, you answer, would it
be a hollow Night convention? No?

1792
02:09:41.680 --> 02:09:45.760
For me, I think it would
be something like I have to like think

1793
02:09:45.800 --> 02:09:48.479
a little bit more on it,
but something that you enjoy an example,

1794
02:09:48.560 --> 02:09:56.119
but just something silly and we could
all laugh about it later. Think it

1795
02:09:56.159 --> 02:10:00.279
wouldn't be important. Okay, it's
see, you're going to it all.

1796
02:10:00.399 --> 02:10:05.159
Think it's fun. This isn't a
single game to evade pistons question a bit.

1797
02:10:05.239 --> 02:10:09.399
I could see you go into like
a cozy game con Yeah, definitely,

1798
02:10:09.600 --> 02:10:13.640
that's not a single game. But
I would absolutely go to a convention

1799
02:10:13.760 --> 02:10:16.359
that was just about like, you
know, comfortable games that I enjoy that

1800
02:10:16.520 --> 02:10:22.279
like, have nothing important going on, everyone wears pajamas. Yeah it sounds

1801
02:10:22.319 --> 02:10:26.760
fun. Oh yeah, okay,
dream Daddy. The convention could be really

1802
02:10:26.880 --> 02:10:33.279
fun, just a bunch of like
hotties walking around. I'd go to that.

1803
02:10:33.319 --> 02:10:37.279
I'd subscribe to that news like where
wow, God, Well where was

1804
02:10:37.359 --> 02:10:43.800
the address so I know to avoid
it was the address world and time God,

1805
02:10:45.359 --> 02:10:48.520
so I know how to avoid the
line what time does the line form?

1806
02:10:48.640 --> 02:10:52.279
Oh God? Or that Devolver?
I think a Devolver convention would be

1807
02:10:52.359 --> 02:10:56.520
pretty funny, right because I like
just the stupidest games, the one with

1808
02:10:56.600 --> 02:11:01.279
like the penises fighting general jousting.
Yeah, I have a new I have

1809
02:11:01.359 --> 02:11:05.119
a new answer. Go on.
It would be a convention for Gold and

1810
02:11:05.199 --> 02:11:11.600
I and the entire original cast of
the movie would have to well hang on,

1811
02:11:11.720 --> 02:11:20.640
now, I would go that sounds
I think I know where Mike's where

1812
02:11:20.680 --> 02:11:24.960
Mike's going, you know what's room
up being? The space is a weird,

1813
02:11:26.039 --> 02:11:28.600
like you know it, you know
it, you know what's room being

1814
02:11:28.880 --> 02:11:41.119
the boncohol. Yeah, but Dan, your question, what would be the

1815
02:11:41.159 --> 02:11:46.239
Barbeheimer of video games minus like going
out for them? What is like two

1816
02:11:46.920 --> 02:11:52.960
super opposing games that would kind of
sort of compliment one another in a weird

1817
02:11:54.039 --> 02:12:00.840
way. So Pa Stranding and Slime
Rancher see that. I like that.

1818
02:12:01.319 --> 02:12:05.720
I was gonna say, like the
world is dying and everyone sucks. Look

1819
02:12:05.760 --> 02:12:09.560
at these little slimes. I think
I'll catch them with a with a net.

1820
02:12:11.479 --> 02:12:16.880
I was gonna say, like heavy
rain and conquers bad for a day.

1821
02:12:18.000 --> 02:12:22.319
All right, that's a good one. Yeah. I feel like middle

1822
02:12:22.319 --> 02:12:24.920
of Yourself is such an obvious Oppenheimer's
staying in. They would have to be

1823
02:12:26.039 --> 02:12:35.199
like definitely Braide Braid, which is
basically Brady Oppenheimer. Okay Oppenheimer. I

1824
02:12:35.239 --> 02:12:43.279
mean the story is about Braden Castle
Crashers. I'll think them that. I

1825
02:12:43.359 --> 02:12:50.079
don't think at all. Yeah,
I like that. The Witness and is

1826
02:12:50.119 --> 02:12:54.560
Witness Oppenheimer. Yeah, yeah,
it has to be right because it smells

1827
02:12:54.600 --> 02:13:00.359
its own farts. Oh it's the
same person. Witness and Cat Cafe manager

1828
02:13:00.840 --> 02:13:09.000
Explosion Man. The working title for
Oppenheimer was splosion. Man, what would

1829
02:13:09.079 --> 02:13:13.279
uh? What was the uh?
What's the shark game? Last year?

