Never Been a Better Beastcast! - PAX East 2024

Join Vinny Caravella, Jeff Bakalar, Dan Ryckert, Abby Russell, and Alex Navarro for a live Beastcast Reunion panel at PAX East 2024!

Episode Transcript

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right, can't you hear me?Everything good out there the audio sky?
Think good? Hello. So wedid give out some postcards because we do
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everybody to take their phones out andgo to time dot is so we can
sync up. Yep. All right, okay, let's get this gone.

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This is how we killed minutes ofthis podcast. Yesterday is here we go.
Are you ready ready? H yeah? Okay, alright, there we
go. All right, what doyou guys say we start this? Let's
clap on zero five and zero seven? It great? Nope, dear bye,
not hear enough? All right,great, everybody's inside miss the second

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the show started. Okay, let'shope this work. Story of my life.
Hello everybody, and welcome back tothe number one podcast in the world,
The Giant Beastcast. I'm Benny Caravella, who here does not know what

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The Giant Beastcast is great. Itis the number one podcast in the world.
We were the first podcast out there. We remain the number one podcast.
I checked the rankings right before theshow. We used to be the
number one podcast in the universe,but it's been a while. We kind
of lost some rank. Turns outthe universe became a crowded place with podcasts

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in the seventy two years since wedid this. Since that time, let's
see what's happened. I left theGiant Bomb, Alex Brad and I started
Next Lander. Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah
yeah, clop for that. Yeah. I just want to remind everybody.
When I came over and we Alexand I started Giant Bomb East, my

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wife was pregnant with my daughter.She is now nine years old. So
I'm old and so are all ofyou. I've gotten way into skincare.
That's yeah, yeah, I gotolder and pop for that, thank you
very much. I lost forty poundsand I found it again. Turns out

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Dominoes was holding on to it.It's been great. Thanks everybody for coming
out and celebrating the Giant Piece Castwith us. The people on this stage
are amazing. Austin couldn't be here. He has a real job. He's
actually has work to do. Yeah, we're gonna just kind of go over
what everybody's been up to start off. Like I said, Alex Brad and

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I are doing next Lander. Youcan go check out. Is a little
selfless shame promotion, but you cancheck out what's getting together about every month
we rotate through. It's never beena better podcast over at next lander dot
com. Check clap for that.Yeah, yeah, thank you, please
clap. Yeah. It's just likethe Beast Cast, but what different theme
music? And you have to payfor it. Yeah, I did buy

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the license to this talk again.Get Yeah. Yeah, it was like
thirty bucks. Anybody can go getit. Dan, you also left Giant
Bomb. I did. Yeah,what you been up to? Oh I
work at Giant Bomb. After that? After that, no, no,
I'm currently a Giant Bomb. Okay, well that's uh. You did move

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a few times. Yeah, Iworked for wrestling for a little bit.
Yeah, and I said I shouldget out of wrestling. Why why would
you say, Oh, that's along story. Beyng an hour don't happen
to read the news on the dirtsheets. But I got out of there
and I'll come back at the giantbomb. How are things going. It's
great, having a lot of fun. How are things in the new house?
Fantastic? Back in the Midwest,loving it. It's cold, but

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I'm fine with it, okay.How it's being a homeowner good. I've
had to call you less frequently withthe second house. The first one was
more frequent. But yeah, youhave like little tiny lizards in your first
house. Yeah, salamanders were theissue with the first one. Now it's
woodpeckers for sure inside the house.They're about to be inside the house.
Are you sure it's not just somebodymessing with weight? They're about to be

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inside the house. There are likegiant holes inside the house. Yeah.
I got balloons hanging, I gotstickers of eyeballs on the side of the
house. I got all sorts ofstuff going on. Is your wife at
home? Just like boarding up thehouse, Like the woodpeckers are trying to
get in like fucking zombies. It'sour bedroom that they try to break into.
So it's like we will wake upto it's like the dog freaking the
fuck out. And so that's howI wake up with panic and like,

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oh god, the birds are coming. You're in like the lamest version of
the birds. Yeah, it takesweeks for them to get the slowest assault
on your bedroom that happen. Haveyou ever seen them? Oh yeah,
yeah, pilliated woodpeckers and you can'tout to merland downy woodpeckers. Also,

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these are all sex terms. Yeokay, tell me about your downy woodpecker.
They're the tiny ones there the Yeah, wait a minute, I see
what's happening here. It's a palechubb man, isn't it all right?
So are you into bird watching?Kind of getting into it? Yeah?
Weird, Yeah, we kind oflike a lot of us are. Yeah.
Yeah, you hear Dan's call.It's amazing. Finally you have something

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in common with Jonathan Franz and Idon't know who that is, a famous
bird watcher. Okay, yeah,So what other birds you got outside your
place? We got a lot ofAmerican robins, we got a lot of
cardinals. We got a lot ofblue jays, yeah yeah, yeah,
black caped chickadees. Okay, yeah, well I'll take your word for it.
I assume you're just pulling all ofthese from like Animal Crossing and mount

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actually looking at you. No,No, there's an app that you can
just stand on your deck and listento it and says like, oh that's
what that is from them from theaudio. Yeah, and it's do you
try to mimic it? Yeah?Okay, can you do it now?
There was definitely there was definitely apoint where me and Bank were like sitting
on a couch and loaded up theapp Cora crap and was like nothing at
all, very good, very good. All right, we're gonna keep moving

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down, Alex Navarro away good.I was trying to remember when the last
time I did one of these.It was probably twenty nineteen. I feel
like, like like a pack,like a panel and a pack and any
of that. Yeah, it's beena while. It's great to be back
caught for packs. Yeah, twentyyears old, almost as old as me,

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Alex. You've had you've moved also. Yeah, let's just say from
twenty nineteen to about last year,let's just fast forward a little bit past
some of that stuff, and nothingreally happened. Nothing really No, No,
I I moved. I left Queensfinally. I live in New Jersey,
just like you. Hey, youdo. That's what I'm talking about.

