Video Gamers Podcast - Lights, Camera, Action - Video Games Podcast

Episode Date: July 24, 2023

Video Games hosts Josh, Ryan and Paul are back with a raucous episode where we draft video game characters for a movie role, but there’s a catch. We have no idea what roles we’re drafting these video game characters for. Mario as a horror movie slasher? Kratos in a coming of age movie? Who knows what’s going to happen, but we know you’ll love it and it’s going to be hilarious.   Thanks to our LEGENDARY supporters: Skippy, Kiitaclyzm, Gideon Is Lit, Toro, Scrump, Gaius, Remi, MarbleMadness, Dr. Catatonic, Blackstar (DQ), Glapsuidir, Phelps, Michele B, Redletter, Nevo, Waynerman, TFolls, AceofShame, Jake, RangerMiller, and Ad Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/multiplayerpodcast Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/multiplayerpod/ Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/MultiplayerPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q  Visit us on the web: multiplayerpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello fellow gamers, welcome to the Multiplayer Gaming Podcast. We are three lifelong gamer dads, and today we have a very special but also very silly bonus round draft and tournament ready for you all. But before we explain how that's going to work, we need some introductions. I am your host, or perhaps for today, police department captain to keep these jokers in order. And my name is Paul. And joining me, I have my two movie co-stars. First up, I think if he had to play himself in a movie, I think he would be perfect to play the reckless hotshot. It's Josh. Ooh, yeah, I like that.

You call me hot too, Paul, which that's the best compliment you've ever given me. Hotshot. Not necessarily. Oh, I missed that part. Hotshot. Oh, okay.

But yeah, you can get your Maverick on, Josh. That's what I was thinking there as the reckless hotshot. It's the right thinking, Paul. Yeah. And then to round out our very weird three-man movie, joining Josh and me, we've talked about his elite fighting skills.

I think it's only fair if we cast him as the kung fu hero. It's Ryan. You have to do your own sound effects as you fight that's the only rule oh yeah absolutely i would not be able to act in a kung fu movie without doing that the comedy directors have to be like cut dude you can't go like whenever you're throwing a punch like we'll edit that in and i'm like i'm sorry no how about you just edit my sound effects out there you go all right so we have done so many drafts and tournaments for anyone who might be new to the show and they're not used to what we do here basically what we do is we pick some kind

of theme and then we take turns drafting games or characters we pick things that we think best match that theme. And then after we go four rounds where we all draft four different options, then we match everything up in a bracket tournament style, kind of think like March Madness. And then basically we just systematically line everyone up and we vote for a winner until we eliminate it down to the one left standing, which we crown as the overall winner. However, there is a little bit of a twist on today's draft and tournament. We have done this once before. I like to call these blind drafts, and I think that they're very fun because they're very chaotic. Josh, do you want to tell the people what sets these drafts a little bit different?

I love these because I love nonsense and chaos man and these just work so well all right so normally we would pick the best villain right like i mean we did that episode and it's like hey what's the best villain in gaming and it's like oh well i know the best villains in gaming but glados yeah exactly yes handsome jacks yeah so we go you know what that's too easy so what we did instead is we said, hey, romantic comedy or something like that but we don't know what the actual options are going to be we have a huge list of them they are randomly going to be selected so we have to pick a character and draft these characters without actually knowing what we're going to need them for. And I love it because it's going to end up

leading to some hilarious options and just scrambling, trying to explain why Mario might be the best horror movie slasher character because he's all I got left on my list. Here we go. Yeah. And Ryan is obviously still somewhat new to the show as if we didn't make your job hard enough by playing all these games at a breakneck pace and making you draft in these games now you don't even know what you're drafting for ryan so it's it's doubly hard i'm ready bring it on i know we all love movies here so this is also one of my favorite little crossovers gives us a chance to mostly talk about gaming,

but with a little bit of a movie twist. I was going to say too, he almost came up with like the most amazing idea for a movie, a Kung Fu romantic comedy. And then I was just thinking, crap, it already came out. Beverly Hills Ninja. Yeah.

Did you know that movie is Christian Bale's all-time favorite movie? Is it really? Beverly Hills Ninja. Yeah. With Chris Rock and Chris Farley. Yeah. Go Google it. It's his number one movie of all time. I love that fact.

So, yeah, we have a total of 28 movie roles. So we have no real way to strategize or plan for this draft. And our draft order just happens to go Josh, Ryan, paul and then it is snake style so it'll be reversed each round after that josh you kind of got the short end of the stick because this is not the kind of draft where you want the number one overall pick you know it's fine because i i decided i am in the mood to have a good time boys and so I'm not picking your standard, ooh, I'm going to pick Nathan Drake and Laura Croft and try to just plug those into any option that might come up, boys. I've got some doozies for you.

I've got some doozies on my list. So it doesn't matter. I could care less what draft pick I have right now because none of you guys are going to have these people. Very nice. Now, the one thing we are going to change for this one is that even though we are only going to have to fill four movie roles, we are actually going to draft five rounds. So we'll all have one extra character to play with. So that way we're not completely forced in the final round. We still have a little bit of choice.

