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Celebrating 250th Episode with the PodPack Collective! || Bioshock Month
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After an ominous invite to the depths of PodPack City, Satsunami dives deep into the world of Bioshock. Featuring guest co-hosts from Casting Views, RoboticBattleToaster, Howdy Beans and Game Club Pod, this is one month that you will want to submerge yourself in. So grab a podcast Plasmid and listen to us somewhere beyond the sea!
Join us as we celebrate 250 episodes of Chatsunami with the PodPack Collective! Featuring Dan from Casting Views, RoboticBattleToaster, Luke from the Howdy Beans Podcast and Alex from the Game Club Podcast. What would it be like for a podcaster living in Rapture? Would you rather shoot bees or crows out of your hands? And you can play WHAT on a pregnancy test?! All this and more in the finale of Season 5!
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Transcript
Planning a Special 250th Episode
00:00:03
Speaker
Alright guys, it's the 250th episode of Chat Tsunami and we need to make it a special episode. So come on, what have you guys got in mind? We could build an unfeasibly lavish city under an improbably strong dome underwater.
00:00:18
Speaker
Hmm. We could do a special charity livestream event in diving suits for the episode. It's all well and good, but you could build an underwater city. No, guys, listen, hear me out. Maybe we can all fly somewhere together and do an episode. Maybe like Birmingham. I'm telling you, that's all really good. But underwater cities, all the rage. Ah, come on guys, your ideas are absolute rubbish. It's 250th, we need to be doing something out of this world.
Bioshock Finale with Special Guests
00:00:43
Speaker
Or, right, and hear me out here. For the love of god, Dan, we're not building an underwater city again. The chat tsunami budget can't handle it. Not after the last time. Oh.
00:00:53
Speaker
So you're telling me that we have a budget and yet you can't pay any of us for being here? Come on guys, you know what's better than underwater- No sky cities either. ah god's it Hmm, well the Winchester's closed so I've won. Think we should go to the Chatsu cafe, grab ourselves a nice hot cup of coffee and wait for the whole fall of civilization to blow over. Or sink, since it's under the ocean. You know what could be really fun? I've brought this with me!
00:01:21
Speaker
Alex, where did you send us? Looking around, it looks like our usual boring world. Don't know why the Chatsu Cafe's in Paris, though. Something's weird here. I just can't quite put my finger on it. The pastries, the cakes, the bread. How am I going to fit that in the toaster? Either way, it sounds like a perfect place to host our episode.
00:01:42
Speaker
Welcome to... Wait, why is that child preparing to throw a baguette at us? Throwing what? No... Ow! Fuck it! Damn you, baguette boy! Do you know what they say? Violence baguettes violence.
Humor and Networking Stories
00:01:55
Speaker
Welcome to BioShot Month.
00:02:00
Speaker
Hello everybody and welcome to the finale of Bioshock Month. My name's Satsunami and joining me in this, well, fortunately not underwater city, and fortunately not city in the clouds, but somewhere in between, that of course being Paris apparently, is four of the most fantastic content creators that I could summon on short notice. So we have Dan from Casting Views. Hello.
00:02:26
Speaker
We have Robotic Battle Toaster. Greetings! Luke from the Howdy Beans podcast. Howdyo. And last, but certainly not least, is the baguette slayer himself. It is Alex from the Game Club pod. I was the only one that was available. Yeah, Joey won't return any of my messages anymore. Not after I stood outside with the bin box. I was told that's how you're supposed to network in podcasting, but apparently not. What did you play? That's the important thing. The main thing guys is we have our help. Baby, come back.
00:02:58
Speaker
Just Juran Juran. Yeah, exactly. When you can't even say... Anyway, that song has been stuck in my head since you don't know how long, but anyway, how are you all doing tonight? Well, we've been talking for two hours before you pressed record, so I think we're all slightly tired right now. We've said all the funny things.
00:03:16
Speaker
No, I'm very good, thank you. Thank you for having me on, and congratulations on your 250. Get that out right at the start, so yeah, congrats. Ha, your podcast is old now. It can legally vote.
00:03:29
Speaker
can go to war. um I can drive a car. I can go to war. I can buy a house. I can try something called splice. What's that? I can try Adam. No, no plasmids for the podcast. That's how we get cancelled, guys. Come on.
00:03:45
Speaker
but how You mean we weren't supposed to have? All right, okay. Welcome to the podcast of values. None of the podcasts here condone the use of plasmids, eave, or salts. Yes, because the flesh is weak and you should upgrade yourself with cybernetics and robotics, not silly genetic mutation. When I realised the weakness of my flesh.
00:04:03
Speaker
Can you tell we're also 40k fans here? It disgusted me. Omnis, I have blessed this rapture. I could actually envision you looking down at your hands saying that, Alexa. So we streamed the opening night live just to date this a little bit.
00:04:20
Speaker
We streamed the opening night live as a co-streamer yesterday and me and Joey were joined by Dan Squared. And at some point I started explaining the lore behind colour theory from the Warhammer series. And I got told that I sounded like a geriatric trying to explain things. but ah You just sure said that Orc Bob Ross had a very difficult time painting anything that's violent. We were just worried about you, Alex. I was...
00:04:44
Speaker
ah Not the first time or the last. So, for anyone who doesn't know, purple invisible, red fast. I don't know what yellow does, but... Lucky. Is it lucky? Aye. Huh. There you go. I thought yellow was make big things go boom. No, I think you're right. Blue is lucky, yellow is more darker. Ah. And green is the best.
00:05:02
Speaker
Green is the bestest. Because that's the colour oak. He he he. Gork and Mork bless this podcast. I thought red was blinky, blue was inky, orange was clike, and pink was pinky. No, no, no, Dan, you're thinking of Tetris, mate. No, I thought you were talking about Dig Dug. No, no, no, it's the sequel to Pong. After you get that 100th win, it all goes to hell. You unlock the secret level.
00:05:25
Speaker
That sounds like a Pokemon rumor, don't you know it? Beat the Elite Four a hundred times upside down. Make it nuzlocke just to really throw people off. and Anyway, thank you for joining me on this retro review.
00:05:40
Speaker
totally know Bioshock. There's people listening to this going, this is not what I signed up for. Bioshock's retro now. Yes, you can play Bioshock. There's people in here who know what they've signed up for.
00:05:51
Speaker
be honest, that's every Chatsunami episode.
Retro Gaming and Podcasting Trends
00:05:54
Speaker
I don't think anybody expects. I was listening to K-pop last episode. Now I'm here. Oh, yes. Congratulations on that episode, by the way. Yeah, congratulations. Yes, thank you. For any of the listeners at home who don't know why they're congratulating me, and trust me, I don't know why. No, I'm joking. The reason is because that episode, and it seems to be the only one, I don't know why, but it just hit 700 plays. None of the other episodes have ever come that close, and especially in the time frame, because it was Wisteria Moth and I that reviewed K-pop Demon Hunters. I don't know if she used some kind of moth magic or something, if that's even a thing. And then, yeah, it's one of the most popular episodes. So I'm expecting this episode to do the numbers. I think it was the manic laugh. Yeah. The problem is, in this day and age, with how quickly trends go through, you've got to do things that relevant while they're still relevant for five minutes.
00:06:47
Speaker
And you hit that sweet spot, and now we're doing a video game that came out 20-something years ago. I wouldn't necessarily call it relevant. Well... Retro is irrelevant, apparently. The decline of society, independence against everyone else, they the breakdown of societal norms.
00:07:05
Speaker
I think Bioshock is still relevant. oh he's just missing the giant guys with drills and people climbing across the ceiling. Give it time. Well, that depends where you live. And on that note, thank you for... No, I'm only joking. name Before I find it. 250 episodes. It was a good run, so you had to do it at some point. So what you're saying is this is a cancel special. Anyway, let's talk about Birmingham. No, I'm joking.
00:07:31
Speaker
Hey! For legal reasons, that is a joke. is a joke. The Red Panda lawyer for 250 episodes is just waving me down there. Yeah, I hope that panda is being paid well, because good lord, the work that you've made that guy do. I actually can't even remember when I started it's bringing that quote-unquote character into the episodes, because I used to say that lot in season one, oh, for legal reasons, that's a joke, ha ha. And then it evolved somehow into ah red panda in a waistcoat. Did you play Ace Attorney at any point? No, but stole the background for that reaction image. He did. Objection.
00:08:07
Speaker
Overruled. but He said it on air. Yeah, he said the thing. He said it on air. you're going to get sued by whoever owns Ace Attorney. It's not Nintendo, is it? I hope not. It's not. Boss music. Yeah, moving on. Guys, why is there a red dot in my head right now? It's-a me with the cease and desist. Ooh, it's Capcom and Nintendo, so... Well, that's okay. Capcom have just crashed Monster Hunters, so we're good. Wait, they did what?
00:08:31
Speaker
The new Monster Hunters game, it has had a massive crash. They haven't optimized it at all, and a good chunk of the people who bought it have effectively turned their back on it because they just haven't supported it or optimized it at all. Oh, damn. Well, they're adding Final Fantasy to it. Oh, they are, they are. They're hoping that's going to be a stopgap until they get the new Resident Evil game out.
00:08:51
Speaker
Which is, of course, going to be the next theme month of Chatsunami. Can't wait for that. Resident Satsu. I've got two out of four of you coming on to that month, thank anyway yeah that's right isn't it yeah you've got another third of the game club pod then yeah and then you'll have the full set i need to get my jukebox back come on joey joey if you're listening please return my calls please i've got a schedule to keep try a different soundtrack any recommendations alex anything into shikari i was gonna say you know my love was meant to be
00:09:26
Speaker
um sohow Doesn't sound like any end of Shikari song I know. but no I think that was Chicago. For a second, I thought you said Shakira. And I was like, why do you want me to tell when my hips don't lie?