1830
02:13:15.079 --> 02:13:28.479
Man? Eater? It's like this
garbage elden ring right, obviously, checkery

1831
02:13:30.840 --> 02:13:37.479
checker. He's got some fucking shit
going on in there too. That's very

1832
02:13:37.600 --> 02:13:41.920
thoughtful. You got it. You're
on the trolley. Yeah, yeah,

1833
02:13:43.880 --> 02:13:48.079
that's all right. I'm circling back. Mary. You still face offing with

1834
02:13:48.119 --> 02:13:52.119
a bird or did you come up
with anything else? Oh? I still

1835
02:13:52.199 --> 02:13:54.800
feel comfortable with my Biden concept.
I think it would be funny to fill

1836
02:13:54.880 --> 02:14:01.479
my fill my suit with newspaper and
then try and pass a law that harms

1837
02:14:01.520 --> 02:14:05.319
men for some reason, for no
reason at all, Give me a little

1838
02:14:05.359 --> 02:14:11.000
fucker about it. I'm coming for
your balls. I'm gonna outlaw balls.

1839
02:14:11.640 --> 02:14:18.119
You're going to try the minute you're
sworn in office. They just fall off.

1840
02:14:18.239 --> 02:14:22.119
Oh gosh, you got me.
She'll dip me out. She doesn't

1841
02:14:22.119 --> 02:14:26.520
make any sense. It's just so
bad. It's a joke gone horribly awry,

1842
02:14:26.640 --> 02:14:31.079
and I ruined the United States.
Biden comes out of his comas like,

1843
02:14:31.159 --> 02:14:35.760
oh, she got mine too,
got them all. I'm coming for

1844
02:14:35.600 --> 02:14:37.720
I get you can go for one, you go for all, you know,

1845
02:14:39.520 --> 02:14:41.760
And then he goes into the secret
room beneath the Oval office, in

1846
02:14:41.840 --> 02:14:46.720
which in which Richard Nixon is still
in cry asleep and a in a in

1847
02:14:46.800 --> 02:14:50.520
a cyberpunk coffin, and he comes
out with one metal eye and he's like

1848
02:14:52.600 --> 02:14:56.279
time to get back everybody's balls.
And then and then he pulls out a

1849
02:14:58.079 --> 02:15:01.039
pulls out a penis pistol, and
then it goes to work. My old

1850
02:15:01.199 --> 02:15:07.920
penis pistol. I always keep one
handing also to get them back. I

1851
02:15:09.079 --> 02:15:13.560
charge per ball. So, uh, you need do nothing? Do you

1852
02:15:13.680 --> 02:15:18.399
have to? No, you can
live a full life with one. I

1853
02:15:18.479 --> 02:15:24.840
mean with neither, right, Like
if I if I'm a tragic accident tomorrow,

1854
02:15:26.560 --> 02:15:30.319
you're functional with both. If that's
what we're talking about, Yeah,

1855
02:15:30.399 --> 02:15:33.039
I mean I just have one list
thing that like hurt real bad if something

1856
02:15:33.159 --> 02:15:35.880
hits him, right? Are you
saying you would get them removed because it's

1857
02:15:37.279 --> 02:15:41.479
more convenient to write about entirely?
But I'm saying if some like factory accident

1858
02:15:41.600 --> 02:15:46.720
having tomorrow like and just my balls
were removed, I'm what I'm doing.

1859
02:15:48.520 --> 02:15:54.119
I'm sorry there's been a factory accident. Works rights, right, Dick,

1860
02:15:56.199 --> 02:16:01.199
what factory I just imagining imagining Dan
waddling up his driveway, but like Bianca

1861
02:16:01.840 --> 02:16:05.520
and just bleeding from his cross,
there was an accident. The okay,

1862
02:16:05.640 --> 02:16:07.560
you guys are gonna hung up on
the how let's just say I'm going on

1863
02:16:07.640 --> 02:16:11.720
my walk in the morning and dog
bites my balls off. A dog bites

1864
02:16:11.760 --> 02:16:13.760
my balls off. I don't.
Let's forget the factory. A dog bites

1865
02:16:13.840 --> 02:16:18.760
my scrow them off. How did
the dog get in the factory. There's

