Video Gamers Podcast - [Bonus Round] Video Game Character Casting Call - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

The Video Gamers Podcast is back and gaming hosts Paul, Josh and Ryan are bringing you a fantastic off the wall episode where we’re replacing some of the best movie duo’s with video game characters. We start off by each drafting a team of video game characters and then randomly having a movie selected we have to put them in. It’s an awesome and hilarious gaming packed episode you can’t miss! Thanks to our LEGENDARY Supporters: Disratory and Ole Jake Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q   Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello fellow gamers, welcome back to the Video Gamers Podcast. We are three lifelong gamer dads who love gaming and also movies, although put a pin in that for just a moment. If you don't currently follow us on socials, come toss us a follow at VideoGamersPod and make sure to rate our show 5 stars and click the follow or subscribe button. I am your host, Paul, and I'm very hesitant to introduce you guys with movie quotes based on how this went last time. But here we go. I fart in his general direction. His mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries. It's Josh. I'm not a witch. I got better. Thet oh man what a great movie monty python and the holy grail is one of the funniest movies ever made in my opinion what makes you think she's a witch

well she turned me into a newt a newt i got better totally. And I know that your dad has made a lot of wine. Has your dad ever like use elderberries and anything? I don't think so. No, no. I was curious. All right. And then joining Josh and me,

he played junior hockey and still holds two league records. Most time spent in the penalty box. And he was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody. It's Ryan. You hit that guy. He shouldn't have been standing there. Classics. All right. We have a very special draft and tournament, I guess you could still call it, episode for you guys. We're going to get into all the details here in just a moment.

Josh, I think you're going to read a review or two that people have left the show. Yeah. One of our favorite things is just hearing what people think about the show. We have been doing this a while. We absolutely love it. We love talking video games. But one of the best things that people can do to help out the show is to leave a review, rate us five stars if you're on Spotify. But we like to have a little fun with them too. It's something we read every single review that comes in, and we like to read a few on the show when people take the time to leave us one. So I've actually got two today. This first one is titled Wonderful Listening, and it comes in from our good friend Dan66629 over in Great Britain.

And it says, I haven't been listening to you guys for too long, although I have been going through the backlog since I found this podcast. Hijack a host is awesome, and I love the deep dives, especially on the games I'm not so sure on. Keep it up. Nice.

Thank you, Dan. Dan, if you're listening to the really old episodes... I'm sorry. Yeah. We have gotten a lot better over the years. So if you find yourself wavering a smidge, just jump ahead. Jump ahead a little bit. It's a longtime threat of mine to release our practice episodes from January of 2020.

They are so bad. Oh, man. They are rough. I'm still doing practice episodes. All right. like January of 2020. They are so bad. They are rough. I'm still doing practice episodes. All right. And then this next one comes in from talky hater and it's titled video gamer and fantasy football. What?

And it says, this is so cool that Josh is part of the fantasy footballers podcast. It's so cool. When someone has the same taste for football and video games. Fantasy football gamers unite. Oh, I love it. Although talkies rule. No, I was just going to say talkies are so good.

No, talkies are bottom tier. Hot Cheetos are way above. I agree. Let's put this into context. If I'm at a party and there's a bowl of Takis and there's not competing chips or something around, I'm going to eat some Takis. Like they're not,

they're not bad, but compared to everything else, Takis would probably be at like the bottom of my, Ooh, let me grab one of these. Do you think we would be blowing Takis haters mind if we tell him that I also work part-time? I think it would,

because I'm not sure. And not only that, Andy was the best man at my wedding and, uh, we've got a lot of ties to the ballers. I was in the league of record back in the day with Josh. I believe we joined the same season, which was a lot of fun. Yeah. Life lifelong friends for Paul and Andy. Andy's my brother-in-law. Um, yeah. We both work for the Fantasy Footballers. If you are a fantasy football fan and you have not heard of that podcast, number one, what are you

doing? Number two, go check it out. It's the top fantasy football podcast in the world. I'm sure their numbers are going to go through the roof now that we've given them a shout-out. I was going to say, now that we have shouted them out, they're going to wonder what's going on. I will say the most important thing is that I repaired the pickleball court for the ballers.

I was just going to say that. So that's obviously the most important. Oh, very nice. All right. And then also we want to tell all of our listeners out there, today's sponsor of the episode, our Patreon supporters. So just so everyone out there. Today's sponsor of the episode, our Patreon supporters. So just so everyone out there knows you can sign up starting at five bucks a month or higher tiers. You get awesome perks like bonus episodes. It helps keep our show running. You can go sign up at multiplayer squad.com.

All right. So guys, we got to talk a little bit about how this draft is going to work. I feel like it's a little bit confusing. So just stick with us. It's all going to make sense. Josh, you were kind of lobbying for a sillier draft. And so I threw out there, let's do one of our blind drafts. Those are the ones that tend to get the silliest. We've done these a couple of times. It's where we draft certain characters, but we don't know exactly what we are drafting them for. And then we are going to have to try to make it fit. And we're going to kind of argue and talk about why our selections make sense. And then we're going to have to vote and see who wins in each of these rounds with the draft. So what we are doing is something that is a little bit similar to a draft we've done in the past.

