Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Jack Quaid's Video Game Photography OBSESSION - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

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What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Thursday, June 26, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Geddes. I'm joined today by blessing at a yo-e-Jr Jr. Greg Miller. Parade Saturday. There is a parade Saturday. Do you want to talk about that? No, I put it in housekeeping for you.

Okay, cool. We'll get there in a second. Thank God. And rounded out the group today, it's a very special guest. You might know him from the super awesome movie Novocaine that if you didn't see in theaters, it must be streaming at this point. Go support it wherever it's streaming. He's also the Prince of the Sayans.

Jack Wade. Prince of the Sayans. He's the Prince of the Sayans. It's me, Vegeta, Prince of the Sayans. Oh, hell yeah. You don't know about this bit. It's a very long walk to get to explain it. Welcome to every kind of funny joke ever.

Go for it, Jack. Explain it to bless. Austin. Who is it? Austin Creed, yes. Who I've met a few times. He's a very nice guy. But you guys called him, I think, for your anniversary or for some reason.

You guys called him, and his voicemail, like, outgoing message is like, you have not reached Austin, but you have reached me, Vegeta, Prince of the Sands. It's just a very nerdy, incredible voicemail. And I think Greg had told me that at some point during that games cast or whatever it was, that he'd be calling me. So I was, like, watching the stream just to see what you guys were talking about. And then I heard that voicemail. And then when Greg called me, I just tried to recreate that voicemail as best I could.

And now every time you guys call me, I just start with like, you, you think you reach Jack Quaid. But you have in fact reached me. But jeez, it's just very, that's perfect. It's like it's like the, it's the most, hey, how do I get Greg to stop calling me thing? A lot of people haven't figured it out. They yell at me. They bully me. That just encourages me.

The Vajita thing, I'm like, I'm not doing this again, Quaid. No, call me. I want to see how I can heighten this for like, and that call from Greg Miller and from kind of funny. It's just a treat. So every time. Oh, you. Jack, how are you doing? Before we getting all the show and stuff, what's going on in your world?

Oh, man. I'm here in Toronto. We are shooting the boys' final season. I have four days left of shooting, which is crazy. Just four. I mean, this honestly was like a percentage of your life, right? Like, yeah, a huge chunk of my life. Like, I think when I was cast, I was.

like 25, I think, when I was cast. I started when I was 20. Yeah, something like that. But it's been like the bulk of my like adult life. I've been on this show. And now it's coming to an end. And I'm glad that we're ending when we are. I'm glad that we've had five incredible seasons.

And we're ending on our own terms, which is so rare nowadays, especially in TV. But yeah, man, it's very emotional. It's going to get weird. I don't think it's going to quite hit me when it, when it's actually over, I think I'm going to be like back in L.A. at a grocery store and like with a shopping cart in hand and like I'll hear a Billy Joel song. That's what I think is going to happen. But I don't know. I don't know until it hits me. So, but I'm grateful for every second of it. So yeah, it's bittersweet and weird. But yeah, it just kind of feels like I'm about to graduate

high school or something. Like it's just very strange. From the boys to the man. Yeah, exactly. Jack Quaid journey. Probably a dumb question before we get into video game stuff though. But Jack, is that the boys is the like before and after pivot point, I assume for you? Like where like everyone stops you for the boys now? Yeah. Oh, that's the, that's the like that changed my life. I've never had that before.

I may not even have it again ever, but it was this thing of like seemingly overnight. My life changed for the better when that show came out. And I couldn't be more grateful to Eric Kripke and everyone involved. this thing for, you know, letting me have that opportunity. It's just, it's huge. But yeah, no, that's like the, people just shout Huey at me on the street.

It could be a lot worse. Yeah. It's great. Yeah. How often do you, does someone reference bongos with you from Oppenheimer? Does it, is anyone shouting bongo guy?

It's bongo guy. No one's ever said bongo guy, but I feel like every time, like literally every time I do a version of this, like a podcast. or something. Someone's like, like Scott Ackerman from Comedy Bang Bang, for like years just said, called me Bongo Man. That was it.

I love it. No, no, no. He called me Mr. Bongo's. There's a little some respect. Yes. Yeah. Maybe the Bongo fans, they're just not out in the wild as much as I thought. They, they, uh, the Bongo players. I don't know. I want to, I want to communicate with them.

So if you are a bongo player and you see me, talk to me about bongos. I would love that. This is actually an interesting question. Behind obviously Huey, what is the second thing people stop before all the time? Oh, God. Because you scream. Scream is, you know, that's a pretty passionate fan base.

Like, I've had people recognize me at a cafe and they're like, I'll be right back. I'm going to get my knife. And what that means is they have like a scream, like a ghost face knife that they want me to sign. It's like a real knife that I'm signing. It's going to be real bad for you. It's crazy that I hear that. Like, I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere.

I'm getting my knife. and that is not a dangerous sentence to me is very funny. It's scream and like, and lately Novocaine and Companion have been up there as well. Companion, what a flick. Yeah, crazy. Absolutely insane. Thank you for, uh,

watching it, guys. I appreciate it. Dude, we need a Novakane sequel, man. That was the type of movie that took the premise to the end degree and you love it because by the end of it, you're like, I need more.

I need to see how further they can take this. I got to watch you do, it was good. I got ideas. The director. have ideas. The writer has ideas. Like, we, we would all love to do another one. I'll just shout at right now.

Watch it on Paramount Plus, show that there's a demand. And who knows, maybe some Hollywood magic can happen. And you can see me just get shredded to pieces yet again. I will say, Jack, this is an important thing to get to before we talk about the games. Kind of funny, does have a level of power in the streaming services that has been unforeseen, actually. We knew, because a couple of years. A couple years ago, the Tomorrow War, Amazon Prime original starring Chris Pratt came out and nobody watched it. But Greg and I did. And we loved it. We had a great time with this movie. And years later, like a couple weeks ago, we brought it up and we're fighting for how good this movie is.

And next on a podcast and the next thing we know, it's trending. It's trending. We're getting all these like screenshots of people sending it. There's just like tomorrow. There's articles right now about how it was a huge fraud. But now for some reason it's doing it. We're taking full credit for that. We are. Oh my God. Okay. I need that kind of funny bump. Everybody go to Novacane. That's it. That's it, everybody.

Anyway, this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday, we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews, and topics and video games live on YouTube, Twitch, and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, or Apple podcast to get all of our shows ad-free and a daily exclusive show. For a chance to be part of this show, please YouTube Superchat as we go. We're already getting a whole bunch of them. Exile Online says, hey Jack, please let Greg know he sucks.

Thanks. Mr. Hawk says, Quito, you got any smints? Hashtag Quaid Army for life. I love it when fan base is kind of like overlap. We're just like, we all are the same weirdo with just different words coming out of our mouths. Oh, God. Greg, you suck and I don't have any smints, unfortunately. You didn't have to do it.

Brian Kake says, hey, Jack, huge fan. Are you going to play Death Stranding, too? I plan to, I still, and this is like a big gaming sin. I have still never played Death Stranding 1, but it is downloaded on, I'm pointing to my TV right now. It is downloaded and I will get to it so that, because I know Death Stranding 2 is coming out, I want to play the first one first. Yeah, we'll get back to that Stranding later because of the topic of this show. But a little housekeeping for you first, Mike and Roger, speaking to Death Stranding 2, we're getting right back to it. Mike and Roger are embarking on the biggest stream

Kind of Funny has ever done. They'll attempt to play the entirety of Death Stranding 2 while Mike go step for step with Sam Porter Bridges on an actual treadmill with a couple of surprises that might change everything. With your support, they're determined to make it past Kind of Funny Games daily on Monday and of course order a lot of food.

