Giant Bombcast 800: Love Tunnel

Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, August first, twenty twenty three. Welcome to the Giant BombCast powered by NCXT. This is episode eight hundred. It's too many. It's too many podcasts. In all honesty, it's probably more than eight hundred because of all the Game of the Years, the miscellaneous side, the E three at nights. Who knows what else goes on this feed. You've been on this feed, you know. We gotta like it smells sometimes when we're airing it out. Welcome to the Giant Bomb Cast. I am

your host, Jan show On joining me co captain of the ship. He's blue Abu diy Abu Dai Jeff Grub. We're aaron it out the only way we know how, by piling everybody into one room for a podcast. Let's go. I eight hundred looks like boo, So can we pretend this is the Haunted Bomb Cast. It's almost Halloween, right, it is the season. You know them, it is the bottom half of this call is wearing

all black. That's right, We've got the memo. Oh man, uh, everyone needs to ask him to let me expense the wheel of fortune. One up arcade machine. Jeff Baccalar Hello, Jen, How are you? Eight hundred? What a day? What a deal? What a number? Happy to be here, fantastic. That's a slot machine, by the way, Jan, right that you're talking about that? Yeah, I looked. I thought it was, but it's it's it's actually got the it's not the hat that thought that if it was an Arcade one up slot machine, that'd

be a really sad weird thing. I think it's an actual Wheel of Fortune game, right, Okay. I like the sad weird thing though. That's why I got excited. That's the slot machine you want to play, because then like, yeah, you will you spend that wheel? You can win big money, that's right. Well right, But if you're just buying the machine just to get the slot machine thing without the possibility of winning money, that's tragically sad to me. Sure, yes, yes, what okay?

Well what if I put in five bucks for you to win? Dan and I win money? Well, yeah, I put in five bucks the Wheel of Fortune machine. Also on the show this week, mister Worldwide himself, who the hell knows where he's at this week? Dan Ryker, Yes, Hello, I'm in Kansas. Uh, it's hot. It's very hot here. I'm surrounded by swords and animals. It's Kansas, where I went to medieval times. It sounds like the same thing. Yeah, basically the exact same thing. Yeah, the blue Night, Blue Nights, my guy,

speaking about swords. We got the sharpest person in games media. Do you want if you gonna be, which which one's gonna be, tam Lucy James, give me the only one, two high. I'm gonna be riding that high for the rest of the month. That's right, Because it's August and we've we've August is also named after Augustus Caesar because it's time to conquer. And we got the most dominant man because he's not a bottom Tamor who say I am very dominant? I hear, but you know we said yeah and

we and we got the bad boy of games media. He's at the bottom of this call because he's holding everything up. He's he's the strongest person in games media. He's supporting everything. Mike Manadi, Hi, Yeah, I'm real bad and strong, Mike. This is when he's doing this is when you do it, yes, and and it's like, you know, like you're a brother. I'm at I'm the Atlas of games media. The wields on my shoulders. The discourse trickles off me like like, alright, I'm

holding it all up. Don't hurt yourself, don't hurt yourself. That power Bottom go. We can't name the podcast that Welcome to everyone? How's how's it going? I thought we'd get everyone together and and it's great. It's going to be chaos. I don't think we're gonna talk about shit. I just imagined a new podcast called the Giant Bomb Power Bottom Costs. I don't know. I feel like we should both do that and never speak of it again. But will we talk about the one with all the porn acronyms somehow?

What pog was give me a grip Mike for for my own education? What is POG being again? Fat ass? My god? Why is it? It's just like a human sound bite machine. I love it? Uh the other fun ones? Yeah no, I'm I'm not doing it. Okay, all right that starting from here on out, across all of Giant Bomb Media, we are no longer gonna say the three letters C word. Okay, yeah, alright, alright, not pretty close? All right, We're all I need everyone. Everyone puts your hands in right, now all right,

everyone, put your hands into your camera. All right, you look too watching live. If you're a weirdo watching on twitch and being weird in the twitch chat, put your hands in anyway your jerks, all right? From here on out. August first, twenty twenty three, we will never say the three letters C word on this website again. All right on three, one two three. There we go. It was so hard to resist it a moment. We're never not gonna say it again. I just don't

think we should say it for a long time as well. Yeah, I think I think like we'll end up saying it inevitably. It will just be one of those things that comes and goes. You know, fuck up, Tim, what I wouldn't say? Anything said? Are we going to take a moratora come? Okay, listen. They just didn't make a rule. What am I supposed to do? Not say my thoughts? Make a rule? Jen, Literally, this is what you did. You went, there's a red button of the don't press it in a room full of people that

are expert button presses. No, it was more like a hot oven, a hot stove, and we were just like, oh, hand right on the sizzling pen. Oh God, I I don't even want to look at the other document. How's it going? Everyone, Everyone's good, Everyone's recovered from everything. Now it's I feel like it's been a busy summer across the board, so busy. I feel okay, I've got my tea, I've changed some coffee or tea during the week. I can't do how's that?

How's that change going? It's as even pretty well. I think it's because it's tapping into a primal British version of me where I can just have a lot of tea and I don't get my heart palpitations anymore. So that's good. What's primal about it? I don't understand. My teeth have got worse and I'm dropping my consonants. You sound different, Lucy. Are you doing Are you not putting on your media trained accent? No? No, Well, when she drinks tea, she becomes a little more British. Yeah.

And also if I had my British friends staying with me for a week, so you know, there was like a little bit and yesterday's meeting, I'm like, Lucy, she's British again. Yeah, I mean just like you guys accent? Are you guys figuring what means and so I gotta like tone it down. Is that a conscious thing or is it just happen? No? I I genuinely think it's because it's the way of my mouth works. Is that I find the American accent easier to dip into because it's sorry,

a lazy accent. Oh yeah, no we know that. No, yeah, I don't change mine at all. And it shows because people constantly are going, huh, what can you say that again? And like, yeah, what what? Every time I got to a coffee shop they just like excuse me. Also, I've stopped calling myself Tam because they keep sucking my name up. Oh, Comic Con was unreal for this. It was it was wild. Please looking at me and oh my god, I can't remember what the one act Pam cam yeh, damn Dan, you got like every

variation I've had. I've had one. A few weeks ago someone at Stilbus I was like, Tam wrote it, write it down. I was like, okay, cool cup comes to me, look at it, says Roy, Like what is going on? So now I just started coming up with I'm currently trying to find a good, uh white person named to set Jerry, Jerry, you're you're a Jerry. We got a Jeff slot open. You want to join the Jeff's. Maybe I will stop calling myself Jeff. What about it? Like it's the harshest sound like Jeff, Like no one

ever misses it up? Hey, I got Jeff Todd who Jeff? You can do like an exclamation point after like jab, I'm gonna see it. Dam didn't hear me doing an impression of a uh, you can't wrestling pack pack? Everyone be quiet. I'm not doing it in front not doing it in front of them? Do it? You? You have permission? You don't want to give him that that he's doing pack, which is a Jordy Jordy accent. Is that right? What is that? Yeah, Lucy,

that's a Jordy accent. For Mike mcnatti, No Jordy accent would be this one. Whatever that was was just syllables and they weren't even struck together. We've got you coming up against Orange Cassidy. What are you gonna do to Orange Cassidy pack? Oh God, that is just I just want your lips. That is that is easily one of the worst accents I've ever heard in my lifetime. And I'm not saying I'm not hurting his head when he stopped

talking. I'm not saying British accents. I'm talking all accents. And and for anyone out there who has the time, please take that Mitch McConnell video and put Mike over it, zooming on his head, zooming on his head, and take the video of Mike saying that in his head like over. If you need more footage or need more audio, go to the A W quick look fastinards when Mike is as packed. Oh man me, I'll give you a clean take what we have to do. Welcome to episode hundred.

No no, but we need like a solid ten seconds of it. Okay, everyone quiet, So everyone quiet, so ready go Uncle took out episode h and my nose pocket. I would like to watch the w triangle. I think you got what text joint try in it? Well you should all go play with us and wrestling in it. Thank you. And what I gotta say about that in it? Oh my god, that is so when I was the ending was irish sound of a stroke. Oh my god, justin master shake like regular Please. I don't even know why, I don't

I don't even know how. I don't know what you were doing when he did that during the quick looks like, Lucy, we're twelve minutes into the bomb cast. My moisturizer has already got into my eyes. What made you cry? I'm sorry? Oh oh, it's great. Before we talk about video games, I went to something over the weekend. Uh that was absolutely insane and I really need to talk about it. I went to go see

Taylor Swift over the weekend. Was that every every friend of mine who went, it's they're talking about this, uh, this event that changed their lives. They've transcended, They've reached Nirvana. Yo. Yeah, you does that white woman have overall? Are you a Taylor Swift fan? I was on the fence. I was on the fence, you know, I know, I know the thing. You were like, hell yeah, and find that clip on the internet. All right? First of all, okay, all

right, all right, right. They started doing this thing at these Taylor Swift concerts. If you used to go to raves like I did, maybe it was like three or four raves I don't went to. Don't. We don't want to talk about it. People would exchange candy or friendship bracelets, right, beaded bracelets with each other, and my partner went hog wild. She made like eighty bracelets and she put them on a carabiner to exchange with

other fellow Taylor Swift fans. Right other Taylor Swift fans were also doing this. It's become a thing. Over the concert, we go through security and then security says, hey, you can't have those bracelets be loose. You have to wear all of them. They all have to be on you. So my partner and I jump out of line and are frantically shoveling eighty bracelets onto our wrists. And then she was like freaking out, and I was like, five, fine, fine, I'll just put them all on my

wrists. So I had like forty and forty just like beaded bracelets all up and down my arms. And then security is just laughing at me watching this happen. And then you know what, everyone had to do it. And then we all took the bracelets off immediately afterwards. But here's the thing. Here's the thing, y'all. I was on the fence about Taylor. I'm I'm now part of the Church of Taylor Swift. Yeah, now that you

come out of church, popular she is. She is like this. I heard she came to Kansa city and it brought like WrestleMania money to the city. So many people saw this. Yes, yes, she calls an earthquake in Seattle or like a seismic activity in Seattle. Yeah. Yeah. There was so many people on the Taylor. It was like a two point five

or something Yo, Homegirl. Forty four songs, close to three hour set, maybe five minutes like five minutes of a break, and then the whole time just like, wow, look at this, look look at this long back. Go Wow, she's still going. She's still going. And then the thing that I felt the greatest about, I'm watching all these people around me having the fucking time of their lives. These people have finally felt empowered in a way that they've never felt empowered and emboldened, and it was it

was insane. Also, this is the only show that I've ever gone compliments at. It was great. It was great for myself was the compliment. No, just on my outfit. They were like, you look good today, Hey, I like that today. Shout that at all these people seeing you on the day today basis well, you know question twenty twenty three, Who is more relevant, Taylor Swift or Mickey Mouse. Taylor Swift with a

simple question, just had an answer from one of our panelists here. Also, because you know it is predominantly there's a lot more females or female presenting people at this show. The lines for the bath the restroom were insane. So halfway through the show, Uh, all the women decided, fuck this, I'm gonna go into the men's room. Fucking there you go. So you just go in the exit door. Ladies, I'm telling you you can step. Why would you even tell on yourself again, Like, we haven't

talked about that in months. Why put yourself out there again? Dan, The ratio is probably the same as dudes at a wrestling show and ladies at a Taylor Swift show. They can learn from the WrestleMania tactic. It works like a charm. A sure. So I was. I was at the urinal and then I'm just feeling self conscious that all these women are there, and then one of them pulls out their phone to take a picture of dudes peeing crime crime and then Dan, Dan, you've been lea stadium. You

were there for WrestleMania, right, Yeah, great stadium, yeah. It was infinitely more insane. More people dressed up in like than WrestleMania. Like was it filled was sold out, sold out, sold out like people on the floor, and then the thing was like other than like the lack of piro like stage why is absolutely insane. It felt like a WrestleMania. She had some Piro. Yeah there was a miscellaneous Piro outside as well, but

anyway, she neat Roman reins at the end. You know, she could have she could have the crowd with a poverty big she she gives me, ah, like Cody Rhodes style heat you know, Okay, okay, the Cody Rhodes of music. I think so yeah, yeah, yeah. Cody Rose felt a little bit overexposed for a bit, hit his own thing, and then like came back super hot. And I feel like that's what Taylor Swift is. Thank you in terms I understand. I appreciate it. That's

what I'm here for. I watched a man put forty marshmallows in his mouth at the Blue Man Group. I was gonna ask me still doing that bit. They did that when I was a kid. It's a good bit, it's a good rub. I don't care about what you saw of the Blue Men group. I want to know what the Gimmicks thought of the Blue Man Group. Yeah. So, uh, we were front row and they were Yeah, they were pretty impressed initially, and then about halfway through they're like

after every bit, they're like, is this over yet? Very loud, that was one of them. Add he was add he was like into it the whole time. Maybe it was just maybe gets loud noises. It's like pretty tough for her after a while. But I was impressed. They were very fun. The going out in the audience thing, of course with front rows. So I'm looking in front of me and I see this like stepped down from the stage. I'm like, well, this is uh, this

is gonna be something. And of course the guy steps like right over my head. And then they're looking for two people to get married eventually. And while they're doing that, the guy does come and sit right next to me and then just stares at me for a solid three minutes, just staring at me while the other two are out there and the audience doing their thing. And it was it was fun. It was it was a really good time. They dedly updated some stuff because they had like some big iPhone bits on

the stage where they're swiping on the screen and stuff. I guess maybe that could be ten years old now at this point too. But yeah, a few years ago where they they came out to the crowd and they came I was on the aisle and they came up. They brought a big hose to me, and I was like, oh god, what are they gonna do. And they're like, shove it like up to my mouth and they're like, kind of they cover it in a way, yes, yeah, they didn't to me, and they covered it, and so like I started selling

it like convulsing, like something was happening to me. And they had on the screen it had like a camera going in for like an asophic, right kid, Ye had a good bit. Yeah, it's a great show. It was really fun. It was in ninety minutes. It's like it's all the bits are really good and you get really excited and the drumming, the stomp part of it is actually always a good like reset your your expectations,

do something funny. Evil Times are Blue Man Group. I think for me Blue Man Group was a little bit better, but they were both really fun. Medieval Times was fantastic. I really went. My guy was just got absolutely crushed, which Drew McIntire did you have I got the blue Droomac and tire. Yes, so they're all love haired beards. Yes, uh, like you know they do the dressage, the horse stuff. That was fun

too. But no, the Blue Knight just immediately lost in the very first fight and then I didn't see him again for the rest of the night. Like he took it right, he died. Yeah, that was that was good to the kids. Addie got a toy sword that like it like lights up glowing with like all the rainbow colors, and every time, like the Blue Knight had to do something, she was just holding it up like you have my sword the entire night. So yes, she was super It was

a lot of fun. That was Backard didn't ours suck like our Knight like lost right away right when we went oh shit, Uh yeah, we were really rooting for him and he just were super high, so I wouldn't expect you to remember, Yeah, we were all very they didn't make it out. Yeah, when I went on my high school DC trip, our Night one, I don't think I ever got into a show born in my like rooting for our Medieval Times. I had. I had like an autographed flag

from him. Somehow I found him and made it autograph. It was in my room for a very long time, in a box somewhere. I gotta find it. My wife fan thank you. She used to do a tour groups and she would do them in Chicago and they would almost always go to Medieval Times and she would like, these are middle schoolers, and she tell me all the middle school girls would just fall in love with their night immediately and be screaming like it was the fucking Beatles. And I'm like, oh,

I can imagine that. You see the Knights come out like throw roses out in the audience, and it's like, oh okay, yeah, they're playing it up and stuff. Let me find it. Because there was a guy, there was a Knight who went viral on TikTok. I think he's just TikTok Medieval Times. He was like the TikTok I saw was this gay person saying I think I'm straight. I mean it's like the it's like the fantasy, like a night comes and screaming off your feet or whatever like that

is it. I've dropped it in yet. Okay, I'm looking at this thing. Man, that's a good name. That's a good name. Hey, Tara, Lucy, how is copicn Oh, well, I was gonna say, if we're talking about shows that we've seen, oh please, yeah, fuck Comicon because Tam and I saw a magician at the weekend. Okay, Nick Ivory, he's in San Diego. No, it was Jay Alexander some threads. Oh god, the Markesh Theater in San Francisco, which the Mary Kish Theater. Yeah, the Mary Kish Theater in the San Francisco.

