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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Geekenders.

I'm so sorry.

I was caught up in the moment.

I was enjoying the love and friendship that was going on behind the scenes.

And then I went, oh, God, the intro is almost done.

So love and friendship.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The love and friendship that was happening.

Yeah.

Yep.

That's it.

Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody we've got the lovely rabs as our guest today thank you so much for pointing out

rabs of of convergence fame

that mr convergence that's what they're calling me these days yeah yeah yeah

that's what i called you so

how are you buddy i'm doing grand how are you guys doing yeah lovely good yeah hell yeah complain too much Yeah, it's starting to get cold.

My lips are starting to chap.

Yeah, I was experiencing the same things things the other day, and it's getting a bit nippy.

I'm starting to like it so much.

It's 66 here now.

It's a little chilly.

Shut the fuck up.

For my poor British brain, what does that mean?

Is that like 20?

It's like temperate.

It's like even t-shirt weather.

I might have to put on a coat at night, like a jacket.

Like a windbreaker, not like a coat coat, please.

Okay, like a little fin one in case.

Yeah, but like in case it's a little bit more.

Yeah, in case like it gets a little nippy, you know.

Yeah, fair, fair.

I think it's fun getting to layer up more now, though.

No, I think so too.

I love when autumn starts to blow in and your cheeks feel a little cold and you think, should I put on a scarf?

I love that.

Yeah, that's the best time, honestly.

No, nothing.

That's the copious cope I've ever heard coped in the history of cope.

I love it.

What do you mean?

You know what?

I enjoy having to buy extra clothes to wear for just one season.

I enjoy having to go in the cold and walk through the snow and get

it's not just one season.

Oh, it is.

When you're in

a state that has multiple seasons, you don't have to

have a vertigo.

What the hell?

Oh, wait.

What do you mean?

I thought it was hot and cold.

He's in Los Angeles.

That's what this bit is.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I thought you did hot.

You did cold.

You told me there's other options?

There's other ones, yeah.

What do you mean?

does it even get cold there in law i mean like please let's be real yes it was like 50 one time 50 one time i still don't know what that means it's probably good though still fine okay

it it it doesn't snow there it rains very occasionally Maybe three times a year.

Maybe.

Yeah.

And I would die there because

they're not.

They they don't have an infrastructure for rain because it rains so rarely.

So the second it rains even a little bit, all of the roads flood.

Everything, it's so funny.

Oh my gosh.

Everyone forgets how to drive.

The roads crumble.

The day after a rain, there's repair crews everywhere because the roads have fallen apart.

Wow.

It's one of the funniest things in the world.

You're like, this place is a mess.

We probably shouldn't even be living here.

But,

you know, when it's not.

falling apart due to fire and or the three times it rains or earthquakes.

it's one of the best places on earth it's gorgeous

fair enough it's like a lot to deal with though yeah i do look back on it fondly i don't deal with it i i have hit the point where if

the big one happens and we fall into the ocean i would sit there and be like i can ride this out

i'd just be in my apartment like well this doesn't seem too bad Like there have been earthquakes.

There have been, there was one, when they had the big fires, you could see in the distance, the sky was red.

Everything looked like Silent Hill.

And I was like, it'll be fine.

I went,

when we have earthquakes, I will lay in bed and be like,

oh, this is kind of fun.

I'm shaking.

I'm convinced when it goes down.

I'll just convince my, and like, this is nothing as I fall into the ocean.

Yeah,

because depending on where you live, if a natural disaster is frequent enough in like a smaller form, you start to convince yourself like, well, how bad could it be if it's bigger?

And in LA, they have earthquakes all the time.

Is it crazy of me as someone from the UK who doesn't get like natural disasters other than like the odd storm that I kind of want to be in an earthquake, which is like an insane thing to say?

It is.

I kind of want to feel what it feels like.

A really tiny one is fine.

It's like an interesting like, oh, you know.

Yeah, I kind of want to experience that.

Yeah, the only thing that I can say you would universally experience is there's like right before the earthquake happens you get this weird your body's like

oh and then everything starts to shake and it's i think that's fascinating every time because you have like a little like spark of like like your body knows so it very clearly the earth is shaking before the actual earth shakes if that makes any sense yeah like you're picking up the subtle vibrations yeah and so you're like this doesn't feel right and then it happens and at worst

so far, the room shakes.

And you're like, whoa, what the hell?

At best, the funniest version is when it feels like

that meme of like the old lady living underneath you banging on the ceiling like keep it down you kids That's most of what it feels like to be honest.

Most of the time so many buildings here are like earthquake compliant that

unless it's huge All it just does is it feels like someone's partying beneath you for like 30 seconds.

That's straight though.

I'll be into that.

Yeah.

What winds up happening with a lot of these tiny ones is everyone immediately goes on their phone to look up.

Did an earthquake just happen?

Because you don't know.

Because you're not sure.

You're like, did I just like have a wobble or was that an earthquake?

You know what's, you know, what's insane is I

somehow got to the mental point of earthquake

handled.

I can do it.

I get an earthquake.

I understand it.

Not really scary to me.

Whatever.

Yet,

anything.

And I think I genuinely believe this is because we are on that plane of existence where we stand on Earth.

Thus, we have conquered it.

I don't know.

But

hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, like, no, that's terrifying.

That's going to get me.

That's stuff that'll kill me.

I'm like the wind, which is above me, I can't stop that.

And the water, which is below me, can't stop that.

Land, though, we got land on lock.

If I suck

and squat,

I could maintain my balance.

Yes, I get sucked up in the air, I'm done.

I get sucked underwater, I'm done.

I got no way out.

But ground, I have a chance.

I can handle ground.

You're right, though, Ravs.

I was thinking about that the other day, that we don't have anything like that in the United Kingdom.

Yeah, we just kind of get like a bit of wind and rain every now and then.

Yeah.

And they're always called like Storm Barbara and stuff like that.

It's just like really just unfreatening.

Unbladen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It never.

Well, somebody's probably going to correct me.

They're going to be like, Dodger, this horrific thing happened only a few years ago.

How could you have forgotten?

But it feels like overall, we don't have like a consistent thing that...

routinely happens.

You know, we don't have like tornado sirens happening that we just ignore or like, you know.

We, we had like insane wind in Scotland once and collectively all of Scotland decided it was called Hurricane Bob Ag.

I don't know if you've ever heard of this.

Um, that's just what we all decided it was called.

Please tell us about it, though.

It was just like a real, it wasn't even like a hurricane, it was just so stormy, and there were like trampolines being blown down the streets and stuff, and like trees getting knocked over and stuff.

And everyone on like Facebook and Twitter was just like, This is Hurricane Bob Ag.

This is it.

It's only attacking Scotland.

What a bobag!

I love that.

Yeah,

yeah, I love stuff like that.

The wind wind has gotten pretty bad a couple of times, I guess.

Not in the summer.

Not in the summer.

Y'all, every time I go to the UK and it's summer, you try to like smoke me out of your entire country.

It is so hot.

So hot, right?

It is, it's gross.

And not like a, wow, this is a dry heat.

No, like the heat of a sticky

sticky summer.

Just the wind.

It's a little bit out here.

No one has air conditioning.

So every time I know I'm going to have to suck it it up.

I know I'm going to drag my big ass to your beautiful country and sit there and be like, this, these guys need to get, it's 2025.

What the hell are we doing?

Why is there a half a window in this hotel room?

What do you mean?

What do you, I, I stayed at one hotel this past summer where they straight up were like, um, there's air conditioning in the room.

Don't worry about it.

So I get up in the room.

The air conditioning was locked.

Just locked.

And I was like, okay, well, that's fine.

I'm not too stressed about this.

I can open a window.

I opened the window.

It got hotter.

And I was like,

okay.

So I discovered underneath the, there was like a, like a nightstand.

And underneath the nightstand, someone, some brave soul bought a fan and hid it under there.

Oh my God.

So I pulled the fan out and was like,

blasting that thing.

I was like, oh, thank God.

This is great.

Here's, here's the lesson, though.

Blowing hot air through a fan still is just blowing hot air.

Anyway, yes, Doctor.

Did you not go to hotel staff and say, Hi, you said there was AC in my room, it's locked.

How do I deal with that?

Uh, no, what they meant was there's AC, it's permanently locked at 78, it will never be above or below that.

What

that's crazy.

Well, whatever 78 is in uh correct measurement, whatever that the rest of the world measurement measurement measure,

sure, whatever the rest of the world measurement is, yeah, yeah.

Celsius is more scientifically sound.

Look, I'm not even to argue with you, but as an American, how dare you fair enough

we will never have opportunities to call our stuff freedom units i think that's very funny i must stress in the 80s when i was a wee baby and maybe this was the early 90s i can't remember but there was a significant call in the states to switch over to metric i remember taking classes And then at some point, everyone said, we tried and just stopped.

Yeah, I had to learn metrics when I was in school.

And you're right.

At a certain point, they were like, fuck it.

I don't know when that was.

I don't know which president came in or what Congress.

I don't know who changed that.

But literally, everyone was like, we're going to learn metric.

We're going to get on the world.

Everyone else is doing it.

We got to teach these kids when they're young.

And then

that stopped.

We were like, we tried.

We gave it a valiant effort, everyone.

We gave it a good year, I think.

And that's it.

It was, I don't know what happened to that.

We just

gave up.

I genuinely think I'm just confused by metrics at this point.

Everything in the UK is so weird.

We use like stones and pounds for weight, whereas everyone else is using like kios and stuff.

Like it's just so weird.

Stones.

Yeah.

Having to learn what stones were.

And for me, I thought that it's like, what, 15

pounds?

I know, my brain.

It just hurts my brain.

Stupid.

It's so stupid.

Like, why do we use that?

Why did I learn that?

Yeah.

It's frustrating, but, you know,

it's just a mishmash here.

