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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, some talk of Movie Theaters, Food, and Cycling; Ron walks us through a recent trip to a “museum” and what makes a museum good; Chris asks if we want a new Castlevania game similar to the God of War style remake. As always please like, 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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Weather and Movie Plans
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Welcome back to another episode of the mythic draft podcast. I'm Chris and I'm Ron and welcome to a chilly almost December morning. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a little bit chilly. It's not as cold as it has been. I mean, it was like 25 the other day when I left for work. Yeah. But then it'll be 65 later today. That's stupid. It's raining down here all day. So it's kind of like, man. Oh, that sucks. Yeah. I think we're going to see Wakanda forever or black or black Adam.
00:01:16
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Oh, that's good. I don't think I'm going to see either of them in the theater. Yeah. We haven't been to the movies in a while, and I mean, they never seem like popcorn movies, so. Yeah, of course. I'm hearing good things about both of them from different people. Yeah. Yeah.
Movie Theater Experience
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I just, I hate movie theaters. I hate the experience of movie theaters these days. Yeah. You know, they're like, I don't know. It's just seeming, it seems like a event to make you annoyed. Oh yeah. I mean the whole thing is. Yeah, absolutely. You know, they, they've made it so expensive. Ridiculous. Yeah. They have totally
00:02:09
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taking away the fun of the experience. Maybe just cause I'm getting old and scratchy. That could be a hundred percent of art of this. No, but part of it is, I mean, like, yeah, I, I will, I will probably sneak a, you know, bottled water in or something. Cause I'm not going to spend $3 for a can of bubbly. Three. Something like that. That's all it is. I don't, but still it's ridiculous. Yeah, it is. Yeah. I know. I know that's how they make all their money as concessions.
00:02:36
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That is what they tell you. Oh, God, it's so great. Some of the things they sell at a movie theater now, they're like, oh, yeah, you want our chicken fingers basket or hamburger? There's no way that is like on the grill getting flipped and then put in a button for you. That's just microwave bag. Yeah, I. I do appreciate.
00:03:01
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now the theaters that have beer in them because I feel like you should, you know, you need to be more adult friendly because I feel like my, my poor parents, you know, like when they had to go to theater with me and my brother, they weren't singing movies. They, they wanted to see, you know, I'm sure they would have enjoyed, you know,
00:03:31
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The other thing is when I was a kid, by the time I was 12, I feel like my parents are like, all right, see you. So you have two hours. Yeah. And I think that's why they got two hours of sanity away from us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As they deserve. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, movie theaters were almost like a daycare between the movie theater and the arcade and the arcade. Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:00
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Yeah, that's the way Salisbury used to be set up. The arcade was right across from the movie theater. Yeah, that's how Christiana Ball was too. Yeah. Yeah. My parents would be like, here, here's a roll of quarters and 20 bucks for a movie. Go. Yeah. Now I think, um,
Salisbury Mall Changes
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I might be wrong, but I'm misremembering, I would say. I think the arcade at at the mall now is like a Ruby Tuesdays. Yeah, what's totally gone at Salisbury now is the way they remodeled it and everything. But the Ruby Tuesdays that was in the mall is now called the Juicy Bucket. It's a gumbo restaurant run by an Asian family.
00:04:48
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Okay. Yeah.
Food Preferences and Okra Debate
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I mean, everybody likes gumbo. Yeah. Yeah. You don't like gumbo? No. Really? I'm not a big, I'm not a big seafood person to the crawfish and all. And then okra is just. Oh, okra. We were just talking about. It's slimy. I mean, it's a little slimy. It's fair. Let me eat this.
00:05:18
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faux green bean that oozes like a slug. Hmm. Yeah. No, no. Give me a paw paw any day. Give you a paw paw any day. You know, I'm a big fan of, well, as a vegetarian, it's, you gotta get, you gotta like learn a lot about that. But fried okra?
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Cause it's not slimy anymore. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if there's ways like they got, yeah, if you, yes, you got to like flash it or something and then it won't be as slimy. I don't know. I've seen, you know, like people on chopped are like, Oh yeah, if you do this won't be there. Right. So I think mostly it's the seeds that make it slimy. It's like another one. They're like, you know, okra is also slimy inside like passion fruit.
00:06:06
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The inside of passion fruit is disgusting looking. I don't like passion fruit. It's not my favorite either. But yeah, you cut that thing open and it's just like a oozy, pus-filled. Yeah. Must have been a fan of kiwi. Oh, I do like kiwi. Really? Have you had the golden kiwi? I don't think I've ever had a golden kiwi. I don't think I've ever heard of that. Yeah. Yeah. It's a yellow flesh kiwi.
00:06:35
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not as tart yeah it's pretty good that's cool i just uh for the most part i it's the texture of kiwi that i don't oh yeah we'll get the dried kiwi too man it's like delightful chips i've never had dried kiwi yeah yep you gotta watch it though because a lot of places and it kills me
00:06:58
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It's like, you know, dried pineapple or something like that, but they always like dusted in sugar. It's like, Oh yeah. No, I don't need that. I just, how about the sugars that are in the fruit? Yeah. You have to be very careful, especially like cherry, like cherries and blueberries. I don't need them to be sickly sweet. I want them to be healthy-ish. Right. Yeah. It's not the world we live in.
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No, no.
Disappointing Burger Experience
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So saying the hamburger at the movie theater tipped my mind into a little rant. So last weekend, my family was out camping. I stayed home with the dogs. It was a Girl Scout camping thing. So Saturday night, I was like, you know what? I want a burger. There's a new place on the south end of town called Burger Bros. I said, if anybody's got a good burger, it's got to be Burger Bros. So I go there, order my burger. I come home.
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And it was like, it tasted like a frozen patty, like a cheapo Bubba burger, not even as nice as a Bubba burger or something, but it was just like tough and just no taste. So I ranted about a little bit. And one of the guys at work was like, oh, how'd you like it? I was like, man, the burger sucked. He says back to me, oh, no, no, no, no, the burgers are horrible. It's their cheesesteaks that are good. Then why are they cheesesteak bros?
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It's it's called Burger Bros. Yeah. Animal. Did you see their giant TV? Yeah. So when I was in there, I was the only person in the lobby. I'm like, OK, whatever, you know, it's a Saturday night. But there were two ladies behind the counter who I didn't realize if they were working or not when I first walked in, never greeted like whatever. There's this like tattered menu I look at and say, I'll take a burger and fries.
00:08:51
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So I sit down and the TV, I couldn't tell if it was synced to the audio that was playing or not because it was like weird Eastern European music playing, it felt like. And then the TV was like, I don't know, like YouTube videos of people falling and things. And I hear in the background, like, you know, clearly some kind of Eastern European dialogue back and forth. I'm like, am I getting a burger or is this a front for something? So who knows?
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Yeah, they, we were there because people have tried, you know, we, we
Peculiar Restaurant Experience
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Do try things at work, try new restaurants in Salisbury. We went there and they were putting that TV up. The TV is literally larger than the wall. It's not to understand TVs. Whatever. It's their restaurant. They want to buy a giant TV, I guess I can do it.
