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Mario and the Incredible Rescue - Part 1 ft. HotCyder!
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HotCyder joins Kevin to talk about Mario and the Incredible Rescue! Is it a kids book? Sure is? Are we holding back on it? Well it wouldn't be Pixel Lit if we did.
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Book Synopsis
Mario and Luigi are Enjoying a peaceful afternoon when Toad makes a chilling announcement: Bowser has kidnapped Princess Peach! Several strange, ghostlike beings overcame the Princess's guards and took her back to Bowser's Keep.
As the three friends travel into the Mushroom Kingdom, they learn that Bowser used an old book of spells to create the ghosts. As long as the ghosts guard Bowser's Keep, Mario and Luigi cannot pass. To break the spell, Mario and Luigi must search for six special mushrooms. Once all six mushrooms have been gathered, the friends can break the spell.
Mario, Luigi, and Toad better move fast. They have to travel to the Kero Sewers, Tadpole Pond, Forest Maze, Yo'ster Isle, Moleville, and Booster Pass. Can they collect the mushrooms in time to save the princess? -via the Video Game Library
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Introduction and Humorous Scenario
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that's yeah it's like in a world where werner von braun never came over the united states the secret weapon is actually just jack reacher throwing the missiles yeah it's doing the cable sauce with the with the doodleburg v2 rocket uh you know what else is a v2 rocket oh my god what
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Hey everybody, welcome back to Pixlet.
Guest Introduction: James from Hot Cider Channel
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My name is Kevin and with me on today's episode, while Phil is out on his baby leave, is James from Hot Cider Channel Gaming Place.
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James, aka Hot Cider.
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Gaming's had cider.
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Gaming, podcasting sometimes.
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Kevin, obviously, has been on that podcast.
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James from Bullet Time.
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I've been on this podcast a couple of times.
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So this is my third appearance.
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So I was on... Third time.
Guest Appearances and Humorous Rivalries
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Got to look at the monsters for Halloween.
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That's right.
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I was on... We did an episode.
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We did an episode.
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Bionic Commando.
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And then... Yeah.
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Today as well.
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When do I get my challenge?
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Is it like Saturday Night Live?
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Do I have to be on this five times to get my challenge?
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Yeah, exactly.
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I think it's five times.
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So I think you and I feel like it's you and Jesse Gratia are like your neck and neck as to who's going to get to five first.
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So, yeah, like, who in that component, who's Steve Martin and who's Martin Short, like, out of that, like, who's going to get to the bar first?
Steve Martin's Texan Origins and Cowboy Speculation
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Yeah, I'll leave that between you and Jesse to see who would be that.
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I mean, Martin Short is a Canuck, isn't he?
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So that would feel like it's a better fit for Jesse.
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I mean, granted, I'm not a Yank, so, like, Steve Martin wouldn't be much of a fit for me.
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Where is Steve Martin from?
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He is from Texas.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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He's from Texas.
James' Movie Confession and Cartoon Confusion
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Seems like the least Texan guy I can think of.
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I feel like he did not spend a lot.
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He couldn't have spent a lot of time there because he started really young in terms of being a performer.
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He exudes New England Wasp.
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I couldn't imagine that man in a cowboy hat.
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Actually, I could imagine that guy had a cowboy hat and I'm laughing because I go, oh, you shouldn't be wearing a cowboy hat.
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That's still fitting.
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But no, apparently it's not.
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Apparently that is...
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exactly the attire that he should be wearing.
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Yeah, you couldn't imagine it until you remembered Three Amigos.
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Oh, well, here's the thing, Kevin.
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I haven't seen Three
Donald Duck's AI Voice and Imagined Employment Drama
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Amigos.
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When I think of Three Amigos...
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I think of the cartoon where it's Donald Duck and the parrot and the red bit.
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Oh, the three caballeros.
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The three caballeros, yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, Donald Duck and the two... The other ones.
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The other ones who only appear in the three caballeros cartoons.
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Do you think they ever feel jealousy of just like Donald Duck can just go home and have like a normal life and do his own stuff, whereas they can only ever be part of the three caballeros?
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I'm pretty sure that there's probably been some backroom stealings and some talks of disrespect.
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Here's the real thing is Donald Duck did not vote for the strike authorization, but the other two caballeros did.
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It was Donald's scab during the... Donald, I mean, his daddy's Walt Disney, of course.
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I don't know how I feel about that.
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I don't know.
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Donald, I respected him.
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Now I know that.
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I bet he was pushing for the AI stuff as well.
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He was like, look, once the AI can do my voice, I'm fine with that.
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Yeah, he's been looking for a reason to retire for years.
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Because he's animated, he always stays young.
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This would just give him an out.
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And he was really pulling for it.
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But I don't know.
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We'll see.
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We'll see.
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I'm just laughing at the idea of Sam Altman, like, you know, Donald's on the phone and he's like, have you got the voice done yet?
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And he's like, well, I can do natural voices for, like, other people, but Don, like, your voice is, like, I can't, like, the level of technology is not there yet for Donald.
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I don't even know what you're saying to me right now.
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This is like too much.
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This is why Sam Altman got fired, actually.
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Was Don the one who put the phone... He was the one who rang the board.
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He was like, get him out.
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He's a liability.
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Get him out.
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Donald Duck was the one who rang up the board and was like, listen, this clown has to go.
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Yeah, he's talking about Epic.
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Blah, blah, blah.
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Get him out.
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Musk...
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He rang up Musk and he said, put pressure on.
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You know what, Musk?
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You know what to do?
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Put pressure
Main Topic Transition: Mario and the Incredible Rescue
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on.
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Get him out.
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Oh, boy.
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So we're not here to talk about Donald Duck, though.
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We're here to talk about Mario and the Incredible Rescue.
Author Tracy West and Media Tie-in Awards
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A character who famously... Wasn't there a thing, like, back in the 90s where they did a poll and Super Mario was a more recognizable character to children than Mickey Mouse, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it was either Super Mario or Sonic.
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Oh, yeah.
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I think it's Super Mario because I think that was the whole reason that Sonic was invented is because, like, Sega were like, oh, God, Mario's, like, massive.
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Why haven't we got a guy like that?
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Mario is massive, yeah.
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Mario is famously massive, yeah, which is obviously why he's got... Famously massive.
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Why he's got so many books, such as the one that we're looking at today, which of course is Mario and the Incredible Rescue.
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Now, Kevin, do you know any... Did you look up anything about this book before?
