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Eat one of those energy bars from the thing next door right before this thing, the next door energy bars. I don't need anything from the place next door. Look at this. You know, they use our bathroom.
Yeah, they do. See them in there all the time. That's fine. They're nice over there.
Man, they're part of this building. They're very good. The food is pretty good. But now I have a bunch of oats in my throat.
Throat oats. I can't keep saying that. I can. You can't find it anywhere.
Oh, milk. Yeah. What happens? This is a place in Berkeley.
It's like the whole cookie butter craze. Oh, I got to get an oat milk. Oh, milk is the hot new milk. All right.
It's not. It's still cold. More than well. Yeah.
More than all the milk coming out. Yeah. That's like 2017. Although ethical concern of all the milk, I may be impossible.
Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Even how much water? Yeah.
For a thousand quarts. That's right. That's right. If you want one almond.
It's going to basically squeeze out of your body when you buy it now here in California. They're like, all right. Yeah. It is.
Exciting fix the air quality. But also the rain's going to be about the fire. It's called toxins. Yeah.
You have to be careful in the rain tomorrow. That's right. Do not fall face down and drink the rain water off the street. Yeah.
Thirdly. Oh, yeah. Yes. Drink the street water then.
Mm-hmm. It's been a roller coaster with air quality. It seemed like it was getting better there. And then today seems like it is not as better as it may be.
It was forecasted to be. Mm-hmm. But yeah. I think quite tonight or ends tomorrow.
It's going to start raining. Today's the first time I've been out of the house since 6.30 PM on Friday. Yeah. We had reservations that they would not let us cancel.
I'm sure a bunch of people canceled. No, we're going to charge you full price for this whole thing. So my wife and I went away locally for the weekend. We ended up in a fucking wine castle.
Oh, yeah. How a cave? There was a cave somewhere. I don't know.
We didn't take the guided tour. I did not see a moat full of wine. No, there was no wine moat. So I don't drink wine.
Okay. So I don't go wine tasting. Yeah. So I guess I didn't realize just how up salesy wine tasting was.
Oh, yeah. I was standing at a bar. Like they were like, oh, which six wines? You know, my wife has seven little bits of wine.
And then the guy's like, so basically he's like, so how many cases can I put you down for? And I was like, no, dude. It's extra fucked up because you can get pretty blitzed out of wine tasting. And then we withdraw the wine.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, man. Like we went to this wine castle and then I put it on my Instagram.
So there was some private event happening while the place was still open. And so there was like an Envogue cover band sound checking while we were walking around. Wow. Like some startup party or something.
We're talking four members of Envogue 3. It looked like, I don't know. It did not look like it was like a tribute band. It was not an Envogue tribute band.
Envogue cover band. They have a dollar on this one or not. I was a guy with a bass guitar walking around like he was doing something. That's Rob Donaldson.
Okay. And so yeah, we got to hear them sound checking and play a couple of songs. But I think it was a Barbitzvah. Oh.
I think it might have been what we overheard because someone finally asked like a security dude or somebody like, what the fuck is going on around here at your fucking wine castle? Why is it like the worst band in the world playing and then now this Envogue cover? There were two bands. The worst band in the world was, I don't know what the fuck they were up to.
And then there was a second stage where the Envogue tribute band was tuned up and they seemed way better than the other thing that was going on. And I don't know that we wandered around this castle for a while and was like, I don't know. This is a castle. All right.
Cool. Let's go. Okay. Last time I went wine tasting, they had a whole roast pig on the spit.
Oh, you need a pig picking. It was so good. I got cheek. It was so the cheek.
Nice. I was just like, fuck man. That's good. It's just, I don't know.
I guess I just didn't know what wine tastings were as I don't drink wine. Yeah. So it was this thing of like, oh, there's just a fucking thing here that says if you want this is for like the, the sliding scale of like, you want food with that, that's, you're going to come downstairs and do this. And then there's a, there was a part of it that just said $6 chocolate upgrade.