He's incredible. It's like a mentalist. He does close up magic. It was so good. It wasn't Jason Alexander, Jay Alexand anyway, No, So we did that. We took like fourteen people, and some people needed more convincing than others. Max, but we got there and we all had a hell of a time. And one of our friends cried at a card trick, so not even like by the time we got in, she cried because she was just so delighted. That was the That's what we took.

So basically, another friend of ours said that they were actually kind of a little bit traumatized from magic because Randy Pitchford, but you know, we got there. Sure. We basically we opened up Magic to a whole new group of people. It's to people's hearts. Yeah, he's been there for a really long time. I've seen him. This was my fourth time seeing him, my second, Yeah, just because I like really like his show. Yeah, people were like crediting you with like, oh I think it was

was it? I can't remember who was on threads and posts like hey, Tam took us here, so like this is your guy, Tam, this is like your magician. Yeah. Mine and Lucy's Yeah, we're kind of like I've been there multiple times, but this is one of the first shows we did when we moved over post pandemic. Yeah, because our buddy came to town and we were like, yeah, come on in, we'll find

something to do. And then it was actually Kurt and Juliana. Yeah, he will cuts over on game Spot and Juliana used to be game Spot. He basically got roped into seeing this magician and then drunkenly at the bar one night, we were like we should all go, and then we all spent money and bought the tickets so then we can't had to. But it was the best. Yeah, if I feel like we've talked a lot about him being amazing, we actually haven't said why, but like he has this.

The theater is quite small. It's very very small, to the point where regardless of where you sit in the room, you're basically within earshot of him. It means that he can like interact with you directly, which is something that he's built his show around. Instead of being at a distance and doing these magic tricks silently, he talks to you and puts you in the show. Show. He's very charismatic and funny. Sometimes he uses jokes throughout his

shows. I've seen some of them where the jokes are basically the same. It's still funny every time, and that's because he relies on the audience reaction. It's like wrestling, like you know, the eight hundredth time you've seen a stone cold stunner, you shouldn't be wild by it, but you know, when everyone is losing this ship, you're you're part of it as well, and you're just like, oh my god. Wrestling references lately, he's a change Jeb. Number of bombasts there too, exactly. Yeah, I'm

just waiting. I'm just building up to a joint of the clown reference, it's going to blow away. But yeah, so he does like really close magic, and he's also is like, I'm not doing magic. I'm doing like maths, and I'm doing like suggestion. I'm doing like sleight of hand stuff. So he's but regardless of him saying that, when he does his thing, you're like, that's magic. I don't know how you did that.

That's crazy. The one where he where he got like a number from the crowd and just put it and then he worked out like all of the numbers in a row would add up to be that number, and then all the numbers going down would add it to that number, all the numbers diagonally would add it to be that number, and then all the numbers in the middle and each quarter would all and you know, that's mats. But he did it in like ten seconds. And his big trick is this thing which

I don't know, like he gets two people from the audience. In this case, it was usually every time I've seen it before, it's always been twins. But I thought, oh, it's it's it's got to be reliant on twins, which means it's rigged somehow. This time, he didn't pick twins. He picked two people that are completely unrelated from our friend group, and he takes them on to the stage and he sits them down in chairs and then he tells them to imagine that from the bottom of their feet,

like roots are growing and like they connect together and intertwine. So they so the two people are connected. And then what he does is he stands behind them. They both have their eyes closed, and he'll touch one and say, if you felt a touch on your back, lift up your hand, and they'd both put their hand up and then he'd like do that back and forth. So he was basically like tapping one person, the other person would react and tapping you know a certain amount of times and stay like how many

times were you tapped? And they put the correct number up both of them and their eyes are closed. And he also was like, while I do this trick, you're allowed to film it because then you can show them after what was happening, because they never believe it and it is it is wild. He does something super cool. No, no, they're not plants because they are friends for me. And he'd done this to Lucy as well, like he called us up on stage and like talked to us for a little

bit and looked in eyes and then he fell in love. Yeah, he guessed the name of a childhood friend, accurately, my childhood friend. It's called Sean s I A N. Yeah, which is very specific name, and mine was Ali he spelled did he spell it? Yeah. So you hold your hand out and then he has his hand like gently resting on yours, and you go through the alphabet and you just say no to every letter he said, he bas he goes ABC and you go no, no, no, no, no no. And then he does it where he like

he has a blindfold on. He turns away and yeah, he got Sean. So it's like, yeah, for a while, I thought, oh, he's probably like searching people up when they buy tickets. But then the name he guess for me isn't someone that you can search and find me. Okay. So so when you you're taught, okay, but we're all we're all in agreement that like it's just a very good showmanship, right, it

isn't real, Yes, okay, isn't real. He's like mentalists in psychology and that's sure, sure, sure, okay, cool, great, then this is great fun great. Oh yeah, it was incredible. So next time you guys will come Hulu like that Hulu thing that like what is and what should never be? Guy with the gold brick, you know what I mean? Yeah, you know what I mean. The Magician. Then you everybody in the oh yeah yeah, yeah, l I am a whatever I am you know at the end, yeah yeah, and in and of itself.

Yeah, okay, okay, you're talking about the great Valentino, the Masque Magician, see, the one that revealed the secrets that exposed the Yeas circle, and then they brought him back as another So they brought back someone else as the masque magician, and people just knew. They were like, that's not value. Okay, I have a question. I have a question. Would everyone be okay if I take like six months off and go on a magician pilgrimage? Yeah, okay, damn yeah, I don't think I

don't think we'd be okay with that. I know, everyone's very encouraging. I'm not I'm saying that because like, we would miss you dearly in the Nick Ivory Nick Ivory's the host for that time. Yeah, he knows nothing about video production, but he's constantly pulling coins and cards out of people's heads. He can figure it out. That's true, That's okay. Well, I won't go on a magician's pilgrimage, but I will talk about video games.

Eight hundred Oh my gosh, eight hundred, eight hundreds. Who's who's been here for most of the eight hundred? Jan Right, you're there, you're the guy Dan, right? Might be me? No, Dan? When did do startast Cast? For a long time? Yeah, yeah, I look this up. I'm close to three hundred episodes of doing I was on the West coast for half of twenty fourteen and all of twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen, so you might be on more. How many beast casts?

Oh? Best and you and they were only there for what I started there in early at the beginning of twenty seventeen, is when I started on the beast Cast. Is it just people that have been Is it just people that have been on the podcast? Because technically I listened to all of them, so all of them and eleven East casts? Right? Yeah, right, Yeah, that's why the amber is the color of your energy back. Actually, that's your favorite color? Amber? Uh? Pickman four, Oh,

tell me about Pickmen four? I am no. I am probably like I was traveling, but every night I'd get back to the hotel and I would like be like, I'll play for I'll do like one thing, and then I would play for like an hour and a half. So it's I can't stop playing it. It's so so so good. Really, someone just does someone just turn on Pickman? Or did I have Because I was like this reaction, I was like Adland Winter Grub is playing Pickmen right now, she's

forged. She can't help, but she's really you got you gotta throw the pickmen at the mushrooms. There you go. You got it, Grubs. You do the X thing to make them all dash? Or do you gotta I gotta jam it? I like I do a combination of both, depending on it's It's context sensitive, because in some circumstances, I want everyone attacking as quickly as possible, so I will send them. But most of the time it's the most fun to just throw each individual pickman at there and jam

it. Like you said, uh, this game is just carrot on a stick. The game everything encourage you just to keep playing, Like all the upgrades for for both your your character and for your pup. It's like, oh man, I can't wait to see what I'm gonna get next. And then what you get next is like gonna help you get that thing in the world that you saw on the horizon. This is stuff. It's been part of Pickman, but it is so refined here, it is so well put

together that I just cannot stop playing. It is easily number two on my Game of the Year list right now. It is that good it is. It's there's that it's hard to stop playing where it's like there's these obvious places you could stop. It's like I'm gonna do one day and then I'm done. But then it's like, oh, but then I rescued that crewmate. And then like when you rescue crewmates, a lot of times you'll have like leaves growing out of their face and you have to like harvest the stuff at

night to cure them. So it's like, oh, okay, those night missions are not as long. I'll go ahead and hop in there. It's almost like this horrid mode thing where you're protecting these uh these goo producers or whatever. Oh boy, we said we wouldn't talk about that protect Yeah, there's quality of life stuff all over the place you can map things to L three and the D pad, which is really helpful. Like if you just want to switch between your character and the dog very quickly, you can do

that if you want to call any idol Pickman. There's a lot of like upgrades and stuff like Grub said that really help out. There's more variety in this one than any of the other ones. Like every Pickman, I really liked. Every Pickman is a solid B plus to me until this one, and now I'm like, holy shit, I am this is like like grub you said, easy number two of the year for me. I can't stop thirty five hours in There's a lot to do even after you like see credits.

You know, I played probably ten to fifteen hours post credits one percent everything. I've liked them all a lot, but I love, love, love this one. Isn't it wild that like possibly number at least for YouTube Game of the Year's number one and two or Switch Games. Well, you're making assumptions here, James. I'm making assumptions. Yes, I'm just this year is great. I'm guestimating. I'm guestimating. Yeah, well I'm going to Madden this year actually instead, Yeah, yeah, Switch is doing great.

It's it's just yeah, it comes down to they gave this, They kept giving this serious chances, and they took a long time on this one.

It felt like for years and years and years. You hear Pickman Force coming, like it was like five six years ago when me and Moota says, yeah, we're making Pickman four, and then it went silent for a very long time and then pop back up and it's just clear that pretty similar to Tears of the Kingdom, they spent all that time thinking about, let's fill this game with content, and then let's make sure that the chains between

each like pocket of content. It's very very strong, and that like Dan said, like that that not all the content content has like this monotonous monotonous, a sort of you know, cadence to it, like you're gonna go out in the day, you're gonna find some stuff, you're gonna do some expiration and that as a time limit, there's no longer the overall time limit of like thirty days or running out of food, so that stress has gone. But then like to break that stuff up like those night missions, like

he said, not that long. It's like okay, so we're gonna pop a little bit gameplay here that's a little bit different with that horrid mode, and then you'll go back to the day and you'll you'll feel refreshed and ready to go back out there and wanting to see what you could do now, and that you that you have this new crew member that might unlock this new

thing or something like that. It's just so well thought out. And yeah, I've always loved Pickman like and you know, b plus, I think Pickman three Delecta was the one that got to a for me where they really figured it out. This one is like even better than that by far. It's I'm like a little bit of a shame that not everyone's playing it, but I get it Pickman. Maybe I think it's burned people in the past where like I thought this would be for me, it's not really for me.

It's that that time limit was too stressful. They've solved all those problems, and I think a lot of people are like, well, no, I already know Pickman's not for me. It's like, I think this one probably would be for most people. Well that's the thing I mean, because I've never been a Pickman person, just because I never I was never really

a Nintendo person. I'm sorry, but I really, like we know, I was a PC gamer, PC games being the Sims Anyway, I was gonna say, I did adore tiny Kin last year, so he's Pickman four gonna be more akin to that. There's more going on. I think tiny Kin is shorter, it's a little more streamlined. I would just say it's it's like, you know, this one gets into the action game genre,

right. This one's because you're like, you have like a jump button and you're kind of I don't know, it feels a little bit more actiony than the RTS than they went for originally. But but but tiny Kin's definitely a platformer, right Dan, Like, that's how I would describe is more of

a platformer than this. Yeah. And although I would say, while this one is less stressful like website, because there's not the overall time limit, for those that do like the kind of like time based, you know, more challenging stuff these Dan Dory battles or there's two different types that I love.