00:09:39
Speaker
Because they need to know you're honest. I am not a crook, my hips don't lie. Anyway, that weird crossover aside. See, this is what would happen if Ken Levine was given full reign of Bioshock Infinite. Ten plus years to work on it. Well, Shakira
Bioshock Universe Speculations
00:09:55
Speaker
would be in it. Yeah, 100%.
00:09:57
Speaker
I think this is what happened if Rapture was full of podcasters, don't you, Ian? ah Yeah, well, nothing would get done. We'd all sit around the table just talking each other, really. Yeah, I saw a fish, guys. You'd walk past the bar where the microphone for the singer is and we'd all be fighting to get behind him.
00:10:14
Speaker
I mean, you're not wrong. You've had your five seconds of fame. It's my turn. It's like nobody knows that it's unplugged. And I'm still rattling for it. It's like, ooh. Sissing on.
00:10:27
Speaker
Oh, lots shock jockey going off that night. That's the true story of how Rapture c collapsed, really. It was a bunch of podcasters in a room. I think we were the ones that actually suggested that Andrew Ryan interviewed, or not interviewed, had that public discussion with Miss Lam.
00:10:44
Speaker
In hindsight, maybe we shouldn't have got them on the topic of politics and religion. That kind of instigated things a little bit. Well, I was going to say, whoever told Andrew to take up golf, bad on you. ah Yeah, he could definitely do with improving his handicap Oh, God Right, here's a question See, out of all the characters in Bioshock Who would most likely have a podcast? Because my money is on Sander Cohen Oh, definitely I'd love Delta to have just like an ASMR podcast Just breathing heavily away in the microphone Just picking up things with his yeah his hands And just manipulating them in front of a microphone ASMR, yeah Underwater ASMR, he's just like tapping things Yeah, and occasionally getting deafened by a whale. I'm just thinking top and the glass and the tunnel and it just smashes. And then just the sound of water. And then... o I want random splicer number five. Just then screaming just down the microphone. Ah, tranquility. I love it. Tippi-tappy-tippi-tap, tippi-tappy-tippi-tippi-tap. Just Andrew Ryan in his office going, ah, this is what Rapture was made for. but It's just four hours of whale songs interjected occasionally by splicer screams.
00:11:55
Speaker
And by the end of it, you can't tell what's what. I think Dr. Lam would probably be an interesting podcast. I think it would be messed up, but listening to her talk would be interesting. Isn't that kind of what she did down in Rapture, though, when she took over?
00:12:07
Speaker
Technically. Like, hey, guys, guess what? None of you can leave. There are speakers everywhere. Welcome to my first episode of The Family. He chat. My... My daughter's gone rogue. What do I do? L's in the chat for Eleanor. Am I right?
00:12:24
Speaker
Splicer number 371, thank you for the resubscription. The family welcomes you. You've unlocked a dancing splicer. I'm ah Could we just get all the different incarnations of Booker and it could be a crime podcast? Oh, God, yeah.
00:12:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah. That would be so good. Call it you've been Bookered. LAUGHTER But here's the thing. The big twist is no case ever gets solved because they're all looking for the same woman. yeah She's my daughter. No, she's mine.
00:12:56
Speaker
What did you say? The tagline had just been, we do this by the booker. Oh, very good. No, it'd have to be Lily Tense Twins, right? Right, I'm off to make that podcast. See you later.
00:13:07
Speaker
Oh, the three stooges, but they're all bookered to work. I like the idea of the twins though, Dan. That's a brilliant one. I'd the test twins with a psychology one. They're there for it, aren't they? Are you listening to this podcast? Yes, you are. No, you're not.
00:13:19
Speaker
Are you listening to it? Are you listening at all? it would It would just be random questions like that all the time, wouldn't it? Yes, it would. You'd be able to tell who's watching just by the sort of vacant expression on their face as they just try and work out what the hell they're listening to, if they're even alive. And if they are, what is life? And where can they feel their brain? Well, the podcast would just be heads or tails. Just three hours of them talking about White Houses. I'm sorry, but them two doing a podcast would just be welcome a night, Vale.
00:13:48
Speaker
Yeah. Or you could have Atlas. Would you kindly like and subscribe? Would you kindly follow the ah podcast? Would you finally subscribe to the Patreon? And don't forget, if you're listening on YouTube, to smash that notification bell. It would have to be called a podcast, so whoever it does it would have to be called There's Always a Lighthouse, so, right? That's what it would be called. You know, I'm laughing at the thought of, let's say, Comstock decides to have a full-on religious podcast, right? But he doesn't exactly get how wind resistance works and things, so, you know, he does it outside, right?
00:14:19
Speaker
And, you know, if you're right beside the mic, that's all fine and good. But I get the feeling if you're trying to record it with all that wind up there, all you're going to hear is... The Prophet.
00:14:31
Speaker
And that's ah just nothing It's interjected every now and then by Songbird screeching. Piss off, bird. Go away. Can't you see that the recording light is red? Get out of here.
00:14:44
Speaker
ah Welcome to White Noise Infinite FM. I mean, that could genuinely be a plot for Bioshock Infinite. I think it's Albert Fink, you know, Jeremiah Fink's brother, where he steals songs from tears and things. Can you imagine if he got the wrong tear and it was for podcasts? What would that do to a man in the 1910s?
00:15:04
Speaker
Honey, these people are talking to me about things I have no idea about. What's a Sigma? What the heck is a Game Boy? A skippity toilet. I've got to interrupt this here, right? So I was just looking for, i thought, let's see if they're random characters. so I've just Googled characters in Bioshock and the internet is drunk and needs to go home tonight. Oh, we've stumbled on the biggest plot twist in Bioshock altogether. But I think they've got Jack Ryan, but what they've got is the um Tom Clancy character under the list of characters. I kid you not. So... Now, that would be a very, very different Bioshock. Where is there a secret agent going around? What's happening here? Hunt for Red October underwater. Yeah. You'd have Andrew Ryan be like, he's a man. not a
00:15:49
Speaker
What, that is a man? Whoa. so Have you seen this man? I'm sorry, that's made my day. That's made my day. Great, now I've just got the thought of Sean Connery playing Andrew Ryan now. My God. a man chooses.
00:16:00
Speaker
A slave obeys. Give me one ping. And you've had your six. As he just hurls and gold falls at you. I was like, oh, oh, oh, come on. Enough of that.
00:16:13
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think podcasts would be a thriving end. Well, I say that, but all the audio logs sitting about. Oh, they were all podcasters, really. All those audio logs. So what you're saying is podcasting was the reason that Rapture fell.
00:16:25
Speaker
Mm-hmm. I can just imagine both in Rapture and in the Bioshock Infinite Universe, you could have hybrid radio stations. In the Infinite Universe, it's just a balloon floating really far away from the main city, just with an antenna pointed directly at the city. And in Rapture, you just have this incredibly suspicious cable that just loops all over the place, plugs into one section of the wall goes off into the middle of nowhere. And it's just a bathysphere there with just records stacked from floor to ceiling and one guy sitting there talking to himself. It'd be like, good morning, Vietnam, but the rapture edition. Yeah. Good morning, rapture! 17 dead in a tunnel collapse.
00:17:03
Speaker
yeah Splice us to blame. Andrew Ryan did nothing wrong, more than sex. And in other news, have you seen a weird couple going around talking about flipping coins?
00:17:16
Speaker
You've been latiste. LAUGHTER
00:17:21
Speaker
I hope you were prepared for these tangents, Satsu. Absolutely. Constants and variables, yeah. In another universe, yeah, he was, yeah. No, in another universe, this was a coherent discussion in depth about... In another universe, he looked at the names on the list and didn't press send on the invite. This is a solo episode in that universe.
00:17:44
Speaker
If you need something done, do it yourself. We're all just voices in your mind. You're fully spliced. You're going mad. Oh, that explains why the microphone's unplugged. Oh, dear. No, that's just standard scuff, mate.
00:17:57
Speaker
I mean, that is
Rapture's Environment and Challenges
00:17:59
Speaker
true. That is the hallmark for any streamer or podcaster talking into your mic for about 30 minutes and then realising it's muted. Done that once or twice. What a lovely thought, though. lovely image of just sitting there in ah an office in rap chat and all you've got is like the blackness of the deep ocean. You'd go crazy while you talk to yourself doing a podcast.
00:18:18
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Going crazy. Yeah. that's a horse Whale, whale, whale, fish, fish, whale. Shark! Nemo! That fish has swung past already. He's spying on me.
00:18:30
Speaker
The parasite! I'm on the far side of the building. This fish is fast. I'm Satsu trying to get my script again. You'd start giving all the fish names, wouldn't you? Like, oh, there goes Barry again. yeah All right, see later then, Barry. F*** you too. Until it then descends into fishy one, fishy two, fishy three. It'd be like that robot chicken episode, that's the Star Wars one. Emperor, Emperor, Emperor. Eventually you'd go completely insane, and get a diving suit on, and then start doing your podcast outside underwater using a sonograph machine, and you can call it podcasting with the fishes. That would be quite possibly one of the worst podcast ideas.
00:19:08
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Can you imagine that microphone? Can you imagine? And their mind are going, oh, what do you think of current events and the fishes? And their mind is going, well, I think that Andrew Ryan is a splendid chap. In reality, it's just...
00:19:21
Speaker
Let's say we're a fish, surely. we can't answer it. Are you feeling quite a right in the head, sir? You've been having a conversation with a mollusk for the past half an hour. This is supposed to be my interview. And the spin-off podcast, The Codefather.
