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That's right. It's time for the brand news segments brought to you by no one yet. I have one place that might be a perfect sponsor for this segment, called the Game Stop. But I don't know. It all works together, doesn't it. Sorry, we talk about America's real national pastime, video games. Not scared to do it. I'm a big gamer. We have multiple sections of this segment. It will end in a high speed button mashing quizes between Danny and But we'll start with new releases. I've told

you guys recently. See of Thieves is a game I can't stop playing it, and it's been around for probably four years. This sounds like pirates. It is pirates, and you know I love pirates and I love I love pirates, I love magicians, I love Go Carton, and I love jumping off stuff. Let pirates into your house. You should not let pirates into your house. The See of Thieves Stagnettes Revenge coming out. There's no porno like you like to watch in this pirate themed game, but I absolutely love

it. It is massive and I don't you know, let's just you guys play. No, not at all, not see if thieves. But am a mid level to below mid level video gamer, not often, but it is in the reports on what are you currently rocking golf? No like what four ps four? Yeah, Dinger non existed in my life currently and it hasn't been for quite some time. I like playing, you know, if I go to free play, I like doing that on the rare occasion that

it gets do that. It bought this stick about three or four years ago that you can put in your TV and it has like four thousand different old Atari games and got real into Tetris for a while playing on Tetris on the big screen. But no, I haven't played an actual real gaming system since

probably two thousand and three, so about twenty years. I have a bunch of statistics that will do in the middle of the segment that I think each of them are interesting to kick around because the numbers are kind of astronomical about how big the industry is, how many people play, but we're all similar enough humans. But I play a lot of video games. You play some video games. You play no video games. I think we're good representation. JJU game a little bit. What do you got ps five? Okay,

what game you play most recently? Oh? Recently? Man? Okay, here she is good minute. We'll get to that in one second. I can't stop with Sea of Thieves pirate game. The thing is, games nowadays are massive, they are huge. This is a pirate game where you go and dig up booty, dig up t you get treasure maps. You have

to find the island, dig it up. You have to get it back and sell it before some pirates come and kill you or some other real players just like us with a boat, see your masts on the horizon and come and get you. And you have a cannon fight, and I can't stop. Is there? Yes, there's a cracking. There's also a megaladon and you'll hear the music start and you're like Jesus, here he is. You have to try to just haul a out of there, or fight it with

your cannons. You have regular cannonballs, you have magic cannon balls and start fires and stop boats. A cannonball that drops your anchor, you know, so if you hit them, their anchor immediately drops. It's it's high octane fun. And I play with my brother Cash, who's not much of a gamer, but he loves this game because it's not called of duty. You you don't die instantly, and there's not that learning curve where you play for ten minutes You're like, I don't want to do this. I'm dead.

All I am is dead. It's a beautiful fun game. It sounds so childish, and I am a child and I'm like intrigued by it. Dude. It will take you over twenty minutes to get from one end of the map to the other, maybe half an hour if you're going the full length the world is. And you'll see some birds circling. You're like, that means there's a sunken treasure there, and you stop by the birds, dive down into a sunken pirate ship and start grabbing skulls and jewels out of it.

But the more you get the more your boat lights up, so the other boats You're like, that dude is loaded with treasure. Let's go kill him and steal it. All it is so damn fun. Do they get to do Pirates board your ship and you have to fight them with sabers. Yes, really absolutely. What about handheld little muskets. Yeah, you have a blunderbuss, which is like a shotgun. You have a pistol, and

you have kind of a sniper rifle. You can go, Okay, if you're attacking another boat, you can load your teammate into the cannon and shoot him onto the other Johnny Knoxville, Yeah, just pop him on there out of nowhere. Next thing, you know, some other pirates on your boat killing you. It's incredibly fun and I love it. But this is the new releases portion of the game. Stop today, and we have a content to the throne of pirate deep sea supremacy. As a movie called a game

called Skull and Bones just came out. I haven't played it yet, and I think I'm loyal to see you thieves, and apparently it's getting not two good reviews. It looks gorgeous, the water, the islands, the trees. I mean, it's you get lost in these worlds, man, and that will as we'll get into. I think is the greatest value of these games is Man, you don't have many of the world's stresses when you're out

