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Hello, everybody, and welcome, welcome to Geek Enders.

It is

May the 2nd.

Ooh.

Hope everyone had a groovy May Day.

And you're all doing, oh, so well in this fabulous springtime.

I'm feeling it.

I'm feeling groovy, baby.

Are you?

Yeah, not really.

I liked that.

Yeah, bring back the Bat Tootsie.

I feel like that's for all my grandpas out there and or fans of Old Batman.

They're like, you know what?

This boy's all right.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Do you do anything on May the 4th as a Star Wars book?

Oh, May the 4th?

No.

It's all about revenge of the 5th.

Or 6th.

Both are acceptable.

However, I don't care.

I will say,

probably look for more Star Wars Old Canon Book Club.

Weird thing to say that you're like, I don't even care.

But also, I have a podcast entirely devoted to Star Wars.

So, you know.

You know, all different aspects of it that, you know, matter more, that hit different.

Sure, sure, sure, sure.

Um, yeah, I just, I don't have Disney Plus anymore, so I haven't seen any.

And/or for people who are asking, I don't know.

I will get it.

I haven't seen some of that.

And now that I'm back, yeah.

I expect it to be amazing, as always.

I mean, it's not all out yet.

Just wait till it's all out, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I still gotta, like, I figured I'll go check out Daredevil and all that stuff, too.

I just don't, uh,

yeah, streaming services.

Y'all got me for a while, but I'm out.

And I don't want to get back in where I have like 12 of you.

So, yeah, we'll see.

I like this vendetta you have against streaming services now.

It's inspiring.

I just, it was fine.

They were great until it just became cable.

Yeah.

Like, I got out of cable, was like, oh, you mean I can pay seven bucks a month and watch whatever I want?

That's what I'm saying.

You mean I can pay $9.

$14?

That's what I'm saying.

Now it is worse than cable.

Yeah, because you're having to pay like eight different people for things instead of just one company.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which is ridiculous.

And so I think a lot of people got caught up in the, well, I need to watch this show and this show and this show.

And then it just, now you have as many services as you had when you were having cable, except they're all in different accounts with different things.

And it's just more of a pain in the ass.

And you're still getting commercials.

So, and I don't even know, I like that's commercials, that's atrocious.

I hate that.

I hate the idea of them being like, we're going to provide you something different.

Honestly, it really helped me completely understand.

So when I was in in college taking macro and microeconomics, I was always just like, man, there's some things I don't get.

Now I completely get how the whole system works where it was like people came along, said there was a problem.

Cable TV was bad.

We're going to make you something better than cable TV.

Then they killed cable TV and then just replaced it with themselves, which is exactly what happens over and over and over and over and over again.

In all economics, I just thought, I was like, oh, yeah, no, I get that now.

Oh, I see what you're doing.

You killed an old thing and then replaced it with something new that just took over the job of the other old thing, which I think honestly is what YouTube was trying to do for years.

And so it might be working.

You, people watching YouTube on TVs right now is one of the biggest platforms in the world.

Literally, I have conversations with people at YouTube.

They're like, you should really think about making all your videos in 4K now because people are watching it on their TVs more and more.

And then they just show me stats, and it's absolutely true.

You're probably, you at home are probably watching this right now on a TV.

So, yeah, I don't.

Maybe.

Yeah, if you're wondering, Jesse, you seem like

today.

Uh, this is the first time I've stared at a computer screen in days, and this computer screen's too big.

My eyes are like,

and I'm getting bombarded.

It's a lot.

I realize I haven't been on a computer all that much lately, and my eyes are readjusting.

So, yeah, you were on a trip.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You did a trippy poo that you can't talk about.

Correct.

I mean,

I went to Remedy and I got to check out Firebreak.

And other than that, I can't say anything yet.

But, like, I'm allowed to say that.

So, that was a thing, and I got to spend time there.

I ate reindeer,

which was a whole thing.

And I was like, oh,

yeah.

The best parts is: one,

there was a

strangely enough, the best parts are both were in the process of getting to Helsinki.

One,

airports.

You know how when you do, when you're on the airplane and they're like, I don't know, they might play video or have some sort of way of saying, like, fasten your seatbelts, do this thing, right?

Yes.

I don't know if it's just Finnish society, if it's, it's the vibe there,

but their, their, like, uh, way of doing it was so straightforward.

It was hilarious.

Hold on.

I wrote some things down because it just made me laugh so hard.

Yeah, I just hear it.

Yeah, their pre-flight check is they said,

the flight attendant comes up and the voice in the back of it goes, the seat belt is like this.

It's how you use a seatbelt.

And they just click it.

And I was like, what?

They said, when they were showing the

life preserver, they were like, this is what we are showing you and what it's used for.

Like, this is incredible.

And then my favorite one is at the end.

They're like, don't take any pictures on the plane or video unless you ask everyone around you.

I was like, whoa,

I've never heard of that before.

So it was very fun.

They were just like, this is the thing that you do.

Do it correctly.

I was like, that's amazing.

I kind of love that because I was thinking to myself when we were flying back from Los Angeles.

We were on Virgin and Virgin has like the whole rigorous animated,

the guy falling asleep and then having a bunch of dreams about plane safety.

And like, it's like a whole huge thing and it's not that I don't enjoy those and I understand why they're doing them but at the same time like I kind of love the idea of just being like hi here's a seat belt do it like this

yeah I genuinely loved it I was like okay yeah this it was to the point it was quick the one you're talking about the virgin one i fly a lot so i've seen a lot of these damn intros the virgin one for example yeah it's like a 10 minute cartoon about how to stay safe that parody, like, it does parodies of movie genres.

Yeah.

And it goes on forever.

It's so long.

Yeah.

Like, uh, Air New Zealand one is really long, too.

They used to have one that's like a hobbit-the one.

Like, Hobbit-themed, yeah.

They had a hobbit-themed one for a long time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The, the Delta one is one of my, it might be Delta or United.

One of them is one of my favorites because it's like

played serious, but also for comedy, and none of it lands.

You can't tell if it's, it's just one flight attendant.

She's like, hi, y'all.

We're going to teach you about.

And you're like, okay, is this a joke?

And then stuff in the background happens that I think is supposed to be funny, but I don't know.

It's very weird.

I just don't remember.

It's either United or Delta.

It's crazy.

Amazing.

Yeah, those ones that take forever.

This was, I'm telling you, like 45 seconds tops.

They were like.

Put this on, do this thing.

You should know how to do this.

I was like, yeah, you should know how to fashion a seatbelt.

It's not that hard.

And they're like, if you're in this section of the plane, you do it this way.

If you're in this section of the plane, do it this way.

It's not hard.

Okay.

Fantastic.

Yeah.

Thanks, Finland.

So that was, that was pretty great.

And then they had this, this mural.

I guess this, I don't know, it was like a bunch of different comics in the airport.

And one of them was about that weird salt candy they have.

Yeah.

Like sal salamander, salamanca,

salazar, something like that, whatever the hell that stuff's called.

Yep.

And the whole joke was about giving it to Taurus.

That was the art was your face watching people eat our candy.

And they were like, hee hee.

And I was like, that's...

You do this on purpose.

That's why all you assholes send it to me in the mail.

Like, here you go, idiot.

Suck on this candy.

Like, I hate that stuff.

It's the worst.

And I was like, why are you?

So, of course, I had to take a photo with it.

I just forgot to post it.

But yeah,

I had a great time at the airport for some reason.

Absolutely loved it,

aside from your luggage getting banged up.

I did see that.

Yeah, that was KLM's fault headed home.

I don't know what the hell the deal was there.

Uh,

yeah, I, my, my luggage that I've had for 12 years finally destroyed.

I was like, rest in peace, king.

Yeah, they bashed in, like a whole corner is bashed in, and the wheel was destroyed.

And when I tried to pop it out, it was like cracked and broken.

So that's cool.

That's neat.

And they said, Uh, there's, yeah, there's like, well, sir, there's nothing we can do.

You can file a report and get a claim.

And I was like, God.

So I went to their website, and the report is like

18 pages long, and you have to provide different evidence and stuff.

And I was like,

I see what they're doing.

I understand what this is.

Yeah.

So, yeah, when I was at the airport, there was like, there's no one here who can help you, sir.

I was like, oh,

okay, thank you.

Great, good.

Oh, well, so now I got to handle that, but it's whatever.

When Clark was really tiny, we used to always fly Air New Zealand because they had the couches.

They still have the couches.

You can get.

Air New Zealand has couches?

Yeah, like sleep couches.

So

you can get a row of three chairs and the...

The chair, here's the chair, right?

And this part of the chair flips up yo it's oh that's cool it's so sick and i always thought to myself every all of the chairs should have this option they should just make it so all the chairs can do this it wouldn't be practical because you have to like act you know you have to be able to rummage under your chair sometimes but like

it was so nice dude it is more expensive obviously but it was it was a lifesaver having like a two-year-old being like go to bed go to please sleep.

Does Sam have the like tall dude playing problems?

Because I,

the amount of time I spend with my legs mashed into someone else's chair is the most, I can't handle it.

It drives me crazy.

It's, and then when, look,

everyone, I know you have the right to leave your chair.

But as a tall, fat dude, you're killing me.

You're absolutely, I can't.

I lose all access to everything.

Yeah.

Watching things, gone.

Eating anything?

Gone.

Like, I just can't.

And I just want to be like, please move it up.

But no, I get it, man.

It's your seat.

You can do what you want.

But I swear to God, it is the meanest thing ever.

