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Hello, and welcome to The

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Comedy Button, wearing the Desiccated

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Skin-Soot, the Geek box, episode

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674. Wow. This is the

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podcast for the week of October

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28, 2024. I'm Ryan Scott, and

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I'm here with your host, Max

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Schoville, a man who is known

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mostly for being tall and

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being the reference model for

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the hit video game retrocity

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rampage. And Brian Altono, who is

0:38

mostly well known for once drawing

0:40

a stupid ass picture of a

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Triforce Ferris wheel and then throwing

0:44

it out because it was a

0:46

piece of garbage. Wow. I love

0:48

that we, like the geekbox is just

0:50

dressed up like the comic button.

0:52

This is the Halloween episode. We're just

0:55

wearing the geekbox trench. I like that

0:57

I'm most known for throwing out a

0:59

drawing. Yeah, idiot. Not like, hey, here's

1:01

a drawing he did, or like, you

1:03

know, like a lot of artists are

1:05

just like, oh, that's his most famous

1:07

piece. And for me, it's like, you're

1:09

known for your biggest mistake. Yeah. Hey,

1:11

man, I want to fact check you

1:13

on that. I was not the character

1:15

model for the guy from River City

1:17

Ransom, a retro city rampage. I was

1:19

in that game. I was, they put me in

1:21

there, I was like, I can't fact check

1:23

me, I was in that video game, they

1:25

can't do that, Brian to Vinciano was a

1:27

big destructive reader, and he was like, I'm

1:29

gonna put all of the destructive people, there's

1:31

like a bunch of random destructive writers in

1:33

that game. and wow but I do the

1:36

guy keeping them afloat I was the I

1:38

was the I was the the the guy

1:40

looks I also look like fucking kid chameleon

1:42

I look like if you if you go

1:44

on on the app store and search like

1:46

virtue of tennis there's a virtue of tennis

1:48

game that looks exactly like me there's a

1:51

dude in the you probably love

1:53

it's got all sorts of Andre

1:55

like the Eric Schultz version of

1:57

Marty McFly I also should clarify

1:59

that the Triforce Ferris wheel, first of

2:01

all, was never, I love, I just,

2:03

I just hit your, your little insecure

2:05

button. Tell me more about it, Brian.

2:07

No, I'm doing a footnote like Max

2:09

just did. Then you have two feet,

2:11

then you can walk anywhere you want.

2:13

All right. Okay, so some footnotes

2:15

over on wikifeed.com. That

2:20

better be what they call the comment section

2:22

over there. I fucking hope so. It's

2:24

either actually no, you know what would be better

2:26

than that if there was no comment section over

2:28

there. Footnotes.

2:30

Yeah, no, yeah. No,

2:33

so Triforce Ferris, Ferris wheel was the thing we

2:35

pitched this idea of like, we're going to make

2:37

a, we're going to do like an article about

2:39

like, what if there was a Nintendo theme park?

2:41

Right. Right. Wow. Game spy, right?

2:43

What a, what if that was,

2:45

um, like what, 12 years before

2:47

that became a reality and, uh, we

2:49

worked on it like in the background

2:52

for a week. Sue should give me

2:54

a moto for stealing your idea out

2:56

of the trash. I want to say

2:58

it was me, Scott Bromley. Uh, were

3:00

you the one who told him to

3:02

emulate games too? How dare you? Yes,

3:04

I taught them all about that. Um,

3:06

they saw me. I downloaded the first

3:08

ROM that was released and I played. No,

3:10

that's, that's not true. No, so the Triforce Ferris,

3:12

Ferris was like, we, we photoshopped a bunch

3:14

of like, or we're about to photoshop a bunch

3:16

of rides that were at this fake theme

3:18

park. And the first one I made was like,

3:20

you know, there could be like a Triforce

3:23

Ferris wheel and it made no sense. And then,

3:25

uh, it just became this joke for every

3:27

time we had an idea that was bad, but

3:29

I think I did print it out at

3:31

one point. Yeah. And you're like,

3:33

Hey, look at the Triforce Ferris wheel

3:35

and you stuck it on your

3:37

dead, your cubicle. Yes. But, uh, so

3:39

my footnote is that I don't

3:41

think like that was a photoshop file. So

3:43

I couldn't, I couldn't just throw it

3:45

in the trash. I could drag and drop

3:47

it to a recycling bin. Yeah. That's

3:49

the trash. It's all trash, Brian. Recycling trash,

3:51

whatever you want to call it. You

3:53

know what? You're the trash. And I've always

3:55

wanted to come over to this place

3:58

and say, what does Windows call this? Recycle

4:00

bins, that's a lie, it's not recycling anything,

4:02

it's trash, you're storing it away. Once you

4:04

empty it, you can't get it in and

4:07

get recycled. That is not true. I've been

4:09

getting hundreds of pictures of birdhouses in return

4:11

from my recycling bin. Every time I drag

4:13

and drop something there, it gets turned into

4:15

something else and I get a picture of

4:17

it back. You don't? Re -space. You don't

4:19

have that? In what? You

4:22

don't have that feature in the recycling bin where it

4:24

recycles for you and makes a thing that sends it

4:26

back to you. Oh, it's just like

4:28

a little scarecrow of cans. What

4:31

is it? No, yeah, I'll get it.

4:34

Put it out on the lawn. I'll

4:36

get birdhouses. You can turn, there's

4:39

a lot of boxes you can turn into

4:41

boats and hats and such and then

4:43

egg crates, egg cartons, right? Those can be

4:45

a number of things. Those could be

4:47

a caterpillar? Yeah, they could be a caterpillar

4:49

so really anything you can dream of,

4:51

you recycle it, it'll come back to you.

4:53

I do think it's funny that like

4:55

the most Apple thing about Windows is that

4:58

they call it Recycle Bin. They're

5:00

like, see, we're progressive, we're important,

5:02

but it's like - environmentally -

5:05

Like that's the most, I don't

5:07

know. I like it when

5:09

it's just called Trash. Yeah, it's

5:11

probably great. So

5:14

look, Brian and

5:16

Max are really from IGN and

5:18

in case you don't know, we did a

5:20

pie house called the Comedy Button which this

5:22

is a secret episode of and let's just

5:24

catch the chase. You guys are

5:26

here to sell something, all right?

5:28

So peddle your wares, you filthy little

5:30

merchants. Okay, so for a while

5:32

now, Max and I have said, when

5:35

you put stuff in the Recycling

5:37

Pin or the Trash, you're getting nothing

5:39

in return. And so we thought

5:41

we would start a non -profit for -profit

5:43

recycling center that's all digital. It

5:45

just takes your e -waste and turns

5:47

it into anything you want, right, Max?

5:49

We've also got a brand new

5:51

movement we're pushing. It's called Occupy Coinstar

5:54

where you take stuff you don't

5:56

want and you put it in the

5:58

Coinstar and you hope the coin's coming. out. But

6:00

maybe maybe we won't maybe we'll just break

6:02

the coin star. But that'll show him. That's

6:05

a internet is taking all your

6:07

work and it's recycling it

6:09

into chat. GPT. I would I

6:11

would legit watch a show

6:13

called will it corn corn star.

6:15

It's just people shoving shit

6:17

in the box. Would you remember

6:19

that? So

6:21

for anyone who's not he doesn't know

6:23

what this is a coin star. There's a

6:25

lot of people that I that we

6:27

mean this show. Yeah this show. No coin

6:29

star is the thing that they have

6:32

it like they have grocery stores but they

6:34

also have them at banks which is weird

6:36

or do banks have their own version

6:38

of it. I think banks are aren't they

6:40

just giant coin stars isn't that what

6:42

a what a bank was. So when star

6:44

is the equivalent of the self -checkout at

6:46

the bank. Yes. Okay but

6:48

the concept is you take you dump

6:50

your your change in and then and then

6:52

you get a voucher

6:54

that says bring it to a man he'll

6:56

give you $1. No but you take

6:58

you take this like jar that you've had

7:01

in your house or a bucket or

7:03

whatever it is that's accumulated not just coins

7:05

but all sorts of shit right and you've

7:07

dug around in couch cushions and there's there's

7:09

there's like Canadian nickels and shit in there.

7:11

You're putting non coins into the coin. Yeah

7:13

you have like a token from an arcade

7:15

you went to 10 years ago. There's like

7:17

fake money from a monopoly like there's there's

7:19

shit gets into those things. I remember going

7:21

to corn star and just like I got

7:24

arcade tokens because there's a fucking return trade

7:26

dude it doesn't just eat it all so

7:28

like there are times where it's like I

7:30

don't like that land boom. Yeah exactly you

7:32

could you could put that in there but

7:34

there's also times where they're just like a

7:36

paper clip barf. It's

7:38

great. I love it so much. It's a pretty

7:40

funny. It's a pretty funny invention. I like that

7:42

one. I don't I think

7:44

they should they should have fused that with red

7:46

box and you take the coins and you

7:48

put it in just a random movie comes at

7:51

the bottom. How much money you put in

7:53

depends on what kind of movie you get. They

7:55

should partner with red tube where it will

7:57

only play if you throw a whole lot of

7:59

coins. into something you're describing

8:01

like the first what like

8:05

Kinesin is so scopes whatever stuff. Yeah, that's like

8:07

that's a classy name What I think like

8:09

the earliest movies where it was like the you

8:11

put your eyes in like you do turn

8:13

a crank And it would show like a little

8:15

Indian, right? Yeah I mean, yeah, yeah, Fennec

8:17

Fennecys to scopes or something. They had like some

8:19

terrible ass name But like Thomas Edison was

8:22

like you masters. It was you masters, but you

8:24

put in a coin You have to turn

8:26

the crank it would show you like a lady

8:28

waving at you Be like you get a

8:30

boner because it was the 1910s or

8:32

whatever it was invented by Kevin Fennecys

8:34

to scope Fennecys to yeah, yeah He

8:36

was he was bullied so much in

8:38

high school just relentlessly that he was

8:40

like I got to make some sort

8:43

of movie jerk off machine that'll

8:45

You turn this action. I'm actually it's

8:47

a it's called the computer. It's just a

8:49

scope is if is a word That's

8:51

a real word. That's not I didn't make

8:53

that up. It's gonna kiss the Cope

8:56

Fennecys What

8:58

do you marry poppins now what Making

9:01

things up they you

9:04

know, like you sing a song that Edison

9:06

hated the idea of movie theaters because More

9:09

people could watch a movie. It was like

9:11

was it was basically like bulk Right versions of

9:13

these like Nickelodeons. Oh, he didn't

9:15

like that. No, I was that like

9:17

his version of the MPAA not

9:19

liking VCRs Pretty much. Yeah, like no,

9:21

seriously. That was the same idea. Anyway, you

9:23

know what the MPAA stands for? It's

9:26

my parents multiplayer. No,

9:29

my parents and aunts

9:31

It's all the family Wow,

9:37

I Thought the show I thought you

9:39

talked about comic books and shit on the

9:41

show. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I don't have

9:43

anything prepared for this me You

9:46

guys you guys have your fingers on

9:48

the pulse of the video game business.

