They SOLD Pokémon GO for 3.5 BILLION Dollars... So what NOW | Nontendo Podcast #132

Niantic SOLD Pokemon GO for 3.5B Dollars, a NEW Nintendo Store opens in SAN FRAN soon and Wood gives his thoughts on Assassins Creed Shadows, Monster Hunter Wilds & More | Supported by PATREON https://patreon.com/NontendoPodcast

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome on in, everybody. It's the Non Tender Podcast, Take
two this week because we just went live with no audio.
But we're here now, and I want to give a
huge thank you to Kim once again for the second
time today for being here. I told you, well, no,
I didn't tell you, but a couple of minutes before

(00:28):
we went live, you jumped on because I was going
to do this on my own today, I.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Know.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, make sure today to it a lean in or
if you're too pregnant, which you are so pregnant now,
which is crazy, just to grab just to grab it,
just to grab it, take it, run away with it.
Treat it as as you will. We hit some lower
thirds earlier and we laughed about Kim's lower third being
a lower lower third.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Today it's not as low as I remember.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know, it's still pretty. It's still oddly OCD annoying. Yeah,
sorry for going live with no audio, where once again
I am manning all of this on my own. As
far as the tech side goes, I haven't been feeling
well the last week or so, so I told him
not to come in today just in case I'm lethargic

(01:21):
for any kind of reason. Literally, yesterday at like what
was it, Kim, like three pm or something.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, somewhere around there.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
We woke up early like before that to go do
an obg way and appointment. We're up to two. We're
up to going every two weeks now. It feels like
we're always in that office. It feels like every day
we're in that office.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Every time I turn around.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
I guess tried to go to the DMV and that
was a nightmare. I don't know what is happening at.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
The n Standard. I don't. I mean, they said that
you're supposed to have those real ideas, or you can
fly domestically or some shit, but doesn't explain why there's
a line down the street. We think, what is going on?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
So I got a new car, and I want to
talk about that. At some point I ditched the TAS. Look,
I'm so happy about it. Oh God, I feel so
much better at the right moment. Would have been a
year or two ago, to be honest, But I finally
got rid of it. I mean, and I keep trying
to go and register my new car, and every time
we try boss the DMV, there's a line around the corner.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's like they're giving a weight, donuts or I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
All we can assume is everyone's rushing to get these
real ideas.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Don't have to have it until May. And also you
can still use your passport.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I don't know what. I don't think people have passed.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Unless it's on weekdays, like these people have to take
off work this day and they're just standing outside all
day long.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I don't understand what's happening. But I don't have like
four hours to wait at the DM.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I just do wish that was only going to take
four hours.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
It was probably will take longest. Oh anyway, and then
we got home yesterday like three and I've been so
tired for like a week, just like lethogic, like, and
I've been I've been fighting off the naps. But yesterday
I was like, I'm gonna lie down for a minute.
And then so it was like nine pm, yeah, and
I pretty much just had a whole sleep. And then

(03:06):
at like two am, Ham was messaging me like, hey,
am I coming tomorrow and I was like, my guy,
I don't even know if I can sleep tonight because
like I was up, I was asleep all day. So
uh yeah, on the off chance that I'm sick. I
told Ham not to come, and I told him like,
I don't think I'm even going to do the podcast again,
which is a shame because we missed last week and
I talked about I tweeted about doing a two hour

(03:27):
episode this week to make up for it, and then
I didn't even know if I could make it. But
then as I was mosey moseying down here this morning,
I was like, you know what, I can't miss another week.
I don't think we can do a two hour today,
just because Kim is so immensely.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Breagnant do two hours.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I don't know. If I hour and say good night,
I would rather take this.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
I'd rather do a two hour when we at least
have like Ham and some Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think it would be better with him.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
It would be easy to bounce conversation for two hours.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
So we did a two hour with him and it
felt like it was ten minutes. Yeah, So yeah, wait
for him.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
So I think we'll just go to do a normal
episode today. I might even do the bonus episode for
Patreons on my own. I apologize for all of that.
I apologized for missing last week. So last week, oh,
I should have I can bring up my Instagram maybe.
Last week we had Kim's baby shower and it was
a It was a surprise, but not a surprise, so

(04:19):
we knew our house was being used on Saturday. But
Kim's beautiful, wonderful, lovely, adorable friends Kaylor and Live planned
this whole thing. It was really quite a surprise to us.
They put it was so insane, it was so nice.
It was Richard Scary themed. I posted the photos up

(04:40):
over on Instagram. Hopefully Instagram will allow me to show
with them because I'm not lugged in here. Let me
screenshow over here. So this was everybody that came minus Kristen,
my friend, and all our friend and our boss. Well
it's not real.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
It's fun. Yeah. I know.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
She's my manager at Screenwave, but manager in the sense
of she helps me with YouTube and getting sponsor spots
and handling merch drops. But but no, I am the
I'm the guy. I don't have a boss, you know,
technically she's the boss. And she came in and uh yeah,

(05:23):
Unfortunately we didn't think about taking a group photo until
she left. When she left a little early.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh yeah, because she has her own bait.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
She has her own baby who just turned one yet.
But here for the audio listeners. We're standing here with
Ian Erica and their dog Chico, Bob and Hanner and
their dog Zim Bingle in the back. By the way,
Bingle has lost like one hundred pounds. Yeah, he is
so hot and skinny.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Now, Bingle has put in the work. I think got
a tan as well.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
He's looking good.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Can't prove it, but I think he's gotten.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
He's looking good. And you know what good thing I married,
because he just came out and I'm telling you he's
looking I mean, he's a hearty, loves video games. You know,
we can play games together. We can bro out anyway.
Then we have Kim's mom, Kayla and Matt, who unfortunately
did not bring the head doggies. But Kayla was the

(06:11):
one that I don't imagine.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
That drive would have been a nightmare.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's a long drive. They drive three hours to come
hang out with us all the times.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Did that drive once and I was like, we've.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Done it twice once for their wedding. Oh and their wedding,
I was sick, like I was like COVID sick. And
I told them I was like I am so so
I remember waking up and being like, I can't go,
like I feel I was like the most I've ever
been sick, and like I can't drive three hours and
Kim doesn't really drive those long drives, so I would

(06:40):
be driving. So I messaged Matt and I was like, look,
I'm so sick, I don't think I can come. Thinking
he'd be like it's okay, and he's like, it's an
outdoor wedding. Well, quarantine in the course, it's an outdoor wedding.
You'll be fine, And I was like, see you there.
So I drove six hours that day. Yeah, I don't
know how I did that.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah that was brutal and obviously the wonderful, gorgeous woman
of the hour carriage. Yeah, but you look so pretty
such a nice dress too. Then me and then Dalla
and then Kip and Live Live was the other one
that helped us, or helped Kim and get Caleb on
this whole thing, and they did so I wish there

(07:19):
was more pictures in here, some of the stuff they did,
because I just took pictures of us. But they made
Live and Kip stuffed and made like twenty what's his name?
Slowly do you get a picture of the worms? They're
not in here? Well so, actually no, Bob's holding one here.
You can see there might be a better picture somewhere.
And then our neighbor from across the street, Calli, came

(07:40):
by too. She's very sweet. She wanted to be a
part of it. There's me and Kim. There's the girls
that put on the whole thing, and they did so good.
They this was okay. So I love this picture so much.
Kim and I are dying laughing because I went to
grabbed Kim and I didn't know where my hands were going.

(08:00):
I just just grabbed your boob.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
And then I think Kayla was taking the photos. She
just started taking the pictures anyway. I love that picture
so funny.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
And then me and kay well mostly Kayla, I'll say mostly.
Kayla made the little the props that were holding up
in the next one.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh yeah, these lights.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
She did the cardboard. And then we just stuck a
bunch of paper to them. Yeah, they barely tell. It's
multiple sheets of paper.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Much is scary. So there's all the boys and then
there's all the girls. Now a lot of people have
mentioned and said, well, not all people. I think Bob
mentioned it that baby showers are usually just for the girls.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
But I don't see why, because.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
You decided pretty early on that you wanted it to
be just everybody.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Because here's the thing everybody's having, with the exception of
like a couple people, everybody's having to drive this long
distance to come to this, And I'm like, why would
we not have all the same people that we had
at friends Giving?

