pocket cast it's just two guys the pocket guys it really is just two guys that's us that's it there's just two guys just two guys fuck yeah that's the intro I'm a guy you're a guy would you guys guys yeah we sometimes talk about some games sometimes sometimes sometimes we you know make schemes on how to monetize fetishes yeah
essentially yeah we're the next dr. John's dude honest okay but like pretty sure that's worth some shit respect to that franchise yeah that I feel like they're probably the first I get that I can think of right they're the first big sex store I would I feel like whether or not you've ever been inside of or made a purchase at a dr. John's if you hear no one actually has to explain to you what a dr. John's yeah absolutely you know from like childhood your dad might say
make a joke about dr. John's or something and like you're just like yeah that definitely wasn't my experience like I bet you dad knows my memory of at least the existence of dr. John's in whatever capacity runs deep yeah well you lived in like Loveland and there's one in Fort Collins yeah yeah yeah I've been in there I always so the bar that I used to hang out in in Fort
Collins Frankenstein was right next to dr. John's that's right it's that right so if you're outside smoking cigarettes you're just watching so many different people and you'd be sitting there they're having some good conversation smoking cigarettes so you'd be out there for a while oh yeah after a while it just became a pastime of like swathes go in and out and see you goes in like what do you think like what do you yeah yeah cuz it's all different walks of life
what gave to dr. John oh yeah dude that was so much fun I miss that you know back when I feel like I could keep my social anxiety at bay with you know just the now obsolete childlike wonder at the existence of all mankind you know aimlessly wandering around this weird ball of existence yeah curiosity yeah once once the nine-to-five killed that spark of joy within me now I hate being around people but like back then when it was all new and fresh I fucking loved
people watching yeah and I still do mostly because there's not a lot much else to do sometimes but most of the joy is gone I think I still really enjoy it because I live in such a small town there's not a lot of people watch when you live in a small town there's not people walking around as much there's no but when there are though that's some good shit sometimes yeah there's a really good one and then there's other ones where it's just me walking to work you
know something but I always wonder though cuz like you know I see somebody walking around and it's never inappropriate attire it's always like depends on the neighborhood 15 below and here's here's a dude in cargo shorts and like flip-flops and like a trench coat and just far enough from pretty much anything that has public access you're like are you gonna die out here like straight up man like am I gonna read about you two weeks from now after they
finally report about it in the newspaper I just feel really bad that I didn't do anything I felt that way when I was driving back into town the other day and there is this snowstorm it was yesterday and there was that snowstorm going on and there was this little car in front of me and they were going the speed limit and all of a sudden threw on their hazards okay and we're just slowing down it just seemed like they didn't know how to drive in the snow fucking truck like a
big exactly where you're going with this yep past us like I was behind him and it passed both of us and went around it in front of it so I'm kind of like feeling like am I pressuring this guy like do it should I go around him am I making him just driving bad driving the snow worse by staying behind him because I'm trying to stay behind him now yeah just to be helping out if something's going on sure sure sure and then I fucking go around him I started driving off and he starts
fishtailing how fast we how fast were y'all going we were on the highway it was 65 but he was probably going to 60 okay okay and then had slowed down a bit there's the weed bolt just passed him and then we were driving on the road there's no reason to fishtail this person had no clue how to drive in the fucking shitty roads sure and so now I'm driving on it I just see these fucking taillights just like flickering either side I know that there's a fucking plow
coming to behind us oh boy god that poor bastard yeah really got got us cut that day I had that exact feeling of like I do not want to read about this in the fucking newspaper I know dude there was it you remember that story dude it was a while ago I don't I don't remember when it was right after we had one of those snap blizzards that just fucked everything super hard like zero visibility and it was just crazy but then it was like gone by like 10 a.m.
the next day because the Sun just came out and it was just like everything's gone now but some dude like just drove off the shoulder and his car got stuck and it was just just outside of town like on 385 yeah and they said people are looking for him but like visibility was so shit they just could not find or see him and he fucking froze to death that's insane dude thought by 10 a.m. freezing to death there's gotta be the craziest and also thought by 10 a.m. do
you think wild that if you thought or just two hours earlier you would have been in close enough like at death's door and not death's door that you would unthaw and come back to life I've always wondered if this is what homeless people feel in the winter when they're passing out they're like oh this is it this is the last time that I'm gonna fall asleep like I'm dying I'm gonna freeze to death in my sleep and then they wake up and they're like oh I didn't die but maybe
they did die for just a couple minutes and then it warmed back up and then there Jesus that sits with me I think about that sometimes pocket cast it's just two guys and sometimes the press yeah sometimes it's a depressa so this episode is gonna transform on you though it's not a depressa so autobots Decepticons episode oh oh oh we are fully dedicated an episode to me talking about Transformers yeah it's about time you deserve it I don't I don't know
anything about transformers dude I don't either bro I know Beast Wars that's it I watched my 52 episodes I got my I can talk Beast Wars and I'm really sad to say there are no Beast Wars games on the DS that's unfortunate that's what we had to settle for this is the first the first Transformers movie that Michael Bay does that sounds right this is the games that came out alongside that movie there is Transformers Autobots and Transformers Decepticons but they are
kind of the same game we're gonna kind of talk about it because I haven't talked to you about this game at all yet no and I think we got a similar distance I'm curious to see I'm sure there's ways that they could make this go both ways yeah but one of like some of my earlier my first mission is like stop the Decepticons from attacking this thing I have a feeling I know I know what the story split is I think I know when it happens and I'm curious yeah I'm also
curious to know of your experience as well straight out of the gate yeah this is I'm gonna say a hidden gem it's pretty good it's it's really threw me for a loop I was not expecting it to give me this much pleasure did this it's it's it's what's it called it's GTA mobile edition Transformers on the DS yeah absolutely and it totally encourages free play like it tells you so many times in free play you can access everything and I kept being like what the
fuck is free play I don't see that option and then realize I'm in free play I can just run around and I don't have to keep doing the mission like you choose to pick up the mission otherwise you're around the city go scan all the cars and see which ones you can transform into and then what their robot form is like because they all have different weapons and shit I found the flame truck really early on nice that is that's a good one awesome and it looks cool yeah
