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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_03 (00:00):
Whoa well If it isn't our final descent behind

(00:04):
the black curtain, welcome toour last seance, dear listeners.
Pull up a creaky chair, lightyour candles, and grab the good
snacks.
Because tonight we say goodbye.
But not to you.
No no, no, no, you're stuck withus.
This is just the closing chapterof the Black Curtain Club, our

(00:27):
beautiful, spooky, chaoticlittle monster of a podcast.
Before we begin today's episode,we would like to share a quick

(00:48):
disclaimer.
The views, opinions, andstatements expressed by the
hosts and guests on this podcastare their own personal views and
are provided in their owncapacity.
All content is editorial,opinion-based, and intended for
entertainment purposes only.
Listener discretion is advised.

(01:10):
We started this show as foreignwomen with a shared love for the
weird and the wonderful,cryptids, ghosts, true crime,
pop culture rabbit holes, andall the strange corners of the
universe we couldn't stoptalking about.
And this show gave us so muchlaughter, connection, and a
place to be unapologeticallyourselves.

(01:32):
But like all good stories,things evolved, people moved on,
and now it's just me and Kyle.
And honestly, this version ofthe show, it doesn't quite fit
us anymore.
It's like wearing someone else'scostume, still fun, still full
of memories, but we're ready forsomething that fits like a

(01:54):
second skin.
So we're closing the curtain onelast time.
But don't get all misty-eyedjust yet.
We're not done.
Consider us shape-shifting.
In a few weeks, we'll rise fromthe grave with a brand new name,
a fresh coat of weird, and thesame energy you've come to love.

(02:14):
Maybe even more ridiculous, morechaotic, but it's gonna be more
us.
Tonight we're gonna look back,laugh a little, maybe cry a
little, and celebrate the thingthat we built together with you.
So for one last time, under thisname, welcome to the Black
Curtain Club.

(02:36):
And that's all I have is anintro.

SPEAKER_02 (02:42):
That was nice.
Nice.
That was nice.

SPEAKER_01 (02:48):
Uh let the record show I did not just I I'm not
the other three women that justlike morphed into one.
I am I am my own.

SPEAKER_03 (03:00):
You are your own person.

SPEAKER_01 (03:02):
I am my own person.
I was like, it's like wearingsomeone else's.
You have any idea how bad Isaid?
It's like wearing someone else'scostume.
And he goes, Yeah, they woredifferent underwear than I do,
and it's really starting tochafe.

SPEAKER_03 (03:15):
But don't you feel but don't you?
I want to say that's so bad.

SPEAKER_01 (03:18):
I wanted to say that's so fucking bad.

SPEAKER_03 (03:21):
But don't you feel so much better, you know, taking
your bra off at the end of theday and you get it now?

SPEAKER_01 (03:26):
I was I'm supposed to be wearing a bra.
I'm supposed to be wearing abra.

SPEAKER_03 (03:32):
I mean, if you're if you're wearing somebody else's
skin, oh god, this is taking aweird for the this is going into
Ed Game territory.

SPEAKER_01 (03:40):
Oh, now it's going to tent.

SPEAKER_00 (03:43):
Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 (03:44):
Let's just stay away from that.

SPEAKER_03 (03:46):
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 (03:53):
Well, come in, Mike.
Tell us about your testicles.
Goodbye.
If you watch Bob's burgers,you'd fucking get that
reference.

SPEAKER_03 (04:03):
I have not watched Bob's burgers, but exactly.

SPEAKER_01 (04:05):
That's why I'm fucking mad.
It's just like watch Bob'sburgers and you would get that
reference.

SPEAKER_03 (04:09):
I know, but I still found it funny.

SPEAKER_01 (04:12):
Fair enough.
Well, it's because I saidtesticles.

SPEAKER_03 (04:15):
Oh yeah, it's true.

SPEAKER_01 (04:17):
There's some things that are just always funny.
The word testicles, farts andfart jokes, and a type of fart
noise.
Just funny.
Absolutely funny.
Um the word taint.

SPEAKER_03 (04:29):
The word taint is either well I'll always laugh at
at taint.

SPEAKER_01 (04:34):
Well, it's because once again, now you have a very
specific image or scenario inyour head with the word taint.

SPEAKER_03 (04:45):
You know, it taint one thing, it's and it tainted.

SPEAKER_01 (04:48):
It's tainted.
It's tainted.

SPEAKER_03 (04:51):
Taint taint.
Um I have tainted this episode.

SPEAKER_01 (04:59):
No, no, no, no.
We've tainted a lot of otherstuff.
Anywho.
Um we uh I think one more thingthat I don't care what anyone
says.
It's it's it's fuck it's fuckinghilarious.
I don't give a fuck.
My favorite bits from America'sFunnies Home videos is when like

(05:23):
a kid gets fucking leveled.
Not to the obviously, so not nota not a kid getting hurt,
because that's just a littlefunny.
It's not really funny, it's likea little funny.
But if the kid's a little shit,like that kid, so like it like
in the movie Polar Express, ifthe fucking Pointexer son of a
bitch got like fucking likeknocked the fuck out, like his
nose is broken, hilarious.

(05:44):
But if like the little poor kidfrom Polar Express got hurt, not
so funny.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
You know exactly what I'mtalking about.
That fucking kid, man.
If he got laid the fuck out,like dude.
Like they scene when they're ontop of the when they're on top
of the fucking train, they'regoing something like that.
If like there's always that oneoverhang thing, like first off,
what the fuck is that thing?

(06:05):
Because like it's not wires orwhatever the fuck, is it like a
wire?
Whatever.
That fucking thing that's alwaysthere, that people always get
hit on top of a train.
If that kid got fucking likedecapitated by that thing,
hilarious.
Hilarious.
But if like like I said, likelike the little poor kid.
You know?

SPEAKER_03 (06:24):
What is even happening right now?

SPEAKER_01 (06:26):
I don't, I don't, I don't know.
We've spiraled.
Oh, I'm talking about kidsgetting hurt and why it's funny.
Um, not hurt, but you know, likelike the dog is like running and
like just takes the kid'sfucking legs out from underneath
them, or like their uncle isdrunk and like kicks the soccer
ball and just bam, just nailsthe kid in the face.
Fucking hilarious, man.

(06:46):
That is like the funniest shit.

SPEAKER_03 (06:49):
True.
True.

SPEAKER_01 (06:51):
Anywho, back to reminiscing.

SPEAKER_03 (06:57):
Yeah.
Um Well, I'm done.
That's the episode.

(07:19):
You all have listened to thefucking episodes, no.
Um yeah, no, back to back toreminiscing.
Um no, it's been it's been aninteresting journey.
Um I can tell you that where Iwas a year ago, one, I would

(07:44):
have never predicted in Februaryat the beginning of this year
that I would have started apodcast or been on a podcast.
It was never on my radar, ever.
And then like a year from like,you know, fast forward almost a
year, and I would have neverhave predicted that I would be

(08:13):
sitting here, no offense, withyou.
Oh no, so no, you you know, likeI would have I would have never
predicted the turn of eventsthat have happened throughout
this year.
Um, you know, for this, for thispodcast.
Um I it's just it's a it's ait's a kind of an interesting

(08:37):
kind of like I've spent a lot oftime today thinking, you know,
just about the beginning and howeven in the beginning, I could
not have predicted that we wouldbe sitting here today talking
about ending this and startingsomething that starting

(08:59):
something that is you know oursinstead of you know what it what
it was.
And it it's just it's a it's akind of a weird reality.

