Get Played - The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Podcast with Jack Black, Benny Safdie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Keegan Michael Key, Chris Pratt, Charlie Day and Donald Glover

Episode Date: March 30, 2026

Heather, Nick and Matt travel to Kyoto, Japan to chat with the cast of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Jack Black, Benny Safdie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Keegan Michael Key, Chris Pratt, Charlie Day and Donald Glover) and tour the Nintendo Museum. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in theaters April 1st. Check out our brand new merch at kinshipgoods.com/getplayed Follow us on social media @getplayedpod Music by Ben Prunty benpruntymusic.com Art by Duck Brigade duckbrigade.com For our exclusive show Get Played DLC, ad-free main feed episodes, our complete back catalogue including How Did This Get Played? episodes go to patreon.com/getplayed Join us on our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/getplayed Wanna leave us a voicemail? Call 616-2-PLAYED (616-275-2933) or write us an email at [e-mail] Advertise on Get Played via Gumball.fm All of our links can be found at linktree.com/getplayedpodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a headgum podcast. Oh my God, I am so happy to see you guys. I can't believe it. The last 24 hours of my life have been completely insane. Yeah, no, mine too. I can't even believe. I don't even know what's going on. Okay, so last night I'm in my house all by myself.

Somebody comes in, they throw me into a cardboard box. I hear them stamping the outside of it, and I wake up here this morning. I don't even know where we are. I don't know what's going on. I'm really disoriented. I was at Applebee's enjoying a solo Appletini at the bar and a mysterious stranger winked at me. Next thing I know, I'm getting woozy.

I wake up, I'm inside of a statue. What? Like they built a statue around me. Oh my God. And then that statue gets shipped here, and then they bust me out, and I have no idea who's behind it. No, yeah.

Today, yesterday, actually, I noticed an item of mine was missing. Uh-huh. And some of my hair was missing too. What? And then all I remember was there's been CCTV footage of me running like the weapons kids. And I weapons all the way over here. You weapons to cross the Pacific Ocean?

I weapons to cross the Pacific Ocean. Wait, so that's where we are. We're across the Pacific Ocean? Yes. Yeah, did you not go outside? No, it took me four hours to get out of the box. To be fair, I only knew that because when I was running across the ocean, the words Pacific Ocean were on it. Right.

It's kind of amazing. You see that on the globe and you think that's just like, oh, this is just a label. But no, it's in fact, a geographical feature. Yeah. Are you telling me that the three of us are in Japan? We're in Japan. We're in Japan. This week on Get Played.

Played Kyoto edition, your one-stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between. Get Played, No, Jikandes, yo. I'm your host, Heather Ann Campbell, along with my fellow host, Tiger Weiger. Bokua Nick Tiger Weigerdes, alongside Game Son, Metapadaka. is that right? Yeah. Konichua Minasan. Konichua.

And welcome back to the premiere video game podcast where this week, I don't know how it happened, but the three of us are in Kyoto at Nintendo headquarters. And with that intro and the way we set up the show on the cusp of being problematic. Wait, really? We're begging to be canceled. No, we're just, you know, we're very excited to be here. This is a surprise for you, I'm sure. pretty surprising for us.

They flew our dumb asses out for the Super Galaxy movie Japanese premiere for some reason. All I can infer is that someone at Universal is trying to get fired. I said it earlier. I'm going to be sincere for a second. This is cool. This is cool. But somebody did make a

somebody fucked up. So we made a huge mistake. We spent today at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto where we got this tour, we got to see all of the history of Nintendo. I mean, you hear that the company was founded in the 1800s, but until you actually see the memorabilia from that era, it doesn't really dawn on you that it's a hundred plus year company. Yes. Yeah, because it's so associated with consumer

electronics, which is something we think of in the post-war era, but they existed for a long time as a Hannafuda company, Hannafuda card company, and then a Western playing card company. And we got a lot of that history, as well as their initial dabblings into what would become video gaming with some of their, you know, their, they're just analog toys and then electronic toys over time. We learned how to play Hanafuda and we painted our own Hanafuta cards. Yeah, we learned how to play Hanafuda and Heather fucking mopped the floor with me. Yeah. I won the first match and I was like, I said to Matt, I put Heather in a toilet.

And then Heather went on to just like wax me in two in a row. And I just need you to know, listeners. he said that in a group of people. There were other people around. So this is the thing. We're not here alone. There were a bunch of other people playing Hana Fuda. Yeah, yeah.

They just heard me say, I put Heather in a toilet. Also, me not knowing what our relationship is. We are recording this now at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto after seeing the Super Mario Galaxy movie last night and having some time to chat with the cast earlier today, which will come later in the show. as such, our episode is a little bit different than a usual get played. We think in a good way, but also feel free to complain.

Any change to the show is probably a good one. Yes. Because we can only go up from here. Our listeners disagree. Our listeners want the exact same thing every week. Any slight deviation in format just throws them off of their rhythms. Well, it's only a matter of time before we both annoy me, so I'm sure they'll get exactly what they want. I will say, you know, we traveled.

Right? Yeah. We've traveled across the world. Yes. Together. We've not ever done that before. We've never been to another city together. I've never crossed an ocean.

Yeah. I don't know why I would say famously, but a thing I've talked about on this podcast and elsewhere is that I am someone who is very afraid of flying, not because of the risk of crashing, but because of my claustrophobia. Right. And so the idea of being in a capsule for 12 plus hours, which was the length of the flight from, you know, we flew up to SFO, San Francisco, and then we flew from there direct to Osaka was terrifying to me, but I got over that existential dread at y'all's urging.

We said we would be happy no matter what you chose, Nick. Yes. You were never. There was like encouragement. Encouragement. At no point like, at no point it felt like you were pressuring me to go. You're saying that it was fine, whatever decision I made, but you thought I would enjoy myself.

I'm having a blast. Yeah, well, you had, you had, you know, the flight, sure, an arduous part of traveling, but you got out there on the wing of the plane and gave somebody a scare out there. You had a nice time. They got to do it. You got to do a Twilight Zone to someone. We got a Twilight Zone somebody. But no, I was like, this is the most time the three of us have spent together.

Yeah, we've only eaten dinner together, I think, three times previous to this trip. and now we are eating every meal together. Well, not in the studio, I will say. Like, like, like, you mean, we've gone to dinner three times. Outside of dinner. No, we eat in the studio. I guess I bring this up to say, I feel like we're all doing pretty good and nobody's, well, unless it's me, I don't think anybody's being annoying or bad.

We're all doing, we're all, we're, this is a good travel crew. We're doing great. I felt myself be very annoying, including the interviews we did earlier. But I think that's just also inherent to my personality. I think this has been, this has been a dream. everybody's been very pleasant and it's an honor to be here with both of you. Yeah. Yeah, I will say, and we have seen the movies I mentioned.

And we, we are going to get to spoiler country, certainly, because it's not out yet. It's out April 1st this Wednesday. I don't want to hear the bit. Put your hats and glasses away. You do not need them for spoiler country. Put them back. Well, I mean, if you're wearing hats and glasses, you don't need to secure them, I guess. Take them off.

You don't need to take them off. You don't need to take them off. Put the glasses in your drawer. Put your hats back upon thine rack. We should mention the part of like, I'm being annoying now. Yeah, well, this is, you're definitely being annoying. But this is the thing, like, because our beloved producer, Rochelle Shan Ranch was not able to make this transcontinental journey with us.

Yes. We're instead of here with a great crew that is helping us out, and I'm sure is absolutely baffled at our nonsense. What the fuck are these guys doing? Look, we're number seven in leisure. It's just good information to have, you know, do that what you will. Look, we're the premier video game podcast. That's right. Premier video game podcast.

And I heart award nominated. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I want to go back to something real quick. Yeah. Ranch? We miss you, bud. Ranch, we miss you. We miss you, ranch. I think Heather misses you most of all because she'd have someone to talk to who wasn't us.

I'm so alone. You know what I've been doing, and this is also at your encouragement, Heather. Well, we've been here in Japan. I've been speaking Nihongo, Japanese, my elementary knowledge of it, as many opportunities as I could, and just try to pick up new things, asking what Japanese words are to natives. speakers, and it's been a great way to get immersed in the culture. I will also say, you certainly hear about the reputation of the French, who are very protective of their language. If you try to speak French, French to them, in France, they will tell you to speak English

instead. They will deride your, you know, accent or what have you. Here, everyone is so excited just to hear a white man attempt anything. Nick is a star everywhere we go. I think, I think that's Because like the people in America, everybody here's just scared of you. That's why you're getting that treatment. Oh, yeah, good job. Is it my size? Is it the buzz cut?

Is it my dead-eyed stare? Yeah. Is it that my driver's license resembles Jeffrey Dahmer's mugshot? Pretty much one to one. It's more that you're walking around like this. Well, it's also that you're... I've been adopting like a wolfman sort of walk.

It's a classic universal monster like lurch. I think less people would know. about the Jeffrey Dahmer Mugshot thing, if you didn't have it in your pocket. It's a great thing to bring it out because people will say like, no, you don't, and then I'll show it to them like, oh yeah, I guess you do. Yeah.

