Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, July second, twenty twenty four. Welcome to
the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and forty seven, powered by n z
XT. I am your host today. Jim a Choa, Jeff Grubb,
Jeff Backler out on assignment. Everything's broken, Dan also out on assignment.
That run. Everyone. If you've ever seen us in person, shook our
hands, give a warm hug. Your body is going to break down soon.
And that is just a guarantee we are our own star player. I
use that la week. I'm going to continue to use again because the statement
is still true. Good good Lucy. James. Mmm. Hello, So
I'm just pouring my coffee. So if you're listening at home, that's what
that sounded, pouring a coffee or peeing into a cup. And don't even
ask. But I wanted to shout out ABC because they got me this mug.
I believe gimpum live and it's my new like I rotate my mugs around
and so this is this snoopy mugs Weaken the Sun and I love it so
much. Thank you, ABC. Speaking about a week in the Sun.
We are graced with his presence. His he shines bright like a diamond and
the sun two more, Hussein, Oh you're talking about someone else there.
Hello, I am drinking from a water bottle that has this dumb Batman on
it. Speaking about Batman, he's our own Batman. He's our cape crusader.
He perches on rooftops, he hangs out with gargoyles, he's he's he
avenges. He has a strategy to take us all down. And I'm scared
that I'm next. Mike Manatti. Hi, I have a tortured pass and
a dark alter ego, and I'm drinking from the subway cup filled with mostly
dia coke. You put a splash of just normal doctor Pepper in there,
though, and it kind of just tastes like doctor Pepper. It's nice.
We laid down some a challenge in certain parameters for Mike, which is going
to be very difficult because of my Show and Tell segment here. I went
to a Giants game over the weekend. The game started at one, but
there was a certain giveaway, and then my partner and I thought, wow,
we need this giveaway, so let's get there at ten o'clock, way
too early for a baseball game. And then you know, I got mixed
feelings already on baseball, especially San Francisco Giants. But Mike Manatty. Look
at this new silly hat I got. Okay, look, Oh that's interesting.
It seems to have two circular objects attached to the top of it in
a kind of symmetrical pattern. Does it remind me of anything specifically? Though?
Pretty cool though jan audio listeners can't see it. But Mike is just
like straining right now. You see the vein in his forehead. Yeah,
I'm trying. My best friend Tam happy. They want me to not talk
about something specifically here, and I'm gonna show Tam that I can do it.
My other favorite observation from the weekend. At this baseball game, we're
playing against the Dodgers, and as a as a Bay Area resident born and
raised, I've been conditioned to hate the Dodgers for no specific reason other than
them being from LA. But I could not hate on the adorable little old
Asian women with their show Heyo Tani Jerseys repping for show Hey. I'm like,
damn, there's two people that love show Hey a Tani the most all
these old Asian women, and Michael him loves ms oh Hey for show.
Hey, that's what they're called today? Baby should be. When I was
in Little Tokyo recently, I guess that's really close to where the Dodgers play,
because everybody was walking around in Dodgers' uniforms and stuff. There's all sorts
of stuff even in a little Tokyo for them. I thought that was neat.
How's ever doing? How was the weekend? I'm saying, I'm seeing
the Beach Boys tonight. They're still alive, some of them must be.
I don't know how many, but enough of them are alive that they are
performing in Youngstown, Ohio tonight as the Beach Boys. So is Uncle Jesse
going to be there? I hope so? Uh damn. Maybe think of
something I can't talk about, but yeah, I hope Uncle Jesse is there.
We have similar interests that I won't go into detail about me and him.
Oh yeah, uh, but yeah, I have no idea what to
expect. We're taking my mom as like an early birthday gift. But yeah,
I don't know. Like I guess it'll be neat to say to say
I saw the Beach Boy in some form or another. I'm not really sure
what to be expecting. Quality wise or you know, authenticity wise here but
whatever, I'll get a beer, I'll watch them play their guitars and talk
about waves in the ocean, and you know, are they the Cocomo?
They are? But that's the one that nucle Jesse is really involved with.
Okay, Yeah, I associate Cocomo with the Muppets. I associate with the
Trolls. I had a VHS tape with like Muppet trolls actually, like made
by Jim that's Muppets and it was just a vignette of music videos and one
of them was Coocomo. So that's what the Beach Boys a big thing over
there for y'all. I mean, I enjoyed the Beach Boys a lot.
This tour is very intense, by the way, it's like July all the
way through to the end of October. Oh d I mean, who's who's
the touring band for more than six decades members Brian Wilson might love Al Jardine
and then like all of them have social networks. And then there's Dennis Wilson,
Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston, and David Marx, which is the one
who was involved with the Manson family. Oh what do you mean involved.
I would like to know, Like, umm, no, it didn't.
One of them, like the Mansons, like basically tried to befriend and then
like I think, played music with them. Oh no, okay, like
that, I'd have to google it. Okay, well I believe you.
But Uncle Jesse, Uncle Jesse, Charles Manson, Beach Boys, Joe Mitt
Beach Boys. Yeah, Never Learned Not To Love was a song recorded by
the American but rock band The Beach Boys. Credited to Dennis Wilson. The
song is an altered version of Cease to Exist, written by the Manson family
called Leader Charles Manson. Oh no, I remember this, Yeah, because
Mitson also has a thing with the Beatles, and he thought that Helter Skelter
was some kind of order for him to kill people, right, So yeah,
he's a weird relationship with music. Interesting I see here. July twenty
eighth, Lucy Tam. If y'all aren't doing anything, they're gonna be in
Sonny San Jose Tikis are a little road trip down wait for my review.
Let me let's see what Let's see what these Beach Boy fellas got in the
Year of Our Lord twenty twenty four, and I'll let you know if it's
if it's worth a little trip or not. I don't even know where they're
playing. I don't know this I don't know this venue. I mean yeah.
I also I saw I saw The Who when they were like seventy,
and they was still good, still really good. What do you call him?
The Rolling Stones are still killing it? So yeah, it was the
oldest person I saw. I saw Bob Seger like three or four years ago.
He was very old and it was still fun. I saw Paul McCartney
probably like twelve years ago now, and he was like old then, but
it was still great. So yeah, I'm sure it'll be fun. Pause.
It's Youngstown, Ohio. So I don't like drive to some city.
It's like a ten minute drive, So yeah, what the hell will go?
I do you think they have new music? Do you think they updated?
Come on? If they better not, they better not be like where's
the Beach Boys? Here's our new son? Come on? Yeah they are
surfing USA? Okay they are, you know? Come on? Then I
played pet Sounds, Yeah, like come on, who's the other band that
showed up to San Francisco recently and took over the Grateful Dead. Oh yeah,
the last show. It was the last proper show, and there were
a bunch of dead heads. We went to get brunch and like the entire
restaurant was just full of dead Heads, and there was like one person being
like I've seen them over a hundred times, and I was like, I
like they seem to hang out in that area, because we went to get
brunch again at the same place the other day and on the walk there,
I saw two people wearing a Grateful Dead Grateful Dead t shirts, So maybe
just hang out in this area. There's a lot of grateful dead heads,
uh, hanging out in SF at all times. Right, But the Beanie
Baby, no, I swear there's a grateful Dead bear. I don't know
what. Garcia was the rare beanie Baby for a bit, and it was
named after the bear everywhere in this city. And don't forget the Ben and
Jerry's flavor Garcia. Yes, yes, oh god, I could go for
ice cream. I don't know if I could name a grateful Dead song.
I gotta be honest, I don't think I've ever heard a grateful Dead song,
right, It's like I can I can't imagine the vibe right. If
you don't like name the song or to sing, well, I don't know.
I'm in trouble. Yeah, I couldn't do this. I can't do
it either. It never had hits. Okay, that's interesting. I think
I would confuse them with the Dire Straits if like, if I like convince
myself that Sultan of Swing was a grateful Dead song, I might be able
to pull that off. This is because my brain is slightly disney pilled.
But sometimes whenever I see the grateful Dead Skull, of course, never you,
Mike, I'm sorry for even mentioning it. Yes, please, it's
so annoying when you bring this up. I know it's my one thing.
I always think they're grateful dead skull. How it looks like the Pepsi logo.
I always think it's the Rescue Rangers icon or the logo, and it
gives me a little pop. Oh yeah, I'm not familiar with that program.
Mike. It's okay, it's all right, it's all right. You
don't have to hide anymore. It doesn't have a banging theme song or anything
with an incredible sex solo. Probably doesn't. Yeah, everyone else is good.
We're okay. It's gonna be a shorter week here at GBHQ because of
the holidays. We don't got to talk about the actual Well, what's happened?
Something happened really to hurt anybody's patriotism? What? No, way?
Never never? I okay, So I was at a county fair, right
and one this week? Is it? Is it the Alameda County Fair?
No, I'm going Marin oh no. But the problem is the problem is
jan we're gonna get hit with a heat wave this week. Yeah, we're
doing hit with it. Now. It's not me. I live on top
of a hill. Yeah, it must be in your Your neighborhood is always
way warmer than mine. But last year every went to the county fair.
It was the hottest day of the year, and that was you know,
not even with a heat wave. Some I'm genuinely concerned that I will melt
like like the Wicked Witch of the East. I don't know. I've never
seen Wicked. The West is the one who melts. I believe she was
always playing here. You've never seen it? What wicked? No, never
seen it? I don't know any No. Wait, is fabulous The song
from Wicked like No the Sharp Pase hit Soget High School Musical two only comes
second to bet On It. Though popular is what you may be, I
mean popular. But the problem is with with Wicked is the movie's lighting looks
really flat. I don't I don't know. Well that's the movie. We
don't want to worry about the movie. The musical is great music. Okay,
you know want Jenna will make a point to go see it. No,
no, no, we're gonna go see it. Mike, you're invited
because I've actually never seen Wicked. Uh yeah, I'm still better my one.
Yes, it's the which one. It's the Wizard of oz one where
it's like Disney or No. No, that's MGM stuff. Don't worry.
We're good. It's MGM public domain. It's fine. Uh but yeah,
my brothers went to see at one time and it was like a double date
for them and they're like, you can't go. It's like I want to
see Wicked. We will rectify that. Please make sure that you could come.
You can bring two dates if you want, and then we'll just awkwardly
sit behind you. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, it'll be like
what you're doing. It'll be one of those fun situations where you have two
dates and you got to like balance between both at the same time. Oh,
just got to keep going. Oh, I'm gonna go get popcorn.
I'm going to go to the Oh okay, missed out effect. Yeah,
like a bad ninety sitcom episode. Okay, yeah, I'm into that.
Sorry, Jimmy, that's our I was gonna say. You said you were
going to a Uh you went to a county fair? Yo? Too hot.
I can't do pleasanton pleasanton way too hot. Yeah. I never want
to go again. It was unpleasanton, very unpleasant. And also despite knowing
that the Alameda County Fair and knowing how counties work, I keep thinking,
this County Fair is going to be so much closer and be in Alameda.
You don't have to drive an hour away to pleasant No, No, Marenhatta
County Fair. Did you see the piglet racing. I did see the piglet
racing. Actually very good puns. I wanted to volunteer to be one of
the judges, but then they picked the children over me, and I catch
child. Yeah. Yeah, our big fairs in August. It's cause of
the can Field Fair. I'm not really a big fan of the fair.
I gotta be honest, it's it's it's a lot. It's a lot with
the smells and the animals. It sounds of the rides. I don't know.
Like we had our local fireworks on Saturday, and they like bring out
some of those trucks there, and like that's enough for me. I'll get
my fried cheese on a stick thing and watch fireworks. That's it. That's
all the fair flavor that I need. I remember why I brought it up
now. There was a local school art fair showcase in one of the booths.
Oh yeah, And there was a certain wood interpretation of the American flag
that maybe favors other people over others. Oh no. And then I was
like, huh, that's cool. This is supposed to be wood, and
you painted that that specific line the color blue. Okay, interesting, fun,
interesting, You got third place? All right? Suck at kid the
third place. They got third place. I don't know how many kids entered.
That's like worse than getting nothing. I don't want there, hope it
was one third place piece that you didn't notice me and thought it wasn't good
enough for anything. But the worst surprise we did like turn around and there
were a bunch of like little kid poems on the wall, and I was
like, oh, this is gonna be good. I love little kid poems
and see how they interpret the world. They're all bad, man, the
kids suck these days. When I went, yeah, oh, some kids
agreed. Yeah. So when I went to the Alim, they have those
little they have like little exhibits. I guess, did you see these?
And then exhibit was that? No? And so one of them was just
spam. A whole exhibit about spam. Hell yeah, wa email spam or
the meat? The meat? Oh yeah it Spam's had something of a glow.
When I was a kid, it was just the subject of jokes.
It was supposed to be discussing. And now I see like YouTube like Spam's
great. Fry up some spam. It's the best thing you've ever eaten.