I want chocolate upgrade and everything I do. It's points of things in life that you could have a guy with you taking notes. That guy? Majin Boo.
Let's talk about him. Turn things into chocolate. Other types of candy. Other candies.
Just going to candies, chocolates. Yeah. Cookies. Like a shortbread cookie.
Yeah, absolutely. There's a little antenna. I want that to do to hang it out with me for a lot of reasons, but one of them is to perform the chocolate upgrade when I need it. I can't say that anymore.
Okay. All right. It's only $6 though. Yeah, it was a six bucks.
Sounds like a little bit of upgrade. That sounds like you're going to get a chocolate. A six buck chuck. A lit.
No? Is it a two buck chuck? Three buck chuck now? Yeah.
It is no longer $2. It's like 350 maybe. How inflation is going to get you? Still one.
Still one. Well, it's fine. It has a place. Okay.
They did. Yeah. So I don't like vinegar. Dude, if it tastes like vinegar, you're drinking.
I don't like anything that is in the realm anywhere close to it. So, you know, like the, so the dude pouring the stuff for my wife when I was like, no, I'm like, oh, I got grape juice. And he poured grape juice. And then at one point he said, like, oh, this is, you know, it's the wine, but we take the alcohol out of it.
And I drank it. And even that was too close to wine. I'm like, no, man. I like me some grape juice.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You want to put me up some, well, just great.
Tea bone steak. Cheese eggs. Great. Like, and yeah, it's a chocolate upgrade.
I'll take all that. If it gets anywhere near vinegar is the wine is bad. No, I don't. So I don't.
So I don't. So I think you, you're what you consider near vinegar and what I consider near vinegar are two very like, anything that is even approaching it. The wind was like, no, here's the wine. You're going to like, I'm going to go and fucking no.
This is still wine. See, I love vinegar. And I don't like wine. What?
Yeah. I like those. I'm French as fuck. And my family grew up in like Sonoma County.
Yeah. And I don't know about line. Don't like it. I think that honestly, so I think I feel this way like chip on my shoulder about it.
But I think that there's something about a lot of people who grew up in wine country that are like, fuck this shit. Because it just brings a bunch of assholes to the region. I remember the first time I went to my friend Jeff's house and she had his like dad who was a sommelier, like taking us through his family wine cellar. And it was just, I hated every moment of it.
I was like, you guys want to taste a little bit. We were like 16. And then he started pouring a little bit into a cup and I was like, this is terrible. This sucks.
Like putting this near my face enough so that I can smell it makes me want to die. I'll have it on occasion now, but honestly, I'm never choosing wine. No. I get roped in constantly.
Just like, can you try this? I'm like, nip, still wine. Still wine. E40's wine is pretty good though.
Yeah. Isn't it like a tonic wine? I think that's one of his blends or lines of wine. A fortified rice wine.
Something like that. Something nice. E40's 40's. Oh, not bad as well.
Kind of a honey tinge to him. Earl Stevenson is what he's doing. Earl, it's, yeah. I went to one of the fat burgers that he owned with, I believe, Merton Hanks.
Yeah. It was a fat burger. I've never been. It's good.
I think they'll put an egg on a burger there. Yeah. Yeah. Can't get out of your fucking, you know, five guys.
They don't have eggs. No, they don't. They have like six things. If you, if you, if you, if you show up with a fried egg and be like, I need a double, double immediately.
We got to open their shirt pocket and place the egg inside so you know what to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. For loco. Now that's a drink on drink. Even now, I had a can of four loco.
Yes. Not like regularly, but like, yes, every, like, let's say six to 12 months. I'll be like, I'm here at this liquor store. I'm going to get a four loco.
And then I'll sit in my fridge for like a month before I go like, you know what, I'm going to drink that four loco. And because I don't drink very often anymore, I find that the four loco is significantly more effective than it used to be. It's a lot of liquor. It's a lot of alcohol.