dude it was dude yeah the the different vehicles some of them are just like crazy and assuming did you find the fucking sports car like the rally car I don't think so bro that thing I'm not gonna lie dude like all the vehicles are pretty fucking slow and chunky and then like every once in a while you'll find like it just a slightly faster than average car bro this thing it's I don't know if a rally car is the right term for it but it was like a little like a
racer like a streetcar and I just I just saw I drive past and I fucking 180 I was like that looked cool most of the most of the like car models are like it's a fucking today a great truck yeah it's a box truck yeah all it it's pretty and then you see the car come flying by yeah I was like hold that one was cool great yeah yeah I popped that one and I immediately switched to it cuz like most of them like oh yeah that one though pop that thing on dude I think it's fast as
fuck and like you cuz there's like you guys drift mechanic when you're driving it and actually it ain't terrible no at first I hated it yeah and then I figured it out and it is super fun super arcadey driving you are stuck to the ground right that guy's that feeling I'm just like there's no this car there's no mechanics for this car to flip right now no you just you just stuck you're stuck to the ground yeah and it's pretty good in my version you eventually get to play
his bumblebee damn that's our producer thanks working hard yeah working hard for those what do you what do you call the sound engineer the Foley artist yeah man sometimes I should just like hold on to it for just a teensy-weensy second and try to think about what I'm trying about like about to say before I start just like word vomiting to get to that point but then maybe I wouldn't get there at all I don't think I would get there I think I need my word vomit you
know what I have to respect the process respect the process trust the process he's a Foley master it's just a shit one anyways you get to play his bumblebee that's fucking dope you're playing as the Camaro that thing is fucking a blast to take around hell yeah shit through the city there is I looked into the reception of this game and the immediate reviews were okay right but you look at people's comments and nowadays on it and it seems like a lot of people the few
people that played it and are talking about it yeah really enjoyed this game yeah it's I mean it's a pretty like as far as the gameplay goes super simple there's not a heck of a lot to it it's kind of like a beat him up sort of shooter like the lock shooter shooter with the lock on that lock on makes such a difference oh it does especially with the bumper camera controls yeah yeah and it takes a second at least for my brain to remember that L&R are my in my
looking and right are my strafe yeah but it works really well once you get it down you start dodging the shots coming at you yeah and that's I mean that's essentially the gameplay loop is you're just dodging shots nuking shit out I had a lot of missions though where I went in balls the wall did it wrong had to come back at the mission and like okay attack this a group over here yeah rush over here attack this like make sure you're not getting hiding a bunch of people
with you right and then you have like fucking huge gang of people next thing you know there's like ten shots coming at you from all over the screen and you're dead yeah it was not it's not the most forgiving game it is it's not I the can I also say that it's finally a GTA like another GTA not actually but you know title that has the the justice aggro system right you get so many stars after fucking so much shit up and then the fucking cops and the FBI and all
them you know start chasing you down with various levels of intensity holy fuck dude those guys mean fucking business and they all shoot like hitscan they don't have like arcing projectiles like a lot of the decepticons or Autobots yeah yeah and that's they will if you don't respect them they will fuck you up absolutely that's where I ran into a lot of my problems that you're on a mission difficulty you have to deal with decepticons and you accidentally just
killed somebody like a pedestrian car oh yeah what have you and then you've now got these cops on your ass whose shots are accurate and they're strong fuck the decepticons they're not bothering they're fucking pussies yeah like you fucked them up all day no problem mean fucking business dude seriously I thought that was hilarious do you don't like oh that's I mean it's like it was annoying but I was like man that's awesome it is that's fucking awesome and it's your
only interaction really this is what I've seen a comment that was made that it was a comment that I made last week where I had said that I want the transformers movie with no humans in it yeah that's what this is 100% there's no humans it's a story totally about the whoever side you're on and what they're going through right kind of in the background of the movie and it's it's so funny cuz at first I didn't notice it I was enjoying the story at first I
thought it was really cheesy and then all of a sudden the voice acting really got me it's got the voice acting voices from the movie that's why I know it's like again that DS sound quality fucking coming through pretty pretty swell on the Autobots one there is a huge annoyance I don't know because bumblebee doesn't have a voice box oh shit yeah so he's just like radio stuff right and that's fine when he uses the radio cuts those are whatever but at least other
times but there's just like static and it's the worst speakers besides that though this was a really cool game I was really just so taken back by did you get to the helicopter missions yes I didn't think we were gonna get also I just assumed you had a helicopter mission as well yeah I do yeah can we circle back yeah I do want to talk about where I think the story split occurred sure all right so from my perspective game starts you
fucking smack into the ground right and then I end up meeting up with I can't remember all their fucking names barricade I think it was anyway if I think Starscream sent me down and I'm supposed to link up with barricade and he's supposed to get me trained up and shit and then but I'm also supposed to keep an eye on barricade because Starscream is a sketchy motherfucker and then we are immediately in we are immediately in different stories
immediately you show up and I kill you so Starscream sends you down yeah first thing you do is kill me yeah dude a couple of Autobots show up including you specifically not like your actual character but the new Autobot yeah it's this new unnamed Autobot that shows up and you just fucking work him down god I wonder if you were one of the first people that I killed them because I don't remember the store I wasn't paying that much attention at the beginning
sure yeah I said it was super on a similar on yeah back the that's so funny that I wish I knew that now but my first mission is to go in I mean I'm just sent in from I think like you know Optimus is like sending me down or I'm getting sent down my first contact is like Optimus and they do that plays by the way what I've what did you name your character link I named mine pocket pocket yeah oh Jesus and nice nice I'm sent down and I'm supposed to connect
with iron sides or iron sights I don't know which one it is I think it's iron sides okay so he he's the like person that's coaching me along like okay like barricade is for you and then I also meet up with bumblebee and I'm just meeting up with all the Autobots basically nice just optimist is kind of telling us things that we have to do okay and then after a while one of my first like my first boss fight is against Starscream oh that's sick yeah I
don't totally kill him he like takes off after you it's a fucking hard boss fight that's okay that's cool yeah that was pretty that was a hell yeah and in that boss fight I believe you're playing as your teacher the iron sides guy because that happens a lot for mine where all of a sudden yeah it was just bubble be or you're playing playing differently key characters yeah yeah and that's I got to if you've played this game you're gonna laugh at how far we didn't get I think I
