Video Gamers Podcast - Corporate Kombat: We Built a Business Using Only Video Game Characters | Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan, and John take a break from boss fights to build... a company? That’s right — this week, the squad drafts a full business team using only video game characters. Who gets the CEO seat? Who's stuck doing the heavy lifting? Which video game staff will reign supreme?!? Your weekly hit of gaming debates, deep dives, and video game nonsense—only on the Video Gamers Podcast. Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, and Gaius Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1   Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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manual because today we're competing head to head to draft the best team of video game characters to start a company. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host Josh, and joining me, he is the CEO of his own company, but he's not quite sure what an accountant and a manager do, it's Ryan. All I know is my boss is a jerk.

Yes. She's got a lot of rules man oh Sarah doesn't listen to this does she no no okay good whoo sorry I love you Sarah gosh no and joining us he may love Disney Nintendo and other mega corporations but at least he doesn't love Ubisoft John I have to tell you guys I feel so supremely confident in this episode Yeah, you know I'm you know who else felt confident ace on the indie episode or hey our buddy DK Matt on the wrestling episode How many people have thought this is my wheelhouse? And then they get smoked in these drafts, man. I sure I do have to bow to your

guys experience. You might have me in the, I hope we snake one of his jobs. I've got a two that I've got two that I'm worried about for sure. Oh man. So, all right. So listen, welcome in. First of all, everybody, uh, we have a very fun episode for you We'd love these drafts dude. These are kind of like it's just a fun dumb thing that we do We try to find that like the silliest just stupid ideas and then we kind of go head-to-head with each other to draft these teams To put together whatever the topic is and and honestly man these wind up being so much fun We have challenged, you know people, you know listeners of the show fans of the show put together whatever the topic is. And honestly, man, these wind up being so much fun. We have challenged people, listeners of the show,

fans of the show, guests that we've had on and things like that. And I say it all the time, everybody thinks like, oh, this is gonna be so easy until you get sniped or somebody steals your pick or you're like, dude, I should have taken that guy. And now you start tilting and everything falls apart at that point man and so these are always a really good time this one Ryan you came up with this idea man I don't know if you don't feel in

business see one day or what but you were like dude let's make a company and you got to use video game characters for it so the rules of this draft are we have to draft a CEO, an accountant, a manager, and then two just general workers. And however you want to spin those positions is up to you. We are not building any specific corporation or business geared towards something. So there's some leeway there on what you want to build out as well. I have a good list that I have put together that I am rather excited about. There are a couple of characters I'm like, dude, I better not. They can't snipe me on this.

But, you know, this is going to be a neat one because listen, we have always tried to make it where we can't just pick Lara Croft, Kratos, Master Chief and some of these most iconic people. And this draft, I'll be honest, I'm not seeing it, man. So we don't have to we don't have to ban any picks. We don't have to do any of that. But creativity is absolutely going to come into play on this one. So we're going to get to that in just a second.

But, oh, my goodness, boys, do we have some people to thank today? I mean, listen, we always say, hey, you know, we we need the support of our listeners. People can sign up to support this podcast and keep it going. And one of the ways that we say thank you is a shout out on the show. And we got some people to shout out, man. This is this has been an epic week for us. So a big thank you to Brett Hutchinson, El Capo, D Soldati and Mike Germaneo, who all signed up for rare status. We have the Zombie Trick who signed up for Epic status. And then somehow, someway,

two of our long-time listeners, awesome members of our community, realized that we had spots open in our legendary tier, which we did not even know were open. Speaking of sniped. Yeah, speaking of sniped. Yeah, good job guys. And so I mean, listen, we love you gents, but a huge thank you to Hypnotic Pyro and Panzerfaust Ali for signing up for legendary status.

Yeah. And listen, a deal is a deal. The perks remain. We said long ago that if you signed up legendary, you got to hijack a host and make one of us play a game of your choosing. And, you know, just cause we're dumb and we didn't realize that there were spots open. We are men of our words. We're going to honor that. And, and, you know, we'll find out soon enough what game they're going to pick for who to, but we are gonna have some hijack-a-hosts coming up too, so... Will Ryan get picked for the sixth straight time? Okay. Find out! Well, number one, I hope so.

