Geek Addicts - Episode 52: 1 Year Anniversary Q&A!

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[00:00:42] Hey everybody and welcome back to Geek Addicts, the pop culture podcast. It's been a year everybody.

[00:00:48] I'm Bill and this is Matt. How you doing Matt?

[00:00:50] I'm doing well. It's definitely a milestone. I'm excited about it for sure.

[00:00:57] I can't believe it's been a year. Like, it doesn't feel like it's been a year. That's the weird part about it.

[00:01:02] It doesn't. I guess you could say, well, I'm not really trying to remember when we actually recorded the first episode because it might have been a year, but we do also have a decent amount recorded in advance.

[00:01:17] So it might not quite be there yet. I'm not 100% sure.

[00:01:21] Yeah, I mean at the time this comes out, it definitely will be a year, but...

[00:01:25] Yeah, for sure.

[00:01:27] See, it's weird to me because I don't even realize half the time we're over 50 episodes for this show because like, 3DO took forever. I mean granted there was two major hiatuses during 3DO, but 3DO felt like it took forever to get to 50 episodes.

[00:01:41] Granted, we also, 3DO is recorded on a weekly basis and like, we're not, we don't have episodes packed away like in case of emergency with that show.

[00:01:51] Yeah.

[00:01:52] Hence why at the time of this recording, the previous episode we did was a complete chaos fest because I had to throw it together at the last minute.

[00:02:01] For anyone wondering, that's 3DO episode 60. It was a barrel of laughs.

[00:02:07] I enjoyed it immensely.

[00:02:08] Oh, it was a great time. It just, it was chaos.

[00:02:11] It was nice to hear Chris behind the mic again.

[00:02:13] It was, it was good. He's coming back.

[00:02:16] So he says, so hopefully more in the future.

[00:02:21] I hope so.

[00:02:22] Yeah, the best part about that was like, initially it was just going to be Nave filling in for Thrak.

[00:02:27] And then Aaron said he might be able to join.

[00:02:29] So I was like, cool, I'll have Aaron and Nave.

[00:02:31] This will be fun. It'll be chaos.

[00:02:32] And then Aaron just all of a sudden is like, you should invite Chris.

[00:02:35] And I was like, is he, I was like, sure, why not?

[00:02:39] So I was like, I didn't know if he was available or not.

[00:02:41] So I just sent him a message like asking.

[00:02:44] And he immediately was like, yeah, sure.

[00:02:45] I might be able to do it at this time.

[00:02:46] And I was like, okay, let me see if I get that time works for everybody.

[00:02:50] And I was going all over the place.

[00:02:52] And then I finally got it.

[00:02:53] It ended up working perfectly for the episode.

[00:02:55] And it was, it was a great chat.

[00:02:57] We talked about nonsense for almost two hours.

[00:03:00] Yeah, it was like right on the, right on the cusp of that cutoff.

[00:03:03] Yeah.

[00:03:04] I think with the intro and outro, it ended up being exactly two hours, but it was, it was a good time.

[00:03:10] A good fill.

[00:03:10] Ironically for a filler episode, I think it was one of the funnest 3D episodes I've done.

[00:03:16] The least 3DO themed, but it was, it was definitely an experience, but enough about 3DO.

[00:03:23] This is geek addicts.

[00:03:24] Um, I will say I, I, uh, before we move on entirely, I, I've been liking how, um, impressed everybody's been about your, your memory banner for at the end of every episode.

[00:03:36] Yeah.

[00:03:37] The, the, uh, the banner that I use so I don't sound like an idiot and forget a show.

[00:03:42] Sorry.

[00:03:43] You gotta, you gotta add a new one to that one.

[00:03:45] It's already been done.

[00:03:46] All right.

[00:03:48] Cause, uh, as of, at least it was announced today that we, we have a new, a new show on the network.

[00:03:54] Yeah.

[00:03:55] And nomads joining us from a retro retro wild land.

[00:03:57] So that'll be cool.

[00:03:59] We call it a retro on the super pod.

[00:04:01] Yeah.

[00:04:03] We're also doing, um, we're doing spooktober right now over on super pod with a whole bunch of fun, spooky theme blogs.

[00:04:10] Um, the one I wrote just came out talking about, um, ill bleed, one of the most unhinged horror games I've ever experienced.

[00:04:18] That's fun.

[00:04:19] I still got to write mine up.

[00:04:20] I'll probably do it tomorrow.

[00:04:21] I mean, by the time this comes out, it'll already be, already be there, but.

[00:04:25] Yeah.

[00:04:26] Well, yeah.

[00:04:26] But by the time this comes out, spooktober is probably going to be over.

[00:04:29] Yeah.

[00:04:30] By the time this comes out, uh, Thanksgiving will be right over the horizon.

[00:04:33] So.

[00:04:34] I, I, I don't like the fact that the year's almost over.

[00:04:39] Yeah.

[00:04:40] Yeah.

[00:04:40] I'm definitely getting that, like, um, that, uh, year end anxiety.

[00:04:45] I don't know if anybody else feels that, but I always get like this weird, maybe it's just a thing with being a parent.

[00:04:50] You know, you get that anxiety, like, oh shit.

[00:04:52] I got a preparation for Christmas and shit.

[00:04:55] Yeah.

[00:04:56] Yeah.

[00:04:56] It doesn't help that my, it doesn't help that one of my kids has a November birthday.

[00:05:00] So I got to do a birthday and then Christmas, uh, the birthday, uh, Thanksgiving and then Christmas.

[00:05:05] So, yeah, that's a lot.

[00:05:07] Yeah.

[00:05:07] I got to start.

[00:05:08] A lot of quarter.

[00:05:09] I got to start saving up for Christmas.

[00:05:11] Cause I got to, um, find, I got to think about what to get my family for Christmas, but also like, it's got to plan ahead.

[00:05:19] Cause I have no idea what, what the world's going to be like in December.

[00:05:23] So yeah.

[00:05:24] No kidding.

[00:05:25] We'll have to wait and see on that.

[00:05:26] Um, I don't like the fact that it's getting cold.

[00:05:29] Um, that's not fun.

[00:05:31] Yeah.

[00:05:31] The mornings have been rough for this past like week or two.

[00:05:34] It's just, I don't know.

[00:05:36] Like I knew it was going to start getting cold, but like I wasn't prepared for it at all.

[00:05:40] And we still have a lot of work together.

[00:05:42] Like we got to do a bunch of wood splitting and stuff.

[00:05:44] I mean, we have, we have about two cords cut right now and we're getting a free cord, uh, at some point in the next week or two.

[00:05:54] So that's good.

[00:05:55] So, I mean, that's most of what we're going to need.

[00:05:59] We might need like one more, but yeah, we have, we have a wood stove in our house.

[00:06:04] So to anyone who's confused what I'm talking about, I'm talking about wood.

[00:06:08] Yeah.

[00:06:09] I mean, it's definitely cheaper than what I have to pay.

[00:06:13] Cause I get central heat.

[00:06:14] So yeah.

[00:06:15] As uncle Brad likes to say, we got to cheat the oil man as much as we can.

[00:06:19] Yeah, pretty much.

[00:06:22] Oh, this, this has been one of those weeks though.

[00:06:24] I spent the first Monday, just throw it up in a toilet all day.

[00:06:28] Cause I got food poisoning.

[00:06:29] That's fun.

[00:06:30] That's rough.

[00:06:31] What was it?

[00:06:32] What gave it to you?

[00:06:33] No idea.

[00:06:34] Just, just some, some, some people have like some sort of an idea of like what it was.

[00:06:41] No, I have no idea.

[00:06:42] I first, I thought it was the pizza me and Alex had, but Alex was fine.

[00:06:45] So I don't think it was that.

[00:06:46] And we got the same exact thing.

[00:06:49] Um, it might've been something I got at the grocery store.

[00:06:52] I don't know.

[00:06:53] First.

[00:06:53] First I thought I had a stomach bug, but no one I was around was sick.

[00:06:57] So I'm assuming it was food poisoning.

[00:06:59] Either way.

[00:07:00] I spent all of Monday.

[00:07:01] I had to call out of work because I was unable to function for half the day.

[00:07:06] That was wonderful.

[00:07:07] That's fair.

[00:07:08] I don't think I've ever actually had food poisoning.

[00:07:10] It was one time when I thought I had it, but, uh, it turned out to be a stomach bug.

[00:07:16] And the only reason I know that is because, uh, unbeknownst to me the whole time that I

[00:07:20] was, you know, having my issues.

[00:07:22] Uh, my mom was upstairs having the same issues and I found out later on.

[00:07:28] This is years and years ago though.

[00:07:30] Nothing was worse than like back in the day when there was like a recurring, like when

[00:07:34] you'd get those recurring stomach bugs that would go around.

[00:07:36] Like, I still remember this was way back in like, uh, I think a school, yeah, early high

[00:07:41] school, like sophomore year.

[00:07:43] Uh, Alex got a stomach bug and it was really bad.

[00:07:47] And then it went, it went to me and it went to my dad.

[00:07:51] And then it went to my mom.

[00:07:53] It went through the entire family and it was not pleasant at all.

[00:07:57] Like I saw the worst, uh, that was probably the worst I've ever felt.

[00:08:03] Yeah.

[00:08:04] That's the rough thing about living in a family household is anytime anybody gets sick, you

[00:08:08] just have to expect that it's going to make its rounds.

[00:08:10] That, that was like the word, like not to be too graphic, but it's really bad when you're

[00:08:14] on the toilet and then you have your bowl in front of you because you can't get up.

[00:08:18] I'm not going to say any more than that, but you can get the idea.

[00:08:22] It was not fun.

[00:08:24] Yeah.

[00:08:25] I feel that.

[00:08:25] Uh, that was, that was literally the worst, like that was probably the worst I've ever

[00:08:30] had, but yeah, not, not the best way to start the week.

[00:08:34] Oh, sorry.

[00:08:35] I was just going to say not the best way to start the week.

[00:08:38] Um, yeah, I did finish, uh, I finished two shows this week.

[00:08:42] So two more added to the list.

[00:08:44] Nice.

[00:08:45] Um, I'm going to finish another one tonight because the final episode of the dub comes

[00:08:49] out, uh, for, uh, yeah, slimes final dubbed episode comes out.

[00:08:53] I'm looking forward to that.

[00:08:55] Uh, then I get to the side book and watch next.

[00:08:57] So find that out pretty soon.

[00:09:00] I, um, I watched the three movies that you guys covered in the last three anime films this

[00:09:08] week.

[00:09:08] Uh, one of which I'd already seen, uh, but the other two were, were new, really liked Susan

[00:09:13] May.

[00:09:14] It was very good.

[00:09:15] Susan May.

[00:09:15] I am like in this weird internal battle right now, or I'm not sure if I like Susan May

[00:09:21] more than your name at this point.

[00:09:23] Like I like, it's honestly tough.

[00:09:26] Your name is so good, but Susan May was so good too.

[00:09:30] We might have to cover Susan May on the pod at some point in the future.

[00:09:33] Yeah.

[00:09:34] Well, we'll have to, we'll have to, um, I'll have to try to get Cindy to watch it first and

[00:09:39] then she could join us.

[00:09:40] Cause she would have loved to be on the year name episode.

[00:09:43] Cause she loved that movie.

[00:09:46] Yeah.

[00:09:47] I bet she'll love Susan May too.

[00:09:49] Cause Susan May is Susan May.

[00:09:51] I think your name has a great story, but I think Susan May just as an overall experience

[00:09:56] might be better.

[00:10:00] Um, I love the main, I love the main character and see the titular Susan May.

[00:10:05] She was so likable.

[00:10:07] Yeah.

[00:10:07] See, that's the thing.

[00:10:08] Like at least, I mean, at this point I've only seen two of Shinkai's movies, but just

[00:10:14] based on that compared to the Ghibli movies I've seen, um, I just feel like his movies

[00:10:21] are much more like, they're just as fantastical in a lot of ways, but they're much easier to

[00:10:28] understand and follow along with than say a spirited away or, um, or a boy in the heron.

[00:10:35] Yeah.

[00:10:36] Boy in the heron.

[00:10:37] I won't lie.

[00:10:38] I wasn't super huge into, um, I wasn't crazy, but it's definitely a visual spectacle.

[00:10:44] It is.

[00:10:45] But you know, I like Susan May better.

[00:10:46] I thought Susan May look better.

[00:10:47] I, I, I agree in a lot of ways, but I don't know that, that first scene where, where the

[00:10:53] kids running through the fire, like that is just animated.

[00:10:56] So fucking well.

[00:10:57] It was my whole thing.

[00:10:59] The thing with boy in the heron, I think this is just something that it's kind of ingrained

[00:11:03] into me that like reason why I was just, I'm not, I inherently wasn't really huge on

[00:11:08] it.

[00:11:08] I just thought the wind rises was like the perfect ending to his career.

[00:11:13] That's fair.

[00:11:14] I still haven't seen that one yet.

[00:11:15] So I'm still, uh, I'm still very behind on the Ghibli films.

[00:11:20] Yeah.

[00:11:20] The reason why I'm so attached to wind rises is just like, that's one of the first, that's

[00:11:24] one of the rare movies I watched where like, I still think about it to this day.

[00:11:28] Like it kind of, it left such an impact that I started, I actually think about the world

[00:11:31] differently now after watching it at times.

[00:11:34] Hmm.

[00:11:34] Hmm.

[00:11:35] Which actually, speaking of, uh, Ghibli, the, the studio itself, um, I finally, I did a

[00:11:43] little bit of research cause my wife and I had another conversation trying to figure it

[00:11:47] out.

[00:11:47] I did a little research and I figured out the way that you're supposed to say it because

[00:11:55] I know that's always one of those big like back and forth that I say both ways I've been

[00:11:59] doing it like for the longest time.

[00:12:00] So, um, the actual Japanese characters or kanji, I believe, uh, that make up the, the words

[00:12:14] for studio, like studio Ghibli or Ghibli.

[00:12:17] Yeah.

[00:12:18] Uh, wait, when you go specifically the kanji that make up the word, the closest would be Ghibli,

[00:12:25] but it's based on an Italian word, which is why you're supposed to say Ghibli.

[00:12:28] So technically both ways are correct, but Ghibli is the way you're supposed to say it.

[00:12:33] Hmm.

[00:12:34] Interesting.

[00:12:35] So I, I found that interesting.

[00:12:38] Um, yeah.

[00:12:40] Uh, what'd you think?

[00:12:40] I watched, what'd you think of drifting home?

[00:12:43] I, I liked it.

[00:12:45] I didn't like it as much as Susan May.

[00:12:48] Um, same, same.

[00:12:49] Honestly, I still liked it more than boy in the herring though.

[00:12:52] Yeah.

[00:12:53] I see.

[00:12:53] It was, I don't know, like drifting home, they just had like an, an interesting vibe.

[00:13:01] Um, I liked the characters a lot.

[00:13:03] I thought it interesting that it was the only one out of these three that like had a lot

[00:13:06] of like big name anime voice actors.

[00:13:10] Yeah.

[00:13:10] Cause, um, Susan May was like almost entirely actually like big name actors.

[00:13:14] Same with, um, same with, uh, uh, boy in the herring.

[00:13:20] Um, that, that, that seems to be just a consistent thing with Ghibli films in general

[00:13:23] though.

[00:13:24] Like it's always like, you know, you know, Mark Hamill or Christian Bale or.

[00:13:31] Is it, is it the funniest part about the frigging boy in the herring was the whole fact that we

[00:13:36] get referring to the herring as Robert.

[00:13:39] I, I, I enjoyed that part of your episode on it, uh, which is funny.

[00:13:43] Cause I, I, I feel like I knew that Robert Pattinson played the herring, but like until somebody

[00:13:48] says it, I would never have guessed that that was him.

[00:13:51] I've gained such a respect for him as an actor over the years.

[00:13:54] Like his, his Batman portrayal was, was phenomenal, but his performance in Boy and the Herring

[00:13:58] was great.

[00:13:59] I haven't seen him in Batman, so I can't judge on that, but.

[00:14:03] He's a very good Batman.

[00:14:04] That's all I'll say.

[00:14:06] I have seen him in, in some, I mean, obviously like I haven't actually watched, sat down and

[00:14:10] watched Twilight.

[00:14:11] I have seen bits and pieces of it.

[00:14:13] Uh, just from osmosis.

[00:14:15] Uh, and then obviously I saw him in, um, Harry Potter four.

[00:14:19] So like, that was kind of like what I knew him as for the longest time, but I, I have seen

[00:14:23] him in a few other things since, uh, I, it was a movie that he did a few years back with,

[00:14:29] um, Will Defoe called the lighthouse.

[00:14:32] That is a fucking weird movie, but his performance is great in it.

[00:14:36] It actually, both of them, but it was pretty much just the two of them, the whole movie.

[00:14:39] Cause they was just like, they were, they were both manning a lighthouse and it was like,

[00:14:43] you know, the olden days.

[00:14:46] Uh, and it was a very bizarre movie.