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Yeah, I looked up the author.
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The author, her name is Tracy West.
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And there's...
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Not much else, not much out there other than she's from New Jersey and she's a children's book author.
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And she's written for Pokemon, SpongeBob SquarePants, Teen Titans, and the Powerpuff Girls.
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And she also did the novelization of the film Penguins of Madagascar.
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Which won her a Strybe Award for the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
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Now, I've got to ask.
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I feel like that, like, for Pixel, like, that's just where you should be looking, like, every year.
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Like, okay, these are our guys.
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Like, what's winning awards here?
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Because, yeah, I had a quick... I decided to look them up very quickly to see, like... So, they're still about... Mostly moved over to Facebook now.
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The website hasn't been updated in a while, except they did do the Scribe winners for this year.
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Mm-hmm.
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Uh...
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Tom Clancy, funnily enough, video game related, won for best audio drama and for best general general novel.
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Tom Clancy's.
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Splinter Cell.
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Yeah.
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Splinter Cell Firewall, which I believe a friend of ours has covered.
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Ashley from.
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Yeah.
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Ashley from Game.
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What's her channel name?
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Game Library.
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Covered it at some point last year, I believe.
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Well, it must be good if it won an award, if it won a scribe from the International Association of Media Italian Writers, or I am Twi, to give them their acronym
PixelLit Collaboration and In-Person Event Jokes
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name.
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Not quite E-A-T-C, but... Not quite an E-A-T-C, which, you know, I am Twi.
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it's where graphic novels short story oh wow they got a whole they got a whole thing it's wild though that a video game novelization won the award um yeah i'm gonna have to i'm gonna keep have to keep an eye on that for i think you should get them on the pod and be like like we do media we do we do game times let's collaborate a little bit i should get all of i am i am tw on the pod right
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At once.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I was thinking more just like you push them to do an actual in-person event so you can go there dickied up, like handing out the awards.
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That'd be pretty good.
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I think that would be good.
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Mention with Mario and the Incredible Rescue, the Nintendo book.
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Now,
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I have a feeling why I know why you asked me on to have a look at this.
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And we'll get to that in a bit.
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But one thing you did mention about this is that it does come with stickers.
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Now, unfortunately, the version you sent me, which was an EPUB, did not have any stickers in them.
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Does not have stickers, no.
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I do wish I had eBayed a copy with stickers to send you, but that's on me.
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That's my
Mario and the Incredible Rescue Cover Art Discussion
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bad.
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Now, that's also fine.
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You'd be...
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It's even better than that.
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So the Super Mario wiki, as expected, does have the book fully detailed out.
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But not only that, they do have pictures of the sticker sheets, and they even tell you every single game that the renders are taken from.
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Because I would like to describe, by the way, for the people at home, who, you know, I'm not sure if this will be the episode art or whatever, but the cover of Nintendo Heroes Mario and the Incredible Rescue by Tracy West.
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is a picture of Mario jumping, Luigi on a mushroom, and two ghosts.
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Now, these renders are from 10 years of Mario games.
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Like, there is no consistency between them.
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Yeah, the two ghosts are completely different renders.
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Yeah, so Super Mario is a render from Super Mario 64 from the manual.
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The ghost in the back is a ghost render from Super Mario 64.
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The one in front of it with his tongue out is from Luigi's Mansion.
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And then Luigi himself is from Mario Party 4 for the GameCube.
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So two completely different generations of consoles.
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Which I think is a good summation of this book, which is written in 2006...
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And yeah, all of its Mario touchstones are from a decade prior, 1996, which is, I guess we'll tap on that when we get to it.
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But yeah, I think, I don't know whether it was Tracy, like what information that she had or whether it was Scholastic.
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Will I use the Mario Bible?
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We haven't updated it in a while, but don't worry about it kind of thing.
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Yeah, it feels like if I was to guess, wildly speculate, is that Scholastic goes to Nintendo.
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Like an editor at Scholastic goes to Nintendo and is like, hey, we want to do Nintendo, like a Nintendo Heroes series.
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We're going to have Mario.
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all right um and uh they're like and scholastic is going to nintendo of america i'm thinking nintendo of america is like yeah sure sign over the contract sounds great here's the here's the rules you got to follow for what mario can and can't do and here's some uh here's like a folder of graphics you can use i
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Here's our sticker sheet to you.
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Here's our sticker sheet.
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Let's slap some shit together.
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They literally just put them on, like, whoever was from Scholastic.
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He had a briefcase, and somebody from Nintendo was just, like, putting them on.
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And, like, the Scholastic person was like, can you please stop doing it?
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And the Nintendo person just kept doing it, just kept putting stickers on the briefcase.
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Yep.
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That's how it went.
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That's exactly how it went.
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And then a poor Scholastic graphic designer just slapped this cover together and called it a day.
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Just grabbed the first few that he saw.
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Exactly.
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Took a green mushroom from Super Mario 64's render book, but then for the rest of the book used mushroom renders from New Super Mario Brothers.
SGI Onyx Computers and Robert Patrick Trivia
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Do you know what Nintendo was using for their... What they would have been using for their renders back in 1996?
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Would it have been like an SGI or something like that?
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Yeah, so all the Super Mario 64 renders were done on a SGI Onyx, I believe, which I think is very close to what...
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They built Doom on.
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Oh no, Doom was built on an NXT.
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But the SGI Onyx, they used them for all sorts.
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Like Softimage and Maya could run on that sort of stuff.
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Right.
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It's like the same computers they would have done Jurassic Park on.
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The liquid guy in T2 I think was all done on Onyx's as well.
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Yeah.
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Phantom Menace I think was also done on Onyx's as well.
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And then they decided, can we try to make these smaller and make them run quick?
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And they're like, okay.
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If you want.
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Fine.
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Yeah, sure.
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So it's my arm, why don't you?
00:12:44
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There's a really funny bit in Jack Reacher, by the way.
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We were talking about Jack Reacher before the show started.
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There's, what's his name?
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The guy who played the cop in Terminator 2.
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Oh, Robert Patrick.
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Yeah, Robert Patrick.
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He's like the bad guy in season two of Jack Reacher.
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And this goon calls him up and he's like, they they checked in under the hotel name.
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And he goes, he says it's the first name is a guy and it's a reference to some movie.
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It's like Reacher and the girl checked in under so-and-so and Sarah Connor.
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And he goes, what the fuck does that mean?
