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2.32 Video Game Lore and the Olympics...
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, some Star Wars talk and what not; Ron takes down a list of Video games with strong ties to their Lore (we don’t agree, imagine that!); Chris brings up the Olympics and how do we make them more appealing. As always please like, leave a review, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Live Episode Introduction and Weather Reflections
00:00:47
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Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft Podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron, and this is a live spectacular in-person person. Yeah. Friday, Friday, Friday. Getting here to push that back the other week for the snowstorm. Oh.
00:01:04
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Yeah. When you worked in the blizzard getting, yeah, I know it wasn't that much, but yeah, they push the monster trucks a day. That's old. Uh, your chief, I said you should call them on retainer. And if anybody gets stuck, you just have a monster truck come full of ammo. I think, uh, monster trucks, probably the best vehicles for the snow. They're big. Those big tires. I mean, it's just like the surface area thing there. I mean, they're probably not going to, I would hate to see the fuel cost.
00:01:31
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I'd rather run an ambulance. We have a visitor right now. Yes, Evie is partaking of the podcast.
00:01:41
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So, you know, it's winter, everybody. Yeah. Winter. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's see, Thursday, Friday, it was 60 degrees and then yesterday it was 30 and windy. I know. I shook my fist at the wind. It was windy yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. Had to take my oldest to Caroline County for a band tryout. Oh. Yeah. Outside of Federal'sburg. Yeah. There's nothing back there. No. Nothing. No.
00:02:09
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Yep. And sitting there in the auditorium, cause you know, most of the kids now are old enough to drive themselves. You know, some of the underclassmen aren't. So me and a couple of the parents are sitting there and just get kids from all over the shore. But listening to all of them practice, they aren't practicing the same thing. No, no. I had this flautist behind me who was just, I feel like snatching it and throwing it. Oh gosh. That's a,
00:02:38
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Yeah. Perils of band parents. Yeah. It's fun. Fun. She got third chair in the state or the shore. So that's pretty good. Yeah.
00:02:48
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Does she have to kill the other two chairs? No, but well, they're both from Parkside. So yeah, Parkside cleaned up this year. So they have to fight it out like a, yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. So, uh, but yeah, driving in that Mindy cold was super.
Selling an Old Jeep: Memories and History
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Then we got there. I was like, so I can come in, right? I don't know. I was like, I'm not sitting in the Jeep from godly knows how many hours. Uh, you could. I could. Yeah. I wasn't going to.
00:03:15
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I think we're gonna sell our Jeep. Are you really? Yeah, we're talking about it.
00:03:19
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Yeah, it's time. Yeah. It's lived a good life. It's lived a good life. Take it to the farm and let it go. Let it loose on the Jeep. Yeah. I mean, it's what? 17 years old. Yeah. First thing I bought after I got moved up to Delaware. Yeah. Yeah. Moved back to Delaware. Yeah. But yeah, it's done its job. Yeah. Moved its life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:45
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It's a good Jeep, it's a real Jeep. It's got two doors. Oh my gosh, you're real with this. At least I don't have a pickup bed. At least I don't have a pickup bed. Nothing makes me madder than when I wave at one of those gladiators and I'm like, no, no. I'm going to turn around and I'm going to drive back to you and I'm going to take my wave away from you. You do not deserve it. You are driving basically a Dodge Neon with a pickup truck bed. Yes. Yeah. And the problem is you can't tell from the front. No, you can. From the front, you're like, oh, that's a Jeep.
00:04:16
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But nope, nope, nope. They should put something in the grill or something so we can tell. Yeah, there should be like a jeep warning system between jeeps, you know, like, nope, nope, not a real jeep. Like if you're in a four-deer jeep, I'm like, ah, I'll wave at you. But I don't want to feel good about it. If you're in a gladiator, you don't deserve anything. Yeah. That's what I've definitely noticed. Like some of the guys that still have like the CJ5s and all, they, they're very strict with their waves. Yeah. Yeah. Well, mine's a TJ, right? Yeah. Mine's the last year, the TJ, I think.
00:04:46
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And, uh, you know, we're our own generation. We're like the, the, you haven't built any more. Yeah. You had. Yeah, I had. You were cool. Yeah. That's one of those, I was dumb and I got hired by the fire department. So I was like, I need to buy a truck. Yeah. I never had that. That was never on my list of, I never understood. Well, it's also, I did, you know, cause the family, a little horse trailer, and then they sold all the horses like three months later. So that's fair. Makes sense. I do remember the old truck.
00:05:14
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Yeah, I had that thing forever. It was a GMC. My old three-quarter ton. I had one truck for my life. I had a Ranger.
00:05:27
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I like the Ranger. Ooh, was it like the Danger Ranger? It was not like the Danger Ranger. Friend of ours had a Ranger that, but the seats weren't bolted down. The seat belts were out of some other vehicle. Like a dump truck or something. They weren't even the right seat belts. Like this thing is a death machine. The bucket seats were just kind of, I think there was like half the bolts in or something.
00:05:51
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The Ranger was nice for college because I could move my stuff around and I had to move dorms. Other than that, I've never wanted a truck. Because you know what? You have a truck. Everybody expects you to help. People help you to help them out. Yeah. Nobody's like, hey, that guy with the neon, I need help moving. Yeah. West Side saw this thing the other day. It was like, once you hit 30, just pay somebody to move you. Yes. None of your friends are willing to break their backs for pizza and beer.
00:06:19
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My buddy, uh, just moved in a new house and he was like, Hey man, I'm moving this day. I said, Oh good. What day is the movers coming? He's like, no, I'm going to need your help. I said, no, you're not. You pay movers. Yeah. We're past that point. Yeah. He's like, I'll buy you a help, like hang your TV, set things up. Sure. He's like, well, I'll buy you a pizza. I said, I can afford to buy my own pizza now. I'm old enough that I get my own pizza and I don't have to worry about topping sharing and stuff.
00:06:49
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Oh my gosh. I just, yeah. You hire movers because we were, what Sherry and I were looking at houses where we were,
Moving Houses: Challenges and Choices
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we had gotten a contract on that house that fell through. Yeah. The first thing I called was a mover. I said, okay, you need to start telling me how much it's going to cost me. Yeah. But I'm not, that's what you pay people for. Right. Yeah. It's like, does it escalate like college? It was, you know, like natural light and
00:07:14
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Papa John's is somebody is it now like first off college was not pop an IPA and college was Little Caesars. Yeah, there you go. There's little Caesars and for us it was giggling. But yeah, I get why it's natural at other places Yeah, but no and now it's gotta be like fancy break up in pizzas
00:07:34
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I did try the the rocks tequila, the Terra Mana or whatever. It's actually pretty good. I'm not saying it's not just tequila. It doesn't taste like tequila. That sounds like a problem. It's kind of smooth. That sounds like more of a problem. Tequila and I have had adventures before. I don't need to have those adventures. Gotcha.
00:07:58
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Gotcha. So I have a great story to share that I've held up. Yeah, you held it from the beginning. It was in the pre-show. It was in the pre-show. You've got to join the Patreon to do the pre-show. Where was I watching? No, gaming the other day in my office. Okay. My new basement office that I've been moved to the pit. And I'm hearing description noise and I'm like,
00:08:23
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Like at the Woodstove, I'm like, there must be a bird in the flu or something. Which is late in the season, because it's winter. Yeah. Yeah. So I open the flu up, you know, I open up the Woodstove and look in there. Don't see anything. Maybe I'm just going crazy. I'm of that age. Yeah. Yeah. We hear things. We hear things. So the next night, it was a Wednesday or Thursday, because we were watching Book of Open. Yeah. The wife is there with me. Yeah. I'm like, did you hear that noise? She's like, yes, I did hear a noise. Okay.
00:08:49
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Check one. Not crazy. Yeah. Or you're both crazy. Or we're both crazy. Yeah. I freaking open up the wood stove and I see a tail. Like pink tail? No. No. A bushy gray tail. Raccoon? No. Squirrel.
00:09:09
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A squirrel had come all the way down the chimney, through the wood stove, and was in there. Let me tell you, squirrels are harder to get out of a wood stove than a bird is. Bird wants to get out. Squirrels don't want to get out. Do you feel like Atticus in there?
The Squirrel in the Wood Stove: A Humorous Tale
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No, no.
