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Stream 570: Godzilla LE (Stern)

Don't Panic Flip·video·2h 46m·analyzed·Jul 14, 2022
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TL;DR

Don't Panic Flip plays Godzilla LE with tech talk and pop culture trivia.

Summary

A casual Monday night stream from Don't Panic Flip featuring gameplay on Godzilla LE (Stern) alongside chat banter about tech upgrades, pop culture trivia, and babysitter archetypes. George and guests discuss camera equipment, Discord overlays, Harry Potter musicals, and various characters as hypothetical babysitters while George plays through Godzilla modes including Tokyo and New York sequences.

Key Claims

  • Surreal has written a DirectX 10 presentation loop tool to support Discord overlay on Xbox streams

    high confidence · Surreal explaining his technical work during stream discussion

  • George beats Joel Engelbert head-to-head in Iron Pinball podcast episode two of season two

    high confidence · George discussing recent tournament results with stream chat

  • Godzilla LE features Invisiglass playfield coating that minimizes reflections

    high confidence · George demonstrating and discussing the glass coating feature on Godzilla LE during gameplay

  • A new Oxygen Destroyer ball-save mode was recently added to Godzilla code

    high confidence · George describing a newly-added game mode during live gameplay

  • Godzilla LE supports Tokyo and New York location modes that unlock different multiball sequences

    high confidence · George explaining game progression strategy during active play

Notable Quotes

  • “Three is the correct answer, but I feel like many of us have probably tried to figure that out. Especially those of us that remember the commercial.”

    Surreal@ 14:14 — Discusses the Tootsie Pop commercial trivia question opener, showing community familiarity with pop culture lore

  • “I have a David S. Pumpkin suit. I have the full suit from the Halloween Express or whatever.”

    George@ 23:48 — Personal anecdote demonstrating George's engagement with pop culture references that bleed into casual conversation

  • “If people like us don't raise our kids to try to fix the screwed-up world, it's not going to get fixed.”

    Joe@ 31:27 — Philosophical statement about parenting and agency, showing deeper conversational tone beyond gaming

  • “Invisiglass on it, which is meant to not have any reflections. You can like touch it and then leave fingerprints and have to clean it again.”

    George@ 37:32 — Technical detail about Godzilla LE's premium playfield coating feature

  • “I competed in two tournaments. Congratulations! And I have like .8 WPPR points (World Pinball Player Rankings).”

    Surreal@ 41:44 — Surreal announcing recent tournament competition and entry into IFPA ranking system

Entities

GeorgepersonSurrealpersonJay-Z (Dance Panda)personJoepersonJedi McMuffinpersonJoel EngelbertpersonGodzilla LEgameSterncompanyDon't Panic Fliporganization

Signals

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    community_signal: Don't Panic Flip conducting casual Monday night social streams with regular guests and community interaction via chat donations/subscriptions

    high · Stream structure with named donors (Sammy Grant Higgins, New Jersey Coffee Junkie, Paulo), multiple guest appearances, subscription acknowledgments throughout

  • ?

    event_signal: Lin's Arcade hosting tournament night, invitation extended to stream community members

    medium · Lin's Arcade chat message: 'watch it on the big screen at Lin's Arcade tournament night here' located in Colorado

  • ?

    community_signal: Stream community providing equipment upgrades and technical support: Jedi recommending camera filters and sending links, Jay-Z providing beverages

    high · Jedi McMuffin recommending filter, sending Dave Link, George ordering and installing; Jay-Z preparing multiple drink options throughout stream

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Surreal entering IFPA tournament competition with initial 0.8 WPPR ranking after two tournaments

    high · Surreal: 'I have an IFPA number now. I competed in two tournaments... I have like .8 WPPR points'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Godzilla LE received new Oxygen Destroyer ball-save code addition, indicating ongoing post-release software support

    high · George: 'That's the cool new mode. They just added to the, um, to this, to the code.' References to Oxygen destroyer diffusal mechanic as recent addition.

Transcript

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0:00
🎵 Thank you. Good evening. Evening, everyone. My name is George. This show is Don't Panic Flip. Welcome. Hiya, Peanut. Jeff, welcome. We have two visitors currently here on the Monday Night Social. We have Jay-Z, aka Dance Panda, there. Hello. In-house. And we have Surreal underscore seven virtually joining us through chat. Surreal, how are you doing this evening? I'm great. How are you guys. So, man, pepped up and amped and wow, you bring so much energy. Thank you. Oh, I should have done that. That was my energy for the whole stream.
6:43
Oh, man. And Jay-Z, how are you this evening? I am super awesome. Yeah, I almost waited on the major. I can't believe you subscribed to Don't Pay Me Flip. I mean, you're paying your money. You must be a billionaire if you're wasting your money watching someone else play pinball. Hashtag Gilbert Godfrey. Yes, Gilbert, thank you. And Mr. Hardluck, that is ten, at least ten hats off, if not more. Thank you so much. That is appreciated. I'll throw up Iron Fox. Iron Fox, good evening. All right, we're going to try round two on Godzilla. The last time I played Godzilla, it, um... I can't believe you could try to do that. I mean, you're paying your money. You must be a billionaire if you're wasting your money watching someone else play pinball. Vinnie Blank, welcome as well. How are you, George? And more importantly, what are we drinking? Jay-Z, what am I drinking? You are drinking a Jose Cuervo sparkling margarita.
8:06
There, you got the comms. The what? Yes, you have the comms. Oh, yeah. Jose Cuervo. I think it is a sparkling margarita. Boom. Wine-based margarita mix. Oh, no, it's not. it is so focusing on your there we go it's focusing on faces I forgot to put priority on that there's a lot of focus by the way I have a new camera coming I was I couldn't stick with the ZV-1 and I also couldn't handle Jedi McMuffin upgrading all of his camera equipment and leaving me in the dust we were talking you can't have that no no I have two of these Elgato face cams now, and I'm very tempted to set them up side by side so I can start streaming in 3D. Oh, you should. Just put them the same distance apart as somebody's purple. Yeah, exactly. Like 60 centimeters.
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technology_signal: Stream community exploring advanced overlay and camera technologies: Invisiglass playfield glass, DirectX 10 Discord overlay integration, new lens filters for broadcasting

high · Discussion of Invisiglass anti-reflection coating on Avatar LE, Surreal's custom DirectX presentation loop for Discord overlay, Jedi's lens filter recommendations and upgrades