got to a mission where I am no longer in a helicopter I am bumblebee now okay and now you have to go to like base area and destroy some cannon turret things okay okay and then from there you have to go back to the courthouse in town okay and take out a bunch of other turrets that are I don't know sure why all right someone's trying to get in and the turrets are gonna fuck them up because like more Autobots have to come into that area maybe okay because you're
taking out human defenses at that point you're not dealing with the septicons you're just dealing straight with the military huh you do well yeah we talked about so then there's another thing of where I think that we couldn't be playing the same game is that when I am in the helicopter mission I'm escorting the military I'm not escorting shit you just trying to fuck up the escort we're fucking shit no there is no escort you just fucking shit up the whole time in
your game or yeah yeah no that's like it's go here kill that kill these guys go here fuck that shit up it was pretty cool again kind of hard because like every every turn like no matter what I do I'm pulling like stars from the police and shit oh they're always pulling up and then I'm just like do do peace this way I couldn't get away from them and so I just jumped on top of a building and turned into a car that's awesome that's how I did any damage no why would you take damage yeah good point
why I was like from falling no why would you jumped off or you would just jump off and then turn into a car on the ground not like yeah you also don't take damage from yeah no that's true you're a giant robot yeah did it I thought as I was playing this game this shouldn't have been a transformers game though because it's very tank controls which I'm fine with I mean once you get a feel for tank controls yeah they're they're fine they enjoy it it fits the game
usually but for me transformers are really fast moving robots they're not like like when I think of a slow-moving big robot I'm thinking of mechs right yeah now for sure former transformers like a fast living moving breathing creature that's also a machine right right I think I would agree with that with my very very limited knowledge you never seen the movies no I have seen the first two maybe the first I don't I don't remember I was your first one but
I can't think about the second one yeah yeah LeBoeuf and Megan Fox yeah everybody remembers that yeah absolutely yeah yeah the bumblebee yeah classic bumblebee yeah I the movies were cool I remember yeah you know seeing those and just thinking like that that was fun that was pretty tight that was fun as they went on I remember being much less interested I mean like all right kind of old hat you know yeah Michael Bay yeah like oh well it was fun before I knew
about it and then okay you know I have other content that I'd rather spend my time with but did Michael Bay also do the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the new one the newer ones that would have been like 2015 I don't know maybe I said newer and then realize I also just said nine years ago yeah so not really yeah yeah I wasn't gonna say anything times a bitch man speaking of time hmm we're coming up on our birthday as far as the podcast goes
pocket cast birthday that's fucking crazy a year a year of pocket cast I can't believe we've been honestly I'm impressed that we stuck with it I didn't know if we would I'm glad that you did I'm glad yeah and I'm glad that I have as well yeah even now there are times where I have questions of like why this console like I love it yeah right but it's the least accessible to play like you have to play the DS you can play some games on your phone you can play
some games on the computer you sure but that you're emulation can only take you so far yeah you really the having the physical DS is a different for so many games did you play it on your phone or on your DS with this one I'm most no actually I come I'm not gonna lie I cherry picked this one I played it on my phone and then connected an Xbox controller to my phone and then use that and I just touched whenever you needed to use yeah I just like reach up and
bolt because there was some yeah there was some touch-only controls yeah there's a you transform and your scan yes yeah I think that was it I think so some other menu options yeah could be but I mean for the most part like that was pretty pretty simple I worked really well actually yeah I could see that this is a very comfortable way to play the DS there's a lot there's just there's a lot of games where they're like you know I'm looking at this where it's like if you
were to do a retro podcast you could do the Super Nintendo and you can play that sitting on your couch on the TV there's so many different consoles and libraries that you could go through that are just easier to play but I'm glad that we are doing this one I love the DS so much it's really it's just complicated enough to like work for us yeah for sure not too simple of games no no that's what I'm over there when you say it's just complicated enough oh I just meant like
wait how you spoke about like it's not the most accessible type of you know platform it's just complicated enough yeah yeah cuz I I wouldn't say niche or anything like that cuz it's it's truly not it's truly not it's one of the best selling yeah yeah maybe now just well with the being 2024 and all but I mean that's what makes it nice I guess is it niche or niche or yes Nietzsche Nietzsche it's definitely not that one like is VJ Nietzsche is Nietzsche the guy that like
Nietzsche Nietzsche is how you say his name yeah okay my reference from this is blazing saddles and I always had a feeling that guy was saying it wrong like medically like yeah he's in the wild west quoting go to Nietzsche Nietzsche yeah blazing saddles blazing saddles I showed you that movie yeah was that you yeah yeah because I was gonna put it on and you were like man that's such a funny movie blah blah so he used to made some comments about it and I put it on and we
were moments into the movie and you're cracking up you're like I've never seen this movie I was like oh I grew up that was I think an embarrassment of my dad's I remember my sister and I would quote that movie in public when we were kids okay and he'd be like don't don't fucking you can't yeah you can't quote this movie yet I understand you're not old enough to have seen that movie people can't know that you watch that not only had we seen it but like we loved blazing
saddles we used to watch that movie a lot not only until I became much older see all the everything about it it is a fucking blast it is it is a great movie I need to watch it honestly I haven't seen it I wish that we were segueing into a Western game right now but I would love it I think because obviously I didn't see that until much older yeah as discussed but I think my version of that probably would have been the three amigos Martin short Chevy chase probably
definitely dead by the time that movie was made but he's still kicking I don't think someone just released an album with more modern female vocalist was it Lady Gaga Lady Gaga and Dean Martin Lady Gaga and what I'm like some old singer guy that one of these guys that you love the Rat Pack fuckers the rat it's the rat pack what's not the nothing nothing I'm just saying like that you should know this information oh dude I'm so unplugged right now if it's not on ticktock I don't
fucking know some Spotify it's close enough I don't browse I go to my lo-fi playlist and I hit play I just go to my podcast and I hit play Spotify is always trying to show me the coolest I was like hey man I know you don't think I'm cool but check this thing out that I found for you all right Spotify you're kind of cool kind of dude Lady Gaga rat pack no matches just go to her albums give me your phone oh I'm actually I'm accidentally searching my browser history
