Episode 168: RNP: Here We Go Again & Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth

[00:00:22] Hello, hello. Welcome to an episode. Oh my god. It's a novel console your weekly podcast, but it hasn't been weekly

[00:00:30] My name is Chris Karen and it's with me. She's still here. I am still here. We are not divorced

[00:00:36] We are not falling out of love

[00:00:38] We aren't right now. We're not no

[00:00:40] We really aren't we're not just pretending

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[00:01:56] Okay, so

[00:01:58] first off the most important part of today's episode

[00:02:02] Announcing the backlog of doom winners

[00:02:06] late

[00:02:08] Hey, that's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be no, but still pretty bad. Yeah, so

[00:02:14] For your backlog of doom winners you had

[00:02:18] The princess and the grilled cheese

[00:02:22] Yeah, the princess and the grilled cheese sandwich

[00:02:24] Thank y'all for picking something easy the unmaking of June Farrell. Oh wait, you're going through all of them

[00:02:30] rice of the cinderfee

[00:02:32] morning glory milking farm

[00:02:34] The emperor and the endless palace I put Palaca by accident

[00:02:39] and Annie Abbott and

[00:02:42] What Annie bought any any Abbott what the fuck is any abit?

[00:02:46] The princess and the grilled cheese sandwich by day of moon. Yeah

[00:02:51] Are you so excited? I'm so excited. It's gonna be really fucking easy. Oh, yeah

[00:02:56] Now I had seen oblique chronicles three

[00:03:00] dragon quest six realms of revelation

[00:03:03] Unicorn overlord collection of mana

[00:03:06] Pokemon mystery dungeon and dragon quest hero the world's trees woe and the blight below and

[00:03:12] Dragon quest six realms of revelation one

[00:03:16] So we're gonna read and play and we'll be back to tell you all about those eventually

[00:03:24] Okay, so now that we announced the winners let's go into the future of the show

[00:03:31] We're canceling the show done done done. This is our last episode so you voted for

[00:03:40] So

[00:03:42] Should I be completely

[00:03:44] Honest yeah with the listeners. I mean, it's only a couple people that we love so might as well I

[00:03:52] Fucking hate my job

[00:03:54] My job is probably the worst job I've ever had I

[00:03:59] Don't do much

[00:04:01] But somehow they stressed the fuck out of me to a point where last week one of my co-workers

[00:04:08] Pissed me off so bad. I was working from home and somehow he managed to piss me off so bad

[00:04:13] That I left my lunch untouched

[00:04:16] Just really saying something I was so furious that that happened

[00:04:21] Because he didn't understand boundaries

[00:04:23] And he wanted stuff fixed immediately when it wasn't an issue for me to solve

[00:04:29] right so

[00:04:31] What that my job does is I come home I

[00:04:36] Sit on the couch and I sewn out for hours

[00:04:40] Until it's time for me to go to sleep to go do it the next day

[00:04:44] And then on the weekends we're stuck doing

[00:04:48] Arons and bullshit that adults have to do every weekend so that they can survive, right? Yes

[00:04:56] So what that does is it makes us extremely tired? We don't want to do anything

[00:05:03] So when it's recording day, which we've tried a couple of different methods, which have really not worked

[00:05:11] We don't record

[00:05:13] Right and right now I have a bunch of episodes that are recorded, right? Oh, I have to do a set of them

[00:05:19] Which is not hard. I'm glad you didn't delete them like you deleted that one audio file of mine

[00:05:26] Right, but my brain is so fucking fried that sitting at a desk

[00:05:31] editing an audio file

[00:05:33] Seems like a horrible chore to do even though

[00:05:37] The episodes have come out amazing and the guests have been awesome. I will work on those to fill gaps

[00:05:46] soon

[00:05:48] But for now until I leave my job mid-June

[00:05:53] On June 14th

[00:05:55] I'm leaving my job

[00:05:57] Then we will figure out a more regular schedule release for the episodes

[00:06:03] But until then we will probably have

[00:06:06] this and maybe

[00:06:08] One or two more episodes

[00:06:11] After that, it'll come back more more normally if I'm feeling less mentally drained. I

[00:06:17] Am gonna release those episodes because all I have to do like I said is just sit down and edit

[00:06:22] What do you think about that?

[00:06:27] Karen

[00:06:28] It's fine with me

[00:06:30] You're fine with that. Yeah, I mean obviously I've been very absent for like

[00:06:36] five months

[00:06:38] To be 20 24. I've been very absent to be fair. I

[00:06:43] Feel like part of the reason you've been absent is because you've had to come home to deal with me

[00:06:50] We're not wanting to rip my hair out. I mean I I don't dislike dealing with you

[00:06:56] But yeah, I mean the last thing I want to do when you're cranky and then I'm cranky

[00:07:01] It's coming here and sit down and be cranky together

[00:07:04] And have to put on a happy face. Right? Well not face but

[00:07:08] Hi energy. Hi energy. I need high energy. I do need high energy from you all the time. I

[00:07:14] Don't have energy. I'm old. I'm withering me too. I feel I feel like I'm already 50

[00:07:22] Jesus I'm gonna tell you something. I have I forgot to tell you on the phone with my mom today while I was working

[00:07:27] All right, we're talking and this person just starts blowing up my teams like blowing up my teams

[00:07:33] You did this and now I can't get into this because I don't have access but I don't know how to access it

[00:07:40] I'm like, what the fuck is this person talking about and I looked at the ticket that they send like so

[00:07:48] This person is like a system software engineer

[00:07:52] And they wanted me to get them to the platform where they could do their work. I

[00:07:58] Told them we don't deal with that. You're gonna have to ask your co-workers

[00:08:02] Or your supervisor and they're like, oh, but I don't know and this and that and I'm on the phone like with my mom

[00:08:08] I'm like this fucking person. They're driving me fucking insane. I was like, you need to calm down

[00:08:12] It's like no I don't they need to do their fucking job

[00:08:16] There is software engineer. I'm just a fucking low lead tech

[00:08:20] Help this tech at that they get paid twice my salary probably and they want me to do half their job. No, they can go fuck themselves

[00:08:30] Yeah, you're not fine when you get when you are in that spot. That was a very tame version of what you're like

[00:08:36] When you get like that. Yeah, I love you so much, but it's not fun to deal with you angry

[00:08:42] And I don't like being that angry. I know

[00:08:45] So what am I doing for?

