Fire Escape Cast #98

I played a game over break and I can't remember the name of it, and my switches out of battery, and you know how you can't turn on your Nintendo switch UNTILSS it has like.

Ten percent battery.

So I just literally don't think I can talk about it because I don't.

This is the intro make up an game right now. Switch charges.

It was there.

It was like black and white, and there was like a cat and it was kind of blob like and it was a platformer with like some puzzles.

So I'm gonna call it.

I I just saw this on like Steam. No you did not, I promise you.

I did.

Hold On Black and White Cat where you solve puzzles and it's a platformer.

It is uh, I.

Had your cat cute cute cat puzzle platformer. No, oh, I see it right Umbrella, Umbrella Adventure, the Castle of Cake.

No, it's right here, end Zone, two zones.

That's not it about Star Wars, Bounty Hunter. Okay, maybe AI Mortal Sin.

You've wasted so much of.

My time Hold On Cat. This is your fault. Yeah, that's your fault.

It's not my fault that the Nintendo switch doesn't turn on and this it has a certain amount of battery, which so stupid.

No, it wasn't.

I love it.

Cotta buttered just saying random twisted metal.

Iree was it? Cotto buttered Cat ninety seven?

Cotto buttered Cat is a really long name.

Slippery too.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the fire Scape cast. It is episode ninety eight.

I'm Mike. That's Mary, Hi, that's Dan. Hello? Where butry Mary? Really prepared for this episode? ID?

I played multiple games.

That you can remember the names of.

We're creeping closer to episode of Honda speaking a more like Hondo buttered Hat.

We're getting close.

I'm gonna have just tilted your head in the exact same way that amazing joke.

Yeah, look at that. Yeah yeah.

People tend to tilt their heads when they understand and appreciate a good joke.

Is the game I didn't pick it up? Is the game cat Quest?

I'm trying to help you here, I don't think so.

A Caravan Party, Animals, Stray rain World, Night in the Woods, Kit dot Io, The Purring Quest, Cat Meat, uh Gatto, Roboto Play with Gilbert remake, Magic Cat Cats Are Liquid Cat Goes Fishing Cats one and two. A Street Cat's Tail another site Cattails Become a Cat and Black Sad under the Skin.

There's tit talk. What is this game? What's the game? Oh that's an appropriate Okay, I'm going to back out of that Steam page.

So what's what's been up with you guys? Aside from Mary's switch charging, I went.

No, I'm first.

I went to uh leaven Worth, Washington, and Uh, it depends on how you want.

To say, oh, I'm sorry.

Is the is the person who has like the perfect pronunciation correcting me.

La Worth laugh laughing. Prison town where they put Michael vick O. What my dad said there.

Like you're going to prison for Christmas, And I was like, no, it's a Christmas town in Washington. It's like a Bavarian village. It's supposed to be really nice and fancy, and like it's just cute. It's like a cute little shopping town where you can get your little cocoa and they have kids that are sledding and everything is kind of Christmas.

The the door shut that it is not what they say because that doesn't happen.

Next thing, you know, and then you're going to the mess hall and then you're the you're you're eyeing up the person you're gonna make your bitch.

You don't because so you don't get made to be a bitch.

I was stealing diamonds and no one was the wiser.

And then I got a surprise invitation to leaven Worth, Washington for Christmas, and they got me.

Now I'm right.

It looked like a winter wonderland in that village whatever you called.

It, Bavarian village, that's what.

Yes, but it looked pretty. You're a hiking and throwing snowballs at each other.

Yes, it's what else do you do when it dumps like a foot and a half of snow On Christmas Day? It was very you know, it's just like the type of Christmas that you imagine in your head is the kind of place. It was, Lots and lots of snow, beautiful moun mountain landscapes. We went to a really beautiful forest. And then I was telling Dan I always play a game and kind of get like a sucked into it every Christmas. And I tried to download a game and I played through it, but I forgot the name of it.

No, yeah, I bought it because sometimes you'll play a game the three years old. Sometimes you play games not even out yet, and it never.

I bought it because it was on sale. It was like three dollars on sale. Okay, no, because it might not be on sale anything.

Is a tomb Raider four through six remastered? Intero Magnolia.

All right, this is such a waste.

Wait is it just called Blobcat. It's not just called Blobcare's a game on the shop, a cat platformer. It's called Blobcat.

But he's like white and red and there's a he's got a bunch of different telescopes and stuff. It was ten ten dollars now.

Is it? Anime? Girls Natty New Year? Anime Girls Nata pult reloaded?

Once the puzzles are complete, you can enjoy admiring the girls in the gallery at your own time.

I believe Blobcat is actually a game that's so wild.

There's a game called Blobcat on e shop and that's not the game about the blobcat platformer that you played.

Is it fell Tails?

Pissed when you tell us the actual what is your switch at? What's the percentage I had?

It's downstairs.

You need to tell someone to go get it. We'll get it during the break because now I need to know. It's like a.

Yeah, you'll be amazed. When I was on the sale page.

Shop, there's a lot of anime girls and kind of spicy games on the Nintendo Shop, I was surprised, and especially in the sales section.

Which is where I was out on Christmas.

Eve, how many of the games on sale were moderately sixty percent off.

Right now is Love Furry Girls Zodiac dating app on Nintendo Visha?

Wow, I'm gonna wait until that's full price. I got to support the devs. Sure, yeah, yeah, damn. What's new with you? Boy? I guess we had like the whole holidays and New Year and everything, and it feels less.

It's also been we had to record that last episode earlier than usual because so it's been like three weeks since we that's right.

So I've been sitting on something that I found soon after we recorded the last one. I've been waiting to look. I don't throw the term hero around lightly, but I will for myself in this instance here because Mike, we've given you so much grief for your embarrassing about the author that I dug up, and we've sold merch off of it, and you've looked like.

A damn it does look stupid.

I found, as I was a clear clearing up space so on, like my drives and stuff, I found an old screenshot of a forum from two thousand and two. It was from a student filmmaking forum where were like eight seven I would have been seventeen, probably going into eighteen at that point for context.

So younger than I was for the about the author, but still.

Yeah, so so less embarrassing, but still I want to go in the spirit of fairness, I want to put this out because I was honestly in shock at how much of a douchebag I am in this comment was a shot.

From a forum, but in that screenshot is a comment you is my comment, yes, and called why you screenshoted it.

It looked like it was a thing where it was like two different like it looks like I tried to type it up and then it like didn't go through, and then I tried it again.

It looks like I probably screenshot it to be.

Like, why isn't this posting or something so I can't see the whole thing or anything, and it's like over twenty years old. Okay, but I'm clearly responding to someone who's like, I don't really understand cooperck In why Cooper is?

Oh my god? Would this be fun or if I read it? Or can do you? I guess you think guy should Okay, you read it.

Do you think that he says anything about fight Club in this?

This would have I guess my club would have been out a couple of years.

Before, Little Dork.

Yeah, I think it's worse. It's worse.

It's I don't think it's as bad as Mike's, but it is bad enough to where I do want to embarrass myself with this.

All Right, here we go.

I keep in mind somebody before I had clearly said something like, oh I don't really get Kubrick, I don't really understand doctor Strange Love or why it's funny. Okay, you have to really appreciate the subtleties of doctor Strange Love. But then again, based on your previous posts, I bet you're not even sure what the Cold War was.

It's gonna get worse. Okay, okay, okay, there's should be there are.

There's so many things going on in Doctor Strange Love that you obviously didn't even pick up on. The whole movie is about Jack Ripper's essence and Cold War paranoia. Notice the little things like how Jack subconsciously strokes his phallic cigar symbolism. Symbolism, symbolism.

I'm getting a cold from this fucking comment.

Yeah, two thousand and one is genius. Clockwork is genius. Nothing more to say there. Yes, his work may be slow at times, but that's not a problem if you have a decent attention span or a minute appreciation of good film. Yeah, and a big finish. Now go see Bad Boys Too or something. I'm sure you'd like that. I heard they blow up something in it. Maybe a car wreck too.

This is the Fast and the Furious, fucking Officionado in the making.

Oh yeah, week this person just an editor.

This person. It sounds like you're responding to something cruel that they said.

So it sounds like somebody just being like, I don't really understand the deal with Cooper. I don't really get Doctor Strangelove. And then I probably went through their post history and was like, oh, this person probably doesn't even know the coldor which I don't.

There's so much effort to drop some of bomb on someone who doesn't give a ship about you.

A seventeen year old filmy in all of.

Your film history, and I love my favorite line and all of that dribble was even in minutia of appreciation for good film, like what is good mine?

Mine was appreciation good film.

Ciar no.

I literally said, symbolism, symbolism, symbolism. It's oh my, I would go back in time and kick my own ass. Yeah, you I that's different than the author bio.

It is very different. This is like snobby, shitty forum guy. Yeah. Mine was just embarrassingly like, uh, what would the word be? I'm not sure. Was trying to like play up the nerdom. You know.

Yours wasn't as like you were. Yours was harmless, nerdy stuff. Mine was like, oh, this dude sucks me. But yeah, yeah, uh hard in the other direction. I guess as I got older, But I.

Think it was two weeks ago you texted me saying, by the way, I found like in about the author squ comment I made, and then you're like, I might just save it for the show.

I was like, yeah, please do Yeah, it's it was shocking to see that, So I'd love to.

Man, I wish I could, like, if we could do time travel, it'd be such a good podcast. If I could podcast with seventeen year old me. I wouldn't listen to it, but I'm sure people wouldn't.

I would know about I wouldn't. I don't think I would. I would annoy my past self, would annoy the shit out of current me.

