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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Geek Enders.

We were talking about breadbutt, and then I realized I realized that we were running out of time rapidly.

And I just, instead of giving Jesse a heads up and interrupting him, I decided to just start the show.

Welcome to Geek Enders, everybody.

I must be very clear.

I don't know what you heard or thought you heard, but Jesse likes butt, just not bread, but.

Too much bread, butt is a problem.

I was explaining that I had to make a sandwich with the butt sides of bread for both sides of the sandwich.

Yeah.

And we agreed that that was too much butt.

That a sandwich with the butt side for one end, but a normal sliced bread slice for the other end is fine.

But two butts is too much butt.

Too much butt for a sandwich, too much butt.

Yes.

For a sandwich exclusively.

Hilariously, I was going to say how good your sandwich looked because I thought, based on your camera footage, I thought it was Fukasha.

So it was sort of like delightful.

You cut it down the middle, and it was going to be like airy and crunchy at the same time.

Oh, God.

Who knows what you put in the middle?

No.

No, instead, I'm just.

Basic ass bread.

But I'm trying to rip it like jerky.

Yeah.

No, thank you.

That's not cool.

Although, admittedly,

your version of bread butt is legitimate bread, but.

Not go to the grocery store, buy an American loaf of bread where somehow the butt, while still not great, has roughly the same consistency as the rest of the bread.

I can't tell if this is a indictment or if you're like happy about that.

No, I'm saying that

you have what we in the industry call real bread

and not

industrial-sized loaf.

I see.

So,

yeah.

I say this because I just bought a loaf of bread last night because I, for some reason, had a real hankering for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

I don't know why.

And I had no bread.

So I needed bread.

Yes.

Okay.

No, it's fine.

Keep telling your story.

Okay.

And yeah, I just, I, I, because I'm that guy who just, I don't know if it's because I grew up this way or whatever.

I don't ignore the butt.

I just work my way through the loaf.

So my sandwich last night was half a butt and then a normal slice of bread.

And while disappointing, it wasn't bad.

You know what I mean?

But

having real bread, having been overseas and or been to bakeries here in the States, yeah, the end of a loaf of bread kind of sucks.

It just does.

What are you going to do about it?

I mean, even if you get like a beautiful baguette, the end pieces are just harder to chew through.

There's more

crust going on, you know?

Yeah.

Unless you get one of those baguettes they used to make.

Oh my God.

My brain just died.

It's way too early.

The

Vietnamese sandwich that is Bun Me.

Those are some dope.

I don't know what magic they used to make those baguettes, but good God.

Every time flawlessly delicious.

So I don't know.

Bread.

Bread, baby.

I should start using my bread machine again.

Entire civilizations were founded on it, so it's got to be good for something.

It's true.

And it's the perfect delivery vehicle.

Look, bread is great, and bread by itself is fine, but man has not invented a better delivery vehicle for other foods than bread.

Bread is like...

What is the requirement for delivery?

Because you could argue that pasta

soaks up a bit of whatever you're

putting on

and so it travels together.

Pasta to mouth?

No, that's a mess.

You have to have a whole

bunch of work.

So delivery, meaning like

you can put a thing on bread and then leave with it.

And

you can do anything on bread.

You can take that pasta.

You can put it on the bread.

People be doing that.

People could be doing that.

Yeah.

Bread is a like pasta, you need a fork.

If If you're going to do rice, there's a bunch of different utensils.

Sure, you could go,

but the bowl's the delivery vehicle, not the rice.

Bread, much like a tortilla or a taco, which again, I'll allow in the bread category, it's it's a delivery vehicle.

Doesn't matter what you put on it, it's gonna, it's gonna take all that goodness and deliver it right to your mouth.

Perfect.

Bread, we have not done much better than that.

We peaked as a species, right?

Yeah,

you can stick whatever you want on that bread.

It's great.

Bread, It's awesome.

I was watching a video where people,

the people in the video were English, and they were talking about pot noodle sandwiches, which I think is basically taking a cup ramen, the noodles in a cup ramen, and putting it on a sandwich.

And I was like, that sounds like an incredible struggle meal.

Sorry, my internet just died.

That's okay.

What do you think I said?

You were about to say how right I was, and that

you love

delicious, delicious bread.

That is exactly what I said.

Yeah.

Good.

All right.

We don't have to return to it.

You got it and won.

No, what were you saying?

I'm sorry.

No, it literally was just, I was talking about how I watched a video where these English people were talking about having a pot noodle sandwich.

And I think it's literally, because pot noodle is sort of the version of cup noodle over here.

I think it's literally taking the noodles from a cup noodle and putting it on a sandwich.

I think.

And I was like, that sounds like a

classic struggle meal, right?

It's like,

yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, you'll see people, sorry, Aussies, but you know, like

that weird, and I don't want to say weird in a mean way, but it's weird.

The like sprinkles on bread situation.

Whatever that's called, where they put the

candy sprinkles on the bread.

Hundreds and thousands, or whatever, whatever those sprinkles are called.

Yeah, yeah.

And like, I bless bread, perfect delivery vehicle.

You want to butter that up?

Great.

You want to throw meat on there?

Great.

You want to put whatever the hell you want on there?

Sam?

Fairy bread.

That's what it's called.

Yeah.

Go nuts.

It's great.

I think my version of that growing up was my mom sometimes, for like a dessert after dinner, would put

toast bread and then put a sprinkle of sugar and let the sugar like melt on the bread and then put cinnamon on top and we'd eat that.

Absolutely.

I love a good cinnamon sugar bread.

You can't

take that slice of bread, butter it up, put some cinnamon sugar and just let it sit for a hot sec.

And then you're just like, I've never had a butter.

I do the butter.

Obviously, this is an everyday thing, or else I would be even more of a mess.

Every single day.

Every single day, this is something I

start my morning.

Look, next time you're talking with your American friends, be like, so do you have your cinnamon sugar bread today?

Yeah.

Cinnamon toast, it's great.

And it's like, but the butter is the soak.

It soaks up the stuff.

So here's my thoughts on the non-butter version.

If you have toast and you put cinnamon sugar on it, if I go to bite into it and I sneeze or breathe,

it's going that way.

I don't want that.

The butter keeps it in.

Obviously, I'm not loading it up with butter.

That would defeat the point because then you lose the cinnamon sugar flavor.

Right.

It's about balance people you gotta know plus you gotta know what bread you're working with like some breads are superior for certain situations like i'm not gonna go get some dense ass bread for my grilled cheese

but

there are breads i think are better grilled cheese breads just like i think there are better cheeses that are better grilled cheese cheeses but there are also better breads that are better sandwich breads it's It's a world, and yet you go into it and you embrace the bread.

And for many of you, we're like, I can't eat bread, Jesse.

Embrace what you can't eat then.

Put some meat on like a broccoli and

enjoy that.

Sure.

Yeah.

Not going to tell you not to have that.

Have fun.

Put a meat on a broccoli.

Put a meat on a broccoli.

Put a meat on a broccoli.

Jesse.

2025.

So

I was going to ask how your week is going, but that feels a little insensitive given the fact that

your state is on fire.

It's true.

Luckily, not state, just local area.

For those who are curious and you're like, whoa, I'd love to know more about what's happening in LA right now, I'll give you the breakdown.

It's actually quite simple, but still insane.

Los Angeles is huge.

I think maybe only second to Tokyo in overall

wide size of a city.

It's very, very big.

Yeah.

Like New York is small, but up, right?

And so LA is very spread.

And there are parts that are LA proper.

There are parts that are like Westside.

And, you know, you have parts that are like Riverside.

You have parts that are like over by Tolerance.

Then you have Malibu and Hollywood.

It's very, very big.

And so.

Right now, the sort of northern part up near the mountains where all the forests and stuff are, that's what's on fire.

And

also

to the so like east, more towards if you go over the mountains towards the deserts, if you're headed towards like Vegas, that part's also on fire.

And then there's like small fires here and there.

The problem is, at least at the moment, little fires keep popping up, and they're discovering that a lot of it's like arson.

Like there's some people like setting fires.

That's what I kept reading, which is not cool.

But

a great example.

So the way I would describe it is

Malibu is where a lot of the fire was, and it's making its way south, and it hit kind of Santa Monica area, and a lot of Santa Monica had to evacuate.

If you look at a map, you'll see it's very close to the Santa Monica Pier.

Um, I don't know at all what the like today's outlook on any of that is, but um

I am like, if you had to think town-wise, I'm three towns down from that.

So, on a map from space, I look very close.

But in reality, I am not close to any of it.

So I and everyone that is in like the office here, we're all safe at the moment.

We're all good.

I know many people who are affected by the fire, and that absolutely sucks for them.

I've seen a lot of,

here's a great example of the current situation.

When I moved to my new apartment, I went to go get renter's insurance.

And the place that I've used renter's insurance for years and years and years, and I'm not ashamed to call them out state farm,

They have covered me for 10, 15 years.

We're like, no, we're not doing it anymore now.

I'm like, why?

