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July 25, 2024 13 mins

First, a dude sets a record for time-spent playing a video game--but is gaming really that bad?  Next, Katie talks about a new game that she loves! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm beginning to think Scratchers isn't a great retirement plan.
It's one more thing.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm strong and getty one more so. A couple of things.
We've been talking about. Elon Musk bringing back up the
idea of him and Zuckerberg fighting with the interesting wrinkle
of any place, anytime, any rules, which is an added

(00:28):
element to the thing. Hmmm. I don't know if I
would ever make that offer. Here's our rule, no winner
declared until somebody loses at least one eye. You want,
you want to you wanna want to get in that.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Fight, and I are a limb, i'd say, I mean.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Elon's a troll. Oh yes, yeah, he's a troll. And
sometimes he trolls at like the highest levels with like,
you know, the most valuable car company in the world.
He makes some sort of claim about Stock at four
twenty or something, and he's a poopster, no doubt, and
he gets sued by the government and everything just because
he's such troll. So tatroll at this level is nothing

(01:08):
compared to some of the stock trolls he's done in
the past. Anyway, my kids are out of school like
your kids, because it's summertime, and they play too many
video games, not as much as this guy.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Nigerian man played the mobile game Dream League Soccer twenty
twenty three for seventy five consecutive hours, breaking a Guinness
World record, that record most disappointed parents.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I was talking to a mom the other day, actually
was asking her just because she seems to have been
fairly successful. And her take was based on her kids
and other kids, is if your kids into not all
kids are into video games, like my oldest is not.
He just doesn't dig it. He's tried a lot of
them and played him some, but just not his thing

(01:56):
where his brother really loves it. And this mom's said
to me, if your kid is into video games, there's
just not that much you can do about it. I mean,
you can set limits, obviously it's your house, but that's
their thing. They're gonna do it as much as they
can as you allow them to do. And that has
certainly been my experience, you know. And and the limits

(02:18):
are harder. The limits are easy to set, but you
run into the they don't have any other interests. That's
the only thing they talk about. It's their favorite thing
in the world. I did lots of some of the
things I did in the summer outside of exercising. Obviously,
exercising is better, but some of the things I did
in the summer, I don't know if they're that much

(02:40):
more productive. I don't know. I don't have the video
game gene. I don't dig video games either.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Having recently spent a fair amount of time in the
company of several twenty something young men and knowing a
couple of others, they all say, so, what do you
do for fun? What do you like to do? Video
gaming is prominence in.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Their list right, And like one of the things my
youngest does is he has some relationships with some of
his friends. They play video games together and I hear
him laughing and joking the whole time, and that sounds
really good, especially for my son, who has not had
the easiest goal of it. Socially, he's doing more laughing
and joking and talking about They talk about all kinds

(03:21):
of other things while they're playing video games.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
That was the big transition for video games. I used
to play video games all the time, but they were
online yet, uh huh, so you know, the old school games.
And then when they got online, I noticed I was
playing for an extended period of time, because, like you said,
you're talking to people and all that, so you kind
of lose track.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, and I hear him doing it, and it makes
my heart happy that he's got, you know, friends that
he's having that kind of fun with. So I don't know,
I who knows. They'll tell me in twenty years. It's
a horrible idea. I heard something. He's not outbreaking the law. Yeah,
that's a low bar, Katy.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I gave myself a pretty serious case of tendonitis ones
playing we bowling.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Oh, oh that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Really snap it off, get some nice dig on the ball. Yeah,
I just don't forget it.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
The one that Henry's into now is the speaking of Zuckerberg,
the his his VR thing, the Oculus and this new
boxing thing that Henry's got, And man, he's been doing
that constantly. He's sore, sore. Yesterday he could hardly do
anything because all his muscles were so sore from doing
the VR boxing game all afternoon the day before.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
That's it would work out.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh, he is poor and sweat.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
There are full blown workout routines built into the Oculus
that you can download. It actually has a whole fitness
element to it.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, if he can get exercise and do that, that's
that's that's awesome. Yeah, oh agreed.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
I'm just I'm close to getting one of those virtual
reality thingies because I know there are games that I
would enjoy playing.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Which which one? Which which? I don't know?

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I really don't know. I just I read the reviews
and they're all roughly the same. This is pretty good,
but surely they'll be able to improve this, that and
the other. I think.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, it's about a generational one, and the Apple one
is very very good, but it's so expensive. Have you
done the demo of that yet?

Speaker 1 (05:14):
I recommend I'm fabulously wealthy, so that doesn't stand in
my way.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I recommend everybody do the demo at least of the
things so you know what the capabilities are. It's freaking amazing.
It's amazing.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
I mentioned this on the radio show. But you guys,
I'm telling you that game bar Fight, that sounds fun. Actually,
I correct myself, it's called drunken bar Fight. Either way,
I mean it is, so it's so much fun and
it's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
They don't doubt it.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
You can get drunk and go on an airplane and
just start going nuts.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I mean, what a hilarious premise.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, there's probably something to do with the decline of
civilization in there, but that does sound really funny.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yeah, so you fight not just at the bar, but
you can actually go to other places.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah, you can go any you can go anywhere that
serves alcohol.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Have you ever been really drunk, Michael, It's just kind
of a rolling thing throughout your day. You're you're riding
in the back of a car, then you're at a bar,
then you find yourself in a swimming pool. The next
thing you know, here's somewhere else. See you're on an
airplane slapping a storess.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Let's picture picking up a bottle and hitting somebody over
the head with it, you know, at the bar.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, that's part of it.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
If you if you get drunk on the plane, you
can start pulling the luggage out of the overhead content
you bend.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
That's not good, that's not good. That's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
I remember when we used to aspire to to high goals.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
This is a monopoly, so that was a game.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh goodness sakes, all right, So here's this guy walks
into murphreys Boro, Tennessee convenience store and buys two twenty
diamond and gold lottery tickets from the twenty three year
old clerk. And some lottery players do this. You don't

