Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome back to the fire Escape Cast. It
Speaker 1: is episode ninety six. That's no Venta, he says. If
Speaker 1: you're in France, I just got back from France recently.
Speaker 1: I'm still on French time. Whatever it is. It's always
Speaker 1: French time. Think that's Greenwich. I think that's Greenwich. Meantime,
Speaker 1: I'm back. That's not your last episode.
Speaker 2: Every time Mike says anything of value, we can just
Speaker 2: go ooh la la because he's always going to France
Speaker 2: and he's so Frene.
Speaker 1: So that's Mary kesh Hi. And also here is always
Speaker 1: with Dan Riker.
Speaker 3: It's still my favorite thing to look at Mike Maharty's
Speaker 3: Instagram stories, and every time before I press this picture,
Speaker 3: it's like, all right, wine or cats. That's like my
Speaker 3: favorite Instagram game show. And then sometimes it's bonus points
Speaker 3: and you're in France tweeting about wine and that's what
Speaker 3: I got the last week.
Speaker 1: The end of my pro bio says mostly wine and cats. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just got back. It was a nice visit. I
Speaker 1: was there for work, but I went. I went to
Speaker 1: a few spots I really like. I went. There was
Speaker 1: a little Christmas pop up market, over in the sixth also,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame I think, just did its grand reopening after the.
Speaker 2: Already that just went went away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I forgot. They put you know, they put
Speaker 1: their best people on it. I assume they do. I
Speaker 1: don't know any I don't have any insight info, but
Speaker 1: we were in a.
Speaker 2: High priority for them. That's a huge straw.
Speaker 1: It's their national one of their symbols and ship. But
Speaker 1: I was the tents were all set up around it,
Speaker 1: so I saw that, but I was gone before that.
Speaker 1: I had maybe the most nightmarish nightmarishly close missing my
Speaker 1: flight back from France. Really yeah, So I had a
Speaker 1: twelve fifty five PM flight back to Newark. So I
Speaker 1: woke up at what was it like eight fifty five
Speaker 1: four hours. I woke up four hours ahead of the flight.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I kind of overshot this. I
Speaker 1: can sleep for a little longer, and I snoozed it.
Speaker 1: And when I woke up, I just happened to wake
Speaker 1: up later realize I just stopped my alarm. I didn't
Speaker 1: snooze it. So I woke back up at like ninth
Speaker 1: forty five and the flight was boarding at twelve oh five. However,
Speaker 1: there's been like construction on the highways between Charles Degaal
Speaker 1: and Paris. So it occurred to me. Then I was like,
Speaker 1: oh god right. It took like an hour forty five
Speaker 1: in the uber to get here, so I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm still fine. So you know, I was.
Speaker 1: I had packed up, I was ready to go, and
Speaker 1: we passed. We had like two accidents on the highway
Speaker 1: on the way there. So I got to the airport
Speaker 1: at and the uber went to the wrong he went
Speaker 1: to the arrivals level instead of departures. So I was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's fine, I can I can go down. I'll walk
Speaker 1: take the elevator up. He just kept driving, and he
Speaker 1: spoke English like I taught. I spoke English with him
Speaker 1: when he first picked me up.
Speaker 2: Maybe he only knew the words that he gave you
Speaker 2: when he picked you up. Maybe he doesn't speak English.
Speaker 2: He only knows like hi, thanks for taking the super
Speaker 2: And then any other time you're talking to him, he's like,
Speaker 2: I have no idea what this means.
Speaker 1: That's entirely possible. But I got to the airport at
Speaker 1: eleven thirty, and you know, I hadn't gone through customs yet,
Speaker 1: and I had a bag to check. I had several
Speaker 1: bottles of liquid that I was checking, kind of liquid
Speaker 1: Mike Wine, Chartruse, cremdick Asis, and one of them was
Speaker 1: a gift for Amanda. So I really wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure I got that. I didn't like dump anything or
Speaker 1: not dump it, but like get rid of it. So
Speaker 1: I got to United's bag check and they had shut
Speaker 1: down the computers. I've never gotten so late that they like.
Speaker 1: So I told I told two. There's these two women
Speaker 1: at the desk and I told them. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's nightmare getting here. Is there any
Speaker 1: way I could check this bag and not have to
Speaker 1: get a new flight or you know, dump all this.
Speaker 1: One's like no, I can't do it. The others like
Speaker 1: I just missed it. I was like, there's a gift
Speaker 1: for my wife in there. She's like, we'll make an exception.
Speaker 1: So well, I was telling the truth like I meant it, so.
Speaker 2: The old disappointed life routine.
Speaker 1: And then I get to security. I get through customs
Speaker 1: smoothly enough, but I get to security and they're one
Speaker 1: of the tray conveyor belts at TSA was shut down
Speaker 1: because they had a bomb dog sniffing. I think it
Speaker 1: was like a routine sniff of the conveyor belt, so
Speaker 1: we're all, like everybody at the United terminal was going
Speaker 1: through one like tray conveyor belt, so it's taken forever.
Speaker 1: I made my flight just as it was like my
Speaker 1: I literally hit the gate when my group was called.
Speaker 1: But that was kind of perfect. But then, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, on the way back, I was really worried
Speaker 1: my bag wouldn't make it because they had to like
Speaker 1: reopen the computers and it said like status pending in
Speaker 1: the app for the bag tracker, but it all wants
Speaker 1: smoothly from there. Nice. Yeah, I was like, I've never
Speaker 1: pushed it that I've either missed a flight. I've only
Speaker 1: ever missed like two flights in my life stenuating circumstances.
Speaker 1: But that was the closest I've gotten to to not
Speaker 1: making it back on time.
Speaker 3: I'd like connecting ones that, like, you know, if the
Speaker 3: first one was delayed and you have to just like
Speaker 3: spread through a terminal and you barely make it.
Speaker 4: But I don't think I've ever straight up missed the flight.
Speaker 2: I have had the closest call of my life last
Speaker 2: year going to Spain, I think we should have missed
Speaker 2: the flight. We just we just cut it way too close.
Speaker 2: Everything was late, there was traffic. It was our fault
Speaker 2: too for like leaving as late as we did and
Speaker 2: assuming it would be fine. And they also said the
Speaker 2: computers are shut down. You're not gonna make it, so
Speaker 2: I wouldn't check your bag if we could, and me
Speaker 2: and my coworker Alyssa just kind of looked at them
Speaker 2: and were like, please, just just try and we are
Speaker 2: fast runners and we will we will make this flight.
Speaker 2: And by the grace of God, she was like, okay,
Speaker 2: and she checked our bags.
Speaker 1: Oh it's Spanish, it's okay.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, and we sprinted to the gate. And of course,
Speaker 2: in just the rush of everything, I left a full
Speaker 2: water bottle in my book bag, so when I went
Speaker 2: through security, I got stopped because of my water bottle.
Speaker 2: And they kind of each security protocol is different with
Speaker 2: how much of a dick they want to be to you.
Speaker 2: But in this one they were like, do you want
Speaker 2: to throw the bottle away or do you want to
Speaker 2: go back through security? And I was like walking away
Speaker 2: as I said, throw it away. So yes, of course
Speaker 2: it's called it. But that's before you go through security.
Speaker 2: If they catch you, if you go through security, then
Speaker 2: they have a couple options. One is you go all
Speaker 2: the way back through security with your water bottle or
Speaker 2: dump or like I'm throwing the whole bottle away, and
Speaker 2: if you have like a reusable bottle, that's pretty gutting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But in this very particular case, I had like snagged
Speaker 2: a bottle of water on probably one of the journeys
Speaker 2: I was on. So it was just a plastic bottle
Speaker 2: of water. And so for them to even ask me
Speaker 2: that question, I was like, I'm literally a ghost. You
Speaker 2: are speaking to my dust as I walk away, throw
Speaker 2: away that water bottle. I don't have time for this ship.
Speaker 2: And we ran the entire way to the gate with
Speaker 2: like all of our bags, and it was way faster.
Speaker 2: I were way further along than yours, Mike. They were
Speaker 2: doing last call. We could hear them on the speaker
Speaker 2: going like last call for this flight.
Speaker 1: Running and then you hit and then you run into
Speaker 1: the person taking the tickets, and then all the tickets scatter,
Speaker 1: and then you get a plane to New York City
Speaker 1: in South Florida, and then two robbers come and they're
Speaker 1: seeking revenge from when you fucked with them in Chicago. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a different time in my life.
Speaker 1: Times after that, but we don't talk about those two five.
Speaker 3: The third time it happened to was someone else. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and also Prince Stewart was there. Yeah, oh god he was. Wow,
Speaker 3: I forgot about that. Oh here's a question. I actually
Speaker 3: I do not know why you can't. Why can't you
Speaker 3: bring liquids on a plane bomb star through through security?
Speaker 2: Probably the easiest thing is the answer is nine to eleven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's probably just like certain liquords that you could
Speaker 3: probably do bomb stuff with or something, and so they're
Speaker 3: just like that, don't you can have anything that you
Speaker 3: get after the gate?
Speaker 1: But that's it? Is that why there's a limit on
Speaker 1: the ounces of like hygiene stuff? Okay, yeah, they probably
Speaker 1: determined that something like that. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was an alcohol thing or whatever, but.
Speaker 2: No, oh no, it's easy to get alcohol in I've
Speaker 2: never love it when you have alcohol.
Speaker 1: I have brought so.
Speaker 3: Much alcohol onto planes and it's never been a problem.
Speaker 3: I don't needymore.
Speaker 1: But wait, how did you get it through security?
Speaker 3: You just bring the fucking like I used to like
Speaker 3: fly with like four or five airplane bottles of like
Speaker 3: the mini bottles. Yeah, so like none of them. They
Speaker 3: don't even like take them out. And I've seen them
Speaker 3: see it before when like pulling my switch out, but
Speaker 3: they asked if you.
Speaker 1: Have liquid, right, and they just don't care if it's
Speaker 1: a certain if it's below the three ounces or as
Speaker 1: long as.
Speaker 2: It's below the ounce amount. And it used to supposed
Speaker 2: to be needed to be in a plastic baggie and
Speaker 2: they don't care about that anymore either, so long as
Speaker 2: it's below the required amount. Because I travel with all
Speaker 2: sorts of like makeup liquid and no one bats an eye.
Speaker 2: But if it's a twelve ounce bottle of water, you
Speaker 2: know they're tackling me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also, like I have been in trouble for just
Speaker 2: wearing my giant bomb sweater, which is so stupid.
Speaker 3: That's something every single time I'm wearing like a giant
Speaker 3: bomb hoodie, I always take it off or reverse it
Speaker 3: or put it in my bag or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like we should just.
Speaker 1: You should get a sweatshirt that just says small bomb okay,
Speaker 1: under through under three and a half fluid half ounces.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yes, they're gonna think that's hilarious.
Speaker 1: And things went really well on the Under three and
Speaker 1: a half Fluid ounces Bomb Couch at the Game Awards.
Speaker 4: That's going to go gret It rolls off, brevity.
Speaker 1: Rolls off the tongue. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anything to stick it to TSA. I would. I would
Speaker 2: give up a lot of branding just to just to
Speaker 2: wipe the smug looks on their faces. As they all
Speaker 2: have different rules and requirements, it really like irritates me
Speaker 2: how some of them will be like, yeah, you need
Speaker 2: to take off your shoes and it's like, well, not
Speaker 2: in any other airport. You can't talk to me like
Speaker 2: I'm an idiot because you've changed your rules. I don't
Speaker 2: know your airport or you.
Speaker 1: I finally used it, was able to use Global entry.
Speaker 1: Oh it's great. I've had it for a bit. I
Speaker 1: had it when we came back from France, but I
Speaker 1: didn't want to leave Amanda in line by herself, so
Speaker 1: I did not use it. It's like scary how easy
Speaker 1: it is. You smile, you look at a camera and
Speaker 1: then they oh, now that I looked into a lens,
Speaker 1: it said wait, there's like three two one. It's like, yes,
Speaker 1: we know you, we have you. Everyone and then you
Speaker 1: tell the guy your name on the way out. So's yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: so fast. It is scary how much they can recognize
Speaker 1: your face just by scanning it. Minority Report was cool, Yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 2: Was cool for some parts. Yeah. I like the self
Speaker 2: driving cars that you could take a nap, and.
Speaker 1: We got those now too, right.
Speaker 3: I still don't like they say that they're just like
Speaker 3: driving all around San Francisco now and like I've never
Speaker 3: seen one, granted that's them to San Francisco, is even
Speaker 3: New York.
Speaker 2: In San Francisco I saw, if I would say, for
Speaker 2: every four regular cars, I saw only.
Speaker 1: Just imagining Dan running into intersections and look at cars
Speaker 1: had on to see if they have drivers.
Speaker 3: Like hey, wait, so can you It's just like an
Speaker 3: uber thing, like you use an app and you just
Speaker 3: take a nap in the back.
Speaker 4: That sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I think I think a lot of people have anxiety
Speaker 2: about riding them because they do every once in a while,
Speaker 2: they do strange little things, and it's always based on
Speaker 2: human stuff they can't predict, right, so like a car
Speaker 2: cutting them off or a pedestrian like walking right in
Speaker 2: front of them that kind of like absolutely can trip
Speaker 2: up AI still they're just not they're not prepared for
Speaker 2: human randomization, like they need to predict everything that I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do.
Speaker 1: It's I've never I haven't poured over the statistics in
Speaker 1: a while, but I imagine it's probably safer than half
Speaker 1: the drivers you can get.
Speaker 3: That's the thing is, like it is kind of surprising
Speaker 3: that it would be on the road if there are
Speaker 3: still hiccups, But also people are idiots and bad drivers,
Speaker 3: so it's like, I don't know, is it's actually that
Speaker 3: much less safe.
Speaker 1: Half the drivers they justify your work are psychos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're just cutting left and right.
Speaker 2: I have a statistical less likely chance of killing someone
Speaker 2: or getting into an accident than a regular person, and
Speaker 2: that's probably how they can get away with it. But again,
Speaker 2: like you just never know what some crazy person's gonna do,
Speaker 2: and that's probably when the AI is like I did
Speaker 2: not predict eight people linking arms for the trees. Not ready. No,
Speaker 2: I got all this data back here, and I am
Speaker 2: not prepared for this.
Speaker 1: Woman all now. But yeah, but then on the bright side,
Speaker 1: once you do run over the protesters, they're like the
Speaker 1: the the hippie tree people you were just talking about.
Speaker 1: Now it knows to avoid them next time. So you
Speaker 1: kind of did teaching them, Okay.
Speaker 2: Active learning aiah, it's really smart. Yeah, every time it
Speaker 2: kills a pedestrian, it's always like I've updated my system.
Speaker 3: It's the remorse that the cars feel that you know
Speaker 3: they're not going to make that mistake again.
Speaker 1: Now I know that humans can wear yellow jackets, and
Speaker 1: I won't hit them next time. I see one machine learning?
Speaker 2: Why was I programmed to feel pain? It's at his funeral.
Speaker 1: It's it's sunglasses on. It's it's in love with another
Speaker 1: self driving car, and they it just runs straight into
Speaker 1: it when it's trying to hump it.
Speaker 3: Somberly drops off a bouquet of flowers under the casket
Speaker 3: with its tire hand.
Speaker 2: He suspecial, especialcial.
Speaker 1: What's been up with you guys since I two episodes ago?
Speaker 3: Oh God went home the holidays? Was my dad talks
Speaker 3: about you a lot?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You text me about him talking about me a lot? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He texted me about you. He texted me, did you
Speaker 3: see he got that? Like Marie? I got shrimp and wine.
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm like, mahardy here look at me with
Speaker 3: his mind he bought that. Yeah, and then he's like,
Speaker 3: I'm being fancy like Maharty.
Speaker 1: Uh oh oh shrimp mac and cheese with white wine
Speaker 1: and yeah.
Speaker 3: And he texted me how fancy he was being, And
Speaker 3: He's like, do you actually enjoy your time with Maharty?
Speaker 1: He's one of my best friends. I've known him for
Speaker 1: like fourteen years. You enjoy your time with me? Of
Speaker 1: course Dan does. No, he doesn't, No, he does No.
Speaker 1: Me and him always get along really well on like
Speaker 1: the live streams We've done a ba He you.
Speaker 3: Can talk sports, which he will instantly respect someone if
Speaker 3: you can talk sports.
Speaker 1: The last time I hung out with him, we got
Speaker 1: like what it was with me you Amanda Annimal We
Speaker 1: got yeah. And then when did karaoke and he had
Speaker 1: a blast. I thought. He still just.
Speaker 3: Teaches about and talks about you all the time, and
Speaker 3: it's usually and I'm like, I'm a heardy.
Speaker 1: I think I'm flattered. I'm in his head. Did I
Speaker 1: tell I said this on the BombCast? But did I
Speaker 1: tell you what happened with this house? No? But now
Speaker 1: I'm no.
Speaker 3: This is on the pall scale, even by Paul standards
Speaker 3: of weird decisions. This is mount Rushmore of.
Speaker 4: His entire life. And trust me, that's a crazy mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm ready.
Speaker 3: I get home and this guy we're talking for like
Speaker 3: four hours and then he's like, I got some big
Speaker 3: news and I was like what. And he's like, he
Speaker 3: never has big news because he just kind of does
Speaker 3: the same thing all the time.
Speaker 2: Like what, doesn't do anything?
Speaker 3: No, he doesn't leave the house, he doesn't talk to people,
Speaker 3: he doesn't socialize. So it's like, what is your big news?
Speaker 3: And he goes, I sold the house And I was
Speaker 3: like what. Like he's living in this place for like
Speaker 3: twenty five years. It looks exactly this today as it
Speaker 3: looked twenty five years ago, same everything, and it's like
Speaker 3: this is a wild thing for him to do without
Speaker 3: telling anyone, and like the house was sold. First of all,
Speaker 3: the reason he sold the house was because for the
Speaker 3: last several years he's hated that when he smokes outside
Speaker 3: on the front on the front deck, sometimes his neighbors
Speaker 3: come home and they stop and chat with him, and
Speaker 3: he hates that. He says, I need more solitude. I
Speaker 3: need more solitude. And I said, okay, smoke on the
Speaker 3: back deck and he gets mad when I bring it
Speaker 3: up because he's like, it's a weird door. Dan quit
Speaker 3: bringing up the back theor like it's a whole weird
Speaker 3: I have to put a wooden thing down there to
Speaker 3: lock it it's hold. And I was like, well, to
Speaker 3: pay someone to change your door. Don't sell the house
Speaker 3: because you don't want to talk to people while you're smoking.
Speaker 3: But he sold the house without telling anyone, and I
Speaker 3: guess he sold it. And then like, so he sold
Speaker 3: it because he didn't want to fix any toilets. He
Speaker 3: didn't want to like he just want to be like
Speaker 3: I just want to sell it. I don't want to
Speaker 3: do anything. And so we sold it for like super
Speaker 3: low value. So we got a lot of interest right away.
Speaker 3: This one couple toured it a couple of times, they
Speaker 3: got the inspection, they got the offer, approved paperwork, contracts
Speaker 3: written up, and I realized, like, oh wait, movie is
Speaker 3: going to be paying in the ass. And he asked
Speaker 3: his realtor, Hey, can I'm going to back out of this?
Speaker 3: And she's like you can't, no, No, they already did
Speaker 3: the inspection, signed the contracts, yeah, but can he just
Speaker 3: like ask him? And they asked the new buyers. They're like, no,
Speaker 3: what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Like, wh are you talking to the bank we paid
Speaker 1: the inspector.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So anyway, I'm just like trying to purse together,
Speaker 3: like is this a good idea? Like this is just
Speaker 3: weird how we didn't tell anyone. He didn't tell his daughters,
Speaker 3: his sisters, anyone. And I was like, so, what's the plan,
Speaker 3: because like when do you have to be out He's like, oh,
Speaker 3: like a December ninth, So.
Speaker 2: Tim up, yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 3: And he told me this on Thanksgiving. I was like wait,
Speaker 3: and like ten days you have to be out here?
Speaker 3: Like where are you moving? He goes, well, that's the
Speaker 3: thing like when I decided to do this, I hadn't
Speaker 3: thought about this stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, where am I going to live next?
Speaker 3: So he doesn't know what this is a motherfucker that
Speaker 3: if he's ever on a flight for like three weeks
Speaker 3: ahead of time, he's checking the weather, he's checking the
Speaker 3: flight status. He's just like everything, a single thing has
Speaker 3: been planned out like crazy, and he's sent home fucking
Speaker 3: house without a planet.
Speaker 1: On house Mary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he is moving in to a extended stay smoking.
Speaker 2: You have any friend that's too woke?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's me. That's what we all know. So okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I I So he's moving on hotel. So
Speaker 1: he's moving.
Speaker 3: Into an extended stay smoking hotel. Okay, And so came
Speaker 3: on to this is the guy that will not buy
Speaker 3: anything if he doesn't have a cubon.
Speaker 4: He's like super duper cheap.
Speaker 3: And he also doesn't know what anything costs since like
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety two. Like when we went to Boston last year,
Speaker 3: he was like, find a hotel near Fenway that's like
Speaker 3: maximum sixty dollars a night. Dad, That's just not that's
Speaker 3: not how costs anymore. So I don't think he knows
Speaker 3: how much it's going to cost to Like, as of this.
Speaker 2: Recording, where's this stuff going.
Speaker 4: In a storage locker? So he's putting stuff in a
Speaker 4: storage locker?
Speaker 2: What about it is furniture.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's the other thing.