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I own a home booing New Jersey. No one ever does. That's
actually I think in Jersey that isa compliment. I think that that's true.
It's a very caustic state. Haveyou had to call Vinnie yet?
Yes? Oh yeah, I tooka toilet teed off like yeah. Yeah.
It took a little work. Yougot there eventually. It was two
trips. Okay, it was avery fan I pay Alex, I am

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like bear or anything. Fuck no, okay, yeah, I got friend
labor. Yeah yeah, I didget the buy tools, so that's payment
enough. Yeah, there you go. Do you have a license for those
I do? Yeah, I hadto. It cost me thirty dollars and
came with the beast cast. Yeahuh. And then there have been some
additions to our family. Oh yes, pop here, okay, if you're

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ready, I am ready. Ithink I'm ready. Some of you may
know are good friends hanging. Wow, those those listening to the audio version
Alex are actually abby. Could youdescribe this fun? Actually no back lark
cat Lover described this beautiful picture here. Yeah, it's just like a terrible
little house gremlin that wait wait,I'm like I'm a cat heel, That's

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what I am, right, youget the chief, Yeah, all right,
Alex, I'm sorry. Can youplease describe this wonderful This is our
cue fuzzy girl Tangyul, who isnamed after an animal crossing character. Wait,
is this the one that had thelike devil name? No? No,
not adopted Lucifer Morning. That's right. Yeah, I'm sure he has

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a very good home right now,Asmadeus, uh, dark Knight. Yeah,
all that. But we also addedanother one o. That one's cute.
I met Zeke for the first timewhen I came to your house before
we came here. Zeke is abeautiful cat. He looks like a fox
kind of. He has a giantbushy tail, but kind of short hair.

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And when you introduce new cats intoa household, you never know how
they're gonna get along. And I'mhappy to report after just a few weeks,
we have cat friends. We havea cheap cat briands, what does
that mean? Look at that?All right? This is a picture again
for the audio. These two catsare high fiving playing. Uh they're playing

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together, and that's it. Theydo a podcast. That one's explicit.
We can't show this next slide forthose listening at home, Uh, look
at these guys. It's like afucking Michaelangelo, Like, is that your
ceiling? Yes, those are calledfres I don't know whatever fresco think fresco.

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But that's kind of been my life. I live in New Jersey.
Now I have more cats and yeah, that's pretty much more taxes and a
lot more taxes. Yeah, that'sthe Jersey. And you pump your own
gas and it's great. Why whyis that? Why? Why? Because
in the winter you don't want toget out of the car and pump your
own gas. Everyone knows that.That's why you move to New Jersey.
Do you have to tip the gaspumper? What's up? Do you have

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to tip the gas pumper? Nextquestion? I mean you can, you
can, You can do whatever youwant. Yeah, okay, yeah,
pumping your own gas, pumping myown gas. I drive to Pennsylvania.
On the way back, you cando it. Okay, Oh you can
on the way back, you cando it. It's ok. It's something
I don't drive a lot, sodo something I look forward to. Stop

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in the car, I'm like,come on, guys, let's all get
out now, let's do it.Let's do the family pumping gas and then
they're like, Dad, do younot know how to do this? I'm
like, I definitely know how todo this looking down the nozzle. When
I moved to Massachusetts years ago,I remember being just absolutely aghast at the
various blue laws and things that wereapplied to this state. And New Jersey

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also has those, but they're somehowmore arcane and weird, but at least
in this state you can pump yourown gas. So I'm going to say,
in that very specific way, Massachusettsfucking beats New Jersey. Wow,
you are a more advanced state thanNew Jersey. Yeah, a lot of
gassy people. I'll raise my handfor that. Yeah, thank you for

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laughing. I pumped gas recently.I know it's weird, but I did
pump gas recently, And as soonas we started pumping the gas, a
freaking ad started playing on the gaspump. Oh was I on it?
I was like, what the hellis going on? You see me on
one of those ones? What's that? And you said you saw me on
like one of the gas station things? Yeah? You were like, dude,

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I'm in here trap now. Iwas at a CF they told me
to put the heuse on and theydigitized me and put me get me out
of here. No, I don'tknow if I ever saw you inside a
gas pump. I was on theTV on the TV. Weird fiction you're
writing nowadays? Where you are,Abby Russell? What kind of weird fiction
are you? Hello? Thank you, thank you? Wow? That feels

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good. Saucy fiction? What's that? Saucy fiction? Saucy fiction? Uh?
So you also left Red Vengers andGiant. I did, Yes,
I left, and then I movedto Los Angeles, okay, And I
worked at G four for a littlewhile, and there are a lot of
news articles to hear what that waslike. And now I work at Jackbox

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Games, which is great and Ireally love it. Yeah, and how
are things going in Los Angeles?So didn't you guys just got like a
cold snap recently? Like, wasn'tthere snow? It was like a whole
sixty degrees? Who was not snow? There has been a lot of rain
this season, Okay, I willsay, living in LA when it should
be relatively consistent weather, I feellike I'm seeing global warming in real time,

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you know what I mean? Likeit's like, oh, this it
shouldn't be like this. It's doesit feel like so you've lived all around?
You lived in Boston? Correct?Yeah, I went to high school
mere miles from here. Okay,in New York and La. Can we
get a quick you know, giveme your top three, top three.
I'm going to be diplomatic here andsay they all offer something different. I

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love the walkability, a lott abilityof New York. I love the energy
of New York. I love goingto bed at like eight thirty be in
l A and seeing nature and Bostonsucks. Oh that was awesome, Abby.

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I was sick Backlar. Hi,how you doing. I'm doing all
right? Yeah? Good, goodgood? So yeah, you you are
at Giant Bomb. Yeah. Iwound up getting over there as the chair
you were walking in. Yeah.We high fived on the way out Nature

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and Giant Bomb of bores avoid Soas soon as we're out of there,
he got sucked right in. Youcould call it that people haven't checked back
in. You're no longer with cThat's right, the cut still exists.
This is a real question I have, speaking of news stories, I believe
it does. And wait, wait, I think we bought a brother clip

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of Cnut. Should I play it. Sure, I think we do have
coming in and boom. So that'smy Uh yeah, that's my son murdering
a small child. For those Oh, you don't have to do that.

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You don't have to do that.I've met him. He's not that great.
This is a hockey clip children,and then a large child just obliterates
a much smaller child. And Jeff'svery proud. It's also I'm not.
It's not that I'm proud of it. It's just you are. I watched

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this in shock. To be clear, like when this happened, I couldn't
believe it. Are I'm filming it? I said? I said, did,
Like what was going through your mindwhen you did that? And he
said, I just pretended it wasdan record is no legal hockey maneuver.
No, it's without it out ofpenalty. Uh, come on, it's
just a good old check and no. But for real, I was and

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this kid, this poor kid,Oh my god, he laid on the
ground for like nineteen seconds. That'sa good bump. That's a good bump.
It was bad. No penalty.He got away with it, and
uh he was it looked like hedied. He completely stops moving crazy on
the other child too much, itgets it gets more fucked up, the
more and more around and are likegasping. One child's throwing up, the

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parents are crying. Just gip.When three seconds longer you see the pool
of blood coming out just is Ido want to point out there he just
looks down at him, watching,He looks down on him. He's like,
yeah, I also just want topoint out for anybody who's watching this,
and again for your if you're listeningto this, follow the puck.

