The Besties - The Besties Podcast - V

Episode Date: March 23, 2012

Last week, we decided that Journey had the ability to bring about peace in the Middle East, what's gonna have even half a shot at beating a game like that? You buddies The Besties are trying to find out! Won't you join them? We hope you will. Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!

Are we gonna start this thing? Well, we're talking, so we'll say something funny for Griffin at the beginning of the show. Say something funny, Justin. How about, like, a really long beep? Like... I don't think that's gonna help. Yeah, we could make, like, a techno song. Be like...

How's your afternoon, Griffin? Oh, just doing that? Well, enjoy. Hello, my name is Justin McElroy, and I know the best game of the week. Hi, my name is Griffin McElroy. Everyone else's games are dog sh**. Hi, my name is Chris Plant, and I have a game to talk about this week. You're not going to say it's good? It's okay.

Oh, that's a winning endorsement. And my name is Ross Fershtek, and I have a rather awesome game to talk about this week. Between us, we will battle Battle Royale Hunger Games for the top spot this week. We will pit our games against each other in Mortal Kombat. My game is the Sephiroth-looking bad boy from the end of the movie. My game is the red shirt that gets killed at the beginning. Okay, crossing our mythologies there, but God bless. My game is Han Solo.

My game is Firefly. So we will pick the best game of the week that is released recently, the best game of the week that is released uh recently and uh that game will be pitted against our current favorite chris plant what is the current best game of the year the current best game of the year is journey a game that solved the middle east crisis uh do you it didn't really solve it but like it might be solving it yeah we don't know what's going on when like you're listening to this podcast can you give a quick can you remind everyone real quickly why um why how it did that how it did that yeah you you play as uh as a fabric man in a giant sand world mr sheets mr sheets is his name uh and you meet meet Mrs. Sheets some way across the journey.

But you don't know who is playing Mrs. Sheets. It could be the Prime Minister of Israel. Right. And you could be the Prime Minister of Palestine. Of Palestine. You don't know, though. In this scenario. God, I hope he listens.

He's a big gamer. Russ, do you know the names of those people yeah yeah yep yeah okay just gonna keep them keep them a secret though yep yeah uh so let's get into this week's games griffin who is going first this week um who can hold their breath the longest are we supposed to start i lost hello i think i think they're still holding their breath wait can i start i'm gonna start now um so i'll go last then justin before me and then play up to us you should start because you didn't even do the thing. I did. I just started later than you guys. Alright, so Russ is gonna

kick us off. Okay, so to kick us off, I've got a game that I'm sure all of you have been waiting for months. A little game called Angry Birds Space. The wait is over.

The wait is over. You Corpo sellout out hey just you always champion these indie games how much did rovio pay you rovio is what sort of an indie developer how many they just have hundreds of billions of dollars they have stuffed animals just because they can buy and sell china with the money they've made on Angry Birds doesn't mean they're not an indie. I have bad news for you, Russ. What? If your game is on a shirt at Walmart next to the Funyuns, you ain't street.

Hey, there's now candy, Angry Birds candy that you can buy. Corpo. Russ, you ain't street. Okay. I might not be street, but Angry Birds Space is quite good. Let me throw it down for you. Go. So obviously everyone's familiar with Angry Birds.

You know the concept, you hurl the birds, pigs, etc. So in Angry Birds Space, the game is set. Where do you guys think the game is set? I'm not a child. Why do you have to talk to Griffin like he's a child? Okay, so it's set in space. Oh, cool. If it wasn't, obviously. And so the mechanics that get introduced in space are very gravity-centric.

So there'll be, like, planetoids and planets. Wait, I'll save it. Yeah, save it. Come on. This is me trying to tell you how great this game is. He's pouring his dark corporate heart out. Chill away. So you're using these gravity

wells to sort of ricochet and fling birds using momentum into the pigs and sometimes there's no gravity at all so it almost plays like a game of pool from the top down where like things are just flying everywhere and the gravity

introduces a new strategic mechanic where you can see where the bird's trajectory is based on how close you are to a planet. So you can plan your first shot, and then it becomes a lot less random. It's much more strategic than the other Angry Birds games. Also, it's in space. How did the—can I— Yeah, yeah, ask questions. That's fine. Also, it's in space. How did the... Can I...

