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Hello, and welcome to Episode 42 of the Offline TV podcast. Today, we all have hand mics because we're in mammoth in a special cabin because we just did a special shoot, and it's a holiday. I'm joined here with Joe-Dazie, Evo, and Jaydog.

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Hello, I'm Joe-Dazie. Hello. Hello.

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Not Evo.

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Oh, it's Evan. Sorry.

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Evan.

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I'm not Evan, I think.

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Just pick your poison.

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Wait, I didn't want to be spoken for that. I didn't want to be spoky for that.

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It's been sealed.

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I need a nickname of it.

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Yeah. We are in the snowy weather of the Upper Mountains of the Sierra, Nevada. We're for.

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The audio listeners. We have a nice fireplace with a Christmas tree right behind us. In front of us, we got a s'more set up with butane. Is it? Butane is cool.

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Butane is cool. Butane is cool.

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But that knife-.

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That's cool, right?

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That's cool, right? Oh, I hate that. Sharp.

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Really? Wait, what is it? On set?

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Is it a point? That's the only thing.

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I have.

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-points. -points.

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-i understand. Yvon is now roasting a watermelon with a knife.

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-evo getting right into it.

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Well, we have to improvise.

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Improvise?

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Right. If we really want to.

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-what's your.

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Rush, dog? I feel like s'mores are so much better in theory, and then I eat them and I'm like.

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Oh, it's okay. Yeah, they're really sweet.

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I'm.

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Joining you. They're good in theory.

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What if we have refined s'mores? What if we thought things were like-Yeah, I.

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Feel like a s'mores with a reeseas or something. I think it's the Graham cracker that I dislike.

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Fire. Oh, my God. It's over. So you guys want to talk about it? Yeah, I think it's off. We're trying to turn this place down.

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Marshmelling me.

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Up first. Who made this typical contraption?

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If I sit on theI'm just.

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Using a thermometer.

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Can we have a large bowl of water or something over here just in case.

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I learned that snow is cold.

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As.

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A guy that only stayed and grew up in California, I think the furthest I went was Oregon, but it wasn't during winter seasons. I've always like, shorts and hoodie, call it a day. But every time I hear my perception of winter is from Game of Thrones and Christmas movies. I'm like, Dude, they're wearing T-shirts and jeans. I'll be chilling. I'll just bring a big old hoodie, call it a day. Always underestimate it. See, Jody, in five different layers.

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Yeah. My thermal, my undershirt, my shirt over that shirt. My puffer. My puffer jacket, my snow. My snow boots, my wool socks. I got two gloves.

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Yeah, even your gloves, you do two layers.

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I grew up in Washington. I've been in the cold.

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I just thought I didn't like winter, but I came pretty layered up this time, and it was a pretty.

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Good time. I think.

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Being or enjoying the cold is simply just being prepared for the cold. Yeah. And then it's fine. But once you're not prepared, you got cold feet, it's unbearable.

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I don't know. I grew up in Canada, where I was negative 30, and I still didn't... I think I still underestimate no matter what. I'm like, I'm good. I'll be good with this.

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I'm Canadian. It's fine. What was the coldest for here?

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Twenty-something degrees.

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I heard in 10 digits.

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Oh, I think coldest was like 15.

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Yeah, 15 or 14.

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Like, what's cold?

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Reason. It was snowing the other day. I would.

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Say freezing, like 32 degrees is cold. Yeah, it's cold.

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Are we talking Fahrenheit or Celsius? Fahrenheit.

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I'm in the water. She keeps running of Marshmallows. -i'm a little water. Two strikes for you, though. -she keeps running of Marshmallows. The goal is to constantlymove it so it doesn't...

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I've been impatient. I've been sticking them closer to the fire. I just want to cook already.

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Your knife also is not going to-.

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Hold on to it.

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It's going to melt. It's going to get gooey. She's a rookie. God.

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Listen.

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I'm listening.

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Just a little bit more and I'll.

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Put it on the cookie. What are we.

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Talking about today? Recent events.

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Yeah. I mean, we've had a bunch of birthdays. We've had Thanksgiving. Midly, like this world. We're gearing up for Christmas. Yeah. Why don't we start with Thanksgiving?

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Okay.

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How was Thanksgiving for everyone?

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I loved it. We went to John's Place.

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Oh, yeah, we've been.

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With my family. Yeah, and it was so fun. There's like 20 people full of just John's friends from random times in his life, from middle school to high school, and his family is always just really sweet. It was fun.

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Yeah, seeing how your house operates makes a lot of sense for your personality.

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-really? -it explains.

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So much. Wait, what is it? What are the giveaways?

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His dad is... There's NERF guns that he's giving out, and no one is safe. I'm sitting there and John's dad just shoots me in the neck and I'm like, Oh, it's like that. -it's like that. -but that.

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Sounds a lot.

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Of fun. -he does not care. -yeah, no, it was incredibly fun. -he shot me in the neck. -i'll say he killed.

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My inner child. He shot me in the neck. City starts laughing. He's like, What are you laughing at? I'd be like, Oh, God, what is going on?

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Wait, that's sick.

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It's a.

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War zone. He shot me in the eye. Luckily, I closed my eye because I saw it coming and it literally hit my eyelid and I looked at him and was like, Dad, hit me in the eye. He was like, You've got to stay strapped.

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No one is safe.

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No.

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One is safe.

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You've got to stay strapped.

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It's always been a very big thing. My dad just loves Nerve Wars. It's just my mom is like, If I find five Nerve darts in the property or in the house, everyone's grounded. I'm like, Okay, deal. We start running out, getting position. Everyone in the house gets a gun. This time he bought Lama Fortnite. The Fortnite Lama Nerve guns.

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Oh, yeah. There was like 20 of these guns floating around.

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Then he has ammunition boxes. He's just passing it out at everyone.

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Yeah. He was an arms dealer, and this was not his first case of ammo. He opened up a first case of ammo. Yes. As people came in, he'd greet them, shoot them, say, Here's your gun. Then he'd open up a pack of ammo, give everyone a few bullets. Then when he noticed that reserves were getting low, bullets were getting lost, he'd find another pack of ammo, open it up, redistribute just to keep the war going.

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He just wants chaos.

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It was so fun.

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Nothing but chaos.

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But you can eat that.

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I just like making them before you have it.

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I just like the Marshmallows.

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I just don't want to spray Marshmello goo on the carpet here. That's what.

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I'm saying. It's just too big. It's too much, too crumbly, too messy.

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I'll hold on this for a bit. Let it drop a bit. Appreciate you. Appreciate you, Evan.

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But I think the most clear signifier for me was actually your older brother. Because your older brother was setting up rock band while eight people are just having a shootout around him.

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It didn't phase him at all.

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Unphased. He gets shot in the head, shot in the arm, and just like, Anyone have a coaxial cable?

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Wait, that's awesome.

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Yeah, it's a nice tradition. You guys got to see Central Cali, Slow County. I loved it. What do you guys think overall? How was your tour guide?

