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We are in a bit of a remote, wooded double feature today for Dan's tales. The first of two stories is composed out of what may have been a hermit's final diary entries, as a man living alone in a remote cabin writes of something terrorizing him.   Then we hear the legend of the Dungarvon Whooper, a folklore coming from an old logging camp in New Brunswick, Canada. Then Lynze gives us a life long but seemingly harmless attachment. Or is it? What's happening to this person? Lastly, what Dan says is possibly the most horrifying tale he's ever heard from Lynze- what happens when you cannot tell reality from nightmare? Merch Announcement Check out this super cool illustration of a 3 eyed, 4 horned, snarling demon dog. In addition to this as a tee, you should see the jacket! Very cool!! Check out all of incredible merch at badmagicproductions.com LIVE EXPERIENCES If you'd like to see us perform live this year, visit badmagicproductions.com for our annual summer camp or crimewaveatsea.com/scared for a spoopy cruise this fall! Thank you for continuing to send in your stories, Creeps and Peepers!Please keep doing so!!Send them to mystory@scaredtodeathpodcast.comSend everything else to info@scaredtodeathpodcast.comWant to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen and watch before they are released to anyone else, bonus episodes, a 20% merch discount, additional content, and more! Learn more by visiting: https://www.patreon.com/scaredtodeathpodcast.Please rate, review, and subscribe anywhere you listen.Thank you for listening!Follow the show on social media: @scaredtodeathpodcast on Facebook and IG and TTWebsite: https://www.badmagicproductions.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcastInstagram: https://bit.ly/2miPLf5Mailing Address:Scared to Deathc/o Timesuck PodcastPO Box 3891Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816Opening Sumerian protection spell (adapted):"Whether thou art a ghost that hath come from the earth, or a phantom of night that hath no home… or one that lieth dead in the desert… or a ghost unburied… or a demon or a ghoul… Whatever thou be until thou art removed… thou shalt find here no water to drink… Thou shalt not stretch forth thy hand to our own… Into our house enter thou not. Through our fence, breakthrough thou not… we are protected though we may be frightened. Our life you may not steal, though we may feel SCARED TO DEATH."

