Get Played - 30 Years of Resident Evil

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

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This is a headgum podcast. For Best Overall Ensemble. Presented by Gatorade Lower Sugar. And the nominees are. The nominees for Best Overall Ensemble presented by Gatorade Lower Sugar are Get Played. Smartless.

This is important. We can do our things. And the best ensemble who aren't those two. We're so good together. The basement, y'all! Fuck, are you fucking kidding me? Those two guys?

God damn it, shit. I flew all the way to Austin. That's not even an ensemble, by the way. That's two guys, okay? Fuck this. Fuck all this. God damn it. Our show sucks.

We shouldn't get an award anyway, but it would be nice to get the fucking award. Are you, oh, great. And they're giving them, what's that? A giant check, a check for $1 million? Oh, great. I couldn't have used that. Our show does one 16th of what they do. I would have loved it. Oh, wait, what's that? A key to the city? Oh, great. Now they're the presidents of Austin. That's fucking great. How nice. How wonderful. Oh, good. Yeah, everybody's clapping. Oh, good. Yeah, go ahead and clap for them. Guess what? They're actually a really big show. They didn't need the recognition. You know who's would have helped? A much smaller show like us. A show hosted by an ensemble of people who have a hard time with eye contact.

That's who should have gotten the award, okay? Not two cool guys. Sir, we're going to have to ask you to leave. You know, I was actually on my way out anyway. Here, here's something for you on the way out. We evade the T-Virus and come face to face with the Umbrella Corporation as we discuss 30 years of Resident Evil this week on Get Play. Welcome to Get Played, your one-stop show for Good Games,

ad games and every game in between. It's time to get played. I'm your host, Heather Ann Campbell, along with my fellow host, Matt Apodaca. Hello, everyone. Mr. Games, the Xbox Kid, the finisher, the franchise. The franchise. The franchise is low-key, very tough. It's so good, dude.

Something about it is really, really good. Nick blessed me last week with the franchise. Yeah, it was a good nickname. I'm sure, as you heard from that opening, we lost our recent nomination for Best ensemble. Yeah, we're now, but now we're an award losing podcast, and that's kind of, that's kind of nice. We've always been an award to lose.

Well, we're never award eligible. That's true. Now we could say we're losers. We're an award, an official, we're the premier award losing podcast. Yes. Congratulations to the other nominees and to the winners, all of whom, uh, deserved it. Deserved it. And also are, uh, better shows in our.

Yeah. Yeah. I looked at your YouTube pages and all of you had like... Much bigger than us. Like 1.5 million people tuning into your show. Yeah, yeah. I was recognized in the street recently and somebody threw a can at my head. I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. Oh, good, you got my can. Yeah. Let me just, going to talk about the experience real quick of going. Mattabodaka. On the floor of the R-Hard podcast. Because nobody would necessarily get this part of, the story I was there.

I was there for work. As a benefit of that, I got to go to the awards and, you know, potentially accept an award on our behalf. And I'm sitting in the room. First of all, I get to walk the red carpet, which, of course, extremely comfortable for me. Oh, yeah. Loved that.

Aces. Loved every second of that. There was a moment where I walked the press line and there was people with microphones doing like a little social content, did a little interview with somebody from the Washington Post, next person over, People magazine, pulled their microphone away as I got close. I was like, okay, fine. I'm just going to actually get out here so I don't suffer this humiliation again. And then, also, they spelled my name wrong on the thing. That's fine. People have been doing that my whole life. Apocata. Easy to mix up. I'd say easy to mix up.

There's only three consonants in my name. The rest of it is vowels. You can put them in any order. Oh, okay. And so I'm in the room. It dawns on me after the first nominees for the first that they're going to play clips of the shows. Incredible. After saying each nominee. So a new fear sets in that an audience of strangers and normies are going to hear our show. And then also various celebrities that were at this event. Yeah, Will Ferrell was one of the intro guys.

There's no way he stuck around for our category. No, probably not. But he was on the show. Ego Wodom, a pal of mine, and, uh, uh, uh, podcaster in her own right hosted the show as well and um but like there was like other

you know how famous people have a podcast now yeah there were some of them sitting around uh and so when it gets to our category uh it's presented and they play a clip the audience not very warm in general yep you could have heard people across the street

in full volume what they were talking about just nothing uh nothing nothing for the clip But was the clip necessarily highly representative of what makes the show interesting? And it goes to a good ensemble? No. I would say no. I would say no.

Who chooses it? I don't know. I was shocked. I was shocked that it wasn't a clip of you guys doing dumb shit and me being upset about it. Because I feel like if there's a core, you know, energy to our ensemble, it's you guys getting away with stuff and me shaking my fist like gargamel. Yeah, we're two smirps. But it was extremely fun. Fun to be a little fancy.

Yeah. Especially for something for our show. We don't really get a lot of stuff like that. So it was cool to go represent. And congratulations to what I think is the minimum amount of people to be considered an ensemble. Two guys. Well, I'm really grateful you went, Matt. I would not have been able to brave that on my own sober.

It would have been a nightmare. Make no mistake. I had a horrible time. Austin is crazy. Well, I don't know if you know this. They're keeping it weird there. Yeah, they're keeping it weird. I've been to Austin a few times.

It seems like a lot. I didn't get to spend that much actual time in your fair city people of Austin. But the people that I interacted with who are from there or from the surrounding areas, I thought were very lovely and very, this is very hospitable. There was a lot of stuff. Well, we don't have to go on this tangent too much, but there's like a swath of like sort of right wing

to right wing adjacent comedians that have moved to Austin, and we're going next. But it's crazy to me that they moved there because I was sort of like Austin, and I say this affectionately, and maybe people from Austin are going to correct me and say it's incorrect. Maybe it's incorrect.

But for my frame of reference, I've not been many many places. Austin, to me, is like if Ohio had a silver lake. Okay. Right. So it's kind of like, it's a little rustic. There's still city. You could still get to the city if you wanted to. Right.

But there's also like cute little stores. Yeah. And stuff like that. Well, guys. And restaurants that say like y'all means y'all with like, you know, like every version of like an inclusive flag and things like that. Right. But then these like, you know, right wing chuds move over there and they're like,

oh, it's fucking great here. Like, what do you like there? What's for you? Get the fuck out of there. Go somewhere else. Go somewhere that wants you. They don't want you there. They want nice people like us there. Not you.

I guess you could also just have a gun there, though, too, is the thing. Yeah, yeah. Which is crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I've been to Austin a few times. The first time I went was for a comedy festival. A little bit of Heather Lour.

I went to Austin Comedy Festival. Austin Powers Comedy Festival. I don't know what the fuck. Don't you dare. See, that's the ensemble energy we bring. But I was on an improv team. The lore on me is that I started doing comedy extremely young. Yes.

And my team was flown down for the Austin Comedy Festival. Your first words were at hand. Guests of honor. Yeah. No. They were no. No. My version's better.

Whoa. Our baby said, no, my version's better. What the fuck? And then they turned out a better sketch. It's funny here. But I, yeah, I went down for the comedy festival and had a fake ID so that I could go into the bars with the rest of my cast. I see, I see. And got a couple of drinks while I was there, scared every time that I'd be caught.

Yes. It was a time when I was drinking chocolate cake shots. Oh, sure. You remember those? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like something you drink and you eat a lime and it tastes like chocolate cake. I don't even remember what was any. Yeah, my version of that was just to scoop a piece of chocolate cake into a shock glass.

It's a perfect amount from when you want a little something. That actually does sound like good. That sounds great. A little, like a tiny little spoon, you know, like a tiny little dessert spoon. Yep, chocolate cake shot. Also somebody, by the way, real quick, before I move under this, very important tangent. I was, somebody I was with over there, one of my coworkers could spend time there. We were walking past this place.

She was like, if you go into that bar and you're 17, they don't ask if you have an idea or not. I was like, well, that's not useful information to me. I'm 35. Just get pointing and winking at you. Yeah, like, hey, you can get drinks there if you want. If you're underage. I was like, cool. It's funny.

It's good information. We had a lot of fun. The two of us, but it was like it was a very funny thing to remark on. Ranch, I think we've asked you this before, but remind me, have you seen Austin Powers? I've not seen Austin Powers. You've not seen any Austin Powers at all. So you're not familiar with Dr. Evil, fat bastard, many of me, the ranch. the rest?

No. Thank you, Ranch. I'm glad you shut down that conversation. Not frow? Not number two? Never heard of them. How deep can I go on Austin Powers gold member?

I've heard gold number. I don't know who that is. Okay, okay, okay. Scott Evil? No. I don't even, I've seen these movies. I don't know these fucking characters like this. I probably was subjected to them.

We got to watch all three for the show. I doubt it. So as you can tell from the podcast this week, Nick is out of town. He's doing a tour show with his also. Did they win or did they lose? They won, didn't they? What? They won.

They were nominated for an award this time. Not this time, but they've won in the past, haven't they? I think they've won. They certainly won the hearts of millions. Well, they've won the hearts of millions and he's off doing a show with Doe Boys Live. So it's just me and Matt, except we have a third special guest. This week. Yes.

Weeks ago, you may have heard an episode where I live purchased Talking Flower for, from Nintendo. And it came since our last episode recorded. And one of the things that's immediately upsetting about it is that its name is Talking Flower. Talking Flower. It's not like, it's not like Chobie, you know. It's just. It's just talking flower. Hold on, hold on, yeah.

No, it's, it's name should be Chobie. It should have a name. It shouldn't say on the box a talking flower for your home. No, no, no, no. It should be, it's Chobie, the talking flower. Well, every other character has a name. What's wrong with Chobie? It's just, it's, I'm Chobie.

It's nothing. Chobie. I'm Joby. So anyway, here he is, in the box. Joby the talking flower, canonically. Yes. He's got a really good build.

He looks great. Yeah, he looks great. Hi, Chobie. He's a cute little guy. Look at that little guy. Now, he's, he talks on his own. Okay. So, of the surprising element,

of the surprising elements, Heather just just panicked Didn't know where to put the box And threw it Of the surprising elements Of this toy One is that

He In case you've missed The episodes previous Where we've talked about this Yeah When they announced it They were like He's a talking flower

For your home He tells the time But it might not be correct He talks That's a bad function Bad function He talks on his own Yeah

But you can press the button To get him to speak Okay. So I'm going to set him to talking mode so that he can co-host the show with us. Okay, great. And we thought this would be good in Nick's absence because it's the next best thing to having Nick actually hear. Yeah. Talking flower.

A talking flower. So here's what he sounds like when he talks. Can I talk yet? Whoa. That's stuff to say already. Yeah, he's ready to go. He's ready to go. So I'm going to turn him off silent mode.

He plays a little song. Okay. Hey. This is good. That was fun. I 100% agreed talking flower. That was a lot of fun. Great.

So I'm going to set him up at the mic and we'll see if he talks on his own during the show. We will speak to him as the third host. His intro just then, you know, can I talk yet? Yeah. Pretty creepy. Pretty good. When I put double A batteries into him because unlike the alarm-o. He said, ow, my asshole.