or my tab history not my fucking go on to Spotify yeah I hate you Tony Bennett Tony Bennett that makes sense is he in the rat pack he's a classic he's a classic name three songs by Tony Bennett yeah fuck off fuck off dude get your own Google account yeah so Tony Bennett apparently so definitely not Dean Martin he's absolutely dead oh I didn't look bad up but he's probably I feel like our grandparents are dead well well like just grandparents or great
grandparents grandparents brother I am massively unequipped for this conversation I'm just saying if these all of people I still have grandparents yeah but do you have any that are dead yeah but then there's just like people that are just also dead arbitrarily like just dead people that's fair point now if the if the point was everyone's grandparents are dead because they're so old yeah that might lend itself some credibility what generation can you
guarantee that their grandparents are dead I'm gonna say boomers I'm gonna remind you baby boomers guarantee that their grandparents are dead did I don't know the can't guarantee that really because one's which like 15 15 right like 15 no yeah no generations are I just don't remember which one by which name is represented in which order baby boomers are like my dad I'm not asking to be educated right now I pre I appreciate your generosity though yeah
yeah I never know what you don't know you know do there's so much I don't I fake most of it you never know what you don't know that you don't know but sometimes you know what you don't sometimes you do sometimes you don't know what you don't know though mmm oh but then you become it's almost like the largeness of a hole right the hole just keeps getting bigger and bigger is it a thing or is a lack of a thing either way like then like zero yes like zero fucks
you I love zero I love it it's a great terrifying idea you know I much prefer that I much I prefer no to zero the absence of something is so much I like the designation of emptiness I was watching an anime the other day and it they had the name of like a cigarette brand I think it was like gloom heaven or pleasant heaven something like that sick band name dude that'd be a great band name then I started thinking I bet all the cigarette names that you see or
like you can make so many cool band names and whatnot from the random English name signs that you see in animes do you know just like the randomly spliced together like yeah yeah yeah I would I would totally plan a band that's just ripped off of some knockoff cigarette brand or just like a t-shirt somewhere they're weird Coca-Cola knockoff it's like still in the style yeah cool cool yeah or fucking whatever yeah dude I love that you only do anime cover songs
he's got it work man producers got to produce he's got to produce but like not our actively I mean that would be sick if we could train him to do that we would be the most popular podcast dude if we'd like if yeah this sounds like a lot of fucking work though yeah I don't even know how to do I don't think it's even possible therefore I feel again they don't have thumbs not a poll we could like we could just take a mixer board or like something and just like
fucking just teach us to push yeah put the fucking functions what buttons do we push we don't push any we would have to assign macros or something to it and like you know I'll just give him some like sound clips that he can throw in yeah but they have to be all like cat version of memes I feel like you and I have visually constructed this idea very because what you have said does not align with the thing that I had going on so you get a sound physical sound board
right remember right and it's got all the different samples on it so you can just like hit it yeah that's like okay yeah he's just a soundboard activator yeah fuck yeah dude he could absolutely do that but then it would just be sound board just going off all the time all the podcast would be that's what the future is dude honestly we would probably get more like listens or downloads or whatever the fuck metrics called I don't know we're doing pretty
good and we thank you for that yeah yeah thanks for wasting your time with us it's pretty dope and recommending us to your friends if that's something that you do yeah and if you don't I don't blame you oh I was gonna say fuck you but honestly no do you recommend us to all of your friends no yeah fuck shit okay yeah honestly thanks yeah honestly yeah thanks or thanks anyway yeah I like it it's a good point I've been humbled yeah we're just two guys two guys two guys
two guys that's either the best thing or the absolute fucking worst I love it is our new catchphrase our new catchphrase yeah I'm getting a tattoo I was gonna put it on a t-shirt but that seems more reasonable you can go hard if you fuck I have been talking about how much I want more ink you know for the last 12 years yeah every time that I talk about getting a tattoo you're like also man and then I literally just never think about I think every time you've
actually been like nah I hate I don't like the one I have honestly I like I like that I have it just because it means I have it but I'm like fuck like if I only ever have this one tattoo for the rest of my life and you know I just don't want to ever tell people what it means because it's just so fucking gay it's vague and it's it's very good kind of gay it's a cool though it's it's a cool because isn't it just the number it's just Roman numerals right BXLV
fuck I'm about I'm about to fucking explain it on here you don't have to I know I'd love to hear it again because I think it's birthdays no not even it's it's just be 45 in Roman numerals why bomber plane because he just all you guys just the name that we fucking devoted to this not even a club just the existence of like four mutual friends who thought we were shit and then we're like you know what we're brothers and we're gonna get magic tattoos or the B45 yeah that's
cool I feel like it was David's idea it's cool because David's is cool because David finished his like he has the ball we all did our individual like like it all just said BXLV excuse me like you know fucking whatever fun yeah knows but then like the customization personalization stylization whatever is like up to the individual David's the only one that I know of that got his actually finished and it's a fucking full pauldron on his shoulder with a
crow it's fucking sick it's easy we got a leather strap that goes like under like his the top of his bicep all the way around his arm it's pretty fucking cool I'll give him that that's pretty cool yeah it's it's sick and it wasn't like a full color piece but I remember I'm pretty sure the strap like the leather strap was colored lightly but it looked so fucking clean that's cool it's cool and I also find it really funny that there's then the club 43
oh is that another group of friends yeah discord boys yeah yeah they all have that they all have that same it's just kind of their thing right like dude it's so funny because I've been I've been you know every time somebody says 47 you know by happenstance because that's the score of the game it's the number of the page it's whatever 47 you know 47 shout out everybody's shouting out 47 you know is that what it is is it club 47 idea that's oh I figured out what that's
where it comes from oh did you say 42 I think it's but yeah fuck I hope it is I linked those together and that became its permanent backstory in my head so it's just something that you guys shout out well that's that's how I was introduced and that's why I'm realizing that it was because of this and I feel like it was like an in-game clan name or something or some kind of like video game related designation I don't think so no I think I had asked Sam about it and
he said it was just like one of those numbers that like you see all the time and just like one of those things that they all just started shouting out to each other is there wait is this is there actually like a professional gaming group club 47 or something like no I'm talking about our buddies yeah okay yeah all right yeah I don't know all of my memory is now just been absolutely shaken just completely just like all confidence lost with that one