Al and Kev talk about Piczel Cross: Rune Factory Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:01:23: What Have We Been Up To 00:23:29: Game News 00:32:12: New Games 00:38:58: Piczel Cross: Rune Factory 01:01:33: Outr Links Desktop Cat Cafe One Lonely Outpost Console Release Sprout Valley “Friends Forever” DLC Everholm 1.1.0 Update Farlands 0.4 Update Mika and the Witch’s Mountain “Into the Mount Gaun” Update Wholesome Direct Announcement Monsterpatch Kickstarter Contact Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Al: Hello, farmers, and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. My name is Al, (0:00:36) Kev: And my name is Kevin, and I’m, or so I’m told. (0:00:38) Al: and we’re here today to talk about how tired we are, and also Cottagecore Games. (0:00:44) Kev: Oh, gosh, yes. (0:00:46) Kev: Oh, whoa, hey, that, that’s the correct one. (0:00:55) Kev: That’s how my brain feels right now. (0:00:55) Al: That’s all of the enthusiasm you get from this episode, though. (0:01:00) Al: Right. This episode, we’re going to talk about Pixel Cross Rune Factory, the new Pixel Cross game. (0:01:06) Kev: by the not to pick across people yeah (0:01:11) Al: Yeah. Yeah. Pixel Cross by someone else. Before that, we obviously have the news. (0:01:19) Al: Look at a chunk of news. So we’re going to talk about that. But first of all, Kevin, (0:01:25) Al: what have you been up to? (0:01:26) Kev: Oh gosh. So, not a lot in terms of games and all that. Why, you ask? Because I went on a (0:01:36) Kev: work trip this week. I just got back this morning, a couple hours ago, when we start this recording. (0:01:47) Kev: So, I went to sunny San Diego, California. My first time back to my home state in almost 25 years. (0:01:57) Kev: I’m not from San Diego. I’m a little farther north. It’s my hometown area. But, (0:02:04) Kev: yeah, I went to San Diego a few times because SeaWorld was there. But not too many memories (0:02:09) Kev: other than SeaWorld. But the trip itself was fine. The work stuff was work stuff, whatever. (0:02:21) Kev: But just yesterday, I got basically an extra day. I’m gonna spend a (0:02:26) Kev: little time to run around San Diego. I went down to the beach, this place called La Jolla Cove. (0:02:35) Kev: There are sea lions, there are rocky cliffs. You can wade in the water in the beach. It is (0:02:43) Kev: all the hallmarks from my childhood because I lived by the coast. Farther north, like I said, (0:02:48) Kev: but almost the same thing. Many seals and sea lions. Very, very enjoyable. The weather was nice. (0:02:55) Kev: That was a great time. (0:02:56) Kev: So, yeah, that was fun. (0:02:58) Kev: What wasn’t fun was the kind of the bookends, the start and the beginning of this. (0:03:06) Kev: So, as I was leaving, I was bringing my own personal laptop because, you know, I might need it for something or wanted to do stuff with it. (0:03:16) Kev: And then I soon discovered that it wasn’t charging. (0:03:22) Kev: At first I thought I was the charger, that wasn’t working, then I thought it was the (0:03:26) Kev: port, but it wasn’t charging with another, the original charger which is a different (0:03:31) Kev: kind of port. (0:03:34) Kev: Long story short, I think my personal computer is dead. (0:03:37) Al: Oh, no. (0:03:40) Kev: So I have to get that repaired, I don’t know if it’s a battery thing or whatever, but I (0:03:45) Kev: would like that fixed because I have things on there including my other audacity and recordings, (0:03:52) Kev: that’s my usual recording computer. (0:03:57) Kev: Next, and also that explains the chromium audio quality coming from me today because I have (0:04:04) Kev: my microphone, but it’s a USB-A connector and the computer I’m using right now is only (0:04:12) Kev: USB-C ports because of the brilliant design of course I guess, and I don’t have a dongle (0:04:18) Kev: or adapter or whatever, so I’m just using standard laptop recording. (0:04:24) Kev: So yeah, sorry about that. (0:04:26) Kev: Folks. So that happened. That was not fun. I’m gonna address that. So the trip back, that was, that was something because the plane left or it was a, I had one layover in Los Angeles. (0:04:48) Kev: So my first flight left like at 6 p.m. San Diego time and it was only not even a full house. (0:04:57) Kev: I had a half hour to get to Los Angeles. So I was there by 7 p.m. or whatever, let’s just say, but then my, the other flight left at 11 p.m. So I was in the airport doing not much of anything for four hours. (0:05:10) Al: Yeah, always fun. (0:05:15) Kev: The fun part is, so we left at 11 p.m., right? And I’m traveling west to east so the time jumps gets weird and we had daylight savings time. (0:05:27) Al: Oh, just to make even more confusing. (0:05:27) Kev: So, yup. So my flight left at like 11 p.m. I arrived today at 7 a.m. but it was only a four hour flight. So you do the math. (0:05:42) Al: Well, I don’t I don’t think I want to do the maths on that, to be honest. (0:05:43) Kev: I, I, I’m, I think literally, yeah, yeah, yeah, literally. (0:05:47) Al: It was it was bad enough. It was bad enough trying to figure out what time it would be (0:05:51) Al: for you today when we’re recording it. What is normal time for me? (0:05:56) Kev: I lost, like the flight was half the time of the time change. Like it’s bad. I almost left four hours, but I landed eight hours later. (0:06:07) Kev: So I’m, it’s, I’m tired, my feet in pain from walking and all that. I’m kind of all beat up. So yeah, not a lot of games because of that. (0:06:19) Kev: I got in a game of Snap here or there, but not, not that much, you know, but what I did get to see on the way, on the flight too. (0:06:26) Kev: I got to watch a couple movies because it’s a longish flight (0:06:32) Kev: The first one was John wick chapter 4 (0:06:35) Kev: Have you watched the John wick movies? (0:06:37) Al: I have, yes, yes I have. I didn’t watch them for a long time because I was like, “Ugh, (0:06:38) Kev: Okay, um, so (0:06:43) Al: just another action film.” And then I watched the first one and was like, “Oh no, this (0:06:44) Kev: Yeah (0:06:47) Al: is, this is not just, this is like, I don’t, I don’t know why nobody told me before I watched (0:06:47) Kev: Yeah (0:06:53) Al: them that they were satire. Like, they’re fantastic, they’re so good.” (0:06:55) Kev: Yeah, oh, yeah, they’re incredible, right? (0:07:01) Kev: So, yeah, a big fan of the WIC series. (0:07:05) Kev: The fourth one, I think, is the weakest entry in the whole thing. (0:07:10) Kev: I feel like so obviously they’re just thinly veiled excuses for, you know, (0:07:17) Kev: gun cottas and choreography and stuff, right? (0:07:21) Kev: Like, I get that. (0:07:22) Kev: but even even by (0:07:25) Kev: those standards like I don’t know the plot here just wasn’t wasn’t doing it (0:07:29) Kev: for me right like John’s motivations didn’t line up like he was supposed to (0:07:35) Kev: go out and and kill the the 12 members of the table or whatever he killed only (0:07:40) Kev: the one guy I don’t know but anyways the the action was good of course I feel (0:07:48) Kev: like the most ridiculous of the the series which is you know a lot but cuz (0:07:53) Kev: We I don’t know why we have guns (0:07:55) Kev: Japanese bows and arrows and samurai swords, but we do because it’s cool. I guess but (0:08:02) Kev: But yeah, I don’t know. It just feels like (0:08:06) Kev: Even by John Wick’s changes. There are a few places that just kind of went a little over the top (0:08:11) Kev: Or maybe it’s just a little fatigue from seeing the other three entries or whatever. I don’t know (0:08:17) Kev: But I mean overall it was good. I’m not I’m not trying to berate it too much just probably my least favorite of the (0:08:24) Kev: The entire series (0:08:25) Kev: And hey, it’s Keanu, right? Like I was happy to see that and I love his his, you know, his his trademark (0:08:33) Kev: Yeah, that he does in every movie like 50% of his lines are just that yeah (0:08:41) Kev: Good old good old Keanu (0:08:45) Kev: Let’s see the other one I watched was A Quiet Place day one (0:08:49) Al: Hmm. (0:08:50) Kev: So I have not seen either of the other quiet place movies. I didn’t know a third one (0:08:55) Kev: came out but I saw it in my life so I was like sure why not. Have you seen quiet place either? (0:09:00) Al: - Yeah, I’ve seen them all, yeah. (0:09:04) Al: Which, I’m just noticing how funny this is (laughs) (0:09:09) Al: because we were having a chat on one of the slacks (0:09:13) Al: about someone claiming that I just watch everything (0:09:16) Al: and then the two series that you’re talking about, (0:09:16) Kev: Yeah, that’ll bring up. Yeah, yeah (0:09:18) Al: I’ve watched both of them, but anyway. (0:09:24) Al: The, I do, I don’t think it’s actually a bad place (0:09:30) Kev: Well, from what I understand, they’re not like, all the stories aren’t directly connected, (0:09:31) Al: to enter the series. (0:09:40) Kev: right? (0:09:40) Al: The first two films are, the second film is very much a direct sequel of the first one but day one is very much a prequel, not connecting directly to individual people, but the concept, yeah, so if you understand the concept of it, then yeah, but… (0:09:41) Kev: They’re different. (0:09:43) Kev: They are? (0:09:44) Kev: Oh gosh, that doesn’t, oh, nevermind then. (0:09:52) Kev: Okay. (0:09:53) Kev: Right. (0:09:54) Kev: Mhm. (0:09:55) Kev: Okay. (0:09:56) Kev: Sure. (0:09:57) Kev: Sure. (0:09:58) Kev: Sure. (0:09:59) Kev: Sure. (0:10:01) Kev: Yeah. (0:10:02) Kev: I do. (0:10:03) Kev: Yeah. (0:10:04) Kev: Yeah. (0:10:05) Kev: And then, you know, it’s not a terribly hard concept. (0:10:06) Kev: So, yeah. (0:10:07) Kev: Yeah. (0:10:08) Kev: I was familiar with that. (0:10:09) Kev: So, um, I don’t know, like, obviously I can’t compare it to the first two, I haven’t seen (0:10:12) Kev: them, but they, this one felt like a little, they were forcing it a little too much, right? (0:10:21) Kev: Like we, we, we’ve already got a cancer patient, right? (0:10:24) Kev: So, you know, they’re already trying to tug at the, the heartstrings or whatever. (0:10:29) Kev: and then you have a dank. (0:10:30) Kev: In this movie it looks like my cat, which caused my anxiety to spike so much, because the cat in that movie looks a lot like my cat, or one of my cats. (0:10:41) Kev: And of course what they can do, they’re going to keep putting it in danger. (0:10:48) Kev: But yeah, a lot of it was very heavy handed in how it was trying to raise the stakes. (0:11:02) Kev: But overall, not a bad film. (0:11:05) Kev: Yeah, I think there are a few moments where it’s a little questionable, like I don’t know why this character did this or whatever, but overall pretty fine. (0:11:19) Kev: Yeah, I don’t have much else to say, I liked it overall though. (0:11:26) Kev: Um, but that’s what I’ve got going on for me. What about you? What’s going on? (0:11:32) Al: Yeah, I’ve also not done a huge amount of gaming. This week has been busy, busy. Obviously (0:11:37) Al: I’ve been playing Pixel Cross Rune Factory for the episode. And I did a bit of raids (0:11:40) Kev: I did too. Great. Shadow Legend. Oh. [laughs] (0:11:45) Al: in Scarlet and Violet this weekend. And obviously I’m continuing on Pokemon Go every day. Yeah, (0:11:56) Al: that’s probably about it games-wise. I did watch the first two episodes of the new Daredevil (0:12:01) Al: Born Again series. (0:12:02) Kev: due to how are they do tell me (0:12:03) Al: There’s that I very much enjoyed the right word. (0:12:09) Al: I very much thought I thought there were I thought they were good. (0:12:12) Kev: I thought they were shows (0:12:13) Al: There was a couple of no, no, no, it’s more a case of I can’t say much (0:12:18) Al: without spoiling it, but there’s this stuff that happens that doesn’t make me (0:12:22) Al: happy, but it’s not meant to make me happy, right? (0:12:25) Kev: okay so mission accomplished that’s not necessarily a bad thing (0:12:27) Al: Yeah, I’m feeling what they want me to feel. (0:12:30) Al: it. Yeah, it’s (0:12:31) Kev: I don’t like the feeling. (0:12:32) Al: the. (0:12:35) Kev: OK. (0:12:36) Kev: What is the plot? (0:12:38) Kev: Because I don’t know any– (0:12:39) Kev: I haven’t heard anything about the specifics. (0:12:42) Al: Have you seen the the Netflix series? (0:12:42) Kev: What is– I have not, but I know enough about it, I think. (0:12:47) Al: I mean, the overall idea of the series is this is the Fisk is Mayor one, so, which they’ve (0:12:58) Kev: » Okay. Sure. (0:13:00) Al: done in comics before, I’m sure I know I’ve kind of seen some things about it, but that’s (0:13:05) Al: the kind of overall something happens at the beginning of the first episode that leads (0:13:10) Al: to Daredevil stopping. (0:13:12) Al: being Daredevil, and then Fist becomes Mayor, and now we’re a little bit further on, and (0:13:18) Al: now Matt wants to be Daredevil again, or doesn’t want to be Daredevil again. (0:13:22) Al: But you know what I mean? (0:13:23) Al: Like, it’s forced into being Daredevil again because of things that happen. (0:13:23) Kev: yeah yeah okay uh okay then you know that’s fine I guess but okay well fisk is mayor okay that that’s (0:13:29) Al: It’s hard to say much without spoiling the episodes, right? (0:13:36) Kev: the elevator picture I was looking for um okay here’s a question where does this fit into the (0:13:42) Kev: timeline like with she-ho because that’s the one i’m actually seeing with the good old man in any (0:13:46) Al: Yeah, it’s a good question. They don’t directly tie it in, but I think as far as I can tell (0:13:55) Al: it’s She-Hulk and then a little while later Echo happens and then a little while later (0:14:01) Al: this happens. They directly reference Echo happening in the past. Yeah, they don’t directly (0:14:02) Kev: Okay. Okay. (0:14:13) Al: reference the racist. (0:14:16) Al: that’s, I think it’s happened in the past, but not sure. Like just in terms of like (0:14:20) Kev: Okay (0:14:23) Al: just general MCU continuity, right? (0:14:25) Kev: Mm-hmm, um, okay that that’s interesting because I haven’t seen echo (0:14:32) Al: Echos, well, okay, I really enjoyed Echos. I thought it was very good. Yeah. (0:14:35) Kev: Okay (0:14:38) Kev: Okay, I mean no no like I believe it just I’m thinking just like cuz you know (0:14:43) Kev: obviously I feel like there’s a lot of important context because you know with the (0:14:48) Kev: the end of Hawkeye you get some kingpin and (0:14:50) Kev: then you got Echo and She-Hulk, so I’m just, yup, yeah he is and that’s fine cause it’s (0:14:51) Al: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he’s he’s popping up in a lot of things, (0:14:56) Al: isn’t he? (0:14:59) Kev: a great portrayal, but you know just context wise like how do I, I missed a few chapters (0:15:04) Al: I would watch Echo, I think it’s worth watching Echo. Not necessarily for Daredevil, (0:15:05) Kev: in how we got here. (0:15:10) Kev: I watch Hawkeye, yes. (0:15:16) Al: I don’t think it really does a huge amount for Daredevil, but it does for Fisk. I think (0:15:18) Kev: Yeah (0:15:21) Kev: Okay (0:15:22) Al: it’s important for Fisk’s story. (0:15:24) Kev: Okay, okay, that makes sense is Kate Bishop in it Kate Bishop in any of this oh (0:15:30) Al: has not been yet. I also like Kate Bishop. Yeah, there were some rumours that her stepdad, (0:15:32) Kev: But I like Kate Bishop specific (0:15:36) Kev: Specifically this one. What’s her name Haley Seinfeld? Yes (0:15:44) Al: what’s his name? I can’t remember his name. Yeah, there were some rumours that he’s going to appear (0:15:46) Kev: Oh the the sword guy (0:15:48) Kev: Oh (0:15:51) Al: in this series. But we’ll see. (0:15:52) Kev: Okay, uh-huh that’d be interesting I don’t remember his name is he supposed to be a sword master I don’t know whatever um (0:16:00) Al: I think he’s kind of loosely based on that idea, but he’s not actually. He’s just a bozo. (0:16:04) Kev: Yeah, yeah (0:16:06) Kev: Yeah, that’s that’s the feeling I get (0:16:10) Kev: Well, you know, you know, I don’t even need Kate Bishop specific. I just want more Haley Seinfeld in my life (0:16:16) Al: Well, well, yeah, there is that. Yeah, I would be surprised if we don’t get her in the next (0:16:18) Kev: There is that (0:16:23) Al: two years in something. I guess, is that cheating? Because in two years, we’ve got secret wars, (0:16:25) Kev: I mean, yeah. Well, you know what? (0:16:30) Al: and if we don’t get anybody, if someone doesn’t appear in secret wars, (0:16:34) Al: they’re basically dead, right? Like, they’re not going to be in anything again. (0:16:36) Kev: I was look I was I was about to say with at the current state of the mcu (0:16:42) Kev: it’s a kind of a 50/50 on that question for almost anyone (0:16:46) Al: I don’t think, I don’t think Kate Bishop was badly received at all. Like, there are some characters (0:16:56) Kev: yeah (0:16:57) Al: that I could see them just, like, I would be really sad if she helped never appears again, (0:17:01) Al: but I would understand based on, you know, the internet. But I didn’t see anything about that with (0:17:02) Kev: yes (0:17:06) Kev: yeah (0:17:09) Kev: yeah yeah no i’m here’s the thing like my point is it feel like in such a (0:17:15) Kev: directionless disarray I don’t even think that’s a factor like what (0:17:18) Al: Well, I think I think they’re at the point now where they’re just wrapping up the stories (0:17:27) Al: that they weren’t sure about. And I think they probably have good ideas for what they want to do, (0:17:33) Al: but they need to wrap up what they were doing before they can do that, if that makes sense. (0:17:37) Al: Like it feels like we’re kind of almost like falling towards secret wars because they want (0:17:42) Al: to get it over and done with and then reset into something that they can do the stories (0:17:44) Kev: Yes (0:17:48) Al: they want to. The classic comic book way, right? (0:17:48) Kev: Yeah, yeah, yeah (0:17:53) Kev: Yep, yep, throw away everything cuz we’re not sure anymore is just do the new thing I guess (0:17:59) Al: Yeah, we would like to do our film that lets us have Pedro Pascal (0:18:04) Al: alongside Robert Downey Jr. Please and thank you, move along. (0:18:07) Kev: Yeah, you know, that’s yeah. Ooh, you know, that’s that might be a fair trade-off (0:18:14) Kev: You don’t you won’t get what’s his name? Oh gosh One Direction guy Wow (0:18:20) Al: Oh yeah, Harry Styles, Star Fox. (0:18:23) Kev: Yeah, you’re not I promise you we’re not getting Harry Styles anymore, but we’ll get Pedro Pascal that’s that’s a fair trade-off. Oh (0:18:32) Al: Yeah. Look, the one that boggles my mind that they’ve not brought back is Shang-Chi. (0:18:33) Kev: Oh, man (0:18:38) Al: Why has he not reappeared anywhere? Bizarre. Bizarre to me. Like, that was such a well-received film. (0:18:42) Kev: Yeah (0:18:49) Kev: It was yeah, I mean it but really I mean (0:18:54) Kev: Everything post infinity war like not not not by individual like, you know, obviously there’s been great and highs and lows (0:19:02) Kev: but just like the entire (0:19:04) Kev: idea of their continuity and (0:19:08) Kev: Connectedness has been an absolute mess a train wreck. So I don’t know (0:19:12) Al: It’s really interesting if you look back on release dates. So we had a whole Iron Man trilogy (0:19:13) Kev: You (0:19:15) Kev: Mm-hmm. Yeah (0:19:21) Kev: Yes, right (0:19:21) Al: in five years, 2008 to 2013. It has been nearly four years since Shang-Chi came out. (0:19:25) Kev: Yeah (0:19:29) Kev: Oh sick (0:19:32) Al: So in the time that it has been since Shang-Chi, Iron Man was nearly at its third film. (0:19:40) Kev: Crazy. (0:19:40) Al: Thor had a full trilogy and. (0:19:42) Al: In six years, Captain America had a full trilogy in five years. (0:19:50) Al: Like it’s just, it’s fascinating how slow they are at getting sequels out now. (0:19:50) Kev: Oh, yeah, one of my favorite benchmarks of any time comparison is the US Confederacy, (0:20:02) Al: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Two thousand, yeah. Fun. Fun times. Anyway, uh, I’ve also been watching (0:20:03) Kev: right? (0:20:05) Kev: And we have now a full Confederacy between Shang-Chi appearances. (0:20:13) Kev: Oh, yeah. (0:20:22) Al: Avatar the Last Airbender, so that’s the thing I’m watching through just now. So I have just (0:20:24) Kev: Oh yeah, I forgot about that. (0:20:27) Kev: Mm. (0:20:28) Al: finished season one and I am enjoying it very much so. (0:20:32) Al: Particularly there was a fun, so when they get to the North (0:20:36) Al: Pole, there’s a very fun, Katara has a very fun fight with (0:20:36) Kev: Yep. (0:20:42) Kev: Yep. (0:20:42) Al: someone. I don’t want to say too much, just in case anyone else (0:20:44) Al: is wanting to watch them. It doesn’t want to get spoiled. (0:20:46) Al: That fight is an incredible fight. I love all the different (0:20:50) Al: ideas that they have for that fight. So yeah. (0:20:53) Kev: oh well buckle up buckaroo because one thing they did excellent throughout the entire show (0:21:01) Kev: up to the very end is the choreography um well the fight choreography and direction um it’s all (0:21:09) Kev: stellar um but you know because all the the different earthbending styles are based off real (0:21:15) Kev: life martial arts and whatnot and so they you know they they translate that well but then of (0:21:20) Kev: And of course you have elemental superpowers. (0:21:23) Kev: They translate, they do fun stuff with that sometimes. (0:21:25) Kev: Um… (0:21:27) Kev: But, uh… (0:21:28) Kev: Oh, I am very excited for you. (0:21:31) Kev: Uh, like, y-you’ve seen how good season 1 is. (0:21:34) Al: Yeah, and people well people keep saying it’s the worst season, and I’m like this is the worst my word (0:21:35) Kev: What if I told you… (0:21:38) Kev: Yeah! (0:21:38) Kev: YEAH! (0:21:39) Kev: YEAH! (0:21:40) Kev: YEAH! (0:21:40) Kev: YEAH! (0:21:41) Al: I’m looking forward to what comes next (0:21:41) Kev: YEAH! (0:21:41) Kev: YEAH! (0:21:43) Kev: Yeah, exactly what I was about to say, yeah, I’m glad you’re enjoying it. (0:21:45) Kev: You haven’t seen anything yet, you’ve seen garbage. (0:21:48) Kev: It’s… it’s so good. (0:21:49) Al: The humour in it is very good. It’s stupid for humour, but the comedic timing is what (0:21:50) Kev: Um… (0:21:53) Kev: It’s great. (0:21:56) Kev: Yeah. (0:21:57) Kev: Yeah. (0:22:00) Al: gets it, right? There’s a bit where Katara is pretending to be an earthbender, right? (0:22:00) Kev: Yeah. (0:22:01) Kev: Yeah, it- (0:22:06) Kev: Yeah. (0:22:06) Al: And they do this weird thing where Aang is blowing air through a hole in the ground to (0:22:11) Kev: Yeah. (0:22:13) Al: levitate a rock, and Katara is pretending to do that. (0:22:13) Kev: Yeah. (0:22:14) Kev: Yeah. (0:22:19) Al: The guys look over and they’re like, “Oh, that lemur’s earthbending!” It’s just such (0:22:24) Kev: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, you’re right, they are they’re killer with their (0:22:25) Al: a stupid moment, but because of the tension, and they build it up, and the timing, and (0:22:31) Al: that stupid moment is just so funny. (0:22:37) Kev: comedic timing, like in general, because it’s, it’s, it’s wild, because it’s such a serious, (0:22:44) Kev: like, show, right, like, both in terms of the overall plot, and they, they treat that, (0:22:49) Kev: the tone gets very heavy at times, but they still managed to pull off. (0:22:54) Kev: And I think part of it is because they’re stupid 12 year olds, you know, so they’re gonna do dumb stuff. (0:23:00) Al: » Yeah. (0:23:02) Kev: But yeah, oh man, I can’t hurry up and finish it so I can talk to you about my favorite episodes, the dragon dance. (0:23:04) Al: » Yeah. (0:23:10) Al: It will only be another few weeks. (0:23:12) Al: I’ve got these done in three weeks. (0:23:14) Kev: Alright. (0:23:14) Al: So we’ll be done soon. (0:23:16) Kev: Tell me you get to boo me. (0:23:20) Al: Yeah, I think that’s everything. (0:23:22) Al: So that’s what we’ve been up to. (0:23:22) Al: My word. (0:23:24) Al: I thought this was going to be a short episode. (0:23:24) Al: We’re 25 minutes in. (0:23:26) Kev: I’m on- I’m on this show, you know that won’t happen. (0:23:31) Al: - Let’s get through this news. (0:23:32) Al: So first off, desktop cat cafe is out now. (0:23:35) Kev: Okay. (0:23:35) Al: Not much to say about that. (0:23:36) Al: That’s the bottom of the screen cat cafe game, (0:23:38) Kev: The- the- the rusty leg is what I’d say, yeah. (0:23:39) Al: the Rusty Like. (0:23:42) Kev: Um, that’s- (0:23:44) Al: So if you were like, (0:23:45) Al: “Oh, I like the idea of Rusty’s retirement, (0:23:46) Al: but I want it to be cats.” (0:23:49) Al: There you go. (0:23:50) Kev: Yeah, the the cats are kind of I’m still not the whole idea (0:23:55) Kev: I don’t like I’m very on the idea, but the cats are very cute. I will say that (0:24:02) Kev: Yeah, it looks nice. I’m sure it’s a wonderful entry for you rusty. Yeah, it’s right rusty lights. I’m rusty like fans (0:24:13) Kev: I enjoy cute cats (0:24:15) Al: Next we have one lonely outpost have released their 1.0 and are now on switch Xboxes and (0:24:22) Al: PS5. (0:24:24) Kev: Wait, they weren’t already on Switch? (0:24:25) Al: They were not the this is their this is their console release. (0:24:27) Kev: Okay. (0:24:30) Kev: Oh, well, good for them. (0:24:31) Al: The 1.0 is pretty slim. (0:24:33) Al: It’s like yeah this is the 1.0 and it’s like almost all bug fixes. (0:24:38) Kev: Hehehehe, it’s a game! (0:24:40) Al: Which is like probably the right way to do it like I’ve always complained about people (0:24:45) Al: 1.0 and like here’s half the game now because it’s because it just ends up being buggy. (0:24:48) Kev: Yeah. (0:24:50) Al: So this is probably the right way to do it but it’s just really funny saying here’s the (0:24:53) Al: release notes for 1.0 and the only thing that isn’t a bug fix is added four new artifacts (0:24:59) Al: to Sydney’s shop. (0:25:00) Kev: I was about to say like, the amount of content for 1.0 is debatable maybe or a little subjective, (0:25:13) Kev: yada yada, but the one thing, the game should work, right? (0:25:17) Kev: That’s the minimum, so if it’s all just bug fixes to get to that point, I can live with (0:25:22) Kev: that I guess. (0:25:23) Kev: I probably won’t play this game, but you know, good for them. (0:25:26) Al: for sure. (0:25:28) Kev: They crossed a finish line. (0:25:30) Al: Next we have a new DLC for Sprout Valley, it’s the Friends Forever DLC, I think this (0:25:36) Kev: Didn’t expect this I don’t know why I just I don’t know but here we are sprovella dilsen (0:25:42) Al: is what happens when you release a game that costs like a fiver, you sell DLC, 11 new friends (0:25:45) Kev: I guess yeah (0:25:49) Al: that can be found while visiting new islands, each of them has their own gift preferences, (0:25:53) Al: hobbies, unique style, and they’re all different. (0:25:56) Al: They’re all different kinds of creatures from buffaloes to frogs. Each new island’s dweller has a questlet at the end of which await new workspaces, items, and rewards. (0:26:06) Kev: cool. 2-bit or 8-bit Hello Kitty Island adventure, basically. Yeah, no, I’m kidding, I’m kidding, (0:26:12) Al: I it’s not as big as that, not by in no way as it was. (0:26:16) Kev: I know. I know. Yeah, yeah, no. I’m just saying, because I’m looking at one of the, I think (0:26:18) Al: I had fun with the, what, like five hours I played it. (0:26:25) Kev: it looks like a dog. It looks a little like a cinnamon roll. Anyway, it’s still a very (0:26:29) Kev: cute game, no matter what. Good for you Sprout Valley, keep on trucking. (0:26:35) Al: Next, we have Everhome have released a 1.1.0 update. (0:26:40) Al: This adds cooking, and it adds a compendium, tracking discoveries. (0:26:42) Kev: like cooking that’s always a good one feels like it should have been at 1.0 (0:26:48) Al: Yep. (0:26:52) Kev: but mmm true (0:26:52) Al: Yeah, well, as you say, always debatable what these things are. (0:26:58) Al: And they’ve also overhauled their quests and luck systems. (0:27:02) Kev: oh okay that that’s probably good um well I get it you touche (0:27:05) Al: So maybe we’ll see. Who knows? (0:27:13) Al: Firelines have released their 0.4 update, adding relationships into the game. (0:27:18) Kev: oh goody finally now now they’re cottage core oh um (0:27:24) Al: I think you’ll find their space cottage core. Thank you very much. (0:27:33) Kev: yeah I don’t i’m trying to think of a clever name I can’t think of one but here we are oh man (0:27:40) Al: base kedge no i’m not no I should have not but (0:27:46) Kev: Can I rome can I romance aliens do just the cat people boo (0:27:50) Al: I don’t think so (0:27:55) Al: yeah I haven’t seen anything about that anyway (0:27:58) Kev: This should be (0:28:00) Kev: There’s very clearly an alien-looking guy again. I would guess it’s an alien-looking guy (0:28:06) Al: You know what, I think you might be excited about, OK. (0:28:09) Kev: Yeah, the next news item (0:28:11) Al: Mika and the Witches Mountain into the Montgaunt is now available. (0:28:16) Kev: Oh snap this is a reason to come back (0:28:16) Al: This is the as far as we know, as far as we know, (0:28:22) Al: it’s the last update for Mika and the Witches Mountain. (0:28:27) Al: I say as far as we know, just because in the release information, (0:28:31) Al: they’re saying it’s the latest free content patch. (0:28:36) Al: They’re actively saying it’s the final one. (0:28:38) Al: But they have previously not mentioned any announcement of any other updates. (0:28:44) Kev: Yeah, okay (0:28:44) Al: But this is the one that adds in dungeons. (0:28:46) Al: So there are three dungeons in the game to test your skill. (0:28:50) Kev: So I was about to say because I’m looking down the dungeons (0:28:54) Kev: There’s one of fire one of wind and one of water and I’m and you know, I’m no secret. This is (0:29:02) Kev: Oh my god, but oh my goodness (0:29:07) Kev: Wind Waker jeez, I know I took me to I’m tired people. Um, it’s wind Waker inspired (0:29:08) Al: Mm-hmm (0:29:12) Kev: I’m looking at like all that. I know that (0:29:14) Kev: Wind Waker dungeon. I know that Wind Waker dungeon (0:29:17) Kev: And I’m like, yeah, we’re just turning up the Wind Waker dial and then I scroll to the near the bottom (0:29:24) Kev: And oh, there you go. They’ve also introduced your actual actually (0:29:30) Kev: Link’s costume you get the tunic and a green hat. They call it the green witch but (0:29:32) Al: I, yeah, I think you’ll find this is the green witch outfit, thank you very much. Legally distinct. (0:29:43) Kev: Very cute (0:29:44) Kev: Is this reason for me to fire up Mika? Yeah, I actually probably is I haven’t touched it so (0:29:46) Al: you you yeah absolutely did you play the other two updates (0:29:53) Kev: I’ve not so I’m gonna get them all at once. Yeah (0:29:55) Al: well there you go then I was waiting for the for the mall as well maybe we (0:29:59) Kev: Yeah, I’m down for that (0:30:03) Kev: This is uh (0:30:06) Kev: Whoa (0:30:07) Kev: Sorry, I’m just reading when you get the green witch costume you get upward flight. So I (0:30:13) Al: Oh, finally! There we go. Just a shame that that’s for completing the dungeons, i.e. having (0:30:15) Kev: Snap (0:30:17) Kev: The limiters are off (0:30:19) Kev: Then it’s (0:30:22) Al: done everything in the game. Well, hey, maybe it’ll be fun, who knows. (0:30:24) Kev: Yeah, pretty much (0:30:28) Kev: Yeah, yeah, I’m always I was kind of (0:30:32) Kev: I’m always torn on this sort of design right because it’s it’s not uncommon where you get the (0:30:37) Kev: The full power at the very end or whatever right and like on the one hand it makes sense that you know (0:30:44) Kev: That’s where the progression leads to (0:30:46) Kev: But on the other hand like what are you gonna do with it now, you know? (0:30:50) Al: Yeah, yeah, I think this there is a balance to be had there and I think I (0:30:55) Al: think this is why I like 3d platform or certain nothing just platformers in general because (0:31:01) Al: You know excluding Metroidvanias, which the whole point is just unlocking (0:31:05) Al: Skills as you go. I like the idea that it’s (0:31:09) Al: What gets you through the game is your skill improving not necessarily the game just giving you things to make it easier (0:31:16) Kev: Okay, sure, sure. (0:31:18) Al: Um, and speaking of metroidvanias, I did. (0:31:20) Al: Once, which you didn’t unlock stuff as you went through the game, it just told you about stuff as you went through the game. (0:31:28) Al: So if you like just experimented and tried things, you would actually be able to do things much earlier than the game told you about them. (0:31:35) Kev: Yeah, I like that, see that is a good design right there. (0:31:40) Al: Next, we have the announcement that the Wholesome Direct is coming back this year, coming in June, there we go. (0:31:47) Kev: Okay, just like I don’t mean like one punch man. Okay. I’m like, all right. Yeah, that’s fine (0:31:56) Al: There we go. (0:31:56) Al: That’s the thing. (0:31:58) Al: That is a nice, easy episode for us later in the year. (0:31:58) Kev: Yeah (0:32:01) Kev: Yeah, that’s the real excitement here easy episode announced (0:32:07) Al: No preparation except watching a video. (0:32:09) Kev: Yeah, we can do that (0:32:13) Al: And finally, we have the announcement of Monster Patch. (0:32:17) Al: We have vaguely talked about this in the past, because this is the monster-collecting farming (0:32:26) Al: game by the maker of Littlewood. (0:32:26) Kev: Oh, by Sean Young. Yeah. (0:32:30) Al: Yes, so, but this is like the first proper thing of it, and this is the Kickstarter (0:32:35) Al: is going live soon. (0:32:38) Al: So yeah, it’s very much Gameboy-style graphics, kind of traditional Pokemon-style graphics. (0:32:46) Al: So if you like that, yeah. (0:32:46) Kev: Very not just graphics like even art style like that those trainers. That’s a Brock misty and ash (0:32:56) Al: Yeah, I was going to say the first one is definitely Gary. (0:32:56) Kev: And there’s even a Gary on the first image (0:33:00) Kev: That is definitely Gary (0:33:03) Kev: And even some of these Pokemon, you know getting getting in that little little bit of power world school of thought that you know (0:33:12) Kev: He squint is that a whooper? No (0:33:17) Kev: It’s an ax a lot. No, that’s not a that’s not a whooper (0:33:25) Al: Hold up. Hold up just a minute. Is Whipper based on an axolotl? (0:33:27) Kev: Yeah, yeah (0:33:30) Al: I had never noticed that before, but you’re right. It is, isn’t it? (0:33:31) Kev: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s got the little little you know antenna with a little (0:33:34) Al: Wild. There you go. (0:33:40) Al: It totally is. It totally looks like what… (0:33:42) Kev: Yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah, we made that connection. Oh, yeah (0:33:47) Kev: um (0:33:48) Kev: Could we make a cuter ax a little probably cuz ax a little are very cute, but whooper is good. No, it was good. Nonetheless. Um, I (0:33:59) Al: And of course it’s shiny pink, isn’t it? Which is the standard axolotl, axolotl colour. (0:34:01) Kev: Yeah, that’s correct (0:34:04) Kev: Standard yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah, you know, okay slight slight (0:34:13) Kev: tangent here, um (0:34:15) Kev: so (0:34:17) Kev: They are you know 99 PI 99% invisible, okay, um (0:34:23) Kev: For folks who don’t know it’s a podcast that just goes into the history and origins of all sorts of random topics (0:34:28) Kev: I’m just everyday things um (0:34:30) Al: It’s mostly like design stuff, but yeah, they stretch out of that quite a bit, but that’s the original idea. (0:34:32) Kev: Yeah design stuff yeah (0:34:34) Kev: They do they do yeah, yeah (0:34:39) Kev: There’s an episode where they talk about axolotls (0:34:42) Kev: And how the the pink acts a lot of the common one that (0:34:46) Kev: so famous and popular and you can get pet shops is is so very distinct and different now because (0:34:57) Kev: long story short they years ago they some researchers got like a handful like eight (0:35:04) Kev: axolotls from the wilds of mexico and then like all the lab quote unquote lab axolotls though the (0:35:12) Kev: the pink ones with the translucent skin all those are more or less descendants (0:35:16) Kev: and they’ve just become so distinctly different from the wild ones because if (0:35:23) Kev: you look at a wild axolotl from the ones in Mexico they’re not even pink (0:35:26) Kev: they’re more like gray and they’re a little more fish-looking for lack of a (0:35:33) Kev: better word they might just because their skin isn’t translucent like the (0:35:36) Kev: the ones that so famous but it’s it’s a fascinating topic I love axolotls both (0:35:43) Kev: with the wild ones and the not wild ones. (0:35:46) Kev: But yeah, so going back to thing, Whooper’s cool, and more importantly Monster Patch. (0:35:54) Kev: Like, all the jokes about the style and whatever side, it looks, at least the images look competently made. (0:36:02) Kev: So I’m curious to see how this will pan out. (0:36:07) Kev: Do we have a date for the launch? I don’t think we do, do we? (0:36:09) Al: No, we just it’s coming. (0:36:11) Kev: Alright, well, keep your eyes out. (0:36:15) Kev: Yeah, I don’t know, we’re growing things. (0:36:18) Kev: And Pokemon are there. (0:36:20) Al: - Yes, yeah, fun. (0:36:23) Al: We’ll see what it’s like, but I liked Little Wood, (0:36:26) Al: so, and I like Pokemon. (0:36:29) Kev: I do. I don’t know. I actually haven’t played Little Wood, but I like Pokémon. (0:36:35) Kev: So we’ll see. That Apple Dragon Crocodile thing, I don’t know what that is. That’s a cute looking one. (0:36:44) Kev: I’m down. Let me know when. I mean, obviously you will let me know when this launches, but I’m just (0:36:49) Al: Oh, I just noticed it does actually say the Kickstarter is launching. (0:36:50) Kev: speaking to Sean Young, I guess. Not you, Al. But let me know when it launches so I can play this. (0:36:56) Kev: I am intrigued. (0:36:59) Kev: Oh, yeah, there it is at the very end. Oh, that’s soon, relatively, but yeah, but it kills us. That’s no indicator. You know, it just gives us the various tiniest, like false hope of when it actually comes out because that, you know, we’re talking about it like, oh, that’s lunch. That is no correlation to when we can play it. Done. (0:37:19) Al: yeah there was because they (0:37:27) Al: yeah because there was the um what was the other chibi game uh elusive um the kickstarter for (0:37:35) Al: that launched last week and yeah it was the expected release date for that is uh may 2027 (0:37:43) Al: so two years time (0:37:44) Kev: You know what? At least, I think I almost prefer a long launch window because that feels realistic/believable/but you know, I get it. (0:37:56) Al: Yeah, yeah, but it’s also the fact that elusive was announced three years ago originally. (0:38:04) Kev: Oh, that’s a different story. You’re right. (0:38:07) Al: So it’s like, yeah, games take a long time, but also this will be like five years from (0:38:12) Al: the first time we hear about it when it eventually releases. (0:38:14) Kev: Oh, sick. (0:38:16) Al: It’s our first official 2027 release date. (0:38:21) Kev: That is, that is also… (0:38:21) Al: Just checking my spreadsheet. (0:38:23) Al: We have a few saying 2026, but nothing saying 2027. (0:38:26) Kev: Look, I don’t mean, I don’t want to be mean to elusive. (0:38:30) Kev: Alright, like, the game dev’s hard, I get it, but… (0:38:34) Kev: I just, again, it’s one of my favorite benchmarks. (0:38:37) Kev: The elusive dev cycle is longer than one Confederacy of the United States. (0:38:50) Al: Where am I? I lost my tab. There we are. That’s all the news. We are now going to talk about (0:38:57) Kev: We did it (0:39:01) Al: Pixel Cross Rune Factory. Now before we get into this, Kevin, did you play the previous (0:39:03) Kev: So (0:39:06) Kev: Yes, yes, yeah, yeah we did I was on the episode we did the episode yes, it was (0:39:08) Al: one? (0:39:09) Al: Pixel Cross. (0:39:10) Al: It was me and you, was it? Right, OK. (0:39:13) Al: So next question, did you actually get any time to play this game this week? (0:39:15) Kev: A little bit it I’ve reached the first boss. There’s my (0:39:20) Al: OK. Yeah, that’s decent. I think you get the customization by that point. (0:39:26) Kev: Yeah, oh, yeah, you get that early on that’s like one of the first ones you get yeah, so I have enough to have thoughts (0:39:31) Kev: I haven’t seen the full things, but I certainly enough for opinions. Yes. Yes, absolutely. Yeah (0:39:34) Al: I think you’ve seen enough. You’ve seen enough, realistically, right? (0:39:39) Al: Because you also see, I think the boss, the only thing you won’t have done is a colour one. (0:39:44) Kev: Yeah, I’ve not seen a gun of color one yet. No, but uh, but (0:39:47) Al: but I think they’re pretty clear. (0:39:50) Al: They’re just slightly more complicated ones, but what comes to them when we come to it? (0:39:51) Kev: Yeah, yeah (0:39:58) Al: I’m changing this list around. I want to talk about the customisation first, (0:40:02) Al: because this is the thing that’s different. This is the thing that’s different about this game, (0:40:03) Kev: Oh (0:40:06) Al: other than the bosses are different, the colours are different, but this is the thing that seemed (0:40:09) Kev: Okay, well (0:40:12) Al: the most interesting to me until I played the game. (0:40:14) Kev: Well, there’s a few things oh (0:40:16) Kev: Okay, I’m gonna take us to (0:40:18) Kev: Hold on before we get them we can take one step back just for anyone who might not remember because you know (0:40:23) Kev: That was a while ago and people aren’t remember, right? So we’re talking on a grand pic cross puzzles, right? (0:40:29) Kev: Um, they did, uh, when we’re talking about his- his pixel-cross story of- (0:40:33) Kev: That’s the previous game, and that was just a very straightforward bare-bones- (0:40:39) Kev: Here’s a bunch of Picross puzzles, um, and there happens to be Harvest Moon, you know, they’re all Harvest Moon, er, story of seasons images, there’s (0:40:47) Kev: music in the background, and a little farm growing in the background. Um, but that- that was pretty much it, right? A very- (0:40:53) Kev: Yeah, I- I enjoy it, ‘cause I enjoy nonagram, but, um, but straightforward and, uh, basic sort of collection of puzzles. (0:41:03) Kev: This one, they’re- they- they upped- they upped it. I’m just- I’m surprised, I didn’t think they could take it places, but they did, they’re doing stuff, right? (0:41:13) Kev: Um, because- okay, let’s get into the customization. Now, that’s one of the biggest ones, ‘cause story of seasons was just (0:41:21) Kev: automatically happening in the background, you kind of looked at it here and there, but here, go ahead, Al, tell them. (0:41:24) Al: Yeah. Yeah, so here you I mean, realistically, it’s not fundamentally different, right? Like, (0:41:33) Al: the back, the background is still doing the same thing is the background. And you have a farm, (0:41:39) Al: like the previous one, because it’s all still farming, right? But you get to like, choose how (0:41:45) Al: your farm looks, basically, right? So you have, you can, it’s very specifically, you can go down (0:41:52) Al: down to which crops you want on which. (0:41:54) Al: Crop plot point, you can say “I want a turnip here, I want a potato here, I want a cabbage there”. (0:42:00) Al: You can be very specific about it. Weirdly detailed and you can also change your character’s (0:42:08) Al: look and weapons and stuff like that. I guess the thing I was disappointed about it was (0:42:14) Al: it doesn’t change anything. It is just the background and that’s fine. Maybe I shouldn’t (0:42:18) Al: have expected any more but it doesn’t make any difference to gameplay. (0:42:24) Al: It’s just changing what is on in the background which some people might really like but I’m just (0:42:29) Al: a little bit… I don’t particularly care because it’s really in the background. It’s there but (0:42:35) Al: you’re looking at the puzzle and especially… I don’t know how you play these games but I’m (0:42:39) Al: trying to do them as quickly as possible and then I put it down when I finished. (0:42:42) Kev: Yeah, right (0:42:45) Kev: Well, okay there is I (0:42:48) Kev: Think there’s a few more there’s a little more to it that gives it a little more meat on the buns (0:42:52) Kev: First of all, this now introduces a collection aspect, right? (0:42:55) Kev: Like one that you can actually display right whether it’s your displaying different crops on the field or perhaps more importantly to us (0:43:02) Kev: You you can collect monsters, right? (0:43:05) Al: Oh yes, I forgot about the monsters, of course. (0:43:07) Kev: Yeah, right you can have a couple monsters on your farm and they’re just walking around (0:43:12) Kev: background elements, but (0:43:14) Kev: Gotta catch them all. You’re right. Gotta catch them all (0:43:16) Al: Well and, and including, you won’t know this, but you can have the boxes there as well. (0:43:20) Kev: Yeah, I figured so I think there’s a page for that like you could kind of see it on the (0:43:26) Kev: Customization pages, but yes including bosses. So that’s fun (0:43:32) Kev: And actually (0:43:34) Kev: I guess you know, no, I’ll get to that in a second. Um (0:43:38) Kev: The other big one I think is the quote-unquote (0:43:42) Kev: And I say big is still not that big but the arms or equipment or whatever (0:43:48) Kev: So you can unlock different weapons because room factory, you know has this combat based (0:43:54) Kev: And there are combat scenes in the background when you’re fighting monsters to capture them or whatnot, right? (0:44:02) Kev: So depending on the weapons you equip you actually get different animations going on the background (0:44:07) Kev: I don’t know if you played around with that now or caught it but if you equip gauntlets versus a sword (0:44:12) Kev: Or an axe or whatever you get different animations and again just background stuff. Nothing cats significant, but it’s it’s a cute little (0:44:20) Al: Yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s fun. And I get why people like it. It’s just that’s not really my thing. I’m much more interested, I think, in the changes they made to gameplay, which we’ll come on to in a minute. (0:44:21) Kev: Cute little nod. I appreciate that. Yeah (0:44:27) Kev: Sure (0:44:33) Kev: Sure sure (0:44:34) Al: But yeah, it was… (0:44:36) Kev: Okay, before we get to the some of the different puzzles or how they spice it up (0:44:42) Kev: Other thing that I like so when you start the game you’re asked (0:44:46) Kev: Basically, there are two modes you can do you can do puzzle mode or adventure mode now puzzle mode is just basically like the (0:44:55) Kev: The first one where it’s just a collection of puzzles and you just do them (0:44:59) Kev: And you know, I think you can still not the customization and so on and so forth, but it’s just a big (0:45:05) Kev: block of (0:45:07) Kev: puzzles a list of puzzles (0:45:10) Kev: Adventure mode is a little bit (0:45:12) Kev: different because you unlock the puzzles basically on a sort of map where you clear one puzzle and then surrounding tiles on them on this map will unlock so you can kind of bounce around and progress right at the end you know it’s it’s it’s just a it’s still just a list of puzzles just a slightly different direction and a little different presentation but it’s it’s again kind of a fun little nod to the rune factory series where you got exploration and whatnot right. (0:45:40) Al: - Yeah, it kind of doesn’t make any difference (0:45:43) Al: but in a way it does ‘cause it gives you a lot more (0:45:46) Al: flexibility on what you’re playing, right? (0:45:48) Al: Like in standard one, standard like nonogram games, (0:45:51) Al: you just got like, here’s a list and you go and do one (0:45:53) Kev: Yep. (0:45:55) Al: then you do the next, you do the next, you do the next. (0:45:57) Al: Whereas here, you do one and it kind of unlocks (0:45:58) Kev: Yep. (0:46:00) Al: the top and the left of that one (0:46:02) Kev: Yeah. (0:46:02) Al: and you do the one over there (0:46:03) Al: and it does the bottom and the right of that one. (0:46:05) Al: And it gives you lots and the, (0:46:08) Al: As much as I was like, not massive. (0:46:10) Al: I do feel like purely this map-based layout does make me feel a little bit more immersed (0:46:19) Al: in this world, right? (0:46:20) Kev: It it does it (0:46:20) Al: Because it actually feels like you’re traveling, it feels like you’re exploring, and especially (0:46:25) Al: as it shows you there are some areas there, but you can’t get to them yet, and then you (0:46:28) Kev: Yeah, yeah (0:46:30) Al: unlock that, and then it shows you more areas you can get to. (0:46:32) Al: It feels like I’m exploring much more than anything else. (0:46:33) Kev: Yeah (0:46:34) Kev: It does right and it’s some that’s that establishes a goal of sort right like (0:46:41) Kev: Actual progress which is you know not associate with the nonagram collection game, but but I agree (0:46:48) Kev: Yeah, because like you said there’s (0:46:50) Kev: I’ve reached a puzzle where okay, I cleared the the puzzles next to them, but it didn’t lock. Why is that? (0:46:55) Kev: Well, that’s I guess I for me to discover and that’s kind of fun (0:47:00) Kev: And you know if nothing else like I think it’s all I’m impressed by how clever all these ideas are right like (0:47:07) Kev: Cuz they you don’t have a lot of room to play with this sort of game, right? (0:47:11) Kev: Like it’s the bread and butter is just the nonagrams (0:47:14) Kev: So how do we make it a little more interesting and they’re using some fun ideas here (0:47:18) Kev: and the adventure map (0:47:20) Kev: absolutely is one of them. (0:47:22) Kev: Now the other thing with adventure mode is that you also get some different challenges, (0:47:29) Kev: which are optional in the standard puzzle mode. (0:47:35) Kev: And that amounts to different variations on the puzzle. (0:47:39) Kev: The first one is color puzzles, (0:47:43) Kev: which I don’t even know if it’s actually just locked to adventure mode. (0:47:47) Kev: But anyways, so you have the color mode where– (0:47:48) Al: I don’t think they are. I think the only thing that’s locked to Adventure Mode is (0:47:51) Kev: Oh, really? Oh, okay, well. (0:47:56) Al: the boss battles being challenges. (0:47:58) Kev: Yeah, I think I said you can do challenges and puzzle, but it’s not required (0:48:02) Al: Yeah, that’s the thing. Adventure Mode is you have to do them. But yeah, anyway. (0:48:04) Kev: Yeah (0:48:07) Kev: Yeah, you’re forced to do it. Yeah, okay, so the color puzzles as the name implies like (0:48:14) Kev: You now not only have your numbers that you’re filling out, but you have them in different color blocks (0:48:21) Kev: You need to fill them with the correct color. I haven’t done one. So I don’t remember all the specifics but (0:48:28) Kev: but I think (0:48:31) Kev: I’ve done other (0:48:33) Kev: Nonogram games that they’ve done similar mechanics and I it’s always a fun little touch to add (0:48:37) Kev: Just know just a little variation at least in the in the puzzle, right? (0:48:42) Kev: Oh, oh, you know what this also reminds me (0:48:46) Kev: One thing that I found intriguing is when you start the game and you’re setting up your profile (0:48:51) Kev: You’re actually given a little tutorial on all the elements of the nonogram puzzles in the different modes and stuff (0:48:59) Kev: You know not (0:49:01) Kev: It’s nothing super heavy. No hand-holding. In fact, maybe it’s a little light for you know, how complex these can be but&l