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Yeah, oh yeah, just seeit just gives up. It's crazy,
it's fucked up. Look, thisis bad. This is not the kind
of hockey I teach in my home. I just want to but you're right,
you did actually make a pretty goodmetaphor here for what red Ventures did
to see me that got back up. I'm sorry. I think I got

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work for red Ventures? Is yourson? Ai? Yeah? Second,
I think I might have hit thewrong button, Osmond, I think I
might have hit the U. Theshow all the slides, show all your
business. I said, why didyou do that? Why did you do
that? You know that was bad, you shouldn't do that. And he

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said, well, he told mehe was going to hit me first,
and I was like, all right, no problem, no, no,
told Wait there was like a premeditatedHe's like, oh, he'd been chirping
me all games, so I figuredI would lay him out before he did
it to me. Boom, he'sbeen chirping all game. He's not it's
serious business. But this is atournament. This meant this meant placement in

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the all around here? Boom,all right? Move It just has no
self preservation instinct? Then how doyou keep doing this? Should I put
cats now? I don't know?Feel good? Doesn't it back? What
else is going on? Nothing much? Uh? You know, keyboards,

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pinball, all these things that areyour personality traits. That's it. And
just getting to spend a lot oftime h being home and playing hockey with
my son. Ah, do youget checked like this at home too?
No? I was funny. Hewas trying out for a team a couple
of weeks ago, and I wastalking to my buddy whose son is also
trying out, and I was like, Hey, this is probably like the

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last year we can fuck these kidsup next and next year they're going to
have our numbers, so we're takingin while we can. Okay, are
you are you, like, prettyexcited that your son isn't I mean,
you are a huge hockey fan.No, like, it's it's very cool.
He plays a lot of soccer two, which is, you know,
just as good of a sport inmy opinion, in so dry hockey as

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they like to call some hot hockeygrass hockey if you will. Yeah,
no, it's it's it's great.Uh, it's it's been really a bonding
experience for the family. And it'sthis kid had every opportunity to play hockey.
Whether or not he was gonna likeit is another story. Turns out
it's pretty good. Devils fan ofcourse. Okay, I don't know anything
about Oh yeah, okay, therewe go. That's fine. That's fine.

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You gonna make the playoff, youknow, it's fine. I don't.
I really don't have anything against theBruins except for Marsham, So that's
you know, okay, there yougo, go, Red Wings, there
you go. Sports people are sports. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
wonder Okay, I think somebody outthere was you know, respond to it

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Backlar, yeah, Abby, AlexDan uh And and Austin. It is
a pleasure to be here. Thankyou. Austin, very very quiet,
but that's how respectful Austin is.Yeah, it has been a pleasure to
be here. Uh. Dan.We were talking before the show, kind
of going over some stuff of likememories of of of the Beast Casts and

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our time at Giant Bomb, andI was recounting all those times that like
I was gonna do all these thingsand like remember, like I was like,
we're gonna do all this anime stuffand like you were like, since
when do you like anime? AndI said, so my icon on Giant
Bomb has been Christmas Goku since literallythe site was made in here? Was

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that act? Was that a thing? While I was there, like Giant
Bomb at the East at East?Uh Goku? I know who Goku is?
And and so you saying that isvery very great setup because Abby reminded
me of a stories a time.So in the beast Cast studio it was
a mess with a lot of funlittle trinkets every years, I said,

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a mess, okay, and itwas an immense mess men's mess, Yeah,
a very small immense mess. Anyway, there was a special edition Goku
Oh shit that was like in thebox forgot about really big, a nice
thing. And Dan was like,this is a little bit after Dan started
like watching the show and doing thepodcast, he was like, oh,
Goku and tears open the box,doesn't open the box, tears the top

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of the box completely off. Andthen he's like, that's mine, which
is so insane, because mister,everything I own is sealed in a box
forever. It had been sitting onthe shelf, like just sitting there for
day. It had to be likein a mail bag, and I thought
it was for me or something.Nope, nope, it was like there

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the day I got hired, beensitting down like, oh, this is
awesome. Someday I'll open this up. It on the shelf, but it
looks really nice. I'm just gonnakeep this on the shelf. And I
come in and it's just the topof the box. It just stripped open.
I'm like, what happened. He'slike, Oh, I thought there
was a Goku in there. Ithought he needed help. Yeah, So,

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how has your anime journey been?Oh, I haven't watched anime a
long time. Fantastic. Here's thething. I don't dislike anime by any
means, but it's like I watchedDragon Ball, I watched my hero.
I don't think I think they keptmaking seasons. I watched like five of
them Neon Genesis, Evangelion. Ithink I said that, right, I
like that one. That one's reallygood, That one's fucked up, did
you know that? Okay, thatone was fun. I think that is

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the extent of my anime. Ohin Meddle your solid, can you watch
one wrestling? Wrestling is anime?Yeah? Yeah, okay, John Carson
notes, Okay, yeah, allright, yeah, okay, I guess
wrestling is anime. So yes,So I'm still watching anime a lot.
I'm going to Philadelphia for an animeconvention in a few weeks. Okay,

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sure, yeah that makes sense.Yeah, Cody Roads is my favorite Goku.
Okay, what level super saying isCody? What? Alex? What's
a good joke there? I gotnothing for him watching w these days,
just just say like god terror.Yeah his hair his hair did turn blonde?
Okay, yeah, he had blackhair and then it turned blonde and
he got more powerful. I don'tremember Goku having any really shitty neck tattoos

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though, Wait, did Goku havemy dad? That was like a saying
good? He did bar dock?When is that a monkey or something?
Okay, who had a monkey tailfor a while, right, Goku,
the sayans have the monkey towns allsands, all sands. Okay, when
you remove it, you can Didyou know you watched Dragon Ball? Do
you watch like the entire thing?I remember the moon blew up? And

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there's a guy that looks you rememberwhy they blew them blew the moon up?
No, okay, there was aguy that looked like bubble gum and
I think he made several bubble gumversions. And so and mister Satan,
I remember Miss Satan. He wasgreat. Yeah, you have the Devil's
great. Piccolo was the green guyalso double he's great. Yep, and
Vegeta had a weird hairline. Youkeep your personal life to yourself. I

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remember some things about dragon How thehell are you trying to say that you
know Vinnie Caravella liked anime? Idon't. Okay, No, you didn't
know Vinnie Caravella was Italian. Yeah, well that's hard. That's a separate
conversation. That's a tougher one toreally hard being Italian about as muchs you
talk about anime, which is notat all. No, you know that's

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wrong, that's actually wrong. Canwe pull the electorate here? Do you
remember Vinnie ever talking about being Italian. I'm not discounting the possibility that I
may have forgotten something. Listen,that seems plausible. I'm gonna I'm gonna
say, Alex Navarro definitely remembers mebeing Italian. I will never forget.