9:50

What's going on? Scopes is the hottest

9:53

thing these days Crank at them they

9:55

love going turn the cranks in the

9:57

horse run. They are actually bringing Finicistiscopes

10:01

to Call of Duty next week. Yeah, I mean

10:03

that would track with all the wrestling moods

10:05

and fricking fatalities that you can do

10:07

as Michael Myers. I wish I was

10:09

making that up. I think they already

10:11

had them in the, they had a

10:13

zombies mode that was on the Titanic

10:15

and Jeff Goldblum was there as a

10:17

magician for some reason like that. I

10:19

want to believe that exists in Call

10:22

of Duty based on what I had

10:24

seen. Went to a Finicistoscope to upgrade

10:26

your lightning rifle. Didn't

10:28

they didn't they put like didn't they

10:31

put like Jason Boorhe's in that game? dude

10:33

if you if you download call to you

10:35

right now the pick the icon that pops

10:37

up is a picture of I shit you

10:40

not Claudia DeMitt who is the the senator

10:42

from From the boys and in the

10:44

standing directly behind her is Michael Myers.

10:46

So yeah, I don't know if you did

10:48

not know what call did he was and

10:51

you were like what's the hottest video game

10:53

in the world right now and you know

10:55

me. War two was crazy. It's like okay.

10:58

a fucking like tactical Middle

11:00

Eastern woman fights Michael Myers.

11:02

I'm fucking in. I mean,

11:04

I remember like, possibly the

11:06

like very first press event

11:08

I ever attended as an

11:10

intern at computer gaming world

11:13

was the announcement of call of

11:15

duty. The first one war two

11:17

shooter. Yeah, yeah. And we were like

11:19

not another one of these and

11:21

now there's like Michael Myers is

11:23

doing wrestling moves on hell and

11:25

a cell on a woman from

11:27

the ball. Yeah, I don't know. I don't

11:29

know what you're doing over there. I don't

11:31

know what that, yeah, I don't know. I've

11:34

been playing the new one. It's, I like

11:36

it. I got really into Cold War

11:38

when that came out. And I

11:40

think that that meant that the

11:42

well butrin was working. Like, I

11:44

honestly think, I think that my

11:46

brain was producing serotonin at a

11:49

normal enough level that I was like,

11:51

all right, call of duty, let's party.

11:53

Did you unlock the skin of

11:55

skin a fix? Did you unlock

11:58

the skin of fixing? Did he?

12:00

Yeah, I think I think, or wait,

12:02

no. He shot that woman with an

12:04

AR-15. I do. They got the shredder

12:07

in there, which is bizarre. That

12:09

was a, I very, they have shredd,

12:11

isn't that fortnight? Are we

12:13

confusing them now? That was

12:16

as contentious as went, did

12:18

Leatherface, like, shot, I shot

12:20

somebody in the new Texas

12:23

Chainsaw Massacre movie, right? That

12:25

went, like, straight to Netflix

12:27

on Netflix, did he? This

12:29

isn't called duty. But he doesn't have

12:32

a chainsaw. And you know what drives me

12:34

up in a godname wall? So there's

12:36

a gun called a saw, like a

12:38

squad automatic weapon or whatever? Yeah. He

12:40

gave him a gun or like a

12:42

Texas chainsaw, limited edition gun that is

12:44

not that, I don't think? Brigid is

12:47

that, and that's okay. But he doesn't

12:49

have a chainsaw either way. It's got

12:51

like a chainsaw drawn on the side of

12:53

it. And it's stupid. It's stupid.

12:55

So it's the Texas shotgun shotgun

12:58

shotgun massacre. Modern warfare

13:00

indeed. Yeah, that all sounds very

13:02

stupid. It's pretty, I don't

13:04

know, it's pretty stupid. There's a

13:06

whole mission where you have to

13:08

go and infiltrate a Bill Clinton

13:10

fundraiser in the 90s. What, this sounds

13:12

like St. Rowe, what, what is this?

13:14

The new one is like, it's set

13:16

during the Gulf War and they make

13:18

the most, really the most minimal effort

13:20

to try to establish that it's the

13:23

90s. Mostly they just showing a giant.

13:25

What is Michael Myers pay grade during

13:27

the Gulf War. Michael Myers, I don't

13:29

even know, I don't even know if

13:31

he's like a new thing in multiplayer

13:33

or whatever. I don't think he's new

13:35

for the, he's just, he's just in

13:37

there, you know, he's like, they're like,

13:39

oh yeah, Goku's in Fortnite, Michael Myers

13:41

is in there. Did you do the,

13:43

lightly McQueen is in Grand Turismo?

13:46

Did you do the level inside

13:48

the huge Bill Clinton saxophone? I

13:50

thought that was insane, like this

13:52

big gold slide, and you're just

13:54

like shooting. You know, see, I wish that

13:56

they would, like, clearly, they clearly have, have

13:58

demonstrated that the people playing multi- do not

14:00

give a shit about what you put

14:02

in there. Like you'd be in like a,

14:04

you know, you're being like a photorealistic,

14:06

you know, war zone area, you know, these,

14:08

you know, tactical weapons that have been

14:11

like examined by, you know, the

14:13

X Navy SEALs, they've been like, yeah, that's exactly

14:15

how the recoil would be. And then you get in

14:17

your fucking squad and it's like the shredder and

14:19

Nicki Minaj. No,

14:21

the Call of Duty, Call of Duty

14:23

single player is like a German

14:25

shepherd. And then multiplayer is like, if

14:27

you shave the face onto a

14:29

German shepherd's ass, it's

14:31

basically like, all right, this is Mr. serious.

14:33

Like, er, and then you get to the

14:35

back and it's like, oh, oh, oh, Hong

14:37

Kong and it's business in the front, party

14:39

in the back. It's yeah, that's exactly it's

14:41

it just didn't they add the

14:44

guy from terrifier?

14:46

Yes, that's so that's, didn't

14:48

they worth the clown? Yeah, I think they

14:50

did. Yeah, that's I

14:52

haven't seen

14:55

those me either. They

14:57

sound too, too scary for me,

14:59

too, too, too hardcore. All

15:02

the Call of Duty celebrity operator

15:04

cameos over the years. Why would I?

15:06

Oh, good. This, yeah, this. What,

15:08

did you find that on IGN? No,

15:10

this was, this is GameSpot. No,

15:12

no, no slander to them. This article's

15:14

probably old too. We're at a

15:16

point where like it's harder to name

15:18

something that hasn't been in some

15:20

games of the service than ever. Well,

15:22

I mean, it's a funko poppization

15:24

of all of media. Yeah, yeah, it

15:26

is. Sorry,

15:28

I didn't make dinner tonight,

15:30

honey. Helen Bonham Carter and

15:32

I were playing Black Ops

15:34

Force obvious together. I'm

15:38

I'm almost done rescuing Kevin

15:40

Spacey. Please

15:45

tell me that that's not Kevin

15:47

Spacey. He's not. No, he's in. He's

15:49

in. He was in. Was he

15:51

in Ghosts? He was.

15:53

He was in like, oh, geez. Why do I

15:55

know he was good at it, too? Because he's

15:57

he knows how to disappear. Man

16:00

So you can get video games

16:02

everybody. What are you playing

16:05

these days? What are you

16:07

playing? Anything? Well, aside from a

16:09

secret thing, I can't talk

16:11

about. For fun. I will tell

16:13

you one of the things I've

16:15

been most excited about

16:17

lately, which is of course something

16:20

old. Okay. The Castlevania, Nintendo

16:22

DS Trilogy. Oh, it's so

16:24

good. Came out. on other

16:26

platforms, the California Domino Collection,

16:29

that came in on PC,

16:31

on switch, on PS4, and

16:33

those games are finally free

16:35

of DS Jail. Yeah. And

16:38

they're so good. What are you

16:40

playing it on? Oh, PC. Okay, yeah. It's

16:42

a, yeah. I'd love to have a second

16:44

monitor to get the second

16:47

screen there. No, God. No, I didn't

16:49

even think about that. No, it's actually

16:51

laid out really well because they put

16:53

the they just put everything right in

16:55

front. So everything's on the screen. Great.

16:57

Yeah, you got everything right there. They, um,

16:59

those game, you know, that series, I feel a

17:01

little bad for the DS games in that series,

17:03

because I feel like they were kind of like

17:05

mega manning that series at that point

17:07

where they just released like six games

17:09

over a period of seven years and

17:12

everybody stops carrying. Yeah, yeah. Like by

17:14

the time you get to the last

17:16

couple, which are the best ones, everybody's

17:18

like over it. Oh man, actually, I

17:20

actually think Donusaro is the best

17:22

of the punch of those. I

17:24

think, of those, that trilogy? Yeah.

17:26

I think Donusaro is one of

17:28

the worst metroidania games. Really? Am

17:30

I crazy? I replayed it like...

17:32

It's 100% the worst game in

17:34

that trilogy. So I replayed it

17:36

a couple weeks before this collection

17:38

was announced and revealed, which so

17:40

I felt like an idiot. But

17:42

so I went back when this came

17:45

out. You did chase all that dumb

17:47

crap, the stupid seal? So I played

17:49

all of that dumb hack that all

17:51

of that. Oh, the one that auto does

17:53

it. I have that. And yeah, I

17:55

think there's probably some other quality of

17:57

life shit in there, but yeah. worse

18:00

and worse in each one of those games.

18:02

Well they did they, the, the, the,

18:04

the, the, for, Don Asaro and, um,

18:06

Portrait of ruin had that like, anime,

18:08

those anime portrait. Yep. And then order

18:10

of Ecclesia goes back to like

18:13

the very classic, I forget the

18:15

name of the art director, but

18:17

the very classic Castlevania look. Was

18:19

that like, no, no, no, no, that's not

18:21

him. No, no, that's not him. No, no,

18:23

no, no, that's not him, no, that's not him,

18:25

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

18:27

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

18:30

You never played Portia to ruin or

18:32

Order of Ecclesia? Oh, I did. I

18:34

played them all back in the day.