00:19:35
Speaker
Of course. That was a bit shellfish. a No, don't be sponsored by the plasmids, though, right? They'd be the ads in the middle. Sponsored by Shock Jockey. Oh, no!
00:19:46
Speaker
but Yeah, this episode of Chatsunami comes from, yeah, shock jockey. Nobody lights up my light, kind of like a electro bolt. For the quick fish supper, shock jockey. Bucking Bronco, have you ever wanted to lift the spirits of your friends? Well, now you can. And their mothers. Which is sad but true that happened in Bioshock, isn't it? Well, Bioshock Infinite, that I should stress. Which is weird, that's the only game that you technically have ghosts, isn't it? Because I know, Luke, did we not discuss that? And Alex, I think we discussed as well, where you're like, this is the only game where you actually see a physical Ghostbusters ghost kicking about.
00:20:21
Speaker
You spoke to Luke for 15 hours, you probably mentioned a lot of things. More than likely. For everyone listening, I had to let Toaster down gently there are because he thought he had the record for the longest episode of Chatsunami. And you did by two minutes. I felt Homer Simpson when he climbed the mountain and put his flag down. He's like, yay! And then the clouds parted and it's like, ah, damn it. Luke just standing on top like, how do they...
00:20:49
Speaker
Hello. Yes, two hours and I want to say 24 minutes, even though the raw audio for that was like three hours, 15, I want to say. It was a long recording session, wasn't it? thoroughly enjoyed it, but it went from bright to pitch black outside very quickly. Because I don't know about you guys, can you tell if an episode, obviously other than the time, but can you tell when a podcast episode has been going on for a while because your guests start to sound tired or And you could hear it in the voice, your voice and their voice. We were like, yeah, better wrap this up soon. It's when they're on and the alarm goes off. The bird's outside. Yeah, I've got to go. I need to go to work. you know what it is for me? And I've only learned recently to rectify this early on was we're recording in the summer, right? And it doesn't get dark till late. So I'm thinking, right, there's a seven o'clock recording. I don't need to put the light on close the curtains, put light on. So you're sitting there in the dark, your face only illuminated by the brightness of your monitor. That's normally what happens because don't want to get up and turn the light on. I was going to say, is that why you look so ominous in gaming views?
00:21:53
Speaker
I've got my windows covered up in the loft for my ah RGB lights, so I have no idea what time of day it is or isn't. So yeah, podcasts go really hecking quick. I was going to say, it's just like living in a casino.
00:22:05
Speaker
It is. It's like I'm in a pinball machine. don't know what's going on, but everything's flashing. I'm just thinking, well, slightly about pinball machines and Rapture. Andrew Ryan would have loved them. But see if Rapture did survive. Do you think that it would have evolved to the extent that it would have had everything that we technically take for granted nowadays, especially with gaming and things like that? Yeah, but the propaganda would be so heavy. Because was thinking about this while we actually talking about this episode, funny enough. If they got as far as TVs and cartoons, what would the cartoons look like? Would you have the adventures of Big Daddy and Little Sister? And what would the advertisement be there? And again, we took the mic earlier, but would it be all plasmids or would it be advertisement for your best friend is Andrew Ryan? Anything by Fontaine is evil. So I feel like it would be very propagandary. And same if they went with phones. I feel like you could only talk to the person next to you. It'd be like having a cup, like a tin hands-on string, because you can't go out to the surface. So I think you'd get bored talking to the same people all the time. I think eventually, I think it was always going to fall apart because it's like a boiler. Once you have all that pressure and all those ideas and all those concepts building, eventually someone's going to stand up and say, no, this is not right. I want to leave. I can't breathe. It's too crowded in here. And then the civil war, as we say, crumbles. So it was going happen eventually, but it is fascinating idea to think because you played the DLC Minerva's Den they were close to somewhat AI to smart computers so who knows where they could have gone if they hadn't have crumbled we make it sound like destined to fail when it was a bad idea but outside of Rapture it's not been so good recently anyway has it yeah I just think it's a different theme you know I guess the way see it with Bioshock and what they were trying to do is it's almost like the intent was there to almost start with a clean slate but it just shows that once you get people involved the people that want power things start to go downhill quite quickly I think if you let people leave know why he didn't but feel like if he allowed people to leave and come back I feel like people would have more freedom and that ego wouldn't have been as strong because people have gone well I've done what want here I'm going to go chill out somewhere in Miami or whatever nice and chill then come back and okay I've got all my energy out focus again but think I it's bad to say that it was destined to fail. I think it was just some people with egos weren't told no because that wasn't the idea of Barshak and Rapture. And it just spread of like, yeah, do whatever you want. Here's the money. If you can do it, do it. And obviously it grew to be very grotesque and sort of, what's his name? Cronenbergian. That's word was looking for. I think if they were able to invest quite a bit more in the infrastructure for the place, the big issue is the psychological fact is you're in basically a giant pressure vessel at the bottom of the ocean. Doesn't matter how hardy. or resilient you are in mind, eventually you're going to feel like things are going to crack and break and that you're going to drown. Coupled with the fact that there's no exposure to light, there's no day-night cycle, you're just a tube or in a volume of space surrounded by the same colored metal all day, all night. If they had done things to take into account the basic psychological and biological needs of how
00:25:03
Speaker
having a daylight cycle having some lights in the ceiling areas of every single area that you can get these sun lamps nowadays which basically help your body and they can make like vitamin d but have it so the light changes throughout the day so that way it simulates their day night cycle i think that would have done a massive amount to help people not absolutely flip their lid being stuck at the bottom of a tin can at the bottom of the ocean not being able to go anywhere but i suppose on the flip side and by Bioshock and Fennett, they put them right against the sun.
00:25:34
Speaker
You put the wrong people against the sun, though. That was the problem. True. You gave them too much of it in mundane. Also the lack of oxygen. ah Altitude sickness, that's what it was. Or too much helium. Altitude madness. Too many people sucking on balloons. Hey, we've all mad. I've got no idea, guys!
00:25:54
Speaker
fuck out that way I mean, between that and shooting crows out of their hands. Oh, crow magic. I love crow magic. Not quite as good as bee magic. No. See, we discussed this in length in both of those episodes, right? We we did, yeah.
00:26:05
Speaker
But here's a question going round the table here. What would you rather have? See if you had to choose between these two plasmids or vigours. If you had to choose between shooting bees out your hands or shooting crows out your hands, which one would you choose?
00:26:19
Speaker
Crows, 100%. Yeah. 100% crows. Crows are smart. You can train them. Well, I was going to say because it looks cooler, but... You can pet a crow. You could kill a bee if you pet bee. How heavy are you petting the bee? Enough to kill them, apparently.
00:26:32
Speaker
It's like a mason man all over and again. Pretty bee, pretty bee. Tell me about the bees. Yeah, I think I would go for option C, which is neither. Because funny enough, I don't fancy being either a hive or a rookery. I don't like having the idea of all sorts of insects crawling in and out of my hand, making a nest. Because what happens if you accidentally upset one or you pet one too hard and ex stings you? Does that mean that all the bees that are inside the hive, aka you, ah going to start swarming you? And with the birds, I don't want ravens. Corvids are clever, but they like shiny shit.
00:27:09
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ah Can you imagine? It's like you summon a raven and you throw it at someone and then you turn your hand upside down and all sorts of shiny rocks and stuff just start falling out your hand. Like, what the hell? See, the problem is Torster's here thinking about it quite logically and I'm sat thinking, if you summon bees, do they like jazz and will one of them try to sleep with your aunt?
00:27:28
Speaker
No bee movie. You like jazz? Well, I'm thinking, can we mix them? Can we have crows that sting? Bees riding on crows. The bzzzt cavalry. Bees that make the crow cawing sound. How cool would that We knights who say bzzzt.
00:27:42
Speaker
All the knights. No one expects the crows, wait. I just want to interject here and just point out to the Pandalorian listeners that if you want our deep dive on the philosophical aspects of this game, go a couple of episodes back.
00:27:55
Speaker
but This is a silly episode where we're letting off all the steam for the stinging crowbees up on. but but Maybe that's what you can use the crows for. You know, if you've got a bee problem, well, I've got the crows for you. The crow bees, that could be the quartet in Bioshock Infinite. That's the next group. That's our band name. God only knows.
00:28:15
Speaker
I think we know which one Edgar Allan Poe would pick. Ah. Who's there knock, knock, knocking upon my chamber door? Ha! Ha! Bede! No, wait, wrong one. And so quote the bee. See, undertow, that one's quite interesting, where you just squirt water out your hands. My question is, where's the water stored?
00:28:31
Speaker
And is it just your hands? And is it always water? Yeah, exactly. Can I change the flavour? Why is it yellow? Oh! And why do you want to change your flavour now? and that's like never come Yeah, like, you know. you're not supposed to ingest these. Look, you're not Robinson, man.
00:28:48
Speaker
I mean, no, no, I think he's onto something. Because if you change it to, like, single malt whiskey and you blast them with it, they're either going to be knocked on their feet or they're going to get drunk. Either way they're not going to cause you a problem. I mean, going back to something you said about the crow's toaster. Going back to something sensible.
Bioshock Plasmid Humor
00:29:04
Speaker
No!
00:29:06
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No, no, no, hear me out. You said something interesting there when you said about how crows like shiny stuff. How good would they be at robbing a bank? Right. The only problem is they'd lead them right to you because they literally roost inside you. How do you know it was me? Yeah, the crow head just pokes out of your hand, claws at them and goes back in. I'm telling you, the only two people who would, well, maybe three if you include Edgar Allan Poe, but the only two people who would love that power would either be the bird lady from Mary Poppins. Yeah. Or the bird lady from Home Alone 2.
