Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, September second.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred and six,
presented by our dear friends at MSI. I am your host,
Jan Osho a Joining, the co captain of the ship.
You can put him anywhere you want, because he's got
a green screen behind him.
Speaker 2: You can put him in your pocket, you can put
him in a fun little cup of milk. Jeff Crab.
Speaker 3: No, reed, I'm happy to be here, Jan, Thanks for
having me on the shelf with.
Speaker 2: The fuck man.
Speaker 1: What is going on? Three day weekends? Guys reporting live
the day after from the Land of Unlimited Milk for
three dollars in record.
Speaker 4: I had no milk. I can go over what I had,
but I had zero milk. I'll start with that zero milk.
Speaker 5: All rage in the machine, Jeff back Allah.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's crazy. That's the same thing that it's
the T shirt. I just bought those words exactly, no milk,
Hall rage in the machine, that's right.
Speaker 1: That's how he eats his morning bowl of cereals. And
speaking about cereals, he's throwing them out. He's knocking down
all the display shelves at the supermarket. He's destroying the
end caps. He opens all of the Seltzer waters after
he shakes him up, and he spreads it in your face.
The bad boy you have games media, Mike Man, naughty
you get away.
Speaker 5: Fell on those places before they kick you out. Those
people are dead inside. They don't care.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about supermarkets?
Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, that's my family legacy.
Speaker 5: It's really fun when you do it to a small, local,
family owned way.
Speaker 6: Oh Joe Record would chase you into the parking lot.
Speaker 5: Bring it on, bring it on.
Speaker 4: You talking about Cereal. I just opened this. It's I
was wondering if this is going to be gross. Liquid
death has a new Cereal criminals.
Speaker 2: I wonder what you were talking about.
Speaker 3: If you were holding a can that looked like a soda,
I'm like, why is he talking like that?
Speaker 2: Cereal?
Speaker 4: It's fruity Pebbles branded and I just tasted it. It
is like carbonated fruity pebbles.
Speaker 6: This is very good.
Speaker 2: Now that's good for you? Right?
Speaker 1: You you like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I thinky pebbles is great. They get really soggy really quick.
But I think this is the way to side step it.
It's water, it's Seltzer water. But it tastes exactly like
fruity Pebbles. This is fantastic.
Speaker 5: It's not nice there.
Speaker 6: I just tried it for the first time and it's great.
Speaker 2: I wish it were an ed I'll be honest. Yeah,
I'm so ready.
Speaker 3: To change my ting on liquid death. Did they give
us money? I'm like to be so prime to do that.
Speaker 5: Flintstone's branding on there.
Speaker 4: No, just Freddy Pebbles.
Speaker 5: Still do that, that's the logo. Yeah, the whole thing
would be so mad. It's a dead like brand, agnostic
fruity Pebbles without Fred Flintstone or Barney on there, because you.
Speaker 2: Would be his game or gate like this.
Speaker 5: It would be nine to eleven clear. This is because
you're a Flintstoner, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I loved that.
Speaker 5: I think about the Flintstones constantly.
Speaker 2: Yes, we know, well, like plenty of brands use that
descriptor to label flavors. They say like fruity cereal, they
say like leftover milk fruits like I had ice cream
the other day, But that was that exactly, and they
got they got around fruity pebbles. So so would you
like to sue them? Mike or do you want me
to take care of it?
Speaker 5: I think you would know more about the suing process
than I would. We're trying to say, say that you
know a lot more about lawyers and whatnot recently.
Speaker 2: A Jewish joke.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we were supposed to be in bed together. I
thought we were supposed to be the pizza bagel connection.
I thought that together. But I'm the small spoon. You're
going to ask to see the people.
Speaker 2: That's fine, but do not break up the pizza pizza
bagel connection.
Speaker 5: He was already in bed like twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I come on, Look.
Speaker 5: How much energy I'm bringing despite that?
Speaker 1: Hey, gang, we just had a three day weekend. I
was wasn't here for parts of last week. I feel
a little bit discombobulated, but I'm happy to be here
with you four.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How is everyone's a three day weekend? Was it RESTful?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 1: Was it full of I just did I.
Speaker 3: Like, took care of house stuff, so I barely had
time for anything else.
Speaker 5: So you, I saw you this weekend. Yeah, got out.
Speaker 3: I got to hang out with Mike and the Manatis
and his extended crew.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 5: We had our fantasy football draft. I got to wear
a crown and my Rascal shirt because I won last year,
so I let so bum you know my will and
I was obnoxious about.
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 2: Did you provide your own crown? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I bought a crown last time I won a few
years ago from a spirit Halloween. Uh yeah. And I
didn't pass it on to the next year's winter. I
just kept it and held onto it till the next
time I won and put it on again.
Speaker 6: He was at Stanley Cup right exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's wearing it like King Hippo wears his
crown in punch out for we which we should.
Speaker 2: Play more of? You want to get to continue?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Lodgy asked, what kind of mad buy himself with
crowd you're looking at it.
Speaker 4: I spent all day yesterday at the Minnesota State Fair,
and I've written down everything I ate all right right
by the way, I have not sat down in the
bathroom since Sunday, and I am expecting something to happen Sunday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, see this is.
Speaker 2: And then why way to the state Fair Sunday was
a long time, I know.
Speaker 4: And that amount of stuff that is in my body
right now from yesterday.
Speaker 3: You have the list me, let me read it like
this is all cooking in there right now.
Speaker 4: Okay, And and if anybody want to see what these
look like, because a lot of them are crazy, you
just google it with m N state Fair.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: I started with the hot Honey pizza balls with a
Z which.
Speaker 2: Ship right after that. How was that?
Speaker 4: I thought they were going to be small, like little
like pizza bite rolling. They're like baseball size and they
give you three.
Speaker 1: Do you think he's up? He's blocked up as well, gin.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, he's gonna need some sort of.
Speaker 6: Oh, let me get down the list, hang on before alone,
or just yeah what.
Speaker 2: I just want to I just want to put out
there like I think you already went into it with
the wrong attitude, like you can't eat three baseballs a
pizza out of the gate.
Speaker 4: Here's what we did because we always get one and
then we split. Me and Bonk would split the thing,
so we each had I had like a ball and
a half. She had like half one, and then I
gave the third one away to somebody on a bench
that I saw. So you know, you gotta like and
you got to not be afraid, like if something's not
really screaming out to you, you gotta be okay with
throwing away part of it because it's like there's just
limited there's finite space in the stomach.
Speaker 5: There, So don't be afraid to waste food.
Speaker 4: I mean you kind of have to there or give
it away if it's something that's not give it away.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people waste the food there. Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, next up was the kraffel cloud I got, which
is like a croissant waffle with a bunch of like
banana cream. I got the banana cream version of banana
caramel cream and then it's got like a full chunk
of like thick cotton candy on top of it.
Speaker 6: I posted some pictures of this stuff to my Instagram story.
Speaker 4: If you want to see the crawfel cloud, you can't
even see the waffle thing or the krawfel underneath. That
was pretty good, like that a lot hot Howndny pizza
balls were definitely a highlight. Then it was the case
of Ratha, which is that is in the International Bazaar section.
Speaker 2: That's what.
Speaker 8: Awakens Yeah, no, this is the cultural district at awesome
to the small street fry were there, the case of
Ratha is like a case of but it's tandory chicken
with like curry with a loado cilantro.
Speaker 2: Huge sounds awesome.
Speaker 4: That was pretty solid. That was pretty It was honestly not.
It was a little less crispy than I expected it
to be. So it was good, but not the best
thing I had. Then they got the raspberry soft served beer,
which is one of the new big gimmicks this year.
Huge line for it where it's literally beer that it's
just looks like a raspberry ice cream cone. It's not
ice cream, it's beer. I don't know how the fuck
they do it, but it's got alcohol in it and stuff.
Speaker 6: So it's an ice cream cone. That gets you.
Speaker 3: Based, Yeah, you kept saying it's not ice cream, it's beer.
Speaker 6: Right, It's raspberry.
Speaker 2: Liquid, liquid and a cone.
Speaker 5: To be clear, it's ice cream and beer, right. I
don't know.
Speaker 4: I saw there was a guy like churning something back there.
Speaker 3: Liquid Like if you looked at it, you just say,
that's an ice cream cone. That's okay, it's not ice cream,
so so, but it's beer.
Speaker 2: It's alcoholic, okay.
Speaker 5: So it's just so hard, so hard to talk to you.
Speaker 2: I got this.
Speaker 1: I got this am confusing about no, no, no, no no,
I got Okay, it's not liquid.
Speaker 5: Beer is not a liquid This beer is soft serve.
So it's ice cream. Then it's beer in the form
of ice is serious.
Speaker 2: I think this is actually really good in the in
the spirit of transparency, because folks listening to this right now,
this is just this regular Tuesday. You're a giant bomb beer, right,
But it's not liquid beer.
Speaker 4: No, it's in like the form of an ice cream cone.
But it's beer.
Speaker 2: It's not a form of ice It's just the way
you talk like it wrong. You're just not sibing it
the right way. We know what it is.
Speaker 5: It's not ice cream. It is ice cream. It's beer
ice cream. It's beer turned into ice cream. Saying this
isn't chocolate or this isn't ice cream. This is chocolate
in ice cream for chocolate.
Speaker 2: Ice cream. It obviously looks like ice cream, right, but
it's beer. Okay, okay, oh god, right now, I have
to say it's not ice cream. It's like an alien
from another planet is constantly landing into giant bomb and
we have to like explain what life on Earth is Like.
Speaker 6: I'm not kidding. Chat here is on my side.
Speaker 4: No, they're not on your side in the form of
ice cream.
Speaker 2: Okay, continue, continue going down the list.
Speaker 4: That the the beer in a cone was very good.
A lot of people were saying it doesn't get good
once you get down and you're chewing the cone part.
But yeah, I thought the mix of the cone and
the beer flavor was fine.
Speaker 2: I have a question. I hope you can answer with
a number. What do you know what the ABV on that?
It was like four point four interesting. Okay, that's more
than I thought it would be, So that's that's surprising.
Speaker 4: Next, okay, was the Land of ten Thousand Cakes, which
is just a cop that has like a billion different
cakes in it. And I ate the Land of ten
Thousand Cakes. I've lived in Minnesota for like eight years.
It wasn't until hours later when Bonk and I were
going down the list, I was like, oh my god,
it's like Land of ten thousand Lakes. I'm not going
did not even I was like, oh, that's a fun time, beautiful.
Speaker 5: Just wait till three years from now you understand why
we're mad with you about the beer.
Speaker 4: I'll get around to it. Next up was Okay, this
might have been the best thing I had. Do you
know what Alopia is?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, I do, Okay, yes?
Speaker 6: Is it a Filipino food? Yes, yes, yes, because they
said it.
Speaker 4: Was a Filipino fusion truck thing. It was a Loopia
pizza like it's like spring roll type thing. It's like
street food. It's like an egg roll filled with like
pizza stuff. They also had like an ube banana version
and everything.
Speaker 6: That looked really good too.
Speaker 4: But I got the pizza spring roll and that was
probably I think Bank and I both put that at
number one.
Speaker 6: That was incredible.
Speaker 2: Sounds crazy.
Speaker 1: That's a wind for my people, guys, Oh my god,
it was incredible. Shout out for the Caribbean.
Speaker 4: Also a couple of classics that are you know, these
aren't new with the Minnesota State Fair. But the Gizmo
sandwich is fantastic. It's just like a hogy thing filled
with like beef and sausage and just covered with most
cheese you've ever seen in your life. That's fantastic. A
Pronto pup, which is this corn dog on a stick,
had it with mustard that was very good. And then
some drinks I had. They got all sorts of gimmick
beers and stuff there. So I had Many Donut beer,
which is it tastes like a Many donut, and they
got cinnamon and sugar on the rim, which is super good.
Speaker 6: That's an orange.
Speaker 4: Bliss beer, which is like an orange dream cream skull
type beer. And then the pineapple upside down cake slushy,
which I did not actually think was the best, but yeah,
it was a fucking successful day at the fair. That
LOOPI a pizza spring roll thing if you look that up.
And the hot honey pizza balls. Those were absolute highlights.
Speaker 2: So are there like attractions as well at this thing?
Or is it just like a calorie zipper.
Speaker 4: There's tons of they have tons of We did the
air where it's like you get on like a it's
like a ski lift thing that takes you across the park.
And they do a weird thing where it's like on
the roofs of buildings. Everyone takes up their underpants and
throws it on the roof.
Speaker 2: Okay, I could see that being like a weird tradition.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so there's like.
Speaker 6: A billion bras on the roof of like the dairy building.
Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, it's dairy building.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of weird stuff with the fair, but
they do have a million rides.
Speaker 4: There's this whole like kind of kidway place and the
Mirror Maze and the you know, all the Curner rids
and sometimes I do those, but like I just went
to Valley Fair. I just did the men Max video
and rode a billion roller coasters like last week. I'm
just there to eat basically, like that's the main event there.
And also the ride areas are just filled with kids
and shit, and we kind of wanted to avoid that.
So yes, there is a lot of rides and stuff
like that, and like some of them are like one
hundred and thirty years old, and the boat boat ride
that goes I actually thought about Minati. I was wondering
if Minati would be there because it's nothing but like
theme park gimmick stuff from the po to the rides.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Our our big fair uh in Ohio actually happened this weekend.
It is called the Can't Field Fair and it's pretty
close to me. I generally don't go to enlist. Somebody
is like to me, like, hey, do you want to
go to the fair, And I'm like, ash, sure, maybe
otherwise I'm good. I've been to it a lot. Oh sure,
it's not themed enough for me, you know, sure.
Speaker 4: I think this one is a special because, like you know,
I've lived in a lot of different states, and like
I never hear people talking about the state fair, but
like this is the big one, and like they say,
Texas is bigger, it's the only bigger one in terms
of attendance. But people were telling me online yesterday they
do a college football game at the fair grounds. Basically
it's tied around there and they inflate, you know, to
kind of jazz the numbers up. They inflate all the
college football attendants into so they say, if you remove
the football attendance, this is the biggest state fair in
the country.
Speaker 5: I just think it's I think it's a bit of
a problem, honestly, all these childless and prouts going to
the state fair, which is you know, really a place
for kids.
Speaker 2: I think you're trying to shoehorn another idea into this,
and I feel like you're listen the mark here a
little bit there at Telcoto.
Speaker 5: They state fair adults.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, And then the animal stuff is great. We're
just walking around with frozen margaritas and stuff, and there's
just because it's like the whole state and like all
the like the farmers and stuff. So like there is
a building that is just filled with like hundreds of rabbits.
Fuck yeahs they do the awards and said, we saw
a bunch of big ass horses. There's turkeys and stuff,
and ducks. They're just everywhere, cows all this.
Speaker 5: Damn Do they have like the pavilion where it's just
like people submitted their baked goods and like he go
and you look at them and like some of them
have a ribbon?
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 4: We didn't find that because like there's one where it's
like here's a whole building of like weird corn art
and we pinally find that this time, and we didn't
see the baked good stuff.
Speaker 5: But yeah, did you have any questions about the corn
where you like, did Jesus eat this?
Speaker 2: That's pretty good? Apparently not? What do you what would
you estimate the size of this atrocity is like square
footage or whatever you want however you want to. I mean, sure,
there's the fair grounds.
Speaker 4: Is this area in Roosevile that is just like several
like numerous blocks basically and it just stays that way,
like there's buildings and stuff. It's not just tents and stuff.
So it stays that way year round. So it's like
there's huge buildings and stuff, big concerts and stuff that
happened to stay fairst. So I would say numerous blocks.
Speaker 2: I would guess, Okay, I don't know, is it is
it the size of a football field or big way? No, No,
several football field. That's awesome.
Speaker 6: I'm like a six flags or something almost.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, so like a park it's huge. Yeah, that's great,
It's really awesome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so every year it's the best.
Speaker 2: I was at a small town one probably the size
of like maybe three quarters of an acre for it
was like a labor day one in Jersey, and uh
it was a town thirty minutes away, and our friends
who lived there took us there and it was fine.
It was just like the normal. It's always like whenever
you go to a lot of these in Jersey are
like Italian festival themes, so you can get like a
lot of you know that kind of exactly that kind
of fair. But they had a couple of rides. They
were scary because they were just sort of like this
ride folded up and fit on a truck a second.
I guess, yeah, true. The most carneia shit. And the
way they were doing the tickets I found interesting. So
for ride tickets, they were basically they were like throwing
out these kind of like arbitrary numbers. They were like, yeah,
this one's fifty eight credits to get on, and they
were just like why are they doing such a weird
thing with the credits, Like and it's all this sort
of scheme that you kind of meant, I assume to
like not have you realize just how much money you
are spending on the credits and whatnot. And the whole
thing really rubbed me the wrong way, but I did,
I did. Who was it? Heather and Keith stopped me
to say hello, So hello to you both. I was
very lovely meeting you. Yeah, and there you go.
Speaker 4: Fairs Chat looked it up and I guess this is
three hundred and twenty two acres and attendance this year
was two million people.
Speaker 5: Twenty two Yeah, a holy ship. That can't feel fair.
Three hundred and fifty three acres.
Speaker 2: Wow, you guys got all those acres, though out there
may not.
Speaker 5: Be as impressive with our usage of the acres, but
there's more of them. I don't know how man an
acre is though, it's either.
Speaker 3: And I understood. I'm going to year the Columbus went
three hundred and sixty acres, so each all.
Speaker 2: Yeah there, you guys got.
Speaker 6: Acres have been dumb.
Speaker 4: I feel whenever somebody like comes here to my house
and they ask me a question about like, okay, so
how much acreage is is your I don't fucking know.
It's like, okay, where's your property line going? I don't know,
Like I just never know how to answer any question
these people.
Speaker 2: Well, like you know, you don't know the square footage
of your house.
Speaker 4: I know the square footage. I don't know the but
the but the bakridge surprising.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but when you buy the house, you you are
very you were made very much aware of the acreage
of your locked Like that is surprised, but not for you.
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The pond like to maybe equate it to a measurement
of familiar with like is an acre a mile? Is it?
Speaker 3: So one square mile is six hundred and forty acres?