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Wait, Backlar, so you toldme that a way you could like it
ends with their gonna end for thevowel names, their vowels. So,
Alex Navarro, are you Italian?Oh that's a really complicated question. But
no answered, Okay, short answered. All right, So Backlar's advice doesn't
work. Okay, well, yeah, you're right right, I'm not.

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You can't just go Caravella. Youare absolutely one hund but you can't.
Again, there are plenty of otherpeople named Vinnie in the world that you
know would Yes, Vincenzo Caravella.When you say that way, it sounds
pretty Italian. Yeah, it's probablyon fifty percent of the pizza boxes.
I'm just I'm just saying to getpizza. Hut. Yeah, we're not

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doing the pizza. We're just not. We can't. I don't have the
energy on the strength. I'm upsetthat we didn't work as close together,
Vinnie, you and I did whenI got into anime. I know,
so you're doing the whole JoJo's thing. Yeah what Dan? Oh? Yeah,
no, go on, it's okay? Were you? Were you about
to be? Like? Why was? I was like, I didn't know
you watch anime? Did I remember? Yeah? How is that going for

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you? Back? It's going?Well? Thank you for reminding me that
we hired Dan back at the beginningof No, you hired Dan back?
This is on you. So Ihave not watched JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Well,
I've watched a lot of it.Okay, can you give me?
I got a clock ticking right infront of me, the thirty second rundown

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of Jojo. Here we go infive four three two one. First it
was Hammon and now it stands andthat's about it. Hey, that clears
a lot. Uh Tam Tam isclapping. Look what's up? Yoda yoder?

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Those wait? Wait what have youhad? I said, YadA yady
daze, which is like good grief. Oh okay, okay, yeah,
I feel like I activated. No. No, I've been working on that
for a little while. I'm prettyproud of it. Uh so, so
like, is it a fight it'sa fighting anime. Uh No, it's

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sort of there. It's like Monsterof the Week kind of stuff. Okay,
yeah, it's really fun. We'rewe're right right now. We're in
Diamond is Unbreakable, which is moreof like a a closed sort of story
about a town that's got a lotof stand users because of a bow and
arrow, because of a bone arrow, because of a bow and arrow that

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was always apparently in the show thatno one ever saw. Is it like
a hidden objects thing? Like you'rewatching the anime and you're like, a
bow and arrow is in that Honestly, someone tweeted at us it was like,
if you look at one frame inseason two, you can see the
bone and arrow on the wall.And I'm like, all right, I
guess I guess you're just not Iguess Dan's right, You're just not an
anime lover. No, no,I do. I do love it anime

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is I really enjoy It's a turnbased cartoon and that's amazing. Okay,
finally have the definition for anime that'sactually not that's not bad. That's why.
So it's like the tactics of cartoonssort sort of guess yes, that
mean is Jojo the goku? Idon't know. Is there a hero named

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Jojo in the show? Yeah?Like a generational person. What's their gimmick?
Like, what's their power? Hiskids? He has a stand to
uses and it's like a powerful standperson, like a purple guy. Wait
when I feel like you keep amI anything? Is a purple platinum star,
platinum star plumb start Plantum? Whatit's my next backlar? Should I

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just? Should I just play this? Now? Just hold on, hold
on, let me let me getthis. That's not JoJo's saybody want to
just stand up and then correct themabout the corrections? I think I had
that now. I think I wasthere, tight there, Okay, perfect,

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I have I have watched one punchMan recently? Me too? Wait
we did? Yeah? That showswe should be working together if they're only
a place, that show is fantastic. I really interestioned that to you,
and you were like, no,it didn't really hit for me. I
watched like a few and my understandingwas that, like, it plays on
a lot of tropes of anime stuffthat I probably couldn't appreciate because I hadn't

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watched enough. But I've heard themgood things about it. It's just it's
just big punching big with it's onepunch real it looks like an egg and
he runs fast, right. Yeah, yeah, my kids love it.
Okay, all my kids go aroundquoting One punch Man all the time.
What's his thing? What's saying?Uh, he's he's kind of he's very
mellow and they yeah, So whatthey go around saying all the time is

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like, I trained so hard Ilost my hair. That's right. Yeah,
yeah, yes, yeah are theysaying they'd be like, well,
that's the big deal. I don'tknow. I'm just I'm just gonna sidestep
to the left and I'm like,that's One punch Man and They're like,
yeah, yeah, we got it, we got it. I love his
demeanor, it's the best. He'sgreat. I love One punch Man.
I wish you were my friend.Yep, Alex, do you watch anime

(28:41):
in fits and starts? Okay?I was hoping for a little more solidarity,
but that's right. I watched somethings here and there my partner likes,
so I think the last thing wewatched that I really liked was Nietzsche
Jew Yeah, whoa the crowd explodedanime. People are so into anime.
Yeah, I've got that. It'sinsane. That's a show where I think
I understood maybe a third of theactual cultural references they were making jokes about.

(29:03):
But it's still funny. So that'swhy I liked it. I have
never gotten more email than when wewere doing All Systems Goku and I showed
like I was like, oh,maybe maybe anime is alright, and then
eight billion emails like here are fortyanimes you should watch right now. There's
only eight hundred episodes in each one. It's like, okay, you fuddle
down a little bit, let meget through dragon Ball. Oh. We
also really liked Odd Taxi. Thatwas a fun one. I've never heard

(29:29):
of that one. I watched ananime that was about making bread okay,
every episode. I think it wasYaka Japan. Yeah, yeah, I
belong. It was actually pretty fun. I'm currently we're watching what is it
called Delicious in Dungeon, which well, which is awesome because it's basically yeah,

(29:53):
sorry, no, I just wantto test something real quick based on
however, I'm just gonna say,yeah, Naruno, okay, okay,
does it work for all of them? Spy Family. There you go.
Yeah one, okay, Wow,this is cool. Jim On Boltrondo,