tiny little sliver of infidelity and you know in the seam foundation just all crumbled so now I'm completely shaken have zero faith in my memory of what do you do in the foundation of your mentality crumble to dissent into madness there was no other option just just lay back and accept it's funny though that you guys have such a close number connection Jesus and my five and 47 two numbers off from being the same fucking the quinky dink is unsettling it is is it a quinky dink though it's not
mathematically who gives a fuck yeah yeah it could be a little any other number if it's two numbers off yeah either way I mean it's an okay tattoo it's not great it's cool yeah it's better than my worst tattoo which one is your worst I don't know I got a few bad ones your read write need refreshed my reading right could use refreshing but there was a cool that's 19 yeah that's not I remember that cuz like yeah cuz you were just a skinny naked white boy
yeah and I remember you walking around with these little hand tats I was like what like I'm really into poetry you're cool I like I was I did I was I was telling Alyssa about how you and I met this weekend just I was like I was talking about like just a happenstance of our meeting and then how I assume yeah dude just like our girlfriends wanted to go to the same party even my girlfriend no no it was just that she's just a friend that like at the time we
were just like friends that went to school together and you and Sarah yeah we were just go you weren't dating you know no way down the line like we were like homies I had I had the hots for your girlfriend at the time oh that's I didn't know she had a boyfriend like I just oh damn that's meeting up with at the park and then we're sitting there just bullshitting and then she said something about her boyfriend I was like all right and then you walk up and it
was like oh you're cool as fuck and then we just hung out for fucking every active yeah dude I remember just like I don't remember who hit a poo like that next day yeah I don't like anyone hang yeah we just hung out like all day yeah yeah just like boom okay I remember some point like Sarah had hit me up or something and like she's like what do you you know what you got going on blah blah oh Ed and I just like what what you guys hang out yeah we're gonna spend a
lot of time together in the future yeah a long time a long time yeah wild well and you know what's funny too is I can't say that I'm surprised for whatever reason like did it just works it just made sense like it was like yep this dude's gonna be a bite like from that point on it was just something like you would yep we're best friends and it just it's weird like just like I've had like immediate friendships before and shit but like I mean I can think of a few
cataclysmic breaks in my social existence like my life just was like well this chapter is over yes there's a very definitive line between yesterday and the rest of you know new people now you do have a few of those yeah I made it through yeah you made it through a pretty significant one because you literally took me with you yeah dude come fucking move in go come live to Nebraska with me yeah yeah that's pretty tight that line worked yeah I was like well I was
probably gonna sleep in a park for a couple weeks I don't know yeah here we are don't miss dude I know crazy yeah dude spent my last $800 getting out here and stuff what's so wild is that $800 felt like so much money dude I was like bro we got eight we are gonna ball out that lasted for like three months yeah Jesus we were frugal man dude life was much simpler sure was hotter and colder and smellier there was a photo that came up that I sent to our group chat that
was of our first house here in Sydney yeah and we didn't have an Xbox and this is like such modern times that we like I think yeah Xbox one may have been out yeah cuz I mean it was a long time ago but not like a long time ago and so we were just like we really were just like fucking we didn't need shit though we had a great we had some fun parties with just the stereo yeah you can pull your phone into that thing or put on the CD yeah I don't think you can even plug your
phone in yeah I think you're right it was just CDs yeah we have a TV no we didn't have a TV but it wasn't plugged into anything that might be yeah that might be true I remember it was so fucking cold that like those first few nights or that first couple weeks we'd have that space heater mm-hmm we're all just like as if we lived in a garage yeah we'd open up the stove that's when they shut our fucking heat off oh yeah in the middle of winter cuz I remember I
had to like to take a shower before what we didn't have water we didn't have hot water hot water cuz our gas went out right but we still have the electric stove the electric stove so I think that big ass bowl I used to make jello shots fill that bitch up with water dude put it in the oven for 20 minutes and then like butt naked shivering like on the cold floor of the kitchen with oven bits on just carrying this bowl of water and just setting it in the
fridge and then grabbing a cup and then just I drove past that house tonight and I totally they had a window open and the lights are on and I had to like look in while driving past they moved the fridge into the kitchen do you remember the fridge used to be in the walk-in because there was the back door came into like oh like it was like a mud yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and that's where the fridge was at yeah it was always so cool back there
it was such a bitch yeah it was it was always cold as fuck right there dude I remember the spiders in the basement holy fuck this is gonna be the second time I just realized the second time we've talked about this house on the
podcast yeah it is a pinnacle part of the history. That was a big growing up for us you know young men we played a lot of shovel night too that was the other play thing is like I think our schedules were just off from each other where we weren't seeing each other at all really and we were both playing shovel night on the same 3ds that just sat on the couch
yeah just pick it up put a couple hours in. That was our oldie console. Yeah dude oh man those were days bro. I remember filling out that application for Cabela's that first time and like I think I was trying to print some shit out but like I just remember it was a pain in the dick just to get just to fill out an application because shit was so fucked
because we didn't have a computer I think I had like an old-ass laptop that like I had to piece together to somehow survive and it just barely fucking worked and it was dog shit and I had to restart the application like four times or something but I finally got it in.
Now I'm thinking like shit bro I'm doing okay I'm doing okay. I go to the store like at least every other week. Yeah for real. You're afraid just for more than just beer. Oh shit I know I know it's been a while since I've even had beer in there.
Actually I think there might be a beer in there because I'm pretty sure one rolled off one of the shelves and like behind it's hiding so I'm just like ehhh. Sometimes if someone really needs a beer I've got one. Yeah I was like I can still close the drawer all the way so whatever. We'll live. It'll be fine. I'll get it out when I clean like you spring clean the refrigerator totally. Yeah totally. Although actually I might do that. What you'll do then is have a beer while you're cleaning up. Yeah I'll be like ah score. Good job Pat.
Yeah I love that past me leaving future me fucking gifs. Sometimes time is a bitch. Sometimes time is pretty nice. Sometimes time is a sweet sweet tender loving woman. I always think of it like this is a time machine shit. I was like I knew one day I was gonna forget about it and I was gonna need this thing. Like that ten bucks or whatever you know. You've seen Bill and Ted's bogus or excellent adventure. I've seen both. They are excellent movies. They're fantastic. They do that great weird shit.
