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Is 2027 Too Early for the Next Generation PlayStation and Xbox? · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hello everybody, welcome back to the Bossers Podcast, a great
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  place to play games and be better.
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  I'm one of your hosts, Cory Derrigan.
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  Alongside me, as always, is the PC muscle race himself, or Ron
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  Dawkins. I feel like I'd be doing
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  everybody a disservice if I did not say what's popping right
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  now. So what's popping?
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  You're popping Loron. You're popping, first of all,
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  like, first of all, my key light's way too bright, so it
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  definitely was popping. I mean, you look great, Loron.
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  It's the shirt. It's the lighting.
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  You look good. You look good, man.
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  You. Forgive that mess that's going
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  on back back there behind me, you know?
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  But yeah, like. I mean, look, you're that only
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  fans money you're bringing in is really improving yourself.
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  Not yet. Ask me.
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  Ask me again in a couple of months.
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  You know, like like it's it's October 14th right now.
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  Ask me again. New Year.
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  Ask me again. Well, I have something to ask
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  you, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure we say.
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  Also here PK Power, Pat Klein. You know I am also here.
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  Pat, you look thin. You look good.
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  Do I? Thank you.
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  I don't know how I keep losing weight because you know, I, I
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  haven't exercised a whole lot, but actually, you know, I've
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  been trying to get better over the last like 2 weeks.
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  I've I've been putting more of a focus on climbing stairs.
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  That'll do it. That, that will do it.
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  That will do it my man. Yeah, I'm on the equivalent of
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  like the fifth floor of my building.
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  So, you know, every now and then, like I don't always take
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  the elevator. I, you know, occasionally walk
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  the stairs just so I can try and work those muscles a little
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  better. Well, you know, stairs work.
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  Good job, Pat, good job. Yep, I whatever weight you guys
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  lost I found on vacation last week, so hey, no.
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  One told you to go on vacation and eat all that food.
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  Hey, look, man. When you're on vacation, you
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  have to eat all that food. It was vacation.
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  Man. It was delicious.
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  I couldn't. I can't help it, man.
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  I can't just stop, you know. Although, man, let me tell you,
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  those extra belt loops I poked were not were not being used
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  today. Let me tell you.
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  Anyways, what were we talking about?
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  Oh, Leron, I'm going to ask you specifically.
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  Yeah. That is too high.
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  What? What?
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  You're not bright. You look fine.
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  Now you're dark. Yeah, OK.
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  Lighting wise. Lighting wise.
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  There we go. Is that better?
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  Is is this? Is this balanced?
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  It looks fine, OK. Lauren, you don't have to look
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  white like Corey and me, OK? We're too pasty as is.
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  Yeah, I already, I already know what I am.
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  Balance us out here, Lauren. Yeah, you're like there would
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  need to be two there. There need to be two more of me
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  on the screen and I and I don't know how to clone myself.
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  We're like those oops Oreos where it's like the the crunchy
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  outsides with the gooey chocolate center, I mean.
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  Oh man, I'm fine with that. You know, like this.
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  Loretta likes being in the middle.
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  The. Golden Oreo.
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  All right, What's your question, Corey?
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  What's your question? I don't know if I want to ask it
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  after that. So here's the thing.
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  I've always hated how I talk. Always.
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  I hate my voice. I hate how it sounds.
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  I've had more people in the last two months tell me that they
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  love my voice than I've ever heard in my entire life.
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  And I'm like, why? Somebody told me I should do I
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  should read certain types of fiction with my voice.
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  I'm going to, I'm going to e-mail you something later and
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  then you and I are going to go on a, on a, on a local call.
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  And I, I want you to read it back to me.
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  Oh God. OK, Corey, everybody has that
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  problem with about their voice. Like I, I feel like I cannot
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  stand the way my voice is in playback, you know, even though
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  it's, it's weird our, our, our ears, all the liquid that's in
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  our ears between our brains, you know, between our, between our,
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  in our ear canals go into our brain and stuff like that.
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  It changes the way we hear our voices and stuff like that.
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  So in our, in our, in our head, like our voice sounds normal.
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  But then when we listen to it on a recording, it's like, what in
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  the world is that, you know, You know, like, only there are only
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  some people who naturally have like, the voice for everything,
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  you know, You know, I like. The voice that I hear in my
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  head. I don't like the voice that I
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  hear outside my head. Maybe I just think I'm sexier
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  sounding than I really AM. Thank you for clearing that up
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  because for a for a second there I was like, how often are the
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  voices talking to you? I was like this, this.
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  I am not a doctor. And is the voice in your head
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  telling you to do things that you know happened in a Star Wars
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  movie? The voice in my head says the
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  audience needs to calm down a little bit here so that it can
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  talk because I can't hear it right now, but it said in a much
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  more meaner tone. OK, so, so because I've listened
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  to your voice, I've listen to your voice like you, you know, I
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  listen to podcast, our podcast, like when I'm driving,
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  especially I'm on long, long ass drives, going home to visit
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  family and stuff like that. Your voice, your voice is
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  actually sounds very good coming through stereo speakers.
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  So that's probably the same thing that the audience is
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  telling you like, you know, your voice is sounds like sounds like
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  they want to sounds like they want you to start a a spicy page
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  and and do some things, you know.
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  I mean, what? What am I supposed to do here,
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  Laurent? Am I supposed to make millions
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  of dollars just speaking? In this economy, yes.
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  In this economy, yes. In this YouTube economy, why?
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  Hasn't anyone come up with only speak like you?
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  Don't you have pictures? I mean just have beautiful
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  sounding voices. Pat is called and they just.
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  Yeah, it's I, I feel like that's.
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  What ASMR was? It was.
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  It was can. You get paid.
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  For that, yeah, you're Morgan. Yeah, on YouTube before the.
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  Before the yeah, although I said before you have been only fans
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  does people were getting paid for that, you know, through
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  through Patreon and and and and and of course YouTube.
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  Yeah, I used to. I used to listen to some stuff
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  like not ASMR specifically, but like quiet reading of like just
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  random things. And these videos, these videos
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  have been up for like 3 or 4 months and they have 10s of
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  thousands, 10s of millions of views.
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  I'm like, Oh my God, why? But I'm like, well, everybody,
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  everybody enjoys a, a, a woman's calming voice.
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  You know, I'm just throwing that out there.
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  I think everybody does. But yeah.
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  I mean, I mean, like the new trend right now, like, 'cause
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  I've been singing on YouTube cause like, because like, you
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  know, when I'm doing, when I'm at, when I'm doing my work, you
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  know, stuff like that, I usually have a second screen open.
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  That's, that's, that's got YouTube on.
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  And like some of the suggestions have literally been like, you
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  know, like 3 hours of like actually there's one, three
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  hours of Mass Effect lore to fall asleep to.
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  Yeah, I think. I've listened to that one.
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  Yeah, well, yeah, I listen to it.
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  I listen to it as background noise for when I'm trolling away
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  at my job, you know? Yeah, but yeah, when?
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  You're trying to fall asleep, God.
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  No, because like they, they get to the, they get to the part
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  talking about how the reapers were created and I'm, I'm awake
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  like there's no going to sleep for that.
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  Like that's that's one of the most interesting parts of Mass
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  Effect. Yeah, I mean it, it really is.
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  Did you see that the The Art of Mass Effect trilogy of the book
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  got got re issued and renewed and there's like new pages to
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  it? No, I did not see that.
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  Yeah, I saw it on Amazon, so. Yeah, yeah, but no, like, like,
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  like vocal vocal stimulation is a thing.
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  And you know, if people are saying that you have a very
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  wonderful voice, they, they would love to sit down and
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  listen to that is good. Because like, I'm not sure how
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  they like my podcast voice. Please like run to the comments
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  and tell me right now like what what what is like for me, you
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  know also and you know, don't neglect Pat either.
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  Like, let, let us all know. Like apparently you're all in
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  love with Corey's voice and like, well, you know, our people
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  are going to be mailing him panties in the mail.
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  Like, you know, what's the PO Box?
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  Corey, I mean, please don't. I don't feel like answering
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  questions about that to my wife, but.
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  Anyways. I mean, I guess.
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  I can no, I think, I think, I think your wife, I think your
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  wife can't can appreciate a good hustle, you know?
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  Yeah, you're right. She can.
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  So all right, I just, I was just curious why where?
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  Where are these viewers at? They're they're on, they're on X
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  Like, hey, do me a favor, do do me a favor.
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  All you people that are listening to us live on on X
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  right now, like at Bosphorus Network and and let us know like
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  in the top 3 here, who has the best voice, who has the second
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  best voice and who is third place Corey Laurent or Pat like
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  go like trust me, we will not take.
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  Offense this competition. We will not take offense, Pat.
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  You should not take offense. Whatever, whatever place you're
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  in, first, last, middle, you cannot, you can't take offense.
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  Oh, now we've got 500. Hey, the viewership is going up.
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  Like, hey, we got a contest going on here.
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  We we certainly do. Hold on, let me go, Let me go to
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  Twitter right now. I got to see this.
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  Here I am. Oh, oh, you cannot vote for
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  yourself. I see the numbers changing.
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  You cannot vote for yourself. Do we need to put a?
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  Do we need to put a Twitter poll?
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  Do we need to put a YouTube poll on?
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  Yes, yes, do that. A Twitter and a YouTube poll do
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  that. OK, I'll put it on the I'll put
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  it on the official boss rush one.
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  Did I just copy and paste the same link into the chat?
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  I think you did. You did.
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  You pasted the same exactly. Whatever.
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  I want people to go to YouTube. That's something we should
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  probably figure out too, is like, do we want multiple
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  locations? Do we want people to go
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  everywhere? But.
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  I mean, right now it's not hurting us, but you know, we
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  should probably direct must this traffic to YouTube.
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  Yeah, I mean, I would rather keep everything on YouTube just
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  because that's where everything else is.
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  But I don't want to have to be that those people who are, you
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  know, I don't know. Whatever.
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  Well, hey, I mean, hey, we've crossed 800, We've crossed the
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  800 subscribers mark and still climbing.
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  So like, we need to be proud about that.
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  You know, I mean, yeah, I'm, that's this pump.
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  That fist pump I did just now look very SUS so I'm not going
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  to do that anymore. I mean, you, you do you, Boo.
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  People still say that? Yeah, reload my my ex.
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  Girl, oh like do the Henry Cavill, he cocked.
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  He caught the pist. Reload.
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  He knew exactly what he was doing in that when he did that,
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  he knew. He knew who.
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  He knew who his audience was and what they wanted when he did
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  that. Speaking of Henry Cavill, not
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  Henry Cavill, have you seen Liam Hemsworth as the Witcher?
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  Yeah, I feel like, I feel like we went from a man to like a ROM
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  com boy. It's sad because we can't even
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  call him. Like, we can't even call him
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  like Timu, like, like, like Geralt, Yeah.
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  Yeah, we have. We have Legolas at home.
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  That's what it feels. Like we have Legolas at home,
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  not offensive, not offensively. Hemsworth, he's he's one of the
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  Hemsworth brothers. And those are all beautiful.
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  Gorgeous. Men, he's a great actor, it's
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  just I don't feel like this role is for him.
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  Yeah, come. Yeah, Like, yeah, that was some
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  big, that was some big shoes to fill, like.
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  And it's not and it's not his fault either, right?
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  I mean they. They they should just put, maybe
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  they should just put big in there.
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  Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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  But then wait. Can you imagine?
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  Yeah. They they should just listen to
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  Henry Cavill and just did it right.
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  Well well, they well production pissed to bring Henry Cavill
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  off. That's why he's gone.
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  Well, just because production want to take liberties of the
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  source material and do their own thing without, you know,
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  respecting what was there, does it really make it Henry's fault
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  for wanting to leave? Was Henry?
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  Was Henry Cavill executive producer?
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  I don't remember. Because he wasn't executive.
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  If he wasn't executive producer, then, you know, like that's kind
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  of where he got screwed. I think he is on warhammer
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  right? He is on Warhammer, yeah.
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  I feel like executive producer or producer even just is a term
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  that you use for someone who finances or it promotes your
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  product. It it's based, I I can't really
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  see a producer being as and I don't know.
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  To be fair. Much more common outside
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  producer. EPSEPS have creative creative
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  decision creative decision making skills with with any with
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  any projects for movies and television shows.
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  Yeah, ha ha. Good time.
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  I just figured. They were important people, but,
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  you know, and so they just get their name somewhere like, you
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  know, Patreon. Yeah, Patreon.
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  Patreon. Like if if you're on a Patreon
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  you get your name in the credits.
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  You do at the $5 tiered. Yeah, maybe those people who
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  paid $5 in that movie become producer.
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  Yeah, well I mean I pay enough for Netflix so I should be
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  credited in everything. So you know, I would pay extra
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  to be credited in K Pop Demon Hunters though.
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  I. Might actually have to renew my
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  Netflix here pretty soon. Or actually, yeah, I cancelled
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  it a while back because there wasn't anything I wanted to see.
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  But now they're actually some things I want to see, like what
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  the new border. Dallas and Borderlands came out
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  and I enjoyed Season 1 and I got part way through season 2, but
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  that that was a very interesting show.
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  I tell you what, you should watch K pop Demon Hunters.
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  I need, I, I need, I need to, I need to.
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  Watch that. I'm not gonna lie.
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  I watched it with my kids. But then I watched it by myself
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  and I'm obsessed. I can't help it.
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  I bought the Fortnite skins. Listen to the music.
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  I'm obsessed. And I know, look, I know
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  everybody likes likes Mira and Zoe, OK?
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  But I like Rumi, and you guys can suck it.
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  That's all I can say. You'll understand.
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  Maybe, maybe not. La Ron looks like.
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  La Ron looks like. He's I, I think you're talking
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  to two people who who've never watched K Pop Hunters.
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  I'm talking to our audience. I'm talking to our audience, not
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  talking to you. La Ron, though La Ron will be a
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  Saja boy. He wants a little drink of that
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  soda pop. I don't get it.
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  You will. It's fine.
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  Anyways, so Speaking of nothing important, it is important to
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  address the Boss Rush podcast moving forward.
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  We're changing a little bit just to kind of be more current.
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  We kind of went through this. We went and had a meeting and we
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  took listener feedback and Patreon feedback and we heard
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  you all say you want more relevant kind of news ish
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  topics. Some of you wanted straight up
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  news show. I don't know if we're going to
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  go that far, but we are going to take news stories and make them
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  our topics instead of kind of bringing our own every week.
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  And then we'll do like 3 or 4 News ish topics.
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  We'll do, we have a new segment, everybody.
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  Everybody likes a quickie. We'll have our quickies section,
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  which are little new stories that maybe deserve some
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  attention, but no longer than like 5 minutes of attention
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  because who has the time, right? Sometimes you just need a little
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  little quickie, right Laurent? Yeah, just a little.