00:09:26
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I just imagine, like, Christmas vacation, Atticus, like, rippin' the Woodstove apart. Yeah, Jason and Alder the house. Yeah, that was a fear. That was on the list. So I had to get a box and put it up against the wood stove as I reached in there to grab the squirrel so that the squirrel would go into the box. Looked like a crazy person running a box out of my front door and letting a squirrel loose. You should just, like, run up your arm.
00:09:50
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That little thing was not running off anybody's heart. First off, it was prepped by the scruff, peed everywhere. It was up in the wood stove and I'm reaching past the wall. Can I have roosted squirrel? Well, that squirrel was very lucky that it wasn't this week because it would have been at least smoked squirrel because it was cold this week and I would have been like, oh, let me... He would have gotten out.
00:10:17
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How's it gonna get out? The same way it got in. Once the flu's past the flu, it ain't getting out.
00:10:24
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You didn't get out that way, bud. I guess so. Yeah. That's how chimneys work. Flaming squirrel running around your house. Yes, that probably is a fire hazard. Gosh, yeah, it's a big fire hazard. So check your fireplace. Check for squirrels. And it's funny, I've had... Do you not have a screen box on the outside? I don't. But I've only had this happen with animals twice. Animals? I had a bird and I had a squirrel.
00:10:54
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Yeah. 10 plus years I've lived in that house. Yeah. So it's not really a big concern, but yeah. Check your, yeah. Or there's a bunch of smoke squirrels.
00:11:07
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I don't know. There could be a whole family that lived up there and got smoked. It was like the time to get the bird nest in our bathroom vent. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just looked up there. Yeah. Because the little louvers, they broke and they didn't pay any attention. And all of a sudden, one day, it's all Starling or something went in there.
00:11:27
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So, yeah, climbed the top of the 20-some foot ladder and put the shop vac in there and fucked up all the babies. Oh, no, you didn't. Yes, I did. Yep. Yep. Yeah. That's vacuumed him up. Yep. You can see him going down the hose. Oh, no.
00:11:51
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Yeah, yeah kids right they're still squeaking a little bit Yeah, yeah the worst we had was Our current deck which we want to replace the underneath for the
00:12:18
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the runners, I guess what you call for the deck. Yeah. There's, you know, that joint. Yeah. There's like a little corner. Where the choice comes. They, uh, they built a, that's right there. They do it every year, but one year in Moxie saw it.
00:12:32
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That dog has a killer instinct. Nice. Cause she got it. She knocked my nest down and she's got the, not eggs, the babies and drag them around or the time that we had a mama rabbit put her rabbit nest underneath the shed. Yeah. That was a rough week. I'm pretty sure we have a bunny underneath the shed cause the dogs keep trying to dig underneath the shed.
00:12:54
Speaker
Better than a groundhog. Yeah, it's true. It was groundhog day the other day. It was groundhog. So what happens when the groundhog dies in the box? It's all that! What does that mean for... They were like scrambling to find a replacement. What happens for 2022 when the groundhog dies? It's got to be a bad omen. It's got to be a bad omen. I mean, we got six more weeks of winter and a dead groundhog. Yeah. Does that mean six more months of COVID? Maybe he died of COVID. Oh, that would be terrible. Yeah.
00:13:26
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Everybody's up. Yeah. They're just giggling upstairs. Did you watch Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day? No. I worked. What? Does that have to do anything? I worked during the day. Yeah, I know. I could add it on the background. You got to quote the movie all day. It's probably the... I did. Most quoted movie I like. Pretty good for a quadruped. It's not bad for a quadruped. Side of your ass. Side of your ass. Don't drive angry.
00:13:52
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I was like, I told the kids, we should watch Groundhog Day. All right. I was like, go to your rooms. You're on ground. You got it. Yep. Groundhog on Groundhog Day. You got it until next Groundhog Day. Yeah. Until you can appreciate Groundhog Day. You're grounded. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And then, Brianna, isn't it an inappropriate movie? No! What is inappropriate about that movie? I don't know!
00:14:13
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Isn't the thing like that movie spans like a thousand thousand years also He's not a better person at the end of the movie. He's just a manipulative. Yeah. Yeah, it's like I've learned everything I can to Manipulate these people. Yeah, that's a thing. I guess he took all that knowledge with him You assume and I just play the piano and things. Yeah, he's yeah, I mean he's a
00:14:39
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Yeah, there's all those things and you can ice sculpt and all this. Yeah. And you have a bank. Yeah. Very armored truck. It was an armored truck. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and he's just not a good person. No. Like, I guess that's the, like at what time when he's talking to the girl, we went, Linda. Yeah. Such as high school. So yeah, that's a stalker there. He's a terrible person. Yeah. But still a good movie. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'll pull a rat out of the box.
00:15:06
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Shake a stick in a box and pull a rat out. I can do that. It's Grand Dog Day. Again. What is this, Miami Beach? What if there's no tomorrow? There wasn't one today. I love that movie. I know this is controversial. I think it's the best bill-bearing movie. Yeah, I can see that. I think Ghostbusters gets overrated.
00:15:35
Speaker
Well, Ghostbusters is the whole dynamic, the whole group. But I think Groundhog Day is by far the best Bill Murray movie. Scrooge is pretty good. Scrooge is really good, but I wouldn't just sit down and watch. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. But Groundhog Day, yeah, if it's on, I'm like, yeah, I'm watching it. Yeah, I'm watching that movie. I'm Caddyshack.
00:15:55
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But Caddyshack's not a Bill Murray movie. It's not a Bill Murray movie. That's Chevy Chase. It's definitely Chevy Chase movie. Even though Chevy Chase really isn't in it a lot. No, but it's Rod Dangerfield's not a movie a lot. Yeah.
00:16:08
Speaker
Not my favorite Rodney Dangerfield. I'm not a favorite. I'm not sure about Rodney Dangerfield. He was just too animated for me. It's too much over the time. It's like Jackie Mason. It's too much for me. And I think that comes only in his movies. I'm not sure he was like that at the stand up. Probably not. I think it's just a movie version of Rodney Dangerfield.
00:16:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you watched Book
Star Wars Series Discussion: Book of Boba Fett and Mandalorian
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of Boba Fett? I have watched all of the current episodes of Book of Boba Fett. They haven't watched the latest one. Oh, let me spoil it for you. Yeah. Well, they don't. My oldest, if she loves all these spoilers, she looks up spoilers for fun. What? Yeah, she's an animal.
00:16:46
Speaker
Yeah. I'm enjoying it. I mean, you're talking about enjoying the first three or four episodes, which were above that. And now we're into the Mandalorian 2.5. I'm fine with that too. Absolutely. I'm not upset about it. I was watching it the other day and I'm like, this is the Star Wars I like. This is what I... I'd like to see a little more
00:17:13
Speaker
once in a while lightsaber action but i'm all about it i think we're gonna see more i think we are too i mean a certain character that people love from the clone wars came back in this episode that was pretty cool yeah i'm not sure it worked at it live action but it was cool yeah character school yeah so do you think the morsel's dead i don't know i saw my wife that i don't think he is because they were like medic you know so because
00:17:42
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Also, I think he's wearing armor underneath his shirt. Ooh, could be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of those, it's crazy that of old Timothy Oliphant that he's created that role. He's wild. It's really just Waylon Gibbons from Justified in Star Wars, which I love Waylon Gibbons. Yeah. Yeah. And apparently they're doing a new Justified. Oh yeah. So I'm all in for that. I love that show. Yeah. Let's sail.
00:18:07
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That's the thing. Like I'm not a big Western guy, but I'm, I'm digging this. I love Western. So this is like hitting my exact sweet spot. And you read that the aftermath books, didn't you? Yes. Yeah. So I mean like Freetown and all that. I mean, that was in the books. Well, that's where the Marshall came from. Yeah. He's one of the aftermath people. So yeah, I'm a big fan of. Yeah. So do you think a certain character is going to make a decision? My thing.
