Exploring Classic Show Themes and Personal Favorites

Ever wonder how TV show intros can evoke nostalgia and transport you back to simpler times? Join us on this episode as we celebrate our podcast's fifth anniversary with a trip down memory lane, reminiscing about the evolution of our audio quality and sharing our love for those unforgettable TV show themes. From the chilling yet captivating intro of "Evil" to the majestic map animations of "Game of Thrones," we explore how these intros set the stage for some of the most iconic series. Plus, who could forget the intense vibes of the "Ed, Edd n Eddy" intro that still resonates with us today?

We also dive into the world of anime and superhero themes, where we discuss the mind-bending music from shows like "Dragon Ball Z" and "X-Men 97." Reliving the retro charm of the 60s "Batman" with Adam West and the grandeur of the "Justice League Unlimited" intro, we tap into the power of these soundtracks that defined an era. As we shift gears to beloved sitcoms, the catchy tunes from "Boy Meets World" and "Friends" transport us back to the zany 90s. Our discussion wouldn't be complete without a nod to classics like the 1994 "Spider-Man" with its Aerosmith theme.

In an intriguing twist, we explore thought-provoking concepts from the show "Severance," sparking conversations about identity and autonomy. This leads to sharing personal favorites like "Power Rangers" and "The Twilight Zone," complete with anecdotes of childhood antics inspired by wrestling. We wrap up with thoughts on "Squid Game" Season 2, where its fast-paced storytelling and shocking violence keep us hooked, all while navigating the tricky waters of spousal viewing etiquette. This episode is a rollercoaster of entertainment, nostalgia, and personal stories that promise to leave you eagerly anticipating what's next.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:02

podcasting things oh wow, this is a throw throwback yeah, yeah, wow, you can just hear the pristine audio quality man.

Speaker 3 0:15

I'm just taking back to Mitch's basement put the chains away so much leather.

Speaker 1 0:26

I think I edited this with like a phone Default computer A Nokia. Yeah, music editing.

Speaker 3 0:35

But hey, welcome to Entertain this. It's a podcast about movies, tv shows and video games. My name is Tom, with me I have Mitch and Hayden Today Junior. You changed the Hayden button. He's here why do I need a button? I know, but I liked having a Hayden button.

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I have my own button.

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My name is Hayden, but he's here live in person. That's right. Again, he's back.

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Still here. I haven't deployed yet. I haven't deployed yet this time.

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It's a fresh year. It's episode two.

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Three.

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For this year.

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Oh yeah, for this year this will actually be episode one.

Speaker 3 1:13

This is episode one of 2025?.

Speaker 5 1:17

Yeah, because the last week was like a throwback.

Speaker 3 1:19

Not too shabby, not too shabby. Yeah, we're pretty good, we're doing pretty good. Here we are Was it the fifth year of the show. Yes, our half decade. But, I totally didn't get up from the table and walk away from this mic. But before we talk about our top ten TV intros, social media.

Speaker 5 1:45

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At the entertain this underscore yeah For both of them this entertain. Okay, Mitch.

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Mitch.

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Entertain this underscore, this entertain Okay, Mitch Mitch okay, you can go to those places to find us. Okay, like subscribe.

Speaker 3 2:09

This is something Hayden had suggested the top 10 TV intros.

Speaker 1 2:13

So I was watching Evil the TV show.

Speaker 5 2:17

I do want to watch that too Evil.

Speaker 2 2:20

Every time that the title card comes out, I scream that my wife's like what are you doing, did you?

Speaker 3 2:24

not watch SpongeBob.

Speaker 1 2:25

Yeah, me and my wife have been watching this show since it debuted five years ago and I think that they finished I don't know if they got canceled or what we're still like two episodes ago. The whole last season came out while I was gone, so we have a bunch of shows where we've been saving for each other. The intro to Evil is one of my favorite. Evil One of my favorite intros in TV history, because Evil is a hard show to describe. It's like X-Files meets the Vatican, so just Catholic Church in general.

Speaker 3 3:03

Yeah, but they're trying to do exorcisms like the Vatican, so so just Catholic church in general.

Speaker 1 3:04

Yeah, but they're like, they're trying to do like exorcisms and but meanwhile on their team of three they have a scientist, uh, a psychiatrist and a priest.

Speaker 3 3:16

So, like one of them believes, that they all walk into a bar at some point.

Speaker 1 3:19

Yeah, they make that joke a lot. So like, um, one of them, the priest, obviously believes in all the supernatural goings-on and the psychologist or psychiatrist or whatever, she's on the fence about some stuff because she was raised Catholic and she's kind of like floating back and forth. And the scientist is like absolute hard, there's an explanation? Hard, no, most of the time like you're left at the end of each episode like well you know it could go either way.

Speaker 1 3:45

Maybe it is science, maybe it is supernatural, I don't know. Not to get into the final season review too much, but they kind of like have gone off the rails. The novelty of the first few seasons have kind of left us. It's kind of worn off.

Speaker 3 4:00

Yeah. But the intro has like upped their game All right, the show might be, eh, but the intro slaps.

Speaker 1 4:07

The intro is always the same. It's like these creepy images of like hands and stuff like that being dipped in white paint. It's really interesting, the music's really good, but the title card always has the guy who made the intro threatening people to not skip the intro, don't you?

Speaker 2 4:25

dare skip it. That's what it says. It's like if you skip it, the intro ghost will haunt you. Mary skipped this back in 2023, and she's dead, is this?

Speaker 5 4:37

it.

Speaker 1 4:39

Yes, that's it.

Speaker 5 4:41

Okay. I haven't seen the show yet, but I want to see it. I've seen trailers and stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's good. The show's good, it it Okay. So I hadn't seen the show yet, but I want to see it.

Speaker 1 4:45

I've seen like trailers and stuff. Yeah, yeah it's, it's good, the show's good, it's worth the watch. Um, you know it does you know how, like some shows write themselves into a corner, this like writes itself into an open field and doesn't know which direction to go. I see them going this way, but yeah, but the intros are a lot of fun. So there's my first intro.

Speaker 5 5:06

Mitch. The one I like is Game of Thrones.

Speaker 3 5:10

I like the music, but then they have the whole everything's raising out of the map and all that stuff I like how you're going to just say it as you cue it at the same time and act like you didn't do it perfectly. It's like mine Music cues is like Game of Thrones. It's like my music is like Game of Thrones.

Speaker 1 5:25

It's like you, clever girl, do you have your phone Bluetooth to the roadcast?

Speaker 2 5:28

No, it's not but, I'll look it up.

Speaker 3 5:29

No, because we can only Bluetooth one thing at a time.

Speaker 5 5:31

I'll look it up for him to play it.

Speaker 3 5:33

My number 10 is Ed Ednetti. Ed Ednetti is a great intro and it goes way harder than it needs to. It's a kid's show about some kids. This isn't the one from the show. It's like a cover.

Speaker 5 5:50

I know that intro in my sleep. That's all I got.

Speaker 3 5:56

But it's such a fun intro. It's like a jazzy. You get a lot happening in it. It's a really funny intro just to listen to Cause like I remember watching as a kid and Ed and Eddie would come on and you just hear and the music would kick in. And I looked at like my dad was like tapping his foot but he was like into it and he's like what's the show? And then it was the episode where Johnny steals the bike and he rides up Ed like a ramp and just goes into space and comes back down and crashes on a Double D and Eddie, it just explodes. My dad fell off the couch laughing so hard because he just wasn't expecting it to be that slapstick. He's just like you keep going on about this.

Speaker 1 6:38

They just don't do slapstick right anymore. They really don't. How about the Netflix Daredevil intro?

Speaker 3 6:47

I can't say I've heard it. You haven't heard that one. I haven't watched it it.

Speaker 1 6:50

The hearing it is one thing, but the visuals they have for it.

Speaker 3 6:53

Oh yeah, well he can't see it.

Speaker 1 6:54

It's, it's, it's impressive, like the way. Thank you, miss. There's a. There was a period where netflix was like crushing it with their intros, you know, yeah, yeah, all of them are really good. I really like the Marco Polo intro and all that stuff that they were putting.