Speaker 1 (08:53):
It was essentially friends giving too, it was friends giving
in the middle of the year. Yeah, and it was awesome. Actually,
it was so much on. It was so sweet, It
was so wholesome. It was nice to not it was
nice to not feel like I I had to do anything. Really,
I just had to kind of talk to people. I
didn't have to plan it. So I just realized. The
comment is the guy in the black black lungs leave

(09:14):
your brother bingal. I guess we do look similar.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
I think they mean Matt, Oh.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Matt, you know, Matt and I look very similar all
the time. No, I've I said that to you before.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Have very similar like head shapes.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, it's the same nose. I agree. I think Matt
and I look very similar. He could definitely be my
brother for sure. Bob. Every time I think he brought it.
Every time we do anything at my house, Bob literally
locks into my coffee machine for like two or three hours.
He just will be making everyone coffee.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
He's just bista Bob.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
He brought his own beans. This time, there's Chris wed One. Okay,
I snucker in.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh. This was so adorable, such a cool idea.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
This was again Kaylor and Lived planning. But they brought
a ton of baby onesies, all different sizes, bibs and
bibs and then letters and stickers and then paint that
like pen paint, and they had everybody design a onesie
and then we did a competition. Everyone voted for their
favorite and some and I think lives one up here
in the top right it says what the and there's

(10:20):
picture of a dove. And this was adorable. Hannah made
a bunch of them.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Hannah. Hannah went crazy talent that we did not know,
and that is she's very good at drum.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
I know, I wish I had some close ups here,
but she made one with the Teddy Fresh logo and
it's like identical the Teddy.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Fresh logan bought it like it's this one.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Has a bunch of PlayStation symbols on it and it
literally looks like official PlayStations.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Where she got the triangle stickers because I thought she
used letters and I got up close, I was like, no, that's.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Free hande Okay. She did the Triforce and this game
controller one too. Mine is the Dino one. I think
mine is my favorite. Which one was yours, Kim.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's the one with a little bear in the car
that just says.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Beep, Oh yeah, I don't know. I think it might
be covered.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I think it's no, it's next to the it's that one.
I think next to.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
The trip we should have we should have taken some Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we're taking some better pictures of that.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
That's okay. Everybody brought the dogs though, because I love
seeing everybody's dogs.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I also Kayla made I should have got pictures of everything.
But Kayla and her mom made these beautiful cookies like
it's their business and they're they're so good. The pictures
on them were all Richard stick scary characters. They were perfect.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Are you sure you didn't get a picture of the.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
I have pictures, but I didn't put I have an
uploaded Okay, well, I don't know if they're very cool.
And I felt bad for the dogs, so I went
and bought all the cookies and then all the three
of the dogs got there. There it is, Okay, there's
the one they made like twenty of those. Tell me
those don't look like a fish or Richard's scary.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's like something that you would have.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
To When she walked in with those, I was like,
where did you buy those? And she was like, I
made them. And that's something about Kip and Live and
our friendship is so bizarre because Live is an identical
clone of you and vice versa. It's and Kip is
an identical clone of me and vice versa. Yeah, and
like she made this what the duck onesie for example? Yes,

(12:17):
and you've bought both Kayla and Live packages of like
thank you gissing.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah. I wanted to get in little baskets because they
did so much stuff, and I'm like, well, I want
to do like a thank you basket. And so we
got them mugs and you picked out a Hello Kitty
and My Melody and then I accidentally dropped the Hello
Kitty one, so I had to go and get a
different mug, and I forgot all about it, like what
it said in it. It had like little pictures of ducks.
I got it from Joe Anne's and then she sent

(12:42):
me a picture when she got home. She goes, did
you remember that?

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I was like, no, yeah, it said what the duck
on the moment And.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's literally the onesie that she made.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Completely unrelated. And then like Kip and I so like
we played a game at the baby shower, yeah, where
there was a strip of like measurement baby tape. You
had to guess how big kid's belly is, and so
we had everybody guess and then hang on the wall
all these different sizes.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Of crazy range except for and Kip.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
And mine were identical to the millimeter, like we're talking.
Some people's were like a foot or two different and
ours were exactly the same.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Weird.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
It is weird. Our brains are bizarre. And not to
take away from our friendship with Kayler on Matt either,
because we love They usually go to bed so early,
and we sat up until like one am Saturday night
watching Kyla Saturday Night Live. Kayla was falling asleep on
the gall our. Thing lately has been well, that was good.

(13:41):
We were watching TV. But I thing lately has been
finding really bad movies and watching them together.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
We've found some gems last time slather House, haven't. I
highly recommend Velo Pasta yea very good look up.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Those terrible movies.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Delightful and they're getting sequels this year.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
So that was weird too. We watched back to back
one night recently. Oops, well let's just play the intro,
but I can't. I kept forgetting I was going to

(14:22):
play that anyway, so that kind of worked out. I
don't know if that sounded horrible or way too loud.
I couldn't hear it for some reason.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Sorry about that. Maybe you didn't even hear it? Did
you even hear that? Was that even audible to you? Guys?
Could have just been dead silent? Anyway, that was our
baby shower. Thank you for indulging us in that. Reuben says,
I thought this was the Nontendo podcast it usually is. Yeah,
I think it. I think it still is. There's a

(14:50):
big sign behind my head, isn't that?

Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's the slight tangent?

Speaker 1 (14:53):
What's your problem? What's your beef?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Like?

Speaker 1 (14:57):
He didn't like slaughter house. Yeah, it's the podcast is
supposed to be about, not us, Right, We're not allowed
to have any personality here. You know what, Kim, Just
don't be pregnant.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well it's a little late for that.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Just stop being pregnant. Just stop being happy and excited
for our baby. Terrible movie. I recommend Valhalla Rising. We
will put it on the list.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
It's terrible. Do you mean delightful?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Because it was all the movies we watched were delightful.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
They were so stupidly funny.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Don't forget how many days left? Oh you're so right?
Oh why can't I hear it?

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Only twenty?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Hold on, let me try that one more time. All
that I think this was a town? Okay, twenty days
remain until and yeah, only twenty They's is just shia
three weeks run and out of time. Also, the day
before is April first, so we're nineteen days away from
getting pranked, I'm sure by somebody, by a lot of people,

(16:08):
by companies, by organizations. Do you have a name picked out?
We are gonna tell you, but we have.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
We have two that we like, and uh, we're just
gonna wait and see what happens.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Basically, it's called Nontendo. It's not about Nintendo. That's I know.
I know you get it because you're a fan and
you listen to the podcast, But yeah, it is Nontendo,
not Nintendo, which is my little scapegoat anytime we don't
want to talk about Nintendo. Nontendo actually makes sense that
they talk about everything else but Nintendo. Exactly. Why why

(16:42):
are we one hundred and thirty one episodes in and
having to explain this to you guys?

Speaker 2 (16:47):
I think it's just a little jarring. If you join
late and you're just looking at pictures of a baby shower.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
I don't think and to that, I say, I'm sorry,
We're happy and excited. Actually I think it's episode one
thirty two. I think we the idea.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, I don't know what day it is today Thursday.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Five bucks. You thought about naming him link you get
five bucks, you.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Get five bucks. We were considering Lincoln.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
There is a reason why we can't do that, and
it's because, well, I can say.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
The reason why is because the middle name is my
granddad's na which is Franklin and Lincoln. Franklin Hawker sounds
like a law firm.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
So Kim says that every time I don't. That's not
even the reason for me, and I don't even hear it.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oh I do.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Lincoln Franklin Hawker sounds cool as hell and not like
a law firm. To me. The thing that I always
say it sounds like is link frank which is literally
literally just sounds like a hot dog. Now, if we
get a sponsorship or onto something. Now, I intentionally don't
want to talk about Nintendo apt for that one guy,

(17:47):
but we do have some things to talk about, so
we can dive in before this episode hits an hour
and we bail. Thank you to everybody that actually cares
about us and our lives. Thank you so much, love you.
They're almost wasn't an episode today.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
I'll have you know to be grateful for the crumbs
we give you.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
I can quit the show anytime.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
I live here. I could just close my laptop.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
I'm keeping it alive because I love doing it. But
I don't have to. You know that, right, Um, Okay,
let's talk about really quickly. I didn't actually did not
know about this, or if I need it. If I
did know, I forgot. But Nintendo San Francisco is getting
a grand opening in May. Apparently, they announced it last

(18:30):
May May four.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
I don't recall it.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, I do a whole podcast about sometimes Nintendo today
about a baby, and I don't remember ever talking about
this a year ago. Now maybe I'm I don't know,
I don't remember. But anyway, I have always thought it's
really bizarre that Nintendo only have one US store. Nintendo
is a sick place for it, but you would think

