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The Saints That Serve Podcast
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Where each week, your hosts dive into the crossroads of faith, culture and the unknown.
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Episode 26 - The Minecraft Chronicles
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Twenty-six Mondays and counting! As we celebrate this milestone of consistent podcasting, we dive headfirst into the blocky universe of Minecraft – a game that has maintained its cultural relevance for an astonishing fifteen years.
What makes a pixelated, seemingly simple game continue to captivate players across generations? We share our fondest Minecraft memories, from the terror of first encountering Ghasts in the Nether to building elaborate secret bases with hidden snow golem shrines. The conversation takes us through Minecraft's evolution from a survival crafting game to a platform where people have built functioning computers and recreated Middle Earth to scale.
The upcoming Minecraft movie (starring Jason Momoa and Jack Black, directed by Napoleon Dynamite's Jared Hess) sparks a lively debate about how film adaptations can capture the essence of beloved games. Between nostalgic gaming tales, we share exciting community updates – our inductive Bible study course is underway, we congratulate Dylan and Julie on their engagement, and announce the Saints that Play gaming channel launching in June.
We close with a heartfelt discussion about media experiences we miss from childhood, particularly the communal aspect of event television that streaming has largely replaced. This episode weaves together faith, gaming culture, and community in a way that reminds us why we gather each week – to connect, share stories, and celebrate the intersection of our spiritual and everyday lives.
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Welcome to the Saints that Serve, podcast where, each week, your hosts dive into the crossroads of faith, culture and the unknown.
Speaker 1:Christ is Lord and the kingdom is now. We are the Saints that Serve.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Saints that Serve podcast with your hosts. I'm Johnny.
Speaker 1:That is, the Saints, that.
Speaker 2:Serve podcast and Jairus, and we just wanted to let you guys know that we love you and we're excited that you came back for episode 26.
Speaker 1:That's right. What if I just threw out like a random number, 47. 200. We've been doing this for 200 episodes right, oh man, dude, that's 200 Mondays. We will get there one day. Right now it's only been 26 Mondays. It's only been 26 Mondays.
Speaker 2:Can you guys think about that? We have been podcasting for 26 Mondays and, for those of you who listen to every single podcast, you've been with us for 26.
Speaker 1:Mondays, 26 weeks and hopefully counting, bonus content.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which we have. If you haven't listened to it, there's bonus content.
Speaker 1:How many pieces of content do you think we have total with bonus content and episodes?
Speaker 2:I'm going to say maybe like 33.
Speaker 1:With this episode that we are currently recording this very second 34. So some would say you're right and some would say you're wrong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Well, all the same, whether I'm right or wrong, I would love it if all the listeners would be following us on social media. We are on Instagram, we're on Threads, facebook X, all of it. Check us out, follow us, like, comment and share.
Speaker 1:And subscribe if that's an option for that platform.
Speaker 2:That's true, we're on YouTube and if you guys could just even if you don't listen to us on YouTube, just go give the video like a 30 second view, that way we can get a view on there.
Speaker 1:And also, if you like, videos. We are going to be doing that soon.
Speaker 2:Meaning like not clicking the like button, but like actually doing live videos and recorded videos of the podcast. That's right, yeah, yeah. So if you're into that, then you need to go ahead and go and subscribe to our YouTube channel, which is the Saints to Serve podcast.
Speaker 1:So I have a fun fact. Yeah, my wife told me that I'm her favorite podcast host.
Speaker 2:Ooh, my wife told me that we needed more Lord of the Rings content and your wife said we needed less. Yeah, she did, she did. So I'm thinking we need to do a video recording of our wives arm wrestling, and whoever wins determines how much Lord of the Rings content there is.
Speaker 1:If my wife wins, is it all. Lord of the Rings, content Nothing but. Lord of the.
Speaker 2:Rings no we just don't.
Speaker 1:And if my wife wins, it's none. What if it's a tie? Do we meet in the middle and sometimes do an episode on Lord of the Rings?
Speaker 2:I think, regardless of who wins and lose, inevitably it will come up. Regardless of who wins and lose, inevitably it will come up. Just like we were talking before. We recorded that we weren't going to bring up lord of the rings, and here we are talking about lord of the rings well, what?
Speaker 1:what ashley suggested was that we have like a playlist that just puts every episode of the podcast that mentions lord of the rings is in a in a playlist playlist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that would be most of them, probably, but uh, anyways, yeah, so make sure you're following us. Announcements we just completed the first lecture for our inductive bible study course. That's in our local community and boy oh boy was it good?
Speaker 1:yeah, it went. You did a good job, except when you tried to record it and it didn't record yeah, I okay, I knew this was gonna fail utterly.
Speaker 2:Eight gigabyte sd card. I didn't know that. I was like maybe I'll get 30 minutes, maybe oh man, maybe I'll record 30 minutes of this hour-long course? Yeah, well, because it's I didn't need the entire course. I mean, I in a perfect world, I get the course, but it's more so about watching my mannerisms, listening to my filler words Like that. Yeah, but just to help me improve the presentation overall rather than like actually looking at the material because I've got all that. Yeah, I need to watch myself presenting the material.
Speaker 1:So, watching you do your thing up there, which was in a small room at a coffee shop, but not really up there, hey, we meet where we can meet, you know? Yeah, that's right, I didn't notice any of your filler words. Oh really, and I think when you're there on the spot listening to them, you don't notice, but it's when. I guess for me, editing is when I notice them, because I'm fully listening for them and taking them out.
Speaker 2:So I'm glad you clarified it. You were intentionally listening for them rather than just saying what. I'm fully listening.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm paying attention to what you're saying up there and not listening to your fellow words. Yeah, yeah, when I'm editing the podcast. I'm looking for all the things that need to be taken out.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, I got you. So, anyways, yeah, so we just did that. That was pretty good. We've got three more weeks before. Everyone who's taking the course can say that we graduated. They graduated and they know how to study the Bible with the inductive method.
Speaker 1:I think you did a great job and I think you got some pretty great feedback.
Speaker 2:I did. I got some pretty good feedback for week one. I'm looking forward to seeing how week two goes and kind of like how we can make it better and refine it better. But we had what we had eight people in there, eight or nine. We had what we had eight people in there, eight or nine.
Speaker 1:So it was me, my wife, you, your wife, dylan, and his surprise future wife. Congratulations, congratulations. We'll get to that in two seconds.
Speaker 2:Which is Julie. Just so everyone knows Julie who came on episode.
Speaker 1:The fourth mission month episode we're getting up to that point where we're losing track of numbers. Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2:And then janelle and her boyfriend yep, and her bow, little little boyfriend, little bow. Uh, anyways, so that's seven, seven people, and then me, the presenter and if you want to count the child that was there and the child. Yeah, I don't know how much of it she retained, but she was there. Yeah, she was there. So there you go. I mean good, nice little cozy group, but it was good and we're looking forward to getting some more on the calendar after this one's done so.
Speaker 1:So let's get into that little side topic there for a second. Okay, so over the weekend our musical guest, dylan, proposed to your sister Yep, julie, julie, and they are going to get married. So congratulations, guys, yay, out of all the sound effects.
Speaker 2:I have, I don't have a clap.