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Super nice. Also, everyone very friendly. John was making friends with everyone. Wow.

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What?

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Yeah, we went to some board shop and they're like, Hey, man, you got to check out this place and this place and this place.

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Oh, true. Yeah, everyone's very friendly and they like to talk about places for us to check out. We were standing outside with Sidney and the dogs and the guy's like, Your dogs look nice, they can come in. Then they just started fighting on the carpet within the shop.

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Yeah, the shop owner was just like, Ha ha ha ha. I love dogs.

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Yeah, really nice. He told us to... The only reason why I went to that comic book shop was because he recommended it.

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-it.

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Was neat.

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-thanksgiving.

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Is so lit. It's a nice change up from L. A. That everyone just keeps to themselves.

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In the shop. Yeah, that's the one thing I know about L. A. They're going to get.

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Through their shift.

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And.

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I understand.

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They all look like they hate their lives.

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Yeah, a little bit. They seem a little jaded.

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Yeah. How was your Thanksgiving, Yvon?

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It was good. First of all, you're Canadian. Did you celebrate Canadian or.

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American Thanksgiving? Okay, so I was actually born on Thanksgiving in Canada, and I thought it was always cool growing up. I was born on Thanksgiving, and I realized my parents had to be at the hospital all of Thanksgiving Day. I was like, Oh, wait, I didn't think about that. I suck for them. But yeah, I'm more used to... Now I never even remember that there's Canadian Thanksgiving. I feel like I've just fully... Oh, my God, I don't want to say I'm fully American, but just.

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Now-you're versed into the American culture.

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It's because everyone around is like, Oh, I'm going to go back for Thanksgiving, blah, blah, and this. Everyone in America, I'm like, Oh, that's right. It's Thanksgiving. That's still a thing. We ate together with Lily and Scar and them, and I think, Allen makes food for everyone, some delicious Japanese thing with egg, whatever. It was delicious. Yeah.

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That sounds like a good thing, Skipp.

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Well, it was, and then Lily started playing Skippity, whatever the.

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Fuck that was. Okay, what is this? I don't.

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Know what this is. The toilet guy?

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What is this?

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You don't want to see it, man. You don't.

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Wait, Skippity, dupp, dupp, dupp, dupp.

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That or what? You would like it. Jody would hate it, and you would like it.

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Oh, it's like a board game?

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No, no. It's a video. It's a lot of episodes, and each episode is 10 seconds long. Yeah.

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Some guy on YouTube makes this thing called Skippity. I think he uses the old... What's that valve?

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It looks really dated.

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-it looks really dated.

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-yeah, I think they.

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Use the... -i'm almost not sure you know.

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-yeah, like Source or Gary's mod to make it. -okay, to animate this? -i think. But it's just these weird, absurd, man, human head coming out of a toilet body. There's this whole arc to the story because he's made, what, hundreds of these videos. -so many. -is it good? And all of them get tens or hundreds of millions of views.

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Do I live on.

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A rock? People have started compiling- They're.

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All kids that watch.

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Oh, it's for kids. So why does Lilly watch it?

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She's got brain rot. You can see. She got that TikTok brain rot lately.

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People started compiling the story arc of each, because there is a story throughout all of them. They're making hour-long videos that's the whole-.

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-no filler episode. -yeah, exactly. -it was.

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Probably just throwing.

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A story to it. With the kitchen garments and that. Wow.

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I don't want to see it. I'm going to be so real. I don't want this brain rot. Lily this whole weekend just been saying… I don't even know the tune.

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If we've seen the disease, you have to see it too.

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Okay, no one is safe.

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Skippity. Can you cast it to that.

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Screen or no? There's no way.

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Okay, let me see. Is this LG 55 LN?

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It is an LG. It's got to be.

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But there's also people under us in their part and they're just.

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Blown up on their TV. I might have actually cast it to them.

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Also, the people downstairs, I put my... Okay, this is what children watch.

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Yeah.

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-oh.

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-i'm very confused.

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I was not expecting. Okay.

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Wait, is it a fan-made thing or is that a fan-made thing? -or is that.

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The actual? No, this is a real one.

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I'm.

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Very... No, yeah, this feels like the worst.

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It's a very confused.

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Also, our TV went off, which makes me think it's going to randomly pop up there at some point because the connection's so bad.

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Just jump-scarous, yeah.

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Yeah, it's just lagging a little. Oh, my God, the mushroom was so good. I don't want it.

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There's-you're funny.

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You haven't been there. -i'm still working on this more. You can keep.

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Cooking it. Wait, you put.

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It back? No, but I'm having it later. It was just so hard. You literally put.

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The whole thing back.

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Can you fill up.

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The plate for us and we'll eat them during or after?

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You liar. You're not going to.

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Eat it. I'm also telling you, you want to try new nutensels? The tempo ain't that bad. We were giving nutensels. We don't have sticks for the Marshmallows, so we've been given a bachelor, bottle opener with knife. -thermometer. -night sharpener. A knife. -apple peeler. -apple peeler, and a tinfoil spear.

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-yeah. -but nothing's inside it. -it's just foil. -oh, the monom.

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I'm having an epiphany that there's a lot of individuals in OTV that are born on Thanksgiving.

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-really?

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-yeah. -or around it.

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-which makes me think I feel a little left out.

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Well, do you know why?

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February? Yeah.

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Special day in February.

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Yeah, the love day.

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But it's just crazy that there's actually... What are the chances? Canadian Thanksgiving and then toast and Scara, right? They're on Thanksgiving?

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Right, they're on Thanksgiving? It's a lot of parents celebrating Valentine's Day.

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I didn't think.

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About that. Yeah, it just makes you think like, I should also be born on Thanksgiving as an OTV member. It's a requirement now.

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-kind of missed.

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The mark a little bit. I'll change my birthday.

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Yeah.

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What is your birth sign?

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It's a Libra. Libra. I'm a scale. Everyone gets a cool creature of some sort, and I'm.

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A scale. If you ever become a furry, you should be a scaly.

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What? That's Scara's. I can take.

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His thing. Whoa, don't let him.

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Gatekeep you. Whoa.

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Well, I guess it works out for Scar because he's also going to be-Hey, Fire. What?

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-i'm never, I like... -holy shit. I was going to get a look like that for.

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A second.

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Sorry. Mine gets awfully more toasty than yours.

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Yeah, you're going like pure blue flame.

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Broden is a scut.

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Scut.

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I forget every time. Sadishires, Calebra, Scorpio, Pisces, Pisces. I don't know. -i think Pisces. -final answer, Pisces.

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Pisces, final answer.

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Yeah, you got it.

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Damn, even he's a fish. What are you?

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Virgo. -virgo. -john is a Gemini. German at.

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-he.

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Can't fucking trust me. -our Virgos are Gemini. -what creature?

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-what creature? German? I'm sorry, what? -what is like Virgo? Are you asking what the emblem? What the Okay, it's the maiden.

