Speaker 1: You ready, you're ready? E?
Speaker 2: What is Tuesday?
Speaker 1: I I pulled something. I'm okay, I'm gonna keep going.
My name is Jeff Baglar. This is the Giant Bomb Cast.
That's right, it's Tuesday. It's July. It's the seventh. Everyone's
feeling good and refreshed, and we're looking good, smelling good,
and we're walking in a straight line. Isn't that right? Dan,
te posing Reikert, How are you pal.
Speaker 3: So far from good and refreshed.
Speaker 4: I've been frolling around all week and traveling and stuff
far from refreshed, faces in pain, but I'm here talk
about the video games.
Speaker 1: Jeff oh Man, Dan, you sound like you're in low
gear right now.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you know, like in a game when you're
standin to meters, like all the way down, it's just blinking.
It's like, you know, every once in a while, I
will get to that, and I think after you know,
just a lot of weekends of travel and busyness and stuff.
I'm blinking right now.
Speaker 1: He's blinking right now. He's joining the dark side and
also making his way to that side of the equation.
My boy, my son, the bad boy. Some would call
him the Cleveland streamer.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are calling him that.
Speaker 2: Manadi liland Ai. Yeah, I feel okay, A scary tornado
almost got me, but I think I'm aside from that
doing good. I'll talk about that in a bit.
Speaker 1: We will be comparing natural disasters in just a short moment,
but perpetually in first gear turbo mode, Turbo Sean.
Speaker 2: How are you, pal?
Speaker 5: I'm doing pretty good. You know. I think ones and
twos are overrated. I'm filling in for jan today. We're
advancing where I'm on the threes and fours today, so
I'm excited to bring me all to you.
Speaker 1: That's two more better. So thank you for doing your
part there, folks. I hope everyone is doing well at home.
We have an interesting makeup today with we've got channing
grub out on assignments. We just used that to say
they're doing other shit. How is everyone doing, Mike Manati,
I want to talk to you because I think I
want to see if you think you had an interesting
natural disaster situation. I had won myself you go first?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I was. I was hanging out with
my dad my stepmom. We went to a local wing
place called Quaker Steak in the lube. Ah huh, yeahs
in the name lubes in the name. It used to
be a gas station back in the day, so that's
why lube is in there. So we're at the Loube place.
Speaker 3: You can just take the lube out of the name
and right.
Speaker 2: So we're saying we got our chicken wings, and then
like our phones start freaking out like a tornado warning.
It's like okay, and everyone's kind of looking around nervously
like oh okay, and then the storm rolls in. It
is just crazy. You can't even look out the window.
You can't see anything. The lights go off for some reason.
It causes like smoking the kitchens and now the fire
warms going off. There's like a loud screeching and flashing lights.
Even in moments, in moments like this, you're always looking
for an authority figure to help you right right, and
you're for somebody to tell you what to do to
be safe. And in this case it's the weekend manager
of the Quaker Steak and Lube, and it's like, what
do we do, sir. It's like, well, if a tornado comes,
get get under your table.
Speaker 4: It was like, oh good, that's fine for tornadoes. You
get away from the windows and get down to a basement.
That's that's rules.
Speaker 2: There's I don't think there's a basement here. We came
of our own plane of just going to like the
men's room because there's no windows. Is kind of in
the middle to work that.
Speaker 4: That feels like some like you know, a nuke is
coming in from Russia. Hide you know, yeah, do cover
you get in the doorway for earthwakes. The nukes were
under your desk.
Speaker 1: Oh right, that'll make the kettles feel better. I sure
that'll save us, Mikey. If I was there, I would
have protected you, pal. I would have turned myself into
a mind's eye glitch and just sort of barashoot it
over your entire body.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad was My actual dad was unbothered. I
couldn't tell if he was doing that because like he
thought it made me more calm, or if he actually
just kind of like didn't care. Like at one point
he like went to the actually rushroom to go to
the bathroom, and I'm talking to the waitress and she's really scared.
But that goes back like, yeah, the waitress was really nervous.
He's like, why, I'm like a tornado, you know, because
it's like, you know, everyone's like, oh, the funnel's touching
down up the road over there, like oh that's good,
that's great. So it was a little scary. Then it
passed and uh we got to leave, and like the
rope was just flooded because it's this big flash flood.
My car was practically like sailing across some of like
the lower parts, you know that the water's just practically
coming up to the window. It was really like it's
just this crazy, like thirty minute mega storm. But the
tornado touchdown more like the town over where I was.
But uh, yeah, we have to pay for our meal.
My dad like volunteered too. That's like, oh, we can
just give you cash. That's too nice.
Speaker 3: Sometimes he loves giving out cash, doesn't he.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just freshing crisp pondos.
Speaker 3: He carried around with him.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what, no five thousand dollars. No one
robbed my dad.
Speaker 1: My dad carries tons of cash on him at all times.
Speaker 3: It's insane.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5: Old people love cash.
Speaker 1: They love cash. They're just like tangible, this is tender,
this is good. This is gonna when when the nuclear
fallout comes. All the cockroaches will take hundreds right exactly,
you know, like, what's you're the problem?
Speaker 2: What's your natural disas? What happened to you? Jerse?
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you for asking, Mikey. So yeah, I I
had not heard the alarm on the phone go off
in a minute. Apparently we've like completely defunded the system
that operates that. But regardless of that, it went off,
and they were just saying, hey, extreme you know, possible
chances of a of like extreme thunderstorms, severe thunderstorms, and
just like, uh, you know a lot of times you
hear that sort of warning, You're like, all right, you know,
maybe I won't go outside and play around a golf.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The sky at around seven pm on Friday night here
when black, I mean, you know, and it's it's the
beginning of summer. These are long sunlight days, and you know,
at seven o'clock it's pretty bright out and this went
black and a round of wind came in around eighty
to ninety miles an hour in front of a big thunderstorm,
and we just had to fucking survive it. Like it
knocked down trees all over my neighborhood, Like you know,
you guys have been here on it blocked the exit
to our little street, like it was trees down everywhere.
I went out for a second because I didn't want
like there was something that wasn't tied down. I didn't
want it to blow away, So I like ran out
real quick and just brought it back in. And as
I was coming back in, I just all I could
hear behind me was like violent snapping of tree limbs,
like the crack and the pop and to the point
where like thankfully nothing fell, and you know, it was
a direct emergency. But like I like looked up through
the windows when I got back in the house, and
I could see, like, man, and there's some shit going
on up there that needs a safety inspection.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Like after the storm rolled through, like it was intense,
tons of power outages, just like some of the most
violent wind I think I've really ever seen in daylight.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was kind of freaking horrifying. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: It was. It was rough, yeah, but I still had
a tornado touchdown in my storm, so I win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But that's as far as you know, like like
it was just like naar, you you know, like we
had the trees actually go down.
Speaker 2: We had trees. It was implied that trees were going
down there. Yeah, we had trees. They fell. Yeah mine,
well not mine, thankfully, because I am worried about that,
because I do have like this giant tree behind me
that I've been trying to get rid of the tree.
People just keep ghosting me. I don't know what's I
don't know if there's something wrong with me and what.
I get them to come here and look at it
and we shake hands, and I just can't get them
to come and take the fucking tree down, and I
don't know what's going on. That's bullshit.
Speaker 1: Uh, that's absolute bullshit, son, because there's like these guys
are so horny to rip trees out of the ground
when you call it, Like the guy I call, he's like,
when can I come? He's like, it's got to come down.
I'm like, you didn't even see it yet. We're gonna
take go down all the trees in your ard?
Speaker 2: Done?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So all right, you got to just call someone else.
Speaker 2: You gotta I'm on the second guy already, and it's like, great,
get a third guy involved. Meanwhile, the storm is gonna
come take me out at some point, you know what,
you know what it is, you know what? I worry
about these fucking games, right right, that's all my entire
game No, my entire game collection is gonna get crushed
by this fucking maple tree at some point. I'm then
I'm gonna have nothing left. They're gonna become funny.
Speaker 5: It's all yellow label games.
Speaker 4: Maybe this is stupid, but like whenever we have one
of those storms. Ever since I've been a homeowner, there
have been, you know, trees around my house and stuff.
I hope that trees will just crash through my house
because isn't it like you get like big insurance checks, right.
Speaker 2: You might die, so the insurance just covers the damage.
You don't like?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but money, you know, like a little next time
and you pocket the rest, you know.
Speaker 2: So you want to scam the insurance company.
Speaker 4: Not samn, Just they give me the money and then
it's my money to do what I want with.
Speaker 1: The dude won't light a grill, but he's like, I
can't wait for the next tree to find.
Speaker 3: I do think I could be cool if you just
tell I.
Speaker 2: Want you to know how I disagree. I disagree.
Speaker 1: I think it's because I know people who it's happened
to and it totally died no, no pun intended their
lives for many, many months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to move somewhere.
Speaker 3: I find a place to go to. Yeah, we'll get
the insurance pay for it, so.
Speaker 1: You you can die, you could.
Speaker 4: I don't want the version of the story where I die.
I want it where I just get a bunch of mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just want to get shot, but not die.
Speaker 3: Get a bunch of money.
Speaker 2: I'll get shot, but like you won't you hang on?
You do? You have to use the money to fix
your house? What are you talking about? I will, but
maybe they're all getting a good deal and I'll have some.
Let not how it works, well, not how that's how.
Speaker 3: I would learn that it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: It sounds really you'll really take that lesson. I want
you to know how painful it was to have to
listen to that story about you running in a dangerous
lightning storm and then watch a video where you were
terrified of a hot dog cooking over an open flame.
Speaker 4: Again, not afraid of death, afraid of pain your projected
all this, No, not always well, probably would probably would die,
I think that. Yeah, yeah, you know it's just dying.
He's not scary getting hurt.
Speaker 3: It's scary.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, we were talking about stuff and we were
having a conversation.
Speaker 5: I want on the record, Dan could not get shot.
He would not. No, there's not a chance in hell.
For my money, you would not shot.
Speaker 4: I would make sure the terms were good enough, like
the location. I mean, yeah, like shooting like the tip
of my pinky for like five million dollars.
Speaker 3: Yes, I would take that deal.
Speaker 2: Okay, the meaty thigh, yeah, probably pretty soft.
Speaker 5: He wouldn't die from it.
Speaker 2: You see right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can I pivot with a baseball dad story? Yes, just
like going to all good dads, I'll let you win
this one.
Speaker 2: Go forward, Mikey, because before the tornado was at my
nephew's baseball game. He's like eight. It's you know, first
year kid pitch. You know some massacre is like sixteen
to one, right, But at one point, like someone on
our team got a hit. And again like first year,
these kids are pitching, they're eight. This ball line drives
the pitcher in the leg, right, so he's down because
you know it hurts. The kid gets the first base.
It's a hit, but you know they make all the
little kids take a knee. It's like, dad, everyone's being
real quiet. Can you hear the kid who got the hit?
You just hear his grandpa and the sea of silence
go like, eh, good, any actually get to don't worry
and that that guy's son slash. The kid's father's in
front of me and looks over to his dad. He's
like though, the anger in his eyes, the embarrassment I
could see on him, it took me everything. I had
to just not start laughing out loud. She's dad, what
oh oh, it was funny.
Speaker 1: I would just watch an entire show of you in
those types of situations. Mike.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie like a reverse curb your enthusiasm
where I just take delight in like other people's awkward situations.
But I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I kind of dig that in a big way. Hell yeah,
oh man, hey, uh, folks, any other stories to share before.
Speaker 2: We move on.
Speaker 4: I'll just say I saw Bob Dylan in concert last night,
And have you ever been to a concert where every
lyric sounds like a death rattle?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's been Bob Dylan concerts for quite a while.
Speaker 4: I saw him in like two thousand and seven in
two thousand and eight, and I was like, man, this
guy is very old and unintelligible, and.
Speaker 3: It's like it's just so interesting.
Speaker 4: It's like this new nineteen thousand person amphitheater and we're
all just kind of sitting there and we're all just
everyone I think is in the same boat. Where it's like, boy,
it's nice to see a legend. Yeah, it's like, yeah,
where is Like it's weird because like his band is good.
They're all like good musicians obviously, but he just kind
of does the songs however the hell he wants to
do it that night, so they just kind of have
to keep up and like they're incredibly talented, so you'll
kind of get into one of the songs for a second,
and then all of a sudden it was yeah.
Speaker 5: It's like.
Speaker 2: He doesn't Adam Sandler in the middle of It's okay.
Speaker 3: Great, glad he's still with us, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, would had been preferable. He just kind of
like came out and waved for a bit and then
left and you went home.
Speaker 4: It's so you don't even feel like you see he
just wears hoodies now and he stands behind He just
decided he's a piano player now after like all these
years of like mainly guitar, and it comes out just
a hoodie and he just stands behind a piano and
like the openers they have, you know, all these screens
and close ups and everything like that, they clearly told
the venue like, do not show any close ups to
Bob Dylan.
Speaker 3: So on the screens it is just.
Speaker 4: Like this tiny little thing behind a piano in a hoodie,
and it's like there's you don't even see a face,
much less be able to villain's face.
Speaker 2: And eventually he's gonna switch that electric piano and sell
out right right thing. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad.
Speaker 3: I'm glad he's still around.
Speaker 1: So so did you win these tickets?
Speaker 2: How did it go? Now?
Speaker 4: Was just with my buddy Matt alguson an ex game
in former. If anyone remembers him, he's great, and he
was like we both loved Dylan, and it's like, ah,
he's like eighty five, you know, this might be the
last chance theater open.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, so let's just go. You know, when you
go to a concert and you're kind of prevailing thought
as well. At least he had fun. Oh I don't
know if he was having fun. I don't know he's
doing anything.
Speaker 3: At least he was conscious.
Speaker 1: Frankly, Yeah, well I went and saw a relic too
this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I did the thing that in a million years I
would never choose to do. But I guess I'm not
upset that I went and did it. I had not
done it in about twenty seven years. We had friends
visiting up from Maryland and they got it in their
head that they wanted to go see the Statue of Living.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I didn't take a bong rip.
Speaker 1: That's not what I was talking.
Speaker 5: I was thinking. But Dibbs eleven, isn't he like?
Speaker 2: How is it twenty? So?
Speaker 5: Okay, go on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I the last time I was there was
was ninety nine.
Speaker 2: I did the math and uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's that's Uh, that's a place to go to.
We did Ellis Island as well.
Speaker 2: Just so you all know.
Speaker 1: I want everyone else to also know this, because our
friends from Maryland were floored when they found out the truth,
the deep, dark truth about the Statue of Liberty, about
Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Do you know what that
dark secret is?
Speaker 2: That's not it that is. That is a thing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't It was like a penny and then like
a couple months later it just went green.