Speaker 1: This doesn't do anything for me. See that again, you know,
you know along a mile is right, But I'm thinking
of like Okay, well how many acres is in that?
It's fine?
Speaker 3: Like so like a football field is one and a
third acre, so like the Minnesota State Fair would be
a half mile this way and then a half mile
that way, and then that whole space is filled up
with ship. Yeah, so and you can walk a half
mile and what and what like you.
Speaker 5: Know, uh.
Speaker 2: And something like that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, our friend Argentina Christian, I think it's very
upset about the you.
Speaker 2: Know, I'm with I'm with my Argentinian brother christ here.
We're yes, the our form of measurement is brain dead everything.
Speaker 3: I want to defend the imperial system. Go ahead, here field,
go ahead measuring stuff this week and I was grateful
to do. I had I actually have one that does
meters and centimeters, and I was like, I'll do it
in centimeters because it's like that's easier to work with.
And as soon as I started working with working with it,
I was like, actually, no inches is easier because frequently
I want to divide things by thirds or quarters, and
everything in the twelve inch system divides either into thirds
or quarters, like you can. Everything's divisible by three and four,
So it's easier to work with my head, as opposed
to the meters, where it's like very quickly, it's like, oh,
if I want a third of a meter, I'm like, oh, okay,
now I have to like get three point three three
when you're working with it, but a human being, it's
it's easier.
Speaker 2: But the tens. But being based on tens is a
more logical way to.
Speaker 3: Do when you're trying to memorize things, so I know
how many bites is in a gigabyte and all that stuff. Sure,
I want to working with these things. I actually like
when I'm measuring things, the imperial system.
Speaker 2: Is easier for me.
Speaker 1: Listen, listen, listen, I.
Speaker 2: Base twelve superior. I love the same I love.
Speaker 1: I have never not related to y'all to this amount before.
This is amazing, This is great.
Speaker 2: But is it? Is it the U? Is it the
fairs plus the imperial for was it the corner?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Mike, I didn't want to say scream. That's not
really ice scream it is? Uh, how is everyone else's weekend?
Everyone to get down to some funky business?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Mike, you guys did a fantasy draft, Mike.
Speaker 3: You know it was nice to like kind of really
hang out with Mike's friends have been a minute since
I'd done that.
Speaker 2: He's got nice friends. It was thank you. Yeah, yeah,
I mean he's not, but everyone else. He has great
brothers too, by the way, Yeah great brother Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like I got there, there was a bunch of food.
I brought some brownies and things like that. We just
hung out a food It was it was nice. I
couldn't hang out for long. I tried to go get
a haircut everywhere close at four pm, so I still
have not been able to get a haircut. I'm like,
at a certain point, I'm like, I think I'm just
gonna go with it and stop trying to cut my hair.
Speaker 5: Go to an airport, brother airport, Jeff. Jeff looks great
right uh lately in person, I'm like, whoa grabs really?
And it was wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well I also I was wearing my man bag, so
I definitely had Zach alfan as.
Speaker 5: So much like new where Zach you look like Zach
Alanakis from.
Speaker 2: Lelo and Stitch. But yeah, he looks everything all right.
Speaker 3: I should just gets and lean into it.
Speaker 1: You and I should just like grow out her hair
because like my hair is like this is the longest
it's been in years.
Speaker 3: Like you had to do you have like a plan
for like what you're gonna do, because I think I
think I'm just I might get it cut on the sides.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely not cutting any off the top.
Speaker 6: What your life is coming up? So you gotta give
Kilo something to do.
Speaker 3: Oh no, bit, last time I cut it for like real,
like a lot of cutting.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I I was traumatized walking through Seattle because I was
looking at the hotel. I'm like, why do I feel
like empty and hollow inside? And then I realized it's
because I left a part of me there, and it's
we all piled into my hotel room and shaved my head.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I want to do them all
them right now.
Speaker 2: I'm just severely offended. I'm sorry, Backlar, Do you want
to some of my all the hair talk is that? Yeah?
I mean, just like respect your You's like some people
wish they had more and it's like you guys just
sort of fonted in a way that's got.
Speaker 5: A big beard.
Speaker 2: No, I don't want that. Man. You just pretend I
took everything and and O B S.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like one of those magnet toys where you like.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the guy I grew up wanting to look
like my entire.
Speaker 1: Life, I do.
Speaker 2: Wooly willy kind of recommendation is that, Oh my.
Speaker 1: Lord, I went up to Washington and I'll talk about
what I want to go play in a second, but
I I got to spend some lovely time with our
dear friend Bailey Myers. And let me tell you here's
a here's a fun fact about Filipinos. All of them
can fucking sing, except ten percent of us. I'm sorry,
Michael hym and I. We're in that ten percent that
cannot stay aldy.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: Chastity Vicentio formerly of Game Spot, formerly of i GN
Now you'd be soft.
Speaker 2: Oh my fucking god.
Speaker 1: Home girl could is like a legit pop star and
how she can bring the house down. It's fucking it's
so intimidating. But with enough BEVs and with enough like
if the vibe is right, with enough people, and then
like what also helped is that suddenly like six people
who I didn't fucking know came into this karaoke room
and I'm like, oh god, I don't know anyone here, please, Like,
where's my where's my support friend? Over here? It came in,
and then someone and then here's here, here's where it
all clicked into place.
Speaker 5: Oh oh oh.
Speaker 1: Also friend of the site, if he had popped over,
if he had put on some musicals and then he
had put on feed Me from a little shop of
Hohrrores nice. And then I'm like, wait a minute, I
did that in high school.
Speaker 2: I was audered to.
Speaker 1: And then he was like, oh, I don't have anyone
to do the Seymour part. I'm like, wow, normally I'm
a bass baritone, but like, I'll just give it a shot.
And I had enough BEVs at this point. And then
also as the song was coming in, the fine lovely
people at the karaoke establishment were like, hey, here's just
like ten shots of like midori and then I hate
melon liqueur, but anyway, we have it.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: And then uh, no one is singing the Seymour part
with ify and I'm like, you know what, fucking passed me?
And pass me the fucking mike R.
Speaker 3: The Filipinos has been hearing unlocked from the drinks at
this point, Yes.
Speaker 2: Because I think I had something from the Islands. I
had my Malana moment.
Speaker 5: Was it out there at all it's inside Jan, and
then he got to a point where I'm like, I
didn't think I could ever hit this high note.
Speaker 2: Oh my fucking god.
Speaker 1: And then like three people across the room are like,
oh my god, woy, we sound so great. I'm gonna
start recording this guy. And then it was fantastic. I
felt like I could sing for the first time in
my life.
Speaker 3: Can we get that footage and put it up exclusively
for premium members? I bet that's like our biggest activation
of the year, right, I hear Chance singing.
Speaker 1: I think Bailey has a clip of Iffy and I
singing Ohio's for Lovers by Hawthorn Heights.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'll ask Home Girl for that.
Speaker 2: But yes, yes, oh wow, that brings me back Jan.
Holy crap, yo yo.
Speaker 1: Also, there was a point where, uh, that one Andrea
but Celli song from step Brothers, Yes, where he's singing
or something.
Speaker 3: Right right right, I don't know if it's from Steph
Brothers mixer, the the Catalina Wine mixer scene.
Speaker 1: There was a point where like, I was fully cognizant
of what I was doing.
Speaker 2: I'm just like passing me the fucking mic.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then I.
Speaker 1: I went for it, guys, and then I was like, wow,
I felt like I was a gay Spanish Man that
was blind singing. Oh yeah, proud problematic too, So there
we go. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Anyways, Uh it.
Speaker 2: Turns out go outside and spend time with people. Yeah. Yeah,
that's the takeaway for sure.
Speaker 1: Take away.
Speaker 2: That is a takeaway. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyone else have any other show they want to bring
up before we talk about video game?
Speaker 2: I'm playing around more.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hell yeah, okay, that's good stuff.
Speaker 3: Look about you and you said that back of lar, like,
do you think that this means something, This says something
about where you're at in life?
Speaker 2: No, because I go through these like I go through
these hotspots where I'm sweeper into it. I was at
the beach last week and like I just sat there
and did SID and like I could, I could tell
for the first time in a while that I made
like tangible, I like leveled up in my comprehension you're doing.
Speaker 3: You're doing the like everal levels deep inferences of like Okay,
this is this and this is that, and that means
this has to be that and therefore, like that feeling
is incredible doing the doing.
Speaker 2: The higher level strats that you are now seeing the
board in a way that I previously was not able
to see. I'm not doing I'm not at the level
like there. Apparently there's a lot of controversy in the
Sudoku community where people, you know, like there are solvable,
theoretically solvable Sudokus with computers, right, And that's bullshit because
it's like, who the fuck cares if you can't do
it with your mind and you need like computer assistance, Well, like,
how is that fun? Right? So I sit on that
side of the fence where I'm a say, some would
call me a Sadoka purist, but I don't want to
go that far. But that's how I look at the game.
And you know, I always got to shout out cracking
the cryptic that is the best the Sudoku community online,
as far as I'm aware, second best there is there
is what's funny, dude, I'm joking like it is a
big like everything else. There's a big scene on YouTube
of people who are like, no, I want to collect
all of the Sudoku freaks, because that's the thing. Don't forget,
like Sutoku does isn't owned by anyone, right, like no
one like has the rights to the public. It's right.
So like people are free to sort of cultivate exactly.
People are free to cultivate their sort of like communities
and and put you know, plant their flags in the
grass and say hey, I'm that community and whatnot. But
they get into way more of like all the alternative
sudokas where there's like a board with no numbers and
just like arrows and shit, and they're just like, oh,
here's just logic rules that define the restrictions on this game.
But I still do the regular old numbers. But yeah,
I'm back on my shit there, so.
Speaker 3: I should mention I got first in the world and
one of the Pusmo puzzles on the leader board no shit,
yeah it was their circuits one.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Now I couldn't load the leader boardy it set up
was number one. I was trying to load it. I
was like, am I tied with like a thousand people?
Is what I was wondered. But I don't think so,
because it's like there's a lot of opportunity to like
it was first impressive. Man, Yeah, I was all right,
I think what the trick was? I submitted I didn't
submit anything until I had them all put in there.
I submitted them all at the same time, and I
think it like gave me a bonus or something. So hey,
pretty cool game.
Speaker 1: Quick quick question for y'all. And this this is me
maybe coming to terms of my identity crisis of maybe
I can sing. Actually, do I have a Bay Area accent?
Speaker 6: No, I don't know what that would be.
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't think so, I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with Dan here, don't You could be
on the news in Ohio, which means that you have
that neutral accent.
Speaker 2: So I would say probably.
Speaker 1: Okay, because there was a point where I as as
maybe the code switching was getting looser, where I was
identifying how I was sounding.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, this is I sound different than how
I know?
Speaker 2: Really do huh?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 5: Anyway, video games, games, games, video games, games games. Yeah,
games games.
Speaker 1: Games, video games. Uh, let's get this out of the
way now, folks. I went over to Washington to check out.
Speaker 3: Okay, you already said I was gonna say, do do
any of us know what he played?
Speaker 2: Because I think all of us were like, why is
Channon Seattle? And I remember.
Speaker 4: Confused me today? What was the actual phrasing of it.
Jan let's see, he says code Jender MTG nights on GB.
Speaker 6: And I didn't understand any of that except for GB.
Speaker 2: Well, GB was actually games b.
Speaker 5: Job.
Speaker 1: I went over to Wizards of the Coast to check
out some Magic the Gathering because that's why I went
over there. Lovely lovely folks there, shouts out to Gavin.
But yo yo, I learned it. It felt like I
was in a college class because we started the day
with a lecture about the Color Pie. And like, Mike,
you've played Magic the Gathering before, right, Yeah, okay, y'all
familiar with the Color Pie.
Speaker 3: No, I played Magic Gathering thirty years ago, and I
don't remember.
Speaker 6: I didn't go to that State Fair booth.
Speaker 1: No, the Color Pie was so interesting, and I could
tell there were more people that have like more experienced
playing Magic the Gathering that were like all kind of
not glazing over it, but like I was just like
my attention was like just peaked because the color Pie,
it's like the five colors of magic the Gathering, white, green, red, blue, black,
and then how they synergize or are against each other
like diametrically opposed. And it was really neat, but the
coolest thing of all gang. My interest in Magic the
Gathering started a couple of years ago with Lord of
the Rings, and you're asking yourself, jan I didn't know
you were into the Lord of the Rings, and you're right.
I fucking hate Lord of the Rings, except now, Mikey,
because I like it now.
Speaker 5: Pudio listeners. He looked really upset for a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, and then he got very happy.
Speaker 1: Yes. And then with a final Fantasy set coming that
had come out, I really like dove into it. And
now unfortunately I've I've gone back and bought like the
Doctor Who packs because I really like Doctor Who and
the Avatar. The last Airbender sets are coming out, and
that's gonna be great. The part that I enjoy about
this and back we may butt heads against this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear it. I know where this is going.
Let's hear it.
Speaker 1: I think I'm enjoying Magic the Gathering more than I
have in the previous years of like playing and collecting Pokemon,
because the hobby for Pokemon, the Pokemon TCG, has shifted
from straight up playing it to now just being a
collect a thon where.
Speaker 2: If you're like me, you're almost unaware of the portion
of the history where it was playing the game and
exclusively know it only for collecting.
Speaker 1: But sure, and like you know, I really enjoyed playing
the game, but it got to a point in backler.
I'm not saying you are like this, but people in
my area are getting into stabbing fights over Pokemon cards
where it's like, oh okay, where like, yeah, I don't
want to.
Speaker 2: Get an associated with all this.
Speaker 1: Also, like if I'm just trying to crack a pack,
I don't want to have to line up that side
of a target at seven am. Sorry to barn and Jan,
I can't do it anymore, dog, But magic has just
been so much more approachable, and because there's like such
a wide history of different cards and packs, you can
just kind of like make anything work.
Speaker 2: But I'm certain it up. But I do think it's
a it's a testament to like, you know, they they
with this licensing spree that they seem to be on.
Speaker 1: Oh right, yes, yeah, it's it's it's.
Speaker 2: Sort of water. It's sort of diluted that psychotic collection
mentality where they're even more likely to make a lot
of money with all the licensing that they've been able
to do and avoid and step over the kind of
like stabbing issue that they were possibly on the road
to having.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like I saw some sales numbers that
the final Fantasy packs had done, like Insane gang Bus.
Speaker 3: It was like two hundred million dollars in a day
or something like that, which is would make it almost
certainly like in a top five of biggest entertainment launches
in the history of the world.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Mikey just kisses Ishtola pack over there on a boating
box and absolutely, But I got to check out a
couple of the new upcoming Spider Man cards and ell, yeah,
y'all know, I'm a I'm a Marvel freak, and uh,
I thought it was going to be like an interesting
challenge because like, how do you like Lord of the
Ring set, They like reimagined a lot of the characters, right,
like Airgorn is now black, which is dope, sick as fuck.
Speaker 5: But like black black, like you know Land Cards. I'm like,
oh right, right, you know racially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, racially, yeah, the name of the podcast today.
Speaker 5: Racial.
Speaker 1: But the Spider Man Cards is, like they do they
do such a neat thing of not only incorporating new
art but also paying homage to like the original like
stan Lee Comics, all of like these iconic covers and
like character designs, which is really cool and something that
I feel like has to be such a fucking challenge
is when you are including all of these new different
ip like Final Fantasy, Avatar now Spider Man and whoever
knows what else is like down the pipeline, incorporating those
mechanics from those ip into the game and making them work,
because like, for instance, there is a Venom card, but
the Venom card starts as Eddie Brock and you can
just summon Eddie by himself and then eventually flip them
over to turn into Venom, or depending on how you
play it, you could just straight up go to Venom
and then flip them down to Eddie. So like the
targeting and like the priority kind of changes the playing field.
And then there's web slinging mechanics as well. They featured
a lot of like the iconic villains, if not all
of them. I feel like they also have like a
lot of sleeper comic book entries that are like oh,
what the fuck you're here too, which which is really neat,
but like for instance, like Doc oc like you I
think you need eight manna to summon him for each arm,
one for each arm exactly neat. And then like as
like a comic book freak and like longtime fan of
Spider Man, like it's it's really like tickling all of
my like Peter tingles of like, oh shit, this is
sick as fuck? Are you crossing crossing my fingers? That
there is a bone Saw card and it part of
it is really neat too if you're a fan of
the comics, because they will have like a normal Spider
Man card, but that normal Spider Man card could also
have like a different costume, like if you remember the
Armored Spider Man and not the.
Speaker 2: Iron Spider, not the Iron Spider.
Speaker 1: But like the nineties like silver Armor Spider, like that's
over there. Peter's like flirtations with like the Fantastic Four,
like they have different iterations of that costume. It's really
fucking neat. It's really fucking cool. And after like chatting
with some of like the Wizard's Team or like the
Magic the Gathering Team specifically, you could tell like these
these people really really fucking care and it isn't just
like like a cash trying to bank in on a
cash cow of like, well, this this IP is popular,
let's just go try and make a bit a quick
buck off of that. It's like no, no, no, we
want to properly pay attention and like properly ease this
IP into our greater thing, uh and whatnot. And I'm
excited to see what they could potentially do down the
line with like other I p here's my pitch, Gang,
I should have done this. There you got like five
colors right for for Magic the Gathering. You know what
else has five colors? Fucking Power Rangers.
Speaker 5: Oh that was good to be about the five of us.
I thought we were gonna each get a color and
be in Magic the Gathering.
Speaker 2: Like you should get you should get black.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Backlar should with them.
Speaker 2: Come on, I think that makes the most sense that.
Speaker 5: I bet Power Rangers happens. I think that actually makes
a ton of sense. I think you're right.
Speaker 3: I think every IP is going to happen eventually after
the amount of success they've been.
Speaker 5: Except for Pokemon.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, funny though, you joke, Mike.
Speaker 1: But like Final Fantasy had their own like trade card
game that was kind of like dog Rings back in
the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, actually, it's better just to put them
into Magic the Gathering.
Speaker 1: Yeah uh so, uh, folks out there that are super
into Magic the Gathering, I need you to send an
email in or like a blue skymy of what color
or combination of colors you think everyone here on the
team would be? Like is I think Grub would be
a green? You know, I think uh, I think Dan
would be a red, maybe a red blue. Even you
know Backlar, Backlar, I feel would be like black red. No, no,
Backloor would be black blue from what I've learned from
the color pie and everything. Okay, don't worry, this is
all complimentary.