[00:14:49] I will say that like it, like if you ever go and watch it, whether you know what you're

[00:14:54] watching or not, like you're going to come out of it being like, what the fuck did I

[00:14:57] just watch?

[00:14:58] But the performances were fantastic.

[00:15:01] Um, but yeah, it's just one of those weird things where, yeah, I definitely think that

[00:15:08] I have gained respect for him as an actor.

[00:15:10] I think, uh, the, the twinkle, twinkle, sparkle, sparkle reputation is starting to go away.

[00:15:19] Yeah.

[00:15:19] I mean, he's cause he's proven that he can act, which I give, I give him a lot of credit.

[00:15:23] Which is good for him.

[00:15:24] Good for him.

[00:15:26] Uh, actually kind of funny.

[00:15:27] There was two Batman in, um, in, uh, Boy in the Herring now that I think about it.

[00:15:34] Oh yeah.

[00:15:34] Cause Christian Bale was in it too, wasn't he?

[00:15:36] Yep.

[00:15:37] That's why.

[00:15:38] So there's been, there's been three Batman in the Ghibli films because, uh, Michael Keaton

[00:15:45] was in, uh, Porca Rosa.

[00:15:47] Oh, was he?

[00:15:48] Yeah.

[00:15:48] He's, uh, the main character actually.

[00:15:51] Oh, that's fun.

[00:15:52] There's a scene with him and Tom Kenny.

[00:15:54] And it is one of the funniest scenes in that movie.

[00:15:56] Cause Tom, it's just SpongeBob.

[00:15:58] It's great.

[00:16:00] It's like serious SpongeBob.

[00:16:01] It is one of the funniest things in that movie.

[00:16:04] That's silly as shit.

[00:16:06] Uh, so yeah, there was, uh, the other thing that I, after I watched those movies, I kind

[00:16:11] of just wanted to watch something more casual.

[00:16:13] Uh, like I almost just rewatched something, but I was like, you know what?

[00:16:18] No, I'm actually going to like try to watch something new, but I'm going to do something

[00:16:21] that I know isn't super serious.

[00:16:23] So I watched Hetalia.

[00:16:25] Have you ever seen Hetalia?

[00:16:26] Oh yeah.

[00:16:26] I know Hetalia.

[00:16:28] Axis Powers.

[00:16:29] Yep.

[00:16:30] That, that is like, like you talk about a chaotic series.

[00:16:35] If it wasn't anime would be so fucking problematic these days.

[00:16:40] Oh yeah.

[00:16:41] I will say, I'll give it credit.

[00:16:43] This is the only like anime dub I've ever seen that had the balls to do like extremely

[00:16:47] racist Asian accents.

[00:16:50] Yeah.

[00:16:52] You know what's funny though?

[00:16:53] In the Japanese, I'm pretty sure they're just as like racist to everyone else.

[00:16:57] So it kind of, you can get away with it.

[00:16:59] Oh yeah.

[00:16:59] I mean, I feel like any, any dub, whether it's the original Japanese, the English or

[00:17:03] any other language, I feel like they kind of have to go out of their way to do whatever

[00:17:08] that language is equivalent for the accents for each country would be.

[00:17:13] You see, I think Hetalia gets away with it just because of the fact that everybody gets

[00:17:17] like fucking like the, the, the short end of the stick in that show.

[00:17:20] Oh yeah.

[00:17:21] I, I, I don't know.

[00:17:22] Just some of the characters just fucking tickle me.

[00:17:24] It's, it's so funny.

[00:17:25] For people who don't know, Hetalia is essentially, it's like all the comics.

[00:17:29] Often it's like anime characters and it's like, it's, it's nonsense.

[00:17:35] Every country is personified as a super over the top portrayal of, of what that country

[00:17:39] is.

[00:17:40] And they are their own characters.

[00:17:42] And, uh, which, which is really funny too, because it is a super comedy heavy series,

[00:17:48] but there's actually a lot of real life history.

[00:17:51] That's that's thrown in.

[00:17:53] Oh yeah.

[00:17:54] It's I've actually learned a lot watching it.

[00:17:55] It's a very, it's a compelling show that like is really, if you're not, if you're not okay

[00:18:03] with, with like some of like the, uh, the show is very extreme.

[00:18:08] That's what I will say.

[00:18:09] Um, at times, but if you can get past that, it is hilarious.

[00:18:14] Like, I definitely recommend it.

[00:18:18] If somebody just wants something goofy and silly that, that you don't have to care about.

[00:18:23] Definitely wide.

[00:18:24] It's, it's worth it.

[00:18:25] And the episodes are only five minutes long.

[00:18:27] Oh yeah.

[00:18:28] It's literally a concept that could only work in anime.

[00:18:32] For sure.

[00:18:33] It does it very well.

[00:18:34] Almost too well at times.

[00:18:36] And it's Funimation, didn't it?

[00:18:37] Right?

[00:18:38] I think so.

[00:18:39] I mean, it's a lot of Funimation actors.

[00:18:40] Yeah, I think it's funny to the dub because like there is so many iconic actors in there.

[00:18:45] Yeah.

[00:18:45] I mean, Eric Vale plays America and, uh, trying to think, um, Todd Haberkorn, I believe plays

[00:18:55] Italy.

[00:18:56] Uh, Patrick Sates is Germany.

[00:18:59] Um, yeah, they, they, and they like hit like a lot of the countries that you forget exist.

[00:19:04] Oh yeah.

[00:19:05] So it's not just like the main ones.

[00:19:07] They cover like everybody.

[00:19:08] I need to watch that now because I've only ever seen clips.

[00:19:11] I'm gonna have to go through like a full through.

[00:19:13] Um, it's all on, it's all, it's all on a crunchy roll.

[00:19:17] And like when you look at the episode count, it's overwhelming, but then you got to remember

[00:19:20] that each episode is only five minutes long and that if you skip the song at the end,

[00:19:23] it's like more like three and a half to four minutes.

[00:19:24] So it's like, yeah.

[00:19:27] Like realistically, like you have to watch four or five of those for it to be the equivalent

[00:19:32] of one episode of a regular anime.

[00:19:35] So it's not too bad.

[00:19:38] Um, I think for shows I watched, um, this week, I, uh, I watched a show called Relife,

[00:19:45] which I was in like the mood for like a goofy slice of life, um, again.

[00:19:50] So I was kind of browsing through a crunchy roll and I had found it there.

[00:19:54] And this is a pretty old one.

[00:19:55] Cause it's one of the ones that like when you watch it on crunchy roll, it still plays

[00:19:58] the fun of nation opening every time.

[00:20:02] Uh, Relife is fun because it's the whole concept is it's essentially a, an adult in Japan.

[00:20:08] He was a former salary man and then he quit his job and became a neat.

[00:20:13] Um, and he was basically ruined his life and was basically, he was in a dead end, like downward

[00:20:20] spiral.

[00:20:22] And to the point where he's pretending to have a job so he can go for drink with, uh, his

[00:20:26] friends in one of those situations.

[00:20:29] And then he, he gets approached by, um, this man from the Relife Corporation.

[00:20:34] And their whole thing is they have this drug that you take this pill and it gives you the

[00:20:40] appearance of a younger, like a teenager.

[00:20:42] And the whole gimmick is like, essentially they give you the pill and then you get to join

[00:20:47] this program called the Relife Program.

[00:20:49] And essentially you get to re-go through the final year of high school.

[00:20:54] And basically it's to re-acclimate them to society and basically fix all their problems

[00:21:00] why they became a neat.

[00:21:01] Hmm.

[00:21:02] And essentially like the, he, it was just kind of a goofy show where he ends up going through

[00:21:07] it and like, he ends up going through high school and it kind of like, but the end goal

[00:21:12] is like, he gets a opportunity.

[00:21:13] He gets a bunch of odd job opportunities and basically he can fix his life.

[00:21:18] Um, it's very wacky anime stuff, but like they, they, they play with some funny ideas.

[00:21:22] Like the whole fact, like he's, they're doing like high school gym and like, he's like,

[00:21:26] I'm going to show these kids what I'm made of.

[00:21:28] And then he like throws like a ball and he like throws out his back because the drug

[00:21:32] makes him look younger, but he's still like an adult kind of thing.

[00:21:37] That's funny.

[00:21:39] It was, it was an entertaining watch.

[00:21:40] It was only a 13 episodes plus four OVAs to finish the story.

[00:21:47] Um, so it, it's a decent watch.

[00:21:50] I finished it in like three days, but, uh, yeah, that one was fun.

[00:21:53] Nice.

[00:21:54] That's cool.

[00:21:56] Um, other than that, uh, aside from that, I've just been filling in my time reading

[00:22:01] Yu-Gi-Oh!

[00:22:02] Which has been pretty cool.

[00:22:04] I get to get on that.

[00:22:05] I've been, uh, this has been one of those weeks where like, aside from like the couple

[00:22:09] animes I watched, I was not motivated to do anything.

[00:22:14] Um, I think that was good too, because early on, like it's mostly kind of like quote unquote

[00:22:22] monster of the week.

[00:22:24] Yeah.

[00:22:25] Uh, at the beginning.

[00:22:26] So it's, it's easy to kind of just like pick up, read a few chapters and put down, you

[00:22:30] know?

[00:22:32] That's understandable.

[00:22:34] Um, honestly, it was kind of like, I think writing, cause I got that blog, I wrote that

[00:22:39] blog this week.

[00:22:39] I think that took up a good amount of my time.

[00:22:42] I think it was just, uh, cause like we have, um, I took a half day at work today cause we're

[00:22:46] going into a, for some people we're going into a long weekend.

[00:22:50] Um, cause I have, uh, Columbus, indigenous, whatever, whatever the hell it's called these

[00:22:55] days.

[00:22:56] Um, we have, I've got Monday off.

[00:22:59] So wanted a nice long weekend to recharge and I'll probably try to get a few more shows

[00:23:05] done this weekend.

[00:23:06] Nice.

[00:23:07] There you go.

[00:23:09] Ooh, Dima came out today.

[00:23:11] Oh, did it?

[00:23:12] Yes.

[00:23:13] I watched it.

[00:23:14] I watched the first episode.

[00:23:16] Probably going to wait on the dub for that, but.

[00:23:19] You should only be waiting like two or three weeks at most.

[00:23:22] Cause I know that they're, they're playing the first three episodes in theaters on like

[00:23:28] November 10th or 11th, something like that.

[00:23:31] Nice.

[00:23:32] So that's probably when they're going to be releasing it.

[00:23:36] And then probably like that weekend or maybe the following weekend, they'll, they'll put them

[00:23:39] on Crunchyroll or something.

[00:23:41] Nice.

[00:23:42] Oh, did you see, um, did you see, uh, Oshinoko's ending in four chapters?

[00:23:48] Yeah, I was actually, I, I almost texted you about that the other day or when I saw that,

[00:23:53] I think it was actually earlier today.

[00:23:54] Um, but I, I couldn't remember if you had already said that or not.

[00:23:58] So I just left it as is.

[00:24:00] Uh, somebody in Knave's server mentioned in this, I reacted to it.

[00:24:04] So that might've been what you were thinking of.

[00:24:06] I can't believe that though.

[00:24:07] It's, I feel like that's still relatively new.

[00:24:10] It's been four years since it started, believe it or not.

[00:24:13] Wow.

[00:24:14] Um, to my knowledge, at least on, cause I was looking around on Kindle cause I've been,

[00:24:18] I've been reading Berserk on Kindle.

[00:24:20] So, um, I was just looking around and, uh, from what I saw only like the first, what,

[00:24:26] seven volumes of Oshinoko are available on Kindle.

[00:24:29] Yeah.

[00:24:29] We've, we've only officially gotten up to volume seven so far out of like, how many, how many

[00:24:34] are there?

[00:24:35] 15, I think.

[00:24:37] Um, yeah, cause I was thinking once I catch up on Berserk, I might just start getting those.

[00:24:42] Yeah.

[00:24:43] It's, it's not bad.

[00:24:44] Like the, the art style is beautiful.

[00:24:46] Like I, I love the, I think that's partially the reason why, cause I, my theory, I don't have

[00:24:51] any confirmation on this, but my theory is I think Akka's over, over it at this point.

[00:24:56] Like he, he's had his fun with it and he wants it to be done, but I think he's been keeping

[00:25:00] it going for the artist because the artist is like, I think more into it than he is at

[00:25:03] this point.

[00:25:04] Yeah.

[00:25:06] Cause in the time he's, he's been writing Oshinoko, he's done a third series already.

[00:25:11] Like that's already over.

[00:25:13] Oh wow.

[00:25:14] Um, which is also in the, uh, the Kaguya universe.

[00:25:18] So that's, that's fun.

[00:25:19] Um, that one hasn't even come out over here yet though.

[00:25:22] So I'm sure it will eventually.

[00:25:24] I mean, it's, it's so easy for him to just plow through these things cause he doesn't draw.

[00:25:28] He doesn't like draw anymore.

[00:25:30] He just has a other artists now, but, uh, yeah, that one, I like what, I like what he's

[00:25:37] done so far.

[00:25:37] So between Oshinoko and Kaguya-sama, I definitely like his work.

[00:25:42] He's got a very unique writing style.

[00:25:44] I will say that, but yeah, it's been a, it's been a, it's been a week still.

[00:25:52] That's for sure.

[00:25:53] Plugging along.

[00:25:56] But I guess we should get into our topic for, well, topic.

[00:26:00] Uh, we're celebrating our one year anniversary and we, uh, we had reached out on a couple sources

[00:26:06] for, uh, some questions to do a Q and A of sorts.

[00:26:10] Um, I reached out on Twitter, got no one on Twitter.

[00:26:14] Not really surprised.

[00:26:15] Um, we don't have an official geek addicts Twitter account.

[00:26:17] So like it was, I kind of did it via the GNC one and it kind of got buried.

[00:26:22] Um, that's fine.

[00:26:24] It's not a big deal.

[00:26:26] That being said, I sent a couple out into our personal server, the GNC podcast network server

[00:26:32] and the, uh, well podcast studio server and our, uh, the super pod network.

[00:26:37] Um, and I figured let's start with, uh, the GNC server first.

[00:26:43] So first question, um, I guess I'll read them off and, uh, we'll just answer them as we go.

[00:26:49] Yeah.

[00:26:50] Sounds good.

[00:26:53] So first question is from our, our buddy Snickerman, long time fan of, uh, BNC, geek addicts, everything.

[00:27:00] He asked, how much time do you spend on gaming and watching shows in an average week?

[00:27:10] All right.

[00:27:11] Um, do you want to, do you want to hit that one first or?

[00:27:15] Um, yeah, I can hit it first cause I'm, it's, it's kind of unremarkable.

[00:27:19] Uh, because I work 10 hours a day and I have a pretty, uh, regular workout schedule, my show

[00:27:28] and my gaming.

[00:27:29] So essentially I kind of cycle through what my, uh, niche interest is on a given week.

[00:27:36] Uh, currently because of the end of the year recap, I'm in an anime mood right now.

[00:27:41] So I've been kind of just focusing solely on anime, but occasionally I'll go through gaming

[00:27:45] and when I'm in a gaming mood, I will spend, uh, like four to five hours of free time.

[00:27:50] I have every day, uh, gaming or watching shows or reading manga books, comics, stuff like that.

[00:27:57] It's basically depends on what my niche interest is on a given week.

[00:28:01] Like if I'm in a manga reading mood, I'll be reading manga.

[00:28:03] If I'm playing games, I'm playing games.

[00:28:06] Those shows it's, it's a lot of things like that.

[00:28:09] Uh, but for the most part weekdays, I usually have at least like four hours a day of free

[00:28:15] time.

[00:28:16] Um, weekends it's different.

[00:28:19] I can, depending on what's going on, I could spend either an entire day or like a couple hours

[00:28:26] a day, portions of days, but yeah, it's kind of around there.

[00:28:30] Uh, for me, uh, video games are incredibly limited, uh, much to my, uh, displeasure.

[00:28:39] Uh, and that, that is being to the fact that a lot of the games that I tend to like to play

[00:28:45] require a decent amount of attention and, uh, attention is not something I can really spare.

[00:28:51] Um, I have a top, I have a, my daughter is, uh, you know, almost out of her terrible twos,

[00:28:57] but I don't think that's going to just stop when she turns three in a month.

[00:29:01] Um, but she's a very rambunctious child.

[00:29:04] So, uh, I, I like literally can't turn my back on her.

[00:29:10] Um, she is really good at zoning in on the one thing she's not supposed to mess with.

[00:29:15] That could be potentially dangerous.

[00:29:16] So I kind of have to be aware with her.

[00:29:20] Um, but if it's a week where, so, I mean, I generally, um, whether I'm playing something

[00:29:26] casually, like lately I've been playing cap, um, not castle, uh, dungeon dice monsters on

[00:29:31] the GBA.

[00:29:32] Um, cause that's something I could just play and then put down or whatever.

