Nintendo drops Mario for who ?

Easter week starts with a simple message that immediately goes off the rails: share the egg. From there, we settle into what we’ve been playing across console, Switch, PS Portal, and PC handheld life, and the list is wonderfully weird. RGT finishes Bang Average Football and explains why it’s such a tight, satisfying indie sports game, then introduces Nutmeg, a retro football management sim staged inside a 1980s office complete with green-screen finance screens and a card-based way of playing match highlights. He also jumps into BeamNG.drive, the physics-forward driving sandbox where realistic car damage and mods turn every session into a new experiment.

On my side, I’m still stubbornly wrestling with Ken, a punishing climbing loop that makes pride the real difficulty setting. I also dip back into Farming Simulator on PS5 through PS Portal cloud streaming and get a surprisingly smooth experience with saves and mods. Then we talk Easy Delivery Co, the kind of cozy management game that feels relaxing once you learn it, even if the menus and fuel economy can fight you early on.

The news gets spicy: Sony confirms a TCL joint venture that effectively spins off the iconic Bravia TV business, which raises the bigger question of whether Sony is steadily marching toward a pure entertainment and content future. We also dig into Xbox leadership optics through Asha Sharma’s gamer tag activity and why “not being a hardcore gamer” might actually be fine if the strategy is right. Then Nintendo enters the chat with Miyamoto’s mission to put Pikmin everywhere, including upcoming media.

If you want more of this energy, come join the Discord, hit us with questions, and if you’re near Norwich, grab OLL tickets and come say hi. Subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find us.

Transcript

Easter Welcome And Chaos

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Hello, and welcome to the unofficial controller podcast, your weekly gaming podcast, episode number three hundred and twelve, with me, George, and this week joined by RGT, Trinitron. To my getting turned on. How's it going?

SPEAKER_08 0:38

I'm glad I was the Trinitron. Yeah, I'm very good, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Yeah. Luckily, we we hit record when we did. Moments earlier. Whew, they'd see me nearly crying on the floor. It's Easter week. No doubt, if you're listening to this now, you sat there, you got chocolate eggs around you, you're gorging on them, smothered it all over your face, it's smeared all over your controller. You know you should have listened to your mumty or your significant other when they said calm down, because in a couple of days' time, you're gonna want some Easter egg, it'll be gone. I don't want only in two days, I want it all now. Um yeah, welcome to the UCP. If you think like that and you act like that, welcome to the family. If you're one of those egg savers, you're welcome, but share that egg. Don't rub it in the egg eater's face. Share the egg. I think is my Easter message. I think on point. I think so, yeah. Share the egg. You know, back from the death, rolled a rock out of the way, share the egg.

SPEAKER_08 1:43

UCP says, share the egg. Ooh, what like as Jesus? No, like the the World War One Kitchener. Yeah. UCP George says share the egg.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

I think I like the Jesus look more. Maybe Jesus just saying listen to the UCP and share the egg. There you go. Perfect comparison. Yeah. Are you planning on getting the eggs? Are you a partaker of the Easter of the eggs?

SPEAKER_08 2:13

Not really. It was when I was a kid, not nowadays. This last thing I need is eggs.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Um yeah. What, because there's too much chocolate going on or yeah, yeah, try and stay away from the sweet stuff.

SPEAKER_08 2:28

Plus Mrs. RGT's diabetic, so dangerous time. Yeah, get the old insulin on standby, because I'm gonna be a jabin'.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

Well, that's you know, probably not the most advisable way of handling uh her diabetes. Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_08 2:49

Uh always have to have a backup plan, and that plan is me.

unknown 2:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Like that. Ready. Don't eat another egg. Okay, stand back. I'm coming in.

SPEAKER_06 2:59

Yeah.

RGT Finishes Bang Average Football

SPEAKER_01 3:01

Way you go, carry on. I've put a couple more CCs in there, so you better have another one. Um okay. Well, with that health advice, please take none of that on board. Do not live your life like that. Slow release. You might, you know, just be kind. Yes. RGT. Let's wind it back. We've done the Easter health and safety advice, we've done the Easter kind of religious course correction. Um you know, because let's not forget, he didn't live long. He's born on 25th of December. What are we? What? Five months later? He's dead. Weird. Only only in religious circles. Um RGT, we so we've done the religious a couple of religious course corrections. Um we now arrive at the cursory area where I ask you what you've been playing, and I do believe, I hope, I pray, that we can actually interweave our what you've been playing just to tighten it up for you a little bit.

SPEAKER_08 4:10

Hmm. I bet I know what you've been playing, but anyway, you'll be disappointed because that's not on my list. I haven't played it since we last recorded. But anyway, um typical. Um bang every football, done in the bag, complete.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Um done the last male and female story playthroughs completely.

SPEAKER_08 4:28

No, no, I just done the the the male one, but I got to the the end, the final mission. Little bit goes on a little bit longer. Um there's um I won't I don't want to run it too much for anyone.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

What about the female shed issue though? I mean, was that not something you had to go back to retread, or have you just decided that's not for you?

SPEAKER_08 4:48

No, I think it's just the same game, just with you know, see them male characters or female characters, I think. But um you basically have a certain area where you have a load of challenges, and if you actually complete all those challenges, like go so many games, not conceding a goal, go unbeaten, score a certain amount of goals. But there's one that's a bit tricky, which is um finish 15 games with over 50% possession, um, which I I only had one when I finished when I'd actually finished actual leagues and everything, and then um, but it was you just adjust your gameplay and just do the holding the football and you know uh football style, bit of a man city way to play, you know, keep possession, so that's not too hard to do. So done that, and then that unlocks a cut scene, which then goes on to another um match.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

Why is that the Man City way to play? I thought the main idea of football was to score goals and keep possession of the football.

Nutmeg’s Retro Football Manager Twist

SPEAKER_08 5:41

Not necessarily, no. Some people play long ball, some people play counter-attack, some people play possession football, which Man City do. They keep holding the ball for a lot of passes and a lot of possession. Um tend to dominate the match, you know. So that's what you have to do in this. But yes, I unlocked the final the final section. Again, I'm not gonna say too much, I don't want to ruin it for people with spoilers for quite a new game. But yes, and then got that finished and done, and um really good, really enjoyed it. I think I put 14 and a half hours in for from start to completion, so I'd recommend it to anyone. That's great little game on there. Um, hope they do a second one, make it a little bit bigger, a bit more RPG elements. Um, great little game, really good. Um, if you've got a PC or Steam, definitely download it. Um I've also downloaded Nutmeg as we were talking last week. Yes, downloaded it.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

Yes, yes. Give me the full low down because may I just before we get going say it's not quite what I thought it was. So pray tell RGT what the hell is nutmeg?

SPEAKER_08 6:42

Um nutmeg is a it's completely its own genre. It's like it's you're like in a 1980s office, um, you pick a football team to start in the third or fourth division, that's like set in the 70s, and you have like from the 70s to like the 2000s to get your team all the way up through the leagues, but it's done in so you've got a green screen monitor retro computer, which you do your finances on.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Bang it's what I used to record.

SPEAKER_08 7:17

Yeah, you've got a sort of an Atari 2600 console under a CRT, which you use the console to save your game or do settings. The TV is this is got CFAX on, so you can see and view the code. That's what you sent me, mm-hmm, which looks really good. Looks real, and then you've got a sticker book that you open up, and there's your team and your team and your players, which you can set. Then you've got a notice board on the wall, and you can select um transfers and bits and pieces from there. If you get there's a lot to take in in this, there's a lot to learn, but there's a telephone there, and if you pick the telephone up, you can like phone the coach up and say, How do I do this again? And he'll say, Oh well, and he'll go for these speech bubbles and show you all what you've got to do. And then there's like a roller blackboard, which then you can set your team games. Now, there's two ways of playing. You can play your games broadcast mode, which means you double what you get back finance-wise, so then you um you sort of yeah, so I suppose it's like for um if you are on TV or something like that, you get the TV rights. Um, but when you you can also delegate a match, so if you think you if a game's like you've got because your coaches will say, Oh, we've got a 60% chance of winning this, you can delegate it and just get the score straight back, or you play the match and you play it as a card game.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Now, this is the bit I was a bit like, oh this isn't what I thought it was. How does that play out?

SPEAKER_08 8:51

So, what you do is you'll have a pack of cards on the left here, you click on those cards, and I go click-click-click-click with three cards down, almost like you're playing blackjack, let's say three cards, and then you have selected your special cards underneath, like your hand, so to speak. So, if you've got like um counterattack going on the bottom, you can get your counter-attack card and lay it on. So, when the next line comes up, you've you've powered up that counterattack. So you can lay your cards down, select and until you get to the goal, and then you select your goal scorer one, and then try and score the goal. And then when that play is over, that's just one play. I go brr straight back to the beginning. You click the cards, and then you do the next play, and that'll jump. So you you won't play a whole game like that. You will play um very valuable moments in that game. You will play that that section out, and um, it's fast, quick, is it it's fun?

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Um is it is it funner to delegate that or play it?

BeamNG.drive Crashes And Mods

SPEAKER_08 9:52

Oh, play it without a doubt. Delegate, you just go click, bang, there's the score, move on. Right. So you yeah, so you want to try and play as many as you can. I'm only literally just starting my first seat. I've done the tutorial, I'm now playing as York City in Division 4 or 3, whatever it was then. Um but it's really good, it's well made. I it almost looks to me, you know, when almost looks to me when you look at the area, the way it's rest and the the colours, almost looks to me like VR. It almost looks like it could be a VR game that you sit at a desk and look round. It's them sort of graphics. It looks really good. Um it's it's again like Bangridge football, it seems to have been made to a high standard and it's ready to roll as they go. Um and it I I'm just really enjoying it. Um I don't know how many hours you'll put in this game. Um I think it could go for doing um for for doing all the way through the leagues, I don't know how long that will take. Um I'm reckoning I don't know, quite a few. I reckon you're gonna be looking 20, 30 hours to get all the way through the leagues. But then again, the games are quick fire. They are quick fire matches. So I'm very early into it at the moment. Um definitely gonna play some more because it is it's an unusual game, and it's something you can pick up and just have a couple of matches put down again, so that's ideal for me at the moment. So, yeah, nutmeg is very enjoyable again. Another one from secret mode, so they seem to be smashing out of the part with these games at the moment. Um, and finally, I downloaded a game I've always wanted to download, um, but never had a PC to do it. Um, that is Beam MG Drive. I've always wanted to play that. I watch a lot of content on people playing Beam MG Drive, and now I've got it to play. So I've been sort of learning mods and bits and pieces on there, but it is great fun when you've got such realistic damage on the cars, and you have you have to take it a completely different way to other racing games. It surprised me because I thought that'd be more sim-like when the way you drive the cars, but it isn't. You actually drive your cars, you know, just use a controller and you drive your car like you would in Forza Horizon or anything else. But yeah, you've got countless damage things you can race, you could roll over, crush your car, game over, but it's it's good fun. I'm trying to download the race the flood mod on the minute, so you have to race out of the quarry before the flood gets you. So I'm trying to do those at the minute. And it's if you've never heard of Beam MG drive, it's a game with realistic physics. So the car's crush and damage, and you can take your oil pan off or break your suspension, punch your type, whatever anything can happen. All the different scenarios can play out. Um, and it's more of I don't know, it's more of a tech demo than it is a game, I'd say. There's thousands of things you can do on it, but it's not actually a story or a game, anything there's scenarios you download and play. I think if you had if you have two or three of you, like they do on the guys I watch on File Race, they use BMMG a lot and they set their own games up and things, and it just looks amazing fun. But yeah, I've been playing that. That was less than£20, so I thought, well, I'm gonna put it on there, and then you've got it. Once you've got it, you've got it. Then I've been playing on that. The only thing is it does take. Was it only£20? Yeah,£19 something that was, yeah. Plus the Novo and Oh, this is gonna go on forever, then says the guy's got two PS5s.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

You need one upstairs and one downstairs, mate.