18:36

Okay. Yeah. Those are like possibly Pete

18:38

Castlevania, those two games. I love to

18:41

Order of Ecclesia. I don't, I remember

18:43

being kind of split on Portia to

18:45

room, but I. That's because at the

18:47

time you were burnt out on them.

18:50

I probably was. The GBA worms were

18:52

the ones that I revisited the most

18:54

because they were the easiest to emulate

18:56

to emulate. playing for fun is

18:58

those it's been it's been really good

19:01

those games hold up yeah we used

19:03

to get one every couple of years

19:05

and then we were like no more

19:07

sir I'm full there were six seriously

19:09

like Mega Man the Mega Man one

19:11

through six came out on the NES

19:14

between 87 and 94 and all these

19:16

Castlevania games were like between 2001 and

19:18

2008 they just kept making them and

19:20

people who got burnt out and then

19:22

they just stopped which sucks like

19:24

they over corrected basically And it

19:27

pretty much killed whatever interest they

19:29

had in doing more like 2D

19:31

ones. That's crazy. That's such a

19:33

problem. And we haven't had a new

19:35

Castlevania game in like 10 years? Didn't

19:37

they do some weird one on 360

19:39

that was like, was it, it was

19:42

like, multiplayer? It was like a 2D Castlevania

19:44

that was multiple. They did, it was

19:46

called Harmony of despair. Yes. And if

19:49

you recall, I was really into it

19:51

at the time at IGN. You guys made

19:53

fun of me at the time or well

19:55

Brian did you weren't there yet Brian made

19:57

fun of you anyway for no reason Well,

19:59

yeah, that's true but um you talk

20:01

like a duck that's just it.

20:03

Yeah they used a bunch of

20:06

assets from symphony that I am from

20:08

these three games on this

20:10

this DS collection and it

20:12

was like this big like

20:14

like four-player whatever it was

20:16

my player game where you

20:18

went through a bunch of

20:20

levels and then like 12

20:22

years later vampire survivor was

20:24

like California asset flip hold

20:26

my beer and they just

20:28

became like one of the

20:30

best-selling games. And then Castlevania

20:32

shit just is coming to it

20:34

or just came to it? I believe that

20:36

hits on Halloween. Like on Halloween.

20:39

Yeah. I mean they're just like

20:41

keeping crunching with that stupid-ass game.

20:43

Like I loaded that up again. I

20:45

played through pretty much all the... I guess I beat

20:47

it, I don't know how you beat it, I don't know how you

20:49

beat it, I guess I unlocked a bunch of people or stuff. You

20:52

unlock all the stuff and all the characters and all the different weapons?

20:54

It got to a point where I kept, like you get like, you

20:56

get like achievements so fast in that fucking game that like I just

20:58

thought people were texting me and it would just unlock the bird that

21:00

flies around in circles or whatever, you like you leveled up your garlic

21:02

all the way or whatever, or whatever. And I just, I just, I

21:04

started, I played like, I played a, I played around, I played around,

21:06

I played around, I played around, I played around, I played around, like,

21:08

I played around, I played around, I played around, I played around, I

21:10

played around, I played around, I played around, I played around, I played around,

21:13

I played around, I played around, I played around, I played around, I

21:15

played around, I played around, I played around, I played Well, I

21:17

was waiting for call of duty to

21:19

download, which was, you know, a

21:21

good, a good while. And it was just,

21:23

it was one of those things where

21:26

like, I don't, there's nothing to

21:28

forget, because it's just such

21:30

a stupid game, but like,

21:32

they've added so much stuff

21:34

since then that I was just

21:36

like, I didn't get like the character

21:39

select. And I was like, who in

21:41

the hell are all these people? What

21:43

is going on here? Very clearly

21:45

that it's like oh so Konami does

21:47

know about you and you could make

21:49

a Castlevania thing, but they did contra

21:52

first and they called operation guns is

21:54

like I'm gonna send my friend over

21:56

with his gun is make sure the

21:59

place is safe from the case that

22:01

joined. You know what's wild about that

22:03

is that I believe Stephanie

22:05

Sterling is the lead writer. And

22:07

really? Oh, man. And she was writing

22:10

a lot of it. And when she

22:12

was at Konami, when I was a

22:14

destructive, or when she was a

22:16

destructive with reviewing stuff,

22:18

Konami blacklisted us because

22:21

of her reviews of games. I remember

22:23

that. Okay. And like I've, yeah. So

22:25

I don't know how that shook out

22:28

exactly, but. Yeah, I don't know it's

22:30

it's wild that that is like I

22:32

don't know I had to I had

22:34

to like punch up a blurb about

22:36

Rocket League today and I haven't

22:38

thought about Rocket League in any

22:40

You know great extent in a

22:42

while and that game is almost

22:45

10 years old Mm-hmm. And it's

22:47

still cooking like they're still putting

22:49

out new Car wheels or whatever

22:52

or funny balls or whatever isn't

22:54

that and like it's crazy to

22:56

me that like you know there's

22:59

big shit you can throw in there

23:01

but it's crazy to me that like

23:03

weird like strange little fairly simple

23:05

experiences like vampire survivors

23:07

or rocket league can keep getting

23:10

new shit while still staying the same

23:12

shit you know it's awesome it's wild

23:14

man let me tell you about dead

23:16

by daylight a game that's like gonna

23:18

be 10 years old before long they

23:21

just added a bunch of Castlevania costumes

23:23

of the game they Yeah, they put

23:25

out like, they put out like this

23:27

user survey that's like, what franchises do

23:30

you want to see added? Some of

23:32

the choices were like W E, like

23:34

Undertaker, that, yeah, that makes. Yeah, like,

23:36

you know, 100% you know that if

23:39

they did it, it would be Undertaker

23:41

is the killer. Yeah, I don't know,

23:43

that's, I remember seeing that game at

23:45

like packs. He's using his superpower, the

23:47

magga agenda. I recently looked at it,

23:49

they had that on like a demo

23:52

at Pax when it was still in

23:54

beta or whatever, and I was just

23:56

like, oh, you got like you made up

23:58

your own, your own horror things. And

24:00

I think they just announced the Friday the 13th game and

24:02

I was like cool. Good luck guys This is gonna

24:04

be Jason's gonna eat your lunch, and then it was like

24:06

well. Well, it could have still yeah

24:09

But they screwed that up Sadly,

24:12

no Dibbity Daylight's doing just great over

24:14

there. Yeah, but it's another one of those

24:16

like oh, it's just gonna keep going

24:18

forever It's just this perpetual forever money maker

24:21

Yeah, like it's it's weird that I don't

24:23

know I I went to I went back to

24:25

Connecticut a few years ago And was like hanging

24:27

out with people I hadn't I hadn't seen in

24:29

years and like talking to people Just talking to

24:31

normal people who have no no tangential connection to

24:33

video game bullshit like I do like who just

24:35

are They live in real

24:38

life, you know, there's no there's no obligation to

24:40

stay up to date on anything There's no I

24:42

love I love those people because they're always like

24:44

when are you gonna Put new

24:46

songs in guitar hero. Yeah,

24:48

and you're like what I don't I've never

24:50

had that power And also I think

24:52

that game like is either dead or came

24:55

back and died again or something But

24:57

I don't that's not I don't do that

25:00

Oh for me when I was in the press when

25:02

people would be like, what do you do? And I'd

25:04

be like I'm I'm in the video games media and they're

25:06

like also you test game and I got to the

25:08

point where I would just I would just be like Yep.

25:10

Yes, I do. I used to be

25:12

like, oh, we're like the you know Like the

25:14

New York Times at the CNN of video game

25:16

video and then I stopped saying that now I'm

25:19

like we're like either ESPN the video games because

25:21

if you say the other thing people like oh,

25:23

it's so um, should I burn your building down?

25:26

No, no, I mostly work from

25:29

home. So definitely don't please

25:31

don't But yeah max that's

25:33

isn't isn't it the best you run into them

25:35

and they just have it's so it's so cute Just

25:37

normal. I mean like I didn't I don't know

25:39

I I guess I knew Ryan played dead by

25:42

daylight But like I don't my I was

25:44

getting a tattoo from a friend and her like

25:46

the the girl who shared her studio is like

25:48

this You know gorgeous woman who is like crazy

25:50

fucking Like tattoo work and is dating some like

25:52

guy in a hardcore bed It's just like

25:54

not not the kind of person I'd be like,

25:56

oh, you know, you don't seem like a gamer

25:58

and she's like, oh, no like 900 hours and dead

26:00

by daylight. And you play anything else, you're just like, no,

26:03

that's all I play. And I was like,

26:05

what? All right, whatever. Cool. I guess that works. Nine

26:08

hundred, huh? I met somebody the other

26:10

day who said that they were in a

26:12

gaming and then told me that they

26:14

started a, like a V it was like

26:16

a VR, VR gambling

26:18

channel back in the day.

26:20

And it was like, that's like, that's, that's

26:23

a corner of that, of this world

26:25

that's technically like, yeah, you're, that's technically video

26:27

games. Like the amount of shit that

26:29

gets put under there. Like, I'm surprised, I'm

26:31

surprised that they don't lump like big

26:33

game hunting in with everything we do. Like,

26:35

yeah, you know, I play Tetris sometimes

26:37

that kill lions. Man,

26:41

did you guys see that story where

26:43

Mark Zuckerberg was like, I have like

26:45

600 hours in civilization. I'm probably the

26:47

best civilization player in the world. I

26:49

fucking hate when those guys do that.

26:51

I don't, I don't give a shit

26:53

what you do. You're, fuck you.

26:56

Don't tell if you're that rich,

26:58

just shut the fuck up. Make people think

27:00

that you're working all day. Like, yeah, we're

27:02

doing cool stuff. Yeah, we're doing cool stuff.

27:05

I don't want to say that you've got like

27:07

a Julius Caesar haircut. Like, of course he plays

27:09

Civ, like you can, you can tell it's fine.

27:13

They're doing this, like, extremely backwards hat

27:15

remix of that dude right now. And

27:18

it's, it's, I think it's working on

27:20

a lot of people, but it's very

27:22

funny. It's they're just like, hey, guess

27:24

who? Guess who went, we hid, hid

27:26

behind the wall and came back. It's

27:28

the cool Zuckerberg. He's back backwards hat

27:30

on. Yeah. How do you it, kids?