If you guys remember, we did a blind draft with movie roles where we didn't know what we were drafting, and it was things like the scientist who gets ignored by all the politicians in a disaster movie and stuff like that. This is going to be similar. We are drafting eight video game characters each, and then we have a list of a whole bunch of movies. We are going to run a randomizer and then we are going to have a movie and we are going to have to replace two of the characters of that movie with video game characters that we have drafted. So we might get something like Ryan just suggested before we started adding Home Alone to the

list. So that's like an example. We tried to pick movies that are very universal that everybody has heard of and has seen. And this idea is also a little similar to suggestions from both Jake and Morgau. Jake had suggested drafting like protagonist, antagonist, sidekick, henchman, and making a movie out of it. Morgau suggested like being a movie producer and drafting a director, actors, and a composer for a video game adaptation. It's a little bit like all of those. How are you guys feeling about this kind of draft? I like it. I like anything where we get to kind of just be

silly and talk, you know, game characters and stuff like that. We've done stuff like this in the past. We did a who's the best who would make the best gaming dad who would be the best roommate to have that sort of stuff i like this blind draft idea because we're picking characters but we have no idea what we're picking them for um or what movies are going to come up so i think that this is going to be great personally. And I have a good list of characters, and I might go a different route tonight. See, that's what I think about blind. I have a category that I went with, and I think I might stick to it. And with blind movies, it encourages us to draft weird off-the-wall characters that sometimes we normally wouldn't.

Because some characters kind of work for every draft. Kratos is going to be in any draft that includes fighting or coolest or most iconic. But here, since we don't even know what movies we're looking at, having some wimpier characters might work really well. Having some animals drafted might even work. I mean, who really knows? What about you, Ryan? How are you feeling about this? I'm feeling good. I hate, though, there's so many characters that I want to pick, but we can only have eight. And then I know I'm going to think of five or six more after we're done recording and be like, oh, come on. I should have got those. I do it every single time.

But these are always a blast. So I've been excited all day, ready to get this thing going. Very nice. So I randomized a draft order for round one. I don't think the order really matters for these blind drafts. So for this time, it is going to go Ryan, Josh, me, and then it'll be in reverse snake style in round two. We're going to keep going eight rounds until we each have eight characters, and then we will move on to start plugging them into movies. So let's just jump right in.

Ryan, you get the number one overall pick. Any video game character from any game, who knows what you're going to plug them in to do. So who are you taking number one? Oh, man. So here we go. When you're starting out, you want to start at the top, especially with the first overall pick.

And I'm going to go with Paul's Russ character. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. No, you're not. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Silent movie. I had to, though.

No, so in the spirit, like Josh said, of being silly and goofy, I am going to go with someone who is obviously just a wide, wide range. I'm going to go with Diablo 2's obviously just a wide wide range i'm gonna go with diablo 2's deckard kane okay deckard kane stay a while and listen that's not your line i was gonna say you had to give us a good stay a while so deckard kane that's a good oh man i could see some movies that she'd be pretty funny in hopefully for an older role yeah it would probably fit best yeah not uh not kevin and home alone no no not not well i'd pay to see it all right josh you get the number two pick all right you know what i'm i'm sick of drafting nathan drake and arthur mor Morgan and Kratos and all that stuff.

I mean, like you said in the beginning, you know, there's certain game characters that stand out amongst others, but I also don't want to pick something that nobody's ever heard of before. But I kind of want to throw a monkey wrench in the works here as well. So I am drafting the head crab from half-life what bro what are you talking about man okay the head crab from half-life interesting yep who knows what movie it's gonna go into but there's gonna be a head crab in one of these movies. Not to be confused with the other type of crabs, you know,

but yeah, strictly a head crab. Interesting. Head crab from half-life. Okay. I got to say, I did not see that pick coming. Josh lost.

What? Yeah. Josh is throwing. Okay. I can think of a lot of movies where having a head crab in this movie is going to be great. You lose. Good day, sir. All right. Okay, I can think of a lot of movies where having a headcrab in this movie is going to be great. You lose!

Good day, sir! All right. I can't wait until you put him in the lead role for, I don't know, like Mission Impossible or something. All right. With my first pick, I was trying to look at a lot of the games that we have played lately and done deep dives of or things we've covered in the news so josh i'm gonna take one of your uh all-time favorite games that i don't feel quite as strongly about i'm gonna go ahead and i'm gonna draft senua from senua's saga okay did you have her on your list well yep uh we know she can uh be a little bit of an over actor we're gonna get some of the teeth some growling i think she's gonna do great for any kind of like shining can

you imagine her the shining oh absolutely i'll work in no play makes senua a dull girl i could see it all right and then in round two since uh i have these back to back i am gonna go ahead and take spongebob from what was the game you played josh uh battle for bikini bottom there you go i'm gonna i'm gonna take spongebob and uh i'm gonna have him on my roster you guys do the spongebob laugh have you seen him do it where he does it on i wish i could yeah where he like physically yeah he goes like moves his chin hey that wasn't too bad that was that was good ryan all right so yes we are going to have spongebob first time he's ever been drafted probably so yeah i would also say the headc have SpongeBob first time he's ever been drafted. Probably. So yeah,

I would also say the head crab from a half-life's never been drafted either. So, all right. SpongeBob, we'll plug him in. Josh, I'm, I'm,

I'm nervous to even ask you, where are you going with your next pick? Okay. I need somebody that's really good at speaking that drops witty one liners, you know, is clever, uh, has a unique voice.

So I am taking a grunt from Halo, boys! A grunt from Halo. Yeah, you know how they're always yelling the funny one-liners during the game? Did you read what we were drafting for? Yeah, yeah, video game characters to put in movies. Got a headcrab and a grunt, man. Josh is definitely throwing.

Dude, okay, you just wait. You know what? You guys can slander my picks all you want, but when it comes time to put these in a movie, y'all gonna see. Feels so good not to be the worst. All right, coming back to you, Ryan. Last pick of round two.

