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Episode 0: The one where Chris barely shows up
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Barely edited. Poorly engineered. Heres some raw audio. John Wick, Thor, Central Time; no one is safe.
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Pal World: A Pokemon-Like Game
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Speaker
Hidden in World Assassins. There seems to be no reason. Yeah, sure. Oh, is this what you guys are talking about? Pal World? Yeah, they're absolutely Pokemon. Yeah, they're they're going to be sued out of existence. It is absurd that that game came out a week ago. I guess we're playing this, right? I mean, we're all are we all locked in yet? This Pikachu has a machine gun, a submachine gun. Jesus.
00:00:31
Speaker
Um, but the, uh, yeah, they, that game came out one week ago and it has, it's, it's smashed like every stream record. Yeah. Like 2 million concurrent players. Most games have like 10,000 when they're like super successful to 2 million is like, that's like eating fortnight. Yes. I would, so it would.
00:00:57
Speaker
be easy to say that the more popular, like the waiting time right now, it says 15 minutes for this thing, for Power World. I think that's kind of for anything. Is it really? I was just grounded pretty quickly, and yeah. Even my hitman world assassin. You're really pushing that one.
00:01:19
Speaker
And you're hit man world assassins t shirt. And that's like when in like product placement commercials, they'll say, Oh my God, skate skateboarding Hall of Famer, Tony Hawk. It's like the full title. Man, I learned about it. Go ahead. Sorry. It was just it goes down another path because it's you were talking about the hit man and all that. I had a revelation happened recently about him.
00:01:48
Speaker
Then I just, I just went through that. That's real side related revelation.
John Wick Series: Movies and TV Show
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Well hit man, John Wick. I revealed to a friend group that I, I've never seen any one of these John Wick movies, which is, yeah, I know.
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Speaker
So it, it, I saw that it now became available on Netflix. So as I'm cooking and wash dishes and I started watching it in 20 minutes. Yeah. I mean, I grabbed that butcher knife by the back. So I'm slicing my, uh, I'm just like, yeah, but that's, uh, so what I was watching, so I not, not preferred, I would say for sure. Not recommended, but watching it in 15 minute, you know, little segments as I'm cooking or washing dishes.
00:02:32
Speaker
And I did watch the whole thing. It was pretty awesome. You just watched the first one. Just the first one. Yeah. And I, I appreciate, I, I appreciate that. Um, like watching it, I was aware of that it's in pop culture and everybody's has seen this thing. It's a lot of people's favorite movie in the look of the series, but I, it seemed like it was pretty.
00:02:54
Speaker
cut and dry, like they kind of wrapped everything up for the most part in the first one. Yeah. Like if you go into a movie where you're saying this will be a series of movies, sometimes it goes the wrong way. Cause you don't have that closure, but they went all the way back and they didn't let the, the main, the, the main bad guy get away. Like it wrapped it all up and he had a resolution at the end, but so I don't really know what happens in part two. I didn't know if it was going to be a prequel. I have no idea. I haven't seen two or three or four, but, um,
00:03:23
Speaker
No, it was really good. Yeah, I think the first the first one definitely has the most like like the story is very straightforward. It's like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. And, you know, in a real weird world that's just full of hit men is like, yeah, sure. After that story wise, it gets really bananas. But the fight choreography, they really just up it. Oh, yeah, that's cool. All right. I look forward to that then.
00:03:53
Speaker
I'd say some people are like you probably in the first movie you saw that he went to the continental and they pay with like those coins and there's like yeah, that was cool. They created a mythos that was building. Yeah. So the rest of the movies kind of explore that.
00:04:08
Speaker
mythos. So it seems like they always had a sense that like, Oh, if we do keep going, we can kind of unpack this in some way, but, uh, whatever you do, don't watch the TV show. There's a, there's a TV show. Yeah. There's a prequel TV show on peacock called the continental and it takes place in the seventies. Yeah. Mid seventies. It's atrocious. It's a good reason.
00:04:36
Speaker
Hmm. Bad. It's like a technically it's a mini series. It's like three episodes, three, like 90 minute episodes. And they're each one worse than the last. Is the manager, is the manager in it? I imagine they were able to.
