Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Blessing and Roger Met Hideo Kojima! - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping - Blessing and Roger Went to Japan and Met Hideo Kojima! - Kojima’s gifts - Ads - Going to Kojima Productions - They meet Hideo! - Roger’s Dream comes true! - Exploring Japan - Superchats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up and welcome back to the kind of funny games cast for Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024. Of course, I am your host, Tim Geddes today. I am joined by the big daddy himself. Greg Miller. Hello, everyone. I have rhythm. All right. I just, I just use it in small controlled doses. I thought you just said, I have risen, but like with like a list, but no. You know, joining us as well. He just released his new album, Black Materia, Rebirth, a fantastic album, wrap it all through the story of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. It's also his birthday. Hey, it's Megarin.

What's up, y'all? Happy birthday, Maygorand. I'll be here. It's a good time. Good time to hang out with you guys. Now, this is a question for the entire panel, but I need to know straight up. Could I rock a track suit like this? Yeah.

Absolutely not. No. I think so. I think he could pull it out. Yeah. Yeah, I want to see it. Do I think you can pull it up? No.

No, I don't know. Pull off is doing all the work there. I don't know about them. You guys are mean. I'm in support of you. Thank you, I think you do it. Yeah. No. And then rounding out our group today, it's the two stars of the show.

These boys both just went to Japan for the very first time. They were there for an entire week and we're going to get to hear all about it. It's blessing at E. O.e A. Jr. Good day, Tim. And Roger Pekorney. Hi. I have not been more excited for a podcast in a very, 100%. Very long time.

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Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by Dragon Age Vows and Vengeance, the podcast and Better Health. But we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's be what is and forever will be the topic of the show. Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Toss, Toss. Blessing and Roger went to Japan. and met Hadeo Kajima. Wow.

We did it. What a headline. What a headline. That actually happened. What a story. What a world we live in. Bless, how did this start?

I mean, it started with me coming into work one day and Tim being like, hey, step in here real quick, step into the meeting room. And I was like, oh, finally it's happening. Yeah.

It's going down. You know it's been a challenging economic headwind time in the industry. Yeah, that was incredible because it was Tim, it was Greg. And then I think Bless was already in that meeting room, right? And then you pulled me in, too.

I think it was like that. And then I came in, I was like, oh, shit. Like, it's either something really good to happen or some real bad's happening right now. It was the two of us. We got into, like, we heard this opportunity, like, the day before or so. And we talked about it. We were ruminated. I'm like, what the right plan of action is for this opportunity.

Are we, we're able to say what the opportunity was yet. Okay. So we got hit up by PlayStation saying, hey, do you want to send someone or do you want to come to, interview the team Osobi about an astrobot and we were like oh this is actually a really cool opportunity we can do a lot of cool stuff with this

and then it was like all right well who do we send and what do we do and what are we trying to turn out of it yeah and so yeah it was me and Tim thought real quickly after a meeting but it was obvious that you guys would be the great fit of course that blessing can go and talk about the game Roger can go and also talk about the game but you know do a highlight

channel social thing let's get some cool videos let's get some really cool stuff put together yeah and go for well I was saying as we were you know booking the trip and you're talking to PlayStation and all this stuff. It turned into a thing of, all right, you guys are going to be there for three days. And then it turned into a week of us being there, which then turned into, all right, like, how are we going to make the most out of this opportunity?

Like, we're going to be in Japan for a week. Can we send you places? Can we send you to Kojima Productions to visit Kojima and then also give them a gift? It was like a thank you for, you know, being part of our studio opening video. Yeah. Yeah, but really quick before that. I just want to tell everyone my reaction, our reactions to being told that we're going to go to Japan, right?

Lesson did the exact same thing he always does. He's emotionless and stares at you. Exactly. He's happy. And you went, and jump. I did a full, I was not cool about it.

I did a full jump because you guys did the great, I was surprised it wasn't content, right? I'm surprised you guys didn't put a camera up. You should have. You said blessing. When you give me any reaction content, I'm not, I'm cool. But no, it was great because, yeah, you did the thing where you're like, oh, like, you know, I see Ashtra bottom layer. I'm going to LA. Like, I've never been

on a work trip, so that's cool either way. Like, I've never been in a work trip. That's awesome. But you said, in Japan. And, like, I did a little,

oh, a little jump. And I looked over a blessing. Like, you're excited, right? And you just, like, the little light smile. Another day. Another day at work. You know,

you know, I hate this kid. But then, yeah, the, obviously, we were very excited. Y'all were excited. And now I'm excited to hear all about it. Roger, I want to, I was gone.

This is the other weird thing about kind of funny right now is, like, This has been kind of the month of vacations where it just happened to be that Greg was out. I was out. Mike's now out. Like vacations and also just work trips and then baby moons and like just everything. So not everyone's been in the office.

And specifically Greg and I have been on a weird kind of cadence. So there's a lot of decisions being made that I've been unaware of or just conversations that I didn't know about, which is weird for me. Because I normally am a little bit more in this shit. So there's this whole gift situation that I didn't even know about. You want to talk about that? this was actually Greg's idea. Greg, well, we're going to meet Kojima and he's like, okay, well, the inn is

we're going to give him a gift for doing the intro to our spare. Well, yeah, because it was the idea of like, all right, how can I get you guys a meeting with Hideo Kajima? A meeting of the minds. You've been in Japan. Have you met Hadeo Kajima? No. In Japan, right? It's not the easiest invitation to get. Unless you're like, Elijah Wood or whatever.

So it was. I was like, well, I don't want to just be like, hey, they've always been, if you're ever here, come over. If you're ever here, come over. And so it was like, I didn't want to just be like, hey, can we get a tour? And then I was like, you know what? Of course, back in October 22, he kicked off the spare bedroom. He kicked off our studio by giving us the VEO and giving us the video. And again, they were the best about that.

They over-delivered in every way. If you've never heard that story, it was me begging through the multiple PR people. It started with the one PR guy I knew that then evolved into the whole thing. And me and Hadeo's DMs to get the right people to get. And I did it. And I was just expecting an iPhone voice recording. And instead, they, asked for rough cuts of the video. They matched audio on their own. They had questions about

translations. They did all this. They sent them from a booth. They sent them from just doing it on camera. They said they over-delivered in every possible way for it. And they just killed it for us. So thank you as always, Kajima Productions for that. And so yeah, then it was like, okay, we're finally going there. What if we sent you to over there with a gift to give them? But then it was, what do you get for Hideo Kajima? Yeah, the man who has everything. So I was like, well, I know he loves movies. So what if everybody kind of funny picked a Blu-ray of their choice to give him with a note. And then Roger, of course, iterated on the idea and said, what about a cassette?

Yeah, I said cassettes. And then I got so much shit around the fucking office around for this. You know what I mean? Like, I said cassettes, and then everyone looked at me and was like, well, they make set set still? And I'm like, yeah, they make cassettes. Like, it's a new thing now. Like, you know, the gens years. Yeah, thank you, so much.

Megaran knows. Yeah, he knows. First off, I don't like that I'm getting roped in. Well, I'm just saying, what about a movie or a cassette? I said, that's a great idea. And then I said, I'm old and don't know. Are we still get cassettes? And you're like, oh, yeah.

But you know who I'm giving shit to? Mike. Blessing Eddie O'ye fucking Jr. Well, no, because I looked up with cassette. Because I also, I wasn't the first person to complain about the cassette. It was Mike. And then I hop in. You should know better.

You should know, because Mike is 45 years old. You're one of the youths. You know what I mean? You should have known about this. Which is why I knew there weren't cassettes. Because I then looked at, I was like, I was like, oh, cassette. And I started looking up cassettes of like what albums when I want to give Kojima. None of them had cassettes.

Yeah, that's fair. There's no cassette of, like, Lupe Fiasco's food and liquor. You know what I mean? That's fair. Yeah, yeah. But I ended up going with a CD. So I was wrong about the cassettes. About my specific cassette.

I tried to find some things. I tried to find, I tried to find some other ones. I couldn't find cassettes. But I ended up going for a CD. So, yeah, we all chose our favorite things around the office. Kevin gave a book. We'll get to Mike's gift in a little bit. I can't wait.

Do you know about this? Oh, yeah. Okay. I was there when they were printing the DVD cover. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a little bit. So I don't know about this because, again, I was in Mexico at the time. And I'm slacking back and forth with Raj. And he's like, hey, if you have a gift for him, like, just write a little note about it.

And so, of course, I take this very seriously. I write up a blurb. I think about it. I'm like, what's the right thing to give? And then I see Imran tweet who was in the office. And Imran's like, oh, I know about the gifts they're giving. It's hilarious. And I'm just like, what is the content?

We're making content today. We're making some content today. This is exciting. Yeah, so we all chose our favorite thing. So glad you're here, Meg. Yeah, so we all chose our favorite things. A lot of back and forth. We can go through Kevin Arno if you have the video really quick in the beginning.

So this is actually what we ended up doing where I ended up doing where I took everyone's blurb and I made it into an actual graphic that we were going to print out and put into a little envelope attached to each of our favorite things. So yeah, we can go through. We'll go through each of them. Yeah. Yeah, really quick. We pause really quick.

Yeah, so, Oh, wow. Yeah, so, like, Lianza is actually cutting them out. And Lanzah came on the trip to with my partner. Which was another adorable Roger Moe. Yeah.

When he's like, can I talk to you in the conference from alone? And I was like, oh, shit. You know, who did what to what now? And I went in there, he's like, hey, she's just, like, going on this trip. And it's like, if I paid for Lianza's a ticket,

could she come to? And I acted mad. I'm like, yeah, of course. It's one of the perks of doing this whole thing. Go for it. Yeah, no, that was an incredible experience. She brought my freaking son to packs. So yeah, we printed out all of this

And everyone had our little blurb. I didn't put the full blurb on the screen. I don't know if anyone has anything private, but I don't think so. But yeah, so we cut them out individually. You can keep up playing, Kevin. And yeah, we... Thank you so much for doing this, by the way. This is so freaking awesome and so above and beyond.

