I'm sorry, it's just that I didn't want you guys to think I was stuck. You know, no fun. All brain, no penis. Hey! We're recording the podcast! Shut up! Good morning to you, wherever you are! For April 3rd, 2025. My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there. She's got a brand new emoji. It's Ashley. Say hi to Ashley Burns, everybody. Baby, I got eight of them.
I absolutely, by the way, did my iOS update so I could get the new emoji. I know because you announced it to the entire house. You said, I'm getting the emojis. I got turnips. Do you have your turnips? Have you used turnips? I do. Let me send you a turnip right now. Dude, that is a 100% some dorky developer.
at the iOS department at Apple who plays Animal Crossing. You know it is. You know it is. They were just trying to manifest a new Animal Crossing game for the Nintendo Switch 2. You know what? They probably, they're like, oh my God. They're going to notice that I did this. The Switch is being announced. They're going to think like, oh, thank you, iOS developer, for putting turnips in the emojis. Wait, wait, I shouldn't even say that. Now we're going to join the stock market.
Is that a thing? Is that a real thing? That's a thing! That's the thing in Animal Crossing. All right. Let me add to the column of reasons to hate Animal Crossing. Stock market. Wow. Stock. Yeah. You know, every week someone, this little guy comes through your town, you can buy turnips.
have to hope that the sale price changes throughout the week. And so you hope that you buy low and sell high. And that it was a big thing at the height of Animal Crossing where people would be like, oh my God, I have like an insane price. sell price today. I'm opening my island. You can just come by and sell your turnips. People are covering their islands in turnips. and then making these voyages to open islands to sell for insanely high prices, completely breaking the Animal Crossing economy.
And that's why they have tariffs now. Welcome to Liberation Day, everybody. Yesterday was Liberation Day in the U.S. when they announced all the big tariffs. So Trump had a big meeting out in the Rose Garden, it looked like, and announced them all and showed his charts. Of all, what is now, it's interesting, they've pivoted a little bit. Or they're leaning harder into the term reciprocal terror.
they are levying tariffs against nations, at least the ones they had in their chart, their handout that they gave out. against nations that already tariff the U.S. and U.S. goods. Yeah, I wasn't aware that there were a lot of tariffs on U.S. goods from other countries. But the thing about tariffs in general, right, isn't it that...
people in the country pay the tariffs? It's basically for both industry and for consumers. It is a higher price to choose to do business with someone outside of the country than within the country. That's the theory behind it. And then the opponents of it say, you're just raising prices for people. That's all. At the end of the day, the companies will just, and there's nothing to prevent them from doing this, just pass that cost along to the customer in a time where we already have.
inflation, and now the word that is starting to creep into all the economic discussions. is a very dirty word, which is Stagflation. So stagflation means what? That the cost of things is going up, but the economy is not growing? But growth is going down. Yes. They had it in the 70s. It was a bad situation in the 70s.
Well, that's because everyone was burning their bras. It completely threw the economy out of whack. Don't tell Gen Z that. They don't like that. We had a discussion about that offline. We were talking about how And people in the comments were always worried because whenever there was a thing I learned, whenever you said the word millennial, it itself was a trigger word. like 10 years ago. And no matter what you said, if someone who wasn't a millennial just said the word millennial,
Probably by just muscle memory of being dumped on all the time in the press. Millennials would be like, fuck you. It was just a knee-jerk reaction because they were so often attacked simply for being of a generation. Right. for killing everything. They got blamed for...
killing every single possible thing, like killing indoor malls. Every industry, every single industry. Everything. They're all dead because of the millennials. Because of the millennials. Yeah. And so I was worried, like even just saying Gen Z yesterday. even though this is something that has been talked about a lot, is that Gen Z does not like nudity movies, are... cusp babies that are out there. So our Gen Z millennials, you know, what would they call those?
um elder gen zeds because you're old you're a zennial technically yeah so i'd be elder millennial or zennial which is i like i'm right on the cusp like i'm i think i technically fall on the millennial side of the generation line, but there's no hard lines, right? It's more just like an overall shift in this particular age group's own culture. I got the latchkey kid. but also the internet. Right. You're mad for no reason, but you'll also order Taco Bell on door.