00:04:49
Speaker
Yeah, I don't want to I don't want to spoil the show, but I appreciate that. Yeah. Think about any any person that's in the movie now that's older and just de-age them by 40 years ago. So yeah, it's it's garbage. But the bad the thing that sucks about it is the the the action is terrible. Like, I don't care if the story is dumb. The stories are all dumb, but it's just really poorly executed shot action, which is like
00:05:18
Speaker
That's all you need. Like I've just finished watching the extraction movies, which are on Netflix, which I just been I didn't care about. I was like, I don't I don't know what that is. Whatever. Remind me who is the like the main star and the war. The war? Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah. Chris, Chris Hemsworth. Yeah. So he's OK. And these were these were
Action Movies: From Extraction to Single-Takes
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all.
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produced by Netflix. That was the. They're produced by the Russo brothers guys who did like, you know, a bunch of. Yeah. But so it was like, I don't know. It looked like just kind of corny, like 90s action. But then I watched it and those two movies are both directed by Sam. I think his name's Sam Hargrave. He never directed anything. He is a stunt director. So the two movies have
00:06:12
Speaker
some of the best action you've ever seen in any American film. Like when I tell you, you can watch them in any order, it doesn't really matter. There is a 20 minute one-er in the second movie that involves a prison break, a car chase, a train chase, and multiple helicopters. And it's all one fucking shot. I'm like, oh. There's no way that's true. People cheat with that.
00:06:35
Speaker
Yeah. And you see the cheats too. Like it's like, Oh, they obviously panned up. So you do like quick whip pans or you pass by something. You do as a movie aficionado, you must know there's got to be, there's like the true want to take scenarios that you have where you're, you can make that happen. And then there's the, the cheats that happen transitions. So is there, is there a term for that for the, the, the one, the wannabe, the one framework?
00:07:05
Speaker
Yeah, it's like one shot that is or one. Yeah, something like that. I mean, there's almost like there's almost no there's very few movies that have ever done a true one or even stuff like Children of Men faked it and Children of Men has some of the best executed. But like I think the reason why historically there wasn't ever a true one or is because film used to be shot on
00:07:34
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film, which had like an actual limit of like a few minutes. So even if you wanted to do like a 10 minute scene, you couldn't because the actual you had to swap out the tape reel. So you had to find a time to cut to put in a new tape reel to then keep filming. So the only thing I think of offhand that that is a true wonder is
00:07:56
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There's a movie called The Ark, and the movie is a wonder. And there is no, they shot it in two takes. And the movie is like two and a half hours long, just like moving through this, like, this, uh, it's about, I don't know, it's really dumb. It's about like Russian ghosts in a building. And, but it's all done as a wonder, like a true wonder. Uh, no cuts. But it's not just like two people talking from across from each other in one room, right? There's action or something. There's something that makes it impressive, I would imagine.
00:08:21
Speaker
Uh, it's, think about like it, that movie feels like, um, what was the, the, the play in New York that you could walk around and see different scenes. Um, you could see different scenes. Yeah. So it was like sort of theater. Okay.
00:08:38
Speaker
Is there a famous one? Yeah, it was called Like Before We Sleep or something. Like Sleep No More, I think? Sleep No More. That's it. Yeah. Okay. So this movie, you could almost think of it as like a film version of like immersive theater. So like you're in this room, you're seeing people doing stuff and then you move to another part of the house and you're seeing people do like you kind of go all over the place and
00:09:00
Speaker
That is really hard to do, mainly from like a, like, if you ever look outside of the viewfinder of a shot, there's just cables and tape and people and all the stuff that makes scenes happen. So to like move around is really hard. You literally have to move walls. You have to like do all the stuff that happens in the background. And that's hard to pull off. I think like Wes Anderson does a lot of that. He'll do like three minute wonders where they're just like,
00:09:28
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There's literally people moving the set as you're not looking, so that way when the camera comes back, you're in a new room. Yeah, sometimes he does it unnecessarily. It's like, oh, that's clever.