Yeah, it does feel that way

so you got your own problems so don't how dare you come for us how dare you i mean you're not wrong you're not wrong we haven't got our own figured out how dare you god damn it

i'll ask you again raps how's life how are you doing oh i'm doing pretty good you know just hanging out um i'm on geekenders

um just you know milling around milling around today it's good to be on yeah what does that mean milling around oh just you know like walk up got some lunch went a little walk, you know haven't done really anything of merit today

You're having like a meander through your life.

Yeah, a bit of a slow one, you know, yeah, you're pretty nice.

I like slow days.

Yeah, it's a chill day.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm more of a saunter guy, but like, yeah, I get it.

Hmm.

Okay.

Isn't the saunter like a bit more like fast-paced?

Yeah, I mean, like, you have purpose.

Meandering, you're kind of like...

Meandering, I think, is more like this.

And the saunter is like...

Okay, no, I see.

It's like the anticipation of a roller coaster.

Yeah, meandering, you're kind of like going where you're going.

And a saunter is, you're going a place, but you're taking your time.

You've got no, yeah, yeah, you're like, you know, whatever.

Yeah.

Don't look it up, Dodger.

I don't know.

Are you doing that thing where you just use a word and you run with it?

Because I just.

Yeah, you just

dig your heels in.

Like, I'm right, actually.

That's why there's multiple definitions when you look up stuff in the dictionary.

Assholes like me.

Who is like,

no, it means this.

Right.

And so I want to add another guy.

Do you walk a lot, Rav?

Do you like walk places?

Not really.

Like Bristol, I live in Bristol, so very walkable city, but like I am quite bad for just like hopping in an Uber or like a bus or something.

Like I just don't love walking places.

But I am like, I miss my car a little bit, but I'm also like glad that this is a bit more walkie city.

Because it's nice, like, you know, going out, having your headphones on just doing a little walk around it's nice seeing some green spaces and stuff i'm into that yeah yeah did you sell your car when you moved yeah because i was just like i'm just like never gonna use this now that i'm down here and driving in a city makes me want to die so like i just i like learned i learned in a small town and i was like this is scary this is like the real world here

yeah

Yeah, I went from small town to Los Angeles.

So I.

Oh my God.

I get you.

Yeah, I've never done that.

I've only done like San Diego, and I was like, the roads are so huge here.

This is wild.

San Diego is beautiful, though.

It's really nice.

But I imagine driving on those roads is crazy.

Well, I would rather more space than like

coming to England.

I think the thing that stresses me out the most when driving is that the roads are like this wide.

So wide.

And if there's another person coming this way, God help you.

You just have to

stare at each other long enough to figure out what you're doing.

Have you ever been down like one of those streets where people like park on the road as well?

So it's just like this narrow hallway of just, oh

Sam and I live in the middle of nowhere.

We're like very, very country road.

So yeah, you know, most of the roads, there's nothing going on, but occasionally you'll have those roads that are so thin and they occasionally have a little like,

veer off spot.

Oh, yeah.

And if you see another person coming this way, you're like, please let there be a spot for them to pull over because I, one of us has to go in the Brambles.

I don't know what the plan is.

You know?

I also feel like the people that drive on those country roads are like absolutely wild.

Like, I feel like there's like so many, like, just people zooming.

They love to speed.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know where.

I don't know where Doug is an association with me on the screen.

So I'm doing the whole thing.

That one.

Wild driving.

Wild

demon.

Wild.

Insane.

No, he is setting.

Insane driver.

No, I am not.

Spent so much time on the side of the road

just driving off into the side of the road.

What do you mean?

Just like swerving around?

No, just because of the way the roads are.

When we were driving, Dukes had to like,

it was always head on.

And because she's a sweetheart, would go like and get out of the way.

But out of the way was literally this like you're in a tree.

A ditch.

Yeah.

Did you actually go in a ditch?

I mean, I never went so far in a ditch that I couldn't get out.

Yeah.

I would, yeah, I would pull over as far as I safely.

Because the road was exactly one car wide.

What the fuck are these roads?

Yeah.

They are fucking crazy, to be fair.

They are terrible.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Can I swear?

Sorry.

I just threw it.

Okay, good.

Yes.

I'd be offended if you didn't.

Okay.

Yeah.

Thank fuck.

Please do.

Please do.

Absolutely.

Bristol's beautiful.

I haven't been there since Jesse and I went together, I think.

Yep.

Oh, man.

It is great.

I was sadly too babby to have moved to Bristol by the time you guys had come down.

But everyone in the office got to meet you guys.

I was like, you fuckers.

I'll come back.

I'll come back to Bristol.

Hell yeah.

I've needed to and just haven't done it.

So we've got a new office.

So there's so many of you guys out there.

I would love to know.

The Yox Towers isn't the same place anymore.

Different spot, no, different spot.

What?

Yeah, I know.

It's a nicer place, though.

Nicer place.

I believe it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But yes, dude, Jesse and I

Jesse and I came back from the Yogs Towers changed.

We were like, we need rolling lights.

I mean, one of us did.

One of us came back, definitely changed.

The other one was just I found somebody to kiss, but also we were like, I mean, that's a pretty big change.

You should get rolling lights from our opposite.

That shit's sick.

I do love that.

Yeah.

It's great.

That's so funny that you're like, we came back, changed.

Lights.

I'm like, girl, what?

That's the takeaway from that trip.

That's the big takeaway.

Good old Sam.

Everybody knows that, though.

I'm trying to throw the people new info.

True, true.

We talked about the rolling lights a lot.

We were like, that's so smart.

Yeah, the lights were cool.

That's, yeah, but the lights are really cool, guys.

I don't know if I'd rank it up there.

Oh, God.

Can you imagine Sam be like, yo, Sam, do you hear about these lights, dude?

Stop the best thing in prison.

Sam Sam was a yog's intern at the time.

It's true.

Oh, oh, Sam.

No.

The early days.

The early days, man.

Crazy.

He was a great egg.

He is a great egg.

Still a great egg.

You know what?

If we're going to talk about the lighting, I want to talk about the fact.

I'll never forget this as long as I live.

This probably is well-known information.

But

at

when we were at Maker, There was like a level of

person at Maker whose whole job was to schmooze and like kiss everyone's ass.

And that was their thing.

And they made money doing that.

And I'll never forget when we were at the Yog's office.

We're all sitting around having a conversation.

And exactly at the right time, a call from Maker Studios comes in and is like, hey, guys, just checking in, seeing how you're all doing.

Everyone okay over there having a good time?

And I was just like,

I'll never forget that because it is

so perfectly sums up LA in general of like, my job is just to make sure everyone's having a good time over there.

I just reminded that I exist.

Thanks, guys.

I think you're doing a good job over there.

I'm definitely getting paid.

Just a reminder that I'm here.

Check it out.

Just let me know.

I'm here.

Yeah, your success makes me a ton of money.

Keep doing good work.

That's absolutely.

That's that I remember as well as the lights is that moment where we're just having a good time.

We're sitting around being friends.

Then like, remember, it's all business.

Business.

Are you filming stuff?

What are you guys doing over there?

Are you making money?

Like.

and then you guys rubbed your beards all over me oh god i remember that then

then we went to an american restaurant called africa i remember that as well i remember that as well i got a hand i don't think i've ever been there i don't know if that's open anymore i got the american burger at africa it was in a mall it was in a mall that's true yeah

okay i remember walking in and being like wait so it's Wait, are you sure it was called Africa and not Giraffe?

Ooh.

Because there was like an American restaurant that had like giraffe is a place.

I know giraffe.

Okay, okay.

I know.

I'm aware of giraffe.

It could have been before my time down here.

I'm aware.

Giraffe is a thing that I've even...

I think I even had it in Australia.

Maybe.

Yes, Dr.

American chain called Africa is crazy.

I'm telling you, it was weird.

It was a weird experience.

Yeah.

But whatever.

I was like, you know me.

I was like, yes, I would like to go.

That would be fun.

I need to experience that.

What are you going to say, Dukes?

Are you going to say, Jesse?

I don't know.

I got distracted by the surge.

I'm distracted by the turkey.

We have two turkeys, and one of them really likes to turn on my office.

I didn't know you were literally looking at turkeys.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

I was warning it with my eyes not to fucking come in here.

Because they're loud.

I love them, but they're so loud and they just walk around warbling all day.

And if it's the boy, the boy just

does the gobble gobbles, you know?

So he's just walking around like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, and then goes, woo, woo,

and just keep walking, beep, beep, beep, beep.

Or hold on now.

It's horrible, but maybe not great.

Hold on now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The pause to this podcast

was because a physical real-ass turkey attempted to walk into your room and you were like, turkey, don't you do it?

That's what happened.

That's what happened on this show.

You said, Turkey,

don't come in here, turkey.

Wait, you're not.

Don't you come in here.

Turkey.

Why are you acting like this is weird?

Because I'm always, because it's never

the animals that you have.

This is, I just, I must stress this to everyone who exists.

Dodger will be like,

got these sheep.

They just will not.

I just hate them so.

They're just crap.

They're just the worst.

Then I have these chickens, and something's eating the chickens.

I don't even know what to do about it.

So then we had to get cats to fight the rats.

But then in order to have, so we got dogs.

We got to do this other thing.

And then you just keep going.

Like, there's so many damage.

We have a turtle.

I got all these other plants I got to deal with.

I can't.

And I'm like, should you get more stuff?

And you're like, no, I shouldn't get more things.

Anyway, we have two turkeys.

And it's like, what do you mean?

They're my mother-in-laws.

They're my mother-in-laws.

mother-in-laws.

They just exist in my sphere.

I don't take care of them.

They just walk into my house.

It just seems like every time I talk with you, you're like, oh, all these damn animals.

And then insert a new animal.

I'm like, what do you mean?

Why do you have an ostrich?

What is that doing there?

Like,

you're raising scarabs?

What are you doing?

Like, this is...

Every time you have a new weird thing you're doing and I'm like, girl, what?

What do you mean?

Can I tell tell you a quick, weird story?