So when you're selecting the actor, you want somebody who's charismatic, boisterous, loud, embellishes things, fun. So why not go with the best buddy of the main character in Grand Theft Auto 4, Roman Baleck. I knew you would like this one, Paul. Nico. Let's go bowling. Let's go bowling. Let's go bowling.

I love it. Cousin Roman's a great pick. That means it's back to me. This is going quick. I like it. Well, Ryan gets his back-to-back. Oh, that's right. So we got Roman.

Yeah. So basically, Josh, there's always two picks, and then you go. I thought it seemed early. Yeah. Well. So Ryan, you've got Deck always two picks and then you go. I thought it seemed early. Yeah. Well, so Ryan, you've got Deckard Cain and Roman. Who are you going with next? Well, someone you need somebody that's also able to remember all the lines.

Very wise. Very well spoken. So who other better than Mimir? Oh, I had Mimir on my list too. I like it. One of Josh's all-time favorite characters. He's a good character and unique voice too. Now, are you going to need a puppeteer moving him throughout the scenes or how's this going to work?

Just put him on a skateboard and just wheel him around. I can't wait for my head crab to just latch on mamir that'd be a good combo there that's what you see and you guys are mocking my pics man i know what i'm doing we did like uh the matrix and in mamir's neo and then um agent smith is is the headcrab. Movie over. There you go. Oh, goodness. All right, Josh, coming back to you. Guys, I really wanted to mix this draft up. I've already done that, but I have to go with one of my favorite

characters in a game. The lovable, the fun, the memorable, intelligent, handsome Claptrap, handsome Claptrap, boys. Claptrap making a reappearance. It's been a while. Yeah.

What a great character in a video game. Love him or hate him, everybody knows Claptrap, man. This is true. All right. We're going to see Claptrap. Hopefully, he can be the comedy relief. I feel like that's where he's going to fit in best for sure. All right. We are back to me. Let's see. So far, I've got Senua and SpongeBob. Let's go ahead and

add, you know, we do a lot of Red Dead characters. This is one that I don't know if we've ever taken in a draft. I'm going to take Dutch Vanderland. Theund the plan that's the plan i had a plan i still have a plan i ain't got a final plan yet my son james has been playing red dead 2 lately i keep walking through hearing about dutch's plans i asked my son if he still trusts and believes in dutch he said no do you doubt me that's that's the right call uh yeah so i will go ahead and take dutch vanderland that's a good one he's a slick devil and then following that up after dutch you know what i am going to take a character from a very famous nes game it's been a long time i'm gonna go with mike tyson oh no that's my next one were you gonna take my time you gotta give us your mike tyson impression though paul it's it's you know it's mandatory whenever mike tyson is selected

on this podcast i'm mike tyson I'll punch you in the face. I don't know. I'm not good with impersonations. I expected that to be a lot worse, man. You know, honestly, that wasn't very bad. Okay, that was worse. That was also a Mark Wahlberg. I was going to say, that was Tyson meets Wahlberg.

He wasn't out of breath enough. What's going on, guys? Look at all my pigeons all right mike tyson off the board coming back to josh where are you going next you know every movie needs a good villain and you know a lot of times in movies you got to have the villain to go with the protagonist and you know there's good villains out there there's good villains out there. There's bad villains out there, but I need a villain that can just kind of go in any movie. I'm taking the clickers from the last of us. Oh goodness.

Those are so scary. I got to put now, now you did pronounce that as clickers, right? Right. I, I, I practiced before we started recording and uh,

yep. I made sure that I, my enunciation was correct. We might have had an incident with some mispronunciations there with a former host of the show, which some long-term listeners might remember. All right, coming back around to you, Ryan. Last pick of round four. This is halfway through.

Who are you taking? Well, speaking of bowling why not go with the lovable happy homer simpson oh homer simpson okay by the way um simpson's hit and run one of the all-time like never played it greatest games that needs a remaster or remake so good just driving around springfield running over everything it was so fun such such a great game all right and then ryan starting out round two okay so since you've taken my good one you take two of mine paul great minds think alike i guess guess well if we want to go

let's see we want somebody slick somebody with a little bit of a je ne sais quoi let's go with James Bond Mr. 007 himself yeah

alright James Bond got him in there are we thinking specifically like Pierce Brosnan from GoldenEye that's the. James Bond got him in there. Are we thinking specifically like Pierce Brosnan from GoldenEye? That's the only James Bond. The only one. That's a good answer. All right. Actually, you know what? Let's go ahead and take a short break, and then we'll come back and finish up our draft.

All right. We've returned just over halfway. Josh, round five. Who are you taking next taking next well i've got a few monsters and i need somebody funny to go along with those somebody that some would consider a monster but also has comedy relief i'm taking glados boysOS, boys. GLaDOS yourself? Yeah. Claptrap needs a robot companion. You know, this could be a romance movie that they get dumped into. And so I need that flexibility to, you know, pair Claptrap with somebody. I like it. GLaDOS, she's witty.

She's funny. She's diabolical. She's my kind of gal. Very smart. I feel like she'd be able to improvise well. Yeah. You know, i like it all right i get my back-to-back picks here i am going to take uh someone who once won me a draft

i'm gonna go ahead and take laura croft i feel like i want to have some balance here between male and female characters i feel like that might come into play in some of these roles so i'm gonna go ahead and take laura and then starting out round six with another pick you know what we don't pick them very often i know he's not the most exciting character but he's one of the most iconic i'm taking mario okay he, two heavy hitters right there. Wow, that's, yeah. I know it's no clickers and headcrab, but. You just wait. All right, coming back to you, Josh. Do you need any more monsters?

