Video Gamers Podcast - Bioshock Antarctica, Chorus Release and Playstation GamePass - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: December 9, 2021

Gaming hosts Josh and Paul are back with another incredible This Week in Gaming. In this phenomenal episode, Paul gets Josh all riled up with talk of how much he enjoyed the Chorus demo. A beloved gaming franchise gets a new location as Bioshock heads to Antarctica and we chat the upcoming Playstation Plus and will it rival Xbox’s Gamepass? Thanks to our LEGENDARY supporters: Waynerman, TFolls, AceofShame, Jake, RangerMiller, and Ad  Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/multiplayerpodcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/multiplayerpod/ Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/MultiplayerPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: multiplayerpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And also, you will get access to exclusive Quick Take episodes, of which there are two released every week. I am your host, Paul. And then joining me, he is the champion, my friends. It's Josh. I am the champion of Rocket League. Is this the greatest achievement of your life to date, Josh? It is. My kids don't listen to the podcast, so it's safe to say that, yes, I did hit champion in Rocket League, Finally, it is one of my proudest gaming accomplishments. Maybe ever, because it is hard to do, man. That is not easy.

I took a photo of it. I shouted it to my family. They were like, whatever, you know, like you're such a nerd. And then I posted it to Discord where people were like, congrats. And I was, you know, I felt like I should have had like people bust in my room with confetti and trumpets or something. None of that actually happened. And then I actually started playing against champion level players and promptly got my butt whooped, but I made it, buddy. Nice. Now, is it like Overwatch where if you lose a couple matches, you'll lose champion status? So you're asking me if I am still champion, Paul? Yeah.

Are you a current champion, or are you now former Rocket League champion, Josh? I decline to answer that. Okay, fair enough. You cannot confirm nor deny. Yes, exactly. Oh, that's too funny. Thanks for bringing up bad memories now, Paul, this early in the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, you have always been Mr. Rocket League. I feel like

you play at least a couple hours every week going all the way back to when the game first came out. Yeah, that's a fair idea. I play a couple hours every week, minimum. Yeah, we're the OGs who paid for Rocket League back when it cost money. And I stopped playing, but you've stuck with it. And I see you pop in continually during the week. It's one of my favorite games. It's super fun to just hop into for a few matches if nobody's online. This is very, very rare for me. But if I just don't feel like

talking to anybody, you know, like I can hop into Rocket League and just play like some quick play or something like that. But yeah, that's the game that like fills that niche for me. Yeah. So normally at the beginning of these twig episodes where we talk about this week in gaming, we talk a little bit about what we've been playing in our solo gaming time so josh you were plugging away at rocket league any other news in your single player gaming man i a little bit of halo infinite still um i am very up and down in that game which leads to me thinking i am just hot stuff and then also hot garbage, which can lead to some frustration there. But I have been playing Painting Simulator, Paul, 2021.

Oh, is this like the next step of VR where you hold actual paint brushes in your house and paint the walls? It is, yes. And then I finally finished. My wife and I painted our bedroom and our bathroom. We got an astronomically high quote for a professional to do that. And then I finally finished. My wife and I painted our bedroom and our bathroom. We got an astronomically high quote for a professional to do that. And then we went, yeah, we'll just do it ourselves. I regret that decision. Money should be spent on professionals. And then I'm finally done. I announced it to the world. I'm finally done painting. Yes, I've been painting for literally two weeks now. It's a big room and tall ceilings and all that stuff. I'm carrying everything else to the garage.

And I don't know if you're like me, Paul, but I'm the kind of guy where I will literally carry every bag of groceries on my arms. One trip, buddy. One trip. So I'm doing that with all of the painting stuff. And I dropped the can of paint. Oh, no. And it exploded. It hit the ground and it exploded all over our laundry room.

And I was just like, I just started shaking my head. I was done. I was done painting, Paul. Then I exploded paint everywhere. I did not know this. Now, do you have like a wet shop vac that you were able to use to like at least vacuum up a lot of the paint? Or did you have to just start soaking it up with like rags and paper towels? Lots and lots of paper towels and wet rags.

