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season 2 episode 14 whats for desert?
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Intro
Introduction and Financial Struggles
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john hewitt
All right, welcome back, guys, gals, cowpokes, cowgirls. This is John K. coming at you live from the Cat House. It's trying times over here. We're hemorrhaging cash left and right, but we don't have time to fuck around, so we're going to get the crowd all hyped up here.
Meet Harrison: Multifaceted Local Leader
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john hewitt
Let's get a chant going for the host of the show. USA!
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john hewitt
USA! USA!
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john hewitt
I am Cornholio. I need TV for my bunghole.
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john hewitt
Our local sheriff, our current mayor, the one-man kung fu SWAT team, the, yeah I don't know, our our acting manager, supervisor, our crew lead,
Harrison's Newest Obsessions: Candy, Comics, and Electronics
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john hewitt
Harrison. Harrison, how are you doing this afternoon?
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Clutch Commander
I'm doing pretty good. How you?
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john hewitt
i' I'm okay. I'm okay. We're going to find a good sound clip here. We're not going to beat around the bush. We're going to go right into segment one. Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies.
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john hewitt
What have you been up to this past week?
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Clutch Commander
this past week, uh, I, uh, got a, uh, whatnot addiction.
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john hewitt
Oh, really?
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Clutch Commander
Uh, Yeah.
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john hewitt
What have you been bugging on what not?
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Clutch Commander
So I bought a bunch of candy boxes and I took those to work because it was it was a lot of chocolate. and i was like, I can't be that fat.
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Clutch Commander
And then I got some comics. I got some electronics.
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john hewitt
I was going to say, that's usually what people buy and whatnot, not tasty treats.
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Clutch Commander
So it was like a box it was a box of fucking candy and I got it for what I feel was a good deal. And I got like four of them.
Orlando Vacation Highlights and Theme Park Tips
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john hewitt
Fair enough. I mean, good deal is a good deal.
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Clutch Commander
Yeah. And then I got some comics and then I got some electronics. I got some good deals on the electronics. Yeah.
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john hewitt
Nice. Would you get like a Game Boy Advance or
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Clutch Commander
Uh, so I have Game Boy Advance and DS's. I got the, uh, the R36S, the little handheld that can play, like, up to PlayStation 1 games.
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john hewitt
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They they sell on a TikTok shop.
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Clutch Commander
Yeah. Yeah. Well, they also sell on, like, Amazon, and I got it for, like, 30 bucks as opposed to, like, 40 or 50 that it currently goes for. So I was like, yeah, a deal.
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john hewitt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Clutch Commander
Uh, and then I got a, uh, touchscreen laptop for, like, 20 bucks.
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john hewitt
I mean, is it operational or did you just pay for a fucking lemon?
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Clutch Commander
No, it works. I have it charged up and I use it every now and then. But it's for 20 bucks. It didn't come with a power cord. So I was like, whatever. That's another 10.
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Clutch Commander
Who cares?
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john hewitt
Yeah, that's that. This isn't the ninety s Those things are like universal at this point.
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Clutch Commander
Yeah.
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john hewitt
It's not like back when like i have a compact Presario. I can't use your fucking Dell power supply.
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Clutch Commander
Yeah, that was annoying as fuck.
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john hewitt
or like back but before when we still had the fucking phone charger wars. and it was like, get your Android garbage out of this iPhone house.
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Clutch Commander
Yeah. Or my my your your your Samsung charger doesn't work with my Google or my...
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john hewitt
huh
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Clutch Commander
i'm yeah kids Kids, we're talking about back in the day when internet time came on a CD that was delivered in the mail.
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john hewitt
No, yeah. we had a we I guess they left them like in the waiting room of the hospital my mother worked at. So there was like a solid, like I want to say like two years, we had a America Online that we did not pay for.
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john hewitt
We just got it for free, the fucking 50 hours at a clip.
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Clutch Commander
Nice.
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john hewitt
Yeah, it worked out pretty good.
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Clutch Commander
That's all, you know, sometimes that's all that matters.
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john hewitt
Yeah. I got back from Orlando. I took my first vacation in two years. Nobody died well nobody human died. We got back and my wife's car fucking exploded. But every time for the past two years, every time I go to take a vacation, somebody takes a hit out on somebody I know.
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Clutch Commander
Well, you know, at least you don't have to come back to her funeral.
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john hewitt
I mean, I think we're going to bury that. Well, hopefully we don't have to bury this car after all the money we're putting into it. But i We had four days. We split it between three parks, so it was pretty good. Epic Universe is pretty solid.
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john hewitt
If you go out there, definitely check it out.
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Clutch Commander
Nice, nice.
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Clutch Commander
What was your favorite part of the, i guess, your favorite part of the parks?
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john hewitt
i i I liked Epic, but my problem was, a we weren't at Epic long. Epic's the new addition to Universal. There's Universal proper. There's Islands of Adventure that's conjoined. And then there's Volcano Island that's like the the water park. But then they've made this Epic universe where it's like, it's all new stuff. And it's like Super Nintendo land. There's like a universal monster land.
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john hewitt
Every park is a Harry Potter section. And then it's how to train your dragon at Epic.