SPEAKER_08 13:36

Don't rip a Nanovo, you just carry it up there.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

Hey, hey, I'll you've got a portal. You've got a portal. That's when you're on the stairs.

SPEAKER_07 13:43

Oh, between them. Yeah, non-stop gaming. What's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_00 13:53

You just I don't get you.

SPEAKER_07 13:55

You're just not doing it right. Yeah, because I aren't.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

What are you playing when you go to the toilet?

SPEAKER_08 14:01

What am I playing when I go to the toilet? Yeah, switch the docks in the toilet charging in there, so that's what the switch to has been relegated to, is it the toilet, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:11

Yep. We're gonna go there, mate. It's very easy to wipe fecal matter off.

George Versus Ken The Climb

SPEAKER_08 14:17

Anyway, that's all I've been playing. What have you been playing?

SPEAKER_01 14:20

Um let's keep it short and sweet because I sat and watched myself fail on can again for for a uh probably in too long a period of time.

SPEAKER_08 14:29

I love I love how you describe it as like a a TV show now. I just sat and watched myself self fail again.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

I think I've got a little bit too much pride for these roguelikes. It's like, no, no, no. Um, but unless they provide food, I do not know how I get myself out of the situation.

SPEAKER_08 14:50

I regular developers are gonna send you a message in the end and say, George, you cannot go this way. Stop it, you're harming yourself. Start again and go a different route.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Mentally, yeah, yeah. I think I've got very attached to this certain route. You know, I've got quite far, and now I've obviously got my tie-offs, and it's like, yeah, it's great. Now I can just go back up where I was, try and carry on.

SPEAKER_08 15:13

Oh, so they stay there, do they those?

Portal Cloud Play And Farm Life

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Yeah, but I've kind of on that ascent you can then get them to come out, but any that you put in twisted, you don't get back. Right. So you start to you see them as almost lives to get you up that certain climb. Yeah. But I've also invested in getting to this certain point, so now I can zip straight up where I was, which took me quite a long time to get to. But no matter which way I try and cut it, I've tried to come down, climb, use that as a and up, and what I was trying to do for the last couple of times I've been playing it, is out of frustration when my character blacked out last. I found they were kind of like hanging on the road and came up with the option to swing. So I was like, right, well, right there is where I want to be. So I started swinging, lowered myself down the rope to try and get as high up on there as I could get. I just couldn't get quite high and close enough to be able to grab it. Could do it on various other places on the wall, but it wasn't move me forward. So, again, you know, the depth of mechanics within it, not to be scoffed at. Yeah, you look, I mean, I don't even know what to describe you as, like a drunken crab. Um from a graphical um third party point of view, and the more kind of desperate I was getting, the more crab-like, obviously, she looks. Um, but that's Ken. Um for some reason decided to also dip back into farming simulator on the uh PS5. Was playing it via the portal, actually, not through the um remote play, but through the cloud, and that was quite cool because it loaded in game music, load game, load my save. Oh, and because it's a cloud version, it popped up. Oh, hang on a minute. The mods associated with this just give us two sex, ps ps downloaded them all, then into the game, and it was my world as if I'd never been there, and it it was as if I'd not not been there. So that was really quite smart playing it via the cloud, via the portal in this in this way. Um, and then slipping and sliding, hopping and hiding through the switch store. Guess what I found? Easy delivery co much like you. I've downloaded it, I've gone in, I've played it, I've enjoyed it. Did you find someone to talk to that would unlock the whole map, by the way, or not?

SPEAKER_08 17:50

Yes, little guy singing near a correct fire barrel.

Easy Delivery Co Gets Cozy

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Yeah, so I've got that. You're right, it's really of no use whether you've got it or not, to be fair. Um you soon learn your way and just Yeah, some of the deliveries are a bit obtuse. Um and yeah, I did fall foul of everything falling out of the back, by the way, getting there and then not being able to unload it.

SPEAKER_08 18:16

Yeah, I never had that. I had where I had one item left, and then you just lift it out and a whole lot appears.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

If you've got one, you get away with it. If you've got none, and then what am I delivering? Yeah, well, I was playing it in cab view, I had no idea the gear had gone.

SPEAKER_08 18:32

Oh, yeah, you see, you're not Micah Hackinan, you just need to slow down a bit. You're a delivery man, not a racing driver. I'm not Mikahackan.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

I'm not. No.

SPEAKER_06 18:48

I was waiting for his pick.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

No, no, no. No, that is a pure statement of fact. I was just double checking my logic circuit. It's like, am I Mickahackinen? No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_08 18:58

Yeah, I always do it. I always do it in chase cam, I don't do it in cab cam. So mate, I want a I want a simulator. Yeah, well, you're in the wrong place because this is a PS1 and you're driving as a cat, so I thought it was a rabbit. Well, you might be a cabot. I don't know what you are, but I don't know who I am. Yeah, so I think the simulation side of it, you might be pushing it a little bit, but but how do you find it? Are you finding it good fun?

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Yeah, it's a little bit more throwaway than I thought. I do find like some of the menus a little bit obtuse. Yes, I'll be honest.

SPEAKER_08 19:40

It's an obtuse game, really, from the start.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

Like the way told nothing. The way the cursor you move with the stick when actually it'd make more sense just to use like a a block around the menu to move it around with the cursor.

SPEAKER_08 19:53

They've made it try to look like an old 80s computer, aren't they?

SPEAKER_01 19:56

Yeah, but it'd be so much user, so much more user-friendly if you could just flip through the menu or something.

SPEAKER_08 20:00

Turn that off and just turn it as just flick through the menu rather than keep moving the cursor.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

Yeah, I think I mean you're gonna bring it to console. Okay. Maybe some console refinements for people with joys pads might be helpful.

SPEAKER_08 20:12

Yeah, well, I actually found it's a bit like nutmeg, it's the same thing. Rather than scrolling through everything, it's actually easier just to use my little mouse pad on Milanovo and just click on things as I go and just use that. So I found that a bit easier.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

They stand and remember the time that their brother moved over to the dark side. I just used the little mouse pad. Have you heard yourself, PC Master Race Boy, or no?

SPEAKER_08 20:45

That won't be long. You'll be having one of these. And then that will be. You've already so glad I've bought a handheld PC. That's the best gaming machine you can own. I'm so glad I did it.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Already now made it impossible, and I thank you for this, because what you've done is you've dug a stake in the ground that I now find impassable.

SPEAKER_08 21:06

Why?

SPEAKER_01 21:07

Because you said that line. Because you weren't first. No, because you're like, oh just like that. Alright, boom. Well, I'm not doing it there.

SPEAKER_08 21:14

No, I'm not doing it.

SPEAKER_01 21:15

Exactly. I'm a console guy now. I'm not touching it, don't want to know about it.

SPEAKER_08 21:20

Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, dead to me. Dead. PC all the way, baby. PC all the way. You know I don't mean that.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

No, you do. Take him at his word. No, look at him. Now he's panicking. Ah, RGT's found a reverse gear. Reverse gamer, Thomas. Look at him. Backpedal. Maybe a little bit of uh Italiano ancestry in you there. No offense, Badabinkster, it's a British joke. Hey, hey.

SPEAKER_08 21:54

Hey. Anyway, so easy delivery, how are you getting on? I'm doing it. Are you going to play more?

SPEAKER_01 22:01

Are you going to play more? Yeah, definitely. I think it's one of those cosy games. I know it doesn't feel like a cozy game, or it's not been marketed as a cosy game, but it does feel like a cozy game.

SPEAKER_08 22:10

It's a cosy game when you sort of know what you're doing, but before you know what you're doing, it's a bit of an atuose game where you keep thinking, hang on, what have I got to do? Where's that cursor? Where are my technical? And you have to work it all out. Once you've worked it out, it's a bit more cozy. But up to then, that seems a seems a bit more harder work than it should be. But once you're in the game, it's okay. It's just a it's management, isn't it? It's the temperature, it's energy.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

I didn't really feel yeah, the temperature thing wasn't an issue. I think to me the fuel was a bit kind of disproportionate in its use. I did note that I did think, oh, Crikey, okay. So I've used all that fuel, right? And fuel's how much? Wow, okay.

SPEAKER_08 22:48

Yeah, that is a shock, isn't it? When you fill up and it's 50, and you're like, well, hold on, I'll just could have been paid 30 to use that fuel to fill up at 50.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

You're like, oh exactly. So that did make me feel a little bit on the wrong end of a grind, but yeah, you know, that's how you can stretch your game's length. I think you have to do a lot of the little runs and big up, yeah, and but then you look at the economy of the parts and the modified parts that you can fit, and that's also a bit okay, gonna gonna be a rough while doing jobs for like a buck a time until and that's 50 jobs to get 50 bucks to fill up the gas tank, and that's uh leaves me exactly standstill where I was.

SPEAKER_08 23:31

It's an unusual economy in the game, I will admit.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Yeah, so I think other than that though, and there must obviously there are some jobs that one of the jobs that I took was for the higher end of the cash. Um, but by the time I got there, I looked at the amount of fuel I'd use and thought to myself, yeah, I've just blown at least maybe quarter, maybe a bit more of tanky gas. That's exactly that amount of money. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, gone are the days where you pick up and then you just get in your fit. Like there was a couple of times where I could have hand delivered it.

unknown 24:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 24:05

Yeah. So it's from easy pizza and you're delivering to a house in front of it, and you're like, I'll take the money.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

I'll take the money.