And thankfully, it was in our laundry room. So, you know, it's kind of like an industrial room anyway, I guess. But it's got a new fresh coat of paint on the bottom of the door and along the wall. Thankfully, I missed all the clothes and everything else important. So I guess it really wasn't that big of a deal, but it was just that last little hurrah. Oh, man, that's too funny. Now, somehow, I don't know how it always gets brought up. I feel like you and I complain about painting at least once a quarter. It comes up all the time. I don't think we've ever talked about it on the show, but you and I famously hate painting and seemingly somehow convince ourselves it's not going to be that bad.

And next thing we know, we're painting multiple rooms and it's awful. Paul, you know who loves for us to paint is our wives. It's our wives. They're the ones that convince us it's not going to be that bad. Let's be real. It's always terrible. Oh man. The funniest thing is that the last room that we painted my wife and i decided okay let's paint this room here's the color we're gonna get

and then my wife ended up falling ill and we were going to paint it together oh and i was a little bitter that i ended up having to do all of it by myself i i remember being up until like 4 a.m and i was uh screwing back in all the blinds and rehanging them on the windows and uh i said after that i'm not painting for like at least six or seven years like we're not doing it anytime soon yeah thankfully it's done now i i kind of joked around until they decide they want a different color. Yeah. All right. Well, in my gaming time, I actually downloaded a demo of the game Chorus.

Now, Chorus just released. Wait, it's out? We talked about it. It's out. The game's out. It's a spaceship barrel roll game, right? This is the barrel roll game. Yes.

I had no idea it was out. It is out, yes. It just released, I think, on December 2nd or something. It's literally within the last couple of days. And I saw that it had a free demo, and so I thought, oh, why not? I'll just download the demo. I was not really expecting it to be anything all that special. I grew up loving any kind of air combat, space combat.

Yeah, you and I share that. We loved those games growing up. We loved like X-Wing versus TIE Fighter, all that kind of stuff. And after Squadrons came out, you and I really loved it for the first couple hours, and then it tanked very quickly. Yeah, quickly. Yeah, that was a little disappointing. And I kind of felt like maybe the genre is just past so i did not expect to like chorus it's actually really freaking good josh it's really good going with this man i was i was

kind of getting excited inside a little bit and i'm like paul's probably like stringing me along here there's a couple of really clever things that they do that at first i didn't think i would like but it actually makes the combat so much more fun so first of all the game design has an actual orientation so if your ship is like kind of upside down or something all you have to do is hit a button and it immediately reorients you. So you kind of know where you are, which is actually pretty handy. And the other thing is that, you know how in squadrons you were constantly having to decide like how much power do I put into speed versus shields? They got rid of that nonsense. That's good. That's good in theory. It really became

a problem in squadrons because like I get that that heightens the skill level, but it was too much juggling. Yeah, it is. Exactly. Yep. Yeah, it made your ship too high maintenance. So in Chorus, you just increase speed or you decrease speed until you stop. So they make that part simple, and then you just have three weapons. So you've got a laser, a Gatling gun, and some kind of missile. I don't remember the exact names. But as you fight different ships, you just swap between the right weapons. So we've seen this in tons of games, even in Mass Effect and stuff. If they have shields, you use your lasers.

They bring down the shield quicker. If it has armor, you use the bombs, and you use your Gatling gun for everything else. But the neat thing is that running on a cooldown, you can press a button and your ship teleports immediately behind whatever enemy ship that you're kind of looking at. So instead of constantly flying around space, like spinning like a madman trying to find an enemy, if that enemy gets a little bit out of sight you just pop a button and you're immediately behind it again so it keeps the action continual you're constantly just fighting and moving to the next target you're not ever stuck trying to find out where the guys are and it plays a lot like the old star wars games it's like escort this giant ship and kill these things that, honestly, they just operate like TIE fighters.

Fight them off. Now here come the big bomber ships. They've got turrets everywhere. You've got to blow up all the turrets on the big ships. And it actually plays really fun. And it's a $40 game. Oh, man. I'm kind of tempted to pick it up.