Same.

I don't think I was ever that snobby about movies, but I'm sure I said something similar at some point when I thought I like understood the whole world and every little nuance of it and had to like convey to other people that I was smart and I got things.

I'm sure I was like that about something I wouldn't the other direct.

I used to be like I need to show people I'm smart, and now it just turned into like I need to seem very stupid.

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know when that turn happened, but at some point it did.

Do you think that it sounds like you wouldn't like your seventeen year old self, but do you think your seventeen year old self would like you.

I think I would be like, what the fuck happened to this guy? I don't think I would just like my thing. I just did he have a brain injury or something like? But then I'd also be like, well, shit, it seems like things went all right for him, so maybe I shouldn't change anything.

But uh, yeah, yeah, I think I think seventeen year old me would like me, But I don't think I.

Think yeah, I would hate old Dan, would hate young Dan more than young Dan would just like old Dan.

Yeah, that's like coming face to face.

Uh.

You know people talk about those random little things they said back in like fourth grade that keeps them up at night, coming face to face with all of those in one package in the same room, arguing with you, and it's arguing with you and like putting you down better, Doctor Strangelove.

Yeah, I'm gonna go to seventeen year old me and clockwork Orange, strap into a chair and make and watch mcgover twenty times appreciate A symbolism.

Is a Cold War thing.

They were good fucking guys, pretty.

Good fucking guys. It's a fucking asshole of a day.

Symbolism symbolism.

Uh.

Not that happens when you're not a social kid is you don't have anyone to check you and be like, hey, you sound like an asshole.

You know.

Yeah, but you had sister, you should she should have been so much younger.

They were so much.

Younger, and they at least make fun of you.

I mean, we all made fun of each other, but we all got alonger eight. You know.

I do think it has benefit toed Oh my god, sorry, I do think it has benefited me that I have four older siblings who constantly if I because the oldest one is ten years older than me, so he was going to college when I was in going into third grade, so he would frequently not not like bully me, but you know, like the the annoying shit that teenagers say or you know, like tweet preteen so to call he would be like, dude, no, like, trust me, you're not gonna I mean, I my brother is talking to me.

Okay, good, thank you good. Note about the author see if girls like this.

Yeah, where was Where was Pat Maharty when I was writing that about the author? Damn could have fucking called me a homophobic slur when I needed it.

You could have gotten so much more puss if he was.

There, Dude, I got the guy I could. I'd be swimming in puss if if he was there. No, no, man, it's a couple more Tolkien references.

Know you know your ship, he's like, preferably the bridge from stairway. But then go deep cut go go like do your maker show them you've been there, deer maker. It's like deer maker maker said dear maker. Oh sorry, I can't speak French.

Mister.

I go to France seventeen times a year with my special France luggage.

Went twice. I don't have special France. You have special luggage that holds wine bottles. No, it's a normal I just pack it full of I have sleeves, bubblo. Oh you you got special blind inserts for your leggage.

Okay, you can't have that ship break and through thirty thousand feet up baby, Otherwise is going to be rain and Burgundy on Spain.

Yeah, I think seventeen year old you would kick your ass.

There's part of me that seventeen year old wol not like, let's get all our seventeen year old self together and kick current Mike's ass.

Let's bring all seventeen year olds of each of us to the present, like make them watch the inauguration and then kick their ass.

Wow, it just seem I don't know, it seems like a historical future moment for them. I see.

Yeah, my seventeen year old self would not be involved in any of this. They would be like, where can I get high?

Mine would be calling the cops on you forgetting it. I knew it would each other. We would not have been friends at all. What I've been doing seventeen I was. I cared a lot about lacrosse. Okay, yeah, checks out that I wouldn't like that you were so I would have thought you were a jock and Mary was a delinquent, and we would not have got along, none.

Of us speaking completely actually, Like, honestly, I was definitely there were certain days when I was a jock. There's certain days when I like, was, you know, hanging out my friends I played video games with? Did Halo system links on three different floors of our house or I didn't have three floors in my house, two different floors in my house. Then there are other days where I'd be hanging out with like the stoners, and it wasn't like if I was with the jocks, I would bully the other ones.

I would actually I'm not saying this to brag.

My point being I almost used to feel like I was cheating and not being I wasn't being like an actual I didn't have an actual personality because I hung out with so many different groups.

I thought, sure, I was like I should have picked one at some point. This just feels like I'm faking.

Yeah, you're dabbling. You're allowed to dabble as a kid. I feel like we're I think this is very American high school.

I've heard.

Yeah, now I'm all in on Jock maar and I push up contests about America punch nerds when I see them on the street. No, I was gonna say, like, I think that it's very American youth to have in our movies like American Pie and things like that, to be like, oh, the jocks don't hang out with the uh, you know, sure with the nerds and the there's like obviously like the computer club, and then there's the people who like to sing.

But anyway, like, I don't think that's actually the case globally.

I think that's something like we've created for ourselves and then have kind of stuck ourselves in and said which group am I in?

And she's like, you don't have to be in any of them?

Yeah.

Like like in high school, like I didn't like party or socialize or anything, but like I got along with and I got like everyone from you know, jocks, to music nerds, to theater people to anime doors to you know, like all that stuff.

I got along with everyone. You hung out with the anime doorgs. I'm sure they appreciate you calling them that when you hung out with them.

Look at us, Hello, anime doors.

No, I think I think I would hang out with people that like j RPGs and then make fun of them because I saw them as lesser nerds than me, and I was like the jock nerd by comparison, because I played cool, military.

Stuffy school.

Actually, there were a couple of anime nerds in my school, and I think I was probably wary of them and didn't hang out with them, didn't understand them. No, no, I'm probably just getting ready to call the cops on I think.

Now if we if we're closest to any of those archetypal clicks, we're probably the A V Club.

Yeah, I mean that. Yeah, I did that video production class and everything right now, Like if us as a group had to pick one like Jake as well, especially were the club, I could see that. Yeah, former Joe, cool place to land. Former former I don't know what Mary would be.

I'd still be in the delin gym, delinquent gymnast at right now.

The balance beam I had.

I had a bit of a duality in high school too, where I was like do half doing chasing drugs and half gymnastics. And so I was like I was on when I was on, and then when I didn't need to be an athlete, I was chrying to score.

We contain multitudes. I just came up. I just came sorry.

Yeah, I was my own phrase. You can quote me in the future when you say that, say it was my body.

I will not.

I don't know if I've told you the blue smoke story. Stop me if I have.

But I was in sixth grade and no, I was in sixth grade and I was walking around the neighborhood and I was terrified as seventh graders because they were in junior high so they were older, and they went to a different school. And one of them rode his bike up like my cul de sac or something and was smoking something and he's like, hey, do you want to hit? And I was like no, and I went and I like ran to my mom and I was like, Mom,

He showed it and she's like, you sure it was drugs? Yeah?

Mom, it had blue smoke. I saw like there was blue smoke coming out of it. There's stick in his mouth that blue smoke. It was definitely drugs. Well, we need to call nine one one. And she was just like my mom was never like a real drug purson or anything like that. She's like, it's fine, it's some teenagers smoking weeds.

Like pretty fine, it's from Did you.

I went to Dare Camp?

Oh, fun loser.

I definitely would have not liked you. Well listen, Dare Camp. I didn't go there.

I want a contest to go to DARE Camp, and that means you just go to a bunch of like dang parks and camps and a bunch.

Of cops, like calling nine one one the most in your class.

They just put a they put a line of coke on a table in front of thirty people and anybody who doesn't.

No everyone, and I think was entered, and everybody did want to go because it was like you got to go to Worlds of Fun, which is like our six flags, and you got to go to like a camp and there was like a bunch of like fun stuff and then they teach you a bunch of like anti drug stuff and it's with a bunch of cops and everything. But yeah, I went to DARE camp during a summer and I was all in on the messaging that was you know, I will call those.

Obviously were like number one pig. I'm just like so blown away by like your aversion to drugs to this degree that you're like constantly walking around hitting nine to one on your phone and waiting for another reason to hit the final one.

Meanwhile, locked and loaded.

Meanwhile, in twenty twenty five, literally three hours ago, I was having a conversation with a weed company about doing a partnership.

A local well, well, well a couple of dollars around and he's no, not even dollars.

I just went free weed. Yeah.

I was gonna say, Dan doesn't need money, No, just give you your free shit and I'll talk about it.

What it was a turning point like college, we.

Deal it would be so killer.

No college.

Actually, well, okay, it started to turn better, like leading up to college, because I started hanging out more with people and I started drinking a little bit. But then I did mushrooms the first time. I had my first like like I had a really bad panic attack. Then I did mushrooms again, I had a really bad panic attack, and then I did Morning Glory seeds, had a really bad panic attack and swore off. Like I thought I

I just drank, but.

Yeah, I was just really all my friends smoked all the time. I could have had weed all through college, but I just was scared of it, honestly, so to the point where it's like I would have dental procedures done, like I had my wizard teeth stuff done without pain meds because I didn't want to feel high.

So do you think it was connected to your anxiety that you were basically like, I'm going to get out of control because your anxiety made you nervous.

A thousand percent?

I thought I was going crazy, And I was like, what if I just got you hear these stories like somebody you know did acid and jumped off a balcony or something like that. Shit scared me so much. And then it wasn't until San Francisco when I moved there and I was like, oh shit, I can just get this card. I have a very valid reason with anxiety and stuff like that, and I can look up strains and I can buy it. No, it's not coming from like a shady place or anything. And I started to

Try January with an asterisk.