[00:29:36] Um, so like, you know, I, throughout the week, I might be able to squeeze in four hours,

[00:29:42] five hours total.

[00:29:44] Um, but if it's a weekend when my mom takes her, cause mom generally takes her every other

[00:29:48] weekend, uh, I, I usually get my gaming in during that time.

[00:29:53] So not, not as much as I would like, but I try to make as much time as possible.

[00:29:59] Uh, as far as watching shows go, uh, I'm fortunate enough to have the kind of job and the kind

[00:30:07] of boss that doesn't care if I have stuff playing on my phone while I'm working as long as I'm

[00:30:11] working.

[00:30:12] Um, so I generally am watching shows or movies or whatever throughout my entire work day.

[00:30:20] So that's probably one of the only reasons I'm actually able to keep up with stuff enough

[00:30:24] to be able to cover things regularly on the show.

[00:30:28] Um, but yeah, there's that, uh, what, one thing I'm able to do a lot more consistently is

[00:30:33] read.

[00:30:34] Like I, I have the kind of, the kind of brain where I can, I can just read a page or two

[00:30:40] and put it down.

[00:30:40] And like, that doesn't mess with my experience of the book or manga or comic or whatever I'm

[00:30:46] reading.

[00:30:46] Um, I can't do that with video games.

[00:30:49] I need to like, Hey, like, you know, get into it when I'm, when I'm playing a game, but

[00:30:59] Cindy is messaging me on Facebook message right now.

[00:31:03] She probably just, just out of questions.

[00:31:06] Yeah.

[00:31:06] I told her, I told her to message you cause I didn't want to know what she was asking.

[00:31:13] Okay.

[00:31:14] I'm just going to respond back to her real quick.

[00:31:18] But yeah, that's, that, that's essentially it.

[00:31:20] So ultimately, um, because I mean, obviously like I'm not just sitting down watching stuff

[00:31:25] the whole time.

[00:31:26] So I have to get up and do stuff here and there, but I mean, I probably get a good four

[00:31:30] or five hours of whatever show or movie a day at work and then whatever I watch at home.

[00:31:40] Yeah.

[00:31:41] It's, it's tough.

[00:31:43] I will say handheld gaming is like one of the best ways for me to actually game on like a

[00:31:47] weekly basis because I can multitask and like put like a show on in the background when I

[00:31:51] play, say persona four, I can grind while I watch a show.

[00:31:56] So yeah, mobile gaming is like the only reason I'm able to like get in a little bit of gaming

[00:32:01] I can do when, when my kids are home.

[00:32:03] I mean, Xander's whatever, like he's 12, he's been, I kind of made him a gamer.

[00:32:09] Sorry, Cindy.

[00:32:10] Um, so like, you know, gaming around him is no big deal.

[00:32:14] It's just kind of a part of life now.

[00:32:17] We, uh, gamers are.

[00:32:20] Yeah.

[00:32:20] Yeah.

[00:32:21] When she gets a little bit older and I can say, Hey, stop fucking with that.

[00:32:24] And she can like, you know, comprehend and listen and understand consequences.

[00:32:29] Then, you know, my, my, my time for gaming will, will improve.

[00:32:33] But as of right now, it's, it's very limited.

[00:32:37] Um, and then he had a second question, which is mostly for you because, um, I'll read it.

[00:32:44] Best RPG of all time for Matt, unless Bill changed his, I have not changed mine.

[00:32:49] It's still persona four gold, but, um, Matt, what is the best RPG of all time in your opinion?

[00:32:54] I don't think that'll ever change for you, Bill.

[00:32:56] I think at this point it's pretty set in stone.

[00:32:59] Um, well, it depends if we, like what kind of RPG are we talking about?

[00:33:05] Our action RPG, JRPG.

[00:33:07] I mean, I'm assuming he means just RPG in general.

[00:33:10] All right.

[00:33:11] Well, I'll throw out one or two for each.

[00:33:13] Um, so my, my, the two action RPGs that I, I always tend to return to is people to obviously

[00:33:22] mentioned it many times.

[00:33:23] That's my favorite video game of all time.

[00:33:25] Um, the Witcher three is a fantastic game overall.

[00:33:30] Uh, that's probably the best made action RPG I've ever played.

[00:33:36] Uh, and the most immersive experience.

[00:33:38] Um, then obviously the legacy of Goku series, uh, as far as JRPGs go, I'm, I'm still really

[00:33:48] new in the world of JRPGs with the exception of Pokemon.

[00:33:51] And I don't, I don't think I would put Pokemon on that.

[00:33:54] Cause as much as I love, as much as I have all that nostalgia for Pokemon, I've played

[00:33:59] so much Pokemon over my life, my lifetime.

[00:34:02] Um, like that, that just at this point where, where I've experienced different, different

[00:34:09] games.

[00:34:10] Um, I recognize that they are not the most well thought out when it came as it comes to

[00:34:17] a gaming experience.

[00:34:20] Um, I mean, my, my, my out there choice would be Dragon Ball fusions.

[00:34:27] Cause that's just a really interesting game.

[00:34:29] It just, it's very addicting gameplay.

[00:34:32] It's, it's not your average turn-based RPG.

[00:34:35] Um, but other than that, I'd say probably Dragon Quest three or, uh, I don't want to say

[00:34:45] Final Fantasy seven, but I did really enjoy that.

[00:34:47] And I can at least say that without nostalgia attached because I just played it for the first

[00:34:51] time three years ago.

[00:34:52] So I can, you still haven't played nine though.

[00:34:55] So I'm, I'm curious what your thoughts will be after you play nine.

[00:34:58] No, I, I haven't, I haven't played that one yet.

[00:35:01] It's, it's on my list.

[00:35:02] I will definitely get to, I mean, eventually I'm going to play all the Dragon Quest and

[00:35:05] Final Fantasy games.

[00:35:06] I, I actually just started Dragon Quest six recently, so working my way through them.

[00:35:11] The Final Fantasy is the most curious for you to experience are four, six, and nine.

[00:35:16] Those are, those are very good games.

[00:35:20] Hmm.

[00:35:21] Um, yeah, I guess I can add, I guess I can add a little, I mean, obviously Persona 4 Golden's

[00:35:25] favorite RPG of all time.

[00:35:26] Um, that, that just never favorite game of all time.

[00:35:29] It's just one of those things.

[00:35:30] Um, I guess so I'm going to get specific with types of RPGs and I was going to say an action

[00:35:35] RPG.

[00:35:36] It's a bit of a stretch, but Tales of the Abyss, uh, kind of action-y.

[00:35:41] It's like a weird hybrid of action and turn-based, but Tales of the Abyss definitely for action.

[00:35:46] Um, I was going to say tactical strategy, uh, Fire Emblem Three Houses by far.

[00:35:52] I love that game.

[00:35:55] Um.

[00:35:56] Oh, I didn't even consider tactical RPGs shit.

[00:36:00] Yeah.

[00:36:01] I mean, that's, they're like the only other major RPGs I really play a lot of.

[00:36:05] Um, and yeah, by far, Fire Emblem Three Houses is like one of the best games I think I've

[00:36:10] ever played.

[00:36:11] That's fair.

[00:36:12] I like Yu Yu Hakusho Turniput Tactics.

[00:36:14] I have messed around with a couple other tactics games, but that one is simple enough.

[00:36:20] Well, I guess not like overly complicated or overly bogged down with like tons of different

[00:36:24] mechanics.

[00:36:24] So that's part of the reason I like that one.

[00:36:29] Nice.

[00:36:30] Um, so I think before I get to Cindy's question, I'll finish the other ones in the GNC server.

[00:36:36] Um, yeah.

[00:36:38] So a friend of the show, Rick, he asks, what is one thing you've been dying to cover on

[00:36:44] the show, but haven't?

[00:36:48] I know, well, I know for you, it's, um, actually, what, what, do you want to answer?

[00:36:56] Yeah, I'll go first.

[00:36:57] Um, there's a, there's a few things, honestly.

[00:37:00] Um, and a, and a lot of the reasons why we haven't done them is because of, um, you know,

[00:37:05] time constraints for either you or me, depending on the subject.

[00:37:09] Um, one of them is I, I really want to kind of expand on covering adaptations of stuff.

[00:37:16] Like I know we've, we've kind of touched on live action anime stuff, but which I would

[00:37:20] like to do more of, uh, hopefully we'll be doing more of those in the, in the near future.

[00:37:25] Um, but I would like to expand that out to cover more things like video game adaptations,

[00:37:32] uh, novel adaptations, stuff like that.

[00:37:34] But I'd love to cover some Stephen King stuff.

[00:37:37] Um, a while ago, you and I had talked about doing an episode on the nineties adaptation

[00:37:42] of the stand.

[00:37:43] Um, and that's something I still really want to do.

[00:37:47] That I think we'll, we should save for next year when things clear up and I'll hopefully

[00:37:51] have time.

[00:37:52] I feel like we'll, we'll be able to get to that one.

[00:37:55] Um, I know you want to do Lord of the Rings.

[00:37:57] Unfortunately, I am like the worst person to have for a Lord of the Rings.

[00:38:01] That's probably going to have to be one where you're going to have to find somebody to

[00:38:03] like fill in.

[00:38:05] Yeah.

[00:38:06] Well, maybe, um, maybe once, uh, Chris gets his, his show back up and going, uh, maybe

[00:38:13] the next time middle earth March rolls around, I'll try to get on his show.

[00:38:18] Yeah.

[00:38:19] That's like, it's like the one fandom I've just never been able to, I've tried and I

[00:38:23] just, it just doesn't do it for me.

[00:38:25] It's one of those hard ones.

[00:38:27] Like everyone has those things.

[00:38:29] They like they're popular, but other, I think everyone has that one thing that's really

[00:38:33] popular, but you just can't get into it for whatever reason.

[00:38:36] That's fair.

[00:38:36] I mean, everybody has something like that.

[00:38:38] Like I, like when I was a kid, I could not for the life of me get into transformers

[00:38:43] or power rangers.

[00:38:43] And I knew so many kids who were super obsessed with them.

[00:38:46] I just, I could never do it.

[00:38:48] I, for some reason it just never clicked with me.

[00:38:50] I don't know why.

[00:38:52] Yeah.

[00:38:52] You know, that actually would be a fun topic, but if you're not into it, then I'm not

[00:38:57] going to force that, but, um, well, I mean, I, I'm not that worried about it.

[00:39:03] Yeah.

[00:39:03] No, it's like, it's a, it's not like, what were you going to say?

[00:39:06] Like the Michael Bay movies or no, I meant more power rangers.

[00:39:10] Oh, power rangers.

[00:39:11] Oh, well, I mean, I, I wouldn't be opposed to it.

[00:39:14] To be fair.

[00:39:15] That's a lot to watch and it hasn't aged.

[00:39:19] Well, um, I say this as a fan who still finds it entertaining, like in the, in that kind

[00:39:25] of hilarious way, I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe I would like it more now.

[00:39:29] It's just, as a kid, it just didn't hold my attention.

[00:39:33] Maybe like now, like understanding, like the story, like, like how power rangers came

[00:39:39] to be, especially over here and like understanding like, uh, like cultural differences with shows

[00:39:45] and stuff in a way that I didn't as a kid.

[00:39:47] Like, cause I, I feel like one of the reasons why power rangers like seemed so weird and

[00:39:52] jarring to me is because like subconsciously I was catching on to the fact that the people

[00:39:58] behind the masks were different than the people without masks.

[00:40:02] Well, how like the, the yellow rangers, a dude most of the time when it, when it's in

[00:40:06] the costumes.

[00:40:07] Yeah.

[00:40:08] Well, that's the thing is like, um, you know, to anyone who doesn't know, I'm sure anyone

[00:40:12] listening to this probably already does, but, um, power rangers was originally a Japanese

[00:40:18] series called super sentai and they left all of the stuff while, while they were in costume

[00:40:24] pretty much as is and just reshot everything with, with them not in costume.

[00:40:30] It's, it's actually kind of more interesting than that.

[00:40:32] Like the, it's, it's not really the same show, like super sentai and like a power rangers are

[00:40:38] very different plot wise.

[00:40:40] Um, basically the way it is, essentially they took the, the Japanese, like the monster and

[00:40:47] actual like costume scenes, like, like you said, and they left that mostly the same,

[00:40:51] but then they created entirely original plots around everything else with like the non like

[00:40:56] suited sections.

[00:40:58] Um, which is why it's such a weird, interesting cut.

[00:41:02] It's a very interesting way to localize something.

[00:41:05] Um, it actually really fascinatingly there, one of the seasons, um, in the nineties turbo

[00:41:12] power, just turbo, um, that season is infamously not liked by the fandom because it's kind of

[00:41:18] bizarre.

[00:41:19] The reality of the reason why it's so weird is because they actually, they, they didn't

[00:41:23] have the, the, the, the sentai season that they chose was actually a parody season called

[00:41:30] like a, like, like car ranger, which was essentially, it was deliberately designed to be stupid because

[00:41:36] it was supposed to be a parody of super sentai.

[00:41:38] But then power rangers adapted it seriously.

[00:41:45] Like that actually, that happened quite a bit where the, uh, the U S adaption was a significantly

[00:41:50] different from the Japanese because power rangers in space, which is considered one of

[00:41:53] the best seasons of power rangers.

[00:41:56] It was essentially, they made it in America.

[00:41:58] They made it like a space opera, kind of like star Trek, but, but in Japan, it was like

[00:42:03] more based on like cyberspace and going into computers and shit.

[00:42:05] Like the space aspect wasn't really that big.

[00:42:08] Yeah.

[00:42:09] So it was just a weird, like, Hey, it's funny how they just change things on the fly like

[00:42:13] that.

[00:42:14] Yeah.

[00:42:16] Well, I mean, I, I'd be willing to, to give it a, to give it a shot nowadays.

[00:42:20] If we were going to do an episode on it or something like maybe like not like an entire

[00:42:24] series, maybe like a story arc or something.

[00:42:27] I wouldn't start out at least, but I wouldn't subject you to that because it, it, it's entertaining

[00:42:33] if you have nostalgia for it, but my God, the acting is so fucking bad.

[00:42:37] It's not even funny.

[00:42:39] Um, the other thing, another thing that I would like to do, which might end up happening to

[00:42:44] be a separate podcast on its own, but I'd love to do like more like, um, like chapter

[00:42:49] by chapter book reviews, like that kind of thing.

[00:42:53] Um, cause I've been wanting to do one for the Witcher book series for a long time because

[00:42:57] it's one that I feel like doesn't get a whole lot of attention.

[00:43:01] Like most people focus on the, the video games and the series, but there's like so much in

[00:43:07] the books that I don't know.

[00:43:08] I feel like it's worth talking about.

[00:43:10] So at some point I'd like to do that.

[00:43:12] Uh, I know that you, you have limited time as it is for what you're already doing and,

[00:43:16] uh, and, uh, so I'm not going to ask you to try and do like novel stuff, but yeah.

[00:43:23] That's something I'd have to try and find somebody else for.

[00:43:26] Yeah.

[00:43:26] No offense to you.

[00:43:28] No worries.

[00:43:28] I just have no time to read.

[00:43:30] I don't have enough time to read manga.

[00:43:33] And that's a much easier read.

[00:43:35] Yeah.

[00:43:37] Um, so, and then, uh, he had a second part of the question for me specifically, how in

[00:43:44] the world do you balance doing so many podcasts, working, exercising, et cetera?

[00:43:49] Um, to answer it simply, I, I barely do.

[00:43:54] It is a struggle, but it's worth it in the end.

[00:43:58] Like, so I guess to like, to preface, like work and exercise that as a set routine.

[00:44:05] I just have that dialed in at this point, the podcasts it's, it's a little harder.

[00:44:12] Um, in the case of say GNC and this show, our format is so loose.

[00:44:19] Like the shows are essentially like hit play and go not a ton of editing.

[00:44:25] If any at all, um, it's not super hard to do the actual recordings.

[00:44:29] Like there's not a whole ton that goes into the pre, uh, like a pre recording.

[00:44:36] Like for this show, like the most we'll have either.

[00:44:38] I have to watch a movie or read a book or something, a manga.

[00:44:42] Like it's nothing too crazy.

[00:44:45] GNC.

[00:44:45] It's about the same.

[00:44:46] Like a lot of the times it's off to watch a show or play a game briefly or something.

[00:44:51] Nothing too major.

[00:44:53] 3DO is a bit more challenging just cause like that is a much more centralized, like topic driven

[00:45:01] show.

[00:45:02] So I actually have to play the games that we're talking about and I have to do a bit more

[00:45:07] research into.

[00:45:08] And that is honestly the one show a week that I think I put the most time behind the

[00:45:15] scenes on just cause I, it, just cause of the nature of what it is.

[00:45:20] That being said though, I use podcasting as my form of kind of like the reason I do 3DO

[00:45:28] shows is cause I enjoy doing it.

[00:45:31] And it's kind of one of the few like fun interactions I get to have.

[00:45:35] Like it's how I keep up, keep in touch with Matt.

