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Games that changed and retro style is back
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole (driving, age, medicine); Ron talk about games that drastically changed with their sequel, thanks to #Helldivers2; Chris brings up the parts of the #80s and #90s we like and dislike coming back. As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Smooth Jazz and Road Rage
00:00:05
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the mythic draft podcast. I'm Chris and I'm Ron listening to the smooth jazz or intro. Yeah. Thank you. Uh, the jazz trio of 98, man. Let me rant about people for a second. Oh, please do. When will these people stop thinking it is my responsibility for their safety so that they can do dumb things when they drive?
00:00:37
Speaker
This person's on 13. I can tell you what state their tags were from, but I guess you can get, because it starts with an M and ends with Airyland. They're in the right hand lane of 13 with their flashers on, doing two miles an hour. Pull the fuck over, get off the road. Historic tags. I didn't see, because I was too busy flipping them off and being angry.
00:01:03
Speaker
Hazards are not for driving hazards for getting over off the road. They went through three intersections like this. Why? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it was like a reverse speed thing. Maybe if they went above five miles an hour or came to a stop, the car would explode. That's why they had to do that. Well, they didn't stop it. They didn't blow up at the stoplight. So. OK. Well, there
Driving Disasters and Traffic Tales
00:01:28
Speaker
goes that. And then another moron. This person was tagged in Delaware.
00:01:33
Speaker
896 is a pretty major road through like Delaware and the PA. 40 is a large road that goes from Baltimore to Wilmington. Pretty big roads. When you get to the intersection of 896 and you have the green light, your job is to go through
00:01:51
Speaker
It is. This person is in the middle of three lanes and decides, oh, I'm going to stop slam on my brakes in the green light and try to get into the right-hand lane. Not to make the turn, just to get into the right-hand straight lane. You're already in the middle lane. Just go through the corner section.
00:02:07
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, just go. And as you move, maybe you will get to merge over. Or I believe there's a law that says no changing lanes within 500 feet of a goddamn intersection. That's in your driver's ed you're supposed to have taken. No, that's not really there. Oh, man. Yeah. I just the number of people that just are expecting other people to make
00:02:33
Speaker
Sure. They don't die. Yes. And so, yeah. Yeah. Well, yesterday we were on 695 and some I can't remember what road it was, was merging onto it. And this person just comes in, slingshots across four lanes of traffic and then guns it in the shoulder. Oh, yeah. That's like, oh, OK. Yeah, that's smart. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Merging is our number one problem because no one knows how to merge. Oh, yeah. Well, that's why you get these traffic backups everywhere.
00:03:02
Speaker
Right. No one is on a merge or yield. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yield. That means you gun it and pace the person that's trying to merge, right? Yes. Or if you're if you're merging on and you have a yield sign, you're supposed to just drive in the shoulder until infinitum because, you know, until you hit the next exit, I guess. Or you stop. Right. Or you stop. Yeah. Yeah. That's another option. You don't. There's no merit. You just yeah. You wait for
00:03:32
Speaker
gap in traffic. You don't try to catch up to speed of traffic and merge in. No, no, no, no. You've got to go from zero to jumping in in front of somebody. Yeah. One of my favorites is the flyover from 13 to one, which that is a isolated road that ends in its own lane on route one. Yeah. So you're supposed to just, it's speed limit 60 and you're supposed to do 60 and then you're onto route one and you do 65.
00:04:00
Speaker
Right. Or you could take the turn at 30 miles an hour, which seems perfectly reasonable, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's half off Friday. Yeah. Yeah. People. Yeah. Yeah.
Trucks, Merging, and Emergency Vehicle Antics
00:04:14
Speaker
People in their driving. Oh, yeah. Well, we saw we were beside this tractor trailer yesterday and I look over and I was like, well, that's interesting. Their passenger side step to go into their the cab of their truck. Yeah.
00:04:29
Speaker
it was ratchet strapped on and was like bouncing. My brother was like, well, I'm sure they gave it the old, you know, pluck test to make sure it was taught before that, you know, got a DOT approved. Yeah, I'm sure that's a DOT approved strap. Or do you think they had these problems when they had horses? I think they're like angry horse riders. Oh, yes. Yes. Yeah, they probably were. Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:56
Speaker
That's why we need trains everywhere. Bill out there the other day and his horse was missing a shoe. That some bitch just kept running. People having cars, it's too much responsibility for them. Yeah. Mass transit. Professional drivers at the end of the game. Right. Yeah. I mean, I say this both as a civilian who drives and a firefighter who has to deal with your accidents. Yes. I could fuck off. Well, I mean, then you have the other ones that, you know,
00:05:24
Speaker
I don't know what they teach in driver's ed now, I should ask my daughter, but when an emergency vehicle comes behind you, it's, I guess, taught now that the driver's supposed to jack their brakes on and then swerve left and right numerous times. It's like serpentine to, I guess, throw the fire engine off their trail. Only if you're in the state of Maryland. Because every other state teaches you to yield and go to the right.
00:05:51
Speaker
Marilyn just says, well, you know what, if you feel like it's stop, just stop in the middle of the intersection. That's how the fire truck loves to deal with you. Yeah. Or pace the fire truck. Yeah. You're also supposed to do that. Yeah. Well, and then you have the drivers, the fatos that traffic is totally, you know, bottled up. There's nowhere to go. And they're sitting there. It's like just they know there's a fire engine here just
00:06:20
Speaker
Let the light change and get these idiots out of your way. Like I said, it must be the most frustrating thing in the world to be a firefighter, a driver of a fire piece in New York City. Oh, my God. Yeah. Turn the lights off. We're not going anywhere. Yep. That's why they just do that, you know, that lazy federal queue. And that's it. Mm hmm. Because they know they're not going to know where to go. Oh, there's literally no stogie and they're just cruising down. Yeah.
00:06:44
Speaker
That's why they have to put 38 pieces on every fire because that's the only ones that get there. Right. I cannot wait until I just get out of the driving world. I drive my little RV, but I'll do 35 miles an hour and I have my flashes on. There you go. Historic tags, upside down. Yup. And I saw a lot of
00:07:12
Speaker
different like stickers on the back of vehicles. Yesterday, no, yesterday day before I was coming through Delmar and there was this older fella. He was probably 60 in a nice pickup truck. Now on the back, it says send nudes. It's like, okay. Nice. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. So that's pretty good. Yeah. Well, um, my eye doctor called me an old
Humorous Health Observations
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man the other day. Oh no.