Yeah, yeah, ask questions. That's fine. Those birds and those pigs would be destroyed. I'm glad you asked that. Instantly. I'm glad you asked that. Okay, so the birds are futuristic birds. They might be robots.

I don't want to spoil it. Cybirds. Cybirds. And the pigs are in bubbles, so they're fine. But if you collide a bird with a bubble... Yeah, so the bubble explodes, and then the pig flash freezes and then dies horribly. Oh, my God. Like, every atom of them freezes and then shatters.

So it's pretty realistic. All their blood comes out, crystallizes. They really researched it. When you are exposed to the vacuum of space, your eyeballs get sucked out of your head. Does that happen to the pigs? Maybe on the new iPad, it's like more high resolution. Did you see Alien Resurrection?

Yeah. You remember when the baby alien gets his face sucked out the window? That's the boss fight. Is that what it looks like? Yeah. Do you remember the movie Event Horizon? Yeah, I love that movie. You know the part where the guy gets sucked into space and his eyeballs freeze?

Does that happen? Well, yeah. I mean, Sam Neill does the voiceover for Angry Birds Space. I bet that's great. And he talks about that scene. Wait, do you remember the movie Stepmom yeah that movie was sad here's what i'm gonna say is angry bird space quite good it's only a dollar uh if you really are skeptical it's three dollars if you want to get the hd version um but i don't i find it more fun than any angry Birds game before it, which is, I think, saying a lot.

Now, I'm no Neil deGrasse Tyson. Okay. But why does every planet have the same gravity? It doesn't. Different planets have different gravities. What up? What up? Nice try, science.

Oh, great. Who did they work with? NASA? They did. Great. They actually bought off the International space station to give you how much an idea how much money they have they paid astronauts to pitch angry bird space to the world they're not getting money from anywhere else the government's like no so they need to

go into space go to those angry birds dudes if i was in space yeah there would be no amount of money you can pay me to like take a break out out of squirting water into the air and trying to eat it with my mouth to film a space commercial for a mobile game. How about like $6 million? Yeah, that would do the trick. Yeah, okay. How would they get that money to you? What if you needed the money to buy your space fuel to get back? What if they marooned you on Mars,

and you had to do a commercial to get enough money for space fuel. And that is how Mass Effect 3 ends. That's why everyone's so upset. And Sam Neill shows up. Chris Plant, what's the best game this week? The really good game that I brought to talk about is MLB The Show on the PlayStation Vita. You got two minutes.

Go. So MLB The Show is baseball, and you play as your favorite baseball team. And I don't know a lot about baseball. Can I play as the League of their Owns? It's my time. It's my time. it was their time then it was the war they were a distraction from a country's grief anyway so i play as the kansas city roy, who are not very good, which makes the game very difficult, because I don't know how to play baseball anyway, so I just lose a lot. I don't really think it's that good of a game.

It probably actually is if you know anything about baseball, but I don't. Walk me through the selection process. And I was like, hey, how do I pitch? And it just said, move the analog sticks up and down and time it for the pitch fast. And I said, what's that? And then the game wouldn't tell me. And then it was like, if you want to progress, you should work on being a clutch pitcher. So I said, okay, where do I update my clutch skills? work on being a clutch pitcher so i said okay where do i update my clutch skills and there is a menu with like a hundred different attributes none of which are clutch so you're supposed to

like no no no bring good so i i i played the game let me finish i played the game for another five hours as a triple a minor league player and then the manager fired me because i didn't improve my clutch skills you weren't clutch enough i wasn't clutch enough but i did pretty good i like you know we're filming worsties tomorrow right and then we're doing we're shooting ironic besties on saturday no no and i think this game could go in either category here's here's why i think it is the best game. Maybe ever. I did learn that when you are a pitcher in baseball, you don't always want to throw strikes. Sometimes you want to throw balls because then you trick the people. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. You can't bring the game of baseball to besties.

Don't you always throw balls? What else do they let you throw? No, no. Balls. Oh, my God. So a ball in pitching. I know what a ball is. I'm not eight.

No, a ball is you throw the ball outside of the batter's box. See, Justin, there's an area that extends from a man, a batter of any gender, that extends from his knees to his shoulders and extends about two feet out. And that is the strike zone. And literally anywhere else on the planet is the ball zone. So if you throw a ball anywhere on the whole earth other than that one box, it's a ball. All right. I think I got it now.