I have one last question for you guys. Are we going to ban Star Wars characters? Yes. Okay. I think that's fair to ban that as well. So no Darth Vader, no Yoda doing BMX biking like in the Olympics draft. We went that route and it was creative the first time. But now Ryan's just furiously deleting stuff off. How about this?

Just no, no star Wars movies characters. How about that? If you want to draft, what's his name? BB eight or Cal Kestis. I say that's fair game. Yeah.

Just no Vader, no Yoda, no emperor Palpatine, no Boba. You're out of no Mandalorian to me right now. All right. So I think we're ready just to start with our draft here. So Josh, even though you don't know what they're going to have to do, what are you going to choose for the 101? You know, I need a strong leading lady, guys, because a lot of these categories, I've looked through this list of 28 and it's not all just Tom Cruises and

stuff like that that you're going to need. I need a strong leading lady. I need her to be powerful. I need her to be beautiful. I need her to be eight foot tall. I need her to be undead. This is on my short list, believe it or not. Is it really? I have a star next to the name. I have a great line to say you like, Paul. This is why I'm taking it number one, because if there's any on my list that I was like Maybe

You need to drop the lady And it is Lady Demetrescu Oh from Resident Evil Village fame Now understand I have no idea What role she might be in at this point But she's on my team I'll figure that out later

But yeah that's my first pick man oh i love it what a wild pick there's also a couple movie roles that could work out perfect like horror movie slasher she is she's perfectly matched for that kind of role so you kind of hope that certain categories are gonna pop up because then it's like oh i nailed this one you know maybe not so much the police department captain. Sure. Although she would keep people in line. So, you know, I'm going to do my best persuasion on these.

Oh, this is too funny. I literally had four names with asterisks as in these are my top four. And Lady Dimitrescu was one of them. So that's wild. I am so glad that I poached her from you then, man. That's awesome. I love it. I I poached her from you then, man. That's awesome. I love it. I also love just repping Resident Evil Village.

What an underrated game at this point. It really is, man. If you haven't played it, go pick it up. So good. All right, Ryan, you get the second pick here. Who are you going with? Well, for the second pick, I guess a lot of times when you have a good actor or actress, you want them to be versatile you want them to be able to play all these different roles and what better character to do that

than somebody with the copy ability i'm getting kirby okay anything you want boom kirby goes in now They have to absorb the person, which might lead to some legal issues. Hey, you got to crack a few eggs. I love the pick. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. I don't know that I pictured Kirby going in this draft, but I love it. I don't think we've ever drafted Kirby before.

No, I don't think so. You have now. Wait till you see some of my other ones. Love it. Yeah, wait until Kirby is your trophy spouse, which is one of our roles. Well, then she'll go copy Laura Croft, and I got to round you guys' little band loophole.

There you go. All right, yeah. I was going to say, it's a family-friendly show, but I think you can use your imagination in some ways. Kirby might be a good pick. All right, moving along. I get to do my first pick here in the first round. I can't believe Lady Dimitrescu is stolen from me.

I'm going to go with somewhat of a little bit of an antihero. I think this is a person who is very cool. I think you'd want to see any movie that they were in. But they also have a little bit of a dangerous streak. Maybe a prior terrorist turned good guy that we're also going to see in an upcoming expansion to one of my favorite games cyberpunk 2077 i'm gonna go ahead and take johnny silverhand i think that's a really versatile fun pick i i johnny silverhand was one of the people that was on my list. And then I was like, man, maybe not quite chaotic enough, but really versatile. Like you said, versatile role, man.

Yeah. Especially when I look at some of these roles, I feel like he can fit about half of them. So I feel like that's a very versatile pick where if I don't have a clear answer, I can probably use him no matter what. So that's why I liked that one there. So I'm going to go ahead and lock in Johnny Silverhand. And then I get to go back. Oh, yeah. I was just going to say, I can't think of a single terrorist that I want to hang out with.

But Johnny Silverhand bucks that trend for me. I would chill with Johnny Silverhand in a heartbeat, man. Over to your left. I know you've got a little figurine right over there with Johnny Silverhand. That's right. I'm not saying we don't have conversations sometimes. Yeah. All right. And then since I get to go back to back, I also feel like I need a strong female lead. So I was kind of planning on going one male, one female. I am going to go with someone who is actually in one of Josh's favorite games of all time. Might be in his top 10.

Actually, I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to take Chun-Li from Street Fighter. Dude, I had Chun-Li on my list. What is going on right now? I had Chun-Li on my list, no lie. And then I, at the very last minute, pivoted to Lady Demitrasque.

Because I was like, they're not going to relate to Chun-Li on something. And then here you go. Yeah. Talking about kung fu moves, talking about action, or even sidekick. Chun-Li's great, man. Chun-Li fits a lot of roles. I like that one a lot best female fighter in street fighter oh or at least most of them oh no she's the best

yeah all right so i'll go ahead and uh and and lock in chun-li all right ryan coming back to you who are you going to pair with kirby oh man well when you when you got uh something with the copy ability you can do anything then we can go to something that we can program to do anything i'm going with the terminator oh the terminator oh yeah just go in it's a game it is there is plenty of games i made sure and checked reprogram them do anything you want he could he could be your comedic sidekick your super villain action star assassin now this is the is this the t1000 liquid metal terminator or is this the arnold schwarzenegger t100 is it the t100 i think it's the t100 do they go in intervals of hundreds i thought it was the t800 it is the t800 okay

arnold baby you gotta go think okay i'm just making sure yeah that was that was a like a coolness check and you passed ryan ryan i'm not gonna let you draft the terminator without giving me your best uh get me to the chopper get me to the chopper get down there it is. I'm a cop, you idiot. Where is it? What's the, was it the detective on here or something? Oh, for the role. Detective on his last day. That's one of our other movie roles.