00:18:36
Speaker
Why make him have a choice? Can't we have the little guy? Because Jedi are jerks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's gotta get out of the sack. First off- Give the boys some clues! First off, only Sith deal in absolutes? Negative. Yeah, Jedi also- They are all wheels. In absolutes. However, I hear rumors that there's gonna be some Mara Jade action
00:19:02
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in some form soon in the Star Wars universe so well that's all a bunch of people saying well he can't be the first because Kylo was the first student and this and that there are said that because in this one in like the comic or whatever it's there were three of them it was Kylo and two others that went together at the school and he was like I was the first at the school
00:19:26
Speaker
He said, you know, of us, I was the first. It could just be the first of those three. That could be, you know, again, the school's not done. There's creepy androids. Yeah, the creepy androids were a little wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack, wack,
00:19:55
Speaker
her getting taught in the books. Yeah. Yeah. This episode, I was just like, I was a little kid. I was like, yeah, it was great. And I sold Boba Fett for 20 seconds. That's fine. Yeah. Yep.
00:20:12
Speaker
I kind of say he's the weakest part of the Book of Boba Fett. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad they finally explained why he kept going into Back to Tank. Yes. I didn't, I didn't understand that at first, but as to the Sarlacc acid. Yeah. Yeah. So, and Black Chrysanthemum. Black Chrysanthemum.
00:20:38
Speaker
I can't remember what he was in. He was in something. He's a pit fighter thing. Yeah. I mean. I guess. What's your face? Fennec? No, no, no. What's your?
00:20:53
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owner of the bar. Oh, the Twilight. Cars? Yeah, she did. No. Pretty sure she did. Yeah. Pretty sure she did. You were like, she could have lived. No. As soon as they walked into the bar, I was like, that's going to be bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know why? They are not bringing credits. No. Nope. No. She did not live through that. Yeah. Then you would think you would have like some kind of censor or something. For me, if you're smart. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently she's not that smart. Stupid fish people.
00:21:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. I don't know. I get they're running their spice and everything, but why do you pick a desert planet? You're a fish person. Yeah. Maybe they're going to bring back the oceans. That's a overarching thing. The one thing about Tatooine, I never, it's like, if you read the books like this book, this is a diastolic word in the world that nobody cares about. But maybe that's part of why they're using all the drugs there. But I don't know why they don't got to like,
00:21:51
Speaker
Now Hutta or something, but you know, I get it. You know, you don't want to, you can't show off Now Hutta. Yeah. Maybe the twins, maybe that's where they went back. They did go back to Now Hutta. Yeah, maybe we follow up with them. They just didn't do anything. Yeah. So yeah, I definitely saw some good stuff. The marshals will deputy or whatever. I was glad he got shot. He needs to stay in his lane.
00:22:16
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He just acted all uppity and everything. He was an eager deputy. Oh, over eager. I'm sorry, you see, you know, this guy laying in his souped up spaceship. Oh, so his ship, his armor matches his ship and he comes strolling out.
00:22:33
Speaker
Why can't he park there? It's a giant open area. So the rules are different because he's the Mandalorian? No. Yes. The rules are the same. Was there a clearly delineated parking spot? No. You don't know. Maybe there are. And he's the deputy. His job is to force the rules. He should be putting the rules equally. Well, yeah. What? Corruption. Did he have to approach like a jerk? Yeah. That's his job. To be a jerk? What? What are you going to do? Oh, please, sir, with all your guns, please be nice to us. No.
00:23:03
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You can't stand up to bullies. The Mandalorian's a little bit of a bully. He's a little bit of a bully. He's a death cult maniac. He's been raging in religious whack-job coven, so he's a little bit of a bully. He's had some growth. He's had some growth. I mean, he's like, you know, it's hard to ask for a favor. The problem is he's still, I think,
00:23:24
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they have to really deal with him, like, leaving the cult. Well, I think it's gonna be... I think that's... Well, the cult's kicked him out. Season 3 is gonna be him redeeming himself. Sure. And going to Mandalore and all that. Right. I am tired of people. I bet Sabine's gonna show up. I don't think in this show Sabine's gonna show up because I think she's out looking for Ezra. But that's my theory. Okay, yeah. Do we see Omega?
00:23:54
Speaker
Did you watch The Bad Batch? I haven't seen The Bad Batch. Oh god, you gotta watch The Bad Batch. All right, I'll watch The Bad Batch. No, seriously, it's worth it. Someone's the second one to tell me. Yes, it is worth it. Yeah, yes. It's so much for me to watch. It's too much. I'm trying to watch this stupid Witcher show. We started watching the second season, and it's well-won with children. It's been hard to find time to watch it that are safe. And then it hasn't really hooked me this season.
00:24:30
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When? I started watching on Amazon, the Legend of Fox Machina. I've heard really good things. It's the animated thing of Critical Role. Yeah, it's good. I've heard a lot of good things about that. And I didn't listen to the first season that they did on Critical Role. So a lot of this is, I mean, I listened to some of it, but yeah, try to get through the piece. Peacemaker. My brother said it's good. Ooh. Yeah. That's a, that's a hard,
00:24:45
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It hasn't hooked me at all. I'm just slogging through because people tell me it's good and I'm not.
00:25:00
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It's a hard maybe. The first two episodes I really enjoyed, because they were funny. And then the jokes just for the same jokes. And I'm starting to maybe think that's a James Gunn thing. Is that it's really funny the first time, and then you're like, oh, you did this joke already.
00:25:26
Speaker
We'll see. We'll see. I will say it has the wackiest intro of any show I've ever seen. And I usually try to skip the intro after the first time I see it. I'm like addicted to watching it because it's so wacky. And it's funny because I don't know any of the characters so it's like...
00:25:43
Speaker
Yeah, I've never heard of Peacemaker and all that. Yeah, Judo Master and Peacemaker and the White Dragon. Apparently, he's a real character. Oh, I'm sure. DC, they had a Ku Klux Klan villain. Oh my God. With DC, you see the Batman. The Batman. It's almost three hours.
00:26:03
Speaker
Oh, my wife. At what point do we hit where you add an intermission into a baby? Two hours. Anything past two hours, you've got to give people a chance to break. Just like they used to do back in the 60s. Not just that. Well, I mean, this was a ginormous move. I remember, what was it, Gettysburg? Yes. There were two intermissions for that because it was like five hours. It felt like it. Well, we were kids.
00:26:28
Speaker
My wife says, she's like, what's this The Batman Movie? Is that a new Batman movie? I'm like, yeah. She's like, is it Christian Bale? I said, no. He hasn't been The Batman in a while. And that, I think, is going to be the problem with that movie, is people who aren't bought into DC movies are going to be like, I've got to run out and see a new Batman movie? They don't care. How many times can we have a new Batman movie? Right. And apparently, the answer is every three years.
00:26:57
Speaker
Yeah, how many... I don't know. Parts of it I have hope for, but we'll see. I mean, it's probably gonna be a just fine movie, but I don't... Like DC, you gotta step up and... Or step back. Or, yeah, say, hey... Either step up or step back. Let's do something different. It's time to try something that fits.
00:27:21
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Muppet Batman. Muppet Batman. We're doing a new Fraggle Rock show. What? Yeah.
00:27:28
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with muppets? Yeah. Okay. Yes, yes. Little dozers building everything out of sugar. I mean, they better be. Yeah. I mean. The trash people. How do the fraggels not have diabetes? All they do is eat them. The fraggels are the jerks in that show. Oh yeah. You know that, right? They're eating the dozers' houses. Yeah, they're building all these things. They eat all their stuff. But if you ask the dozers, if it wasn't for the fraggels, they don't have a job because they're always rebuilding stuff because the fraggels eat the dozers' stuff. Circle of life. Circle of life.
00:27:55
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But then the Fraggles go and they mess with the trash people, you know, and then mess with the other people, the king and stuff. Yeah, that's weird. And they mess with the dog. The dog, yeah. Poor dog. Poor dog. Yeah. Poor Fraggles. Yep. I do love Fraggle Rock. Down to Fraggle Rock. Down to Fraggle Rock. That was a good rig and roll. So, topic one.
00:28:22
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No, all right. We got for us. All right, so I was thinking about this and so I started doing some slight research. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask the question first. I want you to think about it. Okay, and then we're gonna go through the answers that this gave Oh gosh, what video game do you think? now the purpose this Not based off of a movie, okay, so Star Wars games don't count. All right, right
00:28:52
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Yeah. Um, and one of the lists on this list, I also doesn't think doesn't count. Okay. I think has the best lore, not necessarily the best story as in like cut scenes, but the most expansive lore. Dark souls. That's interesting. Did you say that you weren't supposed to answer yet? Oh, it's fine. Sorry. Someone go through the list. Yeah. Some of these I really don't agree with.