Can I tell you a really quick, weird thing about the sheep?

I found out the way.

So, so we have a ram, a visiting ram, and he's literally just visiting to see.

Oh, okay.

He's there to bang.

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah.

He's here to bang.

Yeah.

And so the way that you keep track of whether or not he's banged everybody is he has

like a bunch of green powder all over his stomach.

And so if he counted them,

he'll leave a big green spot on their butt.

That's crazy.

So I was talking with my sister-in-law and I was like, why do some, why are some of the

sheep have green butts?

And she was like, oh, they're the ones who have been serviced.

And it took me a minute to realize what she meant.

Oh.

Anyway, so all of her sheep are walking around with big green spots.

That's genius, though.

Holy shit.

I've never seen that.

That was so smart.

That was the way they would do that.

I wouldn't have thought of of that i know if i see that in a field though i'm just gonna be like oh god you'll know i'll know now you'll be like they've got a ram around

yeah

it's like i open the door i can never close

you've walked away changed i'm so sorry yeah

you guys did the lights i got the ram

yeah

they got a ram around

They got a ram over there.

That's a visiting ram.

One of my jobs is to hopefully give you guys little anecdotes that you can bring up in an awkward moment.

Be like, I know a little something about that for no reason.

I would never tell that story to anyone in public.

Why?

In what public scenario?

Like, I'm out on a date and be like, hey, you know, is it first date?

Brams.

Oh, first date for sure.

What?

Okay, first date.

First date.

You know, like crazy fact.

I have a friend.

You don't bring it up out of nowhere.

Oh, no, I would.

This is

when the drinks arrive.

When the drinks arrive, I'd be like, cheers.

By the way.

So, anyway, did you know that when rams go to farms, they put green stuff on their junk.

So when they start banging all the other sheep, that you got green stuff on their

so, like, yes, you know, when they mount them.

Anyway, are we having sex tonight, or am I just taking you out to dinner?

Like, what's the deal?

Then you just left up your shirt and you go to green.

And then you just raise an eyebrow.

Yep.

See, this information could be used in so many ways.

Yeah.

As just established.

I thought it was a pub chat.

Yeah, right?

It'd be like a fun fact to talk around the table about.

It might come up during pub trivia.

You never know.

Exactly.

You never know.

Maybe in a pub trial.

What category would that be?

Animal husbandry.

Boom.

I hate that you both came home.

We got your ass.

We got your ass.

You did.

You did, but I must stress, that's a shitty bar quiz.

But animal husbandry is.

It would do gangbusters out here.

It would go crazy in the countryside.

Okay, Jesse, you said you had a story.

And I interjected with my own.

Would you like to tell your story?

This is a, this is a,

This might be the greatest story ever told.

I ask you all to bear with me, for this relates to this show and the internet.

So

I had to write down notes because I wanted to make sure I got this correct.

The exact, almost verbatim.

I'm not going to say everything that was said.

But anyway.

So

last week before the episode that didn't occur, I saw a message posted on a video that you and I had done, Dodger.

Yes.

An episode of Geekenders.

And

in that,

there was a comment.

Now, oftentimes I don't read the comments and I don't care about the comments.

It's not a thing I concern myself with.

However, sometimes one will, I'll just see it.

And I just happened to come across this comment and I said to myself,

huh?

Did this piss me off?

Am I mad now?

You have to question it?

I really did.

Because the comment wasn't like,

shut it, cook.

You know, like, the comment was

basically, dude, you're terrible.

I hate you.

This is without the swears.

I hate you.

I will not be returning.

I'm going to block all your content.

Here's my reasons why.

And it was like a tirade of reasons why I suck.

But more importantly, my favorite one was.

I was being accused of using a girl in the thumbnail to get views.

Congratulations, Dodger.

You are a thirst thirst trap.

Always have been.

I get it.

Yeah, I get it.

Dab on that.

The dab.

Yeah, dab on that.

And I was, and I literally was like, my co-host?

Like, that's right.

That was, this is the plan from the beginning.

And just, you know, like that kind of stuff.

And just

really targeted a list of mean things.

And I was going to respond and be very like,

what the, what are you talking about?

Right.

I was ready to go in.

And I was like,

Jesse,

no.

Click this guy's profile first.

This could be a kid.

This could be a person who maybe had like a bad day.

You don't know anything about this person.

Learn about them, dude.

Take a minute.

Before you freak out, take a minute.

So I clicked their profile.

And

the guy,

I was surprised.

He had three videos.

Usually people don't have videos.

So he had three videos.

Two were from 10 years ago when he was a little kid, but one was recent.

And the difference between the videos of 10 years ago and now

drastic.

The guy looked like a less put-together version of me.

He was in a room that made Asmund Gold's room look clean.

And his

video that he had made was basically him rating

characters from a video game.

And he was just like sitting there looking not not happy.

Sonic the hedgehog.

That's yes.

Literally, he was like, Dustin S rank.

It's one of my favorites.

Oh, God.

He's like half asleep.

Like, yes.

And I felt like, so I felt so bad.

I was like, okay, I can't say a damn thing about this guy.

Like, I don't want to be mean.

This is, you know what?

He's probably going through it.

And he probably, you know.

So anyway, out of curiosity, I clicked his most recent video, which is, you know, not recent at all, but of the three, the most recent.

And

it had 60 views and three comments the three comments first one was what is this second one was where have you been the third comment

said the following

has it all been building to this this sucks you suck this is lazy content i hate your content I will be muting you so I never have to see crap like this again.

Bottom of the barrel YouTubing.

Stop making videos.

And I was like,

this guy has 60 views.

And he still has a guy coming out of nowhere to tell him he sucks ass.

And I was like, it doesn't matter how big you are on YouTube.

Some guy is the universal.

There's always someone out there.

Some guy will always tell you you are the worst person to ever make anything ever.

And then I saw

our commenter had responded to the comment to his stuff and he said, thanks for letting me know I don't care.

And I realized that's how I feel about his comment.

That's good energy.

I was like, that's how I feel.

That's how I feel about your.

Thanks for letting me know you don't like me.

I don't care.

I don't care.

And I was like, I need a healthy attitude.

I'm moving forward.

It is healthy.

Yeah, I'm going to steal this guy's attitude here and take a note from him and be like, thanks, man.

I went on a journey of discovery.

He might be a little bit of a hater in his own time, you know, leaving that comment for you, but at least he's like got his own, you know, criticism.

Even if he meant it or not, even if he was not affected at all, because he still responded, right?

But like, maybe he wrote it right after getting that comment.

He was a really bad boot.

That happens.

That's why I didn't respond to him.

I was like, you know what?

No, I'm not going to do anything.

And I realized at that moment, yeah.

I need to be reminded every so often

that everyone on the internet gets absolutely slaughtered by randos all the time.

And you can't take it personal because some people just be out there looking to fight.

I was like, No,

I'll be good.

And it was a fun little moral lesson for me.

And I was like, I'm going to share that with Dodger.

I like that journey you took us on, though.

Of like, am I mad at this?

I don't know.

And then you're like, You did all your due diligence, you figured it out.

Very analytical.

Thank you.

I've said that about myself frequently.

Very mad.

My brain wet and juice.

I'm very smart.

Yep.

I'm very stupid.

Yep.

You can't say that.

Take that back.

Kind of.

You have to say a nice thing about yourself.

I love myself.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Woo.

No.

Jesse.

I'm not sure how you meant it.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Oh, no, yeah, no, no.

Oh, no, gross.

Don't talk.

Don't be nice to yourself.

Don't do it.

No.

Fair enough.

You know what?

That's the wife less I walk away from on gigabits.

Wait.

This is my takeaway.

Don't do that.

You came to your journey.

You came so easily.

It wasn't.

I didn't even have to work for that.

I was expecting to do a beat and you were like, fair enough.

I was like, oh,

I am very agreeable.

Like, I'm just so so agreeable.

Great.

Great.

Yeah.

That could be a word of affirmation, I guess.

Yeah.

I'm malleable like clay.

Excellent.

That scares me.

So let's talk about bringing the Yogscast down from the inside, shall we?

Hey, I'm ready to wake that first mullet off.

Wake the first samurai.

Oh, my goodness.

Rabs, what have you been playing this this week?

Oh, what have I been playing this week?

I have been putting myself through torture by playing Metal Gear Solid V again.

I'm a massive Kadima Metal Gear nerd.

Well, I just played Delta through, and someone in my chat said, you know, why don't we play it in chronological order?

I was like, that'll be fun.

So it goes free, then five, because weird.

And it's just so not fun to stream.

Like, it's a fun game, but streaming it has been a nightmare.

But I got through.

It's just so like like you get in the helicopter, it flies up, you gotta listen to the little theme song, and then you have a loading screen, then you have to pick the mission again, then you have another loading screen.

It just takes so long.

But after stream, I've been playing Silk Song, and it has owned my life.

I've been staying up way too late playing that.

I just got double jump.

I love it.

Cinema.

Oh my god.

I want that so bad.

Have you not played it yet?

I have.

Oh, you don't have double jump.

Oh,

you got to get it.

Although there's only one.

How many hours in are you?

I want to say I'm like 32 hours in.

I'm just going to check Steam.

But I think around that.

But it feels like there's so many games right now, right?

There's like...

Yes.

The Hades 2 just got its update.

No, I'm not a human.

That literally came out yesterday.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's just so many things to play.

I'm just like, oh, what about you guys?

Have you been playing anything fun this week?

Yeah.

You're nodding like you have an NDA scene or something.

Well, I can't talk about it.

I played a lot of scary games this week.

I can't talk about it at all because it's for Scary Game Squad.

I don't want to ruin it, but we played a lot, and probably ones that you've heard of.

But yeah, that's I don't want to spoil what they are, but played a lot of scary games.

But that's not what I want to talk about.

I want to talk about

FMV games.

They're the best, okay, and continue to be the best.