I

felt so bad because the aisle that we were in on our way back from LA,

the person who was on the outside of our row was like a taller, bigger guy.

And of course, the dude in front of him, immediately, the second he was able to leaned all the way back.

And this dude, the entire

flight was like

trying to push the chair a little bit away from him just to give him some breathing room.

And I was like, I

would swap with you.

I didn't say this to him, but I was like, I would 100% swap with you, but I have a kid here.

You know, I can't.

So, yeah, it sucks.

It is, in fact, one of my least favorite ways to travel, but it's the only one we got.

So I guess that's it.

Yeah,

not a fan.

Have you ever, have you ever flown business class or like first class?

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I'm no fan.

Oh my gosh.

I know.

Yeah.

If it's an a reason, like sometimes they're asking ludicrous amounts of money.

This is no point.

But if it's, if I go online and it's a reasonable price, I'm like, that, yes, instantly.

I won't even think about it.

I'll be like, I have to, or I'll go crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, that's no.

Yeah.

If it's, if it's, sometimes if you're flying international, it's absolutely impossible.

They're like, it's only $10,000 for like,

nah, that's who am I?

Celebrity?

Some kind of rich guy?

No.

But like, you know, if it's, if it's in the US of A, then a lot of times it's pretty affordable.

It depends on who you fly with, to be honest.

Sometimes they're like.

That's also fair.

But oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I will say, however, the greatest flight that I ever had.

I once went to this is God, this would be like

2015, maybe.

I flew to a decade ago.

Yeah, this would have been a while ago.

I flew to Europe on a.

Here's the thing, though.

I have not found this plane or this flight or whatever.

It feels like a fever dream.

I got an upgrade to first class, and it was like

five seats in the nose of this plane.

We all had our own waiters and stuff.

It was crazy.

But I have looked at first-class cabins since then.

None of them look like what that was.

So I don't know what I was on.

I see ads for Emirates sometimes, and they've got like a little door and things.

I've never flown them.

However, I have looked up that whole system where you get like a bed and a couch and a shower.

That's like 15,000 bucks.

Yo, yo,

you got to be rich, rich.

I just saw a commercial.

Yeah, I saw a commercial when I was overseas that was, I think, Jennifer.

Oh boy.

My brain just died.

You know, the

friends, friends girl.

Oh, Jennifer Aniston.

Jennifer Aniston was doing an Emirates thing where she's like, I can't fly without my shower.

And I was like, girl, you got a shower on a plane?

Damn, girl.

Living at big.

Well, that's because she is a millionaire.

And I get it.

Congrats.

If I had that money, you best believe I would not be flying coach anywhere.

I'd be like, please, please.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

I would, I would get those

like, not a couch, but like the round couch.

I get like a conversation pit on my plane.

I'd be like, oh, I have the conversation pit.

Yeah.

It'd be one one day.

I'm manifesting this for us one day.

One day.

Oh, man.

We'll have the shower room.

Although, I'll be honest, I don't necessarily think I trust plain water.

Like, when I'm in the bathroom on the plane, I'm like, this water is a weird vibe, and I don't know if I want to bathe in it.

Fair.

But I think that's what I'm saying.

So, what's the water pressure like on a plane?

You know,

it can't be great.

It can't.

Not that I'd complain.

If I needed a shower and they had a shower I could use.

I'd be like, tight.

But like, I am curious.

Does it dribble?

I couldn't.

These are questions I have no answer for.

I couldn't tell you.

We got to get a Richie Rich on here, you know, and be like, hello.

Tell us about your first-class showering experiences.

Yeah, I would, um, I would say, even though I like the idea, it probably would suck.

Like, there's, I think it's more of a status symbol than it is a functional thing.

Because for me, I would imagine the shower, just like plain bathrooms,

I'm too tall for and too fat for.

So, why the hell?

Like, it's a problem every time.

I'm just like, okay, here we go.

Close.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's never, it's never that exciting.

So, I'm going to be,

I'll pass.

I'll save the 15,000.

Right.

Yeah.

Not a fan.

But I'm back, baby.

You're back.

You're back in the US of A.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just a second.

Oh, I will say,

they did not.

They did not say.

They were like, please do not take photos in the

passport area when coming back into the States.

I know what you're saying.

You always said that that way.

Oh, I get it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But when you're in line and there's like 800 people and exactly two TSA agents,

I understand why they kept pressing it on repeat.

It wasn't like every once in a while they'd say it.

They were like, please don't take photos.

And I'm like, no, I get there are people walking by with cameras just filming.

People are pissed.

I was like, yeah.

Oh, it took forever to get in.

Well, just the worst.

Just the worst.

I was like, where's, there's so many people.

And there's only two dudes.

There's only two dudes.

Why?

I was feeling it.

I was in that.

I genuinely, this is absolutely a real thought I had where I was like,

if we all rushed it, we could just get through.

What are they going to do?

Shoot all of us?

I honest to God thought that at some point.

I was like, there's all these stalls open.

If we just rush them, no one can stop us.

There's not enough TSA agents in the building to stop 800 people.

I was like, if we all band together, we could do this.

Oh, you'd also trample one of your own, though, for sure.

Somebody'd stumble.

There was a little kid in front of me who was riding his suitcase and his mom was pulling the suitcase.

And the little kid kept punching his mom in the leg.

And I was like, yeah, this is why I'm not having kids.

This mom was getting, she literally is going, ow, ow.

The kid's like punching her leg.

And she was doing nothing but dragging him on the suitcase.

And I was like, I hate all of this.

This,

not my favorite.

Yeah.

Like, bless you, madam, bless you.

That's why I love when I land in an airport and I have to go through the passport check and they have a separate line for families.

That's so nice.

That's so nice.

For both, right?

It protects everybody.

The people who don't want to be around a bunch of whiny kids, they don't have to be.

And the people who have a bunch of whiny kids can stand with other people with whiny kids in a slightly shorter line.

Yeah.

I'm here for that, except having seen.

In LA when I landed, they had a line for people in wheelchairs.

It was as long as the line of just people waiting to get in.

It was a crazy long line.

Meanwhile,

I will say there's definitely a scam going on with Global Entry because that thing was empty and people were just cruising through there.

And I was like,

should have done it.

But then I'm like, how often do I need to get back in the United States?

Like, yeah, no, once, twice a year.

So I'm like, do I pay for that?

Do I...

You use it more often than most people.

Most people?

You're absolutely correct.

Yeah.

But,

man, I looked at that.

I was looking at that line like,

I should have done this.

I should have done this.

What a failure I am.

Oh, well.

You're not a failure.

You just.

Thank you.

You were just like, ah, it's fine.

You did exactly what English people do with AC every year.

You went, I'll get it eventually.

But like, I don't need it right now.

It's fine.

And then you were in a situation where you were like, please, I wish I had that.

I have everything I need to do it.

I just have never done it.

And you know why?

Because in order to actually do it, it's like, please head to your nearest airport.

That means in order to get this finished, I would have to drive purposefully to LAX on purpose and not leave.

I'd have to drive my own car there.

Right.

Park there.

Go to the airport.

Like, I was like, this is the worst idea.

I hate this.

There's got to be like an office somewhere.

They're like, no, no, no.

There is.

But it's at the airport.

so go to lax i'm like the worst airport you guys are killing me so dude they arguably made the situation a little bit worse since last time i had been there as well sorry to make this conversation very la focused by the way uh viewers we're just being cool hipster dudes we take the 101 to the 405 and we jump on down to the yeah laid you gotta go to la brea yeah we were hanging out mid-city it was tight yeah i was over by westwood and then i I went into the valley, but I was like, should I go to Sherman Oaks?

Or like, should I go through Malibu?

And I was like, I don't know.

I'll take the 101.

All right.

Down to the 10.

Down to the 10, dude.

171.

Yeah.

Los Angeles.

It's a bunch of fucking roads.

It's a bunch of fucking roads.

That's it.

That's the whole city.

That's really nice.

Last time that I was there,

and this might sound like it makes a lot of sense, wherever your plane is leaving from, the terminal your plane is leaving from is also where you check in.

So now,

now

that's not the case.

And sometimes, sometimes, maybe hypothetically, you and your six-year-old

go to terminal two and check in and then they say, great, now walk down

to

the international terminal two terminals down.

And I go,

why couldn't I have checked in in the international terminal like I have before?

And I still wonder that.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

It's one of my favorite things.

Whenever I think it's, I think it's Delta.

It's either Delta United or American, which is most of the airplanes there, but it's one of the big ones

where they have their plane split between two terminals

and you can check in at either terminal but you get a 50-50 chance of it being the right one so you're like it's either terminal two or three so you show up and they're like all right your flight is one terminal over and you're like

what should i have just gone over there like you could have sir but you didn't you're like all right guess i'm walking ridiculous the whole place

when we when we got to the actual terminal that we were flying out of, I was looking around to see if there was a check-in desk there, and there wasn't.

So, the only option was to check in at terminal two and then walk down to Tom Bradley.

I was like, all right, that's fine.

It's like a 12-minute walk.

It's fine, but it was annoying.

Sure, sure.

My favorite comment: my favorite comment is: they don't have train technology.

The funniest part is we do now.

They're literally for the Olympics building a tram.

It took how many decades?

And they're finally like, we're doing it, everybody.

Trains.

They're going to be very impressive.

It's going to be amazing.

The car of the future.

Trains.

We're on it.

Oh, my gosh.

Our public transportation in LA is so bad.

The worst.

It is nonsensical.

It's like, you can get on a subway.

There is a subway, y'all, if you want to get from downtown LA to Hollywood.