Speaker 2: Uh no, the deep.
Speaker 1: Yes, Ferguson has it right in chat. It's in New Jersey.
The whole shebang is in New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Freedom in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: There is now we change the rules. Okay, it is
that part of it is in New Jersey. It's right there,
of course it is. If you go there, you you
assume that, like because you could see Manhattan, of course,
because you're in like the New York Bay sort of
area and like, but very much on the Jersey side.
Speaker 2: So that was interesting.
Speaker 5: Is it is it like is this one of those
like legal boundary things because like for example, here in Wisconsin,
lambeau Field is in Green Bay because the city of
Green Bay bought the border around lambeau Field, so that
would be part of here instead of the neighboring town.
But it is illegally part of New York or whatever.
Is it actually New Jersey?
Speaker 2: It's actually New Jersey? Okay, yeah, gotcha, yeah, man, I'm
looking at this thing. Is yeah, well in that New
Jersey side of the line there, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Everyone who lives in New Jersey and grows up in
New Jersey is aware of this little, deep dark secret.
We just don't go around telling everyone until they have.
Speaker 2: A podcast at their hosting. Sure.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it's pretty it's it's you know, it's really interesting. Surprisingly,
you would think on July fifth, the Saturate might be
a little crowded, especially with the World Cup taking place, uh,
you know, a couple of miles away. But it was
completely manageable. I was pretty surprised. Like the whole thing
was uh, was was pretty easy to do. You got
to take a ferry and sort of island hop to
each one because Ellis Island and the and Liberty Island
are two separate places, really wild, and I think I
think we can all do.
Speaker 2: Uh, I think we could all do for a little
bit of education going to those places.
Speaker 1: Understanding the messages that are very very clear, written in
black and white, and the energy that kind of flows
through the halls of Ellis Island, and the sort of
exhibits you can read and see with your own two
stupid fucking eyes and not something that someone told you
on the internet. Uh yeah, go there if you can,
if you have the means check it out.
Speaker 2: Just don't just the food court there. I thought it
was bad. Just don't. Okay, now wait a second, because
that now I'm looking at this map and there is
like a line around this I want with the Statue
of Liberty and with Ellis Island in the started line.
Outside of ls Island it says New Jersey. Inside of
it it says New York. Really don't cities are petty.
The state lines, it's very The state line is a
very clear line. It goes down the Hudson River right,
it makes a little angle towards back into New Jersey.
I think, if you're really map studying, the wildest part
of New York City geography.
Speaker 1: Is that Staten Island is in New York. Staten Island
is south of everything. It's south of Manhattan, it's southwest
of Manhattan. It's south of Bayonne and Poboken, in Jersey
City and all these other places. That's the weird thing. Now,
I will speak on behalf of everyone in New Jersey
to say that we do not want State ny. New
York can have Staten Island. It's just a bunch of
garbage landfills. Sure, we don't want it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I draw the maps. Don't yell at me.
Mike is right, though I'm looking at it. It does
clearly say it's New York. And if you look at
the address, it's New York one O four, Like it
does appear that the statue is in New York.
Speaker 2: Technically now New York very spitefully stole it from you
and into your land. It was like, this is this
is too important for you. You're not gonna do the
tappan Z Bridge all over again.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're not going to do this. Okay, it is
very clearly in New Jersey. It's not up for debate.
It's just fucking We'll let you have it, thank you.
Speaker 2: It's like everyone.
Speaker 1: Necessarily want it, but I'll take it.
Speaker 4: Everyone's always very confused too, about the Kansas City situation
about because Kansas City is in Missouri. Well, there is
a kansaity Kansas, but everything anyone has ever heard of
is on the Missouri side.
Speaker 5: That is weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like the downtown, the sports teams, although I think
Arrowhead or the Chiefs or the Royals are moving to
the Kansas side at some point, but historically, anything you've
ever heard of is on the Missouri side.
Speaker 3: Of Kansas City.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Interesting.
Speaker 1: You know, they kind of did this shit with the
MetLife Stadium as well. And if you're watching the World
Cup every time they have a game in MetLife Stadium,
which is like so far into New Jersey, it's insane,
they're like, oh, it's New York, New Jersey Stadium where
the New York Jets and the New York Giants also play.
I don't have I don't have an explanation for it.
It's okay, it's fine, Uh, folks, We're gonna we're gonna
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That's right. It's the word videos in there, so many times.
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Speaker 4: That being kicks ass And I was doing a bunch
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on the machine. That's the main thing I've been playing.
Unlocked all the others. There's four different characters you can get,
all with their own kind of like challenge lists and everything.
And I'm just looking at all this and I'm like,
I'm absolutely going to keep playing this until I do
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Vampire Survivors, where it's like, give me any excuse to
keep playing runs, and I'm going to do it so
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it's a cliche, but the like, oh, one more run
and then it turns into four hours or whatever.
Speaker 3: Like I'm just loving it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you talked about this last week and I
was intrigued, and I know, you know you compare it
to bitche Kazuoie's of Bolts, and it is the ship
books up is also like the gummy ship editor in
Dumb Part Mikes mic is muted. I think I'm like, oh, okay, now, look,
they gotta be ship parts of Kingdom Hearts are sometimes
not amazing, but here, you know the way you actually
have to worry about that stuff. It's fun because you know,
some some weapons just gonna shoot straight ahead. So weapons
are like three sixty degree angles, so you maybe want
to kind of put them higher up so that they
aren't exstructed by something. So you're making a lot of
good this is there. Like other blocks are like, hey,
here's a block where uh, you know, ten percent more damage.
So if you put a weapon on this block, it'll
you know, dams will increase. But where you gonna put
this block? And by the end of the run, your
truck is just this monstrosity of like you know, twenty
wheels and fifteen guns and five thrusters and like maybe
there's like tank treads on it and all this stuff,
and it just the progression feels super super satisfying.
Speaker 3: And it just left you get really stupid with it.
Speaker 4: Like there's a bunch of like blocks you can get
that are just platforms basically for other guns and stuff.
I will inevitably just get a bunch of giant blocks
and just add to the sides in front and back,
or I'll make like a huge tower for like a
flat han and stuff. So it just looks insane by
the end, Like I'm just like laughing at like this
insane construction. Yeah again with like forty wheels or something
like that. But it works like, and I'm glad it doesn't.
Ever it's not too finicky with like you can put
wheels and fucked up places like oh this wheels below
the rest of the craft or whatever, and everything still
just kind of drives like the physics spell get a
little altered and stuff, but like it's never like, oh,
you know, you broke this, This isn't going to drive
right like it's it's fun above all else with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say I just finish like a run
on each of the planets. I killed the bus and
now I can do like the Herder version of each one.
I am a little stuck just playing as that first
character still, because unless I'm missing the progression like oh
you know you're getting these resources you can upgrade that
is per character, it's not an overall thing. So part
is like I don't want to start over and be
weak again with this with this brand new character. But
I mean they're different and I should try to yeah,
afraid of trying them. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: The first one is good for just kind of like
standard stuff. The second one I usually use for like
impact like driving into things while my car is covered
in spikes. The third one I do a lot of
like marksmen precision things, and then the fourth one you
can get really weird with like drones and energy weapons
and stuff.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just uh yeah, maybe maybe my favorite of these
Vampire Survivors likes right, And I like Vampire Survivors, maybe
not quite as much as like you or Grubb did,
so I'm like, this is fine. I would like like
a little bit more, a little bit something, and this
whole kind of building your car element to it that
is that is more than a little bit something, So
that just really drives up my interest.
Speaker 4: It's without a doubt my favorite one of these sense
Vampire Survivors, and I would put it kind of in
the same conversation of like quality cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, just think like a weird spot here. I
didn't know anything about this game until we uh partnered
up and giving away codes and then I'm like, well,
this looks really good and I guess I want to
play this now, and I'm sort of just like locked
out of it in a weird way, and I'm just like,
you know, I'm just gonna have to buy for job.
Speaker 2: Do it. Just do it.
Speaker 3: It's like eight dollars right now or something.
Speaker 2: Totally code. Yeah, yeah, that's right, I mean right now too. Yeah,
but before you get the code through us and also
join Giant Bond Premium but.
Speaker 3: Fail.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Food on family though, uh and thank you so much
to our pals over at uh Mith rayload there and
myth right right for sure? Okay, moving along, Rhythm Heaven
Groove is officially out and the two most coordinated people
I know have been playing it, Mike and then.
Speaker 3: I wonder which one of us has more rhythm.
Speaker 2: I do definitely remember that you you complain that you
have none. Yeah, you talk about this a lot like Dan.
Speaker 3: I think of rhythm. I think of dancing.
Speaker 2: I could dance, but I'm good at rhythm games. Remember
remember way back when we had our k pit and
you try to get me by having me play that
weird mini game and back to the future where he
was doing Johnny Be Good and I was vague pent it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you just like you've described Mike as the most
musical person. You know, music is rhythm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, rhythm is dancing though like entertainer.
Speaker 1: I mean, he can sing, he can dance, he can
do whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can sing.
Speaker 3: I knew he was going to do that.
Speaker 5: I think this is why Dan has no rhythm. He
doesn't realize that everything is rhythm. I think that's the problem.
Speaker 2: It's a It's like we found out Punchhot was rhythm, remember,
and you were like, how's your rhythm? How's your rhythm working?
In rhythm Heaven?
Speaker 4: Dan, I'm fucking terrible with this game. I think it's
got a lot of personality.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 4: It's just very warrior ware in its presentation, which I
really appreciate in the humor really gets me. But it's
I I can't remem if I said it on here,
but like, yeah, I was supposed to review the Rhythm
having game for we back a Game Informer and I
got to the level with the monkey clock and it
was just like, I literally cannot do this, Like on
the standard difficulty, I can I get passes.
Speaker 3: And I remember trying to get out of the review
being like, use itself.
Speaker 4: I cannot fucking do this. I need to step away
from this review. And I think I was forced to
continue with that review, and I think I gave it
like a seven or something like that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm fucking terrible at it.
Speaker 1: This man must recused himself from this review. He has
no rhythm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it makes sense. Uh, I've been enjoying it,
you know, I've liked the rhythm having games before. I
think I mostly played the DS one or the three
DES one. Yeah, it's funnycause it's simple, but it is
just basically like, here's a bunch of visual cues and
sound cues to tell you when to push a button. Yeah,
and you're just going to learn that. But there's something
really satisfying about it. And they always come up with
these fun scenarios like, oh, you're gonna throw your dog
and a frisbee's going getting thrown at you, and you
kind of have to learn to count to seven on
the beat and that's when you're going to jump or
your your car, and you got to listen to like
you know, when you're going to break or when you're
gonna zoom forward, and you're kind of information so you
could mess up. So yeah, it's all just really charming
and fun. And then the best part is like when
you do like four of these kind of games and
then there's the remix where it takes like all four
of the last ones and now you're doing all four
of those games and kind of one sequence, so you
will be the car for a moment, and then you
will dump back to suddenly being a frog jumping on
lily pads, and then go to some other thing. And
that's where it really really works. There's some it's weird
because they get very Warriorware now. I think Grub talked
about this too, Like Warrio Wear is very ugly sometimes
and it's funny because it's Warriorware in a funny way.
It's like in the red and stimpy gross ups, and
like sometimes in this game, it's like, now, are these
visuals in this game? Is this just kind of ugly
and maybe too simple? Is that charming or is it
kind of just sort of seem a little lame charming?
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 4: I can't say that there's any many games of like, oh,
I don't like the look of this. I think that's
one of the stronger elements of the game.
Speaker 5: I think I never because I love Warrio Ware. I
love that series. I just never gotten to Rhythm Heaven
despite being a big like rhythm game person. I love
music games, rhythm games, everything like that. I just never
gotten to Rhythm Heaven. I think it's because you know,
when they were first showing off in like magazines and
stuff and like screenshots online. Yeah, I don't think it
shows well as a still image because you look at
it looks a little like sterile. But then you see
it in motion, it's like, oh, the charm is like
how it animates and earything like that. So I do
want to go and try this one, because Yeah, the
way you guys talk about the way that Reb talks
about it seems like it would be up my alley.
It seems like someone's pretty good. Even if, like Greb
said in his review of like the presentations a little lacking,
sometimes it seems like this is a really good one
of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just not always entirely clear, especially in the
outset of like where the cues are, like, there's cues,
but they're not always right just because they are organic beats.
They're not always like the moment you need to be
hitting the button, and you just have to kind of
like merge into the language that it's sort of speaking.
Speaker 2: And it'll do things like oh, now suddenly your views
block you can't see what's happening, or oh, we're gonna
just like double the speed, and you kind of just
have to you know, know what you know, to be
able to still hit that button.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many party game stuff that I still
think is like super strong. How do you guys find
the sort of like Adventury mode with the battling, you know,
the RP.
Speaker 5: It's clever.
Speaker 4: It's a clever minigame. That's one thing I do love
about these games and Warrior where is like the amount
of just kind of toys they always unlock or it's
like it's or side modes, like this is more of
an actual full side mode, And yeah, I think it's cool.
I think just having to like tie attacks to different
rhythm patterns and stuff like it works.
Speaker 2: I haven't tried that yet. I kind of want to
get through like the normal game. The one thing I
didn't like, and you know, you're able to turn it off,
but when you start, there's like, you know, the tutorial
character whatever, and it does that robot voice thing. Nintendo
loves that robot voice, and I think it's some games
like in a Tomadacci that's that be funny. I think
that he's it way too much. I'm like, just hire
a voice actor for this thing, and it like sounded
especially bad. I wasn't even pronouncing words right. And as
soon as that Rob was like do you want me
to read no words out loud? I'm like, no, stop
doing that please.
Speaker 1: It's not terrible, and it hits especially hard in this
sort of like you know, hellscape of AI voices and
stuff like that, where I'm just like conditioned to just
despise any sort of like you won't believe what they're doing.
And it's like, no, you have to stop. To hire
Mike Manatti. Let Mike Manatti be the voice.
Speaker 2: I'll be the voice. I'll tell people that they have
to push the A button on the fourth beat. It's fine.
Speaker 1: Hire John Malkovich, let him do.
Speaker 2: It's not charming. It like I'll give you tomadacil like
for that. Now you get that's it an attend Otherwise,
enough with the robot voice. You have you have money,
hire some voice actors.
Speaker 1: We heard you have money. Yeah, yeah, we heard you
had money. Use uh chat, says Werner Hertzog. You could
use Sam Elliott Ellen. I like Helen Mirren for this.
Maybe I just think we need to like step outside
of our conference zone a little bit with narration. Thank
you agreed? All right, let's see what else we got
here on the list, It says here that Mike, you've
been playing a brand new game called Elden Ring.
