Our Hot Takes - Episode 2

Ethan as this episode's Host, decides to talk about the hot takes that we have. Seth and Riley, as the co-hosts bring quite the diabolical hot takes, about a wide variety of topics, from video games to food. 

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

I think a lot of the box is overrated. I enjoyed the box if I joined overrated.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and people of all ages, you are listening in to the newest episode of Small City Sessions. If you do not know what Small City Sessions is, is the newest podcast that give you a one-way ticket right back to the real internet. Nowadays, and nowadays, what people would now call the newest internet is artificial intelligence. We don't do that here. Artificial intelligence is filling our nowadays internet with a bunch of garbage. We are here to give you a little more of a comfortable experience with free internet. We are here to discuss news topics and have a little fun here. So boys, how are we doing?

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Very good, very good. I'm not doing too bad.

SPEAKER_02 1:18

Wonderful, wonderful. Um so with that being said, um I will discuss that um in the last episode. I was in a little more of a different different area. I just in the process of moving. As you can see, I have a whole mattress right behind me. So I I will I will definitely say that um I'm not in the most comfortable position possible. I am just in a room that I'm pretty sure still has a little bit of an echo.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

You just have a nice back rest whenever you your back starts getting tired.

SPEAKER_02 1:59

I was saying if I lay my hand on this, I probably pass out. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, no, um this is your one-way ticket to Real Internet. I think we're gonna go over some news topics. Um in the last episode we were still talking about how Taylor Farms is destroying our digestive systems. I can confirm that um little do I know we there's still no change to that.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

I I will say I did talk to uh my place. Our lettuce is safe. We we we don't get our lettuce from Taylor Farms, so that's good. We we we're good. We're we're not gonna give you no parasites.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

I actually have no idea, to be honest with you, what places do serve Taylor Farm lettuce and what doesn't. I'm sure I can look it up, obviously, but I feel like I've probably eaten within the last week at like three different fast food joints and haven't had any problems. I'm basically playing Russian roulette too, rather if I have to shit my brains out or not.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_02 3:06

That's one way to do it. Um other news, um obviously recently, with other than the fact that I just moved into a new place, um the heat has been god off.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

Yeah, apparently it it's supposed to be like 116 today. That is insane. What'd you just say 116? Yeah, that's that's that's what my phone at least said. It could be long enough to look at that now.

SPEAKER_02 3:39

So if I'm being quite honest, I boys, I could tell you this. I certainly have never felt this type of heat before in my life, I'm pretty sure.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Yeah, this shit's bad. I'll run my AC like non-stop. As you should. Every drive feels miserable because my AC and my car don't work. Oh, yeah, damn. I forgot about that. Yeah. Um, I mean, to be honest, it's probably just out of refrigerant or something. I could refill it probably. I'm just but you know, I don't want to touch my car. Um that's fair. That's fair. I because I'm I'm no fucking mechanic. I I couldn't tell you how a car works. If you actually watch a little five-minute YouTube video, you'll be good. Yeah, yeah, but the thing is, like, I've tried watching YouTube before. Like, cuz I remember when I first got my car, like, I was trying to see if um like my radio had Bluetooth or not. And like I tried watching a bunch of YouTube stuff about it, and like I just got so much mixed results. It took me so long to find out that okay, so my radio does not have Bluetooth. I gotta get a new radio if I want Bluetooth. So so I I feel like I'm just gonna be misguided. Uh but like it'll mean you fix her lights on her car with like a fucking YouTube video. Like, if someone told me or if someone asked me like what a spark plug was, I tell them, look, man, I don't know. Maybe it's maybe it's for sex, okay? That that's my best. It gives sparks. Yeah. It sparks the car. There you go. For sex? What would that spark up? Where's she putting it at? Or where are you putting it at, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

I don't know, right? Like, where are you going to put plugs?

SPEAKER_01 5:30

Yeah, yeah, you could you could put it other places too. You could put it anywhere. Yeah, like where you're you're eating. I mean, if you're brave enough to fit it up a little peanhole, but oh don't ow, stop. If you if you're brave enough to do that, but there's a way. You Riley, you just made like almost every guy watching this cringe. I just want you to know that. It's okay. I'm sure people have seen worse things out there. There's some pretty bad things on the internet.

SPEAKER_02 6:01

That um currently in this town, um, obviously they're currently in the process of wanting to build a data center. And which uh which includes artificial intelligence.

SPEAKER_01 6:19

Where are they doing that at?

SPEAKER_02 6:21

I don't remember what area. I know they have a certain area that they're going to do it. I don't know exactly where.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

I am very disappointed, very disappointed. Are you guys ready for you guys ready for your electric bills to go up and your water to go all crap? You almost say your water to turn into garbage, pretty much. There's been so many videos of like the towns where they live next to the data centers, like their water is all brown and full of sediment. Like that's just that's just disgusting, and that's frankly not the way people should live.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

That is why I got a water purifier. That's right. But I will say that um in discussion of the uh heat, uh me and plenty of people, thanks to their help, did it all like right before it got to the hottest point of the day. Glad it can help out. Yeah, that it was um it got quite awful. I'd say we got everything moved until around roughly two to three o'clock. And now it's just a process of unpacking everything. And uh clearly I haven't done that fully yet. I got yeah, the worst part is over with. Now the only issue is needing another day off to continue working on it.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Fair enough. No, I I've moved more times than I wish I would have. It's not necessarily fun, especially after like like the third time. It's yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

I will say that. Um so far, nothing's broken. Nothing is broken. I will say that. Um wait, isn't that besides the dustpan? Besides the dustpan. Of all the things that would be the first broken thing in this apartment, a dustpan was certainly not on my top five list.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Yeah, shockingly, the glass that fell on it didn't break, but the dustpan broke. Damn.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

I didn't know about this until after the fact, and I'm just like, okay, so now I just don't have a dustpan.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

I'm sure you could buy a cheap dustpan at Walmart though.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

Oh, most of that, that's fine. I could get one for a dollar at Dollar Tree if I really wanted to. That's fair too. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_00 8:58

Or if I should buy Dollar Tree. I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

If I want to be dirt cheap, I'm gonna just go to Dollar Tree.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Uh just just craft your own.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

And other related news, um obviously we've recently had uh posts for the newest Black Ops 2 ports that have reached higher than the newest Black Ops 2 black Black Ops Black Ops 7. We never say Black Ops 2 has, I believe, reached about 26 million. I might be wrong about that actually. It was like it was like 26 or maybe even 52 million people playing on it.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Damn. Yeah, that's fair. I'd rather play that shit too than anything else.

SPEAKER_02 9:58

Let me see. Let me see real quick.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

That's one of the only things it actually took out of the port was like the live player counting. Remember we used to have like how many people it said it would show? I don't actually play the game. Oh yeah. Yeah, they took that out.

SPEAKER_02 10:18

It's like one of the only things they took out, which I don't understand why they did that, but so it says here that the uh Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2 ports on PlayStation have more players online than Black Ops 7 does combined on all platforms.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

Damn.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

It it re not too long ago gave me a uh it gave me a number, and uh I cannot find that number. But that being said, something that is um just newly ported into the newer consoles. Turns out it works better than a remaster. Although I'm sure people out there still want to rema remaster Black Ops 2. But um, let's be honest. Just making it just turning old back into new internally worked out well.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

Yeah, yeah. I don't I don't think Black Ops 2 needs a remaster.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

No, probably probably not.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

Then they used to have like that little image of the map that highlighted all the areas where like there's a lot of players. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

Yeah, yep.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

Still have that, but multiplayer main menu.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

It would show basically like yellow specks on the globe on who was playing. You would find you would find some of those in the weirdest spots. Um I don't know what it was, and I'm pretty sure it has there's something to do with it, but uh you actually will see zero people in North Korea on that little gosh.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

I wonder why.

SPEAKER_02 12:08

I couldn't tell you why.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

Probably because they push against black ops as anti-West propaganda.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

Amongst many other things.