This starts tomorrow exclusively on Twitch.tv slash Kind of Funny Games. So the stream tomorrow, Death Stranding 2, it starts. And the goal is having this not end until Tuesday. So can you support them, chat? Can you make it happen, chat? They have so many fun things planned. The lab is a mess right now because we've got a brand new treadmill and it is

giant. I can't wait for you all to see. This is about to be insanity. But that's not all that's happening this weekend. Sorry, Jack, go for it. No, just step for step on a treadmill. That's nuts. Well, Mike's the healthiest guy we got.

He's a machine. He needs it. He is a machine. Jack, you want to know this man's in and our order? It'll change your. life. You don't want to know. So that is not all that's happening this weekend. Please just read it verbatim.

I'm going to read it verbatim, Greg. Thank you. I lost Kind of Funny Game Showdown season three. And the true champ, Greg Miller, is getting a parade Saturday in San Francisco. Come be part of it. 10 a.m. in front of the ferry building. We'll walk with signs about how terrible I am all the way to square pie guys. Can't wait.

Championship parade, everybody. I'm Barker Darrow. We're walking. It's going to be a great time. It is going to be there. Yeah. I'm going to be there. I will be there too, unfortunately.

But it is Pokemon Go Fest, so I have to be there. Greg decided to throw his parade to talk shit about me during my day. Unfortunately. At my place. That sucks. It's real close to your birthday, too. It is. I've been working for years to hit level 50, the top level in Pokemon Go,

and I'm finally going to achieve that this Saturday, live in front of your parade. Yeah. Great. Thanks, man. Well, everyone, come out if you want. It would suck if everybody circled up around you and booge you while you did it. am in front of the ferry building in San Francisco,

be there or be square. And if you can't make it, Greg is going to be discording into the death straining stream. I'm taking over the death stranding stream. Yeah, and we'll make some signs and we'll support Greg and his amazing enders. Thank you. Roger, Roger, I didn't tell you. I'm a supporting you as well.

Oh. I have a surprise for you, Roger. Okay. We're an 11-person business all about live talk shows and Greg terrifying people. Games Daily aired our grievances with Mario Kart World. After this is going to be Superman 3 in review. Can't wait to talk about this classic. Remember, there's no stream because we're getting ready for the Marathon Death Stranding stream tomorrow.

If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is all about Greg's best interview ever. Cool. Yeah. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, a megabuster, and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by Cash App and Mood, but we'll tell you about that later. We've got to get to the topic of the show. Tots, Tats, Tats, Tats, Tats, Tats. The topic of the show is Jack Quade's video game photography obsession.

Jack, you Instagram posted recently, quote, He got really into virtual photography and no one ever saw him again, along with a ton of photos from a bunch of different video games. Raj, can we get that up? I put it in, uh, I put the link into, uh, the direct message with control earlier. You did not get a game drag an entire eye photo like don't even know. That's the thing is like you put up a bunch of photos here. And as one of Jack Quaid's best friends, asked Danny Jollas. He'll agree.

Of course. I see Jack putting a video game photo stuff all the time. And I'm always like, oh, that's cool. That's quaint. Quaint for Quaid. There's something there. We're working on a shirt. Well, I don't know how big of a deal it is.

I don't know what this is. And then he put up this Instagram post and there's several games in there that I've seen them, you know, dabble in, put things up before. I was like, oh, that's really cool. And so I hit him up like, hey, would you want to do a show talking about photo mode? I like, I like photo modes. You know, it'd be cool to talk with you about it. And he said, yeah, sure.

And I'm like, all right, send me a whole bunch of your photos. The man sent more than 350 photos. And they all look like works of art. I don't know what art gallery in L.A. needs to be told, but this is an event. You could totally do a Jack Quaid exhibition of his photo mode stuff here. So I sang you that album and then I like relooked through it. And I realized that there is, you might even, it might go up there at some point, but there is a one mistake in there.

I saw it. And it's just a literally a screenshot that I guess the PlayStation automatically takes when I, oh no, I definitely took a photo of it because I think I won. My first, like, Fortnite match. Yep. It's a victory royale. I saw it. Again, there's 350 photos.

We'll get to it. I'm scrolling right now. But when I was like, Paging. I was like, do I want to organize this some way? How are we going to do this? I'm like, there are so many. They're all great.

All the photos are great. There's like, really just clicking. But then I was like, wait, why is there just a victory royale screen shot from Fortnite? That's so good. So I love it because even that Instagram post, it's so varied in terms of games.

Like, just jumping into you. You think, oh, it's going to be a bunch of uncharted four picks because Uncharted 4 is very pretty. And he was like, no, there's like 20 different games. A little seafood action going on. Was that Resident Evil, I think, somewhere? But so what is your kind of methodology?

Like, are you always, anytime you're playing any game, if you see something pretty, you're like, I got to take a shot? Or are you going out and like trying to seek the shots out? Oh, man, I think it really all started with, yeah, Spider-Man is a great photo mode. Yeah, that one I think is, oh, God, returnal. But no, it really all started with Red Dead Redemption 2.

I started a, it was during COVID. It was, so I was in Toronto and I was shooting season three of the boys. And like, it was snowing outside and there was this virus sweeping all the nations. And so I couldn't leave. So I'm like, okay, I'll just go to this virtual sandbox of like the Old West of Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2. And I'm replaying it. I'd played it once. And then I just, I don't know.

I think one day clicked on the photo mode just to see what was up. And then I just really got into it from there. Oh, yeah, there's a bunch of red dead photos. And they had, it's a really good photo mode in Red Dead Red Dead Redemption, too. Like, there are some games with like not a great photo mode where you can't really quite, like some games, the camera can only go around the player character. Some you can't like, I love a free camera. I love focusing.

on, yeah, our lead character, but also, like, random NPCs or, like, side characters. So while we're here, I want to stop and say to you, as people marvel at these, as I see the chats popping off from, uh, hero of time 73, God damn it, Jack, why are you so talented? For you, what makes a good photo? What is Jack Quaid this autore? Luca, look at his fucking shot. What are you looking for as you go through and do this? God, I think it's just, I like a photo that tells some form of story. I think I'm going for

Hopefully it looks like it's a still frame of a movie Because I'm obsessed with movies And I'm obsessed with video games And I think this is my way of kind of Doing both And I think from Red Dev Redemption 2 I don't know it taught me I don't know a ton about photography

Like I'll say like this is kind of me Just in the virtual world doing it But it kind of taught me about like lenses And you know I really do actually I'm glad that you froze on this photo here because I do like doing this kind of wide lens, but then pushing in close to something so that it almost has that, like, reaching out towards you effect.

I really do like that. And I think from Red Dev Redemption, I started taking photos of, like, the cast of the boys that season, and I got really into photography. And it's like, because I was looking around me, and I was like, I'm basically in a video game right now. Here's my photo mode. So let's just do it.