But if you want to go anywhere else, have fun, asshole.

Yeah.

The entire, I was living there for what, 10 years?

The entire time that I lived there, they were like, guys, buckle up.

We're going to, we're making a, uh, we're adding onto the subway system.

It's going to go all the way to Venice Beach.

When?

When When are you guys going to do any work on that?

When?

When is that happening?

Hilariously, this is actually really funny.

You can learn all about the LA public transit system on Tell Me About the recent one we did with City Planner Plays when we were talking about planning.

Yeah, city planning video games.

By the end of the conversation, because we both had lived in LA, it devolved into the wrongs and rights of LA and why LA turned out the way it did based on city planning games.

And I'll say, I had a great time.

That's one of my favorite conversations I've had in a while.

Where I was like, oh,

that's how that works and why it's such a mess.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Just point that out.

Boop.

Shameless plug.

Yeah.

So did you do?

Well, I was away.

I

played no games.

I did nothing of value.

I did, however, manage to watch because I haven't seen a lot of movies.

I did, however, manage to watch Captain America, Brave New World, which everyone said sucked.

And my review was, it was all right.

I watched Wicked, which everyone loved, and my review was, it was all right.

And then I watched Twisters, which, you know, was Twisters.

And I was like, it was all right.

So I watched three all right movies.

Nice.

I have no opinion on them.

I was like, yeah, that's fine.

It was, you know, it was a good time.

That's all.

That's literally all I did.

And then I walked around and checked out stuff.

And

yeah, I did nothing,

nothing I would say of nerdy value.

But what did you do?

Uh

no, I was about to say, I definitely maybe played some games last week before I left, but I literally left right after last week's show.

So I did not, in fact,

do a damn thing.

By your own admission, you left the second that Geekenders is done.

Yeah, literally the minute it was done, I was out.

So

I didn't really do much that I can talk about.

Right.

That wasn't NDA.

So

this last weekend was my kiddo's birthday.

So basically the whole the whole weekend was that and it was very fun.

A weekend?

Oh no.

Oh no, no, no, no.

Not a multi-day thing.

But like, okay, we're going to

have no, no, no.

I don't even know like Clark is going to end up as like, it's my birthday.

It's my birthday week.

Yeah.

Dude.

Everything is about me all week long.

Oh my goodness.

No, she wanted, so originally she was like, I just want it to be like, I want my friends to come to the farm and then we do crafts.

And I was like, that sounds super fun.

We'll come up with a few craft projects, whatever.

And then while we were in America, she decided that she actually wanted it to be frog and nature themed.

Interesting.

She,

yeah, I was going to say she heel turned, which is a term that I keep using.

And everybody always thinks that I mean that she's turning into a villain.

So I'm going to try to stop saying that.

It's because of wrestling, but a heel turn is just a whoop.

Just a, just a, yeah, a 180, right?

Yeah.

So we decided to kind of meet in the middle and have some things that were frog themed.

Like she had a frog cake that she made with her grandma, which turned out very cute.

And one of the craft activities was building like a fake terrarium.

That's cute.

Which was adorable.

Everybody, we were there like other kids there?

Was this like a whole everyone's making their own fake terrarium?

Yeah.

So we got everybody a little jar and we

packed in some dirt and then gave them all like tiny acorns and nice rocks and you know, just whatever they wanted to decorate with.

And then everybody got a little glow-in-the-dark frog to put in.

And it turned out very cute.

And everybody really liked it.

That is some like supremely good birthday parenting.

I'm very impressed.

This is cute.

It was so cute.

It was very fun.

And other than that, it was like jewelry and Lego and stuff.

But yeah, generally,

it went very well.

I was very glad.

But I've realized Sam and I are a good matchup because I will stress out about something like my kid's birthday for like three days leading up to it.

I will stress out the whole time that we're setting up all of that.

And the second that it's going, I'm like, all right, there's nothing else I can do, right?

I've done everything that I can.

I've given it all, you know.

The second the party starts or the second that people are like at our house, whatever,

Sam immediately turns into, he won't sit down.

He's constantly asking people if they need anything.

He's bringing people stuff.

He's checking in on the kids.

He's like, he's like so active the entire time that it's happening.

And I'm like, this is, this is the, the flip, right?

Leading up, I was like, ugh.

And then the second it starts, he's like, ugh.

So

it's the cook the dinner, do the dishes team.

Yeah.

Gotta have that.

Yeah, I get it.

It's a solid, solid relationship it worked out yeah i think it's i think it's very cute but it also says a lot about sam's mentality of

being in the moment like he's an in the moment guy he is that's fair that's a good observation yeah like he's he's not gonna stress the things until it's like all right now i gotta do this i'm doing this and i'm gonna do it the best i can that kind of vibe and it's like Why stress it the day before when it's not the moment?

There's no like, you can't, what are you gonna do?

It's, it's the two different personalities of like, I'm prepping, I'm planning, I'm worrying, I'm stressing.

All right, we're here.

Nothing else I can do versus, well, what am I going to do?

It's, that's tomorrow's problem.

I'll deal with it tomorrow.

Yeah.

And then the day of being the guy that's like, do the kids want to see the sheep now?

Should we take the kids to the sheep?

I'll go grab the kids.

Hey, kids, do you want to go see the sheep?

All right, let's get the kids together.

We're going to go see the sheep.

I'm like, okay, bye.

Yeah.

It's also like a vacation mentality of like, there are some people who plan every hour of the vacation to be doing something, and then people who are like, No, we're gonna do that, but like, whatever we do that, let's do you want to do it now or should we do it later?

And you're like, No, no, no, I've already planned this four weeks ago, right?

Right, right.

But, like,

do we

can just go right now?

I mean, surely the kids want to see that, so let's go do like that kind of vibe.

Yeah, it's cute, it's it's complimentary, worked out.

Yeah, also, another good quote from the birthday day was Sam going, I'm gonna go get some more food, and I was like, I think we've we've got enough.

And he was like, no, you under plan and I over plan.

So I'm going to go get more food.

And I was like, okay.

And in the end, we needed more food.

So

anyways, yeah.

So, so birthday, we did a birthday and that was fun.

And then I decided, I got a bug in my year and decided that I wanted to replay Hollow Knight.

I guess because of Silk Song.

Everybody's talking about Silk Song now.

People are drawing pictures of Hornet crawling out of the ground, clutching a clown wig and screaming.

You know, it's good.

It's, it's, it's been fun.

Did you, is it, I think I saw a thing this week.

I could be crazy, but is it because there's hype now?

Because I think they said at some event, there's going to be a playable version in September.

And so everyone's like, yo, it's coming out this year, dude.

I did hear a thing like that, but I didn't know if it was a goof.

Sure.

I never wondered what got you like, what made you want to play again?

I know you love it.

So I know that's like, it's one of your faves.

But I'm curious what was the, like, what got you into it?

What was the thing?

Well, you know, I'm a, I'm a big, like,

like fandom fan art troll.

So, um, ah, okay.

So, yeah, the second that I knew people were like.

getting re-interested in Hollow Knight, I was like, I wonder if people are making fan art again.

So I went looking around and they absolutely are, which is why I know people are drawing Hornet,

throwing clown wigs in the trash.

It's it makes me laugh, it's fun.

And then I was like, Oh, I love Hollow Knight, it's my favorite game.

And I don't have a Metroidvania I'm playing right now, which is like my peak game type.

So, sure.

So, I said, Maybe now's the time, maybe this is the right time to start replaying Hollow Knight.

But what I worried about, because when I played Hollow Knight originally, you know, with no context of like where to go, what to do, how the bosses worked, it took me so long to get through that game.

i also played before it had map markers so i was oh doubling back constantly right so i imagine this is probably an easier experience much easier way way easier partly because of the map markers but also

it's shocking how good muscle memory is or like If you did a boss fight a million times a few years ago, you'll remember.

You'll remember that boss.

There's some part of you that still has it locked up there just from the repetition.

So I would go into fights and be like, I remember this fight.

I know this character, but

I don't remember what I need to do.

And the second it would start, I'd go, oh, right.

And then they do this.

And then they're going to do this.

No, I'm okay.

I've got it.

So I actually haven't gotten stuck very much.

Humble brag, I guess.

But it's been nice.

That's awesome.

Yeah, no, I completely understand what you mean.

There was an old Super Nintendo game called Joe and Mac, just a side-scrolling platform mashing thing where it was: you were two cave dudes who had to save cave babes and you killed dinosaurs.

That game to this day is locked up here.

You can see footage of years ago when I was on the game grumps playing that game.

You can see it, and like constantly, I will go back to that game and be like,

I know this boss.

I know what I'm doing.

I love that game.

And I absolutely, completely understand what you mean.

And that game is 20 years old.

30 years old?

Yeah.

So it's the ride-a-bike principle.

Like, you just absolutely know how to do it.

And even though it might be 20 years, you're like, I can ride this bike again.

Yeah, I can do this.

Yeah.

So I expected that I was going to start the replay and then go, well, I'm clearly not going to finish this replay because it will just take me too long.

And I don't want to, you know, spend the next month playing Hollow Knight, really, you know, but I'm zipping through it actually.

So maybe we'll just crush out a full playthrough.

You know, we'll see.

Could this be your Crendor every Tuesday he plays Banjo-Kazooie kind of thing where you're like, we're back again.

We're going to speak.

The man

did this.

Yeah, every time he streams that, he gets faster and faster.

And I don't know what his time is right now, but it's like almost speedrun-ish.

I was going to say, is he a banjo speedrunner now?

I mean, it's pretty impressive.