And maybe I have been doing some covert operations to try to get you to have to play like Elden Ring or something. No collusion! What are you doing? I'm just saying, you gotta give the people what they want, man! So listen, thank you to everybody for supporting this show. If you are a supporter of the show, we wouldn't be here without you. If you would like to support this show, there's a link in the episode description. It's an easy tap of that link, and before you know it, you can be a supporter as well and, you know, be bringing the best gaming podcast in the world to more people. So thank you all of you for that. Guys, you guys ready to get

into this draft? Yeah, I'm stoked. Okay, do it. So we randomized this using our all sentient AI to just randomize this draft order, because this does come into play, man. Sometimes there is a pick where you were like, I absolutely, there is a, like an obvious winning pick here at the first choice. So the draft order is gonna go Ryan, me, and then John. And to keep things fair, we do it in a snake draft.

So it will then go John, me, and then Ryan, rinse and repeat until we have filled all of these positions. Let's go boys. Let's do it. You're up. You've got. Okay. So one more reminder. You have to fill a CEO spot, an accountant spot, a manager spot, and then two workers. I'm curious to see where Ryan's going to start on this one. Ryan, take it away buddy. Well, uh, I think a lot of people would think when you're when you're building something you got to start at the top I'm gonna go Right for the head of the company with the CEO. I

Want somebody who is coldly efficient hyper intelligent and always in control? I'm going with gladdDOS from Portal for my CEO. That's a good pick. That's a good pick. I have GLaDOS on my list, but I did not pick her to run the company. She's too selfish, man. She's only going to care about GLaDOS and GLaDOS only. Your company's going to be making minimum wage while the CEOs

buying Lamborghinis and Ferraris and, and, and, you know, so it'll be laying off 200 people. Yeah. Nintendo or Microsoft. GLaDOS to lead the company. Now she is, she is really smart. And as we know, from portal, she is also very dedicated, stubborn, a little lethal, a little crazy. Not rational, though. Um, you know, she's a good speaker, though, too, man. That voice didn't like just dictate. I love it. Iconic, man. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. All right. Gladdos for Ryan to start this off as the CEOic man. Oh my gosh. Yeah. All right gladdose for Ryan to start this off as the CEO man

All right. Yeah, okay Ceo gladdose there. All right. It's my turn now. I am torn here guys. I have two guys That I am like man Like these are both like really good options for a ceo, but I think I think one of them These are both like really good options for a CEO, but I think one of them... All right, I'm gonna... Guys, listen, I may not be a huge fan of this game, all right? This game is not my style of game,

but my wife loved this game, and if there's one name that I have heard people talk about their business acumen, their ability to pick up and go to an Island and start a shop and have employees and know how to make money and run this business. I'm taking Tom Nook boys from Animal Crossing, one of the best business leaders in any game ever. You love them, you hate them, but this man thing, raccoon Tanuki, I think is actually the term for it.

Absolutely knows how to run a business. And that's who I want heading up my company. First night. That's an excellent pick. That was an excellent pick. Nook was gonna be my accountant. So that was the first night off the board already. Not no more.

That is a really good pick. Yeah, is he can actually run a business. Yeah we're gonna check this one. Not only that but he ran a very strong business through COVID when he knew how to capitalize on that man. Where a lot of businesses were going out of business Tom Nooks just swimming in the cash. So. Oh man. I was hoping I snipe that. John started nodding and I was like, please tell me that with my first pick, I just. I think I'm pretty safe. I think I'm pretty safe with my CEO and my accountant.

I'm a little worried about my GM, but my workers I'm most worried about. Oh, I'm not worried about my workers. I don't think you guys are going to think the way I'm thinking when it comes to the workers. So John, it is your pick buddy, what do you got? Well, so as the most experienced businessman on this call, unlike Ryan who wants to start building a building from the top, which makes no sense at all, I'm going to start with the foundation

and start with the critical people who are actually performing the work. They don't matter. Yeah. Right. And so, what- I'm just thinking Ryan Draft and GLaDOS to run a company. This company's the shadiest, most seedy company ever, man.

