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29:21They did a really good job bringing the Fallout universe to life. Season 2 has a lot of positives going forward. It doesn't feel like the same pop, maybe because it's kind of a, we've been there, done that, and now we're going deeper into things. But there is something missing here in Season 2 to give it that ultimate wow factor like Season 1 had. So let's do it. Okay? We've talked about the show. I've promoted the fact that we're doing the Season 2 review when it's all said and done. When are we getting Fallout 3 remastered in the style of Oblivion. Maybe New Vegas, but I don't buy that. Fallout 3.

29:56This has got to be the biggest bag drop ever we've talked about before in gaming of like finding such a hit and missing it on not only season 1, but also season 2 somehow. Fallout 76 had the ghoul. Now, Fallout 76 had the ghoul, and people play Fallout 76, so not to knock that at all. You do get some Fallout experiences with that to tie into the show if you wanted but like the big like hey here's that remaster here's that fallout experience that like you and everyone should go enjoy we saw with the last of us right yeah the last of us tv show and the last of us game they did a great job even if you said we got too many remasters they did a good job of like hey you riding that high of the tv show we're remastering one and two we're putting it in a package we got this out there for you none of that right now with fallout they gotta to find a way now there's some sort of timer that people keep bringing up when is this timer go off greg because someone said it was in june and i was like i don't know if the season's gonna last till june no no buddy you know see the fallout countdown refers to a timer on the official amazon studios fallout explorer website that ends february 4th 2026 coinciding coinciding with the Fallout Season 2 finale on Prime.

31:10Now, if that is truly to be the one, we just had the dev direct where you and I are sitting there going, come on. I want this to happen. I want this to be real. This is where you show it. But no, right? Here's the thing. I will not believe it until I see it because I want this game so bad and all the love to the Oblivion remastered but that wasn't my game fallout 3 fucking is so the timer is weird and it seems like okay it's on the amazon page that doesn't really tie into our video game world yeah but this thought that somebody put in my head that now i keep saying which is just hopium is that this season ends with them saying we got to go to the capital wasteland which is where fall three is okay then that ends and whatever then this pops up and then you drop it here's why I struggle to believe it.

32:04Every time we're going to shadow drop this big thing, and we're going to put it out there and do the, it leaks. Something goes wrong. Somebody does the Peggy. Oblivion we knew about. Amazon uploads the wrong website. So I just, I have seen so many, I've seen this marketing scheme fail so many times that the fact that I don't already know that it's Fallout 3 remaster, I just don't believe it. I just don't believe it. And you're less than two to three weeks away from it. Yeah. Yeah. Would it be great? Yes. Yes, that would be a really fun way to hit it, right? It's like, oh, wow. Reality? Probably not, Greg.

32:36We might not get a Fallout remaster until season three comes out at this point. That's how it feels right there. But I do love the lineup of whoever thought of that fun idea of like, hey, we're going to the Capital Wasteland, Fallout 3 remaster. That's great, right? Well, again, it's like you want to believe, but then you talk to him. But remember, Todd Howard is so involved with the show. It's one of the reasons the show is so well is that they are talking to Bethesda. But as it's talking, then they're sharing assets and things like that. So it could be, especially, you know, you talk about the biggest backdrop of all time.

33:06I really think season one was. Season one, if they could have had a Fallout ready to go, gangbusters. And instead, that Fallout fandom of people wanting it were spread out among three, four, New Vegas, and 76. So yeah, those numbers were impressive, but they weren't brand new, cutting-edge game impressive that everybody bought and everybody wanted and went off and could have been something different. And so even season two with like a more of a, not lackluster, but less viewers, less mind share, whatever. I think you end on a big pop, whatever, but no, I want to believe, but I don't believe. Yeah.