(18:55):
California is a prime spot for another Nintendo store.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'm surprised they're not doing it in Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I think San Fran makes sense. There's a lot of
stuff happening in San Fran and I think gaming related stuff.
And I'm pretty sure a kid and christ even live
in San Fran. Not that Nintenda probably picked it for them, but.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
They're headquarters there or something.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Uh No, the headquarters is in Seattle, which is another
thing where it's like it almost makes more sense for
them to do a store in Seattle.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I wish they would do another Nintendo museum.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
That would be really cool. California would be a good
place for that. I mean it would be California now
has the park, so putting a store and a park
in the same spot makes a lot of sense. People
that are coming in to check out the park will
also go to the store. Yep, yeah, it makes a
lot of sense, and I hope to visit it one day.
It opens in halfway through May May fifteenth, and obviously
our baby will be babying by that point. Out they'll

(19:54):
be crawling around by that point. You'll probably be even talking,
knowing my brainiac child. Okay, so I won't be traveling
for a while. I highly doubt i'll see this store.
I mean we could maybe plan a trip end of
the year start of next year, but definitely not anytime
after it opens. I've been meaning to get out there
because Kit and Christa want me to come do that

(20:16):
show I was supposed to do kind of funnies show,
and they're out there as well.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I say, there's something else with Vinnie. You're supposed to
do something with Vinnie.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Probably everyone lives in California, so you know, I would
love to go, but we're gonna have to time that
one out. So yeah, someone go check out that store
when it opens and send us some footage to show
on the show. It's located at three three one Powell
Street in Union Square. Oh my god, is that.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Gonna happen every time.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's just a fun transition between topics of this story.
I don't know how, I don't know. It's okay, it's
a it's a great new song and we love hearing
it all. Right, next up, now that we've done the
transition into this part of the show, the main topic

(21:09):
at hand, actually, let me do it. Let me do
a post check here on chat. Canada needs one. I
think Japan is the only place that has them outside
of the one in New York. I think that's it.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I do think that you could do one in a
major city in Canada, like Toronto or something. I feel
like it would do well.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
I mean, and Ntendo store would do well, I think
in any major city.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Probably, it just really it does. It does surprise me.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
It is weird, yeah, because I mean they they probably.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Because in Japan there's like ten stores. There's one in Yeah,
I don't want to stop listing them all and forgetting them,
but all of them, you know, like Osaka, Kyoto, uh Tokyo,
probably one or two more that I'm forgetting. Yeah, and
obviously Nintendo is huge here in America. There'd be no
reason not to slap one on either side. Of the country. Yeah,

(22:00):
all right, uh jump scare love the intro? Yes, sorry, guys,
I don't know what's wrong with me, buttons, I swear
I know what I'm doing most of the time. When
I live stream, there isn't issues. When I do the podcast,
I can't help myself. All right, this is and hopefully
when we cut back next time, the intro doesn't play again,
because that's what's doing it for some reason. Pokemon Go

(22:23):
the Niantic, the studio that made Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go
was almost ten years at this point, I believe it
launched in twenty sixteen, was sold in a three point
five billion deal to mobile gaming giants scope Ly. Scope Ly.
They also bought Pigman Bloom in that deal because Pickman
Bloom I think runs off the same u bass that

(22:46):
Pokemon Go does, where it's like a map of the
real world. Yeah, so they've sold both those properties to them.
Scopely owns Monopoly Goal and so there's a bunch of
it's different. I want to read the article, but there's
a bunch of different conversations going around here. One than
the main one, I guess, is what's going to happen

(23:06):
to Pokemon Go. Because it's uncommon for any game to
get bort out and then the new owner not make
a bunch of changes to try and make more money
because they want to justify the three point five billion
dollars they just spent and went. Apparently, and I'm not
super informed here, so chat you can let me know more.

(23:26):
But apparently when this company bought Monopoly Go, a lot
of the player base were very upset at the changes
they made and it became a lot more money hungry
and money grabby.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, they said the same thing about the Marvel game
that they bought as well.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, Kim was telling me that too, Marvel Striker's Force
or something Strike Force, some Marvel Mobile game. Never played it,
don't even know what.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
It is now. I initially thought it was the card
game that you played.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
No, that's Marvel Snap yeah right, yes, yes, And apparently, yeah,
same thing. They bought that out and then it went downhill. Yeah,
and I already feel like Pokemon Go was getting it
always was micro transaction.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Heavy, very pay to play e but it.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Was getting even worse. I remember, like I can't remember
all of it that I haven't played in a long time,
but I remember recently they added a thing where when
you went to go look at your eggs, they would
suggest you buy an incubator. I remember that was a
new thing. Rather than the incubators being hidden behind like
the in the shop, it would it would say, Hey,
you can use the one you have, or you can

(24:28):
spend money to get this one. I said, they were
they're pushing you more and more into these. And also,
by the way, the whole concept of incubators for eggs
was such an under the nose way of doing loop boxes,
like it's so funny, like it was such a perfect
way of hiding a loop box. But essentially that's all
it is. You're buying a key to a loop box.
The incubator is the key. The loot box is given

(24:51):
to you for free when you scan and skin stops,
and then you're stuck with them unless you buy a key,
unless you obviously walk a crap ton. But if you
want to open them quicker. You have all these like
loop boxes sat in your inventory.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yep, of them are duds.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Most of them are duds yet or they were always duds.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
I am so stick those pink and yellow eggs, get
them out.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
It's also silly, it's crazy to me because like other
games loot boxes, you'll open them, you might get a character,
or if you don't, maybe you'll get like some like
monetary return, maybe some like some gems to respend, like
get some of your money back, or some stickers or
X Y or Z. You know, it's like, oh, I
didn't get the guy I wanted or the hero I wanted,
but I got a banner or something instead of customizable.

(25:36):
But in Pokemon the eggs, you can't really stuff anything
else in there canon Lee other than Pokemon, So when
you've caught all the Pokemon and you've run out of
ones to hatch, you're stuck just getting repeats for some candy.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
And they won't let you delete the eggs either.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
No, and you can't delete the eggs.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
So bad because you could totally be getting all of
the new ones with the new Pokemon, but you're stuck
with all the pink and yellows, so you.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Just keep getting the same things related in a while
and again without reading this yet, and I want to
read it, but without reading this yet, the other thing
I wonder is what kind of information did this company
just acquire.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Because a lot of mapping stuff.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, well, Pokemon Goal.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
It was an indexing app.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
It was based on an indexing app they had, but
players for the last ten years have been using this
app being geolocated and geo tracked. They implemented a thing
where you'd have to go and take pictures of locations
and pictures of stuff. Yeah, you know, and then you
use your camera app. Sometimes people use the ar to
catch Pokemon and like the real worlds in the background,

(26:41):
their faces are probably in the apps. Like I don't know,
they take pictures in their homes when they play with
their little Pokemon and they pull them out. There's just
a lot of information people with information and world information
in this app that Niantic have just sold to another company.
And maybe Niantic had the best intention for all of
this information and this data that they've acquired, But you

(27:04):
have to imagine this company buying the game. I don't
know how long it's going to take them to make
back their money on just the game with micro transactions,
And I wonder if they had other reasons for wanting
all this information.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
I don't know, because if they got the Pickman one too,
and it's the same kind of mapping situation. I wonder
if it's like just some data that they wanted about.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, and just.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
In like what kind of games they could put out
later to make more money? Like what did people like
about these and what didn't they like?

Speaker 1 (27:34):
You know, I am wondering what they want to do
with this information. And that's a good point too, like
now they know the concept works, Now they have the infrastructure,
they could release their own Pokemon Go type game with
a different franchise.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Really, a lot of people have done that. There was
a Harry Potter one too.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
How would that work? O? What are you catching?

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Mythical creatures? It was the exact same thing as Pokemon
was just a skin. I don't think it was Niantic
that made it though. I think it was a different company,
but it was the exact same thing.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
According to this, there's a Monster Hunna one I'd never
even heard.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's what I'm saying. Like a lot of people have
put them out.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
But Monster Hunna now not go Now? When do you
want Monster hunt now?

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yeah? All right?