No, I'm done with my monsters. I had two categories I'm going with, and monsters was one of them, but I think I have enough. Maybe. I might mix things up.ers was one of them, but I think I have enough. Maybe. I might mix things up. That was my last pick. I need a leading lady. Maybe this is an action movie that they get

cast in, but also Claptrap. GLaDOS may not be Claptrap's type. Maybe he wants somebody that's a little prettier. I'm taking 2B! Ooh. Alright. 2B from Nier Automata. You got it. Maybe he wants somebody that's a little prettier. I'm taking Tubi. All right. Tubi from near Automata. You got it.

All right. Got it on the spreadsheet. Tubi. Very nice. Don't mess that up for the columns either, Paul. No, no, not at all. All right, Ryan. Coming back to you.

Back to back picks. Back to back. Well, when you're looking for a balance, like you said, I'm going to do a couple of ladies here, leading ladies. And why not go with some royalty? So for these two picks, I'm going Princess Peach and Princess Zelda. Princess Peach and Princess Zelda. They're going to fight.

Bring a little class yeah i really wish they i hope they do that thing with uh we were talking about in the twig i think about oh they should name it like link links adventure yeah yeah yeah legend of link the legend of link echoes of wisdom where you play as zelda that would have great. All right, Josh, you got two picks left. Who are you taking here in round seven? Oh man, let's see. I probably should go with somebody normal.

Somebody that can fit in with these crazy robot characters. Somebody that can fit in with the villains. You know, I mentioned that to be is uh charismatic uh is a good way to put that i need another charismatic person i'm going with handsome jack boys nice you know i somehow knew before the draft that you were absolutely going to end up taking him i almost put in our discord like i bet he's basically mean without the psychotic part i didn't even put him on my list because i figured that handsome really really funny wants to rule the galaxy yeah yeah

we're practically brothers great villain i'll say that hopefully you get them in a good role all right we are back to me these are my last two picks here. I am going to go with Yoda. All right. Let's hear it. Let's hear it, Paul. Make movie, I will. Good choice, that is. I'm going to put in Yoda.

I think he's going to screw up some of the dialogue readings but it might turn out for the best so i'm gonna go ahead i'm gonna take yoda and with my last pick i'm gonna take probably my favorite nintendo character i don't know if you guys know this or not uh but my favorite nintendo character i'm taking wario okay not waluigi huh no i like waluigi, huh? No, I like Waluigi, but Wario's the best. I always take Waluigi in any of the games because he's a good

balance between being like the big guy, but not super duper slow. Waluigi was always my guy in Mario Tennis, but Wario is my dude, like in anything else when I can play as him. All right. And then Josh, your last pick, who are you taking? And let's see. I've got... Do I want to be serious? Oh, you know what? Okay. I got to

take this guy because he could fit any role. I'm taking Harry Dubois from Disco Elysium. He could be a wild card. He could be serious. He's intelligent. He's a party animal. I mean, he can fit anything. So that's going to give me the flexibility I need. Is he intelligent?

Yeah, he's intelligent, dude. He found invisible creatures, man. He found the plasmids or whatever they're called. He solved the crimes. He can be very intuitive. Yeah. I don't know if I'd go so far as to say he's intelligent. He can talk to inanimate objects.

Yeah. I mean, he may have a heart condition, guys. He may have a heart condition, but we won't bring that up. My Harry DuBois ran around with one shoe for the entire game. And I did not realize until the very end when Kim was giving the whole summary of like the week with Harry, he's like, this dude's been running around with one shoe all week.

And I was like, I didn't know that that was an issue. So that's, that's my thought of Harry. When I think of him. All right, Ryan, your last pick,

last pick of the draft. Who are you taking? Who's our last actor our last actor uh since people are going with some big heavy hitters like you paul i'm gonna go with one that's just a wild card and you know it trevor phillips okay trevor yeah good luck getting him to the set on time and reading his lines but oh no no i'll just keep lots of drugs on set and just and then just give him a trailer right off the side of the stage there boom good to go i feel like with trevor you you're you're gonna kind of have to just like go reality tv

style with this movie yeah exactly just follow him around that's what your movie just give him a gopro and let him off pretty much all right so let's go ahead and summarize our teams here do both of you guys have the uh spreadsheet open yep i do yep all right josh let's let's start with you let's let's knock out the the worst selection what okay josh tell us you know what the listeners will understand you guys are just jealous because i'm like the reigning champion of all these these drafts and stuff that we do okay i so my team is the head crab from half-life the grunt from halo uh clap trap the clickers from last of us glados to be handsome jack and harry dubois can't help but notice that's a lot of villains in your list oh is it huh i told you i had a theme told you i had a theme other than harry and to be that that's well and clap trap although he's

a villain to some people he's also willing to let you die on on missions in the borderlands games and tiny tina's wonderlands all right ryan hit us with your list what's your roster okay the far superior roster obviously uh i got deckard kane i got mamir homer simpson james bond roman bellick trevor phillips princess peach and princess zelda and i am rounding it out with Senua, SpongeBob, Dutch Vanderland, Mike Tyson, Lara Croft,

Mario, Yoda, and Wario. Nice. You have a lot of people that speak very funny. Yeah. And one word names. I have five. Just go by one word.

All right. So that finishes up the first half here. Now we have our rosters. Now we need to randomize and see what game or what movie we are going to have to fill in with some of our characters. And let's see here. Let's go ahead and hit the randomizer. The first movie we are doing is... Oh, gosh.

