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StatLeapers 2023 - Season 3 in Review · Fandomonium! A Fandom Comedy Game Show

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Hello, and welcome to stat Leapers, the stat number based panel show where
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we shine a light onto everyone's favorite pop culture panel based show, gaily.
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I like it, Thank you, thank you. I'm your host and numerically
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knowledgeable narrator Nason Wynn. No, I don't know, Jason Winn. Sorry,
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I had to keep fans there, the little little alliteration. And today
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I'm joined by our usual captains. I'm gonna go with co host today.
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I'm not gonna gamify it. That would be really fun. I just can't
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be I just can't be honest to do that. It's really it's a difficult
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time of year for me. I'm joined by the lovely Auger Stevenson. Hello,
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and also the lovely Matt Watson. Hello. I'm not in the big
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chair. You're not in the big chair. How are you feeling about that?
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Man? I'm feeling good about it because this is now the second year
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we're doing this, so it's something that last year was a surprise. This
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year is something to look forward to. I've been looking forward to stat Leapers,
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so I'm looking forward to being in this chair to hear how all the
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numbers add up? Yeah, does do the percentages? Add up to a
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addam to one hundred. Let's find out is the math mathing Let's find out.
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Well, let's see they have some pretty shoddy Excel experience, but you're
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absolutely right. Another gate Leapers season in the books, Another stat Leapers.
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So I have been crunching the numbers away. I got some stats for us
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to discuss, some interesting little nibbles as well, like like story facts as
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well. So not just statistics, not just okay, something for the words
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people. Yeah, this is mainly for the number of people, but there's
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something for the word people. Take. You got to diversify, you gotta
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hit all the quadrants, you know in marketing. So we're working on kinetic,
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don't you worry. So with that, are you guys ready to jump
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into some stats and facts? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, awesome? All
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right, Well, the first thing I like to point out this is new
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season season three. Lots of first in this season, okay, lots of
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format points changes that have been happening. The first one, with our very
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first episode of season three, is the first time someone hosted the show other
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than Matt And who would that person be? I have it in my notes
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me in capital letters in case I forgot and that happened with the last of
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Us. Yes episode, Yeah, how is that for you, Matt relinquishing
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the hosting chair. There, I loved it. My ego will allow it
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once a Yeah, as a one off, excellent. You've always got to
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break the rules that you set up. Yes, no, I I genuinely
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I loved it. Was so much fun. I wish I could be a
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player more often if I felt like it would work as as a concept,
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because I like keeping so much the same, so that as we change fandoms,
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that's the thing that's different every time. What's that science thing? Order
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change one variable something? Yeah, you kind of need to change your one
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variable, so you know which one's your dependent variable and misk Yeah, only
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change one variable at a time if you want reliable science. Exactly it's and
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so for that reason we can change then another thing on top of the fandom,
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and so we can change we can change the host once in a while.
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And yeah, it was great being in the player's chair. I believe.
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Yes, you did win. You did win. Let me pull up
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your stats. Actually, just oh, I gotta go down here a bit
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because you're pretty low on the board. Oh, as a player, my
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record is abysmal. Yeah, yeah, well it's not that abysmo if you
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if you look, it will be over fifty appearances on the podcast. Exactly
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right, Yeah, exactly right. There's a lot of people with one appearance
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and one hundred percent when ratio you got twenty two points. So okay,
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So again that means nothing because a lot of people sidebar, can we talk
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about what feels like a like a good score and gateleapers because obviously the games
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change, but this year, maybe more than ever, the games have been
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a bit more consistent. So this year I've been able to look at it
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and go, okay, like over twenty is a high score between fifteen and
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twenty is where people usually land? Yes, yeah, that is exactly right.
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Yeah, it's just so do we feel like it's we're starting to say,
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see, do we feel like you did a good job on your twenty?
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Yeah, that's what I'm asking. Well, here's the thing too,
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that yeah, because we I think in season two we finally broke the twenty
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mark. Was something that we did versus season Why, yes, we did
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break the thirty mark. Oh wow, which I'm shocked by here as I'm
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looking at my sets now and that was done by Odra and I think it
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was Stevie on the task Master episode at one point, Oh my crazy,
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that is not the highest point scorach in the gate Leapers history on a single
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round. We're going to get to that, but thirty one points, so
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it has been broken. So are you trying to escalate it every season?
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Is my question to you? Can we see forty are we going to see
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a forty four? Are we going to see a fault which means the average
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has to go up? I imagine. I think so. But isn't that
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the case with most things when when you're doing stats over time with like sports,
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it's like how the players of now, like Babe Ruth is a really
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famous like old baseball player on him to believe, but like sort of like
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the shittiest player on the shittiest team now would absolutely smash Babe Ruth because right,
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because that's like everyone gets better like time. If you watch the old
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timey Olympic gymnastics, they do a cartwheel and get a perfect ten exactly exactly.
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So I think yeah, is the answer to the question where we'll see
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forties, then then we'll see fifties, then we'll see sixties. One day
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we'll see one hundred, but it's not going to be for seven years.
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Okay, So we're gonna say it next season if you get if you bust
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over twenty decent still good. Yeah, not as well as it could have
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been, but you bust over twenty, it's decent. Let's say that.
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Yeah, the points creep will happen. You've heard it here. Okay,
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excellent, excellent, all right, you know what I'm gonna get point Kane
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next next year I might just starting point is the exclusives you come for here
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at stat Leapers. Yeah, Dona not No, I can't. It's a
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decision I came to three seconds ago. Excellent. I'm going to get very
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point king. Oh, I love that stat Leapers. Okay, so we
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talked about you and your stats, which is fantastic. Yes, now we
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gotta kind of have to hit a staple here. Me and Adre are the
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most recurring people on gate Leapers, so let's let's do our stats. I
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do want to ask you, Matt, as the other person in the room
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of the two of us, who do you think fared better? Just prediction
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one? So this year, so I believe at the end of last year,
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Oldra was ahead. Yes on total points. Yes, And I think
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win win percentage and win percentage, So I think this. I reckon it
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was close. I do think. I do think it was maybe close.
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I think you're right on that. So maybe Jason, maybe you got more
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points this year and closed the gap a little. Oh, let's see.
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Let's see. All right, So I'll start off with myself. Since you
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mentioned myself for total points in Gateleaper's history, I've now amassed nine hundred and
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seventy three oh five points points point five. Listen, I do the math
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I remember, which is a lot of freaking a lot of points. That's
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a lot of games we've played. That's a lot of To be precise,
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I've appeared fifty four times less than Audra. I've won twenty one of those,
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had three ties. Okay, I've had three ties. My win ratio
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is thirty eight point eight nine. Oh you're not it's great, Well,
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no, because I mean it's less than half. Because yeah, and you've
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been on most of the episodes. So that therefore, I'm gonna say my
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guess was wrong and older actually one more that is true. That is true.
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My only defense for both me and Audra because it is close. Is
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that in the first season it was free for all, So why you would
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expect fifty between me and Odra? Not necessarily Yeah, but my average points
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per game and apparently this is not great either based on what we just said
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five minutes ago, eighteen point zero three points, okay average getting close to
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twenty though, getting close to twenty yeah. Yeah. What I will say
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about ours is that we are since we are in more episodes, you're on
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more episodes of fandoms, you're not necessarily issue where a lot of guests.
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We really try to bring people on who are passionate about the topic that we're
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that's fair, like, thank you working with so you're on ones even Yeah,
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if anything, I get pushing for those episodes because it is like we
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need a dummy who we got. Yeah, you're an entertaining guy, especially
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when I'm clearless what I'm not clueless about Ouder's points. So Odre broke a
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thousand points crazy. I thought she would break it in Nancy Drew, which
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would have been monumentous. She actually broken in Transformers, which, yeahmus Prime
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Honestly, because you're at one thousand and seventy five point five nights, your
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twenty three wins, which is more than me. Yep, only two ties
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out of fifty eight appearances, your winding ratio being thirty nine points sixty six
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percent, so on the forty not much better better, not much better,
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I'll be honest, I know, just I'm not mo with the whole season
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one was yeah one v one v one. There's other people with equal stats,
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not as many appearances as at us, so that's okay. Sample size,
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right, yeah, absolutely, lot of large numbers the pair of you.