Speaker 3: So he's bringing all that he has like a twenty
Speaker 3: five year old fridge that doesn't work, so he has
Speaker 3: to shoved towels and to keep air from coming out,
Speaker 3: it's got a hose snaking around the back and dripping
Speaker 3: into a bucket.
Speaker 1: He has to drain a couple of times a day.
Speaker 3: And it just said like, oh, bright side is you'll
Speaker 3: at least get to start over with a new fridge.
Speaker 3: And he's like, oh no, I'm bringing that what like
Speaker 3: the most difficult to move big in.
Speaker 1: The world, and it's broken and decades old.
Speaker 2: That's a part of the sale of the house.
Speaker 3: Though I don't know if he told him he's taking
Speaker 3: the fucking broken fridge.
Speaker 2: I mean, is there I have a question.
Speaker 1: Is there more than a zero percent chance he might
Speaker 1: just live in this extended stay hotel the rest of
Speaker 1: his life?
Speaker 3: I mean that is the concern with him is that,
Speaker 3: you know, he doesn't like doing things. So my thought
Speaker 3: is like, oh god, he's going to get a stuff
Speaker 3: in there. He's going to get comfortable. I asked him
Speaker 3: several times. He did say He's like, oh no, no, I
Speaker 3: got I've been moving to a place once it's perfect,
Speaker 3: but I am going to definitely move into a place.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what's perfect. He's like, I'm thinking of like
Speaker 3: a house. It's like a cabin in the woods one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars or less. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: I I don't know. I don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 3: find for under one hundred thousand dollars, and I don't
Speaker 3: know if a cabin in the woods is a good idea.
Speaker 3: So it's been a lot of us talking to him
Speaker 3: and just be like, ah, have you thought about this?
Speaker 3: I'd be like, we're trying to help him. Because the
Speaker 3: house is sold. You can't talk about of it now,
Speaker 3: so you can't talk.
Speaker 2: Him out of it. It's too late legally binding. No,
Speaker 2: he's not even there anymore. He's living in a motel,
Speaker 2: a smokable motel, which you just know is probably a
Speaker 2: big dinger, and he's gonna probably just jam it up
Speaker 2: in there and then die in it.
Speaker 3: If not, he's sixty one, that'd be I think a
Speaker 3: lot of time in a smoking hotel, even with his life.
Speaker 1: Scot Paul, you have bigger fish to fry than my
Speaker 1: highbrow hobby's annoying you, Yes.
Speaker 3: Just for send more time thinking about you and wine,
Speaker 3: and he thought about where he's going to move.
Speaker 1: Next time someone's bothering you, just pretend you're on the
Speaker 1: phone like the rest of us. Yeah, say I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: have headphones and I don't know I have headphones. Put
Speaker 1: like a wear like a VR mask while you're smoking.
Speaker 1: Next you go on your back and by by a
Speaker 1: door that needs a wooden thing to lock. Are you
Speaker 1: talking about when you put a little like a ship rod,
Speaker 1: it's just a rod to the sliding door. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: so can't when you need to go out. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then I bring that up and I'm like, it's
Speaker 3: more complicated than that. You don't understand. And I was like, well,
Speaker 3: just get you can get a whole new door. That's
Speaker 3: not that's not an option.
Speaker 1: That's not an option. Okay.
Speaker 2: The least complicated option is selling all of your house
Speaker 2: and packing up all of your ship and moving into
Speaker 2: a fucking motel.
Speaker 1: He's a signelay. The easiest way's.
Speaker 2: That says, don't talk to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't. Yeah, it's just it's it's always
Speaker 3: a surprise. Actually, it's usually never a surprise. It's usually
Speaker 3: exactly what you've seen the last eight hundred times you've
Speaker 3: seen him. But this one is like, oh wait, he
Speaker 3: actually made a big change and this has not been
Speaker 3: thought through it.
Speaker 2: All, and like we had a huge change. It's a
Speaker 2: life change.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We were like being his daughter and his sister were
Speaker 3: bringing it up a Thanksgiving. He's like, it's gonna be fine,
Speaker 3: everything's fine. It's gonna be totally fine. All right, So
Speaker 3: like checking with them, like any movement on stuff. He
Speaker 3: was like, I'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: What if he secretly won the lottery and he's not
Speaker 1: telling anybody, and like he ends up in a.
Speaker 2: I think that's a Paul record move right there.
Speaker 1: Really big like wooden lodge in the woods.
Speaker 3: No, he wouldn't like No, he would still buy exactly
Speaker 3: the same stuff he buys and live exactly how he lived.
Speaker 1: I know he spend the money on anything, give it
Speaker 1: to you you No, No, definitely not that. Oh I know.
Speaker 2: Actually, okay, is it pussy?
Speaker 4: Oh that's a hold to do?
Speaker 1: Sean cut all this. I didn't say anything. I didn't either.
Speaker 1: I just said I knew what it was.
Speaker 2: I think I think I know him the best on anybody.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we're all hoping the best. We're all Paul there,
Speaker 3: hopefully find something he's happy with. We'll check in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, best of luck, Paul. Yeah, enjoy your wine, white wine,
Speaker 1: mac and cheese. Yes, yes, sounds terrible. It does sound
Speaker 1: pretty gross with you there.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna beat that. That's the crazy fucking ship
Speaker 2: I've ever heard, Like little hotel has a hope, like,
Speaker 2: does it have a kitchen? You know, does it microwave?
Speaker 1: He hasn't looked into it yet. Extended stays usually have
Speaker 1: a kitchen at Wait, he's not at the hotel yet.
Speaker 3: No, he hasn't even looked at Like, he doesn't even
Speaker 3: know if there are any around where he lives.
Speaker 1: He's just like, I'll figure it out. Okay, gotcha's interesting.
Speaker 2: Shows up on your front porch. You're gonna have to
Speaker 2: turn off the light so he thinks you're not home.
Speaker 1: You just know where where headphones. Pretend you're on the phone.
Speaker 1: He won't he won't be able to bother you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Teach him.
Speaker 2: Teach him the most difficult lesson a son can teach.
Speaker 3: A father a masterful perry by going on my back deck.
Speaker 3: You can't get back there.
Speaker 2: Put a pole in your back deck sliding door.
Speaker 1: Yeah he knows, he doesn't. It's a forest field. All
Speaker 1: it takes is a wooden rod to stop him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like a weird vampire.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't need Like if he was in prison, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't need an actual jail cell. You just use a
Speaker 1: sliding door with a wooden rod on his side. No less, Yes,
Speaker 1: that he could open. No, it's a big thing. It's
Speaker 1: more complicated than you think. He'd like in prison himself
Speaker 1: in his house for the last twenty five years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fun stuff. Did he ever comment on what I
Speaker 1: named my Hulu profile?
Speaker 3: He occasionally does, but I think it makes him mad
Speaker 3: and he doesn't like bring it up. Like he pulled
Speaker 3: up Hulu while I was at his place and it
Speaker 3: was like right there and he's just like, I feel
Speaker 3: like it's just a lot of silence, just shaking his head.
Speaker 1: That's been I've kept that current one for like eight
Speaker 1: months now. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Mary, it's we we all
Speaker 1: share Hulu Premium or whatever it's called.
Speaker 2: Oh that's nice. Isn't that a crime?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: We all pay no individual accounts. We just share each
Speaker 3: other's names with each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sean, cut this too, continue to storry. I changed
Speaker 1: my I think we talked about this much earlier in
Speaker 1: the episode count, but I changed the name every once
Speaker 1: a while just to mess with them, because he told
Speaker 1: me at one He told Dan at one point that
Speaker 1: it annoys him because he watches it before bed so often.
Speaker 1: The last thing he sees before he turns on who
Speaker 1: loot to fall asleep or whatever is what my profile
Speaker 1: is called right now, it's just Paul loves l u
Speaker 1: V E l u v s Katie Perry and I'll
Speaker 1: just a routine I used to routinely change it.
Speaker 3: Well, that one is true in some aspects? Does he
Speaker 3: in some aspects?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Oh that's not funny anymore because it's Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a dog coming off the subway yesterday. Speaking
Speaker 1: of boobies and people, we all like, there was a
Speaker 1: dog coming off the subway yesterday, and the owner was like, no, Zenya. No,
Speaker 1: the dog's name was Zenya. This is a very weird
Speaker 1: what's going on in my head now? Yeah, this dog
Speaker 1: is named after my sexual awakening.
Speaker 3: I did min Max's charity stream a few weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and they Hansen told me the day of He's like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're doing something called a hear me Out cake where
Speaker 3: it's like we have a cake and everyone has to
Speaker 3: come with like a bunch of different like ideas of
Speaker 3: like hear me out. Here's an unconventional thing I find attractive.
Speaker 1: That was a theme as you had to say yeah.
Speaker 3: So it was like so when I got there, everything
Speaker 3: else was like everyone that was on that show, was
Speaker 3: saying stuff like Ben had like it was like a
Speaker 3: tron bike and like one of them was like a
Speaker 3: mouse cursor that was like curvy or something, and so
Speaker 3: everyone just had a bunch of stuff, And I don't
Speaker 3: think I have a lot of unconventional So, like my
Speaker 3: person was like, here's Bombka Johnson next to like a
Speaker 3: weird tron bike that Hansen wants to fuck.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's she's unconventional. But I couldn't think,
Speaker 1: like I don't have any like fiction people with her
Speaker 1: thighs that is unconventionally attractive.
Speaker 3: To kill people like that's normally not what you find
Speaker 3: a dragon's hot out.
Speaker 1: If that's about I'm the weirdest man in the world.
Speaker 2: You are, But I think, like hear me, out cakes
Speaker 2: are very specifically about like it should be something that
Speaker 2: everybody else in the room is like, that's insane, you
Speaker 2: couldn't possibly be attracted to. Probably really should be like Clippy,
Speaker 2: the you know, Windows icon. It should be some obscure
Speaker 2: thing that is like barely cognizant. It should it should
Speaker 2: freak people out. That's the purpose of it. If it's
Speaker 2: if it's regular hot attractive human. You fucked it up.
Speaker 3: I tried to think of like, No, it's just like
Speaker 3: hot ladies are put I just want.
Speaker 2: To put a bo like nacho uh cheese on there
Speaker 2: because I think, like on your darkest night, you might.
Speaker 3: I'm not horny, Like there's difference between and horny. Hunger
Speaker 3: and horny are very different.
Speaker 1: Not.
Speaker 3: Your cheese has never entered the periphery of my mind
Speaker 3: during a sexual moment.
Speaker 1: Uh. Some people find what if?
Speaker 2: But what if? But what if she was hot.
Speaker 1: The nacho If a hot lady had nacho cheese.
Speaker 2: On her, No, if the nacho cheese had tits.
Speaker 1: No, just floating boobs, no cheesy bobs. No, it's just
Speaker 1: completely different parts of my brain trying to Are you
Speaker 1: you're really trying to tell us that cheesy boobs are hot?
Speaker 1: Do you you want to tell.
Speaker 2: Us something I'm just saying I think might hear me
Speaker 2: out cake is cheesy boobs.
Speaker 1: It's not like a dig. But I don't want to
Speaker 1: be accused of king shaming your love for cheesy.
Speaker 4: Under whatever you're into cheesy boobs.
Speaker 2: I mean you have to think beyond tradition. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to like push you in ways because that's again the
Speaker 2: point of this exercise is that perhaps it is a
Speaker 2: new design of like there's lady compartments and pieces to
Speaker 2: this being, but they are also often made of cheese
Speaker 2: and nachos or or something like that.
Speaker 1: This is not appealing to me at.
Speaker 2: Some kind of bean burrito, some.
Speaker 1: Y cheese in a beef burrito.
Speaker 2: Some kind of caseita case crito.
Speaker 3: I mean, if Monica Blue in a tortilla and like
Speaker 3: she'd be hot, but like it'd be od because it's
Speaker 3: Monica Balucci, not because of the tortilla.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be hot regardless. Okay, wait, hold on
Speaker 1: a second. Let Medsy you're I'm certain something. Can I
Speaker 1: change my video field, choose avatar in let me try that.
Speaker 1: I can't add something? What is it? Bullshit? I was
Speaker 1: gonna just replace my video with a Famka Johansen photo.
Speaker 1: And then that was the extent of the joke. I
Speaker 1: told you, I'm sure, Yeah, jealous, yeah, fucking killing it man.
Speaker 1: But no, I don't want to fuck cheese.
Speaker 2: Well that is fine, you don't have to. But the
Speaker 2: point of the exercise is to expand your mind outside
Speaker 2: of traditional hot people of the gender or people that
Speaker 2: you would usually be attracted to. It's to like push yourself,
Speaker 2: uh way beyond.
Speaker 3: But isn't the idea that, like, oh, here are someones.
Speaker 3: There's some examples of that I have found attracted throughout
Speaker 3: my life, and like I was like trying to think
Speaker 3: of some and I like, I have no shame in
Speaker 3: this again, like people be into whatever you want to,
Speaker 3: but like I just I couldn't think of like unconventional there.
Speaker 2: You know, I just don't think that you've ever pushed yourself.
Speaker 2: This doesn't actually have to be something that you've ever
Speaker 2: thought of before. This could be like for the first
Speaker 2: time in your life. You'd be like, uh, you know
Speaker 2: the girl Grimlin in Grimlin's.
Speaker 1: Two a little Yeah, she's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: That to hear Me out Cake.
Speaker 1: She's supposed to be Yeah, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: Hear me out cake, though.
Speaker 1: Not for me.
Speaker 2: That's well what if what if we covered cheese?
Speaker 1: No, that's not There's definitely been some movies throughout there's
Speaker 1: been There's been many movies throughout my life that I
Speaker 1: like catch myself thinking like why am I Why am
Speaker 1: I horny? Now? Like Power Rangers the Ives anything to
Speaker 1: do with the use secret of these turtles secret of
Speaker 1: Power Rangers. Oh secrets, but then yes, my power Power
Speaker 1: Rangers was the ives A.
Speaker 2: Turtle would definitely be like a hear me out cake situation,
Speaker 2: because anytime you're getting into any type of animal cartoons,
Speaker 2: you're starting to push the limitations.
Speaker 4: Here pass on animals and cartoons.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the point of this exercise again. And
Speaker 2: I can also see like a like a judgment free zone,
Speaker 2: and I agree with that stuff going on here.
Speaker 1: I could see, here's what for you, confiance. Okay, you
Speaker 1: just covered in for from head to toe.
Speaker 4: No, he already lost me.
Speaker 1: It's not a free no, but I'll get you there
Speaker 1: one day. No, I don't. That's a weird thing to
Speaker 1: We're not gonna have an episode left by the time
Speaker 1: eats editing. Yeah, nothing else new for me, I don't think.
Speaker 2: Uh huh what did I do?
Speaker 1: Uh? Oh?
Speaker 2: I went to a really cool themed bar.
Speaker 1: Well, I saw that.
Speaker 2: I like a good themed experience. And this bar is
Speaker 2: called Raven's Manner, and it's known for having kind of
Speaker 2: obscure morbid curiosities. Right, so yeah, snake in a jar, skeletons,
Speaker 2: but of like animals.
Speaker 1: That are real cursor stagger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Actually, that's that's a great example.
Speaker 1: These are also all things I find unconventionally attracted.
Speaker 2: Okay, they're all on your freak cake.
Speaker 1: Daggers, yep.
Speaker 2: Anyway, for Christmas, they do Crampus, which is a nightmare
Speaker 2: holiday special, and they decorate the whole bar. It's already
Speaker 2: a scary bar, that's its point, right, and it has
Speaker 2: like themed rooms and horror rooms that you have to
Speaker 2: like escape out of or whatever. That's its like thing.
Speaker 2: But now they've decorated it, and it's fucking crazy. They
Speaker 2: had Christmas trees that were made of baby doll heads
Speaker 2: that were dismembered and weird.
Speaker 1: Looking, but the whole in the shape of a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: A regular traditional Christmas tree with tinsel, but all of
Speaker 2: the ornaments.
Speaker 1: Are dull ornaments.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, some of them. They had elves that were
Speaker 2: being tortured in different ways on the walls, elves like
Speaker 2: elf on a shelf, okay, and but the elves were
Speaker 2: like like they were like chained and like being you know,
Speaker 2: dismembered and stuff.
Speaker 1: They had also hear me out, Yeah, we really have
Speaker 1: not moved on at all.
Speaker 2: Actually, I'm starting to recognize what is Yeah, Frosty the Snowman,
Speaker 2: but he's got giant things and blood and a huge
Speaker 2: dick and.
Speaker 1: It's a carrot down there too. Didn't believe me when
Speaker 1: I told her there's a thing on Netflix movie called
Speaker 1: Hot Frosty.
Speaker 2: Hot Frosty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he comes to life and he's just like like
Speaker 1: a babe.
Speaker 4: Is it like a romantic comedy?
Speaker 1: It's what's her name? From all the nineties movies?
Speaker 2: Fetch Yeah, the girl who tries to not.
Speaker 1: The nineties movies Gretchen from is it Gretchen.
Speaker 2: Wieners, Gretchen Wieners from Being Girls? The girl tries to
Speaker 2: make Yeah, she's in it. And then so she puts
Speaker 2: her scarf on a snowman because he's got like a
Speaker 2: six pack, and she's like, wish you were real. And
Speaker 2: then he actually comes to life and bangs.
Speaker 3: Are that's a whole movie. Yeah, wow, what did they
Speaker 3: learn or whatever?
Speaker 2: Uh, you can bank snow and he turned into a
Speaker 2: he turned into a real guy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Anytime Snowman come up, it reminds me
Speaker 1: of these two.
Speaker 2: Hot Frosty would be a good.
Speaker 1: Uh dude, right yeah, yeah, like snow form, Oh snow
Speaker 1: form dude. Okay, got it. My uh, these two idiots
Speaker 1: that used to live in my neighborhood in high school.
Speaker 1: They were They spent like two hours making a snowman
Speaker 1: in the middle of their street, and the plan was
Speaker 1: to film them just running into it over with their car,
Speaker 1: and they drove into it and it just stopped the
Speaker 1: car dead in its tracks and like the car wrapped
Speaker 1: around this. They're completely fine. It just destroyed their car
Speaker 1: and it was the I saw the footage of it,
Speaker 1: and knowing that they're they were okay, made it the
Speaker 1: funniest fucking video I've ever seen in my life because
Speaker 1: they just fucking plowed into it and it it didn't move.
Speaker 1: It was the most like well constructed snowman I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in my life.
Speaker 4: Jesus.
Speaker 1: Those guys were me and my brother the Jackass era.
Speaker 2: It was television where we were all like gramming our
Speaker 2: grocery carts into like bushes.
Speaker 1: And Dan was running into trash cans and hoboken a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Yeah, it was no literally during Jackayes.
Speaker 3: I absolutely I still have videos on my hard drive
Speaker 3: of like us getting in trash cans and rolling down
Speaker 3: hills we gotten shopping carts behind target and went way
Speaker 3: too past and hit the curves and flew out like
Speaker 3: we We did every.
Speaker 4: Single thing on the show that they said don't try
Speaker 4: to do at home.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 3: It's a great time. Jackass was and it is fantastic.
Speaker 3: I love Jackass.
Speaker 2: They knew what they were doing anyway. So this bar
Speaker 2: is filled with really dark, decrepit stuff. There were stockings
Speaker 2: on the ceiling and there's like dismembered hands in them.
Speaker 1: Do you have to reachase? Are you encouraged to in
Speaker 1: the ceiling?
Speaker 2: You can't get in there?
Speaker 1: A skin stockings skin stockings, Yeah, stockings made out of skin.
Speaker 2: They had lamps that had face skin like had eyeholes.
Speaker 2: Shade was a face, Yeah it is. It's a very
Speaker 2: Portland thing, honestly. And anyway, all the drinks were funky
Speaker 2: little concoctions where they were like this is Grinch juice
Speaker 2: and it's green and it obviously used dry eyes. So
Speaker 2: there was like smoke stuff capp you know. It was
Speaker 2: a a good theme experience where they put in a
Speaker 2: lot of energy to make this place look crazy. I
Speaker 2: don't think it would be for the fate of Heart
Speaker 2: because it's so dark and gruesome. I think it's actually
Speaker 2: probably stressful to someone who doesn't like horror stuff, but
Speaker 2: for someone who really likes Halloween and enjoys Christmas festivities,
Speaker 2: it is the perfect combination of Halloween Christmas.
Speaker 1: I've ever had what's the name of it?
Speaker 4: I'm curious to.
Speaker 2: Ravens bar Ven Raven Ravens manner, sorry, Raven's manner. They
Speaker 2: only do they only do this Christmas thing from December
Speaker 2: to January, like it's a December situation. But when they do,
Speaker 2: like the trees with fucked up stuff. Yeah, and they
Speaker 2: have crampis. He's like an animatronic guy and he's like,
Speaker 2: eat children.
Speaker 1: What's great? Is it? Is it still like a what's
Speaker 1: the word I'm looking for? Is it still like similar
Speaker 1: morbid curiosity theme the rest of the year, just without Christmas?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, all year round weird shit and during Christmas
Speaker 2: they're like everything is Christmasy, but it's also still fucked up.
Speaker 3: They burned pentagrams into the Hamburger buns.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, this place is cool.
Speaker 4: I like this.
Speaker 2: Your drinks can come with tarot cards or like they're
Speaker 2: served on a Ouiji board like.
Speaker 1: Theyre looks like they live in Portland. Awesome. I just like,
Speaker 1: I've never seen more four more partland looking people in
Speaker 1: my life.
Speaker 2: They really do have that vibe to them for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, they've got like nome to plumes here, Mum
Speaker 1: Mordred Elizabeth Raven, Lady Maryann Raven aka Lady Red. All
Speaker 1: right cool.