Speaker 2: I am back in Elden Ring.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I played this game when it came out, like everyone else,
I loved it, and since then, in recent years, I
kind of gone back and played through all the other
Front Soft games, and I kind of know a good
deal more about this genre, about the franchise, and I've
been kind of hankering to go back to elden a Ring,
largely because when I did that first time, I was
using summons. I was using the you know, the the bell,
the spirit ashes and things like that, and that's fine.
It was fun to do it that way, and I'm like, oh,
now I'd like to try it without that stuff. Especially
some boss fights like Millennia, which is you know a
lot of people that's like the boss fight in the game.
I'm like, I didn't really even do that boss fight. Really.
I summoned two guys who did it, and I had
a chunky sword and shield thing that was no good
against her, So I just kind of ran away the
whole time.
Speaker 4: That's every boss fight I've ever done in a Front game.
Until Secoros, like, maybe I should play these games for real.
They seem very good, right, It's.
Speaker 2: Really fun when you do it like that. So I'm like, Okay,
this time, I'm not I'm not gonna do my big
shield and like sword build, I'm gonna just DEXTERI I'm
gonna do a bleed build. I know it is supposed
to be good in the game, so that'll be fun.
And yeah, it's it's been really fun. I've just done
a couple of like those, you know, those first two
big bosses, and even even that first one, I kind
of got to him when I was maybe a little
under level, so it took a lot of tries, but
it was really fun to just kind of learn these combos.
And Outer Ring is such a stinker even early on
with the delayed strikes mixed with you know, uh, now
suddenly this comp is gonna be five attacks very quick.
You just got to roll it out of the way.
It's really satisfying to learn those things and to get
good them, and then you know, progressively get a bit better,
and then you have that one run where you get
bind the skin of your teeth and it's just this
euphoria you feel so amazing when that happens. Boy through
a really pretty game. That's the Limb Gray that's starting area.
Just seeing that giant tree and the fields and everything
going on, and I'm still shocked, Like, boy, this game's
so big and every nook and cranny has something to do.
So Yeah, Eldon Ring still still good and I'm excited
to continue playing through it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're always forgetting to end your weapon.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a big problem. Yeah, because, uh, especially with that,
remind you if I have the I have a weapon
that where it has a strength requirement that means it
does it's basically nothing unless like two hand it what
happens whenever you upgrade your weapon, it automatically goes back
to being one handed. And I never noticed, and I
always forget it. It's a big problem. Ie.
Speaker 5: I do think what you're describing though, of replaying it
speaks to why it was always really silly to gate
keep from soft games and like not people not wanting
there to be anything resembling an easier way to play it,
whether it be an easy mode or just like in
game mechanics that make it easy, and they're like, that's
not the real way to play and like you can't
have those. I think it's you know, it's cool that
you played through it maybe taking advantage of some of
those things, and now you like the game because it's
a good game and there's depth there. You can just
revisit and play a different way, play it a more
challenging way. But I'll even necessarily like turning on ultra
hard difficulty or something. I think that speaks to their
game design, right.
Speaker 2: And I've been watching actually a lot of Frumsoft challenge
run videos and it's just fun seeing the fans come
up with ways of like, all right, we're gonna I'm
gonna beat the game using only fist weapons and I'm
never gonna upgrade them. Stuff like that. I'm like, oh man, yeah,
there's all sorts of ways you can kind of just
modify the difficulty on your own. It's interesting, very good.
Speaker 1: No coincidence, folks that were playing Elder We're talking about
Elder ring on tomorrow Saint's birthday. Birthdayay, there you go,
Pal twenty four years old speaking of people in their twenties,
baby brother, No, I do what the fuck? Sean, You've
got a duo of games of tandem. If you will
tell us about superstation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so the superstation. I'm bringing a positive light to
this hardware that I purchased after Mike unfortunately got shipped
to dud he let.
Speaker 2: I gotta still fix that.
Speaker 5: It happens with any hardware, like one in like five
thousand people get one that just happens to be a dub. Yeah,
just Mike lost the lottery this time. So yeah, I've
got my superstation set up and I've been putting around
with If people don't know, if they haven't heard, I
think you explained it. But if they didn't hear that
on the BombCast a few weeks back, this is like
a pre assembled Mister based console thing. And if you
don't know what Mister is, basically it's like sort of
like a raspberry Pie style project, where like you take
a computer board and they use that to do other things.
The Mister is taking a programmable computer chip FPGA. You've
heard that if you've bought like the Analog Pocket or
something like that. This is like the open source version
of all the stuff that Analog is doing. You can
use a programmable computer chip to simulate a very accurate
level old video game hardware. It's very cool, and I've
always wanted one. It's just it's always been such a
DIY project. It's kind of like building a PC. I
just don't really I didn't really want to get into
that and maybe get the wrong thing in terms of
like the add ons you can get in everything. So
that's why I like the superstation is because it was
you know, Taki you Don's company retro remake. They've been
doing some like mod stuff they did, like the oled
screen for the switch lights they did. You could buy
a mister preassembled from them, but now they have one
that looks like a PS one. Slim people are getting them.
A bunch of people in games media again them. I know,
a bunch of people in the audience are getting them.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: It's fun to play around with because there is Unfortunately,
they did not ship it with the console UI that
they've been promising because they hit a couple bugs along
the way. So when you get it, it's just a mister.
It just runs those games accurately and everything, even though
it doesn't have that UI that they promise that also
has some of the functionality of hardware you may have purchased,
like the DOC doesn't work correctly, right now because like
disc reading doesn't work because they need that extra stuff
that they've been programming that isn't you know, merged into
the Mister Project yet. So it's it's a really weird
and messy situation. But the hardware itself, if you're using
it as a Mister right now and while we wait
for that update, it's really good at why it does
you know, like out putting classic games over HDMI and
looking very clean. There's analog video outputs you want to
connect it to a CRT and the Mister Project just
keeps getting better. Now there's retro achievements support on and
people have heard me talk about retro achietment like those
I love retro achievements. It has been a great way
to like a reason for me to play more and
more retro games on top of maybe some news items
we'll talk about that has me revisiting the past instead
of going to the future. That's cool that now the
NES Super NES Genesis and sixty four and PS one
all have Hardcore Achievements support mode. So that's like, if
you care about retro achievements, you want to play it
like how people earn them on consoles. That's hardcore mode
with like no safe stating, no rewinding and stuff like that.
It's cool that now we can do that on something
that's like easy to set up, Like you take out
the box and assuming you don't get shipped a Lemon,
you just plug it in, load your games up, pair
of controller by pressing a single button, and you're off
to the racist. It's really cool and I'm really enjoying
my time with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my situations. Yeah, I just I do really want one.
I just I want it to work, so I do
have to get back.
Speaker 5: You just got to take advantage of that warranty because
they'll still one.
Speaker 4: Mine's been frustrating because like I bought the dock with it,
so I did the like you know, two and one thing,
and everyone started getting Everyone who just ordered the system
started getting there. So I was like, man, I want
to get it. I want to start messing around with
it and stuff. And so you have to pay extra
to get both of them shipped separately. But they were like, yeah,
you'll get it earlier if you pay extra and split
them up. And I was like, okay, fine, and I
got it, and so I have the thing. I've never
I've not turned it on yet because now it's like
I'm waiting for the dock and they just won't tell me.
They're like, oh, yeah, we're starting mass production TBD and
when that's going out, and so it's just been this
whole thing where it's like I paid extra to get
it quicker and I still don't have the thing, and
it's a yeah, it's been a frustrating situation.
Speaker 3: So I've not been able to mess around with it yet.
Speaker 5: Did you what do you have right now? Like, well,
just the.
Speaker 4: System itself, but I do want to use it, like
I want to start ripping my whole collection, you know.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, and that's so you're waiting on the dock now.
Speaker 3: Now I'm waiting on the dock.
Speaker 4: Yes, But they told me that by splitting them up,
I would get the whole thing quicker basically, and it's
just not happening.
Speaker 5: Well, by splitting it up, you got the system quicker,
and now you have to wait for them to like
have a doc ready for you, which like if you
got it slightly like me and Mike got ours as
soon as possible because we're in that like first batch,
and so if you were even like a couple hours later,
or something, or like maybe like thirty minutes later you're
probably just in like the next batch to get your
doc or whatever. It's been. It's been very messy. It's
been very messy from the company. It is, like I said, like,
you know, I'm not excusing it or anything, but TAKEI
has sort of like taken to his YouTube channel again
to talk about the business side of things and being like, frankly,
maybe they bid off more than they can choose chew,
and hey, broading a business is pretty freaking hard, and
they underestimate some elements of how difficult some of that
stuff would be. So I think it's a learning experience.
I think it sucks that it turned out this way
on this product, but hopefully they learn from it because
they want to do more projects like this in the future.
And I the hardware itself again went works, is very
good and I'm having a great time with so I
you know, eventually we'll get to a point where everyone's
gonna be happy with it, and that's that's gonna be cool.
And for now, I'm enjoying what it is for what
it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in no rush too, because like with the
Steam Machine, I've just really been going all in. I'm
just like getting that set up exactly the way I
want it. So just like retro tinkering, I've definitely been.
Speaker 2: How are you gonna play PlayStation game?
Speaker 4: It is every time I get a new device, I
get very excited about it and I turned the bog
and say, finally I have a way to remember those
old games I like to play.
Speaker 3: I can play the game, and she's like, I'm so
happy for you.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, as someone who like is a bit
guilty of doing a similar sort of rinse and repeat
like a psychopath, just like setting up retro consoles getting them,
I don't know. I kind of don't even like get
down into the nitty gritty of like selecting games. It's
just sort of dump what I have and and kind
of move on, like I'm just not playing them, and
I just need to be an adult about it and
just be like I don't.
Speaker 2: I gotta just stop caring.
Speaker 5: I just gotta stop it because the sickness you're buying
the hardware, You're like, okay, well anyways, moving on.
Speaker 1: Well I don't have a ton of them, my I
guess my my most my most used retro device is
probably like the steam deck sure for being fully honest,
and you know, I yeah, I tried to do it
on the Ally the Rock ally X thing, and I'm
just I just I hate turning that thing on. It's
just gonna annoy me with eleven thousand updates every time
I turn it on. And then, uh, you know, and
and that's it. I'm just And I have a thor
which I've sort of neglected. It's just not it's just
not like, you know, like the one game that I
like to play once a year is Shadow of the Classes,
and it's like, I've got pretty good PS four.
Speaker 2: You know remaster that that that serves me.
Speaker 1: Well. Uh, there are some purists who are like, oh,
if you're not playing the PS two version, you're your Yeah.
Speaker 2: They get upset about that. I'm like, they are nice.
I mean, they're intent. They need to shut the fuck up.
They need to go touch grass. These fucking losers. Oh
my god.
Speaker 5: There's always a purist too. It's like the people who
say Final Fantasy sound remakes shouldn't exist at all. It's
like it's just not for you. It's fine, all of them.
Speaker 2: Like there's there's a lot of Majora's mask fans who
are like that three DS versions no good. I'm like,
that's the one that I liked and played through like
so much. I bet, I bet they have good reasons.
I listened to them like I would understand.
Speaker 5: It's more like the Majors Mask one where they like
change the physics. I'm like, okay, I get it, but
also the originals there for your play. I get being,
you know, disappointed in something, but oh no, man, it's
not working.
Speaker 2: Mad about I will say that, like my favorite retro
thing probably is still using my retro taken actually using consoles,
which is a cumbersome thing, but to me that may know,
that makes a whole thing a bit more fun and
interesting to me. And I like collecting games, and there's
something about like I'm going to play Gold and I
and a lot of people are like, well, aren't you
here's a PC version you can play. You can play
it on the next week. I don't know. I like putting
this cartridge in my Nintendo sixty four and just playing
it like that with the controller and everything, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's It's just that's why I've always wanted a
misters because that way, you know, I can hook up
my little eight. It do sixty four here, and then
it feels like I'm playing on original hardware, even if
I'm taking advantage of modern conveniences like built in AHDMI
and stuff like that. So I like to meet meet
in the middle of those two philosophies.
Speaker 4: Last game I played on cartridge with space ace. So
I think I'm ready to just be all you know, emulation, mister,
we don't anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, the next Blake Club is going to be going
to be emulation. It's just the little I can't wait
too good, assume it.
Speaker 1: But next week I'm gonna need some written instructions and
a manual.
Speaker 2: But I can't wait. I have and I have some.
Speaker 1: Ideas I haven't even told you of how I want
to intro this whole thing involves. It involves a lot
of production.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just saying I don't know if it's
gonna happen. No, No, not shipping in sand. We're not
doing that.
Speaker 5: That's what you think.
Speaker 2: I'll only do that when I go to the beach.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well we'll see what we can do.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Here with that, Uh finally, last game on this list
here is uh some sort of alphanumeric combination of letters
I W four x sean.
Speaker 2: But what are we doing here, bud?
Speaker 5: Yeah, if the name didn't give it away. So this
isn't a game, This is a mod. Oh not again,
we'll get to the news. But more than ever, I
have this thought in my head of like supporting people
directly and playing the games you al a have, and
like revisiting retro stuff. And so this is something that
I was. I was trying to find a copy of
the Call of Duty Man war Fair trilogy on three
sixty for a decent price, because that's backwards compatable. And
I stopped and thought, like, am I actually gonna play this?
Like I'm gonna pay for Xbox Live and play it
online stuff, And I'm like, well, no, I want to
play with my friends, and we've all moved to like
PC stuff for the most part, unless we're playing on
my PS four. And so what this is. I looked
it up, and this is a mod that's apparently running
and working fine. It's like a community fix for the
PC version of Call of Duty Modern Warfare two, the
old one, not the reboot bullshit. And so this is
There's there's been a few projects to do stuff like this.
You know, there was like the remake that they were
going to do that Activision shut down and stuff like that.
This is you know what, this is a happy medium.
This is fans going in fixing the game, fixing the
security issues with it, making it so that you can
use a controller with aim assist, or you can use
keyboard and mouse. It's all like customs, which apparently the
ESA says is illegal, which they're not, you stupid morons.
And so you just go in there and like play
there will just be a serverless like a classic PC game,
and it's just really refreshing to hop in there and
play an old game that I, you know, played in
high school and college with my friends on our three
sixties and in step I worry about. You fire up
Modern Call of Duty and you're hit with a million
ADS and you have to worry about all the bullshit.
The way actually starts running things well.
Speaker 2: Launchers a great experience for everybody. We all love that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just don't know, it's a running theme of
communities are bringing back these games that we all love
from back in the day and making them feel fresh
and modern and like fixing issues that companies don't want
to invest in fixing. It's really cool. I I we
we did played this for game night there night being
my friends online, and we had a blast. It was
just really fun to revisit on.
