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Hello folks, welcome to Nate land. It's always kind of funny. Flash Nate. Welcome everybody. Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, as always. It's been, you know, living it up. I did shows. So where at? Just two like private shows, corporate shows. Private people. I can't even talk about it. How'd it go? Paul Allen's cruise ship. I'm just kidding. Yeah.

They were both good. One was in Oklahoma City. So it was like Zoom. And they'd be like, I thought there would be people there. And they had just like 15 people there.

there on zoom no no like 1300 on zoom oh so i did a show to 15 people 1300 watching and it was like it was you know it was tough it's just they they had mask on like you know it's just not it's not super easy yeah uh and the other one was at a high school liberty christian um high school and then uh it's where jason whitton is coaching

Maybe these cookies, we're going to post it on Instagram. I'll post it on my Instagram. They made cookies with all my jokes. This lady there, very nice, and she makes these cookies. I mean, they're unreal. Like, there were, it was like the expired medicine, you know, the Cape Fear Cemetery, and, like, just all perfectly laid out. It was very cool. Did you get to meet Jason Whitten? No. I saw him. I mean, you see him. You see him. He's enormous. Yeah.

I saw them in the crowd, but I didn't really, I only talked to like the people that were running it, you know, so they were raising money for them. But yeah, it would have been, yeah, it would have been fun. Should have. I want to go back and visit the school. Like look at it actually, but you can go see it. This was like an enormous, you know, these high schools are, some of these high schools are just, you get in like colleges. Palaces. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, it's so crazy just to know the high school that you grew up going, you know. So I went to Donaldson Christian Academy, but we're more of a blue-collar private school kind of. And there's a lot of schools in Nashville. I mean, there's this school here called Ensworth in Nashville. I mean, it is a college campus. I did a show there once, 930 in the morning.

in their auditorium one of the best shows I've ever done in my life really for the students I thought I was like alright you know I'll just do it I was doing like 20 minutes yeah and I do somewhere there and so I was like yeah I'll do like 20 minutes so I just went in and did it it was in their auditorium and I just low expectations 930 in the morning like

You know, high school kids, you know, who knows if they're all too cool to even be in there. Yeah. And dude, I mean, you could have taped a special. Oh, that's awesome. They laughed so hard. The theater was set up so good. Dark audience, like the lights all off, lights on me. Like, you know, the way you like it set up in a proper theater. And I mean, I was like, good night. There's nothing better than murdering before 10 a.m.

Like to already be like, you got to murder. It's so early. I think you called me and I was waking up and you're like, I've already done a show and killed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What have you been doing, Brian? Yeah. What are you doing? I already murdered today. I used to always think that it was like the idea of like already, it always felt so weird. You get one in and you do good. Like we used to do noon shows in New York sometimes at comedy clubs. And I would always think like, I already did a show. It's 1 PM and I've done a show. Yeah. I've already worked. It feels so weird. Yeah.

but it was you know to already be done but yeah yeah so it was good uh all right uh as always we'll start with some of you guys comments uh you guys know where to leave them everybody's figured it out i don't know if i even know where to leave them and i would like and i got a few i'd like to write uh we need a suggestion box in here brian and karen dougal dougal

It's like Doug with an AL. Yeah, Duggle? Duggle or Dugal? I would have said Dougal. Dougal. That would have been my first guess. Yeah, Dougal, that's more common. Hello, Brian Aaron Niblet.

Not to brag, but we are pretty phenomenal parents because we've spent years teaching our kids the importance of good comedy. We shouldn't be proud of her. We couldn't be prouder. I said we shouldn't be. We shouldn't be this proud, but we are. We couldn't be prouder of our 15-year-old Maddie when she ran downstairs to tell us that she found your podcast. We have not been disappointed. Keep the laughs coming. Thank you.

That's very nice. Yeah. She found she's in. She gave you, thank you, Matt. I was going to say he used our real names and gave you a nickname. Brian Aaron and Niblet. I didn't even pick it up. Uh, maybe cause they already knew I would mess up their name. So they go, let's take a shot at him. And then, uh, that's very cool. Thank you, Maddie. Thanks Maddie. You know, your parents shouldn't be that, but they shouldn't be that proud, but they are, uh,

Jeff Wyatt, really great episode and very rewatchable. Never heard of Adam Ray, but his storytelling, I haven't either, but his storytelling was so natural and funny. He was great at effortlessly pulling out the right word to describe events. I can't mess up the word when they're describing the word. You know? Like, I mess up, he was great at effortlessly pulling out the right word to... And the word means how easy. Yeah. Yeah.

That's where it's bad is I mess up in the description. Like they're using the sentence to say, yeah, like he's really good at it. Brian and Aaron played it just right. Just nice and natural and allowing the guests to shine without feeling the need to contribute or compete. Sometimes being an appreciative, appreciative audience for the storyteller just makes the whole event more fun for everyone. Very enjoyable. Yeah, that's true. I mean, I know I think people have said like the y'all don't talk much with them.

with the guests. The guests, but it's, you know, it's like, I know a lot of the guests that we're going to have. I want to know them forever.

And so I'm going to be, it's, I get to see some of my old friends and it's for people talking. I mean, it can't be so much. So it's like, you got to try to do a balance. Yeah. I mean, people are listening. I know when you listen to stuff on the radio or you listen to, you know, there's a million people talking to you. Like, I don't know what's going on. Yeah. And we want the guests to, I'm bringing in guests, you know, that are really good. Yeah. If they're good guests, let them talk. Yeah. They're going to be fun. Let's enjoy them. You hear enough of this nonsense we say, like, you know, trying to give you guys a break. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Go check out Aaron Lane if you want more Aaron and Brian. He won't have me on there. Oh, man. I try. Aaron, just book him on. Okay, I'll book you for an episode. It's not that hard. Better step it up, though. It's happening right here. Casey Steiger. I still think that's my favorite thing ever, that you started another podcast that airs during this podcast. Hey, folks, we're here at Aaron Lane. Yeah. Aaron. Casey Steiger.

Thursday. My family and I live in... Why does it say Thursday? Well, because there's two emails. Oh, two emails. Okay. So this was Thursday. My family and I live in Gig Harbor, Washington. Our middle school son is currently taking Washington State history, and we made him watch the podcast to learn some interesting facts about our state. In fact, he based his Washington State history paper on last week's episode. He almost surely will get an F, but it is well worth it in this case. We love the podcast. Keep it up.

Friday, little update, he got an A. Turns out his teacher is one of the folks and she loved it. Keep doing God's work, gentlemen. Unbelievable. That's amazing. That's amazing. Did she go, you only got an A because I listened to that podcast? Because this paper is terrible. But I am a fan of the podcast. That is awesome. I love that. Robert Hart.

Adam, I'm in the new show about The Rock. I can't really say who I'm playing yet, though. Nate, 15 minutes earlier, our guest today is Adam Ray. He plays Vince McMahon on Young Rock. That was because we recorded it two weeks earlier. With Adam, we recorded that early, and he couldn't say it at that time, which we should have just said, this is not going to come out until later. I didn't think about that. Nicholas Butcher.

nicholas's butcher nicole's butcher nicole's book oh yeah nicole's oh yeah because the a's there now yeah nicole's butcher obviously in aaron's friendship class they didn't teach him not to get into verbal arguments about third eye blind you're right thoreau didn't write about that you know yeah it's one of those moments where you think it's going to come across as very playful like

And then I watched it back and I was like, man, I really went at him. Yeah. I was like, Hey dude, don't talk about third eye blind. Not on this show. Not on yet. A lot of people comment. You want to talk about that on the rock show? You go ahead and do that. This is, this is Nate land. If you and Dwayne Johnson want to give third eye by a good ribbon, then that's to each its own. Right. But you come to come into my house. Yeah.

Aaron Lane is mainly about third eye blind. That's part of whatever. That's our identity. Yeah. Third eye blind rules. Yeah. I mean, everybody's fine with it. Uh,

Star Rose. When they are all talking about 90s music and you see bathroom toilet is just sitting there. Just sitting there nodding and smiling like he can relate. But we all know he probably has no idea who OMC, Sugar Ray, or Third Eye Blind even is because he's from an older generation. All love. Just thought it was just cute because I know...

Because I know we've all been in that situation with a group of friends and they all have an inside joke and you feel out. So you just go with it. Like, oh, yeah, I remember that too. I love the inside joke is just mainstream music of the 90s.

You know all those guys, right? Third Eye Blonde, Sugar Ray. Yeah, I don't know them well. Yeah, you didn't listen to them in school. What did you guys listen to? Ray Charles early? What was your graduating high school? I graduated high school in 1990. The Titanic song? 1990. Was that the... That's what y'all played to me, the Titanic song at the end. The number one song in 1990 was...

Nothing compares to you, but Sinead O'Connor. Never even heard of that. Y'all danced? I've heard of her. She's got it ripped up the Pope. That's all I know her from. Would y'all dance with the gym floor open and be a pool underneath? Was that your high school? Like in It's a Wonderful Life? Yeah. Was it Wonderful Life? Did you watch it in color for the first time? Because I was there? Because you were there. I was like, what? I don't know. I could have went either way with that joke.

I know 80s music very well. Vision of Love by Mariah Carey. You know that song? I'm sure if I heard it. That was the number two song of your graduate. I haven't heard any of these. Our big song was, I can't remember it. What was your year? Freshman. We were merely freshmen. Oh, Verpite. Verpite. That's a great song. That was my senior year in high school. I don't know if we played it, but that was the big song that year. And so every time I hear that song, I think of my good buddies. Going to Jeff Moffat's house.

You know, country, I got into country music early in the 90s. That's when it just blew up. Oh, Garth Brooks. Yeah. Yeah. Clint Black, all those guys. So that was, that was huge. Did country music kind of become super mainstream in the 90s in a way that it wasn't before? It was like the one time it was kind of accepted. Yeah. Yeah. It was Garth Brooks. Yeah. He was the biggest, hardest. Now it's pop.

It's kind of poppy, you know? A lot of Taylor Swift. Yeah. Dan and Shay. We have Shay in. Shay's music's terrible. Uh...

I listen to Shay's stuff all the time. I listen to it before my shows. Tequila. Matthew Cunningham. As a fellow member of the 2014 graduating class from Notre Dame, here are a few of my favorite classes. Sports and television, introduction to coaching, crime and film, and television, and intro to jazz music. This sounds like Jeopardy, like categories. Categories.

My favorite class, however, was an independent studies class that a friend and I made up to get credit for studying the game day environment at college football games. We traveled on the school's dime to Ohio State, Oregon, and Alabama to watch football games and report on the atmosphere in the stadium.

Not sure if Aaron remembers, but the project helped get recorded music played in Notre Dame Stadium for the first time. Yeah. So that was actually, they made that up, but it actually was. That was a big moment. I remember that game. It was the first night game in a long time. And they played Shippin' Up to Boston.

By Dropkick Murphys. Yeah. And I didn't know it was coming. Yeah. And they'd never played music over the speakers. And I just went crazy. They just never allowed it? It was like an old school thing? There's a contingent of Notre Dame people that are purists, where they're like, we don't want a jumbotron. We want real grass. We only want the band to play. Yeah. And it was like that my first two or three years at Notre Dame. And then they started playing music. And we just went nuts, dude.

It was so cool. So thank you, Matthew, if you helped get that done. You would have nailed all these classes at Notre Dame. Yeah. Intro to jazz music. Maybe not that one, but the rest. Introduction to coaching, sports and television, crime and film, and television. And then going to tour? Well, I didn't know if you got into...

College, you go back to just being dumb. I didn't know that. I thought college was like you got to go dissect a body or something like that. I didn't know y'all were just taking friendship classes in sports and television. That's insane to me that I should have went to college. I might go. Willie P., 1380.

The amount of resentment Nate feels towards colleges is next level. If Bartleby, Aaron, and Nate can find a way to do an online class together and film it, that could turn into comedy gold. It's gold, Jerry. Yeah. I wonder, you know, I've debated going to take college classes just even for the material, like just to go do something. Like if I took some, I don't want to do online though. I want to go. Like just go take some classes and be like, I got class tonight.

And then just, you know, see if I get something out of it. Take a seminar class where it's like a smaller group and it's more discussion based. Those would be hilarious for you. I thought about it with, yeah, I would love that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. What do you do? You don't have to have a book or anything. You'd have a book. I had, I don't even know if this is right, but I kind of had two different types of classes. One was the one where it's like a bunch of people sitting in like an auditorium, you know, two or 300 people.

whatever. Yeah. And then there were small ones where you'd be at a conference table like this and there's like eight to 10 people. Yeah. And it's just talking back and forth. Those are the ones I'd love to see go to one of those, you know, maybe someone, maybe we've got an adjunct professor listening to this and they can throw me in cause they're not have, they don't have real jobs. So they just bring someone along. I think it'd be like Michael Scott at business school. Yeah. They're throwing candy bars. Yeah. Yeah.