To be fair, GLaDOS was for sure somebody I considered in a leadership role for this company. Oh yeah. She was on my list. Yeah, she was on my list too. But when I'm thinking of somebody that I want to actually be doing the day-to-day work, what I need is somebody who's going to be capable, who's adaptable, who doesn't need to have their hand held, who's loyal and purpose-driven, and also isn't necessarily like a leader You don't want people in those positions who are gonna be like competing for your own leadership

So my pick for my first worker is link Yeah, he's too man, you know, you might get a complainer too about like hey guys that weird dudes making noises again And it's kind of distracting to people but you don't ever have to worry about him like you know just gabbing up a storm and taking away from productivity and stuff Plus he's a pretty good cook man that that is a good cook Yep, exactly. He's entertaining he can he can snowboard He can't answer the phones though. If the phone starts ringing, he's like. I don't want him answering the phone.

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Hey, Link, how are those TPS reports coming? Huh? Huh? Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Just nod or shake your head, buddy.

That's what I want. All right, so John taking Link as a worker, the first worker off the board. And John, it's right back to you, buddy. You actually get another pick now. And my second one one I'm so happy it happened in a sort of because these are the ones I'm worried about although it sounds like you guys didn't shoot these at least link my second worker is another person who is happy to be in a supporting role he's diligent he is somebody who carries a

lot of insecurity but he also perseveres through that insecurity He he goes when things get tough. He's somebody who's often underestimated but always reliable and that is my buddy Luigi Luigi Mario as a worker, huh as a worker. I don't want Mario and I mean Mario's Mario's a little too headstrong Luigi is compliant. I mean, let's's a little too headstrong Luigi is compliant I mean, let's be honest Luigi's also the better worker Mario gets Distracted he doesn't know what castle the princess is in in the first place. He's got a crush on way too many Oh, yeah, he's gonna be he's gonna be risen up all the other people at the company He's like look man. I'm a good worker

I might you know, I might have my eye on somebody, but he's not going to get distracted nearly as much. So all right. So John's starting off with link in Luigi as his workers. Now, this is where I was a little worried, but you didn't take this. And the other spot that I was worried about was accountant and hearing Ryan say he thought about Tom Nook for the accountant makes me go, I better lock in this accountant role while I can because this one was hard.

Now an accountant has to be smart. They have to be organized. They have to be good with numbers. I mean, they really need, I mean, some people would say like a lot of like computing power, good at calculations, thinking on their feet. You know, I'm taking Cortana boys as my accountant. I mean, I don't have to worry about taxes. I don't have to worry about numbers. Cortana's got all that taken care of. Dude, that's you sniped me again back to back. I swear. Yeah, you're right. I did, Ryan. It was swapped.ed me again back to back. I swear right I did Ryan

It was swapped Cortana was gonna be my accountant. Yeah. Oh my gosh, dude. What the heck? I'm like scrambling I'm like, oh no Cork caught Cortana was my accountant too I knew somebody was gonna take her so I pivoted The strategy in a draft boys, I hate this game Oh, you know what though? I might Mike I I was actually happy to have moved on for I think she's the strategy and a draft boys. I hate this game. Oh man. You know what though? I, my, my, I, I was actually happy to have moved on from it.

I think she's a little too sentimental to be a good accountant. She's like the most supreme AI in the universe, man. What are you talking about? She is, but I think she also changes her approach based on, you know, like she's like, she has a fondness for, for a master chief. And I think that she doesn't make the most objective decisions because of that.

Like again, yes, Supreme AI, but she's got a bit too much personality to be a really good. All I need is her to crunch numbers and keep the IRS. Well, you're gonna, when she gets a little too close to some workers, you're gonna have to call HR. That's what you're gonna have to worry about. It's an excellent choice. And one of my biggest game crushes of all time, too.

Oh, yeah, dude, both. I didn't wanna say there might be other reasons, too. This is strictly professional, boys. But it's, you know, she can hang out in my office. She doesn't need a lot of space. There you go. All right, Ryan. Well, now that you have been double sniped, you do get back to back picks.

Now, is this where the tilting and the scrambling starts? A little bit, but I got a good one here lined up. So I'm going to do my manager next, since you just stole my accountant and I'm scrambling. I'm going to get somebody who is like a natural, skilled leader, very strong, determined, good decision-making skills. I am going with Commander Shepard. Dang it, dang it, dang it.

Good one. Okay, you took my next pick, right? Yes, snipe, snipe, snipe. You did, so one snipe deserves another. That was absolutely going to be my next pick man. Yeah, if he was their commander shepherd What you want like managing all these people this man can like bring the universe together and to fight the Reapers You know it's like this dude knows how to manage people. Yeah, they'll get him in line Choice that is a good choice.