Yeah, yeah. Like you're Morgan Freeman from Seven, you know, where he's about to retire. I can't take it anymore. I'm done. Here's my two week. All right. I love it. All right, Josh, coming back to you. You get back to back picks here to end round two and start round three. What you going for?

Nobody messes with Kuno. Nobody tells Kuno what to do. It's family friendly, so I can't say what Kuno normally says, but I'm picking Kuno from Disco Elysium, boys. Okay, I will give you props that Kuno is literally capable of doing anything. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

I need a character that's not afraid to break the law. I need a character that's not afraid to traffic drugs. I need a character that's not afraid to break the law. I need a character that's not afraid to traffic drugs. I need a character that's not afraid to threaten people. I need a character that maybe they back down when faced with physical punishment and stuff like that. You never know. But it's all about that versatility, guys. Oh, my goodness. Freaking Kuno.

Anybody that's played Dis disco elysium knows who there was somebody in our discord server that started playing disco elysium and then was just instantly talking about kuno and i it just brought back so many good memories and i was like oh man i miss talking to kuno i think they they said, I'm not entirely sure what Kuno meant, but I think that he was insulting me. And I was like, yeah, you're probably thinking correctly. That checks. All right. And then your back-to-back pick, who else are you going to take? Oh, I get another one.

That's right. You know, sometimes you need that silent kind of protagonist. You know, Arnold, right? They didn't want to give him a lot of lines. He wasn't a good actor at first. But, you know, he could and stuff like that. And, you know, I thought, man, there is a demand for that. I'm going with Link.

I'm taking Link. And, man, I hope a few roles come up. But, I mean, you know, let's be honest, guys. There is a wide range of vocal abilities. I was going to say, is this a violent picture? So this one's not going to have very much talking. You don't always need a vocal character. Sometimes you just need somebody that's moderately good looking, that is athletic, is a hero to the people.

What better person than Link? And I know how much Ryan hates how Link talks, but it never fails to make me laugh when Link goes up to someone and then they say, oh, what are you doing here? He just goes, huh? And then they go, what? You're following Princess Zelda and she's missing? And you thought you saw her in this part of the map? And it makes me laugh every time.

I love it. The new thing is just the handout, like where it's like in one little hand motion, I've explained 30 hours worth of plot. Yeah, my son was just playing uh earlier on the switch and I walked over and I was helping him with the shrine or something and I talked to somebody and immediately just started shaking my head I was so annoyed huh yeah oh that's great all right Ryan we are coming back to you. You've got Kirby and Terminator. Who are you going with next? Oh, man. This is a tough one for me.

I think I'm going to keep with going with just the most ridiculous things for a comedic belief, I guess. I like it. I'm going, I don't know if you guys ever played Dave Mira's BMX 2 way back in the day. But I can't remember if it was a cheat code or if you had to pass some missions or something to get it. But I'm going with the Slim Jim guy. Is that the snap into a Slim Jim? The Randy Macho Man Savage? That's Randy Macho Man.

Not that guy. The actual, like, he was in a yellow jumpsuit with a red shirt. And then he had, like, his hair looks like the top of a Slim jim oh wait i know who you're talking about yeah exactly yes oh my goodness the the hair like the it was gonna be straight up yeah i know who you're talking about now i don't think i ever played it myself but i do recognize the picture so i i that that's a that's a very uh way out of right field pick right now i'm all about it hopefully it's trophy spouse he draws oh man yeah uh with that marge simpson hairdo basically yeah that's exactly it if you ever need like the popcorn ceiling removed in your in your house

slim jim man's the guy to do it there you go very nice all right with my next pick here all right i gotta just draft with my heart i gotta take my boy nico bellic nico roman let's go bowling nico it's a good choice talk about the the the soft uh strong type that doesn't necessarily talk a lot nico is a little bit in that camp but i do see some categories here where i think he'd be perfect there's a lot of crazy ones where he would not work like the football quarterback uh but we'll see we'll see what lies in the cards i'll go ahead and take Nico. And then to start round four, boy, looking at this list, I am going to go with – I know I've drafted him before in previous drafts,

but I got to do it again. I'm going to go with Trevor Phillips. Oh, my. Yeah? You should have taken him early. You got to learn this strategy, Ryan. Nobody's taking Slim's taking Slim Jim man you gotta save that pick for last well I literally just it wasn't on my list and I just typed him in and I was looking at him oh Trevor yeah I just pulled it up literally seconds ago yeah I I love Trevor he's one of my all-time favorite video game

characters he's just so unpredictable psychopathic capable of anything could fill a wide range of movie roles for sure so all right so nico bellic and trevor phillips lock it in ryan we are now back to you i'm so mad right now i was so excited for that i'm like oh that be perfect. That'll be perfect if I can get him, especially for the third pick. Okay. Well, I think I'm just going to go for my heart, too, because of I think what would be a good funny thing would be – I'm going Kratos. Okay.