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Clutch Commander
I do like how to train and your drive.
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john hewitt
See, and that's where I fucked up because we got there and we went to the monsters first and there wasn't a lot going on because monsters is literally two restaurants, two rides, and that's it.
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Clutch Commander
huh.
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Clutch Commander
Hmm.
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john hewitt
It's very small.
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Clutch Commander
That's...
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john hewitt
And like I'm for, I'm pushing 40. So I'm like, that's kind of what I'm here for. And then we get a Super Nintendo land and it's cool, but there's kids everywhere because it's interactive. So it's like, get this wristband, beat the fuck at this block, get these coins and do this. And it's like, I'm not doing that. I mean, I probably will. We're going to go back. We have two friends that have children, so we're going to go down there with the children.
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Clutch Commander
Yeah.
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john hewitt
And Harry Potter is fine, but the Harry Potter in Epic is not Harry Potter. It's Fantastic Beasts. you eat you
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Clutch Commander
Okay.
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john hewitt
yeah When you go to like Harry Potter and Universal, you literally you get off of the train at Hogsmeade Station and you walk the fucking walk up to Hogwarts. like They have it done up just like the movie.
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john hewitt
there There's like a Diagon Alley and stuff. there's like That's what they have at Universal. When you go to Epic, you literally walk like out of the metro into nineteen twenty s Paris.
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Clutch Commander
Okay.
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john hewitt
And it's cool, but like, it's not exactly our jam.
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Clutch Commander
That's different.
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john hewitt
Like, and the same thing, it's one, it's one ride there. It's the most popular ride in the park. It's two hours, no matter what time you go.
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john hewitt
It's the, uh, the battle for the ministry of magic. It's basically like it, the whole ride takes place over the trial of, Dolores Umbridge, the chick that drinks, that dresses all in pink, uh,
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john hewitt
like the bad guy in the Order of the Phoenix that makes him write I will not tell lies and stuff.
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Clutch Commander
Yeah.
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john hewitt
So they they have like a ride all about like her going on trial.
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Clutch Commander
That's an odd thing to make a ride about.
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john hewitt
But it's so... up I mean, I've seen it online because there wasn't a lot to do down there like once the sun went down. But it it looks cool.
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john hewitt
But How to Train Your Dragon looked awesome. And I have not seen any of the movies. So it was just lost on me.
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john hewitt
And we walked around it for about an hour. And I was like, I think I gotta see these fucking films.
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Clutch Commander
Yeah, they are really good.
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john hewitt
Cause yeah.
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Clutch Commander
Have you seen them yet?
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john hewitt
No, i it took me a fucking week and a half to figure out who streams it because Netflix had it for a while. They don't have it anymore. Or I think they have the live action.
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john hewitt
I think Peacock has, there's a television show that they made for Nickelodeon all about Hiccup and like making Dragon Riders. And if you want to watch the first two movies, first, or might be all three, but the first two movies, you have to go to HBO.
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john hewitt
And it like took me like a week of tracking down on what streamer had fucking How to Train Your Dragon.
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Clutch Commander
So, the live-action one and the first movie are very similar. They did what they should have done and did more or less a one-for-one shot remake of it, which was great.
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john hewitt
Yeah.
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Clutch Commander
But, yeah, I'm surprised you haven't
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john hewitt
It just kind of slipped. like i never i never poo-pooed him. I was never like, this shit's stupid. But it was just one of those things where I was like i just never i never followed up on it.
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Clutch Commander
Mm-hmm.
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john hewitt
And then as we're walking around, we got on one ride. it was like a little water ride. That was fine. But apparently, how to train your dragon, a lot of people go. but like when you get in, basically, tip for anybody that's going to a theme park this summer, map out what you want to do ahead of time, and then just blitz it. Don't fuck around.
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john hewitt
And we we would go in and literally were like, We're at the gate and we're like, all right, we're going to Monster World. We're going on Monsters Unleashed, Curse of the Werewolf, straight to Mario. We got on one Mario ride, hands in the middle, play like a champion.
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Clutch Commander
Okay.
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john hewitt
And apparently when you go to Epic, the move is you go straight to Burke and you do all of your fucking bullshit at how to train your dragon because everything else, like they're all pretty much standard wait times.
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john hewitt
But How to Train Your Dragon, every morning, it's like 10-minute wait times all the way up until noon.
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Clutch Commander
Okay.
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Clutch Commander
I don't know shit.
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john hewitt
So you could just go and like, they have like a pretty cool, it's not like a big roller coaster, but it's, it's got a little bit of pep to it where you're like, you're on a hiccups, like wing glider or whatever.
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Clutch Commander
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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john hewitt
i wish I would have seen it. I would have fucking went on it. I didn't see it. And then the food, apparently the food, the best food isn't in a restaurant. It's in fucking how train your dragon land.
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john hewitt
And they take like a pita piece of pita bread. And they roll it like a cone. And then they fill that fucking cone with shredded beef and mac and cheese.
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Clutch Commander
That sounds fucking amazing.
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john hewitt
We found out about that shit on the ride home.
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Clutch Commander
That's... That's awful.
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john hewitt
So, yeah.