That is a good choice, darn it, Ryan. I was hoping you'd kind of scramble a little bit there. I am, that one was a scrambling. I'm scrambling for the rest, yeah. So the next one I'm going to go with is a worker. You want somebody that, you know, I'm not like John, I just don't want slave people that are dumb and can't talk. So I want someone who's intelligent

and just willing to just do anything to get the job done. I'm going with Mr. Gordon Freeman from Half Life. As a worker? As a worker. Oh, poor Gordon got demoted, man. Yeah. Wow. That poor guy's really falling. everybody has an equal share at this company There are

equally important He is extremely versatile and can certainly overcome adversity. It's a good thing whatever we throw at him Was gonna get picked somewhere. I was wondering if he like he would fit the role of accountant cuz he's wicked smart Yeah, he a worker like I mean what better option for a worker like honestly, you know I mean I feel bad for Gordon that he's just down at that low, you know What kind of company we're running man, but I mean, you know, this is gonna put us in some crazy situations He could be a CEO for that matter like that man could He's a little bit more of like a solo guy though

I don't know that he'd be like the best at running an entire company. Probably not. Yeah, so. He'll get his shot. Yeah. Oh man. All right. That's a good one.

All right. So it's back to me again. Now the question is, do I go with my manager or do I start with my workers here? I don't think... You did snipe my manager. I'm actually low on my manager count here. Okay, I'm picking my manager. I don't worry about you guys sniping my workers on this one.

So I am. I'm building this company from the top like John said. All right. Here's the thing, guys. I've got the world's smartest AI. I've got Tom Nook who is just just, you know, show me the money Knows how to get it. But you know Sometimes you might need to do things just a little like not by the book, you know

Companies need a little bit of flexibility here and there to kind of be like look guys Like we know we have this opportunity in front of us. It's not necessarily kosher, but it's a really good opportunity. And I need somebody that can think through that, man. I need a guy that can put a plan together, you know, and maybe, maybe think about every detail. John's it's not Dutch. Don't worry. They can think of every detail needed to run an operation. I am taking Lester from Grand Theft Auto V. If this man could put heists together and he could motivate that crew to do what they do,

I need this man managing my people, putting these action plans together. I mean, a performance review. He'd be able to say, hey man, you didn't turn off that security system when you were robbing the bank, I mean trying to acquire more liquid capital. I don't know if that's the right term or not,

John's squinting now like, that's not what that's called. So I'm taking Lester Crest from Grand Theft Auto V as my manager. Wendy's most important deal of the day has a fresh lineup. Pick any two breakfast items for $4. New four-piece French toast sticks, bacon or sausage wrap, biscuit or English muffin sandwiches,

small hot coffee, and more. Limited time only at participating Wendy's Taxes Extra. You have an interesting company, man. Well, yeah. We've got so much flexibility in what we can do now. I mean, as long as... That's true. And like I said, Cortana gonna keep the IRS off of us, man. We've got so much flexibility in what we can do now. I mean as long as, and like I said Cortana gonna keep the IRS off of us man. If I need to launder a little bit of money so be it. Lester knows how to do that. Oh gosh. Alright oh man that's my wild card one right there. Maybe until I get to my workers.

But all right, John. Do I get, I got to go twice. Okay. So again, I'm building my company from the ground up. So when I think about, I've got two very capable workers, right? Two very capable frontline workers who are dynamic and they can do a lot of stuff. So now what I really want out of a, out of a manager is I want somebody who can both lead and follow somebody who leads from the front commands respect, but

is also loyal and, uh, and tactical. And when I think about somebody who is your perfect frontline leader, I can think of nobody better than my boy Captain America to lead this team from the front. He is going to be leading my day to day. And I think with him, Link and Luigi, I've got a solid core team there. Okay. So is he your CEO or is he your manager? No, he is my manager. He's your manager. All together, different plan from my CEO.

Okay. Nobody picked my CEO. Cap knows how to motivate people, man. He really does. He was on my master list of characters that I thought might fit a role well. I just feel the only downside, because I have to slay under picks here

because I want to win this thing. Sure. My only downside is Cap's enthusiasm and the way that he talks to people could get a little annoying sometimes. He's such a goody goody. Oh, Cap's coming again. Where he's like, guys, for profit!

