What Were Thankful For

Welcome to plug in for player 4 where you, the viewer are the

player 4. Mark is currently dying, Brandon

is staring at me, and I'm trying to beam my anger straight into.

Into my school. Mark's bones.

Yeah, crispy. Very crispy.

What of what of what? What we what doing What doing?

How do do you? How do?

OK, not even 40 seconds. What?

Do you want me to do something better?

Now. Restore if you want.

Take it away, Penny. Welcome to Plug player 44IN.

Oh, oh, he's. He's shoving it in.

He's. Got stack overflowed out.

Well, OK, that's great. Yeah, that was one of the

intros. Yeah, of of time.

Of time of time, yes. Yeah.

You hurt my brain. Good.

You're welcome. Yeah, Cox.

I'm hurting this guy. This guy with a single use.

Appliance Look, macro industries were the were the world's top

makers of the largest single use appliances.

You want a giant ass microwave that you can only use once?

We got it. You want a large fridge that you

can only use once? We got that too.

You want to take a whole. Banquet and heat it up.

I can all you at once though. You want it super.

Efficient you want You want an industrial sized oven that you

can only use once? We got that too.

Trust me, we checked the heat map on the microwave, there's

virtually no dead spots. Just to make sure it works.

Do you load everything? Up.

So microwaves actually have dead spots.

That's why it rotates, yeah. That actually makes a lot of

sense. Yep.

Actually, at work we have microwaves that don't rotate at

all, which is really freaking weird.

So that's like a toaster oven though.

No, it's not a toaster oven. That is, so it's.

A fully fledged microwave, but it's also got a fucking dial.

Toaster. Microwave.

How old is this? It's new.

How new? Replace the old ones that broke

the. Fuck.

Wait, hold on. No, wait, this story doesn't add

up. No company ever replaces broken

appliances. Stairs to.

For good ones. I would say that's probably not

a really good one, but like it's doesn't rotate.

No, it doesn't rotate. You just set your food in and

it's just stationary and it's got a dial for the timer.

That's. How do I how can I see my all my

food then? What?

He's going to view his view food from all angles.

But it works. I heat up my ramen bowls for

yeah when I'm stuck at work. When I'm just get the car it

heats it up all fully. Stuck.

I mean, does it, does it work? Well, yeah.

Yeah, heats it up quite well actually.

I found that it boils the water over the bowl.

Works a little too well, so I had to add less water in.

That's awesome. Yeah.

Wait, so it boils over before it's done?

Like heating up? Yeah.

Like it tells you put it in for 4 minutes.

I come back 4 minutes later and there's puddles of broth on the

on the. End of the things.

Cool, I got to clean that up now, yeah.

Because it works a little too well.

I'm like, huh? I also can't complain if it

works, it works. Well, aren't we thankful for

that? Yeah, I'm also thankful for the

free popcorn machine that we have.

That you get every day, yeah. Yeah, they they had, they

supplied the kernels, the butter and all the stuff you need to

make it. And is somebody goes around,

makes a communal batch of popcorn and you just scoop it up

and eat it at your desk and continue working.

What about the grease? Now the oil.

It's it's like light. It's kind of like it's not movie

theater, but it's it's like movie theater style where you

have the popper on the inside and you tip it and it pours out.

Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, no.

Fucking bullshit I want to like. This.

Go work a stairs. Yeah, well, I mean it's kind of

frozen, but go work a stairs. Frozen.

I can. I can get you in touch with my

recruiter. You can probably work alongside

me. Get out of code.

Oh, you worked with Michael before?

Never mind. Why am I asking?

I mean there's there's no coding involved with it.

Oh is it not coding? No, it's, it's QA testing, Yeah.

So we're giving the software, we're giving test cases.

We have to make sure that everything's tested and performs

as expected. Otherwise, we'll have to figure

out is it a problem with the protocols not being updated or

is it a problem with the software, or is it a problem

with the hardware or? All the fun stuff.

Yeah, I know. Last time you cried about it,

you're like we doubled in size of the last hour.

I found a problem and then the group chat went from three to

six people no matter if I. Yeah, I thought you did

something worse. I'm just like, hey guys, shit's

fucked. Yeah, 'cause like you said, in a

way, like where even Emma was like, excuse me?

Yeah, I was like concerned for a minimum.

Yeah, I was like. Fuck, what do you do?

Here's the thing, we're coming up.

We were coming up on a software deadline.

Oh, there it is. So they're like, yeah, we're

trying to go to release so we can get more products out to

customers. Right, that makes sense.

And it's like a week, like a physical week away from launch.

And like, hey, guys, there's a problem with the software.

Like, Oh my God. Well, aren't the customers

thankful for that? Yeah, I've said it twice now.

That's the topic of the episode is that we are thankful because

it's around Thanksgiving when this episode comes out and I'll,

I'll be, I'll, I'll be getting off by saying I am thankful for

my mom for not throwing away all my games when we grow up.

Because or having U.S. trade in for the new for new games

because there are parents that do that.

Like you can't get the new one unless you trade in your old one

and stuff like Pokémon that should increase value.

That would suck. Yeah, I've, I've read some, read

a stories, but like, yeah, she threw away a lot of toys when

like, you know, 'cause we just, we just had a lot growing and

I'm thankful the family that I actually grew up in like being

able to have that. But she donated all of them.

Like, if not most of them. Yeah.

I just got like, we don't use them so just donate them.

But for the games, it's just like my one of my sisters and my

brother don't really play games too much, at least anymore nice

the way that me and my sister do.

But because there was like, that five year gap between me and my

sisters, like there was really no chance for her to toss them

away. Plus my sister still plays those

games. Yeah.

She actually has a lot of my older games.

That's why I don't have many older games here.

I just ask her, oh, do you guys have Donkey Kong 64, which is

that yellow cartridge right there?

And she's like, yeah, yeah, we do.

Just take it. I'll go.

OK. Yeah, I am, I am, I am thankful

for, you know, my my parents just not throwing away all these

things because that would be a lot of value on and just all

those childhood memories and games and whatnot.

What about you guys? Doesn't doesn't have to be gamer

related but I just wanted to start off with a gamer related

thing. Yeah.

Now you go, Mark. I got to think about this.

I'm. Thankful for.

Mark Wow, this guy isn't fucking thankful little.

Nope, not at all. Nope, everything fucking sucks.

Get the fuck out of my palace. Get the fuck.

Out of my parallax, I'm thankful for my wife.

She has always been my rocking hard times and has really

rekindled a lot of how I think about the world and she always

puts up with my escapades and every fucking game that we pay

that we play to from. Oh God, from what we used to

play gun game during Call of Duty.

Cod. To Destiny 2 to Yeah It takes 2

and just she's always been there for every step of the way.

Just want to give her a little shout out of love.

I like that. Yeah, dude, I mean, I was going

to like piggybacking off of you. I was going to say thank you to

my girlfriend Shelby, because it was a a weird way to get into a

first relationship. I will say I'm not going to go

into it, but I am thankful for her because she is just the like

the kindest, most caring person. She understands things from all

angles and she gives me angles that I never even thought about

whenever I do something stupid. She's like here just like I'm,

I'm not trying to berate you. I'm just, you know, like trying

to make you a better person, which if not for her, I don't

think I would have grown as a person.

I don't think I would have realized myself worth by now.

And I don't think I would have. I definitely wouldn't have grown

as a lover because I've come a long way in three years.

Oh yeah. Since just getting with her and

getting to know her as well. I can definitely, I can

definitely vouch for you on that.