Speaker 2: Mikey.
Speaker 1: Sure, I feel like you'd be blue green. No, blue green, white,
you'd be three. Yeah, thank you for including the white.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you know, I want There used to be
a star Trek trading card game also, and it was
never that great if they star Cheking Magic Togethering. I
enjoyed it, even though I'm some I'm a little bit
of a pooper, and I'm like, I don't know about
these franchises. Don't don't actually have magic getting Magic the
Gathering cards, Like when they did fall Out, I was like, hm,
I'm not sure about this, but also I can get
over myself.
Speaker 2: Oh good, that was a lot of growth in that sense.
Speaker 6: I woke up singing songs about himself.
Speaker 5: Why is everyone taking this more seriously?
Speaker 1: And and uh to explain my skeet to Dan, Yeah,
Commander is a form of like a mode, let's say,
of playing magic.
Speaker 6: The gathering so co jender, I see?
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, and.
Speaker 3: We've had is Marjorie Taylor Green?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the way thing? Sorry?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I wanted to pay pay homage to Mike's people,
but I would like to because I've been researching and
spell Table is a way that a lot of folks
have been playing Commander with each other, and a lot
of friends of the site have been playing Commander. It's
it's real popular with with everything that I would love
to maybe Wednesday nights or an empty night throughout the
week to spin up spell Table and play with like
three other friends of the website. I've been been bugging
Bailey to just like teach me, teach me because I
think I'm like absolutely Garbo. But we'll see.
Speaker 4: Jan I would try magic. The thing is, it seems
like it's a game. It's a mind game in a
way that I understand.
Speaker 2: The way there was thunder Folk or whatever that was
like D and D.
Speaker 4: And stuff is I don't even understand how it's not
just a weird improv group. I've played Hertstone when it
came out. I remember thinking like, oh, I get it.
This is kind of fun. So I think I could
enjoy Magic the Gathering.
Speaker 2: I think why people hate.
Speaker 5: This try.
Speaker 2: I think I hate you because you enter things from
like a position of like you're trying to come off
as as like authentic and kind of like wholesome, and
then you immediately will ship on this thing that we.
Speaker 1: Do.
Speaker 6: You like the gathering. It's not a joke.
Speaker 1: No, So okay here, Dan, one of our very close
mutual friends, is also very into magic, and him and
I talk about it a lot. I think we could
ask him to build you a deck and then like
we just go over and explain what some of the
things do.
Speaker 6: I think cards or is just like an do.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: When I'm playing the game, I'd rather do the digital
version right right right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you could get into it because.
Speaker 4: I was actually like if I could just play it
online and not like I don't really want to like
to buy a bunch of stuff or get a bunch
of cards.
Speaker 6: But like I would play online.
Speaker 2: We could get your cards and see, we're all just suckers.
We're just suckers. I'm not buying this for a second.
There's no way about matter of.
Speaker 4: The Gathering in my History of Games says that I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Like this if there's a bunch of fantasy stuff and
there's some.
Speaker 4: Common I like plenty, as long as I like the
game for Zelda's Fantasy as Ship and it's like my favorite.
Speaker 3: But you like the tactics games, and you lasted thirty
seconds in Sunderfolk, I don't. Did you just think that
was a Dungeons and Dragons game.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I thought Sunderfolk was because because
there was a polar bear walking like a human.
Speaker 2: Nos in Magic the Gathering, for sure, I don't.
Speaker 1: I thought that's kind of see this, y'all are going
to have eggs on your face because if you got sick,
if you know, if it proves me wrong.
Speaker 5: Yeah you go, you take this project. I thought I
could fix him too. What's upon a time?
Speaker 2: No idea?
Speaker 4: Hey, I like Slay the Spire. I think monster trains
really fun. We got this new game of this Dustbier's
physical card game that Ben Hanson showed me.
Speaker 6: That's like, that's really fun. Me and Bank play that.
Now I can enjoy card stuff.
Speaker 1: Uh now, No, here's the thing. If you all thought
and I were being annoying every time we would greedy
each other saying like ba Janza badanza, No I love that.
Wait until I get Dan or or maybe we can
get Dan to play at least one or two games
of Commander and then we just go Cojander Coudander to
each other.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean the shirts print themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll play it.
Speaker 6: I'll give it the best, just try.
Speaker 3: Definitely on the mount rushmore of hobbies that video game
people are also into, right, it's wrestling f one like books,
probably not even on the list.
Speaker 6: There's like four people in games to watch.
Speaker 2: I don't think too many people play video games for
there to be like littles.
Speaker 3: About our scene though, like yeah, yeah, like clearly it's
wrestling in this matter.
Speaker 5: You all, like, you all like Prestige TV a lot too,
But maybe that's just everybody.
Speaker 2: I don't so you're all wrong.
Speaker 5: Though. That being said, was the Coast if you're listening.
Speaker 1: Also, on top of the power Rangers idea send me
back to the to the office, I got ideas for days.
Speaker 2: Get ready to cut the check. Wrestling, Yeah, they should
actually do that.
Speaker 5: That would be there are actual people who have magic
in wrestling. More people have magic and professional wrestling.
Speaker 4: I don't like supernatural gimmicks and wrestling. I think the
lame Jack does. So you sunder folks had a lot
of talking. I think that was the thing that was like.
Speaker 2: Magic has a lot of reading.
Speaker 6: You want to read, like how many like hit points
it does?
Speaker 5: Uh, there's more. There's a lot of rules. There's a
lot of keywords that aspire.
Speaker 4: You know how many times I have to like look
at a card and be like, all right, this is
going to do or Monster Train has all sort much
like that.
Speaker 2: It's very similar to and it's going to force himself
Now he's done himself too.
Speaker 1: Deep And that was just just watch folks. Dan and
I are gonna like be invited as guests of honor
to Magic Conidentic the gather in.
Speaker 2: Podcasts and then I'll believe it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, hey, would you all think snowbike Mike got
really into magic?
Speaker 2: The gathering. Yeah, but he gets into everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
nothing surprised me about it.
Speaker 5: He's so full of wonder like that. He'll like, yeah,
he'll do something we expect me like, wow, this is great.
Like he really liked Kingdom Hearts and a way Dan
could never.
Speaker 6: There's no way on that one. Oh yeah, I'm open
minded to a point.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, no, I get it, I get it. I get it.
Speaking about card games, Mike Manatta, you've been playing Slay
the Spire.
Speaker 5: Yes, actually, I started playing this game for the first
time about a week ago. This was the next top
of my twenty nineteen Apologies time Tour first time, which
is wild because I do like card games and I
played a ton of Harvestone back in the day, specifically,
I was a big fan in nineteen specifically, instead of
playing good games, Ah, that was good for a while there,
and they even had single player modes that were a
lot of fun. I was kind of like this, but yeah,
like just like starting with this up immediately, it was like, oh,
this is all pretty familiar. I gets this, and in fact,
this is kind of better in a lot of ways
because I get to play this game without having, you know,
buy packs of cards every three months and all that stuff,
which was fun for a while that eventually became a
money chore. But gosh, yeah, just the whole setup here
with the roguelake, elements of just starting with this very
basic deck and making my way through and adding cards
and sort of figuring out what bill I want to do,
getting really strong early on with builds where it's like, okay,
I can get block and that qus be safe. But
also some cards turn blocks into attacks, so that was
very satisfying. So yeah, I kind of ripped through that one.
I beat it with the first three characters within that
first week. I had a great time, and already so like, ooh,
I kind of want.
Speaker 1: To go back.
Speaker 5: Such a good all tab game, you know. Yeah, right,
that's even with Harston. Sometimes I would all tab it,
but I had to like listen for my sound cube
when it was my turn. Here, I don't worry about that.
It's always my turn. The enemy turned doesn't take very
long and they sit there and they wait for me.
So yeah, it was fantastic. I understand why I took
over a lot of people's lives back in the day.
I'm now very excited for Slave the Spire too. I
think I want to check out Monster Train two. Now.
Speaker 6: Monster two is awesome?
Speaker 1: You really really like it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, just look at a picture. Okay, this looks
very similar to Slay the Spire in a way that
I think I'd enjoy it. I us so just like
how different the different characters I could play was like
the first first one was relatively simple than the third one.
It's like summoning different orbs of magic that have passive
effects that I can kind of activate them as it
was getting more complicated. Yeah, well made games. Slay the Spire.
Turns out I should have played it back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Mike, did you ever play any other like of those,
like combat card games that were inspired by Slay the Spire,
like that Steam World.
Speaker 6: Game, SteamWorld Quest. That's a good one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, I never played Quest. I haven't played
Inscription similar right, Uh so I never touched in Scripture
or Midnight Suns the Marvel thing, which I was a
little bit Yeah, some somehow I just never really played
much of these. So yeah, the part of me was
like I played so much Harp, so I was maybe
a little burnt out on digital card games in general
for a while there like that was like a big
part of my job at Games for a bit was
I was the Blizzard guy in Harstone specifically. It was
fun being so into that because they were sending me
out to events. I revealed a couple of cards, mostly
because some other more important people were sick, so I
had to slot in still though, I'll take it.
Speaker 2: Oh uh, Mike, you ever play Inscription? No? No?
Speaker 5: See, yeah, I never never touched inscription, So I might
have some more catching up to do here. Uh, got
to finish up my twenty nineteen apology tours. It just
has one last stop. Now I'm gonna play Disco Elysium.
Then I think I am. I'm good and I am
caught up on that. Y Oh. It came out mostly
about talking.
Speaker 4: There's never been a game less for me. I can
be confident in that one minded to a point, open
minded to a point. And I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 1: Dan Uh.
Speaker 5: Speaking about going back in time, Dan, you have a
note about chi Robo I do.
Speaker 4: And I talked about a little bit, and I streamed
a little bit of it, you know, not too long
ago on the site, and I was playing it last night.
Speaker 6: I'm several hours into it.
Speaker 4: I really do like the game, and like I like
the loop of it, and I just it's one of
those games it's very satisfying just to go and kind
of clean shit up and get to your happy points
and all that stuff. But there was a point last
night where it's like, you know how we get emails
sometimes where it's like, I feel like we've had that
question where it's like, what's a game that you liked
everything it was doing, but there was just one aspect
of it that made it hard for you, like, and
I never can think of a great answer for it.
The answer is this, the fucking techt speed in gb
Robo is insane. And it was like something I was
pushing through for like several hours here and it wasn't
too bad until last night. There was a part in
the basement area of that game where there's this like
duck crab fortune teller thing or whatever, and it's all
it is. It's not even like a big story thing.
It's just like a betting game where it's like I'm
going to bet a hundred moolah that your eye is
going to open or your eye is not going to open.
This thing should take thirty seconds Max. It felt like
ten minutes of just like this text and then like
you're Jamin, I a to get through it, and it
goes right to like, hey, do you want to do
it again? Like double or nothing, and it's very easy
to hit a again, and then it's another fucking like
it is the most inexcusable text speed, unskippable, unbuttoned through
thing I've ever seen in a video game. And it's
at that point where I'm just like, I don't know
if I can play this game because it is so
frequent and like I like it, Like you walk into
a room and it's like, oh, there's all these like
this weird egg army and they're all shooting at you
and they talk and it's like it's all funny and
good writing and stuff like that, but it's just the
most laborious text I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 6: I just I wrote my last night. I was like,
I don't think I can keep doing this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't able to do this.
Speaker 5: This era was kind of bad with that, like you
would get these weird slow text crawls and I never
understood it. I'm like, you know, we were testing video games, obviously,
how does this never come up like, hey, it's a
little annoying how slow the text crawls. That has to
be the easiest thing possible for you to fix, right,
That's just got to be some value in some code somewhere.
I don't know if it's like, well, we wanted to
match the speed if somebody was actually talking, this is
how fast you would conceive the words. It's so annoying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's like every time you plug in to
you know, recharge, which you need to do a lot,
and she'd be robo. It asks you if you want
to save, and like, you know, if you're hitting a
to kind of get through the text, you're just automatically
going into the save menu and stuff. It's just through
so much of that in this game that like, I
want to keep playing because I think I like everything
else it's doing.
Speaker 2: But holy shit, it's people are saying dolphin and fast forward,
and it's like, yeah, I was gonna play this game.
That's how I would do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've just been holding off until switch to because
it felt like such a great one, Like.
Speaker 3: You should be disappointed because you specifically were waiting for
this version.
Speaker 6: And I heard Nikky on vgb's had the same complaint too.
Speaker 4: It is like a very noticeable thing and it's not
just like oh, impatient, med he doesn't want to see
the story because I like the story and the humor
of this game, but man, this sucks.
Speaker 1: That's unfortunate. Speaking about going back and playing older games, Dan,
you checked out Gears Reloaded.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like probably close to halfway through it with Kayla.
You know, we stream all the Gears games together, and
we streamed it over the weekend, and turns out it's
still great, Like even the first Gears is fantastic. But like,
you know, me and Kayla streamed the Gears was the
Ultimate Edition or whatever it was that came out on.
Speaker 6: Series X a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: So we streamed that last year and we're streaming this
now and it's like it's not that different.
Speaker 3: I mean no, it's even with the advertised it's like
this sounds like that backward compatible, upgraded version they did.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just kind of like, you know, yeah, runs
it four K. It looks good.
Speaker 2: It's just on PlayStation now. That's really different.
Speaker 4: That is the thing is like it's the novelty of
like wow, press r one to active reload, and I'm
playing with the PlayStation controller and seeing PlayStation prompts and
so like that's the thing. That's that's the whole thing
is that it's just on PlayStation now, which of course
I understand why that would happen, but it's just to
say that it's not the most exciting thing. It's not
like they did another remaster of it, like remake, it's not.
It's just it's on PlayStation now. So still very very fun.
So if you've never had an Xbox and you just
want to see what Gears was all about, the games
age very well, I.
Speaker 2: Bet it's gonna do.
Speaker 3: I bet it's gonna do decent on PlayStation, and I
bet a lot of people are gonna pick.
Speaker 2: It up out of curiosity.
Speaker 1: Yep, fantastic. I'm still bummed there's no Horde mode in that,
but it's it's okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that came about in two I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just remember spending so much time on that fucking
beach and then like the big dude with a thing
on his back whatever. Anyway, continuing to talk about older
games that are new again, Dan Mike and a couple
of us as well.
Speaker 2: Have played Shanobi.
Speaker 6: I beat it a couple days ago.
Speaker 2: There's the final runtime on.
Speaker 4: That I got close to one hundred percent at like
twelve hours.
Speaker 2: I would say, oh, yeah, is that with like one
hundred percent in all the areas too?
Speaker 4: So I was doing that, and then when I beat
the game, it's like I had a few of those
like there's those rifts that you can go into, and
a lot of them are just kind of like longer
platforming challenges with little to no checkpoints, and like, I
like the platforming in it, but there was definitely some
where it was like, Okay, this is I've died fifteen
times on this, and like I beat the game, I've
got like over ninety something percent completion. I got other
stubp I ney to play, so probably not doing the
full hundred percent on it. But yeah, you know a
lot of talk obviously of like Ninja Gaiden and shanoby
both being back and being good. And I did play
a lot of Ragebound. I'm probably over halfway through that one,
and I like it a lot. I think Ragebound is
very very good, but I feel like Shanoby on kind
of all fronts is is better. Obviously, the look is incredible.
Just it's one of those games where it's like it
gives you this ever increasing suite of abilities and stuff
that you can do in combat and traversal and everything,
and it never feels overwhelming like I would go into
these like every time I saw one of those, like
Elite Combat challenges, I loved it because it's just like
I love, Yeah, hit someone up in the air, jump up,
use some ninda, do the dive kick and then hold
in why into.
Speaker 6: The spin thing and everything.
Speaker 5: Movie is so good.
Speaker 4: It feels fucking awesome. And then like the boss fights
are so finely tuned where it's like, you know, I
would die several times on them. I'd learn the pattern
just like a good boss fight, and then I would
kill it and it was usually close to the end.
And when you see the like execution thing above their
head pop up you do that, it does the like
cool like a Kuma style like kill you know where
it kind of pauses like I would like cheer sometimes
when I killed some of these bosses.
Speaker 6: It is a tremendous game.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, it's uh yeah, it's really good. It
feels so good. I think that difficulty curve is nice.
I kind of like there being a little difficulty spike
at the end of the game that might throw some
people off, but yeah, they're definitely it's some of it
is optional stuff, these optional platforming challenges from the optional
kind of yeah, uh, monster closets, whatever you call them.
It's funny. The game reminded me a lot of like
a two D Doom maternal and a lot of positive.
It's in some negative ways where I think levels are
very long in this scheme, like just doing a single
level could be like thirty minutes to an hour, and
you know, the level design is it's a lot more
like Okay, go here and I'll fight a wave of
enemies and more gonna pop up, and less like we're
placing enemies throughout the level and just kind of like
you know, the level design with the enemy placement of Superport.
There's a bit of that, but it is kind of
much more just about these Encharacters's a very combat forward
game first and foremost.
Speaker 4: It does the platforming stuff, especially you start getting like
the the claws that let you climb on stuff and
it recharges. You're like DOUBLEMP and dash, and then you
get the Ninja hook and stuff. There's definitely some like
the platforming. Uh yeah, it's better by the end. It
sounds always good.
Speaker 5: There's some ori influence later on you get like this
kind of you know, like like cloth thing, and there's
even a flooded section where you're kind of escaping some water.
But yeah, gosh, the game does just look so good
and there's kind of like an amazing visual element to
that final level that just looks awesome.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, I've liked the old Shnoby games a lot.
Just having this here is great, even though like it
plays quite a bit different than say Shanoby three or
you know, Revenge of Shanoby, where you know, largely just
about throwing Ninja's guitars and kun and I that this
is much more about getting up in there doing these
big combos and you still can you know, you have
the range weapons and that's largely for taking care of
arm or things like that. But boy, it is really sad.
So it does kind of remind me of that Prince
of Persia Lost Crown combat where there's just all these
tools and you're juggling, you're you know, you're building up
special meters and spending those at the appropriate times. Uh yeah,
the bosses. Again, that's our highlight.