Whatchamacallit. Make a million dollars. Payday. Payday. To make 100 grand. Satisfied. Satisfied. Yeah, satisfied. I had a speech class in college where I was the only student. Really? It started off like four of us and they just dropped out and the last few weeks it was just me and the professor. What'd you do? I'll be honest with you, that makes sense. Yeah.

In what way? I just, I don't know. I just, that, I'm not like surprised. I don't even have a ton of questions after. I just go, okay, yeah. Yeah. You would be a part of a class that everybody left and then you don't leave. And the teacher wants to just be like, let's just go, just quit, dude. The other people quit. And you think, I'll just go some one-on-one time. It's not a show that they'll cancel. I mean, I got an A for it.

I mean, I would hope. We're just sticking it out. Did you go... Did every day, did you walk in and go, where is everybody? And then you're like, all right, I'm just kidding. Let's get after it. The same jokes, Brian, professor. Would you sit at different chairs? I just remember we sat across from each other. Yeah. Did you do speeches just to him? I think so, yeah. Wow. About what? What is a speech class? What is a speech class? So that's what made you thrive in comedy? You're like, I'm pretty used to talking to one person, so...

This is my demo. Yeah. Show starts with five, ends with one. The rest walked out during my speech. I don't remember what we... Do you just kind of pick a topic and then you just prepare a speech about it? Yeah, I think so. I would love that. Yeah. I'll go to some... I should go to high school.

Yeah, let's start. Let me sit in there with a... Dip your toes in first. Yeah, let's get in there. Yeah. Nicholas Alvarez. I live in Seattle and went to see Nate at the last couple shows he did in Bellevue, as well as the Moore Theater in Seattle. He kept starting to tell a story about performing there, but would distract himself and start talking about Tacoma instead. I've not been able to stop thinking about what the story may have been since Wednesday.

Please let us know the story. He hasn't thought. Oh, oh, oh, I, oh, in the podcast on Adam's show. Yeah. What story was that? I don't know. I don't know. I'll go back and listen and see the one where the fire alarm went off during the show. Was that in Tacoma? But you told that one. Yeah, I did. Yeah. Fire alarm went off. We walked out with the crowd. Then you had to go back. I had to go back in. I told the Graham story with Seattle.

By the dock? Yeah, by the dock. Someone said that hotel, like Edgewater. I'll look back and see if I can remember. I don't know if I know, Nicholas. Sorry, I just rolled that down. It's depressing. Everybody's like, oh, God. Mason Goodenson. I like that. Mason Goodenson. I love how Nate says, I believe in everything because it's fun to believe, and his most often used phrase is unbelievable. Unbelievable.

Well, that's unbelievable. Yeah. Is that one of the Guten Son quintuplets? I think that's the one who emailed us, right? Oh, yeah. It's one of the quintuplets. The brothers? One of the brothers, yeah. What do you call them? Brothers. I don't know. That's fun. Brian, we got four, because you get a built-in at least four people. What do you mean? With the brothers. Oh, right, right, right. You get one, you get the other ones. Audience.

We only do, we, twins we don't have time for. I use those guys in my speech class. Yeah, I mean, yeah. They would have thrown stuff at you. I would have switched seats in the class. Like you should have went in and always just been kind of like, I'm going to try it over here. Mix it up. Yeah. Brian Nesteater. He's a nest eater. He eats nest. Can you believe that? How would you say it?

Oh, that is a tough one. Nice Teeter? Nice Teeter? I definitely would have said Nest Eater. What if he eats nest? Well, then he spells nest wrong. N-E-I-S. You can't be that obvious about it. Oh, right. You got to disguise it a little bit. Family name. That's how he got it. Let's go Nest Eater.

Is it the nest eater boys coming over? I'm pretty sure Nate just said Jaguars. This could be the next penguin. Jaguars. I think it did. That's how I say it. I say it that way too. Jaguars? Jaguars? Jaguars. Not too scared of a Jaguar. But a Jaguar, I'm going to turn around. A Jaguar, I was like, bring it over. I'll fight it. If Aaron says it right, then it must be right. Yeah. I've always said the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jaguars. Yeah. Jaguars. Jaguars.

Cody Bork. My neighbor Felix is Nate's version of Bob Sacramento. That's great. Felix will love that. That's awesome. For people who don't know, Bob Sacramento is Kramer's friend who we never saw, but he always referenced. Yeah. And none of us have seen Felix. Bob Sacramento. All right. So just read this last one? Yeah. All right. So...

Hello, folks. Andrew Sanders. Hello, folks. My mom and I were just discussing the fact that she used to be a secretary of a bowling league in Louisville, Kentucky in the late 80s and early 90s. Over the course of the conversation, she mentioned that a man named Bob Bargetze in her league bowled three strikes in a row and got so nervous before his next turn to bowl that he went into the bathroom and dropped dead of a heart attack. By chance, is this any relation to you? No.

It is my granddad. It's my grandfather. My dad's dad. I know. Yeah, that's tough. He didn't have a heart attack because he was so nervous about bowling, right? I don't know. You've never heard the story? The legend has grown. So my dad, my grandfather died on November 11th. My dad's birthday is the 12th. November 11th, 1984.

I... So I was five, right? I kind of remember going to the funeral. Like I... But that's about it. I don't remember ever meeting him. But I remember... I kind of remember going to the funeral. I don't know if I...

I feel like maybe I heard this story. I don't know. I don't know if I did. I was so young that I don't know if I knew that story. That's crazy. I know my grandmother's in the bowling hall of fame. Yeah, you've told us that. And so, I mean, they were big bowlers. Yeah. And so I do know that. And so they would have been there. That's crazy.

Yeah, and that's the thing with the last name Bargetzi. It's like you just – if we do anything, everybody knows. The name is just so different that everybody remembers and every – you get a lot of that. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we talked to my mom and dad, and yeah, it's true. Grandfather Bob. Wow. That is great. What a small world. Yeah, yeah. A little bit smaller now that he's not here. But did they say –

Thanks for bringing that up. But they said that keep bowl three strikes in a row and then that happened. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think he's smoking, drinking. You know, like it wasn't. It wasn't the nerves itself. Yeah, it wasn't Peter Weber. It wasn't skinny. Yeah, we were. Who do you think I am? I am. Yeah. Who do you think you are? Who do you think you are? Who do you think I am? Yeah, wow. That's interesting. I mean, yeah.

Yeah. Maybe should have opened with that one. You know, I don't know if it's the best to close on. Let's keep these vibes rolling. Yeah. We'll do one extra just to see. I am Andy Pruitt. I am Andy Pruitt. I was going to go. I am Mandy Pruitt. Yeah.

I took a class about the history of heavy metal music that counted as my math credit my freshman year of college. I'm telling you, dude, that's insane. I think colleges, you guys, something's up. Can I tell you another funny one? Yeah. My sister told me she took a class her freshman year at Notre Dame called The Magic of Numbers. Yeah, I mean, come on, man. That's like, dude, colleges are a joke. They are a joke.

And they want to, everybody wants their student debt taken away. Now, you know what? Pay it. Because y'all were doing nothing in there. Why do I got, I didn't go to college. Why do I got to pay for your dumb debt so you can take friendship class? What is that? You think you're better than me here? Every class should be called we're better than everybody. Because y'all are just making stuff up. This is nonsense. What is the magic of numbers?

Uh, it was, uh, it was like a math class. It was a math class. I don't know. I don't know what it was. I should look it up. Yeah. Yeah. I think my daughter takes that class as well. From a magic family? I know, but he, I didn't, you pay $80,000 a year to go learn magic, you know, the magic of numbers. I mean, now they got a new math. So that's, it doesn't even matter. Yeah.

It's a first year math seminar. Oh, first year math seminar. It gives students a panoramic view of mathematics by considering a variety of topics displaying its enormous power and beauty. I mean, that's dude. I just don't. What are you learning there? What do you get out of college? I'll tell you this. The topical course is rich in content and context.

But like, what do you, like when you, if you go to college, what is, what are you getting? Like that you get to say, I went to Notre Dame, like, and everybody's like, Ooh, and then you go get a job. Like, I don't understand. It depends on what you study. I think my friends that I had friends that were like science majors or engineering, they learn practical things, right? The main benefit for me, I was a philosophy slash marketing major is the diploma saying that you,

Like, did you learn marketing stuff? I did. I don't know. I can't think of anything. I mean, I would think you would learn it more on the fly. But it's, yeah, like, unless you're a doctor, you're, like, doing something that's really going to happen. I just don't, you know, it just doesn't make sense. That's a very real. And here's something. I know these are not all the classes that there's other classes. Right. But this is unreal, dude. Like, this is not. That's insane. You know how you don't have friends? You take a friendship class. Yeah.

That's what it should have been. Why are we taking this class? Because you guys are going to need some new friends after you tell them you're taking a friendship class. Well, that's like the last comment from Casey Shreeman, who's a local comic. There's another word that starts with DW. It's dweeb. I thought of that after Aaron talked about his friendship class. Yeah. All right. So...

Any other stuff you guys want to talk about? Family members of mine that are not here no more? Is there any fun surprises you guys are going to throw at me? I thought my grandfather left a comment. I thought the last thing he did was he goes, I feel like my grandson's going to have a podcast one day. And they go, what's a podcast? And he goes, you will see. He put a kill switch. Put a kill switch. That's another really funny one. Kill switch. It's called Will's.

There was a local guy who just died and he left his dog $5 million. Yeah, on the kill switch. Yeah. Did you hear that story? I just saw the headline. I don't know. Yeah. How does that work? Well, he has a caretaker and they got $5 million worth of money to take care of the dog. Oh, really? Yeah. And then who gets it after the dog dies? Because I'd be watching that dog. I know. I know. I don't know. Yeah. That's a good question. The dog's going to have to set up his own kill switch. Yeah.

yeah you know and the dog left it to the cat and you're like oh no and then they they gotta just keep killing all these animals you go over his house it's like a zoo worth of animals and you're like dude i'm never this guy's just slaughtering animals like just trying to get this five because eventually it goes to him the work i had to put in i don't know if it was worth it to be honest i mean i have

just you see go to the driver front yard it's just all humps and like really buried yeah but he puts them out and you're like what's over there it's like an elephant like he goes he had an elephant he only left him 200 grand for some reason elephant couldn't count yeah that's uh i did see that so uh all right this week uh uh so we were we're going to talk about video games i uh you know because i was i was watching like

the Eric that made the, the audio that we posted on, he made it a music or whatever. What is it? Our auto tune of the podcast. Yeah. It was awesome. Yeah. It was really good. Yeah. And then, uh, that's how bored he was. Yeah. He goes, he kept, he showed me that he's doing it. And I was like, and he goes, yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah. You need some stuff going on, dude. Like he had some downtime and he just, he's got a whole little studio set up in his, uh, where he cuts his hair. Uh,

But it was great. It was very funny. But Eric was watching Call of Duty live stream of video games. And I mean, there might be a lot of people listening to this that their kids are doing that and they don't know. My cousin Caleb, my nephew Caleb, I mean, he's all about it. He does Twitch and whatever. I don't even know really what it is.

But he sets it up. But these, I mean, dude, they're having millions of people or, you know, billions. Caleb, what are you said? Billions, right? Like how many people are watching this stuff? I mean, at a time. Yeah. You're looking at billions, but dude, it's crazy. Yeah. Crazy. Sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt y'all's podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome to Aaron land. Yeah. Wow. We've got a special guest right now. Neighbor gets you on the line. How you doing? Welcome to Aaron land. Yeah.

But yeah, I mean, it's just the world of video games because, I mean, it was nothing. Video games were nothing. I remember, do you remember your first video game? I think we had an Atari and then I got Sega was the first one I remember getting after that. I'm pretty sure we had an Atari. And an N64. Yeah, that was your first. That's crazy. That was a big deal when that came out. Huh? What did you do, guys? Throw a tennis ball against the wall? Yeah.

We had, that was actually the first video game. It's called Tennis for Two. We had a Atari. Yeah. Like most things, we got it like a year after everybody else did. To the point where I remember we went back to school after Christmas break and our teacher made us go around the room and tell everybody like, what'd you get for Christmas? And I was embarrassed to tell it.