33:39I don't see this happening until about season three. I look forward. We'll keep eyes on the timer. See what that is. Right. I don't believe it to be, Hey, we're dropping this at the end of the season because like, you're right. We would have heard a leak by now, a rumor. There would have been something that already probably solidified that, but yeah, it's too bad that we just don't have this big fallout experience going on right now. Cause we should shit sucks, but the show shows good show continues to be good. I mean, shout out to that team. They nailed it. Ella Pernell. You know what I mean?

34:10Fantastic. Fantastic out there. Walton Goggins. You kidding me right now? I mean, the set design, the costumes, fantastic. The story that they're taking us on right now in season two is fun. It is engaging. They're adding side characters that you want to know more about, that you're interested in, that you go, oh. You know, you do a little, no spoilers, but you go a little, oh. Oh, okay, I know that. Let's tug on that thread. I know that. Let's tug on that thread. I'd like a little more of that. I want to know more of this. 100%. So I like that. I don't, do you really believe that we would go, let's end season two, you and I will talk about it.

34:45Okay. Season two ends. Yeah. Are we really going to the capital wasteland? Why not? I mean it's hard to talk about it without spoiling stuff now yeah right but it's just like I guess are we following the games locations really that much right you're not going anywhere else because of the things that are happening and characters that are in the show right now okay I'm going to talk to Mike during this break remember everybody you could be a kind of funny member and be part of the shows and do other things patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games Apple, Spotify, Utah says 10 bucks you get everything we do each and every day ad free, you get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller, in a 15 to 20 minute series called Gregway each and every day and then of course, you get good karma for sporting 11 person, 11 year old small business, remember our fallout season 2 review will be on the 5th the day after, so you get to wake up do your day Wednesday, watch it Wednesday night come to us Thursday and watch with us the second half will be spoilers it'll be fun, but I digress, right now you're not using membership benefits.

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40:37Man. I don't know anything about defiance, so I'll just take your word for it. You don't remember the TV show that tied in with the video game and the video game that tied in with the TV show? I was playing. I was playing. Number four on the Roper Report, U.S. lawmakers asked the FTC to thoroughly review the$55 billion EA deal. This is Alex Forbes Calvin at gamesindustry.biz. And hey, we like Samir a lot, right? As a name. Alex Forbes, Calvin, that's the name of the show. That's the best name I've heard on the show so far. The United States Congressional Labor Caucus has written to the Federal Trade Commission to raise concerns about the potential impact of the proposed$55 billion acquisition of electronic arts led by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, the PIF.

41:22in the letter as spotted by aftermath the group of u.s lawmakers asked that ftc chair andrew ferguson reveal the deal review the deal quote-unquote thoroughly the letter is signed by 46 house democrats and has the backing of the communication workers of america union which is the parent of most of the bargaining units currently operating in the u.s video games industry the caucus's objections stem from concerns regarding how this deal will affect workers especially as the deal is financed with at least$20 billion of debt, which creates strong incentives for the acquiring firms to pursue further cost-cutting measures, including layoffs, offshoring, restructuring, or studio closures.

42:04The group also points to EA cutting over 1 ,700 jobs in the United States alone since 2023. In addition, the Labor Caucus has concerns about the potential for EA's labor marketing dominance due to the business connections the publishing giant's buyers have, such as Silverlake's links to talent agency WME and sports giant TKO Group's holding and the PIF owning LIV Golf. Or did you say Live Golf? You do say Live Golf? The final concern raised by the group is citing the FTC's 2023 merger guidelines, which state that deals that impact workers hold down wages or enable, quote, dominant firms to reduce labor demand may may volatile violate antitrust laws end quote the caucus appears to believe that this would apply to ea's acquisition quote given the scale of this acquisition and ea's current dominance over the domestic video game labor market we believe careful scrutiny of this deal is essential the caucus wrote the letter concluded we respectfully urge the commission to conduct a thorough investigation into the labor market consequences of this proposed acquisition, including EA's existing wage-setting power, the likelihood of post-transaction layoffs, the degree of labor market concentration in relevant geographic and occupational markets, and the role of cross-ownership in shaping labor outcomes.