00:09:57
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Well, maybe they think it'll double as it'll heat the room, too. Yeah. And also in this day and age, I guess I because I live this life, you're a burger place who doesn't offer a vegetarian burger option. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Yeah. Like, yeah, that just seems like a no brainer these days to have some sort of vegetarian burger. Yeah. Yeah. There's so many good veggie burgers out there. There are.
00:10:27
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I just kind of annoys me. I always lean towards the impossible burger, but possible burgers. It's a good. It's not healthy burger, but I don't think there's going to. If you're eating a burger, you're not eating. Right. Yeah, healthy. No, no. So, yeah, I did eat vegetarian at Thanksgiving. Oh, good. I don't see. I don't like turkey anyway, so it's easy for me. You know, dressing and Brussels sprouts and mashed potatoes. Yeah, we we had a fully
00:10:58
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vegetarian Thanksgiving as well. Nice. Well, well, honestly, we could we could have just had sides. You know, I mean, that's that's all I care about. Yeah. What did you make? You know, Brooks's famous yams. No, no, I can't say anyways.
Vegetarian Food Discussions
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That was that's an easy no for me. Oh, God, I still remember that. Oh, the syrup out of the can and then added even more brown sugar to it.
00:11:28
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I think it's just like these. I think he likes brown sugar. It's just brown sugars more than anything. He just he just puts it in everything because he put lasagna in lasagna. He put it in that ricotta dip. He put it in, swept it. Yeah, I think we found the link. Just like lasagna, which is like brown sugar, brown sugar, which is fine, I guess.
00:11:52
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Um, I'm not a huge, I just, especially the older I get, the less I can deal with sugar. Yeah. Um, it just makes you feel, I don't know. Yeah. Yep. And yeah, we had a, yeah, cause it has that molasses in it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We had like a joint birthday party for my youngest and one of my nieces cause her birthday is tomorrow and then lives is next Saturday.
00:12:23
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So just a little family gets together the day after Thanksgiving and you know, they're like, you know, they had brought these cakes and everything. Oh, you want a piece? I'm like, I'm good. I don't know. That's, I had my pie. Right. I had my apple pie. That was what I wanted. I'm good. I've got my sweets for the year. Yeah. We hit, we did pecan pie bars thinking kind of like, Oh, that's kind of healthy because you want to eat a whole piece of pie. And you just end up eating like four pecan pie bars. Is it a pecan bar or is it pecan bar?
00:12:54
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I say pecan. I'm not going to get in this. You know, I say pecan, whether that's right or wrong. I don't know. I don't know. It's. Yeah. Because. I don't know. That's like, that's they're expensive. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. Everything's become popular and expensive. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be like roses around.
00:13:24
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Valentine's Day. They just automatically inflate the same thing with pecans and Granny Smith apples and yams. Yeah. Well, turkey family this year was crazy. Yeah. Yeah, my wife's family, they just do a turkey breast. I mean, really, do you need more than that?
00:13:49
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And I don't know, keep the whole bird from my. I think it's just because you never had good turkey. I just know I'm not I don't like I'm not a big chicken person, a big turkey person. I just I'm not foul inclined. Yeah. I mean, I liked good turkey when it was I mean, when you really put the effort into the turkey, it's it's worth it. But yeah, I mean, used to a spatchcock hit and a spatchcock drive, Ryan, all all the. Yeah.
00:14:19
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All the things. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, nothing beats a deep fried prime rib. Again, animal. Yeah. To me, you can keep prime rib. You know, unless it's as a vegetarian, the only thing I think about now is like a good stewed pot roast or beef or something. I just, I don't, uh,
00:14:48
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really want to have, I wouldn't want to have a prime rib nowadays. What's the price? Oh my God. Every time we buy food at work, we're not making money in the kitty. I'm like, well, because you guys are buying steaks every third meal. Oh my gosh. If you eat like this at home, no wonder you complain about how much you're getting paid at the city. Well, between that, I mean your poor digestive system.
00:15:19
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Unfortunately, I ate too much cheese because of the Thanksgiving. So good, but so bad for you. Yeah. That's like we're having fondue tonight. It's just vegetables and cheese. Yeah. Good times. But it's good. Yeah. My wife made a Brussels sprout cheesy bake and it was the first time we've ever had it. It was great. That sounds delightful. Yeah.
00:15:48
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You need to make this more. Add this into the rotation, woman. Add this into the rotation because that's, I mean, not at all healthy, but I don't think they're saving you. It's not supposed to be healthy, right? Yeah. I mean, yeah. You're supposed to splurge and yeah. Hey, you know, you got to eat a big meal and then walk it off and
00:16:09
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Watch the football. Running, going, going for a run the next day was a little, a little rough. Yeah, I bet. But it's not too bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought of you yesterday. You did before. I don't know. It was the day before. It was like raining in the morning. I had to run some errands. It was Friday. And if I, we need
00:16:36
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paintball guns or something to identify these people who don't turn their headlights on when it's raining and their wipers are on. Yeah. And you can tell some of these vehicles are newer. It should automatically do it. And they have manually turned their automatic lights off. Mine doesn't have auto wipers.
Cyclist Safety in Philadelphia
00:16:57
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If it does, I'm I just don't know about it. I mean, a lot of cars now just have the regular daytime running lights.
00:17:04
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They have automatic lights. Oh, he's talking about the lights. I guess they have to have daytime lights now, right? So I'm the person that blinks the lights at him, like, put your headlights on. And people just stare at me like, oh, what's that idiot doing? Because there's nothing safer than a dark gray SUV traveling at a high rate of speed through the rain with no lights on.
00:17:31
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So we went to Philly on Friday and as a cycling enthusiast, call myself, the people who ride cycle bikes in Philadelphia are insane. I almost killed one of them because they, there is a bike lane. He's not in the bike lane.
00:17:55
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and I'm going to turn right. The bike lane's on my left. I look right for cars, don't see anybody. As I'm turning right, a bicyclist comes shooting past my car. I'm like, what are we doing here? This is insanity. Well, I mean, the bike lane is for the peasant cyclists there.
00:18:19
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the professionals, they ride wherever they want. My brother was screaming because a bike list, a bicyclist was in on the sidewalk directly next to the protected bike lane. You're a fully protected bike lane and you're not in it. Just wait till they finish that monstrosity of a bike lane on Carroll street. Uh, so, you know,
00:18:48
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everybody works bitching about it. They just did the same thing in Newark. Now see, Newark is a little different because the town is on an east-west axis basically. So they picked one of the streets, because there's three streets in a row basically that go east-west. They picked one of them and said, this one will have bike lanes, the other two won't.
