Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred June go
Speaker 2: July twenty second, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: I am your host Chian show. What joining me? Co
Speaker 2: Captain of the ship. His special meter is filled, so
Speaker 2: he's going to hit up down triangle to hit a
Speaker 2: sick grind.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bakour Oh, I don't even know what I'm doing
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: I am out here, co captain of the ship. He's
Speaker 2: wearing fun prints and he is a prince among men.
Speaker 3: Jeff Grubb Hey happy, nine hundred years old.
Speaker 1: Speaking about nine hundred years old.
Speaker 2: He is he is, He sees through time because he
Speaker 2: exists past it Ian Rekerd.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be the last last pot Wait, no, that's
Speaker 4: not true. Forget the whole thing. I was just gonna say,
Speaker 4: never mind.
Speaker 3: Okay, what yeah, you're getting a new face.
Speaker 4: Well no, I was gonna talk about how after this
Speaker 4: I'm getting my emplan it's gonna be the last one
Speaker 4: without the hold of my tooth. But then I realized
Speaker 4: I'm just getting the screw put in my gums today.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a few months for to so hold
Speaker 4: your excitement. Folks, I'll have a tooth in a few months.
Speaker 4: Good work, then, thank you, thank you, bad back.
Speaker 3: Down, don't worry about it. Yeah he was lying.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, off to a brilliant start.
Speaker 2: But we can't start without the boy of games media,
Speaker 2: and we actually can't start streaming until he kills his
Speaker 2: stream that he accidentally left out for fifteen hours.
Speaker 1: I'm bad.
Speaker 5: I do bad things to good people. That's how bad
Speaker 5: I am. Even bad things that bad people like some
Speaker 5: like kind of good bad people. It's just pure bad,
Speaker 5: bad on good bad on good action all the time.
Speaker 2: Mike Minatti, can you please do a cover of Rikishi's
Speaker 2: theme song when he turned bad called bad Man?
Speaker 5: I don't know it goes no no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: no no no bad man.
Speaker 2: No fatwear, fat ware? We start learning fatwear?
Speaker 1: That's offensive?
Speaker 2: How is it offensive?
Speaker 3: At war? So it's like him and pretty hot and tempting,
Speaker 3: is what I was talking.
Speaker 4: I'm not a hip start every podcast with a stink face,
Speaker 4: a five way stink face.
Speaker 5: Cameras think don't like that? Oh camera, just shut my
Speaker 5: butt in the camera. Yeah, just I mean this would
Speaker 5: it be the first camera this week?
Speaker 1: Up?
Speaker 2: How be nine hundredth episode to the Giant BombCast, and
Speaker 2: I'm very overjoyed to be to be spending it with y'all.
Speaker 2: How's everyone doing.
Speaker 5: I can't believe I've been here for nine hundred episodes.
Speaker 3: I was waiting to see who would make the joke,
Speaker 3: but he's.
Speaker 1: Been here the whole time. That was my intro. The
Speaker 1: mistake You wait me, you you made a mistake.
Speaker 3: The first though, so kind of balance this out right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my brain is just all over the place, like
Speaker 2: the last couple of months I saw it.
Speaker 3: I just feel like a right two intros, back a lark.
Speaker 1: This again. No, no, no, we're doing it again. Here we go.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not. I'm not upset. He's upset. We're
Speaker 1: doing it. We're doing good. This feels this feels better.
Speaker 1: It feels right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, we've were already on episode nine hundred and one.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is n.
Speaker 2: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday. Welcome to the Giant BombCast. July
Speaker 2: twenty second, twenty five. I am your host, Chan Shoa,
Speaker 2: and welcome episode nine one hundred.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: He is the Master of Prince because he's got printed shirts,
Speaker 2: he's got blue prince. He is a prince among men,
Speaker 2: and he is our king, but uh you know he's
Speaker 2: royalty up in this this, this this house, Jeff Bruh.
Speaker 1: That's right, bow down, kiss the ring.
Speaker 2: Speaking about kissing the ring, he's all about smooches inside
Speaker 2: and outside the ring, but only consensually, and only if
Speaker 2: you if he agrees as well, because consent consent is
Speaker 2: a two way street.
Speaker 7: Dan Reikert, I'm the smooch man, Dan, AND's what they say,
Speaker 7: smooching around town.
Speaker 2: Good, he's smooching around town. H and he is around
Speaker 2: town because he is the busiest man in games media.
Speaker 2: He's also the busiest man of the owners here. Mister busy,
Speaker 2: he comes from busy town. That's right.
Speaker 1: He drives an apple around. He's a little worm man.
Speaker 1: Jeff Pakalar. Hey is that better? That was better? Hey?
Speaker 3: What's up that fan art?
Speaker 6: Better be done in like five minutes please, I need
Speaker 6: to see.
Speaker 3: Is that the name of the worm mister Busy?
Speaker 1: No Richard scary thing? Yeah, I just remember busy town. Okay,
Speaker 1: Uh it might be.
Speaker 2: But you won't catch this next man driving an apple
Speaker 2: around because he hates them.
Speaker 1: Because he's a bird boy of games Media.
Speaker 2: He won't even be driving any type of fruit automobile
Speaker 2: around here.
Speaker 1: Hot dog mobile, the Oscar Meyer hot dog van.
Speaker 2: Only for a bad boy, Mike Manatti, I'll kill you.
Speaker 1: What uh? If there's any food vehicle that Mike Manhatti
Speaker 1: is driving around, it's gotta be a roast beef mobile.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, or or a giant bozzarella stick kind of
Speaker 3: like the or buy a weader mobile, a mayonnaise cake mobile.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mike, I Oh, I had a devil I had
Speaker 4: a bite of a deviled egg this weekend for the
Speaker 4: first time.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, congratulations, good right, Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't do that. Yeah, Hey, Jen Jen Jen, Jen
Speaker 1: Jen Jen, We're not doing it again. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about the fact that we are now currently existing
Speaker 1: in a K pop demon hunter's world?
Speaker 4: Okay, I have a question, folks, before you say anything
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 7: I'm probably going to watch it tonight.
Speaker 1: Yo, this is the shit.
Speaker 7: Okay, back, Mary's making me watch it.
Speaker 1: Dib Dib discovered it like three days ago. He's probably
Speaker 1: the one of the first eight hundred thousand kids to
Speaker 1: watch it. Way more than that. Oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: so fucking good. It's so good. Why is it so good?
Speaker 1: Why did they just toss it to Netflix? I don't
Speaker 1: underst Dan.
Speaker 3: This is the new Netflix animated children's movie.
Speaker 1: Right, that's popular. I think it's like I would call
Speaker 1: it like a tween movie, a pre tweeny. No, you
Speaker 1: still might like it, Dan, Okay, you watch it.
Speaker 3: It means you're an immature piece of ship.
Speaker 1: Kid.
Speaker 3: If it's so, you better watch out.
Speaker 1: Be careful. I mean, like, it's not just for kids
Speaker 1: like I. I've I haven't seen it all the way through.
Speaker 1: He's watched it like front to back like three times
Speaker 1: in a row. He was sick last week, so he'd
Speaker 1: he binged that, and he also binged this Gravity Falls
Speaker 1: show on Disney. But friend of side Tim who recommended it.
Speaker 1: But oh my god, oh my lord, this movie. And
Speaker 1: it's like it's the it's the same studio that does
Speaker 1: the Spider Man thing. Is that what? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I like those movies a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, tremendousous sony animation, sony animation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, I didn't know that, all right, I believe Yeah.
Speaker 7: Is it the same style?
Speaker 1: It's not the like comic book, but it does seem
Speaker 1: like it has like a cap on the frame rate.
Speaker 1: If that makes sense in the way that those movies do.
Speaker 7: If I know nothing about k pop, does that matter?
Speaker 1: No, you don't. You don't need to know anything about
Speaker 1: k pop.
Speaker 7: Hunting No, but I've seen media.
Speaker 2: Okay, late, you put the you put the trap down?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Mike oh me? Yeah? Yeah. Do you know where K
Speaker 1: pop's from?
Speaker 7: Korea?
Speaker 1: Which one? So North? This is how? Okay? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, go on saying follow up?
Speaker 3: Kim Jong Ill invented k pop in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 4: My grandfather fought deliberate Korea. I know about Korea. I
Speaker 4: don't know who the Korean War was, but I assume
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: Know Korea was involved. I don't know. You ever see
Speaker 1: mash No?
Speaker 2: Is that what mashes about?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, in Korea?
Speaker 1: Korean conflict?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's anytime I ordered a spicy tofu stoup and
Speaker 2: it's too spicy.
Speaker 3: Green conflict down there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, spicy there, gang.
Speaker 2: This is how we announce, Uh, the five of us
Speaker 2: are going to the next Black Pink show together.
Speaker 3: That's right, I would go to that. I like songs.
Speaker 2: That's the cape pop band. Dan, who's your favorite member
Speaker 2: of Black Pink?
Speaker 1: Scary? Well? You know. One of them is a little
Speaker 1: bit scary. Sure, Richard's scary. That's called a callback.
Speaker 7: How many Spice Girls can you name?
Speaker 1: Uh, there's scary spice Gosh.
Speaker 5: I feel like, man, if you had as I could do. Okay,
Speaker 5: And now we're here, there's ginger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's scary. There's ginger.
Speaker 5: Man, I feel like I should be able to do
Speaker 5: better than this. But there's baby Baby.
Speaker 1: I read to Spice World for the PlayStation one. I
Speaker 1: should be good at that. You could name all the Dwarves.
Speaker 1: You should name all the Spice Girls.
Speaker 3: They were the Dwarfs, the Dwarves in the nineties.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they are millennials, okay, yeah, if you want to
Speaker 5: be I don't know if I can name three Spice
Speaker 5: Girl songs.
Speaker 4: I mean, okay, trying to be was the obvious one.
Speaker 4: Then there was oh god, what else?
Speaker 8: I mean?
Speaker 5: I assume there's a song called Spice World.
Speaker 7: There's there's a Spice of your Life song right.
Speaker 5: Half the word spice in it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you all seen that the Backstreet Boys are on
Speaker 2: a doing a reunion show in the sphere right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I have friends. I would watch that flying on
Speaker 1: a little thing that was cool.
Speaker 2: How much money do you think we have to pay
Speaker 2: to just get like a minute of Sphere time?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Inside, but like we get to do the podcast, but
Speaker 2: for like a minute?
Speaker 1: One minute?
Speaker 6: Yeah, how don't think with the back of are I
Speaker 6: think we have to pay twenty five dollars and they'll
Speaker 6: give us a minute.
Speaker 1: So there we go.
Speaker 4: I mean it costs like two hundred togo see a
Speaker 4: Darren Aronowski thing when I went there, So that's to
Speaker 4: view it.
Speaker 7: So I can't imagine.
Speaker 3: I just want to put the bomb logo on the outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah that would be cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, folks, if you know anyone that works at
Speaker 2: the Sphere, get in contact. I want to know guys.
Speaker 1: It's it's the Dolans, right, don't they? Who are the Dolans?
Speaker 1: Then the Nix and Rangers?
Speaker 2: I think I think, well, if you own the Knicks
Speaker 2: or the Rangers, holler please gang speaking about music and
Speaker 2: h watching shows. I need to get this off my chest.
Speaker 2: And I know this is a video game podcast and
Speaker 2: we'll get to the video game soon enough. But I
Speaker 2: went and saw New Jersey Zone my Chemical Romance this weekend.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Kemys, we thank you for your business.
Speaker 2: They had a whole elaborate story going on the whole
Speaker 2: whole time, and I didn't understand shit about it. Apparently
Speaker 2: my Chemical Romance created their own and I think this
Speaker 2: mostly art.
Speaker 1: It's like a comic book writers.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a little comic book man, right, and
Speaker 2: he made his own alphabet for the show.
Speaker 3: And then like the think the ones that did the
Speaker 3: Spider Man theme song for that cartoon recently. That's a
Speaker 3: children's show. Why am I asking grown men? I'll just
Speaker 3: google it. You guys.
Speaker 4: Did they do the parade song? That's parade? Yeh okay,
Speaker 4: I've heard that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my god, stop it, Jan, can we don't
Speaker 1: oh chemical roll?
Speaker 4: I remember seeing somebody do that at karaoke and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, I think I know that song.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's not a.
Speaker 1: Bit on Jen. I want to hear about your lovely experience.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jen.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I think it's been a hot minute since I've
Speaker 2: went and watched like a concert of a band or
Speaker 2: an artist I know, like front to back most like
Speaker 2: maybe like ninety five percent of their geography and yo,
Speaker 2: all the and I say this parenthesis positive please sure,
Speaker 2: that's how fucking Freaks came out.
Speaker 1: Oh good that well, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, it's been so like last time I saw
Speaker 2: like I think I saw like the Offspring and Simple
Speaker 2: Plan and then another band, and it was a very
Speaker 2: wide variety of like bro dudes and like their partners.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get people in their fifties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here they were like elder millennials. Elder millennials
Speaker 2: with their kids. Uh. Someone dressed up as like hot
Speaker 2: Soune Miku black parade.
Speaker 3: There's always someone dressed up as hot Sunni Miku though,
Speaker 3: come on.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But then like you get you had your like white folks,
Speaker 9: black folks, brown folks, is miscellaneous Asian folks, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 9: look at all of us coming together because we're all
Speaker 9: kind of sad.
Speaker 1: Uh No, it's not a kind of said what do
Speaker 1: you mean.
Speaker 2: It was like a celebration of sadness and pathetic not
Speaker 2: like pathetic kind of said, were just like, yeah, emotional,
Speaker 2: this is all parentheses positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah. When when my Keem came out, I was a
Speaker 1: piece of shit. Okay, they was like, what's up? Did
Speaker 1: it fix you? I have I have a delayed appreciation
Speaker 1: for my Kemp because when I came out. I was
Speaker 1: like programmed by the scene to like reject this very
Speaker 1: popular and talented and very good band, even though they
Speaker 1: were from my home state and they're they're excellent. I
Speaker 1: really like they. I think they've transcended that genre of
Speaker 1: music in a way that very few bands find a
Speaker 1: way to beat.
Speaker 3: There as the time, right, they are still relevant, right,
Speaker 3: and that proves it. I almost to get a Fallout
Speaker 3: Boy by the way that does the spidy in this
Speaker 3: amazing Friends, I think that's Patrick Stunt, that that piece
Speaker 3: of shit arc that you talked about back of art. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that happened with me with Backstreet Boys, where like you know,
Speaker 3: I was like a young teenager or teenager and black
Speaker 3: Backstreet Boys, that's a boy band. Gross And then that
Speaker 3: I want it that way song came out.
Speaker 6: It was like their big new single after a while,
Speaker 6: and it was like this huge event on MTV, and
Speaker 6: I was just like, I legitimately love this song and
Speaker 6: loved this band in this moment. It was like a
Speaker 6: hot week where I'm like, Backstreet Boys are all right
Speaker 6: by me. I still love that song.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 4: I think my chemical romance and like AFI and Fallout
Speaker 4: Boy and that whole kind of.
Speaker 7: I guess it's probably just Emo.
Speaker 4: I was just fully and I mean I was still
Speaker 4: not open to new music in general, but them specifically.
Speaker 4: I judged the book by the cover and I saw them,
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, this is not for me at all.
Speaker 1: I don't like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: A huge AFI guy in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Two things before we move on. One, after seeing Gerard
Speaker 2: Way like shed the character when they went and did
Speaker 2: the encore, because I guess these tours long lived the
Speaker 2: Black Parade, So they did the Black Parade album front
Speaker 2: to back and.
Speaker 1: Then they Yeah, it was very good.
Speaker 2: They did an encore about like five or six songs
Speaker 2: of just miscellaneous MCR songs from time and whatever. But
Speaker 2: when I saw him and I was putting like the
Speaker 2: puzzle pieces together, I'm like, very theatrical guy, very nerdy
Speaker 2: dude from New Jersey and and like the theatrics and
Speaker 2: like singing. Well, I'm like, huh, this is just alex
Speaker 2: Ebon yellow in a different font.
Speaker 1: It is bizarre, Alexo, is it not? It is? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, didn't didn't nine to eleven inspire Mike him?
Speaker 1: I think, isn't that the thing? I think? So is
Speaker 1: that why it had to happen.
Speaker 3: So he got my chemical romance.
Speaker 1: So you're saying worth it is that what you're saying
Speaker 1: is that you're saying, I just want to I mean,
Speaker 1: we also got that Robert Patty The Lords right.
Speaker 2: Where it's like a surprise nine to eleven movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, surprise.
Speaker 6: Uh the lead singer of a f I is my
Speaker 6: platonic ideal of what should look like.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is what almost could look like. My wife
Speaker 1: was still in love with Davy Havock. Oh my lord,
Speaker 1: just a strong look.
Speaker 5: I only think I said in the last like five
Speaker 5: minutes during I was band talk, was my wife, because
Speaker 5: back I said.
Speaker 1: It, you've a lot.
Speaker 2: And then like the the last thing I'll say about
Speaker 2: the MCR concert, and I know that Welcome to the
Speaker 2: Black Barid or the Black Paraid's song itself has been
Speaker 2: mean to death. But there was a moment there and I.
Speaker 1: May have been, you know, a little bit high out
Speaker 1: of my mind.
Speaker 2: But I was just standing there and I'm like, and
Speaker 2: I didn't realize I just started fucking balling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so listen, I'm with you. There is something I've
Speaker 1: talked about this with my therapist. There's something about seeing
Speaker 1: bands from my childhood where I get emotional in a
Speaker 1: way that I don't understand. Like I remember seeing Green
Speaker 1: Day in like twenty like sixteen or something, and I
Speaker 1: don't it was like the first time i'd seen them
Speaker 1: in like ten years, and I was It's like I
Speaker 1: was just like overcome with something and I couldn't describe it.
Speaker 1: And it happens with a lot of nostalgia and I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. It's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1: It's just a thing that I can't really explain. It
Speaker 1: just sort of happens. Dan, you wouldn't understand that it's emotions,
Speaker 1: but like I just feel like it's just what I mean,
Speaker 1: there's something there. I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 1: I would love to explore it more with you, Jan
Speaker 1: maybe offline.
Speaker 2: I love to Yeah, it was, uh maybe it's like
Speaker 2: the specific lyrics at the beginning of like the Black Parade.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then I was like I was looking around and
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, no one can see me cry right up,
Speaker 2: please put it away? But then homegirl next to me,
Speaker 2: Oh okay, actually third qualm all right. When a concert
Speaker 2: is at a baseball park, do you consider that a
Speaker 2: stadium show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's literally a stadium's.
Speaker 4: Football I consider sitting, I mean, by wrestling terms. I
Speaker 4: think there's a stadium show.
Speaker 2: Okay, I guess for whatever reason in my head, a
Speaker 2: ballpark is always a ballpark and not quite a stadium.
Speaker 1: But okay, stadium show. Well, if it's closed, it's an arena,
Speaker 1: is how I got it?
Speaker 6: You can have if it's and it seats eighty thousand people,
Speaker 6: it's a stadium.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, So because there's plenty of football stadiums that
Speaker 6: are enclosed, I think.
Speaker 1: If it's hot, if it's like basketball hockey, it's arenas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty thousand people's in arena. Eighty thousand's like a stadium.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got it? Okay, Okay.
Speaker 5: I saw Superman this weekend, and I liked when they
Speaker 5: fought at the baseball field that I go to see
Speaker 5: the Guardians.
Speaker 1: That was nice. Oh they did.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, the whole movie was like very you know,
Speaker 5: filmed in Cleveland, so I'm just recognizing things from Cleveland.
Speaker 5: It was like a Where's Wadow of Cleveland locations the
Speaker 5: entire time. So that's fun.
Speaker 1: Yes, I want to hear more about that for a second.
Speaker 1: Jan did they play anything off of Three Cheers.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like they're Encore had like at least two
Speaker 2: tracks from Three Cheers. Awesome.
Speaker 1: I think it's like thank you for the venom.
Speaker 2: And then obviously I'm not okay, and then I think
Speaker 2: they did Helena, Yeah they did. But my qualm with
Speaker 2: watching a concert in a stadium, specifically a baseball park
Speaker 2: that sounds like ship It was okay, Actually there's not
Speaker 2: enough room to dance, all right, the seat's too small.
Speaker 2: Homegirl next to me, next to my partner, and I
Speaker 2: vaping the whole fucking time, not even cool vape.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what's the cool vape weed tricks or something,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, man like ripping fat clouds.
Speaker 2: But yeah, your boy just wants to dance. And like
Speaker 2: stadium seats cannot.
Speaker 3: Which containing mission down on the down on the field.
Speaker 3: Was there like general mission down there where you could
Speaker 3: have gone down the right tickets.
Speaker 2: But like, well that's the problem, grub. It's impossible to
Speaker 2: buy the right tickets anymore with Ticketmaster.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, And it's also like if you it's a park,
Speaker 6: you're not sure exactly what the seating is gonna be,
Speaker 6: Like who knows what the vibes are gonna be like
Speaker 6: you're just kind of guessing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I guess so. You know, sometimes when you
Speaker 2: go watch a concert and you're seated somewhere, the vibes
Speaker 2: aren't right, but thankfully the vibes are right all around
Speaker 2: the park.
Speaker 1: All. So, one hundred Gets opened for my Chemical Romance.
Speaker 3: The Lizard.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know if y'all have ever heard one
Speaker 1: hundred gets. It's something it is.
Speaker 2: It is like if you put tumblr online into like
Speaker 2: if you translated the website with tumblr onto a vinyl.
Speaker 5: It was online, Like where were you finding that?
Speaker 1: Did you print it out the book?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: They seem more like an art installation than maybe like
Speaker 1: an opening band, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they they definitely seemed like an art installation because, uh,
Speaker 2: one of the people of one hundred gets, there's only
Speaker 2: two of them. I think she like just wore flip
Speaker 2: flops on stage.
Speaker 1: There's only two people and one hundred gets.
Speaker 3: It's not one hundred people, it's one hundred gets.
Speaker 1: Bull shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what the GaX is like, are
Speaker 3: we gonna be able to dance at arc that the
Speaker 3: concert we're going to go to? Theahi Joe I need.
Speaker 5: To buy tickets, but almost certainly not. Okay, shit, yeah,
Speaker 5: almost certainly not.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, I have not done general
Speaker 1: admission in many, many years, unless it's like a show
Speaker 1: where there are no seats, which is only really like
Speaker 1: for like the Summer at the Stone Pony stage, which
Speaker 1: is at the beach. But like it's tough, man, I
Speaker 1: get it, Jan, I'm with you, like, uh, put me
Speaker 1: in a seat, you know, I'm there now.
Speaker 3: Stadium shows in general are not that appealing appealing to me,
Speaker 3: and because of this these reasons, and.
Speaker 5: I do, yeah, prefer the amphitheaters outside because I remember,
Speaker 5: like the see iron Man, and I was always in
Speaker 5: these amphitheaters, and then lately they're always coming around like winter,
Speaker 5: so it's got to just be at you know, wherever
Speaker 5: the Penguins play or wherever the Cavs play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not as good.
Speaker 5: I don't like big loud metal shows inside of basketball arenas.
Speaker 5: It gets kind of weird and hot and loud in there.
Speaker 4: I feel like I haven't been to a concert in years,
Speaker 4: but I'm seeing nine inch Nails a couple of months.
Speaker 4: Here are they known to be good live?
Speaker 3: I saw him once live, and I'll put it this way.
Speaker 3: I remember it, and I don't remember a lot of concerts, so.
Speaker 7: It's a big crowd that's like the Assault Center.
Speaker 6: But I was in an arena for it, and I
Speaker 6: think I saw him with so Corn. I think they
Speaker 6: might have been it was like a warm time was
Speaker 6: it was like a weird combo. I can't remember exactly
Speaker 6: who it was. It could have been something else, but
Speaker 6: I definitely remember them. They played in an arena and
Speaker 6: they sounded phenomenal, and I like went home and was like,
Speaker 6: I am going to get way more into nine Inch Nails.
Speaker 3: I think that's where I'm.
Speaker 4: At because like, I have an appreciation for them. I
Speaker 4: definitely have grown to like like a lot of their stuff.
Speaker 3: And soundtracks they does with Atticus Ross.
Speaker 4: Right, that's the thing. I've gotten respect for Resnors certainly
Speaker 4: over the years. And uh, you know, Bonk, you know
Speaker 4: Bank loves concerts and shows. She's the one that like,
Speaker 4: you know, she's usually doing you know, like the underground
Speaker 4: metal shows and stuff that you know, if she knows
Speaker 4: aren't for me.