As he's charging, he's like, follow me to the lunch room, guys. We've got 15 minutes on our break. And then everybody's like, oh, there goes Cap again, sucking up to the CEO. Do we still got to do this, Cap? Well, right, right. I can do this all day. This is the thing you guys didn't consider,

is that not every worker is going to work in every culture, but cap leading Luigi and link makes sense. That company culture makes sense. Link and Luigi would want that kind of leader, especially given who my CEO is. You need somebody who's going to be able to take somewhat difficult information and be able to still inspire the troops with it. And anyways, there's my reasoning. I mean, if you got a guy like Lester, bro, like that's... Think about who's gonna work for that guy. We don't slander Lester around here, John. Hey, though, what's gonna happen if he disagrees with your CEO?

Because look what him and Iron Man went into when he got upset. Civil War. Yeah, that's why Iron Man's not on my team. Oh. Oh, okay. Yeah, so my next pick for my accountant is somebody, I like the way you guys were thinking with like, GLaDOS, right?

Like, in my opinion, or Cortana for that matter, in that role, you want somebody who is going to be extremely detail oriented, is going to have basically infallible grasp of the numbers and accounting, but who's also going to stand by them and who is going to defend them because honestly, companies should live and die by their, by their financial statements.

Whatever somebody's hunches about something doesn't matter. The numbers are infallible. And so I needed somebody who is going to be both disciplined and detail oriented, but also ruthlessly efficient and defensive of it. And there's also other reasons, but. Squirrel girl. I'm going with 2B from Nier Automata. That's actually a great pick for an accountant, man.

Great pick. There's a lot of great reasons to have her. Yeah, that's a, dang it. You wanna trade Cortana man, I sure That's it that's a win-win To be because she is an Android like she's gonna be able to do the numbers and stuff man Yeah, exactly. She is exacting. She she operates with extreme precision. She is a stickler for protocol

She is even you know, I don't know if you guys actually played through that game, but even when there's a part of her who is Questioning whether or not her loyalty is founded. She's like I have to do this is my mission This is what I do, you know, it's almost like there wasn't a second thought. This is what I was programmed to do This is what I do. You know, it's almost like there wasn't a second thought. This is what I was programmed to do. This is what I do. I'm reliable and I am efficient and I produce results. And that's, that is the kind of accountant I want on my team. Yeah. They only like, can she see the monitor

with the blindfold on though? Like she doesn't need to buddy. Really? Like she doesn't need to see the numbers that she's typing in. She's got, she's got Neo Matrix vision, bro. Oh, is that it? I didn't know if that worked like, like, you know,

it works in the real world, but like what that looks like if you're looking at like a computer screen. No, see, this is the thing. Like if somebody is questioning your numbers and you get the eyes, you know, you're in trouble. She looks up the blindfold and get out of Dodge. She uses dark mode a hundred percent of the time. Okay, 2B isn't an accountant.

Man, wow, I feel like that's a good pick, John. Okay, I am down to my workers. Now, this is where I have a lot of choices for my workers here. This is actually the biggest list that I have. I only have one other CEO. We'll do some honorable mentions and stuff and kind of talk about what's what's on our list that didn't get picked. But I, I mean when it comes to a worker, I need somebody that's not going to let

anything hold them back. You know, I want somebody that's like, hey, they wake up, they're not feeling great, they're still coming to work. Right? I like they are dedicated, they are adaptable, they're willing to just do whatever it takes to get the job done. And hey, if hell is breaking out on a space station and they're still willing to just do their job, that's the kind of worker I want. I am taking Isaac Clark from Dead Space as my oh, this man does it all. He's not going to stop. Nothing's going to hold him back. If this guy can handle what he handled in that game,

he'll easily be able to handle whatever we throw at him as far as work goes. And let's be honest, his suit looks cool as anything to me. So it's like that's just motivation around the office office too. So Isaac Clark for me is my first worker That's a great pick man. I got it. I got to give it to you. That's a great I mean he is like a quintessential worker to oh yeah, he's working through that Yeah, he can fix things he can like, you know He can go from one one office to the other because the man's used to walking around everywhere Puts out fires knows how to open doors. I mean this man does it all