(30:18):
Okay, I can't do anymore.I only know Full Metal Alchemists. There
we go, There we go.This is an anime podcast. Turns out
we know we rep Yeah, wenever talked about it once in six years
and twenty and this is why theycanceled the show. People bring it out

(30:40):
in this Oh my god, whatthe hell else has been going on?
I'm trying to think. Well,he's doing a show over on the on
the Giant Bomb. Yeah, doinga few of them. You're doing a
few one one. That is ashow that I conceptualized once long ago.
Yeah, called Blake Club. Youhave seen it. I'm playing Superman sixty

(31:00):
four currently. Yeah you are.I didn't pick that for you, but
that's that's a good I mean,that's good on you. So we should
set up for It's the fourth gameI've had to play for Black Club.
Yeah, oh, hold on em, all on, it's over the Hedgehog.
I played Silver the Hedgehogs on aHedgehog and knuckles. What was the

(31:22):
other one? Shout out of theHedgehog? Thank you, Mike. Four
four runs I had four runs.I'm hearing, I'm hearing two games.
No, you're you're gonna play anotherone. We all are. Yeah,
until the day we die, thisis gonna go. It's back to back,
right, what's that? Well,it is a curse. Yes,

(31:42):
here's the thing. We made anagreement after you injured yourself in a macaroni
and cheese tub. It's still verybroken, by the way, Yeah,
I'm sure it is, but you'restill playing Superman sixty four, so it's
not that broken. This finger isfucked. It's not good, but we
do have to get into as yourpunishment. So you skipped your turn at

(32:04):
one point, uh in the BlakeClub. Mike Manatti wanted that, he
wished for it. I'm hearing,No, check the tape. That's what
happens, all right, we'll bechecking some tape here in a moment.
But so, the agreement was ifyou were going to skip your turn,
then the next time you came up, you were gonna have to do two
in a row and I would pickthem both. Hell yeah, okay,

(32:25):
so I'm doing Superman sixty four.Current does not count. Yeah, wait,
so what is that? So whatthis means is that the next time
it is your turn. Okay,so after ground there will be another cycle.
But the next time it is yourturn, you have to do two
in a row. And there aretwo games that I am picking for you
now there. You know there arerules of Blake Club, right, there
are rules that is like a toa ten hour maximum how long to be.

(32:49):
So I just want to make surethat, yeah, he is kind
of clubs. Yeah, so I'mhere to announce what your two games are
going to be when it is timefor you to come back up, I
legit don't know what you're about tosay, and I'm terrified. Right,
yeah, you should be all right. So the first one is more of

(33:10):
an appetizer. This is not asuper long game. It is bad,
but it is maybe not the worstI could be thrown in front of you.
But it is a apropos of aquote I was reminded of from you
recently, an old BombCast thing.There was a there was a time when
you once said into a microphone,which makes it legally binding, that you

(33:31):
thought Terminator three was better than Terminatorone. I strongly, I strongly recanted
that. For the record, Iwatched them both again, and Terminator one
is far superior to three. Yeah. Yeah, but that doesn't change anything.
No, no, your thing.It's good that you have learned your
lesson and that you have learned thatwords have meaning and you can't just say
bullshit all the time. That's myentire job. Yeah, but my job

(33:52):
for like twenty years. Words stillhave consequences. My friend, I'd just
like to remind everyone of what whenhe said this. If any of you
would play the clip for me,very sure. Yeah, I've got a
clip here, sequence of great scenesand Terminator three. He's got Sarah Connor's
weapon filled coffin on his shoulder anda mini gun on the other hand,
and a cemetery just shooting everything.It's very cool, the coolest visual.

(34:13):
Yep, no, that's true.It is a cool visual, but Terminator
three is not. It also hasit's better than one. Talk to the
hand it goes Two is the best, then three, then one. Jesus
Christ's a better movie than one.I've only seen. The anger was justified,

(34:36):
my friend, I agree. Iagree. So your first game will
be Terminator three, Rise of theMachine. That's for the PlayStation two oh.
From the makers of Fugitive Hunter.The game Fist Fight Osama bin Laden
at the end. The second oneis in Fugitive Hunter, and you're gonna

(34:58):
make me dressed up? But BenGodden right, we're not. Okay,
No, we're not doing that becauseI don't have to. Okay, Okay,
we're not. Okay, I'm nota monster, for God's sakes.
Okay, I'm just a say this. That was gonna be a problem.
Okay, so you will be playingthis first? Uh? It sucks.
I reviewed it. It's pretty bad. What did you give it? Like
a three? Three out of tengame spots? Yeah, yeah, like

(35:20):
three point seven. They think,wait, can we can you dress him
too? Would you be down forthat? I mean, what like a
leather jacket and sunglasses? I meanwe do dress up for black clubs.
I guess I'm gonna need to crap. Do I have to do face paint
gimmick like Manati shit? No,I was gonna say, yes, putting
an led in your eyeball you haveto rip off? It sounds kind of
cool. It would be down forthat. Now. The second game,

(35:45):
oh boom, do you know whatit is? Beckler? No, I
just like I haven't told anyone,do you know? Okay, So now
big ras is in the game youcan finish like, it's not really a
thing you can do for this.But there's another game I reviewed right around
the same time that is definitely oneof the worst video games I have ever
played in my life. What didyou give it? A? One point

(36:07):
six? Oh? Wow? Whoapretty low six? Is so specific?
Yeah, that's the way that stuffwork. At point five. They really
believed in the math back at thegame spot. So this game has it.
I believe it is finishable. I'mpretty sure I finished it, but
uh, it has maybe seen themost broken gameplay I've ever played. Drake

(36:31):
of the ninety nine Dragons. Whatwhat I don't like how hypeminati is about
this? This is usually my pressgame. What is this game? It
is a shooter, has a lotof like bullet time, double gun matrix
bullshit in it, and all ofit is broken. I can't wait to

(36:53):
see you get this tattoo on yourchain. Yeah, this is This was
a game that Majesco believed was goingto be It was going to be a
trans media property. They made afucking comic book. They thought this was
gonna be a thing. It wasn'tsick. What's the Metacritic on this one.
Maybe you were Maybe you were anoutlier. Maybe people like who cares.