27:32

And there's a lot of people that

27:34

when the grownups that you could, you

27:37

could do like you could do this, you could do

27:39

that and do peek -a -boo. And they would, they

27:41

would go, whoa, oh my God. It's a lot of

27:43

people like that. They would get shocked by that.

27:45

And they saw the Zuckerberg remix and he came out

27:47

and they're just like, that's

27:50

a cool new Zuckerberg right there. Who

27:52

is working on a lot of things? Thousands

27:55

really falling for the cool new Zuckerberg. It's

27:58

yeah. This

28:00

is looking to be like, I'm fucking with

28:02

you. It's true. No, no, I've seen it. I

28:04

love that they're just like, people think

28:06

he may have hired a stylist and it's

28:08

like, yeah, no kidding. Of course he

28:10

did. It's interesting because it is like a,

28:12

it's kind of a paradigm shift from

28:14

like the old like, the old like tech

28:16

billionaire aesthetic, like the Steve Jobs thing

28:19

of like, I wear running shoes and jeans

28:21

because I like to be comfortable. Like

28:23

he was ride or die for wearing like

28:25

a hoodie and running shoes or whatever his, you

28:27

know, whatever his outfit was for a million years. And

28:29

then he's just suddenly like, no,

28:31

I need to wear like, you

28:33

know, like raw denim from Japan

28:35

and like a cool track suit

28:38

or whatever. Like it's, I

28:40

don't know. I'm

28:42

not about to be like, good, good job,

28:45

Zuckerberg. But I don't know, like it's interesting when

28:47

people are willing to change or try new things.

28:49

Like that's, yeah. I think it's much more

28:51

interesting if you have, if you are one of, if you

28:53

were one of the people, many people who's richer than God

28:55

at this point, you can do whatever, you

28:57

know, like spend your money on something,

29:00

you know, like if you're, if you got it, flaunt

29:02

it, baby. I don't know, like that's,

29:04

and that's how I was tricked. That's how

29:06

was. By a social media network, I don't

29:08

know. No, I get it. It's, I think

29:10

my point is that there's a, I think

29:12

that there's a lot of people now that

29:14

if you did the, this trick where you

29:16

put your thumb in your fingers and you

29:18

pretend it's your nose and then you go

29:20

to take it away, that they would die.

29:22

Like I think there's a lot of people

29:24

that if they saw that they would, they'd

29:27

go, holy shit, that's real. And

29:29

they would collapse and they would die. And they

29:31

would, it would, it would be one of those

29:33

deaths where like they're, they're throwing up, they're peeing

29:35

at the same time. They're like, his nose fell

29:37

off. There's a lot of people that would fall

29:40

for that now. I kind of want to see

29:42

like a, like a TikTok channel or something where

29:44

it's just, it's like a doctor very seriously being

29:46

like, here's one medical thing they don't want you

29:48

to know about. A lot of people have been

29:50

talking about their noses falling off. You've been seeing

29:52

it like this. It's just, just shit like that.

29:54

Like you got to watch out for your finger

29:56

coming off. If you look carefully, it looks like

29:58

my finger is coming off my. hand to that whole,

30:00

that whole little thing. I know. I did the,

30:02

I did the thing. I showed my kid

30:04

that trick. She's six. And I said, like, here,

30:06

here's the, here's my nose. And I took

30:08

it away. And she was like, that's just your

30:11

thumb. And then I showed

30:13

her the trick that's like, you

30:15

put one, your thumb over your hand

30:17

like that, and then you put

30:19

your finger down and you move your thumb

30:21

and it looks like it's, it's off. And

30:26

she it was like that. I

30:29

like how Ryan was like, you

30:31

guys have been playing any video

30:33

games lately, which I tricked my

30:35

daughter into thinking I could take

30:37

my thumb off. Have

30:39

you blood squabs and really sell

30:41

it? Have you played Disappearing Fingr? Limited

30:44

Run Games, partner with Devolver on

30:46

it? No. But

30:49

yeah, was it was like

30:51

that, that like Harrison Ford, David

30:53

Blaine video. I

30:58

Ryan, what did you think of that?

31:00

That that deep fake video they put

31:02

out last year with the Indiana Jones

31:04

logo on it? Well,

31:10

nobody ever. I don't think I talked

31:13

to you about this today. Nobody ever,

31:15

nobody ever wants to talk to me

31:17

about that movie because I convince anybody

31:19

to watch it. Oh, yeah. My stupid

31:21

co -host Ryan Higgins is like, yeah,

31:23

yeah, I'll get to it. And he

31:25

just doesn't watch it. Dude, I love

31:27

Indiana Jones and I haven't even felt

31:29

like absentmindedly compelled to watch it on

31:31

a plane. Like you've never you've never

31:34

seen it. I haven't seen it. I had to do like

31:36

the Ending Explained video or whatever. And I was like,

31:38

it normally if I have any interest in

31:40

seeing a movie whatsoever and I want to be

31:42

like, not surprised, I'll be like, get someone else

31:44

to do it. Make make somebody else do my job

31:46

for me. Not surprised was actually the original

31:48

name of those films. Have you have you

31:50

seen it, Brian? Yes,

31:52

I have. So

31:54

yeah, Indiana Jones and the Dial

31:57

of Destiny. I felt like that

31:59

was that was. fine. It was better

32:01

than came under the crystal skull. It was

32:03

I left this theater smiling, but like it

32:05

probably wasn't was it essential to exist? Probably

32:07

not. I liked it was fine. I thought

32:09

the ending was very touching. I'll say that.

32:12

Well with it being the send off. I thought

32:14

that was very touching. I thought that was very

32:16

touching. I think that there was like like like

32:18

I got an hour and a half into that

32:20

movie and I was like wow this but I

32:22

was that was that was that was Interesting.

32:24

I guess the movie's about to

32:26

end now and then there was

32:29

another hour and hour and hour.

32:31

It's like a longest movie. It's

32:33

like a lord of the race.

32:35

There's there's like three. There's I

32:37

swear there's three 23 minute car

32:39

chase sequences in that movie. Like

32:41

there's my one that's my one

32:43

kind of like the one the

32:45

one. Unfortunately, it's just such a

32:47

good thing to complain about, right?

32:49

He just gets to drive. That's

32:51

like all he does. Yeah, they're

32:54

just like, remember that? What did

32:56

you like about Indiana Jones?

32:58

Oh, you know, like, he

33:00

would hit people with his whip.

33:02

He would use the whip to

33:04

swing across stuff. He would hit

33:07

rocks with the, with the, with

33:09

the whip as a seat belt

33:11

and then drove a car. My whole

33:13

thing with this tech that, the

33:15

deaging tech they're using in movies

33:17

now, is they're always just like,

33:19

that looks pretty good, right? And

33:21

you're like, yeah, actually, holy shit,

33:23

it does. So we're only going

33:26

to look at that for like

33:28

two seconds then, right? Because that

33:30

would be the perfect amount. And

33:32

they're like, no, probably 25 minutes.

33:34

20 minutes. Is this anything with

33:36

alien Romulus? I was like, every

33:38

time they cut to that fucking

33:40

deaged dude in alien Romulus.

33:42

Which like you had so many

33:44

options for that character to just like

33:46

he's an Android So make him

33:48

as decompose as humanly possible the

33:50

parts that don't work on his

33:52

face. What was at Lantan Jackson's

33:55

character? No, it was In home. Yeah,

33:57

oh Really? They do a whole deep fake thing

33:59

with that Sorry for just the

34:01

stray, uh, spoiler, but, oh yeah.

34:03

Yeah, he's, he, there's like a

34:06

deep fake Android. People on

34:08

the podcast have gotten mad

34:11

at me for spoiling reservoir

34:13

dogs. Okay, so. Do the dogs

34:15

get out of the reservoir?

34:18

Who left? Maybe. It's debatable.

34:20

It's debatable. That group had

34:22

a whole, you know, there

34:24

was like 11 other songs

34:26

on that album. What, reservoir

34:29

dog? I think

34:31

I looked into that and it was

34:33

just like, like seeing the Lochnar and

34:36

heavy metal, like it was just something

34:38

too evil to even comprehend. I was

34:40

just like, I must look away and

34:42

forget this third. I don't, that song

34:44

is like low-key, one of the most

34:47

mean-spirited public albums, because it's basically just

34:49

like, who put ugly women in here?

34:51

That's what that song is. Yes. I

34:53

actually genuinely didn't, all I know is

34:55

that like who let the dog, I

34:58

didn't know there was any, any... I

35:00

didn't know that's what it was going

35:02

for. No, that's what I don't like

35:04

that though. Yeah, that's what it's,

35:07

that's the whole thing. I mean,

35:09

I don't agree. I'm not supporting

35:12

this song. You don't agree

35:14

with, with their perception of

35:16

what, of what they said

35:18

happened? No, no, I don't think

35:20

it's good. I don't, I don't

35:22

agree with the message. I don't

35:24

know if I disagree with what

35:27

they thought they saw. I mean that's

35:29

up there with like with a mock

35:31

ray now, which is about a woman

35:33

cheating on her boyfriend with while

35:35

he's in the army. Yep. Cheese. I

35:38

don't think people know this, but we

35:40

used to have to listen to

35:42

that song 20 times a day. Like

35:44

anywhere you went for like a full

35:46

couple of years, I feel like

35:49

it was probably like five, six

35:51

years. You just go somewhere be

35:53

like, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung,

35:55

gung, gung. Yeah, and there's a whole

35:57

there was a whole specific dance to

35:59

it. And when it first came out, you're like, this is

36:01

fun. And then same

36:03

deal, like it just

36:06

five years later, you're like, we're still, we're still

36:08

playing this in every commercial, huh? I remember like,

36:10

like Chumble Wombo was like, tub thumping was on the

36:12

radio so much that I was listening to radio one time

36:14

and like the DJ just turned it off in the

36:16

middle of the song and was like, nope. Sorry, we're done.

36:18

I hadn't had enough. The

36:21

weird thing about that is like, and this didn't

36:23

occur to me as like Chumble Wombo was an eighties

36:25

band that had just kept trying. I

36:27

didn't know that. But they follow that whole

36:29

naming convention of like, you know, Oingo, Oingo

36:31

Boingo, Kajagogo

36:34

or whatever, like Banana Rambo. Like

36:36

there was all these gibberish ass band

36:38

names. Classy Supo. Yeah. Look.

36:42

Pretty much. Man.

36:46

Well, Fennecistacope. Fennecistacope,

36:48

Fennecistascopes. Great name for

36:50

Fennecistascope. Fennecistascope. Yeah. Did

36:52

I say it right? Yeah. Is it Fenne

36:54

or Fenne? Fenne. Fennecistascope.