Speaker 4: I've seen some people wonder if, like, oh, okay, do
I need to like how much do I need to
know the Shnobi's series whatever. I've never played a Shnoby game.
Speaker 2: You got read the books now, Yeah, you gotta read
the books first. Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so I I have. There's zero percent has
told you here. It makes me curious to go back. I
have no idea how that never like crossed my path.
I was a Genesis kid is awesome game gear. Shanoby
is also awesome.
Speaker 6: Okay, and I saw Snoby two and three. Ye're on
switch online?
Speaker 5: Yeah, place, Yeah, it's a revenge of Shanoby's two. But
Sholoby three. Yeah, play Shanobe three I think should be three.
Yeahs great, that's the one. You'll probably see more of
the influence here, though again it's gonna be a bit different, Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, is Joe Musashi one of the coolest names for
a ninja ever?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: Cool name, Joe, right, Joe?
Speaker 2: Yeah, class.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think about just going just like throwing Jan
out the window and just going by my initials ja. Oh,
just by by Joe like that. It quite work.
Speaker 2: We'll see I'd embrace it, all right.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see speaking about games that look absolutely
stunning and gorgeous. But maybe this is causing a point
of frustration. Jeff Grubb, you are you are continuing your
journey through Expedition thirty three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I want to just check in with and
get some pointers from people. I mentioned this to Mike
and his brother, and it just sounds like I might
be under leveled for the area I'm in. I am.
It's telling me to go to the paintress. I did that,
and now I'm in that area right after that first
encounter with her, and everything is one shot in me,
and I was like, I was like level thirty eight,
thirty nine when I entered it, and I've started like
grinding to just deal with that. Like I'm you know,
I'm getting through fights because I'm pairying and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's fine, But when I get hit dead
every time.
Speaker 4: Grub, I think I was kind of running into some
of that, and like that is a great time to like,
are you I think you're at the point now to
where you can pretty easily traverse the overall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, think I got most of the stuff to traverse
the overworld.
Speaker 4: Then that's a good time to just kind of go
around like all these like nooks and crannies, you know,
follow rivers around, see if there's any little like landing
zones optional things you can kill. Some of them will
one shot you, but like this is a good grinding time.
Speaker 3: I did fight the Axons. I fought both at both Axons.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's at.
Speaker 5: Least one really big optional dungeon, and when I did that,
I remember, like almost I kind of the opposite experience
from you in that dungeon, where I was like, oh,
this is almost kind of too easy.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Truck saying I was I'm ten to fifteen
levels lower than he was. I think I think that's
what it is. I think I'm just like severely under
which is fine. I probably just I probably did skip
some extra stuff that would have helped. I'm grinding, and
you know what that means. I get to do the
battle system, which I continue to love. I like, and
I was on this, I have like not obsessed over
my pict dose, but I've been minding them. I've been
like kind of going to them to a certain I'm
not optimizing.
Speaker 2: That do that. And then also the sub level picked
up luminas. Is that what they're called?
Speaker 6: Uh god, I've been thinking about.
Speaker 2: The green things, the green things, yeah, luminus maybe yes, yeah.
Speaker 6: I think yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Like make sure you're just spending all those points also,
because I you know, it's there is a vocabulary that
that game kind of speaks that is not very deliberate,
I think with that stuff and you It took me
about half the game, maybe a third before I was like,
oh what am I doing? Like I can, I can
take advantage of things I'm not taking.
Speaker 3: That's I didn't notice.
Speaker 5: Make sure it's you know, put on a new pictose
and then learn it, right, Yeah, doing all that. Make
sure you just have the highest level pictose equipped on people.
Speaker 3: Easy way to see what pictose I don't have I
haven't learned, Like I just like.
Speaker 4: Looking at when you look at the her list, I
think the ones that you have learned have color to them.
Speaker 3: It'll be like, okay, I agree, that's probably what it was,
but it just wasn't super obvious.
Speaker 2: And you're afraid of your weapons right and all that shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I'm upgrading my weapons and I'm using the
good weapons. Now that that did help. I think that.
I I think it's probably is this thing with the
pictos of I'm not optimizing that enough.
Speaker 2: I probably was just like where.
Speaker 5: Your defense that actually comes from? Largely, I did.
Speaker 3: Switch up my strategy now and am I using a
lot more shield spells, so I'm putting in it like
physical shields that will completely negate all damage for a
hit that's made a huge difference, and stuff like things
like that. But I was just like wondering if this
is normal. It sounds like it's normal if I didn't
do a lot of the side content, So okay, I
just wanted to make sure I didn't do something super dumb.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of your experience of this game
mirror is mine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, And like to be clear, none of
this has actually been a problem because I'm still having fun.
I'm like having fun even when getting one shout because
like they updated it so if you lose a fight,
you just restart the fight right there, you know, to
go back and run to it, and that has made
it super smooth. So yeah, kind of no complaint. I
just want to make sure I wasn't getting.
Speaker 2: Like it, oh right, because you would have to watch
a cutscene again right, like that you have to like
go from like a yeah, you'd have to like run
back to the fight. Yeah, you don't even have to
do that anymore. Oh there's one where there's like a
real long run. You're just like one of my seventeen
seconds of running before I get in this fucking thing.
I Uh. There was an area that I got to,
I think around the part that you're describing where you
are just sort of inundated with like you know, trio
after trio battle, and you're just like, oh, this is
just seems imbalanced in a weird way where you know
you're just meant to kind of you know, the way
I kind of calculated it was like, oh, the game's
just trying to like get you prepared, to maybe get
you a little more leveled before you face something real nice.
Speaker 3: There's like some of those systems for some of these
characters requires like a couple extra terms before you get
to do the really fun stuff. I think they're trying
to enable that, so and I'm fine with that cause
that's been fun too.
Speaker 2: It's a good game. Yep, good game, yep, very good game.
Speaker 5: Well I'm glad grub that that has not derailed your enjoyment.
Speaker 2: No, you have been unrailed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually were still about this and major in which
we played on UPF.
Speaker 2: People should go watch that if they haven't Train week. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yes, we did our mini train week on just Friday
of last week.
Speaker 2: Unrailed.
Speaker 3: This is the game where it's is it like overcooked
for building trains? Is that like a fair way of
describing it?
Speaker 4: At a certain point, I feel like not every four
player co op game is like an overcooked.
Speaker 2: Like but popular. So it's just like a good short line. Yeah, No,
that's like repoth.
Speaker 5: I just like saying friends, Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: You just love slopping with friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is like that overcooked in that everyone has
a job that they should be doing, and it's like
it's a division of labor game, like everyone there's to
be done.
Speaker 4: That that feels like overcooked. I could see where it's
like you're all kind of yelling at each other. Hey,
I need trees. I need trees. So I can see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I thought it was really fun. But I
had a really good time playing it. It's a game
where there are trees, there are rocks, you need wood,
and you need stone to build rails for a train
that is moving, you have to go add new tracks
to the beginning so it doesn't run out, and you
want to connect the train track to the station to
end the level. And then there's a bunch of other
complications of like you could upgrade the carts on your
train to produce assets faster, or so that they're invisible
so you can walk through them, because things could get
in the way and things can cut you off and
now you're screwed, or you're in a situation where you
have to like move very fast or else you're going
to fail out the level. And it's a four player
co op game, so everyone can take their job and
do their thing, and then occasionally someone's not doing something
and everyone yelse, hey, we need that done. And then
someone goes and takes that task, and that means they
have to leave something else behind. It's a good division
of labor game. I really enjoyed myself.
Speaker 5: I like that the kind of upgrade system isn't so
much about your character but about upgrading the train, adding
more like you know, trains to it, or just upgrading
specific sections of it. And it's like, oh, now we
have this part of the train, you know, making break paths. Well, yeah,
all that stuff was satisfying to me.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: And then we played major Ina, which is the rock
the voice activated spell casting multiplayer. Yes, a competitive game,
and we did two v two. Christian hopped in on
my team and it was Mike and Dan and you
start off with a book of spells and you can
look at the spells since fireball and magic missile, and
you just sad your microphone magic missile and it'll cast.
Speaker 2: The magic missile.
Speaker 3: It has to, you know, it's got to build back
up and then you can cast it again. That was
I had a really good time with that as well, which.
Speaker 6: It was very fantasy as well.
Speaker 2: And I like that your hero multi boy, thank.
Speaker 6: You, thank you.
Speaker 5: It was really funny.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 3: So the best part for me was anytime I would
get near Dan, Dan would hide behind it tree and
giggle because it's pros chat and I'm trying to kill him.
It was like it was like a cartoon. It was
like living in a Tom and Jerry.
Speaker 6: You and then giggle and runaway and the tree.
Speaker 3: Yes, and you did very well the first time with that.
The second time it was hilarious. You had one kill
and seven deaths. That was a really long match. Yeah,
and I could tell Dan was still having a good
time and entertained himself.
Speaker 2: I was entertained.
Speaker 4: I think prox Chat is just like I'm always gonna
find it either very funny or like a really interesting mechanic.
Speaker 6: Like I love prox chat.
Speaker 2: I that thing.
Speaker 3: It's hot right now for a reason because it's always awesome.
I think every time we've done one of these, I've
had a good time. It's great for content. Uh And
and this one was like legitimately interesting, like the gnomes,
whether you can go trade them stuff. I traded them,
traded them my spell book twice because I was like,
what's the button? And the second time I hit it
again and gave my book. But at that time they
gave me a pretty decent upgraded spell. And that's when
I like came around the corner and Dan was trying
to capture our flag and I just cast the right
right at him and he.
Speaker 2: Blew up in front of me. It was great, And.
Speaker 5: There's something incredibly satisfied about like sticking up with somebody,
hearing them talk to themselves. Yeah, they don't know you're there,
and you're just like fireball, I see.
Speaker 4: Like half the time just trading ship with the gnomes.
I'd like I'd have like a stick or something. I'd
be like, please, I want the good spells whatever. And
then one time I went to them and the grub
I think you and Christian had just been there and
you like slaughtered them accidentally, and it's just a bunch
of gnome corpses.
Speaker 2: Like, no, I.
Speaker 5: Think I was.
Speaker 3: I think I was Christian trying to salt the earth
to stop you from getting up great smart yea dark.
But it was like I like learned the were other
spells because I would hear all of a sudden the rock.
I'm like, and then a giant rock exploded underneath my
feet and threw me into the air.
Speaker 5: What type They was just trying to talk to me
about that spell and he's like, yeah, I got this
rock spell. They're like GiB.
Speaker 3: Came up because he said the word rock. It's it
was great. I mean, pro sap give it to a
every time I'm going to have a good time.
Speaker 2: I'm with it.
Speaker 1: I'm with it, very happy that you'll wound up checking
that out.
Speaker 4: Oh one thing I didn't put on the list. I
do want to mention though, I watched a good amount
of Hell is Us last night and I played like
three hours of it at that event, and it's out
for like early access. Now, Yeah, that's a really interesting game.
And that is one of those games that, like, if
you look at the reviews are kind of polarizing, you'll
see like tens and sevens and stuff. And I think
it's interesting in that way that the things that's doing,
I think some people will fucking hate and some people
it will be one hundred percent theirs shit where it's
like no maps, no quest log, no objective markers, like
it's all diegetic stuff. It's like the tone of it
is awesome. It's very Annihilation if you've seen that movie.
It's a really really cool game. I'm kind of fascinated
by it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I enjoyed what I play There was like there
was a really surprising puzzle thing that they did in
that demo, do you know what I'm talking about? With
like you go to like a castle and you're on
the roof of a castle trying to like understand shapes
and stuff, and I'm just like, I wasn't expecting this
to this game to give me that, And I don't know,
I think part of the intrigue for me. I thought
it was gonna be a little bit more like Satan Focus,
which I can, you know, kind of look over. But
I was surprised. I think part of the mystique and
mystery for this game for me is like what even
is this? Like what even is this world?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am I'm looking forward for sure.
Speaker 4: And it's cool just having to have like a mental
log or taking notes of just like why was that
fucking woman screaming in the cave?
Speaker 6: I can't forget about her? What's she doing there?
Speaker 4: Like did you see something that's like I have to
note that, Like I need to figure this out later
what this thing is.
Speaker 2: It's you know, I got a little word where I
was like, oh, this is just like you know, throwing
all like cool imagery and a blender and seeing what happens, right,
and like sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't, Like, you know,
I was reminded of a lot of stuff, you know,
obviously the fun you know, annihilation and things, though it
is something that always comes up with the stuff that
we like. But I think, uh, yeah, I I really
want to see how they kind of connect all the dots.
Speaker 4: Here instead of like the endgame map or whatever. It's
like literally like like you'll meet a character and they
give you a hand drawn map with arrow and it's
like you gotta like you're here, and like yeah, it's
just you know a lot of you know, looking at
signs in the environment or like a character is like, hey,
I hid this thing in the woods or whatever, like
I marked the trees with you know, white markings or whatever,
so follow those or follow these wind chimes, and.
Speaker 2: It's got yellow paint.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: No, wait, And then there was like an area where
you like go underground and you fight like.
Speaker 6: Just like sch monsters, monster dudes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like fucked up, weird faceless hole in their body, monsters.
Speaker 4: Weird geometry coming out of their souls, and like.
Speaker 2: Where's this game? Now, let's go, let's play this game.
Speaker 5: It's a cool game.
Speaker 2: I'm not excited because I have it on Fantasy Critic.
Speaker 3: That's that's really like the idea of a game that's
just like self contained and like throws you in there,
let's you figure stuff out.
Speaker 2: So then I'm gonna check this out because.
Speaker 1: Of that, Kelly, let's go and last game on the
list here before we had to Bricky Break very actually
thematically related to the Hell is Us Kirby and The
Forgotten Land to Switch two version.
Speaker 2: Cut from this.
Speaker 1: Okay, Kirby and the Forgotten Land Nintendo Switch two edition
plus Star Crossed Worlds.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: Grub.
Speaker 4: So, I just played a couple levels last night just
to see the performance and stuff, and it did the
thing where I went to the world map and I
saw that cut scene of the star coming down and stuff.
So I just loaded up to see the performance stuff.
I did not know about the added stuff, So like,
what is that? How substantial is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So it's Star Cross Worlds is mostly remixed levels that
add different things you do in levels with like the
Sparkly Star theming from the DLC and you have to
find three new Starry characters hit in the map, and
then there's all the bonus stuff that you could do, like,
oh you found five, you opened five flow worse on
your things. You get another story, and then you get
to the end of the level and you get three
stories and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's right, it's just like the wattle and these
are these are stars and not like the soda right exactly,
Carrier story it is. But it's mostly just Kirby in
the Forgotten Land again. Uh, and like I said, mostly remixed,
and I am finding it pretty entertaining.
Speaker 3: Still, one part of it is the game does look phenomenal.
Speaker 6: It looks great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and like just the textures of the characters
really pop with the higher resolution and everything. I'm really
impressed by the way the game looks. I don't know
if it's you know, twenty dollars more on top of
sixty dollars games that worth it. Eighty dollars is a
big price tag for this game.
Speaker 2: Eight whole.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just twenty dollars for the expansion, right, you're
starting at for Nella. Yeah, and it's not you don't
get new Kirby abilities to get new mouthful.
Speaker 2: Mouth mouthful modes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting because you know, I haven't.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I still can't believe they called it mouthful notes they
got new mouthful.
Speaker 3: Did you see you guys see Doug Bowser's joke he
said in the name of the title, and it was like,
that's a real mouthful? Am I right with us?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: Yeah? But it's you know, I have a place gavest
As it came out so these levels. Part of me
is like, how are we mixed? Are these how many
of the parts are new? Because I haven't you know,
I don't remember. This is kind of a bonus if
they are super just kind of reusing stuff, I can't
really tell.
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be the case for most people.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I wonder what it's gonna be like for someone who
is buying this eighty dollars, goes through the whole game
and then plays the Star Cross World stuff like alongside it.
But the way that they mix things up is there
will be the critical path that was the Vanilla level,
and this will often add a thing where it's like,
you found the star Cross World flower, hit that thing,
and it'll open up this new path that just got
created by the star path off in this other direction.
So it's not like, oh, it's just changing the paint
on the pathway that was here before. It's often introducing
new branching paths with new challenging platforming puzzles stuff in there. Again,
I think that this has done a good job of
using what's there and adding new stuff in a way
that I have no real complaint about it. Like, I
don't think this doesn't feel like a lazy DLC because
they're reusing stuff or something like that.
Speaker 5: I mean larger, I just like Curbing Forgotten. It's so
much I'm excited to play more of it. It really
does make me excited just thinking about what that full
blown sequel is going to look like when that comes
out someday yeap.
Speaker 3: Overall, though, it's like, yeah, this game is still fun.
It's still a good time. I think the DLC, I've
heard a bunch of times. I think I'm pretty close
to finishing it. I've heard it's like threeish hours. It's
like a one sitting thing. So again, twenty hours that
worth it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: And Rack, you know, Chessy. I think there's more to
levels than just like they added those star paths. I
think the geometry might be new or something. Again, it's weird,
it's hard to tell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but now there's there's quite a few changes to it.
Speaker 3: That's when like the star paths take you in different
direct you weren't on before, so they would have to
introduce new geometry and things like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was happy to see because like I
got pretty far in that game. I was in like
the Desert World, and I just kind of fell off
or something else came out and I downloaded it.
Speaker 2: Here it just.
Speaker 4: Seamlessly just like had all my stuff, you know, switched
one to switch to and out of the DLC with
like one little cut scene, so very easy for me
to hop back in and finish that game.
Speaker 2: Yep. It's yeah.
Speaker 3: I of all the stuff they've done with Nintendo, switched
to edition of the ones they've charged for this one
earns that twenty dollars the most. Yeah, first, what significantly
better than Mario Party I got. I wish they would
just put the camera stuff in there and not charge
the extra money, because I like the camera stuff in
Mario Party. But here, it's like, now, this feels like
a real expansion. Even if I think a lot of
people would be like twenty dollars is a bit much
for what's here, I don't I paid for it.