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  Just a little. Just a little bit.
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  And then we'll kind of go into our rotating segment of the week
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  like we usually do and answer questions and get out of here.
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  We're only going to answer about 3 to 5 questions per show.
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  So we're going to pick the best ones if there are more than
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  that. Who?
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  The ones that give us a little more of that dash.
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  Yeah, give us your money and you'll get your question
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  written. No, I'm just kidding.
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  So we'll do that and then kind of that'll be the show, so.
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  Girls will get priorities for people who say that I have the
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  best voice. You heard it here first.
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  Say that for the games cast. Oh, that's the other thing is we
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  are going to still talk about what we've been playing, but we
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  know that there have been some questions about book club and
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  spoiler casts and kind of talking about games more.
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  And so we are going to do instead of book club, we are
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  retiring book club and we are going to kind of create a new
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  early access show called Get this, Everybody the Boss Rush
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  games cast and Pat's going to host it.
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  And we're going to have a rotating panel of guests from
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  other outlets, other creators, other friends, us, you know,
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  it'll be twice a month for your patron.
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  You get it one week early. And that way we can kind of talk
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  about games more in depth. Think easy allies frame trap if
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  you listen to that or summon sign, which is from last stand,
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  one of those types of shows. And then I don't know, Pat kind
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  of has free reign to do what he wants for that show if he wants
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  different segments and whatnot. But essentially that's going to
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  be our gameplay focused show and obviously pal block will be pal
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  block. We're still going to focus more
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  on some spoiler cast and review discussions.
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  We're going to focus on spotlight interviews and we're
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  going to try to finally do some fun, engaging live content.
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  Like, Video Game Jeopardy seems to have been a episode people
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  enjoyed, so maybe we'll do it live or I don't know, somebody.
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  I kind of like that idea. Yeah.
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  Also, I thought it'd be fun if we did Metacritic draft live
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  next year. Think that'd?
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  Be cool. Yeah, like once a month.
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  We we do it live, do it live. That means we get we get more
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  opportunities to vote for for games.
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  Yeah. OK, OK.
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  And then we'll have, then we'll have the audience, like if we
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  need a Mulligan or something, right, If something gets
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  delayed, we get a Mulligan, we'll have the audience vote for
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  it. Maybe we'll get more people
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  involved instead of just us 4. I don't know, Just a thought,
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  just a thought, everybody, just a thought.
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  Stay tuned. Also, the bosses are coming up
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  everybody. Aussies we are.
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  She's less than three months away.
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  Oh my gosh, we are. We're in trouble.
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  No, we're not. We're fine.
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  Are you sure? Yeah, we started it.
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  We started the end of October last year.
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  It's the middle of October now. It's fine.
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  We just need to pick. It's not going to be as long as
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  last week in there. Have you said so?
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  Yeah, we're going to. We'll be fine.
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  It'll be fine. I'm not going to try to render
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  it in four K 60 frames a second this year, though.
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  That was a bad decision. That was all kinds of bad
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  decision. That's why it went up late last
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  year and in two parts. Sorry everybody.
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  It had nothing to do with the fact that it was like 6 hours
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  long either, right? No, it it literally was the fact
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  that I tried to render it at 4K60 frames a second,
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  everything. When I rendered it, when I
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  rendered it at 1080P30 frames a second, guess what it rendered
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  in like an hour. It was fine.
• 22:00
  So anyways, enough of that. Just wanted to update people on
• 22:03
  what's going on with the Boss Rush podcast.
• 22:05
  You also don't have to wait a week to watch us from the live
• 22:08
  show to the YouTube video. I'm going to try to have it up
• 22:13
  on Wednesdays at noon, so look for it then.
• 22:19
  Anybody have anything else to say?
• 22:20
  Laron, You got anything fun to say?
• 22:21
  Anything to contribute to that? Anything to?
• 22:25
  No, I'm, I'm, I'm digging it. Like I, I like the suggestions.
• 22:29
  There's nothing, There's nothing.
• 22:34
  There's nothing. There's nothing I feel like we
• 22:37
  need to, like, mess with right now as far as like everything
• 22:39
  you just put out there, like I, I, I'm cool with the format.
• 22:45
  What about you, Pat? Anything to say?
• 22:47
  You want to say anything about ideas for Gamescast or anything?
• 22:52
  Not to put you on the spot because we haven't really talked
• 22:54
  about it yet. Yeah, no, I'm excited to see
• 22:59
  where it goes. Like, I like talking about
• 23:02
  games. So, you know, let's let's give
• 23:05
  me an opportunity to talk games and, you know, talk games with
• 23:09
  people who want to talk games. Yeah, and it's a Gamescast.
• 23:13
  And maybe it'll give me more time to play games to talk
• 23:17
  about. That is a hope, yeah.
• 23:21
  You just got to stop picking up extra work at work.
• 23:25
  God, yeah, let's, let's not. I'm going to cry about that.
• 23:29
  But also, like another reason why we're making some of these
• 23:32
  changes too, is just sheer amount of time it takes to do a
• 23:37
  lot of the things that we do right?
• 23:39
  Like between expansion pass and book club and the boss rush
• 23:48
  podcast pre show, that was anywhere between 9:00 and 11:00
• 23:53
  pieces of content a month, right?
• 23:56
  That I had to sit at it post social and it was it's at least
• 24:04
  on like expansion pass and and not all, but some of the pre
• 24:08
  show stuff like some people thought it felt a little half
• 24:14
  baked some of the ideas. And so this is just an easier
• 24:18
  way for us to streamline things and you know, instead of 9 to 11
• 24:24
  pieces of mediocre content, just to use a safe word, we'll have 3
• 24:33
  or 4 pieces of meaningful content with the games cast and
• 24:37
  spoiler casts and interviews and stuff.
• 24:39
  So yeah, I don't know, I'm, I'm actually like excited to see
• 24:45
  what Gamescast turns out to be because I always thought that
• 24:49
  was a good idea to have for a podcast.
• 24:52
  I just never spent enough time really digging deep into games
• 24:57
  to be able to do that. But I don't know, Pat, you seem
• 25:02
  like the right fellow to do that.
• 25:04
  So. Yeah, I I might play a little
• 25:10
  too many games here. You know, I, I was looking at my
• 25:13
  list. I updated my games list in 2025.
• 25:16
  I have 111 games I've played this year.
• 25:19
  Geez, no. I don't know if I've spent 111
• 25:23
  minutes playing games. No, that's 112 minutes, 109 a
• 25:29
  109 games I've played this year. It's a lot of games.
• 25:33
  Maybe beat? Not not necessarily beat beat.
• 25:37
  That is a good question. OK, I was, I was, I was just
• 25:40
  curious. I I, I, I, I said it, I said it
• 25:42
  before, like on a podcast earlier this year, probably a
• 25:45
  couple months ago. You're you're slacking this
• 25:47
  year, man. Yeah, Pat, too much, too much
• 25:51
  power wash simulator. Oh, that's that's going to
• 25:56
  happen here pretty darn soon. In a in a couple weeks.
• 26:00
  Yeah, I have. Where is the counter on this
• 26:04
  thing? I have beaten 41 games so far,
• 26:11
  Yeah. Nice.
• 26:14
  Until Power Wash simulator comes and then it's only going to be
• 26:17
  41 games for the rest of the year.
• 26:21
  Nice power Wash Simulator 2 comes out what at the end of
• 26:25
  October, right? Yep.
• 26:28
  Got it's official release date. I bet they're happy that Mina
• 26:31
  got delayed. Wait, Mina got delayed?
• 26:35
  Yeah, that reminds me, I have to reach out to Celia to see if
• 26:42
  that changes things for a potential interview.
• 26:44
  So yeah, I got delayed it. They said it's not a long delay.
• 26:51
  They just need to Polish some things and make sure everything
• 26:54
  is cleaned up and not, you know, themselves trying to make this
• 26:58
  game, which I don't want them. To do.
• 27:02
  I've actually been on a social media break, so that's news to
• 27:07
  me. Very sad news.
• 27:09
  I mean, that's, that's fair. I try not to go on social media
• 27:12
  unless I'm at work, which I have to for work but.
• 27:17
  That's. Oh, boy.
• 27:20
  It's fine. It's all good.
• 27:22
  It's fine. All right, enough of that
• 27:26
  jargon. Also, we're no longer going to
• 27:28
  do housekeeping. We're just going to have it pre
• 27:30
  recorded and I don't care. I know it's a waste of time and
• 27:36
  it throws off the flow and whatever.
• 27:40
  So you want to let's, let's just talk about what we've been
• 27:45
  playing or watching or doing over the course of the last
• 27:48
  couple weeks real quick, since we kind of took last week off.
• 27:52
  You won't know listener, but we did.
• 27:56
  I'm going to go first. I've been playing Star Wars
• 27:59
  Outlaws on Nintendo Switch 2. Wow.
• 28:04
  It's it's fun. It's scratching the Assassin's
• 28:08
  Creed itch without like being Assassin's Creed.
• 28:11
  It's just like the big open world.
• 28:14
  Here's a here's a question mark. Here's a yellow Star Wars
• 28:17
  symbol. Go check it out.
• 28:19
  Go steal some stuff, you know, return it to the bad guys or the
• 28:24
  good guys or whatever, you know, faction you're aligning yourself
• 28:27
  with. And they're all bad guys in that
• 28:29
  game. You're just working for
• 28:32
  whichever 1 you feel is the lesser evil at the time.
• 28:34
  I know I've decided to. I know this is probably the
• 28:39
  worst one actually, but I've decided to go with Crimson.
• 28:42
  The Crimson, what are they called?
• 28:45
  Crimson? I want to, I always want to call
• 28:47
  it Crimson Desert, but that's not it.
• 28:49
  That's a video because. I want to say Crimson Raiders
• 28:51
  and that's Borderlands. So it's the whatever Amelia
• 28:56
  Clark's character this was? Yeah.
• 28:58
  Crimson Dawn. Thank you.
• 29:00
  OK. Whoever Emilia Clark and Darth
• 29:02
  Maul are associated with in the in OH.
• 29:07
  Crimson Sun, The the night, the night people.
• 29:10
  Oh, well, wait, wait, oh, wait. We're talking about, we're
• 29:12
  talking about in the lore, once we get into, once we get past
• 29:15
  the Clung Wars. Yeah, it is.
• 29:17
  It is the Crimson Sun, Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:21
  I think about the first, second, Emilia Clark, 'cause I was
• 29:23
  first. I was like, wait, is she a night
• 29:24
  sister 'cause like the you've got the you've got the you've
• 29:27
  got the you've. Got Crimson.
• 29:28
  You're right, it's Crimson. Dawn.
• 29:30
  Crimson Dawn that. Was right the first time.
• 29:32
  Thank you. Walter Goggins Walter Goggins
• 29:41
  showing up everywhere recently. Was he in Star Wars?
• 29:45
  No, that's not Walter Goggins. He's in something.
• 29:48
  Well, he was. He was.
• 29:52
  No, that's not Jude Law. You know what?
• 29:54
  I I was a side tangent. I watched, I watched the entire
• 29:58
  Bourne trilogy the other week just because it's on Amazon
• 30:02
  Prime now and I like those movies a lot.
• 30:06
  Walter Goggins is in Bourne Identity.
• 30:09
  It's like this random agent guy, he's chilling in the office and
• 30:15
  he's like director, here's a we saw Bourne and whatever he has
• 30:20
  like 2 lines. I was like, it's Walter Goggins.
• 30:25
  I guess start somewhere. Yeah, that's where he was born.
• 30:31
  Stop it. So they're so good.
• 30:37
  Can't wait for Amazon to mess that up into a Series 2.
• 30:42
  Gosh, those movies are. Good Amy Fallout 2, you cowards.
• 30:47
  I know we have to wait another month, but I want it.
• 30:52
  I've also been playing Fortnite because not only are the Power
• 30:59
  Rangers in it, but now the ladies of K Pop Demon Hunters
• 31:04
  are also in it and can't get enough.
• 31:09
  No music though. Shame, shame.
• 31:13
  That's licensing for you. Well, I think they wanted to get
• 31:17
  the skins in there and I think the next battle pass is going to
• 31:20
  have the music and the the size of the boys in it, which is the
• 31:25
  boy band in the movie. So, but it's cool.
• 31:33
  It's it's quite cool. I also picked up some cool
• 31:38
  stuff, picked up, picked up this cool Wolverine figure.
• 31:44
  It was like 75% off on Amazon. Super cool.
• 31:49
  I like it. I like.
• 31:52
  It picked up this Deadpool figure which was also on sale.
• 31:58
  I like it too. Now you can travel on a journey
• 32:01
  together. Yeah.
• 32:02
  Well, you got a nice little little spread going on there.
• 32:06
  Yeah, and I also, Speaking of Night Sisters, I also got Marin
• 32:10
  from Star Wars Jedi Survivor. They had the Black Series figure
• 32:16
  at Disney World and I was like, oh, I haven't seen that in a
• 32:20
  while. I might as well get it.
• 32:24
  I was also looking for Ahsoka, but I did not see it in Ahsoka.
• 32:28
  It's fine, I'll get one eventually, but Laron, what are
• 32:32
  you? What are you doing?
• 32:33
  Final Fantasy Tactics AC. Yes, yeah, I'm in, I'm, I'm
• 32:38
  playing, I'm playing super slow 'cause I'm in, I'm in chapter,
• 32:40
  I'm in chapter 2. Like like, like for spoilers for
• 32:45
  people who don't, well, actually it's not really a spoiler for
• 32:47
  anybody, you know, 'cause it's just part, it's, it's nothing
• 32:50
  major in the story progression in, in my opinion.
• 32:53
  But right now we are trying to rescue the Princess that was
• 32:55
  kidnapped in in Chapter 1 at the very beginning of the game and
• 32:58
  stuff like that. Right now, the reason why I'm
• 33:00
  playing it so slow is because like, I am trying to open up.
• 33:03
  I'm trying to open up a lot of the progress tree for the
• 33:06
  characters because like, I want to do broken things with my
• 33:11
  characters once I get into Chapter 3.
• 33:13
  Yeah, like I, yeah. Like, well, also also like just.
• 33:17
  This will officially be my fourth run in in tactics and and
• 33:23
  a lot of stuff I've learned from like my previous playthroughs.
• 33:26
  I'm trying to to do it now to make like to make like a near
• 33:29
  perfect playthrough, you know? Gotcha.
• 33:32
  So yeah, that's that's that's the major thing.
• 33:35
  But you know what I also have I also have some hauls.
• 33:40
  I had to think about it for a second, but I also have I also
• 33:42
  have some hauls and I'll show that in a in a moment.