Yeah. That was identical two weeks ago, three weeks ago, within the last month and a half. I was like, yes. It's a lot of alcohol for me.
How's our flavor selection? They changed it all to like, color names. It's now like four loco gold and four loco red and. Hi, everyone.
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I had a red. A nice red. It was all a stick. It was jamming.
It was. It was all right. As four loco goes, it was one of the better four loco experiences. One of the worst lives of my nights of my life was the night that included some stranger in a cave handing me a four loco.
That was half. I was already opened and saying drink this drink. Get into that cave loco. Yeah.
Take a loco and then a copy of a sealed copy of Defender. That would be $3. Is that a show? Yes.
Same cave. Yeah. They did a series of them, but I went to a few. Okay.
There was a chance we wrote there. It's cool. They set up Christmas lights on the roof and had a generator and stuff. You just go in the cave.
It's like right up on the ocean. It's cool. And whatever happens in the cave happens in the cave. Yeah.
It gets a little loco in the cave. Well, steamy in there. Yeah. I don't like a nice cave.
It's cool because there's no steam. So you just get right up on the band. Oh, you know. Does everybody have a good Saturday November of the 18th?
I'm sorry, 17th? Yeah. 2018? Today is the 20th.
Yeah. Work backwards from that. The 20th anniversary of the Phantom Menace trailer premiere. Yeah, I had a great.
How could I forget? How did you celebrate? How did everybody celebrate? I went to the wine case.
I went to the wine castle. That was how I celebrated. I was like, uh, two things that are shitty Star Wars and the wine castle. Yeah.
You can go download that pottery. That's right. That's right. That's how they celebrate.
The God was that actually timed because it seemed like Star Wars before. You see a sudden that a lot of these I found Star Wars games showed up. I found they were celebrating the release of the Phantom Menace trailer made the trailer to be with you. I think it's what they call that.
I remember in seven day when my mom won tickets on the radio to see Phantom Menace opening night I was in the fourth grade or something. I was so stoked. We got there. We got to see if we're right in the front row.
I was tired of shit. I fell asleep halfway through the movie because they were talking about some trained bullshit. I said, where's the lightsabers in this end? You got those at the end.
I said, that's not enough. I went to bed. I am right there in the theater. Yeah.
Yeah. Now the band I was in at a time. We played a show in a parking lot of a movie theater and I'd seen the movie the night before. And then you got up on the mic and said, double door dies.
It was really hard not to spoil the movie for people that were waiting in line. It was really hard. This movie sucks up shit. I think it's some of the stuff I might have thought about saying.
A guy. A guy gets cut in half. A guy dressed up as an X-Wing pilot. Got a wedgie.
Okay. From a member of the band I was in. Okay. All right.
Whatcha remember? It was Ben. Okay. Yes.
We had a costume contest on stage and then he just gave this. It's just back to terrible. At the moment. Funny.
Now. Still kind of funny. Also terrible. That guy was just showing up.
He was there to be in his fucking element. Like minded individuals. He's dip shit showed up to curse from into microphones. This giant man.
This large man. Yay. He's under where I'm going. Yeah.
So I'm shouting eat him. Okay. Let's talk about video games. All right.
Fine. Let's talk about that. What's up? What's up?
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What's up? What's up? What laughs? What's up?
What's up? Ok. Good. Oh, there's pie page.
Down. How did but they're very realistic, like, you know, all those, here's what Mario would look like in real life images. It's like that or the Pokemon. It's like, it's like if the Howard the Duck people got way more money.
So watch with the sound of right now. And shooters also, I guess. Yeah, I think the Pokemon look fucking tremendous in that thing, like that's like kind of a nightmare, but like, I love it. I've got, I don't, maybe getting a little Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds out.
I don't think he does a bad job with the voice. It's just, I'm like, oh, hey, it's another Ryan Reynolds voice. I've seen Deadpool, I've seen all those other movies. So the secret to that?
Don't see Deadpool. Let me just talk about this. Oh my God. What?