Speaker 1:We don't have a clap. I'm going to clip that clap out and that's gonna be our clap.
Speaker 2:It's just gonna be a this is the closest thing I have to a clap.
Speaker 1:Sorry, that's all I've got the farthest thing from a clap. Yeah, but yeah seriously. Congratulations dylan, congratulations julie. I wish you the best in your marriage.
Speaker 2:The Lord will guide you and lead you. Amen, just follow. Besides that, announcement-wise, all we've got is, every Friday, we're praying for you, pray for you Friday, and then keep an eye out for our social media updates, because we will be posting when our worship night live stream is going to broadcast and we will be announcing when the Saints that play.
Speaker 1:That's my baby.
Speaker 2:We'll do their first live stream.
Speaker 1:I'm the Saints that play. That's right. Jairus is the Saints that play.
Speaker 2:Well, saint Saint that plays, but it'll be Tuesday night, a solo, kind of let's play vibe, really relaxed. And then on the weekends we'll do a group play and there'll be several of us and we're just getting on games and creating characters and being entertaining for you guys.
Speaker 1:Did we promise a date for that, yet we we said April, we didn't say when April. Okay, I think I want to, just so that things will be settled. I think I want to shoot for after May.
Speaker 2:There you go. You got to hear live update late May, so beginning of.
Speaker 1:June, beginning of June, you'll get the live stream. I just I'm going on that trip. So, no, I get it. I'm going on that trip. No, I get it. I want to get that and enjoy that and then come back. So look for that. I'm committing now. Look for the Saints that Play coming June. I want to get it promoted and give people time to understand and know and be in the know that that is a live stream. Video game streaming channel.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Which is a spinoff of the Saints that Serve.
Speaker 2:That's right. And to tide you over until we get there, we will have live worship nights the last Friday of every month. But you won't know that unless you subscribe. That's right. Our social medias.
Speaker 1:And that will be streamed on Twitch. That'll be streamed on YouTube. That will be streamed on Facebook Live Maybe, hopefully we always have issues with Facebook Live, but that's going to be the worship nights and the Saints that Play.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, so all right. Once again, we already said it, but if you need prayer, please reach out to us. You can do it through any of our social media or you can email us at saints that serve at gmailcom Again, that's saints that serve at gmailcom or you can direct message us. There is a link at the bottom of the description for this show. You can just click on that link and it'll take you to your SMS messaging and send us a question, a critique or a prayer request.
Speaker 1:Or just if you want to say hey, we'll say hey back. Or if you want to say hey, we love saying hey, h-a-y, oh, not H-E-Y, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because hey is for horses, yep.
Speaker 2:And we're a couple of stallions. I don't know, I may not be necessarily a horse, because I got that dog in me.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. Anyways, I'm trying to see Sorry, You're good, I felt like we had a new comment up. We have several new comments and we need to address them. The most recent one Great episode. I really like the comparison of the Prince of Egypt movie and the Book of Exodus. I think you all could occasionally review other Christian movies, like the Passion of the Christ, for instance, and compare that to the Bible as well. And that's from our beloved Ashley. Thank you, Ashley, and that's for last week's episode episode 25.
Speaker 1:Nice, yes, we have already talked about it. We are already in the works, planning for a sequel to Book Versus. I think is what we're going to call that segment bible versus well, I had it as the bible book versus, yeah, yeah, the bible book versus whatever and I did movie, so that I think bible, the bible versus. And we're going to do tv next. We don't know when we're going to do that, but the plan is to eventually do TV.
Speaker 2:And here's Ashley's comment on episode 24. Welcome back, johnny. Wildfires, flu and fog I love. The cryptic corner is back Also. I laughed when Jairus said that Jesus would work at Starbucks, because that's where the sinners are. Literally went to Starbucks today for a decaf Americano. So LOL, but it's true. Romans 3.23, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Last, I think you all should group the Lord of the Rings episodes. There are at least three now. I feel like there might be more, but oh, there's going to be more.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's more. After we do the watch along of the promised land, we should just do a Lord of the Rings watch along.
Speaker 2:There you go. That'd be good. And then here's one for episode 22, the Valentine's episode. This is from Julie. Let's go, Julie. Congratulations Julie. Let's kick Johnny off the podcast and have Ashley take his job. Go, Ashley. I love this married couple duo. Maybe we should do a spinoff of podcast instead. Oh, Isn't that really what the Saints that play is going to be ultimately, though?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's like what Julie is asking for.
Speaker 2:It's going to be the Ashley.
Speaker 1:Jerry.
Speaker 2:Zero Right. So there you go, julie. Thanks for the for the comment, and your comment has been answered.
Speaker 1:So that's it, Mark. That bad boy done is finished.
Speaker 2:That's on Spotify and YouTube. I don't think we have anything.
Speaker 1:We need more people on YouTube, yeah.
Speaker 2:Four reels More people doing more people things. You know what I mean, Vern.
Speaker 1:Oh, I thought you were talking about like there was four reels on YouTube. Oh no, Like a TikTok short video reel. I wish we need to do that, we should get into the short form entertainment division.
Speaker 2:Does anyone want to commit to watching every single reel that we post? If so, leave a comment.
Speaker 1:Does anybody want to commit to being our short-form social media manager? And they just watch our videos and listen to our podcasts and then make clips and create clips for the show.
Speaker 2:That would be great yeah, commit to it right now, do it, commit, commit.
Speaker 1:Don't hesitate, just call us right now. 555-75it Commit. Don't hesitate, just call us right now 555-755.
Speaker 2:No, that's not our actual number.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think of any phone number I could jokingly call out. That's from movie 867-5309. There you go, hey, there you go. That's one I can call out legally Okay.
Speaker 2:Speaking of YouTube, can we talk about how frustrating it is that I've posted stuff throughout my entire life and the most amount of views in the shortest amount of time that has ever happened to me is a 15 second long, short video of me talking about a raccoon, and it gets, in three days, almost 500 views. Like all my other videos do not exceed 70 views right right it's just that one, because you did hashtag trash panda. It, yeah, it literally is that.
Speaker 1:That's the only thing I can think of can we talk about how, for some reason, our regal shenanigans video shaka khan has over 10 000 views and all our other videos are in the 20s?
Speaker 2:I don't know here's my other one that I posted the other day. I put chickens Chickens need hashtag, protein hashtag, sardines hashtag Minecraft in real life, and it's got three likes and 68 views and that was a day ago, so apparently I just need to start posting shorts Throwing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess shorts are where they're at Going back to it. We need a shorts manager. Yeah, who wants to manage my shorts? Yeah?
Speaker 2:because I did a seven-minute long video and it only got two views. I guess short form Get it at 15 to 16 seconds is where it's at.
Speaker 1:So yeah again, who wants to clip and manage our content on TikTok, instagram Reels and YouTube Reels Is there any other short, short form places. I know facebook, I mean facebook has it, but it's the same instagram, facebook, yeah, so yeah, I think I guess there's just technically four major short form sites.
Speaker 2:Yep cool, there you go okay surprise.