Unlike the alarmo, he's not rechargeable, which is shocking. to me in the modern age. Yeah, yeah. But I put in the double A batteries and turned him on. And the first thing he said is, they say the ocean tastes like tears. And I was like, what the fuck is that? Also, he just sounds like a guy. Ranch is afraid.

That was the first time I've ever heard Ranch scared. She sells seashell. by the seashore. This guy loves the fucking ocean. I'm good, huh? Yeah, that does sound good. It does sound pretty good. And he's gonna, we'll see, we'll see how much he speaks.

And we'll see if he speaks. You want to hit that button one more time, Matt, and see what he says. Sometimes it's nice to space out. Okay. Okay, so that's just going to be what he's doing. He's going to be spacing out for a little while. If he wants to say something on his own, well, hopefully, if you, but I swear to to fucking God, if you interrupt me, I'll kick your fucking ass to you.

We don't do that shit here. I like that he, I like, sometimes it's nice to space out is like a really Nick thing to say on a podcast. Yeah, so far he's doing a good job. Hey,

what do we just get three of these one week? Let them do it. He's just a guy. Chobie the talking flower. I don't know. I'm really excited about this episode despite the absence of our third host. He's so upset about,

about our loss that he was like, fuck it, I'm just doing doughboys now. Yes, that's right. He's like, I got a lock back in and, and, uh, return to, to how I was raised. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Back into the world of doughboys.

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What is the number of what is this? Oh, this is the talking. flower from from Super Mario One, introduced in Super Mario Wonder now in the broader Nintendo Mario franchise. Is that Nick?

No, that's not Nick. He's sort of Nick's replacement for today. You didn't think to call me? We, you know what? We thought about it. It would have been particularly on theme for today's episode. Right. But we just kind of figured that you were busy maybe doing comedy bang bang stuff. Oh, that's true. Having a great run.

Still on episode one. Oh, you're going You're going back through like nine, probably at least a thousand episodes maybe. Yeah, I got to listen to all of it so I know the Lord. Yeah, you got to understand. Okay. I'd say some of those episodes in the first couple of years, you might want to skip. Why, they don't hang up. They, sexist, bring me too.

Probably, well, maybe it's impolite to imply that there are a couple different types of ists. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It was a different time. Deeply religious. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is fine. Used to be called Christ bang bang.

Christ, the sea used to stand for Christ. The sea used to stand for something. It should have had three bangs, one for each nail. Oh my God. Wait, so they did three? Yeah, three nails. Anyway, Matt, have you ever need a third host? Or a second one.

Heather, do you want to take a break? No, I'm good. I'm happy to hang out here with my friend Matt. All right. Yeah. It's nice to see you interacting with Heather, Resonium, Before Our Dream, because people sort of do sort of suspect you guys have beef. It's hard for me to connect with Heather when I'm locking eyes with Nick every time he's here.

Yeah, yeah, you're sort of holding a stare in his spot, thinking he's going to show up. But he's not coming to. He's like the, he's like the witch. who made the girl in the tower Uh Like the From like Rapunzel Yeah

I don't know about that I only know that she have long hair Yeah she got long hair And she's in the tower What is it with putting Hang on What is it put What is it

What is it with putting princesses in tower Is that a thing that happens a lot I feel like it happens in Frozen also She's in a tower of some kind Yeah she's in a tower They put her in Shrek. The lady Fiona and Shrek is in like a tower. You've never seen Shrek?

I've seen Shrek but like once. Somebody. Love it. Okay, good. No, I'm on your side with the song. Yeah. Look, I mean, this is not the time to bring this up. I think it's perhaps one of our best songs.

It's a great song. It's generational. You cannot hear that song. And I know it's like it's been beaten to death in movies and stuff. You can't hear that song and not have a fucking smile on your face. been beaten to death so much, though, that you get to do it again. Some. Yeah, it's good.

Yeah, see, it's good. They made it all the way to wherever the fuck. It's President Evil Forest said. I think it's, like, Spain-ish. Yeah, Spain-ish. Spain-ish. Well, Resident Evil, it takes place in sort of an alternate reality. Yeah, that's true.

But it's not Chicago. Right, that's right. Fiona and Shrek is in some sort of towers. They got to stop it. Leave princesses alone. Put them on the ground where they belong. Yeah. That's that.

That's my big stance. Get them out of the towers. Put them on the ground. Okay. You probably have a question. Yeah, I know. Man of Madagana, what are you playing? Well, I'm glad you asked.

You're welcome. And I'm glad we're doing this episode because I feel like maybe we'll talk about this particular game a little bit more later. Oh, yeah? Perhaps. Because. I finished Resident Evil Requiem. Wow.

The finisher. The finisher. I rolled credits on this motherfucker and let me just tell you something real quick. I fucking loved it. Wow. I really, really loved it.

I think, like, it's hard for me to rank them because I obviously have such an affinity for four and I just did two and I also really, really liked that. But nine sort of sealed the deal for me.

I'm not just a Resident Evil 4 fan. Okay. I'm a Resident Evil fan. I love to hear it. And I'm going to, I'm next going to be starting Resident Evil 3 remakes. Wow. I'm very excited about doing that because I want to make my way through all the ones available on PS5.

And then branch out from there. I got real nervous today. What? I got an email from Nintendo about RE by, my wish list. And you thought it was R.E. as in Resident Evil. Well, get a little of this.

I had a bunch of those at my wish list and they're currently on sale. Wait, so you got to, hold on. You got an email about your wish list and they were just emailing you to tell you things were on sale. Hey, stuff on your wish list is on sale. You might want to check this shit out. Type of thing. I go, okay,

I'll see what's going on. Side note. Yeah. The length of time in between when the flower talks is unsettling. Okay, so it's going to like happen later. Maybe. Or it could happen now. It could happen at any time.

It's just you would think if you buy a toy that's supposed to talk. Yeah. You'd think it would talk more often. Yeah. Well. It doesn't talk very often. Did Furby's talk that much? Did you ever have a Furby?

Furby's talk at all? They did. And they go like, what go boo? No, they go like, me, Coco. Oh, okay. Me, Chobie. Me, Chobie. And then.

when you were a kid and you didn't understand what sleep paralysis was it'd be like I'm gonna fucking eat your fucking skin on killing you So I already killed your whole family I'm killing you next So you got a

You got an email from Nintendo Yeah, hey check out your wish Hey You just put some stuff from your wish list pretty recently Because I'll When I'm not necessarily hankering to buy a game I'll toss it in the wish list, be like, hey, you know what?

I'll get an alert about this. He'll tell me when it's on sale, and that's maybe when I can get in on that. Resident Evil One remake in the wish list, $10? Kind of too low to say no. Oh, okay. I don't know. I haven't done it yet. Oh, you haven't pulled the trigger?

No, but they got a couple of those. They got that one, five, six, which I hear are not good. And then zero, Revelations 1 and 2, all on sale. I'm kind of like, is now the time to invest? What do I do? I feel like it might be, especially since you are now the franchise.

And now the franchise. I feel like you could scoop all those boys up and play them at your leisure. All told, I'm looking at like out the door, 50 bucks for all these bad ones. And I bet a lot of those are also Switch 1 ports and now they've been updated

to have Switch 1 docked mode on your handheld screen. Which was a big news announcement, the ghost shipment, the sort of shadow ship, of a major update for both the Switch and the PlayStation Pro this week are these enormous

graphic updates. Yeah. It's really crazy stuff. Portal Gang Rise Up. But so I'm taking a look at those. What is your next game, Matt? Well, I'm playing Pocopia. Oh, okay. Well, I'm playing Pocopia. But I've sort of, my enthusiasm has not waned,

but I've slowed down. Okay. because unlike because like an animal crossing I felt like you only had you only had the whole day right to do stuff and then sometimes you're like hey you can't do that till tomorrow right some of these guys are like hey I need you right fucking now I need you yeah and then you'll be doing something and some other guy will be like hey oh what are you fucking are you busy yeah I need you and it's just kind of like could you could everybody just like get in my love line. I'm just one Ditto trying to do my thing. Do you think that this game is going to change Ditto's ranking in

terms of most loved Pokemon? I thought the steam for Ditto in general in terms of placement amongst all Pokemon, now there are what a thousand or so of them, maybe more.

I would put Ditto at the very least in the top 30 probably. Okay. Yeah. And that's quite high considering how many there are. I'm going to go ahead and say now Ditto is probably somewhere in the top 15 top 10.

Wow. Because it is saving the world. It's saving the world and I don't know if you've seen these plushes. I have seen them. I have a Ditto plush. I have a Ditto Trubbish plush. Because when you unzip the bottom, I don't know if the

new plushes do this? My ditto trubbish, you unzip, you invert, and it just becomes ditto. Does it have little... Yeah, it has the little beat eyes. Dot eyes and little smile? It's a good guy. You have no idea how badly I need, like, a ditto charmam. Yeah, you...

I got to get it. You got to go to the Pokemon store. I got to get... You got to get a ditto charmander. Yeah. I was just... I was playing that, but for some... I was just traveling to Austin.

And for some reason, playing it on a plane was kind of like, there's just too much going on. And I was kind of like, I need to do something a little less intense. Pick back up on Dragon Quest 7 reimagined. And I think I played that for like three straight hours. Wow. The flight's not very long. But I fucking loved it.

Yeah, it's so good. It's a very pleasurable game. And it's like, because I'm playing it on like whatever the easiest setting is, just a walk in the park. it's like I'm not even doing anything but I'm getting the enjoyment of doing something you know what I mean? Yeah. And it's a home run so I'm hoping

to have some more uninterrupted time with that because I'm really really enjoying it and finding it very pleasurable and now I'm in a spot where I just did the Have you played Dragon Quest 7 before? Are you familiar at all with the different areas and beats of the story? No. Okay.

I don't think so. What was it originally released on? On the I think either the I think it was the DS. maybe I have I don't know yeah I just got to a town where there was like robots

oh and you gotta figure out what the fuck's wrong with these robots and why they're acting like this and fight robots and stuff and it's really really cool that sounds great

and now I'm just I'm just past that and I can kind of go in a couple of I think different directions right now which I'm very excited about but I'm excited to get back to that excited to play Resident Evil 3 in the near future

Heather, what are you playing? Well, I have a question first before we move on. Given your full backlog and your current library, if you were to go to a desert island right now and you were going to stay for three months and you could only bring three games, what are the three games you're going to bring? I mean, if that's the case, I'm probably bringing the Switch 2. I'm bringing Pocopia. I'm bringing Dragon Quest 7

And then I don't need a third I don't think I think I probably just something else like I was playing a little bit of Bellatro on the on the plane also I was having a great time

Great time with that I kind of caught somebody sitting next to me Kind of going like that Plain rides are great Planes I mean I'm fucking hate riding in a plane I'm terrified of planes But in terms of dedicated gaming time You can't be a plane.

Let me tell you something about having it on my plane. Uh-oh. The plane. Wait, if it's going to be a scary story, don't tell me. It's not. Okay. Okay. There was a big laugh in the headgum kitchen.