00:29:20
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Okay. Number 12. This is an IGN article or the Gamer article. Number 12 is Destiny. Yeah. Okay. I can see that. The lore books. I disagree with you. Really? And that's because I'm a Destiny 1 player and you're a Destiny 2 player. Yeah. Because Destiny 1, the lore was so scattered and wackadoodle that
00:29:43
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And I get that Destiny 2 has a much better lore, but I feel like they let us down on Destiny for their lore. Yeah, there's a part of me I wish I could go back and play D1. Yeah, it was fine. But I miss out on some of the... I've watched...
00:30:02
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There's a guy, my name is Bife, on YouTube. He does all these lore videos and everything for Destiny, so I've caught back up on a lot of stuff. There you go. Yeah. So, you know, you caught up. The lore, once you know it is good, but in the Destiny one, they did not make an effort to make you know the lore.
00:30:18
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So, but it's cool. The Iron Lords and all that. Right. Like you didn't know who the Iron Lords were at all. They just existed. They were like, they were these dudes. Yeah. Yeah. That's a thing. And you did it like, oh, yeah. If you look at this fourth line on this helmet's description, it's like, wow. Right. Yeah. Well, we'll do that. Yeah. Number 11, Borderlands. Okay. It's, it's.
00:30:47
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by the lore. I was never blown away by the lore. I love the game. Yeah. I was never blown away by the lore. Side tangent to that. So the original DLC for Tiny Tina's Wonderland or whatever, the original one. It was free this month on PlayStation. I couldn't get into it. Oh, side tangent. Yeah. Am I going to lose access to Destiny now? No.
00:31:12
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PlayStation has bought Bungie. They said it in their big press release that they will continue to be across all platforms and this and that. I think the biggest thing you'll see from that is that now the TV show and stuff that Bungie has talked about wanting to do with Destiny will happen. You let the dogs out. This one breaks my heart that it's as low as it is on this list because this is my
00:31:40
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all-time favorite game franchise. Halo. I love the lore of Halo. They did a great job from every Halo. Now the lore gets a little wacky doodle. Well, that's most games after a while. Most games after a while. Because we're in the seventh Halo game? I think it's more than that. Halo combat evolved. Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo... Reach.
00:32:09
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Halo 5 The Return. Hello. Well, it was Halo 5. Now it's Halo Infinite. ODST. ODST. Halo Wars 1. Halo Wars 2. Jesus. So at least at 9. 9, yeah. At least. Yeah. Yeah. So, but the world building is great. The whole USNC thing, you know, and the books that they spawned were good.
00:32:34
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And the characters are great. I love the lore of Halo. Is that one thing that surprised me? Like Halo, yeah, you could tell it's got all this lore, it's got these books and everything, like Destiny never had any books. I mean they've got the grimoires, like anthologies and stuff. But that's just stuff that's in the game. I really love the lore of Halo and this is what's going to make me mad because the next one on this list I was
00:32:58
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I strongly disagree with this list, even making lists. Like Destiny in Borderlands, I get why they make lists. This one I feel like should not have made a list at all. What is it? Legend of Zelda. Ooh. There's a lore to it, I guess. I guess there's a lore to it. I don't know. Maybe it's because I didn't like Breath of the Wild. Sure. I thought it was...
00:33:26
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thought it was a neat concept that you know the weapon degradation and stuff I feel like it they worked too fast and it was just too I don't know it's is it always this hero that's going to be named Link that's always going to save this princess zella because yeah there's no way yeah the lore doesn't change but there's all these different you know are they just different like is it a multiverse thing I don't know and they never really to me that felt like
00:33:52
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Again, I'm not the biggest Zelda fan, so that might be part of it. I've never felt like they fleshed out the world. They did not do the work. I mean, Bungie and, well, I mean, just look at 343, 343, all those, they fleshed out their world. Right. So to say that Legend of Zelda is higher than either of those two games is a travesty. Yeah. To me, the best Zelda was the one on the Super Nintendo.
00:34:16
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That's kind of top-down. The best Zelda is Zelda. And yes, you know, but there's no lore in that game. There's an old man with his swords. Take this. It's dangerous to go alone. Take this. This one also bothers me that it's this low. Okay. Fallout.
00:34:35
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Yeah, there's a lot of lore to it. There is a lot of lore to Fallout. And it's one of the best things about Fallout is its consistent lore from every game. The story has progressed and it's the same story. It's not like, oh, we reset the world. It's just like moving to different parts. Brotherhood of Steel is the Brotherhood of Steel.
00:34:55
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They, there's a lot of. Grandmushmerkins here is the same Grandmushmerkins there. But it's a lot of lore to that. And to put that eight. Well, is it because they don't see it as lore? They just see it. I don't know. Is it one of those? I don't know. I disagree with it. Well, I mean, like I said, I tried Fallout 4.
00:35:16
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I mean, that half hour or so I played, I mean, there was a ton of background and story and everything. I totally understood, I understood what I was doing, where I was, all that kind of thing. It wasn't that. And if you want to get crazy, you can go read everything that they put out in that game, which is a ton of stuff. Oh my gosh, yeah. Every little thing you pick up or touch or yeah, you can read into so much.
00:35:36
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This one I don't agree with, but that's what I don't. Maybe I just don't know the games enough. Five Nights at Freddy's. Nope. No idea about it. Isn't that the teddy bear? It's the Muppet things that come to life that kill people at night. Yeah. Okay. I'm not saying that the lore's not there, but come on, putting that above Fallout and Halo and Destiny. That's crazy. Yuck.
00:36:00
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This one I've never heard of. Nier? Nier? Oh, Nier. Yeah, N-I-E-R. Yeah. Yeah, that's a huge JRPG. And it's like, there's different versions of it. Like, one is like more of a top down thing. One is like a hack and slash because there's like Nier Altamada. The one game, I think it's something crazy. Like you have to beat it seven times to get all, see all the interconnections and stories and everything. That doesn't sound like my kind of game. Yeah.
00:36:31
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This one really annoys me just because it's so high. I think it's got good lore. Mass Effect. What? To put it at number five. You know why? Bioware. That's why they put it up so high. Fair. Yeah.
00:36:50
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We were just signing things. Somebody checked the resume to make sure it's still playing. There he is. Mass Effect, it's a fine story. It's a good game, but there's not like a lot of back lore, like there's not like hidden lore, like there isn't, you know, Fallout. Yeah. You know, or Destiny. Yeah, I think it's, it's kind of just a straightforward story, isn't it? Their argument is there's comic books. Okay. Now that's what I'm really gonna
00:37:20
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Disagree with? The internet is getting mad about. Number four on this list is The Witcher. First off, my argument is I don't care how good the lore is in The Witcher.
00:37:31
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It's based off of the books. Right. It's not a video game creating the lore. Yeah. It's just the video game based off of the books, which already has the lore. That's laziness. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it might be a great story. The Lord of the Rings movie. Yeah. The game. Nice old Republic had the best lore. Right. Yeah. You can't, you can't put that over other games because it didn't develop its own lore. That's ridiculous. Ooh, side danger real quick. That's just jog my memory back to when we were talking in the third roll.
00:38:02
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when you saw the BD drone or the BD droid in Boba Fett. When they were building the ship. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Is Cal Kestis going to be show up? Yes, that is why I thought too. Okay. All right. I don't think that was his BD, but that's the first time we've seen the first time I've ever seen a BD that's not in that game. Exactly. Yeah. So yeah. And it's the same coloring. Yeah, I know. Okay. Sorry. This one annoys me and I love the game. Okay. Dragon Age.
00:38:33
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Again, I love the lore. The ish. Like the first lore of Dragon Age. The first game? Great! Is great. The second Dragon Age is good. Inquisition is terrible. Oh my gosh. Why can't you let me heal? That is a very valid point. And also, why would you... The coolest thing about Dragon Age, this side tangent to the lore side of it, was the party management system. And then you're like, we're going to take that away for Dragon Age. What?
00:39:01
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But, you know, the story's cool, like the mages are all chained up, but it's not as good as Fallout, or fleshed out as Fallout. That's crazy though. And again, there were spin-off books and things. That's fair, I guess. No, I'm about to say that shouldn't judge what it is. Shouldn't beat Fallout, is what I'm going to argue. And I think part of the problem also is that so much of the Dragon Age stuff
00:39:27
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was things that people embellished on and on their own filled in. That's not lore. That's fan fiction. That's fan fiction. This is the one I disagree with and you said number one. Oh. Dark Souls. Yeah. And maybe it's because I don't play enough Dark Souls, which means I don't play any Dark Souls. The little bit I played, I was like, I don't know what's going on.