Yeah That's a great pick I can't find fault with it. All right Ryan These are your last two picks buddy you get back to back, but then your draft is over it is so two picks buddy. You get back to back but then your draft is over. It is. So I'm going to go with someone who I've personally had for my other worker experience with as as a worker. Solid track record always always on the job two three four in the morning and I roll up get my money. They're always telling me when they need more product I'm going with the one the only Benji Coleman my dealer from schedule one

Is the most reputable? Dependable guy and he's not gonna give you no backtalk. He's just like what do you need boss? I'll take care of you Boom takes it and that's it. Yeah, give me a signing bonus 20% cut Signing bonus to that's true He's such a good pick right I didn't even think of that dude Yeah, good old Angie. I agree probably not asking for benefits either She lives in a weekly motel. I know Cash and company perks. Yep. Oh, yeah, we'll get him some perks

All right, you got one Worker left Ryan. Oh, no. No wait. You've got no you already picked a work. I picked my worker. I got my accountant is all I have left. So I had to scramble a little bit, but I am Excited with this one because when you got somebody you want, you know, I Think we can all agree that my company may not be the most Onboard up to par legal endeavor so I'm gonna go some with somebody who, who may be able to, uh, swindle their way, talk their way out of

things. Um, good with, good with wheeling and dealing. I'm going with the one, the only Victor Sullivan for uncharted. Victor Sullivan. Yeah. As your accountant? Is he good with numbers? As your accountant?

Yeah. Now he's, now he's, I have a terrible choice. He's going to cook accountant? Yeah! No he's not! That's a terrible choice. He's gonna cook the books. No, he's gonna cook the books. He's going to embezzle. You may be right about that. We're gonna make so much money it won't even matter.

They've got this thing on the side, everybody's like, dude, the stocks are down? Productivity's not happening? Like this company's making millions, but where's it going? They disappeared to the islands. Yeah Left everybody else just holding the silly no silly silly. He's always there for Drake. No matter what so he's gonna be there for me I don't know. I'll be honest. Okay. I haven't played You know these games. I don't I played you would I know who Victor Sullivan is. I have zero clue if he feels, if it feels like he would make it. Dude, you've never played Uncharted?

No. I know. No. What? I'm just saying, there has been conversation about I need to play these games. You know, if for instance, somebody went legendary and wanted to make me play a game, you know. Call the action there, guys. No, Uncharted, please.

Two or four. No, I'm kidding. I see. Yeah. Yeah, Pyro and Ali, man. a game you know call the action there guys yeah charted please no more for yeah yeah pyro and Ali man if you guys are uncharted fans as their opportunity we're just throwing gaze at each other now just seeing what'll stick so anyway I have no idea I feel like this is a bad pick Ryan but only because, I want to win and I don't want you to win. So Well, as you can tell, it was a scramble, but uh, oh yeah, I like your original pick was good.

Okay. Yeah, this one's not so I have one more worker and I have this big list of people, man. I don't want to spoil anything because well, wait,'ve got both your workers right yeah yeah all I have left is my CEO and I'm so stoked for okay I'm not gonna spoil anything cuz I don't want to give John any ideas I am torn between two picks right well actually three picks now I'm gonna go with the one that I know a little bit more about because to be fair one of these picks I don't really know much about other than I it's like dude He probably is a really good worker from what I see in like some of the game trailers and gameplay and stuff

But I don't know So I'm gonna go with the person that I do know and you know to go along with Isaac Clark from Dead Space I want somebody that is Absolutely dedicated to the job somebody that can work with other people, because let's be honest, you need, it's a team environment. You know, we need somebody that can work with people. I want somebody that can work with the most difficult out there character in a video game.

You know, somebody that can still stay on task and focus while this guy's talking to doors and trying to retrieve his shoes or a tie from a ceiling fan I'm taking my boy Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium because I cannot think of a more loyal hard-working honest person that I want working for my company than Kim Kitsuragi man. That's that's a solid pick. That's a good worker. Andy Sosko can too. I don't know anything about the game. So he's pleasant to be around, you know?

Like he can deal with who he wants. Oh, that's right. You haven't played Disco, have you? Oh, John. I haven't played it. I know very little about it. Legendary pick. Other than you guys. You guys should have. There you go. Yeah, get them too, not me. You guys should have stock in it. Yeah.

