Uncharted 5 Teased By Naughty Dog Director?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.03.26

3 Apr 2026 · 1 h 4 min · 29 chapters

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In short

Kinda Funny Games Daily covers April 3, 2026 gaming news, focusing on a Naughty Dog “Uncharted 5” tease, State of Decay 3 alpha details, and a dispute about update expectations for indie dev Darling Peak.

Guests/hosts

Andy Cortez (host) and “Snow Bike” Mike (host). No other guests appear; the rest is news discussion with audience superchats.

Key claims

  1. Fans think Naughty Dog creative director Sean Escaig’s Feb Instagram post (“Research is now making the rounds”) hints at Uncharted 5 research at Fort George, Trinidad & Tobago.
  2. State of Decay 3 will run alpha tests starting May with four-player co-op, base building, and combat; registration is open.
  3. Darling Peak devs respond to “lazy dev cycle” accusations: “Any update is a bonus, not a right.”

Notable examples

  • Uncharted 4’s ending with Cassie Drake; speculation about future protagonists (Cassie, Chloe/Nadine).
  • Darling Peak’s April 1 “Landfall Day” and the “kicking each other off mountains” April Fool’s feature.
  • State of Decay 2’s base system (upgrading existing buildings, not building walls).

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Teasing Uncharted 5

5:50 to 8:26

Discussion on the hints about a new Uncharted game from Naughty Dog.

“Now, however, fans are theorizing that Naughty Dog might be returning to the franchise, thanks in part to a vague post from Naughty Dog creative director Sean Escaig.”

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9:46 to 11:40

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11:40 to 14:03

Discussion on why Naughty Dog often returns to Uncharted for new projects.

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Nostalgia for Uncharted: Why the Franchise Matters

14:03 to 16:41

The hosts discuss their fondness for the Uncharted series and the desire for more content.

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State of Decay 3 Alpha Test Announcement

16:41 to 17:02

The announcement of the Alpha Test for State of Decay 3, detailing features and registration.

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Expectations for State of Decay 3

17:02 to 19:16

The hosts share their hopes and expectations for the gameplay and features of State of Decay 3.

“Story number two, State of Decay 3 Alpha Test to begin in May.”

Base Building Mechanics in State of Decay

19:16 to 21:44

Discussion on the base building mechanics and the differences from previous titles.

“I wanted about eight players, but what I want is a shared, constantly online world.”

Updates and Development Cycle in Gaming

21:44 to 24:01

Exploring the expectations of gamers regarding updates and the realities of game development.

“This is something I definitely want to check out.”

Live Service Games vs. Indie Expectations

24:01 to 28:00

A discussion on the differences between live service games and indie development expectations.

“number three, any update is a bonus, not a right says the peak dev in response.”

Naughty Dog's Live Service Transition

28:00 to 30:01

Discussion on Naughty Dog's potential shift to a live service model and its implications.

“It, it, things just don't work that way these days.”

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31:56 to 37:08

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Gaming News Update

41:24 to 42:00

Discussion on recent gaming news, including a new studio launch by Jason Blundell.

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Streaming Setup and Room Design Ideas

42:00 to 42:46

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Jason Blundell's New Studio Announcement

42:46 to 45:00

Discussion about Jason Blundell's new studio and the resilience in the gaming industry.

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Speculation on New Game Projects

45:00 to 47:40

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Wii News: Small Gaming Updates

47:40 to 49:37

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Elder Scrolls Online and Morbid Metal Discussion

49:37 to 52:39

Discussion about Elder Scrolls Online and the upcoming game Morbid Metal.

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Denpamen Game and Nexon News

52:39 to 53:44

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Gaming Challenges and Friendships

56:00 to 56:42

The hosts discuss their gaming experiences, struggles, and friendships.

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Cultural Food Discussions

56:42 to 57:54

An engaging exchange about cultural dishes, particularly Fideo.

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Sock Fabric and Nostalgia

57:54 to 59:28

A humorous discussion about sock preferences and childhood memories.

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Childhood Grooming Habits

59:28 to 1:00:18

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1:25Today's gaming news stories include fans believe a Naughty Dog dev is teasing Uncharted, State of Decay 3 shows signs of life, and the peak dev's response to being called lazy. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.

1:47hello gamers welcome to kind of funny games daily for friday april 3rd 2026 april fool happy april fools day mike happy easter happy april fools i am andy and i'm joined by snow bike mike andy happy friday welcome in how are you feeling today i'm feeling really darn good I'm excited for the weekend. I'm excited to game. I'm excited to go on some urban hikes. Oh. I'm just primed and ready to just get out there. It's going to be a war run this weekend, Mike. It's been hot for the past two weeks. Well, I mean, it cooled off the last couple days, but my phone notified me, hey, the warmth is coming back.

2:27Yeah, the heat wave. Get after it. Heat wave's having a little encore. No, I don't go to the beach. You're not a water guy. Not a water guy. No. Okay. So close to the water. Sand guy. No. Okay. It was talking about walking on the great highway, looking at the water. I think I did that one time. Pretty nice. Let's shut it down. Or no, maybe you, me, and Nick did that. We definitely. When we did the Waymo. When we did the Waymo stream. I mean, I'll be honest with you. I think about it every single day. What? About you and I going golfing. Oh. A little IRL golf stream. Sunday, look up some tee times.

2:59Sunday, I'm going to the bring your own big wheel race, which is the 24th annual here in San Francisco. A ton of fun. Will I participate? Tune into Greg Way on Monday to find out if I rip it. What does that entail? Okay, well, here in San Francisco, a big San Francisco staple is called the Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race, which is a community event where you bring your own child's big wheel. Remember those three-wheel bikes? Oh, right, the trikes, yeah. All those things, and then you smash down a San Francisco hill with a bunch of people. It's like it's a Red Bull event, but it's not a Red Bull event.

3:32Oh, okay. Now you're thinking. What was the name of that event? It was like the Das Bedoskin Flutog. Now, Flutog is the one where they jump off into the water. That's not the one where you're thinking of. The one that they race downhill in the fun go-karts, I don't know what that's called. What about the one where they chase out the cheese? The cheese wheel, dude. I would do that. There's thoughts in my mind that I could win that one. But you know what else I'd like to do? What about the greased up hole? We have to run up the pole that's all greased up and then fall into the water. And if you touch the end of it, you win.