there at sea trying to chase the winds and chase the horizon. But Skull and Bones one review said, an exceptionally boring live service shipping sim because essentially you're just moving products around these massive islands and it gets a little repetitive. I haven't played Skull and Bone yet, but it just came out. It's a hot game. Another hot game, but I can't play. It's a PlayStation exclusive, and it's also on PC, but it's not on Xbox,

which I have. It's called hell Divers too. It's actually making a lot of news, so this seems fun because you are a hell Diver, the brainwash protectors of super Earth. They essentially turned Starship Troopers, the cult classic movie into a video game where there's all this like propaganda and where the hell Divers. Again. I can't play this one, But the cool thing here

is that operates on a live map. The map never stops, so if I played right now, the game would still be going on somewhere as we're all. Everyone who drum drops in is working together to fight off aliens and trying to protect this super Earth. Sounds really cool. I haven't played it, as I said, but that's one that's making a lot of news. And I just tried to download it, but I found out that it is only in a PlayStation exclusive, so you could try Hell Divers if you like.

Yeah, and very few things are like exclusive anymore. Yeah, when they're making games, they're like, we're getting it to all platforms. They tend to blur it pretty quickly and make it available for all anyway. Those are two hot games that have just come out, But the one that everyone seems to be waiting for is was a massive announcement not too long ago. The EA Sports College Football is returning after over ten years of being long gone.

So it's been college football's endorman for ten years. For me. A Sports exactly has no idea. Since twenty thirteen, the game stopped in part because of a lawsuit surrounding the nil situation name image likeness at Obannon dammit. Yeah, THEA Sports discontinued the game and reached a settlement with the former college football players who sued the company. They'd all start with the O'Bannon brothers. But then this weight began. I mean, people were freaking out passionate about

this game. They love it. I mean, you know how not so college football guy is Oh my god, yes, so over ten years it's been gone. I cannot wait. Are you pumped for this? Is I going to bring you back? Dope? Yeah? Still absolutely bring me back because you can do these I mean it's do you have to have a purpose or at least for me, I need a purpose to play these games. If I just played and then it means nothing, I guess it kind of

in the end does mean nothing anyways, but I'm playing it. You're like, build something so I can take my alum University of North Texas and build them into a dynasty. Yeah, and you start from scratch and you really get there or and you can there's like a recruiting element to it. Now. It used to be just numbers. Now they're giving players six hundred bucks and a copy of the game, and by accepting that they their name will

be in the game. So now, whoever the top quarterback, let's say Deion sanders Son, you want to play with the Colorado, You're playing with Shad or Sanders You know next year, if he accepts the six hundred dollars and the copy, that means he's okay, because then an il thing has gone through. They do have potential for more lucrative and il opportunities, so he probably would ask for more, but you're run of the mill. Average college player can get six hundred bucks in a copy of the game, which

I would imagine most of them would do it for free. Probably, yeah, they'll do it for just copy of the game. Outside of you know, the off the field aspects, recruiting and all of that. What's if you already are playing Madden and you like Madden, why would you want to play What makes this different from the gameplay of the Madden game? That's one. God, it is interesting. The gameplay is a little bit different.

It overtime rules, I get, it's like playing it though. It's always felt different playing college to Madden. And I don't even know how to explain it. But the actual like plays you're running and like throwing the pass and catching, you know, like all that is always felt different on college. It's hard to describe. To a point it took over it was better gameplay than Madden at some point, like that was in the nine to you know

thirteen, when it was no longer around. College football became more fun to play than Madden did. They're doing this thing right though, then I guess made the decision in or twenty one to do this, so they've been working on for a couple of years. But these colleges are submitting hundreds of photos of their stadiums, including like what the seats look like, even like the little areas within the stadium, like I saw the Florida Gator one there's a

gatorhead and has the national trair. I mean, just that little stuff feels good when you're playing a game. If you're a fan of the Gators where the Longhorns are, oh, you you get that whole vibe of the city and the stadium and you're playing in a place that you've been watching your whole

life. So it just feels different than Madden. And maybe the loyalty factor to these your universities will make it widely popular too, because you think about this, you know you were gonna have love hate relationships with our pro teams and there's certain times if your team sucks, you kind of quit watching them. But no't matter how bad you are, all at your at your sporting college. If you're a lifer from that, if you're an a a diehard