I'm gonna remember to do this and I'll come back in time and do all this shit. So they have it all set up already. That's so yeah. Yeah I love it. Well just that idea of time travel and be like well if I were to say that I do it and I remember doing it and it's already done and we never have to do the thing to begin with and then all of a sudden it's just done. I mean okay but like fuck you. You really create a lot of plot holes. Yeah.
And there's like well can't you just end the movie at the beginning then and all that. The end. Here's the beginning and here's the end. You're welcome. We don't need the rest. It never happened. Oh man. Yeah dude life's crazy. Just like Transformers. Transformers are crazy. Can you imagine? I really want. Okay so I was doing some reading on like some of the characters like Starscream because like I'm not super familiar with the lore.
And so from the Decepticons perspective Starscream's calling the shots and he's like the second in command right. He's the big King Kong bitch for the biggie baddies. And but he's like we don't know where he's at. Come to find out like the humans have him. He's in Antarctica on ice or whatever the fuck.
And he's been moved to a fire or whatever. Who gives a shit. But like then it's like revealed like Starscream is actually gunning for him and he's going to fucking kill Megatron. I was like whoa what. So and then there's like this almost like well the true spirit of Decepticons and their values. And I'm like wait hold on what. So I was looking some shit up and they described Starscream as like this. He's always trying to assassinate Megatron and assume power but he's and he always gets kind of swatted away and then and they have this back and forth and like he's almost yet.
Such an insignificant flight of Megatron is kind of amusing kind of thing. But then it's like they described Starscream as being like bloodthirsty and brutal and I'm like what. I'm like just there was just shit that was going on in the background. I started digging into some of the lore because I was like this sounds kind of interesting and I've not honestly ever really thought of Transformers as interesting. Cool. So but not interesting.
That is a big thing. So the way that the Decepticons work is a chain of command that comes from the strongest person. Right. So it doesn't matter who you are if you come in and take out Megatron who is not like the leader of all. Is he the leader of all Decepticons. Does it say this either. Yeah. Yeah. OK. So maybe you've got some defectors. Yeah. So he's the leader of all Decepticons.
But if anyone takes him out they become that leader. Right. They just take over power. Everyone will immediately respect him. Starscream is also very successful in the shit that he does when he's not trying to fuck over Megatron. Yeah he is. He's a bad motherfucker but he can't take out Megatron. And after so many times I think Megatron is just like a like you said amused by it. Yeah. And when they portray Megatron in Beast Wars and they have those.
That constantly happening because it's a constant thing in Beast Wars where someone somebody is trying to challenge trying to challenge. Yeah the prime. Yeah. Not and not an Autobots Autobots don't do that. Yeah. No I just mean the prime. Yeah. Yeah. Not sorry. Not Optimus Prime. Yeah. My B might be on my B. So that's it happens all the time. He seems slightly amused by it kind of annoyed. Also Megatron is a smart fucking dude. So he's way ahead. He sees every single one of them.
He's a single henchman trying to fuck him over and he knows what they're doing and he's plotting them in his own way. It seems more interesting. I feel like there's probably way more to it. That's what my understanding of it from Beast Wars and Beast Wars and Transformers I'm sure are like because Starscream does have an appearance in Beast Wars.
But it's it's only for like an episode. And there is the comment where Dinobot. It was we talked about him before he defects from the Decepticon. Comes over to the Autobots. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever they are. Sure. And then he says that he is his like ancestor. OK. Yeah. And that makes so much sense because from the very first episode he's trying to take out Megatron and take over power and then instantly tries to take out Optimus to get power.
And they're like that won't even work. Even if you did that that we're not none of us here respect you like we're not going to follow you. You idiot. No you don't take over. You just killed him and then we're going to kill you. That's all that happened there. I feel like I could probably really get into the comics. I feel like that would probably be the best way to delve. I would think so.
Sometimes the comics can be so cheesy. Oh really. I love me some comics but there are times where you're just like.
That's open to some like dark gritty DC level. Yeah. Well and sometimes you get that with DC and sometimes you do not. Balls. I feel like Dark Horse is that what they're called. Yeah. Dark Horse comics. Dark Horse Transformers. I'd like to see that. Yeah I'd read the shit out of that. I'm sure there is some of that. Yeah. Let's do some digging outside. I would I would fucking dive. Swan dive. I do actually have a Transformers comic. Oh. That is like you have to wear a 3D the blue and red 3D glasses to read it. Oh Christ.
I would read it. Oh my god. Otherwise it's just. Fuzzy. Yeah. Look at it. You know. Hurt your eyes even with those glasses on. Yeah they do. Jesus. You kind of have to still go cross eyed a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck. It's a collector's item. It was given to me from a collector. Oh that's cool. Yeah. It's definitely not for actually reading. Right. But I'm the kind of guy that I'm terrible at collecting. I want experience. I want to use whatever you give me. I'm going to open the box. I'm going to like.
I'm going to check it out. Yeah. Yeah I feel that. I don't I don't really collect anything anymore. Unless you account for like traumatic relationships. I like to build it. I like to vinyl and you know I would really love to build up a DS collection. That would be a sweet one. That would be kind of cool. I've been. Oh if you see over here. I've seen it.
Over here. I've sort of have hung this and by hung I just mean like there were some commands like hooks on the wall and I just said it on top. Yeah. But I got this little storm trooper painting canvas thing from Hobby Lobby. I guess they're collecting Hobby Lobby art.
No that was I did not go there seeking this. It was a happy surprise. Those are for sure. Those are fun. That's the cool thing about collecting things. Yeah. Is the fun surprise of like when you're out shopping. You got to go out. Yeah that's that's the thing. Go out shopping.
I do enjoy doing that. Sometimes on a rare flame but not not super often. So I like to go shopping by myself. Oh see. Like go into a thrift store and just go find the books and CDs racks and you just stand there for hours. Just scanning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And then like I just I hate the bustle. So I guess you know when I think shopping I think of Walmart at peak time. Right. That's not what I'm. Yeah. But hitting up like a local spot like that or something. Little you know cozy little atmosphere. Yeah that's that's some good.
Or if you were to live in like a place where weed was legal and you just buzz down. Yeah. And then put your headphones on and go and you've got your list already written out and you just got music playing. That's also a key point. I used to love that shit when I lived in Colorado.