9:09
So wait, can you actually stream in 3D like that? I'm assuming you put enough cameras together, you can totally do that. Well, specifically what I could do is I could write a shader that takes both camera inputs and then outputs like the red and blue old school 3D glasses type signal. Oh, okay. And you make everybody wear the red-green glasses at home? You're right, or get a headache watching the stream. Right. This is a really good plan for retention. So, Surreal, do you have a merch store yet? you could sell Surreal branded 3D glasses. That's a good idea.
9:51
Maybe I'll have like a 3D anniversary stream or something. Wow. What a good idea. Man, Joe and Surreal coming in hot on that one. You just, yeah, you color shade one red and one blue. Squalito, welcome to the stream.
10:11
Squalito, no, I've had Godzilla now for a bit and even temp-traded it to Man Adams close by for his Iron Maiden and kept that until he finally made it to Battle of the Beasts. Somebody just did something. I can't believe you said that. Don't tell me. I mean, you're paying your money. You're a star. Be a billionaire. If you're wasting your money watching someone else play pinball. Did you share the video of you beating the poo out of Mars this weekend? When you say Mars. Attack from Mars. Oh, no. And I did not blow up Attack from Mars. Oh, my God. She's losing it because she saw me put $2.5 billion up on Attack from Mars, which is not that big of a score. I think I did. Still had a really good time there. I heard on the Triple Dream podcast that you beat Joel Engelbert head-to-head. That is true. Iron Pinball, episode two of season two, was a wonderful battle between Joel and I. I haven't listened to the newest podcast, so I really hope that Tom and Travis gave Joel a really hard time about it. They gave him a really hard time. They were talking about tournament stuff, and Joel was like, yeah, I'm not really into tournament stuff. And they're like, yeah, because you competed against another player recently, and how did you do? You were last, right? We should have George Fisher on this podcast instead.
11:50
That's awesome. I can't wait to catch up on that. But I have questions for this evening, and I'm ready to jump into the first one. Is everybody ready for the first question?
12:05
And then we can also kick off a pinball, a game of pinball. Okay, so the first one, and I sent this one out to everybody as I was getting started. So you may have seen the picture, but how many licks does it actually take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop? Does anyone have an idea of what this is? The owl told us, though. Well, the owl had a suggestion. It's not from the 80s at all.
12:33
Surreal, I think, even responded in chat with what the owl thinks. It's one, two, three. Three.
12:46
Oh, do you want to go first or second? I mean, if I go first, we know it's going to be quick. Okay. All right, John's on break.
12:54
17 Raiders from the Pinball Network. Hello. Oh, my God, he just ran in. That's amazing. Hottie was streaming tonight, the last stream for a month as he goes on vacation. Hottie, you're amazing. Thank you. Jedi McMuffin, welcome to the stream. I was just talking about purchasing a new camera, and the honest-to-goodness justification for it was you were talking about getting a new camera, and I couldn't have you having such a significantly better camera setup, so I had to jump in and upgrade my camera again. didn't make it into the store today though okay okay the Jedi was trying to grab a really good deal on Craigslist and ended up getting ditched unfortunately was a really good deal too and then is deciding to just go with a much better camera overall I don't actually want this over here Camera manufacturers love Twitch.
14:07
All right, so Surreal, do you have an honest answer for that? Besides, I mean, you're fine to stick with three if that's what you want to go with there. Well, three is the correct answer, but I feel like many of us have probably tried to figure that out. Especially those of us that remember the commercial. Yeah. And I think the difficulty comes in that the Tootsie Roll center is never in the center of the pot. So you start exposing the center on one side as you're going through the whole thing. So it becomes a little murky as to when you've reached it. Right. Like there's not a clear definition. I wonder if it's something that Mythbusters have ever tackled.
14:56
Huh. So I imagine if Mythbusters were going to take this on, they would use one of those lamp, not lamp, stamp licking like rollers. Yeah. Right. This roller is designed to emulate a human tongue on a traditional U.S. postage stamp. The adhesive would bond with normal saliva, but there's a reservoir here that mimics American saliva. There we go. Uh-huh. And then they would have to get the ballistic head and put a tongue on it and spin the... They'd have to figure out some way of shedding the then-used saliva. It would turn into this big, sticky mess, it sounds like. Yeah. Insanity bomb. What they would do is they would put the stick of the lollipop in a lathe and have it turn slowly while they had a drill very slowly turn the licking mechanism. That would do it. Yep, yep. And then they would have Grant and What's-Her-Face off to the side actually licking, trying to see.
16:08
Anybody else, any time they hear the word lathe, think of Galaxy Quest? Every time. Sam Rockwell I know, I know, Jason can you build some sort of rudimentary lathe? Guy, get off the teaker we gotta get out of here before one of those things kills Guy nothing is all about actually about the number of lifts before you get there that's why the owl is doing it wrong so I can send it to uh What's in Jay's bubbly goblet? Oh, the mango thingy.
16:52
It's a vodka soda with mango? Yeah. Who? Yeah, the vodka soda with mango. I can't believe you subscribed to Don't... Somebody just did something. Who was that? I mean, you're paying me money. You must be a billionaire. there. If you're wasting your money watching someone else like him. There are some special adult sites that you should never go to then. Right. So this is what Jay is drinking here. It's a high noon mango vodka and soda. I bought Jay a mix pack and I need to go through all the flavors he doesn't like.
17:40
Yes. Well, Jedi, thank you very much. My hat's off to you. That is appreciated. I feel like I gave up almost every time.
17:57
Oh. You have... Wait. Surreal, did you build something for that already? Oh. Sort of. Discord. sorry Chad what I typed in Discord to George was that on my stream when I've got people on Discord provides an overlay that sort of does an injection so if you're using a DirectX 10 app like a game it can put an overlay in the app so that you can see who's talking on chat in Discord rather and I'm usually working on Xbox so I did write a program that just has a DirectX 10 presentation loop so that the overlay will work but it supports alpha and then you just pull that into the source and you can put it anywhere on your screen. Yes! I want that so bad. Alright, I will help you edit later. This is like the most surreal thing ever. But also I want it too. All right. Yeah, no sweat.
19:09
Okay, I've got to say, George, I know this is your question time, but, like, does it drive anybody else crazy when you're watching a pinball tournament stream and they don't have the names of the commentators on the bottom? Like, any other sport, they would be like, you know, here's the names of the commentators. We've got so-and-so former 49ers quarterback. We got so-and-so, former sports writer for the New York Times, blah, blah, blah. But, like, you know, I watch these, like, Districate 2 streams, and I love it. I love seeing the tournaments, but I'm always like, but who's talking now? Mm-hmm. I want to know. Is that a subtle thing for you to put who's actually talking in your stream? Yeah, so that's what Surreal is talking about, specifically that. I imagine it's going to be something like this here where it just highlights who is talking. but it pops up in the stream but yeah exactly I looked at the Discord API because what I really wanted to do was put sort of flapping talking heads or animals or something for each person but it's a long story as to why that's not entirely straight forward so instead Discord has a pretty basic one but it's good enough for just figuring it out okay What's that app, JibJab? Like the mouth disconnect from the...
20:37
Yeah, I sort of envision Canadians on South Park. Yeah. Because it might seem pretty easy. Right. TPN or TPC Discord? I'm not on TPN. Oh, got it. So, Jedi almost, I think every time he streams, always has an open chat available. I can't believe. You should cry. Somebody else just did something. What is that? New Jersey Coffee Junkie. Thank you so much for that sub. You're amazing. You took that stage at work in the morning, but have the best night. New Jersey Coffee Junkie, thank you so much. Sammy Higgins, braiding us with 63 beautiful individuals. Here we go. All right, drum roll. Ready, guys? Let's do this. You heard it. Woo!
21:25
Yeah! I always wanted to sing that Darren Criss Sammy thing that plays on the MPT-3K where it's like, Sammy.
21:34
I'm no Darren Criss. I don't know who Darren Criss is, but you're killing it right now. Keep going. And, hey, spring is here in the Harry Potter musical.
21:47
Have you not watched the Harry Potter musical yet? George. Harry Potter? Wait, I've watched like three musicals. Is that the one that, oh man, I'm going to butcher it. I have seen, I feel like, two YouTube videos that seem sort of like musicals of Harry Potter.
22:10
George, this is the best. And I talked to you about this before, but every time we've been drinking, so I don't expect you to remember it. Yeah, I don't remember that. Now, I do want to point out, though, I have watched, what was the Tom Hanks SNL skit?
22:24
David Pumpkin. David Pumpkins. Now, I have watched David Pumpkins. I'm David Pumpkins. And I have read all of the stuff around David Pumpkins. I feel like way more than I should have. I don't know why that was so successful and why I like it so much, but that was perfect. So now I need to go watch this. Also, Sammy, you're amazing. My actual hat's off to you. Thank you so much for that, Rades.
22:48
And then Sammy's going to be on. Okay. Bye, Elric. So what, I have a Godzilla's power-up. I took my break already, so I just jumped on in.
23:00
Cool, good start, good start. Let's see what the game's head is at. There we go, there we go. We are going to destroy a saucer. Ooh, one more and we get an extra ball. That's good. We don't need to stay in Tokyo, so I'm going to travel to New York, which is going to give us the ability to actually start another mode. But to get there, I need to go right ramp, left ramp.
23:33
Insanity Falls has a David S. Pumpkin shirt. Any questions? The way that finished it, like, this is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
23:47
Here's the thing. I have a David S. Pumpkin suit. I have the full suit from the Halloween Express or whatever. The costume they gave Tom Hanks was just straight up a jack-o'-lantern suit they got at the Halloween store, right? So it was already being mass produced when this kit came out.
24:06
And it's funny because I wore it for Halloween when I'm walking my kid around for trick-or-treat, but I'm just so used to wearing a suit, I kept forgetting I was wearing a costume. I would see all these people wearing these great costumes and be like, oh, man, I should have dressed up tonight. And then some people would be like, oh, my gosh, I love your David Puckett suit. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm doing pretty okay.
24:27
Did you wear, like, a curly wig with, like, a shock of gray in it? No, I didn't have a wig. But, honestly, my hair is kind of wild, so it was fine. I didn't do the shock of gray. You could easily pass as Joe Puckin. Yeah.
24:51
Question two. Ooh, good call. I thought we did this already. But who would make an amazing but possibly an awful babysitter?
25:07
Amazing but possibly awful. There are two balls stuck over there. I don't know that we've done this one. At least I didn't think so. Do you want me to go there? Nope.
25:17
There it goes. That sucked, though. Amazing, but, like, describe amazing, but... Like, who might, you know, marry Poppins? But their kids would love, like, Mrs. Doubtfire? Sure. He brought a donkey in the house. The local cop would be affected?
25:37
That's a good point. Like, your kids will be safe. Like, is it the Mrs. Doubtfire thing, right? Like, as a kid, you're like, oh, my gosh, the mom's being unreasonable. But then as an adult, you're like, he brought a donkey in the house. Really good point. There you go. Yes.
25:58
That's the sort of thing, like, when you watch Jack Black in School of Rock. As a kid, you're like, oh, what a cool teacher. But as a parent, you're like, oh, no. So there is this little oversight. This could happen every day. We wouldn't know. Does anybody know what a hangover is? It means you're drunk. Close. It means I'm a drunk last night.
26:21
Yeah. What is it? Arnold Schwarzenegger in kindergarten. Oh, there you go. There you go. Yeah. Basically any adult in any 80s movie.
26:36
Yeah, it's basically... I feel like the TV from Poltergeist did a pretty good job. Right? Hold on. Squalito, this is not my favorite stern. That goes to Jurassic Park without any doubt whatsoever. Edward Spitzerhands says, Let's go pinball. Maybe... Michael Keaton is Mr. Mom as well. I can get behind that.
27:05
Yep. Helen Keller might be a tough hire. That's a tough one. Ouch. I mean, obviously, anyone who's been dead for a few decades is going to be a difficult babysitter, no matter how much the name carries weight, you know. Yes. Fair, fair point. Fair point.
27:33
Elvira? Oh my gosh, Elvira would be amazing. Like, if Elv... That's like the ideal babysitter. But I don't think she knows how to not make weird jokes. I would love that at absolutely any age from 8 to 44.
27:54
Wait, which one is this? Because I was also catching up on the ones that people were typing. Elvira. Oh. Here's the thing about Ironbunny. Yeah, for real, the hard part is convincing your wife that you still need a babysitter.
28:08
Oh, I am married. If you read Elvira's autobiography, like, oh, my God, like, she was not properly supervised in her youth. Oh.
28:21
And, like, everyone around her really let her down, and she got to have a lot of adventures as a result. But I'm like reading this book and I'm like, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh. But like at the same time, if this person has limited access to my child to help her know how to deal with situations like Elvira got into in Las Vegas at the age of 16 or 17, it's like, you know, maybe that would be helpful information for her to have. No, I'm talking about. It's a really interesting place to come in on. But hello, everybody. I'm talking about the character Elvira, not the person who portrays Elvira. Yes, because the person who portrays Elvira, like, I've listened to her on radio commentary, and she's actually a very educated, very mature, intelligent person.
29:22
Right, because we weren't, no, no, no, when we said Mrs. Doubtfire, we weren't talking about Robin Williams. Okay, there we go, but I'm going with Robin Williams. Babysitter material. Yes.
29:33
Yes, he talks about the amount of drugs he's done. Right? Well, I mean, it would be, nope, nope, yeah. Sorry, not Robin Williams.
29:45
You know who would be a great babysitter is Danny DeVito's wife. I think her name is, is it Rita Perlman? Rita Perlman, yeah. Yeah, who was on Cheers. like, she's just, yeah, like, you know, she doesn't take nonsense from anybody. Wait, was that the bartender from Cheers? Yes. I did not know that they were married. Yeah. Carla? Yep. Okay. Carla, yes, that's her name. Thank you. The character's name is Carla. Carla is played by Ria Carlman, who's married to Danny DeVito. I'm terrible with actors and actresses' names. Sorry.
30:21
But, like, yeah, like, I would let her babysit my kid because, like, honestly, one of the things I worry about is like I've really tried to raise my child in the safest environment possible but like I worry that the world is so cruel that she's not going to be ready for it. Like have I done too good a job of insulating her? Oh, right. And so having somebody like the lady who plays Elvira or the lady who plays Carla from Cheers come in and be like, yeah, let me tell you how things are. I think that's a good thing maybe for a kid to hear sometimes. Interesting. I just read an article about the damage we're doing to children by telling them that the world is dangerous because it's limiting their curiosity and ability to go out and explore.