4:07Well, there was a moment yesterday when you told Nick and Roger, I would dominate at Wipeout. Oh, Wipeout. Yeah, yeah. But American Gladiator, I'd also dominate. American Gladiator is one that you said you would dominate. You have just so much confidence, don't you? You've never seen any of these shows and think like, I could get on that and do that? Only an NBA game. Survivor challenges? Easy. Easy. like fear factor finale easy okay you know i won fear factor once that's a cool story fear factor live down in orlando florida inside of universal theme park okay they would have their own fear factor live which was a fun live show that they'd put on and allow uh you know customers to come in and be a part of and so they would do three challenges and then the finale was the actual fear factor the car raises up you're climbing up the side of building, water's getting tossed on you.

5:02I won that. Your challenge, Michael Howard, text somebody back. I would win that. Got a bunch of text messages. The hardest thing ever. I got one guy invite me to his wedding. He looked at me and goes, are you good? I go, I don't look at this. God damn it. You got to just be in my area. You know what I mean? No, you have to just be normal. You got to be in my vision. You got to be normal. If you're watching live, be a part by super chatting on kindoffunny.com or youtube.com forward slash kind of funny games. We couldn't do this without our producers on patreon.com forward slash kind of funny. So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm twining.

5:42For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have five stories today. A Baker's Dozen! story number one starting off the friday hot real exciting i've been waiting for this fans believe this cryptic naughty dog dev post is teasing uncharted 5 this comes from eddie macooch at game spot and barrett's gonna bring up the instagram post because this is what it set the world on fire naughty dogs uncharted series sold millions of copies across multiple installments, but the main franchise has been dormant since 2016's Uncharted 4, A Thief's End, brought Nathan Drake's story seemingly to a close.

6:35Now, however, fans are theorizing that Naughty Dog might be returning to the franchise, thanks in part to a vague post from Naughty Dog creative director Sean Escaig. A vague Instagram photo from February of a cannon in a tropical environment that has captioned, Research is now making the rounds. People are theorizing that Eskeg went to Fort George at Trinidad and Tobago to help research a new Uncharted game. It's rumored that merchants stored records and valuables at Fort George, further fueling the connection to Uncharted. Nothing is certain, of course, and Eskeg may have been referencing pretty much anything with this post, or nothing at all.

7:12At the same time, Uncharted is one of Sony's most popular and best-known gaming franchises, so it stands to reason that the company would eventually return to the series snow bike mike fantastic you say that you are excited for this you see this photo and it gets you all juiced up for the possibility of a return to the world of uncharted yeah not really the photo of the post i think that's more just for the laughs and just the fun of like imagine mike and andy going out somewhere cincinnati ohio we just tweet out tweet research being research people would start in front of a b-dubs i'm into that right research with a picture of buffalo wings so i appreciate the fun that we can't have off of just a photo but no i am an uncharted guy i'm very much looking forward to uncharted before intergalactic was announced i was hoping that naughty dog would go back to uncharted and we would just continue that but i'm excited for intergalactic i think that's going to be really cool but on the flip side we talked about it yesterday on the kind of funny games cast talking about how we would fix playstation i would like an uncharted sooner than later right a lot of the audience right now is saying like see you in four years maybe five years right it's like oh i would have liked an uncharted sooner than that and i think especially for playstation first party output i would love to see naughty dog team up with another team have a smaller team start working on this and like get the ball really rolling a little bit quicker than a five-year wait time on this because i'm super excited for the next uncharted and what it could be now when we talk about the future of uncharted you know a lot of great characters not not spoiling anything but really does seem like the end of uncharted 4 is like that's the end of nathan drake's story but you know that's the end of his adventure you know that was the one last ride barrett courtney i would say it's been 10 years uncharted 4 came out 10 years ago and that's a long time it's a long time i think we could talk about the ending of uncharted 4 yeah yeah cassandra cassie cassie yeah at the very very end we see nate nathan drake's daughter yeah and she just finished killing 60 men with a shotgun and pistols you know she's just murdered she's just like her father just yeah you know chip off the old block you know um but at the very end of uncharted 4 you know it seems like all right a little cassie she's older now yeah and maybe she wants to make some adventures of her own i like this a lot andy i would definitely smile at the idea of this i would also say like what if we go back to chloe and nadine that's a good game give them a little something more game great game sean was one of the co-directors on lost legacy as well i think the fun part about this is there's a lot of awesome characters in the uncharted universe and there's a lot that we'd love to see more of right and so it will be interesting to see where they go is it cassie's time what is that story now kind of filling in for her mom and dad and going on adventures of her own could be really cool right chloe and nadine they had a really special story on that one you could do more of that with those two could you would you roll back time and all of a sudden give us more nathan drake and sully you know what i mean they could i'm not i'm not I mean, we see Harrison Ford coming back all the time.

10:31I promise you we could easily do that, you know. We'll see. I mean, right now it just hits my brain and I go, can you imagine if Chloe was Cassie's sonny or Sully? Like if Chloe was the older figure in her life, the mentor. See, in my brain, I've thought a lot about this when I did the Naughty Dog video last year. One of my pitches, because I was like, damn, it's been so long since we've had him charted. Here's like just five pitches off the rip. I would go with Sam as Cassie's cool uncle who like, you know, everybody loves their uncle who lets them get away with a little bit more than they should.

11:09And like, they're kind of they're trying their best to be like not a parental figure, but he gives her beer. Yeah, exactly. Like, I think that's the way to go with it. Pie in the sky. We go to Cassie. What type of pie? Apple pie. Apple pie. Damn, that's what I'm talking about. Everybody here just loves apple pie. A little blueberry lately, too? I like a blueberry pie. I like a little blueberry pie. I love a blueberry pie. I'm okay. No? You're a cheesecake guy, though. I love cheesecake. Similar texture. Are they? Yeah, vibe. Maybe I'll like it. We'll try it. Okay. Now, back to it. Pie in the Sky Dream.

11:42You ready for this? Because you know I love a good little crossover collab. Cassie Drake is out there. She's out there looking for lost treasure. She's out there on the hunt. Oh, my gosh. There's some rumbling above her. We look up. it's Lara Croft Tomb Raider now we have two badass ladies going back and forth stealing and stealing artifacts taking it, they're one-upping each other one's got there before the other one then the next one's got to get back on there Lara's like, there's dinosaurs here you know that? This is crazy shit I'm going back in time I think the people who own Lara Croft are having enough trouble trying to get her own game out they have their own problems that's why you just let her be a cameo Oh, okay.

12:26Just here's a, this is why you don't work in a studio. Hey, I'm trying to save games here. He's trying to save games, everybody. I mean, this would, this feels like when we talk about nowadays, it's so hard to get new IP off the ground, unless you are one of the biggest names ever. right when we um i'll i always think back to a an interview that um vince blanking on the name of the actor from wedding crashers vince vaughn vince vaughn was talking about you know the whole idea of nobody makes these comedy movies anymore and everybody goes why is that is that because comedy is too edgy now and you can't be funny anymore he's like no it's because of ip and And studios that are greenlighting these projects go, you're not a known IP.