[00:08:50] Money what am I doing for money? What have I been doing for money the past few weeks selling video games and consoles

[00:08:58] Consoles and stuff and how has it been going?

[00:09:01] It's been going very well

[00:09:03] And it could go even better if you had more time to dedicate to it because I need you to match your salary

[00:09:11] And so far it's almost there

[00:09:15] Not quite. It's almost there

[00:09:20] We got events coming up right we got at least one every first of the month

[00:09:25] We got Saturday of the month for Saturday of the month, right?

[00:09:29] We got one in South Carolina the Southeast Game Exchange a pretty fucking big deal of

[00:09:37] Game trading events. We got a booth. We're going to the big leagues and I just started doing this and

[00:09:46] It is going insane the amount of

[00:09:50] Things that I've bought and that I've sold it is mind-numbing to me and even though I'm

[00:09:57] Blowing whatever even tracks old me stuff a bunch of stuff

[00:10:01] So it's going very very well

[00:10:04] So I'm gonna be doing that so if you listeners have any games or consoles that you want to get rid of just let me know

[00:10:10] we'll work something out and I

[00:10:15] Only have

[00:10:17] Five more weeks to go

[00:10:19] Till June 14th, and then I'm done with my company. Are you gonna tell them just how bad it's gotten?

[00:10:26] What do you mean what you decided to do to help yourself get out? Oh, no, I haven't said that

[00:10:33] As I look at this empty shelf

[00:10:36] so I

[00:10:38] took a

[00:10:40] Large part of my collection most of it a very large part of my collection and I put it up for sale

[00:10:48] for the shop because I

[00:10:51] Need to get out

[00:10:53] Get up real bad

[00:10:56] So yeah, that's that's what's been happening with a novel console. That's why it's been

[00:11:01] There's been a lack of episodes that's why I've also been very absent from the discord

[00:11:07] Because I the stress is insane. I

[00:11:11] Never thought that an office job just sitting down and typing on a computer all day would be this fucking

[00:11:18] Bad, it's bad. It's real bad. Yeah, and then it's not good on top of me in my regular everyday

[00:11:26] anxieties right and struggles

[00:11:30] So it's just a bad bad combination

[00:11:33] yeah, and then we're

[00:11:36] We're doing it together we get home. Are you gonna cook? I am not fucking cooking today. I am not doing anything

[00:11:42] Okay, it's ramen noodles again

[00:11:46] No, I do not have any business eating ramen noodles every day right at least their higher quality ramen noodles than Maruchan

[00:11:54] But still yes still

[00:11:56] Yeah, I have hypertension. I don't need to be

[00:12:00] What your face I'm sorry, I'll cut your fingers off

[00:12:04] Stop

[00:12:05] Okay, so do you have any updates that you want to talk about any I still love my job?

[00:12:12] Good, then I come home to cranky

[00:12:15] But it's okay cuz I love you

[00:12:19] No, I

[00:12:22] I've been reading on my Kindle quite a lot

[00:12:25] You have I keep getting all these Kindle streaks that I didn't even know existed because I normally don't really read on my Kindle

[00:12:32] But I kind of went a little bit crazy

[00:12:35] Got lots of Libby holds and they're all piling in at the same time. So I'm trying to frantically read through all of my

[00:12:41] Libby books

[00:12:44] Yeah, I've been reading quite a bit

[00:12:47] And

[00:12:50] Trying to lose some weight

[00:12:52] Cuz that's always fun and people can relate to that yay

[00:12:57] Yeah, that's about it

[00:13:00] So the little bit of gaming that I've been able to get in has been minimal very minimal

[00:13:07] Was probably over like the last maybe two weeks. I beat the first Kirby and the second Kirby for the Game Boy the original Game Boy

[00:13:15] those were pretty fun, you know, I am

[00:13:18] I'm excited to

[00:13:20] Be home all day working on my own stuff making my own

[00:13:25] financial decisions and only answering to me and

[00:13:29] Being able to catch up on everything that I've missed out on because of my mental state. It's gonna be good

[00:13:39] Gonna be very good. Well, yeah

[00:13:42] So we have a taste test though. We do this has been when was why did we get together last time with your family?

[00:13:49] Um

[00:13:51] It was just for fun Z's just grilled

[00:13:54] Okay, so that day that we grilled I got a package in the mail from burger champ. Yes

[00:13:59] And he's mad at me already really not because we haven't

[00:14:04] Done to taste test but because you tasted some of it already

[00:14:08] Packets. Yeah

[00:14:14] We still have the full bottle of that

[00:14:18] We're gonna try that later. Do you remember which one it was? Yes, okay?