You know what? If you want to get rid of the piece of paper, I got a new tattoo idea for you. I don't want a tattoo of Jeffrey Dahmer's Mugshot. It's only so many levels of irony deep I can go. I commemorated a horrible murder. No, of course. Here's the thing.

He was a. bad guy. We're not a fan. I got to just get out in front of this. I don't think he was very good. I think he was actually probably pretty bad. I'm going to say the opposite and then I show a very long apology when I quote, find out who he was.

I didn't know. So we have seen the movie, the Super Mario Galaxy movie, as I mentioned. And I'll say this. I'm just speaking for myself. I'm a huge elimination fan. I love the minions. I thought the first Super Mario movie was well-constructed. It had the thing of any sort of first entry in a series.

It's got to set a lot of stuff up. And, you know, I understood why it was a divisive movie. I love the Super Mario Galaxy movie. You're right into it. It looks so dazzling. It evokes so many things from the, invoke so many things from the game, Canon that you know, but it's also really accessible to someone who doesn't know these things. I just thought it was an absolute audiovisual spectacle.

And it's got so many deep cuts in Easter eggs. And I'm not just saying this because they traveled us to Japan and also bribed us with a bunch of free stuff. Yeah, there is, it's like you made this great point last night that it's just like it's nonstop momentum. Never stops going on. And it's just like new things are happening constantly. And I was delighted by all of it. It was great. I was shocked.

It wasn't just the deep cuts. It was like the specificity of cuts. Right. Like so for example, virtual boys not in the movie, right? No. But there are things adjacent to that in the movie where I was like, oh, that parts for me. Yeah, there's a character who gets a headache. I feel like we're on we're on home turf.

We're on home turf. But in the, you know, we'll get to talk more about the museum later. We are bought and sold. We've been paid off by Universal and Nintendo. We have a sack with a dollar sign on it in each of our hotel room. Wait, what? You do? You do? You have this? I'm holding on all three sacks for all of us. We'll get more into the museum of it all later, but they're very candid about the things that work and didn't work in their long story.

history, which I think is really nice. Yeah, that was really cool. When we're on the tour, I think we should just talk about it whenever we want to. Yeah, when we just talk about it now. Well, I'm saying that we should do it later because I didn't, like, I don't have like a segment segment for later. You don't know what I mean? We don't have a segment segment for later?

I think we do segments for like half of the show. That's what I was sort of thinking, but then I thought that we would do the more normal stuff. We'll leave this in. We'll do the more normal stuff at the top of the show and then like the second half of it is like our experience at the museum. Okay. Okay, sure.

I don't know. This is your like producer hat coming on. I thought so. This is, I'm learning this on the episode. I thought you were doing an either or segment. What was your idea? Well, I thought of something, but I didn't do it because I think it was too nervous. It was just too much work, I think.

It was a good idea. I'll do it someday. Yeah. What was it called? It's a me or it's a you. Yeah. But I was like, I don't have time to prep facts about everybody. What's the premise of it's a me or it's a you?

So I would read a fact about a guest or, like you guys or something, but I would, I would not include that it's about you. So if we were just playing this together, it would be, it would be like, uh, I'm from Chicago where I lived until I was an adult. Yeah. And then Heather would say, it's a me. It's a me. It's a me. When would you ever say it's a you? Well, if I then read one that's about me and then I say, and then I would say it's a you. It's a you. So I guess the way you could possibly be tricked up is if Matt read a fact about himself that also pertains to me and that would like, Oh yeah, or it could be about Nick.

Or vice versa. He, uh, this, this guy, uh, was raised in Southern California. Right. That could be either of us. Right. Then that would be the confusion. But is it, but the specific, it would need some layer of specificity. We're figuring this out.

We're just in this game real time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's a good. I don't do it. I also would like, I would love to feel so stupid if I said, it's a you and it was something about me. Yeah. Like that, like, if you can actually have that thread that needle, that would be a delight.

I think that would, um, do psychic damage to you actually. Whatever. I can take it at this point. Look, we can do anything. I could prepare a segment. Right now? While we're talking, I can figure something out. I think we're okay.

Okay. So our segment will be a museum discussion. Yeah, I thought so, because like there's things we couldn't take pictures of or anything we'd have to describe. Can I name the, can I name the segment? Yeah. The segment's called It Belongs in a Museum. Great.

It belongs a museum. That's the segment. Coming in the back end of the episode. Great. I'm sorry that I didn't communicate this earlier. No, or well. I'm livid. I think

Nick's gonna leave He'd go back to the hotel He's gonna slowly saunter into the ocean At an angle And walk on the bottom of the ocean floor Yeah And then reemerge Back home

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Oh, interesting. Yeah, because we normally start, we have a little bit of bullshit up top. And then we usually branch into a difference. segment, I don't think he made it across the ocean with us. No, I don't think, I hope not. Yeah, I mean, you know, I think a lot of podcasts when they book a huge celebrity would, as we have several in this one, would want to put that at the forefront of the episode. We want to front load it, but we're like, we're saying, no thank you.

We're still doing our normal stuff. We're still taking, we're still rambling for 30 minutes before we get to the meat of the show. There's a good chance that people are going to listen to this one. Maybe we should do it a little bit different. No, actually. No, no. No, let's do it. Get out of here.

We're the same old us, baby. I like the idea that a listener might listen to the first half and be like, they're lying about being in Kyoto until the guests are on the show. Look at a clip. Look at the clip. So there's a question we ask that Heather was dancing around each and every week here on the podcast. That question is for. everyone who is sitting at a microphone, all three of us.

The question is, what do you... What are you, brother? It's me the Resident Evil Merchant. And I don't know where you guys are, but you're not in America. Yeah, Resident Evil Merchant, I think it's maybe like kind of a, you know, I'm not sure where your connection is. I'm not sure if you're on Wi-Fi. If you're doing Wi-Fi calling, I'm not sure if you're on...

I'm on a VPN. You're on a VPN, okay. Nobody could know where I am. We can hear you, though, loud and clear. We are out of the country. We're not in our normal headgum studio. What do you've been up to? I'm just here with rats.

You have to let it off. What do you mean you're here with ranch? I'm hanging out with ranch. You're hanging out with there? What do you mean by that? Yeah, I'm hanging out with ranch. It's impossibly laid over there right now. You need to get, yeah.

There's a 14-hour time gap. You need to explain what you mean by hanging out with ranch because it sounds like it could be a hostage situation. Ranch is on the sofa and I'm at the door. Okay, so I don't think that's quite hanging out with someone. That sounds like you're stalking them. You also kind of new ranch lore. Ranch sleeps at head come?

Well, I think she had somewhere to go, but I said you guys would be around any moment. Got it, yeah. I think there's a whole thing with just going someplace uninvited and then just like staring at a person. Or you're staring at her. You obviously have her within. I was waiting until you guys showed up for the house. I mean, you can try to buzz in and see if Ranch will respond.

Yeah, just hold up a photo of my face to the camera, I guess. Yeah, there's facial recognition to be in the studio now. I don't think you're in the system, Resident Evil Merchant, but... Yeah, there's not really hard. You wear a cloak and stuff. It'd be difficult. But you can try to dial into Ranch and see if you can, you know, see if she'll pick up. She's seeking her head, no.

Yeah, I think she doesn't want to be alone with you, understandably, because you are a very strange, hulking man. Well, I guess I mean I'd ask you a question over the phone. I just have to put something out real quick. I think I have to put something out real quick. I think I have to put it out. What? Shigiru Miyamoto just walked by.

I completely missed it because I'm looking in the opposite direction because of our podcast set up. He looked over here. Perhaps the... I wish I was there. Shigeru Miyamoto. Put me back in a game. Perhaps the single biggest artistic influence on my life, at least among people who are living. Yeah.

And was in in proximity, and we were doing the dumbest bit on her. It's great. What a life. The listener must know. I'm telling the truth. And I swear, I swear on my family. It's true.

You know, he's definitely been here today. And it is kind of, the most starstruck, one could possibly be as a gamer. Yeah. Just it's wild. Unbelievable.

Yeah. Go ahead and ask. Matt up a dunca. Where are you playing? Thank you so much, Res. I'm going to let you go because I'm going to,

I'm going to assume. I got right, my minute. You're up. Yeah, I think you should go home. I think ranch has probably got it covered from this point. So yeah, just go home to wherever you're staying. Hear that ranch when you're wrapping up?

Yeah, I think she's fine. She's going to be fine. Yeah, she's going to be okay. Look, I packed. I brought a lot of stuff with me because we were on a long flight. Yeah. I brought my switch two. I brought a 3DS.

I have Balotro or Balotro on my iPad. Linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive. I think both are valid. Both are valid. You know what I'm talking about. We know what you're talking about. That's the whole thing with the linguistics. If you understand what somebody is saying,

correction need not be issued. Yes. But I packed so many things. I had analysis paralysis. I watched you on the plane when I was awake. You watched like six movies. I went nuts on there. You had games, but you watched movies.

Yeah, but I'm thinking about this as a, you know, it's a gaming trip, of course, we're going to do this. but it's like we haven't quite, you know, made our way to too many gaming stores yet, but I have a grail item that I'm hoping to acquire while I'm here. Because when I've tried to buy one at home, I've kind of felt like it's too expensive for what it is. But if I got it on vacation, it's like I can justify it because it's like a special vacation thing instead. If it's in the same price.