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Until our lovely cast members have more regular appearances. You two are of
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an island unto yourselves. You can't really compare your stats to anyone apart from
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each other. Honestly, we're the gold standard until someone gets up. Yeah,
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to our numbers. Absolutely, this is this is the bar you're shooting
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war. Absolutely, we are the bar. Yeah, and your points per
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average is about the same as well, eighteen point five four swinging around that
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up to nineteen. But it's like, let's stay closer to my score.
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Yeah, yeah, you're at twenty two. Man, you're great, But
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again one appearance such as small sample size, I'd say you you both being
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at like eighteen or there or thereabouts is like, oh, yeah, the
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average score is between fifteen and twenty somewhere. Yeah, and you're on the
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upper upper end of that. Yeah, we're a great representation. We're honestly
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not too far off from season two too, because from memory, I think
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it was around seventeen or eighteen was our points. So then you points creep
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that. Yeah, the points creep is officially one. Yeah. Again marginal
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sizes, so yeah, you know, it's a little harder for us to
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increase our scores. But on the note of Audrey and I, this is
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also Matt, this was your first season relinquishing the host role. Yes,
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this was both Audrey and I's first time relinquishing the captain role this season as
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well. I relinquished it in Buffy Yes, and task Master, and then
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Audrey and I both relinquished it in Gilmour Girls, which is our most recent
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Yes, gosh, I'm halfway through listening to that episode. We had more
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things to record. It's so much fun. Yeah, oh, the Gilmore
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Girls one. Yeah. Yeah, I was just about to say, like,
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did you feel good relinquishing that? And I mean you love the episode
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evidently, mm hmm. It was so much fun. With some solid number
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experienced players like regular cast members. On that episode, I was like,
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Wow, they're gonna go have a lot of fun. Listen to them having
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a lot of fun like a proud Mama Bird. I felt like Mama Bird
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too, Like the first time watched, listening to that Buffy was so fun.
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I refuse to be on any episode with Stevie uh to to make sure
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that Matt can continue the ruse. Yeah and so and so forth. Although
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the rule of three the joke is paid off now, so I think twenty
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twenty four, let's get you and Stevie on the same episode. I can't
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wait to just be on camera as a Kermit the Frog puppet. If you
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do a whole episode as puppet Jason. I love that the muppets did.
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Who did the Can we hire the people that did the puppets for community?
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Oh? Sure, you have to do the actual version of Jason the patron
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I love that all the phone Oh my goodness, so soft. Okay,
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now I do want puppets of each of us. I would love that.
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Patreon. That's where the Patreon budget's gonna go. Yeah, I think I
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could stick my hand up your asses. I love them even more than usual.
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Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of that talk in season three.
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Did you find that the horniness had increased in season three? Yeah? So
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again points creep hornier season four. Season four depends on a season Fornia season
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Fournier. Do you feel like, generally speaking, the world is hornier?
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Like we're currently going through one of those you know how, like sex goes
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in and out of fashion and in terms of like being in more in the
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mainstream and stuff. I feel like we're currently in that time where it's like,
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okay to make jokes addressing sex again and it's task Master's gotten hornier.
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I wonder about this. I wonder if we're hornier conversationally as a result of
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I do know that the younger generation are having less sex than ever. Yeah,
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that's that is true. So I wonder if conversationally more more sex.
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For sure, all the time too busy, But I wonder if it's a
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result of, like, on average, people are just like and so we'll
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talk about it. Yeah, I think so. Or maybe it's because it's
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disappeared from our films and TV shows compared to in the twenty ten, so
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now we feel like we have to make up for it. By making everything
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hornyou if you added more fan fiction based episodes, that's gonna happen. We're
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gonna play more fan fiction games in twenty twenty four. I can't say if
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it's gonna be hornier, but I can say the fan fiction will increase in
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twenty twenty four. That's a promise you got to keep. In terms of
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again, that's another exclusive exclusive getting I'm getting addicted to dropping these exclusives that
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things that I think of are just the top of my head, and then
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you're just gonna commit to them. And I'll make hot chocolate before every recording
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through may Oh okay, okay, but that would be so cute. Okay,
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I'm not committed to that now it sounds like too much. I'm going
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to commit to thinking about making hot chocolate like a little prayer before going to
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think about it. Well, the next story. I think this is a
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big story, Okay, at least for me, as our next people that
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we're going to talk to have mentioned I've been really excited about it now.
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Jen Gate Leaper's Legend. Oh legend, Legend got her first loss in this
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season, which was huge. We did not have a precedent for a champion.
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We made one up on the fly just to make her feel worse.
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Felt right, It was so monumentous. It was sorry. It didn't it
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didn't feel right to make her feel worse. It felt right to make the
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championship then, yeah, yeah, high stakes, right, because she had
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one hundred percent wind streak and I believe six, no five appearances. I
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believe last time it was it was some I'm gonna say it was something like
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that. Yeah, even though you've got the numbers, that is the stat
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leaper's guarantee, something like that, I have the numbers here somewhere correct.
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Actually, this is a good time for me to interject with a little sidebar.
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I love this and I hate this, but I love that I hate
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it in the sense that part of when I was formulating gate leapers was like,
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similar to the whose line is it anyway? Thing? Right? The
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game's made up and the points don't matter absolutely, and so like I was
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determined to make it like fake competitive. But I've managed to make it fake
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competitive to such a level that people are gen cares about the wind streak.
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There's now a lineal championship that will be defended whenever the champion is on you
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have made this wonderful spreadsheet of all of the stats and keeping the numbers.
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I guess the point is the points very much do matter. It seems once
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a year once yes, we have the embargo once a year. The points
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matter. Every other day of the year, they do not matter. I
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just I felt like I had to say that because I find it hilarious and
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infuriating. Yeah, this is my Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone. I feel
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especially bad as well because I was contributing factor to Jen's loss. I was
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on her team. Right during the Sailor Moon episode, we did not know
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anything about sailors. Still, though Popeye got it, that's a guy.
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Tintin wasn't even mentioned. I'm pretty sure in that bonus round. No,
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I don't think he was. That's about it. I don't think he's a
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sail Oh god, I think he just looks like one. Jesus. Even
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worse, it was like Captain Jack Sparrow, and it was okay. It
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was because I included pirates right as well, didn't I. That's a monster,
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isn't Oh no? Yeah? But I thought captain and of an airplane.
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Yeah, hey, he had to land it on water. That makes
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it a boat that makes a sailor. Yeah, this is the gately first
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guarantee of expertise. So Jen lost that. Jen last streak to Drew.
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Yes, Drew a cast made on this and he held it for a monumentous
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one round. Jen took him back immediately during the Gilmore Girls episode. True
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that, hey, looks six months between the recording. You can that's true.
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You can say he held onto it for six months. That's true.
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Andrew is a champion in our eyes for sure. Oh for so many reasons,
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Oh, for so many reasons. And to hold it at least once,
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is still holding it. I want to go over both their stats real
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quick. Yes, that's okay, let's see here. So Jen gonna mention
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again, she's still a gate leaper's legend one hundred and thirty three points with
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only seven appearances. Yeah, what does that make her average? So that
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makes her average nineteen? So if again, well for you, using Audrey
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and I as bars, she's above the bar a whole point, a whole
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point above the bar. She's got six out of her seven appearances as wins
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with an eighty five point seven percent ratio win. Wow, that is not
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one hundred percent, but it is the most impressive. The only other person
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on this list who would even be close to taking over gen stats is currently
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our friend Adam would ooh, he has one hundred and sixteen points out of
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five appearances. Wow, so creeping. He's got a huge He's got twenty
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three point two points per average. Wow. Yes, that is wild.