All right. Got a quote for you guys. Let's see if you know what the movie is. I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha. Oh, I know this. Wait. I laugh in the face of danger.

Mm-hmm. Is that Home Alone? Oh, Toy Story. Nope. Neither. Ryan's closer, though. It's animated i laugh oh uh oh lion king no lion king yeah that's right that's right yeah that's simba

that is simba yep all right so we are going to have to replace two of the actors of lion king with people on our rosters what uh what two characters should we say we need to replace should we do simba and scar or do you guys have a different idea here say we could do simba nala so that they're like the the buddies we could do pumbaa and timon where they're you know they're just the the happy fun loving we could do scar and mufasa if we wanted to do enemies i feel like mufasa is not not in it quite enough. Yeah, alright. What are you thinking, Ryan?

Hmm, I like one of the Timon or Pumbaa. Maybe Pumbaa and then another one or... Jeez, that's hard. So many good characters. We can just do Timon and Pumbaa if you want. Works for me. Hakuna Matata, boys. You know what they say. No worries.

This is where I really almost started singing.'s you can't you can't say that not start singing it in my head i'm singing right now for the record lion king is by far my favorite animated movie oh it's so good dude okay all right so lion king we have to replace timon and pumbaa. I just kind of randomized this order as well. So Ryan, you get to go first. Who are you picking to play Timon? And he's the little mongoose guy, by the way. Yeah, I know who Timon is. Just make it for the listeners.

Oh, yeah. Voiced by Nathan Lane. Let's see. With this list. This is someone who's going to singing too don't forget yeah um so for timone let's go oh i know what i'm doing okay timone i'm doing homer simpson okay homer simpson do i get to pick pumbaa next or do i wait uh probably pair them right yeah go ahead okay and then i'm going with roman with roman bell what a pair actually that makes that that's not a bad right you like that i gotta give you some props there all right so homer is gonna play timon and he's going to sing

can you feel the love tonight which i i think is going to be absolutely fantastic wait no that's not the they sing hakuna matata timon and pumbaa saying can you feel the love tonight yeah can you feel the love tonight opens and closes with Simone and Pumba. Yeah. Okay. All right, Josh, you get to go next. Well, I mean, this is a,

this is an easy one for me. I mean, I need, I need two characters that can get along, that can be best friends. And we know one of these characters can sing cause she sings to you at the end of the game. I'm taking clap trap and GLaDOS as best friends,

Simone and Pumba, which is which, which uh let's see pumba's the the bigger one so the bigger one is glados and then uh claptrap will be uh timon claptrap timon and glados as pumba dude i can just see claptrap being like hakuna matata i could see it as well uh glados says pumba is the the bigger stretch and then clap traps riding on glados you know as they're traipsing across the jungle or the desert or whatever part of you know lion king they're they're in you know the shadow lands interesting all right uh for my two all right so this is this is heavily comedy focused i feel like that's kind of what you're going for how do i not use spongebob as timone oh this to me feels like a no-brainer that's perfect uh however that is burning a second round pick already i'm gonna put in spongebob as Timon and as Pumbaa,

I am going with my last round pick. Boy, this kind of worked out well for me because he kind of looks like Pumbaa. I'm going with Wario. Okay. Spongebob and Wario together. I feel like Wario's just going to kill Spongebob. Well, he's just doing voiceover work for Pumbaa.

I mean, okay, okay. well he's just doing he's doing voiceover work for pumbaa so okay okay i'm not sure they're gonna get along very well like best friends timon and pumbaa would we don't care some of the best movies are made by people who hate each other wayne's world right dana carvey mike myers they couldn't stand each other still made oh really i Really? I didn't know that. What? Oh, they had a huge. They didn't talk. Shattering my childhood. Now that's acting folks.

They hated each other. Yeah. They did not talk to each other for almost 20 years that they just recently like started talking again. A lot of it was because Dan and I know we're getting way off topic here, but Dana Carvey would always do his impersonation of Lauren Michaels. and it was the character of Dr. Evil. That's what Dana Carvey would do. He would walk around pretending to be evil Lorne Michaels, and then Mike Myers just stole it and made Austin Powers in, like, 97 or whatever. And instead of, like, having Dana Carvey play the role in the movie myers tried to get jim carrey to play it

carrey said no and then mike myers did it himself so i'm sure dana carvey felt a little miffed because it got stolen then yeah it's a little shady that it got but wayne's world came out before uh before that so they hated each other in wayne's world yes they did not get along all the way back then and that was the final breaking point after, after Austin powers. Yeah. Or, you know,

for being mad. All right. So we all have to vote for a winner here and you cannot vote for yourself. So Josh, are you voting for the combo of Homer and Roman or SpongeBob and Wario? The winner is clear on this one. Um, but since I can't vote for myself, I'm going to, I mean, I view these as happy go lucky characters that just want to have a good

time. Again, they live by the creed Hakuna Matata. It means no worries. Yeah. And I got to go with Roman and Homer on this one. Those two were going to just live it up, have a good time. They don't care about nothing else other than getting a beer and and you know having some fun together so that's that's my pick all right ryan which are you voting for are you voting for spongebob and wario or claptrap and glados oh so i would like this is a musical you gotta listen are you gonna listen to Wario sing that's about that's like nails on a chalkboard man is it is it I mean

imagine it well I'd like to say that this is a hard choice but it's definitely Spongebob and Wario for sure Wario's gonna be singing about farting at the watering hole and how all the animals leave it fits perfectly Wario fits this