SPEAKER_08 24:13

Yeah.

Sony Bravia TV Business Spinoff

SPEAKER_01 24:13

I'll take the money. Certainly days. Um, anyway, I think that concludes uh um rather light what you've been playing. Um I I look, there is some retro for me, but RGT's banned me from talking about it. So if you want any retro stuff from me, you're gonna have to go to Flashback, our sister show. Um but before you tootle off over there, uh park your Easter chocolate because RGT and I have been getting a little bit uh journalistic. That's right. Well, we've been over to the Holy Trinity and basically found the three highest stories that we can find, which basically translates to it's time for the news. We scoured the very darkest regions in the re juns. Look, mate, you know, you can take a guy to Turkey, but you can't take his teeth. Yeah?

SPEAKER_08 24:59

You can take them out.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

No, they're irremovable. They're they're screwed in uh with titanium bolts, and the teeth themselves are made out of stained granite. Wow. Yeah. That is heavy jumpers. If the tip ex washes off, I look like jaws.

SPEAKER_08 25:16

Wow. I'm I'm looking forward to this at OL.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

What? Me having a little nipple nipple.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

Any road. We've scoured the very darkest regions of the internet to bring you the latest stories. First up, and Sammy Barker's broken the meniscus of the fluid we know as water. He's been living in a submarine past week. Um seems he's got himself a small one-man submarine that he's popped into the local canal to keep an eye on his old sister journalist, uh well, brother journalist. Uh I don't know why Sammy's gone down this road. He seems to think that that it's a duty of care to him as the senior editor of Push Square to uh watch his people very closely.

SPEAKER_08 26:09

Wow. Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

So he's been pooing in a bag and living off fuel.

SPEAKER_08 26:15

So Sammy very similar existence to me.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

Yeah, okay. Wow. Uh okay. Well, happy Easter, Sammy. Hopefully you're back on the top side, uh brother. Um, no more time for any of the submariner business. Um I'll be honest with you, mate. Never saw you as a seaman. Let's get into it. It's official. Sony spins off iconic television business, joint venture with TCL. Now confirmed. Now I talked about this not that long ago, RGT. I said, hey, heads up, everybody. Now might be the time to go grab yourself a Sony TV if you want one for the final time, because there's some news. Uh there's an update as well, which we'll get to at the end. Um Sony is historically best known for its consumer electronics, but truth be told, it's an entertainment organization and has been for years now. PlayStation, along with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment, has spearheaded its transformation. And recently it's talked at length about how it aims to dominate in emerging media categories like anime. It's not a massive surprise then that it's announced plans to spin off its television business as part of a new venture with Chinese juggernaut TCL. Under the conditions of the deal, TCL will own 51% of the new company, while Sony will hold the remaining 49, meaning it will no longer have a commanding stake in the business. Despite this, TCL is expected to retain the Sony and Bravia branding for future products, and Sony's high-quality picture and audio technology will continue to be leveraged. TCL will be bringing its own display technology to the table. In the most optimistic of outcomes, the joint venture will feature in industry-leading Bravia panels, which retail for lower prices than competition. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding. Joint ventures between two companies are expected to be finalized in March, with the new business aiming to begin operating from April 2027, subject to usual regulatory approvals and conditions. Should this deal get ratified, this will mark the end of an era for Sony, who's been a major player in the TV industry since it introduced the TV8301 in the 1960s. Hold the press. Update. Sony previously announced strategic partnership with Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL is now all signed and sealed, following the memorandum of understanding announced back in January. As per the press release, TCL will be taking a 51% share and Sony will keep the remaining 49. I'll bring this here, uh RGT, because it's an interesting thing to talk about. Because Sony, step by step by step, are walking towards becoming solely an entertainment division. They are famous for making some of the most liked, most peer-reviewed, best consumer TV and even to some degree, uh, industry inside TV products. Um for them to pull away like this marks a big sea change. But my one caveat I want to throw in when you can walk into most places now and grab a pretty hot-looking panel, 50 inch, maybe more, for less than 500 bucks. Sony's got to be on the law of ever diminishing returns, there, haven't they?

SPEAKER_08 29:53

Yeah, it's that's a strange one. I keep I kept thinking about this earlier, thinking, why why are they doing this? You know, and you start thinking, well, is this to affect the gaming side of things? Is this a money saver? Is this something they don't want to produce anymore? Is this to do with chip shortages? You know, Palmer off to a Chinese firm will make the chips, you know? I don't know. It's it's strange. It almost seems that how successful the PS5 has been, and we've said many times on here, they're saying they've made more money with this than they have all the others put together, which is absolutely mind-blowing. Yet the certain parts of the company they seem to be shrinking down, you know. It's it makes you wonder what's going on, or if they're preparing for the future.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

Yeah, it seems to be that we're willing to accept we're willing to pay more for entertainment now than we are for the product that we want to view it on. I think that Sonia may be preparing for a time, and this is gonna blow your mind, but you need to get your head around it, where there's gonna be a generation of people that don't think it normal to have a TV in the front room.

SPEAKER_08 31:08

Yeah, I think you might be right.

SPEAKER_01 31:10

There's no need for it, they've got no aerial. Well, they put a TV there, they just watch it on their phone, then we can all watch something different. It it I can't get my head around it because I'm like a big picture guy, I'm the guy who gets out the laptop to book a holiday, can't do it on my phone, god forbid. But there's a generation of people coming that don't have any of these technological hang-ups. So it's only getting out because the idea of sticking hundred-inch plasma on your wall is a con, long forgotten dream.

SPEAKER_08 31:39

Well, that's weird to you say you've you've hit on something there, because even my daughter, when she lived at home, she never had a TV in a bedroom. She didn't have a TV, she had a computer and a monitor if she watched anything. It was YouTube on a phone or on a computer. Yeah. She didn't didn't have a T. She's never had part from when she was really small, she had a little portable TV, but other than that, she's never had a TV. So that's now I come to think of it, you I think you're right.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

I'm not saying it's it's it's gonna take time, it's not as extreme as that. Because I do think you like to gather round for a movie, but I think that's probably gonna take place around an iPad now or a laptop, you know. Kids aren't that bothered about sitting down, they're not bothered about surround sound. No, I'm not oh no, I can't watch it on I can't watch it on a no, I can't watch it on the portball. Gotta not watching Revenant on the Paw Ball. Got no. But yeah, I'm the weirdo.

SPEAKER_08 32:33

I know quite a few people have got younger kids and they don't really watch the TV that much. They watch YouTube on the phones, or they're playing Fortnite on the phones, or Roblox, or something like that on the phones. They don't tend to really watch that's not a family.

SPEAKER_01 32:46

So is this a sign of the times? The only sort of weird thing I can see about this is if you're getting out of the TV market, right? If you're gonna give over a controlling share of 51% to some Chinese sort of screen panel manufacturer, you're in at 49%, and whatever deal you've negotiated for the financial return at the back end, you're in 49%, and you're taking your company's logo and brand and ethos and market recognition, and you're gonna slap that on a value product.

SPEAKER_08 33:24

Ooh, the better choice would have been to keep the 49% stake, but then been a whatever the company was, TLC TV.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

I haven't looked how much a Sony TV is at the minute, but they're normally disproportionately£1,000 more than everybody else. Saying that, I've always had LGs. I bought one 10 years ago. Guess what? Asn't skipped to be.

SPEAKER_08 33:48

Yeah, that's why I've always stuck with LGs because they're so reliable and brilliant, brilliant screens.

SPEAKER_01 33:53

So I don't know. Get there. I I think it does prove a pivot towards the being. I think this century, I think a lot of people are lining themselves up to be powerhouse providers of media stroke entertainment. You see Tencentre in the background doing that, Netflix are trying to do that, you got Sony, across the games, anime, yeah, movies, music, they're trying to get in there and create a wedge. You've got Apple are coming in from the other side trying to create a wedge, and it's like, hang on, we're all trying to fight for these different no one cares about the panel, they're just caring about what they can push out to that device.

SPEAKER_08 34:34

Yeah, don't make the hardware, make the digital content.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

I think that's really what they're waking up to. They're in a transition, and that's why maybe in the next, and this is why it's important to us. Maybe in maybe a cycle, maybe even less than one cycle from now, this is what's gonna happen with the PlayStation. Like they're still making PlayStation games, but we're gonna halve out this to Bush.

SPEAKER_08 34:59

Yeah. Uh sort of Sager all over again, isn't it? Yeah, or Grundig.

Xbox Boss Gamer Tag And Strategy

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Grundig are gonna make the console. And we're just gonna make games for it. Yeah, yeah. Well, Trip Hawkins could have been right. So, you know, you saw it here first. RGT, in what's becoming known, and I wish I could do this, but like love hearts everywhere across the screen. It's time for our little weekly love in with uh Ashishama over at Xbox. Now, not like you to go stalking and going through a bin and whatnot, but you've been going through a bin. Um, you know, what did you find in there? Anything controversial?

SPEAKER_08 35:43

I won't some of the yeah. I'll just go over to Pure Xbox because I won't say what I found. God no. Um, but over on uh Pure Xbox, this is by Fraser Gilbert.

SPEAKER_00 35:53

What's Razor up to, mate?

SPEAKER_08 35:55

Well, since you know, since Asher's been uh really doing a good job turning the old Xbox brand round, he's decided to make himself one of the new hipster trendy container houses out of these containers. But he's actually made it in a cross. So when you look from above, sort of green Xbox, but it's a house, so he's got bars.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

Oh, I thought you meant like the religious cross.

SPEAKER_08 36:21

No, no.

SPEAKER_01 36:22

And he laid on top of it when he sunbathed.

SPEAKER_08 36:24

Sorry, I shouldn't say a cross, should I? I should say an X. Yes, in an X, green X, yeah. So um, yeah, it looks really good. He's still he's having a bit of trouble with the plumbing at the minute because he's gone for a compost and toilet. So yeah, I don't know if he's dug the hole deep enough, but he's getting there, he's getting there, it's looking good. It's looking good.

SPEAKER_00 36:41

So what could possibly go wrong with the plumbing of a compost toilet?

SPEAKER_01 36:45

Like you say, just didn't dig his hole. What happened? Did the Mr. Whippy tickle tickle the exit tube?

SPEAKER_08 36:52

I think so. Yeah, he didn't go deep, not at all. He needs to really get down there and dig that out because yeah, that's that's starting to the other end of the uh the X is starting to pong somewhat. So get in there, Fraser. Get that dug out, Sam.