13:20You're not something that's going to want people to, that's going to bring people back to the theaters or whatever. So we are not going to be greenlighting those things. We're going to be greenlighting things that people already know. And unless you're Christopher Nolan, who can do whatever the hell he wants, unless you're one of these sort of art auteurs, you know. But with Naughty Dog, Uncharted has always been the, we have that in our back pocket. we can return to this sort of this is our little this is our little uh our safety pillow you know we come back to this it makes us it gives us comfort we know that if we go back to the uncharted well we're good for about five million you know i mean it's their indiana jones their mission impossible right it's like everybody wants an action game everybody wants to defy the laws of reality and be able to do the things that we see in movies with james bond Mission Impossible as I brought up Indiana Jones and they captured that with Uncharted right and it's like yeah there's suckers like me who just want more Uncharted right now you have a game like Intergalactic and they go oh I wanted it Uncharted but like I'm excited to try it but like I want it Uncharted you know so that's why they go back to the well all the time because there's so many people like me I mean there's so much comfort in there as well like people know that IP people know that franchise people are definitely itching to go back and I mean shit barrett mentioning that it's 10 years that's insane like 10 that game has aged like fucking like a fine wine man and wine baby so delicious looking it lost legacy as well oh lost legacy is so good yeah shorter adventure play lost like and that's and that's why like i'm really excited with like sean coming back right because he left for a little bit uh to work on marvel's adventures but then came back in the last few years and like replaying lost legacy it was like damn like like this game does not get enough love because they were doing so many like cool things that kind of like shook up the kind of pacing of the formula of the formula of you're used to what you get in a charter game yeah yeah like you're kind of like you're you're globe trotting you're going all these different places but lost legacy was like hey you're going to stay in this one place for the whole game and you're going to get like kind of like you're going to get to know this area and explore around it and that was like such a cool like different kind of pace for uncharted and i would love to see them experiment more with stuff like that uh with sean coming back if this is a tease for uh following uncharted people in the chat were saying uh really quick that maybe this is just a tease for an uncharted one remake i don't think you go out to destinations for research for a remake and i don't know if sean is is would be part of a uncharted one remake well he did he did work on the last of us part one remake so shit okay well fuck me then yeah but i still like it's not like they went out to boston to do research for the last of us part one remake you know what you're doing yeah exactly you have the assets you make that shit look stronger unless you're adding you know new dlc or whatever which we could be in the era of let's make dlcs for old games come on which are three where you at oh man if you come out with dlc this year i will lose my fucking you already have a lot of dlc still to play Fuck you.

16:352027. How's yours all day? I'm beating it tonight. You've been playing that for 12 years now. I'm beating it tonight. And then I'm going to play Majora's Mask. Oh. You know he's got a mask now. I don't know what it does, but I'm going to find out. You've got to play this game. I mean, I've played them 20 years ago. Go to Metacritic highest rated games. This game's at the top. Let me tell you what. Spoilers for next Friday. I get it. Damn. I get it. All right. I get it. Story number two, State of Decay 3 Alpha Test to begin in May. This comes from Sal Romano at Gamatsu. Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Undead Labs will begin hosting a series of Alpha Tests for the 2020 announced State of Decay 3, which we saw in 2024.

17:21Starting in May, the company's announced. Registration is available now via the official website. The alpha test will feature four-player cooperative play, new base building, and resource strategies, and, quote, a whole lot of combat, according to Undead Labs' Brant Fitzgerald. I'm struggling to do it right now. There you go. Quote, if scavenging supplies in the middle of a zombie outbreak sounds fun to you, then grab your ruck. Ruck? That's a ruck sack. Ruck pack. Gotcha. Ruck. Okay, yeah. I've heard it as a ruck sack, but I've never quite heard it like that. Grab your ruck, pack some mags, and head over to our website to find more information and register for a chance to be included in the alpha, Fitzgerald said.

18:03If you don't get contacted for this round, don't worry. We'll keep your name on the list and have plenty of opportunities for you throughout the year. Mike, does this excite you at all? Yeah, this is a big deal. It excites me that it's not dead. Yes, okay, that's a positive way of looking at it. That excites you that it's not dead. Yeah, it excites me because we are moving closer to state of the K3. When you look at the timeline, we're probably looking end of 2027, 2028 would be my guess. This is a game that's been, we've been waiting on it for quite some time. And there's a lot of excitement behind it.

18:34When we talk about shared world, multiplayer, looting and crafting experiences, State of Decay 2 did a really good job with that. And I'm expecting big things from State of Decay 3. Now, when we talk about what this alpha is, what do you think exactly this entails? this is just to get community players out there and playing it probably to test a little bit of the server but more just to test some of the game features and see if people vibe with that if they like that hey is the map big enough are things needing to be changed up that's what i would see out of this alpha what would you say as somebody who enjoyed state of decay 2 i didn't play part two what would you say is like here's what i am looking for uh well i personally wanted a little more than four players.

19:19I wanted about eight players, but what I want is a shared, constantly online world. When I don't have to be the host, when you can jump in, I want my friends to be able to play whenever they want. I want it to be completely untethered. I don't want any more times when my friends have to be within 150 meters of me. You're struggling through it, too. Yeah, those are some small things that I would ask for. Okay. Those are like the main ones I can ask for. I think State of the K2 has a great core. They've nailed the zombie universe, the scavenging, the interior and exterior of buildings and small towns.

19:54The map is a ton of fun to navigate and get through, but I'm looking for untethered multiplayer, a shared always online world. I'd like more than four players. I would love to see more being built into the base building system. It's kind of just like a plot, and then you build things within it, but it would be cool to build out my own base, but now we kind of really get into the sandbox survival crafting. I don't think we'll get that. We've played a lot of survival games in our day, and I see JG in the YouTube chat says that they confirmed that the co-op is untethered, Mike. That's why I'm telling you.

20:29We've played a lot of survival crafting games in our day, and we've built many a base in our day. My house in Shrouded is looking real good right now, by the way, Mike. What are you looking for, and what is the actual sort of base building looking like in in State of Decay? Like in part two, is it just, I'm putting up a prefab, like I'm putting up a... you take over buildings that are already in the world that become the base and then inside of that, there's little all-whited-out areas that you go up and go, this becomes the med station or, hey, I want this to become bed. So there's not, it's not creation like that.