SPEAKER_01 (09:11):
Oh no, million percent.
Like I swear to God, like likeyou said, if you were to tell me
last October, hey, dude, in ayear, you're gonna be doing a
podcast and you're gonna bethoroughly enjoying it.
After I woke up from my comafrom laughing at you, I'd
probably punch you in the face.
Like for just the blatantdisrespect.

(09:32):
I can't even begin to describein like a funny way um how much
internal dialogue I had abouthow much I fucking hated
podcasts.

SPEAKER_03 (09:43):
Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 (09:45):
I swear to God.

SPEAKER_03 (09:46):
Wow.

SPEAKER_00 (09:48):
I swear, I swear to God.

SPEAKER_03 (09:53):
Like I know, I know Angie's asked me to do this
episode, but I really fuckinghate podcasts.
What do I do?

SPEAKER_01 (10:01):
I swear to god, I've I the I've before before I did
the Lord of the Kings episodewith you all, my very my my
debut here, I had done one otherpodcast experience, and that was
because and the only reason whyI did that was because it was I
don't think they do that podcastanymore.
It was one of my closestfriends, and um and another

(10:25):
Kyle, believe it or not.
Um there were a couple ofschmucks that I worked with back
in Connecticut, the last gym Iwas at, and the dude Kyle, he he
had started a podcast.
It was all like fitness andwellness and bettering yourself,
all this other kind of fun shit.
Okay, and um I I think yeah, hisco-host was my buddy.
Um, I call him Doug.
Okay, not Doug.

(10:46):
Okay.

SPEAKER_03 (10:48):
I like how your friends have I like how your
friends have all have aliases.

SPEAKER_01 (10:52):
Oh, everyone has aliases.
Oh, and what was really funnywas that he had names for the
two Kyles.
So he had high Kyle, was theother Kyle because he smoked
reefer, and I was sleepy Kylebecause I have narcolepsy.

SPEAKER_03 (11:05):
So high Kyle and Sleepy Kyle.

SPEAKER_01 (11:09):
Anyhow.
Um I uh what'd you call it?
I wanted to do the podcast.
I did the podcast with thembecause I was trying to like
because I saw them being likesuper successful and like a lot
of like cool shit, and not tolike gas them up or like boost
them up even more on this one,but like if that if I do have

(11:31):
like a if I have like a modernday like role model, it is my
buddy Doug.
Um literally everything that heeverything that he just like
does, I just I want I want tolike do.
And I'll go ahead and attest toit.
I'll give him so much fuckingcredit for the uh he's the
reason why I say I'm a fitnessprofessional and not a personal
trainer.

(11:51):
Uh because that like that's thelike, oh yeah, I'm a personal
trainer.
And he was just like, no, you'rea fucking fitness professional,
don't give me that shit.
He goes, like, personal trainerswork at fucking planet fitness
and they're a bunch ofjackasses.
He goes, You take this shit.
I don't fucking I don't hire notwo-bit bullshit.
Like I hire professionals, kindof a thing.
And he was just like, Don't youever fucking call yourself a

(12:11):
personal trainer?
And I was like, fair enough.
And I and I never and I neverhave, I never have sense.
Um but so I just so either way,I I did this podcast because it
was just like, okay, so anythingthat he does, I want to like be
a part of and see how I can notlike copy it and just like take

(12:31):
it from him and just like allthat kind of bullshit, but just
kind of see what he does and howit works, and then kind of put
like my you know, it'sinspiration kind of thing.
And so I was like, even though Ifucking hate podcasts, these
guys are fucking doing that whenit gets my name out there,
people see me, whatever thefuck.
It's like marketing kind ofthing, you know?

SPEAKER_03 (12:47):
Mm-hmm.
And um, yeah, yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_01 (12:50):
Yeah, so that's all it was.
And it was like, yeah, it wasfun, it was cool, it was during
whatever.
If I'm gonna be honest, werecord it was like on a Sunday,
it was like 9 30, 10 o'clock inthe morning.
Um and we were all drinking.
It was great.
Oh god, so it's like off camera,so it's like off-camera.
I had fucking like Jameis in,like just like because it was it
was on a camera.

(13:10):
There's a recording of it.
There actually is there's videoevidence of it.

SPEAKER_02 (13:13):
Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 (13:14):
I think I take a sip of it and you don't see my
glass, so it's off camera, butyeah, it's like nine o'clock in
the morning.
I'm fucking drinking whiskey.
He's they're on like beer three.

SPEAKER_00 (13:21):
Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 (13:24):
Uh but anyhow.
Um, yeah, I was like, oh yeah,fuck that noise or whatever.
And like, yeah, it was coolbecause it was really, it was
just hanging with my bros andjust shooting the shit.

SPEAKER_03 (13:33):
You were on a podcast.

SPEAKER_01 (13:34):
Yeah, that's what it was.
Okay, so then you guys hit me upand you said that, hey, do you
want to talk about horny shit inthe Lord of the Rings?
And I'm like, uh, fuck yeah,like everything a growing boy
needs.
And you guys brought me in, wetalked about this and the other
thing, and I had so much fuckingfun while doing that.

(13:57):
Genuinely.
I think if you go back andlisten to it, you hear that I'm
really nervous and what the fuckis going on there.
And then after a while, I kindof loosened up.
Um, it became so much fuckingfun.
And I was like, I really hopethey have me back to do it again
because that was so much fun.
It was great.
I loved it.
And um here we are.

SPEAKER_03 (14:17):
Right?
Here we are.
Yeah, what a wild ride.
Um, do you have any likemoments?
I know we we kind of like did alittle bit of a reminisce when
we took this the summer break,but you know, is is there
anything like you maybe missedfrom that episode that you

(14:40):
didn't say or any any momentsthat stand out to you on your
journey in through this?
I mean, that we can talk about.

SPEAKER_01 (14:50):
That we can talk about.
Oh hold on, let me let me get alittle let me talk to my legal
team really quick.
Yo, yo, Murdoch, Murdoch, can Isay that?
All right, thanks.
He doesn't know, he's walkingwith his fucking stick still.
All right, fuck you, dude.
Anywho.
Um, let's see.
I mean, yeah, you never younever forget your first.

(15:12):
I think that's the exact samejoke that I made with before the
summer break.
So just the little one was so itwas genuinely so much fun.
Yeah, but I think that one,yeah, that one was just so, so
much fun.
Because I guess it was justsomething.
Who doesn't love just like thatlocker room talk where like it's
just like it's stupid, it'sraunchy, and it's just it's

(15:33):
about like it really is that Idon't know.
We're just doing that one,something that is just like not,
I mean, yeah, people getsexually charged while watching
the Lord of the Rings, but likethere's nothing sexual in the
Lord of the Rings.
I think what the closest you getto a sex scene, the sex the
closest thing you get to a sexscene in that is what Arwen and
Aragon like professing theirlove for each other, right?