Speaker 2: I don't feel that way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Elle, yes, well that about does it for
video game talk. But real quick, I just wanted to
give two special shouts out Shouts out to the homie
Michael Ruiz, different Michael that I've met out in Washington.
But also, Yo, you know what's head of fucking suit.
What's that Pink Gorilla Games?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it is great, yo, Like I I got
the chance, I had some time to stop by the shop.
It is a baller ass store, y'all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it takes good care of their ship for sure.
Speaker 4: You go to a lot of like used game stores
and it's like various shitty cases and some of the
reproductions and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: Like, no, Pink Gorilla is always awesome.
Speaker 2: It was. It was super dope.
Speaker 1: I I think Kelsey Lewin was probably Occupato setting up
the Pink Gorilla Games booth at packs proper. But like
pool that store, immaculate, folks, We're gonna go take real
real quick. I do just sorry. There is one other
game I've been playing.
Speaker 3: I can't talk about it yet, but my kids have
been playing a ton of bit Do I have to
explain embargoes to my kids?
Speaker 2: So do you guys think I'm safe.
Speaker 5: Take food off our families because their kids, you know,
have loose lips?
Speaker 6: Are they on social media?
Speaker 2: They're not?
Speaker 5: Recess?
Speaker 6: Is recess still a thing?
Speaker 2: I think there's a recess. They don't ever talk about recess.
So honestly, the thing in school was yeah, no, I
mean when played through Astrobot like early and finished it
before and like I said, I'm like, just don't talk
about this at school. Like I legit said that this.
Speaker 3: One is not like a name brand that people will recognize,
so I think they brought it up. Everybody like what
is that? But I'm looking forward to talking about it
because the kids are super.
Speaker 2: Integing what the ones. Yeah, I'll match it to you
guys and discord.
Speaker 5: Okay, you can tell us in voice in the second here.
Speaker 2: Good point.
Speaker 1: There's no way to know, no way to know, and
maybe you'll have to tune in next week to figure
out what Grub was alluding to.
Speaker 2: I think I actually two weeks.
Speaker 1: Oh, two weeks. Well, well there's also a game that
I can't talk about for two weeks. Also, then what
about that a recess, folks, We're gonna have ourselves a
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maybe some tetherball, and just trade little snack packs and
then we'll be back with the news right after this.
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Speaker 1: Mombo, this is Jeff Cromworth our nos he's gonna share
some newss.
Speaker 2: Jeff gra.
Speaker 3: That's right, I have some news for y'all. Let's let's
just start here with the as is tradition. Nintendo Direct
could happen very soon. We've heard these rumors a bunch.
Now there are more rumors to ad. On top of that,
a new Nintendo Direct is rumored to be held in September,
possibly on the eleventh or the twelfth, aligning with the
fortieth anniversary of Super Mario Brothers. Leeker Nate. The Hate
also has added this, suggesting a red dead Redemption two
port verset switch to might also be announced.
Speaker 2: Weird.
Speaker 3: Nintendo has a history of September directs. They just didn't
one last year, but that was because Switch two was coming.
I think they were in a weird spot. So do
expect them to get back onto this regular schedule.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I buy this.
Speaker 3: I think a direct's going to happen this month. I
guess the the one thing that some people who have
been rumoring making rumors about this have been saying, is
this is the big one you've been waiting for. Who
knows what that means? I guess the question would be
what would that mean to you guys?
Speaker 2: Like what would Metro?
Speaker 3: You want to see them?
Speaker 5: That's the big one. I mean, there's no way we
get a direct. I mean I guess there's a way, cause,
but boy, if we got a big direct and we
don't get a Metroid Prime four release date, that would
be weird.
Speaker 2: Alarm bells.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but I really, you know, I want that,
and I really want to hear about Metroy Prime two
and three remastered. I want to be able to play
those games before or comes out in one way or
the other on my switch.
Speaker 3: To Yeah, I mean for me that that would be
the ideal. Is Metroid Prime four release date it is
for later this month or or sometime in October whatever,
and then today Metroid Prime two and three are available
to purchase at a decent price, go play them now
like that that would be awesome. I don't know if
that's going to happen, but yeah, I think it could.
Speaker 4: Is there anything still with the Zelda REMAKEX? Does that
look possible at all?
Speaker 3: I mean, I like, like always, I heard that they
were done, but they were and they were up on
the shelf, and Nintendo was going to pull them off
like in a year when they didn't have any Zelda project.
But they've had a Zelda project every year, and now
they have Nso GameCube, so they could and they've already
put Windwaker on there. They could just put the Twilight
Prince's version of the GameCube version on there as well
and say, there you go, that's where we put them.
That would be dumb because the HD versions like have
a bunch of differences and they could make a lot
more money from selling them again. So I expect them
to do that at some point, but there's no reason
to assume.
Speaker 2: It would happen. Now. It could, but there's no reason
to assume.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, they also, you know, got to announce
some stuff, and I imagine prolatively senior is when they
can announce the big twenty twenty six game, whatever that is.
They could announce the new Animal Crossing, right, you know,
the game that's going to come out at some point
next year be a big deal, and it's why you're
going to feel so good about getting a switch to
this holiday because you're gonna also look forward to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think there's any reason to think?
Speaker 3: And I'm with you, Mike, but is there any reason
to think with Tomodacci Life and what is the other
Rhythm Heaven Switch one games that they're like, that's maybe
filling out that slot for now and we'll get the
Animal Crossing later, Like, do you think they're thinking that way.
Speaker 5: No, I think Animal Crossing is a pillar upon itself. Right, Okay,
you know, maybe it's not Animal cross But whatever their
flagship game is for next year, we could hear about that.
Speaker 3: I continue to think the timing's right for Animal Crossing
next year, but I would I would put my money
on Animal Usually Smash Brothers is the big year two
gets consoles, but almost yeah, someone doesn't feel right. I
mean a Smash Brothers Ultimate Deluxe I think does have
something yeah, something like that.
Speaker 5: Ye, it's like bringing dripping. But I mean, you know,
you could just be like, yeah, here's five more characters.
That'll almost be enough for me. Maybe do some other
interesting single player mode. I don't expect them to bring
back some Space Emissary with all the you know, wild
CG cut scenes and some stuff like that. You know,
basically like distill what would have been a fighter's pass
into just a single upgrade and you know, with some
of the visual changes that can happen with that, that
would be almost all I would really need from this.
And keep selling DALC characters too, I'd be fine.
Speaker 3: I just want yes, what you said, and then the
camera faces to be added to the game, so to
be in there when you knock me.
Speaker 5: Off the course, well instead of like the mees are
put on top of the knees, just replace the face
with the whole gang. Yeah, that would do pretty good.
Speaker 3: You know, we've talked about this part of it a
bunch now, but you know it is lining up with
the fortieth anniversary of Mario because they're because if it
does do that, if that's the way it goes down,
I do expect them to have something.
Speaker 2: You just don't know what that would be. Well, there
they have that like stop motion thing right there.
Speaker 3: They have like the young Mario stuff like, yeah, they're
doing a bunch of.
Speaker 2: It. Was waiting for you to do that.
Speaker 6: What's the thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is that?
Speaker 3: There's like there's like a like a an initiative by
Nintendo to appeal to younger like very young like toddlers
with Mario stuff, and as part of that they have
like this interactive or what looks like an interactive Mario's face, right,
is that what it is?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 5: Ye?
Speaker 2: Kind of like you know, and how do you engage
with it? And I could mobile? Yeah, just an app weird.
Speaker 5: I think we're doing extra shorts too with stuff like, yeah,
I think video shorts. Uh yeah, there's a whole thing,
but video game wise, I mean, there were the rumors
about the in the title New Super Mario Brothers games. Uh,
we could I could see that compilation happening.
Speaker 3: Otherwise, they were saying that that was like a fake,
but I could still see it happening even if it
was a fake, Like, yeah, it still kind of makes sense.
Speaker 5: Those the reason why we all believe it, you know,
like the new three D Mario game just feels like
that's a bit off.
Speaker 2: Well, since we got Kong unlikely.
Speaker 5: As much as I would love to have a Mario
Galaxy two port, I don't know if they're gonna do it.
I mean, they didn't do the switch to version of Mario,
so we just got a free update. The free update
was pretty good, though I'm not really sure what I
would want from a big update. I almost don't really
want an expansion for Odyssey. I just want you to
get working on the sequel to Odyssey. Yeah, gosh, it's
kind of weird to imagine. You know, they could do
like another Mario thirty five kind of gimmick here, Mario
forty whatever, something like that.
Speaker 2: Then the last time we talk about this, we were
sort of fantasizing, or at least we were going through
what was sort of do up in the remastered kind
of hopper right in the queue. And I don't know
if we like landed on anything, but I guess.
Speaker 3: A new Super Mario Brothers collection feels like the most
obvious one.
Speaker 6: I mean, they are so what would that happen? So
that that's one and one two one to and we
and then.
Speaker 2: They did it?
Speaker 6: You you you so.
Speaker 5: We already have you and Luigi on this. They probably
wouldn't include Yeah, they just be remassed a other three Well,
we never got three D land right, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I would like to have that.
Speaker 2: I would take that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks weird
in HD.
Speaker 3: So they would probably have to do some extra work
to it because I've seen, like, you know, people mod
the three DS version. It's like, oh, this looks barren
when it's not on a three DS.
Speaker 2: I could also see couldn't you see them doing something
where it's like every Mario game ever, forty is a
big one super stars. Yeah, like you can't, you can't.
They're not going to sleep on forty, even though you
know he's due for a prostate exam. Now he's like
he's getting up there right, Like they got a dope,
they have to do it. It seems like they would
do something quite large for forty.
Speaker 5: I think I don't think Mario Maker three is off
the table, especially with all this mouse stuff that we
have on this.
Speaker 2: I want to get my hopes.
Speaker 6: That would be the dream for me.
Speaker 5: Somebody doesn't really care too much about ma.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, yeah for me. I will make that a
nightmare for all of you. That is time now dream
for me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I love that.
Speaker 5: I'm not so like I'm like afraid of getting my
oathes up to me as an outsider, it just seems
like a logical thing to do that can't be like
a hard thing to like spin up or again, right, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, I feel like they I think the reason
I'm skeptical is I think they had a huge plan
for Maker stuff, and then Maker two sold like five
million copies, significantly less than a regular two D Mario does,
and so they're like, well, if this is the ceiling
for Mario Maker, like, what are we going to do
here when we like try to do this with anything else?
So I think to me, I think they gave up
on working with those kinds of tools, that the tools
that people can use, and they're just kind of sitting
back there on Mario Maker two, untouched by them. You know,
I could be completely wrong, but that's me being pessimistic.
Speaker 1: Dan, You're probably more familiar than I am. Did they
make it a little harder to share levels in two?
Speaker 4: There was something was just the thing that made a
lot of people not get super into two is just
like the stylus level. It was huge as far as
like you know, I would I spend dozens of hours
making levels on the first one, and then the second
one came out and it's like I had some new
fun things you could do and everything, but like you know, yeah,
I bought all these different stylusts and stuff that oh capacitative,
like this should work, and it never felt quite the same. So, like,
I think that was the problem with two, And I
think you can get around it with the mouse controls.
Speaker 6: If they do that.
Speaker 4: So I would be all the way back in on
Mario Maker if they had mouse controls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I we'll see. I mean, even if they updated
Mario Maker two with mouse controls and like one.
Speaker 2: New tile set. That would be I would go Benana, I.
Speaker 3: Mean be Mario wonder right, Yeah, probably would like Mario
two as well, but yeah, it would be Mario wonder Well.
Speaker 4: They put Mario two in there as like a Mario
like you could get a certain mushroom and pickure, but
it wasn't like a cross like across the board like
enemies and stuff like you know with the post and
the doors and all that.
Speaker 6: Like I'd love full Mario two.
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, we'll see im bechala. I don't know if
the whole it's forty, if they're gonna go big is
real when you say it's like, yeah, that does sound
right Nintendo? Why would they let an opportunity to go by?
But sometimes they're just not ready for it, and so
like they'll manufacture it if they have something to go,
like Year of Luigi happens, because they have some of
Luigi stuff happening, So let's.
Speaker 2: Just do that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, is it too early to maybe have
like a Mario two movie teaser?
Speaker 3: No, that is actually does feel like that could happen here,
and I hope there's another moment.
Speaker 5: I just cannot wait to see the voice actor for Yo,
she's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, it's gonna Chris Pratt's mom.
Speaker 6: You can talking sentences?
Speaker 5: You think, I'll tell you what. I wouldn't be surprised
it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: No God, I feel like I feel like it's an
illumination doing the Mari movies, right, Yeah, the minions don't
actually talk talk. They just like do gibberish.
Speaker 2: It's Jewish.
Speaker 1: They could just do that for they.
Speaker 5: Could have pulled the toads if they really wanted to, though,
do that with them though, like that. There's a chance
he just says the Yoshi stuff for sure. But I
wouldn't be shocked if you know, if Aquafina is the
voice of Yoshi.
Speaker 2: I have no problem with that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like, why does Mike know that reference?
Speaker 5: Because he doesn't like because it was in like four
animated movies in one year. Sorry, Wow, they think I
think that her voice is kind of annoying.
Speaker 2: Oh really, that's so weird? Do you would you like
to expand on that.
Speaker 5: I just think it's a little pitchy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was this because you didn't like her as
Rayah the Dragon.
Speaker 5: No, yeah, dragons don't sound like that.
Speaker 2: So cool? And an impression with a dragon. What should
they sound like?
Speaker 5: I'm the dragon Tolkodo far By dragon fire.
Speaker 2: Why does this dragon sound like a cup? All right,
let's let's move this news along.
Speaker 3: Service shooter Fair Games loses its game director, Haven is
still hiring for new roles though. That's the developer, that's
the studio. So they lost Jade Raymond. They've now also
lost this game director whose name I didn't write down
for whatever reason, but uh, he went to w B
Montreal or whatever. They're working on the live service DC
Superhero game because they're making another one of those whatever
that's WB.
Speaker 2: What are we doing, folks, I don't know. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Uh, the company that made Suicide Squad is gonna do
it again. But that's a different story over there. Fair
Games last time I checked a couple of weeks ago,
not canceled, and it's definitely one of those situations. When
I asked the people about it, they're like, yeah, shit,
I don't know. I can't believe it not canceled either,
so ugh, yeah, but they're still hiring for it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely of the opinion that they're just kind of
biding their time.
Speaker 2: And will still cancel this.
Speaker 1: They're biting their time, they're buying.
Speaker 2: Joe Biden their time.
Speaker 5: I mean it's wold because, like you know, usually it's like,
well the game is so close to fishing, maybe they
just release it. But with live service games, that happens
all the time, because just maintaining these things is so expensive, right,
So part of me like, look, you know, I don't
want anybody lose their job or anything like that, but
if this game's not going to come out, like every day,
you don't do this is expensive, right, yeah, don't. I
just don't know what these internal dialogues are about. Fair
games where it's like, well we you know, who knows, well,
we didn't think health divers, who is going to be
this master success. Sometimes it just happens. We gotta we
gotta at least spin the wheel here and see where
it lands. A lot of people are like, the wheel
is broken, the wheel is not going to roll, there's
no point spinning this particular wheel. I don't know fair,
It's just it's all it's just already a punch line.
I just can't imagine how it does.
Speaker 1: On top of that, I can't I know that the
job search is very dire out there, especially in game development.
Speaker 2: But like, yeah, if you see this.
Speaker 1: On the walls for fair games, I can't imagine you'd
be enticed to apply at all.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, oh yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, if you see like Jade Raymonds left, this
director's left, and now you're gonna go there and with
the stench of death surrounding this project, Yeah, that's that's
got to be rough.
Speaker 2: I mean when it says.
Speaker 3: Like having is still hiring for new roles, like that's
the kind of thing where it's like can you even
trust that? Like there's like an app operatu and or
an apparatus at these companies that just like hires people.
Are they informed about the state or the future of
that game?
Speaker 2: Likely not. There's also like that like.
Speaker 3: Rumor or not rumor, but like the reporting about ghost
job listings, where it's like companies put out a bunch
of job listings they never intend to fill because it
makes them look better to investors. Investors, like you're hiring
a cool and not gross all doesn't that suck?
Speaker 2: That sucks?
Speaker 3: So I guess it's.
Speaker 2: Not a law.
Speaker 5: You don't have to hire someone just because you have
a job listing maybe there should be maybe that law.
Speaker 3: It sucks out there, So I wouldn't take that as
like a sign of anything. In fact, I would like
completely ignore it. In fact, I might going forward when
we're doing these kind of this kind of reporting.
Speaker 6: Uh, did you lose the dollar sign?
Speaker 2: I don't think they lost the dollar sign. I've just
I'm not in the mood for it.
Speaker 5: I'm not acknowledging lose the dollar signs. When they released
the game, yeah, they're.
Speaker 1: Like, oh wow, Wow, that's what you get.
Speaker 3: Capcom says Nintendo switch to sales were better than expected.
Capcom expected, I don't know, you don't make the switch
to what? Yeah, who's asking you?
Speaker 2: It does go in comparison to the other story here
that will follow up with.
Speaker 3: This about here in a second. But yeah, Haru hero
Suji Moto, Capcom CEO, commented that Monster Hunter Wild sales
which were you during the game's launch period and trailed
off somewhat. He's kind of talking about that, he said.
When asked about the barrier of entry, he unpromptedly spoke
about the Nintendo switch to and said that sales of
the Council were better than the company had anticipated. Perhaps
Capcom is having regrets about not getting the latest Monster
Hunter up and running on that, and he doesn't hold back.
He immediately said Capcom's president's the second headlight. Capcom's president
says high price of PS five has contributed to low
sales of Monster Hunter Wilds.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: That makes me go, hmm, yes, because look, a lot
of people already have the PlayStation five. Yeah, and that game,
you know, just seems like it should just sell regardless
it's on PC, it's on a bunch of places, like
the last one did really good on Steam.
Speaker 2: I think it might be Monster Hunter's fault.
Speaker 5: That monster so well, I mean, yeah, I will say
it's like Bloyd is there priming people up for Hey, switch,
who's going to be the lead platform for this franchise
going forward. I think that's trying to make Monster Hunter wild.