43:29Workers deserve a fair, competitive marketplace where their skills are valued." Yeah, Greg, I've been thinking about this one since yesterday when it was put in the slack and you know you're just your head gets in a tizzy thinking about the video game industry as a whole because there's a lot going on but yeah this is the right let's start ringing the bells let's start yelling hey let's kind of review this let's have a real long conversation about this please someone out there hear our cries like let's have a conversation and there's a good feeling like there won't be but yes exactly you want to I mean everything here is the right thing to do you got to say hey hold up let's have a conversation please look this over it doesn't feel right i mean we all kind of have the feeling of dread of like well that's not going to happen right but like you're doing the right thing here because it's going to go bad right i mean how often do i do you want to take the cork out of me of how fucked america is you know what i mean and like here we are of like yes i'm sure i'm sure that it doesn't even come in the article and this isn't bad reporting or whatever but i'm sure Silver Lake, which of course is Jared Kushner's deal, who is of course the son-in-law of Donald Trump.

44:39I'm sure that the US government's going to get right in the way of this and stop this from happening. They're going to put a kibosh on this and they take Kushner out of it fucking Saudi Arabia giving a fucking plane. It's like it's like that's what it is. This is what it is. You know what I mean? This is where we at. If the FTC under Lena Khan couldn't do jack shit about the Xbox Activision acquisition, nothing's going to happen with this. Unfortunately. Yeah, exactly. unfortunately and so it's like yeah we can sit here and wallow in it longer if we want to we wallow in it every i've already wallowed in fucking how bad it is all right now already at the top of the show so here we are but it's like this is what it is this is what it is it fucking sucks it fucking sucks you know what i mean like this is i would love to see this deal stop i would love to see ea not have the saudi money involved and have this yet again another video game washing part rid of it it's interesting when they the article calling out i mean it's reporting on the caucus's letter something i hadn't thought about right but uh labor market dominance due to the business connections the publishing giants have with silver lakes links to wme and sports giant tko holdings and of course and it's like yeah right of course as we get deeper and deeper into these giant things owning more and more things you get into like oh that is fascinating of like how quickly do you move from and this is such a small potatoes thing but stick with me right of like the pif's influence on tko right and then or tko being owned here them being in bed with them here so what happens when inevitably that contract with 2k comes up and they go you know what stop we're not gonna have 2k make wwe games anymore we'll have ea come over here and start doing this so it's just we're making money hand over fist for the same people that want to make the same money all the time and of course then it is back to the deal of like what they call out here right of like uh what is it 20 billion dollars yeah 20 billion dollars of debt on this this is a whole thing i went and uh learned about listening to npr after this before this whatever this of like how many people are in this uh kind of uh market moves these kind of giant business moves that are buying places but keeping the debt in the name of the other things so it's never on them so if they could flip the debt great and get out of it awesome and if the whole thing doesn't fucking work out well i got my payday and that thing's gone but I don't owe any money on it's like the whole fucking thing is rigged and I know I sound like a fucking angry old man screaming at the cloud but every day every day you open up Instagram Twitter maybe the newspaper maybe if you're one of those people and you just see that it's all true it's all fucked it's all a nightmare it's all a nightmare we live in this fucking nightmare late stage capitalism baby let's see what comes next well number five deadlock has received a major update now this is Connor McCarr over at Eurogamer A new major update for Deadlocks suddenly dropped, bringing six new characters that will join the roster gradually, a new game mode, and various quality of life tweaks to the popular MOBA.

47:35Perhaps the most notable addition in this update, dubbed Old God's New Blood, is a faster-paced game mode called Street Brawl. A quick 4v4 alternative, the shopping system is streamlined down to a random selection each round. In addition, resources are equalized across all players with farming disabled. The patrons have been given a proper redesign too, as do their minions, finally giving each team's end boss the makeover they've been sorely lacking. They are the Hidden King and the Arch Mother, two polar opposites with their own thematic arena. Then there's the six new characters. These are Silver, Rem, Graves, Apollo, Celeste, and Venator.