(15:56):
And like they kiss, like that'sthe closest you get to like a
sex scene, and even that it'sit's a it's romantic, it's not
sexual, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 (16:03):
Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 (16:04):
So the fact that it's just like man, we're just
like, oh yeah, no, Orlando likeOrlando Bloom definitely sucks
himself off.
Like, you know what I mean?
Gimli loves getting fuckingstepped on.
Like that shit was so much.
That was so it's funny when youtake something like that and you
kind of put that spin on it.

(16:26):
You you see you watch it withdifferent eyes.
So that was just a whole lot offun.

SPEAKER_03 (16:30):
Yeah, I think that episode changed the way that you
see Gimli in that movie.

SPEAKER_01 (16:35):
Oh, I every time that scene comes on now, I
fucking laugh.
Every fucking time.

SPEAKER_03 (16:43):
Every time.

SPEAKER_01 (16:44):
Every fucking time.
And every single movie I seeOrlando Bloom in, at least once,
there's like one scene where I'mlike, eh.
He definitely did.

SPEAKER_02 (16:54):
Like, eh.

SPEAKER_01 (16:55):
Just that little chuckle, like, uh, that's it.
Like a little stupid that's it.
It's completely yeah, it has itha I can't say it's ruined Lord
of the Rings for me.
I don't think anything can ruinLord of the Rings for me.
But no matter how hard PeterJackson tried with the Hobbit,
he didn't fucking ruin it forme.
Um besides that one was the umuh the music episode.

(17:20):
But I feel like the musicepisode is our Empire Strikes
Back.
Yeah, you know, besides EmpireStrikes Back, what's your
favorite Star Wars movie?
Because every everyone'sfavorite is fucking everyone's
favorite is Empire, and if it'snot fuck you.
Um so like besides the musicepisode, what's your favorite?

(17:41):
You know what I mean?
Because like it's it's unfair.
So it's unfair because you youand me have such a horrendously
deep connection to music, it'sit's unfair.

SPEAKER_03 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah.
That one that one is one that nomatter what happens, we will
preserve because it it needs toto live and breathe for as long
as we keep doing this.
Um I would say probably my nextfavorite is where we talked

(18:19):
about Red Dead Redemptionbecause that's the greatest
fucking video game ever made.
Yeah, yeah.
Like I'm telling you, like I hadI, you know, and I've I've been
a wow player for years, likeyears, decades, one would say.
Yeah, yeah.

(18:40):
And uh, you know, there'sthere's storylines, you know, in
that, and and you know, I'veplayed other games and you know,
whatever, but I have never had agame experience like that.
And it it really was like and itstill is like a a very special

(19:03):
experience, and like theemotional toll that that game
took on me, and just being ableto talk to you about it, yeah,
you know, it it it just it wasit was something very special to
me.

SPEAKER_01 (19:19):
I will it for as long as I live, no matter how
hard I hit my head, I will neverforget the the voice message you
sent when you when you completethe game.
I I I mean this, I'm not sayingthis like a fun.
I I mean this with so sincerity.
Yeah, it was I I chuckled atfirst, but I can't tell you how
good that made me feel.

(19:41):
Generally, not because uh I madeher cry.
Not that.

SPEAKER_03 (19:43):
Yeah, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 (19:45):
But it was because you felt one, because you felt
exactly how I did about thegame, and I care I'm so
passionate about that game.
It because of the story.
It they did such a good job.
People will say, Yeah, it's aBen there, done that one, but it
was just portrayed and done sofucking well.
And um, exactly that.
But you're crying, and you'reyou're not just crying, you're

(20:06):
you're sobbing.

SPEAKER_03 (20:08):
Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (20:09):
And what got me was just the I think you I think
what you had said at first wasjust like I did it, I completed.
And then it was the it was thefirst I saw the deer.

SPEAKER_00 (20:19):
And I was like, wasn't it fucking perfect?
Wasn't it so fucking perfect?

SPEAKER_03 (20:26):
Because my my honor was like really in jeopardy.
And and I I didn't grasp likewhat was going to happen.
I had no I had no clue.
Then I saw a spoiler, um, and Iwas like, oh shit.

SPEAKER_01 (20:42):
And so I and I feel that if you got if you got the
bet if you got the low honorending, you'd fuck you'd hate
the fucking game.
I I gen I believe that to myfucking core.
That if you got the low honor,you would have hated the fucking
game.
You needed the best slash worstending.

SPEAKER_03 (20:59):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (21:00):
Like you needed your fucking heart ripped out.
Yeah, just ripped out andstomped on.

SPEAKER_03 (21:05):
Yeah.
And and and I and I literally Ifought so hard to get my honor
up to the level where I wouldhave the good ending.
Yeah.
And I think I s I mean I you'regonna laugh when I say this.
The I mean, not only okay,Arthur's death is traumatic.

(21:31):
The thing that still haunts me,I'm telling you to this day,
cheese is my horse cheese.
I don't I I can't explain it.

SPEAKER_00 (21:43):
No, oh.
I can't explain it.

SPEAKER_03 (21:45):
I I I wasn't expecting it.

SPEAKER_00 (21:48):
Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 (21:49):
Like I knew I knew enough to like brace.
I mean, you know, through thestory progression that Arthur
is.
There's there's no way.
There's he's he's going in onedirection and one direction
only.

SPEAKER_01 (22:02):
There's no even before the TB, even before the
TB diagnosis, even before youknew he was sick.
You just I don't know, justsomething from in the beginning
of the game.
I think even before you fuckingshoot your way out of Valentine
the first time, I was like,there's no way he's making it
out of this.
Like it's just it's just not.

SPEAKER_03 (22:21):
But but but the but the horse.

SPEAKER_01 (22:26):
Because you because you played exactly how I did.
You took fucking care of thatgoddamn horse.
I bet you when it was dirty, youcleaned it and you fed the
fucker anyway, and it was thesame horse with a whole because
you could you can just get abullshit horse.
You can just though you can juststeal horses and you bonded that
that was your fucking horse.

SPEAKER_03 (22:43):
Yes.

SPEAKER_01 (22:43):
And I think we talked about it in the episode.
What fucking got me was that forthose of you who don't know,
spoiler alerts, I know it's alittle late, we've already said
it, but everything's going on.
The shit didn't hit the fan.
You are the shit that has hitthe fan, and it's not stopping,
right?
You're you literally everyone'strying to kill you.

(23:04):
The fucking Pinkertons arecoming down at you down the
fucking hill.
You and John kind of cap acouple, you know, you capped a
few of them after they get yourhorse, and so on and so forth.
You got Dutch and the rest ofthe gang fucking hunting you
down.
It's absolute chaos in Mayhem.
You're getting third-partiedfrom a Warzone fans out there.
Um, your horse gets shot, andJohn's like, we gotta go.

(23:26):
And Arthur is this like forthose of you who don't know,
just close your eyes for asecond and just picture what a
fucking man is.
Not a man, a fucking man.

SPEAKER_03 (23:38):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (23:39):
The best kind.
And he stops and he has thistender moment.
It is such the way he he thehorse is there, it's kind of
whining or whatever, and he petsit and he just takes the moment,
and you hear him, oh no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 (23:55):
And it's not like oh no, it's not, oh broke the damn
wheel, kind of no.

SPEAKER_03 (23:58):
Yeah, yeah.
It's it's heartbreak.