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In this episode of symbolism, folklore, and characteristics of the animals A- Z series, we round out the letter “S” with the regal swan. Swan symbolizes grace and beauty, known for their graceful movements and flowing feathers, love fidelity, as they are monogamous birds that mate for life. Purity, as the color white symbolizes in the White Swan… transformation from a small cygnet to an adult, illustrating the beauty of change, wisdom and self-esteem, good health and spiritualism, balance, grace and inner beauty, ah, are symbolized in the swan. Swans are generally found in temperate regions all over the world. North and South America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Asia and South Africa. swans were intentionally first brought to the US by private breeders for zoos, parks and estates in the mid-1800s. The Mute Swan is the national bird of Denmark. And the Whooper swan is Finland's national bird. Swans can fly an amazing 50 to 55 miles per hour, and can run over the water surface, beating their wings at about 30 miles per hour. They are the largest waterfall in existence today. Overall, throughout the world, Swan symbolizes grace, beauty, purity, love, transformation, fidelity, wisdom, change, balance and inner beauty. So, call in the swan spirit to enhance your life. Call in the swan, “Call IT in With Dar”!Support the Show.Photo credit: Rebecca Lange Photography Music credit: Kevin MacLeod Incompetech.com (licensed under Creative Commons) Production credit: Erin Schenke @ Emerald Support Services LLC. Grab Dar's Flight Deck Oracle Card Deck