Like, oh, we decided not to.

Brother, what?

So that's a whole thing that I have to deal with.

But that's a lot of what's going on is because of

all the different natural disasters happening, which, hey, you were warned, be it Florida or California or in the, you know, Midwest with the tornadoes.

Basically, there's a lot of natural disasters happening.

Insurance companies don't want to pay for it anymore, which I think was the whole point of them existing, but

no comment.

And

it's just getting harder and harder to be insured in states that are like,

you know, disaster prone.

So, anyway, a lot of the fires and things that are happening

are happening in areas.

It sucks because what you're seeing on TV are homes for celebrities and homes for like billionaires and whatnot, which do exist up in the Hollywood Hills and Malibu and stuff.

But the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of the people affected are like the retail workers, the people that,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, cause you forget that around

all, like, sure, there are definitely going to be very rich neighborhoods in LA, but around all the rich neighborhoods are so many people just living in apartment buildings or, you know, paycheck to paycheck, because that's just how LA is.

It's a weird place where I'm sure you can attest to this.

You'll drive through a really nice neighborhood and then you'll end up in a bunch of apartment buildings and then you'll end up in like a really run-down neighborhood and then suddenly a beautiful neighborhood again.

And it's just like it's a big city.

And so, yeah, you're seeing stuff on TV that's like the billionaires are like, that's because it's what the news wants to talk about because it like gets ratings.

But the vast majority of people are, yeah, just, you know, they don't have much and now they have nothing.

And so it's, it's really bad.

But

the only, if you're wondering, Jesse, how are you affected?

The only thing affecting me me right now is

I'm allergic to pollen and dust and fires produce pollen and dust.

So my nose, my face is all like,

but I'm fine.

If I look out the window,

it's very weird because if I look up, sky is blue.

If I look left or I look right

like north.

And then I look east as well.

It's very, like around me, except for the south, which is still clear, but around me on other sides,

billowing gray and black smoke, like brown, it's crazy looking.

It looks like the apocalypse is happening, like happening down the road.

You know what I mean?

Like, where I'm at,

there's people in line at the McDonald's drive-through.

There's like, you know, people going about their lives.

Again, it's a very big city.

So it's...

It's very interesting to see.

But

yeah, we have a lot of friends who live in that area.

So, you know, I wish them the speediest of luck, you know, being safe and hopefully a quick recovery.

But yeah, it's pretty messed up.

It's very, very weird looking.

But

yeah, I will say that for the vast majority of people in LA are being very, very cool and helping out others.

A lot of restaurants are offering free food to people who are affected.

People are opening up their homes and being like, come on, come on, get over here.

Totally.

There's a lot of great video out there.

You'll see people just like like stopping to help people on the road, or

even though I, you know, I don't know that I have the testicular fortitude to do it, but a lot of people running into homes to save other people's pets and stuff.

Like a lot of stuff, it's

interesting to see the social media version of what's going on with the actual on-the-ground version of what's going on.

And that's just typical social media.

So, yeah, not a great situation, but it's not like

end times over here for LA.

It's just certain areas are really getting pounded.

And so, you know, it's the winds.

It's been dry.

A lot of people are talking about how there's no water.

There's plenty of water.

It's the fact that the area is affected.

The water pressure is, you know, messed up.

Most,

boy, this doesn't, you know, I'm going to say this, not a professional, but something I remember from being a kid.

Most fire hydrants operate on a block basis, not on a, this fire hydrant's going to stop a forest fire.

You know what I mean?

It's not going to do that.

So

we'll see.

We'll see what happens.

I think the big thing is going to be the recovery afterwards.

For sure.

Yeah.

We'll see.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've seen a couple of the

disaster relief companies saying, everybody's been so awesome.

We actually have everything that we need right now.

Like, if you drop off more stuff, we won't be able to use it.

So give it to a different group, right?

Which is great.

But is it last time I checked in, they were still at 0% containment, which is crazy.

Do you know if that's changed?

The thing is, what's crazy is there are different fires.

So if you look at it, you can literally go, if you're really curious about it, you can literally go to an LA fire map.

I think there's one, it's like a Google version where it will literally show you the path.

And what it'll show you is what I'm currently experiencing, where there's fires around, but this billowing smoke literally goes through like

the most of the city is seeing this like

of smoke.

And I think that's what's affecting most people.

But the Palisades fire is the one that's like kind of north-ish along the coast.

That's the one that is the biggest problem for

percentage contained.

There are other fires.

And those appear to be more contained.

Okay.

So it's very interesting to see that, you know, it's kind of like all over the place.

Yeah, there was a Lydia fire.

There was a Hearst fire.

There was a, there was the Palisades fire.

It is definitely an interesting thing to see fires pop up in different areas that aren't part of the main one.

But because the winds are so crazy, you can imagine sparks flying over places.

I don't know.

I don't, you know, but then at the same time, there are people who are literally deliberately setting fires.

Right.

A lot of people have been arrested.

Thankfully, people in LA are not having that shit.

So they literally are call.

You know, there's a thing that was last night.

A group of people in Santa Monica were trying to set a fire.

And the people in town were like, no, they called the cops, got them arrested and stuff.

But,

you know, it's a big city.

There's a lot of people in it.

So I don't imagine, I can't say for certain that a lot of them are mentally stable.

So some people,

you know, just want to watch the world burn.

And so there are people who are out there trying to do that stuff.

it's not cool but it is what it is so um

yeah it's it's definitely interesting i thankfully am pretty okay but yeah it's not

the two big fires are not really that contained and mostly again it's because the wind hopefully that'll all die down and hopefully that'll be fine but yeah right now it's still kind of a mess

yeah I'm very grateful that pretty much everybody I've reached out to is that they're okay.

Yeah.

But it's, it's nuts.

I remember when Sam and I were living in the, in the like Torrance area and we had those fires going on, you know, like in Glendale and stuff.

And the sky, we could see a difference in the sky from that distance.

So I can't even imagine what it looks like now with it being again.

It's very, it's very weird because

the distance, again, looks like the apocalypse.

But then if you look around you, it seems totally fine.

People are like going to work, doing their stuff.

Again, because it's such a big city that,

you know, it's also the heart of like a lot of places of business.

And so people are just going about their lives.

But in the distance, it's like,

it's wild looking.

Also, admittedly, AI can kiss my whole ass right now.

It got me yesterday.

I saw like a video of Hollywood and there was like a part of the Hollywood Hills that was on fire.

And I was like, damn, because

I know a lot of people who live like very close to the Hollywood sign.

And I was like, yo, this is, this is terrible.

That video was just AI, total fake nonsense.

There were people posting about like, looting is going crazy.

The video they posted was of like a bunch of dudes helping their mom empty her home.

And I'm like,

Are we doing this right now?

Dude.

So social media can piss right off.

It's been an interesting ride because you go there to be like, all right, I am going to put a modicum of trust in you to inform me.

And all it is is people just making stuff up.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

Obviously, smoke inhalation, bad.

Don't, you know, a lot of people are wearing N95 masks to get around.

A lot of people are

staying indoors.

Very smart.

Yeah, there's no reason to really be outside right now.

It's going to be pretty messed up air quality-wise for a while.

I'm just going to say you don't want to be breathing that anyway.

Yeah, but interestingly enough, because the ocean's right here,

unless you're sort of right in the path of, because there's also,

plus the internet sometimes, even though I'm talking about how much I hate the internet, sometimes it's great.

There's a bunch of websites that will show you the air quality of an area and give you more information.

Even on some Windows computers, down in the bottom left, it'll have a little air quality thing that will say, hey, this is the quality of the air right now where you're at, and it will give you the indicators.

And so, that's pretty cool as well.

And when you're in there looking at that, you can see exactly what it's like in your area.

And thankfully, where I'm at, it's not like it says, Hey, maybe not, maybe don't spend so much time outside, but it's not wear a mask, do that kind of stuff, right?

But to the north of me, to the east of me,

big,

big time

is like

red, almost black.

Like, hey, don't be outside, get away from here.

Yeah, You shouldn't even be here, basically.

Pretty much.

Yeah.

And so, again, I hope everyone who's affected by this can recover in some way.

I'm already seeing people

post things like,

hey, man, I, you know, my house that was worth X amount of million because it's LA.

Yeah.

My house that was worth this, companies are approaching me, offering me $750K for the land, like that kind of stuff.

And I'm like,

already we're doing this?

So

that's scummy.

Yeah.

You know, scum exists.

What are you going to do?

For sure.

Yeah.

But for those who are curious, as far as I'm concerned, like, as far as I'm aware, everyone I know has gotten out.

Everyone is safe.

I don't know about their homes, but I know they're safe and really I'm like thankful for that.

Yeah, for sure.

So it's a mess over here, but.

Yeah.

We'll see.

We'll see what happens.

But right now I'm here.

So again, if the internet internet goes down again it's because it's just spotty all over it's it is what it is yeah i keep getting messages from the cable provider that's like hey guys uh there's a fire i'm like no i'm aware this might be the one time you don't have to send me a message like i get it we're good

i can fill in the blanks yeah so who wants to talk about fun stuff

I can, I can tell you a thing that I had to do last night.

