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Not Knowing, SpiderMan 2, Mario Wonder · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up, y'all, and welcome back to Dad Needs to Talk.
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I'm your host, Robert, and today today I'm excited to talk about
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Spider Man 2. I'll finish and beat that.
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My early impressions of Super Mario Wonder and all of that
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encapsulated in the topic I want to talk about regarding getting
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to watch or just experience stuff as spoiler free or knowing
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as little as possible. But before I get into all that,
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as always, if this is your first time here then welcome, but if
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you're a returning listener and or watcher then welcome back.
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Y'all know here at Danny to talk.
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It's all about fatherhood and family, manga, anime and some
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gaming. So it's been a few weeks at
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least since I've done like a proper recording.
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I've released a couple of things I had in the vault here and
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there over the last couple of weeks.
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Whatever. But man, man, man, man, I hope
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all of you out there have been doing well.
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I know it's, it's, it's lots of crazy stuff still going on in
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the world and just life in general has just been just very
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crazy, very stressful. Imagine for a lot of us out
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there, just life in general, adulting, parenting, etcetera,
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etcetera. But I feel like I needed to
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record. I needed to do a show, even if
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it's only, you know, under an hour or whatever.
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I just feel like I just need to get this off my mind, off my
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chest, just because like it it has been an insane time these
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last few weeks since I did like a proper episode.
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And like I said, just kind of just wanted to wanted to
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obviously talk about, like I said, I could mention the top
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Spider Man 2 and stuff, but you know just kind of air some of my
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personal. Grievances and stuff.
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Whatever and all that stuff. But before I get out and get
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into all that crazy mess, whatever I do want to say of
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course, of course. Of course, of course.
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I got to start the show off by wishing a very big and very
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awesome happy birthday to my son, my baby boy Vash.
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Oops. He turned 6 today.
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And so things, you know, it's it's just kind of crazy.
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Just kind of thinking about the reality of having a six year old
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and just everything that's happened over these six years of
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his life and stuff. And even just today itself has
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just been another whirlwind of things.
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Because because I was hoping things would kind of like slow
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down a bit because I'm, I'm going to get to some work stuff
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in a second or whatever. But I was OK, cool, going to
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have bash birthday do some stuff.
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Well, unfortunately last night my wife got seemed like she got
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food poisoning, so she's been down in that all day, which of
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course means I had to pick up and carry the torch for
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everything today. So, you know, getting everybody
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to school, you know, and then having to leave work early so I
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can pick up everybody and, you know, do all the extra stuff,
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whatever. And then go and do the shopping
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and stuff for for the birthday, little birthday celebration we
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did here at the house, whatever. And say yes, that was a lie.
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And then on top of that, while I was before I went and got this,
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the stuff for the birthday or whatever, I was like, OK, it's
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time for me to get A to get my oil changed.
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So let me go ahead and do that now.
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Kind of the weather gonna be crazy tomorrow, yadda yadda
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yadda, go in, go to get that or whatever.
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Had a couple other things would have had to get done.
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You never end up having to drop like a little under 100 bucks
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for that. And then on top of that found
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out that my freaking front shocks on my truck are in
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terrible condition. So I got to figure out how I'm
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gonna handle that because apparently that's gonna cause
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like close to a grand, which I definitely do not have.
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But it is also now a potential safety concern.
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You know, it's all my crap. Like how am I, you know, it It
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just kind of goes out to something I talked about in like
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a previous episodes where it was like, man, we were just months
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away from having my wife's car paid off.
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And then a bunch of stuff happened and so I ended up
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having to, you know, trade it in, get our new car.
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And now same thing with with my car, my SUVI think mom is going
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to be paid off by I think by end of next year potentially.
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And now it's like man, OK, do I keep on Because if, if, if, if
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I'm having these problems with these shocks because I said
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maybe a grand there and then who knows what else because it's
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it's a 2015. And so I'm like, man, you know,
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it's getting close to almost being 10 years old.
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And y'all know I put a lot of driving, a lot of wear and tear
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on my vehicles and stuff, just just on just normal commuting to
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work because my commute to work could be, you know, depending on
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traffic or whatever, could be 40 minutes to an hour some days and
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then not to mention all the running around with, you know,
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the kids and sports and stuff, whatever and events or whatever.
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So I don't know I got to cross that bridge.
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But but it's like I said, dealing with you know, wife
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being sick, Vash's birthday now, car problems.
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And it's like, good Lord, when will the madness end?
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And then like I kind of hinted at like the work stuff I've been
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going through. I just came through a.
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Huge gauntlet from the last couple of weeks where we had a
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just brief reminder for those other metaphor guy.
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I work in IT in the medical field.
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So I set up a lot of computers and stuff for for clinics and
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urgent care centers and stuff whatever across the Metroplex.
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So. So we had six new clinics that
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they were opening up or redoing or taking over whatever that all
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we're going to be going opening up within a week's time span.
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And and so having to get equipment for all six, I think I
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ended up doing close to 200 computers that I had to do for
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those and then I had to go I got on the site to deliver some
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extra criminal on the respective days where they were doing the
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installs and stuff and then just a bunch of other stuff with
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that. So like I was super tired like
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freaking and I ain't talking about just like oh you know 200
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super tiny computers And I'm talking about like no all in one
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and for those who don't know like like a all in one computer.
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So those are at least like 24 inches a little bit of weight.
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So I'm slinging around 200 boxes, you know, unboxing,
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plugging up, imaging, make sure they're configured right, boxing
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back up and doing all that or whatever.
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I'm not. I did that within the span of
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like a week and a half, two weeks, pretty much since the
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last time I did a full pocket episode.
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And so I was like, man, like that.
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That was such a gauntlet to go through that.
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I was like, I was like, I have to use some PTO.
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So next week I'm taking three days off and I'm doing it on the
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baking of the week, so Wednesday, Thursday, Friday into
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the weekend and this is the week before Thanksgiving or whatever.
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I'm doing this. So it kind of be perfect timing
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because normally during the holidays or whatever, especially
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like a week like that, things tend to be kind of slow as well.
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So it's like, that's why I'd rather, you know, use my PTO
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then, because I've talked about it before.
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Some people might be like, man, like, why don't you use PTO
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during the holidays while the kids are out of school?
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And it's like, no, because for me, I don't get rest, you know,
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'cause it's OK if if if I'm taking time off to rest, then me
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taking time off while the kids are off of school, I'm not going
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to get no rest. So that's why I take it off.
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That was like, hey, everybody is gone to school, out the house.
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I can sleep peacefully relax, no disruptions, whatever says.
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I'm definitely looking forward to get into that next week or
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whatever. So but but yeah, it was a it was
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an insane gauntlet to go through with that and like I said just
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now getting here to Vash's birthday today, I'm going to say
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it again. Happy birthday, son.
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If you ever get to watch this again in the future when you're
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older, you turn freaking 6 today.
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Man, that is so freaking insane. And I was asking Bash the other
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day like what he wanted. He said he wants some cake.
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I love. You want cake or cupcakes?
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And he's like, I want what did he say?
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I think he said I want, he said he wants some cakes and then he
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said he wants 10. He wanted 10 big cakes.
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I'm like, OK Sir, but I mean, I know got got some cupcakes and
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then asked him what he wanted to eat.
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He wanted some chicken burgers. So I want to get some some of
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our family favorite chicken patties and air fry them up.
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And you know we kids and stuff made burgers and so we had that
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got some nice juices to drink and the cupcakes and stuff.
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So, so, so All in all, you know, we didn't get to do nothing too
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flashy or whatever, but it was still just a nice little.
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Just little cool moment. I just know glad to be able to
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just to do something with him whatever.