SPEAKER_01 37:09

That's the only problem. You never know you haven't dug the hole deep enough until it's too late, and then you've obviously got to dig through all your fetid poopy at the same time.

SPEAKER_08 37:18

Yeah, a couple of takeaways later, and you you know you're in the doo-doo.

SPEAKER_01 37:21

So yeah, you don't want to be digging that out on a Saturday morning, do you?

SPEAKER_08 37:25

Oh no, not if you've had a few uh cheekies the night before. But it'll get there, you'll get there, Fraser. Don't worry, we've got we've got faith in yourself.

SPEAKER_00 37:35

So the canal, did he not have the canal boat?

SPEAKER_01 37:39

I can't remember, but he's he's got an Xbox container home now, so yeah, he moves in different circles to us, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_08 37:47

Yeah, he definitely does, you know, and I admire his tiny home philosophy, so yeah, good on you.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

Mini maison.

SPEAKER_08 37:54

Yeah. He'll have George Clark here, keep going, it's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 38:03

Get George on the blower, see if he'll go round phrases.

SPEAKER_08 38:06

Kevin McLeod will be there as well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:09

Oh, he'd love it, wouldn't he? Oh god, he'd be all over that, wouldn't he? Like I say, mate, if we had too much money, was it on air or off air we talked about Dexter Fletcher? We were gonna hire Dexter Fletcher.

SPEAKER_08 38:20

That was off air, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

Uh right, okay. On air, I'm now thinking about hiring Kevin McLeod on Canva and getting Captain to cash edit the material you love. So you want me to say what? Uh yeah, just these lines, Kevin, on a green screen, if you could please, fella. Uh okay, yeah.£25 Canva, no problems.

SPEAKER_06 38:43

Yeah. There's nothing wrong with being given the audio controller. That's what you do if it can't.

SPEAKER_01 38:49

Welcome to Fraser Gilbert's home. In the background, it's like a Brazilian slump.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

Hello.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

Welcome to our Brazilian listeners.

SPEAKER_08 39:00

Yeah. Clicked off. Um anyway, Pure Xbox, Fraser Gilbert uh says, here's what's um Ashasharma has been playing on an Xbox gamer tag over the past month. A peek at the new Xbox's boss's account activity. It feels like a lifetime ago now, but all the way back in late February, new Xbox boss Ashasharma shared her Xbox gamer tag with the community before being criticised for faking it with an artificially inflated gamer score, to which she clarified that her whole family was sharing the account that she'd been limiting to it to just herself from now on. Um, to be honest, we don't care what her gamer score is. Sharma mentioned at the time she doesn't pretend to be the best gamer. Uh obviously a podcast host then. Um, but what we are interested in is the type of games she's been using to help herself get acquainted with the modern day gaming on Xbox. And the answer is that she's checking out a wide variety of stuff. Um hang on, my screen froze, I will be there in a moment. Nope. I'm very sorry, my screen has crashed.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

I'll carry on. Looking at our Xbox account, we can see that Microsoft Gaming CEO has been sampling the likes of Halo Infinite, Destiny 2, Claire Obscure Expedition 33, Wasteland 3, Final Fantasy III. Never thought it was going to get out of the Threezer. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The Mini Chute Adventures, Diablo 4, Keeper, Fallout 76, and Forza Horizon 5 over the past month, albeit only a small amount of time on each game. Uh and if you want to hop over to Fraser's Xbox article to have a look, um she's unlocked a few achievements, bless her. Of course, those didn't tell the full story, Sharma will have been playing games as part of her role as Xbox boss as well, which will involve travelling around to various offices and studios and playing on the accounts that aren't her own. In fact, a recent report from the Information mentioned she's apparently spent much of her first month engaging with developers and playing games, including the upcoming release of Kiln by Double Fine. Sharma has been quick to acknowledge her newbie status in the gaming world. She's devoted much of her first month on the job to one-to-one meetings with Xbox staff, soliciting ideas from developers and spending time playing games like Call of Duty Endgame and the Adventure Game Keeper, as well as unreleased games from Xbox Studios such as Kiln, according to interviews with five current Xbox employees. Clearly, Sharma is committed to the cause when it comes to understanding the Xbox landscape and indeed the wider world of gaming, and that's great to see. She's played a crucial role in revealing Xbox Project Helix and shipping new features, and we're intrigued, nay, optimistic, to see how she leads the brand into the future. Boom, get me the Sharma shirt. I want it, I'll wear it, I'll wear it with pride, and I want underneath it to say 74 days since the last incident, because this is all good. I'm not gonna get on and beat up some busy CEO with a family about what she's playing, but props to her that she's give Halo Infinite, Destiny 2, Claire Obscure 33, Wasteland 3, Final Fantasy III. I mean, fair play to that, Pixel Remaster Girl, you got patience, minichute adventures, Diablo 4, Keeper, Fallout 76, and a bit of Fraw's Horizon 5. To be honest, a little bit of everything. Um at the same token, a little bit of nothing, really. Um, but as a casual gamer, which and I want to stress here, Asha Sharma is the big wig of Xbox. She ain't got time. You might think that she sits around on a beanie um doing whatever, eating C B D gummies, right, and just floating from one gaming experience to the next. But I guarantee you the reality of this is hours-long teams meetings that just tail into nothing. There'll be Excel spreadsheets coming out of the yin yang that are absolutely boring as all hell. A thousand things that she needs to sign off. She got time for gaming. The fact that she's found the time for this impresses me, RGT. What's your take on it all?

SPEAKER_08 43:33

Um, yeah, I mean, I think we had but the last CEO, he was, you know, for the gamers and always playing with them online and sat in his game room and playing. I think they need a fresh approach, which they've got, you know. She's keeping her hand in, she's playing a few games, but she's concentrating on the job at hand. She's been changing a few things, like we say. She's done the update, she's mentioned Helix. Um, she's been listening to people. Um, she's proven that you don't need to be a hardcore guy. To know actually what gamers want, you don't need to come across as a hardcore gamer.

SPEAKER_01 44:06

If you know you just need to let me just pause you for a moment and contrast that to Sony. Like, none of the CEOs there have ever professed to be down with the gamers themselves, have they? They don't profess to have like a million gamer scores and all the platinums. Like that's that's totally, as you say, unnecessary for a Phil Fent Spence used to play online, didn't he?

SPEAKER_08 44:26

In the end, a lot of it was he had actually employees playing for him on fallout and bits and pieces. Um, but you know, everyone you say, Oh, he's so damn at the gamers, he listens to the gamers, but then Sony doesn't, like you say, do that. But then look at the sales figures. So it proves you don't need to be a massive gamer to actually know how to run a massive gaming business. You need to have you, yeah. And she seems to have um she seems very experienced in knowing the business. Um, she seems to know what people want, she listens to what people want, but she's also mixing up a bit to say, yeah, you know, I play a little bit of games when I can, when I get a chance. Nothing major, but I know how the system works, I know what it's about, and that keeps a hand in, you know, for these changes that were made. That might have been because she was playing on the on the Xbox. Hang on, we need they're right, we do need this, we do need that. Let's get let's get that in. So I would imagine a lot of this is probably research at work.

SPEAKER_01 45:22

She's and I also think that she's doing it the right way. She's going in, like, yeah, she's not gonna. I I very much doubt she's paid cash money for these, she'll have a code or whatnot. She may have a full unlock. But she's gone in, she's interacting with the system, she's looking at the friction points first hand, she's experiencing it. We know Phil did this, but she's actually gone, listened, taken it on board, started to make some changes. She's starting to sit down and make some changes in every facet. And how long before they pay off? Who knows? But keep the good news story coming. Because if you've got nothing else, just keep the good news stories coming.

SPEAKER_08 46:01

And she's proved that you don't have to buy a studio, sack 10,000 staff to be changing Xbox. You can do it in other ways, you know, you can change them by like say, listening to the gamers and then looking at their products like from last week with this is an Xbox. Hang on. People hate this. Why are we doing this? Let's do it in the background, let's not make a big thing about this. That's an option for for gamers, for casual gamers, but let's not ram it down their throats to people who have actually invested in our hardware. Let's back them and then give options to people that haven't got the hardware. You know, our number one customers are the people with the hardware, and she's done that, she's gone straight in and changed that straight away. It didn't work, it wasn't working. Right, we'll nip that in the bud. So, yeah, she's um she's dynamic that way, she'll make decisions, but she's not pretending to be someone she's not, I don't think. She's been honest with what sort of gamer she is and honest with the job at hand, so fair play.

SPEAKER_01 46:59

Yeah, I like the green shoots that we're seeing, so happy to definitely way in it, and get back Jesus Liam do learn from Owd uh Nintendo Life.

SPEAKER_08 47:22

Have you seen him?

SPEAKER_01 47:24

Yeah thing is, it's any waste night, so it's just get back Liam. Just be careful. I'll tell you what, he's all he's all fired up because in his local village, Easter time, it's a big moment for him because about five years ago he managed to get himself get old. Liam, sit just sit down. Mumsy, get my milk of or yeah, there's so many Easter eggs again. Well, he got hold of a rabbit suit a couple of years ago, no, five, ten years ago off the back of promotion with we raven rabbits or whatever it was.

SPEAKER_08 48:02

Good fit, you know?

SPEAKER_01 48:04

So you still got it. You're a grown man. Well anyway. You're an adult. Alright, I wasn't we have enough of that. Alright, anyway. Before he got he's descended into cr Easter craziness, RGT.

SPEAKER_08 48:23

He's e-numbered right up.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

I've never seen him like this. He's he's oh god.

SPEAKER_08 48:33

Is he crying now? He does seem to cry.

Miyamoto Wants Pikmin Everywhere

SPEAKER_01 48:35

Yeah, he's ripped the side out of the sofa cushion, ragged all the foam out, and he's sort of grabbed it all up into a ball between his legs, and he's kinda just sort of I don't know. You know when a cat sort of kills something and gets his feet up and scraps, he's like scratting his ball of sofa foam. Alright, Liam, no worries. He's got a temper that boys. Well, before he descended into Easter Chaos, he'll be alright by. He'll be alright by. He got a bit of a hotline in from Miyamoto. He said, I'm on a mission, Miyamoto wants to include Pikmin in any kind of Nintendo product he can. Um Liam says, somebody get this man a Pikmin. Uh Miyamoto has spoken on many occasions about his love of Pikmin and how there is effectively no restriction on where they can appear. We've seen them pop in Mario Wonder on the back of football shirts and even in Nintendo's theme park, and their global expansion is set to continue. Speaking to RGN recently, Miyamoto has reiterated how it's his mission to try and get Pikmin in as many kinds of Nintendo product as he can. Pikmin will be on the it will also surface in. Spoiler alert, but it's out now, so go check it out. Uh Mario's new cinematic outing, and Miyamoto's reasoning here is that the setting of Galaxy really lends itself to having Pikmin be there as part of the world. The same movie will also include some other Nintendo characters. Miyamoto's previously labelled Pikmin as Nintendo's most global characters, and considers video games to be just one of the worlds in which Pikmin live. We've seen shorts dedicated to these little creatures over the past year. Uh RGT, what do you make, first of all, of Miyamoto's Pikmin obsession? And more importantly, are you off to see the new Mario Galaxy movie?