Exactly. This is what I love about working here is that I can come in with an idea that I think's good. Oh, we'll give them movies and we'll write notes. And you guys go and take it to another level. Yeah. And the cool thing about this is that working with... Lianza, my partner, who is a graphic designer, went to design school. She's able to push the ideas. Like, I was so tired the week going into Japan where I was so like, whatever, we're doing this thing.

Let's just figure out a box to give to it. And she was like, no, this is a big opportunity. Let's push this. Let's make this a big thing. So we had double-sided prints for each of our messages. As you can see there, that took a whole thing with going to fucking, you know, Wall of Greens or whatever you got prints out. And then over here, I got the kind of funny logo. I didn't ask Andy, so this might be an old kind of funny logo. whatever one you pick's always the wrong one. And then we actually got stamps. So we're going to, we stamped every single one of the mini envelopes right there.

I try to get it in focus for the video watchers. And yeah, then we had these mini envelopes that we stamped and put each of the little note cards perfectly onto. And then we attached to our favorite thing. Oh, she's drying it. She's using her top of listening. So this is all the choices. This is cool G's. He chose Jay Z's the Black album, of course.

Andy chose Endless Fantasy about I'm a mama Gucci I'm a mama Gucci blessing chose challengers love it Big deal for him Tim do you want to pause really quick Tim you want to talk about your choice Yeah well this is

Tonef I've talked about Tonef a million times In the shows but this is Tonef's most recent album Came out in 2016 called Polymer that I think is just Incredible and the moment I heard it I'm like This reminds me of Hideo Kijima so much Just in terms of like how You can't put it into one genre It's kind of very experimental

It's all over the place And like it's just But there is so much vision to it all And what was wild about is like You can't just buy this album right now You can buy it digitally but you can't I couldn't get the CD And I'm in Mexico

Had to get it to Roger by a certain dates For him to go to Japan And so I literally just hit up tone deaf I'm like bro Do you happen to have any copies at your house And he expressed overnight Shipped it so very happy That all worked out

Because yeah But anyway thank you so much for doing that Of course yeah I came with a sticker And it was signed and everything Did you tell him it was for Kijima Oh, oh yeah. Of course.

Say less fan. For real. For real. Yeah, I chose Caroline's, Caroline's newest album, Caroline Polichax. We'll talk about that later. Greg, do you want to talk about your choice real quick? Sure, I picked coherence.

It's a film. It was for me, I didn't, I was out, I think, when you made the move to CDs. Because I was just looking for a cassette of Weezer's Pinkerton. I was going to send that. And then, of course, I think if you hear about this, you think I'm going to send him Ghostbusters. I'm well, it's well known that Hideoe O'Cajim has seen Ghostbusters. Oh. He's had both positive.

and then just it is a movie. So he's seen Frozen Empire, right? So he's doing more than most of you. So then it wasn't this weird one of like, what would I send Kajima that I love? And so it was down to mall rats, which of course I love so much. You know how much I love Kevin Smith.

And then coherence. Coherence is an amazing sci-fi film that I feel most people haven't seen. It's very much one of those like, I'd never heard of it and I watched it in a line in a car to get a tailgate spot with my best friend from college, Kyle, when I went to visit Missou years ago now.

And it's, I, every so often it comes around the thought carousel. And I just think about that entire movie plot point. What would I do differently? And yada, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fantastic movie. I haven't seen it. It was one of those of like, it's either he's going to know this backwards and forwards because it's his kind of movie or I'm going to give him something he's missed too.

And so it was either he'll think I have good taste or he'll get something new. But it's exactly. Yeah, we'll see the reaction a little bit. But yeah, no, that was that was a good choice right there. Joey chose Lady Bird, that's a great one. That's a great one right there. Yeah. Yeah, of Nick chose die hard, and then his message was yippee, Kai, Yeo-Khaeo-Kajima.

And the cutest thing in the world was him going up to you and just being like, is it okay if I write this? His reaction was, of course. Yeah, he's going to love it. Today's the best. You know what I mean? Kevin, you want to talk about your choice real quick? This is a book that I listened to the audio maybe like five years ago, but like it's

sci-fi, it's really, really sci-fi. Like, when you start hearing the names, you're like, some nerd shit. And like by the end of it, like, all of it is like really trippy and crazy where it's like one chapter is current time. Another chapter is like backwards in time. And like, as the current time progresses, the one that's backwards in time is progressing in the opposite direction. So you're getting an understanding of like, it's hard to explain, but like it's really, really good sci-fi. And by the end of it, but like the book left me shook. And I was just like, oh man, I want to share this with someone.

haven't had the opportunity, and now I had finally an opportunity to share it with someone really cool, so I did. That's awesome. That's a great pick. And then Barrett chose Carcet Headdress, Teens of Denial. Interesting. That's a good one right there. And then really quick, this is Leanza works at a company

called Topicles. This is not a plug or anything, but she was like, hey, eye masks are, you know, skin care is really popular in Japan, and, you know, we have some, you know, why not? Just throw it in there. Why not throw it in there? She didn't put a note. so he was very confused in the beginning. So you'll see that in a little bit. And then really quick pause.

This is the moment we're all here for. And this is the moment that I forgot about until he picked up the DVD. And the DVD was Mike looked at me and he said, I'm going to make the Snowbike Mike movie all together, all of my little supercuts and put it into one DVD. So Snow Bike Mike goes big.

He's going mainstream with it, which he was very proud of. So yeah, this is, it just keeps on going of me showing it off. But yeah, it's a full on DVD. Is this the final cutout we went with? Yes. So here's the thing. He sent this to me.

Really, pause it, really quick. Pause it, pause it, pause it. So he sends this to me, right? And then he sends me the file and say, hey, I'm going to print this out. He'll print out at FedEx. I was like, oh, let me do a test print. Maybe I'll print out myself. I'm going to, I'm going to Walgreens or whatever soon.

And then I print it out, it's the wrong dimensions. And this is the day before I'm about to leave, right? It's like Friday. And I'm like, do I change this entire design? and do I try to extend it? Or do I just leave it like this. And I kind of looked at myself, I was like, Roger, what is the best thing to do?

I'm leaving it like this. Like, this is so snow bike, Mike. And I want him to pick this up and see this and be like, and be like, what is this? So yeah, Mike made an entire, you know, cover and everything. You know, it has images. And then he just kind of left it like. Jesus.

I'm glad he went to bumping me on for the DVD itself. He told me he was going to make a cover for it. No, no, no, no, no, no. He just wrote SBM the movie. No, that's my writing. I wrote that. Oh, yeah. I actually made this.

Yeah, so, yeah, thank you, Kevin, for doing that because that was, he was trying to pull me into it, and then I tried doing it. I think I might have installed a virus. I love it. Kevin, do you want to explain, like, a little bit of the conversations of working with Mike about this? Yeah, Mike said, he was like, I'm going to do this, and I was like, yeah, Mike, it's actually quite complicated to make a DVD with, like, menus and stuff.

You can't just put it on the disc, and he's like, I don't think so, sloppy. Put it on a disc, put the disc in the thing, and it just didn't work. So I did a little bit of research, found a program that was like the last time anyone talked about in forums was 14 years ago. Had that work, it didn't actually output the menu. So then I had to get a different program to burn the actual disc. Who had a disc reader? Oh, we bought one. We bought one.

Gotcha. But like, we should have bought a better one. And I'm upset about that too, but it's fine. It doesn't matter. I have a good one if we need an X-D-down. But, yeah, so like the DVD itself has menus and menu screens. and stuff like that. So yeah.

Hell yeah. That is, that's a bit. Who wrote the copy on the back? Okay, so that's a great question. Great question. Great question. So Mike gives me all this and he's like, man, you read the, read the captions.

And I'm like, it's like, you know, whatever. It's fine. I'm like, yeah, cool. He's like, yeah, chat GPD is really cool, man. Chad GPD is awesome. Slabby. Chat Gapty. Slavie.

And I'm like, look at him. I'm like, you made, put so much effort into all of this and no effort in a lot of parts of it. And then you just said, hey, write me a paragraph about. Can you bring it back up? Because we don't need to... Also, did he put a lot of effort in? Well, he put a lot of effort in. Parts of it.

The cover of it looks good. It's the wrong dimensions, right? Like, the actual CD is wrong. We don't need to read the whole thing. You can read it on your own leisure if you'd like. Snowmike Mike goes big as an exhilarating ride through the rise of one of the most unexpected action sports icons of the decade. Snowbike Mike, a once unknown snowbiker,

captured the world's attention with his audacious stunts and boundless charisma. the film chronicles the journey from local competitions to dominating international stages, showcasing how his fearless approach and innovative techniques are pushing the boundaries of the snow bike sport. With his growing fame, Snowbike Mike is not only elevating his own career, but also bringing snow biking to the mainstream. Inspiring a new generation of fans and athletes. Then in bold, his meteoric rise is proving that with grit and passion, even the coldest terrains can lead to the hottest successes.

That's the point I wanted to read right there. He might be right about chat GPT. The coldest terrain can lead to the hottest successes is so, so good. And I love that some of him bringing snow bikes to mainstream, that's real. It is. But his international successes, I don't know, man. I don't know if that's accurate. Especially based on the, I've seen the movie.

You know what I mean? I've seen that movie. He's known by several people around the world. I guess you're right. I guess you're right. I appreciate also Kevin putting so much work into this, right? Because originally I saw it and it was just, there was like, oh, it was like 1080p, like regular six. No, it was 720p, rather. And then half of the video, like, it was just three, I believe, videos in one cobbled together.