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-so you're likeIt's a human woman. -it's a woman woman, okay. -yeah. -i'm going to use a Gemini tooth... -or they're the twins.

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-two-faced. -use two human women.

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-is there two masks or something?

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-oh, yeah, I think two masks.

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-i don't remember. -yeah. But there's no other Virgos in here. -you're an alien.

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-and you're an alien object. Yeah, why am I that? Everyone gets like, Crab, or, Fish, and all that. You're an item, why is the L2 of all things?

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Do you guys know if you are fully a Gemini or if you're on the cusp?

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I don't know any of that.

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No, definitely. I don't really know that stuff. Never mind.

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Do you know what time you were born?

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11:28 PM.

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Some time in the morning.

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For me. The thing is, I was around 2:00 AM, I think. I think it was late. My dad always flames me for it. He's like, You're not going to take out the trash? Your mom gave birth at 2:00 in the morning. You kidding me?

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Mine was similar. I think mine was 5:00 AM or something. Like, bad, which means that they were in the hospital.

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For a while. Yeah.

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I don't think I ever get to know, which is why whenever you download those apps and they're like, What time are you born to have an accurate blow-blow of your star? With other things?

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What do you mean? Like your planets?

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There's a second- -You're rising, you're.

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Waning, you're waxing, you're mooning.

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-you're rising, yes. -you're mooning. They're not accurate because I don't know the time of.

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The birth. Wait, is it on your birth certificate or anything?

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I don't know.

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-someone's got to know. Not the.

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Canadian one. I've never seen my birth certificate.

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It's weird. Well, actually, this really confirms my theory that you were spawned. I don't think you were born. I think your parents aren't real.

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Hatched me.

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In laboratory. We were trying to get a photo of Broden's parents. He would not show us.

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-it was suspicious.

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-it didn't have one in. It was so suspicious. I want to say it took him at least two days.

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I think Brodyn is a clone. We were out at sea. I didn't have any Wi-Fi.

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Sure, man. Really valid excuse. I'm telling you, Broden, is it you?

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Sorry, what was that?

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Nothing. Sorry. Continue. Next topic?

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Next topic? Well, we're talking about our birthdays.

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My Marshmallows are in birthdays.

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I don't know. I was just trying to get rid of... Or we can continue to talk about birthdays.

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Well, I'm actually curious because we were gone because FISMO. But Toast, Michael, Lily, Scara.

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You, all November.

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I'm the October.

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Yeah, October. But you're all birthdays close together. Do you ever just do one super birthday?

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The previous years, it was always just the November birthdays that would ever potentially have a super birthday. Because mine was so close that it wouldn't make sense to have... But it's also too far away. If anything, I think the previous years, me and Peter would have our birthdays together. Then it would be the rest of the OTV November birthdays. But even then, I feel like they always had it separate. It was always like Scarra... Because Scarra and Toast were after, we'd have them for Lilly, Michael, and then Scarra and Toast. Yeah.

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Also, it's still so weird to me that they're born on the exact.

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Same day. I'm telling you, it's weird. It's like a weird coincidence. On all the OTV, I don't know, man. Someone was cooking. It was written-In the stars. -yeah, in the stars, literally.

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I don't know, birthdays were always like that. We always just knew November would be crazy because it's not only OTV birthdays. There's all of our friends.

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A fuckload of them are all from November. There's so many. And then there's the holiday.

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Yeah, and then the holidays. It's a lot.

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It's a lot.

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Do you have traditions, anybody?

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Really don't have any other than going home.

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What's about it? Growing up, did you guys ever have like... On the 24th, because we would always celebrate on the 24th instead of the 25th, my uncles and aunts, everyone would actually wrap all their gifts in blank paper. And then so kids could draw and color on it, and then everyone had their own drawing for that year. That was like an activity, and then you open your present.

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I love that. -that's a great tradition.

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-that's a tradition. I'm stealing that.

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Yeah. Do you guys have anything?

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No. I'm trying to think of what... Because it's a norm for me, so it's hard for me to be like, What is technically...

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We.

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Opened stockings first always, and that's where my parents put all the good stuff.

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Really? The good stuff is in the stockings?

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-the good stuff is in the stockings? Yes. Tiny stuff? No. It eventually got to the point where the Xbox would be under the stockings and the stalking would be full of nuts and socks and stuff. But my mom just, I think... Well, this is true. My mom basically had terrible Christmas growing up, so it was really important for her to give me and my brother really great Christmases. She would always work in the holiday season to buy us really good gifts. She wanted to forever create this super magical Christmas. Santa was real in my house for a very long time. Even if kids at school said, Santa's not real, I'd have to go home and be like, Santa's real. Santa's real, mom. I believe in Santa. But yeah, all the good stuff was in our stockings. One year, I was like, I don't know, it was like eight, and they had this my little... No, wait, what are those? Wait, okay.

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Hold on. -these are big ovens.

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-no, no, no. My little pony. They're furry and they're animals. -furbies? -furbies. But not furbies. I can't remember. But basically, they're like semi-realistic animals that are interactive. But they had a pony one year, and it was like, not a life-size pony, but it was big, okay? And you could sit on it. I wanted it so bad. My mom was like, No, you're not going to get that, and you're not going to get that. Boom, Santa gets it for me. This time, I think Santa is real. The best Christmas of my life. I come downstairs as a pony. I don't know. I'm not going to get that.

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Damn, your mom got you good.

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Yes, she did. Christmas is special in my house.

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My parents stopped trying to put an effort to make me believe in Santa once I hit a certain age. It used to be like, Oh, let's go into Toys R Us. Pick out the one you want, and I would tell Santa. Pick it, and then I'd go in the car, and then we'd leave, right? As the years go by, I pick it. I saw my dad like, Hey, wait in the car. He goes and buys it. I see it through the see-through gray bag at Walmart, and then he puts it in the back seat of the car. One year, he put it the front seat of the car. I was like, You can't take it, this boy, man. You're not putting an effort.

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Your dad's like, Yeah, Santa's real.

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I think my mom healed her and her child.

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Through us.

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That does remind me. My mom would use a specific colored pencil. It was four colors and one drawing, so it looked really colorful whenever I was teaching my name. That was Santa's pencil. Only Santa.

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Did get that pencil.

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I get one piece of a PC, Ram came in. I grab him like, What?

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Nothing's changed.

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I'm like, Dude.

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Yeah.

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Santa's like, This John kid wants Ram?

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I'm.

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Going to get legally at 90FPS this year. It's going to go crazy.

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Did you guys ever question your parents, interrogate them? Is Sam a real or not?

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No, it was a pretty quick switch for me, where it always happens at school, where someone at school is like, Sam is not real. It's the parents. Then I heard that and was like, Oh, that makes sense.

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Actually, no, I lied. I did. I asked my mom, I asked my dad once, and then he got mad at me because he thought he did a good job. He just got mad for whatever reason. I didn't believe in it anymore. We're like, You stop putting in effort. Are you serious? How could you get mad at that?

