What Did I Miss? (July 2024 Bonus Episode)

Join us as we gather with our special guests, Dylan from Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers and Kory from The World is My Burrito, to reminisce about the golden days of physical media. We kick off with a look back at the rise and fall of Redbox, sharing personal tales of movie rentals gone wrong and pondering over Chicken Soup for the Soul's ownership of Redbox. You'll love our trip down memory lane as we debate the pros and cons of physical versus digital media, and how our viewing habits have evolved over time.

Curious about the latest gaming buzz? We've got you covered! In this episode, we tackle the recent Xbox Game Pass price hike and its ripple effects on the gaming subscription landscape. We break down the new tiers and discuss whether Xbox Game Pass still holds the crown of the best deal in gaming. Plus, we spill the tea on the canceled Halo TV series, sharing our thoughts on why some game-to-TV adaptations flop while others soar. Get ready for a deep dive into the economics and emotions of gaming subscriptions and why they matter more than ever.

And if you're a trivia buff, you won't want to miss our favorite segment—Jeopardy! We mix it up with quirky pop culture questions and fun facts that are sure to entertain. From the bizarre world of Monsterverse matchups to the unexpected joy of crossovers like Naruto meeting the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, we keep the energy high and the laughs coming. So grab your headphones and join us for a jam-packed episode that's equal parts nostalgic, informative, and downright fun.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:16

Welcome to your go-to source for entertainment. Wait for it Gaming, wait for it Anime PLUS ULTRA. Mr Eric Almighty and Phil the Filipino yeah, they've got you covered, and all you gotta do is wait for it.

Speaker 2: 0:46

This is the Wait For it Podcast.

Speaker 3: 0:51

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Wait For it Podcast. I'm your co-host, phil Smith, aka Phil the Filipino, and joining me, as always, is your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty Phil the Filipino and joining me, as always, is your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty. And Eric, here we are for the July edition bonus edition of what Did I Miss in its third iteration, and going strong, might I say. And one of the reasons it's been going so strong is because we have been able to invite friends in and hang out with them and talk pop culture, literally everything we wanted what Did I Miss to be. And, you know, it feels like we've finally gotten this formula down because it's been a lot of fun. And today we are back to two guests, as we only had one last month with Ivan Shout out to him but we have two guests here this month, returning guests and names and faces that I think people will recognize and be excited to hear from this month, as are we.

Speaker 4: 1:41

Yeah and Phil's not telling me these anymore because he doesn't want me to know what the end game is going to be for the episode, which is always Jeopardy.

Speaker 4: 1:50

So I think that's going to be very, very fun, and it was very fun to see everybody chump on. So, with that being said, this is our most casual episode that we do. We're here to have a lot of fun and, to recap the month of July to this point, recording on July 24th. So I'm sure we're going to miss a couple of big stories at the end, but we got a lot to talk about. A lot happened and we'll kick it off first with our first guest. Dylan from your Friendly Neighborhood, gamers, is joining us. You've seen him a couple of times on the show and even the series. Dylan, how are you doing? Are you ready to talk about the month of july?

Speaker 2: 2:24

uh, I am, uh, thank you guys for having me on. Uh, it's been a busy, busy month. There have been a lot of things. As I was just kind of like scrolling back through all of the things that happened, uh, like stories on ign and whatever, just trying to, you know, pick out a few, I was like, wow, uh, there, there was a lot that kind of happened throughout this month. So, yeah, ready to talk about it.

Speaker 4: 2:46

When we did this at the beginning of the podcast back in like 2018, we were doing these bad boys weekly, then biweekly and monthly, and somehow still not running out of stories. So love to hear that Corey from the World is my burrito. Uh, you have joined us just recently on creator spotlight, so I'm so excited to see you so soon. How are you doing and are you ready to talk about some stuff in pop culture?

Speaker 1: 3:14

I am. It's great to be back so quickly because, uh, that was something that came up the last time we spoke was doing one of these, and it's like, yeah, it'd be awesome to do a super casual episode. Um, and then, you know, phil hits me up like, hey, you want to do this. And it's like, oh yeah, you know, all I all I have to do is just find some news. And then, all of a sudden, it's like, holy shit, what news do I pick? What news is out there? Who cares about what it is that I'm looking at or looking for? So, yeah, it's good to be here. It was definitely a lot more pressure finding just the right articles for this, and glad to be here, though. It is super fun.

Speaker 3: 3:55

It is nice that our guests get to see a peek of again, eric, what we used to have to do when we're like there's so much to choose from. And now that we record this a little bit early and just so you guys know, we're recording this before deadpool and wolverine comes out, so who knows what madness that is going to bring over the weekend. So when this episode comes out on the 29th, on monday the 29th, and we have just missed something, just know, know, it wasn't intentional. So it's nice that they see a little bit of like just scrolling through so many tabs, like we did back in the day, eric, I think we mentioned every month, but I cannot believe we used to do this even on a monthly basis, which just by ourselves, which is crazy.

Speaker 4: 4:33

Yeah, no, I'm glad we've got this formation, this ultra crew that we've been building up, and having that rotation for guests has been nice. It's just people that we already know we are here to have a lot of fun and we're going to do just that. So, phil, anything you want to kick us off with before I go over the rules of the wheel.

Speaker 3: 4:55

Yes, there is the most important part that is about to come up here that Eric will go over with Corey and Dylan. It's not the stories, it's not even Jeopardy. It is what Eric is in charge of and we'll get to that here in just a moment. If, for some reason, this is the first episode you've listened to, I promise we're typically a lot more of a controlled environment. That's not what's going to happen here.

Speaker 3: 5:18

We always recommend that you watch at least the end of the episode on our youtube channel so you can see the questions for jeopardy and follow along, but you don't necessarily have to. I do add in like sound effects and everything where I can when it comes to the questions, but this is one of the episodes we do recommend you check out on our youtube page and if you are new or if you need a little bit of a refresher and you need to know where to find any of the rest of our content, stick around to the very end. We'll let you know where you can find all of everything you need to know about the Wayfair podcast as well as Corey and Dylan. So we'll jump into all that at the end of the episode. But, eric, why delay this any longer. Let me, while you explain the rules, let me pull up the important part here. If you would take it away, yeah.

Speaker 4: 6:05

So a friendly reminder for some and brand new information to others. This is going to be how we determine the order of the stories. Yes, could we just say our guests go first or the host go first? We could do that. We're not gonna. Instead, we are going to use the wheel and how the wheel is going to work, we are going to on the count of three, two, one, in that same cadence. We're going to say spin that wheel, the wheel shall spin, somebody shall be selected, and we will do this until the end. Yes, until we are down to one person, we will still spin the wheel and we will do it in that cadence. So, three, two, one, spin that wheel. Are there any questions? Because we are obviously giving the rules for a reason. This is going to get messed up at least three out of the four times.

Speaker 3: 7:01

Just saying I feel good. I feel good about it this month, eric, okay.

Speaker 4: 7:07

All right, all right Mutes off, and we're going to do this. We're going to go three, two, one.

Speaker 1: 7:15

Spin that wheel.

Speaker 4: 7:19

All right, that's a pretty good start. That wasn't so bad.

Speaker 3: 7:22

Well, now we can fuck it up three more times, you know yeah. Just so you know, the next three are going to be bad, eric, so you set that up.

Speaker 2: 7:29

All right.

Speaker 3: 7:30

Eric is up first. I hate that the stop share is next to leave, Because one of these months I am going to fuck up. I just want to let you know it's going to happen. Just like just like how on Facebook the laugh reaction is right next to like the hug reaction. So one day I'm gonna. It's a nightmare of mine that I've had quite often, so Eric.

Speaker 4: 7:55

Anyway, you're going to send somebody some hearts for, like, a loss of their family. I know that's absolutely what's going to happen.

Speaker 3: 8:00

That is absolutely what's going to happen, so. Eric what did we miss in July 2024?

Speaker 4: 8:05

Yeah, I was really in between two stories. We we do have a section at the end. We'll throw any bonus stories at, so I'll leave. I'll leave one of them for that. The one I'm going to focus on is in regards to Redbox officially shutting down. What I'm going to focus on is in regards to Redbox officially shutting down. Thousands of DVD rental kiosks across the US are being closed down and, as Variety reports, redbox parent company Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment changed its bankruptcy case from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7. As a result, redbox is closing everything down.

Speaker 4: 8:39

Obviously, you can blame streaming services, but red box had a good run. It was launched in 2020, uh, 2002, and the rentals were obviously everywhere. At one point they were also doing uh, and maybe still do. I don't know when. The last time I've been at a red box is uh, we're doing video games in addition to movies. So when we talked about physical media and film this is a conversation that's coming up a lot physical media and how it's kind of dwindling away in favor of streaming I thought it was a good conversation to bring back. This is also going to be a blockbuster like moment in my eyes uh, for generation. And, of course, redbox basically eliminated Blockbuster, so the karma with. That being said, phil, what are your thoughts about this? I know we've had a conversation about physical media before, so I'll give it to you and then we'll throw it across the across the way, and just remember RIP Redbox.

Speaker 3: 9:37

The good times. The good times? Yeah, they don't. They stopped doing games a couple of years ago. They phased that out and sold off pretty much all of their inventory. Shout out to back in the day when you can use a Visa gift card because they didn't make you put in an address or anything and just keep the movie or game. So not that I ever did that, but other people did that. It's so messed up of them to do. I think the rules of engagement or whatever have passed on that. I think that's the wrong phrase, but you guys know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4: 10:11

That is not the law term.

Speaker 3: 10:13

Sure, it is the rules of engagement, not rules of engagement. You guys know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2: 10:18

Statue of limitations. Statue of limitations.

Speaker 3: 10:20

Statue of limitations. It's not even close. It's like I'm going to war with Redbox oh you know what it is.

Speaker 1: 10:27

I was watching.

Speaker 3: 10:28

I watched Top Gun today and I was talking. They were mentioning rules of engagement. That's what it was. That's why rules of engagement was on my mind. Anyway, yeah, redbox, I think I was.

Speaker 3: 10:39

It's really interesting that this is happening now, because I remember seeing a clip, like a few months ago, where the Redbox CEO was talking about how Blockbuster nearly put them out of business because they were putting out the blue box at the time. I don't know if you guys remember the very short lived Blockbuster blue box and they were going to make a show. I think they were about, oh you know what, maybe that was, maybe that might have been netflix uh, that that blockbuster almost started doing like a netflix style thing. So, like it all comes full circle with these and while, um, obviously I think we're all very big supporters of, uh, physical media sticking around as far as like renting, just because, okay, not dylan, okay, just because, um, renting a movie digitally is like it's just so much easier, I'm not gonna like five times out of six I would end up forgetting that I had the movie and then end up with a copy of a film that I didn't want.

Speaker 3: 11:33

I definitely I didn't enjoy and I'm not gonna drive up to the walmart or the public's if I didn't need to, especially now. So, yeah, definitely an end of an era and, eric, it will be like this generation's blockbuster shutting down, but long time coming Doesn't surprise me. I think the thing that we were all surprised about because I saw Corey and Dylan's face is did not know the name of the company was Chicken Soup for the Soul. That was the most surprising thing that came out of this story.

Speaker 4: 12:00

Yeah, if I, if I correct, that's the current owner of it, like. So they obviously bought it out. I don't believe that's always been the case, but I don't know Fact. Check me, I'm not going to look into it. Dylan, I'm very curious. What is your relationship with Redbox? Was that something, a service, you used to use? How is your view on it now? And, just in general, how streaming has kind of taken over and the state of physical media? Feel free to kind of pick any of those items and give us your thoughts about that news of Redbox finally going goodbye.

Speaker 2: 12:32

Yeah, I mean, I'm not shocked by it. I feel like I have seen less and less around. You know like there used to be one at like every walmart, cvs etc. And I do feel like in more recent years it's like, oh, the one in front of walmart's not there anymore, you know, um, so it seems like they've consolidated some. So I'm not shocked by it.

Speaker 2: 12:54

Uh, I will shout out like, uh, when they were liquidating their, their video games, I was able to pick up, uh, like borderlands 3 and resident evil 2 remake and all those, uh, for like I think I spent maybe 60 dollars and picked up like three or four games. Um, so I don't know if they're doing the same thing, uh, but if there is a red box still, maybe go and check and see if they're like selling all their dvds for like a dollar. Uh, you know, um, but I'll, I'll touch on, I think, mainly just you know the physical media versus digital media and just you know the convenience of it, kind of like phil was saying of, especially for a rental. You know if you're gonna pay five dollars either way and one of those options and you're not gonna own it and one of those options doesn't require a trip to somewhere and then returning it. Uh, I, I feel like I know which option is always gonna win for me. Um, but also, I'm just not huge on physical media at all. Um, I, there are some things that I own like physically, um, just for posterity's sake or because I'm like a very big fan of them.

Speaker 2: 14:10

Um, but for the most part, most of my like movie collection, most of my game collection, is digital, and I was like an early adopter of sort of that digital back on, like as soon as they started selling digital games on the 360. I pretty much stopped buying physical games, just because I was like yeah, I, I can just buy this and install it and it's always ready to play versus, like having to be like now, where's this game? Did I put it back in the right case? Did my brother put it back in the right case? Did my brother put it back in the right case, like digging around trying to find it? It's like, yeah, I'll just, I'll just be the convenience, I guess, and just, space wise, you know, like college, like moving from a college dorm to like a small apartment to you know whatever. Like moving from a college dorm to like a small apartment to. You know, whatever it's like, it's not having a huge shelf of games and movies is kind of nice, it's just a small shelf of like these are my favorites, you know.

Speaker 2: 15:08

So, um, I'm not like surprised, I guess, especially to like how Phil alluded to how easy it was to uh like how Phil alluded to how easy it was to uh like how how many people took advantage of that system, because, uh, I was not a huge user of red box, but I definitely ended up with a DVD that didn't have a DVD in it because someone returned it empty. So you know, like the few times I used it, it was like, well, they don't have a great track record for empty. So you know, like, the few times I used it, it was like, well, they don't have a great track record for me. So I'm honestly shocked it didn't happen sooner, because it seemed like they were just bleeding money.

Speaker 4: 15:52

Yeah, can't have anything nice, that's for sure. I will say that it is interesting that it lasted so long. Like this news was almost surprising to me because I kind of forgot. Redbox is a thing Like when I go to like a Publix or a convenience store or something and I see one, I feel like I jump back 10 years, like at least. So really interesting to kind of see that happen.