36:57

Like Fenton, no, it's not like

36:59

Fentanyl. It's P -H -E -N -A -K

37:01

-I -S -T -A. OK. Scope.

37:03

I don't understand. Query

37:05

for the panel. Would

37:07

you watch a

37:10

Kit Fisto Fennecistascope?

37:13

A what? A Kit Fisto

37:15

Fennecistascope. I can't do

37:17

it. I can't do it.

37:20

Can you say it? Kit

37:22

Fisto Fennecistascope. I would watch that. There

37:24

it is. Have you seen that thing

37:26

like the side by side of Kit

37:28

Fisto and Attack of the Clones and

37:30

the Revenge of the Sith? And he's

37:32

just like a completely different puppet or

37:34

whatever. No. There's

37:36

a whole weird Kit Fisto community that

37:38

thinks he's really hot because it's some

37:41

shit he did in the Clone Wars

37:43

cartoon. And I'm just like, all right,

37:45

I'm too old for this. Are there

37:47

two, is there a two Kit

37:49

Fisto theory? No.

37:52

I think he got worked on. That's

37:55

what the plan is. think he's

37:57

on Ozempic or whatever. I know.

37:59

So. Then didn't

38:01

that those same people get mad

38:03

because like a Kiati Monday was

38:05

almost supposed to be like 62

38:07

or something. Yeah they got mad

38:09

the Kiati Monday was like canonically

38:11

40 according to some Dark Horse

38:13

comic or whatever and then he

38:15

showed up on the Apostle and

38:17

they were mad that he was

38:20

110 or whatever. It's

38:22

like, I mean, I love it. Wait

38:24

till you find out about celebrity ages.

38:26

What if they had just what if

38:28

in the middle of finding that out

38:30

and those people got so mad

38:32

someone had come over

38:34

to their ear and whispered

38:36

I understand why you're mad but

38:38

also they're the show's gonna get

38:40

cancelled so it's it's it's not

38:42

even worth getting this upset over

38:44

and they would have been like so is

38:46

Kiati Monday not the same age

38:48

I thought no no he's still a

38:50

different age than what you thought but they're

38:52

canceling the show and then he would

38:54

just dive on it and then they

38:57

went wait wait no but they're making another show

38:59

and it's gonna have a woman in it

39:01

and then the guy just flew into a blind

39:03

hey that's right that's right I've been watching

39:05

I've been watching the Star Wars movie with my

39:07

kid who is all the Star Wars

39:09

movie the Star Wars movie movies

39:11

but I've been doing it in

39:13

in maybe the most like if

39:15

there's reverse machete order there's machete order

39:17

this is like broken chainsaw order

39:19

like we have okay here's how we've

39:21

done it so far we did

39:23

the Phantom Menace because

39:25

it's it's bright and colorful and

39:27

gets it there's fun shit happens

39:29

pretty quickly unlike Howard order the finnacist

39:31

to cope so the finnacist to

39:34

scope order yeah get fisto finnacist

39:36

to scope or so I showed

39:38

her the Phantom Menace return of

39:40

the Jedi okay okay the

39:42

first half of Empire

39:44

Strikes Back this really is

39:46

reverse machete order attack of the clones and

39:48

then the Force Awakens and again she's which

39:50

she she watched attack of the clones with

39:52

my kid a couple years ago on the

39:55

couch they were sitting next to each other

39:57

which was always very funny to me because I

39:59

think that was there That was their first

40:01

time watching a Star Wars movie together. I

40:03

think probably my kid picked it because

40:05

she was older. But

40:07

we should have stepped in, we should have

40:09

stepped in. in to be like, this is

40:11

for you. Honestly, that one's fun to look

40:13

at. That one's got a lot of silly

40:15

stuff going on. But like one thing that

40:17

kind of helped her get through Jedi was

40:19

like, I don't know, I thought she'd be

40:21

scared of the Rancor and like I'm trying

40:23

to just imprint on her that like movies

40:25

are not, you shouldn't be scared of movies.

40:28

They're fake, they're made up, you know? And

40:30

the Rancor, she didn't bat an eyelash, but Salacious

40:32

Crumb scared the shit out of her. And

40:34

so I pulled out this like big ass

40:36

J .W. Rinsler like making of Star Wars

40:38

Return of the Jedi book and like found

40:40

a in progress photo of like the Salacious

40:42

Crumb puppet. And I was like, look, it's

40:44

a puppet. We could make a puppet, we could

40:46

make a monster. And she's like, how does Jabba the hut work? And

40:48

I was like, let's

40:50

do this. And I pulled up like a

40:52

video that showed like the guy inside

40:54

Jabba the hut who's like, my job is

40:57

to smoke a cigar and every time

40:59

Jabba takes a puff of his hooker, I

41:01

blow cigar smoke out of his mouth.

41:03

I, if I had a Scotch, it would

41:05

be a perfect job. I spent 20

41:07

minutes at a Italian restaurant in New Jersey

41:09

a few weekends ago explaining to my nephew

41:11

how there were like five or six people

41:13

inside Jabba the hut. We don't

41:15

have enough photos of that happening. It

41:17

blew his fucking mind. I was just like,

41:19

hey, here's this diagram, artist rendition and

41:21

also someone's even made an action figure version

41:24

of the five or six puppeteers they

41:26

put inside Jabba the hut underneath them. Like

41:28

the drawings of them are hilarious cause

41:30

it looks like the members of a band.

41:32

Like it looks like six guys in

41:34

a band who are all playing. It's like,

41:36

I'm playing the tongue. There's a clip

41:38

of them all getting interviewed and like one

41:40

guy's like, yeah, I work the tail

41:42

and he's just holding this like metal rod

41:44

and like jerking it off and I show

41:46

this to my kid. I'm like, that's how they made

41:48

Jabba the hut and they never show like, they

41:50

don't do like a, when I do this, this thing

41:52

happens. Like they don't show like the sort of cause

41:54

and effect of like the different parts of what they're

41:56

doing. So I don't think she could process that, but

41:59

she loves. She's totally cool with that. I showed her

42:01

the Rancor stuff There's like the work -in -progress feel -tip it stuff

42:03

where he was like we tried to make it a costume Which

42:06

is arguably scarier than anything. It's been in Star Wars

42:08

where it's just have you seen this where somebody

42:10

is just wearing a Rancor costume But

42:13

it's unfinished. Oh, that sounds weird

42:15

looks like the the Jean -Claude Van Damme

42:17

predator in that it's just like unpainted

42:19

foam But it's like it's weird because

42:21

it's just it's the Rancor shape But

42:23

it's like someone in it and like

42:25

a mascot costume. Oh, yes. I have

42:27

seen yeah, okay He kind of looks

42:29

like when you know When they make

42:31

those like really turdy versions of clay

42:33

face Yeah, totally. No, no,

42:35

he just looks like extra turdy. Yeah,

42:37

no He looks like those those VAC men

42:39

toys they made with like stretch -armstrong back

42:41

in the 90s But so so is

42:43

your kid still afraid of salacious crumb? I

42:45

think she's still not wild about him

42:47

Brian gave me the black series Job of

42:49

the hut figure and she like immediately

42:51

was like I that's mine now and just

42:53

like took it And she was like

42:56

so stoked about it. She like demanded to

42:58

take it to bed and we got

43:00

up the next morning And she just put

43:02

it outside her bedroom door It's

43:05

like what happened and she's like he's

43:07

not he's not good to sleep

43:09

with and I was like He's

43:11

like a hard plastic 14 inch

43:14

long like polystyrene croissant like what

43:16

he I

43:18

think you should show your kid

43:20

he was big adventure And

43:22

then the large March. Yeah, and then

43:24

the images of those rotting teeny

43:26

-feet ninja turtles. Oh boy Maybe

43:29

you see the but the weird thing is all what they're

43:31

making. They're making a really good the black series of

43:33

oboe I'm all about I'm gonna get that tour. He looks

43:35

great. I like they're

43:37

also doing a Kit -fisto

43:39

Phantacist scope which I think

43:41

fans are really hyped

43:44

about yeah But no, I put on Force Awakens

43:46

and we it gets to like the wrath tar part

43:48

and I was like Check it out. It's cool monster coming

43:50

up and it's the you know Wrath Tars and eaten

43:52

the what they're like those space octopuses

43:54

that eat a bunch of the dudes from the

43:56

raid that don't do anything Wait,

43:58

is this is what movie? This is

44:00

Force Awakens. Don't you remember that song? Wait,

44:02

wait, was this when Han was trying

44:04

to get his ship that way out? He

44:06

shows up in this totally phoned in

44:09

like rectangle ship and he's just like, oh,

44:11

I'm moving to Raftars. That's all real.

44:13

And then, you know, there's this whole weird

44:15

showdown. And I remember just watching this

44:17

and be like, oh, shit, it's the guys

44:19

from the raid. There's gonna be like

44:21

a crazy fight scene. And they just get

44:23

in like a short argument and then

44:26

they get eaten by CGI octopuses. Yeah, we

44:28

spent like months anticipating the scene because

44:30

we were like, all right, so it's like

44:32

there's creatures and there's also like an

44:34

entire fight crew who is trained to beat

44:36

the living shit out of each other

44:38

in amazing movies and then nothing happened. And

44:40

you're like, wait a minute. I don't

44:43

know, that movie was a special time, but

44:45

as a movie by itself, it is

44:47

just like, what are we doing here? But

44:49

yeah, my kid was like, how did

44:51

they make the Raftars? And I was like,

44:53

computers. Did they blow up Maz Kanata's

44:55

pirate castle in that movie? Yeah, they made

44:58

like one of the coolest spots and

45:00

they just blew it up and that was

45:02

it. Yeah, that's so dumb. I

45:05

don't even remember these characters. Is she

45:07

the little weird one in the goggles? Do

45:10

you remember Goss Tours? Goss

45:14

Tours, is that a Disneyland ride? No,

45:16

it's Goss Tours. He's like one of the

45:18

aliens they made an action figure of

45:20

and they didn't do anything with it. Goss?

45:22

about Quadranero. Ben Quadraneros? Goss Tours. So

45:25

that's the thing that's definitely screwing my kid

45:27

up is that we're watching these movies

45:29

and she's asking questions that most parents would

45:31

be like, I don't know. And I'm

45:33

like, that's Eve Coth, you know? Yeah, she's

45:35

like, who's that? I'm like, what are

45:37

you all about? Dingo! Who's that? That's Sassy

45:39

Tin, you know? And I'm just like,

45:41

that's not an answer that a normal parent

45:43

should have. Yeah. It's like, who's that?