[00:14:21] We will we will tell everybody that they're really good on burgers and pinchos and pinchos and pinchos

[00:14:29] So he sent us thank you burger champ. Thank you champ. He sent us Marie Sharps

[00:14:35] Hot sauce he sent us a box just packed with like many many plastic bottles of habanero

[00:14:42] pepper sauce I

[00:14:45] Am not a fan of habanero. I am I'm not at all a fan of habanero

[00:14:50] Although I'm still convinced the COVID changed my taste buds and I struggle through it most definitely did

[00:14:56] So again, I did I'm not a fan of habanero but

[00:15:01] The one that I did taste was amazing that was really good so

[00:15:09] My brother-in-law liked it too. Oh, yeah, he did

[00:15:12] So he sent me a list of all the sauces that he sent me and he put numbers next to them

[00:15:18] And was like hey have them in this order. Just do three an episode

[00:15:23] And you should be good

[00:15:25] So we're starting from like the mildest all the way to the hottest that he sent us

[00:15:31] So the first one that we have is

[00:15:34] The mild habanero pepper sauce

[00:15:36] I

[00:15:37] Am very interested to see what this tastes and smells like we have two other ones

[00:15:43] He said that the third ones that he set up on the list are the smoked ones

[00:15:47] And apparently they're not very good because they use liquid smoke

[00:15:50] Which we're not fans of so let's see you want to give this a whiff for your sure

[00:15:57] Why not oh my god

[00:16:00] That smells awesome. Are we gonna have burgers again this weekend? Oh, we could

[00:16:05] That's not good right. It's like very oniony. What is this one? That's the original mild

[00:16:11] Hmm very very oniony so he said to have it on something plain

[00:16:16] I was gonna have the baked lace, but I know you're not a big fan of them

[00:16:19] No, so let's try them on pita chips and

[00:16:22] Will gross will out so serve yourself. I will some of that and mutual microphone when you bite into it

[00:16:28] Oh

[00:16:29] I thought we were purposefully grossing him out. No cuz he's a little bitch and he'll complain on discord. Oh my god

[00:16:36] Love you will well, I won't be there to read it

[00:16:42] That's funny I think everybody heard that crunch

[00:16:47] Didn't they didn't hear the oops, but they heard the crunch

[00:16:51] Okay, how is it good?

[00:16:54] Let me let me try to start describing what a very good. It's like a spicy, but not too too spicy

[00:17:05] I

[00:17:06] Feel that these chips need to be planer or I need to put more on there

[00:17:12] It is pretty oniony, but it also works pretty well with that pita chip

[00:17:18] That is super oniony yeah

[00:17:21] for some reason that first bite kind of reminded me of a

[00:17:28] Grilled burger a very good grilled burger

[00:17:32] You want to try by itself? Yeah

[00:17:34] You want another chip or just no, you're just gonna do it off your finger. Yeah. Are you muted? No

[00:17:41] I'm just not being loud enough. Yeah looks like it

[00:17:45] Okay

[00:17:46] So yeah, it kind of gave me like grilled

[00:17:50] Grilled burger. Oh, yeah, I feel like there's like almost like a charcoal taste to it

[00:17:56] Yeah, yeah, that's really good. That's a very good the mouth. So it honestly gonna taste like the burger

[00:18:03] The burgers that we had I want more of those let's do that

[00:18:07] You can you can feed me while my sister-in-law and I watch Bridgerton

[00:18:14] Who else is watching Bridgerton come on

[00:18:17] Nobody is

[00:18:19] What do you give that? I think that's great. That's a Gorbit. Yeah

[00:18:23] Mm-hmm

[00:18:25] Next one these are all mild easy ones supposedly

[00:18:30] is the

[00:18:32] Tropical orange hot habanero pepper sauce this one has two peppers on it on the heat index. Okay. Oh, let's see what this is like

[00:18:41] Very yellow. It's very yellow. It looks like

[00:18:45] Well Luna wants

[00:18:47] Luna, I don't think he want any of this. It's gonna hurt coming out to you for you

[00:18:52] It was very bowel. It looks kind of like a pure air or something that I

[00:19:00] Just weird oniony too

[00:19:03] It's really oniony but fruity

[00:19:05] It is pretty fruity. It's very thick

[00:19:10] It's like a salsa

[00:19:12] Might be a salsa. Hmm. I don't know. I'm scared have a pita chip

[00:19:18] Pita

[00:19:20] Hey, join me for what?

[00:19:24] Okay, how the hell am I supposed to get this shit out?

[00:19:27] Are you having problems? Yeah. Okay, let me pause it real quick

[00:19:31] It was all clumped up. So I used

[00:19:36] Hey

[00:19:37] Mandu did you meet your microphone a Mandalorian?

[00:19:41] Spear to one clump it

[00:19:46] Okay, I know you said you don't like it

[00:19:49] Yeah, I do that

[00:19:53] As you're choking

[00:19:56] It's like salsa it's good. I really like it. It's it's the consistency of salsa and it tastes

[00:20:04] Like salsa to me. Whoo, my tongue is burning though. My tongue is burning. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah

[00:20:13] That is a salsa the more that I have I

[00:20:16] Because I had more I get it. It's good. I like it

[00:20:20] It's all I got was a little bit of a bad on the spear. Mm-hmm. Holy shit. That's building

[00:20:25] Yeah, it is very tropical. Oh man

[00:20:32] You want to go cut us a slice of that sourdough?