One of them was like maybe 240p and it wasn't scaled up. And then I was going to let it rock. I was like, fuck this. You know what I mean? I got a flip phone. It had music tracks and audio of people talking only on the right side. Oh. No, we fixed it all.

Don't worry. Yeah, he figured it out. Yeah. He went into premiere and he made it happen. So Megaran, since you weren't here, we didn't get the chance for you to contribute. What would you, if an album or a movie, what would you give Hadeo Kajima?

Ooh. Wow. Okay. And you can say your own music. I don't mind. I'd probably give him black material if I'm going to be honest. I don't know. I would actually like the,

I wonder his opinions and feelings on like art like we do where it's kind of derivative on like the, pop culture things that we're inspired by. So, yeah, I think I would give them one of my albums. And not even on like a, yeah, this is great. But just like, what do you think about this? Sure, sure. You need to make a middle of your album.

Like, you need to create something original. I think that would, that would trigger it for sure. Yeah. Being able to meet him and give them a gift, I'd be like, well, it's time to do an album. For sure. All right. So then, yeah, so we have the Snowmike Mike DVD. That was the last part of our gift.

and then we put it all together. We bought a... Sorry, talking about using the company card. We needed to find a cool box. Yeah, that's understandable. Yeah, so I needed to buy a box. Thank you for giving a Pertilla of Wiener. Yes, of course.

We got the product. This box was $16. It's a great price for us. It's a great price for a box. It was a great box for a box? Yeah, we put some shirts. And then we... How did you transport the box?

Was it all broken down? Yes. No, you got to put it on your back and you got to balance it out. You'll pause it really quick, Keb. So then, yeah, we... Did you buy it in Japan or did you buy it in? No, we bought it in America and then we brought it.

Oh, man. See, that would be like my... When I tasked you with this, I was so happy not to be doing it because I'm like, I hate packing extra shit. Yes, so we had an entire suitcase that was empty just for bringing back stuff and everything. It was a great moment at the airport really quick. So we're getting to the airport and we had this extra big, you know, suitcase. And Lanz, I think you asked like what is in it or something like that.

I was like, do you guys have anything in that? Yeah, yeah, and then Lanz is like, no, we don't. So, you know, if you get extra stuff, you can buy your own. and you can put it in your stuff. And then, let's him look at her, it's like, it's an empty suitcase.

Like, I can't put my stuff in there. Like, it was just a funny delivery of like, because I think she said it without realizing what she said of me being like, oh yeah,

you guys got anything in there. And she's like, oh, no, we got it so we can bring things back. You know, if you want to bring things back, you can get a suitcase in Japan. I'm like,

I was to bring things back. Yeah, I was like, oh, all right. Damn. Get your own, yeah. Yeah, we and Roger just die.

Like, like, no, I was like, not like that. I like that. Yeah, she's the best thing. So, yeah, no, we bought an extra box, and then we were turning the other one. But yeah, we got an extra box. It was all flat out, and then we brought it into the suitcase.

So we built it all. That video was us building it in the hotel room. Gotcha. The day of. So, yeah, no, we got there and then in the lobby of the building. It's a big building. They're on one of the floors. What's the name of that thing?

The spaceman? Is there a name for the? Oh, yeah, the Ludens. Sapien, Ludens. Yeah, and it's like a mini version of it. My favorite thing is that like, we're not late. We're definitely not late. We're super early.

We're like 10 minutes early. This is that kind of thing you're so excited for that you like, you want to be cool and get, but you can't. You got to be here. That is the thing, right? Like the night before, like we, we get there on what day. Like we get there on Tuesday. And what, it's like 5 p.m. We get in.

Be Roger and Leannez are talking about like, oh, you let's go out. Let's maybe go to Shibuya hang out and all these things. The first stop we make is actually to 7-11 because Raj has been hyping up. these egg sandwiches. 7-Eleven. And, like, he keeps talking about it, and I'm like, Roger. Like, there's no way I'm going to, like, eat this 7-Eleven egg sandwich and how it it would be the best thing I ever eat.

We go there, we get the egg sandwich, and I'm like, yo, this egg sandwich is off the chain. Yeah, I have video of that if you want to pull it up really quick. It's in the dock. I kid you not. I went back and got this egg sandwich, maybe, like, eight more times. Yeah. I went 12 times to 7-Eleven.

If you want to skip ahead to him eating it really quick, and you can put on the audio really quick. Yeah, because this is me, like, in doubtful mode of, like, It's in the beginning. It's just an egg sandwich. Like how special. Yeah. Yeah.

It's definitely an egg salad. Yeah. And I try it here. The face of a Humbold's man. Immediately I'm like, oh, man, the shit's left. Fuck. If you go back a few seconds, it's just him talking so much shit. He's just looking at me.

He's like, the people talk about these egg sandwiches. I've never heard of this. The cassette thing. And so, yeah, if you go to Tokyo, definitely go to 7-Eleven and get the egg sandwich. It might be like your main. It might be your main, like, you know, fallback meal for your entire trip. But, like, this day, the day that we land,

we keep talking about, like, oh, yeah, we're going to go out. We're going to do this. We're going to do that. And I think we realized that we're just tired. Yeah. And so we're like, you know what? Like, let's call it chill. We got to get there by 1 p.m. the next day. So, like, let's hang back.

Let's go to sleep. I think Roger and Lee ends up end up retiring at the hotel like 8 p.m. I'm like, I at least want to make it to 10 because I don't want to be super jet lag the next day. And so I just start walking around the neighborhood. I end up at a bar with like me and this lady who must be like 80 years old who owns the bar. And it's just us kicking it. Oh, nice. She overcharges me on some whiskey.

But like we're just chatting about like, like, you know, things to do in Japan. Was it like 40 bucks for two? Yeah. It was 40 bucks for two. He's in a main cafe. She's charging for his time. She really likes me. It was just a weird thing if I walk in and I'm like, I saw on Yelp that like the owners of this place speak English.

So I'm like, okay, maybe I can come here and hang out. it's completely empty because apparently like right now in Japan or at least like around this time it's August which is like where when it gets the most hot and people just go on vacation. So even her staff are like just gone. So it's just us too in the bar. She sits next to me, starts having conversation. Eventually it turns into a thing of like, you know, she asked me where I'm from. And I'm like, oh, I'm from San Francisco, California.

And she's like, oh, California. That's the third biggest state in the U.S. And I was like, oh, yeah, I guess it is. And she's like, it's around the same size as Japan. And I was like, how do you know so much about it? It turns out she's like traveled the world. She's been to a bunch of different countries. I get along with this 80 year old woman over the course of an hour.

And then I ask for the check. And it's like way higher. I should have known. It's like hindsight's 2020 when I get there. And I asked for the menu of drinks. And she gives me the menu and she's like, she points at the prices. And she's like, oh, all this is outdated. And I was like, oh, okay.

That's a bullshit right down. Right. Yeah. Like, you know, I get my. drinks and she tells you the final price. And in my head, I'm like, they told me the yen was weak. We're weak right now.

They told me. They told me. They told me. It's strong. Everybody's telling me the yen was weak. It's stronger than ever. This bar is so strong. I was like, dude,

the yen is stronger than ever. It's all like, whatever. I paid it. But then I go back and like, you know, go to sleep. We wake up and we're like, all right, 1 p.m. We got to get to good productions.

And like, we do a really good job, actually. Did you sleep in? like in crazy or? Well, no, that morning we did the Sonic reaction, the Sonic 3 trailer reaction. I looked at blessing. I was like, we're doing this.

We have to do it. Did we do egg sandwiches first in the morning? No, we went to the hotel breakfast. Which is a mistake. Awful. It was awful. Like, the food was good, but it was also like

we would have preferred the egg sandwiches. No, it was not good. Oh, you didn't think it was good? No, no. I like, we also fucked up because it's like, do you want the Japanese breakfast or do you want the American breakfast? And I was like,

because the American breakfast had an omelet. And I was like, oh, I hear good things about the omelets here. you know, they do kind of like a soft omelet or whatever. And then we get it and it's like the most mid omelet in the world with like three tater tots on the side. And it's like, I don't know what I'm doing. Like the floppiest bacon. Yeah.

It was like 75 bucks. Did that. Went back to the hotel. Did the Sonic reaction. Talked a bit about the Nintendo Direct. And then, yeah, it was off to Kojima Productions. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. right?

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Where we are so fucking prepared. We're like, we're so organized. We are like, yo, all right, let's not even take the train. We're going to call a taxi. We want to make sure that we get there on time. We get there like, what, like 15 to 20 minutes early. You know, we have time to like get settled. make sure we're in the right place.

There was like a traffic blockage. And so like you even had enough time where our Uber could find a different route and we still get there with time to waste. Killing it. Get there. You know, we saw the looting statue at the bottom floor. So we knew we were in the right place

and also I was super excited to just see this alone. Yeah. And then just right after this, I think I have a little footage of just blessing in the corner, just like taking photos. I was so excited. I'm like, you know we're going to see the big one. This is where I started to set in for me. Oh, stop, stop.

This is, yeah, this is where it started setting for me of like, oh, man, this is coaching production. This is a moment right now. Who is my favorite developer of all time, right? Like, the man who, like, made Meliger Solid and Death Stranding and PT and, like, so many games that I love. And so we get in the elevator. We get to the top, to the floor where they're on.

And we get out. It's like 150. It's like 12. Sorry. Yeah, we like to have 10 minutes. I also, like, I text our guy on the way there, Aki, who's like our PR contact. And also like he's on Kojima's team and like, you know, I believe it's a translator. I know if he has multiple translators, but one of the translators.

Yeah. Right. Text him on the way there via WhatsApp. I don't know if he gets it, but, you know, get there, 1250. I call up Aki to, like, let us in. He answers. It's all 10 minutes early, right? 10 minutes early, yeah.