21:06You're not building walls. No, no, no. Dang. So that would be kind of the next step, but I do like what they have. I'm not mad at the upgraded base like they do where it's like, hey, here's already a base here's the plot you upgrade it you kind of design it how you want i of course when we think of unshrouded you think of dune you build your own stuff you know i also think of those maps of kind of being empty and barren wastelands as like this is like a pre-made city or town that you're running through jumping in and out of pharmacies cvs's safeways and then coming back to your base so there's no this is not a procedural game then like state of decay 2 was not a game that would procedurally make it was a pre-made map yeah i mean i'm i'm trying to remember if like the map changed it anyway but like there's four base maps there right what would be procedural about them probably the items and the loot and the zombies uh where the hives would be i don't think the buildings are changing all that much maybe maybe there's some procedural of like how the buildings and the map is like laid out but i don't think there's much like being barren brand new yeah it It does look like it is pre-made.

22:14I mean, that all sounds pretty great. This is something I definitely want to check out. This game is great. Yeah, I mean, I totally missed the boat on this. This wasn't, I think when State of Decay 2 was out, I wasn't even necessarily into these type of games. I want to say it was probably Icarus that got me into this sort of survival crafting game. And Icarus, like Icarus is one of those games that we loved and we fell in love with and we found a community. We hung out with our friends so much in the world of Icarus. and that's probably a game that if I were to guess has like a 72 on Metacritic yeah yeah it's a pretty poorly made game in a lot of ways right um if I if Sade of K3 comes around and is this hey it's a lot it's a lot like those other survival games but with a lot more polish that's what I'm kind of hoping for I'm hoping to get this experience that is thrilling uh I don't know what the boss fight or not boss fights but I don't know what the zombie variety is like are Are we talking left for dead where there's bloaters and, you know, exactly.

23:15Screamers, big bloaters, juggernauts. I think they call them in this one. There's also cars in this, right? So you can drive around with your friends. That's really fun. Is this a state of the K2 right now, Barrett? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like this is, I want to play, I'm looking forward to this, whatever this test is. Yeah. I want to get in there, uh, especially, you know, talking about how I'm also looking forward to hopping into the legend of California beta. Oh, okay. Okay. I'm in this survival crafting mood right now. Once I started building my basin and shrouded, I just like, ah, it just, it scratches that itch that I really, really enjoy.

23:51Uh, let us know in the super chats, if you all plan on getting into state of decay three, or if you're going to be requesting access for that story, number three, any update is a bonus, not a right says the peak dev in response. to lazy dev cycle accusations. This comes from Rebecca Valentine at IGN. The developer of 2025 Surprise Indie friend slop, Darling Peak, is asking players to be a little bit more gracious to the studio when requesting updates. In a response to a tweet saying developer Landfall has a, quote, lazy dev cycle, Landfall's official account clapped back, quote, neither us or co-developer AgroCrab are live service studios.

24:33Any update is a bonus, not a right. This sparked via GamesRadar, which reports that this comes in on the wake of Landfall Day. Landfall's annual bevy of announcements on April 1st, during which an exceedingly silly April Fool's Day feature that has players kicking each other off mountains instead of helping them climb up was revealed. While most replies are excited about this, the exciting reply was less than thrilled. Quote, y 'all are mad at Landfall for not releasing a game. I'm mad at Landfall for their lazy dev cycle for Peak, when they could be doing so much more with it considering their ending development of it this year.

25:06they wrote in response landfall's official account didn't hold back quote peak has had so many updates though neither us or aggro crab are live service studios any update is a bonus not a right they wrote in as a direct response another reply complained similarly but why it's an online game for 10 bucks it would be so nice to get some new biomes or features that's how the gaming industry works these days to which landfall said quote we've done a lot of updates with biomes and features with a little heart emoji to be like all right fuck you you know i love doing a little heart emoji too when i'm clapping back and we have at least one more the industry used to be no updates just release as is we have gone way beyond that shout out the landfall telling you like it is i don't i too i totally do not understand the response of but why it's an online game for 10 bucks well you're kind of giving them you just explain to yourself right there yeah you're not paying a subscription fee for this you're not buying a battle pass you gave them the reason right there well you also don't have to have to buy a battle pass for fortnight right like uh is there such a with this landscape that uh people are so used to fortnight and other live service free-to-play games of still being you know regularly updated with content mikey what do you think i mean this comes with the problem of being so successful right and so it's like yeah when you make a successful video game that sells over 10 million copies is made by seven to eight people, right?

26:32There's only so much you can do, and then there's going to be so much that the fans expect, right? They love this game. They want more of this game. People would die to be in this situation where it's like, we're begging for more on the side of Landfall. It's like, we're a small development team. We might be moving on to the next thing. We made this out of a game jam development with a co-partner. Like, we just wanted this to be fun and small and easy and get on to the next thing. I mean, that's the problem with super successful stuff. Now people want more. If I'm Landfall, I respond to this one person on Twitter, Mio the G, and I go, actually, we're going to back charge you for all the other updates.

27:09Like all those other free updates. Those are now$5. You owe us 25 bucks. Yeah. It's, I think in this day and age, there is an expectation from an online game. Everybody just assumes that an online game means that all online games and all online developers operate similarly. When summer live service games and live service studios that you can expect constant updates from, and seasonal things and now we're doing the christmas update and now we're doing this thing and here's a new item on the shop that you could buy but so many of these studios don't operate that way so many of these studios much like aggro crab are 10 15 people maybe they've scaled up to you know add some more uh bodies once they started kind of popping off with peak but that's not the way they operate that's not how they are built uh we think back to you know talking about the Naughty Dog story yesterday of, well, are we, if we pivot into a live service studio now, that requires a lot of kind of upkeep and, you know, we're going to have to kind of look through and change the way that we do business.

28:14It, it, things just don't work that way these days. And I don't know if a lot of people even really understand that. Obviously not with how some of these responses are. Well, here's the positive. You got a bunch of free updates. You got free content, right? If this team wanted to continue on and charge, they could strike back up the workforce, figure it all out, and start charging and going off of that, right? But as of right now, they've given you everything for free. They've given you as much as they wanted, and they'll take their time on if they want more or not. I just love the idea. It's just the business, right?

28:44I spent$10 on this. Yeah. And, like, yeah. I mean, yeah, that turns into the friend slap conversation that we have, right? There are so many of these games that I call you, Andy, and I'm like, yo, put down$10, put down$15, put down$5. We play them, and you're like, Mike, there is barely enough for us to get through two hours of stuff here. So it's like there's this weird conversation of like you put down$10,$5, and you're like, this should have been more. I want more. But this team has delivered all that and something. You paid$10 for this four months ago, five months ago. I don't understand how that's an argument.