1866
02:16:18.800 --> 02:16:22.119
no factory. There's no factory.
A dog just ain't my scrowed them What

1867
02:16:22.239 --> 02:16:28.199
kind of factory is making dogs?
Oh my god, you guys are being

1868
02:16:28.319 --> 02:16:33.239
ridiculous bit off. Nothing else happened
at all. Fuck, I don't know

1869
02:16:35.000 --> 02:16:39.120
tomorrow. A dog eats my scrotum? How is my life difference the dog

1870
02:16:39.239 --> 02:16:46.079
factor? Buck? My bass,
my boss buck? How they're gont suckt

1871
02:16:46.120 --> 02:16:50.479
boners? Right? And then you're
like, I have no idea, no

1872
02:16:50.639 --> 02:16:54.200
issues? Well right, like isn't
it is the only consequence that I just

1873
02:16:54.360 --> 02:16:58.239
can't have kids, which I don't
want anyway, So like then like or

1874
02:16:58.319 --> 02:17:01.319
the balls is completely superfluous. I
have no idea. If it's a clean

1875
02:17:03.079 --> 02:17:07.040
rip, yeah, just it's gone
and its just like I just do a

1876
02:17:07.159 --> 02:17:09.239
rambo and I put a bunch of
gunpowder where my balls were and I light

1877
02:17:09.319 --> 02:17:13.520
it. It's catterized. I just
have a dick. How does the dog

1878
02:17:13.639 --> 02:17:16.479
get involved? Does he light it? It's Kansas there. While I've been

1879
02:17:16.520 --> 02:17:18.280
walking around, there's a lot of
dogs that are like, oh, that

1880
02:17:18.360 --> 02:17:20.479
dog's gonna kill me, Like no, no, no, no, no,

1881
02:17:20.600 --> 02:17:24.760
hold on, I think not.
And I don't know, but I

1882
02:17:24.959 --> 02:17:31.079
think heavily. Assume coming would not
work the same without balls. Wait what

1883
02:17:31.840 --> 02:17:37.000
it's the it's I mean that's where
sperm production happens, right, But can't

1884
02:17:37.000 --> 02:17:41.239
you just shoot blanks? I guess
you could still out. I guess you

1885
02:17:41.280 --> 02:17:45.399
could feel it and get a boner
and stuff. You can feel it and

1886
02:17:45.440 --> 02:17:48.760
get a boner and stuff, and
you might be honest. I'm fine.

1887
02:17:48.959 --> 02:17:54.200
Yeah, Yeah, this is a
hindrance. Yeah. They hurt so bad

1888
02:17:54.280 --> 02:17:58.600
if something like brushes against them.
God, men have it so hard.

1889
02:17:58.639 --> 02:18:01.120
You know how many times razor Just
that's on my balls, and it's like,

1890
02:18:01.239 --> 02:18:03.399
that's how I wake up, That's
how I start my day as a

1891
02:18:03.479 --> 02:18:07.120
dog stepping on my balls. Daisy
does that. It sucks and then my

1892
02:18:07.239 --> 02:18:11.399
chest and sma. Hopefully one day
they'll make a movie that really addresses the

1893
02:18:11.479 --> 02:18:16.959
trials and tribulations of men. It'll
be our Barbie. Finally, God turns,

1894
02:18:18.040 --> 02:18:20.280
I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna
pitch. I'm gonna pitch. It's

1895
02:18:20.319 --> 02:18:24.600
gonna be Sound of Freedom, and
then Barbie, You're gonna be our movies.

1896
02:18:24.239 --> 02:18:28.479
I've been hearing a lot about Sound
of Freedom here in Kansas. Jesus

1897
02:18:28.479 --> 02:18:37.600
yea which a woman hating. I'm
lost context. We talked during the bricks,

1898
02:18:37.840 --> 02:18:41.520
we did well, We're gonna keep
it. I assume, no,

1899
02:18:41.719 --> 02:18:46.719
not parts. I also sang most
of Monster Mash, not the specific parts

1900
02:18:46.760 --> 02:18:52.639
about specific people in our lives,
right, right, right, I'm keeping

1901
02:18:52.719 --> 02:18:56.799
all the names. What do you
mean you are Jake's editing. Yeah.