He answers and he's like, hello? And I'm like, oh, hey, Aki, you know, this is blessing from kind of funny. Me, Roger and Leander just got here. And he's like, oh, blessing. what are you guys doing here? And I'm like, oh, you know, we're here for the tour. My heart, the way my heart would draw. What?

Yeah. And he's like, oh, I mean, I thought that was at 2 p.m. And I was like, oh, I mean, if it's at 2 p.m. I didn't even question. I was like, oh, if it's at 2 p.m. We can come back. Like, it's totally cool. And he's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's fine.

Stay there. We'll come get you in a second. Yeah, stay there. And like, hangs up. And I look at Roger and Roger's like, oh, okay, we'll just come back. And I'm like, no, Roger, he's on his way here. And we're, like, freaking out. We're like, what the fuck is going on?

We checked the slack. I don't know where 1 p.m. came from. After all this 1 p.m. What good employees. Did I tell you that? And I'm not going to point fingers or anything. How great would have been to the slack was like, I can't get you a tour. You know, Greg, you've taught me everything in this world, right?

You've told me, you've taught me how to be a great employee, how to, you know, actually show up for a business meeting. and what do you always say, be there early, right? So I just wanted to make sure we were there an hour early. No, of course not. I messed up the next day, which our appointment was at one. And I looked at it and I was like, oh, yeah, and it's also military time you wrote it down in.

So, like, that's how they wrote it. Yeah, yeah, I'm not blame to you at all. But if they wrote a military, my brain doesn't understand military time. We're American. We're not American, 13, yeah, exactly. So like, we're like, we're like, mini freaking it out a little bit because we're like, a lot of things go through our heads.

One, oh, shit, like we're being so rude by showing up an hour early, right? Like, we felt so bad about that. And like couldn't convince them to be like, let us come back an hour later, you know, because like they're very accommodating, right? Like they're like, no, we don't want, we don't wait you to go away. Like come through. We'll do the thing. We'll figure it out. And so we're freaking out about that first and foremost.

Secondly, we're like, Kojima's a very busy man. Are we not going to be able to see Kojima and give him this gift face to face? Little czar in the chat says 13 is one hour after 12. You know, 14, 13. You just want to be there early just in case, right? If you meet at Kojima, you got to be there early, right, bus? Oh, yeah, exactly. So all this stuff is going through our heads and we're like, oh shit, like we fucked up.

We're not going to be able to see Kojima. Yeah, because even, yeah, even Aki was like, hey, like, there's a chance. Like, you might not be able to meet him. Like he's in a meeting. Like, we're trying our hardest. He was very, very, very common. He gets there and like, you know, he's like, yeah, you know, cojima's in meetings. And we're like, he sees the box in our hand.

And he was like, oh, what's that? And we're like, oh, it's a gift for Gujima. And he's like, oh, you're going to want to give that to him in person, right? And we're like, yeah, like, if he was available. That'd be awesome, you know, all this stuff. And so, like, you know, he brings this in, since it's down the cafeteria, and he's like, hey, like, you can chill here for a second.

The cafeteria looks fucking cool as hell. It's so dope. It's so dope. Like, do you have egg sandwiches? Close to you. Close to you. No, Aki was like, hey, like, you know, there's a, you know, here's the cafeteria.

Like, this is the wall with all the signatures. If you look at the wall, it's like drawings and, like, signatures from, like, just celebrities. It is Guillermo del Toro. It is Norman Reedis. It is. Keanu Reeves. Keanu Reeves.

What's her name from Queen's Gambit that we love? Anya Taylor Joy. Like all these different celebrities. Ari Aster, you know, the director of Hereditarian, Bo was Afraid. He drew a big penis monster from Boas Afraid on there, which is stands out. Very heavily. He walking there. You see that and you're like, who drew a penis?

You see the penis monster? And like, it was funny because, you know, we got in a lot of conversation with hockey about like everything. And he's like, oh, yeah, he drew that before the movie came out. So we were very confused. You're like, what did he say anything? But. He's drawing profanity on the wall Yeah, so he's like, yeah, that's signature wall

There's a vending machine over there Everything in there is free if you want to grab anything I'll be right back So then, okay, so then we're sitting there We're waiting for the tour and to potentially meet Kojima And they offer you, oh, it's a free vending machine I'm like, I'm not doing that, you know what I mean? Like, I'm not going to walk around

I'm a drink in my hand I don't know, I'm like, I'm being offered a thing I'm gonna take the thing And so like, you know, he leaves to go set the thing out of That's the right call It's a Japanese bending machine So it's a lot of cool drinks in there Oh, get to that.

So many cool drinks I'll get to that. He, you know, leaves to set up the studio, make sure it's good for a tour. And, you know, while he's gone, I'm like, we got some time. Let me check out this vending machine, see what's up. I'm looking through it, and I see a Mountain Dew. And, like, sure, it has all these fucking, like, the vending machine has all these. Same logo.

It says Mountain Dew on it. I mean, nothing special. But it has, like, Japanese characters written on it. So I'm like, maybe it tastes different. Among all these different drinks they have. I'm like, I'm going to get the Mountain Dew. So I grab it, you know, sit down, waiting for him. I can get a hot boss coffee.

I don't know. He had to you. He went for this one. I'm chilling with his non-due with Leanza and Roger, who are too stressed to drink anything because we got there early. Aki comes back and he's like, all right. Okay, where I think we're about looking good. He's like a deep side.

You got a mountain dew. He's like, he's like, okay, like I think we're about ready for the tour. And he looks and he's like, where did you get a mountain dew? And I was like, oh, it's in the vending machine. He's like, there's mountain dew in that vending? Like, he was perplexed. He was like, he did not know that there was mountain dew. And me trying to, you know, make light of the whole situation and try to like, you know, bring up the energy a bit.

I'm like, I know me, you know, American, I got to get the most American drink. Man, no sells it. Like, I was like, just nothing. I'm like, surely, it's looking at a lot about hockey. Nothing. But then we sit down with him for a second. You're an hour early. Dude, it's like days foxies.

Yeah. We sit down with them for a second, right? And like, this is what I've come to learn about about. I'm going to be there I'm going to get about due for you. Like we start talking to him and again, Aki, he's on Kojima's personal team. He is like his translator does a lot of stuff for for Kojima.

And we start talking to him, just ask him questions and like getting stories. And what I learned is that Aki is the coolest dude of all time. Like he is, he had stories for days about like the amount of like, you know, people that they've met through Kujima productions. We asked him so many questions about like, you know, how Kujima operate. like how does, you know, Kujima's tweets get formulated? Turns out, Aki and, you know, a few other people on his team

are the ones that are responsible for a lot of, like, the English tweet tweets. Uh, Kujima does like the Japanese ones, right? But like, you know, Aki, like kind of helps formulate, like, all right, like, how do we, you know, make this look on the English side? And then also, you know,

Aki's just responsible for a lot of the things around him. So we had to ask him so many questions. We were like, yo, you ever been starstruck? And he's talked about, like, the time where he met Keanu Reeves. And he goes, I'm gonna let me expose him a little bit No I'm sure Okay I want to guess just in case

I'll tell you guys off here But like It was anything crazy He's watching it It was anything crazy But like We just learned so many cool things That's cool

My favorite my favorite question Because he works on Especially his social media team I was like is real top Between you maybe Cojima tweeting that much And he's like yeah He's like yeah

This is him And then we're just you know Doing the translations We have to make sure You know everything's accurate Making sure there's no headline Something crazy You know what I mean like

But that was That was legitimately very interesting. Yeah, it was really, really cool to talk to him. And then he gave us the tour of Kojima Productions. And when I tell you, it is by far the coolest game studio I've ever been to. Yeah. Every room was like, oh shit. Like, I can't believe this is this.

You can, yeah, this is, sorry, the video did the weird thing with the flicker. In Japan, we're doing the flicker thing. Well, it's with the video. Yeah, because it's the frame rate thing or whatever. So sorry, epilepsy warning. If anyone has that, we'll get out of this pretty soon. But yeah, they showed us this room. The wall lead up to it is like a completely dark room.

Like there's nothing there. Like there's like one strip of light. And they even said like, Aki was explaining he was like, hey, like originally we want this to be no light in this. But then they said with fire codes, you have to have just a little bit of light. And then the doors fucking opened.

And it blinds you. And it's like, holy crap. A complete black room to you walk into this. And you can put, yeah, you can, you look around and like it is the luden statue in the middle and it is just, you know, mirrors on the side. And it's a completely white room. room. The first thought I had

was like, oh, you have a room entirely? Like, this is like just the room. And then Roger looks at Haki and ass. Like, he's like, so there's nothing else that happens in this room. Which is what I appreciate. I said, so there's nothing other, there's no other the purpose for this room other than just looking cool. That's exactly how I said it.

Every time I had a thought, Roger would actually ask the question. This is my best quality. He's like, I don't want to ask that question. Yeah, I'm like, certainly I'm not going to ask this question. Yeah, it's funny because he was explaining like the purpose of this room was to inspire the employees. Like originally it was like hey, every morning, like he wanted the

employees to come in here, get all inspired, kind of think about their day, kind of think about the vision of the game. And then he's like, it doesn't happen. It's like, no one does that, but it's the place we take photos. And it's all positive. Yeah, so we go from here, the mirrors, like if you see the back two mirrors, those are actually doors, which is why you can kind of see

like the outlines are a little bit different. It's like a video game, right? We went through the right one first. Through that right one, it's just like an art room that has a bunch of Yoji Shinkawa art in it, just displayed. And like you can see Yoji's like sketches There's like a Norman Redis

Face scan sculpture in there It's a full museum Yeah, it's incredible And it's fucking awesome Yeah And like if you're somebody who's a fan of Metal Gear Right like Yogi Chikawa He's like the art director

All the art you see in that game right That's him Oh my gosh And so to see this stuff up close And personal is really cool These are some of the original scripts For Death Stranding I believe here And then yeah

This is so incredibly cool It was fucking awesome Wow Yeah you can see ship ahead to the other ones so we can show this off. I can just do it 10 seconds. I just love how well presented it all is too. It's just so much thought into the presentation of it all.