And no, I really just enjoy taking pictures. And it's just kind of a, from video games, kind of I got this new hobby out of it. And, oh yeah, Ratch and Clank. Insomniax got some great photo mode stuff. I really got into, I think after Red Dead, I got into, like the ghost of Tsushima photo mode is probably, it's up there. It might be just as good, maybe a little better as a photo mode. mode than Red Dead. And yeah,

the Spider-Man ones as well are just insane because he's, yeah, look at that. You can just do so much aerial insane shit and just like, yeah, I like when it looks like, oh, that could be a still from like a superhero movie. Like, I love that. Matt exposure in the chat says, has Jack played lush foil? It's a virtual photography simulator.

It's really cool. This is a game that we talked about a couple months ago. But have you not heard about this? No, not, never even heard about it. I just sent to KF. Madeline and I are on the same wavelength. I just sent to KF control the lush foil. Because this game, the whole point of it is a photography simulator, and it is the most gorgeous video.

Yeah, look at it right now, Jack, if you're sharing your screen. Oh, you guys got it. Yeah, we got it for you. Are you kidding me? Yeah, so it's all these different things, but you go in with an, like, quote, unquote, an actual camera, obviously. You're playing a game, but it's all the stuff of a real camera.

So you learned about ISO, this, that, how to use this and go through it. Download this immediately. All, well, this is great. Oh my God, are you kidding? I didn't realize this out. Yes. This came out April 15th.

Is it on PlayStation? Sure is. Jack, don't worry. I know somebody. I've already requested you a code. Thank you, Greg. Yeah, cool stuff. So, all right.

So you're getting all this stuff. How long do you take with a picture? Like, do you, when you have it, you like, I know what I want to do this? How much are you playing with the filters and everything? So I'll just say this. That replay I was doing of Red Dead. I didn't beat it again. I've only beaten the game once because all I was doing at a certain point was just photo mode.

I would try to get to the next area of the story so that I could like, I could like take pictures and, I mean, I could like ride to San Deney. What's the, oh, yeah, Sandini. Yeah, I could like ride to Sandini and take photos there, but I was like, ooh, but then, like, Dutch looks a little different at this point in the game. So, like, maybe I can get good solid shots of Dutch. sometimes I have, I get distracted by like, you know, I just want to take photos of like an NPC and kind of seems like I'm just taking street photography. And typically when I play a game, I like look at the atmosphere that the game's creating and, you know, they're so good now, you know, like if there's a storm especially, I'm like really excited.

Like if like if I'm playing Spider-Man and it's like a snowstorm or there's a thunderstorm in the distance, I'm like, fuck, I got to line it up exactly. when the lightning strikes and I'll get something cool. There's one, it's not even in this album, Greg, but there's this one I took, I'm replaying, or I was replaying God of War Ragnarok, and I have this one of Cratos with like,

a lightning bolt in the back that I'm very proud of. But yeah, I love, like, the environment. I think that's why I like Tsushima so much is because you can, uh, the nature and, like,

the wind, you can turn it off and on, basically. Yeah. And you can change the, the different nature systems, the weather systems on a menu. And it's just so, it's so customizable and you can do whatever. I love that one because it's all out of focus, but I'm killing a bear.

That's amazing. No, it's incredible. So you're talking a lot about replaying a lot of these games. Like, obviously you are one of the busiest people I know. You're in every movie imaginable, every show imaginable. Is this just kind of the life of an actor? There's a lot of downtime and you're replaying these games and able to do this photo mode stuff. Like is this like a second full-time job for you?

I mean at this stage, yeah. It's yeah, it's when you have downtime. That's awesome. One of the things about being an actor is you're often, at least the way it is now, like I'm often shooting out of L.A. Like I live in L.A., but like I also don't like because I live most of a time in like Toronto. And Toronto's great, but I do have, you know, I'm not shooting every day. And there are these long days that pass by where like, I don't know,

I'm not really doing much. Like I'll go for a jog and then, you know, I play games to pass the time. And I love games. So, yeah, kind of just all works out. But it's kind of a cool way of, I don't know, it's fun to do a thing that I love, but also find some form of like, yeah, there we go. You had to get them. So good.

Shirtless Spider-Man, shirtless Miles Morales. I took photos of you guys. Oh, no, where's their photographers? We're not them. Okay. Yes, of course. But no, it's just, it's a fun way to, like, have a bit of artistic expression. It's cool to use a world that someone else created and then find a kind of angle on it that's your own, or at least feels like your own.

Like, that's a fun sandbox to play in. And yeah, no, I think it's just cool. And then I realize there's this whole community of, like, virtual photography. And people love doing this. And I've seen some stuff on Instagram that I have not taken. just I love what people can do. There are some people that really focus on, like, the close up details of a character of, like, Spider-Man, for example,

it's, like, the definition of, like, the mask and everything, and, like, the lighting's really cool, and those are awesome. Oh, that's some random guy in Sandinay. I like that one. But there are other guys that like to focus on, like, giant wide shots as well. I don't know. I think I'm somewhere in between. I think of just like if something strikes me, you know, I just kind of go for it.

Also, there's a lot with like character animations. That ratchet one reminded me of like, I love that move he does where he jumps up and uses the wrench to go down. I'm like, okay, I got to get that pose. You know, because you're looking at these character animations constantly while you play the game and you're like, oh, that could be cool for a shot. You know, I kind of look at it from that perspective as well. So then coming into this then, we talked about Red Dead replaying just for photos kind of

but you're talking about watching animations and seeing this thing. Are you finding it's changed the way you play games to where are you even playing the game anymore for the game part of it? Or are you just playing it for the photography part of it? I'll say this. So I just started, I got Doom the Dark Ages when I came out. And I never played any of the modern dunes, dooms. And then I loved Dark Ages so I went back to play 2016. And then yesterday I beat Eternal.

thank God that game does not have a photo mode. Like, thank Christ. It was like, I was so relieved when I realized they didn't have... Is it ever the opposite thing? Where like, do you ever get disappointed picking up a game and like seeing it doesn't have a photo mode and going, oh, well, shit, I'm going to spend a lot less time in this thing? Sometimes it has the opposite effect. Yeah, especially if it's like gorgeous.

I'm like, damn, I wish I could take photos. Or I think the biggest thing that makes me a little upset is when the game is so gorgeous, and yet the photo mode is a little like, huh, like certain, I don't know, there's certain, like, places you can't really go, or it only has a certain amount of filters or focus control or something. Like, I always get a little like, ah, but it's so good and so visually striking. Why wouldn't you have a bunch of, I mean, sure, make the game first. It's not about me.

make sure the game is good and playable and fun. There are times where I'm like, oh, I wish, like, I'm trying to think of like... A lot of people in our chat are saying Expedition 33 is like the one for them that would need a photo mode. I feel like, oh, it doesn't have a photo mode. No. Okay, I haven't played that game yet, but a lot of the comments to that Instagram post you reference were like Expedition 33. So I assumed it did have a photo. And if we may, Roger, can you throw that post back up real quick?

Because I would like to call out one of the commenters. You know, there's a lot of uneducated video game fans who don't know what has or doesn't have a photo mode. It's the one right there in the center. Yeah, right. On top of it right there. Someone named the Ben Starr says Expedition 33 photos when. It's just hilarious. That is it.