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Clutch Commander
That would upset me.
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john hewitt
Yeah. So I told her my my buddy, his boy is two, going to be three. i was like, dude, give him to five because he doesn't even know who the fuck ET is at this point.
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john hewitt
Like, you want him to know what ride he's going on?
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Clutch Commander
Oh yeah.
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Clutch Commander
Mm-hmm.
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john hewitt
But I was like, when we go, we will we will go down there with you and take him if you want. And I was like,
Gaming Discussions: Hunt Showdown and Resident Evil
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john hewitt
dude, we're fucking mapping out where we're going when we take him. I was like, we're going to hit this bitch like SEAL Team 6.
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Clutch Commander
Well, yeah, with a kid, you kind of have to.
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john hewitt
Yeah, well, you want them to see as much as you can, but also, like, it's going to be for us, too, going like, no. I want to hit... I mean, everything else we hit in one day. We hit the whole Universal proper in, like, one day, with the exception like, three rides.
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Clutch Commander
right.
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john hewitt
And then the second day, we hit three rides and a stunt show. And then our last day, we hit... We hit epic and we did our couple things there.
00:12:45
john hewitt
But enough about my crazy vacation. We're going to go into gameplay. Roger, Roger. Have you been playing since the event? Because I have.
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Clutch Commander
I did like one quick game and got got pretty quick and was like, okay, back to back to Crimson Desert.
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john hewitt
Uh-huh. All right, here. I'll go real quick with gameplay, because I definitely i feel bad because I haven't been back to Ark Raiders since I left for vacation. So since I've been back, I ripped it up about two days in a row. Like, it was put down Resident Evil. That's all I was playing was Hunt for about two days.
00:13:29
john hewitt
High Points, that new fucking Flame Breather guy...
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Clutch Commander
yeah
00:13:35
john hewitt
Total pain in the ass. I love him. He's great. You can shoot him. He doesn't explode. But he moves like a fucking crackhead. So like you gotta get a bead on him.
00:13:46
john hewitt
And if he starts spitting fire, you just gotta juke him and sock him in puss. He's such a pain in ass. love it though. he's He's a good addition. And pray to God you're not standing next to a barrel because he does not care. He will blow fire and he will blow you and like three grunts up. He does not give a shit.
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Clutch Commander
Nice. Yeah, I saw the Instagram reel you sent me of the flaming his flaming asshole.
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john hewitt
yeah Yeah, somebody killed him and the flame kept spawning and it just looked like you were shitting fire.
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Clutch Commander
Yeah, crazy.
00:14:22
john hewitt
Oh, it's hilarious. Second, I love the scout towers.
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Clutch Commander
Okay.
00:14:27
john hewitt
It throws you for a loop when you look at the map because when you look at the map, you do not see extraction points.
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Clutch Commander
Okay. Okay.
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john hewitt
nothing Nothing is really marked. like You're picking up clues, so like it's whittling it down where your clues are sending you for the boss, but like you have to find the the towers are marked. You have to find the tower and then scan the map.
00:14:55
john hewitt
and When you scan the map, you basically get everything given to you regarding... Here's where the extraction points are.
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Clutch Commander
Okay.
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john hewitt
Here's where the locked extraction points are. Here's where the other towers are. And like, there's like supply points that are associated with the towers. So there's like, like these are the ones that usually have the shit you can spend your event points on.
00:15:20
john hewitt
Uh, those come off when you fuck it. I mean, they're not, you can find them in the world if you're just wandering, but if you want to get a jump on everything, the towers are great. And the cool thing is every tower When you go in, you hit the map, it gives you event points just because it's an event thing. There's usually a trait called all ears where if you're in dark site, you can kind of hear people.
00:15:45
john hewitt
like like It's almost like bomb sense for like people around you.
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Clutch Commander
Okay.
00:15:51
john hewitt
I've never gotten it to work that well. I did see there was a patch, but I don't know if it was like a like a patch patch or if this was just like a hot fix.
00:16:00
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:16:01
john hewitt
But if you go up to the roof, there's always two sniper rifles with marksman scopes.
00:16:04
Clutch Commander
Mm-hmm.
00:16:07
Clutch Commander
Nice.
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john hewitt
It could be anything. It could be two Martini Henry's. It could be to so two Sparks. It could be two Vetterly's. But there's always something with two marksman scopes up there on the roof. So you could do all your nonsense and then you and your body could just go up around the roof and just start peeking off in whatever direction you feel like.
00:16:27
Clutch Commander
Nice. so you can just sit there and wait for people because they're coming.
00:16:32
john hewitt
Yeah, well, there's usually at least two on each map, two towers. So, I mean, but if you hear, like, shooting one compound over, why the fuck not just go up there, grab the rifle, and be like, i'm just going to peek this real quick.
00:16:47
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:16:48
john hewitt
I mean, then you just fucking dump the rifle and go back.
00:16:52
Clutch Commander
True.
00:16:54
john hewitt
All in all, we've played a little bit. I'm giving it solid... we'll go thumbs up it's typical event i had a good time with what i played i haven't been able to go back to it though because i've been on a ripping and a tearing with resident evil beating three times working on a no health a new a no uh drug run no drug run no
00:17:18
Clutch Commander
No drugs. That's crazy...................