Because everybody else got it last Christmas. Oh, yeah. And I set it under my breath like the last thing because I didn't want people to know that I got Atari. Yeah. Because everybody else got it. Got it late. Got it very late. Yeah. And that's – I mean, besides that, I didn't play video games. My freshman year in college, my roommate had Tecmo Bowl. Yeah. Tecmo Super Bowl. And I remember if you had Bo Jackson, you could pretty much be unstoppable. Unstoppable. You could run back and forth. You would just run. Yeah. You would run at –

I mean, you would just, you would go to the goal line and then turn around and run back. Yeah.

and then keep doing that much faster than everybody yeah it was shiftier yeah was it Bo Jackson or it was uh or I don't know it was like a code or something maybe it was just if you use Bo Jackson I think he was just yeah he was just and so you could just go back and forth and I mean but you could go all the way to the end zone come back to the end zone I mean you could run around the entire length of the game and just never score because they could never catch you you would just be you know yeah if you got tackled you were in

loser. Like you just end up doing something that you walk yourself into it. Was there a stigma for people that were really into video games when you guys were in high school and stuff? Was it considered like a thing that nerdier people do? Was there any of that? Or was it kind of everybody was playing them? Well, I grew up as I did for my research in the golden age of arcade video games. Okay. From like late 70s to early 80s. Yeah. And that's when all the big arcades I mean, arcades just blew up

And I remember like even grocery stores, they all had like Ms. Pac-Man or something like that. Like when you walk in. I remember going to my mom and she'd be shopping. I just want to stay. If I had to, she'd give me a quarter, I'd play it. Even if I didn't have a quarter, I would just watch someone else play. And that was just a normal thing. Just watch people you don't know play it.

And it was just, that was Twitch back then. Him looking back at some guy looking back at you like, what are you worried about, man? You're going to get a turn. And he's like, I'm just enjoying watching you play. And he just, there, I remember going to, you could go to Walmart and they would have like

you know, Street Fighter and all those video games in the main engines. They don't even have that anymore. Like in Walmarts or... Some Walmarts do. They have a little section over there. Yeah. I don't know if that's true. I've seen that before. Yeah. Yeah. They got a couple. It's not the main attraction. Yeah. But there's stuff going on. Yeah. Oh.

I didn't know that. You know the little room where they have like the layaway counter is one little room over there. If you wouldn't have started describing it, I might have believed you. Now I don't. The layaway counter. I'm not making this up. Does Walmart have layaway? Which Walmart are you talking about? Any of them, dude. I don't know, dude. Yes, dude. Why do you think Walmart has layaway? I don't know. I've been to Walmart. Who had Kmart had layaway? Like a layaway thing. Walmart has layaway. Still? Still.

I mean, I'm pretty sure, man. I don't... I thought that was something I grew up with. Yeah. Yeah, I don't... I mean, maybe some, like, middle-of-nowhere Walmarts. I don't think your mainstream Walmarts, the ones that are frequently traveled... I think you find it like a retro... like a laundromat or something. Retro, like...

video games yeah Tacoma Comedy Club the green room has the green room has video games and then add them there put them in there and uh and then they and they have and there's arcade bars they have an arcade bar there yeah uh and so like that's kind of a there's one here in Nashville and Midtown yeah yeah it's a cool spot let's say yeah it's always weird Kung Fu Kung Fu Kung Fu Kung Fu yeah all right let's see

Did we call it Midtown growing up? No. No. Oh, really? Yeah. Everything's downtown. Yeah. Everything's downtown. Or maybe West End. West End is Vandy. Yeah. Okay. But then everything's... Yeah. Midtown is very confusing to me. Yeah. When someone says that, I'm like, I don't even consider that an area. Like, that was not a... Like, growing up, you just didn't... It was going to Vandy. It wasn't its own section. It was almost on the way to Vandy. And there was...

buildings there but there's car dealerships there just wasn't it's very confusing me that someone's like midtown i'm like what uh yeah yeah i remember going so i remember we'd go to the walmart and then uh we play video games there i don't know i thought it's something i don't know

Did, if you, uh, what was I going to say? All right. Was it about the Bellevue Washington Comedy Club? No, it was, uh, I was thinking about a video game, an old video game that would be the first one you play. Go ahead. All right. So according to the Entertainment Software Association, three fourths of all US households have at least one person who plays video games.

And by the end of this year, it's projected that 2.7 billion people, about a third of the country of the world will play video games. I it's, it's, it's, it's wild. So I play, I have, I play, uh, PGA two K one, a golf game. Uh, so I play that a lot, but that's a golf game. I love it. And you know, uh, call of duty. I was always like, I liked going through the campaign. I didn't like online stuff. So I think I'm too old for online stuff. I don't, I'm not a big fan. Uh,

I don't want to talk to strangers. I don't want to talk to people I don't know. The little bit I've done it, you just get yelled at by kids. The language in these things are wild. I mean, wild.

It's just a zoo that goes on in there. And so that was never, never fun to me. Like I, and I wasn't introduced to video games in an online world. So it was a new thing I saw where I think people that now, you know, my, my daughter plays Roblox that's online. And so like, they're, they're just used to,

You know, which I think it all adds to like, it makes people not feel like they're people are humans. Yeah. Like you're just talking. I mean, the people that talk crazy on a thing, you're like, you're talking to another human. Yeah. And it makes them like, you know, it's like, it makes them like their interactions are not good with people. Cause they like social media. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think so. You know, they always would say like all this violence was like not good that they're blaming on video games. And I always thought, I mean, there's probably a little bit of these video games. Like you can't,

You know, like they would always blame any kind of school shooting or something like that. And then they would make fun of it. Like, well, you go blame it on video games. So there shouldn't be video games. You're like, I mean, it's a kid that's 15. That's just playing for nine hours, just shooting people in a game.

Let's not just throw it off the table like it's an insane world. This person in virtual reality is going to end up getting where you're now. That's all you see. I'm not blaming it on video games, but I'm sure we could talk about it. I'm sure there's a conversation that could be had. It's pretty crazy. I did research, and there's studies that say it definitely contributes, and then there's another one that will say...

I mean, you can find anything to back your argument. Well, that's true with anything on the internet. Yeah. But there's just research that shows both things. Yeah, I could see it being, yeah. I mean, it's, you know. I played Call of Duty, I liked campaign mode. And I would always do just the campaign. And that was it. I never did online.

Halo was big. Halo was probably the biggest one. That was the first gigantic online big one. Yeah. My buddy was on it. He might, uh, my buddy Kenny was ranked high on it. He buys actually old pinball machines. Mm-hmm.

But he would – he'd rank – he'd always be ranked very high. He played college football, which is coming back. Yeah. I would probably buy college football. That was very fun. Not Notre Dame. Did you see that? Oh, really? Why? Notre Dame is – they're saying not until their athletes are compensated for their likeness being used. So they might not be in the game. I thought they are now. I thought – I don't know. I don't know enough about it. I just saw Notre Dame will not be in the game. Yeah.

Which is a little upsetting. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. It's that music they play during the game. They don't have lessons to it. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Yeah. Did you ever see the Virginia Tech opening? Oh, yeah.

what they do when they come out and play? It's maybe the coolest. It's the coolest. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we can't play it cause it's music, but they play Metallica. Yeah. Enter Sandman. Enter Sandman. And there's a YouTube video of it and you watch him following the team out of the tunnel. When someone pretty amazing, someone like doesn't like sports. I'm just like, just go to that and then leave. Uh huh.

That's the crazy – you see them walk. They walk over from, like, the locker rooms, and they come through, and they just start playing the interception. The whole crowd is, like, going. I mean, dude, it's the greatest thing I've ever seen. Like, I want to go to a game to experience that. It's Thursday night usually, too. That's their thing. At night? I mean, just like – I mean, you would be like – just to feel that energy, dude. I would – when they open back up,

I would definitely go back. I want to go to a Virginia Tech game just to see that. The two coolest I've seen in person, have you been in an Auburn game before when that eagle swoops around? That is pretty awesome. Yeah. You know who went to Auburn? Felix. Yeah. Yeah, he did. Yeah.

Sure he did. Yeah. The other one was Florida State when the Seminole comes out on the horse and takes a spear and sticks it in the 50-yard line. It's pretty amazing. Yeah. I was like, I hate Florida State. And I was there. I was like, this is pretty awesome. Yeah. They still do that? Yeah, they do. It's one of the biggest rivals in America. Florida State, Notre Dame.

That's a Nick Novicki comment. He says we're on the bus. You know, Florida State, Notre Dame, guys, starts tonight, big rival. And I was like, I don't know if they – I don't think they're – I mean, they're two major teams. But I don't know if they're – You've played like three times in 30 years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, boys, getting after it. Notre Dame, La Tech, noon, Friday. You guys want to check it out. Noon on a Friday. Yeah.

All right. So what's in the app? All right. So the very first video game, you've already kind of accused me of it, and you're right. Tennis for Two is what it was called. Like Pong? It's Pong before Pong, basically. This was 1958. 58? It was just some computer scientist guy that just created it. I mean, there were some before that. There was Birdie the Brain back in 1950. That was a tic-tac-toe where you played against Birdie.

Oh, just on the computer. Yeah, that was like at the Canadian... I mean, what is a computer? That's the size of a bus? There's Tennis for Two right there. Yeah. A nice ergonomic controller right there. Yeah. That was the first game created solely for entertainment purposes, not academic. They just made it for fun. The controller looks like a toaster. I mean...

Yeah, it's very, oh, wow. See, I mean, you can tell what's going on there. You can see it. You would definitely have to explain it. I don't know how you hit. It's like an etch-a-sketch. It does look like an etch-a-sketch. Where it's like, that's the, you're spinning that thing. Yeah. It's a two-minute video on this? Oh, come on. Like, man, that's insane. This game's brutal. And you're like, how long is it, two minutes? You're like, yeah, just show me a picture of it, dude. Or maybe a...

A boomerang. That's about all I can handle of watching this. And then you see young Brian just over there just watching. Over their shoulder, just standing there waiting. So this is the first ever, this is like the first ever, nobody's even thought of

It's just the idea of a video game. This is like the first ever one, huh? I mean, that's what is widely considered. Space War came out right after it in 1962. It's the first video game to be installed on multiple computers. You couldn't buy it, but multiple... If you found a computer. Where would you have to go? NASA? No, it was at MIT. The guy who invented it was at MIT. I mean, that looks pretty cool. This is the game? Yeah.

What are you doing? The game features two spaceships in a dogfight while maneuvering in the gravity well of a star. I mean, for 1958, I mean, 1962, that's pretty good. I think that if you played this game, your grandfather would come in and hit your TV because he thinks it's broke. Like, that's what you, you know.

My grandfather Bob would just come in and just, boom. Something wrong with that? You're like, no, it's a video game. It's one of the first video games. Technology's through the roof right now. But that's like the game that put video games on the map. There's a couple. The first arcade video game was called Computer Space. It was kind of similar, 1971. The first home video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey, 1972. Came with...

Is that? What is that? What is this? Sorry, this is the sounds of a computer space arcade. Oh, see, that's pretty good. What does it sound like? I mean, it sounds like a good time. And there's probably not a mute button. You got to listen to that. I mean, can you? Again, I'm impressed with it. Look at that. Brian's like, man, these graphics are pretty good. I mean, yeah. Yeah.

I mean, they're... I could play that right now. Yeah, I'm not... I would be impressed at the time, having to listen to that, just that sound. Even at the time, like five minutes in, you're like, can we... Is there a volume button? They don't even know that word yet. They go, is there a noise button that's noisy? Yeah. And that one, that's Galaxy Game. That's the other...

first one. They came out at the same time. That's on exhibit at the Computer History Museum. One of them still. Like an arcade. Yeah. Galaxy was a... Isn't that a big game? Well, different version. Galaga and different things like that. So the first home console where you had multiple games was the Magnavox Odyssey. They had table tennis, ski, Simon Says, analogic hockey, football, cat and mouse. Some fun stuff here. Submarine, roulette,

I mean, roulette makes sense. Submarine, I don't, you know. Submarine could be the space thing, and you make the screen blue, and you're like, you're underwater. And you're like, oh, is it the same as the, yeah, we just call submarine. And we sell them separately. You're like, what is that? It's the same as, you know, computer space, but. Do you know, do these things come preloaded with all these games, or are the games bought separately like they are today? It came with them, I'm pretty sure. Okay. Yeah. So all these just got them preloaded into this.

Well, I mean, they had different cartridges that you put in. Oh, okay. How much would one of these cost? I don't know how much one of those would cost, but we had different cartridges like Atari's that you put in. If it got too hot, you blow on them. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that was even Nintendo. The introductory price for a Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 was $99.95. Is that... $99.95. I probably would have said $500 today. I was going to ask you what you think it's equivalent to.

