Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - How Much Do You Know the MCU? - Nick Scarpino's Game Showdown Ep. 1

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

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Today, we're playing Kind of Futey in the MCU. Get ready for Game Showdown. Even better. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to Game Showdown, Nick Style. I'm your host, Nick Scarpino. And today we are going to be kicking off a four-week-long game showdown movie edition from the mind of Nick Scarpino. And honestly, half of the mind of Roger Piccordy.

Because we locked ourselves in a conference room for a solid two hours and giggled to the point where Joey Noel came in, knocked on the door and said, Are you both okay? Is there enough oxygen in this room? And I said, no, Roger, there's not enough oxygen in this room for both of our egos. That's why we're in the studio, ladies and gentlemen, today. I am joined by our three contestants. Blessing Adioia, Jr. I got a blue buzzer in front of me and a Coca-Cola.

I'm ready for this. I'm ready for today. The nitro rifle Cortez on pink. Nick, I'm, uh, it's purple. Um, but, you know, I'm really happy that they're giving you more to do around here. That's nice. It's nice. Yeah. It's way, you know, I was fine with one day a week of work.

I think you're being under you list. Thanks, Andy. I appreciate that. I think we should. We should start playing right now. Get your steam deck out. And of course, rounding out the team, the man who loves blue on orange. Oh, man. That's a shame.

That's a shame. You're always having you at the table playing with us because normally you're over there. You know, normally we have to give you. There has to be a line between us and damn and the whole thing. You're one of us now, but you're taking the blue. It does something to you. I can't lie. It's kind of tough to hear you all the way from that orange fucking buzzer.

I know. Yuck. I am excited about this. I'm also excited about the fact that right before we went live, Nick was like, oh, man, you guys were strapped in. It's the topic we don't normally cover. And then he starts in his MCU. I was stressing. I was like, unless there's some bullshit to come.

Who the hell knows with this show? I'm not with Nick. Hoping it wasn't geography. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No, of course, ladies and gentlemen, guys, this is all about movies. This is all about from my mind. So we're starting off with infamiliar territory.

Okay, of course, we're going to start off with a trivia question worth 10 points and the chance to be the first in kind of feudy. You're going to buzz in to answer. I forgot that we did this. It's stressful, isn't it? Yeah, it's kind of crazy thing on this side. Here's the opening question, ladies and gentlemen. In Iron Man won during the final act, Tony Stark's best friend James Rhodes looks over at a silver Iron Man suit and proclaiming. next time, baby.

Tim Gettys. Tim, what's your answer? What's your answer? It was going to be next time, baby. There, of course, was not a next time as he was recast in the sequel by Don Sheetle. Made the actor who played the original, for Christ's sake. Oh, dang it. Territower.

Territower is correct. I should have waited. All right. Well, there you go. Blessing gets a chance to do the first round of kind of feudy. But let me tell you guys about what we're going to do this. Does he or do I? No, Andy got it. Oh, Andy. I'm sorry. Sorry, Blessing, you do not do it. Unfortunately. It was so chaotic right now. I've lost. We should start over.

This is Game Showdown. Nick Scarpino takeover a four-week tournament that will test the KF Cruz knowledge of movies and more importantly me, Nick Scarpino. Everyone is competing for the grand prize of this trophy and a $25 gift card to Outback's take. That might gave to Roger that Roger does not want. Oh, okay. The trophy is amazing. Of course, this is the Johnny is trophy. Beautiful. That was made by C.J. Roth.

Thank you, C.J. Roth. We appreciate that. Barrett, can we take a look at the bracket? This will be a bracketed tournament. Here we are right now. Oh, wow. Here are the teams, yes. So it's going to be bracketed.

So whoever wins this is going to move on to the final round. And then we're going to have, uh, 20 or $25 on that card. I believe it's $25, Tim. Hell yeah. Who's Josh? Josh McCooka will be competing with us. I was like, when did we hire a job? We have not. We have not. He's coming out for this.

We're going to go final one. If you allow what we do, support us over with the kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube and get all our shows ad free. Watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, and Megalbuster and Delaney, the Somm twining. Yeah, that's a new thing now. Wow, I didn't know that. The Somali. Oh, he's a Somalier.

Yeah. That's super fun. I'm like 99% sure. I wasn't sure how to pronounce that. Yeah. I don't know about SOM, SOM. Somme. The sun.

It needs an umla. A little thing. Anyway, but for now, let's play Catna Futey. It's so satisfying seeing somebody else at my marks so well. You're killing it, Nick. Thank you.