Speaker 7: But she's like, hey, you want to see nine Is,
Speaker 7: I'll go with you for sure.
Speaker 4: So I could see myself seeing them live and then
Speaker 4: being like, I need to get way more into them.
Speaker 1: Everyone should go to a metal show with Bonk once
Speaker 1: in their life, is what I say.
Speaker 3: Is what I'll put out there that sounds like a
Speaker 3: good time.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: My favorite anecdote about Trent Reznor it popped up in
Speaker 6: that Masters of Doom book where they're like he had
Speaker 6: a like a Pentium one or something or forty six
Speaker 6: maybe installed in his tour bust so he could play
Speaker 6: Quake after every concert and that was how he partied.
Speaker 6: And then that's why he was like or maybe it
Speaker 6: was Doom, and then he did the soundtrack for Quake.
Speaker 1: I think that's how it went. He has a.
Speaker 2: Special kind of hero there for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. I was gonna say nine
Speaker 5: is doing that tron Ares music, so you know.
Speaker 1: And also hear them there, I'm sure. And he's also
Speaker 1: doing the intergalactic right yeah, busy, busy man. I feel
Speaker 1: bad we we departed from your Superman c Yeah.
Speaker 5: I feel bad because I was I was derailing. Did
Speaker 5: you want to interview immediately?
Speaker 1: So though? It's fine? Uh no, you do it right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was great.
Speaker 4: I thought I was trying because James Gunn, I find like,
Speaker 4: even though I don't like comic book stuff and I
Speaker 4: really don't like Superman, I have found that James Gunn
Speaker 4: has surprised me kind of every time that like, oh,
Speaker 4: I think I like his sensibilities of this stuff.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, Lollipop Chainsaw was sick and I'm here for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, big Lollipop Chainsaw fans. I just I liked how
Speaker 5: kind Superman was. That was nice about it out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, does Superman have no killing people rule?
Speaker 1: Like Batman?
Speaker 3: He tries not to, but it's not as as Batman.
Speaker 1: You guys, he's killed so many people. Superman like he
Speaker 1: made the world go backwards. You don't think that murdered
Speaker 1: a bunch of.
Speaker 3: People, but I think that probably sent some mountains into space.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how do you guys handle it? When? Like does
Speaker 5: it bump you out of I think this is a
Speaker 5: maturity my part. When you go to a movie of
Speaker 5: people and they like have the opposite reaction to the movie,
Speaker 5: and I don't know. Sometimes I'm like, sometimes it puts
Speaker 5: me in a weird place.
Speaker 1: I don't love it, I.
Speaker 5: Guess because this time it's like, you know, I want
Speaker 5: with my family like cluding kids, my brothers, and they
Speaker 5: all like that.
Speaker 1: Why it was like he's too woke.
Speaker 5: No, no, not like that. But like you know, some
Speaker 5: of my other like friends, like all high school friends,
Speaker 5: they also went and they are generally more cynical about movies,
Speaker 5: and there's apartment It's like, maybe this one they'll like,
Speaker 5: because I'm kind of cynical about movies too in some ways.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm was like, ah, movies.
Speaker 5: Are mid but I was like, Okay, this one I liked,
Speaker 5: so Like I went up to where they are seeing
Speaker 5: it was like, ha ha, would you guys think? And
Speaker 5: they still hated it and thought it was lame. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I thought maybe this one. I thought maybe this one
Speaker 5: would push through.
Speaker 3: It's that rubs off on me for sure.
Speaker 6: I'm at a point now where, like even sports a
Speaker 6: thing you're supposed to watch communally, I don't want to
Speaker 6: hear other.
Speaker 3: People's opinions about what's happening in the game.
Speaker 6: I want to watch it by myself because I don't like,
Speaker 6: you're not the coach, please saying what you think should
Speaker 6: be happening on the field. It drives me crazy. And
Speaker 6: I have the same a similar thing with like movies,
Speaker 6: where it's like I'm gonna enjoy it in my silo
Speaker 6: because I just want to feel how I feel.
Speaker 3: About it, and you're feeling about it probably aren't gonna
Speaker 3: help me in that journey.
Speaker 1: I had something happen to me when I saw Children
Speaker 1: of Men in the theater where I had seen it
Speaker 1: with Stacy and we were when that came out. I
Speaker 1: forget what what was it, like three h four maybe.
Speaker 7: Later later, maybe like six o seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously that movie like changes you as a masterpiece.
Speaker 1: And I remember coming out of it with her and
Speaker 1: we were like very into in our uh you know,
Speaker 1: film brain mode back then, and they were like it
Speaker 1: was it was a relatively empty theory. We'd seen a
Speaker 1: really late showing and there was a group of people
Speaker 1: who came out just going off on like that was
Speaker 1: the most unwatchable trash I've ever seen you. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I remember like looking at Stacey and just being like,
Speaker 1: I think we got to leave this planet. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna get out, Like we got to go somewhere
Speaker 1: like this is.
Speaker 3: I have a similar thing exactly like this with a relationship.
Speaker 3: Like I went with the girlfriend and her friends to
Speaker 3: see Unbreakable, Yeah, and I walked out of it being like, Oh,
Speaker 3: this guy just got what he was going for. He
Speaker 3: completely understood like the assignment, like that he came up
Speaker 3: with us on his own to explore this idea of
Speaker 3: superhero mythology and it's brilliant and they just couldn't stop
Speaker 3: making fun of me. His name was mister Glass. I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 3: they just don't even get it at all.
Speaker 6: And it drove me crazy. And that's like one of
Speaker 6: the three things I remember about that relationship is being
Speaker 6: pissed off that night because they didn't get the movie.
Speaker 1: But then he kept making movies and who was the director?
Speaker 7: Yes, Yes, of course Trap is a very good movie.
Speaker 1: Though I heard like the meter started to tick back
Speaker 1: up in the last decade. But like fun movies, the
Speaker 1: Village was a movie. I feel like The Village is
Speaker 1: the one that threw me like I'm not watching his
Speaker 1: ship ever again. The Village. I have a friend who
Speaker 1: used to say that The Village was probably him just
Speaker 1: getting back at everyone who made fun of him in
Speaker 1: high school, just like forcing them to go see this
Speaker 1: movie and then doing that.
Speaker 5: I've seen two m Night Shyamalan movies, The Six Sets
Speaker 5: and The Last Airbender.
Speaker 1: So you know, a.
Speaker 5: Big disparity and quality between this.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I'm a big fan of m
Speaker 2: Night and then I forgot that I blocked out the
Speaker 2: Last Airbender out of my memory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, but I he did.
Speaker 7: That to you, Signs. I think is like ninety percent
Speaker 7: great movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I'm I'm like at.
Speaker 6: A point where where I mostly accept like what he's
Speaker 6: going for and it's good or bad. It's like, okay, yeah, Signs.
Speaker 6: I'm like, all right, I enjoyed that movie. So then
Speaker 6: ninety percent kind of clicks over. It's like, that's just
Speaker 6: an enjoyable movie for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like in the theater, I remember being a super
Speaker 4: tense time and like obviously in retrospect or mistakes made
Speaker 4: with that movie, but up until like the ends and everything,
Speaker 4: it was a really tense, memorable theater experience.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah, that's that's how I feel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, say what, Lex Luthor is a mean jerk?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is this is the one Nicholas Holt
Speaker 2: didn't get cooked in all good for?
Speaker 6: Is there a list of movies Nicholas do if I
Speaker 6: google Nicholas Holt cuck movies while I get away?
Speaker 7: Yes, Have I seen him?
Speaker 1: Man? Yeah, yeah, I guess he gets cut by Dracula.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I try to think of a pun there
Speaker 5: of cocking Dracula.
Speaker 6: Move over, Clark. You used to be Hollywood's number one cuck.
Speaker 6: Now it's Nicholas Holt. All right, I'm on Reddit now.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's going on here.
Speaker 2: All right, well we should get going with the podcast.
Speaker 2: But real quick, I think m Night Shyamalan. Uh you know,
Speaker 2: I'll forgive him for creating the beash that makes you
Speaker 2: old because in that movie Old, right, that's what it's called.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there is a character named mid
Speaker 2: size Sedan and that's just that's.
Speaker 1: Just that's some.
Speaker 6: Do you guys remember anything about his what's the one
Speaker 6: where the ladies in the pool, lady in the.
Speaker 1: Water in the water fish or something.
Speaker 3: No, that's the that's a different movie where someone the fish.
Speaker 6: This is one I wanted to go, yeah wait, yeah,
Speaker 6: this is yeah the shape of water, right, this is
Speaker 6: the one where a guy like does by bicycle curls
Speaker 6: in just one arm, so he's got one giant ripped
Speaker 6: arm in a regular other arm.
Speaker 3: And I remember seeing that being like, well, I'm not
Speaker 3: watching this ship. That's gross. I hate looking at this guy.
Speaker 2: So, uh, there's there's maybe too many pool movies because
Speaker 2: that reminded me of the movie Night Swim where the
Speaker 2: pool changes him.
Speaker 4: That's the one Bailey was telling us about. Right, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: he was really swim.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you need to.
Speaker 3: Watch Nicholas hold with John Arbuckle, the Old Garf movie.
Speaker 3: Oh he is a drake Odie sperm in that one
Speaker 3: comic stripe. That's the most cock coated character of all that.
Speaker 1: Please John Arbuckle. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: All right, video games speaking about cocks.
Speaker 1: No, there's no way to do that was like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, he's he's okay.
Speaker 2: There's no way to transition cocks into Pokemon friends. This
Speaker 2: is a new mobile case that launched this morning after
Speaker 2: the Pokemon direct. I showed up at six am and
Speaker 2: no one was there on the Google Meet. What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 3: Well you couldn't have streamed anyhow because Mike was still streaming.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think everyone's just done with Pokemon, right,
Speaker 1: like it's over. I think it's done it.
Speaker 2: I think it may be cooked and not in like
Speaker 2: the cool fun way.
Speaker 6: Uh well, there's cooked as bad cooking is good. You're
Speaker 6: either the chef or your thing being cooked.
Speaker 4: Pokemon go is still a big thing because I was
Speaker 4: just in Wisconsin with my sister all week and she
Speaker 4: was cashing all sorts.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about the gyms and the Pokemon yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: Pokemon going.
Speaker 6: Gets mad at the Pokemon Company when they do stuff
Speaker 6: like this because it's like a Pokemon direct and people
Speaker 6: are like, wow, direct suck, and Nintendo's like, we didn't
Speaker 6: do this.
Speaker 3: This is the Pokemon Company, leave us alone.
Speaker 1: Did they call it a direct?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it's called it Pokemon direct.
Speaker 3: As a Pokemon director poke you on presents, it might
Speaker 3: be Pokemon present.
Speaker 1: Now everyone get to the bottom of this, Jeff, don't worry.
Speaker 1: Oh ship all right.
Speaker 10: In the main frame just sucks, but you've got characters now,
Speaker 10: Like I feel like this is unlived, you know, a
Speaker 10: new level.
Speaker 3: And some people episodes like brings some special guests and
Speaker 3: like a big fan fair. We're trying to make the
Speaker 3: worst episode it presents.
Speaker 1: Damn it, torect you piece of ship.
Speaker 3: I'd like to watch everything said.
Speaker 2: Pokemon Friends is you know those ads, those mobile game
Speaker 2: ads that you'll get about like, oh, connect everything through
Speaker 2: one line, or like just guide the character through there.
Speaker 2: They basically did that, but with Pokemon, and you have
Speaker 2: a limited amount of puzzles you can do in a
Speaker 2: day because it's supposed to be like stimulating brain puzzles
Speaker 2: for you, brought to you by Pokemon. And I completed
Speaker 2: the six puzzles today and then I deleted the app
Speaker 2: afterwards because there's nothing else I could do it until tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and then I continue to race the horse girls.
Speaker 1: But that's it.
Speaker 2: That's that's all this game is. I know that Pokemon
Speaker 2: is targeted towards children, and I know that Pokemon friends.
Speaker 2: In the little trailer that they had during the Pokemon
Speaker 2: presents this morning, it was a mother and son guiding
Speaker 2: her son through puzzles. So sure, that's that another thing
Speaker 2: that is not for me, and I think I am
Speaker 2: continuing to walk away from Pokemon.
Speaker 3: Especially some of these puzzles look really like barren. They
Speaker 3: look like really I don't sauceless.
Speaker 2: Yes, they are not dripping in swago, definitely tough grub.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, look at this.
Speaker 3: So it's like, oh my god, they look like flash games.
Speaker 2: Yes, they are equivalent to flash games. Very very very
Speaker 2: bare bones. So again I understand it is probably targeted
Speaker 2: towards children and not.
Speaker 6: No chan, let's make fun of this. This is embarrassing.
Speaker 6: This sucks. Look, this is not okay for this company
Speaker 6: to put out in twenty twenty five as a representation
Speaker 6: of their brand.
Speaker 2: The Pokemon Company does a lot of curious things to
Speaker 2: to maintain their brand. And you know, at least in
Speaker 2: games media, the notice a lot of our peers and
Speaker 2: friends are picking up the older Digimon Cyber Sleuth game.
Speaker 2: You know what, I think it's fucking time.
Speaker 1: I think it's fucking time for Digimon to knock Pokemon
Speaker 1: off its high horse. It's time for.
Speaker 5: This game costs thirty four dollars.
Speaker 7: It does this Pokemon friends thing. I'm looking at the
Speaker 7: puzzles right now.
Speaker 3: No, it's frue way, it's free.
Speaker 5: It's dollars for switch and extra twenty four dollars for
Speaker 5: a full game.
Speaker 3: Oh, you can buy this on switch.
Speaker 1: You're playing on mobile.
Speaker 6: And there's DLC is puzzle puzzle on pack one? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: you ca get puzzle packs one and two for twenty
Speaker 6: six dollars.
Speaker 2: Yes, there are, there is DLC if you want to
Speaker 2: keep playing the puzzles h and as Grub said, it
Speaker 2: is how much twenty.
Speaker 6: Six twenty six dollars on top of the ten dollars
Speaker 6: for the Space version on switch.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, no, that's bad, don't do that.
Speaker 3: That is three and a half Nintendo switch to Welcome tours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just looking pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's it's disappointing me. I don't know if
Speaker 2: Grub has the any of the Pokemon stuff in today's.
Speaker 1: A tiny bit.
Speaker 3: I was going to ask you about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll talk about it later then. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so far, the Pokemon Company is not doing much
Speaker 2: to uh win me back.
Speaker 1: Especially. We knew this.
Speaker 6: We knew this present would always be kind of lackluster.
Speaker 6: That fans that are in the no Sean was saying,
Speaker 6: like these this one that happens at this time of
Speaker 6: year is always an update on stuff that no one
Speaker 6: here is going to care about. And he was right, so,
Speaker 6: but still it kind of stinks that this.
Speaker 2: Is the one thing that I married about. No, I
Speaker 2: don't give a shit about mega evolutions.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, god, I hate oh my god, oh my.
Speaker 3: Said that, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: But this task is gonna be another place for me
Speaker 2: to complain that my my press credentials got turned down
Speaker 2: for Pokemon Worlds and a time.
Speaker 1: Because you didn't.
Speaker 4: You have not respected the companion pass.
Speaker 7: Bad for Jansen. You disrespected that.
Speaker 2: I hate that you shoot right.
Speaker 1: I saw my buddy this weekend, Jan who's the big
Speaker 1: Pokemon card freak, and he was just like he's liked,
Speaker 1: you don't even know what's going on now, And I.
Speaker 3: Was like, all talk that way whenever I thought, just
Speaker 3: have like this shell shocked look on their face, like boy,
Speaker 3: like they've always.
Speaker 1: Come back from war, right, Like they're always constantly facing
Speaker 1: the worst incident of Pokemon retail cards.
Speaker 3: I just can't reintegrate into society. Yeah, they're constantly should
Speaker 3: It's like it's insane.
Speaker 1: But you know because he used to say, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to get a lot of boxes from Pokemon Center, right,
Speaker 1: and now even that is like in impenetrable in a
Speaker 1: way that they are all sort of like rudderless and lost,
Speaker 1: and like they're always looking for someone who just has
Speaker 1: like sealed boxes from a from a from a series
Speaker 1: a couple you know, years ago or whatever. And he's
Speaker 1: he's talking to me, He's like, dude, I think I
Speaker 1: might have like sixty K worth of sealed box. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's happening? Are you jeopardizing? Like what's going on? He's like,
Speaker 1: I just don't. He's like every time I leave it
Speaker 1: in the in the closet, it just goes up and
Speaker 1: up and up and up. And I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you. Man, you're like really
Speaker 1: invested deep in the like sealed wax. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do with you.
Speaker 3: But have you ever seen the card section at a target?
Speaker 3: Like it always looks like it's bare ransack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like the Yeah, it looks like some
Speaker 1: sort of tornado has rippen a tornado.
Speaker 3: Like card packs like all over the place, on the floor,
Speaker 3: all of them mixed together, just something behind bulletproof glass.
Speaker 3: Yeah it should be. Yeah, it's crazy. There's there's a
Speaker 3: Walmart near where I place.
Speaker 1: I play hockey, and every now and then did and
Speaker 1: I will go and just kind of like see what
Speaker 1: the card situation is. And they've like they've buried it
Speaker 1: behind all of these massive, like moving crates. It like
Speaker 1: it's it's completely inaccessible and no one's telling you not
Speaker 1: to go there. But like we sort of kind of
Speaker 1: do sometimes and you're just like I got cut again.
Speaker 1: Something cut me on the way while I was reaching
Speaker 1: for that box. It's okay, you know. You know how like.
Speaker 2: Some some grocery stores, like after like a storm or
Speaker 2: like a natural event, will be like, hey, we're out
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 1: There's no toilet paper, there's no shampoo. So many Barnes
Speaker 1: and Nobles card stores, game stops and targets in my
Speaker 1: air you have put up signs at the front door
Speaker 1: saying there's no Pokemon cards. Go away, Yeah, go away.
Speaker 2: It's it's weird. It's a weird pandemic. Also, and I
Speaker 2: don't know what MoES in your area. The next to
Speaker 2: the scratcher machines at grocery stores, there's now also Pokemon
Speaker 2: vending machines for cards.
Speaker 1: They're constantly sold out.
Speaker 3: What oh like okay, I was imagine bars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, buy to buy like Lucy's to buy loose packs.
Speaker 1: Loose packs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me about the boo boos.
Speaker 1: What's the deal. They're just these little like monkey freaks.
Speaker 1: What we did?
Speaker 3: And it's beanie babies.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, except they're in blind boxes. Yeah, and they're cooler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, sure, I'm not judging their aesthetic.
Speaker 1: I think you were for a second.
Speaker 3: You compare, I think beanie babies are great. All right,
Speaker 3: guess who was really into beanie babies? We know, we know,
Speaker 3: believe it or not, it's just me.
Speaker 1: Were you did you have the Princess Diana one?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I had Princess Die.
Speaker 5: I had better, I had once better than Princess Die.
Speaker 1: Come on, what's that mean? Like the Challenger Explosion.
Speaker 5: Beanie baby that I had them for all the tragedy.
Speaker 1: I have the super real nine to eleven.
Speaker 5: Beanie baby that nobody knows about.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm glad that I'm a little bit
Speaker 2: younger than Mike that beanie babies missed funny, but that's
Speaker 2: not the only thing that missed me. Yesterday Mike Manati
Speaker 2: missed me and grub all over the place and finished
Speaker 2: his journey through the original, well not the original, but
Speaker 2: the first Missed game.
Speaker 5: Well, we think we played the we beat the remake
Speaker 5: of Missed, And then I'm so glad this wasn't a
Speaker 5: false memory of a time that my older brothers showed
Speaker 5: me how to beat Missed at like five minutes. Uh,
Speaker 5: I was like, I think you could do that, so
Speaker 5: then like it's like, yeah, once you find the solutions,
Speaker 5: you can't just beat the game right away. So once
Speaker 5: we beat the remake, we just went to the original
Speaker 5: MISS and played through it and saw the ending there.
Speaker 5: I really enjoyed playing through MISS.
Speaker 6: I thought, yeah, I had a great time. I thought
Speaker 6: it was a very vibean. Yeah, just a smaller game
Speaker 6: than you're thinking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I tell you what I.
Speaker 5: Assumed, because you know, it's it's like an old one
Speaker 5: of these kind of playing click or puzzle games. It's
Speaker 5: gonna be really obtuse and confusing. It's actually one of
Speaker 5: the more logical and straightforward one of these that I
Speaker 5: have played. We were able to, like, honestly, the one
Speaker 5: time we really needed help was when we did a
Speaker 5: sort of bonus added on chapter later that was kind
Speaker 5: of just sequel bait.
Speaker 6: And that's really we were just kind of like ready
Speaker 6: for the string because you had beaten the game. We
Speaker 6: were kind of just doing that for fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like the solution was just like we had to
Speaker 5: walk over.
Speaker 3: There and see the colors and then we figured it
Speaker 3: out of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, basically it was like running up with gets sign.
Speaker 5: But yeah, just like you know, the actual game of
Speaker 5: Miss Frosty forward, but still in a very satisfying way.
Speaker 5: I loved all the biomes, like the different ages slash
Speaker 5: the books you go into each of them looked cool.
Speaker 5: They all had a central theme, like the forest one
Speaker 5: and the the one that was all based around sounds
Speaker 5: was actually really neat, even though it had one of
Speaker 5: the more confusing puzzles with the tunnel train thing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's just a game that I always wanted to be
Speaker 5: able to beat, and I'm super glad we did. I
Speaker 5: had a ton of fun playing on the site, and
Speaker 5: I'm very excited to jump into Riven, the sequel to
Speaker 5: miss we.
Speaker 2: I suggest folks check out that stream or all of
Speaker 2: Monday Mornings Missed with Mitch because it is a very
Speaker 2: fun time. Mike is also very smart. Never get stuffed.
Speaker 3: It was fun to just watch them like kind of
Speaker 3: like figure some stuff out. It's a good time.
Speaker 2: At the tail end of yesterday's stream, we checked out
Speaker 2: the original Missed.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, What the fuck?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jan, it seemed like you really had no full
Speaker 6: concept of like how the game worked. Off to say,
Speaker 6: it looked way shittier than I remember as well.
Speaker 5: There was a time where that was the prettiest looking game.
Speaker 1: Yep. Ever, it blew all us away.
Speaker 5: But it's so funny because you know I started it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: like an original MISS you're not walking around the space,
Speaker 5: it's just you're clicking around and moving to different pre
Speaker 5: rendered images.
Speaker 1: At one point, Jan's like, so it's just pictures.
Speaker 5: Yep, Yeah, that's right. I'll tell you what though, I'm
Speaker 5: such a sicko that part of you is like, oh,
Speaker 5: maybe this is how we should have played it.
Speaker 3: I was into it very quickly. Yeah, I think we
Speaker 3: should still do it for Riven, to still do the remake,
Speaker 3: but that is supposed to be.
Speaker 5: Amazing for Rihy. I've heard very good.
Speaker 2: Things about it, exactly fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Proud of you, thank you, mister Baklar.
Speaker 3: It was great. I really enjoy those streams. So I'm
Speaker 3: glad we're let's just keep doing it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's there's plenty more Miss games. Some people
Speaker 5: say I should play Uru, which was the online game
Speaker 5: and then was taken offline, but apparently somebody's still running
Speaker 5: a shard of it, and by someone it might be
Speaker 5: Cyan like the people who made it.
Speaker 1: There's like an official.
Speaker 5: Online server for Uru still, so I don't know how
Speaker 5: to look into it.
Speaker 1: Can that together? Like I, it's online right to each
Speaker 1: other and it sounds close to Ubu baby steps were
Speaker 1: like the first dude you meet goes u.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, this is ages beyond miss Then I think
Speaker 5: later they called it missed online Uru or something.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's I was like, looking at the timeline,
Speaker 3: that sounds right.
Speaker 1: I'm not an Uru historian yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go, There we go. Looking at the
Speaker 2: original miss it looked like it was it was pulled
Speaker 2: from a specific time, just like Why to Roll looks
Speaker 2: like it is pulled.
Speaker 1: From a very very specific time. Grub Yes, Why to Roll.
Speaker 6: Is a three D platformer sort of roll the ball game.