(37:13):
I looked at the Wikipedia last night. I was actually kind of curious.
Uh. It is widely considered oneof the worst video games ever made.
Hell yeah, okay, so rules. Now there's a trick to this
one. This game is really fuckingbroken on the Xbox. Uh. I'm
gonna give you an opportunity here,a challenge if you will. If you

(37:35):
can beat the Xbox version of Drakethe Ninet nine Dragons, the most broken
ass version of it, you willget to skip your next turn, and
you will get to pick the gamesfor your other cohort for the next their
next round. Okay, wait,what if I can't beat the Xbox version,
then you will have to start overwith the PC version, which fixes

(37:57):
the world terrible auto aiming systm tothat is in the Xbox version, and
you will still have to finish it. Do I have to start with the
Xbox version? Yes? Yes,Alex, thank you. This is a
gift. This is a birthday gift. Thank you, Alex. Thank you,

(38:19):
Alex. What a birthday gift.So I'm gonna hand these to you,
and I'm gonna ask you to handthem back because those are mine.
You're gonna just find the money whatever, it's not my money. Okay,
how how bad is this? There'sManati and Grub. Oh you wanted this?

(38:42):
You wanted this? Oh wo okay, Mike saying he's got a copy
already. Oh you do Xbox Verse. It's a completing box. I'll expense
one gets fine, complete in box, uh sealed, have fun? Yeah
okay. Uh. I'm kind ofexcited about the Terminator run because at least
I know that world don't be Okay, well, so wait is that next?

(39:06):
Or is that it's when it's nexttime? Your turn? Who's up?
Now? Who's doing that? I'mdoing it now? So wait that
one of you guys doing it next? Okay, I need you know.
I haven't tortured Grub yet. Yeah, listen, I'm a sadist, but
just for this, this is allI really like inflicting pain. You know,

(39:29):
hit dogs, holler and all are, and they hit me with a
lot of bad video games at gameSpot. So now it's time to pay
the piper. Really didn't anticipate howfar this would go when like, I
was playing Sonic six and it's like, oh, we should just keep playing
the worst games every It's like,oh shit, Alex came up with the
name for that show. We kindof talked about this back in the day,
called Blake Club, and I reachedout to you being like, oh
hey, he's it cool if weused that name. You came up with
it, and I had no idea. You know what, a year and

(39:50):
a half later or whatever, youmake a make a bargain with the devil,
you'd be the Shanakh of Blake Blood. This is what happens, all
right. I'm in good binding.You got to shake on her, That's
all good. It wouldn't be worthit to me. Okay, good good.
I think we're about at time forquestions, and so we have given

(40:12):
out postcards to members of the fineaudience to fill out with questions. If
you still have a postcard in yourhand and want to give it to back
Law, we could do that.Backlar. You not only have these fresh
postcards that people have sent in withtheir questions from all around the world,
you have some postcards from the originalBeast Cast run. That's right, Vinny

(40:36):
kind of makes you wonder why didn'tbring him to the show before. Well,
no, like at some point youjust have to cut it off.
I mean, like it was gettingcrazy. I found these the other day
in a closet and you could switchoff the game. Now, what are
we gonna do. We're gonna gothrough a couple of these. You have
to pass them down or pass themaround. Well, yeah, we're gonna

(40:57):
go through. Take one pit.There's like a private division had holidays,
the happy Holidays. This one iswritten like a murder. No, if
someone is now we were saying,if somebody is here that wrote one of
these postcards, that would just bepretty cool. Oh my god, yeah,
of the guy from Back to theFuture. Wait, you're in this,
Jeff. That's not a postcard.He's a picture of Jeff. And

(41:32):
let's just not worry about that Abby. Was he fading away? Do we
need to be concerned? Maybe weneed to fix the timeline? I can't.
This is really okay. It's notlike a boudoir photo or anything,
right, you know, closets collectweird ship all right, from squat Phoenix
pr. I don't think this isno. No, you just brought your

(41:53):
mail. No, I've just gota water bill here. No, So,
like I think what happened, wasyou know, in like April of
twenty twenty everything was fine and itwas you say, April of twenty twenty.
Yeah, I don't think everything wasfine. Everything was awesome. And

(42:13):
I went into the scene at officeand cleared out a whole bunch of stuff
and I took a box and someof it was just my mail, and
most of it was postcards that Inever got to read. On the do
you have the funky shop? I'msorry what I left a funky shop with
the lights on in the It waslike a great I saw that picture.
Yeah. Yeah, the whole studiois shore left one spotlight on the funky
shop in the middle of the room. Can you mail me the funky shop?

(42:36):
I don't have it. What youmean like that? Don't let me
in that building. It's in therewith the Goku Now it's in a landfill
instant is yeah, where it belongs. Damn it. I'm gonna start with
this first one. Yeah, gofor Okay. This comes from Lisa,
and I want to make sure weget to this before it's too late.
It says, Hi, beast casters. My husband is a big fan of
your show. Thank you very much. He listens to the podcast every week.

(42:57):
Oh great, great, I frequentlylistened with him. I would love
a kiss on the cheek with himfor his birthday. His name is Chris
and he will be turning thirty oneon December sixth, So happy forty to
sixth birthday. And if anyone ishere, you have to give them an
actual kiss on the cheek. Wellabout the kisses on okay, I kiss
on the mouth. Fine, it'sjust if one thing that died in COVID

(43:20):
was probably kisses on the cheek.Is we just don't do that anymore?
Just se I think the world haschanged, uh so, Lisa says.
Also, we're expecting our first child, a baby boy named Jacob. So
Jacob is now in college. Thatso congratulations Lisa, and happy birthday Chris.

(43:42):
Wow, sweet I have I'm findingthings that are not as pictures of
Jeff and his wife. They're verysweet. They should not be here.
Yeah, I don't know why that'sthere, but I'll get to Another one
was very go for it, pleasefor it. Okay, this says dear
Beast cast crew. All off frombeautiful Havana. A kiss on the cheek

(44:07):
to my beautiful girlfriend Maya from Christian. Do we think they are still together?
I'm gonna say yess yeah, gonnaI'm gonna say, you know what,
when the show ended, they tooka break to go explore and find
example, and now they're reuniting.They got together at this panel, back

(44:28):
together. I don't even seeing youin years. That's the narrative I'm spinning
in my life. This one's fromPaul. Hey, guys, it's my
thirty third birthday on January thirty.But rather than than me, can you
give a kiss on the cheek?I was kissing a lot of people.
You were kissing. It got alittle out of hand to my wife,
Jess, the love of my life. My wife. Postcard is of Lake

(44:51):
Placid by way of Rochester, byway of England, Oh UKX pet,
very nice Paul from Liverpool. Thanks, okay, I got to do the
kiss. Jeff ah Backler. Whydon't you send over down some of the
new ones too, and we'll startgetting here. I got one here from
let's see here. This is uh, just make sure I got the right
one, okay. Uh. Thisis from Alex from San Antonio. First,