Next deep dive, Paul? Maybe. Dude, you are saying everything right to me right now. Yeah. Everything I wanted Squadrons to be, I feel like it's chorus. It's just not in the Star Wars extended universe, which is

a little bit of a bummer. I mean, it is, but I'm okay with that. I just want a good space combat sim. I don't know if you remember themer. I mean, it is, but I'm okay with that. I just want a good space combat sim. Yeah. I don't know if you remember the days of Freelancer or not, but I'm old enough to remember Freelancer. That was kind of the precursor to the Star Wars games. You know, that's funny, man, because the infinite loop of you chasing a guy and that guy chasing you and just circling over and over and over again is one of the things that I think people kind of naturally default to thinking. But why haven't we fixed that? You know what I mean? I'm chasing this guy. I'm constantly at full thrust and just turning as hard as I can. He's chasing me at full thrust, turning as hard as he can, and nobody ever catches each other. And so this teleport behind your enemy sounds like it keeps

the action basically like non-stop at that point yeah i i was browsing through some of the reviews and people were saying that if you want like a super realistic space simulator it's not this they were saying this is a little bit more arcade style super realistic space dog fighting like is there well is that realistic yeah there are people who want stuff like that you know like in this game i could see someone being like curmudgeony and saying oh it's like magic i can just teleport behind someone you know like that seems really dog fighting me yeah yeah that is magic so yeah i feel like this one does exactly everything perfect in regards to combat now as far as like any kind of storyline i had no idea what was going on

it seemed very confusing i don't think it's the kind of game you're primarily playing for the story um but it's pretty neat they also kind of incorporate sort of like No Man's Sky where you've got like your regular thrusters or you can hold a button to boost or you can hit another button that goes. So when you go between like large areas, you're actually going incredibly fast. So it makes the travel kind of fun as well. So we might have to check it out. I saw that there was a demo. I downloaded the demo, but I have not played the demo. And so I know what I'm doing immediately after this podcast, Paul, because you have said everything that I need to hear to definitely want to check this out.

I remember we talked about this, man, way back in the day. I don't remember what if it was announced at a game show or something. I remember we've talked about Ch back in the day. I don't remember what if it was announced at a game show or something. I remember we've talked about Chorus in the past. Way back then, some people equated it to Everspace, which I am a huge fan of. I've played that game at length and Everspace 2 is very, very good. And the combat in that is really, really good space combat. I've said Everspace gets mouse and keyboard flight the best I've ever seen, because you generally don't fly around with a mouse and keyboard. But Everspace figured it out perfectly somehow. Now, did you play with controller? You know what? I had such low expectations for chorus oh you i literally said i don't even want

to go in the other room where i took the controller to plug into a different computer i'm just gonna play mouse and keyboard and i thought it played just fine i had no problem doing mouse and keyboard i would imagine on controller it's even better i'm really excited i now you've got me pumped man because i've been hungry for a good space combat game and squadrons just didn't do it for us, man. I do remember like me, you Todd, like a couple other buddies were really pumped about it, hopped in it. And it's like you said, we played it for about three hours, had a blast and then hit that wall and it just fell out so much that I like took my joystick back to games. Yeah,

you returned it. So, all right. Well, this is great news, man. So, so you're saying that if anybody's listening, they should check it out. Yeah. I mean, at least play the free demo, right? That's, that's exactly what you want from a demo. You want to give it a test. And if it's great, then at least you kind of know what you're signing up for. I had no idea we would talk this much about Chorus, but I'm all for it. Let's talk about a little bit of news that dropped this week. Now, we have talked in the past about how much we love Bioshock. Yes. Fantastic series.

Yep. Made one of my picks for one of our recent episodes that was the top Xbox 360 games. Yes. And we've also talked about Bioshock on Top Gaming Moments. It might have even popped up in our favorite villains, but maybe not. If you have not played the Bioshock series, you are drastically missing out on something special. Now, do you know how old Bioshock Infinite is? Oh, man. Infinite? This kind kind of surprised me it's a little older than i would have thought i feel like infinite is i'm gonna take a wild guess and say 12 years old not quite but it came out in 2013 okay so eight years ago okay almost nine but the original three

bioshocks came out within a six-year window and now we've been waiting eight years for the next Bioshock. It's still not going to be coming out anytime soon, but we did get a couple of rumors that multiple sources have confirmed, so it sounds like you could probably take this to the bank, but the next entry for Bioshock is going to be set in the 1960s in Antarctica. Did we have people in Antarctica in the 60s? Oh, I'm sure there were some researchers and people down there. Yeah.

