Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 142 - Arcade Guys With Felix Biederman

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

We had our friend Felix Biederman on to talk about arcade guys, do you have to play the games? What if your wife told you to get rid of your games? Meet a guy that has two houses!! Then we get into Dave and Busters guys and of course ended with some shock jock talk Get more Felix on patreon.com/chapotraphouse   There is more Chris at https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast, Join us on the Sunday Night Stream every Sunday night at 8:00 EST at twitch.tv/notevenashowand I am on https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201    

Welcome to Guys, a podcast about guys. I'm Brian. My player two here is Chris. That was creative. Yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah, you've been phoning it in on them a lot. I feel like trying to make them up in the moment a lot. So that one is something I can at least tell you thought it out. I'm player one. Yeah, I know I got that. As I'm better and the leader. Does that always mean that though?

I think often it's just a person who starts the game is player one. Oftentimes player two is a better player. I feel like that would be an awesome. You know those shirts that, I mean, coincidentally, guys to go to Dave and Busters love these shirts. But the shirts that are like, I pause my game to be here. Insert cheesy bread. Yeah.

one I've never seen before that I think we could make all three of us a lot of money I'm always player one oh yes yes I my daughter wore one to school but my daughter bought a um like a gaming shirt like ironically and then she wore it to school every like a lot in her senior year and then after she graduated she was like I keep looking at pictures of myself and my senior year and I'm wearing this stupid shirt Like that's a joke, but like, kind of just ruined everything. You know what I mean? Like now I'm wearing a stupid shirt as a joke. That's the, yeah, that's the problem is like you, you, even if you're like cognizant of it being a joke, like even like five or six years later, it's still like you won't ever replicate the exact mind state you were in when you first found that shirt. We're like, oh, this is so funny. So there's going to be like 20% of your brain is always going to recognize you. as being like, did I really have to pause my game to be there that day?

Yeah, and it, it's, yeah, it's most likely going to make you feel really crint. Like, it's going to make, it's going to hurt you to even see it. But yeah, you're right. Best case scenario is you're just going to be kind of confused by it. And yeah, it's never a good idea to wear a shirt as a joke a lot. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, it's very funny to, that it happened to her, though, because that, that sounds like it

would happen to me, but it didn't. Our guest this week is Felix, who I did Felix Biederman, who I did chopo the other day. And Felix is doing a series on Metal Gear Solid. And I couldn't do gaming because it's too close to e-sports, which we did. So I said, let's do arcade guys, to which I found out they are very strange people. So these are, these are, no, you mentioned Dave and Busters. These are people who go to arcades regularly. Well, they also own arcade cabinets, which you're going to be surprised, but I'm thinking

I'm looking into buying one of those. What this is just something, it's like one of the home, it's like a game like from an arcade or whatever. Or is it just one that stores a bunch of games? Not the arcade one up, which you see at every Airbnb that is basically made out of paper and it's a stupid wrong size machine. And it just has a bunch of games loaded on it. That's the idea of that one.

I want, I want Mortal Kombat 3 is what I want. And I want it in my home, which is an apartment and also have no idea where it would go. Like I look around the place all the time and I'm like, maybe if we, maybe we got a new couch that was smaller. I can put it there in a living.

Felix, you obviously are a gamer, but have you played arcade games? Are you like, do you do that currently? When was the last time you went to an arcade? um like two or three years ago what was it to play do you remember um i didn't that's a that's really funny to imagine uh just be like going to like me going to an arcade alone because i'm like

i'm in the mood for time crisis but in the proper setting that's what i'm picturing is you like just going like it's your night out like you get like an energy drink and you go and do it no i um and how much do I want I went I went because I was a horny not for in general for people at the arcade but like just were like it was like it was I'm oh yeah it's a pussy I'm going to that's where it all is that's where the pussy is no no no it was like a specific specific like person was there and it would I I probably would have gone anyway because a group of people were hanging out um and I I mean this dovetails very nicely. It was like they were semi-ironically going there. But I, what was the thing I played? I played a fucking, you know, yeah, time crisis. The like marquee, um, light gun game.

So it's with a gun. It's with an actual gun. Like, yeah, I, when I go to it, like last time I went to an arcade, they have some adult arcades in Vancouver. I forget Greta. I think it's closed down, but it was called Greta. And I went there and it has like the basketball. Like, I'm doing the basketball shooting and shit like that.

That's what I'm not doing like the video game. We're talking about sports right now. But also there's Mario Kart there where it has like the real wheels and like the. Sorry. Okay. I'm Canadian. That's a regional thing too, though, Vancouver. But, but yeah, I, I enjoyed it.

I had a good time. But again, yeah, I don't think I could go to an arcade unless it has the like the skeet ball and like the basketball and shit like that. I went all winter last winter I went to we'll talk about it later Dave and Busters I went there a lot there's a place called scene 75 that just bought the old sears at the mall and just threw a bunch of broken games in it and are like come on in and spend a hundred and it's the most expensive thing you can do really is yours is really big though that's it's not like is it huge yeah it's a huge arcade but it's like it I was taking Katie and and my wife, my daughter and my daughter's boyfriend Ashton out like to arcades every couple weeks over the winter. And I think there was a time where I was reloading cards. And I had already spent like $400 that night. And I was like it wouldn't fucking be cheaper to to like buy an arcade game almost than to go because you're just like they put the money on a little card and it's impossible to stop swiping that card you just want to swipe the card all day and win tickets and so

I went a lot over the winter but like it doesn't scratch the itch for me of playing like Pac-Man or Gallagher or something like that's what you want to be playing or yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Our Moral Combat. They don't have, though. They didn't have those games. No, it's like ticket games. It's just the games specifically. It's the stuff I like.

Yeah. Listen to this, though. It's funny that you guys said this to open up because I want to read this post for you. Sometimes this is from R slash arcades. Sometimes I just sit and enjoy my arcade while not even playing a game. And then a guy replies and goes, I've come to realize I'm not a gamer or a player. I'm an enthusiast who appreciates the machines, but doesn't play this. him therefore and collect just sits in the room with them so he's like he's like john dupont

i just love the sport i just love being in the presence of the games you know yeah that he goes this guy goes uh therefore in collecting it's about the hunt not the score i too turn all my games just to create an old school arcade vibe and just enjoy the vibe they give yes of course i play them but not much. I just enjoy having them and appreciating them. I read that. And I was like, that's a fucking crazy thing.

That is like the setup for him to get like, this is supposed to be in like one of those like, this is us type shows. This is a tertiary character that's supposed to get like terminal cancer. And he's supposed to like give his arcade to like a main character. Who actually likes playing. He's like, I just appreciate it.

But I'm dying. And also I don't play these because I suck. And I just like the atmosphere. so you should have them and I'm gonna die by the way I picture a guy in an office chair in a room with like a Ms. Packed man and you don't even think he's on a couch

you don't even think he's on a couch or love no because dude they make these rooms look like old 80s arcades they buy the carpet of like the black light carpet they go so they're trying to really money is crazy they're trying to recreate

they're going heavy on the nostalgia they want to recreate this like feeling that they had because it's probably people of the age, right, where they would have been playing in arcades when they were younger. So they're just trying to recreate that feeling again. Brian, what kind of like for like this guy's set up? What is like the ballpark? I'm assuming like 30 to 50,000. It's, I mean, this is almost, I feel like there should be a name for this where the more risable internet like subculture is, whether it's these guys or, or like my favorite guys,

the guys who get put into like latex or PVC cubes and like put their fart tubes going into their mouths. I always retweet them when I see them. The more risable it is, the more costly it is and the more successful the participants are. Like these guys are all like private equity managers. Yeah, I'll say this. The fully restored games with CRT screens and stuff like that,

because I looked into it for me of course and they're about $2,500 to $3,000 and then you got to restore them too like usually so how many how many would you figure they would have so I'll read you this guy's list that likes to sit in his room okay he has ski ball he has digital pinball donkey Kong Donkey Kong Jr. Mario brothers Popeye Super Mario brothers and two homemade boxes and a jukebox that is probably $15,000 it might be a little more than 15 because he got 10 that's 10 things total so that could easily be running him 20 30 000 yeah 20 grand and plus he's got the carpet because they're not all going to be the full expense like ski ball and something like that but it's going to be insanely expensive oh it is ski ball ski ball is one of the more expensive

a lot of moving parts yeah yeah that makes sense having ski ball in your house is psychotic that is maybe the craziest thing I can ever think of think about getting that shipped like you would need like a specialty you can't just like send that on UPS you need like a specialty courier and for the carpet too like they probably don't make that like shitty carpet the that very specific type of carpet that you would get like 1985 so you have to find someone who either like makes this very specific thing or someone who's just been holding on to like an unused one and that has to be carpet that covers like probably a pretty sizable basement yeah like it's a ship load of it. I could easily see this costing at least 25,000. These are rich guys and or guys who have destroyed their families. With financial decisions. Like, yeah,

because it's this is like high. We talk about this a lot on the podcast is like what the more most expect, like the ones that are really like car collectors obviously. People like that like where it's just like holy shit. Like this isn't this is a problem for anyone who's not. super rich like this is you can't be you can't be regularly collecting bit fucking arcade machines that are three thousand dollars yeah that is that is so interesting to me because there are guys like that like guys who just make like a not insane amount of money like guys who are comfortable

but it where like this what this guy has would represent like maybe half or a third of their yearly income and they do it anyway and they there's always this like thing of like well you know I could always sell it and it's like you're never going to sell no you know yeah Brian can tell you can tell you how hard that is it is once you start collecting a lot of something and then it comes time to sell it it's like yeah I got it's just either you're keeping it or you're giving it away you are not selling it it's too fucking hard to sell things it's though anybody who's dealt at all on Craigslist or eBay or any of those sites knows that the hardest thing in the world is to sell

fucking anything. I guess unless you're regularly doing it, if you're like one of these people who's kind of doing it as a business and you're fully like you know exactly how to do everything, but that's a different thing. We're talking about collectors who just accumulate a bunch of stuff and then realize they don't want all of it anymore. Yeah. Yeah.