SPEAKER_01 12:31

We do small talk. I I mean Okay, so I didn't miss that. You talked about the heat. Uh yeah, yeah. I think you just kind of did through it very fast. Yeah. We're only at 13 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

That's why I looked over and I'm like, uh-oh. I'm running out of news topics.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

Yeah, it was uh I I I assumed the black ops stuff was uh your news segment.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

I was talking I kind of mixed, I I think I just kind of mixed both small talk and news topics. I talked about moving, I talked about the heat, I talked about the data center, and then next thing you know, I'm talking about Taylor Farm and the Black Ops ports. And somehow that alone only took 15 minutes. Shoot.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

You're you're doing such a good job, Ethan.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

I'm doing my best here. Um do you want me to put in some aid for you? Yeah, I'm about to say okay. I'm um I'm I'm tagging you in real quick.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Alright, Ethan's tagging me in for the hosting. Right, Riley, how have you been? What have you been up to? I mean, nothing really, just gaming.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

I knew it was that's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

I mean, I didn't work last night, so you know. Just been chilling. Yeah, I actually wasn't playing that, but it's a bad game. No, you were because not last night. It was not last night. I have played it, but because I was literally going to my Steam games, and I'm like, when the f was I drunk one night and I bought a hootie pop?

SPEAKER_00 14:17

No, yeah, I got the tip of my Steambooks, dog. I forgot we had the Steam library, yeah. And and I saw like from your Steam family. I was like, oh, Riley got this. Or maybe Phoebe got it for Riley.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

Why would she get that for me? Isn't she in the Steam Family too? She is in the Steam Family, but why would she get it for Meed? Because she's Phoebe, I don't know. Yeah, though. I got it for like two bucks. If you all really want to know what it's about, just watch Mark play it. No, you can't do it. It's like a full play of your own fucking games. Yeah, bro, banger me. Oh, I tell it right now. Yeah. I'd say I I saw in it, I saw one of the achievements you got, so I know you play it. Yeah. You know, I have like I think I have like maybe a little like close to three hours on there. I think. I don't exactly remember. It's kind of hard. A little bit. Like it's hard. Like it's not an easy game. Do you have any girlfriends in that game yet? I mean, I guess technically. Who you're dating in that game? I got like six bitches in that shit. Dating them all right now and going through the whole list. God, that makes me think of uh that I don't remember what game it was, but it was sort of like a dating custom kind of uh like beach volleyball game that the game grumps played. And I remember there was this one girl in the game that Aaron was trying so hard to to date in that game.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

He literally fucking broke down when the girl rejected him for like the fifth time. She was just like, why? I did so much for you, I gambled for you, I bought you a new dress. I just want you to love me. I want to put my face between your boobs.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

I'll have to show you guys a clip because it was very funny. Also, for any any viewers watching this, I don't know why my face is like changing colors. I guess there's just something wrong with my light.

SPEAKER_02 16:32

You almost look blue now.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

I almost look blue now.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

Well, from looking orange now to looking blue.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

I'm 50 shades of Seth, okay?

SPEAKER_02 16:45

Oh goodness.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

Say you get so thankfully you haven't had to do any moving lately. Shit hell, I don't want to move for a long time. I had to do too much of that.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

I'm not slowly discovering that I'm not gonna want to move for the next like five years. Yeah, I don't want to move anymore at all.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

So before I move to the house we were living at was like when I was living with you and Junior, I had to basically damn near move everything out of that house, damn near myself. That shit fucking sucked. My god, I hated that. Loading and unloading that U-Haul was the worst experience of my entire life. You guys got a U-Haul? I didn't even get it. Yeah, we had a lot of shit. We had to move, especially my sister, my mother, their woman. They're gonna have a lot of things to move.

SPEAKER_03 17:29

So you know what?

SPEAKER_01 17:31

That's fair. Like the thing is we didn't even get everything in the U-Haul. We had to make like a couple trips. So yeah, yeah. Gosh. You know, Ethan, I'm impressed we managed to do all that in one trip, pretty much. I guess we do, but it was very much a surprise.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

I mean, for one person, I feel as if I shouldn't still have to fill up a whole U-Haul. You should you should have seen the trip that we took for just my stuff. It was a a mattress, one bedside table, and a fan. That's all we put in the U-Haul. If I really wanted to, I could have just said, nope, just return to U-Haul. I'll just put all that in a truck. Fair enough. U-Haults are expensive U-Haults are expensive.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Yeah, they are. Yeah. I I'm impressed I never had to use a U-Haul when I moved. I mean, thank God I didn't have to. Yeah, especially how far you had to drive. You probably would have had to spend a lot of money for that shit. Yes. Absolutely. See what what do they charge for a mile again? $1.33. $1.33, so that probably would have been like a thousand dollars for the thing. Yeah, that would have sucked. Just for the mileage. Yep, just for mileage alone. I think it's like and then I And then I had to figure out how to gas up the U-Haul. Like, where do they where they do they have the fucking thing at? It's it's just normal. It's just normal. Uh there's nothing special about the that's the thing too. You gotta like refill the gas to where it was before you bring it back.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

Because otherwise they'll like they'll find you like 40 40 bucks or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

That's extra money you gotta put in there too. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

So realistically, if you get it down to a quarter tank, you're better off just having them fine you forty dollars instead of having to fill it up nowadays. Screw being uh screw being nice. Uh if I got if I spent less just for you guys to find me $40 for not filling up your tank, you guys can take care of that.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

You know, I've I've seen videos of people like they basically do a whole remodel of either like their car or like their van or something, and they basically turn it into like a mobile living space. You think anyone's ever like bought a U-Haul and done that with it? Just like turn the U-Haul into like a little mobile house. Probably.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

I mean it's big enough.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

You probably do that. Yeah, it's I mean it's got the space.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

Yeah, it's definitely big enough, but then imagine having to install a full on AC unit in there. Because imagine trying to do that during the s I trying to live in that during the summer. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Do they not come with ACs?

SPEAKER_02 20:24

Not for nowadays, not for the not for the box. Not not inside it.

SPEAKER_01 20:31

I mean, I all gotta do is just cut it open, and there you go, the airflow will just flow back there. I guess. More like the heat waves get in.

SPEAKER_02 20:45

Oh man. To imagine that's supposed to be worse today, and uh I have to at some point work today. So the funny thing is about my AC in my car is that it will blast heat waves for like the first 10 minutes until it finally starts blowing out cold air. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:05

Yes. I want to say that's how like a lot of ACs work because it's gonna take its time to like start cooling it down, you know? Yeah. I'm not gonna be able to breathe. It's only eight o'clock, it's already eighty fucking degrees outside. Yikes.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

It's only eight o'clock.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

Yeah. I am so fucking ready for it to be fall. I'm just gonna go.

SPEAKER_02 21:28

I would much rather take 10 degree weather without snow over this any day.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

Yes, the key the key part of that is without the snow.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

Without snow.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

But I like snow, but we get way too much snow most of the time. It's not fun. Yes, absolutely. No.

SPEAKER_02 21:48

It's also apparently supposed to rain, like right about now.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Oh good. Maybe it'll finally cool the place down like a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

SF, maybe you'll pass out.

SPEAKER_01 21:59

Probably. I don't Know I don't know why it is, and but I know 100% I'm not alone. I'm pretty sure the same thing happens to my dad, and same thing probably happens to a lot of other people. I don't know what it is, but whenever it just rains, I just get tired and I want to go to bed.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

I took a 15-minute break from unpacking stuff. So I was in my bedroom and I come out and Seth is just passed out on the couch.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

Yeah, I was just taking a little break. My back was starting to go a little sore, and just like I was just laying down. It's like, I'm sure if they need me, they'll get me. And then that couch is really comfy and I just started falling asleep. That couch for some reason so comfy. I didn't even like realize it was raining, but like it definitely happened.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

Yeah, we didn't realize it was raining until we were we went out there, and then the next thing you know, we're just like, what the fuck? It's almost like the building is just like that good of hiding the sounds of rain.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

I wouldn't like that. I I gotta have the sound of rain.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

Yeah, but it makes it all better. It just makes it all the more better. But we were also probably so locked in on just unpacking stuff that we probably didn't even realize.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

It was probably just so humid that like the humidity just absorbed the sound waves.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Probably, you know, that is probably accurate. You're telling me how it was uh very foggy last night. Yes, that wasn't that wasn't fog, that was just straight steam coming off of the roads.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

I felt like I was driving out west again with how foggy it was, because oh my god, it was bad. Especially, especially like like you get the point from crossing over from Comanche into Clinton. Like I was I I like was not even that far from the intersection. I still couldn't see the lights. I bait it basically wasn't until like right I got to the lights, I could finally see them.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