00:39:51
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And there seems to be no story here. So there's kind of a story. Kind of a story? Well, yeah, that's the thing. That's why I put it high, because when you say lore, I think the Dark Souls stuff, because so much of it is you've got to look at, well, this dagger has something in its items description that mentions these people. And you went through this town that mentioned, yeah, it's just it's this weird interconnection. And it's like all these little things tie together. So I have to fight to get the story.
00:40:20
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Kind of, yeah. It's definitely not a, here's the story. You know, like you're the chosen one or whatever and have to kill bad people and off you go. And I'm not going to say it's not a bad plan, but to put it above a game like Fallout, which flushes out everything behind us. Yeah, I can see that. I'm going to disagree. And then in the Dark Souls, it's also all the interconnectivity and
00:40:46
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Dark Souls 1 and 3 tie together a lot. You've got some weapons that have been every single Souls game. Does that hurt? An argument has been made. And even over to Bloodborne, even has a couple of the Souls weapons. There you go. Moonlight Sword. Here's my answer for number one for Best Lore. And I think, and I agree too, and I don't think anybody can ever argue, it's the Elder Scrolls.
00:41:14
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yeah the story is cool the story is not like amazing right but the amount of in-game like books you can read and you can literally go to a bookshelf pull off a book in in-game and read a book and that has been going on since Morrowind at the very least
00:41:38
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I can remember at Morrowind, you could pull open a book and you could just read a book. I mean, it was four or five pages, but I mean, there were tons of them. Yeah. Where it's, they mentioned, was it the Daedric? Daedric, yeah. They mentioned that and then you can like, oh, look at this book I found. Explain some of that. Yeah.
00:41:56
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I don't steal a wheel of cheese and the guard will follow you through a sea of flames. Yeah. But just the amount of stuff they put into that series, like I can't, you can't argue. Yeah. And even, I enjoyed the game, so I'm not going to like trash Elder Scrolls Online, but even the amount they put into that game, it's just so much. I just had that thing on PlayStation the other day, it was like, you know, the latest update to PSO is coming out. Good for them.
00:42:25
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Yeah, not for me. They had a really cool crafting, yeah, system. But then it got to the point where it's like, all right, I've had enough. Well, it's also, you could easily... I feel like in that, yeah, take the lore out of it in that game, you could cheese things. Like, I'm gonna sit here and stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down, and build my, you know, stealth up real quick. Well, that's the Elder Scrolls thing. That's how Elder Scrolls works. But, like, the only problem I have with the game, and maybe they fixed it now, is
00:42:54
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I didn't really care for the PvP. It was fine. I'm not a big PvP person. If you're not a big PvP person, then once you do all the stories, what's the play the game for? I enjoyed it up until that point. At the point where I played, I think I did every single player quest you could do. Wow. And I was going back and doing it in areas, because you start in a different area depending on you. I was going back to start areas that I wasn't started in just to do the start. Because I liked the quest. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:24
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But the lore in those games, I mean, the story's cool. It's got the two empires fighting. It's got the elves that are dying out and all of those things. I mean, it's really just rehashed Lord of the Rings. But the amount of stuff they put into that game is insane. And it's definitely one of those games that you can pick something up
00:43:49
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way across the map and be like oh this this is going to lead me back to the east or you know wherever. I mean Skyrim is maybe the best RPG that's ever been made. It's tough to make an argument
00:44:05
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Yeah. Against Skyrim. I just didn't like the combat. I can understand that side of it. Yeah. But for the legs that it's had... Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean... I mean, you could play Skyrim on your refrigerator now. You could play it on your fridge. I heard the dishwasher version coming in. But just the amount of people that played it and... Well, that end.
00:44:27
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It's not really their lore, but the mods that people have made and things like that, it's amazing. I'm not talking about the Thomas the Tank Engine mods and all that. I'm talking about where they'll... It amazes me that somebody will take a game like that and be like, I'm going to mod the grass texture to look better and stuff. It's like, good on you. I love the fact that the first time I played Skyrim,
00:44:50
Speaker
I never realized there were vampires in the game. You never even think about it. Yeah, you could totally bypass some stuff. You go to the whole game and never see vampires. And then they put on the Dawn Guard DLC and I'm like, wait, are there vampires? And you go back and you're like, oh my God, there's vampires. Yeah, I've been surrounded by them the whole time.
00:45:07
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Yeah, you do you the werewolves were in the main they were in the main story Yeah, but I don't remember the vampires at all in the main story, but they were there by mentioned briefly or something Yeah, but you know, there's a whole I just really enjoyed my fact. I was I was thinking about I was sitting playing games other day What am I gonna play?
00:45:27
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You know what? I could play Skyrim. I haven't played Skyrim in a while. Yeah. So I'm actually thinking... I thought about getting it for VR. Then I figured I'd vomit. You probably would vomit. Yeah. First time I drag, I fly through your head. Yeah. But... I do have a problem when I'm calling it dragons. Dragons have four legs and two... and a pair of wings. You're saying they're drakes. Drakes. Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. Who sets those rules? I do. Okay. I know what happens. D&D. D&D sets that rule. When I think dragon, I think D&D.
00:45:56
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I don't think D&D gets to set that rule. Because they borrowed it from Tolkien. Yeah, I mean everything that D&D has they've stolen from somebody. I love D&D, but it's not like they made up their own lore. They have. And see that's what I'm surprised that Baldur's Gate wasn't on there.
00:46:15
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Because I get a lot of it is carryover from D&D, but it spawned its own thing. I mean, specifically Baldur's Gate. There are Baldur's Gate comics and books and spin-off games. Minsk and Boo. That right there. I've got Minsk sitting on top of my Giz5. What game was I playing?
00:46:37
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I think I told you about it. I can't remember what it was and I saw a thing that said Minsk was here.
Nostalgia in Gaming: Baldur's Gate Reference
00:46:42
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Yeah. Oh, it's maybe the war game that Sharon and I were playing. Oh, okay. Yeah. What was that?
00:46:48
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It's Betrayal Baldur's Gate. There you go. Baldur's Gate, yeah. Baldur's Gate, yeah. But there's a Midskaboo reference to that game. And Sherry's like, who's Midskaboo? I'm like, oh my god! Go for the eyes! Go for the eyes, boo! Go for the eyes! I mean, that game is amazing. The only argument I would have against it, and I like the lore of Baldur's Gate is that it's a D&D knockoff. Yeah, so it's just, it's taking all that plethora of... Is it a Neverwinter? Now?
00:47:17
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Is that where Baldur's Gate is supposed to? It's in Everwinter, right? It's outside in Everwinter. But it's in the world of Everwinter. Oh yeah, I mean, they're all, yeah, it's all Farron. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not in the Forgotten Realms. Yeah, no, it is. Yeah, that's Forgotten Realms. Yeah.
00:47:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, that's why you have Elminster and Drizzt and all them. I thought that was all everywhere. I've forgotten realms was separate. No, that's right. Yeah, Neverwinter is a... What's the sand one? Oh, uh, Dunescape? No. No, uh, not Pathfinder. Desert Sun. Desert Sun. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I used to know all my... Dragon Lands is its own realm. Yeah. Oh yeah. They haven't done any of that realm at all. Cryn? Cryn is the one of the world. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's Pathfinder.
00:48:05
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Pathfinder is a separate game. I'm saying it's yeah, but or plane ski. That was it. No, uh, yeah, please keep that was like You could take your D&D guys from the Forgotten Realms and everything and have them I would like Dragon Lance
00:48:37
Speaker
Yeah, something like something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause we got, you had like the big handlebar mustache and you had the vin guard night. And they had the, he had the actual dragon Lance. Yeah. What were they called? There's the minotaurs. Well, there was a little guys.
00:48:43
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I love the stories of Dragon Lance.
00:48:56
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their version's a hat, like kinder folk or something? Yeah, kinder, yeah. They had like the little... Tass is one of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had the, like, slingshot lacrosse thing for once almost. Yeah. Yeah. I never played a D&D campaign in... No. ...in Dragonlance. I might actually be DMing a campaign soon. Ooh! My friend wants to get his wife and his son to play, and I was like... Yeah. I might be able to swing that.