Speaker 3: That we love.
Speaker 5: If if anyone wants the actual link, I think there's
a bunch of copycats, it's a IW four ax dot
I is where I got mine. Again, it's a mod,
So I'm not gonna, like, you know, put out my
whole ass behind this, But as far as I tell,
it's really cool. I had good time with it, and
it's neat to make sure that these old games stay alive.
Speaker 2: I was watching Summer Games Done Quick yesterday and one
of the one of the games played was this mod
for Jack and Daxter, yes called Gordon and Daxter, where
it was just Gordon Freeman from from Half Life in
the game. Instead, you're just you know, you're just going
around the jacket dexter map. You're still getting the precursor orbs,
but you're Gordon Freeman with those mechanics. I'm like, oh,
I want to play that. That looks fu.
Speaker 1: So you get to like a gravity gun, Like, what
are what you mean?
Speaker 2: I think it might be more like I think it
might be more first, I.
Speaker 5: Think you can. But like, yeah, they were like bunny
hopping with the shotgun and stuff like that, because it's
the it's the PC. Because they decompiled Jack one. I
think they're working on Jack two right now, so there's
all sorts of mods for the PC port of that
decompilation project. And what is Gordon and Daxter. Yeah that
was cool watch yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, oh, I'm into this.
Speaker 1: I had such a weird moment last week. It was
watching one of his favorite YouTubers who I cannot recommend
enough ice cream sandwich, super funny, amazing animator, great, great
h content, And in one of the episodes was the
gravity gun from Half Life, because he was just like
referring to it and it was like I know what
that is, and I'm.
Speaker 7: Like what O.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a thing you can like pick stuff up
and throw it.
Speaker 2: I'm like what how do you? Hell? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So, like the again, this is not me complaining. I
just think it's like this wild you know, cultural video
game cultural sort of like mishmash where we have like
items from gaming war and Potpoury were like like, dib
knows what a gravity gun is. He doesn't know what
half life is, don't know where Gordon Freeman is. He
just knows like what that weapon is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like the Gary's mod effect where kids like,
you know, it's exactly from like the random crap they
download on their laptop and now we're at the point
where it's all YouTubers doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am, though, I do think that the gravity
gun is one of the most important things that has
happened in my lifetime. All right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you go you that way, I
go another way maybe, but like, uh, you know, pains
me a little bit to hear my son say that,
but I think, like my other son, but he knows,
like you know, he obviously he's played Portal so who
knows what the portal guns are? And obviously those are
very much connected in more ways than one. But I
just think it's wild. It's it's just it's just nothing like, how.
Speaker 2: Do you know, little kid, what a gravity gun is?
And there you have it.
Speaker 1: I think chat is also correct. I think Gary's mod
Rich Rich Bad Game said Gary Mind had a huge
influence on YouTuber culture.
Speaker 2: Toilet right, Yah.
Speaker 5: See those references left and right. Even if they've kind
of lost all meaning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have outstayed their sort of immediate relevance in
so many ways.
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of fascinating.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're gonna take a break. When we
come back, let's get into the news portion of the program,
LARPing as Jeff Grubb will Mike Manatti delivering the news,
putting on his press hat, getting that nice little cappy
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know you are chat. You wouldn't not be subscribed to
us on YouTube? That would be silly.
Speaker 1: More back of our snack reviews. I don't know if
I could do more snack reviews. I did all the
snacks I have, just kidding, just kidding. I have tons
of snacks in the in the hopper, right.
Speaker 3: Dan, Yes you next.
Speaker 4: I have a Swedish fish bites coming posted in the discord,
and I immediately bought like a twelve pack.
Speaker 2: I'm not much of a candy guy, but I do
like a Swedish fish. Yeah, what about them? I don't
know what it is. That's a good texture. I kind
of like gummies, like I really look forward to my
fiber gummy every morning. Now right, it's like favor.
Speaker 3: I have tons of gummies. No, I'm with you, like
I have so many.
Speaker 4: I have probably like fifteen gummies a day, just because
I like every excuse to have gummies. Yeah, like the
pre biotics, the fiber, the multi and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I was going in a different direction with
the gummies. But yeah, y'all old farts can have your
fiber gummies and I got.
Speaker 2: The good gummies. Don't sin gummies. I get fiber. What
do you mean sin gummies? I mean illegal? What do
you mean? I'll try to get a good word for
you when I finally get the heaven years after you.
Speaker 1: Oh, baby, where I'm going, there's no heaven.
Speaker 2: Where I'm going. We won't need roads.
Speaker 1: Uh, So we're in line because you know, like when
you go through Cetral Liberty that's in New Jersey, you
have to go through like airport security style, right, Like
it's basically that. So my my dumb ass friend from Maryland,
he brings his marijuana vape with him. What and they're like, sir,
And he's the dumbest because he like he wrote in
sharpie the strain that's on it. So he couldn't even
like get away with saying this is just nicotine.
Speaker 2: I thought it was, sir. It's just.
Speaker 1: It's just Bernie Lomac's sativa on it. What could it be, sir?
Throw it out, sir.
Speaker 4: My dad travels with melatonin gummies and on the bag
he writes TSA colon, these are not marijuana gummies. These
are melatonin for sleeping.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the TSA is like, thank you for labeling this.
And we work on the honor system. Yeah, that's that's
what t s A is, the honor system.
Speaker 5: TSA is not chill, dude. The TSA agent was very
pissed that I forgot that I had a can of
monster in my luggage when we went from one home
the other in l A. He was not happy. I
was like, I forgot. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: It matters if it's sealed too, right, it can't even
do it if it's sealed.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, it doesn't matter. It can't be it can't
be liquid. But that's the melatonin gummy's also top tier.
They kind of like a purple flavor that's very good. No,
I know what you mean, Mike, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
very specky in it too, and it's good man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I only need one to sleep, but it
says I could take too, And sometimes I'm like I
just need another hit, baby, do you really does it?
Speaker 1: Did MELTONA really do it for you.
Speaker 2: It does. Even though I'm like, well where my dad
has said this, that might just be placebo, I'm like,
yeah maybe, but basic.
Speaker 3: Stay away from those.
Speaker 4: I feel like those make me groggy in the morning,
so I do stay with Yeah.
Speaker 1: They they are now doing like sleep time gummies right,
so they're like thhc Indica gummies that also, for lack
of a better word, are laced with melatonin, and I
gotta imagine like that's probably a one two punch, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's gonna be interesting. Man. I just want
to kind of get all the gummies, is like, put
them in one bed, just like eat them like I would.
Speaker 3: Mike, are you with me? Like I think some people
would say this is ridiculous, but maybe you're with me, Mike.
Speaker 2: Okay, you could just.
Speaker 4: If you still at any point have the option to
treat yourself and go out and get some rbs have it,
you know, grill or whatever. But just an average day,
if you could just get everything you need by taking
a bunch of tasty gummies, would you do it?
Speaker 2: If I was like, if I felt satisfied from that,
then sure, yeah, be easy.
Speaker 4: But like, okay, the sol and stuff and hel where
it's just like, here's just a concoction that gives me
the nutrients, you know, and.
Speaker 2: I can't do that. I find those. I find the thick,
drinky things disgusting.
Speaker 5: I just can't.
Speaker 2: I can't do them like I tried to do. I
try to do the h the protein shake, and I
was like, I actually cannot drink this. This is too
gross to me. I can do those anyway.
Speaker 3: It brings New World or whatever where it's like, oh cool,
we can eat like this now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just totally normal utopian situation.
Speaker 3: Weird about it, right, don't worry about where it comes from.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you so weird. So you want matrix gruel
in jelly form, I want good matrix gruel.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't excuse to eat more gummies.
Speaker 1: I don't just yeah, I just enjoy having like a
full ass meal.
Speaker 2: Like we're not one or the other all the time,
all the time. Yeah, I get it, like but like everyone,
so it's like sometimes like, oh, the fact that I
have to eat is a problem, Like what am I
even gonna eat? When I've gotta cook something? Am I
gonna go somewhere to get it.
Speaker 4: You know if I just every day had like a
bowl of gummies that I can parse out. However, I
went to throughout the day and that's everything I need
that would be ideal.
Speaker 1: For me, Like the Wonka kind of situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I like cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2: Cheers every day. Yeah, to be irresponsible, you gotta have
the gummies instead, right, you guys.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I christened the new grill this weekend and
did not cook a single hot dog on it.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry too because I ordered two hot dogs yesterday
and kind of only had room for one, and I
brought one home and I don't know if I'm going
to get to it. I'd like I've been way too long.
I kind of didn't feel amazing after the hot dog
last night. So I'm a little a little worried about
eating my spare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're all, we're all thinking about it.
Speaker 5: Yes, Sean, is the twenty sixth week of the year.
I'm on fifty two.
Speaker 2: Up your game, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5: I want to sink with a dude, your.
Speaker 1: Doctor, Sean, but I feel like to step.
Speaker 2: In yeah from Mike. Yeah, am I just what kind
of grows you?
Speaker 1: I got a Webber. Yeah, I got a Weber for
burner Weber, which is probably a little too big for
what I need, but it proved to be the right
size for the for the family of five that we
were hosting over the weekend. Okay, there you go, you folks,
you got a new girl. You really gotta burn You
gotta do some burnoff, you gotta you gotta wash the
all the parts you can, wash all the parts you can,
and then make sure you do like a real half
hour forty five minute burn off, get all the production
oils off the.
Speaker 2: Ship, like, do you know? Do you know the onion trick?
Speaker 1: I do know the onion trick.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I got a I got a barbecue scrub daddy. Oh,
there you go, and I'm cleaning with steam now, yeah.
Speaker 2: There you go, which steam? Let's go.
Speaker 1: You're damn straight. I am speaking of good sh no
good news, and Mikey will have that honor as we
pivot into the news.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: The onion strick has nothing to do with putting an
onion between your ass cheek.
Speaker 3: For a salary. That's where you do a salary.
Speaker 2: That's salary and carrots. Yeah, come on, get your shit together. Uh, Yeah,
that's I'm doing the news covering for Grub coming for
Grub all week on Game of Mornings as well. So
don't worry. We still have video game news happening, including
latest from Xbox. Xbox is reducing staff by approximately three
thousand and two hundred throughout the fiscal year twenty twenty seven.
The Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma has had a kind of
a post on the Xbox Wire that was also a
memo that went out to staff detailing this, noting we
are beginning the most significant restructure in Xbox history. At
their careful consideration, I made a difficult decision to reduce
our team by approximately three thousand, two hundred throughout the
fiscal year twenty seven. This one include one thousand, six
hundred role eliminations today. In an addition, four studios will
leave Xbox to new management. This includes Compulsion Games in
Double Fine, which are now independent, keeping their IPN games catalog.
Ninja Theory and Undead Labs are going to have a
new ownership and we'll continue to work on their games
Senua and State of the K three respectively. Also, Ourcane
is beginning consultation to look at its options, so We'll
see what happens with that studio. They're working on Blade
right now. Jason Schreier over at Bloomberg reported that in
Software and Senemax on My studios not shut down, but
they've been hit by a pretty large amounts of layoffs
over there. We all kind of knew this was going
to come on Monday, and here it is a lot
of layoffs of offloading. In this same kind of memo,
Asha Sharma's like, you know, we want Xbox to be big,
we want to read, we want to entertain a billion
people a day. We want to be one of those companies.
How is that possible, guys? How can they possibly?
Speaker 5: It's not it's literally not physically not. You cannot reach
one billion people a day if you're doing anything. She
doesn't know what a billion is. She's a moron.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's only like how many billions of people
on the planet, right, Yeah, you're gonna reach an eighth
of the people on the planet every day with Halo.
Speaker 1: It's just such an on its face, It's just I
think the like this particular thing is just so ridiculous
on its face. It's just like, I don't know, that
is not the thing anyone wants to hear after you
are decimating a failed section of your business, right like,
It's just not the thing anyone wants to hear. It's
the wrong thing to say in that moment, which someway
wrong things.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear.
Speaker 5: That was difficult for you to upend all these people's lives.
Shut up. I'm tired of every CEO starting every statement
with after much deliberation, I have made the difficult decision. No,
you fucking didn't, because you and your buddies are still
making millions of dollars a years.
Speaker 2: Fuck off.
Speaker 1: It wasn't It wasn't difficult to parade around SGF like
you belong there.
Speaker 2: Right for the xboxes showing stated to K three in
your presentation, knowing that you weren't going to be owning
those studios anymore. Pretty shortly after that.
Speaker 1: Even Bernie Sanders chimed in on this.
Speaker 2: Did you guys relate that what he said?
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders said, last year Microsoft made one hundred and
one billion in profits, got a twelve point five billion
tax break from Trump, and paid it's CEO ninety six million.
This year, it's raising the price of an xbox by
one hundred and fifty and eliminating thirty two hundred. Please
don't tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never
trickles down.
Speaker 2: Right, And that's why I can't be like, well, well,
you know, at least they at least they didn't just
close down Double Fine and they let them keep their IP.
It's it's those things are good, and I'm glad that.
I guess public pressure or just like them, worried about
looking too bad, I don't know makes those things happen.
I don't think that's entirely out of the goodness of
their heart. Yeah. The other strange thing is, you know,
they they're they're talking a lot in this memo about
you know, we're gonna refocus on our core franchises, okay,
and a lot of the reporting Doom and Quake are
mentioned as part of those core franchises. Last last I
looked in software makes dooman Quake, and they're apparently they're like,
whole programming team has practically been laid off. So I
don't know how you're gonna make more Dooms in our quakes.
We haven't even had a quake in a while. I'd
love to see a new Quake. But Halo, how are
you going to get people excited for Halo again? I
got no idea. Gears. There's a new Gears coming out.
We'll see how that does. It's not going to be
some big deal. That would to Scroll six seems like
the one thing maybe that can be a big deal.
But boy, Bethesda has struggled lately, right Starfield happened Starfield
even before that, It's kind of been this decline honestly
since Skyrim over there. So I don't know how that
just gets turned around. And you know, their next console
is going to cost one thousand dollars or more. Probably
it's not going to have very many exclusives. What are
they possibly going to be able to do to turn
this ship around get people excited about this brand again?
Speaker 5: How is that strategy any different than what they're doing
right now? Are they not focusing on four franchises that
they can get out there?
Speaker 2: We'll make a fable again everyone, sorry about that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we forgot that. You know, one of our biggest
friends went away. We'll refocus on that. Like, this isn't
going to refocus more when you're also cutting jobs of
the people who are intended to make those games like
you brought up of like ID and all of their stuff.
I guess they'll hand the ip of someone else. They'll
try to make it a smaller team. Maybe they make
it a smaller team, and then I claim, oh, yeah,
I wasn't working out, so we're canceling the project and
cutting the team. This shit reeks of concepts of a plan.