He doesn't know. The game he's in. The game he is. He's in it. Doesn't have a photo mode. Ben Star. He's in it. Oh, he's a good friend of ours.

One of the leads of the game. But I wish the game had a photo mode. I think it probably will. at some point. Yeah, the next update, I imagine that'll be on. They know. Yeah, they definitely, they know, yeah. Which, by the way, if you haven't heard of Expedition 33, put it on your list.

It is utterly spectacular. My game of the year so far, for sure. Stories, incredible, performances are incredible. Are you into turn-based RPGs? So that's my thing is, like, typically no, but my friend, my friend Dylan, who's into, like, and I've known him since middle school, and he's into so many games, and he's streamed. and he's amazing, but he's like, dude, I know you don't like turn-based, but this game is a thousand percent my shit, and it's going to be your shit.

It's so good. So I'll give it a shot. Because I know it's not, I think from your review, like, it's turn-based, but it's not slow or plotting. Yeah, exactly. That encourages me, and I think I'll go for it. Because I never thought I'd be into, like, I don't know, stuff like Cuphead or, or, like, Hades or

I don't know any of the Dark Souls stuff but I got into it so you know There's a smart man we work with named Blessing Eddie Oye who says

even if it's not his genre if it's a banger he's going to give it a shot and he's been surprised how many times it has actually worked out for him I mean that's another one on the list when you talk about

the Darksul stuff like Eldon Ring is another game that I believe as of now still doesn't have a photo mode and like that's a crime yeah that's a problem that's someone recently where I was like, I was playing it and I was like, oh, like it was one of those things where I'm like,

ah, damn, but also simultaneously thank God. Because I would never stop. Yeah. Hey, I'm sorry, is this Ben Star? Jesus. Hey, it's Greg Miller. You're live on the kind of funny games cast. I'm great, especially great.

You remember when you made a horse's ass out of yourself in front of Jack Quaid when you said on his Instagram post, hey, why, why to take some expedit? You don't even have a photo mode in Expedition 33. I'm such an idiot. I can't believe it. Do you want to apologize to him right now? Because he's on the show laughing. Hey, Ben.

Is he on the show right now? Yeah. Hey, Ben. Hi, Jack. How are you? I would like to explain myself. It is possible to take pretty pictures in that game. And I just thought it might be nice just to notice me a little bit.

So, um, if you can take those pretty pictures. Yeah, I just, I just, I have kind of quite low self-esteem and so I look for it in the validation of my voice. Why? It's cool. No, I just, I really would like, I would like to be noticed. So if that's possible, I'm wearing a shirt with a deeper V then.

How about that, Ben? A deeper V shirt. How about how about Nick? I've been completely naked. How about that? I've already asked on Gregway. Okay,

everybody calm down. All right. Let's get too hot in here. I'm going to loob up. I'm lubing up. I'm coming up going to find a game's daily completely ready. Nice. Whoa.

That's next week, everybody. Spoiler alert, Ben Star. Yes. Anyway, thank you for calling me. I'm so sorry, but if you would like to play

the critically acclaimed Expedition 33, feel free to his apt to bangor. Yeah, we were telling about it. We were telling about how good it is. Can we get them a PlayStation 5 code? Yeah, yeah, I can do that for you right now. Okay, thank you so much. It's the next thing on my list.

Thank you, sir. I can't wait to play it. You're great, by the mate. You're great. We have fun. Oh, my God. I mean, I guess, sorry. We can announce now.

Ben Star will be joining us here in studio. Yeah. Next Monday on my birthday, exciting times. Games Daily, Games cast. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm choking now.

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Jack, during the break, you said you wanted to say something. Oh, no, it's just a slight gripe I have with the P.S. app where I was trying to send you guys even more photos from like more recent sessions I've had with like God of War Ragnarok but it only saves your captures

like what's the limit 14 days they switched it off a while ago where they changed it over. Let me have it this is my life PlayStation no it's fine I mean you have what 300 photos in an album we got enough for you Jack but most importantly we do have your victory row there it is look at that

now Shout out for rocking the Isaac Clark Dead Space skin. All right. That's a gamer. That is awesome. Was this your first victory around ever? Is that what's happening here? I think it was like my first as like just a solo guy. I don't play a ton of Fortnite because it's, I think it was the first time as a gamer where I was like,

oh, my little brother is better at this than me. And I'm like, I just can't. Now they have it where you don't need to build. But I remember he was like, he could just build things in. immediately. And I was like, oh, no. It's my first time feeling old as a gamer.

So I'm like, I just, oh, okay. But it's fun. It's fun. I was more of like an Apex Legends guy. Oh, yeah. You were a man of taste. Exactly. Yeah.

Exactly. Plus, did you ever get into photo mode for any games? I mean, Ghost of Sushima. If you go back to, what, 2020 when that game came out and look at my Twitter account, it's just filled with photos from Ghost of Susha. Oh, in Shadow Colossus, the recent one, the remake. The remake. Oh, that has a photo mode?

Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I think those were the two games for me. But then also like, I think I kind of weeded off of it because it did dominate so much in my time in Ghosts of Sushima where like that just became the experience for me. And I think certain games not having it also helped. Like if Elton Ring had a photo mode, I'd be all over that shit. It was also one of those for me that was one of those things where I was taking photos without the photo mode. Yeah.

We would not be present. Greg, what about you? Yeah. But it's that thing where I. I feel like when I talk about my photo mode stuff, like, I think it's kind of funny. Like, I'm, anybody correct me if I'm wrong. I might be the biggest photo mode person for games or photo modes that really connect with me. But then I look at what Jack's putting up on like, damn, he's making art.

Like I said on the doc, I have a bunch of my stuff from Instagram and old stuff from Twitter. But like if you, do you have it there, Raj? No, I did not. Not yet. Do you have the dock? Open it up now. Thank you. When you go down there, I think Dragon Age of the Veilgard was my last game obsession with a photo mode.

and I thought I did some good work there. I thought I put it some good work I put up on Instagram. Before then it's been stuff like Odyssey, I think was my first one ever that I was obsessed with. No, no, Assassin's Creed. Sorry. The Mario Odyssey one was good too. Oh, really?

Yeah. See, that's the thing is it's got to be such a specific game. And so with Vail Guard as we're looking through here on my Instagram, right? Like, first of all I thought, I'm no Jack Quaid, though. You know what I mean? I'm no Jack Quaid. I thought they were, I thought they were beautiful. Jackie, yeah, okay, Jackie, you just critique my work.

It's good. I like the skull. Like that, that tells the story. This is good. Yeah, I like the skulls, the silhouette.

That's gorgeous. This is a gorgeous game as well. Yes. That's good, man. I'm going to say criminally underplayed. I like the grow. Like the fire in the foreground. I like the character.

Is that it during combat? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Here's my, can we go back, Roger, to the one in combat

where my rook is in the air there right here. This is one of my gripes with photo modes. Is that for the games that have these amazing animations and really great-looking combat, I wish in a photo mode I could rewind time.