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So like I said hopefully you get to do bigger and better things
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as as the journey continues and stuff so but but yeah yeah it it
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is just been and in the same time like I said just super busy
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like I've been. I've been wanting to record so
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badly like especially like the last few days but every day when
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it gets got close like around like 8-9 o'clock and I'm like
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OK, kids must be settled down and taken care of so I can start
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prepping the record and my body's been like or maybe maybe
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we go lay down and so I was like no I want at least record this
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on bachelor's birthday so I can you know do it do it then or
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whatever. And like I said then my wife got
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sick and stuff but I'm like you know what I'm gonna muscle
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through get this done and stuff so but but yeah it's just been
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crazy other little updates or whatever.
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Unfortunately we no longer have Luna, the our Australian
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Shepherd that we had last time I recorded and I feel like it it
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was, it was a situation for the best where we kind of found her
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a new home just because. So when I had recorded last time
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and talked about her for the first time, we had already had
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her for two weeks at that point. And so pretty much it was the
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towards the end of the following week because it just kind of the
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the reality of how much work and stuff was going to go into
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having to take care of her and stuff.
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But especially you know like I said her being a puppy like she
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was what like I said 1012 weeks old or whatever.
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So she's only a only a couple months old.
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And so you know we we've dogs that like one of my sister in
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law's dogs before but that dog is like an adult dog that is
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like fully trained and stuff that won't bark at you, won't
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bite at you and stuff whatever will just be silent and won't go
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running off all this stuff whatever.
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And so I think that and and of course you know kids are kids
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and so but it's like you know the kids didn't really fully
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comprehend you know what all that it it entails having not
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just a a dog in the house but having a puppy a big puppy at
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that or whatever. So and so it kind of was a
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situation to where I think my my wife is getting ready to go out
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to do like a a Oh yeah, it was like a a Halloween Girl's
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weekend that she was doing with her friends in the city,
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whatever. But they're all going to be
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staying together doing stuff for a few days.
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And so I had already been kind of tired from just different
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stuff, whatever. And then this project I was
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going to do to start wrapping up for whatever it was kind of a
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thing of like looking at the reality stuff and looking at
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like, OK, like this is a lot and this is during our kind of quote
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UN quote downtime and slow time as as a family to where it's
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like you know the sport stuff isn't going too crazy, whatever,
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but it's going to be ramping up within a few weeks, whatever.
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And so it's just me just being realistic and just thinking like
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man. The dog is super awesome.
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Super adorable. The kids love her and stuff, but
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it's like doing what's best for the dog and for the long time or
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whatever, you know things kind of worked out to where my wife
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was walking the dog, walking the dog.
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So kind of a a full circle moment to where how she was out
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somewhere with the kids that one weekend and ran into somebody
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who was giving her away and took her.
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Well she was out walking the dog walked to the to the corner
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store across the street and met a gentleman an older guy who
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fell in love with the dog and was talking you know about the
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dog and all this stuff whatever. And and so we found out that the
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guy him and his wife are getting ready to retire.
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They just bought like a big house and property out on the
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lake. So it can be, you know, big
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house, loss of land and stuff, whatever they had kids or
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grandkids or something, whatever.
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And so it was just kind of like, you know, talking with my wife
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and like I said, I was like, you know what, maybe maybe this is
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the sign and this is the time to find her a better home and
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stuff. And then that's what we did.
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You know, of course my wife is boohooing and stuff.
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Some of the kids was distraught and stuff, whatever,
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understandably so, even though it only been a few weeks, you
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know, they they get attached and stuff.
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Especially my middle son. He is like he's kind of like the
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animal whisperer to where like like the cats, this dog we had
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lona, the the dogs we dogs that or whatever.
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Every time I'm walking through the house just checking
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everybody in the other night or whatever and the the pets will
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be snuggled up with him in the bed or or on the floor at the
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front of his bed or whatever and stuff.
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So so he he definitely the the the the pet whisperer all the
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family and stuff so but yeah but like I said hopefully the Luna
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she is doing well and happy at her new home and stuff so so
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yeah so that happened and something last sort of family
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stuff Oh and last thing football season ended ended for my son.
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I think he said he's not going to be doing football anymore but
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I will say I'm proud of him of at least trying it out and
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sticking with it throughout the whole season.
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And hey I definitely got to say and we told him I'm like hey if
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if if if this is the only time you do football then he had a
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heck of a one year doing football because the 2nd to last
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game he caught an interception and ran it back for a touchdown.
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So it's like, OK, you got to experience getting your for
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getting a touchdown in a game and they won the the district
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championship. So he got, he got to score a
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touchdown, he got to get an interception, score a touchdown
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and win a district championship. So not bad for your first and
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only year potentially of doing football.
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And so we're getting ready to ramp up to to the main events
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next week, actually coinciding with the week I'm taking off
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sometimes some PTO time from work.
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Cross country starts next week and basketball season starts
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next weekend. This year I now have three kids
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doing basketball because my oldest daughter, the one who's
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primarily done track on her life, she she don't know.
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I still haven't had a conversation with her but but
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she had an interest in trying out basketball and she went
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through the tryouts and stuff, whatever with her sister and
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stuff and she made the team. So very proud of her.
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Very excited to see how this goes because I haven't you know
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she she she's kind of like playing around with basketball
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and stuff here and there. Of course you know she'll go to
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the park and stuff with her sister with her sister and my my
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older son those two that that that have been doing basketball
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and you know I know they'll play around and stuff whatever so but
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but it's kind of interesting like I said like my son being
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interested in doing football after all this time and now her
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kind of interested in not just know going beyond just tracking
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cross country to trying out basketball so we'll see how how
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all that goes next week so but but yeah so a lot lots of
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interesting things going on and shifting around life and family
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wise like I said I am just like you know baseline things are
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good but like I said I just feel the weight of everything like
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I'm mentally tired physically emotionally all that stuff
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whatever. But wanted to come on here and
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talk about some stuff and so like something kind of kind of
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maybe kind of keep this kind of tight because I made my eyes
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feel mega heavy. But I'm still like so I'm still
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happy I'm I'm doing this just like I said to to to get to talk
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to Y'all because I know there's there, you know.
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There is somebody out there, hopefully that has been missing
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me, missing my voice, and hopefully this brightens your
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day, brightens your week, hear from me and stuff.
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So like I want to try to do stuff because.
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And the other thing too, like I I was laughing about the other
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day, like I still have a handful of episodes for like reviews and
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discussions and stuff, whatever that I've.
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Recorded a while back and just been sitting on.
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It's like man, instead of me just having weeks of nothing.
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Released I could be doing that stuff whatever because that is
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the point of me of me having recorded those and just putting
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them in my in the vault was for times like this was like man I'm
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tired but I still want to release something whatever but
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but yeah but anyway rambling on that real quick I I got to give
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a shout out to is a press for send me this nice little care
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package. Because over the weekend when
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my, my wife was going to leave the house and there was a box
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outside and it had my name on it, she was like, you got some
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mail and I'm like, don't nobody care about Robert too much to be
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sending me nothing. And so you know I was lying in
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bed kind of half tired trying to rest.
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And then I, I saw the the is a logo and I was like, what is
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that? And so pretty much is a who is a
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kind of like a a sister slash branch of yen Press.
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Send me a review copy of this manga card or web tomb called 7
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Face Chaco. So interested in checking it
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out. I haven't really ever heard of
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this one but super happy that they thought of me over there
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and honestly I don't remember signing up to be on a press
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list. But hey I would great.
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I would gladly and grateful to be considered for this stuff to
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like I said it was a nice surprise.
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Like I said for for for tired. Robert who had a like I said has
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been slamming busy whatever. Just to know that hey somebody
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somebody out there is thinking of your boy and send me this
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nice little nice little care package and stuff.