Yeah, I know, we try, right, Yeah, everybody knows that if you're sober, you're allowed to smoke.

But yeah, yeah, that's what I'm doing. That's what all the sober kids do. But yeah, so I'm I. I was anti weed as a narc kid, I was scared of weed as a college student, and I've been very curious about weed as an adult and looking for.

Ways to, you know, help with like anxiety and stuff to.

Find your dosage.

I think like a lot of the times, because I also ran really anxious as a kid, and I also had a panic attack from do doing too many mushrooms. Used to be really careful with like how much of that stuff you're putting in your body when you're hyperactive and mentally all over the place. Like I freaked out once, and I kind of learned the hard way. I am very particular about my dosage.

I also did, so I had such a different path than you, Dan. I think I was smoking weed when I was like thirteen. I was a fucking bad I was a bad kid, and I was like.

A team up your ass so quick.

My my mother is a saint, and I would have stabbed you on site.

And I was.

She was just put up with a lot of my shit, you know.

Like my mom loved me unconditionally and would constantly be like she's out there doing the drugs again, and she would come find me and I would, you know, and I would just go do it again.

I was the worst.

But in college I felt like I was quite a seasoned vet by then, Like I had already done a lot of drugs. By then, I had already done most of the things that you're not supposed to do, and so I thought I was like way cooler than everybody else was like doing their first drug and I was like, oh are you? And I'll never forget like the first time though, that I tried a volcano, which is like where you have those like vaporizers, and they put it such like PURETHC in a bag and I.

Was like, let me show you, bitches how it's done.

And I took like the biggest rip I could off of this bag because I smoked pot a lot, and I felt like I could hang and I absolutely got annihilated from this bag and I didn't remember where my dorm was and I needed help and I needed I needed like to process. I felt really unsafe, and they had these you know, they have those phones in colleges in case you need to call security, because yeah, in

I'm not gonna freak out.

Yeah, same like the Seltzers. Like you know, I'll have like, you know, five ten milligrams, and I know I'm good and I know it's not gonna last for hours and hours.

I can slowly sip it during a movie.

But like I do think I can actually like kind of help in a way, like those scary moments, because I never had a panic attack or knew what anxiety was until I did mushrooms the first time. That would been summer of two thousand and two. Well no, but honestly, I wouldn't change anything, because, like I thought, it was like, oh that was just you know, because I was high, and then I did the mushrooms it was like, oh, yeah,

My first time on mushrooms, I found a stick and said that I invented trees, and I kept trying to stick it in the ground and being like tree invented well, I think I was trying to say planted, but like in my head, I was like, look at me inventing trees.

I thought I come to bush.

I thought I invented World War Two, and I felt really guilty about it. I was like thinking about like montage of World War Two, like d DA footage.

Why did That's horrible? Why did I do that? I do that? Yeah? And then yeah, jump cut to fucking fifteen years later and you're saying, I want you to cream your jeans on Normandy Beach. You have changed.

Yeah, they are crazy, and I think it's insane that we have that we all have, like these very consistent stories of all trying them, like they're all kind of prevalent in society.

No, no thirteen year old on my watch should ever be doing drugs.

I'm such a fortunate little idiot that I was able to get away with as much as I got away with. But what I will say to I think I might have said this before, but like what I will say is like my sister never touched anything, and then college she freaked out because she like had never been able to do any of that bad stuff, and then she did it all at once and kind of like lost lost it a little bit because I was so seasoned by the time I had gotten to colle I was like,

I had it all worked out.

Oh see.

I was the flip of that, because like I didn't ever party or drink or anything. And then I go to college and were like, hey, let's kicks ass and I like being social and everyone thinks I'm funny.

And then I would just like go out and drink all the times.

Like I would come back with crazy stories, whacky d and got drunk and did some crazy and like I just went super hard on just like I'm never going to class. I'm just going to drink and party and have crazy stories. And I didn't get any of that out of my system in high school. I waited to college.

So yeah, yeah, I generally did much much better in college. Like I hit college and all of a sudden it made sense. My parents were kind of they're very different than they are now, but they were pretty strict when I was younger. So I was definitely like a bit more sheltered until I wasn't at a certain point in high school.

But I was also sick all the time.

So by the time I got the college, just all of a sudden, I think the freedom actually worked really well for me, And then from there on I actually started doing really well with classes in school and whatnot.

But I sucked in school before college. I think I had.

I really think I might be historically the worst student that has a college degree in the history of the world.

Yeah.

I don't think anyone could have gone to less class or given less of a shit or weasel out of so many fucking things. I cannot imagine anyone actually graduated and it was as bad of a student as I was. There's no GPA like bare minimum. Yeah, I did a lot of pass fail stuff. I uh yeah, I mean I would just shoot for a D and even that, like, I mean most of them. I just like talked to teacher like I wouldn't go to class.

For the whole graduating GPA.

Do you know, I think I was in like the two's or something. But I literally.

Literally though I would like not go to any I would not go to any classes for the whole semester, and then I would get like i'd get a thing be like hey, you're going to get an f and I walk in and talk to the teacher and be like, hey, I know supposed to allo film classes, but I was making this sketch show instead, So it's not like I wasn't doing film stuff and you just give me straight a's why that was like I got twos GPAs even with many semesters of teachers just being like, yeah, we'll

It's fine even though I did not step foot in the class.

And you wonder why people call you like lucky. It's not luck, I know. I mean it's like a speech. Yeah yeah, yeah, why.

It's a combination and like white Man, just I did terry, I did other stuff.

Like this outrage. I've been making a thing.

I like I had stuff to show. I was like, hey, take a look at this. Like I was doing all of this video production work. It wasn't to a syllabus or your class, but like I was learning a lot on my own.

You do the job, do what every other stupid kid in this class did and paid a lot of money for. You don't deserve it.

If I was your teacher, I would have been highest ship and I would have failed your asses.

One of them gave me an AD for that class I never showed up for, and then told me to sign up for all of his classes next semester.

And he was gonna give me straight as for all of those what and he did it. Seems like he's a bad professor. I loved him, so I'm not gonna let me see what he's doing. I love that guy. Probably. Oh yeah, he's got a page there, all right, yep, that's that's my guy.

Bel You remember his name?

I does that? Okay, Wait, let's like, let's let's do guess who with Does he have red hair? I'm not saying nothing. Here's my guy. Yep. Well, one of my teachers won a fucking Oscar.

Well, this's okay, I'm fine saying this guy's name because he was not one of the ones that let me he was uh yeah, yeah, this is Kevin Wilmot.

He was hit one of the writers on Black Clansmen.

Uh.

He was fascinating to do. He used to do voiceover stuff for my sketch show and stuff like.

He was awesome. But yeah, Oscar winning guy now, and he was one of my dudes back then. But I loved all those teachers. They were they liked to be. They talked me about in the newspaper.

What did they say about you in the newspaper.

One of the quotes was, I thought it was funny is that he he makes films the way other students go to parties.

And I remember reading that and being like, eh, I also go to parties a lot. So they thought, I don't get all the time they think like the energy of your films or you thought, I think the enthusiasm for making stuff.

Oh yeah, Because it was like I was on the cover of the paper for like my sketch show and videos and stuff, and like they interviewed my teachers.

My teachers are like raving about me.

Oh yeah, you're nothing if not enthusiastic. Yeah yeah, So I think that got me pretty far with it.

Phansiastic's a good way to frame it.

I worked pretty hard, especially when I got back to Syracuse journalism school.

I was I worked hard at that. Well, that was the hardest thing. Uh, there was what Because I was a transfer I transferred one two four times in college.

Technically to different colleges. Or like departments, no colleges, universities.

But when I got to Syracuse for journalist school, a lot of the like tough journalism classes coincided because I had transferred to everything all my other electives and American history things. So by the time I got to that last two years at Syracuse, like all right, take your reporting two hundred class, your feature writing three hundred class, your crime reporting class. So I was just like basically out in Syracuse every day. I was just a reporter for two years, which is why I loved it. I

Those great were how old were you twenty?

Were you picture yourself as like some hard nose detective from an Elmore Leonard book or something like shoes Yeah, yeah.

Like a gum shooting reporter to you, Oh dude, I walked around with like a hat tipped over my face. I smoked. I like would pick up a cigar butt off the street, like cigarettes. This just got interesting.

The bubble pipe, you just walk a walk onto crime scenes with my trench coat, like who the fuck are you? It was like, it's gonna be real hard for you to solve this crime when the perps don't have faces, and then at least and right up to take up with that guy I don't know, and then they see the story in the newspaper the next morning, like he got none of the facts right, he didn't ask us a single question.

Uh yeah, no it was Uh college is a fun time, yeah, but it was also yeah I did not I went to class most of it. Sucker.

Yeah, we really did, like like ships in the night, seventeen year old me and you and then college me and you.

We're on a similar wavelength now.

But that's the thing I think we all met with every story we tell about our past, I feel like we all became friends at the exact right time. Or it's like I think if we would have gone much earlier, we would have been too different to get along.

Well you know, yeah, I think that's very true.

And I think we are allowed to have so many evolutions as people, and we are just so different than the seventeen year old version or the twenty seven year old version. And when we hang out as fifty seven year old people, we will be like, ugh, you guys were so stupid, Like we're we're just gonna continuously change.

But I loved every evolution. I've loved that I've been able to have it.

You know, I don't want to be the same person with the same likes ten years ago. I love that I have a completely different vibe now.

Yeah, I think that's natural and healthy.

I love my dad always says, when you turn thirty, everything's locked in and you're just that person for the rest of your life.

No, it's it's not.

It's fifty.