Speaker 6: You'll be familiar with this concept if you've ever seen
Speaker 6: Super Monkey Ball. It is Marvel Blast Ultra or Marvel
Speaker 6: Marvel Blast Ultra. Yes, it is very much just trying
Speaker 6: to be one of those, and uh, it feels pretty
Speaker 6: good now. It's it's also like throwback visually. It's got
Speaker 6: four x three, it's got the CRTI fuzz on top
Speaker 6: of the filter and kind of a low polygon count
Speaker 6: and the vibes kind of like go into the sound
Speaker 6: effects and the music as well.
Speaker 1: It looks like it takes place in the Beetlejuice cartoon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, Honestly, you've kind of like stripped a
Speaker 3: lot of the monkey stuff out of Super Monkey Ball.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what this is doing.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, so I'm playing this, I'm like, is
Speaker 6: the monkey stuff like kind of a big part of it?
Speaker 6: And yeah it is, But but this is still really
Speaker 6: fun and control is great.
Speaker 3: It feels really good.
Speaker 6: And it's always fun to like get into the rhythm
Speaker 6: of it and being able to like do shortcuts because
Speaker 6: you're like, I think I can bounce the ball and
Speaker 6: kind of like make the whole stage flip up and
Speaker 6: knock the ball over there and get over that huge
Speaker 6: cast and even though I'm not supposed to and get
Speaker 6: a really good time on this.
Speaker 3: That still works. It's really cool.
Speaker 6: And these games they always work like it feels like
Speaker 6: you're tilting the world, but apparently you're actually controlling gravity.
Speaker 6: And once you realize that, that also kind of opens
Speaker 6: up some possibilities in the game. Being able to like
Speaker 6: accommodate that just means that it's a really well made
Speaker 6: one of these. So yeah, you're a super monkey ball
Speaker 6: fan and you've played all those y two role is there.
Speaker 6: It's not like going to win over anyone new. It's
Speaker 6: it's definitely four people who like these kinds of games
Speaker 6: for sure.
Speaker 2: Well let's keep the ball rolling to another game involving balls.
Speaker 2: Golden Tea Arcade Classics. Yes, so this is a.
Speaker 6: New one of these classic game collections, and it reminds
Speaker 6: me a lot of the sort of arcade archive games
Speaker 6: where it's like, hey, these are just the arcade ROMs emulated,
Speaker 6: we're not going to try to like recreate them for console.
Speaker 6: There are a lot of quality of life stuff added,
Speaker 6: so you don't have to at least what I've played
Speaker 6: so far. In that first Golden Tea game, you just
Speaker 6: spam the coin game the coins into the machine and
Speaker 6: you don't have to worry about it, like being like, hey,
Speaker 6: this could be your last shot unless you put more
Speaker 6: money in.
Speaker 3: It's like it's all good on that front, and it's seamless.
Speaker 6: It's not going to get in your way and interrupt things,
Speaker 6: so you're just playing it as a golf video game.
Speaker 3: And then for the controls, because Golden Tea is a
Speaker 3: track ball game or track. Yeah, track ball.
Speaker 6: They make it work so that your hand is the
Speaker 6: left stick and you can only put it on the
Speaker 6: ball when you hold down the B button. So you
Speaker 6: hold down the B button and now your hand is
Speaker 6: actually on the track ball, and then you could pull
Speaker 6: it back and at that point you can like let
Speaker 6: go of be if you want to sort of reorient
Speaker 6: and like go on your four swing and go in
Speaker 6: a different direction.
Speaker 3: So they've accommodated for all of that.
Speaker 6: It is pretty difficult to dial in like how much
Speaker 6: you should be hitting the stick, because it's just it
Speaker 6: translates to the ball in a kind of weird way.
Speaker 6: I'm sure you can get used to it. I was
Speaker 6: getting a little bit more used to it as I
Speaker 6: was playing. Overall though, it's like, yeah, these are the
Speaker 6: golden t Arcade golf games. And if you were like
Speaker 6: obsessed with that franchise, like there are people out there
Speaker 6: who are, it's it does the thing. But if you're
Speaker 6: like coming to video games for a video game golf game,
Speaker 6: they're just better options. There's so many different golf games,
Speaker 6: and a lot of them are built for consoles, are
Speaker 6: built are built for Steam Deck that I was playing
Speaker 6: on and trying to translate that to a controller wasn't
Speaker 6: like the best experience necessarily.
Speaker 5: I think they did a good job with it overall, though,
Speaker 5: going yeah, that's a hard thing, you know.
Speaker 1: There are too many track ball games.
Speaker 5: I think about the weird song to Hedgehog track ball
Speaker 5: game all the time, and I used to want to
Speaker 5: port of it so badly, And then when I played
Speaker 5: it finally when we were at Galloping Ghost, I really
Speaker 5: liked Yeah, but I was like, oh, I can see
Speaker 5: why they never reported this. It kind of kind of
Speaker 5: need a track ball it's hard to do it without.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We also played the Super Monkey Ball game there with
Speaker 3: the banana controller.
Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic. H Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I mean it's a really well done collection.
Speaker 6: Otherwise, it has all the Golden Tea games and they're
Speaker 6: up to a certain point at least I don't know
Speaker 6: if it's the latest one in there, but there's a
Speaker 6: lot of them in there, and the ports are really
Speaker 6: well done and like navigating, like getting around and having
Speaker 6: all the settings like easily available because again, like you're
Speaker 6: going to these arcade arcade ROMs, all that stuff is
Speaker 6: really well presented. So I think it's a decent collection.
Speaker 6: I'm at a point where I might even do a
Speaker 6: quick look of it, so we'll see.
Speaker 5: Maybe that is there, like one that the Golden t fense, Like, oh,
Speaker 5: that was the best golden tea.
Speaker 6: So yeah, because there's like people like playing leagues and stuff, right,
Speaker 6: and like it is their game that they go to
Speaker 6: their bar and they play.
Speaker 3: It's like the equivalent of darts. At a certain point.
Speaker 3: I bet they have one that they consider to be
Speaker 3: the one.
Speaker 5: What's what's the street Fighter three third strike of the you.
Speaker 4: Know, the other bar staple was always Big Buck Hunter.
Speaker 4: And I passed a machine in Wisconsin this weekend and
Speaker 4: like they're just like crazy, like piranha plants and tornadoes
Speaker 4: and stuff. You're shooting Now It's like when did it
Speaker 4: make the turn from like we're shooting elk to if
Speaker 4: you oh yeah.
Speaker 6: I think it's the mobile game influence, right, because so
Speaker 6: many somebody that audience is like playing mobile games. I
Speaker 6: think they have to like there has to be more
Speaker 6: going on.
Speaker 1: There is a competitive Big Buck Hunter scene.
Speaker 5: Actually, the documentary about it, I think at one point.
Speaker 2: They have a big competition. I forget where it is,
Speaker 2: but it's in the US and it's like surprisingly very
Speaker 2: punk looking, and I think we should go. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: should definitely make the expedition one day if they're still
Speaker 2: doing that in the near future. But in the past,
Speaker 2: recent past, Jeff Backlar, turns out you're the first person
Speaker 2: to finish Expedition thirty three.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. I'm a really good gamer.
Speaker 1: That's why I finished games first before anyone else.
Speaker 5: We all say, yeah, yeah, not the last one here
Speaker 5: to beat it still, Jeff grub.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 6: I'm not beating man, I'm not gonna play that game.
Speaker 6: I'm joking.
Speaker 1: Don't kill me. I just have to preface this conversation
Speaker 1: with how good I am, so that you'll all be
Speaker 1: able to understand where depressed? Did you die?
Speaker 7: Did you doubt how you're playing the game?
Speaker 1: Did I dodge? Yeah? You mean, was I not blindfolded
Speaker 1: the entire time? Is that what you mean?
Speaker 5: He's trying trying to see he's trying to call you
Speaker 5: off for dodging.
Speaker 7: The coolest we all ever met yes week in dodging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, for the so my instinct is always.
Speaker 7: To parry, okay.
Speaker 1: But but there's certain attacks where I'm just like, I'm
Speaker 1: a dodge boy. For for somebody, fine, that's fine. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I would say I wish there was a
Speaker 1: stat meter that I would I would venture to bet
Speaker 1: my parry to dodge ratio.
Speaker 2: Is like, I don't know, four to one, five to one.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 5: I mean, I always try to prairie, but there's a
Speaker 5: lot of strings attacks and once you missed the first parry,
Speaker 5: well then you may as well dodge.
Speaker 7: That's smart.
Speaker 6: It's the way you're supposed to play because you can't
Speaker 6: get the perry counter attack.
Speaker 7: The point.
Speaker 1: Totally smug.
Speaker 4: As soon as you said that, I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: what's the point in pairing If you don't get the
Speaker 4: counter exactly, you still.
Speaker 1: Earn an ap point, right, Like most of the time
Speaker 1: that was ulish. It's because it's also an easier thing
Speaker 1: to recover from and perform dodger mechanic objectively.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's like, wow, I did not even consider that
Speaker 4: that would have been a lot easier.
Speaker 1: When you beat it, you'll understand what I'm talking a motherfucker. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess I'm like, honestly really surprised I
Speaker 1: finished this.
Speaker 5: You know, it's there's a lot of people who I
Speaker 5: don't think would be fans of these kind of games
Speaker 5: that are into it and have seen it all the
Speaker 5: way through. I mean Dan Reikert, right, it's you know,
Speaker 5: my both of my brothers, who don't normally play through
Speaker 5: arpg's on turn based once too often anymore.
Speaker 1: Both of them got through this.
Speaker 5: It's funny how like the thirty five hour playtime I
Speaker 5: think is a big component of that, because that's now
Speaker 5: suddenly very breezy for one of these games.
Speaker 1: So here's my first question. My game cock says twenty
Speaker 1: two hours. Oh you're a good gamer. Again, I called
Speaker 1: that app.
Speaker 7: Skipping all that great side content.
Speaker 1: But but my Xbox counter, the app on PC says
Speaker 1: one point four days, and last time I checked, those
Speaker 1: two are not the same amount of.
Speaker 3: One sounds more rights, Well, okay, the in game counter
Speaker 3: would be more accurate, right, is that.
Speaker 1: It would be? But twenty two even like skipping.
Speaker 5: All the side stuff that'sn't been really short for a
Speaker 5: first much.
Speaker 3: Side stuff is like there's a lot of optional dungeons
Speaker 3: you can do, Like obviously things like the jumping Puzzles.
Speaker 5: Act three has a ton of optional Just.
Speaker 6: Go with the twenty two hour thing. Mike that's going
Speaker 6: to make it more likely that I actually will play
Speaker 6: through this. Yes, it's like I bet he could have
Speaker 6: beat it in twelve hours.
Speaker 1: Jeff.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, now it's so pretty.
Speaker 4: A reason I definitely went through is because I think
Speaker 4: Mike said, like, listen, this is going to be coming
Speaker 4: up at Game of the Year, and I feel like
Speaker 4: it was the same way with fire Skims, like all right,
Speaker 4: people are gonna be talking about this. I should I'll
Speaker 4: give it a shot, and now Grub I can pass
Speaker 4: that along. It's definitely going to come up a lot
Speaker 4: of Game of the Year, like a lot, a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, didn't you also say publicly that Grub. Didn't
Speaker 1: you publicly say like this is guaranteed to win Game
Speaker 1: of the Year someone.
Speaker 5: Yes, he did. He promised me that you're muted. Just
Speaker 5: audio is breaking. Yeah, all right, I'll translate for him.
Speaker 1: I did say that. Yeah.
Speaker 5: But now I played a game maybe by Nintendo that
Speaker 5: I really like, and I'm sure.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it's not winning Game of the Year. No,
Speaker 7: Bonanza's yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh well it's July twenty second, boys, we have to
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of time left in the year.
Speaker 1: Last time I checked. But what did you what did
Speaker 1: you come?
Speaker 5: You know, obviously we don't want to talk about spoilers
Speaker 5: and which with the ending, there's a lot of that.
Speaker 5: The ending is somewhat device. I think most people like it.
Speaker 5: It's something yeah, weird.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a very fresh take on doing the
Speaker 1: thing it did. I think the sort of like idea
Speaker 1: is not new, but it has a different approach at
Speaker 1: delivering that exposition, which I found novel and enjoyable. I
Speaker 1: was not like moved in a tremendously powerful way. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is just like pretty solid storytelling.
Speaker 1: I'm happy with how they did it, and I enjoy
Speaker 1: the ideas there. I have a lot more questions I
Speaker 1: like whenever I complete something like this, and I like
Speaker 1: the parts that I'm over obsessing now are like some
Speaker 1: of the other minutia of the storytelling of like but
Speaker 1: why the expeditions and like, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I understand the big picture, I think I do,
Speaker 1: but I don't understand some of the more granularities of
Speaker 1: like like why were they sending people out in this world?
Speaker 1: Like I don't the garmage, I like kind of just
Speaker 1: don't also get I guess like on face and we
Speaker 1: can't talk about too much. I'll tell you what that
Speaker 1: spoiler cast now that you yeah, we're not gonna I
Speaker 1: don't want to get into it. Like again, I feel
Speaker 1: like we're talking about it in a pretty broad way.
Speaker 5: Yeah right now, yeah, yeah, but yeah, we'll do that
Speaker 5: spoiler cast for sure.
Speaker 1: But just like, you know, so what do you think?
Speaker 1: You thought it was really good? You liked that, it's
Speaker 1: it's excellent, It's fucking awesome. It's this game's fucking awesome.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Of course, it's so freaking
Speaker 1: it's amazing. I even had like a normy friend of
Speaker 1: mine hit me up over the weekend and he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm having dinner with some jackass who's telling me that
Speaker 1: Clear Obscure is the best game he's ever played in
Speaker 1: like a decade. Is he full of shit? And I'm
Speaker 1: just like, NIC's legit. This guy sounds like he knows
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Like yeah, I just think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the whole paint stuff is like
Speaker 1: very just like that for whatever reason, like that's what's
Speaker 1: sticking to me. That like just that aesthetic and that
Speaker 1: whole idea is.
Speaker 2: Very Splatoon that you're a squid kid yourself.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if I would call myself a
Speaker 1: squid kid certainly that but yeah, yeah, I'm an ink boy,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I'm an inky man. And I thought,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, I think the characters, the performances are
Speaker 1: all very very strong and well above average and well
Speaker 1: beyond what I was expecting. It was your main team Monoco.
Speaker 5: Oh you're an you like the feet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I just he reminded me of Dan
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 5: Dan doesn't like him, That's funny.
Speaker 1: Like Dan just seems like hunched over with a big
Speaker 1: face of hair, and I'm just sort of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's Monoca. That's Dan. Dan's Monoca. You know, like
Speaker 1: you might as well just put like, you know, a
Speaker 1: wooden plank on your face and your costplaying halfway there
Speaker 1: as Minoco.
Speaker 11: But about feet, all right, you know, I I do
Speaker 11: think this game like is a lot more charitable than I.
Speaker 1: Was anticipating it was gonna be. Where you know, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, fuck, the barrier to entry here and
Speaker 1: the sort of like attention to your load out and
Speaker 1: your pictose and your loo and all that stuff is
Speaker 1: going to really really. Uh uh, you sort of like
Speaker 1: barricade me in a way where I'm unable to progress,
Speaker 1: And none of that turned out to be true. Like
Speaker 1: the the longest I spent on any fight, you know,
Speaker 1: was maybe like four times or five times, and I
Speaker 1: I just kind of like was able to persevere and
Speaker 1: get to where I needed to be without overly obsessing
Speaker 1: over spinning all those those plates. Uh so, yeah, I
Speaker 1: played Verso, Luna and Monoca were like my main three
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of, you know, see, just want
Speaker 1: to put that out there. And then uh yeah, and
Speaker 1: then may I was just like, I'm like, you're annoying many.
Speaker 5: I was like, Maya was my carry on my team.
Speaker 5: I think most of my damage was coming from Mayo
Speaker 5: for large portions of the game.
Speaker 1: Towards the end, something happens where like I feel like
Speaker 1: I did not see how powerful she like got for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, like she started doing stuff that I did
Speaker 1: not do. I feel like something happened. I'm like what.
Speaker 1: I also dressed her up real dumb, and I gave
Speaker 1: her like what are the little furry boys? I gave
Speaker 1: her like a castil haircut and put her in like
Speaker 1: a dumb dress and I was just like, look at
Speaker 1: this idiot running around and I yeah. But but then
Speaker 1: at the end where you're like, oh, okay, there's something
Speaker 1: she's doing special things now, Uh yeah, I was sort
Speaker 1: of surprised that because I did not I did not
Speaker 1: deliberately you know, build out her her load out that way.
Speaker 1: All the characters are great. I love it. I love
Speaker 1: esc I thought was awesome, very good boy. I love
Speaker 1: the uh the the sort of energy of the Curator
Speaker 1: and all that ship. I thought that was cool as hell.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: I still, you know, the manner we can talk about
Speaker 1: in the mansion whatever it's called in the spoiler cast.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I very very few points criticism that. Again
Speaker 1: we can get to in the spoilercast if we if
Speaker 1: we ever wound up doing it. I think like the
Speaker 1: whole like flag storytelling element like didn't fully land for me.
Speaker 1: There's a kind of yeah, I mean that some of
Speaker 1: that stuff's interesting. Some of that stuff is sort of
Speaker 1: like this kind of conflicts with like what the other
Speaker 1: you know, narrative that's going on. I just thought there
Speaker 1: was a lot of like midair collisions narratively speaking, which
Speaker 1: is fine. It's this game's tremendous it's barely really anything
Speaker 1: to knock it. Uh yeah, I really love it and
Speaker 1: now for me, it's definitely the game to beat for
Speaker 1: this year, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, well, speaking about jerrorpgs and RPGs, the Master
Speaker 2: of all Things role playing games, this seems like an
Speaker 2: interesting pick, but Dan I have on the list here.
Speaker 2: You've been playing wizard Quest.
Speaker 4: I played, I experienced wizard Quest. I don't know if
Speaker 4: anyone's heard of this one professor Ticklebitz told me about this.
Speaker 7: It's in Wisconsin Dell's. Have you ever been there?
Speaker 4: Well, okay, so it's like a big ass building that
Speaker 4: you go in and give you basically a shika slate.
Speaker 7: It's like an iPad thing.
Speaker 4: And you go around and there are wizards that work there.
Speaker 4: They they're real people and you can talk to them
Speaker 4: and everything, and there are four realms you can go to.
Speaker 7: There's like Earth Air.
Speaker 1: I went to Google Google.
Speaker 4: Wizard Quest and look at that, like this is some
Speaker 4: labor of love shit like sculptors and like it was
Speaker 4: like very impressive inside like.
Speaker 1: An escape room, Like what did you do?
Speaker 7: I mean, that's under selling it.
Speaker 4: It is like an escape building with like a full
Speaker 4: lore and you're doing quest for these characters. So you
Speaker 4: go up and you find this fucking turtle that's a shopkeeper,
Speaker 4: and then he's telling you to go find these firebats
Speaker 4: or this family of salamanders and stuff. There's a big
Speaker 4: guy named shard on Us and I thought like, wow,
Speaker 4: his name.
Speaker 1: Is shot on us on Us.
Speaker 4: He's a big troll guy that sits in the thing,
Speaker 4: and I thought like, well, that's weird that his name
Speaker 4: is shard on Us. But at one point I had
Speaker 4: to go find like a hidden troller something and I
Speaker 4: had to crawl between his legs and then he just
Speaker 4: starts farting on my fucking heady Okay, yeah that was intentional.
Speaker 4: So it's like it's cool because like you have to, like,
Speaker 4: you'll start quests on the iPad, and to prove that
Speaker 4: you actually got to the thing you were supposed to find,
Speaker 4: it could be on a different floor, a different realm.
Speaker 4: You have to be like, all right, so the shopkeeper
Speaker 4: or this blacksmith, you know what color is the jewel
Speaker 4: or whatever that that he was working on or whatever,
Speaker 4: and you type in and you get credit for the
Speaker 4: quests and then be like all right, well these you
Speaker 4: gotta find these salamanders, and you have these torches which
Speaker 4: are like black light things, and you'll have to like
Speaker 4: go around and look for like salamander footprints and things
Speaker 4: like that, like in the actual environment, like you're kind
Speaker 4: of under something. It's awesome. I thought it was going
Speaker 4: to be some Yeah. I thought it was going to
Speaker 4: be just this kind of like really corny thing or whatever.
Speaker 4: But it is so elaborate. It was so much work
Speaker 4: went into it. And by the end, it's like a
Speaker 4: two hour experience. And by the end we had done
Speaker 4: a ton of quests and everything, and me and Bonk
Speaker 4: and Kayla we were just like, let's just walk around
Speaker 4: and like look at this stuff, because like there's so
Speaker 4: many just little miniatures and giant statues and sculptures and stuff,
Speaker 4: and like a whole like woods area and everything. It's
Speaker 4: just a really really impressive thing. I just have like
Speaker 4: a deep respect for what they pulled off there. And
Speaker 4: I guess it started in like the early two thousands,
Speaker 4: which would have been before iPads and stuff, which makes
Speaker 4: me wonder if it was like a pen and paper
Speaker 4: thing or something or.
Speaker 7: What's that.
Speaker 3: Did they use Nintendo DS or something?
Speaker 1: Sidekicks?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how how they did it back then,
Speaker 4: but it's like it is. It is just a really
Speaker 4: tremendous thing. If you ever happen to find yourself in Wisconsin, Wisconsin.
Speaker 6: On Google Maps right now looking up how long it
Speaker 6: is for me to get to the Wisconsin Dallas And
Speaker 6: then I was going to ask you, damn yeah, would
Speaker 6: this be appropriate form like age wise in terms of
Speaker 6: enjoying it for my children?
Speaker 1: I think it would be.
Speaker 4: I think it would be ideal for them because I
Speaker 4: saw a lot of families and kids and like them
Speaker 4: running around and being like surprised that they like they
Speaker 4: found and it is like a lot of like decoding stuff.
Speaker 4: It's like you're you're doing it. It's a lot of
Speaker 4: video game stuff.
Speaker 7: Going on there in a real you know, kind of structure.
Speaker 6: That's ten hours for a dry we'd have to like, well,
Speaker 6: we go through Chicago, so we made a trip like
Speaker 6: stop in Chicago, hangout, going through Wisconsin Del's, and then
Speaker 6: make a trip back.
Speaker 4: I will say in general, Wisconsin Dell's is an amazing
Speaker 4: vacation location for a million there's a bunch of.
Speaker 3: There's a Ripley's, believe it or not, a bunch of
Speaker 3: other stars, a fucking.
Speaker 4: Upside down replica of the White House that's guarded by
Speaker 4: transformers and the Predator. Look up to Wisconsin. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna look up. Just look up top Secret Wisconsin Dell's.
Speaker 4: I think that's the Yeah, it's just a fucking upside
Speaker 4: down white House that's guarded by transformers.
Speaker 1: It's fucking weird. This whole city is, it's gimmick city.
Speaker 4: USA got to drive the Pyramids and UFOs and it's
Speaker 4: the whole The main thing is a billion water parks,
Speaker 4: so I mean, there's just so many fucking slides. So
Speaker 4: the most extreme water rights I've ever gone on a
Speaker 4: couple of days ago.
Speaker 7: It is awesome. We had an absolute blast there.
Speaker 4: People are saying it's like a better Brandson, Like it's like,
Speaker 4: imagine Branson with better gimmicks, less of the country horseshit
Speaker 4: and more about just like fun gimmicky vacation does ransom.
Speaker 4: I don't know Branson is Oh wow, that must be
Speaker 4: said that was like the vacation destination in the Midwest.
Speaker 4: It's they said on The Simpsons, it's like Last Vegas
Speaker 4: if it was run by Ned Flanders.
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of very hokey country. It's where
Speaker 1: Silver Dollar City is and stuff.
Speaker 4: It's uh, it's a very Midwestern, kind of conservative version
Speaker 4: of Vegas. It was definitely the only place I ever
Speaker 4: got to go on vacation to as a kid.
Speaker 7: It's fine.
Speaker 4: It's lame, though, like Wisconsin Del's is a million times better.
Speaker 4: But yeah, just look up any pictures of Wisconsin Del's.
Speaker 4: It's a bunch of water slides, a bunch of gimmicks,
Speaker 4: but really really cool stuff. Really really had.
Speaker 5: A great Calahary there, all right.
Speaker 4: That's where I said, I stay at Calahary. I didn't
Speaker 4: know it was that like a uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have one here.