Sure. I'm on a hunt for a Game Boy Micro. I love it. I love this for you. I'm so excited for you. A Game Boy Advance Micro about, you know, what's the, what would you say? It's larger than a credit card in terms of length. Yes.

But not in terms of height. Right. Yeah. And I, I, I just want one. That's kind of like the main thing. That's like the main thing that I want.

Can I say the thing I said to you, which is, I wish there was a running thing where I talked about you having a small hog on the show. Because then I would be like, the Game Boy Micro, you finally have a screen that can show your dick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the problem is we don't have that established.

No. No. That you're like a guy, like, and for all I know, it's not true. It's Schrodinger's hog. Yeah. We don't know what's going on. It would be perfect for my other show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's like been a running thing, unfortunately. I'll sell you the premise. You can, and then you can take it over there. So I can bring it over and just be like, hey, here's a Game Boy Micro. Yeah. And then, by the way, this was all a long con to make fun of your small penis. My favorite part of the,

this is there's a crew of strangers watching. Yeah. No, this is as big of a nightmare for us as it is for you guys. But then I thought... It's definitely worse for them. Yeah, for sure.

But I also saw a thing that I don't know if I'm going to get, but I can't stop thinking about it. And Heather keeps reminding me that I let it go. Well, that's because I wanted you to get it. Yeah, I should have got it when we were there. Can remind us to the name of the store?

So this is Mandarake. It is a chain of used goods stores that's primarily like anime and video game, manga-related, some pop culture stuff, but it goes all the way back to like the 1940s and 50s. Like you can see like Shoah era figurines. It's really, really cool stores. Some of my favorite stores in all of Japan. We went to the one here in Kyoto and Matt, you saw. I saw a switch two controller with that is themed for Resident Evil Requiem. But of course, here in Japan, it's under, It's, you know, original title, Biohazard Requiem.

And it says, instead of Resident Evil on it, it says biohazard. And I feel like a gosh darn fool for letting it slip through my fingers. Yeah, I mean, but I understand, it's like, it's tough because you've got to bring this shit home. Yeah. And you only have so much space in your luggage. If I bought everything that I've seen that I've wanted here so far, I'd have to live here. Yeah. Like it would be too, be too much.

I'd have to get a shipping container. Yeah. Sent back home. Yeah. A man can only buy so much hentai. We're going to put all this stuff. Well, and here's the thing. I tried to buy all of it they had and they ran out.

Yeah, because we got there first. We are going to do a episode in the future behind the paywall that would be all about our time spent in Japan. Yes. We will record that after. We're going to spend the next few days. We're going to take the Shinkansen to Tokyo and then see what's going on over there. Again, Matt and I have never been. Yes.

Heather has been an able guide throughout this. By the way, Heather. Yes. deserves so much. It feels like you've been very anxious about this whole experience, but you've been such a helpful, just kind of like ringmaster, a chaperone for every experience that we've had in Japan. Well, the tour part, the like going around part I'm not anxious about. It's talking to human beings. That's a hard part for me. You've been doing great with that. I'm like, you know, proud of you for even getting over here. You faced a huge

fear. And I know that like has like stopped you from doing things like that before. So I'm just happy that we were here for that with you. Oh, what a thing to say. And I'm happy you were able to make it. Hey, man, I was, I was going to come to matter what. The alternate reality where you come solo, I think you would have

been, you would have crashed it, it would have been very fun. I would have been. Because I think that was the original idea. Well, it would have only been you because I wouldn't have gone and Nick wouldn't have gone. Yeah, then it would have been solo. It would have for sure been you if it was one person. That's the only way to do it. I would have happily done it, but I'm glad you guys are here because

I wouldn't have known what to do. Nick, what are you playing? Wow, Heather, thank you so much for asking. So as I mentioned earlier, I'm not going to belabor this, but I'm very claustrophobic. And I needed a way to occupy myself on the plane. This, again, more than a half-day voyage. I've been playing Slay the Spire 2 or an early access on PC and just enjoying the shit out of it.

It's so, so fun. It's such a great design, even at its current development stage. On this flight, I'm stuck in a middle seat. And, you know, I'm comfortable, but I'm just like, I'm, I'm, again, someone who's like doesn't like being trapped. And then I feel like I've got every people surrounding me in an enclosed space. But I had Slay the Spire One on my iPad and basically just locked in on that. And I was like, I'm feeling okay doing this. And so I pretty much played for 12 straight hours.

I completed multiple runs. I was having a great time. Yeah. I was unlocking a lot of things. a game is such an impeccable design. I will say a guy in front of me, the row in front of me,

was playing Slay the Spire 2 on his steam deck and totally maugging me. I just felt like completely. Yeah, I know. Wow. Oh, yeah, no, because I'm working. I had no idea. I'm running this, like, you know,

chunky iPad port of like, it's very playable, but it's just like not a great frame rate. It has moments where it slows down. And I'm looking at it. He's got this, like, silky smooth, like 120 FPS, sort of the display is capable of on a steam deck.

And then just look like, Like the art design and the character models look so sharp in Slay the Spire, too. So I definitely felt some envy there, but I was really glad to Slaid the Spire one in front of me. Did I see you tap him on their shoulder and ask, can I play? They asked me for my wife's phone number. They gave it to him. No, it's alpha's hell. But yeah, that's what I've been playing.

Heather, what are you playing? Well, I brought me Switch 2 on the Nintendo trip. I was playing Disco Elysium on the plane. But I had a little bit of sadness about like, oh, I wish that I had brought a retro system with me. I was thinking really hard about bringing my analog pocket because I feel like I always end up buying retro video games when I'm in Japan. And lo and behold, the same Mandarake where Matt passed up his biohazard controller, I saw the Game Gear Micro, a Sega release from the year 2020, which is as large as a keychain, but plays for complete Game Gear game game. Yeah. Still runs on batteries, shocking to me.

Two AAA batteries. Two AAA batteries, which I was like, you know, of course it's going to be USCBC rechargeable. It would be insane for it to run on batteries. What a nice nostalgic treat to see that I will still have to put batteries into a game gear. The one I got has both Sonic and Outrun on it as well as two other games. So I'm super excited to try it out.

But in the meantime, I'm doing Pocopia. I'm doing Pokemon the card game pocket. I am doing Disco Elysium and I am taking a brutal week off of a very promising start to a Fortnite season. Oh, yes. Yes, you can play it on the Switch too. No, you can't play it if you're on Wi-Fi.

Not really. You're such a disadvantage. Yeah. Now look, earlier today, like I mentioned, right here at the Nintendo Museum, we sat down with the stars of the Super Mario Galaxy movie. We had three separate interviews

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You know what, actually could be. It's get played, but we're a great brand. Get played, colon, a huge waste of time. Yeah, yeah. The relationship between your characters really drives the movie. How did you develop this neglectful father or fail son dynamic? Ooh. Failed son.

I don't, wait a second. Wait a second. Didn't you like kind of build that spaceship from the ground? That one just went right on my head. Fail sense an unfair. Yeah, I do a lot. To be fair, he's just, he's just. He's just a kid.

He's not only just a kid. He builds an entire... Yeah. The inventions that this guy thinks up. Yeah, the planet has infrastructure. He literally makes his dreams come true. Yeah. He's like, you know, the Oppenheimer of the Nintendo universe.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Building mega weapons. Yes. And taking over the world. Universe. Yeah. I retract my invocation of failed son. And I am listening and learning.

Strike it from the record, yeah. You'll get a name. No, Sappapap apology. Yeah, very soon. So the sequence where Bowser is tiny had me wondering, would you want to be tiny? Oh, man. You know, being tiny, it has roots in some of the literary lore of yesterday.

You think, you know what comes to mind first? Alice in Wonderland. Oh, sure. Oh, yeah. Gulliver's travels. This could exactly go. Yes. Been there done that.

And it was maybe the funnest part of this movie for me was playing Tiny Bowser. Wow. Because when you're shrunken down, everything you do is a little bit funnier. Yeah. What I like about Tiny Bowser is he's, he doesn't realize he's tiny. That's the best part. Sort of like when like a tiny little dog is like trying to talk tough to a big dog. You're sort of like, you can't do that.

He's like a little too much. They don't know anything. I mean, I'm deeply afraid of my own tiny dog. There is something funny about a big dog who thinks he's a little dog too. So it goes both ways. Dude, when Tiny Bowser blows flames. Yes. It's so sweet.

That would still hurt. Yeah. Tiny Bowser would still hurt. A small amount of fire still burns. Tiny Bowser like the wind is, I was saying it earlier. I think about it once a day. If this movie came out in the 70s, it could be like a lighter. Like a tiny Bowser lighter.