00:19:11
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So you get across town with protected bike lanes. Um, and it's great. I'm happy about it, you know, because, you know, I like to have protected bike lanes. Salisbury. There's no rhyme or reason. Yeah. Yeah. It seemingly makes no sense. Yeah. No, it was just an
00:19:34
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Look, I am the same way. I want cyclists to be, you know, protected and all that, but I'm looking at it. When I first saw them like blocking things off, I'm like, Oh, they must be putting like, you know, and, uh, lane for food trucks to park when there's downtown events or something. No, no. Well, the problem with Salsbury is you don't have the only road that would have made sense for a protected bike lane is 13. Right.
00:20:00
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And they have to do some major work to make that work out. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because you're right. Yeah, because Salisbury has so many streets that aren't straight. They curve and twist and circle around. And yeah. And like there's no what you really want is you want a couple roads that one go north so that you can get from one end of town to the other. I mean, as a guy who wants to ride bicycles around Salisbury, I would want
00:20:31
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I would want a bike lane that takes me to the shops and stores, and a bike lane takes me to downtown, and that's what you really want. Instead, they're like, well, put a bike lane that goes to the river. It's just like, well, who wants this?
00:20:49
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Yeah, no one asked for this. Who was asking about a river road? And then I heard them say, well, you know, they're doing all this because, you know, they're trying to this Vision Zero and they're trying to cut down on the amount of bicycle accidents and, you know, fatal bicycle accidents. And I'm like,
00:21:05
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Where are they getting their numbers? Cause they haven't talked to us and yeah, I don't remember. Yeah. Some fatal accidents on scooters. Yeah. Two in the last three months, but yeah, I can't talk about that. Yeah. I, uh, but no, well, apparently Delaware, so Delaware, cause you do get money from this bike initiative. Um, if you're,
00:21:34
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city or your state is bike safe. But Delaware apparently is like, according to them, the bike. Craziness, the fatalities is on the rise like crazy. Well, I mean, I'm sure you're going to see a spike in it because if more people are using bikes. I don't know. Yeah. Well, you want the right bikes, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Less environmental impact.
00:22:03
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Of course. Parking. Buying a bike these days. Oh yeah, parking. That's one of the reasons that if I lived in Philly or Wilmington, I would just always be on bikes. Yeah. I would too with parking. Yeah. We went parking yesterday in Philly or Friday in Philly. Yeah. So the first place wasn't too bad. It was six hours for $21, which in the city is really good. Yeah, that's not bad. The next place we went was two hours for $25. What?
Parking Costs in Philadelphia
00:22:30
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Yeah.
00:22:31
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Yeah. And I learned that it's because, uh, one of them was a city run lot and the other one was a private lot. Let me guess the city run lot was the 25 for two hours. No, the city run lot was the cheaper one. Oh yeah. It's because it's in the tourist part of town and they want to, they want more tourists in the area. Uh, good old tourists. Yeah. But, uh, no, they,
00:23:00
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It just cracks you with parking. It kills you. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Yeah. But what are you going to do? You don't have a choice. Yeah. Yeah. Until, you know, we all lose our vehicles and have to go to horses or bikes. I'll just ride a bike. I'm not getting a horse. No, of course. No, they're evil. They try to bite you. No. And then you got to clean up after them and feed them. You got to clean up after them. That's my thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like a dog where you
00:23:30
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take a little baggie and pick it up. Yeah. You got to take a trash bag behind your horse. And you got to deal with like, just deal with the horse. Like, you know, you got to deal with it's, you know, me that needs food. Yeah. Grooming. You got to have it shod. You got to get a farrier over there. Currier, is that what it's called?
00:23:50
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Curry? You know what they call it when you like brush it and stuff. It's curried. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You got to get their coats done. Oh yeah. You know, I'm on my horse language. Yeah. Yeah. Rub their hocks down and liniment. Their hocks. The heck's the hock.
Horse Ownership vs. Dogs or Bikes
00:24:10
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The lower part of the leg. Rub them down, wrap them up. Oh yeah. We used to do all kinds of crazy stuff.
00:24:20
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Paint their hooves. There's like this almost like shellac we would put on it to kind of like feels like nail polish, I guess, to keep it healthy. And this is literally just because we ride them, right? Because yes. Yeah, the ones in the wild aren't yet. Who knows? Maybe they are. Maybe we don't see them. They're, you know, paint each other's nails. That'd be amazing. Yeah. Well, topic one.
Philadelphia Tourist Attractions
00:24:50
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Yeah. We have a nice, you know, but, uh, so we went to Philly, Philly for city of brotherly love city of brotherly love the first capital of the United States. Um, we went to Philly to do like the tourist thing. We went to, we were going to go to the Liberty Bell. Oh boy. The line was crazy. I never would have thought,
00:25:19
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that the day after Thanksgiving was the day everybody goes to Philly. But apparently it is a popular time to visit the city of Brother Love and do the tourist stuff. Wow. Because we went to they opened a museum of the American Revolution. Okay. When the 2017 something like that. So not too long ago. So we were like, Oh, we have to see it. Yeah. But my
00:25:51
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My brother had never, doesn't remember seeing Liberty Bell. I'm fairly sure we saw it. Yeah, let's say I'm sure as children you might know. Now, do you get to go up and touch the Liberty Bell? You do not get to touch the Liberty Bell anymore. Why? You don't get to even close the Liberty Bell, really. What? What do you think is going to happen? Well, it's cracked because of people, so that's part of it.
00:26:12
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My, when I was a kid, Liberty Bell just kind of sat out. Yeah. Under a little pavilion. Right. Yeah. It's got a whole, it's got a whole building around it. Um, I mean, it's, it's, it's serious business. Yeah. But, uh, I was gonna, the topic about it was we went to this museum and I'm going to get your opinion on my view of this museum because I was told that I am being
00:26:42
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too harsh on this museum. So the, this museum bills itself as the, the history of the American revolution. Okay. And it's two floors. The first floor has like an auditorium and stuff that I don't know
Critique of American Revolution Museum
00:27:03
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what they do there. Cause seemingly there was nothing going on to see that day, but you know, whatever. So they do that show on Wednesdays.
00:27:21
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But seemingly, they use the first floor for nothing except the great view. And there are a lot of staff in this place. It's a private museum, which is also part of the story. And you go upstairs, and I know
00:27:35
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a fair bit of history about the impact revolution, right? I'm, you know, you're a smart fella. I'm a smart fella. I've, I've studied my micro revolution a little bit. And, um, going through this museum, I'm like, who is this place for? I'm bitching to my wife. Just, just chill out. But I'm like, because there's no seemingly to me,
00:28:01
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No one's learning any real history there. You're not getting any, how do I put this? Facts. There's no like, it's all like,
00:28:18
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Like you never talk about any of the battles you always talk about. It's a lot about Washington. Oh my God. It's about Washington. And, um, but they never talk about, they talk about the Battle of Brandywine for about a minute. And they only talk about one side of it. They don't talk about, they barely talk about Yorktown, which is the only battle anybody really knows, you know, most people, and they don't talk about any of that stuff. And I'm going through this museum going, who is this for? And my wife's like, just stop it. You know, as they do. But
00:28:49
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It's not for me because I know too much of the history. Right. Is it for people who don't know any of the history because then they're not learning? Yeah, it doesn't sound like it's for them because there's no, there's no, it's not like a factual run through or, you know, like timeline or, I mean, you don't, they don't talk about Ben Franklin very much. They don't talk about
00:29:16
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You're in, you're in Ben Franklin city and they don't talk about Brent Franklin basically at all. That's interesting. Yeah. They don't talk about John Adams. They barely talk about Jefferson. They don't talk about Hancock at all. Wait, what? Yeah. The entire. So is this the George Washington museum?