Speaker 3 7:07

How was that show? Marco Polo was worth a watch.

Speaker 5 7:10

And it was really disappointing with the way it left on Cliffhanger.

Speaker 1 7:13

Yep, they canceled it on Cliffhanger. A very interesting Cliffhanger.

Speaker 5 7:16

I'll just go ahead and say it kind of leads like the Knights Templar are going to start showing up, but then they canceled the show, so were they trying to tie that into like Assassin's Creed or something?

Speaker 5 7:25

No, no, but it is kind of along those lines as far as like what was going on and stuff in the show, where you had people like sneaking in and trying to murder the leader of the Huns and all that it's essentially like the first time really a European was, like making moves in an Asian culture, you know so it was interesting.

Speaker 1 7:50

But yeah, that's my intro for whatever's numbers next, I'm trying to start as long as one of the numbers let's see Well the next one I had was family matters, but I can't seem to find that one.

Speaker 5 8:04

Let's see.

Speaker 4 8:04

Oh, here it is. Maybe in this song oh, you shouldn't start by saying Nigga, I said it.

Speaker 1 8:10

I know that you matter Whoa Mitch Okay. I don't remember that being Family Matters. No it says, family Matters.

Speaker 3 8:15

I don't think that Family Matters.

Speaker 1 8:17

I don't know we should it just says Family Matters.

Speaker 5 8:21

Oh, this is Drake. That probably explains why.

Speaker 3 8:24

This will probably just edit it out.

Speaker 1 8:26

Can we just do our own rendition of the show? Remember that. Remember how the Family Matters theme song goes.

Speaker 3 8:34

No, I don't remember it's been so long.

Speaker 5 8:36

That's okay, we're going to cut that part out and we're going to go Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Speaker 1 8:39

Okay, that is a solid it is a great one.

Speaker 5 8:45

I like how he's like telling the story visually as he's singing everybody.

Speaker 3 8:51

This is a not. That's not Will Smith.

Speaker 5 8:53

I know it's not Will Smith, I'm going with. What I find first is that a white guy.

Speaker 1 8:56

Probably that's what it sounds like called Bel-Air but everybody does know Will Smith's history because of that intro Solid.

Speaker 5 9:09

Which is kind of funny.

Speaker 3 9:10

It set up a lot of stuff. Okay, my number nine is Hill Street Blues.

Speaker 4 9:17

Hmm.

Speaker 1 9:19

Oh yeah, that is a pretty solid one.

Speaker 3 9:21

It is a really good intro and it's not like it's a cop show and it's not an action song, it's almost melancholy.

Speaker 1 9:31

Yes, that's the intro. I think Family Guy does a lot of space based off of it.

Speaker 3 9:35

I think they did Law Order Okay when they had the whole Law Order intro. The Hill Street Blues. I think they won a bunch of what's the TV awards? I, the Hill Street Blues. I think they won a bunch of TV awards. I'm blanking on it Emmys, A bunch of Emmys. It ran from 80 to 88. But it's just a dreary metropolitan kind of city winner and then it just cuts to the main cast and it's an ensemble group. The music's just keying up. It's sweet and sad, a lot of it.

Speaker 1 10:03

It's sweet and sad, like a lot of it. My number eight is going to be Stranger Things Solid intro, another Netflix intro. Okay, I love the 80s synth vibe they got going on.

Speaker 3 10:19

The synth vibe is never to be underestimated. No, ever it's solid.

Speaker 1 10:23

I remember as a kid listening to 80s music and being like this is so gross. But like I don't know why, I think you hit a certain age. You just there's like a nostalgia feel and you can't get it anywhere else. Just like that the 80s.

Speaker 5 10:38

I mean it does have like there's not a whole lot to it other than the music, and then like the words, just like slowly rise or like light up, yeah, the graphics of the the 80s, you remember, like the viacom logo where the line would like draw the the logo and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 10:52

That's, that's how they do it, and it does overwhelm you with a sense of nostalgia my next one.

Speaker 5 10:58

It's family matters you did it, it. That's the right one, but I like how he sings the song. It's the classic where they turn and look at the camera and smile.

Speaker 1 11:13

Classic 80s intros the dad's like murdering a body and stops and smiles to the camera.

Speaker 3 11:17

There's a joke video where they do that and it's a killer. And then he starts taking over their spots Like he's dressed up as him. This is a real video. We gotta find it after the show I like those old school intros and stuff.

Speaker 5 11:34

That's a good one.

Speaker 3 11:36

Mine. I know Mitchell liked Batman the Animated Series.

Speaker 2 11:39

That's one of mine too.

Speaker 3 11:40

That's such a great intro.

Speaker 2 11:42

It has nothing to do with the rest of the show. It's just blips everywhere. That's such a great intro. It has nothing to do with the rest of the show. It's just blimps everywhere.

Speaker 3 11:47

It's like criminals are doing criminal stuff All the spotlights they turn the eyes into blimps.

Speaker 5 11:54

It's a cool intro. The whole cinematic.

Speaker 1 11:57

This is the dude from Oingo Boingo.

Speaker 3 12:02

Danny Elfman.

Speaker 1 12:03

His rendition of the song.

Speaker 2 12:05

Very solid.

Speaker 3 12:07

As the criminals try to run, thinking they can escape the Batman.

Speaker 1 12:10

You know how some shows are good, but you're listening to the intro and you're just like come on, get to the show. This is one where you're like, keep going, there's so much presence in it.

Speaker 3 12:22

You can hear that Batman almost sounds like he's sinister and a villain.

Speaker 1 12:27

I know he's inspiring. My next one is Bojack Horseman Great show. Intro.

Speaker 5 12:34

I'm trying to keep up with y'all.

Speaker 1 12:37

Move those thumbs faster, Mitch.

Speaker 3 12:38

I see a lot of people on other shows who do this live and they do it way faster, Mitch.

Speaker 5 12:42

Some of those other people probably have knowledge of what's coming next. No, they do it way faster. Some of those other people probably have knowledge of what's coming next.

Speaker 3 12:46

No, they do it on the fly. They have no clue.

Speaker 1 12:49

BoJack's a show about nihilism and depression.

Speaker 3 12:53

A horse wearing clothes.

Speaker 1 12:54

It's very dark Just trying to find happiness when there's none.

Speaker 3 12:58

It is a weird anime. I believe it is classified as an anime None of these say the theme.

Speaker 1 13:04

I think so I. It is classified as an anime.

Speaker 2 13:05

I don't know, if you say the theme, I think so I wouldn't call it an anime, but it's there we go.

Speaker 1 13:08

It's a.

Speaker 4 13:09

Yes.

Speaker 2 13:11

Yeah.

Speaker 1 13:11

So like this is like a brain, like a mind, trip kind of feel Like he's like hallucinating. You could say maybe like at the bottom of the pool and like all of his people that he cares about are staring at him underwater pretty good metaphor for the entirety of the show yeah so, and it's also really good music. Wonder what that is, mitch sounds like mighty morphin power rangers, the next one that's mine.

Speaker 5 13:36

I mean, it's like that, uh tiktok, where the guy's, like, you know, give me an intro, a little bit of guitar, you know too much.

Speaker 3 13:45

We don't need kids having a mosh pit in our living rooms.

Speaker 1 13:48

He's like Crank it up.

Speaker 3 13:57

It's a Power Rangers theme.

Speaker 5 13:58

It's like a staple of kids Mighty.

Speaker 3 13:59

Morphin's theme had no business being that awesome.

Speaker 2 14:02

Remember.

Speaker 1 14:03

Dragon Ball Z. Yeah, the original.

Speaker 2 14:04

It's not on my list either.

Speaker 1 14:04

We should being that awesome, remember Dragon Ball.

Speaker 2 14:06

Z. Yeah, the original that's not on my list either.

Speaker 3 14:07

We should include that though as like a an honorable mention.

Speaker 1 14:12

My turn.

Speaker 5 14:13

Yeah.

Speaker 3 14:13

Spider-Man 1994 where Aerosmith did the intro Really, yeah, I did not know that when you hear like the web sling and it's like as the guitar does, the slides like and it starts going through like the city, huh.

Speaker 1 14:27

You picked that over X-Men 97?.