Oh, there should be a Tiny Bowser lighter. Yeah. Could we tell? I mean, I don't think Nintendo would say. No, no. No. No. No, doesn't want to tacitly

endorse smoking. Well, it's to light candles. There's light candles, of course. It's a candle bouncer. It's actually for tranquility, yeah. Benny, I have a question for you. You obviously, an acclaimed director in your own right. And now, you know, you've been doing,

you've been acting in some things as well. I'm curious, when you're on set and you're doing stuff and you get a note from our director, are you sort of like, yeah, I know. I try not to. Okay. You know, I tried, I try to be like, all right, here I am. Yeah.

as an actor, I'm going to give it my best from that point of view. I don't want to like step on any toes that way. I don't want to make anybody feel uncomfortable like that. Because then I don't think that would be nice. You're better do a different job. Yeah. And if I, but if you want something and it makes sense, yeah, well, we can get in it together. It's a fun thing.

It would be funny if you said that to Christopher Nolan, that would be like, I know, a little bit of filming. Trust me, but you want me to stand over there? I'm standing here, actually. Matt's question is basically, are you an asshole? Exactly. Yeah, and the question asker is a dumb guy. You know what?

I'm going to do whatever I want. I'm on Benny time, baby. Hold it on the notes. Let me have one for me first. Benny gets his take. Oh, did you say something? Because I wasn't listening. Speaking of being dumb, Matt and I collaborated on a question.

We think it's pretty good. Oh, yes. This is also for Benny. When we first meet Bowser Jr., he's piloting something one could describe as a smashing machine. Ooh. Pretty good, right? Not bad. Yeah.

That took the brains of two guys. Which, what part did each of you connect with? It's also not structured as a question. There's no way to reply. You just had words. There's not a question mark at the end. It's ultimately a thing we just want. wanted to say, yeah, yeah, I came up with the second half of it. We worked backwards from the

second half. Something was smashing machine. Yeah. That's what you were doing at the hotel to like one in the morning? I was up all night with this. I love it. It was a debacle. So we have a segment we do on the show called the question block where listeners send in their questions for us and our guests. The issue is we couldn't announce this in advance. We weren't allowed to. So we each instead came up with some fake questions we think our listeners might ask, knowing them very, very well. Does that make sense? Awesome. Great. Can we just now pretend

that the listeners did ask them? 100%. Let's do it. Listeners, what did you have to say? It's time for the question block. Darth Vader Ginsburg writes, I couldn't get my controller

to connect to the movie. It feels like a skill issue. They thought it was a game to play. It's actually the movie. Well, no, you know, that's like what you'd say to, I have two boys, and sometimes when the other one

is not allowed to play the game, and the other one is playing the game, like, and they're just playing the demo. Oh, sure. So maybe that's something like that where you can just say, oh yeah, it's you.

You know, and they're playing along with the controller. Look what you just did. This one's from Mark Grape and it's for Jack. Jack, you have a song called video games and you obviously have appeared

in other video game adaptations. Is there a game that you're very into that you'd like to see adapted and if so, like, would you like to pitch yourself for the adaptation now? I'm really into this.

this game lately called Balotro. Oh, Bellatro. Yeah, absolutely. You say Balatro. You know, I thought it was Balatro too. Until I heard, I can't remember who it was. There's one of those content creators who was like, it's Balotro. Wow. It doesn't sound right that a nerd would correct you.

I know, Balatro sounds better. It sounds more Italian, Balatro. But I've been, I've been schooled. It's Balotro. Okay. So you want to play a card in a movie? Is that what you saying? I know. It doesn't sound like, it doesn't sound like there's an obvious cinematic translation of this game into a movie, unless it was like killer clowns from outer space where there's like 150 different clowns that have different

superpowers. And so either they're evil or they're good. I don't know yet. It's not writing itself, but that's the game I'm playing lately. No, this is great because there's jokers. And each of the Joker could be a character in the movie. Let me just remind you, recently there was a movie called Joker. It made a billion. This is like a hundred times better than that. because there's so many jokers in it. And if you take like Joker and Joker 2 and combine them, they made like a billion and $50,000. Huge franchise.

I wasn't asked this question. Please. But untitled goose game. Oh, nice. Okay. Oh, he knows ball. We covered it on the show. It is.

An awesome game. And it's really funny. And I just think that. How would you address that? Like, would we, would we fault, would the goose be the main character? Yes, it would. The goose would be in there

and you'd be in the internal monologue of the goose. And I think you go. from Goose point of view and then all the humans are like kind of like kind of thing. I have zero cloud obviously but Hollywood make that happen. Hollywood? And also

we should try to get geese to do the soundtrack. Oh yes. Natural fit. Yes. See this is like we're going hard right here. We have like a pitch meeting here but we're making deals. Yeah. Yeah. That's why we're here.

Yeah, we're also in Japan so we're not like following U.S. copyright law, so we can just steal your ideal. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Feel free. Run with it. I've got a question here from Gristle Slurper. Mario has demonstrated his athleticism in both the movies and in the Olympic Games.

Do you think he could have survived the sinking of the Titanic? Ooh. Uh, yeah, probably. He could fix the leak. He could, wow. You're right. He could fix the leak. No, you're right. That's a great insight.

He's a plumber. That's his fundamental skill set. Oh my God, you're right. Iceberg, big deal. Yeah, easy work for Mario. That's lateral thing. He threw a fireball at the iceberg, melt it down. It's gone, no issue. Here am I thinking about him, I'm thinking about him getting the frog suit and swimming to safety, but no, he just fixes the leak. You think he's going to leave everybody behind? No, he's a hero. Why would he do that? That should be the third movie. If they make a third Mario, it should just be.

Hollywood, the third Mario is Titanic with Mario. All I could actually just think of when I said that was there's like a Buster Keaton short where he's underwater in a boat. I think it's the funniest thing in the world. And he's in the boat and there's a leak that comes up. And he takes a piece of wood and he puts it up over the leak. And then he takes the hammer and nail and he goes to hammer in the leak, but he's underwater. And then more holes are made.

It's just really funny. I hate to say it, he sounds like a big idiot. What's kind of the fun of it? Oh, I see. Yeah. Like you. Yeah, well, I don't know if it's as fun as that. Girl Fieri writes, I had to take a long bathroom break, so I must have missed something.

How does Bowser know Bowser Jr.? Well, first of all, I feel when you invoke the name Guy Fieri, was it Gil Fieri? Girl Fierry. I just feel like she's making fun of my shirt right now. Because this is such a Guy Fierry shirt to be wearing. And believe me, I thought about that before I put it on. But then I was like, no, I'm going hard. I'm leaning into my guy, Fieri.

Do it. I got only flame shirts on this whole junket. What was the question? You lost me at Fieri. No, this is great. How does Bowser know Bowser Jr.? Bowser Jr.? How does Bowser know Bowser Jr.?

Yeah. They've had some good times together. Yeah, no, there was magical. There's a gap. Yeah. There's no question. There's a gap. Right.

Told him stories. Bedtime stories. Son, how does he know him? How do you forget him? Who's asking these questions? The are idiot listeners. Are they dumb? Like us.

You know what's dumb is that I took the question so seriously and really she was joking all the time. How does Bowser, no Bowser Jr.? And I am so dumb. I know. I think it was more about the fact that there was, yeah, she was focusing on the gap years.

Here's the problem. I don't have a part of my brain that knows when someone's joking. Earlier today, someone said, when you're checking out the Nintendo Museum where we're shooting this right now, check out that corner over there because it starts it in 1890. And I was like, Nintendo's that old? And he said, BC. I was like, what?

Did you got anything to say? Are you telling me that there was Nintendo? Like, the family goes back to before Christ? And it took me so long. It took me so too long to realize that he was joking. That's okay. You're in good company here. It's okay.

So our show's called Get Played. We end every episode by telling our guests, they got played. And usually what happens is they get mad at us. For this Super Mario Galaxy movie episode, we thought it'd be fun if we did that to Bowser and Bowser Jr. If that's all right? Yeah. All right.

Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Yeah, yes. It's so funny. We have Ania Taylor Joy, Princess Peach, and Keegan Michael Key, key toad. Thank you in advance for dealing with our nonsense. Hello. Hi, guys.

You're both returning to the first film. How did you react when you found out this sequel would be like a space movie? I mean, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but basically every time I got into the booth, the directors would say, and now this has happened. And I was like, cool, for sure. Absolutely. Let me imagine. Okay.

Yep. I'm in the scene. So it was thrilling. It was really fun. It was really exciting to find out how expansive it was going to be. I'm like, wait, so wait, wait, I'm sorry, where are we now?

On the what landscape of the where plant? And what just happened? Wait, but yeah, it was really, it was really fun to hear that it was going to be this space movie and that it was going to have all these different worlds that we were, all of the characters were going to be contending with.

It was great. And so much lore. Yes. Oh, yeah. The lore is deep. We're suckers for lore. She and I are, we've been learning that about it.

each other. Yeah. Do you think you guys have, I mean, I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to put the cast against each other or anything like that, but do you think you guys have a special kinship with each other because you both have, you both go by three names? Yeah, yeah, we've been talking about this today. I think, I think we are bonded. We're bonded through school trauma. Through school trauma. Yes, yes. Highens run deep. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, the feeling of, yes, we do. Yeah, it's growing and growing as we speak. You're watching it happen in real time. I know. I feel it. It feels good. When you're in the booth, speaking about being told, like, oh, you're in this location or you're in that location, how much of your dialogue gets to be improvised? Or is it a really strict script process?