00:29:37
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And I don't think any of them deserve that power because it terrifies me. You know at the end of Home Alone 2 where she sees the sticky bandits and she's like, Run, Kevin! Crows! They just get mauled.
00:29:50
Speaker
I also think the problem is the game doesn't explore the sadder side of having these. So imagine every time you pointed a crow flew out, like somebody asks you for directions in the street, you you go like, yeah, just over there. And all of a sudden, the murder of crows fly out of you. Well, my question is, with all these vigours and these plasmids, why did nobody ever decide to become a superhero or supervillain? Forget about Fontaine and Andrew Ryan. You've got Crow Man. Oh, I'm B-Man. I think it was the drugs and the cocaine. Yeah. Or so they salt slates cold on the way.
00:30:21
Speaker
Actually, that goes on to a really good tangent that just popped into my noggin. So you've got the different plasmids. If they were cocktails, what would you have in them? Like if you had a plasmid that was called freeze bolt, what would you have in it? Well, the base of that would have to be blue Kahlua, wouldn't it, really? Oh, yeah. Blue Kahlua and like a really strong vodka. But then you'd have a Russian accent as well.
00:30:42
Speaker
I cast Fleece Bolt. And you'd have to have lots of ice in there, of course. Oh, no, maybe some dry ice. or what What would you do for the crow one? It'd just like a dead crow, bit shiny object. No, I'd call it a murder, and I would get some... Oh, I cannot remember the name of... There's this really nice liqueur that's... It's a nice, like, dark red colour, and I cannot remember what it's called. Is it Merlot? That's a wine. oh is it? Yes.
00:31:06
Speaker
Never mind. I'm mixing wine with my cocktails, so I'm bougie like that. That's not a conversation I'm willing to open. Not since I was 16. Yeah, not since I was in college. I went as far as the Cheeky Vinto, which was basically port and du blue WKD. No, I have had that. I have had that. It is good.
00:31:22
Speaker
yeah We've got the obvious one for me, would be Incinerate. That's going to be a cinnamon whiskey. Oh. Yes, fireball. Bit of rum. but say is that That's not a Jagerbomb. And a Dasha Tabasco. oh What about something like a little bit of vanilla in there as well, just to give it a nice smell to take the edge off the Tabasco until they drink it and go, oh, oh, I have made a mistake. What was that vodka that was like really strong, but tastes like panther? Vodka? Well, no, but like, I don't know, really popular with teenagers, like in the You're talking about absinthe.
00:31:49
Speaker
Oh, absinthe. Oh my God. Absinthe could be the reason we all have plasmids in the first place. But I think it was like, I can't think of the name now, but we could use that as like shock jockey.
00:31:59
Speaker
Something that was just really strong and just would mesh up after just a tiny bit. Oh God, I know the one you're talking about. I cannot remember. No, if we're going back to the 80s and 90s, that would have been Hooch. Hooch is what got us all hooked.
00:32:11
Speaker
Oh man. I've actually had some proper white lightning from the mountains of Tennessee. That was White lightning. White lightning. Good Lord. Diamond white, white lightning. TNT. I'm regressing. Yeah. We've lost him. We're living my better days here. He was scrumpy when I was in uni. I'm pretty sure when I had a mouthful that, the soft tissue in my throat was like, what the hell has he just drank? Nope, nope, reject. Nope, that really is pain thinner.
00:32:34
Speaker
I realise the weakness of my flesh. It disgusted me. Smilled skin. Toaster, the dark red liqueur you were trying think of before. Are you all about Campari?
00:32:45
Speaker
I think so. Or Shambord. I think it was Campari. But yeah, I'd mix that with a nice... Oh, what's the coffee liqueur? Kahlua. Yeah. I'm just outing myself as an alcoholic here.
00:32:57
Speaker
I'm sitting here as the only person who doesn't drink in this panel, by the way. I haven't drunk since I was 21, so I'm seven years behind. I have been having a can of draft beer from Japan whilst we've been chatting. So, yeah, guilty. And if you would like all these cocktail recipes, but they are on the Patreon. No, for legal reasons, that's a draft. I guarantee that somewhere out there someone has made ah Bioshock series of cocktails. Oh, God, yeah oh yeah. Yeah, there's definitely got to be an off-brand book where it's like Shock Bio or something. Out the works.
00:33:31
Speaker
Do you remember Orbits from like the 90s? That weird drink that had loads of... Oh, God, yes. Yeah, that'd be a good cocktail for like Undertow or one of the weird plasmids. I saw a... I say it was a cocktail, but you know Captain Price from Call of Duty?
00:33:46
Speaker
Yeah. I saw this guy made it as a sort of post and like its look a joke about it was like on a page of cocktails. And it's like, a I've got this really awesome cocktail. It's called the Captain Price. It's like, oh, yeah. OK. And it's like, so you'll need ah a tumbler and a shot glass and a single malt whiskey.
00:34:01
Speaker
OK, I guess this is the base. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the base. OK, so how do you make It's like, well, you get five shots of single malt whiskey, put them in a tumbler. There you go. Oh, ah was expecting a lot more to this. Oh, and it's like, well, yeah, have you heard Captain Price talk? He's on the whiskey. So can say if it's gaming related, it's a pint of Mountain Dew with some crushed Doritos inside. Oh, God, I haven't had Mountain Dew. Or was it Monster?
00:34:23
Speaker
Monster Energy Drink? Me neither. not missing out. No, you're not. I kind of want to try it for one of my subathons just to see what happens. He blows up. Yeah, he was taken too soon. Unsurprisingly, i've gone onto the Bioshock Reddit and there are Bioshock Infinite Vigor Cocktails.
00:34:40
Speaker
So, you've got a Bucking Bronco, which is three ounce of bourbon with an ounce of lemon juice and agave nectar. The possession is three ounce of hypnotic and one ounce of dry vermouth with lime. That sounds dangerous.
00:34:56
Speaker
oh God. Devil's Kiss, two and a half ounce of Wild Turkey 101, which I believe is a bourbon with a dash of hot sauce. Jesus. Shock Jockey is two ounce of Hendrix Gin, one ounce of Blue Carousel, and a sprig of mint leaves. Okay, that one sounds nice. With soda. It sounds like a crap mojito, to be honest with you, but hey-oh. Yeah, but it sounds nicer than the, well, the hypno. Charge is one ounce vodka, one ounce Jägermeister, one ounce of grain alcohol, and two ounce of cola. What the... That's dangerous enough. want to leave that for a period of hours and see if it separates or eats through the glass.
00:35:36
Speaker
I think it's more likely the latter, yeah. Did someone bag one of Ripley's bad guys over here? The undertow actually sounds amazing. I think you might like this one, Toaster. Three ounce Kraken rum, two ounce ginger beer, and three dashes of Angostura bitters. Ooh. That's the undertow. Trying to picture how that would go together. Delicious, that's how. Ha No, you try it and get back to me. It's saying, combine the rum and bitters in a shaker, strain into a highball with ice, add ginger beer and tonic, garnish with a cherry.
00:36:04
Speaker
Oh, I'm going to go and make that. See you later. Yeah, please. And let me know what it's like. Murder of Crows is two ounces of Bombay gin, an ounce and a half of sweet vermouth and two dashes of bitters. And that's it. That's all the plasmids. Oh, no, sorry.
00:36:16
Speaker
Return to sender. ounce of vodka, ounce and a half of bourbon. Is that it? Yeah. Oh, and agave nectar to taste. Okay. Okay. What I'm hearing is when we have the pod pack meet up, we're going to be making Bioshock cocktails. I would be down for that. Satsu would have a hard enough time as the day went on keeping us on track.
00:36:33
Speaker
but I would just be in the corner shaking the cocktail going, God only knows what I feel about you. Take it away, whale. yeah Why did I team up with a whale?
00:36:48
Speaker
I'm going solo. I don't know what's worse. Singing with the whale would the fact he'd probably be a better singer than I would. and Just singing his own version of Under the Sea. He can't hit those high notes.
00:37:00
Speaker
Well, his own notes. He's made it his own, Alex. That's the point. God, can you imagine the mod where it's like, you know when you're in Bioshock Infinite and you get to Columbia for the first time and you see the barbershop quartet, but instead of them it's just the whale on the barge.
00:37:16
Speaker
Yes. but Beautiful. Will the circle be unbroken? I don't want it to be. Yeah, sorry, I'm going to ignore the rest of this game. I'm just going to listen to this.
00:37:29
Speaker
ah How did they get the whale up here? Booker, save Elizabeth! Booker, you've been here for 10 hours! You're so majestic! I don't know what's worse, this or the fact you're eating from a bin, but they're so delicious. Honestly, living in the Bioshock world, other than the obvious...
00:37:47
Speaker
at falls, let's just say. It would just be a nightmare, wouldn't it? In fact, here's a question for you. Let's say you are in an alternate reality, I say as I laugh and cry both simultaneously in different universes, but say you were the Andrew Ryan of your period and you thought, you know what, I'm going to create my own rapture with Blackjack and you know what, starting with you, Dan, where would you put your rapture?
00:38:09
Speaker
Would you still keep it under the sea? Would you put in the clouds? Where are you going with it? I think to echo what I think was it Toaster was saying earlier, yeah, it would be the clouds. It'd be too depressing under the sea. I mean, I think just for the opening of Infinite Alone, you know, where you get shot into the clouds and it opens up and it's all like, yeah, give me the sun. Has to be. well sorry Or outside Alex's house so I could see him every day.
00:38:34
Speaker
What is this weird structure that's on my street? Sorry, Alex, you can't park your car. You can't park your car when you're driving. Is a man not allowed to peek into another a man's room? Yes, guess it's a lot. Sorry, Dan just sent me a text in. Can you open your curtains, please?