[00:45:37] It's how I keep in touch with Alex.

[00:45:39] I'm on like the weekly and then 3, 3DO is my weird passion project in the background that

[00:45:44] has honestly become its own standalone thing at this point.

[00:45:49] Cause now Thrac is just as much a part of that show as I am, which is why I, I, I, I don't

[00:45:57] want to pick a favorite podcast out of the three I do because I like all three of them.

[00:46:01] And it's not fair to signal one over the other, but, um, I wouldn't, I wouldn't hold it against

[00:46:10] you if you said that you were the most proud of 3DO because you've, you've taken that, especially

[00:46:15] with the beginnings that you had with it, where you kind of started out just doing it on your

[00:46:19] own.

[00:46:19] And then when Thrac joined up, you, you guys kind of just took it and, and, and put your

[00:46:24] own kind of flavor into it.

[00:46:26] So I, I could definitely understand you being specifically proud of that one.

[00:46:30] I mean, I'm, I'm proud of it.

[00:46:32] Like, I'm not saying I'm not proud of it.

[00:46:33] I just don't want to signal it as like, I, I hold it higher than the other shows I do.

[00:46:39] Cause I mean, the success of 3DO that 3DO is getting right now is a little overwhelming

[00:46:45] at times.

[00:46:46] And I'm, I'm surprised it's taken off the way it has, but at the same time, like GNC, me

[00:46:52] and Alex have been doing that for four, almost five years now.

[00:46:57] Um, which is insane in its own right.

[00:47:00] I mean, hell, we're going to be 200 episodes by the end of the year, but I mean, even this

[00:47:05] show, like this show, I mean, we're at a year now doing this one over 50 episodes.

[00:47:10] Like, it's crazy just how fast we've built these three shows up.

[00:47:14] Like I'm, I'm getting close to, it's going to be like, I've done over 300 episodes, like

[00:47:20] with all three shows combined pretty soon.

[00:47:22] And that's just for your shows.

[00:47:24] That's not counting all the guests that you've, all the guest appearances you've made in other

[00:47:27] shows.

[00:47:28] Oh yeah.

[00:47:28] And I mean, like, hell, like even now, like it's, it's even crazier than just the three

[00:47:33] shows because like, I'm doing the stuff on the, the, the super pod network now, which

[00:47:38] I love doing is like, I love the group that we've like accumulated over there.

[00:47:42] Like, I love the, like the whole, like, it's really a family at this point now, like how

[00:47:47] in touch everyone is with each other and how like we do like these group projects.

[00:47:51] Like, like I imagine like if the network didn't exist, like say, and I had like, say the last

[00:47:59] 3DO episode we recorded, like it was really nice to have like this, these group of other

[00:48:04] podcasters on hand that were perfectly willing to jump in and do me a solid there when I needed

[00:48:09] to get an episode out.

[00:48:11] Like, so I guess to answer, answer your question, Rick, it's, it's a struggle, but it's worth

[00:48:19] the struggle in the end.

[00:48:20] And I think, um, the big concern with doing this much is burnout, but to me, like I use

[00:48:30] the podcast as a way to unwind.

[00:48:32] And I think that's kind of how I avoid getting burnt out because I mean, with all the stress

[00:48:39] I have to deal with on a daily from work and just life in general, I do enjoy the social

[00:48:45] interaction and conversation.

[00:48:47] So it's a bit of a long winded way of saying it, but I hope that answers your question.

[00:48:51] I, cause even now I'm, I'm still not really sure how to do it.

[00:48:55] I just, I kind of, I get by.

[00:48:57] And I'm sure a part of it too, is because like, um, like after you moved out of state

[00:49:03] out of your original home state, um, you, uh, I'm sure a lot of, you know, your, your

[00:49:10] old friends from, you know, your old stomping grounds, you, it's hard to keep in touch with

[00:49:15] them and stuff.

[00:49:16] So, and then, you know, moving to another state and trying to make new friends and everything

[00:49:20] is difficult, you know?

[00:49:21] So it is, I can imagine it being nice to have a core group of people where it doesn't

[00:49:26] matter how far you are.

[00:49:27] You guys have that, that connection through podcasting and blogging and stuff.

[00:49:32] So I imagine that that aspect of it, that social interaction is also a big help as well, you

[00:49:37] know, equal to or greater than the amount of, um, work that goes into it.

[00:49:44] Oh yeah.

[00:49:45] Like when I started the, when I started GNC, like in, uh, early 2021, I had no idea that

[00:49:53] like three years later I'd actually be meeting like other podcasters in real life.

[00:49:59] Like never in years did I think I would meet like a Josh from still loading podcast.

[00:50:04] Like that is still like, like the fact I always considered him a friend, but now he's like,

[00:50:10] now we've met in person.

[00:50:11] Like I consider him like one of like, like a true friend that I know, like just in life,

[00:50:15] like if I ever need to like reach out to someone, I can reach out to Josh.

[00:50:18] Cause like, I feel like we know each other well enough that like he'd give me a good answer

[00:50:23] on something that's like, I needed like, like advice or something.

[00:50:27] And I mean, I'm not saying the people I haven't met in real life aren't on the same thing.

[00:50:31] It's just, it's, it's an interesting way.

[00:50:33] Like you form these connections that just like kind of live on forever.

[00:50:37] Like even a Schnickerman I've met Schnickerman in real life and now I've known him since

[00:50:43] we first started talking in 2019 on Instagram.

[00:50:46] And it's, it's like, it's just crazy.

[00:50:48] Like I, I, I find it really funny back in the day we were raised with that whole, like,

[00:50:53] you never trust any, like don't befriend anyone on the internet.

[00:50:57] Like don't ever meet people that you meet on the internet in real life, like stuff like

[00:51:00] that.

[00:51:01] And now it's just how crazy the world has flipped since then.

[00:51:05] Yeah.

[00:51:05] Right.

[00:51:07] But, uh, yeah, that's, that's kind of the best way I can answer it.

[00:51:11] It's a little long winded, but yeah.

[00:51:16] I mean, it's not necessarily an easy question to answer.

[00:51:18] So no, it's, it's a question that I don't really have an answer for because it's kind of

[00:51:22] like, I'm not really sure how I do it.

[00:51:24] I just kind of do.

[00:51:26] And I'm going to be doing a fourth podcast pretty soon.

[00:51:28] Although I don't have to edit or I just have to show up for that one.

[00:51:31] So that'll be a little bit easier, but, uh, TBD on that one for the time being.

[00:51:37] Um, Alex posted a laughing gif of plankton.

[00:51:42] We'll get to her.

[00:51:43] We'll get to her, um, later.

[00:51:46] And the final question on the GNC server is from, uh, another bill, uh, from the podcast,

[00:51:53] a gamer looks at 40.

[00:51:54] He asked, how do you feel you've grown as a show in the past year?

[00:52:02] Um, you want to go first or?

[00:52:07] Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll hit it first.

[00:52:09] Um, I, I definitely feel like, uh, when we started out, we were, I mean, at this point,

[00:52:16] when we started out, you, you had already had a pretty good handle on how podcasting goes.

[00:52:20] Like, uh, you, you, you've already pretty much found your voice as a podcaster.

[00:52:24] I'm, I still consider myself a newbie.

[00:52:27] I still have trouble.

[00:52:30] Like thinking about the term content creator and attaching my name to that.

[00:52:34] Cause it just doesn't feel right.

[00:52:35] You know, I, I, I don't know, never really thought of myself that way.

[00:52:38] And it's, it's weird that you could see me in that way.

[00:52:43] Um, I will say it's, it, it, I've never exactly been very good at public speaking.

[00:52:53] Um, and this is kind of like a, this is kind of like a, a little bit of like a 50, 50 of

[00:53:00] public speaking.

[00:53:01] Like it is, but it also isn't because it's, it's more like I'm talking directly to you

[00:53:04] and just everybody else kind of has an ear in on it.

[00:53:07] Um, I feel like when we started out, I tried really hard to maybe try to make myself seem

[00:53:18] smarter than I am, if that makes sense.

[00:53:20] Um, and just the more we've gone along, I've just kind of gotten used to more being myself

[00:53:27] and just kind of letting myself go on my tangents and, and, you know, just kind of be

[00:53:33] more natural.

[00:53:33] And I think that's kind of the main thing with it is to just kind of be natural.

[00:53:40] Yeah.

[00:53:40] Like it's interesting.

[00:53:42] Cause like, I mean, I had a different experience going into this one cause I had already by

[00:53:47] this point done GNC for I think three years by that point.

[00:53:51] And then 3DO was starting to get off the ground.

[00:53:54] We started this show during the second 3DO hiatus that we had to do, um, for, uh, personal

[00:54:01] reasons.

[00:54:02] But, um, I had been kind of used to the whole podcast and thing.

[00:54:07] Like I'd been interacting with all these people and I'm not the biggest fan.

[00:54:11] Outside of podcasting, I'm not the biggest talker there is.

[00:54:14] I'm a very quiet person generally.

[00:54:17] Um, like me and Matt, that's why it took me and Matt forever to actually interact back

[00:54:22] at our old job because we just didn't talk ever.

[00:54:25] Like we started talking at a Christmas party where we both wasted, but that's besides the

[00:54:30] point.

[00:54:31] If we hadn't gotten wasted, we probably wouldn't have.

[00:54:33] Yeah.

[00:54:34] Honestly, it's kind of funny how that works out.

[00:54:37] But, um, yeah, I think as, as we've grown though, it's interesting cause I think we started

[00:54:42] our first episode was like the perfect place to start.

[00:54:45] Cause that was just such a natural thing, like topic for us.

[00:54:49] Um, but I mean, even this kind of goes back, like you can tell even from, uh, the, the pilot

[00:54:54] episodes we've been posting recently, like the, the scrapped, uh, first attempt at this

[00:54:58] show.

[00:54:59] If you want, if you listen to those compared to say the first couple episodes of geek addicts

[00:55:04] proper, you can, you can see there was definitely a growth.

[00:55:08] Like we had really kind of figured things out a bit more and we've only gotten a bit better.

[00:55:17] I like, I like the fact that we've, um, it's gotten us to really try a lot of things that

[00:55:22] I don't think either of us would, uh, have tried normally.

[00:55:25] Like say we recommend a, like a live action film I've never seen before or something like

[00:55:32] that.

[00:55:32] Or I recommend like a game or an anime or something that you've never seen before.

[00:55:37] It's like, it's getting us to like kind of branch out a bit.

[00:55:39] Like some, some of my favorite episodes we've done are like the, uh, your first time with

[00:55:44] Chrono Trigger, like your first time with a Persona four, just like going over kind of

[00:55:50] that experience and me, someone who has vivid memories with one of those games in particular,

[00:55:54] it was fun getting a different perspective.

[00:55:57] Um, or like say the Pokemon adventures series where we went through the, uh, the first, uh,

[00:56:04] the quote unquote first, uh, era of the Pokemon manga.

[00:56:09] Me being a first time reader and Matt having already read it in the past, that was to me

[00:56:13] a very fun experience, even though we, we had the worst luck with the internet during that

[00:56:17] era.

[00:56:18] But yeah.

[00:56:19] Yeah.

[00:56:20] Also the crazy, uh, the crazy disjointed episode we did on Bacchanow a couple of weeks ago.

[00:56:25] Yeah.

[00:56:25] I mean, that was an interesting, that was an interesting one just in the sense that it

[00:56:29] was something that it's a disjointed product to begin with.

[00:56:32] And it was something that I'd never seen before.

[00:56:34] So it was kind of an interesting way of handling that one.

[00:56:39] But yeah, I think we've grown a good amount.

[00:56:42] We've definitely found our footing.

[00:56:44] We're still growing as a show.

[00:56:45] Um, I know starting out on the, uh, in the GNC feed and then switching to this dedicated

[00:56:51] feed hurt our numbers a little bit, but I think over time we'll start getting more.

[00:56:58] It's just going to take some time.

[00:56:59] I think next year, I definitely want to have, try to get more guests on over time for certain

[00:57:04] episodes.

[00:57:06] At this point we've had my wife on and that's been about it.

[00:57:09] Um, yeah.

[00:57:10] I mean, we'll get the episodes we had her on for though.

[00:57:13] I, I did really enjoy like the Star Trek one.

[00:57:16] I would definitely like to do more of those, uh, in the future and we get Thrak on for

[00:57:21] those.

[00:57:22] Yeah, no, we'll definitely have Thrak on.

[00:57:23] I know we'll have Aaron on for like when, when you eventually play Final Fantasy nine,

[00:57:28] we're going to definitely have Aaron on for that.

[00:57:29] Cause Aaron loves nine.

[00:57:31] We could probably have both of them on for Dragon Quest whenever we get around to doing

[00:57:35] one of those.

[00:57:36] Maybe.

[00:57:36] Um, I'd love to talk four.

[00:57:38] I'm sure Aaron would love to talk five.

[00:57:40] Cause I know Aaron loves five, but yeah, I'm old.

[00:57:44] We'll try to get more network guys on in the future.

[00:57:47] Um, I'm sure we'll get Alex.

[00:57:48] We'll get Alex on if I ever cover, if I ever watched the one piece live action, live action

[00:57:52] at some point.

[00:57:54] I highly recommend it.

[00:57:55] It's very good.

[00:57:55] I I've heard it's just one of those things I have to just sit down and force myself to

[00:57:59] watch it.

[00:58:00] Yeah.

[00:58:01] Well, I did recently discovered that there are, um, a lot more live action anime adaptations

[00:58:07] at Netflix than I thought.

[00:58:08] So we'll have to try and revive that series a little bit.

[00:58:11] Cause it's been about, been a while.

[00:58:14] Uh, and then he asked a second question.

[00:58:17] What's been the most gratifying aspect of doing the podcast for a year?

[00:58:23] Um, I think you should answer this one first.

[00:58:28] Cause it's probably more, I think your answer will be probably better than mine just cause

[00:58:33] I've technically been doing podcasts now for like almost five years, but yeah.

[00:58:41] Um, I actually getting it done is the easy answer.

[00:58:46] Um, I, as I've mentioned, even going all the way back to, uh, the pilot episodes or, um,

[00:58:53] the, the soup, the Dragon Ball superhero episode we did on GNC a while back.

[00:58:57] Um, even going all the way back to the fight club, like I've, I've wanted to, to start my

[00:59:04] own for a long time and just getting it going was the hardest part of it.

[00:59:09] Um, because, you know, I, at first I wanted to, to, to do a show with my wife, uh, and

[00:59:16] then just life gets in the way, you know, it's, I ironically, it's a lot easier to do

[00:59:22] it with you a state away than it is to do with my wife who I live with.

[00:59:26] Yeah.

[00:59:27] Um, at least on a weekly basis.

[00:59:29] Um, so actually like I, I found that actually getting started is the hardest part.

[00:59:35] Once you actually get it going, it's, it's a lot easier to keep up with.

[00:59:40] Um, and I'm sure having some of the built-in listeners from, from GNC helped with that.

[00:59:46] Um, cause knowing that at least somebody is listening, you know, kind of makes me feel

[00:59:51] a little bit more motivated to keep up.

[00:59:53] Um, yeah, but I mean, it's, yeah, just basically actually getting it started.

[01:00:00] Um, I, I love being able to talk about the things that I enjoy.

[01:00:03] Uh, in a, a more long, long form.

[01:00:08] Um, but like kind of doing it in the casual way we do, like, you know, in the way that

[01:00:14] we would just kind of have a conversation sitting at a, at a bar stool, you know?

[01:00:18] Yeah.

[01:00:19] I, I definitely enjoy that a lot.

[01:00:22] Honestly, like for me, I think the most gratifying thing is the fact that we've made it a year

[01:00:28] completely seamlessly.

[01:00:29] Like I think because we were very, we were proactive and very diligent with how we started

[01:00:37] it.

[01:00:37] We made sure we had enough episodes recorded before we officially started releasing them.

[01:00:43] Um, and we've been very good about keeping episodes in the queue that we've never missed

[01:00:49] a week.

[01:00:50] Um, I can't say that about either of my other shows.

[01:00:53] Technically GNC, I've never, we've never missed a week either, but we didn't miss a Saturday

[01:00:57] because of a computer issue.

[01:00:58] Um, and we were late.

[01:00:59] One episode was released on a Wednesday, uh, which was, that was way back in like season

[01:01:04] one, but yeah.

[01:01:08] Geek Addicts, we've never missed a week.

[01:01:09] Uh, I mean, 3DO's missed weeks before.

[01:01:12] Um, it's missed months.

[01:01:14] Yeah.

[01:01:15] It missed a year.

[01:01:17] Um, yeah, definitely, uh, keeping it on a consistent schedule is that makes me, I'm not

[01:01:24] somebody who likes to be late.

[01:01:25] So keep keeping it going consistently week to week.

[01:01:30] Um, especially since when we started this, we didn't even know if we were going to be

[01:01:33] weekly.

[01:01:33] We were originally going to be bi-weekly.

[01:01:36] Yeah.