SPEAKER_08 50:26

Um I'll start with Am I going off to see the new Mario Galaxy movie? No. Um did you see the first one?

SPEAKER_01 50:33

Because it was no dude.

SPEAKER_08 50:36

I've got another confession to make now because I actually Mrs. RJT has bought me the Sonic movies and I still haven't watched them yet. So actually, alright. Yeah, yeah. But I'd I'd like to see him, but no, I probably won't go off and see it. I'll probably maybe get him on DVD or something.

SPEAKER_01 50:50

But um Yeah, put it next to the other movies you're never gonna watch.

SPEAKER_08 50:54

It's yeah, um yeah, there's a few. Not that I have a backlog, you know I'm not like that. Um I'm not that sort of guy.

SPEAKER_01 51:02

Absolutely not, darling. I'll buy again.

SPEAKER_08 51:06

Day one, watch it done in the bag. I don't have plattened it.

SPEAKER_01 51:10

You've even gone in, watched all the DVD extras, yep, and watched it in all the different language, Turkey, whatever else the other ones are. Since then, yeah, you know me well.

SPEAKER_08 51:26

Um but yeah, Pikmin's an unusual one. I almost thought this was an April Fall as sort of when we recorded, but I hope it is because then the joke's on me, isn't it? Yeah, but it's it's it's a strange one. Pikmin.

SPEAKER_01 51:39

Um well he's right, they're the most global character. You can put them anywhere, can't you? Little Easter egg, like, oh hello! Talking of Easter eggs, what's your favourite Easter egg of all time?

SPEAKER_08 51:51

Oh, back in the day, I'm going back a long time. Mine was a uh a Rolo one. Hmm. Lovely chalk in a little bag of Rolos in the inside.

SPEAKER_01 52:02

You see, I would put myself in what you could class as the mugs game. Uh, not because you got a mug, but sometimes you did. I was the guy who lusted after the Yorkie. Not because he wanted the Yorkie bars, not because he liked the Yorkie chocolate, really. Because he wanted some tub and sappeny cardboard that looked like a lorry.

SPEAKER_08 52:24

Yeah, it looked like a truck. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:27

I think most of the time they actually look like little bulldozers.

SPEAKER_08 52:31

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 52:32

I don't know how we got to that from Pikmin, but I said they're like an Easter egg, you could put them anywhere.

SPEAKER_08 52:37

Very true. Yeah, I just I found out odd news really. Um talking about the Pikmin like that. It's just like I said before, it's always not this is a bit of a bit of a joke, this one, but I'd be surprised. It's not really something that I mean it took him years to get the the next Pikmin game out. It's not really something they've really pushed that much, have they? Unless I've missed it. Um you may know more than me, but I don't think it's really uh um uh one of their franchises that they overly push, but maybe I'm wrong.

SPEAKER_01 53:06

I think they're getting ready to be prepared, to be swamped.

SPEAKER_08 53:12

Pikmin movie coming up and Pikmin 5, I would imagine.

SPEAKER_01 53:16

Wait, wait, look, hey, all I'll say is Wonders of Sodor. I have your humble pie here. Ready to go.

SPEAKER_08 53:32

Would you like to start eating it on air? No, no, no humble pie at all.

SPEAKER_01 53:43

Oh wow, and it's good. Have you played it? I've played Train Sim, it's amazing it's the same game, which is on uh with uh Thomas's face on the front of it.

SPEAKER_08 53:55

Oh right, oh okay. I have no interest in that game whatsoever, grow up.

SPEAKER_01 54:04

I don't know if you know what show you're on, but I might just need to remind you you're on the show on the you're on I can't even say it. I'm done with it. I'm done with this whole thing. In fact, do you know what? Do some housekeeping. Do it now.

SPEAKER_08 54:19

You want housekeeping, do you?

unknown 54:23

What?

SPEAKER_08 54:23

Can we get Hoover out and have a quick walk round or yeah, hang on then controller podcast dot com website. Don't forget to check that out.

SPEAKER_01 54:34

Um yeah Questions at Unofficial Controller Post Pod Post Post. Good. Now you've got it. I can speak properly. Crack on fella. Uh oh Dan. Questions at unofficialcontroller podcast.com is the email. Obviously, go check us out on the interweb. We've got a website. It's amazing. If you're not there, I would say you're a loser. If you can't find it, I would say you're not looking hard enough. Try again. HTTPS colon forward forward slash. Forward, forward. You see, you're not putting that in here, you're doing forward. What a dumbass. On a visual controller podcast.com. Enter, boom, you're there. If that don't work, have a word your IT manager. If you ain't got one of them, you're failing at life. Talk to me, get in the manosphere. I've got one. You need it. Uh hey, look, I'm getting on the trends. Manosphere. We said Trump, we said Rogan, we said Tiki Toki. We said uh who else did we say? Who's that other dude? The one that makes me laugh with a bald head. Oh, Tate. I don't know how anyone takes him serious. Him? Tate? Yeah. You think that's got the algorithm going off left, right, and Chelsea?

SPEAKER_08 55:59

We'll find out next week.

SPEAKER_01 56:00

Yeah, viral. PewDiePie. Boom. Done. Okay. RGT. Yes. Tell everybody about the Discord and then slap them up the side of the face with the tears.

SPEAKER_08 56:14

Um yes, come and join the Discord. There's plenty going on on there from general chat to uh people's pickups, people getting rid of bits and pieces in uh swap shop or um say listener stingray, which is pickups. We've also got a challenge accepted, which Digital Mongery does, which is a monthly competition. Uh the last one won by I might put your name. Was it DJ Cat64 from Australia? So he will be yes, he was a bit of a whiz at the golden eye. We done the first level of the golden eye in the quickest time, and he was four seconds off the world record. So he's he's he's quite good, this boy. He's quite good. But he's uh Wow P1. Congratulations to him.

SPEAKER_01 56:57

You have got a I've got glass on a shelf on a fence. What did they say was Cockney Ryman sang for a wreck nipples the other day?

SPEAKER_08 57:05

I can't remember. Something like that.

SPEAKER_01 57:07

That's arousing to me.

SPEAKER_08 57:09

Yes, it is. So um, although he does live the other side of the world, and he said, Don't worry about sending him his prize. We are sending you your prize. We are sending that prize, we are sending that prize, but also we're gonna send it a little bit later because I'm gonna chuck a couple more bits in for you as well. So we'll make it worthwhile sending that package and we'll chuck that.

SPEAKER_01 57:26

Damn right.

SPEAKER_08 57:27

So, congratulations to you. But yes, if you'd like to join in on that, we have um we have a monthly challenge accepted.

SPEAKER_09 57:32

Yes, we also have let's get quizzical, quizzical, uh I wanna get quizzical, I wanna get quizzical. Let me see your brain work, your brain work. I wanna see your gray matter twerk, your gray matter twerk.

SPEAKER_01 57:52

DM said he wanted to add that in. I just went. Did he?

SPEAKER_08 57:56

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 57:57

Um, do you not want to fight someone's creative urges? I'm not. I'm not into it. Fair play.

SPEAKER_08 58:03

Um, yeah, so that's just a weekly quiz that comes out on a Monday. Fair play.

SPEAKER_01 58:07

Um, so you can check that's just you've been playing too much nutmeg, fella.

SPEAKER_08 58:11

Yeah, fair play. Yeah. Get it in the onion bag. Um Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:17

Is that a quote from that game?

SPEAKER_08 58:19

No, that's just an old school one.

SPEAKER_01 58:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 58:21

Smash it in the onion bag. Put it in the mixer. Um, yes, anyway, let's get quizzical.

SPEAKER_01 58:29

Uh, your young MCing, burgeoning MC career at the Dreamcast. No, the Dreamscame. Dreamcast. The Dreamscape. I've got early on set, dude. Just work with me. Right? When you were there, that's the sort of thing you would say. I think you MC'd like you were doing the waltzers at a fairground.

SPEAKER_08 58:54

Scream if you want to go fast.

SPEAKER_01 58:56

Yeah, that's you all.

SPEAKER_08 58:59

Can I get a rewind?

SPEAKER_01 59:01

Everyone's sat there waiting for MCP to pan, and you're like, Becky, you've left your purse.

SPEAKER_03 59:10

What am I saying that? I'm a fairground operator. It's gone, Becky.

SPEAKER_08 59:16

No drinks near the turntables. Or repeat, no drinks near the turntables. Shaba.

SPEAKER_02 59:23

You got some guy girding in a vest right in front of you. Like, what are you doing, RGT? Yep, Mac.

SPEAKER_08 59:33

Anyway, let's get quizzical. Uh, little quiz that comes every Monday.

SPEAKER_01 59:36

It's just uh Yeah, because he won't want you wouldn't want any of that chicanery going on. It's a dead serious mastermind.

SPEAKER_08 59:42

Yeah, some great questions on there. And I squat, even if you uh only get two or three out of ten, that's good because you sort of learn new sort of game and knowledge for these unusual questions and that's and no one knows what you did they didn't get wrong. No, you can post in there what you get, you know, but you don't have to if you don't want to. Just have a little have a little go at that. That's good fun. Um, we've also got RGT Back to the Past, which is our generation seven playthrough, which the new vote went live. I should have mentioned it on the last show. I didn't, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:07

What's winning right now?