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And then the guy on Robert Patrick is like, I don't give a fuck who Sarah Connor is.
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That's pretty, kids.
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I was like, just the meta level of that joke is chef's kiss.
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I always think of the one in Wayne's world where he stops the car and he holds up just the kind of a random kid and said, have you seen this child?
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Yeah.
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I love it.
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Love it when Robert Patrick appears in things.
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He was good in, what's it called?
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Peacemaker.
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He plays John Cena's dad in that.
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Yeah, the white supremacist villain in Peacemaker.
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And then I remembered
Robert Patrick in X-Files and Peacemaker
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out of nowhere that he was the replacement for David Duchovny in The X-Files.
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Oh, what?
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During the season where... During the last... Went off present and then it was... Yeah, it was just like Gillian Anderson and Robert Patrick.
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And then Gillian Anderson left and it was Robert Patrick and...
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It's weird.
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X-Files went on much longer than people remember it did with that.
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Yeah.
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And then it came back twice.
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And people went, oh, it only came back once.
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It was like, no, it came back twice.
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Twice.
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And it had like free films as well.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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There's more X-Files than you think.
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And multiple games.
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Yeah.
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Some would say too much X-Files.
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Some might say too much X-Files, but if you carve it out right, you have just enough X-Files.
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That's true.
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And if it wasn't for X-Files, we wouldn't have got Breaking Bad.
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We would not have gotten Breaking Bad, would we?
Mario and the Incredible Rescue: Chapter Summaries
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And we also wouldn't have gotten Nintendo heroes, Mario and the Incredible Rescue.
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We're going to put this body in the marsh.
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Let's do a big fucking dog, man.
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Let's see here.
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We're going to start off with chapter one.
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Absolutely.
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Chapter one.
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I made a couple of notes with these as well, which... Mostly just the fact that when Mario talks and stuff, I just find it incredibly weird.
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It's very off-putting.
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Mario should just be somebody who grunts, and yet, no, in this he's saying four sentences, like...
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Mario took a deep breath of fresh air and said, nothing.
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Absolutely nothing.
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The merchant kingdom is safe.
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Nothing is causing any trouble.
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Princess Peach is safe in her castle.
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For once, you and I can just relax, okay?
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Like, I guess I can sort of hear Chris Pratt's Mario say.
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I mean, I was going to say, so is this like... It's more like Ron Livingston.
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Like, I think it was like Ron Livingston's character from Office Space is what they were channeling.
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yeah that's what i'm sort of feeling as well i was gonna say do you think this is gonna be the bible for the second mario movie it's like oh fuck what do we do for that uh oh hold on tracy west she sent something in mario and the incredible rescue got it saw it but i i wouldn't be surprised it has a pretty like you know we gotta go instead of like we gotta go get the macguffin we gotta go find six macguffins
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Yeah, let's get to those six MacGuffins then, which is basically just so, to kind of summarize the first few pages, it is just they're chilling, and then in classic Mario fashion...
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Princess Peach gets kidnapped, that's usually the thing.
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Kidnapped by a bunch of ghosts.
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Yeah, so ghosts are involved.
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So Toad comes running in, he says, I need your help.
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Luigi cries, oh no.
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I mark down Mario saying, calm down Toad.
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Which I just, in Mario's voice, I just find very... It's just Mario being condescending, being like, Toad, calm down, please.
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Like everything else is in the Charles Martinet voice somehow.
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And then he breaks character to just say, calm down, Toad.
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I was thinking of, have you ever seen the classic YouTube video where it's the Nintendo sex ed video or whatever it is?
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And it's Mario speaking in the Captain Lou Urban or Spaghetti kind of voice.
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Here comes my brother, Luigi.
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Hello, Mario.
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Hello.
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And Luigi just has a completely waspy white American guy voice to explain.
00:17:56
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So that's what I imagine Mario sounds like in this book, is that he sounds just like a very normal Anglo.
00:18:03
Speaker
Very Anglo, yeah.
00:18:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:07
Speaker
While Luigi's doing pizza pasta, Mamma Mia, and Toad's got the really screechy-ass voice.
00:18:15
Speaker
Mario!
00:18:15
Speaker
Mario!
00:18:17
Speaker
Oh, no, Mario.
00:18:19
Speaker
She's been captured by ghosts.
00:18:23
Speaker
Ghosts.
00:18:24
Speaker
Ghosts.
00:18:25
Speaker
They really Scooby-Doo the crap out of those ghosts.
00:18:28
Speaker
Both Luigi, which is just a slight criticism, Luigi and Toad are both afraid of the ghosts.
00:18:36
Speaker
I feel like that weakens the overcoming moments that were due of them overcoming their fear.
00:18:44
Speaker
I don't know.
00:18:45
Speaker
And again, this was published in 2006, so let's assume it was written in 2005 at the earliest.
00:18:52
Speaker
Luigi's Mansion has come out at this point.
00:18:55
Speaker
Luigi shouldn't be surprised at the existence of ghosts.
00:19:00
Speaker
No, he shouldn't.
00:19:02
Speaker
He knows what ghosts are.
00:19:04
Speaker
I mean, he's also in Super Mario World, technically, if you play in two players as well.
00:19:09
Speaker
And there are multiple ghost houses in that game.
00:19:12
Speaker
Of all the characters in the Super Mario canon, Luigi is the only one who is a part-time Ghostbuster.
00:19:18
Speaker
That's true.
00:19:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:20
Speaker
Like Ernie Hudson famously said, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you want.
00:19:24
Speaker
I'll believe anything you say.
00:19:25
Speaker
Yeah, Luigi famously also said exactly the same thing.
00:19:31
Speaker
Like in his measly voice.
00:19:33
Speaker
He said that to Miyamoto when Miyamoto was saying, Luigi, we're having trouble fitting you into some games.
00:19:39
Speaker
Luigi's response was, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll be in any game you want.
00:19:44
Speaker
For some reason Luigi also had Ernie Hudson's voice for some odd reason.
00:19:49
Speaker
For some odd reason.
00:19:50
Speaker
People didn't realize this, Ernie Hudson was the voice of Luigi.
00:19:54
Speaker
All along.
00:19:55
Speaker
All along.
00:19:57
Speaker
Oh gosh.
00:19:58
Speaker
So that's chapter one.
00:20:00
Speaker
Yeah, no, oh yeah, so this is great.
00:20:02
Speaker
I love it when you ask me on Pixel 8 because it's like, oh here's a kid's book, it's 46 pages, but finish it up.