When you were younger, you just had no interest in dating at

all. And having met Shelby, you've

just completely one 80s and. Yeah, I mean, it was, it was

like a love at first sight kind of deal.

Like she's we saw each other different times.

But like when she saw me love at first sight, when I saw her love

at first sight. Yeah, at least what the the

first time I can remember. Yeah, I'm sure I saw her before

then because like she describes like how I looked at her, but I

don't I don't remember that, but yeah, I'll just.

There was love at first sight. The the road was treacherous to

go to where we were like actually finally dating again,

not going into it. But yeah, we got there in the

end and I'm thankful I stuck around and I'm.

And love works in weird ways, man.

And I'd do anything to better myself for her, for me.

I met Emma by breaking his school instruments so.

Yeah, didn't you like trip over a?

Chair. Yeah, I I was walking up the

steps with a Mind you, Emma and I used to be an orchestra and we

both played double bass. So for those of you who aren't

really in the know, think of a cello, the sitting instrument.

It's the standing instrument. It's the inflated version of I

was a little kid walking up steps, you know, kind of what

was it? Was it 6th grade year?

Yeah, it was just a little teenage Mark walking up some

steps. I'm sorry, you met her in 6th

grade. 6th, 7th grade around there, yeah.

Oh yeah, you were in Perry at that point.

I forgot that you went and then you came back.

Yeah. I I always forget you went to

Perry. Yeah, for like a year, yeah.

Yeah, No, I, I was walking up some steps.

I tripped and slammed the bridge of the base into a chair and it

popped off the instruments. And I just look up and I see Eva

just giggling 'cause I'm like, oh shit, I've got my dad

watching me from the doorway. I've got the teachers coming in

trying to fix the instrument that I just broke.

And I'm like, oh God. Weren't you guys the only double

bases in that band too? So there was like one or two

other guys, but they we didn't see them after like that year.

So it was really just Emma and I.

Aw. But yeah, no, that that's how we

met. What a way to meet, yeah?

That's all right. My OK, so I since you said your

story, I'm going to say mine. So I it was at Walmart and this

is this was the first interaction I remember where my

supervisor at the time was like, hey, Ethan, help this lady RIP a

pallet. And I was taught not to stare.

I didn't know what that meant. So what I always interpreted as

was don't look. And so it, it sounds really dumb

and it's kind of like it's just, it's not even embarrassing.

It's just like, it's just funny how I, how I thought, 'cause,

like when 'cause I would look at girls, like I wouldn't like not

look at girl, but when I was interested in a girl, wouldn't

look, I don't want to disrespect her at all.

And she was like, oh, she, he fucking hates 'cause I was

wrapping this palette, trying to show her how to wrap a palette,

and I was just looking everywhere but her.

Mixed messaging. I know she she listened to this

episode. She's just going to laugh about

it. But yeah, no, literally it was

just, I wouldn't look. It's so dumb to think about now.

But they're great stories because you remember them, you

know, they're. And maybe at that moment it was

like, oh, fuck. But now it's like, you know,

that that's your story. That's your own, I mean.

I I look too acquitted of my grandparents.

I mean, my grandma met my grandpa because he was

hitchhiking. That's funny.

I remember you. I remember you talking about

that. That's that's, yeah.

Well, Grandpa was in the Air Force, and Grandpa was.

In college and what, just thumb up like yeah.

Yeah, like Roach. Yeah, quite literally.

He yeah. Yeah, she's her friends, asked

the driver. They're like, hey, you mind if

we try to pick up some hitchhikers?

And they're like, yeah, sure. Lo and behold, my grandfather

met my grandmother that way. That's fine.

And soon late as soon after they hit it off.

I'm not sure if you ever told me that story.

Yeah. I don't remember.

Here we are, 50 plus years down the line, married with lots of

kids and grandkids. Yeah, I know.

They they met because Grandpa was back stateside from the Air

Force from a deployment, and he needed to get somewhere.

So he was out hitchhiking. And that's why they picked him

up, because they're like, oh hey, look, there's a guy in the

uniform, let's pick him up. That's awesome.

Yeah, just random stories of love for my family.

What about you, Brian? Have you thought of anything

that you're thankful for? Yeah, I've actually had some for

a while now, so not a significant other, but yeah, I

know, right? Forever alone.

I'm I'm that meme. Yeah.

So you guys know about Becca? Yeah, so.

Like I said, she's not a significant other, but she's

been in my life for 15 years in a while and she told me that and

I almost fucking fell over because it's like, Jesus Christ

has been that long now, I mean. That's the same length of time

I've known Emma so. So yeah, we we met in freshman

year of high school. We really didn't talk that much

freshman year. It was more sophomore year

because then she was dating my my buddy Zach.

But no, she's she's definitely been kind of my rock in certain

things. She's basically family at this

point. You know.

I've I've definitely have seen a lot in her life, things I really

wish I wouldn't have. But honestly, I'm happy I was

there and she was also there with me during some shit I had

to deal with after my uncle Chris passed.

Yeah. All I'll say is drugs are

fucking bad. Yeah, dude, I can say the same

thing with alcohol. Don't worry.

I I know what you mean. Yeah, it's fucked up.

To be completely honest. If she wasn't around during that

time, I don't know if I would have been there being completely

honest. That sucked.

Yeah, that's what makes me thankful for her.

She's my besides Andrew, she is my longest friend that I've

known. Yeah, and even though we don't

talk all the time, we don't need to.

Yeah. You know.

The relationship is just that strong and that well developed

that you don't really need to. Yeah.

Like we're so intertwined, you know, at this point that, yeah,

it's basically like a lifelong friendship.

Yeah. Yeah.

And I mean, I've gotten, you know, I've always been asked,

you know, like, why haven't you guys dated?

Well, it's simple answer that when you're when you're friends

with somebody for that long, OK, you have a choice you need to

make, you know, do you could date?

Sure, you could go well. Yeah, yeah.

That can happen. But it can also go the other

way. Yeah, it can also.

Sound. And then trying to be friends

after that is, I don't want to say impossible, but it's not the

it's, it's not, it's not going to be the same.

So you have to really think about that.

And yeah, there have been, we've had conversations about that,

but we don't feel that way about each other.

And that's. You know, totally.

Understandable, honestly, because love.

You don't have to be romantically in love.

No, there's, there's different types of love, yeah.

Yeah, there's a platonic love where you love your friends as

your family. Yeah, and that's, I mean that

that she's been the person to drop everything to make sure I

was fine. Yeah.

That's, you know, why I've, we've been friends for so long?

Because I've done the same thing.

Yeah. You know, like we've both have

had our issues in life, you know, but I'm happy I was the

one to do that, to be there. I'm thankful for that, thankful

for her. Like she, she knows that I'm

always thankful for her. But it's always nice to just be

like, you know, I'm happy you're still here.

After 15 fucking years. Of my bullshit?

Good. Believe me, I've I've definitely

have been an idiot with certain things.

That's how I feel with Mark. I'm surprised I haven't drove a

needle off by now. I don't think I will.

Not at this point, no. I I I dude.

You and I have known each other since elementary school.

I don't even know why it's. Not surprising too, yeah.

No, I'm, I'm just happy she's stuck around.

Yeah, you know, because I've been, I've been an asshole,

torture, you know, and I kind of sit there and I'm like, what am

I doing? You know, I mean you, you, you

know, every friendship, relationship, they got problems.

Oh yeah, you know, that's that's a part of life is that you're

going to have. There's the upstairs to the

Downs. There's the UPS, the downs, the

rough pitches and that's all we all all have to go through at

some point so. But I can tell you it's well,

well worth it. Yeah.

You know, that's what you should be thankful.