So, first off,

Road to Empress

is a classic tale of Chinese drama in 7th century China, where you must play as a courtesan who rises through the ranks of courtesans to survive in the Imperial Court, but there is betrayal everywhere and ladies trying to kill you with soup constantly.

And it is.

With soup?

Oh, yeah.

It is.

That would work on it.

But I would go down.

I'm soup maxing.

Like, the conceit of the game is it has the vibe of like a mobile game because there's uh weird currency in it.

You know, it doesn't do anything as far as I can tell, except for like vote on who your favorite character is, but it doesn't make sense.

But maybe it's like a Chinese dev thing.

I don't, I honestly don't understand.

But that's not the point.

It doesn't even matter, really.

The point of the game is, is it's an FMV game where you make choices and every choice can get you killed or not, basically.

And

it is

incredible production value.

The story is phenomenal.

The acting is great.

Everything about it's ridiculous.

And I will say, some of us very clearly were raised playing Dynasty Warriors and understand the mandate of heaven and how one would survive in ancient China.

And some of us died 47 times.

Did you die 47 times?

I did.

Oh, no.

Oh, God.

I played this game first.

I pitched it, I think, our last Geekenders episode, and Jesse was like, I'm definitely going to play that.

I died over 40 times, and I was like, I'm so excited to watch Jesse play this.

I can't wait.

Like, it's so ridiculous.

And he really picked up quickly that you need to play this game like you're a Game of Thrones character.

Like, trust no one.

Oh, like, poetic.

Only out for yourself.

Yes.

Yeah.

Like, there's a very like,

yeah.

I am looking at the Steam page and it looks amazing.

It is amazing.

It's gorgeous.

It's a beautiful game.

Yeah.

The production value is insane.

With that said, you're basically watching a C-drama, but like

you make a choice every so often.

But really, for the most part, there will be a scene.

You click on it and it's 25 minutes of like the most beautiful love story between two dudes you've ever seen in your entire.

You're like, oh, that's happening right now.

It just happens.

And you're like, look at these beautiful men and their underrecorded feelings for each other.

Like that's, that's the thing that is, it's mostly just watching stuff.

But when you make choices, you have to do it based on a lot of factors.

So a great example is the very first choice.

I watched Crendor do this.

Happened to him too.

So I know the first choice is out to get you and teach you the ropes.

And so the very first choice is you arrive, you're a courtesan, you show up, and there's all these other women with you.

And a friend from your village, that you haven't seen for a while is like, hey, oh my god, I can't believe you're here, sis.

This is crazy.

Oh my, here, my mom wanted me to give you this pin.

It's beautiful.

And you're like, wow, thanks so much, but I can't take this from your mom.

She's like, no, I insist.

And then, like,

the like head bitch in charge rolls up and she's like the courtesan, like, oh,

she's that lady.

She rolls up.

And she's like,

you know, mean for the sake of being mean.

And so she sees someone, like, she sees the, because the pin gets dropped.

And she's like, it's so beautiful.

Who did this belong to?

And you're given the option to either your friend, yourself, or someone in the front dropped it.

And if you say yourself, I was like, oh, well, she gave it to me.

So I guess it's mine.

And I'll take, you know, like, I don't want to cause an incident.

I was like, yes, it's me.

That's mine.

She's like, oh, wow.

It's so beautiful.

You know, beautiful girls like you should have this like on them permanently.

It's basically they take you away and like burn the symbol in your forehead

and then you kill yourself out of shame.

What the fuck?

That's choice one.

If you say, oh, that's mine.

The nice answer, the chill answer is, oh, that's mine.

So the lessons you have to learn when you play this are one,

don't step like, don't put yourself out there ever.

If there's ever a chance to not be known, you don't, you don't want to be on people's radar.

You're trying to like snake in the grass this thing.

So you don't want to do that.

But also, you need to make friends.

But you also need to not trust those friends.

But you also need to have allies who are more powerful than you, but you also are going to have to take those people out too.

And you also need to understand that the mandate of heaven overrules all of that.

So if the stars have destined it to be true, even if you think it's a bad choice, you got to go that route.

So there's like, basically, playing Dynasty Warriors since Dynasty Warriors 2 and playing every single one of those, I was prepared.

I was like, I died seven times.

Five times.

We're trying to save one character.

I'm not going to explain how that turned out, but I was like, there's got to be a way to save this person.

I got to save this person.

Died five times trying to do it.

But die is absolutely wild.

I feel like I got to play this one.

I've never played it.

You should play it.

It's really funny.

I've never played an FMV.

I don't know why.

I'm kind of scared to play it in the same way.

I feel like watching an FMV is a bit like watching Peep Show.

Oh.

And I feel like there's like second-hand, like.

Oh, wait, hold on, hold on.

I got one for you then.

Don't play Road to Emperor.

Say another one.

It's called the Fame Game.

Welcome to Hollywood.

And if you you want a peep show, I got you covered.

So, Fame Game is a game where you play as a man who has come to Hollywood.

It is your first day in LA.

And your best friend, who is like a wannabe actress, who is on set at a soap opera, she's like, hey, come to the set with me.

You can help me out.

Right?

Well,

day one of the soap opera, when you arrive on set, the lead actress gets in a fight fight with the male lead and spoilers they were dating so the lead actress somehow Has the power to fire the lead actor and be like get out of here So he's like I'll get my revenge on all of you and he runs away well they need to they need to find a new lead right away and you're a sexy man.

In fact, you might be the most sexy man because are we talking about a different kind of peep show?

I'm talking about the UK awkward drama.

Oh, no, this is this is this is that.

Okay.

So you are every single woman there wants you immediately, but you have the charisma of a rock.

Your character is like, okay, wow, what should I do?

These girls are out of control, right?

But everyone's like, oh, hey there.

What is a handsome man like you?

So anyway, women are throwing themselves at you, but it's like, I got to make the right choice for my career.

That's the game.

And it is crazy.

And I've never, this is, it may,

the intro to the game, this is the best way I can describe it.

Is it like has like do do do do do do do do like it starts to build and it shows like pictures of LA.

Like this is Hollywood and you know, this is the observatory and all these different things.

And then suddenly the music cuts in and it sounds like the ride of the Rohirrim and it's just like women in bikinis.

It is like, imagine if they cut through the most epic music you've ever heard and then it's like, hey there.

It's wild.

And then the game starts and you're like, what what is this game?

What is this game?

And the game, it's, I've never laughed.

I had so much fun playing a game my entire life.

The acting is actually really fun.

It is very silly.

It's basically you are, it's like a dating sim kind of thing, but it's what you have to like figure out what makes these women tick.

And, you know, like Crendor played it.

We laughed the entire time.

It is hilarious.

There's, the characters, are like,

I don't even understand.

The main lead actor who's you're like working opposite of, I think she's trying to kill you.

And then that your best friend who you can date,

she

both wants you to be successful and hates that you're successful.

Everyone's hot and cold.

Everyone is a like, it's very LA.

I felt like there's never been a more accurate portrayal of LA, like Hollywood culture in my life.

Because none of it makes sense.

You'll be talking to a person in one minute, they're very happy.

And the next minute, they're like, my life is falling apart.

You're like, ah,

Hollywood.

Gotcha.

It's incredible.

It's an incredible game.

And it's like two hours long, while

Road to Empress is like

six hours, seven hours long.

So, yeah, both games, great in their own way.

Kind of want to play both of them.

I would recommend that you play an FMV that Jesse and I played together and loved

called Contradiction.

I've heard such good things about contradiction.

Very good.

Contradiction is fantastic.

It's filmed and produced in the UK.

And

it's not like visual novel style.

Like you actually walk around a town, and the

base game mechanic is that you are a detective and you're getting as much information as you can and then trying to use that information to find contradictions in what people have told you.

So if someone gives you, you know, a full account of a situation and you go talk to another person, that person has given you new information that maybe contradicts the first person.

And you try to go back and be like, okay,

how can I point out the contradiction here so that I can maybe get the truth?

It's really cool.

Buck wild sometimes while we were playing it, we were like, wait, what the fuck is going on in this game?

It's really good.

It's really, really fun.

Yep.

Okay, let's give those all i don't remember how long that one was though

neither do i i will say uh once you're done playing that and you get caught up in the world of fmvs uh-huh the lead actor from that and i are working on an fmv game together and you should play that

i will play that when it comes out it's like it will be good yeah

that should be fun it's i just like i said it's like the i've always looked at them and just been like i feel like i'm gonna be like

like when the dialogue's happening i don't know why yeah do that.

Yeah.

Sometimes they're super cringy and sometimes they're amazing.

Sometimes it is cringy.

Yeah.

You get the secondhand embarrassment.

Oh, sometimes.

I'm already feeling the pain.

I don't like it either.

But I honestly, something that helps with that for me is if I'm with somebody else.

So, like, when I was secondhand embarrassment dying, if Jesse was at the wheel, then it was fine.

So maybe if you have somebody that you think.

Okay.

Yeah.

This is pretty fun.

it's like watching uh it's like doing your own mystery science theater thing it's like watching uh like uh a goofy b movie together yeah it's a shit in a weird experience yeah but sometimes those b movies are actually triple-a titles and you're blown away that you just played something amazing you're like how did this even happen but most of the time you go in expecting it's going to be like get out of here there's so many monsters Press B to run.

And you're like, okay, all right.

And it's still fun.

Yeah, I love them.

They're very, very simple.

And it's nice to see.

Like a great one that just came out recently was Dead Take, which is

like a Hollywood one.

It's based on acting.

And it's not FMV.

It's more like, you know, a third person, actually first person walking sim kind of thing, but it's a horror game.

But then you collect videos and those videos are actors like

real ass acting.

Neil Newbun in there, I think.

I saw, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's fascinating because it's like

it's them all all doing

auditions for this like famous director.

And so you get to see their, like them doing acting.

And I was like, this is great.

I love this.

So, you know, every once in a while you get like, oh, shit, that's, that's an actor acting.

Instead of like, oh, no,

stop.

I've got to get that gun away from them.