A little above. So they were confirming. A lot of them that were either Gen Z or close to Gen Z were saying, I hate it. I hate it. I think there is a weird offshoot of that, though, which we didn't talk about. It's a symptom of a different issue that's going on generationally. Is that a lot of people, as we've talked about. are watching movies at home. And if you're watching movies at home for Gen Z, a lot of times, that means you're watching with your parents.
And you're watching a nude scene or a sex scene with your parents. Look, here's how you make that way less awkward, right? Like, people start getting busy, like, on screen. Like, they're taking off all their clothes. Glory's boobs come out. Here's what you do. You just start shouting advice. Put a finger in her butt. That's going to make things way less awkward because your parents are going to leave. They will absolutely leave.
I'm like, Gene, do you want to go try that? Son will be in our room. Maybe the kids are right. I just think, though, it's weird, though. The odd thing to me, the unique thing I should say about Gen Z is movement away from like nudity and sex and things like that. It's one of the first times I've ever seen a generation kind of impose that upon themselves. Like, I feel like Gen X, we had that because the goddamn boomers
Did all the drugs, had all the free sex at the concerts and parks and the festivals. Burned all the bras. And then turned around and said to us, their kids going, hey, you just say no, you shouldn't do all this. I was like, fuck you. And getting leading the like.
Satanic panic. Like, D&D is bad for you. LSD was dope, but D&D is bad for you. Yeah, you're gonna kill all your friends. Entirely the wrong letters. Right, like, what do you associate with D&D? I associate for some reason with kids going into sewer. And they didn't want kids to do that. Or down in the steam pipes under buildings. I just like to- Why do I associate that? I don't know. I just love that they think that D&D kids went out. Isn't that sweet? Right.
Now D&D is a fucking industry, you know? Juggernaut. I mean, it is a branch of entertainment now. Could never have fucking predicted that. It's its own whole genre. It's crazy. You know, Wil Wheaton, that's who you blame for that. Honestly, go back far enough. You blame him for that. It's definitely his fault. All his fault. All his fault. Well, the other thing about watching movies at home is
If movie theaters have their way, that's going to get a lot harder. They're lobbying for 45-day minimum exclusive windows on movies coming to theaters. It's been a thing that we've been seeing a lot in the last... year or so right a movie will come out it's not doing great and then three weeks later it's on streaming
People have been trained, and I think they were trained really during the pandemic, but the theaters haven't managed to break that, is when HBO was doing day one movie theater and at-home streaming. for big films and then the window for streaming uh has gotten like shorter and shorter and shorter so now you have like two or three weeks for some movies i think disney does 45 days roughly so what movie theaters are asking is basically The Disney model, where it'll be a minimum 45 days.
in theaters before movies come to streaming. So you can go see something in the theater and start shouting advice at the actors who are banging on screen. Yeah, exactly. Bring your parents with you too. Have them back a couple rows. Did you ever have any awkward experiences like that?
No, no. Like, you mean the old, like, oh, we're going to go sit in the back row of the theater and make out the whole time? No, I did not. Or just like you're with somebody and you're in a movie and then awkward sex? No. Like, we would watch Game of Thrones with all of our friends and when... the warning came up that there was nudie in the episode. We were like,
Like, fuck, everybody cheered. Or if it was missing and everyone's like, aw. Although, to be fair, for Game of Thrones, that was rare. Right. You're either getting the stabby stab one way or the other. It's either like with a dagger or with the eggplant emoji. One of the two. People were pointing out, though, that...