Speaker 1:We're doing a film. Oh, really yeah, oh, just one, you don't have to find one, don't worry about it. All right, all right, this one. I was surfing yesterday and I could not believe it. This thing is incredible, okay. Okay, are you ready? I'm ready. So I was going through this and ashley saw me and Like what is that? So Arby's and Old Spice special promo sweat tracksuit. So again, it's Arby's and Old Spice special promo tracksuit, sweats tracksuit. And if it helps any it's a size medium Sweats tracks it. And if it, helps any.
Speaker 2:It's a size medium. I'm going to say that it's like a hundred bucks.
Speaker 1:All right, would you like a second guess after I show you the picture?
Speaker 2:Sure, all right $30.
Speaker 1:It's $200. $200. $200. $200 for a Girl.
Speaker 2:we got the meats.
Speaker 1:Tracksuit. It's a hoodie and shorts tracksuit set and it's just roast beef, just layers of roast beef, layers and layers of roast beef on this tracksuit, up and down on it. It is my favorite thing now. I want this so bad, I and down on it. It is my favorite thing now. I want this so bad. Like, I really want to wear this. Like if we start doing live shows, yeah. Like if we get you know popular enough that people want to see us perform the podcast live, yeah, yeah, I'm buying this and wearing this to every single live show, a hundred percent. Okay, all right, I'm holding you to that. That is my commitment to the audience. I will get the meat sweats tracksuit.
Speaker 2:You heard it here, fans Jairus is committing to a dress in the we Got the Meats tracksuit. If you guys make us big, all right, are we ready to do a little transition into our topic, to our main topic yeah. One hundred percent. All right, tyler, this is your transition.
Speaker 1:we are moving on to our main topic for tonight, and we are talking about here minecraft if if you don't know what we're talking about that we're imitating the villager from Minecraft.
Speaker 2:Huh, huh, yeah, yeah, beloved game right, mm-hmm, everybody loves it. When did you start playing Minecraft? I started playing Minecraft in 2013.
Speaker 1:Minecraft came out. Okay, this is wild to me, because there's not many games that have the lifespan. Yeah, that minecraft has. Yeah, yeah, minecraft, and you're gonna. You might have to correct me I believe minecraft came out in 2009.
Speaker 2:I'm I'm checking it right now. Uh, yeah, 2009. Yeah, I was yeah, 2009.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was right. Look at me being right. Boyo, yep, yep yep.
Speaker 2:The public version of Minecraft was released on May 17, 2009. The full version was released on November 18, 2011.
Speaker 1:What yeah, so there was like, if you ever see the first iteration of Minecraft, it's bare bare bones. There was nothing in there. Oh, really, yeah, so that came out in 2009. I started playing, probably 2010, 11. Yeah, maybe, yeah, when it was a little bit more playable, but most games do not have a lifespan of more than a year or two. This game was out for four years before you even touched it. Yeah, this game has now been out for going on almost 15 years. Yep, is that, is that right math 16, 16 years? Yeah, because we're in 2025. So in four years, that game is going to be 20 years old. Uh-huh, yep, and it's just wild to me how a game like that can have such a long-lasting appeal.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:When? If you don't know what Minecraft is, it's just a pixelated Lego. If you want to call it a knockoff, it's not a knockoff. It's unique in that sense, but it's just, it's Legos, it's pixelated Lego. It's so much more than that, but that is a very, very good generalization of the game.
Speaker 2:It is, and I don't feel like there's a whole lot of people in the gaming. I mean definitely no one in the gaming world.
Speaker 1:If you've played a video game, you know what Minecraft is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly that's what I'm trying to get at. So how many copies do you think have been sold in Minecraft?
Speaker 1:How many copies have you bought of Minecraft?
Speaker 2:That is the true tragedy right there.
Speaker 1:How many times I've had to buy minecraft? No, but probably for me at least six or seven times, just because it it has spanned three generations of consoles yeah, so I bought the original java and then I we started playing on Xbox.
Speaker 2:So I bought the Microsoft Bedrock when that happened, and then I bought it for tablet at some point, I think, and then recently I had to rebuy it again for some stupid reason on the Xbox stupid reason on the Xbox. And then now I find out, after I bought it, that you also have to have Xbox live to play it, which makes no sense. Makes no sense. You shouldn't need it, but apparently you do and you can't. I can't do anything about my original vanilla version. Yeah, because I I missed the deadline to transition it over. So, whatever, I'm not bitter to transition it over. So whatever, I'm not bitter. Anyways, the game has sold.
Speaker 1:Oh sorry, let me guess Probably 100 million copies, 300 million. I was close, not even close, nowhere near it.
Speaker 2:Well, actually, if you count, one is close to the number three, that's true, you are right, but anyways, it was created by a guy named Marcus Pearson and that is what his name is not.
Speaker 1:I was trying to remember. Thank you, welcome For ruining that for me.
Speaker 2:That's what my name is the Ruiner, the Ruiner.
Speaker 1:Anyways, I have bought it on. Thanks for asking. By the way, anyways, I have bought it on. Thanks for asking. By the way, I have bought it on uh, I bought the original copy. Okay, uh, pc, I bought it on ps3, ps4 I think ps4 to ps5 was transferable. Yeah, xbox, I bought it on switch. That's seven right there. I feel like I bought extra copies before when we did Minecraft Nights with the youth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which were awesome.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say at least ten different times, but the thing is, minecraft's only like $20. Or was. I don't know if they went up in price.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know what it is now. It's not terrible. It's not like a 80 game, right, which most games are now yeah, but it's evolved to now you can buy in-game stuff, as all games have become, yeah, so which some of it's pretty good, like we've got that disney world oh my gosh that we need to go in and do that as a live stream.
Speaker 1:That might be one of our starting streams.
Speaker 2:Okay, because we did that one time when we did a playthrough. Yeah, but we just did it for fun, just for fun, that's right.
Speaker 1:We didn't really record or anything for that, yeah, but essentially it was like ride, every Disneyland ride, it was a competition.
Speaker 2:Whoever could do every single interaction in the game and get back and hit the fireworks button at the end of the night won.
Speaker 1:That's Disney World. I said Disneyland.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's Disney World, so the superior Disney.
Speaker 1:It truly is. I'm sorry. So look, I can get off that tangent in two seconds. I've been to Disneyland. I've been to Disney World. Disney World is better, oh yeah, oh yeah, but there are some rides that are better in Disneyland, but as a whole they have enough room to put everything in there and not feel cramped. Yeah, all right, minecraft, we're back on topic. All right, do we need like a off-topic Tyler, like some of that version, but like hey, sidetrack, sidetrack, cedric or something like that?
Speaker 2:We'll have to come up with a witty one for one of our fans.
Speaker 1:So that we'll say, hey, this is your side note, side thought, or something like that Cedric, this is your side thought.
Speaker 2:Okay, whoever is the first person to comment on this episode, we will give you a side note. Shout out, you will be the side note name.
Speaker 1:You will be the side note name. Tyler has transition. It'll help if your name starts with the letter S or has an S sounding in it somewhere.
Speaker 2:But you know what? No, the burden's on us. You be the first one to comment, and then we will be creative and find a way to do it. Should we allow Ashley to qualify for this, or it'll be ashley? So okay, all right. Well, most likely it's going to be ashley, so she's in the running.