In Other News with Ethan: Toby Keith passes away, King Charles has cancer, McDonalds bring the shamrock shakes early, and Design a Whooper earn $1 million

In the 2nd hour of the Marc Cox Morning Show: Mayor Eric Adams plays the race card and compares himself to Jesus Biden loves 'Morning Joe' Former Senator John Lamping joins the Marc Cox Morning Show, to discuss the passing of Toby Keith and  Initiative Petition.  Is it starting to late?  In Other News with Ethan: Toby Keith passes away, King Charles has cancer, McDonalds bring the shamrock shakes early, and Design a Whooper earn $1 million

JJ and Michael talk about the latest in New York Times Games. Obviously we had to cover Trails while Andy was away and the plethora of games we don't have time to play.

An impromptu recording with Steve and Daniel where we confront Steve on his lack of knowledge of the MCU and try to convince Daniel that a cheeseburger pizza and a Whooper taste different --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carl-liggins/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carl-liggins/support

A rare whooper swan visits New-Wes Valley, we hear from local birder Shawn Fitzpatrick. Also, an interview with the DFO about monitoring North Atlantic right whales off the coast of NL

If Greg says a naughty word - Nat O'Leary gets noughty for 10 minutes. Surely Greg's way too professional to fall for that!! Plus, Michael McIntyre's phantom whooper is tracked down and a new quiz team start the week.

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A woman gave birth on a plane (2:54) and are you ready for the Whopper to get spicy(5:40)?

Spencer Bauer and Ryan Tasler talk with Derek Wilkins Click for Straight Heat Stickers! Click for Bigfoot Bush Craft Fire Starters (Promo Code: spencerbauer) Topics discussed: Boat troubles; 515 fishing; 3" is enough; Whooper plopper baby; Bauer is a tool; Water therapy; Highschool fishing teams; The banjo minnow; Favorite reads; The lithium battery of flathead fisherman; Flaming cars; Saltwater gamefish; Florida winter getaway; Shad tanks; Reading the river; And Much More!! Connect with Spencer, Ryan, and River Certified River Certified on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook River Certified Merch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the third hour of the Best of: Solana does a good deed and Crowder wanting a banana; Solana getting his Whooper cut in half and we stare at some meat on the glass 

In Eastern Canada, locals have been hearing something hidden away, deep in the woods of central New Brunswick. For the past century, an entity known as the Dungarvon Whooper has been haunting the province, crying out for anyone who will listen to it. Could the murdered soul of a long dead chef be roaming those dark pines, or could it be something else entirely? Email: Moonlightlorepodcast@gmail.com Website: https://www.moonlightlore.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/moonlightlore Music By: https://www.purple-planet.com Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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The true story behind one of New Brunswick's most chilling ghost stories.

The mutton chopped human hamburger encyclopedia enters the Sherman Oaks Food Building to talk Apple Pan everything, that Oklahoma smash onion celebrity, Big Mac vs. Whooper, Jordan's BIG new burger idea, all the L.A. favorites, and what exactly makes a burger a burger.

Hour 3 - We were talking off air about buying stuff on Amazon and SMH Dil admitted to the group he bought a new sleep mask. BK is facing a lawsuit from a man claiming their new Whooper commercials are false advertising. We're still on baby watch waiting for Carson's kid to be born. 

Burger King is facing a lawsuit from a man claiming they misrepresent how big The Whooper is. 

ALSO! Why do famous athletes all have venture capital funds? Why did Germany accelerate their 100% renewable energy goal by 15 years? And why, oh, why is Mark Zuckerberg the person responsible for combatting Russian cyber attacks??

Whooper swans singing in the spring night. The female mallard can also be heard.

In Part 2 of my look at the Dungarvon Whooper, I'll tell you my version of the classic legend of a murdered cook whose spirit is said to haunt the wilderness of northern New Brunswick. We'll also take a closer look at the stories you heard last episode, try to understand the historical context of these tales, consider the legacy of the legend, and discuss what might actually be stalking the shadowy forest "where the dark and deep Dungarvon sweeps along."

The Dungarvon Whooper is perhaps the most popular ghost story and folk legend in New Brunswick. But while many know the tale about a murdered cook named Ryan, few realize that, long ago, it was just one of many. In this episode, we'll take a trip to the lumber camps of the late 1800s and hear four different legends, all shared in an attempt to explain a terrifying sound that once echoed through the wilderness of Northern New Brunswick.

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Season 3 starts off with a whoop as Dan takes us to Miramichi, New Brunswick, where something loud and sinister lurks in the woods.

In this episode we dig deeper into a local fable, the beast of the Miramichi! What's that? You were thinking of Allan Legere? Why can't two monsters share the same nickname?Email: criminalhijinks@gmail.comInstagram: @criminalhijinks Special thanks to Spooky Room Productions (@ripleystonebrook on Instagram) for our logo.

This week, everyone's favorite redeneck/hippie/little sister Paige Crowder stops by to talk about Trae taking up for her in middle school, folks who got whooped with an ugly stick, and to talk about Ehlers–Danlos syndromes awareness month!

Criação da David Madrid. Produção da Pickle Music NY. O rádio é a adaptação do filme de TV, ou ele vem antes como inspiração? Difícil saber. Neste caso, a campanha funciona tão bem com imagem como sem ela. Com a vantagem que, no rádio, você pode criar vários personagens, sem preocupar com orçamento. TREVO, SIMON AND SARAH These are confusing times. Trevor is in shorts, going through a midlife crisis or he's just getting caught up in an entire world crisis? He's confused. Should he still get a motorbike? Simon and Sarah had a baby, and now everyone asks when the next one is coming. Simon and Sarah are confused. What's wrong with this one? These are confusing times. The perfect time for the Burger King Impossible Whopper. A Whooper made without beef but tastes just like... a Whooper. I think so. TERENCE AND DUSTIN It's all so confusing nowadays. Terence knows that shaking hands is not ok, but bumping elbows is. Terence also knows that he should sneeze into his elbow. Now Terence is confused. Dustin bought a book on climate change, but it's shipped from England by plane wrapped in plastic. Now he's confused. Vegan shoes? Confused. It's all so confusing. Which makes it the perfect time for the Burger King Impossible Whopper. A Whooper without beef that tastes just like... a Whooper. I mean... what? FIONA AND STARTUPS Everything is confusing these days. Fiona's mom sent her a sad link about an animal shelter. Does she hit the like button or... What now? She's confused. Are startups still starting? Is there a word for not starting startups? Is it working from home or living at work? Confused. These are confusing times. Which is just about the right time to have the Burger King Impossible Whopper. A Whooper made without beef that tastes just like... a Whooper. Confused. TRUDY AND JAMES It's confusing out there. Trudy wants to go to the office tomorrow. She needs that work-life separation. But she also needs to work in pyjamas. Works as... nothing. She's confused. James wants to call his old man, old man, but calling someone old is wrong, right? It's ok to be old, just not to be called old. Is it an adjective to be the problem? He's confused. These are confusing times. Which is just about the right time to have the Burger King Impossible Whopper. A Whooper made without beef that tastes just like... a Whooper. I don't know.

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Hear the definitive legend, and learn more about the history of the mysterious Dungarvon Whooper.

Mr. Samuel Coleridge reads his poem? vision? dream? Kubla Khan, and vividly relates the physical terrors and psychological horrors of his all-consuming drug abuse.Did Coleridge ever kick his drug habit?By the way, Mr. Bartley makes a WHOOPER of a pronunciation mistake (more than usual) and did not edit it out. Can you find it? Answer in next episode - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud:00 Introduction1:04 Ghost of Mr. Poe enters2:30 The Haunted Palace5:29 Ghost of Mr. Coleridge enters6:19 Kubla Khan 15:18 Was Coleridge tripping?18:40 First use of laudanum/opium20:15 Dependency develops23:48 Complications25:40 Treatment of self and family 28:34 Restlessness and The Pain of Sleep33:33 Final Years35:38 Sources and Outro

One terrifying sound, and four different lumberjack legends that attempt to explain it.