Speaker 5 14:29

Yeah, I think it's this one here.

Speaker 3 14:32

Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 5 14:34

Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 14:42

That's one of them. Yeah, that's interesting, but it shows, like you know, he gets like bit and, like you know, learned the powers and it's, like you know, crazy guitar solos. Like the villains are showing up, like Kraven the Hunter and the Rhino and Doc Ock.

Speaker 5 14:52

Huh yeah, Now see, you haven't seen the X-Men 97 yet, have you? Not the new one?

Speaker 1 15:06

Well, they kind of have the A little modernized Na-na.

Speaker 4 15:08

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na-na, na-na.

Speaker 3 15:13

For Christmas, Rachel, she got me an X-Men 90. Or what? 97. 97 pint glass.

Speaker 1 15:20

Oh yeah, yeah, that's awesome. How about the X-Files?

Speaker 3 15:24

Ooh, that's a good one yeah.

Speaker 5 15:26

I never got into the X-Files show really the show.

Speaker 1 15:29

it's a slow burn to get into and, like Evil, this show also suffers from where the characters just forget what happened. They will be abducted, probed, dissected and brought back to life by aliens.

Speaker 5 15:43

Like.

Speaker 1 15:43

Supernatural In their buttholes and then the next episode they'll be like aliens aren't real. The smoking man, yeah, but some of the stuff that does carry over into the show, like the creepy things that happen, Super interesting so well, let's see the next one I had.

Speaker 5 16:01

I'm not sure which one is going to be the right one here.

Speaker 3 16:04

Well, choose wisely.

Speaker 5 16:06

That's the thing, though there's two different intros for it. Let's see. Nope, not that one.

Speaker 1 16:11

See, mitch, you did have your list before this podcast. So whatever you do wrong is on you.

Speaker 5 16:20

Yeah, but I didn't think I was actually going to do all these. Anyways, I'm not sure which one it is that I'm looking for.

Speaker 3 16:26

Well, what's the name of the show? Mitch? Yeah, we'll just keep it waiting. Boy Meets World.

Speaker 5 16:29

It's the later seasons, when they're like the college ones.

Speaker 1 16:31

Why don't you just go to YouTube? That's where you're going to find it all.

Speaker 5 16:33

Yeah, you can get the ads. Yeah, I've got to work by the ads.

Speaker 2 16:41

I don't want to do that either then Boy Meets.

Speaker 1 16:44

World Like that and Saved by the Bell.

Speaker 3 16:47

I did not like Saved by the Bell. I know Saved by the Bell.

Speaker 5 16:50

Yeah, I never liked that one.

Speaker 3 16:53

Some guy in tights Waking up at 3 in the morning to the George Lopez show Lowrider is like ah.

Speaker 5 17:01

His head floating to the screen.

Speaker 1 17:03

Some of them shows.

Speaker 3 17:06

My next one is Batman from the 60s with Adam West.

Speaker 1 17:10

Really, oh, is it the?

Speaker 3 17:17

Batman. Because they do the whole thing with the colored lights and they would feature what celebrity was on the show.

Speaker 5 17:27

Yeah, I remember watching these when I was a kid and I was like I'd seen Batman the Animated Series, and I saw this and I was like a live-action Batman, real Batman.

Speaker 1 17:36

Somebody was like we need lyrics to a song in 15 minutes.

Speaker 3 17:41

Crap. What's the show Batman?

Speaker 2 17:45

Batman Best I could do.

Speaker 3 17:48

That's more for an iconic.

Speaker 1 17:50

My next one is and it's a guilty pleasure because it's not a great intro but Friends, friends, watch what they're doing and you're just like. This is so stupid and it is like one of those we're, zany.

Speaker 3 18:03

It's the 90s.

Speaker 1 18:04

We're dancing in a fountain. But every time you hear that song, you're just filled with happiness.

Speaker 4 18:13

Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:20

It's the terriblest clapping.

Speaker 5 18:24

Wait, oh sorry, started a little sooner than I planned on it. What was it? This is my Justice League, unlimited that's a good one oh yeah, I like that better than Superman intro.

Speaker 3 18:33

Yeah, Justice League Unlimited was better.

Speaker 5 18:35

It's just a little bit more like guitar in it, yeah well, what was cool was like it showed the first seven and then it goes in this part. It's like and you see, like 50 something people, 50-something people on screen.

Speaker 3 18:44

Yeah, you get the green arrow, the question, Mr Terrific.

Speaker 5 18:48

Captain Adam and all that stuff, captain Adam.

Speaker 3 18:50

He was a douche. Yeah, my next one, the Simpsons.

Speaker 1 18:56

That was going to be on my list.

Speaker 2 18:59

The Simpsons.

Speaker 5 19:02

The movie the movie.

Speaker 1 19:11

It's like if you never listened to this intro and watched an hour or a day's worth of the Simpsons, you would never have guessed that this is what the theme song would have been. You know, it's so goofy and it works.

Speaker 3 19:24

It's such a I don't think they've changed it like at all.

Speaker 1 19:28

Yeah, where is it Cheers?

Speaker 3 19:32

I don't think they've changed it at all. Where is it, cheers?

Speaker 1 19:34

Absolutely yeah, I had cheers.

Speaker 5 19:35

I know I've seen it, but I don't remember. Still backgrounds. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is iconic, my parents watch this all the time Well, mainly my dad. It does not match what the show is, though, unless you're watching the visual.

Speaker 2 19:49

Yeah, kind of it does have like a hey, sitcom writer guy here's the show you got to play to the good part so just keep letting it go.

Speaker 4 20:10

We're going to listen to the part. Hung the cat up by its tail and your third, fiance didn't show.

Speaker 3 20:19

Third fiance.

Speaker 4 20:23

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.

Speaker 3 20:27

And they're always glad you came, thank you, okay, there's our new intro.

Speaker 2 20:30

That's it right there, yeah.

Speaker 5 20:32

How much. Well, the next one I have is the Rick and Morty, mainly because it's a good song.

Speaker 1 20:38

It is a solid. The music and everything kind of encompasses the show.

Speaker 2 20:42

Nope, that's not. It, mitch, what are?

Speaker 5 20:44

you doing God, Mitch I can't help it that Soldier Boy made a Rick and Morty intro.

Speaker 1 20:49

Oh man, Did he say Soldier Boy in his own cover song. Rick and Morty, I'm trying to find a theme for it. Well, Rick and Morty.

Speaker 2 21:01

Good choice, Mitch Tom. Yeah, my next one.

Speaker 3 21:05

Yeah, there it is.

Speaker 4 21:08

You would think if you type in Rick and Morty theme.

Speaker 5 21:10

That would be the first one to pop up, and not some soldier voice Lies that and the fact the whole intro has little scenes that you might see throughout the season.

Speaker 3 21:24

And then there's some that you never see Right, they're just playing with you, they're just messing with you. And then they'll do different ones, where you have the Total Rickle episode where Mr Poopy buttholes in the intro. My next one, south Park, going down South Park when I have myself a chance.

Speaker 2 21:43

Friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation.

Speaker 1 21:47

It's just a mess of a song, but I guess it plays with the show. Well, yeah.

Speaker 2 21:55

Friendly faces everywhere, Humble folks without temptation. Going down to South Park gonna leave my woes behind.

Speaker 4 22:03

Day or night, people shouting, howdy neighbor.

Speaker 2 22:05

Yeah, that's good, I guarantee it. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Day on night, people shouting howdy neighbor. Yeah, that's good, I get it.

Speaker 1 22:18

My next one is the Peacemaker intro.

Speaker 5 22:22

Oh, what's that song? I don't remember.

Speaker 2 22:25

But like the song is cool, just the inexplicative, like choreographed dance where everybody takes it as seriously as they possibly can. That's the part that kills me. I think I never skipped the intro for every episode.

Speaker 5 22:41

You guys saw this big, massive guy just like doing hip thrusts.

Speaker 2 22:44

Yes, they're just so serious Like they never smile once.

Speaker 4 22:47

You know, yeah, the stare.

Speaker 2 22:51

It's so perfect, I love it so dumb.