world very well that's like that's like something i can't even think of right now man those are opposites no it's telling it lines up perfect not at all spongebob is perfect okay spongebob is great wario is poomba is that's the one i'm having a hard time with eats a lot goofy yeah yeah all right well clearly i'm voting for homer and roman i'm not voting for claptrap and glados so we can say ryan won movie number one the lion king he is the winner there so ryan is currently winning this tournament one to zero to zero. And, uh, with that said,

we should probably take our last break and then we'll come back and do our last three movies. All right, we are back time for movie two. Let's see. What are we getting next? Next one is, Oh,

okay. I'm going to give you guys another movie quote this one i know you're gonna get with great power comes great responsibility spider-man spider-man okay so we are i guess like rebooting a new spider-man movie you got to reboot these every three years right you got to have another origin story um okay so for spider-man are we thinking peter parker and mary jane or what are you guys thinking peter parker and the green goblin uh what's his best friend's name in the movie because it's his best harry is it harry yeah yeah that's another good one yeah harry osborne there you go um you could do the romance with mary jane i think we need a peter and uncle ben

uncle ben yeah for mr deckard kane over here oh no i've been shot uh i feel like you have to draft peter sure, right? You need someone to play Spider-Man. You got to have somebody be Spider-Man. Let's just say that teenage Paul might have seen Spider-Man a lot when it came out and has always had a bit of a thing for Kirsten Dunst. Okay. Let's go with Mary Jane. Okay. Works.

This makes my pick easy then. All right. So Josh, you get to pick first for this one who are you picking to play peter and who for mary jane oh man do i want to do it for the memes or do i want to try to win around here always do it for the memes all right well i'm doing the head crab as spider-man he's already got eight legs this is a travesty the integrity of this draft has been compromised through he already looks like a spider can you imagine a head crab that can shoot webs now and

just like and latch on to people oh that's scary so how are we going to tell the difference between head crab peter parker and head crab you can't do the same picture so no secret identity we're just writing that part out of the script yeah okay absolutely okay well he's got glasses on the no actually i take that back the head crab peter wears a little toupee because peter has hair so he's got a little toupee on and then when he's spider man spider man has the actual actual spider-man suit on the head crab that would be perfect he's a spider i mean it's guys it's in the name man okay and then he needs a uh a romance i only have one and uh you know here's the thing for for romance to happen with a head crab the you know mary jane needs to be kind of immune to the mind control zombification that the head

crab would try to do to somebody and so i got to be you know like what a good relationship they could have the head crab can't control to be she's caring she's gonna look out for him you know she's not sure she wants to get into a relationship with a head crab you know the head crab's worried that you know maybe through his heroics that he's going to put to be in danger even though she's not really because she can handle herself it's it's practically just book it guys just just go ahead and write it down it's it's in the books this round's mine oh okay you do know there's a real chance you get zero votes this entire podcast, right, Josh? What? And by real, he means 100%.

I am starting to feel like this is a conspiracy. All right. Well, let's see. Okay. I need a Peter Parker and a Mary Jane. My Peter Parker, boy, I don't think that can be mike tyson although he's got the fighting skills um you know what actually i i am gonna do that i'm going yes he's he's gonna be our spider man i like it and then with mary jane boy i can't think of a better place to plug in Lara Croft.

Yeah. Why not? There you go. Sure. We're going to get the upside down Spider-Man kiss with Mike Tyson. Oh, why are your lips so soft? I'm Spider-Man. I like it.

This is all this rain going on. It's going to mess up my hair Ah the spider bit me Stupid spider Bad Bad spider Oh my word Swap

Swap He just makes sounds every time he shoots webs too Just Swap Swap Swap Swap Punt Oh dear Punt sounds every time he shoots webs too just slap slap slap oh dear oh my gosh okay so it's me

ryan we are to you okay so uh when you're looking for a superhero you pick a superhero so for spider-man i'm going with Mr. James Bond. Okay. Makes a lot of sense. He's got the moves. Give him superhuman strength. He's going to just wreck those guys. For the Mary Jane, you want someone that's headstrong, kind of annoying, and always gets in trouble. Trevor Phillips?

I'm going to go with Princess Zelda because she's always needing rescue just like Mary Jane. Okay. Bond in Zelda, huh? Yeah. Match made in heaven. It's a pretty good combo. It's actually a pretty good combo.

I can see it. All right. Well, we got to vote. So, Josh, you get to vote first. Are you taking Mike Tyson and Lara Croft or James Bond and princess Zelda? Now, James Bond and princess Zelda is the better pairing, but Mike Tyson is Spider-Man.

Just give me the spider. Just give me the spider man. With Lara Croft as the leading lady, I mean, oh, that would be so terrible. What a terrible duo that would be, but also I kind of am here for it, so I'm taking Mike Tyson and Lara Croft. Sorry, Ryan.

Yours was much better for the record, and I fully admit to that but yeah like you you yourself for the memes yeah yep all right well i have to choose between a headcrab which is spider-man similar to let's not lose the relationship between you know a headcrab and a spider you know and that just natural link that they have there so your argument is that the romance plot line just really works with the headcrab yeah because he can't control to be yes and then you know like the headcrab has to try to kiss to be while she's upside down and then you know she's trying to figure out which appendage is his mouth

you know things are getting a little weird. You know what? Ignoring everything you just said. And imagine a spider suit on a head crab, too. That'd be great. I almost think you should have swapped these. I think 2B would be a fantastic whatever they call her. But she can't get mutated.