Most of the balls thrown on the planet on any given day are balls. That's why they're called balls. Yeah. Because they're not. For the most part, most balls aren't being thrown in a strike zone. But the ones that are are called strikes. It's much like the Catholic tradition of transmutation, right? For that moment, it is no longer ball.

It is flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure it's transubstantiation not transmutation wait i can turn this i can turn this wafer this communion wafer into gold what is the transfiguration that's a harry potter magic right now what is transmogrification that is the calvin and hobbesbes sci-fi conceit. What is the Leaky Cauldron? This is also Harry Potter. What is Bumblebee? That is from baseball. Who is

Bumblebee? What is basketball? Who is Babe Ruth? I think that's our number one pick. Do we even need to keep going? Yes, we definitely, definitely do. Guys, before we go any further, I just want to say Angry Birds Space is a really great game. Yeah, it is.

Okay, good, good, good. Let's take a quick timeout. Who's got something that's been on their heart, really? They just want to come forward and just spill it. Guys, Survivor update. Colton is... Okay, spoiler. No, guys, this is never...

Survivor can never become a part of this. I'm two episodes behind. You can't do this to me. Oh, my gosh. Thank God. Survivor can never become a part of this. I'm two episodes behind. You can't do this to me. Oh, my gosh. Thank God. I will try to catch up. Plant, do you want to talk about the Bachelor finale? Oh, I do.

I can't believe that Courtney stayed. I can't believe that Courtney got it. I mean, apparently Us Weekly had this, like, weeks before the show, but I don't read Us Weekly. Do you? I don't, no. She was shopping wedding dresses, but I think she was just doing that to raise America's hackles.

You know what I mean? Do you know Ben was kissing other girls? I saw he was kissing other girls, and he went on that ABC After the Rose, and he was like, I wasn't kissing anybody. I was like, dog, I saw the pic. I saw the JPEG, Benjamin. Like triple pic.

F***. What? F***. F***balls. F***. Okay. Hey, Justin, what would you like to talk about? Just anything other.

No reality show. We got to ban reality shows from this show. No reality TV. Let's talk about geocaching. I'm thinking about getting into it, guys. Yeah. What do you think? You guys ever do geocaching?

Actually, so here's something interesting. I heard about a geocaching incident at Disneyland recently. Did you guys hear about this? No. Tell me. So apparently some intrepid gentleman was into geocaching. We all know what geocaching is before I go on? You should probably tell everyone.

Okay. So geocaching is basically you have these, like, objects that you hide in, like, a fake rock or something. And you, like, post the location online, but give, like, a vague hint. It's like a treasure map. And then people go and try to find it. So it's, like, a little fun, like, metagame that people play in the real life. In real world.

Like baseball? similar to baseball except for it looks like you're planting a bomb yeah so and in disneyland uh this intrepid gentleman thought it'd be a good idea to put a geocache in the like main fountain as you walk into disneyland you know what i'm talking about just like yeah and stuff uh he decided to put the geocache inside a pipe shaped object and it might have had some wires sticking out of the back so well that's a that's a pipe bomb that would be a pipe bomb uh but yeah it was just a geocache but it shut down disneyland for about six seven hours but there were some people stuck in disneyland that could ride all the rides without lines because everyone else was stuck outside oh my god i bet that's what they told people but i bet you chip and dale had them in a back room somewhere waterboarding them

that might have happened too but i would recommend uh not making geocaches look like pipe bombs to get on rides at disneyland i don't think that's a a sound idea guys talking about disney real quick you remember that show tailspin yeah i loved it have you ever thought about like what that show is about yeah yeah they're like about they're drugs no they're not no they smuggle pop uh-huh or soda as some people call it yeah yeah they smuggle coke also that show is also about bears driving planes which is also you fly planes you don't drive Or soda, as some people call it. Yeah, they smuggle coke. Also, that show is also about bears driving planes, which is not safe. Also, you fly planes, you don't drive them.

Well, when you're on the tarmac. Guys, shout out, shout out, geocachers on YouTube. A show by my friend Sam Osterhout. So if you want to get caught up on geocaching. I don't. It's a great show. You know what is a great show tailspin thank you for mentioning it anyway what's our next game uh my i guess i'm i'm the uh the uh the next the next game uh my game this week is the hunger games not the hunger games but the book or the movie? Neither. It's the game.