He's definitely to the point, I think he spends a lot of time goofing, but if he set his mind to just doing it,

he could probably nail it.

Man, Krender has hidden talents.

I feel like

I wouldn't go that far.

Let's not do that.

Let's not praise him.

That's the last thing we need.

You just said that he's almost speedrunning the game without even meaning to.

Almost is the key.

Almost.

I don't want to say he's speedrunning.

We can't give him anything.

He will never let us live it down.

We got to keep him grounded.

We got to pull him back down.

Just give him nothing.

Yeah, give him nothing.

Okay, aside from Hollow Knight, the only other game that I played that wasn't like a sponsored thing was, oh my gosh, the game that I played today, which was a demo that I...

That I played during the last NextFest.

The horror at High Rook.

I remember telling you about it, but I will re-pitch this to you.

it definitely has a,

like, I've heard this before vibe.

Yes.

So The Horror at High Rook was a game that's sort of, it's sort of board game-y.

It's a little cultist simulator.

The concept, the like storyline framework is that there is an old manor and a very important noble family that has gone missing.

And everyone knew that they were kind of involved in weird occult shit.

So the mayor of the town that they live in is like, we need to figure out what happened to this family.

So he calls upon or brings together four people from different backgrounds,

four specialists, and says, I want you guys to work as a team and figure out what happened to them.

And so the reason I say it's like cultist simulator is, or like games that are similar to that, is everything is represented by cards.

So there's little cards for the characters, cards for items, you know, etc.

And when you combine characters and items together, it might pop up with a new card representing a new item, right?

So one character with a spyglass might with the spyglass find a cool rock, right?

As

an example.

So it's that sort of a thing.

Cards beget more cards, beget more cards.

But the reason that I like vastly prefer this is that it is set up more like a board game.

So there are rooms.

The entire manor is laid out in like a grid of rooms.

And when you start, you have a certain number of them.

Some of them are locked.

And each character, again, there are four of them.

And each one of them has a different set of skills.

There will be two characters that will have, like,

I'm trying to think of how to explain this.

Like, none of them are the only one to have a certain skill.

Does that make sense?

Yes.

So, so they all, all of the skills overlap with one other person, but each room is represented by a skill type so the cliffs are where you would go hunting the cellar is where you would look for secrets uh the archives is where you would study mysteries the so it's like card combo room

i don't say technology but like you can't just you can't just look for secrets in the library for example if you like if the card says that it's like you have to use the thing on the right square i guess yeah so everything's color coded yeah and it's kind of like clue

so it'll it it technically is just constantly running but i play it more like a real time or not real time um uh turn-based game i just pause it every time everybody's done something and then decide where i want things to be but yeah you put a person in a room with an item that works in that room so it has to be a person with that skill Gotcha, okay.

And an item that works in that room.

And then you let it resolve.

And then they might find something new they might find you know a note that was left in that room or you know whatever so there's also a survival element where you need to keep track of whether or not everyone's sleeping whether or not everyone's eating and their like mental state because it's got the like cthulhu horror element going on ah okay all right so yeah the survival element is really light i haven't had any trouble keeping track of that and making sure everybody's fine sure generally it's it's been really nice.

Like it's just sort of flowed easily.

I haven't really gotten stuck.

I haven't felt overwhelmed yet.

Yeah, I think that it's a, I think it's a really fun game.

It looks neat.

I mean, just looking at the trailer for it and stuff, it absolutely, I recognize this from the last time you talked about it.

It absolutely is one of those like,

yeah, I should play this.

I should give this a look.

So very cool.

I'm all about

that slow burn

Cthulhu light.

You know, we're doing a little mystery uncovering stuff and then there's some sort of wacky horror element.

Honestly, it's a solid gimmick to make any game a little more exciting.

There's like, oh yeah, no, it's a mystery, but there's something under the surface that always adds like a little spice to it.

Even if it's very light,

it always adds a bit to it.

And so that's, that'll be fun.

Yeah, it's from the very start of the game, you start finding letters from the husband being like, you know, I've gotten involved with this group and I've found these things and like, you know, I can't tell my wife, you know, but then eventually you start finding stuff that was written by his, his kid, like his very young kid who's like, daddy's acting weird and he's got this weird necklace.

And I think I'm going to take the necklace.

I'm going to take it somewhere else.

Right.

And you're like, oh, no.

You're just slowly trying to figure out like what happened to these people and where they are and whether or not you can like get them back, basically.

Okay, so yeah, yeah.

I think I saw someone say this earlier, but I think it's really apt based on that description you just said, where it's clue meets Oberdin dipped in blueprints.

I feel like

that is a solid way to describe that, I think.

Also,

what magic Coke are you drinking right now?

I don't want to, unless Coke wants to sponsor us, but what is, I've never seen this before.

Coke of Lime.

All right.

Sure.

Yeah, it's just, it's lime coke.

I've definitely seen that before, but it's like

it's a different color, I guess.

I don't know.

Different can.

Yeah, different can.

It's like

there's a big obsession overseas with Pepsi Max, and I just don't understand it.

But like,

you know,

maybe because it just looks different.

Here in the States, it's like, yeah, it's like Pepsi, but crappier.

We've suddenly taken an interest.

We're drinking way less soda.

Same.

But

we've decided to start drinking like the weird flavors that come out.

Can say firmly

mango Coke is one of the nastiest things I've ever drank in my life.

I believe that.

I believe that.

Really gross.

Really gross.

Cherry Dr.

Pepper, pretty good.

A lot of Dr.

Peppers, I'm just going to say, kind of slap.

Like Dr.

Pepper is a solid winner across the board most of the time.

Yeah, there are some where it's like, especially here in the States, like raspberry sorbet, Dr.

Pepper.

And I'm like, die.

That you suck.

There's a lot of really, truly awful flavors of drinks.

I will say, one of my favorite ones is there was like a cherry lime sprite, I think.

I kind of slapped.

I was like, all right.

But no, I'm, I, let me just say for the record, I was, I was, I don't know, I was overseas all of

half a week.

yep nothing but water and walking maybe some drinks at night came back stepped on that scale at home down five pounds how is this possible dude every time i travel i come back and i've lost weight and i'm like

i think america i think guys i think we screwed up

like what is going on yeah i will say yo this is real and it's totally true.

Finland, from the moment I stepped off the airport to the moment I got to the remedy offices, to the moment I left, every single person, there are big signs that are just like, you know, you can drink water right from the tap here.

And it's fine.

Everywhere.

Everywhere.

Almost comically so.

We get to the offices and they're like, you guys want to try the water?

And we're like, what do you mean?

They're like, you love the water.

It was the best tasting water I've ever tasted in my entire life.

I don't know how to describe to you.

I know most people are like, water has a taste?

Y'all, it was so good.

It was like drinking from a glacier i don't know what the hell i get to tell you it was like the best water ever i'm just like oh i was constantly all day

downing finish water it i i was a pee machine i was like constantly drinking i loved it i was like this sucks i hate i i hate that this is good I don't know what kind of minerals are in that water.

I don't know what the deal is with that water, but

absolute killing it.

They were like, you'd be a fool to go buy water in a bottle here.

And I was like, no, you write.

No, you're right.

It was incredible.

I don't know what was going on, but I loved every minute of it.

I, I, yeah.

If I could survive what I'm sure would be the absolute worst winters, Finland is a solid, like, the Nordic countries,

solid choice to live.

Just saying, I don't know how I can handle the weather, but like,

you know, the rest of it, kind of all right.

So it was pretty, it was pretty crazy.

That's all I

cannot stress this.

I drank so much water.

And then were you just sad knowing that you can't get that unless you ate it?

The minute I got on the plane to come home,

I think, honestly, that's why earlier we were talking about the bathrooms on planes.

Yeah, washing my hands in the bathroom.

I was like, this water's weird.

This water feels strange.

And I get it when people from overseas come to, especially to LA, they're like, your water smells.

And I'm like, what do you mean?

What are you talking about?

They're like, your water just smells.

There's a funky smell to your water.

And I was like, oh, no, that's just America.

That's the freedom.

You're smelling the freedom.

Yeah, that's the freedom we put in the water.

So

in Oregon, there's a town called Ashland where they have the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Shout out to Ashland.

But they have what are called lithia water fountains.

And they are basically like,

it's like nasty smelling sulfur water.

And so it'll be the same.

It's kind of the same sort of thing where they're like, have you tried the water yet?

But sinister.

You know,

it's not like

you're going to be so excited.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But with this, it's like there are little, there's little fountains around in Ashland for you to try the water if you're brave.

I'm not.

I'm not brave.

I don't want your stink water.

I hate that.

It drives me crazy.

I, yeah, I purposefully, I was told your water smells.

And I was like, I've never noticed.

Bought a filter to stick on the shower.

Different experience.

I was like, oh my God.

You were so right.

It does stink.

And now it doesn't.

And I'm

concerned.

What have I been?

Yeah.

I guess I went noseblind to it, but

you notice, you notice it.

It's crazy.

So, especially LA.

I feel like in a lot of places in the States, the water's fine.

But in a big city like LA, where there's barely any water anyway, they're recycling something.

And it is stank water.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The water that I grew up on is like well water with a lot of iron in it.

And so our water tastes very different from water that I've had anywhere else.

But the longer that I live away from the farm in Oregon, whenever I come home, I try to drink the tap water and I'm like,

it tastes weird, man.

It tastes so weird.

Yeah.

I will say I'm full on.

Shout out to the Hydro Homies over on Reddit.

Full on the Hydro Homie train in that I

drink enough water now.