Enormous. I can only assume Ranch is pumping the audio from in here out there. I thought Ranch was watching like a talk show. It was such an enormous. It sounded like a full group of people. That was also more people than I've ever heard here. I can only assume there's three people in the kitchen. Yeah.

All right, what were you saying? Oh, it's not scary. Okay. I go, I get on the plane. They're shutting the doors. Everybody's seated. Everyone's kind of like, oh, great, we're on the plane. This is happening.

There's a lot of stuff going on at the airport. Sorry that everybody's having a hard time. We're about to take off. Oh, okay, first part of this was a little bit scary. Oh, boy. But it's not bad. There was a delay in boarding because they got in the intercom. There was like, hey guys, sorry, the computer's all messed up.

Every time. But I'm like, you got to say it a different way. Yeah. You have to. Because messed up, I can keep filling in the blanks until I'm dead. You know what I mean? Like, what does it mean? Like, like, it's set on auto crash?

Crash plane? Yes, no. Like, what's the vibe? Like, how messed up? It's like in gray scale? Like, what do you mean? It's upside down? Like, that gets sorted out.

We get on the plane. It keeps saying we're like 30, thousand feet up, but we're clearly on the ground. It's going to make it flying really tricky. Yeah. It's charting us directly to the Lost Island. And then we get on the plane and close the doors, everybody's buckled in.

All right, we're about to take off everybody. Keep those seatbelts fast and probably noticing that the Wi-Fi is not working. The Wi-Fi is not on for this flight. Oh. Whole plane all at once goes, oh. And I'm just like, all right, well, I'll just play my switch the whole time. I was like a big and shit up there.

Yeah, everybody else had to raw dog that flight. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, they did. Because a lot of people don't plan a second form of entertainment. No. When I'm going on a plane, I have to have three forms. I have to have tangible book. Yeah. I have to have video game console and I have to have some kind of like phone slash iPod, like music option.

Yeah. And I have to have three because I'm like, what if one of them goes wrong? This is good advice. This is good advice. Next flight I take, I'm going to do that. this. Yeah. But Heather, yes. What are you playing? Matt, Matt, I have put applause on everything except for two games.

Whoa. Because I was over-extended. I was playing Resident Evil. I was playing Pocopatopatopoeia. Pucka-Puk-Pak-Tobo. Flower, bail me out here. And you know what? I got to say so far, Flower, you've been a horrible guest. I hope it's on talk mode. There's no way to check. Can I press it again? Press it again.

I just got an amazing idea. Okay. Will you let us know or what? What's I'm talking about? I didn't hear what he said. You know what I'm talking about? Oh, I don't know what you're talking about. It is a confounding device because also it asks questions.

You can't respond. You can't respond. It can't hear you. It asks on the box, one of its demo phrases is, where am I? Which you can say in five or six languages. The thing that I do like about him is that he's extremely cute. He is cute. I kind of want to get it.

He also kind of looks gross. Well, some of his body is dirt. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like his whole body is the pot. The pot. He's not the flour. He's the pot also.

Yeah, he's the pot. He's the flower. He's talking flour. His name is Chobie. So I cut out. All of my games except for two. Okay. The games I'm focused on, the game I am hard, core, like, lasered in on God of War, Ragnarok.

I'm going to finish this guy. I don't want it to, I don't want to bounce off it again. I don't know where I am in terms of the game. I've put in like 25 hours. Okay. I don't know time to beat or anything. I will say, the other day I was fighting some group of guys, some group of fucking optional monsters.

Yeah. And I was having a really hard time with it. I kept dying, kept dying. And I was like, maybe I got to come back to this. Maybe I got to optimize my armor in a different way. And I was like, you know what? I want to get through this game. So I'm going to set the difficulty down a couple of notches.

Yeah. So I go into the menu. I set the difficulty down. I go back in. I fight the guy and beat him. And I'm like, great. I go back into the menu to recalibrate the difficulty. What I learn is when you recalibrate the difficulty in God of War, it then

says in order to accept this, you have to go back to the most recent checkpoint. Do you confirm? And I had denied it and then gone back into my fight and wasted the guys only because conceptually I thought it was an easier run. Whoa. Which felt like Dumbo's feather to me. Yeah. That's crazy.

Like I like breezed through the fight thinking, oh, now it's going to be easy. Yeah. And at no point felt challenged and beat these guys who had beaten me like 10 to 12 times. I wonder if I could do that with my own life. Hey, maybe it's actually not that hard. You know there's a, well, this is kind of morbid. This is a horrible experiment. Yeah.

Horrible experiment by think about it all the time. Because why the fuck do they do this stuff to animals? They put rats in a pool. Yeah. And they let them swim until they drowned. or until they go underwater, they give up, to see how long these rats will swim. The rats last like two hours, right?

Yeah. Maybe one and a half. Then they take another group of rats and they throw them in. But about 45 minutes into the test, they take the rats out of the water for a moment and they put them back in. The rats swim for 24 straight hours because they have a concept now,

any time I might be saved. Oh, interesting. And so they can push so far beyond their limits that they just keep going because they're like, somebody's coming, somebody's coming. I think about that in terms of like what's the survival mechanism, the evolutionary advantage of religious belief.

But I also am like, fuck, all you got to know is like there's a possibility I could fix, I could do this. Something might work out. Yeah. So might as well just keep trying. That's the first thing I thought about after I thought I had set the difficulty level different on God of War was the rats in the pool was all I had to be told was it's easier now. Yeah, yeah. Even though I pressed circle instead of X because I'm constantly fucking pressing the wrong thing.

And then when I went back into the menu to fix it, it was already still the hard difficulty. I love the menu sounds. It's like a like I feel like there's like a boom or something like it's like it sounds very serious. All the music in that game is great too. Yeah. Good, good game, good music. Love hanging out with my Viking boys. I love the casual way in which there is now two games worth of assumption of like your Norse knowledge. Yeah.

So they're just throwing out shit like, well, if you're going to go talk to the acer, you better you better hide your identity. And it's just like, oh, that stuff from me. Like to have anybody in the whole world be like talking about the acer. Yeah. So good. What do you think about that squirrel guy? Fuck the squirrel. My relationship to the squirrel is Kratos relationship to the squirrel.

He's like, oh, God, this guy. He just, I like when he goes up to him and he just goes, squirrel. It's pretty good. The other game I'm playing, of course, is Fortnite. Although I saw on the Discord, I do still play Pokemon card game pocket. Yes. Just hit Masterball again this season using the same deck I used the season previous. I think they've got to change some stuff up because I shouldn't be able to hit Masterball,

two seasons in a row with the same deck. You posted an Impoleon card today. Yes. But that's for next season. That's for next season. Next season. I posted because Trubbish is on the card. Yes.

And I was like, what is Trubbish doing up there? He's having a blast. He's smiling. Side note, I did meet with a couple of listeners. Randy and Josh shout out. And they gave me and my wife custom-made mini-figs. They gave Mary a Biker Mice from Mars. and they gave me a trubbish, a hand-painted mini fig of troubish.

Wow. And it is my most precious boy. Wow. Do you have a photo of it? And I don't. I'm stupid. Kind of would like to see it. Yeah, well, he looks like Trubbish.

I wish I could picture it. So I'm playing Pokemon the card game pocket. He's this big. Oh. He's really tiny. Like a little Marcel the shell with Jesus. He's a little guy. And he's in a little plastic case to protect him,

but you can take him out and put him out anywhere. And he's on a little round base that looks to me like an amoebo base, even though he's really tiny. I recently got to, I got a Hornet, and I got the knight from Hollow Night. They have like a little base like that too. Love it. Love it.

But the game I'm playing, you know, that's not God of War. That's not a Pocket Mobile game is, of course, Fortnite. Yes. Here is this month's Fortnite update. as of recording day it is the launch of the next season of Fortnite and it could not have come soon enough

I think the most recent Fortnite season was my least favorite since I've been playing. It is set in California the points of interest are like Hollywood San Diego San Francisco like Malibu style

like it's kind of a there's like a big fake Hollywood sign Republicans worst nightmare season. And I was a bit bummed by sort of, it felt like there wasn't any midgame to last season. You have stuff to do in the beginning, stuff to do at the end of the match,

but there's no midgame. This season launched an entirely new mechanic, which today I have played to extraordinary exhaustion. It is called rivals. You go up to a board and you click, I want a rival and it highlights a random person on the game. And whoever lives gets like a special kind of currency. And if you stock up like 80 killed rivals over the course of something,

then you unlock special tiers of weapons and upgrades. So it is super incentivized to constantly hunt people down. And I was playing with my friend Miguel and we start doing the rivals. And at first we were like, this kind of sucks a little bit until we found like the every time you start a new thing in Fortnite, it sucks a little bit. But once we find the rhythm of it, we're just cackling like crazy. You go up to the board, lock onto somebody, get into the fastest car you can see and just like barrel across the map at this one person who can see who can see you on. their map. That's crazy. So they see a dot coming at them to hunt them. Yeah. They also see at the top of their screen a little icon of who you are. So for me, still scratchy. Yeah. Just that idiot cat

coming after them. I really love the system. I'm really glad they've introduced it. It makes it so that there is always something to do and it's self-selecting. Like if you want to like lock in and get like, oh, I want to loot this area, so I got to focus on this for a little bit. Or, you know, it's end game. I don't want them to know where I am. Then you can, like, choose not to do the board. But if you want to unlock a ton of upgrades for later in the season or, I mean, honestly, I was fighting against people who had already killed 80 rivals.

And I was like, Jesus fucking Christ, man. This game launched at midnight. Yeah. Crazy. Like, that's, it's a half hour to play. around a fortnight. Yeah. So they've played 40 hours of Fortnite?

Yeah. Or they're just, no, because you can play multiple rivals in a single game. Oh, so they're just good. Yeah, they're just good. Never mind. I was like doing the math on it. I'm like, there's only 24 hours in today. But still playing Fortnite, that's your Fortnite update.

Yeah, they're going to change that, though. Oh, the other update is that Bugs Bunny is now a skin. His secondary skin. He's so rude. His secondary skin is space jam bugs bunny. Daffy Duck is a skin. Tell me when Lola's in the game. Lola is apparently coming in a game.

Matt, you okay? You okay, Matt? You look like you have a migraine. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm talking about. But at the beginning of the season, you have to choose a faction. Yeah. And it's either The Rock.

I just saw a thing of this. Or it's a night. made of ice. Yeah. And I thought, how funny is it if everybody chooses the night made of ice and they've made this deal? Because only one skin will be unlocked at the end of the year. Or at the end of the season.

Nobody unlocks the rock. How funny it would be if everybody was like, no, we're good. What they need to do actually is declare, what he needs to do is to declare that the hierarchy of power in the Fortnite universe is about to change forever. And then the people vote to not unlock his thing. so that you could have this happen again. Well, there is a black Adam's skin. Yes.

Which will never come back. No. God. Pretty good, though. Pretty good. And you know what? I'm sorry, The Rock. Yeah, he seems, from what I've heard, he seems like an okay guy.