And a lot of them will say, oh, well, you know what? Here in the future, I'm planning on opening an arcade. Those are my favorite guys. Yeah. That's like porno Sean with his porn. does. Yeah, it is. It's the Port-O-Shahn method. Yeah, that it's like, what do you know? It's like 30 games. It's not fucked up that I have all of these because I'm actually planning to start a store soon with them. Yeah, that's a good thing to say to anyone if they ever get on your,

on your shit about having too much or something. Your wife's like you bought, you already have 15 games in the basement. Isn't that enough? And they're like, I'm going to need at least 20 more to open my arcade. Yeah, that's kind of fucked up. I'm trying to take my dreams from me. Yeah, you're, you're actually not going to get any of the fucking financial benefits when my arcade takes off because you are not supportive which by the way also just regular arcade there ain't no money you're not making a fucking penny that's for the love of the game it's for the love of the game i i i had a the only way you could like get out of like to turn this into a casual positive thing is if you specifically like um how do i put like i read this hilarious

essay once. It was like one of those right wing guys who's like yeah I'm right wing but I'm also I'm more like Celine or someone like I'm a true artist like I appreciate the written word and he wrote this fucking essay called 711 nationalism and

it was I still go back to it I cashed it so I could read it it's so funny it's like I remember when 711 was run by whites and it was a taste I look forward to going to with my father the last time i was there there was some bastard from the subcontinent right like this whole thing like even like those people were making fun of it because it was so like

maudlin and stupid uh if you had an arcade like one of these guys set ups and you're like we all remember how we used to have arcades until black people came along and ruined them well there are a few like three hundred dollars to relive the good times when only a hundred million people lived in America. This is a guy's basement right here. I put it on a screen for you. Okay, this is pretty fucking sick. Okay, yeah, it's very cool.

Okay, listen, it looks like an arcade. It looks like an arcade. Right. If I went to this guy's house and I was like, oh, this guy's got an enormous arcade in his basement with everything you could ever want to play, I'd be like, oh, that's really cool. But I wouldn't want to. be the guy that has

the basement? Yeah. It's like an uncle situation. Yeah, it's better to be the uncle in that situation. You just kind of get to roll in, play the games. But, I mean, he can play him any time. It just, I wonder, yeah, I mean, the first post we heard was a guy who's given up on playing the games. I wonder how

like, if you have them in there every day, like, we get bored of it pretty quickly. Yes, 100%. Like, it's why I have a bunch of, it's why I have game consoles. in my house that haven't been played in like two years because I fucking am like I need a switch I'm gonna need one of these Nintendo switches that everybody has and I get it and I play it for two weeks and then I'm like I don't have time to play the switch anymore like I have like a real job

or anything like I don't have time for this shit anymore and then I just don't play it anymore and it's the same thing I had a PlayStation like anything I get into except for Legos I'll always find time for those bad boys but this guy goes wife says it has to go it's now in pittsburgh it's a mispack man machine it's in a ridge uh what was the wife doing during like the presumably decade he was building this yeah is this like lord is this like lord of war where she just has no idea and like stumbles into it one day that that's also a good point by the way about like getting bored of it i this may anger a lot of people but like Metro games, like, kind of suck.

Oh, yeah. They don't suck for, like, the time they were made in, but there's a, there's a reason why, like, most of us who enjoy games aren't like, oh, there's never been a game as good as the first fucking legend of Zelda. No, technology improved. Gallagher. Yeah, there's only so many fucking ways to play those games. Like, I, even if you play, like, I, um, every two years I get back into the Phantom

Pain and I, I, I, just went through my most. recent cycle of exclusively playing it for like a month because of the series with Brendan and that is like one of the most open-ended sprawling games where you have like endless freedom of approach

like very complex enemy scripting there's so many ways to do everything and you can still like get fucking sick of it you can get sick of anything but especially something where there's like two ways to win but Felix like

you hit it you hit the thing the line your line hit the thing at the top but have you tried hitting it in like the center middle kind of of it yeah you're right it's like so like those games are just so like simple that I guess some of them become really addicted like Tetris is one example I guess where it feels like maybe you could play that for a long time but you're right I think the mechanics of the game often are like so simple that you finish it and get bored of it quite quickly right Well, this guy goes, wife says it has to go now in Pittsburgh. He posts $250. He's got a Ms. Pac-Man machine with a bottle of Blanton's on it.

So he's two kinds of guys. He left the bottle of plantons in the photo of it. No reason at all. He doesn't actually, people ask him about it. He doesn't even address it. He's just like, yeah, I like bourbon. This guy, the first comment, very first comment, I say the wife has got to go. Yeah, I knew that.

You know what? I could have told you that was going to be the first comment. What about this? This guy's funny. now get ready for a big laugh everybody right way your options miss packman takes up less space doesn't bitch when you don't want to play with her uses less electricity water and everything you'd have more money getting rid of that dead weight wife i don't know if it takes i guess because the wife moves around like i think that probably the machine is bigger than the wife yeah those are huge

machines right but i guess the wife moves around yeah yes the arcade machine can stay the wife can go okay a guy goes came here to say that i have five arcade games and i know my wife doesn't love it i'll never get rid of them so is there anybody who's like hey man maybe like maybe even just asking for more information about it what about this guy here's one okay good strategy i've found women become bored and unhappy if everything is to their liking they need a bit of agitation to be truly happy. Oh, no. That guy's like a pickup.

It's like a pickup artist kind of guy. What I got. Good strategy, sir. Women hate being happy. Yeah. It's also like, that is, that is so telling. Just like, oh, every time I've been in a relationship where like everything is basically right, they just get bored and leave me.

Yeah. yeah this guy goes uh the wife has to go what's your next mode what's next your motorcycle if you have one or your classic car rich people yeah is there anyone is there anyone who's like yeah i actually my wife is actually one who got me into this stupid shit well there are but there's this here's a guy here's a guy that has a happy story i'm 58 single no kid own a condo in Pasadena, California. I own a home in Arizona by Laughlin, a mile from the Colorado River. I don't need anyone to tell me what to have her to get rid of or what I should be doing.

I'm a happy camper. Mentioning its proximity to the Colorado River in like a post on a random subreddit is so good. I mean, listen, it's a point of pride for him in his life. I, that's cool. I love brags like, like you don't see Brad bragging like this on the internet anymore. It was, you know, years ago you would see. hilarious stuff like this not as much now but i love like oh um you you you probably don't even know anyone who owns property in the pasadena california that's not all i have it's so weird to

like live in pet like have a property in pasadena and arizona because it's like that's kind of like a lateral move like Arizona's hotter but it's both they're both like basically the same climate they're like vacation spot they're like yeah they're vacation spots kind of Yeah, like a dry, arid climate. Like, wouldn't you, wouldn't it make more sense if you're like, I have a condo in a dry place and like a house in a wet place? Yeah, well, he kind of does though, because I don't know if you heard, but one of them's kind of close to a river. I think that one of my favorite subgenres of these kinds of posts about wives is the guy that's single. And it's like, he's like way older than the other.

guys that he's like like I said this guy's 58 and he's just like I'm single I don't have a kid I own two houses yeah it's a bunch of married guys discussing married life and he comes in he's just like I ain't ever been married okay what are you doing here like I love that that is such a I would see guys on forums where like it would be like when I was like in middle school or like junior high age and there'd be like people my age posting about like their first girlfriend or stuff like that and there would always be a guy who's like I'm 38 I've had sex exactly

three quarters of one time and I'm totally happy I'm like okay maybe maybe you don't really have anything to add here a guy that just says I'm so happy being 58 and alone to me strikes me at listen some people like being 58 and alone

you know what I mean but it strikes me me as like this guy, I don't know, the way he talks seems like, I mean, he's a Trump voter and a half. This guy voted for Trump three times. To have two, um, properties to and no why, like more properties than wives or whatever. It just, it does seem like a lonely, you're going from one property to the other by yourself and you show up and you're alone again. Like that just really seems sad. He feels so lonely to me. Yeah. And what dictates like why he goes to one from. the other like oh oh it's december in pasadena i'd rather be in arizona yeah yeah how does he even decide because it's usually like maybe that you know like how does he even decide i guess he just

wakes up one morning and he's like feels like a pasadena week they got a think i don't have a fucking bitch wife telling me not to go to pasadena where my video games are i i i'm i i don't The video games I have in Pasadena are better than the ones I have in Arizona. Yeah, he might have a different arcade in each place or whatever. So this is his arcade. I have a picture up on the screen of an arcade I found earlier today. This guy is like the perfect Trump voter. It's like a guy who's patently unhappy just bought like I don't I,

nothing about your problem applies to me and my life is awesome. This is a picture for everyone. It's a picture. It's Trump 2024. go Brandon and it has a Trump Rambo on the bottom and there's some eyes there too under the Trump 2025 I don't know if that's part of it