We get to improvise a little bit. Yeah. A little bit. We get to try. Yes, we get, yes. One has the, one has. You get attempts in every once in a while something sneaks through. And it's glorious, too.

When you go to a screening and go, oh, my God, that got in there. That made it in there. I did it. That one got in there, but most of it, not strictly scripted, but pretty close. Yeah.

Do you ever do anything like, because I made up that you, Ania, you wore a crown in the booth. I was like, what if that was true? So would you be willing to lie? Yes.

Honestly, the thing that, like, throws me the most, but it's kind of the most fun, is that I'm, I've been lucky enough to be constantly working whilst voicing Peach

and all of my other, characters are pretty bloody and dirty and in like some intense situation. So I really like being able to like rock up after a night shoot and be like, okay, now we're clean and we're a princess. So that's pretty fun. I'd like to wear a crown though. I'm kind of bummed. Yeah. Where was my crown? I don't know. They should provide you the crown. You should just do it probably. Yeah. You could just wear a crown. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. In Nintendo lore, when there's a bad version of you, it's like the Waugh version of you, like Wa Luigi or

Wario is the opposite of Mario. My Waugh version, Wa Heather, would love the beach and hate spaghetti. What would your Waugh version be? What's the opposite version of you? What would the evil you be? Oh.

Ooh. Okay, so Waugh Keegan. It's funny that you said the thing about the beach. That's also a city. Waqaigan, yes. Yes. Very, very, there is that. Waikagan, Illinois, that's correct.

That's so funny that you say that, because then I just thought to myself, I know where Waqigan is because I love geography. So Waqigan would not have a passport. Okay, nice. Okay, that's good. Would not have a passport

and would hate the beach. Wow. Would hate the beach, since I actually live on a beach, would hate the beach and would not have a passport. Because you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did I do the other day on the plane? What was the thing when I walked up to?

We played a game. We played a geography game. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. He knows every flag. Oh, is it, a geogessor? Wow. Is it a, no, it's called World Quiz.

Okay, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, he would not have a passport, which is to imply would care nothing about, the most, worst dreadful isolationist person in the world and hate beaches. You're describing me before this trip. Anya, how about you? What would the wah ania be?

Wanya? Wanya? Wanya would hate animals and love direct sunlight. We were talking about this earlier today. I don't get claustrophobic in any kind of situation. You can put me in the smallest box possible. I will not care. Direct sunlight on exposed skin is not for me.

Not for me. Not for me. But they keep putting me in the desert for all of my movies. So there's a lesson there. It's funny you describe your other characters as, like, bloody and rough and tumble, but, like, Princess Peach could maybe mop the floor with all of them. Here's the thing. If they did the live-action version of this, that's the thing I would be most excited about.

The fight choreography, the Princess Peach is rocking, is insane. But you know where you'd get her with another character. If she had to go into the club in Last Night in Soho, I think she could get the better of people. Well, maybe not. Maybe not. I'm going to think about that one. But I just thought to myself,

but one movie you got to make where you didn't have to be in the sun. Yeah, that's true. A movie hypothetical for the age. Exactly. Yeah, right? Exactly. Yeah, it was in last night and so.

We've been wondering. We have a, we have a segment we do on the show. It's our video game, Would You Rather? We call it Wood You Blathers. So this is Would You Blathers, Mario edition. Okay. Okay. Let's go.

Let's get into it. You didn't do the blathers noise. Oh, right. conscious? I forgot that I do it. Yeah. It's would you blathers Mario edition? That was so good. All right, so I'll read a hypothetical. I love that. That's it. That's it.

Wait, can you guys talk to each other in that place? No, Heather's the only good one. So I'll read a hypothetical. You tell me which option you'd pick. First up, would you blathers always have a mostly red, wardrobe like Mario or a mostly green wardrobe like Luigi. Oh, interesting. Oh, no. Oh, no.

I'm in Aries, I might have to go for red. Oh, okay. Wow. I think I might have to, yeah, do that. I just enjoy green so much. Oh, great. I would have to go with, what were? Together were Christmas.

Oh, 16th of April. Oh, 16th of April, okay. Me and my husband. All right, same birthday. Wow. Wow. Yeah. You guys are late Aries.

Late Aries. Same birthday. You guys got the same parents or is it? Luckily, no. Grateful for that one. All right. How about would you blathers eat a mushroom that doubles your size or be transformed into a baby version of yourself?

Oh, I have to, I go mushroom. I feel I go mushroom. It's like, the baby, that was already tough. I want to be, I want to be huge. Yeah. I want to be huge. Why do that again? Yeah.

Right. I want to take a step and cross a mountain. You know what I mean? That'd be great. There's something about appealing about being like bigger than Victor Wemba Nama, being like the biggest person in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I would choose baby myself.

Oh, really? Yeah, because like I'd love to be a baby with an adult brain. I feel like I could do it right this time. Wait, no. Wait, wait, wait a second. That sounds like hell. The best part about being a baby is that you are not aware. You're completely ignorant.

You're profoundly ignorant of the world. Yeah. We also don't know that. babies aren't in like constant pain. That's true. Communicating that stuff with us. And baby Mario and baby Luigi don't seem to know what's going on.

Also imagine you have all of your thoughts but you can't talk. Yeah, that's a prison. That's like you now. I have one here. Would you blathers be stuck in a warp pipe or at the top of a flagpole? You're stuck either way.

If I'm stuck either way, I'd rather be stuck at the top of a flagpole because at least I have the view. Oh, right. At least I have the view. That's pretty nice. I'm like you, I'm not super claustrophobic. Yeah.

But I'd rather have the view. Yeah. Yeah. I can correct. What's that? As a flag is a flag. And as a flag, I could tell you, I'm like, oh, this is the mushroom camera. There's also the third iteration of the flag in this nation.

They change it in 1941. Your flag knowledge is admirable, though. Like, genuinely, it's impressive. Yes. Do you have a favorite flag? Well, my favorite flag is the, there's two, I have two, it's amazing. I do. I have two favorite flags.

Okay. One. There's one wrong answer. Is it right? Yeah. Go. You got it. Only flag in the entire world,

that is neither a square or a rectangle is Nepal. So they have their own special little flag. It has two little, little, little taily things. The other flag I love, Liberia.

Liberia's flag is a blue field with one star and the American stars and stripes because when all of the former slaves left America in 1841

and sailed across the world to Africa and moved to Liberia. It's called Liberia because it's their liberation place. The capital of Liberia's Monrovia after James Monroe. And so they made an American flag with one star. Why isn't this our show?

I know. You would have you on telling us cool stuff. The most interesting thing anyone's ever said on the show. Switch formats to fly fans. I didn't even get to Hannah Fuda. I didn't even get to Hannah Fuda. about how Nintendo's right. Oh, yeah, that was great.

Anyway, Ania, what's your answer? So, we're going to cut that, we're going to cut that. Liberia, yes. What was it hypothetical? Oh, stuck in a warp pipe or stuck on the top of a flagpole? And you must answer?

I'm kind of scared of heights. Okay. Yes, but I agree with you on the view thing. So maybe I would go on top of the flagpole because then I would have to get over my fear and I feel like I would grow. That seems, that's on brand for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I choose the growth. How about would you blathers have a mushroom for a head like toad or bear the burden of absolute power like Princess Peach? Oh. Oh. Oh.

I mean, it's really nothing. Oh, no. It's the way you worded it. Because I want to say, I mean, what's wrong with absolute power? I'll go for absolute power. I'll go for absolute power to, in solidarity with my girl peach, but I do love a mushroom. So like having a mushroom head would be kind of great. I mean, we don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't

have time for this, but there's like an entire conspiracy theory about mushrooms that actually they're like an alien species and they're here and the mycelium network. So maybe having a mushroom for a head actually means that you do have absolute power because you're connected with the universe. Yeah. Wow. I just love that. That's my conspiracy theory. I like that answer. I like that That's very avatar fire-hats. Yeah. That's right. Thank you guys so much.

Thank you both so much. Thank you. Anya Taylor Joy, Keegan Michael Key, anything you want to plug? Our movie, the Super Mario Galaxy movie, comes out on April 1st. Wow. In the United States. Yeah. And this is not an April Fool's Day thing.

It's actually coming out on April 1st. Yeah. So look for that. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. This was fun. You all were great. That was awesome.

That was a blast. We are here with Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Donald Glover, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi, the Super Mario Trifecta. Thank you for doing our shitty, shitty show. No, not real. This is a kid's film, by the way, so it's the language guys. These are the most beautiful mics I've seen in a podcast. Give yourself some credit. We didn't bring these.

This is nice on accident. Oh, okay, okay. The first movie is burdened with the hard work of setting this universe up. With the sequel, you're already in the mushroom kingdom, and then bam, there's Yoshi. Anyway, my question is, what did you get on the plane on the flight over? Well, I have an answer to that because it's sort of a funny thing. You know, we were all flying together, and we were flying at 8 a.m. And they had some food on the plane, but the only thing they had was ravioli.

That was it. I don't know if they thought that's a Mario-themed food, but they were like... They're going to love this. Here's the menu. And I thought, oh, it's nice. You can pick your stuff. And I was like, this is just, oh, this is what we're having. Yeah, like, it's like the chefs.