• 33:45
  But just overall thoughts about fine fancy tactics, the evil E
• 33:47
  Chronicles. Like I'm just going to tell you
• 33:49
  right now, like, like if you've never played this game before,
• 33:53
  this game basically is the blueprint for all tactical RPGs
• 33:57
  that's come out since then. And I say that's come out since
• 34:00
  then because like before Final Fantasy Tactics was a thing,
• 34:03
  back when it got when it came out in PS1, there was a little
• 34:05
  game called Tactics Ogre that basically more than half the
• 34:11
  team like became like the the team that would make the
• 34:14
  original Final Fantasy Tactics game.
• 34:16
  So yeah. So like, so technically like,
• 34:18
  you know, like Tactics is considered the blueprint,
• 34:21
  whereas Tactics Ogre is considered the origin, you know,
• 34:26
  and you know, from there, like things have just gone, you know,
• 34:29
  like there's like the Ogre Battle series, which was which
• 34:33
  is part of Tactics Ogre, you know, so like that.
• 34:35
  So you know, like tactical RPG genre, like like branched out
• 34:39
  even tremendously. But my Final Fantasy Tactics is,
• 34:41
  is usually the one that practically everybody's going to
• 34:44
  like trace back as the origin for like the boom of tactical
• 34:47
  RPG, tactical RPGs. And that's saying that's saying
• 34:50
  a lot because because before Final Fantasy Tactics, there was
• 34:53
  the front Mission series and that was on Super Famicon and
• 34:56
  Super NES, you know, and same thing, you know, but there's
• 35:01
  something about Tactics that's on magic and everything.
• 35:03
  Like, you've got so many, I cannot remember specifically the
• 35:07
  number I want to say I think there's 32 or 33 classes that
• 35:10
  you can of job classes that you can be in this game if I'm not
• 35:13
  mistaken enough. Don't you know, don't, Please
• 35:16
  don't quote me on that because like, I I will never say I'm the
• 35:19
  absolute expert in Final Fantasy Tactics.
• 35:20
  But yeah, like, there's a lot of job classes you can go through.
• 35:23
  You can go, you can go. Most characters start off as a
• 35:25
  Squire, but then you have so many things you can branch out
• 35:28
  to like, like, like to chemists and and ninjas and monks and
• 35:33
  dragoons, which you know, like they just jump really high and
• 35:35
  when they come back down, like something is dead.
• 35:39
  The the magic, the magical classes you've got, you've got,
• 35:42
  you've got Wizards that of course to the black magics,
• 35:45
  you've got you you've got white mages that you are doing all the
• 35:47
  holy stuff, the holy stuff and the healing stuff you've got,
• 35:52
  you've got orders, you know, which are they basically, they
• 35:56
  basically do weird things with magic.
• 35:58
  You know as well. Summoners, if anyone knows,
• 36:01
  classic final fancy summoners is basically like Efrit Raymu, all
• 36:05
  those, all those cataclysmic summons, summons that we see
• 36:07
  now, you know, like one, one game trying to be fancy, call
• 36:11
  them Idalons. Looking at you final fancy 8,
• 36:13
  you know, you know, yeah, but there's some there's even
• 36:19
  there's even like was arguably the most broken class in the
• 36:22
  game, which is the arithmetic slash calculator class was
• 36:26
  basically was basically all you you take them, you put them in
• 36:29
  the furthest most part of the board and you start having them
• 36:32
  like like mess around with like prime numbers and all that stuff
• 36:35
  and they will wipe the entire board.
• 36:37
  But when I say wipe the entire board, I don't mean just the
• 36:39
  enemies. They will wipe out the allies
• 36:40
  too. But when you master the
• 36:43
  calculator class like it is, it's it's phenomenal.
• 36:47
  Nice. Yeah.
• 36:49
  So, yeah, I, I 1010 can't recommend it enough for for
• 36:53
  anybody. And if, and if you have the
• 36:55
  patience for this game, there's a reason why I like, there's a
• 36:57
  reason why when, like when you ask people like what Final
• 37:01
  Fantasy game they, they like and they say tactics.
• 37:06
  They're they're in a class by themselves.
• 37:08
  And I am also one of those people.
• 37:10
  Like my favorite Final Fantasy game will always be Tactics
• 37:13
  first and then Final Fantasy 6 second.
• 37:16
  And with the way, with the way I'm crunching through the Final
• 37:19
  Fantasy 7 remake series right now, like I, it's probably my
• 37:23
  probably my top third, you know, But yeah, like if you've never
• 37:28
  played this game, like you need to experience this 30 year old
• 37:30
  game, you know, with update, with, with all its updates, like
• 37:33
  you've got 2 modes, You've got the I I don't have a wrong ally.
• 37:39
  You've got the classic mode where you basically what it's
• 37:42
  it's it's in the bedroom like, you know, but you've got the
• 37:45
  classic mode where you can play like the the game as it was
• 37:48
  originally created and released with even like the the pixelated
• 37:51
  sprites if you want to, or you can play the enhanced mode or
• 37:54
  wherever it's wherever you're calling it.
• 37:55
  And that's the E release chronicles version of it.
• 37:58
  That's got all the updated, updated graphics, you know,
• 38:01
  complete, complete voice acted lines in that one, everything
• 38:04
  like it's it's amazing. And yes, I've, yes, I've, I've
• 38:08
  replayed quite a few of the scenes that featured Ben Starr
• 38:11
  in him because there's a, there's a log, there's a log
• 38:14
  where you can just rewatch the videos and, and, and the
• 38:16
  cutscenes all over again. So, yeah, I've, I've, I've sat
• 38:20
  out very late at night, you know, in the dark playing this
• 38:23
  game and watching that cutscene. Take it for however take it.
• 38:30
  But I know some people are, I know some people are like, oh,
• 38:32
  that's dirty. And you know, take it for
• 38:34
  however dirty you want to take it.
• 38:36
  Oh God. Wow.
• 38:38
  How dirty La Ron? Yeah.
• 38:40
  So yeah, so Tactics is my tactics.
• 38:43
  I release Chronicles is my major thing.
• 38:45
  Like it's, it's not an expensive game either.
• 38:48
  Like, like it's, it's $50 MSRP, you know?
• 38:52
  You know, so like if you, if you want to experience something
• 38:55
  that people experienced 30 years ago and still talk about to this
• 38:59
  day, this is your game. This is your game.
• 39:02
  So try it out. You know, I really wish there
• 39:04
  was a demo mode so, you know, it could actually latch more.
• 39:07
  Some of the people who are really leery about it.
• 39:09
  But trust me when I say it's $50 well spent.
• 39:11
  If you like these type of games, it's $50 well spent for you.
• 39:16
  And beyond that, like playing Tekken 8, I finally, I finally
• 39:21
  got promoted to Tekken emperor, which is the highest class.
• 39:24
  I know you guys are like, what the fuck is that?
• 39:26
  But it's the highest, it's the highest, it's the highest rank
• 39:29
  I've made since they've introduced a rank mode in in
• 39:31
  Tekken in the Tekken series. And I'm so I'm so proud of
• 39:34
  myself. You know, you know, of course,
• 39:38
  like I'm pretty sure as soon as I get back into it, seriously,
• 39:40
  I'm get smacked down. I'm have to work my way back up
• 39:42
  to getting getting back to that back to that level.
• 39:44
  But for people who have the season pass like, like early
• 39:48
  content drops yesterday, like armor kings in the game, like
• 39:52
  play them, you know, have fun, you know, and then and then,
• 39:56
  yeah, Final Fantasy 7 Remake and eventually gonna hop back on
• 39:59
  Metal Gear Solid Delta. Nice.
• 40:04
  Let's see, I'm currently I'm currently finishing up. 12
• 40:14
  Monkeys, the TV series, it was on the sci-fi network from 2015
• 40:17
  to like it was on for Four Seasons back in 2014.
• 40:20
  I finally just now got to watching it because like,
• 40:23
  because like there was a time when we when we had when we had
• 40:26
  Todd Stashwick lined up. He was, he played, he played in
• 40:29
  the most recent season of Star Trek Picard.
• 40:31
  And it looked like we were it looked like we had him on the
• 40:34
  hook, but we can never get get past his agents to like to like
• 40:37
  do an interview with him, you know, for, for the for the final
• 40:40
  season Picard. But Todd Stashwick was in the
• 40:44
  was in the 12 monkey series for, for and and so like, I was like,
• 40:48
  you know what, let me do my homework, you know, but when it
• 40:50
  when our interview thing fell through for him to come through,
• 40:54
  I just never, I just never watched it until one day I was
• 40:56
  like, let me watch this damn show and this show, this show is
• 41:02
  good. This show, as a matter of fact,
• 41:04
  me saying good is like is like underselling it.
• 41:06
  This show is amazing. I've been hooked.
• 41:08
  I'm on I'm on the I'm on the final episode of the series
• 41:12
  right now and I started watching the show 2 weeks ago.
• 41:15
  Whoa, hey, I know you guys saying holy binge watch Batman,
• 41:19
  but no, like it's not, it's not like it's not, it's not like the
• 41:21
  traditional TV shows where back when they ran like like 20 plus
• 41:24
  episode seasons, like like the first two seasons or 13
• 41:28
  episodes. Season 3 had an 11 episode like
• 41:33
  like order, which I guess like maybe there's a writers strike
• 41:35
  going on or something or you know, something happened and
• 41:38
  then the final season has like has like 1112 episodes.
• 41:42
  So yeah. So yeah, it's.
• 41:44
  There's where we're waiting for. Come on, it's 12 Monkeys.
• 41:49
  Where's the 12 episode arch? It's the final.
• 41:52
  It's the final season. That's 12 episodes.
• 41:54
  So yeah. But yeah, it's a if.
• 41:58
  If you guys ever saw the Bruce Willis movie 12 Monkeys, this is
• 42:00
  basically an ad, an adaptation of that based off the screenplay
• 42:04
  and stuff like that. And it it, it does, it does a
• 42:07
  lot like if, if you love, if you love shows dealing with time
• 42:10
  travel and you know, like like sci-fi hocus Pocus and
• 42:13
  shenanigans, stuff like that, this is your show.
• 42:15
  But it's got it's got a it's it's well written, It's got a
• 42:17
  very good cast. You know, I'll definitely say
• 42:21
  like, you know, give it, give it a look.
• 42:23
  You know, I'm enjoying it. I'm on the final episode.
• 42:27
  I'll, I'll tell you next. I'll tell you next week.
• 42:28
  You know what, after I've watched after I've watched the
• 42:30
  final episode, because I'm probably going to watch it after
• 42:32
  we end the podcast tonight, I'll tell you guys, I'll tell you
• 42:35
  guys and our listeners and viewers next week.
• 42:38
  You know, like what my overall grade is for the show.
• 42:44
  And and let's see, I picked up I picked up Super Mario Galaxy and
• 42:49
  Mario Galaxy 2. I don't know when the when the
• 42:51
  hell I'm going to play them. I need to test them out to see
• 42:53
  if they're going to play better for me in handheld mode.
• 42:56
  But but hey, Corey, you were talking.
• 42:59
  You were talking about this young lady.
• 43:05
  Where did you go? I went to, I went to AI, went to
• 43:10
  AI, went to a. It's a.
• 43:11
  Funko Pop, though those aren't real toys.
• 43:13
  It it it, it doesn't matter like like I got Yeah.
• 43:16
  So I got the Ahsoka Tano from from this is this is Ahsoka from
• 43:21
  season 7 of the of the Clone wars.
• 43:26
  I picked this up along with along with this little guy right
• 43:31
  here. Who?
• 43:36
  Yeah, and I've already, I've already looked up, I've already
• 43:38
  looked at his value because like he's one of the first runs and
• 43:41
  I've already looked at his value and I got this bastard for $6.
• 43:46
  Nice. Yeah, and then, and then so I
• 43:49
  was like, you know what? What else is out here?
• 43:51
  So I wound up getting a whole bunch of of Star Trek Funko
• 43:53
  Pops, like these, like these. Like there's three.
• 43:57
  Well, there's three of them particularly I'm sorry for the
• 44:00
  glare, but Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock from the mirror universe.
• 44:03
  I also, I also picked up Lieutenant Sulu also from the
• 44:07
  mirror universe and and like the and like the the most the most
• 44:13
  hated bad guy in the Star Trek universe con Yeah.
• 44:18
  So I did not. I did not expect to walk into a
• 44:20
  store and buy and buy one Funko Pop, let alone 6.
• 44:25
  But. I mean that are you feeling OK?
• 44:28
  Lauren, I'm. Not even a big Funko pop person,
• 44:30
  you know, like, I just like you saw, you saw a couple months ago
• 44:33
  before Metal Gear Solid delta came out Like I, I, I happened
• 44:36
  to cross a, a naked snake from from, from MGS 1 from MGS 3.
• 44:41
  And I was like, oh, got to have it, got to have it.
• 44:43
  I know it's going to be collector's item.
• 44:45
  I cannot find the Boss to saved my life though because there's
• 44:48
  only two of those from that game like Naked Snake and the Boss.
• 44:51
  I cannot find the Boss. That's funny.
• 44:57
  Yeah, so I don't. Know why?
• 44:59
  It's funny, but it's funny. So yeah, that's, that's
• 45:01
  everything. Yeah.
• 45:02
  Like that's, that's my haul. So yeah, I think, I think I did.
• 45:05
  All right. This this week, you know, like,
• 45:06
  I can't say next week is going to be like spectacular because
• 45:09
  like, I'm just trying to play. I'm just trying to play video
• 45:12
  games and, you know, and, you know, like usher in the Windows
• 45:15
  10 apocalypse that's happening right now in the IT world, you
• 45:18
  know? Boy.
• 45:22
  Yeah, yeah. Rose up to 11 now.
• 45:26
  Yeah, Windows, Yeah. So Windows 10 is ending
• 45:28
  Microsoft support. So, so, so do your due
• 45:31
  diligence, talk to talk to a computer nerd that can help you
• 45:34
  out, you know, and figure some things out.
• 45:37
  And I can't get these things back in in the bag.
• 45:40
  So I guess I'm going to have to put them in a different bag now.
• 45:44
  That's fair though. That's cool, right?
• 45:47
  Yes. Yes, OK, I'm done.
• 45:52
  Well, Pat, I guess that leaves you.
• 45:56
  Man, do I start with the physical goodies or the video
• 45:58
  game goodies. I don't know I'm.
• 46:01
  A I'm a good fan of physical. It's your world.
• 46:04
  Is is your world. Get that nut.
• 46:07
  All right, well, I get that nut. Got this bad boy I.
• 46:12
  Almost. I almost bought that this
• 46:14
  weekend too. Yep.
• 46:16
  Oh, is it the Lego Game Boy? It's the Lego Game Boy.
• 46:19
  It's very affordable too. It's very affordable.
• 46:23
  It's only like 50 or 60 bucks I think.