Turnip being a bad proxy for vagina. They were saying we missed one with the cat emoji. I just find that to be weird. But that's more, that's like, oh, that's wordplay, right? As opposed to visually evocative. I guess the closest people come to visually evocative is the taco. Oh, yeah. Okay. I didn't think about that either. I didn't think about that. Well, also in this round of emojis that just came out. We kind of glossed over the fact that there is a paint splat.
No one's going to use that as a paint splat. No, it's getting added to the water drop splashes in the eggplant. It's going to replace those water drops. The days are numbered. It's going to get replaced with a splash. You know, I should reveal something, too, because I had a revelation this week and I talked to you about it because we were looking at like.
Some kind of thing, like Pinterest or something like that, where we saw a room. And we were decorating a room this week. That was a fun project to do that with you. It was a very fun project. And so looking at some of that stuff, and I made a revelation as a guy who's been alive. for 50 years. And that is, I've never bought a plant like I've never I've never bought a house plant.
Because I wanted a house plant and I was going to keep a house plant alive. And I wonder how many guys are like me, just have never bought a plant. I've been with girlfriends. And I bought plants with them. I have never independently in my life said, I'm going out today to buy a plant. So you've like swiped the card, but you've never gone on the journey. I wouldn't even where would I begin? Like I like I what kind of plant would be good in this room? I bought flowers.
Those are decapitated plants. Right. Those are plants that just don't know they're dead yet. Right. I've eaten plants. Those kinds of plants. I'm all in on those. But like the. But like the living kind. Like companion plant? Or what is it? Like a pet? I just, it never occurred to me. This was a Pinterest room where this lady had like. 14 giant plants and like creeping vines and all this stuff.
in her room, and I thought, that's like a night, go outside, you know? It's like, what are you doing? But imagine the oxygen in that room. That's some good oxygen. She walks in that room, and she's like, We talked about this, right? We talked about the YouTuber who went in a bunker and made his own oxygen with algae. Yeah. Yeah, and like locked.
One of these YouTubers is going to die, but he locked himself in an airtight closet and was breathing from his algae tanks to see if he could create his own oxygen. Actually harder than you think. It takes a lot more plants than you realize. So would you buy algae? Yes, that would be my first plan. I'm going to work my way up. Single cell plants.
And then I'm going to work my way up to like a ficus. See, I think you just don't buy plants because it's it's done for you. Right. This is this is the like you not knowing that we have our own pillows of part of a relationship where just I'm the plant buyer. I buy like the strawberry plants. I buy the house plants. I buy the shrubs. I do like I'll go out and I'll like have like scratches all over my arms from from trimming these.
stupid spiky palm things in the yard no no outdoor like landscaping stuff and lawn stuff all day long I've done that I'm talking bringing a plant into the house where I live keeping it bringing it in out of its environment
and keeping it alive in the house. I have never done that in my entire life. Well, okay, so what's your ideal room? So for this lady, it was clearly 8,000 plants. I've seen very- inspirational bathrooms where people will have a lot of these plants in bathrooms that are supposed to
I don't know, suck up the humidity or something and keep the air nice in the bathroom. But what's your ideal room? Like, what's your version of that lady's Pinterest board? You remember, you know, because we had Finn, we're a little bit older. So one of the things we want to do is get genetically tested. And I had to go and provide a sample.
And there was this stark medical room that just had a TV with porn in it. That was pretty dope. That's your ideal room. And oddly enough, there were some parents there. And you're just like, hey. They got a really weird look on your face when you're like, put your finger in her butt. They would have to be there. Otherwise, how would I complete the sample? Can't do it any other way. Parents are watching. And judging. It's the judgment that makes it hot. No, I really honestly like, uh,
Like women will post about guys like on Twitter. I'll say there will be a grown ass man who thinks this is an acceptable way to live. And it's a bed like a mattress. Calling it a bed is even being complimentary. Some kind of chair that has some kind of surface near it. Doesn't have to be a side table. Give me just a cardboard box that the TV came in and the TV's across from you. And then it's got the console.