Like, you know, when the chef chooses for you. Yeah, it was like that. It was a lot of morning ravioli. And the airline was from Iceland. So it was all very... Have you had Icelandic ravioli? Very good. You haven't lived until you've eaten an Icelandic ravioli in the sky.

For breakfast. So, you know, we're gamer focused. We're watching this with a deep knowledge of the Mario games. I have played and finished every mainline Mario entry, except for Super Mario Galaxy 2, which is my great shame. But, like, there's just so many references in this. There's so many deep cuts. Like, not just like, hey, this was in this game, but, like, you had to really, like,

play this game deeply, like, into the end game to experience this. Well, I would say that if you, like yourself, have played a ton of these games, and you have an intimate knowledge of all of these various worlds, there is a special level of enjoyment for you, a bunch of Easter eggs, things you'll be able to pick out. But I don't think it's a prerequisite for enjoying the movie. I think anyone who's really played a single movie would be able to watch it. For me, though, I'd be seeing things in the movie,

and I'd be like, well, I think I've experienced that, but I don't think I've played that version of the game. And so I was like, did that? Was I had some kid's house once, and I was playing that, you know, coming back to the front. Because you'll see the movie. there's all, there's too much stuff to pull out. You have to see it a couple of times.

You probably digest all of it. Anytime I think you haven't anything like that's kind of got a lot of iconography in it, you just kind of have to play. I hesitate in calling it like fan service or whatever, but it's like something where you're like, I have to let people, people who know it will enjoy this. But that has to be second to people who have not ever. Because like my youngest is like not aware of like,

all of this, but I think he's enjoying it still, you know. Sure. Right. So you never finished Super Mario 2? Galaxy 2. Super Mario 2, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you finish Super Mario 2? Oh, yeah.

Okay, got me. In your opinion, do you think that Yoshi has two eyes, or do you think he has, like, one large eye with kind of a crease? Because they, because of the crease. That's, you know, like, this is one of the great character design questions of all time. are like, are these eyeballs touching? Yeah.

Or are they one big? I think they're touching. I think it's like a butt. When he looks, then you, he feels. Yeah, the feeling of the eyes. That's gross. It's kind of gross. But I think it just works that way.

I don't know. It has to be two eyes. It has to be. I think just evolutionarily, anything with just one eye would be eaten. And the two eyes, you have to have two eyes. You have to have two eyes.

You wouldn't say a chance. Do you think that the shell, his back is his saddle or do you think it's part of his body? Like is the shell dinosaur part? Or is that what somebody rides on? I have Yoshi exclusive. Does he poop? And if it does, does it come in and eggs? Yeah. Or you're saying can he get in and out of the shell? Yeah. Or it's like the shell just something that's put on Yoshi. I'd like to think it's a dinosaur. Right. He's a dinosaur. They don't have like turtle shells. They don't have turtle shells typically. We don't know.

We don't know for a fact that they didn't. That's true. We keep changing what they looked like. Yeah, I know. They dropped feathers on us way late in the game. I'm like, you can't do that. You can't do that. We got too many movies, too many featherless movies to all of a sudden say that the T-Rex was covered in bed.

I love how everybody, though, was like, no, we're sticking with these featherless. Right. So there could be shells. Okay, so Chris, this question is for you. Donald and Charlie played green guys in the movie. Do you feel left out at all? Well, like you, yes, I feel left out. I noticed that they both have green Nikes on.

Yeah, and you don't. So, yeah, I didn't get the memo. You and I kind of, we didn't get the memo. Yeah, I'm also a lone wolf on this trip. That was really passive-aggressive, Matt. I didn't mean to exclude anybody. I was just asking. The way you two did and the way you two do.

Clarify that Luigi wears green but isn't a green guy. That's true. It's an incredible point, and all I can do is a positive. He just brought up a lot of questions about Yoshi where, like, maybe he is in green. I don't know anymore. Yeah, yeah. We were warned we couldn't spoil anything in this movie.

And again, you know, someone who's played these games very, very much. There's some things that are very, very spoilable. But would you like to spoil a different movie instead? Hmm. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Willis is dead. The whole time. The whole time. He's a ghost. He's a ghost. Wow. They should do his. sequel where Haley Joel Osman is grown up.

And he's the therapist now. And that's a spoiler for Hudson Hawk. That's a great pitch. That's right. That's right. That's right. Here's a spoiler. He's a spoiler.

He did grow. He did. He did. Lovely man. And a great actor. Yeah. Yeah. Very good.

You want to spoil it. Ruined movies. Ruined movies. Ruined movies. Ruin movies. I'm trying to think of some good ones. that derailin. I mean, you could like

cause her so say things, but do you really want to, I don't want to run it. That's a tough one. If you haven't seen the usual suspects by now. Yeah. I mean,

a lot of kids, I mean, what's your demo? What's your demo? Unknown. Unknown? It's all. Who?

Why does anyone listen to? I haven't seen it anymore. Okay. Well, I don't know his name in the Shoshink Redemption, but he gets out. There you go.

There you go. There you go. He gets out. Andy, Andy, Andy Diffran. Andy, Andy Dufran.

Should we do a segment? Yeah, let's do a segment. We'll do a little segment. I got a segment here that I'm going to call Eat It or Beat It. The way it works is I'm going to name an item that might be a power up from a video game. If it is, you tell me, eat it. But if you think this isn't a power up from a video game, then you tell me, beat it. Okay?

So if I said, like, Mushroom, you guys would say, eat it. Right, because it's from Mario. But if I said dish soap, you'd probably. probably say beat it. Great. Simple rules. Also, there's no way

to win or lose. So we'll start easy. Flower. Eat it. Very good. Flower is a power up from Super Mario. Dog food.

That feels like a beat-in. I think it's a beat- is a power up? No, there's no way, right? It's got to be. Is there a power up that turns you to a dog? There's got to be a dog.

Come on. There's got to be one. Is that powering up? Is it from Mario? I'm not, I'm just saying dog food eater. or beat it? I'm going to say eat it.

Eat it. Yeah. I'm beating that. Beat it. Beat it. All right. Two beat it's. Uh, the beatits.

Uh, the beat it's lose. The eat it wins. Which game? Wolfenstein 3D. You eat dog food to power up. Why? Do you remember that? A person or a Wulthstein 3D?

Yeah, no. A German wolf? No, that's a human man. A wolf of unknown origin. Yeah. Wolfenstein. Wolfenstein. Let's make that one.

We've got to be one video game. where you're a dog. That was the odds on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, Nintendo dogs. Right.

But it's interesting dog food isn't Wolfenstein, but you are a human. Yeah, you're a human man who eats dog food. But when you say Wolfenstein does sound like a portmanteau

of Wolfman and Frankenstein, like some sort of, you know, abomination. Yeah. Putting way too much thought into this. I don't know. You also put a point on us, which is great word.

A plain piece of prison bread. Plain piece of, well, that's so specific. I think eat it. Eat it? a plane so that would imply that in this game if you eat

prison bread that has like you know jam on it it doesn't do anything but if you eat it plane it does something I'm going to say beat it to that that's too specific I'm going to say beat it all right the answer is eat it it's the power up from yakuza like a dragon

which I totally knew yeah yeah yeah should we do one more two more yeah we'll see why Well-pickled turtle neck. Well-pickled turtle neck. Again, my brain goes to, so if you eat the turtle neck and is not pickled enough, you don't get the power? I'm going to help everybody out just for a second.

It's not the piece of clothing. It's not the shirt. It's the actual neck of a turtle-tleneck. It's a turtle's neck. I had forgotten about the piece of clothing. I was thinking about actual turtles-knit. I just wanted to make sure nobody thought it was the type of shirt. Yeah, you wouldn't pickle an actual shirt.

Let's say eat it. Let's say eat it. We got two Edits and a... I guess just to potentially you said there's no way to win or lose, but I want to win, so I'm going to say beat it that way. All right. The answer is Eat It. It is a power up in Eldon Ring.

I was going to say. It sounds very Zelda-ish. But if it's important to you, Chris, you win. It is. It is. And first of all, I want to think. Thank God. Here he goes again.

I really couldn't have done this with that. Wait, wait. Are you playing me off? You're playing me up already? Thank God for smiting my foes. We really had a blast watching the movie. There's just so many treats in there for people who love video games and for all audiences. So, you know, thank you so much for being here.

Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Donald Glover. Super Mario Galaxy movie. There you go. Go check out Super Mario Galaxy movie. April 1st. That's right. In movie theaters. In movie theaters of all places.

And for those of you who loved playing these games growing up or even, you know, play them currently, and for kids who have never even maybe met some of these characters, it's a really great family film. And for me as a dad, it's a way for me to bond with my kids over something that I loved when I was a kid and still love as an adult. So it's a really great thing for families to go see. There's only a handful of movies that come out like this. And you've got to see it on the biggest screen possible because it's true. truly a visual spectacle. I mean, it rivals any live

action action film. It's freaking awesome. And so go check it out. Gonna eat that. Eat it. Yeah. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Don't eat it. Eat it. It did happen.

It did happen. So thank you to everyone at Universal, especially Tara and Alex who toiled to make this happen. Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I hope you don't regret every second to us. Tara said we did a good job, and I have to take her word for it.