So, yeah, we looked at all this. We were in awe. And then after this, we went into the other room that was on the other side of the white room. And that was a like the VIP conference room is what they call it. Where you walk in. Jordan Peel's been in there. I mean, very likely. I'd almost guarantee it, right?

Like you look at it and it's a cool-ass-looking conference. conference room with like the TV right there right and um the favorite thing that that they're really quick the favorite thing that they told us here right was that like like you have like this cool ass setup with this TV and everything and Roger described it in the perfect way Roger was like it's the most kind of funny thing of Aki's like yes we have meetings in here that we can't get the TV to work all the time so we usually just have a laptop because he was explaining the whole idea of this he's like the way that we designed it was that so then the video um the camera underneath the TV would feel like oh you're part of the

room, right? Like, it's a circular design. And they're just like, yeah, I just never look good. So he's like, I just like, I bring my laptop and I just got to put it up and we just talk on there. It's just so funny, dude. It's awesome. So we go from this, we then exit out, and then we see what they call the multi-purpose room.

Yeah, I don't have any video of this, but yeah, you can explain it. Yeah, so the multi-purpose room is a room where they'll take like maybe mocap people, the mocap team, and like map out, like maybe what some of the action looks like and all this stuff. But you look at it and it is a workout room. Like, there are, like, weights

in this and stuff. And, like, you know, Akki was telling this fun, fun stories about how, like, you know, like, Kojima goes in there to work out sometimes. In fact, Kojima used to, like, work out, I think he said either every morning. Every day, every morning. Every morning with a personal trainer. Yeah. And, like, Ahki and one of the other people on Kojima's team

would, like, bounce ideas off of Kojima while, like, you know, doing the workout session, whatever. And then, once again, Roger asked the question that immediately comes to mind. How much is he bench? So, Akki, so, Aki specifically said, so, yeah, every morning like I used to, me and me and Kojima would work out and he just kind of moves on

and then I just kind of look at him and I say so every morning you and Hideo Kujima would work out and he was like yeah yeah yeah and he was like he was kind of inscribing out he would just kind of be there and they would do some sets together and everything yeah and we're like me and Broder are like that's fucking awesome I guess

I was just like wow every morning like is that part of the job like is that part of the job like is that in the description like you gotta work out of that would feel like you know if bray like I came to If I came to kind of funny every morning, and Greg's like, all right, workout time. Like, let's go. Can you say no?

But he showed us that. And then we explore some more areas. They have like a hallway that's filled with all the awards. Yeah, I have that. My favorite part about that is that Aki kind of looked at us. He said, yeah, so, you know, of course, we can't have like the Metal Gear Awards. That's Konami, right? So we just have our words, you know, the words we have.

And he kind of said it's sad. And it just takes over the entire wall, not only just this corridor, but like, other corridors. So many awards. They have an award over there, which I think I cut out, but it's on the right, which is from the Japanese government for Death Stranding. So it's like the coolest awards possible. This right here is their V-O room.

Yeah. Just so same. Yeah. So they have the microphone set up, the TV's in front of them so they can like, you know, match the VO to the actual character animation. And one question I asked, which was, does Kojima like direct all of these sessions? He's like, yeah, every single session that is like a cutscene or whatever.

Like, he said later that day they're going to have Japanese voice actors come through, like at 4 p.m. You know, it was one. It should have been there too. But, you know, but, uh, oh, yeah, we were supposed to have them right now. Yeah, exactly. We kicked them out. But yeah, no, they, uh, they, he directs them all, which is awesome, which is super cool. And that's, that's, that just shows how much she's working. Yeah.

So we went from this room into, I think the editing bay was after this or was in the no cap room. No, that we went into the, yeah, we went into the mixing room where they mix all the audio. And then that, that was the moment I didn't record because we walked in. He was like, hey, we're going to show you something. I was like, shit. Oh yeah, no. So it's the...

Wait, oh, you didn't record this room? No, well, no, I showed a little bit of it. You'll see a little bit. But, like, yeah, I turn it off because I didn't want to be disrespectful. And also, like, I asked like, hey, when can I record? When can I not record? He just never told me.

So I was just like, okay, I just want to be respectful and everything. I believe they posted this room on Twitter. Like, if people would recognize it if we described it, right? Like, yeah, it is like the mixing room. It has a big screen in it. And then, like, a bunch of just, like, mixing equipment. And it looks super just expensive. Yes.

But like, yeah, they set us down and they're like, hey, we want to show you something from an upcoming game. And I was like, oh shit, it's the moment. Yeah, we're like, oh, me and Roger are going to see, like, never before seen footage. And so we sit down and they play like the game awards trailer for OD, the one that we got

already, which is still fucking cool. It was awesome. It was awesome hearing it all, but it was still like, I was ready for it and I was like, it's cool. It's still fucking cool to see that trailer in that setting. It's the one with Hunter Schaefer and like, she's looking at the camera and like saying all the random ass words.

And like, we're like blown away just for like, you know, seeing it in that environment. I ask, I'm like, yo, like, so what's up with this,

like, CG? This is like, super realistic CG. Is this state of the art? Like, is this, like, the best in the industry? And he's like,

see, he's like, actually, it is not CG. Like, this is live action footage. We were actually caught by surprise that a lot of people who watched this thought it was CG.

This is all live action to kind of portray that like, we're doing, like, we're doing this in like a very, um, I guess like high deaf mocap fashion, which is why Hunter, and I forget,

naming the other actor that's in it, where saying the words that they were saying, because those are just like VO, like, those are like VO mocap, like test words or practices. Exercises, yeah. Calibrations and things. And I don't know if that's like public. I don't know if people realize that. I don't know if that's a thing that people have debunked yet online of like, was the CD here or not. But yeah, he was like, no, this is not CG.

This is like live act and stuff, which is really interesting. So then, and then really quick when we're talking about that, that, that soon be finished the OD thing. I caught like a little bit of that. So we can play that in a second. but he said, Aki looks at us and says, so like Greg on your team, he was the one that predicted the thing

so we can roll the little clip. It's a fraction of it. Yeah. Yeah. That was Greg on our team. And we didn't tell Greg at all. No. No.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. When everybody tried to take it. Everyone tried to take it away from me. That sounded amazing. That was incredible. Yeah, but so it is confirmed. It is confirmed that Greg did not know. Thank you for setting the record straight out.

Greg did not know. Justin, just the studio part was really interesting to me, But were there towels over the stands there? Did you see that? Was it like covering up like scripts maybe? Oh, maybe. Maybe just like temperature controlling things. Oh, a bunch of PS5.

Yeah, I bet so. Something's top secret. It's funny. Kojima posted a thing a few days ago and people were like, is he covering a PS5 Pro? And so maybe, yeah, maybe tower covers. I think I should have missed some scripts or something. No, no, no, no. In my limited VO experience, I've seen that before.

It's still, you put it on there. way it doesn't reverberate back off. Oh, okay. So it's just there to sound. Okay, that makes sense. Okay. If you get sweaty. Mm-hmm.

And then, this is my favorite segment of the video, which is Blessing, you want to, well, no, I just want to preface that,

like, we're gonna have Mountain Dew? I was holding his Mountain Dew the entire tour. Yes, because there are no trash cans. So everybody, this is the best part

where Blessing is holding this fucking Mountain Dew the entire time. And this is me capturing, me trying to pretend that I'm capturing the thing I'm capturing

his Mountain Dew. Of course. I know exactly what's up. He's just holding in the entire label out like it's an ad walking around with this Mountain Dew. It was a good Mountain Dew. Was it different?

No, it was the exact same. So then I believe after this there should be a cut. Yes, turn on the audio, please if you can. Go back a little bit. I was looking, I was looking so hard for a trash can. Are you looking at trash cans?

Oh, we'll go back to the... Oh. They caught him trying to throw it away! So sneaky about throwing away this Mountain Dew? No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't do that. don't do that. It looked like we were all supposed to throw it. I don't know.

Carrey or trash with you. That's a Japanese thing. Just walking around with this mountain do with the entire time. So I mean, who's worse, right? Maybe Roger did get us a little early to the studio, but also maybe blessing walking around with the mountain do. Rodger keeps deflecting. There it is. So then we're waiting around and we're waiting for this for Hideo to come through. It's like still in the air if he's going to come through. Yeah, we're like, he's like, all right, you know, brings us back to the cafeteria and he's like, all right, let me go check on Kojima to see, like, you know, where he's at in his meetings.

So he leaves, he comes back, you know, we're chilling for a little bit. And then the way that I can describe it, I don't know if you guys are going to get this reference, but like, there's a scene in SpongeBob where a dude, like, walks into the crusty crab, and he, like, swings the door open. He's like, rev up those friars. That's the exact way, yeah, put it in assets. It's the exact way Kojima busts into the door. Like, the door swing open, me, Roger Lehance, look, and we're like, oh, it's Kojima.

Like, he kind of came out of nowhere. But it's like, bang. He's like, boom, energy. Yeah. Who's here early? I put it into assets really quick. To be clear, rip up those friars. Yeah.

That's the exact energy. Did it feel that way to you or was that the energy? No, that's what happened. That's the exact energy. Yeah, he walks in with not an antroch, but one other person, but it just felt like, boom. Like, he's the most important man in the room. He knows it. We're going.