John, I feel like you would love Disco Elysium, too. He probably would, yeah. I feel like it would blow your mind like legitimately Yeah, maybe maybe all once I get done laboring through what is not, you know a midnight walk Which isn't doing it for me right now, but I feel honor bound to do it All right John it is your very last pick. It is the person who John wants to be the CEO of his company.

I am very curious on this one, man. So I'm actually not sure how familiar you guys are with this character, but I'm willing to bet you're somewhat familiar. So when I'm thinking of somebody who I want to be a CEO, I have to think about somebody who is a strategist who makes data-driven decisions, who maintains calmness under pressure, who respects talent and like competition, but also is ultimately so confident in their own capabilities that any challenge would be mowed down

somebody who's disciplined and ruthlessly efficient And my choice for ceo is grand admiral thron What game was he in? Lego star wars It counts it counts You guys know who that is? Lego Star Wars. Ah, what? Are you fucking kidding me? Lego Star Wars? It counts, it counts, it counts. It does, I mean, it does count, but, oh. Just to be fair, my original choice

was going to be Tywin Lannister, but he actually wasn't in the Telltale games, the Game of Thrones games. So I went with Grand Admiral Thrawn. Okay, I mean, Grand Admiral Thrawn. Okay, I mean Grand Admiral Thrawn is absolutely who you want leading a company. But the Lego, it's specifically the Lego one and he doesn't have a brain, so.

He was in a couple of the others, but that's a good one. He's gonna waddle around and pointing up at everybody. I think he's like a Fortnite skin too, if that counts or something. But. Okay, I mean I love the Star Wars pick. I'm here for Star Wars characters, man.

Heck yeah. Yeah. So, all right. Well, let me give the rundown of these teams then. All right. So I'm just going to go in order that we, well, no, okay. So Ryan has GLaDOS as his CEO, Commander Shepard as his manager.

He's got Gordon Freeman as a lowly worker. Poor Gordon, man. That's the one I'm having a hard time swallowing. You don't know what company we even have. I'm just saying this poor Gordon, man. After everything this man's done for the world, he's just making minimum wage at a company run by GLaDOS of all things.

Why's he gotta be making minimum wage, man? Because GLaDOS is the CEO. You think she's gonna be giving benefits to people? This is a terrible company, I don't know what to say. But are we profitable, that's all that matters. As much as I'm slandering Gordon Freeman being a worker, this might be my favorite pic in the draft. Our boy Benji as the worker on Ryan.

Yeah! And then Victor Sullivan, well Ryan, you almost ended on a great note with Benji. But- I would rather Cortana like I planned. Yeah. All right. And then I have Tom Nook as my CEO. I've got Cortana as my accountant.

I've got Lester Kress from Grand Theft Auto 5. That's a weird one, man. As my manager, I've got Isaac Clark and Kim Kitsuragi as my very dedicated, honorable, hardworking workers. And then John, John has Link and Luigi as his workers. That is an odd pair of workers right there. But you know what? They're, I gotta give you credit.

They will get the job done, dude. They will absolutely get the give you credit they will get the job done dude they will absolutely get the job we got the job done and not talk back that's very true you're gonna have some weird noises going Captain America as his manager that's a good one that's a good one that is a that is a good one and then he's got to be as the accountant that's a good one. That is a good one. And then he's got 2B as the accountant. That's a great pick, by the way. I mean, 2B can be a great pick in just about anything, if you ask me. Oh, totally. And then Grand Admiral Thrawn off the wall out of left field.

I didn't even know what game this guy was in, but Lego Star Wars it it is as the CEO of the company so now let me just get this straight so just to be clear your company is evil because Grand Admiral Thrawn is you know mmm see here's the thing I I think I like it you're just like a dude guys I did the villains always think they're the good guys that's the best evil evil is perspective which is quit rebelling Like if you were to put them on like a D8... You're just misunderstood, guys! The villains always think they're the good guys. That's the best villain. Evil is perspective, man. If these people would just quit rebelling, everything would be great, man!

If the Jedi would just go away, things would be awesome! I think if Grand Admiral Thrawn were running the Empire, it would be a much different, better organization. Versus Emperor Palpatine? Yes. I can't argue with you there. Yeah, absolutely. Honestly, Grand Admiral Thrawn's pretty cool, man.