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So you know and I guess sorry for for the audio on listeners
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because I'm showing off stuff. So I'm showing items which I'm a
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post on my Twitter and stuff sometime later this week or
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whatever. But send me some like stickers
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and a little tote bag and stuff and and of course the the the
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physical copy of the webtoon and stuff.
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So yeah so very happy to have that and hopefully the first of
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many awesome things to come. But so transitioning.
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So it has been a lot of great things going on that I've got to
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play, read, watch, all that stuff lately and I'm still
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planning on hopefully. In the next week or so, maybe
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trying to record a fall anime episode where I kind of deep
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dive into some of the stuff that I've been watching and keeping
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up with this stuff, whatever. But like I said, it's just life
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is just been crazy. But hopefully I can get that to
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y'all before Thanksgiving. But I do just just briefly just
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want to just give a quick shout out to Gen.
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V that finished up. That was a dope season.
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For those of you who don't know, Gen.
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V is a spin off of the boys series on on Amazon Prime and
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this first season took place but after season three and is a set
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up for season four. That's all I'll say about that.
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It's all directly connected. So I highly recommend if you
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enjoy watching the boys, check out Jim V Very Awesome Show.
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A couple of fine. I mean, I'll just shut up really
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quickly. Whatever.
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I've already talked about Free Room Beyond Journey's End.
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I freaking love that show. It's so excited to get to watch
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it every week just because like like the one volume of it that I
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read a year plus ago or whatever.
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Like I'm so happy that I just stopped at that one volume and
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get into experience it. The rest of the stuff fresh in
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the anime because like because Madhouse is doing a fantastic
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job with it. Other anime I got a shot at is A
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Apothecary Diaries. Man, that one blew my
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expectations out of the water because I heard always heard
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great things about the manga and stuff for that.
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And so the images and stuff they were showing like in previews
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was like, man, this is like, it's going to be like at least
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visually stunning. And I'm so happy that just like
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Freeran Apothecary Diaries, they dropped three episodes on their
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first day and so. Now we're on episode five, I
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think. I think just came out, yeah.
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And so, like that show has been superb.
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It's been fantastic. I actually look forward to
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talking about more about that in the future.
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And then lastly I got a shout out Mickey and Dolly.
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This is the one I talked about. A thing maybe mentioned before
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about is from the same creator who did, Haven't you heard him,
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Sakamoto. It's kind of like a mystery.
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Kind of like a mystery kind of thriller with like a few dashes
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of comedy in it or whatever that basically follow these two twins
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who are pretending to be one child.
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They got adopted while they're trying to solve the mystery of
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who murdered their mother. And that's all I kind of say on
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that right now. But I just had to shout it out
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because I had fell behind on some episodes.
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I was like 3 episodes behind and binge watched all three of them
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yesterday or whatever. Man, that was.
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It was it was just perfect timing because of the three
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episodes that I watched or whatever all happened to be part
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of a a kind of like like a like a little like mini arc or
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whatever. So kind of flowed just right.
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And so like, yeah, that was a good one to kind of like let
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build up and stuff and that, that and that.
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That's the topic I definitely want to talk about Another day
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of kind of like coming to stuff later and maybe getting a better
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experience, getting to kind of like consume it all either at
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once or at your own pace or whatever.
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What else? That's kind of the kind of like
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the main ones for TVI wanted to shout out.
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I'm planning on hopefully getting to watch.
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OK, sorry, had to run away for a quick second.
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I had a little emergency at him. I had to have my Whitefish not
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feeling well, so I don't remember the last thing I said,
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but but I'll just go ahead and just move on into.
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I was talking about the shows I watched.
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Oh, Loki, yeah, Loki. Season 2 is ending this week, so
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I haven't started watching any of it yet.
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So I'm like, OK, hopefully I'll watch that before I go and check
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out the new movie, The Marvels or whatever.
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Maybe. If not this weekend, some next
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week, whatever. But yeah, so planning on
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checking out that or whatever. And I mean Vegetable Season 2
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just started, but I'll probably maybe let that build up for a
26:55
little bit and who knows what else.
27:00
But but anyway, what else? So just a couple quick shout
27:07
outs manga wise. One Piece has been fantastic as
27:12
usual and that's kind of all I'll say on that is just like
27:15
the the stuff we're kind of getting with, I'll just say the
27:21
the, the Kuma flashbacks and stuff, whatever have been like
27:26
so freaking dope God Valley drag yo.
27:33
So I'm definitely excited for more of that and Sakamoto days.
27:37
Y'all I finally caught back up on Sakamoto days.
27:40
I think I was like 18, almost 20 chapters behind.
27:44
So that was a sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet bendry the other
27:49
day and just get to experience just the beautiful art and the
27:57
action, the fighting and stuff, whatever.
28:00
I just freaking love second middle days and I'm just, I look
28:02
forward to the day someday where we might get to maybe see it
28:06
animated or whatever. I think those are kind of like
28:10
kind of like been the two main manga things I've kind of been
28:13
checking out lately because like I said, this last couple weeks
28:16
when I've had time to do stuff, whatever, if it's not watching a
28:19
show, whatever has been playing some games, which I'm going to
28:22
get into in a minute. But kind of before then my topic
28:26
I want kind of just want to talk on for just a few minutes is
28:30
kind of getting to experience stuff as blind or knowing as
28:36
little as possible. Because I kind of think back on
28:44
back when I worked for retail at GameStop many, many years ago.
28:50
And then and one of the number one situations that still just
28:55
irks me to this day that I had to deal with was back during the
29:03
the launch cycle of Batman Arkham City.
29:07
So those of y'all who have ever gone to Gamestops or whatever,
29:12
you know, they got, you know they got ATV up in there,
29:14
whatever where they show like different trailers or promo
29:17
promo stuff. Never forget freaking Batman
29:21
Arkham City. We had like a trailer, whatever,
29:23
playing to where they were going over so many of the villains and
29:32
different hidden characters or whatever, like potential
29:34
surprises, they were going to be in that game.
29:38
And that hurt me to my course so much because like, 'cause I
29:41
freaking, That's one thing I loved about Batman Arkham Asylum
29:46
was, of course it was the first of its thing, so of course it
29:49
was a unknown thing. But I just loved playing through
29:53
that game and just stumbling across all the different
29:57
villains and characters and stuff that I just naturally came
30:02
across versus before the game even starts in Arkham City.
30:07
I already know, OK, this character, this character, this
30:09
character, this character is going to make an appearance and
30:12
it just kind of sucks. Like, of course I still love the
30:14
game, but it just kind of always made me wonder, like man, how
30:19
much more would I have loved it if I would have not known any of
30:23
that stuff beforehand and just gotten to experience it at my
30:27
own leisure? And that is something that I've
30:31
kind of taken back control of. Now.
30:33
Of course, I haven't been working in retail for almost a
30:36
decade now, which that's going to be a very interesting
30:39
episode. I'm.
30:40
Planning on in February of next year, 2024, it'll be.
30:43
It'll be 10 years since I got fired from GameStop and how that
30:48
changed my life. So I'm back in my head.
30:51
I have that episode playing down.
30:52
I'm excited to talk about that. But you know, since then or
30:56
whatever, I've kind of, and especially in recent years, kind
31:00
of like slowly started taking a step back from a bunch of
31:04
promotion stuff and trailers and whatever.
31:07
And this is across the board. Games, TV, movies, all this
31:11
stuff, whatever to where, you know, I'll probably of course
31:16
we'll check out the first trailer, maybe two of something
31:20
or whatever. But especially if it's something
31:23
that I 100% know I'm gonna play, like what I'm talking about in
31:25
the minute. Spider Man 2, whatever.