SPEAKER_08 1:00:08

It's one. We've already decided what we're playing, and it is 50 cent blood on the sand or in the that's not what I took my money behind. No. Um, Carlos is already halfway through, and he has quite an unusual experience with it, although he says he can't stop playing it. Um, it was an unusual choice. Um, our choices we had were uh bear with me, bear with me. We had Deus X Human Revolution, we had 50 Cent Blood on the Sand, we had Rage, or we had Brutal Legend, um, which 50 Cent won, Brutal Legend was second, Deus X was third, and Rage was last. So 50 Cent one, but uh Carlos said uh I will just quote him on what he said. He said, This game's got me scratching my head. I've played up to chapter five, so around halfway, and as a cover shooter, it's miles behind, say, Gears of War. The story is ridiculous, if that's what matters. Every character is called or Mother, um, which really gets me down listening to it. The music is starting to grow on me a bit, to be fair. The gameplay is quite limited, and yet, all this aside, I'm still playing it, and I'll probably finish it, despite the fact that there's much better games I could be playing. Popcorn, slightly bad taste. My man, yeah, my man popcorn, slightly bad taste in popcorn, but popcorn nevertheless. So my man. So I will be I've still got to purchase this game as yet, so I will get it and then I will play.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:41

I am glad I'm not in this circle because I would not be buying that.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:45

Um, so yes, that is yeah, it's not cheap either. Um, so that is our generation seven playthrough.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:50

We vote on a that's an odd one for those playthroughs because I peep in every now and every other game that really has been picked up, picked up has been, you know, two pound game.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:00

Yeah, and if you're wondering how we do it, um me and um Fat Zen Geef in the Discord, we basically got a big list of games each, combined them lists, and we pick two games each every time we finish the last one, and we stick it out to the listeners, and they let they get to vote and choose what we play all together, uh, which is great fun, a great way of playing some generation seven games that you might not necessarily go back to. But yeah, so check out the Discord. Um, check out also for some news on there because um we're trying to keep people up to date with OLL. Um OLL 26 in Epic Studios Norwich. Um, we will be present. Um, me and George will be there. There's um we've got a few of our team members with us to help us run the day. Uh, Digital Mongery, Captain Scarlet, uh Badabinkster is gonna be there.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:47

Um, Badabinkster, Tuta Bane.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:51

And also it might be worth getting a ticket if you weren't gonna come, but actually worth getting a ticket to come because me and George will be on the stage doing some um rather hilarious console wars battles with other content creators. So if you want to see how bad we really are at games, you can watch it with a live audience.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:10

I'll tell you what, I'll hold your coat.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:13

Why?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:15

You a gamer, you're a proper gamer, you're a pro gamer, you've been in a gaming magazine, you're the gamer.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:20

There's one thing I did forget to tell you, so I might as well tell you why we're live on air.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:24

Do people not know yet that we aren't this is all a setup? This is we just don't know anything about games. It's actually a comedic platform that it's just seems to slip by everybody.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:35

They will do after March the 11th at about four o'clock in the afternoon when we're holding a controller upside down and trying to play Mary.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:41

I'm just gonna hold it like a pair of horns and just run around the stage like an enraged bull.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:46

But then they wouldn't think there's anything different about you.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:48

No, so I've got away with it, you see. Yeah. Once again, our cover is covered.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:55

Cover is covered.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:56

Yeah, 11th of April, oh, 26th. We'll be there. We're doing a well, I won't tell you what it is yet, but we've got a little uh prize giveaway. Well, three prizes, first, second, and third. So that'll be worth you coming along. So we've got some great prizes, really good prizes for a little competition on there. Come and have a chat. Um, we've got all our flyers and bits and pieces there for flashback and UCP. So um come and say hi, and um, yeah, it's gonna be a great day because OLO was always great. But yeah, I think that's about housekeeping done in it.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:25

I tell you what, though, why don't you hit them up with the tiers to save your tiers? How how affordable is it for people to get on board supporting the show? And don't forget, they don't have to because it's totally free.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:39

But if they wanted that to if they if they wanted to get involved, you got three dollars, you got five dollars, you got eight dollars, you got ten dollars. If you go from three dollars, you go um on Glorious Chat, a little sectioned off part of the Discord, you go mentioned your name mentioned on every show, you get Red Out, which we will be doing in a moment. And we've got our what was a Zoom chat, but we've got a new thing coming after RLL, so we'll we'll tell you about that. You get a another little freebie that no one else will get. If you go to five dollars, you get those three, but you also get a yearly piece of art merch. If you go to eight dollars, you get those four, but you also get an art merch mug. If you go to ten dollars, you get all those five, and you also get a t-shirt with the art merch on. So if you go to ten dollars, you get t-shirt, you get mug, you get artwork, and you get the three online bits and pieces.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:28

So, yes, but special offer at the minute though, RGT. You see a tier, you get a t-shirt. You buy any tier, you get a t-shirt. You buy one free, you get one free. You buy one, you get one free. You buy a tier, you get a t shirt free. Regardless, I guess if they're at a tier where they get, they're gonna end up with two t shirts, are they not?

SPEAKER_08 1:05:50

We need to get him on a short canva.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:53

He's probably dead anyway. Uh quick photo view of this gravestone done. What's next?

SPEAKER_08 1:06:02

We probably better divert away from that and do the tier list, I think.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:06

Um not the tier list, the system Is there another controversial celebrity we can drop in here to get the algorithm up a little bit? No, I wouldn't. I said Jesus. Uh who else? Who's controversial?

SPEAKER_08 1:06:18

Trump. I don't know if you want to get the algorithm up or just putting the final nail in the coffin. Either one.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:23

AI, they look the similar, don't they?

SPEAKER_08 1:06:27

Yeah, just different.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:28

You got a spike before you die.

Support Tiers And Subscriber Shoutouts

SPEAKER_08 1:06:30

Hmm. Yeah, maybe. Anyway, let's get on to the subs list. These are our famous members who were gonna hit them next year. Or straight to the top. Um we're gonna hit the bottom first.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:43

Umate, that rebound looks good though, doesn't it? Rags to riches.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:48

That's a hell of a rebound, that is. Rags to rags to riches. You know what that is? That's tramp to Trump in about eight years. Hey, a T1 manny can help you with that. Yeah, exactly. That gets us onto our sub tier list. These are the people that do put their hands in their pockets every month, and we're eternally grateful for them for all what they do. Um we do.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:07

They see us, don't they?

SPEAKER_08 1:07:08

You start this month because you were uh this week because you were complaining last week about your lack of certain people, so you can start.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:16

I don't know what magic you've performed here, but that means I get to rip straight in and caress the beautiful face of the artistic. You know, McKizmo of Captain Scarlet, thank you, sir, for all that you do.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:30

Who done a sh uh a reel for us this week on Instagram, which blew up on mine and went to nearly two and a half thousand views. So he knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:40

I'll be honest with you. Um that's pretty incredible.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:45

Yeah, yeah, two and a half thousand. On your account? On my account, yeah. So mum was busy. She was. She had 20 devices just being watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch. It's not enough. I need more. It's not the first time I've heard that from the other side of the bathroom door from next up we have the wonderful retrohead, or as Seb would say, Retroid.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:22

Um I love a bit of retroid. The full rebrand coming soon, by the way.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:28

Yeah, another guy who's a bit of a whiz for the old reels and the shorts and the uh algorithms. But yes, wonderful guy. Thank you very much, Rick.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:35

Wait, I tell you what, right? Imagine if there was a cat, a Lotherio. A cat, you know, he's like the I don't know, he's like a proper romantic dude. He tweaks six cat nipples for perfection the same way Retro Ed tweaks the algorithm. And what you've got to say to yourself is that's a lot of dials to twist, and he knows exactly which ones.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:01

Exactly in the right order. It's like tightening up, it's like tightening up the uh the rocket cover of an old escort pinto engine. You're absolutely right, bolts in the correct order.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:11

Clap that head down the right way, brother.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:14

Yeah, you over talk it, you're done. You need to just a little twitch, little twitch, little twitch.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:18

If he gets in your algorithm, tweak, twink, boom, you're viral. Yeah, exactly. You you're retired by the Christmas.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:24

Yeah, exactly. So yes, 2057.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:29

Up next, he's the one man fan club. He is he's kind, he's courageous, he's great at games. I'll be honest with you, he's he's listening to this now. I don't know where he is, but whatever he's doing, he's striking a pretty handsome pose. He's he's actually now taking on that intrigued face of like, oh, he's he's he's yeah, you're right, he's talking about me. Yeah, that's that special moment me and you just shared. It was good. I was in your head for a minute, it felt nice. I'll be honest with you. I didn't want to leave. I love you, Carlos.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:02

The one man George Vankler. Um, also amazed me with as well when we do a vote on a game, you get about 10 minutes after the vote's gone through and he's halfway through it.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:12

You're like, Yeah, I tell you what, he he's a bit of a gingin stealth, isn't he?

SPEAKER_08 1:10:17

He's a killer, yeah, yeah, definitely. Uh, but yes, thank you, Carlos. Next up, like we mentioned, do you want to go from Trump to Trump in a week? There's only one place you need to be heading, that's firm returns.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:30

God bless him.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:31

Yeah, for financial advice. Is is there anyone better in the north of England? Is anyone better in England? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:39

Don't just geographically lock our man in, mate. He's giving advice in Tokyo, he's giving advice in Sydney, he's giving advice in Oslo. Yeah, he he and and let's face it, north of England.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:53

My guy, he's the best guy, he's gotta be one of the best guys. He's the best guy. Money, returns, he'll do the best. Absolutely the best returns. I don't know. I looked up and realised, my guy is my.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:09

You didn't realise you're doing that when you're talking about games. Yeah, easy delivery company. That's um, you know, yeah. The scene, the scenery in the game's almost like China, that's like China. Um, it's um, yeah, so thank you, phone returns.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:23

Algorithms through the roof. Um, up next, best wings in Queens, Trestles, New York. Rumour has it, rumour has it, rumour has it, Mr. Holland eats there when he's recording. Wow. It's a place of the celebs, it's a little bit of a secret place.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:42

Yeah, I think it is. If you're listening, send us a picture of pirati dog.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:47

Yeah, send us a picture of you there, and we might send you a t-shirt or something. So get in touch with the show, send us a picture of you outside trestles, prove it's there, because we know, because we go, and then we'll get a t-shirt to you.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:01

Definitely. Um next up we have the Dreamcast Man himself, Israel Space Monk, um, with one of the best Dreamcast collections and displayed in such a sexy way.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:16

That is the key that unlocks them games that and it's not big, it's not showy, it's not like you, it's not like boom, full of shed with tat, it's like fam! Sexy. No, RGT, I'm telling you how straight. It's got this nice little area, it's themed upright, it's got the spines there, it's immaculately.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:42

If you don't mind, it's right. This is right.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:46

You are correct. I just you've just done your usual thing of managing to drop a quick insult to me whilst disguising it as a compliment for Rose Space Moat.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:56

Says the bloke with doesn't need loft insulation because he's got so many games in there, as long as we're keeping the heat in his 18th century farmhouse.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:07

Um there's a whole mouse colony of a play of tiger electronics up there.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:15

Like I wouldn't about yeah, Transformers, everything. Um, yeah, but Roast Basebunk, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:21

Living in Metroplex like kings. Some guys in Boulder Hill sat there taking a tea meeting of his fellas around there and all the things.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:31

Oh, some gray skull.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:35

Little mouse on this little sword up in the air.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:39

Brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:40

Full Grand Prix going off on the scale electric around the corner, they all turn up on a Sunday, they're like, yeah. Get me a trap car. That's how we go viral.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:53

Yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:58

What persona have you turned up as today? Because it feels like 80s YTS bloke.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:04

I am. I'm beating this one, you can tell. I apologise to the listeners.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:10

I am I'm just agreeing, I can't say anymore. Brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:14

Ah, no, child out of being stir. Gratsimile. Stamibene, Dan Tabellicosi Very nice.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:28

I've missed that. It's for you. Next up we have the delectable.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:36

The classy.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:39

The tingle tuner. Yes. That's all that needs to be said. Okay. His middle name is curation.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:50

I get to there he is in his wild state, cutting around on all fours like a little bit of angry chimp.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:59

I'm gonna throw a saddle on him. Boom, yeah, let me break you in. It's DM, it's time to get a little bit oh well already, baby. Woohoo!