00:07:41
Speaker
said, uh, well, sir, you know, they're picked out my new glasses and I'm sitting there and all of a sudden, you know, the person says, all right, look forward. And they take a Sharpie or a dry erase marker and they draw a line across each lens. What are you doing? Well, this is where we're going to put your transit, your progressive lenses, because you'll have like bifocals in the bottom and it'll transition up. I was like, Oh, okay. She's like, or we could just put regular bifocals and it's like, Oh no, we'll try these progressives.
00:08:13
Speaker
So, yeah, but this is after you had the surgery. Oh, I can imagine how bad it would be if I hadn't had the LASIK man. I mean, without my glasses, I can see it's just not everything's crisp. So, yeah, I don't know. As a eagle eyed person, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your eyes, your hair. Enjoy what you can. Try to rest fresh.
00:08:39
Speaker
I mean, I've had it longer than you. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can't wait to start going bald. Start shaving it off. Yeah. Of course, my people at work are like, what are you talking about? Where's my going bald? I'm like, I've had the same widow's peak since I was 17. Yeah. It's not changed. Yeah. It's just the face gotten fatter in the bellies bigger. That's it. Yeah. My brother said that his hair person was like,
00:09:08
Speaker
Have you considered using a thickening shampoo? Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's like, well, yes. She's like, but the good thing is you have a nice shaped head and you can, you have a nice beard. So regardless, you'll still be a good looking guy. So he tells me this as I'm, you know, bald with no beard because of my job. And I was like, Oh, so does that make me the ugly brother? Well, thanks. Appreciate it. All I want is a beard.
00:09:38
Speaker
Can we just, there's gotta be a way. You have to figure this out, right? I've made so many sacrifices. Just let me have a beard. What did he, the other day, Joe Dick, he looked like the steamboat captain. Well, he's an older gentleman. Yeah, but he had a luscious beard. Yeah. He looked great. Yeah. It looked like he's enjoying life because he had a beard. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to do the drugs. I don't want to party all the time. I just want a beard. I want to enjoy my beard while it's still semi colored.
00:10:06
Speaker
Yeah, it's not gray. Yeah, I just want to be able to sit there and stroke the beard pensively. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want to go get a beard trim. Doesn't that sound awesome? Yeah. Maybe get really deep into beard trimming products and oils and stuff. Oh yeah. Well, you got to oil it. Yeah, you got to go deep dive. Wait, what? What is deep dive? Well, you got to dive right into your beard trimming. Oh, I thought you meant like it was a place.
00:10:36
Speaker
Oh, you got all into your your beard care. Oh, yeah. You know, beard oils and beard wax and combs and combs and tremors and beard guards. Beard guard. Oh, that hurt to laugh. Oh, God, that tenses up muscles. You don't think it does. Oh, yeah. Oh, we had a minor surgery yesterday. Yeah, yeah, I got probed and.
00:11:05
Speaker
needled and all kinds of things. So yeah, kids, keep up on your prostate health. Yes. All mine is monitoring. We're in the monitoring phase. That is the good news, I think, for the future of healthcare is early detection is going to get easier and easier.
00:11:31
Speaker
We might not get to the point where we can cure things, but we can detect them before they become problems. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You know, whereas like our dad's generation, it was just like my grandfather, like they knew he had cancer when he was already dying from cancer. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was also a bunch of harder headed individuals who ignored things. Sure. Yeah. So which people there's also
00:12:00
Speaker
that generation of gentlemen didn't, I don't think they understand how the human body works. Well, because I talked to my father the other day and he was like, well, this procedure, they just run a needle up your pee hole. Don't they? I was like, Oh God, no. Oh, no. I have to go through so many things to get to the prostate. Oh my God. I was like, there's bends and twists. A lot of bends and twists. Yeah, that would not be good. Yeah. So I was over there helping him install a,
00:12:30
Speaker
I had to replace the hood over top of his stove. It's four screws and three wires. You would have thought that I was Prometheus bringing fire down to, you know, the caves. How'd you do that that fast? I just did it. I don't know. Oh, talented individual. I didn't know. Oh, yeah. And then he was like, well, now that I know you're an electrician, I'm not an electrician. I went switch the wires. That was it. Right. Oh.
00:12:59
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I don't do a lot of electrical work. I'll do a little bit, but the risks are too high for me. Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm not one of those that's like, I'll just leave the power on and switch things over. Oh, absolutely not. I turn it off. If I, if I even think like there might be a chance that I don't have the right breaker, I'm just like, kill the power of the whole house. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Do not want to be electrocuted. Yeah. Yeah. Found out he has nothing in his breaker box labeled.
00:13:28
Speaker
Yeah. So we played the fun game of I'm in the kitchen. Click. No. Click. No. Click. Yep. That's it. That was my old breaker box. Nothing was labeled or was labeled incorrectly. When I had them redo my breaker box, I was like, please label everything. Yeah. They're like, oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. You say, of course. Yeah. Luckily, mine is labeled. Yeah. So.
00:13:55
Speaker
Although it does say like bedroom one, two, three. And it's like, I don't know which one is which. Right. So for some reason, when they did mine, the lights in the bedrooms are one circuit. So all three bedrooms have one circuit for the lights. OK. Each bedroom has its own circuit or two of the bedrooms have one circuit. It's like really weird. Yeah. Yeah. I know there's electricians. They work their magic.
00:14:21
Speaker
Yeah. Trying to find a breaker that did the attic fan one day was a goddamn nightmare. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's only 110. It'll just rattle your teeth. Yeah. Yeah. Can't have anything bad that happened to you. No. It's a heart condition. No, no, no, no. Yeah. Oh, I have another rant and it involves my lying friend.
00:14:46
Speaker
My fraudulent friend here. Well, I went off of what I was told. Background for everyone. We're going to do a physical assessment through the Salisbury University. One of our volunteers is an exercise science major. I'm not sure what her major is. She's doing something for school.
00:15:10
Speaker
She's going to do assessment with everybody, come up with a plan for, you know, improving, you know, your musculature and weight, I guess. I don't know what I think. Yeah. But anyways, I get a, I get my survey. I fill it out. I send it to her that night and she's like, Oh, good. Uh, have you here tomorrow at seven 30? Do your assessment. Okay. My friend says, Oh, don't worry. I think it's just like measuring you and weighing you. You don't, you know, I can do what you're working out. Well, I don't, didn't bring my gym stuff.
00:15:42
Speaker
I get in there and she says, okay, well, let's warm up. So what are we warming up for? She's like, oh yeah, we got to warm up. We're going to do like, uh, what do you want to, how do you want to warm up? You want to just walk? Sure. I'll walk. Yeah, whatever. And she's like, all right, here's this box. Jump on this for three minutes. Just keep walking up and down this 24 inch box for three minutes. And then she's like, all right, uh, let's do sit ups as many as you can do in a minute.