00:29:40
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Oh, they are very proud of the fact that they have Washington's tent from the war. I didn't know exist. I didn't. That's the only thing I will say is I didn't know that thing was still in existence. But the entire thing just was like, I don't know. I was left going
00:30:04
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Who's this for? Like, what is the point? You know, if I brought kids here, would they? Because I was going to say to my buddy, like, hey, maybe you should take Liam up there, his son. Yeah. But he's not going to learn. Enough about the revolution, I think. Right. Yeah, I mean, honestly, in my opinion, there should be there should be two types of museums. There should be like the, you know, I know, I know little to nothing of this topic.
00:30:32
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And so it's a more, you know, generalized, you know, kind of show you a little bit everything. And then there's the more specialty museums that are like, hey, you know all about art. Here is this specific art stuff, whatever. If you know it, you're going to get a lot out of it kind of thing. Right. But to just have this generic amalgamation that doesn't really flow doesn't sound like a good museum to me. No, I was left. Was it free?
00:31:01
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It was not free. I'd say that's even worse. I mean, it wasn't insanely expensive, but it was not free. It was $24 a person, I think. 24? Yeah. So not free. You can get an overpriced movie ticket for cheaper than that. Yeah. Did you at least have like a little, what are they called? Little guide.
00:31:32
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No, no, it's a self guided event. Does it have like the little headphone thing so you can like listen to stuff and
00:31:41
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They, you can rent that. Well, so you've already paid 24 bucks and now they want you to rent that now. Yeah, that was even more money. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Um, yeah. And then like crazily to me, and this is, I don't know if this is all museums or just all the museums that I ended up going to, they have this thing where you can, um, become a member of the museum.
00:32:06
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I don't know if you've ever seen that. Well, I have seen that. But what does it entail? I've just seen it, you know. So I don't know how much it costs. I didn't look into it. But you can go to the museum as much as you want. For as long as your membership is, I guess. And who's going back to museum?
00:32:29
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on a weekly, biweekly. What's the how much do you have to go back to the museum to make it worth that? Yeah. And I mean, unless they're like changing something up like the theater or whatever they had in the first floor, if that if there was a different show every week or something like that, sure, I could see it. But yeah, a self guided tour of a museum as much as you want that. Yeah. Sign me not up. Right. Yeah. And like I don't.
00:32:58
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one of our museums, I want museums. I think they're important for people to understand history. I think it's very important to understand history, but I don't know what the answer to this is. That sounds very troubling. That doesn't make sense as a museum. It sounds like, you know, just, and you said, is it privately run or is it? It's a private museum. It is not. I didn't find that out until after work, after the, um,
00:33:28
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It's totally after we were done that it was a private museum, but yes, it is. So that's the thing. Is there like a vetting process they have to do or something? Or could you just open up a museum and say this is Ron's Revolutionary War Museum? Seemingly, you could just open up a museum. I don't think there's anybody to stop you. Maybe that's a problem. Maybe this person did a lot of Wikipedia stuff. I mean, they spent a lot of money. Well, they spent a lot of money on that tent, and then they had to backfill everything else around it, it sounds like.
00:33:56
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So yes, that is true. Apparently the tent, it's only part of the tent, the other part of the tent is at Yorktown. It's our sister museum, they have the other half. Yeah, basically, I don't know what to, but yes, they
00:34:15
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they paid a lot of money for that tent. And you can tell because when you walk in that museum, they talk about that tent every five seconds. Like, Oh, don't make sure he goes through the tent. It's going to be the best part of the museum. I'm like, yeah, it's a tent. I mean, tents don't make history. Tents are cool, I guess. Yeah. I mean, if you're a tent enthusiast, I don't know. I mean, that's right up there with kites. Yeah. At least the kite discovered electricity.
00:34:44
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Yeah, that's a fair point. Yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, if they had like Ben Franklin's charred kite that, you know, according to them, that doesn't even exist. So yeah, yeah. I don't I don't understand. Yeah, I'm like you. I don't really understand who that museum is geared towards. I don't either. Other than stupid tourists. Right. Did they have a gift shop? Yes. Of course. Of course. Did you get a shirt?
00:35:13
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I did not. Did they have replica mini tents? No, actually they did not. That would have been the perfect thing. It feels like that would have been the perfect thing. Put that on your desk. That's a talking point. There were no, it's a good point. There were no replica cuts.
00:35:37
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Maybe if you're a member you can camp a night in the tent. No, no, I could tell you that You do not get even close to that tent in the in the in the whole thing. You don't get anywhere near it It's it's well behind where you can get close to it and
00:35:56
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You know, which is fine. I mean, it's it is a 300 year old pet. We don't need people getting anywhere near it. But yeah, but a tent. I mean, I could see something like, you know, here's a set of George Washington's teeth. Here's, you know, Ben Franklin's bifocals or something.
00:36:18
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I feel like a lot of that stuff we've lost. I just feel like a lot of American Revolution artifacts were lost history. That's just part of the deal. We're going to lose stuff. Yeah. A museum should be there to educate and tell a story and make it exciting and engaging. Yeah, but I feel like you should walk out of that museum. With at least a little factoid. Yeah.
00:36:48
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some idea of what the revolution was about. And like you said, even if you already knew stuff about it, you should come out of that with, you should always be able to learn something from it. I mean, I'm not saying I didn't learn anything from it, but boy, I would have liked to learn more. Yeah. Sounds like it. Well, I'd like to recommend to my friends who have children to be like, Hey, you should take your child to this museum because they're going to learn. It's going to give them a good basis of
00:37:18
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how the revolution happened. You don't need to know every battle, but you need to have some idea that there were battles. The highlights. I don't know. It wasn't for me. That's what I'm going to say. That's disturbing. Salisbury has team using as I've never even been to.
00:37:49
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Salsbury has two museums. Yeah, they have the Ward Museum and then uh, what's that? The Salsbury culture museum downtown or whatever. Oh, yeah. I thought you were talking about the Papa Hill mansion. I've never been that one either. Well, I've been there for a call. Well, that way we're talking about that is, you know, when you were a kid, what, where did you guys go for field trips?
School Field Trips to the Smithsonian
00:38:16
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Smithsonian. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah.