So, like, this isn't, I don't think this is the shot I wanted of my rook, but it's the shot I got. You know, I start the animation. I hit pause. I'm like, I'm there. And so it's like, I did this to more summarize what I was doing and I thought works, but I would appreciate it to be if I could rewind time forward and backwards,

get to really where I want to be. And then you can keep going. So Jack can keep in comedy. I'm not so hard right now, dude, because that's my, if you notice, most of my photo mode shots are not in common. that. And I wish a lot of them could be because that's obviously like the most dramatic thing,

whatever. But yeah, I wish I could like kind of the way when I'm taking photos with my iPhone, if you take a live photo, you can get like the exact frame you want. I wish there was a bit of that. Yeah. And so like I feel like I have the most from in my world, I would think, Dragon Age and then Odyssey. And again, like I did a very cursatory Google search. It's so hard trying to find my old Instagram stuff. find even old Twitter stuff. If you want to throw up some of the Odyssey stuff I was able to come up with, the one shot I think of my Starfield stuff,

but I think, ooh! Come on now. That's good. Odyssey, you know that's very good. Right. I think you're the common thing

you're looking at with these three games, if we're talking about Dragon Age, Odyssey, and Starfield is the amount of time I spent in these games. Dragon Age, remember I did the journal with while I did it, I was doing an exercise. So I was taking that at a slower clip. Odyssey, I put some insane amount of hours into over years with, right?

And then Starfield, obviously, same thing where it's like, I'm just so involved in these games that I feel like I can stop and do that thing and take it. I'm excited right now, I'm announcing more things, everybody, that we've already reviewed Death Stranding. Obviously, the boys are freaking at this weekend. Week after Fourth of July, right? So not next week.

The week after, we're going to do a Starfield, or I'm a spoiler cast for Death Stranding 2, right? My plan right now is to keep on playing Expedition 33, right? review that next week on the shows. Maybe it's so far, but I'm hoping to be done with it. Then switch back to Death Stranding just to play all the side stuff, not all of it, but a lot of it. And now that I'm to Death Stranding without an embargo on top of me for reviewing it, really getting deep with their photo mode.

Because their photo mode is one that Jack, you're going to adore, because it's one of those that I look at and I'm going, oh, this is very complex. Where I went into it, I'm like, all right, cool. Frames and borders, yeah, of course. And then it was like, which lighting do you want? I went in. It's like, it's doing like the insomnia.

like you can have a ball of light right here or then back there. I'm like, okay, this is where this is a different life that I don't have time when I'm reviewing the game to really get into. I'll give insomniac credit

the ball of light or whatever. I don't really, I haven't seen that in a lot of photo modes. Yeah, they go above and beyond with insomnia. That one's pretty damn good. I don't really care about the borders. Yeah. That's kind of my thing where I'm like,

that's fun, but it's like, it doesn't really serve my purposes of like the photo. It just kind of feels like, oh, we're reminding everyone that this is in fact Spider-Man or whatever. Like, I don't really care about frames so much. Yeah, and I love to see the data on photo modes.

As somebody who enjoys a good photo mode isn't obsessed like Jack. And I don't mean it because I think I wonder how many people, if you're into photo mode, I would assume you're more like Jack or a little bit like me in terms of like, I want a beautiful shot and I'm playing with saturations and colors and black and white, this, that, the other. How many people are going in like in Spider-Man using the daily bugle overlay or whatever to put outside.

It's all the stuff that I think takes away from those shots. And I could see someone doing it once or twice to get the trophy of the achievement to toy around with it, but then really using it, I don't know. We've seen so many people in chat talking about how they don't use photo mode. And this is an interesting conversation. I wonder what the balance is. I went back and I tried to find some of the photo mode shots that I've taken and posted on Twitter.

And for me, it triggered the thing that I realized that I do a lot, which is I take a lot of verticals. I don't think I did as much for Shadow Clause except for this last pick here. Yeah, that's gorgeous. But I- This one is insane. That's you, Blesser? Yeah, that's me.

So, yeah, that's the thing I love to do. Even in Maricard Auto or Maricard World, I've done the same thing where I'm always taking photos to try and create phone backgrounds. And so if you turn the screen all the way to the side and screenshot it and then send it to your phone, this is the same thing I'm doing in Ghost of Sushi. That's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome. For a while, I was just rotating my phone background.

It's different photo mode shots that was taken. Wait, I like that you're going with this, uh, uh, uh, aspect ratio. That's really cool. Yeah. I didn't even think about that. Like a lot of mine are like wide, but I like that, yeah, it's almost like part of you is going back to, I don't, whatever the era, the, in Japan, that Tsushima takes place in. Oh, yeah. It's almost like you're going back there with an iPhone. It's like a really, yeah. Dude, also, these would be amazing phone backgrounds. Yeah. Yeah, that was the whole point. I was just going, I was just playing those Tsushima. I was, yeah, my whole point with

the photo mode was just to make a bunch of different phone backgrounds. Yeah, I, it's funny. because I often only accidentally go into photo mode. You know what I mean? I'm in a crazy combat encounter. I'm like fumbling with the controller and all of a sudden the photo mode pops up. I'm like, oh shit, it's this thing again.

Like the only times I've ever really played with it have been a little bit in Odyssey and like even back in Smash Brothers melee, which it wasn't a photo mode. But like when you hit pause, you can like control the camera and like, I think there was a screenshot mode brawl and stuff. Like I would have some fun with that. But otherwise,

like I'm not really really doing that. I like screenshots of things of just like moments or like, memories of something more similar to the victory royale stuff, but there's more talented, smarter people than me. So I'll just watch Blessing and Jack's Instagram pages. There was that direct recently. I saw you guys do your reaction to it of the Donkey Kong Bonanza.

And I have to say, I was like, I never expect, just because it's Nintendo and it's not usually the point, but the photo mode looks pretty damn good for Bonanza. I'm actually like, okay, I don't have a switch to yet.

But I don't know. The game has to be good first. I would never buy a game for the photo mode. I think that's where my possession, there's the line. And I think that that's a pretty reasonable. Yeah. That is true, for sure. Have you ever done?

Whatever that game is that you showed me. I was writing it down. Lush foil. Lush foil. Okay, that one, I mean, that's the point. But yeah. Yeah, look at this. It's actually pretty, for Nintendo, like, that's pretty good.

Like, that's pretty good. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, they do a nice job. I think good.

Yeah. Yeah. Like that. Do you ever do the thing where a game doesn't have a photo mode and you try to take screenshots anyway and like make it cool? Because that goes back to me with Eldon Ring. All the time. I tried to do that with, uh, I think they had a photo mode actually, but, um, it wasn't

too in depth, which disappointed me a bit, but with, uh, astrobot. They have kind of a sort of, sort of photo mode. Dude, if you're going to do a photo mode, do a fucking photo mode. The photo modes that are the most half-assed, like, cool, it's a photo mode. It's got the borders. You can't, I've had them where you can't even spin it. I'm like, this is just an enhanced share button. This sucks.

Don't do this. What I'm saying. This is it. Like, yeah, commit to the photo mode or don't have it. But I have done that thing, blessing where I'm just, like, positioning the camera during gameplay and hitting that, like, screenshot button and being like, all right, this is fine. enough, the UI is still there. Sorry, what?