One of them is you go in and you have like seven minutes and there's one hundred and eighty points worth of stuff that can be enemy carcasses you gotta bring back that can be a wave bird, that can be a giant peach or something, and you have seven minutes to like kill all the enemies and bring everything back to your ship. And you know you can you can pass with the bronze or whatever. But like there's so much fun. I've

platinum to all of them. And then the other one is these one on one Dan Dory battles where it's you versus an Ai and you both have your dog, you both have your pickman, and you're basically you have the same field. You're both in the same physical space. There's like Mario Kart power ups and stuff where you can fuck up the other person and stuff, and

you were seeing how much stuff you can bring back. You need to beat them points wise at the end of the time limit, and you can like get a bomb that goes towards their base and it blows up all their ship, and then you can steal all their ship and bring it to your base. It's super hectic and fun and fast pace and it is the only like well, there's like a co op in the way that like Mario Galaxy was co op, where like you get throw rocks kind of like an adult kid

a system mode actually how that ends up feeling? Yeah, yeah, but Dan Dory is the only actual, like real two player mode, And like, once I'm done done with this, I think it'd be great to stream some of these. I don't know if it's online or just local. No, we we looked Dan, it wasn't online. Net time we get together, we'll try to do one, and I think that would be great because I'm super into what they're doing here with that stuff. Now that's not going

to be a main draw. Don't get this to do the din door battles against another person because there is local only unless you have someone like in your house that would play that with you. But it is again, it breaks up this this progression of gameplay, and it's it really is a great expression of I have gotten all these upgrades. Now I can manage idle pickman, and I could separate my character and the dog and have them take things to

different areas and sort of split that stuff up more efficiently. And I know how to do that, except I've been playing the main game and slowly learning in the less stressful overworld, and now like, now that you've build up all these skills and unlocked all these other things. It's a really fun way to express your abilities. So yeah, they just again, they just thought about every little thing, and it's it's the best the game's ever been,

for sure. I'm sorry, so I won't I won't spoil those specifics. But if you are a fan of the time limit way that they've done in the past, there is something for you that you can about this, and it's like it's kind of like your whole til Yeah, yeah, my my grub like thoughts came into my head and I just need to say it out loud. It circling back to the Taylor Swift concert, there's a there were a lot of fair skin folks out there, No way, a lot of

flatbacks. You know what, Mike, you know what? Anyway, long backs long about it. I'm also confused by that. Hey, hey, no, we cannot explain this. We cannot explain we cannot no, no, no no, because then I gotta google Tam and I the long back think about it, because then Tam and I will get on a showtime show and then we'll start hating each other, and I can't is she known for that time? There was a there was Jimmy fallon clip of like, we

don't have to explain it. It's all my fair skin friends out there. If you were going to go to a concert and wait out in the sun, please wear some sunscreen. No, no, wear sunscreen all of the time. Every day. If you leave the house, you put sunscreen on. Look at me, yeah, oh please, oh please. We're just gonna ignore the freaking for a long time, for long in the ruin every day, every day, every day. The sun is the worst thing for your skin in terms of aging, in terms of issues you can have later.

Hating the sun. You're preaching to the choir their friend. Okay, yeah, I know it's all in your faces and stuff. I'll do a two hour walk and there's the crazy sun with no sunscreen is very adamant. She is every way. Don't do it. Let me give you a tip for it. Simply, do not put it in your eyebrows. It goes down, You sweat, then it goes down, put it, rub it in. You should not leave your apartment. You should not go up here because they don't have hair anymore. So she goes down. This is what

people do. They put sunscreen on it and they come out and that you can see they've just got white cream all over the face, rub it in it, doing a little bit at a time. Face listen, were going to talk about it. You don't have a mirror, you're at the lake, you can't tell, and you do it, and you look like a damn fool. Look at the water for the top of your heads. You

have to just do you know who looks like a damn fool? Then my fucking dad, who literally has to get like chopped up every six months because he's got all these fucked up growths on his face. I'm not putting sunscreen on. He's a seventy year old man. Just sh fire at Dad there for no reason whatsoever, Dude, he's away. Louis Louie, fucked up Louis again, don't be like Louis. Like, no, be like sweet lou except for lack of sunscreen application. Okay, if you're outside for more

than fifteen minutes, you should be wearing sunscreen straight up. Well you're outside of yes, taking out the garbage. You said, fucked up little growths. And that reminds me of a game that I've been playing. Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Oh is it good. I downloaded it, but I haven't sawed it yet. All right, all right, I'm I'm maybe like an hour or so in so I'm still learning all of the Hello Kitty mechanics. She's five apples tall, by the way, shouts out to Kuropi gang out

there. I had a Kuropi backpack growing up. I don't know why. It was a fun not a cat. She's a little girl wearing a cat mask. Everyone get that out of the way. Yeah, it's messed up. Yeah, we don't need we don't need to explore. Actually a frog wearing a frog mask. It's really a frog's yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, I think Hello Kitty. I'm sorry, I'm really I know he brought up so we can move on, but like, can you see Hello Kitty? Up? I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. Can I see?

Can I see Hello Kitty? Like Google, We're not gonna stop you in your perversions. You have a conversation with my friends about him, said with a computer jet. I don't have an answer for you on this. I've never had this urge. I don't There is official maskless Hello Kitty. You can find you can I just I just searched maskless, Hello cat, cat, Hello cat, not kiddy anymore? Dat? Hold on, did you know hello kitty is not a cat? That's what's a cartoon. It's

a cartoon. I found this out recently. Hello kitty is a not a cat, it's a human. Yeah. Literally, just everyone broke up for me for a solid minute. Everyone heard I've been I heard like you guys say hello kitty, and then everyone went, wait, my computer is freezing clear what I said. It's absolutely a cat. It's not a girl in a cat mask. According to her backstory, she lives in a London suburb with her family and is close to her twin system Mimi, who is depicted

with a yellow bow. Can hear you sorry, it's a cat. It's just like the guy that packed twenty thousand dollars to look like a border colleague recently. Yeah, okay, I know you say it's a cat mask, but like she also has a little paws, like enhanced feet. Yeah, she cooksmorphic cat meaning a cat. So if you like animal crossing introduced to my children, If you like animal crossing at all, and you wish there was more things in animal cross specifically new horizons, and you have an iPhone.

Perhaps you bought a new Apple device and you have two three months of Apple Arcade for free, or you forgot that you've been subscribed to Apple Arcade and you want something on there to play. I highly recommend Hello Kiddy Island Adventure. I made a little freak with an egg on his head, and he's hilarious. He looks so dumb. Uh but here I am farming all over again. It's scratching the same itch as Uh god, what was the Disney game? I was obsessed with Island? No? Yes, yes that

one. Hey hey, hey, now hey now, uh not as a thick let's just say that yeah yeah, yeah, not a stick? Or uh about this little girl cat? No no, no, no, dreamlike value, dreamlike val, dreamline value, not a long bag. Yes, yes, we made a mistake teaching him this, but uh okay, Hey, I spent an hour in I actually want a quick look this game. So I'm gonna have to figure out how to hook up my Apple TV to

my capture set. If you'll do it, If if you like Animal Crossing, or say you have a young one in the house that you'd like to introduce to a game similar to Hey, I'm talking about games. Uh, similar, I get it to animal crossing or like management type of stuff. I would highly suggest, Hello, Kitty Island Adventure. It's fun, It's great you touched on this jam. This is the thing. I'm like, So I am curious because my kids would like this. But we we you

know, I just I'm I like the sideload stuff. So I got all Android stuff. Uh so we do it like an old iPad laying around. But like I think I would just want to get something new and hook it up to the TV. Should I get an Apple TV? Or should I get like a Mac Mini? Or should I Does anyone have like an answer for this? Is there like a good thing I should go for if I want to get into this ecosystem or like a you know, a light scale.

I think if you have a spare TV or something that needs to be hooked up to the Internet that you want, like as another Plex TV or whatever, like getting a cheap Apple TV would do the trick. And I think it's I think it'd be serviceable. You can hook up any type of controller to the Apple TV as well, so I believe you could hook up like an eight bit do or even a PS five dual sense to it, like I put my backbone onto my phone to play Hello Kitty Island Adventure working

completely fine, It's great. Yeah, I think the gimmicks would enjoy it. It would also you could just use Apple you can cast it right, yeah, you can screen mirror. Yeah, I could try. I'll try. I've been playing again. It's not the inputs on complicated. You can just it's just like walking around. They may be more uh well versed with touch screen controls anyway. Yeah, yeah, they're they're fine with either one. Actually, they go back and forth, so okay, yeah, I'll

I'll see about Apple TV is probably the way I'm gonna go though. That's that seems good. Yeah, uh grub. It may set them off on a terrible, terrible obsession. If they like Kirby, they're gonna love the shit out of him. Yea once they see Chuck. Okay, it's over.

They've they've just discovered Hello Kitty or rediscovered that. You know. These are kinds of things that like come into their orbit and like they're like, yeah, not right now, and then it comes back like no, I love Hello Kitty and that just happened then like the last month, so I thought the time he was fortuitous, and I'm like, I will try to encourage this whatever, you know, Let's go from one thing to the next. Let's get into Hello Kitty now, uh, yes, hello the era.

We're all just gonna go into our Hello Kiddy area. We're all gonna wear fun bows up to Backlar is totally the bad atts Maru of the crew. Huh who's that? Definitely? Yeah? Yeah. Can you just not say things that I don't know what they are? Can you you? We wouldn't have a lot to say. Oh a picture, yeah, yeah, that's put a hat on it and give him a hockey stick. That's a back right in the kisser. Oh yeah, Wow, Lucy, that that was too easy. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go lay down for a

couple of years. Classic Boatsmorrow move, I'm lay down well, talking about one group of funny animals to another as I take care of my little funny animal. Mike Manati, tell me about Cubeavore. I'd love to tell you about keep or finally we've combined cubes with four everybody we did it? Yeah, this is that. This is that game cube game I bought at that corn I went to with Jeff grub Uh. So, you know, I always say it's a collection, but it's a practical collection. I will play

these games. So I played four hours of Cuba Vore last night, and that is a very weird video games. The only video game I ever played where you can acquire hump points. Yeah, so you played me, you played four tie quest or whatever. So, like, what is the what did I come back to? What's what's It's a game cube game. It's Lucy Search cubafore price charting. All right, I'll do it for you. So you're one hundred and twenty five dollars an hour gameplay? That's gone.

Yeah it's changed. Wait wait wait why is it gone from just on the twenty eighth of June it was five hundred dollars and on the twenty first of July it's gone down to two seventy five. I think, yeah, wants to play it? We're not paying that paid for that reading it? He devalued it. Wow. Change intradectory looks exactly like NFTs. Like you're not investing like this is this is just like you collective half. Yeah, I'm got on a plant out selling you this stuff. I just I like the

GameCube a lot. It's fun for me to have a nice collection, and it's fun to get some of these, Like I don't want to get a rare games because it's rare. But Cube before it's kind of like known as being their rare game. It is a Nintendo joint, even though Atlas published it in the US, it's known for being rare. So, you know, Keybaforce a game I always heard about. I remember reading about it in magazine's back when it was like a Nintendo sixty four game, sixty four D

D game. Yeah, right, like you know, looks like ass. I'm on, I'm on the Wikipedia page. There's a whole section just mating. Another large focus of Cube Bevore is on its mating system. Sure, at a certain points of the game, a Cube of Vote will face a boss it simply cannot beat since it does not have enough limbs to attack it successfully. Thus a Cube of Wore cease fit to entery Love Tunnel, where upon it can mating. Females have a new generation of Cube of Voe now

with an additional limb. Why does it look like is this game? It looks like it's a Nintendo sixty four games. It is it was. It was one of those. So here's what happened. The sixty four was you know it was, yes, but then the sixty four DD was this promised thing that was going to get added on. Nintendo made a few games for that. It never came west. So what they did instead was they just

put a few of those games on GameCube. Ye, Animal Crossing wasn't exactly the same path, but it was so but it just looks like an n sixty four game, which is wonderful because Mike doesn't like the n sixty four idea that this is how much he spent money, This is the game he spent the most money on. Wasn't because he made shit. I means you had brothers, you weren't playing sixty four, the best multiplayer console the all time, and you would make me play Gold and I I never liked it,

even Pake I am. I'm in agreement that I think the Nintendo sixty four control is one of the worst things to happen to humans, but top three, top the console itself. I think it's really good. I like Marius, I don't believe my control is to have a dick. It's it's not necessarily it's so comfortable to hold that Animals is still the best one. It's the best. Well, no game keeps better. Way Bird's better sixty

four below that he just liked either. Yeah, because the mating is so fucked up in this game, because you go in that love tunnel and like, depending on how many hearts you collected, you attract different or mates. Actually that's something goes but anyways, so all these like girl keeping show up. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna pick one, I guess. And then it's like then like a prop comes up that just says ready to mate, yes or no, And I'm like, okay, I guess I am

and you just go off with all of them. And then it's like the pop things like made within me later, right, and then and then you get to pick what child you want, and when you come out of Love Tunnel, you're the child and just the head of your previous character is just lifeless on the ground like a lion king situation that kids can't they can't like

raise their own head. They're fine. It's like, can we at some point do a GameCube specific upf and you take your save that's already in a little bit and can you teach us the ways of Gubabore because I'm very curious. I've never played. Yeah, yeah, I love that. Okay, yeah, I mean, I mean I was playing it on Twitch, so I already have it already go streaming. I've got my HGM, my adapter for my game cube. Yeah, I would love to show you guys what

cube before all. You know Odama as well. And now that made me. I got got me thinking, I think I have a way to set it up, because that's a microphone controlled game. I think I've a way to set it up so that we can all control it simultaneously by yelling please please yes. Okay, so but I forgot that's one of the games. Okay, so I'll get that set up. That would be it's gonna play some Donkey Kong Jungle be because I have plenty of bongos, so you do

it at the same time. Yeah, much greater than the sixty four. That's fun stuff. Was that was that Warrior games? Yeah, so it's a part of the game Boy Advanced Warrior where so it's got really fun multiplayer modes. But all the mini games are the ones from there. Sorry, I met the three D one yes, Warrio World, Warrior World, It's okay, no no, so Dan's part of the old media that buried Warrior World unfairly for no reason, and like me, I would bury Warrior World

for no reason. A warrior three D platformer that doesn't sound like something I'd be one pro Ninteno sixty four agenda. But Wirio World, made by Treasure one of like the Grace of Opers ever, is actually just a really fun interpretation of those wireling games. It's short, but these days, who cares? That's kind of a benefit. It's a really fun game. Plus the paw screen music, it's just Warrio going nan ya ya. It's incredible for

like thirty minutes, he will eventually like do something else. It's it's like, can we get a clean take of you doing the pause? Yeah? Sure of course, yeah nan yang yan yang yan yan. Add to the to the Mitch McConnell video, Please now deal it with a Dorty accent. Deal with a Dorty as please please? Oh no no no no no no no no no no no no well no no no death triangle. Why would why would the accent change everything you're saying fundamentally change? All right? Speaking

about Lucy Lucy, does it remind you of home? It's like right back then, if if it was like if it was like a Friday evening, everyone's been out on the piss Jordy. Maybe. Yeah, it's like three am at Magic Flame. Everyone's just trying to chips. Yeah. Speaking about one old game to another old game I have on the list here my original Links Awakening cartridge. Yeah, I was on a beach in Chicago and I had like a couple minutes and I got out there. No, it was

in my bag. That would have been nice if I found it there washed up. That's exactly what happens in Links Awakenings. It's been sitting my analog pocket for a month or so after I found it originally, and I'm like, okay, you know I started a game, let's boot it up. And I boot it up and the game's the same, the save is gone. And then I'm like, wait, so I started a new game and I turned it off immediately and turn it back on and the save was gone.