1902
02:18:56.959 --> 02:19:05.200
Yeah, he's the fupeteer here.
Jake Decker is Jake. Jakes don't got

1903
02:19:05.239 --> 02:19:11.000
all of our balls and advice because
we've said so many names. I can't

1904
02:19:11.040 --> 02:19:16.000
wait for cancel us, can't wait
for cool Judge Jake again and December or

1905
02:19:16.040 --> 02:19:22.319
whatever. Fuck he's a jerk.
I aw, I don't think he's cool.

1906
02:19:22.440 --> 02:19:26.000
I don't think he's behind the scenes
stuff. He's not a cool Judge.

1907
02:19:26.920 --> 02:19:31.799
Rejuvenating Judge we gotta make some new
decisions. We gotta mix it up,

1908
02:19:31.959 --> 02:19:35.239
gotta change it. No, I
want cool judge J again. I

1909
02:19:35.319 --> 02:19:37.879
can do a character if you want. I'm really good at voices accents.

1910
02:19:37.959 --> 02:19:41.120
Oh my god, I mean all
the presidents. You cycled between every president

1911
02:19:41.319 --> 02:19:46.680
yeah, uh huh. Get a
lot of mustaches going yep, yeah,

1912
02:19:48.239 --> 02:19:54.719
that's my uh. And that's the
email section. Thank you Piston, and

1913
02:19:54.840 --> 02:20:01.000
thank you Sean. Uh. Like
I said you you can rent through fireskit

1914
02:20:01.079 --> 02:20:05.159
cast at gmail dot com s and
some questions. We've gotten quite a lot

1915
02:20:05.639 --> 02:20:09.879
of quasi corrections saying we should have
used cotton candy. People said you could

1916
02:20:09.920 --> 02:20:13.799
just the email said we could have
access to water. So he's pour water

1917
02:20:13.920 --> 02:20:16.840
into the tub with the cotton candy. You just drink most of it.

1918
02:20:16.920 --> 02:20:20.799
The straws. Where the fuck?
We're all of you? And I think

1919
02:20:20.840 --> 02:20:28.159
that's against the spirit in which the
that's the that's the galaxy brain solve.

1920
02:20:28.200 --> 02:20:35.360
I like it. Mary. Where
can people go for some hot threads?

1921
02:20:39.280 --> 02:20:46.399
I think they can go to fire
Escape merch cast dot fireskate merch dot com.

1922
02:20:46.799 --> 02:20:54.159
You can get some fucking sweet shirts, some mugs people have been rioting.

1923
02:20:54.520 --> 02:20:56.959
I'll have you know in my friend's
circle, and by people who have

1924
02:20:56.000 --> 02:21:01.239
been writing, I mean two people, my fiance and my good friend Rachel,

1925
02:21:01.959 --> 02:21:09.680
my good friend fighting for this merch
people here specifically there pissed that there's

1926
02:21:09.680 --> 02:21:13.399
no banana yellow crop top. Oh
you want a banana yellow crop top.

1927
02:21:15.079 --> 02:21:18.399
I might be able to add such
a thing you. I think you can.

1928
02:21:20.639 --> 02:21:26.440
But go to Fireskate March dot com
for some fucking sick rags. Also

1929
02:21:26.680 --> 02:21:31.879
working on new designs that I'm very
excited about. But we'll get there.

1930
02:21:31.920 --> 02:21:33.959
When we get there. There's new
stuff in the works. It's stuff in

1931
02:21:35.000 --> 02:21:41.239
the works making some tweaks and getting
it ready for full production. Dan,

1932
02:21:41.639 --> 02:21:46.959
what can people do on Spotify the
five Stars wherever you get your podcasts?

1933
02:21:48.040 --> 02:21:52.840
Easy? Thank click, couple of
buttons there help us out. Other than

1934
02:21:52.920 --> 02:21:56.559
that, where I'm at is are
we doing that? Are we doing the

1935
02:21:56.559 --> 02:22:01.440
plug thing? That? Did that? Conflate this giant bomb dot com?