00:38:48
Speaker
No. Would you kindly, for some reason? haven't got a TV yet, Alex. Can you also put it on the football? And open your window so I can hear. Yeah, toaster Europe before they get into any more trouble.
00:39:00
Speaker
So, um am I limited to terra firma? and No, you can go to space. Oh, well, then it would have to be... okay I'll give you two, if that's all right. First one would be on the moon. Great. Primarily because it's closer to Earth. It'll be more useful in terms of shipping resources back. It'll be fantastic for tourism.
00:39:19
Speaker
And because it's got no atmosphere, it's actually going to be safer than Mars because the dust that's on Mars that gets blown around by the wind... is an absolute nightmare for static and you don't really want it in you, on you or inside your habitat. If I were to do it on the planet, I would probably make it so it's not as deep as where Rapture is at the moment, but I would pick somewhere in the Caribbean area, which is coming from someone who has philosophobia and is absolutely terrified of the ocean. I would pick somewhere where the waters are a lot clearer and it's a lot more tropical and i'd have a specific section of the underwater city that is slightly elevated or quite elevated and have it's just like a massively reinforced glass dome and i'd call it the pavilion and yeah that way people can go up and just spend the day up there enjoying the sun and yeah but not in the bloody north atlantic oh great it's cold it's miserable it's dark See, this is a hard question because if it was an easy one, we'd have Barshak 4, 5 and 6 by now. Because they obviously they've spent more than a decade making Barshak 4 and currently they've actually got a new head of development because the last one's left.
00:40:26
Speaker
But it is a hard question. Again, I'd go for two. Again, the ocean, if you were to do it in the ocean, you'd go somewhere where it was more bright, hour clearer, so it's less depressing. like the Great Barrier Reef. Yeah, you know, at least you can see all the fish and it's nice and warm and stuff like that. I'd go underground, possibly, but not too far, like Moria. Cazardorne. I don't know. Space would be interesting as well. Again, Mars is good, but it's a bit too far. I don't know. Maybe a floating city would be interesting or somewhere like deep in the Arctic Circle, even though it's cold. It would probably end up then again. It'd be like the thing, wouldn't it? I don't know.
00:40:56
Speaker
There's a lot of different places you could go with Barshark. I think it's a hard question because like I said, if it was that easy, they would have made many more by now. But yeah, I think I would just probably go deep underground or deep into space. and That'd be interesting. i think the new game that he's making, Judas, is set on a broken space station. So yeah, it's weird, but it's also hard to pick because the two best ideas have been chosen. Deep underwater, high in the sky. So I'm going to give two as well. And all the reasons that Luke has said no to the Arctic Circle the reasons I'm saying yes. I want it to be cold. I want it to be away from people. And I want the chance for the thing to happen.
00:41:29
Speaker
and it'd be my holiday home because screw the British summers. And now I want to put one in space, but what I want to do a little experiment with it. I want to put it on Venus and see how people acclimatise to the fact that Venus has a longer day than it does a year. You could put it in the atmosphere of Venus. With all that sulfuric rain.
00:41:49
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I'd have to really invest in some good material, though. I've read the book. know the plumber. All right. Okay. That's fine, then. That would be an interesting one, though. Venus. Just see how people handle it. Because it's got a ah gravitational pull that's similar to Earth.
00:42:03
Speaker
You've just got to deal with everything else. I think if you did it above the clouds, not and not in the acidic clouds, but just above them, again, another floating city, because I've seen the pressure will be too much. Again, it's gone scientific now. The pressure will be too much on the actual planet's surface and with the acidic rain and the methane and all that. but that have been an interesting set. Or like the rings of Saturn. That would be cool.
00:42:22
Speaker
One of the planets rains diamonds. That'd be an interesting in one to live on. I think it might be Mercury. Pray for the dome's strength, though. Aye. Oh, it's raining again. Uh-oh. Bing, bing. Just sounds like thousands of gunshots.
00:42:36
Speaker
Yeah. you okay, honey? I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. What's that noise? Don't worry about it. Get in your spacesuit. I mean, I suppose it would be easier to get diamond rings and things in that planet. But then everybody's got them, so be worthless. Like, oh, I've got this rubbish here. But just think you could have splicers that are, like, partially crystallised. Yeah, blinged out. Oh, God, no. Blinged out splicers. Blinged out splicers.
00:42:59
Speaker
Complicers. I know I made a joke about it in the Discord, but I think it would be interesting to see one on Europa underneath the frozen surface. That would be interesting. I imagine it would just go exactly the same way as Bioshock, just with more, well...
00:43:14
Speaker
Dread and horror being like, it's not only the fact that you're at the bottom of the ocean. You're at the bottom of the ocean on a frozen moon orbiting a planet. That's a little bit of a hop, skip and a jump from Earth. So if you've left your bags at the airport, I'm afraid you should have packed another
Building a New Rapture
00:43:30
Speaker
toothbrush. Well, yeah, because if you want to go scientific about it, if you wanted to, you could have the idea. We built the city underneath Europa, but the problem is the crust shifted, closed us in, so we're locked off and we're miles deep under very thick ice that we can't drill for It would take them years to get here and to drill through, so we're stuck.
00:43:45
Speaker
And that progression over time would see how do people slowly start going crazy. And obviously, because you're on an alien planet, you can do alien parasites, whatever. That could be new plasmids, whatever. Or maybe not do that. Maybe go full psychological. It'd be more like dead space. Who knows? Oh, yeah. I think the psychological aspect would work because they're stuck in an unknown environment with no way out. It's like the golden ingredient to horror.
00:44:05
Speaker
Let people's imagination do the work. There seems to be a real knack in this group for coming up with really stupid out-of-the-box ideas and then making it work. From the moment, I understood the weakness of my insanity.
00:44:19
Speaker
That's called podcasting. Satsu, where are you putting yours? Yeah. I do agree with the space angle. I feel it as if on the moon or somewhere like that, that would be probably the next logical step that i think the franchise would go in. And it'd be, as you were saying, Doster, you've got the flow of resources that you could have. You've got it close to the air, relatively close to the air.
00:44:39
Speaker
The other one that I think you guys are sleeping on is a place like the Scottish Highlands. Oh, yeah. Now, the reason I say that is because have you ever driven in those country roads and those B roads? No, but I have gone through Wales. Different country, mate.
00:44:53
Speaker
I know, but it feels like middle... Have you ever gone to middle of the earth? You know, it feels like Wales. but We don't give Luke the navigating duties, OK? The North Sea must be here somewhere. Luke, this is the Caribbean.
00:45:06
Speaker
It's all right. Birmingham's in the south.
00:45:10
Speaker
That's an inside joke. I'm not stupid. LAUGHTER Probably go reasons that is true. but But no, it is notoriously hard, see going through all those B roads. And let's face it, councils in the yeah UK aren't exactly well known for filling out potholes and maintaining rural country roads. So let's say even if someone was trying to sniff about, how the hell are they going to get there?
00:45:33
Speaker
Yeah, true. Without getting noticed, at least. So, I mean, you could bury it somewhere deep in the islands, and, don't know, you're going to get a couple of sheep maybe sniffing around, but that's about it. The Isle of the Sky would probably be a good one, because it's close to the mainland, but it's still off. No, because it's got a bridge connecting it to the mainland. Oh, I thought I didn't know that. I'm sorry, Luke. I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
00:45:55
Speaker
Chuck it up in the Hibbodies, and then when people start asking for directions, they can't understand them anywhere. They just get sent back to him. are they talking about Stornoway Black Pudding? I don't get it.
00:46:08
Speaker
There's a scene in the Rapture book, actually, where i think the people of Rapture, of course, start complaining that all they've had to eat are fish, because for obvious reasons, it's the easiest thing to catch, and that's all they're getting. I can just imagine the Rapture in the Highlands is just like, why is there nothing but stored away black pudding? We need something else.
00:46:27
Speaker
It would be like Lord the Rings, then. All we've had is mouldy bed for three stinking days. What about that haggis? They don't need that. Look, they're fresh. They are not for eating. ha ha. Looks like square sausage is back on the menu, boys. Oh, God, effingly. If you do base in the Highlands, you could just surround your your city with Highland cows, because those things are fucking scary.
00:46:49
Speaker
Really? Aye, they're massive. Aye, they're massive, but they're quite relaxed. I mean, I literally, I'm honestly not joking here, although it was kind of south of Scotland. Your north look. yes And I drove down to this lighthouse, and again, it was a single-track road and everything. I swear to God, there were just these cows, some of them Highlanders, some just regular cows, they were just walking into the middle of the road. And it got so bad that the person driving in front of us literally had to get out his car to push the cow away.
00:47:17
Speaker
It was just at them going, go, go, go! And the cow was like, well, don't have to be mean about it. It just wandered off. It was like, don't know, you can't call it a moat of Highland cows, but... A garrison.
00:47:31
Speaker
platoon. Can you imagine putting the order down for that? I need a lot of Highland cows. Oh, you're a farmer. Yes. I just love Highland cows.
00:47:42
Speaker
Thinking about that somewhere excluded, you could stick it on the Nepalese or mountains like Shangri-La hidden away, that sort of thing. It's hidden by the clouds because it's too high up in the mountain, or you could put it deep in the Amazon jungle. That'd be fascinating as well. Again, but I think we we're going into ancient civilizations or territory there, but that'd be cool. The somewhere secured, somewhere where there's no people. I think that's the idea of what Andrew Ryan wanted. He wants to be somewhere where it's really hard to get to um and people want to interested in getting too close.
00:48:09
Speaker
Because it's so dangerous. Like the Congo. Congo is really, really dangerous. So somewhere deep in the Congo. That is a fair point, though, if you want seclusion. But the only downside of it is I don't think Rapture or the concept of Rapture, Columbia, like a sea. Yeah.