Go on.

Because of our weather, which is that it got cold enough last night that I had to bring the chickens into the guest room.

That's right.

We might have done something last night that I don't know when that's going to be out,

but all of us got together for good, fun, gooferies.

And you were like, guys, I'm going to be a little late.

We were like, why is Dodger going to be late?

Bring the chickens in.

How to get the chickens in?

It was cold.

Yeah, it was too cold for them.

There's only two of them now.

They can't nestle together as well.

And of course, the second they were in the house, the dog was barking, and Clark was like, They're stinky.

The chickens are stinky.

I don't want them next to my bedroom.

And I was like, stop.

Everybody, stop.

I mean, yeah,

they're definitely going to be stinky.

They're chickens.

Yeah.

Wait, so where did you just put them in the house?

So when we first got

when we first got peach, we got a crate that's now like like kind of too small for her.

So I've just kept it for, you know, whatever weird animal emergencies might happen, like this one.

And so I just put her crate in the guest room and just put the chickens in the crate.

But of course, because they're chickens, literally by the time this morning that I opened it up and took them out, once it got to be like, you know, over freezing, I was like, okay, they're fine now.

Took them out and put them outside.

And the entire bottom of the crate is just poop.

So that's chickens.

Chickens poop non-stop.

They don't have a sphincter.

It's not their fault.

But

I know why they got a pooper.

I don't think you needed to know or hear the phrase, they don't have a sphincter.

They don't.

That's what I didn't think I needed to know that.

That might be the one fact about chickens that I just learned.

And I cannot, I mean, like, okay,

now I know.

Yeah.

They don't have a sphincter.

I don't know if I spelled sphincter right.

That's okay.

Nobody cares.

Someone does.

Someone saw that pop up as the topic and went, wrong.

Wrong.

I can't.

So chat is.

I saw when you said I brought the two chickens in.

Chat said

two?

What's that about?

Yeah.

Well,

two of them have been eaten by a mysterious thing.

It's very cryptid because

it's not Sam, unless Sam

can now shrink to a very small size.

So we had a bunch of like little holes that were burrowed underneath the

coop.

And so we were like, okay, it had to be something that could get through the fencing that was along the bottom of the coop, right?

And get under it.

But then there's drag marks.

It's very creepy.

There's drag marks that are chicken size going from the small hole off into the woods.

So we were like, what would be able to get in,

grab a chicken, get it out, and then drag it?

So we were like, maybe a stoat

or like it has to be some kind of

rodent-adjacent rodent

thing.

Something

like chupacabra, probably.

Yeah.

So, it's very sad.

Rest in peace.

Pneumonia and Vivi.

They both.

Vivi?

No.

Vivi was my fave.

I know.

She worked so hard.

Yeah.

So they both got eaten.

And I've said this before, but in like a weird twisted way, I would much rather that something eat them than they die from like a weird disease or something.

Because at least they're like feeding something, you know?

Circle of life.

At least they contributed to the circle of life.

Exactly.

Right, right.

It's still sad and it's still super depreso, but like, but at least,

at least something ate them.

Did you have a talk with Clark about it?

Was Clark like, what happened to the chickens?

Did you have to be like, circle of life?

And then you put on the Lion King?

Well, remember, we've already had three chickens get eaten before.

Right.

This is just part of life.

We've had chickens.

We thought, like, maybe we shouldn't buy chickens.

They're just going to get eaten.

We have

really ponied up on this coop now.

We went in there and, again,

I keep wanting to say

the prison that's real, but instead I keep saying that it's now chicken Azcaban, which is not a real prison.

What is the name of the, what's the prison that's in the water?

What's the island prison?

Alcatraz?

Alcatraz?

You know what's really stupid?

I want to admit something.

As you were saying, what's the prison in the water?

My initial thought was to say the raft from Marvel, but I realized, no, you mean in real life.

I mean a real prison.

Alcatraz.

Right, right.

I mean, yeah.

I just wanted you to be aware of what a giant nerd burger I am.

That was like, is she referring to the Marvel franchise?

I keep, instead of saying Alcatraz, saying Azkaban.

So neither of us are doing great with that.

But you thought of it, and I couldn't think of it.

So you just have to call it the rock.

I appreciate you.

And you have to do it in a shun.

No one gets off the rock.

No one gets off the rock.

Right?

And then I could be your Nick Cage and be like,

oh, geez what are we gonna do we're caught on the rock oh gosh gosh oh god

yeah sheila was the prom queen yeah oh

just

lovely movie that might be one of my favorite movies of all time i've said this many times before i love the rock

i think it's the perfect action film

from start to finish perfect i believe you You should.

It's great.

Great film.

Yeah.

So that's what happened to the chickens they got got eaten.

Well, I am certainly thrilled that

you are creating a

prison-like coop for your chickens so they don't get further eaten.

That seems healthy.

Bro, it's

chickens are a lot like sheep in that they don't have a whole lot of self-preservation.

Sheep die to dumb shit all the time, And so do chickens.

Chickens are also extremely susceptible to diseases and parasites and all kinds of things.

And it's

remarkable

how easy it is for a chicken to die.

Is that like

this is why a lot of people get ducks because ducks are hardier.

Sure.

But I mean, like, is that like a

modern man thing?

Like we did that to them?

Or because I would imagine a wild chicken would be better equipped to handle those things.

Plus, they probably have like razor-sharp talons and stuff compared to the big fat domesticated chicken that were like, eat some more seed or whatever, you big idiot.

I feel like that's how we did this problem.

When it comes to them not getting eaten at night, wild chickens perch in trees.

So, yeah, that's better, right?

Yeah.

That's a better

than walking into a house and being like, I sure hope nothing's strong enough to break this open.

Speaking of chickens

and our feathered friends,

I saw a video where some guy took updated modern science for archaeology and dinosaurs.

Okay.

And

I guess redid scenes from Jurassic Park where the velociraptors now look the way they are supposed to look, which is they're covered in feathers.

They look kind of bird-like, which I guess is the way that we see dinosaurs now.

That's

let you know.

I hate it.

I hate it.

I don't like my dinosaurs looking like chickens.

I want them to look like terrible lizard things.

And I hate it.

I was like,

I know this is real.

I know this is better than what we have, but

nope, don't like it.

I don't like this.

I don't like that they're like, they literally have like wings.

It's like, are, are, are.

I'm like, no.

I want my dinosaurs back.

I grew up in a time where the stegosaurus had a second brain in its butt.

And you're telling me that that wasn't real?

I just can't deal with it.

I get why old people get the way they get.

Because science and information changes so much that you're taught one thing and you like that one thing.

And then someone's like, actually, that's not the way it is anymore.

And you're like, it's the kids who are wrong.

That's how I feel about dinosaurs.

That's how I feel.

And I just, for some reason, I think they look cooler when they're like lizard-esque instead of bird-esque.

But

it is what it is.

So, you know, what the hell do I know?

Whenever I talk about how my kid is

doing math now.

Someone will inevitably be like, but how are they teaching it to her?

Are they doing new math?

Sure.

I'm like, I don't know.

I don't remember how I was taught math.

I don't, I don't care.

However, they tell me to teach my kid math, I'll figure it out.

I don't know.

It's the same with the ABCs, right?

So my kid goes to goddamn preschool or whatever, and they're like, just so you know, so that we're all on the same page and we're all teaching in the same way.

We don't just do the ABCs anymore.

The ABCs.

yes, the you learn the ABCs by the sound that they make, and that way it actually informs

learning how to read.

And I was like, makes sense to me.

So, I still, we still sometimes like she'll, you know, she's almost seven, and she'll still sometimes be sitting there spelling something, and when she's spelling it, she does the sounds instead.

Is that a big deal?

I don't think so.

I think, you know,

I didn't go to school to be an educator.

It makes sense to me

that you would learn the ABCs by the sounds that they make.

That makes sense.

They straight up changed the ABC song.

Did they?

Yes.

And I couldn't sing the new version if I even tried because I don't know what it is.

But they changed it.

And that really upsets me.

Duh.

Duh.

What's weird about that is I feel like that's also a lie, though.

To sound out things, you're only setting up kids for failure, especially with the English language.

So

kids,

from what I can tell, they will get lists of common words that don't obey the rules.

So we can say, but there's shit tons of words that don't obey the rules, right?

But for little kids, it'll be a list of just like, here are words that you're going to say all the goddamn time,

and they don't follow the rules, and that's okay.

You just need to know how to spell them and what it sounds like when you see these letters in this order, you know?

So they have worksheets for that sort of stuff.

Yeah, it reminds me of that old Gallagher bit, which, by the way, not a great man, but a very funny bit about not a great man, but a good bit.

That should be a shirt

where he does like he has a thing and he shows you like dumb and bomb and like numb and all those things and how it clearly English language is just a complete shit show right it is very funny that uh one of my favorite things is when people get really upset where people who have English as a second language don't nail it right away I'm like yo

are you nailing it right away because sometimes

it's uh it's a lot.