I learned from the best. The rules are simple. I've surveyed over 1,200 members of the kind of funny audience on a number of prompts each round. I'm going to read you a prompt and we'll ask each of you which answer you think

the kind of funny best friends gave the most. I've narrowed down to five answers per prompt. If you give a correct answer, the more popular answer, the more points you'll receive. Today's Kind of Feudy isn't about video games. However, it's all about the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Each player will get a max of two guesses per round. Last place goes first after the first round. Whoever gets the most points after five rounds wins. Andy, you're the first person to guess on this. Here is the first question of Kind of Feudy. Name the worst Avenger. That's a good question. Hawkeye.

Final answer? Final answer. Hot Guy is our 50 point answer. Nice, yes. Points on the board. Right off the bat. He's an idiot, remember? That's what Greg was calling him in those early episodes.

Greg has soured the waters for everyone. Oh, moron. No, there's a moron, yeah. We're going to go next to... Is it Tim? We'll go Tim. We'll go Tim. No, you know, we're going to go blessing.

Because Tim, you know the MCU too well. Blessing. Who do you think is the worst Avenger? I've never seen an MCU movie. I'm going to say Star Lord. Star Lord. That is my final answer. One of the most beloved MCU characters.

Did you see an Infinity War where he fucked up and Thano's killed? He's the canonically right answer. It's not on our list. It's not on our list. Tim, question to you. Oh, man, this is a tough one. I like where your head is at with this,

but Hawkeye is the number one. The number one arrow. You know? Ah, vision. Vichon Vichon Vichon as they say in France Wanda

is not on our list For reals For real for reals For reals This is about to piss me off Andy Back to you Black Widow

Black Widow Is our 40 points Sexus I should have known that after Hawkeye That's crazy Andy Andy My mind is your mind

Well no this bodes well for me and Tim because like whatever Indies in first place usually fucks it up. Blessing has a lot of experience. That's me next, right? It is you next, blessing. I'm going to say...

Do I get extra boys who are doing an impression of every one of them? No, but I'd like to hear it. Okay. A little tip of the hat. You do a scarjo? Damn, no. I think of it, no. I'm going to say, war machine.

War machine. War machine. Not on our list. What? Tim, back to you. Winner's Soldier? Not on our list. Not on our list.

I believe we've gone through all two rounds of this. To the points so far, Andy 100 points. Blessing and Tim, nil. Do we get to know the remaining ones? 30 point answer. Hulk. Ant man.

Oh, and man. Okay, yeah. Our 20 point answer is Quicksilver. who I'm not even sure was an Avenger. Like five minutes, maybe. And the 10 point answer, of course, is Hulk, which is weird. Sixth place for a fun one is a Black Panther with 51 votes. I say this has an absolute win.

That's crazy. The seventh place was Ray Romano, apparently. Second question, kind of futy. Lock it in. What character should be in the MCU that isn't? and we're tied for the last place here. So Tim, I'm going to let you go first. Say spawn.

Say Spawn. Spider Gwen. Spider Gwen. Go spider. Is not on our list. Blessing. This is tough. There's now a lot of people who are in the MCU.

Especially in these last couple of phases, they've gotten a lot of people in there. I'm going to say, tough. I'm going to say Cyclops. Cyclops Leader of the X-Men is not on our list Damn Andy to you

Ghost Rider Ghost Rider Is our 50 points No way Is our 50 points No way It's a meme You can't see this can you

You're not looking at my There's like the Snow Lake episode Where they're giving Andy All the right answers is a bit I can tell them They're doing it I'm not doing it That's someone who wasn't a part of the planning

I can promise you, bless this not what is happening right now. I just know like Twitter goes crazy for every time that guy's on, every time like the, he was in the TV show, the one that you like. Engines of Shield.

Yeah, he was in that TV show, right? Oh my God. I always see clips pop up and get viral, viral again. Hello, Indians of Shield. Tim, the question is to you. Man, dude. Coal Sprider. Oh, man, I'm between two bad answers

for different reasons. Everybody else is in there. Bucket, Mephisto. Mephisto. No spoilers. Is not on our list. All right. Can you say the prompt again?

What character should be in the MCU that isn't? The Marvel cinematic universe. I mean, that is not. I'm going to give a bad answer, but this is me trying to play to the audience. Because sometimes y'all get bad answers. Or hoping that they're wrong and saying like Wolverine or I don't know. Yeah. Well, I'm going to say Blade. Blade.

Because Blade's not in... Well, Blade's been in there through a, like, post-credit scene, and he's supposed to get a movie, but... Well, I mean, he was in... He was in Eternals. Like, the post-credit's to Eternals, right? No, but he was just in Deadpool.