But how do you feel about Antarctica as a setting for Bioshock? They have always... I'm all for it, man. If there's one thing that Bioshock does really well is it's these very out-of-the-way settings. You're trying to get away from humanity, right? That's kind of what the premise is in the initial ones with Rapture. It's at the bottom of the ocean. We want to get away from the world. We want to create our own utopia and society and all that. It makes complete sense that to do that, you need to be where there are not people. And so whether it's the bottom of the ocean or up in the clouds

in Bioshock Infinite, I think it fits really, really well into that. I mean, the other option is you say you're going to the moon, but then you've got a completely different game at that very much so now antarctica i think is an awesome underutilized setting in gaming i can't think of a single game that takes place on antarctica now i can think of a couple movies like john carpenter's the thing is one of my favorites and that's on antar. I would love nothing more than if this game included some kind of discovery of an ancient alien ship that landed that gives them technology or even an ancient virus

or something. I don't even care if it straight up rips off things like the thing. I think that when you have a really mysterious, giant setting like Antarctica, I feel like it's going to come along with mysteries and awesome creatures. I can't wait to see what they do with it. I'm really excited about this. I think there's so much they can do with it. Tunnels everywhere, tunneling through the ice.

Maybe you need to go to the surface for something, but it's so cold that you can only be there for limited periods of time. So that enhances kind of the risk reward system there. Yeah, exactly. What's been buried in the ice forever? How do you keep this society? Because it's going to be a society. It's Bioshock. How do you keep this society alive? Thermal vents? I don't know. Alien technology? Yeah, it'll have something. You and I are huge fans of Bioshock. We can't wait to check this one out. Now, it is being developed by a new team. So the original three games were led under Ken Levine.

He now voluntarily moved to work on smaller titles. He had announced that a long time ago. So this next one is being developed by a new part of 2K called Cloud Chamber. We'll have to wait and see what they do. But apparently they say they understand how important it is. They're taking their time and they want to make sure that it's a continuation of the original successful games. Now, at the risk of making myself sound stupid here, I just kind of assumed that Bioshock

was done. Did you know that they had planned on continuing the series? Because this comes as news to me. I just thought after Infinite, like, they were done with the series and had kind of moved on to other things. I kind of thought so, too. I mean, I'm not one to ever go searching for Bioshock news, so nothing ever came across my feed that would make me know otherwise, and I never sought it out. So I was kind of pleasantly surprised to see that it's not dead. Yeah. I mean, I love the idea because, like I said, it's a great series. If you're going to resurrect it after this long, you better do it right. Take a lesson out of Halo Infinite's playbook right now and take the time,

make it right. You got a lot of people that are going to be upset if you take this beloved series and then mess it up. Now, talking about Halo Infinite, I got a question for you, Josh. At the time that this episode releases, Halo Infinite, the campaign, has now been out for a full day. Did you and I both sign up for Xbox Game Pass, and are we currently playing the Infinite campaign? I'm going to say yes, because I signed up up for Xbox Game Pass, and are we currently playing the Infinite campaign? I'm going to say yes, because I signed up for the Xbox Game Pass twice by accident. Because I signed up under the... Apparently I had two accounts because I wanted to take advantage of that dollar, the initial $1 for three months offer. And then I realized, I'm like, that's not my username. And then I realized, oh, wait, I just signed up under

the wrong account. And so I signed up under the wrong account. And so I signed up under the correct account. But I've still got, I think, like two and a half months of Xbox Game Pass coming at me. Oh, I didn't know you still had one that was active. Yes, yes, I did. Because I signed up for $1 and then I instantly went in and canceled the subscription. But you get your three months anyway. Right, right, right.

So that way, I don't forget to cancel it because I probably won't use it a whole lot after that. But it's funny. I was talking to a guy earlier today about this. I know a lot of people are so happy with Halo Infinite Multiplayer that they're kind of like, eh, I don't really care about the campaign that much. I love Halo campaigns. I think they're epic. I think they're super well done. I think they have incredible moments. Some of the set pieces in the Halo campaigns are just bananas good. And so I'm actually pretty amped up to play the campaign. play co-op with a friend until, what did they say, March? March, May, something like that. It's a couple months out. And so it's like, I'm not going to wait that long to play it.