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Well, I never told my parents that I found out, though. I just let it keep happening. Then I want to say it was four or five years later. As a joke, I was like, Is Santa real? Just to see how they reacted, and they were like, What?

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What are you talking about?

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Then I think in that, they knew what I was getting at. They were like, If you want to keep getting presents from him, yes. You do not tell your sisters.

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That's my truth. Both my.

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Brother and I knew my mom was like, Santa is real. I was different. I didn't find out from school. I just remember thinking, and I was like, Oh, my God, it's my parents. Then I did become a detective. I was looking at the cookie and I was like, Hey, can you bite this? I would have my mom bite another cookie. Throughout the years, the bites would get weirder. My parents would bite a bigger bite, or they would write Santa letters and stuff. Then I would go into my dad's office and then look at his handwriting, but they would write it with their left hand or something. -dad. -i know.

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You were smart, but they were smarter.

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I know. My parents were like, I'll never know. And then, yeah.

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What broke it for me was... My brother was the agent. My older brother, he's older than me by seven years. He would always convince me that it's real, and we'd be on the wee looking at the global map. He's like, Yeah, this is where Santa stays. I'm like, No way. He stays there? That's crazy.

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He's so cute.

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The year we were late because we just stayed at, I think we were coming back from a road trip, and we made Santa a turkey club sandwich with all my dad's favorite condiments. I'm like, Oh. Yeah, so my.

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Parents also did that. We were like, Oh, we don't have milk. I'm sure he'll like lemonade. He was like, Wait a minute.

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Okay. You guys think that kids nowadays would find out about Santa or have parents telling them of a Santa, more likely or no?

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I feel like it's the same. I think it's so magical for kids that they try to keep it for the most part.

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I just wonder if technology would fuck it up for them. Yeah, the.

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Kids look up is SantaIsrael.

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-yeah, you could just.

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Google it. -we could just skew the Google. Everyone should just say yes on the internet. This is true.

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Santa is real. Does Google still take the top post of Subredit and put in Google images? Because we can make that happen. In the OTV Subredit, if we get threeK upvotes, it would just be on the number one Google.

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We could also sponsor one of the results to come up and be like, Santa is real. Do you think that we're breaking it to someone that's listening to the podcast and Santa is not real?

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I was just.

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Thinking that, yeah. No way. If you think he's real because the magic is in your heart.

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Santa is real. The only.

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Reason we're saying this is because we've been getting coal, so we don't believe anymore. Yeah.

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I've been getting so much coal. I'm actually just projecting.

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I'm putting in my pillowcases now. I just don't know where to store it anymore.

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It keeps me warm in the winter, though.

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I use it to cook now.

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Thanks, Santa. Speak of that.

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Curry was bomb about it. We went out to a lake, Twin Lake here in Mammoth. We tried doing hot pot. The wind was blowing out the fire. Hour later, sun goes down. It's really cold. We come back to Airbnb, Avon has curry. It was crazy.

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It was the best curry I've ever had. It was bucks on a lot. -i'm not kidding. Wow. It was so good. The chicken in it and.

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The.

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Potato. It was.

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So good. It was so good. That's funny because you guys came in and you guys were like, Everyone's reaction was the same. Like, Holy fucking shit. Is that Curry? As if you guys went through hell and back.

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It just smelled so good. You walked in it instantly. It was just Curry.

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You get punched in the face with that Curry scent.

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We were walking up the stairs being like, What is that?

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I brought a haneen all day. It was 8:00 PM by then.

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First, I was just going to make one pot because I thought we were having a hot pot for dinner, but then I made two and then...

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--it worked out.

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-it worked out. It worked out so well. Oh, my God.

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Well, do you guys think we're going to do another winter camping trip? -what's the survey on that?

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No spoilers, but...

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I mean, I'm down.

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Yeah? Something absolutely crazy happened. You guys will see when the video comes out. But something absolutely crazy happened in the newest OTV camping- What? I'm down. -part two video. Yeah, I guess, maybe.

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Which.

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In case you didn't know, yes, we did a second. That's why we're here. We shot a second camping video, a sequel to our first one. I think after the events of this one, I think maybe we'll think about a different area. We've tried winter camping.

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Maybe we've tried beach camping.

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I don't know.

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It's going to be like survivor. I'm going to be blistering high in the sun. We're going to have to buy sunscreen. City is going to be so.

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Mad for that, though.

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-i don't want to know. Why is it always pain and suffering that.

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Sells it? I got to talk to someone. We got to bring it up with the boss. Who is.

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The boss? How come it's never like, OTV goes glamping? Or how come it's never like, OTV goes to Disney World? You know, something awesome.

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Okay, the thing is, campers are watching our original camping video and being like, These guys can't do that. Camping is not... I don't know how to know how to put it into words. Camping is so normal, and just to have this normal level, and then you guys are like, We can't do it. It's a funny... You guys are glampers. I am a glamper.

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No, I used to camp so much as a kid, but now I'm older, I am a glamper. I am wholeheartedly while running water and a warm place to sleep at night. But when I was a kid, I was.

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Like, whatever. Yeah, we've done it. We've done it all. I went camping with my friends all the time. Yeah.

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But now I'm over it. I'm getting old. I'm jaded.

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I'm 26 years old now. Back in the same year as I used to be.

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We have Noah, our producer, is in the back corner over there. He is an avid camper. Both of us have camped a lot. He'll sometimes run stuff by me and be like, Do you think it'll be okay? I'm like, I don't know, man. I think they might need a little bit more help. He's like, Really? Okay. All right. I guess I could give them this. It's like, Yeah.

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Then the video plays on you're like, Yeah, we.

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Did need to.

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Give them a little helping hand there.

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A lot of...

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Yeah. Also, to.

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Be fair, camping for us is not like, Oh, yeah, set up a little fire and have a nice time, enjoy nature. No, it's like, get your ass to work. You don't get to eat until you fucking earn it. Eight hours passed, I'm like, I want my win spam, please.

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Even the first, shit in a hole. I'm like, Okay. I'm like, It's really not killing me.

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We have no way.

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You.

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Don't just bring your spam to camp and you get it. You have to earn your spam. You have to be like, Hey, you have to build your tent first. You have to get a fire going. You have to jump off the fucking plane or something, do a back flip into the woods, find a man, find out whatever, and then you can get your fucking spam.

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It's like, come hungry or don't come at all. You're not allowed in this video unless you.

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Come hungry. There's a spark to it.

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Yeah, I'm always hungry.

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-i am genuinely starving. It's not a fake thing. We are all starving. -yes. -then we see that...

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I ate this hot dog. This is the best thing I've ever eaten in.

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My life. -the hot dog.

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Was so good. -so fucking good. I was like, I didn't know hot dogs could be this good.

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Honestly, whoever's cooking stuff for you, they are gone. They are my new favorite person.

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Yeah, I feel like Lily tends to just like, There's food, I will cook it. I'll cook it for everyone.