For yeah. And I'm also thankful for all

the good technology we have to make this podcast.

Got to be thankful for that too, God damn it.

Thank your dad for having this thing.

Oh my God dude, you're right. Oh my God, if.

Anything. Thank your dad.

Yeah, for for the sound system. OK, I got to be honest, Yeah.

I don't know why, but when you were like, first talking about

your dad, I don't know, I just, like, envisioned like this big

guy and your dad's skinny as hell.

I had like the completely like opposite idea.

Boy you should see his photos when he was younger.

Yes, my my dad has always been thin and that's fine.

You know, unless I just my head cannon.

I, I, I understand the head cannon that Ethan is because I

have it too. I always going to expect you to

be a little bit of a larger man. It's yeah, it's funny.

My dad at his prime he he could fit in spandex.

Wow. Damn well.

I could pick this man up like at this age I could do that.

Gonna be a poor guy's bodies all fucked up now but yeah I mean I

all his music he's done you know jumping around on stage and you

know with. This that's fair.

I didn't even think about that. I do not take that into account.

I kind of just like more so thought like studio mixer kind

of guy like Oh yeah, sit in chair and.

Oh, not him. He can't sit still.

Literally he has to be doing something if he like, I mean,

yeah, he was in like the studio helping, you know, mix and

whatnot and. You know, but he was also very

active. Yes, I mean, he was he was the

guy that ran a lot of shit. I mean, he, you know, he wasn't

the manager of the band, but he. He looked a lot.

Yeah, he would do a lot. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, he did. The guys had to break up fights

from his roadies because they were being dumb.

But he did it in such a great way.

Like he was always, even when he was stressed, was always kind of

calm about it and just trying to skip both sides, you know?

I'm like, man, that that's I want to be like that, you know?

Yeah, like, damn, man. All right.

I mean, that's, you know, another thing.

Yeah. I'm thankful for my family too,

especially now. Right.

For everything, you know, not being able to find work right

now, you know, it's been nice, you know, I just being with the

folks, you know. Being able to help out how you

can. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's, I mean, shit, I, I, I've learned a lot of things

that I don't really need right now in life, but down the line

that I need to know. Yeah, 'cause like my parents

are, you know, they're, well, more so my father.

He's, you know, getting ready to go on Medicare and all that

shit, you know, and it's actually not that difficult to

deal with. It's actually really simple.

Well, there you go, you know, so and being able to sit down,

because we're going to sit down with this person, we're going to

talk to you about all of that, just kind of get some insight on

how Medicare works because eventually you're going to have

to figure it out when we get older.

So, you know, these learning lessons are actually quite nice

because my dad didn't have that. He had to do.

He had to learn shit on his own. So I'm thankful for that being

having lessons. Oh yeah, definitely be thankful

for that. I I can vouch, I I can

definitely say learning things on your own is really fucking

difficult. It's rough.

I mean, especially, especially if you have that anxiety of I

need to make sure I get this done right the first time.

Yes, plus you. Also had like a family that was

basically shattering the fucking glass shards and you were just

split apart in so many directions.

Yeah, yeah. Growing up.

Like. Like all that?

Really just had to figure out like yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'm.

I'm also thankful for my parents too, no matter what it was they,

you know, support me like even even with this podcast, they're

like, Oh my God, you guys having fun like whatever my mom checks

in and whatnot yeah, we're great.

There's a point in time where like we built with college yeah.

And graduated. I went for a semester, but they

were like, yeah, we'll get you the books, whatever.

And like, you know, get you off your, you know, get you on your

feet, whatever. And which was really cool of

them. And even then it's like, Oh

well, like as pretty much all my all grown up, my dad said they

don't go for a job that you hate, go for one that you love.

Yeah. Yes.

And as of right now, I found a job that I love.

Yeah. Granted, you know, it's going to

have its bad days, but it's still the first job I've ever

had where I didn't immediately want to throw up within the

first week. Yeah, Yeah.

Which is awesome. And then just, you know, I'm

also thankful for you guys as my friends, especially you, Mark,

because you stuck around the most.

You even even Perry like that when you moved over there.

Like I sometimes I ask my parents and they're like, yeah,

well, let you hang out with Mark.

I'm like, that's so far away. I mean, you know, it's not that

far away as a kid. As a kid that's far fucking

away. In hindsight, that's like 20

minutes down the road. Yeah, it's not that bad.

It's like you really. You, you let me.

Thanks. But like, even then, like just

all the friends that I have, like I have you guys, I have

friends from a magic circle. Don't forget Jake.

Yeah, Jack, I mean like I have like you got, I have you guys,

you know, as my friend circle plus the other people within

that circle. I also have like friend named

Ethan and like his circle of friends that like kind of

separated as a Venn diagram, but more so separate than not.

Yeah. Then I'll still get kind of a

bunch of magic friends as well. Yeah.

A wide network and a lot of people don't even have one

friend which. Yeah.

Kind of like it. It does suck, and I really hope

that those out there can find at least a friend.

Yeah, somebody to bond with, share stories over.

And that's why I'm thankful for even having like 1 friend.

Yeah, especially so early on in my life.

Yeah, as well as like just how many friends I Because I'm a

pretty damn introverted introvert.

Yeah. I don't know how the fuck I got

here. I.

Feel that, man. I feel, yeah.

I feel, yeah. Well, Mark adopted you into our

group, so. Yes, yes, Sir.

I, I took your reins, was like, hey, I like you at work.

Come. Over here, come over here.

Come see what we're doing. I mean, I'm thankful for that.

That is another thing because I mean, like, besides like back on

Andrew, that's that was it, yeah.

And like with my girlfriend, she doesn't have many friends

outside me and her best friend. And you adopted her into the

friend group too. I did and she's still constantly

like I only have two friends. I'm like, you literally have all

she. Has way more than just a

brother. Old friends that you're just

believe I. Cannot emphasize enough just how

excited am I gets whenever you say that Shelby's gonna show up.

Dude, that's the same thing with my family.

Is it? Oh my God, a Shelby?

Yes. Yeah, like Shelby's awesome.

Yeah, she's great. Stands that we all love her.

She can be the like, depending on her mood, she can be the life

of the party. Yeah.

Oh yeah. I still remember the one time

the pizza delivery guy came over and said I am literally drooling

from like well damn bitch eat. So fucking funny.

Fucking love her, she's awesome. She's so fucking funny.

I don't know how I landed her. She's fucking.

She makes me laugh every day. It's awesome.

I make her life every day. I I couldn't ask for anyone

else. Yeah.

Yeah. Shelby, if you're listening,

yes, But no matter how much in disbelief you are, I would not

ask for anyone else. That's adorable.

No, like I said, I, I'm, I'm thankful that you guys let me in

the group, you know? I'm going to be honest, at first

I was worried. I'm like, is he going to fit him

or? Yeah, you're telling me I was

afraid to even start playing with you guys.

I mean, to, to be fair, if you're friends with Mark, then

like, really good. Like more often than not, you're

going to vibe with us. Yeah.

And well then, now it now. In hindsight.

In hindsight, yeah, no, I'm like, I may not be the greatest

friend ever, but. You're one of the friends.

I try. I all I can say is I've had bad

days at my previous job. You were always there whenever I

asked. You're always like, give me 15

minutes at least or at most. I'm like, Oh my.

God, I remember even one of those days I was still sleeping.

Really. Oh yeah, shit.

And my phone. I heard my phone and I'm like

oh, Oh no, OK, I'm up. I think it was like 4 or five

times. Yeah.

It wasn't too often, but. No, but you needed somebody.

Yes. Yeah.