It was it was bad, but it was more like in patches. There's like just the spots of the back fog, and then it'd be pretty open and clear, and then you drive into another patch of very dense fog and then open and clear. I felt like I was back out west though, because holy crap, I usually back out out west, like where all the mountains and stuff are, you tend to get that that fog because it all just kind of flows down into like the low areas. I see. It's actually kind of cool because there'd be times I I was driving around and like if you're on like the higher spots, you can actually see all the fog. So it kind of just it kind of looks like you're in like in a in like a video game, like an Elden Ring or something, you just see all that fog in the distance down below. How am I, ETH? Oh, I'm doing fantastic. Yeah, how are you doing, Seth? How are you doing? I haven't been too bad. I've been um for a moment. Uh pretty much just chilling, working, uh, gaming. I've been helping you guys move. Um I've been I've been doing the editing for the first episode. I've been playing more Eliza Pete. I don't know if you saw Riley. I finally beat the puppet king. Yeah, I did see that one. Son of a bitch. I don't know. Romeo's fucking piece of shit. Oh my god, I hate it. I hate his combos. I I gotta be honest, I only got lucky because the because the time I beat him, he didn't do that stupid fired attack that he does that always got me killed. You know, that's what gets your ass. Oh man. It took me so many tries when we were like when I was screaming it to you, but then but then the other time, like it I don't know, it's it's always that. You try so hard and eventually it's like fuck this shit, I'm done. And then like a day later or two, you get back on it. It's like, oh wow, third try. So yeah, when I was first playing Sekiro and I was fighting I shin, I was probably fighting him for like damn near like two hours straight. And I just gave up, and I probably came back like a week or two later and beat him in like three tries. Yeah. No, oh my god, I'm I was so glad when I beat Ishin because uh god, there's three phases you gotta go through, or technically four that you gotta go through in that fight. And like it's just the biggest endurance fight you ever get, which each phase is getting worse and worse. Like you finally manage to get to that last phase, and that would always get me stuck because I don't know what it is, but like for some reason I have a really hard time doing lightning reversals in that game. I I don't know if it's just a bug or if like I'm just not timing it right, but there'd be a lot of times or like because you gotta jump and then uh either you get hit or you're deflected, but either way, you gotta jump, you get the electricity, and then you reverse it back. I don't know why, but anytime I got the electricity, like my character just wouldn't attack. So then I end up laying on the ground, getting shot, and then I like I don't know what it is. Like, I don't know if that's like a little bug in the game, or if uh maybe like you gotta time it, you like you gotta time your input right. I would always just spam RB for those. I don't know. Like I tried doing that too, and like it just it only worked half the time. Like that was the only reason why I struggled with Genichiro the like the first time too, because like I just had trouble with the lightning reverse thing. Eventually I managed to just ch uh like endure my way through him. Yeah, but uh I was like, man, I'm never gonna get past E Shane. But then I found a little trick I didn't know you could do. Apparently, when you use the the mistraven feathers, you you can use that for the thing, and once I figured that out, like oh my god, it only took me like two or three tries. I beat her. I was like, honestly, I feel like the just for me specifically, I feel like the third phase was the easiest just because of the lightning reversal. Yeah, because you can just take off a lot of his health like really fast, especially if he spams that shit. Yeah. Have you bought any of the inner bosses? Like from the challenge fights or whatever. I've tried fighting inner Genichiro. He's hard. Yeah. I I have I haven't been able to beat him. I don't know if I ever will because I don't really play Sekiro anymore. That's fair. But the little ability he gives you is really nice. I'll use it all the time if I ever ever play at all. Just because it lets you whiten in reverse without taking damage. That is true. No, because like if I die to him, I gotta go through all three bosses again. And just like, I'm tired, boss. Yeah, boss. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

I believe they're really playing uh powerland stuff. The funny thing is, um, Friday when we had finished uh moving stuff, and I went home at like three in the morning. I was like, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna check that. And um Windstream internet was shut down the entire weekend. So of course the second I got home, of course I come home at three in the morning and there's just no internet. I was like, I'm just like dude, you can't make this stuff up.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Man, it's it's like the that thing you said that grinds your gears.

SPEAKER_02 29:44

Yeah. Yeah, one of the things that very much grinds my gears. Now I currently am sitting in this apartment and I have a router right behind my right behind my PC. But if you boys are ready, I think it's time to get into our main event.

SPEAKER_03 30:02

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

So ladies and gentlemen, this uh episode, our topic is gonna be hot takes. Hot takes is pretty much what we're what's gonna happen here. I am going to give out a category, a topic, and you guys are gonna give me what you when your opinion. It might be your most diabolical hot take. Whatever, whichever one gives me a more diabolical hot take gets a point. Whoever has more points is the winner of the podcast episode. So I mean, as I was a very simple topic. Um I got about four categories written out. So long as I have a the point system ready to go here, we will get started. Alright, so your first category is going to be your hot take on food. What would you guys say is something that you personally think is a hot take that most people would disagree with. I forgot to mention uh to the audience, um, hot take is pretty much a opinion that most people would disagree with.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

So this is gonna kind of be like like uh we die on this hill sort of thing.

SPEAKER_02 31:31

Yep, you will die on this hill for something you believe in food-wise. This could be a weird combination. This could be something that most people find good. You don't.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

I guess I have a hot take. I don't really know how much of a hot take it is, but yeah, this is specifically for burgers. Oh good god, don't do what I think you're gonna. I don't like putting like any like ketchup or like mustard or anything on my burger. I just personally think it's better than it would be without like or with ketchup or like mustard or something. Don't know what it is. I don't like I mean I like ketchup on like fries and shit, or like a hot dog. But if it's a if it's like a burger, I'm like, nah, fuck that shit. Just give me pickles and what's the one.

SPEAKER_02 32:25

More of these fancy restaurants would shame the people that put any form of condiment on their food.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

Is that your hot take?

SPEAKER_02 32:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:34

I know most people like at least ketchup on their burger or something, you know, so it's not dry, but I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_02 32:41

If you go through a fast food joint, do you uh do you tell them specifically no condiments?

SPEAKER_01 32:46

I tell them no like no ketchup. Just get just give me pickles. Maybe if I want, like sometimes I'll keep the like the tomatoes and stuff on there. Depends what I'm feeling. You know? I don't know. I'm I'm definitely a picky piggy eater, that's for sure. That's fair.

SPEAKER_02 33:03

So if you work in the restaurant industry, yeah. Yeah, I would what would you believe is something that you don't think would go well with with our audience? Shut up.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

Okay, no, you wanna you want a food hot take? I'll give you a diabolical food hot take.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

No, you don't. I don't? Okay, never mind. You want a diabolical hot take, okay? Okay. My hot take is pineapple is okay on pizza. Think about it.

SPEAKER_02 33:41

And you are willing to die on that hill.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

Think about it.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

There is so much weird food crap out there. Yeah I mean, I've told you guys about the new product that Buffalo Wild Wings has.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

If you really think about it, it's not that weird.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

Alright?

SPEAKER_00 33:59

There, I mean, you got the people that put ranch on all their crap.

SPEAKER_01 34:03

Um, I'm not like that. Ranch on your tacos, homie.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

Okay, but I don't put it on my fucking ice cream.

SPEAKER_01 34:15

Okay, yeah, that that's that's pretty diabolical. Who the hell would do that? I have things that I will say no to, okay. I promise. I would hope you'd say no to ranch on ice cream. What the hell kind of shit is that? Like ranch-flavored pop rocks. Yeah, that that's the uh new thing. Ranch flavored pop rocks? That's a new thing. That's a new thing at B dubs. Ranch, like like ranch. Why do they say pop and ranch? It's like ranch. Oh, okay. Like it, it's they call it the pop and ranch. Okay. I've never tried it. Maybe it's good, but I just feel like that's very weird. Yeah, a little bit. Like close enough. Maybe I'll try it if I ever go to beat up. So far, I haven't seen one sold, but I've been told that some of the servers have been actually selling them. What do they just put in like a little cup like they normally do, or what? No, it comes in a little packet. Oh, a packet? Okay. Yeah. And like you can just sprinkle it on your wings or something. Huh. You know, I don't I don't think pineapples on pizza is that bad. I don't think it's like the most diabolical thing that could, you know, that could be. No, because you asked the pizza you asked the pizza community, and there's a whole war about it. Yeah, no, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 35:29

The pizza community itself has a whole war on it. I would personally say that I don't think I've ever tried pineapple on pizza. Yeah. But it does sound like a strange thing to put on pizza. But, you know, there's certainly um more like there's more specific topics that people do put on pizza. That just makes no sense. I've seen people put pickles on pizza.