I might have to try spam. Finally, Mikey, I like, next
time I see, Are you okay with seaweed? No? I don't like
the seaweed taste. I mean, look, if you want me to eat
some seaweed, I'll eat some seaweed. It's not like it's not an apple
thing where it's a phobia. I'll eat some seaweed. If you think it's
integral to your spam plan, Yes, it's integral to my spamas. Yeah.
In Hawaii, one of my favorite things that I bought from Maui was
a special edition can of spam. It was great. What a special edition
about it? It was just more yellow in the front with a flower.
Ooh, it was it was very special. I did not bust open the
spam despite being hungry. Well, we're gonna have you gotta save that.
We're gonna have spam and we're gonna watch Wicked and get to see the beach
boys. That is the plan for the rest of the summer. Mike,
you're invited. Everyone else listening right now, you're also invited. Right now,
we gotta talk about video games. Never never microwave spam. Don't.
God bless my late grandmother, but never microwave spam for your loved one.
Don't do it. Don't do it. Sam in the place that I live,
it's that was a weird Al song. Maybe that's why I assumed spam
was a joke. My TikTok has given me so many clips of that weird
Al movie with apparently it's really good. I mean, like I really enjoyed
the clips and like Dania Radcliffe is singing like he's no, he's not.
No, it doesn't look like he was. I thought he was singing.
No, it's just a weird al Is it actually a me? It looks
decinct in a way. All the clips look like a second a millisecond off,
and you can tell he's like, something weird is going on. Yeah,
it's it's it's I think it's all purposeful that it's it's a good movie.
The guy I may have seen live more than anyone else is weird,
weird, especially as a kid. God, I think I saw what I
saw them three times in one tour, that Running with Scissors tour, the
legend legendary one. This is good. Uh, you know, weird.
Al has had to dance through a lot of weird. Copyright and IP laws
can be very dangerous in dealing with, just like it's dangerous to deal with
Elder Ring Shadow of the Urd Treey Mike, it says, you've played this
year and I know that Tam and Lucy have played it, but your adventures.
I finished it. I beat it over the weekend, damn it.
But yeah, yep, I got through the whole thing. I got all
the major remembrances, so I thought all of the major bosses. The last
bossucking too specific it. You know, everyone's talking about it's hard, and
it was. It took me forty three attempts, I know, but it
was a lot of fun. I'm I mean, how disappointed would it be
if the last boss wasn't hard, right? I mean it's kind of the
last boss of all of Elder Ring at this point, so yeah, it
should be this impressive challenge and it's this very dramatic fight. It's a very
cool fight. I may have even had an advantage. It's hard to tell,
but it seems like people think a shield build is the way to go,
and that just happens to have been my build throughout all of Out and
Ring. I think that's fair because in Base Out and Ring, like Millennia
and maybe I'm missing something, shows were really bad against her because their scarlet
rot thing just went through the shield. So blocking did nothing on that one.
So like that that was a fight at least for me. I just
like I got to just summon other people and I'm gonna kind of do my
best. What not, No, We're done. I was able to do
with just me and the mimic, and you know, boy, the mimic
does help. I actually never got the mimic tier until trying that fight for
a billy. This is pretty hard. One's like, you should probably get
the mimic tier. It's like, okay, I guess I'll finally do that.
And yeah, that was a big help, along with you know,
the skibbity tree fragments. I got to level sixteen the Maxus twenty, so
I died to get all of them, but sixteen was enough get me there.
But yeah, it was, you know it just it felt really great
to beat that boss. The bosses in general I thought were really neat.
Some of my favorite in the whole game, like the first three major ones
that lie in the Moon Girl and then Mesmer all were really really cool.
That dragon you fight on top of the mountain with that guy that Grubb killed
immediately because he has no sun, yeah, just screaming. I love that
for him. So yeah, I had a really good time with the expansion.
I don't want to get too much into the difficulty discourse other than to
me, it did not seem that different from my experience with Based Outer Ring.
Again, that last boss was hard, but of course it is.
It's the last boss. It wasn't anything that I wasn't able to overcome eventually.
Yeah, I have decided I'm just gonna wait until maybe September October to
go into Shadow the urg Tree get Away for all the heat to die down.
Good way for everyone else to figure everything else out. A lot of
games coming out around and then jam, yeah, you're in it right now.
You're in a bit of a dead zone where playing something like this is
perfect. See, this is like the dead zone that we're in. And
I was thinking, like, well, I know what to expect. We
Shadow of the Urgery. Maybe we go explore the back catalog of a bunch
of miscellaneous crap. That's a that's a very frequent trap that people fall into
where they add it, where they add a massive game to their back list.
And I'm like, I'll play this later, I'll play a small game.
Right now. I want to just like maybe take like a Sunday or
something and just dedicate the whole day of like, all right, I got
like two more hours in this game, an hour left in that game.
Good old mop up, mop Up? How many times has that gone well?
For you, it's never gone well. And then I always wait until
the week before we leave the game of the year and they're like, all
right, cool it only it only really works if you know specifically, like
one or two games that you need to shop. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
And the problem is for me, I would definitely be motivated once I
get into elden Ring to just stick with a rhythm, because, like you
know, the muscle memory is so important. I've taken so much time now
from Final Fantasy seven rebirth that I don't I don't know if I want to
go back. Yeah, you were saying if I want to mop it up.
You and Jeff are saying they like, yeah, it's fine, and
look as somebody who's that's their game of the year, it probably it hurts
a little bit. But I get it. I get it if you don't
have as much like an attachment. Oh yeah, but you know, I'm
a I'm a final, big Final Fantasy guy, and I just I'm like
a sick of like the thing people complain about the game, like there's too
many mini games. I love that ship. Oh the stupider the mini game,
the better. I'm like, oh yeah, this feels like a ps
one game and all the way that's really scratching it and it's for me.
I love that garbage. I just want to see the ending though, because
of how polarizing it seemed to be when it came out, and it just
fine dog like, I mean, tain those one of the worst paced games
I've played in a long time. Okay, okay, but if you really
just want to see the ending, like, just just hit the YouTube mane.
Yeah it's interesting. I mean, you know, yeah, I don't
want to get too intant, but you can still enjoy the game knowing what
the ending. I mean, hey, look in some ways, I mean
it's a remake, you right, the ending, we kind of know what
it is, and you can see this interpretation of it and you still want
to play the game. You'll you'll be fine, kind of going back to
oldermings. It is interesting, like seeing like a bit more discourses kind of
pop up about it. I'm seeing some criticisms laid out about how some of
the map feels. People are saying unfinished, and I think that's maybe a
bit rough, but I don't know if you've seen this Tambli. People are
kind of complaining about some of those more bonus areas and how kind of relatively
empty or less dense they can feel compared to kind of that like that that
sort of left area of the map that's kind of where all of the main
path is right, and then when you're going off to like those like those
giant ruined areas where it's nothing but you kind of ride your horse to the
hand and you blow into the horn, right. I think that's something that
at the point that's that's a narrative thing. Yeah, it's an area of
design to be Yeah, I feel like that area serves a purpose. It's
not designed to be a thing where you really explore and and like fight a
bunch of enemies. It's it has a major narrative purpose. It like that
area is huge implications for the story and character stuff. So and it's meant
to be arresting instead of challenging. So I when I got there, I
spent a lot of time in there looking around and trying to figure out what
was going on and what it meant. But it doesn't have loads of boss
I mean, one of them has a boss, but you kind of have
to go to two other ones before you get to it. So it's it
has it serves a function I think is more is as important as having loads
of gameplay opportunities there if I had any actual like criticisms, I don't love
the the side quest work, even in base on a ring where I really
would have no idea what is a side quest or how to progress a side
quest without like you know, the online guides and like, I know,
it's like that's kind of the fun of it. It's like, oh,
it's like the schoolyard thing you have to kind of talk to people to figure
out what it is. But this day and age, it really is just
well, I'm going to google what am I supposed to do next? And
a lot of times it's kind of like random, like okay, leadas saying
this, I need her to say that, Well you have to talk to
this person and do this thing. It's sometimes nonsensical, right, I mean,
there's like the one thing where you know, without too many spoilers,
you do something and it kills you. You're like, well that's bad,
right, It's like, well, no, do that. Let it kill
you three more times and then maybe something happens, and you know, it's
very cryptic, and I get the crypticness is part of the fun of it.
Yeah, it's more a case of, like the general rule has been
since Demonsuls, like, once you do anything significant or you feel like you've
done a certain amount of progress, you just should do a sweep of all
the NPCs where you know they are and just talk to them. And they
kind of make that a little bit easier by putting icons on the map to
say like, here's where the NPCs are, So like, the best practice
is just speak to everyone, because chances are they'll have something you'd say,
unless they're a vender, in which case they'll probably just say the same thing
over and over again. But I yeah, I feel like there's only really
one that I lost track calls because I just kept sweeping through everyone. It
takes like a couple of minutes to do it anyway. Usually they're mostly located
in the same areas, like the then near the uh mesber kind of has
a bunch of them, yeahs Mesmes area, but also like the Michela's ruins,
they're usually hanging around there. Yes, Yeah, it's basic kind of
like RPGA style approach to it. Well, the other thing that maybe,
but but you know, the skippity tree fravers. I think that was a
smart system to have the power kind of scale to this new thing instead of
it just being player level. But it kind of got to a point where,
you know, every time you go off a beaten path or you fight
a bus or something, you want specifically those skibbetyresh shadow tree fragments so much
that if you got almost anything else, it was kind of like, well
this is worthless. Like right, it's like, oh great, another ash
of War that isn't the mimic tear or another spell and I'm a strength bill.
It's like you know it. They kind of become like it's a scavenger
hunt for this one item and everything else is bad. Is yeah? Say
so they moved stuff around from the review build to the main release, like
they actually moved items, and unfortunately now that means I have no idea where
the thorn ash of War is. I followed like I was like I was
seeing everyone saying, oh my god, it's really fun. It's like really
broken. I wanted to try out, and I went back and I looked
at my inventory. I don't have it. I went to the place where
all the YouTube and all the guides say that it is and it's not there,
and I'm just like, well, shit, so I wonder how much
else has Yeah. I think the thing that they did really well in the
base game that they could have done here but they chose not to for some
reason is have more. In the base game, they had more golden seeds
than you need. You can like have an excess of them and have like
max out all the all the stats on that you would use the golden seed
for, whereas the scurity fragments there are an exact amount. And it means
that if you like don't like, for example, I've got like maybe a
few that I haven't collected, I have no idea where they are, right,
I can't remember. I can't remember where they are, and like,
thankfully, like I'm still playing the game, so I'm running around and doing
stuff for funzis. But the only way for me to really figure it out
is to sit down with a guide and go to each one one by one
and see if they're there. Yeah, I think that's what I'm waiting for.
I'm waiting for folks to find me the most critical path. And speaking
about path, Tam, you've been following a certain path, Yes, you
can follow the Goddess exactly unit. I can't say it. You can do
it. I believe in you give it another shot. Gami. Path of
the Goddess nailed it. You did it, Sorry Instagami. Part of the
Goddess demo for it is out now. That's what I played. It was
available to play at Summer Game Fest, but I didn't get a chance to
play it this so I'm very glad that they released the demo. I think
it's the same build. Very interesting. Game is decidedly old school capcom like
in that they made a game that is very weird and it feels like it's
from the same stable as stuff like Okami and like god Hand and Beautiful Joe,
where they came up with a weird, weird idea. I can't that
would make the podcast, but they came up with a goofy idea and they're
just running with it. Not goofy, but it's a It is effectively a
taw defense game, which is which is interesting. But the whole thing is
like you're it looks like you're climbing up a very very very large mountain because
like there's a stage select and it's superimposed. The levels are super imposed over
him mountain and there's loads of shrines on the way up there, and I
was like scrolling down the mountain. It's like very large. And the setup
is you start on one side. You have a princess or a goddess I
guess, and you effectively have to just craft a or carve a path through
like a miasma of demon darkness in each level so that she can walk along
it or dance along it. And there's a day night cycle where at night
waves of enemies appear and during the day you have to run around and cleanse
villages and chop down these weird plants that have been growing to collect resources and
use that to assign rolls, upgrade rolls, and then you know, use
it to carve the path, so you get these little orbs, and that
effectively is a kind of meter for you. So you run up to where
the goddess is and you hold circle I think it was, and then you
hold forward and your character run forward and kind of cut his way through a
darkness path and create this kind of golden path for her to walk along.