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Dude, Mike. Yeah, he's your name. Yeah.

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Yeah, what if OTV just goes to regular camping? Yeah. We don't have to work for it.

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Non-tortuous camping. We just camp. I'm sorry, is that enough content for you? It's just not enough? I have to suffer.

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I guess the viewers can decide.

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You guys are...

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Maybe what we don't have to do is chase views. Maybe we just chase authentic, great time, and they will say, Oh, my gosh, that was such a joy to watch because look how much fun they're having.

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-they're going to say, Not.

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Enough pain. -or, I was so boring.

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They're such good friends.

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We need to.

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Break something up. No pain, no suffering.

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-what? -watching them sit around that campfire and not do anything. Wow, so entertaining.

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-too.

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Comfortable. -no, we do something.

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I don't know if you guys have noticed, but half of the tasks that we ask you to do are just things that you need to do to survive camping.

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No, sorry. It's more like, Okay, I get there, I'm starving, and I have to do this thing, and then I can't buy food first. I got to buy the important stuff.

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-like Sid and Scar were setting up the tent for so long, and Sid was starving, and she couldn't do anything.

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Okay, so to be fair, you guys screwed them there. Sid said, Great, give the two people with aphontasia the job of building.

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The tent. But she was also like, This is it. My ego is in check. I have to do this.

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I was helping them initially. I'm like, They have enough hands. I'm going to go to min-max this. I'm going to go do the steps. I'm going to go get steps in. But I think as the tent went on, yeah, it became a challenge.

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No, because also we structured this. Again, I'm not trying to spoil anything, but we structured this in a way where it's like, you guys get this, which then unlocks this, which then unlocks this. And it's all to improve your -Camp site? -living and experience there. But what's funny is the tent is the thing that we assumed you guys would get done first. It was one of the last... It was starting to get dark. I'm like, You guys should really get something more of that...

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I can't. It starts snowing. I'm like, Where is our tent cover? -where's the top of the...

[00:32:33]

-dude, we barely got the fire started halfway through. It happened halfway through. The light was gone almost by the time we got it.

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It did take-It took three of us to screw in a light bulb. That was a lot. The fire was the fire in the tent.

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-the two shruggles. -yeah, and had it have not been for one crucial item that we normally would not bring with us, we wouldn't haveThe fire would have taken even longer. It's the.

[00:33:02]

Crazy one. Actually, so now I'm curious. Yeah, if we had no structure to the video, we just gave you all the supplies and said, Okay, camp.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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I'm with that. I mean, if you give us a fire-starting kit, that'd be fine.

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It would just be such an enjoyable experience. I mean, this was also an enjoyable experience. I'm being dramatic. It was fun. I had a great time. It's also really memorable. I'm just like, must we suffer?

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All the time? No, well, my bet is that you guys won't actually have a camp ready. I think you will suffer more. Wait, really? Yes. I think if we gave you everything, but we're like, Okay, do it without us having to railroad you into it, I think you would not have a camp ready by night. Everyone's going to be hungry.

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Wait, he.

[00:33:40]

Thinks we can't start fire with the fire. I actually am so...

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I don't think so at all. You know in the forest, you have a notebook, you're like, My son's missing. I need these steps to start. I need to make camp. I need this food. There's random luggage around with food in it. There's a cliff bar in this one.

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Oh, I see what you're saying.

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Oh, there's a note in this tree. You're scavenging.

[00:34:03]

I'm imagining when you are in the forest, you get off the plane. The plane just crashed.

[00:34:09]

Oh, the game, the forest.

[00:34:10]

Wait, that could be the next one.

[00:34:12]

Oh, yeah, let's bring on zombies. No, stop. I know you're...

[00:34:18]

No, it's not a good idea.

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The.

[00:34:20]

One thing I will just never do is like a haunted house or stay at a haunted, scary...

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Come on, one day.

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I will literally... One day. That's the one thing. That's the one thing.

[00:34:32]

About 24 hours?

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I get scared on Minecraft.

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She's in. Yeah, she's actually scared.

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I don't think I'm actually scared. She's actually scared. Yeah, I'm trying to think if I might be able to stay there, but I will never do a Ouija board. I'm down to be, but I will be terrified, but no Ouija boards. If there's ever a Ouija board, I'm out.

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I mean, Ouija board is always just that one person who's actually moving it, and they're like, I'm not moving it. It's not me. Wait, are you moving it?

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But fucking dumb.

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I don't know, man. I can always... Every time I've used the Ouija board, I feel someone else moving it, and I see their hand tense, and I see their muscle move.

[00:35:05]

John the Detective.

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-i'm like, and then they.

[00:35:07]

Look at you and wink. Yeah, I'm like, Whoa. They wink.

[00:35:13]

They.

[00:35:13]

Know my mom's name. Crazy. Are you here with us?

[00:35:18]

That reminds me of... Did you guys ever use that... What was it? Ask Peter or something? Do you.

[00:35:24]

Guys have this website?

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Yes. I was so sold on that as a kid. I was asking everything. Then I'm like, Only my friend can give me the answers. This is crazy. Then it was broken.

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To me. Yeah, sorry, ask again.

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Yeah. What is it? You start.

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With the slash? Ask Peter was this website you'd use to prank your friends? It always started with, Yo, have you heard about this? The website? It somehow knows everything about you. Then your friend will be like, What? You're like, Yeah, look. You go to the website. Then the way you do it is you're supposed to type in like, Hey, Hey, Peter, can you answer a question for me? But really what's happening is you type in a slash and then you type in the answer. Then on the screen, it looks like you're typing that question. Then you hit Enter and go, All right, what do you want to ask it? Then you get them to ask the question that you've already answered and then type it in. Then they're.

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Like, What?

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Wait, but what if they come up with the question themselves?

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I think typically, I get the steps out of order. I think you would ask them first like, All right, what do you want to ask it?

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Then you type it by you type slash whatever.

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But your slash-What my friend would say is like, We have to say the question out loud right now, and then we can type it. I'm like, Oh, this is in the mic. It's in the mic. It hears us. But how would I know that even speaking up the mic, it makes.

[00:36:42]

No sense to me. But yeah. Yeah, that one is a great prank.

[00:36:46]

Yeah. For me, that one happened. There were two that happened at Taekwondo. When I would practice, we would then go into, or after training, we would go into the... We didn't call him a seafu. I forget what he did. Our sensei. We would go into his office and just use his computer, and we would do that one. Then another one was the scary maze.

[00:37:11]

Oh, my God.

[00:37:12]

That was one where they were like, Can you turn off all the lights? Close the door. I was like, Why? I'm just doing a maze? Yeah, but it's cooler.

[00:37:20]

Everyone remembers the first time doing the maze.

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I.

[00:37:24]

Didn't have those pranks. I had dumb ones.

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Like -We used to show up on the maze.

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Oh, have you been to lemonparty. Com or something? Those were the type of prank that I got.

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Meat Spin.