SPEAKER_01 35:55

See, I would probably like that because I love pickles. I hate pickles, so I wouldn't even try it.

SPEAKER_02 36:00

I guess it just kind of depends. I mean, uh, Casey's recently has been uh selling cheeseburger, cheeseburger pizzas. Yes, and it does come with pickles. But I will say this that um for this round, I believe that Riley gets a point. I do personally believe that not having any form of condiment on a burger is quite diabolical.

SPEAKER_01 36:27

You know, the funny thing is, I actually used to put ketchup on my burgers as a kid, and then like I don't know what happened. I really don't, but alrighty boys.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

So the next topic is going to be TV show slash movie. So this will either be something that either could have been like that has some high ratings and you think it's garbage, it could be one with low ratings that you think is good, or personally just something within a TV show slash movie that is quite popular that you might think was just flat out not good. This one I'm assuming will probably give take you guys a few minutes to think on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:20

I I think I might have one actually.

SPEAKER_02 37:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

You think so? And yeah, and this might cause a certain community to really hate us. Well, hey, you you're the one saying it. Yeah, at least me, at least me. Alright. So my hot take when it comes to uh uh like and you said it could be like movies, TV shows, animated shows, anything like that. Yep. Okay, perfect. So my hot take is I think uh Hasm Hotel and Hell of a Boss is overrated. I'm not saying bad, I'm saying overrated. Because it's like because I'll I'll say I watched like the pilot episode of Hasman Hotel and I actually really enjoyed it, and then like way later they finally started like actually like it got on Netflix, they released it, like all the episodes, and like I started watching the episodes, and like I just couldn't get into it. And I will say it might just be a personal advice because I'm not really into musicals, but even then it's like I guess it might be a little hard for me to judge because but I don't I think I feel like their writing could have been a little bit better, but like because the whole thing is like they they want it, they want to present it as it's an adult show, like with all their adult jokes in it. But I feel like they try too hard to push that it's an adulty show. Like at like every episode, there it's like, oh how look at how horny these characters are, they always want to fuck everything. Oh, look, this character says fuck 20 times every episode or every sentence, and and like it gets to a point where it doesn't feel like you're watching an adult and you feel like you're watching something, came up with the 15-year-old who thinks he's all cool and swag.

SPEAKER_03 39:19

Like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:21

Yeah, I'm so cool. I say fuck. And it's it it just doesn't really feel right. Like, I I feel like you don't really need to do that to make your show like an adulty show. It gets it just kind of it it gets a little like I don't really know the right term for it, but like I went I wouldn't I don't want to say quite annoying, but I guess it gives like like oh my god, I get it. Okay, I get it. Jesus Christ. You wanna you wanna you guys wanna fuck? Cool. Congratulations. Can can can I just get on with the plot of this episode, please?

SPEAKER_02 40:04

Yeah, that's pretty much pretty much it too. I will say that I am one of those people that they watch uh a lot of hell of a boss, and I will say that it does give me quite a few chuckles.

SPEAKER_01 40:14

Yeah, no, but like I said, it's not bad. I'm not saying it's bad.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

Oh, yeah, no.

SPEAKER_01 40:19

Trust me. You want to watch something bad, watch the Velma show. But I'm just saying I don't think it lives quite up to the hype that I know it's gotten.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

No, that's fair.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

Yeah, I don't think I've watched either of those before, so I can't really say nothing on that.

SPEAKER_02 40:38

But it definitely belongs in a certain uh community category, that is for sure. Uh Riley, if you still need time to think, I've realized that I never gave my own food hot take.

SPEAKER_01 40:53

Uh you can give yours if you want, it's fine. Oh, you're gonna point yourself?

SPEAKER_02 40:58

Oh no. Um I I will say I'm not counting I'm not counting this towards any points or anything at all. I'm just gonna yeah, yeah, I'm just gonna say the winner is myself here. But um I will say that sushi is very overrated. And here's why. Um I it might just be a me thing. I am personally very, very picky when it comes to seafood. There's only been one sushi that I've had, and and I was like, okay, this is kind of good. But any other sushi that I've ever had, which is about five or six different types of sushi, I could not stand for the life of me. I personally I I have a rough time with seafood in itself. I think really the only thing that I really can eat is like shrimp. I love shrimp. Shrimp's really good. Shrimp's really good.

SPEAKER_01 41:56

I've never never said I've had sushi before, so I can't really say anything on that either. I've wanted to try it, but I've never gone to like a sushi place. Yeah, I've never had sushi either. Honestly, I don't really like fish. I don't I I just don't really like the taste of it. So I don't really eat. I kind of I wish I liked fish, but I unfortunately don't. Um if you don't know, I'm a very picky person. Literally, there was one time at work, my manager like wanted to see who was the most picky eater. So like she wrote a bunch of food stuff on a and she printed it out in a paper, and everyone would like kind of put a check mark to anything they don't like. I was the most picky person out of everyone that took that thing. I I I I like I think there's like 50 like total like listing items or whatever, and I check marked like 42 of them. I feel like I'm out of beach. I feel I'm also a really picky eater. Especially when it comes to vegetables. Like very picky. I don't eat that many vegetables either. Alright. Like, um, if I mean the only the only ones I really fuck with are like corn and potatoes. And you know, I hate fucking corn. I absolutely despise corn. I can't believe that. That one might be more diabolical.

SPEAKER_02 43:18

That's fair.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

I shouldn't be able to do it. You should like that.

SPEAKER_00 43:20

Use that as a I mean you won regardless.

SPEAKER_01 43:25

I hate corn, dude. I can't stand the smell of it. Shit makes me sick. Don't you not like eggs either? I love eggs. What are you talking about? Oh, okay. Now that's someone else I'm thinking of. I knew my favorite food breakfast food. I love breakfast food. Absolutely. I I love a good cheese omelet in the morning.

SPEAKER_02 43:45

Oh, absolutely. With that being said, uh, Riley, if you have a TV show or movie hot take, um you are now free to share away.

SPEAKER_01 43:58

I won't say this is Like a specific like movie or series or anything, but in terms of like episode length, first like I guess specifically TV shows, I think the longer they are the more hard it is for me to sit through them. Like, let's say if it's like an anime, I could watch like a shitload of anime episodes. They're 23 minutes long, but let's say like I've been watching uh what's it called? Why did I just forget the name? Game of Thrones. I've watched that, they're like an hour long. Oh Lord. It's really hard for me to get through hour-long episodes. I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_02 44:37

Same thing with uh invincible, but it's also like those are like 45-minute long episodes.

SPEAKER_01 44:45

Like just like I don't know. Like I it kind of like bores me a little bit. Like, I don't I can't believe you're saying that annoying. We make an hour and 30-minute episode. I know well that's just different. I'm like included in it.

SPEAKER_02 44:58

This is a podcast, this is something to listen to when it comes to TV shows and movies. You're watching it.

SPEAKER_01 45:03

Yeah, people can watch this, they can they can watch how pink my face is right now.

SPEAKER_02 45:09

Yeah, you went from orange to blue, and now suddenly you're fucking pink.

SPEAKER_01 45:13

Yeah. 50 Shades of Seth. 50 Shades of Seth. Why maybe I need to replace my light bulb or something. I don't know. Or maybe I should just get an actual like desk like for me that'll actually shine on you better.

SPEAKER_02 45:27

Um my personal uh hot take when it comes to shows and movies is not exactly as rightly. It's not personally directed to any show or uh movie. Um I personally don't mind filler. As a lot of people, especially in the anime community, a lot of people will will get after animes for having filler episodes. Filler episodes are obviously there there's no point of running that episode as it has nothing to do to the story. Yeah. I would say you could practically count it as non-canon episodes because there's there's just not none going on really that makes sense to the story. Um I personally don't mind it because at the end of the day, um if you're like in a long series and they just randomly pop in a filler episode, um I'm I personally just don't like skipping any episodes just based off of, you know, oh, this has nothing to do with the story. Well that's fine. I'm gonna watch it. And if it I will say most filler episodes are meant to be more towards either funny or even towards um like another another hero-based episode.