00:38:18
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Yeah, that's, that's, I can remember going to the Smithsonian like three or four times because there's so many different parts of it. Yeah. We went to the air and space. We went to the natural history into the America. Yeah. All kinds of stuff. Yeah. I mean, for all the problems, it's still a good time. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Uh, we went to, I want to say we went to a statue of Liberty.
00:38:48
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Yeah, I think once he that was for Tad. I want to say not for regular gen pop. So. Yeah, we we went to Williamsburg. OK, that was one of the trips we took in the eighth grade, I think. Nice.
00:39:11
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And then we went to New York a lot. I feel like you went to Philly when you were younger. Getting a cheesesteak. I feel like I went to Philly a couple of times, but by the time I was in high school and stuff, it was all New York, weirdly. Yeah.
00:39:36
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But we definitely went to Williamsburg. I remember that being a big trip. That was actually my eighth grade class went to Russia. Whoa. Yeah. I didn't get to go because I had moved to that school kind of late in the whole deal. Yeah. My apparently like all the other kids that have been going there for years, their parents saved up money for them to go to Russia. Wow. And it was a big deal.
00:40:07
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You can actually say that. I think the schools around here still do something like that because. What was it when Bree was in the eighth grade? I want to say, yeah, we got this thing about going to Estonia. And it was ridiculously expensive. We did not do that. And then I think Liv had something about going to Japan. Yeah, that's cool.
00:40:30
Speaker
Yeah, it's cool, but it's expensive. It is. Yeah. Yeah. And it's one of those if we did that, I'd want the whole family to go kind of thing so we can all partake in that adventure. I mean, I guess. Sure. I mean, I just the one thing I regret is when I was in college, I could have gone to Dublin and I
Missed College Trip to Dublin
00:40:51
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didn't. Oh, yeah.
00:40:54
Speaker
But, you know, like, you don't think about, yeah, saving up to go to for you to go to Dublin, you know. Right. Yeah. You wish you did. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm sure you want to give your kid the best experience they have and all those things. But yeah. Those trips are very expensive, especially when you're already paying for college. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or it's like we said, you know, they get this VR
00:41:22
Speaker
going a little bit better and then you just have the, you know, virtual. Yes, that's. I mean, at least something. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm going to say it doesn't replace actually being there, but at least it could be the I mean, excuse me, that could be the. Judging point where you're like, you know, you know, go into a travel place and be like, I'm thinking about going here. We're here. Put the headset on.
00:41:51
Speaker
see if this looks like something you'd actually want to do. Save a ton of money instead of buying the tickets and airfare and accommodations. You get there, you're like, well, this sucks. Yeah. I'm in for VR trips to places because I'm not going to be able to afford half the trips I'd like to take them out.
00:42:16
Speaker
I would love to go to Ireland, Germany, and, you know, I like to go to France and show off my terrible French. Yeah. Yeah. I want to go to Iceland, Norway. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it'd be great for kids to do those things. Yeah. Just live the life. Yeah. Make museums that should be museum-y. Yeah. I feel like right how strong they were to letter.
00:42:47
Speaker
I did not write a letter. You still have time. I just kind of, just kind of left and said, I'll not come back. No, but I mean, should you, I don't know, put a Google review or something that, you know, I don't know. I don't know what the right answer is at that point. Like you said, I mean, they're kind of trying, but also it's like, it's like we talked about that one time with, you know, at a restaurant somewhere, the food comes out and it's not great. I mean,
00:43:13
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don't just lump it, you know, talk about it, you know, say, Hey, you know, maybe you should add some salt to your food or something made the same way for the rest or the museum. Hey, maybe you should throw some facts in here. And even like an animatronic bed in Franklin,
00:43:33
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Well, I compare it to the Gettysburg Visitor Center. Look, if you ever have the chance to go to Gettysburg and go to the Visitor Center, you should absolutely go to the Visitor Center and take the movie because you're going to learn
00:43:47
Speaker
I don't expect you to be the expert in Gettysburg when you're done, but you're going to learn a good amount of the history of Gettysburg enough that I feel like you didn't waste your time and I cannot recommend enough that the visitor center of Gettysburg. It's so well done.
00:44:07
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But this was not. And it was, I mean, again, it's not cheap. Like if. Yeah, 24 bucks a person. I mean, that's. You take a family of four. Yeah, that's $100. That's $100. You, you know. Yeah. You spent $100 for. Yeah. The museum and you expect it to be, you know. Did they teach you how to pitch a tent?
00:44:29
Speaker
No. Yeah. Yeah. They're very protective of that. That's yeah. Hmm. Which, you know, they should be. Yeah. Yeah. So are things like that? Like our relics now? Like, is that a relic? Hmm. Sounds like I feel like you have to have like a cultural, emotional.
Cultural Relics in Modern Narratives
00:44:54
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Yeah. Like ties. I mean, it's got cultural ties. I mean, yeah.
00:44:58
Speaker
When I was rally crying and killing others over yet. Yeah, you don't know. You don't know. There could be the group of, you know, you know, where the Washington tent and Washington's tent people. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good something. It was something to say, I guess, was not. It didn't impress me, but.
00:45:27
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To me, it just seems like one of those museums that's like the they said they had their tent, but, you know, the stuff like, you know, here's Washington socks. Here's so and so bloomers. Yeah. And you. But not, you know, here's the socks that he wore during the Battle of whatever it's.
00:45:53
Speaker
Just here are socks. Here are socks. Here, here is a tennis. Yeah. Yeah. See that's. Oh, the worst part about the museum. This is, this is driving me nuts. So the narrator for the museum, I think is a pretty famous actor. Okay. But we can't figure out who it was. And we asked people at the museum, like, who is the narrator of that, of that movie? They didn't know. What? Yeah. Shouldn't the docent know?
00:46:23
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I that's what I said. I said, like, you should know. You should know this. I mean, that should be in Dosem 101. And it wasn't even in like the program. It wasn't anything. What? So this poor person recorded all this stuff and doesn't get credit. Right. That's horrible. Yeah. Hmm. So sadly. Hmm. I still don't have an answer. I couldn't tell you the answer was. Jeez. But
00:46:52
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Yeah, did not get his credit. Was it Willem Dafoe? It was definitely not Willem Dafoe. I wish I could figure it out. Arnold Schwarzenegger. I can kind of see the guy in my head, but I can't tell you a single movie he was in. Christopher Walken. No. It kind of looks like Eric Roberts, but it's not Eric Roberts.
00:47:20
Speaker
Does that make sense? Yes, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, it's a fake Eric Roberts. No way. Yeah, like, oh, gosh. Oh, Carmen. Hmm. Wait, I'm sorry, I'm typing an actor that looks like and the first thing is looks like a cat. What? I know I almost want to click on that now. Are there any actors who look like a cat? Evidently.
00:47:50
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Yeah, I could not. We couldn't figure out who was. My wife was like, oh, it's Sam Shepard. I'm like, I don't think it's Sam Shepard. I wonder if I can, you know, I didn't even Google it. I'm Googling it and it's not helping. Yeah. Yes, I get the Julia Roberts and Eric Roberts are siblings.