And they're like, all the guys are like, what's wrong with that? Like they don't understand. And I'm that way. I could totally be fine with that. Honestly. You know what that is like? I find that once you get really used to something, you're going to miss it if you don't have it. We're in the U.S. right now. And one of the biggest things that both I and the kids are missing is what we call cozy town.
Oh, because we put the towels on radios. Yeah, so there's their heated, heated towel rails in our bathroom in Scotland. There's like a radiator underneath. And so when you go to put on the towel, first of all, it dries the towels out, which is great. So they're almost immediately dry again. And then they're also nice and like cozy, warm. You go and wrap it around and it's just really comfortable. And so everyone...
You know, just know, so like we miss that here, right? We got so used to it. We miss it here. I, you know what I do now? I fold laundry as soon as it comes out of the dryer. It doesn't go into a basket for two weeks until I get around to it. I actually, I pull it out of the dryer and I fold the thing and then I put it.
back on the shelves in the closet. I don't know when I became this person, like an actual like whole ass responsible person. You've been that way for a while. What are you talking about? You're saying you don't do that in Scotland? No, no, I do. But it's like I didn't.
It's weird. I compare it because we're back in Austin. Yeah. It's like a milestone for here is I didn't used to do that here. It's a habit I picked up in Scotland. I'm now used to it. And so I got here a person that did this. I don't even realize. Before you know it, Bernie, you're going to be buying houseplants. And you're going to be like, I don't know how to live without this plant.
You're going to have 3000 houseplants in a room and you're going to go, that air is some good shit. I am. I've always been good about laundry. I like it. Like I, people who have seen me on podcasts, I wear the same thing all the time. I have. I try to never have more than two weeks of clothing because that's essentially like two loads of laundry and that's it. I really, I don't see the point of it. If you have more than that, it just stacks up.
The one thing that I do that I've learned a lot of other people do is you have clothes that are dirty and go in the hamper, clothes that are clean and go in the dresser. And then you've got the in-between stuff that goes on the chair. The chair. You've got the clothes chair. The chair. It must be so disappointing to be a chair and be bought in the furniture store. And then you get put in the corner of someone's bedroom. And then you just become.
Like a kind of dirty clothes rack. Like not quite dirty enough. And no one's going to sit on you because you're covered in clothes. Never. So you never get to fulfill your purpose as a chair. It must freak the chair out because it's like empty people. It's all the clothes, but none of the person. Excuse me, I was told I would get some ass.
And the chair's parents are in the room. It's awkward for everybody. It's just really terrible. But, you know, I have to go back to this emoji thing really quickly. I did say at the top of this that an iOS developer was like putting these emojis out. Is there like an international syndicate of emoji? Like, I shouldn't give credit to Apple for making the emojis because aren't these same emojis now on Android? Or does Android have different emojis?
Let's see. And is there a translator then that works between the two platforms? That translates for the Android people. If they want to send me a turnip, is it going to show up like a tomato? So the tricky thing is that, um, that. Different platforms have their different versions of emojis, right? Apple has its own set of emojis. It's uncanny valley. They look a little different. Right, and Windows is going to have its own set. Android is going to have its own set.
Um, but they all like use the same symbols. Um, this is according to Emojipedia. No one owns the name emoji, just like no one owns common words like tree or house. However, the emoji brand icons, characters, and designs are developed and owned by the emoji company, GMB8. What? Additionally... This is like finding out how CrossFit is owned by a company. Somebody owns Emojis? The Emoji Company. The Smiley Company claims to hold the rights to the smiley face in over 100 countries.
What? This is like one of my least favorite genres on... The internet for like video platforms like TikTok and Instagram are people who see life hacks and then repeat them. I have one exception for that. It's a Canadian dude. And when he sees it, he goes, he goes, No way. For fuck's sake. He just does it so well and he's so funny. I like that guy a lot. So now I'm sitting over here going, what?