There's a lot of words that just are nonsense.

But also, because I think English steals from a lot of places.

Like, we'll take words from French or Spanish or whatever, and we'll use those

even though they're pronounced totally different.

You know, it is what it is.

Yeah, numb and tom.

Right.

Should be tom, right?

Nope.

Tom.

But T-O-M-E is tome.

Like, that's the bit.

And it's just, you know, like,

so as a child, I can't even imagine.

If I recall correctly, they teach that by saying if there's an E at the end, you make the sound with the vowel as though the E is next to the vowel.

Sure.

But then, yeah, I see in chat, doe and cough.

Only difference is a D and a C.

And so I can only imagine trying to learn that again.

Thank God I don't have to.

I have never been more thankful of anything in my life.

Learning that again?

No, thanks.

Uh-oh.

That's why people are like, you're going to learn another language?

I'm like, I'm trying to learn Spanish.

I know enough to understand what you're saying to me, but I don't have the confidence to repeat it back.

Sure.

That's where I'm at.

Here are my,

dear listener slash viewer, if you have...

a small child in your life who is learning how to read, here are two hacks that I've implemented.

You ready?

Oh, boy.

Hack number one is if you have a smart TV and it has the Spotify app on it, there will probably be a button for lyrics.

Put on songs that they like and then make it so that the screen is just the lyrics.

Oh, that's cute.

And then while they're singing along, they can also read it.

Number two, if you don't do this already, which I already had this as a built-in thing, but number two is just to put on subtitles.

That makes a lot of sense.

Put subtitles on the TV all the time.

Every show show that they watch,

if they're obsessed with a show, if they watch a movie over and over and over again, have the subtitles on.

And as they're saying the lines along with the characters, because kids love to do that shit, it will click like, oh, that's also the words that are on the screen.

Two hacks that have worked really well for us.

And what music are you playing for Clark with the lyrics?

Currently, Kendrick Lamar.

Currently, it is

specific vetted songs from the arcane soundtrack.

And

interesting, interesting.

And her current hyperfixation musical movie is the Loudhouse movie.

Yeah.

The Loudhouse is a cartoon.

I was about to say,

that's not near me.

Yeah,

it's a movie for that cartoon.

And it's pretty cute and also ridiculous.

There's the problem, though.

Yeah.

Everything you're doing is setting up Clark to miss out on one of the great joys in life.

Go on.

And that's going through

your teens, your early 20s,

thinking you know the lyrics to a song and realizing much later that you never really knew the lyrics.

And everyone's like, that's what you thought they said?

Don't even worry about it because

even with all of this implemented, she will still have a feet dug in the sand argument with me about the lyrics of a song.

It doesn't change anything.

All right.

Yep.

It hasn't changed anything.

Yeah.

And eventually at a certain point, I go, I either go, I'll prove it to you because I care a lot.

Or if I don't care at all, I'll go, you know what?

Sing it however you want, baby.

It really depends.

There are two wolves in me.

Sure, sure you know honestly i sometimes think my fake lyrics are better than real lyrics i agree yeah

and uh i will always feel that way except

with other people in which case i feel their judgment

But one of my favorite, one of my favorite, favorite, favorite song lyrics to hear people talk about is,

let me ask you a question.

When he says, don't bring me down,

what follows?

I don't know what song is that.

Chat, what follows that?

Don't break me down.

A lot of people chat, I see Bruce.

Goose, Goose, or Bruce.

I see Goose.

It's neither of those.

It's neither of those.

It's not Bruce or Goose.

It's neither of those.

Please, it's not Spruce.

What song is this?

It's not Lewis.

Please take time.

Look up what the real lyric is.

What song is it?

It's an yellow song.

And it is a

Gruose.

Full lyrics.

Ask yourself what that is.

G-R-O-O-S.

Now ask yourself what a Gruce is.

A gruce is slang from the time period.

Amazing.

But today means nothing to us.

And people have put stuff in there.

And

it's not a bird.

It's in reference to a certain type of person.

And

it's just very interesting to me.

So there you go.

I think it's...

Yeah.

Blinded by the light is another great one.

blinded by the light

wrapped up like a

I don't know

Here's the thing it's not wrapped

It's revved

and it's not a douche

It's one of it's a douse.

It's so interesting to me that like that's one of those things where

Yeah, wrapped up like a Bruce no, it's though

Yeah, those aren't those aren't the yeah, it's clearly it's it's a car reference, right?

But it's one of those things where like

people just can't nail the lyrics and they spend years and years and years thinking it's one thing, and it's clearly not.

Love it, love it.

Those are some of my favorite bits of collective.

We all just decided we didn't know what it was, so it is what it is now.

Deal with it, and frankly, here for it.

And so, I

worry you'll deny Clark this

when Clark is trying trying to sing arcane lyrics.

She loves Paint the Town Blue specifically.

She loves that song.

Of course.

Clark didn't watch Arcane, though, right?

Of course not.

Sure, sure, sure.

I was about to say, I wonder if Clark wants to be like that little girl, but I was like, no way you'd let Clark watch that.

No.

All right, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

I think six might be a little young.

Right, right, right.

For Arcane.

Yeah.

Sure.

Is Clark?

You're going to have to say yes.

Chat would have been like, huh?

Sorry, what were you going to ask?

You would be surprised.

I go to movies sometimes and there's just, I, when I was in London, I had a lot of downtime towards the end of my trip because someone didn't want to meet and told me I hate you and I don't ever want to see you.

I don't know who that was.

Me neither.

But I had a lot of downtime at the end of my trip.

So I went and I saw like a bunch of musicals, but I also saw Interstellar in like 35 millimeter on like a giant.

It was like an amazing experience.

It was great.

But it was like a man and he brought his like children, children, not like 10 year old.

I'm talking like six.

And I was like, brother, I don't,

I don't think they're going to get this film.

It's like, I don't, I don't think I'm going to be able to do it.

They got to go over their heads, dude.

Yeah, you're going to explain to them how time dilation works.

Is that what's going to happen?

Hey, guess what?

He did.

He talked the entire movie to those kids.

And I was like...

Like, one kid kept messing with his seat to the point where halfway through the movie, the seat, like, broke.

And we go like, ehhhhhhhhhhh.

I've never been so mad.

There was a dude three or four rows in front of me on his phone the entire time.

No.

And I was like, this is why I don't go to movies anymore.

I was like, I hate this.

I hate this entire experience.

I don't want to do this.

And the thing is, they don't regulate it.

No one comes in and is like, hey, guys, get off your phone.

They just don't care.

And I'm like, nah.

I'll wait till it comes out so I can watch it at home.

I was like, my TV is fine.

I'm all right.

I don't need it, big.

Ridiculous.

I've still been inundated with Sonic stuff ever since I saw the Sonic movie.

So clearly, my phone was listening to me talk about Sonic and was like, don't worry.

I got Sonics.

You want Sonics?

I can put Sonics on your Sonics.

It's been great.

I'm actually genuinely thrilled that Sonic did so well.

Me too.

Me too.

Something about, like,

I don't know if it's because I think the Sonic fans deserve a win, because they've had a lot of, like, really crap properties.

Yeah.

But

it's really, it, it

so perfectly walks the line between something a 30-year-old Sonic fan can enjoy and a kid can enjoy.

And I think that is very, very smart of them.

Yeah, some of the lines of dialogue, you're like, Sonic, oh,

it's only, it's specifically Sonic, too.

It's only Sonic.

I want to throttle that little man.

It's the worst.

His lines are so obnoxious.

But for every time they do that,

they're like, hey,

let Jim Carrey do whatever the hell he wants.

And I must stress,

love it.

Sorry.

Love it.

Did you know

there's spoiler, there's a scene where

Robotnik does a little dance.

Oh, I'm aware.

The internet has told me.

Yes.

Yes.

Did you know that he did that dance?

There was, they didn't have a person come in to do the dance for him, a la Deadpool.

He did the dance himself, which is amazing.

If you've watched any of, and when I say old Jim Carrey, I'm not referring to Ace Ventura Pet Detective.

Right.

I'm referring to In Living Color.

Jim Carrey on In Living Color, which for many of you is probably too old.

You were not born.

But if you're in the States, you remember In Living Color.

That show is great.

It's where a lot of famous people came from.

Jim Carrey, that was his big break, and he would dance all the time because in Living Color, they had fly girls who would do little dances in between sketches.

And he would show up and just do that half the time.

So the man got some skill.

So,

yeah, I absolutely believe that he would be the guy who just starts dancing.

And

it's, it's very,

it's very interesting to watch him be like, this is the only thing I'm doing now.

Like he was like, I'm retiring.

I'm not going to do acting anymore.

And he's like, screw it.

I'll do Sonic, which is

wonderful.

I love it.

And he, when, when you're, and this isn't a spoiler either, but like when he's in interviews, you can tell that he's like, yeah, in the future, I'd really love to do this with robotic.