00:48:22
Speaker
Oh God, there's Eric Roberts in a speedo. Oof. Did he see that? No. Celebrities who look alike. Yeah, but actually show me the people. Right. Damn you, Google. Even if you, even if you go to their website, it doesn't tell you who did the damn narration. Good Lord. Eric Roberts has been in 700 plus film and TV. Whoa.
00:48:55
Speaker
Whoa. I don't know. Man, I can't find this. It's going to drive me nuts. Yeah, this is, now you've got me on this. I'm going to have to like watch a bunch of movies to think about like, Oh yeah, that's the movie that guy's in. And then I can, you know, IMDB him.
00:49:21
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Eric Roberts. So that's my rant about museums. They say Eric Roberts looks like Mark Harmon. No, he doesn't. Oh, he doesn't. That's the thing that popped up on mine, too. He doesn't look anything like Mark Harmon. That ought to help with you. Yeah, listeners, if you know it, write in right now. Yeah, let us know. Yeah. I want to preface this rant by saying,
Educational Purpose of Museums
00:49:43
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I'm not saying don't go to museums, people. Oh, yeah. There are plenty of great museums out there. I think
00:49:50
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but I want you to know that I think history museums should teach you history. Yeah. Yeah. Just like science museums should teach you something about science. Yeah. Yeah. If you're never taking a kids to the Franklin Institute, that is a good time. Yes. Sadly, the best time to go to the Franklin Institute was when they had the history of video games there. Oh, that was pretty good. I bet that was. Yeah. Yeah. You could even play some old school video games there. Nice. Yeah. It was nice. Yeah.
00:50:21
Speaker
Well, what is it? There's that one museum that's out in the Midwest that's like Noah's Ark. Have you heard about that? I have not heard of that. Oh, my gosh. It's like this. I'm sorry if I offend any listeners, but it's this whole big thing about Noah's Ark and everything. But it says that Noah had dinosaurs on the Ark. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. And all kind of it just. Oh, gosh.
00:50:50
Speaker
I'm not saying that's a museum. That's an exhibit. That way. Yeah, that's a... Yeah. Go to museums. Go to museums. I can definitely recommend the D-Day Museum in New Orleans. Great museum. I've not been there personally, but I've seen it. I can definitely recommend the Swedish American History Museum in Philly. It's a museum run by a friend of mine. And even the Smithsonian's. Oh, the Smithsonian's.
00:51:20
Speaker
are all worth it. All of them. I have friends who are from like out West and they're like, Hey, we're coming to DC. What, we want to do the Smithsonian's. I'm like, in how many days? Yeah, exactly. You know, one day to do the natural history museum, one day to do the American history museum. There's so many, the science there, the air and space museums. You could probably do two days for air and space. Probably two days. Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:46
Speaker
The only problem with aerospace now is just because it's further away than the rest of them. Yeah. Because they built a whole new building for it. Yeah. Yeah. Go to museums. Go to museums. Yeah. Well, topic two. Topic two.
Gaming Discussions: God of War and Castlevania
00:52:01
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So I'm going to have you, did you play God of War 2018 yet? I have not played God of War 2018. Okay. All right. Because the sequels out now, Ragnarok and it's,
00:52:14
Speaker
Brave reviews. I mean, it's my game of the year easily. I'm playing it. But do you know the premise of it and everything, how they kind of retook they took out of war and kind of turned it a little bit for this take? And it's like a third person over the shoulder or single cut for the entire thing. It's like more focused on narrative and the story as opposed to just the hack and slash that the original games were. Is there no boy?
00:52:40
Speaker
No, no, there's boy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, this Ragnarok is just a continuation of 2018. It's just they took whatever was good in 2018 and made even better somehow. Good. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm saying like the other day, it's that's what we want out of games. Yeah. Yeah. Especially a sequel that, you know, it took the story and just ran with it. Yeah. But the thing that's got I was talking to my brother about this Friday, the director
00:53:05
Speaker
of these and I listened to a podcast. He was like, you know, no spoilers or anything. He was like, you know, we're done with the the Norse. Part of God of War. He's like, honestly, he's like every time I finish up producing or directing a game, you know, especially something big like this, I always go back and Castlevania Symphony of the Night is my kind of palate cleanser between things. It's cool. Yeah. And he said, you know, if you guys could help make it happen,
00:53:33
Speaker
I really want to redo Castlevania in this style. And I was just like, here's all my money. Take it. Because it's just I mean, think about it. We haven't had a good Castlevania game in years. I would say decades.
00:53:49
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, honestly, I mean, to me, the last ones are like the Symphony of the Knights and the spinoffs, you know, those the real Metroidvania style games like that. There was a couple on the DS and stuff. Would you want Castlevania to not be a Metroid style side scroller? Like, would that work for you? Like, which I feel like I'd be I'd be annoyed. So
00:54:18
Speaker
I think there's ways to do the Metroidvania without it being 2D. Did you play Darksiders? I tried it. I was not. Which one? The first one or the second one? Two. Yeah. And see, I think it had the inklings of being that Metroidvania style, but I think it was a little bloated in some spots and not clear on some things. Yeah, I tried the first one.
00:54:44
Speaker
I found it grinding. Yeah. Yeah. And then I tried the second one. It was I wasn't bought into it. Yeah. Part of it. Yeah. I think that's a big part of it. You've got to be the story has to have a good hook that really snags you. Honestly, I mean, yes, God of War is an action game, action narrative, whatever you'll call it. But it's also a Metroidvania, honestly, because like when you start out, like in the first kind of levels, you're going along and you're like, what's that up there?
00:55:14
Speaker
That's got a weird little rune on it. And then later on, you get something, you're like, oh, I can go back to that little area that had that rune and now access more more of the map. Sure. So it's it's those breadcrumbs and everything I think that would lead to a good Castlevania game, because I mean, you know, Kratos spins the chains of chaos or whatever they're called around. It's like that's it could easily be a whip and you could easily have the special items that Castlevania has. I mean, I felt fall in order.
00:55:45
Speaker
Did I fall in love with a good game? Yes. Except for the map. Because you know the new one's coming out. If that map system is in the new one, I don't know that I can. I don't think it will be after all they heard about the map.
00:56:00
Speaker
Honestly, that was my game of the year for that year. Yeah. Except for the map. Yeah. Because I thought it was a really fun adventure. I think they did a great job with the, you know, the same thing you're talking about. Like you had to come back and build your, you know, because it's, it's so easy with Jedi because you're like, Oh, well you get powers and you know, those powers like to do new stuff. Yep. But, uh, well, and we should know more about that next Jedi game on December 8th. We should. Because that's the game awards and it's supposed to have a big announcement. I think that
00:56:31
Speaker
And they were like, yeah, three minutes into the Game Awards, you'll know about Jedi Fallen Order. Good. That's what I want. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's it. I saw this Twitter poll that was put out by the Game Awards. They're like, what are you looking forward to? It was like the awards, world announcements, and the music. And 80% of the people were like the announcements. That's why we're tuning into the Game Awards. That's why people are going into that stuff. Yeah. And I am looking forward to Fallen Order 2, if it's called Fallen Order 2.