Speaker 5 22:59

Another one that, granted, y'all don't like the show, but I love this show and I've listened to the playlist.

Speaker 1 23:04

Stranger yeah, it's Teenage Mutant.

Speaker 5 23:07

Ninja Turtles, let's see oh, here it is Well I mean we already know, this is number one.

Speaker 3 23:11

No, we like Supernatural. Season one through five.

Speaker 1 23:16

What am I listening to, Mitch?

Speaker 5 23:17

Let's see, this is the song to my favorite show, smallville.

Speaker 3 23:24

Yes, I was like it, it's gotta be Superman related.

Speaker 1 23:29

Let's see man, that is an early 2000s.

Speaker 5 23:33

Here you go.

Speaker 1 23:34

Here's where it kicks in. I'm waiting for it.

Speaker 2 23:42

Somebody save me.

Speaker 4 23:46

Wow, you hit that note so perfect man.

Speaker 5 23:48

Oh yeah, I know yeah that was flawless execution. I'm making an album. Don't worry, I'm just saying you had.

Speaker 1 23:55

Three Doors Down Kryptonite. Oh yeah, but they chose that song.

Speaker 5 23:59

Actually that song came out oh no, it was about that same time but that didn't really fit the show. Whatever it actually does get used later on, but it doesn't fit the theme of the show as far as what's going on.

Speaker 3 24:11

My next one was Cheers, but I'll throw in a sub Family Guy.

Speaker 1 24:18

It's a solid one. You know they're spoofing. What's that show?

Speaker 2 24:25

It seems today, all you see is violins and movies.

Speaker 1 24:30

One of these days, loretta bam zoom to the moon.

Speaker 4 24:33

The.

Speaker 1 24:33

Honeymooners. Yeah, they're spoofing that one.

Speaker 4 24:36

Oh.

Speaker 1 24:37

Yeah, you know, the Osbournes did the same thing too, mm-hmm. Yeah.

Speaker 4 24:42

Okay, laugh and cry. There's one more.

Speaker 1 24:45

My next one is Breaking Bad.

Speaker 5 24:49

I know I've seen the whole show, but I can't remember Breaking Bad intro is exactly what it needs to be.

Speaker 1 24:53

It's like six seconds long. It's really interesting dark, deep meaning music.

Speaker 3 24:59

Oh, yeah, yeah. If you can do a tight intro in like 10 seconds or less, you know you're doing great Like Scrubs. Scrubs' intro is like 8 seconds.

Speaker 1 25:09

There is a whole song for it.

Speaker 3 25:10

There is a whole song, but they never show it.

Speaker 1 25:12

And same for Breaking Bad, but the fact that Breaking Bad was the perfect binging show before binging was a thing. I watched Breaking Bad while I was gone last year and I did it in like four days Because you could just keep it rolling.

Speaker 3 25:28

It just picks up right where the last episode left off and the intro.

Speaker 1 25:30

Everybody just listened to Mike, I know.

Speaker 3 25:32

The dude was a genius.

Speaker 1 25:34

Yeah, poor Mike, but the bongos, I don't know. I was thinking about this the other day. The bongos for Breaking Bad. Why does that apply so well? It's not an instrument at all that you would associate with the show, but it just does. You would associate with the show, but it just does.

Speaker 4 25:47

It has that bongos, yeah that strange kind of eerie, you know.

Speaker 5 25:50

Yeah, the last one, I had was this one here.

Speaker 1 25:56

I love this show. This is Big Bang Theory.

Speaker 2 26:01

Yeah.

Speaker 5 26:02

I used to know all the words. I can't remember them now, but we built the pyramids. It's a bad science history of rambling the mysteries. It all started with the Big Bang Bang. Yeah, then it has extra things in their actual theme, but they only use the pyramid.

Speaker 3 26:16

Well, my number two.

Speaker 1 26:17

Oh we got to come up with two more. Well, we're supposed to have ten. Right, I still have my number one, but I'm holding on to it.

Speaker 3 26:23

Okay, my number two was Star Trek, the Next Generation. Okay, fine, I'll have to come up with another one, alright, as Mitch searches for it. I didn't give a flying crap about Star Trek the Next Generation until you made me watch it. It's a great show and I'm like five seasons deep in like a weekend and I'm like, oh my god.

Speaker 5 26:43

There it is.

Speaker 4 26:46

Yes, that is it. Yes, that is it, yes, that is it.

Speaker 2 26:51

Remember that time we were doing it it just played like the first note. Wait, no.

Speaker 5 26:55

Yeah, it was like.

Speaker 3 26:57

Star Trek the Next Generation. Yeah, yes, yeah, this is Next Generation.

Speaker 5 27:01

It literally played the first. Yeah.

Speaker 3 27:07

And the movie cast plane crash, or I was like fedex and he's like yeah, hey, are you serious?

Speaker 1 27:15

slam his buzzer down uh, all right, I guess my number two will be uh, I don't know, I'm I to have to take an offshoot here my not number two, but a show that I like the intro to a lot is Severance, which has got season two coming out. Have you guys not seen Severance? No, I haven't watched that. You guys need to watch Severance. It's mostly directed by Ben Stiller and it is a serious show, it's absolutely serious, serious show by Ben Stiller.

Speaker 3 27:45

It's one of the best TV series. The guy that played Whitey Goodman.

Speaker 1 27:51

Yeah, it's a great show and the intro is really cool because you're watching and you're like what is going on here and by the end of the first season you're like okay, I can see what's happening.

Speaker 1 28:02

To summarize Severance, imagine you could turn your brain off when you go to work. Every time you step out of the office, you turn your brain back on and you have no memory of what happened at work. What does that mean? Do you become two different people? Is the person that is in work? Is that person your slave? Now? It's a really good show. That is quite interesting. I highly recommend.

Speaker 5 28:29

Two comes out in like next week, so I mean I got one more, but I'm trying. I don't know who sings this one. Uh, let's see if this is it. Nope, that's not it. Well, go ahead, tom, talk about one more while I look for this one.

Speaker 3 28:47

I actually had a list of intros, did you when we did TV show trivia? Oh, look at that. I still had it, all 56 songs. So now I'm cruising through, because Power Rangers was my number one, oh, but Mitch did it. I feel like we could do an honorable mention. Law and Order. Yeah, Law and Order is a solid one, but it's just been so long of bum, bum, dun, dun, dun, dun, bum bum, I do have one that I have been saving since you took the Next Generation, tom.

Speaker 3 29:19

Welcome Back. Cotter is a good one. That was always great MASH. Mash is solid.

Speaker 1 29:24

I'm going to say Happy Days.

Speaker 3 29:25

Happy Days is a solid one. That's my number one.

Speaker 1 29:28

Yeah, okay, all right, my number one you don't get to hear it.

Speaker 5 29:33

I'm sorry that y'all both have phones too.

Speaker 3 29:35

That aren't Bluetooth connected yeah.

Speaker 1 29:39

Hold on hold on, hold on, because there was two different intros.

Speaker 5 29:54

There was the original one and then they changed it with. I think this is the second intro.

Speaker 4 30:00

This would be the record spinning.

Speaker 3 30:03

Well, the original one was Bill Haley and the Comets. It was Rock Around the Clock.

Speaker 1 30:07

Oh yeah, I remember that one, my numberaley, and the Comets, it was Rock Around the Clock. Oh yeah, I remember that one, my number one, the Twilight Zone intro.

Speaker 3 30:14

I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone sometimes.

Speaker 1 30:18

I like the song.

Speaker 3 30:19

Twilight Zone by Golden Earring Does that count?

Speaker 1 30:21

Yeah, every time I was a kid and I watched the Twilight Zone come on in this intro we'd run on them and I always felt so spooky and ready to watch a mildly scary show Great show.

Speaker 5 30:36

There's a spooky door. Well, my number one is wrestling. Of course I'm surprised it's not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This is how wrestling started in the 2000s, All the time. And then you're just seeing a montage Of people getting body slammed and thrown through tables, thrown through glass.

Speaker 1 31:00

It's like violence.

Speaker 5 31:03

The Union Underground? I don't know.

Speaker 3 31:06

It's their one song. It's the one song. Probably it's the one thing they did.