I mean you were there for me when I fuck shit of a job I was

in. Right.

Driving home crying like a motherfucker.

Yeah. Like, like seriously.

It was, yes. I I I remember some of the

stories, you never really explained how bad it was, but I

I could tell it was. Fucking there was like one or

two calls. There, it was like, funny

enough. And it was one day, yeah, I was

on the phone with Ethan and I'm like, the the thing I hated

about this job was just the way it was.

Yeah, it was like it was not set up right.

It was it. Was not organized.

He was, he was on his own and whenever he asked questions,

he's like, go figure it out for yourself.

Right. It was basically, yeah, like

you, you could talk to us, but it's like you guys are like half

the time you never answer. So it's like what the fuck?

Yeah, You know, that's how my last job was like.

Oh, we can always like, set up a meeting, like a video call or

whatever. OK, Can we do a video call?

Send us send me a screenshot of what your problem was.

That's no, I'm sorry. That's not what I yeah, what I

thought was happening. So.

You kind of you feel like you're like out of options.

Out of options on your own with no idea of how to actually

perform it. And I will say, like, I don't

want to bring this up too much 'cause I want to keep Jack

private. But there was one time, you

know, you guys know why, even if I'm not going to explain it, but

there was a time where at work he was like, hey, I'm going to

ask you something. Yeah.

'Cause he was in a bad spot at the time.

I remember a a particular moment for Jake where he said he really

needed to just get out of work and talk to somebody.

And he told him, hey, I'm heading home for lunch.

Why don't you come stop over and talk to Emma and I and, and we

helped kind of get him set straight and figure out what he

wanted to do, like just get him out of that.

I. Don't think I've like for you in

terms of you guys. I don't think I've ever had a

closer network of friends. Yeah, yeah, I feel the, I feel

the same way and. Like, it really helps that we're

on discord every fucking well, just about.

Every day. Every.

Night. Like it's I've never like I

haven't had a friend group where even when we disagree on things.

We're still fine. Like, we can disagree on things.

That's perfectly fine, yeah, but let's not make that where it

ruins everything. Yeah, I mean, I may, you know,

roast the absolute shit out of the mark and.

I might call you a ginger fuck. But Ginger, I'm sorry, I, I, I

can't go to like, you're not gonna now.

And you're like, Jesus fucking Christ, and you're like Mark.

I'm almost trying not to laugh. No, but that, that's, that's

the, that's the beauty of actually having real friends.

Right that. That that's just you.

Know. The joys of true relationships.

I guess so you can disagree on. Things like even even like the

harshest joke, it's like we do it in a friendly manner.

Oh. Fuck yeah, Yeah.

Like the Johnny Bravo joke? Oh.

That's right. Oh shit.

What are you, Johnny Bravo? Yeah, so Brandon started making

references to Johnny Bravo, and he's like, who?

And I pipe up and I'm just like, so that's why you can't ever get

a girlfriend. That shit sent me.

I'm like, he just cracked the fucking code.

I'm like that God damn Penguin meme just to see all the they

see him just blankly staring as everything's going on around

him. Like, yeah, I, I.

Was so doing bad in the book? No, like, no, it was.

I felt so bad for a Sam. Well, you're not gonna anymore

when? That was good too.

I that I saw, I know you make jokes about it, but.

I felt. Horrible.

But then Brandon was like, what was it?

Say it. I'm like, alright, you asked for

it. You asked.

For it. It was just.

The, the, the fucking Johnny Bravo thing that was on my mind

for that entire fucking night because it was just, it was so

funny, 'cause yeah, I just make it so, you know, like.

What are you, Johnny Bravo? Yeah.

You know, but it was the quickness of me.

It took me back, 'cause I'm not that type of person.

Who's that? Quick, yeah, yeah, I was really

quick off the ball with that too.

It was 2 seconds. Both of us were kind of like

bouncing it. You know who?

My Mama warned me about women like you.

I was hoping she was right. God, yeah.

That's the thing about me and Mark is that we're just fucking

instant. Oh yeah.

Once it once it snaps, it snaps into place.

It's. Natural.

I don't say shit. I just sit here and I'm just

watching because I'm learning you.

Know. So that's how they do quips.

Monkey see, monkey do. There's times where like even

Shelby's like, I'm going to be my pants.

Stuff like, 'cause I just, I just make jokes every fucking

breath I take. There it is again.

Get that chair counter thinking. Why does it sound like an old

man shit? This depends.

We went over this last. Week.

Are you sure it's the chair? Mr. Brandon, you are pushing 30.

Oh, I heard those teeth. Yeah, I heard the crack

wrecking. The knees.

This is not helping my hand. OK, hang on, hang on, hang on.

We got a little. I want to see how I'm doing this

so I know now it's not going to do it.

Yeah, like I said, Are you sure it's the chair?

There it is. That was that was a squeak.

Not the, not the farts. Not the God.

Yeah, like you're. There was a point where I could

like when I was on that chair, I could just go like super slowly.

That made me fucking think of my old chair.

My old chair. It like at first was great.

It was like leather or whatever. Yeah, but it it started peeling

which. No.

I really hate leather now. That's how my chair is.

It's, I'm not sure if it's like faux leather or if it's actual

leather. It's.

Most likely faux leather. Yeah, it's peeling and I can see

like the the. Cloth and Oh yeah, if it's

peeling, it's faux leather. OK.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, that's big.

Like true leather, I don't think peels.

So it cracks. It cracks, but it doesn't peel.

Yeah. But I don't, I'm not sure if

that's true leather or not, but like it, there's almost no signs

of wear and tear. Like whenever I get a scratch on

it, it's like a surface scratch and I can kind of like rub it

off and I'll go back to its original color.

Let me. I've got a leather wallet.

Oh, there we go. Right into them.

All fucking day. Let's be thankful for Mark's

burps. Bass boost, bass boost, bass

boost again. Add reverb, maybe little

trumpets the horse sound again. Wait, I'll pause it.

Pause the sounds. It's.

Perfect. OK, resume the sounds.

Pause the sound. Yeah, no, my wallet editor,

actual leather wallet. And Oh yeah, I've had it for

like a couple years now and you can see it it, it doesn't

really, the material itself doesn't fall apart, it just

cracks. Yeah, I can, like I can go get

my wallet. I mean like there's only one

part of it and that's like this. You see this like sewn Ridge,

like, yeah, the back of it, like actually where my ID would go.

Yeah 'cause it's like clear and whatnot.

Yeah, that like kind of tore off in the back.

It was just really hard and I would just RIP up the wallet

more. So I don't most of the problem

I. Have is just the seams give out.

Yeah, that's my problem too. Like the the the seam where I

would put my ID and it doesn't even have this thumb hole either

in my wallet. Yeah, I can't remember.

Would RIP. How long?

I've had mine but it it's like actually ripping inside.

Now I've had my wallet for a good Oh my God, yeah.

What? I don't know how long I've had

my wallet. I'd have to ask Ethan, 'cause

he, I think. He's thinking, he's thinking.

Yeah, cuz Ethan recommended it to me.

He's like, Oh yeah, get a billfold wallet cuz like I don't

like the trifold cuz how thick they got when you put yeah, too

much bills in there like this. Yeah, yeah.

I'm not a big fan of that either.

I don't like the Tri, I like the I.

Like the bifolds as well. Yes, I do billfold.

Oh, you do, Billfold. Oh yeah, yeah.

So I have a billfold. So it's literally just the

entire dollar bill. So like you open up your

trifold. It's literally.

Just like. Yeah.

And then another front that. Closes, Yeah.

Oh, that's. Nice.