48:19two of them will release per week with the first two hitting the game starting the 26th of january players can vote to determine the release order with votes earned by players playing the game funnily enough the deadlock community anticipated some big something big uh would be dropping overnight thanks to the surge in activity at local pizza spots by the valve office oh yeah yeah yeah but it was deadlocked the whole time roger not half like much like the pentagon it seems when pizzas are rolling fresh and fast in your valve, something's afoot. That's sick. Mike, before I pass it to you, I just want you to know what a, everything I was reading there, I wasn't sure what the next word would be.

48:58I was just like, I have no vision for what this game is. You're so you don't know about the Archmother? Oh, it's a street brawl and a quick 4v4 alternative. The shopping system is streamlined down. I'm like, what is happening? What am I saying? Banana! Very exciting stuff here. I haven't played Deadlock in a while. I know me and the crew really love Deadlock. It was on one of my top tens, I think, either last year or the year before for early access. It was your number one that year, whatever year it was. I think it was 2020. Two years ago, probably. Three, 24. Yeah, how much I loved this MOBA, and I can't wait to play more of it.

49:32I will have to find a crew like Average John and more to play with me. This street brawl is perfect. Of course, if you play League of Legends, I don't know much about Dota, but I know League of Legends has alternate modes of like, hey do you want something simpler something faster maybe you can't give me 45 to an hour they have smaller modes for that so like it's great that they're working on that to just keep you engaged in the game and not do we got to play the whole three lane moba greg it's going to be an hour sure sure so that's great new characters always fantastic nice new redesign and cosmetic upgrade has been a big need for that as we know game isn't even officially out yet it's still this weird one of like we were joking a year ago two years it's like you had to get a special invite from somebody.

50:14We're not even at 1.0 yet. It's going to be early access for a while. But to see the upgrades, see new characters, everything looking really clean and nice. Like, yeah, I'm excited to jump back in. This is a really good game. If you're interested in MOBAs and you want to try a MOBA, maybe you love MOBAs, you're interested in them, or you're just like third-person shooters, this is a good blend of a third-person shooter meets a MOBA, and it's fun and exciting. Okay. Well, go check it out, everybody, and order a pizza. him number six this is required reading a controversial video game designer returns with a new game and more controversy this is jason schreier over at bloomberg i will start before i get into a few graphs here with the bs that's a blue sky samira that he put out new i spoke to jonathan blow about his ambitious new puzzle game and why it took 10 years to make then days after the announcement three designers came out denouncing blow for his views on trump parentheses pro vaccines parentheses anti and more.

51:10Here's the whole messy story. Here if you'll give me the stage is a snippet from the article last month the video game designer Jonathan Blow announced Order of the Sinking Star his first new game in 10 years. It's a massive intricate puzzle game running on a programming language that Blow himself wrote and the initial trailer left a lot of people impressed but Blow a pioneer of independent gaming who was featured in the popular documentary Indie game the movie is a controversial figure immediately after the game's announcement several of the designers whose work was used in order of the sinking star went on social media to express their distaste for blows political views quote his ad he's adversarial to people uh talking about privilege and representation is dismissive of diversity efforts has dabbled in covid trutherism and is pro maga wrote the puzzle designer alan hazelden uh who in 2016 licensed two of his games to Blow for this project.

52:07During the production of Order of the Sinking Star, Blow was active on X and Twitch, where he would stream development and answer questions from viewers, sometimes mirroring the positions of right-wing provocateurs. Quote, in this parentheses, quote, reading this, I knew you had pronouns in your bio before looking, he wrote to the one person on X. In 2017, he implied that women were biologically inclined to be less interested in programming than men. Last February, he called President Donald Trump, quote, the best president we have ever had in my entire life by far, end quote. And he has referred to COVID vaccines as an experimental treatment, end quote.

52:44After the announcement of Order of the Sinking Star, the three designers whose games were originally licensed for the project criticized Blow for these stances. And then Jason goes on at Bloomberg.com. Yeah, go read that one. Go read that one.