So yes, I'm calling it right now that at least I have been playing the Halo Infinite campaign through Xbox Game Pass. But they did just announce that the campaign is coming to Game Pass, which I think is the actual news there. Yeah, it'll be there on day one. I definitely plan on re-upping my Xbox Game Pass. I had it for a while and then canceled it. And with having a PlayStation and not owning an Xbox, I tend to just buy my games on Steam or play them on PlayStation. But we have talked kind of ad nauseum at this point about how successful Xbox has been with the current gen consoles

because of how much they've grown the Game Pass. When the Game Pass came out in 2017, I didn't think it was going to grow into what it is today. I didn't either. I saw that the latest known figures that were publicly announced is that all the way back in January of this year, those are the latest numbers we have, there were 18 million subscribers. At $1 a piece, that's $18 million, Paul. I'm sure they weren't all at the trial price.

But they have been, in my opinion, kind of blowing Sony out of the water with the current system. Oh, absolutely. And then we saw news this week that PlayStation is finally going to shake things up a little bit to compete with the Xbox Game Pass. Now, PlayStation, I have always found to be very confusing with their offerings. I can never remember what's PS Plus, what's PS Now, what do I need to do for playing games online? Wait, if I want to play the old God of Wars on my computer, what was that? So they're finally going to shake all of it up. Everything's just going to be called PlayStation Plus, which I think will be much easier to remember.

Yes. And they're going to have three tiers of offerings the lowest tier will just basically let you play games online on your playstation they'll give you a couple of free games every month it'll be pretty limited they'll have a second tier which is going to include more extensive ps4 and ps5 titles and then they'll have a third tier which has all of that, plus all of the old PS Now titles from PlayStation 1, 2, 3, and the PSP. I can't help but think this is a little too late for PlayStation. When you saw how successful the Xbox Game Pass has been, because let's be honest, I was with you when they announced this. I'm like, yeah, people have tried this game subscription type service in the past, and they've never really caught on. You have to dump so much money into these games to get the exclusivity of having this on Game Pass and stuff like that.

You're risking these huge releases like Halo Infinite Campaign by putting them on Game Pass. Now, this pays off for games like Battlefield 2042, right? As gamers where we go, I don't want to drop 60 bucks on that game. Let me try it. Oh, this game sucks. I'm so glad I didn't drop $60. Thank you, Game Pass. That kind of stuff. But it's like, by the time they figure all this out and get this thing up and running and get games into whatever their PlayStation Plus service, I feel like it's just a little too late, man. Yes, for people that have PS4s and PS5s, I mean, it's a phenomenal thing. And don't get me wrong, that's a lot of people out there, but I feel like they're

chasing the coattails of Xbox at this point. But aren't Game Passes the way of the future? Doesn't everyone kind of have to shift to this model anyway? I don't know, man. Do you know my one issue with the Game Pass model? You don't own your games. Yeah. And then if you cancel, you don't get to play anything. You know, like when I buy a game on Steam, guess what? I own that game, you know, until Steam goes out of business and then I don't own the game anymore. Like, how do I access my game? But, you know, I don't own the game anymore. How do I access my game? But I don't really see that happening. But with these Game Pass services, I think they're great.

I think they make a ton of games accessible to people that can't drop $60 on games left and right. I mean, we're at the stage in our lives where if I pay $20 for a game and it sucks and I'm past the refund period, I kind of go, eh, all right, not a big deal. But I completely get that for a lot of people out there, 20 bucks, it's like, man, I better not mess this up. I better get a game that I'm going to play for the next month or so. You know what I mean? And so I think these services are phenomenal for gamers as a whole. My only issue is, like I said, you don't own these games. You get to play them, but you can't turn around and sell them. You can't decide a year from now, hey, I think I want to go back and play that game again, unless you're still paying for the service.

And so I think that's the big detrimental downside to it. Yeah. I mean, there's no question that's the downside of renting, right? That's essentially what these game passes are. You're just renting games. But I don't know. I think when you and I were kids, everyone only got a couple of games every Christmas and maybe a game or two for your birthday or something like that. And of course, growing up, we didn't even own

video games in my family. So I feel like the gamers when we were kids, I remember once I was a teenager and I would play games at my friends' houses. We would just play the same game over and over and over and over. Because that's what they had. That's all you had. You'd dig through the five cartridges that they had or the CDs or whatever. And you'd be like, well, I don't have a lot of choices here, guys. I guess this one or that one. Yes.

But that was still fine because that's what we were used to as kids. I feel like now in 2021, I don't know if it's just a little bit of collective ADD that everybody has. I don't think anyone wants to 100% these games for achievements and they don't want to just drive around in GTA for four hours.