The Hunger Games, the game. You mean inside the book? No, it's called The Hunger Games... Not The Hunger Games Actual, The Hunger Games Girl on Fire. That's the full name? The Hunger Games, not The Hunger Games Actual? The Girl on Fire? The full name is The Hunger Games Girl on Fire.

The game. The game game the movie game um so what's it about in the hunger games girl on fire i play katniss everdeen and i am the the bell of the district 12 it's sort of a coal rich area used to be appalachia where of course i still live now so she and i are really similar in a lot of ways we both have beautiful long hair and we're the the eye um the apple of the eye of some of the local neighborhood boys like pita the baker's son and also gail sort of a wild sort of a wild child kind of guy. These are real boys that fancy you. Yeah, so they fancy me. I have a younger sister, Primrose.

I've tried to teach her everything I know, and I love her so much. But then she is called up to be the tribute from District 12 and to compete in the Hunger Games, which is something rich people make us do because they hate the poor. But I told her I don't want her to participate in the 74th Annual Hunger Games. So I tell her I'm going to take her spot. Can you do that? Yeah, that's within the rules. Okay.

you do that uh yeah that's within the rules okay uh so i start training with hay flitch local town drunk who is the only district 12 tribute to one the hunger games and then the real meat of the problem it sounds like let me just say a giant spoiler for anyone that's interested in seeing the movie well i know this is like the first 10 minutes okay um and then uh i'm the main thing is like when these boys tell me that they both care about me it's like how do you choose you know sure i wouldn't pick the boy named gail gail is a it's a grandma name it's a grandma name exactly it's a naughty name that is the game justin you have managed to you have managed to talk about this game for two minutes without saying anything about it i'm a beautiful girl i get that i get that i get that are there

buttons are there prompts do you jump is there attacks i mean my heart jumps every time i see gail and orpita does that count let me ask you something is gail and orpita in the game i think we're talking about justin's real ass life right now i mean they're in the what do you mean i don't understand do they do you see gail and orpita when you're playing this game i see them every day i mean they when you close your eyes oh my god we're not talking about a game are we we've managed justin's justin's crossed over Do you shoot bees With a bow and arrow in this game Justin Shooting bees with a bow and arrow

I Have you played this game Did you bring a title of a game And then start talking about your life He brought the name of a game To a podcast about game games uh the may the fortune find your favor justin you didn't play it you did this is worse than last week last week how much you played 10 minutes this you know how many minutes he played zero

i've played more of this hunger games game than Justin has. Can you pitch it for me, please? Can you just pitch it for me? Yeah, you're like a chick and you shoot bees with a bow and arrow. Wow. You did a shit job. Do a better job. He did better than you because he mentioned the thing. He mentioned things that you do. What if, Griffin, I am

starving. I live in the poorest district in all of Panem, okay? It is post-apocalyptic out here. I have one cat that hates my guts, and that's it. That's all I have. Wait, you don't have a cat. Your name is Katniss.

Okay, hold on. You're right. I did misread that. I have a cat named Butterbeer, and he hates my— That part is not actually true. What if Joey Canabibal is listening to this right now oh my god you just crushed his soul and i feel bad because i described his game as you shoot bees with a bow and arrow but joey cannibal is super hurt right now because you two talked

some magic about his game and i called him joey cannibal what's this adam adam real talk adam cannibal you know what justin never talk again i'm just gonna pitch the game briefly uh it's a free game based in the hungry girl hunger game hungry girl hungry god and let's go to taco bell you know it's sort of like cannibal where you have to like go on for as long as you can shooting bees but not like cannibal because there's actually an end where you fight a train and you don't shoot bees in cannibal or fight trains yeah have you played the game yeah i beat it actually wow it's nice that somebody here put in the effort if you beat it can you tell me whether or not i chose gail or pita at the end because i am having some trouble making up my mind neither gail nor pita appears

in the game that seems unlikely yeah surprising i mean maybe as like an add-on pack they are very important to me i don't see how that's possible wow i thought i was gonna lose for sure i thought well you're still gonna lose just not as poorly but i thought i was last place and i can i go yeah yeah please god my game this week is kid icarus uprising for the nintendo 3ds it's uh let me start out by saying it's an actual game i i have played it so i um it's a uh so it's it's really two games because the gameplay is sort of split up between two parts one is an on rails shooter where you're flying through the air and shooting things and those segments are um really neat because there are uh power-ups and it's it's technically a very