Speaker 4: 16:17

I know physical media is such an interesting thing. I definitely share Dylan sentiments and Phil is like the complete opposite of me. Like phil will still go get steel books and go get these like really nice, cool things. But for me I like I'll only need them in the moment and when I, when I don't have it, it's like well, I, I wouldn't trade that in for the inconvenience. Like random story I wanted, uh, we were putting on the Prince of Egypt. We wanted to watch the Prince of Egypt the other night because the soundtrack's a banger and you got to rent it. It's not on streaming. Why is that movie not on streaming? That's a huge movie in my opinion, but we happen to have the DVD. But I'm going to be honest, I would have just paid the $4 to rent it on Amazon because I'm lazy and it's convenient. Corey, super curious. What are your thoughts? How do you kind of view that physical versus digital media? And then, just circling back around the experience with Redbox and your feelings about it closing?

Speaker 1: 17:15

So, first off, I don't believe, at least for many years now, you don't go to a Redbox. A Redbox just manifests somewhere near you, because I cannot tell you how many times I've been somewhere.

Speaker 3: 17:29

To the room of requirement.

Speaker 1: 17:30

Yeah, you just feel like you're being watched and you look over and there's a Redbox on the side of a CVS. Like holy shit, yeah, I've never used red box. I, my dad's used it a couple of times, so like, I've used it, you know. Third, from a third person perspective, and you know those results were fine. I do agree with the like physical renting. There, I do agree with the physical renting. People always found ways with video games of copying and printing barcodes on a sheet of paper so that the machine accepted it, and then the next person comes by and they rent Modern Warfare and it's just a sheet of paper which is probably better for their lives. Um, but you know, at least you don't end up with a spare copy of tom cruise's the mummy lying around and then you just wonder what you did with your life. But uh on. So, like red box, it is a little bit of a bummer, but I kind of understand it. I do fully agree there where, like, if you're gonna rent something, like I I don't want it either. If, if I'm not interested in buying it, I'm not interested in buying it. Uh, when it comes to a lot of things I would rather stream.

Speaker 1: 18:44

However, I am a very big fan of physical media. Even now I still buy CDs. You know I've got plenty of DVDs, plenty of CDs, plenty of physical video games, cds, plenty of physical video games. I waited, I think, like six months or maybe longer for the company that made the game Sea of Stars to announce that they were going to release a physical copy. So I ordered that and then waited like another six months and it took me about a year to actually play the game. But I have a physical copy and that can't be taken away. If you pay attention to a lot of current news, like between stuff that I hear from Wolfden, who's very big on video game emulators, and then SkillUp, who talks a lot about video game ownership and even movie ownership, a lot of these like digital things. You don't own them and you never know when a company is just going to drop something.

Speaker 1: 19:48

Uh, earlier, I think this year, um, people were going nuts because nintendo was closing their original ds store. So like they have a new service now, um, I hope that battery died. But people were kind of going crazy because they they had to find a way to offload, like all of their games. They had to download everything and then put it onto a hard drive all these digital games that they had purchased. And that's not an issue when you have the actual physical cartridge.

Speaker 1: 20:20

Now there is something of an ease of storage and like for me, I'm totally down for, uh, ripping something or, you know, if I already own it, just download it, throw it on a hard drive if I'm shooting a convention out of town over the weekend bringing some movies with me. But I like having that physical copy because it can never be taken away from me and there is something to be said about like the public preserving games, movies, any type of digital content by having it and I know, with me. I'm like I'll openly admit I'll pirate stuff, but that's usually because it's something I'm interested in buying. So it's like, okay, do I actually care? Care about this. Literally no one has it streaming anywhere. So, okay, I'm just going to download this, I'm interested it. See if I like it. Um, and if I am, yeah, I buy it. I. That's why I still have so many movies.

Speaker 3: 21:17

Uh, you know, I don't even have a 4k player and I have so much stuff in 4k blu-ray, dvd I will say, um, as far as, like you know, it is uh, when it comes to the digital media, it has been very beneficial when it comes to gaming, because I don't want to go out and rent or buy a copy of crime boss raque city. As much fun as we are having playing the game, I don't want to own it, I just want to go on playstation premium or. Thank god we didn't have to buy sea of thieves and a physical copy here.

Speaker 4: 21:46

Thank god that didn't happen it probably would have came in like a really cool case like oh yeah, like a ship, we're gonna have a pirate ship yeah, but but then we would have just like thrown it out to the sea because it sucks 150 for the collector's case.

Speaker 1: 22:02

That's a giant treasure chest. Well, listen.

Speaker 4: 22:06

What's worse Spending $150 for that type of collector's item or spending $100 on Back 4 Blood and playing it twice Again? Mistakes can be made.

Speaker 2: 22:15

You spent $100 on Back 4 Blood, not only did he spend $100, dylan.

Speaker 3: 22:19

$100 on Back 4 Blood. Not only did he spend $100, dylan, he bought the $100 version that came out with three days early access, when none of us purchased the one with three days early access.

Speaker 1: 22:28

So none of us got that version for the early version because we weren't going to pay that.

Speaker 4: 22:33

Then I also bought Modern Warfare 3 at full price at launch and that's because we had been playing the beta. And guess who doesn't have Modern Warfare 3 at full price at launch? And that's because we had been playing the beta. And guess who doesn't have Modern Warfare 3?.

Speaker 2: 22:45

Anybody I play with Wrong, they all have it if they have Game Pass as of today.

Speaker 3: 22:49

Oh, it came out today. Yep, let's go.

Speaker 4: 22:52

All right, I'm going to download it now, phil keeps reminding me, and I'm not going to play it out of spite.

Speaker 3: 22:57

So that's just in the last, like two years, that's $170 of digital games, and also because you made the choice which is totally fine to preorder the game on the PlayStation Plus store, where I walked into a GameStop to get a code on a receipt and then, knowing I wasn't going to buy the game, I went in and canceled the preorder. So that's a choice you made, we both made decisions Bringing it back to Redbox.

Speaker 4: 23:26

right, I'm not going to go to a physical location to go do a second transaction, like I got to do this. Go there, come back home and then do one more thing and go outside.

Speaker 3: 23:39

There's also to be fair. There is also a game stop five minutes from me and eric would have to drive like a good 20 to 30.

Speaker 4: 23:45

So for me, it's like I just go.

Speaker 3: 23:48

It could be in my neighborhood it could be in my neighborhood, never mind, I was trying to like help you out, but never mind if you know, bring back guys in trench coats. That's what he's saying there we go, go, yes.

Speaker 4: 23:59

That's exactly what I'm saying. Oh my God. So yeah, that's my story. Red box and RIP. Red box, you had a good run. Probably a better run than you deserve to have, but you had a great run. All right, Eric All right, guys, we got the wheel coming back up. We got three people left three stories to tell. We're going to do the same cadence. So when you are ready, we're going to go ahead and do it Three two, one Spin that wheel. Wow, that was really good.

Speaker 1: 24:34

It'll sound great in post. That was really good.

Speaker 2: 24:36

I bet you said that to everybody.

Speaker 1: 24:44

Suck it, Dylan.

Speaker 2: 24:44

good everyone's I really I bet you say that's everybody.

Speaker 3: 24:46

Oh, suck it dylan I was like watching, like wheel of fortune and watching it just tick over into bankrupt, that's the spirit of the wheel. All right, all right, cory, what?

Speaker 1: 24:56

do you got what did we miss in july 2024?

Speaker 3: 24:58

what'd you come across?

Speaker 1: 25:00

Okay, so super big news and this is like hot off the press as of what's today, two days ago. So IDW is IDW Publishing, the comic book company is partnering with Viz Media to make a teenage mutant ninja turtles naruto crossover comic that is releasing uh, what is it? Yeah, it's going to be four issues, um, and issue number one ships november 13th of this year. Uh, they've got caleb goldner from sonica hedgehog henry, uh, presettia from muddy morphin power rangers for drawing, which that is some really dope art raul angelo for coloring and ed duksher is lettering. Um, yeah, this is, uh, what is it you want me to read like the synopsis of this?

Speaker 3: 26:00

Absolutely. Please Go for it.

Speaker 1: 26:02

Okay, let's do it. When teenage reporter April O'Neil has a clandestine meeting with Tsunade, the leader of the Hidden Leaf Village, it garners the attention of Naruto, sasuke, sakura and Kakashi. They aren't the only ones who are wondering what the two women were discussing, though. The sinister foot clan have their own interest in april's visit, as they think she might hold the valuable information on mutation research being conducted by the scientist baxter stockman. With april caught between the forces of the hidden leaf village and the foot clan, it can't be long before the teenage mutant Turtles show up to lend her a hand. So I'm really happy about this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles obviously, longtime passion. You know I was always dressed up as either Michelangelo or Batman as a kid Watched a lot of the cartoons. Actually, to this day I've still never read the comics, but I like I remember going to see TMNT in theaters when that came out, cause even as a teenager I was like, yeah, I'm still going to see this supported. It's still cool. And while I've kind of fallen off from constantly attending Ninja Turtle stuff, I still love it. You know, the passion's still there. It's one of those. You know, if you're ever in Target or Walmart, I always got to see what the new Ninja Turtle toys look like. I somehow always manage to keep abreast of whatever the new style is.

Speaker 1: 27:42

Three was current in japan, uh, and that's when I started that. I think I got four or five hundred episodes deep, uh, before finally hopping off that ship. So, yeah, it's. It's just this like massive childhood, um, like nostalgia dump, and not not the crossover that I think anyone would have expected. Um, ninja turtles, you know we, we got Usagi Yojimbo, but that was like Stan Sakai was already American, usagi Yojimbo was already like an American established thing. So, yeah, getting a manga, like you know, comic and manga crossover is absolutely wild. Yeah, I don't know what do you think, because I know some of y'all are new to anime manga and I hope, not many of you are new to the Turtles though.

Speaker 4: 28:25

Yeah, I mean not expected, but welcome. Like Naruto and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feels like a perfect pairing, phil. Obviously we talked about TMNT and while we are very familiar with it, it wasn't like a, a core. I think we were both more power rangers, kids, right, um. But there's so much turtle stuff coming out, like they're doing not only a sequel to mutant mayhem, but the cast is also doing the voice work for the show. Uh, tales of the teenage mutant ninja turtles. Then there's also the Last Ronin, which is coming out, potentially in a movie, potentially in a game, and now this. So like, what's your thoughts, phil, about that? Because I feel like there's so much interesting adult related Turtles content that we might end up getting into one of these and finding a real liking to it.

Speaker 3: 29:16

Yeah, it really feels like the next thing we are like just inevitably going to step into is comics, because, you know, with the, with manga, I finally started my journey as well. And the other thing it's funny, you mentioned power rangers and cory. You probably came across this in your research to power rangers and godzilla baby that's. They're. They're releasing that pretty soon and I think I'm definitely gonna dive into that. But yeah, it's strange with tmnt because it has like all those elements that I should enjoy. But, like you said, power rangers was always that thing I got to first, so that has always been. When it comes to that style, uh, and when it comes to like 90s nostalgia, that is my thing. But yeah, last rodent, every time I I walk by that graphic novel and target man, I'm like this looks really tempting to go back to the physical media thing. I'm like, oh man, it'd be nice to own that and finally check it out. So it's great that some of these franchises that are so nostalgic to us are not only in such a healthy spot for nostalgic purposes but they're also re-releasing and new iterations for new people to find, like we were just kind of offhandedly talking about, and this is obviously much lighter subject matter, but the new, fairly odd parents is getting really good reviews and like a brand new wave of kids are getting to watch that show and I've heard it's very good, you know. So the fact that we're it's that they found this balance for these IPs of nostalgia and bringing in new fans. It's great. So you definitely want to see more of that.

Speaker 3: 30:44

Dylan, what do you think? Were you a TMNT guy, or or even Naruto?

Speaker 2: 30:50

Either or Neither I am. I am pumped for the people that enjoy both of those. I'm excited for them because I think that's super cool. Um, I don't know how I missed teenage mutant ninja turtles, because I was like right at the right time for all of that. Um, I just I don't know if I was just watching like batman and justice league and stuff on a different channel or or what, but yeah, or you know power rangers too, you know like um, but yeah, I, I did not. Uh, the only like touch point I have from my childhood for like teenage mutant ninja turtles was that one where, like every, it was like people in like a puppet, uh, rubber suit thing, um, I don't remember which turtles that was, um, but that that was my main touch point there. Um, and then I know naruto is big, um, and I was like, yeah, maybe I should start it as you were talking about it. And then you said four or five hundred episodes before you hopped off, uh, and I was like nope, I'm never gonna start that ever uh so yeah I'm

Speaker 2: 31:57

gonna finish it I was gonna say, maybe when they do the live action version of naruto that condenses the first 300 episodes down into like 10 episodes. Uh, maybe, maybe, but um, but yeah. So I like I said I think it's super cool. I think you know the clips I've seen of naruto uh, look really like interesting. Um, and then obviously the turtles are just cool. Uh, I just have not personally engaged with either property a whole lot, but I'm excited for everybody who gets to gets to have both of those crossovers, because a fun crossover, uh like feel like you mentioned, like power rangers and godzilla, you know, like if it's your stuff, uh, you're it's, it's like, yes, I'm pumped, I'm excited for this. So you know, I'm happy for you, cory appreciate that.

Speaker 1: 32:48

Yeah, no, idw is really doing the lord's work with uh, all their um, all their content. Because when I saw the power rangers godzilla covers I was like, yeah, that makes sense, cause IDW publishes both of those Uh and um. From the stuff that I've read and then also from what I've heard through short box, uh, like pretty much everything they put out has been a banger, cause they've done the Flintstones. I want to say it was uh, which is supposed to be like not necessarily not for children, but it covers a lot more adult topics than you would expect um, but yeah, so idw is just, you know, doing a bang-up job, with a couple of crossovers now and, like I said, this just felt like it was way out of left field, like it just extremely unexpected because it naruto's, not theirs. So it's cool that they're actually getting this dope partnership in.

Speaker 1: 33:43

But yeah hope some of the listeners enjoy it as well.

Speaker 3: 33:48

Eric, it's like seeing all these TNA superstars popping up in NXT Like crossovers are in a healthy spot right now. It's great.

Speaker 4: 33:55

Yeah, I mean, listen, you don't even have to really like Naruto to know. It's probably going to be pretty cool to see some of those characters go up against the Foot Clan and Shredder, like, come on now, it's just like a match made in heaven. I think those crossovers are super, super fun and I mean, I've talked to Phil about this. That's something that they need to do more of in film. You know, phil, we're getting that Transformers GI Joe crossover that we've wanted so much. Who's we? We've wanted it so much. And then eventually, eventually, we'll get the Fast and Furious and Jurassic Park crossover. Nope, no, don't want that. Okay.