This is such a weird conversation to have because it's definitely like, hey guys, do you like water?

Sure do, bro.

Love it.

You're really into water.

It's crazy.

But you can definitely, if you just start going down the water rabbit hole and just start only drinking water and or iced tea, love a good iced tea.

But like, it's noticeable.

Different water flavor.

Like,

be it water from a can, a box, plastic, tap, where the water comes from.

You're just like, it all has a different taste.

there's different tastes this water which is crazy to think about because as a history nerd I absolutely know that for the better part of history even though everyone's like be like our ancestors and drink of water and eat of meat and beans or whatever the hell people

most of history people were like dude water will kill you

we got to turn that into beer or something like we got and we're not you know it's For the people out there who are like, beer, you know, like it wasn't get your ass drunk stuff.

It was just they made pretty weak alcohol, but it was alcohol.

Like, most of the time, people were like, we can't drink water.

That'll kill us.

So,

yeah, multiple historically, yeah, it was, it was like, make it so that it's drinkable.

And also,

if you're making beer, it's like liquid bread.

And if you didn't have food, at least you could be drinking beer.

Drinking.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's, it's crazy, but like, yeah.

Yeah.

You were not in at any point

in most of history until right now you never had like a cold glass of water it just wasn't a thing unless you were living in the far north it wasn't a thing you did and so uh to me i'm like i need a nice cool glass i that just means i'm spoiled as i am a product of the future to my ancestors Sorry, y'all, you missed out.

You really missed out, guys.

You missed out.

It's great.

I'm a big fan.

Yeah, I don't, I guess that's where I'm at, where I'm just like, yo, I'd rather just have water.

Somehow, that's where I'm at.

I'm like, nah, I don't need a soda right now.

And it definitely changes your palate to the point where if you do have a soda, you're like,

what the?

However.

It tastes so strong.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In the states, though, because, well, at least in the southern states, we have a lot of access to like Mexican soft drinks.

So, of course, shout out to Mexican Coke.

Keeping it strong.

You're great.

You'll always be great and not at all too sweet.

So, love that.

Yeah.

The only other thing that I

played, if we want to go back to a game, sure, sure.

Not talk about water for another 20 minutes.

Are you crazy?

I'm going to keep talking about water, but I also have a game.

I'm 80% it.

It should be 80% of the show.

That's just representation.

Yeah.

I was sponsored to play this, but I played this with Bree.

It's a game called Sunderfolk.

And

I've heard of this.

Sunderfolk.

Bro, this game is so cute.

I will say it asks you to do more than I think you're going to want to sometimes.

It's a little bit jackboxy.

So they essentially were like, how do we make a turn-based strategy game?

where people can play together, even couch co-op.

On their phones?

And you're, yeah, you control your character on your phone.

Kind of cute.

Kind of cute.

Kind of very cute.

So only one person has to own the game.

So when we played,

Brie played the game and then Discord shared what the game looked like to me.

And then I was controlling my character and what I did on my phone.

But you download the Sunderfolk app to go with it.

And then you join a game with a QR code.

And it is so cute.

The turn-based strategy like missions are very fun.

The way that the app worked was pretty straightforward.

You just, it's just like a blank, when you're actually playing, it's just like a blank thing.

And when you need to move around, you just kind of drag your finger and watch the main screen and you can see where your character is going.

Yeah, there's a bunch of different classes that you can choose from.

And then it does lots of really cute things that make it feel more like DD.

At first, we were joking, like, this feels kind of like DD, but then it kept doing stuff where we were like, it's really starting to feel like DD now.

One of them is when you come into fights, it'll choose a person at random in the group to be like, ah, these are, this is a different type of orc.

What is this orc called, by the way?

And you can just name it whatever you want.

Or like we did a mission where we needed to rescue a giant beetle that was owned by this cute penguin girl.

They're all animal characters, by the way.

The art style is lovely.

This little penguin girl was like, my beetle, it got taken away by orcs.

Please, you have to go get him.

So we went to find the beetle and it was like, oh, it's her beetle.

What was the beetle's name again?

So,

so we had to save Fart Gobbler the Beetle.

And

why not?

Yeah.

And the way that the game works is you'll do a mission, collect as much gold or whatever as you want during the mission, but once you've completed your primary objective, it just ends.

that mission.

And there will be, you know, like hidden objectives and stuff, all that, all that good nonsense.

And then in between missions, you go to the main town and you can have three conversations.

So there are a bunch of different places you can go in town and a bunch of different people you can talk to.

And so you do all of that on your phone.

So you can like look around in the village, tap on a person, you'll have a conversation with them.

And the closer you get with that person, they might offer you gifts or give you side quests or whatever.

But all of that is like individual.

So each individual person can pursue that on their own on their phone.

And it doesn't have big.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Okay.

So it's not on the main screen.

Like there's no one who just takes over.

Right.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

So what Brie and I did is we just read the conversations out to each other because, yeah, you don't see them for everybody else.

But then once you've had all the conversations, gone to the shops, bought whatever, then you just start a new mission.

And it was very cute.

Yeah, it's a really, really cute game.

Until we played it, I didn't really think about the fact that it's always sort of a pain in the ass to try and multiplay a turn-based turn-based strategy game with another person.

So, I guess this is a good, this makes sense as,

you know, a way to do that, to just make it so everybody's controlling their own person on their phone.

It definitely solves a problem that,

like, as a fan of Baldur's Gate 3, who thinks that game is absolutely one of the best games ever made, I must stress, the experience of playing multiplayer on PC with, you know, like you and Crendor or whatever, having our own screens, doing our own thing is vastly different than the PlayStation version, which I played, which is like if you're playing with someone else, it splits screens and it, you're taking control of other people's screens.

If you, or, um, another great example is recently I played through Cult of the Lamb multiplayer, right?

So

that one, if you're both trying to do the same thing at the same time, it like the grain, the game grinds to a halt.

Right.

And so it's, it's definitely an experience where like, I love playing multiplayer in the open world, killing things, doing the, you know, the roguelite stuff.

But the minute you get back to camp, you're like,

yeah, just do it.

Just make the food.

It's fine.

I got, I was, I was mining a thing, but like, it's fine.

Like, that's.

And so having everything on your phone and having a main screen where you can look at stuff, but it isn't taking over everything, I think is very, very smart.

And that's a really great way of doing that.

Because it also adds a gimmick to the game, which I think these days, there's so many damn games you got to have something.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's the is this is this Moorheim's new thing?

Do we know?

It seems like it sounds like it's.

Developed by Secret Door, published by Dreamhaven.

Oh, Dreamhaven is Mike Morheim's thing, his new thing.

There we go.

All right.

That's awesome.

That's very, very cool.

I definitely have like,

it's interesting to see old BlizzDev on their new projects because they're nothing like Blizzard stuff, which makes me think for a while they definitely were kind of handicapped by we have to produce a craft game, Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo.

It's got to be one of those, and uh,

yeah, watching them.

This is the strangling effect of expectations, yeah, especially after the Activision purchase for sure.

Which

there's, I think, oh man, what is it called?

Fair play something.

It's a

the uh the oh, the book that just came out about Blizzard.

Fascinating book.

Incredibly, it definitely, if you need your inside scoop, um play nice.

Play nice.

That's what it is.

Uh is it Jason's book?

Is that Jason Schreier?

Yeah, the rise, fall, and future of Blizzard Entertainment.

Old co-optional guest, yes.

Definite,

like, the book absolutely has a, here's where it went wrong.

It definitely was when Blizzard was bought by Activision.

Like, it is, that it is all arrows point to that.

It isn't even like ambiguous.

It's like, no, no, no.

The thing you liked about Blizzard died that day.

And now it is permanently gone.

So if you're one of those like old school Blizzard fans,

spoilers, it's, yeah, it's not, that's not it.

It's not ever coming back.

And it's fascinating because it is like,

yeah, everything you kind of thought, you're like, yeah,

yep, that is, that's what happened.

It's pretty shitty.

But

which I guess a lot of people probably probably

would be able to assume was the issue.

But

yeah.

Having

spelled out.

Specific points.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because I think everyone understands that when a big company comes in and buys something special, that special thing is gone permanently.

It never exists again.

You can look across all media, across all anything.

Food, clothing, whatever the case may be.

When the company that's about money comes in and buys the company that's about product, the product sucks in the end no matter what it's just the way it is yeah and um

yeah kind of it's it's an interesting read for sure but um yeah god that was god i wondered i read that on like a plane it was like that was a while ago but it was fascinating yeah however speaking of uh uh the good guys the good the good the good devs out there yes were you aware that yesterday we got dodger this is both you and this is interest of both you and i okay and i'm excited because now that I'm back, this is a look.

I get Expedition 33.

I got Blueprints.

I got all the games.

I definitely want to 100%.

However,

this two hours is going to just supersede all of it because it's vastly more important to me as this is a Jesse Dodger thing.

Is it Rusty Lake?

Brand new Rusty Lake is out.

Yeah.

Yes.

It's called Mr.

Rabbit's Magic Show.

Oh my gosh.

The Mr.

Rabbit Magic Show.

It released

literally, I believe, on April 30th.

It released with a full ass, I think,

movie.

Like not movie, movie, but you know how in one of the previous games they made like a crazy cinematic that was all live action.

They've done it again for their 10-year anniversary of, which, by the way, 10 years of Rusty Lake is crazy to me.

That is crazy.

I've been so obsessed with this.

So this supersedes everything.

I will find time to play this.

It is happening.