And you're like, okay.

Please help me.

Yeah.

Help.

Help.

Yeah.

Every so often you get a treat like that.

We're like, ah, okay.

okay.

I see the budget of this one.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

I got a whole world FMV to explore then.

Yeah, there are so many.

And a lot of really good ones have come out just recently, like in the last few years.

So.

Hell yeah.

Okay.

Can I talk about a completely different type of game?

Okay.

Sure.

There's a game that people are obsessed with right now called Mega Bonk.

Have either of you guys played Mega Bonk?

Everyone's telling me to play Mega Bonk.

I've yet to touch it, but everyone is raving about it.

Is this?

So it's.

Oh, really quickly.

This explains so much.

Last night, after I got done with my stream, I was like, who am I going to raid?

Who's out there doing stuff?

And I saw Crendor was bonking it.

And I was like, we're not raiding Crendor.

I don't know what that is.

I don't want to raid that.

I don't want to see anyone bonking nothing.

I don't want to see anyone bonking anything.

All right.

So now I have some context.

Okay.

He's bonking.

What is bonk?

He was bonking.

So Mega Bonk is kind of a love child of vampire survivors and Risk of Rain.

Oh.

Okay.

It is

very meme-y.

I'm going to tell you that ahead of time.

I didn't get very far into the game before I was like, it's a meme game, guys.

But it has the aspect of vampire survivors where you're dropped in and you have a basic attack and you slowly make that attack stronger, get new attacks, get items that, you know, know,

are you attacking or is it auto-attacking for you?

It's auto-attacking.

Okay.

Okay.

So you're just walking around mainly.

But you're in a 3D space.

Yeah.

Of course.

So more like Risk of Rain.

You are moving around.

You're in like a set map, but there's stuff all over the place.

So there's lots of different like shrines and items and things to find to make yourself stronger or add extra difficulty and challenges.

A ton of different characters.

One of the first characters that I I unlocked was a skeleton on a skateboard.

And he's the best.

He's

so here for that energy.

They're all really fun.

All of the characters are really fun to play.

And it's difficult.

It is difficult because, in the same way that vampire survivors is difficult, there are just more and more and more and more and more creatures just showing up.

And if you don't complete...

what you need to in time, you can't move on.

So I guess it's different from Vampire Survivors and more like Risk of Rain.

In that once you've beaten the boss of that area, you can jump into a portal to go to a new area.

But you are on a time limit.

So, once it hits the end of your time limit in that area, you get swarmed by these ghosts that are way stronger than anything else that you've fought so far.

And then it's just a how long can I survive sort of thing?

Okay.

It's really fun.

It's very addictive.

A lot of of people have been playing it for

people who obsessed with that one.

Yeah, it's really, really obsessive.

For sure.

I would definitely recommend that game.

It's simple

because it's auto-attacking, you know.

So the simplicity is nice.

You don't have to think too much, but it does add some newness with the...

with being in a 3D space and like having so many different areas to like walk around and explore and stuff.

The other one

that I played is the new Agatha Christie game.

Whoa, so did I.

Oh my gosh.

Full disclosure, I was sponsored.

Were you sponsored, Jesse?

Super full disclosure, yes.

Okay, great.

But hey, you're not sponsored anymore.

So if you're saying you love it, then it's probably great, right?

So this game is Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, but set in the 70s.

You are playing as Poirot,

you know, superior detective Poirot.

Yeah, with mustache.

With mustache.

Mustache, with accent, please.

Yeah.

Yeah, mustache is a big deal.

Big deal.

Poirot.

The Poirwow.

Wow.

Poirot.

Poo.

Pow Wow.

And it's actually like a dual POV game in some ways.

You are playing as Poirot, but you're also playing as, God, what is her name?

Jane Royce?

Yeah, Jane Royce.

Jane Royce, who is also a private detective or a private investigator, but she is much younger.

She's newer to it, but she's really good.

So each chapter, as you're playing, you play the sort of introductory chapter that teaches you how the game works.

You solve a small mystery.

But from that small mystery, all of the chapters build on that original small story.

Oh, so it's got like an overarching thing.

That's great.

Yeah, it's almost like

a seasonal TV show.

Like more of a comedy of errors.

I always forget that

this Death of the Nile, especially as a story, like Orient Express, like some of the other ones, are kind of like, I'm tasked with going to a place and I'm going to do a thing.

This, I'm Puero.

Death of the Nile is like,

I've always wanted to go to Egypt to solve my favorite mystery.

he doesn't even want to be there damn what he's doing like he's so completely when he first the first beginning is like here i am for a friend going to solve a mystery and then he's like anyway goodbye never want to see you again he leaves and then everyone's just like oh hey again he's like son of a bitch like that's the plot

literally the literal plot okay everyone that he talks to he's like i'm here to chase my own joys i have a puzzle i've been wanting to solve for my entire life.

And he just keeps getting roped into bullshit.

And he's like, my puzzle.

Literally, he's like,

he just wants to be left alone to do his shit.

Like, he's like, tomorrow I shall board the carnac and escape all of these people.

And then they're like, we're getting out of here too.

Are you on a boat tomorrow?

We're going that boat.

He's like,

son, Zapiji's.

Yeah.

That's the whole, like, out of all the other plots where it's like, I must solve this.

This one, he actively doesn't want to be involved.

And they're like, Yeah.

No, no, no, we're going to involve you.

And he's like, oh,

yeah.

So that's the plot.

It's great.

Yeah.

It's fantastic.

It has all the things that you want in a detective game.

You walk around the space, you find clues, you talk with people.

If you kind of like what we were saying with contradiction, if you talk to someone and they say something different,

you can go back and be like, why are you lying to me?

You've got, you know, your mind palace, your mind map.

You can put things together and figure out what connects to what and come to conclusions.

And then once you've made all of the conclusions that are necessary,

you can say, okay,

here's what I believe to have happened.

And you can do the final confrontation.

I had the dumbest moment in the history of moments where I had completed my mind map.

I was done except for one thing and I couldn't find it.

So I spent forever looking for it only to realize that there was one puzzle in my mind map.

I had one puzzle left to solve and I was like, well, I don't have the information for that.

I don't think.

And it's like, no, no, you do.

And I was like, I don't think I do.

And it's like, no, you do.

And I was like, I don't know that I do.

So I just didn't solve it.

And that was the only thing.

I must have spent like 30 minutes looking for something else.

There was nothing.

And so I finally was like, fine, I'll solve it.

And it was like, You found a letter about an affair.

Who of these people would talk about an affair?

And it lists all these characters.

characters, and you have to select one.

And I'm like,

well, is it the woman who just got cheated on?

It's like, nope.

I'm like, huh.

Is it the woman who wrote the letter?

Nope.

Huh.

Is it the woman who literally just had an affair?

Is that what this is going to be?

And I was like, click, it's like, that's it.

I was like,

what do you mean?

Like, I thought it was going to be more complicated.

It was like, no, no, no.

The answer was just right there.

No, it was just that lady who's definitely, who definitely stole her best friend's man, that that that lady is who's i'm like

that was that i wasted 30 minutes for that that happens to me with a frequency i can't even explain

and meanwhile it'll be like something else yeah and meanwhile it'll be like solve this mystery i'm like okay and i could put the timeline in like 30 seconds be like well that was easy meanwhile the one i was like well this must mean something else this can't

i could not be a real detective i would over i would everything would be a grand conspiracy everything

Literally, you'd be like the always sunny meme with a red.

Yes, with the red, like,

Pepe Sylvia.

Exactly.

There's an aspect of the game that I think is entirely optional, but I can tell that it's going to be the death of me because there's a certain point that they wanted us to get to for the brand deal.

Yes.

I don't think I even got close.

That must have been stressful, right?

They have expectations for you to get there.

You're just like.

It was a three-hour stream, and they were like, just focus on the the story.

And I was like, no problem, boss, gotcha.

But

I fucked up because

they have all of these like little things that you can spend time on.

And I kept being like, oh, well, I've got plenty of time left.

So one of the things that you can do is you have character profiles

and

character profiles.

And it'll be like, okay, what's their first name and last name?

What's their job?

What's their secret?

And what links do they have to other people?

None of that's filled in.

You have to fill this in.

Okay, is it kind of like, oh, what's that game over then?

Is it you going to sort of like match things up?

Except for right now, I don't know that it matters like plot-wise.

It seems like an extra thing to do.

It does help you because then you can like when you go and try to solve things, like, oh, okay, I know who this person is is or what their connections are.

But I think what Dodger's getting at is from the beginning, they don't give you all the information.

And

what Dodger meant when she was saying, like, oh, stuff carries through from chapter to chapter, that's one of those things.

When you do the prologue, you meet a ton of characters.

They give you all this stuff to fill out where you will not be able to fill it out.

And so I too was like, they make it clear, like, you might find this out later in the game.

But I was still like, well, what if I, what if I did find it out, but I just missed it.

Right.

So there was me like scrolling through past conversations, like, do I know her job?

I don't think I do, but maybe I do.

Rescroll, re-scroll.

Like the second someone would tell me their name in a conversation, I'd be like, hold on.

I wrote it down on my phone.

Yeah, I wrote everything down.

I was like, I'm, I'm, because you can't, in the middle of it, you can't go to your mind map and then start messing around.

It will literally say you're in the middle of the cutscene.

You can't do that right now.

So I'm like, fine.

You can go into your, into the character profiles, though.

So the second someone would tell me their name, I'd be like, see.

Oh, see,

I ended up writing, I have notes here that literally are just,

these are the notes.

Richard, Clerk London, Yamato Hiashi, question mark, Robson.

Her last name was Robson.

And then Dr.

Bessemer.

That's not how that's spelled.

What is this guy's name?

Those are the notes I wrote.

That's a rich off the list.

Yeah, that's a, and that's because they would say like, uh, you would meet a character and be like, oh, my name's Cecilia or whatever.

And this is my niece, Rosaline.