Speaker 5 31:10

Yeah, that song was awesome. I mean, it fits with the violence. You know the violence.

Speaker 3 31:20

Mitch, just in his underwear, just picking up his brother and throwing him through the coffee table.

Speaker 5 31:23

I mean, I'm not going to say he didn't get punch slammed a few times and missed what we were aiming for, like the beanbag or whatever.

Speaker 3 31:29

Just right into the tile floor, that's why he doesn't walk so good.

Speaker 5 31:32

There was a few times he'd hit the ground and he'd start crying. I'm like shh, shh, shh. Don't let my dad know. Screw my dad, Don't let dad know.

Speaker 2 31:40

He'll come in here with a belt you got to start sm.

Speaker 5 31:45

You're fine. You're fine. We put a small hole in the closet door with his elbow or back or something. Yeah, me and my brother, we broke the.

Speaker 3 31:53

It's like the screen, it's like sliding door for like a closet. Yeah, we broke it and like the part that sits on the bottom part, like at the hinge, like just snapped and obliterated, and he's like pacing back and forth, like crying, panicking and like, and half serious and half hysterical, we ended up grabbing, found all the pieces that we could super, gluing it all back together. I spray painted it white gloss to match the rest of the door and I just grabbed him by his shirt. I was like now shut up forever.

Speaker 2 32:22

We need to take this to our graves.

Speaker 3 32:23

Yep no one even knows.

Speaker 1 32:25

Now everybody knows All of our listeners.

Speaker 3 32:28

My parents don't listen to us. I don't either.

Speaker 5 32:33

I'll be honest, I don't know anybody in my family that listens, unless I make my brother.

Speaker 4 32:37

Yeah.

Speaker 5 32:37

Like hey, check this one out. I just sent it to him in like a link.

Speaker 3 32:41

I watched something new.

Speaker 5 32:42

Yeah.

Speaker 2 32:43

You did.

Speaker 3 32:43

I did.

Speaker 2 32:44

You did, I did no way. That's amazing.

Speaker 1 32:45

I know Does it have to do with England Call of Duty or Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 3 32:51

None of them.

Speaker 1 32:52

No way Cars.

Speaker 3 32:53

No.

Speaker 1 32:54

No, what did you watch? Wait, wait, wait. Did Rachel make you watch it?

Speaker 3 33:00

No, whoa, I turned it on and made Rachel watch it.

Speaker 1 33:03

No way, and now she's interested. I, rachel, will watch it. No way, and now she's interested. I'm really proud of you. Tom Squid Game Season 2. I wanted to see it, so don't spoil it for me.

Speaker 3 33:11

You can't talk about it. We got three episodes in. I can't watch it, obviously, because she's not here. I have to uphold spousal decorum and etiquette.

Speaker 1 33:17

I almost want to re-watch Season 1 because I'm like I barely remember so Season 2, season two.

Speaker 3 33:24

I'd seen bits of season one, but so far season two. It's really interesting. It's really well-paced. I'm enjoying what I'm watching. Okay, and she had no clue, really kind of what it was. So when violence happens, she's just like oh my God, yeah, but I don't think she hasn't seen season one, but it's on Netflix. Came out at the very end of 2024, into 2025.

Speaker 1 33:47

Yeah, the Koreans don't mess around when it comes to violence.

Speaker 3 33:51

It's a very tight show.

Speaker 5 33:52

Like every show that they make has a lot of violence and blood.

Speaker 1 33:55

Some of their horror movies you're like is that even legal? What you're doing right now there's very few. Parasite is like peak horror movie, but also like a social situational kind of like.

Speaker 3 34:10

I feel like they do a lot of social commentary in South Korea.

Speaker 1 34:13

It's wild. I wonder what that is, you know, but they're very, they're solid.

Speaker 3 34:18

I mean this isn't really spoiling the recruiter guy. They're like watching him and he's like at a park and he's like offering hobos, yeah, yeah, yeah, like a bread roll or a lottery ticket right, and a lot, most of them take the lottery ticket right and they none of them win. So he like leaves with the food and he like dumps out all the bread rolls and he's like what are you doing? And he's just like you guys chose this. It's like you chose money and greed. He just starts going nuts and like stomping the crap out of these roles, just losing his mind.

Speaker 5 34:49

He's just like not like Arnold, but going buck wild with it, south Korean, if you already know what's the reasoning for the main guy from the first one being back in the second season.

Speaker 1 35:02

Probably, if I had to guess he's got like guilt issues Player 456?.

Speaker 4 35:08

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 35:10

Well, I don't want to ruin it for her. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 35:13

Yeah, I know, hayden hasn't seen it. I haven't seen it either.

Speaker 3 35:16

I mean, it's an obvious plot, mcguffin.

Speaker 5 35:19

Okay.

Speaker 3 35:20

For what he's doing.

Speaker 5 35:21

Yeah.

Speaker 3 35:21

And his motivation. If you watch season one, you can wholeheartedly guess it's like yeah, it's probably for this reason.

Speaker 5 35:30

From the first season. Do they still use some of the same games in the second season, or is it all new stuff so far?

Speaker 3 35:34

So I'm on episode three, going into four, and they haven't even started the games.

Speaker 1 35:39

Oh, wow, okay, I saw in the trailer where he's trying to tell people how to beat the games.

Speaker 5 35:45

I haven't looked at it all, but did y'all realize this is based off a true story?

Speaker 1 35:49

No.

Speaker 5 35:50

It's based off something. Let's see, stop. Let's see, let me find it.

Speaker 1 35:56

Mitch some of your news articles.

Speaker 5 35:58

Just trust me, it's a thing as soon as I look this up. No, no, no, keep talking.

Speaker 1 36:05

It's revenge.

Speaker 3 36:06

Or social media, an obvious plot contrivance to have to do things.

Speaker 1 36:11

Well, anyways, yeah, south Korea's film game is pretty strong. The guy who did Parasite is doing another movie. What was that it's going?

Speaker 4 36:23

to be a big deal.

Speaker 5 36:24

I'm going to look it up while he's doing that the Dark Origin of Squid Game is based off this thing. Let's see A South Korea's hidden concentration camp from 1986. It was called Brothers Home, where basically it was prisoners that were all left into this one thing. I haven't looked at the whole video yet because somebody sent it to me and he was telling me it's actually based off a a real thing, but basically it's all these prisoners that were put into this one building slash complex and there was one where they had to search or somehow get through this almost like a labyrinth-looking thing, but it was different floors and stuff. I mean it was weird. Like I said, I haven't watched the whole thing, but supposedly— you just did it for money.

Speaker 5 37:03

Well, no, like I said, money like and well, no, I mean, like I said, they're prisoners and I guess I don't know if they did for food or for less time on their sentence or what it was like a supposedly a south korean concentration camp from the 80s, but uh, it's. Uh, yeah, it's called brother's home. I'll have to look more into it, but supposedly it's not like exactly the same. But I bet you netflix squid games mid-season.

Speaker 1 37:26

Here's a movie about this or a documentary about this they might Mickey 17. Have you seen that movie trailer with Robert Pattinson? He's like a clone. Bong Joon-ho is the guy who did Parasite. It actually looks really good, so I'd give the trailer a watch. But yeah, it's in the future. It's a sci-fi space movie. Yeah.

Speaker 3 37:53

I mean, you don't care about Call of Duty, nope.

Speaker 5 37:57

I will say as a tidbit of news.

Speaker 3 38:00

Most streamers have left.

Speaker 1 38:02

I'm listening.

Speaker 3 38:03

Because Activision's waiting X amount of days before they do any patch stuff to release anything, but they're still pumping out like skins that they want you to buy, yeah, and pay to win, like events and nonsense. So that's Really really annoying. Well, a little bit of news, because even like Zlaner is like I'm not buying any of this crap. It's like we need to just not do this until they fix problems with the game.

Speaker 5 38:29

Let's see, let me find it on here real quick. But since we're talking a little bit about it, let's see. They said Call of Duty Black Ops 6 microtransactions are hitting harder than ever. The game's been out for a little over two months, almost three months. It has $800 worth of bundles with just two months post-launch and close to $1,000 if you want all the microtransaction stuff that they have Just in two months $1,000 in microtransactions in just about two months.