Oh, my God.

i'm so excited

this time i'm see lake how did i not know i'm so excited this time i think it is a card game kind of thing i don't know what that means in regards to all of it but um like most of their games totally free if you want to support them they have a dlc which is three bucks i think And all it is is like a thank you from the devs and you get like additional art assets in the game that don't do anything except like make it look a little nicer.

that's it perfect but it's like if you want to give us if you want to give us some bucks we'll take it but it's totally free otherwise and uh i'm expecting for those of you who never played rusty lake i'm expecting this to confuse you and honestly that's the point most of them confuse until you realize that they all connect in some crazy way and if you're like me and you've played them all and like dodger you're gonna be like

oh that's from this one this like oh well that was in 1896 but if you're on the island in the 1920s well then also of course there's van i want to say Van Gogh, but for the Europeans, Van Gogh.

And there's a bunch.

Yeah.

And

I love these games.

I love them.

They're so jessicoded.

Yeah.

I can't wait to play them.

I've been thinking about doing a replay of all of them.

But the question then would be, do you play them in order that they came out again?

Or do you try to play them in what you think is chronological order?

Can I propose something crazy to you, which is easy?

Yeah.

This is going to make your date.

A while ago, ago, and I've been meaning to do this, but I just haven't had the time till right now when I remembered.

There is a tabletop Rusty Lake thing.

I think it's called the, it's like a version of the lab or it's something very similar to the lab game.

Okay.

Where they've sent me rooms with all of this information.

It's like D ⁇ D almost.

Okay.

But I think it'd be fun to play with you and we can get some like other people to play.

And you just go through and you're trying to investigate and literally do a Rusty Lake, but live.

And and so i would be the dm of our rusty lake experience i was like yes this is so cool

i always i always wanted to do it in person but i was like screw it i'll just now that we're talking about it like let's just do it yeah we can do it online it'd be great let's just figure it out yeah i'd have to find a way to scan all the images and do that so we could like do a thing but right

it could be fun i was i was just thinking about that because i was like man i love rusty lake it's just the best it's so much fun

it is

you know and you're right there is i don't know how you would explain where people to start like because you want to say start with rusty lake hotel yeah but that's that's because that's where we started

and and also at the time that it was the first one and it didn't really make a lot of sense and it seems like kind of a goofy you serve animals to other animals kind of game and it's weird But then the last half is insane.

And you're like, what the hell did I just play?

And I think that's why we both loved it.

And then from that point on, it all starts to unfold over the course of like

10 games now i don't even know how many games we've gotten and it just keeps snowballing into this absolutely insane story and i

love it it's so good yeah i love it as well

oh yes i'm excited new rusty late game big excitement

I can tell we're excited because I know right now we're both thinking, when do we have time to play this?

I know we're doing a podcast, but I also am aware we both had those same moment.

We're like, when are we doing this?

When should I play this?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep.

Oh, my goodness.

They're just good.

How many of them are there now?

Great question.

Probably more than you think.

Because they also have the Cube Escape games.

Yeah.

Are those technically the same universe?

I mean, they released a full Cubescape paradox in

chapters one and two, and I think three, and they all connect in some way.

Hmm.

So the games they have are...

Oh, damn, I think I just spoiled myself on a thing.

Okay.

So they have Rusty Lake, Rusty Lake Paradise, Rusty Lake Roots.

Well, I'm sorry.

Rusty Lake Hotel, Rusty Lake Roots, Rusty Lake Paradise.

There's the Cubescape Collection.

That's right now only at $1.69.

I'm just saying that's a bunch of games for $1.69.

Wow, you can get most of their collection right now for real cheap.

There's, of course.

Oh, yeah, Rusty Lake Anniversary sale right now.

Yeah.

There's the Past Within.

There's Underground Blossom, which is a very interesting, like a railroad one.

I'm sorry, like a subway.

There's the White Door.

I like the White Door.

I thought that was pretty wild.

There is the Samsara Room, which I think is probably their most

ambitious one.

Yeah, so there's Rusty Lake Paradox and I think Cubiscape Paradox are connected.

And so there's those.

And And then they just released this new one, the Mr.

Rabbit Magic Show.

But then, down at the very bottom, there is a damn thing here that says Servant of the Lake to be announced.

And I think I just blowed myself on the next one.

I'm really excited.

Servant of the Lake.

That's what I am.

Like, yeah.

I feel like that targets me.

I am a servant of the lake.

I love these games.

Oh, my goodness.

You're nearly there, man.

Big time, big fan.

So shout out to them.

They're just some of my favorite indie darlings where it's fun games, cheap.

They won't take too much of your time.

And the experience you have, you'll be like, damn, that was wild.

Like, what the shit did I just play?

Yeah.

It's good.

It's good.

There are so many games I feel like recently that I've either played the demo of or have played properly and thought to myself, this was 100% inspired by rusty lake so

yeah

yeah i love these games and i think they i think it's

you probably can get them all on mobile i know they started on mobile because all the cube the cubes escape ones are

yeah and i wonder if you can get the rest of them there now probably

i don't know but um man yeah if you uh if you ever want to see two people

solve a game two completely different ways, please go watch Dodger Dodger and I play these games.

I love when I play these games first because then I get to go watch you play it if you stream it.

And every time I'm like, oh my God, he got that so easily.

And then there will be another thing that I got really quickly that you'll struggle with.

And I'm like, our brains are so different.

Wired completely different.

Yeah.

It is.

It's a fascinating look at humanity.

If you just

watch the two versions.

Yeah.

It's pretty funny.

Oh man.

Yeah, did you do anything else of interest or excitement this week?

Not that I can think of.

Not really.

I built my

planter boxes.

I said, did you do anything exciting this week?

It was exciting.

I worked really hard on them, man.

You just made boxes for plants?

Yeah.

I built, I, I, I.

Hold on, what kind of plants, though?

This could be the, this could be the kicker.

There's no plants in them yet.

But I made them.

I built boxes.

Yeah, I built two.

I'm trying to think how big they are.

Like

six foot by two foot boxes.

I built two like pretty big ones and then two

of them that were like a lot like longer and thinner to go around the chicken coop.

But

I built them.

I built them.

And now I'm having to figure out how to fill in the bottom with like refuse so that I can put the soil on top so that I'm not filling the whole thing up with soil

because that's what the rocks at the bottom kind of deal well like scrap pieces of wood or branches uh cardboard so I've been saving up cardboard from things that we've bought you know things like things that'll break down eventually but can just fill up the bottom for now so

yeah

okay but soon I'm gonna have plants in there and I'm very excited yeah the life of a lady on a farm.

Little house on the prairie.

A little house on something.

Yeah.

Like if you like it could have been, you could have been in Scotland on a bog.

That would have been cool.

Although Little House on a bog sounds like a horror movie.

Oh, a little house on a loch.

A little house on a loch.

Yeah.

Someone should write that.

Yeah.

That's all I did, though.

I've been working outside a lot because

most of the ideas we have are not what a great idea we had.

It's just someone else should do this.

Like, I came up with this thing, but I'm not going to do it.

That's

it.

Someone else should have the idea.

I guess that should be evidence of the value we see in the idea, right?

Our amazing ideas.

Yeah.

We're like, what a good idea.

Someone else should do it.

Right.

Like, it's so good.

You should do it.

Yeah.

We give this

enjoy.

That one's free.

Yeah.

Meanwhile, somewhere at a Starbucks in Hollywood, a guy's like, little house on lock.

Little house on a lock.

Interior.

It's a little house on a lock.

Yes.

I'd watch that one act show.

I'd watch that black box production.

Yeah.

Honestly, you probably could do something weird with just a, it's set inside the house the entire time, but outside something creepy is going on.

And the people on the inside don't know how to react, but they're too afraid to look outside.

Like, you could do a thing like that.

Yeah.

Normally in like a black box show, right?

Like the back wall, you just pretend, like whatever building people are meant to be in, you just pretend that the back wall is the back wall.

But if you like built a back wall as like a set piece and have it just slightly in front at the very end of the show after you've implied that there's something out there this whole time you could have like a weird in inflatable guy

you can inflate a big dude that'll go

you're ending to a one-act play

Yes.

The reveal of a giant inflatable man outside?

Yes, and the whole thing would have to be a drama.

There would have to be a lot.

It would have to be, you know, very like,

sure, that thing outside is scary, but humans are scarier, right?

But then at the very end,

at the very end, there's like one of those like.

I

love the idea

of

just being one of those car lot guys,

but a really menacing car lot guy who's like,

Yeah.

You can put some little spikies on him like he's messy.

Right, right, right.

And they go, ah!

And then that's the end.

And they all bow.

And then some guy wheels out the Carlotte guy.

And then he does that bow the Carlotte guys do.

Yep.

Yep.

It's it's an hour of pure horror followed by it's just the reveal is that they're actually they've been on a car lot the entire time.

It's just the car lot guy.

My stomach hurts.

It sounds like a really bad episode of the Twilight Zone, but like we're trapped in here.

And there's something outside.

It's going to get us.

Oh my God.

Like, um, yeah, one of the guys is like, I'm not letting them take me.

And he kills himself.

And they're just like, no, what are you doing?

And they think it's the end of of the world.

And then they open the door and it's just a car lot.

And there's like, it's the guy.

That'd be like the darkest story.

Like the end of the mist.

It'd be so dark.

You're like, damn, what the hell?

Oh, gosh.

Yeah.

It's like a saw situation.

Yeah, there's a lot of things.

And then once the one survivor finally gets in.

Oh, yeah.

One guy goes crazy and thinks he hears the monster outside talking to him.