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That is wild. I must scold those games a little high, because again
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we're going off of whatever whims are on my mind that day. Yeah,
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which we're finding there is an average to it. Yes, but five appearances
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is a solid sample size. Five appearances, eighty percent win ratio. He's
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only five point seven one off from from gen. That's nothing. That's penot.
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I think what I'm hearing from this is now that Jen has the title
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back, I think we've got to get Jen and Adam on the same epide.
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If we were like, oh, I'm going to use a look,
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everyone knows I'm too obsessed with wrestling, so I'll use another term. If
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we were boxing from I was, yes, we'd want to get the two
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top stars to face off against each other. Yeah. Yeah. Could you
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imagine if you put Drew on Adam's team for whatever reason, It's like a
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rematch as well. That might be we need to save that for twenty five.
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We need to save twice five. Come on, long term storytelling.
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Okay, whoever wins between Jen and Adam. And then there's like a build
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up where Drew talks. I was gonna say Drew talks ship, but I
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just don't think he's just too kind. Yeah. I think I tried to
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make him option talk shit and Drew comes to the rescue. Oh this is
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amazing. I love this. It's getting a little scripty because there's some stats
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in here where I literally have to say where we can't make this up.
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We can't. Okay, Okay, So I like, I love those ideas.
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We're gonna shelve them. We're gonna keep them in behind the scenes,
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maybe not exclusive to set leapers. Yeah, that's that's it. There's some
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stats here, man, it is insane. Before we get to those other
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stats, so want to highlight Drew. He mentioned that maybe his that's what
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tank. I don't think they're as bad as he thinks. He's got one
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hundred and thirty two point five points out of six appearances. His wins are
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two out of the six, with one tie one tie okay, but his
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point per average is twenty two point zero eight. Again high. Well,
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I'm what I'm actually hearing now is that you captains are actually kind of bad.
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Please don't replace me. I've known. Don't eat sat pevers for that,
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all right, Gay, that's that's players perform perform higher. Even though
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Drew hasn't necessarily won as high a percent, just say Agen his points points
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the game. That just means the people he's competing against just that more elite,
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you know what I mean? Yeah? Really bring to or again he's
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he's also a high score because of the quick fire a round. He's huge.
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That's that's true. That's true. Yeah, famously huge on that one.
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Great pulp culture knowledge. Yeahred percent. Speaking of the captains not being
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great, I wrote this down. This is a selfish thing. I lost
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my first thing in a Marvel thing, which felt pretty bad to your sibling,
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Aiden. Yeah, guardians. It was so traumatic for me that I
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started reading comics again because of Aiden. Like Aida just started like fucking speeding
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out comic knowledge, and I was like, the fuck is this person?
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Who? Where are where? Where did this come from? I've known you
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for years. You were spend by gatekeeping. You were like, this wasn't
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caught no more about comics than Maze. Yeah, honestly, honestly, Aiden,
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like, go to your fucking place. People can like hybrow and love
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things. It's possible the same time. Yeah, both of these things can
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be true. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Aiden's a pretty good
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performer as well. They have seventy one points to their four appearances. Uh,
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fifty percent win ratio two of the four of those and seventeen point seventy
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five points for average, So pretty close to me and Audra there in terms.
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Solid next thing, another first for us. I don't know. This
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kind of sounds mean. Uh, ash got her first win. Nice congratulations,
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Ashwood. Here gotta find Ashes points. She's actually not too bad herself.
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Fifty seven points out of the three appearances, one win out of those
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three, nineteen points per average, so higher got her first win, but
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higher points than us per average episode. So solid. Great work, Ash,
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Absolutely, now here's a big one for us. I've talked about format
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changes. I think this is very interesting. It could lead into more season
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four stuff. But we had her first three v two match in of course,
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Yes, this was for Buffy. This was for Buffy exactly. We
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had the team of Audra, Stevie and Augie yes I believe, versus Caroline,
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Ruela and Aaron Yes, all those other names I mentioned from the Because
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Fuck You That's Why podcast? How is that? Hosting that ma, I
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mean that was great partly because Because Fuck You That's Why guys, the fy
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TW boys have such great chemistry and energy with each other that it all just
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it honestly felt no different to any other episode recording in that sense, in
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that it just flowed really well and it worked out in terms of creating like
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a fairly balanced game memory the knowledge of two real knowledgeable people versus two semi
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knowledgeable people and a passing knowledge person. Yeah. And with Caroline that was
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her first appearance. Got absolute joy to have one just as a person,
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two as a Buffy fan. So much fun to have her on the podcast,
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especially with that group of guys. It was so fun. Yeah,
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she was fantastic on the Nancy Drew epis. I'm glad to hear that it
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didn't feel that much different. Do you think maybe in season four we'll see
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that again or do you think it's too mismatch? So? As I said
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earlier in this recording, I like totally change one thing at a time,
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But if that was the one thing that was being changed, then it wasn't
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regularly that. Yeah. Sure, if that was an episode where I was
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hosting and we had regular players on as well, we could absolutely do three
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v two if it because it further cements the thing that I try and say,
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which is none of this matters. It's all made as a listener to
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the episode, because again I was in captain or present for the episode.
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Really fun. To balance five players with one host, six people total in
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a single podcast is kind of fucking insane. Yeah, and it felt good
25:36
to listen. Yeah, oh thanks, it's yeah testament to everyone. Yeah,
25:40
who's a part of it? Really and to the Keate Leaper's formula.
25:42
I really loved it. So that was super fun, super interesting. It
25:45
might not happen again, it might, Yeah, just interesting. Three v
25:48
three let's exclusive. Eli, we're just gonna start saying we're gonna have a
25:56
dog on the show. I need to start making a sound effect after so
26:03
every time I drop one of those, which, by the way, great
26:04
idea, We're gonna have a dog on the next episode. Exclusive The Westminster
26:11
podcast of Gate Leapers. I think you're gonna want to use that pal for
26:17
the next one. The most points in all of gate Leaper's history. Now
26:22
we mentioned we broke thirty. The most points ever in gate Leaper's history belongs
26:26
to me and Graham at ten thousand, twenty point five points. We're fucking
26:33
smashing it, man, I fuck they have one thousand points. I'm at
26:34
ten thousand. You know what I mean that that is the joke that has
26:38
kind of screwed with stat Leapers, right. Yeah. In the Excel shirts
26:42
sheet, I'm not even lying. There is a comment next to that one
26:47
that says, technically this is tenenty twenty point five. Yes, I've wrote
26:49
twenty point five. I mean trending. Yeah, it was too good of
26:55
a joke to pass pass up stat Leapers. Yeah, yeah, is too
27:00
get yea. But that is wrapping up all the new things, all the
27:04
notable things that have happened this season that are brand new. So that's uh,
27:11
that's what that is. Now. This section, this next section is
27:14
what I'm calling the recurring bit so previous stats that we've talked about from last
27:18
stat Leapers that I will continue to talk about. It's not over for the
27:22
stats just yeah, I guess, okay, don't worry. Yeah, the
27:25
first one I thought was really interesting. So, contrary to what Matt believes,
27:29
every season that we do this Gate Leapers has had its third tie ever,
27:36
meaning no, there's not one. Well, it's interesting that you say
27:40
that. So each season has one tie, which is fun. Even more
27:45
interesting is the first tie was me and Ben and Mario, Yes, sixteen
27:52
points tie. Yeah. The second one was Avatar with me Matt ad or
27:57
sorry me, Drew and Ben sixteen points Okay. This third season, it
28:04
happened in Survivor me Odra Dan from the movie Seller and our friend Taylor Logan
28:11
sixteen points time No. One highest season sixteen time. All right, we
28:19
can't script this. I have a new angel number. I think that's what
28:27
this means. This is in stantly Fer's man, this is cemented. This
28:30
is okay, there's no way we can manufacture that. I thanks for not
28:34
telling me this last year when it was just two that matched up. Yeah,
28:37
now that it's three matching up with sixteen? Can we get in season
28:41
four? How would you even? I don't even know how one would even
28:47
orchestrate. Yeah. What I do know is there will be one tie next
28:51
year. That feels like it. That's a patent. But I don't necessarily
28:53
think we can hit sixteen again, right, But we've gotten the three.