They don't actually have something that they know they want
to do. They're ascious, letter reaked of trying to meet
fans and the corporation halfway and failing at both because
you can't. You can't have your cake and you too.
You can't just dangle oh Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein is being dangling
from our face. Maybe we'll like that. They're not going
to kill that, like that Wolfenstein three project might still
be happening. You can't do that when it's very obvious
that you have no idea how you're going to expand
while shrinking. It just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah it, I mean, at this point, it's just like
I don't, I don't. I'm not listening to anything you
fucking say, Like, I don't care. Right, you've lost all
the goodwill that was afforded, but over afforded. Uh, I
just no one can take the messaging seriously from what's
coming out of that camp.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's that's that's just sort.
Speaker 1: Of like the reality we have to exist in right
now and for the foreseeable future and get fucked. I
don't almost to say like yeah.
Speaker 2: It's but it sucks because like it's like, yeah, there's
I have this anger towards Xbox and it's like, boy,
the people I'm mad at are almost never going to
really face consequences. They're gonna continue to make millions of
dollars while the people are gonna suffer, going to continue
to be the developers at these studios like somehow Obsidian, right,
we're gonna lay off people from ob Citian, the one
studio who is gonna make consistently making games for you
guys an Xbox. They had the opportunity to foster more
of these franchises they own Rare. They had Perfect Dark
and Bancho Kazuoi and did lets some shack goal with that.
They canceled the Perfect Dark game. Uh Bencho Kazoo. That
means fucking tried sense and nuts and bolts. That's what's
nuts and bolts. Make a fucking banjo Kazooi game.
Speaker 1: It looks like that's the thing, and you know, I
don't know. My take is like they obviously do not
care about this part of the business, right because it's
a messag uh you know, sort of divestment.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So it's like, certainly, you know, if look, if there's
a world where somehow Xbox becomes profitable after this decimation
and the sort of like uh repairing of this colossal
mismanagement of the last however many years, like, all right,
then Xbox will continue because it's it's making money, but
all this is done in service of like eliminating the
wild uh you know, sort of unprofitability that xboxes a
business as a mess. So it's like, don't expect anything
because it's not being treated like these are people. It's
being treated like it's just another asset that is not
going to do anything. So I feel like you have to,
you know, not count on anything coming out that they've
ever said is going to come out, right, right, Like,
don't believe anything. You Like, if I was an Xbox
freakazoid fanboy, you know, I would be unconsolable, But I
would also have to, like eventually face the facts that
like all this shit is completely uh uh up up
for grabs. It's it's entirely possible that it doesn't happen, right,
Like everything they say cannot be trusted. You have a
invisible thing right now, you know.
Speaker 5: And playing off of what both of you said, the
problem here has always been it's not actually been the studios.
That has not been Xbox's problem. It's always been management
always because Xbox started, you know, by all accounts, it
started as like some nerds in the company wanted to
get a gaming division off the ground, and like the
way they could do that was by invading the living room.
That's what Bill Gates would have signed off on, is
will invade the living room with the direct Xbox. And
so you know, it was a little scrappy in the
beginning within a bigger corporation, but they had something cool
there with Xbox going into Xbox three sixty. They put
out a really good product, you know, red ring and all, sure, right, sure,
but they got over that and they had a really
good system on their hands with really good teams. But
of course it's always the manage making in the way,
and that's how we get shit like Don Matric, there's
that story going around yesterday of someone who worked on
Halo four presented it to Don Matric and him like stopping, like,
what was it like when the tank comes in and saying,
the samebody here played Diablo three a little bit ago,
like and he tried to present to everyone on a
team the fucking auction house.
Speaker 2: For real money, auction with the real money that like
almost tanked that game in the beginning that they had
to get rid of because everyone fucking hated it so
much and all the all the fucking yes, amoun it'd
be like, that's a great idea, Don, That's amazing, that's so.
Speaker 5: Awesome, a wild story because it's it's emblematic of everything
that is wrong with Xbox management over the years from
that to then, you know, we have the Phil Spencer
era where they massively overspend to try and make game
Pass the biggest thing in the world. And then what
we didn't know until semi recently is the whispers on
the wind weren't true, Like they were like, yeah, x
you know, game Pass is profitable, everything's looking good. We've
built up this portfolio again, it's going well, and then
we find out the truth of Oh, because they're not
accounting for running the studios, which of course they wouldn't
if they're willing to just cut the studios left and right.
And that's how we end up here with the Asha
Sharma era where Xbox got too damn big, and like
Grubb is always saying, you know, the hatchet man approach.
They sent her in to just make cuts left and
right and just upend everyone's lives. Yeah, it's just an
endless cycle of not a cohesive vision and the vision
of Microsoft, which is always the problem. It's like Microsoft
and their management, you know, losing down into anything interesting
that Xbox might be doing and needing that infinite profitability,
that infinite growth, and it is insane because it never
works out as we're seeing here.
Speaker 2: It just it feels a bit like, you know, maybe
you tend to get your most pessimistic during like the
midst of this. For sure, sometimes something I thing somehow turnaround.
It's hard to imagine here, but right now it just
feels like, but all the Xbox ness in Microsoft's gaming
portfolio is going to disappear, and what they're going to
be left with is the stuff that is profitable on
its own Mojang, Call of Duty, King and maybe Blizzard
and everything else is maybe going to be including Bethesa,
everything else is going to be closer shut down. I
think God knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because those are investment until they can turn it, Yes.
Speaker 5: Right, they just want those because those are the clear
revenue sources. That's something that like and a Microsoft executive,
maybe Sacha himself, can look at and see, we're making
x millions off of Minecraft. We're making x millions off
of Call of Duty. This is worth having. But you know,
all these other studios, they're not making that co pilot money.
You know that potential co pilot money that I love
so much, They're not making that. And that's that's what
this all comes back to. And maywhy shouldn't be surprising
that the former head of was that the AI core teams,
now the one wearing Xbox will make all these cuts
in the name of Microsoft's just insanely misguided approach to
what they're doing now with US software.
Speaker 1: We almost need like an on the ground, man on
the street reporter who can sort of speak outside of
our little bubble where we can get like the normy
reaction to what goes on, Like I certainly have those
people in my life who are like, like someone over
the weekend was like, is Xbox bad now? And I'm
just like, oh, brother, Like cannot be a text message conversation,
Like We're gonna have to fucking sit down and really
like go through the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe now that Bernie's commenting on it, now it
comes more into the.
Speaker 2: Sort of public discourse.
Speaker 5: This this stuff is certainly it's it's breaking containment because
like you know, my mom who is older, so she
just watches the local and national news once each a day.
She knew about PlayStation prices going up. It's like she
she's aware of this because it's hitting national news stories
and stuff. So people are certainly starting to get aware
of it. I think if you're even remotely online like
video games, you gets served videos and tiktoks and whatnot
about people shitting on Xbox when they want to and
shooting up PlayStation, then you know, like even.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like look if if unfortunately everything has become
such fucking team sports that like oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, I've seen the comments, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Like, but but again, just like our politics, like
people becomes so deluded and and and delusional, right that
they just find a way to kind of like understand
the cycle in the way that they are the most
comfortable receiving that narrative.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So, Like, I mean there's people who are just like
finally somebody is cleaning up Xbox.
Speaker 2: You know, like training the swamp.
Speaker 1: Like it's just so psychotic, Like these people are are
terminally delusional.
Speaker 5: Influencers event It's like, no, dog, you don't understand what
you're saying.
Speaker 1: So that's what I worry about, right, because there's no
there's no consensus of reality, right. So right, so like
you just have people kind of like waiting in their
little piss pools of of of you know, complacency, and
like that's that's kind of it. So I don't know,
I do. I really do want to follow with my
normyve and and just sort of pick his brain a
little bit more because I'm just like, what else do
you fucking think about Xbox Man? What else do you
think is going on right now?
Speaker 2: Well, we don't want PlayStation to feel left out because,
believe it or not, that all happened after the last BombCast,
where PlayStation announced that the physical disc production is ending
in January twenty twenty eight for new games. This is
kind of what they said on their posts about this.
As consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to
shift the way from physical disc to digital. Physical game
disproduction for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will
be discontinued starting January twenty twenty eight, bowing to state,
new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at
retailers in digital formats only. This is a natural direction
for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as
the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical disc
This transusition will enable us to align more closely with
how much of our community prefers to access in playgames Today.
Dot DA do so hot when companies aligned with consumers,
SHIP will contain to prioritize our resources to drive innovation
and how players can access games and provide choices as
to where players prefer to purchase new games, whether that's
at retailers or PlayStation store. We remain committed to delivering
a world class gaming experience our fans. We thank you
for your continued support, But you talk about breaching containment.
This one seems to have pissed a lot of people off.
Uh oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It definitely transcends the sort of industry insider, savvy connected
person where it's just.
Speaker 2: Like what I have no, I own nothing.
Speaker 1: And that's really what it sort of is, right, Like
everyone has been going on their little diatribes of like, well,
this little niche thing will be effected, like obviously all
that will happen. I think it's the it's just reinforcing
this notion of just no ownership, right and and and
obviously you have all of the like cultural gaming knock
on effects that that directly impacts, right with like discovery
and and and and just like people who don't have
the material means of like buying a brand new game
when it comes out, right, Like just things like that,
Like the whole sort of economy of games is directly
impacted by this. But I do think it does all
just start from the thing that everyone who enjoys, you know,
this type of media, just like you just don't own anything.
And that's just what it is. You own nothing. You
own nothing, and you will continue to own nothing, and
things will be ripped from your digital ownership in the
blink of an eye, against your will. And if you
didn't read the four thousand pages of TOS fine print,
you're a piece of shit. It's completely anti consumer, completely
in the look. It's a systemic issue. The system is
not built for the consumer. We have allowed our version
of capitalism to fester in such a way that it
rewards profit over people. And that is it. So everyone
could get mad at every sort of section of you know,
capitalism that impacts them, whether it's the insurance or medical
care or whatever it is. There's one common enemy and
that's it. And the sooner you realize what we all
have to be in arms about, in revolutionary spirit about,
it ain't gonna fucking change.
Speaker 2: And that's what it comes down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well yeah, And it's important here to note that
you're right with it's profitability over people. That's what's happening
with Xbox with that new story, That's what happens here
with PlayStation with this news story as well. It's important
to note that the big thing here is that you know,
it's not for PlayStation. It's not about the ability to
take away your game that you purchase from them. It's
not like and some people are like you know, a
position it that way of like you know, they intentionally
want to do the evil thing, no, because they know
that people will frown upon that and they don't want
to do it. This for them is about controlling the market.
They don't want consumers to have any choice in the matter.
And if you don't have a choice, you have to
go to the only game in town, literally and right here,
this is the PlayStation Digital Store because they got rid
of the ability to buy codes for specific games back
in twenty nineteen. You can't buy, you know, a code
for I don't know, Spider Man two or whatever. You
can't buy that on a gift card at Walmart or whatever.
Speaker 1: You need to.
Speaker 5: Buy a PlayStation store gift card and use that or
give that to someone and then redeem that balance to
then purchase a game. You have to do things the
way PlayStation says, and physical in the modern age was
always the deterrent against that. We had the ability to
go to use game stores, to go on eBay, to
trade them with our friends, to do whatever the hell
we want with our physical games. Because even if there
are still DRM discs, you know, it's at a physical
object you can hold and transfer and that's why we
have the ability to set prices the way we want to.
But that's what they are taking away from us because
they want full control of the ability to set prices
and everything like that. And that sucks because now the
console is gonna just become a more lockdown PC at
the end of the day. Which you know, the reason
we like PC is because it's an open platform. Sure,
a lot of us choose to do Steam, choose to
like have our Steam libraries, you know, of a sense
of like, oh, Valve provides a good product, I will
give them money exchange for a good product. But there's
always that knowledge there. It's a PC. We can pirate
the games, like if they fuck up, we'll go elsewhere.
We'll say no. We can for a lot of these games,
especially the smaller ones, the indie games, we can go
to gog we can download from an itch dot io page.
We can go to the developers directly from their own
damn website sometimes and download an exse. There's other options
available to us. Let alone the openness of like emulation
step by and I'm not even talking about that, just
the fact that Valve provides a service where we can
trade Steam key, you know, back and forth, and authorized
resellers exist, so there is a free market for that.
There is an open market for that. And that's what
physical games were for the console, and they're taking that away.
They're taking that choice away and locking things down, and
that just sucks for everybody, including the digital only people,
because now you're just gonna have to do a PlayStation, says,
and you have zero choice in the mare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, at least those savings from not having to
manufacture all these discs, and that's going to be passed
on to consumers right following totally. Yeah, boy, it's just
again that next console generation poy. Is that going to
be interesting to see how that does because the PlayStation
six is probably not going to have a disk drive
certainly not going to come with and when they're not
going to be making discs anymore by the time this
thing is out there, So that's that's pissed people off.
Could be incredibly expensive, probably one thousand dollars or more,
and there's just there just aren't going to be that
many exclusives. There are few in fear all the time.
The last big PlayStation studio exclusive, let's not forgetting something
was sorrows and that feels that feels like a hot
moment ago, doesn't it doesn't that feel like sometimes like
the reason why we used to like these home consoles is,
you know, the the ease of use to plug in
and play. They were a lot cheaper than computers, and
they would get a lot of exclusives, And now like
a lot of that is just becoming less true. The
plug and play stuff is still a big deal, and
maybe you can argue, hey, compared to getting comparable PC
still is technically cheaper, I guess, But it's just it's
beginning to just lose that battle where I wonder how
many people are going to put up with it for
for for much longer. It's it's gonna be so interesting
to see if a PlayStation six is still going to
manage to be a success sort of despite all of this. Yeah,
I mean, it'd be one.
Speaker 1: It would be one thing again, if all of these
companies were just losing everything, right, if that is a
big part of it. It would also be something if
like I don't know, at the very very least, there
was some sort of like plan to preserve the cultural
nuances of what physical media did provide people right, like, oh,
you can share this thing, or you can discount a thing,
or you know what I mean, like trying to emulate
some of that behavior, that economic behavior that you know,
physical media provided people. But there's just none of that.
Speaker 2: It's just fucking over.
Speaker 5: And they at least need a plan for people to
be able to use their physical library in some way,
shape or form, which currently they don't. And so the
PS six doesn't have a disk drive while your discs
are just coasters. Now that sucks. So maybe that's one
reason people won't buy a PS six is if it
can't play a disc. I mean, there's always the possibility
that the ad on drive can be used for the
PS six or there's an external drive. I feel like
they should have said that if that were the case
right now. So it seems like there's not a plan
for that. I bounce see it in the rundown here.