Speaker 1: 34:31

Go faster, go faster, go faster.

Speaker 3: 34:36

You see Owen Grady flip up the button and hit the nuts. Oh God, it's writing itself. Oh no Wild, that was.

Speaker 1: 34:45

Dominion. We've already had that movie Jurassic World 3. That's.

Speaker 3: 34:49

Dominion, that's right. That already happened.

Speaker 4: 34:52

I don't think Vin Diesel could write a worse script than let's focus on crickets or whatever the fuck that bug was Locus.

Speaker 3: 35:00

Oh yeah, I was so confused for a second I was like what are you talking about? Yeah, no, crickets, I didn't know. Locus, locus, yeah, whatever.

Speaker 4: 35:05

Back to the Prince of Egypt. I shouldn't have known that. All right, let's jump into our next story. And what will that story be? Well, first is going to do it, and that's why we have the wheel. So, without further ado I know you guys have been waiting all episode for this for a third time three, two, one spin that wheel honestly, this is the first time I can confidently say we might have hit three for three.

Speaker 3: 35:36

This is I don't want to jinx the last one, but there we go there, we go all right, very carefully, hit the stop button and not leave, please. All right, perfect, all right dylan what did we miss in july 2024?

Speaker 2: 35:55

um. So I I come from a gaming podcast, uh, and so the one that I like, the big, the big news that we've seen uh has been sort of the Xbox game pass price increase. Um, so I don't know if you guys are well, I know Phil and Eric I think you guys do game pass and Eric I think you guys do game pass uh, but essentially they are bumping up the, the subs, I think, from $17 to $20 uh for game pass ultimate. So not not like a huge price increase, but it is. It is getting pretty expensive. I do think I think 20 comes in slightly more expensive than like some of the lower tiers of ps plus uh, so like it is no longer uh, like a better deal and cheaper than ps plus uh, and so they they were doing that uh, they introduced like a new tier game pass standard, um, that's 15 a month, um, and the big thing with that is it doesn't include the the day one like releases. So that was kind of game pass's big selling point.

Speaker 2: 37:11

For a while there was like, hey, every microsoft game that comes out, which now includes activision, blizzard, which now includes um, bethesda, um, those were also going to be available day one for the release, um, and so it doesn't include that anymore. It doesn't include the ea play games. It doesn't include pc game pass or cloud gaming either, um, so that just is coming with xbox game pass ultimate. So I mean, clearly they're trying to make a big push towards, like getting everybody, like they've made it very clear with their pricing and with the things that they're offering. It's like we just want you to go ahead and have game pass ultimate, um, but the way that they did it was kind of shitty. Um, you know, like I, I am on our show, a big xbox fan, I play it up for, uh, you know the fun of it, but uh, I, I also do have to call them out when they are, when, when they do some kind of anti-consumer stuff which sucks. You know, um, the big thing that they the, the sketchiest part of it was that the the price change is going into effect, I think, at the end of, like September, mid-september, and so the new Call of Duty game that everybody was excited for comes out in October, and so that's it. Basically, it's like yep, there are a bunch of people who will probably upgrade to game pass ultimate because they want to play call of duty, um, the the games will eventually come to like standard game pass, like all microsoft stuff will be on there eventually.

Speaker 2: 38:55

It just is like, when will that be? Will it be two weeks after? Will it be a month after? Will it be a year after? We don't know um, they haven't really said um, and so I I think it's interesting, um, just kind of the business side of you know what they're doing, you know it. It's been kind of a running joke on our show and you know just people in general of like xbox game pass, the best deal in gaming, and I feel like we're we're getting really close to the line where it isn't anymore. It isn't the bet, like twenty dollars a month, I think, is about as much as I can willingly allow myself to pay, uh, and still be like, yes, this is still a good deal.

Speaker 2: 39:39

Um, if it goes much higher than that, it's like no no, like it's uh, like, right now, as long as you're playing three new games, you know 70 price tags on them. Uh, it pays for itself because, like, you pay the, you just get those three new games and you have this massive library, um, but if they keep jacking the price up, if they keep taking away features that used to be standard, it's like, well, this isn't really a great deal anymore. And you know the way that I've always kind of seen their strategy has been hey, we don't care that Eric and Phil are PlayStation people. You know they can either buy a cheap Xbox Series S or even now, you know, just get an Amazon Fire Stick and a controller and subscribe to Game Pass and just stream the game. You know like, and so they were, you know, always just kind of targeting, like, yeah, we don't care if we're your primary thing, or you just have a subscription for all the games, um, but if they keep jacking the price up, if they keep kind of getting bad press because they do sort of shady anti-consumer things, uh, that's not going to work out for him either.

Speaker 2: 40:58

I don't think so, but I don't know. What do you guys think about the? The price increase? Uh, I think the ftc has pushed back against it, um, after they did a horrible job of defending uh consumers uh in court. Um the amazon firestick, even you know any of those things? I'll toss all of that out to you guys.

Speaker 4: 41:22

Yeah, that's really interesting, just because I do believe Microsoft responded to the FTC saying that it's actually a good deal because the cheapest here includes multiplayer. Now, which you know again, I think I don't mind the price increase as much as I don't like the delivery of it all and the timing to your point with the Call of Duty release. If you just want to increase it, just tell us that. Netflix does it constantly. Netflix, we're expanding our catalog and our library and we need to make up for new subscribers. Here we go. Price increase We'll go down. Make up for new subscribers here we go. Price increase will go down. Our stock will go down for a couple days afterwards and then it'll be right back where it is or we'll keep doing what we're doing.

Speaker 4: 42:05

So microsoft's just such a big company for them to kind of be playing around like that. Phil. It's super interesting because we are also big advocates of the best deal in gaming. But an argument can be made at no point in time have has it actually been the best dealing gaming for us, because we don't actively play on it, even though I my. My cue, like my next up cue, is full of games I want to play. I'm just not having the time, can't do it, or I just forget. Honestly, I genuinely forget my X-Box is off here sometimes. So, phil, or I just forget. Honestly, I genuinely forget my xbox is off here sometimes. So, phil, what are, what are your thoughts about it? Because this is eye-opening for me.

Speaker 3: 42:45

Maybe we should stop saying it yeah, it's a real bummer because of a lot of the things that Dylan, you know, just just lined out, but because, yeah, the ongoing joke best deal in gaming. But when's the last time we really used it a lot other than Sea of of thieves, and it was. That wasn't a good experience, like we wanted to play. Oh yeah, pal world. We played quite a bit in the beginning of the year, but that had a shelf life of about a month and, you know, never touched that again. Um, I've always wanted to play the game that's kind of similar to um, what's the, the party game where you're all animals and it's like, uh, it was very similar to um, the one that we used to play on playstation um, I forgot what it's called, but you, you mentioned wanting to do that like several.

Speaker 3: 43:29

Yeah, and we just never never jumped on it and you know, now a few of our friends do have gaming pcs so they can access game pass. But you know, pc game pass is a little bit different than regular game Pass, which I learned when I, you know, when I signed up for it. So I certainly want to play Black Ops, was very excited for that. I'll probably keep it around until then, but to what you're saying, it continues to not really give me value, then I have to roll back on it. I mean, you just mentioned Netflix, hbo Max just went up in price for the hell of it, like and, and I use that a lot and I use that way more than I use Game Pass, you know. So it went from because my daughter uses my Series S so much it went from man, I gotta buy another Xbox to. No, I don't, I don't need to do that anymore, or I'll go the Amazon, you know the Prime route, or the Fire Stick route. So it's a real bummer. You know, I'll probably check out.

Speaker 3: 44:20

Me and jordan will probably play modern warfare 3 like five times and be like all right, that was, we got our fix because we've we've cycled through these games right, it was x, defiant and then it's valorant, which we're still playing, but you know we're just looking for that uh, tried and true team death, match domination gameplay. We'll get our fix, then we'll stop playing it and then we'll go back to college football 25 and maybe in six months we'll still be playing crime boss which, by the way, we got on playstation premium, you know, because that game is on there and a game we would never purchase and just threw it on there. So, honestly, premium, like playstation premium, that gets a lot of shit, but it has had put out, like some some games we have poured some time into as of late, so it's a real bummer. Like you said, eric, the way to do this would have just been to do it and move on. But here we are. So I haven't even really looked at the Game Pass library in a little bit, so I don't even know what's on there that I've missed.

Speaker 3: 45:13

That has been released recently.

Speaker 2: 45:16

Yeah Well, and from the beginning of the year to Hell hellblade, they didn't really have a whole lot of big stuff coming out, and then from hellblade to call of duty, they really didn't have anything coming out. So it's like if you would increase the price any other time it wouldn't have felt like such a slap in the face, but because you're doing it right before call of duty, it's like yeah, that's that shitty and hellblade underperformed.

Speaker 3: 45:43

So well, I think it performed exactly like everybody expected it to

Speaker 2: 45:48

a niche they wanted it to be, you know, yeah, yeah it would have been great if it got like 90s hundreds, uh on critical reviews and like did really well. But yeah, I think it performed exactly like I expected it to.

Speaker 4: 46:05

Personally, yeah, in the future too, I think, um, maybe this will be looked back on as a great deal or great. You know, it's still a good deal for the money, but, you know, when some people are also like me me and Phil, we're paying for PlayStation Premium and stuff, so not everyone's going to be able to do both, and arguably PlayStation has a comparable lineup, I think. So it's definitely a conversation worth having. Corey, really curious if, in the gaming sphere, that is something you partake in, which is those kind of like subscriptions to get that catalog of games, and if not, what are your thoughts about just price hikes in general when it comes to some of these streaming platforms, both in film and especially in gaming, for this conversation?

Speaker 1: 46:53

So the only thing that I'm currently a part of as far as gaming subscription goes is the Nintendo. One of as far as gaming subscription goes is, uh, the nintendo one. Um, because that it's, it's a double edged sword, because it's access to a lot of games that they just won't release, like ever again. Um, and that is one of the most common points that like uh wolfon makes is for the love of god, just release these games. Like to this day, they have never re-released a single pokemon game. Like do you know how many people, how much money, would go into like a new? Like you don't have to remake it, but just make pokemon red and blue available on a modern system. Uh, you know people would go nuts for it. So, like I'm I, I have that because it is kind of fun to, you know, go in and fart around on some of the old nes snes games. Uh, they've opened up some like ds and n64 titles, uh, but when it comes down to it and kind of to, you know the I know this isn't your persistent experience, but to a point that you've already kind of made is you're paying a monthly fee for, like, subpar games or games that you're not really enjoying. And for two hundred and forty dollars a year which, dylan, you made the point of, like you can buy three brand new 70 games. And it's like you know, here I am. Uh, I still haven't beaten horizon 2, um, which released how many years ago. Like, it took me a while to beat the witcher 3 and, honestly, when I'm playing horizon 2 and a lot of other games, it's the it's like the wolverine in bed thing where it's like I'm playing these other games, but I'm thinking about the Witcher 3, just doing another replay of that. But yeah, there are so many games that are you going to get the value out of it?

Speaker 1: 48:56

I know when I was in my early twenties and like all my money was going to rent and food, um, like, I'll tell people like modern warfare was a lifesaver because I paid 30, $40 for a game. Uh, my brother already had the console that he wasn't really using and so for the price of 30, $40, I had like hundreds of hours of entertainment and while it wouldn't go, it's not a franchise that I really care about anymore, but it's like I appreciate that moment in life. Uh, probably the only recent time sink I've had was diablo 4, um, and I basically soloed that I could never really get anyone to you, you know, either on anyone else's schedule. So I was like, screw it, I'll play during the day. $70 again, I think, right there, I probably got over 100 hours in it.

Speaker 1: 49:53

So for me, a lot of it is like yeah, you're paying extra money, but are you actually utilizing what's there? If you're on a gaming podcast, which you know, the three of you, it's generally better to be a little bit more relevant. Um, but I know, for I mean honestly, if not for the podcast, like, would you, would you guys, even you know, partake in that? Uh? And on the price hike thing, that's always, that's always a bitter topic. Uh, max increasing their price, I mean, you know you got to make more room for the monster verse. They just threw godzilla x kong on there. It costs extra money, um, but I went through their animated movies the other day because I was just I was I was feeling animated and like all 12 movies that they have on there and it's like this is kind of sad.

Speaker 1: 50:44

Um, like I've got my 12 crunchy roll subscription, uh, which is like one of my favorite subscriptions because I, they carry, they cater to what I want and I will never finish everything that they have. Like the original dragon ball, I think is 150 something episodes. That's just dragon ball, let alone Z and super. So that track is going to take a long time to get through. Uh, and then crunchy roll or not crunchy roll, uh, shown a jump $3 a month for all of that.

Speaker 1: 51:19

Um, and it's great and I I go in it like once a month and then catch up, you know, probably once a quarter, so that I get chunks at a time of series that I'm interested in. Uh, like that stuff is fine and it feels reasonable for what they have. I'm not keeping up with current anime, so paying whatever $14 a month for Crunchyroll makes sense to me because I mostly spend my time watching 80s and 90s anime, some of which even now may still not be available in America, or at least not very readily available. But for a lot of the gaming stuff did playstation for a while and I I could not name a single game that I got from the game pass. I basically just got it to play uh fall guys with people for like six months and then no one ever played it again yeah, yeah, that's.

Speaker 4: 52:15

Uh, that's such an interesting take, cory, because um, ph, I don't know. And first off for Crunchyroll, that's the next thing. By the way, when that price hike happens my heart is going to hurt Shonen Jump great deal. But you know, with these gaming subscriptions they just seem to continue to want to go up and that's just going to be the competition of the market.

Speaker 4: 52:37

Phil Corey mentioned, like would and your friendly neighborhood gamers is a full on gaming podcast. So they I mean they, we we don't hold a candle to them, but for us, phil pal world was our February episode this year. Just looking at this year, game pass wouldn't have played that if it wasn't on game pass. We then played a fallout 76, while not on game pass, that was on PlayStation and it was because we had the subscription. We would not have paid for that game. That was our May episode and then our last two episodes. Another crab's treasure we played on Game Pass. Would not have purchased that Sea of Thieves, would not have purchased that, even though we made a friend purchased it to play it.

Speaker 3: 53:18

That was a bad choice. She made a choice it to play it that was uh she made a choice. She made a choice. She has game pass. She could have gotten it on pc I understand.

Speaker 4: 53:25

Um, so all that to say like, out of the, out of the seven episodes of the game room where it happens that we've had, over half of those have come from subscription-based games that had we not had those subscriptions, we likely would not have played. So I feel like that's like a double-edged sword. That's really interesting. Dylan, I'm gonna kind of just pose that question to you, like how much does that impact your gaming podcast from a content standpoint, like is there still enough value there, or are you guys just kind of doing it, because sometimes um, I mean, I can't speak for Andrew, but for myself, definitely it's.