28:56
We've got. This is the victory. I'd get a ten tun on me,
29:00
man, I get it. I listen. I've talked a lot about
29:03
tattoos. I'll get a tattooed on me. I mean, I've got space
29:07
on my skin. Considering the last thing you talked about getting tattooed was the
29:12
word come in Elvish on you sixties. I think I'm in my Harry Styles
29:17
phase. Man. Yeah, yeah, shave your head. I do that,
29:21
you know I do. I love it. But yeah, that's that's
29:23
really crazy. So this year we got our third executive produce on Patroon,
29:27
which is crazy, very cool. Justin shout out, justin, dog bug
29:33
shout out. It's always super nice seeing people support us at all, but
29:37
at the executive producer level, you are why we exist. Yeah, genuinely
29:41
keeping this afloat through helping us pay a Zoom subscription replace headphones when they broke.
29:48
Crazy. Yeah, when people say like this is to keep the lights
29:52
on, this is pretty true. It's pretty It's genuinely to keep the lights
29:55
on so you'll support It means so much, honestly, honestly, thank you
29:57
very much. The number really mass I think I got away with that,
30:03
And thank you very much to Adam. Remember Adam, and that's why your
30:07
stats are so good. You are a true competitor. We thought the peer
30:15
the plus five buff handicap that you get every time. Absolutely, but yeah,
30:22
that that's super awesome. Now. The biggest change I think that happened
30:26
this season is we usually talk about the fandoms that we've had. Yes,
30:30
this one was pretty impressive to me. So this year we've had seventeen new
30:36
fantoms that we've jumped in. Its crazy, only three repeats of the entire
30:41
series. Three WWE Guardians of the Galaxy, which follows under Marvel, Superman
30:47
which falls under DC ye Zelda I did not put in because we never released
30:51
a Nintendo based episode. We did Mario and Pokemon separately as entities. Individual
30:56
makes sense, yep, exactly right. Yeah, so that's that's really interesting
31:00
to me. No, I love that. I think we had more repeats
31:03
in year two and two, and so a big thing for me was like,
31:07
there are still so many media properties to cover we haven't touched it.
31:12
Because sometimes there are things that have like a deep active fandom. Sometimes there
31:17
are things that used to have that and now maybe it's just smaller groups,
31:22
but also things that just hold a special memory in a pocket of time that
31:26
don't have a huge fandom built around it. Yeah, So like a super
31:30
engaged fandom, an active fandom would be like a Marvel, a WWE,
31:33
a task Master something like that, where the hell are active guys. And
31:38
then you've got like The Gilmore Girls is a great example of like an evergreen
31:44
fandom, a fandom that it had its pocket of cultural relatives, but because
31:48
of that and because it was on top for so long, it now has
31:51
a loyal fan base that still love it. You are ready to get Survivors
31:56
part of that for sure? Yes, absolutely rock and Yeah, and then
32:00
you've got ones that are just hold a specific nostalgic place, like if we
32:04
ever do I don't know, if we ever do a Jurassic Park thing or
32:07
back to the future. Oh, I guess the Indiana Jones. Yeah,
32:12
absolutely good variety of No, it's absolutely a good variety. It makes me
32:15
even more excited for season four as well, because in season four We've had
32:17
a lot of discussions about how do we expand what the definition of fandoms are
32:22
because we've done a lot of media properties, We've done a lot of IPS
32:24
franchises. But we started discussions leading up to season four on how do we
32:30
expand this into a broader thing very soon after this episode releases. We've been
32:34
talking about a PC gaming fandom, very broad on what that even means,
32:39
but those are types of things where people are very invested in the same way.
32:44
Yeah, and is great to jump in explore it. Yeah, definitely
32:49
lots of areas to explore. It's for me, it's music and sport.
32:54
Yes, at the two because I think if this is like a pop culture
32:59
thing, right that permeate that have their moment in the mainstream. And so
33:04
I feel like the two fandoms that we've not really got into a sport in
33:07
music, So I'd love to in twenty twenty four have some kind of dance
33:12
into the music episode. It's a little kick, yeah, the sports episode
33:15
sport even like that's the other costplaying area. Yeah, absolutely, Honestly,
33:22
if you try to tell me that costplaying is any different from buying a jersey,
33:25
and yeah, it's not very same thing. There is no difference.
33:29
There's two main cost playing spaces, nerd culture and sports face of sincerity as
33:37
she said that, Yeah, it's like we're we're the same. Yeah,
33:43
I'm super excited. Honestly, we don't do this very often. But if
33:45
you have a fandom you'd like to suggest or an idea like, please get
33:50
Yeah. Absolutely, we're at that point now where we've got a long list
33:52
where we could we could probably sketch out the entirety of next year's episodes.
33:58
Nose still not and out of fandoms, but we absolutely want to hear from
34:02
you in that regard. Gates Leapers at gmail dot com. Send us a
34:07
fandom, send us, send us a fandom you'd like to see us cover
34:09
will get round to it eventually, that's my guarantee. Absolutely, yes,
34:14
And we take so much joy knowing that we bring joy to other people.
34:19
So if you're like, oh, but like what if they don't want to
34:21
do send it to us. We want to bring you joy. And the
34:24
more people who suggest it, the higher the low. Yes, yeah,
34:29
is ultimately what it is. Oh, I'm sure someone suggested mine, suggest
34:32
it too, Then we know more people are interested exactly what you do is
34:37
you're you leave a five star review, you leave a comment or whatever,
34:40
put it in your five star review. Please do this. Yeah, you
34:44
make another account, you leave another five you put it again. All right,
34:47
this is how the internet works. Yep, all right, get to
34:51
work bees. The first part, the first part about this recurring bit here
34:58
in Gatly present a new season speaking of bees. Okay, I've got to
35:02
leave that in now. Yeah. What they what they say in digital marketing
35:07
one O one is that you don't refer to your audience as diligent worker bees.
35:10
They're frogs. Remember their leap the leap frogs. Hey, and maybe
35:14
some merch this year will reflect the frog aspect it. Maybe some new artwork
35:20
will reflect reflect reflect the frog aspect. Yes, absolutely, because the more
35:25
people we meet, I think, the better and bigger Gate Leapers get.
35:30
That's that is true, the newer. The other recurring bit that we have
35:34
is we've talked about new fandoms we've heard this season. This season we've had
35:37
thirteen new guests, which is pretty insane. Yeah, I don't think the
35:43
growth is as big as season two. Season two, we met a lot
35:45
of new people. I feel like half of those numbers are friends that we
35:49
or worst, and they're coming into your siblings always and close family members and
35:54
incredible friends. And it's hard to ask strangers on the internet to spend two
35:59
hours with you playing. I'll tell you that it is. It is you
36:01
do that. It's great because we've met a lot of new people. We
36:05
have, like, honestly, a lot of new people, a lot of
36:07
new people, and I'm going to get more into that here in a bit
36:09
on how the player space has changed in Kate Leepers. But honestly, one
36:15
of my favorite things about this season is we've met so many new people.
36:17
A lot of these people that we've brought on I've like instantly connected with.
36:22
Yeah, pretty crazy, I think because a lot of the new people this
36:28
season are like friends of other friends we've made through podcasting, and so there
36:32
is immediately that connection of we love doing this in the same in a similar
36:37
way that you have connected to them loving doing podcasting. So it is all
36:42
of us coming together. Yeah, it's super cool. It's super cool.
36:46
Very rarely do I talk to people outside of this or in general. People
36:52
scare me, Uh, that's that's such a lie, Like you know me
36:55
in person, like I will talk to random strangers, but actually talking to
37:00
to the point where I care about them, that's hard. That's the stake.