[00:20:35] Soak up the heat

[00:20:37] We'll have some cheesecake

[00:20:39] Okay

[00:20:40] Okay, that one. What do you think? Gorbage? Yeah

[00:20:45] Yeah

[00:20:56] Mmm

[00:20:59] Alright last one smoked habanero pepper sauce

[00:21:06] Damn, I have to take a break after this. Yeah

[00:21:11] Let's see. I just don't want to spill it everywhere. Oh

[00:21:16] God no

[00:21:20] No, let me smell it. Oh my god, that smells awful

[00:21:24] Oh, I smell it

[00:21:26] You're gonna hate it. Oh, it smells like plastic. Oh, oh

[00:21:32] It smells like

[00:21:34] burning Styrofoam

[00:21:38] It's like specifically packing peanuts

[00:21:42] Smells like the ET right

[00:21:51] Okay

[00:21:52] Here you go. I'm scared you go first. Thank you. I don't care pick whatever

[00:21:59] Okay, she's pouring it on the chip is clumpy again

[00:22:18] My fucking tongue it hurts he's crunching. Oh my god

[00:22:27] I'm a little bit miserable right now

[00:22:35] It tastes like the inside of the farmhouse restaurant before closed

[00:22:42] Okay

[00:22:43] It tastes like the inside of a barbecue joint. I

[00:22:47] Kind of like it. I don't know how I feel it tastes better not taste like the inside of a barbecue restaurant

[00:22:53] It tastes better than it smells. Mm-hmm

[00:22:56] Tastes way better, but at the same time it tastes the same as it smells

[00:23:00] But the taste is better than the smell. Yeah, but it's the same. Oh my god. I can't I gotta get up

[00:23:07] So that you know I went to zombie pig the other day

[00:23:12] The

[00:23:15] The ribs the ribs kind of tastes like this

[00:23:19] They're pretty decent

[00:23:21] Maybe we can go there for lunch Saturday. I

[00:23:24] Need a palette cleanser

[00:23:27] Wait, we haven't rated this one. What do you think?

[00:23:30] It's

[00:23:34] Quite garbage almost

[00:23:43] Definitely the mild is the best one

[00:23:47] Yeah, oh, we're gonna we're gonna need tums tonight. So yeah, we are let's take a quick break. We'll be back with

[00:23:59] My first book is a botanical daughter by Noah medlock

[00:24:22] You're not gonna explain what read-in places. Oh, right

[00:24:25] This is read-in plays where we talk about things we've been reading and playing or

[00:24:31] Recently read or recently played

[00:24:34] Actively enjoying or recently enjoyed or hope to enjoy soon

[00:24:43] Have recently been playing hope too soon no not hope too soon. Sorry. I just said that I looked at my phone

[00:24:50] Whoops, we've only got my discord notifications working. Yay. My mouth is finally not on fire

[00:24:59] Yeah, it was can't wait for the next few weeks. I still taste it with key lime pie. It's kind of nasty that way

[00:25:06] Smoky thing. Yeah, I don't recommend it with key lime pie

[00:25:09] But it was a nice palette cleanser anyway, so got frosting right there a botanical daughter

[00:25:15] I like frosting. Oh my god. It's whipped cream not frosting a

[00:25:19] Botanical daughter is a book that I'd knew absolutely nothing about

[00:25:24] I was trying to say both of these books that I'm gonna talk about come out came out earlier this year

[00:25:30] I think one of them just came out like last month

[00:25:32] I don't want to look at my phone. I'll get distracted if I tell you exactly when it came out. Anyway, I

[00:25:39] Knew absolutely nothing about a botanical daughter

[00:25:42] But I was going through like the popular books on Libby one day

[00:25:47] Because I wanted to put some books on hold

[00:25:49] because it gives me little

[00:25:52] moments of joy when my Libby holds come in and then I get overwhelmed because they come in all at once oopsie daisy

[00:25:58] Anyway, it was one of the popular books. I was like why not? So I put it on hold

[00:26:04] it was like my first hold that came in and

[00:26:08] It is delightful. It is

[00:26:11] little shop of horrors

[00:26:14] Frankenstein and gay

[00:26:17] Okay, and it is magical and it is making me very happy

[00:26:21] but it's also I know I so

[00:26:24] As I was reading it. I was like, holy shit. This is totally Frankenstein

[00:26:29] But I feel like we got something else going on here other than just Frankenstein

[00:26:33] I'm not that familiar with little shop of horrors, but I made a lot more sense

[00:26:38] When I looked at the Goodreads description

[00:26:41] I know it's a horror, but it's like a it's like a

[00:26:45] comedic horror

[00:26:47] So I just know it's gonna get worse

[00:26:51] Only one bad thing has happened so far. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop

[00:26:58] But it's so cute and just like wholesome in a really disturbing way

[00:27:04] and it's like this

[00:27:07] this

[00:27:09] These two guys who live in a greenhouse

[00:27:13] it's like

[00:27:14] 1889 in England and

[00:27:17] They think that they're gonna take this dead girl and put fungus in her and

[00:27:23] Raise her as their daughter

[00:27:25] So some Junji you talk type shit

[00:27:29] But cuter

[00:27:31] Yeah, Junji toes not very cute

[00:27:34] at all

[00:27:37] Not very wholesome at all

[00:27:40] Well, they were like one or two stories. Yeah. Yeah, okay continue

[00:27:47] I'm really enjoying it. That's it. That's what you gotta say. Yeah, I'm about halfway through

[00:27:52] It's very gay and cute and it makes me smile and then it makes me weirded out

[00:27:58] Yeah, is that the one you've been laughing at so much? No, that's the other book. I'm gonna talk about yeah

[00:28:05] No, this one makes me giggle silently not out loud. I see yeah

[00:28:10] So apart from the Kirby games

[00:28:12] Whatever little mental capacity that I've had to play I've been playing two games

[00:28:18] The first one

[00:28:19] Hell Divers 2 I don't know if I've talked about it

[00:28:22] I don't know if I'm gonna talk about the next one that I'm gonna talk about but I'm gonna dive

[00:28:26] No, nothing to do with with deal

[00:28:30] Hell Divers is an online only multiplayer game

[00:28:35] Where you and three other friends can dive from space into a planet and go complete?

