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2:29Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Monday, December 8th, 2025. I want your host, Blessing, Adio Yejr. Joining me is the master of hype, Snowbike Mike. My main man, Bless. Happy Monday, big dog. Good to see you. How are you feeling today? I'm feeling good. I had a relaxful weekend. Oh, wow. That doesn't come out of your mouth often. Yes. Usually you're jam-packed, scheduled nonstop. I mean, I did go to Oakland on Saturday. I did go to Oakland. As long as you're having fun. But for the most part, I looked at my weekend. I was like, I'm going to start clearing my schedule because I'm not giving myself enough time.

3:02Just relax and chill. I feel like I've been falling behind on the media. I want to watch and play because I've been making too many plans. And so, man, that sounds like I'm bragging about being busy. I'm not bragging about being busy. I actually realized that I'm overexerting myself. And so this weekend, I chilled out, watched some stranger things. Come on. All four episodes? So I wanted to finish the last episode last night. Okay. But my Netflix was bugging out where it stopped loading the episode. And I tried turning it off again. I tried all these things. And I was like, well, I'm watching it in my room.

3:33I don't feel like moving to the living room because it was that late. They got to save the power bill so they can pay for this big. Yeah, exactly. Literally, I was looking up online. I was like, is Netflix down? I don't know what was going on. It's probably just my little Amazon fire stick. It just wasn't doing its job. And so I switched over to Apple TV and watched the Charlie Brown Christmas special. And I put me to sleep. Oh, nice. Yeah. Very pleasant. Good. You're getting in the spirit. I like that. I love hearing that you took a nice, restful, relaxing weekend. Yeah. That's good. You're always working hard.

4:00You're always busy. So it's nice to reset, do a little cleaning, a lot of gaming. A lot of cleaning. I love it. Did a little bit of gaming. Not as much gaming as I like, but I'm trying to fit it in there. It's just too many games. Too many games. Too many games. Too many good games. Metroid Prime. What about you? How do you like Stranger Things? Oh, it's back. Yeah. I am somebody that loved Stranger Things. I think season one, maybe two and three, I started to fall off a little bit on before I definitely stopped halfway through. But I got back on for this, right? Because I think Stranger Things has been kind of special to all of us in some way, shape, or form.

4:33Maybe we hate it. But it's left an impact on a lot of us from the streaming culture that we're going to talk about with Netflix and their purchase, right? But like, when I think of Netflix, I think of Stranger Things. And I think of those kids, the cast, the story, the fun, the kind of chills and spooky vibes that we all got during those early seasons. oh yeah i had to go back and i am happy to say that they brought me back i am fully back into this stranger things usually has the stuff yeah it's rare i don't think i'm sure there's there were some down times for stranger things but i feel like overall they usually deliver it definitely has a different feel now though i feel like the kids are too grown you know i i think that but i think they look fine for high school like they're believable high schoolers to me right sure at this moment i look at them i go yeah they're all getting kind of old you know 11 in particular on some of her scenes yeah it's like oh that's a full-grown woman that's a woman right there at the same time it's like hey these kids can pass for high school like you gotta suspend disbelief and just say let's go have fun but i think for me it's also the thing where we're just gonna get into a full review right but like the characters aren't the same characters we started off with and of course character development things change time passes these people become different people but i look at their dynamics and i'm like wow this is just you guys are just totally different characters now like steve was not is not who steve was and i'm okay with it but like it's just so different i will say they're doing a great job just on the overall plot because they know how to keep me going good setup good everyone has a role yeah and like this season definitely with the four episodes so far has a good feel of like we're on the move and we're staying on the move and we're going to finish with a solid finish and we're going to get you excited for Christmas and New Year's.