Speaker 2: 54:05

You know the values there. Um, now, I do think you know to your point. I think the argument is always there of like, well, if you wouldn't purchase this game, then are you really getting value? You know, like, is it really? You know it's like, oh, ok, well, if I wouldn't watch, you know, star Wars, acolyte or whatever, then like, is it worth paying for that? Like, if I, if it wasn't on a subscription, is it worth paying for the subscription to watch it? Or something like that. But you know, it is for us anyway.

Speaker 2: 54:41

Uh, a gaming podcast that likes to talk about video games. We release weekly episodes where we're talking about video games. So, you know, we, we play a decent amount of them. Um, it, you know, is probably our main hobby. Um, it is worth it to us. It is worth it to us.

Speaker 2: 54:59

Um, you know, like I said, we can look at it and it's like, uh, uh, it's easier to think back to like last year, where it was like, uh, we got lies of P, we got a few other games that came to game pass that we probably wouldn't have picked up. Um, uh, like remnant to um, those kinds of things where it was like, yeah, we probably would have waited for a sale or, you know, pick that up two, three years down the line, but because it was on Game Pass day one, we got to play it. You know, liza P day one, a game that we were both kind of looking forward to. We didn't end up having to spend money on it. So for us it's it's worth it. For us it's it's worth it, um, but I, like I said, I I always kind of try to frame it in that way of, like, you know, is it worth it for the average person who's playing video games?

Speaker 2: 55:52

You know, like, if you are a playstation gamer primarily, and that's where you're putting your time and or pc gamer, you know, and that's where you're putting your time, that's where you know you're putting, uh, like, playing those games. Is it worth it to also have the xbox game pass subscription? I don't know, because if you're not paying, if you're not playing, you know, two and a half, three full games plus maybe a couple of others, just to really get that value. I don't know if it really is that worth it. Because then I think that argument of well, maybe I just pick up the two games I'm actually interested in and pay for those full price and I end up saving a few bucks, you know um. But like you know, just looking ahead, we've got the new black ops, we've got uh, or whatever it is, cold war, uh, call of duty, uh.

Speaker 2: 56:45

We've got avowed supposedly coming up, still uh allegedly allegedly, um I think there's a off the top of my head, I can't really remember uh, but flintlock, siege of dawn just came out. Um, the old modern warfare 3 just came out, a game I wouldn't have picked up, um. So I mean, there's, there's enough there for me that I'm getting my value out of it. But, like I said, you know, if this isn't your primary place you're playing or you find yourself not getting enough. Now, especially now that it's 20 bucks a month, um, it's kind of like, yeah, I can see, you know, just paying for the two or three games you're gonna play out of pocket, uh, and letting the subscription lapse. Now there's also the, the multiplayer. You got to pay for multiplayer part of it, which sucks um, but that's the biggest sin in like modern.

Speaker 2: 57:41

Yeah, that's yeah, that's, that's on playstation as well. Uh, I was trying to play something. I was playing bloodborne on playstation the other day and I don't pay for ps plus anymore because I wasn't using it. Um, that is a subscription I let lapse because I wasn't doing enough with it. Um, and I went to try to like, do uh, put in a code to run a dungeon and get a weapon that I normally wouldn't have access to?

Speaker 2: 58:05

Uh, and found out very quickly, like, oh, that's apparently a multiplayer feature that's locked behind, that I can't do that anymore, and so I was like I forgot that we live in this, this world, where PC gaming it's free, but for some reason, the console makers don't want to do it. The console makers don't want to do it, uh, so, but yeah, nintendo's is the only one that I will never let lapse because it is 20 a month or not 20 a month, 20 a year. So even though I rarely, if ever, would say that I get my value out of that one, I'm willing to pay 20 a year to not get value out of it.

Speaker 3: 58:44

So it was the only, and I don't have my switch anymore, but it was the only time I got a renewal notice via email. I was like, oh OK, well, that's fine. Every time I'm like damn it, there goes $25.

Speaker 2: 58:58

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 58:58

I needed that $25. But, and to Corey's point about Nintendo, like I would still have my Switch if you just let me buy Pokemon Yellow or Gold or Silver on my Switch. But I never use it anymore and I sold it.

Speaker 4: 59:11

Phil, it was Because I just wasn't using it. When you got your PC, one of the first things you showed me on it was the old Pokemon game.

Speaker 3: 59:17

Emulated the shit out of every Pokemon game that I ever wanted to play and I'll just sit here and watch whatever and play Pokemon. And I'll just sit here and watch whatever and play Pokemon and I get to use an Xbox controller to play Pokemon. Are you kidding me? What do you mean?

Speaker 4: 59:32

No, no way, Nintendo, come on, get it together. Possibly the best Was once the best controller in gaming. I don't know, no, okay, so.

Speaker 1: 59:41

That's a conversation now I will say I have been told by a multitude of people to buy an Xbox controller because, like on my laptop, you know, I can hook up my Joy-Cons, I can hook up the PS4 and I kind of feel like I don't necessarily dig the PS4. And then one of my brothers said that he's been using an Xbox controller for like nine months. Brothers said that he's been using an xbox controller for like nine months. This coming from a guy who used the ps5 controller, I think when it released, that was his primary thing and like the day he picked up one of the new xbox controllers, he was like oh yeah, I'm done with the ps5 controller. Um, so yeah, apparently, hey, xbox makes a stellar controller. I've heard a lot of positive stuff about their elite controllers as well. For those who want the like, whack sensitivity adjustments.

Speaker 3: 1:00:36

Do you have an elite controller, Dylan?

Speaker 2: 1:00:37

No, I will die before I pay $150 for a controller.

Speaker 1: 1:00:42

But think of the colors the. Colors.

Speaker 3: 1:00:45

It's good to know we all have limits, but I will. I'll acknowledge that, eric, that I think. And it's crazy about the ps5 controller. I love that controller, um, the ps4 one and the ps. I hated the ps3 one, ps4. I was like, okay, this is a little better. But there's a conversation I feel like to be had between the xbox and the ps5 controller I know um, because I I love that wait, wait till astrobot comes out, dude.

Speaker 4: 1:01:06

Wait till astrobot because they have not. They have not unlocked the full potential of that play, if anything by the way, is eric's favorite game of all time it's already game of the year, but I will tell you this I think I really do think that the playstation 5 remote doesn't come in the conversation because I don't think it's reached its potential, but I think you're right.

Speaker 3: 1:01:27

Because that bitch dies in half an hour.

Speaker 4: 1:01:30

I understand.

Speaker 3: 1:01:31

In one college football session I had to change out my controller. Thank God I have four.

Speaker 4: 1:01:35

Oh, thank.

Speaker 3: 1:01:35

God, I have four controllers.

Speaker 4: 1:01:37

I've been playing college football so much that that happened. That's never happened to me since I've owned my PlayStation. I was so alarmed, yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:01:43

Yeah, I get it. Yeah, it's got me wanting to place my charging port somewhere else, so I don't have to walk across the room to go swap controllers.

Speaker 1: 1:01:53

There was only some kind of like way to just keep power constantly running to the controller.

Speaker 3: 1:02:00

I know that's why I also, I have a USB to charge my phone right next to me.

Speaker 1: 1:02:06

But no.

Speaker 3: 1:02:06

I get the cable, the cables, across my leg and it's touching my leg. I don't want it.

Speaker 1: 1:02:11

I have definitely done that. When I forgot I've only got two PS4 controllers because they last like six months at a time and like there was one time where I just let one die, swapped it out, totally forgot to charge the previous one and was like running around the house grabbing my extension cords and, uh, you know dongles and stuff, and then plugged it in and just had it like running underneath the couch and it's like you know good old days, whatever it's okay, you had to.

Speaker 3: 1:02:42

You had to do what you had to do back then, but uh, yeah, great story there. Dylan obviously brought up a lot of good conversations. So, eric, yes, we got one more go round. Yeah, even though logic says we shouldn't have to do this anymore.

Speaker 4: 1:03:02

Yeah, logic says we don't have to. We don't run. Logically here I say we don't have to.

Speaker 1: 1:03:08

It's red versus blue baby.

Speaker 4: 1:03:12

We'll see which version of Phil we're going to get. We're going to count down and we're going to aim for four out of four, but it's been a good run so far nonetheless. So we're going to go. We're going to do three, two spin that wheel all right, that wasn't too bad.

Speaker 3: 1:03:33

That wasn't too bad but cory was a little slow in the jump that's okay on the, that's on the trigger, that's okay all, right all right, all right, there we go all right, perfect.

Speaker 3: 1:03:47

We got to me here last and this is a story I did post in our discord page and it's pretty fitting that you're here, dylan, because you'll have a affinity for this series as well. You know the real series, not this one that was canceled, which is halo, which was finally canceled after two seasons at Paramount+. The big-budget series based on the popular Xbox video game franchise aired two seasons at the streaming service. The show originally debuted in 2022, while the second season aired between February and March of 2024. Paramount Plus can confirm that Halo will not move forward with a third season on the service. The streamer said in a statement we are extremely proud of this ambitious series and would like to thank our partners at Xbox 343 Industries and Amblin Television, along with showrunner and executive producer David Weiner, his fellow executive producers, the entire cast led by Pablo Schreiber as master chief, and the amazing crew, for all their outstanding work.

Speaker 3: 1:04:47

We wish everybody the best going forward. This didn't come as a surprise to, I think, a lot of us. I'm interested as we go through the panel if anybody actually watched this show. I certainly did not, especially after hearing some of the reviews from Season 1. And it is pretty heartbreaking.

Speaker 3: 1:05:06

You know Halo will always hold a very special place in my heart, eric. It was the whole core of our online multiplayer journey started with Halo 3 and, you know, still doing it today with other games. So to go from, at one point, a movie that could have been directed by Peter Jackson and produced by steven spielberg, to where we are now, to getting hit master chief's ass on paramount plus, like plastered all over social media and our screens, to these weird subplots, it's just really upsetting. So again, dylan, uh, you kind of gave it away there and your reaction sounds like you never gave this a shot, as I think most of us never did. But just talk about, you know, your reaction to this being canceled. Are you surprised? Did you ever think it had a shot? And also just maybe talk about your relationship with Halo in general.

Speaker 2: 1:05:59

Yeah, yeah, I've been playing Halo since Halo one. Halo combat evolved as a kid, like me and my buddy, like we'd go to his room, hook up his xbox, play halo all day, you know, like that that was what we were doing as kids. So, um, I am not shocked that this show didn't do well, uh, because they tried to make it about the master chief, which was never going to work. Like the Halo universe is a really cool universe, but trying to adapt the Spartans or particularly like Master Chief's story and like the stories of like the fall of Reach and Halo and that sort of thing, it's kind of like, yeah, like doing that with uh, like focusing on the master chief is tough. Uh, like it would be, I think, a much more compelling story to tell if they did kind of like andor. I guess uh is maybe a good example where, instead of focusing on like jedi and that of thing, it was kind of just like hey, this is like a very cool, solid story, even if it wasn't star Wars, but then it is a star Wars story as well. And I think if they had taken that route where it's like this is just in the world of halo, like we're we're adapting all of the pre-existing lore. We're, you know, taking inspirations from it, but we're going to tell our own story. That just happens to be existing and, you know, follow some marines or something.

Speaker 2: 1:07:35

I think that would have gone over better than because everyone's got their expectations for, like, what the master chief is going to do and how it's going to do, uh, or how they're going to adapt those stuff, those things, especially because it's being been talked about, like you said, as far back as like Neil Blomkamp and Peter Jackson and all of them. Um, I think the other thing that hurt it was it's on paramount, which is like, at best a third tier, like a streaming service. Like you've got your like Netflix, hulu, hbo, and then, like you, you drop down to like some of the yeah, some of the more niche ones, uh, and then, like, then you've got like Amazon and, uh, like Paramount, apple TV, uh, you know some of the ones where it's like.

Speaker 2: 1:08:24

I mean, uh, you know some of the ones where it's like I mean at least that's how I think about it.

Speaker 2: 1:08:28

I mean, I think Apple TV is good, I think there's good stuff on all of these streaming services. It's just like the subscriber base gets smaller and smaller the further down you go. And also, some Paramount don't do a great job about advertising what's on there, and so I don't know. I think about advertising what what's on there, um, and so I don't know. I think that hurt it as well. Um, just because it's like I'm not going to pay for like 15 streaming services just so that I can watch everything, you know, like I'm going to pay for HBO and I'm going to like share that around so that I can get, uh, a hulu subscription and, uh, disney plus subscription. And you know, like we, you work out your deals, um, and they're, you know, trying to put a stop to that too. But, um, all that to say, I'm not shocked.

Speaker 2: 1:09:20

I had heard good things about season two. It was on my list of like. Eventually, when I remember, you know, when I don't find something on netflix and hbo and hulu and amazon and apple tv and whatever, and I eventually work my way down to paramount, maybe I'll watch this, um, but I I'm not shocked because I'm sure it cost a lot of money and I highly doubt they were getting the viewership they wanted and I don't think it was like. No, like I have a gaming podcast, game gamers capital, g gamers TM suck. Um, they're not going to come subscribe to paramount Plus to watch a video game TV show about the Master Chief. They're going to pirate it and then talk shit online. Um, they're not going to subscribe. So you know, I don't know. That's my take, though.

Speaker 3: 1:10:20

Yeah, and and Corey, you know we just talked about signing up for all these subscription services and Paramount Plus and Eric, you know this is seems like the one that's tacked on to something else. Eric gets Paramount Plus, I think with what Uber Eats or something like that.

Speaker 4: 1:10:33

No, that's, that's actually Peacock. I get Peacock with Instacart.

Speaker 3: 1:10:37

OK, I get Paramount Plus with my Walmart Plus subscription, so I don't even like I didn't. I've never signed up for Paramount Plus, even like back in the day when I had a third podcast Shout out to all. Here it goes, and my, my other buddy, eric, we use Paramount Plus a lot to to watch like old Nickelodeon shows, because they have a big library there. But you know, even then I think only one of us was paying for it. So yeah, corey, we have entered a age you know where the, the video game adaptation has turned a corner. We have the Last of Us, we have, and Dylan, your idea as far as following a different group, like a, like a Marines group or something. That's literally what Fallout 76 did. They brought us to a new vault, they brought in original characters, and it's incredible. So, corey, in this age where we've turned the corner and now these video game adaptations are much better, the production quality is there, the storytelling is there. Are you surprised to hear this news and did you ever check out the Halo show?