37:04
I can yea once there's stakes. Yeah, but I've I've talked to
37:07
some lovely people and this is one of my favorite seasons ever for guests,
37:10
really and truly. But to segue into the next part, our guests have
37:16
changed a bit to where some of our players that we had have upgraded in
37:22
a sense from guests to cast member. Yes, so I'm gonna we've We've
37:28
listed off some of the cast members stats already. I'm gonna list off the
37:30
other stats. But I mean, Matt Roger, do you want to talk
37:32
more about the expanding cast? What does being a cast member mean and how
37:37
does how that might change the landscape of Kate Leapers onto season four? Yeah?
37:40
Absolutely, you might have heard it in an earlier episode. Earlier this
37:44
year, we get a casting call out to join our little regular group of
37:47
players to help make this entertaining pub quiz that we we do this this entertainment
37:54
spa trivia night and it felt like the right time because of varying factors,
38:01
one of them being Jason's food truck at studio munchy on Instagram getting off the
38:07
ground, just needing to be like, yeah, let's get a let's get
38:12
a group together so that this is less stressful to organize where we need to
38:15
make sure that the same three people are free every couple of weeks. Yeah,
38:22
And I think it was a great opportunity because last season, like this
38:25
season, we had thirteen new guests. I think the season before we had
38:30
like thirty some guests like newl But I think one of the really fun things
38:36
this year has been like deepening some of those friendships with people that we met
38:40
in previous seasons. Yeah, And so being able to do that and have
38:44
recurring guests with the friendships that we've been building through this great space. Yeah,
38:50
and that's like the sweet part of it that I absolutely echo, like
38:54
sincerely in terms of the sentiment. But if we want to see how the
38:58
sausage is really made, we're doing this because we all become better friends,
39:01
we develop better chemistry, a more entertaining product is produced for you, the
39:07
listener. Everybody wins. Yeah. That probably is extremely factored to why we
39:12
haven't had as many new guests is because we liked the old guests so much.
39:15
We just keep having them on and again. For something like this,
39:20
like the format of a panel show, the idea of like a regular comedy
39:23
group that gets together to make themselves and as a result of that other people
39:30
laugh, that deserves to be shared between more than three people. I feel
39:35
that's something that should be more like a group of I don't know, twelve
39:38
but get together regularly and who can perform and experience this thing together. Yeah,
39:44
it felt like the right time. Yeah, for many reasons. Absolutely
39:47
for sure to make this an ensemble. So yeah, you're gonna if you're
39:52
listening to this, you're gonna see some more of your favorite people. And
39:55
that's great. I love that. I love that. And again, as
39:58
someone who's relinquishes Captain C, I think the format works without me, not
40:02
to say anything bad about you, works without you. It just works,
40:06
just works works without either of us. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm super
40:08
excited bout that does it? Would it work without me? Now? No?
40:14
A little bit, just checking Jason has hosted an episode, I'm gonna
40:19
it doesn't work. Nope, it's a pretty fun listen. It's not coherent,
40:27
and those those are different things. Those are different things. But yeah,
40:31
I mean, speaking of our cast members. We've already talked about a
40:34
couple of them here, Jen Drew, I've got here. Next on the
40:37
list, at least in order of appearance, we've got Chris. Let's see
40:42
here his stats. Chris Reagan, who you might have all eight whole appearances,
40:45
the next amount of appearances next to me and audre So he's he's creeping
40:51
up there. One hundred and forty points three wins to his name, seventeen
40:53
point five point average. There. See, look, Chris is what you
40:58
call your classic. Gately play it, Chris. He's butting a what three
41:02
out of eight wins? That's pretty pretty average, right, Like you win
41:06
some, you lose some. Yeah, you come in thirty seven point five.
41:08
Yeah, you bat an average score. Show up, you make a
41:10
bunch of jokes, you have a good time. Yeah, this is this
41:14
is quintessential gate lead. It is it is again. The points don't matter.
41:19
I'm just saying some stuff I've compiled. Oh I'm putting narrative on the
41:23
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The next one, Ben, I want to
41:25
hear your spin on this. Ben Robinson one hundred and thirty three points one
41:30
win out of seven appearances. Two ties, okay, two ties. There's
41:35
still only one, but both sixteen pointers the ties. That's true. That's
41:39
true, and that's good because his average points per game nineteen, average win
41:45
fourteen point nine. See. Ben is your different kind of Leapers player one.
41:52
Okay, there are three types of classic bayle a fourth that's wild card,
42:00
and a fifth that only the government of Sweden knows it. So the
42:05
second, which is what Ben is as a player, is I don't care.
42:09
I'm just yeah, I have fun. That's true. Whatever happens happens,
42:13
that's true. Ben is a great I don't know what you call it,
42:17
this in comedy or whatever. He's got the replies. Man, he's
42:22
a funny fucking guy. Love him very quick. Yeah. John another cast
42:28
member. Yes, Ben's partner in Geeksploration and on the Space Oddity's comic here.
42:32
Relatively new to season three. He's got three appearances to wins sixty one
42:38
points with a twenty point three to three point average. Low on the appearance
42:44
level. I just want to note that could compared to Ben. I think
42:47
that will change throughout throughout season four. I think John will have more appearances.
42:52
Yeah. John has been a great addition. He is very similar style
42:55
of Gateleaper's player too. No, he's halfway between a hype one and type
43:01
type right, the six type type and I want a Pokemon style rock paper
43:06
scissors. Which type beats which? Okay? Which is strong or weak against?
43:09
Which type? John is a psychic type? Yeah? You know what?
43:14
Yes, oh yes, I'll go with that. He's the midpoint between
43:17
a He's a type one wing three. Yes, if that makes sense to
43:22
any of my twenty tens personality test yes a right, everyone, this is
43:30
making a nightmare for Steateley for season four. I gotta get their personality types.
43:34
And there's down next. Look, look you're presenting the numbers. I'm
43:37
just giving them a nonsensical narrow I appreciate that. Uh. And then we
43:43
got Aaron from the because fuck you. That's why brand new player really spearheading
43:49
this well. Background for those who haven't listened to Aaron's pod, he also
43:53
hosts a panel show type of podcast in the British style. Yeah, so
44:00
really, this whole format really latches on. So when we made the call
44:02
for additional cast members, I think he just leapt onto. He was like,
44:06
please, yes, more. Yeah, I've I've loved everyone so happy
44:12
we've met this year. I've loved everyone we've met this year. Yeah,
44:15
but meeting Aaron has been fantastic in terms of having a fellow games master,
44:19
Yeah, a like minded ally. In terms of just being able to yeah,
44:22
I'll say this word, just being able to comfort each other, in
44:24
terms of we're doing the we're doing an okay thing by being like, oh,
44:29
yeah, we've got all we're gathering friends together to play some games.
44:31
We're gathering people we like to play some silly games. Everyone will have fun
44:35
and then life will mean something. Right, So yeah, we've got that.
44:42
And it helps the shipping power points. You got to save games Master
44:47
games Master for twenty twenty six. That's oh yeah, that's adorable. Yeah,
44:52
it's been. It's been a great connection to make a great a great
44:57
friendship to have. And yeah, also helps that he really understands panel shows
45:01
too. Again, having an ally and that is fantastic. A self proclaimed
45:07
angliphile, which it's make you feel fetish just a little bit. I mean,
45:15
the ship just gets stronger and stronger. The other one I have on
45:20
here is Chris and Drew. Okay, good, yes, segment, lots
45:27
of charts, lots of float, the shipping forecast, just a calm,
45:37
robotic woman voice and this week's ship. This week's ship is Chris and Drew.
45:47
This ship began, okay cool. So that was all the factoids,
45:54
all these stats that I had. Honestly, I wanted to take a moment
46:00
because this was also something that we did in stat Leeper's I love the numbers.