00:48:30
Speaker
keen investigators i mean tech talkers and influencers you know just stumbling across how angry would you be as andrew ryan if you're sitting there and rap sure and you know you've built this amazing city under the water nobody knows about it in some baroccola here twice something euro is streaming it, right? On TikTok, and it's like, guys, you'll never believe what I just found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. How the hell?
00:48:59
Speaker
but I'm just going to say this now, because every time someone has said build a city or built this city, my brain immediately fills in the blank with and rock and roll. I'm glad it's not just me. And I have been doing my best to just not sing it out loud whenever someone says it.
00:49:17
Speaker
If we're going down that route, ever since someone said propaganda at the start, I keep thinking someone wants to take a really good look at something. So that's all I've had in my head literally since the start of the episode. So thank you. Is that right, propaganda?
00:49:30
Speaker
I forgot all about that joke. And this is why, listeners at home, we aren't building Rapture ourselves. Partly because of the state of the economy, to be but mainly, I think, because it's just a terrible idea. i think we'd get distracted. We'd build, like, maybe one room. Build a backdrop. Never. What actions would evidence at times that?
00:49:53
Speaker
Come on, I'm not having that. It's just a hunt, I think. But I think we'd build one room, probably make a wall around it so we can fill the backdrop with water so it looks like we're on the water, and just turn that into our little podcasting studio. Maybe put some goldfish in the moat around it outside go, oh yeah, look, we built Rapture at the bottom of the ocean. what do you mean you want us to walk outside the room and give you a tour? Sorry, makes extension leader's too short. Can't do that. You do know green screens exist, Toaster.
00:50:20
Speaker
You wouldn't have to get all that water But that means that I won't be able to wear any sort of bright green shirt, otherwise my chest will disappear. Which toaster's famous for. I still can't find my toaster. This isn't a joke, it's a cry for help. I've been waiting for ten days now, please. Has your catching appliance gone missing? It might be a green screen.
00:50:42
Speaker
So what you're saying is you have to buy a lot of toasters, put them behind you, and then you can get your own homemade green screen. right It's like the kitchen appliance equivalent of the Truman Show. It sounds like a dystopian version of QVC. I'm not going to lie. Do you want to buy these toasters? Where did they go?
00:50:59
Speaker
but Kind of looking back in the month, and again, not to single anybody out, but yeah, starting with you, Dan. I might as well, because I'm already trained on you right now, but I'm already at the window with a boombox ready to press it. Because again, as I said, really won't return the goals. What has been your favourite part of this month? Bioshock month, of course, in particular. you know what? I think it's just the opportunity to hear this series of games being discussed in some depth. And look, joking aside, we've had a fun time. There's been a lot of shenanigans this evening. But you know everyone on here is brilliant in their own ways you know and their podcasts and their subject matter. And I think Bioshock, I'm not saying it's an unloved game. Absolutely not. It's an iconic franchise, right? But it's just great to have that opportunity and to hear everyone's takes on the themes and the subjects. Yeah, it's just been, I think that's what it is. It's been great to hear all your thoughts and views who's on a great set of games. It's a set of games, you know, along with us a little known one called Mass Effect, but I do tend to play, yeah, you'll never catch one, the Bioshock games quite regularly. Well, when I say regularly, sort of it'll be every 18 months or so. I dust one of them off again. But yeah, no, it's been really good, like I said, to hear all your takes.
00:52:06
Speaker
You could say that we cast our views on it. had to He said the thing. Rule credits. I'll never say no to advertising. Thank you, Luke. You're welcome. What about you, Toaster? Well, Chief Monks, having this nice chat with everyone today has been an absolutely wonderful way to round off the evening. But going through and looking at the games through a more adult light, if that makes sense. Because, of course, when I first played Bioshock that came out in, oh God, what, 2007? And then Bioshock 2 came out 2010. In 2010, was Oh, now.
00:52:42
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oh yeah your going back and looking at it Dan, how old were you in 2010? Never the mind. Guys, don't blow into the mic, you'll just turn to dust.
00:52:55
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It doesn't feel so good, Mr. Satsu.
00:52:59
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But, ah yeah, going back and playing the game, because, you know, when I played it for the podcast, that was the first time I played it since I played it in 2010. And going back and looking through it, it was like, God, death, rapture, what a mess.
00:53:13
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What the hell is going on here? and Just thinking about all the sorts of bits and pieces and, you know, going through the psychology of how people would have had to sort of survive down there. I really enjoyed it. And one thing I do wish that existed was I wish there was a game where you could basically be one of the poor schmucks that had to keep Rapture filled with air, not water, and just go around and try and fix the place, preferably without Fontaine or anyone else blowing great big chunks out of it. This is why I recommend the book to everybody, because the book fills in those gaps.
00:53:44
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And he a brilliant job. No, I can only second that. Because by the time this episode comes out, there should be a Chatsu Shorts episode where I've reviewed it in medium length, let's just say.
00:53:54
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but A short episode in medium length, but it is an absolutely, you're right, look, it's a fantastic read. And the audiobook's also on, again, this episode isn't sponsored by Audible. Amazon, get your act together. But it's also on Audible as well to listen. And yeah, I can't recommend it enough. I actually tempted fate. I can't remember if I told you guys this. tempted fate by reading it on a plane. And it wasn't until I got off the plane when I was like, oh, that was a stupid idea.
00:54:21
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Luke, what about you? What's your favourite memory? To honest, it it's mostly just a second what everybody else has said. I always do a pilgrimage to Mass Effect and to Barshak every year. I don't know what it is about Rapture. It just calls to me. it It always has done. It's like a siren song. It's just one of those that always just calls me back of like, play me, come back to Rapture. So every year I do it. So it was lovely to be able to not just come back to Rapture, but come back for a purpose, come back to look at it for a review for, again, through the adult eyes, because again, I was, I'm not going to say how old I was, because I'm going to make it all feel really old. But I was very young when the game came out and absolutely loving it and adoring it and playing Bioshock 2, not really understanding it, playing it again later when I was in college. And I was like, oh, okay, I understand the point of Bioshock 2 and same with Bioshock Infinite. And like specifically with Infinite, with our episode, I feel like that is the sort of episode that nobody talks about. Barshock 1 and 2 was great, but Barshock Infinite is a sort forgotten child. So it was an honor and a pleasure to be able to talk about that game in depth and to kind of just shine a bit a light on it. Now, don't get me wrong.
00:55:18
Speaker
I was a little bit disheartened when I didn't get a chance to review Bioshock 1 or 2. I love those ones and I can spit lyrical about them all day, every day. But I feel like I managed to get a special moment to talk about Infinite and just talk about again that just for some reason isn't talked about enough and it deserves more love and attention. And yeah, I just wanted to be asked and it's been a pleasure to talk with you all. And yeah, just thank you, to be honest. It's been a real, real fun time and an absolute laughter. See, I'll let you into a secret here. When Satsu mentioned this, I really wanted to do in Infinite, but I remember getting in on the Mass Effect month at Mass Effect 3. So I thought, no, this time around, I want to do the first Bioshock and get in at the start. But I agree you. think Infinite is a great game.
00:55:56
Speaker
And yeah, it does go under the radar a little bit. It goes to form with me. I always talk about the games that nobody else wants to talk about. Vajrak Infinite, Mass Effect Andromeda. It's fine. Loved Andromeda. It's nice to meet somebody else who did as well. Yeah, that game was stopped way too soon. I would have loved to explore the rest of the galaxy over there.
00:56:12
Speaker
Do you know, ironically enough, the book, I think, is Annihilation or something? Yeah, it continues. It's really good. It's a murder mystery with quarians. I don't want to spoil it, but it's really, really good with the quarian arc. It's not what I would have wanted. i would have wanted the book to focus on the Kett and their history. Again, this is not a Mass Effect episode, so won't get into it. but I would have preferred that than the Quarren arc. But again, what we got was good in the books.
00:56:35
Speaker
But yeah, I would have liked to have played it in the game. And last but certainly not least, Alex, what are your thoughts on this month? Doing this month forced me to play Bioshock Infinite because i didn't play it with it a boy when it came out, but didn't play it when it came out. I don't think I'd ever played Bioshock Infinite if it wasn't for doing this month. Obviously, I played one and two way back when, when they came out, and I've replayed them once or twice between. but Infinite has just never been on my radar. I knew it existed, but I also knew that it was... was at the time quite ill-received and I think that just tainted me but having played it it's not as bad as people made out to be and I think if it weren't for doing this I'd have never known that.
00:57:16
Speaker
And are you still traumatised by the baguette boy? I see him in my sleep I swear he's become my new sleep paralysis. Damon just dancing around your bed. Aye, exactly. You guys know about the baguette boy, don't you? Is that the weird kid that just danced around in a circle with a weird look on his face? Yeah, with a baguette held up above his head. So I did some further, further research to confirm that I wasn't just imagining that somebody put them in because they couldn't get the original model right.
00:57:43
Speaker
And apparently, to, I suppose, backtrack to that episode, the reason that apparently they did that was because there was supposed to be two kids dancing around the advertisement or whatever it is the big stand but they thought oh we're just going to transport the dancing animation from the adults you know that scene in the beach where it's like crash down and you find Elizabeth and she's dancing with all the other people and they're dancing in the circle and they thought oh let's just apply the skeleton structure from that model to children and apparently it just did not work at all they were clipping through one another it just looked very unnatural So instead, they decided to take one of the other animations and, yeah, just give him a baguette and make him dance around like a David Lynchian character. Blue Velvet, who that? Bioshock Velvet. It was bizarre, and I do agree. I see him in my dreams as well. Or nightmares, I should say. I just don't care about it.