very tight shooter but uh there's this great uh score to the game that is interactive so like when you're like flying up the face of a mountain right as you soar over the peak and like see your destination like the music swells um uh those those segments are really very well produced um and it's one of the best looking 3ds games around and then there are ground segments where you actually you know get to move around and explore um and and those are great too uh but the thing i i don't know there's there's a a strange control scheme with the game which seems to be all that everybody talks about which is you move with the left stick and you shoot with the left trigger and you shoot with the left

trigger and you aim with the stylus on the screen. So it's sort of similar to Metroid Prime Hunters and Nintendo DS. And the game comes with a stand actually, because you have to, well, you don't have to, but it makes it a lot easier to support the system when you have it on this stand. Because you have one hand holding the stylus and one hand doing other stuff. So when you have it on this stand uh because you have one hand holding the stylus and one hand doing other stuff so unless you have a third hand or telekinesis it's what if you have mad guns yeah if you have mad guns it might help i've actually gotten to a place at almost everybody i've talked to uh it really does click eventually it's just sort of strange because you're used to aiming with the stick and there's some strange like you can play with the circle pad pro attachment but all you can do is reverse it so

that you move around with the right stick and shoot with your left hand so it makes it like a southpaw option instead of just giving you double sticks which is weird but there's so much cool stuff to the game like there's so many weapons to collect and you can fuse the weapons and like every weapon has certain properties so when you fuse them it not only turns into a new weapon but it can carry over properties from both weapons being fused so there's a lot of uh room for customization and there's a gambling aspect to it where every time you start a level you can bet a certain number of hearts to make it more difficult but you also get more rewards if you uh can pull it off and it's super funny it's it's really

really funny like it's funny in a way that some nintendo games are genuinely hilarious like talking about the jokes rpgs well there's okay so there's one fight i just did against uh this big dog boss and pit pit our protagonist just goes on this like two minute long tear where he's like after this if you're good maybe i'll take you on a walk and then i'll get you some treats then i'll pet you and then i will give you a bath do we have a tumbleweed sound effect no it's huh do you do you know do you know who wrote the game can i get an alley-oop from you, Griffin? Yeah. I'll help you out. Switch. The writer, one of the writers, is Mike Drucker, who is a former SNL and Onion writer.

So it should be funny because they actually hired, like, a legit funny person instead of just, like... It's just unfortunate that Griffin didn't actually mention a funny part. Well, if you would let me finish, that goof had a nice, nice, a dank payoff, but now it's over over not only will you never get it the listeners will never get it russ yeah so thanks russ thank you for every week i apologize f***ing up um so yeah it's a it's it's super good it does have a it has a i i have been describing it as a loving curve, not a learning curve. Oh. Because you can learn it pretty quick. But I didn't really enjoy.

Justin wants to show his loving curve to Gale. Sorry. Take that, Mike Drucker. I guess there's a new sheriff of Ha Ha Verge down. The new sheriff's rust fresh. That's a spittoon. That sounds great, Griffin. Good pick.

Hey, thanks. Still pretty mad at you, though. You know what I loved? There was another handheld system that came with a stand that everyone pretty much was a huge fan of. It was red

and had about three games and then um was put into a bunch of landfills because no one liked it gave me glaucoma the virtual boy you remember yeah i do so uh yeah well yeah in the way that uh kid icarus is handheld the 3ds won't burn the eyes out of your head unless you play it for more than two hours at a time. That is important. That is. Oh, my God. It's so important.

So let's talk about our favorite game of the week. Okay. Let's just take a consensus right now. I don't think Justin should win because he didn't play it. Agreed. census right now i don't think justin should win because he didn't play it agreed i don't think uh plant should win because baseball is old as and he didn't even really like it that much yeah okay so i guess the question the the competition is between kid icarus and uh and uh angry birds angry Space. How do you pick?

Well, I think Plant already said he likes Angry Birds. Is that correct? Yeah, but... Oh, what? He doesn't want to go full-blown Corpo shill out. Yeah, because Nintendo is indie as it gets. He's got street cred. He wants to support an indie like Nintendo.

I mean, indie's right in there. Indie-tendo. It's right there. I'm going to support the Indie-tendo game and cast my lot in with Kid Icarus. It sounds good. And honestly, Angry Birds, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not a guidance counselor on our lunch break. It doesn't sound very fun to me. I don't know what to tell you. I'm not a guidance counselor on our lunch break. Like, it doesn't sound very fun to me.