It's like, he's like all in on robotic.

It's like what I was saying last week.

Like, I think it's so wholesome watching interviews with keanu reeves and idris elba because they're just like these older actors that are just super all in and care so much about these little weirdos that they're voice acting as it's so good what's great is the cast seems to really like each other to the point where in interviews keanu and idris will be like yo what if we did a cyberpunk movie wouldn't that be cool and i'm like that would be cool i would love that and they're just like yeah that'd be fun.

And they just, it seems like they just are having a blast.

And I absolutely love going back to Jim that the man literally, the last big thing I saw him in is he was straight up just like,

it was when he was like, I don't even know, going through

something where he, it might be one of my favorite quotes from him where he was talking about how when he started the industry, he was one way.

But it wasn't who he was who was acting.

But everyone saw him as that character.

And he literally was like,

you either pretend to be that thing the rest of your life, or you show people who you really are and risk them hating you.

And that's your choice.

You either go to your grave pretending to be someone you're not, or you risk everything.

And he was like, I'm just, this is who I am.

I'm not happy all the time.

Life kind of sucks.

It is what it is.

And then he like vanished for a while.

And then he's like, hey,

I'm back and I'm only doing Sonic.

And honestly, I'm here for it.

I love that.

Yes.

I know exactly what quote you're talking about.

And it's real.

It's real for all entertainment.

And I think it resonated with a lot of people in a lot of different sorts of situations.

Like that

concept, that idea applies to so many different like struggles in life, right?

That it all just comes down to like.

You can either keep it up forever and be miserable or

you can drop it and just see what happens, right?

I mean, it's especially true with people who, not even like in the entertainment industry, but just in life, put on a mask to go around and be away for people when at home they're not that way, but they want to be perceived that way.

And it's like a lot of effort.

And in reality, if you just were yourself, you probably have a lot more fun with life.

And I feel like Jim hit that where he's like, you know what?

Screw it.

I'm going to keep making these.

I get paid.

I get to act like a fool.

Kids seem to enjoy it.

So screw it.

And then everyone on set's like, being with Jim's amazing, man.

Yeah.

All right.

It sounds cool to me.

That's great.

Makes me very happy.

Yeah.

It seems like they're having so much fun on set doing these movies.

Honestly, I think that's the key to it is they are having fun making a video game movie instead of like

I am so

worried about the announcement of a Horizon Zero Dawn movie.

Yeah.

So worried.

I don't know what they're going to do, but it's Sony, and I'm convinced they're going to come up with some terrible way of retelling the first game in a two-hour movie.

And I'm going to be like, why did we do this?

I don't know what their strategy is, but God help me.

It's impossible.

You can't do that.

You can't tell a 40-hour game in two hours.

It's just not going to happen.

So

we'll see.

I mean, like, taking an idea of Sonic, which is little blue guy runs through rings, is vastly different than here's a massive 40-hour.

Like, the reason why I think

Last of Us worked is because Last of Us, they're like, it's a series.

There's going to be eight episodes and we're going to cover.

They went, they covered things that weren't even in the game.

But they could do that because they had space to work with.

They're like, we're going to tell an eight, 10-hour story versus two hours of we have to explain a world, we have to show you some cool stuff, and then we have to give you a resolution.

Good luck.

Good luck.

I don't know what they're doing.

Yeah.

Yes, for everyone who's saying, Sony, yes, you forgot Sony is Morbius, and Sony is,

you know, Craven.

God.

And Sony is Madam Webb.

Sony is,

they just make stuff to make stuff to keep

the rights to it.

They don't necessarily make good things sometimes.

Like Uncharted, that should have been a, they they should have nailed that and knocked it out of the park.

But Uncharted is like the most mid-movie I've ever seen.

It blows my mind.

Yeah.

What's crazy is they, they took straight up scenes from the game that should have been like, yo, awesome.

And all I did the entire time was compare it to the game.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

I was like, oh, I remember that.

I remember this, babe.

I remember that.

Meanwhile, I see in chat UA Boll.

That man doesn't even try to be like the games, which in a way is kind of refreshing, even though the movies are terrible.

He's like, yeah, Resident Evil is about a rogue AI that chops people up into cubes.

Like, is it, dude?

Okay.

Sure.

Yeah.

It kind of reminds me a little bit of the Venom movies and how

you can tell with the Venom movies, they're just like, I don't know.

I don't know.

We're just having a good time.

What's crazy?

I don't know.

As a person who watches the Venom movies out of sheer curiosity, the fact that they were like, we're going to set up null.

We're going to set up some of the greatest villains in the Marvel universe.

Yeah.

And it will have no payoff ever.

Not once.

It will never pay off.

Deal with it.

Mind-blowing to me.

Oh,

yes.

Yeah.

Sony is also the Spider-Verse.

The song in those movies is terrible.

It's amazing.

I see.

Sony is also the Spider-Verse, though.

Yes, the Spider-Verse that they made a...

two-parter second movie and then haven't started the third part

haven't started it.

How's that?

Usually, when you get a two-parter, it's like to be continued next year.

No, dude, it's going to be, we're going to, it might be 2030 by the time that comes out.

I don't like

Sony's out of control.

Yep.

No.

Hot take.

Null is a terrible villain.

I didn't say it was good.

I say it was most powerful.

One of the most power, literally

powerful, iconic,

whatever.

Doesn't mean the best.

The impetus of all of the weird, venom-like symbiotes.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Yeah, Silk Song levels of waiting.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Dude, don't.

Speaking of superheroes and things, season one of Marvel Rivals started today.

I got a really cool Loki skin.

I know how obsessed you are because I follow all of you on Steam.

You're all my friends.

So I see what you play.

You see me leaving the game open by Achi Dente.

I see you on it all the time.

And I love that you love it.

It genuinely, it has this feeling of the early days of Overwatch beta.

It does.

Where people played non-stop all the time before it became, you know, what I'm sure this will become to.

There will be a point where people try hard the hell out of this, and then people who played it for fun will quit because they aren't having fun anymore.

But right now, it feels like everyone's really enjoying it, and I love that for y'all.

I want to take advantage of the good times, you know.

I want to be able to be one of those guys like I am with Overwatch now.

I want to be able to look back and be like, I was playing that when it was fun, you know?

Yep.

I mean, that's what I felt about Helldivers.

Like, I had to be a part of that.

Like, I'm not a big 5v5, 6v6 hero shooter guy, but

the getting swept, part of me still wants to play, even though I know I'll be like,

I hate this, but I'm the emotion behind everyone enjoying it.

It's like, man, I should do that.

So, you know, when Helldivers came out, I was on board immediately because

being caught up in that moment, experiencing it with the, you know, I don't want to say society, but the gaming sphere is something else entirely.

And it's nice to be a part of that.

Yeah.

Look, y'all, I will not give it a go.

I know me.

I've got 8 billion other games to play.

I'm fine.

I have videos to make.

I'm currently.

We'll talk about it in a sec.

I'd love to hear more about your experiences in Marvel.

Yeah, the season one started, and they put out two of the Fantastic Four.

So

we've got the lovely,

happily married couple.

Why?

It's so weird to to me that the internet was like y'all know that namor and the invisible woman like had a thing i was like i don't think that's what happened

like i'm no comic aficionado but i feel like namor was trying to get in there and then she was like i'm married bro but i don't know like all right Their current synergy is that they just constantly heal each other.

So fuck that shit.

I hate them so much.

I love when they're on my team and I hate when I'm up against them that man never dies he just keeps ballooning up and slapping you until you're dead yeah

honestly

it looks great the uh the trailer they released for uh mr fantastic

he looks incredible all the way he swings his arms like

is hilarious he's when he balloons so goofy he's perfectly goofy yeah that's and and

i don't know who they cast as the voice actor but absolutely nailed how I imagine his sort of like scientific ego mixed with goofery is.

Yeah.

Nailed it.

Very good casting.

Sue Storm is really fun to play.

She does lots of like pushing and pulling sort of stuff, and her alt makes it so everybody's invisible.

Or like there's an AOE where you can't see inside of the area.

That's cool.

Yeah, it's super fun.

She's so fun to play as.

But of course, because they're new characters, everyone wants to play as them right now.

So I got to play her exactly once and I fucking crushed it.

Cool.

That one time.

Yeah.

And then, you know, all of the skins that came out are like Yucky Boy skins.

They're all like, they're all like nasty looking.

And I love them and I want them all.

Yeah, it's the Dark Hold, right?

Yeah.

So the skin for Wolverine is like a Constantine-esque skin.

It's very good.

The Loki skin is very very like eldritch.

Rocket looks like a crazy little bounty hunter man.

It's fun.

They're all really good.

I like that.

I hope they stick with that in not just doing, you know, like, here's something cool that people like and we're going to put it on our characters.

Using things from the universe.

So I can imagine if they have a Dark Hold one, which is literally just inspired by the book, The Dark Hold, Taking Control of Your Mind and Making You Evil.

Right.