[01:01:36] And then we, uh, just, we just said one day, fuck it weekly.

[01:01:40] See what happens.

[01:01:41] Hmm.

[01:01:42] I think the first episode went so well, um, especially because the pilots as fun as they

[01:01:47] were, were a little disjointed.

[01:01:49] Like we weren't really sure where we wanted to go with those.

[01:01:53] I mean, there's, we still haven't, there's still two of them that have to be released.

[01:01:56] So you'll see those in the future.

[01:01:58] But, um, the first episode we did the Dragon Ball retrospective.

[01:02:03] But I mean, that just, we, we almost, we went almost four hours with that one.

[01:02:09] And it's, it kind of, it gave me, once we did that, I was kind of like, yeah, this

[01:02:13] will work.

[01:02:14] I think we'll be, and I'm pretty sure we shot the shit for like an hour, hour and a half

[01:02:18] after that too.

[01:02:19] So I think a couple hours after that, honestly.

[01:02:22] Yeah.

[01:02:24] Um, God, it's honestly at a point now.

[01:02:28] Yeah, I know.

[01:02:29] And it's honestly at a point now where we've, we've done so many Dragon Ball episodes and there's

[01:02:33] many more to come.

[01:02:34] I can promise you that.

[01:02:36] Yeah.

[01:02:36] Honestly, the, it's funny because like for a podcast that doesn't really have, for a pop

[01:02:44] culture podcast that doesn't have a central theme, we've really been good about really

[01:02:49] kind of jumping all over the place, the spectrum of nerd culture, which I, that's honestly

[01:02:52] been the most gratifying thing is the fact that I've, we haven't really fallen into a

[01:02:56] specific niche.

[01:02:58] Hmm.

[01:03:00] Um, cause.

[01:03:00] I would like to cover some more like nerd stuff, so to speak, like, um, like American comic

[01:03:07] book stuff at some point, you know, like some movies or something.

[01:03:12] Yeah.

[01:03:13] Like I'd like to cover some of like the DC animated films, uh, some of the Marvel, we'll

[01:03:18] have to do it, a Marvel cinematic universe, like talk at some point.

[01:03:22] Yeah.

[01:03:23] Um, yeah, but it, I guess that's the best way to answer.

[01:03:28] Like, um, yeah.

[01:03:33] Cause I really got nothing else to add there.

[01:03:34] It's been the fact that we've made it a year consistently and we've stuck to what we

[01:03:39] planned.

[01:03:40] That to me is probably the most gratifying overall.

[01:03:43] Yeah, for sure.

[01:03:46] All right.

[01:03:46] And that ends the, uh, the geek attic.

[01:03:50] I don't know.

[01:03:51] The GNC server, uh, portion of the questions.

[01:03:54] A big thank you to Stickerman, Rick and, uh, Bill from a game that looks at 40.

[01:03:58] Uh, Alex, we'll get to you.

[01:03:59] Don't worry.

[01:04:00] Um, so now before we jump over to the super pod network, I wanted to, uh, Cindy gave,

[01:04:08] gave me quite the question.

[01:04:10] No, geez.

[01:04:13] So, um,

[01:04:14] Um, I haven't read this yet.

[01:04:18] So this is going to be interesting.

[01:04:23] Oh my, it's a wall of text.

[01:04:26] Oh, Jesus.

[01:04:28] A million.

[01:04:28] Okay.

[01:04:29] So she asked a million dollars, but everything you masturbate, you sing very loudly.

[01:04:35] I've been working on the railroad, by the way, the truth version story version noon got money.

[01:04:42] It was for free.

[01:04:45] Wait, what?

[01:04:48] I bet that's what she asked.

[01:04:51] Uh, well, I, I think she was doing, I, I don't know if you ever watched the million dollars, but series that, um, Rushi Chief was doing for a while.

[01:04:59] Um, where they, they, they create a scenario where.

[01:05:01] I haven't.

[01:05:02] So that might be why I'm a little confused.

[01:05:04] They create a scenario where, um, you know, you say you get a million dollars, but there's some sort of stipulation attached.

[01:05:12] Okay.

[01:05:13] And it could be like anything, like even something that like is a uncontrollable, like reflex kind of thing.

[01:05:23] Um, so every time you masturbate, you, you sing, I've been working on the railroad.

[01:05:30] That was essentially it.

[01:05:32] Yeah.

[01:05:33] I mean, I do it.

[01:05:35] A hundred percent.

[01:05:36] I live alone.

[01:05:37] Who am I going to boss there?

[01:05:39] Um, yeah, but isn't it, is it a little bit of condo?

[01:05:42] How thin are the walls?

[01:05:44] My neighbors never complained about anything.

[01:05:46] So, I mean, my, my neighbor's house.

[01:05:49] Do you loudly masturbate often?

[01:05:53] No.

[01:05:54] Um, my, my neighbor's house is behind this wall and I mean, I'm pretty loud when I podcast.

[01:06:00] So, and she's never complained.

[01:06:01] So I think, I think I'll be all right.

[01:06:05] Um, that's fair.

[01:06:08] So she told, she's apparently said this is based on a true story and.

[01:06:14] Um, she, she'll tell the full story when she's on next time as a guest.

[01:06:19] All right.

[01:06:20] So we're going to have to tab that for later.

[01:06:22] Cause that's, I don't think I know this story.

[01:06:26] I, I'm a little confused, but I'm looking forward to figuring this out.

[01:06:31] Um, she, she ended it by saying, I think smut is breaking my brain.

[01:06:35] Um.

[01:06:36] Oh yeah.

[01:06:37] Cause our, our, our mutual friend has gotten her into reading smut.

[01:06:42] Oh.

[01:06:46] So that's kind of been like a running joke.

[01:06:48] I make fun of her for it.

[01:06:50] You know, as, as a good husband will.

[01:06:54] I'll let her know it's in the show.

[01:06:58] I feel like.

[01:06:59] Like the last episode, she kind of broke you with the Osama loves war comment.

[01:07:04] Yeah.

[01:07:05] You're just like, I feel like every time she's involved in a podcast, she's just going to

[01:07:09] break you in some way, shape or form.

[01:07:12] I just, I'm so, I'm like at the point where I'm just like, huh, I've never thought of this.

[01:07:20] Um, yeah, I, I, I, I, for a million, I'd do that.

[01:07:25] I don't care.

[01:07:26] Yeah.

[01:07:26] I, I, I'd do that for fucking 10,000.

[01:07:29] Maybe you could.

[01:07:29] Like, let's fucking face it.

[01:07:31] Everyone, everyone fucking does it no matter what they say.

[01:07:34] So let's, it's not, it's not a secret.

[01:07:37] Um, no shit.

[01:07:39] Thank you, Cindy.

[01:07:40] We'll get the full story on the next episode you guessed on.

[01:07:45] Yeah.

[01:07:45] Hopefully it'll be a Star Trek episode that Thrak is also there for us.

[01:07:48] He could just be confused as fuck.

[01:07:51] I'm actually curious what, how that meeting will go, but we'll see in the future.

[01:07:56] God.

[01:07:57] Um, that being.

[01:07:59] Said, let's move on to the super pod network where we got a good amount of questions.

[01:08:04] Um, so to start, Tommy said, I'm in, I love asking cues and then never left a question.

[01:08:16] Thank you, Tommy.

[01:08:19] I'll remember your show next time.

[01:08:20] I'm sorry.

[01:08:21] Um, so, uh, Matt, AKA storm again from, uh, the fun and games podcast.

[01:08:29] Uh, they asked, um, what is the strangest topic idea you've ever had that you have yet to cover because you couldn't make it work or just want to cover in the future?

[01:08:46] So that's an interesting one.

[01:08:48] Cause I honestly, uh, GNC, I have this problem more cause most things were pretty game for on this show.

[01:08:55] I'd say so.

[01:08:56] I'd have to think about it.

[01:08:57] Do you have one off the top of your head?

[01:09:01] Well, as far as not being able to make things work.

[01:09:06] Um, I, I mean, a lot of it is like video game based because a lot of the video games that I'd like to.

[01:09:13] That I think both of us would like to cover on the show.

[01:09:16] Either I haven't played them or you haven't played them.

[01:09:19] And because both of our time constraints are so limited when it comes to, you know, doing anything for fun, really.

[01:09:27] Um, it's hard to make that kind of stuff work, which is why our video game content has been lower than I would have liked.

[01:09:34] Um, especially considering we're part of a network of podcasters that generally revolves around video games.

[01:09:41] True.

[01:09:41] Although we, we've branched out quite a bit.

[01:09:43] Like we're trying to, it's nice to not be exclusively gaming.

[01:09:47] Yeah, for sure.

[01:09:49] Um, we've kind of already covered stuff we would like to, to do, uh, for episodes in the future on a previous question, I believe.

[01:09:59] Right.

[01:10:00] Yeah.

[01:10:01] Um, so what Matt was asking was he was kind of asking like, is there any like kind of strange topics or like stuff that, um,

[01:10:08] I guess like stuff that we just haven't been able to figure out a way to do yet?

[01:10:12] Like I know the Stephen King stuff.

[01:10:15] That's the stand movie in particular has been strictly a timing constraint.

[01:10:19] It's just, I have not been able to make that one work.

[01:10:22] It'll happen at some point, but that's kind of been held back.

[01:10:27] I know one thing I kind of was, I've been tempted to do, but it's been just kind of something where it's like the timing also has not been great as I've been wanting to find like, say like the worst, like anime we could find on the country roll and watch it and do a review at some point.

[01:10:43] I'd be up for that.

[01:10:44] That sounds like fun.

[01:10:45] It would.

[01:10:46] But it's just one of those things where it's like, I'm trying to like, I'm it out and I just haven't had the time or like, honestly, I haven't been able to really find something that I would consider super bad that I wouldn't want to cover.

[01:10:59] Um, yeah.

[01:11:01] I'm trying to avoid like something overtly fan servicey or smutty because there is a few things I've seen that I'm like, oh, this could be fun, but yeah.

[01:11:08] I'm not sure.

[01:11:10] I know you, it's hard to, it would be hard to watch with like the kiddos running around.

[01:11:14] Or work.

[01:11:15] Or work.

[01:11:18] Because there's a few animes that I think would be really funny, but I'm like, yeah, this is going to be hard to watch.

[01:11:23] You'd have to watch this in private.

[01:11:25] Yeah.

[01:11:27] Other than that, though, like maybe like the biggest constraint with like games is just like a lot of games.

[01:11:34] Because unfortunately, we're two big RPG fans and RPGs take time.

[01:11:41] For sure.

[01:11:42] Fortunately.

[01:11:44] And that's like kind of like the upside downside with RPGs is, yeah, they take time, but they're also ones that you can generally you can kind of like play, put down, play, put down because of the style of combat.

[01:11:55] Whereas the shorter games require much more consistent, like I'm right there.

[01:12:00] My, you know, my thumb is always moving on the controller.

[01:12:03] Like I'm always doing something there.

[01:12:05] You know, like for instance, like, like Fable.

[01:12:09] You know, you kind of always, you know, you can't like just put the controller down and walk away.

[01:12:13] Like, or where it's with something with like Persona, like you can do that because it's not like, you know, if you're too slow, you're going to die.

[01:12:21] You know, you could just put it down and everything will just stay still until you press a button.

[01:12:27] Yeah, it's, it's one of those things.

[01:12:30] Like I know, like, we haven't really had a ton of topics that we just like, we haven't been game for.

[01:12:37] Like, I know the only thing that I, I just never, I know, I just, I couldn't do is Lord of the Rings.

[01:12:44] It's just one.

[01:12:45] Everyone has that one thing that they just, they just can't get into.

[01:12:49] Like I said earlier, that's the one for me.

[01:12:51] Mm-hmm.

[01:12:54] But yeah, I guess that's it.

[01:12:58] I'm trying to think is like, we generally will try to make everything work.

[01:13:03] There's just a few things that like logistically we can't do at the moment.

[01:13:06] And I feel like for the most part, we're pretty much on the same wavelength when it comes to interests.

[01:13:11] Yeah.

[01:13:11] You know, there are some things that, that either of us are kind of like meh on, like for you as Lord of the Rings and, you know.

[01:13:18] So I'm not blanking right now for something on my end, but.

[01:13:24] But for the most part, I feel like we're pretty much aligned with, with what we are down for.

[01:13:29] So as far as like weird things that we haven't been able to make work.

[01:13:33] I mean, working out guests and stuff is another thing.

[01:13:40] Like, um.

[01:13:41] Unfortunately, guests, um.

[01:13:45] The thing with guests that's been tough is we record Friday nights and Friday night is like the, uh.

[01:13:52] The one time that's just tough on a lot of people.

[01:13:56] Like, obviously we can make, we'd probably make exceptions and probably change our date if, if necessary.

[01:14:02] Yeah.

[01:14:03] It's just, uh, right.

[01:14:04] We haven't really crossed that bridge yet.

[01:14:10] That being said, other than that, like, I think we're, we're, we're in full intention of trying to make everything work.

[01:14:16] It's just kind of one of those things where we'll really have to, um, we'll really have to think about.

[01:14:22] But it's weird because like when, when he says, uh, when they say a strangest, uh, topic, um.

[01:14:31] I'm trying to think because like, we really haven't, there's nothing that we really haven't been game for.

[01:14:36] That's really bizarre.

[01:14:39] Um.

[01:14:40] I mean, I mean, I guess it depends on your definition of strange.

[01:14:44] I mean, um, the girl from the other side episode we did.

[01:14:48] Um, I don't know if I would call that strange necessarily, but that one, I think we had a different expectation on.

[01:14:54] Um, and we went to go do it.

[01:14:55] And then once we were there, we were like, I don't really know what to say about this.

[01:14:58] You know?

[01:14:58] I mean, at some point I'd like to branch out into like different things, like maybe like cover some like sitcoms or something.

[01:15:04] Or like, or some other like non, like go even farther into the broad pop culture spectrum.

[01:15:12] Yeah.

[01:15:13] I'd be up for that.

[01:15:15] I had an idea a while back, but I don't know if I ever ran it by you, but I had a thought to do something like, um,

[01:15:22] um, with how, like how many, um, like reboots and sequels and stuff we've gotten to a bunch of, uh, classic, um, sitcoms and stuff like that.

[01:15:35] I was thinking it might be fun to like watch the pilot for the original, then watch the pilot for the, the reboot and kind of compare.

[01:15:44] But that was just a thought I had a while back.

[01:15:46] I don't know if I ever brought it up to you or not.

[01:15:48] I don't think so, but that actually could be an interesting topic.

[01:15:51] We'll have to save that for the, uh, for the, for the books and, uh, come to it later.

[01:15:57] Hmm.

[01:15:59] Um, I mean, I'd love to cover some like just downright trash TV at some point, like just some stuff that's just bad, but it'd be funny to cover.

[01:16:08] Yeah.

[01:16:09] That'd be cool.

[01:16:11] Um, but yeah, thanks.

[01:16:13] Uh, shout out to Matt for doing that.

[01:16:15] Um, I'd love to get Matt on there.

[01:16:18] They're a really cool person.

[01:16:19] Like he, they they've done like a whole bunch of stuff.

[01:16:22] Like I've been on a fun and games in the past and, um, it's a great time overall.

[01:16:27] I'd like to get them on the show at some point, but, um, moving on now to our next question we got on the, uh, the network.

[01:16:37] Uh, Aaron, the boss man himself asked if you could ever have any celebrity voice actor, YouTuber, et cetera, as a guest on geek addicts, who would it be?

[01:16:51] So are we just picking one person or do we want to kind of like spread it out and say like, oh, this, this actor, this podcaster, this YouTuber.

[01:16:59] Um, we can probably give a few.

[01:17:01] All right.

[01:17:05] Um, um, one YouTuber.

[01:17:08] I'd like one.

[01:17:09] So.

[01:17:10] Yeah.

[01:17:10] Well, one YouTuber I would definitely, uh, I would, I would find really interesting to have on is totally not Mark.

[01:17:17] Cause I, I like, uh, actually before, cause you were, um, well peek behind the scenes.

[01:17:23] Uh, Bill was a little bit late to the recording today.

[01:17:26] Um, because he was recording a GNC episode right before.

[01:17:29] So I was actually, uh, watching one of totally not Mark's, um, berserk review videos.

[01:17:34] Cause he, he does like blind manga reviews and stuff like that.

[01:17:36] Um, actually I think he started as a Dragon Ball YouTuber and then he shifted into doing blind manga reviews.

[01:17:42] Um, which is part of the reason why I wanted to start doing manga stuff on this, on this show is cause I, I enjoyed that content so much.

[01:17:50] Um, but I'd love to have a conversation with him about the different shows and how like getting into all these classic shows at such a later date.

[01:17:57] Um, like past the point where they came out, um, like how that experience has been and such.

[01:18:04] Nice.

[01:18:06] Um, for me, for a YouTuber, the ones that come to mind that I'd like to like sit down and have a chat with are like, I think nitro rad would be pretty cool.