[00:28:42] Objectives together you have about 45 minutes to complete most of them and their secondary objectives all over the map and

[00:28:49] It is basically Starship troopers the video game. It is

[00:28:53] fucking

[00:28:54] Great, it is amazing. I'm like you got loadouts and different classes and different armors

[00:29:00] And then you're killing bugs and then you're killing robots and it's so much fun

[00:29:06] It's so much fun. This is what I've been playing with Hane sometimes and his little friends

[00:29:10] Yeah, and we're like sliding in the third base

[00:29:15] Or whatever it was

[00:29:20] And with Logan I've been playing with Logan a lot

[00:29:23] So what happened was we got to the robot base, right?

[00:29:28] We were about to extract and a bunch of robots just decided to show up while we were extracting and completing our objectives and

[00:29:36] Haines and I died. We had no more respawns

[00:29:39] So his friend just kept jumping and sliding and jumping and sliding

[00:29:44] All the way to the extraction

[00:29:47] But when he's

[00:29:49] One point he jumped and slide and as soon as he hit the floor an automaton blew him off with rockets

[00:29:56] It was so funny

[00:30:00] But it's so cool

[00:30:03] It's like it pokes fun of patriotism and the military industrial complex

[00:30:08] By saying that we are gonna go to the bug planet the planet of bugs

[00:30:14] To spread democracy and freedom and liberty

[00:30:19] To bugs pretty great to bugs

[00:30:22] And it's because the bugs you can harvest oil from the bugs

[00:30:29] Government wants to kill the bugs

[00:30:34] It's so stupid it's so funny

[00:30:37] All of the hell divers are basically indoctrinated so they talk amongst themselves and they say stupid shit like for some reason

[00:30:45] I carry like this giant machine gun, right?

[00:30:48] And every time I start shooting and I'm stuck shooting for more than five seconds just holding the trigger

[00:30:53] My character just starts laughing maniacally

[00:31:02] Bugs left and right and they're laughing

[00:31:05] And and sometimes whenever you're like killing a bunch of them like running around and shit

[00:31:10] They go like how do you like that cup of liberty? Oh my gosh?

[00:31:17] So stupid everybody, that's great

[00:31:24] We're playing Logan and I the pain the other day and we were playing with this random that joined our group and

[00:31:35] I was kind of traumatized like I was shooting right shooting my gun just shooting at the bugs and this person decides to walk in front of me

[00:31:43] And there's friendly fire and

[00:31:46] It's kind of like anatomically correct

[00:31:48] So if you get hit in the head you die and I shot them in the head and they exploded in front of me

[00:31:54] That's horrific. They were like shooting next to me. They just turned to run and I killed them by accident

[00:32:00] I'm like, holy fuck

[00:32:03] It's like what this dude just fucking walked in front of me I bring

[00:32:11] They were talking about Starship troopers

[00:32:13] I was like that scene when they're still in the training academy and one of them's their helmet is kind of loose

[00:32:19] So they take it off and they get shot into head by accident

[00:32:25] Chunk and blood and everything speaking of chunks and blood I

[00:32:30] Went to my boss today to say hey, can I preemptively take off this day because

[00:32:36] meds make me sick and stuff and he was like sure and

[00:32:42] He's he said something. He's like, but please don't say no

[00:32:45] He he said he would need proof if I was actually sick and then he's like wait. No, please don't send me a picture

[00:32:51] And I was like, oh, I will and he's like no

[00:32:53] Don't ever send me a picture unless you have an alien burst out of your stomach and

[00:32:58] I was like actively walking away. I turned around and went back. I was like, oh my god

[00:33:03] He's like, you know that movie where the alien like comes out. He's like, I don't know what the movie's called

[00:33:08] And I was like alien. He's like, yeah, there's like the alien. I was like the movie is called alien

[00:33:14] He's like is it?

[00:33:17] That's your boss

[00:33:18] Yes

[00:33:19] He should know that more than me. He's older than I am

[00:33:23] And he was born in the 70s

[00:33:26] He should know that he should definitely know that he's not that much older than me and he was so born in the 70s

[00:33:31] Oh my god, what the fuck? Oh my god

[00:33:35] Okay, quiet quiet calm down

[00:33:39] Hell divers damn it's it's a whole lot of fun because it's just so fucking stupid and

[00:33:47] You know random shit like that can happen sounds traumatic like

[00:33:52] We were about to extract and I was standing in a corner where I shouldn't have been in the helicopter landed on me and killed me

[00:34:01] It's fucking great like I don't like playing online games

[00:34:06] but with friends and you know

[00:34:09] Just being stupid and seeing what kind of shenanigans you can get into

[00:34:13] It's fantastic. It is so good. I wish it was on every platform, but no, it's only on PlayStation and PC

[00:34:21] Damn cuz I know that Thrac and I would have an amazing time playing this shit. Why don't you all play it on the PC? I

[00:34:29] Don't think his is powerful enough to play

[00:34:31] And mine definitely it's not because this is an overpriced toaster selling your PlayStation

[00:34:37] No, he doesn't want it

[00:34:39] I've tried to convince him to buy one. He doesn't want it. Oh damn

[00:34:43] What's your next book my next book is here we go again by Allison Cochran here we go here

[00:34:50] We go again. Yeah

[00:34:53] Okay, this one I think is the one that came out last month

[00:34:56] So I put it on hold

[00:34:58] Despite the fact that I did not like the first Allison Cochran book that I read. I

[00:35:03] Can't remember what Allison Cochran's pronouns are so I'm just gonna play a safe and go with a

[00:35:09] I

[00:35:10] Read their first their debut. I actually got an arc of it. I read it in Orlando

[00:35:16] It's been a hot minute. I did not like it at all

[00:35:19] Despite the fact that it was gay and like like the bachelor

[00:35:24] but gay

[00:35:25] Well, it was like the the the bachelor dude was gay

[00:35:29] And he's didn't like want to come terms with if I remember correctly

[00:35:32] But then he like wound up falling in love with one of the producers or something