SPEAKER_03 46:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:50

Um, a lot of animes do have this, but I personally don't mind it.

SPEAKER_01 46:55

Yeah, no, yeah, I don't really mind filler episodes either. Especially on watching a show for like the first time, like Naruto. Like when I first watched Naruto, I probably watched all the filler episodes of that. I feel like they're pretty good. Unless it's a really long show, like One Piece. I skipped a lot of the filler episodes when I was watching a little bit of One Piece, just because how long it is.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

Yeah, I was saying I probably would too, but it's also effective has like 1100 episodes.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

Yeah, fucking ridiculous. Yeah. Those approval. I don't really mind filler stuff either. I just think as long as it's done right, like if you're gonna have filler, then I'd say make sure, like, once you get to the point, make sure it actually means something. Otherwise, that it just feels like it's a lot of time just wasted. Like, oh, so they did this because why? Like, as long as the next point that follows up like is done well, then I think the foot is okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:55

Alrighty, so um Seth had hell of a boss and has been hotel are both overrated, and Riley has dealing with long episodes. This round I am going to give the point to Seth on it being more diabolical. I do believe that both of them are both pretty diabolical, but uh I think I think Seth aimed more more towards a certain community that would raid him for saying such thing. Again, he didn't say that it was bad, he just said it was overrated.

SPEAKER_01 48:39

I'm I'm gonna visit the like the hell of a boss and has been hot sale like subreddit and just see my face on one of the posters. This guy just said it was overrated. I can't believe this fucker doesn't think this is the best thing ever. What is wrong with him?

SPEAKER_02 48:57

Shame on this guy the damn whole podcast canceled now, bro. Damn. Alright, so for the next round, um I it's almost the same as round one, but it's a little different. Originally I went with just food. This next round it's just gonna be more aimed towards fast food and restaurant industries. So basically, you this could be a lot of people like this restaurant or fast food joint, you think it's garbage. A lot of people could say it's garbage, you say it's good. Um there could be a certain way that you prefer your order versus everybody else. Like I think that like like people saying that the fillet of fish at McDonald's is good. At the rate that we're going, this is gonna be a short episode. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 50:02

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 50:04

We'll shoot it away, we'll see.

SPEAKER_01 50:06

Alright. So my hot take when it comes to like fast food or restaurants or stuff like that, I think door dashing uh is also something that's like kind of overrated. That's fair. I don't see because I'm pretty sure you you actually used to do this, Riley. You would always DoorDash everything. Yeah, and I don't get like I don't want to go into because I've door dashed a few times, and like I will say, like, there are those times where it is pretty convenient, like if your car is not working or stuff like that. But like if you do it a lot, because like you gotta pay you gotta pay for you gotta pay for the delivery fee, you gotta pay for like the maybe not necessarily the mileage, but like the drive. And then of course you might want to leave a tip for the driver. Yeah. Also depends if you have the fucking dash pass or not to yeah. And then the DoorDash menu, it's because I'm pretty sure everything is gonna be more expensive because some of that wage also goes to DoorDash. It's like I I think in the long run, it's just better just going to the place yourself and just ordering your food. Absolutely. If I end up like DoorDash and all anymore, I usually just do like a pickup order and then just go pick it up. Because on Doordash, like I'll say like Taco Bell. I know I can just do this at Taco Bell, but you can like specifically choose like everything that you want on like items most of the time. So it's kind of nice to just like pick all the shit out you don't want or you do want. Fair enough. But I'll agree. That shit does cost a lot of money like over time.

SPEAKER_02 52:02

That should be money a lot. Or money you're over the over time, you're losing you're practically losing money doing DoorDash. I personally believe that um there's definitely a mixed opinion based off of people who DoorDash and people who don't. Um personally, I am against using DoorDash. Despite how many times I hover my finger over the DoorDash, I'd be like, I really don't want to go out. I just want to get my shit delivered. But I guess it very much just depends on the distance that you are at from point A to point B. If you're within pissing distance of a fast food place that you enjoy or a restaurant, well, I'm I'm gonna walk my happy ass over there.

SPEAKER_01 52:52

Sure. See, because like if it's that close, it's more worth it just to walk. And then if it's somewhere far away, that's definitely much more of like the delivery fee you gotta pay for. So in the end, I just don't think it's that worth it. It's got its conveniences, yeah, but I think in in general, it's just way better just doing it yourself.

SPEAKER_02 53:18

I personally live pretty close to a Casey's, so if I ever just want a Casey's pizza, I'll just walk.

SPEAKER_01 53:25

Yeah. No, I remember back in the previous place I was living in, I sometimes just walk to the uh that one gas station. Yeah. And I just get myself like a little burger from there and some chips. Yeah, so I walked for a decent amount of time as like junior or Drake or something when we were drunk as fuck. Went to go get chips or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:52

In my personal belief, I would say that I enjoy uh I enjoy going on walks if I am either drunk or high. That's fair. I've only done it, I've only done it once. And I will say that that was one of the best walks I've ever had. When you can't feel much and you're just going out on a little little road trip walking, it's quite it's quite nice. Whenever I'm like that, I always just like a nice lay down.

SPEAKER_01 54:26

A lay down is very nice. Especially when you get like very drunk, man. Sometimes that floor ends up being really comfortable. Especially for good, for sure. I uh more more times than I'd like to admit I've woken up on the bathroom floor.

SPEAKER_02 54:47

There is personally sometimes, like where I was drunk, and I thought to myself, like, you know what, I want to go for a walk. But then the first thought that goes to my head, like, what if I just end up stumbling onto the road gate pitch? Like, what a what a story that would be.

SPEAKER_01 55:07

That would suck. All right, I guess here's my hot take. Let's hear it. It's probably gonna be better. I think McDonald's, in terms of all the other fast food places, is pretty overrated. I like this one. I think honestly, you could really go with any other place, and I would like it better than McDonald's. I'm not saying I hate McDonald's. I get McDonald's every now and again, but I feel like most items you could get are just better other places. Especially the fries. That's a big thing. I don't really like McDonald's fries that much. Like they're good, but like I would have rather have any other French fries from any other place. Okay, I can see my point. Riley takes the rent for this song. That's gonna be diabolical to a lot of people. He just dropped that out of nowhere. Like, I don't know. Like, I would really rather go, I could go to like Wendy's or even fucking, I'd rather even go to like Burger King or something. Get something from there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:11

That one's gonna be, I would say that's that's completely fair. Um my personal hot take is that Burger King is better, it's one of the best fast food joints, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_01 56:29

I was thinking of either doing McDonald's or Burger King one.

SPEAKER_02 56:33

It's a hear me out type situation. Yeah, char-broiled burgers are better than cooking it on a flat top. I think Burger King just might out of all the other fast food joints, besides maybe Wendy's, makes the best burgers around. I don't know if I can count culverts. Culver's I feel like it's more of a I don't know how I don't know how many culvers are really around, but like I feel like it's more of a unique place to kind of include like in the fast food industry. Because goodness gracious, I love me some culverse. Yes, but um but I personally think that Burger King makes both of their both burgers very well, as well as their fries. I think Burger King has the best fries. I do too. I do in fast food fries. I love their fries. Um if I'm being honest, the worst fast food fries, I would say Wendy's, in my opinion. And that just might be based off luck, because the Wendy's that we have here, I don't think, just serves their best fries possible, to be honest.

SPEAKER_03 57:44

That's true.

SPEAKER_02 57:46

I remember one time I was in uh Kansas City and I conveniently door dashed uh what a burger, and if I'm being honest, that was the worst fast food experience of my life. And that also might just be on me because I changed up the order a little bit, but I uh I ended up with a hamburger patty on some Texas toast with some ketchup and that was it. That was it, it was just a patty, Texas toast, and just ketchup. What would you guys personally say is like the best uh fast food place for chicken? Chicken. In terms of what we have here in terms of what we have here, I feel like uh there's not many options.

SPEAKER_01 58:54

There's really not.