• 46:26
  It's 60 bucks, I was expecting it to be much higher.
• 46:31
  Nope, a a game Nintendo Game Boy was more expensive than the Game
• 46:34
  Boy Lego set. Yeah, yeah, as I was spending
• 46:38
  much, much more expensive, considering how expensive all
• 46:41
  the other Nintendo Lego stuff has been.
• 46:46
  Yeah, I don't know when I'm going to get around to building
• 46:48
  this because I can't really build it with my cat around.
• 46:52
  She really likes Lego pieces. I also still have my my Daiku
• 46:58
  tree that I bought like 2 years ago and still haven't opened
• 47:01
  because that same problem. That was an expensive one.
• 47:06
  Yeah, that was like 2 or 300 bucks.
• 47:08
  No, yeah, 200. Bucks 300.
• 47:09
  But it's also one of those, well, it was a 2IN1 as well, so
• 47:13
  I thought it was 200, but it's like you had to buy 2 to get the
• 47:18
  both sets. But anyways.
• 47:22
  And then the other physical thing is I can update my tattoo
• 47:27
  a little bit. So I've had this pagoda tattoo
• 47:30
  that I got back in September and I've now kind of worked some
• 47:33
  more into it. So it's got monkeys on it.
• 47:39
  Monkeys. Monkeys one's upside down here,
• 47:45
  but he's in a he's in a hot spring, Yeah.
• 47:49
  That's cool, that's cool. I like the.
• 47:50
  I like the motif you have going on with that one.
• 47:54
  And to think the lining work is still not done.
• 47:57
  I go back in November, kind of get the shoulder and like a bit
• 48:02
  of the chest here and then the lines are done.
• 48:05
  Then we can focus on shading and then colors.
• 48:10
  There might be like at least five more sessions on this
• 48:14
  tattoo, but I I am liking it a lot.
• 48:21
  Well, it's it's a little itchy right now because, you know, I
• 48:26
  just got it recently, but I'm surviving.
• 48:31
  It's cool. It's worth it.
• 48:34
  In terms of the video game world though, I have a course picked
• 48:39
  up Ghost of Yote Yotei Yotei Yotei.
• 48:46
  Hey hey, I don't know Anyways bro, what do I think of it?
• 48:53
  What do you guys think of I think of.
• 48:54
  It I think a you probably think it's just a better version of
• 48:58
  Ghost of Sushima, which is just a Sony version of Assassin's
• 49:01
  Creed. Yes and no.
• 49:06
  I agree it is definitely a better version of Ghost of
• 49:10
  Sushima. Is it the Sony version of
• 49:13
  Assassin's Creed? I think it's a lot better than
• 49:16
  Assassin's Creed after playing Assassin's Creed shadows and
• 49:20
  playing Gosa Yote. What shadows?
• 49:23
  Like shadows world is beautiful, but I feel like there's a lot
• 49:30
  more, I guess, openness to that world where Yote's world feels
• 49:38
  more like purposeful, like the levels are designed or the maps
• 49:42
  are designed in a particular way to hide, you know, certain
• 49:47
  secrets and stuff. Where like Assassin's Creed map
• 49:50
  felt almost way too big. So much more open space with
• 49:54
  like objectives scattered about, but the objectives feel more
• 49:59
  closed in, more like available, I guess, without having to go,
• 50:04
  without having to like run off too far.
• 50:08
  It is an absolutely gorgeous game, probably one of the best
• 50:13
  looking PlayStation games I've seen out there, right up there
• 50:17
  with like Dust Stranding 2 in terms of the gameplay.
• 50:23
  The gameplay is very similar to Ghosts of Sushima.
• 50:27
  It's it's they really haven't done anything to change up the
• 50:30
  gameplay, which is fine because the gameplay was actually the
• 50:33
  strongest point of Ghosts of Sushima.
• 50:35
  I would say Ghosts of Sushima's struggle was the story and goes
• 50:40
  to Yote is absolutely delivering on the story.
• 50:46
  Nice Like all all the characters whether they be side characters.
• 50:51
  Even Atsu, like her story is just she is such a bad ass
• 50:57
  character, but like you can you understand a lot of where her
• 51:02
  pain is just kind of like why she is very aloof and I guess
• 51:10
  cold to some people just kind of based on how she had to grow up
• 51:15
  after after the events that made her the way she was.
• 51:22
  The villains themselves are very, very well built.
• 51:28
  I guess they're they're fleshed out.
• 51:32
  And that was another thing I felt was weak about Assassin's
• 51:36
  Creed Shadows was that they almost felt like the villain of
• 51:40
  the week story where it's like, OK, now you go after this guy,
• 51:44
  you know, oh, he's the son of this character that you've seen
• 51:47
  for like 5 minutes. But the Yote 6 the the villains
• 51:53
  in this game, like they have time, like you have time where
• 51:57
  you actually see like them. You get to kind of experience
• 52:00
  their personalities, maybe get a little bit about their
• 52:03
  backstories, but they are definitely more involved in the
• 52:08
  story as well as have more of that personal relationship to
• 52:12
  your character than just kind of being a random person in a mask.
• 52:17
  So I I feel like they have basically took everything that
• 52:23
  was good from Ghosiote and fixed everything that needed work and
• 52:28
  now this game is just an absolute masterpiece in my
• 52:32
  opinion of a open world sandbox game.
• 52:39
  You know, Allah, Assassin's Creed or Ubisoft.
• 52:42
  Like I think Ubisoft could actually take some notes here
• 52:46
  and maybe going forward kind of rather than like creating a big
• 52:51
  old sandbox, have more of a story focused like and more
• 52:56
  purposeful of a sandbox to go around and explore.
• 53:03
  Yeah, I mean, that's that's one thing I definitely noticed about
• 53:05
  Ghost of Sushima when I was playing it before my PlayStation
• 53:09
  died. I I noticed that the world is
• 53:14
  more purposeful, but I also wonder how much of the openness
• 53:19
  of the world is hidden by like the because I I feel like
• 53:26
  Ecosushima is very Nintendo esque and where things are
• 53:31
  placed with a purpose, right? And they want you to go see the
• 53:36
  things that are purposely put there.
• 53:39
  Plus like the wind navigation dynamic.
• 53:42
  I wonder how much of that hides the openness, like the emptiness
• 53:46
  of some of the areas. I mean, I, I think Ghost of
• 53:52
  Sushima did a much better job of making the world feel dense,
• 53:55
  unlike Assassin's Creed, which just makes it feel huge and kind
• 53:59
  of like 1 dimensional essentially right?
• 54:02
  Where like, I mean, it's like when you play destiny and you
• 54:08
  land on a, on a destination, right?
• 54:10
  Like, oh, surface level, there's like the planet, you know, the
• 54:14
  top side of the planet. But then you can kind of go down
• 54:16
  in these dungeons or these caves and, and, or you can kind of go
• 54:20
  up into these towers and whatever.
• 54:21
  And there's, it's very dense, right?
• 54:23
  And Assassin's Creed never did that that well, but I think
• 54:27
  that's something that goes to Sushima did very well.
• 54:30
  And so I I expect Ghosts of Yote probably does it much better.
• 54:37
  Like there you have your typical like this, your little side
• 54:41
  activities like going to visit Hot Springs, of course, are in
• 54:45
  it, the fox dens gathering bounties.
• 54:50
  What's really cool is that like each one has their own little
• 54:54
  variation or twist to the story. Like it's not just chasing up
• 54:58
  like finding a fox and chasing it and finding a shrine.
• 55:01
  Now it's finding a fox. Oh, this fox is trying to lead
• 55:05
  you to another fox that's trapped.
• 55:07
  So you're now rescuing that other fox and then those foxes
• 55:11
  bring you to the shrine or, you know, this fox here says little
• 55:16
  Timmy fell down the well, helped get little Timmy out of the
• 55:19
  well. You know, it's like, yeah, it's
• 55:23
  it's little tiny stories that are added to it to make the the
• 55:29
  standard side activity not just be standard.
• 55:32
  It's each one has his own little like, you know, This is why you
• 55:37
  should check it out to get this kind of a story or this little
• 55:41
  variation going on with it. So it you know, it's it's really
• 55:47
  cool. They, they really try to break
• 55:50
  up the monotony that's usually comes with a check off the box
• 55:56
  kind of game. But yeah, the world's, the
• 55:58
  world's gorgeous. It's full of life, full of
• 56:01
  animals. Like you could be running
• 56:03
  through a grassy field. And if there's like a hort like
• 56:06
  a flock of horses or I don't know what you'd call a group of
• 56:09
  horses, a herd. But if you like run like kind of
• 56:16
  with them, like all of a sudden they just kind of like group
• 56:18
  around to the side and run with you.
• 56:20
  And it's kind of the same with like if you run through birds,
• 56:23
  they kind of like fly and like start flying around almost all a
• 56:28
  Wind Waker style when like you found seagulls and they started
• 56:31
  like flying with the boat, but they're like flying with your
• 56:34
  horse. So it's, it's such, it is such a
• 56:39
  good game and I hope I can find someone who has played it
• 56:44
  because I would definitely want to talk about this game.
• 56:47
  It's it's a game that I feel has an amazing story and would
• 56:51
  definitely be worth a spoiler cast if we can find people for
• 56:54
  it. Yeah, I think that's definitely
• 56:59
  one that's up for discussion for sure.
• 57:02
  I think I think a lot of people are.
• 57:07
  I feel like there's a lot of people excited for this game,
• 57:11
  but it's also very quiet, Like it's a quiet excitement.
• 57:17
  So I'm I'm interested to see how it sells.
• 57:19
  I'm sure it will sell, you know, a bajillion copies, but.
• 57:24
  We we know it's already passed a million so.
• 57:27
  Yeah. Yeah, like it had.
• 57:29
  It had a pretty good launch. Yeah, yeah.
• 57:34
  And then what? The Legends mode comes out next
• 57:36
  year and I'm sure they'll do a Iki Island sort of DLC for it
• 57:40
  too. So.
• 57:42
  Yeah, You know, I The game takes place on the island of Bezo,
• 57:46
  which is the big North Island in Japan.
• 57:49
  But the map really only focuses on the western side of the
• 57:54
  island. So I could almost see the DLC
• 57:57
  being the eastern side, unless there's nothing I've never been
• 58:01
  to. So I don't know what that island
• 58:03
  consists of. Maybe the east side is just
• 58:05
  literally like a giant mountain range.
• 58:08
  But, you know, I, I, I could see them almost doing the
• 58:11
  second-half of the island for DLC.
• 58:16
  That would be kind of cool. But it it's it's cool.
• 58:19
  Like, what's also cool is that you can see Yote from almost any
• 58:24
  like location that you're, you go in like the mountains just
• 58:28
  dominating over the island. Anyways, yeah, I really like it
• 58:36
  and I at this point, I cleared off every single side activity
• 58:42
  that I can do or I found on the map.
• 58:45
  So I only have some story objectives left.
• 58:49
  And then I don't know if it's opening up another area or
• 58:51
  what's going to happen, but you know, it's, it's good.
• 58:58
  I also picked up Yoka Yoka Replayee which is the remake of
• 59:04
  Ukulele and I will also say I am enjoying that as well.
• 59:09
  It is a much improved version over the original in terms of
• 59:13
  how the camera works. The gameplay itself is a lot
• 59:17
  smoother. One of the things I did notice
• 59:20
  is that instead of having you earn your abilities, they just
• 59:23
  give you all the abilities up front in the beginning.
• 59:26
  Great. And just, you know, say, OK, go
• 59:29
  out there and gather all the pages that you can possibly
• 59:32
  find, which there are now 300 pages to find in this game.
• 59:37
  So is it a lot? Maybe.
• 59:39
  But that's kind of what the whole point of these 3D
• 59:41
  platformers are, is they're collectathons.
• 59:43
  They're they're designed for the person who wants like, I think
• 59:46
  you only need like 60 pages to actually beat the game.
• 59:51
  But you know, for those who want to go and explore and find every
• 59:54
  last nook and cranny, there's 300 these things to find.
• 1:00:00
  Nice. So.
• 1:00:01
  I've been debating on whether or not to buy it, especially
• 1:00:04
  because like if you have the digital version you get 30% off
• 1:00:07
  of the the remaster and so don't remember how.
• 1:00:15
  I remember the maps pretty well and the maps are pretty much the
• 1:00:19
  same. However, I think what they did
• 1:00:21
  was they added a whole bunch of new activities to these maps so
• 1:00:25
  that you know it. It feels fresh.
• 1:00:28
  But I don't quite remember all the activities that were
• 1:00:31
  available for the first time around.
• 1:00:33
  So I don't know which ones are new and which ones are old but.
• 1:00:38
  Yeah, I mean the game, I mean, it's an old game, so I mean.
• 1:00:43
  Yeah, it plays well and I think that's kind of what matters in
• 1:00:47
  this. If you haven't played Yoka
• 1:00:49
  lately before, I would definitely say Yoka replay would
• 1:00:54
  definitely be the the good entering point to that.
• 1:00:58
  Yeah, I, I I liked the first game, but I actually think
• 1:01:03
  impossible Lair, the 2D side scrolling game is like
• 1:01:07
  incredible if you like, if you like those old like Donkey Kong
• 1:01:12
  country esque platformers. It feels like a much tighter
• 1:01:16
  version of that. So good.
• 1:01:18
  Oh yeah. And I love the fact.
• 1:01:20
  I love the fact that how like you go through the level ones
• 1:01:24
  and then you manipulate something on the world map and
• 1:01:26
  it changes that entire level. I thought that was awesome.
• 1:01:31
  Yeah, and I, I like the fact that like, you play it and
• 1:01:38
  you're like, man, this feels a lot like this feels like a lot
• 1:01:42
  tighter, faster version of Tropical Freeze.
• 1:01:45
  And then you, the gameplay designer, left Retro to go work
• 1:01:50
  on this game. Yeah.
• 1:01:52
  So I'm like, Oh well, that makes sense I guess.
• 1:01:55
  Yeah, no, the the Yoka. The Yoka lately games I thought
• 1:02:00
  were great. Not both of them, Even though
• 1:02:04
  that impossible lair was almost lived up to its name, the very
• 1:02:08
  last level. Yeah, yeah, that last level is
• 1:02:15
  pretty. I literally got there with 0
• 1:02:18
  bugs left. Jeez.
• 1:02:21
  Like I got to the end. Like I had two bugs after you
• 1:02:25
  beat the capital B and then you have the escape sequence and I
• 1:02:30
  had two bugs left for that. And then I lost those two bugs
• 1:02:34
  and I was down to 0 and I managed to finally get to the
• 1:02:37
  end. I was like if I would have
• 1:02:40
  freaked out if I died right there because capital B was a
• 1:02:45
  capital B. Also I picked up an indie game
• 1:02:50
  called by Sweet Carol which is a adventure like A.