Speaker 3 39:02

And then Elden Ring comes out with a brand new DLC that's Just in two months. $1,000 in microtransactions in just about two months, yeah. And then Elden Ring comes out with a brand new DLC that's basically its own game For $30. For $30. Yeah, and it's complete Like flawless execution, off day one, no issues, awesome.

Speaker 5 39:16

Yeah, but if you wanted to buy everything that Black Ops 6 has come out with as far as microtransactions, it would cost you $1,000.

Speaker 1 39:23

That's some bull crap. I thought it would have been more than that, to be honest with you, Well no, this is just in two months since Black Ops 6 came out.

Speaker 5 39:28

not all of Warzone and all that, oh, okay.

Speaker 1 39:33

Since we're on the video game news, did you see the Nintendo Switch 2 leaks, mm-mm? Well, so, like a? So a lot of people on YouTube and these content creators are talking about these leaks. They're giving out information and a lot of it has been confirmed to be true. It's a problem because we're pretty close to the window for the Nintendo Switch to launch, or at least to be announced for the launch of 2025. And Nintendo always has really good little press junkets or exposés that they do to announce their products and they're really fun and interesting. But, like these leakers are like taking the wind out of their sails and.

Speaker 1 40:15

Nintendo's debating about whether or not they want to even do one.

Speaker 4 40:18

Yeah.

Speaker 1 40:18

Which is sad because they're really good and you know we've talked about before off mic, like how branding and stuff works and to see like people just like parasites on YouTube just for attention and clicks and a lot of time their leak rumors are not true, yeah, and they just like steal the clout, which is really annoying and it sucks clout, which is really annoying and, uh, it sucks, but especially for a really prestigious company like nintendo who puts a lot of effort and thought into their marketing and uh, even them, even they aren't, uh you know, uh, free of being a victim from all this crap.

Speaker 1 40:55

So hopefully they they can salvage. And you know, a lot of the problem is that the Switch 2, according to most of these leaks. In a nutshell, I haven't done a lot of research because I don't want to know much about the leaks. Yeah, but there's not that big of a difference from the Switch 1.

Speaker 5 41:15

It's probably just more or less a hardware update. I think I'd probably have more storage or something like that. That's what it's going to be, after how many?

Speaker 1 41:20

what? Five years? That might be the underwhelming aspect of it, but it's Nintendo's story to tell, and if people keep trying to leak their stories and take it and run with it and say it's not that big of a deal, guys.

Speaker 3 41:32

Don't get your hopes up. When did the Switch come out Like 2017?

Speaker 1 41:37

It's been a minute, it's been a minute, it's been a while. It it's been a minute, it's been a while.

Speaker 2 41:41

It came out before the Xbox and PlayStation, so yeah, hopefully.

Speaker 1 41:45

you know I'm predicting like April Nintendo will announce the Switch 2, and they'll do a big thing about it, hopefully unless these leakers get the best of it.

Speaker 3 41:53

Is it a Switch 2, or are they just going in a whole new direction?

Speaker 1 41:55

We don't know. I'm talking about the leakers taking this crap and running with it and ruining for Nintendo, because Nintendo they play it tight to the vest. They try to, but they're not. Everybody's still a victim to you know. Information leak.

Speaker 5 42:08

Have you watched or played anything new?

Speaker 1 42:10

Yeah, I've played a lot of new stuff, so what do you want me to talk about? There's Zelda Echoes of Wisdom Great game.

Speaker 4 42:18

I didn't even know there was a new Zelda. I heard the new Zelda was kind of meh, I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 42:23

In a nutshell, okay.

Speaker 1 42:25

Link is very when he solves puzzles. It's very checklist-like. I got to do it this way Got to get the key to this door to get to the other key to the next door, and so on and so forth. Right, zelda, they give you 127 ways to like make things work Monsters, puzzles, all sorts of stuff that she can conjure up on her own, and, uh, you know, that's not even the full encompassing, you know measures of all that she can do. And so, like you go into a puzzle and you're like I could probably solve it five different ways and you could. There's a. There's hundreds of ways you could probably tackle a puzzle, and it's pretty interesting to see how different people figure stuff out. So I enjoyed that. With the way the game plays different, the problem is that there really is 127 objects that you can summon at a moment's notice.

Speaker 5 43:17

Sometimes there's too many choices.

Speaker 1 43:19

Well. So you have to scroll through just countless inventory management and that can get kind of tedious. But it's, the game is like, perfectly in length. Like nintendo never messes around with when a game should end and it ends exactly when it needs to. Like, I beat it in probably I don't know maybe 30 hours of gameplay that's a good amount.

Speaker 3 43:41

That's a very filling. It's not too short, but it's not just dragging on.

Speaker 1 43:48

Right, because if they went any further it would have been too repetitive.

Speaker 3 43:52

If you can put a campaign into a game and keep it within 20 to 30 hours, that's a very solid campaign.

Speaker 1 44:00

Indiana Jones. I've been playing that Best Indiana Jones story since the original three.

Speaker 5 44:06

You mean it's better than the Crystal Skull?

Speaker 1 44:08

Amazing. Honestly, it's a really good story. The gameplay is great. It's like Zelda for adults. The first bit of the game you're in the Vatican and you can explore and find all these mysteries and solve all this stuff. And I had to do a hundred percent. So I did that took me like four days and then when I was done I was like, okay, that's a big, that's gotta be the bulk of the game. I'm good. Well, the next bit you're in like Cairo.

Speaker 2 44:34

Yeah.

Speaker 1 44:35

And like the desert.

Speaker 2 44:37

And there's.

Speaker 1 44:38

Nazis? Yeah, there is Nazis, there's.

Speaker 3 44:40

Nazis there. They're the best bad guys.

Speaker 1 44:42

There's the Italian bad guys from World War II.

Speaker 5 44:46

So you're not just playing the movies.

Speaker 1 44:48

No, they do a really good job in the very first intro of the game of you doing Raiders in the very beginning, when you go do the swapping of the idol right.

Speaker 2 44:59

Okay.

Speaker 1 45:00

But it's like shot for shot, and then every once in a while they'll let you run around, yeah, so you can kind of see like oh, this is there, I see the ball up there, I know it's gonna come down, you know. So like yeah, but uh, yeah, egypt's huge nazis. And then you're like this is even bigger than the vatican and I'm like this has got to be the last half of the game beat that yeah, all right, got a couple of cut scenes and some little levels and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 45:20

Now I'm in Shanghai, all of Shanghai and all this other stuff. I don't know when this game ends, but I've been playing it for a while. It's long. I was playing our game called Carrion and you're basically a biomass mob that goes around and eats people.

Speaker 5 45:35

I think I've seen a picture of that. It's pretty fun.

Speaker 1 45:38

You feel like one of the alien things from the Thing, just like run around and grab people. You get bigger as you.

Speaker 3 45:45

You're the blob.

Speaker 1 45:47

You're basically the blob with tentacles and spikes. People try and shoot you and you screech and run away, but you control all of that. You control all of that. You do like you wait, you creep and somebody walks by and you go and grab them and then they scream as you chomp onto them yeah, and you just roam around this creepy place looking for power-ups. You just get bigger and bigger the more people you eat Like the blob. Yeah, that's a fun game.

Speaker 3 46:09

So I know you didn't get a chance to play while you were away, but, shadow of the Archery, I know you're very brief into it.

Speaker 1 46:19

I just want to know your thoughts. So, honestly, jumping back into Elden Ring is great as, like a you know any video game, because Elden Ring was a endless opportunity of.

Speaker 1 46:32

You know, entertainment game is so big, there's so much to do, and I chose to play a different play style, starting a new character and just learning a whole new play style to do that has been a fun way to do that. And then, uh, when you and I would play, I would jump on my old character and then go to the shadow of the earth tree and we've what. It took us two days to do that. So once we got to the shadow of the earth tree, um, you know, uh, the the new dlc lands and stuff like that, yeah, it's, it's beautiful. Um, you can tell they put a lot of work into it and I have no idea. I feel like I have not even scratched the surface of all the stuff. You haven't.