53:07the snow bike mic take go read it go read it get out there read that one uh yeah here's you know i read it um very interesting to learn more about people that you know you maybe you hear the name of maybe you're not super invested in like i want to get to know each and every game developer and sometimes you hear more about someone you're like wish i didn't hear that or thanks for telling me of course now i you know don't really align with this person yeah yep yep Yep. Yep. Here's my question. Okay. Lay it on me. No, no. I mean, we're in the same wheelhouse, but we're not having, you know, we keep talking about how horrible it is here and how fucked up it is here and how we can't do anything.

53:46But I keep saying, or seeing people say the, we can't vote our way out of this is in the chat here. And I've seen, I've heard it parroted many times. We can't vote our way out of this. We got to rise up as the workers here and we got to do a strike. Okay. Do you think, Snow Mike, Mike, do you think Barrett Courtney, we could start that? Could we start that organization? Because I feel like we got a platform. We start the strike against John Blow? No, no, no, no. Against America. I'm talking about like a general strike. Oh, okay. So the idea, Mike, so stick with me. Sorry, I didn't understand. And I haven't explained the concept.

54:20Stick with me. Stick with me. General strike would be currently the game is rigged. You and me probably got C's in fucking social studies because we didn't understand checks and balances. But it turns out they don't fucking exist. They don't fucking exist. There's no way to stop a president who's fucking crazy. So the argument has been made that the only way to get anything to change, to stop, to whatever, is a general labor strike, where we all say on February whatever, I'm not saying a day because maybe we start this, maybe we actually get this, February whatever, nobody work. Don't go to school.

54:53Don't go to work. Don't buy anything on Amazon. Stay home. Live off what you have in your house. Don't do it. So that for that day, the economy, hopefully, theoretically, craters, you know what I mean? They see that the people have power and the people don't want this anymore. It's not just the same fucking opinion polls I keep reading. I'm like, well, for the first time ever, it's the lowest fucking approval rating he's had. It's like, well, it's nothing's happening. We got him to say maybe he won't fucking send troops to Greenland. That's what we're able to get off. You know what I mean? But then I also look and I don't see anybody saying it.

55:23Like nobody's picking the date. Just kind of funny. a fucking video game talk show network? Do we have to pick the date? Is that what it's got to be? I mean, I've been here, Greg. It's just like I've never felt like the person to start that conversation. I'm the director of behind the scenes guy. To be clear, you still have to come to work. No, that's like the opposite point. Yeah, it's tough. And I think like I've thought about this a lot and I think it's the problem with how big this country is of like how spread out we are. and how isolating it can feel at times, especially outside of your community.

56:01And I think that's where you have to start is within your community to get us all united. There's one happening today. Everybody's saying Minnesota, awesome. Minnesota, obviously. Yeah, they're doing a general strike today to protest against ICE to hopefully actually send a message of like, get these fucking people out of here. Yeah, that is unfortunately, you know with the systems that uh you know they give to us uh to make us feel like we we have a weight in how everything runs in this country uh the the primary one being voting uh as we've seen time and time again uh not not a lot changes for the better for the the working class people and so yes it does get to a point where the the major thing we need to remind ourselves is that we have the true power when it comes to labor and making things run and so you don't need to ask me twice to sign up for this.

57:01I'm fucking out of here. Starting now. CNN, Minnesota economic blackout plan to protest ISIS, immigration crackdown, fuels tensions. Again, this would be my thing. I'm down to start the revolution for the record. You know what I mean? Also, do I need to run for president? I thought about it. Let me know. I'm down to start the revolution. I'm down to pick the date, but here's the fucking thing. I need the buy-in from all of you in the chat is that, you know, you have to do. You have to tell your fucking family. You have to tell your friends. You have to Facebook about it. You got to, you got to say, cause if it's just us, if kind of funny blacks out and you don't go to work, that's great.