Genuinely, I think there's something around fifty that makes people be like I refuse to learn anymore.

I don't have society about lot about worn out.

I'm like fifty is.

Like, there's something about the fifty number where you're just like, I'm set in my ways.

You can't make me check.

I think my parents were like fifty five sixty, and I have noticed then that they've just like, all right, they seem comfortable with.

Who and what, and you know why, then like you're done, you're cooked, you are you are complete, you are a complete package deal, and you will not change for.

Anyone it's just really roast me till I'm dead.

I can't fifty year old Mike is gonna be the biggest asshole in the world.

Oh, dude, I can't wait till I have like long gray locks and I'm just all I talk about is wine and probably cigars by that point.

I don't really love cigars, but I'll probably get into them.

You're gonna be older, I have more money, more refined tastes. You're gonna be yeah, like it's gonna be insufferable.

Yeah, but I'm gonna be hot as ship's gonna be a dilf. No, I'm not gonna be a dad, but like similar age, fly the boken once a year and punch you in the face.

It's gonna be slid for they're like hot rod, but you're not my son. I don't have cancer. It'll be great. I think we'll be friends more fifty Oh yeah, yeah.

Good moments back then in the future.

I hope sixteen years. I don't know how long I have to live. I'm fifty. Oh, that's a very.

Specific you knew you were only going to live until fifty That would completely alter the trajectory of how I lived my life. Yeah, if I only lived until fifty, I would quit my job to day I would be done and I would just start doing something else that I like feel enthused about.

I would you know what I would do if I was like several weeks from no, the day before I knew I was gonna die, I'd kill somebody that deserved it.

I didn't deserve it. I don't know. I just want to experience it once. Like, Oh, so many names just came to mind. I'm not going to say any of them, but I could probably guess all of that. You've seen the list. Yeah. No, I wouldn't kill anybody. I'd embrace somebody in that time.

Do they have red hair?

No? It would be like a doctor situation. Not doctor who's the dude is? Who's Who's the guy that killed his patients? Who wanted it? Ndork? I just said doctor Schovago. I'd be like doctor Moreau, Like doctor Moreau, doctor Yeah, doctor Caligari's cabinet. Who's your favorite evil doctor? Oh?

Actually, this speaking of I think I told you guys we got the uh complete Bond Blu Ray collection. Oh yeah, it was incredible, so, uh, just I guess I'll I'll kind of do some quick recaps as we get through the series. We are on The Spy Who Loved Me, which is Roger Moore's third movie. I believe Roger Moore's era. I think Timothy Dalton gets even.

More campy camp He had like two movies, right, yeah, yeah, like one yeah, Dollons, Living Daylights and Licensed to Kill.

That sounds right, because I think Roger Moore's last one was Moonraker, which is supposed to be very bad, sure because they were trying to capitalize on Star Wars, but yeah, it's it's Sean Connery for four of them, and then he left. George Lasenby came in for On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and then Connery came back for Diamonds Are Forever, which I hated.

What was he would Never Say Never Again? It was like, that's not a real Bond movie, right, But he once said he would never play Bond again, and then they made a movie called Never Say Never Again and it was basically him playing Bond or something.

I don't know.

I didn't see that, but I some of these movies, I mean, all the movies are fascinating to watch. Some of them, like we're ranking them. Let me quick give my ranking quick to date. As you can imagine, a lot of women get punched and killed and thrown off the script like nothing yeah and so oh yeah, every woman immediately falls in love with him a couple times when it didn't seem consensual until it was. I guess, but okay, here's a surprise. Really really liked Thunderball, and

It was great.

From Russia Wood Love. I liked that's number two. Goldfinger was three. I think a lot of people put those up. Top Man with the Golden Gun.

I like it is Yeah.

From Russiwood Love and Goldfinger I think are the two iconic older ones. But Man with the Golden Gun with Christopher Lee, very young Christopher Lee. It took me off Watching all these movies catches me off guard at like Jane Seymour when she's extremely young. That movie Roger Morre's first movie. That was super weird and I think pretty racist. A lot of them probably are, oh yeah, this was Livin Let Die. But it's like a lot of New Orleans Voody culture.

And sanity and everything.

It's so weird. I haven't seen any of the Connery or more. I've only seen like the Craig and Brosnen ones. And for some reason, I know like a lot about bond Well gold Golden Gold for that. Yeah, which one was I just talking about this guy who loved Me? Were like three quarters the way through. We didn't finish last night, but that's when Jaws comes in, but they are in Cairo. I was like, oh, I get why he was in the Egypt Bonus mission now because it was that's where he was the movie. Odd job is

Is that what you said? Yeah? Yes, yes, so I looked it up.

Never said never again? Was Connery coming back to play Bond after? This is nineteen eighty three? So Conye comes back for one more and it's based on Thunderball, but it's a Bond movie. It is an actual Bond movie. Sean Connery is playing James Bond in nineteen eighty three. Oh, there's a lot of references to him aging and being past his prime. He's fifty two in it. But yeah, Conrie comes back for one post or like mid More, I think, And what's it called? Uh, never say never again?

What year was it? Nineteen eighty three? So no, that wouldn't have been that would have been like Dalton era, not that.

Maybe late More era. Oh okay, or like into Dalton. Sounds like he was actually younger than More. I like Roger Mora a bunch.

I think he's actually my favorite early Bond George Lazenbye was not bad, but that movie was super weird. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, It's like a bunch of women are brought to this Alpine mental institution and then brainwashed to be sleeper cells and bring like deadly viruses out to all the major countries.

Sounds like an Austin Powers plot.

Very strange.

Watching these movies is like watching an action movie that mcgruber makes fun of that I haven't seen, Like, oh, now I get what mcgroober was riffing. Oh sure that's what or any like mel Brooks movie and like, oh, I get the reference now. And Lasmby puts the Cellery in his ass that yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Symbolism, symbolisms, symbolism.

Yeah, but I'll keep you updated. It's it's been pretty fun. There's some really fucking good sellery.

Are the American people?

Oh my god? What's I thought you were gonna do?

The government?

Oh? Oh wow? Okay, yeah, symbolism, symbolism.

Of what a good film is.

You would know that The Cellary is all about fighting the government because you're in their asshole.

It's it's more, it's more the it's more the lack of truth in a in a No, it's it's a lack of pride in the post truth.

Era, as American Dream writ large. Yeah, there you go.

What is it about the Internet that makes that everyone's first instinct? I remember like nineteen ninety six, nineteen ninety seven, I showed my dad AOL chat for the first time, and I was like, we went into a music chat room because I knew we like talking to music.

And I was like, watch, Dad, these are all people typing all over the world.

They're all talking about music right now, and you can just talk to them. And they were talking about you two at the time. And he just went in there and the first thing my dad ever typed on the Internet was you two has sucked since Joshua Tree.

Why is that everyone's brain immediately clicks.

Into like no, fuck you, yeah, gottam I like anonymity, I get call you out yeah again, And then everybody perceives everything is combative because they there's no body language, and then there's the.

Way to read tone, and it's just like a nightmare.

Yeah yeah, I still find myself reading, like for my day job, reading Google chat messages, like I think, are they being an asshole?

Right?

They're not. They're all wonderful people, but I just my brain sees that.

Yeah, but luckily we have evolved past aol chat and have a wonderful podcast.

Oh yeah about video games now as adults who know how to speak with respect to each other. Yeah, and don't call nine one one.

I'm anymore. I'm not a nark anymore. I love drugs. Hey, do you guys have any drugs?

I can buy from you? And you can send them across state lines. I'll call I'll call my buddy Rex. Oh yeah, okay, if you can send me a picture of his driver's license all it, make sure the right people see it.

Yep, his name's Rex. He lives at three four six three Highland fuck you Boulevard.

My neighbor is a cop. I should have started sprinting over his house all time, like banging on the dormant.

I know someone that's got drugs ilegally.

He would like that guy, are you on duty right now? Can you be?

He opens the door. He's got nothing but a robe and a boner and cocaine and a gus. Get your gun, your gun. That'd be a fun bit. I should start doing that.

Go get your gun, where is it?

But you know the things you can put quarters in to like look at the statue of Liberty from the from the Hart, right, Yeah, you should put like a bunch of those on your rooftop so you could spy on people to see if they're doing drugs in your neighborhood.

Oh, that'd be a good idea. Someone's mowing their lawn and they look up on your roof and see. My grandma used to fucking do that.

My grandma used to take me to the park because she thought that people that were going into the woods and the trails were selling drugs, and so she would just like, get me McDonald's. We would drive to the parking lot and she would just sit there and watch the trail entrance and be like if she saw someone that you thought was like, well, they're probably selling drugs, she would call the cops.

Is it? Like?

What is I feel like people start owning property and just feel the need to protect their neighborhood and their house, like that's to get off my lawn archetype kind of This is like going out of your way to try to Like park wasn't near her house.

I mean it was in the same County.

Oh okay, I gotcha. I thought he was saying, not that it would have been cool if it was her backyard or whatever.

She's going to Yellowstone Trunk get Yeah, she's at tables. Is that? Is that a park? Tables? I didn't get the reference at all. I was just gonna pretend no, No, isn't that In Utah? There's a national park called like tables or some furniture. I know, the furniture like chairs.

Her job is tables.

Wait, tables National Park. Okay, it's not popping up.

So no.

Tables the name of the game. Mary was trying to think of table National Park.

If we're doing this podcast in thirty years, it's just gonna be us forgetting things and trying to google it National Park.

We're actually gonna be replaced by AI, and then high versions of us are just gonna be farting and talking about what we think life is gonna be.