Speaker 1 (28:17):
So uh yeah, a deal with scopely acquiring Niantic for
three point five billion, bringing franchises like Go pick. Oh,
so Niantic Niantic was the one doing Monster HUNTA that's crazy.
I'd never even heard of it.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, me either.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
This is one other spinoff thing I want to have
conversation about. Here is real. People really don't realize how
big nintendois as a franchise. This is another reason why
I cannot forgive the way their games look. And I
apologize for continually going on that tangent. I'm making a
whole half hour video about it for my main channel

(28:51):
right now because I want to get my thoughts out there.
I'm kind of going in and I expect to get
a lot of pushback, so I do want I don't apologize.
I know that upsets like Pokemon fans, but you have
to understand most game franchises never even make three point
five billion in sales ever, and Pokemon and Niantic just

(29:13):
sold Pokemon franchise, sorry, a Pokemon ip a Pokemon game,
a single game for three point five billion. Now, you
could say that Monster Hunter and Pickman were in there,
but let's be real, Pokemon.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Money makers goes. Also, it baffles me that it's still
worth that much after almost ten years.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's why I'm saying I think there's more reasons why
they wanted it.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Well, yeah, but I mean it's it's.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
And I also wonder what Niantic would done, I mean
other than maybe they were like three point five billion.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
I think we are not gonna make that now. That
is crazy to make that and more, I don't over.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, I don't know what Niantic did before that, but
the Pokemon franchise and and them getting the opportunity to
make this game just netted them all billions of millions
of dollar.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
How much money they've made off the app in the
like almost ten years that they've had it, because.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
They're insanely rich. Now, nut's crazy. Yeah, they're like I
don't think, and I could be wrong, but I don't
think Zelda as a franchise is even worth three billion.
I don't think so. I know, I don't like the
entire franchise, let alone one little mobile spinoff game.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Pokemon is a perennial product. I think I.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Think Mario, the Mario franchise is worth like twenty billion maybe, so,
I mean that one's up there.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I could be wrong, actually constantly coming out with new
iterations for it. So in that sense, yeah, it's worth
more because it's going to continue on.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Top video game franchises. I just want to see, like,
what this one transaction of a mobile game kind of Mario?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:47):
So uh wait, this is selling the copy sold? I
want like a top video game franchise net worth? What
am I looking for here? Companies highest grossing I don't know,
I literally top. Uh, I don't know what I'm looking

(31:10):
for here? What did what? What did you say?

Speaker 2 (31:14):
I don't remember in a minute, you.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Just said it.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I know it's gone.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Now all right, let's just do this title Max.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Lego, Super Mario, Pokemon, Yeah, Final Fantasy.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
All right, we're just gonna I was trying to do
a Wikipedia, but we'll use this this article and stuff.
I mean, you know, you know, I don't know. I
don't know all of them. Uh, Mario's ninety billion a Pokemon, sorry,
ninety billion, Mario's thirty billion, Call of Duty seventeen billion.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Just look at the discrepancy between the first two numbers.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
I know, I know it. That's what that's part of
my video. Like, Also, do you want to guess Disney's
uh Disney's franchise net worth? Like that? Like how much
Mickey Mouse and Disney is worth?

Speaker 2 (31:57):
God? I don't even know nicol and dying here for everything?

Speaker 1 (32:01):
What was Pokemon ninety one? Nope? Fifty?

Speaker 2 (32:07):
What?

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yep? That I I can't stop talking about this. Pokemon
is the world's largest franchise.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Okay, then there's no excuse for your game shit.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
I thank you, Kimberlive. Sorry. I don't understand how people
ever defend it, ever defend it. The game game Freak.
I'm making a video about this game Freak is Pokemon, right,
the red and blue that's they made. That, that was
their idea, their concept, their ip at this point now,

(32:36):
in nineteen ninety eight, Pokemon, Nintendo and Creatures, the people
that made the trading card game, they came together to
form the Pokemon Company. They all owe thirty three percent.
So game Freak is Pokemon. They are Pokemon and the games.
When a game releases, that is the launching point then
for the new cards, the new anime, the new everything.

(32:57):
So the games are the first point of con tact
for the entire ninety billion franchise to succeed. There are
two hundred people working at game Freak. Two hundred, Kimberly.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Does that seem like a low number for you know
that you that's how much the company low.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
You know how many people work at Monolith Studios to
make Zeno Blade games that sell two million copies three hundred? Like,
I don't, I get it, game freak.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
You can literally afford a tree guy, just one guy
that animates all the trees.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yes, you could afford a tree guy. Yeah, game freak,
I agree, you should keep the company small. You know
Rockstar and all of that that they have thousands of
employees and that gets out of control. But you can
do two fifty. If your games look the way they look,
you can do Monoliths three hundred.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Get a guy that knows how to do texture.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
If your games are the launching point of a ninety
billion dollar franchise, then maybe, just maybe they should work.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
I just I don't want to. I don't. I don't
want to blow smoke up Disney's butt right now. But
I mean they did dreamlike Valley, and it looks good
and it's it.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Runs like ass on switch, but it.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Does Yeah, yeah, it does look it looks good, and
it's like, it can't be that hard to draw a tree.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Right. Certainly people are gonna pick this upot later and
tell me that I'm wrong for this somehow. But uh
know what I'm about to say. I mean the legend
of Zelder franchise period, dot point, full stop, everything Zelda
ever is worth three point four billion dollars, just shy

(34:35):
of what Pokemon goal was sold for.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
That is.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
That's how big Pokemon is Pokemon. I think about how
Zelda looks, by the way, how many people made Zelda
three hundred and fifty?

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Oh wow, yeah, you could do with a couple more employees.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Imagine if Game Freak had three hundred and fifty employees
like Zelda did, and we could actually get a Pokemon
game that looked like.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Zelder did Zelda. Did you borrow them for a week.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Here's the issue. And I've said this one thousand and
I'm spoiling my own video. Now. You are understaffed. Game
Freak not underfunded. Zelder has three hundred and fifty employees
on their new games, and they spend five years making it,
whereas game Freak has two hundred employees and they try
and rush out a game every year. Z and A.

(35:18):
I think they've been working on it for longer. I
think for at least a couple of years. They've pushed
it back. I also, but like, still, that's crunch, that's insane.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
There's another disappointment there where it's like, if you know
that you're going to be putting a game out every year,
you need more people to help you do that, because
if it's rushed every time, then that clearly means that
you didn't have enough help.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
I know they don't have enough help and they don't
ask for help. And unfortunately I hate to say it,
but I love to say it. They don't know how
to develop big three D worlds and three D games
for these new hardwares. They have not adjusted to the
switch to these these more home consoles. They've been making
handheld games until like two eighteen. They only just started
making console games, and they don't know how to do it.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
I just I feel like there has to come a
point where the bottom line is not necessarily how much
money can we keep?

Speaker 1 (36:12):
And it's oh, god, you know we're on such a tangent,
but I agree with you one hundred percent. My thing
is too, is that people say, yeah, but people still
buy the games. This is all in my video. I'm
ruining my video and my whole thought process, But yes,
people still buy the games. The last game sold twenty
two million. Yeah, despite how bad they were. Zelda sold

(36:35):
thirty million. Tais of the Kingdom sold twenty two million
or twenty five million or something like that. And we
know right now that franchise is only worth three billion dollars?
So why is it? Yes, people still buy Pokemon games,
but why is it Pokemon, the world's largest franchise only
manage and I say only, but get my point. Home
Based only managed to sell twenty million. Why are those

(36:58):
games not selling fifty million? What? Animal Crossing sold fifty million?
Mario coott Deluxe sold sixty million. Why is Pokemon, a
franchise that dwarfs Animal Crossing not doing insane numbers? Because
even though they sell, and even though the hardcore fans
will buy those games no matter what, there are way
more people, or at least they even if you want

(37:20):
to say fifty percent amount of people that look at
the games and go, I do I'm too old for these.
They They're too dated. Graphically, they look terrible, frame rate wise.
I can't stomach it. There are people that will put
up with it, sure, but twenty two million is low.
I honestly feel like if they had a three hundred
and three to fifty man team. They spent two or

(37:40):
three years making a game, and they actually made it
to the standard of any other Nintendo IP. You would
be looking at a fifty million selling game off the
back of just its own franchise.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
I think also the games that are put out once
a year are valued a lot less by consumers because
it's like, I don't really this one doesn't look that great.
I'll just wait for the next one that's coming out
next year, you know. But if you had to wait
for it, I feel like there would be more anticipation
for these Pokemon games.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
People bought Breath of the Wild and Says of the
Kingdom despite those Zelda games so better than any other
Zelda game by a Crapton, and it was because of
word of mouth. It's because the games were incredible. Anytime
you saw a gameplay of it or footage of it,
or you heard someone talking about it, they were saying,
it's the best game ever, and everyone wanted to buy in.
Why can't we have that for a company that has

(38:32):
endless resources, endless talent, polls to pull from. I don't
It doesn't make any sense to me, and people will
defend it to holy hell, saying well, if the games
are fun, it doesn't matter. And I agree the games
are fun. But they've been fun. They've been fun for forever.
It's the same formula. It's always game though.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
It's the concept of Pokemon that you find fun.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, it's the concept that's fun. But why can't we
have whole game? It's like, why can't we have both?
Asking it to look like you know, Last of Us
Part two Remastered seventeen, look like Naughty Dog Producers doesn't
need to look like any of that. I'm not asking
for it to look like any of that. I'm asking
for it to.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
The standard of your run of the mill Nintendo game.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Right now, you're so pregnant and you're so wise. Sorry,
this is such.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
A I've run out of patients, I think. Is my problem?
The baby ate all my patients? Baby eight your versions?