00:20:09
Speaker
Now I do always struggle with reading anyways but yeah I did manage to blow through this but yeah all you gotta know in chat is peaceful no longer peaceful Toad comes in Mario says for them to calm down they're all scared but Mario's like no problem we saved Princess Peach from Bowser We're gonna do it
00:20:28
Speaker
Let's go straight to Bowser's Keep.
Spooky Forest Adventure and Cybele's Assistance
00:20:30
Speaker
They're going to take a shortcut in Chapter 2.
00:20:32
Speaker
They go through a warp pipe to the Karo's sewers.
00:20:36
Speaker
Yes.
00:20:37
Speaker
Which is when I started to realize I think I know what source material that Tracy's pulling all this from, but that will be confirmed properly in Chapter 3, so I'll hang on tight.
00:20:51
Speaker
Hang on to that.
00:20:52
Speaker
Very much like Super Mario Brothers.
00:20:54
Speaker
First level is in the overworld.
00:20:56
Speaker
Second level, you go underground into a pipe.
00:20:59
Speaker
And where are we going in chapter two?
00:21:01
Speaker
into a pipe we're into a pipe and we're in that pipe and they're they're bopping some goombas who are in the way uh yeah they run into an army of goombas though uh they go the other direction they run away from the goombas and then they do uh they kick down a brick wall which is yeah yeah they do
00:21:24
Speaker
I forgot about them kicking, don't I?
00:21:26
Speaker
Mario ran as fast as he could and then he came to the exclusion hall.
00:21:30
Speaker
The tunnel was brought by a brick wall.
00:21:32
Speaker
What do we do now, Mario?
00:21:33
Speaker
We kick!
00:21:35
Speaker
We do what Mario is known for, kicking.
00:21:40
Speaker
Yeah, you know Mario, he's very good at punching bricks, you know, straight up, but he's also very good at just solidly just kicking walls, like doing just a standing kick in small wall.
00:21:51
Speaker
That's where, you know, Shawn Michaels got the inspiration for the sweet chin music was actually from Mario.
00:21:58
Speaker
Famous.
00:21:59
Speaker
I see.
00:21:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:02
Speaker
I was thinking that the motion of it is like when Bart Simpson's like, I'm going to start kicking the air and if you get in the way, it's your own fault.
00:22:10
Speaker
There's a very solid can-can star kicking to the air.
00:22:15
Speaker
I will say, though, something interesting from that brick wall, which I did make mention of, is that a gold coin is produced, to which Luigi says nice, grabs it and stuffs it into his pocket.
00:22:27
Speaker
Now, I've never thought about that in the Mario games, of the, where do the coins go?
00:22:32
Speaker
And in this case, because they don't just turn into the ether, which is what I assumed.
00:22:36
Speaker
No, like, he has a physical pocket for the coins.
00:22:39
Speaker
That thing's going to get pretty stuffed, I would have thought.
00:22:42
Speaker
Yeah, he's they they got to have some sort of I mean, Mushroom Kingdom physics, just every everything I've learned about the Mushroom Kingdom through the games, through the the the obviously very canon books and movies is that pockets are all pockets are bags of holding.
00:23:04
Speaker
In the Mushroom Kingdom.
00:23:06
Speaker
So after they kick the crap out of that brick wall, they go through the brick tunnel and now they're in a spooky forest.
00:23:15
Speaker
And when they turn around the brick wall, the exits that they just came through is now gone.
00:23:22
Speaker
Mario blinked.
00:23:22
Speaker
They had just crawled through a brick tunnel, right?
00:23:26
Speaker
But there was no sign of the tunnel or wall anywhere.
00:23:28
Speaker
I made a note of this because when I read through this the first time, I made this funny note, and I don't quite get it, but it was like, why is the author asking for confirmation here?
00:23:38
Speaker
I think it's because it's written, they just crawled through a brick tunnel, right?
00:23:42
Speaker
And I guess maybe in my head I was like, why are you asking this?
00:23:44
Speaker
You're the person who wrote the book.
00:23:46
Speaker
Why are you asking me for confirmation?
00:23:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:48
Speaker
right you should know and i'm like yeah i guess so george rr martin should do that where it's like uh just the next uh song of ice and fire book is just like uh this character was dead at least i'm pretty sure they were is that right is that right if they're dead or not can you go back in the old book i don't know i've never read the old books yeah
00:24:12
Speaker
Oh, I was going to say, it's like a fighting fantasy book, and it's like, if you think this character is dead, keep reading.
00:24:18
Speaker
If you don't think they're dead, go to page 40.
00:24:20
Speaker
I've changed the plot.
00:24:21
Speaker
That's really what's taking so long, is that the next book is a choose-your-own-adventure that's going to total like 9,000 pages.
00:24:30
Speaker
I'm good with that.
00:24:32
Speaker
I think they should bring those back, and if Georgie Boy is going to be the one to do it, by all means...
00:24:37
Speaker
But yeah, they're in a forest though.
00:24:40
Speaker
And this is when we were introduced to one of the few female characters in the Mario canon who isn't a princess.
00:24:47
Speaker
Granted, this isn't a character that's actually in any of the games.
00:24:50
Speaker
I did double check.
00:24:52
Speaker
Yeah, so her name is Cybele or Cybele.
00:25:00
Speaker
Yeah, Cybele or something.
00:25:04
Speaker
Well, the name is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Rhea, the wife of Crotus and the mother of Zeus.
00:25:11
Speaker
Interesting.
00:25:12
Speaker
Okay, so this is a pretty smart reference then by the sounds of things.
00:25:16
Speaker
I did make a note about this because there's a line, he knocked on the door.
00:25:21
Speaker
Come in, a woman's voice came from inside.
00:25:24
Speaker
That doesn't sound like a ghost, Luigi says cautiously.
00:25:26
Speaker
Ergo, Luigi confirming that ghosts can't be women.
00:25:32
Speaker
No!
00:25:33
Speaker
I guess it's only men.
00:25:35
Speaker
Yeah, I guess men, only men can be, only all men are ghosts and all ghosts are men in the Mario universe.
00:25:41
Speaker
So there we go.
00:25:43
Speaker
So do you think Saibeli was there when Cronus was eating his kids?
00:25:48
Speaker
Do you think he was just watching?
00:25:49
Speaker
Yes, he watched.
00:25:54
Speaker
Don't eat them all at once, dear.
00:25:55
Speaker
Don't eat them all at once.