Speaker 1:She's the only one who really is devoted right now commenting.
Speaker 2:So that's true, that's true, okay all right, what is your fondest minecraft memory?
Speaker 1:okay, playing it for the first time and finding I mean, you had to use guides, minecraft from the very beginning when you're crafting stuff. There was no recipes, nobody knew any of that stuff, yeah, yeah, so, like me trying to figure out, okay, where do I go from here? And finding out that you have to find all these ender pearls yeah, not, sorry, not ender pearls find um diamond to get to obsidian yep, to build the portal to the nether, to the nether, and it's not fond, but it's probably one of the most prominent memories. And you being on the overworld, yeah, and that is a little, it's already, already, especially for a new Minecraft player.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's stressful being up there, yeah, like when the sun goes down and all these things come out after you. Oh, yeah, and it's just numerous things that are after you. And you know, you have this green dude walk up to you and like, okay, he's not shooting anything at me, he's not trying to hurt me, what is he going to do? And blow you up. And he blows up like whoa, yeah, but to go through all of that and okay, cool, what's behind this portal? And it's just literally heck, chaos, it's chaos, yep, and it's just so, just distinctive a memory of just me panicking I don't panic, playing games, yeah and being in this area and just panicking, freaking out like, oh my gosh, what is that? What is that? Why are these pigs after me? What is that thing? Oh my gosh, why is that giant ghost shooting fireballs at me? Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, I think that was the moment of the gas shooting fireballs and you hearing that thing scream yeah, and it shoots a fireball at you. I left the nether and it took me a very long time to go back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which is what's funny is the way you're describing your reaction is the same reaction that we still have to this day. If we go play Minecraft and we go in the nether, there's a lot of what is going on?
Speaker 1:I know what is going on. Yeah, something great about Minecraft, too, is when they update it like you might step away from it for a couple of months. Yeah, because the way they update it, you will always go back and find something new.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true. Like I don't know if you know, but the most recent update added a biome and added a couple of mobs, but it added a specialty, kind of like fight arena.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like a little mob fight arena, so you fight all the mobs in it and then it spawns a special mob. That's kind of like the Wither.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:Or no? No, it's not like the Wither, it's like the. What are the? Fire Blazes Blazes in the nether, it's like that, but it's like a wind blaze. What is this?
Speaker 1:game Minecraft. But seriously, that's something great to me about having these conversations as well about this. Have you played Minecraft lately? They added this and it's like every time you turn it on, it's a brand new game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we've played so many times and I still have not found a mansion. Oh my gosh, you know, like just in normal gameplay never found one Crazy Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And not to mention like Minecraft has become so expansive, yeah, that mods are not even needed anymore. Like they're fun to have, yeah, but a lot of the stuff that they add it comes from mods. Yeah, so I feel like that's one of the first games I ever really did modifications to. Yeah, yeah, do you remember playing with? Oh, yeah, I remember playing Playing on the mod server. Yep, that was so much fun.
Speaker 2:Dude, we had a ton of fun with that, just learning how to get electricity going. And then, like we turn around and the other guys on the server are like are like shooting explosives at each other and making arc reactors and stuff.
Speaker 1:I think, laying, I just sit here and all these different memories of all these different instances. Yeah, anytime you get on and start Minecraft Yep, so those who don't know it starts a fresh new world, randomized. Yeah, and so every time you play Minecraft, even though you're playing the same game, you will always have a different experience playing minecraft. That's true, no matter what. Every time it's different and you get so attached to it, yeah, in a very positive way. Yeah, um, I remember playing one time and we started up it wasn't me and you, it was, uh, a mutual friend of ours started up a world. It was me, him and two of, uh, two friends of ours as well, yep, and it was kind of like a hunger games, survival, like go run off, and at this time the maps were small. Yeah, the limited maps, limited map yep, on older consoles you had a very limited map size. So it's like go build your your base, prepare, and then, after a certain amount of time, you then go and hunt down the other players and once you kill them, they're out. Yeah, yeah, so this would span like a couple hours, man. I think it ended up being like three or four hours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so I went in. I built a really cool hidden base. Uh, where it was like there was like a kind of a crater with a little pond in it and within it I built into the sidewall with lever and pistons the sticky pistons, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so you just go over to this, like behind this bush, click a button or flip a lever and then, over on the other side, would open up my secret base in the side of the hill. Yeah, yeah, so that's where my base was. Yeah, good luck finding it because I'm clever. Yeah, I did that. I built up, got diamond armor and I went and found somebody and they had this massive castle. Okay, great, hiding yourself. Yeah. So I snuck around, came over to him, killed him. He got so mad at me because he forgot the game. He just started playing Minecraft.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He forgot that we were supposed to be hunting each other down and killing each other. He got so mad and he's like why'd you kill me? For the reason we're here in the first place.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then later on, another friend who was the one who started this so I'm hiding again and I see him flying, because in the game you can fly, yeah, yeah, and so he's, uh, he's flying across the map, yeah, and I'm like you're cheating, yeah. And so, like he saw me and he found my base, took all my stuff, but his excuse was uh, I didn't. I mean, yeah, I saw it when I was in the sky, but I landed and came back normal. No, you cheated all together and took all my stuff, dude, what the heck?
Speaker 1:I know that sounds like a negative memory, but it's just like it's fun. It's just like me and ashley will still play minecraft. Yeah, yeah, to this day, like it's just. It's such a timeless game. That's my Minecraft rant and I'll have 37 other ones because it's just as we're talking. More memories will come up about this game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one of my favorite ones is actually the livestream that we did, where I generated the map and created the story for the game. It's a four-part series. It's on our YouTube channel.
Speaker 1:It is on the-part series. It's on our YouTube channel. It is on the Saints that Play, but it's labeled Regal Games. Like the videos, will be labeled as Regal Games videos. That was when we did Regal Games live streaming. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So the channel is the Saints that Play, but it may still have the old labeling for the videos, but it's the I think it's called John's adventure map or something like that. Part one through four, whatever. There should be a playlist for it, yeah. But I mean we had a ton of fun doing that. I had a lot of fun throughout the week like building the next part of the map and building the next part of the adventure, and then, like during the game. It's like you know, I've got an idea of where I want this to go, but it it's just going to go the way you guys play.
Speaker 1:So, however, you guys play, you essentially had like a Dungeons and Dragons map going in Minecraft.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like a fantasy map, yeah, yeah, and there was lore and stuff in it, but yeah, we were just playing for fun.
Speaker 1:Do you remember Sunflower Hill?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that one was good too.
Speaker 1:That was like our reoccurring storyline and it all died because Because of, yeah, the Wither, because of the Wither. So I did this to myself and it killed the series because I was trying to make the stream more interesting. So I said everybody was there, everybody was prepped. We had gathered, prepped, being Not there yet we were prepared to fight the Wither. Yeah, not there yet. We were prepared to fight the wither. Yeah, but we weren't fully ready. But we were ready to summon the wither. So if you're not familiar with minecraft, the wither is like a secret side boss. What is there now?
Speaker 2:I know that there was the ender dragon, there's the wither, there's the warden, the warden, and then the most recent one is that one that I was telling you about. It's not really like a hard boss, but it's essentially like a wind version of the blazes and the raiders.