Oh, fuck, you're right. He was in Deadpool. Whatever. Well, it doesn't matter, because Blade is our 20-pointed. Let's go! Oh, nice! Okay. Okay. There it is.

There you go. Points on the board. We're blessing. All right. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. You just got to have like a deep bag and a deep Ross and I don't. Like I just know the people that are... No. I think it's the problem. You can't go too deep. You got to go surface level on this. Because there are a 40 point answer.

No. I know. Oh. I'm just letting you know. Okay. I thought you're going to... It's still available. I thought you're going to read the answers. Let me see. Um... Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. You know what? You need to channel someone. He doesn't need help. No, no, no. Yeah, he's so far.

But I'd like him to answer this next question is Sir Michael Kane. Okay. The Batman. I... Shit. Okay, you said, okay, not deep. I think we're, you know,

I think Ghost Rider was kind of deep, but not too deep in the back. Too deep in the pocket. I'm going to go with, I'm gonna say I'm just gonna hope the audience fucks up and say venom. Venom

is not on our list. It is however our sixth place. Can I guess I have two I want to say. Go for it. Just people being people. Our audience. Wolverine.

Not on the list. Okay, good. Thank God. Nova. Not on the list. What is on the list? Our 10 point answer at five is Squirrel Girl.

Oh, I like that. Of course, the much beloved character, Jeff the Landshark. Oh, for sure, I should have gone rivals. And our 40 point answer is Miles Morales. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Damn. That makes sense.

You said Spider-Gwen. Honestly, I should have went to my husband. That makes actually a lot of sense. Wow. That's all me. That's tough. That's real tough. Ladies gentlemen, that is round one of Game Showdown.

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He got to work together to make sure. Or let me have one. Yeah, you know what Andy deserves it. have this. Because here's what I'm thinking is that, Tim, you just give me all the good answers. Like, if there's an obvious one, don't guess. Just like, because I'm closer. Yeah, I'm closer to getting.

Part of me, I'm waiting for, you know, it's moving day. You all think this is an inside job. I think it's an inside job that you're all like, no, let's have Andy win. So that way he'll like stay around for the rest of, you know, of game showdown. So you don't quit and retire. Yeah, but I want to win. Make it feel good. No.

I don't watch anybody's game still, ladies and gentlemen, because we have our third question. Again, we have pulled the audience. of 1,200 members of our fine community, all of whom took this question very seriously. Name an actor who should be the next Wolverine. We're going to go with Tim. He's going to lead this off. He is last place currently.

Name an actor who should be the next Wolverine. Daniel Radcliffe. Daniel Radcliffe is our 40. Wow. Points on the board for Baby Blue. Blessing. I know this actor. I'm just not 100% on his name.

He plays Carmi and the Bear. I want to say his name is Jeremy Allen White. It is. Jeremy Allen White is in fact the name of the actor from the bear. Okay. The last season was pretty good. Pretty good. I watched it over the weekend.

Unfortunately, Jeremy Allen White is not on our list. No way. That's like the internet fancasting. Oh, y'all are bad. He came in eighth place. He is on the list. out list. Wow.

Wow. Andy Cortez for a chance. Put more points on the board for you. All right, here's a stretch. I'm going to say Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman. Not on our list. I liked it, though.

That's a good guy. I love that. Yeah. Tim, back to you. Okay. I can't believe Jeremy Allen White was. That's crazy, right? That's crazy.

I don't know. 50 for sure. Taryn Eggerton. Is that his name? well, Edgerton. Edgerton. Come on. You got to be, come on. Well, it's the proper way to say it's, he's British, so you never know. Somme, Somme.

Yeah. Of course, from the Kingsman fame. Also played, Ther Elton John. Oh, right. Rocket Man. An actor's actor. It would have been my choice for Hans Solo as well. But we don't always get our choices here, Tim.

Unlike you today, Taryn is our 50-point. Answer, ladies and gentlemen. That was going to be my first guess. He didn't say it right. He said Egerton. Egerton. Edgerton. Sometimes the accent plays with you, Andy.

What would you like your choice to be today? Damn it. Well, it's me, right? Oh, it's plus. Yeah, this means me. I'm going to say Danny DeVito. That's good. That's really good.

He's thinking short. Danny DeVito. Also not on our list. But he was seventh place. Oh, let's don't say what to that. Higher than Jeremy Allen White. It's the meme.

You cannot say no to that. All right. Back to Andy. I want to go with Henry Cavill. Henry Cavalry. Henry Cavill. Of course, notable for Man of Steel, Superman. They're 30 points.