It's very nice. I think I had my wallet for at

least six years. Yeah.

See now then, thinking about that.

After this, after we're done here, but I can show you my

wallet. I'm thankful for that wallet.

It's gone farther than I have, Nevada and back.

Yeah. Yeah, no, I like my wallet.

It's like I said, ripping, which kind of sucks, but Adam.

You've had it for years. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean Adam. Most of how thick it is, all

those cards in it like just the just the cards itself.

Yeah. Yeah, not Adam at the video game

shop. He's actually got a 964 wallet

and he's like, you want it? I had an NES wallet for a for a

while. Yeah, it was a.

It was a trifle, but like it, whatever.

I just thought of something that I'm actually really thankful

for. So I have it in my wallet right

now. My for some reason, I don't know

how or why this happened. Like at this point, it's got to

be fate, like genuine fate. My I was having a rough day at

one of my jobs because I was thinking about my older cat or

my childhood cat, you know, that's passed away already.

And it was, you know, being a childhood cat and.

Just the way he was. I'm going to detail.

I miss him. I still miss him.

It's, you know, been easier since then, but it's not going

to go away. My dad came up to me and he's

like, hey, I found this in my wallet.

I was cleaning it out. It was a vet veterinary.

What is it called? Appointment yeah from like 2002.

I'm sorry you're cleaning out your wallet and you've it's from

2002 with my pets name on it Yeah Jesus.

He's like yeah I'll give it to you at the end of the day I'm

just like holy fuck and I still have it in my wallet.

I'm like, holy shit. And that made me cry even more.

Yeah. And I'm genuinely because it's

something to remember. And I think that makes it easier

because I can pull it out. Not just, you know, remember

once every five years and have a whole rush of emotions.

I can just once a month. Yeah.

I know. That's cool.

One, keep my emotions in check, but two, just have that memory

of have a physical memory other than other than, you know,

pictures on my phone. Yeah, like a physical memory,

yeah. And you know what I still have

in my wallet? Oh my God, you've got, you've

got the chungus in there, don't you?

But I I just. Oh my God, you do.

I just cannot fathom how he said he was cleaning out of there was

like, in my mind, 2002. There's no way.

Oh my God. That's awesome.

So story for this story time. You know how Brandon and I used

to work on the Epic project, right?

Yeah, yeah, We, we used to do that work for UH-1 of our test

things was testing scanners is to make sure that the system was

actually working with Epic and how Brandon and I would go about

it. Typically what they wanted you

to do was to scan just any random ass fucking card.

Yep. And that got annoying,

especially when we got to places where we're like, well, we can't

get a business card. Yeah.

So Brandon happened to have this in his wallet the entire time.

My God. And we would scan it and you

would just see Big Chungus appear on the fucking screen.

Yes, and all of its glory. Yeah, I.

I I hate the Bing big chunk of meme, but that, that's fucking

funny. That's fucking funny.

The meme itself is. Yeah.

You know what I mean? It's it had.

It's like, it's like early brain rot.

That's about it. But this, I got this from one of

my Co workers back at Giant Eagle, my buddy Josh, he gave

this to me and I'm like brother, I'm keeping this in my fucking

wallet. God.

This I mean, we, we had to have our fun with that job 'cause

that that job was a pain in the ass.

Yeah, it was a pain in the ass and a lot of it was just kind of

really boring. I mean, you guys made it sound

like fun, like every time you talk about it, you.

Guys there, there was a lot of fucking bullshit here.

There's what I'm saying. You guys are like, yeah, no,

Jeff came in. We were just deep throating

bananas. Oh God damn it, fuck up fucking

Henry. Oh, no, yeah, no take.

A man's erect penis. Poor little Henry, he was a

fucking. Way he walked in.

No, hang on, we're putting the mic down for this.

We're we're going through the story, aren't we?

Yes. We are, oh God.

I know I'm going to be away from it, but that's fine.

No fucking Henry, man. You know, we had a room kind of

like this. Yeah, it it was just a straight

rectangular room. It was on the top floor of where

we could be. So we had a great luck out over

Cleveland. That's besides the boy.

We had two new guys working with us that day.

Oh. God, yeah.

And we were like, we were trying to fuck with them the entire

time, just trying to break the ice, get them used to working

with us. Oh, God, it was a, oh, God,

Jacob and I were piped up. We're like, hey, have you

watched the Deep Throat video on YouTube?

And they look over the like, what are you talking about?

And I was like, oh sweet. Summer Child.

Sweet summers child. So, Jacob.

Would do this now. Jacob, I pulled them the lady

with the grapefruit just prior to this, our team lead, Henry is

this little Puerto Rican guy. He steps out of the room 'cause

his wife called him and he's just answering the call.

And we find we find the grapefruit fruit video on

YouTube and we're like, OK, we just happened to put on the the

ear rape version of it as well. And so she starts talking.

She's like, Oh yeah, this is how you do it with a guy with a

grapefruit. And this is how you get set up.

As soon as Henry walks back in, he.

Literally. Walks in and she starts doing

the thing and it does the earring vision.

So he's walking in, you know, and he's like, what you doing,

you know? He's just so shocked.

This short little man walks in. He's just got a face.

He's like, yeah, he's just completely speechless.

When he finally speaks up, he's like, did I miss something?

That was he could have not came back into the fucking room at

the best fucking time. You know, fucking it's like shit

you not, I remember this as soon as he opens up that door, it's.

When it's starting. It's when it starts and The

thing is OK, the the kind of set the stage here.

There are other people on this floor.

There are other offices, there's like two or three offices.

So there's like the emergency response team and then like an

administrative office that. Was so fucking loud that I'm

sure that was probably one of the things on why a camera was

installed in that room. Yeah, OK.

It didn't have one before, OK? Literally now it would.

People are watching us, you know, and honestly, for good

reason. After you're here, you know,

like, come on, man. So there is so the there was a

reason why the door had to be closed whenever we were in it,

and a reason why there was a camera and.

Whenever somebody went through that door, everybody shut the

hell up because it was. There was no the acoustics were

so perfect, they would just carry throughout the rest of the

floor. God, God.

That was so. One of my favorite memories from

there God and. Then all of the fucking.

Thankful for that. Oh, definitely.

Those are memories I'm going to take to the grave.

That and all the times we're playing overcooked and extended

our lunch. Yeah, we accidentally extended

our lunch by an. Hour yeah, so we we had an hour

long for lunches and we started getting the habit of playing

Overcooked with everybody on the team and even even our project

manager Patrick would come over be like, hey you guys playing

overcooked, you know like, yeah, he's like I'm joining in yeah

dude he would bring his Steam Deck over too and we'd all just

be playing overcooked that's fine you just know oh OK.

But it's so, it's so, it's so much it, it's so much funnier.

You're looking at it in hindsight too, because towards

the end, we were the team lagging behind in devices in

terms of just per capita number of devices that were actually

tested. And by the time launch for Epic

released for CMC, we had about 91% of our devices totally

completed. We were the facility with the

fewest problems. Yes.

That's funny. We worked hard.

I mean, right? Yeah we we from right at the get

go we had a mentality of we need to touch every single fucking

computer. Yep.

So no matter what, we we got really good at managing this

too, because a lot of these floors really were jam packed

with computers. Like some of these, some of

these suites we would have to do were upwards of like 60

computers that we had to get at. Like no joke that it was a lot

of really hard work, especially because it was in a medical.

We were in actual medical rooms, either outpatient procedure

rooms or we're in where you have all the residential suites.

Right. Yeah.

I couldn't imagine what that looks like.

Make sure it's an experience that you don't forget.