Speaker 2: I was thoroughly impressed because usually when you do stuff
Speaker 2: like this like it feel it was a little hamstrung.
Speaker 2: These people are committed, a very committed space. It had,
Speaker 2: uh it even had like a casket and it had
Speaker 2: a sensor bar, so when you go past it, there's
Speaker 2: a knock from the inside, like somebody's in there. It's
Speaker 2: just cute, like they put a lot of energy into
Speaker 2: like making you a little scared, uh and stressed out,
Speaker 2: but also just enjoy the Christmas festivities.
Speaker 1: I love to be stressed out at bars.
Speaker 2: I yeah, it's during the holiday. There's a special time
Speaker 2: where you get to be scared. In Christmas.
Speaker 3: I can stress the bars for like go to order
Speaker 3: drink and it just seems like it takes twenty minutes
Speaker 3: for the bartender to see you. So that would be
Speaker 3: my theme bar if I wanted to be stressed was
Speaker 3: just the bartender never looks at you.
Speaker 2: Your horror bar is that they don't know that you're there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's exactly. I'm holding it, and.
Speaker 2: Then you look at your hand and look in the
Speaker 2: mirror and there's no there.
Speaker 1: My back. I don't even know this. Either during college
Speaker 1: or immediately after. My friend and I were at a
Speaker 1: very crowded bar in New York actually, and he ended
Speaker 1: up we were basically waiting for the bartender for so
Speaker 1: long that he ended up kind of like waving to
Speaker 1: try to flag her down, and she did not appreciate that.
Speaker 1: She said, never wave at bartenders, so he took it
Speaker 1: upon himself to try to get her. She left, he
Speaker 1: went to the other side, and then instead of waving,
Speaker 1: he just kept trying to like make eye contact with her,
Speaker 1: really wide eyed, like trying to get in her line
Speaker 1: of sight. And I think she she actually ended up
Speaker 1: finding it funny and as opposed to being further pissed.
Speaker 1: So it worked out. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually a really great ending, because I would
Speaker 2: have thought that she was just been even more pissed
Speaker 2: to been a bad story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it worked out. That was the same bar.
Speaker 1: If I told you guys this story where this is
Speaker 1: like the middle of the day and we've popped in.
Speaker 1: My my friend at the time was doing like beer
Speaker 1: sales from breweries direct to different bars, and he had
Speaker 1: to like make rounds. So he's like, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to come with me. So I went to get a
Speaker 1: burger at this one place on the south end of
Speaker 1: Medison Square Park that's no longer there. It used to
Speaker 1: be this like nautical theme bar. So I was sitting
Speaker 1: there eating a burger, and the landlord of the like
Speaker 1: bar and a few apartments above it came down while
Speaker 1: my friend was talking to the bartender and the manager,
Speaker 1: and she struck up a conversation with me. I don't
Speaker 1: know how else to describe her besides just saying she
Speaker 1: was a character, like she had she had been in
Speaker 1: this building long enough to be able to, like, you know,
Speaker 1: she had been renting out this bar for a long time.
Speaker 1: And she asked us what our names were, and we said,
Speaker 1: and I should also mention she seemed like she had
Speaker 1: been drinking since like ten am. She asked us what
Speaker 1: our names were were, like Mike and Nick. She's like
Speaker 1: Spike and Vic. What kind of crazy names to those? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'd call each other Vic and Spike a tag team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this all happened at the same bar over the years.
Speaker 1: I miss it, but but yeah, anyway.
Speaker 3: I've have I told you guys my stink bomb college
Speaker 3: thing that I used to do when bars were too busy.
Speaker 1: You'd let off stink bombs and crowded bars.
Speaker 3: So basically there's like there's this one bar in Lawrence
Speaker 3: called Brothers that my friends like to go to, and
Speaker 3: like it was good in that it was like dollar
Speaker 3: fifty you call it, so it's I can get a
Speaker 3: whiskey coke for dollar fifty on like a Friday night.
Speaker 3: But it was like a big kind of like Broie
Speaker 3: like bar with like a dance floor and stuff. And
Speaker 3: like I always hated that. I never wanted to, like
Speaker 3: hear popular music. I never wanted to dance or anything.
Speaker 3: So my friends would just find people to dance with
Speaker 3: and then go to the dance floor and I would
Speaker 3: just grumble and sit at the bar and stuff. But
Speaker 3: like they would never serve me. It was just always
Speaker 3: so damn busy and they would always serve like girls
Speaker 3: first and everything. So I'd just be standing there like
Speaker 3: a dope forever, trying to get a beer. And so
Speaker 3: I would typically have stink bombs on me, like the
Speaker 3: real bad ones in like glass that have like sulfurous
Speaker 3: like it will make an entire house smell like just
Speaker 3: the most potent fart ever for like a day and
Speaker 3: a half.
Speaker 4: And I would if.
Speaker 3: I was particularly salty that night or I couldn't get
Speaker 3: a drink, I would just crunch it under my foot
Speaker 3: and watch like mass amounts of people leave the bar
Speaker 3: just because like this smell is so fucking bad here,
Speaker 3: and now I get to get my.
Speaker 2: Drinks and you were just enjoying your fart filled bar.
Speaker 1: That is, I mean, that's better than not having a
Speaker 1: drink at a bar. I don't know, it's just the
Speaker 1: most I don't even I don't. I'm too tired to
Speaker 1: tell you how pissed off that makes me that he
Speaker 1: did that. I know it's proferit.
Speaker 3: There were plenty just like, oh boy, I would have
Speaker 3: kicked my own ass time back there.
Speaker 1: I don't have the energy to get to lay into
Speaker 1: you right now, I will say.
Speaker 2: When I first moved to San Francisco, I lived on
Speaker 2: a busier street that was right outside of a club,
Speaker 2: and within my first two weeks of moving in the
Speaker 2: club would let out at two in the morning, and
Speaker 2: these people who are dancing in the club would put
Speaker 2: music on in their cars and dance in the street.
Speaker 2: And they did it every like weekend, you know, Friday
Speaker 2: and Saturday night that when I was there, Yeah, the
Speaker 2: one right off of Sutter and I I was so
Speaker 2: frustrated because they would party until four in the morning.
Speaker 2: That dan I went to a store and bought stink
Speaker 2: bombs and the next Saturday, You're a monster. But I
Speaker 2: opened up my window and through through stink bombs at
Speaker 2: them while they were doing their little uh dancing at
Speaker 2: three in the morning, and I did get them to
Speaker 2: stop doing it. I think, well, I don't know if it.
Speaker 1: Was me.
Speaker 2: Doing it such a baby about it. I like opened
Speaker 2: I turned off all the lights, I opened up my window,
Speaker 2: and I kind of like you know, tried to throw
Speaker 2: them as close as I could to the group, and
Speaker 2: then like hid and went back to bed. But they
Speaker 2: stopped doing it after a couple of weeks, and so
Speaker 2: I figured there was maybe it was working. But I
Speaker 2: also heard that someone ended up getting stabbed at that club,
Speaker 2: so oh, it could have been.
Speaker 1: Drink.
Speaker 3: He couldn't get a drink Wow, they still sell them.
Speaker 3: I was thinking like, oh, I wonder if they just
Speaker 3: don't sell those anymore. But they sell them on Amazon
Speaker 3: and they look exactly like cartoon guy stinky on the
Speaker 3: on the cover.
Speaker 1: Yeahals, you have to break step.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, wow, they still just do this, don't they. Wait,
Speaker 3: wet birds spray. Oh, I've never done firt spray, but yeah,
Speaker 3: these are vials. Probably the spray is not fun.
Speaker 4: I should buy some of these vials.
Speaker 1: They Oh god, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, you don't know, sent them to your dad because
Speaker 2: it could have saved him from selling his fucking house
Speaker 2: if he just made it really stinky.
Speaker 4: You working on that without the stink bomb.
Speaker 1: The neighbors coming up to say hi, and he just
Speaker 1: immediately starts dropping him on the deck and stomping on them. Ye,
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 3: What are dude bombs? It's from the dude wipes people.
Speaker 3: What toilet Oh, dude dude bombs, toilet stink eliminator.
Speaker 1: What are dude wipes? Oh?
Speaker 3: I guess I don't know dude wipes because they sponsored
Speaker 3: like a WrestleMania match.
Speaker 1: I assume it's just like.
Speaker 3: Like sanitary wipes or when you're shitting, but like marketing
Speaker 3: it's like the Doctor Pepper ten of wipes for your butt.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know. I talk about you keep using
Speaker 1: ten is the one that keep for women? You keep
Speaker 1: comparing things to other things that I then have further
Speaker 1: questions about.
Speaker 3: Doctor Pepper ten is the one with ten manly calories.
Speaker 3: It's not for women like those diet sodas. Yes, gotcha.
Speaker 3: It's a clever, clever marketing.
Speaker 4: Wow, there's lots of different man.
Speaker 3: The stink bomb industry is blown up since I last
Speaker 3: used one. They have Trump branded tink bombs.
Speaker 2: You should invest in stink bombs.
Speaker 4: Stink bomb stock is going high.
Speaker 1: Yeah. T n K an actual stock probably, Oh.
Speaker 3: My, oh god, it's stonks. That's what it is. Stonks.
Speaker 1: Ticker is s t n K like a meme stock.
Speaker 4: It sounds like it's probably some thing.
Speaker 2: I think stinks is funnier stinks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Stink's a good word for what it is.
Speaker 2: S t i n X stinks.
Speaker 4: We can't have five? Can you on your ticker?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: The hashtag is s right, do you know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Like you use the money symbol.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do? Like dollar sign? Oh, you can use
Speaker 1: the dollar sign as the first dollar sign tank, So
Speaker 1: you're saying Tink would be the okay tanks with an X.
Speaker 1: But then when the dollar sign look like stinks okay
Speaker 1: Tinks stock? Can we just come up with a crazy
Speaker 1: Are we gonna be millionaires from the episode?
Speaker 4: No, there's nothing has the Tinks sticker?
Speaker 1: That's it. That's the ons good make that for stink
Speaker 1: bomb company. Why is kind of stock called Tinks on
Speaker 1: the stock trade?
Speaker 2: Why are they trading stocks at all?
Speaker 1: They're all in on the stink bomb market? All right?
Speaker 1: Listen up, everybody, can I is a fraud if I
Speaker 1: like encourage people to go buy a stock and probably
Speaker 1: let's amplify it.
Speaker 2: If you pump and dump it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's an pumping Wait, Tinks is at Tinks
Speaker 3: is a TikTok. This is an influencer. There's a woman
Speaker 3: named Tinks. Uh so we'd have to fight her for it.
Speaker 3: But I don't think she's on the stock exchange.
Speaker 1: What does she do?
Speaker 4: What's she influence?
Speaker 3: She does the It's Me Tinks podcast on Stitcher radio.
Speaker 3: Tinker Bell pop culture and Relationships, Oh Okay. In April
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, a series of controversial tweets posted by
Speaker 3: tinks resurface on a thread and the subredded R slash
Speaker 3: tinks dark.
Speaker 1: What was controversial?
Speaker 3: They were fat bo big, misogynistic, targeting stars such as
Speaker 3: Kim Kardashian. Okay, come did collaborate with Tabasco Sauce in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, though, so she came back, Oh ship
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Tinks Bowl in collaboration was Chipotle nice wow
Speaker 3: resurging Yeah, though, No.
Speaker 2: You're going straight to dumping. You're not pumping.
Speaker 1: I'm prem prety all dump no pump anticipatory dump.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that means it's fun to say
Speaker 3: all all dump no pump, Yeah, all dump.
Speaker 1: I sent dan a uh. Instagram is really honed in
Speaker 1: on my tastes. It's served me ads for these like
Speaker 1: T shirts that it's like old school Japanese wood cut styles,
Speaker 1: but it's a black cat sitting like a human on
Speaker 1: a toilet smoking a cigarette, and that it says born
Speaker 1: to ship, forced to wipe.
Speaker 2: The baize.
Speaker 1: Instagram DM history is weird. It's a lot of office
Speaker 1: wine memes and like he's sending him Mad Tower in Paris,
Speaker 1: clear mercy love. It from one masterpiece to Stephanie here
Speaker 1: another masterpiece. We're here, go to We're gonna bring the
Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower town. I gotta work on my macho man
Speaker 1: nightmare anymore. I gotta any more coke, give the drugs. Wait,
Speaker 1: let's give it a few more seconds, because I don't
Speaker 1: want that to be the last thing we said right before,
Speaker 1: and we might have an ad goes up.
Speaker 2: No, I think it should just killing. Do you guys
Speaker 2: want to talk about video games?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do it all right now that we've all
Speaker 1: got a jpeg of and on the top in our discord,
Speaker 1: just staring at us. Uh, what what's going on with
Speaker 1: an Ena Jones? This game sounds good? Yeah, it's it's good.
Speaker 1: I kind of went in with no expectations of this one.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it was machine games, which I
Speaker 1: really like those Wolfings Sign games a lot, but obviously
Speaker 1: like an indie game is going to feel different than that.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, molible's to see you know,
Speaker 1: you know, whenever you're dealing with like a big license
Speaker 1: like that, there could be you know, changes that aren't
Speaker 1: I'm skeptical of license stuff, and I do feel like
Speaker 1: this is on par with like Batman Arkham Asylum, with
Speaker 1: like the most I've been like, oh shit, they just
Speaker 1: nailed the feel of this ip like, you know, the
Speaker 1: way Arkham made me feel like, oh this is like
Speaker 1: I feel like Batman playing this game and everything that
Speaker 1: that entails. This feels like an Indiana Jones movie. And
Speaker 1: the stuff you're doing in it is not just you're
Speaker 1: not just playing Wolfenstein and you've got an Indiana Jones
Speaker 1: skin on. It is like the music's things, and the
Speaker 1: way the cut scenes kind of flow in and out
Speaker 1: of the action and what you're actually doing.
Speaker 4: You're not just like you're barely using guns in this game.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of like grabbing weird stuff like frying
Speaker 3: pans and then like sneaking up sneaking out up on
Speaker 3: Nazis and knocking them out, pushing them off cliffs, things
Speaker 3: like that. But you're also just going through catacombs and
Speaker 3: underneath churches and things like that with like a torch
Speaker 3: and waving away scorpions and putting amulets and things and
Speaker 3: slight like it's it is a lot more dishonored than
Speaker 3: it is. Like I was thinking, like first Slash, third
Speaker 3: person uncharted Indiana Jones game, I thought it was gonna
Speaker 3: be very uncharted, and it is more dishonored than it
Speaker 3: is that you're like dressing up and certainly you're dressing
Speaker 3: up like a minor near like the Pyramids, you're dressing
Speaker 3: up as a priest and the Vatican, So there is
Speaker 3: that kind of like stealth aspect to it and staying
Speaker 3: out of sight lines, a lot of sneaking up. It
Speaker 3: is like immersive sim more than it is an uncharted
Speaker 3: like I would say, that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: I uh, that's the most I've been interested in it
Speaker 1: so far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I do feel like there are some pacing
Speaker 3: issues in that, Like these areas are really big and
Speaker 3: they're extremely detailed, Like you know, if you played the
Speaker 3: Wolf and Sign games the machine games did, like there's
Speaker 3: so much detail in the levels, so I think they
Speaker 3: I was talking to Grub about this, and I know
Speaker 3: he felt similar where it's like it feels like it
Speaker 3: felt like they want to get their money's or time
Speaker 3: however you wone put it worth out of these huge areas.
Speaker 3: So like the Vatican has a lot of side quests
Speaker 3: and stuff you can do, and I was enjoying it
Speaker 3: so much. I was like, I'm gonna do all the
Speaker 3: side quests, and at a certain point it was like
Speaker 3: there are a lot of just like, oh I talked
Speaker 3: to this none and she can't find her book, and
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, well I got to walk over here,
Speaker 3: find her book, bring it back a little cut scene.
Speaker 3: And so they're not all like the best side quest necessarily,
Speaker 3: but I don't know, if you're enjoying your time and
Speaker 3: you're not trying to rush through an area or whatever,
Speaker 3: they're they're worth doing. You know, you get level up,
Speaker 3: like you find these books and everything to level up,
Speaker 3: and it's got these adventure points, and so the fats
Speaker 3: quests are getting you these things that will help you
Speaker 3: level up. So I mean they're not for not or anything.
Speaker 3: It's just some of them are more exciting than others.
Speaker 1: So you go. So you start in the Vatican. You're
Speaker 1: also in Cairo or at Giza, Viza. Where else do
Speaker 1: you go?
Speaker 3: I am just leaving Giza now where I'm at that's
Speaker 3: the second one. Yeah, there's like some stuff in between,
Speaker 3: like you're on a blimp for a.
Speaker 4: Little bit as you're going down to Giza.
Speaker 3: And the opening is kind of like a Raiders of
Speaker 3: the Last arc callback like the you know the idol
Speaker 3: and the stone and everything. But I mean, Troy Baker
Speaker 3: kills it as Indiana Jones here. It's crazy because like
Speaker 3: Harrison Port is a pretty distinctive voice, and he he's
Speaker 3: just nailed it. It's it didn't even occur to me
Speaker 3: that someone else would have to play it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean even Harrison Ford's a live he's just like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, you hear the recent Conan podcast, He's like,
Speaker 3: he sounds like a gruff old man. You know, it's cool,
Speaker 3: he's hilarious on that podcast. But no, Troy absolutely nails it.
Speaker 3: It's super fucking good. And yeah, it's just like the
Speaker 3: cut scenes, it really does seem like you're watching like
Speaker 3: a classic Indiana Jones movie more so than you know,
Speaker 3: Crystal Skull. I never saw the fifth one, the Dial
Speaker 3: of Destiny, but like this feels like it would fit
Speaker 3: right at home with you know, the first three.
Speaker 1: So it didn't occur to me until you said this.
Speaker 1: Now that Machine Games went from one franchise where you're
Speaker 1: killing Nazis to Indiana Jones where you're killing or i
Speaker 1: mean beating Nazis.
Speaker 2: Up.
Speaker 4: No, you can killed him two. You can definitely kill him.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean that's part of why I think
Speaker 3: this was such an interesting choice of developer for this,
Speaker 3: and I think it was a home run. And it's like, well, okay,
Speaker 3: you've worked in this era before. I think the bigger
Speaker 3: risk is, like, oh, making Indiana Jones a first person
Speaker 3: game is probably something that not a lot of people
Speaker 3: would have expected. But it works, and I don't think
Speaker 3: that when it does shift to third person, when you're
Speaker 3: climbing ladders or use there's a lot of using your
Speaker 3: whip to swing across you know, gaps and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: It's not that jarring or anything. So I think it
Speaker 3: does work. But yeah, the hand of hand stuff, it's
Speaker 3: it's fine. Like I don't think it's it's not like
Speaker 3: this incredible deep fighting system first person or whatever. But
Speaker 3: like when most of the encounters are like I snuck
Speaker 3: up on this dude and fucked him up with like
Speaker 3: a lamppost, you know, it's it's fine. Like if it
Speaker 3: comes to two blows, it's okay. It's blocking, it's parying,
Speaker 3: it's left right, it's charge attacks things like that, Okay,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's a lot of sneaking around, like you
Speaker 3: don't really have to. Like, if you're shooting a gun,
Speaker 3: you're kind of fucking up in this game, because like
Speaker 3: there's so much stealth in disguise stuff going on that
Speaker 3: if you're just walking around a Nazi camp and Giza
Speaker 3: and you shoot a guy with a pistol, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: well now it's just turned into every Nazi in this
Speaker 3: camp coming after you, so behooves you.
Speaker 1: Not to that Soul sounds way more interesting than I. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was thinking it would be. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what I thought it would be. I knew they were
Speaker 1: gonna kind of go for like more puzzle solving. I
Speaker 1: guess Uncharted. It's the obvious comparison, but yeah, the immersive
Speaker 1: sim aspect and like big sandboxy not that I not
Speaker 1: that I inherently like sandbox kind of mission structure, but
Speaker 1: there's something about you know, like hit Man, Dishonored, I
Speaker 1: love where you can kind of explore something actually like
Speaker 1: dense environment. M M. It's not just filled with filler,
Speaker 1: even though it does sound like there's some filler.
Speaker 3: Well, And like the puzzles and the action and the stealth,
Speaker 3: like all these aspects are not particularly I don't mean
Speaker 3: this sound like an instul but they're not particularly deep
Speaker 3: in the same way that like the Indie movies are
Speaker 3: not like a hard challenging watch.
Speaker 1: You know. They's just fun.
Speaker 3: It's just a fun time with the movies, you know,
Speaker 3: and this is just a fun video game. It's not
Speaker 3: like these puzzles are not like I'm not breaking out
Speaker 3: the notepad and drawing symbols and things like that.
Speaker 1: It's pretty breezy overall.
Speaker 2: What's the story, Like, Basically, there's.
Speaker 3: A mcguffin where it's like, oh, the Great Circle is
Speaker 3: this thing. It's this artifact where there's several different parts
Speaker 3: of it and it, you know, they think that you
Speaker 3: can get great power if you get all these pieces
Speaker 3: of the circle together. So the Nazis are trying to
Speaker 3: get it for their nefarious Nazi purposes, and Indie is
Speaker 3: trying to you know, beat them to it basically, So.
Speaker 2: Indy versus Nazis totally yeah, easy, yeah, and easy.
Speaker 1: It's the two best movies all over again. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh, there's no Nazis in Templa Doom if I
Speaker 1: don't really One and three definitely did. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she had a lot of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, three, I loved three because like, three was the
Speaker 3: one that I was old enough to see in the
Speaker 3: theaters when it came out. I just saw the first
Speaker 3: couple on BHS and uh, yeah, I love three.