I think they just couldn't get the uh you know what I mean like it's that's the original the shell that they were using or whatever by the way he he posted this and got fucking murdered in the comments it was so much fun to see this guy goes

uh I'm genuinely oh I love these two this is a great one too I'm genuinely sorry your wife doesn't take your hobby seriously and we again no one's asking for more information right like if it's the flat

there's what is the reason that your wife is asking like what is really way it's so obvious that it's a huge thing to have in your house you can't just like listen I don't my wife talks about those Legos

all the time when they were all over the house right and she hated it but they're small but she knows i'm psych well yeah they're small the titanic is small no but compared to a fucking arcade yeah yeah one set one set of legos isn't that big and and she was just really cool you know you know my wife she's like really cool she just lets me do things like in a way she's giving up on trying to stop you from doing really dumb shit yeah yeah yeah yeah so like so like I don't I don't think she would be cool with me bringing an arcade cabinet in the house and putting it in a living room like yeah if you don't have if you don't have a big house with a dedicated room now I agree if you have a dedicated room in the basement that you've put together

and you want to make an arcade and your wife's like stop that shit and it's not getting in the way of anything you know what I mean you're just doing it in your in your time that you have then that's bullshit your wife should support your hobbies but yeah if you're bringing home a cabinet at being like this is going beside the dining room table now and you think she could have you know she might be able to say something i saw a guy earlier today put a big maim which is an emulator like cabinet you make your own cabinet and then you put an emulator in it plays all the games i saw a guy put that in his bedroom today but again if that's like it's like that's fucking crazy thing to have in your bedroom

does he have a wife or is this a single guy oh he had a wife yeah see then it is crazy crazy it's not crazy if you're single to have it in your bedroom i don't think no this guy goes do you ask your wife if you can go outside and play too oh shit you have to figure too because like if this guy like if money is on an object that's not like that's not the problem here then like if he is one of those like uh top 1% earners like we discussed his wife is having like doing all the upper upper upper middle class activities like she's trying to have like book club and shit yeah and there's all this dumb shit in their house yeah yeah yeah all video gamey stuff too it's just like pole position the pole position manual is in a frame in your living room and she's like come on man

i don't i i i'm really into like flight sims and shit like the the dcs community uh dcs uh digital combat simulator pro like i think the best like full fidelity combat flight sim and the people who play it are like psychotic i have seen like people build their own custom cockpits that like almost perfectly replicate like an f a 18 cockpit or an f16 one like so are they do you feel like these are soldiers ex-soldiers or people who weren't able to get into the military no i i like who is who is playing and taking it that seriously where they're building out a cockpit for themselves you just think you just like think planes are cool yeah you just say you just like get really into the planes that's so it's not it's not like a war

like it's not you say it's a combat team but it's you're just flying a plane basically most of the time yeah yeah and um they like they surprisingly like a lot of time do come by it honestly where it's like yeah i have to i have to keep this in like a room in my house where my wife never goes there's a bar here that opened up recently that does the racing simulators like they that people set up in their house with like the pedals the full turn the full turn uh turn key kit yeah those are those are like i want to get one of those for a flight sim it would be fun to have something but nobody's ever in this bar dude ever ever ever they have two of them in there and i walk by it all the time and i'm like man i hope someday people find out this place exists for you

man that's that's tough because those costs like $50,000 yeah they look it man this guy it's it's a bad idea though because anyone who's into that like probably it can afford it or they're so obstinate that they're like I'll never play one I don't own yeah it's so hard to learn yeah it doesn't seem like the kind of thing where you're like hey let's go out and do that tonight or whatever or hey that looks cool as you're walking by. Yeah, it seems like it would be really hard to figure out. Yeah, they seem like you'd probably kind of almost have to know how to drive a race car.

Like, that there would be a steep learning curve on how to do something like that. They're like those ones that the guy, there's that's that's, they made a movie out of it. That was, I don't think it was very good. Yeah, it wasn't need for speed. Yeah. That's the one, right? I didn't see it.

But the guy, it's a big based on a true story of this guy who played one of those simulators and then became a real racer, like race. raced in a real race. Now maybe I'm maybe I'm making that up but I think that that is a thing that I think it was bait so here's a question for us everybody they ask on Quora why did video game arcades die? This guy goes uh uh this is a guy you guys are going to love put me down as being in the camp that arcades died owing to their being increasingly unpleasant places to play games I had been a keen arcader for many years in my home city but the growing number of puffs for example dregs of humanity that wore puffy jackets became the cancer that killed it off for me oh so

you're too scared to play at the arcade you can just say you're too scared to play at the arcade that i think it's i think though it's because of video home video games right that's no i've never puffy jackets like obviously this is like a racial yeah but i think it yeah and i think it's probably maybe what when he's talking about a different era maybe as well like when it was yeah yeah the 90s probably uh maybe a little earlier maybe the 80s because it says he's been gaming since 1979 i mean this guy sounds like you know this guy sounds like just such as nerd humanity the drugs of became the cancer that killed it off for me first i was met with requests for a tap which escalated into personal threats it quickly grew wait wait wait wait wait

wait how did we get he's the tap like a card or what I don't know what a tap is. No, there was no tapping of cards back then. So what is he? I don't know what he's talking about, but it. Maybe a quarter or. So he's tapping somebody maybe to play a game next or something like that. Oh, yeah, that's probably true.

Yeah, for a tap, which escalated a personal threat. It quickly grew from there in that whole gang of Puffs made themselves at home in the arcades. And that became the death of them. Slowly but steadily, they were Puffs patrolling the arcade that tried to shake down customers with ever increasingly threats of violence, threatening players when they had been on certain games quote too long fights breaking out and physical threats to staff time for me to call it a night this wasn't true of every arcade as other respondents have said here and of course there's plenty of other reasons for their decline but as far as my neck of the woods is concerned it's a

far bigger reason than why the others so a lot of crime and the and listen i think it still was home video games in his area i think it still was i don't know but you mean there weren't guys in puffy jackets beating people. There might have been a couple of them or whatever. Who knows? But I don't feel like that was the main reason that the arcade stopped. I'll be honest. I hung out at a place called quarter flash game room. I remember you talking about that. The gimmick was everything was a quarter. And I would say that I did quite a bit of crime out of that place. Like I would have been a puff at that time. For sure. Yeah, you were you, I mean, yeah, you were, I mean, you were doing all sorts of horrible things to the establishments around your neighborhood and stuff.

What kind of crime would you do specifically at the arcade? I mean, just like a lot of drugs or like like getting in fights in a parking lot. You know what I mean? You got out in the parking lot. You had a couple guys get into it over like a game of mortal combat or yeah, yeah, yeah. Something like that. It was really crazy. Do you remember when the Justice Department finally did that big RICO case against the puffy jacket gang?

well here it was like an end of the era like we thought like the puffy jacket gang would never end they're making so much money extorting people at arcades yeah and they they got rid of them i heard i heard they're still they're still are active in in the penals in the prisons but yeah they're not allowed to have their jackets there though you know yeah i heard they build their own arcades in the prison system so these guys can still make money well it's funny because I was like, well, that guy's kind of psychotic. And then there was another answer to the same question. While the improvement in computers and consoles, which probably

clinched the death of the arcade, there's no mention of how crappy arcades could be. Arcades as I knew them were typically dark, dirty places full of loafers, drug users, and other near new else. Well, yeah, but you got to take a look at yourself then at that point. You're hanging out with, but I will say there was an arcade on Granville Street, which is like the entertainment. strip in downtown Vancouver and when we were growing up it's gone now but it was a an arcade and then in the back it was like a peep show place so it was really as like grimy and dirty as you could fucking imagine it was really a dank disgusting place for sure quarter flash was nasty i have told the story before you were allowed to smoke in there at 14 if your parents gave

them a note and they had the notes hanging on a wall in the office so that you could go back and be like no that's my parents wrote this note for me saying I'm allowed to smoke and then I just sat in there and smoked all the time I wrote the note by the way my parents yeah it seems like a very easy to counterfeit system it almost seems like a system that they didn't really care of people game they just wanted people hanging out there but they I mean, but it's like they were disgusting and dank and horrible when they were popular. So I don't think that's a reason why, like, do you know what I'm saying? Like they were that way and they were still really popular.

Is there a place that teenagers hang out with at the, and listen, there's all this talk about they're needing to be like a third place for teenagers to go to, but they really do ruin everything that they go to. That's part of the learning process of being a teenager. He goes, in order to play video games, you had to surround yourself with these types. Arcades had a reputation of being places where drugs were trafficked. No, well. Trafficked?

Like they were selling like thousands of kilos at once. Yeah, it's not some guy selling dine bags. Yeah. Like pinched dine back. You had to wait to play favorite games. Compare playing at home with your nice comfortable room with only your close friends or later on with friends. on the internet you can play as much as you like and you don't have to feel guilty about hogging anything it wasn't just the games that were better it was the experience uh so i'd said that i found

a really crazy threat on r slash davin busters which for people that don't have them first of all our slash davin busters is a psycho place and you will find yourself sucked into reading every post in there because the people that hang out in there are fucking crazy like it's just as crazy as possible it's like ski ball basketball like the same sort thing i'm talking about right like the greta bar or whatever it does it have alcohol as well it's like it drinks and and but but it has all the arcade games and it does it have stuff like mortal combat and stuff no no it doesn't it's mostly crappy redemption i'm learning i learned i learned the language and i just say it like i it's mostly like ticket games yeah yeah the one i want

to had like you know like time crisis and yeah they do have like what I think is like the best thing in an arcade like the thing that justifies them still existing the shit where you're on a motorcycle or a jet ski and it like moves yeah that's pretty cool that's pretty cool yeah I've never I've never done one of those I've never done one of those the gun ones are pretty good the gun ones are pretty good yeah there's a motorcycle that leans to the side is one of the best games you can ever play there's that that that does that is a fun game there's one I go to this like play place with Charlie for like toddlers and stuff and there's a game where you spray actual water at the screen that has fire and you put the fire out and I know it's meant for children but it is a pretty fun game I'm not going to lie. There are some great games for kids now like I I I bought these like um when my news turned three I got these like it's like pre-lego building blocks uh now now she can play with Lego she's old enough but I was like I would play with this Oh, yeah. These are great.