And he's like, he wants me to kill and eat all of you.

And it just devolves.

And at the end, they open the door and and it's just a used car lot and it's just this guy and they've been trapped in there because there's like a winter storm and technically it's only been like three hours and they went nuts that'd be an incred that'd be incredible

we really strayed away from house on the locks you know what

that's called that's that's we play yeah you still call it that though

right Oh my god.

You called that.

You call it that?

Because the guy who is the guy who sells the used cars, he can't say lot.

That's the way he pronounces lot.

That's the way he pronounces lot.

This, my friends, is how comedy is written.

This is perfect.

This is a good ass story.

Right, A24 produces it.

Its build is the scariest movie you've ever seen.

And in the end, it was all a used car lot.

Oh my god.

I've got nothing left.

The tank's empty, dude.

Good.

Well, now it's time for news.

Let's do the news.

So, right away, starting with with Vegas News, of course, GTA 6,

once again, delayed this time until 2026, which I think I and every other person who exists

who talked about GTA has

called.

So that it was definitely going to happen.

Apparently it hit Take-Two's stock pretty hard.

They lost 7 or 8% on the NASDAQ.

However, look, everyone.

I must state this for legal reasons.

I am no stock analyst and I cannot give you advice.

However, if I owned take two stock, I probably wouldn't sell out of panic.

I feel like they'll be fine.

Yeah.

Considering when it comes out, it'll be the highest-selling game in the history of games.

So like,

sit on, y'all.

Just sit on it.

Yeah.

No.

And more grounded yet incredibly sad news.

This week was another week in gaming.

So of course we had layoffs.

EA cut 400 jobs.

It killed two respawn games.

One of the projects, I guess, was a Titanfall extraction shooter.

And while I do not like extraction shooters, I love Titanfall.

So

I probably would have enjoyed that.

And that kind of sucks.

But I guess we are still getting the third Star Wars Jedi game.

And Apex Legends isn't going anywhere.

Also, in the world of layoffs, boy, weird place to be.

Polygon was just bought by Valnet, which owns a whole bunch of media.

And I guess they just fired a lot of people.

A lot of Polygon staff was let go.

And interestingly enough, at the same time, Giant Bomb is having some sort of brand restructurement, realignment thing.

And a lot of people from Giant Bomb are out as well.

So I don't,

yeah, I have absolutely no clue what's going on with games media at the moment.

But I will say that,

as I've always said, shout out to Video Games Chronicle.

They still are just the best news site for games if you're curious about that kind of stuff.

I love them to death.

Also, I think this is something that, Donja, you could probably relate to.

I don't know.

But a new study shows up.

No, no, no, no, no.

This is actually, this is no roast.

This is,

I get a lot of messages about this frequently.

So I imagine you would too.

85% of U.S.

veterans who played video games on active duty say it helped release stress of military life.

And I know that I have had a lot of people who have served in the military been like, dude, we would watch you guys all the time.

Yeah.

So

I love that.

Thank you.

I'm like, boy, I feel like I made deployment worse, but okay.

Somewhere on a base somewhere, some guy's watching us be like, and then it goes like this.

And they're like, what am I doing?

What are we doing here?

Oh, my goodness.

But yeah,

I definitely think that that's a very interesting.

I guess 86% of veterans believe video games helped prevent various daily stresses and anxieties.

81% said it helped them cope with difficult times in their lives.

77% believe that games had a positive impact on their life and post-military service.

So

I think that is a lot of interesting stats there.

Yeah, yeah.

That was put out by the ESA.

So also it could just be straight propaganda.

I don't know.

The ESA is very self-serving sometimes.

That's true.

But yeah, I think they put it out on at the ESA.

I think it's theESA.com 2025 Veterans something survey.

So you can find information about that.

Then

in more news that I, in this darkest timeline, we're in.

For some reason, the first seven Lee SerSuit Larry games are being delisted from Steam.

So I must stress.

I Said for some reason.

I don't know.

I have no clue.

I guess maybe they're just not selling or maybe it costs money to keep them there.

Or

I don't know.

But

EA is like,

sorry, dude.

We're taking them down.

So let me just stress once again, ladies and gentlemen, G-O-G.

They're still there.

They still exist there.

Just saying.

So if you're a fan of those old school games of being a pervert,

that's for you.

GOG still rocking, still strong.

Yep.

Then, of course, we got a very interesting, but I think we talked about this before, and I love this idea.

Microsoft, who, as we've discussed many times, I don't know what the hell an Xbox is.

I guess it's everything.

And so their console is a complete mess.

However, much like Sega, They're in that publishing arm, and Microsoft was the top publisher on the PlayStation store by pre-orders in quarter one, 2025, which is a fascinating thing to say.

That's Microsoft out there being like, yeah, we're the number one on PlayStation.

Pretty crazy.

So

honestly, it makes sense.

If you're going to be the guys who go out and buy every damn game company, you better get those games on every damn platform.

And honestly, good for them.

I love that for them.

I'm fine with having to buy one less console, to be honest.

You know what?

I'm fine with it.

If everything's going to start getting more expensive, I'm all right not doing that.

So, um,

I thought that was pretty interesting.

Then,

one of my absolute favorites, I think this is hilarious, and it's very perfectly timed with me being overseas at Remedy.

Sam Lake.

This is my favorite headline ever, by the way.

Right, Sam Lake.

Again, Sam Lake

would like to make a Moomin's game.

Okay.

i

so want this i think this would be the i want it to be as crazy i i just

for those who don't know the moons they're already weird they're already weird looking and i i just

i guess i guess because

i don't know i guess he's saying that after he retires from making games he would like to make something with the moomens

So,

you know, I'm kind of here for this.

Bro, I'd be so down

as a new Moomer.

I would love that.

Because the Moomin universe and the Moomin characters are already bonkers, like you were saying.

So having somebody who's willing to lean into that really hard, I would be really curious how...

much wiggle room they would give him

because they're very protective of their their IP and how it's portrayed.

At the Helsinki airport, there's a Moo-Man shop, and the Moo-Man shop, well, very cute and silly.

And I almost bought a hat because it had like this guy called Stinky on it, and he just looked how I felt.

Stinky's great, yeah.

Yeah, the outside of the shop has what can only be described as dark soul-esque creatures.

Like, there are these worm things with glowing blue eyes and spiky hair, like a hundred of them surrounding the shop, staring out at you.

I can imagine at night it being terrifying.

It was so crazy looking.

I was like, What the hell are these things?

Absolutely, I would love a Sam Lake moon.

Like,

I can only imagine what that actually would be.

I know in his mind, he'd try to make it the same like kid-friendly thing, but it's still Sam Lake.

So, I imagine it will be insane.

Yeah, which, by the way, I must stress, while landing in Helsinki, I looked at the like

the surrounding area, right?

And it's all of these trees that have a vibe of, I get remedy now.

All of the, all of the forest area, because it isn't like a major city.

You're going in, and it's like a city, but surrounding, it's all this like massive forest.

And all of the trees have the vibe of this is definitely a place a cult kills people.

Like there is a solid, oh no, all the death metal, all of it starts to make sense.

You're like, oh, the trees give off like foreboding somehow.

Especially if you're in a country that

six months out of the year, half the time it's dark.

Like, yeah, I get it being, ah, no, I understand.

I get all of this now.

The minute I landed, I was like, oh, it has like a,

it's the, the northwest, but scary vibe.

I understand why Twin Peaks is a big influence.

I get, it's like, oh no, yeah, Twin Peaks is northwest, but scary.

This is the same thing.

This is the exact same.

It's terrible.

Yeah, I definitely had a vibe.

And then you spend all your time going over islands and they're little islands where I'm like, you could bury so many bodies there.

No, who would know?

That's all I'll say about that.

Today, I feel like we're getting a good idea of how often you think to yourself slightly scary things.

Oh, frequently.

I always will think it, but not in like a, I'm worried about a way, but like a funny,

in like a mic way.

Yes.

I was once told, this is absolutely, if you want to know my psyche, I was once told by a person, God, this was like, I think this was in college.

I often whistle while doing things or hum to myself while doing things.

Cooking, walking, like going to the bathroom.

I'll just like have a song in my head.

And this girl once told me, only

people who have no problems whistle to themselves.

And I was like, I don't know that I believe that, but I understand

why people think that because I spend most of my time like,

I'm having a good time.

Yeah, it's the implication like, if you have the, the, the room in your noggin to just only want to be whistling, then there's nothing else going on up there.

Yeah, like, like, I think the implication is if I'm walking on the street and I'm humming to myself, I'm not paying attention to the world around me.

And so I'm just like,

right?

And anything can happen.

But

I know that's not true, but I think about that frequently where I will literally look at something like a forest, think a really dark thought, and then be like,

just like go on my way.

And it's such a weird thing because I know most people, if they think, oh man, you could be killed in this forest.

I don't want to go in there.

I'm like, well, if I got to go in the forest, I'm going to humma be like.

Right.

Yeah.

Might as well let them know where I am at.

So, um, and then really quickly, last thing, I thought this was very cute.

Expedition 33 came out.

It was, it's getting a lot of love, a lot of praise.

And in the same way, echoing the days of when the Polish government said that Witcher 3 was like their best export, President Macron of France was saying that Claire Obscure is a shiny example of French audacity and creativity.

And for anyone who has played it, I must stress, those are incredibly apt words for describing the game.

Audacious and creative are exactly how I would describe it.

Cute.

Very, very cool stuff.

Love, love that game.

I still

haven't touched that game.

I haven't watched anyone play it.

I'm excited to just like.