Like I'd listen to that. It was arches. Ah, yeah, my favorite furniture, tables. Oh you don't have any arches in your house? You fucking pleab? Is it plaid' pleab?

I think you guys want to have about video games?

Oh yeah, go get your switch. I need to know, go get it.

Okay, Dan, I feel like this is gonna piss me off. Why are you playing Red Dead two?

I don't think it's gonna piss you off, actually, and I think it's coming from the right spot.

I think it's coming from Yeah. Yeah, I did decide that.

I was looking at like the release calendar this month and I was like, that's kind of like actually a little lighter right now, like I want to play that Donkey Kong Country game that's getting rereleased. But outside of that, I got some time for the first time in forever, and I thought, maybe now's the time Red Dead two is on PC. It's been fucking seven years since it

Uh.

And first of all, playing it on PC. Holy shit, at one hundred and twenty free a second and four K that fucking game, which is seven years old, is almost almost seven. It was October twenty seven, eighteen. Yeah, twenty eighteen twenty. I know we're early, but whatever. Yeah, it is maybe the most impressive game visually I've ever seen. It's just incredible, and like the little details and stuff.

You know, light when you're riding through the planes at the right time, and moonlight's coming through the pine trees.

Oh yeah, god, you're you're starting, You're in the snow and you walk out there and I would just watch Arthur's hat and jacket and watch like the snow accumulate, and like walk by fires and stuff and see it melts when I go inside, and just like it's crazy fucking details that are just it's done. Horse prints, footprints,

You know.

And I think now that I don't have this huge expectation going in conversation, like conversations on horseback, like when you're like constantly having.

Like it's a lot of well Dutches, you know what he's doing, you know, like that stuff. Dutch Dutch is the.

Get the character. I thought you meant like a Dutch Oven. Oh no, I think I forgot the name of the character.

I didn't do that mod the Dutch Oven mod. No, you up into the gang, mem and you can't get him on under one big blake.

All right. Now, here's where I'm gonna hear a weird noise and smell a weird smell. But don't worry, it's funny. I'm gonna trust me. We're going to call it the American stove I learned listen to and bring it to America. Mister Morgan, I don't think American stove is sticky enough, you got anything else? How about finish pop? No, I still don't think so, mister Morgan. Okay, okay, how about and this is the one Scandinavian li crusade. I don't, I haven't.

I don't think I'm gonna tried to Arthur before, Jake Deer Arthur Morgan, you should have him do that, Joe, because I had. I was wondering how long you would go? But just like uninterrupted, Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I haven't done Arthur before. But so, oh wait, but how far are you? I'm like three hours in maybe, I mean it still feels like on a tutorial ist if I'm leaving, like the snowy mountains and stuff.

So did you get out of the mountains? I mean I did this stuff.

Where it's like there's the big shootout and I grabbed the odriscold guy and tied him up and brought him with a camp and learned how to hunt and all that stuff, and so like, yeah, removed from the expectation and also going in bracing for like listen, when I try to grab that canna beans, Arthur is gonna take his sweet fucking time with it. And I'm ready for it, and I'm also trying it in first person, which has

I still can't save the fucking game.

And I looked and the auto save at this point was like an hour old, and it's like, listen to Rockstar. I know you're all rightfully, very proud of this piece of art you made, but it's still a fucking video game. And I sometimes need to save the game and fucking walk away from it, and it's just like, oh no, we can't have them save here.

It's like they got to make all this all has to be on one sitting.

It's like, you know, they've sniffed their own farts quite a bit over there, and it's understandably they're doing like

So I do intend to keep going.

I don't know if I'm gonna finish it or not, but I think once it opens up, I think, if I'm liking it already this much and it's still kind of early snowy mountain stuff, I think there's a chance I could come around on this.

Yeah, because you'll the game really click to of me when you're leaving the camp outside Valentine, your first camp and then you go to the one in the swamps outside Breathwait manner, or rather when you go to Breathwait Manner, and that's your camp for a bit. After you do the whole after John Marson's kid gets kidnapped, and then the whole gang is like marches on the matter. I was like, okay, now that bicking will be like how the momentum is building up. But I love that game.

Yeah, yeah, but I mean the stuff that's good there is remarkably good, to the point where it's like I think, I can, you know, muster through the stuff that I'm not loving.

So it's fucking gorgeous. Also the sound design too, in the wilderness, like just especially with headphones on, just hearing like crickets chirping, and then the socadas come out at night and then you know, the morning, you hear just like you can hear a burbling stream from liked a quarter mile away.

Yeah, that's the thing that's helping is because the first time I played it was in the like a tiny New York City apartment on a PS four with like TV speakers, and now it's like PC surrounds, Like I'm really able to appreciate everything a lot more.

Now it looks and sounds a lot better. Yeah.

Yeah, so we'll see, we'll see. I'm holding off. I'm saying full on, like, oh I love this or I still hate this or whatever. But I think it's it's the right time for this. I'm excited for updates, and I'm proud of you. Well things not really Mary. What have you been playing?

Let's find out I charged my Oh my god, yeah I haven't.

Mario Kart eight Deluxe.

Caddie Caddy.

Kind of a cat.

It's a cat. It's very blob.

Game is black and white. I thought you're saying the cat was black and white. I was something she was saying the game was black and white.

Uh, you know the whole game is black and white. I finished it.

Uh for the audio listeners. Oh wait, Gizmo was just staring at me super weirdly in the back of the frame right now.

Yeah, it's being creepy waiting all right, you see a cat waiting for the master. I have a podcast to do, Gizmo, is it be careful? Dad? This is gated. That's what gizmo sounds like in my head. Be careful at this quicksand and Gated is dead.

Gated Caddie is a simple platformer that I bought on Christmas Eve and then I guess.

Forgot about.

It was on sale, which is why I bought it because I wanted to play a simple game that wouldn't stress me out. I think it was fifty percent off and it's five dollars, so it was two fifty. It is very simple in design. Uh it is is I don't know when it came out, so this is not a new game.

I doubt uh Caddy c a T T I E for the record, correct.

Correct heavy platforming where there's like spikes and uh slicer and dicers.

It looks meat boyish.

I wouldn't give it that. I would say that there are elements of it that I suppose have. But Super meat Boy is like beautifully done and has like really intricate levels. These are just like levels that were put together. I don't mean this to be too disparaging this do.

You not want to talk about it? We can move on.

I didn't care for it, but I did it.

But I I just want to say you it's like a simple platform or for when it was on sale for two fifty I mean it did the job for Christmas Eve, so, uh, that was what I played. No, here's here's the real story I was told. I told you guys, every Christmas, I usually play a game really hardcore for the break.

That's something I like to do. You recommended me like three games.

I didn't want to play any of them for whatever reason, maybe because I was like drinking a lot on Christmas. Even was like, I just want a simple game that I can burn through. I'm not going to stress about it. And I played Caddy and I and I rolled credits, and I thought to myself, that wasn't super satisfying. I do kind of want to synk my teeth into a game for the rest of Break and actually get like

Start my game.

Yeah, and I'm gonna and I'm gonna pick up where I was yesterday, like a full time job game. And I ended up, uh getting Links Awakening due to Dan's recommendation.

And I actually lay wait links Away.

Waits Awakening, Yes, the remake. That's one of my least favorite Zelda games. Why would I have recommended that.

I you just said it one of your links.

I didn't say link to the Past. I saw that you mentioned that. I don't remember Dan, I think to the Past like Links Awakening. I remember it. It was Link between Worlds that Dan and I were both gushing about. Yeah, I was on three ds.

I played links Awaken.

Days remake at least fine the remakes better than the original, but yeah, it's one of the lesser Zelda games.

We were gushing about Link between Worlds. I remember that.

I really struggled with it, just to like, so you could talk to.

Dan about it. I didn't.

People get so mad. Me grub loves Links Awakening. And then I was like, that's one of the worst Zelda games.

I so I I loved it back to day.

I would always say it was one of my favorites, just because I thought it would make me seem cool.

Uh I I like, I was like, oh, I'll be it. That's like the deep cut.

That's like saying your favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers album is Monarchy of Roses. But then I played the remake and I was like, oh, I don't like this game.

No, I don't. I said a good thing about Links Away. The dungeon designed, the island designed hard. It's so hard that the Eagles Tower whatever is as terribly designed dungeon.

All of the dungeons are like really convoluted, and a lot of them are designed in a way like there's one that's designed with levels and if you fall on accident, you just.

That's what I'm talking about. The Eagles Tower whatever, big metal balls, and you can lose the link between worlds or linked in the past.

Those are those eight hour.

Days playing Thanks Awakening.

Insane because you wanted to like come back and tell Dan that you acted on one of his recommendations that.

Even though he did not recommend it. I rolled, Oh, so sorry you did that. I mean, I don't feel guilty because this is a thing, but ship, it's just.

Like this is like you like kished your Christmas kind of.

I bet I would have said linked to the past, not like I love link between worlds, but I don't think she's traveling with a three D S so like it was probably.

Link to the past though, and I remember like I thought that you were like, you know, there's Links the Past, Links Awakening, they're.

All goods on Switch, But I don't remember him recommending it. No, I.

Should have played okay games.

Is my take of Links Awakening is I did roll credits on it. It was very grueling and it was just one of those games where at first the first time, I needed a guide and I'm not, like I don't usually do that. I usually like to just brute force my way through the game over time. But I was so lost, you guys, And this game has multiple components that are very like God help you if you're just

It's like a long quest of trading stuff.

Yeah, and there is a point in this where like I have I don't remember a stick and I was like, I have no idea wants this fucking stick?