00:49:26
Speaker
Yeah. I've got a starter kit you can borrow. Oh, I have what I mean. Come on. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. My friend. Yeah. Fifth edition. I still... I still have a side change in all of this since we've spun off. 3.5 I think was my favorite. 18D. I want Thacko back. Bring back Thacko. Two hit armor class zero. That's right.
00:49:54
Speaker
If you can figure out a Thacko, you can do rocket science. Think about how you rocket science. It's like the MIT entry exam. Figure out Thacko. You're right. Probably think about how many people that went to MIT for our generation. They could all do Thacko. Oh yeah. It's never once come up in my life like, what's the Thacko right now? Do you have surprise? We should add that to the entry test. Yes.
00:50:21
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There'll be like one guy. Okay, this bard is in chain mail. Chain mail can't be worn by bards. You're hired. What rules edition are we going by? Is it getting a surprise bonus or not? You're hired, sir. I'm coming to my station.
00:50:41
Speaker
So you hear that folks? That's going to be on the new entry exam at the firefighter. This is the guy who's going to write the test. So yeah, I'm not right part of it. Yeah. So back to your, you should totally put a SACO question in there to see if anybody picks up on it. That'd be hilarious. Oh, the EMS guy said it. It's supposed to be great. It's probably not that protocol. It's back up.
00:51:08
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I'm gonna need you to put on your EMS report the Thacko of the patient First you should the first med patch you do from now on you should like patients blood pressure is 118 over 72 heart rate is 74 their blood sugar is 115 the Thacko is 4
00:51:28
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Let's see if Eddie would wait till Carrie's working and be like, back to a four. Oh gosh. Oh, hi, needy one. Yeah, the luring games. And there are some, oh my gosh, what kills me is then people try to
00:51:46
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say that there is lore in some of these other games. Like Grand Theft Auto. There's a little story. You know, it's kind of like the Call of Duty thing. There's a story, but that's not what people were there for. And that's fine. You don't have to have every game. Diablo has a good story. Jell-O has a great story. A lot of lore there. Yeah, a lot of lore in Diablo.
00:52:11
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Just blizzards a terrible company. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Typically when I think lore and stuff, it's more the RPGs and all. Yeah. That's why I like games like Destiny. Destiny's almost like Halo. I love the fact that Halo, which is
00:52:30
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just a FPS has a story and lore to it. There's a backstory to that game, which a lot of FPS companies just don't put into their games. No. Not at all. Some of them, it's just, yep, go shoot. That's fine. And I'm sure like Rainbow Six, that's all tied to the Clancy novels. It's not at all. But it was. It was. The theory is, but yeah. None of those characters are in the Clancy books.
00:53:00
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Yeah. The Clancy books are from the 80s. Yeah. Yeah. 80s and 90s. When was the range of 16 now? I think it is from the 80s. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But. And then, I mean, there are some games that have, like, built their own lore, like, you know, your XCOMs. Yeah, XCOMs, got a nice story. War Hammer. That was originally a board game though. Yeah, War Hammer is a...
00:53:26
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I love the lore of all of the 40k and warcraft and all that, but those things were based off of other things. Well, Warcraft is the original lore of World of Warcraft. Warcraft was first. Because that was when you had Starcraft, Warcraft, and Yalla were the three. That was lizards. I am glad that some games didn't make that list, like Final Fantasy. I love playing Final Fantasy games. There's no lore there. You've always got to see it. Great, but no. Cuckoo Bananas.
00:53:56
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He might have made an argument originally. Yeah. Like Super Mario Brothers. That's the lore. Gonna be voiced by Chris Pratt. Who? Mario. In the upcoming Mario Brothers movie, Chris Pratt is voicing Mario. He says, it's a me, Mario? I mean, what else does he say? Mario. Mario. Mario. Mario. It's a me, a Mario. But they're the... Yeah, the Mario Brothers. So is it... Mario Mario? And Luigi Mario? Yeah.
00:54:25
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It's Mario Mario and Luigi Mario. Dumb. Or Mario. Mario. I always get told that I say Mario wrong, but that's because of the King. Right? Because real time people don't say Mario Mario, they say it... Mario. Or something. I don't know. It's more of a moron. Yeah. You making pancakes? Flapjacks. Is it too early for flapjacks? Never too early. Flapjacks. Oh yeah.
00:54:52
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And don't drive on the railroad tracks. Phil, that's a rule I haven't agreed with. I had super that guy up real quick. That was good. I'm bringing this under later. I like the lore talk. So I'm going to talk about topic two or about 54 in the winter Olympics. Oh God.
Winter Olympics: Changing Appeal and Frequency
00:55:17
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Yeah, see, and that's why.
00:55:19
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So how do we use up the Olympics? When I was a kid, the Winter Olympics were the thing. I loved the Winter Olympics. First off, a part of the problem is we went away from the every four years thing. It felt much more special. I thought the Winter Olympics were every four years. No, no, but when we were kids, you had the Winter Olympics.
00:55:43
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Then you had four years later the Summer Olympics, and then you had the Winter Olympics. It was eight years in the Twin Olympics. Yeah, that's true. And nobody cared about the Summer Olympics. Who cares? But now the Winter Olympics are... So you've got alpine skiing. Don't care. Biathlon. Don't care. Which, have you seen the guns they use for the biathlon? The little .22s? The little .22s. But they're like super high tech. Yeah, yeah. Bob's leg.
00:56:07
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That's cool. Cross-country skiing. Couldn't care less. Yeah. Curling. I actually kind of like curling. I like curling. Figure skating. Don't care. Yeah. But people will love it, and it's fine. Freestyle skiing. Don't care. Lice hockey. You know, here's the problem with the Winter Olympics. I'm going to put this with Nordic combined. Too much of the Olympics have now become things that aren't sports.
00:56:30
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skateboarding and snowboarding and skiing. Short-track speed skating. That's terrifying. It is terrifying. Those people are nuts. Skeleton. Skeleton is cr- Yeah. First off, those people have the big- well, they can't because they would lose them on the course. Right, yeah.
00:56:48
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Yeah, they've got cajones. Yeah, they've got cajones. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody was like one day, you know, the illusion like, Hey, you remember we were kids, we used to shove each other down the hill, break next to you face first. Let's do that. Let's do that. But down the tomb of death. But like 85 miles an hour. Yeah. What the heck is the worst thing behind? Uh, it's probably pillaging. Yeah. Oh, that'd be great. The team Gunderson large hill four by five K. Hold on.
00:57:17
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Their dad? Ask your kid. Do you care about the Olympics? Hey, do you care about the Olympics? No, I don't watch it. See? Exactly. When we were kids... So I picked my youngest up yesterday who was at a friend's house. They had the Olympics on the TV. Oh, that's nice. I was like, okay. Did they care though? Yeah, the dad was like, I just got done speed skating. The dad cared. Exactly. The kids cared. Oh, no, they were upstairs. Exactly. Yeah. When we were kids...
00:57:49
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But you weren't watching the Olympics. I saw part of it. I saw part of it. It was the body sledding. The luge. I don't know what it's called. Were they foot first or head first? Foot first. Luge. Panties. Who comes up with these names? Exactly. But we were kids, like you watched the Olympics. Oh yeah. Well first off, we had Team USA hockey.
00:58:13
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I can remember like writing down like, you know, keeping track personally. Oh, we got a bronze in that. I remember this is something your kids would not understand. You would wake up in the morning and you would open up the newspaper to see what the medal count was. No, no one cares. So I think part of that is, are there too many people in the Olympics?
00:58:33
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Yeah, well that's when my argument was going to be back to there's too many events in the Olympics now that aren't sports. There's too much subjective crap that no one cares about. Like if you're not into the X Games. The X Games should be their own thing. The X Games were its own thing. Why does that have to be their own thing? I'm sorry Sean White. You're not an Olympic athlete to me. I don't care about you. I'm sorry.
00:59:01
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Go eat your Cocoa Puffs! What you do is a skill. It's impressive, but it doesn't belong in the Olympics. And I know Judo doesn't belong in the Olympics. You know it does. Kumite. What the heck is Kumite? What's for it?