It, it really was. And we were able to just

coordinate with ourselves. Like we, we got to the point

where we were so professional with it.

We were split. There were four of us at CMC to

start off with and then we split up into groups of two.

Yep. And it would be Jacob and

Suhani, and it would be Brandon and I.

And we would just arrive at a suite, be like, hey, we need to

get at the devices. We'll try to stay out of your

way as best as we can. And as we go through, we make

notes to each other trying to track where all the devices are

going. And it just became a matter of

just instinct walking into the department, knowing where we

could probably find hidden devices and getting through it

within the span of like an hour or two.

Jesus. Yeah, we, we had that shit

locked down and we and we, we did not cut any corners too.

We went through all of our our requirements that we had to go

test. We went through, made sure all

the equipment was good and we managed to get it down to oh, we

only need a device for like upwards of 5 minutes to login,

make sure everything's installed and set up properly and to get

out and get it set over and yeah, put the sticker on it to

make sure we don't test it again.

And we, we were very fucking rapid at it and.

We were besides the the main campus like you had on or like

regional hospitals and. Those other teams had a lot more

people on them, too. And they, there is one Regional

Hospital that somebody just put these on the monitors when the

computer passed all the tests, put a sticker on it with a

little check mark. Good.

Well, this team decided to put checkmarks on every single

computer and not even touch them.

So they tested one computer in the entire department and just.

I was going to say the other team sound like they cut

corners. They cut massive corners.

And it's and. It and it wasn't found out until

like a month or two before launch.

Yep, let me tell you how higher ups were not happy.

They were not happy. Is this needed to be done

correctly? Right, it needed to be every

desktop computer, every workstation on wheels or wow

carts, every laptop, every like wall mounted computer,

everything needed to get access. No, I mean, like, I remember

receiving a piece of paper that said like, oh, like, epic on it.

Like, I'm not sure if that's the same thing.

Yeah. Yeah, yes.

OK. So I'm like, wow, like, these

guys did it. Yeah.

It's the type of experience we got from this is very unique.

Oh yeah, this is a type of. It was, it was a very big

expression of soft skills, technical knowledge and as well

as workplace organization and communication.

Well, like everything was fucking stressed to the limit, I

mean. Plus like you 2 are like the

perfect barrier because one of you guys was really get a

software and one of you guys really get a hardware.

Oh yeah. So.

Was I say, hey, Mark, it's your problem.

I go, all right, I got it. We had that a couple times.

Yeah, I mean, we bounced around, you know, there'd be rooms he's

taken care of, I'm taking care of other.

Rooms, right? Or he's working with equipment,

I'm working with medical staff to keep tensions low because

they're already stressed off enough as it was with all.

Like when we started, we were still wearing masks inside of

campus 'cause this was like, what would you just say, 2022?

Yeah, it's 2022. 2022-2023. Then they really required it at

that point. So at the start, yes, OK.

So at the start still during inventory all the way through

like the start of like what was that?

Was it deployment or TDR? TDR, yeah, towards the start of

TDR, where we're actually going through and testing stuff, we

had a month where we still had to wear our face masks.

I Remember Me and me and Jacob and Suhani, we were doing one of

these rooms and one of the emergency departments.

This, it was an empty room, OK? Nobody was in it.

Somebody was in it before. But you know, we were able to

get in there and get that computer.

Yeah. Well, they were rolling this

person back in there and this guy had COVID was on a

breathalyzed like. A air tank.

Everything ever it is. He looked like a skeleton Jesus.

Christ. It looked like he was.

Gone. We saw a lot of shit.

Yeah, no doubt. I even was in that same exact

emergency department with somebody who got shot.

Yeah. The thing is with with

hospitals, you have to be ready to see things you don't want,

you know, And some people can handle it better than.

Others I mean. It is what it is.

Yeah, you have to have that degree, modicum of respect.

That's why I cracked a lot of jokes.

Yeah, I mean to to lighten up the mood, Yeah, we did make a

lot of jokes. But in situations where we

really needed to like, exercise, respect, yeah, and really

enforce professionalism, we really did.

I felt bad for Suhani this one time.

You weren't with us, Mark. We were in an elevator and if

the medical staff needed the elevator right away, you get

out. Yeah.

Right you. Know you don't question nothing

get. Out of, you know.

Well, there was this one person that was coming in with look

like a bed with like a sheet on it, you know, and we're like,

you want us to get out, You know, I was like, Nah, you're

good. That was a person who died that

was under that sheet. Yeah.

You can tell by the silver one. Yeah, yeah.

And I remember Suhani was kind of like, what the fuck, you

know, I felt so bad for her because it didn't really faze me

that much. I, I don't know why.

I just my mind doesn't go to that person died, he died.

Yeah. Right.

I feel the pain for that. Right, you know of.

Course, you also, you can't let your nerves get the best of you.

You have to whatever you're in that situation, you have to have

the utmost respect. Now this funny thing is, there's

one awkward moment. This is are.

You talking about what I'm thinking of?

I don't know if you weren't with us.

OK. Me and Suhani had to go into

this, this one, not an exam room, but it, I think it was a

kind of like a break room ish area or whatever.

And the computer in there, you know, and we knock on this door

and the person's like, you know, hey, what's up?

You know, we tell them who we are and we're like, need a set

computer. She's like, Oh yeah, come on in.

You know, this was Horry. These folks that were in there

were visitors talking about next steps for their loved one.

Oh, fun do. We put them down, God.

Yeah, why are we in here? Why did you like?

Why didn't you let us come? In Are you OK?

No, I think you're like, you're holding your neck, like I think

you strained something. No, no.

I'm like, Oh my God, no. I just, you know it.

Oh God. Awkward.

Oh my bad. There's there's a lot of

awkward. Situations right now too,

because. I I was then getting pissed off

at myself. I'm like why the fuck am I in

here? Yeah, you know.

Like I'm the asshole, not. Right, you're just doing your

job. Yeah, I'm just a tech.

I could come back, later told us.

You know that. That's why, like another thing,

bringing it back, being thankful for your health.

I was going to say I don't want to bring it back to being if we

still have any more stuff, but yeah.

Be thankful for your health. You know, there are a lot of

folks that don't have the greatest health.

Right and. You know, great.

Over the people you have around you.

Yeah, and. Hold them dearly, never know

when you're going to lose. Them and cherish the moments

that you do have with them. Yes, you always want to do that.

Live life without regret. Yes, and just live your life the

best you can, you know, be a loving person.

I know that sometimes the world may look down and on you for

that, but you're a good person, right?

Because you, you, you never know what somebody might be going

through. And if you say something to them

that isn't very nice, you don't want to do that.

Yeah. Right, and I will say like I

even though I hate my past jobs, like this is, you know, off off

the rails that you've been going down.

But like I even though I hated the jobs and I hated the people

in my past jobs that I've had, I am thankful for those people

that I've hated because, you know, they've helped me form who

I wanted to be. Yeah, because looking out back

on it like. Probably like even 10 years ago,

back in school, I was one of the shyest motherfuckers in school.

Yeah, you can contest. I, I, I can convert that.

And just like you made me feel like a social butterfly.

Yeah, Social butterfly, I feel like and I just, I just have

like the lowest. I'm an introvert with the lowest

social battery in my entire family.

Yeah, one of the lowest social battery you'll ever probably be.

But no, just I I'm still not where I want to be.

I will say that because I want to be able to stand up for

myself. I am not good at like thinking

confrontation. Yeah, I'm not good at

confrontation. I'm not, I'm not good at

thinking of what to say. Like even in like a joking

conversation like I'm like. I could have said that like,

yeah. And not being good at

confrontation, like I'll go, I'll rehearse it in my head.