Aggie, you are watching every damn Aggie game. If they're one and eleven. Yep. And this is the thing, it's one hundred and thirty four schools are gonna be so like there's a you're included, like whatever college you went to. If you have a favorite college team, sometimes in the pro and you know there's thirty two teams, you like, you're a fan of that. And it's not that unique to be a fan of a football team, but it is that unique to be a fan of I'll just use my

example again, the University of North Texas. Sure, and you just take it and you're seeing I don't know, just something about seeing Denton. Yeah, you know you can see the stadium or if you're a Texas Tech fan and you can see Lubbock, and the detail of the game is just it's always been great. And then it goes away and these people are like, god, I missed that. And the recruiting element, there's all these off season you get to be in that mode and they're gonna expand the playoffs and

have all this stuff. And it's been gone for ten plus years. And I think people who quit gaming are going to get back in because of this. Maybe they have dynasty and road to glory modes dynasties where you take over a college football program and you handle recruiting and transfer portals and all that stuff, and that's all juicy to a real college football fan. Road to glory involves guiding an individual player through their college career. You make yourself, and

you make yourself and get recruited. Yeah, and probably accept an il within the game and they'll throw They usually throw up an option three or four schools you can choose from, and you kind of like selector if you wanted to go to Texas and they don't. You don't like there's like a workout portion and if you don't do well in the workouts, then you don't get offered to go to Texas. So you have to go be good at an m RICE and then transfer to Texas. Yeah, Rice, for Rice to be

the good. Yeah, that really would be the right play, they said. They're just put a lot of work in this in doing it right. Sometimes receive over two hundred photos of stadiums from schools down to what their seats look like, along with trophies and statues on campus for in game replication. So if you watch a game in Norman, you have the Heisman Park or whatever it is with all the Heisman winning statues, like I don't know this stuff, you man, it really is so it is. It's coming out

this summer, no date, and you can run the Wishbone date. I'll tell you I don't play video games that much, and I'm efen stoked. We're gonna zip through the boss level, which is our main discussion, essentially me calling this our national pastime because it's crazy every much. They're all stats, but I think they all could lead to conversation. We can zip through any any part we want to do it. But a lot of studies are done on this, obviously, and it's pretty easy to track. They know

how many people they got getting down on it. Americans playing video games remain super strong and doesn't compass players across every demographic, gender, race, ethnicity, and age four and five gamers eighty percent over the age of eighteen, because there are still even You're a good example, Danny, because I know you're not anti video games, but you probably I would love to have the time to incorporate this into my you know, entertainment pool. What do you

think? Like, what are you This stat about half forty six percent of gamers are female. Wow, fifty three percent male. I love that. I love it too, but I would have guessed closer to seventy five. Twenty five too, but forty six percent female. The average video game player is thirty two years old, has been playing video games for twenty one years. So it is they get you on it and you never leave it.

And I fall into that category. I played my whole life. Now, there's been ebbs and flows, but man, I play every day now. And then we get to the conversation about the guilt associated with playing if you are an adult. But there's plus sides to this. Seventy six percent of us parents play with their children, okay, cool, and a lot of them find it to be the one thing that you know, they definitely see eyed eye on. They both enjoy. It is considered quality time. And

to some older people that probably does not feel right. You know, I imagine, Mike, if you had a twelve year old, you know, you be playing video games? Yes? Cool? You know what's being a good dad? Well no, I would be sniping their head off from all over the map. Yeah, but just spending time. Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you that. The reason that I even went beyond because once I

left high school, it wasn't a part of my life at all. Like I played in the arcades in high school, but after that I didn't play games. The thing that got me back into gaming and wanting to buy a PS one was the fact that Josh, my oldest was, you know, probably eight, nine, ten years old around that time, and we saw a commercial for EA. It was EA or whatever, I can't remember the company, whatever, Medal of honor, and we wanted to play that game. So I bought a PS one and we got a handful of games.