But there's that rumor going around. I think Tom Warren
report on it that Xbox is getting ready to do
their own like disc to digital. That's literally what they
call it. Plan from now on, when you pop an
Xbox one or Series disc into an Xbox, it'll credit
your account with a digital version, so you are basically
digitizing the disc and then if, like you give the
disc to someone else, well then their account gets that
credit instead, it gets transferred, and at least that's some
way to like, if we're moving into an all digital future, yeah,
like give me something for my physical games I've built
up over the year. And that's part of why people
are pissed off is the sense of like, oh, so
we're going into an era PlayStation where my pass is
meaningless because I chose physical, Well, then you've lost me
as a customer, and that really sucks, especially we ain't
even mentioned. This came out the same day as they
announced they were shutting down store fronts like the PS
three and the Vita store going away. And sure, you
can still redownload games you've perched, but people are still
going to be making YouTube videos, still recommending games to
their friends, and you won't be able to download those
games in the future. It sets a bad precedent. Even
if that's old tech that would be difficult to maintain.
The fact is that, like, if you can't redownload a
PlayStation game and there's at least one platform or that's true,
it doesn't give me hope for like, you know, twenty
years from now, will I even be able to like
download PS four games.
Speaker 1: It really does remind me of you know that time
where like everyone you know that E three video with
the with the here's how you're share a pea?
Speaker 2: What was.
Speaker 5: Before that came out at one moment, right.
Speaker 1: And again it's the team sports of it all again, right,
Like I don't know, I very vividly remember seeing that
video being like, fuck these guys. Also the second it
becomes feasible, they'll stop doing it too, Like it's not
you know what I mean, Like, what are you stupid?
What are you fucking illusion? You don't think you think
this is they're making good. They're they're there's a they're
playing a charity here because they love pas back of
your fucking mind. There they are bers. They said that
they hate you. You are just a wallet. You are
just a PayPal address to them. They fucking hate you
and don't care about you. And that video is spitting
the face, is slapping the face. It wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 2: Uh hey, let's not make Nintendo feel left out here
and start selling the Nintendo Switch in Europe In twenty
twenty seven, that's a Jeordan Miller at VGC Nintendo of
Europe and announced has announced that it will stop selling
the original Switch consoles in early twenty twice seven, after
which point retailers won't be able to order an new
stock of the entire Switch family of consoles. Uh. This
is because the tenants announced that Layer this year will
begin selling then Tennis switch to consoles and accessories replaceable
batteries in Europe and twenty twenty three, the European Union
passed a new regulation called the EU Batteries Legislation, which
requires consumer products with built in batteries to make these
batteries easily removable and replaceable starting for twenty twenty seven.
So yes, there's this new European Union regulation where electronics
have to have easily removable and replaceable batteries. Some of
the town's going to bother, you know, making switch to
consoles and accessories like joy cons do that. They're belly
aching about that. They're like, oh, these things are going
to be heavier and a byyl is not going to
be as good blah blah. But for the Switch one,
they're not going to bother to kind of make new
versions of those they're just going to stop selling that
console in Europe. Yeah. Interesting stuff.
Speaker 5: Eh, this one is at least a yeah that makes
sense moment of well, yeah, law by law, they kind
of have to do this. It's either make a new
Nintendo Switch and you know, the twenty seventeen hardware, or
just stop selling the mis that most people aren't gonna
be buying anymore. And you know, it's a sucks a
little bit because people do still buy like switch lights
and whatnot here and there as a cheaper way could use.
Speaker 2: A budget console in the world, right now, right.
Speaker 5: Sure, we're good. Yeah, Like, hopefully the switch to light
comes out sooner rather than later. But even a switch
to light is probably gonna be like minimum three hundred dollars, right,
it's probably close.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the size of that screen or what it's made of,
I don't want to know anything about that.
Speaker 2: Right, it's just lab boat.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's gonna be cardboard switch, it's gonna be
black and white. It'll be like a kindle uh situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be it'll be super neat. But you could
replace the batteries. There's that.
Speaker 5: That's good.
Speaker 2: That's good. Uh. And then one last thing here. I
think last week before all the uh you know, the
layoffs in the studio splitting off to day happened, we
learned U that Xbox sort of pulled Becketts funding for
Project Fantasy with with Io Interactive. Well now Io has
confirmed that it will continue Project Fantasy independently. Also by
Jordy Miller VGC IO Interactive is confirmed we'll continue working
in Project Fantasy after the edit its financial partnership with Microsoft.
Project Fantasy is an RPG has been development for some
time at Io Interactive. Last week and MISSINCERTAINI at Microsoft's
which this week led to thousands of job cuts, Io
announced that it has ended its relationship with the financial
backer Project Fantasy, later confirmed to be Microsoft, not a statement.
The Double seven first Look developers confirmed will continue working
on the project. This is a quote now following the
end of our external finance partnership and Project fanacy IOI,
as we're gainful wanners shop with the project and RIP
we could see develop and fund it independently amongst our
other projects. With this context, we had to find a
new balance for the long term future of the studio,
focus on the success of our main internal core titles
wherever I heard that before. Instead of external projects a
potential mob game derivatives, this is meant making changes as
well as proposing changes across our studios, the closer over
Istanbul Studio and starting a process to part ways with
colleagues that have been a meaningful part of what IOI
uh is. So yeah, there have been there's still have
been a job losses and they close down a whole
studio over there, but they are still going forward with
Project Fantasy on their own. So, but it'd be pretty
funny at this game with some giant hit I'm.
Speaker 5: Kind of curious what it would be at this point
because I don't know does io I have a history
of anything like this, Like obviously they're known for hit Man,
which led it to Ales, and I don't remember anything
like this from them.
Speaker 2: No, that's the scary thing, right, It breaks a little
bit of the freaking uh Detroit. Two human people making
a live service game, right like, Oh, this isn't exactly that,
this is just some big RPG. It's out of their wheelhouse. Yeah,
they make good stuff, right, but again, Bond that seemed
in their wheelhouse that was similar enough to a hit Man,
And they've been trying other things, like you know, they
try to become a publishing arm and what was their
big game that they published, Mind's Eye. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So we'll see about Project Fancy. I'm not even sure
like how RPG is it is. We don't really know
very many details about this thing. It's just something they
talked about and again Microsoft was funding it and they
pulled back from that as a part of this their
very large scale downsizing, right, still going to reach a billion.
Speaker 5: This is a good example of, like, yeah, how far
reaching it is when a company that's as massive as
you know, Xbox Slash, Microsoft has become. It's a trickle
down effect of these partnerships are now going to peter
out and people are gonna have issues maintaining things because
they were banking on publisher money and whatnot. So that
really sucks. You know, I'm glad that they can keep
things going in any way they can, like we saw
with the Xbox studios that are able to go independent
or anything like that, thank god. But it does suck
that layoffs were involved here as well, because you know,
they have to like make something smaller, they have to like, yeah,
maintain things in a smaller way. That is really unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I think in the on the other side of the
Xbox clusterfuck and things like this is VIOLI. I am
just curious to like where the money is coming from, right, Like,
there does seem to be signs that there's money out there,
right and some of these places are either you know,
transferring their sort of bankrolling or whatever it is. I'm
very curious, and I'm sure there will be reporting that
sort of elucidates all that. But yeah, I I'm very
curious as to like where.
Speaker 2: Everyone's bread is gonna get buttered.
Speaker 5: You know, hopefully it's not relying on companies like ten
Cent and stuff too much, because we've seen how those relationships.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of Saudi Arabia? Ah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're hand out on my left and right, I hear,
I say.
Speaker 2: Continue forever. All right, that's it for the news. I
am hating the show. Beck over to you, mister. Maybe
I don't want it, but.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm gonna just serve you in no reversal card
and say nope, it's yours.
Speaker 2: Now you have to deal with it.
Speaker 1: It's your problem. Okay, We're gonna take a break. Thank
you for bearing with us through that news obviously that
news is very heavy, and you know we're in this together.
Here on the other side, we're gonna have emails, uh,
super chats if we got any and all the other
stuff to put a bow on this week's episode of
the Giant BombCast.
Speaker 2: Stay with us and we'll be right back. Females. I
love that.
Speaker 1: Dan, your your motherland destroyed the USA yesterday and in
the beautiful game. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3: Is that soccer?
Speaker 1: It's football, but yes, that's Americans call it soccer.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm I'm in America and I have no opinions
whatsoever about this.
Speaker 2: But your Belgian I don't care. Oh you don't care.
Speaker 4: You're possibly care less about anything that's ever happened in
soccer interest and anything that's ever had about the Belgium part,
Like about the Belgian part, That's what I'm talking about,
has not.
Speaker 3: Moved in any way.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, Dan, Dan hates Belgium.
Speaker 2: You heard.
Speaker 4: Me too, Oh yeah, like Belgium in general. I just
don't care about the soccer part.
Speaker 2: Got it? Got it?
Speaker 1: Uh? Well, we all know there's more wrestling fans than
soccer fans.
Speaker 2: Folks. It's emails time.
Speaker 1: If you have something on your mind, on your chest
that you want to get off, please do us a favor.
Email us at BombCast at giant bomb dot com. H
BombCast at giant bomb dot com. We've got a selection
of emails that jan I believe or did you do.
Speaker 2: This Sean.
Speaker 5: Yesterday?
Speaker 2: What a guy?
Speaker 5: What a guy?
Speaker 1: What a what a what a gem? Okay, we're going
to go through some emails. This one is from Ransom
from Pittsburgh. The question is for Jeff Grubb and Mike Manati.
So Man, now you're gonna do all the heavy lifting here.
Kroger just bought Giant Eagle. I don't know any of
these words are as o Hians. I need to know
if Kroger is a good grocery store or am I screwed? Thanks,
love you guys, and keep up the amazing work. Maybe
Dan coul chim in two with his grocery knowledge.
Speaker 2: This is so giin Eagle is the grocery store chain
that we have here, at least in northeast Ohio, and
I think a good amount of Western PA. And they
just got bought by Kroger, which is a bigger grocery
chain store. I mean, look, I don't. I don't think
John Eagle was like exceptional at being a grocery store.
It was a grocery store. I think they're going to
keep the name giin Eagle as well, but I don't know.
I mean it's consolidation and all that, so that that
part's bad. I don't think our grocery experience is going
to notably change too much. Who knows everything ends up
being bad anyways. Somehow it will get worse that the
fucking Battle Royale for your bread now whatever. WHOA.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's that bad yet, but yeah,
I'll go ahead, John.
Speaker 5: Are our chain of stores in Wisconsin got bought by
Kroger quite a while ago, is back now something. Yeah,
So you know it's I know Kroger is not good company,
and like I've talked to like an executive in passing
one time, I was like, oh, yeah, you all suck, huh.
But in terms of like the grocery shopping experience, Kroger
actually has like some good store brands stuff and everything
they brought in, Like I did see more products than
I was used to lining the shelves when we had
our own various We had a couple of different like
store brands at our stores because of other mergers, but
at least like buying groceries, it's been good the past
decades since it happened. So I feel like you'll be
all right. I am personally, I would be more worried
about the workers at the store if they have to
deal with that shit of like they're potentially bunding things
up in a different way and maybe like there's so yeah,
it's just some strictness in terms of hours and stuff.
That's what we saw. But it's also been a long
time since I at a firsthand information that. So I
think you think you'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I'm genuinely genuinely interested to hear with Dan things because yeah,
all kidding said, you've lived everywhere in the country, You've
lived on both coasts in the middle.
Speaker 2: Uh, what's your after everything you've seen.
Speaker 1: What is your most uh what is your top s
tier grocery store?
Speaker 4: I don't go to a lot I uh yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, Aaron Amazon Deliveries kind of guy.
Speaker 3: I's kind of done that forever.
Speaker 4: I'll say, I like Cub when I'm at the Cub
in Minneapolis, that I cup foods is good. That's that's
the one around here. Back in Kansas, it's Ivan price shopper.
Speaker 3: Those are good. My dad worked at both of those
after Riker's Market closed.
Speaker 4: Okay, I hated grocery shopping in San Francisco and New York.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: San Francisco parking is a giant pain in the ass.
In New York, it's like you can only buy what
you can carry, and like, as someone who buys like
two hundred cans of soda at a time, that makes
it kind of hard in New York City to carry
all that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but that's a that's less uh an experienced
thing and more just like a logistical thing we have.
Speaker 4: But also the grocery stores themselves, Like in New York
they're all small and like weirdly laid out, and like
I remember when we moved to Connecticut and got a
car again, just that feeling of being able to drive
to the grocery store park go, get a big ass
cart with big white aisles, grab everything you want and
then put it in a trunk. It was like, oh
my god, I missed this, Like this actually is like
a really great way to do it.
Speaker 5: I was about to make fun of you for a
cup and then I'm like, oh, wait, you still have
those because I was like, oh, the last time you
went to a grocery store was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 4: Nope, that was j Wisconsin forgot. Oh no, no, yeah
we got cub. Yeah, Cub's good. Rainbow's not here really anymore.
I don't see rainbow much anymore.
Speaker 2: Wiggly Yeah, Wiggly's because that's I'm saying that. Oh sorry, Mike,
what the fuck do you pig wiggly. I think it's
like the Carolina Yeah pig Wiggy had.
Speaker 5: When I can.
Speaker 1: Watched the South Show, and you're supposed to like go
into this place like in a serious manner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I go to pigley Wigglies after church today. Kids,
we need more milk and eggs.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's different elsewhere, but any piggy
wiggly around here looks like it is still like in
the eighties, and it's it's almost kind of kind of nice,
like they keep it clean or everything. But I'm like,
man beige, as far as the eye can see, this
is a wild thing.
Speaker 2: Oh we have yes, have a yes, have marks no,
and with a mark with a C it's it is
more of like a discount grocery store, which is fine,
like they make they make it look really discount. They
like found the most piss yellow paint they could possibly
find and just use that the highlight everything and just
paint watsh is covered in the least attractive decaying like
makes you think of death and despair yellow. I've ever
seen them. I just I can't. I don't like being
in Marx. I hate it.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't like a good piss yellow though?
Speaker 4: I like any place that has the deals and you
don't have to get the card, you know, but.
Speaker 2: I would big spantaged card place. Yeah, I definitely use
the card there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's nice that you can just like type your
phone number in so like that's what we do with
cub But yeah, I don't like to have to sign
up for something.
Speaker 1: We Yeah, on these coast we have or where I am,
we have different places. You ever, guys ever hear Stu Leonards.
Speaker 2: You probably heard of Connecticut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they anics and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah that place.
Speaker 4: Rules for Yeah, they like seeing cows and like, yeah
and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, damn ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's it's not bad. Yes, obviously. Joey's in East
Coaster and chat. We got shop right, stop and shop Kings,
which is pretty expensive. Wegmans You ever heard of Wegmans? No,
it's like a Stu Leonards adjacent kind of fancy or place.