SPEAKER_02 58:56

Uh I'm also biased because I worked at a restaurant that was famously known for their chicken.

unknown 59:05

Damn.

SPEAKER_02 59:06

Which was uh cantlite. Oh yeah. Their chicken torches and would you count that as fast food?

SPEAKER_00 59:11

I'd say that's more like a restaurant.

SPEAKER_02 59:13

Well, that's that's restaurant. That's restaurant. But this this topic is fast food and restaurant. Oh, fair enough. Unless I said which uh I think you specifically said fast food. I might have actually said that. What would you guys personally say is like the best uh fast food place for chick?

SPEAKER_01 59:31

Are you including restaurant?

SPEAKER_02 59:33

Um for this area alone, I will include restaurant only because there's I think all we have for chicken wise is just KFC. Actually, here's what we'll do. We'll expand it to more towards uh like Davenport and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 59:54

Okay. Well, this is pretty close to Davenport. Me and Seth have been there before. I can't remember the fucking name of it. Why can't I remember the name of it right now? Wait, Wingstop? Wingstop, yeah. Wingstop is very, very good. I love Wingstop.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:08

I personally I personally never went to Wingstop before.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:13

We got we gotta take them there, Riley. Very good. I've also heard they've opened up a Dave's hot chicken in Davenport, which I've also wanted to try. They did. I do want to try that, but I'll have to say, obviously, Wingstop as of right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:26

I will die on this hill and say that raising canes is the best chicken place I that I've ever been to. Seth, I see a look on your face that might say otherwise.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:39

Well, I don't know. I I've never actually had raising canes, so I can't really say anything about that. They got great sauce for chicken. Are they like a fast food place or like a more of a restaurant place?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:52

Yeah, they're more of a fast food place. Yeah. Um, really good, really good chicken. Um, they make their own cane sauce, which is incredible. You can get uh you can get two you can get Texas toast, which is also really good with uh cane sauce. I need to go back there again because now I'm talking about it. Now my stomach is starving.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:18

No, because you guys were talking about fries earlier, and to be honest, I don't really mind many of the places fries. I don't really know it's it's a little hard for me to decide which one's my favorite. I'd say I can't really remember the name of the place, but there was one place I went to in Davenport that I had placed an order through there, and to be honest, their fries were kind of crappy. Um I can't fucking remember the name though. Uh I might have to try to no this I don't even know if I'm gonna be able to find it on Google because I'm just gonna type it in random shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:58

But it I was I will say that um there's a place in that part called uh Mission Barbecue. They probably made the best authentic fries around. They were really famous, they were really fancy with their fries, and it was really good.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:16

Go ahead and give Riley his point. I there's I can't.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:20

I'm gonna give Riley his point. I'll give Riley the point here because of uh him saying that McDonald's fries are overrated.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:31

I told people that before and they thought I was crazy, so I knew I was I was gonna get something for that.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:37

Checking the time one 106. Um I might be able to squeeze in two more rounds to make this an hour 30.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:49

That's fair. We shouldn't have a tiebreaker at least if that happens.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:51

So yeah. Alright, this next hot take, it's going to be about the gaming industry.

unknown 1:03:01

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:03

Alright. Now, obviously, we are some gamers. We have our own personal opinions here. So, with that being said, boys, um, this could be really about anything. This could be about a game that people didn't like, you've looked found good. This could be about a game that people love and you hate. This could be about a story that maybe a part that you didn't like compared to other people. This could just be a game in general that like you just personally don't like. This could be anything about within a game, could be about a whole game. I will give you guys a few minutes to think about that. Tess, you already look like you might have gotten one figured out.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:55

I don't know. I'm I'm trying to find uh trying one that's gonna be diabolical.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:02

I can I could personally get one okay real quick and I will say that I'm gonna personally say this that vanilla Minecraft is so overrated. And here is my why. Um personally, I do believe that the newer updates of Minecraft really only focused towards one specific thing, and it's just a matter of how important that one thing is gonna be, and I will say that as of late, Minecraft has not given us anything so crazy since like I don't even know since the last time that Minecraft has given us a massive update. Probably since like 20 2016 to 2018, I would say.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:59

Yeah. Once I started playing modded Minecraft, I just can't go back to vanilla. I don't even play the newer versions anymore. I just I just stick to 1.20.1 because that's just where like I find most of my mods are in. Like I just think it's probably the best version of Minecraft in general.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:22

In their most recent update, they have added these sulfur cubes. I personally have not played with them. I have seen so many, so many reels about these new sulfur cubes and all the stuff that you can use them. And I will say that they look fairly cool to mess around with. But what else is there? You only added sulfur cubes. Back then they would install like 50 new blocks with like five new mobs. Nowadays you only get one. Like, don't get me wrong, you can do a Lot in vanilla Minecraft. But when there is only one end goal is to beat the Ender Dragon and the Wither and the Warden was there to do afterwards. I will say that I am glad that they recently installed uh that that they uh installed the hardcore version of Minecraft. Oh yeah, because if you die you're you're done. It makes it a little more entertaining, but it also has the opportunity to really piss somebody off.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:30

Yeah. Do you have one, Riley? I have a couple that I'm thinking of right now. I'm really stuck on two. You know what? We might we might just have to do another like a double one of this.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:48

That's that's okay. We can do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:50

My gaming hot take. I think that hell let loose is better than Battlefield. Okay. Okay. Alright. I I'm saying that because as I've I think I've I've said this before, I love the shooters that are tactical, where that relies on like teamwork and doing the objectives and not just like going around shooting people. I'm not into the Call of Duty like sort of shooters. Not saying Battlefield isn't that because I know Battlefield's been built for that. Um but the thing is with Battlefield, it still has that essence of like those I guess Call of Duty sort of like aspects. Because um, I mean, granted, I haven't played every single battlefield. The only ones I played were um like one, uh I might have played a little bit of three, I played Battlefield 4 a decent bit too, and maybe five, but I don't remember if I played five. And then I haven't I play a little bit of six too. Or pretty sure that's the newest one, right? Battlefield six. I played a little bit of that. Um never in my life am I touching Battlefield 2042, by the way. You know, I played a little bit of it after they updated it. It actually honestly wasn't that bad. No, they just fucked it up in in the beta release so bad. Yeah. But I guess to go back on my point, um I feel like Howlet Luce is a little bit more tactically, and I've always loved the realism aspect. And uh and Battlefield, it's like like I said, I feel like it still has those aspects of Call of Duty where the guns don't really feel like they have that much recoil. You there's you can still I guess it and it also probably depends on like which game you're playing. I'm sure Battlefield 1 didn't really have this issue, maybe like uh some of the more recent ones, but um like especially in Battlefield 4, you can like you can definitely take more bullets than I think should be able to. And like I've I've shot the LMGs in that game, and it just especially battlefield six too, like they they feel like they have no weight to them at all compared to Hell Let Loose, where you gotta like actually like strategically like know how to shoot a gun because that thing because recoil does exist, especially if you try like um hit firing, like the MG3 in Hell Let Loose. Have fun with that recoil. Good god. And and like you get what I also like is like in Hell It Loose, you gotta be careful like where you're running, you gotta you gotta be aware of your environment because one wrong move and the guy from way across the field, he's gonna shoot you, and like in hell at loose, like one well-placed bullet will just take you out of the fight. And I know many people don't really like that sort of realism, but I I just I like it not for the sake of being realistic, even though I mean I do like that, but just for the more like I feel like you even Jesus, my English sucks, that you have to be even more tactical, like you know, you gotta like actually strategize where you're going, like how you're gonna use the environment around you to get to the objective. And it's and you know, Hellet Loose so far they've only ever made that one game and it's still going strong, and now they're about to release Vietnam, which I can't wait for. But in my my hot take, I think Hell Let Loose is just a bit better than Battlefield again. You know, like like my other one, like my other one. I'm not saying it's bad. Don't blame me.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:53

I've enjoyed playing Battlefield, I just think Hell Let Loose is better.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:57

I will say that I personally agree with your topic. How like, however, you give me so much shit for playing Rainbow Six Siege, and it is the exact same concept as a tactical shooter game. That's exactly as you put it.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:15

No, but Hell at Loose doesn't do no stupid operator shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:19

That's just more strategy, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:22

I I never I never really minded um Rainbow Six He's when I first played it, but I feel like to a certain point, like all the operator shit just got like kind of whack.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:35