Is the equivalent of today like $500? $600. $600. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy. Which is not far off from what the new consoles are right now. Oh, yeah. I think they're getting nuts. Yeah. They're $500 now. Yeah. If you can find them. You can't find them anywhere. Yeah. Most people think Pong was like the first video game. It was the first really successful game. And when it came out for Atari in 1975, it like blew everything out of the water.

See, Pong is actually playable.

Those last two games that we watched, I don't even understand what's happening on the screen, really. The tennis one you can tell because you know what tennis is. But those space games, it's like, what is happening here? You're just spinning around. Well, I guess it was just made for people at home. A guy at his office. Yeah, like a scientist at his office that's like, oh, yeah. That's what's going on. They're making that instead of cancer stuff.

You know, like, why don't they go, what'd you do today? Any stuff on cancer? You're like, made a star game. Made a what? Made a what? It's a game where you're in space and you're on a star and another thing's trying to shoot you. And you're like, oh, yeah, that's cool, man. Yeah.

So cancer's kind of a big deal, though, you know? Like, I mean, so, you know, whenever you get some time, it's not like they just flip a switch. It's probably spent two months on that. Yeah. Yeah. There's some original Pong gameplay. Yeah, Pong was good. You can play Pong. Target would have on the floor.

A pong game. You play with your foot and you just wave it. You move your foot. It's like a sensor. You move your foot. Yeah, because I would play with Harper. They just have it on the floor at Target. It's just fun. And you find it hard to believe that Walmart has a pinball machine, but Target's got interactive video games? Pinball and layaway. I have a hard time believing. I pulled up their website, dude. Look at the layaway at Walmart. It's the layaway season has ended. They did it in 1984. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I believe you. An alternative layaway is just still layaway. You can pay later. What was layaway? It was like you're paying later, right? You just pay a little bit at a time? Yeah. By clothes? No, no, no. I think layaway means they put it away, right? Until you can pay later. I wonder if I asked my parents if we put stuff on layaway.

It's big around Christmas season, obviously, which is always sad to me. Oh, because you're putting, yeah, you're putting. People buying gifts for their kids and stuff. Yeah. No, yeah. You want to go. I mean, Kid Rock would go. Yeah, I saw that. He went and paid for people's layaway, which is very cool. At Walmart. Yep. Oh, yeah. Did he go to Walmart? I'm pretty sure. Maybe they did. I'm pretty sure they did. They've always had layaway. Told you, Aaron.

I always see people put... They always say they go buy people's turkeys Thanksgiving. And I just want to know the... How many did you get? Because they go, it's that time of year. I think it's just completely made up and they just want to...

Be like, I'm doing something because they're making announcements. That time of year, let me know if someone can't afford a turkey and I'll send one over. How many are you sending? How many people on Instagram are going, I know someone that can't, they just want a turkey. I don't know how much a turkey is. $15? $20? Probably more than that, but something like that. It's not $1,000. Yeah.

it's either 15 or a thousand yeah there's some in between there yeah not much in between but they're so i just i don't know that's the stuff that always drives me like it's the idea of being you know making this big statement it's like just do it man just go or go to a you know a soup kitchen be like kid rock go in there and eighty one thousand dollars worth of layaways at nashville walmart yeah look i understand that people can't

I'll go pay $81,000 worth of layaway at Walmart. But it's, I don't know. He just went and did it. He didn't announce, hey, I'm going to go do this. I don't think. Somebody clearly found out. Well, of course, Walmart lets them know. I mean, Kid Rock comes in and pays for it. They're going to say the story. Mm-hmm.

You're not going to not say the story. I mean, Keanu Reeves was always paying for all these hospitals. He didn't tell anybody, but they find out, and then the story gets out. So, I don't know. I just want to see that. I'm just saying. When people buy these turkeys, I just would love to know. I want, if they're like, none. The way they say it, it's that time of year again. If you guys need a turkey, let me know. If anybody needs a turkey, we will buy you. I'll buy you a turkey. I'm not going to lie.

I know Tracy Lawrence, country singer Tracy Lawrence, does a big turkey giveaway every year downtown, but it's with some charity. Yeah, but it's like, I understand that. Yeah, it's like, I donated this thing, we're doing turkeys, if you need one, come down and get one. Like that kind of thing. It's like...

Yeah. I just can't, you know, I don't know. All right. I think that was a big mafia. People were trying to do good things. I think it was a big mafia thing too. I think the boss of the neighborhood or whatever would give out turkeys to the people at Thanksgiving and they loved it. The people that they extort. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So then the golden age of video arcades hits 1978 Space Invaders comes on. It's the first game where you

where you're regulated by lives instead of a timer or a set score. Interesting. Wow. So you could keep going, gaining extra lives. And it was the first game. Is that the kid you get stuck behind? Walmart that doesn't lose? So, I mean, he would never, he would just keep playing. I mean, in theory, if you're that good. It gets harder as it goes. Yeah. It was the first one or one of the first ones to track the highest score and keep it on the machine.

Wow. Which was a big deal. Yeah. If you saw your name on a machine. Right. Yeah. Get the three initials. Your initials. Yeah. It was the first to include background music during the game played. It was a simple four note loop. Do you want to hear it? Do you have it? Do you want to hear it, Nate? I guess. It's a little better. That's music? Holly came in.

Maybe there's more only Holly can hear. I mean, Holly came in and was like, what's up? I mean, we were being invaded by space invaders. Is it happening? It's happening. So Asteroids came a year later in 79. 1980, Pac-Man. It was the first video game with power-ups. Oh, okay.

You know what that is, Nate? Where like if you eat one of the big pellets, you can get more power. Oh, okay. Yeah. And the individual ghosts react to players' actions. Before it was just no matter what you did, whoever you're against will do the same thing. But the ghost would actually respond to you. And it's like AI. First time there was like AI in the game. That's right. Centipede, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Ms. Pac-Man, all those came in like a three-year period. Yeah.

Pac-Man had a pattern. You could actually beat it if you learned the pattern, but Ms. Pac-Man didn't because the ghosts were semi-random. Like if you knew a whole where to go, you had to have it memorized. Isn't there a documentary about Pac-Man, right? Or something. Or Donkey Kong. Yeah. King of Kong? King of Kong. Yeah. He was like the best. Yeah. Yeah. And then 1983, the Crash Game. Video game crash because there was too many being put out. Low quality games.

Nintendo came on the scene in 85. Wait, so the crash just... They were just putting out so many that people stopped buying them and lost interest in video games. So they had consoles, Atari? Mm-hmm. So it was Atari. Mm-hmm. And then that was in Sega? Or no? Sega wasn't out yet. Yeah. Sega was out. Nintendo came in 85. Mm-hmm. It came out with Super Mario Brothers and Legend of Zelda. Yeah, I mean, Super Mario Brothers is probably the... I mean, that's the... That would probably be...

Most people say your first game, you're going to think that. Yeah. I remember I had cousins or friends that had a Super Nintendo. It was Super Mario Brothers was pretty wild. We had it. I mean, that would be below end of the thing. I mean, you had to put a pencil on top of the game to keep it down sometimes. Like the top would be a game would sit and you would just have a pencil on top of it. I mean, you really got to... That's the stuff...

That I wonder if kids now are not going to know the weird kind of things you had to do to make something work. TVs, you had to do antennas. If you ever had an antenna, you had to really mess with it a lot. I mean, it was like, you have a TV back then, like having a baby. You're just always like, you can't sit down. It's going to something. Something's going to happen. A cloud goes over. But then Nintendo and stuff, you would have to be... Your parents didn't know how to do it. Now, your PlayStation...

If it's something buggy, it's like something's buggy with it. There's not a... I don't know if someone's fixing it, but Nintendo...

I mean, it's like a car. Like you just had to be like, just get it. I just play this game. If I do it right, if I put something on top of it, it holds it down. And kids had to figure that stuff out. You just up in your room figuring it out. Yeah. Like I haven't played video games in 20-something years. And on your bus, we were playing like Call of Duty. Yeah. Oh, dude. Brian playing Call of Duty was so funny, dude. He couldn't.

I'm remembering it now. Well, Aaron was just laughing so hard and just destroying me. I'm like, dude, I've never played this. And he's like, I haven't either. Yeah. But you play video games so much that you have intuition, I think. Right. I play games where...

The analog sticks control the person on the screen. But that was a new concept to you because you just hadn't played video games in a while. Yeah. When I was a kid, I would play new games and I would know, like, I'd get my parents to play with me and they couldn't figure stuff out. And it'd be new to me too, but I just knew the concept. Yeah. Duck Hunt. I do remember how fun it was to get your parents to play with you. Yeah. Like when they would play.

Duck Hunt was big. My parents would play Duck Hunt. But I remember thinking with video games that you – I always thought, well, I'm never going to not play. I'm going to always play. And I think if I had a team – like for the Call of Duty Online, if I could go on with four guys and we'd talk and it's like – I get the idea of it to get really good and you're a team and you're like –

having a mission you're in, you get to talk to your bang, go, go over there, go over there, all this stuff. Yeah. Uh, so I understand like why that's, I get why that's fun. It is. It's very fun. Yeah. Uh, but I remember thinking like, I was like, well, I'll play video games for the rest of my life. And then you do just hit an age and you just kind of don't care. And, uh, I want to say it's maybe in your thirties. And then I'm kind of now back playing golf, but I just play my little golf. I like the golf game. Uh,

You know, I could go through some other, I could get in moods. I'll get in moods where I want to play a bunch of video games. And then I get, then I could not play it for six months. Yeah. We have it on the bus. I mean, the only reason it's on the bus, I mean, we have nothing to do but play this video game. But yeah, you don't, I don't know. It's funny. You do. You just hit an age that you just kind of,

Some people do, and you just kind of get out of it. You just have to start allocating your time differently. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got a kid and a wife and a career and everything. And some people do balance that, but you choose to balance it in other ways. I choose, yes. So, I mean, I do real golf. I mean, yeah. So, like, that's the, yeah. So, I mean, yes. If I was into video games, I would make it happen. Yeah. But my desire just went away. And I'm the greatest average American, so it's probably everybody. It's everybody's desire. Yeah.

I think when you get older, you don't want to. So I played for, in high school, I played World of Warcraft very seriously. Yeah. I moved to Tennessee. For that game. Scholarship. I got recruited. Now when I moved, I moved in the middle of high school. So I moved here. I didn't have any friends. I was just summer. I didn't know anybody yet. Yeah. So I just started playing World of Warcraft. You didn't take that friendship class. I hadn't taken the class yet, so I didn't know how.

Uh, and I was playing eight to 10 hours a day, maybe more than that most days. And, um, I was in a, I was in a guild, like you said, like a crew of people that I knew and I talked to him every day. And one of the funniest things was there's a guy, um,

You know, there's a misconception that it's all kids playing these games, but it is a lot of like professional adults. And I remember we were about to do a raid and this guy over the TeamSpeak we used to use, or Vent, he said, guys, I got a...

be right back real quick my kid's gotta give me a birthday present real quick and he leaves and like 40 seconds later he comes back he's all right we're good yeah i'm just imagining this dad being like they're like dad we got a gift for you he's all right be back real quick and he leaves and got a birthday present from his kids oh my goodness thank you so much what were y'all y'all about to do a big thing yeah we were about to raid gruel's lair you know yeah it was a big moment but could y'all wait for him uh i mean could you pause

No, you can't pause in these big MMORPGs, they're called. They're just kind of in a world. So you can't pause it. So you can't just not walk in yet. Yeah, you can just like, let's wait to start maybe. I don't remember what we were doing exactly, but I just remember a dad pausing to get a gift from his kid is so funny to me. The other thing that came in 85 was Oregon Trail. Oh, yeah. Came in schools. We played Oregon Trail a lot. Yeah.

Everybody dies in Oregon Trail. From dysentery? Yeah, it's like you'd play this game and just, I mean, your whole family's wiped out. Like, you're just losing, you know. I mean, it's kind of a brutal game. Like, you just, I mean, everybody's gone. Have you ever seen Oregon Trail? We used to play Oregon Trail. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't know if it was the original version that we were playing, but we played a version that looked like this, where it was mostly text-based. Yeah. I don't even think the one we used was color.