Yeah. I don't know him. I kind of feel like if we met him, we'd love him. Of course. He's charming enough to be mean to us? Yeah, he's not. Well, he might be. He might be mean to us.

God, what if he just, what if I met him and he just punched me in the throat? Have you seen that? There's a good. From when he was a wrestler, he was a little rougher. So he gets into the ring. I don't know what the context of this was. I wasn't really watching it like that. Especially because I was like too young for what I'm about to quote.

He grabs a mic from somebody and just goes, shut up, bitch. And the whole stadium was like, yeah. Entertainment used to be so easy. It used to be easy. I wish there was a. president who could make it good again. Yeah, yeah.

Well, look, I'm writing The Rock in. You're writing him into, oh, presidency? Jesus Christ. It doesn't matter what you're, I know a lot about him. You do? Yeah, I feel like he's just like he's been in the same way that like I didn't watch basketball, but I know like a lot about Michael Jordan because he was just like the most famous guy when I was a kid.

And like the rock has been famous my whole life. Right. And it continues to be like fame. He's just like a, he's just a regular movie stock. He's a, he's a, forever fame. Yes, he got it. Yeah. Congratulations to him.

Congratulations. Yeah. Before we move on in the next part of this episode, Chobie, you got anything you want to say? Nothing. Nothing. He hasn't said anything on his own. Should I press a button again? Yeah, press the button.

Kind of feels like we should. Yeah. Oh. Well, maybe we. we should get rid of Nick. I know Nick doesn't compliment us like that. No, he definitely doesn't. Won't even hit it one more time?

Take a load off. Oh. Oh. That's starting to sound a little more like Nick. Yeah. It sounds like the two of those in a row. It feels a little uncomfortable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think you're neat.

Take a load off. The next one you press, he's going to be like, why don't you get out of that shirt? I don't have a gag reflex. She's like, whoa, what the hell? I can't close my mouth. Yeah, I'm all whole. Hit it one more time.

Let's see what the last thing. If he says, I'm all whole, I'm going to kill myself. Okay. Nice. Oh, I didn't even do it. I didn't even do it fast enough. You have to give me more time to participate. Also, he tricked me.

But also, like, what? To what end? What is it? Yeah. What is talking? flower. It is the strangest Nintendo item ever released, I think. I'm going to go ahead and argue that I think the alarmo is weird. But the alarmo does something. It serves a function at least. It's a clock. Yeah. And it's a slow wake-up sound. It also is a sleep monitor. It gives you like your sleep

read out at the end of the night. Like it's got a lot of stuff happening. I think that they should make Alamo a character. Yes. Put him in a Mario game. Yes. And gave him a little digital face. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Might as well. Who cares?

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thought was a normal hallway. Yeah. And then these dogs jump through the window out of nowhere. Yeah. Yeah. terrifying 30 years. I still have my long box PlayStation 1 Resident Evil One copy. Wow. It's not in great shit. shape. Yeah. But, you know, I bought that game or had my parents bought it or whatever the fuck. When it came out, I guess it would be, yeah, my parents definitely bought it for me. Because I had rented it and was like, oh my gosh, PlayStation is when I branched out from

being Sega exclusive. Yeah, well, you had to. I became an all-consuls household because I had to. You know, it took me a second sort of ingest that. Not because I had to. Because there were no games. That's not what happened.

That's not what happened at all. Well, no, yeah, you're right. There were games, but they just weren't very good. I will say that I didn't own a PlayStation. No, I guess I had it pretty early. I had it before Final Fantasy 7 comes out. Yeah. I don't remember the game that sold a PlayStation to me.

I remember renting the system to play the launch titles, Battle Arena to Shendon, et cetera. But I don't know what. game it was that eventually convinced me, oh, I've got to get one of these. But Resident Evil in 1996 was the very first main line Capcom resident evil game released for the PlayStation 1. And it was the introduction of the, not the introduction, the mainstreaming of the survival horror genre. There were games like Alone in the Dark. There were previous games that like you're in a mansion, you're solving puzzles. Like it sounds.

an unfamiliar formula, but this is the one like Final Fantasy 7 that brings this genre into like regular vocabulary. And so when this first one comes out, I'm but a child. And I remember my uncle who I've mentioned on the show before, who will never be on the show, stop asking listeners. And my uncle stop asking, I'll never allow it. But I remember being too little and afraid. Like, I would just hear the music and be like, oh, no, it's a scary game and not want to go upstairs to hang out with my uncle. But it's obviously a franchise that I've come to, you know, to love later in life. My very first, I don't want to jump too far ahead was 2005's Resident Evil 4. Wow.

For the PlayStation 2, the port. I'd even play it on the game on its original console. I played it on my PlayStation 2, my beloved PlayStation 2. I played it on the GameCube. Yeah. When it came out, I've talked about this a lot. I always ordered the same pizza, played it with my friend, and we, you know, barreled through the entire game. So playing Resident Evil games makes me...

Remind me of the pizza. It's the double-decker. The best pizza ever invented on planet Earth from a main chain restaurant. That's right. It was a regular crust cheese sauce. Yeah. sauce different cheese. You ever?

So you bite in and you get a crunch and you also get the regular pizza. Were you a Taco Bell eater? Something is that something you've had? Not really. I mean, I know. You know of it. It. They had something that they recently brought back and then took back away.

The gordita crunch? No. The double-decker taco. And it's a similar principle where it's their crunchy hardshelled taco with like the ground beef, lettuce cheese, all that good stuff. and then it's wrapped in a soft tortilla. Yes. But there's a layer of beans in between.

And it is, I mean, it's like every single other thing on their menu, that combination of things. But it's my favorite presentation of it. And it's not a regular menu item anymore. And it's baffling to me. It's the perfect best bite possible every time. A real bummer. It's so, so good. But double-deckers, and you know what?

I think the buses are good. good too. Yeah. Who cares? Double-decker anything. All three double-decker types are good. The pizza, the taco, and the bus. Wasn't the KFC sandwich that was chicken, chicken, and chicken called the double down? It's called the double down. Yeah, yeah, and they fucked up with that. If they called the double-decker, we might be talking about it. But because it's not a double-decker, we're not, it can't be spoken of. That sandwich, I remember, I mean, I was an adult when that sandwich came out, but I remember seeing that and being like, I can't eat that.

that. I cannot eat that. Yeah. I had one. You probably should have had, I probably should have had one. Yeah, yeah. I had one of that. I had one egg taco when that came out for Taco Bell. Oh, yeah. Any new Taco Bell item and I'm pulling up into the drive-thru, they advertised me a new one. I'm seeing what's going on. Great. I'm investigating. Great. I'm on the streets. I'm in these streets learning about Taco I love to hear it. Yeah. I love to hear it. Nick was here. He'd have probably some. Yeah, take. Some take. Yeah. Taco Bell. Yum. Young Brands So

Resident Evil comes out in 1996 It's shortly followed after by the Trevor Files and Resident Evil Directors Cut I remember the director's cut Don't remember the Trevor Files The Trevor Files Have no idea what that is

People who are afraid of Trevor What? Right? I don't know I don't even know who Trevor is I don't know I couldn't tell you

who Trevor is to save my life Resident Evil 2 comes out shortly afterwards for in 1998 and that's the game that believe I believe starts with like the car wreck yeah yeah that you start in a small town there's like a like like gas station that's blown up car wreck it it feels like oh the first resident evil is a proof of concept it's sort of like an indie film yes you know like a bunch of people trapped in a mansion if you're shooting that for uh for hollywood it's one location you're like oh shit this is great it's it's it's a self-contained film resident evil too is the big

budget answer to that indie film beginning. It's kind of, I mean, it's kind of like the jump from Metal Gear One or Metal Gear Solid One to Metal Gear Solid 2 kind of. Metal Gear Solid 1 has like a lot of innovation and a lot of like interesting things going on for it. But Metal Gear Solid 2 to me feels a little more complete in its scope kind of. You're like, this is exactly like the version of it that I wanted to make, the craziest version possible.

Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 1, 2, and 4, I feel like, are consistently mentioned in the same breadth as the word's best video games of all time. Yeah, I think they're very beloved. Yes. I will admit that even though I own a copy of Resident Evil,

and I probably purchased it on the dog moment alone, dogs jumping through the window, I'm like, oh, this is great. That's scary. I'm ready to go. But as soon as I find out that I got to like slot things into a statue in order to like open a door, I was like, fuck this. See, and that's the stuff that's like the stuff in these games that I really like. I mean, I love the, I'm sort of the Goldilocks, like just right.

Nick is the puzzles guy. You're the action guy. And I'm the, hey, this is just right kind of guy. I like, I dance in both worlds, you know. I really like finding, you know, bespoke rubies and things like that. It's specifically shaped charms to place in, you know, in specifically shaped slots and things like that. I don't like it. That's not for me.

That's not, I don't like it. What I like about it is that they're not ever really that challenging. Some of them can be challenging. Like I've seen some ones in the later games that can be quite specific. but like the ones that you're just finding stuff usually not that hard you know it's usually just kind of like hey whatever I yeah I don't want a puzzle

you don't want a puzzle you just want get out of my way I'll kill you I want to see what a zombie does when I put the gun on my own head the zombie oh no not your brains save your brains so

so I fall off again like you similarly in terms of timeline I fall off of the series until uh resident evil four comes out but I will say that I saw the first resident evil movie which comes out in 2002 in theaters let me let me say something about these movies we I think we watched the first one for the show and we watched the reboot welcome to raccoon city which is more of a um more of an adaptation of the games than the other movies are I was shocked to learn. Well, there's fewer of these other movies

than I realized. There's, I think one, two, three, four, five. There's six of them. You could have told me there was 12. Yeah. And I would have believed you. Yep. I was also shocked to learn that the second one is titled

Resident Evil Apocalypse, which to me feels like it should be like the fifth one, right? Like it shouldn't, they shouldn't jump straight to Apocalypse. Right. Because then the subtitles thereafter are Resident Evil, Resident Evil Apocalypse, Resident Evil Extinction, Resident Evil Afterlife, Resident Evil Retribution, and Resident Evil, the final chapter of the Paul W.S. Anderson franchise. Well, here's, I will say, like an arc conceptually arc, Resident Evil, if Resident Evil Apocalypse is your second one, then Extinction is a great name for the third one. Yeah, that is good, yes.

Okay. And afterlife is also pretty good. Afterlife follows. It's retribution is where the pattern breaks. Because you're like, no, you had an apocalypse, you had an extinction event. There's nothing to retribute. Yeah, there's no retribution to be had. Yeah.

You wouldn't call it Resident Evil revenge because the world ended and everybody died. Resurrection could be interesting. Resurrection. Because what the world starts to come back. Yeah, that could work. Final chapter? Tracks. Yeah, because they didn't make any more after that.

Yeah. And then we get Resident Evil, Welcome to Raccoon City was the reboot, the second reboot. With our boy, Zach Kregger, comes out apparently this year. Apparently this year. And I mean, I don't want to speak too much about it because I'm excited to see it. Right. And I know that there's been some like plot points and things leaked. But he has said in interviews that it's not a direct adaptation, but it's a story set in the world of Resident Evil.