[01:18:16] Like he's one of the better, like modern, like gaming YouTubers, like reviewers out there.

[01:18:22] Um, I'd like to talk to, uh, Johnny millennium from happy console gamer, just cause he is like one of like the, he's one of like the old school, like gaming YouTubers.

[01:18:32] Like he's been doing it forever.

[01:18:35] And he's been, he's like a really old gamer.

[01:18:38] So like, he has like stories like from like way back in the day.

[01:18:42] And he just seems like a guy that I can, you can just sit down and just like have a conversation about like life and stuff with.

[01:18:49] He'd be cool.

[01:18:51] Um, that's about it for YouTubers.

[01:18:54] Like I probably would like to sit down and maybe, maybe Scott, the laws just cause he's, I find him interesting.

[01:18:59] I'd like to know how he keeps up the entertainment, how he's been able to stay consistent all these years.

[01:19:06] Hmm.

[01:19:06] I wouldn't mind Masako X.

[01:19:08] That'd be fun.

[01:19:09] Hmm.

[01:19:11] Can you find that?

[01:19:12] Talk what it is for them.

[01:19:14] Yeah.

[01:19:14] We can find out why he likes frat it so much.

[01:19:18] I mean, I, I understand the fascination.

[01:19:20] It was such a missed opportunity.

[01:19:22] True.

[01:19:23] I mean, I just laugh because that, that got so much bigger than it had any right to.

[01:19:28] For real.

[01:19:29] Um, for a voice actor.

[01:19:33] No, fuck it.

[01:19:34] I'd say Brian Massey just to have that beautiful voice on here.

[01:19:37] I get him to sing a song for us.

[01:19:40] Brian Massey would be cool.

[01:19:41] I'd like to talk to Richard Ian Cox, um, mostly so I could ask him about the, the supposed, um, ocean dub of Kai, just cause I want to know if that actually exists or not.

[01:19:53] That would, that would be fun.

[01:19:54] Yeah.

[01:19:54] Then he's in you.

[01:19:56] Inuyasha.

[01:19:56] I mean.

[01:19:58] That's a double whammy right there.

[01:20:00] You know, you know what?

[01:20:01] This is a little off topic, but, uh, Josh from still loading had a David Kay on his show.

[01:20:07] Oh yeah.

[01:20:08] Phenomenal interview.

[01:20:09] Like big shout out.

[01:20:10] I highly recommend checking out that episode.

[01:20:12] What do you got to talk to?

[01:20:13] So show her when I'm always like, this is, it's just crazy how he, how he, how he pulls that stuff off.

[01:20:19] But, um, that's awesome.

[01:20:21] That was a really cool video, but, um, yeah, like Richard, Richard Ian Cox would be a good one.

[01:20:27] Chuck Huber would be fun too.

[01:20:30] Other than we'd avoid the flat earth stuff, but, uh, yeah.

[01:20:34] Yeah.

[01:20:34] Well, I mean, I, I feel like that would just make it more fun.

[01:20:38] I'd like to talk.

[01:20:39] I'd like to just like, I, I find him fascinating just because of the fact that like, he really only has like two voices.

[01:20:47] He does, but he somehow makes it work for like all his roles.

[01:20:50] He's in.

[01:20:51] Yeah.

[01:20:52] Like, even though like his voice is a very, like, I don't know.

[01:20:56] He finds a way to make him distinct, even though it's really not a whole lot of variation.

[01:21:00] Cause I mean like he, a, and 17 are basically the same voice, but they're very different deliveries.

[01:21:06] You get, you can kind of tell by the tone, you know?

[01:21:10] Um, well, 17 is very monotone.

[01:21:13] He is much more animated.

[01:21:15] He's got kind of like that scoff.

[01:21:17] Yeah.

[01:21:18] You know, he's like, humans.

[01:21:21] He, he has more of a personality.

[01:21:23] 17 at the start is very monotone.

[01:21:26] Cause he's an Android cyborg, whatever the fuck they are.

[01:21:30] Um, even, even in like super, he's still pretty like, like calm.

[01:21:35] Hmm.

[01:21:37] Yeah.

[01:21:38] Yeah.

[01:21:38] Huber would be cool.

[01:21:39] I mean, I'd like to just have a chat with Chris with that.

[01:21:41] That'd be kind of cool.

[01:21:43] Yeah.

[01:21:45] Just for all the shit he does like behind the scenes.

[01:21:48] Yeah.

[01:21:50] It's pretty wild and not to, and in front of the mic too, cause he's like just about every

[01:21:55] fucking, every show the Funimation has ever dubbed.

[01:21:59] He's, he's been a part of in some way, shape or form.

[01:22:03] Um, Justin Cook wouldn't be bad either.

[01:22:08] I'd say like any of the, any of like the longtime funny actors would be kind of cool.

[01:22:13] Hmm.

[01:22:15] Um, yeah.

[01:22:16] In terms of that.

[01:22:18] Celebrities.

[01:22:20] Yeah.

[01:22:21] I don't really like celebrities very much.

[01:22:23] I'm not going to lie.

[01:22:25] Um, I get, I'd probably go for more like, I'd probably go for like a comedian.

[01:22:31] Or something.

[01:22:32] As opposed to like an actor.

[01:22:34] Comedian, maybe.

[01:22:35] Or maybe like an author.

[01:22:36] Like, and I'd like to meet some authors.

[01:22:38] Stephen King would be awesome.

[01:22:40] I'd love to talk to Stephen King.

[01:22:42] I'd like to talk to some like manga artists or like, um, or comic writers.

[01:22:47] Cause I think some of them have very interesting stories.

[01:22:50] Yeah.

[01:22:50] Well, if, if, if we had interpreter, interpreters on the table, then yeah.

[01:22:54] Some manga artists would be cool.

[01:22:55] I mean, a cool, a cool comic artist, uh, or comic writer, I should say that I'd like

[01:23:00] to chat with is like, uh, Joshua Williamson.

[01:23:03] He's a, he writes a ton of stuff like over at DC.

[01:23:06] Like he, he wrote the flash for years.

[01:23:08] He's writing Superman right now.

[01:23:10] Uh, I've listened to podcasts with him talking.

[01:23:12] He just seems like a really interesting guy who has like a lot of stories behind the

[01:23:16] scenes.

[01:23:17] That'd be a cool one.

[01:23:19] Nice.

[01:23:21] Um, yeah.

[01:23:22] So thanks Aaron for, uh, the question.

[01:23:25] Um, yeah, we kind of gave multiple answers on that one.

[01:23:32] Um, so the next question is from Andre from a fine time.

[01:23:36] Another member of the network.

[01:23:39] Uh, he asked, what is the worst anime you've ever seen?

[01:23:44] This is tough because I think I'm too nice.

[01:23:48] At times.

[01:23:52] Um, for me, it's less, less a point of too nice, but more, I'm too cautious about what

[01:23:59] I watch.

[01:24:00] Like I've been a little bit more brave about like, you know, trying new stuff lately, but

[01:24:04] I am also watching even the stuff that I would like net generally wouldn't watch left

[01:24:09] on my own devices.

[01:24:11] I, I have, um, you know, people saying good things about them from, you know, people I,

[01:24:16] I, I, whose opinions I trust.

[01:24:18] So, um, like for instance, like, you know, you talking about Kaguya, I never would have

[01:24:24] watched Kaguya, I'm on my own, but you know, I, I trust your opinion when it comes to shows

[01:24:29] like that.

[01:24:29] So I gave it a shot and I ended up loving it.

[01:24:31] Same with Oshinoko, uh, Spy Family, you know?

[01:24:35] Um, so for me, it's, for me, it's a matter of, I, I'm overly cautious when it comes to

[01:24:44] anime because I know how much trash is out there.

[01:24:46] I'm like trying to look through my, uh, my anime, uh, tracking site to see what I have

[01:24:51] like the lowest rated.

[01:24:53] Um, some of them though, like the, okay.

[01:24:57] So the lowest rated thing I have on my tracking app right now is it's Sonic X.

[01:25:05] Um, that doesn't count though.

[01:25:07] Like that's track.

[01:25:09] That's an enjoyable trash to watch.

[01:25:12] Um, GT is also pretty low, but do I want to say GT?

[01:25:20] I don't think that's the worst.

[01:25:22] I feel like I've definitely seen worse ones than GT.

[01:25:26] I mean, I've never dropped a show before.

[01:25:29] I will say that.

[01:25:31] Um, not entirely, but I still haven't picked up Boruto from last year.

[01:25:35] I will eventually.

[01:25:36] I just haven't yet.

[01:25:37] I don't even think Boruto is that bad though to be considered the worst.

[01:25:42] Um, like, I mean, I can't get through like more than an arc of bleach, but that's not

[01:25:47] because I think it's bad.

[01:25:48] I just don't think it's, it's not for me.

[01:25:51] Hmm.

[01:25:54] I'll say if we're talking like a series, I don't think this one is necessarily bad.

[01:26:03] It just doesn't make any sense to me because like the animation is gorgeous.

[01:26:07] The music is great.

[01:26:08] Um, the action scenes are fun.

[01:26:10] Fooly Cooly makes no fucking sense to me.

[01:26:13] And I rewatched it recently and it just fucking, I, I, I've watched it multiple times.

[01:26:18] And this is the first time I watched it in a while.

[01:26:20] And I still can't fucking wrap my head around it.

[01:26:23] I have no idea how the hell they made a second season.

[01:26:25] I still haven't watched it, but I don't understand how they can fucking get another season out

[01:26:29] of that.

[01:26:30] Um, true.

[01:26:31] Um, I guess there was also a movie that a friend of mine showed me years ago.

[01:26:38] Uh, I believe it was brought up on one of the pilot episodes.

[01:26:42] Uh, that, I don't even know what the hell, what that movie was called.

[01:26:46] It was some anime movie.

[01:26:48] Uh, and the, whatever concept they were going with made no fucking sense.

[01:26:54] And at one point in, in the movie, a little rat man was like running across the street

[01:27:01] or something.

[01:27:02] And like the main guy like stopped him and he just morphed into, uh, basically an Akira,

[01:27:10] but made out of tits.

[01:27:13] And that was the point where I said, turn this garbage off, dude.

[01:27:16] I don't want to fucking watch this.

[01:27:21] Um, no offense if you're listening, but God, I just, that was, that was the, that was the,

[01:27:26] I have a pretty, a pretty good, um, tolerance for, for stuff like this, especially with anime.

[01:27:34] But like, God, like that was, that was the, that was the, the line that got crossed.

[01:27:38] I was just like, no, I'm all done.

[01:27:39] I don't even want to watch this.

[01:27:41] That's somehow feel, I feel like that will somehow, I would be more uncomfortable than

[01:27:45] Akira is like the ending of Akira is.

[01:27:48] The animation is beautiful, but it's a beautiful in that, like, this is the most fucked up,

[01:27:52] disgusting thing I've ever watched.

[01:27:54] Um, which says a lot because Akira is a phenomenal film, but that ending is, oh my God.

[01:28:01] Um, and you're saying it's that, but made of tits.

[01:28:06] Yeah, it is.

[01:28:09] Don't even know what I'd react.

[01:28:11] I just couldn't, I couldn't get past that.

[01:28:13] I was, and I had just started dating Cindy at the time and she was there.

[01:28:17] And I was like, oh, lovely.

[01:28:20] I was like, what the fuck, dude?

[01:28:24] Um, I guess, I mean, I, I don't want to say Sonic X because that's too easy.

[01:28:29] Uh, Roni Kenshin reflection was pretty bad.

[01:28:33] I will say that, that was pretty bad, but is that the worst?

[01:28:38] Um, I feel like that, that was just bad because you, you got to a point where you enjoyed the

[01:28:43] characters and the world itself.

[01:28:46] That's just bad.

[01:28:47] And then that just showed up.

[01:28:50] The problem with that is it's just bad storytelling.

[01:28:53] Like it's, yeah, it's just not a great.

[01:28:57] It's, it's just, it, it kind of, it, it, it just kind of shits on everything that the

[01:29:01] rest of the show, especially like trust and betrayal before it.

[01:29:05] Um, yeah.

[01:29:09] Other than that, I really haven't watched anything too bad.

[01:29:12] I mean, my standards are pretty, I'm pretty much okay with everything.

[01:29:19] Um, I mean, final fantasy advent children, not the complete version, but just the vanilla

[01:29:27] version is pretty awful.

[01:29:32] Uh, uh, uh, probably second coming.

[01:29:37] That's pretty bad.

[01:29:38] That was just boring as fuck.

[01:29:40] Yeah.

[01:29:41] At least some of the action scenes are okay, but it's just, there's no substance to it.

[01:29:47] Um, I guess if we're gonna, this is more just me, uh, grasping for something to say.

[01:29:55] Uh, if we want to talk manga, the worst thing I've ever read.

[01:30:00] Um, probably metamorphosis.

[01:30:02] Um, if anyone knows what that is, uh, I, I'm sorry.

[01:30:07] Um, it's, it's a hentai by the way, but I, I, I had to know why it was, I had to know

[01:30:12] why it was so infamous and yeah.

[01:30:15] Yep.

[01:30:16] That sure was a thing.

[01:30:18] Oh God.

[01:30:20] So anyone who knows what that is, I'm sorry.

[01:30:22] If you don't know what it is, don't look it up.

[01:30:27] Or whatever.

[01:30:28] Whatever.

[01:30:28] Well, I mean, if you want to be, if you, if you want to just get sad, I mean, cause it's

[01:30:32] not even, it's not even like it's porn, but it's, it's not, it's fucking just depressing.

[01:30:41] That's all I'll say about it.

[01:30:43] Um, thank you, Dre though.

[01:30:45] That was a hard one.

[01:30:47] Cause I really don't know.

[01:30:49] Yeah.

[01:30:50] In general, I'm pretty easy going when it, when it comes to animes and stuff, but you know,

[01:30:55] some of them are, are pretty bad.

[01:30:58] Yeah.

[01:30:59] I mean, it's, it's hard for me.

[01:31:02] It's hard because I just like, I generally have enjoyed most animes I've watched and I,

[01:31:06] if it doesn't look interesting to me, I won't watch it.

[01:31:09] Oh, the second season of darker than black.

[01:31:13] True.

[01:31:13] Cause the first season is fucking phenomenal.

[01:31:16] And then the second season takes a complete tone shift.

[01:31:19] It just like becomes an entirely different show altogether and kind of like ruins the characters.

[01:31:26] And it's been a long time since I've watched it.

[01:31:29] I would watch it again just to give it another chance because my perspective has changed on things,

[01:31:33] but based on memory, the, the second season kind of ruined the experience.

[01:31:40] No, I get that.

[01:31:41] It's like, um, like, uh, I'm trying to think like, uh, the everything for rising of the shield hero after the first season to me just completely ruined that show for me.

[01:31:54] Like it's not even bad.

[01:31:55] It's just so mid and underwhelming compared to like the first season, which is like really good.

[01:32:03] But, um, yeah, thanks for the question, Dre.

[01:32:04] Okay.

[01:32:05] That one actually made us think a lot.

[01:32:07] And I don't think, I still don't think I had an answer.

[01:32:12] Um, so the next question from, uh, Jeff over at the, um, over on the Superpod network, he asked, uh, what would your last meal be?

[01:32:27] Oh, are we talking like death row last meal?

[01:32:31] Um, I assume that's kind of what he was going for.

[01:32:34] I mean, it's, I last meal in general, like, you know, it's going to be your final meal.

[01:32:39] Um, for me, I'd probably say.

[01:32:43] I, so it, my hometown, there's a, there's a, a pizza joint called, uh, Cornerstones and it's been there forever.

[01:32:54] If I had to choose, I'd probably say like my favorite pizza ever is from that restaurant.

[01:32:59] It is a barbecue chicken and jalapeno pizza.

[01:33:03] It is my favorite ever.

[01:33:05] And unfortunately I don't think I'll ever have it the same way again as I did back in the day.

[01:33:09] Cause that place has kind of gone down since I've moved away.

[01:33:13] But that was a, that's probably what I'd choose if I could have it exactly the way I remember it.

[01:33:19] Hmm.

[01:33:19] Hmm.

[01:33:21] Um, the easy answer is my mom's chicken Parmesan.

[01:33:28] Cause that was like my favorite meal growing up and it's always a treat to have.

[01:33:32] Um, but considering this other thing doesn't technically exist anymore.

[01:33:41] Ernie's pizza.

[01:33:43] Oh yeah.

[01:33:44] I forgot that.

[01:33:45] Ernie's was a local restaurant and near, near where I live.

[01:33:51] And it had been around for a very long time.

[01:33:54] Actually it was featured on, um, Phantom Gourmet at one point.

[01:33:58] Uh, and they had fantastic bar pizza.

[01:34:01] It's my favorite pizza of all time.

[01:34:02] Uh, and they, uh, sold out to a CVS.

[01:34:08] A few years ago.

[01:34:09] Uh, one of the original owners did open a, a, um, exclusively takeout place.