00:16:10
Speaker
Okay, give you 30 seconds break. Let's do 30 seconds, another minute of sit-ups. Okay, let's do push-ups. Oh, 30 second break, another minute of push-ups. Oh, let's do squats as many as you can do. 30 second break. Let's do 12 minutes of running. What? Yeah, at no point was there a, let's just assess your body. So then,
00:16:35
Speaker
So that I complain about this. Look, I was rated excellent in many of the categories. That's awesome. A nice stroke for my ego, but also my age group is very high. So, but then I find out that she does two different assessments. If you put on your survey that you work out regularly, she gives you the assessment I got. If you that you don't work out, she does the, Oh, we'll just do your wait and see how you do one kind of thing. Yeah.
00:17:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So I got the torture. Yeah. Well, I've got to reschedule my torture because it was supposed to be Tuesday and the doc said no straining or lifting till after Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I'll check. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm very happy for you that you're going to have your torture. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:29
Speaker
Yeah, because I did put on mine, you know, ride my bike two or three times a week and I do some wild weightlifting and body weight and stuff and yoga and yeah. It's a little condescending when she looks at me and she goes, but do you really work out the way you're saying you're working out? Like I really do. I just don't fat. Oh my gosh. But then I blew out and she was like, excellent. That's weird. Everything but the run. Yesterday I've lost
00:17:58
Speaker
10 pounds since my physical in December. Awesome. Yeah. That's great. I need to lose more this week. I just need to redistribute weight. Well, I need to get rid of some and then redistribute some. Yeah. Mostly the dick. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that was one thing after my
Game Evolution: Helldivers to Zelda
00:18:21
Speaker
procedure yesterday. They were like, oh, yeah, that thing's a monster. We had to tape it out of the way.
00:18:30
Speaker
And to make sure you didn't have any bad dreams, otherwise we'd have had to change your blood pressure. Yeah. Yeah. Had a second gurney next to it for it to flop onto. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a problem. Yeah. Yeah. It was a very cold room. Very, very cold. I made sure to say that. Look, it's cold room guys. Cold, cold. I just, yeah, I went swimming in the, in the bay right before this. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:59
Speaker
Ah, well, ready for topic one. Yeah, topic one. So this is a very loose topic, but you probably don't even know what the game's called, but there's this game called Helldivers 2. Oh, yeah. But I think I've mildly heard of this. OK, so it just came out. Yeah, yeah. And I had played Helldivers 1 with a friend of mine. So I was, you know, I was like, hey, did you look at this game? Because, you know, we played Helldivers 1 and he was really into it. Yeah. He's like, oh, I haven't really looked at it.
00:19:30
Speaker
I might be recollecting completely wrong, but I've watched some gameplay of The Helldivers 2. Yeah. They're like two separate games. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They said they definitely changed things up for The Helldivers 2. Yeah. Like it's like a whole new, like it's a first person shooter. Well, I guess it's third. Third person over shoulder. Yeah. But you can go to first person if you want. Yeah. Instead of top down. I think the first one was top down. Yeah. And got me thinking like, how many games
00:19:59
Speaker
that only have two, like, this is their second version of this game, completely changed their game. It can't be many. Yeah. Like, if you played Helldivers 1 and you were expecting your top-down, you know, almost RTS-like, and then they show you up with this third person over the shoulder, it's a big difference. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um...
00:20:26
Speaker
So I know it's awesome. Scree kind of changes things. It's not really big changes. Yeah. Like it doesn't go to like an RTS all of a sudden. You know, and yeah, there's there's always the same. Yeah. So the only real one that I could think of. There's but there are. Are there? Yeah, there are.
00:20:57
Speaker
Oh, well, I mean, think about. I mean, yeah, they were drastic changes. Look at Dragon Age. Well. Man, Dragon Age. All right. I will give you their drastic changes, but I'd also give you that those are not sequels or they're like they were just like fuck around games. I don't know what they do between each one because man, they screw up that game. Yeah, I'm sorry to say that.
00:21:28
Speaker
No, they did. Yeah. But that's a problem too, is that, you know, you gripe of, oh, this is the same game over and over again. Yeah. And then when they change it, you're like, screw up the game. Right. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's just like everything else in life. There's two things people hate, change in the way things are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:49
Speaker
I feel bad for game designers for that very purpose. But when I watched the small bit of game play for Helldivers, like, because people were like, oh, this is like a, it's right up your alley kind of game. Like, well, I did enjoy the first one. Yeah. This is a whole different thing. Well, I mean, this one is like, you know, I didn't play the first one. I've just heard people talk about the second one and some of my friends online play it. And I was like, it sounds like Starship Troopers. Yes. The first one was the same concept. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's for bureaucracy and go kill these
00:22:19
Speaker
bug aliens and yeah. Yeah. Um, let's see. Oh, the second Zelda game. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, that was hugely different. Pretty much all other games are different. Yeah. But I mean, going from that first one, that was that weird top downish to one was the side scrolling. And that's a fair point. Zelda probably takes that first.
00:22:49
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Because like Mario, they change things, but it's basically they it's like they make a different game. Like it's like a Mario doctor and shit. It's not like. Right. Well, I mean, what is it? Super Mario two or whatever was it wasn't really a Mario game. They was a Doki Doki adventure that they just put a Mario skin on. And that's why it was so different. Yes. Yeah. So. I would say that it
00:23:19
Speaker
The thing about Mario games is they basically have saved the changes, just the technology's changed. Like they're 3D now, but they're still Mario. Like you can. Yeah. Yeah. You still, you know, hop on Goombas and retro turtle shells. Yeah. Which I dated a girl in high school and she called them ducks. She's like, well, they got to be ducks. They have wings. I said, no, those are clearly turtles with shells. No, they're ducks. What? Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:48
Speaker
They're clearly turtles. Not in her mind. They're clearly turtles with wings. Yes. Yes, they are. But no. Does she think if you step on a duck that it has a shell? I don't know. We never found a duck to step on. Because you could kick the Koopa shell. Yeah. And it's, I mean, I'm sure that in real life a turtle shell wouldn't do the same thing, but step on it. Duck. Don't try it, folks. Turtles are nice.
00:24:17
Speaker
Turtles are nice, except for snapping turtles. I mean, they're just being them. Yeah, I guess. Just, you know, yeah. Maybe don't be a person who grabs innocent turtles and she throws them at other people. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's how many bodies ever done that. Yeah, I do. I didn't throw it. I just gently pointed it in a direction. Hmm. Yeah. It's nature chose it to scare the hell out of somebody.