I feel like everything is just nuts with the the
pricing of whatnot and anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, what could have been out of cost pens?
All right?
Speaker 1: Next, Joe from Nottingham writes in can you please rank
the following wrestlers Junkyard dog Gangrel al.
Speaker 3: Snow says he was watching and Gangrel.
Speaker 2: Is gang girl.
Speaker 1: I thought that was like monster in a fairy tale.
Speaker 3: Gang Gril.
Speaker 2: It's a gang growl. Well are you thinking it from Beowolf? Yep? Yeah, yeah,
this is gang grow the vampire.
Speaker 1: Got it and I am Brian Pillman dying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh no, don't make Merenda Grendel. This looks happy
in that final friend.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: At least at least he went out happy.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hi, Hi, you're back okay, Gondele gang Grel.
He's always banging and banging. He's the fucking and sucking
vampire warrior.
Speaker 5: I wish da it wasn't back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, never mind banging and go out again.
Speaker 4: I like gang Gril time because it was my friend,
like Al Snow the best. I was just gonna say,
he is literally the only bad one on here.
Speaker 2: A Snow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just like him because the only one you've
heard of because he was in ec W during the
three weeks you watch rest a lot, right.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, it was more than three weeks.
Is probably a total of three years.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, isn't Brian Pillman the best one on here? Uh?
Speaker 4: He was the best character out of all of them.
I would say it might be mean. Mark Henry is
good as far as big, believable, big man, good on
the mic.
Speaker 2: Mark Henry's got that's that that salmon colored suit with
the favorite time. It was a great I was creditoryline moment.
Pilman's one of the more interesting ones for sure. I
mean that's the thing. The four other ones outside of
Al Snow are all maybe gang girl.
Speaker 1: Shot on Al Snow's We didn't like his gimmick.
Speaker 2: You like Snow dumas a dumb.
Speaker 4: I watched an Al Snow match yesterday Jeff where he
wrestled against head his mannequin head Hardcore Holly was the
special guest referee, and Al Snow thought that the head
was the hardcore champion and he had to wrestle it,
and he wrestled the whole match against a fucking mannequin head, And.
Speaker 2: Wow, wrestling sounds pretty stupid, sounds dumb. Let's answer this question.
Why did you watch that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, watch anymore?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So okay, so thank you, Joe. Hopefully you received your
answer here.
Speaker 2: I think we did.
Speaker 4: Dog's awesome, dang, girl's cool, Al Snow sucks, Mark Henry
is awesome. Brian Pillman was a fascinating character.
Speaker 2: All right, There you have it. He had a gun.
Speaker 1: The expert himself, Uh, Travis from Fargo rights in this
is the guy who does like a bunch of watch.
Speaker 2: Dan picked one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Jan picked the second one. What's the cow
bell of video games?
Speaker 2: Oh? You need more of? People want more of. I
think that's it. Used to be parallax scrolling back when
we had more to d Jesus Christ. Active reload got more.
Parallax Scrolling's just enough Active reload.
Speaker 3: I want more. I want more.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: He has a fever and the only cure is more
active reading.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, but I feel like it's more cow bell
and music than there is active reload and video games perrying, okay,
kind of like parrying. Yeah, it was hot.
Speaker 5: Everybody want more of it than a lot of people are.
Maybe it made too much, made too much.
Speaker 2: Don't grappling hooks grappling, that's good.
Speaker 1: About a decade ago, I would have said destructible environments.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, I still like my parallax answer. I'm not
gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I think it's great.
Speaker 2: I think it's perfectly fine. I like that one. Well,
thank you, Travis. Uh.
Speaker 1: This one comes from Nick in Queensland. Hey, bomb squad.
I don't watch ball sports at all, but I do
like to play a football game every few years. I
think this year is American Football year for me, since
THEA now has two football games on PC as of
this year. I was wondering, do you guys think Madden
or College Football is a better game for someone like
me that doesn't watch the NFL or college football and
just wants to scratch that gaming inch of playing a
couple dozen hours of a video game. Uh, Nick, I'm
not sure there could be a less qualified for some.
Speaker 5: Of the realized was gonna be on this one because
there's another question directly for later on.
Speaker 2: You should play play NFL two K on the Sega Dreamcast.
Speaker 5: That's the best one.
Speaker 2: Peaked Blitz, right, Blitz. I'm with you on Blitz.
Speaker 4: I still play NFL streets fun.
Speaker 2: I ever played the other streets aside from NBA.
Speaker 3: MU NFL streets awesome. I never touched FIFA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, BEFA street, that's good.
Speaker 1: I've played that. I love the soccer games they do have.
We've been doing a lot of f C twenty six
in this house ever since. Uh, you know that big
soccer things happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still.
Speaker 3: How long is this thing?
Speaker 1: It's about a month and a half. Oh, my good god,
maybe a month?
Speaker 5: Well, Dan, any sport where people aren't getting concussed left
and right, left and right tend to run like most
of the year. Yeah, soccer is like a year sport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's multiple leagues and different things going on. The
people who play soccer playing soccer a lot.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think technically cricket is like the world's most
popular sport, but soccer eclipses literally everything in in terms
of sports is popular or the most popular thing ever
freaking huge.
Speaker 2: You have a.
Speaker 1: Baseline understanding, I understand it. Okay, Yeah, so yeah, I
guess blitz in those other games?
Speaker 2: Is your best?
Speaker 5: You know two k abandon modern gaming play NF heel blitz.
Speaker 2: Man, that's got that's got to be better. I do
get this because, like I, I want to play a
golf game pretty badly right now, and I just kind
of feel like I don't really have enough.
Speaker 4: Ship Tiger Woods two thousand and four for the PS
two right exactly.
Speaker 2: I'll just go play some old one for some fun
courses on that one.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's an Xbox three sixty one. I play a
lot of one, the earlier three sixty one, so that
was good.
Speaker 5: For one's worth. I bled the football fans that giant
bomb tend to prefer college football. I don't know why,
but I think that's the one they talk about more
positively nowadays.
Speaker 4: Who's the rabble smack and Shire guy that they replaced
Tiger Woods with.
Speaker 5: I don't know what those are.
Speaker 4: McElroy, Yes, yes, you say, Rory McElroy.
Speaker 2: Yeah said smack them won.
Speaker 1: I honestly thought your internet was going out again because
I was like, what is this gobbly.
Speaker 3: Good smack and Shire.
Speaker 2: Sounds? I like that that's a good fake thing.
Speaker 1: That's his cousin that's his cousin.
Speaker 5: That's that's where the hobbits are from. Like, come on, yeh, that's.
Speaker 2: Right, God, that's like what was George's fake thing in
Seinfeld That has a lot of that stand energy in that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. We just we just reward all this
behavior and that's finny. We wonder why we have the
things we like that. Okay, uh, this is going back
a little bit, but it's a tattoo update from Andrew
who got a fresh real fresh Lucha dear. I don't
what is this Luca dear from. Maybe you could throw
it into chat if anyone has the means of doing so. Hey, hey,
I've been mulling over the idea of a Luten dear
tattoo one. Do I have the staff's blessing on this idea? Hey,
your body, your choice. Okay, anyone have any sick GB
tattoos out in the wild. We Ever since we started
bringing this up about two to three months ago, I've
been seeing them across the timeline a little bit, people
sharing their their their giant bomb inspired tattoos. I love
this one. I love the woodwork and the antlers. I
think it's great. It's also in the doodle zone, which
you know I'm a huge fan of. Great job emailer.
It looks great, Andrew. Keep it black and white.
Speaker 2: You don't need any coloring.
Speaker 5: It does look really nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: For people who don't can't see it. When I say
would work in the antlers, there's there's like a graininess
to the sort of antlers.
Speaker 2: It just looks on point. Really good work there, great job.
Speaker 5: Have you.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen a giant bomb tattoo
in person, though I don't think I have either show
it to us.
Speaker 2: I feel like I haven't forgot Maybe I just don't
find them that interesting. I no, I got it.
Speaker 1: Maybe I've seen like the traditional bomb guy Bomby Bomby Bobby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone gets through mad that he has a name
and that I know it apparently but apparently.
Speaker 5: No, you're right, you're in the right.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: Never give him a name.
Speaker 5: I didn't give him a community members Dick wasnamed him anything.
Speaker 2: It's BOMBI they get your bombie tattoos.
Speaker 1: It's Bomb Johnson. Okay, that's his name.
Speaker 2: That I like that. There you go?
Speaker 5: Which way am I pointing that guy on the video
version that that dude over there, you're.
Speaker 2: Playing anything, You're just pointing out a door. Look.
Speaker 5: I don't care about you fuckers. I care about the community,
damn it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Uh, next one comes from ant Hello Bomb crew. I
enjoy hearing about Dan's ongoing foray into exercise, as he
or any of the group tried out Swift or another
exercise quote unquote gaming platform. Probably not something to do
in the warmer months, but it can be pretty nice
in the winter.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm looking at this now. It's say it
kind of it's it's a standing you know, an exercise
bike with a video screen and it's like you're, you know,
actually biking. Don't be shocked. This reminds me of Epcot. Uh.
There was I think in the Wonders of Life pavilion
where you were on an exercise bike and as you
paddled it was just kind of play a video when
that made it look like you were in Disneyland, Paris,
I think or something. So that was fun. Huh. I
didn't know about this. I don't know. I'm always like
I've done so many people who will buy like the
kind of expensive exercise thing, Like what was the there
was that like paddle bike thing that like you would
get you live exercising videos and everybody was doing that
for a moment.
Speaker 3: Mirror stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Peloton, Peloton, No, I have Peloton, don't know.
Speaker 3: Peloton's great. I got three of those. Those are fantastic.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, I bet they're a good product. I think for
some people, and I'm worried I might be like this,
like it's like I bought, I bought the thing, I
did it, I'm healthy, and it doesn't get used.
Speaker 3: No, Peloton's incredible.
Speaker 4: Like the benefit of Peloton is like these constantly updating
courses and stuff like that. So it's like, you know,
you don't want to just get like the days of
like a DVD thing and you just do that same
routine every single time. So like you have your instructors,
you like you watch their stuff. You've got the different
there's the row, the bike, the tread. Those are the
ones I have. But then also you can just put
the app on a TV and they've got really good
yoga classes and like dumbbell classes and stuff like that.
So like I swear by Peloton.
Speaker 2: Like me again, I've never implied it's not a good product.
I just think for like when some people it's like
I bought the thing that's the endorphin rush. I'm healthy.
Speaker 5: This is a trictly thing. Looks uh, it looks interesting though.
It looks like they gamified it like a literal video
game race. But you're pedaling.
Speaker 2: Chat's very confused about you having three pelotons, by the way, but.
Speaker 4: The bike and the tread three different different badmill. Yeah,
I thought it wasn't on reason. I bet, I bet
it's not just literally three of the bike ones.
Speaker 3: No ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Yah. Yeah, I don't do it.
Speaker 1: I do it sometimes for the the stretching stuff, but uh,
Stacey does it.
Speaker 2: Very often.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. And last one, we'll talk to Mike
from Saint Petersburg, Florida. Hey, y'all been looking to get
into more emulation solutions to take advantage of the handhelds
and hardware. I have got a thor in a steam machine. Nice,
Uh you have a steam machine already? Are those going out?
People can get them out, but.
Speaker 4: They are the boks waiting on her like bunk got
the like, hey, you're getting one, but she hasn't got
the one where it's like you can actually pay for
it yet. So I think they're getting like slowly, like
Will got his last week or something.
Speaker 3: So it is shipped, all right.
Speaker 1: I have the knowledge how to set them up, but
I was wondering what y'all did for like mass storage.
Do you have an ass that keeps every game ever
and you pick and choose what does on the devices
with storage exploding and costs. Was just curious how you
all organize your collection and decide what goes on the devices.
That's that's a preferential thing. But let's let's talk to Dan.
Speaker 4: So I got this. This is a fourteen terabyte guy,
and this is everything. This is just the monster. This
has every single ROM and everything I have on it,
every version, every region, everything. And I got this little
guy here, This is little ginky save point guy. This
is a two terabyte and so this is something where
it's like when I get something like a Steam machine,
like a two terabyte thing. It's like, you know, if
it's two terriaby to two terabyte, I can just copy
the whole thing over. This is like these selects that
I want. It is not every revision, like you know,
there's some games that will have like a REB one,
REB two whatever. This is like kind of pared down.
It's just the North American ones with a handful of
selects that were released in other regions and stuff like that.
So yeah, this is the main one I use when
I'm loading ROMs onto other things, and I try to,
you know, keep it pretty pared down, pretty clean basically.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think for the for the systems where the
games are barely any stores at all, like the NES
you know, a long time ago, I downloaded NES ROM set.
That is just because you know, that's like I forget
what is It's less than gigabyte for the like the
entire system library, so that I just download. For the
bigger ones though, I you know, go to my favorite
source obviously my physical collection over there, and then I
download the games as necessary as I as I want to,
one by one, because you know, it is true what
people say of like, if you download a ton of games,
you have choice paralysis. Say the same thing with the
retro gaming stuff. I find that for systems I want
to play PS one and sixty four GameCube, that kind
of stuff, it's better to get them as you need
them because that you know exactly what you want. That's
why I like a device that does run Android because
then you can, you know, go to your favorite source
and then get them as you need to on the
fly or transfer them more than network. I can't hold
it up because it's like wired behind my PC. But
I also do have a twenty terabyte external hard drive
that I bought for work back back when that was reasonable.
It was a little over two hundred dollars for twenty
year and I think it was like best Buy. I
had a crazy good stuff like two thirty I want
to say, for twenty terabytes. It was a great, great deal.
Now nowadays that's like six hundred dollars or something crazy.
But you know, for any of the larger games, I
do like store them on there and then yeah, transfer
them over the network to my new stuff. But yeah,
storage is getting crazy. I wish they weren't, because I
do want a new SD card for my superstation because
that's an easy way to load games there. I got one,
and I think it's my wi Is using Micrusty card
that's large, so I'll just pop that in here. Instead.
It's it sucks that we had to be frugal with
our stores.
Speaker 1: Nowadays it just starts chucking the uh, the old SD
cards out of devices that have been neglected over the
last five years or so. You'd be very surprised to
see what you find. It's like, oh my god, I
had a two fifty six in this camera.
Speaker 2: That I've never used before.
Speaker 3: I haven't touched this. Oh that's a four hundred gig jeez.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know, just start shucking data centers.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 5: Chat was curious, saying, yes, the I just looked on Amazon.
The twit terrabyte external hard ride that I have is
six hundred and thirty dollars right now from Amazon.