He and I played that thing every day for what seemed like a year. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm kind of in a way looking forward to if Malcolm ends up, you know, showing interest in games in five or six, seven years. It'll be a fun thing for us to do together. Yeah, and I will love it because I am not anti game. I think they're awesome. It probably is a game. You imagine what they're gonna

look like when he's eleven. They already car washed the game. Oh my god, like you want wax, I don't know, Yeah, let's wax it. Yes, the undercarriage. I think we have to sell the locations off a Wrappa ho in order to stay afloat car wash tycoon. Uh. There are a lot of positives. Eighty seven percent of players say video games create accessible experience with people with different physical abilities. I mean that. Hell, I played with our buddy Justin who has one leg, and I wasn't

joking, but I asked him, we're out there running. I'm like, did you ever get to feel like does it it feel good that you're out here running? And he laughs, You know it didn't really mean it as a joke, but yeah, he can't. You know, he is in a wheelchair. He probably feels some level of freedom, There's no doubt,

you know how you think about that? Well, and for me, like when I play, it feels good to be doing something with your hands, Like and if there's like a little things that I have five minutes heero, I'll pick up a guitar just doing that, or if okay, I've got fifteen to twenty minutes here, I'll pick up video and like just playing. I feel like I played eighteen holes real quick at Riviera Boom. Other positives say video games provide mental stimulation. I don't think there's much argument there.

Stress relief over ninety percent, which I one hundred percent agree with. I believe lost in these worlds may be killed too much time doing it. Eighty eight percent say it improves cognitive skills, and all respondents agree that video games or eighty one percent helped build problem solving skills, teamwork, and collaboration skills. I mean, it's kind of true on all fronts. I mean, we've got proven evidence that video game video playing video games has translated to careers

for people that have nothing to do with video games. When you talk about the NASCAR guy, yeah yeah, right, and then you in they're an F one driver that did the same thing, or they all complating the two they all do simulators, but I mean, I know they do simulators. But the guys that started out never having driven before that. Who's the the guy that we talked about, the guy just won the day two one of

five punds. H yeah, yeah yeah, William Byron Right, he started on our games and his dad was like, Jesus, you're killing everybody. Let's get you in a real car. Sign for button mashing speed trivia. Just yell out answers. If you know there's no rules. I don't really care. What is thought to be the first video game created nineteen fifty eight, becoming popular in the seventies. Uh, Pong, Absolutely, it's pong. True or not true? Tetris was created in Russia. Not true?

True it is true nineteen eighty five. Alexi Pageant Nof, a Soviet software engineer. What video game released? It released in two thousand saw players watching and directing characters to mundane things like eating, sleeping, and cleaning their houses. So sims it is the sims point for each This one's just for Danny. Danny. The best selling video game of all time is Minecraft, with over three hundred million copies sold. Danny describe Minecraft, Uh, fantasy world.

You shoot people again coins? No, what is it? It's a fantasy world, but you're building stuff and you build your own worlds. And I once saw Ben play it for twenty four hours straight. Point for KT Kevin, this is just for you. True or not true. There you go, achievement unlocked. True or not true. The only Kevin on Earth to ever actually accomplished something is Kevin Durant, who was immortalized with his very own playable Fortnite skin. This feels true or untrue? This is button mashing,

no time for anything. Other answer not true. It is not true. It's a call of duty. Skin well done. Next question, Crash is a video game character who a genetically mutated type of what marsupial? Oh uh oh it was a kangaro Crash Bandicoot. Bandicoot is the answer, Bandicoot. That's a point for Danny. Why not, guys? What's Luka Dontris' favorite all time video game Fortnight? Is it Overwatch Overlaunch or Overshot Overwatch? It is Overwatch? Question you guys remember leisure Suit Larry? Yeah, yes,

it's awesome on it. Next question, which of these was Which of these was not a real video game that was released? Dick Divers under Sea Adventure, the ninjabread Man, or Extreme Sports with the Berenstain Bears. I'm gonna go with three. I'm going with Dick Diver, Dick Divers under Sea Adventures. The Search for the Billions Lost Underneath the Sea is made up. The other two are real. Ninjabread Man Ninja is a gingerbread man who needs

to save the world from evil pastries. That's a real game. And Extreme Sports with the Barnstain Bears that's a real crisis, kayaking, dirt biking, tobogganing with your favorite furry friends. Question what video game came with a Nintendo Entertainment system when it was released in the late eighties. It came with the game was meant to be played with the nes Zapper Gun Kong Donkey Kong Duck Hunt. Duck Hunt is correct? Last question? What is the very first

video game I mentioned in this segment sixteen minutes ago? Mine Craft? See If the See if Thieves is correct? You both tie. Kevin is now the winner, achievement unlocked, Heaven turn Danny the loser. You have to rage, quit, throw your controller and go home. No more games for you. Please text in your thoughts. What did you think about the game Stop? Thank you for stopping by the game Stop on ninety seven one incredible? I love Game Stop. I want to dance too. What's the next?

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