Speaker 2: Is that the one with the baby indie kid Indy?
Speaker 4: Three has River Phoenix at the beginning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it shows why he's afraid of snakes and stuff
Speaker 3: like that and how he got his whip. It's like
Speaker 3: one of the first like times I remember being like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we didn't really need to explain why this character, you know,
Speaker 3: was afraid of snakes or likes whips. Yeah, every care
Speaker 3: your trade has explained in like a five minute scene.
Speaker 3: It's like, Okay, we didn't need that, but.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, I'm excited to play that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm not like an obsessive indie fan or
Speaker 3: anything like I said, I'd even see the last one.
Speaker 3: I like Indiana Jones. I like them a lot growing
Speaker 3: up in the first trilogy. But yeah, so I went
Speaker 3: in not particularly like excited or pessimistic about it. I
Speaker 3: was like, aeah, let's see how this is. And I've
Speaker 3: been very positive on it since playing it. I'm like
Speaker 3: twelve hours.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 2: I would say some people are like already calling this
Speaker 2: their personal goady, which I think is very I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a huge deal to like have its skyrocket to
Speaker 2: your list that quickly. Do you think it's at that
Speaker 2: level or do you think it's also like end of
Speaker 2: the year madness where it's like, hey, this is the
Speaker 2: game that was good that I played this close to Gody,
Speaker 2: so it's top of mind recentcy guy.
Speaker 3: I think it'll probably be like in the lower half
Speaker 3: of my top ten.
Speaker 4: I think by the time of the year's done.
Speaker 3: But I guess we're gonna have to wait and see
Speaker 3: you when fire Escape does its Game of the Year
Speaker 3: for twenty What are we doing.
Speaker 1: That twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3: Oh oh right, okay, well we'll find out next October
Speaker 3: or something that.
Speaker 2: Would you have crammed it into, hargdie.
Speaker 3: I don't think, Well, what was our final top ten?
Speaker 3: I know that's an interesting question. I forget to pull
Speaker 3: that up real quick. I don't remember what our top
Speaker 3: ten was. It would not I would not have tried
Speaker 3: to make it. Let's hell divers, asked your robot. Those
Speaker 3: all would stay. I think I wouldn't put any above
Speaker 3: any of those. I don't think, uh yeah, okay, I'm
Speaker 3: looking at our top ten here hell divers after about
Speaker 3: Prince of Persia, wild bastards like a dragon, lowerly crow country,
Speaker 3: UFO metaphor. I mean, there's obviously the ones that I
Speaker 3: wouldn't get. I'm in a metaphor anyway, I would maybe
Speaker 3: put this above UFO.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and I like you significant it's it's eligible
Speaker 1: for next year's Game of the Year by our.
Speaker 2: By our definition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Valguard, which I gotta play.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna play that.
Speaker 1: I didn't say I can't make me not going to Okay,
Speaker 1: but I got bigger fish to fry. That looks like
Speaker 1: a nerve game. Sick. Yeah, it is. It's probably very
Speaker 1: It's definitely very nerdy. Mary. What have you been playing.
Speaker 2: I've been playing, uh, this new indie game called O.
Speaker 1: You been playing Andy two? You are so silly.
Speaker 2: You remember when you said you were you're an advocate
Speaker 2: for indies earlier this year number one advocate for Indy's.
Speaker 1: Supposed by number one. Moltro was my number one, or
Speaker 1: no it wasn't. It's number two. So I guess I
Speaker 1: think I like INDI's more than Dan. Dan's always just
Speaker 1: shilling for the Triple a game.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at my top ten of the year and
Speaker 3: they're mostly indies.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Read it off Balatro, Mini shoot Adventures, Thank Goodness you're here.
Speaker 3: You a boat, Biffy Wild Bastards are those indy games.
Speaker 1: No, no call of Duty.
Speaker 2: So Naiad is a one person team made by one person,
Speaker 2: and it is a very calming, zen like experience where
Speaker 2: you are playing I want to say a water nymph
Speaker 2: or a girl that is only underwater. Essentially, your face
Speaker 2: can come up every once in a while, but it
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like, Yeah, the graphics are are simple, but
Speaker 2: I think delicate and easy on the eyes. So I
Speaker 2: would just say this is a simplified looking and sounding game,
Speaker 2: but it appeals to the senses and the sense that
Speaker 2: this is clearly meant to have a calming effect on
Speaker 2: the player. You are swimming down this river and you
Speaker 2: will come across visual elements that are puzzle, but the
Speaker 2: game doesn't literally tell you what to do. And I'll
Speaker 2: give you an example. You will see lily pads, and
Speaker 2: you will see you'll swim a little further and you'll
Speaker 2: see frogs on rocks, and you might think to yourself, oh,
Speaker 2: when I get near them, and I make a little noise.
Speaker 2: My nymph makes like a little sound. I can knock
Speaker 2: the frogs off of the rocks and they follow me,
Speaker 2: and then I will take them to the lily pads
Speaker 2: and they will jump on the lily pads. And if
Speaker 2: I can get all the frogs to get on the
Speaker 2: lily pads, something happens. And so the game is very
Speaker 2: softly encouraging you to solve these visual puzzles, but it's
Speaker 2: also trying not to like overdo it or tell you
Speaker 2: literally what to do. That can be frustrating in the
Speaker 2: sense that sometimes you will be like, sometimes I feel
Speaker 2: like you'll be like, what am I supposed to do here?
Speaker 2: And the game isn't literally telling you what to do,
Speaker 2: and that's frustrating. But most of the time you can
Speaker 2: you can figure out what the game is trying to do.
Speaker 2: I'll give you another one that's pretty obvious, which which
Speaker 2: is like you'll see a duck and you'll keep swimming
Speaker 2: and you'll see ducklings, and it's like, these ducklings probably
Speaker 2: need to be with their mom, and so you're guiding
Speaker 2: things back to their home, or you're putting them in
Speaker 2: a certain word you know how like in Zelda, how
Speaker 2: you would see symmetrical rocks and one rock would be
Speaker 2: off slightly and you'd think to yourself, like, I should
Speaker 2: put a rock there, and when you do, the little
Speaker 2: guy would go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you find me.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's that I will find You will find things,
Speaker 2: and you will say, oh, I think something's a little off,
Speaker 2: and you'll fix it and then you will get rewarded.
Speaker 1: Is it so?
Speaker 3: Is it just general exploratory or is there like a
Speaker 3: critical path, like are there fights or anything or like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good question. There's no boss battles. This
Speaker 2: is a very relaxing game. I keep saying that, but
Speaker 2: I mean I couldn't express that more. There's even you
Speaker 2: can go down the waterfall path, like you can keep
Speaker 2: going and not solve these things, which is very interesting
Speaker 2: to me. And I think if you just literally go
Speaker 2: down all the waterfalls and don't do any of these puzzles,
Speaker 2: you probably burn through this game in like forty minutes.
Speaker 2: But that's not the point. If you do the puzzles,
Speaker 2: some of which are quite intricate, I'm sure this game
Speaker 2: would take four or five hours. Like I got stuck
Speaker 2: a couple times, and then I accidentally went down the waterfall,
Speaker 2: and then I was just in a new area. So
Speaker 2: it just doesn't punish you. If you don't want to
Speaker 2: figure it out, you don't have to You don't have
Speaker 2: to do anything. Really. There's also puzzles that I think
Speaker 2: are a little too complicated because they don't again tell
Speaker 2: you what to do, and so you'll be there'll be
Speaker 2: like maybe these people that are mining and if you
Speaker 2: release animals will follow you if you make a noise,
Speaker 2: so maybe you get an animal to get close to
Speaker 2: them and it scares them. Some of these are simple
Speaker 2: puzzles where it's like put two and two together. Some
Speaker 2: of them are put two and two and two together.
Speaker 2: And some of these puzzles are like, hey, there's eight
Speaker 2: steps for you to finish this, and I've been like
Speaker 2: six steps through, not knowing what else to do and
Speaker 2: being like whatever, I'm going down this waterfall. As soon
Speaker 2: as I felt frustrated, I just left. I would like
Speaker 2: to play through it and actually solve every puzzle, but
Speaker 2: in the spirit of what this game is doing, if
Speaker 2: I ever was like I don't know what this game
Speaker 2: wants me to do, I just quit and gave up,
Speaker 2: like you went down the river and relaxed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks like a lazy river, which I'm a
Speaker 4: big lazy river guy.
Speaker 2: It is, it's very lazy river. I think it is
Speaker 2: meant for you to just it is just meant for
Speaker 2: you to relax and enjoy it. It's audibly like, it's
Speaker 2: very comforting and calming. Your sounds are very light and easy.
Speaker 2: All the sounds of the environment are nice. You'll hear
Speaker 2: the frogs and the ducks and the environment. There's like
Speaker 2: bees buzzing, and you interact with some animals as well.
Speaker 2: There's oh it's neat. In the menu, it'll show you
Speaker 2: all the fauna in every area that you've discovered. And
Speaker 2: so there were animals that didn't discover in certain areas.
Speaker 2: I'd like to replay and find them all. But again
Speaker 2: you don't have to. You can fill your rolodex full
Speaker 2: of all the alligators and the eel and all the
Speaker 2: different funky animals, or you could just like, uh not
Speaker 2: do that and and and just go down the river.
Speaker 2: So I think it's it depends on the type of
Speaker 2: person and gamer you are. I would say for someone
Speaker 2: who's like, hey, I need relaxing games, that calm me
Speaker 2: down and give me like an ease to my evening.
Speaker 2: This is for you if you're like no, But I
Speaker 2: do want like a challenge and I want to be
Speaker 2: able to like min max my experience. This is not
Speaker 2: for you. There's no mind maxing, there's no boss fight,
Speaker 2: there's no score. This is more of an experience, I
Speaker 2: would say, than like a traditional video game. But you
Speaker 2: are interacting with the environment. You are solving uh, simple puzzles,
Speaker 2: I will say. Even though I say simple, there were
Speaker 2: a couple that stumped me that I did not solve.
Speaker 2: So I don't think this is an easy walk about game.
Speaker 2: But the beauty of it is that you can always
Speaker 2: ignore the puzzles and continue on your journey. You don't
Speaker 2: have to solve anything.
Speaker 1: It's a good looking game.
Speaker 3: It makes me think of a Does it play like
Speaker 3: Tubin for the Nes? Look at the discord this box
Speaker 3: art of Tubin?
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, yeah that is box.
Speaker 1: Art right there.
Speaker 3: Everyone look up Tubin for the Nes by tingin. Uh
Speaker 3: that's a fun game around a tube.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got some Tubin motivations to you.
Speaker 1: Tub Like.
Speaker 2: I think it's tubin like. I think it has some
Speaker 2: aspects of tubin.
Speaker 3: That's a really funny genre. N we gotta get tuban
Speaker 3: like over.
Speaker 2: I think it is like meant to just relax, go
Speaker 2: down the river, don't worry about your life. But I
Speaker 2: will also just say like I was relaxed when I
Speaker 2: played this. I played this casually on my couch on
Speaker 2: my Steam deck, which is like one of my favorite
Speaker 2: ways to play games. I felt very relaxed throughout the experience.
Speaker 2: I wish that the puzzles were a bit more intuitive.
Speaker 2: I could see that they weren't literally trying to tell
Speaker 2: me what to do, but there were a couple of
Speaker 2: times where I was like, I don't I don't fully
Speaker 2: understand what I'm supposed to do next. And there's also
Speaker 2: secret tunnels throughout this game, and if you aren't putting
Speaker 2: your body next to every wall, you might miss a
Speaker 2: secret entrance that you needed to complete a puzzle, So
Speaker 2: that can be a little frustrating. But again, like it's
Speaker 2: not meant to be like you can just you can
Speaker 2: just relax your way through this game. So anyway, I
Speaker 2: enjoyed it. I I finished it in Uh yeah, I
Speaker 2: think it's like three to four hours. It's not It's
Speaker 2: not like a long experience, but uh uh a delightful
Speaker 2: way to spend an evening and I liked it nice. Also,
Speaker 2: one guy, so cool when a games are made by one.
Speaker 1: On your PC or on my steam deck.
Speaker 2: I played it on my steam Deck, and I think
Speaker 2: it lends itself to a steam deck, like it is
Speaker 2: a It is a steam deck style game in my opinion.
Speaker 2: You can sit on a couch and play this.
Speaker 4: And I love steam Deck. I think all the time
Speaker 4: that how much i've steam Deck.
Speaker 3: And I had a moment the other night where it's like,
Speaker 3: Okaykayle's gonna stream, so I want to put her up
Speaker 3: on the TV. And then but I really want to
Speaker 3: play Indie. I wonder if that can run on my
Speaker 3: steam Deck, and I'm looking up stuff about like how
Speaker 3: can Indie run on a steam Deck. It's like, not
Speaker 3: really that well, I've realized, wait a minute, I can
Speaker 3: fucking stream to my like from my forty ninety computer
Speaker 3: in the other room, and I'm playing it looking great,
Speaker 3: not downloading anything locally with the steam Deck, and I'm
Speaker 3: just playing Indiana Jones on my steam Deck in the
Speaker 3: other room, Like fuck, this is what an incredible device.
Speaker 2: This is The future is here. Yeah, good, it's really
Speaker 2: it's really nice to experience it like that, and so
Speaker 2: I I enjoyed this, but I also think it's probably
Speaker 2: not for everyone. It's definitely for people who are looking
Speaker 2: for this type of experience. I would sell it to
Speaker 2: someone who's like, hey, I get really stressed out at
Speaker 2: my job and I like to play a game that
Speaker 2: doesn't require my whole brain half a brain. Sometimes I'd
Speaker 2: be playing, sometimes I'd be watching something on Netflix, or
Speaker 2: like listening to music. This is that type of experience
Speaker 2: you could just I think it's extremely meditative. It even
Speaker 2: has not haikus, but I would say very short poems
Speaker 2: that you're meant to just listen, observe, and move on.
Speaker 2: You don't get rewarded again. I think I got like
Speaker 2: a couple achievements, but that's not this type of game.
Speaker 2: One time I found a secret and it gave me
Speaker 2: a small poem and then I was like.
Speaker 1: Is that it?
Speaker 2: And then I just left like that was it. I
Speaker 2: was like, you got you know, the wind breathe softly,
Speaker 2: all right, get the fuck out, and that was it.
Speaker 2: You know, they this is not meant to uh be
Speaker 2: more intense than you think it is, it's a very
Speaker 2: simple concept.
Speaker 1: Nice it's being a steam deck. Dan, I heard, I
Speaker 1: saw you're back into Vampire Survivors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what Mary just posted? Jake's gonna be so confused.
Speaker 3: This is in the share of Discord. It's two pictures
Speaker 3: of bombays and the box are for tubing for the
Speaker 3: nes and then Mary, what the puck was your prompt for?
Speaker 1: This is a hot cheese girl?
Speaker 2: I did you hear me out? So I google uh ai,
Speaker 2: A mid searched a woman made of nacho cheese and
Speaker 2: I it's just the discord like a woman, she's pretty
Speaker 2: hot and human looking, but she is made of nacho cheese.
Speaker 3: I mean it looks like I would just be worried
Speaker 3: she'd be getting some like third degree burns with the Okay,
Speaker 3: now there's oh, folks, this is bad stuff happening in
Speaker 3: her discord right now.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. No, I'm not horny about this.
Speaker 3: Well, but between Mike repeatedly spamming Gazina on a top photos,
Speaker 3: you are supposed.
Speaker 2: To be confused.
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to It's one hundred percent confused, zero
Speaker 3: percent horny.
Speaker 1: No, No, this is fucked up. I hate this. This
Speaker 1: is really a funny photo. Mary just keeps posting AI
Speaker 1: tortilla ladies. I hate it.
Speaker 2: They're cheese women. I'm just trying.
Speaker 1: I don't want cheese.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to find your level. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I bet if there's like beautiful women, hot women stuff,
Speaker 2: you're probably still turned on. And so my question is,
Speaker 2: at what level of cheese are you?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: That's too much cheese?
Speaker 3: Okay, radio, Okay, listen, Okay, let's go back to the
Speaker 3: Monica Balucci thing. If you dribbled some nacho cheese and
Speaker 3: Monica Valucci, she would still be very hot. I think
Speaker 3: it would have to be like you dump, like you know,
Speaker 3: pizza the hut from space Balls. I think it's actually
Speaker 3: that much cheese for Monica Balucci to.
Speaker 4: Not be od.
Speaker 1: This is really fun for me. This is a weird discord.
Speaker 2: This discord better not be ever be searched by the FBI.
Speaker 1: Because okay, this is this is my last one hold on.
Speaker 2: To construct.
Speaker 1: Oh actually okay, yeah, hear me out. When fam KYSA
Speaker 1: is like AK forty seven the vents.
Speaker 3: Oh she has the orgasm while she's shooting the gun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that was the first time I ever saw
Speaker 3: in an orgasm happening. I don't think it was like
Speaker 3: a shooting.
Speaker 1: Orgasm, but yeah, yeah, I saw that orgasm that oh
Speaker 1: many times I was like, what's happening here? Uh? Dan?
Speaker 1: So you've been playing uh for Vampire Survivors. Just it's
Speaker 1: my favorite gift of all time. This is great radio.
Speaker 1: I'm just posting camps and describing vampires radio school. What
Speaker 1: did you get back into Vampire Svipers? Was it for
Speaker 1: the Castlevania with.
Speaker 3: DLC, which is just the motion socker shit. I've played
Speaker 3: forty seven hours of this fucking game in the last
Speaker 3: two weeks. Yeah, it is just unreal. Like I have
Speaker 3: loved this game.
Speaker 1: I'm all my playing on my flights, not to Castmania.
Speaker 1: I'm still getting through the Japanese stuff and the Contra
Speaker 1: and among Us and all that. Yeah, not among Us yet.
Speaker 1: I didn't get the among Us one.
Speaker 3: I restarted again because I did it on one Steam account,
Speaker 3: then I did it on Xbox, I've done it on
Speaker 3: Switch and now I'm playing it all again to with
Speaker 3: the Castlevania stuff, and it's like, this is one of
Speaker 3: my favorite games of all time, and this Castle Anything is.
Speaker 1: Like bigger than the original release.
Speaker 3: And I thought, I don't want to spoil certain things,
Speaker 3: but like every time I thought, I'm like, okay, I'm
Speaker 3: probably probably done with this. I unlocked the last thing,
Speaker 3: or I got to this part on the map or whatever.
Speaker 3: There are moments where it's like, are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 3: With the amount of stuff that it opens up and grows,
Speaker 3: and like this is the ultimate Vampire Survivors experience now,
Speaker 3: Like this, this DLC is unreal, and even just the
Speaker 3: way that the map is laid out, and it's not
Speaker 3: just like you know, like all the maps have different
Speaker 3: gimmicks and challenge levels and stuff like this, but this
Speaker 3: is like a full level where you're just unlocking warp
Speaker 3: points and unlocking doors and all these boss fights and
Speaker 3: everything and hidden items you can find. It is and
Speaker 3: for a game that is so like esthetically, you know,
Speaker 3: pretty inspired by Castlevania, you can.
Speaker 1: Tell like a contract that makes sense as well.
Speaker 3: The level of love for Castlevania is so apparent here
Speaker 3: because it is like obscure characters and enemies and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, and it's like just the love of Castlevania
Speaker 3: is all over this and it's just got me thinking
Speaker 3: about the series a ton again. Like I talked Kayla
Speaker 3: into playing a Simpthing to the Night. She's never played
Speaker 3: a Caslvania before, so she started streaming that. I'm watching
Speaker 3: her play Something to Night, and I'm like, God, damn it,
Speaker 3: Caslovania is so fucking good. So I'm just on a
Speaker 3: huge Caslvania.
Speaker 4: Kick right now. I have so much appreciation for that series.
Speaker 3: It makes me want to play the DS ones again
Speaker 3: on that new thing they put out, the Dominants Collection,
Speaker 3: and yeah, if you have not played Vampire Survivors yet,
Speaker 3: right now is such an easy like I don't know
Speaker 3: if there's a bundle deal on Steam or something, but
Speaker 3: like the base game and all of the DLC are
Speaker 3: all like a few bucks each.
Speaker 4: Just get this game. It is so fantastic.
Speaker 2: N this point is so reasonable for the amount of
Speaker 2: gameplay that you can.
Speaker 3: Have and a oh yeah, I've gotten so much more
Speaker 3: joy out of this like three dollars game than I've
Speaker 3: gotten out of many seventy dollars games. It's just it
Speaker 3: really is one of my favorites of all time.
Speaker 1: Now I've been jumping around the DLC so much I
Speaker 1: still haven't even completed the one point zero collection. Oh,
Speaker 1: like from the base because I have a bunch of
Speaker 1: the characters and weapons unlocked from the Japanese from the
Speaker 1: Moon's Forests. Yeah, that's not my favorite, but it was
Speaker 1: still like they've got some really useful weapons.
Speaker 3: To have unlock all those, Yeah, and then you can
Speaker 3: bring those into the Castlevania map.