The battery in my latest Awakening cartridge is officially dead, and he's like, place them, No, you can replace it. But it's like you always like this is something you always here like is going to happen eventually, and they're like, oh there, they're gonna last. They last like twenty years. I'm like, it's been longer than twenty years now and it's still going. Nope, we finally got to the end. First of all, I'm surprised they last as long as they do, right, because it's like

watch batteries in a cartridge. It must use like almost no power, thank you. I appreciate that doing his sorry sorry voice the Men comes up in my head too too often, Evangel in it. So I'm gonna break it open, I'll replace the battery. But it was just like, oh oh yeah, time is gonna take everything away from me eventually. So yeah, even the third worst sell the game Wow or a fucking psychopath, you can't have this conversation with. It just doesn't like the Game Boy. We know

exactly exactly. No article games are better than that, Manish gaps better than that, they're good games. I feel like Cap Finish Cap is absolutely not better than Links Awakening. Manishcap is definitely better. So that's low for Zelda. Just like you wake up on an ocean and Links Awakening Lucy James, you've been partying with Dave the Diver Eve the Davil. Yeah, it's been I've been doing a lot of travel recently. I got it on Steam Deck. Have you talked about it before? Yes, I'm very high on it.

I think it might be my number two of the year. I love it. I love seeing numbers go up. I love how much charm it has. I love seven my little Sushi dishes. But I remember that I've also been playing another game that I don't think any of you have, SIMS for just released a new expansion, back The Horses, and like the mock,

I am playing it again. I moved my PC. I said it was for baldesst Gate when I tweeted this out to be to sound cool, but really it's because I wanted to play the SIMS out on my couch, so I moved. So thank you NZXT for sending me a new PC. But I've put my old PC plugged into my TV. And yeah, so

they released the new Horse expansion pack. I've got some qualms with it because the SIMS team has been pretty brazen about just taking shit out of other expansions and selling them off for their own, So like they had a cats and dogs expansion a few years ago. They've also had like in SIMS three they had horses in the pets expansion, and then in the SIMS four it's like, no horses are going to be their own thing, you know. So,

yeah, it's just another way to squeeze forty dollars other people. It's good, it's fun. It should have been either in the cats and Dogs expansion or cottage living. I'm sorry, I will move on, but it's just I've got a stand them a little soapbox and say it it's mad that they didn't put horses in cottage living. Yeah, they put I can understand, but like cottage living. But the thing is as well about not putting it in cottage living is in the wholest expansion pack. To make it more

robust, they put many goats and sheep. Why would you not put many goats and sheep in the cottage living expansion pack? Well, you're living off the land. What the fuck is wrong with you? Anyway, I do have a question. I'm always curious about that, Like if I get cottage living and I get cats and dogs and I get horses, do they all like interact with one another as you would want them to. Oh yeah,

every time you get into expansion it like everything else. Yeah yeah, it's just like you get extra items, you can get different animals, and there are different So I'm trying to think of ways that they can interact, but I'm yeah, I'm pretty sure they can. I do. I do want to get back into the SIMS. I haven't played the SIMS in a very long time. And I also I want to do the most feminine thing in the SIMS possible. I brought this up before. Is that still the one

hundred baby Challenge or whatever it is or people still do that? Yeah, but now the the SIMS has is so you know, they realize that people are making these challenges by themselves. Now, when you boot up the SIMS four, it has a bunch of pre made challenges that you can just do okay, and they are rated by difficulty. So I've I personally, I'm not a challenge player. I build. I'm a big builder. Actually, SIMS won, SIMS won. I was live mode SIMS two building in live

mode SIMS three, I was. I didn't really play much of SIMS three, to be honest, and then SIMS for I'm very much more of a builder, So like the difference between like a creative and survival modes or whatever, Like what's live is just like playing SIMS, like you know, getting people up by a career track and having family and whatever. And then yeah,

build mode is just you build houses. Ship. Now are you looking forward to like the next SIMS or is it gonna are you like dreading that because it's gonna reset all this like stuff that you know they're going to add piece mill over it, which they've done yeah every single time. Yeah, I mean it depends because at the same time, you know, I think I have not got every single SIMS expansion. I've been very fortunate enough to you know, I get codes for a lot of them. I have bought

a lot. But you know, you're looking at it over a thousand, I think pretty much. No, that's its hundreds of dollars since SIMS four launched in twenty fourteen. Maybe it's a thousand, I would say it's getting it's getting close to a thousand. If it's not a thousand, yes, yeah, I did. I have the Steam account and I put it all in the basket at once, and they're like that, like the number it would have been was very high. Never miss an opportunity to flex on that

steamount. Yeah, thanks, yeah, so a number one gamer. Yeah, oh yeah, Actually, Mike, you do sound like you're kind of speaking similarsh when you do your impression of oh I could see that. Yeah. Can you talk about uh that game you put on the list? O me yes, yeah, he yes, he can. I can talk very top line about it's a wrest request. I've been playing. It's the wrestling RPG with some kind of like paper Mario timed combat and everything. Not loving

it so far. I'm like two hours in. It's thematically like all over the place. It keeps reminding me of Ready Player one, if that tells you anything. So it's like it's kind of like it's a shotgun blast, so just like hey nerds stuff remember the eighties, right, and so it's like wrestling bass, but it's like all the mini music is like scentth wave and stuff, and I don't really associate that with wrestling, and so it's very like Blood Dragon and it's like, oh, it's action figures and Velociraptors

and Rambo and mister Potato Head Sesame Street. It's like, okay, do you want this to be a wrestling thing, or do you want it to be small soldiers? Do you want it to be eighties theme? Just general eighties pop culture. It's just kind of all over the place, and I don't know, I kind of I don't like a lot of like pandory like Nerds stuff, you know, like Funko pop type stuff where it's like, okay, all right, I get it. We've seen a million things like

this, like eighties tributes and like the wrestling stuff, it's fine. It's clearly written by people who care about wrestling. Like there's some fun references, like there's a guy you meet early on who you're trying to help him decide if he should be like surfer face paint or like goth face paints, clearly like a sting reference. There's there's stuff there for wrestling fans for sure,

and there's a lot of like real wrestler likeness, isn't there. There's Macho Man, there's Jake the Snake, Jeff Jarrett, d DP, Sargeist Slaughter all this. But then there's some that are like clearly supposed to be this character, like Bret Hart or Rick Flair or staying that they couldn't get the rights to and so it's like, all right, so you're clearly supposed to be Brett Hart, but then over here it's actual Coco Beware. It's just kind of jarring a little bit. Well Coco Beware. Wow. I mean

there's also like Conrad Thompson and the Nasty Boys all Stars. Yeah, so it's weird too, because like, Macho Man exists in this universe, but your main character you play as is this guy Muchacho Man who just looks like Macho Man and his voice is just a Machumn impression. So it's like, but he like looks up to Macho Man. But it's just weird that we have Machuman and Muchacho Man. It's there's just a lot going on there and

not a ton of it hits you know. Yeah, just like that sounds like the tone is the thing that's putting you off the most, which if that sounds right, that's the kind of stuff that sounds like Dan Poison. Yeah. The gameplay though, like the timed RPG mechanics, the paper Mario stuff, as you said, is any of that working is any Does that

feel right to you? It? It? I wish you would, because it's clearly taken from like that paper Mario or Mario Luigi style of turn based combat, or it is kind of that QTE type thing and like tag team maneuvers and stuff like there's on paper the sounds like something I would love, Like I'm not a big turn based JRPG guy, but I do love the the Mario Mario Luigi style where it's like, oh it's funny and there is

a little bit of action in the turn base. I'm not just picking stuff from menu, I'm timing stuff, but it's all it's very, very just kind of like loosey, goosey and basic. I would say again, I'm two hours in, so it's just I'm not feeling super engaged or challenged the way I would in it, and like a paper Mario or Mario Luigi's it's just not I don't think it's nearly as clever as it thinks it is,

and I'm not excited when I go into a battle. I don't find myself really finding a lot of the writing or characters be particularly funny and like, yeah, I love wrestling, but it's like I'm not I'm not such an easy mark where it's just like Hey, we put wrestling in this video game. You like it? Right, It's like it's it's just not really doing it for me. Frankly, that's a bunch of I was. I was

looking forward to this, but yeah, I was curious. Yeah, but I think some people have been enjoying it from like you know, the preview coverage and stuff I've seen. It's it's just not doing a free and like grub said, it is kind of like poison for me whenever I just see like pandory, like nerves stuff, and this this is a lot of that. So okay, Yeah, well, going from one combat sport to another combat sport, Tam, You've you've been in the streets. You've been playing

Street Fighters six. I've been fighting in the streets, baby. Yeah. Yeah, not much more to add to everything that's been said. Is still fantastic as a game. Yeah, I've been like playing it as much as I can in between doing all the life stuff. I recently moved, so that was taking up a lot of my time and then we went we were traveling for like uh, San Diego comic on that kind of stuff. But

I have been sneaking in matches here and there when I can. We also played a bunch in the office since we have a street Fight Cross Tech and cabinet that has been hijacked to run Street Fighter sticks on it, so we played a fair bit of that on there. But I am like, I need to be playing more because I'm doing an ongoing like thing with Capcom and

Justin Wong where he kind of trains me. So they're like yeah. Every now and then I get a message from Justin and the rest of the crew being like, hey, we need more matches because they can like search me on CFN and watch my matches, which is fun. But yeah, it's it's it's a fantastic game. It's so much fun. It feels so satisfying to play. There's a decent amount of like creativity that you can bring to each character. It doesn't feel like everyone's playing everyone the exact same for the

most part, so it's a it's a good time for that game. It's really full of life, which is exciting. Yeah, such a good game. Such a good game. Shout outs to Turboshan who is competing at even also John Luke, He's fantastic. Turbo Shan wins his first match, his second one might be on air. So yeah, yeah, I can't remember Sean who who would the second match be against some really good street fighter but basically someone who's going to destroy Sean and we don't know that. Foodo,

Foodo, you have to roll Fodo. Oh my, you are fucking cooked. Oh my god. I need everyone to I need everyone to put a capital s for Sean and John Luke. Give send them your energies because I need Turbo Shan to win. All right, just throw some access for our boys. I'm I hope you win your first match, and I hope you win your match against Foodo, who is a former EBO champion. But I would be very impressive if you take a round off of him. Yeah,

someone like that. You just could you button mash and get lucky? Absolutely not, no way. No. The moment he realized is your bottom mashing, he'll just be like okay and he would just dismantle. This is playing I'm playing Ken nice nice. Yeah yeah, weld but Lily Maine myself and it's been actually a lot. Even though like that was considered a weaker character, I still had a lot of fun. I was able to get the platinum, which to me felt good enough. And I still I am.

I played a lot of Season one, haven't played so much this season so I can do more Diablo. But I'm already feeling the urge to really get back and just street Fighter because it was just so much fun. I'm sorry I was distracted by stuff that got pasted onto our run of show. Folks, the game of the week here besides it being bomb cast, Episode eight hundred, special announcement, and don't worry, no fool in here, no fool in this time. This is a shoot announcement where I'm not working.

I'm not working. You final way is coming back to Pack's West. Hey, that's right, tam Lucy Grub, myself and Mike, are you gonna be there, to be determined, to be determined, will be headed to Pack's West. That's right. Come party with us. Let's let's go. Let's go eat some clam chowder. What else does Seattle have? Let's throw fish at each other? Is Seattle clam chowder? I don't know, Washington

State clam chowder. Let's go. We're gonna make it a thing. Ignorant slut got a buffal wild wings that closed, it closed, closed, Yeah, the buffalo, I know what they have. They have tas salad and scrambled eggs. Thanks cool Frasier references. Okay, references. You know, I'm very excited. I actually started watching that recently and I'm very interesting. Yeah, my friends said they've good dicks. Though, yes, yes,

yes, yes, yes, you can get a bag of dicks. The bag of dicks is not the best that I've had, but you know it's up there, classic San Francisco. The real good bag of dicks are in San Francisco. I know a place. Hey, there is a place that sells. We'll sell you a sweet bag of dicks in San Francisco. Of course they like salty dicks. We can't replace C word with dicks. We care is funny wood clear, Wait back, Dix is really funny. Yeah, wait, less upsetting to people, I think. Yeah, the next

bomb cast will be brought to you live from Dick's Sporting Goods. It's gonna be great. Yeah, Dick's Last Resort. Remember that I had to go there on like I was like a freshman on high school trip and they took us to a Dick's Last Resort. Very uncomfortable and not think of that at all. For a reference, that's the place where the servers are rude to the guests on p Yeah. Yeah. In San Antonio, I walked by a table in January. There was a mom at her table with like her

three young children. And on the hat where the servers draw means stuff the moms had just said should have swallowed, stuff like that. Just going up to all the freshman men say virgin, virgin, virgin. Okay, yeah, Hey, we'll see it at Pack Swest. Don't worry, we won't We'll be nice, we'll be clean, we'll be good. We'll be good. Are we doing a roast sometime? Well, we'll have a panel, we may have another panel. We'll be hanging out. We'll check out the

Nintendo thing. Uh, there's a very special means that we won't say right now, just through privacy sake. But it's gonna be a fun time. It'll be fun thing to watch later. Yes, yes, yeah, I've never been to pack This is the first time. Really, it's a good time. Yeah, we've only ever been to Seattle. When we were going through the airport, Oh, hey, there's the Nintendo thing will be happening at the same time. We got tickets for that, so we'll be going

to that guys. It'll be fun. It'll just be like San Francisco because there's a bunch of Filipinos there too. Hell yeah, hell yeah, it'll be great. It'll be great. We'll go to the fun markets. Well, we'll have some biscuits whatever. What what do they do in Seattle? Uh? They throw fish? Yeah, right, they throw fish. We'll go to the market. We'll go to the gumwall. We'll get some cheese curves. Space Needle, Mike, just wait, can we go? We

can go to the first ever Starbucks. We can listen to Nirvana. We can create a computer operating system. Yeah, they have that culture museum by the Space Needle that I went to. The MP and the Experienced Music Project. That's pretty fun. Yeah, there's there's also a weird art like glass art thing next to a dual ticket. It was fun. The Chihuli Garden. That place is correct. Yes, we can also visit Brucely's grave. We can also visit uh uh where they shoot Gray's Anatomy Kicks by Brian Danielson.