Do we live here now? We live here now. Yes. About time. Got to get out of America. All right. Shall we do a segment? Let's do a segment.

What did you call it? It belongs in a museum. That's right. It belongs in a museum. We are going to talk about our experience here at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, which began with a guided tour from Nintendo, Nintendo representative, delivered the presentation in Japanese, and there was an interpreter who was giving us,

conveying in English, everything that was being said. What this, what presentation was, was I was just like kind of amazed by the pace of it. It just kept moving. It was basically an hour, and we went through the whole history of Nintendo. From its time, its founding is a Hana Futukar company, to its initial forays with, you know, things like a toy bat that would.

That was designed by Gunpei. Gunpei Okoi. And Gunpei Yokoy, the father of the Game Boy and the Virtual Boy, and the creator of Metroid. His introduction of the company is like a major event that is given a lot of gravity in the presentation. Yeah, he works in the warehouse and he starts using the, because they're manufacturing toys in I think the 60s. And he starts using the manufacturing to create his own interior toys. Yeah. And somebody sees it. The first thing he makes is like a megaclaw.

It's like a telescoping set of suction cups that you can use to grab a ball or an object. And then they turned that into an interactive game in the exhibit itself. Which I was horrible at. You were not good at it, Nick. Well, to be fair, we were also really bad at it. The game is hard. Who me? You did.

You did better than me. You did better than me. I think I only got like two or three. No, you got more than me. I did, huh? I don't know. Anyway, you learn the history of the company. You learn the major intersections of fate.

Yeah. Where, like, somebody has an idea. Everybody runs with it, and it makes Nintendo a bunch of money, and they chase that for a while. And, like, I guess the big intersection is when he's riding the subway, and he's, like, the main toy designer, main interactive designer, and he sees a guy playing with his calculator on the subway. Just to pass the time, just pressing the buttons idly.

Pressing the buttons. And he's like, oh, we could use the internal. on a calculator to make game and watch. Yeah. And then that becomes a massive success. And they have a whole wall of all of the game and watches. So many game and watches. I just am like, when I heard that, I was just thinking, I'm so different.

Because if I saw a guy playing with a calculator, it'd be like, look at this dips shit. You're doing. It's for counting. It's for a calculator guy in my group chat. Yeah. One of the things that I want to say is that there aren't any photos, really, of the actual Nintendo Museum.

because the entire second floor of the museum, you're not allowed to take pictures. Right. And I think that Matt, you said that sort of like keeps the mystique real. Yes. I have had friends who come here and they say, oh, it's great. And I see like four photos and it's of like the toads in the lobby.

Yes. Or like the pipes outside. And I've always been like, it kind of doesn't look that fancy. But then you get here and it is dense and packed. There's like original hand-drawn pieces of paper with like the Zelda maps. That's the most amazing part because like it begins with a tour of Nintendo's history

and then there is a there was a point in the tour. And I believe that for most people it is self-guided. It is just like this this vast open space that has these landmarks to tell you what era you're in, what console is being portrayed. But there's also a separate room that is both an art gallery, which you have a bunch of just different interpretive art on the wall of various video game franchises in the Nintendo library. and then also a bunch of original design documents and concept art from games stretching all the way back to Donkey Kong.

Yeah, you saw the original sketchwork of what Link might look like. Right. And it broke my heart. It was so beautiful. Yeah. I was like, how can this be a sketch? A pencil drawn world map, the overworld of the legend of Zelda, screen by screen, is just presented as a giant grid. And it's like, that's the game.

That's the game I play. There's a notebook with a sketch of what looks to be the first draft of World One in Mario 64. Like a sort of isometric view of what that world might look like. Just like a rough sketch. It's not like a detailed draft, but there are detailed drafts of, you know, blueprints essentially of some other levels. And then there's also things like Sammas's jump and then land animation is shown on paper as they kind of worked it out frame by frame in terms of what the animation was going to be

and then gets rendered digitally when it becomes a sprite. Just seeing that the painstaking work that went in in an analog sense before any of these things were playable is just kind of amazing. And it's also like, I will say as someone who used to do level design myself,

when you have a GUI, you have an environment where you can kind of like mess around with things and tested in real time, it is nice for iteration. But there is something about having to do the step of like, I got to figure this out on paper first. Yes.

And that was just a limitation of the era is that their development tools were so crude. A lot of this stuff had to, to be hand-coded. They didn't have Unity. They didn't have on Real Engine. They didn't have some way to kind of craft these things

that's user-friendly at all. They had to kind of just figure out the technology from the ground up and also figure out how games worked in general. Like these are like pioneering efforts and just sort of see like a level from Super Mario Brothers or to see again like the map

from the Legend of Zelda just presented to you as a paper concept. But down to the pixel because it's on graph paper is just really, really dazzling. Another literal prototype of this era of Nintendo was the wall of prototypes

of all of the systems. Yes. And you get like multiple iterations of the Wii controller. You get multiple iterations of the N64 controller. Right. My favorite is the original

Wii U is just a screen with two Wii joysticks taped to the side of the screen. That was like really nuts to me because like I just remember I was saying this when we were looking at. There was a prototype of a Nintendo DS there and I guess the DS is

very special to me because I remember reading about it and seeing like concept art of it when I was a kid. Right. And seeing the actual prototype from the concept art made me want to cry. Yeah. And then there was a couple other things. I mean, I was like moments away from crying for a lot of it. Because the other thing that was really great about the upper level is that they're, you know, we talked about going through chronologically. Right. But each display has like games from the era, like the key releases, and then like games that were released internationally, and then games that were released in only in some territories. But then there's also like pristine, pristine Game Boys,

like just like mint, like consoles. Like, and I just like, I don't know, when you go see a retro console, like in a store, like, you know, in the stores that we're going to and stuff, they're all like kind of dingy. Usually a little bit up. Yeah, a little scratched. Like even if even if they've been lovingly taken, care of, they're not brand new.

No, there was like a brand new Game Boy Pocket. And I was just like, this is beautiful. Gorgeous. This is gorgeous. And like just like, just that alone, it was just great. And I, you know, I feel like this is okay to say. You know, we're here. There's a lot of other press people here, but we're like, I think the, like, video game show.

Yeah, a lot of, a lot of presses like general, like media, legacy media. Entertainment sites, you know, influencers, that sort of thing. We represent the losers, the gamers. Yes. And this was made very clear when after the tour, we were given an opportunity to go back downstairs and do the interactive stuff. Everybody went and did that. And we stayed upstairs for another like 20 minutes. Yeah.

We were there alone. Yeah. I felt like we weren't supposed to be there. And maybe we weren't supposed to be there. No, we were. We were granted permission. But we were just like wandering and just like lovingly like we were together and we were all like looking at things and talking about them. Yeah.

Like here's the first issue of Nintendo power. Right. I didn't know there was a Game Boy magazine. I didn't know that the original iteration, like one of the iterations of the original Game Boy was landscape mode. Yeah. Like it looked like a game gear. Yeah.

And then they were like, nah, no, no, that's never going to succeed. Yeah, let's not do what Sega will inevitably do. It's the, so far, the only museum where I give a shit about about any of the stuff inside of it. That's not true for me, but it was also a really good museum. No, I'm with Matt. Natural History Museum. Take a high.

Yeah, get those bones back in the goddamn dirt. Don't. That's not, wait, that's not the, Put them back. It's not the viewpoint of the podcast. So there's also the ground floor which we saw later and that has a bunch of interactive exhibits, some of which are guided and some of which are you just discover on your own. Including like, I think in a bespoke shooter, like light gun shooter, we're using the Nintendo Zapper and the Super Scope. Yeah.

Like you're using that, those peripherals. Oh, that was another thing that we saw that I had no idea about. was that the light gun predates the NES. Yes, right. There was a duck hunt. There was a duck hunt light gun that looked like a regular gun. And then there was also an interactive light gun toy that was like a rock'em sock robot's style puppet, like a little cowboy that would be on a stand.

And if you shot him with the light gun, he would collapse. And they showed the commercials over the items. And I was like, this is amazing. Yeah, really, really well done. So they have like a shooting gallery game with like a bunch of, you're basically shooting Splatoon paint at a bunch of Nintendo characters that are represented as, what would you call that thing,

the carnival sort of like, you know, you know, I was thinking of, I mean, moving targets. Yeah, moving targets,

but they're like, you know, they're representations of it. Yeah. It's like a cupa flying through. No, you're not like a shooting after a ship. You know,

that's part of, that's on. It's like a Paper Mario version of these characters, but they're not even animated. Carnival context. Yeah. Yeah. And so you're seeing all those. And then there's also like, yeah, the grabbing game we mentioned.

There's a batting cage of all of these different living room setups. Like a little tiny batting cages. Of representing different eras. Representing different eras where you got to play the baseball game that was built by Nintendo in the 60s or 70s. Yeah. And that was incredible. Matt, Matt is a baseball player. You're on a baseball team.

Yes. You were, I would say, definitely like, like, you've taken some cuts out there. You were putting the ball on the play. I was in the play. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Heather was so in the zone and absolutely just like kept just hitting dingers over and It was unbelievable. Because I saw what you were doing is you were kind of like Ted Williams, Ted Williamsing it, you know, like each year.