57:33But nobody knows you, you gotta, you gotta push. You gotta push. You gotta push. You gotta push. You gotta push. You gotta push. You gotta push. We'll think about it. We're not making a plan right now where this is where we're going to, you know, do what days look good. What do we want to do? How much time do you need to organize the country? I don't know that answer, but we'll figure this out. Mike. Yeah, Greg. Kind of funny leading the new American Revolution would be big news, but if I wanted something small, like say the tiniest news in video games I need to know about, where would I go? Be real big news.

58:01You go to our last story, the We News channel, where we'd cover all the small news items you need to know about.

58:11Number seven, the We News. What a time capsule episode. For like, probably like what, 18, 20 years from now. Look back. Samira is around one of the drums they all gather around for fire now that we have nothing. Someone passes her a USB that they're able to load on to some thing. They're running off solar power. Did you hear your Uncle Greg stood up once? No, it'll be like, she'll be like, oh, my dad used to tell me stories about this fat guy. He was dragged out of the studio live on air once and beaten to death by the Gestapo. You know what I mean? Fuck. I do it. number seven Ark Raiders has a new roadmap it's been revealed awesome have you looked at this yet?

58:51I'm looking at it right now I'm on the BS that's Blue Sky Samara January Headwinds you get the new matchmaking option for level 40 plus new minor map condition and player project has that already happened? Headwinds? I don't know I haven't played in a while February you'll get Shrouded Sky a new map condition a new Ark Threat player project Raider deck map update and an expedition window March comes Flashpoint. New map condition, new arc threat, player project, and scrappy update. Nice. Nice. April, Riven Tides. New map, new large arc, new map condition, and an expedition window. Awesome to see this being supported.

59:27Great job from that team, from Embark. They are continuing to keep it going, continuing to cook, and give the players more and more content. Seems like everybody's very happy, except for the hackers and the cheaters in there. That is currently the biggest problem that I hear about most of the time with Arc Raiders. Yeah. But most people are happy and still having a really good time with it. Okay. Great. Eversiege Untold Ages has been delayed till March 26th. Vampire Crawlers, from our friends at Punkle, has a demo launching February 23rd on Xbox and PC. That's a big moment for me. I'm very excited.

1:00:00I love Vampire Survivors. I know you are. This is a deck builder. Okay, cool. Are you calling your shot here February 23rd? February 23rd for a demo. Yeah. Which I love. get it out there in front of the people let's hear the feedback then we come back with the launch because for me your boy Snowbike Mike who drafted a fantasy critic I need this to be 87 or above I need this to absolutely be banging right I'm not even a card guy but this looks dope send out the demo let people talk about it let people get interested and then yeah we come back out usually the demo's out today oh there'll be a demo next week there's gonna be a demo one month from today do I need to clear my schedule that much punkle You probably should.

1:00:41Okay. And then Future Games Show Spring Showcase returns March 12th, everybody. Nice. And that's it for the Wii news. Of course, we have a good... No, you're wrong. Sorry, Jeppo. I'm not reading that. Instead, we have a bunch of Super Chat still. So let's dive in before we get into your hot takes over on the Gamescast about Xbox's presentation.

1:01:05Wade's 0000. Dear Greg, while you guys were on break I watched your GTA clone draft So per your recommendation, I got really high With my two friends and played through Vin Diesel Wheelman Have a good Friday That's sick I love it, but I want to know Wade 00 What did you think? Did it rock? How was it? Let me know Kyle LaBeouf says, download more RAM, Mike That's a computer joke For me fucking up with that computer I don't know Make it easier well it's expensive now for ram to uh because of ai yeah because once we stop the nazi invasion the robots will be ready to rise up and kill us and also when we stop the robot uh rising uh rising up there there will be barely a planet to live on because we use all of our resources to power there's always gonna be more water don't you know my favorite is i'll be watching some bad stuff you know that's why i had to delete tiktok because it was getting just a bunch of AI slop where I was like, this is really like, like, hey, as a culture, we got to pick ourselves up here because it's some embarrassing.