What is the duck? Is that Psyduck? Yeah. What's the Pokemon are real now, Brad?
They always were, Brad. Wow. Man, I should have either watched this before now or never, ever, ever. This is what, I mean, this is what Pokemon are building to, right?
Like, with totally. You know, let's go and now let's go. They're trying to make Pokemon real. We need to make Pokemon real.
Yeah. They just gave me the one shot and then I'm not waiting for you. Oh, you got like a blitz, dude. They're doing the full on Transformers treatment.
Here's our young hit lead. We're going to hold back to the weirdo characters you want to see. Matt, huh? So fuzzy.
Wow. Wait till you see Mr. Mime. Yeah, wait.
Be careful. Take out for Mr. Mime. If I see Mr.
Mime within a distance like 1,000 yards of a school. I guess talk about the game, holy shit. This is horrifying. This is really something.
Wow. Pokemon control. Oh my God, they're everywhere. Yeah, dude, they're real.
Pokemon are real now. That's why you have to catch them all because they're going to fucking overtake everything if we don't. If you held up your phone right now and spun around the room, you'd see a Pokemon probably, right? Jan?
Yeah, actually. Let me call this some kind of they live thing. Pokemon are all among us. I feel sick.
I feel nauseated. Yeah. Wow. Let's go with it.
I feel like the more realistic they make Pokemon the more trouble I have with using them. Who's that? Mr. Mime.
What the? That's Ash's dad. Let's move on. I'm glad that.
Dad, please. Sorry. Finally, people are delivering on the message that Mr. Mime is fucking gross.
Mr. Mime is a Pokemon. It's a Pokemon. It's a Pokemon.
It's a Pokemon. It's terrible. It's not available. He's not jinx level terrible.
No, Mr. Mime is still playing. I think they're Pokemon made out of all kinds of shit. It's like a fucking garbage can with eyeballs.
This is a fucking truck that turns into a fucking robot. Right? I'm not kept up with more recent Pokemon. It's not like a turtle with a twig on his head.
Yeah. I'm not quite sure what to dig, but it's still. No, that's not. What about a dog trio?
Three of them, but still don't know what they are. Totally different thing, though. It evolves into three of them. I don't feel well talking about the game.
So I picked up the Pikachu version. There's two of them out right now. And it's pretty much just Pokemon yellow from back in the day, the Game Boy Color release. It's the only the original Kanto 150 out.
If you buy the bundle, get this neat little Pokeball. Okay. Do anything? It's not just a swishy.
So you can use it as a controller in the game. It has a little nub on it. It's okay. It's got a button on top.
Like syncs with a switch. Yep. Syncs with a switch. It will also sync with your phone for Pokemon Go.
It won't fail yet. And it's kind of cheapens the experience of Pokemon Go because it'll automatically swipe every PokéStop or Jim you go to. So you can just be cruising down, walking, driving, biking, whatever, and just swiping all the stops, filling up your items. It's pretty neat.
But I'd say, fuck, I was thinking this the other day that I'll have fun when I'm playing a game, but often won't be smiling. I'll just be like, oh, yeah, cool. That was satisfying. But the whole time of playing Pokemon, let's go.
I just have had the biggest fucking smile on my face because of how adorable everything is. And just like when I was playing as a kid, like blue and red and yellow, just imagining what stuff would look like and actually seeing how it looks now. This is kind of a remake of those games in some ways. I almost say it's like a remaster of everything from the Game Boy stuff and 3S stuff.
I'd say, so the biggest change is that you can actually see the Pokemon in the wild. There's no more random encounters. So before you have to run around in the grass, you're like, oh, fuck, it's a Zubat. Oh, fuck it's a Radikate.
But now you can actually pick and choose what you want to run into. And so it's made by Game Freak, but they've introduced elements of Pokemon Go into this game. So the catching of a wild Pokemon is no longer battling them to weaken them. This was the stuff that I did at E3, and they had me handle one of those balls.