(07:08):
have to scratch off all the you know, the pots
of gold or sham rocks or whatever.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Now, I hate the process of scratching those things. I'd
probably do more scratchers if I didn't hate the scratching
bar so much. Well, right, you don't have to.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
The clerk just has to scratch off the bar code
cover at the bottom left or whatever and then read
the bar code.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I don't like the little the goo or whatever, the
leavings of the scratching off they get in my car
or on my pants. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
You probably causes cancer or something like that. They'll figure
out that that scratcher crap is what's causing so many
of humanity's ills, right dimension Parkinson's cancer. Whatever. Anyway, So
this guy buys two twenty dollars scratchers, and to save time,
he says, yeah, just scratch it and read the bar
codes for me, and the clerk says, yeah, yeah, this

(07:59):
one's a loser, and this one says.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Sorry, Jimmy. Then obvious problem with that plan right there.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, well, except one of them was a million dollar winner.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
He couldn't slip a different one in. The guy who
worked there, here's here's yours. As you see, you lost,
this is mine.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, the guy doesn't have the bar code reader the customer.
He's trusting the clerk to tell him what the bar
code says.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Right, that's what I mean the clerk. I wondered, if
he wasn't able to slip out, slip one out for
the other one.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Why bother because you know, he said they're both losers. Jim, sorry, buddy, good.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Life probably shuck him. I assumed the end of this
story was he didn't get away with it. I was
thinking of a way to get away with it.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, okay, all right, well, master criminal Jack there uh
he threw it on top of the trash as the
gentleman look. He laughed. He took the trash out. On camera,
you can see him grab the ticket and put it
in his pocket. Not long after, he decided to try
and claim the cash prize. Went to the lottery Commission
to claim the ticket as his own, but there were
red flags and they held onto the ticket.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
How did you get caught.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
What Patel didn't know that's the perpetrator is that lottery
officials vet all big winners, and that includes checking security
video of the tickets purchased in evidence, just to make
sure everything was on the up and up and shows
the ticket was clearly stolen.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
I'm surprised it's not a rule that people who work
at a store can't play just to avoid any problems.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
I don't know. I think probably the security video check
is insurance enough.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
But outside of the clerk screw and you know what
would be the other things you need the video for,
like to show that you're the one who bought it
so you didn't take it from somebody, or yeah, sure, yeah,
and there's there.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
There was actually a story last week about a woman
who bought a ticket with her son or something, but
her son, I guess, stayed in the car and now
they're in like a big money dispute and she's like,
I'm the one that bought the ticket, and they went
back and viewed the camera.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
And so that's how they squashed the whole thing. You know, hey,
how about you get a job son, right. One of
the reasons I'm anti playing the lottery is, uh, well,
there's a couple of reasons. One, whenever I'm at the
convenience store, you know, the people that are playing the scratchers,
the people that are scratching it off on the herd
of their beat up car, don't look like their lives
are going very well. I mean they just But I know,

(10:33):
for me personally, when the only period of my life
where I ever bought lottery tickets and was thinking about
the lottery is when I was not doing well. I mean,
I was in a bad spot with my finances and
my career hopes and everything like that, and wasting any
energy on dreaming about the lottery was as unproductive as
anything could freaking be. And it's it is horrifies me

(10:56):
that I spent any time thinking about that as opposed
to only working on a plan to get out of
my situation of my own making. And I just wonder
how many people do that?

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Hmmm. The yeah, I saw lottery tickets is an opportunity
to get out of my career of checking park car's
handles to see if they're a lot.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
I have, but I have dreamed of the idea, if
you get the really really big winning ticket, what it
would be like to have in your hand, like a
billion dollar bill. You've got in your hand a billion
dollar bill. I would just be so paranode, like the
wind is gonna come up all of a sudden, my
dog is gonna run in and eat it, or just
I would get into freaky paranoid mode. Get everybody, back off.
What are you talking about? Dad? Back off, Get away

(11:38):
from me. I'm backing towards the door. I don't I
gotta hold it tight, but not too tight. I might
tear it. Not that tight, not that loose right tonight?
Am I gonna get in my car and risk somebody
running into me? My car burst into flames and it's gone.
I mean, no, what what are you doing it? Have
you seen those that like my precious engine and crawl
on my hands and knees to a lottery place to
turn it in? Well, we had a suitcase.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Have you guys seen the uh the prank scratchers that
people give out where they're like twenty five thousand dollars
winning tickets and they're they're not they're not real.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
No, that's so cruel. Oh my gosh. No, the videos
see Jack taking advantage of people. Can't do math for
your enjoyment. Oh, it's just awful.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
These videos have gone around where you know a sun
will give you know, Grandma scratcher, that's just one five
thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Now you've changed your mind, have you, mister Kruel Captain Cruel.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, I'm on the side of not pranking Grandma. Well,
Grandma is one of those losers you're describing. She likes
to do this scratch is now and again. But you
told her she was stupid. Wow, flip flopping.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's horrible. Your buddy Jim, you drink beer with and
you do that with. I'll give you that's one thing.
But Grandma, come on, pick aside, Jack.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, maybe Grandma needs a kick in the ass, get
her life together. Huh yeah, Actually might be a mean
old lady.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Change your decisions, right, flip flopper.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
You know, if I want a billion dollars, i'd purchase
some weekend programming and just play PSA's back to back.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
It's a dream, it's a dream.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Well, I guess that's it.
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