And then you can do and then this complexity is like you can assign villages
to quickly defend or attack the defend the goddess, or attack the target that
you're on, and then there's like a character action light the game in there
as well, where you directly control your character, move them around and do
like you know, square square square triangle or square squares square delay triangle,
that kind of stuff to take out enemies and it works surprisingly well. It
doesn't feel like it has anything new idea wise in there, but I think
they've just gone through and like very put together a really tight loop and then
kind of incatese that all in a very Japanese, very Clover era esthetic for
the game, and it's it works really well. Surprisingly. I'm not super
into tower defense games, so I haven't been in a long time. Yeah,
but I I enjoyed what I played. The demo has like a couple
of stages and the boss fight and a upgrade system that you can take a
look at, which is fun. You go into like a town area that
you're constantly coming back to, and then the Princess or the Goddess is sitting
there and you're like, she's got a table in front of it, and
she got a couple of books and I played with some food on it and
you interact with it, and it's it's an upgradio character and upgrade your villagers,
et cetera, et cetera. It's it seems fun. It's also like
very fireworks, which I think is the kind of esthetic that they're going for.
They're like, I think the main thing is like everything you do is
like a fireworks sound. It's like a bba bab It's like so weird,
but it's also fun. It's very perfect, up upbeat in a way that
I didn't expect. But you played this at Summer Game Fest, and I,
yeah, I think it is just this demo that you're talking about.
And I mean when I was shocked that it was so tower defensie that when
I first saw that trail where I was like, oh, they're just making
a hack and slash. So even though like like tower fence isn't my favorite
thing either, but I'm glad that there's something here besides just the basic hack
and slash. And I thought the boss fight is specifically was cool because there's
almost a bit more of a pigment thing happening there as opposed to tower defense,
with kind of setting your people at the boss a certain times and making
them retreat at other times. Like the combo system is neat too, because
it's basically you have light tax and heavy attacks, and every combo is like
one light attack and heavy attack, two light attacks and heavy attack three in
right, So it's all simple, but it all does different things. So
yeah, yeah, I was into it. There's also like a certain enemies
have a overshield that you need to use specific attacks to bring down. And
then once you factor that into the waves of enemies, you have like a
target prioritization strategy that you need to come up with and execute on. And
it's it's got just enough moving parts to keep various parts of your own brain
occupied and your hands moving, and it has that satisfaction of like, I
know I need to do X y Z in this moment, and you quickly
run and take it off and then you run back to the goddess and move
her forward, and it has that constant feeling or forward momentum. And when
it does block you with you know a large group of enemies, you have
the tools available to you to you know, quickly shift strategies and execute on
it and then go step back and be like, yeah, I nail that
one. And carry on, and they if they really I think the important
thing is going to be how do they structure the levels around this? Because
the kind of set up phase during the day has a nice like you move
your character and also like run around do these small areas. But how elaborate
does it become? I can see it becoming very, very like overwhelming for
some people because there's like loads of paths, and it's like you put one
person here, one person there, and then you have to sometimes move them
around on the fly or run up to them and change their their role quickly.
And I had situations sometimes where two characters have been standing next to each
other and I keep accidentally changing the wrong roll, and I'd be like,
in the UI is a bit messy. But I think it's just a case
of like, I'll get there eventually, once I've done it enough times,
it will it will click for me. When's the last time you all enjoyed
a tower defense game? It said, not usually my thing? Star fucks
guard on the wiu. Oh boy, I like I like a balloons defense.
Yeah that's good. Oh if thirteen sentinels counting, Yeah, thirteen sentinels
is actually pretty right, I guess okay, yeah, kind of it's kind
of strategy kind of that. Yeah, I guess the do's the mini game
in Final Fantasy Rebirth Count. That was pretty fun. Condo condo, Yeah,
kind of tower defense kind of more of a clash royale like, yeah,
I guess I don't say that. I might get activated. Oh there's
a Balloons six. Yeah, I think it's on Apple Arcade. There was
definitely a balloons on Arcade. Oh my god, I love I used to
I used to love balloons. I never can aired for plants versus zombies.
I just got admitted, Oh you know, we can still be friends.
But yeah, I didn't even think about plant zombies. But yeah, that's
what I'm one of those people who I will get on a flight and I
will just complete Plant Swiss Zombies in one saying so, okay, okay,
big gaming. I remember, what's that legend? Oh boy, I enjoyed
all the other aspects of Brutal Legend other than the tower defense. I remember,
like, I don't know if this is where originally I remember just playing
tower defense games because they were custom maps and Warcraft three. I think that's
the first time. I think that's the origin of tower Defense. Yeah,
yeah, it was like that you played weird early DODA back when it was
actually the defense of the Ancients and stuff like that, those formulative stuff happening
in those custom maps back then. Speaking about formulative stuff in places of origin,
a game that I've been playing ever so slightly is until then a game
that takes place in the Philippines, my people's place of origin. Uh,
this is what's up? What people is that Filipino? Okay, think Ben?
That means I thought it was a funny question, and then I was
right, chanceld Mitch, right, look chancel him. Uh this is another
little story, visual novelle esque game. Uh, this has kind of been
my bag lately a thousand times. Resist kind of got a little too deep
and existential for me. Uh so I worry about that. Yeah. Yeah,
there are parts of it where I kind of had to put the Steam
deck down realize I'd just taken twenty screenshots in the past like five minutes.
I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna put this down. Is making me think
too hard about my existence and my place in the greater universe and whether any
of it matters. I can't think like this right now in midnight anyway,
but until then is a very quaint coming of age tail set in the Philippines.
In this immediately had me charmed from the get go with the little nuances
to Filipino culture. It starts with kind of like a title text crawl as
it's going through about like who I assume is the main character, kind of
reflecting on the events of the game further into the game, and it's all
set to the cheesiest sad piano music that he's so prolific throughout Filipino cinema that
I fucking hate, but hearing it here, it's like, Oh, they're
doing the thing. Look at them, Look at them, They're doing the
thing. Oh my god. And then yeah it I'm a big proponent.
I think we all are for representation in video games, and it's is really
cool to see stuff that I'm like semi familiar with represented in a video game.
It takes place in Philippines in twenty fourteen, so you know, we're
just getting to the advancement of like social media, and how prolific that is.
Oh my god. There the idea that twenty fourteen is like some like
old date. Now that's upsetting, But those ten years ago. I guess
it was her point. And it's fun so far because they do a good
job of mixing how they're telling the story other than just a straight up dialogue
sequences where you know your phone plays a big role into it. Mark,
your player character, his relationship with a piano also starts to play into it,
and how music evolves into it with his relationship with it. Yes,
tam Is Marke Filipino name. Yes, Mark is a huge okay, just
making sure yes, yes, that's a high mark, thank you, Mick.
And yeah, there's like just tons and tons of like little easter eggs
alluding to Filipino culture. It's really heartwarming to see, even down to having
the player characters were uniforms to school, because that's such a big thing in
the Philippines of having uniforms to private schools, and then the main character being
like, nah, I don't want to take the bus bus to dirty and
then even seeing all of the litter on the streets, I'm like, damn,
that's home over there. Home. They allude of course, they of
course have to allude to jolly be, but instead of doing jolly Be,
they have angry cow. I believe it's called and yeah, some of the
background chatter is is in Tagalog, which is really neat to see. I
really want to I have no idea how long this is supposed to be,
and I hope this doesn't give me another existential crisis that I have to bounce
off of it temporarily. But it's really cute so far. It's funny because
I got an achievement for lying to a friend, so I think I'm just
going to continue doing that. Ohn, Yes, Tam is lying to a
friend. Filipino thing. Michael Hyman and I have never been truthful with each
It doesn't get him chancel. That's like, that's a that's a negative.
I was just asking a dumb question. Brown's good for the get down.
But we did think you could have passed as a Filipino at one point,
Mike, Yeah, if I if I gotten the son, I don't know.
The thing that got you is that you weren't able to put with your
lips. See now, it's just like you're making kissy faces. Yeah,
what's going on with my lips? Can you strong for me? What's point?
This point with your lips will show me I'll see Tam to go.
Yeah, yeah, okay, you're getting it, Mi, No, No,
it's too much like it. You have to kind of tilt your head
as well. Yeah, I'm trying to like take a sip of something.
Yeah, yeah, exactly like you're taking a sip but pointing it. Okay,
so it's less like side movement and just yeah forward for audio listeners,
I did it the best, for sure, Absolutely you did. I don't
know what we're doing here. Uh. Going from my internet is like kind
of dipping in and out, So I am like three or four seconds behind
all of you, and I'm just trying to be like, which is peak
podcasting? This is what it looks like. Well, I'll set you up,
Lucy for you to talk for an extended period of time that we won't
interrupt, because this game takes place in twenty fourteen, much like a game
that you're currently playing and put on the dock here. Dragon Age Inquisition.
Oh nice, Chan, that was an unbelievable setue. Ten years since Dragon
Age Inquisition, you're nailing it. Yeah. I have decided to replay Dragon
Age Inquisition because Dragon Age the Veilguard is coming out this year. I am
because I like having a bunch of stuff on my plate. At all times.
I want to replay it because I want to. I don't know.
I want to feel the love for that little egg man all over again.
I want to feel something again. I want to feel something again. And
I I was playing it the other day and I like, made a character,
made it an Elf, and I was like, ah, I made
an elf rogue, not happy with it. When Mack made another character,
made a Canari warrior, not happy with them. And so then yesterday I
went back and I made an Elf mage, which is really annoying because that
is the exact character that I made ten years ago, and I wanted to
do something different. But this time, I'm not gonna date Cullen. If
you're part of the fandom, you will absolutely remember all that stuff I'm gonna
I'm gonna date Solus this time. Well, he only he only dates elves,
I think, ye, and I know I hate to see it.
Yeah, he only dates elves. And I'm really trying my hardest to to
make him like me. But also because I think that means you know,
the end of the game and Trespasser will hit doubly hard if my character has
Robanstone. This game is three dollars on the Steam right now. Yes,
it's no. So all of dragon Age was on like a massive sale.
So I also picked because I have I could have played it through game Pass,
although I don't know if it's on game Pass PC. But I picked
up dragon Age Origins and Inquisition. But apparently you need to use a bunch
of mods to make Origins run because it was just was never really probably optimized
for PC. Dragon Age Inquisition runs really well, at least on my big
thank you and sixty and No, it's just it's it's wild going back to
it because at the beginning it is truly like you don't know what's going on,
You've got no abilities, like, and then it's mad at like how
quickly you kind of start to feel really powerful. I'm in the Hinterlands at
the moment, but I'm not going to make the mistake that I did last
time. The hinterlands. Oh, I'm sorry, I misheard you. What
did you think I said, we don't need to go there, hind No,
no, no, no, Ohio. I'm in the hinterlands. And
so that's this infamous area that everyone just spends like twenty hours in when you
really don't need to. So I love that you said, I'm in the
hinterlands at the moment, Like, yeah, everyone's in the hinterlnz forever in
that game. Well, there's there's a hinter lands in World of Warcraft.
What does hinter mean? Does a hinterlands Eldon's hinterlands in Eldon Ring? That's
one of the what do you call it? Hint to lance? Apparently I
gotta find out what that word me. Yeah, and so I don't know,
Like the music's kicking in. I've got like a lot of my squad,
but not all of them are kind of rocking up. I forgot how
much I love Cassandra. Oh yeah, yeah, you put Veric in the
group. I kind of always had to have Varic there. Well, so
I haven't got everyone just yet. So I think right now I'm rocking Varrik,
Solas, and Cassandra. I think I love Cassandra so much though,
So I was like, maybe I'll swap out Soss for for Iron Bulb or
like Vivianne. I don't know. I don't know, it's just Gissy back
because I haven't touched it in literally ten years. So yeah, I enjoyed.
I enjoyed that game when it came out I played through it, not
a whole lot of it stuck with me. I'm one of those obnoxious people
who's like Origins was the best one because it was more of an RPG and
I'm old. But I definitely enjoyed Inquisition and I am looking forward to Vailguard
for sure. I don't know if I quite want to, like take the
time to go back to Inquisition, maybe i'd watch somebody else play it or
something, because I am kind of like I could use a refresher. I
remember there was a lot of green tears when we closed the green tears,
and so also as a friend and then like at the end, maybe not
a friend. Those are the things I remember. I mean, that's that's
basically the game. There we go, uh, well, we're going to
take a quick breaking break and polish off the rest of these games that we
have listed here. But tam we gotta say Cyanara, yeah run, I
got to do another podcast deal wielding podcasts Hall yeah hallia. Oh. I
will see everyone later. Did I do good? Jan? Did I do
good? People in chat? Please let me know if he starts talking about
Disney the restriction that stays in effect the entire pro program yeah, the embargo
is still active. Yeah, I can't lift that. All right, goodbye,
We're gonna pay the black and then we'll see you right after this.
July is a fun month for numerous reasons. It makes me think of hot
dogs a lot. I saw this guy over the weekend with a hot dog
stand and a dog selling hot dogs and it was mad adorable. Tam is
still here. Yeah, I don't know how time works. It's fine,
we don't know either. So that's why we also have Turbo Shawn here.
We're gonna we're gonna reformat the timeline. Sean Mike just asking me about my
life and everything. Yet I was kind of expecting that. Why I came
in here, and we're going to do that on the show. You know.