Yeah, we'll say it's just it's just gone, it's gone it I will say that it's gone downhill since back when it was popular when it first came out. But uh I will personally say that um I do agree with your hot take.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:52

Is there a train going by, Riley? Uh I think so, yeah. You Ethan. Oh, it's definitely me, I hear in the background. Alright guys, welcome our to our special guest, the train. Probably fucking over by ADM or something, pieces of shit. Probably.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:07

I don't live too far off from uh train tracks, but like I guess I g well, I guess I kinda do. I I actually got both this way and that way. I got one more towards the riverfront and then one towards uh economy. I didn't even really think about that. But I guess I'm far away enough to not hear either of them. Which kind of surprises me. Alrighty, Riley, do you have your hot take in the gaming industry?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:40

I have two that I'm really debating right now. I feel like they could both I feel they could.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:45

Just remember that we will be doing a second one.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:49

Okay. I'll just do this one for now. I think in terms of every type of game mode you can play in any game, I think the battle royale game modes are the most overrated bullshit that you could possibly play. I, you know, I don't mind playing battle royale games. Like I like Apex, that's probably my favorite Battle Royale game to play. But I feel like it's a very oversaturated genre. And I don't know. I feel like it's fun for a little bit, and then it just kind of got I kind of got bored of it. Like especially I liked Fortnite for a while when it came out, but I feel like games just tend to ruin their fucking battle royale game mode somehow in some way. I don't know. Especially when Battlefield added their fucking their stupid ass fucking battle rail. Oh my god. It's like they're just trend hopping. Like it's kind of just like a trend hop, really. Oh yeah, absolutely. No, I I will agree with you on that one. But I I've always hated Battle Royale. I I thought they were stupid. I remember the first time I played Fortnite. I actually like at first I was like, oh, this is kind of fun. It's a shooter game that you can actually build in the game. Cool. So I can like get into the next zone and then build a little hideout. And then I found out quickly. Uh, for those of you who never played Fortnite, the way to play it is you open a chest, get a gun, and then when you get in a gunfight, stare, stare, stare, wall, stare, stare, wall, roof, stare, stare, spike trap. It's like it in like all the building battles, it's just some incoherent mess. I fucking hate that. That's fair.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:35

I will personally, I will personally say that they uh they added zero build too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:41

They added the zero build. Everyone always tells me that. I don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:45

I still think I'm saying that they did it way too late. They did it way too late when they added it. They could have done it first season, second season. I think they only I think they started doing it in the third season or third chapter, whatever it was called. But um, I personally do believe that if they have added it sooner, you probably would have had a higher popularity and not so many people having to deal with tryhards in building. I'm not I'm here to try to shoot you, I'm not here to watch you build a fucking fortress.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:25

Um you know, I definitely agree with you on that one, Riley, that the battle rails are stupid. Yeah. Although, Ethan, you know what you gotta do. Because let's be honest, I don't think his hot take is that diabolical.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:41

You you you pissed me off. This is going to a tiebreaker. You you pissed me off. I like my tactical shooter games, but god damn it, I'm gonna give this guy shit every time he plays a tactical shooter game.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:04

Uh-oh. Because of stupid operators shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:10

No, that's fair. But I will say that yours is more diabolical, specifically for the reason that, like, oh my god, I love tactical shooter games, but I'm gonna give him shit every time he plays Siege because of the operators.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:22

Because hell let loose, you gotta you gotta be in World War II. What the fuck are you doing in Rainbow Big Siege? Why you I feel like you're fusing a bomb in a house, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:32

No, there's some stupid hostage that keeps getting kidnapped like as if they're fucking Princess Peach from Mario.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:40

They have to be careful around because otherwise you'll fucking kill them.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:43

Yeah, every every fucking hostage match, you got a player that goes that goes with fuse. Hell yeah, dude. God.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:52

For those who are siege players, uh, don't ever actually uh never use fuse and secure the hostage.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:00

Unless you at least know what you're doing and don't end up doing the hostage and go with fuse all you want. I haven't actually played the hostage game mode in so long. Oh, can you like filter them out now? Yeah, you can like filter. I usually just have a filter just on bombs, and that's all that ranked is this fucking bomb. So like I filtered that shit out a long time ago.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:22

Security objective is okay. My only issue with security objective is the fact that you will know exactly where they're at. Yeah. It will point it out like, hey, there's someone security objective. Oh, they're in that room then, okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:39

And then they will know if the defender is in the room because then it's suddenly a uh stalemate. I think uh security objective gives a little too much away to where uh it's not even gonna be strategy at that point. You're just gonna you're just gonna start firing into that room.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:59

You know, I gotta say, has there ever been a round of uh siege with the hostage one where they've has anyone ever actually extracted the hostage and not just try to kill the other guy? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Really? Because I've I've done that a couple times when I played hostage. Because like I'll say back then I played siege for for I want to say maybe a year or two, and I've every time I got to the hostage match, I don't think ever once I've seen anyone actually try to extract the hostage. It's just trying to find the other guy to shoot him.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:34

There's been so many times where uh someone has extracted the hostage. And I guess it's basically just depends on strategy. You're droning in, you see no one and no one where the hostage is. Well, guess what? I'm I'm swooping in and I'm taking him.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:49

Yeah, I'm gonna say there's been times where I've played hostage where I've just instantly ran right to the hostage and ran right out, no problems. Yeah, extracted the hostage.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:59

Just go in, get the hostage, sledgehammer the sledgehammer the window, jump right out. Fair enough. So, like I said, uh that point goes to Seth. We are now in a tiebreaker with our next um gaming hot take. And it's not like you two are struggling to decipher between two different options. Now is your time to pick your last option.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:21

Riley, I will let you go first this time. Okay. This is a very specific game I'm talking about. Okay, I think Valorant is a very overrated game. I I don't know. Personally, those specific type of games I haven't played too much. But I did play a little bit of Valorant. I played it maybe for like three days, and I just stopped playing it. It's I don't it's I don't think it's that fun of a game. I think it's really any other game you could play, that's a lot more fun. Absolutely. And especially the fucking like community in that game. They're kind of really it's kind of a very weird, weird community of players they have in fucking Valorant.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:10

I don't mean to read, I don't mean to interrupt you, but yeah, no, all the clips that I've seen, it's like it's like all the it's like oh man, because I mean I agree with you on that one.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:21

Like, I I would rather play uh Counter-Strike than Valorant. Yeah. Cause like it because what Valorant is pretty much just Counter-Strike with with Rainbow 16's operator system or at least something like that. I've I've seen the clips of like I see, I couldn't help it. Uh I've seen the clips of like all of like the people talking in chat.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:53

It's like it's like, mommy, can I get a heal, please? Can I get a heal, mommy? It's like, yeah, good boy. And then you have and then it goes to a like a counter-strike, and it's like, motherfucker, quit throwing your grenades at me. There's just I'm like, yeah, though. I watched a clip the other day. It's like, what you guys do in your free time. I uh I goon, I masturbate. What is masturbation? How how do you do it?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:26

You know, masturbation is my new favorite thing. So bad. That was probably a very bad Russian accent, but you tried. That's all I meant.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:37

I tried.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:38

All right, Seth. So that's your hot take? Alright. Yeah. Here's my hot take. I'm doing this. This is gonna be the winning hot take right here, alright? I think that Dark Souls 2 is over hated. Okay. Ooh. Because a lot a lot of people will say that it is the worst game of the Soulsborn series, and you know, at the end, it might still be the worst game of the Soulsborn series, uh, but uh a lot of people like uh just like really be hating on it. And to be fair, to be fair, uh, they have uh they have valid criticisms. Uh some like some of those boss run backs are uh like annoying as hell, uh although I feel like that tends to be a common tradition for uh most Elden Ring, or not Elden Ring, sorry, Soulsborn games. I mean, I'm pretty sure Elden Ring had at least a few of their annoying boss run backs. Um but uh you know Dark Souls 2 was that's one big thing, and another big thing against Dark Souls 2 was that it was very buggy. But I think I feel like that's more or less because um of just how old the game was. I'm sure Dark Souls 1 at least had its good number of bugs. Um but I think it's over hated because honestly, I played Dark Souls 2, I haven't beaten it, but I've got at least a decent chunk in there, and I think it's pretty good. I think it's pretty good. I I I love that I love that they try to like branch into some originality. Uh like I love the way that they changed how the character holds the sword and stuff, and they changed all like the uh the critical attack animations. Like honestly, I I think I I think that Dark Souls 2 has actually no, I'm sorry, Demon Souls, but Dark Souls 2 also has like the best um like uh critical like attack animation or like repository, you guys know what I'm talking about. Yeah, which which make which you know if you're playing and you do that, it makes you feel like a fucking badass.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:03