Speaker 1: 1:11:34

No, I never checked out the Halo show. I kind of forgot that it existed. I know it's funny that this is the topic that comes up, because I was watching the Skill Up recap this week in gaming and he mentioned that it got canceled and I was like, oh yeah, I forgot it even started. And here it is, it's done. And the stills that he showed looked great. It looked like whoever they had on costume design was, like you know, top notch. But yeah, there is.

Speaker 1: 1:12:11

You mentioned last of us, uh, and then it seems like the issue dylan, which you brought up with this. Um, you have to pick, like, are you going to follow the characters that everyone knows or are you going to do something to the side? Um, witcher three did well. I want to say it's like the first three seasons were well and it's the fourth one that's badly received, or maybe the third one I don't remember how many they're on now, um, but that's one of those where it's like you can't really do any wrong because it's based on books and the games don't follow the books. Uh, they're all just like vignettes of gerald's story. So, pick something, throw it at a wall, it's gonna stick. Just pick a bunch of random stories, you can't really go wrong. You don't have to stay um strictly to something, but then if you're gonna bust out halo, we have the entire story already.

Speaker 1: 1:13:07

Um, like, I I'm not one of the. I didn't play halo growing up. I was always an unreal tournament person before halo came out. I remember my first comment ever when halo came out. You know friends at a friend's house and I'm like, what the hell is that thing in the top corner? And he's like oh, that's the mini map. I was like what does it do? He's like it shows you where the enemies are. I'm like, why do you need that? Like, you should just be on your game. But yeah, so it's one of those that a lot of people are passionate about. I've heard so much of the Halo story through so many people. It is one of those games that was magical for so many people. Oh my God, so many people. Oh my god, so many people.

Speaker 1: 1:13:47

Um, and yeah, like you're gonna come in and you're just gonna take the main character and try to do something different for a linear, spelled out story, and I agree that's one of those where they should have done the fallout thing and just do something to the side there's an entire universe. Uh, like my. My constant complaint with, uh, star wars is like why do the skywalkers always have to be involved? They are one family, they are unimportant. Like. How does it always come back to them? Just, you know, tell stories that don't somehow attach themselves to characters that we've already met. This is literally space. So, yeah, like halo, you know it's. I hope that something good comes from this. Uh, like I said, for like the costumes and stuff, I hope that someone takes a vision, picks out another video game or something else, um, and is able to Just take the quality that was there and put it into something that has a little bit more TLC Behind the story and the screenwriting and stuff.

Speaker 3: 1:14:57

Yeah, eric, to throw it to you, this is a show that we, I'm sure we discussed on previous iterations Of what did I miss as something that was. You know, at one point it was in production and then it was about to come out. And then it is out and it's terrible and never was going to at any point find its way on to like late to the party. You know, we were never going to talk about this on social media or anything, and and now it's gone, and you know what. Well, we're going to forget that it existed within the next few months, if not sooner.

Speaker 4: 1:15:28

Yeah, the Paramount plus stigma is real. I definitely, like I thought less of the show, honestly, just without even knowing much about it. I also everything with Master Chief. The big thing is that you know he removes his helmet. He's like an actual character, like that was such a big backlash or blowout in season one. Apparently, I do remember that very reminiscent of what's going on right now with, like the acolyte talking about star Wars, corey mentioning that like some people don't like that original route and and to Dylan's point, they're not even going to go subscribe and actually watch the show. They'll see clips or they'll pirate it, make an opinion and shit on it.

Speaker 4: 1:16:08

For me, halo just never worked as a concept for a television show. For me, even the games are not that interesting from a story perspective and, phil, we've talked about this a lot, especially with, like Halo 3, which I adore I don't remember a fucking thing about that story. I don't remember jack shit about that story. I remember the vibes. I don't remember a fucking thing about that story. I don't remember jack shit about that story. I remember the vibes. I remember the characters, the aesthetics, the gameplay and the friends that we made along the way. Like I enjoyed. I enjoyed all of that. That really works for a game and if you're going to adapt it for me, me, halo is this spectacle and it should be a movie. It's very, very simple. The last of us in fallout are such rich worlds and franchises that you can absolutely make those work into television shows, and I think that makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 4: 1:17:00

Another, uh another good example would be like resident evil. They kept making movies of that. I think that would have worked better in television form. They did also try that. It didn't work, but that's beside the point. It could have been better, might have been better, especially during that era.

Speaker 4: 1:17:17

And to your point, phil, I think things are getting so much better for gaming adaptations that it has to be something good, like we're not just settling anymore and I feel like what Halo was was settling on the idea of bringing that adaptation to life and I don't think that people resonated with that. I sure didn't. Would I like to see a movie in the future? Sure, I also somewhat feel like that ship has passed. There's been some bad taste left in people's mouths, especially with that show and everything leading up to it. I'm not really sure where the future of it goes from an adaptation standpoint, from a gaming standpoint. We don't even know where it's gonna stand there and that's its bread and butter. So I think halo is. It's a shame is how I feel hearing that news. It's just a shame to see that huge franchise In almost every area Falter.

Speaker 3: 1:18:10

I can't get Go ahead, corey.

Speaker 1: 1:18:12

I was going to say I think that is probably the greatest point to be made about. This Is like what a slap in the face, because I've got friends who you know you hear all these stories about midnight releases and how hyped they were, about, you know, playing these games, all these wonderful stories. I know people who've had um, the stands, the posters, like stuff that you could only get from a game stop or special events, these people who would travel to do halo related stuff, and it's like you know that that's cool Again. Like me, personally I don't get it, but I I I'm glad that there are those people out there that, like, this is the thing that they're passionate about Um and yeah to to have forgotten that it ever existed, and then get shot down so quickly and it's like what did you expect? Like you, you know you tried nothing and now you're all out of options.

Speaker 3: 1:19:13

Um, it's not really an excuse anymore yeah, you know, we, we, we got this show and, um, obviously it was a disaster. And for some reason, we just can't get dave batista as marcus phoenix, like we want. And for some reason, eric, we just can't get Dave Bautista as Marcus Phoenix, like we want. Just for some reason in 2024, it still hasn't happened. He's begging to do it and instead we get once again Master Chief's ass on Paramount+.

Speaker 4: 1:19:39

And again, gears is so interesting because I feel like that could go either way. I feel like, if done right, it could be a TV show show, but it's also such a spectacle, it could be a movie so like war coming to paramount, plus it'd be like no, no no, and I mean paramount plus the video game channel no, and until fallout, until fallout.

Speaker 4: 1:20:01

We were concerned about the god of war announcement for prime, which we we still don't know how real that all is or what's happening, but again, it's just. It's such a weird place for video game adaptations. It feels like it's better than ever, but also it's so uncertain. Like you know what my feeling is, phil, about bioshock. It's another example that's. That's an adaptation I am fearful for because it could. It could work as a movie, I guess, but I would much rather see that as a TV show. So sometimes things just go down a road and it can never recover because the wrong decision was made right at the beginning. So I think that's just what happened with Halo. Again could have been this grand spectacle movie in pop culture and it ended up on Paramount Plus as a two season pretty much miss.

Speaker 3: 1:20:50

Yep, and my favorite Halo story is Reach, and you know what I played through Reach, so I don't necessarily want to watch it. So, eric, you know I'm on record of being a little bit of a snob in terms of video game storytelling, where you know if you're not going to play the game, then you simply don't get to access the story. But you know if you're not going to play the game, then you simply don't get to access the story. But you know, reach, if I want to go do that, I can go play that on Game Pass, at least for right now. Who knows if that will change in the future. But, guys, great stories this month, as always from from our guest. This is where we, before we play our game. This is where we take some time to shout out any stories that maybe just missed the cut that you thought about bringing up.

Speaker 3: 1:21:28

eric last month had like 25, so I'm gonna have him go last yeah I don't have dylan, did you have any stories that just barely missed the cut that you thought about bringing up tonight?

Speaker 2: 1:21:40

I I don't have any that barely missed the cut. Uh, the ones that I pulled. In case. Somebody else talked about xbox was uh, that they are. They are doing castings for the sandman season two. I really liked season one on netflix and I was like, oh, I'm glad they are. I I don't remember seeing like that they were officially doing a season two, so it's nice to see that. And then the, the one piece live action is also filming, which I enjoyed the first season of that because I didn't have to watch 300 episodes to get to that story.

Speaker 3: 1:22:13

Uh, same thing to watch like just like god intended. You know, same same exact thing no phil, but you won't watch it at all.

Speaker 4: 1:22:20

You won't even watch the live action yeah, but dylan got to, so yeah that's great.

Speaker 2: 1:22:25

That's like that's 90% of the way there.

Speaker 3: 1:22:27

As a friendly reminder.

Speaker 4: 1:22:27

They are doing he's had the same experience as you. No, he didn't. And as a friendly reminder, they are doing the One Piece which is going to be an anime adaptation that is shorter and more modern. Yeah, I'll watch that too. Check it out.

Speaker 2: 1:22:50

So the other things I pulled were were lithonia by child get childish gambino um, that song came out, uh, which if you haven't watched the music video, you should watch the music video for it startling, and the whole album is incredible.

Speaker 3: 1:22:57

I have not gotten to watch the music video yet, though I need to. I need to watch the whole thing.

Speaker 2: 1:23:01

You should, you should with the lights out, oh boy, at 2 am. And then also in the music realm, ice Nine Kills, a band that I enjoy, crossed over with Real Big Fish, another band that I enjoy, and they released Walking on Sunshine. So that's a metal band and a ska band, so it worked way better than it should have. Um, so those were kind of my, my stories there crossovers man, we just talked about it exactly.

Speaker 3: 1:23:42

Crossovers are, are are going great um yeah, but uh, to touch on um, like I said, the Yellow, just the Band of Stone album, the soundtrack in general is incredible. I've been listening to it nonstop, for sure. Yeah, I've heard that. I can't remember Somebody in our friend group Eric has watched Sandman. It might be Jordan that has watched that on Netflix. But I've heard good things. I've heard good things I've heard good things.

Speaker 4: 1:24:07

Yeah, that, um, I'll go ahead that. Uh, that band dylan. I looked up the song because I wanted to listen to it later. It's from the american psycho comic series soundtrack. What is that?

Speaker 2: 1:24:20

yep the hell I have no idea. I ice nine kills does a lot of like they. They take a lot of inspiration from like horror movies and that sort of thing. So they they do get into like american psycho is, I guess, part of their like thing. Um, so I don't know if there's a comic book that has come out that also has an attached album. I didn't look that deep into it because I figured that was not a story that I was going to be talking about.

Speaker 4: 1:24:50

Yeah, I know, phil likes american psycho and and if there's a like a horror relation there, that might be something for phil and phil. But yeah, sorry, I just want.

Speaker 3: 1:24:57

I just saw it and I was alarmed yeah, so that's what would be an alarming thing to come across. Uh, cory, what about you? What are some of those that you considered? I know you told me you had a couple of backups, just in case.

Speaker 1: 1:25:09

Yeah, so he brought up music, and that actually reminded me of something that's definitely worth checking out is Weird Al's new Polka Mania song and music video. It's a joy I love Weird Al. I've only been able to see him in concert once. It it's a joy I love weird al. I've only been able to see him in concert once. But, um, somewhere I still have the dare to be stupid cassette tape from childhood. Um, he's one of those that I have.

Speaker 1: 1:25:35

All of his cds, um, and you know, listen to him pretty frequently. It's a lot of fun. This one's it. It goes back pretty far because he hasn't released music in a long time and it does something. He covers a show tune, not show tune, it's from a Disney movie, and that's, I think, the first time that any of his polkas have ever covered something that wasn't like current or at least pop culture, like radio music. Uh, and then you mentioned crossovers and I I have not brought myself to watch this. It is on my watch later, but a week ago guar released a music video. For I'm just ken, and it's like every time I open youtube that's like within the first six, and it's like like I just today's not the day, but I'm going to get to it. But on more interesting stuff, have any of y'all kept up even a little bit with what's been going on with Assassin's Creed Shadows?

Speaker 3: 1:26:43

A little bit. Yeah, I've got like a general idea.

Speaker 4: 1:26:49

Apologies needed. Creed shadows a little bit. Yeah, I've got like a general idea um apologies needed.

Speaker 1: 1:26:52

yeah enough to start figuring out that, yeah, it's just a mess. So, yeah, some of it. Um, one of the wildest things is, uh and this came back to my I didn't realize it was still ongoing again until I watched the skill up video earlier and he brought up even more facts that are going on with it and I looked it up and one of the first articles I find, published six hours ago um, the assassin's creed shadows debate somehow reaches japanese government ministries who reportedly remind everyone that historical fiction isn't really their concern at all. Yeah, so there's, there's so much going on. One of the things that does make sense is, um, they got flagged or not flagged? They? Uh, apparently, in a trailer, ubisoft used a flag made by a historical reenactment group and they weren't too happy about that. So eventually Ubisoft acquiesced and removed that and of course now people are complaining to the Japanese government about. You know this is fake and you know I'm sure we all remember that the events of every other assassin's creed game are extremely accurate to history and there were no liberties taken whatsoever. Um, you know, especially with the egyptian one, we definitely have um, stone copies of that story.

Speaker 1: 1:28:21

Uh, but yeah, it is like we're reaching levels of mind-blowing now at these people complaining, um, and god, of course, now I forget his name, but the the black samurai, there you go. Uh, so, like, one of the complaints now is there's nothing that actually states historically that he was a samurai, which, which would make sense, that's, that's a whole thing, um, and it's like who cares? The? The less there is about, like, the more you can do with a guy that the less you know about. You can't get anything wrong if there's nothing even there. Um, basically, we just know that he existed, uh, and you know, if you ever watch that anime on netflix, you'll know that he hang out with robots and jedi.

Speaker 1: 1:29:11

So you know, yeah, historical accuracy, um, but, yeah, I, I like I thought it was just a minor thing. Honestly, initially I thought it was just like mostly, um, just people with nothing better to do with their time but complain about a female, uh, like a female main character and then like a black japanese guy, um, in this game and it's, you know, now it's just taking so many more levels, uh, yeah, it's, it is like fascinating that this is getting so much notoriety, because this is honestly, probably the only one I'm interested in, like, I haven't played the others again. One of those other people love it. That's great. Um, if they're gonna go to feudal japan and apparently assassin's creed does have pretty good assassination mechanics as someone who, to this day, still longs for another tenchu game that I'll never get, you know, maybe this will be the next best step.

Speaker 4: 1:30:11

They've been begging Assassin's Creed to happen in Japan and I'm sure they're now like between the backlash about the characters and all the stuff leading up to today's conversation. I'm sure they're absolutely regretting that.