Like, just this is good enough, even though the UI is still there. Exactly, yeah, exactly. Like, the menu, I can see the menu, I can see all the stuff. I can see my health bar, but yeah, I will attempt to do that if I like a game enough. Do you have a top three photo modes if you had a rank? Oh, God. Well, definitely Red Dead Tsushima and Spider-Man just because they, oh, but, oh, man. Last of Us, part one remastered, had a great,

one and also God of War Ragnarok, great one. I think I still have to go with the first three that I said, though, for like top, in terms of like the photo mode themselves, like, regardless of the game's quality, like the photo modes, I have to say, oh God, it did rank those three. Lighting alone, maybe Spider-Man's number one. Wow. Because of the lighting choices, but I'm wondering if maybe Red Dead and Ghost of Sushima had the lighting choices, but I just never used them.

Or like, maybe I just didn't mess around with that part of it then. Okay, for now, I'll say Spider-Man, Sushima, Red Dead, just in terms of Sushima takes it one degree over Red Dead because of the weather that you can control. But Red Dead was my first photo mode love. So there we go. We have a bunch of super chats riding in with questions for Jack and us as well. Matt Irby says, photo modes become a standard in high-fidelity AAA games. Would you be excited if games started developing a game?

good clip mode to edit videos. I feel like there's been a lot of attempts at that over the years. We know about Seafood. See you had a really good one. Yeah. There's the theater mode back in like Halo 3 even that like people took really seriously. But yeah, seafood actually, that was a great one because like I remember I remember messing around with it and like I went through one of the challenge levels and went back and just cut all

the angles to try and turn it into a kung fu movie. And like it felt cool. Like I can see if I can find it. But yeah, the Sifu one was pretty good. Wait, so what did Sifu? Because I love Sifu, and I messed around with their photo mode a little bit. They had a mode where you could basically like replay the fight you just had. Like I-

Exactly. I think you would, yeah, replay the fight or like you would, I think, maybe start the clip and then end the clip at a certain sequence. And then they had a video editing mode where you can like go back. Kind of like free camera. Free cam and, yeah, change all the angles and do cool stuff with it. I would love that. To me, that's like the next logical step.

in a way. Like, that'd be, maybe that'll, you know, create a real-life love of, like, directing or something. That'd be kind of cool. But, yeah, I would be definitely interested in something like that. Greg, what's the blue name there? I can't see it. Pixelated Soul. Says, Halo 3 lets you replay entire online matches.

You can move the camera anywhere on the map through the entire map. Why is that not become a standard thing? That's how a lot of Red versus Blue, like, the majority of the show was created even. It was, like, just being able to, like, free cam and stuff with a just, Halo online matches, which is so cool. That was like 2007. It's crazy that we had that back then. I love the idea that when Jack is all done being an actor,

he's just a photographer. And it all started here. It's like Randy Johnson, who is a very famous MLB pitcher, who's now just a professional photo guy at the sidelines. I try to. Jeff Bridges has this incredible book that he released of just shots that he took on all of his movies.

And it's out there. It's so good. I think someone gave it to me. for Christmas one year, but you look through it and he takes it on this insane camera that's like super the image he gets is super long and wide

but it's like shots of Downey Jr. on Iron Man and like Big Lebowski. It's like every movie he's been in he's taken some photos on it and it's so cool because that's that's his photo mode baby. That's I love that.

So I've tried to do that with any project I've been on. I've tried to like take photos while I'm kind of in the world of the show or the movie or whatever. I couldn't do it on Oppenheimer because Nolan does not allow photos or phones, period, on his set. So I was like, I was bummed because that's the ultimate photo mode. Yeah. It's just like, oh my God. But also I didn't necessarily want to be going up to Killian Murphy being like, can you just, can you?

So, yeah. I was playing Spider-Man and it made me want to take photos. I mean, speaking on that. So I was playing Spider-Man, Killian. What are your, like, coworkers, co-stars, whatever you call them, feel about this? Like, are they aware of this obsession? And do people judge you? Do they support it?

Is there somewhere in the middle? They like it. That's the thing is that they, I kind of started doing it with this cast. And I think they've, like, seen the photos. And they're like, we like these photos. We trust you now. But yeah, I like to try to get people when they're not posing. When they're, it's kind of candid and when they're like in the middle of something.

And sometimes it comes out to someone being kind of making what I like to call an in-between face where they're like kind of half blinking or coming out of a blink or whatever. But sometimes, and this is why I like live photos because you can tweak it to where people are slightly more focused, I guess. I really like just catching a moment and telling a story and trying to get something that's not necessarily posed. Actually, I do have a separate Instagram account that's way smaller than mine, but it's called photos, or no, photo, photo by JQ.

What? What? How did I not know about this? Why did you tell me? I completely do it on my account, but if you want to bring it up, I'm pretty sure Photos by JQ. virtual photography on that too. I haven't like posted on there in a while, but.

That's awesome, dude. I was kind of like, oh man, am I going to have like an entire, yeah, yeah. So these are just, these are like from, from, yeah, there's some Spider-Man. There's some, yeah, virtual photography. But then there's also just like other stuff I've done. So are, what are you shooting on? That's, that's an iPhone. Are they all just iPhone?

Have you, have you dabbled with like, quote-unquote real cameras or are you just straight up on iPhone? Well, that's the thing about a real camera. I like the idea of it, but then I'm on a set, and I have to bring this, like, large-ish thing. And I kind of like the idea of just, like, I already have this phone, so I'll just use that. Oh, I love this one of Carl. If you go, it's like a black and white one. It's next to... In the middle there with the food?

Yeah, that's cool. And this is what I'm talking about. I'm like, it's like I'm playing the video game of the boys. Yeah. And I gets like, oh, that'd be cool. And that's our camera operator, Adam. Yeah, I love this. And then, oh, I have Danny Jollis's wedding right next to that one.

You mean Danny Jalz from this week's kind of funny podcast? Look at him. Look at them go. There's Nick. But yeah, no, I, uh, yeah, people's weddings are big for me. So I'm just like, all right, here we go. I got to bring the A game. That's awesome, Jack.

Yeah, this is super rad. Yeah, there's Aaron. You know, all stuff. So do your co-workers have thoughts on your virtual photography? Wait, hold on. Before you, because that's my question. Is this virtual photography in the video games? Is this just something you're sharing once in a while on Instagram?

Or is it like your girlfriend comes over? Like, look, honey, look at this. You show all these photos. I do, I do do that. I'm just like, check this one out. She's like, yeah. She's like, that's a cool photo. But, you know, but no, I think it's really like, well, I used to post them on Twitter because there used to be, A, I used to be on Twitter.

And B, there used to be a thing where it could just go right from the PlayStation to, and the PlayStation would post it to your Twitter for you. Yeah. And I love that. Yeah, that's how I started with Red Dead. And I actually liked that a lot better because the photos were slightly more high-deaf than the PS app. But, yeah, I think with the verse. virtual photography, sometimes people like the cast members would see me posting them. And I've gotten reactions from like, those are pretty cool to they should be paying you for this.

I'm like, no, they shouldn't. That's so funny. But I, yeah, I think I'm kind of one of the only members of at least the boys' cast that plays a ton of video games. Like it's me and Jesse who plays A-Train. We're like the people who play games on the show. Yeah. That's right. So Jesse gets it.

Camron says delayed birthday tax because I wanted to ask if there are any games you want a photo mode for that don't already have it. I need one in Expedition 33. Happy birthday. Kerman. Yeah, we talked about this a little bit, but are there any others that pops to your mind, Greg? I love you if they added a photo to older games. Sorry, you weren't asking me. Yeah, well, Mario 64.