[01:34:15] And they even had the same ovens and everything from, from Ernie's.

[01:34:19] Uh, and that is as close as you're ever going to get, but it's not quite the same.

[01:34:24] So.

[01:34:25] That's the, the worst thing about pizza to me is cause pizza is, it's very hard.

[01:34:32] Well, I mean, it's very, it's easy to screw up pizza, but pizza is one of those things that

[01:34:36] it's like, it's so subjective that like what someone thinks is great.

[01:34:41] Another person might think is the worst thing ever.

[01:34:43] And I've always said like finding a pizza place that is like your, your main stop is

[01:34:50] really hard.

[01:34:50] Cause like me and Alex have been still having this problem.

[01:34:54] Like, uh, cornerstones was like our big, that was, that was the local pizza place.

[01:34:59] And since we've, we live in Connecticut now, we've been trying to find a local place around

[01:35:05] here and we found two places so far, um, that may or may not be contenders, but it's

[01:35:15] still, we still have not quite like, I have yet to find a crew replacement for that barbecue

[01:35:20] chicken and, uh, jalapeno pizza.

[01:35:23] So it's amazing how hard it is to find that combination anywhere else.

[01:35:27] Yeah.

[01:35:28] I mean, you can always add jalapeno to a barbecue chicken pizza.

[01:35:31] Most places have it.

[01:35:33] True.

[01:35:33] A lot of them don't give you the often though.

[01:35:35] I've noticed.

[01:35:36] That's, that's bizarre.

[01:35:38] Yeah.

[01:35:39] Um, but yeah, I don't know.

[01:35:41] Just Ernie's food in general, honestly, not even just the pizza.

[01:35:43] Cause they had, they just had great food.

[01:35:46] The Buffalo chicken was great.

[01:35:47] They, uh, really good crab cakes.

[01:35:50] Um, honestly, their chicken parm, their like chicken parm sandwich that they had was really

[01:35:55] good.

[01:35:56] I liked that a lot.

[01:35:57] Uh, the first time I ever tried swordfish was from there and that was delicious.

[01:36:00] You know, they, they had great food.

[01:36:02] It was actually my first, um, my first real job was there too.

[01:36:06] I bus tables there, you know?

[01:36:07] Oh, wow.

[01:36:09] So.

[01:36:10] No, that place has a special place in my heart and it breaks my heart every time I

[01:36:13] passed that fucking CVS.

[01:36:15] Yeah.

[01:36:16] It's funny.

[01:36:16] Cause I always remember like, cause the parade used to go right by it.

[01:36:19] And like, I remember we'd always like, when I was in like boy's goats, we'd always meet

[01:36:22] up right at the Ernie's.

[01:36:24] Hmm.

[01:36:26] What a long, what a, what a time, like time capsule.

[01:36:30] Yeah.

[01:36:31] A lot of the old fucking local places got shut down, especially after COVID.

[01:36:37] Yeah.

[01:36:39] Yeah.

[01:36:40] COVID did screw a lot of places.

[01:36:43] Hmm.

[01:36:45] Uh, so I'll preface.

[01:36:47] I didn't read any of these questions beforehand.

[01:36:51] Um, my good buddy, Thrak co-host over at a 3DO.

[01:36:56] I guess.

[01:37:00] He asked, fuck, marry, kill Alex, Matt and him.

[01:37:05] Um, well, what a, what a wonderful question.

[01:37:10] When one of those persons is my sister.

[01:37:13] And the other one's right in front of you.

[01:37:15] Yeah.

[01:37:17] Well, sorry, Alex, but I guess I'm killing you.

[01:37:20] Cause the other two aren't, aren't an option.

[01:37:24] Jesus Christ.

[01:37:25] Thrak.

[01:37:29] I mean, what am I supposed to say?

[01:37:34] Say Jesus, Thrak.

[01:37:35] Just ask him out already.

[01:37:36] God.

[01:37:39] Uh, I don't even know what to say.

[01:37:46] Flip a coin, I guess.

[01:37:48] I don't know.

[01:37:49] Yeah.

[01:37:51] I guess I'll marry you and fuck him.

[01:37:52] Cause I see you more often.

[01:37:55] Fair enough.

[01:37:57] Jesus Christ.

[01:37:58] I don't even know what to say.

[01:38:00] Sorry, Alex.

[01:38:01] The other two weren't an option.

[01:38:03] I don't know what to say.

[01:38:07] Uh, that's my co-host.

[01:38:09] On that note.

[01:38:11] Thank you, Thrak.

[01:38:13] Appreciate it.

[01:38:15] Um, he did post that really nice picture.

[01:38:18] He wrote the radio in the sand though.

[01:38:20] At the beach.

[01:38:21] He's in Virginia Beach right now.

[01:38:24] And there'll be a Dark Tower reference.

[01:38:27] He did.

[01:38:28] And Aaron still hasn't seen the ocean.

[01:38:32] One day he'll see the ocean.

[01:38:34] Uh, and the final...

[01:38:36] And then he'll kill all of his enemies.

[01:38:38] Yes.

[01:38:39] To anyone who gets that.

[01:38:41] Yeah.

[01:38:42] So the final question from, uh, on the, on a super pod is actually from a recent, uh,

[01:38:48] recent new member of the super pod network, uh, Nomad from, uh, the retro wildlands.

[01:38:53] He asked, what is something you learned in the last year that you wish you could have learned

[01:38:58] sooner?

[01:38:59] Can be about podcasting, something in your personal life, whatever.

[01:39:05] Um, this is actually a pretty good, good one.

[01:39:12] Because if I related strictly to podcasting, I kind of wish I started earlier.

[01:39:20] Yeah.

[01:39:21] I feel that.

[01:39:23] Because I didn't start podcasting until 2021.

[01:39:28] Kind of.

[01:39:29] I did, technically I did a podcast back in, um, 2013 with some people I went to high school

[01:39:36] with.

[01:39:37] Uh, it only made it five episodes and they're pretty awful, but that's besides the point.

[01:39:43] You can find it if you really want, but I wouldn't recommend it.

[01:39:47] Um, that being said, I kind of wish I started like maybe like 2019 ish or actually probably

[01:39:56] even earlier than that.

[01:39:58] Cause yeah, probably like when I was still in the worst point of, um, night shift would

[01:40:08] have been fun.

[01:40:11] It would have been something to do.

[01:40:13] Cause I was, when I was still working nights at Richard's, I was in a pretty, not the best

[01:40:20] place mentally just cause night shift does that to you after a while.

[01:40:24] Um, so it would have been nice to at least have something to keep my mind off of it.

[01:40:30] But, um, I don't regret starting it when we did.

[01:40:34] Cause honestly, I don't know how I would have done a podcast.

[01:40:38] During COVID COVID was not a great time for me mentally either.

[01:40:42] A lot of ways.

[01:40:43] And I probably, probably would have leaked into it.

[01:40:47] Um, I kind of wish I met the community.

[01:40:53] Like I interacted with more of the community members earlier too.

[01:40:56] Cause like, I don't think like, I really like, like met most of the people in the bigger podcasting

[01:41:05] are our little niche community.

[01:41:07] We have until like 2022 ish.

[01:41:11] So like we had already done a season and a half of GNC at that point.

[01:41:15] Hmm.

[01:41:17] Um, the only other thing I, I, I wish I could have learned sooner is that, uh, asking just

[01:41:24] like reaching out and asking people like questions.

[01:41:28] Um, I could have done that way earlier and gotten a lot, probably better advice than I

[01:41:33] had at the time.

[01:41:35] Hmm.

[01:41:37] Um, uh, personal life.

[01:41:44] I don't know if I'd change anything.

[01:41:46] Cause I'm always kind of a believer that things happen for the reasons they do.

[01:41:54] I gotcha.

[01:41:56] So, um, yeah, I'll, I'll think on if I have anything else, if, if you want to go.

[01:42:02] Yeah.

[01:42:03] Um, as far as general life goes, uh, something that I've learned in the past year, uh, and

[01:42:09] if the podcast has helped immensely with is that, um, when, when you're a parent, especially

[01:42:17] a small children, uh, you have to make the time for yourself.

[01:42:22] You have, you can't be a full-time parent, no matter what anybody tells you, you can't

[01:42:25] be a full-time parent all the time.

[01:42:27] You have to make some time for yourself.

[01:42:30] You got to set some time aside for your, your hobbies, your interests, your, uh, your

[01:42:34] passions, so to speak.

[01:42:36] Um, this podcast has helped immensely with that.

[01:42:38] Uh, it's pushed me to, to do more than I would have otherwise.

[01:42:42] Um, it's given me something to look forward to every week and that's, that's been huge.

[01:42:50] Um, yeah, that's, that's kind of mostly it for like personal life.

[01:42:55] It's just one of those that you got to make time for that kind of thing.

[01:42:58] Um, cause if you don't, you, you start to go stir crazy.

[01:43:02] Yeah.

[01:43:03] Um, as far as podcasting goes or like the, the general like community aspect of it, um,

[01:43:15] I'm still learning.

[01:43:16] Uh, I'm not super great with, um, conversation with people I don't know very well.

[01:43:26] Uh, we, that's one of the reasons why this podcast works as well as it does is because

[01:43:30] you and I have a pre-existing relationship before either of us are podcasting.

[01:43:34] Um, uh, I don't have the best time making new friends.

[01:43:43] It's somewhat difficult for me and I'm still working on that.

[01:43:46] Um, I'm making an effort to try and, um, uh, make more connections with people, especially

[01:43:52] in, in the immediate network, uh, you know, trying to, even just like when, when I was

[01:43:59] doing those occasional streams, um, which hopefully I'll be doing another one tomorrow.

[01:44:03] Um, you know, just when, when Thrac popped on and we were just having a conversation for

[01:44:08] a few hours, just, you know, shooting the shit, you know, goofing around, whatever.

[01:44:13] Like that was cool.

[01:44:14] You know, I, I like, I like having that kind of a, or the fight club.

[01:44:18] Like I love doing that.

[01:44:19] That was, that was really fun.

[01:44:21] Um, but that, that's just something I, I, that's like a, I'm more of a me, me thing that

[01:44:27] I'm working on.

[01:44:28] I'm trying to get better with, I'm trying to be active in the community.

[01:44:32] Um, get to know people on a more personal level.

[01:44:37] Yeah.

[01:44:38] Like I know for me, like when it came to podcasting, like, especially like when we were first

[01:44:45] doing like, like when I first started doing like guest appearances or like was having

[01:44:49] people on like G and C in particular, um, that was a bit tough at times.

[01:44:56] Cause like I, it was hard to like gauge certain people that you just didn't know.

[01:45:01] Like I still, cause I knew what they sounded like because I listened to their shows.

[01:45:05] Like I would listen to their shows in preparation.

[01:45:08] Cause I, I didn't want to go in completely blind, but like, like in some cases, like I

[01:45:15] know, like sometimes it works out very well.

[01:45:17] Like, um, like my first interaction with Josh was actually like the second episode of 3DO

[01:45:24] when it was still just me, uh, he had hopped on.

[01:45:27] That was our first real talk.

[01:45:29] And we've been close friends ever since, um, still talk to like, like I'd say, like

[01:45:36] Thrak, I met completely by happenstance.

[01:45:39] We just happened to, we were talking about like music or something in like a different,

[01:45:42] completely unrelated server.

[01:45:43] And it, we kind of just went from there.

[01:45:47] Um, stuff like that.

[01:45:48] Like it's really started like growing on.

[01:45:52] Like I met, I met Aaron, um, from Superpod.

[01:45:55] Like I met him on a random drunk stream that I just kind of jumped in on at the last minute.

[01:46:03] And we both happened to meet there.

[01:46:05] Um, that was, it's just interesting how it, it, it's definitely expanded my horizons in

[01:46:12] the sense that like, I've, I've met a ton of people I never would have met, like from all

[01:46:18] sorts of different ages and like places around the world.

[01:46:22] Like one of my favorite podcasts I've ever been on was when I was on a, a good, the bad,

[01:46:28] the backlog.

[01:46:29] And I, uh, got to talk with Adam from over there.

[01:46:33] Um, uh, talking about Etrian Odyssey.

[01:46:36] I always remember that one because our scheduling was, it was literally, he was just waking up

[01:46:42] and I had just gotten home from working on a Saturday overtime.

[01:46:45] So we were both exhausted, but it was a great time overall.

[01:46:50] Like just stuff like that.

[01:46:51] Like I wish that's what the reason why I wish I got into podcasting sooner is cause I wish

[01:46:58] I could have like grown and expanded all these relationships.

[01:47:00] And like, it was like, I, I still say like most of the friends I've made in the last couple

[01:47:05] of years have been online.

[01:47:08] Hmm.

[01:47:12] Yeah.

[01:47:13] I think mainly from, from, for me as like an add on to everything I was saying before,

[01:47:17] like the bit, the biggest thing I've learned and I'm still learning and working on is just

[01:47:23] basically just putting myself out there, you know, kind of trying, trying more to, to instigate

[01:47:31] interaction.

[01:47:32] Um, part of it is cause I'm just, I'm not great at, uh, text interaction when it comes to people

[01:47:37] I don't know.

[01:47:38] A lot of times I, I, I misread, uh, certain things that I get in my head about stuff,

[01:47:44] you know, typical social anxiety shit.

[01:47:49] No, I get you there.

[01:47:50] Cause like, I wish like if the one thing I wish I could have learned sooner is that I have

[01:47:54] a good speaking repertoire with a lot of people when I'm podcasting, I kind of wish I had known

[01:48:01] that that's something I could use and realize in the day.

[01:48:05] So it would have made my life a lot easier.

[01:48:07] That's all I'll say.

[01:48:08] Yeah.

[01:48:09] I feel that.

[01:48:11] Um, no, but thanks nomad.

[01:48:13] That was a, that one was another one that was tough cause I was really getting really introspective

[01:48:17] like trying to think on stuff like this.

[01:48:22] Um, so that was it for the super pod network.

[01:48:26] Uh, those were the only two real sources on a discord that I had.

[01:48:31] Um, so we saved the best for last.

[01:48:37] Help us.

[01:48:39] We have Alex's questions.

[01:48:41] Now, Alex gave us 14 questions.

[01:48:45] Oh, Jesus.

[01:48:46] Are you ready?

[01:48:49] Uh, ready.

[01:48:50] They'll ever be.

[01:48:51] How many of them have to do with water bottles?

[01:48:54] I don't know yet.

[01:48:54] I haven't read a single one of these.

[01:48:56] I'm going in blind.

[01:49:00] Okay.

[01:49:01] So, okay.

[01:49:01] Reading the first one.

[01:49:02] Some of these are, they won't be that long.

[01:49:06] Alex's first question.

[01:49:09] Do fish ever get thirsty?

[01:49:15] No.

[01:49:16] I don't think, I don't think they drink the water they swim in.

[01:49:20] I don't think fish drink.

[01:49:21] To be honest.

[01:49:24] Not through their mouths at least.

[01:49:25] Yeah.

[01:49:26] I'm going to say no on that one.

[01:49:31] Jesus Christ.

[01:49:32] Does Jim Bay drink?

[01:49:36] They drink sake.

[01:49:37] So there you go.

[01:49:38] Yeah.

[01:49:39] Fish men drink, but regular fish don't.

[01:49:42] All right.

[01:49:43] Question number two.

[01:49:45] If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

[01:49:49] Yes.

[01:49:49] It still makes a sound.

[01:49:51] Yes.

[01:49:51] Vibrations exist whether you're there or not.

[01:49:54] When that picture frame falls in your house, it still makes a sound.

[01:49:58] You're just not there to hear it.

[01:50:00] Hmm.

[01:50:01] Um.

[01:50:02] Three.

[01:50:03] I'm thinking of a number between one and 10.

[01:50:06] What is that number?

[01:50:09] 42.

[01:50:11] Seven.

[01:50:15] Um.

[01:50:15] Because we'll have to wait to see if we were correct on that one.

[01:50:18] Yeah.

[01:50:19] Yeah.

[01:50:21] Why do we drive on park?

[01:50:24] She must have looked these up.

[01:50:26] I swear.

[01:50:28] Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

[01:50:31] I don't fucking know.

[01:50:34] Because the English language is weird.

[01:50:38] Yeah.

[01:50:39] Honestly.

[01:50:42] Especially American English.

[01:50:44] American English is bizarre.

[01:50:47] Yeah.

[01:50:48] Okay.

[01:50:48] I am convinced these first five she just got off out of a book or like some like text

[01:50:53] thing that she found online.

[01:50:55] Question number five.

[01:50:56] What is the square root of 55 divided by the number of states multiplied by how many

[01:51:00] cars fit in a Walmart parking lot?

[01:51:02] Alex?

[01:51:02] I don't give a shit.

[01:51:06] I'm going to say 42 again because fuck that.

[01:51:12] That could mean fucking anything.

[01:51:14] I mean, what Walmart parking lot?

[01:51:16] There's every Walmart parking lot is different.

[01:51:18] This is one of those questions that's designed to piss you off.