Speaker 3: 1:30:25

There is a PSsp version of assassin's creed. I think in japan they didn't complain about that one, so you mean the one in? China. Is it china or is it japan?

Speaker 4: 1:30:34

I think there was a china oh, okay that was racist film weird smell.

Speaker 2: 1:30:39

Well, I think there, I think there is like a jit I can say it it's fine, continue doing my turn.

Speaker 2: 1:30:46

I think there is like a mobile game that's maybe Japan, but yeah, I don't. It doesn't shock me at all that a bunch of like basement dwelling gamers got upset because they were forced to play as a black man and a asian woman. Like it doesn't shock me, but yeah, it is. It is one of those where it's just like come on, guys. I mean like really, yeah, my favorite but now it's reaching the japanese government.

Speaker 2: 1:31:18

Yeah well, I mean one and, like you know it, you know it's probably not japanese people calling the japanese government. Right, it's like it's these people who are calling up, putting on their like their best anime voice as they call on, call up the Japanese government and they're like um, excuse me, did you know? And it's just like shut the fuck up.

Speaker 1: 1:31:39

Yeah, I mean Everyone doing their best, shitty walk impression yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:31:43

And my favorite part of historical accuracy in Assassin's creed is when etzio fights a kraken in the underbelly of of yeah so do you remember when etzio etzio fought the magic pope?

Speaker 2: 1:31:56

like you know, remember, remember the apple, the apple you guys think about the apple.

Speaker 3: 1:32:01

So all all historically accurate yeah I can't believe they're doing this too to the franchise that we love.

Speaker 3: 1:32:08

What happened to the game that I loved? Um, as far as the uh, the stories that just barely missed the cut here, I had just some quick ones. Um, shrek 5 was announced. We, for those of us that are cultured, eric, and have seen puss in boots the last wish multiple times. We knew shrek 5 was on the way but for some reason many people have skipped that film, even though it's one of the greatest animated films ever made. So don't skip out on the last wish before shrek 5 comes out in 2026. I know what you did.

Speaker 3: 1:32:35

Last summer, their reboot, um, announced a few of their stars. You know we do have some listeners that are big horror buffs, so interested to see what people think about that. Camila Mendes, I'm a big fan of. She's been in a couple solid films this year. And then Madeline Klein, who was in Glass Onion last year. She's very good. And then Eric, actually I don't know if you saw this or not, but ex-EA devs have formed a new studio to develop a spiritual successor to NBA Street on using Unreal 5.

Speaker 3: 1:33:07

It's going to be called the Run Got Next. As far as the style of the art style, it looks kind of similar, but obviously no NBA players. But it does look pretty interesting. It seems like they're going to focus on players that have specific abilities, which I think could be interesting. It's going to come out on PS5, xbox Series XS and then also on Steam, and it's going to come out on ps5, xbox series xs and then also on steam, and it's going to be out sometime next year. So that's a genre of sporting game that I know you very, very desperately miss. So I don't know if you heard about that one, so I'll throw that to you first yeah, nba street or even better.

Speaker 4: 1:33:41

I get let's get fifa street back out there, dude. Oh, fifa street is so don't care about soccer.

Speaker 3: 1:33:47

Loved FIFA street and NHL hits.

Speaker 4: 1:33:51

I'd like that back to um, yeah, in basketball games I'm more of an NBA jam kind of guy Uh. But you know, you got that the bigs uh for baseball and then blitz for football. If I could just get those four mediums and then maybe find my niche for hockey, you got the.

Speaker 3: 1:34:09

Trinity there.

Speaker 4: 1:34:09

You got the Holy Grail, but yeah, no, I think that's awesome. And what was your first story?

Speaker 3: 1:34:19

Shrek 5. And then the other one was the I Know what you Did Last Summer reboot.

Speaker 4: 1:34:23

Yeah For Shrek 5, watch Puss in Boots. That's all I wanted to add to that.

Speaker 3: 1:34:29

Yeah, uh, so those were our. I didn't make the cut stories and uh, now we'll move into uh the uh wow, you're just going to skip me completely.

Speaker 4: 1:34:38

That's crazy. Oh, that, have like 50, so that, no, I, I have two, I have two quick ones. Uh, this was actually at the end of june that we didn't fit in, uh, and I just think it's really sad, so I'm gonna keep bringing it up. Uh, apparently the report is hell. Divers 2 has lost about 90 of its plays talk about?

Speaker 3: 1:34:58

uh, it's july.

Speaker 4: 1:34:59

We talked about it in february yeah, it's uh, god dude, I just it's just real talking about like just really sad. We talked about our IP Redbox. We talked about how sad the Halo franchise is. This one hurts the most because I still really like when I jump on have fun I hopped on like a couple weeks ago just to just to play a game Still fun. There's just no content. There's like nothing. They like stalled completely after the story that we had about the email and the PlayStation subscription thing and some people in certain countries can't even get it. They just did not recover from the hole that PlayStation put them in. So just really sad news.

Speaker 4: 1:35:41

On the opposite spectrum, demon Slayer is ending with a movie trilogy. Spectrum, demon Slayer is ending with a movie trilogy and I just think that's extremely interesting because this is an anime that I think is going to absolutely be game changer on the way it's approaching it. We talked about Attack on Titan and how I thought they should really be movies at the end and I feel like, although people enjoyed it, a lot of people felt like it dragged out way too long and that kind of almost impacted those final seasons. I think Demon Slayer is making the right choice and I'm going to put a bold prediction out there. I think each of these movies are going to break a billion worldwide. So that's going to be my hot take out there for Demon Slayer and I think that's going to absolutely change the way that big franchises maybe not just anime, but big anime franchises decide to finish things up and just start to take over those theaters. So, yeah, those are my two stories to finish it up.

Speaker 3: 1:36:38

Now, Eric, because you've brought this up a few times now. Mugen Train made 507 million, so you think all three of those movies are going to double Mugen Train. Well, because it is the end of the series.

Speaker 4: 1:36:50

Oh, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, all three of them are, I think personally, if not all three, one of them is hitting a billion. Maybe the final one, one of those movies is definitely hitting a billion. I think it's been long enough since Mugen Train that the appetite has grown, because the movies they've released since have just been recap movies and the first episode of the next season, so you can't really count those. Mugen Train is the best example and I just think that that's absolutely going to happen. I think it's so popular now, corey, we were talking on the creator episode All we see is Nezuko's and Zenitsu's and tanjiro cosplays like it's more popular now than ever and I think with this latest season, especially that last episode, um, it's just, that's just going to continue it's uh like.

Speaker 1: 1:37:38

To add to that, it's one that I like demon slayer in star wars are like the family cosplays, where it's like the parents and the kids are all dressing up from one title, uh, which is mind-blowing to me. Um, yeah, I was looking up the player count, though, just just to see, because steam has a lot of their charts, uh like 24 hours. They're kind of averaging uh 30 000 players at any given time on um uh hell divers 2. But the first thing that I noticed is there is a shitload of people playing stardew valley, far more. It's like 118 000 playing stardew valley over uh hill divers 2 and at one point story, at one point it was over.

Speaker 4: 1:38:32

it was almost half a million players concurrently, like it's just absolute. The absolute drop off is insane, absolutely insane. It's the. The. The jump at the start of the game was unheard of, and I think this complete downfall is also unheard of. It's just two ends of the spectrum so crazy. Still a fun game and I think it can still have life in the future. Dylan, would definitely be curious what you think. But yeah, super sad, super, super sad, super sad, super super sad.

Speaker 2: 1:39:05

I mean I view it as I mean 30,000 is still a very healthy player base. You know it doesn't sound like you were having any issues getting into games when you were jumping back in and stuff, and so the drop off is not shocking to me. For for a game that that is that old, that isn't necessarily like a live service type of game that is constantly releasing new content. Um, you know, I I know the people that really enjoyed it want to see more content because, like they really had fun with it and they want more to come out, and I'm sure more will be coming out. I mean, that was kind of the. It sounds like that's kind of what the the plan is for it and I know that they're. They did some stuff with like helldivers, one that had a very long tail, so I'm sure it'll keep kind of trucking along. They'll keep adding some new stuff, maybe even some dlc down the road and I'd expect, you know big updates to have a huge jump in players again as people come back to the game. But I don't think games need to be something that is like a forever game. You know, like I do think there are games like uh, cory brought up the witcher 3. I know that is a forever game for my co-host, where it'll always be installed and he's always kind of just playing around in it, um. So I know that there definitely are games that people keep playing and keep going back to, um, but I think as long as you're able to get into games, as long as you know it's maybe getting some new updates, it's not a dead game, you know, um, and there have been some big things that have come out. People have kind of shifted around, gone to other things, um the.

Speaker 2: 1:40:47

The thing I would be more worried about is if it was like well, now we're not making any money, so we're just gonna pull the plug. You know, and that's not the impression I've gotten from the developers of hell divers 2, um, so I'm not as worried there, um, but you know something like suicide squad or you know some of these other games that have come out and tried to like have a success story, like hell divers, and it didn't happen and then they pulled the plug, uh, after just, you know, a few months, like that's a bummer, um. But. But I don't have the same fears for Helldivers just because Sony's backing it and it's like it reminds me of the Pal World guys.

Speaker 2: 1:41:34

You guys brought that up earlier where people were like, oh, pal World was so big and now it's a dead game. And the developer for Pal World was like, I mean, if you've done, if you've had fun with our game for like 20 hours and you want to go play something else and come back later eventually, when we release some more stuff, like, that's fine, we, we enjoy that, you know. And so I think that's kind of the mindset I have, more so than um worrying as much about hell divers, um, just because, like, if we were talking like 5 000 players, if you were waiting 10 minutes to get into a game, I'd be a lot more worried about it. So, and I would imagine it's probably got a bigger player base on playstation too, um, so, um, but yeah, it's such a fine line too when it comes to keeping players engaged and keeping them around and eric.

Speaker 3: 1:42:27

You know we joke about it all the time, but it's why we've been playing fortnite for seven years. You know the game manages to reinvent itself once every couple years and there's there's nothing easier than texting a couple of our friends jumping into a lobby, very rarely getting a victory royale.

Speaker 1: 1:42:44

Recently we've been getting destroyed, but we go in, get a win and then hop back off I still need to download the pirates of the caribbean skin I keep forgetting, I miss it you need to get the cyber truck man they just released oh yeah, now we have not the only one that it's the only cyber truck that works that's true.

Speaker 3: 1:43:03

Well, we don't even know. We don't even know if it works in the game. So, um, but yeah uh does it does.

Speaker 2: 1:43:08

Is it missing those side panels on the back that I actually heard?

Speaker 3: 1:43:11

you can't get out of it you're actually stuck inside the car, so it just won't stop accelerating that would be funny, though that would be funny if it was bugged out.

Speaker 1: 1:43:21

Yeah, you hop in the car and it, just like all the alarms go off and it stops.

Speaker 3: 1:43:26

You know 500 feet from where you go on, goes on Twitter and says that Fortnite's a dead game after the car doesn't work in the game. Yeah, that would be perfect. All right, sorry, eric. Now I think we're good to jump into into the game and, as you guys don't know if you're, if you're new here or if you just need a little refresher, we always end with a game of. I mean, it's called Factile, the website, but it's Jeopardy. You guys know how Jeopardy works. Let me make sure that sound the sound is. I did good with the wheel, eric.

Speaker 4: 1:44:03

No sound effects tonight. Very proud of you.

Speaker 3: 1:44:04

Doing pretty well to to our guests. Can you see this? Do I need to make it a little bit bigger?

Speaker 4: 1:44:11

I can see it and if you need, to minimize people in riverside, it'll uh, you do have that option if you hover over their face.

Speaker 3: 1:44:17

You want to make the uh, if you want to make the game board a little bit bigger. So if you want to try that qr code or go to that website and then put in that number and you'll probably want to do this on your phone because your phone will have a buzzer so you can buzz in- it's just playfactilecom forward, slash join forward, slash, join.

Speaker 4: 1:44:43

And while you guys are getting in, I'm going to figure out who my character is going to be forward slash, join. Forward slash, join. And while you guys are getting in, I'm going to figure out who my character is going to be.

Speaker 3: 1:44:52

Yeah, Eric always takes his character last because it takes him too long to scroll through the cute little characters.

Speaker 1: 1:44:56

I mean you have to look through all of them.

Speaker 3: 1:44:58

You don't, you don't, don't encourage him, please.

Speaker 4: 1:45:00

There's so many. There's a meerkat. Yeah, I got to go meerkat. Yeah, I gotta go meerkat here. Look at the little cute dude that's pretty cute.

Speaker 3: 1:45:14

It looks like he has a cape. Does he have a cape on?

Speaker 4: 1:45:16

I think so, I think he's got a cape.

Speaker 3: 1:45:21

I think he's a superhero he might have a cape. I think they might all have capes, so oh well, never mind, eric, you're not special For those of you. Once again, as a reminder for those of you that are on the listening side, this may be a good point to switch over to YouTube and watch. Alright, who picked the squid?

Speaker 1: 1:45:40

That would be me.

Speaker 3: 1:45:41

Alright, dylan, you having any issues?

Speaker 2: 1:45:47

I typed it wrong at first, but I just Okay, okay.

Speaker 3: 1:45:51

That's okay. Yeah, okay, you just put Dylan, okay. So I'll put it again Dylan's your first person to pick a person. Everyone else always picks an animal or some kind of fruit or vegetable.

Speaker 2: 1:46:02

I felt like I had to go with the one that was named after me Dylan, yeah, yeah or vegetable.

Speaker 3: 1:46:06

I felt like I had to go with the one that was named after me, named Dylan. Yeah, there we go. Okay, let's begin. So the way that we'll do this year for you, corey and Dylan, you can buzz in whenever, but don't give an answer until I am done answering the question. So hopefully this will be the first time all participants are in the positives when it comes to Final Jeopardyy. It's never happened it has never happened I I think that first time.

Speaker 4: 1:46:30

I think that first time we did because I had that like really good, I had that big comeback and then I, and then I lost on the ted lasso question and you lost everything. Yeah, and ever since then I've hated this fucking game, yeah cory, do you know the name?

Speaker 3: 1:46:45

the Jacksonville before it was Jacksonville oh, so it's funny, I do.

Speaker 1: 1:46:49

I do know that it was Calford because we also have like Calford Chophouse yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3: 1:46:54

Yeah, eric, that's in your neck of the woods. You're a Riverside guy, so you should have known shut the fuck up you should have known from Calford Chophouse alright, folks, here are our categories, and Dylan called this out early on. We have Monsterverse Madness 360 Supremacy. We Should Start a.