She can't have mutated powers, though. She's an android. How's she going to gonna get by a spider that's just the the paul we're talking real life here paul she doesn't have to be the spider-man she's playing spider-man but you know you're getting weird now because you can't this is real life paul okay yeah this isn't fantasy you can't give an android you know radioactive spider powers paul it's a it's a radioactive spider powers, Paul. It's a radioactive spider virus. Yeah. Yeah.

So obviously I'm voting for James Bond and Princess Zelda. Yes. Which means, Ryan, now you get to vote. Are we going headcrab and 2B or Mike Dyson and Lara Croft? Oh, man. What a hard decision. I wonder what I'll pick. Can I fill this in right now?

Yeah, just go ahead and fill in. Get it right. Pick the direction. All right. Josh, I'm going to need you to do some like mid journey AI pictures. I actually was going to work on it, but then I was like, I should probably pay attention to the recording, but I am 100% going to make a head crab as Spider-Man. Yeah, I want to see all three of these matchups.

I want to see Spider-Man with like a martini while swinging for James Bond. All right, so Ryan won the first movie i win the spider-man round which means we are now to movie three let's run the randomizer see what we get here we are oh it's got spider-man again all right we are do oh this is a great movie guys oh this is a great movie, guys. Uh-oh. This is a great movie. Oh, man. I'm going to hit you with a quote. You tell me the movie. My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North,

General of the Phoenix Legions, and loyal servant to the true Emperor Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance in this life or the next. I need to watch Gladiator. Oh, I got goosebumps. I know I did too.

I got goosebumps. It's like the best speech ever, man. Yes. Yeah. It might be the best movie ever made. Oh, man. All right. Well, how do we not pick Maximus and Commodus?

Those have got to be the top two, right? We can't deny Commodus. I mean, Joaquin Phoenix won an Oscar for it. I was going to say, he's such a terrible, hateful, like you just love to hate that guy in the movie. He plays it so well. All right. Gladiator. Fun fact, I got extra credit in AP history for attending Gladiator in high school. Really? For some some reason we got extra credit that's the best extra credit ever oh yes just for going wow okay yeah sure i'll go see gladiator i remember seeing it in a movie theater there were like three of us in there it was super late on a weeknight

and uh i ended up going back seeing it a couple times all right so we have to fill the roles of maximus and commodus commodus is the emperor for people that might not remember the name who becomes right the caesar basically becomes yes after his dad dies because his dad was going to name maximus and then he yeah i don't remember does he poison or kill him or does he just die maybe he just dies i don't remember i think he kills him yeah he like straight up like stabs him while they're i was gonna say i thought he like yeah shanks him after the whole talk when he's like you know when you listed the virtues of an emperor and i had none i knew you didn't love me and all that stuff yeah all right so filling this out i think i go first this time yes i do okay so oh my gosh i have

this is where things get very wonky my i have to pick between senua dutch mario and yoda um okay so maximus i'm going with Yoda. Okay. Entertained. Are you not? He would be a good gladiator though. He's going to kick some butt. He can fight.

Yeah. Yeah. We, we, we, we see him fight episode two. Uh, and then for Commodus, like the whiny,

uh, I don't know, guys. I guess Dutch. Yeah, that's probably your best one out of there. I'm going to plug in Dutch. All right. I think that's the best choice there. He's got a plan. This is what he's going to be telling the Senate the whole time.

So, yeah. Oh, boy. We just made Gliator unwatchable yoda and dutch vanderlund that's that's my pick i'm gonna lock it in ryan how about you um yeah this is when it gets crazy i got deckard kane trevor phillips mamir and princess peach that there's two obvious ones for me for this but but with what it leaves me, it makes me a little worried. Let me make him got no arms. He can't gladiator.

Oh, no. Mimir is 100% the gladiator. What? He can't move. Yeah, no. Just make a little set of armor, and he can do some voodoo stuff on it, and then he'll be able to move around with that. And then I'm going to make Trevor as the hateable evil guy. I forget his name.

What's his name? Commodus. Commodus. Commodus. I knew it started with whatever. Mimir and Trevor. Interesting. All right.

I feel like Mimir's got the acting chops, weirdly. He'll give that speech. He just doesn't have a body, which is rough. Doesn't matter. It's details. It's CGI. Yeah, CGI. It's Hollywood, bro. You know what? I'm't matter. Details. Dude, CGI. Yeah. CGI. It's Hollywood,

bro. You know what? I'm, I'm on board. Yeah. You've talked to me into it, Ryan. He's just sitting in the arena guys.

He's on a head sitting there going like, have you ever heard of Hollywood magic? Come on. All right, Josh, what are you doing? I might went around here, boys. I might win around here boys i might win around here i got handsome jack and harry dubois now that's a good pairing for the movie gladiator

so which is which i know that's my this is where i'm really struggling because it's like technically handsome jack should be the emperor because he's the villain and then there's harry dubois who you know would be maximus but harry dubois is a little bit harder to like cheer for as maximus whereas handsome jack as maximus would be great in that harry's also a little doughy for a gladiator i gotta say so i'm gonna do handsome jack as maximus and i'm gonna do harry dubois because Harry, let's be honest, Harry can really get on people's nerves and he likes his wine like the emperor would. He does. So I'm making Harry Dubois Commodus.

Okay. I yeah. Yeah, I can. I know it kills you guys. It's an interesting realizing that this is the best pairing and you both hate it because you're Josh. I have a feeling this one might just come down to my

vote because clearly I'm not going to win. Ryan, actually I have to vote first. Mimir and Trevor or Handsome Jack and Harry. I'm going to give it to Handsome Jack and Harry. Dang it. I think that's

the answer. Yes, I got a vote. I'm going to give it to Handsome Jack and Harry. Dang it. I think that's the answer. Yes, I got to vote. I'm going to put it there. I honestly thought Josh might not get a vote. I got to vote. That's all that matters. The little things. All right. And then, Ryan, who are you voting for?