Speaker 5: I like Kalahari because it's very oh yeah yeah, indoor
Speaker 5: water park resorts thing.
Speaker 1: I heard the word casino. It's the name of the
Speaker 1: city is Wisconsin. Dell's Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: Der motto is to you gott a Dell's.
Speaker 1: Oh everybody, oh happy nine hundred. It was. It was
Speaker 1: the fucking first.
Speaker 4: Like I used to love water slides as a kid,
Speaker 4: but I've been to water parking forever. The first time
Speaker 4: with this new water slide tech, Oh my god, it's
Speaker 4: the ones.
Speaker 1: We're doing tech. What do you mean?
Speaker 3: What s spin tech where you fucking stand in like
Speaker 3: a vertical coffin and the bottom drops.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I haven't been one since again Brandson, Whitewater
Speaker 4: and Branson in like nineteen ninety four when it's just
Speaker 4: like shitty slides that you get concussions on. Uh here,
Speaker 4: it's like you stand on this thing and a voice
Speaker 4: is like three to two one, and then the floor
Speaker 4: is just gone and your body is just pinging scent
Speaker 4: way too fast and a dark tube and it's just
Speaker 4: you are fucking rattled by the end. I love to
Speaker 4: me and Kayla did every single water slide and everything great.
Speaker 4: Great time went to the Timbavady Wildlife Resort. We got
Speaker 4: to you know, pet girafts and all sorts of shit,
Speaker 4: like we're really.
Speaker 3: Good family vacation spot.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm on this like it's it seemed like a great,
Speaker 4: great family spot for sure, but also as a forty
Speaker 4: one year old man, it was awesome.
Speaker 6: If we went like in the fall and it was
Speaker 6: a little bit colder. Are there sounds like there's plenty
Speaker 6: of like indoor water park A.
Speaker 7: Ton of them are so.
Speaker 4: Kalahari had a big outdoor one, and they had a
Speaker 4: big indoor one and they're doing like a seventy five
Speaker 4: thousand square foot expansion of their indoor stuff.
Speaker 5: So, like to be clear, Jeff, there is a Kalahari
Speaker 5: an hour from you that.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I know, but like I want to do
Speaker 6: all this other stuff as well. Yeah, and we are
Speaker 6: looking to get out of town.
Speaker 2: So yeah, as someone that doesn't know how to swim,
Speaker 2: I've never really been able to enjoy a water park.
Speaker 1: It's a lazy river. Oh we wee, lazy river. It
Speaker 1: was great. Could there's there's lifeguards at the receptacle that
Speaker 1: will help assist you. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2: I went to a water park because it was an
Speaker 2: Altar servers field trip as a little reward, and I
Speaker 2: went into the wavepool. I went a little bit too
Speaker 2: deep and then my friend had to pull me out.
Speaker 4: Also, Jan the entire time, all weekend, I was in
Speaker 4: water that I could have drowned in. Really was just
Speaker 4: the wavepool like all the others. It's a lazy river.
Speaker 4: Seven's three feet when you get to the bottom of
Speaker 4: slide stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You could round there.
Speaker 4: But well, I know, but you can also stand up,
Speaker 4: you know. Sure, Yeah, it's not like a risk if
Speaker 4: you can't swim, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Okay, thank you for that, Dan to head over there.
Speaker 4: I also be like cheese, Holy shit, I ate so
Speaker 4: much cheese and drank a lot of beer this weekend.
Speaker 1: It was a good time.
Speaker 2: You sound like you're lifting that you're living that drifter lifestyle,
Speaker 2: just going to cheese and water parks, just like Mike
Speaker 2: Minatti did last night on Mega Man. He played not
Speaker 2: through but a little bit of The Drifter.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I played like two hours, which I bet is
Speaker 5: you like about a third of the game, maybe maybe
Speaker 5: a bit more than that. Jeff just recommended this to
Speaker 5: me earlier that day because it's very LucasArts pointing click
Speaker 5: adventure game coded. He knows how much I like those.
Speaker 5: This is a newer game though, but with that pixelated
Speaker 5: art style and a point and click interface.
Speaker 3: With like the mouse cursor and the font of like
Speaker 3: a LucasArts game. They aren't trying to hide anything there.
Speaker 3: They're like, we are making one of those.
Speaker 5: Right, But it's also not nearly as obtuse or confusing
Speaker 5: as one of those. Or everything's contact sensitive, so it's
Speaker 5: it's pretty easy to find the things that you should
Speaker 5: be clicking on even like the dialogue systems, it's just
Speaker 5: like icons of things you might want to talk about,
Speaker 5: so pretty straightforward.
Speaker 1: But I'm liking this quite a bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like the story here is that you are this
Speaker 5: kind of drifter who's back in his hometown for his
Speaker 5: mom's funeral. So he's got to see, you know, his
Speaker 5: sister and his ex wife and you know, everything's kind
Speaker 5: of awkward. But before all of that happens, he gets
Speaker 5: caught up in something weird with a bunch of Sam
Speaker 5: Fisher looking people abducting homeless and killing people, and he
Speaker 5: maybe gets framed for it, and then they try to
Speaker 5: kill you and you die. It works, they kill you,
Speaker 5: but then like time rewinds a bit. If you ever
Speaker 5: played ghost Trick, fine, if it has sequences, yes, it
Speaker 5: has those sequences. You're in a situation and you have
Speaker 5: to kind of solve a puzzle or else you die.
Speaker 5: Every time you die, you just go back, so you
Speaker 5: kind of keep trying things until you finally figure out
Speaker 5: the situation. So like one of them, I was captured
Speaker 5: and I'm in a hospital and I'm handcuffed to the
Speaker 5: hospital bed and I'm being interrogated. Then a nurse comes
Speaker 5: in to refill my saving solution right then like a
Speaker 5: few minutes later, I die, So it's like, oh, she
Speaker 5: poisoned me. So now you're kind of in this Groundhog's
Speaker 5: day loop of like trying to figure out how to
Speaker 5: get out of that situation. So mixing those segments in
Speaker 5: with the more traditional pointing click puzzles is really cool.
Speaker 5: It's fully voice axed. It seemed the voice.
Speaker 1: Thatting is good.
Speaker 6: It seemed fun in those moments, Mike, like, did you
Speaker 6: were you feeling do you feel like, Okay, we're going
Speaker 6: back to begin the beginning of the loop, and now
Speaker 6: I have a good idea of what to do this time,
Speaker 6: because that sounds exciting as opposed to the idea of like,
Speaker 6: oh we're doing this again and I can't figure it out.
Speaker 3: That could get frustrating. But it felt like you always
Speaker 3: had a new idea of what to do next.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and like again that's uh, you know, that's
Speaker 5: part of the game, right, So, and it's usually these
Speaker 5: pretty short loops to where it happens, and at certain
Speaker 5: point you can, you know, skip a dialogue box. You
Speaker 5: can you know, if it's something you heard alt right,
Speaker 5: you get through that part pretty quickly, so no, I
Speaker 5: always thought those parts were pretty enthralling. I was enjoying
Speaker 5: the story. I kind of want to see where it's going.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so definitely something I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Continue playing on my own. I want to see this serially. Again,
Speaker 5: I love these games growing up, and I know people
Speaker 5: are still making these kinds of games, and Watchet Games
Speaker 5: or Watchet Games makes a ton of these and I
Speaker 5: haven't necessarily checked them out, so you know, probably shame
Speaker 5: on me for not looking at the games inspired by
Speaker 5: the games that I loved in this modern age. But
Speaker 5: I'm definitely enjoying this one. And I think anybody who likes,
Speaker 5: you know, lookas starts Veture games, or you like to
Speaker 5: gost trick Man Detective, or you just kind of like
Speaker 5: an interesting kind of mystery story should look at The Drifter.
Speaker 3: I think you could be excused for missing that this
Speaker 3: one came out because it came out the same day
Speaker 3: as Don't Donkey Kong Bonanza, So yeah, kind of easy
Speaker 3: to miss this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty recent, but really recommend it.
Speaker 2: Well that sounds bananas, but you know what is more
Speaker 2: bananas than that? Mike Manatti, Dan Ryker Jeff Grub now
Speaker 2: Donkey Kong Bananza. I'm a little jelly. I'm a little jelly.
Speaker 2: I haven't checked it out yet. It sounds like y'all
Speaker 2: are having a ball with this.
Speaker 4: It is I think maybe the fastest time to fun
Speaker 4: I have seen in a video game, maybe ever, just
Speaker 4: I guess. I don't even know if you could call
Speaker 4: it a tutorial room because never does you know, the
Speaker 4: action never stop since it's like, oh, here's how you
Speaker 4: do this. If anything, it's just a little pop up
Speaker 4: being like here's how you do a chunk jump. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just puts you in a fucking room and you just
Speaker 4: go nuts and it's immediately fun. There's like five seconds
Speaker 4: of just like here's the island they're on. Oops, an asteroid.
Speaker 4: All right, go fucking nuts, and that's all you're doing.
Speaker 4: This entire game is just going fucking nuts and destroying everything,
Speaker 4: like Grub, are you doing?
Speaker 7: Much like I find myself looks.
Speaker 4: I'll see a mountain or like a hill, and I
Speaker 4: won't even have I'm not going towards the yellow exclamation point.
Speaker 4: I don't even have a specific banana or anything I'm
Speaker 4: going for. I just go up the hill and I
Speaker 4: just start spamming. Just ah, just fucking up everything, going up,
Speaker 4: sideways down all the way through. It turn into Bananza monkey,
Speaker 4: just tearing up a whole fucking mountain. And along the way,
Speaker 4: I'll get like, you know, twenty different things. You know,
Speaker 4: I'll get a bunch of gold, I'll get some banandium
Speaker 4: chips and bananas and all that.
Speaker 7: But I'm just like, are you doing it without direction too?
Speaker 1: Sometimes? Yeah?
Speaker 6: In fact, I'm kind of like, yeah, the spirit overtakes
Speaker 6: me for sure in this game more than a lot
Speaker 6: of other games. And to the point where that is
Speaker 6: how I'm playing it overall, where I am. I am
Speaker 6: aware of the yellow thing the waypoint telling me where
Speaker 6: to go next, and I have that in mind, but
Speaker 6: I am just sort of like playing it on a
Speaker 6: vibe level of I just feel like this thing in
Speaker 6: front of me needs to be destroyed. I'm gonna punch
Speaker 6: the hell out of it. Oh cool, I did find
Speaker 6: a banandaum thing. I did find a bunch of other stuff,
Speaker 6: but now that's destroyed. I'm just going to keep moving
Speaker 6: to that yellow thing now. And oh, another thing distracted
Speaker 6: me and I'm punching that and I'm not like worried
Speaker 6: about one hundred percent of the game at all on
Speaker 6: this first playthrough, just because it is such a get
Speaker 6: in the vibe of this game, feel it out and
Speaker 6: get on its level and just go, and it's made
Speaker 6: to be played that way. It feels like, and it's
Speaker 6: so good on that level that I'm having a great time.
Speaker 6: And I'm also aware that I'm leaving all this stuff
Speaker 6: behind that I'm gonna get to come back to later
Speaker 6: when it is time to be like, I fully know
Speaker 6: everything about this game. Now I have all the abilities,
Speaker 6: a fully up upgraded of Donkey Kong, and now I
Speaker 6: can come back and really tear these levels apart and
Speaker 6: find every last thing.
Speaker 3: And I love that it's really really good on that level.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what I'm doing, is like I'm just general
Speaker 4: in general senses. I'm pointing Donkey Kong in a direction,
Speaker 4: sometimes towards an objective, but I am not doing like, well,
Speaker 4: I got to get a hundred percent on this layer,
Speaker 4: this sub layer before I move to the next. I'm
Speaker 4: doing the exact same way where it's like I'm gonna
Speaker 4: move through what feels like a natural pace and then
Speaker 4: there will definitely be time it's very easy to fast
Speaker 4: travel around and go between the layers and all that.
Speaker 4: I will one this game completely, like it's so much fun.
Speaker 4: It's no fucking way I'm not doing that. And there
Speaker 4: are tools there where it's it's easy have to buy
Speaker 4: maps and stuff for like, you know, bananas you haven't found,
Speaker 4: so like, I think it's going to be a very
Speaker 4: fun one.
Speaker 7: But I it does something that almost reminded.
Speaker 1: Me of Breath the Wild and that I really appreciate
Speaker 1: where it's like, you know, when you start Breath the
Speaker 1: Wild and you get out of that first thing and
Speaker 1: it's like your first objective is kill Gannon, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, okay, well head out and see
Speaker 1: what happens with that.
Speaker 4: This for the first objective here is find more bananas.
Speaker 4: I fucking love that where it's like, all right, got
Speaker 4: my marching orders, let's just go where this takes me.
Speaker 6: Man, it shifts later to get to the planet core
Speaker 6: and that's always there as well.
Speaker 4: And yes, and I love the map screen if just
Speaker 4: you're going down and I just got the first part
Speaker 4: where it does kind of split like there's a light
Speaker 4: you want to go to the snow area or the
Speaker 4: forest area and like there is the divide you know.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm just loving every second. I've got like
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 6: But is now yeah, keeps getting better, Dan, Like, so
Speaker 6: you're at that at that point, I'm like, I love
Speaker 6: this game and now I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, oh boy, it's all I can think about. It's
Speaker 3: all I want to do.
Speaker 1: It's it's so.
Speaker 3: It just keeps getting better and better each level and
Speaker 3: each power you unlock.
Speaker 5: About Zebra, yes, yeah, Zebra is very I like Zebra lot.
Speaker 5: One of the best songs too, is the Zebra Song.
Speaker 3: It's a musical, Yeah, Like that's it's a It really
Speaker 3: is kind of a musical where Pauline is singing these
Speaker 3: songs about these characters.
Speaker 1: Are these special powers that you have.
Speaker 6: You can activate that at any time, and her singing
Speaker 6: powers are central to the game, and I like that.
Speaker 6: That's like a really fun idea. But more than a
Speaker 6: lot of other Nintendo games, this one just kind of
Speaker 6: wears on its sleeve that it is taking bits and
Speaker 6: pieces of every other game that Nintendo's made, and a
Speaker 6: bunch of other games, like this is just Mario Odyssey
Speaker 6: and a lot of stru and a lot of the
Speaker 6: ways that it's truck structured, and then they just like, Okay,
Speaker 6: now let's put all the Donkey Kong stuff on top
Speaker 6: of that and build it in a different direction, and
Speaker 6: it works really well. You could tell that they are like, Hey,
Speaker 6: we know this stuff already functions the way we need
Speaker 6: it to for one of these games. Why rebuild it.
Speaker 6: Let's focus on making a bunch of new fun stuff.
Speaker 6: And that paid off because there it is so dense.
Speaker 6: There is so much going on in every level, so
Speaker 6: many things to discover, to the point where and like,
Speaker 6: it also opens up the opportunity for you to play
Speaker 6: it how you want and the quick look, which I
Speaker 6: don't know if that's up yet, but people see I'm
Speaker 6: playing it and I'm showing Mike some of the levels
Speaker 6: I'd already played, and there's a point where it's like, oh,
Speaker 6: this is how you get to the next stage or
Speaker 6: get to the boss to get to the next stage.
Speaker 6: And I did not do any of the sequence that
Speaker 6: the game says is required to get there. I apparently
Speaker 6: had found my own way.
Speaker 3: I'm like actually going through screenshots and movies trying to
Speaker 3: find like, what did I even do? How did I
Speaker 3: get here?
Speaker 5: It's kind of breaf of the wild in that way,
Speaker 5: a little Mario Odyssey in that way. I'm really deep
Speaker 5: into the game. I think I'm beginning to brush up
Speaker 5: towards the ending what I love, Like, you know, just
Speaker 5: the base mechanics and all that stuff is so fun
Speaker 5: that I don't get tired of it. But it does,
Speaker 5: you know, always build on that. And sometimes it's new
Speaker 5: abilities with the bonanzas. But a lot of times, oh,
Speaker 5: I didn't think about interacting with the world, yes, with
Speaker 5: my abilities in this way, or I didn't expect terrain
Speaker 5: to react to it this way in this level. Now
Speaker 5: all these really fun and smart things. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 5: it's absolutely incredible. It's better than I was expecting. And
Speaker 5: I love Odyssey so much. I was just already expecting
Speaker 5: the moon here. Yeah, it's a it's better than I imagine.
Speaker 5: I can't believe how well executed this idea is.
Speaker 4: I'm excited because, like I feel like, since I wasn't
Speaker 4: able to play this weekend, since I was on the road,
Speaker 4: like I'm pretty early, right, if I if I'm.
Speaker 5: Pretty year relatively early? Still yeah, like still first third,
Speaker 5: I'd say, yep.
Speaker 4: Oh good, Okay, that's great, Mike does the Uh, there's
Speaker 4: small apples, but then there are like big, beautifully rendered apples.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's bullshit.
Speaker 5: I was expecting a banana situation. I knew what I
Speaker 5: signed up for.
Speaker 1: What the fuck are all.
Speaker 5: These apples doing in this game?
Speaker 4: Because the bananas look like crystals, you know, so maybe
Speaker 4: you can make that separation with the apples.
Speaker 7: It looks like a big ass apples.
Speaker 1: Just apples. What the hell is this?
Speaker 5: Don collocs apples now to those even drow in the
Speaker 5: jungle apples.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, ship into the city. He's been a new
Speaker 6: dog city before he tried apples.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the big apple.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, yeah, I was upset about the apples, but
Speaker 5: it's okay.
Speaker 1: I'll forgive it.
Speaker 7: Did you all flip the BNA buttons?
Speaker 1: No? No? No?
Speaker 5: Because oh because Dan, Look, it makes so much sense
Speaker 5: the way now.
Speaker 4: I understand, down is down. I get that, but it's
Speaker 4: also very easy to wrap my head around. Well, right
Speaker 4: is down, and then the normal jump buttons, the normal
Speaker 4: jump button.
Speaker 1: That feels it's way.
Speaker 3: Better to get used to the jump button, not B
Speaker 3: and B.
Speaker 7: That was weird when I saw that setting.
Speaker 4: I always go through the settings before I started a
Speaker 4: game and I saw the swap BNA, and I remember
Speaker 4: from the preview being like, hey, over here is kind
Speaker 4: of weird, So I swapped it.
Speaker 1: Have not looked back. It feels great that way. That's fine.
Speaker 5: I have such a controller chameleon though. If you you
Speaker 5: can put the jump on whatever you want to, I'll
Speaker 5: get used to.
Speaker 7: It wherever you went to. All right, R three is jump.
Speaker 5: I mean, if the game was designed with that in
Speaker 5: a way that made sense, they are, but surely did
Speaker 5: it just a mess of me?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 5: But if a game put R three on jump, I
Speaker 5: bet there beers. I mean, Breath with the Zeta games
Speaker 5: have jump on X and it's a little weird. It works,
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 7: I like I had to look at the controller to
Speaker 7: figure out where X was.
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 4: We've got Yeah, it's fucked up, like everyone has the
Speaker 4: Xbox thing burnt into their brain.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the thing you said Mike about like learning the
Speaker 6: systems and like learning the material science of the game,
Speaker 6: Like there's a chemistry system also like Breath of the Wild. Oh,
Speaker 6: this material material interacts with that material in a certain way.
Speaker 6: That is I think the fundamental reason the game keeps
Speaker 6: getting better because I am there's so many systems to
Speaker 6: get used to and figure out how they work. So
Speaker 6: now when I do go back to earlier levels, a
Speaker 6: possibility space has opened up so much that it just
Speaker 6: really feels like the game is clicking in a way
Speaker 6: that it clicked immediately. Dan's right, it is fun in
Speaker 6: the first half second you press that jump button, you
Speaker 6: press the roll button into a jump, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, oh man, it's so good.
Speaker 3: They just like, relatively recently have I really had to
Speaker 3: sometimes think more about the structural integrity of the clumps
Speaker 3: of earth that I'm picking up sometimes, Dan, have you
Speaker 3: heard about my jump tech?
Speaker 1: No? Yeah, he's got a good jump tech.
Speaker 5: So the highest jump you can do in the game
Speaker 5: does this spin No, so you do the double jump.
Speaker 1: But whatever you're at the height of a jump please
Speaker 1: called a chunk chunk. Do a chunk jump.
Speaker 5: But then do a down smash attack because when you
Speaker 5: do that, he actually flips in the air a little bit.
Speaker 5: So start that animation that counts Kitsel out of that
Speaker 5: with a real role that's your max site.
Speaker 7: Oh like Mario three D whirl, like do the butt
Speaker 7: something dive types.
Speaker 5: I've been breaking some puzzles, like, there's been some misses
Speaker 5: where it clearly wants me to do something and I'll
Speaker 5: do that and just skip it and it feels so good.
Speaker 1: That's got to feel amazing.
Speaker 6: Oh the Sonic boom knuckles jump. And the director of
Speaker 6: this game is the director of Sonic Adventure Games.
Speaker 4: So wow, Yeah, have you tried the co op mode?
Speaker 1: No? I did?
Speaker 3: I did it with the mouse version? Did you do
Speaker 3: like the game share version?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: I did it with Kayla sitting next to me, or
Speaker 4: I guess she was, Yeah, she was on her switch
Speaker 4: to so I guess I was doing local game share Yes.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, So what was that like?
Speaker 6: Cause we did it where Addie was on the controller
Speaker 6: and then Emmy got the joy consons was using the
Speaker 6: mouse and was like sucking up the materials and then
Speaker 6: shooting him out by making Pauline sing Is it the
Speaker 6: same thing when you do me?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: And maybe there just might have been a Kala factor
Speaker 4: going on of her just hitting as fast as possible
Speaker 4: and creating like I couldn't see what was happening on
Speaker 4: the screen the amount of shit she was doing, So
Speaker 4: maybe that's just the Kala factor.
Speaker 1: It seemed like too much.
Speaker 3: That is the thing about this game.
Speaker 6: It's like, I bet it's Sometimes it might be difficult
Speaker 6: to watch because Donkey Kong just gets in that ass
Speaker 6: of the level and gets surrounded by the material and
Speaker 6: dirt and stuff, and the camera has like look through
Speaker 6: it and see a silhouette.
Speaker 3: But when I'm playing, I fully understand what's going on.
Speaker 6: I know where he is. I never feel lost. Sometimes
Speaker 6: the camera does just feel a tiny bit wonky. For
Speaker 6: as much as is happening, it works shockingly well, so
Speaker 6: it kind of.
Speaker 7: Has to be that way.
Speaker 4: The amount you can go into curials and stuff, like,
Speaker 4: there's no way the camera is going to be perfect, right.
Speaker 5: The fact that it works like this well is shocking. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'd never feel lost or I don't know where I am,
Speaker 5: And sometimes you like going underground helps you see things
Speaker 5: in a weird way. It is still such a Donkey
Speaker 5: Kong game. Some people worry that this was some big
Speaker 5: reboots just because of the redesign. There's still all these
Speaker 5: references and elements from Donkey.
Speaker 3: Kong Symphony played at one point, like there's a.
Speaker 5: Whole Sticker Bush Symphony level, Right's you know, there's a
Speaker 5: mindcart madness style level at one point, and you have
Speaker 5: things like the barrels that are omnipresent everywhere. It's just
Speaker 5: that absolute joy. It is just the kind of Nintendo
Speaker 5: stuff that Nintendo does best. Uh obviously our first grade
Speaker 5: switch to game, and whenever this system is said and done,
Speaker 5: it will still be one of its best games. Absolutely, Dan.
Speaker 6: Every time you get one to one of those blue
Speaker 6: crystal guys, do you rip off their faces because they
Speaker 6: don't care?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 4: I feel bad because I got trained early on, because
Speaker 4: it's like I would hit the button with the the
Speaker 4: kongs and they would high five, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: hell yeah, I'm not going to accidentally hit these like
Speaker 4: fun little monkeys and get HI five and a thumbs up,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, those blue dudes with the eyes,
Speaker 4: I'm just like punching off the bottom of their fucking
Speaker 4: face like a Ricchio kill. And it's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 4: fu great.
Speaker 3: You could just grab them, rip off their face, and
Speaker 3: then use the chunk to destroy the rest of their body.
Speaker 1: It's coral. Do you know you could rip them apart?
Speaker 3: You rip them apart with your digits, with your monkey fingers.
Speaker 1: It's so good going in for a handshake with you
Speaker 1: anymore grub thinking about ripping off faces. You're right, Jack's fatality.