SPEAKER_00 1:15:08

Oh yeah, calm it down. Calm it down, calm it down, calm it down.

unknown 1:15:12

Shh shh.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:14

You know, sometimes you've got to go out into the field, you've got to get your wallest stallion. Because you know you're going to a show, you've got to bring the pony, you've got to get him up, get him out, getting ready to go. DM's coming with us. An opportunity to meet him yourself live. I know I'm excited, he's excited, but I just I've just kind of rode it out of him. Now he's all strapped up on the side, just chilling next to the stable. He's ready for this weekend, RGT. Are you?

SPEAKER_08 1:15:46

I am now, yeah. That's wow. That's a way to introduce someone in the sub list. I rode out of that stallion.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:59

Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:01

I don't even know where I I don't know where it came from. As I said it, I didn't know where it was going. But I think of all the things where it could have gone, actually.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:09

Well that's the worrying thing that I definitely don't know where it's going. We reined it in a bit. You don't either.

unknown 1:16:15

No.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:15

I definitely we reined it in a bit.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:18

I saw your face, it was like uh well, uh no.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:26

Yeah, the wild chimp was the start of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:29

I just didn't know how a human could get down on all fours and be like a stable riding platformer.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:34

So I like people to imagine it as it should be.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:38

You've you've definitely put that image in their head. Yeah. Who's next? Uh next uh we thank you, DM. Yes, thank you, DM. We have the master of the floss 360 himself. Which I still need to get a picture of him perfecting this trick. Yeah, yeah. Thank you very much as always, mate.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:02

Ah, okay, which means it's my turn to uh thank you, Baba.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:19

Jeez. You've had one coffee too many today. I know I've had one, not enough.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:24

Alright, we're not quite aligned, are we? Tell me about my beautiful red-headed stepson.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:30

You just you just completely described him.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:32

No, you've got to tell me what he's been doing.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:36

Well, it's obviously two things he's been doing. He's been Platinum Games, one-handed, ray, Ray Man, one-handed. Wow. Yeah. Dumbbell on the other. And when I say dumbbell, it is actually a weightlifting full bar, fully loaded. Okay. And you're just working that right arm, getting that muscle rippling in that white arm. Keep working it. Oh. And then he swaps over. Because obviously you don't want to be out of balance. You don't want one really big, thick, muscly arm and not another.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:06

Oh, don't, because it's wrong. It's not illegal. He's an adult, he's a full-grown adult. I've got no duty care to him.

SPEAKER_08 1:18:16

I'm I'm one worrying again.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:19

That's a lot for me to take in. Let me just try and let me try and balance that off a little bit because I was going to mention it earlier, and you didn't give me the chance, and this is the last chance for people to hear this. Possibly it's already too late, depending on when the show goes out. But OG is going to be in attendance at OLL.

SPEAKER_08 1:18:42

Yeah. OG's going to be there.

unknown 1:18:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:46

It's going to be the first time at a public event that you're going to see the original.

SPEAKER_08 1:18:51

Yeah. And you can ask him all the questions. You can ask him about the Red Room. You can ask him about the tribe. You can ask him about his friendship with um Lionel Blair. The treading the boards.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:04

Well, mate, actually, I I am also friends with Lionel Blair because he represents us legally Lionel's lawyers.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:13

Oh. Don't worry, you're not being left out. People want to see you as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:17

No, I was just making sure people knew that if they needed legal advice, that Lionel was available.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:22

Oh, cool. Brilliant. Lionel's lawyers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:26

Got to do your bit for the old boy.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:28

You know, he always says, Don't forget to mention me on it, a podcast of yours. Woohoo! Look at me! It's like, all right, Lionel, you've put your bloody back out. I danced, Blappy, I danced like Lionel, Lionel.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:39

You bit like Billy Ollie earlier. Then he starts nibbling off the sofa. I don't know why half the people of Farmington are sofa chewers, but you know, it's probably in the water.

unknown 1:19:48

Lead.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:48

I don't know if that was Lionel then or Louis Spence.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:51

I don't think you've ever seen either of them in the same room. I do think Lionel is. So you're thinking of sort of a Louis Lionel? Yeah, I think he's trying to sort of relaunch his career. So he just and if you imagine, right, if you got Lionel, if you kind of got either side of his ears, stuck your knee in the back of his head and pulled like a son of a gun. I reckon you got Louis Spence. Maybe, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:17

Yeah, I think you could be right.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:19

So I'd say backstage, quick. Which one today, darling? Oh, it's uh it's this morning.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:25

We're gonna say semi out of Louis, spash, boom, in he goes.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:29

Boom, pirouettes in, love you, darling, out, relax, poof. Goes in, does that, you know, what's it called? The Sherad Show.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:41

You're coming back, man. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:46

Whose go is it?

SPEAKER_08 1:20:48

Anyway, so yes, so thanks to Ginge.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:50

So thank you. Oh, cheers, old boy. Uh, my thanks then to the wonderful suit.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:56

Yeah, Debonair. That is a great way to describe him. Debonair is superb.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:05

You're right. He's like peak George Harrison with some sort of special psychosexual kinetic energy going on around him as well. That is Harvey Retro. Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:19

I think if you gave him a monocle, he could be an awesome Agatha Christie detective.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:26

I think if you gave Harvey Retro a monocle, the actual intensity of his beautiful eyes would sort of refine down into a laser, and you'd that you'd like end up pirouetting around and like just lasering off of his house, turning around to try and sort of explain to his wife that this weird thing was happening, and then just cut her clean in half. I mean, you've wished on him. There. Probably the worst thing that's like giving Gandalf the one ring. You don't give Arve Retro a monocle. I'm just saying. It says if you turned RV Retro upside down, it said, do not insert monocle on his foot.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:06

Like on the Toy Story where he's got Andy written on the bottom.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:10

It's just got his little walled instruction because people know how bloody dangerous that could be.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:14

I just think when we finish the show, just have a little lie down. Don't play any games, just have a little doze.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:20

Well, this is how I play easy delivery code.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:22

Just yeah, just calm it down a little bit. Um next wrong with you.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:28

This is UCP, bringing the energy or go home.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:31

Well, I well no, yeah, you're correct, but I started off by saying he'd be an awesome detective with his I could imagine him in a velvet suit monitoring. Explain it to the colour.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:41

Let me see it from the cold light of reality. Explain to me what went on here.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:45

Well, I I would I was imagining him in a purple velvet suit.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:49

With that lovely goaty beard and twisty moustache.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:52

That's what I was seeing as well. And a monocle, but then you And that's when I went, Well, you can't.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:56

Yeah, because suddenly it's then his eye is a laser and he's cut his wife in half.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:01

So I don't Yeah, I don't wish it on him, but he's gonna turn to her. He's not no, he doesn't know when the monocle goes in. He doesn't know. He's a bit like that guy from X-Men with the laser eye, Cyclops. He can't help it. He can't take the monocle out either.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:16

Wow. They should study your head. Um next.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:24

Hopefully, Harvey Retro liked that little skit.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:26

I'm sure he did, and he's probably gonna be petrified of monocles for the rest of his life in case he slashes his house in half.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:34

Um but it's the intensity of everything that's good about him that just comes out. But when you put the monocle there, it magnifies it. It's too much, it's a laser.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:42

All right, we get it. Okay, calm down. I just want you to know. I know everything's alright. It's gonna be I know, I'm totally chill.

unknown 1:23:51

Cool.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:54

Next up, we have the awesome Emma Sharp. Thank you very much. Beautiful, yeah. Thank you very much, Emma. I was good to catch up the other day. We had a good chat, didn't we? So uh, yes, um, thank you very much, always you you've been supporting us a long while now as well, like the others. So uh really appreciate it. So thank you, Emma.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:11

Last time Harvey popped her monocle in, Greg was able to capture some of that energy in a jam char. Yeah, yeah, no, persecute me for it, pull me out for it, because I would absolutely I don't know what it is, actually. It sounds I think it's meant to sound like jam jar. He captured some of it in a chamcha, though. Which is some strange futuristic power capture device looks very similar to a jam jar. He uses that to power his Zeppelin, and I'll tell you where he takes it, nowhere near Berlin.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:53

Wow, brilliant! That's an unbelievable link that I don't think anyone saw coming, but you pulled it off. So well done. Would you like something in your chamcha? Um, I don't own a chamcha, but if I do I'm offering you a chamcha. I I need that energy if if if that is going, I need a a chamcha with Harvey Retro's why laser energy in. Anyway, next up we have the one we should all be thanking, and it's mumsy. Thank you, Mumsy. Beautiful, woman with many a chamcha.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:28

She every autumn she gets all the chamchars out and fills them up with a special little jam. Um cham. She actually doesn't put jam in them, does she? Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:40

Help me. I'm having a breakdown live on there.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:44

No, mate, you were right to pick me up for it because if you'd have done that, I'd have absolutely had you for it.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:49

Oh, you do. I done it the other week, and you went, you don't think I'm gonna let you get away with that, do you?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:55

Which is exactly why, yeah, do it, because I know I deserve it.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:01

Up next, some people who deserve nothing but the finest praise. It's RGT's parents. We know them as the RGT fan club, but we're very grateful for you for propping up his small drinking habit. There's less guilt when they do it this way.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:20

Uh, yeah. Thanks.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:23

Um, yeah, you sound like a sort of angry teenager. Say thank you properly. So, yeah, thanks for the booze, parents.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:33

Anyway, next up we have the wonderful Pete Brockle. As always, he's a silent but violent, but thank you very much, Pete. Another long-term supporter.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:44

He just doesn't stop, does he? Everything about him is just ruthless aggression. Uh, same for Billy Marmite. Um, I'm taking him because I'm doing this because I want to give you the space to prepare. Because the way we do it now is you you bang out a Zif. Right?