That's that's how I call this show. Is this We're back? Now?
Are we not back? Why are we not back? Because you just
said we're going to do something on the show, and this is this show,
this is the show is just fantasy. I want to delay. So
I'm just like, because everyone done talking? Everyone done talking? Okay,
yes, and then you will sund Night robots to me. So I'm just
like, mm hmm, that's a good podcasting. It's a good podcast.
It's it's it's a good podcast. It's about friendship profession. Now we're podcasting,
Sean, how are you. I'm good. I got I got c
new Rosalina shirt I really like. Oh yeah, yeah, I got that
from the y Man. Rosalina used to be my favorite princess until the Internet
told me it was actually dating until Daisy was thrust upon you and not that
way. Yeah phrasing. But yeah, I'm doing good. I go I'm
taking care of a few things. I think I can talk about this now.
It might might as well be on the BombCast. Uh, unless things
go horribly horribly awry with scheduling because I need to uh, I need to
finish booking a couple of things I should I should be at EVO this year.
Oh, I got for my press pass and everything. So I'm just
uh, you know, finalizing flights and whatnot to make it as cheap as
possible. U. But yeah, I should be out there, so you
know, if y'all are going to be there in a couple of weeks,
make sure you say hi. I hope Mike actually mutes his mike this time
if he's taking a call. Later this is the one time I will advocate
for someone trying to fight Sean. If you see Sean at EVO him,
oh yeah, my my red ranks. Lily will gladly take you on.
Are you are you paying out pocket together there? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
you know I don't get some benefits the full time employees. Good listen,
listen, listen, listen. I was just gonna say, we'll talk
after. Let's see if you can. Okay, Okay. Part of that
is that Jan made me do something. I blame Jan for this entirety.
I bought something something, God damn it, it's not here yet, but
I ordered an iPhone fifteen pro. Yeah, I'm one of those guys an
iPhone fifteen pro. Lucy, what did you? Oh my god? Yeah,
because it looked like it is sinking in. I'm not gonna lie,
guys. I'm having a horrible time with this delay. Like every time you
guys say something like even even if one of you talks over the other one,
I can't hear shit. So like I didn't realize that Shane was going
to EVO until like maybe thirty seconds after you said it, where I was
like, something's happening in a couple of weeks. Oh evo. Wait,
so basically, so me sending you that app for the new iPhone camera thing
that I mean, yeah, that didn't help. Yeah, I was mentioning
that this isn't helping things, Lucy, That's what I was talking about.
Yeah, Wow, you're going to EVA. That's crazy an iPhone that's crazy.
Yeah, that's crazy too. Yeah necessary chat's wondering why that's like a
big deal because I've been using Android phones like since the beginning, and so
now I have to like switch over and like figure some stuff out. But
it's gonna be worth it because you know that don't have a really good video.
It's surprisingly easy to switch over, I assume. So yeah, because
it's just all the Google apps are over there now. You can even just
use Gboard on iPhones now, so it's like, I'm sorry for taking a
call that was my sky Rizzy getting rescheduled there, So it's important. Wait,
so the app, because Captain Burgundy asked, is that iPhone just released
a new app called like Final Cut Camera or something, and it basically allows
you to multi stream to an iPad and like you can change everything in your
life. You can change focal lens. You can change like white balance.
It's all. It's a really cool app that you can put in and it's
free. Now that that's yeah, that's gonna That's not gonna do much for
me since I'm going out there solo. But in the future when me and
Jan are inevitably together, We're gonna get kept to some Shenangan's with that.
I feel I can't wait to live Switch. I want to just live Switch
life if I could. Is there a limit to how many phones you can
have? I think it's like four five? That's going to be fun.
Oh multi streaming, Yeah, yeah, just like owning phones, because I
was like, I feel like that, you know, there's no limit to
that legal limit. I had four phones at one point. Yeah. Maybe
we take another quick bricky break and to try and fix some some internet issues.
Yeah, just for uh some stuff. We'll be right back right after
this and we are back. Take that technical malfunctions. Nothing is going to
stop this train of the podcast, the Bomb Cast. We're going, Sean's
going to EVO, Sean has a new phone, going to have a new
phone. We're gonna shoot so much in log Damn what color is the phone?
Man? I wanted to get the white one because then you could do
more of fun colors, but unfortunately my carrier doesn't carry that for whatever reason.
So I was like, Eh, just a black one. Whatever.
I'm I'm slapping a case on it anyway, So it's like, I'll just
get a more interesting case, right, I just took my case off.
Like, what color is my phone? I don't I guess so many people.
Yeah, Like whenever I listen to tech podcasts, are like, obviously
you know they're reviewing a bunch of stuff, but they're like, yeah,
what color is under this case? I don't even know? It's why were
they sent me? I got a bunch of stupid filters that I can maybe
send you, Ray Sean, It's gonna be great. O. Hell yah,
last game that I wanted to hear about before we get to the news.
This was stirring up its own news. Actually, But Mike Minatti,
you've been playing Final Fantasy fourteen down drew right, the latest Final Fancy fourteen
expansion. I haven't been able to like go super crazy in it. Like
my progression in the main story quest line is this still relatively slow. I'm
only in kind of the first big zone there. I've been enjoying it.
I just kind of like, you know, going to a new place and
seeing things. There's been some discourse, you know, I think, yeah,
there's been a little bit of discourse with some people say, yeah,
no, not that. Uh it's it's more it's basically what fop Facy fourteen
has always been for a while, where the main story quest is literally kind
of just story, right, Like you don't fight anything in the game probably
the first like four or five hours to you like get to a dungeon.
Basically, it's not like we're at a warcraft where every quest is, hey,
go kill so and so or so many of these things right fall Face
fourteen for like a long time ago is like that's kind of just filler and
not engaging. So we're just not gonna do it. And they're right,
but maybe they need to throw in some other encounters to pick up the pace
a little bit, because you know, for some people it's like, yeah,
I feel like I just went to a place and I'm getting kind of
assaulted with proper nouns. And that's true. Again, it kind of always
has been true. But maybe this is just the point where it's bothering some
people, I think for some people. So the whole point of this expansion
is that this is kind of the vacation arc or sort of a bit of
a coming down from the big storyline we had that got resolved in the last
expansion. Right, So we saved the universe in the last expansion, and
you know, the other expansion is also saving at least the world. Even
in like the patches after the last expansion, we saved the world, and
everybody's always like, oh, I want maybe to just feel like a normal
adventure again. And then when I feel like when you actually do give people
that, a lot of times they kind of have a backlar reaction like,
well, now this doesn't feel important. Yeah right, So again I'm not
super far into it, so I'm not having that problem. The other thing
is that there's kind of a new character who is is maybe more the focal
point even you are, and it kind of is like, oh, you're
this character's bodyguard and you're helping them in their story. Which it's interesting they
would do that again because that's what they basically did in the Storm Blood expansion,
which is most people's least favorite expansion at least storyline wise, so there's
kind of a little string to see them just kind of copy that model and
maybe it didn't really work for them. That's also, to be fair though,
it's also kind of how fourteen started though in a real and we're born
right's kind of how you start off, right, I think. But like
Shadow Bringers especially and Heavn's word a bit too, we're pretty good at like
making you feel like the main character, which is something that like word a
Warkcraft has never been good at. Is something that I think made Fun Fantasy
fourteen stand out. Again, I'm not that foreign to it. I think
a lot of it depends on how much you like this new character so far.
I like her fine, but I want to get to know her better.
But you know, just the vibes of the expansion are really working for
me because it is that kind of tropical thing. People jokingly called it Margaritaville
expansion into them. You've got my attention now, yeah, right, yeah,
it's you know, it's it's it's a lot of kind of tropical uh,
you know, lots of waterfalls and sunshine and beaches kind of things.
So that's been really pleasant. Uh, And I locked one of the new
jobs called pic dome Mancer, which is really fun. It's it's like a
mage that is drawing stuff, so it's like a paint brush mage kind of
thing. I was going to make a pictionary joke. It's aictionary, but
it's actually like a summoner with paintings kind of right, so you can like
paint. Oh my god, that's that's this before my Time cartoon. It
was after my Time whatever time is linear and confusing, Yeah, something like
that now. But it's fun because you like you like like draw a google
and then you use the moogle to like summon to do an attack kind of
a thing, right, And there's or like you draw a hammer and now
you have a hammer combo and it's like a big whack a mouble hammer.
So it's a very like it's like a very beautiful job. Like the effects
of it are just really cool and colorful and fun. But it also has
a pretty nice flow to it that I'm in I am enjoying, so it
actually I probably spent most of my time just kind of leveling up this job
for fun. I've been enjoying it more than I was expecting. So yeah,
I did the thing again that happens every single Steam sale, where I'll
look at the recommended stuff and the Q thing that Steam builds for you,
and I'll see, like, oh, Final Fantasy fourteen, maybe I should
buy that. Then I realize I've already bought it three or four times.
Yeah, yeah, me too. It also has a free trial that would
last year like two hundred hours of gameplay, which is more than most people
will get through. Yeah, it's crazy that, you know, some people
don't like me saying this, but follow Fantasy fourteen is actually just like straight
up free to play up to a certain point. It was, yeah,
because yeah, like, uh, you know, Found Fantasy fourteen is free
to play up to the critically acclaimed expansion Heaven's words something like that. Yeah,
now I expanded to store and but yeah, that's that's cool. They're
just like giving you three, well, two really good and one kind of
just all right finle fantasy games for free, like yeah, yeah, like
star Buds not bad. But yeah, it's storyline is probably the weakest that
we've had, except you know, I was gonna say Born is very Oh
yeah, you're right, it's amazing, but Evan's words amazing. And then
Shadow Bringers the third expansion is also like the the the top tier one in
at and Walker was very good. Ed Walker's kind of Shadow Bringers Part two.
I think that's the other part of it is that Shadow Bringers very serious
heavy steaks, and and Walker's same thing. So I think it's a little
bit of a shock that the steaks are so much lower and things are a
bit chill. Again. I like that, but again and some people get
be like, ah, this doesn't seem important. This will be Yeah,
this will be interesting for me because well, when Jan asked if I want
to fill in for a second half of the show, I was like,
you know that, that's perfect because I haven't been playing a lot of games
because I've just been getting caught up in fourteen leading into down Trail. I'm
very behind I am in end Walker right now. So Okay, for me,
it's gonna be really interesting if I do stick with it, because you
know, it might be a lot to play to basically Final Fantasy games back
to back, but going from and Walker into Dawn Trail immediately, I'm gonna
see more than most people what the contrast is there between the two expansions.
But for me, honestly, I've I'm not the biggest fan of As much
as I like power fantasies in games, It's why I play character action games
a lot. I'm never a fan of when like RPG not that way too,
I'm never a huge fan of when like RPGs do escalate to you are
some random guy who just turns into the drawer of worlds and the entire universe
centers around you because chance. It's always seemed a bit weird to me.
And they're the chosen Are the chosen one? Yeah, you are the like
all capital letters warrior of Lights. And I don't know, maybe taking our
character back a little bit and grounding them a little bit more, I don't
know, obviously, I don't know what happens at the end of End Walker.
I would be interested to see if maybe there's a reason that they bring
you back down to Earth a little more, but I assume not, But
it would be interesting to at least like thrust that upon the character again,
to be like, they kind of are just a person now. Like I
think your character being a bit of a silent protagonist has always lent itself to
that, because then your character can be whatever the story needs you be you're
very they they lean into it a lot in fourteen, where like, oh,
they're like they're so humble all the time. They don't like talk about
their deeds much as fine, because you know, you don't talk so right
exactly. Yeah, strong with silent type it is always hard because you aren't,
like you said that destroy of worlds. And then now we're, you
know, doing this other storyline with smaller steaks, and it's kind of like
I should just be able to glare at somebody and they should do whatever.
Yeah, that's why. Yeah, it's weird where it's like I'm playing even
something like Persona where the powers are sort of like partitioned off from the real
world. Even though it's like I just killed God the other day and I
gotta go back to high school. It just just feels weird. Man.
Yeah, nope, exactly. Uh I I have the weirdest case of fomo.
Anytime I hear folk talking about Final Fantasy fourteen almost you almost said,
I never got Final Fortnite fourteen. Fine anyway, fomo. And then you
know you see the nasty boys chatting about it constantly. Maybe that's why they're
so nasty. Maybe that's what made them so nasty. Yeah, I was
like, oh, maybe maybe maybe today's the day. Maybe how can I
block out enough time that I just do it for work instead. It's a
lot, that's the thing, A lot of time. Yeah. We talked
about doing this the last time Grub was out. We were like, it
starts final Fantasy for final jan tam Lucy, a friendship reborn the name.