I mean, I made fun of Brian, but I played with Legos with my nephew. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah, like we had it pre we had it better than like people in the 50s. I always thought about like when my dad was really old. My dad was born in like 1950. Exactly. And I was, his childhood sounded like living in like Babylonian captivity. Yeah. It's funny because I just play with like a wooden rocking horse. Yeah. It's crazy. Because even mine sounds insanely boring, and there was the, the Nintendo was out, you know what I mean? When I was growing up, but it still sounds like, I don't know, there weren't, it's weird. You don't, I don't think they sell toys anymore. I think toys is just, oh, well, I'll tell you. They do.

But I'll tell you. They do, but they do. Like action figures for kids. No, they do. I will say that they do. For children. Yes, for kids are really still into like, um, hot wheels. Like my nephew is like, he's.

like hugely into Hot Wheels and Lego and stuff like that. But like Hot Wheels is more, and they have actual toys and stuff that they play with still. Like, and young, young kids who aren't on screens and stuff, like Charlie has a bunch of little, you know, infant toys or whatever. I'd have my kid on a screen as soon as possible.

Well, he does watch, okay, it's pretty fucking sweet. He does watch one single thing now because he used to listen to the music from it. So we play the first scene, the Circle of Life from the Lion King. And just watch it on a phone, like on a small screen. he goes so fucking crazy when they like show the giraffes for the first time you know

it made me realize that jesus we don't really stand a chance in this world that the screens dominate so i want to point out first before i read this that coin pushers number one the greatest games in the world if you get to keep the coins i once saw tom sexton win like 30 bucks on one of those at a truck stop in a racist truck stop in uh south carolina what is what do you mean i don't explain it's south of the border and it's mexican theme but guess what it's not no i mean the game it's a coin pusher there's a bunch of coins that look like they're about to fall oh yes yes okay i've seen that like the fair or whatever at like a carnival or something yeah and um go I was going to do the David Busters people have like a term for like people who don't live the like people who just go on occasion like casual yeah yeah yeah it's yeah Felix I'll tell you this I don't know if you guys know this but there is a leaderboard for each one of the games a national leaderboard at David Busters at David Busters and you can win prizes they'll mail you prizes they'll mail you like a jacket.

A Dave and Buster's jacket was one that I saw if you're in first place. And there are a lot of people who have figured out they put a crew together, like six people. And they all play as the same guy. Oh. And they end up winning. And then everybody is like. And then they get to like each of them gets to wear the jacket one day a week. I know.

I think it's just stupid. I think it's just prestige. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's prestige in the end. It's like bragging rights. Yeah.

People fragging right. Yeah, I've got the highest score. Me, well, I'm part of a team that has the highest score at David Buster. You can't even take full credit. Yeah, that's like, like you game the system. Yeah. And they're so mad. One guy posted a picture of a person, two people playing Mario Kart.

And they have the big screens above showing the game. And they were both logged in as the same guy. And you, it was crazy how mad people, this is fucking bullshit. shit man you know what well imagine you work your whole fucking life to get to the top of that leaderboard and you've been doing it honestly you know and then you find out people are basically juicing i would be pissed as well it's quarterly though what do you mean i mean yeah but like baseball comes in seasons and we still like feel like hank erin got disrespected like his home run record yeah they do it quarterly no i know i know i understand you play with play with

quarter i knew you're going to say that no uh they do it like they they have a leaderboard for each game and then the amount of points it resets quarterly yeah so like i said a guy won the ugliest jacket you've ever seen it's a dave and busters fucking windbreaker i mean it's ugly but it's the message it sends to people when you walk into a dave and busters with it because anybody who's anybody around there knows what it signifies oh oh my god And think about it. It's like it's the battle of the puffy jackets versus the leaderboard jacket. I mean, I just imagine him coming in paper planes by MIA playing as he comes in the front door with that jacket and his whole crew behind him.

Like, oh, man. It's so, so they get mad. Okay. So the coin pushers have this thing. They have, they have cards in them. And a complete set of cards is worth a lot of tickets, okay? I don't know. I'm confused.

They have like little plastic cards in them, too, that they lay in there. And they're all different. And a complete set of those cards will get you a bunch of tickets, like a crazy amount of tickets or whatever. When you turn it in, we did it once when we were there. It costs a lot of money to do. Okay. So you got to keep that in mind here. And this person goes, so last night, my friend, 32 male.

and I, 40-year-old female, went to half-price night. We're regulars now with a summer pass. The staff know us and even other regulars know us. I've been slowly collecting the SpongeBob card since I got a Gary a couple of weeks back. I saw another Gary on the platform and decided to go for two full sets before I never do this machine again. However, I've told myself about that with Star Trek many times. A teen boy came up and nicely asked me if I was playing for anything. I said, oh yeah, I'm playing for the Gary.

about to get the whole set and he had a friend with him he was like i told you about that card they left and i thought nothing of it i put on about eight swipes and played until gary was at the edge i put on one more swipe when i felt a tap on my shoulder i turn and it's a teen girl and there's a whole click of teens with her including the ones from earlier and she then asked me when i was done with my one swipe if she could go after me and i was surprised but i was like well no i'm playing still but there's machines available right next to me that's empty and she said but I want that card and I was genuinely stunned and then I said well but I've been playing for that card for a now this is a 40 year old woman so I'm trying to figure out what's going on here does it feels to me

like these teens are messing with her though right like it's the card but do they do they want the card or do they know that she wants it so bad so they're just being like they're just kind of messing with her I would think because why do they want that what do they want the card they love sponge bob stuff teens love that shit i don't know i think they're i read the story as them messing what being like hey that woman's like fucking trying for this sponge bomb card over here like let's go fuck with her but i don't know it's very funny yeah and i was i would have to i would have to know more i guess yeah well there's more her reply i said i've been playing for that car for a while her reply but i want it i replied because i literally couldn't think of anything else

said well sometimes we don't get what we want she responded well that would well that would be fair you take a turn and I take a turn and I was like but this isn't a turn based system and she responded well it should be and I was like well I don't know what to tell you life's not fair and I'm not leaving it she said but I want it and I didn't want a cave especially with her just repeating this to me several times more than I'm even standing there we were ironically across from the Willie Wonka machine. Ironic. And I also got a full set from there last night. And I said,

well, I want a million dollars. I don't know what to tell you. I attempted to pacify her with the truth that I wasn't going to win in this one swipe. I didn't. And she was welcome to watch, but I wasn't leaving. And at this point, I would reload my card and die at that machine before I let her have it. Yep. This is, okay, so this is, I hate to play armchair

psychologist. I would estimate that this is like unfortunately someone who's probably like gets walked all over in her day-to-day life. Dormat, a dormant, yeah. Yeah, and then just like there's the like she's always telling yourself like you have to stand up for yourself. You've been doing this your whole life. And then it finally manifests in like a purely ridiculous way. the most humiliating way possible this is like she's like well here's your moment cynthia this is what you've been talking about with yourself like i guess it's time to buck up

you know how people say like you can never you can never really write things that are funnier than real life i would actually say you can never really write things that are like as tragic as real life yes this is like tragic in a way that like it really just it like knocks the wind out of you you feel like you you know so much about this person based on her reaction like she's she was probably like surprised that she was like standing up for herself and was like okay I guess we're doing this well life isn't fair yeah then she starts like she's like you can't you ever heard the old rolling stones you can't always get what you want I'm like kind of on her side because I do I agree I'm on her side too because she's saying everything's

true that she's saying it's not turn-based right it's not right that's not how the game works oh okay it could be it's not there's no rule about how the coin pushers work yeah it i still stick by the fact that it seems like this group of teenagers for whatever reason has targeted this woman and they're like let's fuck with this woman who loves sponge bob so much and it it is this is a completely ridiculous imagine just imagine being beside this yeah and like just sitting at the table it would be completely ridiculous to hear. But yeah, it's tough to really pick a side here. It's really weird because I was recently in a really weird situation at a restaurant. Me and my wife were eating at this restaurant and there's a woman kind of getting drunk in the corner and like really

getting drunk. You know what I mean? And a guy comes up to the window and starts knocking on it. She's not looking at him. And he's knocking. and she's not looking and then a waiter comes over and goes there's a guy knocking on the window for you she's like I know I'm intentionally not looking for him so there was like a whole bunch of stuff going on that I didn't fully understand but I was enraptured by like I wasn't paying attention to my wife at all like I was paying attention to whatever was going on at that table over there yeah it's hard not to and there's like that's why like you know soap operas and all that that's why everybody celebrity gossip and shit it is interesting to hear some people got some wild shit going on you know

like they're just kind of acting out of control i i used to say that like my sister worked at this like one of these weird like publications were like the only people that subscribe to it are like law firms so it's like in the black but like no one reads it like it was a tax policy thing was when she was like uh in grad school and she would always tell me like the most depressing sorted stories about her co-workers and i was was true i would look forward to it every week finding out some new shitty detail about these people's terrible lives and i was used to say if there was a magazine where you could read about like bad like just skin crawling events that happen in other people's lives that you don't know you have no you have to have no connection with

them because otherwise you start there is a little part of you that's like i i maybe have some power to do something here but when you have no connection it is pure like thrilling i remember my brother telling me about like um this guy on the amtrak it's like our our l i whatever the long island like regional amtrak thing is in chicago he was in a relationship like an open relationship with like the secretary at this place my brother was working at and like her half sister and they were living together and they were like they were like scamming section eight like they shouldn't have been in section eight but they were and it was like I would read weekly updates about that I what I love that stuff well now okay you guys took her side

well you're not alone yeah because Because here we go. The Insanezer OX says, you were in the right. You can play however long you want. But the problem with the story to me is you kept the conversation going on with a random girl. Why didn't you just say go fuck yourself and stop replying to her? I don't know. Maybe because she's been fucking walked over.