(45:15):
I wanted to say that this podcastis fantastic. Ah if I could
get a kiss on the cheek frommy very best friend and wife, Mallory.
The last game she played and finishedwas Jack and Daxter on the PS
two and she is loving Mario Otissey. Yeah. Shout out as well to
my friend Nate. We have asmall wager going. He says that Destiny

(45:35):
Too will be in IGN's top fiveGame of the Year. I say it
won't. The wager has three breakfasttacos and a drink. Can anyone quickly
google if it made it in thereor not? Yeah? Well out riding
on this one. Yeah, Iwant him to get his breakfast tacos or
not. Thanks any again, youguys, all right, Yeah, let's

(45:57):
just assume that it did in everybody'sThat's yeah, everybody's got one here.
It's for Jeff. It looks like, dear Jeff, what the dog doing.
What the dog doing? What thedog doing? What the dog?
Mark? What's doing? What dog? The dog? He's probably sleeping on
my bed right now. What thedog doing? What the dog doing?
He's you know, he's like thirtyeight and he's fine. All right,

(46:22):
Yeah, that's what the dog doing. I have this new one here.
Corey says, how does it feelto know that you all influence a whole
generation of podcasters and creators. Courtyou in the audience. My eye,
there's Corey. My apologies to allof you. Never get into it,

(46:45):
never do it. It's you justwatch yourself get old and uh forgetful.
It's a life ruining profession. Bouncearound from company to the company, and
they no. I think I've meta bunch of people over the last two
days, and this, honestly,from the bottom of my heart, it's
so nice to see people come up. People have been listening for a long

(47:05):
time, even before the Giant Beastcasts. I appreciate everybody who has listened
and come up and said thank youand hi. We I'm gonna honestly say,
never feel like we have influenced anybody. We just get up here and
yap for a long Yeah. Sowe are very thankful. And it's always
absolutely and very humble, absolutely thathe win's the breakfast Tacos. We have

(47:29):
verification breakfast tacos. Lay claim,my friend, lay claim. Okay,
any other modern post. I havea modern one. Okay, do you
you want to go modern one?This one is directed to me. It
says stop being mean, to cats. There's another part on there. Do

(47:49):
you want to read it? There'sanother Yeah, you should finish reading it
says fuck you, Jeff back vicious. Somehow I didn't write that one is
there just like a pawprint? Thiswas a cat. Wait, just just
to kind of just go lug becauseI have no idea, I know I
do. Have bought these postcards veryquickly. What does it say on the

(48:13):
other side of it? They areadorable. I have one of ice cream
that says keeping it cool. Minesays, miss you a brunch. Okay,
good, miss you a brunch?You Jeff Ackler. I want to
have a tone change on the otherside just a little bit. Well,
at least it wasn't unprinted on theother side in the front of the postcard

(48:34):
Abby. I have one from Alib. It says, if you had
to adapt adopt excuse me, aYouTuber persona, what would your name be
any theme or look. I thinkfor me, I would be a normal
dog who would not speak English.It would just be a dog. So
what you would just like bow yourhead and yeah, it would just be

(48:57):
what a dog would do if youput a camera in front of a dog,
like just sit there, and mydog would just sit there and probably
like Italy itself. Yeah, Iwould want it to be you know when
people like record their dog on TikTokand they're like kind of like looking out
of the side of the eye,a little nervous. It would be like
that, a nervous energy dog.Yah, and the YouTuber name would be
Lisa, Lisa the Dog. AndI assume it would just be like at
the start screen of a game forforty minutes, just not knowing what to

(49:21):
do, but then every now andthen like thanks for the bits hype train
going all right? Anybody else gotany modern ones here? You got the
favorite memory from past packs is AndI realized a lot of mine involved Alex
Navarro from Super kicking him in theface. Ye, I beat you with
Kendo sticks and then you had theNintendo sixty four that one time. But

(49:43):
I couldn't you weren't in your room, and so I dressed up in pajamas,
grabbed an ice bucket, went tothe front desk, said I was
Alex Navarro, and I locked myselfout, got a car to your room,
broke in and stole your Nintendo sixtyfour. That's one of your that's
one of your favorite memories. Huh. I think that's a crime. Yeah,
and you're under arrest. Can weget the police in here please?

(50:05):
There's the Statute of Limitations that waslike twenty fourteen, which is Seattle,
not here. Any other favorite memoriesfrom packs from previous packs? Is my
first packs? What really true?Your first one ever? Yeah? So
I just have like memories from liketwo nights ago. Yeah, you don't
leave the house last night. Thatwas last night? Was nice. I
say the thing you said to methe other day. There's no way for

(50:28):
me to know what that is.That's never right now you said nothing.
That was a good memory though.It was that time Dave Lane put me
in one of those money booths andthen I grabbed a bad of money,
okay, and I was excited abouthaving the money, but then I had
to give it back to Dave Lang. Oh did you really? Yeah?

(50:49):
I was bummed about that. Itwasn't fake money, it was it was
shoot money. Jeez, wait,that's right, Yeah, that's real money.
Okay. Tax has let us doa lot of very stupid things over
the years, both the giant bombpanels and other affiliated Absolutely at that time,
you Caught the hot Dog. Thetime you Caught the hot Dog.
It lot was large in my memory. Yeah. The live band that was
yeah, yep, that wasazing.Ye ye uh yeah, they've been there's

(51:12):
been a lot of fun. Ireally like maas. I like they didn't
let me drive the Wienermobile into thatone event. I talked to Oscar Meyer
and I was getting somewhere and like, okn I just you're gonna be around
Boston. Can I use the Winnermobilebecause I wanted to make an entrance to
a packed wrestling thing and they werelike, yeah, let's talk about it.
And I brought it up the packsand Aaron Tritz and they're like,
there's no physical way to get theWienermobile, like on the second floor of
this convention center or whatever. There'sgotta be away. There's big escally like

(51:35):
how do you get my big equipmentup here? A big escalator for yeah,
there you go somewhere in the bassas if they were like, oh,
you're right, we can drive itup. Yeah, dumb mass I
have a crane or something. Memory, Yeah we got. I did a
panel with jan that was very fun. It was a musical panel. Yeah,

(51:57):
we all love chain that was afun one. That's the memory.
Yeah, that's it. I findto promote my own show. You did
musical theater. We're saying songs.It was quite a number. Yeah.
Oddly enough, my favorite Packs memoryis also Jan. It's all of our
favorite packs memory, mostly him doingsummersaults. Yeah, oh my god,

(52:23):
I do. I do enjoy that. Jan is basically the last functioning organ
at Giant Bomb and you keep puttinghim through physical challenges as if like that
is not going to be ruinous tothe site. That's right, Yes,
we've got a giant nostril full ofgoing to find the flag on it.