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yeah, yeah, all right, sorry about all of that. Not really,
but yeah, I am anyway, I'm not even gonna look
at the comments right now. I'm terrified. Scopely, it's the
studio behind a number of major mobile games. We'll look
in a second. I don't want to lose my train
of thought. In addition to the game Scopey World require

(39:45):
Niantics companion apps Campfire and Wayfair.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
I think those I could be wrong. I think those
are the base apps that the Pokemon Go is set on,
like the whole, like a da data tracking, while building,
geo locating of it all.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Wasn't it originally the app that they bought to do
Pokemon Wasn't it for hiking? I swa it was hiking?

Speaker 1 (40:06):
It was for something like that. It was just for
like it was an indexing app. It was for explorers.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, the company say that the game, the Niantics Gaming
Division has more than thirty million monthly active players.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
See again, I was baffled by that when I heard
that number.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
You know, that's that's across all that games. You know
most of that's from Actually I wouldn't even mind finding
out how much of that is from Pokemon Go. How
many monthly monthly Pokemon Go users are there?

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Uh? One hundred and forty seven million?

Speaker 1 (40:42):
The hell?

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Okay, these numbers are.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Very at Google's AI said.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Because down there it says one forty.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Seven This game had over one hundred and forty seven
million monthly users across May twenty eighteen, or over a
billion global downloads by early twenty nineteen and gross more
than sixteen billion in round number, So I mean. And
then Google's AI said at the end of twenty twenty
four they still had over ninety million monthly players. So

(41:08):
I don't know what to believe here. Also, I'll show
you all.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
The number that I saw in a video was eighty million.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Well, either way, numbers from even if even if the
lowest is thirty and previous highs were one hundred and fifty.
This just goes into my point more with how many
active Pokemon fans are in a game like this, like
in the in the tens of millions for a game
like this. Now, I know everyone has a phone, which
makes it easier. Everybody can whip out an app at

(41:36):
any time. Everybody gets bored these millions of people, and
Pokemon Scarvin Violet only sold twenty two million, Like, I
really feel like we can boost those numbers. You know,
we can boost those numbers? All right? Where were we here?
I think I was over here. Uh, there's no doubt
Pokemon Go is the star attraction of the deal. The

(41:58):
game has more than twenty million million weekly active players
twenty million weekly weekly.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
She's a different.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, the antic has expanded the game into live events.
That would I do actually love the live events. Never
been to one, but I love the idea.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
No, I think we we were accidentally at one one time.
The first time we went to Tokyo, there was a
mewtwo thingy and there was like.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
So that hundreds was just we went in twenty eighteen,
Kim and the game was still like hot.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Do you remember that guy on the bike?

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, I know, this guy had like ten screens on
his bike.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Crazy.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah, the game was just still hot and we were
in Tokyo and there was a mewtwo drop happening at
the time, yes, and people were going crazy on the streets. Now,
the live events are the ones you buy tickets for
that they have in like New York City and stuff,
and you go to you go to the park and
you you will meet up and it's like a paid
like fifteen dollars.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I wondered what you got when you did stuff like that,
because I don't know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
There's like old shinies and like exclusive drops and you
get a bunch of like free and stuff free you
paid for it. Yeah, but you know what I mean,
it's a whole thing. Okay, here's a segment of Niantic
saying that they, uh, let me. I'm trying to skim
it because I've been talking about it for so long,

(43:15):
but it's an incredible joy to serve hundreds of millions
of trainers in our real world community for the last
ten years. I also wonder if they got sick people complaining,
because people would complain every time they did anything. There
were so many complaints about the game, which a lot
of them were fair. I remember when when COVID was happening,
they introduced some really cool concepts, the remote raids and

(43:37):
a lot of remote things, and then kind of before
COVID was fully dealt with, I remember they reversed a
lot of it. Yeah, and it was like a lot
of what they It was almost better the way they
had it during COVID because you could actually play. You
could still get out and be active, but it made

(43:57):
it a little easier to play.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
I remember that one pass the day, and I really
don't feel like that's that much to ask for.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
I think you still get I think they left some
I don't remember. When we're not active enough anymore.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
I don't know if they still do their remote raid passes.
I saw people complaining that they don't, so they must not.
I don't.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
We still open it every now and then, mostly if
we're out at lunch or dinner.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
If we're waiting on food.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
We're waiting on food. Yeah, we'll open mostly to see
if there's like a stop near us or a gym,
if they've.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Added any new Pokemon or whatever.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
But that's really I mean, we've been through winter the
last six months, but that's really all we play. We
haven't gone for a walk with it in a long time.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I'm done giving them people money.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
For me, it's kind of boring. I'm going to be honest.
It's been ten years. It's just kind of boring now.
You know.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
It also drains the crap out of your phone battery.
It can, it does for me.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
A few games in the world have delivered the scale
and longevity of Pokemon Go, which is reach over one
hundred million players just last year. It's crazy. In connection
with the deal, what remains of Niantic will be spun
off into Niantic Spot.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
I probably should mention this too. I haven't read it
in here yet and chat's probably been blasting it. I
haven't seen, but I believe the team at Niantic is
staying on. Okay, I believe that was something I read
and that I forgot, so that the job. Yeah, I believe?
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Chat?

Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yeah? I think Let me cut away.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
It says they're forming a new side company.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
In connection with the deal. What remains Niantic will be
spun off into Niantic Spartial, Inc. A new geospatial AI
AI company to be led by founder John hank uh
will continue to own the game's ingress. Niantic Spatial will
continue to own the games Ingress Prime and Perry Dot. Okay,
so Niantic the company has relinquished the rights to POKEMONO

(45:53):
and this new Niantic Spartial that they formed will not
own it. But I do believe I heard somewhere that
the original development team is staying on. Ah.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
I don't see it listed there, but.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Uh, hold on, let me check chat and see if
I'm right about that. I don't see it in this article,
but I might have missed it. Chat, Am I right
about that? Do you guys know?

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Is?

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Uh? Is Niantic the development team working on the game
they stayed Have they stayed on with the new ownership
or have they moved off as well? What about the
Pokemon cons That's that's a whole different thing. Yeah, I'm
gonna wait for chat to see if they can hit
me with that. I'm not sure though. The team is

(46:38):
staying with Pokemon goal. Yeah, okay, so it's the same
team now, it's good. That is good. But when it
comes to the new ownership and management, they can still
they are the ones. The new management. Other ones are
going to be like, hey, we want to have micro
transactions here, or hey can you do this? Can you
do that? The team will still be doing the stuff,

(46:59):
but they might not. I don't think they have the say,
I mean as.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
The knowing that. So I think it's pretty cool that
they still work.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Well, well, yeah, it's cool they still have their job, yeah,
one hundred percent. I mean I hope, I hope they
got a bonus or compensation out of this deal, right,
because yeah, I don't know how all that.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Company just made a ton of money, so you would
hope that some of that would trickle down to who
actually developed it. But we'll see.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
So yeah, I'm not totally sure how all that works
and what the situation is there, But I don't think
the team calls the shots. So while we'll still have
the same people coding it, I think it's still you
still want to keep an eye on the management there
and see what happens with any kind of new micro transaction.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I feel like you're going to see some new micro
transactions because that just seems to be what most mobile
games do.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
I mean not to draw a parallel to something uncomfortable
to talk about right now, but it's the same as
you know, when Musk took over Twitter and well, let's
just keeping it, just keeping at face value here and
focusing on the money. He spent like sixty billion dollars
to buy it or something, and then immediately realized, I've
got to make that money back. And like Twitter was

(48:10):
making money at the time, but when you buy in
and you invest all that money, you want to make
it back quicker. You don't want to wait like ten
years to get your projected sixty billion back. You want
to get it back year one.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
I feel like they're going to have to start implementing some.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Me He implemented a ton of things like paid verification,
all of that stuff that he did that arguably ruined
the website. That was on the back of trying to
make that money back, so we and we could see
the Pokemon. My point is we could see this company
do the same thing, though.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
It doesn't necessarily. It sucks that there's going to be
micro transactions, but there's always micro transactions with these mobile games.
It would be cool if the micro transactions were worth
the money. That would be nice to see. If you
get like instead of the little eggies, you get a
loop box or something that.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
I don't have to don't encourage them to add loop
boxes because it's a slippery, slow, stipid little.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Adventure boxes are like fifteen dollars anyway, No, he gets
like two incubators and some pineapples. At least give me
like this box might have a shiny Pokemon in it, you.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Know, yeah, it'll be It'll be interesting to see what
they do with it.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
A shiny egg would be a shiny egg.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
That would be you have to walk like a ton
at hatch it. But a guaranteed shiny will upset the
fan base. I'll tell you that now. The fan base
hates when you make shiny hunting a guarantee or an
easy whereas Ham today is he okay, yeah, I'm I
think I'm not I think I might be getting sick,
so I was worried about him getting sick again. Pokemon.