This is her first time ever standing up for herself. I like, I mean, I, it's hard to like really, I'll say this. When you're a teenager, like, you're, your empathy, you have no empathy. You're a sociopath. And it's terrifying because you have all the, like, selfishness of a child, but you have sounds like the linguistic cunning of an adult. And it's horrific. Like, like, I, I, it's one of the reasons why I, you know, I think, uh, there shouldn't

be like life sentences for teenagers in general, uh, except for, you know, when someone's born evil, which I only I can determine. Yeah. Yeah, well, we can all tell that. Yeah, we can all, yeah, but I like to, and maybe I'm wrong. I like to think that at least when I was a teenager, we could identify like a loser adult. And I'm not saying this pejoratively, maybe a little bit, but like an adult where it's like, okay, this person has been fucked with their like entire life. This is not, this is not a cool.

Yeah, this guy's not a cool guy in his life. life and you feel like you guys had the you didn't want to fuck with those people yeah or like yeah there was there was a thing of like well like no one that we fuck with like deserves deserves got nothing to do with it but like what if it's someone who's like less used to be yeah no i agree i'm as an adult i totally agree but i think when i was a teenager that i maybe was able to recognize that somebody had been fucked with but again i was was, I didn't care. You were a psycho.

I was a psycho and I didn't care and it didn't really bother me. But we didn't really fuck with people that much, though. Neither way. I remember one guy who I just always remember this in the mall. He just kept saying, are you smarter? You stupid to my friends and I? I don't remember the context of it, but we must have been fucking with them. And he just kept saying, listen, are you guys smarter?

Are you stupid? Well, this post I thought this reply was really. something you're about to go for a ride uh people who have never been told no don't think rules or even common courtesy applies to them they live in a bizarre parallel universe where they're the main character and the rest of us are just NPCs whose purpose for existing is to cater to their whims if you want to see a live example of this look into blakely's ongoing legal dispute with just involved that's the person that's the person that what's that joke the person who's only seen that one movie, you know?

And it's like, hey, this is a lot like, this person just bringing this into every single conversation that they ever have. And he's thinking to a woman who like, for 99.9% of her life, she is a side character in her own life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, basically she was cast as the female lead in a movie based on a novel. And rather than do the job she was hired for, she bullied her way into directing, taking over wardrobe,

where she went over $885,000 budget by $500,000 by dressing her character in high-end luxury clothes and forcing Sony, the distributor, to release her cut of the film. When promoting the film, she opted to shill her product lines instead of addressing the heavy theme of the movie, domestic violence. When she naturally faced backlash, she accused the director of fat-shaming her and then later sued him for allegedly sexually harassing her. She also claims the backlash she received as not organic and that the studio orchestrated an untraceable smear campaign to her. Hang on, hang on, what's the

original thing we're meant to be talking about here? Is this guy like a producer on that shitty movie? This might be the Dustin guy. This might be that guy like Justin Paul Dernies in the art David Buster's subreddit. This is about

David Buster's about that the car, the spongeball card. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This, I'm just saying I, you can bring up your Blake lively thing or whatever. I don't know that you want to get this much in the weeds about it in the boat. She also claims the backlash. Oh, yeah, she's been subpoenaing content creators who have covered the lawsuit on social media,

asking for their follower and bank information, among other things. She just cannot fath in the world. I don't think that's Blake lively. Do you think it might be a fake account? Hey, this is Blake Lively. What's your routing information? That's not like you asked for when you sue someone. Yeah, Blake Lively's hit me up and it's like, oh, I'm supposed to pay you after I just paid Elon fucking $3,500.

Blake Lively told me she needs to sueing you unless you buy me $500 in iTunes gift cards. Oh, you bitch, wait. Would you have enough? She just cannot fathom a world where the general public doesn't adopt. her and where her actions have consequences. That's the whole post from the craziest person. Yeah, that person is like, we're talking about you're, we're talking about a child who's doing this.

A teenager. A teenager. Like, yeah. Yeah, I don't think you can fathom a world and not through the prism of Blake Lively. Yeah, Blake Lively and Justin Baldone like every time something happens, this person is just like, this reminds me of Blake Lively and Justin Baldone and then goes into the whole story again because she she had the whole story like in two paragraphs she

was able to like yeah and not it was not copy pasted from somewhere you could tell it was like her she had passion about it yeah it's crazy it's the craziest thing that you could do in a in a thread about video games i think that should become like a copy pit like whenever someone like with you have like a friend you don't like very much he's always like bitching about the same thing just go copy paste this entirely you know this reminds me five paragraphs about like liably this guy goes i have a spoiled cousin when they say but i want it i just go deadpan and say well i don't care what you want pretty much ends it i recently had to do this at dave and busters a couple weeks ago it works faster than engaging so next time feel free to

flag down a tech or win person managers will inform them that harassing other guests is not okay i've seen kids ask to leave for this behavior oh just get the yeah call the manager over to get the children thrown out here's another weird one uh little punks knew it was rare and was just on the edge literally tried to bully you off that machine just for the card it wasn't about playing the game since the open machine was next to you but it was more about bringing the squad to try and make sure you feel like an ass so they can take over don't feel bad they need you know never would have moved for you let alone have a conscious about feeling bad about the encounter good for you for sticking your ground in my opinion and i know i'm not right but in my opinion they wrote

the squad d a as i read this i slowly preparing myself to be insanely furious if you gave into her in any way like so i gave her a turn or so i gave up the machine or holy hell if you said so i won the card and then gave it to her oh hell no the fact that you would even consider that you were being unfair as ridiculous. The justification is you put in the work and the money to move that card to the edge. It's yours. These are the kind of people who like comment on a video of like one of those Karen's stealing a baseball from a child at a baseball game who comment like important and good

life lesson, you know? Like that's the same sort of attitude here. Yeah. It is so it is it is a card, a SpongeBob Square. pants card it's a what is it what's the name of it what a gary yeah i was it a patrick or a gary i don't think it's a gary it was a gary it was a gary card it was a gary sponge bomb card and it's just like i'm glad that you like stuck to your guns and fucking stuck up for yourself and it's like yeah you're talking about a dapen buster sponge bomb gary card i'm glad you fucking stuck to your guns like

justin baldonie did Like, that is, I am firmly on this woman's side. Like, I, I mean, watch me be totally wrong about all my assumptions about her. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's actually like the actress Catherine Bell. Living off like million, she's made off of like jag residuals. And she's like, yeah, I just got my kids in college. I just go to David Buster. This person goes, bitch, tried to take my Gary.

But I, I'm, I'm first. Firmly, based on my assumptions, though, that I think are true. I am so firmly on this woman's side, but everyone who's agreeing with me is humiliating me. Yeah. But I won't bunch, but like, holy shit. I read some reviews of Dave and Busters, the one I go to often. Mason goes, one star. Do not pay for the virtual reality.

I went with my friend to try new virtual experience at Dave and Busters. Not only was the VR headset not adjusted properly such that it made it quite hard to breathe. The colors. Sophicating at the David Buster's VR. I guess this must be part of it, you know. It's underwater, I guess. Yeah. You know, I maybe it's adrenaline.

I don't know. The colors. This reminds you about people have to hold their breath ronk, like, lively. Not only was the VR headset not adjusted properly, such that it made it quite hard to breed the colors in the virtual reality were blended as if my eyes were clouded we weren't able to actually see the gameplay and we're told by the worker that we had the lowest most pathetic score he had ever seen whoa did he use that like that seems that does seem like it's quote it that lowest and most pathetic are in quote see that feels like

you can complain about that I don't feel like a staff member should be talking to somebody like that I don't think you should complain about it because it's a humiliating oh no I agree but I'm saying you have a right to be you have right there you're like that isn't how someone should talk to someone who's trying their best playing a game or whatever but yeah I would never if somebody at David Busters told me I was the most pathetic gamer ever I would never mention it to anyone that that that is like that is like the lie the how you think the world operates when you're like five that like the employees of David Busters get mad at you if you're bad at the games you get in trouble he actually thought we were sleeping on the machine. Moreover, the games at this particular Dave and Buster's location took more credits than advertised. My friend and I personally played the Mario Kart game, assuming

it took four credits per play as advertised. We were shocked to find out that we swiped our card. It took 5.5 credits per play. All in all, this location was malfunctioning and not worth the money spent. Plenty of other locations. Oh, this is in Times Square. I'm sorry.

This is a... Yeah, there you go. So this is, this is one Felix could potentially go to if he wanted. I think it might have gone to this one actually. Yeah, all right. No, I think it was this one. One of my favorite things that they say in these two. He's like, uh,

used to be a regular customer, Dave and Busters, but now I'm questioning if I want to make this my last trip. Like somebody's going to reply to him. Yeah, be like, what can we do to keep you coming back regularly? Here is one and the one that I go to. Three

stars. Dropped in here with the kids for an evening of dinner and games. The punchline here is that the restaurant area is so loud and deafening. It's like being at a rock concert. Speaking to the serving staff, they were kind and turned the music down, but it was still so loud from all the games.