Can you imagine him trying to be like the football quarterback? Would he just explode somebody? Why? Is he that strong with a football? I said go long. Dude, he can pull a tree out by its roots and carry it. I'm pretty sure he can throw a football. No, I don't mean can he throw it.

Would he explode somebody? I think so. I think they'd be vaporized like all the receivers are like don't throw it to me don't throw it to me yeah unless you're another god you're gonna get completely liquidated by that football i mean i am always a fan of kratos uh and there are some hilarious uh categories that he could fall into like maybe coming of age protagonist young the chronicles of young kratos i'm all about it oh that would be good oh i would love it airing on cw all right coming back to josh josh give us one of your picks and then we'll take our first break oh boy all right you know what what? Let's stick with the God of War theme. Oh, okay.

I'm taking this person makes me laugh almost every time that they're on the screen. I love a good accent. I love a little bit of a foul mouth occasionally, you know, because sometimes I find it funny. I'm taking Brock from God of War. You know, sometimes you just need that gruff and a little in your face and kind of crass guy to just bring a little humor or a little shock and awe to a film. And Brock, dude, I love that guy so much. Oh, yeah. He's the best.

He's great. As soon as you said someone else from God of War, I immediately typed Brock and just assumed that's where you were going. For sure. Brock's my boy. I'll watch a movie with Brock as the star. Yeah, I would. Heck yeah. Yeah.

Brock's one of the reasons that I stood around and just listened to the conversations happening in the game. You know what I mean? Just, you know, the random like side conversation. Like at the dinner table. Yeah, exactly. Because of the things that Brock would say. He was always just so grumpy.

I loved it. Yeah, yeah. But he's like the happy grumpy. Like it's a facade. You know, he's got like, he's got a heart of gold. Like he's, it's like he's trying to be that way. He's not actually grumpy all the time. Yeah.

And he's always acting so, so put upon anytime you talk to him. Like everything is such a favor for him to do for you. I love it. All right. He's always acting so put upon anytime you talk to him. Everything is such a favor for him to do for you. I love it. All right. Well, with that being said, we have just one last round to draft, and then we will start getting into our actual categories. We're going to take a short break, and we'll be right back.

Okay, fellas. Drafting our last round now. Round one, pick pick one josh it is still you this is your last pick of the draft buddy oh i love this pick guys i mean sometimes you you need a strong just a you know a muscular uh you know entity i can't even call it a person necessarily you know somebody that invokes maybe maybe a little bit of terror you know we entity. I can't even call it a person necessarily. You know, somebody that invokes maybe a little bit of terror. You know, we've got some horror categories on here. You know, somebody that commands respect maybe, you know, from those around it.

A leading man, so to speak. And, you know, in the recent light of the release of Diablo 4, let's be honest, Lilith might be the main character, but what's the name of the game, fellas? I'm taking Diablo, the Lord of Terror. All right. All right. I like it. The primeval himself, Diablo.

Yeah. You don't get the name Prime without being really good. Let me ask you something. You want some beef, Paul, something you want some you want some beef paul you want some prime beef i want some prime beef yeah exactly exactly i was gonna say who are the prime evils it's mephisto yep diablo bale maybe i don't i don't even fully remember but i always just liked mephisto's name the most that was always my favorite one yeah all right ryan your last pick of the draft what are you going with oh man seems like all the good ones are taken today uh i think i'm gonna go with

something that you mentioned earlier that i thought would be pretty good uh i'm gonna go with mario oh okay sure mario could be the most hilarious fit to some of these man i really thought about taking mario to be honest and and i was just like but i would really be hoping for a few like hilarious categories to come up for that crime boss mario yeah he's italian he's got it in i like it all right so then i have my last pick and that finishes up our draft uh boy i was hoping to take a second female character i was really banking on lady dimitrescu and chun-li i i could draft female commander shepherd but that feels a little too vanilla with my last pick i am gonna go with bowser bowser i feel like we need we need two nintendo oh i guess we already have link i'm gonna go ahead and go with bowser because i want to have another bad guy that i can plug in somewhere if that's what we get i like the fact

that i've got two good guys, two bad guys. So let's go ahead and throw in Bowser. That's what I'm going to do here. All right. All right. So summarizing who we drafted. Josh, you have taken Lady Dimitrescu, Kuno, Link, Brock, and Diablo. You're drafting a whole lot of one-name characters there, which I love.