Yeah, the Gray Sloane Music Hospital. There we go, That's what I was thinking of. Uh, folks, we'll see you at packs say hi. Yeah, hell yeah, well we'll we'll be doing some fun things. It's fun, fun things. We'll provide like more details about what those fun things are. Yes, we get closer, but yes, definitely if you want to include us in your schedule, yeah, make it happen. Definitely a panel, Do not worry. We will have a panel. What we'll do in the panel? Who the photo? Perhaps? Uh, But

that's it for the first segment, folks. I need to take a quick breaking break and I hope everyone goes and apply sunscreen during this break and we'll see you right on the other side. Was some news. That's right, and we're back folks with episode eight hundred of the Giant Bomb Cast. You don't need to use AI generative phill to fill in the time, because we'll do that for you, just like Jeff grub will with the news. It works pretty well. And photoshop, I'm just saying it does. Yeah,

it's really good. Photoshop does that now? Yeah? Oh yeah, ye now content of where Phil? Yes, uh, that's a good nickname for anyone named Phil, by the way, especially Phil Spencer. All right, let's see here. Let's start with the switch to targeting. Second half of

twenty twenty four. According to reports, this came out of VGC where they said Nintendo's next gen console development kents are with key partner studios and the launch is planned for the second half of twenty twenty four, which I want to say is what most of the people on this call have been predicting for a while now, like late next year. Right, Everyone's been kind of saying

that for a while. Weird thing would be if the Switch and it's what eighth year didn't get a successor at some point in twenty twenty four, right, that would be bizarre. Well, yeah, and at this point, I don't think you know, people were talking a year or two ago about like a Switch pro. But at this point, I mean, this is gonna be the actual successor, right that Nintendo pulled the plug on that. That was definitely in the works. Nintendo has always done that with its handhelds.

One hundred percent believe they were working on that. They even probably gave development kids to those studios, like the reporting said, but then they pulled back on extend. I think they realized the Switch is gonna sell just fine. We could put an lad screen in it and that'll be the same exact thing in terms of us selling more switches. This the little tidbits worth taking out here is this one will probably launch without an old to save money because

they are going to try to do more put more money into storage. That's a bummer those the old screen is gorgeous. They'll sell those one eventually down the road. They're going to need more storage because modern games are bigger than the thirty two gigabytes that comes included in a switch these days. That is not even a third the size of a lot of games. So they are probably going to include a larger maybe possibly SSD or you know, super fast

uh sort of MMC drive that can store a lot of stuff. Uh, that's where the money's gonna go. The other thing here is this also is almost certainly going to be a handheld. That is what the developers have said in this report that it is going to be something that you can take with you as well as doc at home. So it's it's gonna keep that side of the switch. Whether or not it's a it's called switch too or Super Nintendo switch, all that stuff is still unknown. But the big major beats

of what you should expect. All that seems to be lining up and is correct, and it does seem like certain developers are making games from that system right now. That sounds right to me. Lexie just bumped in the chat that they reported that a games come this year. It could be announced, it could be there're thing at packs, it might be there, it could be announced immediently. It could be not announced until earlier twenty twenty four. Hard to say, but do you think, wait, what's the Nintendo thing

at packs? Because the live thing, it's like they need to tack it onto someone else's offend at this point, they've had such success with doing they're not at packs so in the past, right, it's packs adjacent, but it's their own thing happening, you know, in Seattle at the same time. But it's it's clearly what they did is they took the money they would have spent from going to E three and they turned it into this instead, and so this like that's like, you know, maybe they should have something

bigger for that. Now. I'll say, for a while now, I've been hearing that they would announce something this year. That is like, what does that mean? Because it's like they could announce an announcement right they could do the thing that they did with the Switch, and it's like, here is a teaser video and it couldn't be even slighter than that, but they

could. They'll start talking about it in some way later this year. I think that's still very likely, But then that gives them a whole year before they actually launching it if it is second half of twenty twenty four, so I could see them also being like, maybe not, but if they're building up towards this thing in Seattle or games Com, I totally believe that. So that's Lexi's reporting over at Startmanu dot co dot uk if you want to

read more about that. If I remember right, they did the initial teaser right of the switch with like people on rooftops playing taking the things out, and then they did like a longer direct for they're like explaining HD rumble and everything. Right it was, and that was a few months later. Yes, the Switch, though, was a bit of a we gotta get this out. The Wii was a disaster, a little bit I want to say, a rush shaw, but there's definitely urgency that it was different than the

field. Now, it was different than the announcement sort of scheduling that they had done before, because the WU such a disaster. For that's why I came out in the March in March, right, which exactly never come out exactly so like we can look through the switch a little bit. I don't think it's gonna look exactly that like that, but I still think hearing about something this year that seems very plausible. So we'll get We're gonna be there

in no time. We are on August first, now by September, if this stuff is coming together later this year, we will start to hear rumors, so we'll keep an ear O error's open. Oh my god, the kids are yelling at me, all right. Elder Scrolls A four Oblivion may get a remake. A Reddit user claiming to be a former employee of Virtuous state that the studio is co developing a Metal Gear Solid remake or three remake, which we know about, and it's also working on a remake of a

remaster or a remaster excuse me of the Elder scrolls for Oblivion. The user mentioned that Virtuous is working on five separate projects, and one of them is Project Alter, which involves using a pairing system to run the game on both Unreal Engine five and the Oblivion Engine. Basically, the physics and the game logic would run on Oblivion and then the visuals will be rendered in Unreal.

That sounds like a good idea to me, because Oblivion is definitely one of those games that could have a could sell really well, similar to Skyrim's mini mini rereleases. I don't know, what do you guys think. Bolivian is a good game. It's a great game. In some ways, it's better than Skyrim. I think some of its quest design is a bit more interesting. I think there's a bit more diversity in its biomas, or at least it's not you know, after a while you see so many snow mountains in

Skyrim. Right Believing had an incredible expansion with the Shimmering Aisles. Yeah, it's a great, great game. The biggest problem with it is even when it came out kind of ugly, especially like character models and stuff. So this is a game there's some other rough edges that they can send out, some buzs and stuff. The level scaling was a little wonky. This is a game that would really benefit from a remake or a really nice remaster.

I'm very excited about this. Yeah, I've always been as I feel so bad for the Skyblivion team. That's always this happens so often, it feels in these projects, right, that's rough, It's yeah. I mean, I really hope they didn't see because sky Blivion's had a lot of people like supporting it and been interested in a long time. I really hope they didn't just see that and go, well, we'll do it ourselves. I think the logic logic of remaking Oblivion is one that makes a lot of sense because

you do that, that sets you up. If you come up with the system of pairing these two engines together, you then can use that on fall Out three and fall Out four and all these other games and and sets them up for the future of remakes. So I think they kind of came to that conclusion themselves. But yeah, I agree, Like sky Blivian is going to be out pretty soon. This game is coming out end of twenty twenty four or early twenty twenty five according to the reporting, So there'll be a

gap there and there's room for both. And you know that's the risk of running a fan project, right, Like the company could come in and steal your lunch. Absolutely, what do we Why do you think they aren't doing

marrow Win. Oblivion is probably a little bit easier because marrow Win Oblivion has the name recognition, Like I don't think I think Marrowin might be a better game for a lot of people, But Oblivion is the one that for like it are not a huge portion of the current gaming audience, is the one that brought them into Eldest Scrolls. It is the one that brought me in

for sure. Yeah, perfect sense. And there's a lot of nostalgia tied up with it because it was kind of like a macky game for the Xbox three sixty so well, and I work with the I know there's a lot of like true, true blue fans for Moral Win who are like, no, I swear this is the thing that, like it does so many things better or things that I like more. I would love a world in which

we saw Moral Win get the same treatment. But I think TAM's right, it is this is the one that just makes sense on paper for Moral Win, especially on console. I never played a bit my wife it's her favorite game of all time, and like, I know what performance was was just insane on Xbox, Like it's just like huge, huge load times, and there were things where you're stuck in a pit forever and everything. So like that one. If they did a full scale remake, it sounds like there's

a lot you could do there. Yeah, I think Marrowin might actually be a bigger game than Yeah, yeah, there's Oblivion, so it probably would in older it probably would actually be a lot more word you know, it's the same. It's the same reasoning or probably similar reason is why we got

a Last of Us Part one remake instead of an Uncharted one remake. But like it was easier to bring back the Last of those Part one Dan, you know what those those long load times on moral end is sometimes the game has to completely reboot the Xbox secretly in the background to like empty the cash

because oh my god, it's insane. So Xbox had a feature where it's like they could put up a static image and then really in the background, the whole thing was just restarting, and so it would take like it would take like three minutes, and it's like, oh my god, that's an ambitious game. First time. The Belivid remake probably coming out before Oulder Scroll six. All right, that's that's pretty much why they're doing this. Yeah, like they need to do like they mentioned, well, it's it's always

the case, like I always lost them about this as well. It's like, now that you've said an Elder Scrolls is coming, that's anyone anyone's going to talk about what you're gonna do too, And you also cannot talk about it. You're not gonna say anything about it. But you've stalled, stoked the fire. So what are you're going to do? And no one really has an answer. That happens with a lot of games, and the answer probably is stick another Elder Scrolls game in their face. And what are you

going to do to make everyone forget about it? Yeah, exactly. You can't put that Jenie back in the bottle, but you can make him grant some other wishes. Yeah, And that's why I think Fallout will probably get you said this scrub probably similar treatment. We'll probably see remakes A three and New Vegas at some point. Oh yeah, yeah, because I mean that stuff just makes sense because those you know, engines are are tools, but once you sort of But this is what happen with Mass Effect and why we

didn't get the same thing with Dragon Age. Mass Effect was all unreal engine so they did the work for one, and then they could apply that very quickly to two and three. Dragon Age was like using different engines all for each iteration. So it's like it doesn't make as much sense and all the stories aren't connected. So like, for use me, the story's unconnected in dragon Age. Well not in the way that mass effect is. I should say, oh, oh, no, I stepped in it over here.

I'll say I was. I was at medieval Times and the very drunk lady over there to the next movie's like, what do you think we're gonna get the next elder scrolls? And it took a lot for me not to engage in conversation. I mean to just what. You don't play the same character in all three dragony, that's a different person each time. It's much less connected. Two in turns up in three three. Yeah, I don't think I ran into hawk. That's interesting. I like, I wish it's a

whole pot of this main question, isn't it. Yeah? I guess I just forgot my eyes closed, So that forgettable game in my defense, But what drag me good? It's which is which is the one that posts Malone wants what he wants. A lot of things he mentioned. He mentioned like or E three. I'm gonna be like Malone. Post Scroll six, apparently, according to Chan, was like a Dynasty Warrior. Sounds right. I

was at raising canes also, and they had postmlone cups. Yeah, and it's just his face on a cup, like way too close, and I'll drink out of it. But it does just make it feel a little bit dirty as I'm drinking out of that. I love Posty, but man, yeah, I think it shake my face, yeah, drink your face. Okay, let's move on here. Metroid Dread has surpassed a three million copies sold despite claims of chaotic development. Mercury Steam CEO Enric Alvarez discussed the success

of Metroid Dread in the collaboration with Nintendo. In a recent interview. Alvarez praised Nintendo's work, ethic and openness to new ideas, stating that they became friends over time. Nintendo's also my best friend. The development of the Metroid Dread was alleged to be chaotic in twenty twenty one, but Alvarez refuted this claim, pointing into the game's success is evidence of a smooth development process. Basically said yeah, basically said, would a game that sold three million copies

be the result of a chaotic development psychs this? They heard a grasshopp Auto five are you talking about? Yeah? But either way, the game did succeed, and it sounds like they are continuing this partnership in some form, which I think a lot of people are predicting. This is pretty good for the Metroid dread or excuse me, the Metroid series overall, very rarely has it gotten over three million copies sold. I think Metroid Prime one did so

on the Gamecuber got very close. Nothing else has been close, really except for the original Metroid, which had like that that boost of just being Metroid on the on the nes. So that's that's pretty good, and I think it sets this series up for Metroid Prime for But three million was like this magic number among the fandom of like, hey, can I get past that? Well it did. Now we have confirmation from the trois Yep, it's great, so good. I hope we get Metroid six now at some point

on the switch to from this. I mean, it's what they should do, happy, right, they should just make a sequel to it. I would love that what is next for Smash Brothers will sack or I has some thoughts, Superma. That's why I was happy to include this because if GINO give me even mallow, I'll take even mallow. Super Smash Brothers director Mass the Hero Sakurai discussed the future of the series in one of his new YouTube

videos. Sack Right stated that he is semi retired from game development after completing Smash Brothers Ultimates DLC run last year. Despite the success of Smash Brothers Ultimate, Sakurai is unsure if he will work on another game in the series. He believes that it would be unlikely for the series to continue, however, without his input as the original creator. While it is safe to assume that there will be another Smash Brother's game, figuring out how to create it without

sack Ri's development directive involvements excuse me as a challenge. Sack Right has previously talked about his punishing work life balance during development of Ultimate, in which he fainted at one point. He made some changes to improve his working conditions during that time, but the future of the series remains uncertain without him specific you could just like do the math there, right, He was working so hard

that he fainted. Clearly not enough time to train a protege. Right, there is no one that he could be like, here's how I do everything. He's already doing everything himself. You might look at the credits of Smash Brothers and you're like, sore Limited, Well, just get sore Limited to do it. No, that's just Sackurai. And then and then Nintendo works with him to hire on other people Dandynamico does the bulk of the work. That's right exactly. So, uh, this is I mean, the question

is like what does the future look like? Because if there is, like there's gonna be a future Smash Brothers. But does Nintendo just hey, hey, let's port and deluxeify Smash four and then Smash Ultimate again or do they reboot the series? I don't know what it's like. It's they're kind of in a lucky spot with this because the community basically just wants Smash Brothers al SimAnt de Lux. Anyways, Everybody is very happy with how that game plays,

all the characters in it. They don't want them to have to reset and you know, likely give us half the character, maybe mess up the gameplay and all that stuff. If they made a Smash Bros. Ultimate Deluxe and added like six new characters at the start because some new stages. Maybe a better online would be a big thing there. Even that would be enough. Maybe you do a new single player mode. Maybe you bring back the Spaceship's Emissary whatever it was called Space Emissary. Excuse me, fake fan fan.