That's not fun. Yeah. Like and you go late at night so there's not going to be. Oh hell yeah. Everyone else there is chill and trying to avoid everyone else. Yeah that's fair. No. OK. So I will say that comic spot that I went to comic book shop in Boston wasn't in Boston was outside Boston.
What's the witch town Salem. Yeah I was in Salem. Fuck was it. I think so. Pretty sure it was either in Salem or just outside. Fucking awesome dude. One of the biggest concentrated collections of everything I've ever seen in my life because you'd sent me that like what I thought at least was a super secure secure.
Holy shit. What's the term. Legit. No. Rare infrequent super. Holy shit. I can't think of the term. And now all I can think of is secure. It's the only S word I know. It's an S word I take it. I'm pretty sure I'm confident in this or sacred. No.
It'll come to me and it'll come to me the second we hit the stop button. Yeah. Some secluded. Now. OK. I'm going to stop trying. Just unheard of title obscure. Holy shit. Not an S word at all. That's why I was so confused. Yeah I thought it was some obscure title and sure shit
I don't think they had them. Well I don't think they had or maybe there wasn't just a new one out. I don't remember. I don't remember what they had like all of the shit just not what you specifically needed I think. Was it saga. I think it was saga. Maybe that's also where you got the S from is because the comic you were looking for started with an S. Fuck dude maybe. I don't know dude. Either way I got there. I feel like I embarrassed myself a little bit then I also redeemed myself and honestly I don't care what anyone thinks. I'm happy with that. I would like you to know that that is not a
rare comic. OK. Well that's fair. I'm getting very unplugged. One of like that. Yeah. And I know you're not in the graphic novel world but it's made by two of the biggest names. Oh OK. Yeah. Not at all. I don't think it's rare. That's fair. I think it's one that I have the omnibus for the volume one through nine or eight. I think it is shit. I'll lend it to you man. It is. Yeah. It's a good. It is one of the
most accessible series. I would really recommend it as a way to get into graphic novels for people that don't like graphic novels. See I do love graphic novels. OK. Then you really are going to enjoy it. It's just an amazing story. I can't wait to see where it keeps going because it's not done yet. That's not just like the sure you know it's still going. I mean like I love that was when I was having you seek out was volume nine I think. That sounds about right. Because I think I also found the omnibus and all of the.
The original releases. But yeah. Yeah. I mean I need to remember to give you that to you because I want you to read that. That's that's going to be a treat. It will have to wait because I am. I have promised so many books as you are well aware. Yeah.
I need to have one. Yeah. So I am working through them. I have it. I have an order. I got to finish. It's right. This one right here. Juggling elephants because I've got two books from Corey and I just started that one last week and it's a short read. So yeah. Literally just sit down with it one more time. Sure.
The only reading I've really been getting done has been reading. We've started reading a series of books for rents bedtime. Oh yeah. And there are books that were given to me when I was in like fifth or sixth grade and I never read them and I'm reading them. I'm like man I wish I would have read this.
Oh damn. They're fun books. They're interesting. Cool. But as an adult there are words where I'm like Morgan what are you saying. I am just not the most educated guy. But B. There's some words where it's like I don't think I know. Oh I'm going to need to bust out some phonics for this one. So it's called the Dark is Rising sequence. That's the sequence. You know sequence is like a series of books but this is called the Dark is Rising and it's been reading it right.
And just started the second book and we're trying to figure out a because they haven't really given you in the first book at all. They've given you references to kind of give you an idea of what time it's based in.
OK. And same is starting for the second book but you can tell by different times right between the first book. Sure. OK. Different characters. So I'm curious to see how this all ties in. But it also created the curiosity of when were these books written. It was like 1970s or something like that.
Oh wow. This is a that makes a lot more sense. Just the use of language that I'm not recognizing that necessarily like a word or something which is like I don't fucking know that word. I don't know how to pronounce it. People don't really use this word very much anymore. Yeah. In the 70s. That's interesting. Yeah. That's my main reading I've been getting done. Interesting. Young adult. Young adults. Fun to read though. Sometimes it's nice because I went I went from reading like nonfiction.
About the brain or David Foster Wallace which is just like heavy to digest. Yeah. All these all these books that are a lot to read. And I'm going to read in this is like this is nice. I can picture all this in my head. There's a little walk. You know when you're a kid and you're you have those movies playing in your head when you're reading a book you don't even realize that you're reading it. Yeah. Turns out that still happens. Just read easier books.
Yeah. No shit. I will say like not because I'm also very actively trying to get back into reading. It's just never been something that I've kept up with in my adult life and I miss it a lot. And I just I don't know. Just like knowing that I don't do much reading like leisure reading for any reason honestly like I don't like I don't give a fuck what I'm reading.
As long as it's not like a tech manual or like you know something like that. Something online that you're reading. Yeah. I want a long form. That's what I'm trying to get through. Just dedicate the time to sit down shut off and read. You feel so good after you read.
Oh dude it's so calming it's so relaxing and like to effectively read and retain and to follow you have to shut off. And that's really hard especially considering that my primary means of like relaxation entertainment is extreme short form like TikTok.
Who have the attention span of like a half dead locust like it's it's pretty bad. So that's been it. That's been a struggle but I've been really enjoying it. I'm like I feel like I get that readers high you know when you just get into that flow state.
Yeah. Just like you said you've got this you're drawing it all in your head and you're not even aware that you're reading and you're cruising through these pages and then you're like oh it's been like 40 minutes and I've chunked a bit of this book and like shit's just been popping and then you're addicted.
Yeah and then you're hooked and like damn I just want to get back read some more that book. Yeah get back into it and just keep going. Yeah I really enjoy that. I definitely had that feeling for the last book that we read for the book club. That was your choice. That was the hollow place. The hollow places. What it just like if it wasn't like I'll I would describe it as a light read. The subject matter wasn't overly heavy but it was such a conflicting read. I would not call it a light read.
What's like a dissonant read. I don't know what you mean. Dissonance like in music we have dissonant sounds so they don't harmonize. Yeah right. The opposite of jazz has a lot of dissonance right. Yeah I could see that. Because like the writing itself was it felt simple digestible sure. And like while the descriptions and depictions were simple but pointed and vivid but still like kind of concise. I never felt like I was just reading descriptions right.