SPEAKER_01 (24:01):
So he's like, no, no, exactly.
He is so distraught, no, no, no,this isn't happening, no, no,
no.

SPEAKER_02 (24:07):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (24:07):
And like he showed more emotion and more upset at
the horse than when his literalfather figure drew a fucking gun
on him.
You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 (24:16):
Right.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (24:17):
He was so upset.
He was he was so distraught, andhe just petting there to be the
last thing that the last thinghis the last thing your horse
sees isn't you running away andleaving it, it's you.

SPEAKER_03 (24:29):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (24:29):
Like the last thing your fictional digital fucking
horse sees is you, and it passesright there as you and it's the
thank you.
And you pet it and it closes itseyes, and John's like, dude, we
got to go.
And then you just like allright, let's go, and let's let's
do it.
It's just it's such a tendermoment.

SPEAKER_03 (24:49):
It's a tender moment in the middle of chaos, and and
I I still go back to the game isso detailed, and I think if for
those who haven't played it,they don't understand the beauty
of the game, the the detail, thestorytelling, it is absolutely

(25:11):
magnificent.
And I I still don't think I meanI know that game's been out, you
know, a beat.
I still don't think there'sanything quite like it in
storytelling in games.

SPEAKER_01 (25:24):
No, I think the other things, besides like I
said, besides the story and thedevelopment, the way it plays
out, and then just the actualportrayal of the character, so
the actual acting on everyoneand so on and so forth.
But the two things that really,really stick out to me the most,
like you said, is is theresearch and in the in-depth
that the devs did.
So the infamous thing ever talksabout is the fucking scrotum on

(25:48):
your horse, duh, because youcan't see it because it's just
fucking flopping around in thewind there, and so on and so
forth.
But but just for a second,really think about this.
They went, and there's there'scodes in the game that when
you're in cold climate, that'sthat's what happens.

(26:09):
When it's really cold, yeah, youknow, they go up in your body to
try and stay warm.
That's literally what happens.
That's that's kind of whathappens with any mammal.
And so the fact that when you'rein the mountains and it's cold
and it's raining or it'sraining, whatever it is, when
your horse is cold, they theykind of trude up.
When it's a little bit warmer,it's kind of there.
So but just that is fuckingdetail like no other.

(26:32):
It knows there's there's code inthe game to where you lose
weight.

SPEAKER_03 (26:37):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (26:37):
If you lose weight, you're gonna be faster, but
you're gonna be you're not gonnahit as hard.
Like so it's so the game knowsthat yeah, you're gonna be
faster and your health is gonnaregenerate differently.
And like you're not gonna hit asmuch.
Everything is if you are alighter, scrawny, or smaller
you.
On the flip side, it knows whenyou're gaining weight, it will
physically show that your guywill actually get a bit rounder.

(27:01):
He'll start as you're running,your stamina will go down, he'll
be huffing and puffing more,just walking upstairs and so on
and so forth.
You'll hit like a fuckingfreight train, but dude, like
you can't run worth a shit.
Like, that is insane.
People will remember you andwhat you do.
If you don't shower in the game,people will comment that you

(27:22):
smell like shit.
I think one of my favorite linesin the game is also one of Roger
Clark, the voice of ArthurMorgan.
One of his favorite lines in thegame is just like just all the
the the millions of lines ofdialogue recorded for that
fucking game.
One of my favorite ones is yousmell like a shit that took a
shit.
Like, you smell like a shit tooka shit.

(27:45):
That is so fucking funny.
Like, someone will literallylook at you and say that if you
don't shower and you're likerolling around in like the mud
and like you're doing somethinglike a pig pen you fall, someone
will actually go, Oh man, yousmell like a shit took a shit.

SPEAKER_03 (27:59):
Listen, listen.
My Arthur, every opportunity Ihad, that man was in that
bathtub.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_01 (28:16):
He had the clean, he had the cleanest digital asshole
in the world.

SPEAKER_03 (28:20):
He did.

unknown (28:21):
He did.

SPEAKER_03 (28:24):
He did.
Oh god, that reminds.

SPEAKER_00 (28:28):
I don't need to know.
I don't need to know.

SPEAKER_03 (28:30):
No, no, no.
I was thinking about theepisode, and it it we're talking
about.
The the bubble bath.
And no, I'm just I'm justthinking about the the can of
soup.
I will never forget the can ofsoup.
Never, never forget that.

SPEAKER_01 (28:51):
Hashtag never forget two things, 9-11 and a can of
soup.

SPEAKER_03 (28:55):
A can of soup, right?

SPEAKER_01 (28:59):
But no, what okay, so yeah, that that was a
beautiful segue from ranting waytoo much about one episode into
another one.
That was another one that was alot of fun.
So where I had the game Can ofSquirms was just the random
questions we just read out andwhatever.
But the I forgot what thequestion was, but how all of us

(29:19):
pictured the same thing forwhatever reason, if we were who
can pee the farthest, I think iswhat it was.

SPEAKER_03 (29:25):
Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 (29:27):
And the fact that we all envisioned the same thing,
the two of you laying down, butme still like standing there,
and I don't know why, but forwhatever reason, it was me
standing in the middle of thetwo of you.
Yes, yes, and somehow we allenvisioned like the uh the the
fucking like the fair game withyou gotta you gotta fucking
shoot the water into theballoon.

(29:48):
We all pictured that, but Ithink I was the only one who
pictured the song from SuperMario 64 when you race the giant
turtle guy.
No, no, no, no, no, don't thatthat played in my head as we
were all doing like in Yeah.
The fact that we all that thatthe brain cell made its past to

(30:08):
all three of us, that we all hadthe same thought and the same
picture.

SPEAKER_03 (30:13):
Yeah.
That was that was fun.

SPEAKER_01 (30:17):
But thank you very much for picking up on that
because I think that is that wasa little callback to that
episode that I said because Ithink one of the cards was who
has the cleanest asshole?
We all decided it's gotta be youbecause it's like whenever
whenever trying to get a hold,whenever we're trying to get a
hold of you, you're either justabout to get into a bath or
you're just getting out of afucking bubble bath.

SPEAKER_02 (30:35):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (30:36):
It's not even like a mare it's not even like that.
You're like marinating.
It's like a two-day brine.
It's like a two-day brine foryou.
That's what it is.
You're brining yourself.

SPEAKER_03 (30:46):
I'm making an Angie soup.

SPEAKER_01 (30:49):
No, that's like a stew.
Soup you can make in like anhour or so.
So you're making a stew.
Stew is like an all-day, like aroll and boil kind of like
simmer.

SPEAKER_03 (30:58):
Yeah, yeah.
But I have no dead skin cells inmy body.
I can tell you that.

SPEAKER_01 (31:06):
I don't think of skin cells in your body anymore.
I think you what's the tip inthere?
It says you're done if you're abeef, if you're a beef
wellington.
That's what it says.
You're meeting you're amedium-air beef wellington.
That's what your bath says.
So it's just like, don't mindme, I'm just sous-vidding over
here.

SPEAKER_03 (31:26):
Right.
Oh, God.
And I I think, you know, likewhen we think back, you know, on
this this journey, I think someof the moments that come to mind
are like some of the momentsthat we didn't record, you know,
it's just like most of that'sgood that we didn't record.