31:28
I don't really need. I don't need to see anything
31:31
else from this game or whatever because I already know I'm gonna
31:34
buy it or whatever. I don't need to know oh, this
31:37
curse is going to be in at this moment's going to happen, this
31:39
thing. Duh, duh, duh.
31:41
And I get some people like, hey, what's the big deal?
31:43
You know, you still get the experience of stuff, whatever.
31:45
But it's like I still just love that extra element of just the
31:49
unknown and just naturally being surprised by stuff.
31:54
And like I said, that's kind of why a lot of times with going to
31:57
the movies or whatever, I don't trip too much now, at least with
32:00
standard movies. Now if it's like a limited run
32:04
anime movie, I'm going to be there as early as possible just
32:08
in case, because they don't usually they they might not
32:11
always run and me try this before you know the blue giant
32:16
movie like they were before, you know the next Avengers movie or
32:22
the marvels or whatever. So most of the time with those
32:25
movies or whatever, I'll get there relatively on time from
32:29
the from the the starting time on the on the on my ticket or
32:34
whatever. But I always know it's going to
32:35
be by like 15 to 30 minutes of freaking commercials or
32:39
whatever. And so I was like, that's cool
32:42
about me because I could take my time, get my snacks, whatever,
32:46
and then come in and I'll maybe have missed a good chunk of
32:49
potentially spoiler trust or whatever.
32:51
Because it's even got to the point where sometimes I just, I
32:56
just don't even look at the screen, even though I can't
32:58
fully drown out the sound because I'm in a freaking movie
33:00
theater, so loud and booming. But I'll kind of like try to
33:03
focus on, you know, maybe, like, looking at looking at something
33:06
on my phone or whatever or, you know, whatever case might be,
33:10
whatever. But But yeah, it it is just
33:13
something special about getting to experience that stuff or
33:18
getting to experience things in a in a kind of a bubble.
33:24
And I feel like, you know, that's that's becoming less and
33:27
less or that it's becoming more and more of a rare thing, 'cause
33:30
like I said, even in movie trailers or whatever, they
33:34
freaking, and they've been doing this for a while, but it's just,
33:37
you know, still got to say it's like they freaking put the whole
33:40
plot and story arc and the freaking trailer is like, oh, OK
33:44
oh, you know, it's like the beginning is OK, what is this?
33:46
Whatever. Oh, OK That looks interesting.
33:48
Oh, OK. I guess that person is dying.
33:50
Oh, OK. I guess, you know, they're going
33:52
to circle back and get revenge. Oh, OK.
33:54
I guess they're going to team up later in the movie.
33:56
I hate the aircraft, man. It's like, it's like, it's like,
33:59
it's like, OK, yes, tease and show us a little bit or
34:03
whatever, but don't give away everything in the trailer, man.
34:07
Like, I don't, I don't know. I don't know if if somebody,
34:10
somewhere that's better in like in marketing, whatever.
34:13
It's like no, Since we started showing more stuff, whatever
34:16
ticket sales have gone through the roof, right, We've had more
34:19
people buy our games or whatever the case may be.
34:23
But it is just like a constant minefield trying to enjoy stuff,
34:31
whatever all your own terms like.
34:32
So that's kind of why it bugs me when certain things are going
34:36
on, you know, whether it's no good, bad or controversial or
34:40
whatever. People going out of their way to
34:43
spoil or ruin something for people 'cause like, like I
34:46
mentioned before, the whole Hogwarts legacy situation
34:49
happening earlier this year. Whatever, to where people would
34:54
just like going to the comments of just random posts, sometimes
34:58
stuff related to the game and sometimes that's not even
35:01
closely related. Whatever.
35:03
And just randomly just putting, oh, this happened, hey, this
35:06
thing happened. Oh, this tragic event happened.
35:08
Oh this thing died or whatever. You know just putting like like
35:12
huge huge huge plot spoilers or whatever in the in the comments
35:17
and it's like why why why do you do this Whatever.
35:22
And and yeah you know the screenshots and stuff, whatever
35:27
cuz then I'm gonna talk about in a second but like Spider Man 2
35:30
like I had this so good. I'll watch the initial trailer.
35:35
I'll watch the initial gameplay where they show, you know, him
35:37
in the venom suit or whatever, fighting the guys, whatever, and
35:40
chasing lizard, all that stuff, whatever.
35:42
And I was OK, cool. That was actually way more than
35:45
I needed to see. But cool.
35:48
I'm not going to watch something else.
35:49
Whatever. And I did good from then up
35:53
until literally days before the game came out.
35:57
Of course. Review copies and stuff going
35:59
out a couple weeks earlier, whatever, people playing it or
36:02
whatever. And then like, between reviewers
36:05
and insomnia at the actual game studio or whatever, you know,
36:09
they were constantly posting pictures of like, the different
36:12
suits and stuff in the game. And I'm like, OK, it's, it's not
36:15
a big thing, but it's like, that's like, one of, like, the
36:18
cool things about the game is like, oh, cool, I don't like
36:20
this new suit or whatever. And then the final Stinger,
36:25
somebody posted screenshots of the freaking like, like a big
36:29
epic fight that you have at the beginning of the game.
36:33
Whatever. Of course the screenshots I saw,
36:36
I didn't know that that was from the beginning of the game
36:39
whatever. But still just like, oh that
36:41
characters in or whatever. Oh that's dope and whoa the
36:45
scale of this looks kind of crazy whatever you know?
36:47
But I was cuz now I'm just scrolling whatever and I just
36:51
see the images or whatever and 1st I'm like OK, you know I'm
36:55
just like no just kind of scroll through whatever.
36:56
And then like by the time my brain registers like crap
36:58
there's a spider Man 2 stuff. I'm like crap.
37:02
Well I guess OK I know that curse didn't know whatever but
37:04
it was still awesome moment. But like I said I freaking got
37:07
so close to the freaking finishing line the game was
37:11
going to be in my hands within a matter of a day or so.
37:14
And reviewer posting this freaking screenshot And Speaking
37:20
of which to like one thing I also don't enjoy about just kind
37:24
of like people being just like so Willy nilly with certain
37:26
things. Like talking with some certain
37:29
things, whatever I feel like, especially like a lot of like
37:32
like bigger like quote, UN quote, kind of like mainstream
37:35
podcasts like, you know, I don't know like like the IGN different
37:40
podcasts or the kind of funny podcasts or you know, whatever,
37:47
different podcasts, whatever. I hate when they just start
37:54
talking about certain things, certain moments that are like at
37:57
the beginning of the game and are like, well, this isn't much
38:00
of A spoiler because you know, the the end and they, I've been
38:04
to these podcasts for a long time.
38:06
Whatever again they I was like, yeah, so this moment and by the
38:10
way this isn't, this isn't a spoiler.
38:12
It's literally the first you know 5 minutes of the game
38:16
whatever. And it's like that is like the
38:18
most important part. I don't want spoiled.
38:20
It's like just because I oh, oh, you know you'll see this as soon
38:23
as you blew up the game. Whatever.
38:25
It's like well let me experience that without a rather learn
38:29
something or like hear like like a moment from like the middle of
38:33
the game whatever maybe versus this is the at the beginning of
38:38
the game or or being like Oh well they show this in the in
38:42
the promotional in material or they show this in the trailers
38:44
whatever. As I Well, what about the people
38:46
who are who purposely aren't watching those trailers or
38:50
purposely not watch they're checking that stuff, staying out
38:54
for social media or whatever. And it's like you're just like,
38:56
Oh yeah, yeah. So the game opens up with, you
38:58
know this big crazy scene and you're fighting this character.
39:01
And I just, I just don't like that approach to stuff.