And you'd be like, oh, well, if Cecilia's last name's like Van Royce or whatever, surely her cousin is Van Royce.

Nope.

False.

Later on, I'm like, well, I guess that makes sense because they're cousins.

They're not direct.

So I was like, okay.

So I had to go in and change.

So you're constantly changing things that you think you know, that you actually don't know.

Or,

you know, there's one character where she's clearly the servant, but there is no female option for servant.

There's only maid.

And I was like, well, she qualifies a maid because she's not their maid.

She's clearly doing other things that maids wouldn't do.

What is her job?

So you just don't quite know what to put there.

And so you can, like, Dodger, I assume, spend way too much time going through everything and being like, what?

How did I fix this?

What does this mean?

How does this work?

And then you have to email them and be like, hi.

Is it a problem that I only made it halfway through chapter two?

Or like, how do we feel?

Here's the thing.

Were they fine with it?

We'll see.

Okay, I was like waiting for the answer like landing.

No, um, yeah, the thing, what's interesting about chapter two is that there's a puzzle in there, Dodger.

I don't know if you did it, but at one point you find a like

camcorder, like a 1970s camcorder, and you have to open it.

And in order to open it, the logic puzzle used, I was like, I don't, why would this camera ever work?

I was like, why would it work like this?

What?

Like, there's so many layers of things you can move and open in it.

And I'm like,

why would it only open from this angle?

Like, I don't, I genuinely was like, I don't understand this puzzle at all.

Yes.

In chapter one, it's not that I didn't understand the puzzle, but the jukebox was having me crash the fuck out.

Yo, because every time I touched the jukebox, it was like,

something is broken.

And I was like, what do you mean?

Yes.

So in chapter one, there, there, there's so

overarching plot.

At the very beginning, a very rich woman is

going to

get like proposed to by this count, lord, whatever.

She doesn't want him.

She doesn't like him.

And her best friend, who I assume is another, I don't know, heiress, or I have no idea who she is, she introduces Lynette, the main woman, to her fiancé, Simon.

And she's like, I love Simon.

He and I are going to get married.

Anyway, Perot does a thing.

Cut to six months later.

He's in Egypt.

And who shows up?

Simon and Lynette.

Looks like they ran away together and that Lynette stole her best friend's man, right?

And Perot's like, interesting.

Anyway, at that thing,

the

Jackie, the other woman, shows up and she's like, I've been following them everywhere.

And they're like, she's going to ruin our marriage, right?

So like, that's...

They're worried that she's there to kill them.

That's the start of that.

And Poirot's like, okay.

So anyway, if you want to talk to Jackie, Jackie just goes, I won't talk to you unless you have music for me.

And they're like, bitch, what?

Okay, fine.

And you're like, all right.

So you go and you have to get the jukebox to play.

What you need to learn is her favorite song.

You need to find money to play the jukebox and figure out why the jukebox isn't working.

And the process of doing that, finding the record, fine.

Getting the money, fine.

The jukebox itself,

the turner is broken.

The power isn't working.

The actual like mechanisms, the gears aren't working.

You have to find a key in one of the sideboards.

Like, it is

a full escape room worth of puzzle on one jukebox.

And you're like,

what do you mean?

And every time you go to play, it's like, there's something broken inside the jukebox.

And you're like, what do you mean?

Like, what do they do to this thing?

And so you just have to, yeah, I completely understand your rage.

I was like, What do you mean it's still broken?

I wish all these puzzles were just like the Resi puzzles that you just need like free coins with like a dog's head, a jaggle, and like a jackal and like a tree on it.

Yes, everything just opens that way.

The only way it will work is if I find the heart key, and the diamond key, and the club key, and then I put them in this statue and I turn and it gives me a

shotgun.

I use the shotgun on it, and it works.

Yeah,

yeah, that should be every puzzle game, in my opinion.

Just be so much easier.

It is fun.

Despite our complaining, it is a very funny game.

I'm enjoying it.

I decided to play the rest.

Completely.

Yeah.

It is a.

Yeah.

It feels like every, you know, kind of solid mystery game.

I love mystery games.

I love solving crimes.

And Poirot is one of my favorites.

So I've never been, I was never familiar with Poirot.

I've never read any Poirot, but it's one of those words that I read before I heard it pronounced.

So I just was always like, oh, Poirot.

Ah, Poirot.

Poirot.

That's kind of like Poirot.

Yeah.

Poirot.

I just grew up with Poirot because my mom would watch it when it was on TV here

all the time with his little mustache.

And then there's like five different versions.

And now there's movies.

And they're like, all right.

And there are games.

And yeah, this is.

I'm a big fan.

The problem is I've seen the story so many times that I kind of know the

It's the process of getting there because they always change up how you get to the ending.

But the endings are always roughly the same.

So, like, you, when you've seen Orient Express, you like know the ending to murder on the orientation.

They're not going to change the ending.

It's a very famous ending.

But

the process of getting there is always interesting.

You're like, all right, how are we doing this?

Because they're going to change some things.

Yeah.

So I'm expecting denial is going to be the exact same, is what I'm saying.

Yeah.

I watched some Colombo.

You know, the same thing about Colombia.

I love

Columbo, yeah, same.

Yeah, I haven't watched very much, but I just love how abrupt the end is.

It's like he figures out the case and he's like, bam, got you.

And then it's just like that, it just ends.

It's just nothing else.

It's just like, oh, it's just so sudden.

I think that makes me like that one the most.

I must stress, Colombo, for those of you, I wanted to look this up just because I wanted to be sure, because it is hilarious that this is the case.

Columbo's first episode was 1968.

Columbo's last episode, still starring Peter Falk,

2003.

What?

You must understand.

Colombo as a show goes from him solving crimes in the late 60s, early 70s to an episode where he's literally at a rave.

What?

Was he like 80 as well?

That's what I'm saying.

Old man at Rafe episode.

Like, that's, Colombo went through it all.

The turkeys are probably back.

Crazy.

Yeah.

The turkeys, yeah, they're busting in.

It is, it is insane.

That's the case.

Eventually, Colombo as an entity became

kind of like.

Did he have like a weird power art?

Did he just get more?

No, no, no.

It was still Columbo.

Okay.

Like, you know, my wife, who we've never met, my wife is great.

But, like,

he still couldn't eat pizza.

Man could never eat pizza.

But,

yeah, eventually it became kind of like British TV where you guys will have like

a season that's four episodes long, but each episode's two hours.

It's like that.

Oh, yeah.

It eventually becomes that completely, where it's like little micro-movies.

Yeah,

if you go to

look at the later seasons, it's straight up just like Colombo goes to a rave.

Colombo goes to college.

And it's just like, what the hell?

Completely drained it dry.

There's just nothing left for them to do.

Colombo starts streaming on Twitch.

In fact, the rave is the last episode, I think.

Oh, really?

Season 10, episode 14.

Columbo.

Crumpled detective Lieutenant Columbo finds himself in the unlikeliest of places, the Los Angeles rave scene.

Oh, my God.

Yes.

Did she like die there or something?

He must have killed him.

That was it.

That was it.

Yeah.

He just had a funky pill.

What's so crazy to me is that, boy, that makes no sense.

All right.

So

season one is 1968.

It starts.

Although it says season one, episode one is 1971.

I don't know what that means.

I'm not, I don't care that much.

But so it goes from 1971 to 1972.

That's like series one of the show.

But then it comes back in 72 for more.

And it's still going.

And then it keeps like 75, it's going.

And then 70.

So in the 70s, blowing up.

Doing great

but then

it stops in 1978 as a series but returns in 1989 with a four arc movie where he's back

and then

season nine begins again in in 1989 that continues through the until 1990 and it's like okay

breathed a bit of life into it yeah they're back they're back And then it stops.

Right.

Because it goes, season 10 shows up, 1990.

we're still in the early 90s right and then it seems like it cuts to every year they do a new movie right so it's 93 94 95 97 98 pause 2001 2003 then it stops that the 10th season is a decade long

what

that's wild like the jumps in technology must be crazy as well what if like you've watched all of columbo like is he just using like a smartphone Like, when did the original iPhone come out?

Like, was he using one of those at the rave?

I'm, I'm blown away.

I mean, he must have.

I just can't figure out.

Columbo likes the nightlife.

Yeah, it's a, it's a rave episode.

And it's literally him at a rave.

Incredible.

Incredible.

Oh.

God, I can't even imagine.

I've only, I only watched the Leonard Nimoy episode when he was like a crazy doctor.

I don't even know what time that was on, but it was great.

It's a, yeah, I love a good murder mystery.

I'm a big fan.

I also like good courtroom procedural dramas.

Okay.

Yeah, I love it all.

I'm a big sucker for all those.

I love, shout out to the years of British TV where it's like, in the bogs, a body was found.

And only this actor who once was Doctor Who can solve the case.

And you're like, yeah, let's go.

Yeah.

Those are...

When I was in Ireland, when I was in Ireland, they've got like bog bodies in like one of the museums that are just like these really like well-preserved bodies.

But my friends just kept calling them the bog daddies.

That's kind of like made me want a movie called the Bog Daddies.

Bog Daddies?

Bog Daddies is like

the strip club right next to the bog.

Yeah, right?

Come on down to Bog Daddies.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's super wild looking at them though.

Just so like well preserved and mad.

Hey, how are the turkeys?

Probably great.

I killed you.

Oh, no.

This is why I couldn't be a parent.

I would have been like, walk it off.

I got a podcast to do.

That kid would hit me.

No, no, Joe's daddy's podcast.

And that kid would hold it against me forever.

That kid would be like, my dad doesn't love me.

And I'd be like, walk it off, weakling.

Daddy has to talk about it.

I'm telling raps about Poirot.

Your dad has to talk about Paul Rowe.

Come on, guy.

Walk it off, asshole.

You know.

That reminds me of on the very first day of school, because the kids had to swap schools this year.

So

the school that they're at has like kids, you know, all the way up, all the way through.