So yeah, this was, when did this come out? Uh, 85. Yeah. So yeah, this is in my, you're seeing the special. One thing I talk about of my generation is I am called the Oregon trail generation. Cause I was born, uh, 79 and we are, this was a big game for us.

yeah and you get to play it and go yeah it's crazy and then everybody yeah people just would you play with like a group of friends around you and you put all your own names yeah you played at school you get a little time to play it at school and then yeah i mean i don't really remember i remember really elementary school i feel like i remember you put in the names of everybody that's in your wagon yeah it would be like a group of us we'd all be in it then one of us would die it'd be hilarious yeah

Yeah. All right. Then 89 Game Boy came on, and Tetris became one of the best-selling games of all time. Yeah, Tetris, I never could get. I was just like, this is so boring. Do you like it? No. Tetris... I'm not the most mindless kind of gamer. Tetris was...

Tetris was a game that I think people were just wasting time. It was the first real-time waster. I mean, you're putting the boxes in the – after a while, you're like, all right, dude, I don't want to. I can't do this. I get it. What's the game they play on Candy Crush? Yeah. That's zero fun. Yeah. I have zero fun. I have a game that I play this Baron, Bike Baron.

It's a motorcycle game, but you control it. You don't have to move the – sometimes I always feel – sometimes I feel too lazy to move my phone. You know if you play a game where you just steer it and you're like, dude, I'm not. Come on. Just let me have some buttons. I'm not going to sit on a plane just next to someone just like, eh? Just sitting like that. What are you, crazy? Just give me the buttons. And this is a bike-bearing game. I've went through it. I've played.

I mean, thousands of hours of just like probably... Because I've had it forever. I want them to make a new one, and they haven't. But it's just a very easy game that I just... I'm going back through it now. It's just a time waste. Just a mindless thing. Just a mindless. I like mindless stuff, but Tetris never...

You know, it was, I never loved it. Maybe I'll try it again. There's a thing called the Tetris effect. You guys heard of this? Oh, yeah. It's when you start playing it so much, you start having thoughts, mental images, and dreams about Tetris. Like, you'll see a bunch of boxes, and you'll start thinking about how to line them up in a certain way, like on a supermarket shelf. And it, like, enters your thoughts, and you start seeing images of falling pieces of

You would think it would inspire a lot more movers. You know, when Tetris was built, you should have been like, and we had just a gigantic amount of the moving industry was through the roof. Too many jobs, you know? Because everybody had the Tetris. Because everybody had Tetris. Yeah. And they wanted to stack it. I can pack a car. Yeah. I do real life Tetris.

And I'm great at it. You were in the office. You want me to come back to your car? Are you good at it for real? Do you take pride in it? Yeah.

I'm really good at placing stuff. I remember my dad would do that on car trips. He'd be like, everyone just bring your suitcase out and just sit it down. He's like, I'll do it. I'll do it. Yeah, I'll do it. I'd love it. It's pretty fun. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's an episode of The Office where the white collar guys try to stack the boxes and they don't know how to do it right. There's a special skill to it. Yeah, for sure. Tetris also has some health benefits. PTSD prevention.

It studies the show. Do you play it after a traumatic event? It blocks some of the recurring, recurrent intrusive memories that people are often left with. And if you play three minutes of Tetris, it can reduce cravings from food, cigarettes, and alcohol. I can tell you for a fact that's not true. Yeah. I play Tetris a lot. And I eat it. And I eat when I... I do everything you just said. Yeah. Well, Caleb sent me some of that and he's on Aaron Land, so it's got to be true.

There's also something called game transfer phenomena when people get really out of hand and they start seeing power bars over people's heads. That's when they've just lost it. Yeah, man. You're like a... Become a homeless person at that point. I mean, you're just in the streets yelling. I mean... So the 90s, that's when the violent games came on. Street Fighter II came out in 91. Mortal Kombat, 92. Yeah, so I remember going... That's when I remember going to Walmart. The Walmart in Hermitage...

Now it's a hobby lobby. Yeah. Old Hickory Boulevard, Lebanon Road. And they had Mortal Kombat. And that was definitely your parents didn't know what game you were playing. Yeah. And Mortal Kombat is now... I'd let my daughter play it. It was the fast seat. No, I'm joking. But it was like Mortal Kombat was... Street Fighter was just a fighting game. Mortal Kombat, I mean, they had those...

extra kills i never was like unreal there was kids that were unbelievable at it i never was like unreal at video games but they could do everything that's when the rating system came for video games because that stuff the video game rating council so now they started giving things t for teens and for mature and it's when movies started to come out the mid 90s there was a street fighter movie mortal kombat super mario brothers you say mature you say mature

Is that how you say it? Mature. I say mature. Mature. Mature. Mature. Do I say mature? M for mature. That's what I say. M for mature. I say mature. Yeah. You say mature. Mature? Is that what you say?

He's very mature. I guess I do. Yeah. Oh, my God. I think you would have said that if he hadn't said that right way first. No. Mature? You totally were. It's not a right or wrong. I said mature first. I said mature before he did. That is a legitimate way to say it. It's just always interesting. Yeah. If you're sitting in the first class lobby of the Titanic, that's where they go, this wine's mature. Oh, wow. And then they drink. Nobody's with us.

Yeah, that's what they were saying. Did they say that about the wine? You don't know, dude. This is very mature wine. Dude, you were down with the hobos at the bottom. They were talking about this is old money up at the top. You know, they say mature, they drink their wine, and go, this is mature wine. I played a video game, Space. Yeah, it's your second Titanic reference. I think I am on it. Yeah. I know. That's the only ship I know. If I knew another ship, I would do other. The Love Boat?

Yeah. Paul Allen? Lusitania. His cheese is mature. I thought you said mature, and then when you said mature, I thought you were saying someone's name. Yeah.

You go... Didn't Mature used to play that? Did you say Mature? Like it was a video, like, yeah. Used to play Mature? There's a chance I would have just went, yeah, I played. I don't think, what was it? Like a Street Fighter off, like an off Street Fighter game or something? Mature. Too Mature. I think I say Mature. Yeah, Mature. That's how I've always said it. I'm too Mature for your age. Mature. If you're kids acting up, you go, stop being so immature. Immature. Immature? Is that how you say, how do you say...

I think about it now. He's so ridiculous. Yeah. Stop being so immature. Immature. I think these kids are going to slap you in the face when you say that. I think that would be a kid that would show zero respect for authority. And there's a chance his parents walk up and they go, what happened? And he goes, he said immature. And then the parents smack him. And then you're like an...

Oh, man. Talladega Nights. You going to let him talk to the elder like that? Yeah, I am. Just screaming at him. I love the way he's talking to you. I love the way he's talking right now. Immature. Immature. Immature. You're not saying it wrong. It's just I don't hear it very often.

It's just like a longer walk to get to the end of that word, the way you say it. Like it's immature. It just feels like you keep going. Are you going to stop? Oh, yeah. Immature is like we're getting to the point. It's the same syllables. No, it doesn't feel like it. Immature feels like a longer... Yeah.

Immature feels like, you passed the house, there's two houses back. I'm sorry. All right, now we're in the mid-90s. Resident Evil.

Oh, yeah. Resident Evil was super scary. It was called Biohazard in Japan. It was the first action game to receive the Mature 17 Plus rating. It was... Mature? Mature, yeah. Sorry. Say it however you feel, man. I'm just... Do whatever you want. It's your life, man.

What about manure? I mean, you go mature manure. Like. Mah-nure. Mature manure. Mah-nure. The Resident Evil franchise sparked the revival of the zombie genre. It was, I remember playing Resident Evil and it was scary. Like you played at night and then you, it was like, I can't do this, dude. Like it's too much. Yeah. That's like, I mean, I have a, we've got the PS4 VR version.

And we had the Batman game. First night I played it, it was 2 in the morning. I'm up here. It's just dark. And I had to lift my goggles up a couple times. It's a lot. From Batman? Yeah, I could show you. Because you're in the Arkham Asylum, aren't you? Yeah. Like an insane asylum. You're in an insane asylum. I mean, I'm sure we're going to talk about VR, right? I'll wait. So you don't know.

where stuff is. And when you look around, you've put it on, right? It's the, it's the whole world is there. And so I'm up here alone in the dark, you know, it's two in the morning and it's just like, and I'm just afraid I'm going to,

you know, pull down something and something's going to jump out at me. And like it's, and then some stuff does jump out at him. It's crazy. And they got other games where you're riding a railroad train and it's just like, you're going through like a haunted house and like there's people running at you with stuff. I mean, it's wild, dude. It's crazy. All right. Now we're to 2000 PlayStation two comes out. It becomes the best selling game console of all time. Yeah. Do you have a PS2? I did. And was there a PlayStation? Yeah, there was a one too. The PS1. PS1. And it was the first disc.

ps1 was the disc uh and then you just skipped over first one i remember yeah it was well i mean playstation 2 was so yes so big playstation 1 i think was gray and the circle was almost it was white playstation 1 was yeah maybe yeah maybe gray yeah i don't know why you gotta just be different i mean why do you i mean you don't need you go it's a gray one i remember it being white look i mean what do you call that color

I think that's a good compromise between what we just said. No, that was like a... I think that's half gray, half white. The main one was gray. How is that? What do you mean it's not the main one? That's not the main one. No, look at that. That's bigger.

That's like a travel one. That's a special PlayStation 1 launch. Yeah, it's great. If you're listening, it's off-white. You're right. I mean, I don't think calling that white is crazy compared to... It's black now. No, you can't. Not the PlayStation 1. It's gray. I'm colorblind, and I know it's gray. In what way are you colorblind? You can't tell white and gray. Yeah. But besides that, he's good. Uh...

I forget whatever. I mean, if I do a colorblind test. Red. Where you do reds, greens, I have trouble with browns. Being colorblind, I know that's gray. I guess you're right. That's gray. I guess you're right. I mean, it's not. It's not a guess you're right. Just say it's gray. Like, it's gray. Outside of this situation.

If someone walked up and handed it to you and they go, what color is it? You're going to go gray. You're not going to argue with the guy that it might be white. You had a white one in your head. What I mean is I don't think it's crazy to call that one white, especially when the PlayStation 2 was black. It's insane to call it white when it's gray. So...

I don't, it's not that it's, it's, it's, it's pure insanity to go like, look, it's not pearl. It's not pearl white, but it is a shade of white for sure. It's gray. There's gotta be a description of it. If you're listening at home, it's white. If you're listening at home. Yeah, it's white. If you're listening at work, it's gray. Everybody's listening. Oh boy.

If you're in the room, it's... I'll keep going while you look. Yeah. Yeah. So, 2001 is when the Xbox came out. Yeah. It was unveiled by Bill Gates and The Rock, a consumer trade show. So long as The Rock has been famous. Yeah. I was kind of surprised. What was it? 2001. Slightly delayed for its release because of 9-11. Came out in November 2001. Also, right after 9-11, Grand Theft Auto 3 came out.

I think I remember this with the trade towers in it or gone. No, that wasn't this one. Uh, but they had carjacking murder and prostitution and they got blasted cause it was right after nine 11 and people just didn't think it was good taste. Did you find it?

I did. I found out. And like most things in life, it's more complicated than we gave it credit for. Not according to Nate. There is an original console called the PlayStation that was gray. Yeah. And then in July of 2000, they redesigned a slim version of it called the PS1 that was white. Yeah. So these are the two.

So the first one is the gray one is the one I'm talking about. The gray one's the one you're talking about. That's the one that's a PlayStation one. That's what I said from the get-go. Right, that's the PlayStation. I was talking about the PS1.

Which is that. You're telling me that's not white? Yeah, but I've never even seen that, dude. That's not the one that no one thinks of on Earth when they think PlayStation 1. They don't go, oh, yeah, the mini version they sold before they came out with the PS2. No one thinks of that. Maybe when you guys, you grew up with money, so maybe you guys did. I'm saying if you, on the other side of the tracks where I lived...

And we weren't all just going to Notre Dame taking friendship classes and you're in the hard knocks of life. We had a gray one that was bigger. I think this is the one we had actually too. Did you walk over it with your pocket into your friend's house? You just had, that's how small it was.

I'll bring my PlayStation over. It's the white one. The white one or the gray one? No, they're both. Oh, yeah, both. They're both white. Yeah. It's very mature of you. Look at that. Look at that. Mature. I've been working on it in my head the whole time we were talking. Yeah. 2005 is when Guitar Hero comes out. Dude.

Yeah. So, I mean, I never got into it. I was like starting to trail off the video games. But in 2005, I was, I mean, I started comedy. Yeah, you were doing comedy every night. I was doing comedy every night. Yeah, so. Guitar Hero was huge. It became an alternative to karaoke. New York City bars start doing Guitar Hero night. 20% of children in the UK began learning to play a real instrument after playing Guitar Hero. Oh, that's cool. No way. How do you get that stat? How? I don't know. On earth. Yeah.