[00:35:36] Okay, anyway, I did not like that book at all. I hated it

[00:35:41] but then so

[00:35:43] Can't remember if I've said this or not but

[00:35:47] Marla and I are doing a year-long book exchange and we came up with a theme for each month to

[00:35:57] They help us, you know

[00:35:59] Not just willy-nilly send us send each other random books the first and I think I actually may have talked about this on the podcast

[00:36:06] Shit anyway

[00:36:07] Well, the first book the first theme was a book that starts with the first letter of your name

[00:36:12] So I did her name and she did my name and she actually sent me Alice and Cochran second book kiss her ones for me

[00:36:18] And so lesbian book, you know, I love my lesbians

[00:36:23] You know, it's like shit. I did not like that other book by this person. I'm really sad

[00:36:28] I hope I don't hate this. I fucking loved that book. I devoured it

[00:36:34] That was one of the ones like, you know when I was on my Christmas streak where I was reading like a book a day

[00:36:39] That was another one that I read very quickly

[00:36:45] So I was like shit that this person has another lesbian book

[00:36:49] I got it. I gotta get my hands on it. So I put it on hold on Libby

[00:36:54] And it came in just the other day. I think Friday I started reading it. Oh my god

[00:37:01] This book has had me laughing my ass off. I've heard you

[00:37:04] I mean, we were in the car the other day and I just like died laughing

[00:37:08] it is so funny and

[00:37:11] As much as my little sister-in-law who's only 19 years old

[00:37:17] Hates on me for being a millennial

[00:37:20] That one. Yes. This book is incredibly relatable because the protagonists are my age

[00:37:26] and like at the beginning of the book one of them was being broken up with because

[00:37:31] Her back hurts all the time and she complains about it and every time she eats cheese. She has a tummy ache

[00:37:36] I was like, it's me. It's Mariela

[00:37:42] But um, no it is fucking hilarious

[00:37:45] The one like every time she cusses

[00:37:48] She like says a famous lesbians name. So she's like Kristen fucking Stewart or Ruby fucking Rose

[00:37:56] It's pretty great. Oh, what in Ruby Ruby Rose non-binary? I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea

[00:38:02] Anyway

[00:38:04] It's very fun, but I have a feeling that's gonna make me cry my fucking eyes out at the end

[00:38:09] Yeah, cuz okay like you find out the premise within the

[00:38:14] Sec verse two chapters what are you laughing just remember what remembering what happened yesterday with your brother and the kids in front of

[00:38:23] Us I could say lately just continue. Okay. Anyway, um, basically you've got these two women who used to be really good friends

[00:38:32] They wound up falling out now they teach at the same school

[00:38:38] There are enemies

[00:38:40] But they have they both have this former teacher Joe

[00:38:44] Who was like a parental figure for both of them because?

[00:38:48] Both of them lost a parent in some way

[00:38:51] so

[00:38:54] Joe was kind of like their stand-in parent and Joe has cancer Joe is about to die and

[00:39:01] Joe pulls them to his little hospice facility. It's like hey all I want is to die at my cabin in Maine

[00:39:10] Please drive me to Maine. I want you two to be with me and they're like we fucking hate each other

[00:39:16] How dare you ask us to do this?

[00:39:19] But he convinces them

[00:39:21] And like it he wants he wants to have a road trip. There's not

[00:39:26] Obviously, it would be easier to just fly but he wants to go on a road trip. He wants to see the sights all the things so

[00:39:32] It is them

[00:39:34] going on this road trip and

[00:39:36] Well, I don't want to spoil it because it was the funniest thing but

[00:39:40] Yeah, the vehicle that they get to drive across the country is what had me dying in the car the other day

[00:39:48] It's really really fucking funny

[00:39:52] But it's got like a lot of realness like

[00:39:56] One has really bad ADHD the other one's like a battling. She's overcoming alcoholism

[00:40:04] It's a very good book. They're all gay. Everybody's gay. It's wonderful

[00:40:10] They're checking into a seedy motel thinking that they're gonna be shot for being gay

[00:40:14] They go to check in there's this creepy redneck man

[00:40:17] Work in the counter and he's like asking them if their sisters and they're like

[00:40:22] About to just hop back in the car and try to find somewhere else to stay and he pulls out a picture

[00:40:27] And he's like, this is my daughter. She's trans and I love her so much

[00:40:33] It's very cute, I love it that's fun. I'm enjoying it so much

[00:40:38] So much good. Yes. I'm glad me too. I'm glad you're you're in a good reading streak

[00:40:44] Me too. I need it

[00:40:48] Um, so the other game that I've been playing I honestly I have no idea if my brain is such mush

[00:40:53] That I don't know if I've talked about this or not

[00:40:56] Final Fantasy 7 rebirth. Have I talked about this?

[00:40:59] I am not the person you need to ask

[00:41:03] I feel like you probably haven't but

[00:41:06] I'm not totally sure this game came out months ago. Let me see when this game came out

[00:41:12] Um, and I'm surprised I still haven't beaten it

[00:41:16] Fucking phone

[00:41:17] Final Fantasy 7 rebirth release date

[00:41:21] Here we go February 29th 2024. Oh boy, and I'm still playing this fucking game

[00:41:26] Um, that's how little I've been playing. We all have struggles. Yeah

[00:41:30] um

[00:41:32] I

[00:41:33] Am enjoying it a lot, but I'm also hating the fuck out of it

[00:41:36] This game is great and it's awful at the same time. Put your fucking phone away, please

[00:41:42] Put it away. No put it away

[00:41:45] I'm not touching it. Give me the phone. Put it away out of reach

[00:41:49] out of reach

[00:41:53] And I don't want to see you reaching back for it

[00:41:55] Otherwise, I'm gonna cut your fingers off. We're almost done anyway. Hurry up