31:12
Oh, see, I'm the opposite. I'm like, the world is dangerous, and that's why you need to be curious so you can find the weak points to attack.
31:19
I like that. Yeah, one of my previous co-workers was like, Joe, do you ever feel guilty about raising a kid in such a screwed up world? And I'm like, no, because if people like us don't raise our kids to try to fix the screwed-up world, it's not going to get fixed. Right. That's true. We've got to say, look, here's how you analyze things. Here's how you appreciate what is good and what is in need of improvement, and here's how you try to find the places that you can actually make a positive change. Did you respond with, do you feel bad about asking me something so dumb?
31:56
Or rude. Right? Yeah, that's a tough question. Do you regret having your child? That's a terrible question to ask. Well, but, like, the thing is, though, like... Go back to the water cooler. Nobody likes you.
32:13
The thing is, like, I really do like this guy, and he really did... He is a well-meaning person who just... Like, some people feel like they have less agency than maybe they do, right? you know, they look at the world being screwed up and are like, oh, this sucks.
32:32
What now? You know what I mean? And like, it's like, oh, no, this sucks. Let's go. Right. But this sucks. Let's try and make a change.
32:44
Exactly. I want to. Sorry. Oh, wait a second. They played the bad parents in Matilda. Yes. Oh. Oh, also I was totally confusing Danny DeVito and the guy from My Cousin Vinny. Jill Pesci. Jill Pesci, thank you. I was totally confusing those two. But, man, it still totally makes sense. And also, insanity falls throughout Chris Pratt. And it's not racist because you're Italian too. Sure.
33:17
Chris Pratt, I feel like not any particular character, just Chris Pratt in general, Well, Bite For Me win. Infinity Falls, I like that. Win, awesome, and terrible. Maybe Chris Pratt is Andy Harkin-Rick.
33:33
Like, real world Chris Pratt, like, I don't know. The awesome yet terrible babysitter? Yes. I mean, he's a dad. I know. He has kids with Anna Faris.
33:47
Wait a second, was Anna Faris the... House Bunny. No, no, no, but she was, she's in like Scary Movie and things like that, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, same man at first. Yeah.
34:00
She was also Jan in that Brady movie. Okay, got it, yes. Yeah, that's awesome. Insanity Falls can understand where the co-worker is coming from. Insanity, Lane Bryant, don't you have kids as well?
34:16
The Queen of Spoofs. Ah, yes, The Queen of Spoofs. Okay, I feel confident now. I'm thinking at least of the same person. I am also similarly, Joe, very bad with names. Like my favorite, like one of my favorite like familial moments is like him and his wife like sitting there and his wife doesn't have her arm in her coat sleeve and he goes to like hold her hand and he just keeps batting her coat sleeve. and he's like, what the, what the, and he like opens her coat and grabs her hand.
34:52
Dad moment extraordinaire. Give me your hand. What did I just do? I want to love you. I don't know, jet fighter attack? Shoot red arrows to collect that thing. Holy biscuits.
35:07
That's a good point, Frisco. Someone to know Brian would be Frisco's choice. Kids would get someone hilarious and also freakishly tall and intimidating.
35:18
Oh, Jeff Goldblum would be an awesome yet horrible babysitter. He'd tell you about all kinds of science and then go way off the rails. You'd come back, your kid's electrocuted, and you'd be like, your kid found a way.
35:37
I'll take that laugh. Thank you. It was bad. I saw it. It was there. What? It's only us that are playing. I don't know. I'm not keeping track.
35:56
Why does it keep doing that? I don't know. I'm not. You're totally flinching it like that. No, I'm not. The first time you guys have ever played pinball? At least the third. I'm not fully... Oh, my God! I'm not fully plunging, and it's like going up onto the thingy. There.
36:20
That was brutal. I don't know what that's called. I saw that on the delay, but brutal. It's still, yeah, it's brutal.
36:27
Jedi McMuffin recommended a new filter on the lens, and he sent me a link, and I ordered it, and I put it on. Jedi, do you notice any... Is that what you were doing when I came in? No. Well, yes, actually. You were playing with your filter? Yeah.
36:45
So I had installed the filter, but I hadn't dialed in the settings yet. Hey, somebody just did something. Seas of silence. Thank you very much for that, Paulo. You see very little. Well, this is also an LE, so it has the Invisiglass on it, which is meant to not have any reflections. Really? Yes.
37:04
Why did you just look at me like that was the most unbelieving? Hmm. Maybe on screen on stream it doesn't have any reflection. No, here, check this out. You can, over here.
37:18
It's hard right now. This one and that one have been visiglass and there are moments this one's a little dirty I have to take it out and clean it but there are moments where you can be like wait a second is there glass on this play field right now? You can like touch it and then leave fingerprints and have to clean it again. You can touch it? That's a good plan. Yeah, I'm not actually going to touch it yet.
37:45
Tammy, who would make a great babysitter but also awful? Hmm. I'm going to go with the Weasley twins. Oh, Fred and George. Okay.
38:07
That was pretty self-explanatory, but yeah. Yeah, yeah, nobody needed to ask any questions. Yep, no, that was solid.
38:16
And that is exactly what I was thinking of, though. Like, someone who would be fun, but like... Irresponsible. Yeah, horribly irresponsible.
38:24
Going to let you, like, seriously injure yourself or others. Yeah, like my older siblings, who are always laughing. All right, backhand this sucker, right? There, got it.
38:46
Oxygen destroyed. All right, I've got 12 seconds to hit it through the middle. Nine, eight, got it. All right, so I kept it alive. Oxygen destroyer diffused. Ball save. That's the cool new mode. They just added to the, um, to this, to the, to the code. To Limbo Driver from Blank Check. What is Voodoo Glass, Jedi?
39:12
Gandalf. Wait, uh. He'd have the best answers but never give them. He'd take you on, uh, he'd task you with quests well beyond your ability but never let you die. I was going to say want him to leave you on your own and then come back when you with their hair done Dumbledore his basic solution is leave teenagers to it yeah like wow so inept leave you on the doorstep of abusive family members you know great guy. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, and that's one of the things I love about the Harry Potter musical, is like, you know, like Hermione would ask, like Dumbledore would say, I don't know, I'll just let you kids go mess around until you figure it out. And Hermione would be like, Professor Dumbledore, are you sure that's wise? And he'd go, no, you're like, hey.
40:23
I have to second, Joe, if you haven't seen those, and you like Harry Potter, I think you would really enjoy them. There's three of them. No, I've watched them. I'm trying to get George to watch. I'm telling George that. Oh, sorry. I heard Joe as well for whatever reason.
40:37
Oh, my God. Get over there. There it is. Sorry. I see Jay-Z getting out of the way. When things get tough, I tend to move around a lot.
40:54
Preservation kicking in. Yep. I'm going to get... Nope. I'm going to get out of Tokyo since I've completed that mode. I'm moving on to New York again. I'm going to hit the right ramp, left ramp, start a kaiju battle, and then get into my multiball. That's my plan.
41:12
I believe in you. You can do it, George. Lin's Arcade says, watch it on the big screen at Lin's Arcade tournament night here. Ooh. Nice. Good luck to all the contenders.
41:26
Woo-hoo. I could have been a contender but I didn know where Liz Arcade was Actually it in Colorado Is it Okay See I don know I don't either. George, I haven't had the chance to tell you, I've got an IFPA number now. I competed in two tournaments. Congratulations! And I have like .8 Whopper points. Heck yeah!
41:52
Wombat Pinball, welcome! That's you. Also, my drink is done. How are you doing? You also need a drink. I will go. Oh.
42:06
That was it. You want to start up a new game? Get two players going? Sure. I don't know how to do that. Okay.
42:14
I believe in you. Okay. I push this button. Ooh. Start twice, maybe? Start? Yes. Start twice. I hit it twice. Nothing happened. And boom. Did you put in quarters?
42:33
Player one, two, three, four. Waiting to join. Did you hit it twice? No, you added a third player. Sorry. Now you've got to hold the left angles in toto. What are we doing here? Now I've got to hold the left what? Why is there not a Mystery Men pinball machine yet? because then you could get all-star for the multi-ball. I mean, it's an obvious thing. I am thrilled that you know what I was talking about, Joe.
43:08
Oh, yeah, I have seen that movie far too many times. As have I. Really? It is way too hot in here. It's not very hot.
43:20
Scratch that. That movie is so good. I mean. I never saw it. I meant to say thank you for the drink. Oh, do yourself a favor. Your kid will love it, George.
43:32
It's, in my opinion, the greatest superhero movie ever made. Wow. It's up there for sure. Wow. What is it? Mystery Men with Gene Garofalo. And Adam, or Ben Stiller. And Dane Cook. The guy who plays Kel from Kenan and Kel is in it.
43:52
But, like, so the song All Star, if you watch the music video, for All Star by Smash Mouth. The music video is footage from the film Mystery Man. Like, they made the song for the film. And it ended up in, like, 800 other films after that. But, like, this was where it started.
44:13
For the record, Kel's name is actually Kel. Oh, my gosh, really? Kel Mitchell. See, I'm so bad at actors and stuff. Like, when I got to college, my roommate, freshman year in college, was from L.A. And, like, we'd be watching TV, and he'd be like, Hey, who's that on the TV? And I'm like, I don't know. He's like, that's Jennifer Lopez. I'm like, I don't know who that is. And he's like, Jennifer Lopez lives two blocks away from me. I walk my dog. I see her walking her dog. I'm like, good for you. I'm from Tennessee. I don't have these connections. I just wanted to sound important. Well, yeah, but, like, that's the thing, though, is, like, I don't know who anybody is or what they look like or whatever. It makes it really funny because clearly they were trying to impress you. It wasn't working. But the thing is, I don't know to be impressed because I also don't know who Jennifer Lopez is. That's what's funny about it is it didn't work.
45:13
Want to hear a joke? I would love to hear a joke. What do you get when you cross an angry sheep with an angry cow? I have no idea. Two animals in a bad mood.
45:38
I don't want to laugh at that, but I know that I'm going to tell it tomorrow. I'm totally using that in my case, and she's going to be so mad at me. She's not. This is one of those things she's not going to forgive me for. She's been talking to a therapist for ten years about this. Oh, my God.
45:57
You almost made me blow my nose, like, all over the place. I didn't know where that was going at all.
46:07
Thank you. You're welcome. Well, we missed out on some George Snot Rock. Yep, yep. Okay, I'm going to catch up over here. Oh, the Queen Dark Lady. I thought she asked if we wanted to hear a joke not a travesty joke that was good I know I was like I can't deliver this with a straight face as I was typing it I was like insanity I have not seen Amada I don't know what that is Amada yeah have you seen Amada yet And that joke is the state of our humor. I completely agree.
46:53
I haven't seen Amada yet, but I saw everything everywhere it was. What'd you think? I thought it was fantastic. One of the best films I've seen in a long time. I went in absolutely knowing nothing. I didn't know who was in it. I didn't know what it was about. I just heard it was a good movie and you could see it, and it's weird. And I'm like, that's fine. That's all I need. And that's all I'm telling people. It's a good movie. You should see it. and it's weird. It's beautiful. YouTube keeps recommending it to me. I should watch it. You should definitely watch it. It's so good. It's finally on streaming, so yeah, if you're waiting for it to go on streaming, because I kind of was, like, yeah, it's a good time. Okay.
47:40
Wait, what was it? Two animals in bad mood. No, not that. I was wondering if the Amada was a joke. Oh, yes. What's the Amada? Nothing. What's the Amada with you? Oh. Oh, dear.
47:56
Well played. That brings back the old Henway joke. All right. So we are on to number three for this evening. Are we ready for question number three? amongst all the questions I have written up for this evening. Number three is... Sorry?
48:23
No? Is that your health? I don't know. Who is it? Do you think alcoholic beverages can or should be spicy?
48:36
Mmm, spicy. Yes and yes. Yeah. Okay. Like bloody very spicy. scene? Yeah, there's a Bloody Mary, there's a Prairie Fire. That's weird.
48:49
I mean, admittedly, that's usually done on a dare. You can spice wine like... I can't believe you subscribed to Don't Panic. I mean, you're paying your money. You must stop being a billionaire if you're waiting your money. Like, what? You someone else. There's a house and your margarita. With wine glass?
49:18
I've never tried salt on a wine glass. I wouldn't give that a go. No, no, no. I was saying I don't want to have that. Oh. But I haven't tried it. You're very wise, Sarah. Yeah, but now... Pour margarita into that wine glass. It's nothing special. Fair. But now we're giving George bad ideas. But, like, I mean, like, there's, like, honey chipotle beer. We've seen the inside of George's fridge. Their bad ideas abound. I was worried about where that sentence was going to go, for real.
49:51
We haven't seen the inside of his freezer, so it might be much worse. That's interesting. You have not seen the inside of my freezer. Maybe it has food in it. It does. Maybe. It does. That is where the food is kept.
50:08
How can you just let that happen? I like to think that's where the food is hiding. There are a lot of Reese's Pieces and M&M's in the freezer. Oh, my gosh.
50:23
I feel like partying at George's would be great because you could get really, really blitzed, and then clearly the only food that's in there is Hot Pockets. If I could eat Hot Pockets and they made a gluten-tairy-free version, I would eat the heck out of those. I grew up on Hot Pockets. And they were good. Yeah. I got you. And they were good. Yeah, they're not delicious. Nah. I feel like I'm really forcing it now going to Mod Pizza and getting their gluten and dairy-free pizza, the crust and their dairy-free cheese, but whatever. It's good enough. I went to this place and they had gluten and dairy-free pizza, but they didn't have gluten and dairy-free calzones. I'm like, just fold it in half. You did the same thing to fold it. It's fine. Can you eat it? Are you... Those pretzel bites are good. Thank you. Inside George's blank and it looks spicy. George against humanity. Let's go.
51:22
Thank you, Sammy, for being there with me. Yeah, Jedi is saying... Sorry, I've got to read that. When I met my wife six years ago, she was confounded to learn that I thought Skittles were simply an M&M competitor.
51:37
But, like, Skittles are its own thing. That is not an M&M's competitor. Yeah. Skittles. Like, you could say that Smarties and Sweet Tarts are competitors, right? Yeah.
51:54
Yeah, so, like, for example, when the U.S. military wants to acquisition something, They can't say, we want 500 million boxes of Kleenex, right? They need to describe them as boxes of tissue paper, right? So when they want to buy M&Ms, they're like, we need pan-coated chocolate discs, right? Skittles are not pan-coated chocolate discs.
52:22
Interesting. Oh, I like it. So you're saying if you could break it down into some sort of like a category or type. Parallel. Exactly. Like, if you could describe it on a requisition order the same way, right? Now, arguably, you could make a strong case that, like, Sweet Tarts and Skittles, or not Skittles, Sweet Tarts and Smarties, you could say they are, like, coin-sized sugar cylinders. Right? But you wouldn't describe an M&M that way. Okay, okay. Sugar cylinders. I really like that. describe a candy in the most technical way possible. To acquire three million sugar cylinders.
53:09
Well, that's the thing, though, is they can't say, hey, we want to buy a bunch of Smarties, because that's a pejorative toward a particular vendor. Yeah. Right?