• 1:02:55
  It's almost a mixture of a pointing click game mixed in
• 1:02:58
  with a 90s Disney look to it. Nice.
• 1:03:04
  Yes, it is a dark story of a girl named Lana who can't quite
• 1:03:11
  remember who she is or like what?
• 1:03:16
  Like she's told that she's the Princess, but she's not.
• 1:03:20
  She doesn't know why. And there's this creep, this guy
• 1:03:24
  named Doctor Kind or Mr. Kind, who is a man made out of tar and
• 1:03:31
  he's stalking her and for some reasons.
• 1:03:34
  Unknown made out of. Tar.
• 1:03:38
  Yep, and you can like shape Shift and this game like it,
• 1:03:43
  it's got this. It literally looks like a Disney
• 1:03:45
  cartoon but it's also dark as shit like.
• 1:03:51
  The. There there's some very like
• 1:03:53
  holy crap kind of moments with this animation style that just
• 1:03:58
  like it it it's it's kind of a horror game as well as being a
• 1:04:03
  point and click adventure. Because at some points in the
• 1:04:05
  game, there are creatures or abominations that are stalking
• 1:04:11
  you in the halls and you have to hide from them.
• 1:04:16
  And whether like if you can get into the room before they can
• 1:04:19
  get into a room, then you can like find a hiding space and
• 1:04:22
  then you have to hold your breath while they are walking
• 1:04:26
  kind of within the. Area Alien.
• 1:04:29
  Alien Isolation. Yeah, it's Alien Isolation on a
• 1:04:33
  2D like 2DS side scroll, but point and click adventure where
• 1:04:40
  you try and find items and interact with puzzles on the the
• 1:04:44
  screen. And then cutscenes of course,
• 1:04:47
  and the artwork all have this very Disney aesthetic.
• 1:04:52
  But it's it's it's a very interesting game.
• 1:04:55
  Like I I'm engrossed in the story and I want to find out
• 1:04:59
  what exactly is going on. Oh yeah.
• 1:05:05
  And then I played the Mario Galaxy games.
• 1:05:07
  And to answer your question, Loren, I feel like the controls
• 1:05:10
  are tighter. I haven't played it in handheld
• 1:05:13
  mode. What I do is I do the the
• 1:05:15
  unattached joy cons and I feel like you don't lose the cursor
• 1:05:19
  as much on the screen this time around.
• 1:05:22
  That's good. I think that was an issue with
• 1:05:24
  the Switch version and I feel like they've made the controls
• 1:05:30
  tighter in that regard. Nice.
• 1:05:35
  Yeah, Cool. Well, everyone, you'll be able
• 1:05:40
  to hear more about what we've all been playing, as well as our
• 1:05:45
  friends on the upcoming Boss Rush Games cast coming soon to
• 1:05:50
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• 1:05:53
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• 1:06:00
  All right, let's talk about some of the the headlines, as they
• 1:06:03
  say the headlines. Laurent, I put a couple stories
• 1:06:08
  specifically for you on here. I've noticed.
• 1:06:13
  I also think that this is a crazy time to talk about
• 1:06:19
  PlayStation 6 and the next Xbox 27 reports.
• 1:06:25
  I think it's just crazy to talk about the next Xbox.
• 1:06:28
  The next Xbox, yeah. Well, there be ones.
• 1:06:31
  Or what they. Have a funny feeling.
• 1:06:34
  I have a funny feeling that but before, months before we get to
• 1:06:37
  2027, Microsoft's going to be like just just joking.
• 1:06:40
  No. No new console, no hardware.
• 1:06:45
  It's going to be some sort of hybrid with Amdi think.
• 1:06:50
  Well, well, will, will Microsoft, will Microsoft be
• 1:06:53
  able to put their money where where their mouth is at?
• 1:06:55
  And actually, you know, and actually, well, it might the
• 1:06:57
  reason, well, the reason why like, you know, like.
• 1:06:59
  Where is their mouth, Theron? I mean, come on.
• 1:07:02
  I think I, I think it's the same place where.
• 1:07:04
  Whose money are they using? I think it's the same place
• 1:07:07
  where they sit down. I think that's where their
• 1:07:09
  money, what their mouth is at now.
• 1:07:12
  Jeez. What was that?
• 1:07:14
  Where where? What was I about to say though?
• 1:07:16
  OK, so the people might miss a few news cycles, but the reason
• 1:07:23
  why Microsoft wound up like partnering with Asus to make the
• 1:07:27
  next ROG Ally is because like is because like they weren't
• 1:07:32
  confident enough to get like, what was it like?
• 1:07:34
  What was it like like 10 million chips ordered for from AMD for
• 1:07:39
  like the actual, the actual handheld that Microsoft wanted
• 1:07:43
  to make. I think that that number sounds
• 1:07:45
  that number sounds way too off, like I'm I'm forgetting
• 1:07:48
  something. Yeah, I don't remember.
• 1:07:52
  Why did Microsoft abandoned the handheld?
• 1:07:57
  Let's find out here. Abandoned.
• 1:08:00
  Me Why did they abandon? Yeah, it was a 10 million unit
• 1:08:04
  commitment. I was right.
• 1:08:05
  Yeah. Like like they like Microsoft.
• 1:08:08
  Microsoft was a little shy about like committing to 10 million
• 1:08:11
  unit sales, which means that would've been 10,000,010 million
• 1:08:14
  ships that you had to get from AMD.
• 1:08:17
  They couldn't. They can't.
• 1:08:18
  They haven't even sold 10 million series XS like.
• 1:08:22
  They're never going to sell 10. Have they sold 10 million of any
• 1:08:25
  of their consoles? The SO apparently they're
• 1:08:30
  hovering around 40 million units sold.
• 1:08:32
  OK, OK, I 3030. Apparently I was being I was
• 1:08:35
  being misinformed just to be mean.
• 1:08:38
  But the Series S is outselling the Series X like 4 to 1.
• 1:08:44
  Oh, that's good. These are These are just like.
• 1:08:46
  Prices now, yeah. Well, I mean, who's gonna pay
• 1:08:49
  $800.00 for an Xbox? Let's be honest.
• 1:08:51
  Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I think, I think that I think those sales
• 1:08:54
  have ended this. Yeah, I mean, Lauren, you and I
• 1:08:58
  have been talking about like is it cheaper just to build APC
• 1:09:02
  that's gonna run my games at 1440P and 60 frames a second
• 1:09:05
  and. Guess what?
• 1:09:06
  And guess what, it will last you quite a few console generations
• 1:09:09
  compared to to like any console that's out right now.
• 1:09:13
  Yeah, I'm I'm so tired of like the Xbox.
• 1:09:19
  Will they won't they? It's like the IT feels like it
• 1:09:23
  feels like the ex-girlfriend that like or like the girl that
• 1:09:27
  you like that strings you along because she likes some other
• 1:09:29
  guy, but you're the one giving her attention and she's just
• 1:09:32
  waiting for him to bite. Right.
• 1:09:34
  This is she gets rid of you. This is the This is the
• 1:09:38
  craziest. Game of hokey pokey we've we've
• 1:09:40
  ever engaged in with a company. Man, I just.
• 1:09:44
  Like I I, I dumped that girl. I I can I.
• 1:09:50
  Cancelled my I cancelled my ultimate subscription the second
• 1:09:53
  it jumped to 30. It's like, well, I don't play
• 1:09:56
  you enough, the. Thing is though, it's like if
• 1:10:00
  you are, if you are a if you are on auto renewal.
• 1:10:03
  They didn't raise your price for now.
• 1:10:06
  Yeah. I also don't play enough game
• 1:10:10
  pass to like I was. I was thinking about cancelling
• 1:10:13
  anyway and just dropping down the core, which is like 10 bucks
• 1:10:16
  right. I don't use cloud.
• 1:10:19
  I hardly play any. I hardly play game pass games
• 1:10:24
  like I play destiny. I think the I think I've played
• 1:10:26
  like 3 game pass games this year and it would have been cheaper
• 1:10:28
  for me just to buy them right. I played Clarebs gear, I played
• 1:10:31
  Gears and I play, I don't know, something else I'm sure.
• 1:10:37
  Doom, probably. I don't play Doom, yeah.
• 1:10:39
  You're not a Doom. You're not a Doom South of
• 1:10:42
  midnight. I don't know, I didn't play
• 1:10:44
  South of Midnight. There's something on Game Pass
• 1:10:46
  that I played that I just don't remember at the moment.
• 1:10:48
  Oh, I, I downloaded the Madden demo because they, they allow
• 1:10:54
  you to play it for 10 hours for free if you are a Game Pass
• 1:10:56
  subscriber. And I was like, yeah, I got my
• 1:11:01
  feel of Madden because it still sucks.
• 1:11:04
  And now, now EA is owned by Saudi Arabia and public Fund and
• 1:11:09
  now they won't be getting any of my money until maybe Mass Effect
• 1:11:14
  comes out. I guess maybe I'll buy.
• 1:11:15
  Weird world we're living in. I know man, so weird.
• 1:11:20
  But let's talk about weird. According to two separate
• 1:11:24
  reports, the next PlayStation and Xbox consoles are coming in
• 1:11:27
  2027. Following recent discussion
• 1:11:30
  between Playstation's Mark Cerny and AM DS Jack Hulen,
• 1:11:36
  speculation on the next PlayStation consoles
• 1:11:38
  intensified. The reliable leaker Kepler L2
• 1:11:41
  stated that Sony currently plans to release the PlayStation Six
• 1:11:46
  in 2027, barring any delays. Previous rumors have pointed to
• 1:11:51
  late 2027 and early 2028 release, with reports suggested
• 1:11:55
  both standard console and dockable handheld version, which
• 1:11:57
  we talked about. Lauren a couple weeks ago from
• 1:11:59
  Moore's Law's Dead Broken Silicon podcast is a pretty
• 1:12:04
  decent one. If you're into gaming tech, I
• 1:12:07
  would check that out with reports.
• 1:12:11
  Whoops. The PS6 is rumored to feature
• 1:12:14
  RDNA 5 graphics, Zen 6 CPU cores, and full backwards
• 1:12:19
  compatibility with PlayStation 5 and 4, though none of this has
• 1:12:23
  been officially confirmed. On the other hand, Microsoft has
• 1:12:28
  responded to the rumors, claiming that the future of Xbox
• 1:12:30
  hardware is uncertain, reaffirming its commitment to
• 1:12:33
  developing new consoles. In a statement to Windows
• 1:12:36
  Central, the company said it is quote actively investigating in
• 1:12:42
  our future first party consoles and devices, pointing to its
• 1:12:46
  partnership with AMD as evidence.
• 1:12:48
  Aye, aye, aye. I remember it began on Neogaf,
• 1:12:52
  where an insider suggested Microsoft's next Xbox plans had
• 1:12:55
  been put quote up in the air and that the company might focus on
• 1:12:59
  software and majority and major game franchises.
• 1:13:01
  While Microsoft dismissed the doubts of the hardware plans and
• 1:13:04
  did not comment on separate claims of possible layoffs or
• 1:13:10
  reduced retail presence in 2026, it is also been suggested
• 1:13:15
  heavily that after their 25th anniversary next year, they will
• 1:13:19
  be looking to release their next Xbox, whatever that is and looks
• 1:13:25
  like in 2027. Yeah, first of all, I don't know
• 1:13:32
  if you saw, but Costco and Targets have stopped carrying
• 1:13:36
  Xbox. Costco, Target, Sam's Club is
• 1:13:39
  liquidating I I don't know if I actually won a Series X at this
• 1:13:43
  point, but I've thought about maybe picking up a Series X out
• 1:13:45
  of out of Sam's Club. I mean, there's, I don't know if
• 1:13:49
  there's any point to pick it up now.
• 1:13:50
  There's there's no I have a game PC and I still haven't have a
• 1:13:53
  game. PC of a rock ally like.
• 1:13:55
  And I have and I have my Game Pass PC subscription, which that
• 1:13:58
  didn't, that didn't, they didn't touch the price of that.
• 1:14:00
  So I'm fine for now. But also, but also like I get a
• 1:14:04
  whole bunch of Game Pass PC codes all the time, you know,
• 1:14:07
  because of, because of my job, you know?
• 1:14:09
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, like I'm subscribed, you
• 1:14:12
  know, like, but you know, every now and then, depending on what
• 1:14:14
  I'm doing as far as like new PC bills and stuff like that, I, I
• 1:14:17
  wind up end up getting a free month, one to three months.
• 1:14:20
  Sometimes I'll get those vouchers just because I'm in the
• 1:14:23
  Windows ecosystem. Yeah, it's weird.
• 1:14:30
  Xbox is definitely like, I don't know, man.
• 1:14:35
  I mean, I feel like, I feel like we're beating a dead horse here,
• 1:14:37
  but it always feels like Xbox. Microsoft is the one that's
• 1:14:42
  beating the dead horse. Yeah, they are, yeah.
• 1:14:44
  No, they are. I I just always feel like Xbox
• 1:14:47
  and Xbox leadership want to do one thing and it's like they,
• 1:14:53
  they. Announce one good thing and then
• 1:14:55
  they take like 2 to three steps back immediately after they
• 1:14:59
  announce one good thing. Yep, and I feel like that's how
• 1:15:03
  they've kind of always been. I feel like that's how they, I
• 1:15:09
  mean even all the way back on the Xbox One, right where like
• 1:15:13
  they started testing the play anywhere stuff and they're like,
• 1:15:16
  well, do we need an Xbox? Do we need to buy APC?
• 1:15:21
  And they're like, well, play on both.
• 1:15:23
  You don't need both. And like, you know, Laurent
• 1:15:28
  wouldn't, I don't know what was it 2 months ago at this point
• 1:15:31
  when we had Todd on. Todd Oxtra, by the way, shout
• 1:15:36
  out to his new venture. I want to make sure I get the
• 1:15:41
  name right. The Fandom Foundry should go
• 1:15:46
  check out, check that YouTube channel out.
• 1:15:48
  He has a new podcast out to the best week in gaming or the best
• 1:15:53
  things in gaming this week. You should go check that out.
• 1:15:58
  We're going to try to help him push that because obviously
• 1:16:01
  Todd's a friend. But we were talking about that
• 1:16:04
  and like my whole argument was like, I think people really
• 1:16:10
  underestimate the plug and play experience of a console right
• 1:16:16
  where you open the box, you plug it in your TV generally knows
• 1:16:21
  what to do with it, right? Like you plug it in HDMI, even
• 1:16:25
  if you don't touch any, like the game mode settings or anything,
• 1:16:28
  it knows to switch to an HDMI port and you can play it, right.
• 1:16:31
  A general norm normie can play it right?
• 1:16:36
  Whereas PCs it's like, well, you got to update this now.