Speaker 1: Japan One can get tough if you're not building the
Speaker 1: character right. But I've done the contras stuff more now,
Speaker 1: not the among Us, but Caslvania I still haven't started.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to build out the actual original collection. There's
Speaker 1: still a few I'm missing. Yeah, but yeah, that game
Speaker 1: is still my favorite playing game. I've been playing it
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: On I probably play it on the flight that I
Speaker 2: have like coming up. I think these are like it's
Speaker 2: just such a good flight game, and I think it
Speaker 2: just continues to be one for the books in terms
Speaker 2: of like easy play. You can pick it up. You
Speaker 2: can finish a game in like forty minutes if you're
Speaker 2: doing well. If you do lose or like let's say
Speaker 2: you like ran out of power, you wouldn't be like no,
Speaker 2: like you'll be fine, Like you'll survive Vampire well.
Speaker 3: And it's just it is so cool for such simple
Speaker 3: concept of just you're moving the stick around and you're
Speaker 3: picking up grades.
Speaker 4: There is a level of depth to it and humor
Speaker 4: and secrets.
Speaker 3: And like, there's way more going on to this game
Speaker 3: that you might think if you just played a handful
Speaker 3: of just like running around trying to survive at thirty minutes,
Speaker 3: it's like, no, there's a lot to think about as
Speaker 3: far as evolutions and strategies and unlocks and things.
Speaker 4: It's really something special.
Speaker 1: Mm yeah, I love it. I'm what was the I
Speaker 1: love the stuff where you have to like combine four
Speaker 1: items to get an upgrade to evolution, like the Divine
Speaker 1: Path or whatever it's called.
Speaker 4: The Uh, well, there's the ones with the arrows and
Speaker 4: you know the the lancets and yeah.
Speaker 1: Those are always a blast. Yeah. I love the weapon.
Speaker 1: I think it's from the moonspell. It's just a cat.
Speaker 1: Cats come flying off from off screen and eat.
Speaker 4: People's that's in the base game. Yeah, one of the
Speaker 4: characters could do that.
Speaker 1: No really, yeah, but yeah that game is read. That's
Speaker 1: basically all I've been playing outside of work stuff lately,
Speaker 1: which has been it's a nice way to turn off.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what what else have you been playing? Dan?
Speaker 4: Call of duty still playing multiplayer. It's awesome.
Speaker 3: It's just like it's been introducing turned Nuketown into holiday
Speaker 3: you know version for December, and.
Speaker 1: It's like Christmas theme.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's not just like, oh they made it snowy.
Speaker 3: It's like there there's a lot of care and like
Speaker 3: all the houses are decorated with like Christmas stuff and
Speaker 3: there's like Christmas there's this Christmas event to unlock for
Speaker 3: like the next twelve days or whatever. So and now
Speaker 3: Bonx in now too, so Boks Like normally, you know,
Speaker 3: Bonk and I generally gravitate towards different genres of games
Speaker 3: and everything. And you know, I've been loving this so
Speaker 3: much and talking to her about it a lot, and
Speaker 3: she started playing some multiplayers. She's playing it right now upstairs.
Speaker 3: And so now we've been doing at night, like I'll
Speaker 3: just bring the gaming laptop up. I'll just set it
Speaker 3: up like on a TV tray on the couch. She'll
Speaker 3: be playing on the big screen and we will just
Speaker 3: crank up the sound and just play tons of multiple
Speaker 3: were like pop a couple double XP things at the
Speaker 3: same time. We're like, all right, we're in for an
Speaker 3: hour and then just play. It's oh man, it's so good.
Speaker 3: It has just been skyrocketing up my games of the year.
Speaker 3: I'm I don't know why. I just feel so good
Speaker 3: to be It's like an old recognizable like, oh, Call
Speaker 3: of Duty. Man, I really really enjoyed this game in
Speaker 3: the past. It's been a few years and god damn it,
Speaker 3: it's just good to have back.
Speaker 1: You know. Do you think you like two teen reboot
Speaker 1: multiplayer better or this?
Speaker 3: I think I like this more. I think this is like,
Speaker 3: this might be my favorite Call of Duty. It's like
Speaker 3: this and four basically like the first modern warfare, Like
Speaker 3: this is the first time I prestiged since Call of
Speaker 3: Duty four. Yeah, and it's a smart stef too, where
Speaker 3: you can like set you know, permanent unlocks when you proceige.
Speaker 3: They've probably done that before, but I never prestige in
Speaker 3: previous ones lately.
Speaker 1: So yeah, for season the past few past two at
Speaker 1: least has been season based. Oh interesting, you couldn't just
Speaker 1: do it. They brought it back where you could just
Speaker 1: proceige prestige at your own pace in this one, which
Speaker 1: was a very nice comeback for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh nice, nice, Yeah, just smart decisions all over the place.
Speaker 3: Of this game, and like, yeah, we'll probably end the
Speaker 3: podcast tonight and I'm either gonna play Call of Duty
Speaker 3: or Vampire Survivors.
Speaker 1: Why are you playing Command of Conqueror Generals. I mean,
Speaker 1: I liked, I like that game to some extent, but
Speaker 1: I see that's on the list.
Speaker 3: Well, because like in the last because I want to
Speaker 3: ask you about this, Mike, because like in the last
Speaker 3: year or so might have been more. They added all
Speaker 3: of the Command of Conquer games to uh Steam, which
Speaker 3: you used to have to like it's the only thing
Speaker 3: I used Origin for before. Is like I bought the
Speaker 3: Ultimate collection all these Command of concer games around there,
Speaker 3: like no, they're all on Steam now, and I realized,
Speaker 3: like Reddler two as well, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're all there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're run great shit. I don't know if online you
Speaker 3: might have to do some stuff to get online working.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but you know, at the height of
Speaker 3: my Command and Conquer obsession with like Redler two in
Speaker 3: like the early two thousands, Generals was the next one.
Speaker 3: But that was the one where it went from sprite
Speaker 3: based graphics to polygons and I had my shitty e
Speaker 3: machines computer that could not run anything with polygons. So
Speaker 3: it's like, fuck, I so want to play with new
Speaker 3: Command of Conquer. I'm coming off my favorite one ever
Speaker 3: and so I bought it and I was not able
Speaker 3: to play it, and like, also, you couldn't return it
Speaker 3: to Best Buy because it was a PC game and
Speaker 3: opened up and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: So I really got hosed on that one.
Speaker 3: So yeah, So for like twenty five years or so,
Speaker 3: I've been like, fuck, this is the game that like
Speaker 3: I had to stop playing Command of Conquer because my.
Speaker 4: Computer just couldn't run it, and say, let's go back,
Speaker 4: let's see how it is.
Speaker 3: And so I've done a couple of campaign levels the
Speaker 3: Strand Room the other night, and I think I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go forward. It's uh, I'm curious what the general vibe
Speaker 3: is on Generals among Commanded Conquer fans, because I am
Speaker 3: enjoying it quite a bit. And Mike, I don't know
Speaker 3: if you spend much time with that. You were a
Speaker 3: big red Aler guy. Oh, I played a lot of Generals.
Speaker 3: Uh have you played zero are yet?
Speaker 4: I was going to do that if I finished the
Speaker 4: campaign of this.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I could be talking my ass, but my
Speaker 1: take on Generals when it first came out, was this
Speaker 1: is a bit too realistic, Like it's China, the PLO,
Speaker 1: I forget what they're calling this and America. So they
Speaker 1: lost a lot of the like zaniness of the like
Speaker 1: faux Cold war, nuke towing, oils and just weird einst
Speaker 1: traveling and all that you can get through most missions
Speaker 1: and like skirmishes just by upgrading the hum beats all
Speaker 1: the way for America. Yeah, I still liked it a lot,
Speaker 1: but it was like, wow, this got They're like using
Speaker 1: dirty bombs, this got two uh an Iraq war era. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like when we were back in Iraq, I have something standing.
Speaker 1: Yeah zero hour. On the other hand, I feel like
Speaker 1: that's a bit of a reaction to the criticism that
Speaker 1: I got a bit too realistic. The thing was zeror
Speaker 1: that's super cool, and this is very like total war
Speaker 1: or StarCraft. They added these very cartoonish generals for so
Speaker 1: there's a three factions still they might they might have
Speaker 1: added forth, but each of those three factions has a
Speaker 1: general who has their own twist on the faction. So
Speaker 1: you one of the Chinese generals will like, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the tanks he's he loves he's obsessed with lasers,
Speaker 1: so all of the shit has lasers on it. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's an American general who really likes tanks, so you
Speaker 1: get a bunch of upgrades for tanks. It's like it's
Speaker 1: again like real time strategy games after this, like StarCraft
Speaker 1: two Total war games, they do this now it's pretty standard,
Speaker 1: like there's legendary lords within each faction or race in Warhammer,
Speaker 1: it's it's a fucking blast like the laser dude, even
Speaker 1: his defense turrets are lasers. Now it's and it's also
Speaker 1: you could tell they were going back to the goofiness
Speaker 1: of like the the Kremlin phone call scenes from Red Alert.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good to know because that is something I've
Speaker 3: noticed is that like, I'm really enjoying the gameplay from
Speaker 3: what I've seen, but like I was like starting campaign
Speaker 3: missions to me like okay, what am I going to
Speaker 3: see James Earl Jones yelling at me for something or
Speaker 3: like some Xenia on a top looking lady sent it me, Yeah,
Speaker 3: nuke something.
Speaker 1: I remember the campaign to be specific, I play the skirmishes,
Speaker 1: but again, yeah, like Zero Hour, I almost had a
Speaker 1: I always have a blast with yeah, cause it's like
Speaker 1: engaged opposing forces at hotspots around the globe as you
Speaker 1: match strategies and arsenals against the new masterminds of modern war.
Speaker 1: So it's this like rogues gallery of people who are
Speaker 1: into one thing or another, like let me jan don't
Speaker 1: remind myself. I wonder if I should just give to
Speaker 1: that then, or if I mean the don't really learned
Speaker 1: super long. You know, No, I don't remember the campaigns
Speaker 1: really well at all. I just like the skirmishes. I
Speaker 1: like going trying all the different general zero hour generals.
Speaker 1: That's what I always did, even with like Red alerts.
Speaker 3: I don't even necessarily remember doing the campaigns for like
Speaker 3: Red Alert or the old like Tiberian Sun ones.
Speaker 1: But big skirmish guy, Yeah, it's g la is what
Speaker 1: they're called plo is the real is a real thing.
Speaker 1: General's Challenge Oh, okay, here we go. General's Challenge was
Speaker 1: the mode I loved. It was. In this mode, the
Speaker 1: player takes on the identity of one of the nine
Speaker 1: generals and battles other generals one by one, ultimately confronting
Speaker 1: a powerful boss general who it's like a tournament, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a blast. And then you. They each each
Speaker 1: of them have like different obsessions that leads them to
Speaker 1: certain bonuses. I mean Redler two had the like Korea
Speaker 1: had the Grand Canon, Germany had the Tank Destroyer, they
Speaker 1: had the bespoke units for each of the countries. But
Speaker 1: this one is very much more like cartoonish villains and stuff. Nice.
Speaker 3: I remember Red Alert three they had Rick Flair play
Speaker 3: one of the generals. I think it was in like
Speaker 3: a DLC or something. And whenever I would meet wrestlers,
Speaker 3: typically I would like to like, you know, I never
Speaker 3: want to be the guy that just asked the question
Speaker 3: that everyone's asked a million times, like what do you
Speaker 3: think about it?
Speaker 4: So the first time I met Rick Flair was the JW.
Speaker 3: Marriott Bar in probably like twenty eleven, and I sat
Speaker 3: down next to him, had a drink, and I started
Speaker 3: talking to him and I'm like, hey, I love Command
Speaker 3: and Conquer. I thought it was weird and cool when
Speaker 3: you were in a Red Alert three as one of
Speaker 3: the generals. He's like, what it's like the video game
Speaker 3: that you remember? You did all the commercials where his
Speaker 3: Flair versus Bear and you were fighting a guy in
Speaker 3: a barasuit and you were in the game yelling at
Speaker 3: the player.
Speaker 1: He's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: You were in a video game, Rick Flair, and he's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: That's just so awkward, and you just left.
Speaker 1: No there for a while.
Speaker 3: I took a picture of him. He had three Gen
Speaker 3: and Tonics in front of him. He had the largest
Speaker 3: show in the game. I might have pulled it up,
Speaker 3: but then he just started talking about like his wrestling
Speaker 3: career from the eighties, and like, oh man, in the eighties,
Speaker 3: we really we were really rocking and rolling in the eighties, Like, yes,
Speaker 3: I know that, but can we talk about Commanding Conker?
Speaker 1: Did he just forget? I was trying to deny it.
Speaker 1: I think he forgot.
Speaker 3: And then I was pissed off because we did a
Speaker 3: podcast episode with John Cena, and I would help our
Speaker 3: hosts come up with like questions for him and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, and I was like, Okay, you got to
Speaker 3: ask Sena about Command and Conquer because somebody asked him
Speaker 3: about it once on a red carpet and he wouldn't
Speaker 3: stop talking about like his cure of strategy and Red
Speaker 3: Alert too, like Sena is like into Red Alert. And
Speaker 3: then like the conversation never really went that way. It's like, God, damn,
Speaker 3: I want to talk to John Cena about Command of.
Speaker 1: Conquer his strats? Yeah, what's what was? What was the
Speaker 1: metal like? Back when he was playing?
Speaker 4: I just built a ton of Cure ofs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember when we did that the live stream series
Speaker 1: where yes, I had how did it? What happen? We
Speaker 1: basically were like destroying each other's bases like ships in
Speaker 1: the night. And I had a kure of left and
Speaker 1: you had a tank which could not attack the cure
Speaker 1: of right. Oh my god, I've won. I just need
Speaker 1: to go kill him. But of course you the Kreof's
Speaker 1: not fast enough to catch the tank, so you just
Speaker 1: ran all over the map until I was forced to
Speaker 1: surrender because you were more stubborn than I was. I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna give up. There's no fucking leaf. But I
Speaker 1: was like, I was like, this is not fun for
Speaker 1: people to watch, so I didn't care. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about the viewers. That's why I'm thinking. Ory.
Speaker 2: I'm like that too in in board games. If if
Speaker 2: I'm going to lose, I'm just gonna draw it out
Speaker 2: until everyone's miserable. Rica totally Yeah, I will not go
Speaker 2: quietly into that dark night.
Speaker 1: Have you been playing anything else besides Naiad?
Speaker 2: I played a little bit more silent.
Speaker 1: Hell.
Speaker 2: I am trying to get through it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: It is so scary. I am getting to the point
Speaker 2: where that game gets progressively scarier and it has really
Speaker 2: forced me to do additional combat. There is a section
Speaker 2: where I've met it's my wife's dupe, uh, Mary's look
Speaker 2: alike her friend or whatever, and she's kind of like weirdly,
Speaker 2: I don't know, she's like kind of sexy, and she's
Speaker 2: like kind of hitting on me. She like touch me,
Speaker 2: and I'll be like, whoa, I'm looking for my dead wife,
Speaker 2: and she'll be like, I'm just messing with you. And
Speaker 2: it's like, well, there's fucking like headless legs trying to
Speaker 2: kill us, so I don't really feel like having a
Speaker 2: bildlone with you right now. She just there's something about
Speaker 2: This is not the remake. This is just more of
Speaker 2: a critique critique of the original, which is just like
Speaker 2: the characters are often nonsensical. This lady's idea that she
Speaker 2: can have a little riff with me when I am
Speaker 2: going through a hellish nightmare, and I think maybe the
Speaker 2: ghost of my dead wife needs me, and so I
Speaker 2: am going through hell itself to find her. And this
Speaker 2: girl is like, do you want to go to this
Speaker 2: strip club? It's just a crazy place, you know, like
Speaker 2: anything can happen there, and it's just like, what are
Speaker 2: you fucking talking about? It's just so odd that they
Speaker 2: try to sell me on this character and she looks
Speaker 2: very much like my dead wife, so like the character
Speaker 2: is so off put by this woman, and she's constantly like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what are we gonna do? And then
Speaker 2: right as we get to a uh, we're in the
Speaker 2: nurse facility, like we're like in a doctor unit, which
Speaker 2: is fucking terrifying. This is where the nurses come out right,
Speaker 2: and they're very difficult to kill. You have to use
Speaker 2: shotgun shells to kill these nurses. They're very intense. And
Speaker 2: I'm walking around with this fucking useless twig who's telling
Speaker 2: me that she's kind of attracted to me, but like
Speaker 2: not really just joking. We go into a room after
Speaker 2: we kill like eight nurses, and she's like, I'm tired,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a nap, and she lays down in
Speaker 2: this shit mattress and goes to sleep. She's asleep right now,
Speaker 2: and I've been murdering dead people.
Speaker 1: Is that? Why? Is that how video games work? In
Speaker 1: your head? Like, because you're not playing it, she just
Speaker 1: stays asleep until you play it again.
Speaker 2: Still there, as far as I know, she's still there,
Speaker 2: stick napping away. And I'm just blown away that they
Speaker 2: originally that they design this character, and I think this
Speaker 2: is probably more of a game design decision where they
Speaker 2: were like, we don't want you to have a NPC
Speaker 2: that's following me around in these sections. It'd be really irritating,
Speaker 2: and we don't want to make more dialogue for her,
Speaker 2: so she's going to take a nap now. But the decision,
Speaker 2: the story arching decision that like, this character will now
Speaker 2: just take a nap so that you don't have to
Speaker 2: deal with them for the next three sections of the
Speaker 2: game is so funny to me. All the beautiful graphics
Speaker 2: and all of the upgrades in the world can't stop
Speaker 2: me from laughing at the fact that, like, this woman
Speaker 2: that I've been dealing with for the last three hours
Speaker 2: is like me sleepy now and just lays down. I'm done.
Speaker 4: I like the resident evil horror style with Ashley where it's.
Speaker 3: Like, Okay, I don't want to deal with you during
Speaker 3: this combat scenario, so it's getting a dumpster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, alright, there's a story.
Speaker 4: I'm putting you in a locker until I'm done killing everyone.
Speaker 2: Yes, I agree, I think that. And there's also something
Speaker 2: about Silent Hill that is more serious than Resident Evil.
Speaker 2: Resident Evil joked a lot, and it let you make
Speaker 2: fun of it sometimes because it was just like, yes,
Speaker 2: this is fantasy and strange, so laugh at these silly characters.
Speaker 2: Silent Hill takes itself very seriously, and I just don't
Speaker 2: think you're supposed to laugh. There's another character I forget
Speaker 2: his name, everyone's who Yeah, the cheeddy guy. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I just saw them in a movie theater. And he's
Speaker 2: eating melted ice cream out of the bucket, and so
Speaker 2: he's talking to me and in his one hand is
Speaker 2: a full giant ice cream bucket and he keeps scooping
Speaker 2: it out with his fingers and sucking pink ice cream
Speaker 2: off of his fingers while he's saying to me, I'm
Speaker 2: not really ready to leave yet, it's nasty, and.
Speaker 1: Hear me out. We found it finally, Eddie ice cream
Speaker 1: off his fingers. Dan we got you, actually, horny, I
Speaker 1: was hid bon Dan.
Speaker 2: It's okay, great that you found something that gets your
Speaker 2: rocks off.
Speaker 1: I'm boner free. Someone twenty four seven.
Speaker 2: Noted strawberry ice cream off of their fingers is exactly
Speaker 2: what Dan likes.
Speaker 1: That's my thing. Let's get let's get fire Escape cast
Speaker 1: shirts that just say boner free twenty four with no
Speaker 1: logo anywhere on it. No, it's not all pumping.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mary. I watched because I never really
Speaker 3: loved the gameplay of Silent Hill. I appreciated the like
Speaker 3: psychological take on horror, you know, it made it different
Speaker 3: than Resident Evil, but so I never really knew what
Speaker 3: the was going on that game. I watched Kayla. I
Speaker 3: joined her when I was in town for like the
Speaker 3: last four hours of that game. She streamed it and
Speaker 3: it all went completely over me in Kayla's heads. But
Speaker 3: then like people were explaining it afterwards, and I've looked
Speaker 3: stuff up and it's like, oh wow, this is actually
Speaker 3: like it is an interesting game that it is very
Speaker 3: sad in that like I've never really don't really play
Speaker 3: a lot of sad games or watch sad movies or
Speaker 3: anything like that, And so that was new to me,
Speaker 3: and then like the main character kind of just sucks
Speaker 3: and I'm used to in most games being like I
Speaker 3: just want to be up.
Speaker 4: I'm just a guy with a gun. I'm a dude
Speaker 4: who jumps on turtles.
Speaker 3: I just like I'm not used to the idea of
Speaker 3: like the protagonists being like, oh no, I don't like
Speaker 3: this person I'm controlling and especially you know, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna spoil anything story wise, but by the end it's
Speaker 3: just like, oh, okay, realize and everything that happened.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, this guy sucks, so not.
Speaker 2: A great dude. Yeah, I agree. I think this does
Speaker 2: kind of remind me like Resident Evil is more my
Speaker 2: jam me too. Playing someone like Chris Redfield is like,
Speaker 2: you can I can get behind someone like that, you know,
Speaker 2: like you can definitely see yourself as these like protagonists
Speaker 2: that can be flawed and even problematic or scared little
Speaker 2: little babies, but they are doing the best they can
Speaker 2: in a crazy situation. This person is an anti hero
Speaker 2: and they're also kind of a wiener. I mean even
Speaker 2: before I agree, before you know anything that's actually happening
Speaker 2: in the story or like what they've done just in
Speaker 2: the gameplay, they're not very interesting. I'll never forget early
Speaker 2: in the original game, and I haven't come across it
Speaker 2: in the remake. I'm looking for it. But in the
Speaker 2: original game when I played Silent Hill Too, he comes
Speaker 2: across a piano and he's his dead wife's name is Mary,
Speaker 2: and he says Mary used to play piano. She wasn't
Speaker 2: very good, and I remember just thinking to myself, you
Speaker 2: raggedy bitch, that you're gonna go to this town to
Speaker 2: find your dead wife and you see something that reminds
Speaker 2: you of her, and the first thing you do is say, well,
Speaker 2: she wasn't very good at it, but like, yeah, this
Speaker 2: does remind me of how pissed she was at piano.