Speaker 3: 1:47:13

Podcast and Pop Culture Mystery Bag which is the Potent Potables category that will be around every single month now, so that could be anything that can be behind those. I will let you guys know, cory and dylan, if you didn't watch the video. Eric always goes 500 early, so if you don't want him to do that, don't relinquish the board to eric. I'll just let you know. Does everybody see the buzzers on their screens?

Speaker 4: 1:47:41

everything good there yes, yes, I already spot. I'll go ahead, eric there's a daily double or no?

Speaker 3: 1:47:47

there is a daily double. Um, I'll just have to point it out because I'm sure it's not going to work properly, okay, so let me just double check which one the daily double is. Okay, it's that one, right there, that's what I thought, cool. Um, let me turn off the music for myself, and I already spun a wheel off screen. So, cory, you actually get the board first, and if you want to kick us off, okay, I'll do monster verse madness for 500.

Speaker 1: 1:48:16

Take it away from eric all right.

Speaker 3: 1:48:19

What is the name of the tribe that lives in hollow? Earth the new empire.

Speaker 1: 1:48:27

Oh yeah, because I still have to buzz in Corey. Who are the Iwi tribe?

Speaker 3: 1:48:34

Let's go.

Speaker 4: 1:48:36

That's crazy Nice I just saw that movie this year. No fucking clue.

Speaker 2: 1:48:43

I didn't even know they had a name, did not remember. Corey is still here for it. Okay, feeling good year. No fucking clue. I didn't even know they had.

Speaker 1: 1:48:48

I did not remember, cory. Okay, um, feeling good, I'm gonna uh yeah monster madness for 400 yeah, all right, he was gonna have what was king godora's code name in godzilla king of the monsters, cory uh monster zero. What is monster zero? Monster Zero what is Monster Zero?

Speaker 4: 1:49:04

Alright, Dylan, we're going to be chilling for a little bit.

Speaker 1: 1:49:11

Dylan's got 360 supremacy.

Speaker 4: 1:49:14

My answer for all of those is going to be 360. Which one is mine? We should start a podcast. I didn't give you one. That's fucking crazy.

Speaker 3: 1:49:22

You're here all the time, Corey.

Speaker 1: 1:49:24

You're important 300 Monsterverse Madness. You're here all the time, corey, you're important. 300 monster verse madness.

Speaker 3: 1:49:29

What are these creatures called from Kong Skull Island? Dylan oh shoot, he got a purse.

Speaker 2: 1:49:37

Those are the skull. Oh, fuck the skull eaters. Skull Fuck. What are the skull eaters? What are the?

Speaker 1: 1:49:50

skull eaters, no cory what are the skull crawlers there?

Speaker 3: 1:49:53

you go damn it.

Speaker 1: 1:49:54

That's so close, so very close.

Speaker 3: 1:49:58

All right, cory, still you're bored. 200 godzilla and kong team up to fight. Which threat at the end? Of Godzilla versus Kong Corey?

Speaker 1: 1:50:09

What is Becca Godzilla?

Speaker 3: 1:50:13

There you go, all right.

Speaker 1: 1:50:16

Yeah, we'll finish it off.

Speaker 3: 1:50:18

All right, $100 question. What is the name of the actor whose character is unceremoniously killed? Off in Godzilla 2014, leaving us with Aaron Taylor Johnson, eric.

Speaker 4: 1:50:28

That would be Brian Cranston, and I've never forgiven them for this.

Speaker 3: 1:50:35

Imagine where we would be right now if we just had Brian Cranston. I mean, it's already almost perfect, but with Brian Cranston Would have changed the game. It could have been better. All right, guys. Well, you let Eric get the porn. All right, it's over. Would have changed the game.

Speaker 4: 1:50:47

Alright, guys, well you let Eric get the porn. Alright, it's over. None of these are catered to me, so we're going. Pop Culture Mystery Bag 500.

Speaker 3: 1:50:54

Alright, let's do it. Which movie won Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards?

Speaker 2: 1:51:03

I don't even know what came out.

Speaker 3: 1:51:05

Because I didn't know this until recently, because of this, because of what happened at the 2022 academy and like if we're, if we're wrong, we lose it, right?

Speaker 4: 1:51:18

yeah, yeah, you have like 10 000 points. It doesn't matter, although this is 500, to be fair.

Speaker 1: 1:51:24

Yeah, oh my god, this is 500, to be fair.

Speaker 4: 1:51:27

Yeah, oh my God, this is going to be. You said it's not obvious.

Speaker 3: 1:51:31

No, I'd never heard of this movie until the other day. All right, no, any answers. No.

Speaker 4: 1:51:41

Not to lose 500. I'll keep control of the board.

Speaker 3: 1:51:44

All right, Coda, which is an Apple TV. Oh the deaf kid. Yep.

Speaker 4: 1:51:50

Oh.

Speaker 1: 1:51:51

Always those deaf kids.

Speaker 4: 1:51:52

That won best picture.

Speaker 3: 1:51:54

It did, it did. I was surprised as well. I watched a WhatCulture video top 10 movies that were totally forgotten about, and this was number one.

Speaker 4: 1:52:04

I remember it won an award at the Oscars that was like controversial I didn't know it was best picture.

Speaker 3: 1:52:09

I didn't either. I didn't either until recently.

Speaker 4: 1:52:12

So Eric, back to you. Yeah, Mystery bag 400.

Speaker 3: 1:52:18

What was the name of Ross's pet monkey in the hit sitcom Friends?

Speaker 4: 1:52:24

Oh my god, it's on the tip of my fucking tongue, dude. Oh, eric, is it Marcel?

Speaker 3: 1:52:33

Good great.

Speaker 4: 1:52:34

Oh, wow, all right, it's Marcel.

Speaker 3: 1:52:39

See, you're getting an idea, you're getting an idea of how this category is going to work. All right, all right.

Speaker 4: 1:52:43

All right, cool, eric. Yeah, mystery Bag 300. Let's keep it going.

Speaker 3: 1:52:48

What? Okay, there's supposed to be a picture here. No, hold on a second.

Speaker 1: 1:52:58

What is backstreet back?

Speaker 3: 1:53:04

I definitely pasted the picture in.

Speaker 4: 1:53:08

Is it going?

Speaker 3: 1:53:08

to show up on our screen.

Speaker 4: 1:53:09

There is a timer going. Does that matter?

Speaker 3: 1:53:12

Is it still going?

Speaker 4: 1:53:13

Yeah, three, two, one. I feel like we should all get 300 points.

Speaker 3: 1:53:18

Oh no, it's not going to show up until I hit show answer.

Speaker 1: 1:53:24

Oh, interesting.

Speaker 3: 1:53:27

I got to get this picture saved so that it doesn't show in the search history you don't want the FBI knowing you're interested in the Backstreet Boys oh no, they know, alright, here we go, window, just the picture. God, I hope this doesn't. Oh, you know what? Let me hold on one more thing, because I saved the photo and it's in the name of the the image I can't win most casual episode that we do cannot stress that enough, and this is usually what happens there.

Speaker 4: 1:54:09

There usually is one image that's missing and one of in somewhere in the board and it just totally ruins everything. Yeah, there was one time where we were expecting a chihuahua and we had like a hockey it was nhl hits yeah yeah, it was nhl hits.

Speaker 3: 1:54:23

It was supposed to be the taco bell, chihuahua yeah, it was tough all right, let's hope this doesn't ruin All right. What music video is this from? Oh, eric.

Speaker 4: 1:54:35

I want it that way.

Speaker 3: 1:54:38

Let me switch back, let me turn the music off.

Speaker 4: 1:54:44

I was going to guess that regardless of the image.

Speaker 1: 1:54:46

But I felt pretty good about it.

Speaker 4: 1:54:48

Yeah. There's a picture, honestly, I would not have gotten it from that one, so I'm glad you didn't. Why are they in black in front of a plane? The white was so obvious. Mystery bag 200.

Speaker 3: 1:55:06

What does Rapunzel use as a weapon against flynn, entangled dylan uh frying pan frying pan. Here we go, all right, dylan's bored.

Speaker 2: 1:55:17

Uh, we're gonna do 360. Supremacy for 300.

Speaker 3: 1:55:22

This is the daily double. So oh that gears of war introduced the world to the mid-range assault rifle with a fully operational chainsaw for a bayonet. What was the name of that weapon?

Speaker 2: 1:55:33

the lancer or the chainsaw lancer or whatever you want to that works.

Speaker 3: 1:55:38

I'll manually give you those extra points, one, two, three. All right, dylan, back to you.

Speaker 2: 1:55:46

We'll go 360, supremacy 500.

Speaker 3: 1:55:49

All right. What is the name of this vehicle that can be found in Halo 3's multiplayer Bonus points? If you can name the level, it was originally found on Dylan.

Speaker 2: 1:55:59

I believe that is the Elephant is what it is called, that's crazy. And ah, fuck, it is like Sand Trap or something.

Speaker 3: 1:56:10

That's wild. I'll give you 200 for that. All right back to you Extra points.

Speaker 2: 1:56:18

We'll go with 360 Supremacy for 400.

Speaker 3: 1:56:23

Sneaking Big Bumpin' and Pocket Bike Racer were games released on the 360 via which fast food chain Dylan.

Speaker 2: 1:56:30

Burger King.

Speaker 3: 1:56:31

Burger King.

Speaker 2: 1:56:33

And.

Speaker 4: 1:56:33

Pocket Bike Racer was a really fun game, oh my god, that is such a deep cut, holy shit.

Speaker 2: 1:56:41

I'm shocked that wasn't the 500 one.

Speaker 1: 1:56:47

So another one do any of you remember, uh, when taco bell released a couple of games, I'm I swear they were on floppy disk, but they had very vaguely yeah I. I remember a couple of those, so that's like I don't think I own any of those anymore, but I played them yeah, pocketbike racer not a bad game.

Speaker 3: 1:57:10

The other two were like okay, sneaking was just really strange. You tried to like sneak around For those of you that I'm going to put in a clip here. Actually, I'm going to do a little extra work on Clip. Jam and put in a sneaking clip for everybody to see, Because it was very the premise of the. The game for those of you that don't know was the Burger King mascot would sneak around and put Whoppers in people's bags.

Speaker 1: 1:57:31

Oh my God, so that?

Speaker 3: 1:57:33

was the premise of that game. So and Big Bumpin was a was not very good and people were when I worked at GameStop were surprised these games didn't trade in for a lot of money. Go figure, should have just kept them All right, dylan still, you're bored.

Speaker 3: 1:57:48

Uh 360 supremacy 200 what is the name of the discontinued line of motion sensing input devices produced by microsoft and first released in 2010? I'll give you a 100 bonus if you give me the name of the game that was packaged with the device eric um, it's obviously the Kinect.

Speaker 4: 1:58:06

Um, oh, man, was it just dance.

Speaker 3: 1:58:14

No, no, but you'll get the 200. It was Kinect Adventures.

Speaker 4: 1:58:17

Kinect Adventures.

Speaker 3: 1:58:22

Which, sadly, is the highest selling Xbox 360 game of all time, because it came with the Kinect Xbox, so yeah, it checks out.

Speaker 3: 1:58:27

Really bummed me out to see that in number one, ahead of grand theft, auto 5 and like halo with all these other games. So that made me sad. Uh, that's crazy. The connect, yeah didn't. Uh didn't work very well, but I still had one day one because I worked at gamestop and I'll tell you that we had a blast with just dance, uh, dance central, um, the sports one, connect sports and all that stuff. So it was pretty solid. It still just didn't beat a Wii remote, you know, just didn't beat Wii Sports. Like you still couldn't beat that experience. So, but then I think later they started implementing the Connect in like hospitals and stuff, so something good came out of it. So, eric, back to you.

Speaker 4: 1:59:04

All right, let's go back to pop culture.

Speaker 3: 1:59:08

Do 100, please, since you've been gone, this pop star was able to break away, and it's because of you, dylan, damn.

Speaker 2: 1:59:16

Kelly.

Speaker 4: 1:59:16

Clarkson so fast, Dylan.

Speaker 3: 1:59:24

I'm just over here using my Mario Party skills.

Speaker 2: 1:59:30

All right, Dylan, do we?

Speaker 3: 1:59:30

want to go back to 360 and, yeah, we'll finish that one out. What was the original name of microsoft's online multiplayer, gaming and digital media delivery service? Created and operated specifically for the xbox brand, it was rebranded in 2021. Oh, dylan, sorry, I was sorry, was it? Is it my?

Speaker 2: 1:59:45

bad, is it not Xbox Live?

Speaker 3: 1:59:48

Is it no? Yeah, okay, now it's Xbox. What is it now? Xbox something?

Speaker 2: 1:59:53

else, they just rolled it into Xbox Game Pass.

Speaker 3: 1:59:55

Yeah, it's just Game Pass it will still be, and forever be, xbox Live. All right, well, everyone's been avoiding. We should start a podcast.

Speaker 4: 2:00:03

Because I feel like we don't know what the fuck that's going to be.

Speaker 1: 2:00:06

Yeah, I know it's too dangerous.

Speaker 2: 2:00:10

We're going to do. We Should Start a Podcast for 100.

Speaker 3: 2:00:15

This true crime podcast is ranked number one on Chartable's top 200, despite plagiarism allegations back in 2019.

Speaker 2: 2:00:23

Dylan, my Favorite Murder.

Speaker 3: 2:00:26

Damn.

Speaker 1: 2:00:32

Good guess, though it is in the top 10. I think I listened to this podcast before, but I now I can't think of the name. It's the one I'm thinking of. It's because it's shit. It's like it's questionable. So it's like, yeah, I'm not gonna support this anymore yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3: 2:00:44

Eric, you want to give a guess? It's only 100.

Speaker 4: 2:00:46

No, no no, and I really hope these are not all no, they're not all okay.

Speaker 3: 2:00:52

Ranking okay, yeah, no, no, I'm not gonna risk it crime junkie no way.

Speaker 1: 2:00:57

Okay, I didn't know about the plagiarism thing, but we we do listen to them, um yeah I'll have to look into that then crime junkie allie.

Speaker 3: 2:01:06

All right, it was Dylan, right? Yeah, dylan, back to you still.

Speaker 2: 2:01:10

We'll go with 200.

Speaker 3: 2:01:13

Which podcast is hosted by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey and recaps their time on an extremely popular sitcom, eric Office Ladies.

Speaker 4: 2:01:22

All right. Honestly, I blanked on the name.

Speaker 1: 2:01:28

You just said the most obvious words.

Speaker 4: 2:01:31

Office ladies. Office persons. This is the first podcast where we started shitting on celebrities for starting podcasts, because not all celebrities should do it.