00:25:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:59
Speaker
I got you some Pepto.
00:26:00
Speaker
It's in the cabinet.
00:26:01
Speaker
I got you some Pepto.
00:26:03
Speaker
I'll owe me the best, my growing boy.
00:26:07
Speaker
Another growing boy.
00:26:11
Speaker
So, yeah, she tells them how to deal with the ghosts, which is get the six magic mushrooms and cast a spell.
00:26:22
Speaker
And then everybody else leaves, and she's like, wait, Mario, I got one more thing for you.
00:26:30
Speaker
And she gives him an envelope.
00:26:33
Speaker
Yes.
00:26:33
Speaker
And she's, don't open until there's no hope left.
00:26:38
Speaker
And he's like, okay.
00:26:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:39
Speaker
What does that mean, though?
00:26:41
Speaker
What does that mean when there is no hope left?
00:26:43
Speaker
That's pretty hardcore thing to say.
00:26:47
Speaker
Pretty bleak for a Mario movie.
00:26:51
Speaker
Or book.
00:26:52
Speaker
I mean, this could be Mario Movie 2.
00:26:53
Speaker
That's what I'm thinking.
00:26:54
Speaker
If you think of this in Chris Pratt's voice, that's who it is.
00:27:01
Speaker
I would say, I did make a note earlier on... Or Prince Pratt's voice.
00:27:03
Speaker
It is Prince Pratt's voice, yeah.
00:27:05
Speaker
I did make a note earlier on where she was like, I can help you defeat ghosts and say Princess Peach, but it will cost you.
00:27:12
Speaker
Like, she does actually, like, look, this is a really serious situation, but I want to get paid from it.
Kero Sewers and Music Puzzles
00:27:17
Speaker
And Luigi gives her the gold coin that he found in the tunnel, and that's, like, good enough.
00:27:23
Speaker
Not particularly heroic.
00:27:25
Speaker
I mean, I guess I can see why she got ostracized to the forest for being a witch, if she's, like, you know...
00:27:30
Speaker
Well, yeah, I mean, it's a trend of weaving capitalist propaganda within the works of children's literature.
00:27:40
Speaker
And Mario.
00:27:41
Speaker
And Mario, clearly.
00:27:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:46
Speaker
That people, when they are turned into bricks, as is canon in the Mario world, it's okay to destroy them, now that they are bricks, to get gold out of them.
00:28:01
Speaker
Let's just say Marx would have had a field day with Super Mario Brothers.
00:28:08
Speaker
There is an enemy, one of the bosses in Kirby Superstar is literally called Marx.
00:28:12
Speaker
What on Nintendo's saying with that?
00:28:14
Speaker
What is Nintendo saying?
00:28:16
Speaker
Do they know?
00:28:17
Speaker
What are they cooking?
00:28:18
Speaker
What are they cooking?
00:28:20
Speaker
Who let this man cook?
00:28:25
Speaker
Um, so yeah, they, uh, the first clue is in the, uh, Kiro sewers.
00:28:34
Speaker
Chapter three.
00:28:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:35
Speaker
In chapter three, the first clue is Kiro sewers.
00:28:38
Speaker
It's written backwards, uh, on the, on the clue that they gave.
00:28:41
Speaker
And they're like, ah, I figured it out.
00:28:43
Speaker
And there's a, uh, warp pipe nearby and they hop down the pipe, uh,
00:28:48
Speaker
And as they're walking, they gotta dodge piranha plants.
00:28:52
Speaker
There's piranha plants all over the place.
00:28:54
Speaker
And they're moving and grooving and they get to a ravine.
00:28:58
Speaker
And it's one of those things where they gotta time the jumps because there's four pipes and they're ascending.
00:29:04
Speaker
But the...
00:29:05
Speaker
The piranha plants are coming up at different timings, and if your timing is wrong, you're going to get bit.
00:29:12
Speaker
Exactly.
00:29:12
Speaker
You're going to be planting food.
00:29:13
Speaker
You don't want that.
00:29:14
Speaker
You're going to be planting food.
00:29:15
Speaker
I want to say, by the way, for the folks at home, so right at the beginning of the chapter, they give you this puzzle, which is, yeah, as Kevin said, it is Kerasu is written backwards.
00:29:27
Speaker
They literally give you the solution to this.
00:29:29
Speaker
Go backwards for the answer.
00:29:32
Speaker
They have absolutely no hope that a child will ever figure this out.
00:29:36
Speaker
And I will say, there are some puzzles, quote-unquote, later on, which are so kind of obscure that, yeah, of course you would give the answer immediately after that.
00:29:45
Speaker
But, yeah, I just thought I was a bit of a funny one, really.
00:29:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:52
Speaker
Yeah, no, a lot of puzzles are basically like children's show puzzles where it's like Dora the Explorer looks at the audience and says, can you solve the puzzle?
00:30:04
Speaker
And then waits like 20 seconds.
00:30:05
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:30:10
Speaker
Whereas with this, you know, I wouldn't have minded like, you know, I'm 32.
00:30:14
Speaker
I wouldn't have minded it's a little bit more challenging.
00:30:16
Speaker
But you can't hope for everything, really.
00:30:20
Speaker
I will say as well, I also made a note of, then something dark and sparkly caught his eye.
00:30:25
Speaker
A black mushroom glittered in the distance.
00:30:27
Speaker
That's it, Mario cried.
00:30:28
Speaker
He ran towards the mushroom and stopped just in time.
00:30:31
Speaker
I always... Cry as a synonym for say or said, I always find kind of weird.
00:30:37
Speaker
Because when I just hear the word cry, I just think like, tears braying out kind of thing.
00:30:43
Speaker
Yeah, just as a synonym for saying something, I just... I don't know.
00:30:48
Speaker
That's it!
00:30:49
Speaker
Mario cried.
00:30:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:54
Speaker
I understand why in on writing by Stephen King, Stephen King was like, just don't use anything else other than said.
00:31:03
Speaker
Just put said and that's it.
00:31:06
Speaker
You don't have to write anything.
00:31:07
Speaker
Just put anything else.
00:31:09
Speaker
I've read on writing, but I don't think I ever got that far.