00:09:39
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But yeah, it's funny. Yeah, that's true. I never saw that Russian, that Russian film. It looked really boring, but it's super boring. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it's known for. Can we can we can we watch a trailer here? Let me see what we got here. When I was, I think it's like 2002. Watch it again. We're really leaning into this format. How do we do this? We talk about access to username.
00:10:07
Speaker
Listen, I just, just everybody relax. Hold on. Don't ask again. I don't want to hear that. All right. Can you see a quick note before you watch? Now you have my credit card number. Yeah, it's funny. Sounds like it. Actually, I don't know how to do this. Well, it says Matt's hosting anyway. So really, since when am I hosting? It's your party and you could do whatever you want. We'll be there in 20 minutes. Just horn is hosting. That horn is now hosting.
00:10:37
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Mr. Beast. All right. So this is called the continental, right? Is that the name? Is that how you spell it? No, no, no. Wait, say it again. What's the name of this? This A.R.C.? I believe it's A.R.C., yeah. Russian, Russian arc. Here we go. A.R.K.? You don't, you don't see it playing? Yeah, I do see it. Yeah. Okay. We still want to, yeah. Confirmation. A.R.K.
00:11:06
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Only the host can change video. That's Sir Ian McKellen. But. Wow, it's so so impressive. I only see two thousand actors. I can't see it. You can't see it now.
00:11:34
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Go back to the watch together. Anyway, let me know how this... Real bad. I mean, it's fine. The trailer... They're really leaning into it. The whole trailer is just going... Do you hear any sound? Do you hear anything? Yeah, I hear the sound. Yeah, for sure. The problem with a trailer for a movie that's one take is that the trailer has cuts in it.
00:12:12
Speaker
It's just so boring. It's one of those movies that like, I think I've watched this probably like senior year of high school or something. Oh, is it older? When was it released? 2002.
00:12:31
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Uh, but it's one of those, like, there was definitely a time where I just like, I was forcing myself to, I'm like, yeah, this is art. So I, I, I don't mind a cheating one or it's all about, in my mind, it's all about execution. Like, okay. You can do as many cheats as you want. Like, um,
00:12:58
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Uh, if you remember the prison, I believe the prison fight in the raid too was a wonder, right? Yeah. I think it's when I first started becoming aware, like they, I've seen much more of that. But did you like, that's one of those ones where they were fighting in the bathroom stalls. And if you watch the behind the scenes, those stalled, the stall walls are movable. So you can see the.
00:13:20
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the people working on the set are moving the bathroom walls so more people can swap out and they can do all this stuff. You can see that if you pause it, you'll see that they're- No, no, no. Behind the scenes. Oh, gosh. Okay. Just to make it work. They had to- Right. Yeah, right. I gotcha. I gotcha. It looks like Chris is online. This guy's just dodging us. I see him. I see this toughio here. I don't know if he's on ground or what.
00:13:47
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Uh, I don't see him in discord. Yeah. He's on Xbox for sure. Oh, what the, he's always on there. Just plain hit man, world assassin. All right. Uh,
00:14:11
Speaker
Steve, this was deleted content from the last episode, but you being here, we can actually talk about this.
Modern Parenting: Avoiding Sleepovers
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Speaker
I think you almost alluded to it with your story about your new best friend or whatever, but there was a New York Times article about how
00:14:30
Speaker
today's parents, like millennial parents, are not into sleepovers in the same way that our parents were, like allowing their kids to sleepover. And instead, the parents are doing what's called sleep unders, which is... I've never heard of this.
00:14:54
Speaker
It's New York Times. They'd like to make stuff. Remember the Iraq war? Oh man. Too soon? Too soon. Probably controversial podcast. So anyways, sleep under is the idea. One, you do let your kids go to other kids' house, but when it's bedtime, you go pick them up. So you go pick them up at midnight or whatever. And then the other option, which is the sleep under, which sounds like a nightmare, is you sleep over with your kid. No, thanks. Yeah.