Speaker 2: This sounds fantastic. It feels like it I need to
Speaker 2: play this game and maybe it'll fix me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I can.
Speaker 2: Tell that every time I see I'm scrolling through whatever
Speaker 2: and I see someone streaming this game, it's just smiling
Speaker 2: ear to ear.
Speaker 6: It definitely happened to me, Like I felt myself going
Speaker 6: from like being in kind of a mood like something
Speaker 6: was happening. And then when I was playing this game,
Speaker 6: and I'm like, I'm a joint and of course I'm
Speaker 6: enjoying it, but uh, you know, I'm like overwhelmed with
Speaker 6: with with joy. And then at a certain point, I'm
Speaker 6: like I felt myself physically smile and you didn't stop
Speaker 6: the rest of the time I was playing.
Speaker 4: It is like like something is happening inside my brain
Speaker 4: when I play it, Like I'm feeling fireworks go off,
Speaker 4: yeah with the neurons, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, folks, We're well, we're all gonna go
Speaker 2: watch the fireworks together. We're gonna go gather in front
Speaker 2: of the carousel and then meet there and then afterwards,
Speaker 2: Jeff Grubb is going to deliver us the news and
Speaker 2: take quick.
Speaker 1: I gotta leave, so see you on the dumb truck.
Speaker 1: Every love you think about the.
Speaker 6: Challenger was really funny, And we are back.
Speaker 2: Scouts, stop scratching the couch behind me, Pets.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, Scout, stop it.
Speaker 5: Scott, live your life and listen to them, Scout dog,
Speaker 5: couch up.
Speaker 2: No, don't, don't, don't mess up the couch. It's old,
Speaker 2: all right, gang, Welcome back to John BombCast, episode nine hundred.
Speaker 2: You know you know you know what we're missing?
Speaker 1: Ackler back on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, back, yes, Jeff Backler. But I was going to
Speaker 2: say new music. I think now that we've reached episode
Speaker 2: nine hundred, I think we need new music for the
Speaker 2: segments specifically.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's get a new theme song.
Speaker 5: Is that sack relation? Should I not say that?
Speaker 1: So we just got this theme song like a couple
Speaker 1: hundred episodes ago.
Speaker 7: This was like twenty twenty two. We started doing this
Speaker 7: version of it.
Speaker 5: See yeah, basically, since I haven't listening it's been that one.
Speaker 5: I'm over it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well we have like a tambourine to this one.
Speaker 1: Will that just switch it up for you? Good?
Speaker 5: That'd be good.
Speaker 7: You got new game Mess Mornings music from Tom Monda.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and we all got a brand new overlays
Speaker 2: for game Miss Mornings, very very I didn't realize how
Speaker 2: Persona looking it was that.
Speaker 5: I was that that tickle because it looks so Persona
Speaker 5: looks great, looks amazing. But even the artist is like,
Speaker 5: I never played Persona. I was like, that's funny, because yeah,
Speaker 5: we've accidentally got very Persona code with that.
Speaker 1: Uh well, it's time to get to the news.
Speaker 2: This is Jeff Crabb with a news Jeff.
Speaker 6: Crub Yeah, that's right, Hello, everybody, I have some news
Speaker 6: headlines for you. From Software reportedly has another unannounced game
Speaker 6: that could release next year. From Soft is reportedly developing
Speaker 6: an unannounced multi platform game.
Speaker 3: The codeame is FMC.
Speaker 6: Their code names are I don't think rarely. Are they
Speaker 6: acronyms or something like that, and they all seem to
Speaker 6: start with the letter F. I don't know if someone's
Speaker 6: decoded that or whatever. But this is not The Dusk Bloods,
Speaker 6: which is the from Soft game that has already been
Speaker 6: confirmed for twenty twenty six. The Switch to Exclusive that
Speaker 6: is a multiplayer focused or multiplayer heavy game. I guess
Speaker 6: we don't really know yet, we'll have to see for
Speaker 6: ourselves at that point when it comes out. This is
Speaker 6: a different game that is also coming from from Software
Speaker 6: and maybe even coming before the Dust Bloods releases.
Speaker 1: Gang. What what do you think it is?
Speaker 3: Or I guess what do you want.
Speaker 1: It to be? Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, say yeah that's what I want? Is I
Speaker 5: want so I just I just beat Zekero and Molesports
Speaker 5: for that for the best ending.
Speaker 1: It's sycle bait. There's cycle bait at the end of
Speaker 1: that game. Give me the sequel.
Speaker 5: And now I know Activision published the first game, but
Speaker 5: my understanding is from Soft just owns that eyepiece.
Speaker 3: I think they think that's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they don't necessarily to be involved. I love
Speaker 5: Soecoro so much. It's my favorite from Soft game, even
Speaker 5: more than that Out to Ring and I freaking loved
Speaker 5: out and Ring. Uh yeah, I I just want Soekero too. Now,
Speaker 5: maybe that's kind of lofty. Maybe something like an Armored
Speaker 5: Core six expansion or Definitive edition is more likely. That'd
Speaker 5: be fine. That's a good game too. I see you
Speaker 5: said that. One rumors is Dark Souls three remastered. That's
Speaker 5: a little weird to me. I played that game recently.
Speaker 5: I don't know what the heck you would remaster that
Speaker 5: game already just looks as good as it possibly needs
Speaker 5: to in every way. That's a twenty sixteen game, Jeff,
Speaker 5: I remember you said this about Doom twenty sixteen, like
Speaker 5: when it came out, like, oh, this is as good
Speaker 5: as games need to look. I think we're kind of right.
Speaker 5: I think twenty sixteen games in general don't really need
Speaker 5: to be remastered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't need they you know, they do it
Speaker 3: because they'll sell and make more money.
Speaker 1: We get it.
Speaker 6: But I'm with you, like I don't feel an urge
Speaker 6: or need for this one. In particular, Fire's Rubicon expansion.
Speaker 6: I would love that, but I don't know. I don't
Speaker 6: know if that's something that they want to do.
Speaker 5: I would almost rather you just start working on another
Speaker 5: Armor Corps.
Speaker 2: Did Armored Corps six sell well so well, like a
Speaker 2: couple million copies?
Speaker 5: You know they didn't do Elder Ring numbers are probably
Speaker 5: even secero.
Speaker 1: It's the best time an.
Speaker 6: Armor Core game by a lot, for sure. Yeah, don't
Speaker 6: I don't think a rushing back to Yeah, that feels
Speaker 6: like it wants every eight to ten years sort of game,
Speaker 6: you know, maybe ten years actually, you know, I'm really
Speaker 6: glad they went back to it. It is one of
Speaker 6: my favorite games. It's so good. But do we get
Speaker 6: another one this quickly or even an expansion? I don't know,
Speaker 6: but this one probably will be a single player game
Speaker 6: because they have they've already had Night Rain, they have
Speaker 6: dust Bloods, so people are craving that from from Soft.
Speaker 6: Maybe this can deliver something along those lines. One thing
Speaker 6: for sure, nothing along the lines of Elden Ring, like almost, yeah,
Speaker 6: so far away from that.
Speaker 1: It's definitely noting. Yeah, it's not out Ring too yet,
Speaker 1: especially because.
Speaker 5: Miyazaki is directing dust Bloods, so he is busy with that.
Speaker 5: So that's the thing. That's the kind of thing is
Speaker 5: he is directing that game, So like, what is this
Speaker 5: other game? Could he possibly also directed it? Because you
Speaker 5: wouldn't need him for a seker Road too, I assume,
Speaker 5: or for you know, an Outer Ring too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wasn't there like rumors like a couple of months
Speaker 2: ago that Miyazaki was experimenting or thinking about making like
Speaker 2: a turn based game or like an RPG.
Speaker 5: There was something about that or he said he wanted
Speaker 5: to something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think it was an interview, so that that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think whenever developers say that kind of stuff interviews,
Speaker 6: that's like the next next thing after whatever they're working
Speaker 6: on now and whatever they're planning on.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, maybe now we'll see.
Speaker 6: The new Pokemon game is getting a Nintendo switched to
Speaker 6: hardware bundle. Nintendo and the Pokemon Company have announced a
Speaker 6: new Nintendo Switch two bundle featuring a download code code
Speaker 6: for the switch to version of Pokemon Legends ZA. It
Speaker 6: will be priced at five hundred dollars, and it will
Speaker 6: be available on October sixteenth, the same day that the
Speaker 6: game releases. The bundle may replace the limited time Mario
Speaker 6: Kart World Bundle, So I think I still think that
Speaker 6: Mario Kart Bundle will be back every year for the
Speaker 6: rest of our goddamn lars, because that's what they did
Speaker 6: with Mario Kart Bundle on.
Speaker 3: Switch one and it worked really well.
Speaker 6: But I think this sounds plausible, and that maybe that's
Speaker 6: why they said it was limited, but already bundling a
Speaker 6: Pokemon Legends game with with Switch too, you know, at
Speaker 6: the somewhat dis kind of price, you know of where
Speaker 6: you get ten dollars twenty dollars off the game whatever.
Speaker 6: It is a little surprising, but I think that means
Speaker 6: the switch To is gonna be massive this holiday, that
Speaker 6: this bundle is gonna be hard to find.
Speaker 5: Right, And I think it really solidifies that. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: you know it was it was kind of obvious. I
Speaker 5: know some people thought there might be some other big
Speaker 5: holiday game, there's another holiday game.
Speaker 1: But Legends z A is the game.
Speaker 5: Even though it's Yeah, even though it's also Switch one game,
Speaker 5: it is still the big switch To holiday game.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, scarlet and Violets sold gangbusters that game freak
Speaker 2: don't really need to do squat or take anyone's constructive
Speaker 2: criticism into account anymore. But I don't know. I think
Speaker 2: maybe this is a vote of confidence from Nintendo other
Speaker 2: than knowing them knowing that this is going to be
Speaker 2: like a cash cow.
Speaker 1: I mean sure, it.
Speaker 6: Also like hits the quadrants, right, So we got we
Speaker 6: opened up with families with Mario Kart d cam binances
Speaker 6: for the Sikohs. They'll have a bunch of other updates
Speaker 6: of stuff like for like Nintendo fans, there's a Curby
Speaker 6: I Am coming to Kirby DLC and Mario parties happening
Speaker 6: this week and stuff like that. But it's like, where
Speaker 6: is the game for kids? And and Pokemon is not
Speaker 6: just that it's the game for kids. So it's just
Speaker 6: going to hit that quadrat quadrant in a really hard way.
Speaker 6: Switch two is already selling three times faster than the
Speaker 6: Switch one in Japan. When this bundle comes out, it's
Speaker 6: probably gonna start selling even faster than that.
Speaker 3: This is going to do very well for them.
Speaker 2: Have y'all seen any like Switch twos out in the wild,
Speaker 2: like just like eating stock at places.
Speaker 3: Not in stock so target A couple of times, I've
Speaker 3: seen some Switch one, some switch lights, never a switch to. Okay,
Speaker 3: that makes sense. People are still tracking those things down like.
Speaker 6: They're not they're not so rare that like the secondhand market,
Speaker 6: the scalper market is blowing up, but it's still hard
Speaker 6: to find them all right. PlayStation and Arc system Works
Speaker 6: Marvel game will be will debut at EVO. Marvel Tocan
Speaker 6: Fighting Souls will be available at EVO Las Vegas from
Speaker 6: August first through the third. Attendees like Turbo Sean and
Speaker 6: I think it is Jason Fonelli going out there as well.
Speaker 3: I think you maybe maybe he was a maybe right.
Speaker 3: Can play a four character team from a roster of
Speaker 3: six Marvel characters, including Captain America, iron Man, Storm, star Lord,
Speaker 3: Miss Marvel, and Doctor Doom and receive a collectable pen.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to hear what people think about this game.
Speaker 3: I bet they're gonna like it because it looks pretty good.
Speaker 3: But do we know when this game is coming out?
Speaker 3: I think it's twenty twenty six, right, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5: Think it has anything more specific than that. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: just I definitely want to see some more characters, especially
Speaker 5: you know, a four v four game, They're gonna need
Speaker 5: a lot of ROSS members, and I know we are
Speaker 5: gonna get a bunch, and I want to start seeing
Speaker 5: some of those. I want to see py coops from
Speaker 5: my boy Jan for sure.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta have them there. Gotta have a good
Speaker 5: amount of xbol to have some fun weird picks. I
Speaker 5: want to see some people I've never heard of, right,
Speaker 5: I always kind of like those characters in these games.
Speaker 1: Let's see here.
Speaker 6: Saber Interactive is indeed working on a hell Raiser game,
Speaker 6: and this is going to be for the PS five,
Speaker 6: Xbox MPC Saber and Boss Team Games are creating Clive
Speaker 6: Barker's hell Raiser Revival and it is not an asymmetrical
Speaker 6: multiplayer game. It's a single player survival horror action game
Speaker 6: for those previously mentioned platforms. This is what people were
Speaker 6: hoping for when this game was getting teased, and you know,
Speaker 6: I think we were a.
Speaker 1: Little hopeful that Saber would.
Speaker 3: Do go that route, and they have.
Speaker 6: I think a hell Raisers survival horror game sounds interesting,
Speaker 6: and I think sabers a little bit on a roll
Speaker 6: with being able to make these adaptations make sense on
Speaker 6: like a and this is a not a pejorative B
Speaker 6: B game level where it's like, hey, no, we're just
Speaker 6: making a video game. We have this license. Let's smash
Speaker 6: them together and just take the fun stuff and take
Speaker 6: the good stuff from the license, like they did with
Speaker 6: that Warhammer Space Marine two game. So yeah, and like
Speaker 6: what looks like what they're doing with the Jurassic Park game.
Speaker 6: They're making a ton of stuff. They're also making Turrok,
Speaker 6: They're making they're making still making Nights of the Old
Speaker 6: Republic two.
Speaker 5: They have a Republic two the Nights of Republic remake.
Speaker 3: Thank you Knights of the Old Republic remake was t
Speaker 3: uh so they're busy over there.
Speaker 6: But I'm I don't know. I think that this sounds
Speaker 6: like a good fit for them as well. Any I
Speaker 6: don't know any Hell Raiser super fans here. I like
Speaker 6: that movie.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, me, you're definitely penhead coded for sure.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I know everything about hell Raiser. I'm a
Speaker 5: hell Razor myself. That's what the fans call themselves. It's
Speaker 5: what's your favorite centa bite? Oh?
Speaker 1: All of them? Eagerly.
Speaker 5: I would have to say the first one though. Can't
Speaker 5: you ever forget your first sink sinko bite?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: My sinko bites out there at the top of the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, shout out saw the other fellow hell Raisers.
Speaker 1: I've never liked hell Raiser the movie.
Speaker 4: So the first one I remember thinking it was there's
Speaker 4: some interesting like bad guy designs and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: But uh, maybe I just saw it too.
Speaker 1: Old, like I would have more of impact. I was
Speaker 1: a kid when I saw it.
Speaker 2: Maybe for me too, Yeah, I only saw hell Razor
Speaker 2: one four years ago.
Speaker 3: You do have to be a child to appreciate the
Speaker 3: psychosexual aspect of Hell Raiser, I think so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did never really appreciate it on my fifth
Speaker 5: viewing when I was much older.
Speaker 6: All by the way, Yeah, Pokemon's upcoming theme park was
Speaker 6: inspired by isolation during the pandemic, says Junichi Masuda, chief
Speaker 6: creative fellow at the Pokemon Company, announced Poke Park Canto
Speaker 6: It's Canto region, right Canto, a new Pokemon theme park
Speaker 6: that will open next year as part of Japan's Yomi
Speaker 6: Yuri Land. Developed in response to pandemic induced isolation, the
Speaker 6: park aims to incentivize outdoor activity and foster communication among fans,
Speaker 6: fulfilling Masuda is a long held desire for a place
Speaker 6: where people can gather and interact through. Pokemon Park will
Speaker 6: feature a Pokemon Center, Pokemart, and Pokemon Gym, a strong
Speaker 6: emphasis on physical, tangible experience the experience of Pokemon, unlike
Speaker 6: digital interactions of games like Pokemon Go. So I'm gonna
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go to get pet the Pikachu, right and
Speaker 6: like they're just statues whatever. Yeah, park is the key
Speaker 6: word here. This is very much like a park park.
Speaker 5: There's a couple rides like you know, Ferrisville kind of things,
Speaker 5: But I don't think you're going to Disneyland or something
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 6: So you mean like park is in like city park?
Speaker 6: What do you what's the distinction you're making here?
Speaker 2: Well, not like a theme park, right, right, is going
Speaker 2: to be right going to a suburb suburban park, I
Speaker 2: think with installations, I feel like wizard Quest, the place
Speaker 2: where Dan went maybe more elaborately designed.
Speaker 3: The public park was wizard Quest.
Speaker 5: It was mostly a place for social gathering and relaxing
Speaker 5: outdoors as opposed to a place to go on theme
Speaker 5: park rides.
Speaker 6: Like it's like downtown Disney with just with just a
Speaker 6: couple of Pokemon stores.
Speaker 3: Maybe a lot.
Speaker 5: More green or in juice, but yeah, but more greenery. Okay, right,
Speaker 5: because it's a park, I think there's like a gibli
Speaker 5: park in Japan. It's also kind of like that's really
Speaker 5: not very ride focus. It's more vibes focused. Because Universal
Speaker 5: in Japan at least maybe also does have the park
Speaker 5: rights for Pokemon. Right, we're doing that more traditional kind
Speaker 5: of thing.
Speaker 2: That being said, Pokemon company, send us to the Pokemon park.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I want to see this sounds really cute.
Speaker 2: Think of all the fun shenanigans I can film these
Speaker 2: three fuckos doing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll pet the poke, the Pikachu or developer Moon
Speaker 6: Studios explains why No Rest for the Wicked may skip Xbox.
Speaker 6: Moon Studios, the developer of the RI series, is prioritizing
Speaker 6: PS five, PS five pro and Switch two versions of
Speaker 6: its game No Rest for the Wicked, putting Xbox at
Speaker 6: the back of the queue due to quote market conditions.
Speaker 6: CEO Thomas Maller, who I think we've documented before a
Speaker 6: little bit, a little bit of a weirdo, stated that
Speaker 6: supporting both Xbox Series X and Series S takes more
Speaker 6: time and resources in a PS five slash PS five
Speaker 6: port pro port, and the studio wants to prioritize features
Speaker 6: like co op and a full release sooner. He dispelled
Speaker 6: the notions of a quote shakedown and the idea there
Speaker 6: is that he and his team were shaked doing a
Speaker 6: shakedown on Xbox, telling it common sense to focus on
Speaker 6: the platform with the most users. Moon Studios recently secured
Speaker 6: publishing rights for No Right Rest for the Wicked from
Speaker 6: to Take two, making them fully independent. I think the
Speaker 6: people the reason people might be thinking that this is
Speaker 6: a shakedown is that they're not putting on Xbox because
Speaker 6: they want to get better terms for Microsoft. So they're
Speaker 6: refusing to put it on there until Microsoft comes to them.
Speaker 6: I don't know if that's right, only because I'm not
Speaker 6: sure how antsi Xbox is to go talk to this
Speaker 6: guy anymore. But that's just a hunch. Mike, you're a
Speaker 6: big ri fan. I know you've paid attention to the
Speaker 6: studio before. Do you have like any thoughts on this?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: Yes, you know, Microsoft Xbox did publish the two or games,
Speaker 5: and this was around of time where Xbox was buying
Speaker 5: up everybody, and they did not buy up Moon Studios. Instead,
Speaker 5: they almosteem kind of happy to let them go go
Speaker 5: off and do their own thing. And that's where you know,
Speaker 5: Moon Studios was with Take two instead, and then Take two.
Speaker 3: You know, seems done with them as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so right, The scuttle butt was that allegedly very
Speaker 5: difficult to work with Moon Studios, specifically it's leadership. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I think I agree with that. Jeff, I don't think
Speaker 5: Xbox is coming is all that concerned about no rest
Speaker 5: for the Wicked, a game that I don't think is
Speaker 5: has that much buzz. This was the game where he
Speaker 5: complained about being review bombed when it wasn't being review
Speaker 5: bomb but just got n Negger views because people didn't
Speaker 5: like the recent update. He's kind of involved himself into
Speaker 5: the cultural cultural war at different points, right, and you
Speaker 5: can guess what side he's on. So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: The whole thing is really weird. And look, honestly, like,
Speaker 5: I don't blame any studio for just skipping Xbox, Like
Speaker 5: that's completely reasonable, Like, yeah, you only have so much money.
Speaker 5: I think it is definitely more important to get your
Speaker 5: game on PlayStation instead of that, So that aspect of it,
Speaker 5: that's fair.
Speaker 3: It's no rest for the Wicked one of the Hades,
Speaker 3: like Mike, I guess.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a top down action game. It's much more
Speaker 5: souls born coded than Hades.
Speaker 1: Is it there with SpongeBob in it?
Speaker 5: No SpongeBob SquarePants insight in this one, I'm afraid.
Speaker 1: Okay, here is one of those. Though.
Speaker 6: There's that SpongeBob reference in Tony Hawk, and I was like,
Speaker 6: is there a whole SpongeBob stage because I think that's
Speaker 6: what they're teasing, and turns out there's not.
Speaker 3: It just like turns to the SpongeBob for a half second.
Speaker 1: Uh all right, real quick.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to talk about the Pokemon presents from
Speaker 2: this morning, just real, real quick.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, what happened there?
Speaker 6: Because it doesn't seem like much other than I included
Speaker 6: a couple of stories, but beyond that, what happened there?
Speaker 2: It opened with them talking about the Pokemon Worlds event
Speaker 2: in Anaheim later this year, Pokemon Concierge having another season.
Speaker 2: That's that very pleasant twee show on Netflix. I think
Speaker 2: they're also doing something with the walls and grommet people.
Speaker 2: But then I blacked out for like a minute or two.
Speaker 5: You hate that stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it comes here, playmate, I could.
Speaker 2: It's stop motion okay, which there's there's like a difference
Speaker 2: for me. I don't care if there's a defined similarity.
Speaker 2: I don't fucking care. But Pokemon Champions is the thing
Speaker 2: that I wanted to talk about. It is the competitive
Speaker 2: one v one or two v two Pokemon mode and
Speaker 2: this is going to come out on not only the
Speaker 2: switch switch to probably but also mobile. And the interesting
Speaker 2: thing about this is that they of course said, there
Speaker 2: is the functionality to transfer poke your existing Pokemon from
Speaker 2: Pokemon Home, so you could get your Pokemon that you've
Speaker 2: you've had for generations and uh, the ones that you
Speaker 2: specifically trained up, but they will also be like it
Speaker 2: seems like a streamline kind of training for Pokemon, where
Speaker 2: you just give them the stats you want them to have,
Speaker 2: and that for me is going to be insane because
Speaker 2: I don't for as much as they have streamline stuff
Speaker 2: with like bottle caps and all different candies to get
Speaker 2: your ivs, your EV's correct and the nature's correct exactly,
Speaker 2: I don't have the time for that. So if I
Speaker 2: can just pick the specific pokemon and give them the
Speaker 2: specific move sets and like the specific like stat spreads
Speaker 2: that I want and need for some of my zany ideas,
Speaker 2: then by all means, please give that to me. I
Speaker 2: also hope that game Freak or whoever is developing this
Speaker 2: game just puts in like a proper spectator mode, because
Speaker 2: it is kind of insane that you need like a
Speaker 2: hacked version of the game to like do like a
Speaker 2: proper like shoutcasting type of thing, right, because I'd love
Speaker 2: to dust off the dust and bring back Pokemonday Night
Speaker 2: Combat to the website. I just can't be asked to
Speaker 2: slog through Scarlet and Violet, even though it does run
Speaker 2: better on the switch to I just don't want to
Speaker 2: do the whole breeding stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's a lot.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of time, right, that's like hundreds of hours. Right,
Speaker 3: it's not just it's sped.
Speaker 1: Up, for sure in comparison to how it used to be.
Speaker 2: But like, I just don't want to have to like
Speaker 2: breed like a chain of like three generations of Pokemon
Speaker 2: to get one specific move onto someone just to try
Speaker 2: out the tech.
Speaker 5: See, you know, I have liked Pokemon. I used to
Speaker 5: like a lot.
Speaker 1: More I have.
Speaker 5: I've never been able to play it like that. I've
Speaker 5: never been able to care about what you're saying. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's never been my thing. I got a couple of
Speaker 5: breaking news things here, Oh please bring them. Ozzy Osbourne
Speaker 5: died whoa just a little bit after that final concert thing.