[00:41:59] No

[00:42:01] So Final Fantasy rebirth is the sequel to the remake that was done for ps4 and later released on ps5

[00:42:07] With a ufie extension. It's just a continuation of the retelling

[00:42:12] Of the Final Fantasy 7 story retelling

[00:42:16] Remake telling because they're like telling the same story but different retelling

[00:42:22] Retelling. Mm-hmm

[00:42:24] Okay, so yeah, so in this one

[00:42:27] Apparently sack lives

[00:42:30] If you don't know who sack is and it means nothing to you

[00:42:33] Then prepare to be schooled sack is the best character in all Final Fantasy 7 history

[00:42:39] Oh boy

[00:42:40] He is the one that died so that cloud could live and cloud carries a sword and cloud thinks he's Jesus

[00:42:46] Cloud thinks he's sack. Oh boy. The cloud is not sack

[00:42:51] Cloud is nut sack

[00:42:54] I will never be sad. No you didn't

[00:42:56] Oh, okay

[00:42:58] It was too too

[00:43:00] Too hard not to do it

[00:43:03] So anyways, it's an RPG an action RPG kind of like Final Fantasy 16 was and Kingdom Hearts and all that shit where you

[00:43:11] Have your weapons and you attack monsters and you switch between party members. It's really fun really fun combat

[00:43:18] What I hate is that it has so many fucking site missions

[00:43:21] and so many little stupid

[00:43:25] Forced side quests that you have to do

[00:43:28] Like oh, you're going on a cruise to go to costa la sole, which is like Final Fantasy 7's version of mexico

[00:43:35] to go on vacation for whatever reason and uh

[00:43:40] You have to play a card game in order to progress

[00:43:43] You can skip out of it. But if you do you'll miss out on cutscenes that are

[00:43:48] fun to watch

[00:43:49] So you're basically forced to learn how to play a card game

[00:43:52] so that you can

[00:43:54] see the cutscene

[00:43:56] of red 13

[00:43:58] Dressed as a soldier dancing like michael jackson

[00:44:02] Look up red 13

[00:44:04] I'm allowed to get my phone. Yes, you're allowed to get on your phone

[00:44:07] To look up red 13

[00:44:09] Just look up red 13 Final Fantasy 7 rebirth

[00:44:14] You're looking it up

[00:44:16] So he I don't know what he is he's either a cat or a dog

[00:44:21] Well, I noticed that he has fire on his tail and he can talk

[00:44:25] Red 13 you see it

[00:44:27] Looks like a lion. No, I told you I saw him on the screen that one night. He looks like kovu

[00:44:33] From that like second lion king movie. Okay now look up red 13 writing a chocobo

[00:44:40] That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life

[00:44:45] You know how to spell chocobo

[00:44:47] choco

[00:44:48] ch-o

[00:44:50] c-o

[00:44:50] b-o chocobo

[00:44:51] What the fuck

[00:44:52] You see how he's writing the chocobo

[00:44:54] What the fuck?

[00:44:55] That is weird

[00:44:56] You're sitting there like holding the thing with his paws

[00:44:59] Yeah, that's how he writes it in the game

[00:45:02] Like you see him writing around it like he's like all like bouncy and usually like his paws going like this

[00:45:07] Like this side of the chocobo

[00:45:09] No, that's actually how he writes the chocobos in the game

[00:45:14] He puts butthole to saddle

[00:45:17] Interesting like luna does butthole to floor very interesting. It's super funny. It's great. I love red 13

[00:45:23] He's like the best character in the whole game

[00:45:25] Oh, because he is he gets mad when they call him a pooch so he kind of like starts growling, but then you hear him talk and it's like

[00:45:33] Um scar because he kind of sounds like scar from the lion king

[00:45:38] Which makes kovu make even more sense. Yeah, I could see that

[00:45:42] Did you see that movie?

[00:45:44] I think so. Yeah, I don't I don't remember but I think so

[00:45:48] So the game kind of like

[00:45:51] Made me feel like my brain wasn't working right when I started it because you have to it's set

[00:45:59] It's set to have the graphics be the priority of what the playstation displays

[00:46:04] So I had to turn that off and set it so that the frame rate was the priority so that I would refresh faster

[00:46:12] And the thing is like because it was set to graphics whenever it would move

[00:46:16] Everything would blur really badly

[00:46:19] And it would take me a couple of seconds to figure out exactly what I just looked at

[00:46:24] So I I felt like my eyes and my there was a disconnect between my eyes and my brain

[00:46:29] And then I changed it to performance mode so that the the frame rate is faster and it's

[00:46:35] Night and day now I can tell exactly what the fuck I'm looking at and it looks so good. It's

[00:46:40] I can't wait to finish it because I put like 40 hours into it and I got other stuff to play

[00:46:48] But it's fun. It's really fun. Um, I just wish that all of them the side quests and stuff was

[00:46:56] optional

[00:46:58] Not really mandatory because I didn't want to learn how to play a fucking card game

[00:47:01] I don't want to learn how to fight a boxing fight. That's kind of like a game of chess

[00:47:08] It sounds stupid. It's so fucking stupid. I hate it and like the side quests are so forced too

[00:47:13] Like if you want to get specific items or like see specific cutscenes, you have to fucking do the side quest

[00:47:19] And I don't want to I don't

[00:47:21] Like thing is the story is great. Like everything that happens in the game. That's like main story

[00:47:27] Is awesome

[00:47:29] But you know

[00:47:31] It's a really fun game though. I'm glad. Yeah

[00:47:34] So I don't I I'm not sure if I want to play that once we're done recording

[00:47:38] Or if I want to play time splitters too, which I've been wanting to play for a long time on this team deck

[00:47:43] Or if I'm gonna hop in play on this team deck so you can come hang out with me or if I can just

[00:47:49] Jump into dragon quest six. Yeah, I'm not sure. So

[00:47:53] But yeah, let's read in place

[00:47:58] Um

[00:48:00] Let's let's kill the next three minutes. Is there any book you're going to play?