Speaker 1:I guess they don't really technically count as bosses, but no, it's just a group of group of yeah, raiders, overland, bad guy villagers so the wither is, at the time of last me playing is kind of like the secondary secret harder major boss and it's probably one of the harder ones you have to get and prep for. Yeah, because so in the nether there are wither skeletons that you have to kill, yep, and if you kill them, there is a very, very, very low chance that they drop their heads. Yep, if you kill them, there is a very, very, very low chance that they drop their heads. Yep, if you get three of those heads and you build a letter T, right, it's like a low weird letter T, yeah, letter T with soul sand.
Speaker 1:And then you put three of the skeleton heads on it, it will summon the wither, which is like this flying skeleton thing that is has high health and does high damage.
Speaker 2:You know playing minecraft like know all this stuff right? I'm sitting here listening to you explain as to someone who's never played minecraft before and I'm like this is ridiculous. It really is. This sounds insane, but it is. That's legit how you do it.
Speaker 1:So in the live stream we got to the point where we could summon the wither and I said, okay, guys, I'm going to summon the wither. And they're like, okay, give us time to prep. And I said, okay, for the stream, I'm going to find a random countdown timer, yeah, and I just put in give me a random time. So I didn't say a time, I just made it random. I said y'all start prepping and then I'm going to start the countdown timer, yeah, and once it hits zero, no matter what, I'm summoning the wither, yeah, yeah, no matter what, I'm summoning the wither, yeah, yeah. And so I ended up being like 12 minutes, which is not enough time to prep, yeah, but we all agreed that we were going to summon the wither underground, yeah, so everybody's out there prepping and again, I guess again everybody gets sidetracked because minecraft is such a peaceful game to play.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I know it doesn't sound like it when we describe these weird moments.
Speaker 2:I want to clarify that I was not sidetracked. I was working diligently to try and fortify that little cavern that we were going to spawn him in.
Speaker 1:But I think only I knew the time and I was going to commit 100%. I was committing no matter what, yep, and I knew it was going to upset everybody. But I'm committing. So it hits zero.
Speaker 1:I summon the wither and if you're close by to the wither which most everybody was it gives its health bar at the top of the screen. Yep, it gives almost like a warning and the skies go black. So all of a sudden, the skies go black and you get the warning. Like the wither is here and everybody on the stream is just like no, no, I'm not ready. Oh, no, no, what's going on? Of course it starts trying to blow its way out. So, essentially, in like a span of like 20 seconds, the wither has created this giant crater and it just starts annihilating the world and so, essentially, we all die, yep multiple times, multiple times, and we all give up, we kill the stream. And essentially because of the way that I planned to be funny, yeah, we just lose sunflower hill. Yeah, I think that map it still exists, I think it's still there, oh, really. And I think Sunflower Hill is actually the house is still there.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:So, but at that point I liked the canon that we did all this work. We had like 14 episodes of this just prepping, making this world great, yeah, and then I just love the idea of I screw up and now this just destroyed the planet.
Speaker 2:Essentially, yep, and no more Sunflower Hill.
Speaker 1:No more Sunflower Hill.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a lot of fun, yeah, so what was your best build?
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm terrible at building. I just 100% what's your best build? I was on a server playing little mini games one time, just like a public random server, just being bored playing on PC. One day, yeah, and I got on and I got into a build contest and I won. Oh really, yeah, I won because I built a pig and he was green and I named him like Steve the radioactive pig, nice, something like that. So I just used green wool, made a pig and called him radioactive. They loved it and I won.
Speaker 1:it wasn't that impressive okay, still, yeah, won a building contest yeah, so I won that and won nothing like oh, here's a diamond, congratulations, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, so that was fun. But overall I was always the kind of person who, when playing Minecraft, I really enjoyed the mechanical side of things and the sense of like secret bases, hidden things, secret little rooms and pistons and redstone. Yeah, secret little rooms and pistons and redstone. And there's people who make like really integrate huge, ridiculous massive castles with all these details of like flipping a staircase and then putting a painting on it to make it look like a couch and just like intricate beds. And that's not me.
Speaker 1:In Minecraft, I've always been the one of just goofing off, yeah, having fun, what was it? We were playing that one time and I just had this, this secret room. My goal always when playing minecraft is to make secret rooms inside other people's houses. My favorite mob so terminology in minecraft any creature in Minecraft is called a mob. Yeah, my favorite Minecraft mob is the snow golem. Yes, my thing with that is I will always find a way this is going to sound weird, but it's more comical than anything is to build a secret shrine to snow golems inside other people's houses. That's always been my thing thing, it's the funniest thing to me so that randomly, somebody will find I always call them these are my friends. Yeah, I always like, put like maybe three to five of them in somebody's house secretly, because they don't make any noise, they just make snow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you need two snow blocks and a pumpkin, a carved pumpkin, a carved pumpkin, I think a normal pumpkin works too. Oh, really, yeah, I think so, unless they changed it, I don't know, I don't remember. So, yeah, a jack-o'-lantern, essentially, yeah, is what you're saying, which makes sense, yeah, but and then just put them in there and then just like, have them, like just in this room and sign saying these are my friends, or uh, or, or a shrine to my friends, and stuff like that. So I always love doing that. It is the funniest thing to me. Yeah, yeah, because I will try my best to sneak around, I will steal other people's resources to make the secret room, I'll try to make it shiny, like, why is the walls of this room made of all the iron I worked hard to get? Yeah, yeah, stuff like that. It's so much fun to me because it's harmless. It's harmless.
Speaker 1:It's harmless and it's like, okay, where did my diamond go? Oh, it's just in a diamond block on the wall in this secret shrine. Yeah, it's just really funny to me.
Speaker 2:That's funny. Yeah, I really liked what I did with the livestream fantasy map that we did, but I wouldn't really count that because I was a creative. I was in creative.
Speaker 2:Explain what creative versus survival is real quick, so survival is, you're dropped into the world and you have to harvest any material and you have to figure out how to put certain materials together to create something, and that's how you get accomplishments in the game. But you have to find the material out in the map. You have to harvest the material out in the map. You have to harvest the material out in the map and then you have to bring it back and build it.
Speaker 1:So, for example, you're dropped in with nothing. You have health, you have to eat food, essentially without really telling you much of anything. They drop you in and it just says go yeah. And for somebody who doesn't know how the game works, you have to figure the things out correct. It's a lot easier now.
Speaker 2:They have streamlined it somewhat yeah, they've made it easier, but um creative mode. You have all the resources at your hand and you can fly through the map so essentially it's.
Speaker 1:Minecraft has become a almost like a way to make art pieces. Yeah, and in creative, you have unlimited resources and the ability to fly around anywhere to build your art pieces or build out maps, or build whatever you want, do whatever you want, with no limitations of health, hunger, anything like that.
Speaker 2:This is how insane Minecraft is. There's a group of guys inside of Minecraft that have built a computer in Minecraft with redstone mechanisms and can play Minecraft in Minecraft with their redstone computer.
Speaker 1:So I still don't fully understand. If you look at redstone contraptions of that caliber, it's massive, massive complexes of redstone wiring. Yeah, because it runs to like logic and it's like, if this, then it runs. The redstone signal a different direction and it's beyond me.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I would never be able to.