Yeah. And we couldn't get it to throw straight. It just seemed like broken almost. Yeah.
And they were like, oh, yeah, just to get a little bit straight or lose it. And I'm like, yeah, no, I think Abby and I both were trying it. I'm just like, this seems fucked. How?
It's been OK. I've mostly been playing handheld, but when I first got it, tried out in the studio and I was doing overhand throws. It was mostly OK. OK.
I've read that a lot of people have been having trouble even connecting their Pokeball to their Switch. No, I don't know if it's just environment or Bluetooth, whatever. But yeah, it's been OK. I can't turn the motion controls off.
It's kind of a bummer. Even if you're playing in handheld mode, your Pokemon will be running around the screen and kind of have to move your Switch to getting in frames that throw your Pokeball. Yeah. But catching is you're just throwing a ball.
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You don't have to weaken a Pokemon at all. There's no battling random Pokemon. It looks nice. Yeah.
I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it. I just pull up some footage and I can see how if you were attached to this. Seeing it rendered like this would be pretty special.
And I'm glad to hear that there's a real game there. That was the other thing that he threw coming away from it. I was just like, OK, so it's kind of trying to capitalize on the Pokemon. Go stuff.
Yeah. But what do you really? It seemed like a really thin thing. I saw a lot of people, myself included, just pooping on it thinking like, oh, this is going to be the real game.
The game free game. Yeah. But it's exactly like how Pokemon Yellow was. It incorporates the different types that they've introduced through the generations and everything.
There's like double battle. Like two battles and everything. Ivy EV training is still in there, which is like hardcore, like your Pokemon's truest potential what it can do. But yeah, it's a full fledged game and I fucking dig it a lot.
It has a two-player local mode that you pop off another JoyCon or sync another one on a friend or whoever can join you for some of the battles. I'm not the biggest fan only because that person is just taking your Pokemon and there's no progression as far as I've seen of the second player. They're just joining in and everything. So the first player still get those Pokemon if they join in?
OK. So it's like all contributing at least to one. I'd say it's good for like, if you have like a little kid with you. And my only problem with the game so far is the connectivity with actual Pokemon Go.
You have to kind of go get at least 15-ish hours into the game before you even presented the chance to sync Pokemon Go with Let's Go. Which I kind of understand because if you're taking Pokemon Go very seriously, you have super overpowered Pokemon. You need to have a legendary. So is that what it is?
You're just bringing stuff from Go into the Switch? Yeah. So you're trading, it's a one-way trade. You take your Pokemon from Pokemon Let's Go into Let's Go and then you bring them into an environment.
You can catch them there and incorporate them into your normal party. OK. But they don't go back. It's not like the experience games there goes back out to Pokemon Go.
You lose them from Go when you transport them? Oh, wow. So it's a little bit of a commitment. It's like, do I really want to lose this Pokemon in Go for Let's Go?
Does that make it kind of a money-sync in terms of like Pokemon Go? Is the thing you can spend real money on? And then if you're sucking your Pokemon out of that, suddenly you're like, well, I've got to fill the gaps here. Maybe I need to do this and do this.
I definitely think so, especially because a lot of what I imagine a lot of the Pokemon people would want to trade in are the legendaries that are parts of like raids or time-exclusive stuff. So they'd be dumping more money in so they could get more raids, raid passes to even get those Pokemon. Right. But Pokemon Go, they've released up to Generation 4, but you can only import Gen 1 Pokemon into Let's Go.
You can import a Pokemon with Surf and then get to that little island and push the truck and get Mew. Oh, so that's the other thing. You don't have to carry a Pokemon with you for like HMs or hidden machines. What?
Yeah. Your partner Pokemon, Pikachu or Eevee, learned all that stuff. That's great. And it doesn't count as like one of its four moves.
Yes. That is like those first couple of generations Pokemon. That was like, in some cases, that was the point where I was like, I need to stop playing this because it's too much. I don't know what to do.