Yeah, but the HP penalty on every death is so fucking annoying.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:09

Then then you get good.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:11

Just maybe just get good at the game, but like, oh my god, when you're when you die because you're like dealing with a difficult fight, and then and then you have to start over again at 50% health.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:26

Are you thinking of demon souls? Because I know I'm pretty sure that was demon souls that I don't think.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:34

Oh my god, you're right, it's demon souls. It's got thinking of the wrong goddamn game. Oh my god, dude. But no, there's like there you are right that there are other reasons to why Dark Souls is like why people think it's such a bad game. But it's just like, oh my god. Um to go off of Riley's topic, um, I've met like a lot of people in the Valorant community, my brother being one of them, some people that I work with are some of them that want me to play the game. You could not pay me to play that fucking game. I hate it. I played three matches and I said I will never touch this again. It I would I would almost say it's in comparison to Overwatch. I can slightly I can slightly enjoy Overwatch, mainly just for Judo Ball, because Juno Ball is funny as hell. But oh my god, that it's that type of shooting game that I for just for some reason cannot stand. It is a large base community that people would just shame you if you were just to say, no, this game is ass. This game is trash.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:57

I enjoyed Overwatch when I first played it, but um, it got to a point where I'm just like, why am I playing this when I could play literally anything else? And I just stopped playing it.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:06

It's just so it's so hard to play with like a community, especially like when I was first introduced to Overwatch, I played with people that actually play Kai religiously. So when your first game, all you're doing is playing against a bunch of tryhards, and you don't even know what you're doing, is the most annoying thing to deal with.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:26

Hey Riley, don't you have to deal with that Marvel Rivals do? Oh yeah, Marvel Rivals is definitely a very toxic community, that's for sure. Man, I had my fun on Marvel Rivals. Well, I still have my fun on that game. Don't get me wrong, I love Marvel Rivals, but that fucking community is horrible. Absolutely horrendous.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:49

Alright, so in my my gaming hot take, and this one is definitely gonna piss some people off. I do not like Call of Duty campaigns.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:04

And so here's why. Um I personally I see so many people like buy call of duty just specifically for the campaign. I do not. I wow, why did it get so dark in my room? I just realized that I could barely see myself as much. Um, but I personally don't buy Call of Duty for the campaign. I played, like I believe I I originally played my first Call of Duty was Call of Duty 3, I believe. I can't remember if it was two or three. Um I will say that it was an okay campaign, but once they started introducing, you know, World at War and the Black Ops, I'm not here to play the campaign. I am here to play multiplayer and zombies. Um I will personally do state that um playing those campaigns, I didn't really understand what was going on. I don't think the campaign gives enough context. At least for me. At least for me, it doesn't give enough context for me to be like, oh, I understand what's going on. I know what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:10

I will say I love Black Ops 1 and 2 campaigns though. Yes. I was just gonna say that. I love playing the Black Ops 1 and the Black Ops 2 campaigns. I didn't mind the Modern Warfare ones either. The old ones, not the new ones. Yeah, the old ones pretty good. Honestly, anything after Black Ops 2 when it comes to campaign-wise, I could I could give a fuck less about so garbage. Yeah, that's fair.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:33

It's crazy how as a uh for Treyarch that um they have not been able to release a good Call of Duty since 20 fucking twelve.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:45

Well, I will say Black Ops 3 is fairly decent, but uh only for the zombies, only for the zombies maps. Like, because my god, I personally did not like Black Ops 3 multiplayer. When they finally started introducing, like, oh, you can fly or you can hover, that's where I'm just like, okay, nope, yeah, nope, I can't do it. Except for Advanced Warfare, I kind of enjoyed it for whatever reason, even though Advanced Warfare itself was kind of garbage.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:13

Yeah, I actually kind of fucked Advanced Warfare too. I played a lot of decent amount of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:18

I will be completely honest, um, between you two, this one is a difficult one to break off a tiebreaker because you both give off very good points.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:30

But I let's see, so whose do you think is most Dark Soul being overrated and Valorant being overrated? Specifically Dark Souls 2. Specifically Dark Souls 2. I think if we're going based off a community, I'm gonna give the winner of this podcast to Riley. Oh damn, I really thought I was gonna pull myself in what you you had a really good one, but I do genuinely just think that that type of uh I do genuinely think that the community is lar is vast larger towards Valorant. And uh I myself, I will say if we're going off a penny base, I hate both of the both of those games. Crazy. Um I hate both of those games.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:27

Our social does not deserve hate. Valorant does though.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:30

Yeah, Valorant does it. Valorant deserves a hate, but has a vast community that would be like, shame on you, good sir, shame on you. We are gonna give the win today to Riley for this podcast. Um the guy that does not like condiments on his burgers. But I say you guys were able to deliver some really good hot takes enough to where I was able to make five rounds out of this. But that was also because I was off to a very slow start.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:13

Oh man.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:14

Let's see, let's see. Seth, you are now about a purple color.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:18

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:19

That I believe now is the fourth color of the day. Next thing you know, you're gonna be lever lever. I'm a lever now. Next thing you know, you're gonna be yellow. Um next thing you know, you're gonna be yellow. I'm gonna start questioning if you have issues with your kidneys.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:45

Probably, let's be honest. Getting old, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:51

Did you end up did you end up drinking last night?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:54

Uh I had a few beers. Oh, that's fair. Boo. Man, man, man. I don't want to hear anything out of you. Hey, they get you fucked up. That's all I care about. They taste like shit. Beers taste like shit. What are you talking about? And they don't do jack shit to you either. You know what? Just get older. Just get older. I'm a year younger than you, not even.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:23

You're not old. Actually, no, I am basically. I am basically you're like a year and a month older than me.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:28

I mean, you're older than you, and I can still say I hate beer.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:31

Yeah, but you got you got your you got your vigor still in you. You got your you got your youth in your prime.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:39

I I my prime is 22 and you're already out of your prime at 21.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:45

Yes, I've already left my prime, man. I'm I'm I'm a second away from starting to get gray hairs, man. I'm I'm too I'm too old. Fucking junk status already, man. That's insane. I'm I'm about to hit grand status already, man. That's unfortunate, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:03

Ugh. This man is 21 about to send a retirement home and crack a couple of beers.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:08

Yeah. Oh Jesus smacked my death. See, I'm too old, I don't have that proper hand coordination.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:16

I'm scared to see what you were in your prime back in high school. Oh no, if I'm drinking alcohol, I'm going for flavor. That's fair.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:29

Exactly. I mean, I I mean I still like I still like mics. I'll drink those still.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:34

What about blood orange vodka? What about blood orange vodka?

SPEAKER_01 1:33:39

I don't know if I've actually had that one yet.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:42

I've had that not terribly long ago, and it was actually one of the better things I've had.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:46

Usually we just drink McCormick vodka.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:49

Sour blue sour blue rad vod vodka is not good.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:53

I would not recommend it.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:56

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:57

Oh yeah. I d I didn't think it was too bad. I didn't think it tasted too. I feel like I played worse. I wanted to try it.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:07

But sour blue rad is not good.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:10

We're almost at a uh hour 40.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:13

Yes, this is my fault. I got carried away. Um with that being said, we are going to end this episode. Thank you all very much for joining us in this installment of Small City Sessions. And uh if you want to find out more, you we have a subreddit, we have YouTube, we have Spotify one day.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:34

Pretty soon. Coming up very soon.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:36

Pretty soon we'll have these installments.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:37

We'll have Spotify by the time you're watching this.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:40

Yes, absolutely. We will have Spotify by the time you are watching this, and uh and uh with that being said, we will see you guys next week. Maybe I don't know how that works. We'll see you guys in the next episode, in which Riley will be hosting the next episode of Small City sections. Everybody be excited for that, and we will see you guys next time.