I used to do that. I would just play with my friend Curtis. We would just drive in circles, screwing around in GTA 4 and dive out of a car and try to hit something with our car like a missile. I don't know that people are really doing that anymore. I feel like people want to switch up their games. I don't think they want to just buy a $60 game and that's the only game that they touch for the next six months. I think most people would rather shell out your $15 a month or whatever it's going to end up being and then just having access to basically everything. I mean, that resonates with me because we've always said I have game ADD.

I love a game for six to eight hours. And then even if I haven't beat it and I still love it, I just... If I don't pick a game up for three days, it's very, very rare that I'll ever go back to that game again. And so for me, jumping around and trying new games, it's... I always said it's like a buffet. I want to taste a little bit of everything to see what I like. And games are like that for me. So it definitely resonates with me. I just haven't fully embraced that service yet, I guess. I do agree. It probably is the future of gaming. But it's just a little different. And I don't buy digital copies of anything on a console. Because if I go out and I

buy a game for the Nintendo Switch, and I have a little cartridge, or I buy a CD for PS4 or PS5, or whatever, I can play it, I can turn around and sell it for 75% of what I paid for it. I'm basically still renting it at that point. But the days of doing that on PC have been over for 20 years. So you haven't been able to do that with PC gaming in forever. But with consoles, it works just fine. And so I won't buy a game off the Nintendo eShop or the PlayStation Store or whatever. I'll go out and actually pick up a physical copy of it because I know I'm going to get part of my money back at that point. Yeah, I'm 100% with you. I think for the next gen, we're going to start to see optical drives completely gone.

I think everything's going to go full digital. I agree. And I think that's when you'll see Game Pass really take off. I'm very curious to see kind of how this model grows on PC. Because we've seen where like EAa play you could get that through origin and then they had it on steam later and you could get just the ea games i don't know if anyone wants it to be quite that narrow uh and on pc you have so many different developers i don't even know if it's even feasible but i do remember reading articles in the past where they were saying the day might come where all of your game processing is like done in the past where they were saying the day might come where all of your

game processing is like done in the cloud where they've got servers that have all of the rtx graphics cards that we can't even get and it's just running these games and all you have to do is stream your controls and run it all at home and so i wonder if we'll start to see this shift where maybe the hardware and owning the games, everything will turn into this rental type model. Because if you're a business person, you'd rather someone be paying every month than just a one-time fee. It's true. I don't know why, man. It's the old man in me that's like, no, I don't want that. Don't give me that new stuff. That's just not the way I played games when I was a kid. But it does make a lot of sense. And I remember claiming Google Stadia would never make it.

I was like, dude, that's a dumb idea. It's never going to make it. Now, I mean, Google Stadia is not real popular right now. So it's like, I don't want to say I was right, but I wasn't right on everything. Because I'm with you. I think this will become the wave of the future. It's just there's a part of me that like doesn't want that to happen i like digging through steam and looking at all of my old games and going oh yeah i never finished that one i still somewhere in my house

or attic have like old the old diablo and starcraft game boxes you know what i mean like somewhere like i don't even yeah i don't even have a CD-ROM drive. I could put those in at this point. You know what I mean? But I still have them somewhere. And there's a part of me that likes that. But I get that that is probably not the future. Yeah. I'd have to go through. I don't think I have any old games on disc other than eternal darkness for game cube. I still have my really old game cube copy of that. I think I got rid of everything else. I think the last thing I bought was one of the Warcraft expansions on, you know,

PC DVD, but yeah, no one's, no one's doing that anymore. No. All right. Well, that's all that we have here this week for this week in gaming.

We will be back with a bonus round episode on Monday. And then also, just so you guys are aware of our holiday schedule, we will be taking two weeks off where we will be releasing older episodes that Josh and I really enjoyed. However, we will still be releasing new Quick Take episodes. So if you do subscribe in Apple or on Patreon, you'll still get a little bit of new content there. For the rest of you guys, you'll be able to hear some older episodes that we love. And then we will be back with our regular episodes after that two-week break. So I think that's it. Come hit us up on Discord.

There's a link in the episode description. We'd love to have you guys there. And then we'll be back with a full-hour episode'm sorry, a full hour episode on Monday for bonus round. Yep. That's going to be a good one. I'm just going to put that out there right now. It's going to be a great episode this next bonus round. Sounds good.

Can't wait. I'll see you then, Josh. All right. See you, everybody.