29:22it it's such a silly thing but what they should do if they if this was in their business model they would start working on a dlc or an update that would charge money and then you'd capture a whole another wave right you've sold over 10 million copies but clearly they don't want to be just the peak studio they're probably working on other stuff right but like yeah there's clearly been a conversation in the boardroom of like hey guys this sold over 10 million copies we're on fire right now should we build a big large update that is another ten dollars five dollars right and like capture a part of that 10 million units is probably going to capture it.

29:55Oh, sure. With new content. Absolutely.

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31:55Ozzy Olivo writes in with a$2 super chat. Still mad about the soup hate. Yeah, a lot of people were mad about the soup hate. I think you deserve it. We're not a soup team. You know what I mean? We're just on a soup team. Speak for yourself, Mikey. Yeah. Well, when they asked the people on board, they were not a soup team. Sopa fideo, calo de pollo. Like, there's so many great soups that I eat. Remember when Greg started listing off like pho and like ramen? You just daved a bunch of soups. He was like, I don't mess with soup except for these six things. Kevin, they got mad about chili. And it's like soups, stews, and chilies.

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32:30That's how it always go. I love beef stew. Just so you know, they're looped into the circle. It's soups, stews, and chilies. It's all one world here It's one genus Don't be like oh chili's not soup It's like no it's in the circle It's in the circle It's soup stews and chilies Everyone knows that it's in the circle It's in the circle But I'm not going to call it a soup It's in the circle Soup stews and chilies It's part of the family Chili's it's own thing Chili's it's own thing Chili's it's own thing Chili's not big enough to be it's own thing It's got to be lumped into the soup There are chili.

33:07Chili has its own festivals. What do you mean? It has its own restaurant. Kevin with a$10 super chat says early birthday tax turning 29 tomorrow, celebrating by seeing the Mario movie and playing Pocopio with my girlfriend. Thanks for everything y 'all do and for getting me through all the dark days. Happy birthday, Kevin. Hell yeah, Brody. That's not Kevin Coelho, by the way, but he'll be back next week. Lord Foosh with a$5 super chat. Fifth anniversary tax. Taking a train from Chicago to SF first class. And hidden up family in the city. Any good romantic dinner spots? Wife's a big foodie. Romantic dinner spots.

33:45Top of the Mark. Top of the Mark. Is that the name of the restaurant? Top of the Mark, yeah. It's the name of the restaurant, but it's on top of one of the larger skyscrapers in the building overlooking all SF. Kevin and Paula frequent it. Oh, okay, gotcha. I would pretty much go to Kevin and Paula's Instagram page and any fancy food spot that they've taken a photo of. That's where you should go For brunch I would say I love Brenda's French soul food Oh I love sweet maple baby Brenda's is pretty damn good There's some good ones right there Pie punks I'm a big fan of grabbing something on the mission To go whether it be sandwiches Tacos and then going to Dolores Park And enjoying the sunshine And looking at the nice view I think that's a killer fun romantic little afternoon You can make right there North Beach, I think you can't go wrong anywhere in North Beach, honestly that's just like a nice little neighborhood to have a dinner in anything specific I'd say B-Star, any of the Burma family, that's always like a nice little spot to take a date go across the bridge to go to Sausalito, look at the bay very nice, wow, really?

34:58have you ever been over to Sausalito? No like it over there, nice, what about a train ride would you do a train ride? I would love to do a train ride I'm worried that I would be into it at first, but then at night when it's time to sleep and you're just kind of softly being jostling. And there's a lot of train noise. No, but that takes you back to being a baby and being rocked to sleep. Your brain kind of goes down to it. I don't think I like being rocked. What about like... This morning, Mike walked in and he goes, you go to church on Sundays? No, church on Easter Sunday. I didn't know if they had a holiday for church.

35:30And we were like, yeah, you go to church on Easter Sunday. Is it a special one? like yeah it's like is it a fun day is it a fun day you guys everybody dresses up as bunnies do they do they hide eggs inside the church and or the church parking lot in the backyard you know in on the lawn or whatever we would always do like a little like easter egg of the church with the kids yeah yeah is that where the easter egg hunt started was at the church i don't believe so i i would have a feeling that if you part of me feels that like the most hardcore of hardcore christians don't like easter eggs that's just how my brain is like okay no don't bring that no we're not we're not money don't commercialize yeah okay yeah my culture's not your costume to bring it back to trains i dream of this i dream of high speed i'm jealous of you know doing cross country train from chicago to here uh because as some of y 'all know i hate flying i fucking hate flying so much and i just want some sort of better rail system trains are cool i just are cool like If there's ever a movie where it's raining outside of a train and you're in the train.

36:37I just love that. How about Bullet Train? The movie? Yeah. What about it? Pretty cool. All right. Train to Busan. Unstoppable with Denzel Washington. Another train movie. That's my uncle's name or whatever you said yesterday. That's my cousin's name. My cousin's name. Useless. That Asian one with a$10 super chat says, feeling inspired to play the entire Uncharted series again. Can't wait to hear more Hope your weekend is full of adventures I get to sleep in for the week because the kids are on spring break Have fun Remember when we tried to get Nick to play Uncharted? Didn't go well Man, what is wrong with his brain?

37:14He doesn't like old games That's not, no Like he's down with old games but they have to feel modern How about that? I mean I would say no still because He doesn't want to fuck with Spider-Man He doesn't want to fuck with God of War Oh, well yeah But I mean like This is not a genre And Uncharted is part of that It's a cinematic thing It's not a genre Ty Wilkins VO says With a$2 super shot It says Uncharted 5 A Thief's Passing Think about it A Thief's Passing The death of Nathan Drake Nathan Drake dies Get this You play the first mission or two As Nathan Drake You start to worry Ah shit This is another Nathan Drake story Dies to a golf club Golf club yeah And then Cassie Barry's him has to go out and seek revenge.