SPEAKER_08 1:27:04

Warrin, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:05

Yeah. He just bang Zef. And then I bang Zef. No, I don't want to root. I don't want to I didn't want to bang Zef. It's no, it's like you vibrate and then you bang in your zef. I don't want to take that energy from you. I want you to soak that up, and then then much like we did last week, through the medium of dance, darling. No, no. We ain't got time. Through the medium of your voice, do me a Zangef and I'll tell you what it was.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:35

And it will be about anything to do in today's show, okay?

SPEAKER_01 1:27:38

It can literally be anything, not even in today's show. I will know from your performance. Well done on fixing the PlayStation light, by the way.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:48

Thank you. And I done it literally before we went on air because I knew I knew damn well you were gonna scour that room with every bloody ounce of your eye before.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:58

You know, I didn't, but I just looked up and thought.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:16

Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:38

Oh. Now, first of all, I thought it was the noise you would be making as you were trying to insert uh half your retro's demonic monocle. Like you were trying to hang on, you're like, but then when you went, ugh, you did you deflated. You let down. You feel like something's not gone right. So I think you were the Pikmin news.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:07

No. I was playing uh Beam MG Drive and downloaded a new map and then realised it takes about five minutes to actually get into that map to play the game. So very excited. I was on the verge, you know. I'll be honest with you.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:22

I was never gonna know about any of this weird, nerdy PC talk you was mentioning.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:28

Yeah, it's not you're not really an R sort of click, are you?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:31

So No, you're absolutely right. Yeah, you will be. My hymen is broken.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:37

You will be. You'll be one of us. Will I? You wait till Norwich will break you in.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:52

Me and the boys. That's why I'm bringing backup. OG. Ginger. You come within two yards of me.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:03

Steam deck.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:04

He ain't got a Steam Deck.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:06

OG, a Seuss. They aren't telling ya. They're PC boys.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:13

I tell you what, you're evil. You're the sort of guy that brings Dave Perry on on a wicker bed chair and places him at Dominic Diamond's feet at OLL just for a laugh.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:23

Filled, completely covered in head-to-footed Mario 64 merch.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:31

Served at his feet like a golden calf.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:35

A golden calf.

What We Play Next And Final CTAs

SPEAKER_01 1:30:38

Another religious reference for you. We've hit all the metrics this week. RGT, what are you hoping to play?

SPEAKER_08 1:30:45

Um well I'd be more nutmeg. I'll be a little bit beamg driver be one name you just sort of dip in and out, do a few races, and until I find some friends I can actually play properly with. There was another game I I didn't mention in what I had been playing. I just started. Um I've got to make sure it's a Square Enix RPG I've had sealed sitting on the shelf for years, although I don't have a backlog. Um I've got to remember the name of it. It is Oni Naki. The RPG. Oh, yeah. So I've started playing that. Um so I'm gonna play some more of that, but that was um a very depressing start to a game. The actual story behind that is oof, that took me down a couple of levels, but yeah, yeah, it's if you haven't played it, you have like you're um I can't remember what you're called, but you're like a uh uh almost like a knight sort of um character, um, and you have you have like a ghost character that fights with you, like your special power, but you can change between the ghost world and the normal world. And one of the first things you have to do is there is a ghost child who has died and wants to see his parents for one last time, to which you take said child to see said parents, um, to which they become overwrought because they cannot leave their poor son on his own, to which you then kid them so then they can join him in the afterlife. Um I mean, I've never had an intro to a game like that before. But I quite like the mechanic where you can zoom between the different worlds, but well, yeah. Um thank you. Um I pride myself on being a cigar. Um so yeah, so I'll probably play. Yes, but I don't speak about that on air, you know that. That's what Lionel's lawyers are for.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:46

Hey, Louis Lionel, the NDAs are signed, but I didn't sign anything saying I won't ever mention it in a sideways way on air.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:54

Oh, don't forget, I'm bringing the PC boys to OLL soon, so just you just be careful, young man. More threats. The PC boys are gonna no, I'm not gonna say that. What are you gonna say? No, I was just gonna say they were gonna convert you, they're gonna break you in the ways of PC. Okay, mate.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:18

I think we put we rest up there because as you know, my revelations are far more damaging.

SPEAKER_08 1:33:25

Mm-hmm. I still I still think that after the next show you'll be talking about your Steam Deck and how you're enjoying it and PlayStation's dead to you. You'll be sitting there in a Valve t-shirt, Half-Life merch, the full works, you'll be all over it. Portals binned. Switch twos chuckling.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:44

What am I gonna use the portal for? Steam deck holder rest.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:53

Yeah, you'll love it.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:54

Wow, okay. Um, well, it's Easter, so I'm looking forward to getting stuck into some form of gaming. I think it might just be a relaxing with a bit of easy delivery, co in bed uh on the morning over the next few days. So we've got a busy week coming up, not quite sure what you're thinking schedule-wise for show release next week, because obviously we're gonna be at OLL over the weekend, so quite how we do that, I don't know, but we'll make it work somehow.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:19

We'll make it work. We don't often let them down, so we'll we'll get the shows done, we'll get them out.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:23

So that's true. If you want to wake up and know that there's an episode of your favourite show that's gonna get you through some of your commute to work or whatever it is, some part of your day or whatever or anything, don't forget we're here for you every week religiously. Uh, we've also got a bit of flashy bee releasing on a weekly basis. We got the cadence for you. You got the appetite for it though. Munch it down, tell all your friends about it. I want to see this devoured like an all-you-can-eat pizza. Don't stop until you've literally split at the seams. Push that YouTube as well, because If I'm wetter than Tom Daly's coin pocket in his trunks about the amount of good things I see going on on the YouTube. So if you're watching this right now and you're clicking those buttons down there, I'm into a bit of you. I am moist, like a badly made cake.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:21

Or some say well-made cake.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:23

Depending on where you're at, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:26

Yeah. I mean carrot cake. You want that bad boy moist.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:34

I want to move on. Yes, I think it's best. Did leave me. Who are you hoping to play? Um, like I say, I'm looking to getting stuck in. I want to probably do some farming simulator. I've got that feeling in the air. I want to do a little bit of that. Um, oh you know, at the top of the show, probably should have talked about this. I started having a go on that expedition scene as it's popped on to the PS Premium and whatever, playing that on the pool.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:02

Really?

SPEAKER_01 1:36:03

I really love it. Yeah, I've I I keep forgetting to write down what I've been playing. Um bit naughty, really. But I had a go at the first couple of missions, in it, tutorial or whatnot. And then he got to the loadout screen, and a little bit like Snow Runner, it's very obtuse, in it. Yeah, can you get the fuel up and then it was like, Oh, do I go over here? Do I press that? That doesn't feel right. Do you want me to press it or not? Because if you do, make it obvious.

SPEAKER_08 1:36:32

Once you get into it, it is plotting your route and going off in your four by four is great fun.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:38

It is yeah, again, I just would like a world where I had a cabin and a workshop and then this vehicle and this big world to go, and you kind of like as you get better skills and bits and bobs, you can get further out, maybe stop at a way station for some other vehicles, and it'd be more about just four by four discovery rather than this this whole drivel. Um, when you get so far you maybe got to go all the way back when you get a big vehicle and then bring a big tank of fuel out or a big station that then other people can top up for you, so you don't have that boring gameplay routine of getting fuel like I'm bored of that, let me just drive.

SPEAKER_08 1:37:12

You you do have missions where you need to take a truck out, get back, get a fuel truck, go out, fill up again, and carry on. So you have to plot ahead and plot bits out as you go through the game. There's many missions that are like that where you have to plot ahead, but I know what you mean. A bit more where it's free roll, free roam, you just decide what you do, you have to workshop, build what you want and go, sort of thing would be good. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:33

And there is a bit of structure there. Like if you bring a fuel depot out to that place, boom, you can fill up there, you don't have to go back to the original base, yeah. Yeah, but you don't have to go through the aggro going and getting the tanker and filling it up yourself. Like that's dum-dum work for somebody else I've employed. I'm just gonna drive, baby. Yeah, and that's how you kind of expand it out. That is kind of what I want. Expeditions has been actually quite good, it looks great on portal, I have to say. It looks super sexy on there. So I was like, oh, yeah, so I might I might give that another go. Um, other than that, probably gonna dive deep deep into the PS2 back catalogue as always. Um, it's Easter, so I feel that retro vibe. Um, go check out Flashy B. That'll give you some good Easter vibes as well. Um, should be hitting, should have that by now, should they?

SPEAKER_08 1:38:23

Yeah, they've got that by now, yeah. They've got nothing.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:24

I'll be upside down with a cadence now as we enter OLL and Easter. I don't know what I'm recording.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:29

Speaking about OLL, if you haven't got tickets and you want to get tickets, you're not sure where to get them from, you can Google and find out. But if you're still unsure or can't find them, questions at artificial controller podcast.com. We'll send you a link to Ticket Ferry and then you can you can get your get your tickets on there. So yeah, if you're in and around or fancy travelling to Norwich on the 11th of April, come and say hi. It's gonna be a great show.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:49

So yeah, we have a lot of listeners in Norwich, so get yourself down. Yes. Although, yes, this is your last chance before this OLL to sort it out to get it sorted. OG will be there, so make it happen. He doesn't like to be disappointed, he's used to big crowds, big celebrity. He won't come again unless someone turns up with an OG Tom t-shirt. I mean it.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:16

Blow him away and then blow him away. That's what he's coming for. He's single, he's ready to mingle. And if he's not he'll take your number anyway.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:37

Sorry Tommy if you're listening to this.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:39

OG loves it, he's sat there now in his dressing gown. Yeah, that's me Claire.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:46

Not the farmer.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:48

He is exactly his hair, he's booth on. If he was on air now, it wouldn't be in shot.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:54

Full of game and knowledge.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:58

And that's his knowledge in there as well. We get it's like an x-ray. This is Tom's X-ray.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:08

Brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:09

I think that might be all we have time for, is it not? If I'm talking about Tom's Buffont X-ray, I think we've hit rock bottom, don't you?

SPEAKER_08 1:40:16

I think we've dragged the show out enough.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:18

I think the only way from here is up. So let's end the show, because that's the best thing that we can do for everybody. That's all we have time for this week, listen. As always, thank you for your time. We look forward to the pressure of speaking to you again next week. Until then, happy gaming. Remember, there's nothing wrong with being given the unofficial control, it's what you do with it that counts. See you guys, see you, RGT. Ladies.