1:02:11Yeah, sure. Sure. But my favorite is like, you see the AI slop and someone's right. It's like, this was a lot of water to make this trash. Yeah. And they're like, no, water's reusable. And I'm like, we're doing it. There we go. There we go. Together, chat. Oh, Jess Parr says birthday tax, 51 years old, 44 of them gaming. Happy birthday. Nice. Had to make an effort to be here live to say thanks. Thank you so much for making the effort. Kali B says, hey, Greg and Mike, my work schedule has changed. So now I can be here live. I'm going to be more involved with the community I've loved since the IGN days.

1:02:42Baby Geddes. Well, thank you for being here. Yeah. Get in the chat. Have some fun. Thanks for super chatting today. Geraldo of Rivia says, congrats to the Geddes. Seeing the official Subway Surfers Instagram account. Congratulate them. Surprise them. I loved that, too. It's all of our friends and then Subway Surfers, who, of course, is a kind of funny best friend. And that's why we've done sponsorships with that moon. Hopefully we'll again one day too. We got some more. Mr. Blue sky says, congrats, Tim and Gia. Congrats. Father, Tim already got that one in there. Jonesy says today is also my son's birthday.

1:03:16Congrats, Tim. Nice. Happy birthday to your son. Artfully random says, congratulations, Tim and Gia team. January gains. Another one. Dave bro says, congrats, Tim. Did they pay Sammy's birthday tax? We'll let him slide here on the first one. When birthday one rolls around, Sammy better be in the chat with a 12-month badge saying, hey, paying my birthday tax. Got got goo goo. Times Hero says, finally, definitive proof that Tim has a ding dong that works. Congrats to both of them. Please put this in the education fund. We will split it 11 ways and give them some. Mike Hurley says, I'm also a professional indie podcaster and had my daughter 11 months ago.

1:03:58I feel like kinship with Tim. Congratulations, Getty family. Loved you all. Beautiful. Congratulations to you, Mike.

1:04:07Delco, huge congratulations to Tim and the KFG family. I'm going to be a dad come July, and I can't wait to add another to the KFG family. Love you all. We love you too. There's some beautiful stuff right now, man. Parenthood, family. You know about it. You're a dad. I'm literally trying to write a super chat right now about my kids. Matt Personal 736 says, Welcome to the world, Samira Remithy Geddes. oh my god Nathan LaHart3999 super chatting to shout out my boy Peter who recently shit himself for the first time as an adult and will be listening to this I've been there Peter shout out the Peter Kobe says Greg new Lobo poster has been released I haven't seen the poster I saw the clip of Jason Momoa getting walking to the car with a cigar getting in and then seeing it he looks fucking rad can't wait hell yeah you watching this Momoa Batista movie coming out no I have not heard about it I will not be watching it okay can't wait Terrence Gilmore super chats congratulations Tim and Gia I am 42 year old father of three girls 18 6 and 3 you spread them out a bit Terrence 18 6 and 3 I love it I love it at 12 you must have been like the ends in sight they're like no here comes another there i play fortnight with the college kid animal crossing with the first grader and in potty training the three-year-old please give the four please give the four to the new parents the four dollars maybe no 20 bucks oh maybe just four of those dollars to the okay i can do that sure we'll keep the rest and also that's awesome uh good job playing all those stuff how's the first grader like animal crossing ben sees me play animal crossing and then he comes over all the time and he's like oh this is boring shit can we be met at night i'm like we can be cool let's go play it met at night uh kal-el superman super chats and says congrats tim and gia also greg we got a good look of lobo yes i know lobo looks awesome i'm very excited uh silver j hawkins shout out to the percy jackson season two just finishing in season three coming this year so hype everyone should watch that's i'm not laughing at it's just like that's how diverse entertainment is i was Like you, that's like being like, yeah, man, shout out to fucking shout out to science.