(31:49):
Right, right.
But you know, there there werethere were a lot of laughs, uh,
a lot of a lot of fun, funconversations.
Um the the thing that I think weneed we need people to
understand for a very specificreason is throughout this

(32:09):
journey we had a bit of lore.
Um, and so we create, I don'teven know what what why we went
into this.
I know it had something to dowith our stupid journey with
chat GPT.

SPEAKER_01 (32:31):
But we that's one of my favorite song titled Sket
Spicy in the Hollow.

SPEAKER_03 (32:38):
But we we created this lore of the gooses of
Avalon.
And so, you know, we there'slike an entire Discord channel,
you know, dedicated to all ofthese, you know, like
descriptions of each of us asthese mythological gooses.

SPEAKER_02 (32:59):
Gooses.

SPEAKER_03 (33:01):
And uh, you know, it it just it just has become like
our thing, you know.
I mean, I even have a went andgot a silly goose tattoo, you
know.
Uh you still need to get yours.

SPEAKER_01 (33:16):
I do, I do.
I I well I kinda do.
I I call it my silly goosetattoo because when I went in to
get the tattoo, that was theoriginal idea was to get a silly
goose tattoo, but now it's justa gravestone with a skeleton
hand that says, I'm okay.

SPEAKER_03 (33:29):
Oh, okay.
Well, you know, it's it startedas a silly goose.
It's a dead silly goose.
But um, yeah, there was justthere's just a lot of lore that
inside jokes um that that havehappened, you know, throughout
throughout the year that, youknow, despite you know the fact

(33:51):
that it's just the two of us,you know, left standing, um,
there were a lot of goodmemories.

SPEAKER_01 (33:57):
A lot of people were way too fucking stubborn to die,
that's why.

unknown (34:01):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (34:02):
It's not because we're actually doing good or
like we're succeeding, it's justbecause we're just too fucking
petty.
It's like that's all you got.
Ditch.
You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 (34:14):
I mean and and quite literally through our history,
we have refused to die, andwe're not going to let this
fucking podcast kill us either.

SPEAKER_01 (34:27):
Well, it's gonna do it.

SPEAKER_03 (34:34):
True.
Oh, please let it let it go.

SPEAKER_01 (34:38):
Put that on my headstone.

SPEAKER_03 (34:40):
I've gotta do everything.
I've got to everything myself.

SPEAKER_01 (34:45):
Can't you just fucking fucking Christ?

SPEAKER_00 (34:53):
Oh, Christ.

SPEAKER_03 (34:54):
As I step off the chair.
Um, check it out.

SPEAKER_00 (34:58):
Do a flip.

SPEAKER_03 (35:00):
Right.
And with that, oh, are there anyother episodes that come to mind
for you?

SPEAKER_01 (35:11):
Oh god.

SPEAKER_03 (35:13):
Or just too many of them.

SPEAKER_01 (35:15):
Too many of them.
Too many of them.
All of them.
Um, not to not to, you know,toot my own horn here.
Um one of our more recent ones,I was pretty happy with the Vlad
one.
The Vlad one was a lot of fun.
I was gonna say, like, actuallyI think that one was really,
really fun.
I I think why I like that one somuch is because it's a pretty

(35:37):
dark fucking story.
And I think I I should have hada counter going.
I think we made some of the mostjokes during that episode, and
that's like pretty fuckinggruesome shit.
I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 (35:49):
And we were making ha ha's when editing, you know,
usually you know, I've had my myups and downs with editing.
Um, that episode was tough to toedit because I was laughing so
hard.
Like tears in my eyes.
The the Bob's your uncle.

SPEAKER_00 (36:11):
Holy shit.
Holy shit, that's Bob's uncle.

SPEAKER_03 (36:15):
She was right.

SPEAKER_01 (36:16):
I was proud of myself of that joke.
That was off the cuff, too.
That was off the cuff.

SPEAKER_03 (36:21):
That's so good.
Like that episode, as dark asthe subject matter is, had no
business being that that funny.

SPEAKER_01 (36:29):
As fucking funny.
We think that's what we I thinkthat's what it is.
That's when we're at our best,is when everything is the most I
have every right.
Um anyhow, thank you.
Um, I think it's because that'swhat it, I think that's where I
use a lot of my humor is youknow, is is you know, coping and
whatever the fuck and dealingwith this, that, the other
thing.
And so I think it's because it'suncomfortable.

(36:51):
It's it's that, you know,because it's something that is
uncomfortable and unpleasant,you just you gotta laugh through
it because otherwise it's gonnaget real fucking bad.

SPEAKER_02 (36:58):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (36:59):
Um quick little anecdote on that one.
That's how my entire sociologyclass got to tension because we
laughed during Schindler's list.

unknown (37:05):
Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 (37:07):
The scene where with with the with the rifle and he
stretches out and just bang,right?
It's not because we found itfunny, it's because what happens
with teenagers when you seesomething that shocking?
Because like I think me and likeone other kid in this in the
fucking class ever saw themovie.
So for some of the kids in myclass, that was the very first
time they were seeing thismovie.
Yeah, and they were not readyfor that.

(37:30):
And um, yeah, lo and behold,bang, the dude starts offing
people, and they were just theyit scared, it scared some of the
gets like, what the fuck?
Like, and one of the I think Ithink the reason why we were
laughing was because I I want tosay one of the things where like
someone got like so scared theyfarted a little bit.
So that's what you're laughingat, but like the teacher

(37:51):
literally stepped out, theteacher stepped out for like a
phone call, whatever the fuck itis.
So she and she literally comesback to like that scene, and her
whole class is just laughing,dude.
And she flipped the fuck.
She flipped the fuck out.
Every one of us got detention.
Every one of us, we got writtenup and we got fucking detention.
Everybody in the class, becausewe were we were all laughing.

(38:14):
Oh shit.

SPEAKER_03 (38:16):
I mean, farts are funny no matter what.

SPEAKER_01 (38:19):
Farts are funny, doesn't matter what doesn't
matter what it is and which holethey come out of.
Farts are funny.
Farts are funny, farts arefunny, doesn't matter what hole.
Um I think a couple otherepisodes, uh any episode where
we had a guest.
Because it was just re it wasjust really, really funny.

SPEAKER_03 (38:38):
So our god, the the Tom Pals episode.
Holy shit.

SPEAKER_01 (38:44):
As fantastic as that was, I think the thing that I
love the most is that I I thinkI've said it quite a few times.
They were quite gentlemanlybecause they knew a lady was
present.
Yeah, we were still making ourjokes and having good times and
being being slightly rowdy, butbut they were still being
gentlemen and they weren't beingvery raunchy.

(39:05):
There wasn't a lot of guttertalk.
There was some ha-has and somewhatever, but there wasn't a
whole lot of typical just brokind of whatever the hell talk.

SPEAKER_03 (39:12):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (39:13):
And the fact that these guys were systematically
like trying to, I would love tosee their notes that they had
that they scratched down for it.
Because they were like, oh yeah,I know this one for these
reasons and those reasons.
I I want this one because ofthat, I want this one because of
that.
Oh, let's go to the one femalein this group of gentlemen here

(39:36):
and so on and so forth.
Let's go to the one female here.
How about you, nice young lady?
What are your reasonings forpicking your cryptid roommate,
Mothman, because I need thatmoth dick?
Like, I want to fuck that moth.
I want to clap them cheeks.
Dude, they were so they weretaken aback.