[01:51:20] I swear to God.

[01:51:21] Yeah.

[01:51:22] That's probably what she's going for.

[01:51:24] Probably.

[01:51:25] All right.

[01:51:26] Question number six.

[01:51:27] This one I know is original because it pertains to me.

[01:51:31] Why do I have?

[01:51:33] Why do you have so many cans of baked beans in your house, Bill?

[01:51:36] I have two cans and that's in case I lose power or there's an outage or something and you

[01:51:41] never know.

[01:51:44] It's two cans.

[01:51:45] It's not that big a deal.

[01:51:47] I was going to say.

[01:51:48] I was going to say, if you have cans of beans in your house, they probably came from her.

[01:51:53] No, no.

[01:51:53] I bought two cans just to have because you never know.

[01:51:58] She doesn't cook beans over a fireman.

[01:52:01] You can fucking slice up some dogs.

[01:52:03] Throw those bad boys in there.

[01:52:04] You don't even have to cook them.

[01:52:06] Like some of them already cooked.

[01:52:07] So it's like.

[01:52:09] I've eaten a lot of bachelor meals in my day and beans are right up there with corn beef hash.

[01:52:15] I've had nights where I've been wasted and just drank, ate the beans out of the can because

[01:52:20] that was all there was.

[01:52:21] It happens.

[01:52:23] You move on.

[01:52:24] The next morning.

[01:52:26] I'd rather eat a can of baked beans than fucking Chef Boyardee.

[01:52:30] Yeah, honestly.

[01:52:32] The next morning is going to be rough, but I live alone.

[01:52:35] So it's not my problem.

[01:52:35] No one's not going to have any issues.

[01:52:40] All right.

[01:52:43] Jesus Christ.

[01:52:45] This one pertains to me as well.

[01:52:49] Did you see the neighborhood possum?

[01:52:51] I named them Martha and who is trying to make friends.

[01:52:54] Who is her cat?

[01:52:55] Anyone doesn't know.

[01:52:58] Apparently there's a possum that runs through her yard.

[01:53:00] This is a new thing.

[01:53:04] Okay.

[01:53:05] We get deer in our yard.

[01:53:07] I haven't seen deer, but I think it's because it's a little bit because of the condo complex.

[01:53:11] It's a bit too like spaced out.

[01:53:13] There's not a lot of places to spend to go.

[01:53:16] So it's like three bucks go through our yard the other day.

[01:53:21] One of them was pretty big.

[01:53:22] Not like super big, but you know, decent.

[01:53:25] I don't see a ton of deer up in Connecticut or down in Connecticut, I guess I should say.

[01:53:33] Okay.

[01:53:34] Here's a question.

[01:53:35] Is it pronounced Sherbert or Sherbet?

[01:53:42] I always say Sherbert.

[01:53:44] I've always said Sherbert too, but for some reason this is a thing Alex gets really.

[01:53:48] She has to know.

[01:53:53] It's Sherbert.

[01:53:54] I'm not doing this weird Sherbet shit.

[01:54:00] Okay.

[01:54:00] Question number 11.

[01:54:02] Can I bring back the dad jokes on the podcast?

[01:54:05] Everyone loves them.

[01:54:06] No, they don't Alex.

[01:54:13] She had way too much fun writing these.

[01:54:17] Number 10.

[01:54:18] Why don't you like my facts bill?

[01:54:19] Accept my facts or I quit the pot.

[01:54:21] No, you're never going to quit the podcast.

[01:54:22] This joke isn't funny.

[01:54:24] What fact?

[01:54:26] Oh, the water bottle facts.

[01:54:28] Yeah, I guess.

[01:54:31] Gotcha.

[01:54:37] Alex, you didn't ask Matt any questions.

[01:54:39] This is rude.

[01:54:41] I know.

[01:54:42] What am I?

[01:54:44] She just wanted to do it by me.

[01:54:47] Number 11.

[01:54:48] Which podcast is your favorite to record?

[01:54:51] Do not lie, Bill.

[01:54:52] I know where you live.

[01:54:54] I already answered this earlier.

[01:54:55] I don't have a favorite.

[01:54:57] I like doing all three of them equal.

[01:55:02] I mean, I don't know what else I'm supposed to say there.

[01:55:05] I know she just wants me to like not say GNC, but I'm not going to say that because.

[01:55:11] She's baiting you.

[01:55:12] Yeah.

[01:55:13] I don't even know what she's baiting, what she's trying to bait me to.

[01:55:16] Like, I don't know.

[01:55:21] Yeah.

[01:55:22] And I know where you, I know where she lives.

[01:55:24] It's, it's not a big deal.

[01:55:26] Just troll her and say the music podcast.

[01:55:29] You haven't started yet.

[01:55:31] Yeah.

[01:55:36] Okay.

[01:55:36] Here it is.

[01:55:37] What is your favorite brand of water bottle?

[01:55:40] I knew that was coming.

[01:55:42] I don't really drink bottled water.

[01:55:43] I prefer canned water and I like liquid death.

[01:55:47] See, the idea of water in a can is just so weird to me.

[01:55:50] It's so bad.

[01:55:51] I've never tried on liquid death, so I couldn't say one way or the other.

[01:55:53] I have this weird thing where even if it's not, I just associate canned water with sparkling water.

[01:55:59] And I fucking hate sparkling water.

[01:56:01] So.

[01:56:02] Well, the majority of liquid death is sparkling, but you can just get straight up water as well.

[01:56:07] Fair.

[01:56:08] It started as water and they just have a shit ton of sparkling versions.

[01:56:13] Yeah.

[01:56:14] Yeah.

[01:56:14] My wife grew up in Maine, so Poland Spring.

[01:56:16] That's, that's what we get in our house.

[01:56:18] Poland Spring is a good classic.

[01:56:20] See, we don't.

[01:56:21] Poland Springs is around here.

[01:56:23] I mean, it's everywhere around here, but it's also more expensive than say like the, the

[01:56:28] store brand most of the time.

[01:56:30] So I'm getting a pack of water.

[01:56:32] The store I go to is a chain called Geisler's.

[01:56:36] Uh, they're, they're, they're in store brand is called Crystal Geyser.

[01:56:40] I usually get that unless I'm making a Costco run, then I'll get Alex's favorite Kirkland

[01:56:44] signature.

[01:56:46] I think, I think Market Basket also sells the, whatever the one you just said was.

[01:56:52] Crystal Geyser.

[01:56:53] I'm pretty sure that's their like quote unquote store brand.

[01:56:56] Yeah.

[01:56:57] I think it's, it's like a few because Market Basket don't exist around here.

[01:57:01] We mostly have Big Wise and like Geisler's.

[01:57:06] Those are the, whatever around here on ShopRites.

[01:57:09] We do.

[01:57:10] We, we have lately been getting the, the great value, like, cause they have like the bigger

[01:57:14] cases.

[01:57:16] And that's also the key.

[01:57:17] Cause like Poland Springs is good water, but like you can get so much more in like the

[01:57:23] bulk brands.

[01:57:24] So.

[01:57:25] Yeah.

[01:57:25] I don't know what the fuck is up with our tap water, but the tap water here is, you can't

[01:57:31] drink it.

[01:57:32] Yeah.

[01:57:33] I don't really, I don't really trust the tap water in my house either to drink.

[01:57:38] I mean, I have the Brita filter to take care of that, but.

[01:57:42] I mean.

[01:57:44] Yeah.

[01:57:44] If we had a Brita filter, I could deal with it, but.

[01:57:49] I'm also not a water snob like my wife.

[01:57:53] I mean, I don't know if I'd say I'm a water snob, but I do, I do like my, for some reason

[01:57:58] water out of a can is just nice.

[01:58:00] I don't know what it is.

[01:58:03] It's kind of why I've been.

[01:58:04] Let's see what.

[01:58:05] Because my wife grew up in Maine, like the, the, like tap water, well water, like that

[01:58:10] kind of shit.

[01:58:11] Like it's always like so fresh, like pretty much straight up the fucking mountain.

[01:58:14] And so like, she, you know, she's very specific about the water she likes.

[01:58:20] I think I like the, I like, I think I like liquid death too, just because of like the aesthetic,

[01:58:25] like it's got that like heavy metal, like, or like mid 2000s, like alternative, like look

[01:58:30] to it, which I've always been really into.

[01:58:33] It looks like a can of beer.

[01:58:35] It does.

[01:58:36] It looks like a Guinness from far away.

[01:58:37] If you have like the, the sparkling version, which is black, it looks like a Guinness from

[01:58:41] far away.

[01:58:42] You know, it's funny.

[01:58:43] I didn't even know it existed until you started talking about drinking on GNC.

[01:58:48] And then I started seeing it everywhere.

[01:58:50] Yeah.

[01:58:50] After you started talking about it.

[01:58:52] Yeah.

[01:58:53] You can get it in like all the stores now.

[01:58:55] I mean, I, I order it on Amazon cause you can't find all the flavors anywhere else,

[01:58:58] but.

[01:59:00] Um, I, I discovered it through Steve-O's podcast of anything.

[01:59:04] Cause he would, uh, he had it as a sponsor for a while.

[01:59:08] Wow.

[01:59:09] Of all things.

[01:59:10] Yeah.

[01:59:11] I got curious.

[01:59:12] I saw it one day at the store and I was like, oh, fuck it.

[01:59:14] I'll try it.

[01:59:14] And I haven't gone back.

[01:59:17] Figures the water brands.

[01:59:18] Steve-O would drink would be a liquid death.

[01:59:20] Yeah.

[01:59:21] I mean, it is a cool brand too.

[01:59:23] Cause they, um, the cans are 100% recycled.

[01:59:26] So there's no waste.

[01:59:27] Um, that's good.

[01:59:29] And they donate money to like plant trees and stuff.

[01:59:31] It's cool.

[01:59:33] I like their, I like the cut of their jib.

[01:59:36] And then the final question.

[01:59:39] This isn't even a question, Alex.

[01:59:40] It's just her screaming Atari Jaguar.

[01:59:46] Never played one.

[01:59:47] So I couldn't say.

[01:59:48] Yeah.

[01:59:49] When you, when you come up to visit, we'll, we'll play some Jaguar just so you can experience

[01:59:52] it.

[01:59:53] I mean, I'm a defender of, of the Jaguar.

[01:59:55] I think it's a cool system.

[01:59:57] Like it's not my favorite niche system.

[01:59:59] I mean, everyone knows what my favorite niche system is, but it's a cool one.

[02:00:03] Um, I don't think I have a favorite niche system.

[02:00:09] Yeah.

[02:00:09] It's.

[02:00:12] I don't need to say money.

[02:00:14] Collecting for niche systems is kind of expensive because you have to buy really niche stuff.

[02:00:19] Um, like collecting Jaguar games is not fun.

[02:00:22] I will say though, if you buy the Atari 50 collection, it has a bunch of Jaguar games on it, which is

[02:00:27] kind of cool.

[02:00:28] Fair enough.

[02:00:30] Um, yeah.

[02:00:33] Me and Thrak actually have teased that we might do a spinoff series where we talk Jaguar

[02:00:38] games at some point, because that would be kind of funny.

[02:00:41] Hmm.

[02:00:42] Because the Jaguar is equally as fascinating of a system to talk about as the 3DO is.

[02:00:49] Gotcha.

[02:00:50] But actually a little, the episode will be out by the time this comes out, but we had on

[02:00:55] GNC, we just did an episode talking about failed consoles.

[02:00:59] And, uh, one of Alex's sticking points throughout the entire episode was the fact that the Jaguar

[02:01:04] didn't sell particularly well.

[02:01:06] Like it only sold like, um, 150,000 consoles, which is not a lot.

[02:01:14] Yes.

[02:01:14] That's pretty small.

[02:01:15] Like, like keep in mind, like the 3DO, which is also a failure sold, um, sold around two

[02:01:23] an estimated 2 million.

[02:01:25] So.

[02:01:26] Yeah.

[02:01:26] That's wild.

[02:01:27] Yeah.

[02:01:28] But one of the best moments was like, I had brought up the Sega 32X, which sold like around

[02:01:33] like, I think like 600,000, which isn't great either, but it's still better than the Jaguar.

[02:01:39] And Alex was like, she was being herself and defending the Jaguar.

[02:01:44] And I was trying to talk about the 32X.

[02:01:46] And when I mentioned it, I was talking about, she's like, she's like, oh yeah.

[02:01:48] Well, did it sell better than the Jaguar?

[02:01:50] And I was like, yes, Alex, it sold better than the Jaguar.

[02:01:53] And she was like, fuck.

[02:01:56] Like she did not think that through.

[02:01:59] Jesus.

[02:02:01] A lot of systems sold better than the Jaguar.

[02:02:03] The Jaguar did not sell very well at all, which is kind of sad.

[02:02:09] Um, because I do think the Jaguar is a interesting system.

[02:02:15] Hmm.

[02:02:16] But, uh, that was from Alex.

[02:02:18] Thank you, Alex, for those.

[02:02:21] Some of those weren't even questions, but I appreciate.

[02:02:24] She's going to skip just to this part, just to hear us react to that.

[02:02:30] Um, so thanks, Alex.

[02:02:34] Hmm.

[02:02:35] Um, and that wraps it up for questions.

[02:02:39] That was, uh, we got a lot, surprisingly.

[02:02:43] Yeah.

[02:02:44] I'm sure a lot of that time was just me rambling though.

[02:02:47] I mean, we rambled a lot on ironically, the simple, like some of the simpler questions.

[02:02:52] We've rambled up quite a bit.

[02:02:53] Like the, like, uh, Dre's question about like worst anime took us way longer than it should have.

[02:02:59] Um, Rick's question took a lot too.

[02:03:02] Rick's question had a lot of introspect, like introspection to think about.

[02:03:06] Same with the bills from, uh, a game.

[02:03:08] A gamers look at 40.

[02:03:10] Yeah.

[02:03:10] There's a lot, a lot to think about.

[02:03:11] Even, uh, even nomads question was pretty, um, a lot.

[02:03:16] There's a lot to think about there.

[02:03:18] Yeah, for sure.

[02:03:20] No, it was fun.

[02:03:21] I like doing this.

[02:03:23] Yeah.

[02:03:24] I mean, maybe when we get to two years, we'll do another one.

[02:03:28] Um, it all depends on how the, how the next year goes.

[02:03:33] We'll see, but no, it was fun.

[02:03:35] It's been fun doing this.

[02:03:36] I mean, still doing it.

[02:03:37] I mean, we haven't, we wouldn't be doing it if we weren't having fun.

[02:03:41] That's all I'll say.

[02:03:43] It's kind of my process on all three of my podcasts right now.

[02:03:48] And yeah, no, it's, it's been a, it's been a fun year.

[02:03:51] I'm looking forward to doing more stuff, breaking more barriers and like meeting more awesome

[02:03:56] people in this community.

[02:03:58] Yeah, for sure.

[02:03:59] That being said though, it has been two hours.

[02:04:02] Damn.

[02:04:03] This is our longest episode in a while.

[02:04:05] Um, yeah, it's been a while since we hit the two hour mark.

[02:04:07] Yeah.

[02:04:07] Yeah.

[02:04:08] Doing a Q and a, I'm surprised.

[02:04:10] Well, I mean, literally the first half an hour we were just riffing, but, um, yeah.

[02:04:16] So anyways, guys, once again, thank you for joining us on geek addicts.

[02:04:20] So you can find geek addicts on all the major podcasting platforms, particularly Apple podcasts

[02:04:24] and Spotify, and be sure to check us out over on the super pod network.

[02:04:28] That is super pod network.com.

[02:04:30] You can find a whole bunch of awesome shows, videos, um, blogs where, like I said earlier,

[02:04:35] we're currently in the middle of, uh, our spooktober where we're all doing a bunch of different,

[02:04:40] uh, blogs on various horror games, uh, for the month of October.

[02:04:45] Uh, be sure to check that out.

[02:04:47] We've, we've so far seen stuff like, uh, I believe Moe did, um, Doki Doki literature

[02:04:52] club.

[02:04:53] Uh, Adam did, uh, uh, five nights at Freddy's Aaron did Luigi's mansion and I did ill bleed.

[02:04:58] So it's, it's an interesting collection of a whole bunch of different stuff right now.

[02:05:02] There's going to be much more throughout, throughout the rest of the, uh, the month.

[02:05:06] So look forward to that and be sure to check out all the other shows, including super pod

[02:05:11] saga, super ghost radio, retro rehab, Tommy's video game, ride along a novel console bar silence

[02:05:18] fine time.

[02:05:19] The elder trolls gaming podcast, remember 64 gaming together Friday night game cast.

[02:05:26] And of course our three shows over on GNC, we've got gaming and collecting the 3DO experience

[02:05:31] and of course, geek addicts and the newest addition to the network.

[02:05:35] We have the retro wild lands.

[02:05:36] Be sure to check all of them out on the website.

[02:05:39] And with that, everybody, we will see you all later.

[02:05:43] Have a good one.