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 1: New Brunswick New Brunswick is one of the four OG provinces that formed Canada on July 1, 1867. In this episode, we tell you all about the legend of the Dungarvan Whooper. This is just one of the many tales from the lumber camps that dotted the forests of NB in the 1800s but is this one true? Some folks are certainly convinced it is … or they choose to err cautiously so they do not accidentally taunt the Whooper. We then tell a very real story of sabotage from WWI. Maybe the cold Canadian winter was our best ally in this plot of international intrigue. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Visit our website at www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Episode Notes Penn and Ed are an unlikely pair who encounter and ancient evil from the deserts of the middle east, how can they stop something with the limitless power to grant any wish?! Careful What You Wish by David O'Hanlon Buy the new "Babysitter Massacre" book! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P4ZF9LG/ Get Cool Merchandise http://store.weeklyspooky Support us on Patreon http://patreon.com/IncrediblyHandsome Support Weekly Spooky by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weekly-spooky Contact Us/Submit a Story twitter.com/WeeklySpooky facebook.com/WeeklySpooky WeeklySpooky@gmail.com Music by Ray Mattis http://raymattispresents.bandcamp.com Produced by Daniel Wilder This episode sponsored by HenFlix.com For everything else visit WeeklySpooky.com Transcript: Penn reached for the doorbell. His finger hovered over the button as it had the last two times he tried to bring himself to ring. He sighed and jabbed the button. Ed’s face pressed against the glass of the nearest window. Penn chuckled at the sight of the freckled, buck-tooth face smiling excitedly at him. The door opened and Penn was greeted by a far-less enthusiastic individual.  Penn shifted uncomfortably. He didn’t look like an ex-con in his new jeans and custom polo shirt, but he felt the same way he did every time he was pulled in for a police lineup. Ed’s mother, Janet, held an obese chocolate-point Siamese cat against her chest and stroked it like a movie villain while she eyed the man on her doorstep. Janet slipped her robe up over her shoulder and raised an eyebrow.  “You’re Ed’s friend?” Penn shifted the brown paper bag into his left hand and extended the right. “Yes, ma’am. I’m Penn.” “Been in a few too would be my guess.” She waved him inside. “You’re going to let the other cats out.” Penn stepped inside and glanced around the restored Brownstone. Three tabbies lounged on the furniture. A Maine Coon lifted its head from the arm of the recliner to survey the new arrival to its domain. The cat was seemingly unimpressed by Penn and went back to sleep.  Penn turned to Janet. Ed had told him his mom used to be a famous model, but the horrible marriage and subsequent vodka-and-valium-based diet hid the fact now. Janet looked like she should be bumming smokes outside a 7-Eleven. Penn felt a tinge of guilt. He knew better than anyone not to judge a person by their circumstances. She dumped the Siamese onto the loveseat and straightened her pajamas before pulling her robe closed and tying the belt tightly around her slender waist. “Don’t you think it’s weird hanging out with a ten-year-old boy?” Janet snapped the elastic from her bun and let her brown hair fall as she walked past him and into the kitchen. She grabbed a glass from the dish strainer and banged it onto the countertop. “You’re like thirty, after all.” Penn shrugged. “So are you.” “Thanks for rubbing salt in that wound.” Janet poured orange juice into a glass and reached for the Popov bottle atop the fridge. “You can have something to drink if you like. Lactose-free milk, sugar-free Kool-Aid, caffeine-free tea. We even have the shitty soda that lacks all of the above.” “I’ve got a water bottle in the truck, but thanks.” “Cut the shit, Penn.” Janet sipped from the bottle before pouring a splash into the juice. “The boy’s allergic to everything. No one hangs out with him because they want to. The last date I had was four years ago and Ed broke out in hives because of the guy’s cologne. He has to wear a dust mask to walk through the living room because of the cat hair. The inhaler, the EpiPen, anxiety meds, and Allegra for sinuses. Seizures at the movies, motion sickness at the fair, panic attacks at the mall. There’s nothing you can do with him. Ed shouldn’t even go to the park, or wherever it is that he spends his time. What do you really want with him?”  Ed sneezed around a corner. Penn wasn’t sure where the boy was, but knew he was within earshot. Janet’s eyes flicked toward the noise and back to Penn. Calling her son a loser clearly wasn’t outside the norm. Penn’s fist tightened, crumpling the paper sack noisily.  “Healthwise, there’s a lot of things wrong with Ed. Everyone else sees those conditions as things that make him weak. I see them as the reasons he’s got such a big goddamn heart.” Penn stepped closer to Janet and took the glass from counter before she could drink it. “They’re Ed’s conditions, but you’re right, they do interfere with your life. You have to take the extra precautions and I bet that’s exhausting.” “Don’t you patronize me!” “I’m not. Honestly. I can’t imagine what you’ve had to sacrifice to protect him, but that doesn’t change the fact that Ed doesn’t get to be a kid.” Penn chugged the screwdriver and scowled at the aftertaste. He cleared his throat. “What I want is take him for the weekend so he can experience a sleepover, watch cheesy horror flicks, play too many video games, and eat a fuck-ton of red-and-green gummi worms with his friend the way regular kids get to. And you can go to the spa, or the mall, or a date, or at least to a liquor store with better vodka.” “You are one ballsy sonofabitch.” Janet huffed and put her hands on her hips.  “Thank you for noticing, but let’s keep this professional.” Janet’s face slipped into a smile for a brief moment, then the serious, judgmental glare returned.  “You want to know what’s in it for me?” Penn shrugged. “Ed’s the only person that’s ever seen anything good in me. I want to return the favor. I want to give him the experiences he should be having and as an extra bonus, I’m giving you the weekend off.” “He’s got school Monday.” Janet took the glass from Penn and jabbed the rim into his chest. “You have him home by seven Sunday night or you’ll be the one with medical conditions.” “Whoo-hoo!” Ed shouted from around the corner. Ed climbed into the unmarked moving truck and clicked his seatbelt. Penn handed him the brown paper bag. “I don’t think your mom likes me,” he said. “To be fair, mom doesn’t get enough guests to know how to like people.” Ed uncurled the lip of the bag. “What’s this?” “A present, obviously.” “Presents don’t usually come in brown grocery bags, Penn.” Ed giggled and pulled out a black polo shirt. “Hey! It’s like yours.” “Exactly like mine,” Penn said as he tapped his own embroidered pocket. Ed found the chest pocket was identical and featured a stitched moving truck in green thread and gold letters surrounded it—Ed and Penn Moving Services. Ed reached into the bag once more and pulled out a lunchbox. He opened it and found a bag of gummi worms, a sandwich, two juice boxes, and a protein bar. Ed smiled sadly. “What’s wrong?” “I’m too weak to help you move things.” “People have little things to move.” Penn tussled Ed’s shaggy hair. “Besides, you don’t get stronger by not trying. I used to be scrawny.” “Really?” “Really. And look at me now.” Penn flexed, straining the sleeve of his shirt. “How do you think I got this strong?” “Because you had nothing to do but workout when you were in prison?” Ed answered chipperly.  “That’s entirely true, and also not my point.” Penn pursed his lips. “Even if you can’t help with the physical part all the time, I’m going to need someone to help with all the business stuff. They don’t teach book keeping in the joint. And you have to help me paint the truck.” Ed sat up quickly. “Any color?”  “Of course. Ready for our first job?” Penn held out his fist. Ed bumped his knuckles against Penn’s hand. “Absolutely, partner.”  Crumbs rolled down Ed’s shirt and joined the others in his lap while Penn lugged the mattress up the loading ramp and into the back of the truck. Penn was right and the couple had lots of little things for Ed to load. Still, he felt bad leaving the heaviest stuff to his friend. He shoved the rest of the sandwich into his mouth. “Is there more?” he asked between bites. “Yeah, but not much.” Penn pointed to one wall of the truck. “Think you can move those boxes over in front of the dresser? There’s a big curio cabinet and two footlockers that I think would be more stable there.” “Sure thing!” Dahlia patted Penn’s shoulder as he hopped out of the truck and rested her hands on the bumper. “You’re a good helper.” “Thanks,” Ed said. “You have a lot of cool old stuff.” Dahlia laughed. “Oh love, this isn’t ours. My grandfather was a bit of an adventurer once upon a time.” “That’s so cool!” Ed scooped up a box and set it on top of the dresser. “So, this is all his treasures?” “Some of it. After my grandmother passed away, Poppa Harp became a hermit and most of it just stayed here collecting dust. My daddy used to tell me all his stories. I’m sad to say I never got to meet the man, myself.” “That does kind of suck.” “Kind of.” Dahlia tugged at a violet braid and twisted it around her fingers. “Not knowing him means I get to hold onto the hope that some of the magic in those stories might actually be real.” “Oh, magic is very real.” Ed smiled knowingly. “Where is all of this going?” “I’m sending it all over to a colleague. They’re going to sort it and sell it for me.” “Why not keep it?” Dahlia laughed sweetly. “Oh, I’d love to, but there’s just too much of it. The hubby and I are moving to New York. We found us a cute little townhouse… the operative word, being little.” “That’s too bad.” Ed lifted an ornate bottle from one of the boxes. “This stuff is really nifty. I’d love to hear the stories about each one.” “Maybe you will, love. I’ve got a book deal with a big publisher up North. I’m going to write all about Poppa Harp and his adventures.” “I can’t wait to read them.” “I’ll send a signed copy to you and your dad,” Dahlia said with a smile. “Oh, Penn’s not my dad. He’s just my best friend.” Ed’s face soured. “By default.” Dahlia cocked her head. “How’s that?” “He’s my only friend, so I guess he has to be the best one.” Ed stared at the bottle in his tiny hands.  “Well, now you got two, Ed.” Dahlia smiled at him. “I got to pack up a couple more boxes that I think would fit perfectly right where you’re working. I’ll be back in a tick.” Ed leaned on the dresser and turned the bottle in his hands carefully. Raised figures around the vessel were carved from the green glass itself. Ed stepped toward the back of the truck and viewed it in the sun. “Nifty,” he gasped as the glass changed to brilliant red in the direct light. Figures bound to one another formed an unending chain near the base of the bottle above a silver cap cut to resemble flames that engulfed them. A cutout figure towered over them with a staff in his hand and the neck of the bottle was shrouded in a silver sleeve with intricate engravings of stars over the man. On the opposite side of the bottle was another figure bound by a giant snake with a hood over his head. He turned the bottle upside and felt the weight shift. Then held it up to light to discover it was empty. He shook it again, feeling the invisible contents bouncing about.  “No freakin’ way.” He rubbed his thumb over the constricting body of the serpent and tucked the bottle away in its box as he heard the dolly bounce off the front porch. “This is so cool.” It took another forty minutes to load the rest of the things and say goodbye to Dahlia and her husband. She got Penn’s mailing address to send the book like she said and tipped both of them in cash for their hard work. They were cruising down the backroads to avoid the rush hour traffic.  Ed turned up the radio and bobbed in his seat to Iggy Pop’s ‘Butt Town.’ Penn laughed at the boy and threw up his horns before headbanging along with the music. Ed exploded with laughter. Neither of them was aware of the happenings in the back of the truck. They couldn’t hear the glass snake’s body fissuring or the tiny pieces falling away from the hooded figure now free of its reptilian restraints. They couldn’t smell the acrid, semi-sweet fumes spilling over the lip of the bottle as the building smoke forced the cork up. Penn checked the time on the dashboard clock and grunted. “What’s wrong?” Ed asked. “I was hoping we’d have this all dropped off before dark so we could go to the park and get those hotdogs you like so much for dinner.”  “If I had helped more, we might have been done faster.” “Don’t do that. It’s not your fault. It’s our first gig, we’ll get faster.” He shrugged. “Besides, there’s a place nearby that has huge coneys with every topping imaginable.” “Like?” “They’ve got one call the Gut Buster where the dog is inside onion rings in a cheese toasted bun and drowned in chili.” “Sweet! I think I’ll have two of those.” They both laughed. “Can we go to the mall?” Ed rubbed Dahlia’s twenty-dollar tip between his fingers.  “Sure, we can do whatever you want, kid.” He squeezed Ed’s shoulder reassuringly. “But I thought you didn’t like the mall.” “I’ll take an extra anxiety pill.” Ed hung his head. “I want to find mom a perfume I’m not allergic to.” Something thumped in the back of the truck.  “Shit.” Penn slapped the steering wheel. “I forgot to strap the mattress down.” Penn pulled over and unbuckled. Ed’s eyes grew wide as he realized the source.  “Don’t go, Penn. It’s not much further.” “It’ll only take a second, kid.” Penn winked and stepped out, skirting the side of the truck in case of passing cars.  Ed clamored out of the truck and watched as Penn rolled the door up. Penn sniffed the air and fanned his hand in front of his face.  “Why’s it smell like a fucking opium den?” he asked no one in particular. The ornate bottle clattered along the metal floor of the truck and rolled off the end. Penn caught it before he could hit the ground. He sighed and held it up for Ed to see. “The mattress must have knocked over a box. Probably some old timey cologne that stinks,” he said.  “How many years have I been captive?” A set of glowing eyes shined in the darkness. Penn knelt next to Ed. “I thought magic had to have a battery.” “What do you think you’re holding?” Ed whispered.  “What is the price of my emancipation, master?” The thing in the back of the truck’s voice was a rumbling hiss, like steam through rusted pipes. “What is owed of Babak?” “Master?” Penn looked at the bottle quizzically and snickered. “Is that what I think it is?” “Yes and no,” Ed gulped. The speaker came forward. His body adorned in a silk cloak with strands of gold that shimmered in the setting sun. Wrinkled hands curled at the ends of the flowing sleeves before reaching up and pulling the hood away from his face. A sweeping, gray mustache covered his entire lip and swept out in grandiose curls. “Do you free me without obligation?” Babak asked. “You’re a fucking genie!” Penn exclaimed.  “An ifrit,” Ed corrected.  “The master is learned,” Babak said. “Speak quickly. I have been gone too long.” “Not until you grant us three wishes, though,” Penn said. “The Law of Suleiman binds me to one.” Babak held up a single finger. “I am free of my glass prison and now bound only by the hesitation of the master’s words.” “I’ve seen enough horror movies to know how this turns out. I wish you were back in the bottle,” Penn said. “It was the boy who set me free. He must make the wish.” “Wish him back in the bottle, kid. It’s not worth the risk.” “I wish I wasn’t a burden,” Ed blurted. “Fuck!” Penn waved his hands in the air. “Nope. That doesn’t count. He’s just a kid. He doesn’t know what he’s saying.” Babak twisted one side of his mustache and grin menacingly. “It is done.” Ed doubled over with a screech and collapsed to the gravel shoulder. Penn dropped to his knees and hugged him close. Ed’s fever was growing fast enough that Penn could feel the heat rising off him.  “What the fuck did you do to him?” “He will be a burden no longer.” Babak shrugged.  The ifrit burst into flames and flashed overhead, streaking upward and flying above the city like a comet. Penn lifted Ed and hurriedly put him in the cab of the truck, shut the back, and climbed behind the wheel.  “Don’t worry, Ed.” Penn pulled onto the road in a wide u-turn across traffic. “I’m going to get you to the hospital and then I’m going to go beat the shit out of that genie.” “Ifrit,” Ed said weakly. “The hospital can’t help me.” “Hospitals can fix anything,” Penn lied. “The ifrit were created from the first flame in the universe.” “How do you know this shit?” “I read a lot.” “You should be reading Dr Seuss or something. Not… I don’t know.” Penn waved his hands. “Not whatever the hell you’re reading.” “Dad didn’t leave me any of those. He left me books on magic.” “I thought you said your dad was some scumbag talent agent.” “He left because he wasn’t my real dad. Mom had too much to drink and told me. It was my fault too.” “No, that doesn’t make it your fault. Your real dad is probably much cooler and that guy was just a chickenshit. Not the point right now.” Penn shook his head. “If not the hospital, then what do I do to save you?” “Get Babak to go into the bottle.” “Easy enough.”  Penn grabbed his phone out of the console and pulled up the internet app. He steered with his wrists so he could type faster in the search bar. “Where are we going?” Ed wheezed. “He called the bottle a prison. Getting out of prison is something I know a lot about. When someone gets released, they want one thing.” “A woman?” “No!” Penn looked at Ed incredulously. “That’s the second thing. First comes real food. There’s only one place that serves Middle Eastern cuisine in this part of Oklahoma.” “Get him back in the bottle.” Ed broke into a coughing fit, spattering blood across the glovebox. He laid over and put his head on Penn’s leg. “It’s not your fault if you don’t save me, Penn.” Penn stroked Ed’s hair—strands came loose and clung to his fingers. He pressed the accelerator down to the floor. The truck crashed through the front of Saffron Palace, sending patrons of the restaurant fleeing in all directions. Penn stepped out of the cab and slammed the door, pointing the bottle at Babak, who sat at his table completely unbothered by the destructive entrance. “You can get back in the bottle or I’m going to jam it up your ass,” Penn warned him. “You’ve worked so hard, please,” Babak gestured to the seat across from him, “join me for my first meal.” “I’m not asking.” Penn sat the vessel down. “You in the bottle, or the bottle in you.” Babak combed back his white hair and shook his head. “You cannot threaten me any more than a louse threatens a camel.” Penn slugged Babak square in the nose, shattering it and tipping him over in his chair.  “I figure that magic lamp is like solitary confinement. The guys in solitary get soft. They can’t take a punch.” Penn kicked the ifrit in the ribs. “Now get in the fucking bong!” Babak’s mustache smoldered. The bittersweet smell of opium trailed from the glowing ends as he rose to his feet. Penn backed away slowly. The threads of Babak’s robes ignited and the garment fell away from his naked body as ash. Penn lifted a chair over his shoulder. Babak’s mouth stretched open until his jaw unhinged and continued to stretch wider still. His voice emanated from deep within him. “I am that which was created before all else. From the first flame, I took my life. You, child of the mud, are born in my shadow,” he said. “You suck at talking shit.” Penn lunged forward, swinging the chair at Babak’s face. A fiery cloud launched from Babak’s maw and engulfed the furniture. Penn let go and jumped back, gasping at the remains already scorched to a cinder between him and the ifrit. The creature laughed. Smoke oozed from his pores. Yellow-brown perspiration dripped from the wiry hairs of his broad chest. The glow returned to his eyes and his skin combusted.  Babak clutched Penn’s arms, searing his flesh and tossing him effortlessly across the restaurant. The fiery figure stalked the room, leaving burning footprints in his wake. The ceiling tiles darkened overhead. Penn crawled under a table, only for a fireball to set it ablaze. He shot from beneath it and ran to the kitchen as more flaming orbs streaked past him and ignited the furnishings.  Penn pulled his shirt over his head to examine his wounds. The creature’s handprints were black spots of charred flesh. “Jesus, I look like a fucking Whooper.”  The plastic swinging doors melted into a puddle as the ifrit pushed through them. Babak turned slowly to face Penn. “Where is your bravado now, little louse?” he growled. “You know what the hardest thing about getting out of prison is?” Penn asked, looking around the kitchen for a weapon. He grabbed a large, curved knife and pointed it at Babak.  “Enlighten me.”  The ifrit touched the point of the knife. The blade glowed intensely until the tang cooked through the handle and Penn tossed it aside with a shriek. He continued moving away from the walking inferno. “The hardest part is knowing the whole fucking world went on without you. Everyone lived their lives, moved on and did their own thing.” The creature paused and cocked its head. “This is true.” “Everything changes when you’re locked up. No one gives a shit that you’re gone and the world isn’t the same when you come back. So much shit has been invented that you can’t keep up. Bet you never even heard of ANSUL.”  Penn grabbed a pot and slung the boiling oil at the ifrit. The liquid flared to life, burning everything in its path. Secondary fires flashed around the kitchen. Babak’s laughter boomed. He stepped toward Penn and raised an accusatory finger. A gout of flame speared outward and contorted into a flaming sword that stopped inches from Penn’s face. Then the ANSUL fire suppression system engaged. First came the high-pressure blast of chemicals that extinguished everything, followed by the blanket of heavy foam that knocked both combatants to the floor. Penn pushed himself up and slipped about until he got his footing. He spat the non-toxic, but non-tasty, foam from his mouth. Babak sobbed on the floor in a quivering mass beneath the white, sudsy blanket. His flesh was charred from the fire-suppressing agents.  “Let’s get you back in the bottle.” Penn grabbed Babak’s arms and the burnt flesh stripped away in his hands. “Eww!” The ifrit curled into a fetal position as his cooling skin crumbled and broke away leaving a human-shaped briquette on the floor. “Fuck!” Penn kicked the corpse and it shattered into soggy ash. “You weren’t supposed to die. I need you to fix Ed!” Something stirred among the debris that used to be Babak’s ribcage. “What the shit?” Penn knelt to inspect the movement.  He dug his fingers through the slog, revealing a green, fist-sized, orb stretching open within the ifrit’s body. The red poppy petals pushed through and twisted open. The petals shuddered and the oversized flower moved shakily across the ravaged organs beneath it. Penn touched the petals. The flower twisted violently and the four, vice-like fangs buried deep into Penn’s hand. He jumped back, howling in pain. The fake flower lost petals as Penn shook his arm violently, revealing the creature whose back it grew on. Its spindly legs fought for purchase as it was slung back and forth. Penn banged it against a counter top, freeing himself from its bite—at a cost. He grimaced at the exposed bone before reaching for towel to wrap around the wound.  A cowering cook ran past Penn and into the wrecked dining room. Penn ignored him and followed the monster’s tracks through the foam and out the service entrance to the alley beyond. He groaned. The overhead lights left pools of piss-yellow light between the restaurant and the neighboring building.  “Come out, Babak,” he called. The ifrit did not oblige. Thin digits caressed Penn’s bare shoulder and squeezed the tense muscles sending a ripple of goosebumps up his spine as he whirled around. The creature wasn’t there. Just the cook.  The diminutive Iranian man glared at Penn from behind thick lenses that occupied entirely too much of his dark face. The man held up the magic bottle. “You forgot this,” he said softly. “It seems to be missing the cork.” “Shit. I hadn’t thought of that.” Penn took the bottle. The man reached into his white smock and produced a cork of his own. He held it up, showing Penn the burned in hexagram on its wide top.  “I think you’ll find this one fits perfectly.” The man scampered away. “The fuck am I supposed to do with the bottle?” The cook stopped at the door. “Put the ifrit back inside. Do you know nothing?” “As a matter of fact, I don’t.” The cook rolled his eyes and sighed. “Ifrits don’t like light. Flush it out, nail it to the earth, invoke the name of Suleiman and return it to its vessel at once to undo any wish it has granted. It is not that difficult.”  The man disappeared inside and slammed the door. Penn’s shoulders sagged. He put the cork between his teeth and pulled out his phone, flipping on the flashlight.  “Okay. I got light and a bottle. Where do I get nails? I don’t see a hardware sto—ooh! Motherfucker!” Penn cast the light down and found the source of the sudden pain. He lifted his foot and, with it, the broken slat of a pallet. He slid down the brick wall and pried the board loose. The rusted nails squeaked as they passed through the rubber sole of his boot.  “Oh good, now I have nails.” He panned the light around. Nothing moved. He tilted the phone under the dumpster beside him. The monster screeched and lunged from its cover, attacking the phone, and knocking it to the ground. It scurried away and Penn crawled after it until he could get his feet under him and run. The thing’s ten legs carried it much faster than Penn could hobble. It cleared the alley and found itself in the glare of a streetlight. The ifrit screamed again and bolted around the building.  Penn rounded the corner and searched for the thing. Then he saw the back of his truck sticking out of the side of the building. Ed was slumped against the tires—his clothes saturated with sweat and his face void of color except for the explosion of freckles. A clump of hair blew away from his head on the breeze. Bloody spittle dripped down his chin as his body spasmed with weak hacks. Penn slid to the ground beside him. He hugged the boy and stroked his cheek. The fever was gone, but Ed’s skin was deathly cold in its wake.  “Come on, kid. You saved me. Stay alive long enough to let me pay you back.” “It’s okay,” Ed moaned. “At least I’m with my friend.” Penn wept as the boy fell limp against him. The ifrit shimmied out from under the truck and stared at the two humans with its beady, red eyes. Its fangs spread in a clicking-hiss that sounded like perverse laughter. The monster moved forward slowly, crawling across Ed’s wilted form. It watched Penn cry, but the man didn’t move. Babak took tentative steps onto his thigh and then stood tall and repeated the evil cackling.  “What’d you call me, Kazaam?” Penn sniffled. He wiped his nose on the back of his hand, still clutching the broken board. “A ‘child of the mud,’ wasn’t that it?” Babak blinked each of his six eyes. “Guess that makes me part of the earth.”  The board met Penn’s thigh with a sharp, wet smack. Babak squealed beneath the wood, with the nails pinning him in place. Penn pressed the board down harder and spat the cork into his free hand. He placed the hexagram against Babak’s face. Smoke roiled at the contact of the divine symbol and infernal flesh. “In Suleiman’s name, get the fuck in the bottle.” The creature’s flesh vibrated, shifted, and burst into a cloud of brackish smoke that swirled down the neck of the ornate glass vessel. Penn stuffed the cork into the top, sealing the ifrit within. His head thumped against the tire and he hugged Ed close.  “I’m sorry I was late, kid.” Janet adjusted the flowers in their vases. Her hands shook as much from stress and heartache as from the lack of a drink. She hadn’t had a drop since Penn returned without her son. She wouldn’t touch it ever again. Ed only ever had one friend, but the flowers seemed to come from everywhere. Even some lady in New York sent some. It seemed all the time Janet spent in a bottle, her son spent touching the lives of others. None of them were his friends. Just Penn. The rest sent cards explaining how Ed helped them. How the words and smile he shared touched them. She reread the cards and broke down in tears again. Penn placed a hand on her shoulder. She slapped it away.  “I never knew what he was doing when I’d send him away,” she said, holding up the cards. Penn took them and flipped through the stack. He’d read all of them several times. “Ed told me magic is just a toy without a battery.” He set the cards next to the flowers and took a bag of gummi worms from his pocket. He’d picked all the other colors out to leave only Ed’s favorite red-and-green ones. He put one between his teeth and slurped it up before offering them to Janet. She smiled softly and plucked one from the bag. “What’s that even mean?” she asked. “Ed shared his magic with people that needed it. He got that from somewhere. Maybe you fucked up in how you showed it, but you still loved him or you wouldn’t be crying in a bag of gummi worms with me. That was the battery to his magic… love.” “They still don’t know what happened,” Janet said.  “Severe allergic reaction,” a small, Middle Eastern man said from behind oversized glasses. He stepped into the room and slapped the iPad against his palm. “Possibly something found in the secondhand moving blankets inside Mister Pennington’s truck.” “Pennington?” Janet glanced up at Penn.  Penn pointed at the man. “You’re the cook.” “Obviously not, since I am clearly the doctor.” He nodded happily. “And you are Casper Marion Pennington, are you not?” “Wow. Your parents hated you,” Janet said. “Yeah.” Penn pinched the bridge of his nose. “I am.” “You should be more careful of the things you allow a boy to play with,” the doctor scolded him. Ed turned away from the harsh glare of the overhead fluorescents with a groan. “Mom? Penn?” “About damn time you woke up, kid.” Penn rubbed Ed’s shaved head. “How are you feeling?” “Like I was in a car crash.” The doctor cleared his throat. Penn squinted at him then turned his attention back to Ed. Janet shoved him out of the way and snuggled her son. Penn sat on the corner of the bed and dug in his pocket with a groan. The skin grafts were tight and pinched. Ed pushed his mother’s hair out of his face. “Mom, you’re smothering me.” “I’m sorry, baby.” She kissed his cheek. “For so much.” Penn put his hand on her shoulder again and this time she let it stay. “Good thing you woke up when you did,” Penn said. “Why’s that?” Ed asked as excitedly as the recently resuscitated could. “Because you almost missed the coolest, most fun holiday there is.” He handed Ed a narrow box with a ribbon around it. Ed opened the box and smiled, holding up the prize inside. “I can’t believe I forgot.” “That’s right kid, it’s National Kazoo Day.” The End Support Weekly Spooky - Scary Stories to Keep You Up at Night by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weekly-spooky Find out more at http://weeklyspooky.com