SPEAKER_03 (39:55):
They were taken aback.

SPEAKER_01 (39:57):
I think I think you actually hear John gag because
and he almost threw up becausehe was laughing so fucking hard.
They were laughing so hard.
Because like, because you werelike, you know, like it wasn't
all this other, yeah.
Like I said, once again, youwere kind of laughing your jokes
or whatever, but like anythingyou were, you were sounding kind
of like I don't know the I guessthe word I don't know if it's a

(40:21):
word I want to use, but likethere it was a bit more there
there was a more professionaltone to your voice that episode
because almost like you actuallywere like the realtor.

SPEAKER_03 (40:32):
You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 (40:33):
You were really kind of selling it and you were just
like moth dick all up in this.

SPEAKER_03 (40:39):
That ass.

SPEAKER_01 (40:40):
That ass for days, he got cheeks for weeks, and
they fell the fuck out.
Chaos ensued after that.
Absolute chaos ensued.

SPEAKER_03 (40:55):
Um that was great.

SPEAKER_01 (40:56):
That was that was any episode we had, our Tycho
Brahe episode making jokes aboutthe fucking moose.

SPEAKER_03 (41:03):
The moose oh god, the moose.

SPEAKER_00 (41:04):
That was fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 (41:06):
I stand by what I say.
I can only imagine what the fuckthat sounded like.
A fucking moose falling down agiant flight of stairs.

SPEAKER_03 (41:14):
I know.

SPEAKER_01 (41:16):
Having um having Lauren, my wife on talking about
uh talking about the Saw movies,yes, joking about Donnie
Wahlberg and just how fuckingumgabunga his fucking trap was.
Like from so some of the trapsare so sophisticated and so
intense, and that was literallyjust like big ice, big doom, go

(41:37):
crash bang.

SPEAKER_02 (41:39):
So funny.

SPEAKER_01 (41:39):
And then somehow in the same episode ending up
talking about Merkins, like thatwas so funny.

SPEAKER_03 (41:46):
Oh my god, yes, the Merkin, the Merkin talk.
Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 (41:51):
Yeah, it was so goddamn funny.
Um, just like any episode wehad, you know, the the the um
the Akatar episode um was reallygood.
Uh oh god, Lauren, Lauren aswell, right?

SPEAKER_03 (42:05):
Yes, Laura, Laura.

SPEAKER_01 (42:07):
I was so close, so close.
Sorry, Laura.
Um just a just a fuckingsweetheart.
I guess what it is is just likebecause we know that we're
fucking mentally unstable and wedon't shut the fuck up about
shit that we like.
Finding other people from suchdifferent walks of life that are
so passionate about somethingrandom and ridiculous as well.
So much fun.
Oh my god, tell me a scarystory.
That was so much fun, too.

(42:28):
That was such a delight.
Absolute delight.

SPEAKER_03 (42:31):
I I love Heather so much.
Like, I I mean, we since evenbefore the episode, you know, we
we talked every day, but after,you know, we recorded, we we we
touch base every single day.
She's just she's just anabsolute delight.
Um we I you know, like we are onthe same wavelength, and and

(42:57):
that's I'd love finding that inanother woman about a lot of
topics.

SPEAKER_01 (43:05):
Same.
It's gonna be trouble in thepast, but still.

SPEAKER_03 (43:13):
Yeah, she's she's a delight.
I um I I look forward to thefuture in like and I definitely
know that we will do futureepisodes with the time pals and
with Heather.

SPEAKER_01 (43:26):
I swear to God, I think it was I think it was like
the day after I sent you sometype of like I sent you like
some fucking gift or some kindof thing like that of like a
little kid like annoying hismom, like mom, can I have a play
date with my friend again?

SPEAKER_03 (43:36):
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (43:39):
She's a sweetheart, she's an absolute sweetheart.
Um yeah.
Now whether she likes whethershe likes it or not, um, and I
mean both of you, whether bothof you like it or not, um you
are gonna fucking watch Bob'sBurgers, and I am dragging

(44:00):
Lauren back on to an episode todo a fucking Bob's Burgers
episode.

SPEAKER_03 (44:04):
Okay.
It's a deal.

SPEAKER_01 (44:06):
Yes, absolutely have I think I think mainly because
there's there's at least twothings.
Listen, there's just there's onefucking thing that we gotta talk
about, and it's like one of myfavorite fucking episodes.
It's the work harder die tryinggirl.
I fucking I think I I told youabout that one where they do
they do where Gene does die hardthe musical and the other and

(44:26):
the other students are doingwork and girl the musical, so
then they fuse them into one andthe fucking music number from it
is it is arguably one of myfavorite episodes.
But then we just laughedhysterically about it because I
think more's the one who made itwhen she saw the thing.
You do, you do, and guess what?

(44:47):
So does she, because there's abunch of horror movies she
hasn't seen.
There's just a bunch, I justhave a fucking list of movies
that she hasn't seen that I feelshe just has to, and then she's
a massive fan of the band IceNine Kills, as anyone with a
functioning brain should be.
Um their past two albums havebeen about horror movies, like
horror movies that the um youknow really inspired and that
then that the singer really,really likes.

(45:08):
And she when the first one cameout, she'd only seen like two or
three of them.
So I was just like, um, let'sfucking watch all of these
movies, and we've made itthrough quite a few of them.
But same thing.
So there's just a list of moviesthat she's gotta fucking see.

SPEAKER_03 (45:19):
So I can't remember what was the movie the other day
I we we were talking about andshe was like, I haven't seen
that movie.
And I was like, you have to fixthat.
What was that movie?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (45:29):
Oh fuck.
Dude, it was just likeyesterday, like the day before.

SPEAKER_03 (45:35):
Yeah.
I was like, you have to get yourphone, you look it up.

SPEAKER_01 (45:38):
My phone's dead.
But um another one on the list,actually, just a slight call
back to a few minutes ago.
She hasn't she hasn't seenSchindler's list.

SPEAKER_03 (45:47):
Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 (45:48):
Yeah, no, but it kinda so I think we talked a
little bit about it before.
We've talked a little bit aboutit before, but she's she's
slightly particular with somethings about she'll pretty much
watch and enjoy almost everymovie she sees.
Um, but there are some thingsthat they're just kind of like
no-fly zones for her that shethat Lauren just really doesn't.
I mean, eventually she will if Italk it up enough.

(46:11):
Um eventually she'll get it.
So, like honestly, even fantasyfor the longest time.
She was not a big fan offantasy.
Um, what sold her on watchingThe Witcher, after I watched, I
was clearly massively sold inthat show.
I couldn't wait to watch it.
I watched the first like two orthree episodes, and I was like,
this is a very, very good show.

(46:32):
I just think she would I I knewmy heart of hearts.
She would just enjoy the showbecause it was action-y and
there's all this other kind offun stuff, and I was just like,
You should watch the show, hegoes, mm-hmm I don't know.
And then I showed her the uh Ishowed her a still from the bath
episode.

SPEAKER_03 (46:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember that.