The music was simply masking the noise. Can you guys turn the games off? This guy, I mean, going to a fucking barcade and thinking it's going to be anything other than the noisy place on the blog is crazy and it's like the i would assume that the like dinner part of the david buster's experience is like the most replaceable part yes you could literally go anywhere else chilies you can go to i'll bet you the food is basically i've never had it but i'll bet you the food is basically just chilies is it is it but it's a it's like a bar you can drink while

you're playing the games and stuff like that okay okay and it doesn't matter that the kids are all around there and stuff or they don't mind okay maybe the rules are different i don't think you could you can do that in can't do that in Canada where i am well like you can't have children in a place where people are drinking i don't think at an establishment yeah that's what the trucker does worked out but i now that i'm thinking of it i guess that's not true because at a restaurant people drink and there's right there is that it's just like i know a bar premises or whatever it's like a different license but yeah i don't think that it just feels weird to have a kid's at a bar.

If you've been to any of the newer casinos and seen the slot machines that are super loud, that's pretty much what it's like. The food looked good, tasted good, serving staff was great, but at the end of the day, we won't be going back. It's just too loud and annoying. I had a headache with him 15 minutes of being in this place. It's just that loud. The guy that goes to Dave and Busters and complains about the noise.

Yeah, I think like all these people are like dying. Yeah It was like as loud as like slightly louder than a normal restaurant They're like yeah my ears started bleeding I almost complicated in the VR machine All the colors blurred together Yeah here's another here's one I've been able to move the left side of my body since I went to David Buster

That's that's gonna be a two stars from me This guy he reviewed a place called round one Which is a another place that's kind of like David Busters is that or claw machine where is that is that in is that in this one's in Ohio but I think there's one in Vancouver oh really yeah in your area I went to one in San Diego I went to a crazy arcade there when we went to TwitchCon last and I just remember this right now that I played packed it was super packed but I played against our former guest past guest Tom Walker and at Street Fighter and he fucking killed me so

mad that it was like we all kind of laughed about it but it was genuinely humiliating did one of the workers tell you it's the most pathetic lowest score he's ever seen nobody had to tell me that everyone was like around watching like everyone who was there with us was around watching it i just like didn't get a single hit in it was fucking brutal man oh there is nothing more humiliating than playing a fighting game against like a fighting game person yeah i had no idea I should have known he was so excited, Felix, to play. He's just like, I should have known, you know? Yeah, it's like, if you're playing any other, if you're playing like call of duty,

there's a chance you can, like, shoot a guy in the back of the head, but like a camp out, camp for a bit maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fighting game, they'll just make you look like a fucking asshole. Yeah, they just destroy you and beat the shit out of your character. Like, it's, oh, I can still picture it right now because I remember looking over and like sort of looking at his face and he, like, he kind of looked like he felt bad for me even like he was like i'm sorry i did this to you yeah this guy went to round one in beaver creek ohio he gave it two stars he goes i play call

machine semi professionally very humble i don't know what it is that can't be a real thing I don't know what it would be like I guess maybe there's like some competitions are right right or something like that at this point no that like people put together right somebody's like oh we're going to do a claw machine competition like just some fucking internet person or whatever he's probably maybe done a couple of them that's what he's talking semi professionally like possible to like does it make economic sense for anybody to be fully pro like yeah do you yeah because how much could you possibly sell the. little fucking things for I think could you do it in like maybe the developing world that would be like a subsist level income yeah travel to to like the Palau the place where the chive coins are from and sell them there they're not from there just to be clear they're legal tender in Palau but they're just made in America there is not a single person or competition uh claw machine thing I don't know where that but

But he goes, and he might not even be good. I'm going to tell you that right now. He goes, I play call machines semi-professionally have traveled the country claiming this is my favorite round one. But after driving five hours out of my way and spending $120, I left with two prizes. And only one was from a claw machine. They have deliberately rigged all of their machines to barely pay. This guy is like a shadow man kind of guy.

He, he, this is great too because he's kind of like, yeah, I'm like a semi-professional, a very well-known claw machine player who's very well-respected. I've been traveling the country to different claw machine fucking, you know, establishments and singing your praises. And yeah,

guess what? You're not going to get that free advertising anymore. The round one in Beaver Creek, Ohio. Yeah. It's the top claw machine place of all the places. Oh, my God, the, buddy, the grip on,

like, well, like I don't understand what would make it. Are they different? Aren't they going to be all, like the claw machines are going to be, made by like either be a couple of them right made by the same people they can rig them but i would assume that if you're a professional or semi-professional claw machine player

you'd be able to figure out that it's rigged before you spent a hundred and twenty dollars would yeah you but but listen i i i just i don't think that they're i don't think they're rigged they are fully 100% oh no no no i i i mean like these ones aren't more rigged than they were before. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, nothing, nothing changed, did it? Like, like, did they, is, is he saying that he used to come here? He would fucking clean up.

He would make, he would always grab shit. And now he doesn't anymore, like they've recently done that. These guys get very mad that they think that they, because you can switch it to pay. So basically what you could do is you can make it so nobody wins until it's paid out a certain, until it's taken a certain amount of money. How would they do that, though? what if you're really good and you grab it? The claw doesn't grip, right?

There's like a way that they get or it like hits hard. That's got to be illegal. That has to be illegal. But people have sued for stuff like that. No, seriously, why doesn't the federal government protect people playing claw machines better? I bet you, I would bet any amount of money that like it probably was legal during Trump one. And like a very significant part of his coalition were. like people who own claw machines and they're like you have to let us rig this you know somebody in

florida who owns a bunch of claw machines does seem like immediate jump voter for sure 100% it feels really funny to to all the things that are going on in the world right now and you're just like also claw machines are raped maybe all the bad oh they're sending troops to Portland and the claw machines are rigged yeah and I haven't won it's been three six three to six months since I last had a big win at a claw machine and nobody's talking about it because he won he also said he did win something I left with two prizes and only one was from a claw machine they've been deliberately rigged all of their machines to barely pay out the claws don't grab they don't close and this place has become a complete and total rip off I've never left round one with

so few wins or so much disappointment. I realize in inflation economy, you need to make more money, but this is ridiculous. If your goal is to lose customers, you met it. So he's willing to allow them to cheat him a little bit due to the economy. He's like, he could like cheat me a little bit, but this is going too far. This seems like in the parking lot review, by the way. I think he's very mad. He's sitting there with his two stuffed toys.

Yeah, he's looking at them like like he's like a disappointed father. You know, he's like staring them down. like you pathetic you guys are pathetic yeah uh so there's another there's one more thing that we didn't we haven't gotten to yet and and this is going to be the last thing and it is the arcade one-up machines i don't know if you guys have ever i'm sure you've seen them if you've ever stayed in an Airbnb there's an arcade one-up you talked about it before it's just like a really i've seen it like i've i don't stay in Airbnb's but i've seen like a photo the really flimsy small arcade box and cheap they're like four five hundred dollars so

I mean, for an arcade cabinet, like I said earlier, you know, you're going to pay $2,500. Maybe you can get one for $1,500 or $1,000, but you're not going to get one for $500. I went to Amazon and I looked at Arcade 1-Up, Mortal Kombat 2, Deluxe Arcade Machine, which is I want Mortal Kombat 3. So I was looking at it. This guy gives it one star. This is great. This is Amazon, by the way.

So it shipped to you through Amazon, okay? this guy goes one star overpriced i thought the product came as showed him photos but it came in pieces in a box not like the other pick not like the pictures he thought they were going to break the whole thing like the amazon guy was going to break like a big refrigerator box size thing yeah being bad because it's it's it is it's not like in the pictures where it's put together like like the picture should have been it in pieces that's only fair that's only fair uh two stars uh first of all the machine works pretty well except for that the joystick and button response seems to be a bit slow that makes a big difference on the mortal combat games

the graphics and sound are great my problem is that i bought this remembering all the fun i have playing mortal combat and mortal combat too on my Sega genesis and wanted to recreate that But this is an arcade machine, not the Sega. Okay. It's not really their fault. It's the same thing to say. It's not their fault. I do remember Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat

to being very difficult in the arcade after the first one or two fights, but ignored that. I also read about input lag on this machine and watched YouTube videos on how Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter cheated you in the arcade. I should have taken all this as a warning. mk mk2 and mk3 on this machine are just as tough as the arcade the CPU AI is faster than you and will nullify your moves after you start them oh my god we've reached the singularity

this guy is just basically so his big complaint is he's losing the fights he's not he's not able to figure out how to how to win listen it can be challenging but i don't think it's like they haven't created this game where it's like every single thing you do the fucking computer just counters it it kills you right away no one would play it ever people have triumphed over mortal combat yeah i've seen it yeah i've seen it yeah i've seen it yeah i've seen it yeah i was great at the game sonia blade that was my character you played okay sonia there's a character called cabal though and he runs real fast spins people around uh Is there a character named like Elder of Zion?

I mean, that's a whole other thing. Like, gamer words, just gamers love, not this type of gamer, but like, e-sports types love like either words that no one uses or like made up words that sound like real words. The one I always think of that I found in CS2 was Gula. is that like a scary thing it's nothing it's not a word i just thought of espercision and that's not a word because uh they'll they'll walk up to you and throw your kick before you can jump backwards or kick them project this is so great describing that like in your review describing how you were

defeated in the fight so you go and try to hit them they just block it and then they fucking counter with a fucking one of their hits and then it is to you like in what universe would someone read that and be like well i thought you were just shitty but not the way you put it yeah where you tried to hit them and they jumped away that actually sounds like we might actually yeah we have a case here that might be a net code issue if you were if you were actually trying to punch them and then they actually dodged it he goes uh before you or cana will hit you with his role just before you hit the block button et cetera et cetera doing a fatality He's too slow.