Owner of Dulan's Soul Food Restaurants in South LA on being a Los Angeles institution and community touchstone, the life and death of his renowned father, the challenges of being a business owner in South LA, the spiritual calling that is his work, and selling Nashville fried chicken in Ghana! Greg Dulan is the owner of Dulan's Soul Food Restaurants in South Los Angeles, well-regarded as a Los Angeles soul food institution.  He is also co-owner of Hotville Chicken, which serves Nashville Hot Fried Chicken in South LA, and was rated one of the Best Restaurants of 2020 by Los Angeles Magazine.  Greg has a business degree from Howard University, has studied at UCLA, and is a beloved community member and leader. At one point, Greg describes how his Grandfather was a Baptist Minister, and a master "Whooper".  He made me promise that I would look up some whooping online, and I gave him my word that I'd leave a link here for everyone to get an idea about what it is: The Art of WhoopingAnd here's an article from the LA Sentinel, honoring the life of Greg's father, Adolf Dulan, LA's "King of Soul Food": Los Angeles Mourns the Loss of Adolf DulanAnd another, reporting on how Dulan's was recognized as as a Best Small Business by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Dulan's Soul Food Instagram: @dulanssoulfoodkitchenDulan's Restaurant on Crenshaw Instagram: @dulansoncrenshawHotville Chicken's Instagram: @hotvillechicken Official Website: nicholasdagosto.comInstagram: @nicholasdagosto #GodsDelicateShowTwitter: @nicholasdagosto #GodsDelicateShow LinkedIn: Nicholas D'Agosto Music by Sean Whalen, Art by Alexandra Delano

La pubblicità nel periodo di quarantena non è un compito semplice per i brand e l'ho più volte scritto nel mio blog e nei social. L'agenzia francese Buzzman ha creato per Burger King una campagna in questo periodo in cui tutti i ristoranti del brand internazionale sono chiusi pubblicizzando un Whooper che puoi realizzare a casa.

Welcome to halfway through the week! Ray Appleton checks in from Bakersfield as we await live coverage of President Trump talking about water for CA farmers. Burger King has launched a new "moldy Whooper" campaign to showcase their preservative free products. Who are they targeting? Wed 2/19: Hour 1 Photo by Philip Swinburn (https://unsplash.com/@pjswinburn?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/irrigation?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)

whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus) in first open water spot in frozen lake. Their loud powerful sounds echoes all around in otherwise very quiet spring night.

Patrick and Sarah are breaking down the New Hampshire primary. Patrick shares his thoughts on Sen. Bernie Sanders winning and why Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be staying in the race. Plus, love it or hate it, the MLB may be making big changes to their playoff structure. FOX 5 reporter Josh Rosenthal had a huge moment with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser this week in regard to a shooting video. Why has the mayor still not responded? And, bring a picture of your ex to Burger King on Valentine's Day and get a free Whooper. Patrick and Sarah have thoughts about this.

Conversations wrap up on the wage affairs of grad students--do they deserve more? Should they have known what they were getting into? Valentine's Day is Friday and time is running out... unless you're single and just want to trade your ex's photo for a free Whooper at Burger King. A former TSA agent is being investigated for inappropriately searching a female passenger. Mon 2/10: Hour 4 Photo by freestocks.org (https://unsplash.com/@freestocks?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/valentines?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)

A look at the mystery hunters to investigate if loch Ness monster is fact or fake you decided and the whooper of Brunswick Canada. Host keith frischkorn. Enjoy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/keith-frischkorn/support

Mark and Euan look back at some of their animal encounters over the past year

Sorti hier le film Star Wars: L’ascension de Skywalker conclut la dernière trilogie de la saga et cela a inspiré un géant du burger qui a décidé d'offrir son burger maison à ses clients qui acceptaient de se faire spoiler le film! En fait...la campagne pub divulguait déjà qqs intrigues du film, expliquant qu'il était possible de commander le hamburger spécialement renommé The Spoiler Whopper, remis gratuitement contre la lecture à voix haute d’un rebondissement majeur du film. Alors si vous n'avez pas encore vu le film, on ne va pas vous spoiler mais juste vous dire une réplique dingue de Dark Vador... Il se retrouve au fast-food et dit « Je suis ton Whooper »

Sorti hier le film Star Wars: L’ascension de Skywalker conclut la dernière trilogie de la saga et cela a inspiré un géant du burger qui a décidé d'offrir son burger maison à ses clients qui acceptaient de se faire spoiler le film! En fait...la campagne pub divulguait déjà qqs intrigues du film, expliquant qu'il était possible de commander le hamburger spécialement renommé The Spoiler Whopper, remis gratuitement contre la lecture à voix haute d’un rebondissement majeur du film. Alors si vous n'avez pas encore vu le film, on ne va pas vous spoiler mais juste vous dire une réplique dingue de Dark Vador... Il se retrouve au fast-food et dit « Je suis ton Whooper »

#MyAudio #MyVoice #Audio #DoingAudio #DoingAudioIsFun #SocialAudio @anchor #AudioOnInternet #VoiceOnInternet #InternetOfThings #LinkToGoodStuff #NaPodPoMo #AudioMonth @FiremanRich . Burger King's Impossible Whopper

The sand dunes of West Sands, St Andrews, a field full of swans and a community fridge

Chef Carl Ruiz knows food...especially meat. So, I called Carl to discuss the trend for "plant-based" fake meats. We also discussed my non-scientific comparison of the Impossible Whopper and the basic and delicious regular Whooper.