SPEAKER_01 (46:54):
She just goes, Alright, I'll give it a shot.
And then it's literally thefirst scene of the first episode
where he's finding the Kikimura,and she goes, Yeah, I fuck with
this show.
And uh and that's where so sheso that kind of opened the door
to fantasy for her.
Like, and then a little whileafter, you know, and a couple
years after that, Lord of theRings and so on.
But like fantasy's not reallybig on any movie in black and

(47:16):
white, she's she it's almost ahard no forever for her.
Um movies that are in differentlanguages of subtitles, not
because you know, not becauseshe's an asshole or anything
like that, but it's just likeyou know, the the reading and
the back and forth.
It took me a while to get usedto it myself, but um, so
anything with that's in adifferent language, she has to

(47:37):
have subtitles, not really likenot a whole not big on period
pieces and so on and so forth.
So it's like Schindler's list islike three things she's not
crazy.
It's a period piece, it's aWorld War II movie, and 99 to
the umpteenth is in black andwhite.
So I thought it was like, butit's like one of the great is
like it's genuinely one of thegreatest movies ever made.
It's it's another one of themovies every man, woman, child

(48:00):
should see at least once intheir life, and that's all you
have to see it.
But it is one of the greatestmovies ever made.

SPEAKER_03 (48:07):
Yeah, yeah, no, it it truly is.
Um, no, I'm going back throughour okay, so like I'm in a I'm
in a group chat with these twodumbasses.
I was just gonna say yahoos.
Uh you know, when you here's thething.

(48:29):
You don't realize how much shityou send back and forth until
you go and try to findsomething, and then you're like,
oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 (48:37):
Dude, the other night though, when she was just
like, Kyle, get off theinternet.
That was fucking funny.

SPEAKER_03 (48:41):
That was I that slayed me.

SPEAKER_01 (48:45):
Listen, I was on a roll the other night and I was
just sending absolute garbagereels.
I must have sent very few andfar in between do I spam like
that.
But that one was very, very rareof just and it's not just it's
just fucking dumb.
There is no kind of rhyme andreason.

(49:06):
It's the most ridiculous shitever.
I don't remember what half ofthem were, but I just remember I
was laughing, I was just blowingthe fucking chat up.
And I remember what the one wasthat I sent.

SPEAKER_03 (49:15):
Oh, I've got it right, I've got it right here.

SPEAKER_00 (49:18):
But the literally goes, Kyle, get off the
internet.

SPEAKER_03 (49:21):
No, specifically, Kyle, get off the fucking
internet.
And you're just like fairenough.

SPEAKER_01 (49:30):
I sent that one, I was like, that's much.
That that's too much.
That's that's the I'm I don'tregret what I did.
I I accept what I've done.
I'm not proud of it, but I Idon't regret anything and I
accept my actions.
But I but if there's one otherthing that I just want at least
a record here of it, becausewhen I inevitably forget to send
them to him, we were talking alittle bit about how much and

(49:53):
then you also when you talkedabout like there's lore to the
silly gooses and whatnot.
The one thing I was talkingabout, if there's one thing of
another video game that I lovedthat I was playing since 2014, I
I played this game for likewhere we were going in fucking
11 years, 12 years I was playingthis game.
The franchise Destiny.

(50:15):
I loved this game, I really did.
Even in the the the first onewas so fucking good, and the
second one was just so muchbetter, and then there was just
a lot of we're I can do anentire season on just this game
and how much I loved it.
Deeply, deeply loved it.
Yeah and there's a couple ofvideos I'll send you where it's

(50:38):
it's the main bulk of what Ilove.
So in the game you can clickthese, you can cut you can
collect these these uh Glimorecards.
And it's just it's just littlelore tidbit things in the game.
They don't do anything actuallyfor the game, they're just these
little cute little lore thingsfor the game.
Well, they did like acollector's thing where they
actually just put them all intovolumes, and there's actual
books where it's just the cards,so it actually is like the lore,

(50:59):
the story of Destiny.
Well, shout out to this oneYouTube channel.
He's not sponsoring this in anysort of way.
I just absolutely love it, and Ilove his fucking voice, and you
will too once you listen to oneof them.
Uh his channel is My Name isBife.
And he is the unofficial,official lore daddy of Destiny.

(51:20):
Like all of his videos are aboutlike the lore and about it.
It's not so much like, you know,anyone will play the game what
they like and they don't like.
His was about the actual storyto certain characters, weapons,
events in the game, so on and soforth.
Well, right before they did Ithink right before they did some
of their biggest DLC drops, liketheir their my my humble

(51:41):
opinion, some of the peak partsof the game, their DLCs.
He there was a whole lot of gamebefore, and he did the complete
story so far.
And so the first one he did wasfour hours long.
And it's not just the story ofthe game.
There are some races in the gamethat uh predate like like they

(52:04):
have already been an establishedthey had been at war for almost
like a million years beforedinosaurs even walked the planet
Earth.
Like that's how long the storyis.
The fact that so that's howyeah, so one of them one of my
favorite um species in the game,the races in the game, is the

(52:26):
hive, and like they hadliterally been warring and
conquering galaxies anduniverses for almost a million
years before there was evenhumanity on Earth.
The video is four hours long,and at like the two and a half
hour mark is when you get to thebeginning of the first game.
Like there's so much lore,there's so much story, and it

(52:47):
just gets even deeper.
Like with the game, when youfind out like the big baddie is
of like the overarching game,you go even further back, like
so far, so far, so fucking far.
Oh to the point where he didit's a 10 hour long video.

SPEAKER_03 (53:08):
Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 (53:09):
10 hours to where and that's he dropped, he he did
that video and that releaseright before their very last big
DLC they did.
If you're my humble opinion,before they released their
endgame, if you were to kind ofput it for like Marvel
standpoints, he covered fromIron Man, like I would say from

(53:32):
Destiny 1 to the final shapethat was from Iron Man to
Endgame.
Like, there's a couple of, youknow, most of it is kind of
middle of the road.
There's a couple of moments thatare like holy fucking shit good,
and there's a couple of Jesusfucking Christ, that's parts of
my life I'll never get back.
But for the most part, it's allpretty the same.

(53:53):
That's right, and theneverything after it has been
pretty goddamn inconsistent.
That's exactly what this game islike.
But it's just like just thelore, the story, the characters,
the references, so on and soforth, what's made.
I'll send those videos becausethey're just so fucking good.
Mainly because there's onelittle thing.

(54:14):
I wrote a little somethingsomething for this episode.
Um and it just made me think ofone of my favorite stories in
the game.
In the game, there's these,there's uh these whatever.
I'll just kind of give the thingabout the actual lore that one
character writes.
It's the tale of um Augur andRiga.
It's like it's one of myfavorite little bits that they

(54:35):
wrote in the game.
And it's so good.
Because it's like loreception.
It's a bit of it's a bit oflore, but it's one character
talking about her relationshipwith her brother.
But you know, she's using it,she's using the story of these
two um Falcons as a metaphor forthe two of them.
It's it's fucking beautiful,it's absolutely beautiful.

(54:57):
I love it so much.
It's it's so good.
It's they every now and thenthey got some really fucking
good writers.
They really do.

SPEAKER_03 (55:06):
I'm gonna have to watch that.

SPEAKER_01 (55:08):
Yeah, like I said, I'll send I'll send those when I
can.