No way. Somebody owns emojis? Get the fuck out of here. He was sitting there watching the new Nintendo Direct going, what? No way. How much do you think that guy's worse? He's worth at least three emoji. The emoji guy, right? Right. Who is this mysterious character? Who is? Mr. Emoji. Who's Mr. Big Emoji out there? Deciding what emojis we get to use? Like Big Emoji only handing out eight new emoji per year? Really?
that's stingy. Really? And like, he's clearly in the pocket of a big turnip as well. I mean, do you think they, they have to like, they have all these like under the table deals about like, Who paid for turnip, right? Who lobbied to get that one in there? And maybe he's sending us a message with the ones he put out. What is dead tree Syrian flag turnip?
We have to decode this. Because he's in the inner circle. This person has to have a lot of money at this point. This is the real deep state. Right. He's controlling our communications. This guy has three money bag emojis. He must. Wait, wait, wait. Is it also on every platform where... If you use a single emoji, it's big.
Like you don't put anything else? No, I think that's platform specific. Oh, is it? Have you noticed that if you do three, you get them all big, but if you do four, it's like... Suddenly they're small. Four is a sentence. You've used up your big emoji and now we're on a small emoji. The emoji company is like, look, you should be able to communicate whatever you want to say in three emojis and that's it. That's your limit. If you can't do it in three, you're getting reduced.
at what point do they start like uh culling emojis like this one's they should get rid of some like that they they should not make the cut they were retiring these emojis i think they have some ones that have changed like i think the gun turned into a water gun No. Okay. The gun turned. I see what you're saying. That makes sense. Although culturally we've moved on. Although once again, I don't know if that.
every platform because every platform sort of has its own way of displaying the emoji or if that's only the platform like iOS or something where I see it. Well, before we move on for the rest of the day here, because we're getting a little bit long here, we should talk about the Nintendo Switch, too, because that announcement was yesterday.
Am I crazy? This thing was $460. Is that right? Yeah, $450, which is a big step up. The Nintendo Switch launched for $300. So this is kind of a gamble on Nintendo's part. You know, I feel like the price point for the Switch was so good, so low. That's one of the reasons that so many people were happy to buy it straight out the gate. So going up 50%.
It's basically the price of a PS5 is a pretty big deal. That's a big deal. And they did announce some of their first party games are going to be more expensive as well. They've got the new Mario Kart World. I think it's 80 bucks. And I think their Donkey Kong game that's coming out is 70, maybe. They do have a Switch 2 versions of some of their...
Switch 1 games that'll have some sort of extra, I don't know, graphical settings or extra content or something. And they're doing upgrade programs for some of those games. But overall, it looks like Nintendo is making a move to overall increase the base price of their first party games up from $60. It's all very expensive, if you ask me. $450 and then...
Approaching like 90 bucks for some of the games. It's crazy. It is. It's asking a lot. I will say Mario Kart World looks awesome. You remember what a big fan I've been in the past of the Forza Horizon game.
Okay. Right. They're like open world racing games where it's like you. Very photorealistic. Yeah. Well, no, not, not that part, but the part where it's sort of open world, you just be driving along and then suddenly like someone pulls up next to you and they're like, I want to race. And then you're suddenly in a race.
Yeah. Or, you know, it looks like they're doing that kind of thing with Mario Kart, making it much more open world so you can drive from area to area. Okay. And they've got like all this, you know, obviously it's Mario Kart, so it's got all this like goofy stuff going on as well. But it looks like it's going to be really cool. That's a big price point, though, for Mario Kart. I mean, at this point, though, it's like.