Yeah. He was in Temple Wolverine. For some reason, this goes back to when you said, like, Conquer and you meant the other thing or the other way around. When you said Danny Radcliffe, in my brain, I pictured Henry Cavill. Oh, I don't know why my brain did that. Yeah. Oh, wow. There is.

There it is. How about that? Our 20 point answer, ladies and gentlemen. Actually, we'll start with our 10 point answer is Noah Knapp. The kid from Stranger Things. The Zionist? Wait, above Carmi from from a bearer. Above the guy that's jacked out of his Gordon has amazing hair.

Yeah, I don't know what happened there. I really don't know. I mean, that makes no sense. But our 20 point answer makes perfect sense. Nick Scarpino. Oh, shit. Yeah. Logan himself, ladies and gentlemen.

Oh, scores tightened up over here. Bless, it's time to step it up. This is a garbage game show. It's moving day, ladies and gentlemen. Question number four. Name the worst MCU movie.

All right. The worst. Blessing, we go to you. Game over dumbasses. Game over dumb asses. Thor the Dark World. Thor 2. The Dark World is our 50 point answer.

Let's fucking go. Tim? Oh, this is hard. Best movie? Worst MC. Sorry, worst movie. I'll say, yeah. I'll say, find the movie.

Not TV show. Not TV show. Just movies. Did you eliminate TV shows? shows. I'm not doing any TV shows. This is all well I guess it could be. This is all movies. I should have prefaced that. I appreciate all movies. No, but I'm wondering like did they even if they voted it like. I appreciate that he

talked with like he did this. I was doing that. I eliminated all TV shows. It's all movies. Perfect. I don't even give that context. I just read the problem again. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever they answer. Well, you know what? It's our show. Bless me. Fair enough. I mean, this is a garbage game show. Who came up with kind of few? Because secret invasion would be the answer. But because it's a thousand. movie, man. This gets harder. And I'm rolling the dice. And I don't agree.

I'm going Thor. Love and Thunder. Thor? Thor. As Roger has put it on our list. As our 10 point answer. Oh, what? Holy shit. Fun movie.

I can think of the votes. I can think of a worse movie, Tim. Yeah. Andy, what would it be? Quantum man. Ant man three. Quantum mania. Our 40 point answer.

No. I was between those two. Mm-hmm. I thought I for sure had the 40 point. Because my answer, if my turn right, it is. My answer is the Incredible Hulk, the original. The Incredible Hulk. Better or worse than Thor? I think it's better than Thor. Like Thor, too?

Person. Oh, um, I put them in the same place. No, but like, if you had to choose. I mean, Kat Dennings isn't one of them. That's all the same. I gotta say Thor is better. This guy knows. This guy knows ball.

Thor. Excuse me. Hulk. Is our 20-point answer? All right, I'll take it. Take it. I'll take it. Points on the board.

I mean, Edward Norton, just a wet blanket out there. Yeah. All right. Is it my turn? I believe it is, Tim. I get lost. The 30-point.

Noggle's going to be like, and that's our game. Tim, there is, we have already had the 10. the 20, the 40, and the 50, you are playing for our 30. For the 30 point answer. I mean, I, recency bias.

I'm going to go, Captain Merrick, a brave new world. Oh, that's a good answer. That's a really good answer. That's a bad movie. Yeah, that's just boring. It's not on our list. I think I know how our audience votes. And I'm going to say Eternals.

Andy? Eternal was our 30 point answer. Damn, he's on it. It is right there. You are a fire. You're on fire today. Do way too much Eternals. hate in the, you know, in the

world. Yeah. Our sixth place wasn't that bad, honestly. Sixth place was Cat 4, and then seventh place was the Marvels. Y'all need that. That movie's good. Fucking figure. Chill out. Well, this is the seventh place of the worst movies.

You know what I mean? No, I would agree as well, but you know what? Nobody asked my opinion. Marvel's like ranked 22. Out of 50 or 40 or whatever. That's crazy, ladies and gentlemen. All right. We are on the final round. Everyone. We can still do this.

We have one. Mathematically last question. Mathematically. We're fucked. Actually, I don't even know. Barrett, are you doing the calculations in there? Can anyone actually... Somebody need...

Tim would need 90 and he can't do that. Yeah, like the highest me and Tim would do would be 90. Andy has one, but we're still going to do this. Yeah, of course. Well, maybe we'll have a tiebreaker question. What if it's a hundred points from Andy? If he gets it wrong, he gets like minus 50.