6:15Yeah. Crazy stuff. You're going to watch the finale in theater? You see they're doing that? No, no, no. I am someone, when we talk about these deals, I've gone full home. It is tough to get me to the theater. Don't do that. It is harder and harder to get me to the theater. I need the theater, man. With the increase in prices. You don't like that popcorn smell? You don't like spending too much money on popcorn? Too much money on popcorn. Of course, my favorite Junior Mints, a large soda. It's all too much. the ticket is too much uh the seats can be hit or miss sometimes you find a really comfortable seat yeah sometimes those seats are just not comfortable that's part of the experience like i have fully moved to like just give it to me at home i'll pay the 25 bucks at home and i will be totally happy i mean you're boring fine i i love i all the all of those imperfections about the theater is why i love the theater it's the experience it's going with people and i also think our attention spans are so shot that like the theater is how i'm gonna watch a movie yeah i can't pull out my phone i can't get distracted i am in a dark room with a big screen and i can't go anywhere so i have to pay attention see i've been working on my attention span lately i think that's thanks to streaming on twitch right yeah it's like i i do rarely look at my phone because i am locked in on the game now of course i'm also having a side conversation with chat most of the time but like I am doing a much longer streams of like eight hours of nothing but expedition 33 yeah and like I will I will give you the plot verbatim word for word of what's happening which is huge because I'm locked in I love the same thing I think I'm feeling locked in a lot more lately us having to sit here and talk to each other on these shows within without I say without looking at our phones yeah there's a computer screen right in front of me yeah infinite internet here yeah but I do think it is a nice thing that forces us to do that and I here's what I'll say because on the opposite note on the very opposite note i'm like thinking through all right how am i gonna fit in the tv watching i want to do with some of the video games i want to play and i'm so excited to get home either today or tomorrow this week not probably not today because i have volleyball but probably tomorrow get home bust out metro prime for my switch and put on the pd documentary oh i'm looking forward to that experience which again is the antithesis is that ruining my attention span because i'm doing two things at once yes yeah yeah but also that sounds like such a make a coffee or Make like a hot chocolate or something.

8:31Oh, man. Can I put you on to a game of the year contender that won't get enough love? Sectory. I've said this. Did you play it yet? I got to play more of it. I started it. I started it. I got to get back to it. Did you fight one of the bosses? No, not yet. Not yet. Dude, that game's crazy, bless you. Sectory's fucking sick. You put me on, bless. That's a good game. I'm going to say Power Wash Simulator 2. I'll continue to make sure people remember that Power Wash Simulator 2 is out. It's a fantastic game. It's perfect if you want to watch the P. Diddy documentary while playing video games. Okay.

8:58That game rocks. Okay. relaxing weekend blitz yeah you just want to zone out to one of your favorite podcasts but still feel like you're doing something playing some games power wash simulator too all right i'll keep that in the back also play sectori though that game play sectori for sure let's get into it remember this is kind of funny games daily each and every week they run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube spotify and Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad-free and get a daily exclusive show.

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11:20You let me down, Bless. I did. I apologize. But not for the show. Thank you. Where are you at with Citizen Sleeper 2, Bless? Admit it to me. I've been playing so little at a time. I need to just give myself the space and a coffee. The problem is that I start reading and I get tired. I get a little tie-tie. I start dozing off. A lot of reading. So what I need is a coffee and no distractions. I'm going to try, Barrett. I'm going to try for you. needed to try be better story number one paramount skydance launches a hostile bid for warner brothers discovery just days after netflix agreement is reached uh this comes from tom phillips at ijan super chat question for y 'all hit me with your burning opinions about this i don't have a specific question i just want your burning opinions on this because this is one that very murky what are your thoughts yeah we won't you know that's how i'm gonna safe space safe space for your thoughts Oh, I like that.

12:16Yeah. Let us know. Paramount Skydance has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers Discovery in a dramatic new effort that could block Netflix from buying the company. Last week, Netflix emerged as the winner of a lengthy bidding war for Warner Brothers and announced plans to buy much of the century-old company for$72.5 billion. Paramount had been Netflix's biggest rival throughout the process and one which seemingly had the blessing of President Trump. Now Paramount has said it will go straight to Warner Brothers shareholders with its all-cash$30 per share offer. Netflix's potential deal was for a$27.75 mix of cash and stock only for Warner Brothers Studio and streaming assets, while Paramount has said it wants the whole of Warner Brothers Discovery.