Yeah, and and that's when, like, uh, the series becomes so
popular that that's when we have a beef over money. Yeah, that's what
breaks up. That's what breaks up the band. That's what ruins the world
tour. Uh. Speaking about world tour. Uh, we were not going
on the world tour news. This is going to ruin the tour tour.
The world tour man is so wrong. That's such a better mean than talked
to, So much better, so much much better, you know. I
saw a really good, a really good version of the meme today where it
was basically like police say that they were tipped off to Justin Timberlake being in
Talk the Kid, and there was a picture of Janet Jackson hiding behind a
bush on a phone, and I was like, that's true. She deserves
an apology. From him as just Brittany, as does his wife who he
publicly cheated on and she stuck by him. Shouts out to Jessica Bialo,
Jessica Biel, she probably deserves you know what. Also, he should apologize
Anna Kendrick, his bad pr tanked the last Trolls movie. Yep, trust
he didn't do well. Yeah, and minions. It's like the guaranteed Hollywood
formula. Yeah, Furios would have performed better in the box office if Anya
Taylor Joy was surrounded by minions. Are you all also devastated that Despicable Me
For is getting lukewarm reviews? I didn't even know it was out. I
don't even know that was a Despicable for ye Oh yeah. I saw a
commercial for it the other day because I was watching TV for the first time
in a long time, Like, what the hell is this? There's a
fourth line. The thing is is that I I had to go on like
Expinity's website the other day and they had a bunch of minions on it,
and I was like, that's just grub log off you're on holiday, but
he yeah, it's just basically like there's minions all the time. And I
just figured, like they had some kind of long term partnership with the Minions
Minions Inc. I don't know, ink, we're going to figure out that
we all need to apologize the despicable me for it as a sixty three percent
of rot tomatoes, which actually means it's fresh. So that's shocking. Sixty
three is fresh nowadays fresh? Yeah? I think anything above sixty Yeah,
yeah, so okay, seventy is good. Six apologized to grow in his
family. Thank you for speaking about fresh. We got some fresh news about
the Nintendo switch to, or supposedly what it's going to be. I forgot
that I had to do news because grub was gone, and then I panicked
them like there's no news. I'm just gonna say there's no news and we're
gonna skip it. But we need to take at breaks. But basically,
Nintendo president Shintaro for Okawa has said, I fucking hate scalpers. So to
solve the problem for the Nintendo switch to, everyone will kill the scalpers.
Uh. It's so the scalpers don't prevail. We're just gonna make Hella switch
twos. That's what we're gonna do. We're just gonna make a bunch the
semiconductor problem that plagued us during the original switch gone, forget about it.
We're just gonna make this make a bunch so the scalpers can't get to it.
So if you want to switch to, you get a switch to.
That's what's That's what's gonna happen. The part of the supply constraint that plagued
the original switch was all semi conductors, for Okawa has said that that is
no longer an issue. They're good to go. When production ramps up.
When will we see this? When are we get at least going to get
a whisper of this? It is the weird thing right now. Right like,
we had that direct, which I think a lot of us think is
going to be the last big direct for the switch one. So at some
point by the end of the year, I still I think fall, maybe
later in fall, we do finally get something concrete about the switch to,
like you know what it's actually call it at least and hopefully a release window
and maybe a look at the Mario game we all assume is going to launch
to it. And speaking of that Mario game, at least back when we
found out that the switch shoe wasn't gonna come out this year. At least
some people were saying it's not necessarily because of the switch to. It's because
of that Mario game like that needs more time. And if that's the case,
then they have plenty of time to make as many switch shoes as they
want, so they can really shore up supply there, so that hopefully won't
be a problem. Now it might be a problem anyways, especially immediately.
There's gonna be so many people who will want a switch to immediately, you
know, they could do their best to shore up as much as they want.
There's gonna be some scalping and stuff like, don't rest on your laurels,
everybody and think, well, they're saying this, so I can just
go, I'm just gonna walk into a Walmart on the day, come out
and get one. I'd still be doing your best to the pre order and
all that stuff if you really want to switch to. Yeah, and I
think Nintendo is in a much smarter place right now. And so if they're
looking at the next system and they say to themselves, this is the switch
to, you know, they're not calling it that. They know that that
is going to sell at least in the long run, so they can just
overproduce if necessary, and then you'll sell eventually. As to when it comes
out or when we hear about it, well, those two things are blanked
obviously. But I think you know, we were talking about this a lot
in our post direct thoughts from the other a week that it just strategy wise,
it makes the most sense to either be in that like March timeframe of
the Switch one, which worked out very well for them last time, because
then if any issues do arise, they're obviously trying to sort through those ahead
of time this time around. But if any issues do arise, those can
all be sorted by the holiday season where you're looking to push the most systems
possible, which is BINK a good strategy, or obviously it would be later
in the year, just before the holiday season. Maybe they're really confident.
May they do just launch in like October November and then just ride the high
train through the holidays. But I I don't know. It's Nintendo and it's
the successor to the Switch, assuming that's not a WEU fumble, which you
know, again they're smarter this time. I'll probably wouldn't do anything like that.
No, I think it's just going to be a better switch this time
around. They put out whenever, so I do think March timeframe would sound
right, which would mean, well, start hearing about it at the end
of this year. At the switch one was a indication because pridly reminder because
some people were like, oh, they didn't talk about it e three season
this year, so therefore it's like so far out. They only officially revealed
the switch like five ish months before it came out. They did that,
you know, the first reveal trailer with the name and everything, the person
at the airport playing all that fun stuff, and then you know, a
couple months later they had like this sort of the lease party thing where they
showed off a bunch of games like SMT five showed up there, they had
the h you rumble all that, and that was like a month or two
before a system. So whenever this thing's coming out, you're gonna hear about
rooftop parties have not been the same. I need the switch is great.
That last question about the switch to for this lovely panel here kickstand no kickstand?
Well, I think that's a kickstand. Yeah, I think they will
have one. I think the one that they put on the Is it the
old the really long cap No one, that's like a Microsoft surface. It's
back law proof all right. Next story that I have here is George Rick
Roll Martin appears to have teased the elder Ring movie or TV adaptation. Uh,
this man loves stirring the pot with his hot goss and his blog.
He writes about how he helped with the world building of elden Ring in while
Myazaki and company did the rest of the work. He addresses Miyazaki mentioning that
there is interest in an elder Ring adaptation by from directly from his blog,
writing, Oh and about those rumors? What is what? Does he sound
like railroad? He sounds He's got like a slightly raspy voice, and he
talks very fast. Is he American? Yes? Yes? What about those
rumors you may have heard about a future film or television series base it's not
far off. Sounds younger than that, like, yeah, high pitched.
I not a word, no, not a thing. I know nothing.
You never heard of people from me? Mom? What rumor? Speaking to
the Guardian, Miyazaki then had also said I don't see any reason to deny
any another interpretation or actually speaking to GameSpot dot com. He said that,
speaking to GameSpot dot com, I don't know why this is. Everyone everyone
did it. Everyone saw the Guardian, and I was like, man,
I published that week ago. What the fuck an elder ringannaptation or a movie
example. But I don't think myself from software have the knowledge or ability to
produce something in a different medium. So that's where a very strong partner would
come into play. We'd have to build a lot of trust and agreement on
whatever it is they're trying to achieve. But there's interest for sure. This
is where I want to pitch that illumination handles the elden Ring movie. I
was gonna say that partner, Chris Pratt, that's what kind of funny did
with the I didn't notice it until I went back, but I was on
games Daily yesterday and they used atonished Chris Pratt and it was upsetting. Oh
God, could what would they what movie or TV show could they do with
elden Ring? Would it just end existing lore prior to the game. It
would almost have to, because you can't really a story about the Tarnish isn't
isn't all that interesting? It almost had to be about the kind of pantheon
of the Demi gods and their well they're bullshit Ronnie killing Ratigan or whatever.
Yeah, I don't know that that seems challenged, right, So it's like
what people really like if out Ring is just the Lord dumps, right,
that's what they like to watch. But actual like drama is not really something
we see a lot of in Outer Ring. I don't know what, excuse
me. It looks like like character, like these characters actually talking to each
other and doing things right, not just fighting us and you know, getting
the kind of Lord nuggets, which I like. I think it's very good.
It's a very good world, and it can be done. It would
be a challenge. I'm still I still like, I'm always a little shocked.
I'm like, oh, George R. Martin was involved in out in
Ring. You don't get that when you play the game. You never at
least to me, I'm never playing out of Ring. And I'm like,
that's so Georgia R. Right now. This is major, super big incest
and Eldon Ring as far as I remember, well, there's not a lot
of incest. There's a decent amount of shagging yourself to have kids. There's
a lot of my missing in this game? What the hell is going on?
Get yourself like popcorn, get a nice glass of the milk, and
just watch watch a v watch a vary. Yeah. Yeah, catering the
beverage to Shan exactly did like like so like did George R. Martin like
create like he created? No? No, he created, he created like
the backstory, the lore, and he created like the idea of you know,
elder. I guess no, kind of I guess probably probably create the
fact that all the main characters have initials g R. I feel like if
they wanted to do an adaptation, then it makes sense that they were trying
to do the the Demi God's beefing. But if they were, they could
very easily do like the the Shadow of the Tree era story where we actually
get to see America's rise to the god hood and because that is a rough
circumstance seal of events that gets there, so it could be that, and
that would probably pave the way nicely into future seasons where they actually do an
adaptation of what she does post establishment of the Tree and the Golden Order.
So I think there's a lot to do there, do I think it's gonna
happen. Absolutely not, No, no, she just blew my mind.
I'm sorry. I didn't realize that the g r M thing that's sending me
right now get ready me. No, like the main characters like like Godrick
Godfrey, Godfrey, Ranala whoever Ronnie, and then Mogu Morgra again, it's
just all those three letters holy ship. Ye. If they're an M letter,
that means that they are a product of self test. Sean, It's
okay, Sean, It's okay. Great game. Yeah. Well that's that.
All sounds crazy. And you know what else is crazy? Crazy?
Taxis coming back? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Do you think the Offspring is coming back? Yeah? They did bring
them back in like the it was something like after the mobile port or something.
They like re up the license for that. So I think they know
the Spring is getting paid. You know, the Offspring has a new album
coming out in October. Let's go see the Offspring the beach Bla. I
went to go see an Offspring tour and I left before Offspring actually started.
What I really just wanted to see simple plan. Well, they're kind of
crazy Taxi. You guys know about Dexter Holland right like he's a virologist,
like he has a was it like a he has a BSc. In biology
and a master's in molecular biology. He can also he can also apply a
plane like halfway through that, I did I remember what you're talking about?
Yeah? Yeah, anyway, and a recruitment video producer Kenji Kano, director
of the original game, sure details for the upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot that is
being handled by Supporter Studios. Uh. Supposedly this takes place in a fictional
West Coast theme park like city. Interesting, wow, no comments, Nah,
No, no one's ever been to one. No one's lower East Coast.
Who can say? Verry Farm must be not to Berry Farm there you're
always talking about. I'm talking about that from Chicken the best of West Coast
theme Park Universal Studios. Naturally the parking lot with a bunch of roller coasters
in Santa Clara. That's right, Great America Magic Mountain, you can see
that. Never mind anyway. According to the video, the team is testing
adapting the Crazy Taxi gameplay into a game with multiple players. The job listing.
The job listing describes the new game as a new major online title with
an open world in massively multiplayer driving game elements. I don't know if I
want that. He's the thing, J You don't want it until I tell
you the game is split up into factions. Okay, you have you have
taxi drivers, you have Uber drivers, you have Lyft drivers, and then
you have autel car drivers. Hell oh, and that's how you compete and
collectible cards. Lucy stopped pandering as a big like old school Sega guy and
a big fan ritual Crazy Taxi. I just played Crazy Taxi three on the
original Xbox not too long ago, which is basically just Crazy Taxi one with
a couple of new maps and other things. I actually welcome doing this.
I think, look, there's no way they're going to just release like an
arcade style game like that these days without very many other bells and whistles.
And I have those games. Those games are out there. You can play
those games a bunch of different ways. Now, yeah, let's do something
with it. This is a game that I think could lend itself pretty easily
into a multiplayer thing. Whether it's open world, I imagine there will be
some kind of almost battle royale aspect of it where people get dropped off if
they're not collecting like a certain threshold a fare money or something like that,
and you know they could. It could be very easy for them to some
point, if not at launch, just add the normal crazy taxi mode into
that big map. I'd be shocked if something like that doesn't exist in some
way, even if it is kind of still part of that online world.
I'm not sure. But no, like you know, it doesn't immediately throw
me off, just because of course they're trying to make something pretty modern with
it. Yeah, like people are I think having in a media knee jerk
reaction because this traditionally single player thing that they are turning into a multiplayer thing.
But what they're describing here to bring up another game that's sort of in
the news recently, Forts of Horizon four because delisted that game is incredible.
It's one of my honestly one of my fair games in the past ten years.