Like I'll go down like a bunch of different pathways and then

what really happens? None of that, nothing.

So I'm not prepared at all. I understand that feeling.

And silly, I just get more so angry and I just like.

More. Than anything meant like itself

a long way to go but like I'm thankful for where I am now as a

person like I've I know that now there's things that I just.

Won't stand up for. Especially disrespecting.

Yeah. Oh yeah.

No, that's, that's one thing, you know, but you don't stoop

down at a level, that's the one thing.

Also no I. Want to keep in mind, take it

from me, I'll do that. I have lost battles belief now.

There are some. Get yourself taken down a pig.

I the. My thing is I I would play the

long game and I've tried that before but like I lost my job

before I could play my final card, my last job.

Because yeah, there. Was a person that like for some

reason I had this fit about this fucking chair and they just took

it out of my area. Yeah, yeah, I remember that the.

Person that you know, was over in that area said like, oh, that

chair's been there for two years.

I'm like, so why the fuck are you taking it now?

Yeah, something. All right, well, on my last day

here, I'll throw the fucking garbage in the bag.

The fucking dumpster. I, I, I I'm more of a long

person. Like you've seen me.

I can. I can play a fucking joke.

Oh yeah. I will go far for a joke.

So Hello Kitty, I'm an adventure.

I hate that games actually. I just love it.

I just. Love it.

Be thankful. For it, but not like that's how

I am I I will play the one yes yeah.

Be thankful for Salzburg that you know brought it into

existence. Yeah, unintentionally.

Yeah, I don't have. World of Warcraft I play Key

Hello Kitty's Island adventure. Play Hello Kitty then wow.

Honestly, Dave, I've been kind of wanting like a wanting to

find like an MMO or no, that's not MMO.

No, no, I was thinking of MOBA MO where it's kind of just get

lost in it, like whether it's Warcraft or Wizard one O 1 or

something like that. I just kind of like, I kind of

want that long form game. Hell yeah.

One of those, but a lot of those long form games require

subscriptions and I just don't play like that.

Yeah, I don't like. The subscription stuff, it's.

Not the. It's not the.

Subscription that's bothering me.

It's just that I don't like because of my nature of playing

games. I skip around, yeah.

I don't stay around long enough. That I I can I can understand

that. Like, I don't mind paying if I'm

gonna play it, but yeah. I mean I I have that

subscription for Fallout. Right.

And you play it and you play it, yeah.

And it's kind of funny, you know, it's, I guess 76 is

considered an MLO. And I'm like, really?

And. I'm like.

Yeah. Yeah, it is.

Yeah. It's like an MMO light, yeah.

Yeah, I would say so because the lobbies aren't that big.

Like 16 lobbies aren't that big. The skill, the skill system's

kind of less technical than other Mmos.

How? Far, yeah, didn't.

What? Path of the Exile too, Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, or even with like, I

haven't played it, but like Final Fantasy.

Oh yeah, I I played a little bit of that and I don't like the.

Combat I have, I have friends that are in the final fan like

this, those Mmos. I think it's Final Fantasy and

oh, is it just Final Fantasy? I mean, there's Final Fantasy.

It's not World of Warcraft. There's another one that's.

It's gotcha an impact one, no? No, that's a gotcha.

That's a gotcha, I think, yeah. Maybe it is just Final Fantasy,

I think. I think it's like 15 or 16.

No, it's 14 and 16, right, that are the MMS on lines.

Yeah, I think. It's the yeah.

Because I think it's. Probably 1615, yeah.

But they play those and they like, I mean, like, cool, good

for you guys, but I just like, I would like to get into it, but I

just don't think Final Fantasy is my thing.

I'm not really an RPG person. And that's what a lot of them

are. Granted, they spread across a

lot of genres, but. I know there's I forgot which

Final Fantasy it is, but I, I think it's on PC.

My brother has it on PS-5 and it plays like King of Mars.

They like done away with the that combat system or whatever.

Which when I think about it, like, like not all games are

like playing like King of Mars, but I the Final Fantasy has

always been known for, you know, that's her based.

Yeah. Like that's what I think when I

think Final Fantasy, I don't think I was online, I think.

Turn based like 6 or 7. Yeah, like or even.

And like that's that is Final Fantasy, but I mean like Kingdom

Hearts is fine with in that regard, but I wonder how Kingdom

Hearts would have been if it had a turn based.

I was going to look up popular Mmos but that's a YouTube so I

can't do that. That's funny, I think the

closest I'll ever get to Emma Bow is truthfully is Monster

Hunter, even though it's not really.

I guess you could say it's an MMO light.

As well, it's an MMO light with just its complexity, yeah.

Because could you? Could you consider Monster

Hunter an RPG? Not in the traditional sense.

Yeah, not in like, not not in the JRPG sense, I think.

Like. Traditional means is Japanese

RPGs because that's yeah, that's what the turn based combat

comes. In a yeah, OK, because it it's

not a turn based combat game and it's also not really a game

where you have choice in the matter of affecting the world,

right? It's more because it's very

linear storytelling. It's more so yeah, you're just

assuming the hunter. Yeah, you're assuming the role

of the hunter, but you have your choice of how you want to

approach your combat, your weapons, your layout, your

perks. Everything else is completely in

your hands. It's funny, I was kind of

thinking about this a little bit at work this week.

It's like, why would I not want to play Wilds?

But like, I also have the thought of if I were to play

World again, I would probably pick that up in a heartbeat.

Oh yeah. I just don't know where the

difference lies. Probably.

It kind of does suck that the hunts take a literal.

Hour. Yeah, God, you had to invest so

much time in the world. I mean, granted, like in my main

profile, I have like 700 hours. Yeah, I listen, I got that game

and I played the shit. I loved it.

I still love it. No, I got it and played it with

Jake and you for a little bit and I fucking loved it.

I need to play more. Yeah, I would totally hop on

with you, but just I I think I would need to get online.

Each fight is an hour long if you play at level.

Well, maximum is 15 minutes, but yeah, an hour, Yeah, more often

than not, it's going to take like 40 minutes on average.

Yeah. On the long end.

Yeah. But again, you still have to

invest the time into it well. Right, that makes.

Sense and I I really want to get back into world.

I would love to just. To finish it, because Jack and

I, Jack's already beaten Fatalis, but I'm just at

Fatalis. Now, I have never beaten

Fatalis. I haven't beaten Fatalis.

I haven't beaten A Latreon. Yeah, a Latreon.

I think I lost with you guys. Like, I mean, granted, Jack's

like the hardcore kind of guys. Like I'm, I'm this calling

ambulance, calling ambulance, but not for me.

Like he's that kind of guy in in in Monster Hunter.

That that's why it in Wilds I made a reaction card or it's

like, holy shit, Jack actually died.

Oh yeah. I got one for Emma, one for

Brandon, or it's like Emma died again, or Brandon died again and

it's just like the cheerful ones where they're just laughing.

And then there's the one with the I think Alma is the

character in it just freaking out.

It's like Jack died. What the fuck?

Dude I would be so bad with Kurtz yeah 'cause like wild is

so easy but I carted like 8 times yeah if not more.

What? Playing the games.

I feel has smaller windows in order to evade shed.

Well, I'm also used to a world where it has the the the the

last ditch effort dive. Yeah, I mean, you still have

that, but it's just not a catch all anymore.

Yeah. I would say now.

That was like one of my favorite things to do.

Oh my God, the toaster is exploding dark.

Or was Safajiva's nuke? I don't think you can even

escape that you. Can't you have to get behind the

boulder? Yeah, I wrote.