I just want to see you play the first two hours.

I don't care if we ever see you play anymore, but I want to see you play the first two hours because like,

what a solid start to a game.

I can't, yeah, I can't even stress it enough.

I don't even want to talk about it.

I just want to say, like, go play it, have fun.

I will definitely say that if it says anything about the games industry, when I was at Remedy, I got to hang out with a bunch of people like in the journal spaces, and all we did was talk about Blueprints and Expedition 33.

People were like, This is this is what people are playing right now.

So, yeah, I was just saying to my chat earlier while I was while I was playing the hellhouse game

that I took a few days off from Blueprints and I went to play it again.

And I was like, I don't even remember what the fuck I was doing.

I don't, that's a deadly game to take a break on, really, because you get out of the rhythm of it.

And I was like, what the shit am I even doing in this game anymore?

I don't remember.

I'm actually very thankful that I hit a wall with, like, there's a point in the game where in order to solve puzzles, you just have to get certain rooms.

And thankfully, I'm at that wall where I have to get certain rooms.

And if I don't get certain rooms, I'm not progressing.

And so I thankfully know exactly what I need to do.

And there's nothing I can do till I get the rooms.

And so I'm like, oh, thank God.

I don't have to solve anything crazy.

I just need the certain room.

So I can go back to that whenever and be fine.

But yeah, I've definitely been thinking about Expedition 33 because

that's just,

it's, it's, I had to leave it

to leave the country.

And I'm like, I just want to play.

I just want to get back in it.

So it's definitely going to happen this weekend.

We'll do a big old stream, I'm sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And that's it.

That's the news.

That's the news.

Fantastic.

I'm exhausted from all that laughing earlier.

Good, good.

You know what?

I feel like I could nap.

We did that.

We definitely, we

set a tone of comedy hilariousness and um

hilariousness.

Yeah.

And I'm honestly, that's what we're here for.

That's for you, chat.

That one's for you.

Otherwise, otherwise, we have failed miserably.

Literally, no one else laughed.

They're like,

yeah, good bitch.

That's actual hell.

That's that's my idea of hell is us like having a joke, thinking it's so funny, and then peeking behind the curtain to see the percentage of people who laughed, and it's zero.

There's gonna be like a thing on YouTube, the analytics is like, you actually lost 40% of your viewers.

And I'll have to be like, no,

no.

All right.

Don't make jokes anymore.

Jokes suck.

Don't do it.

No jokes.

We cannot do jokes.

Zero jokes.

Just talk about video games.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

What have you got going on this weekend and this next week?

Just catch up on stuff now?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm back.

I'm going to catch up on stuff.

I took some time to rest because international flights are no joke, kids.

So, yeah, I think today I'm getting together with the boys to do more Star Wars, Wolcan, and book club stuff.

And then if I have time today, I'll try to stream some stuff.

But if not, then tomorrow we'll just...

Pound out all the streams.

There's another Scary Game Squad coming Monday.

And I'm trying to think what else we got going on.

Oh, Monster Prom is out.

You probably should go get that.

I definitely want to play Monster Prom with this one and Octo.

Yeah.

So we can play Monster Promotion.

Yeah, we'll schedule that and make that happen.

And then, yeah, I'm trying to think what else is going on.

There's so much coming down the pipeline.

Like, we're already getting emails.

for Summer Games Fest that are like, yo, come check out our game.

But then I realized it's May.

And that's the first, second week of June.

So I'm like, oh, never mind.

It's not even that far away.

Time has no meaning.

Here we are.

So

it's basically summer already.

So.

Yeah, I expect a lot of really good things.

And I also had the thought that the other day I was thinking, man, we should bring back some of the old guests who have been on before

because like that's something shows like this do.

And then I thought, but like it, they were just on, right?

And then I realized, no, we've been doing this for almost a year and a half now.

I know.

Wasn't that crazy?

We can start cycling people back.

I was like, we can absolutely start cycling people back.

Yeah, 100%.

I was like, oh, yeah.

But to also.

Also, we're in time for the quarterly crendor as well.

So.

I didn't feel like the show should end on a sour note, but like.

I just felt like you should know

that we're in the second quarter now.

So so

it's like getting some sort of uh

like butt exam

like some sort of rectal examination like you gotta I mean like at a certain age you gotta

but like

Way to be a buzzkill dukes I'm so sorry

I want to keep this going as long as I can because at some point Crendor has to show up and be like, what are you saying?

And he has to be like, nothing, dude.

What are you talking about?

Dude, he shout out to Crendor,

friend of the podcast, Crendor.

He comments on, he comes, friend of the pod.

He comments on so many of the episodes.

Honestly, I love that.

I love that he'll come in and say a thing.

It's very cute.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

It has the same quality as when

a hot cosplay girl posts a thing online, and then all of her cosplay friends are like, you're so cute, girl.

Like, that's our Crendor.

Our hot cosplay friend.

That's our Crendor.

Crendor is our hot cosplay friend, yeah.

He listens to Geekenders the same way that I listen to Cox and Krendor in the morning.

So now Krendor and I have to start a show, and you have to listen to it and enjoy the sound of our voices.

I'm telling you right now, I need a show where the two of you talk about like

home ownership

and just

boring later life stuff.

I had to fix the walls today.

There was a crack and I went in there trying to smooth out the crack, but then I realized that all the drywall was just rot on the inside.

So we had to tear down the wall.

Like that kind of, I would love that.

I would listen to that all the time.

A crendor, man, like our front door, the, I don't remember what it's called, but the little bit that comes out of the like locking mechanism that goes into the wall to like keep the door shut.

That shit kept getting like stuck inside.

And I kept using, over here, they call it release it, like WD-40, you know, like I just kept spraying it in there, but it just kept getting stuck.

And then I tried to use a knife, and the tip of the knife got stuck inside of there.

And then I was like, well, fuck, because now the tip of the knife, right, is going to be like an extra thing that's keeping it lodged in there.

So eventually, I think I put enough things in there that I kind of widened the gap and it's not stuck anymore.

But I also drenched the thing in WD-40.

And the most important part of this is that in the end, I got to go to Sam and be like, I fixed the door.

He doesn't need to know how I fixed it, you know, but it's, it's fixed now and it works and that's all that really matters.

But there is the tip of a knife still stuck in there somewhere.

I must stress to you that if both you and Crendor use that voice,

this would be the number one podcast in the world simply because people listen to it to go to sleep.

They'd put it on.

Your numbers would be huge.

They'd be massive numbers.

Like each episode, 50 million people fell asleep listening and they just played the whole thing because they were asleep.

Listening to the two of you just be like, So, there I was trying to fix the door, and then a knife broke off in it.

And I was like, Man, what a ridiculous!

I can't even.

And Crendor would be like, Well, that's terrible.

So, what did you do?

People would be like,

Good night, everyone.

Good night, guys.

I'm gonna message him right now.

I would genuinely listen to that ridiculous show of just like, yeah, we bought a home and here's everything going on with it.

It is a mess.

I have so much to fix.

I would love that.

What's going on with you this week?

Oh, goodness gracious.

I'm going to try to get to an ending of Hollow Knight.

Those of you who have played it, there's one ending that is much quicker to get than the others.

But yeah,

I'd like to just complete a playthrough, open up most of the map if I can.

So I think at the pace I'm at, I think a couple more days and I could crack that out.

So yeah, apparently some things have come out that I missed.

Some stuff that I should enjoy.

So I'll double back and

look.

Maybe do the first couple hours of Expedition 33 and then say I'm never streaming this again.

I don't know.

Honestly, I think you will, but for reasons, I just,

I would watch the hell out of that.

I would show up and watch that first couple hours, like

just silently, all smiles in chat the entire time.

Yeah, that's what I tell chat to do.

And I'm like, don't tell me anything.

Just smile.

Just smile.

Don't say anything.

And sometimes when I'm playing a game, I'll get to an area and it's just a million smiles.

I'm like, oh,

oh, no.

Why all the smiles?

All the smiles creep me out.

I don't know.

Yep.

So, yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

We'll see.

But I did record a new anime cult.

For those of you who listened to the anime cult, we did

anime cvult.

Yep.

We did our episode for Ore Managatori, which has been our most cursed episode yet.

Not because the

stuff inside of the episode is cursed, but because we watched this show so long ago, and then one of us had surgery.

One of us, our dog had surgery, no names.

One of us had a family emergency.

And it just kept getting pushed and pushed and and pushed and pushed and pushed.

And by the time we did the episode, we were like, so what do we remember about this show?

So I'm expecting that people who really love my love story, Ore Monogatori, the anime, are going to hate the episode, but it is what it is.

You know, it's whatever.

I learned that Mathis hates Cowboy Bebop.

So, like, I

expected that.

You know,

bro.

This is probably on average for your terrible terrible takes

how dare you

how dare you

so yeah tune into that if you want to be mad or just you know have a nice time i don't know whatever whatever feels right in the moment

so that's it for us uh hey gang if you want to watch this again later if you're like man that was such a fun episode i want to re-watch that i want to i want to watch them do the the blow-up arms again solid you can it's a good bit you can find all of the vods at youtube.com slash jessecox We are also on all of the podcasty things.

So check us out wherever suits your fancy.

And otherwise, have a fantastic weekend.

Have a nice week.

And we will see you next Friday.

That's it.

Buddy.

Yeah, yeah, you know what time it is.

It's time for the geekenders podcast.

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Got a job and a kid, I know that you all beat.

So take a second, grab a drink, and vibe.

While we catch you up in just a matter of time on gaming, comics, whatever you're doing.

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