He's not good. It is a must. You have to do it fast. He has to do it fast. He goes, do it fatality on Mortal Kombat 2 is almost impossible. I've read that's common with the stock controllers. You can change out the joystick springs and joystick gates with different parts. However, this deluxe cabinet is slightly different than the videos you see of the legacy edition on YouTube.

So changing out those parts is very hard on this machine. I decided not to change out the parts after looking at it. YouTube has a lot of channels that show strategies on how to beat the computer on these games. This guy is sitting and watching videos about how I fucking know I can figure this out, man. But it's like, man, like, you know, Michael Jordan could fucking try to show you how to do a jump shot, but he can't do it for you, you know? So that's what I feel like it's like, yeah, he's going to watch all those videos. Then he's going to be like, okay. So then when he does it, I have to press block.

And then he's going to do it too slow. and he's going to get hit again. It's so funny to imagine an adult typing this. Like this man is probably 40. Yeah. You know what I mean? And you can't figure out that he's not good at a video. I love that one of his things was like,

Cano always hits his role before you block, before you press block. And it's like, yeah, yeah, it's almost like the way to avoid that is to hit block early. nerd. It was like a turn-based mortal combat. Yeah. And he keeps saying it's that the AI is just unfair.

Yeah, well, it's like, well, he knows you'll get a little. He's like, and right, we all hate that AI stuff, right? He goes, I didn't sign it not to check. Oh, he goes, they help watching how to beat the computer. They help somewhat and work sometimes. But I'm also convinced that the deluxe version of the arcade one up is updated compared to the older one. machine oh so he means that the strategies don't work as well so now he's convincing himself that like that's why the strategy isn't working it's because they haven't updated it for the new

oh my god this guy refuses this is like a prize fighter who's like seven and 94 and everyone's asking him to hang it up but he just he's like I'm going to make a run you know I'm going to figure this out they updated it like the people that make the arcade version of World Combat are like, sir, we've scoured YouTube, all the latest strategies have been programmed into the AI. Like it's the authorities and the scammers going back, you know, like, yeah. Which means the strategy, YouTube videos claim, it's easy once you figure out the pattern. They say, I disagree.

You know what? It is so lucky that this guy has this and he's not like politically activated. Because like most of the problems going on today aren't because people like this were like, you know what? I should I should be involved in politics. Yeah. Yeah. He's a January 6th guy if he gets involved in politics.

Like he's so mad because he lost. He has to go take a crap on Nancy Pelosi's death. Same thing. Same thing. He's in jail right now. Like most people, I bought this machine for the Mortal Kombat. Oh, because they have a few other games on here. He goes, I've played Paperboy and Root Beer Tapper on here a little bit.

They're fun and I'll start playing them more. Maybe like most people, I bought this machine for the MK games. And those games only offer 10 to 20 minutes of entertainment before it's no longer fun. And I realize that I have other things I should be doing. I got this like anything. I shouldn't be down here losing it. mortal combat just the idea of him sitting there and being like you know just being like losing a bunch of times getting super sad and then just being like i had some emails i had to get to you know oh god oh fuck

hey at eight o'clock at night he's just like well i spent four hours when i'm supposed to be working losing at mortal combat so i got to catch up with my work He goes, I got this on a great deal and paid 200 bucks for it. At that price, the machine is worth it just barely. But I'll need to play it many more times to get my money's worth. I wouldn't pay $400 for it. And I'm glad I didn't. I could have bought a used Xbox or PlayStation 2 and probably would have been better off.

What if this was, what if this guy, what if this was George Soros? I was supposed to be. running my hedge fund, bro, I spend so much time on this rigged fucking Mortal Kombat machine. It's crazy to think that they, listen, they arcade one-up makes the machines. They don't make the games. They're not rigging the games. The games are the games from the one you play.

I guess, like, he's like, oh. Is it an emulator or is it legitimately the game? It's the game. It's like the actual game on an arcade. Okay, Brian. So businesses never collude with each other? I just, they don't have a reason.

It's like this guy, it's like if somebody, he probably talks to his wife about this all the fucking time. You know what I mean? He probably spends all this time. Oh, I bought it and I thought I was going to be able to beat the fucking game. It's not nothing like placed it.

She picks up the, she fucking steps up and fucking beats it first try. Oh, man, how'd you hit blocks so fat? he's like ask her how she hit blocks of it's so great like what would be the point of them like making it impossibly how would they benefit it's not good for business if everybody hates it after 15 minutes you want them to be playing yeah that is like that is like again childhood the same child logic of like oh they ordered so many hamburgers McDonald's closed down forever 1500 of them would be exact

Like people who make games They're like I hope no one ever solves this one Yeah And fine So mad We'll go out of business And finally a really strange guy Ask a really strange question

On Reddit Are there any arcades in California Nevada that's still allow you to smoke inside Curious Probably not I mean I would point that man to casinos Yes

But no, he wants to play Mortal Kombat, maybe. I don't know. He wants to play video games. That's a, oh my God, another billion dollar idea, right after our high score t-shirt idea. A, a David, like a Dave and Buster's type place in Vegas that we open, but it's like real money is at stake. Yes.

Instead of tickets, it's pennies. Yeah, like, yeah. Or pennies. Like, you're talking about like, it's for real high rollers. Like, they're like, thousands. of doll like you're playing ski ball oh yeah you're betting thousands on it i would love yeah think about like you know that palmer lucky piece of shit he would probably he would be like uh ishikawa for the movie casino uh so yeah this guy ended up it it's just it was funny that he asked

and he gets yelled at by uh um he gets yelled at by everybody saying it's evil to smoke cigarettes by an arcade cabinet because it makes it smell And it hurts the resale value. I never thought about that. He goes, this guy goes, this is 2023. So no, of course there are no arcades in California, like you smoke inside. Also, that would be really inconsiderate to foul up vintage games like that. Yeah.

I love that no one's like, what if there are kids there? They're like, do you know what that does the enamel, you piece of shit? well that was arcade guys felix tell them tell them about your series um i in a bold stroke of originality i have done the world's first ever podcast probably the only piece of internet content about the metal gear solid series of games wow um it is part of a new ongoing series for on our Patreon. I'm doing my own version of movie mindset called Players Club.

And our first season, which the last episode of which is going to come out next week, is me and Brendan James talking about the Metal Gear Solid mainline entries. So every game from Metal Gear Solid 1 to the Phantom Pain minus games of dubious canonicity, such as the acid or portable ops entries. but i played one that wasn't part of the thing i can't remember was was it did it have cards or was it normal no it's like button smashing basically it's like shooting what what makes it

non canonical i mean the the short answer is like did hideo kajima direct it okay the long answer is i i mean portable ops is like mostly canon but they like fucked a few things up They made a very important character like 10 or 20 years older than he should be just because they wanted to have him in the game. But to make it easy, you just say any game with solid, Metal Gear solid, except for Portable Ops is part of the canon. But it is mostly just whether Kajima directed or not. Though, it sounds like Brian played Metal Gear Rising, which that's a great game. and I think there's a very good

series of arguments for it being canon Metal Gear Solid Revenge Inance which is a really good word That is an amazing game And even though it's non-canon We're probably going to do a special bonus PostScript episode about that one Because I

That is one of my favorite games ever made That's a I love that one I remember having a good time plan And if you ever please just text me if you need mortal combat three and from i was a mortal combat three guy uh if you ever need any information i know everything about that i know the canon of mortal combat up to three which is i played mortal combat three semi-profession you could do that that's that's something you could do i did that i did at but this is like 1998 99 and it was like at a put putt

But it was just playing for like $125, like, prize at the end. Did you win? No, absolutely not. Aaron did. Oh, that's too bad. Rest in peace to Aaron. Aaron, the leader. Not a leader.

Leader of the pack, Aaron, race car, school attending. Badass. He was good at Mortal Kombat 3. He was very good. He was one of the better at. He played with Jacks. I remember you told me that that he was a great play. You've mentioned that before.

doesn't mean he was the leader of the gang mortal combat um the whole metal gear saga has been going on slightly longer but metal gear solid the mainline saga has been going on for six years shorter than the mortal combat cannon it's crazy mortal combat has been around for yeah like when i was a kid moral combat was around it's crazy to think of that and killer instinct too those are like the two games i played all the time so i've i never have i've never played metal gear solid ever before but the thing that i can say about the series is i think it's cool if there's someone that you like and listen to it's cool to hear them talking about the things they like the best i do enjoy that the same as like you know will doing the movie mindset so it's

just cool to hear that like you obviously are love the game and love gaming so yeah and uh i've actually I've been pleasantly surprised a lot of people I thought that like this would people who play the games like the games would love this and everyone else they have like tons of other side series to listen to but tons of people who had never

touched them before. They started listening and started playing the games along with the series which I thought was really fun and no really we had an amazing time doing it every episode we did was like 12 hours

of raw audio but um there's so much to cover in like every game i don't think any of the so much lore in those games eh yeah that's the that's the thing i always think about it uh we want to show you a picture real quick felix just to let you check in on a guy that we saw last we were watching a cameo of them last night grease man oh yeah we're doing we're doing shocktover recording in a couple of days of first episode of shocktober greece man i found greece man's uh first ever on air audition from 1975 and it's like god he's so fucking old i know yeah legitimately 50 fucking year over 50 years ago here he is here he is this is what he looks now this is what he looks like now felix prepare yourself for it there he

Holy fuck we fucking did grease man like a year ago yeah man he's really he's aged he's aged and also this is he was really given in heart because just to be clear if you go to his cameo every single cameo is people from our podcast who are getting him to say stuff for their family members or whatever and he's always given it

his real greaseman thing but this one that we watched on the stream he's real you could tell a couple of looks in the camera like i have done with this i don't want to act this way anymore there's another one there's another picture of him with the beer like what the fuck did he like live outside for a year yeah he's very red he's very red and his he's too close to the camera obviously but he can't help that but like my theory is that and listen he's got a beautiful wife who I think probably maybe is making him dude yeah I don't know we don't know that for sure he's got he's got a younger he's got a younger wave who sometimes you'll hear off camera and it's

just like it makes me uncomfortable to hear I'm not going to lie because I start thinking about grease men having sex or whatever do you think his wife's parents were even born what he was doing that audition like god I I know we talked about it during October but I just like Think about, like, the first Thanksgiving. Yeah. Like, if you're the dad, you bring home. This is my, this is my boyfriend, the greets man. Your daughter's like, I've met a great guy.