PC Gaming vs. Consoles
00:57:01
Speaker
No, it's what is it? What is the next one called? Jedi survivor, maybe? No, that's that's not. I typed in Hesy. Jedi, what's the sequel? Jedi survivor. I also wish God of War would come out on PC. I thought it had.
00:57:31
Speaker
Did it come out of PC? I mean, PlayStation puts a lot of their stuff on PC now. Eventually. God of War. PC. Not Ragnarok. I mean, Ragnarok will probably do it, too. God of War PC. Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah, you can steam it because.
00:58:00
Speaker
I'm playing Borderlands and I'm in my RV. I'm going to get through Borderlands on the PlayStation and my RV. If I'm going to play God of War, I'm going to play God of War. But I'm also going to get through Destiny. That's probably it. Well, there's no getting through Destiny because that's just the everlasting Godstopper. Yeah, I need to finish the Witch Queen before what's up Beyond Light, Hard Light. No, the next one coming up is Lightfall.
00:58:30
Speaker
That's in February. You get to. Yeah. God of War is on sale steam for thirty six dollars. Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely worth it. I mean, it's yeah. I've always heard it's it's when people talk about PlayStation games, there's only like three that come up as people are like, that's the game that makes PlayStation worth buying. Yeah. And one of them has got a war. Depending on who you are, Uncharted is on the list. Yeah.
00:58:59
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And, uh, I would say uncharted four out of all of them. Sure. But like the uncharted series, like, yeah, yeah. That's like the big one that people. What's the last one? Everybody always pushes on PlayStation. Spider-Man. No. Spider-Man kind of for a little bit there was like the game, but I have to think about that. Was it Ratchet and Clank? No.
00:59:25
Speaker
Oh, come on. Ratchet and Clank's fun. First off, Ratchet and Clank. I guess it is a study. Yeah, it is. It's just a knockoff of Nintendo games. No, it's not. A little bit. Uncharted. There's something else now blanking on. There's definitely got a war in Uncharted. People are always raving. Horizon? Oh, Horizon Zero Dawn. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:53
Speaker
They're always very Raja Raja. And I guess there's a sequel to that now, right? Yeah. Horizon Forbidden West. It was a great game. Beautiful. Yeah. Everybody I've ever heard talk about those three games. I've never had anything to say about them. Yeah. They're great. You have to switch. There wasn't exclusivity in the world. Yeah. One day. But I mean, now that at least PlayStation is putting games out on PC. So there is that.
01:00:18
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Yeah, I'm I'm migrating more and more to just playing on my PC. I can't. I know you can't. I can't because I got to update Excel and. You're basic. But no, that that is the thing. I mean, you know, the PC, you've got to update so much and get replaced and, you know, I don't know every time I log in, I log into where I start my PS4, I have to update that thing every time.
Baldur's Gate 3 Anticipation
01:00:44
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That's why you set it to automatically update while you're asleep. So it's the same thing with my computer. No, no, no, no. But I'm talking about like so. Baldur's Gate three will eventually fully come out of some day, maybe. But I I would have to buy a new computer to play it. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Or switch out my video card or something, which I don't know where the hell that even plugs in.
01:01:12
Speaker
But it literally has one port. But it's all those, you know, it's a console. I boot it up. I play the game. That's that's what I like. I don't want to take my drivers and flashers and I agree. But now I'm because I'm now a generation behind on my consoles. Yeah, I'm noticing some real problems with my console. Yeah. And I'm looking at
01:01:40
Speaker
So versus my PC, which I could right now, my performance on my PC is fine for the generation we are at right now. Yeah. But I could upgrade to the next gen stuff right now. Cost me like 230 bucks. Okay. If I want to go to a new Xbox or a new PlayStation. Yeah, 500 bucks. 500 to 800 bucks, right? Yeah. Because you want to have... No. I think it's 800 bucks for the bigger memory. No. Well, okay. That's a whole other thing. Okay. The whole memory.
01:02:09
Speaker
people, I don't understand why people need all this memory because I've got my PS5 with one terabyte or whatever. Yeah, I've never had any issues because here's the thing. I don't keep eight million games on download. If I want to play a game, you know, it takes me a max of probably 10 minutes to download a game. Sure. So I have a game downloading in the background and playing something else. You know, I've got destiny I can always chip away at and then, oh, yeah, look, your game's ready to play. And I hop back over.
01:02:38
Speaker
It's fair, but I don't have a turbine on my current Xbox, my Xbox one. Yeah. And I can only keep about six games on there. Yeah. But do you really play six games at once? Yes, I do. Because you're also the guy that reads like four books at
Destiny Game Storage Challenges
01:02:59
Speaker
once. But it's very good. But usually I have like, because I'll play this game with one friend, this game with another friend, you know. Yeah.
01:03:08
Speaker
I mean, right now I've got on my PlayStation, I've got God of War Ragnarok, Destiny, a couple of VR titles. I mean, Destiny's a hog on my Xbox. It is. It's a horse of a hog. And then even though I haven't been tripping away with it, I have had the Master Chief collection and that's a hog. Yeah, that is. Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:34
Speaker
But still, still no co-op for Halo. I don't understand what they're doing with Halo. We are now over a year since release. And you still don't have what you were promised. The one thing that I wanted out of the stupid game I still don't have. And it's a fine game. But you have Forge Mode now, right?
01:03:55
Speaker
They have forge beta. It's not actually. Are you kidding me? Oh, halo. It's, oh my God. It's insane. It's insane for
01:04:09
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For a game built on the co-op experience, you don't have co-op. What are you doing? Yeah, that's. It's insanity.
Halo Infinite Co-op Frustration
01:04:19
Speaker
Insane. Yeah. This is my. This is my number one rant about 343 and studios. They just don't know what they're doing. No, it's it's very clear. They don't know what they're doing. Yeah. I. That's a shame because, I mean, Halo has such a storied history and, you know, it's
01:04:39
Speaker
It's just a good franchise. Did you watch the show? I haven't watched the show yet because it was on Paramount Plus. I don't have Paramount Plus. I don't know. I think I'm pretty sure it was Paramount Plus. It was something I don't have. And actually I couldn't watch it. Yeah. My buddy has it. Let's go to his house and watch one. Yeah. Yeah. I know there's, God, there's a Horizon show coming out and a God of War show coming out.
01:05:05
Speaker
I did say about the God of War show. I didn't know on the horizon. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. It's things are everywhere now. Yeah. I just wanted to be good. Yeah. I just want Halo to have co-op. Yeah. Yeah. That's, yeah. That should be a, yeah. Yeah. That's not a lofty goal. That doesn't seem like it should be. Yeah.