Speaker 1:Essentially, it's downright building a computer in a video game Yep and programming a computer in a video game To play the video game that you're playing. It's insanity. Yeah, yeah, I remember back when it was incredibly impressive that somebody built a calculator in Minecraft.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, but Minecraft can also be as simple as you drop in. You build a nice little house, you get a couple of different animals like a cow, some pigs, some sheep and a chicken.
Speaker 1:you just farm simulate minecraft is so versatile that it can be as simple as you want it to be or as complicated as you want it to be. It gives you the ability to do whatever you want. Yeah, and on the surface it looks like a children's game, but it is so much more than that.
Speaker 2:Yep, and there's a server that you can go to and it is a recreation, scene for scene, of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Lord of the Rings, right, so you can literally walk through Middle Earth in this Minecraft map and see Gondor. To scale, yeah, to scale, yeah. So you can go and see Helm's Deep, you can go and see the Tower of Isengard, you can go and see Hobbiton, like all these crazy things.
Speaker 1:Another one, have you seen? It's literally somebody built the world the map. Yeah, so like essentially, somebody Earth the Earth, us the map, yeah, so like essentially somebody Earth the earth, us earths Yep, Built it out to where it's the full. I wouldn't say quite to scale, but it's massive all the same. Yeah, the layout and shape of the entire planet and the continents and the island. Somebody built this out. Yeah, but it's still flat land and they just dropped people in and said have at it. Yeah, and they. I think the big thing is is they built a bridge from Florida to Europe. I think was one of the massive projects they undertook.
Speaker 2:Which wouldn't work out the best way in real life, of course not.
Speaker 1:Minecraft logic is if you build, like, you can build a tower of blocks and if you break the bottom block like, let's say, if you stack dirt, a three stack of dirt you can break the bottom two and that third one will now float in the air. There's weird logic to Minecraft.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You could build essentially a floating bridge. Yeah, but part of that is getting in, mining and collecting all the resources to build a bridge from florida to europe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true. Yeah, awesome, awesome, awesome. All right, we've talked a ton about minecraft. Now we need to talk about the movie.
Speaker 1:Do we have to?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, so I really don't know how I feel about it.
Speaker 1:I can tell you where I'm currently standing, because it's been a bit of a rollercoaster for me. Okay, a lot of up and downs, back and forths.
Speaker 2:Well, real quick, before you get into that, for those of you who do not know. So, Minecraft we've talked about the video game. You've kind of got an idea of how. It's just an open world sandbox, but it's also like a survival strategy game. All right, they are coming out with a movie. It's releasing the beginning of april, april 4th. The stars are jason momoa and jack black. Then there's a couple other lesser, like kid characters.
Speaker 1:Kid characters and I mean personally haven't heard of, like the two women who are in that movie, the actresses I don't know.
Speaker 2:So all the human actors are live humans. Everything else is CGI animation.
Speaker 1:And that's where I'll get to. On that, they did a good job of 3D CGI models that I feel like are true to the game. Yep, looking realistic, like hyper-realistic, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it not look overly weird yeah, they look decent. Yeah, can I get into my issues? Yes, and where they look decent yeah, can I get into my issues? Yes.
Speaker 1:And where I'm standing, the first trailer came out and you could see green screen, like there's a certain thing like when you're filming on like green screen stages. Yeah, there will be like a green screen glow because you're shining light. Then you're putting a picture on the green screen. You're able to key out. It's technical film editing stuff yeah, but sometimes if you're not good with your edit, you can actually see the behind the head and like the outline of people where there's a glow of green and that's because they're on a green screen stage and that was the editor doing a poor job of taking out that glow. That was in the first trailer. Second trailer fixed it. It looks decent. It looks like a decent movie. I'm good, I might enjoy this movie. Yeah, I'm back down now. Oh really.
Speaker 1:They're doing. Something I don't like about movies that do this, it's they over-explain things to you as the audience and they kind of treat you stupid. So pay attention next time you watch a trailer for it. Every time Jack Black does something, he has to call out exactly what he's using and what he's doing in it. He's just like TNT here take this diamond pickaxe. He has to call out everything he does. Tnt here take this diamond pickaxe. He has to call out everything he does. But if this movie is made, who is this movie made for? Essentially? Is it made for people who enjoy Minecraft and have loved it for years, like me and you, yeah, yeah. Is it made for kids, who also enjoy Minecraft for years and wouldn't know what these things are? Yeah. Or is it made for people who don't know what Minecraft is, because that's what it feels like they made it to have to describe everything to you because you don't know what it is if you don't play Minecraft yeah, but what?
Speaker 2:because he's talking to the other people that have just gotten dropped in to the world of Minecraft.
Speaker 1:So sure, but it feels almost like they could write that in any way, where they're discovering these things like you would as a new player. Yeah, yeah, let me discover a tree. Oh, I got a wooden block and you're seeing them experience that, and they don't have to narrate it. Yeah yeah, but everything Minecraft, like Jack Black or Steve, is doing, he is having to call out every little thing. I'm hoping that that's just in the trailer trailer and in the movie it's not as bad. It's just a lot of back-to-back because it's a trailer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, okay, all right. Well, what do you think of Nacho Libre? Do you like that movie? Yes. What about Napoleon Dynamite? I love Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker 1:Okay, because it's the same director All right, this is going to be a fantastic movie. You got me back. I'm back high. I'm back on boy. Are you serious, though? For real, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I looked it up. It's Jared Hess, nice, he's the director for the Minecraft movie, and I did not realize that until I was looking it up today, because I was kind of like, you know, I was kind of on the line like I could be, okay, I don't have my hopes up though, because there's I don't know, I just don't know. And then I looked at it and I was like, okay, jared Hess is directing it. I think it'll be all right, I think it'll be all right, it'll be all right. So, but yeah, looking forward to seeing that Comes out April 4th, so we're going to go see it and then we'll do a movie review.
Speaker 1:Are we going to do another Saints that Watch, like me, and you go and see it, yeah. Or do you want to bring your kids? What do you want to do?
Speaker 2:Well, I guess I'll bring any kids that want to come, but there's a chance they won't, because Bigfoot does not like movie theaters. I think the sound, think it's the sound, I think the sound it's too loud. And then the fact that it's just a dark room and you have to sit, still, he, well, it's not necessarily that, I think it's just that, because it's a dark room and it's really loud, that he just it wigs him out a little bit. Yeah. So you know, park ranger might want to go see it. And then dasher, just he doesn't care about minecraft. He's too young, yeah right, he's too busy playing real Minecraft outside, right. So, but yeah, we're definitely it's going to be a Saints, a Saints that that watch that watch, saints that watch, a Saints that a Saints outing, a Saints outing. All right, we're going to wrap this up with our final segment. So, tyler, this is your transition and we're gonna just, we're gonna go down the nostalgia route let's do it, okay.
Speaker 1:What's the name of this segment? What do you give it a name?
Speaker 2:quick uh nostalgia I don't know, nostalgia. I remember that. Yeah, there you go. All right, this is. I really just have one question media that you, you miss, media that I miss. What is some? Media that, like you, consumed it, you loved it, you had a great time with it, but they're not making it anymore. And you miss that. They don't make it anymore.