00:17:19
john hewitt
no yeah no healing no heals and no uh you get a thing to help you craft as grace where you you like it's like a a blood extractor for like infected blood and that's how they they help you craft things which makes like really no sense but it's kind of cool uh I'm trying to get enough like points. You get like a little currency when you beat the game that you can spend on.
00:17:45
john hewitt
Here's a fucking Uzi. Here's a this. Here's extra costumes. And I think I'm about maybe two-thirds of the way to infinite ammo. So I'm trying to get infinite ammo so I can just crank this thing all the way up to the hardest difficulty and go in with the magnum.
First Impressions of Crimson Desert
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Clutch Commander
Yeah, is the Magnum going to be the best choice, or is there like a machine gun or something you can take?
00:18:05
john hewitt
Oh, I've already unlocked the machine gun with the girl. And as far as Leon's concerned, if i infinite ammo, yeah, that that fucking magnum with infinite ammo.
00:18:15
john hewitt
And I'll buy a shotgun early and just start fucking laying into people.
00:18:20
Clutch Commander
Nice.
00:18:22
john hewitt
But that's not what we're here to talk about today. Let me find the right sound clip.
00:18:38
john hewitt
right, section three. We both have been playing a little controversial game called Crimson Desert. We figured we'd our early yeah are early reactions to it. So I think it's safe to say I'm very satisfied with it. Are you having a good time with it?
00:19:01
Clutch Commander
I'm having a blast with it.
00:19:06
john hewitt
uh i mean i have my problems for sure but we'll save that for a little bit later but right up front think the combat's great uh
00:19:15
Clutch Commander
Yes. Combat is my favorite part, and I also have some stuff to say about it. About the combat...................
00:19:23
john hewitt
yeah uh i love the combat i love the little bit of the like The world does seem, yes, it does seem a a little bit empty-ish.
00:19:35
john hewitt
There's not much going on. There's just people doing like the same couple of things. But I'm cool with it. like I literally rode my horse, I bumped into somebody's mailbox, and I got clipped for vandalism. I just heard...
00:19:47
Clutch Commander
I've broken so much shit and didn't get clicked or not.
00:19:48
john hewitt
I got out of there before the fuzz showed up, but it was like it looked like Fortnite, where there's just like a red circle that I'm trying to get out of.
00:19:58
Clutch Commander
Nice.
00:20:01
john hewitt
But I guess I'll just go into my gripes now. We're 20 minutes in. Who are we fucking kidding? I remember we were playing in our tabletop Saturdays.
00:20:13
john hewitt
And our third kept saying that he's like, no, I heard it's like you're a merc and you're doing all these jobs for people. I don't think he knows what a Merc is because i don't think you're a Merc.
00:20:26
john hewitt
You're the beginning of the game. You're basically in like, you're almost like a Jedi. You're just like a do-gooder band of fucking guys.
00:20:34
Clutch Commander
You're a clan of...
00:20:37
john hewitt
But they're all, they're all like the,
00:20:38
Clutch Commander
I
00:20:40
john hewitt
the they're They're all characters from TikTok books where they're they're good to a fault. None of them do anything wrong.
00:20:51
john hewitt
They're all the best people, the best looking people. they all They only make the right decisions.
00:20:57
Clutch Commander
don't know about that. I mean, have you done any of the bounties?
00:21:02
john hewitt
No, but I mean, are the bounties for the gray manes?
00:21:06
Clutch Commander
Yes, so you can just take a... You just up and basically take a bounty and you catch this criminal. You're like a cop or a sheriff in the Wild West. Alright, so one of them...
00:21:17
john hewitt
Well, Cliff. Cliff is a guy that never does anything. Cliff is like Obi-Wan Kenobi. He never does anything wrong. He's the best with a sword.
00:21:27
john hewitt
Like, there's there's just no character there.
00:21:32
Clutch Commander
So my issue is less of that because one of the bounties is, so in order to cap catch the criminal alive, you basically tackle him down, hit him like four or five times, and then him up and take him to the jail.
Character Dynamics in Crimson Desert
00:21:48
john hewitt
Okay.
00:21:49
Clutch Commander
Well, there's a few women who are on the bounty board who you can keep hitting a few times after the tie-up option comes up.
00:21:59
john hewitt
Well, that's more because we're dickheads.
00:21:59
Clutch Commander
and just start fucking wailing on these bitches.
00:22:04
john hewitt
not that Not that Cliff is a bad guy.
00:22:07
Clutch Commander
You know, but I'm playing this cliff. I feel my cliff would do the same thing.
00:22:11
john hewitt
I think... I think if Cliff was a creative character, this would feel a lot better because he's so wooden. I'm like, what is that? Like, I literally walked up to a kid today that was crying. i was like, hey, what's going on? And I'm like, why are we doing this interaction?
00:22:29
Clutch Commander
That's fair.
00:22:29
john hewitt
Like, why? Why am I just like going from person to person? Like, hey, what problems do you have?
00:22:37
john hewitt
But it's just.