Speaker 6: He's the for kids who didn't know he was the
Speaker 6: star of an MTV reality show, Oh dear, yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, yeah Ozzy Osbourne. This is some Sky
Speaker 5: news somebody linked in chat so like that's things that's legitimate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, poor health for for years now. Yeah yeah, it's said.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh VIDI back to video games, so I splicate too,
Speaker 5: is like going back to beta? Right, you had a
Speaker 5: full launch.
Speaker 6: They we're gonna make its great again, and now then
Speaker 6: so hard they're backed up being batas.
Speaker 1: They said it was awesome, got them grub.
Speaker 6: Yeah, listen, I only said it because he would hate
Speaker 6: it specifically.
Speaker 1: Oh so there you go.
Speaker 5: There's here's there's my interruptive breaking news break.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 6: Well, good luck to the people that make that game
Speaker 6: and not that guy specific some of them, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Some of them. Fuck that dude specifically.
Speaker 3: Yep, just a dumb thing. Man, I don't know, man'.
Speaker 3: Suplicate two had nothing going and no one was talking
Speaker 3: about that, nothing near what Splicate one had at its peak,
Speaker 3: which felt like it was.
Speaker 6: Going to turn into a thing, and then that burned
Speaker 6: out really quickly. So okay, well, good luck to them,
Speaker 6: all right. Leaked Battlefield pick confirms full name with a
Speaker 6: real event reveal event allegedly close. It's going to be
Speaker 6: called Battlefield six and on July twenty ninth, according to
Speaker 6: a now deleted social media post, they'll have some more
Speaker 6: to say about that about the game. At that point,
Speaker 6: or at least in that timeframe. There's going to be
Speaker 6: an event, and it's going to be a kin to
Speaker 6: those Call of Duty next events. They have annually where
Speaker 6: they announced all the stuff happening in the game.
Speaker 3: So they're treating Battlefield six like a really big deal,
Speaker 3: equivalent to Call of Duty at least so far, and
Speaker 3: they have big ideas about this game one hundred million players.
Speaker 3: There sounds like there's going.
Speaker 6: To be a free to play mode that is equivalent
Speaker 6: to war Zone, so a Battle Royale. Do you guys
Speaker 6: feel like Battlefield's about to come back and take over
Speaker 6: the world or what?
Speaker 4: I feel like, I haven't heard people excited about Battlefield
Speaker 4: since like three I'm sure that's going back too far,
Speaker 4: but I just feel like it's not talked about the
Speaker 4: same it used to be like Battlefield and Call of
Speaker 4: Duty head to head November in the early twenty tens,
Speaker 4: and I just don't hear anyone excited about Battlefield anymore.
Speaker 5: No, I say, one had a little bit going yet.
Speaker 6: But what did one have one head like, all right,
Speaker 6: we're back. It was not like this is the new
Speaker 6: you know, nineteen.
Speaker 3: Forty two or three or four. It was, oh, at
Speaker 3: least this, at least we have gotten another good one.
Speaker 6: It's not like established in the cannon the way where
Speaker 6: like people are like, oh, one is the new flag
Speaker 6: bearer for the franchise. It was like sort of like
Speaker 6: a you know, a reprieve from other worst games. And
Speaker 6: then since then they've missed the mark mostly. Twenty forty two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm and twenty forty two were both pretty
Speaker 5: big misses. It seems like that's two in a row
Speaker 5: in these days. That's a decade, right basically, So yeah,
Speaker 5: I just you know, it can always work all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, I guess I'm a I'm very curious to
Speaker 5: see what they got, because what do you do suddenly
Speaker 5: make it stand out? Is it just a bad one?
Speaker 3: Oversaw on that is being overseen by Vince Sampella, who
Speaker 3: is the respond Call of Duty guy, and then Shape
Speaker 3: Its Legends and Titan Fall.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the guy who made Grant the thoughto just
Speaker 5: made a very exciting brand new video games is called
Speaker 5: Mind's Eye.
Speaker 6: To hear about that, Yeah, well, okay, right, what you're
Speaker 6: saying is one guy can't necessarily change things. I think
Speaker 6: you're right about that, so we'll see. I've never been
Speaker 6: a huge battlefield guy. I've enjoyed playing them here or there,
Speaker 6: but I've always been like kind of waiting for them
Speaker 6: to reach a level where it's like, oh, here is
Speaker 6: It's still Battlefield, but now it's cooking for all these people,
Speaker 6: and of course you could get to one hundred million players.
Speaker 6: I haven't seen that happen. Maybe maybe this will be
Speaker 6: the one where they figure it out, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be set in modern times. There's gonna be
Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff kind of connecting it. There's four
Speaker 3: developers working on it.
Speaker 1: Like the modern warfare of sorts of modern I.
Speaker 5: Do think it's actually been a bit since they did,
Speaker 5: because you know, there's slightly futuristic, and then at five
Speaker 5: was world War Two. Again everyone's mad on one, which
Speaker 5: was lady, it was World War One.
Speaker 3: That's why it was.
Speaker 5: So it has I guess it has been e bits.
Speaker 5: They've just done modern warfare, you know. So you know,
Speaker 5: if they really positioned it as the sequel to Battlefield four,
Speaker 5: how many people are still thinking about Battlefield four? Maybe
Speaker 5: some we'll see, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Bet that community is like really thinking about it a lot.
Speaker 1: Bad Company, mad Company three?
Speaker 5: Oh what you were saying that E was a bad company?
Speaker 4: Yeah, bad company, bad company?
Speaker 1: Uh some of someone please give me the io of that.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, the only battlefield game I really
Speaker 2: have a lot of experience with isn't really a battlefield game.
Speaker 1: It just has the DNA of one.
Speaker 2: But I really enjoyed the finals from like two Finals
Speaker 2: was fun.
Speaker 1: That was a fun month or two we played that.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, that game is still going, it turns out,
Speaker 2: and yeah, I don't know. It was always very intimidating
Speaker 2: for me to have like the gigantic battlefields with like
Speaker 2: a Humongo sixty four plus players, because I could just
Speaker 2: never get a grasp on anything.
Speaker 6: Sure, my finals is from end Bark, which is uh,
Speaker 6: the guy that started that studio is the one that
Speaker 6: used to be in charge of technology at EA, and
Speaker 6: so yeah, and Dice he was actually the Dice guy, right, right,
Speaker 6: was the and he like the frost engine guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the guy that was like, everyone's gonna use
Speaker 3: frost Engine at EA, and then he left and didn't
Speaker 3: have to use frost Engine himself anymore. So how about that?
Speaker 1: And about that?
Speaker 5: You know what I do like about Battlefield is that
Speaker 5: that song. Every time I hear that, Yeah, even like
Speaker 5: even like the new trailers, right, they'll always like play
Speaker 5: just that drum beat at the end I'll be like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 5: actually I do care.
Speaker 3: Uh you be Soft Ubisoft has been confronted on the
Speaker 3: stop Killing Games petition and yieves Gimo tried to like
Speaker 3: sound diplomatic. He's like, yeah, I mean this is something that.
Speaker 6: We are aware of and we're trying to deal with
Speaker 6: and it's a challenge. And I think that's like him
Speaker 6: kind of putting on the the honey while in the background,
Speaker 6: the UH industry groups that represent companies like you Be
Speaker 6: Soft are doing the vinegar and they're like, this is
Speaker 6: this can't work, this will destroy the industry. They're like
Speaker 6: lobbying politicians in Europe hard I guess. For a reminder
Speaker 6: of the Stop Killing Games initiative is a petition that has
Speaker 6: been some by enough people that the European Union, regulators
Speaker 6: or lawmakers I'm not sure how it all works over there,
Speaker 6: have to take it under consideration, and it being the
Speaker 6: idea that video game companies have to prod provide some
Speaker 6: remedy when they sell you a video game so that
Speaker 6: if it goes offline, there is some way for you
Speaker 6: to continue enjoying it, whether that is private servers or
Speaker 6: something else. Either, why the EU has to consider it
Speaker 6: and I'll say I'm of like two minds on this slightly.
Speaker 6: I get that it's probably challenging for these companies, and
Speaker 6: the other mind is I don't care, and they should
Speaker 6: have to They should be forced to have to consider this,
Speaker 6: I think, and bringing in regulators to force them to
Speaker 6: do that to me sounds like a completely fair thing
Speaker 6: at this point, right.
Speaker 5: And I mean if, like, you know, conquence consequence of
Speaker 5: that is that they make fewer live service games.
Speaker 1: Oh no, right, gosh, what are we going to do?
Speaker 2: Game?
Speaker 6: Hardly a threat even for people who like live service games.
Speaker 6: They already have their live service games, so no one's
Speaker 6: going to be freaking out about that. Nintendo is bringing
Speaker 6: back its mysterious online play test from last year.
Speaker 3: Yo, we're going to as a team swing around and
Speaker 3: build things.
Speaker 1: I thought we're going on to the red Lobster, are.
Speaker 5: Troubling to the lobster buddy, A big lobster in the sky,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: What you mean.
Speaker 5: Oh, on someday, we're all going to the coldest bruise
Speaker 5: casts WiFi, uh, Fantasy drafts with the boys cheddar Bay
Speaker 5: all day.
Speaker 2: Let's get on my deathbed I need whoever is with
Speaker 2: me to like just get Mikey on the phone or
Speaker 2: get Mikey there and like don't worry buddy.
Speaker 3: Or smook you out and let you die in a
Speaker 3: red lobster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Mike Manati has to be there to just
Speaker 2: say the coldest bruised.
Speaker 4: You know, you can be like an efficient for someone's wedding,
Speaker 4: Like we should offer a service for fans where it's like,
Speaker 4: if you're dying, we will come and just stand around
Speaker 4: your bed and do bits.
Speaker 2: Like have you all seen that clip of like a
Speaker 2: therapy mini horse and it's just.
Speaker 7: Yes, I love that horse and it does that little
Speaker 7: flourish at the end.
Speaker 1: It's incredible mini horse. Yeah, it's a little.
Speaker 4: Fucking horse that like it it wakes up patients from
Speaker 4: anesthesia and oh my god, I just send this the bank,
Speaker 4: like okay, yeah, uh oh oh wait no, I just
Speaker 4: showed it to our sitting next for it's just a
Speaker 4: fucking horse with a keyboard and you wake up to
Speaker 4: a fucking horse going like running it snout all.
Speaker 1: Over like the keys like a musical keyboard.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, And I hope they don't tell the people
Speaker 4: that that's gonna happen, so as you come out of anesthesias.
Speaker 7: What's that sound?
Speaker 1: What the fuck's that horse?
Speaker 5: Nobody has a hotter CEO than the lobster.
Speaker 2: The lobster, the red lobster.
Speaker 1: That's the lobster. We're in the test.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you still can't talk about it,
Speaker 6: even if, let's say you were in it and played
Speaker 6: the video game a lot, and you've been dying to
Speaker 6: talk about it for a long time and they just
Speaker 6: won't let you. But we're gonna get into it again
Speaker 6: and all of us will play together, and hopefully they'll
Speaker 6: let us talk about it this time. It seems like
Speaker 6: they're letting in a lot more people. Yeah, seems interesting.
Speaker 1: So I just posted an important link in the chat
Speaker 1: for those who want to say the horse thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: The horse is going to town.
Speaker 3: Le's last story here Netflix.
Speaker 1: Wait what you said a horse? This is a little Sebastianah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you just is a many horse different than
Speaker 3: a pony. It's that's not a pony.
Speaker 1: Right, that's just different horses different than a pony. Yeah.
Speaker 3: God should not have given us these powers to make
Speaker 3: many horses.
Speaker 5: This horse definitely needs to be in the room when
Speaker 5: I die.
Speaker 1: What the sound on the flourish at the end.
Speaker 3: That's a mini Horse for Hires story. And really I
Speaker 3: just want to include this because of this incredible headline here.
Speaker 3: Netflix green lights Assassin's Creed series.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 3: It's about power, violence, sex, and greed. Oh shit, guys,
Speaker 3: keep finally making a show like that.
Speaker 1: It's so different from every other prestige TV. What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Why would you say that? Stupid?
Speaker 6: It's a live action series helmed by Emmy nominees Roberto
Speaker 6: Patino and David Weiner.
Speaker 3: Wait is that the.
Speaker 1: Mad Men guy?
Speaker 3: It can't be right. Yeah, they're making one of these,
Speaker 3: or allegedly they're gonna make one of these.
Speaker 1: We'll see it.
Speaker 3: I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, whatever, I didn't Dan, Have you heard it's about power, violence, sex,
Speaker 6: and greed.
Speaker 7: Oh oh well, okay, it's wow.
Speaker 5: They made an Assassin's Creed movie like ten years ago.
Speaker 3: With Fastbender like a real movie star.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, you made a Prince of Persia.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's not terrible.
Speaker 5: It's not crazy.
Speaker 3: But it's not just saying that because Disney made it.
Speaker 2: Oh god, I was gonna ask because you have like
Speaker 2: fondness for bubble Boy because Jake Jill and.
Speaker 3: He's a big Jake Jilly fan.
Speaker 5: No, Jill and Hall is okay. Sometimes he's bad, sometimes
Speaker 5: he's not great.
Speaker 1: Night Crawler is awesome, amazing.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I don't know if I loved
Speaker 5: him as mysterious.
Speaker 1: I know it was having a great time his mysterious.
Speaker 7: Is he a spider Man as a mysterio?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh wow? And I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think I want a mystery to be more of
Speaker 5: a goober.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was amazing. Oh, go ahead. Is this a
Speaker 1: series or a move movie? Serious? Serious?
Speaker 5: Serious, it's a series. They don't make movies anymore. No
Speaker 5: one likes those. You gotta make your prestige TV show.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, okay.
Speaker 3: You gotta be a last of us. Yeah, you two were.
Speaker 2: Talking about this yesterday during Game mis mornings. But Electric State,
Speaker 2: the Millie Bobby Brown Chris Pratt movie.
Speaker 3: The Netflix Bomba, What the fuck was that ship?
Speaker 1: He was terrible.
Speaker 3: I couldn't even watch.
Speaker 6: It looked like dog shit, Like immediately looked like dog shit.
Speaker 2: I have like high tolerance for like really cheesy movies,
Speaker 2: and like, you know, I'll watch whatever superhero movie and
Speaker 2: kind of walk away.
Speaker 1: Okay, this was like.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, we should do movie punishments sometimes because I
Speaker 3: want to force you guys to watch the Apple and
Speaker 3: you got I can't get you guys to do that.
Speaker 6: Could tell you you're just not gonna do it unless
Speaker 6: I force you. So okay, Well, punishment and make that happen.
Speaker 1: It is worse than The Gray Man. Uh.
Speaker 3: And that was another one from the same directors, right,
Speaker 3: the Avengers directors.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, and they really did a good Avengers
Speaker 2: movie and good community episodes.
Speaker 1: What happened? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Netflix is just kind of poisoned for good writing. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: Show you all like is what's that?
Speaker 3: Yes, but I haven't seen it, so I don't know.
Speaker 7: I'll see it tonight.
Speaker 3: I think that does it for the headlines. Jan I'm
Speaker 3: handing the show back over to you.
Speaker 2: Fantastic Well right after this quick bricky break, we were
Speaker 2: going to read some emails and some YouTube super chats
Speaker 2: if they've come in, and then we'll add the show
Speaker 2: forever until that happy. These are the emails or the
Speaker 2: show Therapy Horse Giant Wellcastigiant bomb dot com is the
Speaker 2: email addressed to send your emails too, And folks, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for all the lovely emails that have
Speaker 2: been hitting the mailbox. Legitimately for shoot actual emails. I
Speaker 2: don't know what to do because we're getting so many.
Speaker 2: They're they're rivaling that of the voicemail dumb truck, which
Speaker 2: gets an obscene amount of calls every week. But now
Speaker 2: we're getting an obscene amount of emails. So thank you
Speaker 2: listening to that have been listening for all nine hundred
Speaker 2: episodes that are sending some emails in or newer listeners. Hey,
Speaker 2: you know what you should also do? Give us a
Speaker 2: good old, cheeky thumbs up somewhere. Give us a review
Speaker 2: some where, you know, not just a shoot thumbs up
Speaker 2: like Dan is giving us, but like whatever platform you're
Speaker 2: listening or watching on too.
Speaker 6: Friend, burn an episode to a CD and hand it
Speaker 6: out the strangers on the subway.
Speaker 7: Make a giant Bond mixtape.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And if you would need an elevator pitch,
Speaker 2: just be like, Hey, if you've ever needed five friends
Speaker 2: to yell at you for two plus hours, here you go.
Speaker 1: There you are.
Speaker 2: We cover the whole spectrum of friendship. That's right, We
Speaker 2: got the cute one. We got the hot one, we
Speaker 2: got the silly one, we got the smart one, and
Speaker 2: we got the weird one.
Speaker 1: Who's who you at home decide? We're all dipshits? Though
Speaker 1: I'm not hot one?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: Well, I met from Atlanta rights and how will we
Speaker 2: all know who the bad boy is?
Speaker 1: This fucking horse is just this salbeign On. Those two
Speaker 1: love it so much.
Speaker 4: I hope that when I get the implant thing done today,
Speaker 4: I come to from the horse.
Speaker 3: Oh there's other videos, there's so many, Okay, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: those holes gimmick.
Speaker 2: How much do you think it would take to rent
Speaker 2: a therapy horse?
Speaker 7: Just get our own horse mask?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Do you think like like might probably know someone with.
Speaker 1: A therapy Definitely.
Speaker 4: There was a period where I was trying to do
Speaker 4: a thing with a monkey and I was like, I
Speaker 4: got a monkey guy, so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Which, let's go break in a horse that's finally in
Speaker 3: the wild. That'd be a good feature, like punishment race
Speaker 3: breaking horses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh no, the or the punishments evolve from playing
Speaker 2: a game then playing a movie. Now, She's just like, REU.
Speaker 7: Have any of you started your punishment games yet?
Speaker 2: I talked about this last week on the bomb.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna keep asking, I'm gonna keep.
Speaker 5: Assling, and I'll probably tomorrow will start playing out her
Speaker 5: Wild's on my personal Yo.
Speaker 1: She's Island.
Speaker 6: I've downloaded grub everything or nothing. I was waiting for
Speaker 6: my steam deck to rive. It's arrived, and now I
Speaker 6: got to reinstall.
Speaker 1: The you know, the steam deck stuff to the playoff games.
Speaker 1: It's a keep.
Speaker 3: This week has been distracting.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: First email comes from Matt from Atlanta. Why do people
Speaker 2: hate pop figures? Thanks Matt from Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Oh, like funko pop. I assume that's what matters.
Speaker 6: It's a company issue that they're popular and they look
Speaker 6: cheap because they all use the same fundamental thing. So
Speaker 6: everyone's like oh, and no one wants they're collectible to
Speaker 6: feel super common, and so it's easy to have a
Speaker 6: backlash year toward that of like, oh, like everyone has these,
Speaker 6: and then that turns into the like your mind just
Speaker 6: mainly clicks into like oh I hate that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see God, I know you first, Mike.
Speaker 5: I've always been a mild funko pop defender. I do
Speaker 5: think that for a lot of people like us, it
Speaker 5: has become a thing that friends and family like gift us, right,
Speaker 5: because they'll see like, oh, well, yeah, I know that
Speaker 5: Mike's a nerd who saw Guardians of the Galaxy. So
Speaker 5: here's a Groot. But you know, I'm I don't know,
Speaker 5: I'm like I do like Groot, so sure, thank you.
Speaker 2: I go back and forth on Funko pops. I have
Speaker 2: like a set of the New Days Funko Pops that
Speaker 2: I really enjoy. But then when I saw the customized
Speaker 2: one that Dan made that was a good one, I
Speaker 2: was all the way back on board of this would
Speaker 2: be a fun gift to give someone, not a Funko
Speaker 2: pop of themselves, but of yourself that you give to something.
Speaker 4: Yes, person who won the Funko Pop of me did
Speaker 4: not have an idea who I was.
Speaker 7: That was that was possible outcome.
Speaker 5: Yes, that Funco Pop store in Hollywood is actually kind
Speaker 5: of fun.
Speaker 1: They like it.
Speaker 7: They did a good job with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The only thing I don't well, I mean there's
Speaker 2: several things I don't like about Funko Pops other than
Speaker 2: like a cheap plastic and then like they just litter
Speaker 2: store shelves, Like I don't know how y'all's local game
Speaker 2: stops are.
Speaker 6: But it's held up by Funko Pops like bearing Funko Pops.
Speaker 5: That's more of an a ditment on Game Stop, but
Speaker 5: it does. It's not a great look for Funko Pops either.
Speaker 5: For sure, there was there.
Speaker 6: Was that moment a couple months ago, maybe years where
Speaker 6: I remember Funko Pop was like, oh shit, we made
Speaker 6: too many of these. We're gonna throw a bunch into
Speaker 6: a hole in the ground and started again, and it
Speaker 6: was like, Oh, okay, they're in an et situation. So
Speaker 6: I'm an indictment of and game Stop.
Speaker 7: I think, how did funk Co Fusion do?
Speaker 3: It's the biggest thing in the games.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone cares.
Speaker 5: Mega Man's in that game. It's the secret Mega Man game.
Speaker 3: Everything's a secret Mega Man game.
Speaker 1: Doctor Light shut up in the Drifter after you left.
Speaker 6: I saw it, actually, and I saw excited you were, Mike.
Speaker 6: You're in trouble because that's a Mega Man game.
Speaker 3: Now game.
Speaker 5: I don't look, I haven't beat the game yet. I
Speaker 5: think I don't think it is, Doctor Light. If if
Speaker 5: I find out it is, I'll report back and I
Speaker 5: will flog myself.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, as long as you understand Punishment's okay.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you all know about this, but
Speaker 2: Mike you probably do because they're Disney adjacent. But Bunko Pop,
Speaker 2: I think, is owned by the same company that makes
Speaker 2: Lounge Fly backpacks.
Speaker 5: Oh that makes sense and I believe you.
Speaker 2: So, like you know how there's Funko Pops about everything. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there are these collectible little backpacks. They're too small to
Speaker 2: be like very useful, but there's launch fly backpacks of
Speaker 2: virtually every media property.
Speaker 1: The O. J. Simpson trial, probably the Challenger explosion.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's a callback.
Speaker 2: Like I see one right now online of like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is Jason vor Hughes.
Speaker 1: Right, that's great.
Speaker 5: Well that Disney specificly has gotten really into them and
Speaker 5: they will have one for every Disney ride a movie show.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's actually insane. There's probably fiftyly Low and Stitch
Speaker 5: ones alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. It is insane. That being said, maybe
Speaker 2: we should get backpacks on the website. Next email comes
Speaker 2: from Travis and Fargo. Travis, I've been ignoring some emails,
Speaker 2: but I still read them. Hi, Jana the GB crew.
Speaker 2: Today is my eighteenth wedding anniversary. I have to give
Speaker 2: Ah gigantic shout out to my amazing, wonderful, talented, beautiful,
Speaker 2: supportive kind do good or spouse Whitney or Winty?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Is it Windy or did he miss type his lovely
Speaker 4: wife's name.
Speaker 6: I think we have to go with Windy, his lovely
Speaker 6: wife Wintyre.
Speaker 2: You're lovely on account of three let's say congrats Windy? Okay, one, two, three?
Speaker 1: Congra?
Speaker 5: Is that like some guy from pop Bye who likes cheeseburgers?
Speaker 5: Or is that that's wimpy? She's so nice.
Speaker 2: She even plays video games with me, even though she's
Speaker 2: not a big gamer. And please tell her that once again,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry for hoarding the loot in Borderlands to all
Speaker 2: those years ago. Is the Travison Fargo.
Speaker 7: We got a lot of Fargo fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our fagots over there, right. That's so good.
Speaker 2: Congrats Windy. We're gonna put on a shirt that says
Speaker 2: happy eighteenth anniversary win tea just for you, Travis.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Ex email comes from Sean from Denver, Colorado. What's up, everybody?
Speaker 2: So ups driver? I'm a ups driver and I'm out
Speaker 2: here every day. One of the things that drives me
Speaker 2: nuts and grinds my gears is for some reason, when
Speaker 2: you're on the main road, everybody knows how to drive.
Speaker 2: Everybody that knows how to drive, people stay on the left,
Speaker 2: people stay on the right because of the dotted lines.