Yeah well it was Smash Furs Brawl. Who cares? But yeah, yeah, that'll be you know, I think that'll be good enough. Also, Sack right could just it's probably gonna come back anyways, he's talks about from Yeah, he's it's a good GMA with metal gear thing back in that day. He usually always does come back, and he but he even if he didn't, and he admitted this too, there's going to always be ice Smash Brothers for each console. It's always one of the best selling games.

There has to be one. But yeah, in this case, just do just do Smash Ultimate Plus or if you want to get really spicy, maybe you could do that. If you want to another thing, remake Melee, I think that could be interesting. Well, what if they rebooted it and it did have half the character roster, but Mario had his move set from Odyssey and had a cap and stuff like that, because that's the thing. That's the reason I think Aboot reboot might be a little peeling. I know,

like you're seat in this community. I know you know that this is something that they don't want, but this would be a chance to update a lot of characters who haven't had updates in a very long time. Here's what I think they should do. Chris Pratt is Mario photo realistic Chris Pratt and smashup. I can't remember what street Fire was. I think it was the

recent Street Fighter kind of like a compilation thing where you'd play. You'd start up one version of street Fire and you could basically pick which version of the character you wanted from, which would be like Street Fire too. I want Turbo Edition. I want hyper Fighting so they could take all the previous Smash games. I mean one thing, and when you pick Mario, it says, do you want Melee Mario, do you want Brawl Mario? Do you want Ultimate Mario? Which one do you want? Or New Mario? And

then you can like have that. That is the only way you make because right now it's the it's the ultimate game in terms of characters. How do you make it the ultimate game in terms of it being a smash game, and that is you just combine all of them into one thing. I think you could still do some things, like you could replace Flood with Cappy as a move on like the current Mario without having to really go in and like completely rethink. We don't we don't have to get rid of Flood. We

have to get rid of Flood. We have to do something. Flood, the legends international terrorists. Flood must be dealt with. Who is? Who is? Everybody's one character they want in the next Mash Brothers because the Gino was one of my dream characters ever since after Melee, all my other dream characters like Mega Man and Ridley have made it so if I got Gino and basically all good now actually no, yeah, that that'd be fun. Larry,

you guys aren't taking this seriously serious. If I could play his Larry David and Smash, I'd be very happy. Mc Roy, I want Mitch McConnell, Kendall. Roy's not all right, Grub, You're the last. It needs to be like Pokemon Trainer, where you can switch between all the Roys. Morgan throws out the poke Ball, Yeah, you play Logan Grub. I just want Ry gos as Ken. Oh sure, yes, totally give me, give me, give me Joe Biden. You know what I'm

gonna say, Give me Joe Biden or or Muddy Mole from Molemania. Why would you pick Joe Biden when you have Mitch McConnell like, he's like, yeah, you power him up by making him sleep? So exactly, I was gonna say me a shadow character called for for Jiggli Puff. Yeah, totally. Literally. Just today when I was showering, all I listened to was that song from Smash Ultimate on repeat the whole time. I'm sick good? Oh too long? Are you like? Are you like a forty five

minute shower guy? No? And I was like when I was a kid, show the shower had like a little like stool so I could actually just sit there. And I hated morning, so I kind of just go in the shower, get all steamy, and I would just kind of sit there, maybe even fall asleep. I just I just got a bench. I just it's so good, so good I want to shower. I don't want to do that unless I physically have to want bench. Comfortable places you could take an app or sit down. That's where I want to be. Good

idea, I'm gonna stand until I can't anymore. There's an episode in the shower there you go. There's episode Sifle where Cramer's obsessed, like he's like the showers where I want to be. So he puts like a food process I would The shower bench is I have is very comfortable? Yeah, yeah,

it's like no, no, it's it's a wooden bench. It's it's like a sawna like, yeah, it's saw on a bench, but it's like way more comfortable because it's varnish and like it they've treated it so it's not like awful tors and it's probably not cold when you sit on it. No, no, exactly, like you sit down and you just let the like the hot piping hot water wash over you and lady yourself up instead of like doing weird shit and trying to maintain your balance, Like you just sit

down and yeah, and then you can go to the spa later. Yeah. I think it's very much like a spa experience. And shut up, Jeff back, Well, the thing is is that the two spars needed me are like nude spars, so you know, you guys can navigate that. They still separate by gender though different days. It's all right, you have to be naked, you can wear a you can, you don't have to, but everyone else is. You're kind of it's like a Dicks Last resort.

They just like make fun of your generals the whole time. It's they just screaming, Yeah, I need to talk to my my fellow lass than a ten dog. Mike, do you ever feel like we're It's like everything's coming up Millhouse right now. I got Pickman four, supermar RPG remake. You got that too, I got La Links Awakening, and now their final Fantasy fourteens next expansion is Dawn Trail, which is a tropical island expansion in your favorite MMO. It's literally as if they picked apart Mike Manati's brain.

It made something for you. Like literally, on our podcast, was asked, what's your favorite biome and gamings? I was like, I like tropical islands, and then yeah, the Fantasy fourteen expansion is basically just the Margharita the expansion. There's all right, there's a Margarita resort in Palm Springs. I'm just saying yeah, I'm just saying, let's go ye there. Uh. This is this new expansion is called Dawn Trail. They introduced it at

fan Fest in Las Vegas. The expansion will be released in the summer next summer. I'm assuming twenty twenty four. And like Mike said, setting a tropical island setting of erotically, it's like it's like, so it was a map of Fast fourteen is actually looks like the map of the world. This is kind of South America, but it's still very much like that tropical island vibe. I'm sure there are some islands off the coast. We might actually

see two. But in the trailer it's palm trees. They literally have coconut drinks and stuff like that. It's the vacation episode ARCS, right, And so they finished like this this is my understanding. Feel free to jump in and correct me. They finished the ten years story that they kicked off with like realm reborn, I guess right now and now here they are ready to kick something new off and they're doing it with like, let's let's start a

fun tone because things got heated there at the end of the story. I'm assuan so now they're gonna have some fun. Right. The last expansion was very much the we are wrapping up that first big story arc that we told over ten years and like the whole you know universe is in danger and things are gonna get really dark and emotional, and this is mud. This is the much needed kind of like breath after that. Okay, because I was gonna probably start here that's going to ramp up again, but at least a

good part of this is much more. We're going to a new place and having an adventure and seeing new things. And they gave me a cooke in that drink. That's nice. So yes, it's a Final Fantasy fourteen love boat. I also I wrote down here a headline dan Rykert wants to play Final Fantasy fourteen. They will oldest on sale. I got the most like thy dollars. I don't even have to pay anything. You have to pay monthly though, okay, I would never play a video game you have to

pay a monthly. So this is why I brought it up, because what you were talking to me about this and you're like, hey, can we get like a press account? And I'm like, I looked this up. We could play like the first hundred hours of content completely free. We don't pay a monthly fee. They don't take your credit card number, I don't think. As soon as we came out, I was like, no fucking way, never never, never drawn a line never doing a monthly fee.

I think you can do. We even have to buy the game itself right for the manerge you please? Dan, weren't you part of the Fortnight club for a little bit? Well, okay, I was wondering if I was gonna come up. Was that not paying a monthly for a game that proved me wrong would come up? I actually just recently canceled that because I haven't had time to play Fortnite lately. That is purely cosmetic. That is not I don't have to pay to play Fortnite. I could play it right now.

I just got those bucks I was. I was paying it monthly. Yeah, I was the terminator. I did log in. The terminator just popped up, so I bought. The terminator is now in Fortnite. So yes, I have paid. I've never paid to play a game monthly.

About that? Well, so for Basy fourteen, you can play the bass game Rowering Born, the first expansion, and very soon the second expansion all for free, and that is Bass Hunt Dan more than you are ever going to play that game with no time limit, no time, no time cost a, no costs. Yeah yeah, if you heard about Yeah, I've critically claimed expansion Heaven's Ward. Yeah, I'm I'm kind of curious. I am kind of curious. Curious, MMOs, don't think you'll like it?

Yeah, really, just cut this out. Okay, Well, because the only reason I'm not starting it now I was about to is it because Water's Gate three and it's like, man, I'm actually curious to try that out. That's a big fantasy long thing. I'm gonna let me try the modern relevant thing and not the retro league game. You know, Man, that game is great, but also the first hundred hours of that game ribble and fucking dry. Then you just killed it because it's like I was literally giving

you a thing that you can skip. I just want to try until Brad said like, oh, if you're not gonna know anything about what you're doing until you play at least a thousand hours, it's like, then I'm never fucking playing that game. You're saying the first hundred hours are bad good, No fucking way then not gonna happen. I think we hear we should do it, and we should skip. We should skip as much as we can. They are gonna give that. No, No, that's not how you

play. This is the reaction I want to give. I think we should do it. Okay, here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Jan, we came on the idea exactly. Finally we named it Final Jan tam Lucy. Yeah head, Dan's word, yeah, head. We came up with that. Drinks was some the game pistol. It's like, hey, let's pitch a new show. What is it going to be? There's I would skip all the story if I played. You can't the story of it. Yes, that's the point. Okay, you're all saying

things to make me never want to play this game. Never mind all you're not gonna like it, like to sit there and here you talk about, how about you hate my favorite game? So I'm not gonna enjoy it either. This is why me and you Oh okay, okay, okay, Dan, take your headphones off. Blake Club. We make him for Final Fantasy fourteen. Never Club. That wouldn't I associate. No, No, Mike I know, Mike, I know this is a blight for Dan. Get a wish next. So this is Danish was the work. The wish was

the work that actually makes sense. I think it him. Yeah, I'm against it against Okay, we got to come back and then we make him dress up as cloud no bike him, dress up us Garrahaia, somebody from fourteen. No, no, no, we just dress him up as a final Fantasy character, dress him up as an iconic Final Fantasy character, and tell him we're gonna play up until the point where that character is introduced. You come back and back and back back. Okay, okay, yeah,

we we're good. We're good. Okay, we got to plan Dan, don't worry. If Mitch is the one who doesn't like it, then we should do whatever we're just talking about. This is exactly my thoughts. Presents. It's likely happening in August. A data mind suggests you the next Pokemon Presents the live stream could be in August. Pokemon Masters ex mobile game update code references an end game campaign related to Pokemon Presents on August eight. Pokemon

Scarlett. While it's first expansion, the Hidden Treasure of Area zero, just a beautiful name. And that's part one and part two. It's planned for release later this year. The expansion will introduce older Pokemon not found in the Paladia region, and players who pre order will get a new uniform set in the arc as an early purchase. Tho, it's a set. It's a set and the arc. Sorry, I had sneezed. I want to say this. I'm just looking at those words and that was it just bizarre.

That is a great way to get around the thing. You can't say no. I've done that once in real life and they didn't buy it and I had to leave the party. What chan, what do you want for Pokemon presents? Yo yo, Pokemon Company, Turn on your peepers, all right, boost boost up the headphones because because Daniel has has a suggestion for y'all. All right, let's you know what Octopath is doing with like the two

and a half D, Let's do that with Pokemon. Oh and you didn't like two D Octopath Traveler too is turn me around on a buddy, Let's do this. What they what they should do is use that style for so black and way the next ones to get remakes. Yeah, when they did the remix or Diamond Pearl. They kind of had this cheap three D model thing that people didn't really like very much. Black and Light was the last mainline Pokemon game to use the sprites that would look so good and two D

h D that would be gorgeous, that would get me really excited. Let's go Meryl, Let's go Toga Pee, you know, let's do that. Potentially, Let's go Skyl please please? All right? This thing will probably mostly focus on this next expansion. The problem I don't will there be like another like like side game announced at this point, like not Legends clearly not a Leegend sequel yet, but something to cool, like a Let's Go. It could be Let's Go, but I think could it not be a Legends?

I guess. I guess it will maybe early, maybe a little early. Still give me that gale of darkness that people like. Huh oh, I don't have that one yet in my collection. I need that Gil of Darkness. Oh, not nearly as much a cube before. I think it's like one eighty or something. Okay, are you shagging in it? I don't think. I don't think I get hump points and gill of darkness. No, to be clear, the hump points and cube before it turns out like you get a hump like like a camel. It's not for the you

know the made yeah bad, bad video game. Should you should return it? Red Dead Redemption logo pops up on Rockstar site. We've talked about, Oh, they're probably remaking Red Dead Redemption. Uh they are, They just clearly are. This is gonna a good one, the good one, right, yes, the good one. Exactly last month it was classified by South Korea's Game Raiding Animist Administration Committee Committee. There is rumors that this is going

to show up on everything, including the switch. So yeah, yeah, wow, they would remake it in if they fucking remake it with the Red Dead Redemption two engine. And it takes me twenty minutes to look at a can of beans. They're going to ruin the best game on the three sixties. I don't think the how okay, that's just such a silly sentence.

If it has them and all the look at every going to pick something up, it's gonna say the amount of work that will go into that was it would be wild, like crazy, because like those animations took forever for them to make, and like I watch I thought Red Did two was easier to play than Red Dead one. Oh in what way? But I don't. I don't think this was like I think it was a bit more refined control. Yeah, it played, it played itself. Yeah, so yeah,

that's totally I'm not doing this. Boy, you all here so we can have this conversation. I think they're both video games. Still, ye, yes, bad video game. But one it's fine. It's probably gonna get announced it fine any minute. That's a game. Good game. They're good. There were game. Let's see. PlayStation five is at forty million consoles sold. The PlayStation five, which launched in November twenty twenty amidst COVID challenges, is now selling very well now that it's back in stock. The PS

five has surpassed forty million million consoles sold to consumers. Uh. This is just two months behind the pace of the PS four. By the end of this year, it should have caught up to the PS four and likely surpassed it. That forty million number means it's sold about eight million in a quarter in that in that range. Plably, that's right, and it's probably that's probably going to do the same, you know, eight million over the summer, maybe even maybe it's like seven million. But when we get to the

holidays, this thing is going to be huge. And you can see that because there was a small little sale in the UK and like it's week over week sales were up seventy five percent, and so it's just it's it's like ready and waiting to pop off even bigger. So this thing is going to race to fifty million, sixty million by the end of this year, probably

without a without breaking a sweat. I think it's kind of what we expected to that it would catch up to the PS four once uh, the stock issue was solved, and here we are Hasbro once Microsoft to find the files for Transformers, War of Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron. There was the Hasbro teams showed up the San Diego Comic Con and discussed re releases of activisions.