39:07
Whatever. I'm like I said at least like on
39:08
that scale of stuff. Of course you know how you do
39:11
what, you do whatever. But, but like, the fact that
39:14
people be like, I think it's more so the point of people
39:18
constantly being like this isn't much of A spoiler because it's
39:22
in the beginning of the game, whatever.
39:25
You know, it's it's it's like I read the you just be like, hey,
39:28
you just mild spoiler sort of beginning of the game versus you
39:30
just be like this is whatever I'm going to talk about it or
39:33
whatever. And it is what it is.
39:35
You know, like I say, yes, it is the beginning of the game, but
39:37
the same time it's like some of those moments like the Spider
39:40
Man 1 or whatever, it's like, yeah, because and I purposely a
39:46
lot of the Pockets and stuff I listen to whatever.
39:48
I purposely either just didn't listen to the Pockets episode
39:51
that week when Spider Man was coming out and people were
39:54
talking about it, or the ones that have time stamps, whatever.
39:58
I just skipped to the to the part of the episode after they
40:02
finished that discussion and stuff.
40:03
Whatever, you know, Because I sure enough, when I circle back
40:07
to listen to those podcast episodes after I had beat the
40:10
game, whatever they were just Willy nilly, just spoiling
40:13
stuff, whatever, talking about different things and whatever.
40:16
I'm just like yo, OK. I'm glad I got to experience as
40:20
much of this as possible with that the information.
40:23
But. But yeah.
40:24
I just wanted to just wanted to touch on that just a little bit
40:28
because like I say, just was really on my mind a lot.
40:31
Like sitting leading up to Spider Man 2 and even with Mario
40:36
Wander a little bit, some of that stuff.
40:41
And it just kind of just, like, made me double down on just the
40:43
fact that's like, yeah, I think I want to continue going down
40:47
this path of not knowing too much about stuff, 'cause like I
40:52
said, even like with some of the manga that I've read or checked
40:57
out, some of that have got really good anime adaptations or
41:00
whatever. Sometimes I don't feel like
41:02
watching the anime adaptations or whatever after a certain
41:05
point or beyond like a couple episodes, because it's like, and
41:08
I've already read it, I already kind of know what's coming or
41:10
whatever. And yes, this might be a high
41:12
quality really would show, but it's just like, you know, I
41:16
could watch this or whatever. And now there are some shows
41:19
where I still do that, but I kind of reflected like I'm back.
41:23
I'm like, it's like, oh, Shinoko, I didn't finish
41:25
watching the anime for that same thing with right now and dead of
41:29
luck. I haven't watched anything past
41:30
episode one, Shy haven't watched anything past episode one, and
41:37
Tokyo Avengers have, you know, kind of watching the bits and
41:40
pieces or whatever. But these are all shows that,
41:42
like, I read a good chunk of the manga and before I started
41:47
watching whatever. And so I was like, yes, this
41:50
show is doing a fantastic job adapting this material,
41:53
whatever, but it's just like, I still just want to experience
41:58
it, you know, myself. Like I like I mentioned earlier
42:01
with the fragrance Beyond Journeys in, and I'm glad I only
42:04
read the one volume and now everything after that is new and
42:08
fresh to me or whatever. But, but yeah, so I would be
42:12
curious to know like, like what Y'all think about how do y'all
42:16
handle spoilers and trying to avoid stuff online or whatever.
42:21
Like I say, it has definitely been, I've definitely tried to
42:24
do better by navigating and, you know, maybe just staying off of
42:28
social media for certain times or or maybe muting certain
42:32
people's accounts that I know, OK, they're going to be, you
42:35
know, this, you know, they're going to be talking heavy about
42:37
this show or this game or whatever.
42:40
So, OK, maybe I'll just mute this person for a little bit and
42:43
hopefully I'll remember to come back and unmute you someday and
42:46
probably be months from now because I'll forget.
42:48
It's like, man, I haven't seen any tweets from so and so in a
42:51
while. Oh, crap, I had that muted for
42:54
who knows why now because it's been five months, you know, and
42:57
stuff. So But but yeah so yeah man, it
43:02
it is like I said it's just like super awesome to get to
43:05
experience stuff knowing as little as possible.
43:12
And so I kind of use that transition to talk about these
43:15
couple of games. So first of all I just wanted
43:19
just a shout out to Super Mario Wonder Man and Speaking of the
43:24
birthday boy bash he has been blowing through that game man
43:27
like like and and and it kind of worked out to where that and
43:32
Spider Man coming out on the same day ended up being the
43:35
perfect storm for my family situation to where to where me
43:42
and Vash both played a little bit of Co-op on Mario Wonder
43:47
here and there and stuff. But for the most part he's left
43:50
me in the dust. He is like every now and then
43:53
when I'll kind of like look over his shoulder and be like oh what
43:57
what what's going on over there on his screen.
44:00
He got all different areas and locations and places whatever
44:05
unlocked or whatever. I'll be seeing stuff.
44:07
I'm like yo what is that? That looks cool, you know, and
44:10
stuff, whatever. But you know, but it is just
44:13
like a wonderful thing that you know him, you know, 5 now being
44:18
6, having to have this experience with him because back
44:22
when Mario Odyssey came out, that came out the year he was
44:25
born. So you know, me and my wife was
44:29
playing Mario Odyssey whatever back then.
44:31
And you know, he's played, of course, you know, Mario's 3D
44:35
World and different stuff here and there.
44:37
But I feel like Mario Wonder might be kind of like one of
44:40
those, like first like really, really true personal memories or
44:44
whatever of his that is fully of his own.
44:47
Because you know, we've we've played Rayman Legends and stuff
44:52
here and there for years at this point since he was like freaking
44:54
three and he could know hold the controller properly, whatever
44:59
and move around and stuff, whatever.
45:00
But I feel like as far as like hey he is having an experience
45:05
mostly to himself whatever but say like like every now and then
45:09
he'll get to like a challenge area and ask me for help and
45:14
we'll run through Co-op and try to beat this stuff together and
45:17
that stuff is fun but and and I guess let me take a step back to
45:20
Super Mario Wonder is the new 2D platformer game on the Nintendo
45:27
Switch. Like I mentioned, it came out on
45:29
October 20th Sunday of Spider Man 2 and some other stuff.
45:33
But and yeah, it it is just like such a fun and truly wonderful
45:39
game. It it's kind of hard to, it's
45:44
hard to describe as somebody who has played Mario since the
45:48
original one on the original NES.
45:52
And it's an entertainment system back in back in the day or
45:55
whatever, playing growing up when I was Vasher's age all them
45:58
years ago to watching it over the years and all the
46:02
transitions and all the different spin offs and
46:05
different things, whatever. To now come back to a 2D
46:09
platformer 1. To where they've done so many
46:12
freaking new things in this game.
46:15
There's so many new enemy types and they got of course like the
46:18
couple of new abilities like the the elephant thing, the bubble
46:23
suits. I think it's like a drill thing.
46:24
I haven't, I haven't got to play with the bubble the drill thing.
46:27
Yeah I think fashion has but not me.
46:29
But you know couple a few new interesting students.
46:33
Like I said, a ton of new enemies and stuff.
46:36
And then of course this crazy unique way to experience these
46:40
different levels with the this wonder seed to where each or
46:44
majority of the levels have this wonder seed that you can get.
46:50
And it kind of like activates kind of like a trippy mode so to
46:54
speak, of the level and each level handles it super
46:57
differently. And that's kind of like like the
46:59
fun thing of getting to the Wonder seed, touching it, and
47:04
then just waiting to see like, yo, what chaos is about to
47:08
unfold from, you know, from this seat or whatever.