00:15:25
Speaker
That does not sound like a good idea. Wait, wait. So wait, what, so you would let, uh, you're perfectly fine with your, your kids. No, not really. I we've done it all the time. Like I, I didn't do it. I think I really did that as a kid myself. Um, it was always, you know, cousins and family, that was always fine. Yeah. And yeah, I had enough first cousins that that was pretty, uh, common. Um, where they'd come over to us or we, I'd go to any of my cousin's place. And so we'll do that.
00:15:55
Speaker
Now that just seems like what I grew up with and what we're all, we're all comfortable with, but I think I would still not, I don't think it's a, uh, like a generational thing. I'm not used to it. So I think that would be where I would, um, I don't, I don't think I would be comfortable with it, but just cause I didn't grow up doing it myself. Hmm. What about like a high school sleepover? Um, less so. Uh, I don't know.
00:16:26
Speaker
I'm, I'm sure it would be fine. Are you thinking back to high school? You're like, would it be fine? Uh, I don't, you know, it's, it's hard to, um, put myself back in there and see cause yeah, like I just, I never did. I don't think I didn't know. I took that. I feel like I did a lot in like junior.
00:16:57
Speaker
to all kinds of shenanigans, I'm sure. So many shenanigans. Yeah. Wasn't that in Germany for you? That was high school. High school was Germany. Yeah. So you said junior year. Junior year college?
00:17:14
Speaker
You live with me. You tell me. Yeah, you weren't there all the time. Well, I believe that you were the most constantly having. Oh, you're welcome. Turned it into a one and a half bedroom. That helped Steve. Yes, I was talking to. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. Thank you again. I thought we had an opportunity to pass out to here, there, that bed, this bed didn't matter. Oh.
00:17:43
Speaker
Uh, did you did at the time, did you did you, uh, think that you were away from the apartment a lot, man? Uh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. Oh, you like want it. It was like, okay. I was just like, it, it wasn't a surprise that, uh, that was the sentiment. I'm like, yeah, I mean, trying to get this woman to marry me. Yeah. Man in love. Absolutely.
00:18:14
Speaker
Uh, little did I know. Uh, yeah, that is, that is true. Um, all right. So we have no, we got no, are you really playing hit that hit man game? I don't even see it as an option. Just not stop just breaking necks. I don't think, I don't remember the last time I played that hit man.
00:18:44
Speaker
game but it's all is it first person shooter is it like a it's usually more third person okay I could see it in my you know it's the ball guy in the suit and yeah yeah but it's more like an arsenal of things or is it also you're stabbing people and all kinds of stuff I yeah they let you do whatever you want and there's there's there's just like a lot more people like I'm on this boat right now trying to
00:19:11
Speaker
trying to make my way towards the target. And there's, there's like tons of people and you can just kind of snap whoever's next need to be snapped and steal their clothes and really desensitize. Yeah. It's like that whole thing, that grand theft auto phenomenon. I want to be breaking into these cars. I want to be snapping these next. Is that what happened?
00:19:37
Speaker
No, I mean, like post grant, like, I think we all played grand theft auto to a certain extent. I don't, I don't believe any of us are snapping necks regularly. As far as you know, that's true. Yeah. Oh, what was the, um, speaking of somebody, maybe this, maybe it was a snapping neck incident, but didn't you have like a work emergency last week?
Construction Safety Incident
00:19:56
Speaker
I did. Yeah. So what happened was, uh, we, our job is on a, on a hospital campus. So there's work that happens during the weekend. So.
00:20:07
Speaker
The guy who's in charge of all the engineering work, he had workers outside of our job site on the ground doing whatever they were doing. They were working on this boiler, and our job kind of faced them, and it was high winds. It was like 14 miles an hour. It wasn't that bad, but we have an 11-story building, so as you go higher up, the wind, you feel a little bit more.