I've put so many hours into it because that's what it is. It
is a like multiplayer driving game, not necessarily always racing, and they get
silly as hell in there. It's sports cars, so a lot of times
it doesn't go too overboard, but once you started getting into buggies and stuff,
driving around like the UK country side and everything like that. They get
you some wild challenges and everything. It's so much fun. And doing that
in a more arcadies setting sounds fantastic for Crazy Taxi to me. Actually a
couple BombCast appearances for me ago. Me and Dan were talking about this when
it was sort of in the news again where Crazy Taxi is the series that
is the most they've set up so much to be that sellout game like Fortnite.
If ever you were going to have something from back in the day dragged
into the modern era Fortnite seal, it is Crazy Taxi because if you have
like Peter Griffin driving around a Dolorean to Pizza Hut and KFC, that makes
sense in Crazy Taxi. Right, Let's not act like I love Crazy Taxi.
Let's let's not act to get some sacred thing. Well, I mean
it is because it's so stupid, right exactly, Like yeah, yeah,
that's what I mean. Like, oh, we can't tarnish like leg see
a Crazy Taxi by you know, putting in a brand. It had brands
immediately, we we love that we could go to Pizza Hut. But yeah,
back in the day when I would like, you know, take my
fifty cents out of my allowance that week, and and you know, instead
of buying a candy bar, I would stop by the local movie theater that
a crazy taxi machine I got good enough to have just pop my fifty cents
in, you know, sit there for like twenty minutes or something, and
just that they're drying people a tower records and stuff. Yeah, it's it's
a sellout game and it's gonna get goofy and wild, and I want to
see that, all right. I like, I like everything that we've talked
about. I especially like TAM's idea of factions. I think we should go
a step further with the factions. Each faction is represented by a different genre
of music. The scar faction versus the Emo actually know they would probably team
up Cape pop girlies, cape popify the old the old men are the like
butt rockers, that's all like dragula stuff. Let's throw in some yacht rock
too, Let's do that. Oh yeah, you don't want to run into
the Boston Nova Boys after five pm? Nova Boys? Oh my god,
I want affection. That is just like the songs from say A Saturn and
Dreams soundtrack. Could just get the one guy who goes Daytona put that in
here. This presumably free to play a game for like two dollars, Get
me the Sega sound pack. Yeah, I'll buy it. That's why you
make your money. Yeah. Oh, they should just make the Hornet one
of the cars in that Sega rally car exactly. But I could we get
like the Persona soundtracks. Why not? Oh you get Cousin Makiri. You're
driving playing the Tie. They do that kind of stuff in like the Rhythm
games that they produce, Like why not? It feels like such a monkey
bob right, like right, they have to be able to nail it.
They have to be right. I'm not going to be optimistic about it.
I am excited for this and I hope it works out. You know what
else I'm optimistic in now after reading Jake Decker's wonderful preview, I'm kind of
optimistic for Concord and Concord Open beta dates are confirmed for July this month.
If you've pre ordered the game on PC or PS five, you can participate
in the open or not open beta, but the pre order beta from July
twelfth to the fourteenth uh, and then an additional open beta for all players
from July eighteenth to the twenty first. The beta will feature all sixteen launch
characters and we'll dive into the game story. Let me tell you red Jake's
preview. Jake was pretty pretty surprised, pleasantly surprised by this. Well,
yeah, my tastes I've spoken to has just been like it's actually pretty good,
pretty good. I think the thing is is that like maybe the pe
thing, the thing that people are worried about is like the story stuff.
I don't I'm gonna say this, I don't think I cared. Yeah,
that's the problem, I guess. But like, yeah, that's a disconnect.
There is them showing this big, you know, cinemac Overwatch style trailer
and then that's just not really what you again gameplay wise. But that doesn't
mean that the gameplay is bad against like like the last topic a little bit.
It's more like the knee jerk reaction you get from that the disconnect.
I mean, that's the thing because like I played so much Overwatch, I
couldn't really tell you what happened in the law. I just knew like the
characters were fun and like Ash would be a certain kind of way, and
then Diva would be a certain kind of way. And I'm like, oh,
I know the Diva was a competitive gamer. That's all I know.
I don't understand how she got I guess the cringe e ish thing here is
like it seems like they're really like they're telling us you're gonna like these characters
because they're gonna remind you you like the characters that are like them from like
Overwatch Guys guests, So you're gonna like these And I'm like, don't tell
me I'm gonna like them. I'll decide if I like them, and then
maybe then you can make your cartoons and whatnot about them. But like,
yeah, like right now, you need to be selling me the game,
not like this multi media thing that you're trying to accomplish with it. I
am still more interested in Marvel Rivals than Concord same. Perhaps I'm also not
thrilled about this having like a sixty to seventy dollars price tag to get in
to the gates. It's forty, isn't it to the base. It's like
just like Overwatch one. I'm sick of who likes that because I vastly preferred
Overwatch ones model where I paid that price one time. I played so much
of that game. Yeah, I bought loop boxes if I wanted cosmetics,
and that was fine. It was way better than having to pay for characters
and season passes and whatnot. So, like, I think it might be
a problem for them because I don't think most people are like me and they're
going to really, you know, scruff up against the idea of paying forty
bucks. But to me, that's a plus. And sometimes the just real
quick sometimes when you get into stuff like Overwatch too wine to like put characters
behind a battle pass and stuff like that, even just the optics of that
was really bad for a lot of people like myself. How sweaty do you
think Conquered is going to be concord Conquered whatever? Like, are we getting
valiant levels? No? I don't know. It could be overwatched well,
Overwatch comp sweaty in its competitive mode maybe, But yeah, I'm much of
my most team Forultress too sweaty to be pessimistic. I don't know how good
this game is gonna do. So maybe it does get sweaty because just the
dedicated audience, But who knows. You know, a game that got surprisingly
pretty sweaty because of its very dedicated audience when it was picking up a lot
of heat. Was a split gate. Oh oh sure, yeah, I
could see the kind of being like a split gate. Maybe you know it
picks up the right audience, the right type of heat. Sure, but
that's a news to me. That's coming out for forty dollars, but you
know it's coming up for sixty dollars. He switch remaster of Donkey Kong Country
returns. He's finally back. I don't have any fondness for mister Kong and
his family. I don't know if this remastered necessarily warrens the sixty dollars.
When Greby and I talked about it last week, he was more so that,
Hey, Nintendo realizes there's a little bit more name recognition for mister Kong
than there is for Metroid. So let's charge more for what people know versus
what we just want people to get in the gate with. All Right,
me and Mike have been talking a lot, but I feel like this can
be I just said to bait here, let's go. I no, no,
I don't know if I really buy it. I feel like some I
feel like some the Metroid fans sometimes we're a little like self deprecating or self
hating is a bit much. But I mean it's like, you know,
we talked about like, oh, they don't they don't care about Metroid.
We've been getting a lot of Metroid games lately, there's been a lot of
Metroid representation. It's not like it's clearly something that does matter to them and
that they're investing in and they see value in, and there's certainly a relatively
mainstream component of Metroid. It look like Docy Kong Country is a Donka Country
game is going to sell more than a Metro game. It's not like the
Donkey Kong Country games are the ones selling, you know, the fifteen million
or U Donkey Kong Country. Tropical Freeze is not sold fifteen million copies.
It might have sold ten, which is kind of crazy. For well,
that's what I said, That's what That's what they're looking at when they do
these things is yeah, we ported a Donkey Kong game. It didn't sanely
well, right again, Like the issue is like, okay, Metroc Prime
one Remaster, which is really almost like a remake, how much they did
with that, Yeah, which is one as a base game is better than
two, so much more work put into it, right, And that's forty
dollars. And then this, which looks like a very bare bone support of
a wee game, is sixty dollars. So yeah, you desperately are trying
to figure out why this is more expensive than a Metroc Prime one remaster.
It's like and like, yeah, hey, maybe that's it. It's like,
oh, Docky Kong, well sell more. But like you know,
Luji's mentioned two HD is going to be sixty dollars. I know Luji's mentioned
three so well, but did like the Lugi's mentioned one remake so well?
Oh, and I imagine this will be closer to that in terms of performance.
So I don't know. I think sometimes we try to find logic and
the things Nintendo does, and that really just just necessarily isn't necessarily there.
That's our mistake, big dog, trying to find logic with Nintendo. And
then I'm on the opposite side of the fence here where I think we find
logic and Nintendo in the inverse direction that might is look at where I'm looking
at this, and I see, yeah, these like big Mario style stuff
is you know, sixty dollars, and then even like Mario versus Donkey Kong
remake of a GBA game being fifty, and then why is Metroid do only
forty? I think that's indicative of what Nintendo thinks of these properties, like
still to this day, because as I always try to remind people, Metroid
has never sold well. It has never done exceptionally well. Even Dread,
which did you know, pretty good for the series still was what it was.
Where to end? Three million is just under three million? Three million?
Ye know, like right, that is good, you know, But
that's the thing is I think the strategy here is Nintendo ses as Metro doesn't
sell, so let's play a budget price to try to tempt more people in
the door and just push more copies, push the IP a little bit more,
you know, Prime four rolls around. We can't put that for sixty
dollars and get more people buying it, whereas a Donkey Kong, they're like
everyone's buying Donkey Kong. Kids are buying it, parents are buying it,
you know, old school gamers are buying it. So we can price at
sixty because we know it'll sell No matter what, and Monkey's real hot.
Right now, we got the Rise of the Planet of the Apes. They're
in the balls again. Yeah, they've got ties again. A couple quick
stories before we wrap up. Take another quick brick and break and we'll be
back with emails. The Capcom Next show was yesterday, The Hot thirty minutes
of some news. Some of that note news being the Resident Evil seven director
Koshi Nakanishi will be directing the next RI game. The next RI game is
probably going to be Resident Evil nine. We've seen a lot of room ms
swirling around about RI nine being an open world game. I'm still intrigued by
that. But the thing that captured my attention from the Capcom show yesterday was
the Dead Rising Deluxe remaster coming this year. Gonna be using the R engine,
a lot of improvements, quality of life stuff like auto saving. Who
knew auto saving would be a quality of life things that I would sorely need
and adjusted you I, modernized controls, a bunch of more stuff. Like
I mentioned, The remaster will be using the ARE engine, and the deluxe
edition of the game will feature seventeen extra costumes for Frank and the thing that
makes me feel so much dread inside is that it's going to feel kind of
like a retro game in a way, not just because of when it came
out, but because of the setting. It taking place in a mall,
and a lot of malls across America just dying Cone. Oh yeah, you've
seen what the old Westfield is now in San Francisco is miserable. Yeah,
it would seem very fun to ride a skateboarder roller skates through though. I
will say, oh for sure, Tonyak one Tony Hawk predicted everything, so
it's also gonna predict the I'm gonna have a terrible best friend named Eric will
see the cards, and we're gonna say goodbye to Tam for real, for
real this time. Goodbye to break, Goodbye YouTube. We'll be back with
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breaking e mail is that's the proper thing to say. Mike from Edmonton,
Alberta. Right, Mike, Hey, mad bombers. So the song
Espresso is a huge hit and I and what I suspect will be everyone's inescapable
song of the summer. Does this mean that this is the summer of coffee
girls and boys, and by association mean that this is the summer of coffee?
King jam I hope you all enjoy some Espresso Martinez and spiked ice coffees
this season. Mike from Edmonton, Alberta. I don't know this song and
I don't drink coffee. You don't know, singer. It's very okay.
I listened to it for the first time last night and she's not far off
from what she's saying, right, Yeah, it's very okay. Me switch
it up like Nintendo is a line? Oh? I like? So is
it like that that that guy who like did the sequel to We Didn't Start
the Fire and he rhymed the words metroid with George Floyd wasn't wait guy who
was christ it was the sequel to Man on the We didn't start the not
knowing that was follow Boy of all things. It's just boys, big smash,
the sequel to that. It's that's why it's funny is because it was
follow Boy bad most people don't think of and it was a bad version it
is. It is extra funny that it was funny. So it was such
a culture shock to me though, because here when that song dropped, everyone
had like the what I think is the right feeling of like, maybe we
shouldn't have done this. Also, maybe we shouldn't have Ryan George Floyd with
Metroid? What about rhyming Lebanon with Q and on? I'm looking at the
lyric right now. Wait. Look, I like Fallout Boy, and I
think that their most recent album is actually their best, So much for stardos.
I also know that I forget who does? I think someone actually told
me Pete once does the lyrics? They can't write lyrics for shit, so
why did they do? We didn't start the fire, Great Pacific garbage Patch,
Tom DeLong and Aliens, Mars Rover Avatar, self driving electric cars,
SSRIs Prince and the Queen die Will Trade, second Plane? What else do
I have to say, Look, wait, Bakalar already brought this up forever
ago when this first came out. But the biggest crime with that song is
that they didn't go in order. Yeah, it's not chronological. That's the
biggest problem obviously, the hard shot. That's the point, Like I literally
in my uap Us history class, that's how we like memorized modern history.