I don't know what to say. It sounds like dumbass Angry Birds again, except now you have to pay for it again. But physics and space, it's really good. Plant? I live on Earth. No, I'm going Angry Birds. Yeah. Okay, so it's Angry Birds.

Good pick, guys. No, it definitely isn't. It has to be Angry Birds, Griffin. I'm sorry. It can't. No, because Fresh Stick is voting for mine. I to be Angry Birds. Griffin. I'm sorry. It can't. No, because Fresh Stick is voting for mine. I'm voting for Fresh Stick. Justin, you're voting for mine.

Fresh Stick. You have to vote for somebody. Okay. So I'm going to vote for. I think just actually I did like Justin's game. Okay. Well, then I'm going to vote for baseball. Four way tie.

Good night, everybody. I'm trying to build a consensus now for Hunger Games. Okay. I feel like I've got, here's the thing. Life is hard here. Are you really bringing Hunger Games back to the discussion? No, we can't. I'm not going to say it's fun.

This is how I'm living day to day. But we're resilient people. Do they eat cat food in District 12? It would mean so much to us if you would give us, here in District 12, if you would give us this honor. It would mean so much to us if you would give up here in district 12 if you would give us this honor it would be it would mean a lot russ already has can i get either one of you guys just really help us out because that kind of notoriety might really help to get some some uh some assistance from the capital it really would really mean a lot to me guys i need a win

i listen i need you brought a game that needs a stand to have fun not if you're super beefy so maybe if you're i didn't know that you were dr no guns over there well operating without any professor but yeah how much does your game cost uh well if you get a review copy from nintendo it costs you zero dollars what what if you uh don't uh the stand actually costs 170 dollars that's pretty expensive that's pricey well it levitates angry birds uh they'll actually give you money if you download it okay uh i think it's got micro transactions it doesn't actually uh it has one you can buy one dollar oops watergate okay scandal uncovered okay so at most angry words is four dollars but it'll also cause you to at least do a cover-up with your best friends if we struck

out plants and justin's those two games are out justin's voting for mine plant is voting for fresh takes and we have to vote for each other's we got a two-way tie so really we need either plant or justin Justin to come down. Should we do an honest hold your breath competition? To determine? How are we gonna do it? We live so far away from each other. It will be unpoliceable.

Justin. I'm not gonna... Justin? Yeah. Justin. Yes. Who saved your tush today when you did not remember how to play your video game? Plant, you still owe me a vote for that one time I totally got your back. We can't do politics. Cash it in.

I'm cashing in my token. There are no rules in the Hunger Games. We're starving. Plant, give me this. There are rules. You have to use a bow and arrow. I need this. What the hell is that? Someone's at my door. Fineiffin you win yeah oh just because there was somebody at his door griffin wins that's actually a hitman but i will call him off now can we agree though that nothing in kid ikus is going to be as impressive as the ability to bring about peace in the Middle East.

Yeah. There's no way that's being a journey. Yeah, it won this week. Good work. Can I, I mean, can I, will you let me make a case? I don't care you. Let me make a case? It's got angels in it.

So, you know, who can really bring peace to Earth is angels. You guys maybe remember a Roma Downey vehicle from the 90s it was called touch by an angel and i think it taught us all a little something about on-rails shooters that needs and that is yeah i do like that this game is taking a stand though i like i like that aspect oh you you son you know it's a shame she never got a perfume because i think it would have I do like that this game is taking a stand, though. I like that aspect. Oh, you. You. Son of a... You know, it's a shame she never got a perfume, because I think it would have been pretty funny to see Aroma Downy on the shelves.

Like, that's her personal style perfume. So, Journey wins. Aroma Downy. Journey is the best game. Because aroma. Watch your back, Kid Icarus writers. This is the worst. We've got a Rio Algonquin roundtable here,

nipping at your comedy heels. Sorry, Drucker. So I guess we'll see you guys next week. Hey, Justin, can you do me a favor, though? Yeah. You want to play your game next week? If I can beat Mass Effect, I would be happy to. I'm trying to get through it.

Mass Effect came out like a month ago at this point. Yeah, like some of us work. Some of us have to keep you numbskulls in line. Busy man. I'm a busy man with lots of priorities. I got priorities for us. How many episodes of Justified did you watch last night? Three.

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