You're just, you're going to do it. You're going to play the game. The thing is, I am going to do it, but I'm not the master. That's one of the things that Nintendo has always specialized in is this sort of very broad appeal. Like, of course, I'm going to. I play video games all the time. I love my video games. I will pay the money for the thing. You will get the money out of it. Right. Yeah. You know, I'm going to sell a house plant.
to fund it if i have to and uh you know so like i'm starting a competitive emoji company starting tomorrow um you know but not the the trick is getting a lot of people right the the the regular people, the families, you know, and the moms and the dads to buy in on that sort of thing. And between the $450 price point, the price of games going up, It is a harder sell, especially, you know, when you start talking about scary words like stagflation. Everyone is working really hard to stretch.
not more money a lot farther these days. And so I don't know. I feel like the $450 price point could hurt them. But with the tech specs, I also kind of get it. Right. It's now it's a 1080p screen. The whole thing is bigger. The joy cons are bigger. You're going to love this. The Joy-Cons have a mouse functionality now, so they're releasing Civ 7 on the Switch, too, because you can use one of the Joy-Cons like a mouse to play the game. She's pantomiming here when you say like a mouse.
Not like a pointer where you move a cursor on the screen. You're saying you can put it on the table. You use the Joy-Con itself as a mouse. That's cool. You know, and they're... continuing to improve their online stuff, which has always been one of Nintendo's big weaknesses is Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have always been really far ahead of Nintendo in terms of like overall functionality.
They've added this new button that everyone was like, oh, what's this button do? A C button on one of the Joy-Cons. And apparently they're building in their own sort of like Discord-y like chat room, chat functionality. And you can like stream games to your friends. And so they're adding a lot of that functionality in, which is great, but they also have like parental controls that can lock that down for the kids.
You know, so all of it is looking really good. The specs look great. It can do 4K when it's docked. So, you know, it's 120 hertz, I think. The specs all sound really good. It sounds like it's a good machine, especially given the size, right? That's always been tough for the Switch. It can't be as strong because it's just little. So just looking at this, like bringing this back around. tariff on Japanese goods as of Liberation Day.
uh is 24 which was yesterday as well i don't know if you know nintendo tried to factor anything into that but if you just do an extrapolation on that beyond the tariff, or I should say in absence of the tariff. the Nintendo Switch 2 would cost $360. So you're saying that... Is it about to go up from here or did they already price it in? I don't know. I don't know. That's tough. Or does this mean that Nintendo was just going to...
Like, were they already planning for 15? They'll just eat the tariff because they've publicly announced now what the price is going to be. right it's really hard to go up from there super bad timing if that's the case like they announced it like eight hours before the tariff was announced for them and in the reciprocal list so this is interesting uh the way that the way the white house interprets it at least you know
from the little charts that they published, that the U.S. reciprocal tariff on Japan is 24%. Tariffs charged to the U.S. by Japan, 46%. But again, that's charged to the U.S. That's just, that's what... Japanese companies have to pay to import stuff from the U.S.? Well, yes, exactly. Goods coming into Japan from the U.S. are tariffed 46%, according to the White House. As an example, though, of how this isn't always exactly like it seems,
They were pointing out the milk tariff, which keeps getting brought up of Canada tariffing milk coming in from the US. But there is a threshold at which there is zero tariffs. And beyond that, there are tariffs. of a certain percent. I don't know what it is, but they keep quoting that percentage. But the U.S. is only at half the level to reach the maximum of the free tier.
Okay, so there is a theoretical tariff, but they're not bringing enough milk in to actually hit it. If we hit the threshold, which we're not hitting, then we would be hit with this percentage tariff that's listed. So you don't know.
Of course, they can list the tariff, but unless they have asterisk and all the footnotes and all the citations. And unless you read all of those citations. Yeah. Yeah. Which no one is doing. How do you know? How do you possibly know? How do you know? But I'm curious, though. This is a good question. Will the Nintendo Switch 2 go up in price from this point?
Because now the tariffs have been announced on Japan. We'll just have to start buying them in the UK and then like putting them in suitcases and bring them to the US to... to just sell off. We're going to be the scalpers. Actually, did you see the UK in that chart, by the way? No. Oh, totally. It's like totally like friendly rates in there. Southern China is 67% is what, according to the chart.