(52:43):
Go Jan, go. Dan won'tbe happy till he's in the hospital.
I've got one here. Uh,the name is a little rough. I'm
gonna say rb rb RB Arby's forde bras are sure? Okay? Why
do people care if a hot dogis or is not a sandwich? And
I think that is because people needcategories. If you're gonna order a hot

(53:05):
dog and somebody give you a hamburgeror a sandwich, you can't live in
a world like that. I thinkI know why. Why Because nerds are
pedantic as hell and they need tofucking touch a boob or something, you
know what I mean? Contentually,it's like, come on, posentually you
said consentually okay, I you werejust saying you're not these nerds, right,

(53:27):
the good nerd hot dogs or sandwiches. No. Also we're agreeing that
a hot dog is not a sandwichor no. Okay? Yeah? Yeah,
yeah, I also don't care ifyou start don't care. I don't
know if you start this up.I am walking off the seat. Oh
yeah, we already did enough anime? All right? Any other postcards got

(53:49):
down on that ends? I haveone? You got a few more?
Yeah? I need more. Thisone just says you rock and it's an
actual rock with a guitar. Yeah. Yeah, that's a nice postcard,
which is pretty good. Uh Hi, Jeff, I am writing this one
purely for the contractually obligated kiss onthe cheek. Yeah, we really just
don't kiss people. You can doit, yeah, maybe after the show

(54:12):
in a kissing booth. Yeah.Well, I have one. It's got
a lama on it that says noproblema, and on this side it says
Vinnie and then in parentheses, andor anyone else who'd like to answer in
parentheses what is the home improvement orwoodworking project you are most proud of.
Oh, wow, toilet fixing Alex'stoilet was actually super fun because we it

(54:37):
was a successful mission and it workedout exactly in one Yeah, we actually
got it in number two. Yeah, I approve. I approve that.
Thank you very much, Thank youvery much. That is actually my most
successful woodworking project. That joke wouldwork, Dan, Have you got any

(55:00):
home projects center and I have beensuccessful and you're most proud of. I
put up a few frames okay thathaven't picture frames? Okay, Yeah,
I feel like I've done pixed toilets. You know, when you just go
in you just got to take theflapper thing and do a thing flushing the
toilet. That's you know it?Congratulations? Yeah? Yeah. Didn't you
fight a snake in your basement?Oh we did. We did capture a

(55:22):
snake. It was like a threefoot long snake in my basement in Connecticut.
For the record, it was definitelybunk that did the like she got
like I have one of those grabbergimmicks that like you can grab things from
the top grabber gimmicks. Yeah,I go on to the grabber gimmicks and
uh. I stood back with atemperware thing while Bunk got up there and
like grabbed the snake by the tailwith the thing and lifted it up and
whipping around. I just like threwthe tupperware on top of it, and

(55:43):
then we took up the party forthe bunk and no harm done. Yeah,
some standard home owner stuff. Yeahyeah, yeah, battling a snake
in your basement. See, I'velearned to live with my nature. I
have a groundhog that lives in mybackyard and named him Guss, and I'm
just like, now, fuck it, he lives there, that's his house.
He was here, he was herefirst. Yeah right, he literally
was already moved in by the timewe moved in. So it's like,
okay, he is technically your landlord. Yeah yeah, all right, any

(56:07):
more questions here, and even Ithink from down the line he got an
old one new one back Alart,I have an old one. Okay,
this one's from I don't know,but we'll get to it. Dear Beast's
crew, I don't know anyone elseto send a postcard to, but you
guys are awesome, and I'd liketo apologize for falling behind on your stuff.
No problem, plenty of time tocatch up. Yeah, I mean,

(56:31):
I know exactly what that feels like. I'm reading your postcards six years.
Please finish the Train Snake RPG sometimesor next Christmas. Hard Markinson's story
needs to be told. Hashtag rememberhashtag Hard Markinson bought himself a nice farm

(56:54):
upstate and is living his best lifeoff the fat At the end of the
it also says ps Dan All SystemsGoku is one of the best pods to
hit the airwaves. For that,I thank you. There you go.
Here's a fun one. I likedoing that one. You listen to anime?
Yeah, yeah, I'm kind ofan anime guy. Yeah, weird,

(57:15):
weird. That's that's weird. Yeah. This one here, most of
it has been covered up by thisgorgeous stamp on it, but I just
want to give you the gist ofit because I think it's kind of amazing.
It says, greetings from the Pall. I have been big stamp covering
this trekking for the last two weeksthrough the Himalayas, completely cut off from
civilization. Please help if you getthis, he said, help. I've

(57:43):
been listening to the last two Beastcasts and I've been taking them in about
twenty minutes at a time each night, and the tea houses before I go
to sleep. Even listened at fiftyfour hundred meters on my way to the
Everest base camp. So maybe Ican hold the title of highest listener.
I think that's backlar you. Thankyou anyway, wish you go all the

(58:07):
best and kisses on the cheek.That's a really good one. That's from
Alex. It's really hard, areyou guys? You're going to say something?
It did right? Okay? Thisone comes from I don't know what,
but this is a deeply upsetting postcard. How would you describe that thumbs

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are hugging each other and they arewearing mess shirts. There's a couple of
bros Valentine's Day and they both haveblack eyes on both eyes. Anyway,
Uh, wine comes in at themouth and love comes in at the eye.
That's all we share for knowing thetruth. I'm not you guys like

(58:50):
activating people. Man, I'm notdone. Okay, okay, okay,
art that's all we shall know fortruth before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, no,
not me, and I sigh loveRusto, Thank you. Usually I look

(59:19):
through that joining. Where's Patrick Kleppik? Patrick? Are you selling the audience?
Patrick? Come up here, quickly, run run run. I want
to thank Dan Record everybody, thanksfor having you can clap for Dan.
It's okay. You're lyving, AlexBavaro, Habby Russell, Jeff Backlar,

(59:45):
I'm Benny Caravella. Patrick. What'sgoing on after the show? I to
run a giant bomb knockoff site calledRemap. And we're at and we're gonna
be at the Birch Bar or theWeston if you want to say hi,
have a drink right after this,right after that, and we all right,
and we've got the Voicemail dump Trucklive at seven pm at the Albatross.

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Albatross, We'll see you there sevenpm, seven pm. It'll be
just like the postcards, but you'llhear the people writing them. Everybody.
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