Are you voting for me or Josh? I'm going to have to go for Josh as well. As much as it pains me, that's a good combo. No takesie-backsies. Voting integrity. Yeah. We are professionals here. Yeah.

Somewhat. Josh, who are you voting for? I'm voting for Ryan. Not that it matters. I can't give it to Yoda. Okay. All right. Well, we did not do this intentionally but it is now one to one to one

which is winner take all i love it all right now in our movie bank we still got stuff in here like lord of the rings i need a good movie because i my last two picks are completely nonsensical i know that's hard to believe at this point we got lord of the rings harry potter star wars die hard uh terminator we got so much good stuff here all right time to run the randomizer last one last movie is you guys you guys ready for a holiday movie oh my goodness it's national lampoon's christmas vacation oh my gosh oh that's well there goes my chances you mean the clickers aren't gonna gonna win you win you this round josh who are we gonna all right so though? All right, so National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Obviously, it has to be Clark and Eddie, right? Clark Griswold and Cousin Eddie?

Yeah, for sure. All right. That makes a lot of sense to me. Clark Griswold. Sorry, I'm furiously copying and pasting stuff here. All right. Ryan, you get to go first. Now, the choice is kind of already done for you.

You've got Deckard game and princess peach so which which one's going to be the sarcastic you know butthead and which one's going to be the uh annoying cousin who's you know emptying the septic tank from the rv in the front yard i i think um you gotta have Princess Peach as Clark because she's somewhat of sound mind. And then you got to put... Could you imagine Kane out there just holding that RV hose to the septic tank? Yeah. It'd be great. Yelling at the crapper's fool.

Crapper's fool. Oh, man. full. Creppers full. Oh, man. Now I'm just imagining Princess Peach having to deliver the line bend over and I'll show you with the Christmas tree. That might be a little tougher to buy. All right. Josh, you've got the

grunts from Halo and the clickers from The Last of Us. All right. Well, Clark is definitely the grunt. They're everywhere! Okay. Which means the clickers are Cousin Eddie. Yeah, because, you know, let's be honest. That's what he sounds like every time he talks.

It's just... It's true. Nobody wants him around. That is true. No one wants him around. Were you making noise there? Because Discord did not pick it up. That was straight on clicker sound.

I will say that was like the worst sound in Last of Us when you hear it around the corner. You're like, oh, dang it. Yeah. That's all I got. What am I going to do, boys? Lose? All right. so i mean that's all i got i can't you know what am i gonna do boys lose now just all right yeah well i am left with mario and senua boy i may not be out of this yet mario and senua and then deckard kane and princess peach i i'm gonna put mario's car obviously mario i do think has to be clark oh gosh

all right and then senua is gonna be cousin eddie or maybe cousin edie in this case there you go all right all right sure sure i just can't wait to hear them deliver the line. You know, save the neck for me, Clark. That's going to be Senua right there. While she's showing her teeth. Yeah. Save the neck for me. All right.

Ryan, you got to vote for a winner. Is it Grunt and Clickers or Mario and Senua? Josh, yours are so bad. They're so bad. Dude, is this compared to Mario and Senua? No. Come on. No way.

Yeah, it's good. The only way that would win. What, Cousin Eddie is a clicker? Josh, there's only one movie that you would have won with those two, and it would have been Alien vs. Predator. I know. That's like the only one movie that you would have won with those two, and it would have been Alien vs. Predator. I know. That's like the only one maybe that you would win. Sometimes you got to roll them dice, boys. Ryan, you're voting for me, right?

Yes, I am. Okay. All right. Clearly, I'm voting for Ryan. Which means, Josh, you get to determine the winner. Second place is still okay. What was that? I said second place is still okay what was that i said second place is still okay sure yeah tied tied for second so uh which is the winner do you want to see princess peach as clark griswold and deckard kane as cousin eddie or mario and Senua. I'm giving this solely for the voice.

Save the neck for me. That's honestly it. Yeah, that's what I'm going with because that would just the voice alone would be great. So Princess Peach really doesn't fit at all, but Deckard Cain is pulling this one out for me. So yeah, I'm giving it

to Ryan. But Deckard Cain is cousin Eddie. I know. it to Ryan. But Deckard Cain is cousin Eddie. I know. That's fine. It's still voices. You know, it's still either way. It's better than Mario and Senua. I don't like either one of those. I don't like Princess Peach,

but at least I like Deckard Cain in one of the roles. So yes, that's fair. That logic holds. All right. Which means, Ryan, you are the winner of the tournament. I think it's because you got that first overall pick. It really carried you through. It's such an advantage, man.

Crushed it with the Deckard Cain pick. Absolutely. Carried you all the way through the finals. Imagine what I could have done if I had your Russ character. I know, right? Yeah. He's just waiting to be scouted out by Hollywood. You know, they say hindsight is 20-20, guys.

And looking back, maybe taking a headcrab as my first overall pick wasn't the best thing in the world. Maybe. I don't know. I'll have to think about it for a while. I just know when I think back on this draft, I'm going to think about Mike Tyson doing like the upside down kiss as Spider-Man.

And that's, that's going to crack me up anytime I think about it. So good. All right. Well, that wraps this one up. We are all done. Hope everyone out there enjoyed the episode.

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