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The.

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Classics.

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What?

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I don't know what. You looked at me like, Do.

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You know lemonparty?

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Com? I don't.

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Oh.

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Can we get Lemonparty up on.

[00:37:43]

The screen, actually?

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What's that? There's another one.

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I tried to do that to someone, and when you type it in chat, sometimes it gives a thumbnail. Wait, is this the.

[00:37:54]

One that brings a porn?

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Yeah. Okay, I know what.

[00:37:57]

This is. It's like.

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Three old men.

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Yes. I put a thumbnail and I was like, Fuck, my prank didn't work because you showed the fucking thumbnail.

[00:38:05]

They're like, I have a phone? Yeah. I remember that's how someone got me to go to Meat Spin. It's because Leak Spin was popular. Then they were like, Oh, here to Meat Spin? It's the same thing, but with a sausage. I was like, Okay. Yeah.

[00:38:20]

I actually got Meat Spin and Maple Story. Because I asked a random person. I'm like, Where do you get this mage build guide or this... -dam. -casade a worry build. They like-Oh, yeah. You just got a Meat Spin. I got super excited to tell my brother, I'm like, Yo, we actually just got the guide. We just need one healer. Then the guy's on this website. He's like, What's the website? I'm like, Meat Spin. Him and his friends are like, Yeah, go check it out, man. I've heard of that guide website. I'm like, Oh, my God. I'll be right back. I run over to my PC and they just hear out of my speakers, You spin me right… I just hear him burst and laughing. I think into all that far. I'm like, Oh, my God.

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What is nine? I really thought you'd find a guide on meat spin.

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I didn't know. I was.

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Like, Wait, maybe he's nine.

[00:39:04]

The Fresh Spahn. Trying to learn how to live a warrior super fast. The cleric duo.

[00:39:13]

Oh, my gosh.

[00:39:15]

You've been playing a lot of Wow, actually. Oh, and Lethal Company.

[00:39:17]

Oh, Lethal Company is so funny.

[00:39:18]

Wow, Lethal Company.

[00:39:19]

Great, great asset.

[00:39:22]

What is that?

[00:39:23]

I have not played Lethal Company yet.

[00:39:25]

Really? You just have to find out, brother. You will have to find out. Great asset. Great, asset.

[00:39:30]

I will say a lot of it. This will be like the Santa. You have to have your first experience with also other noobs.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. My mind was not with other noobs, and it was honestly really boring. I was like, So is that... Well, I didn't get to learn the game. I just was thrown into the game and then knew everything. Or it was, yes, this.

[00:39:49]

Is boring. See, because all I've been hearing is like, Hey, did you people play Lethal Company yet? I'm like, No. I'm like, Oh, I want to be there on your first time.

[00:39:55]

-yeah. -okay. So much more fun. I do think that lowkey, thisthe spark was taken.

[00:40:01]

From me. My first time was with Jamie, Lilly, and Toast. Toast knows what to do. And the rest of us are like... So it was pretty funny because, well, Toast would be actually trying to win the game, and then Jamie is like, shh. He's yelling. He was like, shh, let's just chill. That was so funny. I just think you need chaotic people to make your first experience, whatever.

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The.

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Boombox is the best. Oh, it's awesome.

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Okay, so I think the great thing about the game is even if you're lost and you don't know what you're doing, you're having a great time, the timing, the chaoticness, and then also the community relief is just all perfect. Yeah. And then even if you progress in the game and you get better at it, there's also more to look forward to and PRs to beat. It's a good game. It's just overall, whoa, all around a good game.

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Yeah. I really just don't mind losing in it, ever. No. I die. I don't feel like hell as shitty about dying. It's just more like it's funny. -i'd fucking die like that. -yeah.

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I don't think it's much of a spoiler, but the one nice mechanic in the game is when you die, no one else is alerted. There's no notifications. No one knows. You're just talking like, Hello, Broden? You there? Yeah. Did he die? But you could be on the other side of the map doing your own thing. They just don't know and they think you're dead and then it just plays out that way. Even if you do die, you get to see there. You get to spectate their POV.

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I did see a clip of, I think, Timmy, where he was dead and hopping around people and it's perfectly timed where it was four or five people in a van or bus or whatever that is. They're like, Huh, where's Jamie? Then he switches perspective to Jamie dying in quicksand.

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Yeah.

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You could survive the craziest thing inside the building from a ghost or something. You make it out and you just die to Quicksand.

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No.

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Yeah.

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It's a pretty good game.

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Yeah. All right, I'll have to give it a try. It's fun.

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It's a good one. Yeah, Wow! Has consumed me. World of Warcraft has taken my life.

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Is Wow! There's periods of time where people go.

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Back to it. Wow! Is back, baby.

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Oh, so it's just back?

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No, so this one, I saw my boy, Simply. He's a Super Mario 64 speed runner, and I just never get to play games with him. I just saw him on Wow! I'm like, What? And he's playing hardcore Wow! I'm like, What? Let's play. He's like, Yeah, we just started this guild two days ago. It's called Only Fings. I'm like, I'm in. I'm sold. Where do I sign up? It turned out to be Miskiff and Soda Poppins Guild. I'm like, All right, what do I have to do? Oh, yeah, you just get a year for Sona. What is your skill level in games and how much you know about wow? I'm like, Okay, I could dabble at that. I get my for Sona, I'm a rabbit. They all hate rabbits. Rabbit is not allowed to speak during meetings. No one likes rabbits. I get my skill level, my wow knowledge, and then you just have to level. Then there's quotas every week. The first week, everyone has to level 25 or else you're going to lose the guild currency, which is how you get gear. It's called FKP, Furry, Kitty Points, is your currency. Later on, it's going to matter a lot because that's how we're going to get our equipment through Raids.

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But no one thinks we're going to be able to do it.

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Those points make it so when everyone goes to a raid and they get stuff from it, it trickles down.

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Yes, the person on the top, let's say all mages who has the highest Furry, Kitty points? Masayoshi, okay, here's your piece of gear. Goes to you. You're going to also lose 10 because you got that piece of gear. Now you're back. Now, mate. Probably the last mage, but I can build my way.

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Back up.

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We talked about this on the last podcast a bit, but now we have someone who is nose to the grindstone in it. Deep into it. Deep into it. I hear yelling from your room at 5:00 AM, 7:00 AM, 10:00 AM. I'm like, When are you sleeping?

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A lot of EU-friendly streams. My sleep schedule is turning to naps because I have to be on for the auction house because the Chinese and European players and Korean players, they all post their auction house stuff at 5:00 AM. That's prime time for all the gear to be in the auction house. I'm on and off. I'm like, through a nap, wake up, auction house? I was pretty dead and go back to sleep. Another three hours, wake up.

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I have heard that wild litter consumes your entire life.