53:20
That is my day job. Did I accidentally change into a chocolate family? They can just write the requirements to be very, very specific. Very specific, but no brand names. And then down select to Mars, eventually. all for this candy science oh because the Castleman's do that tasty Tuesdays with all that candy I wouldn't describe anything as a coin size sugar cylinder and what coin are we talking about because they're not quite dime sized I mean you gotta keep in mind it's an international organization. I'm sure in Greece they had some smaller coins because, you know, people's hands were smaller back in the Greek Empire.
54:08
How small are you? Oh my goodness. I can't. Like, when you see illustrations of Socrates, are his hands like Dwayne the Rock Johnson size? No. How much bigger his hands are Dwayne the Rock Johnson size? I can't believe Oh, my God. Poor money. Thank you so much. I mean, you're paying your money. You must be a billionaire if you're wasting your money watching someone else play pinball. Wait, were you talking about The Rock at 75% size? Because he isn't in the MCU yet, right?
54:54
He's going to be? Well, I mean, I assume everybody makes it. I think we're going to be fixing Greeks in marble. It's pretty much the same thing. Okay. Definitely.
55:05
In order to save time for the VFX crews, any renders of Dwayne the Rock Johnson have to be 75% his actual size.
55:14
Also, Insanity Falls says, I watched Bill and Ted tonight, and Socrates has normal-sized hands. Yeah, that's absolutely 100% historically accurate. In that context, it's pronounced so-crates.
55:31
And you, sir, were born in the 80s. Or maybe late 70s. Late 70s. Okay. You were an 80s kid. How about that? Yep.
55:44
Yep, I watched things like Bill and Ted and Back to the Future and Rambo. Wow. You know what? I had to watch Rambo about a decade ago for the first time and actually understand it. Apparently, I saw it a bunch as a kid, but I have no idea what I was actually watching.
56:03
Do you ask this question to each person? Yes. And they name each person on the call? No, no, no, no. You're supposed to target. Okay, cool. So the next question.
56:16
Uh-oh, rules. There's rules to this question here. So, what movie villain is Joe Hill's most like? Oh, God.
56:35
I haven't answered the best. That's terrifying. I haven't answered the best. You know which Star Trek character you most like? You never answer Elam Garrick. You say Geordi LaForge. I don't know who I think. You know what immediately comes to mind, though? And it's probably just because we talked about this earlier. I can absolutely see Casanova Frankenstein.
56:54
You don't want to take it. That's fair. I don't know. Who's Casanova Frankenstein? From Mystery Men. You're not wrong. That's your homework, George. Watch the movie. I'm so sorry.
57:07
Okay, so the very first Pierce Brosnan 007, there was a computer hacker character in that movie in GoldenEye, I think is what it was called. Yeah, that was it. That was it. And that is, that's the villain I would put Joe Hill as. Very outgoing, ridiculously talkative, kind of hilarious. And the comic relief of the entire movie. What about Sammy? Yeah, okay. Does it have to be a movie? Well, the question was movie villain.
57:42
But it doesn't have to be a movie. We could go with a book villain or some other villain. Are you wanting to go with, like, Stalin or something? Oh, my God. No.
57:51
It's so scary. I was thinking of the episode of The Simpsons where Homer gets that job in another city, and he works for the guy that's, like, a Bond villain, but he's very, very charismatic and helpful. And so he's, like, super normal and funny and awesome for Homer. And then, you know, behind the scenes, he's, like, a Bond villain. I don't know. Joe's very charismatic and helpful.
58:18
Right. Okay. I also work for Joe, so I have to say nice things. Don't say nice things. No, I mean you don't. I'm joking.
58:28
I'm going to say... I just found that person very funny. These calls, I'm going to say Dr. Horrible. Oh, NPH. Wow, that's a heck of a compliment. I mean, these are all great answers. I don't feel bad about any of these.
58:48
Joe Air, Willy Wonka. Is Willy Wonka a villain? It would not surprise me to hear that he was a villain. It's undetermined. That's the great thing about that movie is you don't know. There's a lot of questions.
59:01
You lose. Good day, sir. Good day to you, sir. I mean, I feel like he may have helped out Charlie a bunch, but he probably also ruined a lot of kids' lives. We don't send you reports. I assume we answered you. Oops. kids and creatures that are trapped in his factory.
59:22
He stole a bunch of Oompa Loompas from their native land. Oh, wow. That's true. And put them to work as slave labor in his factory, feeding them chocolate. Also, he has that tunnel.
59:37
Oh, my gosh, that wicked, weird tunnel. That tunnel gave me nightmares. Yeah. Hire Slugworth to spy on kids and tempt them with industrial espionage deals? Yeah, I'm sorry. Wonka's a bad guy.
59:55
Wow, that is messing with my head right now. Sorry we just ruined your childhood, George. Yeah. Oh, that was mean. Okay, next up. we're going with actually that was really good so the notes or the rules on this was we're supposed to go around and ask who we think everybody would be and I kind of want to keep going at the same time I feel like we could potentially end that question on such a high note I mean I'm the obvious villain so I get it Like, that's close.
60:38
You're not wrong. That is no joke the best compliment I think I could give you. I feel like the villains in every book or movie are the best people. They always get the best songs in Disney films. Very true. Yeah.
60:59
Be prepared. I'll work at No Play make Joe a dual boy whoa whoa whoa how did we go to Stephen King can I be Jack Torrance that seems appropriate yeah Ming George's Lex Luthor says Insanity Falls. George's Megamind. Oh my God. Honestly, Megamind. I would take that. I'm totally fine with that. Yeah. Lex Luthor. I used to shave my head in Insanity Falls. So Lex Luthor would have made sense a while back.
61:46
Screw it. We're doing it. I'm going to keep, let's keep going. All right, George. Oh, me? Yep. Fine. I was going to ask Sammy, but... Okay, me. What bad guy do you guys, movie villain do you think I could cool with? That's Stewie.
62:10
I'm going to go with Loki from Dogma. Where he's like a nice, likable person, but he's like gets pissed off for the right reasons, you know? Pretty good. Wait, was that Matt Damon? Yeah. No, that was Matt Damon. Matt Damon, okay. That tracks. That tracks, yeah. I kind of had a think on it.
62:32
Two people agreeing, the Gene Hackman, Lex Luthor, now I see it. I'm really enjoying it, envisioning George beating the crap out of John Wick for a little while or something.
62:47
It's so out of character, but delightful. Well, here's the question, though. Is John Wick the villain?
62:57
Who do you ask? I mean, but, like, there's a reason that they all refer to him as, like, you know, the demon. No, he's not. All those 500 people killed his dog.
63:09
Yeah, it's one of those things, like, you know, you start chasing this stuff, and, yeah, eventually you end up with hundreds of bodies, and it's like, oh, maybe I'm the bad guy. I don't know. Well, when you sit back for a minute and you really look at it, aren't we all just really terrible people? Yeah, but, like, we don't have to say body count.
63:33
Now we know. I'm sorry, but Jedi... Yeah, we don't advertise. Jedi said Gary Oldman's character from The Professionals?
63:44
I could see that. You do a pretty good Gary Oldman from The Professionals. Oh, I was thinking of Gary Oldman from True Romance. Okay, I'm totally... I'm fine with Gary Oldman from The Professionals.
63:57
Do you guys know the character? I kind of remember who that is. Gary Oldman from True Romance? No, I know him from True Romance, yes. But, like, the professional, all I remember is the two primary characters. He's the guy in the gray suit.
64:18
Hmm. Tracy was very helpful. He was the bad guy. Hi, Tracy. Hi, Tracy. No, I've not seen Deberry, the new Firestarter movie, but I have... Man, there were some big names in that, too. I think the... I can't remember who the father was. Was it Chris Hemsworth?
64:47
There was somebody... There was a couple of big names in that film. And I kind of like the idea of Firestarter as a superhero, but a kid who's struggling to handle their powers.
65:01
I don't know. Did any of you guys see the new Firestarter? Was that the one with Drew Barrymore, like, 30 years ago?
65:11
That was the OG. I think the voice of Stephen King stuff, because people keep thinking he's my dad, and it's really obnoxious.
65:22
Why do people think he's your dad? because he has a son named Joe Hillstrom King. Oh. And Joe Hillstrom King decided he wanted to be a writer, and he's like, I need a pen name. I'm going to go by Joe Hill.
65:38
And I'm like, no way, man. Yeah, you've already got that. Joe. I got it. It was pretty good. You've got to be. Joe, it's not even the worst mix-up with your name, to be honest. No, but here's the thing. is my actual dad all the time is like, hey, Lady Gaga just bought her dad a restaurant. How's YouTube going? Can I have a restaurant? I'm like, no.
66:04
But like he went to school with Lady Gaga's dad. And so like, I'm like, well, you know who Lady, what Lady Gaga's dad did? He put her through Juilliard. You could, you never put me through Juilliard. I was in the Tennessee public school system. Like, I don't know what you want from me. I don't know. Sounds like Lady Gaga's dad's a bragging jerk.
66:27
I don't know that man. I mean, he at least, like, put his kid through Juilliard. Like, that was nice of him. He didn't have to do that.
66:38
Did he do it for unselfish reasons, or did he do it to one day have his own restaurant? I have no idea, but, like, I would not assume that anything I did for my kid would get me a restaurant. Like, that's like a really huge logical leap.
66:56
Also not a prize for anything. Cool. Can we call Sammy a villain? Ooh. All right. Who do we think of? She says she can't see the play field.
67:20
Oh, she'll just move me. Hi, Tracy. I may have moved the entire pinball machine significantly. You can hardly tell.
67:33
George doesn't have a tilt bob in his machine. I have a tilt bob. I mean, that was a really far move if you didn't get a tilt. I totally got a tilt, didn't I? Did you? No. I'm pretty sure I did. You're still playing, aren't you? Okay, I didn't tilt out, but I got a danger at least. I mean, you like almost knocked my drink out of the cup of the next machine.
67:57
All right. Surreal, if you were, what kind of villain would Sammy be? I don't know I'm still thinking on it I'm sure that I'll come up with something but I'm having a hard time because Sammy is very sweet and I don't know does not seem to want to kick puppies or destroy the universe or anything so I'm thinking I mean I'm glad I put that I don't put those vibes out there that's good Yes. Do you remember, what is it, Morgana from Willow?
68:40
The queen? Yes. What? Yes, I do. Not her, her daughter. Explain yourself, sir. No, no, no, her daughter. The one that Belle killed. Oh, yeah, Saoirse. Saoirse, thank you. Oh, my God. What is the line? Thank you, Jedi McMuffin, right there. Bad, bad Morta. Thank you, Jedi. Wow. Jedi just coming in with all those names so quickly. Joe Air, I'm also excited about the new Willow series. But Saoirse. And then there's this great line where Val Kilmer is still under the effects of the dust, the pixie dust. And he's completely in love with Saoirse. And he says some things about how much, like, he would die for her. And his sun and his moon rises. And then it wears off, and she gets so upset because she was going along with it. And he's like, I don't know, it went away. And her response was, the sun sets. It went in darkness without you, and it went away. Thank you. Yes. Yeah, I've seen that once or twice. I need to memorize that line. Okay, you are my sun, my moon, my starlit sky. Without you, I dwell in darkness. Okay. I absolutely need to remember that. Anyway, Sammy, I'm going with Sorsha, who was a bad guy who eventually becomes a good guy. How about that? Okay. I don't remember that movie very well. Oh!
70:18
Jill. You know, okay, I don't know Willow at all. Oh, do you? No! I saw it. Okay, here's the thing, is I saw it when I was, like, 14, and I don't remember it. It's been a while.
70:33
But, yeah. I don't know. Here's the thing, is, like, I can't imagine Sammy being, like, a huge movie villain.
70:48
But, like, and maybe this is worse, and I'm sorry, Sammy, if this is something. I'm sorry. but like if you were going to be a villain it would be like in an episode of King of the Hill like Dale would be really mad at you.
71:07
Like you know the requisition lady needs an exterminator and won't hire me because I'm smoking in the truck but like this is tribal land you can smoke on the truck like there's something there like I can see you being an antagonist in some sort of absurdist setting. Okay. Is that what he says? I mean, that's basically been my day today, so you're not wrong. Yeah. Yeah, like, I could imagine somebody like Dale complaining about you to his friends and they just don't have time for it type of thing.
71:44
Yeah, you're not wrong. I'd be like the boring like office villains I guess I don't know the one that I told you I'd get back to this the one that just came to mind is the woman in our office space that's like looks like somebody's got a case of the moon days I'm offended by that more than anything okay my job is done All right, and on that note, wait, wait, wait, wait, Jay-Z, did you have something? I was thinking, like, the white queen from Narnia, the white witch, the white queen from Narnia. Oh, oh, my God, the greatest actress. uh yeah we just did that on the theater what's her name but she seems too mean um so then i was thinking like nebula hilda swinson yes squinton what tracy from outer space her name is tilda squinton oh tilda swinton yeah i don't know like i don't know like i just um sammy seems like she would be like the nicest person, but also like femme fatale, like, like super kind. But like until you like make her mad, she'd just slowly poison you to death.
73:18
You mean like the queen of hearts? This is the greatest question ever. Yeah, but I was like trying to like figure out like what character fits those. Yeah, yeah. Like so nice. I dare you to find a movie in which Tilda Swinton wasn't amazing.
73:40
I don't know. There was that movie, The Dead Don't Die, even though she was amazing, but it was just, like, so weird. But she was amazing. She was a samurai in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, but I mean, she was, like, a German samurai. I was 100% on board with that movie until they did the day-into-night effects on the final battle. They should have just had it at noon. They clearly filmed it at noon. the whole movie is about how the axis of the earth is broken just have them have the fight in the graveyard at noon huh I don't remember that pins and pirates thank you so much for bringing nine beautiful individuals over here pins and pirates how was your stream how are things and thank you so much for that raid also I totally forgot to ask Sammy I uh it's funny I actually set my computer to lurk but I kept getting pulled into conversation I never actually got to sit in and chat at any point today what were you streaming this evening um just some more Minecraft okay we didn't have AC for like a week-ish me too I haven't really been streaming because it's been like 105 every day oh my god yeah it's fixed now so that's good okay good Jay-Z's over here fanning herself because I increased the temperature in my house by one degree. It's hot in here. You have a lot of heat generating machines. Right? Every morning? There's a lot of machines in there. There are a lot. Well, only five of them. No, four of them are turned on. It is still warm. And I still have not cooled down from, like, heat exhaustion while teaching. Yes. So it's not my fault. She was teaching, sorry. Hip hop. Hip-hop. You know what I mean? She was teaching hip-hop this evening, and they do not properly cool the area. So it was a large number of people, and was it an hour and a half? No, it was only an hour, but there were like 20 people in there. It gets up to 80 degrees, and when you're working, like my head was dripping sweat, and there was a point that I just, I had ringing in my ears, and I was dizzy, and there's just no air circulation in there, and it's just hot. That doesn't seem very safe.
76:07