00:22:42
Clutch Commander
I'll agree.
00:22:42
john hewitt
But at the same time, it's fun.
00:22:46
Clutch Commander
Oh! Look, I may not pay attention that hard to what they're asking me to do, but I will go to that quest marker and I will kill or fucking solve whatever needs to happen.
00:22:56
john hewitt
yeah
00:23:00
john hewitt
Yeah, i'm I'm going in there like fucking Wyatt Earp. I see a red sash. I'm killing the man wearing it.
00:23:07
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:23:07
john hewitt
any bandit Any bandit or gold leaf fucking goblin comes at me. They're leaving in pieces. I think the story is very ho-hum.
00:23:19
john hewitt
Like, I'm calling it now. That fucking orc that's like your friend. I'm waiting to find out that that's the person that sold you out to the black bears.
00:23:29
Clutch Commander
Oh, the Goldleaf? Yeah, at Goldleaf?
00:23:32
john hewitt
No, at the beginning, like in your clan, your one friend was like a big orc
00:23:37
Clutch Commander
Oh, yeah, okay.
00:23:38
john hewitt
That you get separated, like they get stabbed and then the tree falls down and you get separated.
00:23:38
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:23:41
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:23:43
john hewitt
I'm waiting for them to be like, oh, that's the person that fucking sold you out. hope
00:23:48
Clutch Commander
Don't say that.
00:23:48
john hewitt
But it's it's it's very much, get back to my point from 20 minutes ago.
00:23:49
Clutch Commander
Okay.
00:23:53
john hewitt
I don't think he's like a mercenary. And I don't think this is very much like Skyrim, like I've heard people saying. i I'm playing it, I feel more like I'm playing Red Dead 2.
00:24:05
Clutch Commander
So I've heard...
00:24:05
john hewitt
I'm on a horse and I'm just doing I'm doing shit trying to like rebuild my life. Like you're trying to get your little bit of land. You're trying to get the king to give you supplies. You do jobs for the gold leafs so they supply you.
00:24:20
Clutch Commander
Yeah, so I get the Skyrim reference in the fact that there's... It's a medieval fantasy story.
00:24:26
john hewitt
yeah
00:24:27
Clutch Commander
In that sense, it's like Skyrim, but it's very...
00:24:29
john hewitt
Kind of.
00:24:31
Clutch Commander
If the way I describe it is it's like Skyrim and Red Dead 2. You have to be OK. Just today I'm going to you know the next four hours.
00:24:39
john hewitt
existing uh-huh yeah yeah
00:24:41
Clutch Commander
I'm just going to chop wood or mine because I need it. I have no other goal of the game other than to chop wood in mine. And if I run into some guys who want to start some shit, I'm going to beat the fuck out of them.
00:24:55
john hewitt
yeah i spent 20 minutes today chasing a herd of cats and then just picking them all up and petting them Because if you pet them and you gain them as companions when you're done with a battle, the cats will just come out and loot all the bodies for you.
00:25:10
Clutch Commander
So you can do the same thing with a dog.
00:25:12
john hewitt
Yeah, well, no, i'm I'm doing the dogs too because that's what my my tent.
00:25:14
Clutch Commander
Okay.
00:25:16
john hewitt
When you get your temporary shelter in the first town, there's two dogs right outside your tent.
00:25:19
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:25:22
john hewitt
So I just bleed that dry for her, whatever the 25, 35 amount of respect you can get every day before it dries up.
00:25:23
Clutch Commander
Hmm.
00:25:30
john hewitt
And I just stop and i pet the dog, pet the dog, pet the dog, pet the dog.
00:25:33
Clutch Commander
Okay. so my... issue slash like about the fighting the combat is it's both like it's kind of like a fighting game control sometime on PlayStation so but I like it because I'll forget I can do something and then I'll accidentally fucking you know rub the buttons the wrong way and then I just grab a dude and huck him into somebody else i was like oh shit I could do that and now that's all I'm doing
00:25:43
john hewitt
Yeah, go.
00:25:51
john hewitt
Kind of.
00:25:57
john hewitt
Yeah.
00:26:06
john hewitt
Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there's a lot to do, but I also feel like there's too much to do because you'll forget all the cool shit.
00:26:15
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:26:15
john hewitt
But the the good thing about having it the way it is is they don't You're not investing like, I mean, I guess if we're going to go back to Skyrim and Skyrim, you can invest all
Combat and Story in Crimson Desert
00:26:27
john hewitt
you want in. Like, I want to be a fucking alchemist. And eventually you're going to be like, I don't know fucking dick about alchemy, but I've just invested all this time in it.
00:26:38
john hewitt
And Crimson Desert does this cool thing where have you been spending your level up tokens?
00:26:45
Clutch Commander
Uh, yes.
00:26:46
john hewitt
Have you been buying moves and stuff?
00:26:48
Clutch Commander
Uh, some. I've also been increasing my stamina and health because, fuck some of this game. I did my first big battle and it goes on a long fucking time.
00:26:56
john hewitt
Yeah. yeah Okay. Yeah. I was going to say, I've only been increasing stamina and health because I love the little addition to this game where if you see somebody and you're in a fight and this guy is just doing a pump kick, your guy is just going to memorize it.