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I'm gonna be some comments here. Someone said, go to
the DMV towards closing time. They're behind in the episode. Now,
I know they will be I know they'll have to
see me, But that's the worst time to go because
you're going to be in the back of the queue.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
You're going to be there with all the people that
just got off work.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
Yeah. Game freaking Pokemon. I totally agree. Could make a
game that looks great if they wanted to. So that
says they don't care. Yeah, they don't. I don't know
what the deal. I don't know what the deal is.
I couldn't know what I couldn't figure it out in
my video. I tried doing a bunch of research, and
I don't know why they don't care about the way
the game.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Looks because people are still going to buy it anyway.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
But as I said, and as I point out in
my video, yes, people will still buy it, but they
would buy double And you think about how much money
the anime and merchant all of that makes on the
back of a game that sells twenty million, imagine how
much all that could make on the back of a
game that sells fifty But.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
You also have to look at their bottom line, which
seems to be all they're concerned was, to be honest,
is they've made so much money with like very decent
profit margins for themselves. I think making a better game
and having more people develop it is taking a risk
to some extent because you're having to spend more of

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the money that you wanted to keep.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
So I do wonder if that's what they're thinking, And
clearly something is happening, so you're probably right. But at
the same time, even one hundred people to hire one
hundred extra people for a company like that is a
spit in the ocean. Even if they manage to push
out like a million extra copies other than twenty two million,

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they make twenty three million, they make the money back.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
On that investment money back.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
And they have to know that. They have to know that.
I feel, especially with Nintendo owning a third of the
company and having a third of the say in it,
they can look at their own examples of Zelda and
what happens when they invest extra time like a five
years in development and an extra team. They know what
game development looks like. Surely they're looking in at the

(51:46):
company and going, hey, guys, we can give you fifty
more people. We can give you the money for fifty
more people. Like, what is happening here? I feel like
the I feel like you're right, that does make sense
for any other company, but just this one has never
made sense to me.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
I think it makes sense. It's just disappointing.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
Because you know, those you hots and parties aren't cheap,
said Ryan, Yeah, crazy, Sorry, what are you gonna say?

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Honestly, cannot remember. I think it's just, you know, it's
disappointing as someone who enjoys the franchise and seeing all
of the other stuff, get the money put into it,
you know, yeah, and to just see it not go
into the original reason why it exists.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Well the other thing, I'm ruining my whole video. So
I hope you guys still watch it. Think about literally
any Pokemon merchandise or anime or spin off or anything.
It's all the highest of quality, as it should be
for the brand. The Pokemon cards, they're beautiful. There's so

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many of them. Some of them are so pretty and
gorgeously drawn and illustrated that people put them in cases
and protect them right and get them PSA graded, and
they're worth a lot of money because the art gorgeous.
You look at the animes, even like the spinoff animes
like Pokemon Concierge, this gorgeous stop motion animation like Top
of the Lines doesn't stop motion, and that's for a

(53:12):
spinoff anime. And they invested that money and that time
and that effort and that energy. The plushies are high quality.
You can always tell when you get a knockoff. You've
got toys, you've got everything, everything, everything is the top
quality that you would expect from a ninety billion dollar brand.
And you would expect no less from any of those franchises,

(53:34):
and gamers and Pokemon fans and Pokemon fandom would expect
no less from the Pokemon cards, would expect no less
from the Pokemon nimes. But when it comes to the
video games, the Pokemon fans and the people that stand
true to them, they expect less and they're okay with it.
And it makes no sense to me. It makes no

(53:55):
sense to me why you can't be critical of it,
why you can't point it out and why you can't
why you can't expect more while still enjoying the games.
I completed the Pokey decks in Pokemon Archias and Pokemon
Scarlet and Violet was the one. I had fun doing it.
But the whole time I was doing it, I there
wasn't a moment that I was fully immersed in the

(54:17):
game world, losing myself as a player and as a
fan of the game and with nostalgia. There wasn't a
single moment where I felt like I was in the
game having fun, because every single moment I was like,
there's a glitch, there's pop in, there's loyal resolution textures.
This is ugly. That's ugly, this frame rate is tanking
right now. There wasn't a moment I could fully immerse.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
It's just it's really difficult to look at, is what
it boils down to. It's difficult to look at because
you know that they could afford to do it better,
and it's difficult to look at just because it's ugly.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Someone in Chad just said, is wood going bolder? As
I sat here with too much hair?

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Where would you be going bold?

Speaker 1 (54:55):
I don't know. I made a joke in a recent
video about losing my hair, But I don't think I am.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Actually, I think you're.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Sometimes I wonder if my hairline is receding, but I
think it's always looked like that.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
You've a scar there that has I've always seen that's true.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
Yeah, I think my hairline is always looked like that.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
Yeah, and that's normal for most men. I feel like
mine's similar.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
To be honest, I am. I am thirty. How old
am I four? Five? This year my dad went bold,
and his like twenties. My dad was a cubal by
the time he hit thirty, and I always hip well.
I always figured I'd lose my hair one day, and
I've kind of always been okay with it because I
always thought my dad looked fine bold.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
I think most people look better bald than hanging onto
that toilet rug situation.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
No, I don't think I am, But honestly, if I did,
I wouldn't be. I wouldn't I think you'd look fine.
My hair is not like my entire personality. I just
like my hair. I do often actually think of cutting
it because I think all the time like I've gone
through my entire twenties and thirties not knowing what I
look like with short hair, and it would be nice
if for a little bit I had that experience of

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having short hair.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Well, you just recently got rid of the sideburn.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Yeah, I did. Actually, yeah, that's true. It looks really
maybe that's what they're talking about, I think. So I've
always kept my sideburns down to here. Yeah, And I
recently was looking at myself in the mirror and I
was like, why am I doing that? Why am I
keeping sideburns? Like is that like a nineties thing? So
I just tried to shave them off. And I actually

(56:26):
much prefer the way.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
It looks cleaner and it makes your head look smaller.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
So now my hair stops here. Apparently my head was
huge before it. Call.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
No, it's just weird how it like slimmed down his head,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Yeah? Uh, ten dollars from Alexis. It's Fernando. Hey, Fernando,
I miss you, buddy, your long haired brother from Houston, Texas.
Congratulations on your channels and your new life you and
Kim are bringing into the world. God bless your baby
names Link or z Elder. Well it's a boy. But yeah,
we didn't finish well, maybe we did finished that conversation,

(56:59):
but is on the roster for baby too. If there's
a baby.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Too, there's a baby too.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
I gotta be honest, I don't think we're ever gonna
want to go through this again.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
I well, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
Pregnancy is beautiful, but my god, it has looked so hard.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
It's difficult. But the thing is, it's different for every person,
and it's different every time, so it's really a crapshoot.
What you get can you get?

Speaker 1 (57:27):
By By the time the sun goes down, usually is
in so much discomfort and pain and kicking her so
hard that it's it's hard to like it's hard for
you to do anything, and then hard for us to
do anything as a couple. Like for the last few months,
once sun down hits, you're pretty much in bed and
it's like that.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Pain is so bad, I literally can't even sit on that.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
I miss you because like I try and sit with
you in bed as much as I can, but if
I sit in bed, I fall asleep. Yeah, And like
I can't be sleeping all the time, so well, I
literally we've gone from hanging out most nights to not
seeing each other until I come to bed.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
We usually have dinner, and then some time after that
if we've watched an episode or something, then then I
go to bed.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah, And I don't know. I just just
watching you in this much discomfort too, is really hot,
and like not being able to do anything to help
other than off it and make you like a hot tea.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Yeah, there's literally nothing you can do.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
It's just I just feel so bad for you.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
And you can't take pain medication either, and it's like
a whole year of your life almost.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Yeah, we're gonna do that again in like what a
year or two.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
This is the thing, Like I it puts so much
into perspective for me. But like the older generations, like
my grandparents were like one of fourteen, you know, and I'm.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
There, huh fuck, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Yeah did they do that fourteen time?