And I think that's just like a smart way to do it. I hope, wouldn't it be wild? he can do whatever he wants because of, I mean, weapons just won an Oscar. Yeah. Wouldn't it be wild

if it was just a corporate movie? Like if it was just about, like it was like the firm or Aaron Brockovich. Yeah, it's like Shin Godzilla, but in Resident Evil where it's kind of like

just about the bureaucracy of what the T virus is loose. What are we supposed to do with this? Yeah, it's just like, it's a bunch of meetings and it's like a Michael Clayton being like you, you think you weren't responsible

for what's happening to these people, but you never leave the buildings? I'd watch it. I'd watch him cook because he hasn't he hasn't done me wrong so far. Yeah, he's not stumbled. But before this movie comes out, we've got Resident Evil 3 nemesis,

Resident Evil Survivor, Resident Evil Code Veronica for the Dreamcast, Biohazard 4D Executor, Resident Evil Survivor 2 Code Veronica, Resident Evil Guy Den, and then the movie, Resident Evil in 2002. I've been hearing that Code Veronica is one of the next ones to get remade.

Good. Code Veronica and another remake of Resident Evil One. Another one? Yeah. But in the new style. Yeah, but I still don't know how I feel about that. I don't know if the new style works for the mansion. Oh, because it is just one, yeah.

I mean, it worked quite well for the police station. True. God, I love Resident Evil too. I love Resident Evil. I love, well, here's the thing, actually. What is our show? It's just Matt saying I love this thing so much. I love Leon S. Kennedy, and I think I would die for him. I love him so much.

Kennedy is such a funny name to get, it feels like the baseball player names. Yes. It's such an American name. There's lore in the Resident Evil documents that he's Italian. Oh, okay. But I'm just like to what why is that even necessary to know? It's like so funny. Yeah, it is.

But I think the thing about Leon that I like, and I said this in our group chat, is that he's like, in some ways he's kind of like Duke Nukem if he wasn't a tryhard. Yeah. Because Duke Nukem wants you to think he's cool so fucking bad. Right. And Leon is just kind of like there's a, I mean, he has a lot of, he's known for one-liners. Right. But he's not stealing anybody else's one-liners.

He's crafting these on his own. So one, he's having fun. And two, he makes it look so easy. Yeah. There's like a plant thing in the new one. And at one point, he goes, just so you know, I've killed every plant I've ever had. You gave him a whole sentence? You're talking to a fucking plant.

It's amazing. Imagine him saying it to this guy. Right. Just so you know, I've killed. every plant I've ever had. Hit that button, see what he says. Is it weird for flowers to talk? What is this toy?

It's kind of almost like it's... It's asking for you to justify its existence. You know, like, in, uh, there's like a percentage, like, let's say there's a percentage zero to 100 of it being within the ballpark of, uh, our conversation. Yeah. It's kind of never, lower than 60%. Yeah.

I mean. It's like you could kind of get there a little bit. It's like somebody who's like not listening that good. Yeah. And but still able to kind of follow the conversation. Yeah. Yeah. But it's very strange. Hit it one more time. Hit it one more time. Focus. Let's take a breath together. Okay. All right. Okay. Thanks. Thanks. I got to stop doing that more. Talking flower. Yeah. And after I said that it was within 60% it said it had to focus. Yeah. I just think that's interesting. Yeah. Now that was 100%. Yeah, 100%. After

Resident Evil the movie, we get Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles in 2007. Resident Evil

degeneration. Resident Evil 5 comes out in 2009. Wait, did I skip Resident Evil 4? I did.

Four is in 2005. Let me go. Resident Evil 0, dead aim, outbreak, Outbreak File 2, then Resident Evil 4,

which, again, course corrects for the series. I kind of sort of think, I mean, I think about these games, these like totemic games in your life. Yeah. There's like a world where I don't play Resident Evil 4, and then I like

don't play video games ever again. You know what I mean? Like there's something about that game that is so good. Like if you like play that game, you're just probably going to play video games forever. And like, because you love, because it's just so well done. You're like, oh, I hope they do something else like this.

Right. Like there's a world where I just like, I'm like, oh, you know what? Kingdom Hearts 2 was it for me I'm done I'm done with games Yeah But like because I like I think I've played Resident Evil for

Like maybe more than five Like five times Before the remake comes out Wow Like I used to just replay that game Over and over again I love it Yeah it's so good

It's a great game Certainly brought me back to the franchise Yeah yeah And then we get yeah We get Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles Resident Evil Degeneration

Resident Evil 5. Now, did you play Resident Evil 5? No, but from what I understand, this one is the racist one. Yeah. Yeah, this one, I did, I played a bit of Resident Evil 5 and I was, I was shocked. Yeah. They can't do that. I was shocked.

This was also, I believe, when I was, I was, a, games journalist at the time. So it's generating a lot of controversy. Yeah. Everybody's talking about this game. And so I have to play it. And I was like, how did nobody talk to anybody about this? How did this happen?

Yeah. I don't imagine that it's going to get a remake. No. But they did it once. shop. They did it once. Maybe they'll do it again. It's not crazy.

I mean, yeah, I mean, people did it. Oh, it's available on the switch? Yeah, I was saying it's only 10 bucks on the switch. Jesus Christ. Let's check it out. See what's going on. Oh, my God. But the, uh, it kind of feels like they're going through all the ones they find important

to the current story that they're telling. Like when you, like having, having played two remake, I found that to be extremely beneficial in playing Requiem. Right. And, you know, also having played four, I kind of feel like they're remaking the ones that are necessary to understand what's coming next. And you say understand like that's the goal of these games. Oh, yeah, that's the other thing that I love about these games, though, is that they're basically also kind of just, they're as crazy as Metal Gear to me. Yeah, yeah.

They're so nuts. Yeah. And they're just like dumb. They're not dumb. No. They have sections that are dumb. Yes. And that are just full on action movie ass, like butt rock nonsense. And it rules.

Like it's just like, but they don't, it's never winking ever. Yeah. It is 100% earnest. They are games in love with being video games. Yes. Capital V video game is what Zig called Resident Evil 4 remake when he was on our, when he was on the show. Yeah.

When we did the, uh, when we did the episode. Yeah. Uh, it's just an all time. they're just they just know they know the product and they know how to deliver but let me ask you this because you played four

you had to play five for work are you so like and you had taken a break from the series yeah are you then after this digging into these side ones like the you know

like umbrella chronicles and and mercenaries 3D and things like that or that just like off your off your radar well the thing is one of the, I feel like one of the downfalls of the, so one of the, let's try again, one of the highlights

of the series is that they are bringing out these AAA games pretty regularly. Yes. Like, like, when you consider that there are other major titles that have been coming out over the last 30 years, Final Fantasy games, Final Fantasy has only had 13 mainline titles. Yeah. Right? Because the online games, 11 and 14 aren't mainline titles. Yeah. I guess they've had 15. No, I don't, whatever, 14. Sure.

It doesn't matter. What I'm saying is that's a series that's been running since the 80s and has one entry per game system basically. Basically, yeah. And as a result, you can't really as a player draw, it's like Kingdom Hearts. You can't really form a connection. Yeah. Like a deep connection to the IP, the way you can with Resident Evil, where there's like

more games on this list that I've never heard of than there are games on the list that I've played. I counted there's 30 games over 30 years. Yeah. And that's not a game a year. But they're sometimes releasing two games every couple of years, which is crazy. And the longest gap between games it looks like is like three years. So it's like it's not very long. Yeah.

So it's when I would see these games come out, I was like, what is that? Yeah. Like is that effectively a DLC? Right. Is that a, like, what, what am I looking at? Or there was a, there's a time where it was like, I felt like all the Resident Evil games were remakes for a window. And I was like, okay, well, I've played Resident Evil One. Do I need to play Resident Evil One remake?

Yeah. And I know that that's maybe shutting myself out of, or sounds judgmental. Bye. That scared the shit out of me. Why did he take a breath? it is 5 p.m. So he can't tell the time correctly. Why did he take a breath?

That, I didn't like that at all. I, maybe because we're talking about scary games, a little heightened, maybe I was a little more scared. That scared the shit out of me. That sucked. Yeah. 5 p.m. Why did he, why did he inhale? He doesn't have lungs?

He has a circular story sister. That scared me. He hasn't said anything else this whole time. A little behind the scenes, you know, when we're recording the episodes, 5 p.m. 5 p.m. 5 p.m. So, what you've been eating lately? Make sure you're getting your veggies. Okay. Kind of nice information.

It is, and it's also very nick. It is very, yeah. Hey, buddy, what you've been eating, buddy? Hope you're getting your veggies, buddy. Should a flower be telling you to eat vegetables? Interesting. Interesting. I think so.

I can't believe it just gasped and then told us the time. That was upsetting. Yes. I want to leave. So Resident Evil 6 features four interwoven campaigns with Leon, Chris, Jake, and Adawang. Edelawang? 8-0-0. Yeah. I didn't play Resident Evil 6. I don't even know which one it is. Kind of sounds like all my favorites are there. I've got to check this one out. But like

4 is the high watermark for a long time. I don't really hear much about, I mean, I know that Revelations and Zero and stuff have their fans, but like the main line ones after this sort of take a steep drop off four and for five and six. Well, you also like coming off the high of four, five is announced. I remember these moments. Five is announced and you're like, oh shit, here we go. Yes. And it doesn't matter if it has good gameplay. The only thing you think is it's racist.

Yeah, this is bad. They shouldn't do that. What an insane follow up to be like, we're going to follow up one of the top 10 video games of all time with a game that nobody can even approach without criticism. Yes. Like, it's crazy. Really wild stuff. And then, yeah, six. Leon comes back.

That's what I like about the games though, too, is that like they have these I mean, to be fair, I've only played the ones with Leon, I guess, but they have these rosters of characters that are like, oh, this one's a Chris one. Chris is in this one. Yeah. And they, you know, they're mixing and matching who's in what and stuff. And I think that's, I think it's a lot of fun.

They're expanding their roster quite often as well, in particular with this new one with Grace, but I know that in seven and I think eight you play a new guy called Ethan Winters. Ethan Winters. Which I think pretty cool name. Not a bad name. Not a bad. Not, it's not any, it's not no Leon S. Kennedy. Right. Before seven comes out though, you get Resident Evil Revelations 2, Biohazard the stage,

umbrella core, musical Biohazard, voice of Gaia, which I don't know anything about. I will do anything to see any amount of footage of that. And then you get Resident Evil 7, biohazard, so entitled Biohazard. This is the game that takes place inside the house. Yeah. And it's also the VR game. Yeah. And it's like the, it's like, I think the thing in there is not, it's not like a virus or

anything like that in particular. It's like a mold. It's like a, yeah, a Last of Us type mold type thing. I played Resident Evil 7 is when I come back again to the series and it's because it's in VR. So I lock myself into that that PlayStation helmet and I start playing

Resident Evil 7. Too scary to me could not do that. Could not do it. Would never dream of it. It's fun. It's fun. I'm going to wholeheartedly disagree. It's also funny because the VR helmet let you clip through everything. Oh, cool.