Ryan, you have kirby the terminator slim jim guy kratos and mario and i am here repping johnny silverhand chun li nico bellic trevor phillips and bowser oh this list is crazy man yeah the best part is i'm like oh my team is so horrible i'm gonna lose but it's blind so this may work out perfectly yeah it really you could you could sweep the whole thing with that roster you just don't know all right so here's where the fun begins guys any any comments anything to say before we uh figure out what our first movie role is no let's let's hit it man i can't wait to see what comes up on this yep all right and my favorite part of this is we will know the role but then we immediately

have to pick one of our characters to fit it so we're not even gonna know all four so it's still a little bit blind we got to fill it in as we go and did we are very say once we use a character we can't use it again right yeah i guess we should clarify that yeah so once uh once you know diablo the lord of terror is selected for a romantic comedy i can't use him again in another category no matter how much you might want to exactly not even death can save you from me yeah just what just what you want to hear on your first date that's a pretty good diablo ryan i'll take it all right here we go our very first movie role is going to be number 21 okay you have to play this person has to play a king all right yes i'm going with diablo what a perfect pick he's he's one of the prime evils! He's the king of hell!

The king of hell. Technically, that might be Mephisto, but, you know, whatever. All right, so our very first movie role, King. So, Josh, you're officially putting in Diablo. Is that your final answer? Is there not a more perfect character for playing the role of a king? I mean, you know, to clarify, this is like the return of the king, the, you know, like a Lord of the Rings with Aragorn and that kind of stuff.

Or Sean Connery in Prince of Thieves. I thought you were going to say entrapment there, but, and I was like, well, he was kind of a King in that movie, but, uh, yeah, I'm locking that in,

man. I, I, I can't think of a better category to actually have him make sense in. Dang it. All right. Diablo. It is,

uh, Ryan, since you are the second one who drafted in round one, you get to pick second. Who are you going to plug in here for the role of King? Oh, man. slim jim guy i was thinking do i want to just get rid of them now or should i use somebody else i think i'm actually gonna go with uh king kirby oh okay king kirby king kirby i would all Kirby. Oh, okay. King Kirby. King Kirby. I would have... All right.

I'm glad you went Kirby. Why? Were you afraid he'd go Mario? No, I was thinking like Kratos versus Diablo. That's a fight I'd really pay a lot of money to see. You know what I mean as far as that goes? But then it's like... But yeah.

But okay. Kirby. Kirby it is. And Kratos being a benevolent king, I feel like that would pull a lot of weight as opposed to Diablo. That's slandering Diablo, man. He plays an important role. To get slaughtered.

I mean, you know, that's just because of those pesky adventurers. All right, so I've got Bowser. Oh boy, King Trevor Phillips. Can you imagine that one uh all right i'm gonna go ahead and plug in bowser i feel like he's the closest to what i have to a king anyway bowser it is so for movie roll one king we all have to vote, but let's say you cannot vote for your own character. So, Josh, are you going to vote for Kirby or Bowser for the better talent?

Bowser is technically not that I want to promote anybody else's picks, but since I can't vote for my own, Bowser is technically like the king of the mushroom kingdom or wants to be the... I mean, Bowser's in the mushroom kingdom right that that's like all of mario right i think so okay i didn't know like in the movie it's like he wants to invade the mushroom kingdom so i wasn't sure like then what kingdom is bowser from but i'll give it i'll give it to bowser since he is kind of a king wannabe okay i'll go ahead and cast my vote for diablo oh ryan ryan you get to pick the winner here is it going to be bowser or diablo to take home the first first category let me let me ask

you a question ryan okay you're walking into a throne room you know you have to kneel down in front of one of these characters without feeling silly? You know, like, which of these two are you going to be like, dude, I'm totally kneeling in front of this guy? Well, I don't know. Is one of them going to sing me a song? One of them is a really good singer that we recently discovered. Well, I already have my mind. Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror.

Sold me on it right there. No, we didn't even know what kingdom Bowser ruled over. Yeah, that's true. And we definitely know who's Diablo's kingdom. So I'm going Diablo. Yeah. Fair point. Fair point.

All right. So that is one point for Josh winning movie roll number one. So if I just sing to ryan i get a vote okay this is noted let me write this down as long as you pander to the right person it'll work all right let's see next movie roll we are going to have to draft for number 10 hired assassin so this is kind of like Leon the Professional. Really underrated movie, by the way, with Jean Reno.

Yeah, you got to have an assassin here in this movie role. I think we got a couple decent assassins here on the list. So I have to choose first since I picked first in round two. So for assassin, I am going to go with chun li i hope i don't regret burning that pick here but i gotta go for chun it's the right pick but i'm also hopeful that now that she's off the board i i know right like my initial what is it me or ryan i guess it's ryan up next right it's right yeah okay yeah Okay. Yeah, I guess I'm going Kratos. I think he'd come in and mess some people up.

He would definitely assassinate some people. And then kill any witnesses. You definitely won't see him coming. So that was my issue. My very initial thought was, oh, well, Lady Demetrescu, she'll slaughter some people all willy-nilly but you're gonna see her coming i know that's what so then i'm like man like an assassin kind of needs to be stealthy right um which makes me really glad that diablo is gone

because everybody in the world would see diablo coming so i'm really torn on this one between link and kuno because kuno i think would just straight up just shank somebody without thinking twice about it. But I mean, link is really good at climbing and being stealthy. I mean, he can crouch walk, you know what I mean?

He's got the arrows. He's got a lot of bombs and other tools at his disposal. And I know that everybody thinks of well, Link's a good guy. Is he? Is he? Because he made me play games that I didn't want to play for 30 hours at the same time. So I'm picking Link on this one, man. I can't think of, if you get him in the mindset where he's like, I'm taking this guy out.