Speaker 2: As soon as I get in a residential area, everyone
Speaker 2: drives in the middle of the road, same rules, but
Speaker 2: nobody seems to follow it. What is an everydaything that
Speaker 2: makes you just want to tear Jan or Jeff's hair out?
Speaker 1: Hey? Ps, I would say mine, but I don't have
Speaker 1: any hair either.
Speaker 6: Part of the Ball and Crew. Nice, I got one,
Speaker 6: and it is. It's driving related. And maybe you'll know this,
Speaker 6: especially you're in Denver. And that's really I noticed this
Speaker 6: when I was living in Denver in Ohio where I
Speaker 6: learned to drive. There's a thing where the light is
Speaker 6: green and you're turning left and it's a big intersection,
Speaker 6: and so it's green, and so you can pull out
Speaker 6: into the intersection so that when it starts to turn
Speaker 6: yellow or goes red, you're like, well, I'm already out here.
Speaker 6: I got to get out of the way and just
Speaker 6: go at that point, because there's a second before it
Speaker 6: turns green for the lane going in the other direction,
Speaker 6: the perpendicular direction.
Speaker 3: In Denver, no one did this. They were all like,
Speaker 3: we're good little boys and girls.
Speaker 6: We're gonna sit way back at the line while it's green,
Speaker 6: even though I'm turning left, so that we have to
Speaker 6: wait for an opportunity to turn left when a car
Speaker 6: like breaks, so there's a break in the car line.
Speaker 3: And that drove me crazy. It's like, you should just
Speaker 3: pull out into the lane so that at least two
Speaker 3: or three cars can make that left turn at the
Speaker 3: end of the green light.
Speaker 1: And they never did that. Oh yeah, drove me.
Speaker 3: Bananas.
Speaker 1: I had one in Wisconsin here, whereas after Wizard Quest
Speaker 1: we went we really went at ice cream and everything
Speaker 1: closes at eleven.
Speaker 4: It seems, and it was like ten fifty four or something.
Speaker 4: We're like, all right, that's a reasonable time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: We passed the couple ice cream pla where people were sweeping,
Speaker 4: because that's the universal sign of like, hey, we're trying
Speaker 4: to close this place to fuck up. Found a place
Speaker 4: there were people in there, ordering had to open sign on.
Speaker 4: We're like, okay, we're good to go here, got in
Speaker 4: people in front of us. It was like four or
Speaker 4: five adults and like five kids and they start sweeping.
Speaker 4: It's like past eleven. Of this point, we feel weird
Speaker 4: about being even behind them in line. All these fucking
Speaker 4: kids are taking samples of the ice cream and.
Speaker 7: I want that one. I'll give me the Superman one.
Speaker 1: I want that one.
Speaker 4: They're just taking fucking forever, and you can tell these
Speaker 4: people are like actively getting annoyed, and like one of
Speaker 4: the people is like asked us, like, hey, can we do.
Speaker 1: You know what you want? Can we get you started
Speaker 1: on what you want?
Speaker 4: Like yeah, yeah, And then this fucking family with all
Speaker 4: these kids sits down to eat.
Speaker 1: Inside the place.
Speaker 7: Oh why kayl.
Speaker 4: We're like, oh, these fucking assholes, And you could tell
Speaker 4: everyone's like, we just want to go home.
Speaker 6: I didn't even walk into a store the other night
Speaker 6: because I got there fifteen minutes before they were going
Speaker 6: to close.
Speaker 3: I'm not even going.
Speaker 1: To go in.
Speaker 4: YEP, that was my mood. Had Dad funk O Lane
Speaker 4: when I worked there, it'd be like two minutes before close.
Speaker 4: And you see somebody walking across parking lot with a
Speaker 4: giant cardboard thing of like old dirty nes games that
Speaker 4: we're gonna have to clean.
Speaker 7: It's like, oh, you motherfuckers, yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I carry too much rage with me
Speaker 2: when I drive.
Speaker 3: Oh you are you do your road rager?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I try and like rein it in, but sometimes
Speaker 2: I think that is when I cuss the most. Sure
Speaker 2: he's just like boneheaded decisions on the road or in
Speaker 2: a parking lot, and I'm like, you fuck her, like
Speaker 2: whether it is obviously when you have a parking lot
Speaker 2: where all the cars are like angled in a certain
Speaker 2: way to denote, oh, this is one way, uh parking lot,
Speaker 2: and then some dumb ass comes careening the other way
Speaker 2: and it makes a face at me for being in
Speaker 2: the middle, and no, fuck face, it's your fault.
Speaker 5: Yeah, anyway, I don't have much road rage, even though
Speaker 5: someone almost hit me yesterday when I was going to
Speaker 5: subway because like I had to like turn off the
Speaker 5: tiny road to get on the main road and then
Speaker 5: immediately turn left to go on a subway and someone
Speaker 5: who is leaving subway and they wanted to go left right,
Speaker 5: but you know, so like I turned right onto the
Speaker 5: road and then I'm gonna immediately turn least. I know
Speaker 5: it's a little fast my maneuver here, but so I'll turn.
Speaker 1: Off to the subway.
Speaker 5: This guy is still like I guess he thought I
Speaker 5: was gonna keep going ahead room, so he just started
Speaker 5: going onto the road and he looked at it was
Speaker 5: gonna hit me.
Speaker 1: So I had to can like swerve into the grass
Speaker 1: and the.
Speaker 5: Thing a little bit. I was a little scary even then.
Speaker 5: I was like, gosh, darn it.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty similar Mike, where it's like I'm just saying
Speaker 3: I usually let things go gole driving.
Speaker 5: I think you apollo it. You're a very apologetic driver.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like especially when I met I remember like
Speaker 6: you were with me when I had made a mess
Speaker 6: up and because someone was in I don't I say,
Speaker 6: you don't have a blind spot when you're driving, but
Speaker 6: in my van, it's got kind of one of those
Speaker 6: thick bars holding in the windshield and there was a
Speaker 6: car right there and I didn't see them and I
Speaker 6: messed up and I almost ran into them. And I
Speaker 6: was like, oh, I fucked up. Please know that I
Speaker 6: know I fucked up. I'm so sorry. Yeah, very apologetic
Speaker 6: when that happens.
Speaker 2: When someone cuts me off out of nowhere and you know,
Speaker 2: no no signal or whatever, just to speed through, or
Speaker 2: they'll try and like cut through a couple of lanes
Speaker 2: and then we all wind up at the same red light.
Speaker 2: I always will look over and just think to myself,
Speaker 2: be happy with yourself.
Speaker 1: Do that as thoughts.
Speaker 3: You know that Simon.
Speaker 2: From Saskatchewan rights in high BombCast quick NHL quiz.
Speaker 1: For all of you.
Speaker 2: Backlar and Grubb better get the first question if you
Speaker 2: know the answers. Don't shout them out, though, please, because
Speaker 2: I'd be interested to hear other people's answers. We're gonna
Speaker 2: do very well on this, especially because Backlar's uh not
Speaker 2: here answers are further down the email. First question only question,
Speaker 2: I'll skip the bonus question. What are the original six
Speaker 2: hockey teams? You need both the city and the team name.
Speaker 2: Thanks full content signed from Saskatchewan, New York Rangers.
Speaker 1: Yet there? Okay?
Speaker 5: I bet the Chicago Blackhawks. Yes, yeah, any of those
Speaker 5: those guys might No, he made that after the movie
Speaker 5: much later.
Speaker 1: Or two more? Three more?
Speaker 5: Are the Pittsburgh Penguins that old nore like.
Speaker 6: I think there were a second wave for third Oh,
Speaker 6: it's gotta be some Canadian stuff the Toronto.
Speaker 1: Leaves.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I know it sounds it sounds so stereotypical.
Speaker 5: It can't be right. But nope, that's right. Aren't there
Speaker 5: a hitman? Now that's a minor league team.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 6: I think i'd say Canadian Football League team.
Speaker 5: There's there's Uh, Quebec's gotta have one. Montreal Montreal probably
Speaker 5: has one. The Montreal screw jobs.
Speaker 1: This was even more moose.
Speaker 3: No Montreal Canadians.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 8: Interesting.
Speaker 5: Interesting.
Speaker 6: It works because it's French Canada and so it's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: the Philadelphia Flyers.
Speaker 1: What's that negative?
Speaker 2: No, I'll give you well, no, if I give the city,
Speaker 2: you'll give it away.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 3: Uh, there's one more on the East coast and one
Speaker 3: more in the Midwell black Lars team the Devils. Right now,
Speaker 3: that's a relatively newer team.
Speaker 5: Oh shit, okay, one more on east coast, one on
Speaker 5: the west Midwest Midwest Midwest makes sense. Let's see, we
Speaker 5: did Chicago. I don't know, but I don't know what
Speaker 5: Indianapolis is is.
Speaker 3: There would be no, no, no hockey team in Indianapolis.
Speaker 5: There's noget team in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, do they have a team? No,
Speaker 5: Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: They do a hockey team. It's the Blues. You're not
Speaker 3: an Original six team.
Speaker 5: New Orleans.
Speaker 1: No, no hockey team.
Speaker 2: There a couple more guesses and we'll just give the answer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I might need it. I think I
Speaker 5: think I'm talking.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, so the the East Coast team is New
Speaker 3: England in the New England area. We do Boston, Boston. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what's Boston's team?
Speaker 1: What is Boston?
Speaker 5: That is a great question, Bruins.
Speaker 6: There you go, and then the last one is my
Speaker 6: team guys.
Speaker 1: Of course. That cool.
Speaker 2: Well done, guys, Thank you. Signed from Saskatchewan. I didn't
Speaker 2: know Oakland had a hockey team.
Speaker 1: That was part of the bonus question.
Speaker 3: Oakland has a hockey team?
Speaker 7: Had had?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okayhead yes, yeah, yeah, Cal from butt fuck nowhere, Western Australia.
Speaker 1: Rights in high terrorists parenthesis positive. That's thank you, new
Speaker 1: one talking to me.
Speaker 2: I think second time emailing, hopefully first time being read
Speaker 2: on the pod. I've recently become a gaming handheld SICKO
Speaker 2: and currently owned fifteen unique handheld devices. These include trim Ui, Brick,
Speaker 2: Ambernick r G three five x X, Retroid Pocket five,
Speaker 2: Retroid Pocket Flip two, Retroid Pocket Classics, Steam Deck, Lenovo,
Speaker 2: Legion Go, Nintendo Switched, Nintendo switched to Nintendo two D
Speaker 2: sxl gk D Pixel two, ambernick urged three five xx Cube,
Speaker 2: jow Kitty V ninety. That sounds fun our do boy
Speaker 2: mew Mini A thirty.
Speaker 1: As dealing with.
Speaker 2: All uh with all the games in Firmer was becoming
Speaker 2: slightly unruly and Windows sucks and wanted to format all
Speaker 2: the SD cards that I plugged into it. I decided
Speaker 2: to set up a Linux, Ubuntu Martian and dual boot
Speaker 2: into that whenever I need to mess around with anything
Speaker 2: retro gaming related. Whilst I'm happy with all these little
Speaker 2: doo dads except the V ninety, my bank account is
Speaker 2: less happy and my time actually spent playing games has
Speaker 2: dropped drastically. This time was filled mostly by tinkering and
Speaker 2: troubleshooting instead, which I found that I greedily enjoy or
Speaker 2: greatly enjoy. What if any gaming handheld hobbies have y'all
Speaker 2: tripped and fallen into love the pod? And if I
Speaker 2: ever complete complete it, and if you want to, I'd
Speaker 2: be happy to send you a spreadsheet layout and the
Speaker 2: Python script I've been writing that helps you analyze your
Speaker 2: very own gaming related data to provide insight into your
Speaker 2: gaming related habits. Al from buttfuck nowhere Western Australia.
Speaker 3: Sure, why not send that to us when you have it?
Speaker 3: And he said gaming adjacent hobbies that like like this
Speaker 3: that you've fallen into. I definitely and this is me.
Speaker 6: Although I've made a concerted effort to be less worried
Speaker 6: about the tinkering. I am going to get these things
Speaker 6: to play games, and you know that's what I'm like
Speaker 6: focusing on Mother three still and I have a little
Speaker 6: bit of free time, and why I played Rye Gar'm like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm just going to play one of these games and
Speaker 6: instead of just setting them up all the time. Although
Speaker 6: I think that's right, that setting things up is enjoyable.
Speaker 6: It is that is a hobby of people like that
Speaker 6: sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: But when things go wrong, it can be in the
Speaker 4: most annoying way where it's like I finally got the
Speaker 4: like SD card image exactly how I want it, where
Speaker 4: it's like, okay for anything as sixty four gigabyte card,
Speaker 4: I can just clone this and it's got all my stuff,
Speaker 4: and I cloned it for a million different things. Finally
Speaker 4: got it work and after like weeks of like troubleshooting
Speaker 4: and stuff, and I'm playing and for some reason, I
Speaker 4: want to play vector Man the other day and I
Speaker 4: was like, why isn't vector Man on here? Like in
Speaker 4: my genesis thing, like almost every this is gonna be
Speaker 4: ecept for Vecterman. And then I realized no game Boy
Speaker 4: Color games past s who were on there, which there
Speaker 4: aren't even any that I want to fucking play. Woe
Speaker 4: you have Betrayal on game Boy Color and if I
Speaker 4: want to, I can just do it a million other
Speaker 4: different ways.
Speaker 1: But now it's like, oh, I need to reclone all these.
Speaker 4: Fucking cards to put on vector Man and post S
Speaker 4: and game Boy Color games, Like I have to get
Speaker 4: them perfect, and they all have to have box art
Speaker 4: and all the fucking hot keys and everything.
Speaker 1: But the tinkering is fun.
Speaker 4: But I do like once they're done, and it's just like,
Speaker 4: all right, I just have magic little you know, game
Speaker 4: machines in every room.
Speaker 5: I definitely got more into physical collecting for old games
Speaker 5: than like getting into the portables, even though like there
Speaker 5: is a convenience there, there is something about actually owning
Speaker 5: them that I like more. I feel like I'm actually
Speaker 5: much more likely to play these games, Like someday when
Speaker 5: I finally play Skuys of Arcadia. It's gonna be because
Speaker 5: I put it in my drink as my GameCube, and
Speaker 5: not because I get an emulator going just yeah.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, like mother Thie the translation, or even if I
Speaker 4: found one, I will probably play on one of these
Speaker 4: little guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well yeah that one for sure. It's a
Speaker 5: physical copy of that for us.
Speaker 6: I definitely agree with people when they're like this hobby
Speaker 6: of collecting and getting emulators set up or getting the
Speaker 6: handhelds is not conduced to actually playing games. But I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna push through that. I don't care that is,
Speaker 6: that's a weakness. I just need to pick a game
Speaker 6: and play it, and I've been getting better about that
Speaker 6: recently for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The analog pocket fucking great. That's a lot of
Speaker 1: Pocket's amazing.
Speaker 4: But it's so good that like I don't take it
Speaker 4: with me to travel and just because it's like what
Speaker 4: am I bad?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I keep it on its not to stand the dock.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Like I'll play it if I'm home, but
Speaker 4: like when I'm traveling, I'm always just tossing one of
Speaker 4: these cheap o guys and there which these Trimui bricks
Speaker 4: were on sale for like forty two dollars with free
Speaker 4: shipping recently, so I bought a bunch more these guys
Speaker 4: are the bricks are great?
Speaker 2: I love these bricks. Squad get bricked all right. Next
Speaker 2: email comes from Sorry I didn't write your name. Here's
Speaker 2: a game one. Who's your favorite band slash artist when
Speaker 2: you were sixteen?
Speaker 1: Oh? Probably Corn give you the white stripes.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's a good choice.
Speaker 1: Mine was Iron Maiden.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, funny you should say that.
Speaker 1: Two. Are they still around today, still making music or
Speaker 1: touring in some capacity? I don't know. I think that's
Speaker 1: quite Jack White definitely.
Speaker 5: Mine is, although the drummer Nico McBrain retired recently, but otherwise, yeah,
Speaker 5: they're still around.
Speaker 1: Three Are they still your favorite?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I think Jack White still does some really good stuff.
Speaker 4: Solo last album is real good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mine is Iron Maiden, Yes, and yes, but not
Speaker 2: everyone has a good taste as as me and Mike Manatti.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Listening to some seventh son Tony Hawk, right, Yeah, they
Speaker 5: got one of their best songs too, missed the Midnight
Speaker 5: in their great stuff. Well, when that came on, I
Speaker 5: was like, hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, someone sent Rich had sent in a custom RECERD
Speaker 2: and the ninety nine Dragons action figure they had made,
Speaker 2: and I think I put this.
Speaker 4: Somebody put that in then I am immediately turned around
Speaker 4: in the car and showed it to Kaila and she
Speaker 4: was like, who made that?
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I just saw on the discord.
Speaker 1: Who is Rich?
Speaker 4: I need to give Rich the credit. Rich incredible work.
Speaker 4: That is unbelievable looking.
Speaker 2: Yes, they do custom action figures, which is definitely a
Speaker 2: sentence I just wrote. So I made one for Record
Speaker 2: and the ninety nine Dragons. I'm a big Bruce Tim fan,
Speaker 2: and your graphic designer did a great job with that
Speaker 2: art style. Anyway, thanks for being good guys. Chuck is
Speaker 2: my new favorite after telling Dan to make a save
Speaker 2: on UPF, although if Mike Sing's Man of War Brothers
Speaker 2: of Medal, he is my favorite.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 5: As much as I love iron made in I'm not
Speaker 5: super well versed in other medal of that.
Speaker 1: Ilk Oh that's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2: If you want to see more of my work, it's
Speaker 2: on Instagram at send Henchman twenty one. No pressure, have
Speaker 2: a bit of pride in it. Good shit on you, Rich,
Speaker 2: That stuff looked really cool. Jacob from Wichita rites in,
Speaker 2: is it worse to be a Jabroni or Pukester?
Speaker 1: Please elaborate?
Speaker 4: Uh, pukester is worse. Yeah, I feel like that.
Speaker 7: That's like a hulkster thing.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: You could say jee Broni in almost an endearing way.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeahs.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I've started hearing jar bonymore. I
Speaker 4: think it's from maybe a sign that was misspelled that
Speaker 4: I heard about on deadlock or something. But calling people
Speaker 4: jar Bony's is very funny to me. Jar bonies, fukes sers,
Speaker 4: little pukes.
Speaker 7: Ers, hulksers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fuck them yeah, never a whole kid, no get it?
Speaker 2: Never, Never fuck that guy. He can go fall down
Speaker 2: some stairs. Kevin from West Baltimore, Tennessee rightes in. I'm
Speaker 2: watching one of the Sonic movies with my six and
Speaker 2: four year olds. They really like Knuckles voiced by Idris Elba.
Speaker 2: This begs the question, when do I show them the wire?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: How do I break it to them that Knuckles is
Speaker 2: in charge of slinging coke and dope in Baltimore, Baltimore
Speaker 2: for Avon Barksdale Love. Kevin from West Baltimore, Tennessee, sent
Speaker 2: from my android, who is.
Speaker 7: The Omar of the Sonic the Hedgehog universe.
Speaker 5: Uh, get me, give me, give me like three personality
Speaker 5: traits and I'll help you of Omar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he lives by a code, kills drug dealers with shotguns.
Speaker 1: Scar on face. I okay, brust Bad is Omar? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: sure is. Ruge isn't in the movies? Right? No? Not yet?
Speaker 3: Was there a tease Sonic three? Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, that was Amy. T's that Sonic three?
Speaker 3: Amy? Really, she's not in there yet. Okay, you're right, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was you? Like Sonic three, Sonic pre is awesome.
Speaker 3: I don't remember ship about it. I remembering.
Speaker 1: The Wire's really good. I watched it all again a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and.
Speaker 6: It held up like one for you, because when I
Speaker 6: like rewatched Breaking Bad, I was like, that's great, but
Speaker 6: it's not as good as I remembered.
Speaker 4: I haven't done Breaking Bad in a while, but yeah,
Speaker 4: the Wire, it's like it is an interesting time capsule
Speaker 4: because like even just the whole first season, being like
Speaker 4: the pay phone code and stuff like that is very
Speaker 4: just like now, but it just show that feels very
Speaker 4: real in a way that shows back then, did not feel.
Speaker 2: This email comes from scad from Huntsville, Alabama. Duters of
Speaker 2: the bomb excluding accents, Are you guys self aware of
Speaker 2: any words you have ever pronounced strangely, either from the
Speaker 2: region you grew up in the way a friend or
Speaker 2: family member said it, or because you've only ever read
Speaker 2: the word but have never said it aloud. PS asked
Speaker 2: Grub to say, Grub, do you have the emails in
Speaker 2: front of you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, hang on me, let me get it right here.
Speaker 6: Uh ask, I'm gonna control out of Ask Grub to say, okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: I ran across Galilelo Galilei at Summer game Fest. I
Speaker 6: was saying Galilei low as a gala Galilei lowly or
Speaker 6: something like that.
Speaker 3: I added an extra.
Speaker 6: Thing in there when I was saying this name one time,
Speaker 6: and it definitely sounded very funny. But I've never said
Speaker 6: any other word incorrectly ever, so never I can't really
Speaker 6: to this.
Speaker 2: Uh pss tell Dan to start making fun of Mary
Speaker 2: on Fire Escape anytime she also says across uh, what
Speaker 2: will these oh those Ohioans mess up next? Shaking my head,
Speaker 2: you tell her Mary is scary.
Speaker 5: Across this, oh god, I do it too, go across
Speaker 5: the streets.
Speaker 2: Regional stuff too, ship, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5: I do always, like I can't think of examples, but
Speaker 5: are always times where if I'm reading something out for
Speaker 5: a show or something, I come across a word. I'm like, well,
Speaker 5: I've read that word a lot, read it in my mind,
Speaker 5: but now I'm about to say it, and here it goes.
Speaker 6: The first time I said a finite, I said fin it.
Speaker 4: It's a good word to say, yeah, definitely. I like suffice.
Speaker 4: Suffice is another good one. People say I say wrong,
Speaker 4: I totally disagree.
Speaker 3: Again and I saying Epona from Zelda, I.
Speaker 4: Only said I've never said Epona. And this has come
Speaker 4: up on podcasts for like twenty fucking years. People always
Speaker 4: tell me I'm wrong, but then people have told me, actually,
Speaker 4: I'm right. They are like musicals and stuff like put
Speaker 4: out by those elder people and everything, and there's a
Speaker 4: part where they're singing Epina song and it's like it's Epina.
Speaker 5: I don't care you're wrong.
Speaker 7: I'm right about this. You are wrong now I do.
Speaker 5: I was always a big Hillian guy. When I was
Speaker 5: playing rough of the While again, someone said no, I
Speaker 5: say yeah, I say Heli, and someone I say hilly
Speaker 5: in and then some guys said highly in.
Speaker 3: You know what, I remember it.
Speaker 6: Now we have a fan for game mess and their
Speaker 6: name is highly Intelligent. So they're like, oh, it's highly intelligent,
Speaker 6: but it's it's spelled this older thing. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 6: so now I can remember it.
Speaker 5: I always say heilly intelligence. It doesn't make much sense.
Speaker 2: Then I mispronounced a lot of words, especially with the
Speaker 2: regional dialect thing and having my hair parents be immigrants,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of English can be challenging. Sometimes I
Speaker 2: didn't get clippered from them though.
Speaker 1: There you go. That that's all Jane told me. Baby,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: Final email for the podcast. This comes from Jarin from Mississuga, Ontario, Canada.
Speaker 2: And also sometimes I just like to mispronounce words to
Speaker 2: fuck with people.
Speaker 3: It's good engagement, right because people want to correct you
Speaker 3: so bad that they write right in.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, Like I don't like saying arkanine the
Speaker 2: pot they eat and I was not podcast pokemon. I say, wow,
Speaker 2: that's the epic tome of hyper Bowl right there.
Speaker 4: That I regan. I'm sorry, Oh I don't like anymore.
Speaker 4: You stole it. The Carlos Mencia of Giant Bomb here.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that is the worst thing you've ever said.
Speaker 1: I know it is.
Speaker 5: I had it coming. It's okay, I had it coming.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 7: Oh man, mind of Minati coming soon.
Speaker 1: We could just be.
Speaker 2: All like the shitty comedians from Comedy Central of that
Speaker 2: the other one follow Chappelle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can I be? I'll be Ron White, Sure. I know.
Speaker 4: That's kind of maybe why I picked him, because he's
Speaker 4: one of the better ones of like that era of comedy.