45:45

That's Luke Skywalker. Who's that? That's

45:48

Yarnadal Gargan, you know? Like there's

45:50

just, who's that? That's Dota Bodanda Waido.

45:53

I know all these stupid ass

45:55

background characters, like who's that frog guy?

45:57

And I'm like, that's Captain Tarple.

45:59

You know, like it's just I know

46:01

too many these fake -ass animal men

46:03

and it like I

46:05

don't know I worried that she's gonna be like latched on

46:07

to the wrong Parts of these movies

46:09

or I don't I'm not worried about it.

46:11

There's worse worse shit that could be going on,

46:13

but it's just like I Don't

46:16

know. It's it's just a way it's

46:18

a It makes me self -conscious, but I'm

46:20

also not gonna lie to her if she

46:23

asks who's that I'm gonna be like

46:25

That's opal rancises like that's I can't be

46:27

I can't bullshit her my kid You're

46:29

just making half these up, you know who

46:31

else Was Pablo Hidalgo probably yeah, I

46:33

don't think I don't think Named all those

46:35

dudes. He got really into the movies

46:37

for a couple years and then Then

46:40

just got in a bunch of other stuff and is

46:42

now warming up to like wanting to see them

46:44

again So I'm excited for that.

46:46

I think we did like a full

46:48

I think I don't I think

46:50

she's seen all of them except

46:52

for Rises Skywalker Like

46:55

honestly, I think I've seen all of

46:57

them. Yes, she's she's she's seen

46:59

all of them I I haven't watched

47:01

that movie in What

47:03

five years? Rises Skywalker.

47:05

Yeah, that was the last movie.

47:07

I saw in a theater before

47:09

the COVID lockdown It

47:12

was the I saw that

47:15

what was it 1917 No,

47:18

it was in 2000 it was in it

47:21

was in 2019 Brian 1917

47:24

came out in 2019, right? 1917

47:26

was pretty fun. It was pretty sick.

47:28

That was a good movie came

47:30

out in 1917 Brian. You're an idiot

47:34

1917 actually came

47:36

out in The

47:38

end of 1916

47:40

1776, okay, all

47:42

right Now

47:44

yeah, Rises Skywalker was the last one I

47:46

saw and that is the most this

47:49

I guess this exists kind of movie Mm

47:51

-hmm. I Mean, there's no good way to end

47:53

it, but there's also better ways to end it They

47:55

sure did make a sequel to a Star Wars movie

47:57

that doesn't exist. They sure did glue a lot of

47:59

crap back together and raised a lot of crap

48:01

from the dead for no reason. That was one

48:03

of those movies where I walked out and I

48:05

was like, all right, yeah, I mean, not the

48:07

best way to go, and then I spent the

48:09

last five years going, hey, wait a minute. Yeah,

48:11

I know that felt like an abusive friendship. It's

48:13

just You keep thinking about things it did to

48:15

wrong you. Yeah, it keeps like boomeranging back in

48:17

your face and you're like, wait a minute, that's

48:19

not - We had a good time. Wait, no,

48:21

we didn't, you know? Yeah.

48:25

Yeah, that was a bad one. Yeah. I

48:28

don't know. That was tough. The fun thing

48:30

about watching these movies with like a little

48:32

kid is just there's no way that

48:34

she understands what is going

48:36

on. Right. You know, like

48:38

the Phantom Menace, everyone's like, this

48:40

movie's for children. And then it's

48:42

like, yeah, but you also have

48:45

to explain what politics and slavery

48:47

are. Yeah, when they start off

48:49

with a crawl, it's like, oh,

48:51

the international tax rate has just

48:53

raised the 7 .2 % and so

48:55

the Galactic Trade Union is threatening

48:58

to strike unless they want to

49:00

have negotiations with the trade boss

49:02

about the tariffs and their salary

49:06

dispute. And

49:08

then, yeah, and that's how the - I did

49:10

use a Star Wars quote to answer a

49:12

Star Wars question. We were watching The Force Awakens

49:14

and like the rest of her said I

49:16

know. You know, she goes, where did they go?

49:18

And I'm like, they're going up the ventilation

49:21

shop. I

49:23

thought it was funny. No one

49:25

else was there except a three

49:27

-year -old and a bunch of dolls.

49:29

So, doing great. Doing fine. No,

49:31

I think I told you this,

49:33

but my nephew's on the East Coast

49:35

and he'll send me videos every now

49:37

and then with my brother. And

49:41

he'll be like, hey,

49:43

Uncle Brian, what GI Joe is

49:45

this? And I sent him

49:47

a video back and I'm like -

49:50

Snow job. I think, yeah, that's

49:52

bonsai, whatever, shit like that. And then

49:55

the other day he goes, hey, Uncle

49:57

Brian, who's Bowser

49:59

Jr. your mom? And I

50:01

started filming a video and

50:04

then I like I got

50:06

like a minute in I

50:08

was like how the fuck

50:10

do you answer this without

50:12

talking about like kidnapping and

50:14

adoption and like surrogates or me

50:16

like the mystery? Well because did

50:19

I tell you what I guess

50:21

I did so what I found

50:23

out is that the prevailing theory

50:26

Is that I don't think

50:28

Nintendo fans should have

50:31

the internet honestly? Yeah,

50:33

no, it gets worse.

50:35

No, it's it's that the

50:38

the stork from Super

50:40

Mario world To right?

50:42

Yoshi's Island who who

50:44

brings? Yeah, the stork

50:47

He fucked the store

50:49

There I mean birds and reptiles

50:51

dinosaurs that whole thing. I don't

50:54

know why buy the army to

50:56

get the calver for me. It's

50:58

a fucking store It's gonna bring

51:00

you a baby. You don't have

51:02

to fuck stuff What's wrong with

51:05

you? You're like Nintendo friends are

51:07

weird. You have to fuck the

51:09

store so the stork right now.

51:11

You said you said the prevailing

51:14

theory is I got to the

51:16

store You mean the store just

51:18

brought it? Yeah, that's what

51:21

they do. Oh, I don't know.

51:23

That's the whole, okay, first

51:25

of all, that's the

51:27

whole plot of Yoshin's Island.

51:30

Second of all, that's

51:32

what fucking storks do

51:34

in mythology when you lie

51:36

to kids about. So, you

51:38

just, doesn't the stork,

51:40

just bring you glassic

51:42

pickles? Now he does because

51:44

of woke. And that's one

51:47

of the things I want

51:49

to, okay. Because of Woke,

51:51

he can't bring people babies

51:54

anymore. He just brings classic

51:56

pickle. Is this because we

51:58

had to? pick a pronoun

52:01

at the beginning of Starfield? It

52:03

is, it is, it's because of

52:05

that and because of a sponsorship

52:08

with flacic pickles. So the prevailing

52:10

theory is that the stork in

52:12

Mario is a fucking idiot, which

52:14

is why he delivered a human

52:17

baby to Yoshi's Island, right? Okay.

52:19

It was a real pain

52:21

in pitude if you haven't

52:23

played that game. He's just

52:25

screaming, hearing up a whole

52:27

storm. Yeah. So the theory

52:29

is that he brought... He

52:31

brought Bowser and Peach, a

52:33

baby, because he was like,

52:35

they're together all the time,

52:37

they must want a kid.

52:39

And that's the theory. All

52:41

right. And what they really

52:43

brought was a second kidnapper.

52:46

And I was, because I, okay,

52:49

so I had, I made this

52:51

video for a seven-year-old. And

52:53

I'm like, so they, people

52:56

think that they were, The

52:58

stork brought Bouser Jr. to Bouser

53:01

and peach because he thought that

53:03

they were married or they were

53:05

together Because they and because they

53:07

were together they need to keep

53:09

it They weren't together because he

53:11

kept he kept stealing her That's

53:13

why she wasn't home because but

53:15

she kept stealing her That's why

53:17

she wasn't home because but she

53:19

was also with Mario a lot

53:21

and the stork never just brought

53:23

them a kid and Bouser found

53:25

the egg and then raised it

53:28

But it's not his kid.

53:30

Yeah, you've got an

53:32

egg, you know. It's

53:34

not like, it's like,

53:36

it's, like, canonically, it's not

53:38

his, his child. What, do

53:41

you like a maternity test?

53:43

Yeah. Yeah, he did the, um,

53:45

the, the come challenge. What

53:47

if, what if Peach is

53:50

just like, it's just a,

53:52

a completely power mad dictator.

53:54

who is using the toads

53:57

or like her for like

53:59

uh... biological

54:02

experiments that she

54:04

keeps failing that that

54:06

is and then she has them

54:08

every night she has them put all

54:10

these coins in these boxes and

54:12

she's lured these plumbers to it in

54:14

this social experiment yeah that's the

54:16

ranged yeah and then and then she

54:18

pretends to get kidnapped constantly by this

54:20

dude that's totally like just in cahoots

54:23

with her and she's so she's

54:25

past her that you

54:27

know what I think

54:29

it could work because the

54:31

uh that's the gritty reboot of

54:33

Super Mario Brothers I want the

54:35

Koopa kids are Koopa's kids right

54:37

I think they retcon them away oh Jesus

54:39

we're going down a rabbit hole

54:41

Brian are they not I think

54:44

they are I think they

54:46

are a high -ranking Koopa

54:48

lieutenants officially that seems like

54:50

on brand for like a reptile

54:52

tyrant to be like you're all

54:54

my generals and I'm gonna call

54:56

you my babies too you're my

54:59

little boys they're not the Koopa

55:01

kids are the Koopalings the Koopalings

55:03

right is that because they

55:05

grew up I think it's because

55:07

they have bad they invented Bowser Jr. and

55:09

then they wanted to sort of like go

55:11

no no those aren't his kids this is

55:13

his one kid of those which because then

55:15

everybody would be like who's the mother of

55:18

these seven children well which do you think

55:20

fucked the stork why

55:23

does it have to be only one

55:25

person or lemmy you know yeah

55:28

by the gas let me at that

55:30

store I

55:36

got a question why don't why don't they make

55:38

any uh the action figures of Roy Koopa I

55:40

like Roy Koopa a lot they don't make any

55:42

toys of that fucker um I don't know he

55:45

is right to Nintendo and ask where that

55:47

amiibo's at he's not so

55:49

he's not a he's not a like

55:51

a J6er but he's like a raw milk

55:53

guy so

55:56

Roy Koopa yeah is that that's that's what

55:58

it is Yeah, he's more of a raw

56:00

Koopa if you know what I'm talking about.