• 1:16:40
  There's that whole Windows 10 to Windows 11 thing going on,
• 1:16:44
  right? Because isn't today the last day
• 1:16:46
  that Windows is supporting Windows 10?
• 1:16:49
  For Microsoft supporting Windows 10 and like, that's what it
• 1:16:51
  breaks. As of this as of this recording,
• 1:16:54
  it's October 14th right now. As of this recording, 11:59 PM
• 1:16:58
  Eastern Pacific Standard Time, Windows 10 will no longer be
• 1:17:02
  supported. Will be getting active support
• 1:17:04
  from Microsoft, which means that your system will soon eventually
• 1:17:07
  become at risk for like, malicious, malicious everything.
• 1:17:13
  Yeah, so, but like, as, as you know, La Ron, you and I have
• 1:17:19
  actually been talking for about two or three weeks now about,
• 1:17:23
  man, when this next Xbox rolls out is would it just be better
• 1:17:26
  to just get APC at this point? And like, I've built a Steam
• 1:17:30
  wish list just in case because like, I don't know man, I'm it's
• 1:17:36
  just so hard to trust them now. And PlayStation has been, you
• 1:17:42
  know, I, I think at the beginning of the generation,
• 1:17:45
  you're like, oh, well, Xbox has this messaging down.
• 1:17:48
  You know, smart delivery is a smart thing.
• 1:17:50
  And PlayStation doesn't know what they're doing.
• 1:17:52
  They, they don't know what they're talking about.
• 1:17:53
  But it just feels like Playstation's messaging has been
• 1:17:57
  slow and steady, clear. We're not going to say anything
• 1:18:00
  until we're ready type thing. And then Microsoft has just been
• 1:18:05
  all they do is talk and they talk about talk out both sides
• 1:18:09
  of their mouth. I don't know how Aaron Greenberg
• 1:18:11
  still has a job. It's like.
• 1:18:13
  It's terrible. Like, I feel like, I feel like I
• 1:18:18
  say this every time I talk about Xbox, but like Aaron Greenberg,
• 1:18:20
  like he's so good at advertising things that you can't buy.
• 1:18:24
  But like, it's like a fart in the wind when a brand new AAA
• 1:18:28
  game comes out and it's like, whoa, what was that?
• 1:18:31
  Hell Blade came out? Oh, but look at this sick
• 1:18:36
  Deadpool ass controller. Yeah, here's 40 pictures of
• 1:18:40
  that. You know, here's the SpongeBob
• 1:18:44
  Series S that you can enter a contest for.
• 1:18:48
  It's like, oh, well, thanks. Can't buy that.
• 1:18:53
  So I don't know, man, it's it's tough.
• 1:18:55
  Like, and, and like I got, I recently got rid of my PS-5
• 1:18:59
  because it was dying, honestly. But like, part of me is like,
• 1:19:05
  should I just, like, get rid of both of these and just refresh
• 1:19:08
  my PlayStation? And then Laurent, you and I were
• 1:19:10
  talking and it's like, well, I guess at this point in this
• 1:19:13
  stage of picking consoles, it might just be easier to build
• 1:19:19
  that PC at this point. Yeah, which by which by the way
• 1:19:23
  we, we should talk in the next day or two.
• 1:19:24
  I've I've got a couple of suggested builds for you.
• 1:19:28
  Yeah, we will, but 2027 seems really early for a new
• 1:19:34
  generation. Yeah, I think there were litter
• 1:19:38
  polls that came out and, or I know at least on not on Twitter,
• 1:19:43
  like there's been polls coming out that said, hey, you know, do
• 1:19:47
  you, do you feel that Like when do you feel the Next Generation
• 1:19:50
  Council comes out? And I believe a lot of people
• 1:19:53
  are saying they should wait till at least 20-30.
• 1:19:58
  Yeah. That's, that's, that's honestly,
• 1:20:01
  that's honestly a safer bet than what's going on now.
• 1:20:06
  That, of course, corporations aren't going to do that because
• 1:20:08
  they want you to buy their latest product, even if the
• 1:20:12
  current product still hasn't feel like it's been utilized.
• 1:20:16
  Yeah, to the best of its ability.
• 1:20:20
  Yeah, it just, I mean, I almost felt like it was almost too
• 1:20:23
  early for the Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 when they came
• 1:20:27
  out. I think the big push for that
• 1:20:30
  though was like you're going to get higher frame rates and then
• 1:20:33
  a lot of games that came out after launch.
• 1:20:36
  Didn't you know? I mean I.
• 1:20:38
  Load times For me I'd I'd like the idea of better load times
• 1:20:44
  and I will admit load times have been a lot better.
• 1:20:47
  Yeah, Ghost. Of Shashima doesn't even have a
• 1:20:49
  load time, it just instantly teleports you to where you need
• 1:20:52
  to go. Yeah, and like, I'll admit, like
• 1:20:56
  the only reason why I bought a Series X at launch was because I
• 1:20:58
  wanted to play Destiny at 60 and 120 frames a second.
• 1:21:03
  Like literally the only reason why I bought it at launch.
• 1:21:06
  Now, granted, I love Gears Tactics and I loved playing.
• 1:21:12
  I loved Halo Infinite's campaign and you know, a lot of the other
• 1:21:16
  stuff that came out after that. But like all those came out on
• 1:21:19
  Xbox One, you know, all those like I could have waited, I
• 1:21:23
  could have, I could still be playing on Xbox One, right?
• 1:21:26
  Like these games are still available there and a lot of the
• 1:21:29
  PlayStation stuff up until, you know, even a couple like a year
• 1:21:34
  or two ago was still coming out on PlayStation 4.
• 1:21:40
  So I don't know, I just, I feel like we're in this space where
• 1:21:44
  like Play PlayStation is going to have PlayStation 4-5 and six
• 1:21:49
  and the handheld on the market at the same time and.
• 1:21:55
  Interesting time for sure. Yeah, and it's going to be weird
• 1:21:58
  when the PlayStation 6 is cheaper than the PlayStation 5
• 1:22:01
  Pro, because that's the big rumor too.
• 1:22:04
  Now is that it they are going to like the PlayStation 6 is going
• 1:22:08
  to be less powerful than the next Xbox, but it's going to be
• 1:22:12
  they're aiming for $400.00, which is crazy to think about.
• 1:22:16
  But I don't know, man, 2027 seems real early.
• 1:22:24
  It seems real early like I understand like.
• 1:22:28
  Though like I'd be OK with the handheld if it's kind of like
• 1:22:31
  the Switch I think. The hand, I think the handheld
• 1:22:34
  is what what the world is waiting on for, for the next
• 1:22:37
  Sony handheld is what the world's waiting on.
• 1:22:40
  I like my portal, but I also like the ability to play on the
• 1:22:45
  go without being connected to a really fast Wi-Fi to, you know,
• 1:22:51
  not stutter or anything in that system.
• 1:22:54
  Yeah, yeah, I, I, I think that that's kind of the, I think it's
• 1:23:02
  very clearly the future, right? I think Steam that can switch
• 1:23:05
  prove that of like people just want a device they can play
• 1:23:09
  their things anywhere on and it doesn't matter where, right?
• 1:23:14
  And I mean, God willing, Microsoft is really trying with
• 1:23:19
  ROG to do this. But I think I think PlayStation
• 1:23:23
  is going to be the one that doesn't right Outside of
• 1:23:26
  Nintendo, Yeah, honestly, I just, I think Xbox's mixed
• 1:23:32
  messaging and confused consumer base is just not, they're just
• 1:23:36
  not going to pay $1000 for a handheld PC because they think
• 1:23:40
  it's an Xbox, right? Because they're marketing the
• 1:23:43
  Xbox Ally as an Xbox. They're not marketing it as a
• 1:23:46
  handheld PC, which again, the marketing, the messaging.
• 1:23:53
  Yeah. And then, you know, I'm, I'm
• 1:23:55
  starting to have questions about like, about like that overall.
• 1:23:58
  Like, you know, like, like what I feel like there's, I feel like
• 1:24:05
  there's one or two different people inside the marketing,
• 1:24:08
  inside the marketing department from Microsoft for Xbox that are
• 1:24:12
  literally warring with each other, you know, and then, and
• 1:24:16
  then it's spilled and then it's spilled out to the executives,
• 1:24:18
  Sarah Bond, Phil Spencer, Satya Nadella, it's spilled out to
• 1:24:22
  them. And they're, and it's still
• 1:24:23
  like, it's like, it's like we got all these got all these
• 1:24:26
  random ass voices talking at once.
• 1:24:28
  And no, and there's, there's a lesson, there's there's
• 1:24:33
  something I learned and and I learned this, I learned this in,
• 1:24:36
  in, you know, reading up some stuff about Steve Jobs.
• 1:24:39
  Steve Jobs wanted to, when Steve Jobs wanted to launch the iPad,
• 1:24:43
  the marketing department, like the like the head exec for the
• 1:24:46
  marketing department for Apple at the time was saying like,
• 1:24:48
  hey, like it's great. We have all these features, but
• 1:24:50
  we need to find the one feature that's the hook.
• 1:24:52
  And Steve was just like, no, no, no, we need to tell them about
• 1:24:54
  everything all at once. And like, no, Steve, I'm telling
• 1:24:57
  you that's a bad idea. So what they did basically was
• 1:24:59
  that was the person I think it was, I believe it was a woman.
• 1:25:02
  I can't remember her name for sure, but I believe it was a
• 1:25:03
  woman. She was in charge of the
• 1:25:05
  marketing at the time. She took Flash's paper, washed
• 1:25:08
  them, washed them all up in the balls of paper, tossed him as
• 1:25:11
  Steve. All at once.
• 1:25:12
  He was able to catch one of them successfully, you know, and
• 1:25:16
  that's when the idea stuck. You know, like, Oh yeah, like,
• 1:25:19
  and that's why that's why Apple's messaging is, when it
• 1:25:21
  comes to all their products, has always been concise.
• 1:25:24
  Yeah, we get like 9 different commercials for the same thing,
• 1:25:26
  for the same watch, iPad, iPhone, whatever and all that
• 1:25:29
  stuff. But each each one has its own
• 1:25:32
  individual specific message and stuff like that.
• 1:25:36
  I'm tired. Of watching Taylor Swift walk on
• 1:25:38
  a treadmill with her Apple Watch.
• 1:25:40
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But.
• 1:25:43
  Yeah, initially buy an Apple Watch.
• 1:25:45
  But that's the problem. There's there's no harmony right
• 1:25:51
  now in Microsoft, especially in their marketing department.
• 1:25:54
  And I and I guarantee you there's two or three people in
• 1:25:57
  the marketing department alone. They're fighting and then they
• 1:25:59
  get. Then they get to Uncle Phil and
• 1:26:01
  Mommy Sarah and Granddaddy Satya and Sarah.
• 1:26:05
  Jesus Christ, no comment. I mean, I mean, remember, we
• 1:26:11
  remember back when like it was Phil Ryan versus versus Tim
• 1:26:15
  Ryan, not Tim. I'm sorry, Jim Ryan, Jim Ryan,
• 1:26:19
  is that right? Yeah.
• 1:26:20
  Versus versus Phil Spencer, we're like, we're like Daddy Jim
• 1:26:22
  and Uncle Phil are fighting. Well, guess.
• 1:26:26
  What? Uncle Reggie is just standing
• 1:26:28
  there in the side, shaking his head.
• 1:26:30
  Well, guess what? Now the entire oh, oh and oh and
• 1:26:33
  and cousin and cousin Doug Bowser is like, I'm out.
• 1:26:37
  Yeah. And now we got.
• 1:26:41
  Devin Pritchard, Shoot, What's your Yeah.
• 1:26:44
  Yeah, Devin, Mama, Devin, that doesn't celebrate.
• 1:26:47
  Never. Mind.
• 1:26:47
  Yeah, yeah. Big Mama Aunt.
• 1:26:49
  Auntie Devin. Mama Pritchard.
• 1:26:56
  Mama Pritchard's gonna be grabbing those boys by the
• 1:26:58
  collar and pulling them aside. I don't know.
• 1:27:03
  Oh yeah, boy, but man, I guess about.
• 1:27:05
  The shoe. Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm going to
• 1:27:09
  continue to say it like like the whole the whole thing with Xbox
• 1:27:12
  right now is just a, just a, just a royal shit show.
• 1:27:14
  And, and honestly, like, you know, like I'm not saying listen
• 1:27:19
  to either Phil or listen to Sarah.
• 1:27:21
  Stop listening to Satya and you and you marketing and you
• 1:27:27
  marketing guys. Well.
• 1:27:28
  Well, I know they're listening to well Satya, Satya overall
• 1:27:31
  signs of paychecks. But what I'm saying is like,
• 1:27:33
  someone needs to just be like, hey, hey, like we were doing
• 1:27:37
  this for a long time. It was successful.
• 1:27:39
  And I understand they need to find a way to convince Satya to
• 1:27:42
  put the trust back into them to make it profitable.
• 1:27:46
  Well, that I mean, they, they did, I mean they sold him like
• 1:27:49
  because Satya came from the cloud division, right?
• 1:27:52
  He came from Azure and the only reason why Phil convinced him
• 1:27:57
  well, this is the story. I don't know how true this is,
• 1:28:00
  but like Phil said, we need to keep Xbox open.
• 1:28:03
  Here's a cloud version of Xbox and here's what we can do with
• 1:28:07
  the cloud. And Satya got excited about it.
• 1:28:12
  But now, like, I feel like Satya doesn't know what to do with
• 1:28:16
  like this AI craze, right? And so that he he's panicking
• 1:28:23
  and trying to spend all this money on, on AI infrastructure,
• 1:28:27
  which ironically is he wants to spend exactly how much they
• 1:28:30
  spent on Activision Blizzard. Shocking.
• 1:28:35
  But I think that's why you're seeing all these layoffs, all
• 1:28:38
  these, you know, these studio closures, these cancelled games,
• 1:28:41
  because they're trying to save that money to build for AI
• 1:28:44
  infrastructure for Microsoft. And Xbox is suffering because
• 1:28:49
  they're the smallest division of Microsoft.
• 1:28:51
  And I just feel like it's out of their hands because of what the
• 1:28:59
  tech industry is doing. Hey, Corey and Corey.
• 1:29:02
  Corey, look at the look, look, look at stream chat right now.
• 1:29:04
  Look at stream chat right now. Stream chat.
• 1:29:06
  Yeah. Stream chat.
• 1:29:09
  OK. Should we do it?
• 1:29:11
  Should we do it? I mean.
• 1:29:17
  Or or will we mess up our formatting?
• 1:29:20
  I mean, it will, but it doesn't matter.
• 1:29:25
  Hey, but get him in here. Hey, hey, Nick, are are we still
• 1:29:30
  friendly with each other on, on, on on Twitter if we are?