13:34Quote, proposal which exposes shareholders to a mix of cash and stock an uncertain future trading value of the global network's linear cable business and a challenging regulatory approval process we are taking our offer directly to shareholders to give them the opportunity to act in their own best interests and maximize the value of their shares and quote you gotta love maximizing the value for shareholders mike i mean i want the most out of my shares is right exactly get the most out Get the most out of your shares. While it's difficult to compare the two companies' offers for Warner Brothers Discovery due to the different parts of the company each wants to provide, Ellison also suggests here that his deal was more likely to get approved and get done quicker.

14:16The suggestion comes following remarks made by President Trump over the weekend regarding Netflix's bid for Warner Brothers, as reported by BBC News, in which he suggested the sale, quote, could be a problem as it would see Netflix's big market share in TV streaming potentially go up by a lot. Trump has previously indicated he would be taking a personal interest in the deal as it goes through a regulatory process. Mike, a lot here. Yeah, bless. This is a lot here, and unfortunately, I am not a fortune teller. I cannot tell you what will happen here. Only the future will tell us what's going to happen on this one.

14:53But it is an exciting one to at least talk about and kind of look at both sides here. It is interesting that we see another proposal come up, right? They kind of stepped in in front of Netflix and said, hold on, we want to give you a better deal. We want all of this. And the Warner Bros. kind of plot is a lot, right? And it's a play for IP, streaming rights on some sides, games and another conversation. There's a lot at stake here. And it'll be very interesting to see. We've seen a lot of these acquisitions in the past. We know what it kind of leads to. Of course, it leads to a lot of layoffs and then rising in prices.

15:28So, I mean, I'm not too pleased about that, but I'm already paying$24.99 for my Netflix account at this time. So it's only going to go up from here. Yeah, that's the tough thing about all of this is that I think we're in a very scary situation for all options that are on the table. Because we talked about this, of course, as a video game news show. And so video games are often our point of reference for things. And the most recent big acquisition that we talked about for a very long time was Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard. And I think through that process, a lot of us kind of came to learn and came to understand the fear and the scariness around big corporate acquisitions of other entities, partly from the monopoly side of things and how regulators get involved.

16:12And now that becomes a very, you know, extended process of, all right, what does this mean for the wide market and the variety of the kinds of products we can have out there? But then also, what does that mean for people's jobs? And oftentimes, in fact, if not every time, a big acquisition like this is going to mean people are going to lose their jobs. And that's probably going to be true from the Netflix side. And that's probably going to be true from the Paramount side. I'm with you. I'm not a fortune teller. I have no idea where this is going to go as far as the Paramount stuff versus Netflix.

16:39Who's going to get it based off of the words on paper? I lean toward the Paramount side because they make a very good argument about like, hey, you know, we can make this happen quicker. We're buying everything. Like, we're putting out more money. It's not stocks. like all this stuff but again i've not this is such this is one of those things that is on such a large scale that i think it's tough for anybody who's not like all the who's not like involved in this process to really predict where this is going to go on a big business level on a peer like i guess entertainment company level i'm scared from all sides on the video game level also really tough to predict and talk about because neither netflix nor paramount seem that deeply involved in wanting to make video games their business of course netflix has done video game stuff they've not done it in like a big way they've acquired studios but it feels like we're currently in the process of netflix being like oh this actually isn't working out for us let's fucking get out of here and paramount doesn't really have correct me if i'm wrong right like i don't think they have any big video game company under their belt yeah yeah if If you were to ask me, bless, I'd be right there with you of like both these companies don't seem to be in the video game space.