00:20:36
Speaker
we were doing work where we put plastic tarping along, um, uh, like 150 feet around in a perimeter to heat the space. Um, so we could do this spray on fireproofing application on steel. So that stuff gets left. You know, we, over the weekend, it gets secured and everything else, but I got a call and then a photo sent to me where this guy, this engineer called me and he said,
00:21:03
Speaker
your tarp is flying in the air and there's a piece of wood attached to it and it looks like it's going to drop. Um, so I, I called, we have labors that, um, one guy specifically that lives across the street. So I called to get that guy over there. You just kind of keep an eye on it and make sure it at least clear the area until I could get over there. Um, and then
00:21:24
Speaker
As soon as I get in the car, I get a message and the guy says, it dropped. And I'm like, Oh my God. And, um, so what happened was, um, I, I got over there and then I had this labor work with me. And then we, um, what, what happened was, um, you have these a hundred foot by 30 foot, um, tarp pieces of tarping and they get secured. They have a, you know, like in camping, you have those rings that you can, um,
00:21:51
Speaker
They're like triple stitched and they hold a lot and you anchor that back to structure. Like that's how you do it in camping and everything else. And then in construction for this, you want to loop something through and tie it back to structure, like either column or we have steel cables that are there. So with this guy, these workers that did the work, the way that they left it was that they put like this steel cable, steel tie wire
00:22:19
Speaker
and they looped it around to some steel cable that should hold. But then they also looped it around this piece of wood, this tow board. That's a safety measure. You have that all the way around the perimeter of the building. And that's meant so you don't kick something off the edge and then it blocks things. But if you loop it around and it's like high winds over time, it dislodges. And that's what happened. It dislodged this 15 foot length of lumber.
00:22:48
Speaker
And in the wind, it just started. So somehow this thing came undone and started flapping in the wind. So I, I went with this guy and we went, um, every six to 12 inches, we went back and we tied it one by one by one until the whole thing was secure. Um, and, and back, but man, that could have been bad that lumber. If it was during the weekday or if there was ambulances parked directly below that thing could have went through a windshield. It could have hit somebody that that would have been bad.
00:23:19
Speaker
So we kind of dodged a bullet there. So you got to make all these notifications. It could have been really bad. So nothing ended up happening. We just tightened our program up. We haven't put in new controls at the end of the day, at the beginning of the day, before the weekend to make sure something like that doesn't happen anymore.
00:23:46
Speaker
When something like that happens, you are the first person that gets called. Um, I, yeah, my name is all because I was with this, I've been with this job for four years. So anybody that has an outside, um, steak around the print, they all have my number anyway. Um, and then we have, we have a security guard that has my contact and other people, but I'm kind of the first priority. So I can get there in 30 minutes. Uh, well, well, well,
00:24:16
Speaker
Look who it is now. Wait, this is going to be weird because he's not, he's not in the recording. Yeah. So let me, he's going to say something clever, but here. Oh, yeah. I'm going to react like we can't hear it. Or we just do it twice. Wait, say it again. Yeah. Okay. Go do what you're going to do, Chris. And then we'll walk through the steps.
00:24:48
Speaker
Wow, that's not what I expected. Sometimes less is more. But nothing is garbage, so you don't say anything. When I was editing the...
00:25:01
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Uh, when it was like Matt, Chris and I, there was a lot of, there's so many sections that are just Matt and I talking, but Chris is, uh, you know, every 10, 20 seconds we'll interject with just like, just like, yeah, it adds a nice little, nice little gravitas to the scenario. Um, but yeah, whenever, I mean, I can do your, I can do your intro music again, Chris, if you want.
00:25:32
Speaker
You know, whatever works here. And we're not. No, no pressure. No pressure. Are you on mute? Yeah, he's probably on mute. Oh, it's coming in, coming in real low. Oh, so. Oh, he joined the thing. Nice. Oh, Chris, don't get to mute your tab. And you'll be good. Yeah, you're probably getting double audio right now.
00:26:03
Speaker
And now we're getting zero audio, but damn. Okay. I see, I see you talking. You see me talking. Yeah. He's probably should see everybody talking. But do you, did you mute the tip? No, everybody else. I'm alive. Trust me.
00:26:19
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's probably like my my my amp is probably it's it's like increasing like the sound level. But but because these are separate tracks, I can bring them all to the same level to be nice. OK, is this is this one supposed to be better because it called me C. And that's how you that's how you determine. Yeah. The quality. All right. All right.
00:26:47
Speaker
Oh, I I swore I'd never. It knows you're ready. That's right. Right. Yeah. Hey, Matt, what are you in right now? I mean, I'm an hit man. You have this freelancer. Is that what you do? I don't know. I just I just started the like.