Speaker 2: You don't deserve her. I was originally playing it and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, fuck you like going around, and
Speaker 2: then I think right after that he goes I still
Speaker 2: liked tearing her play it, which is like his redeeming quality,
Speaker 2: but originally just saying that, like she wasn't very good,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, fuck off, like shut off.
Speaker 1: Like the.
Speaker 2: Entire plot of this game is that you're going to
Speaker 2: this town to find your dead wife because you know,
Speaker 2: presumably you love her. Or whatever. You're just making fun
Speaker 2: of her.
Speaker 1: You suckie.
Speaker 3: It's not even like his fucking like weapon skills or anything,
Speaker 3: like he sucks at everything in that game like I'm
Speaker 3: used to, like you know, Dante, It's like, Oh, I'm
Speaker 3: just fucking slicing someone up with a sword and shooting
Speaker 3: with like a million guns and doing stylish shit like
Speaker 3: this guy is just doping around Spooky Town a jacket,
Speaker 3: just being an asshole.
Speaker 1: Like I don't like this guy.
Speaker 2: Suck in medicine bottles and pumping them up full of
Speaker 2: meds he ain't punch, and no boulders.
Speaker 1: This guy's a bitch yep yeah, yep.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm probably gonna finish it. Yes, I need to.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It is a rite of passage for me to finish
Speaker 2: this game. I also think, for the record, i'm critiquing
Speaker 2: like the original concept, story and characters, which I think
Speaker 2: are a little muddier and I prefer the Resident Evil universe.
Speaker 2: This is still an extraordinarily quality remake and game that
Speaker 2: I'm very excited about. So yes, I'm w one hundred
Speaker 2: percent finish this game. But I yeah, I struggle with
Speaker 2: the same things I struggled with with the original, which
Speaker 2: is just like unlikable people left and right. Also, like
Speaker 2: the little girl in this game who's constantly stepping on
Speaker 2: your hand or kicking your keys when you're trying to
Speaker 2: reach for them. She sucks too. There ain't anyone redeemable
Speaker 2: in this game. Everyone sucks like there's no one going.
Speaker 2: You never come across to anyone, and you're like, I
Speaker 2: like them, I hope that we can save them. Everyone
Speaker 2: everyone sucks, whole town sucks. Some kind of there has
Speaker 2: to be some kind of theme here. Yeah, like everybody
Speaker 2: is everybody is bad, nobody is good, you are miserable.
Speaker 2: Get through it.
Speaker 1: Sounds I I I do want to finish it as well.
Speaker 1: I like that I played.
Speaker 3: But Mary, I think we have very similar opinions in
Speaker 3: Silent Hill, like respect it. No, it's a good series,
Speaker 3: but not necessarily for us.
Speaker 2: It's just not something I'm like looking forward to dealing with.
Speaker 2: When I see a character and I'm like, this bitch
Speaker 2: is gonna piss me off? Yeah, and she does every time.
Speaker 2: The girl that I these cut scenes, the napping girl,
Speaker 2: I should know her name, but I forget. It's not Mary,
Speaker 2: it's not my wife.
Speaker 1: It's a different name.
Speaker 2: So, Yes, it's very similar. Yes, it's Maria and every
Speaker 2: one of her uh lines, it's delivered like this, don't
Speaker 2: you know?
Speaker 1: Talk hear me out?
Speaker 2: Hey this?
Speaker 1: God, have you ever met a woman? Name a woman?
Speaker 2: I just feel that this game could be funner.
Speaker 1: You do that very well.
Speaker 2: I hate her?
Speaker 1: You do it? Really? Yeah? You for hating her. You
Speaker 1: nailed it.
Speaker 2: I'm just joking with you. God, I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I don't like being this person.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you want to do emails? Sure? Okay. As usual,
Speaker 1: you can write into fire Escape cast at gmail dot
Speaker 1: com for questions, comments, photos of on the top. Any
Speaker 1: of this stuff is fair game. All the stars are here,
Speaker 1: all the stars.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: We have a couple of questions tonight, and the first
Speaker 1: one is from a frequent emailer, Wes. It's a short one,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a sweet one. Literally.
Speaker 2: We need we need more emails as well, so send
Speaker 2: in more emails.
Speaker 3: We got the week where Mike was gone and I
Speaker 3: scrambled and put together emails for the last second.
Speaker 1: I grabbed like eight emails. Yep. I don't know what
Speaker 1: full episode yet, so or any of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, send more emails.
Speaker 1: Uh, And then uh, okay, never mind, okay, making sure
Speaker 1: I wasn't duplicating one. Yeah, this's Mary. I want to
Speaker 1: read this first quick one from Wes from Baltimore. Yes,
Speaker 1: do you have the knock up? I just saw the
Speaker 1: logo come pop back up.
Speaker 2: Hello, kit cats are significantly better frozen. Do you prefer
Speaker 2: any candy frozen? Thanks Wes from Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Peeps nerves are way better for nerds. Yeah, they're already
Speaker 1: rock hard.
Speaker 3: They had to take about of blizzards because they just
Speaker 3: took am out of blizzards because they would just break kids.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any really. Yeah, yeah, I was like bad.
Speaker 1: I mean it tasted good. I've had them, but like
Speaker 1: that's sick. Peeps are awesome for Oh yeah, they get
Speaker 1: like way chewier you know what you think? Peeps made
Speaker 1: me think of marshmallows and Mary Baka.
Speaker 3: I we were decorating the Christmas tree and stuff recently,
Speaker 3: and you brought us that nice hot chocolate from Portland
Speaker 3: and we put the big ass marshmallows in there and
Speaker 3: whipped cream on top. And oh, I don't think I
Speaker 3: realized how much of a fan of like marshmallows and
Speaker 3: hon chocolate I could be. I've never I barely had
Speaker 3: hot chocolate my wife, and that was fantastic, especially like
Speaker 3: cold Minnesota winter like hot chocolate and marshmallows like that
Speaker 3: as good as hell.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Note that's it should be Moonstruck. So
Speaker 2: anyone who's looking for the brand Moonstruck, we.
Speaker 1: Watched that movie over Thanksgiving break at my parents.
Speaker 2: No, it's not based on the movie.
Speaker 1: No, I know this is funny. I forgot to mention
Speaker 1: that because I haven't seen you guys giving. Yeah with
Speaker 1: shared Nicholas Cage, what do you mean but share? What
Speaker 1: other Moonstruck is there? Yeah? The third best movie made ever,
Speaker 1: ever made ever. If you can't tell, I'm still jet
Speaker 1: lagged anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a very good brand of hot chocolate. And
Speaker 2: my I always say this every time someone's like, I
Speaker 2: love the hot chocolate, which people usually do when I
Speaker 2: give it to them as a gift, and I always
Speaker 2: say it's the it's the gift that Obama usually gives
Speaker 2: people when he gives them chocolate. He gives the Moonstruck chocolate.
Speaker 2: So it's good chocolate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hand makes it. Really, it's some moon Struck
Speaker 1: yo oh oh big guy judging me about movies I watch.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about I don't know. Have you seen Moonstruck?
Speaker 1: Are you wondering to you? Have you seen Moonstruck?
Speaker 2: No, nobody's seen it but you.
Speaker 1: And it's just so much true. Did she really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think she wanted to for that phenomenal It's just
Speaker 1: so funny, like has a wooden hand in it.
Speaker 2: If you haven't seen that movie, that's a really funny
Speaker 2: thing to say about the chalk.
Speaker 1: No, it's not. It's not a wooden hand. It's like
Speaker 1: a gloved thing. He stirs it with his wooden hand.
Speaker 1: He yeah, spoon, is that gross?
Speaker 2: It's not my skin, This is my wooden hand. Spoon.
Speaker 4: Reese is not rageous. Is much better. Frozen cups in general.
Speaker 2: Cups and anything is usually especially I.
Speaker 1: Like chewy chocolate chip cookies in the fridge after well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't eat them in the fridge. But guys,
Speaker 1: I've generately had zero drops of alcohol today. I am
Speaker 1: just like still on French time.
Speaker 2: In the middle of the night, I got up and
Speaker 2: shot an elephant in my pajamas. How the elephant got
Speaker 2: in my pajamas? I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Oh, shit. I forgot to tell you, guys, we have
Speaker 1: to we have a visit with a cat doctor tomorrow.
Speaker 1: How that cat became a doctor as anybody's guys. Uh
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 3: He heard the Norm thing when he was on coding
Speaker 3: and he was like, yeah, I what the doctor and
Speaker 3: my cat was sick and uhyah. Turned out I had
Speaker 3: like some tumor. It was cancerous. And the doctor says,
Speaker 3: I got bad news and good news. The bad news
Speaker 3: is based I want to see from this tumor. It's
Speaker 3: only got three months to live. The good news is
Speaker 3: it's just a cat.
Speaker 1: That's fucked. I don't like it. I'm not Oh, Norm
Speaker 1: said something you don't likes, never saying thing well wow,
Speaker 1: some more defended people have said things I don't like.
Speaker 2: You have to be able to laugh at the darkest
Speaker 2: things among us. I was also just gonna say, girl, Scout,
Speaker 2: thin mint's are so good in the freezer. This is
Speaker 2: common knowledge. I am not educating anyone on thin mints
Speaker 2: in the freezer, but I mean, I actually don't think
Speaker 2: I could have them. I really That's the first thing
Speaker 2: I do when I buy them, I say thank you
Speaker 2: very much. I give them the money they give me
Speaker 2: the cookies. They go right in the freezer. I don't
Speaker 2: do not exist on the counter in the freezer.
Speaker 1: Feer Mint in general, I think tastes better when it's
Speaker 1: cooler in most forms.
Speaker 2: Patty's freezer, Like, if it's mint in chocolate, it goes
Speaker 2: in the freezer.
Speaker 1: Mint ice cream is better cold.
Speaker 2: Strawberry ice cream best melted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like to scoop it.
Speaker 2: It's my fingers in a movie theater.
Speaker 1: Oh her wooden hands sucking strawberry ice cream popper or
Speaker 1: cedar fingers. Oh my goodness, that's my things. A US.
Speaker 3: Snickers ice cream bars or Snickers Normal better ice cream bars?
Speaker 1: I think I do too.
Speaker 3: I mean Snickers Normal is like the purple candy bar.
Speaker 3: But I think Snickers ice cream is like, Wow, you
Speaker 3: made this better with ice cream.
Speaker 2: It depends on the environment. I would say on a
Speaker 2: warm day, of course it would be ice cream. But
Speaker 2: if it's like the middle of winter, I would choose
Speaker 2: a regular Snickers. It's weather dependent.
Speaker 3: Well, I think ice cream bar I had was there
Speaker 3: was like one hundred degrees in Oklahoma heading to my
Speaker 3: sister's wedding this summer, and it's like looking at stuff
Speaker 3: to get in the gas stations, like, oh man, a
Speaker 3: Snicker's ice cream bar one hundred degrees in the middle
Speaker 3: of nowhere, like that is the perfect snack right there.
Speaker 3: But you're right, if it's like dead of winter, maybe standard.
Speaker 1: I think we probably talked about this on the The
Speaker 1: Bonus video where we ranked or tear listed candy. But
Speaker 1: I think I agree with you. The Snickers is the
Speaker 1: ideal candy bar because I love fast breaks. What's the
Speaker 1: five five? I love both of those, but I feel
Speaker 1: like there's diminishing returns when you just start stacking it
Speaker 1: and it removes from the like purity of the Snickers
Speaker 1: when there's too much going on.
Speaker 3: It's just the ratio of everything with the Snickers is
Speaker 3: so perfect. It's I would not change this single.
Speaker 2: I'm the Milky Way girl. I just I just don't
Speaker 2: always want peanuts that just.
Speaker 1: New getting caramel three Musketeers. People like those are psychos.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like Milky Way three much clear the same thing.
Speaker 2: Oh like my go to that was where I went.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think I've ever bought a
Speaker 2: Snickers in a drug store or anything like. I don't
Speaker 2: think i've ever been I've never been in a Kroger
Speaker 2: checking out and been like, I gotta get a Snickers. No,
Speaker 2: of course I've had a Snickers. Oh I eat them
Speaker 2: in like Halloween candy bags, right like I would get
Speaker 2: the mini Snickers and eat the minis and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I've had Snickers purchased for me. I've never made a
Speaker 2: conscious decision to be like, as I'm checking out, be
Speaker 2: like I will have a Snickers.
Speaker 1: It was always like, sucked down a king size?
Speaker 2: You have a suck down a king size? You sound
Speaker 2: like a fucking troll under a bridge talking to me
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go to the bote guy. I'll get.
Speaker 2: You have sucked on us knickers on a tube.
Speaker 1: I'll let you through the tunnel if you suck down
Speaker 1: that Snickers you got like this character. Have you guys
Speaker 1: had the Emperor sized stickers in? What? What country do
Speaker 1: they sell it in? Do they have emperors anymore anywhere? Uh?
Speaker 1: Just as people. I don't think they go by that.
Speaker 2: Okay, he changed, they changed the name, but the players
Speaker 2: are the same.
Speaker 3: Is like in line at a drug store or grocery store.
Speaker 3: That's probably my number three. I probably a bought the
Speaker 3: most Starburst and then Skittles and then snickers.
Speaker 1: I think, are you twiddlers? Are you like your body show?
Speaker 1: Have you adjusted to the your new diet without the
Speaker 1: Halloween candy? Did you just did you confirm that's what
Speaker 1: the problem was? Oh? Yeah, what was the problem that
Speaker 1: was happening? There was something that was like you were
Speaker 1: like having sugar with your awls after Halloween season.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was the weird headaches when I moved my head. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's not happening anymore.
Speaker 2: Weird headache.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you were in any direction it was like out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that stopped happening. I haven't thought of that
Speaker 1: in a while. Yeah. Good, didn't seem healthy. I'm just waiting.
Speaker 3: I need time to move forward so I can get
Speaker 3: on marathon training that which starts in May, because I
Speaker 3: feel like I'm in a dead zone between here and May.
Speaker 4: We're like, all right, and I'm gonna be unhealthy.
Speaker 1: Probably have you not? I thought you started marathon training.
Speaker 4: No, that starts in May. Marathons in October.
Speaker 1: Oh, you finished the half marathon a couple of two
Speaker 1: halfs this year, and now it's like that doesn't make one.
Speaker 1: Now I'm kind of waiting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now, I'm just kind of waiting for Janny word,
Speaker 3: like all right, I'll get onto like a daily you know,
Speaker 3: the cardio thing, just so I'm ready for training in May.
Speaker 3: But right now I'm in that weird holiday dead zone.
Speaker 2: You're allowed to have a holiday dead zone. And I
Speaker 2: encourage everybody who has like been like, hey, I should
Speaker 2: probably get on that diet or like be on that
Speaker 2: heavy exercise regimen. That's what January is for give yourself
Speaker 2: a frickin' break and enjoy the holiday season. I also
Speaker 2: struggle with this personally, and this is when I went
Speaker 2: to the Ravens Manor one of their number one drinks
Speaker 2: is essentially eggnog, and I was like, I just want
Speaker 2: to try it. I let things go in December, live
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 3: It is striking, though I don't know if this is
Speaker 3: just a getting older thing, but like the speed in
Speaker 3: which you can go from like like like something like
Speaker 3: cardio help and stuff like I think that stays that
Speaker 3: lasts a little longer, but like the speed in which
Speaker 3: you can like put on weight, Like you know, I
Speaker 3: went from like the lowest weight I've been in like
Speaker 3: over ten years when I was like finishing up the
Speaker 3: marathon training to like it's not crazy, but you know,
Speaker 3: I put on fifteen pounds probably since then, and it's like,
Speaker 3: god damn, that gonna happen pretty quick, like a couple
Speaker 3: months if you're like not actively working out regularly and
Speaker 3: watch what you eat specifically, Like they can turn around quick.
Speaker 2: And this only gets worse every year. It does not
Speaker 2: get better. It will just get worse. Yeah, it will
Speaker 2: get harder. You will just more easily put on weight
Speaker 2: from now until the end of time, unfortunately, but it's
Speaker 2: more motivation for you to stay on the uh treadmill
Speaker 2: or whatever it is that fuels you. But I do
Speaker 2: encourage people to give themselves a freaking break in December, right,
Speaker 2: like have yeah, have the eggnog, have the have the
Speaker 2: extra helping of mashed potato.
Speaker 3: You know, enjoy yourself well and with what we do,
Speaker 3: and like, you know, we all live I mean, Mike,
Speaker 3: you're closer, but like you know, we live away from
Speaker 3: our parents. So it's like typically we have a trip
Speaker 3: home for Thanksgiving and then it's like, Okay, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of eating like shit there and then frequently we're
Speaker 3: going to the Game Awards and doing stuff like that.
Speaker 3: In early December and then you get back, you have
Speaker 3: maybe a week and then you go back for Christmas
Speaker 3: and then you got New Year's parties and stuff. So
Speaker 3: like December like for me, is always fucked, Like it's
Speaker 3: almost impossible to stay on a good thing in December.
Speaker 3: So like January, like I've never been the big like
Speaker 3: New Year's resolutions always felt so arbitrary. But sometimes it
Speaker 3: just works out schedule wise where it's like, all right,
Speaker 3: that's when I actually will have time to like be
Speaker 3: on a regular schedule. But I envy people, you know,
Speaker 3: like Bonk. She travels all the time. You know she's
Speaker 3: busy too, and like she is just so just like
Speaker 3: I'm going to get this shit done, like that is
Speaker 3: a top priority. Is like being healthy both eating and
Speaker 3: working out, and like I look at her and it's like,
Speaker 3: all right, I don't have an excuse, Like it can
Speaker 3: be done.
Speaker 4: Like I'm just giving myself excuses.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I appreciate the dedication. Just don't forget to
Speaker 2: enjoy your Christmas.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, uh, thank you, wes Dan. You want to
Speaker 1: read this one from Morgan? Yes, high Fire or skip cast.
Speaker 3: Do you guys have any blanket statements something that you
Speaker 3: think is true across the board with no exceptions. Some
Speaker 3: example of some examples of mine. If there is a
Speaker 3: dog or a cat and a game that is not
Speaker 3: an enemy and you can't interact or pet it, that
Speaker 3: game is trash or not chose without cheese?
Speaker 4: Is it not chose?
Speaker 1: I do agree with that.
Speaker 3: My husband would say any movie for an hour and
Speaker 3: a half is too long. These can be about any topic.
Speaker 3: Thoughts a long time listening to the cast near other
Speaker 3: content platforms. Morgan, Thank you, Morgan. Blanket stavements with no exceptions.
Speaker 3: They specifically said there.
Speaker 1: I had one before I had to kind of make
Speaker 1: an exception to my If a game, for instance, takes
Speaker 1: three hours to get good, yep, then it's not a
Speaker 1: good game. Metaphor kind of metaphor is different because it
Speaker 1: was still decent in the first two hours. But like
Speaker 1: I still believe, like if a game takes let's say
Speaker 1: three hours to get good, I don't care how long
Speaker 1: it is, it might not be a good game.
Speaker 3: Anytime people say like, oh, yeah, give it like five hours,
Speaker 3: and it's like yeah, I normally would say that as
Speaker 3: a blanket statement, but like this year infinite wealth, like
Speaker 3: that takes a while to get moving and then it
Speaker 3: gets really good, and so I think there are exceptions
Speaker 3: for that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are slow burns, and I can I'm all
Speaker 1: for that, but it's like when something is actively pushing
Speaker 1: back against my enjoyment for five hours. Sure, Infinite Wealth
Speaker 1: was bearable for a bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so funny and interesting and everything, but
Speaker 3: like it doesn't open up for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what other blankets stay? I definitely have a bunch.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that.
Speaker 2: One that's similar to the uh, the writer's husband. My
Speaker 2: blanket for movies is a bit more lenient than that,
Speaker 2: but it is No movie needs to be three hours. Period.
Speaker 2: If it's three hours, it could have been just as good,
Speaker 2: and it could have been two hours and fifty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Three hours is my cutoff. Every time I've ever seen
Speaker 2: a movie that's three hours, even good ones, I've been like,
Speaker 2: you could have you could have edited that from the ear,
Speaker 2: could have you could have cut something one thousand percent.
Speaker 2: There's no movie on earth that needs to be three hours.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel.
Speaker 1: Pretty extreme, but like I feel so ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Good ones, right, prove it. I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 3: Name it Lord of Ring's Return of the King sucks. Shit,
Speaker 3: Green good, God, We Fall is good, Deer Hunter is great. Uh,
Speaker 3: titan isn't.
Speaker 2: This isn't. This is a different argument, though, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying they're not good. You know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 2: saying that you could have cut five minutes, is what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. I don't have you saying that a movie
Speaker 2: is good only helps me. I'm still saying they could
Speaker 2: be good if you just cut five minutes.
Speaker 3: Sure, Like it's been a while since I saw Titanic.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you could cut time from that, right a
Speaker 3: hundred percent.
Speaker 2: She doesn't need to look at it art bullshit. You
Speaker 2: don't need the five minutes. You don't need that long
Speaker 2: on the on the wood panel, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: You could the ship goes down, I you don't need.
Speaker 2: Once that hits the propeller, for sure.
Speaker 1: Climat the what other the Irishman was? Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: like all.