Let's go. I'll talk about this. I'll talk about this later. Greg, you go ahead. No, no, no, please. I go because I got to think of something. Okay. I was just replaying three.

like PlayStation Plus or whatever like I was replaying like Jack 2 and I'm like that'd be fun that'd be fun to have one in like or a crash bandicoot but I get to go wherever Super Mario 64 is that what you just said

yeah yeah that'd be amazing they're so good yeah I don't I don't have old games make sense right but again it'd be something where am I gonna invest all that time in it I think chat correct me if I'm wrong

I took a lot of screenshots in the division, but I can't remember if the division had a photo mode or if that was me posing and doing the thing and trying to get it

how I wanted. So like that, even that's not a great answer because I can't remember either way, but it's like, yeah, it's more of the games that I'm going to be living in.

I'd love more with that. DTA San Andrea is, I think would be such a sick one for a photo mode. I think that one is like any open world game that has different types of environments where I'm doing a bunch of different things.

I think that gives you a lot of opportunities to just frame really cool shots in. David, The good world is definitely better. David Tim says, hey, Jack, huge friend of your work. You have a great artistic eye for composition. Any interest in moving on to directing in the future? Oh, man.

I think primarily, thank you, sir. I think primarily I want to like, if I'm doing anything in addition to acting, I'd love to be doing, to be writing, but also, I don't know, photo mode, I now talking about it. Like, this is really the longest amount of time I have talked about photos, like, ever. Like, I just kind of do it and post it, but I don't really talk about it often. And I'm realizing in this moment, like, yeah, maybe one day. That'd be cool.

I got very excited when Blessing you said that there was a video editor essentially for a seafood. I was like, okay, like, maybe one day. That'd be really, really cool. It's making me more. I just know being a director is a lot of responsibility, and it's a very tough job. And the people who do it well are so, so talented and cool. But, yeah, maybe. Maybe.

Maybe I will. This is what they're missing a golden opportunity. I'm reaching out and I'm talking right now to you, Andrew Goldfarb from Sucker Punch. All right. You got Ghost of Yote coming up when? October 16th. That's right. No.

October 2nd. You make that of? October 2nd. Chat correct me of wrong. October 2nd. Ghost of Yote is coming up in October 2nd says Cameron Kitty. I was right. It's coming up.

Work with Jack Quain. Either get him up there early just to play it and take photos. Or do in L.A. There's all these art galleries in L.A. Do one that puts up all his stuff, and it's a promotional event. Here, Goal Farr, I'm doing it for you, all right? I'm planning it. Brian Fleming at a sucker punch.

I'm planning the event for you. Have a hands-on preview event, launch party, whatever you want the industry side of it to be. And then it's at an art gallery with Jack Quaid's photos of one up. There you go. That's a million-dollar idea. Jack's a lot of stuff. I mean, I'm in if this is at all a possibility. this is like the greatest thing I've ever heard of.

We're on it. I'm like, I took these in a game. CJ writes insane. Jack, do you have any opinions on viewfinder or Pokemon Snap? Ooh. Well,

if I'm actually being honest, Pokemon Snap back in the day was probably actually my first experience with virtual photography. It didn't necessarily give me the bug because I was just trying to like, you know, play that game. Did you ever, did you ever go to Blockbuster?

and print out your pictures? No. Oh yeah, that was an option. I never did that, but I remember, wow, you just gave me like a full on. It's crazy, right? Like, people get, people buy those kiosks on eBay for like thousands of dollars.

And like, out of you, you were probably a little too young for this. Like, when Pokemon Snap came out and Pokemon Stadium as well, there was obviously photo modes and Pokemon Snap,

that's the whole game. Yeah. But there was a photo mode in Pokemon Stadium. I guess this is my, my photo mode story is I got so into taking pictures of my blast oasis and shit, then you literally would take your N64 cartridge to a blockbuster

and plug it into a kiosk and they would print out sticker versions of your pictures. Oh, that's cool. I think I do remember taking photos of a blastoyce in Pokemon Stadium, but I don't think I ever knew about the feature we can you print it out? That's cool. Crazy. Can I give you a super chat that's not a super chat? But is right up

our alley and I'm surprised we didn't even think to mention it. Alex Jay Sandoval BS'd me. That's blue sky'd meet him. And says, hey, game over great. Couldn't make this a super chat for some reason, But Jack Quaid and other video game photographers should check out photo mode.io. It's made by Isaiah Smith, Janet's partner, a great place to share your pictures with others. And I totally spaced on this.

Of course, Isaiah, a friend of this show has a site he's made where you can just go and upload your photo modes and check out other photo modes and search by game and do these things. Very cool. Photo mode.io. Hey, photo mode. dotio get ready for 300 more pictures crash the server Nate fletcher says Jack especially victory royale

that's gonna be the first one from Jack Quaid uploaded Nate says Jack will you be our champion for a Red Dead movie or TV series in the future I mean of course I feel like everyone is screaming for that though right like everyone like of course

I'll be there but I'm like I feel like that Jack Black song that he made the video game song was just like a basically a rallying cry for that. Like, yes, I would love that so much. But here's the thing, though, with that, I think it would have to be a TV show, I think, because it's such a huge sprawling story.

But part of me is kind of like, I mean, the acting and the story is so good in the game. Do we need? Like, my favorite parts of The Last of a show are when they kind of deviate from the plot that I know. So I would love to see something in that world. I like what Fallout's doing when they're like, here's the world you know, but we have our own characters within it.

I love that too. But yeah, done. I'll be your champion for that. Sure. Hell, yeah. That'd be incredible. I'm sure they'd come out. I feel like we've just recently started to crack the code of like video game

adaptation. So yeah, I think that'd be great. Yeah, we got a couple back to back ones here in that vein. Cedar Szil says, What game movie or series would you love to star in? And Yang Pham says,

Jack, if you could star as the main protagonist in a AAA game, what genre or game would you want to star in? So would you be interested in being in a actual game? And is there any game that you'd want to play in the movie or TV adaptation? Well, I can't believe you guys have forgotten my incredible lauded turn as Deerhiel in Lord of the Rings, Shadow of Mordor. How could you forget? That was my first, like, experience doing that.

And that was so cool to do. Because last of us had just come out. and I was playing it and I was loving it and I was like oh my god you can have like real nuance and performance in games now and then I like show up to that audition

for that game and I'm working with Troy Baker for this audition and then it's like me in the like that's how I know all those guys like that's Nolan was on that game John DiMaggio John DiMaggio was on that game

Laura Bailey J.B. Blanc like all these incredible people were there on one day and I got to be in mocap studio doing that. I'd kill to do that again. I would love to do that again. Yes, sign me up a thousand percent. I don't, what genre, just something where it's like a really good, just something with a really good story. I think I, at this point, I love, I don't know, I love the stories Noddy Dog tells. I love the stories Sony, Santa Monica tells. I love

soccer, I love them all. Like, they're all just great. So if they'll have me, I'd love to be there. That'd be so cool. But in terms of like, yeah, go ahead. Push for a Superman game. Your Superman Jack. Let's get at my adventures of Superman game. That'd be amazing. I'd be so into that. A thousand percent, yes.