47:12
So you'll play through the level with the different modifiers or
47:16
whatever going on until you find the other Wonder seed to stop it
47:21
or whatever. But yeah, but All in all, like I
47:25
said it, it is just like a super, super awesome, fun game.
47:30
I look forward to hopefully, maybe diving back into it proper
47:32
myself soon though. Freaking I'm I'm it, it.
47:38
It's just been so many freaking games coming out.
47:39
Y'all that I am excited to play. Like I really want to
47:43
potentially try to get my hands on Alan Wake 2 because because
47:50
now I never played Alan Wake one yet.
47:52
I have it because I think it's like a free on like PlayStation
47:55
Plus or whatever. So I have it, but man, like like
47:59
the way Alan Wake 2 looks, it's like A and remember, your boy
48:04
doesn't really do spooky stuff too much.
48:06
But this feels like it might be like right on the edge of that.
48:09
Kind of like like slash, like a thriller suspense type of game,
48:15
whatever. And I talked about it before how
48:17
much I love them. Control.
48:21
I don't have the box, I don't think.
48:25
But yeah, control. This is one of my favorite games
48:28
I played some years back. I think it was 20.
48:31
Was this 2016 I think, yeah. But anyway, I'm I'm getting
48:40
started 20/19/2019. One of my favorite games I
48:43
played that year and like all the way to looks phenomenal.
48:47
Everything that I've seen and heard about it sounds phenomenal
48:51
and so I'm like crap. Do I want to try to maybe just
48:53
dive into that or maybe go back try to play all of like one?
48:56
I don't know. We'll see.
48:57
I'll get to that at some point. And same thing with the with
49:00
this kind of like space kind of exploration game I've been
49:05
wanting to play called the Investable that also just came
49:09
out the other day and I'm like crap man too many games.
49:12
But anywho, Mario wonder, fantastic game, super looking
49:18
forward to diving back into the game like some super happy that
49:20
bash has been in love with it or whatever and having a fun time
49:24
with. It now the thing I think I might
49:30
end in probably talking on Spider Man.
49:32
So I think yeah oh shout out real quick I gotta you gotta
49:35
give a shout out. They officially confirmed
49:37
earlier today that the first trailer for potentially Grand
49:42
Theft Auto 6 or just for sure the next Grand Theft Auto will
49:45
be released in about a month. So early early December maybe at
49:49
the game of Wars who knows. But.
49:52
But leaks and rumors started swirling yesterday.
49:55
And then Rockstar came out and. Officially was like, yes, you
49:58
know this year we're celebrating the 25th anniversary of, you
50:01
know, of Rockstar Games and Grand Theft Auto, yadda yadda
50:04
yadda. And so rumors are true.
50:08
Yes, next month we will be we will be showing the first
50:13
trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto game.
50:16
So it's like, yo, super excited for that.
50:18
So. But Spider Man 2, all right.
50:23
So this is how I'm going to handle this.
50:25
So I will talk in general at first about the game, give
50:30
general thoughts and then I will let y'all know when and if I
50:34
decided to go into talking about the specifics and spoiler stuff,
50:37
whatever. And this is pretty much be the
50:40
last thing I'm going to talk about for this episode.
50:41
So you know, if y'all want to skip ahead to maybe if I have a
50:44
time step that says like outro and final thoughts, whatever,
50:48
skip ahead to then if you don't want to hear anything about the
50:50
game. But otherwise, I'm going to
50:52
start talking about it now. So Spider Man 2, y'all,
51:01
honestly, with the stress that's been going on lately at work and
51:05
different life stuff, whatever, between this and Mario Wonder,
51:10
these ended up being the perfect games to come at this point in
51:14
time. Like I say, I feel like I just
51:17
thought I would. Mario just was like like the fun
51:19
and the whimsy and stuff of the game, but with Spider Man 2.
51:24
Just how fun it is to play this, this game, getting to continue
51:34
this journey with both Peter and Miles, get to switch between the
51:40
two characters and stuff, whatever they both have.
51:44
Of course, they're both intertwined in the main story,
51:46
but then they both also have side quests and stuff that they
51:50
each do individually. Whatever they might cross paths
51:53
or whatever and or you might be out fighting or whatever and
51:57
then the other one one is in the area so they'll help you out or
51:59
whatever that stuff is pretty cool but but yeah it it just
52:04
felt so good gameplay wise just being back in control of this
52:09
game. I think I had mentioned last
52:11
time in in the league above Spider Man 2 I have redownloaded
52:15
Miles Morales just because I wanted to this just swing around
52:18
the city or whatever and so like all the new traversal stuff with
52:25
the wingsuit and just have them messed up so much faster.
52:29
You can the web zip zipping around with the webs and stuff
52:34
To also like all the new combat stuff and techniques and stuff
52:39
which I'm going to talk about specifically in a little bit or
52:42
whatever. All in all, this game was super
52:45
fun, super dope. I'm trying to think, I don't
52:51
know how I feel like it's stacked up with the other two,
52:56
cause Miles Morales game was pretty obviously was smaller, a
53:00
little more condensed or whatever of of a story and
53:04
stuff, whatever. The first Spider Man game was
53:07
super dope, really nice. I expect the story.
53:10
What I would say is I I did also enjoy this story 'cause it kind
53:15
of has a couple of. I guess like accent stuff,
53:20
whatever. Because you kind of like like
53:21
the first situation and then kind of like stuff in the second
53:26
situation and then kind of like a big aftermath or whatever
53:31
towards the end or in in the end of the in the last third of it.
53:37
And I feel like it, it started off really strong.
53:43
I don't know the the middle part kind of has certain moments,
53:46
whatever. But like there there's like a
53:47
certain point in the story to where it just grabbed me and I
53:51
was like, yo, OK now I just need to OK think things are happening
53:56
and escalating at such a pace towards like no, OK, I need to
54:00
see what the next story mission is.
54:01
I need to go and do the next story mission and I'm I'm, I'm
54:06
pretty, I think I had like a couple more things to do to
54:09
clean up trophy wise or whatever so I can try to platinum 100% of
54:12
the game. Some of it, it is stuff out.
54:15
I kind of wish that I maybe would have like glanced at some
54:18
of the trophies before I finished the main story because
54:23
some of the trophies like like like web up 25 enemies on your
54:33
on the zip line or whatever and like crap.
54:36
This would have been super easy to do and some of these hideouts
54:38
and stuff, which now and once you've beaten the game and
54:42
beating them whatever, there's no replay hideouts.
54:44
Like I think the last game or or or the 2018 game had or
54:49
whatever. And so I I feel like you would
54:51
have been cool to at least like have it still be on the map and
54:56
it's like, hey, I want to go back in and just replay this,
54:58
whatever. I think I've been super helpful
55:01
because now it's just like crap. I'm trying to go through and say
55:03
things like, hey, use this technique or that technique or
55:07
this item or whatever, you know, 100 times where I was like,
55:11
well, crap, you know, if I were to be more cognizant, cognizant
55:15
of that or whatever, I would have knocked this out in some of
55:17
these big fights, whatever. So Benio, All in all, it was a
55:22
fantastic adventure, fantastic ride playing through this game
55:28
and I look forward to seeing whatever they do next.
55:32
Well, obviously The Wolverine game is the next one they're
55:36
supposed to be releasing, I think maybe even next year, but
55:40
we'll see if they're actually able to to hit that goal.
55:44
But for sure this, this game though was so much freaking fun
55:49
and and like I said, it kind of the pacing was kind of rare.
55:57
Some certain areas or whatever, some of the side quests is kind
55:59
of, you know, whatever. But I feel like All in all, it
56:03
was more positive and more fun than anything else.
56:07
And like I said, just like so many of the surprises I can't
56:09
wait to talk about in a minute or whatever.