00:59:23
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Quite to the death. We've just gotten away from... And then now the Olympics have become this political landmine. It's like... Well again, it doesn't give you anything. If you're a country wins the Olympics, you should have something. Oh, so you want to go to the world of, you know, you get to take over a country by... I will say, you're not going to take it over, but you get... I don't know. Trade rates. Yeah, you get like your tariffs knocked down or something.
00:59:52
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But I think part of it is, you look at, and it's not just the Winter Olympics, it's the Summer Olympics too, it's flooded.
00:59:59
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It's like the USA team has like 300. No, it should be the top two in that sport is who you said. You have a primary and an alternate. Sure. That's it. Yeah. That's it. You can't have six people competing, you know, cause then it's like, oh, let's say there's a field of 10 and six of them are from Russia. Right. No. Or like last Olympics where the Russians weren't allowed to play. So they all had the
01:00:24
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whatever it was like yeah, so what was the point of the IOC's radio if you were allowed them to have and it was I I feel like the Olympics have sold out. Oh my gosh. Yeah, they talk about how many billions of dollars it costs Well, apparently it's it's devastating to the home countries. They don't make any money out of it and then when you're done you're like you have this Olympic field of crap. Yeah, nobody cuz especially this year. It's a bubble right? Yeah. Yeah, and it's it's
01:00:53
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I don't
Olympic Celebrities: Then and Now
01:00:54
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know. I'm with you that how you make them better. I think it's got to be, you got to go back to the, yeah, the top person. Cause you're really selecting the Olympian. You're selecting that when we were kids, Olympic athletes were celebrities. Yeah. Are any of the Olympic athletes celebrities anymore? Yeah. Like as a kid, you could name like Greg Louganis and Mary Lou Retton and uh, uh, needs care again. And all, you know, all of those guys that were, yeah.
01:01:23
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That was a big thing. And now I'm like, like, that's Sean White guy. The only reason I know his name is I read an article that he's retiring after this. Yeah.
Non-Traditional Olympic Sports: New Inclusions
01:01:30
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I did see he came back. I was like, okay, Sean White's back. And just because I used to snowboard. But it's not a sport. That's the only reason. But that's the only reason. It's an activity. Tony Hawk is not an Olympic athlete. However, Tony Hawk is a hell of a skateboarder. He's a great skateboarder. Well, guess what? He's going to be the next summer Olympics.
01:01:46
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Oh, is it? Oh, I think it was in the last one, too. Again, that's what the X Games are for. Right. And that's like, I love video gaming. Esports does not need to be in the Olympics. I think it's going to be. I'm sure it will. They're going because of chess. No, it's not a sport. It's an activity. Yeah. Now, if it's one of those, oh, what's that? You lost a pawn. You get smacked or something.
01:02:07
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So I looked in this one, this is masslive.com. They have 15 winter sports that should definitely be in the Olympics because it would be awesome. Disc golf. Not in the winter? Jumbo curling. What? Yeah, the curling stone weighs over 100 pounds. It has to take two or more people to push it down the ice.
01:02:30
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No, but you'd have to have somebody, like, stop it at the end and stuff. Okay, there you go. Curling's fine as it is. But it's got to be two to three times longer. Curling's fine as it is. We don't have much curling. They also had the curling shot put. You don't start it on the ground, you start it in the air. Yeah, lift, like, curling alone. Dog sledding? The best thing about curling. Like the Iditarod.
01:02:50
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That could, no. No. I didn't know it was its own thing. But the best thing about curling is that I feel like I could go be a curler today. Oh my god, this is terrifying. Skijoring. Skijoring is a sport where a lone skier is pulled by a dog or a horse. What? Can you imagine like they trip and the horse just keeps going because they're demonic
Olympic Sports Debate: Animals in Competition?
01:03:13
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animals. No sport in the Olympics should have an animal involved. That's a rule.
01:03:18
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It's a it is a test of the athlete. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's it's the animal. We get the medal. Right. The animal should get the medal. Just like the what is it? Steeples Chase. Well, any horse events in the Olympics, I think should be banned. Yeah. Because the first off, well, you have to have a soul to be in the Olympics and horses don't. But the torture that do those horses. Yeah. Is insane. Yeah.
01:03:42
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Ice climbing. Also, didn't we just finish the Olympics? Yeah, we did. It's because the COVID things got messed up. So that's the problem. They're every two years now. When we were kids, it was a four year separate. This is ridiculous. Yeah. So rock climbing started in 2020. Not a sport. Ice climbing. Not a sport. But if you do it like cliffhanger. With explosions? Yes. Snowmobiling? Not a sport. That's like motocross. Yeah, that's X Games.
01:04:10
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Broomball? That's just curling. That's, yeah, that's, or a hockey with brooms instead of sticks. Quidditch? Yooka-Gawson! Competitive snowball fighting. No! Tight, fat, fast, how would you do that? Would you like dye the snowball so you know what color you got hit with? It doesn't matter. Paintball's not sporty, but yeah. Snow rugby. That could be fun. It's fine.
01:04:34
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You know, this year they're having a big problem because they didn't get enough snow. So it's all... Apparently there's a huge environmental impact by the Olympics because they have to make all this fake snow. Ooh. Add some challenge to hockey. Why aren't the Olympics...? Add a precision element to hockey. No. Hockey's a sport. Yeah, but you have to like hit the target. Just keep...
01:04:56
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target. It's called the gold. No, it's smaller. No, it's already the size it is. Hockey's the only part of the Olympics that's cool. The two parts of those Olympics that I care about are the soccer and hockey. Yeah. Because they're true games. Well, the soccer anymore. But people are like, I'm not going to compete in the
01:05:19
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soccer in the Olympics because I got the World Cup. Well, but the problem is because they're doing the World Cup the next year. Yeah. So it's every freaking year they're doing something. When it was a special event, then you had real competition for it. And the World Cup should mean something more. Let's take a World Series. That's not the World Series.
01:05:40
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Anybody is allowed to enter the teams. They should be. They just don't enter their team. Yeah, they should be. Okay, I do like this. Instead of the biathlon, use bows instead of rifles. That's fair. That would add a little bit. And none of these super compound bows have all of it. No. You can make your own bow before the event. Can't wait for these pancakes again.
Future of the Olympics: Fixed Locations and Torch Relay
01:06:04
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ski bob bicycles on skis i've seen that it's no sport that could be deadly so yeah i think it still goes back to we've got to tighten it down and i think you have to reduce the amount of olympic coverage yep or it's not special also what yeah because now i mean it's like 24 seven and you're watching it at all we also need to it's not it's gotta stop rotating
01:06:30
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Just the Winter Olympics are going to be in Finland. Exactly. And the Summer Olympics are going to be in... Egypt. Sure. I don't care. God damn you. You mentioned running a marathon in 100 degree weather. I mean, isn't that what the first Olympics were? It was so hot that people were dying during the marathon. But just pick the spot. You should be in Greece. How about this?
01:06:50
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Neutral land that we just agreed is no longer part of any country. It's the Olympics. It's starting Greece short So that's where the summer Olympics are done done done with us. Where were the where the first winter Olympics? Let's see the first modern Olympics were in the US. Yeah Where were the first winter Olympics? Oh
01:07:18
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The first Winter Olympics were in Chaminix, France in 1924. So you guess what? They're going back to France. I just, I don't know. Pick Finland. Pick a part of like Finland. You always know it's going to have snow. Nobody cares about. Gotta watch out for Vikings. That could be important. Oh, can you imagine that? Like somebody's doing their cross country skiing. That's after the Laplanders. That's the ones that you really gotta watch out for. They'll get you. Yeah.
01:07:48
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I at this point I just don't care about the Olympics. I don't care about the people who are in it. Yeah, I mean I'm tired of the good one you but it's yeah, I mean it doesn't have the pomp and circumstance it used to guys you worked your butt off to get there I get that but it used to be I can't remember like watching the
01:08:06
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Like the opening ceremony and stuff was like, Oh wow. Right. Yeah. I mean, it was, it was a thing that people cared about. Like they, you know, there was the torch. Yeah. Running the torch across America. Yeah. That's a big deal. Yeah. Yeah. They should have to take the torch from, if they'd still do this stupid, it rotates. Okay. This year is in China. Right. Right. So, and next year it's in Canada. We know what that runner's got to figure out how he's going to get it from there to there.