46:02
We love looking at the cold, hard facts. Oh yeah. Yeah.
46:07
But also what I love about doing a season wrap up is let's do
46:12
some highlights game. Yeah, yeah, let's talk about it all right,
46:16
big season for us, lots of memories. I'm gonna ask a couple of
46:20
questions and if you could just give me your inside and we just talk a
46:22
bit about some of our favorite moments, such as like, do you have
46:28
I'm gonna start with Matt on this one. Okay, do you have a
46:31
favorite episode? You think? Oh, this is tough. It's like picking
46:37
between all twenty of my children, I know. And there's so many good
46:40
ones. There's so many good ones, whether it's a favorite guest or a
46:44
favorite format, just how the Yeah. I had a lot of fun this
46:47
year. So thank you everyone for playing games and hanging out. I think,
46:54
oh man, this is really hard obviously, like recently the task Master
46:58
episode, I've got to say that individual round. Yeah, but because that
47:01
was very much from the mind of Alex Horn, it doesn't feel as like
47:06
you as Yeah, it doesn't feel as me, So I don't feel like
47:08
I can say it as much. My face did hurt from smiling. I
47:13
mean, yeah, it was so that was it was so much fun.
47:15
It was joyous. It's as joyous as I want every Round two of gate
47:20
Leapers to be soon to be Round three next year exclusive. But I'm actually
47:31
gonna say as a quintessential gate Leapers episode in terms of even making me laugh
47:38
and taking it in directions that I didn't expect it to be taken. I'm
47:42
gonuld say the Indiana Jones episode because it's just classic fandom. Everyone knows the
47:47
in jokes here because there's only three films and everyone's seen them. Everyone's passionate
47:52
about it because they've got a different memory of it from a different point in
47:55
life. Always love recording with Ben and John. That chemistry is excellent,
48:01
and yeah, that fan fiction round is ultimately what it comes down to.
48:07
Yeah, you guys laughing Some of the random stuff that is on the internet
48:12
that is very popular on the internet. Yeah, is ridiculous. Is so
48:16
good. So I'm gonna say that one, even though it broke me during
48:20
that fan fiction, I just I just forgot that. Yeah. I literally
48:22
went, everyone stopped what you're doing? I need to talk about this.
48:28
Yeah. That was amazing, that's true. Yeah, that's that's it.
48:30
That's awesome. Man. I love that episode. Audre. Do you have
48:32
a favorite episode? I think there's a recency bias on it, but I
48:39
loved the Nancy Drew episode. Oh yeah, just because it's one of those
48:45
things that when we started this, I was like, oh, what are
48:47
the things I like? And it was one of the things that I had
48:50
in mind, but I was like, that is not big enough to be
48:58
an episode. I'm I'm just gonna put that in the back of my mind.
49:01
I'm just gonna toss that away. So that was really fun. But
49:06
also things like Sailor Moon, where I hadn't previously been into it, but
49:09
knowing that we were going to do that episode could get into it. Mm
49:15
hmm. So things that had been with me for a long time and then
49:19
brought to me now. Yeah, yeah, no, that was all great.
49:24
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I Sailor Moon Nancy Drew. I had
49:28
a lot of fun being the Dunce on that one. That was really really
49:30
great. Honestly, Yeah, my favorite is probably gonna be well everyone said
49:35
too, so I'll say too. I mean, I think WWE gets a
49:43
gets an honorable mention for me just because it's something we've done before. But
49:46
when I first became friends with you guys, absolutely clueless would have been playing
49:52
the complete Dunce. I'm getting used to it more. I'm getting used to
49:55
the tropes, more names, some names, Yeah, yeah, exactly,
50:00
and being clueless it was still it was classic gate Leapers where the two experts
50:07
Graham and Adam, who were on there, ye didn't know everything about it,
50:12
but at the same time we're like new enough where we can make fun
50:14
of it. Yeah. And then also I liked playing the Dunce during the
50:19
what are they called shout out? Do a special, do a promo,
50:22
promo, do a promo? Got it? Can't make this stuff up.
50:27
I'm don't know, but my favorite for sure has got to be the Parks
50:31
and rec episode. It was chaotic. It was just me and our friends,
50:38
just all of us just making in references. Probably awful to listen to
50:43
our most in reference because we're trying and avoid that of just like quoting the
50:47
thing, but we did it so much said that it became the bit,
50:52
so it was it was fun. I just love just laughing for like two
50:55
hours but nothing. Oh yeah, yeah that's gate Leapers, that's Kate Leepers,
51:00
buddy, that's gate Leapers. And now this is this is even more
51:02
micro of me, So I truly apologize. It's only because I want to
51:06
talk about a specific moment. But do you have a favorite moment from this
51:09
season? Okay, favorite moments? Yeah, it's it's hard to compete with
51:15
Yeah, so many laughs, Yeah, so many things happening. Yeah,
51:20
there's a there's a lot of big moments. Would you like me to start
51:23
and then you can think about it? Yeah, I think I've talked about
51:29
it that question, because you clearly have the I think. I know.
51:32
I just want to talk about this so much because I have to listen back
51:36
to the episodes for stat Leapers, and I forget a lot of things.
51:38
But one of my favorite moments was actually in the Parks and rac episode.
51:42
That's not I'm sorry I didn't do that, but on purpose, but in
51:44
the Parks and rac episode. Your quick Fire round is Porks and Recreation.
51:49
Ye Odra is very bad in the beginning at buzzing in. She buzzes in
51:54
out of such some kind of question and goes dumbbo and then Matt they're all
52:00
supposed to be picked. They're all supposed to be pigs. That's right,
52:01
Yeah, pop culture pigs, that's what it is. And Matt, her
52:05
husband goes, m is Dumbo a pig. The closest thing I've ever heard.
52:12
I'm not going I don't think you're right at all, honey, Like
52:15
I cannot support you on this, and I probably say, yep, no,
52:20
you're just yeah, you you you do an uproars laughter because you're like,
52:23
quit, I don't know, I don't I don't want to play this
52:25
anymore. Oh yes, that was one of the moments my brain went to
52:30
as well. I even got to do that recently with Chris with the Guilds
52:36
episode what did you do? Well? He says, uh, he can't
52:39
remember the name of the character from this thing. Oh, so he goes,
52:45
oh, yeah, the daughter from Leelo and Stitch. Yeah, like
52:51
the daughter from Leelo and Stitch. I think. Chris goes I've never watched.
53:00
I don't think you need to, Chris. I don't think that's a
53:02
necessary thing. Yeah, that's amazing. We have to get Chris to watch
53:08
Leilo and Stitch. That's problem. That's a that's a task for Jenny.
53:16
Do you have a favorite moment? I honestly think that I honestly think that
53:21
my favorite moment is recovering from calling Dumbo O by the fact the fact that
53:27
I didn't actually just leave. I didn't cry, I didn't leave the podcast.
53:35
Your favorite moment is personal growth? Yeah, I didn't even cry after
53:38
the podcast. We're gonna have a lot of that here in a second.
53:40
Oh no, another another moment in isolation is again during the task Master episode
53:49
and hand his face and saying hemorrhoids repeatedly while trying to name things. And
53:55
I was going to mention that as an honorable mention. I wasn't there physically
53:59
or watched it. I'm not a Patren. You were there emotionally, spiritually,
54:02
had videos on YouTube. Oh yeah, that's true. That yeah,
54:07
But the best part about that as a listener is even though it's ninety percent
54:14
visual, it makes sense from an auditory standpoint. Yes, I think it's
54:16
part commentary, part just the utter chaos from like you can hear people just
54:22
going like, oh my god, what is happening to my life? And
54:24
there yees, yeah, it just works. And that's like, honestly,
54:30
I might you can, you can have the pig, you can, I'll
54:32
keep it. I'll keep the pig. Yeah. Yeah, that's because that's
54:36
a great moment, just from like, this show works, and this show
54:39
is coherent and it it's fun. Yes, even in the chaos. Just
54:45
make me think of more moments. But we should definitely play most games the
54:49
audio base, but the speed running one where they have to say, you
54:53
guys have to get to the same answer at the same time yes by like
54:58
slowly working from yes. God, Adam and I were so bad at that.