38:02Oh, I thought you were saying her name was Cassie Barry. Flavorless pork disc with a 10-loss super chat says, Delivering four pallets of Starbucks and my second pallet fell off the lift gate due to the strap snapping. I need good vibes. Just 450 more boxes to take in. Oof. Happy Friday, boys. Jesus, flavorless. Be careful out there and make sure you're lifting with your legs. I know that I guess the forklift is doing stuff. Call the neighbors. Tell everybody to come help. You move for me. I'd look around and be like get over here everybody grab a box let's knock this out I don't think he's doing this from home wherever he's at wherever you're at just start yelling out to strangers get over here if I dropped a bunch of things in front of the studio Charlie from across the street he'd come help well yeah okay and then you would ask him when's your birthday it's all about community you'd only ask him for his birthday so that he could ask you yours so that you could say mine's today so that he could tell you happy birthday It's a psychopath This is a narcissistic psychopath Falcon with a$2 super chat No, Falcon, we're not doing this Hot dogs, sandwiches We're not a podcast from 2007 Come on, Falcon But it's soup, stews, and chilies They're in the same genus I'm with you on that, Mike Thank you But chilies aren't soup Snugs with a$5 super chat Says, I never like to agree with Mike But chili is in the circle Thank you How's the cans of chili doing?

39:21They're doing great Have you thought about cooking it up yet? I think when the time is right. When you're down on your luck or when the apocalypse happens. When an emergency calls. Yeah, exactly. When the apocalypse happens and all we have in that house is Andy's canceling. It'll last us a good while. Zest Whisper says, Birthday tax from Ireland. We'll always be weirdly grateful for the Battlefront 2 loot box drama and for finding you guys. Thanks for the years of content. Whoa. That's crazy. Well, thank you for being here for so long. Oh, do we need to call a time out today right now? Read one more.

39:53I think we're celebrating something. Read one more. Read one more Super Chat. Oh, okay. We have another Super Chat here from Spenny. $10 Super Chat says, Happy Easter weekend to my favorite duo. Eat lots of good food. I just accepted a job offer for a new gig. That sounds like a lot of fun. Y 'all gaming marathon this weekend? Well, congratulations, Spenny. Thank you for your Super Chat. I do want to play marathon, but tonight I will be starting for the first time Mario Galaxy 2. That's great. I'm pumped. Well, good. That's great that you're celebrating that and starting that because guess what, Andy?

40:24Today we're celebrating you. Today is kind of funny. Andy Cortez's anniversary. Starting in 2017. Nine years at the company. That's fucking unbelievable. Can you believe that? As of today, April 3rd, 2026, Andy Cortez celebrates his kind of funny anniversary all the way from 2017. April 1st on April Fool's. I'm driving out my Honda Civic. On your way to Kevin's mom's house. on my way slept yeah slept in kevin's mom's house how long a couple months a month yeah a couple months yeah and then we then we uh tricked him into moving in with us kevin would walk up to me and be like come on man just stay there what you know yeah i gotta assume his mom was like i don't want to deal with like getting another person to move in or whatever she was like come on you sure you want to move or so he's like actively working against like me and elissa like trying to find a roommate and shit yeah he's just like i mean come on i mean you know kevin yeah and then we've lived with you ever since yeah which is crazy dude 2017 nine years is insane what are some of the highlights uh every day i get to get in my car and go home you love a good car ride you tell me every day when you get the car you never go oh it's a 45 minute fucking drive-thru hell mike it's always i can't wait to get in this car mike i'm so excited to get the fuck oh man this fucking stupid car.

41:47Can I leave earlier from work? I'm trying to beat the traffic, he yells. And then Mike goes, just stay here. Or you'll run out to the car and block my car from leaving. You know what you could do? You could stay from now on, miss the traffic, and then just drive home late. We got a streaming set up here. You can just stream from here. I don't have my OLED monitor. We can bring all that in. We can bring all that in. We can bring all that in when you reconfigure my room. When am I going to be allowed to do that? This is just like all of your fantasy life. No. I have some design ideas. Like what?

42:22I might call him Ty from America's Home Restoration Project to get some fun going. Okay. Coordinate with me, Mikey, so then we can coordinate getting who out of the house. You better get lucky. You're lucky I did an actor while you went to Helsinki. I should have done that while you were gone. I could have easily called Barrett and be like, oh, yeah, he said yes. But Barrett knows how to trust anything that comes out of your mouth. He said fine. We all know. Story number four, Jason Blundell starts yet another studio. Magic Fractal says the third time's a charm. This comes from Varun Karunakar at Gaming Bolt.

42:56If you've grown tired of all the disheartening news about layoffs in the gaming world, there's a story of resilience that could light up, that could light things up for you. Nearly a week after Dark Outlaw Games was shut down by Sony, its founder, Jason Blundell, whom you might know from Call of Duty Zombies, is back again with another studio. He's joined by his former colleague, J.C. Backfire, a constant presence in a rather turbulent couple of years following Deviation's closure back in 2024. Blundell's refusal to back down in the face of adversity is indeed a beacon for the rest of the gaming world as it reels from a multitude of issues that have left talented people in the lurch.

43:31Quote, third time's a charm, and if not, it's the fourth time. End quote. That's quite the quote and one that might go down in history if Blundell manages to finally make the video game of his dreams under the banner of his latest venture. Whether it's going to feature ideas from the mystery project he was working on at Dark Outlaw Games remains to be seen. This is one of those weird ones when the news hits that this Dark Outlaw Games gets shuttered. I thought it was still deviation. I got lost track in the time and got lost in the sauce. I mean, good luck to Jason Blundell. That's awesome that you're, you know, you're showing that resiliency.

44:14I hope you're well-funded. I hope that whoever you hire, you know, can land on their feet pretty quickly and get acclimated to the whatever it is you're going to be working on. But this is a noddle. And this is one where I'm just like, I would like to know more before getting too excited about the good news. You know what I mean? Of course, Jason, very well known for the Call of Duty Zombies history and timeline of it all, being a game director for Call of Duty campaigns and zombies back in Call of Duty Black Ops 3 and 4, I believe, helping create the Call of Duty Zombies comics as well. So a lot of great talent and a lot of expertise from that area.

44:54We will see what he creates, and yeah, best of luck to him and the team. What do you think he's working on? I don't know. like at dark outlaw games i mean you know we've seen a lot of studios hey this is the new game from the former whatever devs and they you know try to they usually stick to their guns right speaking of you know guns thinking about having the former devs of apex went to go on to make high guard started their own studio things didn't work out too great for them i gotta hope that he's not working on a multiplayer game or something that requires constant lobbies and finding other players because i think that is the most turbulent of markets you could get into right now uh the quick the quick search was it's a single player narrative driven title that was dark outlaws games of what they were doing i guess we'll have to wait to hear a badass a badass zombie wolfenstein story slash narrative driven first person shooter campaign so not lot nazis or no zombies zombies But I'm like, think of Wolfenstein, like the look and the feel of Wolfenstein.