So like if you're like leaning around stuff, you see stuff that's not you're not supposed to see. So like the first thing you do is you pull up in the car in front of like the house, right? Yeah. You get out of the car. But in the VR helmet, you can lean your head back through the car and see that the keys are still in the ignition.

So you've locked yourself out of the car as a character. That's really funny. Like you can you can like stick your head inside of cabinets. You can stick your head through like it's a lot. It's not a flawless geometry in the game for VR. I don't think it was built for VR. Yeah. And they have to like let you come.

Like you have to let you move your head around. Is there a VR mode for eight? I don't know. Hmm. I hope there is. I don't know. I mean, there certainly is an incredibly, uh, lovely PSVR 2 for the PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 5 pro. It's a great, great device.

Yeah. Did Sony know that it exists? No, not really. A friend of mine lent me his PS, my buddy Patrick Ellers. Uh, host of the Nintendo Cartridge Society podcast lent me his PSVR because he was moving

and he was like, I have this, I'm basically giving you this, he said. Right, right. He wanted me to try the Astrobot VR game and a couple other VR games there. Let me tell you times how many times I've opened that box. One time, because I got immediately overwhelmed

by how much stuff there is in the box. There's a lot of stuff on the PlayStation VR setup. The PlayStation VR2 has gotten rid of some of the setup. Okay. But I do want to try it I should I If only to give this back to him Yeah

Should should try it This was in October when he gave it to me When I was shocked When I got my Steam Deck up and running Yeah 90% of my library is VR games Hmm I play a lot of VR

I wonder did I run on Steam Deck if you have I doubt it A thing for you know what I mean I doubt it Yeah I doubt it Anyway So from there From Resident Evil 7

we start getting into, let's see, where are we in the timeline of all the residents? We get... This is where the remake start coming out. We get Resident Evil Vendetta, Resident Evil 2 remake, Resident Evil 3 remake, Resident Evil Resistance, and then Resident Evil Village.

Yes. And Village is the one with the big girl. Big lady, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I hoped her was a VR vote. Oh, no, she's chasing me. Oh, don't she pick me up and hold me like a baby? I haven't played big girl at all.

I am, I'm going to, I'm going to play it because I'm now a Resident Evil sicko. And after I play three, I intend to play seven and then play eight. It's on, it's on my to-do. It's happening. I've just looked on Reddit what the Trevor files are. The Trevor files were published outside of the game. If you type them in on Google, you'll find the Trevor files. Look, there's already too many files I'm interested in looking at, I can.

I can't add more files to my day to day. Then you get Resident Evil Infinite Darkness, Resident Evil 4 remake, which is the only reason we have a segment host. Yes, right. Resident Evil Death Island. Yes. Which I haven't seen.

I want to watch these animated ones. They seem good. Yeah. I don't know if they're good, actually. Didn't we watch one for the old format? I think we talked about it. We never got to it, though. We did watch the...

Did we? No, I don't think so. I don't think so. Yeah, we did. We watched one. Did we watch one? We watched one. I know we watched Welcome to Raccoon City.

No, but we watched one animated one, too. I don't know that we did, Heather. Did I watch that of my own accord? I think you might have. Why did I do that to myself? Maybe you thought we were going to watch it for the show, then we didn't do it. I think that might have happened. I think you guys might have said, maybe we'll do this.

We might have pulled the shoot. And then I was like, okay, I got to do that this. Saturday. Yeah. And then we were like, oh, by the way, we're not doing that. That seems possible. Yeah, it seems possible. Remember when the flower scared the shit out of us?

Not just me? Yeah, when it gasped. It gasped to tell the time. It's like put duct tape off of its own mouth. The fuck. And then we get all the way up to the modern era with the final Resident Evil, Resident Evil Reckhueblo. Which I just finished. And I think it's a game worth finishing.

and I think Look, I just am interested in Leon's story I'm interested in the story these games tell whether they're whether they make sense or not right

but like I just think Leon is maybe like one of the best video game characters full stop. I think he's just a great character there's a lot of great moments in nine

I love what they did with not just Leon but with Grace's character of, you know, this has been talked to death already, but like just the choice to make her sections default first person to make those moments feel more claustrophobic and more intense and then have Leon's part of the game be like, he just kind of fucking rocks ass no matter what, like who cares?

You could switch either way and like, you know, play Leon in first person, which I think would be insane to do. I don't know how they would animate a roundhouse kick in first person. You're looking at the ground at one point when you do it. I've seen a model swap where people have modded the game to put Grace in the Leon parts and Leon in the Grace parts. It's really charming because seeing Leon like scared and like hiding behind a little box. Yeah, that is funny. Good work. Good stuff. but like now because like this is my first

I guess Resident Evil 4 remake was a launch Resident Evil that I've played but I had played that one in theory right like I experienced that game there wasn't a whole ton of new things in that for me to get other than updated visuals and gameplay this is my first launch Resident Evil Resident Evil Requium and I think that I'm just like

now when a new one comes out I'm there like just no matter what That's great. Like in the same way now that like when a Final Fantasy game comes out, whenever the next Final Fantasy comes out, Final Fantasy 17 it'll be. Aye, aye, aye. I'll be like, I have to see what it. I have to see if it's good.

I got to find out if I like it. It is so long in between those games. It's too long. Maybe it's the right amount of long. There've only been three main line, unless you count the Vita game or the PlayStation portable. Yeah. Kingdom Hearts game.

Yeah. There's only been like, four main Kingdom Hearts games in 25 years. Well, that probably is more to do with the Disney of it all, though, too, right? Like, the IP is probably too big of a nightmare. Maybe. I don't know. Who knows?

Because, I mean, if they, do they, this is going to sound like a dumb question. Those games probably make a lot of money, right? Yeah. I mean, it's like, it's primary. I would say it's, it's all sections of the Venn diagram. You have the people who like Disney getting those games. You have the people who like RPG action RPGs, Final Fantasy action RPGs, Squared Unix Action RPGs. And then you have the people who like both.

Yeah. The weird sickos. Yeah, yeah. Yes, absolutely. It has to be an enormous success because they keep making them and also the Keyblade is now showing up in Disneyland. Yes. Like that acknowledgement of the sort of impact of the franchise. is enormous.

Yes. It's enormous. Hit him again. Bowser and his buds can't get us here, right? What? You, hold on. You had a, you had a tail. You think Bowser's following you?

You would endanger us by allowing Bowser to follow you to the headgum studio? What? Can you imagine we're sitting here one day? Bowser just walks right in. But also, like, it's a, this has to be a thing. for a kid, right? Who is the intended audience? No, you think this, you think this talking Nintendo toy is for children, you think?

So the fact that it doesn't say, Bowser can't get us here. But instead, it's scaring the children. It says Bowser can't get us here, right? Like, it's lower status. It's scared. It's introducing the idea that Bowser can come out of the television and hunt you. Is it lower status or is it giving children the opportunity to, be brave and to then be like actually you're safe here flower

talking flower bowser's not going to get us here actually and I'm actually pretty brave and yet if he tried to come here he'd have to go through me what what did it what does it want a child to think when it says the ocean tastes like tears sometimes it's nice to space out okay he said that already he said it already he doesn't want to maybe that's him saying I'm done talking for a bit maybe mm because he's got like something like a million phrases. My ideal version of this thing is that it's, well, one, it's USBC chargeable, right?

Two, there's a bespoke app for it. Yes. That then you can get it online, on Wi-Fi, and they're updating phrases constantly. Right, right. The Alarmo updates. Yes. What is the flower? I don't know.

I'll tell you what. Paperweight, if you ask me. I'll tell you what it is. It's going in the. box and then going in my attic. I'm going to take the batteries out of it. Also, wild, the clock that you program to make it so that he knows whether or not it's the time that it is is inside the flower pot with a digital face that you can't see when

the thing is closed. So you set the time on a clock that is hidden inside of the body of the flower. This thing is a logistical nightmare to me. It's so fucking weird. I was going to ask. Yeah. Just overall, what are your thoughts and what are your feelings about the Resident Evil franchise as a whole? I love Resident Evil 4.

No apologies. Yes. Has too many puzzles. Anytime these games lean too hard on the puzzles, it's a turnoff. That's just me as a gamer. It has nothing to do with the quality of the games. Yeah. People are signing up for those experiences and I don't want to like piss on their parade.

Have your fun, enjoy that thing. That's the thing for you. Yes. But I also, I hate the puzzle sequences, the puzzle quotation marks, the puzzle sequences in God of War. All I want is to run around and kill people with the axe and power up. Absolutely. There aren't a lot of puzzles in Kingdom Hearts games. I would go as far to say that I think there might be none.

Well, there's like a little mini games and things. Like a clock puzzle or something. Or that, or there's like those little. you know those like different color in each world there's like a different colored like stamp on the ground or something uh and you have to do all them and if you're even attempt crafting the ultimate weapon right come on now right um kingdom hearts is more of a combat game than god of war is well kingdom hearts and man there's a take look don't i because i can go i can get there with you because the well here's what you want to you well here's what you you actually want, you want the God of War experience to be, because there's puzzles in the old ones too.

Yeah. But, yuck. I feel like you're fighting a lot more in those, maybe. For sure you are. Right? You're fighting and you're fucking. Yeah, that's right.

And they're remaking these things. Good. And I'm just sort of like, I think we talked about this before. They're like, they're now, the remakes are in development, which means we're not going to see these for another four years,

seven years, maybe. You know what I mean? So what they've ever. effectively told me is nothing. Yeah. They basically are like, I got an idea. Yeah. It might not happen.

Right. Sony Santa Monica now doesn't have a reputation of canceling things that we're aware of. Right. Right. Right. So I think them telling us is a good sign. Yep. But.

But. They haven't even fucking started yet. Yeah. Why would you tell me? It's also, it's like, are they, we're done with one and we're waiting to finish the other two? Totally going to be like the first games, which were a lot more like Cratos and his youth like fucking shit up. Yeah. Or are they going to be like, are they going to be the story?

Because modern Cretos refers to the events of the games when he's like hanging out with the other characters. When he's like, Mimir, I once killed a god on a mountain top. He talks about being in mortal combat, which is canon to him. He does? Yeah. He talks about being in mortal combat? Yeah, or it's one of those, or Soul Calibur. I can't remember which one he's in.

He talks about it? Yeah, there's like a, there's a, he tells Mimir. He was like, you know, Mimir's like, do you tell me about this fighting tournament? I can't do the accent. It's getting worse. And he talks about it. I am angry and delighted. Yeah, it rocks.