China tariffs, U.S. goods. U.S. is coming back with 34%. European Union is 39%. The U.S. is coming back with 20%. Thailand is 72% on US goods. US is coming back with 36%. And then here's like United Kingdom buried in all this. It's like, 10%. 10%. Just like, it's like, it's almost like, okay, we're good. Look, buddy, we can't, we can't do nothing. Why even? Yeah, right. We can't do nothing.
Look, make me look good in front of the Europeans. I gotta hang out with these. These are my neighbors. I gotta hang out with them all the time. I see them on the street. My kids go to school with them. So I'll just do 10%. You do 10%, right? They play Nintendo. switch together. It'll all work out. It's all even. It's fine. They are actually, Nintendo is actually putting a really interesting anti-scalper measures
into the Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order. I don't think pre-orders are open yet, but I think they announced sort of requirements like you have to have played so much like so many hours in games on the Nintendo Switch and so you have to have opted in to like share your gameplay hours with them. in order to be able to order a Switch 2 because they're trying to find some way to keep scalpers out.
I mean, that's interesting, but what the fuck? I know. I know. I feel like it'd be nice if there's like some other way to authenticate that kind of thing. But at least someone is trying. Yeah, I get what you're saying. You know, I mean. I mean, the alternative is they like tie it to you with some code that can't be undone. And then you're like the Cybertruck contract we talked about yesterday.
You know, they do something where it locks the thing to you. Nobody wants that. No. So it's like, I don't know what the answer is for finding a way to stop scalping so that like actual people can buy the thing. But I appreciate that they're doing. something to combat it. And it kind of makes sense that probably people who are going to pre-order this thing right out of the gate are the people who like and play their Switch a lot.
Or people who want to make a lot of money. And they'll buy as many as they possibly can and reserve as many as they can because they want to make money, whatever, six months from now. Right. It's those two categories. Right. So I don't think 50 hours is...
You can argue the time, but I like that they are putting some sort of effort in to make sure that you're a person who definitely wants a Switch. So you're saying I should spend the rest of this week and end of the weekend just playing the hell out of Nintendo Switch?
so that I'll qualify to reserve one. Tell you what, you and I can just go, I'll teach you the stock market in Animal Crossing, and then we'll just send each other turnip emojis for the rest of the weekend, and that should really get us across the line. So you're saying I'm just going to be trading vaginas on my private island? I don't like the sound of that. At all. At all. The thing that would be the most embarrassing though is to go buy a Switch 2 and they go,
You're not enough of a gamer. That would be like. You're not a real gamer. Nintendo telling you you're not enough of a gamer would be the biggest insult of all time. I almost don't want to play anymore Switch. And just they go. Like I go to like put it add one to cart. And they're like, bro, come on. You really think you're at that level? Nah. Go back to Halo, bitch. Mario says, oh no.
What's the fox who sells people's stuff on the island? Oh, yeah. He's not a fox. Okay. He's a tanuki. He's Tom Nook. Like a fox, but he's not. Or like a fox, but like a raccoon, but not. Oh, you're talking about the fox that sells you the counterfeit goods. No, I'm talking about Tom Nook. Oh.
What's a Tunuki? Is that a real animal? Tunuki? I think it is. What's a Tunuki? Tunuki. Let's Google. Tunuki. Tunuki sounds like something you would watch with your parents and feel awkward. And start judging. Okay, here we go. The Japanese raccoon dog, known by its Japanese name, Tanuki, is a species of canid endemic to Japan. All right. Fair play. And guess what? They're adorable. You know, you get the Tanooki suit in Mario. Right? Where he gets a little tail and he goes. You're right.
I do know that. I know it so well. You're not enough of a gamer for the Nintendo. I know it so well. I just pre-ordered a Switch for that knowledge. I'm such a Nintendo gamer. All right. Well, I would like to thank today's big Nintendo gamers, Victor Tran and Fukaslamia. Thank you.
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