What's his name? A little bit older. His name is the great. He comes in doing his bits too. Like, he does. Because it seems like he's always doing his bitch. Yeah. And unfortunately, Felix, we have to let you know that, unfortunately, man, cow.

claims to have had a disfiguring a face disfigurement a face disfigurement and so he's unable to do his show anymore due to a facial disfigurement what the what the fuck happened to him he won't explain it he won't explain it any further all the time and he also was recently on a podcast with 77 subscribers and looked completely normal totally normal but we don't know if he got anyways the last we heard there yeah the reason he stopped this show is because of a serious facial disfigurement and had nothing to do with any kind of like viewerships yeah yeah yeah him and he didn't do the math and go oh i'm making 31 cents an episode yeah that's the same thing with opi is has now bought a follower he's finally bought

followers but it makes it look worse because he's nobody's watching the video he's so everyone was making fun of him. And I felt bad for him. I'll be honest. Everybody in our chat was making fun of him because he did a live stream and I had four views on. Oh my. Do you think, do you think like I've always had this idea that I've wanted to do like a version, a content version of kitchen nightmares. Oh, yeah. You find like a formerly successful guy in this situation. And you, I don't think Opie would participate though, even though he's like the one I would want to do. he'd be the best he'd be the best subject for sure for it because he wants it the most he wants it the most he's the least he has the least ability to get it and he wants it the most i'll say that

the solution though is his solution in the end is 100% just take take a 50 000 a year job like that's if he wants to be on the radio that's probably what anthony's making on wabc and that's what that's it yeah so he has a hundred 150,000 subscribers now and his last four videos are 91 views, 119 views, 21 views, and then 86 views. So I think he bought followers. Do you do you think it would even? That's the other question. Like I think like there is a path for a lot. Like man. How I think there is like kind of a path to make him successful weirdly enough with Opie. Is there even? No. He has. there's could we do it no he has the least he's the least marketable of any of the people we talk even like the grease man would have a better chance of getting back into the spotlight and back onto the top that it's not funny at all he has not he literally brings nothing like the other guys were like like grease man horrible despicable human being obviously but he's very

charismatic and you know he was like he he he ran his show he had he had those people then Opie never had that on his own, ever. And Opie is also like, he has the opposite of an eye for talent. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, he, he, he encounters random people. And he's like, this guy, oh, this guy's going to be a big hit. And it's like the most, like, the worst most like alienating shitty charisma void insane person. Oh, we know.

We used to, we used to watch his live streams that he would do where he would. What was the guy that he brought on to talk about, like, ticks or something? Oh, my God. Felix, people left. People left in droves. Like, we, like, even our viewers could not handle it. A hundred and 80 people left. Like, it was just so fucking, I loved it.

Because it was the most boring conversation I've ever heard two people have. I love it, too. You've never heard anything more boring than this guy. That speaks so much to what Felix is saying that, like, he just, like, he sees this guy's like holy shit this this shit is fucking incredible like we got to like people got to hear this and it's like the actual most boring guy you've ever heard in your life it's like he did radio for like 40 years and he has the opposite of an instinct for like what people want he's not a funny guy it just and it sucks because like listen i'm sure

he was fucking great at playing music on the radio You know what I mean? Like, just being the guy who, who, oh, he plays, he plays like Pearl Jam and he says, up next we have more Pearl Jam or whatever. Yeah, yeah, he's a board. They always used to say that. He's a bored. Like, he was a good board off who could do all the technical stuff.

He could hit the post or whatever. He could do all of that stuff. He just, yeah, he doesn't have. But he got lucky and he found, he found a guy. He found a guy. He found, he said, a racist pedophile strolled. to his life and saved him. Absolutely saved him.

It's so awesome that like he's the one guy where you're like, yeah, I mean, like career wise, you should have reunited with that racist pedophile. Yeah. Honestly, it would be like if you really cared about your family, you would have reunited with the racist pedophile. Is there anyone else on earth you can say that about it? That's why he is the lead. He'll never make it again ever.

there's no chance nothing could ever happen like yeah bubba he could like any of these people they probably had a run but i got to see i could see these guys like run yeah i could see any of these guys you know for whatever reasons but oh yeah your opi i could never in a million years see a world where that happens i mean if he was here if he did not now because he looks old as and oh yeah he looks really old he looks like an older lady now felix but there's nothing worse like the worst aging you could get is as like a blonde Aryan radio guy him and Greece man like holy shit yeah if he it

if he was younger and he really worked at it I think that there is a chance he could have had Ryan Seacrest's job like that is his his skill Seacrest had something man you're that's disrespectful to Seacrest we don't like Seacrest but he had something you know but his skill that is his skill you know what i mean see crest yeah i understand but i think he's not likable

seacrest is likable like people like see crest and and i don't think opi is a likable guy at all yeah yeah yeah yeah no i hate him yeah like i mean this would be like the monkey's fault thing i think the only way he could like make some is like even the semblance of what he used to make and have a semblance of his old profile is like as a sort of like a self-aware lull cow for lack of a better term like he like like world of t-shirts and stuff like that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah because people could like the thing that makes him compelling to us i think you could make a parent to other people i don't know that like most people or even like anyone would find him as compelling as we do. I don't know that there's not three people on earth that enjoy discussing opi more than us. I think every single episode you've ever been on it ends with us discussing opi at length. It's because of the money.

It's that it's because not the money. It's because of just it's there's no other thing. There's no other guy that was in the in the rarefied air. The number two of a genre in the biggest market. radio and all over the country too yeah nobody the only person higher up than them in that genre is Howard Stern which nobody's going to ever touch him and now I mean he gets 91 views and he bought 150,000 like followers on like it's like even fucking Bubba the love sponge has the uh the documentary that he's running around talking about the three hour and 10 minute

documentary and like he has the Hulk Hogan thing and stuff like that there should be an opi documentary though like that's what you're i'm talking about like that idea that i guess you can't really do it because the documentary needs to have some sort of redemption or something for it to be like you know it it just sort of peters out but it is compelling that idea we talk about it a lot that idea of somebody who yeah was at the essentially close to the top of the mountain and now refuses to give up and is so so low like is lower than like people who are doing like a review of food at their car or whatever like you know like a child doing that is like now below them on the rankings of entertainers yeah oh my god that is an obi documentary is such a fucking great idea yeah but it's again like you would have to you would almost have to like do something elite you would have to do like what they do in um in uh fuck uh boat but one of my favorite movies bofinger and like make a make a make a a documentary he's not aware as being filled yeah yeah yeah because you want to hear him saying

you want to hear i want to hear what he really fucking thinks is going on i don't know if you'll ever yeah yeah yeah also probably relatively delusional i just don't think a guy that was on the level he was on can fathom how low he's fall yeah i don't think he can fully accept it i'm thinking even comprehend it yeah i i he's i believe yeah he's one of the luckiest guys ever to do it in the sense of like having no talent whatsoever and becoming so big yeah yes i i think like if he had any concept of how far he's fallen that he could at least consciously acknowledge he would have given this up a long time ago yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he would have said he had a disfiguring accident just like mankind yeah he would have done the honorable thing and he would

have said that he had a facial disfigurement man no is so awesome yeah he'll always lie for you he's always got a lie for you know i think like out of out of all of our guys um the one if i had to none of them are ever going to like be like be back on top but like if i had to put money on one, I would primarily say Bubba because Bubba is like a cop. Yeah. He's Yeah. He's. I could easily see

a timeline, maybe our own timeline, where Bubba is a senator. Number two is probably Man Cow because he's like, he's such a piece of shit. Like he's not as like tenacious as Bubba, but he's,

he's like, he's more, on the sliding scale he's more of a piece of shit than delusional um though he is delusional opie too delusional too insane has too little to offer yeah yeah and bubba had his little moment with with hulk hogan dying so oh yeah you should have you should have you should have been there for that he was all over it he was saying some insane shit doing whole shows he talked to to Hulk Hogan's daughter. Yeah. He milked it so much.

And now he's doing a political show, I think, too. Like he has a political podcast, which I'm going to look into. Well, yeah, I think I personally, I think he's doing really well. The blind attorney with swords hanging up behind him that I used to prank called Jim Lockwood, I spoke to it recently and he told me that he is starting a show on Bubba's network. So, yeah, everyone who said Bubba's done, I think not. Bubba will never be done.

No, until he dies, yeah. You cannot get rid of a guy like that. He can't die. All right. Well, we'll see you all next week. Have a good evening. Bye. What?

An evening. I don't know why I said, have a good evening. You know what? All right. Bye.