It's a super heavy, graphically impressive thing that runs like
shit on pretty much everybody's PC was a big mistake. Yeah,
not having some switch to version of some kind. I
wonder how many people are gonna start doing this because
it is gonna you know, using that as an excuse
for muster under Wilds is pretty dumb. The high price
of the PlayStation five. But there's a lot of people
who are like, well, switch To is selling it really well,
why are we making high end PS five prow or
pieces and then trying to reverse engineer in a switch To.
Why don't we just make games look good at switch
To and then they look a little bit better than
these other consoles.
Speaker 3: Great, that makes a lot of sense to me, especially
with the rumors of that PS Like I didn't include
this in the news.
Speaker 2: I guess we could talk about it here. Uh.
Speaker 3: The PS six is gonna have three skews, one of
them being a handheld that can be docked. Uh, the
second one being a PlayStation six S because at a
certain point, how much more power do you need and
you need to be able to reach the audiences. So
they're gonna do the Xbox Series S thing and offer
up an alternative solution. This is all reporting, who knows
what actually ends up happening, But yeah, if you are
going to have these lower powered skews out there, you
probably should just start making stuff for those first, and
the switch To being the lead platform. It makes sense
to me. I bet there's a lot of developers who
are like, no, there's a reason we don't do that.
Speaker 1: No one is going to have the money to get
any skew of a PS six in a couple.
Speaker 3: I means, yeah, I'm the PS six S, the more
affordable one probably still going to be like five hundred dollars, right,
five hundred dollars for the S, six hundred dollars for.
Speaker 2: This and.
Speaker 5: Work for Xbox I mean recently.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that was more an Xbox problem
than an Xbox Series S problem.
Speaker 2: I think I think it will work.
Speaker 3: For the PlayStation because it's if people were like I
just want to play Fortnite and I want to be
on PlayStation with my friends where they're at, I think
a PlayStation six S will be just fine for them.
Speaker 5: But I don't know, speaking of like ports and stuff,
kind of forgot to talk about this, but Red Dairy
deeption two on the switch to what the heck is
that gonna look like we've been seeing who knows it's
a twenty team?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 5: What was hit Man? Right? Okay, look, yeah, it's just
like these things are just all over the place. I
don't know, we'll see got me diagonally.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So the real quick bounce off of like the Capcom
and monster on anything on the switch. I've been seeing
a lot of people stream Monster Hunter Rise because I think, yeah,
for some people.
Speaker 2: That is a huge it's getting the shine right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For some people that's closer I guess to what they
want out of a Monster Hunter game.
Speaker 3: It sold really well, yeah, like it didn't like outselled Wilds,
which is how I read it first sold well.
Speaker 5: I think it's aesthetics, but it makes it much easier
to get kind of in and out of hunts. Like
the whole open world design is actually somehow a barrier.
It actually makes it more of a bother to get
fighting monsters, even though it pitches the opposite. I don't know.
It was a big disappointment for me this year, I'll
be honest. Wilds, Wilds, God, I can't keep these things
right now.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 3: I can never remember the Worlds Rise, Wilds, Worlds and
Wilds even sound like.
Speaker 5: The same word the rock.
Speaker 2: They would sound exactly the same. Monstahunta Wilds.
Speaker 3: No Man's Sky sees its highest Steam player counts since
launched Fall Lane latest update. I'll add also Hollow Night
had had its most players on Steam ever in this
past week, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: People are very excited for Silk Song.
Speaker 3: But yeah, No Man's Sky it did the its most
recent free update, of which there have been dozens. I
don't know how many. There's maybe actually around a dozen
at this point. I don't know I have the exact number,
but it had two hundred and twelve thousand concurrent players
at its peak in this past week.
Speaker 2: That is a crazy number.
Speaker 3: It's a huge number. But you know what happens here
is people bought No Man's Sky in a sale years ago,
never actually played it, and then these updates give them
a reason to jump in now and then. So there's
like that's happened a bunch of times, so there's always
people like, you know what, I will check it out.
It's got these ships. Now you can build and bring
your friends in there, and everyone can have a job
on one ship. That sounds awesome. That's the way I
always wanted this game to work, and now it does.
So I think they continue to prove that this is
a model that has.
Speaker 2: Worked for them.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's replicable by anyone else, but
having huge sales of a disappointing game and then updating
for free for years has worked.
Speaker 2: For No Man's Sky at the very least.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think I've check this game out since Vanilla.
I really need to go give it another go here.
Speaker 2: We should try it.
Speaker 3: I think that this is one that I would like
to try a try out multiplayer and have us all
on a ship together.
Speaker 2: It supports that. Now that sounds pretty cool to me.
Hollow Night Silk Song.
Speaker 3: We started talking about this, but the release timing and
the price have been revealed. We'll get to the price first.
Twenty dollars. I think the first one was fifteen, so
essentially with inflation, they didn't raise the price at all.
It's right in line with what they did originally a
lot of people surprised by this because a game that
could get away with thirty dollars, forty dollars even like
The Witness, but twenty dollars and I bet a lot
of people are gonna buy this game. I bet it's
not gonna hurt for only being twenty dollars.
Speaker 6: It feels like NFL two K five Yeah a little bit.
Speaker 4: Hey, we know this is a really good game, but
we're gonna do this really aggressive bold pricing thing. Like
that's pretty cool, Like they totally could have, with all
the hype and time said fifty sixty whatever and people
would have bought it.
Speaker 6: But this is that's cool.
Speaker 5: That game is gonna really uh blow up.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, take over?
Speaker 6: You get married to try it. I really think Mary
would like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 3: She clays us over when you start talking about it.
Speaker 5: I refuse to be a part of this.
Speaker 1: It's so wild that other indie games have gone out
of its way. Yeah, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 5: It really is the GTA six of INDI's I get it.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised by how it's really broken through a sort
of normy uh continuocyep right where like I'll play, you know,
I'll in my wildest dreams in the hockey locker room,
I would never be asked about silks and wow, here
we are.
Speaker 5: Yes, it really really did break through. That first game
was a massive hit, and you're right, I'm part of me.
Almos doesn't understand why I like it a ton, But
you know, I couldn't tell you why that really popped
off in a way that or did it?
Speaker 2: Even?
Speaker 3: Is it the best selling two D Metroid Venuo game
every so more than any Metroid.
Speaker 6: Yes, sold more than any metroid gets sold.
Speaker 3: Five five Yes, it sold five times more than any
metroids ever sold.
Speaker 2: It's just got this magic sauce where it's just able
to like permeate through for some reason. I don't know
if it's it's some kind of accessibility thing. I don't know,
Like it really just has the magic sauce.
Speaker 6: I mean people are installtic for.
Speaker 5: Flash games, you know, and now shut the hell up.
Speaker 2: Well, definitely not it.
Speaker 1: I mean with like how popular Souls games have gone,
like that's translated like difficulty and like two more palatable
for some people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, yeah, I think it's just there's a
lot there, right. I think it's a game that you
can really really sink your teeth into. And that's even
more so than the few Souls mechanics that are in
the game, you know, the way you get the currency,
you have to like do run backs to your corpse
and whatnot. But just the fact that this is this
big game that has lore if you really want to
care about, that has this giant interesting world that you
can explore, that has all these kind of secrets and
hidden areas. A little bit like undertone sense, like if
if you want to be this can be your game.
Speaker 6: I did not.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing Chapman mentioned like sales numbers and stuff. I
didn't realize Metroid never sold well, it sold.
Speaker 5: It, you know, it's you know what's the barrier. But
it's never been something that's going to sell ten million copies.
Speaker 3: It's it's never it's I think it's only ever sold
over three million once or twice, and Dread just got
just over it. And the original Metroid did better than
all the rest.
Speaker 5: I think Metro Prime like one on the game you
did fine.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, it feels like it's gonna be one
of the biggest gaps in terms of just like importance
and legacy and stuff and actual sales, and it's held
up there with like Mario and Zelda.
Speaker 3: You know, like of the three million people who play
these games are game developers and are making games.
Speaker 2: Now, I was gonna say that they're over thirty five,
right like that, that's what it's got to be. It's
not broken through anyone under thirty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a game developer ass game like game
developers love Metro being its because of that trade. Yeah,
the it's not popular in Japan that's a big part
of it. So Nintendo doesn't push it in Japan, and
really it kind of becomes kind of all you got.
Speaker 2: Going for you, Dan with the Fantasy cretic thing, like
that's the only thing you got going to Like, maybe
they just cancel it because they don't care. I have soap.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, that's gonna do well for you.
Speaker 1: I yeah, yeah, we should worry about Fantasy because like
we can't.
Speaker 2: We don't have a full league anymore.
Speaker 6: You know, well all of us are in it.
Speaker 3: Look, I think we should worry about it because there's
still a chance I could win.
Speaker 4: I won last year, so I should buy myself a crown.
Speaker 1: From Yeah, we did look at this, Remember we did
look at the he looked at that.
Speaker 2: We almost got like Princess Diana's tiara. Oh yeah, I
did say we were gonna do we went that far. Yeah,
and then I made a Diane joke. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyhow, let's see here the Okay, September fourth, Why.
Speaker 5: Isn't Japan like Metro Mark.
Speaker 2: Come on, that's a fair question. I think that's a
fair question.
Speaker 3: Mike finally taken it out on the Japanese about you
really feel horse ears?
Speaker 5: Is that what it is.
Speaker 2: But has anyone I mean, how do you how do
you unpack this? I don't know? But what what is
the reason? What do you do? Does anyone have.
Speaker 1: Sean points out that Metroid is very Western sci fi?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 5: Did they not like Alien over there?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe they don't like Alien? Yeah, I guess like Japanese
sci fi more like gundam Are sci fi?
Speaker 2: But what if lady gun? Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like,
I guess I don't see the glaring. Maybe should be
obvious detail about METROI that makes it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's I don't know, super obvious.
I think it's just like one of those things that
fell through the cracks culturally, and and so it's kind
of been riding on it's cultural cachet in the West
a little bit.
Speaker 5: Hey, you know what we like, finally caught on. It's
a monster hunter, Like we're better drank us now, Japan
you should get on board of Metroid.
Speaker 3: You know what they get onto instead, Mike, American high
quality television, prestige drama.
Speaker 2: That's bad.
Speaker 5: That's gonna ruin you like it ruined us. You're all
gonna get depression.
Speaker 2: What can you make a four hour YouTube video on
why prestige. He's stretching out your theory there.
Speaker 5: That you go absolutely yeah, you know what you say.
Speaker 2: It causes autism too, and that'll really got a cabinet
position with that ship.
Speaker 3: So the game's out Thursday for most of the world.
It'll be out Friday for Australia or whatever, but seven
am Pacific time and ten am Eastern for the United
States is when the launch and then like eleven am Brazil,
three pm in the UK, four pm in Western Europe,
and eleven pm Japan time and on on.
Speaker 5: The website giant bomb dot com. I plan to be
playing a lot of soak song gets launch day. Yeah,
say what you're gonna call it? Say what you're gonna
call it? Yeah, it's the holl of night. Soak Along.
Everybody you can soak along with me? Uh, we are
going on. Yeah, We're gonna start that maybe five pm
Eastern at the latest, and then I'm gonna try to
play for like four hours basically do a really big
chunk there. Soil song Along, Sound Better Soak No so Soak.
Speaker 3: Song, Insider Soak song Along, I blew it.
Speaker 5: So that's way better. There you go, soak song along.
Speaker 3: Insider Game and says Rayman is progressing incredibly well. Plus,
ray Man four is in the planning stages. We learned
a few months back that Ubisoft is excuse me, currently
developing a triple A RAYMN video game. Fast forward to today,
and we've learned that the project is currently progressing incredibly well.
According to those familiar with the game's development, Ubisoft has
the new Rayman project scheduled for a late twenty twenty
six release. Insider Gaming also claims that Ubisoft has already
made preliminary plans to develop ray Man four, though it's
not clear how far along those plans are.
Speaker 1: I don't believe them.
Speaker 5: Is what are separate things? And there's a triple A
Rayment game and then a ray Man four, right, So
does that mean this would be like Rayman four would
be like a two D game because RAYMN three is
three D ram has if you number it like that,
Rayman two s three D, right, right, two and three or
three D. When they went back to two D, it
was just you know, Rayman the Legends and Rayman Anniverse
whatever those are called. Right, So yeah, I mean Rayman
four to me implies three D, but you say Triple
A Rayman game that also size. People don't usually refer
to two D games as Triple A origins in the legends.
That's a thank you. So yeah, that's confusing. Let's the
Triple A game is a remake of two or something
like that. Maybe I don't know, I could go for
some rainmn ray Man two is actually a really good
three D platform er. Yes, yeah, I'd love to see something,
I mean in a ton of trouble.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's all right, of course, of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is all coming out of Ubisoft Montpelier and Milan. Uh, yeah,
they're I guess they're so they're gonna just keep making
other games. There's also like they over Insider Game and
they did a whole rundown of everything that Ubisoft is making.
Speaker 2: You won't be surprised that it's the stuff.
Speaker 3: They have been making. More Ghosts Recon most, more Assassin's Creed.
I guess that splinter Cell remake is still happening before
the end of twenty twenty seven or fiscal twenty twenty seven,
as well as that Prince of Persia remake. How do
you guys feel about the Ubisoft stuff that's not that
core like core Trio that they are, that they pushed
over to that ten cent version of ub.
Speaker 5: So they bring up Beyond Good and Evil too.
Speaker 3: They did Beyond Good and Evil two is also on
this list.
Speaker 2: Oh my wow.
Speaker 5: I don't believe they still either believe or want us
to believe that's a real video game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean to just like read off the rest of
this list of people know what we're working here with.
There's Project Over that's a Ghost recon mainline title, Project Hex,
the Assassin's Creed title that's set in the Holy Roman Empire.
Speaker 2: I talked about that before.
Speaker 3: Project North that's the splinter Cell remake, Project Blackbird, the
new mainline Far Cry Project Maverick far Cry extraction shooter
that you guys have all been clamoring for.
Speaker 2: Project there's a far Cry extraction shooters.
Speaker 3: That's separate from the fucking Division extraction shooter whatever. Co
Project Alterra, which is Ubisoft's animal crossing style game boy, Okay, great,
Project Crest, a World War two extraction shooter.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do a shot if you say the word
extraction shooter again, I swear.
Speaker 3: Damn it, all right, And then Beyond Good and Evil too.
Project Obsidian is the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake, and
then Project invictis Assassin's Creen multiplayer.
Speaker 6: Should we try to do like a UPF for a
stream where we just play an extra action shooter together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Yes.
Speaker 4: It seems like it's a thing or something.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: I think, what's the what's the big one? Tarkoff is
going to be.
Speaker 2: On Steam soon? I heard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've had two experiences. Like one was when it
was just a moded division. I was like whatever. Then
I played that Marathon Alpha and I couldn't believe how
boring it was.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 5: I couldn't believe how much of a nothing burger that
experience felt like to me. Maybe that was a marathon problem.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, should, I mean Christian loves those games. He can
be our sharpa.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: We either we wait for our Raiders or we do
Tarkoff when it hits Steam.
Speaker 2: I think one of those it would be our move.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's see here. We did Hollow Night. We did this.
Sony is gunning for the switch to with the handle.
Speaker 3: I did put this in here. We talked about this
a little bit then let's hit this last one. Capcom
settles it. No, Pragmatic, isn't a secret Mega Man game.
Mike County, what do you have to say?
Speaker 5: You gotta believe that? Come on, we know how we
know how deceptive Capcom has been recently. I know it
wasn't technically a lie during Summer game Fest when they're like,
we'll have more to say about Resident or Evil in
the future than like twenty minutes later we saw the trailer.
But of course they're not going to admit it. It's
supposed to be a surprise. It's like, well, you got us,
I guess we have to come out and tell you
it's a secret megument game now. At the same time,
here everyone realizes that I'm having a little bit of fun.
Speaker 3: Worried about I thought you were always having a little
bit of fun, And then the last thirty second series
to the.
Speaker 2: Point where I kind of wish this was your conspiracy
theory thing, like you kind of rode into the ground.
So if you could keep doing that, that'd be great.
Speaker 5: I think there's a ten percent chance that it's probably
about as a sacred bag. It was pretty high you
put a gun to my head. I don't I don't
know if I actually think that's gonna happen. And the
more exciting thing is that everybody seems very excited about
this game.
Speaker 1: When I'm pumped, I'm so pumped.
Speaker 2: Yep. Really, I just think it's.
Speaker 3: Such a good idea for for kind of keeping gun
combat interesting in a game. All Right, Mortal Kombat two
movie was delayed. They didn't really say wine. I don't
know if we've heard any reporting, but it's moved from
let's see. I think it's supposed to be out next
month and now it's coming out in May.
Speaker 2: Silk songs probably there were posters in my movie.
Speaker 3: There was that Johnny Cage trailer that was really well received.
Speaker 2: People really like that. I thought it looked good and
I hated that. I think I think this movie is
probably done. I don't think I think it's.
Speaker 3: Do you think that they saw the positive feedback or
like we could do even more, or do you think
like there's a problem.
Speaker 5: You don't think it was. Test screens went really poorly,
even though.
Speaker 3: It's a not When was it supposed to come out
October November, So.
Speaker 2: It's like a six seven six months six seven month delay.
I don't know you can't really. I guess you could
do a decent amount of a movie, man, but I
don't know. It just seems more logistical than technical.
Speaker 5: It might be, Yeah, it's just it's a boy that's
a big pivot to do this late again when all
the promotional like toys are going to be coming out
for this thing, right, you can't put the brakes on
a lot of that.
Speaker 1: This is a Warner Brothers joint.
Speaker 5: Warner Brothers joint?
Speaker 1: Is this Warner Brothers just being funky again with like
they could.
Speaker 3: Be honestly, could be like, it could be tax reasons,
it could be Hollywood Accounting.
Speaker 6: As a weird company.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just bad at what they do, Okay, Yeah, Michael
r olerisis they were quote trying to avoid a busy calendar,
but they had zero competition for two weeks when the
movie was supposed to come out, So obviously that's just weird.
Speaker 5: It just seems weird. And they realized they forgot to
put reptile in it, that's probably it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the pit wasn't deep enough. Yeah, Yeah, disappointing pit.
Everything else was good. We've heard rumors.