17:51Right. Even Netflix with where they're at, I would tell you, I bet you they would get rid of all of that video game stuff and just focus on the IPs that are going to drive the movies and the shows. I don't see them really double dipping, but both of these companies to me, it doesn't feel like the game side of things will be their bread and butter. and i would see probably more acquisitions in the future of buying off those pieces as they kind of shed the dead weight in their eyes of what they don't do and what they don't need yeah uh roger in chat mentions skydance which does have ties in video games and skydance is under paramount of course skydance uh with their acquisition of paramount in 2024 um you also have disney and box that acquisition right so we're seeing this more and more of course microsoft and activision blizzard king so we're only seeing more and more of this hey let's gobble all of this up right and on the netflix side of things for the past five years we've all said netflix is delivering us nothing but slop right we want more out of that streaming service we want our dollar to go further and it is just a race to grab all the ip all of the big names that people know and are familiar with and how do you get that and then be able to create more of that or just kind of take their library and say hey i'm kind of boosting the value here because now i have hbo and all these titles that you know come over here right so that that seems to be of course the play that we all know yeah and it's so it's so wild talking about all this right because we're talking about warner brothers which is such a large fucking business and then on the video game side we kind of get down to warner brothers games which feels like such a small piece of warner brothers in the grand scheme of things and the video game space it feels large but yes in the grand scheme of things it's so small yeah like it's an odd one to be in it's also weird of like warner bros films right felt like they had a pretty strong year this year you could go back like almost month to month and like hit on a warner brothers film that was pretty solid and strong yeah and it is interesting to see them now kind of back against the wall ready to say hey take this as if it wasn't enough or they can see into the future and they're not going to make it there yeah i want to bring in some super chats of course i ask you guys to write in with your burning opinions here um let's bring in ty wilkins video who says the first licensed paranormal activity video game was announced uh which is paramount um we got one from chris right six five six nine nice who says paramount seems to be more respectful to their ip in regards to games this would include ninja turtles games new spongebob game yeah i didn't i mean here's the y 'all heard me talk about the fucking nickelodeon games and how it's almost like they don't give a fuck right but you're right as far as i i could see how you loop in some of those ips to make actual good games now if you're gonna do this with wb but i also don't think that's a priority that also costs a lot of money right a lot of money i would have said that for xbox as well right look at them they take care of their studios they're gonna do this and that and then we just saw this merger happen we've got none of the old games from the catalog we've got nothing special and new just more call of duty the pretty much the double down of call of duty right yeah like it's hard to believe that when like we just saw one large game company who is like known for games and it's like they're not delivering on that at all and i don't know if this team would really be able to deliver on what i would want and believe in i think the tough thing to make it the thing that makes it tough to speculate about this is that i just don't think they have games in their mind like at all like i think they have entertainment on their mind they have ip on their mind and all this shit right they have infrastructure on their mind but i think video games to a paramount or even to a netflix in some regard when you're buying wb is such a small piece where it's like buy them think about what we'll do with that later and maybe like i think it's a dream scenario as far as oh yeah we have now we have wb games what can we pair with them the thing is they already have all these studios already have like big ip that they've been paired with you know what i mean like you can go in and be like okay instead of making a batman now make a ninja turtles it's like okay sure but i don't think i don't think this is a synergistic match in a way of oh all everybody's now uplifted because you have all these ip to work with it's like no i i think what's going to happen is that they just end up getting sold like wb games maybe the individual studios just end up getting sold off to other people because either paramount or netflix is like yeah we don't give a fuck about these guys i would say like more likely netflix would try to keep them at first just because they've been trying to do that video game stuff for years of like doing their own in-house stuff yeah i think all the paramount stuff is like them licensing their ip like i could see very likely that paramount just like either cuts that entire division or yeah sells them yeah and that gets into a whole conversation of all right you're selling off these wb studios how valuable are those studios without the ip that they work on how valuable is another realm if let's say paramount or netflix wants to keep mortal combat which they will like you don't give up mortal combat and so are you gonna buy another realm and be like all right we're doing something new well they would probably sell they would probably like lease out the rights right they try to yeah they would have you work on that for them and they'd get a piece of that like rock steady is a similar thing of that's a talented studio or at least a studio that has put out bangers in the past it's been a while right and they're coming off of a big L with Suicide Squad.