00:58:40
Speaker
If he's not Barshak 4, we riot. It was just so sort of jarring because the rest of the scene, because this is when you land in Paris as Elizabeth in Burial at City 2, and, you know, it's all quite calm and everyone's like, oh, hello, hello, hello, hello. And then there's just this Muppet with a baguette over his head dancing. and Like, you just imagine the cafe staff, the kids back again. Oh, no. Oh, no, baguette boy. He gives me real Jack Sparrow jar of dirt energy.
00:59:07
Speaker
I've got a jar of dirt. But instead he's like, I've got a baguette. I've got a baguette. Zutaroa, close the doors. No, we have no baguettes left. Be gone. We sold them all this morning. Depending on how stale that baguette is, he could use it as a melee weapon. Plus 10. Bludgeoning damage. He should have been the final boss in Clare Obscure. Yeah, he's the BBEG. Maybe it's... What are they from Star Wars? The Tusken Raiders where they just go...
00:59:29
Speaker
It's just, wee, wee. And the little baguette boy went, wee, wee, wee, all the way home. I was going to all the way to bludgeon you with that baguette. En garde. He gives off, and this isn't a phrase I use lightly or at all, but he gives off Dark Souls' boss energy, doesn't he? You know, you'd expect to step through one of those portals, and it's just the health bar keeps going up. Fancsois, wielder of baguette.
00:59:56
Speaker
Dun dun dun dun The sequel to The Three Musketeers No One Knew We Needed The Secret Fourth Musketeer What, Bretanian? Oh, Brioche Now I want Brioche, dammit Yeah, me too I don't want Bouguette Nah, he's still Bouguette anyway Look, all I'm saying is See if he was only Miz They would've won the revolution That's a story for another day I don't want to get political But Bouguette Boy Could've sold the French army Meanwhile, in another timeline...
01:00:24
Speaker
Can you honestly imagine that? It's just Elizabeth looking very contemplative, going constants and variables. And Booker's just like, Elizabeth, what the? you talking about There's a boy literally bludgeoning Napoleon to put me into death with a baguette. I'm a bit mesmerised at the moment. I'm on Discord staring at this kid going around a ball.
01:00:43
Speaker
I can't stop watching it. Can you hear the people sing? Singing baguette boy. Oh my God, how did you find that? Because I was going to send that earlier. I just typed in baguette boy.
01:00:54
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did as well. And they evaded me. I'd make a shit songbird. But anyway, for all the listeners at home who obviously cannot see our phones unless you've got secret splicer powers here, it's a gif of the baguette boy.
Bioshock's Influence and Lost Media
01:01:08
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and His movement is so weird. It is like a splicer. Yeah.
01:01:12
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Yeah, but that's the thing. They modelled after the adults who were dancing in the game, which... So that's why he's bit janky. Yeah, obviously it's going to be a lot bigger and they'd have to compress. I mean, Alex, I was something think you would be able to be more of an authority here, but it's like they had to compress the model and, or not the model, but the, I don't even know what you call it, the skeleton of the model. Yeah, the skeleton. Yeah, and then replicate the movements and things. And obviously it would look weird if he was just dancing with his hands up.
01:01:39
Speaker
Like any of you have got the agility, the balance and the moves like that kid have got. Come at me. Some say he's still going. He is still going. watching that. but You spin me right round, bag out right round. I could imagine in the design office of Irrational, was like, all right, guys, we've got a dead space. We need to find a way to fill it.
01:01:59
Speaker
What's the ideas? A kid with a baguette dancing around a pole. I love it. Sold. I'm going to need you to loaf out the bread jokes now. Come on. No, guys, come on. Don't rise to that. Oh, my Lord. I'm a bit sour.
01:02:13
Speaker
It's just because I started the episode off with violence baguettes violence. is Is that what this is about? Just got to roll with it. ah This won't be the first recording I leave prematurely.
01:02:25
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That's not a pun.
01:02:28
Speaker
I'm trying to find the bread-related joke in there. I can't find it. We didn't give him enough dough to stay. You didn't give me any. What makes you think I have a budget? I'll write the skit.
01:02:39
Speaker
yeah I was trying not to laugh at that when you did the line read because I was like, yeah, we don't have a budget. Question is, do we need to carry on? Very true. Thank you all for listening. No, no. the need pun ah though i go no i got it i chose to ignore oh for god's sake a man chooses a baker obeys anyway this is the reason why gregs won't return their phone calls for sponsorship baguette boys aside and our own mortality aside apparently with the get boys honestly this has been an absolutely fantastic month with you guys and genuinely with the pod pack collective as a whole because it's something that you were saying there alex as well that a lot of podcasting is being told to watch a film or play a game that you wouldn't normally do so you step at your comfort zone or you think right i'm gonna dust off the digital backlog let's go and you know you try different games and for me i think It was either the end of last year or the beginning of this year where I started playing the first Bioshock for the first time. My God, it was so good. bit like with you, Dan, with Mass Effect. I was like, okay, I'll play one. What's the harem? And then end up doing a whole month of it with you guys. And yeah, with Bioshock. it was just an absolutely incredible experience both playing the game so that was half of it but the other half was making up the skits having you guys on and I'm not just saying that because you're here and you're not getting paid wait what? moving on
01:04:08
Speaker
Yeah, no, it's just, it's been absolutely fantastic. It's been so fun talking about the philosophical musings in the first game, second game, even Infinite as well in the DLCs, but also the silliness of it all. I know we've joked a lot there about Baguette Boy and things like that, but you've also got the Murder of Crows, you've got the Wood's Andrew Ryan.
01:04:29
Speaker
I'm a podcast, apparently. That kind of thing. So honestly, thank you guys for coming along with me on this journey to discuss a game series that, although it is outdated, I will admit that, and I think is so old that you can probably play it on your mobile or phone now, can't you? Oh, I think so. I really hope not. I really hope not. I can't remember who it was I was saying to, but there is actually a Bioshock game that was released for mobile phones, but it's kicking the Pixel version of it. You're kidding.
01:05:00
Speaker
Yeah, it ran on Java, didn't it? Yeah, it was like, there was a top-down one, and then there was also a I want to say a first-person one. You sure we're not talking about the game Plumber? I wish... no Apparently so, because when I found it on YouTube, I was like, there's no way this is a thing. But you look it up and you're like, oh my God, it's just, you know, one of these games that it goes into the pile of lost media, because let's face it, who's breaking out the Nokias and downloading game? Oh my God, you're right. Pull out the N-Gage. There's a name I've not heard in a while. Well, clearly you haven't been listening to gaming views. was to say that, yeah. That's what need remember, because clever i listened to it recently. God damn, I've been rumbled.
01:05:39
Speaker
LAUGHTER End of recording, please. yeah yeah The idea is if you can play Doom on a fridge now at this point, it wouldn't surprise me if you could play Barshak on the phone. Didn't someone run Doom on a pregnancy test? Yes, I think so.
01:05:55
Speaker
I'm sure I've seen that somewhere. I think you're right, but that string of words together is just That was a sentence I never thought I would hear. ah So, honey, were we successful? I'm at Hell's Gate. What is it? It's a BFG. Yeah, ah bloody imps, they're everywhere. You don't have to talk about the baby like that. Honey, I'm pregnant. Not now. I'm going for a speed run. I'm playing on Hurt Me Plenty.
01:06:24
Speaker
Hurt Me Plenty, give a bath to it. yeah Did you just pee on the controller? ah Honey, that is disgusting. I was going for a highre high score on that thing. What shall we call the baby? Doom guy.
01:06:39
Speaker
yeah Little Slayer. ah This is something I have never looked up, nor dare I look up for my own sanity. But you just know there's going to be an influencer or a TikToker out there being like, what's up guys? I'm going to see if I could speed run Doom before I find out if I have a baby. Why would you do that? I mean, obviously for the money, but have some respect.
01:07:02
Speaker
it Oh, Doomguy had a bunny rabbit. it was called Daisy. So he could call it Little Baby Daisy. Who gave him his answer true. Oh. Are you okay, Toaster? half crazy. all for the love of you. I think you're all full crazy. are you Satsune?
01:07:23
Speaker
Dad, it's your verse. Come on. I can just think of the soundtrack to su Suicide Squad. I'm a fool to do your dirty work. Oh, yeah. I don't want... I'm just singing it to Chatsu.
Podcast Milestones and Collaboration
01:07:35
Speaker
I want to do your dirty work. Yeah, I've just muted myself now. Welcome to episode 251, the karaoke edition.
01:07:43
Speaker
I'd be there for that. Is this while Satsu is standing outside with the boombox trying to get Joey's attention? You're just standing next to him, serenading him. That's why it's not working. He's using us as karaoke for it.
01:07:56
Speaker
Yeah. It's not even boombox at this point. I'm just lifting up a look going, come on, sing! Sing! Sing the thing! Look, I enjoy musical a number every now and then. I don't know how I got into this situation, but roll with it. I need the recording.
01:08:11
Speaker
It's all about content, guys. Very true. It's all about the content. Which is something, again, i never thought I'd be saying in 2025, but here we are. Well, you get to 250 episodes, you say some things. Like speedrunning Doom and a pregnancy test. You've got to cut that bit out and use it as the advertisement.
01:08:27
Speaker
Make it a Patreon-only exclusive. The spicy B-roll at the Doom Generation ladies. Is a man not entitled to the pee on his... Oh, no, no, no. Reverse, reverse. That's not Undertool. I mean, that's not right. He changed the flavour.
01:08:41
Speaker
Ah... I don't want to be on this bathysphere anymore. No, the world needs water. He's just got a hammer to the side saying, in case of emergency, break glass.