Transformers games activisions uncertainly about the game's location. They are uncertain because of company mergers, like a company would buy one company and another company would buy that company, and they literally just lost the hard So the hard drives are somewhere in a maze of buildings, I don't know, the back rooms or something like that. So they're gonna have to go search for that, it's right. I mean, well, those those Transformers warf like they were pretty okay,

like there was good. These are the good ones. Yes, there's probasicly good. Yes, their person shooters exactly describe them myself. They've been kind of high on my to do list because people really do look back fondly on these things. I don't want to oversell it. They're very good what they are. They're very good for what they are, and but you know, they also would make a lot of sense on game pass. Microsoft owns Activision now basically, so the hope is that Microsoft will take the time to

find these hard drives the Activision was just never gonna do. And that's Hasbro's stated hope is that that's what will happen. Publish the Platinum developed like Action Transformers games, I think that was also Activision. It was Activision and High Moon did the ones like the War for Cybertron. That timer was the developer and there was Activision published, and then I think Activision published a Platinum one

as well. So that's that's what would happen. Is like Activision, these publishers kind of go through a series of developers with these ip over time. That's what happened with Spider Man in Activision for years and years and years. Right, maybe it's so hard to find them because they're robots in disguise. That's good, good point we can point. Yeah. Pickman four had a huge launch of Japan. Pickman four's first week sales in Japans sur best the

combined sales of the first three Pickman games. Pickman four secured the number one spot on the Physical Games chart with four hundred one thousand copies sold. The first Pickman sold one hundred and one thousand copies, Pickment two sold one hundred and sixty one thousand, and Pickman three sold ninety two thousand in the respective first weeks. To put all those combined, and Pickman four is better than all of those. People are chalking this up to a pretty aggressive marketing campaign

from Nintendo in Japan for Pickman four. Seems like it paid off. This is a relatively big glow up for that series, and it also explains like why we keep getting them because I think they by Pickman popular in Japan, more popular than ever, and that's pretty good. I'm glad that this game is doing well, I don't think we necessarily know how it's doing everywhere else. We'll get IMPD numbers pretty soon, but that's gonna be physical only.

And I bet a lot of these games copies pretty good just about every We know what's doing well in the UK, right, because they pretty well in the UK, that's right, and we kind of scrap late from that, and Japan seems like it's doing very well. It's I think we could predict that this was going to be the best selling Pickman game because the switch sort

of effect. It seems like it's even better than that because a four hundred thousand just in Japan in one week, that means it's going to be well on its way to sell them beyond three million copies worldwide, So it's going to be beyond Metroid and stuff like that. That makes me happy because that makes me think there's gonna be more Pickman and if they keep getting better like this, then hell yeah, yeah, I'm right there. We can be in that sort of space. And now where we get like one for each

console. Yeah, it's Mansion forward, Yes, Zo Blade at two on switch, that's true, kind of three, Yeah, could be a pig much on Zino Blade. Yeah maybe maybe, but hey, if it kind of kind of be like one game per system, like you said, I am completely fine with that because I was in a point with Pickman after three on the EU where I'm like, we're never getting another one, and then

I got Pickman three delucts. I'm like, oh my god, I would love another one, and here we are Pickman for it is very very good. All right, A couple more stories here, just two more Comcast credits Mario movie and Nintendo World Theme Park for an earnings bump. Comcast Film and Theme Park divisions see an earnings bump due to the success of the Super Mario

Brothers Movie and Nintendo's theme parks. The Super Super Mario Brothers Movie grossed over one point three billion dollars worldwide, and we'll be added to the to Comcast streaming service Peacock on August third, that's later this week. Super Nintendo World contributed to record quarters at Universal Studios Japan and Universal Studios Hollywood, which I think we could speak to firsthand. That place very busy, yeah, yes, yes, huge hit too, busy, huge hit yes, so and

like I mean, Mike, you could speak to this. It's going to be a matter of years before that settles down, like a year, maybe two years. Yeah, oh yeah, because you know when when the Harry Potterland was the big, big thing, it was kind of it kind of had that effect, but a little bit better because it was bigger. It's also kind of small hard Nintendo world that we have over in Hollywood. But it's going to be like that for a very good while. Yes, I

was kind of amazed at how what's the phrase I'm looking for? But the actual ride in Mario, in the SCE Mario Land and in the Hollywood one is like so awkward to get onto in terms of queuing. Yeah, like it was really over like overly complicated for what it is. And I wonder if that makes you knows the reason for that if you wanted Mike, because I like that was associated with a different ride in Japan that we don't have. Oh yeah, half of the queue there is like taken from a Yoshi

ride that they have in Japan that we don't have here. But also Space is so awkward for Universal Hollywood because it is just literally built next to the studio. You have to go down a series of escalators to get to one half of the park. Like yep, that ride is actually just bumping up against like actual a lot. So sorry my Amazon Fresh orders here, carry on, all right, let's go. They are already looking at more Nitteno stuff. I've been like even hearing like this. The stuff is moving forward.

There's a there's a this isn't like part of that, but there's a land in uh the Orlando I was an Adventure Universe Universal Park where they just closed a major ride where the exterior was like a giant ruined temple. A lot of people are speculating that that could very easily be turned into some kind of legend of Zelda attraction and that would not be a shocking development, and I would I would think that would be very very cool and very popular.

Zelda never been more popular than right now. Yes, like any game of Therese that has sold over twenty million copies. I think it's going to be prime for the breadth of the wild. It's like thirty million Tears of the Kingdoms on it's way to that animal crossings in that conversation but that you don't

want to ride, Yeah, it's using Universal is a halloween. They do these scarehouses, right, ye Blue Jee's matches, I think to win guarantee and then you know, Donkey Kong's one that we've know it's coming on this I don't because I think they already annunced this year's Halloween Hornets. But it'll happen. It'll happen. Uh finally, Uh, he's back. Elements from Paul McCartney's Destiny one theme will be incorporated into new music from Destiny to Everybody

get up and Cheer for Paul McCartney. Bungee's music orchestrator Ella Fineld posted images of recording new music with a credit to Paul McCartney. McCartney contributed music to the first game alongside Marty o'donald. If. I don't know if you remember that song, but it's a bear everybody Everybody's bridge to bridge to nowhere there the future or something like yeah, yeah, it's uh yes, terrib you that song is incredible because it's well, the video is because just it's digital.

Paul McCartney standing in Destiny like lands and I love it. I love it more than almost anything on this earth. So I'm very excited. This is bad. Wait, Jeff, have you seen Paul McCartney's meat Free Mondays dot Com. I've not Oh my god, hang on, right, so there's yeah where he goes. He tries to go into like a psa about like not eating meat, but then he starts singing and oh, Paul McCartney, yeah me meat free Mondays dot com. It is just that. But he also says, like, hi, Paul, here, I actually have

this completely memorized because I watched it a lot. I'll put it in I'll put it in GB chat, but I'm just gonna watch it. I'm gonna take a look at this too, because I am done with the news and I'm handing this over to Jano Show to take the show back from me.

Oh gosh, Paul McCartney, huh, what a guy. They just spent They sure to spend too much money on like Destiny won right right, anyway we spend money, you gotta think it's like that's the kind of thing that happens because you need to convince Activision and Bobby Cottick like this thing needs to be huge and like what is what does that look like? You know? For Call of Duty, we do this and this, and we have these big events and we get rappers to come in and they're in our commercials and

stuff like what does that look like for Destiny? Were like, well, Marty o'donald knows Paul McCartney kind of we could get him to be in a music video. And it's like, okay, I guess I love it. I have one last final breaking news story grub they're putting They're putting Jujutsu Kaiza in Fortnite. I will not rest until we eventually go to season two so we can get mocky. We all know anyway, we all know, we

all know, we're all talking about it. I don't know. And with that, we'll see you after this break and we're back episode eight hundred of the Giant BombCast. We're back with some emails for the show. These are the emails from emails BombCast at giant bomb dot com is the email addressed to send your emails too. Once again, emails can be about virtually any and everything. If you want to avoid a social awkward social interaction and you just

want to be on your phone, go do that. If you're in line at a drive through that's taken a pretty long time and you can bust out the phone safely, go do that if you're at a funeral, be at the funeral. Just just do that. Pay respects. And then oh my god. Sometimes you know, you know what, I don't blame Mike. I blame Mike for spending so much time with Grub, because the more time I spend with Grub, I just say things that pop in my head.

That's true. I mean, I'm just so disney brained. If I stand in a long line and then there's like a you know, a person over there, I'm supposed to take a picture with it, right, You're gonna say, I'm I'm so disney brained. Every time I see a woman passed out on a bed, I have to kiss it. And then I was

like, no, that'll be rich long. Yeah, that was a long thought train to go through because in my in my head, Aurora from Sleeping Beauty kind of looks like she's in a in a coffin and so and you know pictures, well, no, White is the one who's literally in that glass cost Yes, yes, you know, I know she's beauty. I also, I just don't think Disney's promoting good messages about kissing dead girls.

Yeah, don't do it. He's kissing dead girls. Not a rob Zombie song already, because it should be if it's not the first time yeah, first time email or after listening. Ever since the first episodes out of Ryan's living room Colin Capital d this mail is mainly addressed to my fellow gaming dads, but any input is much appreciated. Well lucky for you, gaming's zadi's

are also here. Since my little girl turns two in a couple of weeks, I've been thinking about when slash how to introduce my hobby to her. We have a switch in the house, so that seems like a decent starting off point. Maybe Mario Odyssey with the assists mode? But what about But would that be a reasonable timeline? She already watches me sometimes and has a

dummy controller she likes playing with. I feel like in a year or so, when her attention span is a bit longer and the extra screen time doesn't feel as detrimental. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Keep being awesome and greetings from Germany. Comb Abraham Lincoln said that the events controlled him. He didn't control the events, And that's how I feel about raising children, where they just decide how they are interact with these things and then you try

to sort of guide them a little bit. That's the best you can do. You can come up with a plan, the kid's gonna hit you in the face and like destroy the plan, like it's gonna fall apart. Like there's no point in coming up with like some detailed sort of syllabus of how to introduce the kids to any of this stuff, because they're gonna have their own thoughts and opinions about it very quickly. I would say, just have this stuff around and if they want to pick it up, make it available

to them. Have some games that you think would be good for them, you know. There. I think Mario Kart eight Deluxe is a really good one because it plays itself. Yes, yeah, exactly, so you can like the assists are very cool there. But anything where you can sort of wander around without much grave danger. I think Mario Odyssey's pretty okay for that in some areas and things like that. But mostly they're gonna pick up tablets and play games on there at first. Like that's just what's gonna happen.

If you have tablets in the house, they're gonna play games in there or on your phone. And I say, let them do that as well, because that gets them used to the idea, the ideas of like how you interact with games overall, and then they can take that over to other stuff if they want. And my kids go back and forth about whether or not they want to. Right now, Emmy's very much like, no, I

don't like video games. I like other stuff. It's like, all right, cool, I'm sure you're gonna come back around, because that's what what she's been like. I don't know, I don't know, Beckler has to sound to you, that sounds mostly right. Uh you know what that sounds right, is what it sounds. Take the kids down in front of a TV, fire up securo, put control in their hands, and do not let them leave until they have beaten Gilbu. And if they cannot beat the

Gilbu, disown them. That's right. Sit them on on the streets, then watch Jaws with them. Apparently, I I, uh, you know, I think it's important to like, you know, the most important thing you said was also just like, uh, they're gonna figure it out. When they're going to figure it out, you know. Obviously, like the

more exposure to the thing, the more interest. Probably on a long enough timeline, but anecdotally from from my experience, when Donut County came out, that was that was his first game, Like he just there was something about it. Saw me playing it was like, I'm gonna do this now. And this is when he was still not even using his thumbs. He was still like holding a joystick, you know, sort of like getting like a like a claw group on it. Yeah, and uh, that was it.