It's like, but like I think that the new, the remakes of these, if I had to guess, are going to be more visually consistent with the new ones. Right. down to the shift in perspective. Right. But it'll be more, it'll probably just be the same stories, but they're probably just going to adapt it into one large package. Because those first couple games,

like I think the first one is like eight or nine hours or something, which is not nothing, but like by God of War Ragnarok standards. Yeah. Pretty short. Yes. Comparatively. I will say,

just to speak on Resident Evil as a new resident resident, Resident Evil, A new resident of the franchise. Yeah, I'm checking in. The new resident has signed his lease on this haunted home. I guess they're not really haunted houses, though, are they? It's weird that they change the name. Biohazard works.

Biohazard works. Because, yeah, it's a virus. Like, why did they change the name from biohazard to resident evil? I get it for the first one. It makes sense. The house is bad. Sure, but you could have. But it's not the house.

It's not like an Amdeyville house. You could have still called it biohazard. People wouldn't have been like, oh, have you played biohazard? What's that? It's the game where you're in this mansion. And then Resident Evil 7 comes out, and that one's called Biohazard. Right. They had an opportunity to do what Yakuzaa like a dragon did.

Colon, Resident Evil. Yeah. Now they're like, it's over. Now it's just Resident Evil here, which is fine. I like the name. It doesn't make any sense. No. But you sort of know what you're getting.

Right. you know what I mean and I'll show up for more Resident Evil now forever I intend to get through these because also these games are not particularly long in general like the

this new one the in game did I tell you this already I can't remember if I did oh no I don't think I did because we haven't talked since we didn't talk to beat it the in game clock said something like 15 hours

like under 16 hours to complete the game. Okay. Because you know, it tells you at the end. Right. Like you did it in the, you did it, you did it, uh, you did it, uh, you, you did it in this amount of time. But the in-game clock on the PlayStation tells an entirely different story. Really? It says 30 hours. What? But I'm thinking the truth must lie somewhere in between. What is, but what does that mean? I think that the PlayStation is counting time spent in a pausement. menu. Oh, okay.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Because, like, I'm playing these things. I'm getting scared. I'm pausing and I'm putting the controller down. I'm walking away. So you, you paused for as long as you've played?

I guess so. Like, if I'm playing, if I'm playing for, let's say, I'm sitting down to play for two hours. Right. There's a good chance that I paused for one. Wow. You know what I mean? Wow.

Like, not entirely, but like total. That is a very different play experience than I have, which is I get my time and I immediately turn off the system. Because I, I'll play. I'll get scared, I'll pause, and then I'll be like, I have to just do something else for a second. Wow. Like, I, like, because I get scared playing these things, but I think they're really fun. Yeah.

Because, like, the world of it is funny, and, like, the characters are just, they're great, and the gameplay is just second to none. I think it's some of the best playing games. I bet, like, just period. Just good stuff. If you're playing a game where your character is shooting zombies, I don't think you can get much better than Resident Evil. Right.

Because like, I mean, it's... I mean, I guess the infected are different in The Last of Us. Oh, well, yeah. That's true. But I feel like they're kind of close because, like, I feel like I like the way the different guns feel. They all don't feel like you're just shooting a gun. Right.

You feel like when you're shooting the, you know, when you're shooting the... Destroyer or whatever it's called. Yeah, like the auto or the, even just like the Requiem gun. Like the big gun you get, that thing feels different than your regular pistol, that thing feels different than your rifle. I love the way the rifle feels. The rifle feels good. Good time.

It's good stuff. I've told my gun shooting Resident Evil story on the show before, right? I don't think so. Back when I was a games journalist, Capcom flew me out to Las Vegas and had me try every Resident Evil gun in the real world. Did you get to shoot a rocket launcher? No. I didn't shoot a rocket launcher, but I did shoot a gun that they started.

strapped me into and had a tripod on the base because the bullets were about as long as my human hand. Jesus, yeah. And they put one of those ones like. No, no, no. It was like a machine gun mounted on a tripod. And then there was a guy behind me bracing me with his arms because of the kickback on the gun. Yeah, that's crazy. I don't know, which I think it must have been Resident Evil 5 that I was doing this for.

But yeah, the guns in Resident Evil feel like they do in the real world. That's crazy. Yeah. I wouldn't want to do it in your life. I'd be too scared. We were shooting zombie targets. Crazy. Yeah, it was a whole thing.

Yeah. Do you think you could do it? Do what? Put the gun in my... No. Survive if you had the weapons? Stories trick us into thinking that survival is a choice. Mm-hmm.

I think all of these stories are actually about lucky people who then believe that they're in a story. But they're rats in the water. Yeah. They, these, like, Ellie is not in a story. No, she's lucky. The reason she's alive is that she didn't walk into a house and a board with nails in it didn't fall on her head. Yes. Like, there's so much danger in the apocalypse.

Like, no, I don't think you could give me every gun there is on planet Earth. I would die from poisoning by touching like old paint. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like we've said this before. If there is a something after, where we can look back on your life after once it's over. Right.

I would like to know how close I had come to death before I actually died. It'd be interesting information. It would be, you mean like to see the. dialogue tree of your existence effectively, except all of the, all of the, you know, if you'd, because I've been in some near-miss car accidents. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Like, just the idea of like how close, how close was it? Yeah.

Because, I mean, it's not information you could appreciate now. Right. I guess it could. To see the multiverse path of how many times you almost got killed on the street. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Resident Evil.

We love you. We love you, Resident Evil. And thank you so much for 30 years of Resident Evil. Keep 30 more years, I say. Yeah, 30 more. God, when video games are having 60 year anniversaries. I bet Pong is, how old is Pong? It must be 50.

Pong, let's see, this is the type of thing Nick is good at here. Yeah, typing in Google. Nick would have said, Pong. Remember to eat your vegetables. Yeah, Pong came out in 1972. Oh, my God. 54 years. 54, yeah, 54.

Should we do a segment? I would love to do a segment. All right. Well, hey, good thing you did that because it's time for a Segment. Segment. Segment dream cast. And today, I know that Zach Krieger is making a Resident Evil movie, but he's not making a straight adaptation of a Resident Evil movie.

Right. So today we're going to cast Resident Evil 4. Okay. using the cast of, you know, the characters from the movie, which I think would be a lot of fun. So first, obviously, we have... Leon S. Kennedy. We got to cast a star of this thing.

I have a radical take. I have, I bet the same take, but let's hear it. I want to hear yours. I want to hear his first. I was going to say Timothy Shalameh. Oh, I was going to say Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh, DiCaprio. Because he's kind of got similar hair, and they're kind of the same age.

Okay. Well, he, yeah, he's sort of the same age of Leon in Requiem. Oh, you're doing four. I'm doing four. Oh, okay. I'm doing four. Okay, so young Kennedy. So young Kennedy, I'm kind of thinking that, like, the reason I pull Salome.

Jesus Christ. He's quite young still, too. Right. He's not even 30. He's not, he just turned 30. He did? Yeah, and I think in Resident Evil four, Leon is like my age. like 30 like he's like 34 or something um I think you give him that you give him a little

hair what about okay what about carmi oh what if what if what if you cast carmi as carmy from bear yeah from Leon as Leon as Kennedy and I certainly know his name carmy carmy from bear from the bear whoa what is his name oh Jeremy Allen White Yeah. Does he look too goofy? I don't think he looks too goofy. I think you kind of want somebody, you kind of want someone who's going to have a little more fun than I think he would have. I think Timmy's going to have a little fun.

Yeah, Timmy will have fun. Whereas Jeremy Allen White won't have any fun. Because you're essentially casting, you're casting almost an ash type, right? Like an ash from evil dead. He's not as funny as ass. But he knocks out a couple little jokes here and there. And Timmy can sell a joke. What about, you know who I saw on a clip of on a red carpet?

Spider himself, Jack Champion, said that he wants to play Leon in a movie. Jack Champion. Jack Champion. How old is? He's older now. No. He doesn't look like Leon? Go to this one, Ranch over here from Wikipedia.

It's a second row, fourth one to the right. Yeah. I think he could do it. Yeah. I mean, he looks, he definitely looks like Leon. He certainly looks more like Leon than Timothy Shalome. Yeah, I would say so. He might be our best, I mean, because look, we can't keep casting Austin Butler in all of these.

But Austin Butler would be right. But Austin Butler would be pretty good. He'd be right. He's really good. Okay, that's the winner for me. Austin Butler. Austin Butler. Yeah.

Yeah. He has an unfair advantage because as soon as you see him, you want him to do whatever. Yeah. He's very handsome. He's a Val Kilmer type. I bet you he's funny. I'm sure he's funny too.

We got, you let put this picture of the two of them because it's going to be down to them too. Ranch pulled up a picture of Austin and Timothy chatting. And one, would love to hear their conversation. More than anything, want to hear these two guys chat.

But I think, when you look at these two guys, though, next to Leon, it's so clearly Austin. Butler. Yeah. Well, look, they're going to make, because the stuff for Dune 3 is coming out. Yep.

Paul Atrates is going to be tough shit in this thing. Yeah. I think the conversation we're going to have about Timmy now is going to be different than after when that movie comes out. Okay. Because, like, he got there, he got some of the way there in, in Marty Supreme. You know what I mean? Okay.

Like he, I think he's got, I think he's got something. He's got an inner darkness. My hard vote is Austin Butler. Well, yeah. Of course. up on the list because that's who you think could play Leon S. Kennedy is Timothy Shalame. Who's next on the list? Next we have.

We have Ashley Graham, who is the president's daughter, of course. I think you've got a strong case for Anya Taylor Joy. Anya Taylor Joy could be good. Anya might be, well, she's about probably same age as Austin Butler, but I kind of read Ashley as more of a, as a, She's a younger girl. She's younger girl. Right? She's younger girl.

Oh, shoot. What is her name from Detective Pikachu that played the girl? The girl from Detective Pikachu. What the fuck? She's in the new Ready or Not movie also. I think she's really good. Oh, yeah. Catherine Newton.

Yes. Catherine Newton as Ashley Graham could be pretty good because then she could play. That's it. She could probably play it a little like, oh no, I'm scared. But then you give her maybe in the movie. Yep. You give her a little bit of moment. She gets to be a badass of it actually too.

That's who it is. You've nailed it. We got Catherine Newton. You could also do L. Fanning. L. Fanning would be great. Oh, L. Fanning would be great. Yeah, L. Fanning could also be Ashley Graham. Yeah. This is good.

El Fanning is really fun. She seems fun. Yeah. She was so good in sentimental value. I got to watch it. I haven't seen it yet. Oh, it's such a good movie. She was really great in Death Stranding.

Yeah, she's great in Death Stranding, too. I think the one thing I've seen her in. I just, I enjoy her. when she's doing red carpet things. Yeah, she's star of my wife's movie, The Neon Demon. Yeah, she's great. All right. Up next, we've got-

Luis Serra. Luis Serra. And I got, look, we can't put Pedro. No. We can't put Pedro. No. Oscar Isaac too old also, I think. I was thinking of who the hunks are.

Who are the hunks? Who are the hunks? You know what I mean? I think we could maybe do, type in Danny Ramirez. Danny Ramirez. He's in the Last of Us TV show. Oh, yeah. He's also the new Falcon in the Marvel movies.