That's pretty solid. As far as, like, he's, he would, if you were, like, building a D&D character sheet, he would be, like, lawful evil, I guess. But there's a, like, there's a lot of characters in fandom that fall into that lawful evil thing where I'm like, I don't know, man. I mean, like they'd be like, I don't agree with all of their decisions, but like 90% of their decisions, the big lift decisions would like really benefit everybody. Like Tywin, Tywin Lannister is one of those. Like, I don't know. Yeah, we can go do it Game of Thrones episode some other time. But anyway, I stand by. I read the books, I know who Tywin is. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'll be honest, man. Lawful evil, they think about their decisions, man.

You know, I mean, they really do. They ponder it, they're smart. They just, you know. Things that feel evil, a lot of it's, exactly, it's a hard choice, yeah. What is evil? Wait, quit boosting up his company. Stop boosting his picks, what are you doing?

No, I'm just saying, but like, you know, the Empire's just trying to bring peace Wait, quit boosting up his company. Stop boosting his pics. What are you doing? No, I'm just saying, but the Empire's just trying to bring peace and order to the galaxy, guys. Yeah. And this pitiful rebellion rising up and causing all kinds of strife and blowing up buildings and Death Stars and all this other stuff, man. Yeah. Yeah.

Thanks. So I have your endorsement. No. No. You want to your endorsement. No, no. You want to buy stock? That team is terrible. So. All right, well let's, hey real quick, let's go through some honorable mentions

or other people that might be on y'all's list. I had Morden Solis and Garris from Mass Effect. I honestly, like both would be really good workers, CEOs even, but they're just a little too nerdy. I don't know that I need like both would be really good workers, CEOs even, but they're just a little too nerdy. I don't know that I need like that caliber of person and just a worker role. Like I'd never do that to these genius people and put them in a worker role. I had Sam Bridges as my other worker from Death Stranding.

That's the one that I said, Hey, I'm not sure. I don't really know a whole lot about this guy, but it seems like he works really hard and he's willing to walk across alien landscapes to deliver packages. So I feel like he'd be a good worker. And that is it for my honorable mentions. Ryan, did you have any on your list? I had Snake as CEO.

I figured you'd have Snake on your list somewhere. I was wondering where to plug him in at. And then you freaking double sniped me. Yeah, good. Jerk. John, what about you? Did you have any other possible candidates? Yeah, I did.

I had Master Chief as an alternate for General Manager or Manager or whatever, for basically the same exact reasons as Captain America. I had Yuna from Final Fantasy as a potential CEO for basically the exact opposite reason, like just the positive side for Grand Admiral Thrawn, you know, positive selfless sort of leadership. I had a couple of the ones that you guys had discussed, but I also had Clank from Ratchet and Clank is an accountant. And gosh. Arthur Morgan would have been a good worker. I also had Luna from Expedition 33, best game ever.

I had her as a potential worker just because she's extremely versatile. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's why. So I had, okay, so I did have one other. My CEO, I told you I was torn between two guys. And I just felt like this was a little too. It would be good to work at my company by then. Yeah. Two on the nose, but my other option for CEO

was Batman, because it's Bruce Wayne. He literally is the CEO slash owner of the company, but. He didn't do anything with the company, though. That's the issue. I think he's just going to be. Is he the CEO slash owner of the company, but he didn't do anything with the company though issue I was like, I think he's just the CEO. He's the owner. I mean They do have a board and everything. Yeah, so maybe he made Fox the CEO, right? I think he did. Yeah So I have well, I mean I can make him the CEO if I wanted to. I can do whatever I want. Yeah, Batman slash Bruce Wayne was my other choice for possible CEO. But then I was like, I don't know, man, he might just be, you know, Bruce Wayne's kind

of a playboy. He's just out partying and, you know. He's going to sleep all day. He'll be out all night. Crime. I need you here, man. I need you looking at these reports in these. One other honorable mention for a worker is Paul's rust character

No, my goodness Hardest farmer in rough hardest for oh man. All right. Well, that is it for this draft We're gonna let the listeners decide listen if there was somebody that we absolutely Whiffed on if there's somebody that we should have taken and just did not, come let us know about it. Our Discord server is amazing. We say this all the time and there's a reason we say it all the time.

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I got the best team. John just shrugs. He's like, dude, it's me. I am absolutely the most followed team. I have America's butt and 2B on my team. That's pretty hard to beat. That's true, John's team is probably the most attractive team on there. I don't know.

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