46:01Okay. But it's like, it's an undead zombie story. I could fuck with a first person shooter campaign. Yeah. Give me a quick little efficient jaunt through whatever your twisted mind has for me. Call up Disney. Ring, ring. Star Wars. Give me the Stormtrooper jabronis. Republic Commandos. Let me make a Republic Commandos first person shooter campaign. Ring, ring. Ring, ring. Ring, ring. Daddy Xbox, hey, what are you doing over there? Let me make some more Gears of War for you, just like you did with the best Gears of War. Gears of War, the mini project that I love so much from Gears of War 4. Judgment?

46:39No, no, no. The standalone one, Hidebusters. Hidebusters. Let me make another Hidebusters for you. Ring Ring Halo. Let's get some good publicity with Halo. Let's make a sick Halo standalone game. This Ring Ring segment better than your Ring Ring segment on the Xbox one. Ring, ring. You had us all confused there. We're making Forza. That was what I was like, Mike, stick to what you do. Stick to, I don't know about this. Stick to the lengths of the room. I don't know about this pre-written comedy bit. You know when I write that out, I feel real good about it. You're nailing this so hard. There was just a lot of confusion.

47:17A lot of like, what's happening right now? Just keep mispronouncing words. That'd be funny. All right. Well, we'll see what Jason Bledel gets up to, Mike. Hopefully it's something real big. But I'm tired of all that big news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go? Jason, good luck to you, my friend. You'd go to our last story, the Wii News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

47:50Welcome to Wii News. to Elder Scrolls Online. It's coming to PC Game Pass and Xbox Play Anywhere on June 2nd. Nice. When I think about Bethesda's online offerings, Mike, part of me wishes that, you know, we could go back in time and just change things. Oh. If I could time travel back in time, I would go Todd Howard. In about six years, you're going to release a Fallout TV show. do not release elders or do not release fallout 76 yet wait on it sit on it and also it's going to be really broken and like bad at launch and people are going to hate it but it's going to get better over time okay live through all of that do not release it yet release it season one hits but can you imagine how massive the like except the game comes you know fallout mmo at that time but if they hold it maybe they take time to like and it's not shitty and broken yeah And, you know, there's NPCs.

48:47Yeah. Well, The Elder Scrolls Online is a great game. I hope that you've spent some time in it. I have not. Very, very good. I'll always remember the reveal of it, the fun PvP aspect of it. Remember, there's three factions going to war on one map. Very, very cool stuff. And, of course, ESO has also had a long lifespan now of going out from a premium title to maybe an online monthly paid title to a free-to-play title. It's been a long life for this game. and I hope it gets more. I mean, it just makes me happy whenever there's an MMO still going. Yeah. Bless you. Bless me. I think of like Star Wars as well.

49:26Sweater. Really surprising that... We played some sweater. Really surprising that they're still like... Yeah, there's still player bases for this. That's great. Shatter Rush has been announced for PC. Steam description says, Shatter Rush is a multiplayer parkour FPS where fluid movement meets massive mechs and fully destructible levels. That's right. This is like the very indie where we want to make Titanfall since they're not going to make it. Wow. Wallrun, grapple, and smash through cover to outplay your foes in kinetic high-speed combat as the map changes every fight. Join the rush in our free open pre-alpha and wish list now.

50:0196 out of 100 user rating on itch.io. Oh, shit. Hell yeah, dude. You know, this reminds me a lot of Battle Bit Remastered. you know a studio go you know small team saying we don't need our shit to look like i don't need to see every pore in my soldier's face let's make a very lo-fi but still visually appealing game that's got you know a sharp look to it with awesome movement this looks pretty rad i mean yeah this is where it all starts right yeah you find funding you find a player base maybe you get more you can go even larger with this maybe you have a story like the portal people that we like that was doing the Halo Portal game, Splitgate.

50:39Oh, right, right, right. Splitgate before they went full MAGA on them. Yeah. You know, went a little too far on that one. Yeah, went a little too far. From Kotaku, the head of Take-Two's interactive AI team has seemingly been laid off along with an undisclosed number of other employees working on leveraging AI at Take-Two. The person who fired him, AI. AI. Yeah, do you think they built the AI too well? We're like, all right, we don't need you guys anymore. The AI works. Morbid Metal launches in early access on April 8th, which is one I've been looking forward to. I did not love the Steam Next Fest demo of it.

51:16Morbid Metal is a game that is published by Ubisoft. And it is one of the most visually gorgeous action hack and slash video games. I wish it was not a roguelite. And there was just something that didn't quite click with me. but I'm hoping to see like once we hit this sort of early access period maybe you know maybe it brings me back maybe I get back in but it's it's a it's one of those games that you look at you're like oh this you know visually everything happening lighting here it's like this is like this is next gen that's the sort of vibes I get from it did it always run great no unreal engine 5 stutter struggle you know the usual that you would expect but And then also for audio listeners, like just visually visual art style.

52:04When you think of Andy Cortez and like also thinking of like gameplay and think of Andy Cortez, this seems just like, hey, we want to test it. We want to make a game specifically for cybernetic Ronin. Like it's all these different. Yeah. I mean, it's it's got visual sauce for sure. And that's one reason, you know, that's the thing that drew me to it. But yeah, this is one of those weird ones where when it was first revealed, we were looking at the info. We're like, published by Ubisoft. Interesting. This isn't developed by Ubisoft. It's just them going, hey, that looks pretty cool. We can maybe make money on that.

52:39Okay. Yeah. Cool that they're finally hitting early access. April 8th. That's in five days. The new Dempament is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on April 6th. Everybody get ready for the new Dempament. What's that? It's a game that we saw on a direct one time. and it's a it's a remake of an old game called denpamen okay and i actually did put one of the new denpamen back on our goatee wall whenever we would do our game of the year so i did put one there as a little easter egg yeah i put one in the countdown as well it's one of those weird ones where you're just like i didn't know that this was ever a franchise and then people try to come at us and go come on you don't fucking know denpamen you don't know the denpamen i'm sorry i didn't know that again my all hit video had about six games to rent and benfaman was not one of them nexon has agreed to publish overwatch in korea wow okay all right big news there let's get to some super chats that's it for the we news segment we'll get to the rest of the super chats and get to kind of funny you're wrong or you can write in and let us know what we got wrong on kindoffunny.com forward slash you're wrong now dempa man was that a multiplayer game is that a tomodachi life game is that a multi-ts strategy game it was a multiplayer game yeah multiplayer game with turn-based tactics yeah okay cool keeping it real says not technically you're wrong but this is some clarification in the easter egg tradition something that comes from a pagan tradition but that is wrong.