So much older kids around the schools, much bigger.

It's very overwhelming, even for me as a parent.

And one of the parents that I

know pretty well showed up with his kid and was like,

right, well, I'm going to cut the cords.

See you guys.

And just, and just left and didn't say bye to her.

And I was like, what?

It's the first day.

Where are you going?

Oh my God.

That was crazy work.

I thought Jesse Cox School of Parenting.

Yeah, no, you're old enough to raise yourself now.

Bye.

Bye.

I couldn't.

I just wanted to school, whatever.

I understand very much who I am.

And I know that after six, seven years of wiping a butt, I'd be like, I never want to see you again.

I don't.

I gave you enough time.

Raise yourself.

Yeah, I couldn't.

Are we not done with this yet?

Yeah.

Come back to me when you want to have a beer.

Yeah.

I'll see you when you're 25.

No sooner.

Get out.

Have it figured out by then.

Oh, goodness.

no

that would be an awkward conversation yeah

he's cuddling the dog and eating a snack so oh anyways not current thing oh that was a two bird one stone thing very smart mom

dog out of the room held up by kid kid resolved that's some 5d chess right there

dog wasn't in the room What the hell was that beast that was with you before?

That beast?

That was a dog, right?

Unless I'm making it up, different, different dog.

Remember, that's the that's the dog that knows stares.

That's the stare understanding dog.

It's not my dog.

I forgot.

No, I forgot you have multiple dogs.

Yeah, why wouldn't you have multiple dogs?

They're not my dogs, right?

Right, right, right.

My dog's in the house cuddling a bloody child.

Oh, God.

I'm good.

No, I'm all right.

But we had a horse dog up here.

Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you.

Every day is another experience.

So I'm like, just like microdosum parenting.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm like, nope, nope.

This is beautiful.

Life, you brought life into this world, and bless you.

That's wonderful.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

You know it, dude.

So, you guys were still talking about Colombo and Pluro and I.

Pretty much we're talking Colombo and Pluro the whole time you were going to go.

Oh, fantastic.

I had to go look up the history of Colombo, and I discovered that they were pumping out episodes, then stopped, brought it back in the late 80s and 90s, and then the last season took 10 years to make.

And then Colombo dies in a rave.

It's ancient looking in the last season.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

And then he goes to a rave, and that rave potentially killed him, I guess, is what we learned.

So that's good.

Because the last episode was the rave.

Like this.

What are your kids dropping over here?

Do you mind if old Uncle Columbo gets some of that?

And that was it.

Done.

And it was done, so man.

Yeah.

This is wild.

Bad news.

At least he went out cutting shapes in the rave.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They found him dead.

46 closicks in his mouth.

We have no idea how he did that.

He had a pacifier.

This is a detective Columbo with a.

I don't want to see that.

Hide it.

Throw the evidence away.

He died with dignity.

He wasn't high in a rave.

Not our Colombo.

I'd watch it.

I'd watch that follow-up.

The Colombo funeral episode.

Oh, yeah, we'll finally see his wife.

Oh, it'd be a famous actress.

It was just kind of like, oh,

my man died.

Helen Mirin.

With British accent.

Yes, absolutely.

That'd be a good casting for it.

Yes.

Also, speaking of murder mysteries, since we were talking about...

They had a wife funeral episode?

Wait, what?

I didn't know that.

There also is a Netflix show.

Well, it's a movie.

Thursday Murderous Club, if you like watching British actors be British and solve a mystery and they're all old and sweet.

Yes, very cute.

Is it giving like Don't Nabby or is it like

it's giving more like

watching Pierce Brosen, Helen Mirren?

I'm trying to think of who the two other actors are.

Okay.

Oh my god, who's the other act?

I need to be.

Some old British people of some description.

Ben Kingsley, apparently.

Ben Kingsley, yes, is the other main actor.

And also, again, another,

our Doctor Who shows up.

Oh, yeah.

We get a tenant involved.

And.

Of course.

David Tennant.

Yeah.

Oh, I got to watch that now.

And so it's, and it's a murder mystery about like old folks solving a mystery.

The other one that I've heard is really good is Only Murders in the Building.

Very good.

I've heard about that one, actually.

Have you watched it?

I've not seen that one myself.

I can't watch it.

I don't think many people recommend it.

Yeah.

I don't have Hulu, so I can't watch it anymore.

I think it's on Hulu.

It's only on Hulu?

God.

Whatever it is.

I don't have Hulu, so I use Hulu.

Oh, I watch it in the Yuke.

Oh, it's on Disney Plus in the Yuke.

Okay.

We're fine.

In the Yuke?

Is that what you're doing?

What me calling it?

Yeah.

Fair.

I might start using that.

It's pretty good.

In the yoke.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's like when I like to say Wii Fi for Wi-Fi.

Ooh, I like Wi-Fi.

That's good.

Yeah, Wi-Fi's pretty good.

Wi-Fi sounds like a Pokemon.

It does sound like a Pokemon, actually.

Yeah.

Don't give them ideas, though, because now they'll just think like a router Pokemon.

I'm not up on the map.

You got to pull ideas from somewhere, man.

Yeah, true.

Well, there was like Flamigo in the last one, which is literally just a flamingo.

Like literally just a flamingo.

Have you guys watched the movie Ford vs.

Ferrari?

Yes.

Yes.

I'm like so bad at watching things.

No, that's okay.

We just watch it.

I didn't realize how old it was.

It came out in

2010 or something.

Oh, no, 2019.

I'm silly.

But it's about the 1966 24-hour

Lemons race.

Le Man.

The Lemon Race.

Yeah.

The Lemon's Race.

And it's about the Ford company,

the car company, and

them

trying to make a sport car that could beat Ferrari.

It's a great movie.

It has Christian Bale and Matt Damon as the two leads.

The Punisher's in it.

What's that guy's name?

Oh, something Barron Fall?

John Bairn Fall or something.

Sure.

Yeah, he's in it.

It's a really good cast.

It's a fantastic movie.

We were like glued in on it and we watched it kind of on a whim because we were like, oh, never seen this movie before.

Yeah, very good.

And I don't give a shit about racing.

My mom's side of the family is really into like NASCAR and stuff.

I got you.

So.

I have vivid memories of going to their house and being like, can I watch cartoons?

And they'd be like, no, the race is on.

You know.

is NASCAR the one with the like crazy crashes and stuff like that?

I feel like I'd be so scared to go to one of those shows.

Don't they all have crazy crashes?

I guess they kind of do, but in my head, like NASCAR is just like, just the craziest like flips and crashes and explosions in my head anyway.

It feels like the most scary of them all.

Yeah, I'm not much of a racing guy either myself.

Yeah.

I've wondered if it's one of those things that I would enjoy more now that I'm older.

When I was a kid, I was like, why are they going in circles?

This is boring.

Right.

But maybe as an adult, I'd enjoy it more.

But like, tickets to the F1 are like so expensive.

And you go there and you're sat with all these other people and you maybe you got the little glasses to see, but they drive past you for about five seconds.

It's a much better on-TV sport.

Right.

I don't know why, unless it's like a, it's like baseball.

where half the time you're there because you're just there and you're like drinking and talking and like like i look I love baseball, but let's be real.

If you're in the stands,

9% of you is actually watching the game.

The rest is like talking and drinking, and the people around you are being weird, and you're like, like, sitting in the sun.

Like, that's the vibe.

It's not, uh, I imagine the same thing is.

It's like a game of experience.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, maybe.

Yeah, because

even NASCAR, like all of them, just like,

all right.

I'd much rather watch watch it on tv and see the car yeah and i don't know i don't know the difference between them i don't know which ones are which but there are some that are like you literally just go in circles and there are some where it's it's like a wavier stuff track like what you would play in a video game yeah where you're like going through you know woodland areas and fields and like like it's a proper like circuit that you're doing that is interesting.

Sure.

And I don't know which is which, but maybe I'd enjoy that more because

definitely the just go around in circles one when I was a kid.

I was in Vegas and they were setting up for the one they did in Vegas a few years ago.

And like, I just remember everyone from Vegas being like so pissed off.

Hated it.

That this was happening.

Sure.

Because it was like all the streets had to have all these like race things put up and they had to like treat the roads.

And even when the races happened, they were like, it's way too hot on these roads.

The tires are getting fucked up and they're like driving over like street street covers and stuff.

And I was just like, oh, I can't even imagine, like, one, how expensive this is to be at.

Two, how annoying it is if you're a resident that there's like a drag race happening in your

right.

It was, it was not the most well-thought-out thing to the point where they realized that all the hotels in the nearby area could look down on the racetrack.

And you could also watch it from local bridges.

So in order to prevent people from getting free shows, they literally had to build infrastructure to hide the track from people, which is which is so stupid.

They're like, we want them, we want people to attend, not just stand on a bridge and watch.

And it's like, well, then why'd you build it where you built it, dummies?

Yeah, right.

You're a whole desert goddamn city.

What are you talking about?

Right?

Very stupid.

Just because you were talking about like good actors in movies, I just wanted to bring this up because you mentioned Christian Bale.

And I just want, all right.

Upcoming, sometime over the next two years, I would assume, is a John Madden movie.

And I must stress, I have never been more excited for a film.

It's John Madden

with Nicholas Cage as John Madden, Christian Bale as Al Davis, John Mulaney as Trip Hawkins, Catherine Hahn as Nicholas Cage's wife, and Santa Miller as Christian Bale's wife.

I'm like, this movie's going to fucking rock, dude.

I was going to say, what a gut.

I thought that is going to go crazy.

I am so excited for this.

And it's just Nick Cage.

Go just take time today.

Google Nick Cage, John Madden.

Madden.

He looks, I can't wait to hear the voice.

I can't wait.

Very exciting.

Yeah, I feel like I saw this image the other day.

It's crazy, the transformation.

And he's wearing like the highest blue jeans I've ever seen.

It's going to be

some true ridiculous.

My hope is that we get a scene where someone pitches to him the idea of a John Madden video game.