56:02

He's okay Yeah, and the government keeps trying

56:04

to stop it, but I think it's fine

56:06

if you wanted to if you want to

56:08

drink Anything from any

56:10

cow any way you want you should

56:12

but you don't think he should do it

56:14

Pelosi's podium I

56:19

Think that it was dry bones Okay,

56:22

yeah, those dry bones, but also it's

56:24

it's you know, it's paid with taxpayer

56:26

dollars. So technically he owns it That's

56:30

true. Yeah, that's what he told

56:32

the police We all own it

56:34

And just taking back what's mine.

56:36

Yeah, I think funky Kong was

56:38

there Yeah,

56:41

I've always said that though Taking

56:43

a break from just destroying everybody at Mario Kart

56:45

Wii You know we should we should try to

56:47

get a like an experts react We should get

56:49

somebody who works for the FAA to respond to

56:51

funky's funky flights What

56:53

do you what do you think are

56:56

the big the big problems about this airline

56:58

and what would order some challenges that

57:00

they would face Okay, there's like a non

57:02

-zero chance that there's a YouTube video. It's

57:04

like real life FAA Like

57:07

traffic traffic Coordinator

57:10

reacts. Okay. Let me just

57:12

say I don't want this to be real, but

57:16

Uh -huh, it would be really funny If

57:19

there was a real disease that air

57:21

traffic controllers could get Called the funky

57:23

flights and that's when people had to

57:25

pull them off of service They're like

57:27

he can't do his job anymore. Why

57:29

he has the funky flights. What does

57:31

that mean? He occasionally sees

57:33

funk on airlines on

57:35

the radar. He's

57:39

done we can't you see he's

57:41

seen funky we can't have him

57:44

work. He's gone bananas. Oh No

57:47

And they just pull him off. He's

57:50

got the funk. He's got the funk We

57:53

never we never we never talked

57:55

about we're maxed Ryan like an hour

57:57

ago. It's like you guys are

57:59

here a new show. Yeah. Yeah.

58:01

Yeah. So we go back to

58:03

that. Yeah, we started

58:06

a new podcast. We started a new

58:08

podcast called this thing rules. We're

58:10

making this thing rules this thing rules

58:12

and it every every episode is

58:14

about a different thing that we love.

58:16

We've done gummy candy action figures, bloody

58:18

Marys, just action figures in general.

58:20

We're gonna we're definitely gonna zero in

58:22

on more specific lines. Yeah, we'll

58:25

we'll zone in on our hono. Yeah,

58:27

we have one coming up about

58:29

90s 90s Marvel trading cards. Alright, you

58:31

got to get Oh man, those

58:33

X men series two trading card. We

58:35

talked about those. Yep. Hell yeah,

58:37

I still got mine the whole set

58:39

in the binder. We recently had

58:42

Ryan, Ryan, you came out to talk

58:44

about the Halloween movies, which was

58:46

awesome as our longest episode. Yeah, that

58:48

was a blast. I realized that

58:50

episode officially for our non patreon people

58:52

with the official publish date about

58:54

was the same day the original Halloween came

58:56

out in what 1978? Was

58:59

it? Yeah, that's cool. October what 25th or something?

59:01

Yeah, it was like very serendipitous. It was

59:03

awesome. Let's see. Let me see. I got to

59:05

see if I got that right. Well, do

59:07

I know my Halloween? Let me see. It's what

59:09

let me Koopa always used to say. He

59:12

actually spelled wrong. That was his

59:14

house. I 25 1978. Hell

59:16

yeah. There we go. So yeah, the show

59:18

was just us picking one thing we

59:20

really love and just kind of geeking out

59:23

about it, joking about it for like

59:25

45 minutes to an hour. It's a little

59:27

a little more focused than our conversation

59:29

we've had today. Definitely more heavily risked more

59:31

just a little. Yeah. Sometimes we have

59:33

we did our homework when you're going through

59:35

a 13 movie series. It's kind of

59:38

yes. Yeah, that one was fun because we

59:40

bounced a lot. We're like, hold on,

59:42

let's go back circle back to four, then

59:44

go to the reboot, the reboot will. But

59:47

yeah, no, it's been a blast. It's

59:49

been it's something we've been working on

59:51

for a long time and or just

59:54

like trying to get made basically. And

59:56

it's just been a really nice excuse

59:58

to like find one that was

1:00:00

really awesome and really important to us, or

1:00:02

one of us, or both of us growing

1:00:04

up, or still is, and like, unpack why

1:00:06

it's cool. And like, we do a little bit

1:00:08

of like, a little bit of research, so

1:00:10

there's a little bit of history there,

1:00:12

and then there's a lot of sort of

1:00:15

anecdotal like, hey, this is what it was

1:00:17

like tearing into a pack of Marvel cards

1:00:19

at the first time, finding a silver surfer

1:00:21

hologram. you know like hey here here's what

1:00:24

happened when we went to Florida and went

1:00:26

in a tank with live alligators hey here's

1:00:28

all the weird gummy bears we brought back

1:00:30

from Germany that are different than the weird

1:00:33

ones we get here in America or the

1:00:35

ones I got in Brazil like it's been

1:00:37

just really cool to just go hey there's

1:00:39

a bunch of shit that we love

1:00:42

yeah and not like that you know

1:00:44

sort of like toxic positivity shit or

1:00:46

it just feels like it's shit on

1:00:48

other things. Yeah, we did the episode

1:00:50

of Bloody Marys in the detailing. We're

1:00:52

like, so Irish coffee sucks, right?

1:00:54

And you know, we definitely dunked

1:00:57

on some Halloween. Yeah, no, I

1:00:59

mean, they're terrible. I don't know.

1:01:01

I think that one of the

1:01:03

truest signs of love is being

1:01:05

able to joke about it. You

1:01:07

know, like, Ryan, we give you

1:01:09

shit all the time like Brian.

1:01:11

We give each other bullshit nonstop.

1:01:13

you often have a more of

1:01:15

an affection for it if you

1:01:17

can laugh about it. Yeah, that

1:01:19

was always sort of a term

1:01:21

of endearment for me growing up

1:01:23

and I think that that's probably bad

1:01:25

in a lot of ways. Yeah, so it's

1:01:27

fun. Yeah, I don't know. We wanted to

1:01:29

do something that was about a little bit

1:01:32

more focused than our podcast we've done in

1:01:34

the past, where it's like, what is this

1:01:36

episode about? What's the point? What are we

1:01:38

here to talk about? And also something that

1:01:40

we're always talking about, something that we're always

1:01:43

talking about, something we want to talk about,

1:01:45

like what's the thing that we're always talking

1:01:47

about, something we want to talk about, like

1:01:49

what's the thing we want to talk about,

1:01:51

something we want to talk about, something we

1:01:53

want to talk about, something we want to

1:01:55

talk about, what we want to talk about,

1:01:57

you know, there's no overarching storyline.

1:02:00

that you have to keep track

1:02:02

of there's no like backlog

1:02:04

growth. Yeah. There's no we do.

1:02:06

We've only killed three characters

1:02:08

off screen this season so far, but

1:02:10

other than that, rest are all on

1:02:12

screen. Every episode ends with the hangar

1:02:14

full bore resolved any of them. And

1:02:17

if you if you

1:02:19

stick around after the episode,

1:02:22

another one will start. Is there a

1:02:24

hidden track? Yeah, I actually have a

1:02:26

little hidden tracks at the end there.

1:02:28

And a second episode will begin after that. And then

1:02:30

you'll and then that will

1:02:32

keep happening until it's called

1:02:34

auto play. It's called the

1:02:36

algorithm. And we can't stop

1:02:38

it. We have no control spotify.

1:02:41

We're on spotify iTunes. We're

1:02:43

on patreon patreon.com/this thing rules.

1:02:45

We're on YouTube. No video

1:02:47

yet. But maybe we'll think about that.

1:02:50

Yeah, I don't know. It's just it's

1:02:52

a new project. We'd love to get

1:02:54

more people listening, more supporters, you know,

1:02:56

give us a buck or two if

1:02:58

you're into it or even just go

1:03:00

follow us. We it's all free. There's

1:03:02

no there's nothing is nothing is pay

1:03:04

walled. Yeah, hidden fees. Unless yeah, the

1:03:06

first three months are free and then

1:03:08

it'll be 799 charge your credit card

1:03:10

every fortnight and then every full moon

1:03:12

will charge you the blood the blood

1:03:14

price. And once a year, we will

1:03:16

delete about nine or 10 hours of

1:03:18

willow and then double the fee. Just

1:03:22

to get people just to get people used

1:03:24

to like this is how we roll, you know,

1:03:26

like you like you like it, huh? Well,

1:03:28

guess what we're doing? We're going to

1:03:31

delete about nine hours of

1:03:33

willow and then right in

1:03:35

Max or making a Batman

1:03:37

movie. That's right shelving it.