Just the image of it coming down is awesome.

I remember hunting that I'm not sure if you were there remember

remind me if I was if you were, but it was me, Nick, Jack and I

think someone else. I was not there.

I think it was the other guy. I took him back.

Extreme. I think so.

I don't think so 'cause oh, maybe I think we hated them at

that point anyway. I think I feel like there was a

fourth person, I can't remember, but there was, there was a time

where like we just, we were killing Safi so fast, not like

actually killing, but we were damaging her so fast.

She would do the DPS check after the bowlers were gone.

What? We were doing too much damage.

Because I looked it up. I'm like, why are we having our

problem and saying, oh, you might be doing too much damage?

So we tried it. I was like, all right, guys deal

less damage. There were the rocks, the rocks

were there. Cool, we're good.

The DPS check, all right, cool. We survived it.

We were literally too good. Yeah.

What if that can that happen in like like Wilds and shit?

Oh, potentially. I mean, it depends on how it's

set up for the for the more I mean, I mean look.

Yeah, what we're talking about is like end of the game and.

This is only you have the top rated armor, yeah.

Oh, like quite and. You have you have meta builds.

You have beaten master rank and made it your bitch and now

you're on the hardest the hard parts of the game.

So Safi Jeeva is basically a raid boss.

You can get four teams of four to go into this fight, Yeah.

And break and break parts and get more point.

I think of this in the works, get more points and what I.

I know that's what it was for, you know, for.

Oh God. What's her name?

Tallow Beroth or something? Yeah.

Kovy Teroth. The golden Girl.

Yeah. But I, I think, I think you're

right. I think it's also with Safi Jiva

where? It's definitely Savi where you

have plants. I was like oh break the back

seat but it takes. Quite literally, the hunts don't

go through the full hunt. You're going into teams of four

and you're all doing work to damage the monster to weaken it

to the point of where teams can actually start killing it.

Yeah, because you have like a set amount of time and you can't

kill them at that time. But once you break parts or get

points or whatever. Then it starts advancing to the

next room. Get into.

Fights and then eventually like, you know, maybe like 30 minutes

go by, you never, you never see that second room.

After 10 minutes, you see the second room.

So it's just like it was. Really goal posting you and just

like being like. You got to keep doing enough

damage in order to keep moving forward.

And I think what I, I think what I really liked about world is

that everything just made sense to me.

Like I could, I'm not sure about Wilds, but like I could just

make mega potions yeah I'm not sure if that's an easily

resource cuz I have what's in the box so recently yeah yeah.

It is after you beat the main campaign.

You have to do a couple side quests to get this going, but

Nada becomes your item retrieval guy and it unfortunately it's

not as simple as World's item was so simple.

Oh my God, it was so. It was so easy to abuse.

Yeah, so in in world there's like you have a, you have like a

gathering point. You can set one thing one and

then you can you can each hunt will add one stack, whatever

number like four or two, whatever per.

And if you do side quests in that game, then you can like

unlock more foods. You can unlock you know more

slots for so you can unlock up to 4.

And you can you can improve your fertilizers and stuff too.

Right, so you can get like. More higher quantity, more

stuff, higher quality stuff, yeah.

But yeah, I was just like, all right, So what do I need for

makeup? Potions.

I need the herb, I need honey, and I need like something else.

No, it's just the herbs and honey.

Oh yeah. Herb to make the potion and then

honey to make the make the potion.

Yeah like that. But then you can do two other

things Yeah like, oh, if you want to like if you want to get

make traps. Oh, here's some webs for.

The my favorite, the mega barrel bombs, Yeah.

And then once you get to the end of the game and Selena, Selena,

you can just do the forge, Yeah, get you fucking everything you

could ever need. You want to play slots and

monster. Under Jesus Christ.

Literally. Quite literally, yes.

Oh Lord, have mercy. It's us.

Gambling. And honestly, it's not bad.

There's no external courtesy, it's just the stuff you have in

the game and it's like, Oh yeah, I can get tons and tons of just

gems and shit on. An Xbox controller.

It's XY and A and like there's like left, right, center

basically. So you you have to you have to

choose the correct sequence. And you're trying to guess.

You're guessing the sequence. The sequence is random, so you

can press YXA. Oh you're correct.

And like it'll like show you a check mark if you're right.

So you could do like Y check and then X wrong and you can but

like at at that point you just hold right trigger and it'll

just go left. The right doesn't matter if

you're correct, it'll just do it.

And like, that's kind of the best 'cause you have so much

fuel to burn through, yeah. It just goes.

That there's really no point. You're going to get everything

regardless. And as as you get correct

guesses, it increases the temperature of the unit and once

it gets warm enough it goes into critical mode.

Into OverDrive. And then you just, you just keep

going and it just keeps giving you higher and higher and higher

resources. And then there's events where

like the like the the cats will start singing or or dancing or

whatever. And then they'll show you the

actual pattern. Yeah.

So like, so like one will raise their pond and the other one

it's a pond. You'll have one in the middle,

one the left and one the right, and they'll jump up to the

correct pattern. Yeah.

Oh. My God, it's fun.

No, it's really fun. This makes you really want to

play World now. Yeah.

That's for dammit. I might have to get like the

most basic version of online on Xbox just to play with you guys.

And this is if we actually commit to it.

Yeah, I want to know yesterday that's.

The problem that's the problem with World and Rise is that you

have to have console specific right?

And that's the that's the issue that Wilde says solve.

Cause like ain't no way am I buying it on steam even though.

It's here's the thing, If you buy it on Steam, I have to buy

it on Steam. Brandon has to buy it on Steam.

Well, I do have it on. Emma has to buy it on Steam.

It's it's better to play it on Xbox if we did, yeah.

It's just easier. That way, plus like me, Jack and

Mark, we already have our build set.

Oh my God, yeah. I like I'd.

Be thankful for that. Hey man, thankful for some some

nice builds. Yeah.

But we have gone over time. I did that for a reason.

Because Thanksgiving. Yeah.

And then guess what? Christmas.

Oh shit, that's coming up faster than I thought.

That'll be Brandon's episode if math is correct.

Probably, yeah. We'll see.

We'll find. We'll figure that out.

Quizmith. Quizmith.

I'm thinking that episode we kind of do something similar to

Halloween. Yeah.

If you have Ethan. 'S going to die to an elf.

Oh, that kind of similar. Got it.

Yeah, the spirit of Christmas is deaf.

God, this comes here and kills me and.

Oh holy shit, right. He's going to burn me with the

coals of raging Hells and. Now I'm, yeah, I'm thinking

probably like Christmas memories.

Oh, OK. Just something simple for that,

you know. Yeah, that's why I want to do

this with this one. I know we went, you know, just

wherever, but you know where it is at all our thanks, I think.

Yeah, Yeah. Honestly that this episode is.

More, more. Relaxed sport, chill I.

Kind of like these episodes too. Like I wasn't sure how I how I

felt the first time when you did the Halloween one, but I'm like,

you know what? This is just nice just to talk.

Yeah, I honestly like these episodes a lot.

Honestly, I feel like I feel like what we could do is.

We'll talk up. Yeah, I was going to say let's

wrap. Up.

We'll talk up here all. Right.

Well, thank you everyone for listening.

You OK? You doing already?

I think I had a stroke anyway. Thank you all for listening to

Plug In for Player 4. We really appreciate it, but

that is all for today. Time for you guys to go and be

thankful for your own things in life.

Eat a lot of food, a lot of stuffing.

Have a good one. Happy Thanksgiving.

Bye everybody, everybody, everybody got to.

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