And now he's, uh, you know, fast forward a few years and he's played more Fortnite than me. Now, Yeah, I mean I just like the switch will be down here, Addie will come down here, and she's she's the four year old, she's younger. She just takes it, puts it in, and starts playing whatever she wants on there. And yeah, I'm like Pickman's that's too complicated. No, I'm just gonna figure it out. I will just keep bashing my head against this till I figure

it out. So yeah, there's there's either no stopping him or there's no encouraging them that because it's like you can't convince them to play something they don't want to play. And I don't even try, Like there's no point. Yeah, I got I did well, that's that's true. I I but I at the same time, like it can be true and I can also be mad. Well, what you were dealing with Roadblocks, I'm sure wants the roadblocks phase phase. I'm gonna be in the same position. You know

what happened like over over the long weekend. Uh he we were just like I was just like, you know what, you know what, just just play Fortnite, Just just do it, just do it already. And now he loves it, and I'm like, you know what, I'd rather you play this than Roadblocks. Like I just had to make that decision out loud in front of people, and I'm happier for it. Like he's having fun with it, you know. I just like, I'm like, I just

can't he can. Can I apply all these eggs so I can get a big furry And I'm like, no, You're just gonna play Fortnite now that he wants. There's a game in Blocks where like, yeah, they changed the name of the game. That's how that's adoptimate. That's how whackable fucking Rollblocks is. They literally changed the name of the game sousand concurrent players or something like. It's just so insane. I'm like, dude, V Bucks, You're a v Bucks boy. Now, okay, this house no more,

no more. But he's definitely played more than I have by now, so he could teach me at that. Okay. Jake from Minneapolis, Minnesota writes in Hey Giant Bomb, Hey Giant Bomb Crew, I don't know I messed up. It seemed to be agreed upon that the best version of a mullet involved curled hair. Nikki recommended people use curlers. I recently met a fourth grader with the ultimate solution. This fourth grader in the year twenty twenty three has a mullet and a perm. Those curls are locked in. No

need for daily upkeep on those curls. Thanks Jake from Minneapolis, Minnesota. How permanent is a perm? Not that permanent? Now? My daddy said firms. Did your dad looked like Bob Ross? Uh No, No, I think my mom just wanted them to have it for a little bit in the eighties. So there's some pictures I go and some look for a child. I already it is kind of a lot. When I see a killful

mullet, I'm like intimidated. For some I it's like I don't even, I don't just I don't know this upsets you, Backlar doesn't upset me because like all fashion is so fleeting, like it doesn't matter flashing up, flashing

fashion is cyclical. So you could have the perm mullet pullet and you know, but at least like the current state of perm mullets is an evolution from like the seventies and eighties, where a lot I mean, yeah, I have a wolf cut, which is mullet, but you know it's cooled to shag too, So yeah, that's fine without sounding like fucking Austin Powers being. Whenever I see a kid with the moment, I just assumed they were

like a dominic mysterio super fan, which I approve of understandably. Yeah, yeah, understandably, and so I definitely saw some of that when I was out in Chicago. They were was just like, oh, that's just a dominic mysterio slash Eddie Guerrero haircuts after it's cool cool kids. Yes, yeah, exactly. But the PERM I always like, I thought that went out

of style, but it's back, and it's just goofy as fuck. It's like whatever, it look look like this for four years and then it'll be you know, something that it hasn't reached Ohio yet, Jeff, even that's what it is, Okay, keep it out of here. We don't want it. Yeah, uh, folks, I'm I'm open to suggestions for hair because I don't know what the hell to do with my hair anymore. You say that, Yeah, whenever I see you, it looks magnificent. I'm so scared of it, though, I can't let me see it. No,

I see like the pump. You know, it's like fine, Mike, fine, fine, fine, I will shut up. Want to hear it? That efficit hair like? I just don't even know. I tell him, Mike stop, get him stop, get him. Mike is trying to beef right now, all right. Last email of the show comes from Pocono Paul. I'm gonna need Pocono Paul to write a follow up email with some extra members of the family here, dear bombers, have you ever noticed

how every great hero has a signature weapon. King Arthur has excalibur, Indiana Jones has a whip, Donkey Kong has his barrel. Thinking along those lines, I've heard each member of the GB crew with the fictional weapon I think suits them best. Lucy James. As an American, I've been conditioned to think anyone with a British accent as high class. It's not always true, of course. For all I know, Lucy could spend her nights off glassing

with beer bottles. But because of her accent, I immediately thought of the high elves and the sword. Glam dring drink. That's Gandolf's sword, No low brow river elf trash. For thanks, Jeff Grubb, Jeff grab gets the trident and one armed armored sleeve that guy had in the movie Gladiator. I don't know why I picked this for Jeff, other than for some weird reason I feel like he might already have it in his closet. He's Poseidon as from store brand man. Yeah, absolutely right, Nicky Grayson. Nicky

wields a gold scepter like a kingwood use for ceremonial purposes. Nikki uses it to bash people. Good Jana Cho In a post apocalyptic San Francisco, a deer hears a strange sound and cocks his head to the side. A bolo made from tying two yo yo's together, wraps throughout the tears legs, taking you to the ground. A fully dead clad figure emerges. The deer looks up as Jan at Jan as he takes his nest Is Yo Yo from Earth Bound out from his messenger bag. Scout waddles by. Uh Tam. Tam

uses his S seven sniper rifle from Halo. Every time he squeezes the trigger and watches a target fall, Tam whispers to himself, Nube Yes, Dan Reichert. I know Dan would pop probably want the mini gun from T two or the quad rocket launcher from Commando, but he likes that's a good poll. Yeah, but he lacks the Austrian awesomeness needed to properly wield those weapons. So for Dan, I went with the flamethrower guitar from Mad Max. Fury wrote biting It. By the way, I also endorse the idea of

Dan getting a flamethrower in real life. Don't know what Paul I can make electronics. Let's give him a flamethrower propane tank. You're making a non other people could maybe not Betty, but you, okay? Mike Manati. For Mike, I was originally thinking of some sort of mashing flute, but the perfect weapon occurred to me. It's the wizard hat from fantasiasens Hat all right,

I like it. The name of it to mean, nothing is more terrifying than the idea of Mike dressing wizard robes, smiling and making whimsical hand

motions as he directs walking brooms to bludgeon me with buckets. Yeah, I would love to see you with that like droopy robe and that whatever the fuck, just pointing casually as so, like you know, fants fantastics, like the Big Night show they do in Disney where he is dressed like that Mickey, and like he waddles around and dances and at one point he don't up of a mountain that stuff where friends would go and just imagine it's me in

the outfit the entire time. Now that's all I'm going to It's called Yensid. Yeah, yes, so it's my name of the hat. It's Yensid is who he's apprentice. There is Disney backwards jokers, of course I do. It's like one word that doesn't sound good backwards and they still did it because they did. You mean, I got some ship to tell you about. Alicot Okay, hey, hey, hey, spoiling, but alcard is a cool name. Like, it turns out that's a cool names and kingdom

hats. He gives you the Masterard Master Malcom. Yeah, gives you the Drive costume. Come on, technically the three fairies made the Drive costume. But yeah, he gives he like he tells him to do it, you know, he It just sounds more like a name than Jens. It does. Which one of us has the best backwards name? I would be Amberg's fedgeburg rumat Matt Maybe that'sttte. Yeah, just a bunch of Fegges feting all over the place. I got a DM just a couple of minutes ago.

Jan I'm gonna read this for quick. Hey, Jeff, this will see some super random. But I just listened to you on the Kitten Christa episode where you mentioned the cat Shine embargo is what got Mike Mnadi and you in Nintendo jail at games Beat Again, this is super random, But I'm the

dude on reddit that found this article and shared the info via Reddit. Pretty sure that was the catalyst for putting the info out there on a bigger stage, since the Reddit posts got a ton of traction and eventually was used on other sites. Anyway, just thought that was pretty funny, and please tell Mike I'm not sorry. All wow, thanks, thanks. This is why I to spend sixty bucks on Pickman flour later. I know, it's amazing Game of Throne moments where it's like telling my kid was me? Yeah,

tell Mike it was me exactly. It's I've been I've been hearing like they're more upset about that than I even know. Apparently that was maybe a big impetus for them cracking down on like things in general in particular. Right, yes, be saying how many catch shies were in the Bowser's Fury? How many? Was it? One hundred and twenty? Who could have guessed? I would just like to for the record state that I respect old Nintendo Boggos

and will never I didn't do. They don't care. Pocono Paul continues, anyway, those are the weapons I came up with for every staff member of the crew. I'm curious, sincerely, Paul, Sincerely, Pocono, Paul, fucking weapons. Yes, yes, it's the ats T. The only thing I can think of for Jeff Baklar is the ATSD Chicken Walker from Return of the Jedi. The same kind of more space bullshit, A cool Chewbacca and some of those e walks get one at the end. Fucking Star Wars

wheelchair thing? What is that? Same? Never heard the as described as what isn't that the thing you like drive around? Like? No, no, it's like a chicken chicken bike. It's the robot. It's I don't want. I don't want, like the fucking stilts, Like I don't want Star Wars stilts. Give me something that that can hurt people. Be the weapon nick there, Okay, thing has a laser gun. Though I finish there about Star Wars. Watch the rest of the email. It kind of

gets sad here. It's about the devastation bacalar. What devastation are we? Okay? The same kind of ATSD that blasted that one ewalk, you know, the one the two loos were running when they both got hit the one ewalk got up to check on the other one but couldn't shake them awake. That's very sad. Yeah, I don't know. I imagine that moment, and on the other side of it, I don't know what the fuck talking

about back. Okay, you you get the full get up of the ice hockey guy from a running man, you get the bladed sub zero, Yes exactly. So it's like you're gonna be a goalie, but you're a goalie with a bladed hockey stick. So I think pretty cool. That's fine. I think I think I think I'd rather get like what's in Casey Jones's golf bag in Ninja Turtles one. Oh, I thought you meant like Davy Jones. For some reasons, I probably said what I just st Just please understand

I won't understand your Star Wars thing. I only have seen the Mandalorian. Really hey email or thank you so much for my really well thought out, inappropriate weapon. I appreciate it. All right, folks, everyone did it correctly. This week we've gone to the shout outs. We used to be this up. So everyone take a deep breath with me. I believe in you. Jan, you look great, green light from Jane. Shout outs the way, Jan, you look great. Every day. Jan you look

great, Jan, you smell great. Janny sound great. The GB crew ALLOK, fantastic, Really rocket at Jan. Remember the song Energy used to play, Bring that back? It was dope. Jan, get a cool popator like a fifties greaser. Jane, bring back the Pokey Boys, Wi a hundred baby El Powelka, who lives in two, who loves two minutes to late night, The Discord Months, who work hard? The GB Crew Report eight Hundo, Please don't let Randy Pitchford ruined the splendor of Magic,

the Planet of Bass, Lucy's coffee mug. I've got raw meat now I can mate the nineties Disney Podcast. Happy early Birthday, Chris, enjoy your whole birthday month. Why didn't no one tell me about Justin Throw's massive bulging penis? And left Over Season one, Episode one. That's all you have to do is tell me to get to watch Leftovers. Man, it's got a thick ass fruit roller for a months of cock jam shit was bouncing like a bowling ball. Too heard he wore two pairs of armies for that jogging

scene. What the fuck got men's sweating for real? Seattle Dogs the single best hot dog on planet Earth? Bring back hot dogs and hot Durger's shouts out to make a sixty four Mike me, Yes see? Am I right? Mitch Manati now available in widescreen Haities two. When the annoying orange hey nose fuck you wis why are you always so mean to this nose person. I dare y'all to go to the gumwall and not say the three letter C word. Why didn't Elon change? It's a zout's shout outs to retweets to

ex fuck this because he's a fucking moron. Grub twenty four check. Yeah, he's in a plane. Jack Bower's in a plane with a nuke because no one else could do it. Only Jack Bellard take a nuke into the desert. Grub Chicago shout out, did you see the bean Pack's west come through? Or come together? All comers welcome. I see what you're fucking doing here. You're not gonna get me say bar it again. Shouts out

to the Illuminati members and attendance today. I put on sunscreen specifically because Dan said he doesn't kissing dead girls in the back of my dr gaming Zaddi's salad fingers not enough a Net references this week. Nice shirt back Alar. This lighting is really giving tam Akrados look tam please say boy boy, Happy Birthday. THEO Love Your Dad, Ryan Davis, all eight hundred episodes of these all because of him. Hey everyone, it's Tuesday. Super Metroid It's overrated

per Jump Junkie's Stunt Crew. Make Mike the new King of the UK. When will Joah Falcon be on the bomb cast? Hurdis into war gaming? Carly ray Jepson doing a radiohead cup Where stopped moving? This? Uh doing a radiohead cover on our latest album Wallauigi? Why are we here just to suffer for wide Mike Dan do your best Whiluigi impression? Then sit is Disney backwards? Did you know Relic is Killer backwards? Pizza Day? The Aquabats? Help? No? Please stop? Why shouts out for us for playing

by the rules? Jamie Taco. Need to see Dan's Daddy with a perm wholesome cream all chip, no dip by it at a store near you? Daddy, Daddy Daddy Dan Oliver Sandwiches in Milton, Washington Worth It still thinking about Lucy's Chicken. This is a good podcast. Christina Applegate, This isn't a chat thing. This is me jan I'm not really a fan of Kingdom

Hearts? Why would you do shout outs? Happy retirements? Stewart broad The two thousand and four hip hop singles Still Tipping by Mike Jones, Slim Thug and Paul law who Mike Jones, Reddit is worthless, Reddit wants Mike to know it was them. I'm not gonna bother pronouncing this nuts mm not saying these last two great pronunciation a Landfire Pool Gwynn, gilgorger Ere queerin draw oool Landy, Sililio Gore Gooch. I take it, I take it back.

This is a bad podcast. Life It Never Die. Women are my favorite. Guy Manati Manati, Manati. Keep. That's it for the shout outs. Special shout outs to you everyone if you've been listening since the very beginning of eight hundred episodes. Shouts out to Ryan, Shouts out to Jeff Finney, Brad Alex, Drew, Ben Abbey, Patrick Kleppick, Matthew Rory, Tam Lucy, Jeff Baclar, Jeff grub, Dan Reichert, Mike Manati, Turbo, Shan j Grayson. I'm just here. I just say the words.

Uh. Shouts out to you this. I grew up listening to this podcast and it is still surreal to wake up every Tuesday and fire up the lights to go do this podcast. And hey, I love all the folks I'm currently doing this podcast with. Also shouts out to Jesser Brian Jason, a striker uh for ury Ury thing. I love all you. I love this crew. I can't wait to go to packs with them. I'm not gonna say the C word. I'm locking the dock right now. What else

do we got going on this week? Guys? There were Jeff Jeff's backgrounds. Yeah, Blake is Unfortunately that's on Wednesday. Now, we're doing those on Wednesdays, going for it, so look after that, we're also we are, We're putting our minds together. We're gonna have a whole bunch of new stuff popping off pretty soon. But nothing to say yet. But I got some ideas. I'm gonna play through all the stories on Mortal Kombat, so we'll do that to say here pretty soon. That'll happen here because I

want to do that before the game comes out. I'm sure you guys have been should special Shout out to the one on the Austin Walker Shout out eight Town Down, Austin Walker, the Young God himself. Gamess Mornings back tomorrow, Lucy. Can you do Gamess Mornings tomorrow? I don't know any ah? There we go, all right, tune in Everybody, Me and Lucy Hey new nineties Disney Later Today about the people mover slash to Marland transit authorities.

Yes, check out my nineties Sney podcasts. Also special shouts out. I really enjoyed the Kurt Locker episode about handhelds. Yeah, I just love Kurt. Kurt's great in the episode of the Kurt Locker Today is all about like how he's been playing multiplayer games all wrong because I like second jobs knowing it m and that has been the Giant Bomb Cast. We will see you next week for another rousing episode on Tuesday. I've been Jan, he's been Jeff. He's also been Jeff. He's been Dan, she's been Lucy.

He's been dam he's been Mike. And you have been gougeous. We'll see you next week. Baby. Sorry if I missed anyway, It's nothing personal. Please don't read it to it. It sounds she's got bad brains, just bad brains. The Giant Bomb Cast is now all of them. See you next week. Get to get out, get out, get out. We're pleasing to go. Get it quiet. Just just leave, just leave, just leave.