No, an actual wooden stick?

And I just couldn't someone need to invent trees.

I could not figure out who this set.

I was like, Mary, that was all I needed to do?

This stick I did.

I did I'm very upset about this revelation that you guys didn't want me to play this game.

It took a long time to get through this.

I used the side I think four times to be able to get like there was a dungeon that was the Eagle's nest was impossible. The final dungeon is actually pretty impossible. And the the giving the item to various people to get the final item, which you need to get through this game.

The trading quest is fucking rude.

Obviously give a stick to the person trying to get a honeycomb out of a tree.

I did it know that. It's so fucking crazy.

And like there's a part where the a person needs something and they're under a bridge. Oh, I've never been under the bridge before. I didn't even know you could go under that bridge. And so I needed the guide to be able to tell me to go to these certain places. I didn't unlock a lot of the stuff in this game. Why the time I opened the guide, they were like, just use your flute. What does he have use you? It's a very important term. Use your akarina to just transport yourself.

And I was like, what do you mean? And I guess there's like a way to.

Get a song for your Akarina transport you this whole game, I've been raw dogging it walk.

Anywhere.

I never fast travel.

Well, there's fast travel locations, but you have to go to a fast travel location to get to another one.

Apparently there was a song on your Akrena that would let you fast trap. I did not know that.

I did not find that I had been walking. I mean the step counter. My fitbit was going nuts on this Zelda. I could not believe how long it took me to slog my way through this game. I did finish it. I am proud of the fact that I fucking finished it, and I think the ending was very lovely and magical. However, it is a difficult game, and I would never recommend this to like a teenager or young child, like they would never survive.

Oh, you don't even like the art style for that remake the Fisher Price stuff. Okay, with the art style, it.

Was cute, but I did I thought it was too hard mechanically. I just couldn't believe how they don't explain anything. As as Mike was saying, the ball one where you have to this is kind of a spoiler, but you have these balls and.

You're supper Giant metals.

Big giant metals.

Yeah, that sounds right. We got to bring it around, throw it up and floors and stuff.

But then there's like those little red and blue like roads road blocks you have to raise and lower, and then.

It's either on blue or it's on orange.

And if it's on orange, there are times in this like Dungeon that if you have on the wrong thing, you can go through a whole section with a boss fight and everything, and then right as you get there, you can't get through because it's on an orange, and then you got to go all the way back slap it to blue and then you can get through.

Like it's mean.

It's it's almost mean. There's no way that they give you the hint to slip it to orange. They just like, whatever, go through all this shit and if you can't get through, then do it again on orange. It's a very cruel game.

Boy.

I wish you would have played one of the ones we recommended. You would have had a great Christmas. There's really great ones in that series.

Yeah, I really struggled through it.

Two days ago or something. You were playing links Awakening.

I saw your you showed the intro video of him on the log waking up in the ocean, like don't you yeah, like Dan's recommendation or something, And I was like, I.

Posted, I said Dan recommended this.

I said it publicly. No, I famously don't like that game at all.

Yeah, there's like fifteen Zelda games and there's like at least thirteen I would recommend before that.

I gotta stop drinking.

Well, yeah, that's one of the worst ones. Yeah, but you can say you beat it.

Now.

Zelda two is there.

Now, it's in the it's in the docket. I'll probably pick a different one now.

Now I'll recommend.

I'm gonna recommend Middle Year Snake Eater and you're gonna play medle Year Survive.

The different to play the right one. They're pretty different. But yeah, see, wow, I'm proud of you. Thank you.

I did want you to say that I'm really upset about this.

Is this the new kissing it now that you don't have game? Yeah, playing the wrong game to play the game. We didn't recommend.

It's playing game. We actually told you not to play.

I thought that you would be excited for me.

Alright, because this is funny, but yeah, not because you've played a good game. Yeah, it's a fine game. It's a fine game.

What else have you guys been playing.

I I'm almost to the end of the first Dishonored games. Still very good.

Uh.

I will say that, having played a lot more Dishonored two, forgot how rudimentary Dishundered one was compared to that in terms of the amount of abilities you have, how you can interact with the environment. But still for a game from twenty twelve, if memory serves, it's still pretty uh

I remember it was really cool. You know.

When we were doing covers for Game Informer, it was always a big decision like what game goes on the cover, And McNamara at one point was he had to decide between it was like just a very safe like the new Assassin's Creator whatever and Dishonored, And I remember him thinking about it and he was like, you know, like I kind of like the idea, like you know, Assassin's great to safe, but you know, Dishonored sounds like this thing no one's.

Ever heard of, but it looks cool. It's got some cool people working on it.

Like I think it'd be kind of cool to go with this like Underdog one, and he'd like kind of had the foresight to put that on there and it turned out to be a really cool decision.

Oh dude, if a game with that, I mean a the world building is so fucking cool, like the steampunk Victorian plague ridden world in which they still hunt whales and that's a huge point of controversy within the game is really cool. I also just if a game like that came out today, that would be like, this is fucking like pretty bold.

This is great. I love it. Yeah, the I don't know. If there's one thing I geek out about in games, it's like cool level design, specifically in immersive sims, and these are still great. I'm looking I'm going to play dishonor two and then Death is the Outsider. I'm kind of doing like half non lethal half lethal run. I'm not really sticking to one. I'm I only occasionally reloading saves if i really want to do an objective a certain way, but I'm I'm generally not trying to do

But doesn't it have like a better like hit Man? Not that hit Man has any flaws, but doesn't it have like a really solid just beginning to end story that I think is quite gripping.

Oh yeah, it's more of a there's more of a script than hit Man has. For sure, you're like rescuing the kidnapped. You're framed, hence the name. But then two you get to choose between continuing to play as Corvo or playing as Emily, and their powers are pretty different. It's almost like that game had a you can replay it to try objectives differently and maybe go non lethal when you went lethal, but also be replay it as

I don't know the full story, but uh, I don't know. I I love those games, I love Pray, I love Arcane Austin their work. So nice. Yep, Dan, what else have you been playing?

I played all of Mouthwashing in one sitting. U. No, okay, it's on paper, it sounds extremely not like a me game. It is a almost all narrative, serious story, dark, some serious topics it delves into. But it was like two

It's what the gameplay.

You're walking around the ship and it'll be like someone's like, hey, can you go get this thing from the medical room, and you go to the medical room and some horrible shit's going on, and then it flashes to another time period, like you know, after the crash or something, and then you're just having a conversation with like the medic and then it flashes four like, oh, we need to like break into this room with these like pods and see if we can still use them to escape, and all

It's like PlayStation one Graphics collided with Event Horizon collided with what remains of Edith Finch. Yeah, it's not did you play that? I did? Yeah? I like a finch.

Yeah, yeah, it's I I don't want to say too much because I think it would spoil a lot, but I just do think it was like one of my favorite one of the most well told stories I think I've seen in a game.

And uh, I really do want to to plug that because it's it's very very unique. It looks cool, it sounds up my alley, which I think I think you would. I think you might both find it pretty interesting.

It looks like the Twilight Zone movie, like it looks so odd and all over the place, but in a good way.

Yeah, that's like part of what got me curious is just the whole design is, like, what's going on here? You know, how long did it take you a little over two hours? I would say, Okay, I'm into that. I'm into short games these days when I'm playing other long form.

Stuff runs ground steamed back. I would love to if you guys find a couple of hours. Jesus Christ. Sorry, what one of the Steam videos of this?

Like, I'm on the game Steam page and one of the I didn't realize I was on a video and it just started suddenly with people screaming in loud noises.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I want to play that even more now. I wouldn't call it a scary game. It is unsettling, for sure. It is.

It is dark, but there is some humor in it too. I would I would love if you are intrigued to either of you. If you've got a couple hours between now and next recording, I'd be curious what you think of it, because very impressed.

Okay, might check that out. Looks good? Yeah, Mary, you play anything else besides Links Awakening?

Damn it?

Two more, just just more of the same. It's still going. I uh, it's still extraordinarily good and I'm just loving it.

And I don't know. I thought I was going to beat it and I didn't, so I still have more to play. I've been enjoying the experience and uh, it's it's been a joy to relive that game with updated graphics.

That's it.

That's all I have to say. It's still good.

Okay, Yeah, I'm just playing dishonored. Uh, what's tricky madness? Oh, just very quickly. It's an early access thing. It is.

If you look up a picture of it, tell me what you think of It's exactly what it looks like. I want to see if you immediately it's early access. It's got two courses all wait till Mike pulls it up. So because I think it's the most like almost legally actionable, I don't know if I want to say rip off or it's I think they would probably like to say homage.

I'm sorry.

Mike looks confused, so I assume he's not an SSX GUYX.

Oh wait no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on.

I looked up trick Madness on Google and it pulled up a very different thing. There's something else called Tricky the Clown Madness Combat Wiki.

Oh I put Tricky Maness game and then as like, oh yeah, SOX, it looks I loved.

SX Giant Floating Snowflake, we point multipliers and grinding and just like it feels exactly like SSX, And I was just even though it's just a quick, little like early access thing, I was like, fuck, yes, I love SSX, Cool Borders Amp Dark, Summit ten eighty, all those snowboarding games. There was a real era there and they just don't

I was like twenty thirteen's SSX kind of they went so grounded. Yeah, like, well, you're equipping yourself with like a temperature gear and stuff. It's just like it's like, this is not why I play SSX.

I want tricky. I want to get like thirty miles of hang time and then and then do the worm on a board. Yeah, the worm on the boy yeah moves. Yeah. Who was my favorite? I liked Mac.