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Taylor "The Creator" Gibb and Omari Matthew put on their aprons and chef hats to get in the zone for this week's topic: The Future of Food. Listen in on trends around the benefits and downfalls of leveraging a third party delivery service, the laboratory-made IMPOSSIBLE burger, and robocar advertising... that's right.. Robocar!       TRANSCRIPT: [0:00:17] PJ Bruno: Hey again, this is PJ Bruno welcome back to Braze for Impact, your weekly tech industry discuss digest, and I'm so thrilled today to have two very close friends of mine, and that is Taylor Gibb, Taylor the creator, lovely to see you here.   [0:00:33] Taylor Gibb: Thank you so much, gosh I am flattered, and Taylor the creator, in almost rhyme that I never stumbled across before, so super flattered there.   [0:00:41] PJ Bruno: Absolutely, and also to my right, your left, Omari Matthew, wearing this amazing apron today.   [0:00:48] Omari M.: Yo, what's up you all, how you all doing?   [0:00:50] PJ Bruno: Dude you're so fashion forward I don't even know what to do about it, so I'm like...   [0:00:52] Omari M.: Yo dude, it's just, I don't know, I wake up with it sometimes, I'm just like, I've got to wear the apron.   [0:00:58] Taylor Gibb: For all you listeners at home, nobody does an outfit of the day selfie quite like Omari, in the office bathroom too, just one point.   [0:01:05] Omari M.: I have started trying to count, and at 50 of I try to take a mirror selfie in every bathroom I go into.   [0:01:14] PJ Bruno: Dude, I mean, I got to say, I feel like anytime someone says, "Yo Omari, nice shirt," you're immediately down on one knee, just kind of posing it, it's like a reflex, you're just down, you're like yep, fashion.   [0:01:25] Taylor Gibb: Make it fashion, I love it, I would buy a coffee table book of all of your mirror selfies, I think that you've got a market there.   [0:01:33] PJ Bruno: I want that. Taylor, what are we talking about today? What is this?   [0:01:36] Taylor Gibb: Guys, I'm so glad that you asked PJ, this week I thought it would be really cool to talk about something super near and dear to my heart, which is food. There have been some really interesting articles out in the news recently just about the future of food. I got a couple of different themes going here, we got what's food going to look like? Is it going to be substantially different from what we see it like today? We've got how are you going to get your food, right? I really very heavily on my Seamless, my Caviar, my Postmates, what's that doing to the industry? Then also just thinking a little bit beyond that, the ways that we get our food are becoming more and more pervasive, more advertising heavy, and when we think about some of these new campaigns running out there in the world, ways for different restaurants to get you to the door, maybe even taking the wheel, a little spoiler there.   [0:02:26] Omari M.: The future of food.   [0:02:28] PJ Bruno: I feel like it belongs in a World Fair, in like-   [0:02:33] Omari M.: Yeah.   [0:02:35] Taylor Gibb: Step right up-   [0:02:35] Omari M.: Just top hat guy.   [0:02:36] PJ Bruno: Exactly.   [0:02:36] Taylor Gibb: It's all on a comb.   [0:02:37] PJ Bruno: Why don't you come on down and see what world will be like in 2020. Awesome, what's this first one?   [0:02:43] Taylor Gibb: That was great, yeah so, first things first, let's talk a little bit about this article, consumers love food delivery, restaurants and grocers hate it. So this article is talking a little bit about how as consumers rely more and more heavily on this on demand food industry, whether it's getting groceries from Jet.com, whether it's getting your pad Thai from the little place around the corner but having someone else bring it to you, which I do. Our habits of consumption are shifting drastically, and I think it's tough for the industry to keep up, so I'm just curious, maybe start with Omari about some of your thoughts about, first of all this article, and about this trend in general?   [0:03:25] Omari M.: Yeah, yo, so the article was immediately drawing to me because I think the first thing that I was pulled out, was that orders are not profitable for the restaurant, and working with these businesses like Postmates, like Grubhub, is not on the long term profitable, but it keeps them there, it keeps them relevant.   [0:03:47] PJ Bruno: Right.   [0:03:48] Omari M.: That is super interesting to me because restaurants can't not use something like Grubhub, Postmates for their future, but they have to deal with it unfortunately.   [0:03:58] PJ Bruno: They have to loss money in the near term to keep up with competition, right?   [0:04:02] Omari M.: Exactly.   [0:04:02] Taylor Gibb: Totally, it's everybody's doing it, all the girls in school have the same bag, and maybe you don't even like that bag but you have to have it or else nobody's going to ask you to the prom. I think that's what happened to me, it's just about a bag, right?   [0:04:14] PJ Bruno: They just want to go to the prom, these guys here.   [0:04:15] Taylor Gibb: Everybody here, that's right, and you know who can take them to the prom? Is these third party delivery services that a lot of these restaurants rely on. So you could be the mom-and-pop shop around the corner making meatballs, get really big online, but you don't have the infrastructure in place to have somebody out and making deliveries day in day out, and so a lot of these places rely on these third parties that will take a little bit off the top. Problem is, if your third party isn't reliable, if your delivery guy gets lost on the way, maybe something spills, everybody is going to blame the restaurant, not necessarily the delivery service, which is another big problem I didn't even consider when I was looking into this.   [0:04:52] PJ Bruno: Yeah, I didn't even think about that.   [0:04:54] Taylor Gibb: Definitely.   [0:04:54] PJ Bruno: Way less control.   [0:04:55] Taylor Gibb: Then even building the infrastructure to get all of the food, keeping it cold, keeping it ready to go at the door, did you guys see everything about that?   [0:05:04] Omari M.: Yeah, and I think when I read that I think immediately to one of my favorite restaurants, Xi'an Famous Foods.   [0:05:10] Taylor Gibb: Oh, love.   [0:05:11] Omari M.: Oh, if you've never had hand pulled noodles, it is amazing.   [0:05:16] PJ Bruno: That's the truth dude.   [0:05:18] Omari M.: But one of the things, and they have it all over the restaurant and if you know, you go to Xi'an Famous Foods, is you want to eat it within 15 minutes, because at that point the oil begins separating. So you're losing a lot of the experience when you're ordering and trying to order from certain restaurants, and you're losing what might be the optimal form that this food experience could've been.   [0:05:39] Taylor Gibb: Oh totally, and it's interesting to because we're aware of this, we know that foods often times best in the restaurant, but I saw this crazy statistic in the article, nearly 1/3rd of restaurants meals in the year ending in September were consumed at home, up from 2% in the previous year. So this is a massive jump, we all just got a lot lazier, things are getting a lot easier, and we all did it at the same time. So we're aware of this, we love the experience of going into a restaurant, but it seems like the trend is moving.   [0:06:07] PJ Bruno: Is that everywhere, or is that just New York City?   [0:06:09] Taylor Gibb: I think this one was in, I'd have to get back to you, it looks like just New York City, in this article here, which-   [0:06:16] PJ Bruno: Okay, okay, that makes sense.   [0:06:17] Taylor Gibb: We're super on demand here, if I can have my remote taken to me from a bike courier from across the room in a couple of years, I want it.   [0:06:25] PJ Bruno: I need that third party, that is just too far for me, and it's Saturday, I need to be waited on.   [0:06:29] Taylor Gibb: Well PJ, tell me though, as a consumer, are you a big fan of these on demand services, are you a Postmates man?   [0:06:35] PJ Bruno: Oh I'm a Seamless man through and through, honestly when I'm on the west coast, I go Postmates just because I think that's the way forward, yeah, I'm a big believer in having my food delivered to me and paying way too much for it, and I'm going to pay for that in the long run, and I understand that.   [0:06:50] Taylor Gibb: Oh totally.   [0:06:51] PJ Bruno: But man have I ever bought into the convenience of it.   [0:06:55] Omari M.: Wait, why do you pay more? I'm super interested because it's, you know it's cheaper in the restaurant.   [0:07:03] PJ Bruno: Right, okay, so I know it's cheaper in the restaurant, but I got home from a long day at work, and I don't know if you know this about me but I don't eat breakfast, so I haven't eaten breakfast, I eat lunch, but I only have a small window for lunch, and you know downstairs it's one portion and then get out of my face, and if I don't have enough time to go down around 2:00 pm to get my second lunch well then I'm pretty hungry. So the portion that I get-   [0:07:26] Taylor Gibb: Maybe they've never heard of second lunch Sam?   [0:07:27] Omari M.: Second lunch.   [0:07:28] PJ Bruno: 11:00 eez? Afternoon tea? For all you [Louder] fans out there.   [0:07:32] Taylor Gibb: Oh [inaudible].   [0:07:34] PJ Bruno: But yeah, no, I actually I consume ridiculous embarrassing large dinners sometimes, and I'm talking like a medium pepperoni pizza with a side of waffle fries, and two Pepsi's, that's embarrassing, but, so take that and then put the charge on top of it, honestly guys, sometimes I'm paying like $30 to $35 for a meal, it's terrible, it's disgusting, but once I've gotten home, and I sit on that couch, and I'm in that chill mode, it's you know what? I'm the king of the castle, I have some money to throw around, I could spend it on a trip to Bali, I could spend it on experiences or my friends, but you know what, my gullet is craving something special right now.   [0:08:11] Taylor Gibb: You know what your gullet might be craving too, in 10 years or so? Here's a segue for you, it could be an impossible burger, maybe you're going to be craving, you're going to say, I want that Pepperoni... Pepper...   [0:08:22] PJ Bruno: You got it, sound it out.   [0:08:27] Taylor Gibb: Cut that out because I want a pepperoni pizza, but I want that pepperoni to be FO pepperoni, maybe a little peppofoni pizza.   [0:08:36] PJ Bruno: Ooh, you got it patent pending.   [0:08:38] Taylor Gibb: Yeah, TM, everyone listening in.   [0:08:40] PJ Bruno: Taylor the creator, on her stuff.   [0:08:41] Taylor Gibb: That's right. We've got another article here that I picked out because I think it's super fascinating, we were talking earlier today about the impossible burger, which for those of you at home that might not be aware, is this I think a vegan burger, so all plant based, but it grills like meat, it sears like meat, it bleeds like meat, a little creepy, but I'm kinda in to it. A lot of people are saying that this is the way forward, not only for making a more cruelty free experience for eating, but for the good of the planet, because this doesn't mean that we're going to be taking up a ton of livestock, which produces CO2, our farming practices will be different. So first of all, I'm just really curious as to if either of you guys have tried any of these meats of the future?   [0:09:31] PJ Bruno: What about you Omari?   [0:09:31] Omari M.: Yeah, I buy it monthly.   [0:09:32] PJ Bruno: What?   [0:09:32] Omari M.: I buy the Beyond Meat, because there's a Whole Foods really close to me.   [0:09:37] PJ Bruno: Oh cool.   [0:09:38] Omari M.: So I hop in there and I get the beyond meat burger.   [0:09:40] PJ Bruno: And this is lab made meat that we're talking about.   [0:09:42] Omari M.: Yeah, we're talking lab, scientific coats.   [0:09:45] PJ Bruno: Not learning at Braze type stuff, this is actually-   [0:09:50] Taylor Gibb: Shameless plug. In a laboratory.   [0:09:50] Omari M.: Yeah dog, it's so good, it's really, really good. I was blown away the first time I had it because you pull it out, you take it out the box, and it very much feels like a hamburger patty, it looks like a hamburger patty, you slap it on the pan, you hear that sear that you always look for in a good burger.   [0:10:10] PJ Bruno: And it stays together? Because I feel like the concern when you come to veggie based patties, it crumbles, or it falls apart a little too easily, because it doesn't have the [sinues], right? Doesn't have the meat, but does that?   [0:10:19] Omari M.: Yeah, it holds together like a charm, and I've had my roommate eat a burger, and he was, "Honestly if you didn't tell me this was a Beyond Meat burger I would've thought it was a regular burger."   [0:10:32] Taylor Gibb: That is crazy, and they were in the article talking about the ways that they make this fake meat, and it's, they have a vat of what's called, we said, heme is how you pronounce it?   [0:10:41] PJ Bruno: Heme.   [0:10:41] Taylor Gibb: Why don't we have fake blood, just a big ole vat of fake blood, like an Edward Tolman-   [0:10:46] PJ Bruno: Is it that metallic?   [0:10:47] Taylor Gibb: Yeah, exactly, exactly, and it's interesting too though because we were saying a lot of the reason that people are so reluctant to change the way that they are eating is because it's kind of cultural entrenched. I want to have my burger, and I want it to be the kind of burger that I want. But PJ you made a really good point earlier that this is effecting more than us.   [0:11:06] PJ Bruno: Yeah, it just is, I think especially America we're very much like, I have my freedoms, and I want to be able to have what I want, and I'm entitled to have a burger. But to me as soon as we're in a situation where animal agriculture is creating a bunch of CO2 and Methane, in whatever 10 or 20 years the environment is looking not so good. As soon as you're in a situation where your free will is affecting the future health of not just people on this planet, but future generations, that is when it's time to say, okay, maybe we need to rethink this for the good of all.   [0:11:41] Taylor Gibb: Totally.   [0:11:41] Omari M.: Word.   [0:11:42] Taylor Gibb: Yeah, I mean is your McDonald's burger really worth it? Who knows? I mean maybe in the moment at 3:00 am, you're like, screw future generations.   [0:11:50] PJ Bruno: Right, exactly, and you know that said, me being on my soapbox here, I eat meat, so it's not like, but it just is more like if we had this call to arms, kind of like everyone it's time, let's do it, I'd be the first one on there. But I mean as long as they're going to still have meat available, I'm probably going to eat that.   [0:12:07] Taylor Gibb: Ah, I love it.   [0:12:09] Omari M.: Dude, that's okay.   [0:12:09] Taylor Gibb: You know what? Omari's going to have [crosstalk]-   [0:12:11] PJ Bruno: It's impossible though dude, you-   [0:12:13] Omari M.: Yo, dog, you all are more than welcome, come through, I'll cook you all some impossible patties.   [0:12:16] Taylor Gibb: Let's have a cook out.   [0:12:17] PJ Bruno: You do that Sunday-   [0:12:18] Taylor Gibb: Let's have some Tofurky.   [0:12:19] PJ Bruno: Sunday dinner.   [0:12:19] Omari M.: Yeah dog.   [0:12:19] Taylor Gibb: Oh, amazing, we're getting to grilling season too here, Omari bring your apron, we're going to set up a meat free cook out.   [0:12:26] Omari M.: I'm with it.   [0:12:27] PJ Bruno: Oh actually, don't forget, also insect protein will become very big in our future.   [0:12:33] Omari M.: Ooh.   [0:12:33] Taylor Gibb: Ooh.   [0:12:33] PJ Bruno: I know, I know, Ooh, there's oohs like ooh, and then there's oohs like ew ooh, but you should know-   [0:12:39] Taylor Gibb: I can see it.   [0:12:39] Omari M.: Insects man.   [0:12:40] Taylor Gibb: Oh my god. Oh, I'm getting on a tangent but I've got to ask you guys, this is one of my favorite ice breakers. If you were given an unlimited budget and your only task was to make insects delicious, like the food of the future, what would you do? Because I'm always like nacho cheese powder, or like-   [0:12:56] Omari M.: Yeah, ground them up.   [0:12:57] Taylor Gibb: Grind them up.   [0:12:59] PJ Bruno: For me I just think salsa's, I bury things in ketchup because I like ketchup, sriracha would make that a next level.   [0:13:05] Omari M.: I think that there are whole, either Mexican or South American cultures where insect protein was the only source of protein during their time, during that civilizations time. So they've invented amazing ways to incorporate it, and it's persist because food is history, food is culture. So it's persisted over time and you see, I think there's a really great Chef's Table on it. On this guy who creates, I don't know exactly the dish he makes, but he sticks to using insects for it, because it's a culturally relevant dish, and it's so ingrained in who he is and where he's from.   [0:13:45] PJ Bruno: See that's the thing, it's like at the end of the day insect proteins, they're not going negatively affect the environment like animal agriculture does, but if you flip the script and you went to that guy, and were listen, insect proteins is messing stuff up, we need you to stop doing that, he's like no, that's part of who I am.   [0:14:00] Omari M.: Yeah.   [0:14:01] Taylor Gibb: So true.   [0:14:01] PJ Bruno: So it's culturally entrenched is the way to put it I guess.   [0:14:05] Taylor Gibb: Although I wonder how culturally entrenched all these things are, here's another segue for you. Talking a little bit about the power of culture, about I'm going to have my McDonald's burger whenever I want it, wherever I want it, and then a little bit of a swerve coming in from our buddies down at Burger King. So for those of you who haven't heard, this is a Burger King one cent Whopper detour, essentially this is a campaign that Burger King ran where if you ordered a Whopper within, I forget it was something like 300 feet of a McDonald's essentially right there, through their app, you would get it for one cent.   [0:14:38] PJ Bruno: That's right.   [0:14:39] Taylor Gibb: So that's I think brilliant marketing number one, but two opens the door to some really interesting different ideas for marketing, perhaps incredibly pervasive, and that's what this article is about. So we're talking in the future, you're sitting here, beep, bop, in my little robot car, and I'm like, "Robot car take me to Subway sandwiches," and it's, "All right Taylor," my robot car is very friendly about it, it's like, "But Taylor, but I need to tell you that Quiznos," which it's still around in the future, I'm not sure if it's around right now honestly, "Quiznos-   [0:15:12] PJ Bruno: It came back in the future.   [0:15:13] Taylor Gibb: If Quiznos has made a return and for now only you get one dollar Quiznos sandwich, "Taylor I can take you right there, right now, as your robot car." And I'm of course going to say, "Robot car take me to Quiznos, thank you." So all of that aside, let's think about marketing in the future. We've got self driving cars, we've got the idea of perhaps more Uber and Lyft where your Lyft driver could say, "There's a deal going on at CVS where we can get you some, it looks like you're feeling really sick after this night of drinking, do you need some Advil? I'll take you there, I have an ad."   [0:15:45] PJ Bruno: Exactly.   [0:15:45] Taylor Gibb: Tell me a little bit about what you think about this kind of advertising of the future, doesn't necessarily have to food, but lets kind of talk about that.   [0:15:53] PJ Bruno: Yeah, it's interesting because they did mention in the article, it's funny because it starts with the whole trolling Whooper detour thing, but then it goes into like, imagine the future, you get a hankering for fast food, and your robo car pulls up, stuff like that, and basically goes through the whole scenario, but in the future where your car is a robot, and your car has screens all on the inside that advertises to you constantly. So first of all, on one side of the coin really interested in a dystopia future where I have advertising screens in my robo car feeding me images all the time, that's a little creepy.   [0:16:27] Omari M.: It's a Black Mirror episode.   [0:16:27] PJ Bruno: It is a Black Mirror-   [0:16:28] Taylor Gibb: I mean I always hit mute on those Taxi screens.   [0:16:30] PJ Bruno: Oh, every time, I turn it off, I don't even mute it.   [0:16:33] Omari M.: I just get out. This is not worth it.   [0:16:35] Taylor Gibb: See you.   [0:16:36] PJ Bruno: I rip the screen down, throw it out the window. But no, and then they go to talking about in the future they can have these eye tracking cameras and biometric sensors where it's paying attention to your body and what you want. So if you're tired it's like, "Oh, there's a Starbucks close by. Or you're feeling anxious because of your rapid eye movement, go get a massage, there's one down the street." So it's kind of this thing of I don't want to be sold stuff all the time, but if it's based on how I feel, and if it's picking up those, it's that personalization touch. So it kind, I can argue both sides of it.   [0:17:12] Omari M.: Dude, I never feel like people, I'm more like, I'll never feel like people get this right, because I'm a strong believer that once a marketing department, no offense to any marketing department, once a marketing department gets a hold of something, and they do it well, every other marketing department well we've got to do the same thing, and it goes way too far, and then all of a sudden consumers are now, everyone's doing this, this is incredibly invasive, it's who I am, and what I am, and where I am.   [0:17:39] Taylor Gibb: Totally.   [0:17:39] PJ Bruno: That's what they do, they push the envelope until they find where they've crossed that line.   [0:17:43] Omari M.: Exactly.   [0:17:43] PJ Bruno: Then they try to like... Reel it in, reel it in.   [0:17:45] Taylor Gibb: Sorry.   [0:17:45] Omari M.: And it's so hard to reel it in, yeah.   [0:17:47] Taylor Gibb: Apologetic tweets, and I got to tell you guys listening here on the line, Omari used to be part of our marketing department here at Braze.   [0:17:53] Omari M.: I love marketing.   [0:17:54] Taylor Gibb: He's since moved on to support, but I'm actually curious as your kind of marketers take here, talking about the strategy behind something like this. How can a brand maybe ride on the coattails of something let's say way in the future you've got this robo car, ride on these coattails but make it an experience that consumers are going to love, that they're going to want more of? What's the key to finding that line, finding that good balance? Tough question.   [0:18:17] Omari M.: That's a touch question, I feel like a lot of is just taking yourself out of one your shoes as a marketer, and then two the entire business, because I feel like it's really easy to step on toes when you're not cognizant of the toes you're stepping on.   [0:18:36] Taylor Gibb: Well put, well put.   [0:18:37] Omari M.: So you're able to, you're going to push out ideas and push forward marketing campaigns that can really get invasive for a lot of consumers. I mean there was a large point in time when I don't think anyone could really get post messages, right? Until we found the sweet spot.   [0:18:54] Taylor Gibb: The dark ages.   [0:18:55] Omari M.: Yeah, the dark ages, and now post messages are expected, and now consumers are able to turn off their post notifications, finally.   [0:19:04] Taylor Gibb: Sure.   [0:19:04] Omari M.: Where back in the day everyone was automatically opted in, and now they figured out look, maybe everybody doesn't want to be automatically updated, we should give them a choice. I think as long as marketers are aware that they are invading another person, or coming into another person's space with advertisements that might not be relevant to them at the time, as long as you're aware of that, your campaigns should naturally become something that's valuable to the consumer.   [0:19:31] Taylor Gibb: Nice.   [0:19:31] PJ Bruno: Well you know what's an interesting thought though is in the future, in your robo car, you're getting all these advertisements, and let's say all of them are hyper personalized, so there's not a single one that's not relevant, so it's every single, even if you don't want it, it's oh you realize that this is based on information about you, so it's relevant even if you don't want a massage at this moment, you realize that you're tired and it's picking up that you're tired. So every advertisement is personalized and relevant, and so then I think it becomes a matter of just exhaustion from people advertising to you. So to me, I think maybe the next tactic would be changing the format, or changing the medium, because you're in your robo car, there are seven screens all around your robo car, and you know you're going to get advertised to for the duration of the trip. So how do you change that and make it feel a little more like someone wants to take care of you, or someone wants to do something that you're interested in versus someone wants to make money off of you. It might be moving away from screens, because if you look at a TV in a car, you know you're being advertised too, and in the future in the robo car, that is almost synonymous, seeing a screen will just feel like marketing, it will feel like advertising, so in the future I hope, come on future, I'm rooting for you, we need to kind of surpass the screen, and do something that feels a little more... It's funny, what was it? It was, it might have been Black Mirror, but it was basically in the future the idea that your ad buddy, it's basically instead of receiving an advertisement, it's all right, I'll use ad... Oh, you know what it was? So basically, sorry, I'll explain, the ad buddy is basically it's a person, an actual person that sits next to you, and you're like, "Oh, I don't have enough money in my account to pay for my Metro card," like, "That's okay, do you want to use an ad buddy for the next seven hours and then that will pay for your Metro card?" It's like, "All right, fine." Boo, ad buddy, and then you just have this human that's next to you, a real human whose paid to just kind of read advertisements to you for the next seven hours.   [0:21:28] Omari M.: [inaudible] think of that.   [0:21:28] PJ Bruno: Yeah, it's more human, and it's a step backward, but it's-   [0:21:31] Taylor Gibb: It's off the charts on the humanity effects.   [0:21:34] Omari M.: Yeah right.   [0:21:35] PJ Bruno: Yeah, but this is a real person.   [0:21:36] Taylor Gibb: We are an actual human.   [0:21:36] PJ Bruno: Exactly, anyways, it was that show on Netflix with Emma Stone, and-   [0:21:43] Taylor Gibb: Oh, Jonah Hill.   [0:21:44] PJ Bruno: Jonah Hill, yes.   [0:21:45] Taylor Gibb: Oh, I don't remember what it's called.   [0:21:46] PJ Bruno: That's what it was.   [0:21:46] Taylor Gibb: But that is hilarious.   [0:21:48] Omari M.: Oh, oh my god it's on the top of my head.   [0:21:50] PJ Bruno: It's true, we're surrounded by computers and we're not going to look it up, we're going to, that's the question of the day, if you guys get back to us with the answer to that show, you win some sick swag.   [0:21:59] Taylor Gibb: Oh that's right.   [0:22:00] Omari M.: Yeah.   [0:22:01] Taylor Gibb: Swiggity swag.   [0:22:02] Omari M.: And a high five.   [0:22:03] Taylor Gibb: Yeah, even more I think valuable for Omari's...   [0:22:07] PJ Bruno: Any final thoughts about, I just love thinking about the future, I'm sorry, Back to the Future is my favorite movie of all time, so just considering.   [0:22:13] Taylor Gibb: Oh boy, that Mary McFly.   [0:22:15] PJ Bruno: The funniest thing about when you think about that stuff, people are like, oh in the future, flying cars, that was the biggest thing they could think of, it's dude, it's called a plane, it exists already, think of something better.   [0:22:27] Taylor Gibb: Do better.   [0:22:28] PJ Bruno: Do better.   [0:22:28] Taylor Gibb: I just love the Tomorrowland kind of version of the future too, it's like oh, and then everybody takes a pill instead of eating, and there's-   [0:22:34] PJ Bruno: Oh, that's what, see I forgot to get to that, the future of food, is it in pill form? Do we get it injected? Is there a chip that you have inside of your neck that releases proteins and...   [0:22:45] Taylor Gibb: I think we should have photosynthesis tattoos that take in the sunshine-   [0:22:50] Omari M.: Oh that would be tight.   [0:22:50] PJ Bruno: Whoa.   [0:22:50] Taylor Gibb: So need a little morning coffee or something, no way, go outside get your tattoo in the sunshine and it's bo do dup, and feeling it for the day, that's my idea for the future. Patent pending, we've got peppafony, and we got photosynthesis tattoos, anybody who wants to approach me with a deal, you on, I know you're listening, please just reach right out, all right?   [0:23:12] PJ Bruno: Awesome.   [0:23:13] Taylor Gibb: Well, Omari, did you have a final thought about the future of food, I saw it?   [0:23:17] Omari M.: Oh, no.   [0:23:18] Taylor Gibb: Oh, no, just wearing that apron, looking super fly. PJ, thank you so much for having us on the podcast today, I think it was a great time talking about tasty things and tomorrow.   [0:23:29] PJ Bruno: And what they could taste like tomorrow.   [0:23:31] Omari M.: Heck yeah.   [0:23:31] Taylor Gibb: That's right.   [0:23:32] PJ Bruno: And thank you guys for being here with us, this is PJ Bruno.   [0:23:35] Taylor Gibb: Taylor Gibb.   [0:23:36] Omari M.: Omari Matthew.   [0:23:37] PJ Bruno: You guys come back now, you hear? Take care. [0:23:39]