Speaker 1 (58:49):
And I'm expecting this baby, by the way, to be
a loving menace because of how much he is moving, kicking, rolling, hunting, yeah,
pulling on August, I'm honestly expecting him to be running
by the time he's three months old.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
He seems advanced and.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
To be a terrorizing toddler for the cats. I think
we're gonna have our hands full with this guy, I
just get there.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
I think he's gonna be fine. It's just uh yeah,
he kicks all day.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
Just don't do a man bun. I hate to tell you, buddy,
I'm any day ninety percent of the day because as
much as I like having the long hair, especially like
down for videos, it's impractical. It gets in the way,
like it is always right in front of my face.
I'll be trying to shoot b roll like for work,
and like my hair's in the camera lens. If I
try and eat with my hair down, I'll get hair

(59:42):
in my mouth. I can't work out with it down
because it'll get all sweaty and make me like overheated.
So honestly, most of the date, ninety nine percent of
the day my hair is up like this. I literally
take it down to do the podcast and then I'll
put it back up the second it's over. And this
is me most of the time. I hate to tell you. Actually,

(01:00:05):
for the first few months, it's going to be poop
them ups. Get a diaper subscription service. Oh, I have
heard actually those were good, the subscription service that. Yeah,
they I think that I could be wrong. I think
there's even one that take away the dirty diapers and recycled. Yeah,
I don't, we don't have to do that, but there's
a there's a there's a service that will drop off

(01:00:25):
diapers to your door weekly so you don't have to
constantly be trying to run out and get.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I guess I just always thought you would just like
order those on Amazon on a monthly subscription for that.
But I saw a video of a lady and I
kind of want to do this too, just for fonzies.
She showed like the month and how many diapers they used,
not you did show they use ones, obviously gross, but
like the number, and she was like, the first month,
one hundred and forty one diapers, and it was like,

(01:00:50):
that's crazy, that's that's an absurd amount of.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Yeah, we did not realize how many diapers you go
through with a baby.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
That's something I've ever thought about because we never were
like adamantly trying to get pregnant, So it's it's not
like things that I've googled until now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
We have. We have quite a few super chats here
and I wanted to grab a couple, but this laptop
has started taking a giant crap. Thankfully, I'm not streaming
from this laptop. I'm streaming from that one. Yeah, but
I can't get this one to move. I think it's
time to throw this away.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
This is the one get a new one, and you
just never do.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
I don't remember when I got this, but I think
it was like when we first got together in the
first house. I got this laptop and it is dying.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
We did because we went to microcenter to get it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
It is dying like and well I think it was
pre owned.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
As well, yeah, almost ten years old.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Then I literally only use it for the podcast because
I need two laptops and I only have one good one.
I clicked like ten minutes ago, and it's still I
can't even bring up my show notes and talk about
anything else I had in my show notes.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Can I just say how frustrating built in obsolescence in
this day and ages?

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
Things that are made to not be functional after a
while because they want you to buy a new one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
You know what's so funny, Kimberly, One of my show
notes that I can't get to right now is a
article about how super Nintendo's apparently are getting faster with age.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
That's so fun.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
That is such a perfect ductail into what you were saying.
I don't think I can click on it. I just
clicked on the on the tab. We'll see how long
it takes for it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
To actually load that tab, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
I can't let me bring it up on my phone
and I'll just we might not be able to cut
to any uh frozen yet it is completely it still
hasn't loaded that tab.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Well, the chat also is threatened it. See this is
what I noticed. If you try to open something in
a different technology format, it scares it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
It still hasn't loaded the page though.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
It does that to me when I try to open
SIMS on my old ass computer and I hit task
manager immediately the game loads. Sorry, sorry it took so lot.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
His for me. It's if you control at delete all right, yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Pulls up task managers. You threaten it with ending process
and they're like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
No, It's like wait, no, I promise I can.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Don't be good. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
It's like loaded, but not really. I'm just gonna read
it here. In a bizarre ton of events, it appears
the oldest Supernintendo consoles are actually getting faster with age,
rather than degragating completely or degrading completely. Sorry degregating, yes, sorry,
I don't know where that came from. This was on
Blue Sky actually from their own preliminary testing. This is

(01:03:48):
from a Blue Sky user t as bot Uh. It
seems as if the Nest was actually getting faster with age,
as they explained, the main two to one m h
z zpu clock uses a quartz crystal. It is fine.
The twenty four point five seven six MHz APU clock
uses a ceramic resonator. It is not. It seems to

(01:04:11):
run faster years later. It also seems to speed up
when warm. We should find out how real hot plate is.
I don't really understand any of this. I guess the
point is with age and as these consoles get warmer,
maybe the Supernintendo is actually able to run things a
little faster. I'm not sure how you determine any of that,

(01:04:34):
and I can't pull any a bit up to find them.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
It's like, I wonder if there's a reason some.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
People are crazy with just randomly testing like old things
like this. Yeah, but I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Yeah, it's interesting information to have. I just don't know
how they come about finding it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
No, and also I don't know if there's any like
video proof or this guy's just saying, hey, I tested it,
I promise Superintendo apart and was like, whoo, anyway, there's that.
I just thought it was.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Interesting, well not similar, but it's the it's the opposite,
and it's disappointment. Really. Uh, there's a certain type of
DVD that no longer works because of this degradation no
degenerationation know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
But oh Ki Kim got me this today. I've been
looking for this DVD for years. It's so hard to find. Yeah, sorry,
you were saying, no, that was it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
What I swear They said it was Lionsgate DVDs and
there was like a specific reason why, but they didn't
work it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Kimberly, let me tell you about this. I don't know
if it's true. People have always said this, but disc rot.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
That's what it is. Yeah, they're saying disc rot. Ye.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
So apparently old discs, old DVDs at some point will
just degrade away and stop working. I think some people
have estimates on time. I don't think it's really started
happening yet. It has, it has.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Those are That's why I found out about it because
a bunch of people were talking about it. Okay, I
have to find out like this. You could probably just google.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
It, but I wish I could try on my phone.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
But yeah, just type in lions Gate this disc and
see what comes up. I don't remember the reason, but
I do think it's kind of crappy that we're going
to be losing physical media forever now, and like the
stupid streaming apps don't have everything. It's just there's so
much stuff that's going to be long.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
No, it's funny. This is actually a Reddit thread from
six years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
Oh, I heard about it yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Everything I just pulled up was from six years ago.
I read something recently that six years ago. This was
that older Lionsgate Blu Ray title stopped Blu Ray. There's
a new being Readable or something along those lions I
just popped in the Devil's Reject, which I bought a
couple of years ago and never watched, de sided checking it,
and sure enough it comes up with unrecognized disc. So

(01:06:57):
was Lionsgate just using really cheap discs?

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
I think that, yeah, probably, But.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Yeah, Kim, all of these games that I have, one day,
I don't know how long, but one day they will
all stop working. Supposedly, they say that about cartridges too,
that cartridges are supposed to grade away, and those are
all still currently working at least for the most part.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
I think it depends on the quality of the product. Also,
because you look at old games like old Sega games
and old Nintendo games, they all still work. I think
the quality of the product was better before.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
Yeah, I mean yeah, the different DVD qualities will definitely
make an effect. But I hate to be the one
to tell you guys this if you don't know, because
I try not to think about it. But this is
another one of those we have the conversation a lot
of physical first digital. This is another one of those
ticks in the favor of digital that digital buyers will
say that, hey, physical is great, you have the game.

(01:07:54):
One day you won't though I don't know how long
that will be, but eventually those games just won't work anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
It's just unfortunate, honestly.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
I mean, yeah, I think a lot of it, though
I think we will outlive a lot of it. I
wouldn't be surprised if a lot of my games that
I have now will still work when I'm seventy or eighty,
you know, Yeah, Like I'll pass them on and maybe
they'll stop working in in this guy's lifetime, you know,
I we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Yeah, it's just yeah, the whole obsolescence thing is incredibly unfortunate.
I think originally the tangent was because of your laptop.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
Yeah it was. I need a new one for sure.
I've been wanting to get a Mac anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Yeah, the MacBooks are nice. You go on from Costco.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
So we're past an hour, so we can I heard
what you said. Yeah, we can go Costco. We get
a hot dog while with there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Oh no, I don't mean you want to go today?