00:24:47
Speaker
That's that makes it sound like it had all of the agency in the event when someone pointed it at my face piece and released it in front of me. Yeah. Yeah. Only a jerk would do that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, metal gear.
00:25:16
Speaker
From the original Metal Gears to the Metal Gear Solid. Hmm. Yeah. But Metal Gear Solid is its own thing, right? Like it's in the Metal Gear world, but it's. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I guess you could also say the same thing about Final Fantasy, because the Final Fantasies are very different. Oh, my God. Yeah, especially. I mean, now they're very hacky slashy. Yeah. Which actually don't like.
00:25:45
Speaker
Some of it can be fun. Yeah, I just I didn't well, I would say this fancy was never my thing. Yeah, but I kind of liked the Final Fantasy stop do your thing not to hacky slashy like oh, yeah, the Was it a time-based? Yeah pick your skill all that stuff Yeah, yeah, we have a
00:26:12
Speaker
bad guys go on their turn. I mean, it was very D&D that, you know. Right. Yeah, I liked that. Yeah, I will say this is a rant side tangent to computer games because you don't have this world as a PlayStation
Gaming Trends and Nostalgia
00:26:25
Speaker
player. Yeah. I'm so tired of alpha and beta games coming out. And I'm just supposed to play an early access game for like the next eight months.
00:26:36
Speaker
or two years or three years. I still play games that are in Alpha and have been in Alpha for four years at this point. What? Yeah, it's insane. Is that because your Excel is not up to date? It's their Excel databases too. Oh, okay.
00:26:53
Speaker
But like there's like this power. It's a it's an alpha game. It's not even a full release game in this new lamplighters game. There's all these games that are coming out that are in alpha early access. It's like style world. That's the Pokemon with guns. Yeah, Pokemon guns that boy. It's also like eight thousand other things. It's like a farming simulator and has like Breath of the Wild mechanics and for what I can see, apparently, Crash and Bird.
00:27:23
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, it was all the talk for a week and a half. Maybe a week and a half. And then he'd lost like 70% of its player base within two weeks. Wow. Yeah. You got to think about, oh boy, that company. We've got a major hit. Oh, we don't have a major hit. Yeah.
00:27:42
Speaker
I actually, at Southern Side Danger, I returned my first game to Steam ever the other day. Because Steam, you can play a game for up to three hours, I think, and then return it for a full refund. And I got in this game. My brother was like, oh, we should try this game. Everybody's playing it. And I was like, yeah, sure, whatever. Downloaded it 10 minutes into the game. I'm like, I can't play this game.
00:28:07
Speaker
Oh, it's too complicated just to be too complicated for me. Oh, see. Yeah, that's why I put so many mechanics and things. Yeah. And don't explain them like. My poor wife is going through this right now. She's playing Hollow Knight. Oh, yeah, there's no real and nothing tells me what to do. I'm like, yeah, there's you just got to figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:33
Speaker
But I, I returned that game and I felt bad because I don't ever return games, but I have no desire to play an overly complicated game just to be able to get it. There's no like, you know, Oh, look at me. I figured this out. Right. Yeah. That's not in my soul. Yeah. That's not streaming. So that's not my, I'm not going for something. Yeah. I mean,
00:29:03
Speaker
Well, and even if you were streaming, I mean, yeah, people want to watch people get frustrated. I think so. OK. Don't they? Maybe. I don't really know. I don't watch streamers, so. Hey. Yeah. Don't really see the appeal. And my brother talks about all the time and I'm like, he's like, I think I should stream. I'm like, I might go for it, but it sounds terrible. Yeah.
00:29:33
Speaker
You have to play the same game over and over and over again, because that's the game you get known to play. It sounds right. He said where we had this talk and he was like, don't you have a game where you have a thousand plus hours in? I'm like, yes, I do. Yeah. Doesn't mean I'm good at it. Let's see your screen rants, 10 video game sequels that completely changed genres.
00:30:03
Speaker
Banjo Kazooie nuts and bolts. I never played Banjo Kazooie. Oh my it went. Oh, it went to like from a platformer to a racer. Hmm. OK. There you go. Oh, Mortal Kombat Special Forces. Doesn't count. It was like Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat 2 are the same game. Yeah, yeah, this isn't like a direct sequel. Yeah, if you made like a side project, that's like what's the what's the one
00:30:33
Speaker
that they then turned into a boob jiggling volleyball game. Oh, was it Tekken or Dead or Alive? Dead or Alive. Yeah. Like to say that the boob jiggling volleyball game is a sequel is that's not. Yeah, that's just a side project. Yeah. Metroid changed drastically. So I just really happened down there. Now it's a first person thing. That's fair.
00:30:58
Speaker
I mean, I guess you could say the thing is some of those games, it's tough because like they came out on the NES where that was really your only option. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Warcraft to World of Warcraft. Well, those aren't again, it's not a sequel, isn't it? No, because there's Warcraft one, two and three. Oh, are there? Yeah, there's sequels to the Warcraft. Then they made World of Warcraft, which is a different thing.
00:31:25
Speaker
Come on, come on. You're saying Fallout 3 from Fallout 2? Because it shifted to first person and stuff. I mean, it wasn't Fallout 2 first person. I don't know. I'm not a Fallout guy.
00:31:45
Speaker
I like Fallout. I enjoy the world. Um, did not enjoy Fallout 36. Sorry. Yeah. One of the, one of the, basically majority of the world that didn't enjoy it. Right. Yeah. But, uh, there's one guy listening on his own going, I liked it. Some people enjoyed it and it's fine for you. I mean, yeah, it's weird because sometimes you're playing it like Skyrim.
00:32:14
Speaker
And you're like, man, I really think this would be great if I could play with my buddies. Yeah. And then they make that game and you're like, oh, I was wrong. Right. Like it's just not everything you think is going to be an online role playing game. Right. Should be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Evidently, there was a Pac-Man sequel, Pac-Man 2 The New Adventures. That was a side scroller. Whoa.
00:32:41
Speaker
I'm blown away because I do not remember that at all. No. I remember two Pac-Man's Pac-Man and his Pac-Man. Yeah. Yeah. Huh. That's interesting. Yeah, they mentioned Assassin's Creed. This is a stretch, I think, but there's a Resident Evil to now it's where it's over the shoulder instead of like isometric tanky control thing.
00:33:11
Speaker
Yeah. But I mean, the original Resident Evil again was like limited to its technology. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it was that was kind of how you did those games like then. It's not like they change the game. They just the technology are better. Right. Yeah. Which meant some of the new Resident Evils look terrifying. Terrifying. Well, I played the one was it a seven biohazard or whatever that was first person and you're in the swamp or whatever.