I could see a Symbiote one i could see one where they were like oh yeah this is you know age of apocalypse version or this is you know this so many different forms so much to work with there's so much yeah they just need to not drop a ball yeah and you don't need to go outside

like even though i think you know uh overwatch doing cowboy bewops cool or transformers is cool i'm like oh that's interesting but it isn't that world you know what i mean like they aren't developing the world anymore they're creating cool skins based on shit you love this is like we can create things based on 50 plus years of lore

and a bajillion different outfits, and they can introduce so many characters.

I was talking with someone the other day about what Kitty Pride would look like in a game like this.

And I was like, there are about eight different versions of Kitty Pride.

Same with Magic, who's in the game.

I'm like, there's about a bajillion versions of that character, and you can do whatever the hell you want.

They would be fools not to tap into that well.

And I think they're doing it, which is awesome.

So good on them.

For sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's still a very fun game.

I'm having a blast with it.

So

I think it's absolutely.

It is very funny to me that right now you have

every time I see you online, this is, I don't know what happened to you, but I like this version of you because I feel like there's a tinge of danger involved.

You have,

you're playing Marvel Rivals.

You're playing League of Legends.

Yeah.

And you are just in that space.

And I don't know what happened.

I don't know how

a weird competitive PvP person.

And you're playing Warframe.

Yes.

Which was your fault.

Sure, I'll take it.

Yeah, that's fine.

Because during a GeekEnders, you said, I want to challenge you to play a game that's nothing like what you normally play.

And I wound up playing Warframe, given the parameters.

parameters yeah and and yeah i'm in a weird era for myself

are you

do you find yourself leaving the games satisfied or are you like pissed some nights

i've never walked away feeling angry or like frustrated or tilted

now are you trying to do ranked stuff

So here's the thing.

So in league, I pretty much only play A-Ram.

And if I'm doing Summoners, if I'm doing Summoner's Rift, it's against bots.

I have chat off, so I can't even see if somebody's mad at me.

So it's a nice time.

It's a nice, pleasant time.

I mostly only play with friends.

It's fine.

Understood.

So you are not in league, you're playing the modes designed not to make you lose your mind.

Exactly.

And I assume in Marvel, you're just playing with friends and being goofs, which is half the fun.

I am.

I did do some competitive play in Marvel.

Oh,

I know.

And I felt, I felt it crawling out of my mouth.

I felt a little competitive beastie trying to crawl out because what kept happening, and I was like, oh my God,

I get it now.

What kept happening is we'd queue up and then it would be a situation like I lock in as support and everyone else's DPS.

And then I'd have to be the guy in chat being like, someone go tank

and maybe another support.

I don't know.

What are we doing here?

And then somebody would be like, don't worry, we're fine.

And then we'd get, we'd get destroyed.

And I'd go, I get it now.

I get, I get why.

I get why people yell at their computers.

And they'd be like, what are you guys doing?

Somebody switch.

You know, for decades.

Years and years ago, I learned from the, I'm going to say the crucible that was early World of Warcraft PvP.

Anyone who played in the early days before they changed PvP a lot remembers Alterac Valley and being a member of the Horde, if you played on Horde, you would get to that final push.

There's the enemy base.

And that goddamn bridge.

And you would, for some reason, the Horde would stop on the bridge and not push.

And you'd be like, the only way to win is to push forward.

We can't fight them on the bridge.

The time will run out, you dummies.

But you had to sit there and just accept it.

And over and over again, we'd lose because we'd stay at the bridge.

And so eventually it was either I push ahead and die repeatedly and someone eventually follows me or I shut the hell up and accept it as it is what it is.

And those are the only two options.

There was no, or you had a raid leader who was like, follow me, you bitches.

And you were like, yes, sir.

And you do it.

That was.

Sometimes it's easier.

I mean, even to this day, when I play PvP in Final Fantasy XIV, which is not even remotely similar to the old wild days, but in that, if you play the, the 1v1v1 thing, where it's the three teams and they're all against each other,

I will just follow the group.

I don't even try to like fight it anymore.

Even though I know a better strategy, I'm like, screw it.

If I go over there and try to do the thing, I'm going to get killed.

So I'm just going to stick with the group and try to keep us alive because this is where I'm at mentally.

It's just easier to do that.

It's easier to just be like, you know, I'm not a leader today.

I'm just going to, I'm just, I'm just here to play a game.

I don't want to fight.

I'm just going to have a nice step.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, do what you guys do.

So, yeah, I was, I was in the same place with you when it came to the Overwatch days.

I would always want to be a

like DPS of some sort.

Always want to be like one of the characters that would really screw with people.

Like, I loved playing junk rat early on because I memorized the maps.

So I knew where all the things were.

I could shoot my grenades up over buildings and hit enemies.

And I was like, dude, I'm so busted.

And then I would see our group would never have a healer.

I'd be like, oh, my God.

I'm not going to pitch and moan that someone needs to be the healer.

I'll just do it.

So I guess I'll learn mercy.

And that was the thing that I did.

And I was not a fan.

I wish I could have just junk ratted everyone to death, but what are you going to do?

And that's, it is what it is.

You're like, okay.

So, yeah, I understand the desire to be like, someone be a tank.

And like, you know what?

F it.

Screw it.

For what it's worth, there's a character that's basically junk rat.

Oh, I'm aware.

Oh, I, there are so many borderline one-to-one characters.

I've watched many people play Marvel Rivals.

It does not mean that I would

not become a saltmonger in the salt mines of my own making.

Sure.

I, like you, don't internalize the pain.

I will yell at screen.

I will yell at chat.

I will yell at other players.

And then when I'm done, I'll be like, well, I didn't really mean anything.

I was just going through it.

But I will have yelled at you.

And I will then feel bad because I'm like, well, maybe they'll internalize that I hate them.

And I didn't mean that I hate them.

I just in the moment hated what they were doing.

I just said it.

Oh, yeah.

No, no, no.

You don't want that.

I'm the worst.

I do think there are a couple of variables that feed into that.

Number one,

you don't have like a ton of control over, but I think it's how well you understand the game.

I think the better you understand the game, the more likely you are to get angry because it's that thing that happens with our brains, right?

Where we, once we understand something really well, we forget what it's like to not understand it, right?

Right.

And so you get more frustrated with people quicker for not understanding the same things that you do.

And number two,

with ranked stuff,

seeing the number

go up and then failing and seeing the number go down

is such a mind fuck.

It's like so different from playing, just queuing up for, you know, just a casual game.

You're being like, well, we lost.

Let's queue back up, you know, because it doesn't stop you to be like, remember how how you lost?

That's worth negative 40 points.

Yeah.

Anyway, queue back up.

It sucks too, because depending on your success, and I'm not sure what it's like in Marvel Rivals, but most games like this that have ranked, you can win three games in a row, but if you lose one game, you somehow lose more points.

You're like, wait a minute, that one loss cost me more than my three wins?

So I haven't run into that so far.

I am trying to figure out what it it is that determines how many,

how much further up I go.

I'm trying to think of how to put this because it is number based.

So I was in a game with GMART.

We won.

GMART got like 45 points or something, and I got 23.

And trying to determine, like, okay, so does it have to do with damage dealt?

Does it have to do with your, your like...

kill death ratio like you know is it depending

on the character you're playing?

Because Gmart is a much more effective player than I am.

But I would like to know what it is specifically that contributes to the number.

Because, yeah, I would get, you know, like 23 points in a match and then 20 points off when we lost.

But if I had a really good game

in that scenario,

I don't think so.

I don't think we were.

He was higher ranked than me.

I wonder if because he was higher ranked than you, the game's algorithm considered him carrying you.

Does that make sense?

Maybe.

I don't know.

Or the other team you fought might have been

higher rank.

And so it compared them to him.

But then because you were lower, although then you would get more points.

I don't know.

I have no clue.

I don't know.

And it's all background algorithms that I don't understand.

Yeah.

But yeah, Marvel Marvel Rivals is fun.

I'm trying to remember what it was that you, what game you wanted to talk about.

Oh,

so I'm currently working on like what may be my Magnum Opus video.

It might be the greatest thing I ever create, and then I may have to retire.

I'm making what I consider to be the single greatest Remedy-verse video ever made.

Okay.

And it's going to explain all of Remedy.

and explain everything they're doing and it's going to feature so many cameos and I'm going to have people i can't even spoil for you but it's going to be like the greatest video ever made

here's the thing in doing so

i

i i have been playing through some old stuff trying to get footage of things and

going so i'm going through quantum break again

and i didn't appreciate how truly

like spoilery quantum break is as a game where there's so much stuff in that game that is like, hey, even though this is 2012, we're about to blow your mind with some shit that you're not going to figure out until 2024, y'all.

And I don't,

like, it just is so nice

that it's there and it's something they thought about doing long ago and a place that they were going to take their games.

And then they just did it.

Did it.

Yeah.

And it is so rare and refreshing that 13 years later, they're still doing what they said they would do, rather than most companies that create games, which are like, look,

the industry is what it is.