01:08:54
Speaker
And that's why I took the taxi. 250 episodes and that's just what I've accumulated to. I would say are you guys happy about it? I'm going to be honest. I'm ecstatic. I could do this for a couple hours. We should do this more often, just not for podcasters or slot getting a round table every week. We should get together and chat. Yeah, men's mental health, it's important. It is.
01:09:17
Speaker
Although I think ours is rapidly falling off the edge here. Sorry, it's just, no, you're completely right, Toaster. Men's mental health is important. Oh, I thought you say falling off the edge. Well, that too. but I just love the way you said it so seriously after what we've just talked about. Playing Doom on a pregnancy test. Men's mental health is important. It was like an ad rage, you swear I didn't expect it.
01:09:38
Speaker
It's like, you know the end of the old South Park, so it's like, you know, I've learned something to do. but How to make a Bioshock cocktail. But not the kind of cocktail I was expecting. I can't speedrun this.
01:09:49
Speaker
Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. On that note, for toaster sanity, more than anything else, and for Dan's bedtime, of course. it's Probably go reasons that's a joke. Apologies. but It's the 250th episode. If we get cancelled in this one, we go out in the high, okay? But...
01:10:06
Speaker
In all seriousness, guys, thank you so much for, and I'm not just saying this in a sentimental way because it is the 250th episode, but thank you all for being on this month with me, being on the previous months and coming along with me through this journey in podcasting because you all are absolutely fantastic content creators. And again, I'm not just saying that because the PayPal check is in the mail, but genuinely, you guys are absolutely fantastic, both as people and content creators. So yeah, a massive thank you. absolute pleasure for having thank you sexy you're too nice i'm just so glad that moth introduced me to you yeah it's quite funny how that happened doesn't it yeah without meeting a moth randomly in the street i was gonna you talk to moths but you don't want bees or crows i know it's strange moths don't sting you yeah what kind of crows do you live around
01:10:57
Speaker
And look, we shouldn't laugh. You know, I've been stung by a bee before. Charge me £20 for a pot of honey. Oh, good Lord. Man, he saw you come in. I mean, they probably died after that. But so done but as always, thank you so much for coming on and yeah going through this month. and before we wrap up, and we're going to do the roll call again because there's way too many of you this. episode first of all dan where can the lovely pandalorians at home listening find your content and yeah do you have anything in the pipeline that you're working on so people if after this you decide you want to hear more from me you can find me at casting views but also more importantly more recently gaming views where along with my awesomest co-host dan who's also another dan you can hear us talk about all sorts of random gaming stuff and Yeah, at the moment, no, we're just working through. We've got a lot of ideas listed down. We're just trying to put them in an order and trying to get through them. But yeah, those are gaming views are Tuesdays and Fridays at the moment. Casting views on a little bit of a break while I'm focusing on that. But yeah, I'm still putting out the best of at the moment. So yeah, those drop on a Sunday. And you'll find a lot of appearances from a lot of the people in this group, especially Mr. Satsu. very true i've claimed squatter rights to your podcast so you were my first guest very true i just stumbled through the door one day i was looking for my inbox it's too polite to ask who you were i was too polite to leave i was just like um yes podcast yes what the hell's a podcast i was looking for my copy of doom good so toaster europe
01:12:35
Speaker
Well, wonderful Palalorians and wonderful beans can find me on Twitch under Robotic Battle Toaster. And yeah, I'm a variety content creator. I play lots of games, effectively seven days a week. The next big thing that I've got coming up is going to be in November, the weekend of the 9th, 10th and 11th as well. I'm going to be doing an affiliate anniversary. So that's going to lots of nonsense. And yeah. abominations find out more on the day is that the one where you do the sandwiches yes yes that is the one where i do the sandwiches i'm going to be adding more toppings to the list too much to my shape especially considering someone recently told me that tartar sauce is vegetarian or not At least it's not horseradish. Oh, God, shouldn't have said anything. You shouldn't said anything. So if people do certain amount of subscriptions in one chunk, they get pick how many toppings go on these pieces of toast that I literally make and eat then and there. However, if they do 20 subs in one, I put every single topping on the list on these pieces of toast. And the chemical reactions that I have witnessed, yes, it is an extensive list.
01:13:50
Speaker
To clarify, when he says toppings, we're not talking like a choice of 10. We're talking a choice of 30. All on one bit of bread. it's Savory, spicy, sour, sweets.
01:14:01
Speaker
You got like rice puddings, Tabasco sauce, jelly, jam, pickles. And people can pick really sadistic choices as well, like Someone picked two toppings and they're like, yeah, I'm going to be really nice to you. You can have Nutella and strawberry jam. They're like, oh, that's amazing.
01:14:18
Speaker
Thank you. That's fantastic. No, actually, I changed my mind. oh Oh, okay. What have you changed? You can have strawberry jam and Marmite. It's like... oh Oh, thank you. The
Creative Content and Upcoming Plans
01:14:29
Speaker
hand giveth, the hand taketh. I know that's not the point of this, but like I have to ask, what is the most surprising concoction where you get two things like, that shouldn't work, but when you've had you're like, that's actually really delicious. I don't actually know. It all sort of becomes a Vietnam flashback. when the bread starts melting. i think rice pudding and honey worked really well as a topping.
01:14:52
Speaker
You just have to eat it quick before it dissolves the bread. Anyway, anyway, my piece over. He was getting flashbacks. But good boy, no! I hear helicopters. And yeah, you're Scooby Sandwiches.
01:15:04
Speaker
Look, where can the listeners who are still here find your content? Well, I'm not as interested as Battletoaster. I don't do weird sandwiches. I just speak in a weird accent. Some people call it a Brummie accent. Some people call it a Southern accent. Southern accent as well. Or Northern.
01:15:19
Speaker
Or Northern accent. It depends where you are in the world. So I'm a variety podcaster, which is weird to say. I do lot of different things, movies, video games, books. I tend to look at things that most people don't talk about or look into because I find that's the more interesting content is where it's like, what's people not talking about? That's where I want to be. So I tend to do that. You can find me on all podcasting platforms from Apple, Spotify, GoodPods, that sort thing. I'm on YouTube as well. You can follow me on Twitter, howdybeens underscore pod, just for all random things that I post and retweet. As for things that I'm working at the moment, I don't know when this episode comes out, but as a recording, I've got Whispers of the Heart Studio Ghibli movie. That's coming in this Saturday. I'm also working on my plans for Halloween. So I'm not going spoil what they are, but I've got a lot of topics that I've chosen for Halloween, which I tend to look into movies, and like horror B movies, the kind of horror films that I like are really cheesy, so bad they're good. That's why my bread and butter really but i enjoy and yeah so that's it really but i want to say again thank you to chat suit for inviting me on it's been an absolute pleasure you're lovely as well and uh yeah and the last but not least alex i am one third of the game club pods are now technically i guess a variety podcast we were a gaming podcast but now we've brand branched out into movies and TV shows a little bit You can find us anywhere. We're on YouTube now, as well as Spotify. I don't know if we're on Apple Podcasts because none of us use Apple, to be honest with you. But yeah, we're the Game Club Pod. I say we're working on, we should be working on Podmas coming up.
01:16:48
Speaker
We've decided against my better judgment that we're going to do an episode every day of December again. But what we're doing this year is we're planning it ahead because last year we started recording in November. So this year we're going aim for October at this rate. Enjoy that. That's going to be a slow descent into madness that will be great fun. I do love Podmas. Podmas, Christmas time, 30 days. I've still got it stuck my head. You should try doing it.
01:17:16
Speaker
Honestly, cannot wait for that. To be honest, that applies for all of you. cannot wait for all your stuff coming out. As I said, absolutely fantastic channels and definitely go check them out. And I'm not just saying that because the... Yep, sorry, just got your PayPals um except for you, Dan. So see if you wait behind after the call.
01:17:37
Speaker
always me always me as you sneaking into the bathysphere again oh is this the off button no jokes aside once again thank you for coming on and yeah definitely go check those guys out but if you would like to check out our more serious takes on the bioshock world as well as the other 249 episodes of chance and army good lord then you can indeed check us out at our website chance and army.com as well as all good podcast apps i also want to give a Huge shout out to our Pandaleroon patrons who have made all of this possible. Robotic Battle Toaster, you might have heard of them. Sonya, go stay in cryptic 1991. Thank you all so much for supporting the show. And yeah, if you would like to support the show on Patreon as well, then you can check us out on patreon.com forward slash chat tsunami, where you can get early access to episodes, you can get commentary tracks, etc. exclusive episodes and you can also get Luke's karaoke version of this episode. For legal reasons that last one's a joke but I'm sure he and I can
01:18:37
Speaker
but I have to edit it, that's why I'm hesitant. ah I don't want to edit 10 hours. Then, yeah, once again, you can check it out on patreon.com over slash chat tsunami. And yeah, that is the end Bioshock month.
01:18:50
Speaker
ah That is the end of season five of chat tsunami. Next month, we are going to be running the best of season five. So definitely would be sure to check that out. And the month after, once we return for season six, we're going to be returning with the absolutely terrifying but fantastic Resident Evil month starring as I said two out of four of the amazing guys here yourself Dan and Luke so definitely would be sure to check that out because I did not get jump scared for nothing but so you better listen to us it's going to be a fantastic month so check out as always thank you all so so much for listening to Chatsunami you Pandalurians are absolutely fantastic stay safe stay awesome and most importantly do you guys want to finish the last book stay hydrated They're hydrated. Bees. Murder crows.
01:19:40
Speaker
ah Bees are in my eyes. Run the bees. for Bye, everybody. Ta-ta. Cheerio. Tati-bye. You're just going to leave them hanging, don't you? What games do you want to see run on a pregnancy test?
01:19:55
Speaker
That's how I'm ending the episode. mean, bye.