Yeah. So he comes in and then I think we're all like kind of a little bit starstruck in the moment Yeah, yeah. It was like the first time I was like aside from being late and being on the phone call and realizing we're late. It was the first time I was like, oh, I'm like a little bit nervous like this is. Oh, really? This is, oh yeah, this is Hideo Kojima. I told you on the way there. I was like, you know how George Miller like Kojima has mentioned George Miller is God? Kojima is my George Miller, right? Like I look at that I look up to that man. That man has made some of my favorite fiction ever. Right? And so like, I'm like, oh, that's him. Like, I can't believe that's Kojima. This is your first time meeting him. It's my first time meeting. It's my first time, I think, seeing him unless maybe I saw my game awards or something on stage. First time meeting him for sure.

And, yeah, like, he comes up and, you know, we're like, we start talking. We start talking. I can't remember the first things we said. Yeah, so it was very much like, oh, hi, hi, nice to meet you. Like that type of thing. I get the camera really quick for Lanz and record. And I think you can just play it. We're just going to be playing it with audio and then we'll be pausing during moments.

So, yeah, this is just kind of the entire experience from start to finish. It's cool. He was cool with, okay, with, like, we're filming that. That's awesome. Yeah, I mean, no one said no. I will say the camera we had was very low-key, and so it's a problem. Maybe they didn't see it. Yeah, right. It's that low-key. Here we weren't just the MetaQuest glasses.

Yeah, there was a moment really quick where, like, I was talking, where Aki, again, didn't tell me to, like, stop recording or anything. But I usually wanted to make sure he knew I was recording, so I kind of put the camera right in his face. And he just chilled with it. So, yeah, so I think it's good. Cool. We wanted to give you a gift. It is all of our favorite pieces of media. And we wrote a little.

notes for you? I need a table. You can pause here. What's funny is that I watch so many culture videos and like when you're traveling to Japan for the first time videos, things to know. And like when I tell you, I

were prepared in terms of like all the YouTube videos I watch. But then one of the things that one of the videos told me was like when you give somebody a gift in Japan, they won't open it in front of you, they'll take it home. And so I was like, I was like, oh, okay, we're going to give this gift to Gojima and he'll open it elsewhere. When I tell you that, when Kojima was like, oh, let's open this.

I was like, oh, you're like, oh, all right. And if you want to go back five seconds, you don't need to put up the audio, but just like looking at Roger, right? Like, let's just go into the mind of Roger, right? Roger's trying to represent kind of funny in the correct fashion, right? I'm trying to do the right. Hey, it's time for the speech, right? Hey, I've been practicing this.

Hey, Kojima, this is all of our favorite media. He picks up, oh, it's heavy, it's heavy. Let's go, let's go, let's go move. I'm just like, okay, okay, okay, I guess we're like, I'm reset it. Reset the speech. Oh my gosh. We're doing it. Yeah, and I'm just like, oh, okay, okay, so we go over here.

We can put the audio on now, and he starts opening up everything. Wow. Getting the camera reset, everybody. Are you going to shoot the media? Yeah. It's important right here. No. There is.

They pulls out the sweatshirt first. Crap. Crap and crap. Kind of funny sweatshirt. Put that aside real quick Stop The first thing you get is the product placement from my hands up Oh my god

And they're explaining what the eye hair The under eye thing He's like what you try to say some of my eyes I love it So this is All of our favorite albums and movies We wrote little notes for you He's looking at tone-d-off.

Oh, that's awesome. Oh, that's awesome. I'm on Gucci. Oh, it's up! Yeah! Let's go! So, he got really excited about challenges. Nice.

He saw it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh. This is one of the classicest, this is one of the classicest movies. That's hard. He said, he's one of the classicists.

Yes! He doesn't know it? He doesn't know it? Yeah! Fuck yeah! No, didn't he say yours was one of the classics? To die hard, and then he's looking, and he said he doesn't know colors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He crushed it. Like that guy like Frozen Empire, get this out of it. Oh, okay, pause, pause, pause, pause.

So now this is the moment where shit, this is the, this is the, this is the, this is the, this is the, this is, this is the, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is. This is the crossroads moment, right, for Roger, where I completely forgot about Mike's gift until that moment. And it's like, it's funny because I was waiting for it the entire time. I was like, when's he going to get? I completely forgot and he picked it up and it was like, okay, how do I explain Snowbike Mike, this video, the quality of this video in one sentence, right? Like, it's going to be translated. And I think I do a-work with an idiot. Exactly.

I think I did like a decent enough job. If you watch it really quick. Co-workers, he is a, he once did extreme sports. So he made a DVD for him. Watch this. Watch this. Yeah! Yeah!

It's a crazy. Really? You asked crush to this. This is amazing. Kevin. Yeah. Kevin. Oh my god.

Kind of Pany in the part of there are, you know, many, many, and then Greg Miller wrote a book, a child's book. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, okay.

Oh, okay? How is Greg? Is he okay? Yeah, he's doing great. He's doing really nice. He's very busy with the child. Yeah. Why is he not here?

Physically, you know, condition was like, for a moment. my cancer yeah yeah yeah yeah we had to let him know that that was like a decade ago yeah yeah I was like how you cut him before like oh he's been milking cancer he's not looking so good he's about to tap out

so that was that was it that was giving the gifts incredible oh I think I cut it so there was a part afterwards right where he's looking back through the gifts right and this is going to set up the next part of this whole conversation is he's looking through the gifts and he picks up the Caroline Polichick album

desire I wanted to you or whatever. And to even preface this, as we're picking our gifts for Kojima, right? Like, Roger in the studio, right, has, like, looked back at me from his desk and it's like, dude, I'm gonna, I want to give him this Carolyn Polichick album. Yeah.

I think he's gonna be, I think she's gonna be his next muse, right? Like, I think, I'm a big fan of her. I think Kojima's gonna fuck with her. I think Kojima could even put her in the next game. Like, Roger is like trying to speak into existence, all these things he wants to happen off of like, him getting this gift. But it's like one of those things where, you know,

I think we were, we were, doing a lot of dreaming during this trip. Yes. That was like one of the dreams. I think another one of our dreams is like, what if Kojima posts us? Like one of the celebrities he meets. And it's like,

it's one of those things that we say. And we're like, ah, that's not going to happen though. So good. Right? So fast forward, right?

Kevin has brought up the tweet from Kojima that he took with us, which was like, again, we took the picture. And there's so many, there's so many cool interactions we had in this moment. One of the ones was us taking the picture with Kojima.

And then, um, them asking us like, oh, uh, Kogimo wants to know if it's okay if you post this. And we're like,

uh, yeah. Excuse me? Yes. Like, of course, yes. Uh,

if you want to, I was so, for me, like, stoked to see this because it was like, I woke up the next morning because it was just a Japan time.

And it was the first, I saw it all over my feet. I was like, oh my God. I'm so glad. Yeah. Because I had forgotten even what day the trip was or what the visit was,

and then to see him post and see everything about it. So surprising lack of mountain dew in that photo. Oh, yeah. But I let you slide. You can't see Bless his right hand and he's holding

behind. It's in there. And then I just want to show everybody this photo because this is the photo of just us before I pulled in Lianza and just

just blessing just fucking just I'll cloud a thousand look at them. It's the biceps, you know? It's like I can't put my arms down. It's also one of those things

where I don't know I pulls weird when I'm nervous. I get it. I just want to give you shit. I thought it was funny. But the moment before that I was talking about

was that he's looking through the gifts one more time and then he picked up the Caroline album and I knew in my heart like he's going to love this album so I look at him and I say Kojima I think you would really specifically like this one he picks it up looks at it kind of puts it aside like done to like lightly acknowledges it and I'm like that's the end of it at least I tried right so then if you could pull up the next tweet the day after I see this which it's him listening to the album and he posts it my god and I'm like this is my win this is the win

like he's he knows her he's listening to her he knows she exists this is all I need right like Awesome. I'm freaking out. This is all the confirmation. And then two days ago, last night, I don't know, time is fucking yesterday. I can't, I can't tell anymore. 2.30 a.m. He posts this. He writes, last year I was curious about Caroline Polichek's album, Desire I Want to Turn Into You. I never got around to listening to it, but kind of Funnies, Roger gave me this CD as a birthday present the other day. Since then, I've been listening to it on repeat. It's great. I liked it so much that I

bought her previous album, Peng. Let's massive dope Let's go Let's go Dude Wow It's not the lock anymore

It's the tastemaker Let's go The taste maker The taste maker I love it Rodger also pointed out That like They follow each other

Cojima's been liking her tweets as well Yes Well Go ahead It's your story Oh no I was just gonna say

Like it was incredible So the last tweet Before that when he posts Good Morning Right So Caroline Quitted

For the first time Since May And she replied to him In Japanese saying You know Good morning as well And

they followed each other and then that happened. So like, yeah. So then, yeah, the follow. The dot connector. I know. God, dude. Yesterday he puts out that tweet, but then he also Instagram posts it.

And then she put it in her story, her astonishment that he was doing it. So it's like, you're doing it. She's going to be in depth training too. And this is the full circle fucking moment, everybody, that someone responded with.

And I haven't been able to find the exact message or like the actual thread that's on Instagram so you can't actually search comments. And this happened a long time ago, but it was definitely during her first album, Pang, during like maybe an AMA of sorts. I remember seeing this.

So I know this is a real thing. If you want to pull that up, Kevin, this is, yeah, so it says, someone asked her, what are some of your favorite video games? What kind of games are you most drawn to? She says, not a gamer, but I love the way return of the Oberdin looks.

Someone asks her about Ocarat of time, and then she responds, it's cutting it off for the viewers, Kevin. But she wrote, yeah, definitely it would be an absolute dream to compose themes for Hideo, Cajima.