Oh, interesting. Well, we'll think about that next time. Or you just help me out. That's how my... I never win these next. I usually do the show, Nick, you know. I mean, Andy didn't just let me move into his house in Dune Awakening. You did, yeah.

I might need to give him a little... You also gave him Egerton. I did give him Egerton, but that's because I thought that's how you say his last name. This is like when... I think it's how you say his last name. Edgerton. This is like when Roman Rains went away and came back as like a different beast. This is what Andy's doing right now. He took some time off.

He's come back with style. Ladies General, our final question is what character? Which character? excuse me. Should they kill off in Doomsday? Avengers Doomsday. Which character should die? Jesus, man. We're going to go with blessing on this.

Ooh, okay, which character should die? I'm going to go with... How racist is this? I know. This seems like concerning. That's a good point, though. Because I'm going to think out loud, because this is the last round. And he's already one. Because I was going to say Thor. You know what? That's not a bad choice. You know what? I'm going to say

Captain America formerly known as Falcon Okay Not on our list Damn, okay, good on the audience Good on y'all Good on y'all It was probably my first pick

I think Thor is a good choice Just because of how long he's been around Yeah like he's one of the oldies left We need him Yeah you're right Yeah no you're right Yeah No we have his daughter now

You know No but we need him God he had a daughter Oh man yeah this is Like all right let's see whatever. I already lost, but I'm going to give an answer that our audience might give. Robert Downey Jr., Doom himself.

Robert Downey Jr., Doom himself, is our 40-point answer. People really don't like that casting. They sure don't. They sure do not. Well, maybe that's just them hoping that he dies. So the real game comes. I hope the good guys win. Hope the villains lose.

You would like to think that. Let's see. I'm going to say Captain Marvel Captain Marvel Not on our list Wow, good for our audience Not on our list

I'm proud of that Is the thing Yeah Because I should just say Thor Because I feel like Thor is A good answer It's a great answer I think it is

But I want to double down On the bigotry Sure Why do you think I'm supposed to prove Why do you guys I said Captain Marvel I got a double down

On the internet Disappointed me I'm gonna say She Hulk Shehold is not on our list is not on our list All right I got a double down

On the bigotry All right Then it's Tim Yeah Oh shit Oh Sorry blessed Thor I mean I want to know

So Thor The answer that you said Two times blessing And then decided not to go with It's our 50 point answer Fair enough It makes a lot of sense Yeah

It makes a lot of sense Okay, for the final answer, I'm going to pick Uh Man, it's so confusing to even know what the hell the roster is right now. I'll say Hulk. Oh, it's a good, good pick. Hulk is not on our list.

Wow. Yeah. Is Aquafina? This. Roger says it is on the list. Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I apologize. Bruce Banner.

You're fucking weird out. Well, because. Most people wrote in Bruce Banner. That's the thing. Both people wrote in Bruce Banner slash Holt. Bruce Banner slash Hull. Bruce Banner slash, my apologies.

Let me know that slash Hulk is our 30 point answer. I loved that I was like just Bruce Banner, but Hulk can live. Oh my God, Christ. That's good. That's that good stuff. I just, I do want to point out that Roger put Thor 4, Thor 2, and Ant Man 3.

And I had to remember the subtitles of those. I'm not saying that it's hard to find a good producer for the show, but blessing. Fucking Roger. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. I'll just delete the fucking documents right now. You say the word.

Really quick as a score recap, the final score in last place, not even getting into triple digits was team blessing at EOEJ Jr. With 90 points who declared before we recorded the show, I'm going to win. Hey, that's not, you know, that wasn't canon until you said. Double digits for doubling down on the bigotry. In second place, the person we all thought would have. had this episode in the bag, but didn't quite have it enough. His losing streak continues. It is Team Tim Geddes with 190 points and the person who deserves the win today because

he's been so close to the win, but never quite got there. He finally has it today with Team Andy Cortez with 280 points. This is what it feels like. I forgot. That's crazy. It's been a while, you know. Nick, I don't know if you know, but KDG who keeps all our stats, I was in my mind, I was like, I think I'm always second place.

And she was like, yeah, you were always, you finished second place the most time. It's like, always the bridesmaid, do you know? Well, today, Andy, you finished first place. Thank you. Your second place in our hearts, though. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been Game Showdown. Tune in next week, of course, where we will have Greg, Lucy, and Joey talking all about Ben Affleck. I'm going to say it.

I'm going to say it. Until next week, guys, it has been our pleasure to serve you. We'll see you later. Goodbye. I don't know if that's real or not.