I liked he struck me as a Simon guy Simon, which was yes, y m O win Simon. I think Billy Zane might have been his voice Simon. Oh yeah, yeah, that's a guy right there.

What Simon? No s s. I liked Mac and then uh, what was her name? Sex? Elise was good. I liked the lease Oh yeah, I think it was an elast mane. Yeah. Do we even a lease man is least? Oh? Yeah, that's.

Out of context. I'm sure people know exactly what I'm talking about when I say I'm a deep deep from the Foxes. Everyone Foxes.

Yeah.

It was one of the fire Escapes Top ten games. Many awards that was won have been talked about for Oh god, we keep we keep discovering new secrets in that game.

We do I should change.

If you look up dewep out Foxies, there is a a plus profile picture if anyone wants to use it. Just dweeb in a top hat and a bow tie holding a banana, staring at the screen all pixelated. That is a fantastic picture of the man.

That's good. Oh really, yeah, yeah, that's the stuff. Whatever. Yeah.

Actually, when we showed up at we were showing up rather at dance for a Game of the Year. I got their first I was like, let's play that Foxy. I think he like laughs about joking. Yeah, we're playing. Yeah, let's let's run it back.

You think this is a fucking game.

I got. I put him in a human cannon at a circus level and shot shot ipe that you can play with. Yeah, it's fun.

I only played it for like maybe another two hours, but on the way home I played Grindstone again.

I don't know if you guys ever played that back.

In the day, but it's still such an easy go to game, Like you know, people pull up Vampire Survivor is just to play it for like an hour grind You can play Grindstone in a fucking second and it's.

Still so good.

I loved it.

Yeah, I'm not. I didn't list it as my games where you mentioned Vampire Surcrivers. I'm literally at like almost seventy hours now in the last few weeks of just playing, like doing all the Vampire Survivor stuff again.

That's crazy as a beat too.

Caslovania games during break, so it's like all this old stuff I've still been playing, but I don't want to be the Caslvania is still good a term zone.

That's what I'm doing with Silent Hill.

I mean, I just like I said every once in a while, he only said it once.

I only did it once. It's not you guys said so many fucking Zelda games. I wrote them all down, and it's just in the list.

He wrote them down and then didn't play any of those I wrote.

You must have brought it up.

I'd love to check the tape. I want to go back to that. I try and remember what would that have been the email section I.

Would have been from of near the end. I think I bet Mary's like, oh, I got to find something to play during break. I'll review to the past, its awakening.

The end of the episode is literally nothing but you suggesting games to me.

Okay, you tossing out trash at me.

We'll go back and look. No, we give you gold and you found trash.

Fucking came back with fucking buffalo chip. All right, you guys want to do emails, I swear okay, okay, okay as usual.

You can.

Okay as usually The fire Kid Cast at gmail dot com for questions, comments, stuff you want read on the episodes. Uh, we've got a bunch in the last few episodes, and uh we're still working through them, but keep those coming. Uh, Mary, Actually, I guess I can read this because it's in response to it's not a question. They're talking about my sleepwalking. We discussed on last episode, so I'll get through this one.

Then we get to questions.

Hi, I'm actually a sleep specialist, and I just thought i'd provide some possible causes. Sleepwalking is a semi common phenomena, with about one in fifty encountering it in their lives. The most common cause is usually a quat crossed wire, causing the body to be active in deep parts of its rem cycle. With Mike, though it's probably blood loss from his brain because of a massive stiffy. All the best, Doctor carp strong Man. Nice, thank you, doctor strong Man.

Thank you, doctor strong Doctor Carp strong Man. I hope that government.

It's very man boggin of him to come up with a name like that.

Mary. Do you want to read this next one from Jerry?

Sure?

It starts odd? Is this intentional? It's also?

Oh no, just I think it's just the murder? Yeah? No, okay, well no, read that and then I'll provide context because it's kind of funny.

Here's the here's the what.

I put in our doc in the run of show.

Also, if the above question proves a big problematic and Marry.

Say it was, that's why. Now I'm curious. It's not that bad, but like it's what is it? Okay, now let's do let's do this. I'm gonna look at it. We'll look at it. It's not that bad. No, we'll save it for effort. We'll go back. But I just thought it's kind of funny to start with that, like it's a Mary, it's a Mary fuck kill see. Okay, yeah, it's not good.

So I included the one that's not about people here because probably there's a mery fuck kill about actual human beings, which is they're actors. We've discussed, but I just thought it might be important.

It's so literal. Come on, let's read it.

Oh wait, okay, so this, yeah, here's a mary fuck kill for us to debate. Here we go. It's mary fuck kill Stofers, Mac and cheese, Velveta cheese and shells, mac and cheese pizza.

Okay, I think I have mine. Well, okay, so is this a literal thing? You were just calling me like we're literally having sex with this?

No, no, no, no.

That I think would you have the one that you would want to have for the rest of your life, the one that you would like to have one amazing night with, the one that you would have to sacrifice and it would never exist on the plate face of

That would be too much.

I was taking it too literally. And I was trying to think of which of these would be the best to put my penis into.

Yes, I know, we know that.

And I was thinking pizza because you could wrap it around. But okay, we're talking because you get sink in.

Get in there.

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Did you just say deep dish pussy while dot com that if you want to subscribe to fire skates, Patreon just got a deep dish pussy dot register that to have to go to our merch page. Okay, let me, I'm going to hover while you guys, are you do the mac and cheese thing? I'm gonna all right, well, I think you know Stofer's gonna be funny to talk to our accountants. What is this expense that it's just artists?

It's right off, right off, It's funny the craft mac and Cheese isn't on here because that is the one I probably had the most in my life. So if it's just the Stofers Belvida and mac and cheese pizza, I think the Mary is definitely Stofers.

That has historically been my favorite.

That's the one when I go back for Thanksgiving, my Grandma makes Stover's mac and cheese just for me still, and the rest of people have, like, you know, grown up food.

Yeah.

Ooh, so between Velveta shells and cheese and mac and cheese pizza for fuck and kill, Well again, if it's literal, I'm going.

With the pizza.

Stop it's not. We've discussed this.

Okay, then one crazy night.

I don't want to kill any you know what, Mac and cheese pizza is fine, but it's a gimmick.

I don't like.

I like it, but if I'm getting a pizza, I'd rather just get a real ass pizza. I'll kill the mac and cheese pizza. I will fornicate with Velvita shells and cheese.

M yeah, I would fornicate.

I agree with Dan's assessment.

Stofers is taken home to the parents, Velveta is for one sexy night, and like, you just.

Have to kill the pizza.

But now I also have all these mac and cheese memories of breaking bones and getting food poisonings. So I'm starting to have a complicated relationship with mac and cheese.

Uh okay, thank you Jerry from purchasing a website. Yeah, grotesque is it?

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Silent can we get it. I can't right now. Is it are your sale on deep dish pussy cop Big blowout pussy Sail in January? Deep dish pussy it's such a gross term.

Well, one of us was trying to fuck a pizza, Dan.

Say, I was answering the question like a gentleman. Mary. Can you read the next one while I work on that?

Yes, I don't want to people just scob it up.

And happy twenty five.

Please quash this between my fiance and I once and for all. Is banana bread considered bread or cake? I say cake? He says bread. Best Cammy, Thanks Cammy. I think this is a convoluted question because the name of the item in questions says bread, so thus you might say it's bread.

Yeah.

But to Cammy's point, if you were to eat this, you would not eat like a slice of banana bread like you would a slice of regular bread, because it's not.

Really just a slice of bread, uh, you know, for breakfast like with you. Yeah, but you put stuff on it or.

Like you put like you like dip it in soup or something, you know what I mean, Like you would never have No, That's the thing. That's why I think it might be cake because bread is something that you like dip with soup or you make a sandwich out of it. I would never fucking make a sandwich out of banana bread. That's crazy town.

So it is kind of cake, like I I can't argue with the name. It's it's banana bread. It's right there. It's like Super Alier World two, Yoshi's Island, It's just right there in the name.

I think I can I I wouldn't I have banana bread as dessert. I make it a couple times a year when I'm running out of bananas. It's iconic to have with like breakfast. If you put some butter on it as like a little swim we eat treat in the morning or after dinner treat. But it's not a bread situation. However, it does rise like bread. Mike, don't you make banana bread all the time? I think you have to be the tiebreaker?

Uh yeah, sorry, it's distracted. Are you saying it's bread or cake?

Okay?

So, I even though I agree with Dan that banana bread has bread in the name, so it should be bread, I think it's cake because it just has too many cake qualities.

It's sweet, and I eat it like dessert.

Umm, yeah, that's tough. I would lean toward bread just because of the geometry of it and how I eat it. I don't know that I eat it for dessert, but it's definitely leans toward like a sweet dish cake. I think like there's frosting involved. It's what I'm meeting.

It often does have like a little topping.

Yeah, I don't know.

I actually the more I think about yea, the more I think about it, the more I'm being swayed toward cake. Even though I would have said, as a knee jerk bread, maybe it's cake.

I'm sticking with bread. It's in the name. Can argue with the name.

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You can?

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Uh My, this is from Nathan. My new year's resolution is to reach one thousand albums listened to by the end of twenty twenty five. I started keeping track of everything I listened to a couple of years ago, and I'm at about six hundred right now, so aiming for four hundred total in twenty twenty five, still very tall. Order any album recommendations that are personal favorites of yours,

I think it's a perfect album. I don't think there are any flaws on it. It's also just listening through it front to back. It's an incredible not super long. I want to say forty five minutes tops great album, Evil Friends.