He's got to build a sky bike and just drop from up top and let's be honest he's quiet so what better thing for an assassin link perfect assassin man oh oh and you can get the armor set that increases your stealth level like you do in tears of the kingdom where he's all stealthy at that point too he kind of looks like a ninja there you go boys yeah yeah if only one of us drafted ezio uh he would have been perfect for this but all the love of assassin creed lately and uh we all we all took a big pass on him all right so we gotta vote for someone that's not ours if i have to vote between kratos and link i'm gonna pick kratos I think Link is too much of a good guy. He's only going to assassinate other monsters. Kratos is a killing machine.

If he's going to be a mercenary, I'm going to vote Kratos. He killed his dad. Can you pay Kratos, though? Because it is a hired assassin. And we know what Link will do for rupees, guys. He'll smash pots yeah he will cut grass okay maybe he works hard for those rupees yeah we did joke about him being a great gardener in one of our drafts because he'll cut all the grass for you all right that's

one vote for link uh ryan who are you gonna vote for chun li or link as no you voted for kratos so there's a vote for kratos yes i voted for kratos yeah yeah man just sell them sell me on it i got the links pitch where's my chun li pitch chun li is a normal looking person and has the ability to take people out silently she's a trained fighter. You're going to see Kratos. Or I guess you have Kratos. I have to argue against Link. Link, come on. Link, really?

He's like three foot tall. Sold. Whoa, whoa, whoa. But let me remind you about one very important thing. I rest my case. Okay, right on me. The thighs. They're so powerful. Wait, wait. I rest my case. Okay, light on me. The thighs. They're so powerful.

Wait, wait, I just went Wait, that was a nod towards Chun-Li. Wait a minute. Take that back. Delete that out. See, even you couldn't help it. Dang it. No one's ever thought of Link as an assassin prior to Chun-Li two minutes ago. Chun-Li

it makes more sense than Link as an assassin. Okay, I can't vote for myself so is this all me? You gotta vote for Kratos or Chun-Li, it makes more sense than Lincoln as an assassin. So, okay, I can't vote for myself. So is this all me? You got to vote for Kratos or Chun-Li, Josh. I mean, it's hard for me to vote against my boy Kratos, but the topic is hired assassin. And it's a movie role. Like you don't hire an assassin to have them smash through walls and lift up mountains and break

trees with their bare hands. If it was just straight up killer, sure. But Chun-Li is the better assassin in this case. Dude, he could just huck a rock from a mile away. I mean, he could, but that's... And then, boom, they'd be dead. Is his eyesight that good, though? I mean, is it 2020

he's a god he's getting older though man you know that's like one of the first things to go he probably needs contacts now you know i as much as it pains me i'm gonna go with chun li because she would be the better hired assassin i'm trying to picture like watching a movie where it's basically like the rock playing as an assassin right exactly it'd be hard to buy yeah he's just too big all right so chun li is the winner of movie roll two so that means josh has won one round i have won one round as well ryan we're still waiting for that perfect role for your roster all right let's see what is round three going to be? We have number 18, the ignored disaster scientist.

All right. So when, when I put this one on the list, I was kind of thinking about how, um, like, do you guys remember the movie the day after tomorrow with Jake Gyllenhaal and,

and like Bilbo baggins is the scientist screaming to everyone that everyone's ignoring the whole time and then the whole world falls into chaos isn't jeff goldblum in uh like independence day kind of similar where it's like yeah or even jurassic park in a weird way also the ignored scientist yeah all right all right this is kind of interesting um you know what it's actually time for us to take our last break. So that's a little bit of a teaser. We'll take a short break and we'll come right back and draft our ignored scientist. All right, guys, we are back.

Josh, we are talking about ignored scientists in a disaster movie. You have to place your pick first who do you want to play the scientist role dang it i burned link because nobody would have listened to him anyway man see this is the problem with these drafts man um wow which means i either i mean i have brock or lady demitrescu left? To be fair, Lady Dimitrescu was a little bit of like an experimenting chemist where she was creating

all of these daughters of herself. She was. Just a little bit of pedigree. I'm going Brock because what more of a hilarious thing than for him to just be cussing everybody out going, you knuckleheads.

I did the calculus. Yeah, like. The comments are straight here. This whole time that Odin's going to take over the mid guard. So get off your keisters and let's go. That's a good Brock. I can't, I can't do Brock at all.

That one turned out pretty good halfway through. And then I just was like, man, I got to keep leaning into this. So yeah, Brock's my choice on this one. I mean, he's hard to ignore, but i could see people because of his you know gruffness and attitude that people

are going to just kind of like discount him and say like oh yeah he's just some angry dwarf guy sure all right ryan who you picking to play your scientist dude who looks more like a crazy scientist than the slim jim guy he's wearing a bright yellow suit he's got the crazy hair he'd probably wear some big old goggles everybody would ignore him yeah and be like no listen you don't understand what's gonna happen like yeah all right whatever weirdo get out of here locking in slim jim guy all right guys i think this is going to be our most bananas category All right. Whatever, weirdo. Get out of here. Locking in Slim Jim guy. All right, guys. I think this is going to be our most bananas category because I'm going to have to go Trevor Phillips.