Is that stat come about? 20% of children in the U.S. started playing instruments because of Guitar Hero. Where, I mean... You don't believe stats unless they back up your argument. I always say it's a stat, so who knows? But you believe that we're just spouting off information. Theoretically, a music store were able to compare revenue

From the year before Guitar Hero came out and the year after it came out. And they could compare, oh, what caused this surge?

Probably Guitar Hero, right? But you would say there was a surge of people buying. Like you would say we did better business after Guitar Hero. You would say 20% of kids started. I wouldn't just flat out. Like 20% of kids. Is there 20% of kids? That's what you're saying? You asked every kid in the UK? That's what you went around and someone did. Who asked that? 80% of kids did not. Yeah.

There's dude. How do they get these stats? What do they do? Honestly, that was from Wikipedia. And so I'll have to go check the reference. I'm not even. Yeah. Go look up the reference. I would see what, what is that reference? I don't believe any of it. It all is going to go to, well, this guy said it to this guy said it, but I'm just saying when they get these stats, who are they asking? Is there people that want to get asked and then they just multiply it by how many people are there? I don't know.

Guitar Hero and Rock Band. That came on a little bit later, but both of those were big. Rock Band was the whole thing. Those games used to really frustrate me because I was better at the actual instruments than the game. And I remember playing against my friends who couldn't play the instruments. They were killing me. I was like, I can do this for real kind of. Is it...

Well, like bragging about that, though, is that a good thing? That's not bragging at all. I mean, is it? You know what I have trouble with Call of Duty? So when I went in to get Osama in real life, I could always do that. It was super easy. Not a hard problem. But then I go do Call of Duty, I just can't.

I have so much trouble, you know? Would you tell your friends that? Maybe that's why you lost all your friends and had to go start over in a friendship class because you would have to go, hey, you want to play guitar here? You know what? I can do it in real life on the real things, but I have so hard with this make-believe video game that you guys are good at. Should I keep going or did you find that stat? Okay. Found the reference to it? I'll keep going while you look. Okay.

2006, Nintendo Wii came on the scene. First time to do that. Sold for $250. Chad Ryden used to have a joke. Couldn't afford it. We don't call it Nintendo Wii. We call it Nintendo They because Wii can't afford it. That's a great joke. It helped people in nursing homes. Helped people get enough to get exercise. But then it became injuries known as Wii-itis, Wii-knee, and Wii-elbow.

Oh, so it's, I never knew. I remember saying that who's playing this gamers hated it. They were like, this is a joke. Yeah. They never took it. Oh, they never respected it. No. I remember doing it, but we didn't go buy it. I would play it at someone's house. Someone would have it at their house and you were like, Oh, that's cool. Like it's fun. It was like, you would do it for a couple of seconds and you're like, all right. Yeah. I had to, I volunteered. We had a volunteer from our high school to graduate. You had to volunteer a certain number of hours. Yeah.

we did that too but uh sorry i mean i don't know if you're trying to imply that you're better than this well that's why i framed it that way i didn't want to i used to volunteer at this nursing home yeah i could have said it like that i did nursing i great yeah i got a fun story go ahead but uh they got a nintendo wii for this nursing home the one of the one of the younger people that work there and they're like this is a great idea like we're going to start to

We're going to get the Wii hooked up, and then you guys can play Wii with some of the people at this nursing home. And, dude, they could not. I don't think anybody ever played that. They couldn't wrap their head around what you did on the controller affecting what happened on the screen. They never got over that. I would not be surprised if they never figured that out. Most are probably gone. If someone held on, I mean, you should head back there and talk to them.

Because they're 140. Yeah. You know, I mean, now, can you imagine them there now with the VR? And you're like, I don't know if you know what old people are. But it's, we learned earlier. They, so I remember we did it. We would go to nursing home and for ours, for a senior, and go to the one right across from the Hermitage Hospital.

steakhouse right across from the Herman's with the Herman's steakhouse. There's a nursing home right there. And I remember we, I remember going downstairs to talk to the old people in there and the door was like a locked, like you're walking into a bank, like vault, like it was a big closed locked door. And I remember just being like, why are they locked? Are they in prison? Are these the bad ones? Like it didn't make sense. And so we'd all be down there. You're talking to them and stuff. And then when it was time for us to leave,

You would start walking, and some of the older people knew when we were going to leave. So you would see them get up and start walking to try to time out with us. So they have to be, you know, we're like, all right, 10 minutes left. You see, like, someone get up and start heading to the door because that's how long it takes them to get to the door. And then you would do it, and you'd have to, like, just get out, like, trying to keep a dog back. Like, you're just like, sorry. They're trying to escape? I'm trying to get out. They're called runners. Yeah. Yeah. They don't want to be in there.

So it's not to keep you out. It's to keep them in. It's to keep them in. Yeah, because I think some of them don't want to be in there. It's kind of crazy. I mean, you hate it. I'm the opposite. I think I would love to know a person at home, and I can't wait. I can't wait to go. I did this on stage, and I might be trying it again. But the idea of it, of just going, you get to go hang out with people your age,

they have three meals a day. You just, I mean, you know, it depends on where you go. Now, if you go to the nicer, not a nice one, I understand that it's miserable. And if you go to some of them, there can be real communities. Yeah. But I guess, yeah, that's the retirement community and nursing home are two different things. Yeah. But yeah. Right. Yeah.

2008 Grand Theft Auto 4 became another big problem. You could drive drunk in this game. So mothers against drunk driving petitioned to have the game's rating changed.

Yeah, Grand Theft Auto was a huge, huge game. I mean, they just, yeah, they just did whatever. It's still going. Yeah. How many are there? There's tons. All these, there's tons of them. There's five, right? GTA V was the last one. It's Air and Land, quick episode. Air and Land, quick episode. Just hop in. A little micro-sode. Air and Land. Yeah.

The next year, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Another big problem. The no Russian part of the game where you're CIA operative and you undercover a terrorist organization and you're required to carry out a mass shooting at Moscow airport. Yeah, I played that one. I didn't know that. It's crazy. I played it. And the campaign mode. So I love the campaign modes. Like I would buy the new Call of Duty and play the campaign mode. I think I just did the last one. I just always enjoyed that.

And I would never, like, some of them they would do, like, old. You'd go, like, old-timey. You know, like, you'd be, like, in Nazi Germany or something or World War II or one and all this. And, like, those I didn't, like, love. But any sniper one was the best. And then that one, I played that where you go in. I mean, they ask you before, like, here's a part. You can either skip it or not skip it. And, of course, you're like, well, what is it? And you go in. I mean, it's just, you know...

You're just having to shoot up people at an airport. Because you're in with this terrorist group. And even in the game, I would just still, I would shoot. Because if they see you not shooting, then they turn on you. So you kind of have to shoot. But I would just kind of, I think I would shoot around people. And I just never really shot like that. You just miss a bunch. Even in the game, it feels awful. Yeah, it feels awful. And so you would just do it. That's good that that's in you. Yeah. That instinct.

I play this. My favorite game of all time. I play Red Dead Redemption 2. Yeah. Soda. It's a big soda lover. It's such an unbelievable game. I mean, I would be 100 hours in and be still amazed by it. What is it? It takes place in the year 1900 in what is essentially America in the Wild West. You're in this gang, and you're an outlaw, and you're rewarded for...

holding people up and killing, you know, and being an outlaw. Yeah. And there is part of me, even though they're, you know, I feel weird. Yeah. Robbing an innocent woman. You still did it. And they're,

This is like a Jeffrey Dahmer interview afterward. He goes, you know, I never liked it, but I did it, you know. I didn't want to. The voice in my head was on me, too. Is it like Grand Theft Auto Open World? Open World, yeah. See, Open World was the, I want to be like. I love Open World. What does that mean? You can do whatever you want. Grand Theft Auto, was it maybe the first Open World? Was it?

I don't mean to jump into Aaron Laney. It was one of them. One of them? One of the first ones. Yeah. But GTA and Red Dead are made by the same company. That's a rock star, right? Yeah. So you could go anywhere. You can do anything. You're literally just in a huge world. And you can go wherever you want in it. And so what's the end point?

There's no really end to it. There is a main storyline that you progress through as you do certain things in the world. Yeah. But it's up to you how you want to get there. You spend as much time as you want doing all these little things. Yeah. Yeah. I remember... So Soder loves Red Dead. I believe it's... He's big into it. Soder. Yeah. Dan Soder. Dan Soder.

He has comedians. Some of you might know. He had an HBO special. And one of my best friends. He did... So Soder plays NCAA football. Still plays. Yeah. This is... He loves Red Dead. He still plays NCAA football. And he's a coach. And dude, Soder is... Starts joining these other teams. Yeah.

And so you can recruit, you know, you can do all that stuff. And dude, he is in and he, he's on, I mean, it's been forever, but he, he went to Vanderbilt and he goes, he called me and he goes, I just got hired by Vanderbilt. And then he's, and he gave Vanderbilt up to, he goes into these programs and just builds them all up and has to recruit. And like, it's a story, you know, cause you're creating a storyline in your head when you're kind of doing that.

I do it with the golf game. Now I can still play it. And like, I'm trying to, I'm on the tour. Did you make yourself in the game? Yeah. And then you're, I'm on the tour. And so I'm going through the tour. I'm playing it and you got to make these, you know, sometimes you don't make cuts, especially the hard level where you're playing. It is super hard to play it. I got in the, when I played on the easier level, I was like a plus 15 handicap, which would be, you would be five times greater than Tiger Woods was, uh,

Not, I don't know, five times, but he was like, you'd be so much, Tiger Woods would be a joke about how good this person would actually be in golf because it's a video game. And then I started playing on the harder level and dropped to now I'm like a plus six handicap, which is now I'm like a regular golf pro. Like you're just like, like if you were, if I was a professional golfer, like that's kind of the best ones are at that level. But it was crazy that much of a drop off with just how hard it is. Yeah.

Also 2009 Angry Birds and Farmville Came to the two big huge games 2009 Yeah I did Angry Birds some Farm What was the other one? Farmville I think my My mom My aunt My sister My grandmother I think they all played that Time Magazine called Farmville One of the 50 worst inventions Of the decade Really? Why? They just It's mindless chores On a digital farm There's like nothing to it Yeah I know But they But it was huge

Yeah, but Tetris was huge. Why don't they call that mine? You wrote the Farmville effect? Was there the Farmville effect afterwards? I didn't attack Tetris. And then, I mean, why would they attack it? That's almost, you could go, who wrote that? Time Magazine. You could almost, that was the moment like media got real mean. I bet it is. Yeah.

Why would you write an article about that? How many people are playing Farville? Everybody in the world, who cares? And they're going, one of the worst inventions of life. It's mindless. One of the 50 worst inventions in recent decades. That's what they called it. Right? This is the moment the media turned, dude. Could be. When they went after Farville.

I'm just saying, why would you write that mean of a thing? Why don't you say that about Tetris? What is Tetris? This game-changing? People are seeing blocks in a grocery store like a bunch of loonies. It turns people into maniacs. And then Farmville, you're going to go after one of the worst inventions in a decade? I don't even know what it is. It's a dumb game. That's crazy. Right? No? Maybe they wrote that about, I think I just lost my mind here.

He lost good. What? I'll unplug you a little bit there. I always thought your mic was off. Did you find out of 20% of kids in the UK? I couldn't find that stat. I did. I already excited. There you go. I couldn't find it. I'll find it for you. I mean, it was on Wikipedia. I'll find it. Yeah, I'm curious how they did that.

They don't do it. They just make it up. You just throw it out and no... They... And we're the first people to go, hold on a second. Let's look into that a little bit. Who are looking these up? I'll research it. Who's looking this stuff up? It's got to be us. It can't be. It can't... No one's going through... You can't ask these kids...

Now, if I'm supposed to take everything as a broad kind of like, you know, probably 20%, like it's kind of a broad stroke, like, oh, we're just guessing. It's fine. But they don't write it like that. They write it as like, it's 20% of kids. And then like, you know, that's the thing that I have a problem with is just going like, where, who is figuring these stats out? Well, they didn't start doing that till after Time Magazine went after Farmville.

Yeah. That's what it all went down to. That's a crazy 2009. Why would you write that about a dumb magazine? Worst invention? Did you ever see The Newsroom? Did you ever see that show? No, I watched a little bit. Aaron Sorkin? I know what you're talking about. Who made The West Wing? Jeff Daniels. With Jeff Daniels? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's about a news organization. They have a blog, and they write this article called The Seven Most Overrated Movies. Mm-hmm.