• 1:29:33
  Sentiment through discord. Send the discord OK?
• 1:29:36
  Yeah, he's always on Discord. OK.
• 1:29:39
  Uh oh. Surprise guest.
• 1:29:41
  Yeah, we're about. We're about to have an intruder.
• 1:29:46
  Intruder. Invader.
• 1:29:48
  No, no, wait, wait. New challenger.
• 1:29:51
  There we go. New Challenger cheese.
• 1:29:54
  New challenger. OK, so yeah, give me a second.
• 1:29:56
  Let me go to the go to the boss versus Discord.
• 1:29:58
  Let's let's get him in here. Let's see here, man, I'm there
• 1:30:12
  he is. You found him.
• 1:30:14
  Yeah, I did. OK good, good.
• 1:30:16
  Because I was searching I was having a hard time.
• 1:30:18
  Let's see what happens. I hope it doesn't break
• 1:30:20
  anything. It doesn't.
• 1:30:21
  Break anything either I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll take care, I'll
• 1:30:23
  take care of the production side.
• 1:30:24
  So just you said, did you send the link or or what?
• 1:30:28
  I did. I sent him.
• 1:30:29
  I sent him the stream here link. Awesome, awesome.
• 1:30:31
  Cheating. Did you say cheating?
• 1:30:35
  Who's cheating? Who said someone said cheating
• 1:30:37
  just now? Who said that?
• 1:30:41
  Or did I? Or did I?
• 1:30:42
  Or did I mishear from the static in my in my headphones?
• 1:30:45
  Uh oh, here we go. You got that demon.
• 1:30:50
  Yo, what's up? Nick's here.
• 1:30:54
  Am I, am I coming through impromptu?
• 1:30:57
  Yeah. OK, so I, I, I hopped in at the
• 1:31:01
  tail end of that. We're talking about P3 right now
• 1:31:03
  and all the Xbox stuff. Yeah.
• 1:31:05
  OK. What are we talking about?
• 1:31:08
  Because I have a lot to say about.
• 1:31:09
  Xbox, well, we started off with will they maybe release a new
• 1:31:17
  console? Then we went into how terrible
• 1:31:20
  Aaron Greenberg is at his marketing position.
• 1:31:23
  And then we went into basically, like, right now we're on the
• 1:31:29
  Satya wants to spend $80 billion on AI and Xbox is suffering and
• 1:31:36
  that means leadership can't do their jobs and they're losing,
• 1:31:40
  you know, key people and studio closures and cancelled games and
• 1:31:45
  all that garbage. So that's where we're at.
• 1:31:48
  So I think Xbox, when it comes to the console itself, due to
• 1:31:52
  like past agreements with manufacturers, I think we're
• 1:31:56
  going to see like at least one more cycle.
• 1:32:00
  Even if I think Brody and I discussed it, even if it's just
• 1:32:02
  the stick that they were talking about, they're talking about
• 1:32:05
  like the little Xbox home stick or.
• 1:32:06
  Whatever. Oh yeah, Project Keenan.
• 1:32:09
  Yeah. So I think it's either that I
• 1:32:11
  mean that's going to come to fruition eventually.
• 1:32:13
  Daddy Phil's going to take a little stick out of his pocket
• 1:32:16
  and be like, this is the next. Xbox.
• 1:32:18
  Well, don't do that. That don't, don't that's.
• 1:32:20
  Dirty and no one's going to be. So that's so dirty.
• 1:32:22
  That's dirty, Pat. Stop that.
• 1:32:24
  We don't. Well, it's the same thing when
• 1:32:28
  they're discussing cloud gaming. They're leaving a huge
• 1:32:32
  demographic of people out because what they're not
• 1:32:35
  bringing it up is the people who live in rural areas who don't
• 1:32:40
  have the bandwidth or the just the Internet capabilities at all
• 1:32:45
  to do that. They rely on a hard wire.
• 1:32:47
  Some of these people rely on a hard wire that is still not good
• 1:32:50
  enough to sustain cloud gaming. The they P3 Xbox, the entire
• 1:32:57
  marketing team have taken just the worst dive off a Cliff here.
• 1:33:05
  But the console thing I I think we're going to see one more.
• 1:33:07
  I really, I really do think at least one more Xbox yeah will be
• 1:33:11
  released. I do too.
• 1:33:12
  I just wonder, I wonder how much of it is going to be an Xbox and
• 1:33:19
  how much of it is going to be maybe that hybrid style that has
• 1:33:24
  been rumoured for a while. I know they obviously the AMD
• 1:33:28
  partnership is like a really big thing for them for backwards
• 1:33:34
  compatibility reasons. So that's good if you're a con
• 1:33:39
  Xbox console gamer. But I feel like at the same
• 1:33:43
  time, Xbox has really lost its fan base.
• 1:33:49
  Like it they, they've lost the faithful, most of them.
• 1:33:52
  They're still the loud minority who are just total douchebags on
• 1:33:56
  the Internet. But that's no names but I could
• 1:34:03
  I have a whole list of them if you want them, but it's just
• 1:34:09
  it's just a 5. Dollar chair to get that list.
• 1:34:11
  Yeah, exclusive. World.
• 1:34:14
  Exclusive, but you know I I see a lot of chatter on the Xbox
• 1:34:21
  community and it's like I don't even know why I have a console
• 1:34:24
  now like I I could build APC for cheaper than the two terabyte
• 1:34:28
  xboxes. Now I could buy the rog ally.
• 1:34:32
  Obviously there's various price points at that I could, I don't
• 1:34:36
  know, buy my games on PlayStation because they're
• 1:34:39
  there now. It's there's just so many
• 1:34:41
  different things that Xbox is still like not talking about,
• 1:34:47
  right. And like you could see the
• 1:34:50
  patterns in the games that they release on PlayStation.
• 1:34:53
  And obviously day and date on Steam is has been a thing for a
• 1:34:56
  while. But like you look at the
• 1:34:57
  PlayStation releases specifically, it's like, well,
• 1:35:02
  it seems like 6 to 12 months, depending on the game is when
• 1:35:06
  the the games come out or like Befesda games come out day and
• 1:35:11
  date. It looks like Activision
• 1:35:13
  Blizzard games will come out day and date it.
• 1:35:15
  It's really like, I just wish they had this figured out and it
• 1:35:20
  just feels like they don't. And I don't understand why they
• 1:35:23
  don't have a plan, right? Like, I think they would tell
• 1:35:28
  people a plan if they had one. That's the problem, right?
• 1:35:32
  And there's too many executives butting heads like Laurent and I
• 1:35:35
  were talking about earlier, right?
• 1:35:36
  Like Satya is really the one in charge and knows nothing about
• 1:35:40
  games. And I feel like Phil, Matt and
• 1:35:45
  Sarah are all the puppets that Satya is controlling now.
• 1:35:50
  They're the pinatas in front of the world.
• 1:35:52
  Well, Satya is just like, yeah, we're going to do this, this and
• 1:35:55
  that. And you don't have to say in it.
• 1:35:58
  They they've stepped, Xbox has stepped in a pile of crap, left
• 1:36:03
  their shoe in it and went this is fine, we're fine.
• 1:36:06
  This is an Xbox. Yeah, this this pile of crap is
• 1:36:09
  also an Xbox. So like, you should be happy
• 1:36:12
  because you have the crap branded Xbox, you know, and like
• 1:36:17
  everything's on full display for everyone right now as well.
• 1:36:20
  Like the AI shit. Oops, sorry, I can kind of cuss.
• 1:36:24
  Yeah, you can cuss. This isn't intended power block.
• 1:36:27
  Yeah, we're. That's true.
• 1:36:27
  That's true. We're past that restriction.
• 1:36:30
  I can say whatever you fucking want, Nick there.
• 1:36:33
  I bring out the worst in people. I'm awful, but I mean everything
• 1:36:39
  with the AI as well. So look at Perfect Dark.
• 1:36:41
  It's just they just, they took it out back and they shot it in
• 1:36:44
  the head. For.
• 1:36:45
  No reason. Everyone when they saw that game
• 1:36:49
  premiered, they were like, Oh my God, we're getting a we're
• 1:36:51
  getting a perfect dark and it looks this good and it's going
• 1:36:54
  to be like this. Everyone was pumped, but then
• 1:36:57
  they just take it out back, pop it in the head and go, no, it's
• 1:37:00
  not happening, but check this out.
• 1:37:02
  We're going to use AI now to do to to do what?
• 1:37:07
  Speed up developments? That's ridiculous.
• 1:37:10
  And the and the problem with that too, right, is like if you
• 1:37:14
  speed up development from like, let's just say you cut
• 1:37:17
  development time by 30%, right? So instead of a five year cycle,
• 1:37:21
  your game comes out in 3 1/2 years.
• 1:37:23
  OK, that just means there are more games coming out all the
• 1:37:27
  time than ever before now and you're still going to run into.
• 1:37:31
  I don't have enough money or time to play all these games.
• 1:37:35
  The only thing is that like oh I guess your budget is lower but
• 1:37:38
  like you're then selling less games because your release dates
• 1:37:44
  are not spread out enough so like does it even really matter?
• 1:37:48
  This October. This October is pretty easy for
• 1:37:50
  all of us. Yeah, this is a this is a wild
• 1:37:53
  October. I don't know what to do.
• 1:37:55
  Yeah, I got Ghost of Yote Battlefield 6.
• 1:37:58
  What? What else we got?
• 1:37:59
  We got dispatch coming out. We got expedition 33 DLC.
• 1:38:04
  Dude, I need to beat it still. I'm getting so much.
• 1:38:06
  Like, I know, dude, I'm getting so much Flack from everybody.
• 1:38:10
  Like, dude, what is your problem?
• 1:38:11
  Like, I don't know, it's just a big thing.
• 1:38:13
  This game feels way too like, it's not like how I felt when I
• 1:38:18
  was playing ball. There's Gate 3, but it's like a
• 1:38:22
  different sort of overwhelming. Maybe I'm just a baby.
• 1:38:25
  It's because it's artsy. Yeah, but like, I have, I don't
• 1:38:29
  know, I'm a kind of like a douchey hipster.
• 1:38:31
  I have a face tattoo. So like, artsy things and craft
• 1:38:34
  beer make me stoked, you know what I mean?
• 1:38:38
  I've been made as Boss Rush and everyone's like why is this guy?
• 1:38:43
  Would it make would it make you feel better if I woke my
• 1:38:45
  daughter up and let her color on my face so we could match I?
• 1:38:50
  Promise you don't want a face tattoo?
• 1:38:51
  It took. Me 50.
• 1:38:52
  Years to get an IT with this tattoo on my face.
• 1:38:59
  Yeah, I mean, this, the rest of the year is crazy.
• 1:39:01
  I mean, like, we were just talking about how MENA the
• 1:39:03
  Hollower got delayed and it's like, I bet they're probably
• 1:39:08
  stoked to get out of October because it's so busy so well.
• 1:39:14
  Dude, next year looks scary is like I don't want to be if I'm
• 1:39:18
  anybody I don't want to I don't want to release in 2026
• 1:39:20
  alongside GTA six, yeah. Which I think.
• 1:39:24
  With I think you're safe if you're outside of a month of
• 1:39:27
  GTA6, yeah. Then then then you have your
• 1:39:30
  ADHD kicking in and you want something different to play.
• 1:39:34
  Yeah, I'll probably still go back to silicon.
• 1:39:38
  I yeah, I think Microsoft has a long road ahead of them.
• 1:39:45
  And I I mean, with all these purchases they made, I hope the
• 1:39:49
  studios survive, right? Because like few of them
• 1:39:53
  haven't, you know, and it it's just kind of like, man, I hope
• 1:40:01
  they survive. I hope Ninja Theory survives.
• 1:40:03
  I hope Obsidian survives like some of these stories.
• 1:40:08
  Obsidian is safe right now I feel.
• 1:40:10
  Like nobody's getting out, getting out I.
• 1:40:12
  Feel like double? Fine, is probably the next time
• 1:40:14
  the chopping. I know, I know.
• 1:40:16
  I felt. I feel that way too.
• 1:40:18
  Yeah. And like, I think Ninja Theory
• 1:40:21
  is going to be safe only because, well, two reasons.
• 1:40:25
  One, they are the European Unreal Engine five kind of
• 1:40:33
  masters, right? So they can help studios over
• 1:40:36
  there because Ninja Theory and the Coalition are kind of like
• 1:40:40
  really helping Epic build that engine, right?
• 1:40:43
  So, and then they have a state-of-the-art motion capture
• 1:40:46
  studio, which is rare for a lot of teams, right?
• 1:40:53
  They can rent it out. They could, other studios can
• 1:40:56
  use it, right? Like it just, it makes sense to
• 1:40:59
  keep them open. But I mean, how Blade didn't
• 1:41:02
  move the needle on sales, right? I mean, I got an alert today
• 1:41:06
  that it was on sale for like 1499.
• 1:41:08
  I'm like, jeez, I loved it. But like, you're not going to
• 1:41:14
  sell that game for 50 bucks. You're not going to sell that
• 1:41:16
  game like 7 million copies or whatever it needed to make its
• 1:41:20
  money back. Yeah.
• 1:41:23
  You see, that's the other thing too.
• 1:41:24
  Like we're, we're, we are finally starting to see exactly
• 1:41:27
  how much money Game Pass is losing all these companies and
• 1:41:32
  all these overall sales. Wow, we are starting.
• 1:41:35
  And the recent, the recent Pokémon League kind of just like
• 1:41:40
  shot like all the other major companies in the foot with like
• 1:41:44
  saying, oh, Nintendo's like big titles are only like 20 million
• 1:41:49
  in budget. Yeah well plus they release like
• 1:41:54
  they re release games all the time which helps them subsidized
• 1:41:57
  the other things right? Like I can't imagine Mario
• 1:42:00
  Galaxy 1 and 2 was that expensive to to put out right
• 1:42:03
  like. Yeah.
• 1:42:05
  I'm sure those textures were developed in HD anyway, right?
• 1:42:09
  For the weave and and then they down resed it or whatever but.
• 1:42:13
  And a few quality of life improvements and sell it for 70
• 1:42:19
  bucks. Yeah yeah.
• 1:42:21
  But yeah, I mean Sony games being budgeted at like 150
• 1:42:27
  million. Yeah, there's a reason why
• 1:42:30
  Nintendo's kicking your ass right now.
• 1:42:32
  They made their money back within 1,000,000 of games sold.
• 1:42:36
  You need to sell these 20. Yeah.
• 1:42:41
  It's crazy multiplayer as well. Yeah.
• 1:42:44
  You need to have a concurrent player base, right.
• 1:42:47
  So that server set in that studio loses that service at
• 1:42:51
  that point. Yeah.
• 1:42:52
  Right. Because the EA for a minute
• 1:42:53
  there was like, what did they say?