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If you buy a Whooper at Burger King, they will also give you dog a treat as well!

During this season of goodwill our thoughts turn to crackling fires, being with the family and for many a song or a carol to bring merriment to the colder days. Tweet of the Day has been entertaining early morning listeners to the Radio 4 schedule every day since 2013, but this Christmas we will delight in an avian offering of the well known song the Twelve Days of Christmas. The big day has arrived and with it seven swans a swimming. Though wrapping these may have been an issue. As actress Alison Steadman discusses deeply embedded in the British culture the mute swan, which for many is the perfect bird for the seventh day in the song. Although in winter two other contenders arrive on our shores, the Bewick swan from Siberia and the slightly more vocal Whooper swan from Iceland. Producer : Andrew Dawes Photograph: Kevin Neal.

Since he was a small boy, Fermanagh based bird blogger Dara McAnulty has been enthralled by birds. For this Tweet of the Day Dara draws a comparison with seeing whooper swans near to his home in Northern Ireland with the swans from Irish mythology, the Children of Lir. Dara, who has Aspergers Syndrome, blogs as Young Fermanagh Naturalist to convey his love of nature and wildlife through the written word. Producer Maggie Ayre.

Episode One of a brand new audio sitcom set in Finchley Fitness gym

Janet Jackson is back on tour, but don't make any Instagram posts. We talk about The Jacksons and their Lifetime show, The Jacksons: Next Generation, Burger King's Halloween Black Burger and Ellen DeGeneres join's Oprah's Master Class. Daytime soaps and the power of home organization and some life coaching with James Lott Jr. Grants Rants 10: James H. Lott Jr. http://www.iheart.com/show/53-The-Super-Organizer-Show/http://adrenalineradio.com/index.php/shows/49-general-talk/216-the-super-organizer-universe-radio-showhttp://www.thesuperorganizer.com/http://www.thesuperorganizeruniverse.com/http://www.blakhopeproductions.com/http://twitter.com/JamesLottJuniorhttp://twitter.com/thesuperohttps://www.youtube.com/user/TheSuperOrganizer iTunes: http://apple.co/1ElnnvwAndroid: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/grant...Stream: http://grantsrants.libsyn.com/podcastGrants Rants - Hollywood Talk is a new podcast highlighting hot topics and perspectives from profiled guest co-hosts with Grant's unique point of view.  

NBC’s Brian Williams’ Career in Jeopardy After Grave Iraq War Lie.NBC News anchor Brian Williams conceded Wednesday that he was not aboard a helicopter that was hit by enemy fire in Iraq in 2003 and forced down while he was covering the invasion - a story he retold as recently as last week. On NBC Nightly News, Williams read a 50-second statement apologizing (WaPo, Slate, me) • "...I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago...I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by [rocket-propelled grenade] fire. I was instead in a following aircraft. ... This was a bungled attempt by me to thank one special veteran and, by extension, our brave military men and women, veterans everywhere, those who have served while I did not." • The admission is a rare black mark for Williams, a poised, veteran newsman who has anchored NBC's news since 2004 and has endeared himself to non-news audiences through appearances on "30 Rock." "The Tonight Show" and other shows. No word from NBC on discipline or not • Williams's apology came after Stars and Stripes newspaper contacted crew members of the Chinook helicopter that Williams had said he was aboard when it was hit by two rockets and small arms fire. They said that Williams was not aboard. They said Williams arrived on another, undamaged helicopter an hour after the crippled Chinook had landed (sooo "following?")

NBC’s Brian Williams’ Career in Jeopardy After Grave Iraq War Lie.NBC News anchor Brian Williams conceded Wednesday that he was not aboard a helicopter that was hit by enemy fire in Iraq in 2003 and forced down while he was covering the invasion - a story he retold as recently as last week. On NBC Nightly News, Williams read a 50-second statement apologizing (WaPo, Slate, me) • "...I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago...I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by [rocket-propelled grenade] fire. I was instead in a following aircraft. ... This was a bungled attempt by me to thank one special veteran and, by extension, our brave military men and women, veterans everywhere, those who have served while I did not." • The admission is a rare black mark for Williams, a poised, veteran newsman who has anchored NBC's news since 2004 and has endeared himself to non-news audiences through appearances on "30 Rock." "The Tonight Show" and other shows. No word from NBC on discipline or not • Williams's apology came after Stars and Stripes newspaper contacted crew members of the Chinook helicopter that Williams had said he was aboard when it was hit by two rockets and small arms fire. They said that Williams was not aboard. They said Williams arrived on another, undamaged helicopter an hour after the crippled Chinook had landed (sooo "following?")

When freezing temperatures descend on Iceland, majestic whooper swans migrate south to the Highlands of Scotland where they flock together on wet land, whooping musically to one another in high and low tones. The beauty of the whooper swan has long been revered and over the winter months the Insh Marshes Nature Reserve plays host to this spectacular gathering. Living World presenter Trai Anfield and the RSPB's Catherine Vis-Christie take to the marshes to see how these elegant birds are faring after their long journey to Scottish shores. Produced by Tom Bonnett

Ep 18 of 24: Saving Species kick's off the new year with a look at the role of wetland habitats in providing a wintering refuge for wildfowl. Joanna Pinnock makes a dawn visit to Wildfowl and Wetland Trust reserve at Welney in Cambridgeshire to witness the very noisy but magical spectacle of thousands of Whooper and Bewick's swans flighting off from the pools by the reserve centre to head out to feed on the fields for the day. Chris Sperring is on the Hampshire coast at the Lymington-Keyhaven nature reserve. It's home to important numbers of Dark-bellied Brent Geese amongst many other species of smaller ducks. The geese come to the reserve for the winter from Siberia. Plus, news from around the world with our regular news reporter Kelvin Boot. Presenter: Joanna Pinnock Producer: Sheena Duncan Editor: Julian Hector