Speaker 1: She's perfect planet, perfect things all around us. All Right, well,
thank you, Mike. Mike also says congrats on being independent
and all that appreciating.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mike, Mike. All right, we.
Speaker 1: Turn the tables over to the one and only super
chat reader, Mike Manati.
Speaker 2: All Right, thank you for the super chats everyone. Flowbo
Tron says, any plans for the one thousandth BombCast here
from today? No pressure, future peeps. Boy, I don't have
the ability to think about that right now. But that's
a year away. Huh. That's that's interesting. Guess a year
one year on year today is so yeah.
Speaker 1: Book, I mean, join Giant Bomb premium.
Speaker 2: Make sure we get there. We'll ransom you for our
one thousand. How about that. We'll try to think of something.
Speaker 5: I get here there or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, tuber says Cleveland streamer in the house, what what?
Thank you? Tuber Zombie porn says Sean had fifty two
hot dogs and has great hair. Turf had zero hot
dogs and we'll be playing catwoman in BDSM gear and
he has lost his keys. There are levels to this.
Speaker 3: It makes you think, it does?
Speaker 1: Does it make you think? Because it doesn't make me
think at all, and it doesn't make me think. Highly
abuse zombie porn.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, thanks fault you lost your keys? Up your ass, Jesus,
that's true. Mixy says, I can't believe you guys didn't
add the Abbey bites to your soundboards. Thatch as you
Dan no brought to your cave. Dan, I mean, Dan
does a lot of the soundboards stuff, and so does Sean. Uh.
Speaker 3: Dan's right, Dan's correct.
Speaker 7: It's that that's yeah, right, you're right, Yeah, you're right, correct, correct.
Speaker 1: It's weird that you don't have me saying that, where
is it really?
Speaker 2: I have you? Not happy?
Speaker 3: No? No, that's the only thing you say, the back,
That's the only thing. When you pull.
Speaker 2: And it's a very short stretch, you're you're getting merry legitimately.
Bissy love that. It was so funny. Get mad? Yeah
like that?
Speaker 1: So bad?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Blown out like that?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, when she gets blown out like that,
I actually I kind of feel it.
Speaker 2: In my palms.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Scared, Yeah, I get scared.
Speaker 1: She's the only person who makes me feel like I'm
in trouble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, makes he says Jeff backlard. Does your
wife have a nickname like jib and dib? Oh?
Speaker 1: She does. We call her sometimes we call her face face.
We call her face.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Was there a story behind that one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think my brother gave her that nickname. I kind
of don't remember exactly how it started, but I think
it was like a stace face, and then we just
shortened it to face.
Speaker 2: Stay face, okay, Oka stay face is fun. I might
just go face the nicest thing you can call someone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, yeah, we'll get there.
Speaker 2: For a second, I was like, yeah, it's true. UHC
says I removed the battery from a three D S yesterday.
It was stupidly easy right to repair was taken from
under our noses. Good on EU for getting it back.
P P P P p p p p P.
Speaker 1: Well that was there, there.
Speaker 5: Was a slot for there was a wasn't there like
you would unscrew was at least on the new three
D SXL I forget about the once before that. But
it was just a panel where you unscrew it, take
the panel off, and you just pop it out like
an old cell phone.
Speaker 2: I mean it was it's it was obviously a forced
obstolescence thing that they were trying to do and attend
on a lot of these places, right and everything. Yeah,
so yeah, it's a good thing that EU is making
it so they can't do that, and hopefully it's like
a lot of these other things that happened to EU,
like the you know, no more lightning ports that they
just have to start doing everywhere to make it easier
for themselves.
Speaker 4: You know what I just realized, EU, So that's Europe, right,
is like at them.
Speaker 3: Well except eight million U loves or EU l A.
Speaker 4: I always every time I saw it, I was always like,
why the fuck does this like europe law apply to
games in the.
Speaker 2: States, And.
Speaker 4: Then I think I realized like recently, they're like, oh,
it's not about Europe.
Speaker 2: Nope, Okay, that's not so bad. It's not good relative
to Dan.
Speaker 5: This is low.
Speaker 4: On the list of it's probably esting time I've been like,
why do I have to sign this Europe?
Speaker 3: The fine print Europe?
Speaker 2: Europe Up? Okay, that's good. Biggsie says. What tune was
playing before the email section? Is that just the normal
email song?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: They probably mean the break music. I was assumed.
Speaker 2: I can't hear it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in today's BombCast breaks. I've been doing the Third
Strike soundtrack, this three Fire three Third Strike sound So
the two songs playing before emails or three of them
maybe were uh Ibookie stage, a Kuma stage and Hugo's stage.
And if you're talking about beats in my head, that's
Elena Nice. Then Zombie Porn's backs. This great job with
the news Rat Breath and Capture.
Speaker 2: Growing on Man.
Speaker 3: We were debating the names. Is a cat jurf? Is
a jerff woman?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 3: We had like four or five that we were thrown around.
Speaker 1: One was catwoman, but it's just playing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cat one, but Jeff is We did that joke
with Rascal. Yeah, I say Catcher. I like especially with
superheroes because we have Backgrub, we have Super Dan, and
now we have Catcher. Right will probably be Aqua Mitch.
Speaker 3: I think I got shut down with woman chat seems
to like it.
Speaker 5: I need to see one woman in chat say they.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, yeah, all right. Migsy says, do you guys
know if Brad Shoemaker is okay? I assume so this
this is a reference to something I don't know about it,
you know, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I think has personals have going on. He's been
a way thinking about bread love.
Speaker 2: Bread, all right, all right, then yeap, thinking about Brad.
We love you, Brad. Last Geek says that this Blake
is just an appetize to what people really want. Give
us what we really want, Give us what we really want.
Jurf week, every show featuring Jeff tell Jeff the news,
Let Jeff watch Dan get bladed, put out GB shirts
based on all of Jerf's favorite bands, and you could
just all the content too.
Speaker 5: Is this person is this was a this is a
generous super chattoos.
Speaker 2: Here are you?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 2: You're not busy? Come on, just do all the content too.
Speaker 1: This seems like a si op. What's going on, Ja,
Last Geek.
Speaker 2: That's very common. It was a generous super chat. I
think you Last Geek, so you have to do what
he says.
Speaker 1: I know, all right, December, the first week of December. No,
you can't celebrate my best boy's birthday.
Speaker 2: That's fine, that's for me. You and I have Jeffy
Jason content that close to my birthday, which is actually
the second week of December. But it's the first day
of the second week of December. It's too clubs.
Speaker 1: I so I so, look, okay, fine, fine, we'll we'll
carve that.
Speaker 4: What what dude, I'm just picturing like, Oh, it will
be the funniest thing. Was like, it's Jeff Grebb Appreciation
Week starting December eight.
Speaker 2: This year.
Speaker 4: No, no, it's a it's a C. J. Tolkoto's Appreciation J.
Speaker 2: Tolka Christ Kannati J Tolkoto Christ. Wow, this is going
right to my head. Last Geek.
Speaker 1: You are spoiling me. Thank you so very much. No,
all I'll say is that's very kind. We'll see what
we can do. Also, Pinball Week is shaping up to
be tremendous. I don't know exactly which week, which week
it's gonna be, but surprises for sure. I also picked
up the Lego pinball set that just came out, so
maybe we'll do some building of that as well. That's exciting.
There's there's gonna be a lot of lot of fun
stuff for that week, uh and maybe beyond as well.
Speaker 2: So awesome looking forward to it. Jad Kip says, eat
the tricks hot honey hot dog on your Portland trip.
I have heard of that thing. I don't know either.
I don't know how, and I like tricks. I haven't
had tricks in a while. If I'm gonna go for
one of those, like fake fruit flavorite cereals and fake
fruit flavored cereal, that's okay. I think I'm gonna go
with the fruity pebbles.
Speaker 3: That good, dearly soggy. I like tricks.
Speaker 2: This is a hot dog with tricks on it.
Speaker 5: That doesn't hot dog with hot honey and tricks.
Speaker 1: We just gotta stop, folks.
Speaker 5: We that's just someone on the stone and they put
stuff together and then they have playing around.
Speaker 1: All right, Eat the fucking hot dog. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Mixy says any recommendations for the steam Summer sale. I know,
I got a good deal on Dishonored two, a game
I actually haven't played yet, even though I liked the
first one. That is eighty percent off, So you can
get Dishonored two for just six dollars. That's a pretty good,
pretty good deal. But that game is going to be
ten years old soon. Even Dishonored too is going to
be ten years old. A Firman and Abduction, which are
the other games by CIM the people who may miss
those are on sale. I picked those one up as well,
Crewe the Crew, Motorfest, the game Dad is like Forts
of Horizon, but uh not that that one is eighty
percent off in just fourteen dollars. So if you want
to kind of play another Forts of Horizon and it's
on Hawaii, you can check that out relatively cheap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got I was it. Moster Hunter Rise plus
the Sunbreaks Spansion is ten bucks. Jack is a really
really good price for if you like Master Hunter. But
in general, when it comes to the Steam sale, I
usually tell people just pull up is there any deal
and see if stuff that you've been looking forward to
is a good price, because sometimes, like even during the
Steam sale, place like green Man Gaming will have codes
for a little bit cheaper even so do a little
shopping around. See you see what deals you can get
on stuff you want.
Speaker 2: Alrighty, And then this last one here is from Grant
emp you just says.
Speaker 4: Pat Klar cat cat cat Klar is pretty good.
Speaker 5: That's what I brought up in the meeting, is right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we put on the list. I think I still
just like cat durf best. I don't know that is
really stupid. It's simple, that's right, you say back, alar.
We would never insult you.
Speaker 1: No, I don't like my first name. I don't mind
my last name.
Speaker 3: Just fellow.
Speaker 2: That's nice, catl are.
Speaker 1: Grant has a hyphen here between the tea and yeah catwoman.
Speaker 2: But Jeff is all right too. We know you like
that one. We know, we know we like. I don't
think you know we all like it.
Speaker 1: We all like it's fine. It does nothing matters. It's
going to be great regardless of what it's called.
Speaker 2: Of course, it's not offensive.
Speaker 5: Grand put another one and Chad Jeffery, Jeffer, Jeff Jeffery,
jeff furry cat collar, furry cat glar, right, yeah, Jefferry
cat color.
Speaker 2: Say it Jeffery cat go on the rose off tongue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you can work with Jeffrey, although
that's kind of funny too.
Speaker 2: Continue to work.
Speaker 1: That's all this ship against the wall, folks.
Speaker 2: We gotta we gotta forgin If you want to watch
this series, which again probably looks like it's gonna be
jur playing Catwoman at a bum bremium member, everybody giant
bum dot com s least.
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Speaker 2: You want to see that. You want to see these words?
What are these phrases?
Speaker 1: Am I supposed to explain this to my son?
Speaker 2: I understand, don't worry. Yeah, my other son get it.
He'll be sad.
Speaker 1: Thanks for all the super chats and emails, folks. We
have plenty of content coming down the line the rest
of this week on Giant Bomb because we will be
having a voicemail dump truck for the I think it's
Will's first voicemail dump truck.
Speaker 3: Wills Will specific questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got forty eight hours to fill that mailbox
with all kinds of Will specific voice.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: I think we've okay, breached or broached the subject that
he might secretly be the weirdest one.
Speaker 5: No, I think you've tried to No.
Speaker 3: I think many people have been saying it.
Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's the funniest one.
Speaker 3: He's hilarious, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: And you know, but the weirdest. I think you guys are.
Speaker 4: Chuck says strong third. At minimum, guys are reaching. You
guys are reach Hey, hey, Chuck, who's the weirdest? Who
does Chuck, who knows us all very well to.
Speaker 5: Say, he was saying earlier today, you're both the weirdest.
So I don't think you I think.
Speaker 4: Oh, Chuck, he says me. Now he's said Mike before wed.
Speaker 1: What else do we have going on in the week, folks?
Speaker 2: What do we got popping off you the Light Club tomorrow? Yeah,
if you've made a final decision yet, Dan.
Speaker 4: I thought about Metroid dread, thought about Simpson's hit and Run,
thought about a retro achievements kind of bounce around situation.
But hey, this is my d light, this is my
reward after space Ace. So uh, they do you get
his normal Blake Club slot? Tomorrow? Me and Mike will
be hanging out and playing something that I.
Speaker 2: Enjoy awesome about. Yeah, more Games Mornings this week. Of fact, tomorrow,
I believe my guest is going to be none other
than Papa himself, the.
Speaker 1: First father and son.
Speaker 3: I thought it was doctor Dad.
Speaker 2: It'll be busy being a doctor. That's way more important. Also,
he knows nothing about video games, so he'd have very
little to contribute to that conversation. Yeah, we'll see. We'll
see what fresh how wait says tomorrow what the gaming
need is, we'll talk about it. We got some other
guests lined up for the rest of the week as well,
so yeah, we'll have plenty of fun on Game This
Mornings this week.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a plan that is gonna do it for us.
Am I forgetting anything. I haven't hosted this show in
a great while.
Speaker 2: Well we're gonna do. Yeah. If we don't have a
super plan, there probably a grab bag. Yeah, we're gonna
have all sorts of fun. And this week there's that
new nine Lives out again for Premium members. There's going
to be another this is the run going up for
premi members this weekend.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was a fun guest.
Speaker 4: Next week for Dump Truck, which show, we'll announce that
after this week's.
Speaker 5: Oh we put on the schedule the video that's coming
out on Saturday, did we not? With a with a guest,
A special guest? Yes, we did. Ye Escape the back
Rooms with Lucy James going up on Saturday. You might
not normally check the YouTube channel or the website on Saturday,
so make sure you check that out. That's a fun
time and you know, like it was a it was
an off stream edit that Jam put together. So I'm
looking forward to watching that one.
Speaker 4: Uh North Carolina. He goes on the schedule. That should
be going up obviously not necessarily this week. But the
thing we did this weekend to catch me be Dan
is uhs out. We were in Mexico, I'll leave it
at that, and got into some really interesting stuff out there,
So that will be great when.
Speaker 3: That goes up.
Speaker 4: Sounds like a real normal video. I'm sure it'll be normal. Yes,
I met, I met a lot of really normal people.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 4: Definitely was not the weird one.
Speaker 1: Zero medicine there right.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 5: They were great.
Speaker 1: Keep keep keeps your regular all right, folks, that's going
to do it for us, Thank you so much, Sewan.
Run the show today. Really appreciated. We'll chuck the whole gang.
We'll have Jin and Grubb I believe back next week.
We'll see how it goes. Busy summer. Thanks so much
for tuning in everyone. We will have a brand new
podcast next week.
Speaker 2: Until next time, I can't do the goodbye like Jen.
Anyone want to track steal it