00:27:12
Speaker
Is there a multi multiplayer thing in hit room? No, I think says world of stuff. Oh, nevermind that I'm getting out of here. Oh, yeah. No, it is. That's about a single player as it gets. Yeah. Sometimes even I'm not playing. It's just watching what's happening. Nice. Chris, what's happening? We're.
00:27:40
Speaker
Are you in central times? This is 2.30 for you? What? Where are you?
00:27:49
Speaker
Was that the question to Doug or me? Yeah, Doug. Where do you get off asking Chris where he is? No, man, I'm playing a Superman game. We're telling you, it's not multiplayer. Oh. Yeah, wait. You yelled that out in response to something that happened to the hitman? That is not a stealthy hitman at all. Where are you? Where is my target?
00:28:20
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You want to do overcooked or you want to do grounded? This is the first time in months that it's been the four of us, so I feel like we should do overcooked. Yeah, not grounded. Yeah, don't give the baby his bottle. I'm not going to say who the baby is. Who's the baby? What's the bottle? Yeah, what's the bottle?
00:28:45
Speaker
I said, I'm not answering any questions. I don't know why. Well, you push these things. Oh, then I toss all these controllers. Uh, you don't want to just use a keyboard. It's not giving me the option. What's, what is your, uh, what's your setup Chris in front of you? What are you, what are you looking at? Give me paint a picture. Just the laptop. You got the headphones with the mic set. Okay.
00:29:16
Speaker
No, no controller, right? TV, TV off to the side. I'm holding the controller. I'm trying to put the batteries in there. You're holding an Xbox controller. Okay. How many, how many LEDs do you have? Are you, are you counting? Yeah.
00:29:38
Speaker
How many LEDs? Just a lot. Light emitting diode. It's like a gamer aesthetic is like a lot of different colorful lights. Don't worry, we'll get you there. Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. Are you on the 40 inch monitor? Yes. Why? Is it curved? Is it a living room television?
00:30:03
Speaker
Wait, is that what's in your, at some point you definitely had a 65 inch television. Did you downgrade to 40 inches? This part of your kind of remember. Yeah. No, no, we do. We do. We got the 65. Yeah. Uh, yeah. 40 inches is huge until you have a 65 inch. Oh, wow.
00:30:24
Speaker
How did we do that? I think 80, 85 is the next goal. That is crazy. At CES, the amount of companies that had 85 to 155 inch televisions is like, what is happening? Who has walls like that? Yeah. No, I'm not actually wall mounted. Yeah, that is. Yeah, I think that's a double mount situation or like a kitchen counter or something.
00:30:54
Speaker
Uh, I think two TV stands has been the, uh, the default TV stand. Yeah, probably. Hey, Doug, you have this, uh, this eight bit dough, uh, controller to, uh, you, you put me onto this thing. Yeah. The one that looks like a super Nintendo controller. Yeah. That's the one I got. Yes. But the, um, I noticed.
00:31:24
Speaker
First in Hitman, now I'm in Overcooked right now, and I'm blocked in. It just keeps on moving. Whatever I'm trying to control, I get a little... Oh, you have drift in the stick? Yeah. You're disagreeing to that? Just zip it out and zip it up. Sounds like a good description of what's happening.
00:31:50
Speaker
Yeah. Stick drift. That is like where the the the mechanism that kind of determines the direction of the stick starts to literally off or whatever. It happens with the Wii controllers quite a bit. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Not the Wii, the Switch controllers. I mean, the joy cons. Mine doesn't. But have you like stored it in a way where like the stick is kind of really just like leave it charging?
00:32:18
Speaker
I really never really have. Are you heavy handed when you play with it? I don't know more than the next guy. So I'm technically not playing with that control. I'm playing with an Xbox controller. You don't got to brag about it. This is so annoying. Wait, are you in central time?
00:32:49
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Um, only for like waking up for stuff. Uh, for like football games or something. Let's see.
00:33:53
Speaker
Oh man, got out of it. Is anybody starting a...