56:13
Just like really, really, really had me pulling through and I
56:17
freaking loved a lot of the freaking different suits and
56:20
stuff you get. I'll just definitely say a shout
56:23
out to what was it the IT was like a Craven kind of like
56:29
Hunter Spider Man 2. You you will kind of kind of
56:32
like a fur collar and stuff. I was like yo, I'll let this
56:35
look so freaking dope but but yeah so like I said All in all
56:41
if if if you enjoyed Spider Man 2018 and you enjoyed the Miles
56:46
of Morales game, Spider Man 2 is a must play.
56:49
Without a doubt it is a must play.
56:51
I would say All in all with me getting close to 100% of the
56:56
game took me about 30 hours. Which is nice.
57:02
Nice amount of time. Whatever turns out OK Hey, I got
57:04
a decent amount of time with both the story and all the side
57:08
content and stuff, whatever. I I I really enjoyed how they
57:14
kind of sprinkle sprinkled around more of like the side
57:18
objectives and stuff. Whatever to where, you know,
57:21
yeah. And then and like the previous
57:23
games, they kind of like, OK, when you unlocked a certain
57:25
collectible or side mission or whatever, all of them across the
57:29
map got unlocked or whatever. But I like this one to where it
57:32
was like of course, like like some of like the certain types
57:36
of missions they had all of them on the map or whatever, because
57:39
that makes sense to do. But certain other things,
57:42
whatever, like the spider boss, I just says little T's those
57:49
until you kind of get close to them, whatever, then they'll
57:53
show up on your on your mini map, whatever.
57:55
But I feel like that that stuff is just handled super well.
57:59
But but yeah, but like I said, highly recommend this game.
58:04
Super awesome. Like I cannot wait to see what
58:08
they do with with the next Spider man game and however many
58:11
years that is. And I definitely can't wait till
58:14
to see what they do with The Wolverine next as well.
58:20
So now spoilers. I'm for the dive into some
58:24
spoiler stuff whatever. So man, so the so while I was
58:32
telling my earlier whatever with the with the the big moment to
58:35
start the game off for whatever that got spoiled for me a little
58:37
bit was the Sandman thing. So I saw images of a giant
58:41
Sandman. Of course with no context of
58:43
winning the game, this happens. Da da da.
58:46
But man that was a super fun introductory way to start off
58:50
the game. I wasn't 100% feeling the side
58:53
quest for Sandman though. Like like, I get what they're
58:57
trying to go go for with the heart tugging moments, whatever,
59:00
because it's, you know, him kind of losing pieces of his mind and
59:04
worried about his daughter and stuff, whatever, as a father I
59:08
connected with that or whatever. But I feel like like the way it
59:10
was kind of presented just sounded so dry.
59:12
And maybe, hey, it's saying man, so maybe pun intended it being
59:17
kind of dry, but just like like like the the way the guy, the
59:20
voice was talking about, whatever just sounded so big, so
59:26
drab or whatever. But but hey, you know, it's
59:30
still kind of just fun just fighting the freaking sand
59:32
clowns and stuff, whatever was super dope.
59:36
So the kind of like, like I mentioned, I feel like like it
59:39
was kind of like the the first actor was kind of like dealing
59:43
with Craven and like the setup of finding out who he is, why,
59:52
you know, him hunting down all the other villains and actually
59:56
killing some of them or whatever, like Scorpion going,
1:00:00
it seems like vultures out of there.
1:00:02
So that was kind of interesting, Like, oh, OK we kill the killer,
1:00:06
which I know we kind of talk about the joke about all the
1:00:10
time with like, you know, the Batman Arkham games and the
1:00:14
Spider Man game. So it's like it's OK they don't
1:00:16
kill, but it's like, yo, y'all are y'all are hospitalizing some
1:00:20
of these people. Whatever.
1:00:21
And it's like, yeah, the way I'm slamming you.
1:00:23
You know flipping you up in the air with my web and smashing to
1:00:26
the conquer or you bounce up and I continue comboing you.
1:00:29
You is dead, bro. That that person is dead.
1:00:34
But but yeah, so so so that kind of like first part with craving
1:00:38
stuff, whatever. And then I kind of like I kind
1:00:42
of like how they kind of like interweave some of the stuff to
1:00:44
where I was like you know you're kind of trying to track down
1:00:47
craving and also help Harry and stuff.
1:00:50
Whatever. And then, you know Doctor
1:00:54
Connor's lizard gets captured, You get stabbed by freaking
1:00:59
craving. You're about like Peter Parker's
1:01:02
about to die. And then oh cool thing.
1:01:07
I love how they did in. This also is the forgive me for
1:01:09
being all over the place, but I'm just kind of talking myself
1:01:11
as I think about it. But of course, no Harry having
1:01:14
the symbiote suit or whatever. Of course, I don't know too much
1:01:17
about the Spider Man comic stuff.
1:01:19
Whatever. So a lot of stuff.
1:01:21
What I'm pretty sure is some variation of the comics he what
1:01:24
he had this whatever. But but I just seeing the CMBO
1:01:29
leave Harry to go on to Peter to save his life and then slowly
1:01:34
seeing the shift in the mindset of Peter over the game of the
1:01:40
CMBO taking more and more over him whatever.
1:01:45
And then like like I said, I love like like the fights and
1:01:48
the chases of Lizard. That was a cool boss fight.
1:01:52
The confrontation with Craven and stuff was pretty cool.
1:01:58
And like I mentioned, how they continue to come like interweave
1:02:00
all this stuff to where I was like, OK, you know Craven is now
1:02:04
kind of interested in hunting down Spider Man with the
1:02:08
symbiote suit or whatever. Because find out, you know, you
1:02:11
find out that he is basically searching for a worthy challenge
1:02:16
to kill him or that because I guess he's super sick and about
1:02:19
to die, but he'd rather go out his own terms versus you know,
1:02:23
being in a hospital bed or whatever.
1:02:30
One thing I didn't touch on in the non special which is
1:02:33
whatever at this point but it's like the game was like visually
1:02:37
stunning and like I wish I could have.
1:02:39
I wish I could freaking show this properly on my screen or
1:02:43
whatever but y'all like like these images and stuff.
1:02:47
Whatever looks so freaking stunning and look look how
1:02:52
freaking good this game just looks Y'all it just looks so
1:02:55
freaking good. But but I saw saw that fight or
1:03:01
whatever. I loved the team up moment of of
1:03:09
Miles and Lee going into Peter's mind and kind of like freeing
1:03:15
him from the symbiote thing. Whatever.
1:03:19
The surprise moment of getting to play as Venom was super wide
1:03:26
or super unexpected. Because it was like when when
1:03:29
the symbiote thing gets free, after after you have this cool
1:03:33
boss fight where you know you, you kind of be Craven as
1:03:38
Symbiote Peter, you're about to kill him.
1:03:41
Miles comes in and saves craving or stops you from killing,
1:03:45
basically. Then it's Miles versus Peter
1:03:48
boss fight, which is dope. You get the Symbios too off, you
1:03:52
get it captured. Harry's frustrated.
1:03:55
When you take it back, Harry breaks the the containment
1:03:59
device. It goes back over over over
1:04:04
Harry. And you know now we get the
1:04:07
freaking humongous giant venom, which was just like so freaking
1:04:13
awesome, and then get the freaking players venom.
1:04:17
Just like destroying people snap.
1:04:20
Now that first time you get to do like the kind of like a a
1:04:23
finisher move, like the the triangle in a circle where you
1:04:27
literally snap a dude backwards or whatever.
1:04:29
It was like, yo, OK And then like you like biting dudes and
1:04:33
stuff and like, whoa. And then of course is off with
1:04:39
with you fighting craving and then freaking venom literally
1:04:43
biting off his head. I was like, yo, I was definitely
1:04:47
not expecting this or whatever. Which Speaking of which was
1:04:49
Spider Man 2 rated M OK, Nope. I just shake the box on nervous.