Speaker 3 47:09

Because if you look at the map for the original one, however big that is this map in terms of size of a map, it's probably two-thirds of it. Yeah, maybe, but that map is vertical.

Speaker 5 47:23

I think it's the size of, uh, liarnia. And what's the other red one, caleb?

Speaker 3 47:27

I think it's the size of those two oh okay, but this map is roughly, it's not linear, it's it's vertical. Yeah, there's a lot of there is a lot up and down I don't know if I like that like you go into places like you have no idea how you even got there because you have to like go you. You know it was like scratching your butt.

Speaker 5 47:45

To like, you know scratch your brain or something.

Speaker 3 47:47

Yeah, you're doing all that, like you really have to go, to like to the northwest of the map to get to a cave, to go up and down like all the way to the depths, to end up on the southeast part of the map.

Speaker 1 48:08

Like Elden Ring, is faced with a problem that you can't even figure out how to describe to google to solve it. Like you know, it's like, yeah, so you just gotta. You just gotta grind and like, honestly, like that, but it's such a quality game. You, you know that the there's a, there's an out, like you can, you can play the game however you want. You can kill npcs and make your life miserable, or you can, you know, grind and learn how to parry, which will also make your life miserable.

Speaker 1 48:25

But, like, pretty much every way you play the game will make your life miserable, but the fun of doing it though you know, and the fact that, like all these games that I've played, which were trash like call of duty and all that sort of stuff, there's a fallback game that has new content, and even the old content was so fun. You could just take a couple months break and then get back into it. Just breath of fresh air, so I'm glad that there's still somebody out there that can make a good game.

Speaker 5 48:51

While we're on game, I'll go over some of the news that I found. I guess the site called the Gamer has reported that Halo the Master Chief Collection and let's see, yeah, just Halo, the Master Chief Collection. And let's see, yeah, just Halo the Master Chief Collection is supposedly coming to PS5 and will be on the Switch too.

Speaker 3 49:08

I heard so Gears.

Speaker 5 49:10

Yeah, how it'll play I don't know, but at least for the Switch.

Speaker 3 49:14

I don't like that.

Speaker 1 49:15

Well, let me ask you this Do you think that this is a dying gasp for Xbox?

Speaker 5 49:19

I don't think so, because I saw rumors that Spider-Man's going to be moving to Xbox as well.

Speaker 1 49:25

So this is like a diplomatic hostage exchange. I think that's what they're doing. Bridge of spies.

Speaker 3 49:30

It's like release Kratos, Release the chief.

Speaker 5 49:33

I mean this is news. Spider-man going to Xbox is kind of a rumor that I've seen floating around, but it's interesting. At least it kind of gets the other side, I know.

Speaker 3 49:45

PC players are pissed right now.

Speaker 4 49:47

Why.

Speaker 3 49:48

Elden Ring Night Rain, the upcoming game in their universe coming out this year. It's about to come up for closed testing for network reasons. They want to see how well consoles will handle it or how well it'll handle, so there is a closed beta that's supposed to be coming up that I think you can still get into. I don't know how, but it's only PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X people. They're not doing it with PC players.

Speaker 1 50:16

Well, if you're listening to us from Soft or whoever company, is it still from Soft doing? I think so.

Speaker 3 50:22

Yeah, so registrations for Elden Ring Night Reign's hotly anticipated network test will go live today, january 10th. Oh wow, here's everything you know. The network test will be held on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S only, whereas the full game will also launch on PC via Steam, playstation 4, and Xbox One. You can go to the Bando Namco website and enter your details. It closes on the 20th, so 10 days, but it offers a chance to join the Elden Ring Night Ring Network test.

Speaker 1 50:51

Interesting. Yeah, do you think, mitch, that? Because I read a lot of rumors that the next Xbox console, like their next generation, isn't going to be a console, it's just going to be an expanded version of their service I mean with all the graphics and stuff that they have the availability to do.

Speaker 5 51:13

I feel like there's a lot more they could still do with the ps5 and the xbox series x going forward I feel like we're not hitting. Yeah.

Speaker 3 51:22

We haven't hit the ceiling.

Speaker 5 51:23

I mean between this and the original Xbox One. I don't see a whole lot of graphic detail difference other than you know, as far as, like if you had Elden Ring here and Elden Ring there, I don't feel like those are a whole lot different at the moment.

Speaker 1 51:36

Well, Cyberpunk would beg to differ.

Speaker 5 51:40

Well, I mean, there are some games, but a lot of them aren't much different.

Speaker 1 51:46

But then that begs the question of should?

Speaker 5 51:49

you release a game until it's at its full potential.

Speaker 4 51:50

Yes, I don't want.

Speaker 5 51:51

If not, it'll be 20 years per game.

Speaker 1 51:53

Well, that's another problem. I mean like, yeah, you can have the best, perfect game, but it will take them 20 years to make it. Look at Star Citizen. They've been making that game since 2003, or something like that.

Speaker 4 52:02

Yeah.

Speaker 5 52:05

So yeah, We've got to save some of that.

Speaker 3 52:06

And still make what the alpha phase.

Speaker 5 52:07

All right.

Speaker 1 52:07

Yeah, next episode. Spoiler alert. We're talking about the plateau of video game industry.

Speaker 5 52:14

But before we move on from games, there's Onimushu how do you say that Onimushu Yep Way of the? Sword. Supposedly there's a new one of those coming out. It says 2025. It doesn't have a month or anything, yet It'll be interesting to see how that goes.

Speaker 3 52:30

I love console season, though I want to just talk about that. I love the anticipation and hype of consoles, Like pre-ordering. I remember it used to be such an affair when stuff you pre-ordered you have to wait in line. There was none of this crap, Like it just got delivered.

Speaker 1 52:46

But there was no stock issues.

Speaker 3 52:52

That really happened with PlayStation 5 and the Series X. Because we went through that BS, we had like eight episodes dedicated to us slowly acquiring our own.

Speaker 1 52:59

That's because, like China's, got a death grip.

Speaker 3 53:02

Well, it's because of the bots auto-buying them.

Speaker 1 53:06

That, and there is a computer chip shortage from the Chinese industry. There's a lot of political stuff going on too.

Speaker 3 53:14

So I remember when PlayStation 4 came out that was a big bone of contention because I was an Xbox guy and I switched sides to PlayStation because it was $100 less and I was in college and $100 means a lot.

Speaker 1 53:25

Everybody thought that that was going to be the death of the PlayStation, because they were taking a loss on each console and didn't need to make it up for their game add-ons.

Speaker 3 53:34

But the PlayStation 4 was a good console. It was a solid console. It was very solid. I didn't have really any issues with it. I had plenty of issues with the Xbox One.

Speaker 1 53:43

I had issues with the Xbox One and the 360 was a nightmare, the Red Ring of Death. Yes, I think I had three 360s.

Speaker 3 53:50

I went through a few of them I didn't have a PlayStation 3. I knew a couple guys who had PlayStation 3s, but the Xbox was more fun.

Speaker 1 54:01

It was more easy to navigate and do stuff. Yeah, I feel like if you're going to play console and you want the most of what a video game can like, the world is of video games. Xbox offers more, and that's probably why I don't find it too hard to believe that they're going to not be a console one day. They're just going to be a service.

Speaker 3 54:23

And I feel like we've gotten to a point now where it's so hard to break into the console racket.

Speaker 1 54:31

Is anybody trying? I mean, like Google had something I can't remember what it was the Stadia, the Stadia yeah, google Stadia that lasted for a while. Nobody even knows.

Speaker 3 54:43

I don't know anybody that ever bought a Stadia. The biggest jump I saw was Nintendo that kind of made it towards the Xbox PlayStation levels. What are you talking about Of a console?

Speaker 1 54:53

Who Nintendo.

Speaker 3 54:54

What do you mean? Because for a while, Nintendo's bread and butter was the Game Boys.

Speaker 4 55:00

It was handheld gaming. They were yeah, yeah, the Game Boy Advance, the Game Boys, it was handheld gaming.

Speaker 3 55:03

They were yeah yeah, the Game Boy Advance, the Game Boy SP, the 3DS, the 2DS.