00:27:19
Clutch Commander
Yep.
00:27:19
john hewitt
And then you have a pump kick. Like, like, it'll be like this dude fucking gave you a fucking Jean-Claude Van Damme in the face. And because you saw it happen. Yeah, no, you've learned that move now.
00:27:31
Clutch Commander
Yep. I love that.
00:27:32
john hewitt
Some guy gives you like two clothes lines and all of a sudden you're like, yeah, you could do that.
00:27:37
Clutch Commander
I can't wait to learn the RKO.
00:27:40
john hewitt
Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's one that I probably would buy if I get close enough to, because i like you do have to fill the prerequisites of knowing the other moves.
00:27:50
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:27:51
john hewitt
But I love the the watch and learn, because it's not just for fighting. It's for everything. It's for cooking.
00:27:57
Clutch Commander
Yep.
00:27:57
john hewitt
It's for crafting. A lot of it's just like, no, you watched a guy make a steak. You're barbecue guy now.
00:28:03
Clutch Commander
Mm-hmm.
00:28:05
Clutch Commander
Yeah, no, I really... i really like that. I... Some of the puzzles are obnoxious.
00:28:13
john hewitt
yeah
00:28:13
Clutch Commander
But overall... I'm very happy with the game so far. The story is still kind of all over place, but I'm still at the very beginning, so, like, but I will say everyone who talks about, like, the castle sieges and shit when you get to the long fights, they're long as fuck.
00:28:21
john hewitt
Med...
00:28:24
john hewitt
Yeah.
00:28:35
Clutch Commander
So, in the
00:28:36
john hewitt
Yeah, but also, can you, like, if I'm done playing, and I'm like, I'm gonna go... I'm going to go hit the bathroom and I'm going whatever, mow the lawn, do whatever. I'm going to crank out 15 minutes before I go to work.
00:28:52
john hewitt
And I pause and I just exit the game. Could you do that with the big battles? Could you just be like halfway and be like, I'm fucking out and then just leave and then have it pick up when you get back? Because it does do that sometimes with cut scenes.
00:29:05
Clutch Commander
i I don't know. i will say the one long fight I did,
00:29:14
Clutch Commander
it was the mine up north with the drill hands guy.
00:29:19
Clutch Commander
i spent so much more health killing the guy. so i ate so much more food killing the guys around it than I did fighting him.
00:29:29
Clutch Commander
He was easy compared all the guys.
00:29:29
john hewitt
Yeah. And that's, I've heard people say you don't even kill them. Just go straight in the middle, kill him. And then the fight's over. Like you don't have to kill everybody.
00:29:41
Clutch Commander
I didn't know that, and I killed everybody, and then it was like, hey, you need to go do... I got the mine to 0%, and it goes, hey, go fight the boss. And I said, okay, I'll fight him now.
00:29:49
john hewitt
yeah yeah go fight bio bioshock the character
00:29:50
Clutch Commander
Let me...
00:29:54
Clutch Commander
Yeah, let me tell you. There's explosion barrels around the mine, which makes sense. It's a mine. Except the problem is is when you're not paying attention and you fucking huck a guy into another guy and that second guy hits the explosion barrel and blows all three of you up.
00:30:16
Clutch Commander
Fucking hilarious. Until you land on another explosion barrel.
00:30:21
john hewitt
And I'm going to go on the record. I haven't ran back into them yet now that I dont know how to fight because I feel like we're going to pound that ass. The black bears are the shittiest villains of all time.
00:30:32
john hewitt
They basically executed order 66 on the gray manes. And then the minute you get your little patch of land, they're like, by the way, there's a bunch of gray manes living in town just out in the alleyways. We're going to get them to come back to your fucking camp.
00:30:48
john hewitt
I'm like, the Black Bears could have done a sweep on this shit and fucking made sure we were all dead.
00:30:54
Clutch Commander
Yeah, I think it's one of those things where it's like everybody... might not have met or known the Graymanes, but they know of the Graymanes, and when the Black Bears ask questions, they're like, don't know what the fuck you talking about.
00:31:07
john hewitt
Yeah, well, and there's people lying, too, because, like, you meet the one guy when you go to the... When you're doing the the one mission where I think it's the sheep, you're looking for the little boy sheep and there's like a drunk that's saying that he's a gray mane.
00:31:21
Clutch Commander
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:31:23
john hewitt
He's not. Like he's very clearly lying, but like he just keeps saying that he's a gray mane.
00:31:29
Clutch Commander
Yeah, until the blackberries come.
00:31:32
john hewitt
Yeah. But no, I'm definitely like, I love, i mean, hunt Hunt is still my jam. Ark Raiders, haven't been back to it. Resident Evil, I'm i'm crushing that thing. i love Elden Ring. This is scratching some very some very similar Elden Ring vibes.
00:31:53
Clutch Commander
Yes, and I have... So my one buddy got to the... boss that everybody's complaining about, the devil boss or whatever it is.
00:32:02
john hewitt
I was going to say, I was under the impression it was whoever that first guy was with the gold leaves. Like, I got two bone splitter, backbreaker, the the fucking the dwarf with the crown, and I was like, this guy's the guy been giving everybody problems?