01:05:27
Speaker
Yeah. Hey Frank, put down your Zune for a minute and work on Halo. Well, Frank got fired for 343. Everybody that worked for Bungie, not everybody, I'm sure, but a lot of people who worked for Bungie that stayed with 343 then got fired by 343. Oh, that's smart. Hey guys, you had talent and did things. Haha. Yeah. I feel like they were really,
01:05:54
Speaker
pushing for Bungie to fail. Mm hmm. Yeah. And she was like, well, let's show you a trick. Exactly. And they're not even put. I mean, I don't even know if they're working on the other games right now besides just keeping Destiny alive. No, they are. I'm sure they're working on stuff. And evidently there's supposed to be a mobile game or something, too. They're working on. Yeah. I mean, it's a lot of money in mobile games. Yeah, there is. Oh, my gosh.
Defense of Destiny's Appeal
01:06:18
Speaker
There's a lot of money in Destiny right now. Yes. Yeah. That's what I love. Like I'll see.
01:06:23
Speaker
like Reddit posts and everything. Good game. I'm like, if you play destiny because it's not. But the new season ends. The season now ends next week. Yeah. Yeah. Another season pass. Yeah, that's why I just I buy the package and I get them all. Yes, we're supposed to get a new dungeon in two weeks.
01:06:46
Speaker
I haven't done any of the dungeons. My friend is never online. Oh, stop. Sorry. I've been playing God of War all the time. Yeah. I know. One also, just shoot me a text. Sometimes I'll see the discord messages. Sometimes I won't just shoot me a text or we'll figure out a game night. Yeah. I need to do the raids. Yeah. Yeah. Finally gotten up to 1780.
01:07:09
Speaker
True. Six of my gear or 15, 70, 86 gear right here. Yeah, yeah, you're good. Yeah, you're good to go. So, yeah, yeah. At just this point, we're trying to, we're trying to get through the Witch Queen campaign. Yeah, and I can help you with that. It's a challenging campaign. It is. It's, are you on legendary or are you on regular? Legendary. Oof. Yeah. I almost want to say legendary is easier
01:07:37
Speaker
It depends. What do you hunter warlock warlock? Yeah, just drop a rift. What are you talking about? I'm just saying, you know, I mean, that's that's the whole way I survived. It was just I I did a solar build and I just focused on the. Yeah. I've got an arc build. Well, I mean, you know, I put everything in the riffs. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Get your little art buddy up there and yeah, I focused on healing riffs and yeah, I would drop one every
01:08:07
Speaker
Five seconds if I had to, but yeah, that campaign can be really tough, especially there at the end. Yeah, I'm wearing the exotic that lets you extend your rift time by killing things. Oh, not the stag. It's not the stag. The stag is damage reduction in the rift. Yeah. It's the chest armor. Yep. I know what you're talking about. I can see it. That's the thing.
01:08:36
Speaker
I'm not good about remembering all the names. Like I'll play with some of these guys like, oh, you guys swap out for this or this or this. I'm like, what's it look like? Well, I've been trying to get my armor up to level 10 and all of it, but yeah, shards. Yeah. Well, just remember next season, the. Planetary resources go away.
01:09:00
Speaker
So you'll be able to exchange all your planetary resources for legendary shards, raid banners or glimmer. Yeah. Well, I mistakenly gave up a bunch of my whatever to that treasure chest thing they're doing in the middle. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then I needed that stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because like next season public events are going to be like twenty five thousand glimmer. Yeah. So glimmer shouldn't be an issue anymore. I never needed glimmer.
01:09:30
Speaker
I'm always maxed out. I've had a couple times where I've made a glimmer. My brother's having problems. He's like, I'm on a glimmer. I'm like, why? How could you be on a glimmer? Maxed out. There's always glimmer. I can't pick up. It's a good problem to have. It's a problem to have. But I would love to see a Pennsylvania game come out. Yes. Unfortunately. Just not like, I mean, Lords of Shadow, the first one was OK, but the second one was garbage. The problem is it's going to be on Switch.
01:10:01
Speaker
That's the problem. That's problem. One is a Castlevania game to be on switch and I don't, I don't want that. I don't want that. No. Cause you know, it's Nintendo. They're never going to never going to put a game out for the mass market at this point. Yeah. They have, they have bought into your switch or nothing.
Nintendo Switch vs. Steam Deck
01:10:22
Speaker
It's not that I don't like the idea of the switch. I just don't need it in my life. Right.
01:10:29
Speaker
You know, well, and I also I mean, if I was to get a portable gaming device, I'd probably get a steam deck. Yeah, probably because I mean, from what I'm hearing, like the new Pokemon runs horribly on the switch. Yes. Like not even 30 frames a second. A lot. It's going to because it's a it's a small.
01:10:48
Speaker
piece of hardware that it's not updatable. And they've had a lot of issues with the Switch that they don't want to admit to, but they've had a lot of issues since launch. Oh, yeah. Well, and it's, yeah, what kills me is it plays worse in docked mode than handheld sometimes. It should be backwards. Whatever. Yeah.
01:11:15
Speaker
Get out of it. They can take so much money. And I understand they're not going to sell it on Xbox or PlayStation. They could throw some of those games on PC. Oh, yeah. So much money. Yeah. Or just a Nintendo just become a third party app. Yeah. Don't ever do it, but don't ever do it. That's what I guess. I mean, it's like it is. They no longer do consoles. They just develop
Atari's Association with Activision
01:11:34
Speaker
stuff. Atari. Yeah. Not that Atari super exists anymore. But they're still out there. The name exists. Yeah. They're owned by Activision.
01:11:45
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's Tariot Activision. Yeah. That's so weird. I mean, it's Activision Blizzard, Activision. It's actually weird. Yeah, Activision has their hands on a lot of stuff. Yeah.
Fallen Order 2 Anticipation
01:11:59
Speaker
Yeah. But now that you got me excited about Fallen Order 2, I want to go back and play Fallen War again. Yeah. Yeah. I just play God of War. Fallen War was so good, though. It was. It was. A lot of fun. It's one of those, I'm sure, like,
01:12:14
Speaker
As he gets closer, when we hear whatever the release date of two is, I'll probably play one. Again, like the month before, just to get three with my appetite. Yeah.
Podcast Wrap-up and Holiday Wishes
01:12:26
Speaker
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Figure out where Calcastas and greasy money is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.
01:12:34
Speaker
Well, yeah, that's a good podcast. I think we podcasted the podcast. We have. Yeah. Yeah. Remember folks come find us. See ultra 22 at Twitter. There's also discord. Just search for mythograph or search or send me a message on Twitter and I'll send you the link and I'll get you into the discord. And we've literally like saying some people doing the discord. Yes. Um, other than that, enjoy your cold December podcast, I believe. Right. Yeah. This is the, uh, last, yeah, this will go up on the 28th. So yeah.
01:13:05
Speaker
You have a couple more days before, you know, fimble winter. Right. So, but yeah, take care, folks. Be safe out there. Enjoy.