Maybe you could charge extra for hot hip-hop. Yeah, exactly. And so I forgot to tell you, Jackie's accent came out again because when I went to the bar and asked for ice, the bartender said, we're limited on ice, so we need to save it for the alcoholic drinks. and she dropped these ice that came out again. She was like, oh, you need to save it for the alcoholic drink? Really? Not for the teachers who are dying of heat exhaustion? And, like, she just went off on my friend Jackie, who I was subbing for. She's a lawyer, and she's from the East Coast. And she, yeah, like, she's a lawyer in 29 states, and she does not mess around.
76:51
Woo! Nice! Did she lawyer her way into some ice for you guys? No, she's like, don't worry. Her accent was amazing. I had to stop her mid-conversation and be like, your accent is the most amazing thing I've heard today. It was funny while she's talking, and I just turned around and saw Georgia staring at her. I'm just like, I can't stop smiling, because it is the most over-the-top East Coast, like, Boston accent I've ever heard. She's from Connecticut. And she's just so upset. And for whatever reason, it made that even, like, it just made it so much worse. It was... The F-bombs are flowing. Oh, yeah. It was great.
77:34
Yeah. So, yeah. And she was very upset. So, luckily, tomorrow I am teaching at North where the air is a proper 62 degrees.
77:48
Good. because I just, like, when you are literally jumping up and down and doing full-blown cardio, and my head is making a pool on the floor in front of me. That was genius.
78:06
So, yeah, that was fun. But my body has not cooled down since class. Yeah, that's fair. I think since I've become a teacher, I've had heat exhaustion twice. I've never had heat exhaustion in my whole entire life.
78:24
Well, you know, in August, it's National Heat Exhaustion Day, as we learned on Joe's stream earlier. I was going to say, people don't shut up about this.
78:34
Which people? It's just surreal, but like I'm trying to be nice. Fair enough, fair enough. Don't check it out. It's the second steep stream in a row I've seen surreal bring this up on. What is it? National Heat Exhaustion Day? Or National Heat Exhaustion Month? The more you know. Joe was trying to figure out some holiday kind of event that would happen in August. Yeah, I was trying to figure out if there were any notable holidays in August that I could, like, make a YouTube episode about. Like, Halloween or Christmas.
79:09
Yeah. What about National Heat Exhaustion Month? They're like, yeah, that's great. I'll just, like, go lie on the ground. We've got a lot of parking lots here in Nashville. I've got a GoPro. I'll just get a, like, 360 antistrophic view of me just, like, on the pavement. It'll be fantastic. Everybody will love it. It's all about awareness. National Left-Hander Day is August 13th. Oh.
79:36
And throughout history, what, 10 to 20 percent of people, the population has been left-handed, no matter the size of the population.
79:48
Huh. Tammy will be right back. Really? Even, like, when they're really tall? I don't know what that has to do with anything.
80:00
That means that there's a fairly good chance that one of us is left-handed. I am left-handed. Wait, I don't know. I didn't get the call if I get left-handed. I said no matter the size of the population.
80:15
Nice. A different definition of size. Raise a round and says it is warmer now. Yeah. Not even July yet.
80:27
Nice. So we got an edible. Don't let me forget. I have an edible now on the middle. Not like edible.
80:39
I like that. What's our name? You didn't do me. Oh, I'm sorry. Jay-Z. Do me. What? Do me. Oh, my God.
80:53
What do you call him? What evil movie villain do you think is best? Man, I can't use words right now. Have you seen Ted Lasso? Yes. I could see Jay-Z as the boss in Ted Lasso. Rebecca?
81:17
Oh, yeah. Yep. No, no, no. You nailed her. Evil Lynn from the Lundgren Masters of the Universe. That's great.
81:35
I don't know who that is. I know, I know, Jedi. George will hit me if I get the chicken. I'm so sorry. What? He won't hit me, but I'm not allowed to get the chicken anymore. The chicken is foreboding. I hit the button. It did not tick.
82:17
That's what he said. Yeah. I was just going to say that. Uh-oh. Somebody just did something. Hey, Chaotix. Thank you so much. I'm not. Yeah, I'm not. Tell him. I'm not allowed to do the chicken anymore.
82:39
Clever, Chaotix. What was it? Huh? Okay. Tossing some bits. Chaotix, thank you so much. You called me a xenomorph once.
82:54
What? George, you called me the clean xenomorph. Oh I did didn I I think I was referencing Rick and Morty at that time
83:15
Alright, ball one lost. We still need to start our battle, which we can do. We have a mystery over here on the Mazer Cannon. We have a shot on Attack Bridge. We have more tanks. We need to get out of here and start this battle. So I'm going to try and hit... Yep, left ramp. Oh no.
83:32
There we go. That sucks. Where are your rubbers? They are... Easy. In the corner. The rubbers that you normally put on the bottom of the pinball machine.
83:52
You know, some people just call those linoleum protection. Or protection, for sure. Oh, yeah. When George decides to turn this into an income property, he's going to have to refinish these floors.
84:07
Oh, my God. I tried. On the nightstand. George, you don't have to refinish the floors. Here's what you do. Here's what my landlord did. Because, like, there's, like, a big problem with the floor where, like, part of the wood is up and there's a bunch of nails sticking out. And he's just, like, the previous tenants put a shelf over that. You probably should, too. I'm not going to bill you for it when you move out. I'm not going to fix the floors. I'm just going to clean it a little bit. And yeah, it's a rental.
84:41
It will be a rental. Sorry, it will be. It will be a rental. Yeah, exactly. I'm just going to put a shelf over it. Like, this is where the couch goes. It's in the middle of the room that doesn't make a lot of sense. I know. But trust me, that's where the couch goes. here's the thing though if you're just like look this damage was pre-existing don't worry about it I won't bill you for it 99% of tenants are going to be like okay great that was the only thing I was worried about I'm just happy to have a roof I don't care if the whole place is falling apart because otherwise I wouldn't live here it's fine yep I don't know after what we saw Deb just walked into Yes, she was buying a place. And at the time, the market was so hot, that's what she had to do in order to buy. We have a friend who just bought a house. She's a real estate agent. And she got kind of like her dream house, which is great for her. But at the same time... She waived the inspection. Yep. She waived the inspection.
85:50
And that's, at the time, what was required to get the house. Oh, jeez. Yep. That is the market right now. Well, it was. It was the market. And she's an real estate agent? Yes. Oh, wow. Yep.
86:08
Your mic is still on right now. Is she of one mom energy? I unplugged it. No, but that just means that this is the mic now, as opposed to this extends it. What you need to do is then hit this button right here. Here, wait, hold on. I'm going to show this. If you guys are interested, this is the Hollyland microphone set. And there's two different Bluetooth wireless headphone kits that go with a receiver. And on this it has a couple of lights, which is blue and green. The green lets you know it's on, and then you can mute it by hitting this little side button right here, and it turns yellow. So blue is active, yellow, wow, the auto-focus is really struggling. I have it prioritizing people's faces, so it makes it really hard to have it focus on something else if there's a face anywhere on the screen. So muted, active, muted, active. Just hold it next to your face, like put it on your cheek like it's nuzzling you, and then that way the focus is the same. Okay, something like that.
87:15
I like it, I like it. This year's hottest new accessory. Well, here's what's cool. This entire setup here, if you want multiple people on your stream and you want them to be wireless, you get this box, and this box has a little charge in the back, and then it gives you a light here. I'm going to open it and show. So the box is a battery, just like you're charging your headphones, your wireless headphones. and inside it has a receiver and two of the mics that are automatically paired together. So you just plug it in and start running with it and you get this level of audio quality.
87:57
It's magic. I do like that. There's an Instagram or TikTok thing about this girl who calls 911 because she can't find the kid that she's babysitting, and she starts to lose it, and the 911 person's like, well, have you tried looking in all these places? And immediately she responds with, no, no, you don't understand. He's been to an illusionist camp. He's not a normal child.
88:29
And the 911 person is immediately questioning it, like, are you messing with me right now? And she's like, I don't know where he is. His parents are on the way home. I feel like I could go to jail right now. He's been gone for three hours. Well, man, did you check the garage? No, you don't understand. He knows magic. And all of a sudden she screams. And the kid jumps out of the freezer. She's like, oh, my God, Carla, have you been in the freezer this entire time?
89:01
Illusion is what the kid says. I want to change my answer to the previous question of that. That would be better. There you go. Yes.
89:12
All right. I do the things here. And so when Jedi said, it's magic, it reminded me of that. Okay. The thing you saw on Mike? Yes. Yeah, the TikTok.
89:30
Illusion. What the hell, Bobby? Oh, no. Give that back. Okay. Oh. Darn it. Forgot to switch it back over. It's fine. No. We're just going to start over because nobody saw any of that. They were just looking at us.
89:50
There you go. Please show us how it's done. Don't be... Don't play Kate. I don't know. I'm becoming. I don't know if any of you know this, but we're listening to... Oh my gosh. What's his name? The Hoth. David Hasselhoff. Is this music in the background? I'm assuming this is coming through.
90:16
Can you guys hear the music coming through on the other side? Okay. Oh. Initially, I thought it was the soundtrack when he was wrestling with that hamburger on the ground.
90:27
What? It would not surprise me if he listened to his own music. Yeah. Hey, who doesn't? that's kind of interesting like would you watch your own movies if you were an actor I mean like as somebody who edits his own YouTube videos every week in order to make the video edited I have to watch it like five times and it drives me crazy see the difference I think would be is that you can edit yourself to like where you feel comfortable with the final product Whereas I think if you're just an actor in a film, you don't have that control to, like, so for me, I'm coming at it as, like, I want it to be the best that it can be. But once you've given the performance and it's over, you no longer have any control over it. So, like, my mind would be like, oh, I messed this up and I messed that up and I could have done that better.
91:24
Well, so the funny thing is, like, when I watch myself in other people's videos, because, like, I appear in other people's YouTube videos, right? Yeah. it's liberating because I'm like oh man they screwed up the audio there I edited that way better really because you were on my stream the other day well no comment like your stream wasn't like a video that I had to watch later he's telling you it wasn't very important that's what he's saying so we watch a stream because that's a live piece of media But, like, if I'm in somebody's uploaded YouTube video, chances are they didn't do as much work to edit it as I would have, and I'm going to watch that, and I'm going to, oh, they made me look terrible. That's fine.
92:14
I'm just not going to stress out about it. Like, okay, good, my video looked better. Whatever. Thank you, Razor Random.
92:23
You're correct, but you're terrible. You're not terrible, Razor. Your stream was very fun the other night Thank you for having me I legitimately had a lot of fun And like People did stick around And they said on my next stream They were like thank you for recommending I watch that surreal thing I didn't know what Quake was I didn't know who surreal was But I had fun watching you play Quake the surreal Oh well that's awesome Because I almost never played Quake So that's awesome you guys played Quake? that was the last one like original Quake? you should play Quake with us and we got to taunt Manu let's not forget about the best part yeah Manu was really mad because he was on vacation and he was like I'm by the pool I can't play Quake I don't have a mouse I'm on a laptop so we're like oh look at us we're shooting rockets we got grenade launchers ooh there's nail guns ooh 9 inch nails ooh speaking about that I finally purchased the Nine Inch Nails tickets.
93:29
The 1996? Are they doing it again? They are touring again. Regina, who else is going on tour? Tenacious D. Well, I don't know. Ben Folds?
93:46
Panic at the Disco. I know! They are going to be at Ball Arena in October, and I'm trying hard to not buy those tickets right now. Yeah, they're going to be in San Francisco in October, too, and I'm just like, oh my gosh. That same sigh, like, I should do it. Yeah, I've never seen them live, and I would love to, but also, like, an indoor arena right now.
94:11
Yep, they're so good. Oh, what is this? San Julio Mansion 42. Oh my God, just great. This is the 1942? Yeah. Nicely done. Okay.
94:29
Well, yeah, don't mind if I doozy. Oh my God. So wait, did you salt the glass or did you like take a jalapeno and run it around the rim? Nothing. No, I do not like spicy, with the exception of Bloody Marys, I do not like spicy alcoholics. That is a very expensive tequila, too. with, uh, yeah. Yes, Jedi. 1942.
94:56
It is, uh, is it okay? It is very good. Yeah. See, like, I'm maybe not fancy enough for y'all. I, I like top out at Herodora. That's, like, my fancy tequila is, like, okay, let's get some Herodora. I don't know Herodora. And then I had a roommate who his family, or, his family was from El Salvador, and so like one time, like shortly after he moved in, he's like, oh, you hate, no, no, no, you don't hate tequila. You just had really bad tequila. And he brings me this, or he brings, pulls out this bottle that like his grandma sent him. And I was like, I can never drink anything else again. And of course I'll never be able to find that tequila because it came from El Salvador.
95:38
Uh, yeah, kind of similar situation. I, uh, I, I drank a bunch of crappy tequila in college. And then, uh, recently I had a friend tell me, if you're going to drink tequila, go with Don Julio and 1942 is the best. So I ordered 1942 and I'm like, this is really good. And now this is the only tequila, this is the only tequila I drink.
96:02
Yeah, I just want to go back to the cheaper stuff after that. So the story that she had was that she had 1942, which is a $140 bottle of tequila. And she was, like, she was refilling a bottle of Patron, like an empty bottle of Patron, at her boyfriend's house. Oh. Oh, no. Which was a significantly cheaper tequila. But she didn't want to leave her big old bottle of 1942 over there. So she just was, like, slowly but surely, like, leaving herself some smaller amount at her boyfriend's house whenever she was there. and her boyfriend's friend was over at his house and polished off her tequila and said, Oh, hey, by the way, I finished your tequila. Don't worry, I'll get you another bottle of Patron. I'll get you again, yeah. And she was like, that was my really good tequila.
97:08
There's not, that's not. Not really replacing that with a $20 bottle of Patron. Please. Yeah. So I hope you're ready to buy me some good stuff.
97:18
So that's what's so cool about this, by the way. You can taste the orange in that. You can taste so many different things. This, to me, is like, it's tequila, and I can taste the tequila, but it has like a flavor profile I normally associate with really good bourbon or something like that. It has so much crazy cool flavor in it, and it's awesome. You've got to try that fistful of bourbon. A fistful of bourbon? The one I got you. Okay, I will try it. I mean, not right now. Let's not mix anything else. Hello, pinball. Good evening.
97:54
Yeah, fuzzy cord. My tastes are totally spoiled at this point. It's like it's Don Julio or nothing. What is the thing, like you teach your kid to have expensive taste in alcohol so they can never afford alcohol when they are in high school. Wow. That's actually really smart.