Speaker 5: About this Herbaic We've got to investigate.
Speaker 3: Last story here David Kelly, pioneer of large formats cinema.
I'm yes, that's a kie right, Kelly Kelly, Okay, Yes
it's David kieh Lee Son.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeff Keeley's dad died at seventy seven. Uh and
he was, yeah, very instrumental into creating Imax and like
they were, him and his wife actually both really important
to the Imax company. So yeah, that is a shame.
Shout us to David Keeley. Almost just said Kelly, even
though I didn't try to say that the first time.
Speaker 2: Uh, and rest in peace.
Speaker 1: Absolutely condolences to the family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5: In the first Mortal kind of Bat movie, I have
like for like five seconds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, back over to you, jan folks.
Speaker 1: We're going to take another quick and break and we
will be back with emails, YouTube, super chats, and uh
maybe a couple more bands.
Speaker 2: We'll see you right after this emails.
Speaker 1: During the break, I aged twenty years listening to my
lovely co owners talking about old men I think, and.
Speaker 3: The old man who was the old guy that went
on Fox News and said that he kept himself young
by masturbating.
Speaker 5: Well that's all of him, but they won't say it.
Out loud.
Speaker 2: That was me.
Speaker 5: I'm actually seventy eight years old.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's weird. It was. It was like
they're like, what's the key to staying now?
Speaker 3: It was like whispers writ into the microphone. I masturbate
a lot, Ernest borgnine.
Speaker 6: Yeah that's the most old guy name ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah there, but yeah, Orgines got him.
Speaker 1: I remember I was listening to like Daytime Radio once
and like the which is like your classic, like, hey,
we're talking here, how do you stay up in a
long drive? And then like someone calls in and it's like.
Speaker 2: First time, long time? You know. Sometimes I'm a truck
driver by trade. Sometimes I'm just jerking it in a.
Speaker 1: Moving vehicle, in a moving vehicle, and then like the
host driver yeah, and the hosts were like, oh ship
did you just say jerking it?
Speaker 2: Oh? It was great anyway.
Speaker 1: Emails don't don't please type your emails with both hands.
Please bombcastagiant bomb dot com is email. Just send your
emails to right in about any and everything we say
something funny on a.
Speaker 2: Show or the podcast, right in about it?
Speaker 5: You got a fun quiz right in about it?
Speaker 2: You got I don't know, you got a question.
Speaker 1: Maybe you got a compliment right in about it. First
email comes from Brad and see you Falls, see you Falls,
see you Falls. I don't care. I don't just not that.
I don't care about you, Dan, I just want.
Speaker 2: Care about the people.
Speaker 1: Yes, hey, Jan, you mentioned ear candles on something recently.
I'm sure you've gone to bazillion emails about this, but
don't do it. In theory, it's supposed to pull ear
wax out of your ears into the candle, but in
practice it's a funnel covered in bees wax that melts
down and just looks like the grossest ear wax ever. Also,
if you're unlucky, some of that melts, the bees wax
will drip directly into your ear drum, which probably sucks
pretty bad. If you have any erex issues, please see
a real doctor, not a chiropractor or some other homeopath.
I can say that because my sister is a chiropractor.
Dors and beer yours and earwax bad from CEU.
Speaker 2: Falls super Balls.
Speaker 5: That's sueet Sue sweet.
Speaker 3: They're saying it's like it's completely gimmicked, that it melts
down and the gross stuff is in there to make
it feel like you got stuff out, but it was
like a work the whole time.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of of snake.
Speaker 6: Oil that I love, straight up snake oil.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yes, Like there was these like footpads that like got
the toxins out of you. Yeah, if you just get them,
you just get them wet, they look dirty and that
the toxins are already in there.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, people say the word toxins, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: I had to get my dad to help with my
ear wax recently, like because I did the stupid thing.
I fell a little heavy there and I got the
cotton swabing not supposed to put in there actually, just
like I couldn't hear out of the ear anymore. I
had jammed it in there. So yeah, so I had
to go to my dad and he got in there.
He got basically like a water gun. Was such a
relief when like I finally just felt it like cracking.
Speaker 4: They have a vacuum now too. Lately they've been using
the vacuum instead of the water, so it's like a
little tiny thing they put in there, and it actually
just goes on your like ear drips.
Speaker 6: You just hear it all sucking out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jesus, I want that. You know how people will
go to like a chiropractor to get like that cracking feeling.
I just want to go to like ant to just
get that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, are the hoops okay? Because I got get those
like a Walgreens. This just like a little circle you
put in you throw it around.
Speaker 1: I think these were fine.
Speaker 5: I did get a little blood last time. No expert,
Well maybe I went too hard.
Speaker 2: You go to an unt I had.
Speaker 4: I'd spent a lot of time with the NTS with
my surgery last year, and it's just like a lot
of those gimmicks and stuff like Cala got me some
things you found on TikTok that was like a camera
that goes in and you can scoop your own wax
out and stuff.
Speaker 6: And I would bring it by my e t and
they'd just be like, just just come.
Speaker 1: Here, just go here, just go to the doctor. It
turns out, yeah, it turns out Nick from Australia, find daddy,
Nick from Australia rights and hey bombers. I just found
out that earlier this year, Taco Bell Australia's owners announced
they were closing down the chain and will sell any
individual restaurants if they can find a buyer. This is
the second time Taco Bell has tried to get a
foothold in Australia, after opening some stores in the nineties
and also having to shut down the chain. The major
US restaurants that have succeeded in Australia, like McDonald's Can't See,
Hungry Jack's, Burke King's Australian Name, and Domino's have all
made big changes to adapt to the market. Taco Bell
and the struggling Wendy's and Carls Junior have not adapted,
but rather just copy and pasted the US menu and
business model over to Australia. I thought it'd be a
fun fun, given Dan is a massive Taco Bell mark,
if he tried to figure out how to change the
Taco Bell menu and business model to suit the Australian
market despite having no knowledge of what does and doesn't
work here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so gonna say, like, do we have any inphibot
like how they change these other restaurants changed.
Speaker 5: Maybe they said that, I will on my own research
what the McDonald's Australia menu looks like.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So the question, so, Dan, how would you
make Taco Bell a profitable growing chain in Australia if
you were made Ceo.
Speaker 4: Case a Rouse's kangaroo casadias.
Speaker 5: Oh he's not just gonna suggest they eat kangaroos at least, right.
Speaker 2: Okay, my god, oh this dingo ate my baby?
Speaker 1: Yeah, or the ding the dingo replaces the taco bell Chihuahua.
Speaker 3: Okay, are we allow you to speak Spanish with an
Australian accent?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: That's got something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not I'm not saying too much different about this.
Uh McDonald's man you' excites for the brecky micrap and
a lot of things named brecy and no. I went
to their website. I'm doing my own research. Yeah, I
do like the name brecky brecky micrap. It's like a
rap but with ham and eggs in there some other
gross looking stuff. Okay, it's uh crunchy hash brown, perfectly
cooked egg, rasher bacon, cheese, and ketchup. They just put
ketchup in it. Yeah, what's rasher bacon? Do you think
that's what they call Canadian bacon? I think it's like,
is it not ham?
Speaker 2: It looks like a right fat back bacon.
Speaker 5: Osher in for sure? Absolutely, Yeah, back bacon worst bacon.
But yeah, otherwise, I don't know. They have those cookies
that look pretty good. I think we had these cookies
when we're in England too. But you could just get oh,
they just have sandwiches. You could just get like a
ham and cheese tomato sandwich. At Australia McDonald's they call
them toasties. You could just get a grilled cheese sandwich.
It's called a cheese toasty and a ham and cheese pocket. Okay,
this man is getting weird. Further dive, you get Earl
Gray tea. That's terrifying, is w There's a lot of shakes,
there's a lot of drink options here. They have ranch mcgriddles.
They still have the essentials, so it's looking fine.
Speaker 2: It's like schwarma.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I guess I just don't know if, like
if McDonald's can make I don't know why Wendy's is struggling,
especially if they have a burger king equivalent doing well.
This burking is just embarrassing these days.
Speaker 2: These other ones made changes and when Wendy's didn't.
Speaker 5: But he is fine, well, they used to be fine.
Wendy's is kind of gone that what's the harb situation
like in Australia.
Speaker 1: I don't think doing well. I'm gonna say that.
Speaker 3: Damn sorry sorry you said something bad about Wendy's, are
we and we all just like, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I loved Wendy's a lot as a kid. It might
be I think it's a me thing. I don't think
it's Wendy's fault.
Speaker 2: I love the Wendy's thing.
Speaker 3: I think it's No, Mike, You're right, Wendy's gone is
falling off really, but.
Speaker 2: Like what to if we're talking about like the burger,
like we're not we're not putting the same categories like
a five guys or something like that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, But I'm just saying.
Speaker 2: Like Donald's and Wendy Wendy's.
Speaker 3: Wendy's was definitely like up there with like all those stuff,
like people would be like in and out.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, Wendy's is just as good. And now
it's like, I don't know.
Speaker 5: You know, like I'm not getting a fast food cheeseburger
very often anymore. And if I am, it's like I
think I'll I'm going to treat myself. I think I
will go to McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Okay, understood.
Speaker 5: We have a we have something called gosh Winston's, which
is like a driving thing. So that's a very good
fast food style burger. Actually went there last night. It's
like it's a holiday. I'm going to Sweatson's. They have
the Galley Boy, the special double uh cheeseburger they had there.
It's got two sauces that has this kind of like
sweet Barbie sauce and has a tangy, kind of little
relishy something something there too. Do they actually put like
an olive on it? Yeah? I take that off and
I throw in the garbage, but they put an all
of it.
Speaker 4: They were doing deep fried olives on a stick at
the State Fair and that did not I'd.
Speaker 5: Fuck with that, you would?
Speaker 6: That did not sound good to me?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Moving along, Simon from the Netherlands rights and Hey crew,
it's pretty cool that I can listen to a podcast
or music anywhere I go these days. It wasn't like
that growing up. Is that you there were way more limitations?
What was your first personal audio device, Walkman discman?
Speaker 5: What was your favorite? Best regards Simon from the Netherlands.
Speaker 3: Walkman for sure, Yeah, I have some knockoff walk Man.
Speaker 5: I had a CD player Walks before that, but I
definitely remember my Walkman CD player fondly.
Speaker 4: I had a little baby you get a minute of
a song, not even boombox. I didn't play CDs. It
just played at two cassettes or maybe one cassette thing,
but it didn't advertise this. But it could record stuff
and there wasn't like an obvious microphone. It's just you
would hit play and record and talk into like the speakers,
I guess so like. I mainly used it to play
w F Raw on Genesis, and that was my way
before they did the ref the music things where I'd
like record the MIDI version of Sean Michael's theme by
holding my boombox up to the CRT while I played
Sexy Boy so that I could hear wrestling entrance music.
Speaker 2: Anytime, I've got a ton of cassettes somewhere, I assume
it's in my basement of me playing the DJ with
record because I because you said, I bet there might
have been a little dot somewhere on the front of
that boombox that said M I C. Because that's that's
how I remember. Yeah, now that that stood off or
an exactly like that's where where you were meant to speak.
And I would just like record off the radio.
Speaker 4: Say, I would call in to the radio stations and
it would be busy, so you'd call like twenty times
to request a song and if they if you got
it through, it could take two hours. You're just sitting
by the fucking boom box waiting to hit record when
they play you know the chronic and it's that that's
an insane way to get music.
Speaker 2: I didn't even have a boombox.
Speaker 3: It was like a little tape deck thing, like just
like a little skinny thing, but it's kind of long.
I mean, it makes it sound like it was small,
but it wasn't. But it was like meant for recording
or taking notes or something like that. And I would
use that to play music and record stuff off the
radio and my voice and things like that.
Speaker 5: God, I just sound like a picture of the like
walk them in CD players and it activated me in
a way was unexpecting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some of those sport those those yellow Sony sports dismands,
those are really.
Speaker 6: Cool anti skip technology.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shake the ship out of that thing and be
like it's not skipping at all. This is amazing.
Speaker 3: Wait, so wait, what was your guys' favorite like personal
audio device before cell phones?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Probably that disc man where like I didn't ever heard
the actual disc man, but a portable CD player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I liked my iPod, but I do.
Speaker 3: I think my m P three CD player where I
could burn MP three so into a disc so I
could have hundreds of.
Speaker 2: That was pretty good.
Speaker 3: And that because the files were so small, they could
all go in memory so there was no skipping.
Speaker 2: In high school, the head unit in my car was
an AMP three player. Yeah, that could read CDs and
that was like game changing.
Speaker 5: AJ, are you listening? What was that weird early MP
three player you had? I think that's cool.
Speaker 2: I mean diamond Honestly, the first iPod I ever had
was the one with like the four red buttons, the
capacitive red buttons on it. One was like the first
with the click wheel. Yeah they were cool, man, those
are fucking cool.
Speaker 1: My favorite portable music player was one of my favorite
phones growing up.
Speaker 5: It was the Motorola Rocker E one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh nice.
Speaker 5: I had like iTunes on it, which was like apparently
weird for any other phone.
Speaker 1: It was like a cousin of the razor right, yeah,
because they emitted like the last vowel as well.
Speaker 2: It's crazy that as recently as like two thousand and eight,
I had like a Windows phone.
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah where I phone around then, and I turned
it into an Android. Actually yes, I like swapped out
the OS's my god, the worst experience imaginable. But I
love when I meet like a Windows Phone die hard
in real life. I'm like, you are a true psychopathy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you're just lying to yourself, buddy. There was
no fun to be had using that thing at all,
and it had sort of like the sidekick thing where
it didn't flip around and corner out like a boomerang,
but it just sort of like lifted up. Yeah. Oh,
what a miserable, miserable thing that was.
Speaker 5: Are people still buying like dedicated MP three players and
just like.
Speaker 3: The Hideojimas of the world. Yeah, he's got like a
Sony Walkman MP three player that has special dacks in
them and things like that that you know, maybe they
could play agavorbis files and shit like that. There's definitely
something to be said for when I did have that
iPod and I use my costs Porta Pro headphones with him,
which were like the first decent headphones I'd ever use.
It's like, oh, I actually am hearing stuff in this
Pink Floyd album.
Speaker 2: I had never heard of it before.
Speaker 3: It was like, oh yeah, having good quality stuff does
make a difference for Rogo.
Speaker 2: Definitely all right.
Speaker 1: Moving down the email thread, Danny from bun Young Bunny Young,
Bunyan Young right Sin High Team. Over the years, I've
often heard tales of Dan's legendary Sole Caliber skills, and
I've always wondered, has Dan ever won an official Soul
Caliber tournament? If not, would you be willing to accept
the challenge? Thanks heaps, love your work. Danny from Bunan.
Speaker 4: Young, Yes, I would accept that challenge, specifically if it's
a Soule Caliber one tournament. That's the one that I
really spent the time learning. Like every character on I
am good at the other ones, I'm nowhere near like
confident with Like.
Speaker 6: With two I did when it came out.
Speaker 4: I was in the dorms and I printed up flyers
and I put them on the elevators in every dorm
at KU. In fact, if Desky fam is in the chat,
Desky fan partook in this tournament and it was like
a five or ten dollars entry or was like ten
and you could buy back in or something. And so, yeah,
I got a ton of people together do one. I
brought a big white board into the lobby of my
dorm and I won. So I basically put the whole
tournament together and took.
Speaker 2: Everyone so you could win.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I did the same thing in the neighborhood with like
Mortal Combat on Genesis in like the early nineties. But no,
the first one I have not, but I would one
hundred percent if we were at some event and there
was some soul caliber tournament, I would super enter that.
Speaker 3: Let's just make one you like to do like the
eight eight Battle random, but you don't need that, right,
So if you entered a tournament and you had a mane,
you would be fine.
Speaker 4: You think I would try it, but like I really
do think like my skills in that game shine when
it's like I can take any eight random characters and
I know my stuff I do with everyone, you know,
it's definitely the game I think I'm best at.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, Kenny writes in jan I thought you'd like
to know Anthony Mackie stole cut the check they provide
a YouTube link, please make sure you take it back
or invite him onto the dumb truck.
Speaker 2: Kenny.
Speaker 1: I'll just you know what, I'm fine being the Anthony
Mackie of Giant Bum.
Speaker 2: I'm cool with that, always have been.
Speaker 1: Yep, thank you very much. All right, all right, Tom
from Saint Catharine's Rights in What's Up Bombinos? After talking
about it for years and a little inspiration for mister Grubb, who's.
Speaker 5: Looking snatched as hell lately.
Speaker 1: I finally started eating better and exercising. Over the last
two months, I've dropped around twenty five pounds. Hey, right
in between bouts of dieting. I've built in what I
call I've been calling the butchery days where I just
do cocaine and see a bunch of exotic dancers. No,
they don't write that in so I was like, wait what,
So I thought I turned to the food Crime Extraordinaries.
If you were to build your perfect day of takeout
slash garbage food, what would your breakfast, lunch, and dinner
look like? Thanks love you, kissy face emoji call from
Saint Catharine's sent from my iPhone.
Speaker 4: I think breakfast would be air fried leftover Taco bell
from the night before, a couple of burritos and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2: Meal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I don't like the actual Like if I
go to Taco Bell then it's just like breakfast.
Speaker 6: I mean it's fine, but like I want the breakfaste gone.
Speaker 4: No, they did that, they need a break we had
all met misinformed.
Speaker 5: Then he's whining to be their day about how it's gone.
Speaker 4: Taco bella leftover taco bell uh for breakfast lunch, I
think getting a big like going to a barbecue place
in Kansas City that's not really garbage food, but like
you know, just go nuts and some burn ins and
fries and then dinner.
Speaker 6: Boy, I'm big on the Jets pizza now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had it recently, Mike. I'm glad I converted
Dan to the Church of Turbo Crust eight.
Speaker 6: Corner Turbo Crust.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, those are just the most substantial pieces.
Speaker 6: Ah, I love it.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Probably doing McDonald's breakfast, getting my sausage mcmuffins. That's
my favorite breakfast. Lutch at Arby's beef and cheddars. Maybe
some mantro sticks for dinner. I think I just want
to like large stuffed gress barbecue chicken pizza from Pop John's.