00:32:17
Clutch Commander
Yeah, I thought the same thing. I was like, you took me two tries because I forgot.
00:32:19
john hewitt
Yeah.
00:32:22
john hewitt
Exactly, yeah.
00:32:22
Clutch Commander
way he does his wave slash. Then I can just run around him. Like a fucking peacock. And I was like.
00:32:28
john hewitt
Yeah.
00:32:30
Clutch Commander
forgot I could do that. And then he killed me.
00:32:31
john hewitt
Well, and mine, I forgot L1 raises your shield but also locks you onto the target.
00:32:32
Clutch Commander
Okay. Now I know I run.
00:32:41
john hewitt
So I've just been raw-dogging it, running around, pointing my like pointing my character, swinging my sword like a dickhead. And then once I was like, oh, I can lock on and block his attacks, it was so easy the second time around.
00:32:54
Clutch Commander
Yeah, and the mine guy is... The mine is harder. bring Bring food.
00:33:01
john hewitt
Oh, yeah.
00:33:02
Clutch Commander
But he he wasn't he wasn't hard at all. I was like, I don't know where these but hard bosses are, but I haven't fought him yet.
00:33:11
john hewitt
Yeah, whatever this one is, the like the first big one that everybody's bitching about, apparently he's like, yeah.
00:33:18
Clutch Commander
He's hard, but they nerfed him, so...
00:33:18
john hewitt
he hit Yeah.
00:33:21
john hewitt
I mean, that's also a big Elden, like Elden Ring, I've played it but I mean, I've had it for years. I play it a lot just because I can go in and get... Same thing as Crimson Desert. I could just go in, get on my horse, and get lost.
00:33:35
john hewitt
And it's always the first two bosses in Elden Ring. Bust my cheeks hard.
00:33:45
john hewitt
And then once I get past them, good.
00:33:45
Clutch Commander
and it Yeah. Yeah, I don't know why the first few bosses are always the difficulty check.
00:33:54
john hewitt
Yeah, I don't know. but I'm going to give this on a scale of Yee-Haw to Yee-Na. My early review of Crimson Desert is definitely a Yee-Haw. I think the early reviews people were giving it, critics were giving it, I think they were a little bit harsh.
00:34:10
john hewitt
If I was a gamer currently, I picked it up. I don't mind supporting the studio. I'm a little bit puzzled why it's Crimson Desert and I'm in a mountain of snow.
00:34:22
john hewitt
But I think it's it's definitely worth your time. Watch some gameplay footage. See if it's for you. If you're on the fence, wait for it to go on sale.
00:34:31
Clutch Commander
Yeah, it's simply not for everybody, but if it if you like that kind if you like Red Dead 2 and just fucking off in a world for four hours, it's a great game.
00:34:31
john hewitt
Like... No.
00:34:43
john hewitt
And also like a Souls-like. Like it's... It's not... It's not easy. You're gonna die.
00:34:50
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:34:52
john hewitt
So it's like, if you can't handle that kind of game, like a Sekiro, Dark Soul, like something where dying is built into the loop of, you know, you're going to beat ass, and then eventually you're going to over your head, and we're gonna to kill you to reset your ass back, so you come back in like, with a little bit of fucking gas in the tank.
00:35:11
Clutch Commander
Mm-hmm.
00:35:15
john hewitt
Like, if you can't handle that, like, i don't know. Watch a long play. see See how you feel after a long play. give Give it like a five or ten minute. JFam, if you haven't watched any videos from JFam, it's a father and son that play Elden Ring.
00:35:28
john hewitt
They're weird as shit, but they just started a playthrough of fucking Crimson Desert. Watch their playthrough. Give them like give them give them ten minutes out of your day. watch them Watch them while you're drinking your coffee in the morning. If the game looks good, give it a shot.
00:35:44
Clutch Commander
Yep, definitely.
00:35:46
john hewitt
So are you giving it a yee-haw or yee-nah?
00:35:49
Clutch Commander
It's definitely yeehaw right now.
00:35:51
john hewitt
Nice. We're going to slip into our last little thing here. on our way out the door... I don't think we really have anything to plug.
Exploring Delta Green: Gameplay and Mechanics
00:36:07
john hewitt
We don't have a lot of shit going on We just finished our first Delta green one shot. How did you think that went?
00:36:16
Clutch Commander
I think it went fine. I think we got more out of one of our players than we had before. I think they were all surprised at my action, even though I knew that's what what I was going to do right the fuck away.
00:36:30
john hewitt
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, did you have fun with it? oh Yeah, I felt like everybody was a little bit confused there for a minute, and then it kind of like came together at the end.
00:36:40
Clutch Commander
Well, so it's a real short thing. So it's kind of you just dropped in and here you are.
00:36:48
john hewitt
Yeah.
00:36:49
Clutch Commander
And.
00:36:51
Clutch Commander
don't know. It was.
00:36:51
john hewitt
I used the web website... I used a website for shotgun scenarios for Delta Green. They're basically just one sheet one sheet quick play scenarios.