98:21
Hmm. Ooh, Fargo got their Toy Story 4 last week, and it's killing it on location. Awesome. How is it holding up?
98:32
I think they're supposed to have finally gotten all the flipper issues figured out. I do not know how your palms are not numb.
98:55
Oh, so what movie monster would win in a Royal Rumble of all movie monsters? There we go. next question.
99:10
Are we not doing me as a villain? Did we not do Surreal? No, we have to go back. We have to do Surreal. I did. I missed the whole thing. No, we absolutely have to do Surreal.
99:26
We have one. Yeah, saved it. Oh, I have one. Loki, because you're a villain, but you're also chaotic and funny. Fair enough. I need some time with this. I'm curious how many people are going to pick up on my really sadistic side.
99:56
I was kind of assuming we were going to skip Surreal, because I don't know that there's a funny answer to this. I've been thinking about this the whole time. And I'm like, if we're, like, I thought you skipping surreal was intentional, because I was like, there's not a lot of entertainment value here. Good move, George.
100:16
What is the most bland Dylan ever? Maybe that. But that's the thing, though, is surreal. It's not that you wouldn't necessarily be bland. There's a certain level of competence and efficiency that's no longer funny, right? is astronomical. Maybe it's on the unseen character in Clerks that puts bubble gum in the locks. Nope, nope. Okay, so really, here's the problem. Have you ever seen a Black Mirror episode? Oh my gosh.
100:57
It's a show about how technology wrecks society. Oh crap, yeah. Like, you'd never get to see the guys who make that technology, but that could be you. And that's what's terrifying and not funny. Right? Is it's like... I guess I can see that. Like in these techno-apocalypse shows where we jump past how this stuff got here and it's just here now and everything is ruined.
101:25
There is somebody like surreal behind this. Okay, I could see myself ruining the world. I like it. So on that note... But there's a certain level of competence and efficiency where you apply it without necessarily thinking. And I'm not saying that you're necessarily unthinking, but the villain version of you is, let's take that and apply it to some random thing. And that random thing turns out to be the wrong thing. That's where it gets bad.
101:59
Okay, I can see that. I get to choose a mode. In the meantime, I'm going to go with Admiral Thrawn. I don't know if you guys know who Admiral Thrawn is from Star Wars, but, like, brutal efficiency and deadpan humor.
102:26
I'm afraid I'm not familiar. So, the weird thing about Admiral Thrawn is he was also an outsider, and I don't know, I don't know that that applies to Surreal. Oh, no, that checks out for sure. Yeah, that totally checks out. Okay, no, no, no, but what I mean is, like, from a societal expectation standpoint, like, Thrawn... Nope, nope, totally checks out. Okay.
102:53
Okay, no, no, no. Because, like, the thing about Thrawn was he was sent on this mission because he was super, he was so good at his job that he was making the humans in a human, like, superiority empire feel bad. Right?
103:12
And, like, so there's this kind of weird, like, minority element there that I wasn't sure was a box you were checking, necessarily, if that makes any sense.
103:24
Okay. I was... No, I wasn't going for the minority. More about someone who understands the job and gets it done, has a little bit of humor, but it's super dry, and everything is delivered deadpan. But, Jay-Z... That's the thing. We're aligned about everything else.
103:48
Did you pick a goal for Jay-Z? Say it again? I suggested Rebecca from Ted Lasso. I think you were BRB at the time. Oh, I was going to go with, just because of the pig tilt tonight, I was going to go with Harley Quinn.
104:06
I have dressed up as Harley Quinn, Mr. J, several times. Wait, is Harley Quinn the villain? It depends on who you ask. To many of innocent bystanders, yes.
104:27
Okay, but how many bystanders are truly innocent? Kind of a villain. The one that came to mind to me was the, I don't know her name, but in Kill Bill, the, this is terrible, The younger schoolgirl villain that's deadly and precise.
104:52
The one with, like, the, was it the, not the, is it the mace? No. Ori Ren. I don't know, Morningstar? I don't know what that is. Yeah, no, it's not. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, that one.
105:05
With the chain. Little subdued, but deadly. That's not Irei Ishii, is it? Oh, probably. Hold on. Character.
105:20
I haven't gotten high on that since I was like 19. I don't know. Okay, wait. Jenna McMuffin. Galaxy and Common IPA combines a slice of rustic... I got a trap up here.
105:37
Maybe not. Hey, look at that. Trapped up. Okay, so Jedi McMuffin, I think, is drinking something right now because Jedi went and grabbed another beverage. So we've got Galaxy and Comet IPA combines, hold up, a slice of fresh Americano with a rising star from down under Galaxy hops, grown exclusively in Australia and revered for their clean, bright aromas, lend notes of passion fruit, citrus, and peach. Comet, a descendant of a North American original, packs a wildly bitter punch with an invigorating fusion of hops with notes of grapefruit, orange, and lemon.
106:19
I want to try that beverage. So the one that you're describing was one of the crazy 88 from Kill Bill.
106:32
Sounds plausible. It was like a group of people. Sorry. Give me that back. Give me, give me, give me. Ah.
106:47
Wow. This is really good. Hans Gruber. For yourself? No. For Surreal? Yeah. He's listed as one of the most genius villains of all time. Okay. Yippee-ki-yay-yay.
107:07
How does that go? Yippee-ki-yay-ay? Yippee-ki-yay-ay. He can't say the rest of it. I feel like there's something else after it. Oh, no, I can't say that. Oh, okay. You added a syllable. No, it's not yippee-ki-yay.
107:26
There's an extra ya. No, it's yippee-ki-yay-ay, right? Wait, yippee-ki-yay-what? Like the cowboys say? It's not Yippee-Ki-Yay, is it? Somebody help me out here. You don't even know? I don't even know. Jedi. Jedi saying no, you are quite wrong, George. It's just Yippee-Ki-Yay.
107:47
That doesn't sound right, though. It is with pause and then the rest of it. Yeah, but for not doing. Okay, wow. Across the board, it's Yippee-Ki-Yay.
108:01
It sounds better with the extra syllable in there, honestly. I heard this Friday. I mean, George, say display.
108:10
Display. I adore you so much. Thank you. That was very Norm MacDonald of you. I mean, you play amazing pinball. I really don't. You have pretty good quality.
108:31
And pronunciation is evidently not one of them. Okay, that's fine. That's fine. It's pronunciation, it doesn't matter. Everybody pronounces things differently. We're not sure. There's no judgment zone on that. They sure do.
108:46
All right. Let's see how you guys do. What's the next question? Okay, cool. Surreal. It's satiated, so we're ready to move on. What movie monster would win in a Royal Rumble of all the movie monsters?
109:02
And I'm going to take a quick stab here. I'm going to go with The Thing by John Carpenter. And that alien monster I feel like would potentially win.
109:18
That's a good one. What are those things that came out of the sky in Avengers? I don't know, the alien thingies. The alien thingies that came out of the sky. Taylor, but museum visits are a part of your talent Thank you Oh, Sharknado And Jandelion, thank you so much for that follow That's a good one Yeah, I mean, Godzilla is what triggered this in the first place We're playing Godzilla tonight I think Godzilla is easily defeated by I think a pack of xenomorphs could take Godzilla down I don't know what the thing from Cloverfield Okay The one that spawns off all of the other things And took a nuclear bomb and still kept going Yeah, that seems like a safe bet Okay In fairness, the things from Field of Dreams Could probably take down Godzilla Because they're ghosts who hit baseballs I mean, what's that really going to do about that? I don't think baseball can bother Godzilla Yeah, but don't be cold. Will you extend that logic to dead Jedi, as a matter of fact? Oh, yeah, all those dead Jedi children from episode three. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.
110:41
Jesus. Yeah, I'm going to go with that dead Jedi children. Actually, I expected this answer to come. Yep, I also did not expect that to happen. You always have to take things too far so someone else can take it further.
111:01
The battery's not included. I don't know what Cloverfield is, but I'm like, Cloverfield, Field of Dreams, let's go.
111:11
Cloverfield was like, it was like a pretend, like, first-person, like, camera footage type horror movie where there's a monster with, like, a lot of little monsters destroying New York City. It was really good. multiple people in chat because the collective mind is just insane my favorite thing about this is that you said it was a pretend movie not a pretend like first person it was like a mockumentary pretend found footage yeah but I love that like if I was going to describe Field of Dreams it's a pretend film about a guy who builds a baseball field and he scores like, like, I just put the word pretend in everywhere because it's almost always true. Like, we're never really who we are. I mean, like, Sammy, you nailed something here, like, in a way that I don't think you intended to. But, like, it's just beautiful. You should regret it. I'm going to take this way fast where it should go. Take place a real good with the Jedi children. What about little monsters?
112:18
Oh, my gosh. I forgot the question. What was the question? It's understandable at this point. Okay, so... Here, wait. What movie monster would win a Royal Rumble amongst all of the movie monsters? What about Tim Curry in Legend?
112:43
The big demon. I don't remember what his powers were. Also, you're up. The big demon. No, no, no, I remember what he looked like. I just don't remember what powers he had.
112:53
He was just evil? Was he Hades? Yeah, I guess maybe he was just evil. But, like, him up against Godzilla?
113:04
I think that it is the invisible man if he's willing to play the long games. Just hit the corner. You gotta play that long game. No, but, okay, so this is a totally, totally random aside, but it actually makes sense if you give me the second to lay out the context. So my best friend recently, we just had a competition that was like three-week long, kind of like a battle royale, where it culminated in everybody that was still left alive fighting it out on Saturday. And the person, she didn't win, but she played the long game, and that she was, so she took a, this was in Minecraft, So she took a potion of his invisibility the whole time, the entire time this event's going on. And then as, like, the last couple of people are fighting it out, she just unleashes this, like, monster called the Wither on everybody else while she's still invisible. And it was, like, the MVP moment of the entire thing. That's a way to do it. That's brilliant. Right? Yeah.
114:06
Okay. I dig it. uh clash of the titans oh so wow the invisible thing by the way fails as soon as you bring in um paint no no sorry the guys do paint paint is true uh no sorry predator who who see based on Body heat. It's our mom. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So I got to say, like, there's a question of, like, what is a mom? Right? Is it a non-human figure?
114:48
Like, what is non-human? Like, there's a lot of problems where humans discredit other people's humanity. Is Nick Cage's character in Willy's Wonderland non-human?
115:01
I don't think I've seen Willy's Wonderland. I have not seen it yet. you're better off as people here's the thing about Willy's Wonderland George everybody who loves it and everybody who hates it cites literally the exact same reasons there is no disagreement about what the film is or what it contains right but it's not like no your opinion is wrong because you didn't understand it it's like we just all appreciate it differently I love this film for the same reason other people hate this okay okay it's nicholas cage and he is here to do a job and he gets it done and some people just are like i wasted two hours of my life and some people like me all right this is oh wait i didn't even get to the pinball part there's a pinball machine in this He plays pinball, like, a lot in this movie. Huh. Okay. Like, so, one of the things he does is he, he, um, there's, like, kind of a malicious compliance element where Nick Cage complies with these rules. And it's not clear if it's because he's, like, trying to comply with some, like, religious right to cleanse this place of demons. Like, he has to follow the parameters that are set. But one of the rules he's following. I'm so excited about this. One of the rules he's given when he clocks in is make sure to take your breaks. So every two hours he has to take a 15-minute break, and he goes and plays pinball. So he'll be in the middle of fighting demons and go play pinball for 15 minutes.
116:45
And then come back and fight the demons some more. And, like, I loved it. I really liked it, too. It was just, it was something. It was an experience. He's a weird movie. But, like, it's like, is he a monster? Is he a hero? Because he's, like, he's just, he's following the rules in order to break this curse. Is that because he knows that's the only way to break the curse? Or because he can't understand everything else? Like, what? You don't know.
117:16
But, yeah, I want to see him fight Godzilla, take a 15-minute break, play pinball, then go fight Godzilla again.
117:23
Oh, no, I'm sorry. I'm thinking about it. He also doesn't speak in this movie, by the way. He does not. Not a single word. What?
117:32
Nick Cage in Willy's Wonderland doesn't say a word. Yeah, yeah. So he went to his agent, and he said to his agent, out loud, because this is him in person, not like in the film, I want to do a movie where I have to act entirely through facial expressions and actions. I don't want to talk once the entire film. And he's just like, Nick, you're insane. Nobody's going to make that movie. And he's like, just find me the scripts. Find me the scripts. He did not write this movie after a long weekend of playing Five Nights at Freddy's. No, he didn't write this movie. But what happened was he told his agent to find him this movie. His agent came back and was like... It's my understanding that this script existed before Five Nights at Freddy's came out. Oh. This script has been bouncing around for a long time. And then he gets like, Nick, here's like the only thing that meets your requirements for this, and it's stupid. Nobody's ever going to fund this. And Nick Cage says, I'll do it, and I'll fund it. So he's not only like the star in this movie where he doesn't speak, he's one of the leading investors, because nobody thought this was a good idea except him. And, like, honestly, that makes me enjoy it even more is the fact that he's just like, you know what? I just really wanted to do this.
118:58
The one weekend of shooting later and the film was profitable. Yeah, that sounds about right. It's interesting. It's definitely unique. I thought he said, like, one word. I don't recall.
119:11
But I didn't watch the entire thing. I came in pretty late. No, I watched the entire thing. I don't believe he said a single word. I don't think that he did.
119:20
But, like, the thing is, you didn't have to. Like, I mean, I love Keanu Reeves. I love The Matrix. I love Bill and Ted. But what would John Wick look like if he never spoke? Like, do we need anything that John Wick says? Like, I think, really, Keanu Reeves could have done better. And Nick Cage knew it, and he decided to show him up. And I appreciate it. It's a good film.
119:48
Okay. When was this made? Not too long ago. Oh, like 18 months ago. Yeah. And it's relatively recent. Charlie would be terrifying if he never spoke. You're right, higher penis. Right?
120:02
No explanation, no reasoning, instant death. We just watched The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent with Nick Cage. It was ridiculous. amazing. It was wonderful. I loved every second of that film. So I'm down for a Nick Cage evening at some point. And yeah, Willie's Wonderland is now happening. There you go. I wonder if they all saw And you'll have to let us know if Nick Cage actually says anything or not because I just don't remember but Tim listens to things that Monty points it out. I wonder if they all saw that Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar after he did a movie where he didn't speak?
120:47