1:03:39

Yeah, we are we are

1:03:41

we're making a direct to

1:03:43

recycle bin cartoon about a

1:03:45

lawsuit and a coyote. Yeah,

1:03:48

we're thrilled. No one's done that. No one's

1:03:50

made that movie. Fortnight has a brand new

1:03:52

David Zaslaw mode where if you are playing

1:03:54

as a character based on a water brother's

1:03:56

property, you may just emulate spontaneously for no

1:03:58

reason. Yeah, because if If building was

1:04:00

overwhelming for you in fortnight, you'll you're

1:04:02

gonna love deleting everything Just go into

1:04:04

the map and you can if you

1:04:07

don't like that mountain You can just

1:04:09

drag and drop it into the recycle

1:04:11

bin any building you see just any

1:04:13

person Anything that any custom stuff that

1:04:15

people worked really hard on as the

1:04:17

easiest stuff to delete So dragon drop

1:04:19

that It fills the meter for your

1:04:21

super which is called we're doing it

1:04:23

for tax fraud purposes I mean, I

1:04:25

had a I had a like it

1:04:27

took me every every fucking bit of

1:04:29

Strength on four double espressos one morning

1:04:31

to not explain to my

1:04:33

kid that the reason the new

1:04:35

Rugrats that she liked Was

1:04:38

deleted was because somebody at Paramount Plus

1:04:40

corporate saw it as a tax write

1:04:42

-off Like I don't it wasn't even

1:04:44

like in I feel like in the

1:04:47

80s or 90s. You could be like

1:04:49

it ate the tape Right. Yeah, we're

1:04:51

like the DVD There is a there

1:04:53

is rug. There is a new rug

1:04:55

rat NES game, do

1:04:58

you know about I played it. I played it. Yeah,

1:05:00

okay did I did Jared Petty sent it to

1:05:02

me sent me a code for it, too He sent

1:05:04

me the NES cartridge, which is great And he

1:05:06

sent me a code for it and I was playing

1:05:08

it on steam and it's Surprisingly

1:05:10

hard, but then I was it clicked and

1:05:12

I was like, oh, they made an NES

1:05:14

game like of course Yeah,

1:05:17

it's great. It's really well done. And

1:05:19

what's smart about it is I You

1:05:21

can't do this on the on the

1:05:23

the the actual cartridge, but They

1:05:26

on PC you can switch between

1:05:28

like modern graphics and NES graphics

1:05:30

on the fly, which is really

1:05:33

great I also got I got

1:05:35

Nintendo World Championships, which lasted in

1:05:37

my household about as long as

1:05:39

like, I don't know

1:05:41

a Pizza would like it was I

1:05:43

think there was like an afternoon where I

1:05:45

was really into it And I completely forgot

1:05:47

that game came out But that came too

1:05:49

bad that you played you paid $50 ,000 for

1:05:51

it that came game came with a gold

1:05:53

cartridge So that was I ended up with

1:05:55

like multiple new NES cartridges this year, which

1:05:57

I was not expecting that that's a that's

1:05:59

a reproduction Yeah, for sure. It

1:06:01

doesn't actually do anything. But

1:06:03

does the does the Rugrats one

1:06:05

have the game on it? I think

1:06:07

so, yeah. Oh, interesting. I think

1:06:10

it's a legit any S game,

1:06:12

yeah. Well, there was a, there

1:06:14

was, they've been, they're reprinting VHS

1:06:16

tapes now, like it went from

1:06:19

being like, Terrifier 2 is the

1:06:21

first VHS, VHS, VHS. Yeah, I

1:06:23

don't understand that. People are crazy.

1:06:25

And then there's been like

1:06:28

five in your life. I mean I yeah. You know

1:06:30

I understand people being like

1:06:32

all records because the sound right yeah.

1:06:34

VHS is an objectively horrible format. No

1:06:36

I was in an antique shop have

1:06:38

any need for those anymore. I was

1:06:40

in an antique shop with my kid

1:06:42

yesterday and I was just trying to

1:06:44

like there was just a pile of

1:06:47

the old puffy VHS Disney tapes and

1:06:49

like Nickelodeon and a shit like that.

1:06:51

Oh God. By the way I was

1:06:53

wanted to do a bit where you

1:06:55

you bring like a huge jacket into

1:06:57

the criterion closet. And then you start

1:06:59

pulling those out. They're like, what's your

1:07:01

favorite movies? And you're like, oh, Beethoven

1:07:03

second. It's just on the poor time for.

1:07:06

But yeah, I realize I have like outside of

1:07:08

just like looking at them for half a second

1:07:10

and being like, oh, that's cute. I have no

1:07:12

desire to like purchase them again. I bring in

1:07:14

my home. I think if I saw like a

1:07:17

cassette, that's small enough that was of like a

1:07:19

really classic like hip hopop album, my love. Maybe

1:07:21

I'd pick it up for like a like a

1:07:23

like a like a buck album. There's

1:07:25

no part of me seeing old VHS tapes

1:07:28

makes me go like oh, I want to

1:07:30

get one of those and put it on

1:07:32

my desk Like I just don't I feel

1:07:34

like once I got like I watched a

1:07:36

ton of movies on VHS growing up,

1:07:38

but once I was like Oh, I'm

1:07:40

gonna watch movies like I'm gonna watch

1:07:42

movies on VHS growing up But once

1:07:45

I was like oh, I'm gonna watch

1:07:47

movies like I'm gonna watch movies like

1:07:49

I'm gonna watch movies like I'm gonna

1:07:51

have like a nice display piece display

1:07:53

piece no like you know garbage background

1:07:55

noise movies yes i would get some

1:07:57

stuff dude if you were in the

1:07:59

eight BCRs are expensive now. I know.

1:08:01

Yeah. It's because of all these people

1:08:04

being like, I'm going to get

1:08:06

some VHS tapes. Yeah, there's like

1:08:08

a market. There's a weird collector

1:08:10

market now. Interesting. The thing. Yeah. I

1:08:12

mean, it feels like that'll be easy

1:08:14

to collect if that's what people are

1:08:17

into. I mean, there is no millions

1:08:19

of teams. It was vinyl vinyl.

1:08:21

Yeah. Like VHS was the first consumer

1:08:23

grade. version of movies and like

1:08:25

people who have the same love for

1:08:27

movies they do for you know for

1:08:30

music like it's that's where you go

1:08:32

back to and like it would be

1:08:34

cool I mean laser disks well dude

1:08:36

I don't I don't buy like a

1:08:38

lot of records anymore but the amount

1:08:40

of times I've been like at a

1:08:42

thrift shop or an antique store or

1:08:44

something and I see like a record

1:08:46

of something that looks fucking awesome that

1:08:48

I really want and I walk up to

1:08:50

it and it's a laser amount

1:08:53

of things of that on that

1:08:55

format right like it wasn't like

1:08:57

every movie but it's a lot

1:08:59

of them like it's just like it

1:09:01

was like a prestige

1:09:03

thing mhm prestige kind of

1:09:06

thing back then format yeah yeah

1:09:08

and then it died just

1:09:10

like the comedy button they

1:09:12

only made small number of

1:09:14

them yeah like a thousand

1:09:16

or no couple hundred what

1:09:19

comedy buttons I think it

1:09:21

was a couple hundred But no, I

1:09:23

don't, yeah, I'm not really in any

1:09:25

rush to go get back into that

1:09:28

format. I like what Max said though,

1:09:30

I like the idea of like, no,

1:09:32

the idea of like being, like having

1:09:35

something on just in the background that's

1:09:37

like fuzzy and scratchy looking. There's all these,

1:09:39

all these like weird films. Those are called

1:09:41

filters. Agreed. But, uh, No, I mean watching

1:09:43

on the, you know, the short squat little

1:09:45

CR TV that has like that weird. There's

1:09:47

also called the Phil's parents. There's movies that

1:09:49

I adore that I want to see in

1:09:51

the best possible quality, but there's also movies

1:09:53

that I don't give a shit if they're

1:09:55

in bad quality because I love them so

1:09:57

much. Yeah, because you've seen them so many

1:09:59

times. the only VHS tape I still

1:10:01

own. They have shown this on

1:10:03

USA Up all night. It needs

1:10:05

to look like it was on

1:10:07

U.S. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean,

1:10:09

like, I have, I have a

1:10:11

Cura on VHS and I have

1:10:14

a Cura on 4K Blu-ray. And

1:10:16

one of my favorite things is

1:10:18

watching the 4K Blu-ray with the

1:10:20

original VHS dub where, you know,

1:10:22

Cam Clark is voicing Canada and

1:10:24

he just sounds like Leonardo the

1:10:26

whole time. Like, like, like, Snake.

1:10:28

No, there's a long time. That's

1:10:30

a, that would be a fun

1:10:32

thing. There's a lot of film

1:10:34

preservationists that are like finding that

1:10:36

shit. Like it'll be like, I

1:10:38

think I sent you one the

1:10:40

other day, Max. It was like

1:10:42

this, it was like the first

1:10:44

time they ever aired a cure

1:10:46

on TV. And someone has a

1:10:48

cut of that. And they cleaned

1:10:50

it up. It's, it's fascinating to

1:10:52

just dig that would be a

1:10:54

fun thing. just fucking throw on

1:10:56

in the background on DHS, right?

1:10:58

Yeah. Like I swear Star, I

1:11:00

mean Star Wars obviously got cleaned

1:11:02

up to Helen back in good

1:11:04

ways and bad ways, but like

1:11:06

there are, there's an undeniable appeal

1:11:08

to watching the original cuts of

1:11:10

Star Wars on VHS on a

1:11:12

shitty little TV. There's something magical

1:11:14

about that. Like you can't see

1:11:16

the map paintings, you can't see,

1:11:18

you know, the dance sequence, they

1:11:20

added to Jabaz. Better isn't, yeah,

1:11:22

in the olden days. All you

1:11:24

have to do is have a

1:11:26

garbage screen that's really small. Yeah,

1:11:28

everything just looks great. Just get

1:11:30

yourself a shitty little TV that

1:11:32

sucks. Yeah. All right. Well, we've

1:11:34

been going for way too long

1:11:36

here. So we're going to wrap

1:11:39

up. Like you, I also have

1:11:41

a patron. And people can go

1:11:43

to patreon.com/geekbox, kick some money, keep

1:11:45

the lights on, maybe get these...

1:11:47

Bozo's on again. Brian, we finally

1:11:49

got you on the geek box.

1:11:51

We only took 674 episodes, but

1:11:53

you are here. That was waiting

1:11:55

for my lucky number. Yeah, all

1:11:57

right. good number. No, thanks for

1:11:59

having me. Let's see, we're all

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on social media. I'm on Blue

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Sky, I'm on Blue Sky, I'm

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Rydog on Blue Sky, you guys

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still use Elon Musk's Twitter. Varily,

1:12:09

not well. Now? Yeah, now? Where

1:12:11

do people find you? Other than

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your, you're, uh... I mean just

1:12:15

go to patreon.com/this thing rules listen

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to our show. We're you know

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we both post intermittently on Instagram

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and stuff like that and okay

1:12:23

you know I'll poke around on

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the other places here and there

1:12:27

but yeah if you if you

1:12:29

have somewhere where they can go

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to tell you that they hate

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whatever you like if you go

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to make sure for IGM every

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on there. We're on we're on

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beyond every week doing the PlayStation

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It's on the just go and

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pushing down a little button and

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and you'll hear our voices some

1:13:01

more and we'll talk about alligators

1:13:04

and gummy worms in your ears.

1:13:06

All right. Well, I think that's

1:13:08

it. I'm probably forgetting some of

1:13:10

my normal outro stuff because this

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is not a normal episode, but

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I hope you enjoyed this still.

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episode of the comedy butt. Happy

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Halloween, kind of. A happy, yeah,

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happy Halloween. And happy birthday to

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the stork from Mario. Yeah. To

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the, to the stork? Yeah, he

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birthed himself. All right, that's, that's

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weird. But that's how we're going

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out. Okay. Life finds a way.