No onions, please, I'm not trying to eat vegetables today.
Speaker 2: Beef fast you go ahead.
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, I was mostly gonna be similar to these
guys and then throw me in a big burrito in
they're somewhere.
Speaker 2: It's probably like favorite food.
Speaker 1: Well, there we go. I'm gonna skip beefast entirely. I'm
sorry that if that breaks the rules of debauchery day.
Go for a stacked mission style burrito. Hell yeah for
lunch and maybe that leaks into dinner, and then for dinner,
I do wings boys breathe wingies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just been thinking about this for like forty five
seconds now. In this case, yeah, in this case, no
smoothies are not the bochersus. They're not going in the menu.
Uh in the in this you know, fantasy sort of
world where like no consequences and I can exist and
I can physically handle the amount of calories and and
sort of intake that we're dealing with here. I'd start
off with like a very large like bacon, egg and
cheese on a biscuit, like not McDonald's bullshit, Like a
proper homemade country biscuit, you know, like a big boy
won the size of like a coaster, you know, maybe
a little bit a little bigger than that. Yeah, start
things off there. For lunch, I'm gonna keep it a
little a little more in the grounding reality with like
an oversized lobster roll, just a real big carr. You know.
I'm gonna ask for some of that brown sugar like
the ones we get in Boston that there's something special
about those up there.
Speaker 5: But warm.
Speaker 2: We're doing butter. We're not doing cold. We're doing warm.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the move.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then for dinner, we're probably gonna do like
a very like some kind of like chicken salt and boca,
like a like I want I want the fried chicken cutlet,
and then I want prejudo, and then I want mozzarella,
and then I want like salt buttery, buttery garlic pasta
and and just get all that going on the top there.
Like that's I think kind of that's what I want.
That's like the perfect day. That's one day I could
do another day, but that's.
Speaker 1: Oh, hey, next time we see each other. What if
what about we all have four debauchery days in a
row where no determines the menu.
Speaker 2: We can't. We'll die. We'll just die. I'm not ready
to die for that.
Speaker 1: You know how the in in weddings recently, like the coup,
the groom's cocktail, the brides cocktails become a thing. Yeah, yeah,
I've put a lot of thought into mine. Would you
all guess what mine?
Speaker 2: Is there any coffee in it?
Speaker 1: No? No coffee at all, loompia that you can't shoot
loom Well maybe is.
Speaker 3: It your ice cream? But it's not really ice cream.
Speaker 1: No, we can't relitigate this.
Speaker 2: Look the superjack.
Speaker 5: Wait, elected like I was a Fool'll get there.
Speaker 2: We'll get there. We don't like it, we know this.
It was just because a random asshole on the internet
says you're right, doesn't mean you're right.
Speaker 5: We'll get into it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Two shots of Hennessy, two shots exactly. Go up to
the bar and you're like, oh, can I get the jam?
It's like, oh, I just want one shot? No no, no, no, no,
you have to take both, all right? No chase two
shots of penny.
Speaker 2: Two shots. That's rough, buddy, because anything's possible. Baby, I understand,
But like man, the days of just like raw dogg
and liquor like that, Like, I don't know, that's rough.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with you back again.
Speaker 1: No, it's not raw dogging liquor when you're with me, Baby,
I guess you're Scotch.
Speaker 5: But I'm not shooting anything.
Speaker 2: You are the something sweet that makes it go down
a little more smooth than I.
Speaker 6: Right, Jane, Jane, I'll take it with you.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. I've learned I can't refuse a shot anyway.
Speaker 2: Uh well, dude, there's a certain point of the night
where you should be refusing a shot. Though.
Speaker 5: If you have to guess a personality trade of yours,
it would have been that you don't reve that you're
incapable of.
Speaker 2: Set a shot of espresso. I didn't know about any though.
I'll shoot anything, baby.
Speaker 1: Last email of the show. Once again, the email address
is bombcasta gne bomb dot com. Last emailer writes in
Mike from Loveland, it's time to open a new front
the Revolutionary War? What is everyone but Mike and Dan's
opinion of the objectively successful smash musical Hamilton Love the show,
Love you all, Mike from Loveland.
Speaker 2: All right, it's fantastic, love, I love Hamilton I'll watched
that probably once a year. Yeah, it's it's extremely good.
Like I don't think it it probably doesn't like register
in the top ten Broadway stuff for me, but like
I can appreciate it. I think, Yeah, I think it's
very very good.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love Hamilton. It made me feel more comfortable
in my skin as a person of color. But also,
I said this over the weekend to our dear friend
Bailey Myers, I think it is a cultural nine to eleven, a.
Speaker 2: Cultural nine eleven. No, I actually think the real nine
to eleven did more damage to our culture than it's.
Speaker 1: You're still debating, all right, Mikey hit me with some
super chats if we got any.
Speaker 5: We sure do. Thank you so much everybody for saying
this was in that boy Jerry says, you all start
late because Dan pooped his pants again.
Speaker 6: No, and poops in Sunday And I've never puoted my
pants yep.
Speaker 3: Say, he's famous for never having pooped into my main thing.
Speaker 5: In fact, told us multiple times today that he's constipated.
If anything, I know that's more of the issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Kitty cat Man ninety three says that anybody do Miniature
Boy Mitch Tolkoto.
Speaker 2: Yet, what the hell is that?
Speaker 5: It's capitalized miniature boys? I don't know if that helps?
Speaker 2: Is that a thing? I'm a Google miniature boy?
Speaker 1: I don't know what this?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 4: Jang Chad says, you haven't poops some Sunday. That's not
the weird thing. It's no, that's weird.
Speaker 2: It's a saint fair.
Speaker 6: But like I didn't boop for like a week not
too long ago, so what.
Speaker 5: That's okay, that's good.
Speaker 2: Tell anyone about this.
Speaker 4: A while ago. Yeah, I didn't like it. Okay, Now
it's like not pooping in two days in the craziest thing.
I think the act stayed fair yesterday and ate all
this ship.
Speaker 2: Like if I'm a doctor, right, which I'm not, and
you said you came in for a physical and you
told me that I would, it would make me perk up.
I'd be like, excuse me, like your tummy hurt? No,
then it's not a problem.
Speaker 5: Are you like burping a lot poop?
Speaker 2: You don't go poop?
Speaker 4: I got a lot of reflex stuff. And I don't know,
it's not really burbs, you know, if you if you
legit seven days uh months ago? But yeah, it was
like seven buddy, I.
Speaker 2: Know seven days is a problem. I'm not trying to
like be hYP hyperbolic, like that's real, bad man.
Speaker 4: My dad was longer a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I don't care x.
Speaker 6: Ram and they were like, you are literally filled with ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah I get it, ha ha, but like, yeah, conservation's bad.
Speaker 3: Like what I thought we were talking about, like a
day of not pooping still, Like okay, yeah, the seven days,
that's a problem.
Speaker 2: Just like being constant star Stuff's like I'm an e
R nurse working on my doctor at three days is
the point where you get worried. Seven days is a
all caps problem.
Speaker 6: And we're like a couple of days now and the
seven days I got past. So yeah, I assume.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 5: Martin Holis says had doctor Pepper flavored at my birthday
and night out, say doctor pepper flavored? What well? Uh
it was eight percent. It just tastes like doctor pepper.
I think it was beer. I think, what's the most
dangerous easy to drink booze? You've found me? Most tiky
drinks are like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Pina Colada, the Miami Vice is all that
ship where it's just primarily sugar, and you're just going
nuts on whatever the fuck it's mixed with. I forgot
to mention.
Speaker 1: I made a quick stop, which was a very long
stop actually to Disneyland this weekend. Uh, and I.
Speaker 5: Went to Oga's Cantina and my party was.
Speaker 1: Uh. It's like generally most of the places bar standing
seating or whatever. And the group sitting next to me,
the lady looks over at me like nods her head
and it's like, you're trying to drink, and I'm like, yeah,
that's why we're all here, right, Yeah, but it's two
men too max per person, and my friend she's not
gonna drink, but I'm gonna have her drinks, so I'm
gonna get four.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna get four drinks.
Speaker 5: Telling you this, this is like ten am.
Speaker 1: Also, yes, did.
Speaker 2: You hang out with him for the rest of the day.
Speaker 5: You should have no, but I cheers her four times. Yes,
it was great, God, incredible. How many jet juices that
she had. That's what got the last time I got
sick drunk was that.
Speaker 3: That's a very funny thing.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: This sense is gonna sound really bad. But she asked
if she could take a sip of my yub nub,
and I told her.
Speaker 2: Now, thanks, lady, I'm spoken for.
Speaker 5: Actually, yeah, you can't letustrate your touch your yep. But
Minate's Fruit and Porium says here, at Minate's Fruit and Porium,
we would like to recognize our favorite employee, Jan. There's
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Speaker 2: You got a fruit? No, it says here you do.
Speaker 1: Uctual shouts out to Sean for holding everything down while I.
Speaker 2: Was gonna think, yeah, great job, shouts out, all.
Speaker 5: Right, now we'll just calm down easier. You say that last?
Should you say that for last? It's no, it's too
late too. You gotta get into it. We gotta do
it now. I have to say this. The beer ice
cream is simply beer in a non liquid form. It
resembles ice cream. There's no way actually ice cream.
Speaker 2: That was right.
Speaker 5: Wait a second, then I didn't did my own research
while peeing during a break. There's no dairy products in
this product.
Speaker 2: But is it soft serve or not? Yeah?
Speaker 5: It looks like soft so yeah, that's what we were
talking A soft served beers, not ice cream.
Speaker 3: But you But when I was asked if it's a
liquid or not, You're like, no, it's beer, and like
that's why it was confused.
Speaker 2: I was confused by the way you Actually, it hasn't changed.
Speaker 3: You never said beer in soft served form like that.
You would say it's beer. It looks like ice cream,
but it's not ice cream.
Speaker 2: It's beer.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, soft, but it looks like right, okay,
that's all I was asking.
Speaker 2: We never got what I said from the beginning.
Speaker 5: Check the table.
Speaker 2: No, you just have a terrible way of talking sometimes.
Speaker 5: Why he said they were literally making it by churning it.
There was a guy doing.
Speaker 2: I can't you understand me? There was a guy doing
a thing.
Speaker 1: If we rewound the conversation and we started again, Dan,
would you say it's closer to like a slushy than
ice cream?
Speaker 2: No, yeah, that's a questions a lot like it's a
lot like ice cream. Got it?
Speaker 6: It looks like in a police lineup, you would say
that's ice.
Speaker 2: What about like when you put in your mouth the
mouth feel it's like raspberry beer, right, feel it feels
like beer.
Speaker 6: It feels like ice cream in your mouth.
Speaker 2: That's what I just asked.
Speaker 3: I was just confused about the state of its matter.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, I was. It was like ice cream, and
you're like, ice.
Speaker 6: Cream implies dairy, You fool serf, can't have dairy.
Speaker 2: And there's also non dairy ice cream. You're fucking ice cream.
It's here's about its state of exactly. And I was
like a cream serf, and you just kept saying the
beer brings and then he brings up this non dairy
ship as if like that's the thing that everyone was
thinking about. No one talking from the beginning. No one cares.
Speaker 5: Dan, you looked at inside. What are you thinking, buddy?
What's the next super chap? It's from the dupious food,
which I think the dupiest food is this ice cream?
Ice cream? H g b my pres pooh, and I
think I need a new one. I don't worry. I
got a backup way for you.
Speaker 2: Bor.
Speaker 5: You gotta like him?
Speaker 2: Is what is sicky pooh?
Speaker 5: The press?
Speaker 2: Pres oh Oh?
Speaker 1: I hope he fucking falls down a flight of stairs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, then who's dang gonna vote for?
Speaker 5: Point says congrats on BombCast nine oh six. Now six
is the area code for the entire Upper Peninsula of
Michigan where I'm from, and this Saturday is nine oh
six terri six No cheers, well, cheers to Peninsula day.
Yeah or Upper Peninsula Michigan friends.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: That's twelve of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Rio Roku who says, as Mike heard of the
YouTube channel defunk Land, not even a big Disney guy,
but those videos are rad I think they'd be, right, Mike.
Oh yeah, yeah, I know. I knew the funk Land
before he was popping, before all the Norby's found. No, no, no,
he's a yeah. His stuff is very good. It is
because he has reached a more mainstream audience. A lot
of people.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he did like that great video just about where
did the Disney Channel jingle come from?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: And it was great? So yeah, big, I like the
funk Land. There's like a lot of the funk imitators
on a lot of them actually pretty good too. So yeah,
I like that whole I like that whole genre. I
actually don't watch as many of them as I used to.
I kind of did get to a point, not to
sound obnoxious, but it's like I already know this, I
already know this, I already know that.
Speaker 2: Do you if you saw like a Disney creator in
real life, who's the one that would make you like
fan out?
Speaker 5: Probably aj from the Disney Food blog, even though we
only got her face revealed very recently because she just
released a book. She just reased a book, so she
finally showed her face to promote the book.
Speaker 1: I thought you were talking about your brother, and your
brother had a side.
Speaker 5: A different This is a different a. Maybe Molly from
formerly of All Ears and now of Mammoth Club.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Molly was more camera forward. So I
just facere legitimate question, Mike. How much beef is there
with like Disneyland and Disney World content creators? There must be.
Speaker 5: I know there's some amongst the Disneyland the Disney World types.
I know there's between the content creators. There's some beef
with like I I've heard from certain people that some
of those content creators people who are not very nice,
perhaps the people who work at Disney.
Speaker 2: So there's over the I know that.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 3: I know Jenny got some beef for her the Star
Wars Hotel video from other creators who like took that money.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of yeah, a lot of them. Yeah, Jenny.
Speaker 5: It's very popular. It's a lot of people are gonna
be mad at her for stupid reasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I loant of that ship.
Speaker 1: I want to say, I'm sorry Black Clark could enjoin us.
But the day that I had with the all of Disneyland,
one of the best trips I've ever heard was at
time we had to You had to twist that had
to leave early too.
Speaker 2: He missed out it all.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, hey, I'll go to Disney whenever you guys want.
You tell me which part, you tell me what day
I'll be there.
Speaker 2: I actually think dude doesn't know this, but I think
I'm going back just you next year. Oh yeah, Steph
wants to go to next year.
Speaker 5: You let's go my annual past last alay and I thinking,
you know what, maybe I'll renew the things.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 5: A lot more recently too, for reasons. Maybe we take
a family trip, all of us together.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be fun.
Speaker 5: I did it. Seems like it's probably be hard to
make happen. We got other things going on, but I
did want to do Halloween horror nights.
Speaker 2: That would have been fun.
Speaker 5: But busy Mikey, is that it for super chats as
I for super chats. Thank you so much, everybody really
appreciate it.
Speaker 1: This is on the mouth to all of you. Thank
you so much for all of that, and thank you
for your emails, and thank you for listening to the
Giant BombCast Gang. What do we got going on for
the rest of this week? Gay Mess Mornings popping off Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday tomorrow though uh there, well, actually later today we're
gonna redo missed because we missed it yesterday. Mikey is
also going to do Weggaman tomorrow evening. But Mike Manatti
begins a brand new season of Blade Club.
Speaker 5: Right. Yes, the Saturn is all primed and ready to
get you.
Speaker 2: Did your costume arrive? It should be there today.
Speaker 5: I haven't looked in the front door yet today, so
I'll second a moment.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I bet it's here. So what do you
think your costume is gonna be?
Speaker 5: I mean, I assume I'm dressing up like a night
and I'm gonna be called Sir Mitch or something. It's
here that are one of those inflatable like like what
Jeff happened, I'm a dragon? Might be that. I think, honestly,
the way you guys are reacting like there's a very
good chance I'm a dragon. Okay, fucking jagged, I like,
god damn it.
Speaker 2: All right, yeah I saw this.
Speaker 5: I don't think you're dressing me up like the princess.
Speaker 1: Uh. Moving on to Thursday voicemail, dumb truck popping off,
Mike Manati is going to do the hollow Night Silk
song along in the calendar here it's Silk song. Yeah, okay,
Sik song along.
Speaker 5: I think well I fixed it.
Speaker 2: Don't worry.
Speaker 1: If you are a premium member, we're going to be
having a Discord town hall, so come through. We'll answer
some cues. Whatever you got about the website, about us,
whatever miscllaneous things you got going on.
Speaker 2: We got going on.
Speaker 1: Please tune in for that the archives.
Speaker 3: Silk sing along, so it doesn't suck to say song along.
Speaker 5: It is fun to say.
Speaker 6: Sing along.
Speaker 5: Wait playing Silk Song for four hours straight that you
don't like it for some reason.
Speaker 1: And to end the week, we were going to have
on professional Fridays as always. Current plans are to play
friends versus friends, but hey, card.
Speaker 2: Subject to change. Gang anything else popping off that we
want to talk about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just you bet you. But yeah, we're doing Monday mornings.
Missed with Mitch on a Tuesday here playing more Riven.
We're doing that at four pm Eastern. So excited for that.
We were in the midst of a very deep and
involved puzzle at the moment, which we half solved last time.
So excited to pick that back up.
Speaker 3: And I'll try to fix guys are Arcadias so we
can get it working again, and I'll do a few
more episodes of that Love Lee.
Speaker 1: I shot some footy while I was out in Washington.
I'll try and piece that together.
Speaker 2: I did intentionally really good.
Speaker 1: Did intend to a.
Speaker 5: Hot Dog tour, but then my tummy hook after the
first one.
Speaker 4: I also have a Metal Year Collector's edition in boxing
going up tomorrow. So you've been on YouTube shorts and
TikTok and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we also may have a best of Jeff Passer
in the works right now. Yes, uh, coming out tray soon,
Tray soon, folks. That does it for the Giant BombCast.
He's been Jeff, He's been Jeff, he's been Mike, he's
been Dan, I've been Jenny.
Speaker 2: You at home are doing the damn time. Take two
shots of Hennessy right now. No, no, no, that's right.
I'm advocating for it. Let's do it, let's do it up, baby.
Speaker 5: We don't excessive alcohol, folks.
Speaker 2: We'll see it s week for another episode of the
Giant BombCast.
Speaker 1: Until then, good bye, drink responsibly, drink responsibly, yes, fine, oh,
keep fun whatever,