Did he? Was that the, what was that called? The Revenant? Revenant. He didn't talk throughout that entire thing? Is that what he won the Oscars for? No. Okay, first of all, I never saw the movie. No, he definitely talked in that. Yeah. If nothing else, he screamed. I remember that. He did scream. He did scream, yes. He's a great screamer. it's like all two stuff along with the Oscar victory Oscar winner I mean he won an Oscar for that and not basketball Larry Fuzzy Cord sorry Fuzzy Cord we got it oh man I cannot catch a break on this game this game hates me But it wasn't $1.75. It was a little bit less than that. But I abused Jay-Z's Costco membership to pick up. We picked up two bottles. One is a gift for our friend who just bought the house that we were mentioning earlier. And then another one because I wanted good tequila in the house.
122:00
So now you have two bottles of Don Julio. I only have one. Oh, I have two bottles of Don Julio. One of them is the silver. One of them is the 1942. So one's only at like a $50 bottle.
122:11
Yes. Thank you, by the way. Whatever. Because the other one I bought. Yeah, yeah. So we still have two more questions. I'm going to ask the next one here.
122:27
We're going to get out alive. Yeah, two more, two more. Imagine you're a Greek or Roman god, and you're about to have a child. Got it.
122:42
I feel like I nailed it with Ron. I'm just saying. Imagine you're a Greek or Roman god and you're about to have a child. What would the child be a god of? Oh, God.
123:03
Earth? The child of Earth? You're giving birth to Gaia? I don't know. Just as long as the name isn't Tess the Cleese.
123:17
I would funnel that child away so that he doesn't have to grow up with the responsibilities of being a god.
123:25
I mean, you... There's a long history of Roman and Greek gods not being great parents. Like, you would have no responsibilities to raise that child at all. No, no. I mean, not that I wouldn't want to raise that child. I would not want them to grow up with the responsibility of being a god. I would want them to get to be a person and not grow up to do. Here's the thing, though, Sammy, is I would say on some level part of humanity is being a god. Part of humanity is having agency that we cannot comprehend and having impact in our actions well beyond that which is justifiable.
124:03
We should use our children to be gods in general. But I feel like the vibe that I'm getting from, like, growing up among gods is, like, a sense of superiority and, like, you're better than other people that aren't gods. Yeah, but most people have that, too. Like, I mean, like, that's table stakes. We're there.
124:24
Are you a god? I don't think I agree with that. You say yes. Yeah, most people I've met think they're better than everybody. Okay. And, like, there's no way that statistically works out.
124:37
Well I wouldn want my kids to think they better than everybody No but that what I saying is though like if you not careful that what happens anyway
124:46
Like, that's... Even if you are careful, I feel like that's what happens when they're teenagers. Yeah. That's fair. That's what I'm saying. Like, there's, like, at least in American and, like, Christian culture, this idea, like, we are made in God's image is a way to justify the fact that we are misalike or gods anyway. So, like, maybe let's own it, you know? But, I mean, like, I'm not a Christian, so... Okay, that's okay, but I'm just saying, like, you're not America diffused with this. Yeah, we were talking about ourselves, not, like, American society. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but, like, if you have a kid, that kid is still going to grow up in an American society. What? We're literally talking about Greek mythology. Okay, I was assuming in this scenario our kid was growing up strong now. I got that, too. I was going to say that my kid would be the god of reheating leftovers.
125:50
That is perfectly Neil Gaiman of you, I feel like. Like the mini gods of little tiny situations. I mean, the perfectly reheating leftovers. That person sounds important, but I don't know who that is. is add butter and then toast the outside yeah I guess nowadays as to where they live I'm not sure and it's
126:21
meant to be interpreted it doesn't have to be specific you don't have to put a bunch of qualifiers on it but I'll throw out there my thought on this one, which is mine would be very much like Loki, I feel like, but very specific. So I would want my kid to be the god of those, like, irritating little issues that happen via technology that you find ridiculously irritating but can never repeat in front of another person. Yes. That's amazing.
126:56
Amazingly specific and amazing. The god of Murphy's Law. Yeah. Yeah, actually. If I call the IT department, it will not happen when they get here. Yep, exactly.
127:14
Nailed it perfect. Yeah, no ability whatsoever to ever repeat it in front of IT. I think my kid would be the god of loving the way I look in the mirror and hating the way I look in every photograph.
127:28
That's the mood. Oh, my God, I look amazing. Oh, my God. How come I don't look the same? The God of reckless decision-making, because that's how you get a good odyssey going. Higher peanut. Well said. Yeah. Did we all answer?
128:02
I mean, I haven't. But, like, my answer isn't very fun. Okay. I think, like, somebody asked me on stream the other day, if I was going to be a god, what would I be the god of? And the answer was motion. and it's just like I love ice skating. I love Quake. I love feeling things happening around me while I'm moving past them. I was just going to say that's probably because you were playing Quake earlier. Well, no, no, no. I answered this before I was playing Quake. This is why I love Quake because I love the motion in Quake, right? But, like, if I wanted something better for my kid, and I think we should all want something better for our kids. Right. I think... Okay, yeah, fine. It's a real... You know what? Here's the thing. Everybody thinks I'm an unhealthy optimist. I want things that are unhealthy to want because they're too good and they won't happen. But, like, if my kid was going to be a god of something, I would want them to be a god of protest. I would want them to be able to assist those who agitate for positive change because I feel like I've not managed to achieve that in my own life, but I always want something better for the next generation. Say that again.
129:23
I feel like your kid would love it. You were making it earlier about, like, what your co-worker said and how you responded to it because, like, yeah, like you want better for your kids, but you want them to also make the world better. Yeah. It's not like I don't want my kid to be able to out-compete the other children. I want my kid to work with the other children to make a better world. I like that. I like that, too. What's interesting is that as parents, you always provide a filtered view of what that is in hopes that what you've presented has the efficacy moving forward that you want, if that makes sense. fuzzy cords yeah I guess it did okay that's cool on that super deep note fuzzy cords has the god of greasy tile floors and faster dishes um uh no I mean I'd like to go back to that just like for clarification I just mean that you grow up you have a childhood as you become a parent You think back on your childhood and you think to yourself, I'm not doing this. I am doing this. This was good. This was bad. This is how I'm going to prepare them to go out into the world. But from the things that you omit to the things that you exemplify as you're being a parent, you know, it's a filter. so you're preparing them for your perception of what the world is going to be when it becomes pertinent for them to have to deal with it I guess which might not necessarily reflect their reality so for example like my parents grew up in an environment where if you did too much of anything you will attract the attention of the mob and they decided they wanted to live somewhere where the mob wasn't a factor and so that's why I grew up in Tennessee not New Jersey or New York but the problem is they still were like you gotta keep your head down and just try to live a quiet life and I'm like no the whole reason you worked so hard to move somewhere far from your home and your family was so your kids didn't have to live a quiet life and keep their head down. Right. But they couldn't shake that. But they couldn't shake it. And so, like, I don't know how to teach my kid to be better than me without the boundaries I set for myself, you know? And that's kind of what Surreal is hinting at here is, like, we all have these inhibitions, and we're trying to teach our kids to be better than us, but we can't shake those inhibitions.
132:25
And that's to allow other people to teach their kids. We've determined how we would deal with our reality, which is not our children's, ultimately.
132:41
This started off as a question about, like, what would your child be the god of? And it got to, like, really great personal parenting advice or introspections.
132:53
I hate words. well I mean you give people godlike power and you're gonna get like what they would do with it I don't know but you'd like to make people put deep thought into that they don't always know it's funny I'm reading a series by Orson Scott Card right now called man I don't remember actually now the name of the series but it's the second book is called Gate Thief and the third book is called Gatefather. And it's about Nordic and Roman gods living today. And their issue is that they can't get to... They have no more gate mages like what Loki used to be. And the power is dying out over time. And they're getting weaker and weaker. So they're less like their original kind of selves from thousands of years ago. And they don't live for thousands of years, most of them. they're multi-generations and they keep just losing power and they get more and more human but they still do have some power something just happened hey, nine leaders came in from the living arcade thank you so much living arcade, that is appreciated thank you for bringing nine beautiful people over we are trying to make our way through I think two more questions here and the last one was imagine you're a Greek or Roman god and you're about to have a kid what would that kid be the child of?
134:24
And this has gone around. I feel like we've had a lot of conversation around it. This has been really good.
134:36
But, nope, that's all it took for me to lose my thought on Gatefather and specifically what it was that I was trying to make a point at. But it dealt with something that we were just talking about. Oh, sorry, how everyone with a lot of power, very few people with significant power, actually acts the way any of us would really want. Once you have power, you're pretty much guaranteed to be a butthole.
135:06
That's depressing. Yeah, that is basically the focus of, I think, all three books. Like, your last question better be, like, the happiest, fuzziest, most, like, warm feelings having question ever. We've gone some places tonight. Yes. Okay.
135:25
A musical is... What's the worst historical period in life? Nope. A musical is being made of your life. What's it called? And who would play you? No.
135:42
It's a musical. I really, now that I think about it, wish I would have ended on a slightly more positive note. ADHD, wait, focus. Yeah.
135:59
And Juliette Lewis. Good choice. Okay. Wow, I didn't realize that what you just said was ADHD. Now focus.
136:14
I think that was her answer. Okay. I think for me it's are you effing serious and Neil Packer Ferris?
136:31
Good point. Yep. This is probably a much easier question than what god is your kid. What would your kid be the god of? I also don't have kids.
136:54
Okay. For me, it was really easy. I just, like, picked the one thing that I knew somebody would get a kick out of for thousands of years. Like, just, like, what could you do messing with somebody that no matter what, like, the god of walking into things. like that no matter how many times it happens will always catch you off guard um but um here's i don't know how best to describe this so i'm going to get there and maybe you guys can help me with this but um in basically every facet of my life i can have a moment where I nail it and I do the thing. And let's say for pinball, it's that like I make it through the game and I play very well and there's a moment where I'm awesome and at work, it's great. I feel like every once in a while, I can get into a meeting and I understand what the issue is and I can tell people to just stop for a second and I break things down and we make it through to the end and we not only have a resolution, but everybody understands what that is and we can move forward and it's awesome. And then the next meeting we get into, I destroy any sense of accomplishment and can't do it. Or pinball, like this entire evening tonight, I haven't been able to get anything going with Godzilla ever. So I don't know what that is. It's an inconsistency in performance, but that would be the entire motif of my... The upside of that coin is misunderstanding why people like me.
138:43
Okay. I'm just saying, like, people like you. Like, you're a cool person. You're a nice person. So assuming that people come here... No offense, but assuming people just come here for the pinball, it's wildly inaccurate. You're a cool person. People come here because you're a cool person. Thank you. And I'm sure people like working with you because you're a cool person.
139:10
I hope this is a backhanded compliment. I've never heard. It was like George carrying himself down. I'm like, dude, you have a bad night. It doesn't mean people don't think you're good at pinball.
139:25
I love that. That definitely, no, that was great. That was the, George, if anything, people aren't coming here to watch you play pinball. No, but I did. Listen, it's absolutely genuine.
139:40
You're 100% correct. You are. You nailed it. That's not what I said. Candleless, that is not what I said either.
139:47
You can have a bad night at something and people like, they're coming here because they like you and they like seeing you hang out and play pinball. Like, no one would want to watch me play pinball. It would suck. Oh, my God. If you ever come out here, we are going to watch you play pinball. No. No, Sam. That's torture. Yes, Sam. We'll go play pinball in Denver. No. Yes. North of Denver. North of Denver, then. Maybe in Fort Collins. I will see you guys all at Expo. Okay. Oh, and then we're hosting a stream at Expo. In fact, I'm running Expo in Chicago. is a pinball, big pinball get-together. It's amazing. And FYI, I'm running on Thursday, which is the first day of Pinball Expo, a 12-hour charity stream for autism with TPN and...
140:38
Oh, my God. Loser Kids. So, yeah, there will be plenty of opportunities to jump on stream, Sammy. And Joe, if you're there. and in place of a pinball. Here's my problem. Mikey gets out of school like Friday at 3. And so I'm driving up to Chicago at 3 on Friday. Okay. It's a long drive. I'm going to get to Chicago at like midnight on Friday. Okay. Do you have like a whirlwind 10-hour visit? I basically have Saturday and a little bit of Sunday morning. Okay. Like, yeah, it's going to be rough. Like, maybe if money is really good, I might be able to fly out at, like, 4 o'clock or 5 o'clock on Friday and get to Chicago at 7. That would be better than midnight. But, like, the thing is I need to cover airfare for three people to get there, and that's really not going to happen, like, the way things have been going. I'm going to be there for Saturday. I'm driving in no matter what. I'm going to be there for Saturday, and I'm going to be there for, like, a few hours in the morning on Sunday. But it's really tight for me. In the list, and I will get it on Thursday. George, I'm assuming you will not be able to pick us up from the airport. Like, we've talked about that. So I will get an Uber. Wow, words.
142:13
Yeah, I'm sorry. You are absolutely right. I committed to picking you up, and I totally spaced. I also simultaneously committed to a 12-hour stream on Thursday. When are you getting in on Thursday? At, like, 5 p.m. So my flight got pushed forward, so that's nice. Okay. Well, that's kind of nice. But that means I can get there and see the 12-hour stream, so hopefully at some point. Okay. Yeah. I still might be able to help out there, because I will be driving there, and I have a Jeep, which has a... Well, yeah, but if you're doing a 12-hour stream that day, it's very likely that you're not going to be able to just, like, I'm going to leave and go to the airport. And I'm fine with that. I'm fine with getting into work. No big deal. We'll see. Because Jedi is going to be there, and I think we're both planning on working that stream as long as I get Jedi to actually go. He seemed on the fence for a little bit. But as long as Jedi is there, I think I can take an easy break, as long as that includes coffee. And I will be grabbing much, much coffee. Also, with regards to the musical, I would want, and this is similar to that thing, I would want it to be like Ryan Felipe, for whatever reason, is who I would want to be in the musical and to nail it. But suddenly it would turn around and it would, for whatever reason, be David Cross.