Speaker 1:So this is a hard one, because every time you turn around, they're remaking media that I miss, yeah, and they're not doing a good job with it. So I don't really wish much, very often, like I used to Like, oh, I hope they make new episodes of Animaniacs. Yeah, I love that show, but when they remade Animaniacs it was bad. Yeah, it wasn't bad, it just it was like everything. Why does a children's show have to be political? Yeah, tiny tune adventures, yeah, did the same thing. Uh, futurama. Futurama is usually pretty good, so I just never bother going back because I'm an adult who wants to do right with my life. There. You go praise the lord Now that show. Of all the shows I watched being younger that were quote unquote adult shows, that's not the worst one. Yeah, yeah, king of the Hill. They're coming back with that. So I miss there's a lot of media, but I think I miss. I'll tell you what I miss. Okay, okay, I did watch a lot of TV as a kid. Okay, I miss the. I did watch a lot of.
Speaker 1:TV as a kid. I miss the, and they took this away with streaming. Streaming has killed the event. Television watching, yeah, and what I mean by that. We only see it really now with the Super Bowl yeah, where everybody's coming together watching something together. Yeah, whether you're at home alone, but you can go back and talk about the event of it. Yeah, they did do that a lot with children's television as well. They had the big Saturday night live block party type thing, yeah, on live TV where they would have a host that would be, you know, be talking to you between each show. So you felt like you were there, you were part of something. Three hours of new episodes of your favorite shows on cartoon network nickelodeon uh, nickelodeon used to have like an actual live from universal studios where they the building where they had the blue man group, where that's at now yeah they used to do the nickelodeon um, what was it called?
Speaker 1:I think it was like you pick live or something like that, where you were voting live of what show you wanted it to be played next. You would call in and the majority vote would be like all right, now we're going to play a new episode of this show, so you would be voting on what shows would show next. So I know that is a weird tangent, but yeah, the events that came along with live television. Yeah, have you ever gone back and watched like old commercials from back in the day?
Speaker 1:sometimes I've seen some of them, yeah like they have an entire youtube channels where it's just like watch this commercial. Yeah, yeah, watch all these old commercials and they bring back so much nostalgia for me. Yeah, I don't know if it still exists, but there is a live stream where they would play old cartoon network cartoons and the old commercials that coincided with it. So it's like watching old. Where's you back, immerse you back into the 90s of watching tv. Okay, so I miss, I miss that. I, yeah. Just sitting down and having the television event. Yeah, okay, whatever it may be. You know, dvr has kind of killed the forcing you to have to sit down to watch something. Otherwise it would take months to go back and be able to see whatever you missed. Yeah, yeah, that is a pro that you own nowadays. You're not going to miss any content. Yeah, but it took away something at the same time I hear you yeah, for me okay samurai jack.
Speaker 1:I will say samurai jack was part of that showing episodes. What I'm talking about, yeah it was part of that friday night cartoons, but yeah I enjoyed the show.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed the fifth season. You know it was a. It was a, an upsetting one, but a good ending. But I'm just upset that they ended it, you know.
Speaker 1:Well, it's better than what we had, which was nothing. We never got a closure back in the day.
Speaker 2:And that's why they brought it back. That's what I'm saying is, they brought it back and I feel like they could have revamped it, but it's okay.
Speaker 1:You wanted it to go a little bit longer than the 10 episodes that we got.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:That is probably one of the last event shows I would call. That was when season five came out and that was such a big deal and everybody was watching that back to back. And then, when the season finale came around, had a party and everybody came around to watch a cartoon. Yeah, that was so much fun. Yeah, we had a party and everybody came around to watch a cartoon. Yeah, that was so much fun. Yeah, we had a good time doing that. I just remember that ending happened and it's sad, yeah it is.
Speaker 1:It's a sad ending. And everybody's sitting there just like, still trying to take it all in. Yeah, and you get up and you go. You look at everybody in the room and you go you're dumb, you suck, I'm going home, and you left at my own house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I said yeah, I called everybody names, stood up, said I'm going home and I walked into my bedroom and shut the door. Uh, yeah, but anyways, that was good. And then okay, I recently started re-watching the old disney Tarzan series and the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and they both only have one season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they were good. Yeah, they did that a lot in the late 90s, early 2000s, where every Disney movie had to get some sort of animated television show. Yeah, had to get some sort of animated television show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so yeah, the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command movie came out, and then they released the TV show.
Speaker 1:No, Toy Story came out, not Lightyear, the movie that recently come out.
Speaker 2:No, no. The Toy Story 1 came out, yes, and then Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, the cartoon Came out, came out the movie, and then, right after that movie, they released a TV series that follows that. There's no movie, I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 1:Prove me wrong Okay. There's no movie, we just watched it. I bet you money, it was just probably like the first three episodes, and then they put them all together as like a TV special. That's my guess. I don't ever remember it's a movie.
Speaker 1:I think it's three episodes. Are you ready? In the same way, I'll argue with you. Samurai Jack had an opening movie, but it really was just the first three episodes. Are you ready? Yes, I'm not arguing that there isn't a long form episode, but it wasn't made as a movie. It was the first three episodes.
Speaker 2:Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, the Adventure Begins, okay.
Speaker 1:Is it just the?
Speaker 2:first three episodes Buzz Lightyear of Star Command the Adventure Begins Okay Movie. Is it just the first three episodes? Buzz Lightyear of Star Command the Adventure Begins is a 2000 animated science fiction comedy film directed by Tad Stones, who is also the producer, with Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley. It is a spinoff of Pixar's Toy Story franchise and was released on direct-to-video in the United States. What else do you want me to keep reading?
Speaker 1:I want you to find a name where it's the first three episodes of the show.
Speaker 2:It's not though it's not. It is one continuous story throughout the entire film, and it sets the groundwork for who the bad guys are and who the good guys are for the TV series.
Speaker 1:That follows afterwards. So it was the first three episodes setting up the show, and then they made, and then they continued.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you want me to tell you. It came out on VHS so you could buy the VHS.
Speaker 1:I'm giving you garbage, but a lot of times they will do that as well. No, I get it. I get it. I'm messing with you. It is a it's quote unquote a movie, but it was probably more than likely the first three episodes, because a movie typically will have a higher budget with a better animation style. I guarantee you that the animation style matched from the movie to the tv show, meaning that they probably took as a promotion to make the movie. I mean for the show. They made a quote unquote movie. I know I'm sounding like a jerk, but no, no, I get it. I remember it, I understand, I get it.
Speaker 2:I showed him a picture of the DVD for sale.
Speaker 1:The VHS for sale. I understand I'm going to have to go back, Like this has to come back at some point so that we can actually fully.
Speaker 2:No, I agree with what you're saying, because the Tarzan and Jane movie is three different episodes from the show and they just put it all together. They just put it all together and presented it to you, but they didn't take three different episodes from the TV series and slap it together into a movie for the Buzz Lightyear adventure.
Speaker 1:They probably planned all of it.
Speaker 2:It's like the launch for the Star Wars.