No, I'm totally down. I would love, I think that that our particular universe lends itself to, I mean, yeah, because it's kind of anime inspired, like, and Superman kind of powers up throughout the course of that series. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very, you know, I'm still pushing for, and this is what you have to watch Novocate on Paramount Plus. I want a Novakane, Roguelight, where you are, like, you have, you have a run, you're going on a run,

and you, eventually, you know, he can't feel pain, but eventually he can die. So it's like a run, you know, you take it as far as you can go. But yeah, in terms of, there was another question there in terms of, like, a game, what was it? Like, what kind of adaptation? Like, what, is there a game character you'd want to play in the movie or TV adaptation of a game? And Anthony Adams says, hey, Jack, watch. Novakane recently and I loved it. I can't be the only one that got major Max Payne vibes from you at certain points.

Was that intentional? I don't think it was intentional, but I remember being there shooting in that like leather jacket and tank top on that day. And people have told me I look like Max Payne. But what's the actor? He's also the developer, right? Sam Lake. Sam Lake.

Sam Lake. People have told me I've looked like him for a very long time. And I remember being there on the day with the, uh, with that get up on. And they took a shot of me like a, you know, someone was on set doing on set photography. And they took a shot of me like aiming the gun at the lens. And I think there was a few, including our two directors, Dan and Bobby, who were like us, huge nerds. They were like, this looks exactly like Max Pay. Nailed it.

God, that's so cool. So like, I totally get the, yeah, I totally get the comparison. I mean, I mean, that'd be, look, I'd play Max. That's literally the shot. Wow, that's, that's insane. That'd be so cool. I'd be down. I'd be super down to do that.

We'll let Sam know. Yeah, I mean, also, he has the rights to that. So I'll slow my own. Zombie Keegan says, birthday tax, happy birthday zombie. Quaid Army reporting for duty. I love that the Quaid Army is just growing. It is out there.

Do you have any thoughts on the quade army? But you know what that means, right? That has nothing to do with me. No, God. No, I don't know. Please explain. Okay. This is another long walk, but Quaid Army is the name of the fan base of the Lonely Island and Seth Myers podcast.

Stay with me now. We're with you. So they did a sketch. They have a podcast right now, the Lonely Island, Andy, Yorma, Kiva, and Seth Myers, they have a podcast where they recap and basically explain how they, behind the scenes, details of every digital short they ever made on SNL. I would highly recommend that it's super fun. They call themselves Quaid Army because they did a sketch, a live sketch on SNL a while ago where Andy plays Quato from Total Recall. And a thing he says is, any of you Quaid's got a smint? That's like a thing he says in the sketch.

And he calls everybody Quades because Arnold Schwarzenegger is named Quaid and Total Recall. Anyway, so they started calling themselves Quaid Army. I then, they allow people to send in voice notes and they asked me to send in one kind of explain. how I felt about that. And I'm just like, I love it. I love it. I think it's so fun that this has absolutely nothing to do with me or anyone I'm related to.

But it's weird to hear my name constantly said to me, even though it has nothing to do. It's very, very strange. Now they'll just directly call me out on the podcast. And so my friends, particularly Carl Urban, will call me Quedo. And that's kind of become a nickname that is stuck with a bunch of my friends. So now Andy Sandberg, during the middle of their podcast,

out of nowhere, we'll just be like, he knows I'm listening in my apartment. So he just goes, Quido, what's your cooking? Like, it happens constantly. So sorry, that's a huge deviation. I love it. That's the Kuwait Army means. No, that's amazing.

That's so good. Sort of. I wondered about it because so many people were saying it when you were announced this. And it was like, I know Jack doesn't like stream. How is he getting a Kuwait army off the ground? What's he doing? Well, it's because he's freaking everywhere. Coley OCD Super Chats in saying,

how is Jack Quaid on the front page of every streaming service, but also have this much time to go on Phonebook? I swear to God, there must have been a time that you are on the front page of every single major streaming service. It was strange this year because I basically made, I made like four movies, but it was over the stretch of like a year and some significant change.

But then somehow they all came out within like four months of each other. So it just seems like all of a sudden, I'm in everything. And I have something coming out July 2nd, and I swear to God, that's the last thing until the guys are going to God. I swear to God. What is it? Tell people about it.

Oh, yes. It's called Heads of State. It's a, I'm only in like this much of it, but it's a very fun movie. It's an action movie. This is the premise, and I love it because it reminds me of like, in the best way, a movie that I would watch as a teenager at a sleepover with my friends. John Sina plays the President of the United States. Idraselva.

What? Ideselva plays the Prime Minister of the UK. Oh, hell, yeah. And they're supposed to have this special relationship, but they actually kind of hate each other. And then they're both riding in Air Force One as kind of a sign of good faith. Then it gets shot out of the sky. They survive.

And it's kind of like lethal weapon or like a buddy cop thing, but with the two of them. That's awesome. It's very great fun. Priyanka Trojanus is also in it. She's amazing in it. And I show up for like one really fun sequence. Oh my God. Look at your hair.

Yep. That's me. But yeah, it's a, it's a very, very fun movie. It's just one of those action movies that's like, it's just so unbelievably fun. And the guy that directed it, his name is Ilya Nyshler. He directed Nobody, which was one of my favorite action movies ever. And he crushed it. He's so good, such a talented guy.

So go check it out. It's on Prime Video on July 2nd. It's going to be fun. Did you get to meet John Cena? Dude, I have a full-on scenes with the two of them. That's fucking incredible. What are you talking about? It was the greatest moment of my life.

So cool. Oh, man. And like the character is supposed to be a huge fan of his. So it was like, I'm not acting. It's really cool. And then the last super channel I'm going to get to today is Ben Starr, just saying in all caps, notice me, Jack. You guys need to become best friends.

Not only do I notice you, but I love you and I can't wait to play your game. I don't know why I'm shouting at the camera like he can't already hear me. I love it, man. And when you're off, I have already sent you your code for lush foil and Ben has sent me to send you expedition. So you're all sat there. You're all. Dude, you're going to love expedition, man. I swear to God.

I think that immediately. That's so, okay. Thank you. Thank you, Ben. Thank you, Greg. That's so cool. Well, thank you, Jack, for joining us today. Always a pleasure having you on the show.

Of course, you are welcome anytime. Before we let you go, is there any other thing you want to pimp out here? That's it. I swear to God. Thank you so much. It was so cool to actually talk about photo mode for like a long time. I don't know. I'm going to probably take way too many photos now in there.

Thanks for having me on, guys. This is so cool. You guys are the best. No, honestly, you got me super excited for that. Because I was like, oh, next week with that's training. I can do that. So I'm super stoked, too. Yeah, good stuff, man.

Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, everyone, for watching. The day is just beginning. We're about to do Superman 3 in review. And then after that, nothing because we're prepping for the Death Striding 2 stream. Everyone, prepare your body's minds and souls for this weekend. The Death Stranding 2 marathon stream is about to be absolutely insane. Greg's parade, it's going to be something.

Oh, also I can say, finally, definitively, my wedding video will debut on Monday. my birthday, June 30th, at noon. So that'll be a YouTube premiere for everybody to watch. So yeah, it's going to be a lot of stuff happened in the next couple days. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm going to Jack, big times you didn't come to your wedding. No, well, I wonder why. I'm so sorry.

No, no, no, it's too late where we're taking the codes back. No, no, thank you. Thank you. Anyways, I love you all. Goodbye.