Speaker 2: It just didn't need it, and I just loved very
Speaker 2: For me, I feel very strongly about this. Every time
Speaker 2: a movie has a run time of three hours in cinema,
Speaker 2: like in a movie theater, I'm always like, you are
Speaker 2: you are really pushing it with me. That editor could
Speaker 2: have just put in a little bit more juice and
Speaker 2: cut out one more goddamn scene. That is a long
Speaker 2: time for a person to sit and pay attention. Less
Speaker 2: than three hours every movie forever.
Speaker 1: It's always Scorsese now too. Killers of the Flower Moon, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw it in the theaters.
Speaker 3: I never put to suben theaters, and like, I was like,
Speaker 3: not an off and Killers of the Flower Moon we started.
Speaker 1: At ten pm and then by the time I got
Speaker 1: to hour two and I like that movie quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I was nodding off.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of bit. I'm not saying they're
Speaker 2: not good. They can be phenomenal movies. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: they could have cut out one scene or just trimmed
Speaker 2: it and made it less than three hours. Three hours
Speaker 2: is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It is a.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous length for one piece of cinema.
Speaker 1: Fucking come on, Appazheimer, like it says Oppenheimer's ever. Three
Speaker 1: hours of.
Speaker 2: Oppenheimer could have easily been under three hours. That movie
Speaker 2: is god tear and it is too fucking log. Did
Speaker 2: you do the ending where like, uh, they're like walking
Speaker 2: towards each other in the grass and it just keeps
Speaker 2: panning back and forth between them.
Speaker 1: Like from Monty Python. Yes, if that would be a
Speaker 1: really weird choice. If they did that with Oppenheimer with
Speaker 1: three hours, I'd be into it. Yeah, well the show.
Speaker 1: The show is basically the opposite of my argument.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't be taking movies and making them three hours.
Speaker 1: You need to be better. Right, good job, it's.
Speaker 2: Not that's literally what I'm saying. I'm literally saying the
Speaker 2: opposite of.
Speaker 1: Food, food, culinary, drink, beverage, blanket statements that you guys have. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean there's well, there's regional stuff like Chicago. If
Speaker 1: you have put ketchup or mustard on the hot dog,
Speaker 1: or if you put yeah, ketchup or mustard on hot dog,
Speaker 1: it's not a hot dog? Or is it just ketchup?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Neither of those are accurate though. Those are just hot
Speaker 2: dog like. You can't you can't do that.
Speaker 1: You can't can't you can't make that. Well, I'm saying
Speaker 1: people from Chicago don't like it on there, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's still a hot dog. I don't think they'd argue
Speaker 1: it's not a hot dog.
Speaker 2: Cuisine.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like there's things like, oh, all
Speaker 3: things with olives are bad. But that's just me saying
Speaker 3: I don't like all of what statement is right, just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I do agree with the one here that they said
Speaker 3: in the email. Nachos without cheese is a nachos like
Speaker 3: one hundred percent, Like cheese is more important than the
Speaker 3: chips for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to have melted cheese on nachos.
Speaker 1: What Mike, I was I just I just started thinking
Speaker 1: of some really funny ones, and I've probably said, like
Speaker 1: anybody who has played Mass Effects six times is I
Speaker 1: don't like them? Yeah, I've met some of those types
Speaker 1: in that kind of old Yeah. That unlocked a bunch
Speaker 1: that I probably actually said in my life.
Speaker 3: I don't think i'd trust me like huge fan of
Speaker 3: thirty seconds to Mars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good one. Yeah, question into bullying people,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're bad people. I'm saying I they're
Speaker 1: not for me. Yeah, I don't. I don't trust people
Speaker 1: have played Mass Effects six times. I should say you
Speaker 1: have to earn my trust if you tell me you
Speaker 1: played Mass Effects six times through Yeah.
Speaker 2: In game design, one of my blanket rules is is
Speaker 2: if you're using wheelchairs to make an environment scary. That's
Speaker 2: like so boring and and lazy, oh one like wheeling out,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, I just hate it. There's like so many
Speaker 2: other scary things that you could do in an environment
Speaker 2: than like a wheelchair, which is just a very normal
Speaker 2: thing that people need, and I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: And so every time I see it, I'm always like, oh,
Speaker 2: the person who designed this space is either not very
Speaker 2: experienced or they're just not very worldly or thoughtful when
Speaker 2: it comes as to how to scare people, like be
Speaker 2: like think outside the box a little bit, and just
Speaker 2: like a freaking wheelchair. I don't like that kind of
Speaker 2: stuff usually when I see it in a space.
Speaker 3: I don't think it'd be possible for me to enjoy
Speaker 3: any visual novel. I don't know if that's the blanket statement,
Speaker 3: but just visual novels are bad for me.
Speaker 1: It would be most novels. Maybe I do. Maybe I
Speaker 1: just don't.
Speaker 3: I do like reading it justs it takes so long
Speaker 3: to read. I mean, I a fast reader. Books have
Speaker 3: so many words.
Speaker 2: Though you watch my face. You said it's it's probably
Speaker 2: no visual novelists for me, really, and we were all
Speaker 2: like I think me and micro both like visual or listen.
Speaker 1: I like reading.
Speaker 3: I've been reading this fucking Stephen King short story collection
Speaker 3: for like a year because any recommended it to me.
Speaker 3: I've read four of the short stories and liked them
Speaker 3: all a lot, But it takes there's so many booking
Speaker 3: words and books.
Speaker 1: It's so long. Yeah, they're big collections for words.
Speaker 2: Three hour movie in book form. Like when are you
Speaker 2: like I'm not reading all that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've read some really long books before, and
Speaker 3: I've enjoyed them. It's just it's like when it's not
Speaker 3: part of your day, in your routine, it's like it's
Speaker 3: that habit thing where it's just like if I just
Speaker 3: got into the habit of like, okay, with my coffee
Speaker 3: every morning, I'm gonna, you know, read while I drink
Speaker 3: my coffee, then I'd read so much, I think, because
Speaker 3: I really have enjoyed whenever I get into a book,
Speaker 3: but it's just not part of my day, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like it's become I've started to try and make a
Speaker 2: habit out of my weekend. I've started enjoying a slow
Speaker 2: morning where I wake up, I have a coffee and
Speaker 2: like maybe a you know, whatever little breakfast snacky I
Speaker 2: have and I read a chapter of a book. I've
Speaker 2: been doing that on my Saturday and or my Sunday,
Speaker 2: and I've really enjoyed that experience. But it's very difficult
Speaker 2: for me. I know a lot of people who I
Speaker 2: have a friend who reads in the shower every time.
Speaker 2: They how are they read?
Speaker 1: Everybody's got a good soggy? Is that laminated?
Speaker 2: It's it's it's laminated, just like all of Mike's books,
Speaker 2: you know, Yeah, it's it's a kick. I can't get
Speaker 2: them sticky, the pages are always stuck together.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have to laminate my phone for the same
Speaker 1: reason laminate our bed.
Speaker 2: You slip over it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm so trying to, like and if there's any
Speaker 3: tips here, I would love them, because like I would
Speaker 3: love to get into the habit of working out every
Speaker 3: morning and doing a slow morning where it's like whether
Speaker 3: it's reading or breakfast without a phone, things like that.
Speaker 3: But like from the moment I wake up, like my
Speaker 3: alarm goes up at seven thirty, I just know there's
Speaker 3: already like eight unread slacks, discords, emails, things like that,
Speaker 3: and it's like I have to get to and then
Speaker 3: like as the day goes on, and people actually start
Speaker 3: waking up. Like if it's nine am and I'm on
Speaker 3: a treadmill or something, I just know that it's piling up.
Speaker 3: And by the time I get off the treadmill up
Speaker 3: and I have like thirty things I have to like
Speaker 3: look at or respond to content. So it's like, how
Speaker 3: do you Because I'm like I see people like their
Speaker 3: phones and stuff. I got a lot of friends. It's like,
Speaker 3: I have thirty thousand unread emails and I have like
Speaker 3: a thousand notifications for text.
Speaker 1: Like that's insane to me.
Speaker 3: If I see a notification, I cannot not address it
Speaker 3: right away, you know, like, is there do you guys
Speaker 3: have that?
Speaker 2: I struggle with that. I mean, I don't think there's
Speaker 2: a really solid answer for it besides practice. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a very sexy answer. But I
Speaker 2: think my answer is is, like you have to have
Speaker 2: the self control because what you're talking about, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: is addiction. You have an addiction to, uh not having
Speaker 2: any notifications. Do you clear your inbox at the end
Speaker 2: of the day.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I the second an email comes in, I address it
Speaker 4: pretty much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's kind of an addictive personality situation
Speaker 2: or like neurotic right like where I ain't going to
Speaker 2: diagnose you, but the idea that you can't handle like
Speaker 2: notifications not read, that can be a symptom of someone
Speaker 2: who's like imperfect musk cleans, and and that is habitual
Speaker 2: where you should really practice being okay with unread things
Speaker 2: because the world goes on and it's also very important
Speaker 2: for them to be able to wait for your response,
Speaker 2: like it's healthy for you to be able to. That's
Speaker 2: probably why you don't ever cook broccoli and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's that's the thing is Like it's not
Speaker 3: because I don't think I'm like necessarily addicted to like
Speaker 3: you know, the tech part of it of a notifications,
Speaker 3: I feel guilt over like if a friend to even
Speaker 3: something that's like not work related or not actually important,
Speaker 3: like a friend just like oh did you see Raw
Speaker 3: last night?
Speaker 4: Or something you see the New Day segment from Raw?
Speaker 3: Like if I see that red notification there, it's just like,
Speaker 3: oh God, they sent me this thing, and I'm like
Speaker 3: being a bad friend. I need to respond and if
Speaker 3: I just go about my day and do the things
Speaker 3: I need to do, And so that's the thing. I'll
Speaker 3: like pull out my phone and be like, oh, I
Speaker 3: need to do this thing, and then I'll see all
Speaker 3: these things pop up, and I'll like totally forget why
Speaker 3: I pulled my phone out in the first place.
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, that's hard. That's a very difficult habit
Speaker 2: to fight. And I also think, like I've also struggled
Speaker 2: with that. I can do the opposite now where someone
Speaker 2: will message me and I'll see a DM and I'll
Speaker 2: be like, that's so sweet. But then I will forget
Speaker 2: to respond, and then like three months will go a by,
Speaker 2: and I'll be like, oh, I never responded to that
Speaker 2: person because I didn't think about it at the time,
Speaker 2: And then I harbor this guilt that I've never responded
Speaker 2: to that person. But I don't Mike, maybe you have
Speaker 2: something better for that. But my honest response is that
Speaker 2: you should get into a daily habit of letting yourself
Speaker 2: see it and then say I'm gonna make myself a
Speaker 2: coffee or I'm gonna go have lunch or go for
Speaker 2: a walk, and I'm gonna let it go and then
Speaker 2: acknowledge over time that like nothing dies, we don't save
Speaker 2: lives here.
Speaker 1: Like the world goes on Yeah, anything truly important, you'll
Speaker 1: get a call if it's an emergency that you should
Speaker 1: to address right away. I mean I stopped like I'm
Speaker 1: on Instagram is the only social media I ever use. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just like it. I think it is a matter
Speaker 1: of just like cleansing what's really not important to you.
Speaker 1: I I've been in a much better place the last
Speaker 1: several years after you know, having Yeah, also needed to
Speaker 1: clear my inbox and my inpot. My work in box
Speaker 1: is pretty clean, but I also don't get nearly as
Speaker 1: many emails now as I did at like Polygon, for instance,
Speaker 1: which is nice, but it's still I think the people
Speaker 1: that I truly care about would not be offended if
Speaker 1: I take a bit to get back to them. The
Speaker 1: people who would get offended. I don't think I have
Speaker 1: many people like that left in my close circle, which
Speaker 1: is nice. Well, I'll feel guilt with like.
Speaker 3: Pr people I've never even met in person, where it's
Speaker 3: just like I'll get a work email where it's like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're really excited were renouncing this game.
Speaker 1: We got a code for this would you be interested
Speaker 1: in checking this out?
Speaker 3: Like somebody I've never met with a game, I'm not
Speaker 3: interested in I feel guilty if it's like I don't
Speaker 3: like respond, or if I just kind of go somemo whatever,
Speaker 3: it's like, ah, but like I think that's that's the
Speaker 3: media thing. Like we get so many fun press releases
Speaker 3: and emails and stuff. People are just trying to promote
Speaker 3: their games, and it's like you have to kind just
Speaker 3: ignore some of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do. I would also say, like, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any reason to feel guilty. I think, if anything,
Speaker 1: that's you putting a bit too much importance on yourself.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that in a mean way. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying like I don't think they're like stewing Riker
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten back to me.
Speaker 3: No, They've sent out one hundred plus emails. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you blanket email. Yeah, I think it's more. It was
Speaker 3: more for me, just like lately at least now it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, I take most mourning. I played video games
Speaker 3: most in the mornings now these days over coffee, and
Speaker 3: then at night I read and study for class and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But like, yeah, I let my like Instagram dms pile
Speaker 3: up now and I don't care, Like I said, like,
Speaker 3: I'll go through and see if any of them are
Speaker 3: ones I truly need to respond to. I used to like,
Speaker 3: get I have a bunch like several close friends that
Speaker 3: send me dumb videos, and I it becomes a to
Speaker 3: do list of mine to watch all them just so
Speaker 3: I can responds like I don't. Again, if they were
Speaker 3: truly important, it would have been a text or like
Speaker 3: they would say like please watch this. Like if they're
Speaker 3: just sending me them, I don't need to watch all those.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I said, reminders.
Speaker 3: If I see, like someone sends me a YouTube link,
Speaker 3: I'm just like, remind me respond to this person later
Speaker 3: on when I can actually watch this video. It is
Speaker 3: like adding to your to do list, which is again,
Speaker 3: these are not real problems, but it's.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's I think it's thinking
Speaker 1: of it. I found it helpful to it took some
Speaker 1: discipline and practice, but getting away from thinking of it
Speaker 1: as to do lists and actually like separating things I need,
Speaker 1: shit I need to do, and stuff that's like I
Speaker 1: don't really care that I missed this one skit from
Speaker 1: that same Instagram channel that my friend always sends me.
Speaker 1: I don't even like them to begin with, not the
Speaker 1: friend that this like that.
Speaker 4: I thought you would like that match a man at
Speaker 4: the Eiffel Tower video.
Speaker 1: I responded, I took a while a re spont of
Speaker 1: that because I was in France when I was busy,
Speaker 1: and I was like this, Dan won't be pissed if
Speaker 1: I don't respond.
Speaker 2: Necessary to respond, Yes, brother, yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm getting there. I'll have a good mantra. Man. Is
Speaker 1: that him? Was that him? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Got another one. Dog people are just cooler than cat people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have I have one. Dog people are more
Speaker 1: emotionally needy than cat people.
Speaker 3: No, I think we appreciate a pet that actually gives
Speaker 3: us some like joy and love and isn't just being
Speaker 3: an asshole. Yeah, you know, my cats give us joy,
Speaker 3: walk around occasionally, look at you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just keep putting their buttholes in the camera.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fucking Razor just humps boxes and toys.
Speaker 3: Look, Razor's nuts. But you can't say we're not talking
Speaker 3: about Razor.
Speaker 2: We're comparing cats to dogs. Razor isn't involved.
Speaker 1: Bring them up. Try to say a single bad word
Speaker 1: about Gizmo. I dare you? Gizmo is not that great
Speaker 1: freak show.
Speaker 3: Look, look, Bank and I would both admit Fraser's insane
Speaker 3: but floor licking toy humping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jesse fucking I'm a Nator guy. I'm all for
Speaker 1: the outsider. Actually, I don't know. Is Ralph Nader known
Speaker 1: for bad things these days? I don't alive. I don't
Speaker 1: know is he I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe I should make political jokes Razors, like we have
Speaker 3: the most fucked fucker category, Like Razor is just a
Speaker 3: a dog.
Speaker 1: I agree, Yeah, he's the man. I like him more
Speaker 1: than giz Tell gizz I said that, Yeah, I will not.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have any other blanket statements. Quilts
Speaker 1: are nice, though, I think, come on, I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: I deserve a bit more anti, come on, what's a quilt?
Speaker 3: I feel like I was raised hearing a lot of
Speaker 3: blanket statements, and I think that's maybe why I don't
Speaker 3: have any. Is because as I got older, I was
Speaker 3: like annoyed by, like, you know, my dad being like
Speaker 3: whine is for high maintenance women, and.
Speaker 1: It's like I don't like that.
Speaker 3: As I've actually tried to, you know, evolve as a person,
Speaker 3: it's like, maybe blanket statements aren't something that I subscribe to.
Speaker 1: Feel like if we combed through Firescape. We'd probably hear
Speaker 1: you making many blanket statements. Assumption that's a blanket statement
Speaker 1: I'm making by saying that, but probably maybe not.
Speaker 2: I think it's embedded into your subconscious, don't I'm subconscious.
Speaker 1: I think it's just conscious, a.
Speaker 3: Lot of conscious trying a lot of scraping them out.
Speaker 3: And you know I go to therapy every week. You
Speaker 3: know we're working on all that for decades.
Speaker 2: Blanket statement. If you're bothered by your neighbors, it's best
Speaker 2: to throw the whole damn house away, tell your house, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 2: start anew, get rid of your life.
Speaker 1: I have another one. Anybody who's played for Sona five
Speaker 1: more than four times fucking sucks. This is one specific
Speaker 1: person I'm talking about. I mean, you're probably right, this
Speaker 1: is this is just a bit. Francisco sucks as a city.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I could not say that. Noisco I have.
Speaker 2: I had fantastic experiences I realized.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all met in San Francisco, we worked there,
Speaker 1: but changed like I mean, San Fransco and New York
Speaker 1: are not even in the same.
Speaker 2: Changed my life. I do think like it's gone through
Speaker 2: some ebbs and flows. But I think all cities can
Speaker 2: go through ebbs and flows. I think it's unfair to
Speaker 2: just essentially say like a city is like a dirt
Speaker 2: bag city.
Speaker 1: It's a blanket statement.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's good people, and I had good like
Speaker 3: they're gonna be good people and their good experiences. I
Speaker 3: had great experiences, and I mean I meant you guys
Speaker 3: have worked a job. I loved all that stuff. But
Speaker 3: like city go sucks ass. It is the worst city
Speaker 3: I've ever been to. Lot So there's long term or
Speaker 3: short term to live.
Speaker 1: In stood on the ground in. I think San Francisco
Speaker 1: is the worst over the world.
Speaker 3: Saying for someone who's as traveled as you, there's no
Speaker 3: city I've been like, Man, I hate this place more
Speaker 3: than San Franisco.
Speaker 1: I here, here's a question. Do you truly think you
Speaker 1: put in the work to explore San Francisco Pass like
Speaker 1: the neighborhood you lived in where you work. Yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 1: I went out with friends all the time there.
Speaker 3: I would go out the mission and you know all
Speaker 3: you know, the north was North Cove, North Beach or
Speaker 3: the you know, absolutely, I'm very social going out. I
Speaker 3: want to see the city, and that's part of the thing,
Speaker 3: is like I'd want to go, like, all right, tonight,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go downtown and I'm gonna, like, you know,
Speaker 3: check out the restaurants there and stuff.
Speaker 2: It likes are so good there.
Speaker 3: That there should be better options. It's not there shut
Speaker 3: down none of cheese for you. And in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: At nine it's like, that's not true.
Speaker 3: The public transportation sucks shit, Like well, yes, that that's
Speaker 3: just America. New York public transportation was great that I
Speaker 3: actually about San Francisco.
Speaker 1: But the food, it's got some of them.
Speaker 3: Any fucking city you go to, there's gonna be like
Speaker 3: really good restaurants, and that holds true for San Francisco.
Speaker 4: I've been to a bunch of you guys.
Speaker 2: How much of Kentucky have you traveled to?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: The Jack Daniels Distillary is that in Louisville or No?
Speaker 4: I think so, yeah, I drove it.
Speaker 2: It's around there, and you know, those restaurants aren't fucking
Speaker 2: crazy except for like the fried chicken options. I I
Speaker 2: have lived a majority of my life in Ohio and
Speaker 2: there are cities in that space that suck ass. And
Speaker 2: the idea that you would compare them to San Francisco
Speaker 2: and say San Francisco is the worst. You are not
Speaker 2: as well traveled as you say you are.
Speaker 1: No, I just know what I like it. When I
Speaker 1: don't like you go to bumfuck Ohio.
Speaker 2: And you tell me that that place is so much
Speaker 2: better than San Francis.
Speaker 3: If you told me I had to move tomorrow to
Speaker 3: Ohioentucky or San Francisco last on the list, would one
Speaker 3: thousand percent be San Francisco, Like I would go to
Speaker 3: a random ass city in Ohio or Kentucky ten times
Speaker 3: out of ten.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I didn't know we were so pro San
Speaker 4: Francisco here.
Speaker 2: Know, I want to fucking pick you up and drive
Speaker 2: you to Cincinnati and put you in some fucking.
Speaker 1: Bricks and you yes, I like the Midwest. I love
Speaker 1: the Midwest. I was.
Speaker 4: I grew up in the Midwest.
Speaker 1: I know you stick at the.
Speaker 2: Teet of Midwest, and I don't think that you actually
Speaker 2: know what culture is.
Speaker 1: That is just so good. I tried hard in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I would to so many restaurants, so many bars.
Speaker 2: You tried, uh, like Fantasio hard to enjoy San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Two and a half years.