1936
02:22:01.680 --> 02:22:03.559
For the point people to one thing, I would say, bat Grub,

1937
02:22:05.040 --> 02:22:07.120
it's our Blake club thing where we
play the worst games ever. And Grub

1938
02:22:07.360 --> 02:22:11.959
is playing Batman Dark Tomorrow for the
GameCube, which he is saying is the

1939
02:22:13.120 --> 02:22:15.920
worst game he has ever played,
and This is a man who just got

1940
02:22:15.959 --> 02:22:18.719
done playing bubbsy three D on Giant
Bomb. So check out the Batman Dark

1941
02:22:18.799 --> 02:22:24.440
Tomorrow stuff we've been doing on Giant
Bomb. It's been a hoot. Mary,

1942
02:22:24.520 --> 02:22:28.319
what about you. I'm strumming on
Twitch most mondays. I've been playing

1943
02:22:28.319 --> 02:22:33.280
a lot of these wholesome games because
of the Wholesome Fest on Steam. I

1944
02:22:33.319 --> 02:22:37.760
think there's like up to ninety percent
off some wholesome games on Steam. So

1945
02:22:37.920 --> 02:22:41.479
I've been loving that. Yeah,
So Twitch is usually where you can find

1946
02:22:41.520 --> 02:22:46.479
me. I'm at Polygon. Got
a lot of stuff up about Bather's Gate

1947
02:22:46.559 --> 02:22:52.680
three, got some more games coming
down the pike, got Armored Cores six,

1948
02:22:52.239 --> 02:22:56.399
got some Total War Warhammer three DLC
good stuff, got some blasphemous two.

1949
02:22:58.799 --> 02:23:01.559
Got some some Starfield not too far
from now, about a month from

1950
02:23:01.559 --> 02:23:05.520
now last if you pre order what
September one, getting ready for that,

1951
02:23:05.799 --> 02:23:07.360
it's like to try that out.
Got a lot of a lot of good

1952
02:23:07.360 --> 02:23:11.200
stuff going up on polygon dot com. A lot of movies and stuff,

1953
02:23:11.239 --> 02:23:16.559
and continuing Oppenheimer coverage and TV stuff
as well. That's our episode. It's

1954
02:23:16.600 --> 02:23:20.600
episode sixty one. Who what are
we gonna do for Episode one? Hundred.

1955
02:23:22.000 --> 02:23:24.200
We did it. We got some
time, We got plenty of time.

1956
02:23:26.239 --> 02:23:30.879
We're just doing the math quick.
It will not happen around Xmas,

1957
02:23:31.440 --> 02:23:35.760
No, not at all. I'm
just trying to do some basic math right

1958
02:23:35.799 --> 02:23:39.600
now, which I'm worse at than
complicated math. This will go up on

1959
02:23:39.639 --> 02:23:45.559
the fourteenth. People listen to this
on day one of August. So stands

1960
02:23:45.680 --> 02:23:52.639
to reason two per month from none. That'll take. I put a calendar

1961
02:23:52.799 --> 02:23:58.040
in the discord. If you want
to see like a little I tried to

1962
02:23:58.120 --> 02:24:05.200
like I'm predicted it. You put
a shark with heaving breasts with a bikini

1963
02:24:05.360 --> 02:24:09.920
on. I got you, what
a nice thing. I clicked over to

1964
02:24:09.000 --> 02:24:13.360
see the information and then did not
get information. Nope, I mean we

1965
02:24:13.440 --> 02:24:16.520
got got some information. I don't
know if that's the word for it.

1966
02:24:16.920 --> 02:24:22.760
What does a shark look like with
huge boobs? I guess in a technical

1967
02:24:22.879 --> 02:24:26.559
sense that information. The MSB got
some information, if you know what I

1968
02:24:26.639 --> 02:24:33.760
mean, my Hardy's Bank Bank.
I don't know. It'll be like it'll

1969
02:24:33.760 --> 02:24:37.120
be like two and a half years
since until we're at episode one hundred,

1970
02:24:37.200 --> 02:24:41.200
We've we've got tons of plans already. It'll be great. We gotta figure

1971
02:24:41.200 --> 02:24:48.360
out is the plan. Yeah,
we're ten. Yes, that's the plan.

1972
02:24:50.120 --> 02:24:52.600
We'll see whether it'll happen. We
gotta starry. We'll make some arrangements

1973
02:24:52.639 --> 02:24:58.280
here soon. Yes, it'll be
good. It'll be fun. Judge stuff

1974
02:24:58.360 --> 02:25:03.600
brought. I was coughing. Oh
chick. Fire escapecasts on YouTube? Oh

1975
02:25:03.680 --> 02:25:07.040
yes, follow fire escapecasts on YouTube
because that's where we will be. That's

1976
02:25:07.040 --> 02:25:09.159
where the archive will be. Is
because we have a YouTube channel now,

1977
02:25:09.200 --> 02:25:13.000
so check it out there. We'll
do it live again. We don't have

1978
02:25:13.120 --> 02:25:16.559
a Twitch channel, so maybe that'll
just be the usual thing. We'll have

1979
02:25:16.600 --> 02:25:20.239
to talk about that the YouTube.
Definitely check out fire Escape cast on YouTube.