It is Circle. It is an honor because I'm a massive Caroline Polachuk. Tell me a little bit about it. So she is an incredible artist. She is a pop musician. Her voice is, she's able to modulate it in ways that I can't even describe. Everyone should listen to Caroline Polichick

and watch her videos because she has such an eye for video production and her music videos are just on another level. What's the go-to album? I would say Desire I want to turn into you, which is the newest album that I gave to him. But also genuinely, and this is gaming the system. right? Because I'm like, I know I'm giving him this album, right? And I'm like, what is, because she is, she looks like a fucking model. Like, she is like someone he would scan immediately. And I was like, which album cover has her more in it? Right? So like, I chose that one specifically because I'm like, I know that that one, he's going to look at that and be like, oh, that's someone I want to scan. That's someone I want in my games. But yeah, no, she is an incredible artist. And it's, it's truly an honor to like be able to make any type of small dream for hers come true potentially. Like, I think it's going to happen. I think it's going to happen. I think it's.

going to happen where we're going to see in the next few months. She loves going to Japan. She loves Japanese culture. I believe she lived in Japan for a little bit. So like, she's going to be there. They're going to take the photo together. And I wrote in my message to Kojima, I said, in parentheses, like she would make a great theme song for OD specifically. So like, I hope

it happens and that would be incredible. I freaking love it. That's for us. A little special thanks in the credits. That's all you need. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. And thanks Roger. Thanks for the connection. Kind of funny in all caps, Roger. If we can go back a little bit, all that was

cool. It was a great conversation. But there's a picture I think when you guys got the full shot. I wanted to see what his sneakers were. I wanted to see the kick game. So if we can go back a little bit to that full shot, I was trying to see him. It went pretty fast. As they're pulling that up, right? Some moments

I want to highlight when, uh, Kizuma like picked up challenges or whatever, right? And like was looking at it. Um, you know, Akie was doing translating. And one of the things Aki mentioned was like, oh yeah, like, Kajima decided his friend, his friend, Trent does the soundtrack.

Oh my God. In my head, I'm like, Trent Resner. He was friend, Trent Resner. Oh, look at these kids. Oh, my gosh. Holy shit. You guys didn't notice these are two songs.

No, completely. Some Andy Cortez shoes right there. I also just want to acknowledge Kojima's energy is immaculate. Yes. Like, he was so chill. He was so cool. He had like, he had a sense of humor

to him, but I couldn't tell if, like, like this sense of humor was like if he if he knew he was as funny as he is because like one of the things that I'll tell him the final thing that we left off with right where you know we're saying our goodbyes they're handing us like these fun like gift packages to take on. How long did you

hang out with him? Only like what 10 minutes yeah that video was like four minutes maybe another four minutes yeah about 10 minutes yeah and so it was pretty quick but like in that in that you know in that 10 minutes right like he's very friendly he's very accommodating who's very nice and like um yeah as we're saying goodbyes

the Aki and Kujima said something and Aki like He turns to us And he's like Oh Mr.

Guima would like to ask you guys Like how long are you guys in town for Like when do you guys leave And me and Roger And internally Like I didn't both have the same We looked at each other We knew

We're like Cojima wants to hang out Like easy Cojima was gonna ask He was gonna ask He was wondering if you could pick up his dry party And so we're like

Oh you know We're in town for about like Four more days We leave on a Saturday evening And uh, Kajima says something and Aki's like, okay,

well, uh, Kajima says that there is a typhoon coming. So be safe out there. Oh. Oh. It was just the most humbling moment. He was like,

he immediately inflates a fucking life preserver and gets on a helicopter. He's like, oh, the whole time me and Roger Radford's are like, does he know how funny is? Does he realize how funny?

The best part about that was that, you know, we didn't show it on our face. Always hopefully we didn't show it on our face. faces. But like afterwards, I thought it was just a me thing, right? That I thought, oh, it's just like, I got my expectations too high. And then Blessing looked at me. He's like, no, I felt the same exact thing. I thought we were hanging out with Hoccius. I love it. The way he asked, I was like, we're hanging out with Kojima Friday night. Let's fucking go. This can be lit.

Him and Guillermo are drinking their faces off. I want to know if you want to come with them. Insane. I had a moment like that. I met a Kijianna Fune in Japan. I went out there. The guy who created Mega Man. He's like, like, my guy. So, like, just having a moment like that was kind of similar. We were finishing up and he's like, you know, thanks for everything, you know, go ahead. He's like, he said, like, are you hungry? Are you guys hungry?

And I was like, we could eat. And he was like, my favorite curry spot is right down the street. I love to are you hungry though. He could have just been like, oh, it's a good curry spot down there. They're just like, are you hungry? Okay. It's so funny. Yeah, and it was also, I think that it was good.

We had curry. I think the reason why we were like all hyped up, we're like, oh, maybe this might happen. Because right before that, he was telling the story about how Hunter Schaefer came through, and it was, like, really late. So then they, like, ordered, they got, like, their favorite sushi chef to come through and do a private dinner and everything. So I was like, oh, shit, like, you know what up?

What if? What if? No, no. It was great, though. So talk to me about then, so where's the recap after this? Is it right into the Uber or do you go somewhere and just, like, take that breath? We went to the, there was a cafe on the bottom floor that we sat down and, like, yeah, we took the breath and, like, drank tea or just, like,

about every single thing that just happened. When I tell you that, like, I was like, this is one of my favorite experiences I ever had in my life, right? Like, it was one of the coolest things possible to happen to me. And yeah, I think we all felt the same way of like, yo, this was crazy. And it happened beat for beat the exact way we wanted it. Yep.

So yeah, we definitely took a second. Except for being an hour early. That was fine. Which ended up being very okay, right? Like it ended up working out the exact way we wanted it to. And honestly, it added to the story because we were like, how insane is it that we got there an hour early? Better than an hour late for sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. but I know we hung out there and we just kind of like I didn't even take out the camera because I was like we just got to talk we just got to like talk as a family right now we've like we experienced that we all experience and then we him and I would just blessing and I would just look at each other the rest of the day and I'd just be like that was crazy I would just start laughing and be like is the typhoon thing

I'm like yeah it's the typhoon thing the typhoon thing killed us there was another one where like we kept we were talking to Thaki I think before even Kojima came out and where we were like I think we were talking about Greg or we were talking about like you know oh yes

yeah we're like oh yeah like does is is cojima like expecting us as he knows he knows it's not Greg and he's like oh yeah like when he said kind of funny

you know I think he was expecting Greg but you know we keep reminding I was very clear in the emails that I wasn't coming yeah yeah

I think he said until even that morning he thought that Greg was going through yeah we heard his house better and then I forget

how he said because there's a quote that he said I forget how he got there with what the of like the yeah oh shit

oh yeah you look looked at me and then you said, oh, you said, Roger, oh, you're making the joke of like, oh, when he comes out, he's going to look at me and then say, oh, you lost a lot of weight. Oh, yes, yes. Yeah, like, we were like, oh, he's going to come out and think Rogers, Greg, and be like, oh, yeah, he lost a lot of weight. And then, okay, he's like, yeah, we just got to keep, like, you know, reinforcing that, like,

it's not Greg. And, like, we're like, oh, yeah, you got to be like, the bigger one or whatever. Like, we were like, kind of like, how can you describe Greg to do Okajima, where America's coming. And we're just fucking like, again, Aki's so chill. That's my guy.

Yeah, it was an amazing experience. They rolled out the red carpet. They stopped what they were doing in the moment. It was super sweet. And yeah, it was just, it was an incredible experience. We thank you both for allowing us to have that.

Oh, no. That was awesome. I have two questions. So I know this isn't the question. This is more of a statement of content. We're doing the Astrobot stuff you did later. Obviously, the game's not out. That's the whole thing there.

But you had said, I believe that the original plan, at one point was to go do the Astrobat stuff and then drink till the sun came up. Did that happen? No, the typhoon. The typhoon came and ruined it. Kojima warned us about the typhoon.

Yeah, no, that night, we're prepared. We're ready to do it. We went there. It was Thursday night. I was telling you, I was telling you other people to do. Golden guy. Like literally every single person I asked was like Golden guy, Golden guy, golden guy.

And so Thursday evening. And if you're not familiar with Golden Guy, sorry to cut you off. It's a district there in Japan made up of like these micro bars of people who have like retrofitted homes and things like that. So you walk in and it's literally a bar that has four seats or something like that. It's incredibly

intimate and I want to say there's hundreds of them. I forget what the actual number is. It's a lot. We were literally on our way. Like we were like, all right, let's go to the train. We're going to push through. We're going to do it. And then it starts raining and like on our way we're like, I was like, I need different shoes. Because I was wearing shoes that were not built for the rain because I wasn't expecting

it on that level. And so like, I'm wearing the shoes I'm wearing right now, which are like basically sponges. And so at a certain point my feet were soaked. And we were like, okay, let me drop by the store, get some shoes. We came out and like, it started raining even more to the point where we were like,

damn, this is crazy. Yeah, I got scared pretty fast. And Roger's like, and like, and I didn't, actually, I didn't even find the shoes I was looking for. Like, we were like, whatever, we'll find another place to get shoes, whatever. And then like, as we're walking, it starts rain to a point where Roger's like, what if we just got these shoes and went home? And I was like, Roger, I don't even need the shoes. Let's just go.

Let's go home. And so sadly, we weren't able making it out to a golden guy that night. And then the next day, um, we ended up, it was funny, like we had plans to like go to Akihabra do all these things.

I ended up waking up super early. And I was like, you know what, man? Like, I'm gonna do a solo adventure and let Roger and Lianza do like a couple's day out. And like, we both actually went to Ocogahara and did our own.

It was met up. Yeah. We were like, buy an egg sandwich. It's so funny. We were both in Akehara did not meet up. We were like doing our own thing. Met a kind of funny best friend.

Oh yeah. Yeah. I was in, I was in Super Potato at the top floor and then someone walked up to me and was like, hey, are you, Roger from kind of funny? I looked at him, I was like, this is the first time I've ever been recognized, period, in public, and it's in Japan. That's so wild.