00:33:40
Speaker
And they were like, here, download the VR pack. I was like, hell no. Oh, so my brother wanted to play this game called Fazmo Magoria. Oh, that sounds fun. It's a ghost hunting game. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here, let me download it. Well, first off, it's got a VR version. No, which I haven't gotten the balls to do that yet. It's got proximity talking.
00:34:11
Speaker
So like, you can't just talk to people you're on a team with. It's like you and a bunch of people playing. And apparently the ghosts can hear you. What? Talking. Yeah. Oh, God. There's a, there's a thing. It's very not intuitive. Cause it's like this thing that you walk around and you're like, you talk to the ghosts and sometimes they respond. And that game is creepy. I don't easily get scared of games, but
00:34:41
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I can only play the enemies. Oh, yeah. OK, OK. All right. So it's like that. So do you like kill them or trap them? Is it like Ghostbusters? Nope. You just try to identify them without dying. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah. Guess what? You die a lot. Yeah, it sounds like it. And it's pretty creepy when you do. Oh, I mean, my brother was my brother was like, you know, they could just kill you. They don't have to drag you to hell and make you see the ghost. No. Mm hmm.
00:35:09
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Yeah. But we were playing the other night and I was like, okay, um, good for the night. Cause if we play any longer, I'm not going to sleep. So we have to stop. And he was like, you sure you don't want to try the VR version? I'm like, um, we're good right now. We'll go with this. But man, that game is very creepy. I was thinking about you the whole time gone. Yeah, yeah, I bet. Yeah. You get my friend playing this with me. I was side tangent to the whole ghost thing. I was at a
00:35:39
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peer meeting the other night and we're sitting there and there's, you know, six or seven of us were sitting around, you know, talking and everything.
Ghostly Encounters and Movie Critiques
00:35:47
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And I heard something from where the entrance is to this building. I was like, Oh, it sounds like somebody else is here. And the guy who works in this building, who lets us meet there, he looks down the hallway. He's like, nah, it's just probably one of the ghosts. I said, well, they said, yeah, oh yeah, this place is so uneasy. We have lights turned on all the time. Our security cameras pick up all kinds of weird stuff. I was like, so we're moving venues.
00:36:09
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He's like, no, no, no, they're fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah, as he's saying this, I'm like, OK, he's probably just messing with me. There were three therapy dogs there. All three of them stared at the same spot in the wall and then tracked it over to the right. Nice. I was like, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't like. No, no, no. Crystal lucky. Yeah, no, no. They're like, it's not real. Yeah, they're not. Why are you they're not doing anything? I was like, no.
00:36:40
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I don't care. They can stay there in their ghost world. I'll stay over here. We were in the annex yesterday doing training because it's like the only place I have that can turn the lights out. So we're doing training with a new guy and turn the lights on in the old volunteer assistant chief's office back there.
00:37:03
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And boy, the lights were just flickering and flickering and flickering. It makes like, are we haunted? Did they have a rave? I said, oh, it's probably just the electrical system falling apart. Yeah, I was about to say, that's shocked a few members before. Yeah.
00:37:16
Speaker
Yeah, the building is probably going to burn down at any moment, but it wasn't ghost that time. That's good. Also, I'm going to side-change it to your comment about a therapy dog. A dog that is trained to rip my balls off on command is not a therapy dog and has not put me at ease. I just want that thrown out to everybody.
00:37:38
Speaker
Yeah. Well, he he's sweet when she tells him to be sweet. Yeah. And when she's like, I've had enough of him kill. Yeah, that's true. Does not put me at ease. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But side tangent to the side tangent goes around like our six side. Yeah. Yeah. The people love it. Did you watch the Ghostbusters Afterlife? Not yet. The newer one. That's not all you should.
00:38:09
Speaker
I was pretty good. I was very hesitant. And the other day I was like, you know what? I want to watch it. So I watched it and it was a worthy successor to Ghostbusters one. I've heard that. Yep. And I. It actually gives me I kind of want to see the new one that comes out this year. I was going to say the new hope for the new one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There were some things that were a little stretched for like, you know, but it was it hit all the heartstrings and. Right.
00:38:39
Speaker
Yeah, I got so burnt by the Ghostbusters. Other movie. It was that the ladies. Yeah. Yeah, I never watched it. Yeah. Yeah. And. It's not that I think they're unfunny ladies, I just think it was a terrible script. Yeah. Poorly executed. Yeah. And not Ghostbusters. Right. Right. Like. Yeah. Like you could have made Ghostbusters.
00:39:09
Speaker
But then to like not acknowledge the first one seemed like a really weird choice. Like there was a lot of weird choices. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Maybe don't remake things that are classics and just make your own thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can have the spiritual successor or things like that. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like the sequel, the Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny.
00:39:39
Speaker
That was a much better send off than Kingdom of the Crystal Soul. I've heard that too. I haven't seen it yet. Yeah. Because good Lord Crystal Soul so bad. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That movie is a dog. I hate to say that. Why would you say that dogs are sweet? That movie is terrible. And Shia LaBeouf is terrible in it. Yeah.
00:40:06
Speaker
I don't think he's a whack job. He is a whack job, but I don't think he's a bad actor. I have the same conversation with Tom Cruise. I don't care if you're a whack job, just be a good actor. Yeah. Yeah. You know, because you're all whack jobs to me. Oh yeah. Yeah, everybody's a whack job. Everybody's a whack job. Kasala Booth in Fury, it's really good. Fury. It's a really good movie. What is that?
00:40:33
Speaker
What's what's fury? That's the Brad Pitt World War II tank movie. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's very good. It's a damn good money. Not to be confused with Fury Road. That would be, yeah. Totally different. Right. Which they're doing a new one of those coming up. Yeah. Yeah. Furiosa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I liked Fury Road. Which, you know, that's a perfect example of they made
00:41:04
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that movie. And I don't think they were trying to like one up the original Mad Max. They were just like, this is a new thing. Yeah. It was a little weird to get to like make some mental gymnastics, but it still worked really well. Yeah. It's a great movie. Oh yeah. Yeah. And I think making Furiosa the main character of the next one sounds like a great plan. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Max has had his time.