54:10It started in medieval Europe as a way to break Lent. For more on this, I recommend checking out Dan McClellan, an excellent biblical scholar and has spoken on this topic before. Beautiful. Beautiful. I might play I Am Jesus Christ. I'll have answers. I'll have questions. You're playing through that? I'll be like, maybe one day I'll dip my toe into it. They had a great games cast plays. Really? Did you watch it? No, I didn't get too much off of it. Fantastic stuff. Please go watch that. It was a ton of fun. He looked great. I couldn't look at Nick. As he was taking the photo there with Greg I said it several times I fucking hate the way Nick looks I just hate Nick You ever miss you used to be Greg right there next to him?

54:49We look back on your nine years You and Nick Remember that time you were in the bathtub together Eating ice cream Donut day with no pants on Do you ever miss you could have been that Right next to him? In that suit? I'm okay I mix you two together like that Is it one of those where it's like I look at Levitard and Stu Gatz and I'm like, man, I just wish you guys could get back. I wish you two would just get back together. Bring back KFA. I wish you two would just get back together. Just clone me and I'll be able to work on KFA. Kebabs, you're wrong, says, missed Wii news from yesterday. Well, that's not true.

55:24You don't know what our Wii news looks like. You don't know. You don't know. But it is talking about how they're talking about how the Ghost of Yotei Raid drops April 11th. or april 10th sorry april 10th we jump into it with them which is so it's so unfortunate because i wanted i wanted to play ghost of yote legends and i still can granted right but man sony you can't be doing marathon and go say yote like we got to space these things out bless was talking about like yeah i really would love to play ghost of yote legends i'd love to play this raid but you You released two different games that require you to find gear and get stronger for an upcoming raid.

56:06Yeah. And that's just, that's a lot of, that's a lot of stuff. I just don't got time, man. I got to get my ass whooped deadlock. I went like one in five in deadlock last night. It was a disaster. No invite. No text message. You were playing Zelda. Not that you'd respond anyway. Like, what do you mean? And then claim that you're not getting anything. Yeah. Let me tell you what. This lady Impa sacrificed her life for the greater good. Damn. You think you would ever do that? Yeah, for you, if you wanted me to become one of your sages, I would. But just know when you need me the most, I'd have to be there.

56:38All I ask of you is just to respond to a text message. You can't do that. It doesn't make noise anymore. Because you have an iPhone 5. I'll buy a new iPhone. I'll buy a new iPhone. It doesn't make noise anymore. God. He hasn't called me, Chad. Two slacks, two phone calls, three text messages. Just a liar. So Kobe Arndt says with a$5 Super Chat, Blundell's doing the equivalent of Michael Scott, where he says he has no shortage of company names. Glad to see he's continuing his passion. That's good. Jeremy Games with a$5 Super Chat says taking a train to Ohio next month to visit home, stopping in Chicago for a few days.

57:16Buy those tickets, Barrett. Buy those train tickets. Buy those train tickets. Night Die Killer with a$5 super chat says, using this money to buy Saints Row 3 on Steam. Also, shout out to Twitch and YouTube, Night Die Killer. Shout out. Gerardo Martinez says, Happy Friday, y 'all. Andy, when are you going to have sopa de fideo next? And Mike, how's the yams doing? I won't be having fideo until I go back home. That's the only time I get to have it. And Mike, how are the yams doing? What is that? Fideo. It's soup. Soup, stews, and chilies? You could say those three words, sure. In the circle? Yeah, I mean, if it's a soup, sure.

57:55Would it be in a recipe book that's soup, stews, and chilies? Yeah. Nice. Yeah, so I always grew up just calling it Fideo, but then anytime I post photos of the Fideo, everybody responds, so about the Fideo. It's like, okay, different upbringings. Everybody calls it something different. I have Jonathan Ace III, Esquire, with a$2 soup chat that says, Mike, tell me about your sock situation. Have you heard about my sock situation? Do you remember this? I think I'm vaguely aware of the sock situation. Something about a hole in the world. Yeah, back in middle school and high school, I didn't like the fabric that connected next to your pinky toe.

58:32Because back in the day, we had a lot of fabric on that. And you also had the big crease from the top of your toes over, if you remember that. I don't think people look back at 20 years and go, oh, man, dude, it was a different time. 9-11 happened and people had a lot of fabric on socks. It was haves. We moved to dry fit socks now. Like Nike perfected the socks with the dry fit socks. And now we all want to do that. Hanes went overboard too much. It was the 90s. Your dad wore whitey tighties. It was a different time back then. Fruit of the loom. Tidy whiteys. Everybody was wearing tighty whiteys.

59:03Oh, you wore whitey tighties. Okay. Tidy whiteys. You said whitey tighties. Whitey tighties. Oh, whitey tighties. Well, same thing. Cupboards and drawers. Cupboards and drawers. And so, yeah, I didn't like the fabric rubbing up on my pinky toe. So I would cut the fabric piece off, that little knot of all the extra fabric off, which then exposed my pinky toe at all times. The freedom. That is... Because everyone knows your day starts with a great foundation, your underwear and your socks. And you take those underwear off when you get home. Hell yeah, you should be free balling in your free time at all times.

59:44Honestly, I respect... I can't even be mad. Thank you, man. Like that's more normal than the pinky toe shit, which is honestly the weirdest fucking thing I've ever heard an adult talk about. I used to shave my widow's peak, and now I would give anything to have that hair back, you know? Right here. It would like come down in a little bit. Yeah, so like my brother would do it, and I was like, oh, I have to do it too because that's what he does. Because you wanted a fresh lineup. I guess, yeah. I feel like that's what everybody does. And my mom was like, what are you doing? Why are you shaving that?

1:00:14You're five years old. You're an idiot. Idiot ass day to do. Everybody, this has been Kind of Funny Games Daily. Thank you so much for joining us here on this beautiful Friday. If you love what we do, support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad-free and get a daily exclusive show. Because remember, if you don't support the things you love monetarily, they go away. I hope we have a show next. I hope we're still around for the rest of the day to do content. Because it may be over for us very soon. Andy's ninth anniversary. Celebrate it. Let me get to my 10th.

1:00:42Can we get it to 19th? Let me get to my 10th. No, I'm 19th. I don't know if I could be around for that long. Another decade? You love games. Yeah, you love them. You love them. I'm funny. You love Mike. I'd love to buy a house one day. You could buy a house here. Really? You just got to save extra hard. Extra, extra hard. Yeah, you just... Andy, you just got to, you know, pick yourself up off your booth. Yeah. Just save extra hard. I just got to know somebody... Top ramen for the rest of your year. I got to know somebody at BlackRock. Yeah, you just got to work really, really hard. Really hard.

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