23:14But I think Rocksteady is also a tough sell without any IP with them. I think you've nailed it, Bless. I think we all know it. The games are very much not the selling piece of this, and the two companies that are currently at play for this, these are going to be cuts, which means those studios will dissolve and or be sold, but most likely dissolve, and we'll see a lot of talent go off and be unemployed and now have to go to different studios that can bring that talent and then and we'll probably never see these again yeah like that's the reality of what will happen yeah uh bringing in another super chat well this is actually is a kind of funny membership uh message here acquisition is bad bad for consumers and employees bad for theaters the incentivization is awful also top 0.1 fan 861 vids keep up the good work boys can't wait to see what year 11 holds year 11 can you believe that's a lot of videos that is about like almost 900 videos a year you're uh pretty close to it and most of those videos are over an hour long thank you for watching that's great thank you for your support the amount of content that we put out as 11 person company i feel like deserves a kind of funny membership from some of you guys you know what i mean you know what i mean thank you guys so much for watching and listening um bringing in some more ones for you more super chats nightlife 2025 says it's going to take two years uh stop reporting on it i mean of course you're going to report on it because it is the early days of it It's the interest of it.

24:39How in the weeds will we be as a group here? Probably not like the Microsoft acquisition, right? Of course. The Microsoft one we were in the weeds for because it's gaming at the forefront. We're talking about that all the time. This one will probably go to the wayside until, yeah, it's probably gone through. And then we start to hear about these studios and their fate of the video game side of things. We might not talk about it, but also we love talking about entertainment news. We like talking about these things. Me and Bless just opened up the show talking about Netflix. So like, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Tim Geddes and Greg and the whole squad want to talk about this kind of stuff.

25:14It's also there's new like things happening every other day with this that concerns an aspect of the video game realm. Like, of course, we're going to talk about it. Maybe we don't get as involved, like Mike is saying, like once they get into probably whoever actually buys them goes into a year long process of being in courts or whatever. Maybe report some, you know, WB game stuff that ever comes out of that. But like, yeah, yeah, I don't know. yeah i think tell us what to report on i think nightlife is just feeling the fatigue of what was the year's conversations about acquisition in microsoft but that's news you know that's this is a news show it's a daily news show also so i'm gonna put whatever in the show that i like listen you you want to talk about slow news days like i'm putting i'm putting together a news show every single day 9 45 bless had one news story in here yeah there's not much going on yeah like i gotta pull in what i can and so guess what if there's a fucking morsel of wb game shit for us to talk about i'm gonna talk about it anyway um yeah science uh official here says uh or science dog official that's what it says it's bullshit um barista brand says they're just salty they didn't win yeah i saw some people in chat saying i don't know where they're getting this from of this seems to be the same deal that they offered um originally but they're just like making it more public and now with like the pressure of our administration getting involved um yeah yeah god let's bring in story number two because it's a related one this is a report from i'm pulling from game spot uh netflix considered buying ea this is from blair marnall at game spot as 2025 winds down the new biggest potential acquisitions of the year appear to be the 55 billion dollar deal for ea by saudi arabia's public investment fund and other investors and the more recent proposed 82 billion dollar agreement for netflix to buy warner brothers studios now a new report suggests that netflix once considered buying ea and two other movie studios before the warner brothers negotiations came together according to bloomberg netflix executives previously debated whether the streamer should place bids for ea fox and disney sure however we've heard this before Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo so we know that they're looking at everything Yeah, kind of funny he's going to buy IGN next What the fuck are we talking about here?

27:35However, the management team reportedly couldn't agree on a deal and feared that its interest in those companies would hurt its standing with investors The report doesn't include the details about when Netflix considered these acquisitions, especially since Disney is usually the company that buys other studios including Pixar Marvel and Lucasfilm Disney purchased Fox's entertainment assets in 2019 following an extended approval process from government agencies around the world neither the warner brothers nor the ea deals are guaranteed to go forward since both of them have to win regulatory approval after facing heavy scrutiny both however have major implications for the video game industry this is more of an interesting one than anything yeah i mean we've talked about these acquisition mergers before there is a team with inside of these large companies that are throwing darts on the board, always looking at different companies and having sales pitches for them.