Well, because we didn't start the fire, that was the point of the
song. Why Michael Jackson dies, Nuclear accident, Fukushima, Japan, Crime
in Peninsula, Cambridge Analytica, Kim jong Un, Robert Downey, junr.
Iron Man doesn't even know where the beat goes in there. He wants he
should. I think he's got the uniformers in the breaks you start the fire?
When started the fire? Did kind of do that? It's sort of
like trails off and doesn't necessarily follow the beat. So that's not the kind
of excusable. There's one line I'm not allowed to mention in the original because
if I don't want to disappoint Tam Metroid's in it. Yeah, best one
who writes with George Floyd. Oh sorry, sorry you got here. See
Metroid so famous and it's in this song telling me famous with these forty year
old dudes acting like they're teenagers. Yes, really, it's really named after
Radioactive Man's sidekick from the Simpsons. That's actually where they cool my knowledge.
Yeah, I'm going to say Espresso is not the song of the summer.
What the original email was? I do cardoloc please please please? Because of
how she says, mother Fooker. Oh, I get a read of that.
Oh what is it? Mother? What is it? The wait?
Please please lyrics? I've gotta look it up. I gotta look it up.
I believe. I believe in a thing called love. I don't want
to get like heartbreak is one thing, my egos another. I beg you
don't embarrass me, mother Booker? Like that fantastic? Please put that on
your reel. I'm gonna say early here this this is my my uh uh
my other pick for potential song of the summer. We're in July. That
album came out last week. It's taken over the TikTok algorithms. As we
speak, Uh mamushi by Meghan the Stallion. Oh, I haven't heard it,
but I do love me. Megan Stallion, m A M you h
one of them. Okay, uh, it's the hook goes very hard.
It reminds me of doing duo lingo because they have a Japanese rapper rapping,
and then Meghan the Stallion would be like, all right, I'm just gonna
repeat what you say. Is it good or is it like when Avril Levine
tried to be Japanese? It is definitely not. When that song was that
was an affront of man that didn't because she was married. No, she
was married to the guy from Nickelback at the time. Didn't he write that
with her? I think so? Nicolback's Davis Chad Kroeger. Yes, yes
it is, and he married Avril Levine. And as far as I can
tell, the only reason they were married, Mike is because they're both Canadian.
Yeah, any other reason? Oh, you know, I guess they
have a lot of comment speaking about music. Next email comes from Joe and
Michigan. Subject reads, can we get some better music for these game announcement
shows? And I agree, yeah, and that marketing, But are you
talking about nine inch Nails? Is in the Game Awards pretty much every year
we think we get it, Lucy got them. I gotta imagine dragons were
set. Yeah, Jene Parks, imagine dragons. H Mat Boody got married
to the song is New Booty. I'm a little disappointed every time he's out
on stage and that song isn't playing. Parentheses fifty to fifty odds gen needing
to explain what song this is to Everyone didn't back Alarund Grubbs say they'd never
heard the song. Nok if you buck a while back. Cultural differences are
wild. I've either of these, Lucy, how are we friends? And
you haven't heard knock? If you bunk? If you okay, don't read
read the lyrics not oh no no, yeah, I'm not going to read
those about Yeah, have either of you heard of miss New Booty? Oh
my god, I read the emails a little bit ahead of time. I
was like, I didn't know this by name. But then when I looked
at up the song, I was like, Oh, it's the one that
goes booty boot rocking everywhere. Yeah, I know right, No, I
do that because I do know that, because I sing that to my cats
whenever I give them a little like we know that part? Yeah, that
isn't that just the thing of rocket power that Okay, don't they'll be singing
that rocket power. Maybe they're they're they're kind of edgy kids, right the
state board. Are they they skateboard? Yeah, that's you know, well
they weren't safety gear a lot, so maybe they're not too safety is what
music would you like to hear at these announcement shows? Much love Joe and
Michigan, the Offspring, Sure, maybe a game music? You know what?
Okay, sorry, I did something positive within me. I would love
to hear like a song that you know, gets people hype. If they
they can get interesting with these things is my big issue. Like when they
had Mick Gordon playing, that was a good call because yeah, that's video
game music that also just kind of sounds like mainstream music, so that works
as a live performance. They could also do things like if Anyone's, if
Anyone's never listened to it. The EVO soundtracks that they do each year now
are just like lyrical rap albums, whether justin nailed with other genres thrown in
stuff, but like getting stuff like that in there that is actually like you
know, omage's to gaming music and stuff. I mean genuinely years ago when
they did the The Red Dead music was game but are we talking about like
musical performances. Are we talking about like just songs in trailers? Because both?
Why not both? A little bit of both? Yeah, they say
announcement shows. I assumed that they were talking about something like the game wards,
but yeah, we're talking just like it's like, what's what what?
What are the executives like wrestling songs to walk out into the ring? You
know? I feel like that's what this question is actually asking. It's just
all come out to Shane mcmahonson, money, money, money, money,
money, money, thoughts. Does Phil Spencer listened to Dad Rock? Yeah,
he's coming out to some hollow. I'm probably gonna see him at the
Beach Blays concert. He's gonna be there. The thing is is that I
would walk out the whole notes I will. I wouldn't. I would walk
out to any excess. I'd walk out to come. I really like every
time they do like the actual like live songs from video games, except when
it's an ad for a game that isn't out yet, like like last year
they did help Blake Too. It was just clearly like an ad. I'm
like, no, like, you know, this supposed to be the I
get that there's a lot of commercials here, but let them actually pay for
a commercial or trailer for help. But like the musical thing should be about
the games that came out this year. Only two things was fantastic. The
montage that they do for the Game of the Year winners is always great.
But like, yeah, this is this is why we're going to promote hell
Blake to NAW. I was gonna say not every not every game is going
to have an elaborate musical number, like allen Wick, did you see Uh?
I haven't seen the GDQ thing yet, but I did see this morning.
Yeah, games that quicks happening and they were doing it down wait two
speed running like during that section, like they all just got up and did
the dance. It was great. Yeah, it's cute all. Next email
comes from Rob from the Bay Area subro Hi Bombers. So I listened to
a podcast where audience members bring photoshop posters that feature their name worked into a
movie title to be the Pods Live Show Live to the Pods Live Shows for
a chance to win prizes. I've also pondered what mine should be, but
I never wanted to wanted the gimme answer of the Italian Rob not even sure
what to do with the full form, Robert, what would be associated movie
titles or other forms of media? B for the GB staff and friends,
love you all, Rob around the Bay Area. We's just that movie about
the snail. I was gonna say. I also have just a boring gimme
answer and the Shawn Shank redemption that's right there. I mean, J John,
You've got such a great name to put into, like the John who
loves Me, the Invisible Jan I mean on fire, on fire, j.
Yeah, you can't do Mike. Mike is too common. You have
to work menaughty in somehow. Is there any movie ties with the word naughty
in it? Oh? As short of the Dead. I mean, well
that's just that's just yeah. It's like saying magic mic for me, right,
people saying magic Mike right now? Well right, okay, No,
it's not the microphone ne mind report. And it's a little bit of a
stretch. That micycle Thief. I kind of like the mic sicle Thief.
You see the bicycle Thief. That's a good movie. Definitely not. I
don't know. I watched my one semester of film school, Lucy. Uh.
I mean, there is just a movie called Lucy, which is it's
gotta it's gotta be a movie than they with the word juicy in the title.
Right, Yeah, I'm gonna go on I m dB in look of
Juicy. I just keep putting Lucy into Google and it's not helping. No,
No, that's not gonna do it. Juicy, it's gotta be a
juicy movie. What about juicy? A man, there's not that many juicy
movies. There's Juicy Girl, Juicy Affair. Nobody's heard of these juicy jay
ship it's not gonna work. What else Lucy tsy? Hell? Is that?
Isn't that a musical? No? Isn't that the Chevy Chase movie?
Chevy Chase sucks? Now you loose Lucy? Now you don't like I was
gonna say, so good ship? There we go. Second, we got
right now. Everyone has a good one but me tea? Yeah, something
about t tea? Isn't there like a tea with somebody movie? I do
really think the Minati report is really with Lucolini. No, I mean there's
this strip tease, not strip strip. You know, it's not bad,
pretty bad. Breakfast at Monoton's is quite good. That's all right, that's
all right, Yeah, I said, what about breakfast my cousin terrible there.
All right, we'll go with that. We'll go with that. What
was the first one we came up with you for you? Lucy? Now
you lose? Now you you good? Wait is he as he says,
the last Action Hero? That's that's pretty good podcast. Have you guys seen
when when when Jeff got married, Like their wedding photos were all just parodies
of like posters and the like, very kind of viral. Yeah, like,
yeah, the e t one where his wife is the bicycle and he's
in the fucking basket. That's the best one. Yeah, but this antis
from Chuck Toowsky. Okay, my brother and Minati No, mm hmmm,
Lucy road no space odd Lucy? Oh that's good? Oh was eleven?
Damn we gotta just we just gotta rob someone. Now watch film on the
fucking ground. No, we never do. They never do that in Oceans.
It's all eloquent. It's because they haven't been because that's not that wasn't
Oceans. Alright. We've had a lot of emails the past couple of weeks
about nosebleeds. I wonder why varying varieties. First email comes from Corey from
Abbotsford. We assume BC's British Columbia. I don't know that for sure,
but anyway, they write in I've never had a horny nose bleed, but
I did have an angry nose bleed. It was twenty eleven and I'm a
Vancouver Canucks fan. I was writing a house with some friends. This was
during their playoff run and the internet cut out for three days. The telecom
company tell Us kept not sending someone despite each of us taking time off from
school and work. We still could watch the game because the CBC is free
and works over cable, but we were huddled in the only room that had
access. I call GET a very nice representative, but my extreme anger at
the situation causes my nose to gush blood. On the call, I insist,
She puts, you made me so angry my nose is bleeding onto my
file. In conclusion, everything ended up fine and the Canucks won the Stanley
Cup. Asterisk I was at Game seven and was just outside when I felt
the first car explode. Rushed onto the local train with my father and headed
back to town. It wasn't until a while later I learned what happened.
Second note, fu tell us I refuse to deal with them every time I
give the chance to I give them a chance to fuck it up. Cheers
Court from Abtsford, British Columbia. What was that about the exploding car?
Was weird going out there in Canada? I don't remember this. I don't
remember the parts. Was this like a riot or was this a you know,
an incident like I would assume so I was like, while, so,
yeah, I guess so, yeah, I'm sure Backlar would know.
Yeah, back rub might know. Yeah. I don't know. I've always
been so. I was in l a one time when the Lakers won some
championship and I was that was the first time I was exposed to a city
riding because they won. I was like, what are you all doing?
You did it? Why aren't you from Cleveland? I was like, you
know how happy we'd be if we want What are you doing here? This
is a really awful one from the UK. I'm from Newcastle and there was
one time where there was like this riot after a football game. The guy
punched a horse. Yeah all right, but like the picture is something like
a Renaissance painting. You just like the guy one like the punching the kangaroo.
I mean, a kangaroo would fuck you up. Well that's the point.
That's why I was bold of him to do it, to give him
get the kangaroo off his dog. Oh that's right, ko coming yeah,
just like what he actually did. It Is it a lucy? Is it
a dude with uh? Here no, let me, I'll grab it.
This is a different man punching a horse, maybe man sean. If you
had to punch an animal, which one would it be? Oh golly,
g my, I have the best question. They don't. They would look
like they feel anything, and they're jerks. I don't like there. You
know, those guys are peaceful, right spposed to like palm a bear in
the nose or something someone someone, you know. So it painted Renaissance painting.
What's that picture? That's what I just dropped in the police horse that
was punched, But basically it was exact. It was exact pose that guy
going oh wow, okay, I mean, is this is this horse a
cop? That is a cop horse? Yes? Okay, control horse.
So the horses don't know what they're doing, do they not? I don't
know. We're not sure the smart. None of us have been inside the
mind of a horse. We don't know what they're really thinking. Of course,
of course, mister ed the talking horse, we know what he was
thinking. He told us all horse cops are best abuse. Of course,
of course, continuing the emails, Oh yeah about and anyways, never been
so angry that my nose bleeded, thank you email. I've never been so
angry that my nose blood. No, never had a nose bleed at all,
man, I don't. Yeah, I get angry sometimes. It's weird
being insidious. So even just when I'm in a grocery store. Every time
I'm in a grocery store, I feel like I encounter one person who is
more angry in that moment I cross paths with them than I have been in
like five years. I'm gonna get what's wrong with you? They're always like
on a phone screaming at somebody at the grocery store. Calm down. Yeah,
I worked for a long time at the grocery stores. Always feel bad
for the employees who have to like, in some way deal with that person
in the store. It's always the nightmare for some reason. That's where that's
the place everyone gets really mad. Is the grocery store. That's where they
finally like I've had it, and they're like, whoever they're calling or they're
with, they're gonna hear about it. I think it's because they're the kind
of person who is only either at work or home. That's like the one
place in their life where they get away from either, and so yeah,
that's where they explode. It's always been just like trying to get some fucking
oreos or love. It's fun. Yeah, it's always something new to fine,
right, you're very familiar with it. Like, what's on this side?