00:41:32
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Mad Max is such a weird franchise anyways. Oh, yeah. Like the movies are like so disconnected that it's like that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. From Road Warrior to Thunderdome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very weird. Like Road Warrior, there's kind of still services like he's a. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:58
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or Thunderdome and it's everybody's dressing crazy and two men enter, one man leaves. Yeah. And Master Blaster. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Master Blaster. Yeah. Master Blaster. Yeah. That we've really side changed it now. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's just the whole sequels can be different. Yeah. It's not just video games. Yeah, it's fair. Yeah. I think the new Doom movie comes out next month. Oh, yeah. You're going to go and get your
00:42:28
Speaker
popcorn tub. By what? Have you seen you haven't seen the popcorn tubs? No. Evidently, it's supposed to be like, I guess the worm thing. Oh, really? But it looks like you're sticking your because it's like a cap that goes over the tub. It looks like you're sticking your hand into a very toothy vagina. Yeah. Yep. So there have been all kinds of people saying, oh, I can't wait to get my tub. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I wasn't going to.
00:42:59
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I will go see the theaters. Yeah. Because the first one was so gorgeous. I am not looking forward to the Jason Momoa parts. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I'm just. Anti Jason Momoa or something, but. My brother and I were having this conversation yesterday. At first, he seemed like a cool dude and now he seems more and more douchey.
00:43:27
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Yeah, doesn't he? Yeah. Yeah. Like the more he leans into the Jason Momoa-ness of being Jason Momoa, he seems more like a douchebag. Yeah. Yeah. And I say this knowing that if he heard this, he could kick the Jesus out of me. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's kind of, oh my God, we're such tangenters. My brother and I were talking about that. And then Donald Glover.
00:43:50
Speaker
Like Donald Glover was cool and community and even some of his I liked some of his like Childish Gambino music. But now he just seems very pompous and arrogant. And yeah, they're making movies again. Well, he's in some series, the remake of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, and my wife was like, oh, yeah, we should watch that. I was like, no, I'm good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're also remaking Roadhouse with Jake Gyllenhaal. Yeah.
00:44:20
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Will he have a mullet? No, no, no, no. You know why? Well, because he's the only person who should ever be allowed to wear a mullet. That's correct. Yeah. That's it. I told that to a firefighter on C-Shift Wednesday at the funeral. Wow. I said the same thing to him. Yeah. Yeah. I said, I'm sorry. Is your name Patrick Swayze? He's like, no, you know my name. I was like, well, then why do you have your haircut like that? Only one person looks good in a mullet. Yeah. You are not that person. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:51
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I tell my kids all the time, I was like, I feel sorry for you because boys nowadays have the dumbest haircuts. Buddy, we grew up in the bull cut era. Rattails. Hey, rattails for bull. Yeah. OK, so maybe I feel bad for your wife. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, we talked about that. Well, it kind of goes into my topic a little bit, so I'll wait.
Retro Trends and Fashion Comebacks
00:45:21
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We can move on to your topic. We've got like side tangent 14 at this point. Yeah. So we were talking yesterday, you know, the 80s and 90s seem to be back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's cool. But like, you know, somehow the other day at home, we got talking about rat tails. I was explaining to my kids what those were. And they're like, well, you can still grow one of those because you have hair back there. I said, well, I guess I could. And then my oldest says, oh, yeah, you'll just look like a Hare Krishna.
00:45:51
Speaker
How does she know what a Harry Christian is? Because we've watched movies. I guess it's fair. Yeah, we've watched. She's watched an airplane. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. But yeah. Yeah. I was like, thanks. Thanks. That's fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. But yeah. Yeah. Some of the things I haven't seen the full comeback of windbreakers, though. No, the colors are back. Yeah. I do see people wearing the colors like those.
00:46:19
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Iconic 80s and 90s colors, which were god awful. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was awful. Yeah, it was like, let's take neon, but to the extreme. Yeah. Like here are colors that you should only see under a black light, but somehow we're going to make it so you can see them anytime. Yeah, like you. I feel like we're really the long like we're bringing the wrong things back from the 90s. Yeah. Yeah. Well, like we said, mullets.
00:46:47
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Yeah, mullets, like mullets, for example, are like, and maybe I'm misremembering it, but even in the nineties, I was like, this isn't cool looking. No, no, no, not at all. No, I think I am very prejudiced that guys should just have one haircut. Yeah. There's like two variations of a shortcut haircut with buzz. That's what you should have. Yeah. Um, because man, everything else, you just kind of look like you're not Fabio.
00:47:18
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No, even he kind of looks like a moron. Oh, he did. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. It just put the 90s like, oh yeah, we had awesome music. Yeah. We had a cool counterculture thing going. Yeah. We had rollerblades. Which rollerblades are back? I was at a Dick sporting goods and they had 10 different versions of rollerblades. 10. It's crazy. I was like, what, what, what did I go through a time warp?
00:47:46
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I mean, I sure did roller skating at the, at the Superbowl. So, you know, all those gates are back apparently. I didn't watch the halftime side tangent. Oh yeah. I watched the halftime show and I was sort of joking, but not really. Cause I was like, I don't really know who Usher was and people on my shift. What the hell do you mean? You don't know who Usher wasn't. Yeah.
00:48:10
Speaker
Now I'm afraid to ask and then I watched the Super Bowl halftime and I said at the end, I still don't know who actually is. Not only that, but I don't know who all these other people were with us. Yeah, it was interesting. It was something. I get the NFL's trying to branch out to other
00:48:34
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groups and clubs, but then they're like in the usher part, they're like a Super Bowl show 30 years in the making. And I was like, really? Yeah. Who's this dude? Yeah. Do you remember when they had the other stations would have their own halftime shows? Oh, yeah. Like MTV would have what was it like the celebrity death match or whatever? Yeah. Mm hmm.
00:48:56
Speaker
Yeah, you used to be that was a big thing. Yeah. Yeah, but now it's all this crap. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:24
Speaker
What else can we bring back in the 90s and 80s? That's good, though. Pagers. We have those. They're called cell phones. No. I want the freedom of people not expecting me to call them back immediately. Yeah. Or have instant communication with, I want that back in my life. Yeah. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. That's what I want back for the 90s. Yeah. How about pump shoes? Never had pump shoes.
00:49:55
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Gives you the extra support when you need it. I've been wearing the same kind of shoes since the eighties, and I still wear them today. So it's. Oh, you always knew when somebody meant business, though, and kickball or something because they kneel down like, Oh, back up, back up. He's going to. He's pumping up his air. Yeah. We do not need to bring back the big 90s hair. No, no, the girls with the peacock bangs and all. Yeah, my wife's.
00:50:22
Speaker
doing it right now with her hair. Nice. We don't need that back. Yes. We don't also need to bring back the denim tuxedo. No. No. No. What was it? Saxophones in every band. Saxophones in every. Just a horn section. You were not a rock star if you didn't have a saxophone. Yeah, you had a horn section. Had to. Yeah. And you even had actors who played with you like Bruce Willis played the saxophone.