• 1:42:54
  They wanted to see like a million players for the new
• 1:42:58
  Battlefield at least, or something like that.
• 1:43:00
  And I I don't think they wanted a concurrent because I don't
• 1:43:02
  think that's going to happen. That would be insane.
• 1:43:05
  Yeah. What?
• 1:43:06
  What? Was that number?
• 1:43:06
  It was like it was. It was huge.
• 1:43:10
  It was astronomical what they were wanting, and I think
• 1:43:12
  they're they're going to hit it. Yeah, this game is being played
• 1:43:16
  like it's it's fine, but like setting these goal posts and
• 1:43:20
  constantly moving them is also detrimental.
• 1:43:23
  It's it's like the Fortnite method at this point for most
• 1:43:27
  online games. It's like you can't, it's not
• 1:43:28
  sustainable. Like Fortnite is able to do it
• 1:43:31
  because it can sustain living off itself and other IP.
• 1:43:35
  You don't need that for Battlefield.
• 1:43:36
  Just release the game, update it and it's fine yeah but you know
• 1:43:42
  that's that's another thing that's a bit of a bummer but
• 1:43:45
  back to the like you were talking about the studios at
• 1:43:47
  Xbox. You know that's for me as well
• 1:43:50
  and I'll hop off your show soon I I I got to put my kid back
• 1:43:53
  into bed here and I just wanted to hop on a bitch bot P3 but
• 1:43:56
  like they they scare me when it comes to their studios that
• 1:43:59
  they've acquired and we were talking about that as well on
• 1:44:02
  the show. We were saying, you know, like I
• 1:44:04
  think when when it first happened, I think I was looking
• 1:44:07
  at it through the lens of 13 year old Nick where I remember
• 1:44:12
  getting my first Xbox and I was like, Oh my God, like this is
• 1:44:15
  like my thing, right? Like I love Xbox, love PC.
• 1:44:19
  And now I'm trying to look at it as like a 34 year old man going,
• 1:44:24
  oh, this is Monopoly. This is not good.
• 1:44:28
  This is not good at all. Like I would hate to see someone
• 1:44:32
  like us. Do you like machine games?
• 1:44:33
  Which I don't think will happen, but like, could you imagine if
• 1:44:36
  machine games in the midst of either Quake 6 or the next
• 1:44:40
  Wolfenstein? Boom, flat line.
• 1:44:42
  Yeah, but I think, I think, I think Indiana Jones did really
• 1:44:45
  well for them and Disney was really happy, right.
• 1:44:48
  So, yeah. And they have two games in
• 1:44:51
  development, right? One is clearly an Indiana Jones
• 1:44:54
  sequel, I think. Yeah, very clearly.
• 1:44:58
  And then they they were talking about, they've talked about
• 1:45:00
  Wolfenstein Three in two interviews recently too.
• 1:45:03
  So yes, I would imagine using it once their DLC.
• 1:45:07
  Can erase youngblood, I'm OK. I agree with that
• 1:45:10
  wholeheartedly. Yeah.
• 1:45:13
  But I also like, I think RK and Austin was kind of like a the
• 1:45:20
  the lead developer on that and Machine Games just kind of so I,
• 1:45:24
  I don't know if we'll see what Wolfenstein 3 looks like.
• 1:45:26
  But like I think once their DLC commitment to Indiana Jones in
• 1:45:31
  the Great Circle is done, which I think they have one more DLC
• 1:45:34
  pack right after the circle, after the Order of Giants.
• 1:45:38
  I believe they have one more left.
• 1:45:40
  It'll be full steam ahead on Wolfenstein 3 and then, you
• 1:45:44
  know, Indiana Jones. So I am.
• 1:45:49
  I imagine the next Quake will be made by it actually.
• 1:45:53
  I was thinking either it or machine, but I, I was thinking
• 1:45:55
  machine because there was that Indiana Jones teaser,
• 1:46:00
  development teaser and on the whiteboard you can see the
• 1:46:03
  quakes. You can see the Quake logo with
• 1:46:05
  the number 6 hidden on it. And I was like, well, that's
• 1:46:08
  funny. So like, are you doing Quake 6?
• 1:46:11
  Yeah, but they, I, I don't know if this was ever confirmed or
• 1:46:16
  not, but I know they did do like 6 new levels for the Quake HD
• 1:46:21
  remasters. Yes.
• 1:46:23
  So a lot of people were pointing at that too.
• 1:46:26
  But I don't know, I think Quake needs to come back.
• 1:46:29
  I think it would do just as well as Doom did, honestly.
• 1:46:32
  Yeah. Oh yeah.
• 1:46:35
  I would set it apart though, just because right now Doom's
• 1:46:38
  gone demonic and alien. Yeah, but I think if the rest
• 1:46:43
  and you kind of really lean into what made like Quake, probably
• 1:46:48
  Quake 2 specifically. The strong, yeah, Quick, quick
• 1:46:53
  one was cool because it was like that blend between like medieval
• 1:46:58
  D&D fantasy, which that's what it was when it started.
• 1:47:01
  It was AD and D campaign basically, whereas Doom was just
• 1:47:05
  like Ron Gun, you're you're on Mars.
• 1:47:09
  I think what Quake could do is blend those worlds really
• 1:47:13
  interestingly, right? If they were able to blend some
• 1:47:16
  of the themes from Quake One with Quake 2 themes and a bit of
• 1:47:22
  time, a bit of like world travelling, at that point you
• 1:47:25
  could do a lot of cool stuff in my opinion, because we don't
• 1:47:27
  need other Quake 4. Quake 4 is cool, but we don't
• 1:47:31
  really need to go back to Quake 4.
• 1:47:34
  In my opinion, yeah. Yeah, I mean it it it'll be I
• 1:47:42
  wonder if if Xbox at some point just reverts back to Microsoft
• 1:47:47
  Game Studios and Xbox kind of goes away once Bill and and Matt
• 1:47:52
  are kind of out right and Sarah kind of takes over as the
• 1:47:55
  president of whatever Microsoft gaming brand they have.
• 1:48:01
  And then they just become the biggest third party publisher.
• 1:48:05
  That's my guess. But it's.
• 1:48:09
  Going to be crazy man. It's the Wild West out here
• 1:48:11
  right now, dude. That's wild for sure it.
• 1:48:15
  Keeps our shows afloat though. Yeah, if Xbox goes away, what
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  will we talk about? Dude all the drama that's going
• 1:48:23
  to sue after. PC, PC.
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  That's what we're going to talk about.
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  La Ron, are We LA? Ron gets it, dude.
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  PC, that's what we're going to talk about.
• 1:48:32
  We converted Brody console. Brody's been gaming on PC bro.
• 1:48:38
  How? Long.
• 1:48:40
  What is that? He wasn't allowed to host WASD
• 1:48:43
  and beyond until he bought a keyboard.
• 1:48:44
  That's not. Rude.
• 1:48:46
  Wow, because crossroads is how many years old now?
• 1:48:50
  Well, jeez, that's that's that's phenomenal.
• 1:48:54
  One of us. One of us you've.
• 1:48:57
  Converted Brody. Jeez, Lebron's rush, lads.
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  What's up? What's up?
• 1:49:04
  Lebron's trying to convert me. We've been talking about it.
• 1:49:07
  It's. Going to happen.
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  It's going to happen. I'll drive up to Ohio.
• 1:49:10
  I'll drive to Ohio. Yeah, like Michigan, I've
• 1:49:12
  already got. I've already got some.
• 1:49:13
  I've already got some sleeper builds waiting for them.
• 1:49:18
  I got it for. If you never convert me to PC
• 1:49:21
  then I'm pretty sure the console has had an apocalypse.
• 1:49:26
  I'm just everything's got a red ring somehow.
• 1:49:28
  Just to catch you up, Nick, I know you got to go, but like,
• 1:49:32
  yeah, I, my PlayStation 5 was recently dying, so I sold it.
• 1:49:37
  And now like I don't have a PlayStation right now.
• 1:49:40
  And then Xbox is obviously in this weird dumb position and I'm
• 1:49:45
  like, I just, should I just RIP the Band-Aid off and just do it?
• 1:49:52
  Get a PlayStation five. It's an Xbox.
• 1:49:56
  Everything is an Xbox dude. You can play Halo on your
• 1:49:59
  PlayStation Now too dude. I will give you PC parts.
• 1:50:05
  I have extra AMD stuff. What you got?
• 1:50:08
  What? Let's talk like.
• 1:50:09
  This 7800 X. Somewhere you do.
• 1:50:12
  Just probably in. Yeah, I think that right now.
• 1:50:14
  What do I got? Let's talk dude.
• 1:50:16
  Let's talk dude. Let's talk later.
• 1:50:17
  Let's talk later. I got you.
• 1:50:19
  I got you. I got you.
• 1:50:20
  Yeah, But boss rush, boys, thanks for letting me invade
• 1:50:23
  really quick. Yeah man, you guys are always
• 1:50:27
  awesome. I didn't expect Laron to go.
• 1:50:29
  Hey, Corey, he's in there. He's.
• 1:50:31
  Yeah. Yeah, I mean, Nick, you know,
• 1:50:34
  you're always welcome here. I just didn't.
• 1:50:36
  I didn't have the chat open, which is a terrible hosting job
• 1:50:40
  out of me. I should.
• 1:50:41
  Somebody should fire. Me, hey, I'm hey, I'm always
• 1:50:43
  like I'm always on one of these stream chats here.
• 1:50:46
  Yeah, well, just holler at me. Hit me up.
• 1:50:48
  Billy. Hey, we want you on the show
• 1:50:49
  today. I'll hop on.
• 1:50:50
  I don't. Care, Nick, we appreciate you.
• 1:50:53
  Love you. Take it easy boss.
• 1:50:54
  Rush network. Love WAC?
• 1:50:55
  And beyond. Go listen bye.
• 1:50:58
  Guys. OK, So what should we do now?
• 1:51:03
  Because like because like you know, we do need like the the
• 1:51:06
  generator to make our clips. So what should we?
• 1:51:08
  Do now. Let's run through questions, OK?
• 1:51:14
  And then we'll get out of here. All right, quickly.
• 1:51:18
  All right, Sir Zesto via Discord writes in have consoles like
• 1:51:23
  Switch and Steam Deck made it so that separate home and handheld
• 1:51:25
  consoles are a thing of the past?
• 1:51:29
  Yes, yes, yes. I think once you find like I I
• 1:51:35
  feel like the dedicated handheld, quote UN quote is now.
• 1:51:39
  They're like those emulator kind of Gameboy, like the the analog
• 1:51:44
  pocket, I think is the perfect example of what you're going to
• 1:51:46
  get with the dedicated handheld now, right?
• 1:51:48
  Or like some sort of Chinese RIP off emulator DS wannabe
• 1:51:55
  handheld. But but yes, I think that that's
• 1:52:00
  a thing of the past. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:52:04
  I am fine with that. The same.
• 1:52:08
  Look, growing up as a Nintendo and a Sega fan trying to own a,
• 1:52:11
  a, a Game Gear and a Genesis and a Nomad and a Game Boy and
• 1:52:20
  ANYWAYS placed Austin. I've heard of that guy.
• 1:52:24
  Yeah, yeah, writes in. What are your top five sitcoms?
• 1:52:29
  Oh boy. Sitcoms.
• 1:52:31
  Sitcoms. 5. Who?
• 1:52:34
  How I Met your mother. Yes.
• 1:52:37
  The Office. Yes.
• 1:52:43
  Parks and Rec. Yeah, OK.
• 1:52:47
  Yeah. I I mean I I like.
• 1:52:49
  I I like I like Parks and Rec. 30s rock was also pretty good.
• 1:52:55
  Yeah, 30 Rock was pretty good. Wait, did you, did you do 5?
• 1:53:02
  Did you do 5 already, Pat? No, I did 4.
• 1:53:05
  You did 4. Do you have 1/5?
• 1:53:09
  Really. OK, well, I mean we I.
• 1:53:11
  Mean if I. Throw Netflix in there, then I
• 1:53:14
  or if I throw a streaming service in there, then I'd
• 1:53:16
  probably say The Boys, but that's not really sitcom.
• 1:53:20
  Yeah, that's that's kind of the thing.
• 1:53:23
  Yes, lasering meat meat pockets is hilarious.
• 1:53:26
  Let me let me think Abbott Elementary, Brooklyn 99 English.
• 1:53:34
  Teacher, that's a good one. Yeah, English teacher.
• 1:53:39
  Oh, oh, scrubs, scrubs and crap, crap, crap.
• 1:53:45
  See, now I'm fizzling out on A on 1/4 on a on a fifth one.
• 1:53:53
  Yeah, I'm fizzling out too. Yikes.
• 1:53:58
  Well, I'll go until you think of one.
• 1:54:00
  OK, so I Met Your Mother #1 the Office, Everybody Loves Raymond.
• 1:54:09
  Oh, OK. Boy Meets World and I think I'm
• 1:54:16
  fizzling. I don't know.
• 1:54:17
  Fifth one too. I mean that five slot is like, I
• 1:54:25
  mean, I really liked Brooklyn 99.
• 1:54:27
  I really liked The Ranch on Netflix.
• 1:54:36
  The Ranch is actually really good.
• 1:54:38
  You know what? You said you said Boy Meets
• 1:54:40
  World. I'm going to see Boy Meets World
• 1:54:41
  and I'm going to raise you. Saved by the Bell.
• 1:54:45
  That's fair, that's fair. Speaking of fair, we are at
• 1:54:55
  time. Was OK yeah yeah Oh yeah that
• 1:54:59
  was all the questions for tonight cool I.
• 1:55:01
  Think we did. We did it.
• 1:55:03
  We did it, we did it. We all right.
• 1:55:05
  So, yeah. So obviously we didn't follow
• 1:55:09
  the format we said we're going to it's fine.
• 1:55:12
  But it's I like I like the show. I I feel re energized after last
• 1:55:20
  week and I'm glad that we were all here to do this.
• 1:55:24
  Stephanie is training for the Nintendo marathon, the Kyoto
• 1:55:28
  marathon sponsored by Nintendo. But I'm going to call it the
• 1:55:30
  Nintendo marathon because to be honest, that's that's why she's
• 1:55:34
  going. She wants her Nintendo name tag.
• 1:55:36
  She wants Mario on her chest. Oh God, on that note, everybody
• 1:55:42
  out there and Luigi, thank you for watching.
• 1:55:45
  Mario and Luigi. She wants the brothers.
• 1:55:47
  Oh no. OK, before this gets any dirty.
• 1:55:50
  Yeah, we're, yeah, we're we're done.
• 1:55:53
  Before, before Mario and Luigi start really cleaning out the
• 1:55:56
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• 1:56:00
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• 1:56:36
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• 1:56:40
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