I'm kind of thinking of who's going to be, who's doing franchise stuff too, you know what I mean? This guy, so far I also got to say, possibly one of the hottest casts ever assembled for this thing. Well, yeah. We've got three people in and this movie is, I'm sweating. It's already a calendar.

Yeah, this is crazy. All right, who's next? I think that's a great pick for Louis Serra. Yeah, I think he's great. Ada Wong. Ada Wong. I got it. I got it.

Who? Type in Gemma Chan for me, will you ranch? Gemma Chan. Come on. Yeah. I mean. Come on. I'm stacking the deck with hotties here.

I don't know what to do. How do you have all these people in your head? I had to, well, I made the segment. Right. You made the segment. Right. I had to think about it a little bit. Gemma Chan.

That's it. That's an Ada Wong ass haircut if I've ever seen one. Hey, hey, come here. Just wanted to say. Okay, talking flower, you cannot talk to Gemma Chan like that. You cannot call Gemma Chan. That was insane. We all agree that was insane, right?

What, he just said, come here. Hey, hey, Camere. Camere, I just want to say hi. I just want to say hi. Gemma Chan from... It said two things on its own this entire time. One has been the time and then one has been to cat call. Ranch just put a photo of Gemma Chan over Ada Wong's face.

That's pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah. Yep. Also, Ranch, take a screenshot of that and send it to me. No, don't do it. She's doing it. We're watching her do it.

Do you have a thread? Dragged it into the chat with no context. Nick's going to be like, nice. Okay, great. Who's up next? A few more. Jack Krauser. Jack Krauser.

One of the villains, one of the enemies of this game. I mean, isn't that the guy from 20? Oh, you want Kiefer Sutherland this thing? Isn't that Sutherland? Isn't that who it's supposed to be? You got Sutherland? I kind of... Okay, yeah, we could get somebody like that in there for that.

Maybe not. Maybe young Kiefer. Because he's also kind of jacked, too. Yeah, he's a fucking jacked dude. You kind of like... But somebody like Dave Batista doesn't have the face... Yeah, no. ...has the face for it.

But he's... And he's also slimmed down a little bit. But I also... Look, if you put Batista in this thing, you're gonna get a performance. He's fucking good. Yeah, for sure, but Jack Krauser is, you need like some, like, the guy who plays the Harkinen in Dune,

who's completely, no, he's completely bald. Not in the bathtub, but the guy who fights him with the dagger. I already, well, actually, I got it. Okay. I don't know what his name is, though. Oh, I think it's Alan Richardson from Jack Reacher. the Amazon show Jack Reacher Alan Richardson.

Richardson. Alan Richardson. Oh, Jack Reacher. It's fucking huge. She's the biggest man alive. Yeah, I mean, if you were fighting against a dude and that dude, and like this guy comes around a corner, you're like, oh, fuck. Yeah, you'd be, I watched the,

sometimes I get, I have not seen a second of the show, sometimes I get clips of the show on TikTok of him doing awesome stuff. He's in line in an ATM in one of these clips, and this woman in front of him at the ATM is like crying and shit. and nervously looking over to her car. And he realizes that she's being robbed and he goes over to the car. And fucks up the guy in the driver's seat.

Good stuff. I got to watch this show. It seems good. Matt, I'll tell you right now. Yeah. I watched the entire first season of Jack Racher with my wife. We absolutely loved it. Oh, it's cool to see a big guy do big guy stuff.

It was such a blast. We fell off on the second season because we were like, this is not, what was cool about Jack Ratcher for season one is it's normal persons and Jack Reacher. So everyone was constantly like, what are you doing? And he'd be like, I'm bending this fire hydrant in half. But the second one, it's all people who know what he's capable of and nobody's phased by it. Yeah.

So nobody is like, stop, you can't eat a bumper. And he's like, they're just like, oh, Jack, why don't you eat that bumper? And he's like, got it. Yeah. I mean, the thing about it is he's so big that like even if you weren't doing anything to get in trouble upon sight, you should be screaming in terror. Yeah. He's so big. The first one's great.

It's like it's, I mean, it's not this, but it's like, you know, he gets shot twice and people are like, are you okay? And he's like, I don't, it takes three bullets to equal one bullet in me. Yeah. I also like. He's just like insane. I also like him as a guy because he's like online yelling at the people who really like his show that like, their politics were bad. And I'm just like, okay, a guy that looks like that could go either way.

Yeah. But he's like, no, no, no, no. He's like, don't be a fucking asshole. Like that's good. He's good. Yeah. Alan Richardson for Jack Krauser. Up next.

Maybe he's like it. We got this, look, Ramon Salazar. That's Timothy Shalame. You can get Timothy in there. Timothy would have a blast eating that up, I think. Yeah, honestly, it's Timothy. Yeah. That's Timothy.

Yeah, we got Timothy in there. Timothy, but Timothy's not little. He just seems little, I think. I think he's like 5-11 or something. Sure, sure, but that's who it is. Yeah. Look at that guy. Yeah, he would crush it.

He'd kill it. Yeah. Great. Up next, we've got... The merchant, of course. The merchant. And I think we've got to go with the, as himself, on this. Yeah, the merchant is the merchant.

Yeah. Because otherwise... Otherwise, he'll die at intelligentsia right now. Yeah, where he's hanging out. Or he's asking if he could plug in his rotary telephones. Yeah. Can I charge my phone? We got, we'll get him, we'll get the merchant for the merchant.

Otherwise, you know who I think would be good? Stephen Merchant. Do you know, the merchant's extremely tall. Stephen Merchant, I've seen him in person. I saw him at the Grove. I think he's possibly the tallest man I've ever seen. I'm going to pitch somebody for the merchant. And that's Peter Seraphinovich.

Paris, Peters Serifertramert. Because Peter Serafinovitz is extremely tall. He loves video. video games. He does great voices and he's going to be fully costume. Yes. That's good. So I think Sarapinowitz as the merchant.

Serafinovitz would crush it and you can give him a couple little jokes too. Yeah, of course. I'd buy that for a high price. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I like that the picture that Ranch has chosen is the one where he looks the most like Don Draper. Yeah, he's a handsome guy.

Look, we're going for the hottest cast possible. And we're continuing that streak. Okay, get this goofy-looking one. It looks silly of this. It's the interview for Dark Souls, too. Who's our final cast member? Our final cast member is Wesker. Albert Wesker.

And I have two takes on this. One is Tom Cruise, but Tom Cruise from Collateral. Matt, I won't lie. It is exactly what I was going to pitch to you. Yeah. Tom Cruise from Collateral. fucking got it. Yeah.

And he's still kind of like young Tom Cruise. So he's still like, he's probably the hottest he's ever been in this. Yeah. 20 years ago, Tom Cruise. Yeah. But my other take is Miles Corridge himself, Stephen Lang. But Stephen Lang is older than Tom Cruise. He's older than Tom.

He's older than Tom Cruise. But I kind of think of Westgra as a bit of an old guy anyway. He's not so old than this. I think Tom Cruise young. or Tom Cruise in the right mode is the scariest most intense dude Oh yeah he's fucking terrifying Yeah

And collateral Yeah He's really it's his best performance It's so good Yeah Doesn't get the credit I think Jamie Fox obviously nominated for Best Supporting actor for that movie

But I think that You know A lot of that is who you're acting against Right And Tom Cruise should have also been nominated for that thing Yeah But somehow the hardware lutes him What does he

What is he won for? Did he win an Academy Award? It was for... Magnolia? No, what did he win for? Was it for the one, the Ron Howard Irish movie? Was it born on the Fourth of July? No.

He was awarded it... No, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award. Yeah, he doesn't have won for acting. Yeah, it was his first ever Oscar was for honorary Academy Award. Holy shit. Yeah, he... Tom Cruise has never won an Oscar. He should...

He should have one for acting. And I know people don't like him. Yeah, no. He's a tough hang. He's been nominated four times. Yeah. Born on the 4th of July, Jerry Maguire, Magnolia, and Top Gun Maverick as producer. Yeah.

I'm surprised he didn't win for. Like Magnolia. Magnolia. Yeah. But even Jerry McGuire kind of was like kind of nothing stopping him. Who was he up against? Can you search best supporting assets? actor 2000 and see who he was up against because I bet somebody else who is more deserving one.

Michael Kane went for Sirehouse Rules. Fuck, it's Michael Kane. Yeah. You can't. You can't like. But he certainly has one, right? Like he has probably more than one Michael Kane. Yeah.

But Sirehouse rules must be great. It was, it was Michael Kane, Tom Cruise, Michael Clark Duncan, Jude Law and Haley Joel Osmond. That's a pretty good category. That's really good. Fuck, Haley Joel Osmond was so good. Yeah, he was great in that movie. He's kind of great in everything.

Honestly, I think it should have been him. When I look at that, when I look at that category, I think he's stunning. I remember when he was, I mean, this was the year 2000, so I was like nine or ten. But I remember when he was nominated, we were like close enough in age. I think he's like maybe a year or two older than me. Where, because he was nominated, I was like, wow, a little kid could be nominated. But yeah, Tom Cruise, as his character from Collateral, as Albert Wesker, is pretty good. It's an excellent poll.

They have the same hair in the movie? Yeah, they look the same. Yeah. They look scary. Yeah. Imagine Albert Wesker running at you full speed? Yeah. The fastest man alive.

What do you have to say about that flower? Don't be a smart ass. You know, with a million phrases, he's repeating an awful. awful lot. Yeah. Does he really have a million? Does it boast one million phrases? I don't know how many phrases the talking flower has.

I got to look it up now. How many, how many phrases does the talking flower from Nintendo have? It says over 100. That is. We've heard two repeats. That is worse than like a fucking talking watch. Yeah.

That's, that's dog shit. Sorry. That's worse. That's worse than I can imagine. Yeah. Well, sorry for Talking Flower. You will not be asked back.

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Reddit says that is not correct. Reddit says 7300 phrases. That's actually horrifying. Over 100, not so good. 7300? Too many, actually.

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and I'm also going to have her come back for Resident Evil 9 for a specific part I definitely don't want to play. Spiders. Oh. Ranch don't like spiders. Ranch doesn't like spiders.

Ranch doesn't like spiders. Ranch is going to be really upset next week when our guest is a thousand spiders. I think Sterminator come because it had an ant situation. And the first thing he did was he goes, wow, you got a lot of black widows here and we were like, what? Yeah. How do you know? He was like, you got a lot

to see this kind of web here that you see here, that you see here, those are all black widow webs and we were like, oh my God! And he's like, I'd say looking at this house, you got a lot more spiders than you got ants. And we're seeing ants all the time. But spiders spiders make themselves known when

they have to. That's true. They kind of move in silence like lasagna. Yes. Do you think there's any spiders in here, ranch? Probably. Isn't there like 250 spiders on your skin at any given moment? Like microspiders? I think the average human is made of spiders.

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I am embarrassed to have purchased you. I am embarrassed to call you a friend. I'm going to turn you into mulch, you little bitch. What do you have to say? say about that? We kind of look alike, huh? Whoa. That was a hit gum podcast.