143:33
That's how it would be. I don't know and I followed Ryan Felipe's career for most of my life because the age thing I don't know that he has any musical talent I don't know if he does either but somebody mistook me while I was in Jamaica as a teenager for Ryan Felipe and for whatever reason I owned that and I'm like cool that's who I look like I look like Ryan Felipe to somebody who was on, I'm guessing, a horrendous amount of drugs that one day in Jamaica when I was like 15 years old. So, yeah, I'll go with that. It's so beautiful.
144:18
Thank you. Aww. Jay-Z's got a big day tomorrow. Yeah, I gotta go. It's 12.30. Oh, wow. Adios, muchachos. goodnight dear goodnight Jay-Z goodnight with the pigtails yes you what?
144:49
okay thank you yeah no no no I have a ton of packs of gum that's right you guys can't hear Jay-Z right now but um so who else needs to come up with a musical?
145:03
You know, I guess I haven't come up with one yet. I mean, I really feel like I've been spinning my wheels my entire life. I watch It's a Wonderful Life, and the guy's constantly trying to leave town, and it's like, yep, I get it. So I don't know that my life would make a great musical, because it's really inactive. like and I don't think I have a bad life or I don't think I have a like an ineffective life but like the things I'm able to accomplish don't translate well visually if that makes any sense I think you know it's easy like the effects that you have on a lot of people's lives because it's not in person exactly like I feel like I'm doing good I'm putting good out into the world but like I'm doing it from my apartment. Right. And so it's not great. It's, you know, and like, you know, like I said, it's a wonderful life. George Bailey, he's helping people in his town and stuff, and he wants to travel to Europe. He wants to travel to Australia, all over, you know, and he never gets to. And, like, I have been trying to get out of Tennessee for, like, the last, I don't know, 20 years. and, boy, there's a lot of evidence I failed.
146:29
I don't know. Like, what would be the positive spin? Let's try thinking of a positive spin on a musical for you. Well, like, that's the thing, though, is, like, the positive spin on it is, it's not about me. Okay. It's like, okay, if I'm actually good at what I do, what I do is impactful beyond me in such a way that I can never know it. And I'd like to assume that's true, but, like, I don't know how to tell that story showing me and the other people because I don't get to see that, right?
147:05
It's this weird thing. Huh. Well, that last question was meant to be happy. I don't even have an answer for it. You know what? I hear that, and I totally understand what you're saying, But I'd also like to point out that the situation that you're in now kind of manifests part of that, don't you think? Like, you're amongst friends right now. No, I know. But, like, I mean, I'm also, like, I don't know. There's just certain things, like, I mean, at least, like, I have a bed now. but, like, you know, it's like I'm a single parent and I'm a divorcee and I was sleeping on the floor for, like, months and, like, you know, like, I know I put good into the world and stuff, but, like, I don't get to see it or feel it. Like, I wouldn't want to tell my story from my point of view because I get through it by telling myself I'm doing good things for other people,
148:26
but that's not my experience. I want to unpack that for just a second because it kind of sounds like you feel like you don't have an impact on people that you have a regular interaction with. It kind of feels like you're only seeing your impact on the people that, like, watch your work. You have an impact on people that know you, that are friends with you, that are family, all of that thing. Like, that's not nothing. Well, no, I get that. but what I'm saying is, like, if you're trying to, like, show, like, a musical has, like, a point of view character, and that point of view character would not be interesting or amusing to watch.
149:07
I think I understand what you mean. I get that. But it might be relatable. Like, for some people, yes, but, like, I guess my point is it would be, like,
149:17
but, like, like, and that's the thing. It's like when I say, like, I believe I'm attractive but not photogenic.
149:24
Like, you can be attractive but not be good at, like, looking at a camera the right way, right? Like, the concept of a musical about my life is the camera. Like, I don't know how to tell the story of my life in a way that's fun or amusing. I just can't see it, right? I get that. That's what I was, like, coming from is that, like, your perspective seemed to be, like, I'll never know what my impact on other people's lives is. But you will because you have other people in your life who know you in person and day-to-day. But, no, no, no, but what I'm saying is, like, my lived experience doesn't reflect it. Okay. Like, if you were just watching me go about my day, it doesn't... We are tallying up the... It doesn't feel like it lines up. I don't know. It's a weird thing, you know? Okay. Well... Which I feel like, by the way, is actually a perfect focus for most musicals. It's never... You don't do a musical for a president who's destroying life and just winning all the time.
150:39
It's usually somebody who's working hard but is underappreciated, or something like that. Not that that's specific to the situation you just described. I mean... It's true. There's no Martin Sheen musical. ...appreciated.
150:55
Say it again? This is incredible. Utterly incredible. Sammy, I literally just didn't hear what you were saying. Oh, I was going to say, I mean, working hard, underappreciated. Yeah, that kind of sounds like Joe.
151:08
Right. Oh, well, I'm thinking of the guy who cuts hair and ended up cutting people's necks and then giving it. But here's the thing, though, is I'm not saying I feel unappreciated. I feel, on an intellectual level, like I'm doing a good job and I'm helping people. But, like, when I look at, like, how I live, I don't think it, I don't, like, nothing I do or experience is glamorous or is, like, I'm just. You deserve a musical. But, like, it would be, like, I just, like, I can't imagine showing how I live in a way that does not feel miserable. like it's like I'm I'm like living in like terrible graduate student housing where everything's falling apart and I had to bring my own electrician to rewire the whole place and like it's just like I don't know I feel like I'm I'm doing a great job with what I have and I'm proud of it but like it doesn't it doesn't carry into that medium like did you ever watch did you ever watch and I know you did. I know the answer to this question. But, uh, the, what was it? The, the, the, what was it? The Buffy musical. Yeah. Which is very, that's very realistic stuff. Like, that's the kind of thing that I'm seeing here. Yeah, like when they stab the vampire in terms of disaster. Very realistic. She knows that I'm talking about, like, different stuff. Like, where she's talking about struggling with, like, going through the motions in the very beginning. It's, like, very, like, realistic human elements that don't necessarily revolve around her being a vampire slayer. So, like, what I'm talking about is, like, her being a vampire slayer is what carries it, though, at the end. Like, I guess what I'm saying is, like, I just don't feel like my life is depictable in that format. And that's pretty much literally what her entire, like, point of that episode was. So what I'm saying is, there could be a really interesting musical written about your life, and you might not see why it's interesting. but you're an interesting person and you're a good person. And, like, there's stories... Well, I never said I wasn't interesting or good. I know. You're just saying it's not worth having the story told about you. Anyways, it's not real. No, I don't see the angle. Like I said, it's like, I believe I'm attractive, but I know I'm not photogenic.
153:46
Photos of me don't come out the way I look. And I'm fine with it. I've made peace with it. Like, I don't know how to... I don't know how to show my life in a way that people would find appealing. Okay.
153:59
I'm willing to just concede disagreement on this topic. Living Arcade, have a great night. Thank you.
154:13
This musical is a sheet music away from winning a Tony. Honestly. Okay, that was it. Those were the seven questions that I had for this evening.
154:29
So we made it through, and there was some really, really good conversation. I actually really like these questions. What's funny is I started, I have a whole book. This book is just filled with questions and crazy art, evidently, that I just got bored when I was sitting there. But I have lots, just pages and pages of fun questions to ask.
154:55
Can we all take a moment to look at George's handwriting and marvel in the neatness? And, I mean, it's incredible. The handwriting? Show the screen. Show the screen, George.
155:14
Hold on. I've got to go over here. Let's go to camera. Find the best page and then show the screen. Here.
155:23
That's sideways. It is totally sideways. That's full sideways. There we go. How about that? It is, but look at that. Oh, no. That's good handwriting.
155:37
All right. Two thumbs up. There's so much glare off of that non-voodoo glass. There you go. Wait. Hold on.
155:49
There you go. Here's... you need to draw a picture of a face on it so the camera auto focuses exactly it's readable on 480p it's great handwriting thank you for your feedback yeah okay it's funny if that is and maybe it was you the first time surreal kiwi frenzy but why are you shouting yeah sorry kiwi that's just how i talk is basically at a shout all the time I feel like somebody else commented on the way that I write. I didn't realize it was somehow clean or something. That said. Oh, I thought maybe they meant all caps. I do that too. Yep.
156:37
But some of the caps are bigger than the other ones. Well, yeah. For emphasis, exactly. Fossas, yes.
156:46
Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. You can see where it says there, the actually. How many licks does it actually take? Like, you actually have to say that louder.
156:59
And then there's me starting a question being like, no, no, no, no, you've got to cross it out, because I do everything in pen.
157:10
Well, that's interesting. Your P's and your Y's actually dip below the baseline. Yeah, yeah. Wait, now I've got to look. Hold on. Why? Well, and notice I... Look at all of them. I just did.
157:26
Yep. Yeah, the P always goes below the line. Yep, okay. Interesting. And my drafting training was all caps as well. I cannot write in lowercase at all. Yeah, I don't do cursive, despite the fact that my kid was taught cursive just recently in school. And she's like, how come you don't write in cursive? And I'm like, I gave up on that skill in fourth grade. I had to learn it in third and decided I was never going to use it again. Because I'm not super lame.
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That's perfect. That's what I should tell my six or seven-year-old, I'm guessing, at the time. Going back to good parenting. Yeah.
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Because I'm not lame, obviously. Oh, man. it's great too because we get together as like a group it's a smaller school i think they have like maybe 10 or 15 teachers and and they've expanded recently it's a montessori school and we go in there and uh you know we just want to talk a little bit about uh about cursive and how everyone's making real progress on it does anyone have any questions about cursive and i i couldn't help myself. I'm like, why curse it?
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There is... I don't know what that was. Wow. There was a lot of interesting noise that just came through there. I noticed that as well.
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I'm not sure where that came from. That could be me. Did you have a 747 buzz your location? I don't think so, but I did unmute, so I don't But why cursive? No, no, no. I even feel comfortable... The argument is that in teaching, there's actually a lot to cursive, which I think helps with learning to spell and to write. The fact that the words connect gives words a cohesive structure in ways that standard print doesn't. but cursive is also um it's just it it's just old i guess and and the likelihood of needing to use cursive later i i i don't know and and i'm not a teacher so i don't know enough and i i ended up deferring and i'm like this is montessori they have a certain way of doing things and evidently montessori teaching has a very specific like you have to do cursive and they have all of these, like, tactile teaching things that allow you to build words, and that's how they do their teaching. It was great, because they actually teach kids to spell incorrectly, like, spell everything phonetically initially using cursive, and they have to sometimes draw it out, and sometimes they have letters that have all the connectors on them, and they have to do it on the ground, and there was this fun thing. The great thing about Montessori at this point was that the majority of the learning is driven by the kids. The kids have to come up with kind of their own lesson plan for the first, I want to say until they're about six or seven years old, where they ask the teachers to give them a lesson on something specific. And the majority of the kids end up, the goal is to teach kids to enjoy wanting to be taught. And somehow cursive is a significant part of that. And it was really helpful. I still to this day am blown away how my kid knows how to spell and write both in print and cursive and as well as she does and it just worked out really really well I also don't remember how we got onto cursive Kindala says cursive is something that boomers care about I mean in some ways that's true I think that any other perspective that you can have on communication and language is not bad.
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Interesting. Okay. So just knowing that there's an equivalency of drawing this picture versus drawing this picture, I don't know. off the cuff feels like it's it sort of breaks down the intangible quality that makes writing work I guess since it's okay god damn it I'm back in the weeds of not making sense but it makes sense to me I feel like I'm following you perfectly yeah in the weeds is good All right. You guys, perfect segue into finding another stream to raid. Sammy, thank you so much for the raid. And I think we had four or five different raids this evening. The Living Arcade, thank you so much. Pens and Pirates. Sammy, Joe Hills, and Surreal, thank you so much for hanging out. Dance Panda was here earlier physically, and she left. Dance Panda, thank you so much. Smoke them if you got them in the weeds, says CMK. Nicely done. I like what you did there. And there are a bunch of links that once we switch over to a commercial, I'm going to post up. Please make sure to follow Surreal Joe Hills and Sammy Higgins if you're not already following them.
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Amazing content creators. I know some people don't really like that phrase, but I feel like it's perfectly descriptive. And, oh, surreal. You're fantastic. Thank you so much.
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The one job. Yeah, the one job, right? Surreal MVP. Surreal for the MVP. Surreal MVP. Ha! Nice. Thank you again. Let's go find someone to drop all this raid love off to. Have a great night. We'll be back on tomorrow. definitely a different game. I'm so done with Godzilla right now. I don't know what I need to change, but this entire pinball machine is not working at all. I feel like I want to play some Tron or I want to go fix stars and do something with stars. You guys, have a great night. Thanks again. If I can find the right buttons. I don't have the right button still. I need to add commercial in here.
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