1980
02:25:20.559 --> 02:25:22.680
That's where it will live. But
then we will give you updates on

1981
02:25:22.760 --> 02:25:24.239
words and be streamed and all that
stuff. And of course you can just

1982
02:25:24.319 --> 02:25:28.639
listen to it here on this speed
and then the YouTube channels also where Mary

1983
02:25:28.680 --> 02:25:31.879
and I are playing through Resue before
remake, we brought Knevel over to the

1984
02:25:31.920 --> 02:25:35.760
fire Escape YouTube, so if nothing
else, you're still getting notifications for when

1985
02:25:35.799 --> 02:25:39.479
we put up the new episodes of
that show. Mary I also put up

1986
02:25:39.520 --> 02:25:43.760
our short of Dan talking about possibly
eating a turret on YouTube, just because

1987
02:25:43.799 --> 02:25:48.559
it's funny. I've been I've been
playing around with our content. You know,

1988
02:25:48.760 --> 02:25:52.239
if you see some weird shit on
our socials that I was in there,

1989
02:25:52.040 --> 02:25:56.520
you just beat and rescue before we
make you just beat well heafe.

1990
02:25:58.319 --> 02:26:01.360
Yeah. It was super fun.
It was really it was really funny because

1991
02:26:01.399 --> 02:26:03.879
like I was kind of at the
end of my rope where I was like,

1992
02:26:03.000 --> 02:26:05.920
man, this episode has been long
and exhausting, and then it was

1993
02:26:07.000 --> 02:26:11.399
like, now you have to beat
a man who is kind of a centipede.

1994
02:26:11.840 --> 02:26:15.920
Sake, I'm not ready for this
amount of like pain. But the

1995
02:26:16.000 --> 02:26:18.319
boss fight wasn't nearly as hard as
the Trebuche. I was not prepared for

1996
02:26:18.360 --> 02:26:24.000
the difficulty that the Trebuche brought me. Yeah, I can repeat that area

1997
02:26:24.079 --> 02:26:28.879
like time annoying. Yeah, I
gave you that guy ass handed to me

1998
02:26:30.719 --> 02:26:35.079
those barrels. Yeah, I blame
Capcom for my back. I said that,

1999
02:26:35.319 --> 02:26:37.600
and Mike was like, you don't
need to do No, you just

2000
02:26:37.959 --> 02:26:41.120
don't listen. Just don't listen to
Mike. It's taken. We're in the

2001
02:26:41.280 --> 02:26:45.399
sixteenth season of that show and you
still follow my every word I do.

2002
02:26:46.479 --> 02:26:50.280
God help me. Okay, thank
you everybody. That was episode sixty one.

2003
02:26:50.959 --> 02:26:54.840
Thanks for joining. We'll be back
in a couple of weeks with episode

2004
02:26:54.840 --> 02:27:00.200
sixty two. More games, more
movies. Hopefully i'll see Dead Racketing Heart

2005
02:27:00.239 --> 02:27:03.639
one by then, a lot of
a lot of life changes, got some

2006
02:27:03.719 --> 02:27:05.239
stuff to catch up on. It'll
be a fun one. Everyone we have

2007
02:27:05.360 --> 02:27:11.840
seen Barber, don't fucking miss it. Will be here, or I swear

2008
02:27:11.920 --> 02:27:16.959
to God, I will find you. I will come to your house.

2009
02:27:20.360 --> 02:27:22.559
Send me your address first, and
then I'll come to your house. I'll

2010
02:27:22.600 --> 02:27:28.399
be there if you don't show up
for sixty one security number and your address,

2011
02:27:28.719 --> 02:27:31.639
and a list of your fears,
yes, list of your weaknesses too,

2012
02:27:31.840 --> 02:27:35.360
if you have any like achilles heels. Like literally, if your heel's

2013
02:27:35.399 --> 02:27:41.159
weak, tell me I'll get I'll
get a flail. It'll be fun.

2014
02:27:41.440 --> 02:28:07.879
Love it all right by everybody may
see May the st style