00:50:53
Speaker
Well, I mean, he did try to pretend he had a music career. Yeah. You know, he tried to do that. We don't need to bring back Scott and swing. No. Those can those can burn. Yeah. Yeah. Forever. Well, I mean, they were cool in what the 50s. Yeah, sure. The music in the 90s was cool. It was good. Yeah. Well, it's like I would actually listen to rap in the 90s because you know what they said and it was, you know,
00:51:21
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Now it's like all AI and symphony. This is definitely the old man part of the book. It is. Yeah, I'm shaking my fist at the sky. Oh, yeah. I mean. Yeah, seriously, in the 90s there, you know. Most people knew who Pearl Jam and Garth Brooks and, you know, Tupac were.
00:51:46
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Yeah, it's fair. All of those things are true. Yeah. I don't miss the colors of the 90s and 80s, though, like your brown ass couch and your yellow ass room with brown carpet. Yeah. And your grandmother's that was brown, orange and like taupe. Yeah, everybody at that scene. Yes. Yeah. Because I guess those were the only colors of yarn they made at the time. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:14
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Oh, you're sick here. Put this Afghan on that will kind of keep you warm, but it'll allow your toes to get caught in it. Yeah. Hmm. Totally bring back the Arby's being good bottle. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't. Did it feel like? Well, when Arby's just had roast beef, that was it. Right. But it didn't feel like back then fast food was not.
00:52:41
Speaker
It wasn't great, but it was it was not this crap that they're serving
Fast Food Nostalgia and Critiques
00:52:45
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now. Right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like it was decent food. Yeah. Yeah. Except for chicken nuggets. The McNuggets, they were always a gamble because you bite into that one and you get a tendon. Yeah. Yeah. I've never really been a nugget fan. It's never been my thing. I love the Arby's Roastie sandwich, though. Yeah. Yeah. Now Arby's does.
00:53:09
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Chicken and fish and well, they have all the meats. And yeah, no, no, no. Rose beef, Arby's roast beef. That's it. You know what I don't miss about the 90s? What? The pizza. Oh, come on. Go into a pizza hut. You had your little thing where you read five books or whatever and you got your personal pan pizza. It's a crappy pizza. The red cups. And there's the salad bar that had like kale overflowing.
00:53:38
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in between things. That all that is correct. All of those things are correct. Yeah. However. The pizza was bad. Yeah. Yeah. We went from like. We lived in the transition between like good neighborhood little pizza places and then they all went out of business because of the chain pizza place. Yeah. And then the chain pizzas just all became crap. Yeah. Well, I can remember going to Domino's.
00:54:07
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And you watch the guy make the pizza in front of you. Yeah. Yeah. There was a glass counter and everything, and you see him put everything off in the little machine it goes. Yeah. Yeah. And now I'm glad that we're going back to neighborhood pizzas back. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because boy, chain pizzas, it's so sad. I had a friend the other day, I have a friend the other day who was
00:54:35
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He can't be serious, but he was saying how he likes Little Caesars. And I was like, I don't know that we can be friends anymore. I'm sorry. Does he like to crap himself? Yeah, that's so crazy. And that's the thing. Little Caesars used to be good. Well, I don't know where I was. It was that we get that long thing board or cardboard or whatever. And when there were two pizzas and in the middle was a thing of crazy bread. Yeah.
00:55:00
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I remember that when I was a kid, like a little Caesar's. And you would tear into the paper like it was a gift or something. You just rip, rip, rip. Oh, look, I got, you know, little Caesar's pizza. Mm hmm. It had the whole.
00:55:09
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the little guy who slammed his spear and the pizza said, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza. Yep. I remember when I was a kid, like when we felt fancy, that's when we got little Caesars. Yeah. Otherwise, you know, the same thing, like we used to get a KFC like it was fancy food. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yep. Now I wouldn't eat KFC now ever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:33
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Yeah. Bring back good pizza from those places and I'll be back on board. Yeah. Yeah. Stop delivering crap. Oh gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think part of it also is they're trying to do everything. Yes. Like Domino's. Oh, we have chicken and we have salads. No, you have pizza. Domino's pizza. Wow. And the Domino's pizza is terrible quality these days. Well, you have to avoid the annoyed.
00:55:59
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Man, the annoyed. Bring back the annoyed. Yeah, it was cool. Maybe that's why their pizza sucks now. Yeah. They have no threat. They have no threat. That's fair. Think about it. So they lost that. Domino's Pizza. Not great. McDonald's no longer has the hamburglar and grimace and all them downhill. Yeah. Yeah. See, I think this is the thing. They're losing their mascot. But on the flip side, and maybe I'm misremembering it, the Burger King King
00:56:28
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didn't exist when we were kids. No, you had the paper freakish caricature of a thing they have now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like you just had Burger King and actually thought Burger King was pretty good back in the day. Yeah. Yeah, it was. You know what fast food places have done that is a travesty is they have all made their fries crappy. Yeah. That's the biggest thing they've screwed up. Yeah. McDonald's fries used to be great.
00:56:55
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Well, they used to be like fried in beef tallow. Well, that might do it. Yeah. Yeah. That's why they were so good. Well, I mean, now that we do have the best fries ever, which is the Chick-fil-A waffle fry. Oh, my God. Oh, that is not. They are the worst fries in the world. Are they even fries or should they just be considered like chips?
00:57:25
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I mean, I would consider them awful potatoes. Awful potatoes. Okay. Because they're not fries because fries are crisp and golden with all four sides with a nice soft interior. That's the perfect fry, right? They're not chips because chips are just crunchy the whole way through. Yeah. They're just mushy crap.
00:57:55
Speaker
So do you prefer shoestring or crinkle cut? Um, the different things. Yeah. They're different, uh, events to me. Different events. Okay. Yeah. Because, uh, you know, when I go to Arby's, I want a crinkle cut Arby's or a, uh, not the current cut. I'm sorry. You want the curly cut. I want the curly cut. Yeah. When I want crinkle cut, I'm sitting at home with my grandparents and we're eating like, I don't know, Doritos and crinkle cut fries.
00:58:26
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to read hoes and crinkle cuts. All right. I go to a restaurant and they serve me crinkle cut fries. I'm mad. Really? Because you know that they they just took those things out of a McCann's bag. Yeah. And an oven. And that's what your fries are. Yeah. Oh, yeah. If I go to a restaurant, I expect it to be a reasonably freshly cut fry. Yeah. That's what I want at a restaurant because I can make crinkle cut fries at home. Yeah. They'll be just as good. Yeah.