01:08:31
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He's got four years to figure it out. That's a good two. Two? It's a problem. Give him four. Give him four. No, you got to do it by foot. Whoa, yeah. I mean, you're not a car or a boat. Maybe a boat to just get across the ferry straight. A foot-powered boat. Or if he's on anything else, he's got to run around in circles the whole time he's on. He's not moving. Or he's got to stop moving. He's like a shark.
Culinary Adventures: Vegetarian Bulgogi Tacos and More
01:09:00
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Yeah, my oldest is now making whipped cream. It's not vegan. Speaking of that, guess what we had for dinner last night? Vegetarian bulgogi tacos.
01:09:16
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We took the Impossible Burger, sauteed it, tossed it with a little bulgogi sauce, made a little broccoli slaw on top. It's good, really good. Sounds good. I don't taste it great.
01:09:31
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Yeah, I mean, well, Gogi sounds great, and vegetarian is better. I mean, you know, why would we eat meat if we had choice? We were talking the other day, and my wife said, oh, she liked ground chicken and turkey. I was like, well, I don't like them in their normal state, so why would I like them ground? I do miss turkey. I don't. Yeah, good turkey. No. That's because you know how good turkey is. Yeah, I've had my turkey. I've had okay turkey. I've had okay turkey. Yeah, it's just, ugh. Oh, where? I think I have a picture of it somewhere. I was at...
01:10:01
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store not too long ago I don't have it in here anymore but it was this weird like it was pressed barbecue loaf or something what the hell is that what's the barbecue made out of I guess there's barbecue sauce pressed it was like a log of processed barbecue meat
01:10:28
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Sounds and they would shave it for slices sandwich slices. Oh, yeah, that's like a crime. Why? And like you go to the marty get turkey breast Turkeys don't their breasts. They're not coming to oblong. No. Yeah. Well, which part of the chicken makes the tender? Yeah, I tell you which part of the cauliflower makes the cauliflower florette. That's right I never never have problems identifying my vegetables. Yeah, we went to
01:10:58
Speaker
the other night, and they have chicken waffles on their menu, but you can substitute, instead of chicken and waffles, cauliflower and waffles. There you go. Fried cauliflower. I did not try it, because I got their chicken and waffles one time, and they said Red Roost-style chicken lies. That was not Red Roost chicken. That was very upset. Yeah. The counting of the
01:11:24
Speaker
Cookies has begun. Yeah, we're in full cookie mode here.
Cookie Talk: Girl Scout Alternatives and Homemade Favorites
01:11:28
Speaker
Yeah, the Girl Scouts have sent out their, you know, crimes and... So, like, if I were to go by, you know, knock off brand Thin Mints, is that like a, you know... They'll hunt you down. They'll hunt you down, right. Oh, that's a little one. A little one, yeah. Well, their foot's kind of kimbed up right now, so they're in a boot. They can probably get away from it.
01:11:53
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Yeah. Wiry. Yeah. And by the way, the only answer is Thin Mints and Samoa is any other, yeah, cookie. Yeah, this year they had this new one, the Adventure Fools. Indulgent, brownie-inspired cookies with caramel-flavored creme and a hint of sea salt. No. They don't taste that good. No. Actually, I guess an old man. I'm to the point now, a trifoil is fine. It's a shortbread cookie. What's the point of a trifoil? It's a shortbread cookie. Sometimes you don't want a full...
01:12:22
Speaker
Samoa with don't eat a cookie See see they just don't eat a cookie. I'm not a big cookie person anymore That's different that's a homemade good cookie the only cookies that are worth eating our homemade chocolate cookies every other cookie you can throw into the dump gingerbread cookie
01:12:51
Speaker
Ginger snap. Yeah. At Halloween. At Halloween? Because the box is orange. The box is orange. It's for Halloween. And your hot apple cider. It's not Halloween. Also, toasty does are gross. They're peanut butter on peanut butter. Yeah, it's too much peanut butter. Peanut butter is gross.
01:13:15
Speaker
Peanut butter is the grossest thing. No, it's the second grossest thing Americans eat. What's the first sweet potato? Put some peanut butter on a sweet potato. That sounds like poison on top of it. Sweet potatoes are good. Sweet potato fries. They're terrible. I have learned.
01:13:34
Speaker
in my years of life. I was born with a sour palate. I do not. Like peanut butter is so cloyingly sweet. It just, I can't do it. Have you had the all natural peanut butter that's unsweetened? No. Try that. I'm not going to eat that either. You might want to try that. Why? I could live my life without any peanut butter. Did you ever meet those people that kept their peanut butter in the refrigerator?
01:13:58
Speaker
So it wouldn't separate? No, no, no. Animals. Like, I ate peanuts. Like a roasted peanut? Yeah, I ate that. Because there's no sweetness to it. Just the sweet, the clean, the sweet potatoes. My people were raised on bland potatoes. That's the potatoes of my people. Where do you keep the good yams?
Vegetable Debates: Sweet Potatoes, Yams, and More
01:14:21
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I do not eat yams. Yams. It's the same thing!
01:14:24
Speaker
I don't care. It's a size thing, I think. I don't know. I'm sure it's like where it was grown. Whatever it is, it's disgusting. My mother... And now I don't like just like a baked sweet potato. I don't like any of the potatoes. Baked sweet potato fries, mashed sweet potatoes. Now mashed turnip, I'm in. What about a rutabaga? Rutabaga's are fine too. I'll have a nice roasted rutabaga. What about the white sweet potatoes? No. Or purple? Don't they have a different... Where the purple one's called? They're called something.
01:14:53
Speaker
Because they make ice cream. No, they make ice cream. Taro. No. Yeah. Taro, no. Taro roots, something different. No, that's the purple ones are called Taro. No. I don't think so. Oh my God. Purple sweet potato. We are way to the roots of sweet potato. Oh yeah. Also. Oh no, that's why. What's the name? I just want the name. Purple sweet potato. They're high in flavonoid.
01:15:26
Speaker
Yeah, that's all I see. Okanawan sweet potato. That doesn't help me. Roasted sweet potatoes. They definitely have a name. Yeah, I know. It's something like I've watched Food Network. Oh, there's a gray sweet potato. That's like death. All gross. Purple sweet potato name. All gross.
01:15:53
Speaker
So, now we're just looking at... Yeah, I know. We were sitting here like... It's called the Purple Yam. Yeah, I know. The Yubei.
01:15:59
Speaker
Is it Ube? Ube. Ube. Yeah, Ube. There we go. Yeah, Ube, like, screams. I didn't know. Gross. Yep. So that was some fun stuff for the listeners at home. Yeah. Stop being sweet potatoes. They're disgusting. Oh. Live more broccoli life, not sweet life. Gives you the farts. It does give you the farts. Yeah, that is. So we actually knew the waitress, and she was like, yeah, yeah. My wife was asking if they could bring back. They had a tuna stack as an appetizer. She really liked it.
01:16:28
Speaker
And she's like, yeah, we're bringing back some of the old menu aims because they have a new chef, which I want to find where the old chef went because he's good. But they wrote a glowing review of that. Well, we brought back the Brussels sprouts, everybody with the Brussels sprouts. And we were joking. There was one time we were at we're staying at some hotel for a gymnastics competition. And I wanted a snack. So I got Brussels sprouts from their little cart thing or whatever.
01:16:55
Speaker
It was these giant, like, bigger than a golf ball size Brussels sprouts. Oh, those are my favorite Brussels sprouts. But they were barely cooked, and they weren't cut in half. That's the best. They were just, argh. You could just eat a raw Brussels sprout. It's just like cabbage. Yeah. It's good. I used to eat raw purple cabbage all the time. Yeah. Take a Brussels sprout. Yeah. Next time you want to have a good meal, take a Brussels sprout, put it through a shredder. Yeah. And just eat that as, like, a slaw. OK. Yeah.
Living Responsibly: Exploring Vegetarian Options and Podcast Growth
01:17:20
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Dang it. We've done that, and put
01:17:23
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like a piece of flatbread, a little bit of ricotta with, I can't remember what it was in it, like some, like oregano or something, a little bit of hot honey and shaved, sauteed the Brussels sprouts a little bit, a little garlic onion, put that on. Yeah, it was like a nice flatbread there. Sounds great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Living responsibly, not eating meat every meal. Yeah.
01:17:51
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01:18:21
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