00:31:11
Speaker
But that is like such a perfect Stephen King thing of like,
00:31:14
Speaker
yeah i'm just sitting here and i'm just writing this whole thing out i'm just gonna use said for everything who cares that's that's what you need to know yeah like if you're yeah he's i mean he's written like five books this year probably so oh and the rest yeah stephen king's great like the story that he tells about like he got the idea for carrie from his um wife talking about
00:31:35
Speaker
like being a teenager and like what yeah but also him like helping like paint somebody's house going in and just like this terrifying crucifix of jesus up on the wall and she being like what do you think are you being saved steven and then just being like god who would want to be saved by that and then he was like hmm this gives me an idea for a fun book what if somebody has psychic powers
00:32:03
Speaker
Yeah, he does a lot of.
00:32:05
Speaker
All right.
00:32:06
Speaker
How many books has he released this year?
00:32:10
Speaker
Oh, OK.
00:32:13
Speaker
Where is it?
00:32:17
Speaker
I am scrolling down.
00:32:18
Speaker
2023.
00:32:18
Speaker
Oh, only one.
00:32:21
Speaker
Wow.
00:32:22
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:22
Speaker
He put all his eggs in one basket for 2022.
00:32:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:26
Speaker
Like in the past, he's been averaging two, it seems like for the past few years.
00:32:34
Speaker
But yeah, only one this year.
00:32:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:36
Speaker
Because I remember like even when I was like in the in the Norts, he was still sticking out like what, 10 bucks a year at that point.
00:32:43
Speaker
I mean, yeah, he's got a lot, and a lot of short stories, and he's got his Dark Tower stuff, which is the only... I need to read Dark Tower, but... Yeah, I've only seen the film with McConaughey in it, and one with it is all I'll say.
00:33:03
Speaker
Isn't Idris Elba in... Yeah, so Elba's the gunslinger, and McConaughey's the man in black.
00:33:09
Speaker
Got it.
00:33:11
Speaker
Got it.
00:33:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:12
Speaker
Apparently none of the adaptations really get it right.
00:33:16
Speaker
No, and I know they're doing a TV adaptation of it, either on Showtime or Amazon or something, which I think is, like, that's the one that people are putting in hopes on, like, oh, there's going to be money and there's going to be enough time to tell this story.
00:33:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:29
Speaker
You know, I just totally remember that McConaughey was at the Game Awards.
00:33:33
Speaker
Was he?
00:33:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:35
Speaker
He literally came out to just announce some game that was being made by a Texan game studio.
00:33:39
Speaker
He had nothing to do with it, just apart from the fact that he was from Texas, that he pretends like he is, but, you know.
00:33:44
Speaker
Oh.
00:33:45
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:47
Speaker
And it was literally like he came, like you can tell from his face, it's like, there's a bit of a room full of nerds here.
00:33:54
Speaker
I don't want to be out here for too long kind of thing.
00:33:58
Speaker
Don't know why my McConaughey sounds like Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy.
00:34:03
Speaker
All right, all right, all right.
00:34:05
Speaker
All right.
00:34:05
Speaker
Giggity, giggity.
00:34:08
Speaker
Speaking of which.
00:34:09
Speaker
Speaking of which.
00:34:11
Speaker
Mario, they do their timing thing correctly.
00:34:15
Speaker
They do.
00:34:17
Speaker
Toad and Luigi nearly die.
00:34:21
Speaker
Yes, they do.
00:34:21
Speaker
I forgot about that.
00:34:23
Speaker
Yeah, they do nearly die.
00:34:25
Speaker
That's true.
00:34:26
Speaker
They nearly fucking die, man.
00:34:28
Speaker
But they're fine.
00:34:30
Speaker
They're all fine.
00:34:31
Speaker
And they get across and they get their mushroom, which takes us to chapter four.
Forest Maze and Enemy Encounters
00:34:39
Speaker
A song for Tudovsky now.
00:34:43
Speaker
Oh, so Todovsky and Frogfuchus are both characters from the 1996 video game Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars, which people probably would have played recently because it had a remake on Switch, except Omid Todovsky kept his name.
00:35:01
Speaker
Frogfuchus, they just changed his name to Frogsage because they were worried that no one in 2023 knew who Confucius was anymore.
00:35:08
Speaker
Maybe they were worried it was racist or something.
00:35:13
Speaker
Frog Fuchsias?
00:35:14
Speaker
I don't know.
00:35:14
Speaker
Well, if that's the case, the frog model still has a giant Fu Mon Chu and speaks some broken English, so they didn't really care that much about it.
00:35:23
Speaker
They didn't try that hard.
00:35:26
Speaker
They didn't try that hard.
00:35:27
Speaker
No, obviously not.
00:35:32
Speaker
I don't know.
00:35:33
Speaker
I feel like more people would get the Confucius pun more than they would the Tchaikovsky pun, but I don't know.
00:35:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:41
Speaker
Exactly.
00:35:41
Speaker
Exactly.
00:35:43
Speaker
um a song for todovsky the clue they get tells them to look we're in a place where frogs and toads live in harmony which is tadpole pond as we all know is tadpole pond yeah as we all know uh which is where frog fuchsius and todovsky uh live together in harmony get it harmony because todovsky makes music
00:36:10
Speaker
On their way, they run into some Koopa Troopas, a pair of them.
00:36:14
Speaker
They get a little cocky.
00:36:16
Speaker
They beat up on the Koopa Troopas.
00:36:18
Speaker
They send them spiraling out.
00:36:20
Speaker
The shells come back off of a wall and hit them and knock them into a stream.
00:36:26
Speaker
But it's all good.
00:36:28
Speaker
because because the stream is another um it's another um set piece from super mario rpg it's when you're rolling on the barrels so yeah there we go and it's it's it's a feeder stream right into to tadpole pond uh yeah and they're okay because frog fuchsius is like right there when they get out of the water
00:36:50
Speaker
Oh no, obviously right there To go again with how easy This adventure has been Mario, we're on a quest to save the princess We're looking for six magic mushrooms We think one of them may be near here So, Luigi and So they climb up on the rock Trying to get them, and it's like, okay, crap Do we need to do some?
00:37:07
Speaker
Frogfutius, ah yeah, the magic mushroom The item you seek is in Melody Bay Okay, great, I know that Yeah, I'm glad you need, alright, thanks Thank you, Frogs That was easy
00:37:19
Speaker
It's just him hitting the Dow's Easy Office Depot button the entire adventure.
00:37:26
Speaker
Isn't Office Depot in the States?
00:37:28
Speaker
As soon as I thought it was Staples.
00:37:30
Speaker
Oh, was it Staples that did it?
00:37:32
Speaker
I can't remember.