55:07
Yes. Gosh. Another thing that I had forgotten Nissan Skyline. Oh
55:13
yeah, oh my goodness. The Fast and Furious episode. I think every
55:22
episode we make is amazing. Think so I really do generinely believe that as
55:29
well, even though I laughed, it's really great. But I also put
55:32
that not because I had a specific moment, because I really want to highlight
55:36
something this season that is amazing, uh, and that is in this season.
55:40
Something new, well we did last stat Leapers is we highlighted the Journey
55:46
to Hell game round because it was something that was recurring, something I could
55:51
track, and there's some interesting little bits from it, which now it's exclusively
55:54
behind the Patreon if you if you Journey into Hell Patreon dot com forward slash
56:02
Gates Leapers. Absolutely we need some more executive producers. And something that's really
56:08
great is we've replaced that with the quick fire around, which I love.
56:12
It's really great. It really highlights just Yeah, it's sand, it's the
56:15
it's the constant, right, we always we always play it. And to
56:20
make it fair to our players who have to phone in uh and and and
56:24
be on Skype and so on and so forth. Yeah, buzzer is the
56:28
buzzer of your team name. Yes, we give a delay and so on
56:31
and so forth. And Odra has some issues with that. Yeah, I
56:37
just for all you like competitor, for all you computer nerds out there.
56:43
I don't have enough RAM to operate modern existence and also do questions quickly.
56:52
Yeah, it is a lot at once. It's it's remembering your team name,
56:55
it's saying the correct answer, and then there's always the rule of three
57:00
gay leapers twist of something. On top of that, it's also the confidence
57:04
that I am correct on top of it, Yeah, because I'll know it
57:08
and then I'll be like, but do I. Well, what I will
57:12
say is a lot of our other wonderful players clearly don't mind being wrong.
57:17
That is based on the points average here. That is evident. I have
57:22
never experienced that in my life. Well, you're gonna really express a smash
57:30
cut all ones reverberated back at you. It's funny. No promises to not
57:37
cry, but also please do I just got spat out of the multiverse and
57:45
I'm looking for a place to boy I think, I think, yeah,
57:50
yeah, Spider Pig. I'm not gonna give it to the amazing Spider Pig.
57:58
It's her Ham, Yes, Spider Ham or Pizza Simpsons. Sorry,
58:10
two different pigs, yes, similar ability. Yeah, I'm requesting a runway
58:19
for personal reasons because sometimes pigs can fly. Dammit? What is that from
58:24
douche Yes, Soldra DUMBOO a Dumbo pig? Oh no, what from toy
58:38
story? It's not I'm so sorry. Any idea for this engage? I
58:47
have no idea. I'm going to take a stab yes, uh, Russo
58:53
it is my god, I'm so sorry. I really do have a meeting
58:59
that I have to get to, like five minutes ago. I am an
59:04
American supermarket chain that operates throughout the South. That's what you did, soldraked
59:20
to buzz In. This is my Achilles. He look up in the sky.
59:32
Is it a time traveler? Is he in a police box over pants?
59:37
Yes, Soldra, I have no clue what planet he's from. I
59:44
do, but I couldn't remember the name of my team. So you named
59:52
us Soldier Shot and then old though gallifreeite Gal. Yes, yeah, uh
1:00:01
no, I've got a package here for apartments nineteen oh one Elliots Bay Towers,
1:00:09
Seattle, Washington where Wolf Yes, it's fat, Yes, Sodre,
1:00:16
you want to go there? I want to go to there, Fraser it
1:00:20
is Frasier, yes, Seattle. Yeah, you'll find me in history but
1:00:30
also played by Rhys Darby and what's affectionately known as the Gay Pirate Show.
1:00:35
I don't know who he played, Bunny, yes, Odra, Yeah,
1:00:42
yes, Steed Bonnet it is the Bonnet Yeah, gentleman Pirate. I don't
1:00:49
know from that show, Yeah, Steve Steed, Steed Bonnet yeah, I'm
1:00:55
an Arabic sailor from the fourteenth century, but most of the West and seafaring
1:01:00
story off. Yes, Odra heist do main sales. It's sinbad it is,
1:01:07
I know, sailors fucking killing it. Yeah. Yeah, I'd be
1:01:15
the original cabin boy right out of the pages of a Robert Lewis Stephenson novel.
1:01:22
Who the fuck is that? I know the name of the author,
1:01:27
cabin Boy, the original cabin Boy. Nothing, No, Bunny Smeeth.
1:01:36
I love the idea that he's the original cabin boy. Yeah. No,
1:01:39
we'll move on to the next one. The answer is Jim Hawkins. Jim
1:01:44
Hawkins, here's your next question. Yeah, I'd be the original space cabin
1:01:52
boy right off the screen of an early two thousand's Disney movie Bunny. Yes,
1:01:57
Ore, ohy, Jim Mark. Yeah, it's also Jim Hawkins.
1:02:06
Oh my god. Oh yeah, this this project, man, it was
1:02:09
a blessing to work with the late great Patrick Swayze and under Yes, Aaron,
1:02:15
you best believe it's point Break. Yes it is Point Break. Know
1:02:21
any of these movies and that's fine. A live process, okay, coming
1:02:30
next summer. The family gets animated as they try to win the prestigious Dina
1:02:36
Coo for striggle to remember your own name was fantastic Lightning McQueen. Yep,
1:02:52
I'll take that. It is Lightning mcg So if I said I had a
1:03:00
guest, Mary Pippin, I was hoping that this would be the practice round.
1:03:05
This was coming up. I am tree Beard exactly that, so it
1:03:09
would be team name to buzz in and then say I am and in this
1:03:15
case tree Beard, gotcha. Okay, we will say Audrey, you said
1:03:20
the wrong team name when you buzzed in. Just then, did you say
1:03:22
I'm appreciate you. I'm pretty sure you said Huggers. This is my eternal
1:03:29
ban. I just don't know how Odin rattas Yeah, hugs Yes, Old
1:03:38
I am Idris sil yes or the world tree. That's good, Miko Nakoma
1:03:45
pokahontis great Hogs. You said our name, Yeah you did, you did,
1:03:53
so I've got it. I gotta go with Jason. And we said
1:04:00
it at the same time, and I was like, what is going on?
1:04:04
I am grandmother Tree I believe is her name. I'll give you it,
1:04:09
grand I'll give you it. You said, grandmother. Okay, I
1:04:13
don't know what my team name is. And I wasn't allowed to watch Pocahontas
1:04:15
growing up, but I know it's grandmother will. Let's not explore that one.
1:04:20
Okay, Ellen, deal is sealed to hogs. Yeah, Soldra,
1:04:30
I am the White Tree of Gondor. I am the White Tree of Gondor.
1:04:33
Yes, sorry, sorry to hog over your you also hogs flying around
1:04:42
all over the place. I couldn't remember if it had a name, net
1:04:46
Bran John, I keep buzzing your name. I have thought of like a
1:04:57
pop culture drink and I can't. I was like, no, this one
1:05:00
might come up. What's the name, what's the name? What's the name?
1:05:02
And I cannot think of it. If it comes up, I'm gonna
1:05:04
be so mad. Okay, well, let's myself not at you already stressing
1:05:11
out a drink invented by the ex president of the galaxy. I'll be sure
1:05:16
to have my towel handy to mop up any mess. Fucking hell sucks.
1:05:23
Not your team name, but sorry, this is the one that I can't
1:05:27
remember the name of. But I'm oh fuck. Pan Galactic gargle blast Yum
1:05:35
yum is fine by me. Is a pangalactic gargle what what is that?