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Yeah, it has consumed me. But it's been great. Meeting random people I would never think I'd ever play with. A lot of downfalls. I've had survivor's guilt. These emotions, it's just definitely... It's just like these emotions. It's online. -wow. -i'm in a dungeon. Something went wrong. Everything feels so easy. It's a classic, Wow, this game has been out for 19 years. Everyone says this game is so easy. It feels easy. Then one thing, one poll goes wrong and your friend is being mauled by 30 monsters and he's yelling, Leave. Run. Run. Leave me. We're all like, No. No. God, no. We can't leave him. We all leave the party and you're just escaping and then he's just dead.

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-he's gone. -because it's hardcore, most of it. It's literally.

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Sword art online. If you die, you have to delete.

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Your character. It's literally like Gandalf with the Balrog and Frodo. It's like, Randalf.

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We have to go. Come on. His name was Shinya. I had just met him through this and he died in front of me. I had survived... The survivor's gone, I could have blinked, I could have done this. I could have done the target of me. I could have throw a grade in the back. He's like, You couldn't have done anything, man. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. You couldn't have done anything. Then you had to sleep with that.

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Wait, does he get to re-make his character and come back?

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As a level one.

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He has to restart.

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All.

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The way to level 60. I have.

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Also died. -and how many hours does it take to hit 60? If you're doing it for real.

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Average doing it for real, if you're a speed runner, four days. Four days? -four and six days in game time. That's not in general, in game time. Like you playing 12 hours a day.

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That is so degenerative.

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I also died on my first mage, Masayoshi, and I died in front of one of my tanks in the guild, Wake Wilder, and he had survivor's guilt telling me he's like, You all, I'm sorry, man. I'm like, No, it's fine. I'm leveling right now. I lost 190 hours. 190 hours. Let me give you the specifics.

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And all your stuff is gone, too. Everything's gone. Everything that's attached to your character is just deleted.

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What everyone is doing is they put all their gold on an alt account. They died, they die, they're not their gold, but they just send to their main account.

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But even with the real experience, you don't trade anything. You put it all on the line. I have 400 gold just sit on my page and I see it, I'm like, 192 hours, 30 minutes, and 39 seconds lost.

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And you're back to 60 now?

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I'm back to 60. Jesus. My new mage is called quarter-jade. It's a gamer.

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Let me tell you, that is confusing people. People are in my chat, people are in my Discord. Jody, it's so cool to see you play. Wow, whatever theinto wow. I get DMs of somebody screenshoting them seeing me. One of my mutuals on Twitter, Oh, my gosh, hey, I didn't know that you played wow. I just ran into some wow city. I had to be like, Oh, my God, that's my boyfriend. That's not me.

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It's a 50-50 coin flip. It was Jody. I'm like, Hi. I do a cat face.

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They're like, Hmm.

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Yeah, no, I play it off. I'm like, Cool. Unless it was Brit from OTK side to like, Jody, I didn't know you're playing. We can do Dungeons. I'm like, This is John. She's like, Oh, dot, dot, dot.

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-that's the biggest of the biggest.

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She's like, Is she going to play? I'm like, No. I've asked her 13 times. She's like, Thank you for your service. I was like, I'll see you at 60. She's like, I'll see you at 62. This is giving me the time.

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There's a time that John was also really obsessed with maple Story, and Alvin was pretending to be me?

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Was.

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Pretending to be you? Yes. John walked around and him and Alvin play all the time together. Then for whatever reason, they are roleplaying as boyfriend and girlfriend. I really don't know how this started.

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He was in deep. He had to see when Jody was streaming, so he wouldn't play maple Story at the time. What? One time he didn't check and he was logged on. Then someone went up to like, Jody, aren't you streaming right now? He's like, Yeah, I'm on the side monitor. He's like, John, I'm in deep. I got to stop this. We have to break up in game or something. I was like, What? I'm like, Just tell them, man.

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I didn't know this. I didn't know it was that serious because I was like, Man, what are you doing in there? What are you doing in the game? What are you saying?

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Oh, well. Were you guys trying to keep up?

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Like, for who? Maple Royals community. We were just bored.

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Rpm. Yeah, for nothing. For no reason.

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For absolutely nothing. Not for beers, not.

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For anything. Maple Royals? You can't even stream it. We were just bored. We were just having fun doing couple shit. We were going to get married. I have my marriage ticket on me, too, in my shop.

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That's also.

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So degenerative. You guys.

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Pick the top-level of.

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Degenerative things, too. It's like baked, eating, and.

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World of Warcraft. That's just crazy. The top two is like, I didn't think you can make maple Royals like that, but you took it up. I'm impressed.

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That's so good, though.

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So why did you stop then? Because of what? Did you stop maple Royals for a while?

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Pretty much, yeah, actually. Oh, wow. Mmo to MMO. Actually, I also got addicted to Valorant again. I even pretty much had a guild on maple Story or maple Royals because you have to do daily Dungeons. You can only do it once. But I got addicted to Valorant. But then this Wow thing came up. I got COVID. Best thing that happened for a while because I was going to get behind. What?

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Dude, okay. Silver lining, truly.

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In one week, I got 72 hours in on wow. It was insane.

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Wow, COVID gets you productive.

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It was crazy. Best thing that happened to the guild. Even though that character died, but good times.

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Well, he gave up the degenerate thing for even more degenerate things.

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Oh, yeah. Just trading a degeneracy for degeneracy.

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It's good, though. You should join.

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Oh, no. Those days are behind me. I've had my degenerate days, and I'm scared to go back to that.

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No one wants to play.

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Wow here. Well, I've tried playing wow once, and I couldn't make it. Is the ladder in the tutorial?

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The.

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Ladder? The ladder?

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There is a ladder. You have to climb up.

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We're playing different. There's no ladders. There's only elevators.

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There is one. I couldn't make it up the ladder.

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Maybe it's class-specific.

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I don't think anyone can climb the ladder.

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Maybe you're not supposed to climb.

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The ladder. No, I swear. I had a witness. Okay, to me climbing this ladder, and they just laughed forever because I couldn't get up this fucking ladder.

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I think they're laughing because they're like... I think they're giggling because they're like, hee.

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Are you telling me that there's no ladder to go up? They were laughing because it's impossible to go up? But they went up the ladder and they said, Ha-ha, just come up. I just couldn't.

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Come up. I don't think climbing is an action in World.

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Of Warcraft. There's not. You can't do E, use.

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Was I supposed to jump and fly up there?

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Or stairs or something?

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It was some type of stairs. It's stair ladders.

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I'm very new to wow. The only thing I know is there's elevators that you just stand on and it goes up, or there's just stairs you walk up.

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It was definitely WALD because I changed into a lepernome and I had a water element following.

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Me around. Okay, yeah, you're a mage.

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Yeah.

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I like that you said you're very new to wow when you have 190 hours on a character.

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Okay, so in this guild, we have the people that have world-first, hit level 60, world-first cleared naxaramus in hardcore wow, which is the final boss, these hardcore players. And there's me, I'm like, So what the rune? What's that about? That's crazy. I'm asking the most basic question.