And one of the characters comes in and is like, why not the most underrated movies? Why do you always got to do that? And I think about that when I see articles like that. It's just like, what's the point of 50 years worse? That was the point where I'm saying, I went around to that time was when they started just attacking instead of being right in the under. Tetris is this amazing thing. Everything's amazing. And now it all becomes an attack.

and being like it's any and then it started when did dane cook's fall happen when did people turn on dane cook why did you figure this math out when did dane cook when people turn on dane cook dane cook was the first one that people turned he's the greatest comedian he was very funny and he got too popular and then they all just started saying this guy's he stinks and they all started making fun of him family guy made fun of him everybody made fun of him no reason no reason except he got too popular

Everybody loved him. And then they, then they, and they didn't just, I don't know, go, not go to his shows. They actively attacked him. They actively tried to keep going after him. It feels, I think part of that is it feels nice to,

To kind of be in on a joke where you're trashing something. I think people like that. I know, but I don't feel like... But I'm saying that's the mentality that goes in. Why people jump on this stuff. Yeah. Why they jump... One guy was like, it's funny to make fun of Nickelback. And then everybody just does it. Yeah. Because it feels good to be... To look down on something together. Yeah, that... You know? Yeah. Yeah. That's where a guy like you that robs people in Red's redemption and a guy like me that...

shoots up in the air during a, cause I'm, I'm before. Hey, I defended hedge fund managers. Everybody just attacks them. We don't know what they do.

All right, but this will counter it. 2011, Minecraft is released. Becomes the best-selling video game of all time with 200 million units sold. The Guardian, which is a UK publication, classified Minecraft as the best video game of the 21st century. I mean, we're kind of early here. And Forbes gave Minecraft a special mention to list the best video games of the 2010s.

I played Minecraft. I mean, it just doesn't make sense to me, but I just don't, I don't get it. So I don't, I wouldn't like, I wouldn't, to me, it would never be that, but yeah,

You know, I know my nephew played it. It's just not my, I don't understand it. I don't know what it is. What are you, building a world or something? Yeah. And you just, is that it? Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. I've never played it. Okay, yeah. It was, there was a very similar game called RuneScape. Not RuneScape, what was it? No. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it doesn't matter. Well, let's be quiet. Think about it for a little bit here. Let's quiet down, you know. Yeah, I don't – I would never play – I would never – But I used to love playing SimCity and games like that. I love those. Yeah, I think about SimCity a lot. Like, I think, oh, I'm making him adjust the camera because I moved. And, like, you're going to do that? And then I'm like, actually, it's not as comfortable as I thought it was. So just hang on back. Anytime I move, just – I move a lot.

I think about SimCity a lot. Like, I'd want to play that again. Like, you know, you create, like, another world, and it's kind of fun. I just think about playing it. I don't think I ever will, though. It's still fun, dude. You play it? Like, two years ago, I went and got SimCity 2000 on my laptop, and I just started playing it again. You started playing it again now? No, I played it for a while, and then I was like, I have to cut this out of my life. Yeah, it's too much. Is that when you moved? Yeah.

Now this was like, that's why I stopped playing World of Warcraft. It was like, it was, I can't, I can't be this. I can't. And you signed up for a friendship class and you walked right into Notre Dame University and said, I'd like to go. He goes, I don't, I'm embarrassed to even ask this, but is there a class where I can maybe make some friends? And they go, is there? It's one of our main things. Yeah.

I don't even, I feel dumb even saying that loud, but... This is certainly a class. Is there like a class I can make some real human friends? Fraternity? No, no, no. No, not that. You know, like a sweeter...

You know, like a, I'm going to talk to these guys for a long time kind of class. And get credit for it. You know, the people in that class actually did become, we kind of became friends all of a sudden. You talked to someone still in that class? No, all through college. It's like SimCity? I don't talk to them anymore. It's just like your SimCity example. Like, how is it, dude? It's still amazing. When did you play it last? Two years ago. No, because I played back and played the old SimCity 2000. It's not like I played the new one. Yeah.

I'm saying the old game that's 20 years old now is still great. When people always play old games, now you can buy those old video games and go play them. Mario Brothers is the only one that holds up for me that's kind of fun to do. I've gone, like, I always think someone's like, I bought, Soto takes stuff on the road. He'll always be like, I bought, I got these games, I got these old Atari games. Like, I can't, after you see what's out, you

You can't go back to Zelda. You're like, oh, get out of here. Zelda was a huge game. Legends of Zelda? Yeah. I'm into it. On the Nintendo. Yeah, it was one of the biggest ever, too. Yeah. I'd say the N64. When I was in college, N64 was big. Everyone just kind of had an N64 out there. And those games aged so well because...

The graphics were never meant to be realistic. They were always cartoony. Yeah. And then you go back like a PS1 game where they're trying to be realistic graphics. Those look, just look terrible now. Yeah. But the N64 games still look okay. You know, they age better. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, now we're... I mean, that was like... You're like, I mean, someone like... You're like someone that works in N64 that's still... I mean, the way you were... You were like, you're the guy that's trying to sell it to me. And the 64-bit processor actually allows you to play. Like, I'm at GameStop. I'm like, all right, man. Yeah, well, I just... GameStop's back up, by the way. Is it? Not even close to where I bought in, but it made a surge. Where's it at now? It was at like 130 the other day, up from 50.

All right. We're coming back. Holding on. Diamond hands? Diamond hands still, dude. You're at 150. Yeah, you're still. I bought it at 325. So I'm a ways off from breaking even. But you're diamond hands. That's right. When do you ever, but if you have diamond hands, when do they ever, does it end? Will you sell? For me, never ends. I know. So the money just disappears when it goes to zero, then it's gone. No, I'll sell when it gets to 10,000 a share. Okay.

I think it's that high. An N64 starts being sold at GameStop. That's right. Dude, they should do that. I think they do. In 2013, Grand Theft Auto V comes out. It becomes the second best-selling game of all time, but more controversy because it's a depiction of women. There's a mission that requires you to use torture equipment in a hostage interrogation. So it gets upset. Lindsay Lohan sues them because they say a character is based on her likeness, but it got dismissed.

based on all of our likeness I mean you get any character a lot of comics would do voices in Grand Theft Auto really I think when you just pulled up Dane Cook he was on there for Grand Theft Auto oh was he for one of them when was he Adam Ray did World of Warcraft oh yeah by the way should have asked him about it but I feel like we didn't really hit it off that well yeah well you went after him so hard yeah you owe him an apology

2016, Pokemon Go becomes a big thing. It was April Fool's joke and became a worldwide phenomenon. So that when people would go find stuff in real life. Yeah. That's augmented reality. Yeah. So they... I remember... You know where I remember seeing people going crazy and finding these Pokemons? Omaha, Nebraska, which I will be at sometime. If you go to my website, I got clubs. Yeah, go to... I'll be in Omaha. But...

I remember being, because Omaha has like, it's upstairs. The club is, you can walk out on like a little balcony. And I remember looking down and just watching kids. Yeah. Like go try to find Pokemons. I think kids got hit by cars. Yeah, I was with you on that. Yeah, there was just girls walking around in like a little shopping area. Yeah. Did you do it, Aaron? No, I never did. I never got into it.

Pokemon or any of the, I don't even know what you call that group of anime type stuff. Never got into it. 2017, Fortnite comes on the scene. Yeah, Fortnite. I got some crazy stuff here about it. Oh, really? I mean, it's just how big it is. Netflix CEO told shareholders in his estimation the biggest threat to Netflix continued dominance entertainment was Fortnite. Fortnite's battle royale became a cultural phenomenon. It was in 2018. Ninja,

Played along with Drake, Travis Scott, Kim Dotcom, and Juju Smith-Schuster. And it broke viewership records for Twitch. How many? I don't have it on here. That seems like a thing you would... I've got some Twitch numbers coming up, but I don't have it for that. Not the world record numbers? Well, at the time. You know, I watched a guy this week, deadlift world record. What was it? I don't know. I didn't count the plates, but it's...

Someone told me it was a world record. I had to cram a lot in here. But it led to the inaugural $30 million Fortnite World Cup. Eight numbers. So Twitch, I'll just ignore that. Twitch became a thing in the mid-2010s.

And, uh, 10s, uh, mid 2010s. So like 2015. Yeah. Uh, Twitch streams have more traffic now than HBO's online service. And you, in 2015, YouTube box launched YouTube gaming, same type of concept. Yeah. And now PlayStation four and Xbox one kind of have something similar where you can do it.

which led to the big start of e-sports when people started watching on Twitch. So this year's Super Bowl had 96 million viewers, which is down because the game was a blowout, but usually Super Bowl has a little bit over 100 million. This last year's League of Legends World Championship had over 100 million. So it beat the Super Bowl again.

And what is League of Legends? It's like the biggest of the esports tournaments. Yeah, it's a real-time strategy game. Oh, it's an actual game. It's called League of Legends. Yeah, League of Legends. The game is called. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, and so you're watching... What are they... I don't know. Is it Call of Duty or is it... No, you play Warcraft or Starcraft or any of those games. Oh, I get it. It's kind of like you start out and then... I never really played League of Legends, but it's a...

I don't even know how to describe it. It's like StarCraft in those ways, right? You know, Aaron Lane? Yeah. It's top-down, and every little character has a certain ability, and so you have defense characters and attack characters. You build a team, like Call of Duty, you build that team, you all work together to beat the other team. How many people are playing at a time? Is it like... It's like ten.

Oh, it's not like a... So in that League of Legends that you watch is 10 to 10 best. Yeah. And they play, they win money? Yeah. You have teams, like the Fortnite thing, you win like $10 million if you get first place worldwide or something like that. So when League of Legends starts, the whole world's playing. Oh. It's just, it's like a tournament. It's, you know, the NFL, NBA, all that. Oh, you have to get invited to it. You got to get in it.

How long does it last? Is it like hours and hours? No, I think it's shorter than that. You can play a bunch of games. Right. Right? It's like 10 minutes? Yeah. Well, no. Most matches are around 45 to an hour. Oh. Yeah. But if 100 million people watch for how long? Or is that just coming and going? Can people hear you? I'm sorry. Sorry. Maybe a little bit. Yeah.

I'm sorry, you asked the question again. Well, I was just curious, like the Super Bowl lasts roughly three or four hours. So in fairness, is League of Legends like days where you could tune in or tune out and it still counts as a viewer? No, it's concurrent. It's all concurrent. So when it hit that 100 million, that meant that for an hour or two hours, it's 100. At a given moment, there are that many people watching it. That wasn't overall.

Oh. Yeah. Okay. So pretty crazy numbers, man. Huh. Yeah. I thought that meant total like people tuning in and tuning out. Esports has become so big that the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were discussing making it a sport. They eventually decided that they're not going to, it's premature to make it a medal event. Did you say that without thinking about it? What did I say? Premature. Yeah. Yeah. So you just say it. Yeah. He says it like that. Premature. Yeah.

I wouldn't even caught it until, what are you guys laughing at? It's premature, premature, sure, tour. I'm sorry. I don't have perfect dialect. Like some people. Yeah, I do. Great. But they say that they're not going to make it. They may make it part of the 2024 Olympics, but they've got, it's gotta be saying ideal. You know, did you say ideal? Ideal. Yeah. You say I got an ideal.

Oh, no. Don't they say, you say idea. Don't people say that? Ideal? Ideal is its own word. No, I know, but don't people say ideal or idea? Like they say it. Idea. Idea. Idea. I have an idea. It's like that kind of thing. That's what matures to me. It's like that kind of, you're like, all right, dude, just say idea.

You might just say it like that. I do. I'm not trying to be funny. It's not a funny thing. It's Ryan Malone, a buddy I grew up with. He says for, how do you say on a golf course?

It's a par four, par four. He says four pars. He goes, this is a four par or a three par or five par. That's weird. That's Ryan, right? But that's different because he knows he's saying it wrong and just chooses to say it. I don't think he does. I think he's doing it. But you've corrected him. I know, but he goes, but he still says it like that. And I think he says, I've heard someone else say it like that. And I feel like it's an old way to say it.

And so he'll choose the older way that no one does. He'll just say it that way. Yeah. And that, like, so mature would be like, no one says it like that. I'm not saying you are. Yeah, I'm not choosing. I just, I say a lot of things wrong. You know what I say? I've always struggled with theater. Theater. A movie theater. Yeah, well. I say theater. I said that a long time. Theater. Well, with your comedy career, look, you don't have to worry about it. So, yeah.

Yeah, why is Time Magazine so mean? Oh my goodness. I wasn't like this too when we did this podcast in 2008. I was a delight. Oh, these mean journalists. Sorry, I thought of that joke. It's a pretty good joke. Yeah, don't worry about it, Aaron. I can say club just fine. That's hilarious. That's very funny. The greatest gamers of all time.