1:05:41
Even from Taker's guy like gargle Blaster is all I can remember, and I
1:05:48
was like glitching out the drink of choice for the Nevada area. Place a
1:05:55
bet on this lucky beverage and build masks do on it. Yeah, I
1:06:00
think, Yeah, I buzzed in and then A panicked, You got it?
1:06:06
Nuca cola, Yum, it's not cola. That's why I panicked,
1:06:12
because I buzzed okay, and he's got it. Then yes, sunset saspilla,
1:06:19
Yes it is sunset yum yum. Indeed, and that's the buzz up.
1:06:26
Who damn hoover damn indeed that is should we come back and laughing.
1:06:35
That's just for the listeners, And I hope you enjoyed those listeners because that's
1:06:41
all authentic. Yeah, we we don't script Aldra. If you did,
1:06:47
I wouldn't remember something. Some feedback I get from like this from people I
1:06:53
show this podcast to and stuff like that is a lot of the women I
1:06:58
show it to say they like you, and some women have noted it is
1:07:01
specifically that you are vulnerable, which I don't know what that means relatable.
1:07:08
It's like something I would say that does bring me joy. Thank you.
1:07:14
I think they can hear like, oh she didn't cry, good for her.
1:07:18
Yeah she's relatable. Yeah, she's relatable to them. I too,
1:07:21
am just a woman trying my best. I don't think I've ever told you
1:07:27
that before. That is true. When you said some women in your life
1:07:31
is saying that is and they have the exact same piece of feedback, like
1:07:35
multiple women, multiple women. Yeah, not every women, not every woman.
1:07:39
Multiple women have said I really like Audra. They gloss over me the
1:07:43
person they're talking, and they go, I really like Audra and I think
1:07:45
she's Yeah, she's really vulnerable. These are the two phrases. Soft's s
1:07:54
a w F T soft, and I relate to that. That has overall
1:08:00
been stat leapers. I'm gonna say a couple more things just to close out
1:08:03
this year's stat leepers. It's been a great season. It's been a waterfole
1:08:06
season. Exclusive, it's been a great SCE. We liked it. I
1:08:13
hope you do too. So one of the things about this is stat leapers
1:08:18
will always happen as long as there is a gate leepers. I will keep
1:08:21
on top of that. It's very fun for me to compile this that's my
1:08:24
yearly project, and I have a lot of fun. You guys may or
1:08:29
may not have noticed if you did not listen to another episode that we have
1:08:31
out, which is just the show notes. I have been on here less.
1:08:34
I've been on here less before, but I'm gonna continue to be on
1:08:38
here less. My stats will reflect that you have full stats. I'll see
1:08:45
if Chris can overtake my fifty appearances. No one's doing it this year,
1:08:49
maybe by yes seven maybe honestly. Honestly, but the reason for that being
1:08:55
is that I'm running my own business. And something I've noticed about this season,
1:09:00
either factoid or trend or whatever you want to call that, is a
1:09:02
lot of our guests have had their own thing that you can patron yes,
1:09:06
which is very very cool. And because I'm running my own business and I
1:09:11
think that's brave of me. Oh did not like saying that? Well,
1:09:13
we can say it. I can say oh, thank you, we can
1:09:15
say it, thank you, thank you. I want to also highlight their
1:09:17
stuff because I think it's very cool and it's everyone has their own podcast.
1:09:23
We know that that's why they're guests. But I'll start here. One of
1:09:26
the big ones, the longest running ones that we have here is Ben and
1:09:30
John. Our cast members have their own comic book, which I think is
1:09:32
absolutely insane. It's incredible, it's so cool. I'm so jealous. I
1:09:36
want to live vicariously through them. It's called Space Audities. You can read
1:09:41
that on Comixology, Drive through Comics, or if you just look up their
1:09:44
website, Space auditiescomic dot com. You can buy it from there physically or
1:09:48
digitally. And I'm gonna go ahead and say I'll put all these links that
1:09:51
Jason's about to say in the description. Yes please, yes, absolutely.
1:09:56
Our cast member Drew, he has his own pins, which are super cute.
1:09:59
Yes, they're like the newest. And my favorite ones are the Pokemon
1:10:02
eggs Let's go. They're about the house. Oh my my favorite is the
1:10:06
shiny Tokope one. You can find those on Etsy at boxast Pins. Aaron
1:10:13
of b fy t W has a debut novel which is insane. At a
1:10:17
time of recording this, I'm like three quarters of the way through it.
1:10:20
Yeah, it's really good. Oh wow, it's so good. That's amazing.
1:10:25
I wish I could read so I would read it. You can read
1:10:28
this? Do you practice my audiobook? Narration. I'm not going to commit
1:10:32
to that every night, read me about five cents per word, Aaron.
1:10:38
If you that novel is called Thane. You can find out Amazon, Barnes,
1:10:44
and Noble, everywhere you find books, specifically if you get the e
1:10:46
book on smash Words. Apparently Erin gets the biggest cut there. Yeah.
1:10:50
I don't know, I reckon that's the link I'll put in the notes.
1:10:54
Yes, absolutely, absolutely so. We've got Aiden and l who have both
1:10:59
been on the pop l Moore this year I think. But anyways, they
1:11:02
are both part of the Rickety Fidgets. Yeah, the part of rickety Fidgets.
1:11:06
They're a quea accessible theats agree Ah, very cool, very cool.
1:11:10
Well, you can follow them on at rickety Fidgets on Instagram, Facebook,
1:11:14
and TikTok. Nice. Yeah. Nile, again, this is a very
1:11:17
long list. It's insane. It's the only reason I put it in here.
1:11:20
Nile from Fuck Buddies podcasts and Our Fast and Furious episode has a story
1:11:26
titled the Princess Network in the anthology book dragon Esque, which you can get
1:11:30
also get on Amazon. Cool just yeh dragon Esque and listen to Nyl and
1:11:33
Dan's Fuck Buddies as well. That's true. Yes, Dating advice podcast,
1:11:38
Yeah, yeah, it's so good. And then lastly, Rick g from
1:11:43
our Transformers episode. He's a very accomplished horror comedy author. He has like
1:11:47
so many books. Yes, you can find all of them on his website,
1:11:51
Rickqualtieri dot com. And finally, well you can't probably patron my business.
1:11:59
It's again at Studio. She had Instagram and also Facebook wherever you want.
1:12:01
If you could just give that a follow, that's really fast and free
1:12:04
and it helps me Aton I appreciate very much. Yeah, we live in
1:12:08
a digital world. Part of marketing is just having high social media numbers,
1:12:11
so the local businessmen go, oh yeah, this person's legit. So you
1:12:15
could you could help Jason out massively naturally, just buy at Studio, munchy
1:12:18
on Instagram, hitting follow, and then never thinking about it again. Honestly,
1:12:23
please do while you're at it, check out Jen's half double docent.
1:12:29
That's true. Yes, on Instagram, Yes, she posts, she does
1:12:32
a lot of pattern testing. She's so good with fiber arts and you can
1:12:36
just find everything that she's making. It's great. Yeah, and don't follow
1:12:40
Chris on Instagram. He doesn't want to be found good luck. Well,
1:12:45
guys, that's that's stat Leapers amazing. Thank you. That's another whole season.
1:12:53
That's our third year in the books, in the books at Gate Leapers,
1:12:58
amazing year. I can't wait to do this for season four and see
1:13:00
what else is new and what else is gonna same. Thanks for prepping all
1:13:04
this, man, Yeah, thanks for thanks for being out here, thanks
1:13:06
for performing, thanks for keeping the show alive. Honestly, Matt the one
1:13:11
who makes it happen. Here. With the expanded cast, hopefully we can
1:13:14
get some new episodes out. But yeah, hopefully we just get bigger,
1:13:16
better things season four, So watch out for that. Yeah, it's a
1:13:20
January eleventh, will be watch your podcast feed, Watch this podcast feed.
1:13:25
January eleventh, The first episode of season four of Gates Leagues, Absolutely Dumbo
1:13:56
a Dumbo pick.