Speaker 3: 2:01:45

No, it's so bad. I even stopped listening to Fake Doctor's Real Friends because after a while you just can't listen to Zach Braff talk anymore. You can only do it so much before you get sick of Zach Braff.

Speaker 4: 2:01:59

Every sitcom has a podcast. I think we're all. I don't know about Corey, but I think we're all in agreeance.

Speaker 1: 2:02:06

We're just going to go down the line, because I don't know what these are, so I'm going to 300 here.

Speaker 3: 2:02:09

Just keep going, yeah, okay. What is the name of the longest running annual in-person podcasting conference in the world? Eric Podfest.

Speaker 1: 2:02:19

Oh yeah, that's right. I haven't been to one yet.

Speaker 4: 2:02:21

I was like I really hope that's it.

Speaker 3: 2:02:29

Yeah, it's the only one I know. It's the only one I know, so it's a good there's like pod movement.

Speaker 4: 2:02:31

Is that a thing? Oh yeah, that would. Yeah, yeah, pod movement all right, eric 400.

Speaker 3: 2:02:34

Yeah, this podcast, produced by the New York Times, releases an episode every weekday with a not rum time. Run time with a rum time that make it a lot more interesting and less depressing. Run time typically between 20 to 30 minutes.

Speaker 4: 2:02:52

Produced by the New York Times.

Speaker 1: 2:02:55

I know this, but I can't think of the name. There is like a hint.

Speaker 3: 2:02:59

There is like a hint like in the question. You know it kind of moves away.

Speaker 4: 2:03:05

Is it a Wordle podcast? No, no, okay't, I can't guess this one it's uh hold on oh, man because I

Speaker 3: 2:03:18

I can't get all of it. So yeah, I can't guess dylan any guess no no, okay, it is the daily oh, okay, that's not what I'm thinking of. All right, eric, this is here we go. Name one of the two microphones that Buzzsprout does not recommend a first time podcaster use. I'll give you a bonus if you can name both microphones, eric.

Speaker 4: 2:03:41

All right, definitely the Blue Yeti. They fucking hate that thing, the blue yeti. They fucking hate that thing and the other that they don't recommend using. Honestly, I can't think of it. No, but definitely the blue yeti okay I'm going to assume.

Speaker 1: 2:03:59

Oh the snowball ice, okay that makes sense okay, yeah, both by blue yeah I figured it was another blue one.

Speaker 4: 2:04:05

I just couldn't think of the name yeah.

Speaker 3: 2:04:07

So for all you podcasters out there, no Blue Yeti, no Snowball, even though Eric and I shared a Blue Yeti for about a year. Yeah. And then had our own Blue Yetis and then had our own, yeah, so look at that guys. We did it. Everyone in the positives.

Speaker 4: 2:04:23

Eric actually won, I feel good.

Speaker 1: 2:04:25

I feel good. What do we?

Speaker 3: 2:04:28

think of the? I guess, Eric, I'll get your feedback. What do we think of the pop culture grab bag?

Speaker 4: 2:04:33

That was good. That was good. Again, I feel like I overcame the odds to get to this point. Now I don't know what you did for the final Jeopardy. So again, if this is a Ted Lasso question, I'm going to fucking flip.

Speaker 3: 2:04:47

I'm going to fucking flip. I'm going to flip, oh fucking hell which Dylan wouldn't know either.

Speaker 3: 2:04:53

But yeah, put in your bids on your phone there and then what you're going to do, what you're going to do. So that way we're not, I can get your answers individually sent to me is just text me your answer. So Dylan send it to me on Discord, corey Instagram. So dylan sent it to me on uh on discord, cory instagram, eric, you know, you know what to do, um, so yeah, that way I can get everybody's answers and the question will pop up momentarily once I hit uh, once everyone has entered a wager uh, for for reference.

Speaker 4: 2:05:23

We like to just let everybody know off the bat.

Speaker 3: 2:05:25

I always wager everything, so you have to wager on the website well, you were saying message me your answer your answer to the question. I haven't put the question up yet, I just got a text from Corey. It said 700 and I was like no, I don't need that part are you able to wager on the website? Uh, yeah, yeah, I am I am okay uh I'm not gonna.

Speaker 1: 2:05:52

I'm not gonna end. I don't want to go on a negative, because that's what we're aiming to not do this time, which eric is just like eff it.

Speaker 3: 2:05:58

Well, eric's gonna end at zero yeah, I'm a criminal okay, there we go.

Speaker 1: 2:06:02

Okay, I see what you're saying, there we go yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like 700 all right, here we go final jeopardy before getting their own show.

Speaker 3: 2:06:16

Keenan thompson and kel mitchell were cast members on which show um, oh, my god we got 20 seconds, so get some time. Add some music here, oh my god. Oh well, there'll be background music anyway, the podcast version, never mind, or the audio version Okay.

Speaker 1: 2:06:44

Time's up, I know, I'm sure I'm wrong.

Speaker 3: 2:06:48

Wrong, but dylan, did you send me an answer? Yeah, on discord, okay, cool. Yeah, sometimes discord gives me an elevation, sometimes it does not. Okay, all right, let's display wages. Of course, eric bett at all 1600 and quarry 700, dylan 1600. And Corey 700.

Speaker 1: 2:07:10

Everyone's correct, all right.

Speaker 3: 2:07:17

All that and the winner for the second month in a row is Eric.

Speaker 4: 2:07:24

That's right. They not like us.

Speaker 2: 2:07:27

They not like us they not like us.

Speaker 3: 2:07:32

Oh, great job everyone. Super proud of this group Once again. This was the first time we've all been in the positives and I felt like I struck a pretty good balance with the questions.

Speaker 4: 2:07:44

I knew the podcast when people were going to be like what the fuck is going to happen here. So worried questions I knew the podcast when people were going to be like what the fuck is going to happen here.

Speaker 3: 2:07:49

I'm so worried. Yeah, that one was uh interesting to uh to research for. But, eric, we did it. Another successful episode of uh what did I miss? This was a whole lot of fun. Dylan cory. Thank you guys so much for joining us. So, uh, dylan, we'll throw it to you. First, please let us know what you're up to, as well as friendly neighborhood gamers, and for anybody that is new to the podcast, let them know where they can find all of your work.

Speaker 2: 2:08:09

Sure, so we do a podcast called your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers. It comes out weekly on Mondays where we dive into video game topics. So sometimes that'll be just like a generic not generic, but like a more in-depth broad topic generic, not generic, but like a a more in-depth broad topic. Um, like recently we talked about video game genres and like the meaning behind them and if there are too many and if people get too uptight about them, um the. We also do kind of like a little check-in, uh each week or each month where we just kind of talk about some of the games that we've been playing that aren't going to get like a full, dedicated episode. Uh, we we do deep dives into some of the games that are ones we really enjoy, that we want to spend, you know, like an hour, hour and a half talking about uh and then we have interviews. So if you're looking for an episode to get into, uh, we've had phil and eric on uh and talk to them about sort of their gaming history and about what they do and just the process of creating, wait for it and all of that, and so, um, that that might be one to to jump into if you're interested, if you've got room in your life for another podcast. Uh, maybe check that one out.

Speaker 2: 2:09:22

Um, we have a YouTube channel where we release videos and you can get our podcast there too, because apparently that's like a big place to get podcasts.

Speaker 2: 2:09:31

Now, um and uh, on there we have a uh, I think it's a podcast as well, but, uh, we, we have a fantasy critic league, um, which is basically we all take on the role of, like, video game publishers. It's kind of like fantasy football, where we drafted at the beginning of the year, six games that we hoped were going to do well, uh, and over the course of the year, we've picked up some other games that we also hope are going to do well. Um, not all of them have, um, but the? Uh, we get points based on how well critically they score, um, and so, um, we just recently did an update on that where we got phil, eric, uh, some of our other friends together, uh, to kind of update, talk, strategy, talk, smack and uh, you know, just have a good time, and so that's that's where you can find us. You can, it's your friendly neighborhood gamers on YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts. And we are on some social media as well, mostly Instagram and TikTok is where we are on that.

Speaker 2: 2:10:41

I think we are technically on Twitter, but I have nothing to do with that side of things technically on Twitter, but I have nothing to do with that side of things.

Speaker 3: 2:10:48

So, um, yeah, yeah, fantasy critic league that I recently moved into last place on, so solid, solid.

Speaker 2: 2:10:56

It's going still time there is still.

Speaker 3: 2:10:59

there is still time, and if you have just recently listened to our sea of thieves episode, we link the friendly neighborhood gamers YouTube video on that episode. So if you still are trying to figure out if that's a game for you, make sure you check out that video, and every game room where it happens episode does have that episode linked. Where dylan just mentioned that eric and I showed up on so you can find it very easily there. Cory, again, you were here very recently, but please once again remind our audience and also thank you for sending a friend of yours or a listener of yours our way who very recently left a very sweet review I think it was on Apple Podcasts, eric, or Spotify, one of the two and we want to thank you for helping us grow our audience. So please let us return the favor and let everybody know where they can find your work.

Speaker 1: 2:11:42

Yeah, so you can find my podcast on any podcatcher of choice by searching the world is my burrito, and then on social media. That would be Twimby podcast. Yeah, right now I am working on an episode that's covering the anime and manga for Terra, for Mars. Terra for Mars. Uh, and also, because it's a deep topic, I'm already starting on my larger October episode. Um, I'm reading one of, like, I think, four books that I have planned to read between now and then. Um, but, uh, yeah, so you can find me there. Uh, I do submissions on another podcast called podcasters assemble, which right now is covering the Studio Ghibli movies. Slowly, but it's still happening.

Speaker 1: 2:12:35

Like Princess or not Prince, we just did Princess Mononoke. So Spirit Away is the next one that's going to be coming out, and I have a lot of editing to do because I took on, nobody wanted to cover grave of the fireflies. Uh, who knew? Who knew? No one would want to talk about that movie.

Speaker 1: 2:12:55

So, um, I managed to coerce a few people in different time zones, so I had two separate interviews on the same day. I think I had to wake up at four o'clock in the morning to get two of them, and then the next interview was like eight hours later, so I have to splice it together to make it sound like one episode. But yeah, so that's on. Podcasters assemble, but yeah, and then, other than that, you know I was featured here like a month ago and then on the. You know I did my best to try to make sure that I was signed up on Patreon before the Ultraman Rising episode and because of things I can't control, my name didn't get mentioned and I'm not bitter about that. I'm not saying that Eric could have done a better job, but it wasn't under my control that I did the test run.

Speaker 4: 2:13:45

For the record you were on a free trial, sir. I didn't know my control that I did the test run for the record you were on a free trial, sir, I didn't know I.

Speaker 1: 2:13:50

I didn't know that. I was like okay, whatever. Like it didn't give me the option to not do a free trial, so I was like that was my bad. I'm so sorry when, when it got to that point, because I was like, yeah, I'm gonna hear it, and then you like, and a couple of other people maybe, and I was like that son of a bitch.

Speaker 4: 2:14:10

Phil, can we go back? Nope, nope.

Speaker 3: 2:14:13

Nope, that's your part. You're in charge of that little portion. It's like I'm a part of a one content creator. They're a Jurassic World Evolution content creator and I'm part of her community. So at the very end of the video I just look for the one I just scroll through the video to get to the one part that says phil the filipino I'm like nice there goes my three dollars, there goes my three dollars a month. It was all worth it and you deprived him of that.

Speaker 4: 2:14:40

You deprived him of his name you know, and I could have done it because it was the ultra man episode. Now that I kind of think of think about it, timing wise.

Speaker 3: 2:14:46

Specifically, it would have been the perfect time to do it.

Speaker 4: 2:14:48

That all makes a lot of sense. Okay, so just to prepare you the episode that comes out on the final day of July. We recorded that before you were a patron, so before you listen to that one, you'll be like what the fuck man, where is my money going?

Speaker 1: 2:15:06

But I swear, I swear that that's not an issue You're going to have to edit in the Stephen Hawking and Corey.

Speaker 4: 2:15:16

And Corey oh man. That's crazy.

Speaker 3: 2:15:21

All right. Well, guys, thank you so much for coming on. We know this is always a little bit of a longer episode. Uh, you know, with the game and then all the the stories, um, uh, it's uh. We appreciate your patience and thank you so much for coming on. We hope that you'll come back as we want to continue to rotate guests in and out. I hope you guys enjoyed it. And sorry, eric won the game. I always try and rig it against him, but he won again, unfortunately. I'll. I'll change it up More MonsterVerse questions in the future when you guys return and we'll go from there. But thank you guys all so much for checking out this episode, the bonus episode of what Did I Miss, and, as I mentioned at the very beginning of the episode, typically these are a lot more structured, but this is our bonus episode, very casual, get a chance to hang out with friends. So if you want to find the rest of that content, make sure you click the Linktree link in the show notes of this episode. You'll find all the rest of our episodes on pretty much any podcasting site that you want to choose from. No-transcript.

Speaker 3: 2:16:31

You can also support the podcast a couple of ways. You can head on over to Apple Podcasts, spotify, wherever it may be, leave a five-star review. That would be very beneficial to not only us but also the World is my Burrito, as well as Friendly Neighborhood Gamers. Those five stars are the lifeblood of podcasting and really help us out. You can also head on over to youtube, hit the subscribe button, follow, turn on alerts. All that stuff goes a very, very long way, and if you want to get some perks that cory is supposed to be getting but it has maybe sometimes not been getting, eric will let you know how you can do that yeah, so so we have.

Speaker 4: 2:17:06

We have our patreon set up and we are very grateful for the several members that we have uh on there, including cory and other patrons like t3, katos uh, stefan and briar uh and they are supposed to be getting behind the scenes access, early access and uh shout outs at the end of each episode, depending on their tier. Corey is in that tier now and we'll have to find a way to make it up to him the next time we see him for the blunders that have been made. But if you join our Patreon, we have a lot of exclusive perks and a lot of cool things that you can do. We're also looking to grow that platform as our members grow. So, again, that's part of that journey. We really want to start promoting more on that platform and doing a little bit more as the year continues.

Speaker 4: 2:17:53

With that being said, though, we know everyone's not in the position to do that, so the likes, the comments, the shares, all of the engagement and just the listen is very much appreciated. With that being said, my name is Mr Eric Almighty. That is Phil the Filipino, and our guests Corey and Dylan. Thanks for listening to the Wait For it podcast. We release new episodes every Wednesday with bonus content on platforms like TikTok and Twitch, and all you have to do is wait for it.

Speaker 1: 2:18:20

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Speaker 2: 2:18:51

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