I'll say the same one that I bought Ben Hansen for the min Max video where you sent me to a record store, and that's How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful by Florence the Machine. I think all of their albums are incredible, but this was the one that got me introduced to her and the band, and I just think even to the first two tracks are just absolutely incredible, and the rest of the album is great too, and all the other ones are awesome.

Probably have mentioned this before, but my favorite album that I always go to is the Machinarium soundtrack by Thomas Devorak, and I think it's absolutely brilliant.

I think it is so lovely and it really does capture a.

Combination of musical ingenuity but also just like strange mechanical sounds like tones. It sounds like somebody was like hitting pipes, and I I just love the way that it makes me feel. And most of the time when someone asks me what I should listen to if I'm in their car, I asked them to put that album on.

Nice.

Yeah, I find it calming. I also listened to it in the airport. It's like the only thing that I want to listen to when I'm in the airport. I don't know why.

Yeah.

Oh, And if they're looking for other albums, my brother in law, Tom Minda, who did the theme song for this podcast, check out his man Thank You Scientists, And they put out a double album called Terraformer a few years ago that check out a proud rock.

Oh, how lovely, Oh, let me do it, Let Me do one? Yeah, you do.

One one of my favorite bands, Future Islands Samuel Herrings singing is incredible. They've got many good albums. I'd say if you want to listen to one, that every single song is a banger. The album is literally just called singles. If you've heard a song by them, it might be Seasons Waiting on You. That's the one that they kind of blew up on because they went on Letterman and he just went it's.

A really good song. I think Bono called it a miracle.

I don't know if you take Bono's word with anything with a grain of salt these days, but that singles. Their album is literally just a bunch of like one off incredible singles. But twenty twenties As Long as You Are is one of my favorite albums by them.

Ture is that let the yell at them about the dance. He's like, give me all that you got. Yep. He's like, whoh oh yeah, it's you got. Yeah. But as Long as You Are is there is more of a cohesive album. But I'm not saying that in like an you know, up their own ass way. They're all really good songs.

It's just more there's more like pacing variations as opposed to just like catchy song after catchy song after catchy song.

Cool.

I think it's like there's so many good albums, and what a cool is that?

Like a New Year's resolution to see I just think that's a really neat resolution. Most of the time resolutions are boring, like I'm gonna drink less, I'm gonna better myself.

I love the ones where it's just like I'm.

Going to eat everything off of the cheesecake Factory menu.

In twenty twenty five, and it's like, God, bless you.

You know you found something that makes you happy, and like listening to that many albums I think will be very enjoyable and I am.

Happy for you.

I was gonna say that would be three a day, but I think they're saying a thousand total, and no, Nathan was saying that they're at six hundred right now. It wants to hit a thousand four this year to finish slightly over one a day.

Yeah, that's a lot.

Yeah, I think that's great.

I mean, I'm sure there's other like valuable albums I'm trying to think of, like ones that the thing is is like a lot of times I'm always like this is an incredible artist, or like you're gonna really love this song. It's not often that I'm like, this album is a work of art. That is something that I think that I personally just don't think I'm as successful

So it's kind of like a nice push for me to like be a more learned person.

Yeah, and if you're gonna sorry about my coughing, if you've definitely heard me talk about Talking Heads often.

They're my favorite band of all time.

But I do think Speaking in Tongues their album is probably my favorite, which is not an uncommon opinion, but I do think it's just incredible. Gets very weird, but it just.

Makes me.

I go through like eighteen moods listening to that album. But like David Byrne, his songwriting is incredible.

The whole band is just like.

Goes between like really ethereal songs and all of a sudden these weird paranoia songs that just kind of like the guitar is doing one thing and then like Jerry Harrison's doing one thing that you got, Tina Weymoth is playing completely different song, but it's still somehow all works just melts together in an amazing way.

I love that album.

Oh wait, I got one.

When I'm in a mood and I need to like listen to something, I usually go for an album and it's Pantera Vulgar Vulgar.

Display of Power. Great cover too for that album.

That dude, it's actually a fantastic album from beginning to end. That's probably the only one I can think of off the top of my head where it's like, damn, what a solid piece of art that will make you rage in your car if needed, or sleep peacefully depending on your mental I just think that Vulgar Display of Power is incredible.

So please put that on your list if you walk. Oh well, a good one.

There's so many there's so many good ones on it.

And it's also just like this love is actually like so beastie. It's so beast moode I love. I love a lot of songs on that one.

So yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yea yeah yeah yeah all right, Well, good luck to Nathan. Let us know how that's going. That's our show. As we mentioned before, Firescape cast at gmail dot com. If you want to have questions right on the show, we got a bunch, but keep them coming. We always love having a selection to pick from the beginning before we record each episode, and they're.

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As of this as of this episode going on there. Yeah, we watched the final season of What We Do in the Shadows. They they go hard on what's his name? Part Prosy. Yeah, they they go really hard on Colin Robinson. It's a really good season. I love that show. I'm gonna miss it. I'm gonna keep rewatching it, though.

If you they ended it, I think they ended it Dan on Time. I will say that.

I will say this with like so much respect. I absolutely adore that show. It was time, and I'm and I'm glad that they that they ended it. But I also think it I will miss it too, but it was ready, Dan.

I honestly, next time you have a gap, it's six seasons. You don't have to watch all them with their twenty minute episodes.

It's not long and it's funny. In eleven episodes of seasons, I think twenty minutes that a good treadmill show once, you know, with Seinfeld here.

Right when I thought I was annoyed and done with mockumentaries, Taikawai TD and Jamaine Clement from uh you know who?

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Yeah, those guys don't really know Taekwa TD. I know, Jamaine Clement, tew Jojo. I don't think I've seen any of this stuff.

New Zealand crew they they did the movie with three guys back in the day. Jamae Clement was one of the vampires, but living in a house, and I think, uh Auckland or no, what's a Wellington?

Maybe I don't know. In New Zealand now started the movie and didn't love it. Is that's way drier. That's very much like the British Office to Yeah, I don't know. Check it out, watch like a few episodes. There's four.

I loved the movie vampires living in Staten Island and in this mission, in this mansion. But I think Mark Prokes take Colin Robinson takes a few episodes to come along.

But I give it a shot. If it's twenty minutes long, that's easy take.

It takes a couple episodes for you to get adjusted to them. I think that is fair like it graded on me at first and then I fell in love with it.

It's six. I love to write it.

I like all the characters, like Nausea. I think Laslow is fucking hilarious. Matt Barry is incredible in it. I never watched the IT crowd, but he's just great and everything also Matt Berry. If you're talking about music, his music is incredible. He plays like this blues jazz kind of like uh, I don't even know, like punky music, and it's it's incredible.

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No, I haven't seen this guy.

There's like YouTube compilations of how he mispronounces things and what we do in the Shadow and then Nandor the Relentless is really fucking funny too.

New York City, you were the most davious busted in New York City. Yeah, the emphasis on the last syllable.

No matter what he says. When he goes he goes into hiding in Arizona and he just puts the toothpick in and his wife doesn't recognize him anymore.

And he's got the southern accent. He's like, that's just the way we talk him Tucson, Arizonia. Anyway, I could go forever. The show's really funny.

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I could go forever baby, I could go.

For every baby. You got me all wrong? All right, that's deep dish.

Pushy dot com to be a patron fires merch dot com to get some sweet threads.

We don't have bumper stickers yet. We should get some, uh, and then we will be back in two weeks of episode ninety nine. Guys, we got ape again. I talk about episode Oh.

Yeah, let's get We'll get a plan locked in by the time we record the next episode, so we plug it properly.

Yes and yeah, and in two episodes we'll be dropping a fat Benjamin on everybody, so looking forward to that. Yeah. Anyway, Mary, what do you have going on outside of fire Escape Cast?

I am still playing Silent Hell every Monday and on Twitch and I enjoy that. And you can find me doing updates in other places with my name Mary Kish.

There we go. It works.

It's official day you join bomb dot com to start a new season of Blake Club. I'm dressing up like a terminator currently and playing a bad Terminator three game, so and then I have play another game after that's out of that Twitch Instagram, Blue Sky Dan Reichert.

That's where I am everywhere. Cool, I'm here, that's about it.

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Actually I officially started wine certification classes. Did I tell you? Yeah? Yeah, I secretly do this and try to become a super wine guy before you, I would never talk about it as one of the never He's.

Like, I never fucking went into a class. Every time I went to my teacher and was like, hey, I drank wine while I wasn't here, so.

Why just give me an au little bitch? And then the teacher was like, sure, I don't give a fuck about myself. Yeah, but anyway, I can't tell you their name because I drank.

I had a few of them. Yeah, oh cool, you're your level three.

Here's your certificate, but you can tell me it's a red wine because of the color.

Doing w st T level three. Uh, I'm four that.

I'm sure that means nothing for is a diploma. I think I'll eventually do it, but that's I'm just gonna keep.

No. Master of Wine is the only thing above diploma on that side. No, No, I got past that.

I'm king of wine.

What's the chief great varietal in sancer in France? Uh?

They don't look you have to get further, and it's like scientology. They don't tell you the real ship until later. They took me out on a boat and they told them they like the blood.

You accumulate too much insight.

You have to pay a lot of money to get to the level I'm at and with knowledge, so I can't just give it away for free.

So okay, fair enough, very fair. I'll be there in a few years and then we'll hang out. We'll talk, we'll talk wine, we'll talk the party. All right, Well that's our episode. Everybody, thanks is always for hanging out. We'll see you in a couple of weeks. Until then, Happy New Year.

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