28:26Why? Why not? Should we be making a move on this? And when you think of Netflix's long history, right? There are years there at the beginning that they probably were looking at a company like Disney, right? And now when they step into the video game space, I'm sure every name in the video game world was on that, right? From EA to anything in between. Would this been a better move right would this have been a good move for them what if they did buy ea would we be talking about them in the gaming space differently at this point right would they have succeeded i like this question what if they did buy ea mike what does that look like a netflix owned ea to you are we getting we're sticking with the micro transactions that's for sure because oh yeah winning formula are we putting the ea games on i guess mobile maybe becomes a bigger push for like you know maybe selling Netflix memberships is a way to get into playing EA Sports FC.

29:18Yeah, I think that's such a crazy thing to think about. Yeah. How many moving parts are involved there? You have the Wrexham doc would have been great to play in the EA Sports FC. That would have been a double win for them. Right. With the starting of live streaming sports, they have what football sometimes on Christmas day, I think. So like they're already dipping their toes into sports. Right. And like EA with a large sports lineup plus watching and streaming sports. That's an easy win. certain games lend themselves oh my god but like the fucking bioware stranger thing game that would fucking come out but 100 i mean i'm sure if they could have made the hunters from respawn that would have been happening yeah yeah if they could have made that work for the right dollar amount they would have done that of course right it's like they wanted to make a splash in the gaming space they've gone smaller than an ea that's for sure that would have been mega buku bucks to do right but like they would have done that we're seeing now phones are getting stronger streaming is getting more prevalent everywhere like you can play these games that we kind of think to ourselves like that's a console or pc only game you can play them anywhere now like a lot of technology is allowing you to do that and if netflix could have got their hands on that and figured that out they would have been all over that mike i want to keep talking to you about ea but before we do i want to talk to the audience about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com so it's kind of funny games where you can get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors this episode is brought to you

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36:53And we're back with breaking news. Oh, this comes from Wario64. New Tomb Raider announcement teased for the Game Awards. Barrett, I put a link like right before story number three if you want to bring up this tweet. I don't know where Wario... I assume Wario's probably pulling this from like Crystal Dynamics. It just came in. So I'm trying to break this down. But new Tomb Raider happening. after those layoffs yeah we knew that was happening they just laid people off like two weeks ago it is crazy to think of how Crystal Dynamics has been going on but that's awesome okay as a fan of Tomb Raider that's awesome I'm very excited about that I believe they're coming out with season 2 of the Netflix show as well this week or next so like good synergy there I like that I like Tomb Raider a lot I think the last three were fantastic right a nice little reintroduction of Tomb Raider in the modern age was really good right there.

37:47Crystal Dynamics, of course, known for Tomb Raider at this point. They love Tomb Raider. They've gone through a lot, right? With, of course, the partnership with Xbox and the initiative with Perfect Dark and that kind of falling through. Them not really being in the strongest place anymore. Hopefully this is good. That's what I would like to see. Yeah, again, I'm still finding... Oh, here we go. This is from Jeff Keeley. Jeff Keeley tweets out, Lara Croft returns at the Game Awards. As just revealed in our The Game Awards vote in fortnite map portal jesus christ tune in thursday night for a look at the future of one of gaming's most iconic franchises tomb raider this is one you won't want to miss so now why are we putting these out early i thought we were doing a prediction show to make some guests i thought jeff wanted to wow me why are we putting things out early now you know what's gonna wow you it's the trailer when you see lara croft fully rendered yeah that's gonna that's gonna be i don't know man i don't like this either i would you like this like i don't like this no crazy diablo sorrows gates out in the middle of the desert yeah yes 100 which like we got about the ice climbing pickaxe out on the floor or something and then just leave it at that we got to talk about something first of all to put a ball on this yeah i i'm having this unique thing right this unique feeling that i don't often get with this where any other day you announced the new tomb raider i'm like oh shit all right let's cool let's cool let's see what it is i'm so like i don't really care about this for the fact that multiple of my friends got laid off a few weeks ago from crystal dynamics like they're in the doghouse for me right now you got a per i look at this and i'm like fuck y 'all yeah i got personal feelings tied to it fuck y 'all damn bless okay yeah yeah i feel that bro so that's one thing uh the other thing is that i feel bad now for feeling good about it no it's funny for you to feel good i'm not trying to make you feel bad for feeling good i'm just saying that I feel bad about this.