He's the closest thing I got to a scientist. There's plenty of missions in GTA 5 where you are creating substances. Trevor is running those out of different houses. He's very knowledgeable. So he's definitely going to also be ignored, probably because he smells literally like human feces. Also not trustworthy at all. Not trustworthy.

Yeah. All right. So I'm going to go ahead and put Trevor Phillips here. Guys, this is a goofy one. All right. So our disaster scientist is going to be brock slim jim guy or trevor phillips oh man josh you can't vote for brock i'm gonna vote i mean i'm this is an easy one for me i'm going slim jim guy because there's nobody in the world that's

gonna listen to slim jim guy trying to talk about you know alien invasions or zombie apocalypses or AI taking over or something like that so I'm voting I never thought

that these words would leave my mouth but I'm voting for Slim Jim Guy yeah you didn't have that on your bingo card Josh

no I know I vote for Slim Jim Guy alright Ryan you can't vote for Slim jim guy all right ryan you can't vote for slim jim guy are you gonna vote brock or trevor phillips i think with uh with his chemist abilities and uh how crazy he is i i think trevor phillips is the key role there i think he played a great crazy scientist guy that nobody wants to listen to like what he's got a barbed wire tattoo on his neck or his throat yeah that's his cut here right is that what it says that's what it is

it's not barbed wire's dotted lines yeah the cut yeah yeah yeah oh so crazy this guy out of here all right so i can't vote for trevor i gotta go slim j Jim guy or Brock. I got to go Slim Jim guy because Brock would be ignored. Brock doesn't know anything about any science at all. I mean, he lives like in Midgard. I don't think he's a man who knows really anything about science other than like blacksmithing, which is i don't even know if that's really scientific oh wait it does say scientist dang it i was gonna argue that there's disasters in midgard and stuff too but it literally says scientist so i mean is he not like a metallurgist guys because of what he does with the weapons a little bit he's a scientist in his own right to be fair i'm sure slim jim guy knows less than less than brock

i'm not so sure i don't think brock knows what the words molecule or adam mean and i think slim jim guy would adam never met him all right guys this is kind of interesting all three of us have won one round which means we're going to have a guaranteed winner we We are not going to need. And we're all out of options at this point, too. Well, no, I guess we have two characters, technically. Yeah, but it's getting slim pickings. Absolutely.

Oh, man, thank goodness Slim Jim guy's off the board, man. I was getting worried about him. All right. This means we will not need a tiebreaker. Whoever takes this event takes the cake our last movie role will be number 12 detective on the last day oh man okay all right you know unfortunately we didn't land any of the real common ones like Action Star, Trophy Spouse, but that's okay. All right. So Detective on their last day.

They're too old for this crap. They are just trying to retire. They don't want to have to be bothered by the new guy that they're now partnered with. You got to pick someone here from the rest of your team. I have to go first. So let's see. Who do I have left? I have Johnny Silverhand and Nico Bellic.

Oh, boy. Wait. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. You got those two left. Oh, because I already used Bowser. That's why. Okay.

I was really thrown off by Bowser for a second there. All right. Nico or Johnny to be a detective. I feel like Nico. I'm not winning this round at all. I'm going to go Nico because I think he has the right energy for that where he's just kind of tired of everyone's crap. He is solving problems, but he's not really solving mysteries. I think Nico is my best pick.

I'm going to go for that. Nice. All right. Ryan, you get to pick here who do you have left who are your options uh i have mario and the terminator and i think that's pretty straightforward i'm going with the terminator you're not gonna go with uh detective mario to compete with Detective Pikachu? There we go. All right. So Detective Terminator. Do Terminators get tired? Are they like, man? Absolutely not.

I'm so ready to be done with this job. But they, you know. No, I just watched the clip where they were doing the high five and then low five too slow. They can get annoyed and aggravated. So he was not happy with them at that point. Mr. Connor there. All right. All right. i've got too much of this i'm done one of the few movies that i actually really really like cried cried at terminator 2 at the end of terminator 2 that got me was it was it when the terminator says now i know why you cry well it was the whole like the realization of what was about to happen

yeah put the like the lump in my throat and then watching it slowly happen and like I yeah it just got me guys here's my two weeks I'm retiring to the Bahamas I have I have two of the craziest picks for this one because Kuno, I mean, he's a kid, but he knows a detective. He's worked hand in hand with a detective, so he's got experience. He can actually join you if you decide he can become your partner in Disco Elysium. I did a mission where I did agree to help Kuno, but don't remember him joining me so I don't think I went that route on there and then the other one is Lady Demitrescu

who seems a little bit more detective-y you know she's got the big hat I could see her like walking up to people and taking notes and just being tired of all this human bull and all that stuff going on I think it'd be really funny if you of all this human bull and all that stuff going on.

I think it'd be really funny if you didn't even use the number one overall pick. I'm actually going to go with Lady Demetrescu though because I can't, I mean, Kuno as a kid, this is like an old worn out tired detective on their last day. It's the one day before I get to retire and I just can't, as funny as it would be, I can't envision Kuno in that.