00:37:33
Speaker
It might have been Staples.
00:37:34
Speaker
The Staples Easy button.
00:37:36
Speaker
I think I only know this because I had one when I was in university.
00:37:39
Speaker
Yeah, I used to have one somewhere.
00:37:41
Speaker
It's, you know, a nice but annoying little desktop thing to have.
00:37:47
Speaker
Yeah, it's like a fidget spinner.
00:37:49
Speaker
It's just cool to play with.
00:37:51
Speaker
It's cool to play with.
00:37:52
Speaker
It's cool to confirm to yourself that something's easy or not.
00:37:56
Speaker
They go around to Melody Bay and they meet with Todofsky, who's like, you can't take this mushroom.
00:38:01
Speaker
It's the thing that inspires me to write music.
00:38:04
Speaker
Of course.
00:38:05
Speaker
Of course.
00:38:06
Speaker
Unless, Mario, you can inspire me with this sick ass flute chops you got.
00:38:12
Speaker
Because apparently it's like, it's like, was it Anchorman where he, where Will Ferrell plays the flute randomly?
00:38:21
Speaker
Or there's like some...
00:38:24
Speaker
Is it Anchorman?
00:38:24
Speaker
I can't remember.
00:38:25
Speaker
So Anchorman 1 is just like he's... It's either he's at his house party or he's just at a club.
00:38:30
Speaker
And yeah, he is just randomly a floutist.
00:38:33
Speaker
That's right.
00:38:33
Speaker
He just plays the flute.
00:38:35
Speaker
Yeah, that's just his thing.
00:38:36
Speaker
And then in Anchorman 2, he keeps bringing it out now and again as well.
00:38:41
Speaker
So Mario, much like Will Ferrell in Anchorman, just breaks out his flute and...
00:38:46
Speaker
and lets it rip yeah and start speaking like um robber goulet as well robber goulet robber goulet oh look a mountain goat the only things i know robber goulet from is that will ferrell's bit juice and beetle juice and
00:39:14
Speaker
It's really, it's like I, cause I watched Feetal Jesus a couple of weeks ago and I was like, I had the IMDb XJ on, it's like Robert Goulet and so I don't remember.
00:39:20
Speaker
And so I then started watching the, go get a bangers ball, and Robert Goulet bit, where he kept saying the end words.
00:39:25
Speaker
And I was like, Robert Goulet probably isn't exactly like this.
00:39:28
Speaker
And then it's just a clip from the fucking seventh, like the last TV appearance of Robert Goulet in the 80s, where it is like, vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
00:39:43
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I don't know whether it's because I've seen Mr. Show and stuff like that, where it's like, I've never seen actual lounge singers, but I've seen all the Gen X people who've made jokes about lounge singers.
00:39:53
Speaker
Right, right.
00:39:54
Speaker
Seeing Robbie Goulet do that, but like genuine, where it's like, these are a few of my favorite things.
00:40:01
Speaker
I was like, how did people watch this, like, unironically in the 70s and 80s?
00:40:06
Speaker
You know?
00:40:11
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:40:12
Speaker
Yeah, so Mario channels his inner Robert Goulet.
00:40:15
Speaker
He is Goulet, yeah.
00:40:17
Speaker
He Goulet's it, and Todofsky's like, oh, yeah, shit, yeah, the mushroom, you can have it.
00:40:21
Speaker
Take the mushroom.
00:40:22
Speaker
Hey, I know that you need this to stop, like, an invasion of ghosts, but sure, you've impressed me enough that you can have it.
00:40:28
Speaker
Thanks.
00:40:30
Speaker
You know, if this was a video game, this was a video game, it would be like a timing thing, like a guitar hero.
00:40:38
Speaker
You gotta hit the buttons while the things are coming down from the sky.
00:40:44
Speaker
I was thinking it'd be like a David Cage game, because it is very kind of... There's not really a lot of player input in this.
00:40:50
Speaker
It's just mostly just... Yeah, it is.
00:40:52
Speaker
It's just timing.
00:40:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:55
Speaker
It would be like a David Cage game, and Mario would be played by...
00:41:01
Speaker
trying to think of somebody who would make sense for David Cage Mario game.
00:41:05
Speaker
So the only like big actor that I know that was in a, well, I know that Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe were in Beyond the Uso's, but then the only big get that he could get for Detroit, well, it was the guy from Altered Carbon whose shtick seems to be I'll play an android in like anything.
00:41:21
Speaker
But also Mr. Krabs himself, Clancy Brown, he's the... Oh yeah, Clancy Brown is literally the best character in that entire game.
00:41:29
Speaker
He's...
00:41:30
Speaker
Yeah, the only good bit of that game, which is the buddy cop between an android and a human, and he's the washed up human detective who has a big dog.
00:41:38
Speaker
And he's like, this is great.
00:41:39
Speaker
It's, you know, why wasn't the whole game this?
00:41:42
Speaker
Why wasn't the whole game just Clancy Brown doing his Clancy Brown stuff?
00:41:45
Speaker
So yeah, it would be Clancy Brown.
00:41:48
Speaker
Yeah, as Mario.
00:41:49
Speaker
As Mario.
00:41:51
Speaker
And Willem Dafoe as Luigi.
00:41:53
Speaker
Willem Dafoe as Luigi.
00:41:56
Speaker
As the thick guy, thinny guy aesthetic.
00:42:00
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:42:02
Speaker
I guess Willem Dafoe's more of a Waluigi, isn't he?
00:42:05
Speaker
He is kind of Waluigi, isn't he?
00:42:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:11
Speaker
He plays Waluigi in the lighthouse.
00:42:13
Speaker
He does.
00:42:14
Speaker
And that's kind of Wario-ish.
00:42:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:19
Speaker
Chapter 5, The Maze and the Mushroom.
00:42:21
Speaker
Chapter 5, The Maze and the Mushroom.
00:42:24
Speaker
Yeah, they get a new clue, and they got the clue to solve it.
00:42:32
Speaker
The puzzle is jump to find the answer, and Luigi figures it out.
00:42:37
Speaker
You got to jump...
00:42:39
Speaker
because it reads like f-c-o-b-r-e-e-l and you have to you have to skip every second lesson which again like i if i was even like even at f32 i don't know how i would have figured this out it's a bit like right confusing especially since it has like the at symbol in it do you ever have you did you notice that randomly the at symbol was is is in the middle of these
00:43:05
Speaker
I don't know if that's the EPUB book version or if that was actually in the printed version too.