[00:48:06] You're looking towards

[00:48:08] I'm looking towards

[00:48:11] Uh, Puggleton park. What's that Puggleton park is a book I found out about from some random persons post

[00:48:20] What like a week ago? I think so

[00:48:22] Um

[00:48:23] This person posted about going to some indie bookstore and finding these cute pug books

[00:48:30] I was like, oh my god. Those look precious

[00:48:33] Well, then I told chris. I needed them and I knew he'd say yes because pugs

[00:48:38] But I decided to look them up on goodreads and read you the the description and oh my god

[00:48:44] Let me let me share this with us. Okay. Okay one moment please

[00:48:50] Puggleton park

[00:48:51] Puggleton park it does sound very adorable from what you read me right and they're so short

[00:48:56] I think I could probably knock him out this weekend

[00:48:59] um Puggleton

[00:49:01] You remember the other day when you were like

[00:49:04] Um

[00:49:05] Organizing your library and you were reading a book. Oh, yeah, I don't know about my bookshelf to luna. Yes

[00:49:11] Luna was oh

[00:49:13] No, so cute. I like that dog

[00:49:15] Okay, meet Penelope the pug in the first book of this delightful series set in regency era london

[00:49:22] Penelope is a pleasant little pug who has quite the

[00:49:25] That there's a typo who has quite the all she can remember is that she lost her lady in the park

[00:49:31] While chasing the most dreadful squirrel now she dreams of one day finding a new lady in a new permanent place to say

[00:49:37] So when she finds herself taken in by the kind lady dickleton

[00:49:41] She can't believe her look

[00:49:43] But Penelope soon discovers that lady dickleton is searching for her previous owner

[00:49:47] And worry she will have to leave the lady she's come to love

[00:49:50] To make matters worse that dreadful squirrel keeps poking its nose in wherever Penelope happens to be

[00:49:57] However, shall she keep herself from chasing it again and ruining all hopes of tea parties elegant balls and a forever home

[00:50:05] Perfect for readers of the diary of a pug series and future fans of bridgerton and jay n Austin

[00:50:10] The adorably illustrated pages of puggleton park are sure to charm chapter book readers

[00:50:16] I'm so excited

[00:50:20] It's adorable

[00:50:21] So cute

[00:50:22] We had to order them to come in to part of the noble because no bookstores had them

[00:50:28] It took a while for them to get them too. It did. Yeah took what like two weeks

[00:50:33] No, a full week. Oh a full week. They usually have been like a couple of days more than a week ago that we went hunting for them

[00:50:40] Yeah, yeah

[00:50:42] I'm excited. Um, I don't think i'm excited for anything

[00:50:45] Um, I have stellar blade

[00:50:47] Steller blade stellar blade. I don't know to remember the name. Oh sand land

[00:50:51] I am excited for sand land. I do want to start that as soon as I finish final fantasy 7

[00:50:56] that is uh

[00:50:58] The game based on the manga by a curatoriyama is one of his final works

[00:51:03] It's right there if you want to grab it so you can look at it

[00:51:07] Please which one sand land. I don't see sand land should be there somewhere

[00:51:14] Uh next to stellar blade probably it's playstation 5 game

[00:51:18] You see it

[00:51:20] You found it

[00:51:21] You found it. No, that's that's streets of rage

[00:51:25] That's streets of rage for that's not sand land

[00:51:28] You don't see it

[00:51:30] No, okay, I gotta make sure I didn't put that away in the the bin because I am not getting rid of that one

[00:51:36] so

[00:51:37] Yeah, um

[00:51:39] That's it for this week's episode. I know we're in star wars month

[00:51:44] We

[00:51:46] We didn't do themed months are so

[00:51:51] What it's so easy to get bogged down

[00:51:55] We didn't so easy for me to get bogged down. We didn't do lord of the rings march

[00:52:00] We didn't we didn't haven't done much anything for

[00:52:05] Star Wars month and we're not going to do anything for sell the month. Are we?

[00:52:09] No, please don't make me

[00:52:11] It's painful

[00:52:15] I am playing the force unleashed

[00:52:17] So I will finish that I will talk about that. I need you to find something star wars related to read

[00:52:23] It can't be it can be a comic book

[00:52:27] It can't be whatever just needs to be star wars

[00:52:30] Please

[00:52:33] por favor

[00:52:35] No, por favor. No, por favor. No

[00:52:39] I'll tell you by when you have to have it read it read it read it

[00:52:43] By the 26th

[00:52:45] So you have two weeks this and next week. No

[00:52:48] Okay, all right, and then for sell the month it'll be easy. I'll play

[00:52:55] Twilight princess and we'll figure something out for you. It'll be easy. Maybe I'll finally read tress of the

[00:53:01] Emerald sea

[00:53:02] That is a good option

[00:53:04] Is that the one that's like uh

[00:53:06] It was on that left of the wild or something

[00:53:09] It was on that list of books with a song for the wild belt which took over my whole life

[00:53:13] That's song for the wild belt. That was a good one. It's a great book. You still need to grab pigment four for the listener

[00:53:19] Yeah, I'm I'm sick of looking at those books sitting on my dresser. They need to go. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, we'll figure that out

[00:53:26] All right, that's it for this week's episode

[00:53:28] Thank you everyone

[00:53:31] It's been rough, but

[00:53:33] We're getting there

[00:53:35] We'll be a little bit more the dog days are almost over almost over five weeks

[00:53:47] Goodbye everyone