Speaker 3: I fucking tried very nice things I have great memories
Speaker 3: of going down to Ocean Beach, I going to the
Speaker 3: what's the pizza but Tony's Pizza or whatever, went there
Speaker 3: a bunch with Mike and Tim and friends and stuff.
Speaker 1: There are there are great things there, but on the
Speaker 1: whole garbage town. I can. I absolutely see how San
Speaker 1: Francisco like doesn't vibe with you, of course, but I
Speaker 1: don't think it's it's it's not in a great place now.
Speaker 1: It's worseo when I was there. You know, I don't.
Speaker 2: Why don't fucking pine Cone say that you're living life.
Speaker 1: I've been to. I think every major Mary just say
Speaker 1: something bad about Minneapolis and make watch him for one
Speaker 1: shithole one bridge. We have numerous bridges. You've got Central
Speaker 1: Avenue Care. We have a bunch of wakes so we
Speaker 1: can canoe and walk around.
Speaker 2: And there we put inside canoe in all my life.
Speaker 1: A pod and a kayak walk on the lake.
Speaker 3: Could this summer because I had signed a surgery, I
Speaker 3: would have been out there a lot like a stone.
Speaker 1: At this point a good swimmer. If I had to
Speaker 1: choose between s F and Minneapolis at this point in
Speaker 1: my life, I would probably pick Minneapolis.
Speaker 2: Name three types of trees.
Speaker 1: Dan, pine elm, cone of fur. You fur, you mispronounced it.
Speaker 1: And also that's more of like a group of trees
Speaker 1: pine elm and weeping willow nice justish yeah, and leafy.
Speaker 2: Green, barren brown stem.
Speaker 1: Drunk.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying I'm bear grilled. Just like living in
Speaker 3: a place that's got nature, you're never in it. You're
Speaker 3: look out in this window, would see a billion trees.
Speaker 3: There's a pond, look up.
Speaker 2: A two pm. Because you got drunk as ship.
Speaker 1: Last night where I was coming from, why.
Speaker 2: I just want blood now?
Speaker 3: Wrestling with my friends last night, it was a good
Speaker 3: time at the National Armory city to live in.
Speaker 2: You can only do that there.
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't broadcast wrestling to any other American city.
Speaker 4: That's a National Guard armory.
Speaker 1: Oh, what's a National oh Aiden Armory for the National Guard?
Speaker 1: That's correct. Where there's guns all over the place. No,
Speaker 1: just wrestling and my cannon's next to the ring.
Speaker 4: No, no, not anymore.
Speaker 1: Almost just said rink.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 1: Hockey ring wrestling rink. Well, thank you, Morgan. The harmony
Speaker 1: your question brought to the podcast That's Our Show, Episode
Speaker 1: ninety six. I think yes, episode ninety six. It's fun.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: It's been four weeks since I last spoke to you well,
Speaker 1: I mean recorded right, talk to you too much to say.
Speaker 2: Usually when we do this, we like get started and
Speaker 2: do the podcast right away. But when we started this call,
Speaker 2: we actually like chit chatted for almost forty minutes, and
Speaker 2: I think we did that before we actually started the podcast,
Speaker 2: because sometimes you're just like, oh man, what have you
Speaker 2: been up to? Like what's up, Bud, And then you're like, fuck,
Speaker 2: we have to do the podcast, and so we like
Speaker 2: actually start recording. That is such a sign that we've
Speaker 2: missed each other, is that we like can't wait to
Speaker 2: just catch up and like hot goss, I mean, you
Speaker 2: guys gotta have it.
Speaker 1: It's just so nice to do well before recording.
Speaker 3: It's all the shit that we will not be able
Speaker 3: to bring all about on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Do you hate Who's on your death Note?
Speaker 1: That's it. Half the time that one of us makes
Speaker 1: a joke about somebody anonymous and the other two laugh
Speaker 1: really hard, it's because we were talking about them by
Speaker 1: name earlier started recording.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we should do like a three hundred dollars tier
Speaker 3: on the Patreon why did they just get the whole thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you can't believe it like it burns. It's
Speaker 1: like a burn after reading thing. You can only listen
Speaker 1: to it for.
Speaker 2: No, I'll get can so people get canceled.
Speaker 4: I think just people might find out what we think
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 1: Most people know what I think of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do not really like shy about that. I
Speaker 3: don't think there'd be a lot of surprises, frankly.
Speaker 1: No, that'd be yeah. I mean if like certain people
Speaker 1: paid for that tier now they would probably. No, I
Speaker 1: really don't. I like that.
Speaker 2: I like doing that on on Twitch as well. I
Speaker 2: have like there's lots of modes that you can do
Speaker 2: where if you want to comment in someone's chat, you
Speaker 2: have to follow them for six months. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: like that because that's my way of being like, if
Speaker 2: you're such a piece of shit that you want to
Speaker 2: comment something nasty in my chat, you have to follow
Speaker 2: me in subscribe, give me money for six months, and
Speaker 2: if you do that, you can tell me you don't
Speaker 2: like me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to be for the long game if
Speaker 4: you want to see that, really.
Speaker 2: You're really committed hater to come for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then by the time that happens, like, all right,
Speaker 1: you burn this, I go for it.
Speaker 2: Bud, you tell me, you tell me you're mad at me,
Speaker 2: I'll I'm listening.
Speaker 3: I feel like all three of us are bad at
Speaker 3: hiding if we don't like someone. So it's like I
Speaker 3: feel like with any of us, if our listeners have
Speaker 3: seen us on content or on podcasts with and we're
Speaker 3: friendly with them, we're probably cool with them because it's
Speaker 3: probably super obvious if it's true.
Speaker 2: A different We all have different vibes to dislike though
Speaker 2: as well, Like I think we have different levels of
Speaker 2: like how we react and stuff like that. We all
Speaker 2: have different volatility.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like when it's someone that I just
Speaker 3: don't want to deal with, it's just like I just
Speaker 3: don't want to. I'm not gonna pick a fight. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to like, you know, confront them at a thing.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna like, I'm just not gonna think about
Speaker 3: you or talk to you, you know, not gonna go
Speaker 3: out of my way.
Speaker 4: Or do you guys are are the fighters in the group.
Speaker 1: I I can be confrontational, for sure. I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not physical anymore. Oh.
Speaker 2: I remember there was a time in my life where
Speaker 2: if Mike was upset with someone at a bar, we
Speaker 2: were like, we gotta get them out of here because
Speaker 2: he's gonna beat the ship out of this.
Speaker 1: The headlines in Paris last week. Yeah, I've whipped him,
Speaker 1: whipped someone's ass with a bag at dead Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then poured chatting to Pop all over there, twitching dead body.
Speaker 1: You never either of you have ever seen me in
Speaker 1: an altercation.
Speaker 2: And well, I think we pull you out usually, but
Speaker 2: I either Mary.
Speaker 3: We usually have an arm each in the marr aching.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, I can't punch and I'll kick these motherbuggers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're gonna let Mary say this. Mary's right, picks.
Speaker 1: Fights with every Jersey mom who tries getting into a
Speaker 1: woman's bathroom. Listen.
Speaker 2: That was a very unique situation where I was I
Speaker 2: was offended how she wouldn't apologize.
Speaker 1: I think I was.
Speaker 2: I was more upset about the idea that I was like, hey,
Speaker 2: you can't just come into someone's bathroom and she was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I can't just come into the bathroom and was like
Speaker 2: trying to fight me, and I was like, okay, now
Speaker 2: I do have to fight her.
Speaker 1: No, I had to pick you up and just move you.
Speaker 1: I actually cardboard on Saturday, so what happened on Saturday?
Speaker 1: Can talk about it? Yes? I can?
Speaker 2: So you know how like usually we've actually just talked
Speaker 2: about this. On Saturdays and Sundays, I like to go
Speaker 2: to a coffee shop and have a little coffee and
Speaker 2: maybe have a little snick snack and I read my book.
Speaker 2: And I have gotten really accustomed to doing this is
Speaker 2: a tradition now on weekends. And yesterday I went to
Speaker 2: a little coffee shop and I got my little coffee
Speaker 2: and my little snick snack and I sat outside and
Speaker 2: a woman sat right next to me and lit a
Speaker 2: cigarette and started blowing smoke in my face. And I
Speaker 2: was like, hey, can't you just move down? And she
Speaker 2: was like, I'm allowed to have a cigarette. And I
Speaker 2: was like, actually you're not. Because this is a food establishment,
Speaker 2: you were actually not allowed to have a cigarette. Literally,
Speaker 2: as I'm eating my coffee cake, you're not allowed to
Speaker 2: have a cigarette here. And she was like, well, I'm
Speaker 2: not going anywhere, and I was like.
Speaker 1: Cigarette and then start blowing out in her face.
Speaker 2: So irritating. She also like asked me for a light
Speaker 2: as she was smoking before this, she asked me for
Speaker 2: a light and I was like, no, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: help you light your cigarette. I'm eating and so like
Speaker 2: that was a fighting situation where like I did it,
Speaker 2: I was pulled away.
Speaker 1: You killed her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's dead. Now she's buried. She's with the United
Speaker 2: Medical CEO.
Speaker 1: Someone pulled you away. I had to pull you away
Speaker 1: from this.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I wasn't gonna actually throw hands, but
Speaker 2: I was told to move on and let it go. Uh,
Speaker 2: But I was upset about it because you shouldn't smoke
Speaker 2: near food establishments and fuck her, and I don't like.
Speaker 2: I think what what enraged me about that situation was
Speaker 2: I started it as, hey, can you smoke some somewhere else?
Speaker 2: And her response was I'm allowed to smoke anywhere I want.
Speaker 2: And that's not true and it's fucking rude, And that's
Speaker 2: kind of what triggered me. It's the same thing with
Speaker 2: the bathroom lady, which was I was like, that was
Speaker 2: a pretty rude situation. But anytimeologizing for it, the audacity
Speaker 2: of that woman coming to me and being like, oh,
Speaker 2: I can't just go into the bathroom. You got a
Speaker 2: problem with me going into your bathroom? I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I fucking have a problem with that. And that was
Speaker 2: exactly how I reacted yesterday, which was like, Oh, you
Speaker 2: mean I can't just smoke anywhere I want.
Speaker 1: Oh I can't do you argue with that guy at
Speaker 1: the airport too.
Speaker 2: Oh that was a big That was That was a
Speaker 2: I was on the phone. I was on a call,
Speaker 2: a work call at a restaurant at the airport, and
Speaker 2: when I got off the work call, the guy was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: are you finally done with your work call so I
Speaker 2: can enjoy my meal? And I was like, you are
Speaker 2: at an airport trying to have lobster bisk I don't
Speaker 2: talk about your airport food experience, and everybody is on
Speaker 2: the phone at an airport. You think I give a
Speaker 2: ship that you had a really good quality meal. I'm
Speaker 2: getting mad just thinking about the fact that that thought
Speaker 2: that he was so righteous that I couldn't be on
Speaker 2: a work hall while I was having a meal. And
Speaker 2: I was like, you can maybe say, like I could
Speaker 2: have been quieter on that call, but the idea that
Speaker 2: I couldn't be on a call in a fucking airport.
Speaker 2: Go to a Denny's if you want to have a
Speaker 2: perfect dining experience, Dennis is perfect. Yes, don't go to
Speaker 2: an airport and try and have a fancy meal and
Speaker 2: tell me that it's too loud. I probably am the
Speaker 2: most of us that's probably going to fight someone now.
Speaker 2: But back in the day, it's like eight years ago.
Speaker 2: Mike was eight years ago. Mikey was fighty.
Speaker 1: Mikey, you've never that never happened though in front of you.
Speaker 1: You haven't. I thought, I did you see it?
Speaker 4: Oh God, we don't have enough time.
Speaker 1: No, you didn't. I have.
Speaker 2: I have seen you try and fight people, Mike.
Speaker 3: When waiters, bartenders, random people at bars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think people. Yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Stare at them with your drink. Look, oh actually yeah,
Speaker 2: wait to see if you can fight them. And the
Speaker 2: most recent you'll say something under your breath just to
Speaker 2: get them to try and fight you. And it happened
Speaker 2: at a game awards two years ago, Game Awards, Game Awards.
Speaker 2: What you were drinking at a game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, I think you're always blacked out when this happens.
Speaker 3: We see it all the time.
Speaker 1: Wait at the game? Did I really do something like
Speaker 1: that the game awards? Yeah, you rushed the stage and
Speaker 1: start of talking about Bill Clinton. People don't know that
Speaker 1: was you. Yeah, it was you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the resolution wasn't great.
Speaker 1: What did I Who was I mean mugging at the
Speaker 1: Game Awards?
Speaker 2: So okay, sorry, I'm mixing up stories. You definitely were
Speaker 2: spicy at the Game Awards once. But the one I
Speaker 2: remember is when you said I don't like your hat.
Speaker 1: Oh you weren't there for that though, I maybe was
Speaker 1: there and that was yeah, that was yeah, that I'm
Speaker 1: proud of that one. That was a funny line to
Speaker 1: start a fight. I hate your hat.
Speaker 3: How would you feel if you guys like came here
Speaker 3: for a Game Awards and we went to a bar
Speaker 3: and I just beat a bunch of people's asses at
Speaker 3: the bar.
Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine. You're the sweetest person. I think you
Speaker 2: were the person to get beat up between the three
Speaker 2: of us somehow have not ever, I think if anyone
Speaker 2: was to get beat up, it would be you. If
Speaker 2: anyone would get punched just for running their mouth, it's
Speaker 2: probably me, And if anyone were to get into a
Speaker 2: full on boxing match, it's Mike.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, it's fair. I have well it was a
Speaker 1: boxing match.
Speaker 3: I wish we had like the influencer boxing stuff that
Speaker 3: they had like we're not big enough names to like, No.
Speaker 1: I want to I've got actual history in boxing. I'm
Speaker 1: really I'm afraid i'd actually hurt people. I'm a big
Speaker 1: deal back, you know, Like I would really just I
Speaker 1: would really upset people by how much I beat the
Speaker 1: get out of the other people.
Speaker 3: Like I can name ten people right now that would
Speaker 3: be amazing to just set you up against in a boxing.
Speaker 1: People. I would like to punch it. A lot of
Speaker 1: people I hate. I feel like Mike, You've got like a.
Speaker 3: Sea Bushimmy, Billy Madison lists of people if you want
Speaker 3: to kick the chair out.
Speaker 1: Of there is like life is too short to be
Speaker 1: an asshole. It's not that hard to not be an asshole, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't piss me off by being an asshole, and I
Speaker 1: won't put you on this list I have. I have
Speaker 1: two lists. One is just the name Fomka fifteen times
Speaker 1: in a row. On the title of that list in
Speaker 1: parentheses is just the different movies Deep Rising, House, Unhunted, Hill,
Speaker 1: X Men one, x Men two, This page, This page
Speaker 1: is so sticky, yep, no, it's laminated. And then the
Speaker 1: other list is just like, oh man, I want to
Speaker 1: just start rattling off the names, and then I bet
Speaker 1: I could.
Speaker 3: That'd be a fun segment me trying to guss your
Speaker 3: top ten. I bet i'd get him.
Speaker 1: I could rank someone. Your number one would be No,
Speaker 1: the number one changed very recently, and I he jumped
Speaker 1: up the list pretty quick.
Speaker 3: Yeah yet, Batista in the ring, you'll kick your ass.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Morgan, thank you for the email. Future episodes.
Speaker 1: You can write in get us some good questions for
Speaker 1: the next four episodes, because episode one hundred we've got
Speaker 1: some uh some stuff planned that we're going to find
Speaker 1: to before we get there to Yeah, we might.
Speaker 2: We we're going to find.
Speaker 1: We talked about it, we're find trying to find. We'll
Speaker 1: tweak it. But the next four episodes, get some good
Speaker 1: emails in. That's fire skin Cast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: May I usually tossed this to you, but then you
Speaker 1: mess it up. Go to fire escapecast dot com or
Speaker 1: go to all of our socials. We link to our
Speaker 1: merch pages. You can go to fire skate merch. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I fucked it up, fire skate merch dot com from.
Speaker 2: Mer Well, it's not so easy to plug the merch,
Speaker 2: is it.
Speaker 1: Go get our merch I'm not jet lag. I just came.
Speaker 1: We'll get tons of shirts going like that on fire
Speaker 1: skate merch dot com. Fuckjake dot org, fuck Jake dot
Speaker 1: don't go to Fuckjake dot org. And uh, yeah, go
Speaker 1: if you're not a patron, you want to unlock video episodes,
Speaker 1: video versions of the episodes, add free versions, or you
Speaker 1: just want to treat like a tip shark so you
Speaker 1: appreciate what we do. That's Firescape past dot com. Or
Speaker 1: go to patreon dot com slash fire Escape. As I
Speaker 1: mentioned a couple episodes ago, we no longer Patreon does
Speaker 1: not charge you in the first of every month, even
Speaker 1: if you sign up on the eighteenth, for instance. It's
Speaker 1: subscription billing now, so you will just be charged every
Speaker 1: month on the day you signed up, which is a
Speaker 1: nice quality of life thing to have. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: outside of that, go follow us on Blue Sky Instagram.
Speaker 1: Those are the two we use. Go go go follow
Speaker 1: go fire Firescape cast. There, Dan, what do you have
Speaker 1: going on outside of Firescape, Oh, giant bomb stuff.
Speaker 3: You can watch archives of all of our Game of
Speaker 3: the Year stuff should be up around the time this
Speaker 3: episode is coming out.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Personally, you can follow me on Blue Sky, Instagram and
Speaker 4: Twitch are the things.
Speaker 1: And you're playing Command of Concer Generals on your Twitch
Speaker 1: channel right now.
Speaker 4: I think I want to play more of that. Yeah, yeah, play.
Speaker 1: Zero or if you get to zero hour, if you
Speaker 1: find time, let me know what you think of it,
Speaker 1: because it would like Yeah, so I might even like
Speaker 1: maybe we could set up like a multiplayer thing because
Speaker 1: it was fun. Marry. What about you.
Speaker 2: Twitch every Monday? I stream right now. I'm obviously playing
Speaker 2: through Silent Hill too, but I will play whatever sparks
Speaker 2: my fancy during the given time.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I also was I'm just gonna say it. I
Speaker 2: was invited to do Giant Bombs top ten games. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna write a top ten games for you, and I'm
Speaker 2: really excited about doing that. I do it every year
Speaker 2: and it's like a genuine joy for me to like
Speaker 2: rank them, think about them, talk about them. So I
Speaker 2: will do that and it will be something I will
Speaker 2: deliver with gusto.
Speaker 3: All of our best friends will be writing top ten
Speaker 3: lists everyone, without any exceptions.
Speaker 2: Isn't that all of the best friends?
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't get that. Oh no, it's okay. You
Speaker 1: said you and you told you, asked me to didn't you?
Speaker 1: I did you send it to you? Said it to
Speaker 1: the founder. Yes, that joke doesn't work, because all right,
Speaker 1: I was complaining that Grub overlooked me for the couch.
Speaker 1: But that's my beef with him. I'll I'll take it
Speaker 1: up with him. You're not I know. That's and then
Speaker 1: after I we talked about this before the episode, and
Speaker 1: then I said, I was just joking. I was just
Speaker 1: making sure that you knew my ego was bruised.
Speaker 4: Sure, you're gonna kick grubs ass at the game war?
Speaker 1: Do we get it? Watch out?
Speaker 4: I think could take you. I think Gub could take you.
Speaker 1: Yeah he could. No, he fucking couldn't. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: He could. I think you might. You might have that
Speaker 1: Ohio dad strength.
Speaker 2: I think yeah, he thinks of his children and picks
Speaker 2: you up, and that would be really cool.
Speaker 1: He would be on Grub. I think, yeah, I could
Speaker 1: see that. I'd be making a lot of money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's uh, hey, hey, Greb, let's let's hang out at
Speaker 1: the game Wards.
Speaker 2: Oh Man.
Speaker 1: Broadcasting Mike, if you want to, I would box people impressed,
Speaker 1: but I have too much actual boxing experience. I think it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, thank you everybody for coming. I'm just here
Speaker 1: at fire Escape and uh, I'm over doing my day
Speaker 1: job as usual. But yeah, been uh it's been a
Speaker 1: good year. We're getting toward the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Think we have one more episode before twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: checks out? Right? No? Do we wait? Yeah? Okay, cool?
Speaker 1: We should come in the Game of the Year episode
Speaker 1: or yeah, I be sick where we just considered indie
Speaker 1: it's the only ones that are eligible.
Speaker 2: Indie Game of the Year, just Zelda call of duty.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you everybody for joining. We'll be back
Speaker 1: in two weeks December thirtieth, episode ninety seven. Until then,
Speaker 1: stay cool.
Speaker 2: You guys were saying Indiana Jones, weren't you. I thought
Speaker 2: you said indie game of the Year, like indie Games
Speaker 2: of the Year.
Speaker 1: We don't like indie games. I love indie games. Damn
Speaker 1: doesn't like them. I don't.
Speaker 3: I think they're they're me and Mary defenders of the
Speaker 3: indie game. Mostly me, but Mary also likes them. Zelda,
Speaker 3: like all I've contained multitudes.
Speaker 1: That's an Indian Jones quote, isn't it.
Speaker 4: I don't know what is that for?
Speaker 1: No, it's fucking Walter Whitman. I think, Oh yeah, he's
Speaker 1: like layer.
Speaker 2: He's got layers like an onion.
Speaker 1: Yes I do. All right, well, we'll be back.
Speaker 2: These are bonus bonus episode nugets.
Speaker 4: You get all the all the talk.
Speaker 1: Thank you everybody, See you later. Bye h