You were kind of like just like trying to figure out where the ball was and kind of like, okay, can hit it over here. Heather, every single attempt was at Grand Slam. It was just swinging with full force. I was thinking too much, and this is like, I was thinking too much about my stance. Right. And then at a certain point was like, this is not real. I don't have to do that because like I've been working on, I've been, when I play baseball, I've been thinking about my stance because I have a hard time.

You're only supposed to, you're supposed to stay completely still. Like you're supposed to plant your feet, but move the top of your body. I have a hard time not moving my entire body when I'm moving. Oh. I have to move all of it. Yeah, I get that. I used to love playing softball. Yeah.

I never played baseball because they wouldn't let women. Yeah. But boy, oh boy. It's a lot of fun. You said that at me like I made the rule. Wait. I didn't do it. They told me as a kid, there's going to be a guy named Madaabodaka.

And this rules for him. Yeah, he made these rules. Yeah, yeah. Just to touch on the other things, there is a vending machine that has water, and you are only allowed to drink it in proximity of the vending machine. So if you want to like crush like a bottle of water or a new long tea. It's been a water trip.

It's been a water trip full of. I brought my refillable water bottle because I'd see what I usually do on trips and there's been no place to fill it up. Yeah. Yeah. The toilet. The toilet.

Yeah, the toilet, which are incredible. Every toilet is a toto. It's an absolute, like it's unbelievable. It's mind blowing. We used the restroom at the airport when we got off the thing. And, you know, the airport restrooms back at a home, home are crime scenes.

They're nightmares there. And the idea that we walked into one and was not only clean but didn't smell was unbelievable. Yeah, I'm used to walking into like Arkham Asylum. And then I walk into this and it's like so pristine. And then also every toilet is the nicest toilet I've ever used. At the airport. Yeah.

Like it's like there's one restaurant I know in L.A. that has a Toto inside of it. Yeah. And it's like the standard toilet in Japan. is like a tier above that toto. I just kind of can't believe how ubiquitous it is. So that's great.

That's certainly a win. But back to the museum, there is a exhibit with a bunch of oversized Nintendo controllers that require, mandate two people to use them. Yeah. And so Matt and I tried these and failed horribly.

A debacle. Because there was a, we played the Super Nintendo one. Yeah. I was on the D-pad and that was on the four face buttons. Yes. And so, you know, again, this is kind of over.

It takes a full force of one of our hands to depress one of these. And we just absolutely got our ass kicked in, like, to the past. Yeah, it was absolutely humiliating. Also, Heather watched us and then roasted us. Oh, no, I filmed you. Yeah. But it did sort of answer a question that we asked earlier. Yeah.

Because, like, you know, we asked Jack and Benny, I think, if they would want to get tiny. Yeah. So far, in my experience, being tiny, compared to the controller, big no for me. It's really tough. It's really tough. Yeah, I would not like to be that size. No, no, no, no.

There would be advantages for sure, but that would not be one of it. There was another thing that they had, that they had down here that was like a, what was it called? It was called the Love Tester. Yeah, so real quick before we get to that, because I want to end on that. Okay. There's also a section that has a bunch of different, you know, all of the Nintendo consoles from different eras and then ways you can just free play a bunch of a selection of games. Yes. Or there's a competitive kind of like an NES remix section that's kind of like a Warioware set up with a bunch of different NES games that you play in a gauntlet and then try to achieve various tasks.

So like Donkey Kong, NES pinball, which I'm really not that familiar with, balloon fight. Help me out, Heather. Super Mario Brothers is the last one and there's one more. Pinball. No, I said binball. Super Mario Brothers. No, that one's the last one. You said that.

Balloon fight. Balloon fight. I said all of these. There's one more. Regular Mario Brothers. It is regular Mario Brothers. Thank you, Heather. We got there.

Yes, that's the other one that's on there, which is a really tricky game to play. Balloon fight. Balloon fight, yes. You're right. I was kind of fun to play these games. You killed me in that, though. We played next to each other, and you destroyed me.

Well, here's the thing. I was really frustrated because I wasn't clocking the timer and I'm really good at Donkey Kong, but I was just playing conservatively because I just don't want to die. I want to get to the end. level. And it was like, oh my God, I have like 13 seconds left to get through this. I had no idea it was on the clock. I just wasn't even paying attention. And then for some reason in pinball,

I did incredible. I just got on, like, I get a run and I racked up my score. That's where I basically won the match. But it was nothing like Heather just absolutely wrecking me in Hanafuda. Anyway, then finally, there is the love tester. Now, here's the thing. This is a two-person experience. Heather and Matt decide to do it together. But it's also based on a device. It's not just a thing in the Nintendo Museum. It's based on a device that was built by Nintendo back in the day before the N.E.S. Back in the Yamauchi era. It was like a love tester that you might see at the back of a bar or at a carnival or whatever. Moe famously has one at the, at his bar in Springfield. Yeah, they're typically like a lever that you squeeze. Right. And it's like to see. And I believe this was one that required to like, you know, use your thumbs or your finger.

He's like sort of like palm sized pucks that you, that I had in one hand and Heather had in her hand. There's two people, and we didn't realize that a big part of it is the two people are holding hands. Yeah, Heather had to hold my hand. Now, Matt and Heather are both married to other people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't like to hold the hand of anybody. Yes, right. Like, I can barely hold my own hand.

I will just say I was so glad it was not me and Heather because that would have been the nightmare scenario because we both have the same issue. At least Matt is something approximating a normal human day. I was completely fine. I was happy to do it. My hand started sweating so bad. I had to wipe my hand off on my pants multiple times. It was sweaty to you. It was not sweaty to me at all. I was perfectly comfortable. I was totally fine. If Heather and I started holding hands, we would both instinctively just walk into traffic. I was going to ask, yeah, you don't tell my wife about this?

She doesn't listen, right? Actually, no. There you go. But yeah, we played a game where you held hands the entire time while also holding what was like a Scientology device. And you had to move your hands while a screen told you what you were, like it would play a mini game on the screen. Like move your hands as if you're cleaning a window. Move your hands as if you're catching rose petals or cherry blossoms. And we had to do those things which improved our love meter from 60, our initial rating, to 114. Over 100%.

Our final rating. So now Matt and I are in love. That's right. And that's the power of teamwork. Yeah, that's Nintendo. Nintendo made us get married. They should put it on, they should like do it for Switch where you like have to hold a joy car or something.

That's pretty good. It's pretty fun. Well, anyway, this whole incident is going to make the podcast a lot more awkward and also both of your long established relationship. Yeah. We're ruined. It's absolutely ruined. And any final thoughts on the Nintendo Museum?

I thought it was great. If you're in Kyoto, absolutely worth saying if you're in Denver. So grateful to have been here. Yeah, so great. Truly, yeah, in honor to have been invited and to get to tour. And everyone here was so lovely. The staff was so nice. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

And we ate burgers. And we ate burgers. Yeah, the burgers were great. Yeah. I got the... Wasabi burger? The wasabi burger. I also got the Saabi burger because I'm a bit of a heat seeker.

And I will just say, it was more onion than wasabi. It was more onion than wasabi. But that's the only strike again. It was still really... But, hey, hey, I like onions. In this context, I got to talk to a bunch of people all day. I don't want onion breath. And that's a good burger.

No, no, no. No, I've been burping all day. And it's a nightmare? Also, don't give me... Whatever. We can't talk about it. Use your error. You think it was a skill issue on our part.

We didn't have to get the stinky one. Yeah, I didn't know it was going to be stinky. I just thought like it would be more wasabi than it. It's fine. That would be normal amount of it. There were little cartoon characters for each of the ingredients. Which so much did you get? Yeah, there's so many mascots here.

I got plain cheeseburger. How was it? It was very plain. There you go. Hey, that's this week's get played. Our producers, Rochelle Chen, ranch, twitch. TV slash yard underscore underscore starred. A special shout out this week to headgums,

Ali Khan, who did a ton on the headgum side to facilitate the logistics of trip. It really would not have happened without Allie. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Ali. You're the best. Our music is by Ben Prunty, Ben Prunty. Music.com or artists by Duck Brigade Design, Duck Brigade.com.

And there's a bonus episode every Wednesday on our Patreon, get played DLC. We will have that Japan visit episode coming real soon. But, Matt, what's up this week? Oh, God. I don't even remember. I don't know what's in there. I got it. I'm sorry.

Hi, everyone. It's Ranch here. I just want to let you know that next week's DLC episode will be a Get Animated episode. We're going back to get anime. made this week about the French anime film Mars Express. In case you want to watch that before Wednesday's episode, branch out. You're subscribe at patreon.com slash get played. Now music is being piped in to eject us from the Nintendo Museum.

Anyway, to end the show and this week, Bowser and Bowser Jr., you got played. We're actually sorry? They're so angry. They're silent. Don't be mad. Actually, no, Jack. Please do not cry. No.

Benny, you took an instruct. Jack's falling apart. This is... You made my dad angry? Oh, you're going to get it. You're going to get it now. Because nobody messes with my dad. I was about to work up some real tears.

I just needed a couple more seconds. That was a hate gum podcast.