Because I want to know like what did John Madden?

Like when it was the first John Madden game, was he like, I don't know what there says like i want to like i don't i want to know

what that i want that scene reenacted in the film

are they gonna make us watch like a lot of football stuff though because i i've been to an nfl game and i don't know i

i i sorry to all the americans i absolutely hated the nfl

it was not for me maybe it'll be like me watching Ford versus Ferrari and being like, I don't enjoy racing, but these are good actors.

And then they edit it in a way and tell the story in a way where you're like, whoa, is racing hype actually?

You know?

Oh, like, maybe it'll like pique my interest.

And I'll be like, I get it now.

Maybe.

I hope you.

I'm going to be like watching Kuroko Nobasuke for the first time and being like, do I love basketball?

Yeah, it's about how they pitch it to you.

Like John Madden was famous for when he would talk about football.

It'd be like a little sexual.

He's like you got to get these men gonna have like four or five men line up behind this other guy and just pound just pound hard You got to get up in there and everyone's like John, he's like, okay, so we want to do, you want to come around the outside.

You want to just jerk that ball, grab their thighs, grab their thighs.

So these guys got to get up in there.

And then they got to tackle him and just hold him down.

And you got to penetrate that defense, like penetrate it.

Yeah,

I'm excited.

I'm hoping for good things.

You know, I'm excited for this, though.

I'll watch the hell out of that.

Yeah, absolutely.

Um,

what other news have we got on the horizon, Jesse?

What's the news?

News.

All right.

News that you may or may not be able to use.

Hey,

there's a Pokemon pop-up shop coming to London, and I'm sure y'all are very excited for the scalpers that'll take everything day one.

So anyway, moving on.

Speaking of brand new sets of Pokemon card packs are coming to the TCG,

and the Pokemon Deluxe pack EX boosters.

Players will be guaranteed to receive a very rare card, which means that you're going to get at least one EX card per pack.

This set's going to have a lot of popular EX cards that were released in the past, and they're going to be re-released.

And again,

awesome.

Those fan favorite cards exist,

but you won't get one.

Some guy's about to buy them all out and then sell them on eBay.

So that's cool.

Still not enough Togepi cards.

That's my complaint.

All right, Doug Bowser

is now the former head of Nintendo of America.

Stepping down.

It's a dark day for Koopa Troopers and Goombas everywhere.

Yep.

Uh, stepping up to take his place is Devin Pritchard, who, as far as I'm aware, is not from a Nintendo game, but I have not played Pikmin for, so maybe I don't know.

Uh, the reason is they say they're trying to get younger blood in charge of the company, but Devin's also been at Nintendo for 19 years, so take from that what you will.

Okay,

in Japan, Metaphor Refantasio won the best game at the Japan Game Awards, followed by Expedition 33 winning Breakthrough Game.

And Switch 2 was named the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry Award winner.

So

that's a title.

Okay.

There was 11 games that were given awards of excellence, including Dragon Quest III, HD2D, Elden Ring, Night Rain, Monster Hunter Wilds, Like a Dragon, Yakuza, Pirates in Hawaii.

And my favorite award was the Game Designers Award went to Indica, which you haven't played Indica.

I get why it won that a lot.

It was a fun one, right?

Indica

is a game that I don't even know how to describe.

Like,

it is like five games in one, really.

It's weird, and I love it.

And so, uh, I absolutely love that game.

Yeah, it won the Game Designers Award, and I get that.

I understand.

From like a game design perspective, like, okay.

Uh, then, hey.

Next week, and we'll talk about that here in a sec, the ghost of, is it Yotai or Yote?

I don't know what it is now.

Yote, right?

I've been seeing Yote.

All right, then Yotay it is.

Ghost of Yotay comes out, but more importantly,

until December 31st, you can win real world things from that game.

This might be a trend that's starting, or it might be just promotional stuff for Ghost of Yote, but

there are trophies in the game, and if you get them, you get real things.

So, for example, if you get the Living Legend trophy before December 31st, you will get a commemorative pin saying that you got that.

I believe that's supposed to be like the platinum trophy.

There's also a t-shirt you can win and other different things you can get simply for playing the game and getting those trophies.

I don't know how you would get that, but I imagine it would be in the box of the game.

Oh, wait, you're probably getting a digital, so good luck figuring that out.

I don't know.

Then, GDC is rebranding itself as the Festival of Gaming.

Okay.

It's still GDC, but it's the festival of.

Nothing's really changing.

It's just the festival of gaming.

Subtitle, festival of gaming.

Right, right.

So it's not, it's not like, it's not the game developer conference anymore.

It's the like game developers festival of gaming, I guess, is what we got.

So that's cool.

Okay.

This week, we also got the biggest trailer I think we've seen all week long, which was, and we got a lot, but

the trailer for OD dropped.

The new Kojima joint.

I am so excited.

Looks awesome.

Looks incredible.

And then immediately people, because it had some sort of PT vibes to it, immediately people started doing PT memes.

And I'm so happy they're back.

Saw one.

This guy posted.

It was like 2 a.m.

too, which is perfect.

He's like, he's like, yo, what up, fam?

I'm at this girl's house trying to go to the bathroom.

But this hall is really weird.

It was just a picture of the PT hall.

And I was like, this is great.

This is good stuff.

Solid, solid post.

Then next week, some some game releases.

We have Final Fantasy Tactics coming out Monday.

Also, Lego Party is coming out.

Mortal Kombat Collection.

And then at the end of the week, Ghosts of Yotay.

So get ready to get all wacky with it.

It's going to be a fun, crazy next week in the world of games.

Not to mention Hades is out.

And Silk Song is out.

And every game is out right now.

We are eating very well, but I'm also stressing.

How do I hold all these games?

Right.

And for anyone who thought picking your end of the year game awards winner was going to be easy, good luck.

It's going to be a nightmare.

It's going to be terrible.

It's going to be all personal preference.

There's so many amazing games, but it's preference at this point.

It is not about what's better.

They're all great.

It's just.

Have you guys had the pick so far?

What would you pick?

That's tough.

I have to go look through what I've played this year.

I always forget because the stuff from the earlier in the year always becomes so distant memory, you know?

Yeah, I get you.

Yeah, I literally have a document.

This is where I'm at right now.

Where I had to write down, because at the end of the year, I do like a show.

We do it as a goof, but I still have to have

information.

Literally, these are the things that I wrote down for potential game of the year.

Obviously, Expedition 33, Blue Prince.

Did you write obviously in there?

Obviously.

Blue Prince.

Split Fiction, which I think people forgot about.

That game's amazing.

Amazing.

Yeah.

And then we have now Hollow Knight, Silk Song, and Hades 2, right?

And even though I didn't play it, you know Donkey Kong Bonanza is going to be like, that's just the games I could think of that I wrote down.

There's going to be so many other ones that I literally haven't even remembered.

Like, Indiana Jones.

technically could be on that list because it was released after the Game Awards last year.

Oh, yeah.

And I love that game.

But again, that's personal preference.

I don't know what the world thought of it, but I love Golden Circle.

So, like, or whatever that game was.

I love that.

And I think it's getting a DLC soon right now.

I literally just played it.

It was great.

Super fun.

Oh, amazing.

Hell yeah.

Yeah.

The DLC came out.

So, like, that's there's a lot.

There's a lot of games that are out right now.

And so I don't,

you know, I don't expect it to be easy.

So good luck, awards, judges.

Have fun.

People can hate you on the internet.

God, there's going to be such outcry.

Yeah.

Oh, my goodness.

Ravs, thank you so much for joining us today.

You were such a lovely guest.

Hey, thank you so much for having me, guys.

It was an absolute blast.

Would you like to tell everybody where they can find you, who you are?

I'm Ravs.

I walk around Bristol a lot.

You can find me.

Just don't follow me to the point.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

I stream twitch.tv slash revs underscore.

And I'm also uh in a bunch of other random crap all over the internet.

I'm sure you can find it if you look in dark corners and under cupboards and things like you know

I'm out there

Those missing socks that was me that was me.

I steal those

No, I'm missing so many revs you have to get them back.

I'm sorry

for Christmas

Okay, I'll be waiting till Christmas

But yeah

guys

immediately after this, in like exactly one hour, there's a Square Enix stream featuring me for Final Fantasy Tactics.

So

tune into that, crazy kids.

That'll be fun.

And yeah, that game comes out Monday.

And then also, next week is October.

And I feel like that's a scary game squad kind of season.

So get ready for more of that.

And yeah, that's it for me, really.

Oh, and Convergence is up on the YouTube channel last week if you wanted to watch that instead of geekenders it's there

yeah

we were all in convergence it's true we did that

lots of cool trailers yeah

some uh some all right gameplay

pretty awful gameplay some like fine gameplay having like 10 minutes to figure a game out was pretty scary

watching you and sips play that game was hilarious that was very good it was the thing is i knew sips was was gonna do that to me like right before going i was like ravs you're playing the game right you're gonna play the game and i'm like this is such a sips game this is not ravs game

it was very funny don't do this to me yeah no i thought it was really fun yeah it was really cool um

hi everybody uh i'm continuing to play silk song in the evenings i'm also joining a coblamon server which is a minecraft server with pokemon added to it.

I'm going to be on a server with a bunch of other VTubers that starts tonight.

So that should be fun.

And I'd love to continue playing the new Agatha Christie game.

So I think that's what we're focusing on right now.

Still, I've not played Fame Game, even though Jesse has sung its praises for three straight weeks.

One day.

I'm obsessed with that game because I can't believe it exists.

I know.

I just can't.

Sometimes things are made and you're like the audacity of them creating this.

I must honor it.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

But thank you all so much for watching.

We're here every Friday.

If you'd like to watch another Geekeender, if you want to watch any previous Geekenders, they are all on youtube.com/slash Jesse Cox on Jesse's channel.

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But otherwise, take care of yourselves.

Have an amazing weekend.

And we'll see you next time.

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