And I really appreciated that because there's a there's a subtle art to crafting your words to very like briefly and with the fewest possible or the simplest of adjectives paint a very complex picture. And I loved that like the mental images I had throughout that book were very airy and breaststroke II but still in like massive intent very moody. It was cool. It was a fun read.
It was it was just such an interesting just such a pull you in story. And once you got into that flow and you get halfway into that book you're not going to want to stop. No. Yeah. Shit just starts getting weird enough to you're like what the fuck is going on here.
I don't know why that just came into my mind the other day but it did and I could not stop. I was working even I have no idea what possibly brought that book into my brain. I know something made me think of the character that was from the south that went in through the Kuz Kud. Oh. What do you call that? Sin Sin higher send to my room. Remember it was an S something again. The guy's name Savantis something it was a VA and T something something.
It was like a like a southern like a like by the guy that got turned inside out. He was like in the water. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was a bad dude. He just for whatever reason he got his fucking roots into my brain and then I just I was at work and I just had an image to recall.
Yeah. All the disturbing shit in that book. Yeah. Yeah. But even then it wasn't like not a scary book just very tense and mystic and it's just really preyed heavily on the dark corners that you don't have images to draw from and it's just very unsettling. It was cool. This is a DS podcast. This is a DS podcast where we talk about everything but the DS. Yeah.
Anyway, good book. Shout out that book and whatever the author's name. Yeah. Also good game. You might think by how little we talked about it. It's not a good game but that was a good game. It's a fun game. They give you a reason to go explore around. Yeah. It was fun to do when I got that one car just drove around for like an hour. The annoyance is that the missions are so hard. Sometimes they can be and it's just because of how short the game was.
They're so they're trying to lengthen the experience. Yeah. Do it over and over. The combat is simple but it is rather punishing and can be quite difficult especially with the clunkiness of the tank controls when you have like Starscream flying in and it's fucking just
jet bombing you. Yeah. Yeah. But I would agree with you. Like audio was pretty fucking decent. Like the getting all the actors in there for the voiceovers was sick. Yeah. I see when I was playing it I thought initially that my main complaint would probably be the sound. Yeah, because it's not really music and there's music. There is music. It's just not worth writing home about. And then it came to the voice acting and it's like, Oh, yeah, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.
It's pretty good. Yeah, I would I would give this game. Good marks. Good marks. It was entertaining, and it was fun, and I would agree that it was a bit of a gem. It's like a point five all sparks out of five. Yeah, I think that's honestly the same score that Metacritic gave it. Yeah, it's a good game. I would I feel like that saying almost like it's too average, because I do think it's above average compared to what they definitely
compared to what they definitely could have done. Sure. Versus, you know what was, you see other movie tie in games going on. Yeah, I think that's the biggest yes. Yeah, this was above and beyond. Absolutely. I absolutely had just the worst expectations for this game if I'm being totally honest, or rather just lack thereof I really wasn't expecting much at all.
We should probably spin the wheel for our next game. Yeah, I was just thinking about that and like this is the first time in a long time we forgot to do that before we started. It is and it is also our birthday. So how can we cheat it and just say haha it was our design the whole time. It'll be a surprise what we do next time but it will be special.
Or we could just, you know, do the spin the wheel thing and then talk about it right now too. Or you could, I was gonna say we just pick one. Do we want to just pick one. After much deliberation debate. Distractions, distractions, distractions, distractions. We have come to a decision. And our birthday episode, I think is very suiting for a Nintendo DS podcast. When I think of the DS when other people think of the DS. They think of Professor Layton and Phoenix right. Yeah, dude.
I really enjoyed Layton and I know we talked about that same just core memory you know when you think of DS you think of a set of titles. And I've been wanting to play Phoenix right game so yeah I think I've barely played one in the past. I didn't have the patience at the time. That's fair. So now I'm very excited to go back to it and I am really good to experience.
I wanted another like slow plot, which is funny because we were just bitching about how I don't want to sit and read a bunch of shit. And until I remember that this game exists and I was like well, but maybe I can do some reading. We're just talking about reading. This is perfect.
Well, like I scroll through and saw Hotel Dusk and then I saw Professor Layton and I was like, oh, but like, I would go back and play one of those games again I liked those and we haven't done something like slow and thought like that. Yeah, unknown banger if you will absolutely slow burn. Yeah. Have you ever watched the like the Birdman attorney at law. There was the like adult swim adult swim. Yeah, I always get I always I always thought they were the same thing.
I was a kid like I didn't know that there was a difference between them. The between Phoenix right and yeah I just I thought like they were this yeah yeah dude like I know I've never seen either one I think I haven't really played in the games I've seen footage. It's been memed a bunch right like that's a lot of what I think of is this game like the yeah yeah yeah being used in memes, so I lost my train of thought. You're excited. Yeah, you do. That's not what I was saying though. No, sorry.
The memes that's how you remember it otherwise you don't know very much. Oh, so yeah besides though but I've seen Birdman attorney at law, a bit, and it is fucking crazy, like it's that like, isn't he like a superhero kind of thing. Yeah, he is, but he's also now just like an attorney at law, it's the weird adult swim kind of crack vibes. TV show. Sure. And I was like a vocal team hunger force and that she was on same thing. Yep. squidbillies or whatever.
Yep, exactly. Same. Yeah, weird shit kind of deal. This one's among all those more on the norm because it has like a through line. Okay, yeah, sure. But not that much more. Yeah, that's fair. And that's what I'm really hoping this game is I hope this game has some heavy crack vibes to it. It'll be interesting I don't quite know what to expect.
I'm expecting law, and I'm expecting courtroom and investigation, some investigation perhaps yeah I'm. Yeah, I'm excited to see what I'm gonna put on my detective hat. Fuck yeah dude. All right, cool. Well, catch us next two weeks. For the birth birthday episode anniversary episode whatever the fuck I'm already smoking cigarettes. Oh shit. Oh yeah, full investigative mode. Yeah, I'm drinking my whiskey without rocks.
I thought it was more like anime shit. I don't care. Fair enough to put your fucking fedora on get your trench coat. Get that London fog jacket. I wish I knew some 1920s slaying I can. Yeah, I anything I catch you on the riddle. The riddle. Yeah, get your. Flapjack. Fucking no. It's just two guys. See you next time. Just two guys.