1:06:28The science dog is a thing. You know, whatever. I don't know. You're saying shit that I've like, I've kind of heard of Percy Jackson. It's on season three. Good for you. I'm glad that exists for you. As the man who likes stuff. Nobody else likes a Jack B two says, baby tax. Congratulations, Tim and Gia. Thank you. Jack B. Jack B. Come back in super chats again. Welcome to the world. Baby Samira. You're joining at a bit of a low point. We can only go up. Theoretically. Uh, MCAP 33. Mazel Tov. Tim. Enjoy these first sleepless days. They feel endless, but are gone faster than you know. Very much, very much.

1:07:00Adam Two Time says, wait, didn't Mike pick up Fable and Fantasy Critic? Holy two times back-to-back champ is loading. Two times, baby. Come on now. I picked bangers. We'll have an episode where we look over everyone, but I'm confident. I picked 10 great games. Pairs out here picking high on life, too. Lost. it's been lost aka so9GM the dumbest part about the the dumbest part about the BS that asshole Jonathan Blow said is that a woman Grace Hopper literally invented programming yes that is a stupid take yeah that was an insane take that was crazy Zeke Speaks says Minnesota is doing a labor strike today many groups are pro general strike but it is parentheses understandably hard to coordinate I too am waiting on a date yeah I'm always fascinated how do you coordinate that stuff I mean, we would start it here, and then it's grassroots.

1:07:54Everybody's got to do it. We got to get on the news saying we're starting it. Then everybody's got to share it. I'll come back to Twitter, and that's what I'll say. I'll just put that on there. You know what I mean? We got to do that. Everybody black out. Except Barry. He's got to work that day. He's the last person. Rachel Gray. Why can't I do this to me, man? Because I know it means the most to you. Rachel Gray. Super Shaz. Greg, we need a white. Wait, what? Okay. Greg, we need white men whose voices have reached to lead this. Take us there, King. I'm there. I'll hit it, my boy. today. We will pick a date.

1:08:24We will make, I will announce that date. We'll get Philly DeFranco on it. He'll go, we'll get it out there. We'll start working on it.

1:08:32Cheese Wombat TV says, everyone please share MinMax's Blue Sky post. They're donating$1 to the Immigrant Law Center for every repost. I'm stopping the show now to go to BS. That's Blue Sky Samira. I put in MinMax and I see him down there because I follow him. And then Ice Out. You share this, you share this post. Please share this post in generosity. So I can share both posts. Yeah. Right. Oh, it's for the next hour. That was three hours ago. That didn't help me. Well, then there is one here. I'm just going to share this one. I don't know what's going on, but I'm going to share the most recent one that they're talking about.

1:09:10They got a great graphic of that stupid ass Asian eating on the ice. Love it. I'm sorry. Go, go. Monster truck says, we, we news. Tim's wee-wee work. That's great. They're all good. We got a good blend of good and bad here, which I love. Just celebrate. This world fucking sucks. Sky Super Chats and says, shout out to small Minnesota businesses leading the strike. One day without business can really hurt them, but our neighbors need our support, Hart. Exactly. We are a small business. One day of us not working will hurt us, but I'm down to make it happen. And then, of course, the final Super Chat comes from a man named Snowbike Mike.

1:09:49Shout out to Tim big welcome to fatherhood I love my two kids every day every day every single day I try a little bit harder to make a better world for them we're trying everybody this has been your final kind of funny games daily for the week but our live programming day on twitch.tv slash kind of funny games and youtube.com slash kind of funny games is far from over of course right after this we're doing the kind of funny games cast your Xbox hot takes hot off the developer direct then it is party mode or is there something the other party mode yeah party mode i could remember if we had one returns with a very fun one we're gonna play unrailed a gary witta hit so you're gonna really enjoy this one uh if you're listening later we'll catch all that on youtube like subscribe share remember of course though if you're really like us pick up a membership patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games apple spotify no matter where you choose to grab the show we love you and support you so you support us and the thing keeps rolling uh until next time Congratulations, Tim and Gia.

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