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Do you still get things where you can change? Can I still turn into a lepernome?

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No. In Classic, there's just four classes.

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Is that or was that a Halloween special?

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What about a Halloween special?

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I ate a candy.

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Yep.

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And I became a lepernome. Yeah. Then you got to.

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Walk around. There was a Halloween event. They do have events. Okay. But it's a tick-or-treat event, and you get tricked and you get turned into a goblin, which I think is pretty sick.

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Yeah, I thought it was pretty sick. That was pretty degenerative. We talked about it for a really long time.

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Here, I'll transition us. Yeah. Okay, so holidays are coming up. Are we all leaving for holidays? And how does that affect your wow career?

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Very.

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Important question.

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I've missed the last two guild meetings. Or no, maybe three, because I'm like, Oh, I can make them. Oh, I have a shoot. Maybe I can make this one. Oh, wait, it's Thanksgiving. Maybe I can make this one. Oh, I have to go to Mammoth. They're like, Do you even care? Do you even care about the guild? Honestly, you're pretty.

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Good because I feel like somebody would bring their laptops with them.

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I didn't think I was going to have internet. I heard we're going in bum-fucked nowhere. Yeah. I did bring my laptop to Thanksgiving to check on auction out stuff. But other than that, would you like to say anything, Jody?

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Nothing, nothing.

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At all. I just have.

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Some distrust over there. I was giggling. Honestly, I'm glad that you can make all the meetings for important things like Thanksgiving. It's good to be present off the computer. Yeah.

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So you are going home for the holidays. -so could you do Christmas?

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I'm just filling out the group, honestly. My parents main thing is you have to come to one thing: Thanksgiving or Christmas.

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-well, you get a choice.

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Yeah.

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I go home for Christmas every year. John usually comes with me.

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Oh, okay.

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So you guys do Thanksgiving at his, Christmas at hers.

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I was thinking about that because this is the first time I went to Thanksgiving with John, specifically because, yeah, Thanksgiving with John means Christmas with mine because I said, I always have to go Christmas with my parents. I was like, Does that mean that I'm destined to never eat my mother's Thanksgiving food ever again?

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No.

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Because that's really the test. I mourned that thought. I was like, No.

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I feel like we just switch it. I mean, last time we did Thanksgiving, you did Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I went to Christmas with my family. We would just do a little switch up.

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Or John will fly in after Christmas and spend.

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Four days.

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In Washington with me and then we'll fly home together.

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Saying his and hers reminded me of the game of Kings Cup we played last night.

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Oh, my God. That was the most fun Kings Cup I've.

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Actually ever played. Yeah, everyone here this weekend played a very rousing game of Kings Cup where... Who made that rule? Oh, Kevin.

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It was...

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Yes. Yes. Kevin made a rule that basically boiled down to everyone could only refer to each other as he or.

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She, turned us into cavemen.

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Yes. No, you, I, us, we.

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Things like that. For those in familiar with the Kings Cup, there's lots of rules attached to cards and whatever, and every so often you can make a rule, and if you break the rule, you have to drink. He made this rule, and it messes with your mind so much that you just simplify everything to, She hungry. She turn. He pull a card. She no drink. She has drink. To the point where.

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The game is done, we're going on a walk outside and everyone is continuing like, we are cavemen still. Stuck in your head. Yeah, we couldn't snap out of it.

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It became easy, though.

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Yeah.

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It was natural.

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But even we, you couldn't say we or us, so we'd be.

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Like, he, he, she, she, all of us.

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All. I remember because Jody said something like, Hey, person who's standing up in the kitchen key in this. I was like, That's rude. He has a name. Man in kitchen, get water.

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You have to.

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Give everyone to get. Tall man. Tall man drink.

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Jay.

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Dog. Film, Light Man. -yeah, lighting man. -yeah.

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That was fun. Then it was part of the game.

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That also was a rude awakening because I had just woken up from a nap. I had a...

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Okay, so John is sleeping. John is sleeping, right? I go in and John... Well, I'm going to go shower. Okay, five minutes later, I go into the room and he's passed out. I tried to wake him up. I'm like, Hey, John, did you want to shower? The shower is open. Because he was waiting for someone to shower and he's like... I was like, Do you want me to wake you up? Do you want to shower? He said, Two card games. I was like, In two card games, you want to be woken up? He's like, Yeah. I'm like, Okay, two card games happen. I wake him up, I'm like, Hey, John, go shower. He says, Okay, springs up. I'm like, Oh, all right. I walk back here, John comes down, sits down to play King Scott. I'm like, Oh, okay.

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All right. In my mind, I thought she was asked me to come play from my slumber, and I was like, Yeah, I'll play in two card games. That's what's playing in my mind. Then she wakes me up at 2:00. I'm like, Okay, I'll play. Then I stand up and I just sit at the chair and I crack open a beer. I'm like.

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I'm ready. He immediately has to chuck.

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Yes. I think it was like a waterfall.

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It was the first card. We do an ace and he's like, All right, John, start drinking.

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Then I'm like- Woke.

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Up immediately. I woke up an hour and I'm four beers deep with a cocktail in my hand. I'm like, What is happening? I would say, He's she. He's she. Tall man. Hairy. We're in a bind. Dude, you.

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Were a trooper, though. Imagine just waking up and having it, okay. This is like college.

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I'm the Phoenix.

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You really were.

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I'm always.

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Your born.

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Rise on, Phoenix.

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-rise on. -rise on. Well, I feel like that's a good way to end this pot with how we ended the night last night.

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I.

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Recommend everyone watching play a round of Kings Cup with your family or roommates or anyone right now.

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Right now? It's so fun. It's my favorite drinking card game. I do love it. It's guaranteed to get you drunk, though, so drink responsibly.

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Yeah. It's very interactive. Everyone interacts at some point no matter what.

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It's a game where you're supposed to concentrate, and as soon as you mess up once, your concentration will just start failing.

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And then you get more drunk and then it's harder to concentrate. It's a snowball game. Yeah. That's a good one.

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And you always got a few people who bring some chaos to it, and that's when it really gets fun.

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Yeah, my favorite was... I think, is it there? Maybe. At OTV Parties, we used to play Kings Cup and flowers would be the best host of it. Because he just yells. He's just like, All right, everyone. I swear you were there. The very first party I've ever met you, flowers was there, and I still remember it was at the very first OTV house I used.

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To be at. It was Captain Floars, the League of Legends caster.

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Oh, dude, that would go insane.

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Oh.

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Yeah. I feel like I have a-It.

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Becomes like he's casting.

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The game. Yes, it's amazing. God tear. You just have to have flowers casting in the background while you play Kings Cup. Yeah.

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Dude. Anycaster? Yeah, no, that's gold.

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Invite a sportscaster to.

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Your game.

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If you're lucky.

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Go on a speed dial.

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Anyway, this was episode 42. Thank you for watching, guys. And we'll see you on the next one.

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Thanks for coming. Happy holidays, everyone. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Bye-bye. Later.