1:04:56
Just rated T for teen so that's that's a it's a very strong
1:05:00
teen. But Bass again, the plants,
1:05:03
Freaking Venom and all that stuff.
1:05:07
I freaking was I expecting the freaking boss fight against Mary
1:05:11
Jane where she gets taken over by the symbiote thing and she
1:05:16
becomes a character named Scream.
1:05:19
Now that's my first time ever seeing that character.
1:05:22
Like I said, probably no obviously stuff in the comics or
1:05:26
whatever. So but that also there was like
1:05:30
super dope and unexpected to see in that.
1:05:35
Same thing with the the side quest where you're Peter working
1:05:41
with Yuri, the former police officer from the first game who
1:05:46
now goes by the vigilante name Wraith.
1:05:51
You're finding this group called The Flame and then that is, that
1:05:56
is with the guy taking a red CNBO thing, which is going to
1:06:01
eventually be Carnage. So I'll look forward to seeing
1:06:03
if they're going to do ADLC or the next game, what do they
1:06:06
catch me be whatever. We had to deal with Carnage and
1:06:09
stuff. So that was super awesome.
1:06:11
But I'll be like seeing that moment and like I said, the The
1:06:14
Boss start with Mary Jane and Scream because her character's
1:06:17
design look like super dope and super clean.
1:06:19
And now now that I'm kind of like looking at some images from
1:06:22
like like the cartoon and stuff, whatever.
1:06:24
I think I probably have maybe seen that at some point or
1:06:28
whatever, but just didn't really like no, no what it was but bad.
1:06:32
That was a super awesome moment And then the kind of like the
1:06:36
kind of like final stretch I feel like where it like truly
1:06:40
pulled me in and I was like yo, I need to I need to just like
1:06:46
dive into this game. No more stopping whatever was
1:06:53
was was after you know you kind of deal with the symbiote things
1:07:01
taking over the city or whatever which man those those little
1:07:04
like symbiote nest things was like super hard to freaking to
1:07:09
freaking fight or whatever but it was but it was a welcome
1:07:12
challenge whenever. I'm not saying I don't didn't
1:07:14
like whatever but but yeah so that but at the moment where
1:07:20
where basically Peter comes out or whatever and just sees and I
1:07:28
had screenshot it. This shot of freaking Venom and
1:07:32
the symbiote just taking over big chart big chunks of the city
1:07:37
and everything like this whole like region just looks super
1:07:40
dark and grim and you just see this freaking tendrils all over
1:07:45
the skyline and stuff whatever it it just looked it.
1:07:49
It just looks so hauntingly beautiful and and and all the
1:07:54
best ways like say like like, man, like when you kind of walk
1:07:59
and get outside and then you purse up on the building and you
1:08:02
just see this kind of just like just like desolate cityscape.
1:08:08
And I was like yo, yeah, yeah, but but yeah yeah, like, like I
1:08:15
said like that. That's that's kind of it in a
1:08:18
nutshell. Like something to go beat for
1:08:20
beat with everything, whatever. But All in all, I freaking
1:08:23
really, really really really enjoy this game.
1:08:26
It was like such a super fun to play getting, getting to do.
1:08:32
Of course, like I said, play his Venom playing as Peter with the
1:08:36
symbio powers and stuff, both the regular and the anti Venom
1:08:39
stuff. When he gets the white symbio
1:08:41
suit, Miles's own Venom electrical power upgrades and
1:08:46
stuff, whatever was super dope and stuff as well.
1:08:49
And yeah, I, I, I, I kind of also enjoyed, even since
1:08:54
sometimes it was kind of weird, but just kind of like like some
1:08:58
of like some of like the kind of like slower moments in this game
1:09:03
that I feel like we didn't get too much of in the previous
1:09:05
games and stuff. Because they definitely kind of
1:09:07
reminded me more of like our Last of Us approach to where I
1:09:11
was like OK, well in between the big crazy chaos or whatever,
1:09:15
we're going to go here and explore this area.
1:09:16
You can walk around, do whatever, play some mini games
1:09:19
and stuff, whatever, you know, like slide like like the
1:09:22
carnival thing whatever. And Spider Man 2 and you know
1:09:26
going on and doing the the bike ride side mission and just just
1:09:30
different little stuff like that or whatever and stuff.
1:09:32
So but yeah, so All in all Spider Man 2 super awesome.
1:09:37
Like I said, highly recommend you plan it if you haven't
1:09:40
already. And so with that I think I'm
1:09:44
gonna wrap things up. I'm surprised like I went over
1:09:46
an hour super awesome you know that I was able to to survive
1:09:53
this long recording and stuff so but like I said I'm super happy
1:09:56
to to be able to do this and stuff so but I'll be getting
1:10:02
this uploaded sometime in the morning probably do it while I'm
1:10:06
at work because I think it's supposed to be pouring down
1:10:07
raining tomorrow. So I'm gonna get to work
1:10:11
whatever just be settled and then just be yeah doing that.
1:10:15
So, but yeah, so like I said, look forward to hopefully in one
1:10:21
one of the coming episodes, me talking about and maybe
1:10:25
recommending some stuff that I'm watching in the fall anime
1:10:29
season. Like I say, please continue to
1:10:32
go back and check out previous episodes previews, previous
1:10:35
reviews and discussions and stuff.
1:10:38
I think I'm. I have a dope conversation I had
1:10:40
with Rob J and Scuba Steve from inside the mount of a blurred
1:10:45
where we had reviewed and talked about the TV show The Bear way
1:10:50
back in the summer. I just been sitting on out
1:10:52
there. I probably released that
1:10:53
probably the week of Thanksgiving.
1:10:55
I think that'd be very fitting time for that episode.
1:10:58
And I still got to freaking release my episode.
1:11:00
I deal with the with the Homie Chris anime, get show, but
1:11:04
anyway, all rambling and stuff, whatever.
1:11:06
But but as always, thank you all so much for watching and
1:11:10
listening. You can find me everywhere at
1:11:12
Danny's talk and just know I always appreciate all the love,
1:11:17
kindness and support that y'all always give me and that y'all
1:11:23
always show me. Like I said, hopefully things
1:11:26
kind of get better and more structured and settle down life
1:11:30
wise. We'll see because like I said,
1:11:32
basketball and cross country starting out next week and I'm
1:11:35
dealing with this car stuff, whatever.
1:11:36
So we'll see where life takes me.
1:11:39
But like I said, hopefully I can kind of sneak away here and
1:11:43
there and do some more proper recordings.
1:11:46
Like I said, even if it's just some some reviews and stuff,
1:11:48
whatever, I want to just continue having this outlet and
1:11:51
stuff. Whatever, for myself, and also,
1:11:55
you know, for anybody out there that is been rocking with me for
1:11:59
however long, whether it's been since the beginning two years
1:12:02
ago or you're new here. Whatever, it is greatly
1:12:06
appreciated your time and your patience with me.
1:12:10
And so with that, I am out. And like I always say, as
1:12:14
always, treat yourself to something nice.
1:12:17
Read some manga, watch some anime and TV, Play some freaking
1:12:21
video game, Play some freaking video games 'cause it is a lot
1:12:24
of them. And shoot, I forgot my saying
1:12:31
treat yourself to some nice. Read some mongo, watch some
1:12:34
anime and TV, play some video games and live your best life.
1:12:37
And with that I'm out and I'm sleepy.
1:12:41
Y'all have an awesome day and week.
1:12:43
I love y'all. I appreciate y'all and I'll
1:12:45
catch you on the next one. Peace.