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