Speaker 1 55:08

Nintendo always had their own market.

Speaker 3 55:11

I'm saying they were more of a niche but they've become a very broad group now with the Switch.

Speaker 1 55:18

Like GameCube, was their last dying breath in holding up to the other consoles graphically right. I don't even say they tried, they tried, but they didn't abandon their core audience of having like easy arcade style.

Speaker 3 55:36

Yeah, like anybody can plug and play kind of thing, yeah.

Speaker 1 55:39

You know they never abandoned that but they tried. They had a lot of M-rated games for the GameCube I remember that and you know they had some adult, more centric features that were trying to bring in a wider audience. I think like but their console? You know, ideas never changed Like the core audience for the console. People never changed and I think everybody has either a PlayStation or an Xbox, but they also have a Switch. You know what I mean.

Speaker 5 56:10

Or a Nintendo of some sort, kind of transitioning to a little bit of a TV show with the games. Is the Ghost of Tsushima is actually going to have an anime made? That's probably the way to do it.

Speaker 3 56:18

I think that's the best.

Speaker 5 56:19

I mean to me. That would be pretty cool to see more of that story.

Speaker 1 56:24

Yeah, I'm excited about the sequel Ghost of Tsushima as well.

Speaker 5 56:29

Was it the Ghost of Yokai or something? Like that Mm-hmm. Let's see Some more news. As for TV shows, Ray Stevenson's Balan Skull from Ahsoka is reportedly being recast with Game of Thrones' Rory McCann to take his place.

Speaker 3 56:46

I saw that.

Speaker 5 56:47

He's taking his place because people don't know, ray Stevenson passed away last year.

Speaker 1 56:52

Yeah, that's fair, that's good casting.

Speaker 5 56:55

It would be interesting how they go about if they even addressed a different book.

Speaker 1 56:59

Did Ray Stevenson have a British accent?

Speaker 5 57:02

Not really.

Speaker 1 57:04

I wonder if he's going to try and pay homage to the actor at all or if he's just going to do his own thing.

Speaker 3 57:09

I hope he just does his own thing.

Speaker 1 57:10

It's probably the best.

Speaker 3 57:11

It's the best thing to do.

Speaker 5 57:12

But besides a Wookiee, he's a rather large Jedi. Yeah yeah, let's see. What else have they?

Speaker 3 57:19

shown any Wookiee Jedi live action.

Speaker 5 57:21

Yeah, in the Acolyte TV series.

Speaker 3 57:24

Like full grown.

Speaker 5 57:24

Mm-hmm. I mean, a lot of people didn't like the Acolyte, but I thought it's got to be scary fighting a Wookiee.

Speaker 3 57:30

It'd be fighting one that can use a lightsaber. Yeah, huh.

Speaker 5 57:35

Let's see Another thing I have here. Jason Malmo was officially cast as Lobo.

Speaker 3 57:41

Okay, about time In the DCU, just do it.

Speaker 5 57:44

He's going to show up in the Wonder Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow movie.

Speaker 1 57:47

So he's Aquaman and Lobo.

Speaker 5 57:49

Well, he won't be Aquaman in the.

Speaker 1 57:51

He was Aquaman last year and now he's going to be another DCU.

Speaker 3 57:54

Well he was a crap Aquaman.

Speaker 5 57:56

Lobo's not going to come out until 2026, 2027.

Speaker 1 58:00

I had to watch Aquaman 2 twice because they played it on the airplane back in America. I couldn't stop watching it. They put it on repeat.

Speaker 3 58:10

You just sat there. I fell asleep through most of it, like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange.

Speaker 1 58:15

It's like they knew that I fell asleep. They played it back.

Speaker 3 58:19

Just in case you missed it.

Speaker 5 58:21

Another thing, colin Farrell. He won the Golden Globe for his role as the Penguin.

Speaker 1 58:26

Yeah.

Speaker 5 58:27

So he's the third. Batman villain that's won Because you had Joaquin Phoenix as Joker, heath Ledger as Joker and now him as Penguin.

Speaker 1 58:36

Well, he's the second bad guy.

Speaker 3 58:39

Yeah, there's only been one Joker. I guess Jack Nicholson was the best one. You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you, bad guy? Yeah, there's only been one Joker. I guess Jack Nicholson was the best one. I'm wet. You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?

Speaker 5 58:48

Let's see the last bit of news I'll share on this one. Let's see they're making a Holes TV series for Disney+. Huh, I don't know.

Speaker 3 58:57

I'm tired, Grandpa. That's too damn bad.

Speaker 5 59:02

I don't know how that's going to work out. That's an old movie and book. Now Wasn't there like?

Speaker 1 59:08

they're going to have to cover some heavy subjects. Yeah, because racism and, you know, child labor yeah.

Speaker 3 59:16

Yeah, that's just one of those why. Why are we doing that? Because, nobody can come up with an original thought Like the book was fine, the book was very good, the movie was good yeah, you could have just left it at that.

Speaker 5 59:31

One last bit of news actually is they're going to make a Helldivers 2 film content production, which a lot of people are like. Haven't they kind of already done that? It's called Starship Troopers. But yeah, there's a film. I'm doing my part. It says announced at CES that a film adaptation on the way to spread democracy across cinemas. So I guarantee it's going to be very comedic.

Speaker 3 59:54

Well, when are we getting the Warhammer movie for the?

Speaker 5 59:56

emperor. Well, henry Cavill, they've moved ahead as far as, like it's going to be made now.

Speaker 1 1:00:01

And they let him do it his way. Yeah, okay, he has creative control.

Speaker 5 1:00:05

Okay, as long as you know, as long as, I guess, they go along with his plan, it's going to be made.

Speaker 3 1:00:11

Oh, we need to cast these people as female Astartes and he's just like no.

Speaker 5 1:00:21

Well, that's something that to be the way it's supposed to be, or I just won't be part of the show. So they said they've agreed to let him be creative control, and then it moved forward from, I guess, pre-production to being written.

Speaker 1 1:00:34

It got nastier than that, though right.

Speaker 5 1:00:36

What?

Speaker 1 1:00:37

Oh yeah, there's more to it, but yeah, Amazon bought a big share of was it Games Workshop or whatever that makes Space Marines that makes Warhammer. And they paid them a lot of money to rewrite the lore. So there is a chapter right now in the current edition of Warhammer where there are female Space Marines. Of course there are, and it was Henry Cavill's favorite chapter too.

Speaker 3 1:01:04

The Custodes, the Codex or not the? The Custodes? Yeah, the Emperor's like personal.

Speaker 1 1:01:11

So, like you know, nobody's come out and said it, but I mean, like, how does all those cards fall into place? You?

Speaker 5 1:01:18

know, so they might get left out of the show.

Speaker 1 1:01:21

Well, I'm good, Maybe they're just not going to acknowledge it. See I?

Speaker 3 1:01:25

want this show taking place during the crusade for the Imperium, like the Emperor of Mankind, leading the crusade across the galaxy and finding the Primarchs If they did a Horus Heresy prequel or something like that.

Speaker 1 1:01:39

that'd be interesting to see. I tried reading the books, I just couldn't do it. I tried the wiki articles and I was just like I don't know what that is.

Speaker 3 1:01:47

I'm looking to research it If I don't tear up. I don't know what that is when Horace kills Sanguinius. You didn't do it right, so there you go.

Speaker 1 1:01:57

Hey, we made it to an hour.

Speaker 5 1:01:58

Good job, guys. Yeah, yeah, I got more we can talk about, but I'll save it for next time we have another episode we got to do. Apparently no All right.

Speaker 3 1:02:04

Apparently, we always do two. I know he got two. That was the biggest BS. Listen to that whole episode. It was the throwback one for Scrooge, all it was. I was just driving along laughing because all I just heard was Hayden start to read and go. He got to, he got to and then Mitch is laughing like he's you were just amazing, you were just mad because you lost. Shut up. Anyway, thank you for listening to this episode of entertain this. My name is Tom.

Speaker 1 1:02:39

Hey.

Speaker 3 1:02:39

Mitch and we'll catch on the next episode. Old OG intros. I can't talk through them alright, we do go.