We just got to, you know, it's, it's very weird to me, but I'm thrilled that's what they're doing.

And I absolutely was blown away by it.

I was, I, I found a whole section of

so

minor spoilers.

Okay.

There's a character throughout all of

Alan Wake, Quantum Break, which, by the way, now that I say it, Sam Lake,

you know what?

They love a good rhyme.

There is a character called Wayland Dorr,

who

appears in other things as Mr.

Hatch, as like, there's all these different words.

Think of like the thesaurus of Dorr.

And the fact that they have so completely ingratiated this character in their mythos, mythos,

and it's like it makes so much sense for as absolutely convoluted and insane as it is,

it really truly means something special to me because you know me, I love payoffs.

And the fact that I'm getting payoffs is just,

I don't know if it's pure luck, I don't know if it's they've made the right deals, I don't know if what it is, but the fact that they have really

spent the last,

I don't know, since Max Payne creating things that they want to make and aren't creating things that go against kind of like what their internal,

I don't know if it's a mandate or just desire to get real weird with it, but it's very nice to see.

And I'm, and, and I can't help but like fanboy when I was playing it.

And so I'm going through the game and I'm just like,

no way

that

they thought this, like, no way.

But what I think what it really is, is very much like when, when,

you know, I would think about the way that

they wrapped up the Final Fantasy XIV storyline.

And at the time, I was like, I know way they thought about all this stuff.

But really, all they did was somewhere they had a list of every loose thread.

And they said, okay, we need to pull on all of those by the time we're done.

And then they did.

And that's really what it was.

And so it makes it seem like, oh my God, this is the greatest thing they've ever created because they really just someone paid attention was like we should probably wrap those up

and that's kind of what's happening in uh uh the remedy verse except the remedy verse because they've got like really good writers they will also just be like hey what if we have a game called quantum break

and then In another game, we have a guy who's the same actor from Quantum Break show up, but his name is Tim Breaker.

And you're like, Timebreaker, dude timebreaker and it seems goofy and silly but if you're in it you're like

we ought we cook it now what is what does this mean what does that mean right and it's that kind of thing that's just like you guys

love it and so that's why i want to make this video because it's just

like it's a it's i i cannot stress how much i love what they're doing and what they're creating and the universe they're making

when i when i obsess over something i obsess and i'm fully obsessed over the future of what they're doing over there.

So I was going back through it this week, trying to grab footage of things that I wanted.

And

boy, oh boy, did I discover things?

I was like, shut up.

No, that's not right.

That can't be.

What do you mean?

And they did it.

And it's just, what a treat.

What a joyous little treat that is.

How far along in on making this video are you?

Is it like a long ways off?

It's a long ways off.

My hope, my plan is before the the game firebreak comes out which is the three-person uh kind of like i imagine left for dead-ish style so for those who are curious the in control there's a place called the oldest house and it is like a mysterious building that no one really knows where it came from and in it are threshold gateways to other realities the building itself changes the foundations have weird symbols that look kind of like

Idrasil.

Like, I don't know.

Who knows what the hell's going on?

It's run by the board of directors, which is a black pyramid.

It's like got a whole bunch of weird shit.

But in it, that's where like the main character, Jesse Faden from Control, is dealing with all the stuff happening.

And in Allen Wake 2, we learn that

contact with it has

ceased.

We have no idea what's going on there.

And I assume Firebreak, the Firebreaks in Control, are like these giant metal-ish doors that prevent you from going to certain areas and i assume that it's going to be you play as people in the control like the federal bureau of control dealing with issues inside the building and so i would like to get it out before that comes out for some like synergy online but we'll see i mean it's the way i want to do it is um

if you play the game you know or play any of the games you know how they deliver information everything looks like it was filmed in the 1970s and that's what I want to do.

I want to create this like really over-the-top video.

So, um,

it will be a thing, it's gonna be big.

That sounds awesome, dude.

Yeah, but uh, it's gonna be expensive.

This might be, I might just be done.

I might be, you know, what I've done it, I did the thing I want to do, and now I'm gonna return into the

video.

Yeah, so long, everybody.

Goodbye.

Um, so yeah, that's that's a whole ass thing, but uh, man, yeah, it'll take a while for sure.

Yeah,

I don't know.

Yeah.

I

really quickly must stress.

Yes.

Path Exile 2.

I

think I suck at that game.

I don't know what it is, but I very clearly...

Cannot.

There's some bosses I just cannot beat to save my life.

I will change my build.

I will change my class, and I just get stomped.

And I don't know.

I think I just suck.

I think I'm just bad at it.

I mean, I don't know what it is.

So I was asking chat because I still haven't played it.

I was saying, should I wait?

Because I keep hearing that there are some things about it and some things about certain builds that are a little bit busted.

I mean, it's definitely early access.

And there's some builds like, I think Monk sucks.

I cannot get like,

here's a great example.

When I played with Crendor, the very first time I played, I played two classes right away.

I played the monk and I played,

I can't remember what it's called right now.

Basically, you're like an archer, but your weapon's a shotgun for some damn reason.

It's a bow and arrow, but it fires like a shotgun.

And one of the abilities you can get, which by the way is awesome, it looks like, you know that one scene in John Wick 4 where it's like top down, he's shooting the fire things.

Mercenary, yeah.

And he's shooting the like the fire shotgun shells and they spray.

You have that ability, and it's the coolest looking thing I've ever seen my entire life.

I love it.

Okay.

Mercenary, I was like blowing shit away, having the best time.

But when I played as a monk, everything would just take longer to kill.

It was very clear I didn't have the right abilities or synergy.

You know, there was clearly something I was doing wrong.

And I was like, I hate that I can't just...

Play a monk the way I want to play a monk.

It's very clear that there has to be a way to do this correctly.

And I don't like that.

Meanwhile, played a witch.

The witch is like, okay, here's the deal.

I'm going to get a curse and I'm going to curse my enemies.

And then when I kill them, I'm going to resurrect the enemies into skeletons, but the skeletons still have the curse.

So when they curse other, when they die, they curse other enemies.

So I have like a rolling wall of curse.

And I kill things so quickly and I feel like a badass.

And I'm like, well, I want to feel that way all the time.

All the time.

Yeah.

But I don't.

I simply don't.

And so right now, the only one that I seem to be doing well with is a witch.

But the problem with a witch is I'm like overwhelmed with button pressing.

And if anyone knows me from any game I play, I want the unga-bunga-ist of abilities.

I want to press four buttons max and go, bop, bop, bop, bop.

You're alt dead.

And I just,

it drives me crazy that I can't do that.

So,

yeah, I mean, like, everyone's like, yeah, I've seen monks do, I've seen monks do incredible things too which is why i wanted to play a monk but to start i just was not vibing at all and sure monk 20 levels in may be amazing but level two monk was boring the hell out of me it is what it is and then i think i was strong then i get to a boss and the boss will be like

So I don't know.

I feel like I'm just bad at the game.

I don't want to say it's the game's problem.

I just think I suck.

And so we'll see.

We'll see.

I definitely love it.

It is really cool.

It's beautiful.

I love the way it plays.

I love that you can, instead of using a click, you can WASD, especially when you're playing the mercenary.

That is really helpful.

It feels like you're playing a top-down shooter sometimes.

It's really cool.

But,

you know,

I wish, I wish, I wish I was better at it.

And so it's just a frustration simulator for me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'll have to play

very patient.

I'm like, okay, I'll wait.

We'll see what happens.

When is it meant to come out?

I was just going to wait till it came out.

That is an excellent question.

I don't know.

I think people were saying, do we know when it comes out?

It's going to be like six months,

six months, a year in early access, depending on how stuff progresses.

Oh, six months to a year.

Look at me.

That's a gamester.

Well, I'm sorry that you're having a frustrating time with

somehow live.

Yeah, I mean, I like it.

I don't know how I'm just not good at it, and it's frustrating for me, but I'll be all right.

Yeah,

is it that time?

Is it time for news you can use?

It is time for news you can use.

Hell yeah.

So,

I was I was waiting for the third one.

You know what?

Comedy, it's the rule of three.

Comedy comes in threes.

Yeah, it comes in threes.

So a lot of interesting news about the new Assassin's Creed.

One, maybe it got delayed again.

No one's really sure.

There's a lot of talk that it was delayed again, but I don't.

I will try and look it up right now, but I didn't see confirmation of that.

We'll see.

Oh, yeah.

It's delayed another month month now arriving march 2025.

so i don't know what that means i don't think we should read too much into that but people will obviously of course

and then we got some information on uh apparently dlc leaked at least according to ign so you know take that for what it's worth but i guess it adds a new map and over 10 hours of content whether that's good content or good map, who knows?

But you travel to a new region and there's new weapon types and new skills, and new abilities, and things like that.

And I guess that,

you know,

we'll see.

I think what's interesting is that everyone on social media was talking about how Ubisoft was like, hey, we are trying to get together and figure out a way to

really help ourselves as a company and find ways to invest.

And everyone's like, make good games, bro.

That's it.

That'll do it.