And again, I just looked up this. I don't know. Faker is by most accounts. I'm looking over at you, Caleb. The best League of Legends player of all time. He's one of only two people to win the League of Legends three times. He's the only esport player to grace the cover of ESPN's magazine. Ninja is the highest earning gamer. He's got a bunch of endorsements. Adidas, Red Bull, stuff like that. Celebritynetwork.com said he's worth $15 million, but it's probably more than that because Microsoft tried to...

I was trying to get in 20 to 30 million to leave Twitch and join Mixer, their streaming platform. And he wouldn't do it? I don't think he did. He did. Oh, he did? He's with Mixer? Yeah. Well, Mixer got bought out by Facebook, and so he went back over to Twitch. Okay. Oh, so he got the money and then got to go back? Yep. They broke contract. There were like a bunch of contract streamers that they coached off of Twitch. Yeah. And then after Mixer got bought out by Facebook...

That's awesome. Good for him. That is great. That just shows you, that's how much money these, like, that's so crazy how much money these things have. $20 to $30 million contract that you're like, ah, just give them the money, doesn't matter. That's so much, that's so much money. Yeah. And they just like, ah, it doesn't. Ah, what are you going to do? You know, what are you going to do, man? You know, and it's just, wow. Caleb sent me this, that,

Twitch streamers, like those guys, have become the new philanthropists. I can't say that. Philanthropists? Mature. They've raised, last year, $83 million for charities of their choice through Twitch. A lot of turkeys. The human fund. Yeah, it's the human fund. Money for people. Money for people.

All right, so we're talking about the future of video games now. VR. A lot of people thought it was going to become a big thing in the last few years. Here's what they say is holding it back. They say it eventually will. The headset. They say it's too big. It weighs over a pound. It has to be strapped tightly on your face. And people like to play with friends. And after a half hour of wearing it, you get sweaty and your energy is zapped. So they're trying to come up with more social ways to do VR. That's because it's people that...

Usually you're used to sitting down for nine hours playing a video game. You're like, God, you just got to stand up for a while and wear a thing that wears one pound on your head. You're like, oh, your neck muscles getting tired there, buddy. I mean, you're trying to make a group that is not, is the most non-active group stand up.

Yeah. You're going to meet with some resentment. That's probably not the right word. Yeah, I think that's the right word. Not resentment. That's not what I mean. Maybe that word worked out. There's going to be some resistance. Resistance. That's what I wanted. But both worked. Yeah, they both do work. Yeah, sometimes you do that. Sometimes it's like when you hit a bad golf shot. Sometimes you still hold the finish and act like that's what you wanted. Peggy in Dallas is like, oh, golf talk.

I forgot about Peggy. I'm going to start a golf podcast. It's on this. Within Aaron land? It's, it airs during this time and it's just me. With my mother-in-law. With, yes, with your mother-in-law. And that knows, uh,

Who does she have? Brad Fax. Yeah, crazy person. One of the best players of all time. So they're trying to make VR more social. Hyperreality, it's kind of like an escape game where you go to a warehouse and you play with VR, but the objects in the room are real. So when you reach for something with VR, there'll actually be something there that feels like that object.

So it's a combination of virtual reality and real physical props. You can almost just take off the headset and just do it for real. Well, I think there's some stuff that you can't do. Yeah, an alien trying to drink a cup of coffee and an alien dressed as a cow shows up. Where are you going to see that, Aaron? It's true. If you've never done VR, I recommend you. It's pretty amazing. So I always say with VR, it's the –

the craziest thing I've ever, I feel like I've ever seen gasping. I gasped. It was, that was my gas. I, it, it is mind blowing when it's your, when you first time and you go do it, you think you're going to know what it is and then it's not. It's, it's just even in the waiting room of the lobby. Yeah. Is you just, you're looking around and you're in a room. Yeah. Uh,

we have a hands and yeah, it's bizarre. We have a, this game plank. You walk on a plank. It's 50, 50. If people can't do it, I couldn't do it. He couldn't do it. Uh,

My wife, she just sat down on the ground. I went back in the elevator and went back down. Yeah, he rode a fake elevator. You're on carpet. You're standing on a carpet. People are touching you because you're not in this game and they can't walk out on this plank. Giannis, when he was here, I had him do it. He walked out, then just turned and took off running right into the couch and just hit the couch and flew over it because he got too nervous walking on this plank.

There's also kid games. My daughter plays it. Harper would... I remember watching her. You got to watch them because I mean, I'd watch... There's this game where it's a job simulator. So you just pretend like you're working at jobs. It's very kind of... I mean, it still... It still is an adult. It's very cool to do because it's crazy, but like...

you're working at a gas station. They come in, I want a hot dog. You make a hot dog and you turn and you got all this stuff running. And I would just like, I'd be up, I'd walk out of the room for a second. I'd come back. My daughter's like on top of the couch and like, just, you know, like really getting into it. Like just trying to grab stuff and have to like grab and be like, Hey, you got to stand. But this is, this is plugged into something. So that, so that is like, if it gets to Bluetooth, that will be the next. And if it's like, I would say to me, if it becomes a full on helmet,

Would be great. Like a real, like, you know, cause it's kind of like weird. So if it's, if it becomes a full on helmet that you can easily put on and then have it, uh, be like that. And what I've talked about is like, they're going to, you're going to end up, I think eventually, uh, would be, you have VR rooms. People would have a room that could be just all pads. It's padded. So you can't hurt yourself and you can really like, and you're just in it and you just know, uh,

Where you're at in the games are going to get so realistic. I mean, if you watch Ready Player One, it's, I mean, they're, they're running on, or they do that. You're running on a treadmill, you're tied in and you're running on a treadmill and, you know, and all that stuff. But I mean, you can get to that. VR is, it's another, it's another world, man. It's, I mean, you're obviously feel like you're that, but it's pretty wild.

Yeah. And the other thing I say is going to really change is mobile games because of 5g 5g is going to allow games to be so much more complex on your phone. Cause I guess right now it's some, if it gets too complex, they get slowed down, but 5g will allow much more complex games. There's a great golf game on the phone, but you can only play with like really, really good wifi. Yeah. And it's you actually are hitting and it's a picture of the course.

So you're just hitting on a real picture. Yeah. WGT or something like that. They make you try... You have to buy all this stuff for it. That's the thing with gaming that's so frustrating to me is the buying the stuff...

Fortnite, free, and gets more money than anybody. That's what Legal Legends is that way too. Yeah. They just know you're going to go buy a shirt for your guy. You're going to buy the skins, yeah. Yeah, it's not even weapons, right? It's what your person looks like. Looks like, yeah. That's so crazy. You're buying... You know what I mean? If it's weapons, I understand. You're buying something you don't need. Is there anybody that's the best...

That looks like that plays free and has no skins and no nothing. I mean, I'm sure there are, but once you spend so much time in it, it's almost like the MMO stuff with him. You buy gear that looks cool. Yeah. You just want to see. That's almost part of it.

you know is just like you know i play warcraft so i want my dude to look awesome yeah you know yeah it's all part of it it's part of the fun yeah there it's that's that's the crazy you know because i mean eventually you're like call of duty you're like well i gotta pay 60 bucks for this yeah and then you're like fortnight is you know they're just giving it to me so then you know what if that hurts call of duty sales because then they just go you know well i don't want to i'm not gonna buy this game

Is there going to be any more campaign modes? Are campaign modes going away? I think that there are certain genres that campaign is everything. But then free-to-play games like Fortnite make it incredibly easy just to jump into that. What's a campaign mode? Like it's the storyline. Single player, like a main story.

Like Red Dead Redemption. That's the single-player campaign mode is what everybody loves. So the other thing I read about future video games is AI will become a bigger thing. Yeah. But they're concerned if it gets too complex, it won't be fun because the computer will just do dumb stuff. Like if you're playing a game where you're hunting each other, it'll just hide forever. Whereas...

because it'll just think my best strategy is just literally hide for 48 hours until he gives up. So you can't have it too complex or it'll just do stuff that's not fun. Yeah. Yeah. You got to reel it in, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. So there's two hall of fames, world video hall of fame. We're about done, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, we honestly should probably cut the first 30 minutes of this podcast out. The end's been fun. No, the whole thing's been, yeah.

I'm making a joke now because these people have already listened to that first 30 minutes. They get it. There's two Hall of Fames. The World Video Hall of Fame, which opened in 2015 in Rochester, New York, home of the Garbage Pail. First year inductees in 2015, the very first six that went in were Doom, Pac-Man, Pong, Super Mario Brothers, Tetris, and World of Warcraft. Was Doom, were they ranked? No.

Was Doom 1? I don't think so. I think this is just the 6 and 10 Ds the first year. What was the Contra? Remember that game Contra? Is that a game? I ran Contra. No, Contra was a huge game. It was, yeah. When did it come out? Yeah, in that top one. 1987. Contra was awesome. What was that on?

It was like an arcade game. Yeah, you don't remember this? This was a huge game. You would do jump and do flips, and I think you shoot fire. Yeah, Contra was a big one. Look how many they've made. Yeah. Yeah, okay. And then there's an international video game hall of fame in Ottumwa, Iowa.

Oh, the birthplace of magic. Oh, is it? Well, that was Des Moines, right? Yeah. This is real. Ottumwa, Iowa. Ottumwa considers itself as the video game capital of the world as the city was home to the Twin Galaxies Arcade, which became the epicenter for numerous competitions in arcade games.

Yeah, but I could see, you know, people would get into it. Yeah, Contra is awesome. This game looks trash, dude. This game was great, dude. I'm just kidding. It was a huge, it was awesome. This was the up, up, left, look up that. I think this game was up, up, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start. Look up that code. You know that code at all? I've heard that. Up, up, left, up, up, left, right. Yeah. I think you might have got unlimited lives or something.

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start. Yep. Wow. I still remember that. That is a famous code. That's the first cheat code. I don't know if that's true, but it's – that's the – if you're – Dude, I would have believed – I would have told people that. Huh? I would have told people that years from now. Look up first cheat code. It might be the first cheat code. What was it? Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start.

It was... Konami Code. You're right. Man. What's Contra? I don't know if I need you guys. Konami Code is for Contra? Yeah. Yeah, it's that. Yeah, it's... What's the most famous cheat code? I think that might be it. Yeah, that's the most famous one. Yeah.

Come on. You guys, you never even heard of that? Up, up, down, down? Gives you 30 lives in contract. I've heard of cheat codes. I've entered plenty of cheat codes like that. Yeah, but you've never heard of that one. Yeah, man, that is a... I've heard it kind of in life, like the fangs on the glass. Just talking about it.

It's just that dinner party. You know, just talking about it. Your friends that are like, my kids are playing that. And you're like, yeah. Right when you're having kids. Well, you know, still trying. I don't know why that was.

I feel like me and you might be the only one that thinks it's funny, Aaron. Oh, it's hilarious. All right. So, esports greatest moments. The number one was the one you pointed out during the Clutch performances. That Street Fighter 3. Oh, dude.

Oh, yeah. That was great. Yeah. You remember that? Yeah, yeah. When we did, I mean, kind of. I remember maybe eight of these podcasts, to be honest. All right. So. That's why every time I come in, I go, oh, welcome. That's why I introduce y'all, because I don't, I always go, Aaron, Brian. I do remember the, yeah. The last I can come back is, yes, Street Fighter.

So I went on the worst video game of all time. It's widely considered E.T. the Extraterrestrial. It was based on the 1982 movie, but they quickly coded it in five weeks to get it out by Christmas. It sold only a million and a half copies, nowhere near their expectations. And the urban legend is a large number of the cartridges were sent back to the company and buried in a landfill in New Mexico after they failed to sell.

Wow, dude. It is crazy. What is the point of it? I think you got to get them home somehow. I remember this game. Dude. And I loved it. Did you? I played it. Yeah. Is that supposed to be E.T.? Yeah, that's E.T. It looks like a dinosaur, dude. I really do remember this. I don't know if I played it, but I do remember this. Yeah. But there's about 10,000 of them buried in a New Mexico landfill.

Can they find it? I wonder if you had it now, would people, would it be worth something? I think they've dug them up. I think Atari just dumped a bunch of old games into that landfill. I mean, this looks so bad. This rivals that first video game ever made. I mean, it would be, if you had the choice of either one, I would maybe choose the one made in the 50s. Like, you would go, at least there's someone else. Yeah.

Again, if you're listening at work or at home, uh, is that an old woman? It's hard to describe. It's like, Hey, should we put some trees in the, nah, we're good. Should we do any kind of art to this whatsoever? Nah. No, it was, it was made by someone's dad. There it goes. That brings back memories. I love it. Yeah. All right. All right. Video games can be fun. Uh,

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