But I can envision Lady Demitrescu. She just wants to get back to her castle, go eat a few people and just relax, that kind of thing. And she's kind of got the getup for it, man. With the long dress and the big hat, I could see her working at a police department or something as well.

So that's my pick yeah kuno is just too young it can't be his last day of anything i don't know how old he's supposed to be but like 13 i was gonna say somewhere around there he's like yeah 13 to like 13 14 somewhere around there yeah okay all right so we have to vote between nico bellic the terminator and lady dimitrescu uh yeah i I'm going to go ahead and vote Terminator. He is literally a detective, and you can't stop him. The last day part, it's not a perfect match. Is he a detective?

He's not, like... Oh, yeah. The Terminator. Yeah, he shows up and is looking in phone books to find Sarah Connor. That's exactly what I was going to say. He's impersonating voices on the phone. No, no, no, that's the T-1000. We're talking Arnold.

That's true. That's why I didn't clarify in the beginning. Yeah. First Terminator, he's finding Sarah Connor. He's looking her up in the phone book. That's how the whole thing starts. He's far more of a detective than Lady Dimitrescu, I can tell you that.

So I'm voting Terminator. Ryan, you got to vote for Nico or Lady dimitrescu i can tell you that so i'm voting terminator ryan you gotta vote for nico or lady dimitrescu who um between the two i think nico just always just seems so fed up with everything yeah i can picture him on that last day just so much more annoyed of everything in life and he's just you know done so yeah he won't even have to act yeah he just has to read the lines just be himself yeah i'm going nico all right and then josh you got a vote for terminator or nico all right well darn it this means i didn't win number one um i i have like i get it but it's kind of a stretch for me to say that a Model T-800 with artificial human tissue over an alloy interior skeleton is a detective. So I'm going with Nico on this one, man. He does.

He really just fits. Yeah, he fits the role. Again, I'm trying to Nico on this one, man. He does. He really just fits. Yeah, he fits the role. Like, again, I'm trying to be on topic here. It is The Detective on the last day. I mean, Seven is a phenomenal movie. Morgan Freeman in that movie is the perfect example of this. And you just go like, this guy is just worn out. He doesn't want to be here anymore.

He has one goal in mind, and that's the end of the day and retirement. And Nico fits that personality, that weariness, that like, I'm just tired of all this junk going on, you know? And so to me, that's the theme. And so I'm going with that theme, and I'm picking Nico. All right. Sorry, Ryan. I think you got a little robbed.

Very, very small part of me that wanted Ryan to win this. And then I was like, I have to uphold the sanctity of the blind draft. I like how his argument was Terminator wasn't a detective. And then Nico. Just because you can use a phone book doesn't make you a detective literally his job was to go and find the person in that timeline that's a hunter not a detective he went through time had to use his detective abilities to find the person there's some overlap with hunter and detective there's a little bit i mean if you if the category was bounty hunter sure but it's detective on their last day

yeah i think nico nico encompasses the last day part really well i think terminator is the better detective i guess it could have gone either way i thought terminator was gonna take plans heists and stuff like that i mean he's. So he's got that like analytical mind. Yeah. That a detective would need. Yeah. Wow. OK.

I did not see myself winning this draft but I will take it since I won two rounds. You guys each won one just as a fun little bonus. It's not going to count

but let's just go ahead and plug in our last five into one last category just for funsies. Yeah. We got no options. So this is just this is just whoever's left. All right one last category just for funsies yeah we got no options so this is just this is just whoever's left all right last category just for fun we've got number 11

the inspirational narrator of the movie i guess you're bringing up morgan freeman all right so the inspirational narrator, think like Morgan Freeman in the Shawshank Redemption, right? Who's the three that we have left? Okay. My movie is being narrated by Johnny Silverhand. I don't know about that one. Ryan, yours?

I got Mario. Mario. Oh, man. All right. And Josh, who do you have left? I have Kuno. Oh, gosh. Oh, my goodness. Ko would be the best narrator for a movie it's rated r for sure i can tell you that absolutely but i would listen to him trying to narrate something i think i think kuno is probably the best answer there

as narrator that's very funny link would have been a really good option there as narrator. That's very funny. Link would have been a really good option there as well. All year is just the one beat inflections. Yeah. What kind of movie are we watching here, guys? What's he narrating? Oh, man. Too funny. All right.

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And then any closing remarks or thoughts guys or are we ready to shut this one down i feel like there should be one for the biggest thief because i just got robbed i a i'll just say i can't believe that i won a category with diablo that's true i won one with slim jim guy yeah i'm leaving feeling like i won boy i was gonna say josh josh won around with his round five pick which is pretty impressive yeah slim jim guy went around like out of all the things in the world that could have happened how does slim jim guy that's why you gotta you gotta pick those wild cards because you never know nobody in round one

won a single event for the record and i i don't think we've ever seen that luck of the draw sometimes man yeah lady dimitrescu kirby johnny silverhand all big losers of today's draft strategy wise i should have voted for lady dimitrescu because yeah because then paul would have for sure obviously voted for terminator but but dang it. Yeah, you got to respect the integrity of the draft. You'll learn, Ryan. Don't worry. You're still new. I have my integrity, dude. Oh, okay. Ryan's

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