But I don't think that's what Ubisoft is about anymore.

I think it's about shareholders and stocks.

So

we will see.

Yeah, but I guess they're trying to scramble because Star Wars Outlaws didn't perform as well as they'd like it to.

Even though, aside from the Forced Stealth, which is now out of the game, it's not that bad of a game, really.

So we'll see.

But the new Assassin's Creed, again,

I hope it's a good game.

I want a good game.

I love good games.

We shall see.

Then

turns out that we have some interesting bits about,

as I mentioned, Sony is releasing a bunch of new movies.

So, or at least starting production on them.

We don't know what that means in the end.

But while

I am curious about the Horizon Zero Dawn one, really, I'm actually very excited for the Helldivers movie.

I hope it is as campy and stupid and fun as I want it to be.

Yes, absolutely.

need to really nail the genre here.

Yes.

The best thing I could hope for, and I genuinely mean this, is you know, those dudes who, when they watch,

oh my, oh, the Bugs movie, the Bugs, you know, the Bugs, and they shoot the Bugs and you'll pay Starship Troopers.

Right?

Boy, I'm having a rough one today.

I would love if the dudes who think Starship Troopers is meant to be taken at face value think the same thing with Helldivers.

Like, I want it to be such satire that people are confused.

I want to have the same experience.

I want to see the movie and I want dudes in the audience to be like, for Super Earth.

Like, I want that.

I want it to be so

absolutely over-the-top goofy fun.

But in a way that people,

you know, are like,

I don't want people to get the idea.

Like, I don't want it to be on the nose.

We're satiring, like, aggressive,

you know, we're liberating this world by destroying it.

Like, I don't want it to be on the nose.

I want it to be really what the game was like, where people were caught up in it.

We all understood what it was.

We got it.

We didn't need you to point it out for us.

We got it.

Yeah.

That's what I would like.

I think that'd be really fun.

I agree.

And then one of my favorite indie games is back again.

I don't understand why they keep making these.

And frankly, I'm so happy they do.

If you are a fan of good old Turnip Boy,

Turnip Boy robs a bank is coming.

Yes.

Let's go.

Absolutely hilarious.

Can't wait.

I love Turnip Boy.

What a silly series of games those are.

So good.

It makes me feel the exact same way Frog Detective is, and then I'm just so happy they're being made.

You know what I mean?

I'm like, you know what?

Yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

What a cute, fun time this is.

Yeah.

Yes.

So Turnip Boy is coming.

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is coming.

And then

I'm going to stream this on Monday.

Everyone, hold on to your butts.

It's time.

Dynasty Warriors Origins.

A game

made just for me, really, as I sit here and complain about how

to be DOE.

I'm going to storm through the field, kill a million men, just brutally murder all of China.

I'm excited for you.

Oh, my God.

I'm so excited.

I'm going to get Zhao Yun's weapon, and I'm going to spin my way through China, and guys are going to fly in every direction.

Can't wait.

Can't wait.

I have no idea what they're going to let you do.

I hope they let me pick a side.

Because

even though my boys in shoe lose,

I'll go down the ship with them.

I love Team Green.

Team Green all the way.

So I'm very excited.

Wasn't the last one crap?

Yes.

The last one was truly terrible.

They tried to make it open world, which meant enemies would load and deload while fighting them.

It was not good.

It was really bad.

Oof.

But they changed back to the old formula, except now you have a main character you play as, and you can upgrade them and change them.

But the maps, the battles feel the same way

as they used to.

And honestly, I'm here for it.

So the demo for the new one, you can play it right now.

It's really good and

actually quite challenging.

The end of it is literally like, how long can you last against Lu Bu?

I'm going to remain talking about this.

Not very long.

So

is the story new?

That is an interesting question.

Probably not.

Because you can only, you know, it's Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

It was only a reiterate it so many times.

Yeah.

So you can change things, but big fan.

So that'll be Monday.

I'm so excited.

That is all I want to do.

Next week, you may not ever hear from me again i may go back and and live in china for a little bit that'll be it okay and you'll be like jesse what happened to you and i'll show up with like a long beard and i'll be drinking from a jug and i'll be like well

if it isn't judger

you think

you think you're gonna fight me by the way all the voice acting is amazing I love Dice Wars voice acting.

It's like, yes!

Welcome to the battlefield.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I'm so excited.

Maybe one day we can get you in one of those games.

I would.

That's the real goal.

The only Dynasty Warriors I want to be in is like one of the old ones that is already done.

Like back in the day, they did not know how to pronounce the names and they didn't try.

And so we got great things like Cow Cow and his son Cow P.

And Cow Cow's bodyguard was a man named John Wayne.

It was great.

It was one of the best things they've ever...

I missed those those days.

Now they actually pronounce it Cao Cao, Cao P, Jiao Wei.

Like they have, like, you know, whatever.

Yeah.

But

back in the day, John Wayne, he's like, my son.

There was a golden era and it already happened.

Is what you said.

It already happened.

Now I have to like learn the language and do it correctly.

Yeah.

So

amazing.

I'm excited for you to have Dynasty Warriors in your hands.

Hell yeah.

If you want to know what Dynasty Warriors is about, go watch the movie Red Cliffs.

Great movie.

Great movie.

Pico.

What else is going on with you?

Jessup.

Oh man, that's really it.

Scary Game Squad stuff is coming up on the channel.

We just did,

oh my God, Holiday Hotline, whatever.

My brain just died.

It's the hotline game that is based on

the home safety hotline.

It's a very fun game.

I think you'd actually enjoy it.

It's not

scary, scary, scary but it's super weird essentially you play as a uh person named rebecca who is the support line for it starts out like

hi i got some weird critters in my basement you're like oh you have mice okay

and then you send someone out to go deal with it but eventually it's like

goblins and like weird creatures and you have to figure out what it is based on the call.

And so they released a holiday version of it.

And so it's things like, you know, whites and

like carolers, but the carols are like crows, like these weird crow-looking dudes.

It's like a puzzle.

You're trying to solve a puzzle of what it is.

And at the same time, the more you fail, the worse it is for you because it's like, something's going to get you.

Like that kind of stuff.

It's very, yeah, the newest one, the holiday one, the Yule Lads are in it.

It's very, very clever.

I don't want to spoil what the gimmick is, but...

It's very fun.

I think you would enjoy it.

Home safety hotline.

Very cool.

And then because everyone on planet Earth asked us to play it, we've already done it and filmed it and recorded it.

Mouthwashing is coming.

So get ready for that.

And yeah.

More and more big goofery coming your way.

And hopefully

if you're waiting for the VODs, the end of Indiana Jones should be up soon.

Love.

What a great game that was.

So,

so good.

The last...

Two hours of the Great Circle might be some of my favorite Indiana Jones stuff they've done in a while.

I am so glad they're making more.

And I must stress, please remake Fate of Atlantis.

Love Jesse Cox.

That would be

so cool.

What are you up to?

I'm still making my way through Sorry We're Closed.

I kept, I had a weird week where my streams were like

normally five hours, but instead were like two because of doctor's appointments and things like that.

So I'm hoping to like go hard on sorry we're closed at the beginning of next week.

But I mean,

aside from that, I definitely want to integrate some more like story-based games and get myself out of this competitive PvP universe that I'm in on stream.

Try that out.

It is fun, though.

Yeah, I brought it up.

I brought it up so that I remember it.

So maybe

I'll open a friend.

Yeah.

We'll try it out.

But yeah.

hey, if you want to come hang out with us individually, you can.

But if you're like, but I love geekenders.

I like when you guys are together and talking about goofy shit.

Guess what?

You can watch all of the previous geekenders on youtube.com/slash jessecox, or you can listen to them on your podcasty stuff.

Yep.

And remember, if the VODs hit a consistent 200,000 views, I will get a Dodger mushroom person tattoo.

But we've decided on a bonus goal,

before then, if we can get a consistent 100,000 by the end of this year,

Dodger and I will release a Christmas album.

We will.

But that's on you.

If you want it, that's on you.

How badly do you want it?

How badly do you want it?

Is the thing.

So

someone said no shot.

Not with that attitude.

Yeah.

What's going on here?

What's going on?

Why gotta be like that?

Oh, my goodness.

Yeah, take care of yourselves, guys.

If you're somewhere experiencing a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, there are so many right now.

Please be safe, take care of your neighbors, and send hugs to your loved ones.

We will be back next Friday, sure.

So, we'll see you then.

My nose is so my allergies are killing.

My nose is so stuffed up.

I have to blow it so badly.

Go blow it.

Goodbye.

Yeah, yeah, you know what time it is.

It's time for the geek in this podcast Mega Rand Jesse and Dodger, what up?

Let's go.

Yo, it's the weekend.

Yeah, it's time to geek out.

Let it be kid.

Go on stream and shout.

It's Jesse and Dodger.

So give them a follow and see what the geek enders are all about.

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Yeah, it's time to geek out.

Let it be kid.

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It's Jesse and Dodger.

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Yo, another end of another long week.

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

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