00:58:54
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It's I guess it's the same with tater tots. I would never order tater tots at a restaurant. Yeah. Would you? It depends on what I'm getting. Really? Yeah. Yeah. What situation are you like? I want the tater tots. Yeah. So like if I get one, if I get a wrap, I'll get tater tots with it. Cut hot dog with it or applesauce. Oh. Are you get some loaded tots? Put some pepperoni and mozzarella on them.
00:59:25
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I mean, loaded tots I could maybe see. Yeah. Although I will say the loaded tots from the green turtle. Disgusting. Well, anything from the green turtles. Disgusting. Well, you know, it's funny. We just had this conversation. My wife and I about how I think the green turtle is pretty, pretty subpar. Yeah. It's just like, well, the food's OK. I'm like, is it they charge like real restaurant prices for food? Yeah. They've got somebody back there cooking who was kicked in the head by a mule.
00:59:55
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But if you have to go to the food, to the food, to the food, it's that good food.
01:00:01
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So go somewhere where you have good food and beer. It seems like a better plan. Yeah. And that's what I was, that's what I'm upset about my compatriots at work is you actually have like two good bars that serve good food in Salisbury. Come here. Yeah. Yeah. One of them's over there and ate North Wytt Drive. That place is great. What's that place called again? On North Wytt Drive? Oh, Burnish. Maryland Oak, what's that called? Burnish. Burnish, yeah. Yeah. That place is good. Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:29
Speaker
I'm going to say this and you're going to not agree with me probably, but tapped pizza is terrible. Tapped pizza. Yeah. Yeah. Tapped. Oh, yeah. No, I'm not big on their pizza. Oh, my God. And they lie. It's not the same size. I'm sure it's for. Yeah, they said it was like a 14 inch pizza or something like that or 16 inch. Yeah, we got it one time with admin and Hannah. She was like, This is not. No, no.
01:00:59
Speaker
I mean, she would know from the my bellas. The crust is bad. The cheese is bad. The sauce is bad. And my co-workers are like, well, you should just get the Big Mac pizza. That's better. I'm sorry. No, I don't want to drown my pizza in slimy slime. Lettuce does not belong on a pizza. No. Pizza is one thing. Yeah. Cheese, pizza. Well, lettuce should not be heated. That's also true. Yeah.
01:01:29
Speaker
I can't remember. Oh, it was the place downtown. Used to be Old Town Cafe. Was it together or cafe or whatever now? Oh, yeah, whatever it is. Yeah, they do. They have lettuce inside their paninis. What? No, that's just slimy afterward. Yeah, no. Nobody says, mmm, I want a nice hot salad. Mmm, hot salad. Yeah, no, I
01:01:57
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I just, but pizza should not, and like, she was like, whoa, you have to give them a credit because they have this, I dunno, it was cheeseburger pizza or whatever it was. I'm like, no, because if their cheese piece is bad, they don't get a pass for the rest of their crappy pizza. Yeah. That's my end. That was bad. Yeah. No. Yeah. If you can't get cheese, right? Just hang it up. Right.
01:02:22
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If your pizza is worse than Papa John's, you shouldn't be selling it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's my rule. Yeah. That's a good rule. Yeah. Because Papa John's is a five and a half on a scale of 10. Oh, okay. I was about to say five and a half out of five? Jesus. No, five and a half out of 10. Yeah. They're slightly above average because they are, their crust is better than Domino's. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give you that.
01:02:51
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And their mushrooms are better than down this, but you can't rate them on that. No, mushrooms. We really, we have side changes all over this. We did. Yeah. But people love it. It's the potpourri of podcasts. Started talking about things in the 90s. We brought something back. We want good fast food again. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we want back. Absolutely.
01:03:15
Speaker
Wendy's Arby's Step Back Up Burger King, fix your goddamn fries. Your fries are atrocious. You have the worst fries in the world. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because they're the weird ones. It's like it's almost like there's a batter on them or something. It's like a starch or something on the outside. It's terrible. No. No one wants that. No. Let's let's all agree that that didn't exist. Wendy's, your fries are OK. Yeah. Arby's, your fries are fine. Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:44
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Well, as long as you get the crinkle cut. Curly cut. Yeah, yeah. Curly cut. Yeah, nothing else. Arby's should have two things on their menu. Roast beef sandwiches and curly cut fries. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. And the milkshake of the month. And the cheese, the cheddar cheese sauce to go on the roast beef sandwich. Well, yeah. I mean, that's part of the roast beef sandwich. Yeah. Yeah. Talk about you keep doing your one thing because you have five ingredients that you just keep putting in different forms. Ground up dairy cows.
01:04:15
Speaker
Aren't all cows dairy cows? I don't know. But yeah. God, I haven't had Taco Bell in forever. You see my go to vegetarian if I was like on the traveling. Yeah. Because like they actually do have vegetarian options, which is nice. Nice. Yeah. Things you learn. And you're making vegan options by asking for an alfresco. Oh. Which is nice. That's very nice. Yeah.
01:04:45
Speaker
Yeah. Also side, sides engine to wrap this up. Yeah. What do they do with all the horses for the penning, the pony penning? Do they just sell those for glue? Cause what, what do you do with those horses? Taco Bell. Yeah. Right. Like there's not much you can do for those with those things.
Ponies, Haircuts, and Farewell Fun
01:05:03
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Yeah. I don't, I, I don't know what you do with a horse. I mean, you can't ride ponies, right? I don't think so. Yeah.
01:05:14
Speaker
It's probably just an ego thing. I got a penny a pony out back. Hmm. Okay. Hmm. Yeah, I don't know. But they sell a lot of them, right? They do. Yeah. Big fundraiser for the fire department, which I don't understand that. We have, we had a conversation about that yesterday. Do you have any fires that fire department went on last year? 12. Zero. Oh, nice. Which means they have a great fire prevention program.
01:05:43
Speaker
Yeah, it's true. Yeah, that's what that proves. Yeah. So I just looked up. What do you do with a pony? Oh, boy. Things you can do with a pony are you can train it to pull a cart for pleasure or show. You can do competition driving for events such as combined driving events, games, and barrel racing pole bending. That's about it. I don't know what any of those things are. I don't either. Yeah. Yeah, working animals. Oh, pack animals.
01:06:15
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I guess like a burrow, put a bunch of stuff on it, let it carry it for you. Okay. There you go. Yeah. See, save shopping bags. Just bring a pony. I should totally do that. Yeah. Well, I think that was a cast of the pod. We've covered everything from the weather to
01:06:44
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01:07:13
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