SPEAKER_03 (55:13):
Add it to the list of the things I'm supposed to
watch.

SPEAKER_01 (55:16):
Yeah, but like I said, just I if anything, I mean
I'd really like you to watch allthe videos at the same time
though, like because he goes alittle bit in depth with other
things in some of the videos.
So he goes into a lot of depthin the fur in the four-hour
video.
He goes into really big depthwith the hive because at the
time the DLC that was comingout, you thought that they were

(55:39):
the end-all be all super baddiesof the galaxy.
Spoiler alert, it's not aspoiler alert.
At the end of that one, you findout that they're just like it's
almost like Saw.
Like you think Zepp is Jigsaw,but then at the end you find out
that he's just a fucking tool.
So at the end of that one thatcame out when you did that one,
you find out that the hive areliterally just like a tool for
for like the even bigger baddie.

SPEAKER_03 (55:59):
Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 (56:00):
So then when he does the 10-hour long video, he still
tells a big part of the historyof the hive.

SPEAKER_03 (56:05):
Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 (56:05):
But then it all just makes more sense of why this and
why that and why this happensthere is because those other
entities were pulling thestrings.
So it's fuck, it's so fuckinggood.
They did so good with some oftheir writing.
Um, but even that they did,yeah.
And I just I just think they'vedesigned themselves, it's just
fantastic.
That's why I love them.
But yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_03 (56:27):
You I mean, you can't see me put a and like
literally did like a little,like a little wiggle.
Like if I was a dog, I'd bewagging my tail.
Like, I want to watch this now.

SPEAKER_01 (56:39):
It's so good.
It's it's so fucking good.
Like I said, and he's got afantasy has a fantastic fucking
voice.

SPEAKER_03 (56:44):
He it's like a good voice.

SPEAKER_01 (56:48):
Greetings, guardian.
My name is Bye.
It's all like proper soundingand shit, and like really,
there's a lot of bass to it.
Doesn't matter.
I'll shut the fuck up now.
Anyhow.

SPEAKER_03 (56:58):
Well, uh so I think we can call it.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (57:05):
Not just yet.

SPEAKER_03 (57:07):
Not just yet.

SPEAKER_01 (57:09):
Once upon a time.
Yeah.
In a world that seemed to notmake a whole lot of sense, there
was not one, but two sillylittle goose's is battered by
life, bruised by trauma, notreally knowing where to go,
fumbling around, but stillflapping around like they owned

(57:30):
the pond.
They'd both been through roughwaters, been through some storms
that nearly broke their wings,the other had and they both had
laughed, learned to laugh in therain because crying just felt
too heavy.
For years they just wandereduntil one day, fate, chaos, or
someone just threw the rightamount of bread brought them

(57:51):
together.
From the moment they met,something had clicked.
The world was still hard andevil and ugly, but just felt a
little lighter.
They joked until the pain didn'tsting, they talked until the
silence didn't scare them, andthey laughed so hard they forgot
where they were sad in the firstplace.
One day, in between jokes, halfserious pep talks, one silly

(58:14):
goose looks at the other one andgoes, honk, which means we
should start a podcast.
And the other one grinned, Whothe hell would listen to us
ramble about life?
The other one replies, I don'tknow, probably the other broken
gooses is just trying to laughas well.
That's exactly what they did.
Somewhere out there, a fewpeople tuned in, smiled and

(58:36):
thought, maybe life ain't sobad.
All you just need is someone tohonk along with.
Because sometimes the best partsin life aren't exactly perfect,
it's just some type offriendship that shows up.
And when the world tries todrown you, it goes, Come on,
silly goose, let's keepswimming.

SPEAKER_03 (59:10):
Oh, Oklahoma.

SPEAKER_01 (59:23):
As I'm reading that, I see Lauren just kind of creep
around the corner.
And she hears you do that one,and she just goes, Remember that
little seal?

SPEAKER_00 (59:29):
She goes, Yay.

SPEAKER_01 (59:32):
And she's got that face that was just like, I'm not
thinking of it.
She goes, Oh no, you are.

SPEAKER_03 (59:40):
Oh God, I needed that laugh.
Thank you, Lauren.
Thank you, because I was sittinghere like ugly crying through
you reading that.
I I didn't know you would.
Oh, that was that was reallythat was really nice.

SPEAKER_01 (59:57):
And see, and because of that, it's a story, it's a
story.
About two birds, and it justmade me think of that one from
Destiny.
Now I'm not saying we're thefucking birds from the story in
Destiny.
Trust me, we're not.
That's kind of fucked up.
But it's a pretty fucked up,it's a little fucked up story.
But yeah.
It's just it's two birds.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:13):
Yeah.
No, thank you.
Thank you for that.
I, you know, and this is thishas not been an easy decision.
We we've we've talked about itso uh backwards and forwards,
and uh um I feel good.
I feel good that I can closethis chapter and we can move

(01:00:35):
forward with a whole newchapter, right?
There we go.

SPEAKER_00 (01:00:39):
Damn it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:40):
And so with that, we are going to close the curtain.
The ghosts are going back tobed.
And so we're gonna step out ofthe shadows and into something a
little goofier because we'regonna get our feet wet.

(01:01:01):
We're gonna get our feet wetbecause starting in just a few
weeks, we are rebranding,rebirthing, re-honkifying
ourselves as the silly goosesociety.

SPEAKER_00 (01:01:15):
Honk.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:16):
Honk.
Yes, that's the name.
And no, we weren't drunk when wecame up with it.
So we stand by this name withour full chest and all of our
chaotic energy.
We chose it because honestly, atthe end of the day, like Kyle
said in his in his story, we'rejust two silly gooses.

(01:01:39):
And if you've been here for awhile, you already know about
our antics, our gooses ofAvalon, the inside jokes, the
derailments, the long tangentsabout Mothman and cursed
objects, and snack preferencesand weird roommate cryptids.
So this name, it really fits usnow.

(01:02:00):
It gives us room to be weird andsmart and stupid and joyful in a
way that feels honest.
And you, our listeners, you'restill a part of it.
You're still in on the joke,you're still part of the cult.
I mean, it's a the society.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:16):
Sorry, sorry, it's a society.
So it ain't cool, made it'sbread.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:22):
I promise we're not starting a goose cult.
Maybe, probably.
Maybe.
So we want this next chap nextchapter to feel like you're
right here with us, laughing atthe nonsense, chiming in with
your own takes, feeling part ofthe conversation because you
are.
We're doing this because we wantto share our brand of chaos with

(01:02:46):
you.
So thank you for being with usthrough this version of this
story.
We love the Black Curtain Cluband we'll always be proud of it.
I will always be proud of it.
But now we're molting, we'rehonking, we're coming back with
wings spread, and we'll see yousoon as the silly goose society.
So until then, stay weird, staywonderful, and remember, you're

(01:03:10):
one of us.
Honk honk bitches.

unknown (01:03:13):
One of us.

SPEAKER_02 (01:03:14):
One of us.

SPEAKER_03 (01:03:18):
All right, goodbye for the last time.
Say bye, Kyle.

SPEAKER_01 (01:03:26):
Good night, and Godspeed.

SPEAKER_02 (01:03:53):
I thought it's never crying over a video game.