Like I got it. Who's going to learn? Always get it. Always get it.
Always have this voice there if you always want flash in case you need it because it's like, well, what if I fall in the cave? Fuck are you people talking about hidden machines? Hidden machines. You know, not technical machines.
You need to teach a Pokemon how to cut down a tree before you can cut down a tree and move forward on a path, basically. Give a Pokemon a fish. Since Pokemon can only hold four moves, you're basically turning a Pokemon into a less useful fighter by giving it the future Pokemon fish. Yeah.
And the last thing I'd say is before, if you catch more Pokemon outside of your initials, the six in your party, they'd be transported to a PC and then you'd have to find a PC in a Pokemon center or whatever. There's a computer in the game and then manage your Pokemon from there. Here, you can do it all from your options menu. You can send them away to Professor Oak.
You can change your party and adjust on the fly so you don't have to go back and forth. That, on top of eliminating HMs, is a fucking welcome change. Cool. Yeah.
You can also ride your Pokemon. That's fucking dope. What? No.
There's certain Pokemon you can mount, right? Hell yeah. I got Snorlax. You have to establish dominance.
Totally, totally. On top of catching them. You need to just mount them. Yeah.
Use your Snorlax in the game. I'm just talking on to him along with my Pikachu and he's just like walking us down the road. That's cute. I love him.
I think what you were saying about that trailer is more realistic to get the worst you feel about this whole thing. That you're just like basically dog fighting. Right. But they want to do it.
They love it. There's a Pokemon hop build. It was free. Pokemon help their heart about what that means.
They just shine the light on them and then they're fine. Yeah. I can pet my Pikachu in the game. That's also cool.
It's cute. That looked like one of those anime girl like boob touch simulators, honestly. Just rub a hand on them on Pikachu pretty much. Yeah.
Oh yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. Okay. Well, so sometimes they're first with anime.
Not a fan. Is that new? Yeah. Just came out.
Go to Anime.com. No. Don't go. I have no idea.
Don't actually go there. We're going to find out. Yeah. Unless you're at work, I guess.
And your work cares about stuff like that. Yeah. Even then. Even then experiment.
Try it out. Just say you've heard it on a podcast. Just do it in the private browsing window. You can't get arrested for any crimes you commit in the private browsing window.
That's right. That's fine for a VPN service. Jeff, I understand you have played a bit more Fallout 76. Yeah.
I guess we have not talked about that at all. The quick live that we did last week was my first experience game. You had played a little bit of it before that. Yeah.
I have not played it since then. Although I kind of want to do it for reasons I can't explain. Yeah. So I did play a little bit more of it.
Just so, you know, I would have a little bit more to say here, I guess. I don't know. I want to complete a public event and see what the fuck that was. That game's bad.
I think the game is, you know, it's like, this will sound harsh. I think it's shitty. I think it is like the exact opposite of what people want out of a Fallout game. Yeah.
And I think on top of that it does not run or execute particularly well. So it's like, it's very buggy. It is all it is fucked up in the way that online games can be fucked up. Like players disappearing like, oh, the party stuff.
Yeah. That's weird. I saw someone yesterday talking about their experience post patch. Still having even worse networking experiences and all that sort of stuff.
I think structurally it's just this bizarre thing that just, I don't, you know, I'd like to see like what the, what's the PowerPoint for like, hey, here's the game we want to make. What does that look like compared to what this is? Like, what was the core idea beyond like, I don't know. Let's make an online Fallout game.
Like, what was the goal? Let's set it up. It's full price. Yeah.
$16 game, no monthly fee, no nothing. Yeah. Two years above that if you want to spend more. Sure.
No, but no ongoing fee. But, but a shop where you can buy plans to build more stuff and also cosmetic stuff. And it is a fully multiplayer experience with 24 players per server. Yes.
Very few actual quests. What I understand. It is the full world and framework of a vlog game with none of the characters or story. Yeah.