Speaker 4: It's going to be the puppet man.
Speaker 1: Oh, Dunham, Yeah, that's backler.
Speaker 6: You're just being cruel this episode.
Speaker 5: By the way, Dan, speaking of puppets, I heard somebody
Speaker 5: say that you misinterpreted that doll Man showering thing. That
Speaker 5: means somebody say that, yeah, what do you think I
Speaker 5: haven't played yet. Do you think that perhaps it's not
Speaker 5: literally showering with that lady and say he's being showered by.
Speaker 1: Her effects or whatever it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, either way, he said, she showers with him
Speaker 4: and the core fall rain keeps him young.
Speaker 5: So I don't tell you what when I I'll play
Speaker 5: this game. Eventually, I'll get to the bottom of this
Speaker 5: shower fiasco.
Speaker 3: Oh, I want to make it, want to make clear
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 5: It's become Jeff Grubb's favorite phrase lately.
Speaker 1: It's good nihilis. Yeah. The problem is it makes Mike
Speaker 1: MANAUGHTI care more.
Speaker 5: No, No, I care so much about about my friends
Speaker 5: about that.
Speaker 2: This is the Giant Bomb Don't Match Me challenge. Below
Speaker 2: are five questions that relate to Giant Bomb's history. Everyone
Speaker 2: listening has five seconds to come up with an answer
Speaker 2: that doesn't match Jan's answer. If you do, you're out
Speaker 2: bonus hard mode for the listeners at home. Don't match
Speaker 2: any of the other dude's answers as well, that's a
Speaker 2: little bit difficult.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Uh so I'm gonna read the question and then I'll
Speaker 2: go one, two, three, and then uh, you three will
Speaker 2: say your answer.
Speaker 1: I'll say my answer.
Speaker 4: Wait, so are we saying it in order? Are you
Speaker 4: gonna que us each up individually?
Speaker 2: We'll go Grub Dan Manatti Okay, Then I don't go last. Okay, great, Okay,
Speaker 2: So again, if any of you match the answer that
Speaker 2: I have, uh, you're out for the for the game.
Speaker 1: Is it trivia? No, No, it's just naming things. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Number one, Name any Blake game, Blake Club game.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to go first? Should I just
Speaker 1: say it? Yes?
Speaker 3: Batman Dark Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But that was the one I was gonna say, uh uh,
Speaker 1: Superman sixty.
Speaker 3: Four, Mike, Mortal Kombat Mythology, sub Zero, You're lucky because
Speaker 3: I thought in my head, bubzy Okay, I was I
Speaker 3: was almost gonna say bub z okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to. I was thinking of going
Speaker 2: the Batman Dark Tomorrow route. But then I felt in
Speaker 2: the the ether that someone was gonna try and go there.
Speaker 1: All right. Name any Giant Bomb game of the year.
Speaker 1: I have mine. I'm gonna go for it. Chickory Bubg
Speaker 1: Tears of the Kingdom and I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: You're out.
Speaker 7: Okay, the Game of the Generation.
Speaker 1: Of course, Chickory comes to save me again. You on
Speaker 1: that grab? Can I blame you for that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: That would not have happened.
Speaker 7: Did that happen?
Speaker 2: Name any professional wrestler that has contributed or appeared.
Speaker 1: On Giant Bomb content. I have mine. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with hmm.
Speaker 3: Now I'm blanking on names. Uh, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 3: the what what's what's our friend?
Speaker 1: Guy? Were's the mask?
Speaker 7: You gotta say it?
Speaker 3: Okay? Uh, we can of google his name real quick
Speaker 3: because I'm just blanking on it.
Speaker 1: Grub, I'll tell you that you're out then, God damn it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh no, thank you, chat, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll go Jeff Jarrett.
Speaker 5: I was gonna go Jeff Herrett, Adam call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Number what have we got, Jeff? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I forgot about that. That's like a fun dotch on
Speaker 2: the belt. Number four, Name any Giant Bomb Co Owner.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna say Jeff Current, Yes, Dan Reichord, Janet Choa.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Jeff Mackler. All right.
Speaker 2: Number five, name any Giant Bomb endurance run game. I
Speaker 2: have one in my head.
Speaker 1: Uh, Persona four shin move.
Speaker 5: Oh those are definitely the only two.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: What else have they endurance ran? They were doing like
Speaker 5: all Castlevania, But that was Vinnie Vaney. That's not like
Speaker 5: an endurance run. Okay, so they did percent of four.
Speaker 2: You can say any of those two, Mike, does that
Speaker 2: count as an endurance run?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, I mean you could say Persona four as well.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's just like I'm hoping you didn't pick it,
Speaker 5: but he did.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, you want to pick shen MoU.
Speaker 5: Look at you. You don't like Shenmu. I'm gonna say
Speaker 5: shen MoU. Trigger wow. Shouts at Patrick and Ryan. All right,
Speaker 5: and congratulations on the independence. In nine hundred episodes of
Speaker 5: the BombCast, Jared from Mississuga, Ontario, Canada, I don't care
Speaker 5: if I'm mispronouncing Mississuga, Mike Manati. If we have any
Speaker 5: super chats, hit me widow. Absolutely, I do want to
Speaker 5: do an endurance run at some point.
Speaker 1: I think that would be good.
Speaker 2: I came up Ben Pack and I were cooking up
Speaker 2: this idea where he wanted to train for a marathon
Speaker 2: using video games to help train him, and then I
Speaker 2: thought we should call it the endurance Run.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 5: Yes, let's see q T I pixel just super chat,
Speaker 5: no message, thank you. Wiley Jenkins says, I was disappointed
Speaker 5: enough of Mario Kart World that I was questioning buying
Speaker 5: my switch to Docty Kong. Bonanza made me glad that
Speaker 5: I did. Yeah, I think a lot that Bonanza really
Speaker 5: is definitely the first amazing game for the switch shoe,
Speaker 5: So I know that a mustlat of difference, But I
Speaker 5: wonder if it would have made some people feel better
Speaker 5: if this was an actual launch game.
Speaker 1: Again, maybe that's pedantic.
Speaker 5: Are you guys a little surprised that there is already
Speaker 5: as loud at least of a anti Mario Kart World
Speaker 5: contingent as there is.
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 7: It's fine. People are gonna be playing it for ten years.
Speaker 7: It's it's gonna do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's it's just because it was the
Speaker 6: only thing at launch right, so like a ton of
Speaker 6: focus was on it. If it was not doing it
Speaker 6: for people, you're gonna hear about it. The other games
Speaker 6: people can ignore, but when it's the one game for
Speaker 6: your five hundred dollars system, it's kind of easy for
Speaker 6: people to, you know, be harsh on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it would have bothered me. Again, I've
Speaker 5: never been a giant Maririocart fan, but you know, I
Speaker 5: did have all sorts of Switch one stuff to go
Speaker 5: back to. I did spend a lot of time playing
Speaker 5: Split two single player campaigns, then replaying Odyssey and Breath
Speaker 5: of the Wild and stuff like that until we got
Speaker 5: Donkey Kong. And I feel like, you know, with with
Speaker 5: Metroid Prime Air riders other things. We're gonna have a
Speaker 5: pretty good clip here now, boat Night says, can I
Speaker 5: play Donkey Kong bonanza? If I've never seen the TV show,
Speaker 5: how many Coca that references have you seen so far?
Speaker 1: Dan? None.
Speaker 7: I haven't gotten to Bluster Kong yet.
Speaker 5: He'll be there later, it is Dan, It's wild that
Speaker 5: you thought that was a real picture.
Speaker 3: I would have lived in the realiful world where that
Speaker 3: is possible.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it looked real.
Speaker 5: He was like in a completely different art style and
Speaker 5: graphics quality that everybody else did.
Speaker 1: That school.
Speaker 3: Well, they want to be accurate to Bluster Kongs.
Speaker 5: We decided Donkey Kong, but Bluster Cong can't touch that.
Speaker 12: Damn it from the Skatchewan does Does it annoy you
Speaker 12: when people complain about sci fi movies not being scientifically correct,
Speaker 12: it passes me off.
Speaker 5: Example, Dune sucks because the ecology makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Those uh my friends who didn't like the Superman movie,
Speaker 5: they definitely like had some plot holes that they had
Speaker 5: problems with.
Speaker 1: I hate that. Yeah, I can't. I'm trying to remember
Speaker 1: what it was. It was.
Speaker 5: It was not smart. I didn't like it.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: Usually disliked this because I think part of the fun
Speaker 6: is as a viewer, you get to watch a movie
Speaker 6: and if something like that happens, be creative yourself and
Speaker 6: come up with your own headcannon to explain why that's possible.
Speaker 6: That's fun to me. I enjoy doing that. Why don't
Speaker 6: you do it instead of being like, Nah, that's not possible.
Speaker 3: It's just stinks.
Speaker 1: Specifically with Dune.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a world where like people gave up using
Speaker 2: computers because of what they would do, so they just
Speaker 2: have someone very smart do the calculations, but they get
Speaker 2: them high as shit.
Speaker 1: First. Yeah, I remember what it was.
Speaker 5: Now, it was like, well, how come no one cared
Speaker 5: that Clark Kent wasn't around the biggest news day of
Speaker 5: the year. I was like, I want to be like,
Speaker 5: just imagine there's a scene that you didn't see where
Speaker 5: he called in sick exactly. Yeah, but it's fine.
Speaker 1: Ool man. You know who's the hella fucking cool that
Speaker 1: I had no idea about in the Superman movie? Mister Terrific.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's kind of the breakout there.
Speaker 3: Everyone seems so cool. That guy was in one of
Speaker 3: those X Men movies, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: He played Darwin, who was supposed to be one of
Speaker 2: the most indestructible X Men and they killed him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they poor in that. I will say.
Speaker 5: You know what my my favorite thing about the Superman
Speaker 5: movie was, I think my brother brought this up, was
Speaker 5: that kryptonite actually works and enfeebles him unless he thinks
Speaker 5: a way around it. The worst thing about Superman Returns
Speaker 5: was the whole thing was Lex Luthor made an island
Speaker 5: out of krypto ight to slop Superman, and then he
Speaker 5: just kind of grits his teeth and pushes an island
Speaker 5: of kryptonite into the sun.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, that ain't his weakness, then, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you could.
Speaker 6: If if something's my weakness, I can't get out of bed,
Speaker 6: I'm not pushing.
Speaker 5: Yeah right now, I don't want to see if grinning Beck,
Speaker 5: I know that's bullshit. Oh yeah, so I'm reading these.
Speaker 5: Next one is Wiley Jenkins. You know what's bad news.
Speaker 3: If Dan walks into your hospital room with the doctor
Speaker 3: I meant to and a horse. I'm gonna now if
Speaker 3: it's just Dan, bad If it's Dan and a horse,
Speaker 3: there's a chance I'm gonna survive here magic.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, uh to one Freeman says, grub, are you
Speaker 5: a Red Letter Media fan?
Speaker 1: They just did the Apple. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I saw people pointing this out that they talked about
Speaker 6: the Apple on their the Best of the Worst or whatever,
Speaker 6: and I was happy to see that. I am specifically
Speaker 6: someone who says I don't get Red letter Media. They're
Speaker 6: very popular and I'll watch the stuff and I don't
Speaker 6: I don't get I don't like it.
Speaker 5: I can like them. I love the Plankett reviews back
Speaker 5: in the day, and I like some you know what
Speaker 5: I say.
Speaker 3: I never loved the Plankett reviews.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see, I U said. I thought those were funny.
Speaker 5: You know what I say about my friends though, it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: it kind of buns me out of like their opainon
Speaker 5: by movies very different me, even with like things like
Speaker 5: I I don't want to watch a video of people
Speaker 5: who don't like a movie that I like or like
Speaker 5: the movie that I do like, and I think that's
Speaker 5: a failing, Like that's not a good thing. And like
Speaker 5: obviously in the gaming world there's a lot of that also,
Speaker 5: But yeah, just watching people I don't know talk about
Speaker 5: why something sucks that I think doesn't suck. I'm not
Speaker 5: you know there may be a little citical in a
Speaker 5: way that I'm cynical about movies too.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 6: You know what it is for me is like I
Speaker 6: was I watched their and or season one reviewer I
Speaker 6: tried to and then they said something that's like, oh,
Speaker 6: we just watched different shows and they liked it. I
Speaker 6: think they ended up liking it. But it's like the
Speaker 6: complaint you have here is this thing where it's like, well,
Speaker 6: I know why that happened and why, and you don't.
Speaker 6: So we just are viewing things differently in our mind.
Speaker 6: And so at a certain point, why am I watching
Speaker 6: this if it's not gonna be able something I can
Speaker 6: match up against and have a mental conversation with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they just did something for Back to the Future
Speaker 5: and that I liked. Okay, okay, yeah, just talk about
Speaker 5: why back to the Future is great. That's why when
Speaker 5: it's like some universally pan movie, I think I watched
Speaker 5: them talk about like that New Mummy reboot before I
Speaker 5: even see it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, sometimes it's kind of fun.
Speaker 5: To people slam a bad believer.
Speaker 1: Sure, I get it, And I think.
Speaker 5: They reinvested themselves in wise ways, right, Like I think
Speaker 5: their production quality is very good.
Speaker 3: They're good at what they do, for sure, It's just
Speaker 3: not for me.
Speaker 5: Next up is from Dubious Foods. His best wishes to
Speaker 5: Ozzie as he visits that great, that great lobster in
Speaker 5: the sky. All the coldest bats, the hottest bats, cheddar
Speaker 5: bat biscuit, all day baby bats.
Speaker 8: And of course drafts with the boys, fantasy bats.
Speaker 1: Come on, Mike these audio listeners, Mike and not has
Speaker 1: overcome with emotion. He is not.
Speaker 6: Really, It's a beautiful moment actually that we get to it.
Speaker 6: He popped himself so hard. I'm sure you made himself
Speaker 6: so emotional. He's crying.
Speaker 5: I never had a hard time trying to get a
Speaker 5: senseence out.
Speaker 7: You're supposed to laugh that hard when you say rest
Speaker 7: in peace?
Speaker 5: Now, grugs.
Speaker 2: This.
Speaker 5: Does Grub care that the Detroit Tigers are good?
Speaker 6: I do, Yes, I've been watching some games here there
Speaker 6: when I when I can. I don't have a fan
Speaker 6: dual sports Detroit here in Cleveland, but I find ways
Speaker 6: to watch it. And uh yeah, I've been tracking the team.
Speaker 6: They're in a little bit of a slump right now,
Speaker 6: so and that's always works. And when they start hot
Speaker 6: and cool, off in the middle of this season. Oh,
Speaker 6: are they going to be able to get it back?
Speaker 3: We'll see. It's a good team, though.
Speaker 1: I care because I'm mad. Well.
Speaker 5: The Guardians had a real bad stretch there. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: now they're bouncing back a bit. So they're back at
Speaker 5: second place, just below five hundred.
Speaker 3: But right, but the you know, the the Tigers are
Speaker 3: twenty games above five hundred, so it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: tough hill to climb for them to win that division.
Speaker 1: We're probably gonna win the division, but you're a wild card.
Speaker 5: Maybe, Yeah, but even then, how they're like other divisions
Speaker 5: doing so much better than the Central I don't know.
Speaker 5: I was looking really good about the season for a
Speaker 5: while there. Now I'm feeling less good. But we could
Speaker 5: keep this current momentum up. We'll still have a chance.
Speaker 1: We'll see, all right.
Speaker 5: Next up here is from h cone own. Kosama says, Jan,
Speaker 5: did you get to open any final Fantasy cross MATCHIC
Speaker 5: to gathering cards and if not, any plans to Yes.
Speaker 2: I got this Mogle's Valor yesterday. Uh, and then I
Speaker 2: opened all of them. I didn't do it on stream.
Speaker 2: I couldn't wait. I was trying to line up friends
Speaker 2: to do it with me, and I couldn't make the
Speaker 2: timing work. But I do want to play like shoot magic. Hey,
Speaker 2: if you play magic at San Francisco, get at me.
Speaker 2: I don't know where to go because I experienced a
Speaker 2: little bit of social anxiety playing shoot card games with someone.
Speaker 2: I guess I could just go to Rollery's house.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 5: I just I just remember I have these Commander decks
Speaker 5: I haven't open in Apparently they each have like a
Speaker 5: good one of the special packs or something special in them.
Speaker 5: Can I open one? Can I open a pack? Guys?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 1: No? Yeah, we're not gonna stop.
Speaker 3: You go for bud.
Speaker 5: Come on, where's the good stuff? I was told there's
Speaker 5: something good in here?
Speaker 1: What the fuck?
Speaker 5: I don't see anything special.
Speaker 1: I just see im.
Speaker 5: Here's the cards that's good? Is it in here? There's
Speaker 5: a cool card?
Speaker 1: That's a cool card.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm confused. I don't know what else supposed to find
Speaker 5: in here. Never mind.
Speaker 1: Ignore me.
Speaker 5: Oh that is cool, though, I do like you shout
Speaker 5: out to Yestola. That's a cat lady.
Speaker 3: But like wave, this podcast, anything ended?
Speaker 1: Uh we uh.
Speaker 4: The KOFE Leader of the Month is a three way
Speaker 4: tie right now. Oh, we have a little over a
Speaker 4: week left in the month, so there's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a dark horse that comes out of nowhere, and.
Speaker 7: It could be Cody g drum Kid ninety two and
Speaker 7: Jag or tied.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: So if we get one of them pulling ahead or
Speaker 4: someone else, you will get to choose the pre stream
Speaker 4: and break image for the month of August. So it
Speaker 4: is a tie at the end in I guess three images, okay,
Speaker 4: but but something top it and take it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, as folks have been emailing or messaging me
Speaker 2: about spell table and playing magic that way, uh might
Speaker 2: explore means to do that.
Speaker 1: Of the website, I found something. I found it.
Speaker 5: Oh god, there is something cool in here, a collectible.
Speaker 1: Well, what's going on with Mike today? He's on one.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm like a little bit worried.
Speaker 4: He was weird that time last week, but he just
Speaker 4: had a camera up his ass, so I kind of
Speaker 4: like chalk.
Speaker 3: It up to that maybe that permanently ruined him, improved him.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Something up there they okay, but he's got not even
Speaker 3: on this podcast anymore.
Speaker 1: No, that's kind of shitty.
Speaker 5: Like look like like, this is the this is the
Speaker 5: deck that comes with that Ishtola card, and then I
Speaker 5: also got that ish Toola card.
Speaker 1: Great buddy, I'm so sorry to save us. And you
Speaker 1: got the famed sword Men seek Free.
Speaker 2: Just mute him, all right, folks, What Mike is that
Speaker 2: in for super Chats? Yeah, you could have told me
Speaker 2: that a long time ago. And then we've taken the
Speaker 2: show back.
Speaker 5: I got to more of these if you want me
Speaker 5: to open them.
Speaker 2: What do we got going on the rest of this week? Boys,
Speaker 2: morning's popping off?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and real quick, I'm uh, I'm gonna stream a
Speaker 6: game that I'm gonna start this week and we'll try
Speaker 6: to play for the least the next couple of weeks. Uh,
Speaker 6: And I have a pull up in Premium General in
Speaker 6: the discord.
Speaker 1: What should I play through on the site? Everything or nothing?
Speaker 6: You're well, I'm gonna be playing that, don't worry about that.
Speaker 6: But on this the options are Skies of Arcadia, Chrono
Speaker 6: Trigger or pans are Dragoon Saga and it's pretty close,
Speaker 6: although Skys.
Speaker 3: Has a pretty early lead. I'd be open to all
Speaker 3: of those. Help over Panther Dragons Saga. I have a
Speaker 3: shoot copy I'll play it some day instead.
Speaker 6: Or pants are Dragon Saga or Chronochrono trigger, but I
Speaker 6: lean towards Panthers dragoon.
Speaker 3: So you guys want to do that.
Speaker 1: We'll see, aren't we We're updating?
Speaker 4: Uh, the the Friday upf plans right, arling and audible.
Speaker 4: We we had something on the schedule that we have changed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gon we're gonna do Mario Party. Well, burst
Speaker 6: back into work and was like, we're doing this, and uh,
Speaker 6: I guess we're gonna do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I may give a hot tag to someone else that
Speaker 2: is well versed in Mario Party and.
Speaker 3: You can try to make that happen, and it would
Speaker 3: probably be mean me, a foil to me, is it? No,
Speaker 3: don't worry about.
Speaker 1: That, you know, I'll just like that. He's excited.
Speaker 5: Nah, I think it's Bailey.
Speaker 2: Fuck ding ding ding ding ding ding? All right, God,
Speaker 2: oh tomorrow gang Not only does pit my record continue?
Speaker 2: What are you doing, Mike? Put it away? Put it away?
Speaker 2: We're not done with a podcast?
Speaker 7: Whistle?
Speaker 1: What is it? What is wrong with him? It's just
Speaker 1: a little. It's soft.
Speaker 5: You will barely us keep going.
Speaker 1: It's soft. You will be able to notice.
Speaker 2: Uh uh tomorrow, Pip, my record continues.
Speaker 1: I'm noticing a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as well as the Rocket League Divitational.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Divitational. You guys should this.
Speaker 2: DIB is going to go one v one against all
Speaker 2: of us, and if he manages to beat Dan, h
Speaker 2: DIB is going to design.
Speaker 1: A shirt that Dan has to wear for the determined
Speaker 1: amount of days. Did I agree to this?
Speaker 7: I thought it was he ran the table.
Speaker 2: Nope, nope. Uh, well, okay, maybe if he runs the table.
Speaker 1: Uh No.
Speaker 3: I don't want it to be on me that Like,
Speaker 3: if I don't try hard, Dan has.
Speaker 1: To do something.
Speaker 4: He's going to kick my ass. But the odds of
Speaker 4: one of us be to him are there. And I
Speaker 4: think he has to run the table for him to
Speaker 4: get a prize. You got to teach these kids. I
Speaker 4: think if he beats you, he should get it.
Speaker 3: And we'll just make it.
Speaker 1: I say, if he runs the table, you put up
Speaker 1: to an owner vote and see what we say. What
Speaker 1: the fuck is my doing? I hate it. I don't
Speaker 1: like any of this.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then Friday Game of Mornings and then we've called
Speaker 2: an audible and upf and we're going to do the
Speaker 2: new Switch to Mario party stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, did they switch?
Speaker 3: Like the caffeine that they put in your drinks?
Speaker 1: Mic?
Speaker 3: Like, what is going on here? Are you on new drugs?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Actually, should be completely normal right now?
Speaker 2: Should man? I woke up on Monday not feeling great,
Speaker 2: and I don't know what I'm feeling now. But folks,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you, thank you so much for a
Speaker 2: wonderful time. I hope you've enjoyed this podcast somehow.
Speaker 4: And I swear if they put me under for the
Speaker 4: fucking two thing and I come to and it's Mike
Speaker 4: with a whistle doing Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1: The horse is there.
Speaker 4: I'm fine with the horse. I'd be thrilled.
Speaker 1: With the horse playing a keyboard. Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: If you've been listening for all nine hun really it's
Speaker 2: more than nine hundred episodes, but nine hundred plus episodes
Speaker 2: of the Giant BombCast, or whether you've been a recent listener,
Speaker 2: a laps listener, I appreciate and I love.
Speaker 1: You, love you, we love you love nothing.
Speaker 2: Okay, that does it. We'll see you next week for
Speaker 2: another episode of the Giant BombCast. Oh, next week is
Speaker 2: gonna be a little bit funky because a lot of
Speaker 2: us are gone it's just to.
Speaker 1: Be a backlaar. We're scared on Monday.
Speaker 5: In fact, oh so so uh Jen, you're not going
Speaker 5: to be here right No, now, we won't start riving.
Speaker 5: But Jeff maybe mean you can look at pissed.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well we'll get pissed with you.
Speaker 5: Get we'll get pissed.
Speaker 7: I believe I'm sharing a hotel room with one Mike Manatti.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's so.
Speaker 5: I'll bring my tin whistle.
Speaker 1: I swear to God, it's going up your ass. Okay,
Speaker 1: what separate rooms. It's not the same money. It's for
Speaker 1: other reasons, folks. He was Jeff, he's Jeff. He's dead,
Speaker 1: he's been, Mike, I've been Jan shout out to you
Speaker 1: at home. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next week for another lovely episode of
Speaker 2: The Giant Bombcash good bye, Wow Hey yeah
Speaker 1: Stop it