00:43:10
Speaker
No, because I converted this to a PDF so I could annotate it.
00:43:14
Speaker
But no, it changed it back to a regular A for me.
00:43:18
Speaker
But no, I just double checked on the EPUB now.
00:43:20
Speaker
And yeah, that is the at symbol.
00:43:23
Speaker
Interesting.
00:43:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:26
Speaker
So it's the forest maze.
00:43:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:30
Speaker
We do the forest maze where there is a sleeping.
00:43:33
Speaker
What's his face?
00:43:34
Speaker
This is a sleeping wiggler.
00:43:35
Speaker
They try not to wake up the sleeping wiggler and they seem they're seemingly lost when the mushroom pouch starts glowing and leading them toward the correct path.
00:43:47
Speaker
And they find the mushroom and it's a sparkling orange one.
00:43:50
Speaker
And the next, they get another clue.
00:43:53
Speaker
It's a traditional text.
00:43:55
Speaker
It's a traditional, it's just a scramble.
00:43:57
Speaker
And it's a scramble just like Mama Mario used to make, like scrambled eggs.
00:44:03
Speaker
Just like Mama Mario.
00:44:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:05
Speaker
And they figure out that it's to go to Yoster's Isle.
00:44:08
Speaker
Where all the Yoshis live.
00:44:10
Speaker
Another famous landmark from Super Mario RPG.
00:44:14
Speaker
As was Wiggler Forest as well.
00:44:17
Speaker
So yeah, if you're a fan of Mario RPG, this is the book for you.
Super Mario RPG Inspirations Speculation
00:44:21
Speaker
I feel like Tracy West probably based everything on Super Mario RPG.
00:44:25
Speaker
So that's what I think.
00:44:26
Speaker
I think that this book was probably written in like 98 and she was like, oh, Super Mario 64 hasn't got any plot in it.
00:44:32
Speaker
What's like the next?
00:44:34
Speaker
Oh, I had an SNES.
00:44:35
Speaker
Oh, my kid had an SNES.
00:44:36
Speaker
I'll just play the Mario game.
00:44:38
Speaker
Oh, this has got all sorts of stuff in it.
00:44:40
Speaker
And it's funny because it's like, it's very obvious as well that she only played it to a point, which is fair enough because I only also played Mario RPG to a point, but I was a bit long.
00:44:49
Speaker
I can't be bothered with this.
00:44:52
Speaker
She trails off when she gets to the Yoshi Island.
00:44:54
Speaker
And I was like, yeah, that's where I would trail off as well.
00:44:59
Speaker
Stop paying attention.
00:45:01
Speaker
So, but, uh-oh.
00:45:03
Speaker
Oh, no, there's Hammer Brothers blocking the way out.
00:45:07
Speaker
And then they're throwing hammers and they do what they do best and they kick the bricks that the Hammer Brothers are standing on.
00:45:16
Speaker
The thing that the Mario Brothers are most famous for?
00:45:19
Speaker
Kicking.
00:45:20
Speaker
Kicking and they knock the hammer brothers down and then the hammer brothers fall and land on the sleeping wiggler and, you know, wake up a sleeping wiggler and the wiggler just wakes up and starts beating the absolute shit out of the hammer brothers.
00:45:33
Speaker
But they do thank the wiggler.
00:45:35
Speaker
They thanked the Wiggler.
00:45:36
Speaker
They say, thanks, Wiggler.
00:45:37
Speaker
We owe you one.
00:45:38
Speaker
We owe you one.
00:45:40
Speaker
The thing is, I don't think Mario would be very thankful if he knew that the Wiggler murdered those two Hammer brothers.
00:45:48
Speaker
Oh, geez.
00:45:49
Speaker
And then buried their bodies in the forest.
00:45:52
Speaker
And both the Hammer brothers left behind two little kookaling children.
00:45:57
Speaker
Oh, shit.
00:45:59
Speaker
Shit.
00:46:00
Speaker
Baby Hamlet... Hamlet?
00:46:02
Speaker
Baby Hammer Brothers.
00:46:04
Speaker
Baby Hammer Brothers.
00:46:06
Speaker
It's funny, you get Baby Gumbas in the Mario games, but you don't really get a lot of Baby Coopers, which is very weird.
00:46:12
Speaker
You think that'd be something they'd capitalize on.
00:46:14
Speaker
Because they don't love doing babies.
00:46:16
Speaker
people love baby like uh reptiles and amphibians like that's really what i mean star wars headed out of the park with grogu you know they're like here's a fucking baby yoda it looks like a little lizard thing with ears and big eyes and everybody's like yeah you know we're thinking of 2024 what do you think the next big baby character could be
00:46:41
Speaker
Because there's always got to be a baby character.
00:46:43
Speaker
There always has.
00:46:44
Speaker
Every year has to have a big baby character.
00:46:47
Speaker
Like this year, I guess, was kind of like... Actually, yeah, who was the famous baby this year?
00:46:54
Speaker
I don't know.
00:46:55
Speaker
I don't have to dive into that.
00:46:57
Speaker
Because Oppenheimer didn't have a... I mean, Oppenheimer, I guess, had the bomb.
00:47:00
Speaker
I guess that's kind of... The bombs are kind of a baby.
00:47:02
Speaker
Yeah, ticking time bomb versus coughing baby.
00:47:06
Speaker
That's a famous argument.
00:47:08
Speaker
That's what Offenheimer was all about.
00:47:13
Speaker
We'll circle back around to Famous Baby.
00:47:16
Speaker
I will think on that.
00:47:17
Speaker
We'll circle back around to Famous Baby's... I mean, honestly, that might be... That's a video essay right there.
00:47:24
Speaker
That's a... Oh, yeah.
00:47:26
Speaker
That's the next H-bomber guy, is it?
00:47:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:30
Speaker
H-Bomber guy.
00:47:31
Speaker
He's going to cancel the next famous baby.
00:47:33
Speaker
He's going to cancel the next famous baby before it's born.
00:47:38
Speaker
Because that's what anybody with a time machine would do.
00:47:43
Speaker
Kill baby Hitler.
00:47:44
Speaker
That's true.
00:47:47
Speaker
so i wouldn't i see i wouldn't kill baby hitler i would just be like look let's have a conversation here okay let's uh you know let's let's struggle session this let's figure this out you know let's figure it out what's what is what is your comp you know i think isn't mine comp your comp let's you know let's try to meet in the middle of this one
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