00:37:04
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:37:05
john hewitt
And I ran them through one called Last Train to Queens, a Train to Queens, check Catch the A Train, something like that, where they are Delta Green agents following a suspect, and they're trained with them and the suspect, and several passengers get sucked into an underground...
00:37:24
john hewitt
underground cavern where there's holes in the floor that are eating people. People are being sucked into the holes and devoured, so they have to figure out a way to get out.
00:37:35
john hewitt
And then that's where the drama came from with everybody bickering amongst themselves on the best way to get Exactly.
00:37:42
Clutch Commander
I don't know why... after I got us out...
00:37:47
john hewitt
Exactly.
00:37:47
Clutch Commander
There had to be a bunch of shitheads about it...................
00:37:50
john hewitt
Yeah, basically there was a the gameplay was there's a threshold of there needs to be X amount of damage done, whether it's people getting bit on the shoulder, ass, losing a leg, losing a finger, whatever.
00:38:03
john hewitt
there There's a threshold, and then once the threshold is filled, the hunger is satiated in the tunnel, and they are basically the train goes back to Queens, and they're just booted out.
00:38:15
john hewitt
But there's also utility phone down there. And if you use the utility phone, you speak to a gentleman at the MTA who is basically like, he's in charge of whatever this is. Like you're never meant to fully understand it, but whoever, whatever this is, this guy, Alan Shrewsbury is behind it.
00:38:35
john hewitt
And I gave them each a little post credit scene for what they did after the investigation to which, our our other two both decided that they created murder boards and they just wanted to track down Harrison.
00:38:50
Clutch Commander
Yeah, I did nothing that other people in my situation would not have done.
00:38:57
john hewitt
No. Harrison took a guy that was clearly dying and then... he he taught persuaded the guy into killing himself for the better of the group and when the guy was like i can't do it i'm not strong enough harrison proceeded to fucking dump this guy in a hole and he ended up saving everybody like the threshold was filled the train went back
00:39:21
Clutch Commander
Yeah, I...
00:39:22
john hewitt
but our other two They fucking their post credit scene was they make murder boards because they're obsessed with finding Harrison's character because they only play
Podcast Wrap-Up and Community Engagement
00:39:32
john hewitt
with aliases. They don't know each other's in their personal life to which I was like, you guys only want to look for Harrison. Nobody wants to look for the guy that's on the phone that actively works for the MTA.
00:39:44
Clutch Commander
Yeah. Now, they want to find little old poor little old me... who simply saved everybody's life.
00:39:54
john hewitt
Yeah. But I think... Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Sorry. I had a medical procedure done, and it happens when my when I get a little bit erect.
00:40:12
john hewitt
It's like a talkback tone from the 90s, from the early 2000s when you called on a phone. Yeah.
00:40:17
Clutch Commander
Hmm.
00:40:20
john hewitt
But I mean, that's really all we've had going on. We've had our tabletop Saturdays. And hopefully we have a little bit of hunt moving forward. You got your Gundam tournament coming up this Saturday. Hopefully fucking take home a prize this time.
00:40:33
Clutch Commander
Yeah, hopefully.
00:40:36
john hewitt
And is there anything you want to leave with on our way out the door before we thank our legendary hunters?
00:40:47
Clutch Commander
Just give Crimson Desert a shot. It's better than... It can be both better than what they're saying and worse, depending on what kind of game you like.
00:40:56
john hewitt
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, definitely. We'll thank our legendary hunters for talking about all the guys over there at Hunt Banish Extract Podcast. They're not on Instagram because I've been DMing them for months, but they are on their Discord. You can find them on their Discord server, which is available through their podcast.com.
00:41:17
john hewitt
podcasts You know, episodes, you can find them on Amazon, Stitcher, whatever. We're talking HuntBanishExtract. We're talking about a little streamer known as the Bugatti Mercs.
00:41:28
john hewitt
He started following us. Good to have you here. We're talking about Titch Hunt, Ponytail Palm, Alex Olson, Michael Douglas Jones, Mitchell Gertz, Son of a BitchRat329.
00:41:34
Clutch Commander
you
00:41:39
john hewitt
We're talking about Rakta, Rexnor. We're talking about C.D.Low. Malcolm Glenn, that motherfucker Post Malone.
00:41:50
john hewitt
We're talking about Nitronate, Taco Man, Manor Von Velt, OG Gamer. talking about DJ and the rest of the... I mean, i gave your show a plug, but the guys individually are all fucking nuts.
00:42:04
john hewitt
Drop us a line on Instagram. Waiting for the Players Pod, all one word. We'd love to have you there in the and a little Hunter's Guild that we've been building.
00:42:14
john hewitt
We'll be back as soon as we can with another episode as soon as we got something to say.
00:42:14
Clutch Commander
Night, everybody.
00:42:18
john hewitt
Harrison, say goodnight.
00:42:21
Clutch Commander
right everybody
00:42:23
john hewitt
Keep them home fires burning. Springtime has sprung. and you may be living three-star life, but goddammit. This has been a 43-minute episode, and I hope you have a six-star week.
00:42:41
john hewitt
Dwight, you ignorant slut!
00:42:43
john hewitt
Can't find a button.