So, Super Potato, amazing. Amazing. Really, really, really. Do they have any Neo Geos in there? They had everything. They had everything in there. Really enjoyed that. Tell me a little bit about that.

Yeah. Because I didn't know your experience of Super Potato. Oh, yeah. Super Potato, like, it was my favorite place, Nocker. I will say overall, I feel like, not I was overhyped. I feel like I was wrongly hyped for Akihabra as a whole. Really? Because it felt like, I mean, it was just a bunch of like tech shops and video game stores

and all these things. And I feel like if I'm not somebody who's a collector necessarily, I feel like I'm not really a physical person anymore. And so it was one of those things where I was like, all right, cool. Like I'm looking at a bunch of games, but I can't really do much with this. And a lot of the games weren't even like retro stuff until I got to Super Potato,

which had everything. And like it almost felt like I was stepping into a different time, stepping into Super Potato where I walk in. First thing I see is a, what do they call it? The square TVs, old TVs. CRT TV with like Mario demo VHS playing on it. You know, I'm looking around

just a bunch of like Nintendo like old school Nintendo stuff all Japanese. So I'm like looking at all this stuff. Every floor is like a different console too. So I go from like nerding out over Nintendo stuff and being like, oh, I guess I don't have PlayStation stuff. And then I look at the stairs and the stairs are pointing up towards PlayStation. Oh there is. But the stairs are pointing up towards PlayStation.

I walk up and I'm like looking at all this cool PlayStation stuff. I'm like looking at like old school PSP stuff. I see like a Peace Walker, like a Japanese copy of Peace Walker. I take a picture. I send a Greg. But yeah, like, my favorite thing,

everything's there. Was the exact same experience I had, which is I'm looking at a copy of Pokemon Green. Oh, yes. This feels... That was even at a different place. Yeah, Pokemon Green wasn't even at Super Potato. Well, they probably actually do have it,

but I saw... I bought Pokemon Green at Super Potato. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I was like, man, I've heard the legends. I can't see it in person I can't believe Pokemon Green is real Um I realized you asked me if I wanted anything And I didn't think until afterwards

I was like I want a copy of dokey dokey panic Oh Which I've never even seen it But I should Google it We could have made that happen Yeah that'll be my next next trip For me Akihabra was was exactly I felt the same way of like it was like wrongly hyped

But it was a great time It was a good thing is I went to like I forget the name of the story It was like Bick something It was like the big like Big camera. Bit camera. Yeah, yeah.

Which was like, I didn't even go there. Best Buy. Yeah, yeah. I went and I was like, oh, this is Best Buy. Yeah, yeah. Put it's a bunch of text.

For me, I'm more motivated for less of the super potato side of things, but more of like finding the weird niche like deals. So I went to a book off, which is a chain of thrift stores essentially that have a bunch of DVDs and stuff. I got everyone, a personalized DVD from Japan, which was sick. And then just like,

Yeah, of course. Yeah. I sometimes thought I got to get it. But Tim, that was hard for you because there were so many Tim movies. Right. There was so many Fast.

So much bullshit. Oh, and the fast and furious I'll have fun names. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like crazy, like Arctic Storm and whatever. Yeah, they're the fast. Oh shit,

there was one was just fast and too fast and furious. And on this, it was normal, but on the side it said, um, the, uh, Paul Walker Tyrese experience or something like that.

And I was like, fuck, I might have to get this, but it was all in English, but it was like, I don't love it. But yeah, no,

that's, that was the exciting part for me. It was like digging through crates of things and trying to find like, I found a copy of Yakuza Zero pretty much new for like 10 bucks. And I was like, that was my only disappointment for this trip. It's like, there's no like a dragon or yakuza merch anywhere, period, end of story. Like there's, apparently this game is extremely popular, but no one makes any merch and there's nothing anywhere. I, like, I hit up my friends.

I was like, all right, like, what do you guys want? I hit up Belinda Yusuf and I was like, hey, what are, like, your favorite Pokemon, right? And Yusuf's like, oh, I like Gangar. Or not Gengar. He's like, I like, hauntar. He's like, I like, hauntar. And when I tell you, they're like, man, I learned about Pokemon favoritism because there's zero haunter things. Zero Hunter, a billion gang-garde merchandise.

And I was like, dude, I'm sorry, I can't find anything for you. Went to Don Quixote. I liked it. Like, a lot of people were like, oh, it's two or see, it's whatever, which it is. But it was still fun to, like, explore all the floors. That was the one in Akihabra. And I also went to the one that's in Shibuya as well. Went to, went to like multiple Pokemon centers.

That was really cool. Went to the top of the-sum-U-2. Sawm U-2 in Shibuya at the top floor. I forget the name of the mall that we went to. But like, it's like a Nintendo Store. ride across from the Pokemon Center in the same place as like the jump store and also a Capcom store

all in one incredible. And so that was fucking cool. Let me tell you what, what a fucking disappointment go to the Capcom store. What is about to release from Capcom? Nobody cares about that. Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster? You don't have anything? You have nothing. Nothing? Come on. Come on, guys. Figure it out.

Japan. Yeah, that Capcom store was lacking overall because there wasn't that much street fighter stuff I felt. It was like Street Fighter, Dead Rising Deluxe remaster, same deal. Same level. Same level. Also, I don't know if you experienced this

because we had a very separate experiences in the hockey opera. A lot of porn. Oh, yeah. I'll just like, walk up to a floor and I'm like, oh, oh, I know, just a lot of porn here. Tell me what you told us.

You walked up there and then you looked at and he said, well, I'm already here. You know what I'm like, you know? Well, listen, when you're at home, that's why I came home with that big suitcase. It was funny because we went to, I think it was Super Potato in like every floor, different consoles or generation or whatever.

And then like down the block, there was this like porn shop. And I'm like, well, we got to check this out. And it was the exact same thing. But it was just every floor was like different genres. We might have went to the same one. Probably. Because the one I went to was like the first floor was like anime merchandise.

And I was like, oh, cool. Let me see what else is there. Porn, porn. The gradual rise. Every other floor is porn. Or every single floor is porn except for the first one. I might have been in that one too. They had a layout of all of us

We all just found ourselves lost in there We just found ourselves lost in there I don't know Yeah they had a ton of like toys That you could press a button And watch them go They're like all right I remember filming it

Like what kind of toys Like sexual toys Oh okay cool Yeah and you press it And you're like All right this one has the pump action This one has three finger action This one has five finger action

Like you're just going up And I'm like My God this is out of control But I'm like let me press it And just see what it does You can just It's got demos, you know. A little demos. I love that.

So good. Yeah, I know. It was a great time. I couldn't get Roger and Leanza to come with me to the SpongeBob Cafe. No. No. After I heard him getting ripped off for $40 for two whiskeys, I was like, I'm going to hold on those two whiskeys and good conversation. That's true, actually.

You can't put a price on that. Can't put a price on that. We have some super chats I'd like to get to before we wrap the show up here. Street Shadow writes insane. I hope you had fun in Japan. I go often for work. I'm actually worked near the Kojima and Sony headquarters. I want to say if you ever go back, check out Soul Food House. It's a black-owned business in TK in Tokyo.

So good. That sounds awesome. Putting it down. Guitar Hero, a little off topic here, but saying this weekend I added the most shameful completion yet to my PSN profile. The skull and bones platinum is now mine. Here's to hours of KF Gamescast that got me through it. Thank you for listening.

I'm sorry you did that. I want to know how long that takes. I'm going to go to PSN profile, see how many people have that. Then Devante writes the question Everyone's been asking Did Kojima scan Roger and bless? And that was the heartbreaking thing We saw it, they showed us the scanning room

And they said, we don't use this anymore Then we said we use this This is outdated hardware, it's 10 years old We actually use this for like Random like objects Yeah, like a scandal or whatever They want to scan a shoe or like an umbrella Or something

They still have to remake it Like they use it as like the basis of it But they like remake it afterwards Yeah it's heartbreaking And they said they do it in a different place now, a different country. So it's like, damn, I was ready to get scan, bro. I was wearing my scan outfit. You, they say that to some of the guests.

It's like a fucking ice cream machine. It's like, they say that to us. And there's another hidden. We like walked out to be in a carpenter in a mocap suit. That's so, so funny. All right, well, what a fun episode. Thank you all for giving us these fun stories. I'm happy you had as much fun as we hoped that you would.

Megaran, thank you for joining us as well. Again, happy birthday. Happy birthday. Let's get you here. Where can people find you? And what do you want them to support right now? Oh my gosh. Well, I'm on Patreon.

I do two songs a month, different tracks that I'm working on, Instrumentals. I have a children's album that is out now. Dedicate to my new little boy who's about to be three. Crazy. And, yeah, I'm just flying. I am on tour. I am playing the night in San Francisco and then going to the East Coast to play with the

Cybertronic Spree. I don't know if you've heard of these guys. Yes, that is amazing. This is a band that dresses up in full Transformers cosplay, and it is the most elaborate. Like, they look like Transformers. Oh, it's sick. They go so fucking hard.

That is awesome, dude. It's so sick. So, yes, I'll be on the East Coast with them all this week. You can get tickets and all that stuff at megaran.com slash shows. We've watched them on Inner Explorers, y'all. These people are legendary. That's awesome. You're about to have so much fun.

Yeah, check out all that stuff. And yeah, we're about to have even more fun here. Thank you. Yeah. She's so freaking cool, dude. And they rock. They fucking rock. Like, they're so sick.

Anyways, stay hanging out if you're on Twitch. We're about to do a fun, a little game stream. If you're on YouTube, you need to jump over to the other link. But either way, we love, we appreciate you. Let us know in the comments below how excited you are for the Kojima experience that Bless and Roger got to have. But until next time, I love you all. Goodbye.