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
No, no, no, okay, we should probably go before the
next episode though, because this one does seem to have died.
I use hands when Ham comes, but he's not here.
I don't have one. Yes, the only other things there
was a few things I had, but we can save.
I can save it for the bonus. You don't even
have to do the bum The other thing I did
want to touch on selling my Tesla because I mentioned
it at the start and it's really quick. I was

(01:09:05):
also going to give my thoughts on Assassin's Creed, Monster Hunter,
frag Punk, and then even a little bit on Marble Rivals.
Just some games I've been playing recently, but if you're
not interested in that, I could also just save that
for the bonus.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
I'm still here so we can do the bonus.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
I know, but making sure I yeah quickly. I just
want to say, and I don't want to make a
big deal about it, even though part of me does
want to make a big deal about it. I've been
trying to decide if I should tweet it or not.
But I mentioned on the bonus episode last week I
was finally getting rid of the Tesla, and I think
everybody should, you know, if you can give give it

(01:09:43):
a shot. But I got mine a few years ago,
and I mostly got it because well, it was post X,
it was back when Twitter was a thing. And I
mostly got it because I was having really bad driving
anxiety and I thought the car driving itself would be
for me. And I gotta be honest, I loved that
car for the first year or two. I'm not really

(01:10:05):
a car guy, so I didn't really know while I
was driving it that it drove like, for lack of
a better word, shite, like it was really bad to drive.
I remember anytime someone got in the car and I
had to make a hard turn, and it like it
would crunch on a hard lock turn and they would
be like, why is it crunching? And I'm like, they

(01:10:25):
do that. I don't know that they have terrible turning.
I don't know what to tell you. The handling is awful.
But then everything going down recently online, you know, I
was like already thinking, for a minute, I should probably
get out of this thing. I don't want to be associated.
I don't want the the swast car you know that name.

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That was my main thing. That was my breaking point.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
I also just feel like it's a very similar to
the Pokemon situation. You have all this money and yet
the product is cheap.

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
Yes, that is just so much for the car was
so cheap. The interior was so cheap. I had to
replace the steering wheel because it peeled, it came upon.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
I'll do that to the point where they'd give you
a warranty on.

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
The wheel, which I did know. I bought a new
one from a third party aftermarket.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Didn't tell you that it cost me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
So much money. And then I found out the wheel
is always under warranty because Tesla knows that it sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
How about you just make one that doesn't Peel.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
Anyway, the car sucked and I was already hitting my
breaking point. Then the thing happened, and then that was
my breaking point. So I was looking into getting rid
of it, and I actually found a dealership that was
willing to trade it straight up for a car of
equal value. It was a really weird transaction because we
met this guy somewhat random because he was like five

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hours away, so we met in the middle and uh,
we just got in each other's cars, swapped titles, and
went our separate ways.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
It was bizarre watching that colleague a giant Pokemon.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
But I went to test drive this car that I
ended up getting, and while I was driving it, I
was like, this car feels awesome to drive, Like it's
so nice to drive.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
And it was still a battery car.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
And the the it keeps blurring and un sorry about that,
and I think I'm looking here and not here. I
keep looking at myself in this monitor. The guy at
the dealership was like, yeah, that's because Tesla is a
tech company, not a car company like they made It's
a tech company making a car. They don't know how
to make a car, Like they know how to make tech,

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but not a car. And he was like, we're a
car company and we've made a car, and it was
it was at that moment that it just went off
in my brain. And man, I've been I've been driving
my new car now for.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
A week or two.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
I drive it every day, and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Because it's nice to drive it, like it's it's my.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
First nice car. And I've never been a car guy,
and I've never thought about like handling or the way
a car drives or the way a car feels, and
it's just so much fun and it's like, oh, this
is this is what a car should feel like. Yeah,
because before then I always had, like, you know, back

(01:13:13):
in Australia, I had like old like nineteen eighty six Silika,
which I kind of I kind of want to get
another one of those.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
The only reason as well, when I'm saying it, is
because I put the Tesla into a few videos somewhat recently.
I started hiding it after a while because I didn't
want to be associated, but yeah, I made it public
that I had one, and we talked about it on
the podcast a lot. So in fact, it was a
whole arc on the podcast of me trying to get one.

(01:13:41):
If you remember when the podcast started, I was talking
to Bob about wanting to get one, and then I
finally got one, So yeah, I just want to I
just wanted to say got rid of it, but thinking
about tweeting it, but I don't even like tweeting anymore,
so I think that's.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
The worst place to tell people you are your tesla.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Be honest, it was. It was perfect timing too, because
I got rid of it, and then it was like
a week later something happened, and then like a couple
of days ago, they were using the White House as
an opportunity to sell the car, which or endorse the car,
which is quite literally illegal. Yeah, it was just I'm
so happy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
It wasn't enjoyable for you anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
To have it. No getting it was getting a stigma
around it, and the car sucked. I lost from the
I lost like five tires in it. It was awful
to drive. It's full of so much tech, like being
able to make the seats fought.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Yeah, I would give up the fart seats and it's
like a turn that doesn't sound like I'm on a bicycle.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
Why do I Why do I have the ability to
make my seats fought? Why do I care about.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
It irritates me that that's what they spend money on
instead of a wheel that doesn't peel off.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
It is actually quite bizarre, isn't it. It's quite insane. Okay,
that's that, and then, uh, I guess I'll save everything else.
We have some stuff about Xbox. There's a new Pokemon
Clone game. And then I want to give my thoughts
on Assassin's Creed, Monster Hunt, a Fragpunk Mave Arrivals, these
few games I've been playing lately. I actually I think

(01:15:11):
Assassin's Creed might be in embargo. Still, I'm not sure
they gave me the game at No, it's not, Oh
not for another week.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
Oh I saw the poster at game Stop and assume.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
Yeah, no, they gave me the game a week ago.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
Oh maybe you're not. Maybe you shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
And I haven't seen anybody else posting it. But I'm
quite a few hours in at this point, and I
have a lot of thoughts and maybe I should just
do it in the bonus so that I don't possibly
break any embargo. Yeah, because, as I famously said on
an episode recently, I don't read things when I signed them.

(01:15:43):
If you give me a contract, for something I want,
I'll just sign it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
You got to read a little bit, I think I.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
To this day it has not affected me yet.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
It affected me when we got the insurance on my gee.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
What was that about?

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
But because it wasn't a jeep dealership, they wouldn't cover
literally anything.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
Yeah, but they they would weasel out of that no
matter what the thing said. They sold us a warranty
and insurance saying they would fix issues there for the jeep,
and then we and then when we got there with
an issue, they were like, we don't fix jeeps here.
They lied, They literally lied. That wasn't even me reading
the warranty. They just lied, yep. And also when you're

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at a dealership and you buy a car and they
hand you a thirty stack piece of paper on the
day and say sign here, sign here, sign here. Are
you sitting there and reading all of it? Does anybody
actually read all of it? What are you going to do? Say? No,
you're buying a car and you're getting the warranty. It's
what you're supposed to do. That's that's what they make
you do.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
Try not to get it didn't work.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
This laptop has completely died. I don't even have a
mouse anymore. I don't even know how I'm going to
end the show because I usually hit end streaming here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
Hit the open task bar.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
I can't even see chat to see if anyone's mad
at me about the Tesla thing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
I can't do it. I'm screwed. That's not I can't
and that's not gonna help me. You think it's going
to scare it into work. I did it and it's
not even all right. Guys, I don't know how this
episode's going to end, but I was just gonna give
it one of these then we're gonna get out of here.

(01:17:27):
Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you all.
I love you all. Thanks for watching the podcast. Don't
think it's a life, comment and subscribe, smash this video
with a life. And if you have a Tesla, by
the way, and you were like me and you didn't
know what you were getting yourself into and now you're
stuck with it, I didn't mean to make you feel
bad about that. I'm just saying that I feel much

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better about what I've done with my life. If you're
not in the position to be able to trade it
or sell it or get rid of it right now.
And you're and you're stuck with it and you hate it.
I'm sorry and I feel bad for you, but look them.
Calm on it and check out some local dealers because yeah,

(01:18:09):
I just straight traded like no money exchanged hands. It
was awesome. I can't I can't get this to work,
but yeah, I love you all so much. Like comment
subscribe let us know down below your thoughts on the
Pokemon stuff. Thank you, Kim Believe so much for during
this episode with me. I honestly would have cried without you.

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And I'll see you guys next time. You guys think that. Okay, Bye,