Like a condensed soup? Huh? What's going on in the condensed super
We have buffalo chicken soup. Now new developments. Everybody, stop the presses.
What's that tastes like? Probably bad? I'm gonna try it though it's
eighty nine cents. Thank you, Mike for a peek inside to your brain.
Uh. Next email about nosebleeds comes from Gunner from Missouri. Hey Duders,
with the discussion of the anime horny Nosebleed coming up. Last time,
I thought I could chime in and remind everyone of that time in Dragonball where
Yamsha had to fight an invisible guy and was losing until they got Bolma to
flash Master Roschi and shoot blood over the dude so Yamcha could see him.
Also, we remember, in no particular order, the super smelly guy krill
And had to fight and almost lost to until he was reminded he didn't have
a nose. Krilling. Oh yeah, that's just eating chaut Su by asking
him a math problem which chaut Su needed to count on his fingers to answer
and therefore stop his technique, losing the fight in the process. In three,
an actual vampire who's defeated by a shoot Christian Cross brandished at him.
In conclusion, dragon Ball is wild and if you like the franchise, it's
a hoot, and they should probably put Jackie Chun in Sparking zero. Thanks
Gunnar from Missouri Beautiful. Yes, yeah, man, dragon Ball is just
a very different vibe from dragon Ball Z. Huh, very different. Have
you ever seen dragon Ball Mike? Yes? Ok, yes, actually yeah,
I actually saw Dragon Ball like I was in like Canada as a kid,
and I sold Dragon Ball on just their TV, their like sky TV,
way like this is before Tunama even was showing Dragon Ball Z. And
I just remember it because it was the episode where they are peel Off tries
to summon dragon Balls and Oolong wishes for pandies, and I was just like,
this is a cartoon show. Am I allowed to watch that? Goku
was like asked naked because he turned into a and he like found his tail.
A lot of weird stuff going on, and it left the like an
impact on me. Then years later when watch your dragon Ball Z and learning
there was a dragon Balls, like, oh ship that fucked up show,
okay, And then also like you're a kid, you like dragon Ball Z.
Like I'm gonna read the manga. I'm going to start a one of
dragon Ball and it's just immediately like you know some like uh you know the
butts and the stuff. Yeah, you know what it is, Like,
it's such a gap in my knowledge dragon Ball and dragon Ball Z. I
wish I wish I had the time like one piece too. I just feel
like I've missed. I'm never much funny. I'm never going to get on
the ball before I think I've I've just decided I didn't mean to do that.
But maybe those are azero interest. Those are so much worse than dragon
Ball, not non quality, but in terms of like being long running,
like One Piece and Naruto and all that stuff is has been going so freaking
long where it's dragon Ball especially like if you watch Kai for Z and stuff,
it's manageable. It's a long show, but I mean it's accessible.
At least when I was a fourteen year old boy, there was nothing better
than Dragon Ball Z, Like and you know there's something about that that time
of your life for that just hits for some reason. Yeah, and that
kind of stays with you for some bizarre reason. That's why I was always
around dragon Ball growing up, because of the neighborhood I grew up, and
you know, people talked about this a lot when a Curatriyama passed away,
but it did have like a profound impact on like Black communities and Hispan communities
and stuff. And so I grew up around friends were super into dragon Ball.
But we didn't have cable growing up, so I and for you know,
unfortunately that was always on like Cartoon Network and stuff growing up, so
I kind of just never got see it. A little bit later, a
little bit later it was on like the CW picked ups. I got to
watch it on Saturday mornings a little bit when I was like a teenager.
But that's that was about it. But I remember getting the the VHS box
sets from from Suncoast Video. Those were great because like they made like the
picture right and it was fun because like the sagas kept getting bigger, so
like the freaking like Sousaga one was like you know those t VHS tapes.
I was like, oh, I was like, oh, me and my
brother just like going through them. I remember there's a summer we did that
and our friends got mad at us, like come outside of play. We're
like no, so just absorbed eighteen. He's perfect. So now what are
they gonna do? It is? I do appreciate how dumb dragon Ball gets
and they just lean into it. Oh there's the whimsy of the original or
like the dumb fights of Z and Super. And it's funny because like I
don't I'm a wat dragon Ball Super, but I just kind of see like,
oh, there's like four new Super sedies and I'm like roll my eyes
at it, like it's like it's so dumb, as if Dragon Ball Z
wasn't also instantly dumb. But you know, I peek my head in now
because I do have access to YouTube TV and so I you know, I
turned on two Nami here and there, and when they have dragon Ball Supron,
I'm like, it's just dragon Ball Z again and and I'm okay with
that somehow in another tournament huh yeah, why not? I like, it's
kind of that's kind of the best when they do the turn. Yeah,
that's fine, just fine. The fact that they turned the South Saga into
a tournament thing like, that's great. That is still that. Don't think
too hard about just enjoying the fights. Well, we should have a tournament
arc I mean the Neon White tournament. Yeah, and I wasn't there.
You didn't exist yet? Did you exist yet? But I was waiting.
I did, but like I wasn't invited yet and I was way better everyone,
And you know, I was so good that it's somehow, why are
you trying to be smirch Alex Bonyello's name as the champion. I don't think
Alex ban Yellow got into the top one hundred all time leaderboard in Neon White,
but he could have. He could try awards and being in like the
descendants. Oh, I'm I'm you know that when I go home and see
my nieces, I'm going to be like, I know him, you make
me watch another Descendants movie. And I've been made to watch Descendants movie guys,
and let me tell you, hey, they are like there were Journey,
but like they capture the same amount of I think, is it the
same guy does High School Musical because it definitely captures that vibe Kenny or Tega
Baby I I unapologetically like really enjoyed it. So I was just like,
they're gonna maybe watch more of them. I made them watch High School Musical
and but I'm gonna be like, I know that guy. I'm not allowed
to participate in the conversation. You know a d com boy, excuse me?
Disney Channel original movie was is? I definitely thought I meant Disney like
rom Com but Disney. I didn't have the Disney Channel like my friend Beth
did, so I would go around to her house and we would watch High
School Musical was always on. We went to the cinema to se High schoo
Musical three and that was actually released in theaters. Yeah yeah, and we
saw it. We want to a Baby b. We also watched Camp Rock
okay whatever, and uh, I also enjoy the Descendants movies. You know
especially hearing that they're continuing the canon of the Filipino Prince and Brandy as a
Cinderella. I can get down with that. Hell yeah, let's let's watch
some d COM's and drink some forties. Huh, let's do that. I
still really want to like do film in forties with the High School Musical trilogy.
I rewatched Tyser Musical one last time I was back in the UK,
and there's one scene in particular where sharpe Gabriella is singing in the bathroom and
the women's bathroom, and then Sharpey goes in, Gabriella hides and then like
just like oh can't find her, storms out, and then Gabriella just like
comes out, and so Sharpey would have been looking directly at her like they
would have made eye contact. It's great, it's perfect, it's comedy.
It's perfect. You can I have a question. Yeah, Mike, you
have immunity for this question. I will take the heat. I'll take the
heat for Tam, Tam, I'll take the heat for this one. The
topic that just happened was that just like past your time due to age,
and you just don't know a lot about it a little bit. Yeah,
I haven't seen most of it. It's like a lot of the stuff that
happened on a specific channel, and that's nondescript. That was yet not really
my scene. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. I'm very happy to catch up
sometime. I'll drink peers and watch whatever. Hey, I'm just happy that
we live in a world where high school musical is okay and Glee turns out
to be the problematic show. Yeah, okay, calming amount of people who
were on Glee have died. Yeah, but maybe we're like involved in some
stuff or something. Yeah, I've I've been keeping up on it. I
mean, yeah, the guy who played was a talk on Glee. That
was the guy that played Finn also passed. Yeah, the day there was
another show NYA Rivera Yeah, accidental drowning. God awful, Like, oh
my god, and I fight. Where are they now? It's like not
great, Well, well we'll never make it to regionals now. But the
final email of the show comes from Jebec. From Quebec, Hey, bombers
and duders on the dump truck. We played a game where you had to
describe yourself using two words that rhyme there was Jerff skating and hayten baccalar and
Dan shooting and tooting Rekert, et cetera. It's around two. Describe the
city you live in using the same format. I'll be real with y'all.
I just booked tickets and as you were recording this live, I will be
on a Boston City tour bus named Mobsters and Lobsters and I can't wait.
Jip Beck from Quebec Francisco, so it would be like Lucy San Francisco and
well, in this instance, it would just be San Francisco. So like
Foggy and Saggy Foggy, It's kind of correct. It's my experience. How
do you rhyme cheese and football? Mm hmm on Ohio is white but all
right, okay, I like it. I like it, like hilly but
really really okay? What about one for Newcastle? Well, this thing about
Newcastle is that we actually have like a pretty infamous song called fog on the
Tye. Fog on the Tye is all my all mine. I don't know
how, I don't know how Newcastle best place in the United Kingdom. How
do I put that into? There's an actual castle, you have a Newcastle.
Here are you sure yours isn't the Old Castle? All right? Thank
you everyone for BombCast. The Giant bomb dot com is the email address to
send you emails to. He was so happy with that. Pleased. There's
there's a certain like uh stance that Mikey gets when he's like, I'm about
to fire off watch Old Castle. When when he's like leaning his head on
one hand, he's ready to a straight shoes. Booker tells, now,
that's right, I just watch everyone constantly. All right, That about does
it for emails. We've reached the end of this podcast. What's going on
this week? No Gameless Mornings for the rest of this week because Jeff Grubb
is on vacation. He better not be listening to the show. I told
him, ban him. I'm gonna take away his CMS access it. I'm
gonna give it to Mike. See what Mike does. Oh, you're not.
Everyone's gonna like that. You see, he was at a rainforest cafe
the other day. I'm so happy for him. I'm also happy for him.
I am curious about the various foods at the rainforest cafe. We may
not have We'll have a stream tomorrow. An unprofessional. Wednesday, we may
get down to some business with some monkey ball stuff, but since it's a
holiday week here in the States, we will be taking Thirdursday and Friday off,
so no dump truck. Also, the driver of the dump truck is
in disrepair, so we hope he heals up. Chat what didn't happen,
tobacco lart man, he's messed up. Yeah, it is not the summer
of back lart, it turns out not really. No, no, no
no, but yes, we also have some fun surprises wind up for the
rest of this week. Sean has been working furiously and we should buy you
a hard drive because of some of that stuff. Yeah, maybe maybe you
should, But yeah, I got I got a secret project I'm working on.
So I want to pay attention to our social media accounts because you might
might see a little hint of something. And we've been cooking up. Speaking
about social media accounts are good. Old buddy Tom Caswell has been spear hitting.
Its very special thing that we're gonna we hope to roll out very very
soon to celebrate some certain miles stones. Reminder to myself and everyone here,
records your ship by the end of tomorrow, just so uh yeah right,
we get that to Tom anyway. But do I have something to do?
Yes? Yes, don't worry. We told you about this. This is
all this time. Oh you might Okay, we'll remind me after Yeah,
that'd be great. In the meantime, what do we learn today? We
learned that Filipinos are surprisingly from the Philippines. Uh. There's discourse happening constantly
about games. We learned to watch out for the Bostonova Boys. We learned
that Peter Griffin riding a Dolorean would get me into crazy taxi. We also
learned that maybe fall Out Boys shouldn't have written a new version of We Didn't
Start the Fire. We learned about upcoming movies like Despicable Minati, Last Actionhon
Hero, and Now You See Me. And we also learned that all horses
are bad. Unfortunately, I'm sorry, mister go outside it. No,
I'm not going to advocate for punching horses. Don't punch any type of man.
Well, please don't. Also, even then, I feel like it's
gonna be a bad time. They'll end up in jail for that. One
might end up in jail. And that's yeah. But you don't want anything
unless it's a box. I'm just gonna don't. Don't punch horses, no
matter their profession, you know, don't punch it an somehow exactly they got
to contribute to society somehow, God dang it. Uh that about does it
for the Giant Bomb Cast. We will be next. We will be here
next week for another lovely episode of Giant BombCast. I've been jammed, she's
been Lucy, he's been terrible Sean, he's been Mike and he was Tam.
Tam was here too. You tuned in late. We'll see you next
week. We'll see through. See you next week for the Giant BombCast is
brought to you by you, lovely people. Look at you, who drink
some water? Who drink some water, But stretch and we'll see you next
week. I love you.