Speaker 1:I was going to bring that up the Clone Wars. The Clone Wars, that movie, that was a theatrical release with just the first three episodes telling one story to lead and start the show. Yeah, and it wasn't that good. The show was way better than that movie. Yeah, but it was like an introduction uh movie. They introduced ahsoka and all these other characters that would be reoccurring characters in the clone wars tv show yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, that's. That's most of what I've got. I don't really have any other media that it's not coming out. Because here's the thing One of my top favorite games is Age of Empires, but they just relaunched the Age of Mythology.
Speaker 1:Hey, have you ever played Age of Mythology? Said Bigfoot. Every time I see him, yeah literally.
Speaker 2:But I do like what they're doing though, because I will give this to him. They relaunched the Age of Mythology game. They added a DLC to it automatically. So when you buy it, it's got this DLC pack in it and they're releasing more DLC packs that you can buy to add to the game. So it's adding more special units, more mythos and abilities to the game. So I do like that they're doing that. But that would have been one of my go-to old games to play that I love to play, that you can't really get ahold of anymore, but now you can get ahold of it.
Speaker 1:So I know I'll speak for Ashley here For the longest time. The Sims 1 and 2 were very difficult to play yeah, but they recently re-released those where they're easier to play Okay. I think that nostalgia sells. So I think that we're getting to a point where a lot of this content where you could not watch it is now watchable or playable. Yep.
Speaker 2:I know that if I got a GameCube and got Animal Crossing, like tonight, my wife would sit down and play it. That's one of the few things that she's like. I loved doing this as a kid, yeah, but I don't have any of that.
Speaker 1:so there you go, kind of miss physical media. We're getting away from it and that kind of takes away something, yeah, of that old way of man. Man, why can't I play this game? Oh, because the disc is scratched. I know that sounds weird coming like from like why would I want that kind of situation? Yeah, but it's just like it takes away from something or having to blow dust out of a cartridge to load it into your console, did you know?
Speaker 1:uh, fun fact, that never really did anything, I know. But we, you blew on it and then put it in, and then you know it didn't work. You took it out, blew it in, blew in the, in the, the nes. Yeah, all you're doing was constantly setting the seating, the cartridge, until it finally worked. You're just slow, like if you just slowly pulled it out, put it back in or constantly put it in, took it out, eventually it would work. Yeah, yeah, so blowing in it did nothing, that was just something somebody come up with. It's actually technically worse because you're probably spitting on it. Well, we didn't know that. Yeah, no, it's you know, but but neither did everybody who had an nes. Yeah, everybody did that. That was just the thing do, even though all you were doing was really just putting it back in and eventually it worked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude. But like, yeah, you don't have that anymore, people don't do that anymore. They don't have to fidget with a cartridge to make it work in their console.
Speaker 1:Or, yeah, rewind a vhs tape all these things that like are pointless now and really don't need to go back. It's great that we are at a point we don't need that anymore, but there is a feeling of nostalgia that comes with those things. Yeah, the the quality on vhs is garbage of a 4k disc or streaming is way better. Yeah, but it's still fun. Yeah, it's still fun to plop in a VHS and sit there on an old TV sometimes. Yep, but only for me and you. If you did that for your kids, they'd probably be like what is?
Speaker 2:this, yeah, Dude, but just thinking about it like growing up there was a person who part of their job description was to sit and rewind. Watched vhs tapes at that blockbuster yeah, or hollywood video. I was gonna say hollywood video, that was our, that was your one local thing, hollywood video well, there's one.
Speaker 1:Is it because that it was the one that was near here?
Speaker 2:yeah, because blockbuster was further away. It was over there, like towards marietta there was one in hiram.
Speaker 1:Oh, there was one in Hiram. Oh, there was one in Hiram. There was a Hollywood video in Hiram as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just had Hollywood video literally right around the corner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know what you're talking about. It's a gym now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's a wing spot now.
Speaker 1:Is it really now?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You're talking about in the public parking lot.
Speaker 2:It was a gym, you're right, and now it's a wing spot.
Speaker 1:The one in Hiram is now. The building got tore down, yeah, and then it's now a El Polo Loco, I think El Pollo Loco, yeah, it went from being a blockbuster to a movie stop, yeah, and that's where I went and sold all my DVDs, yeah, and I'm glad I did, because they're worthless now, I think I remember going there with you, yeah, you helped me and I bought one expensive Blu-ray which was Watchmen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, I remember now yeah.
Speaker 1:But it was. Those are worthless and I'm glad I got rid of them. People are like I'm going to keep these until I die because you know my deathbed, I watch these. Yeah kind of attitude. It's like yeah, no, uh, when it comes to quality, I I am. Vhs is fun, dvds are discs are annoying. To have to switch out, I'd rather streaming. I just want streaming, though, to get to a point where it makes discs obsolete. With quality, yeah, I'll be happy. That's why I like still having physical media, just because the quality on them are better.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, dude, I I'm still upset that we didn't keep any of our disney black diamond vhs's like knowing what I know. Now, like you know, not all of them are great value, but certain ones that have certain content that's not in any other release. It's like like lilo and stitch, and well they'd.
Speaker 1:Uh, I don't think that they had a black diamond vhs for well, I was just using more, using the excuse that, like now, they censor movies on disney plus in like oh, yeah, they changed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, they changed small details.
Speaker 1:Like in the original movie, lilo is hiding from her sister In the dryer, in the dryer, and now it's like A hutch. Well, it's like a little, a little cabinet, a little cabinet. No, it's like a pizza box.
Speaker 2:Oh no, no, it's a little, yeah, it's a little hutch, and she puts over the front a pizza box. Yeah yeah. That's what it is. Yeah, okay, I I don't know how I feel about this, but they talking about leland stitch. They're doing the re-release, the live action release. The director's called dean flesher camp and I don't know any of this stuff that he's done oh, he did.
Speaker 1:What's that one with the show? What's marcel the show that's actually a really good movie. It is yeah, okay, he knows how to make a movie, so, okay, he knows how to make one, at least based off that other one he did, marcel. Well, it'll be all right, we'll be good. Yeah, okay, I watched that on a plane. It's like a knick-knack shell and interacting, trying to find his parents, and interacting with people. It's like a mockumentary almost kind of style thing and it makes you feel for this little plastic toy.
Speaker 2:So it's good, it's well done yeah, I'm trying to remember if it's the right guy for how to train your dragon, because that's the same guy who did the original lilo and stitch, if I remember correctly let's see director?
Speaker 2:yeah, dean de blois, blouse blois, the lucy blues, anyways. Yeah, he directed the original lilo and stitch and the original how to train your dragon movies and he is doing the live action release that's coming out this year. Boy, we eating good this year. Yeah, the animated live action animated movies that are coming out this year have the potential to be good, so that's exciting, all right. Well, that's all I've got. That's all I have. So there you go, that's all we've got, and that's all you've got.
Speaker 1:I don't have it. I feel like there's like a good joke in there somewhere, somewhere in there.
Speaker 2:But anyways, if you liked this episode, make sure to share it with your friends. If you didn't, and you thought it was awful, make sure to leave a— Share it with your enemies. A rage comment. Yeah, share it with your enemies, all right. Well, christ is Lord and the kingdom is now.
Speaker 1:We are the saints that serve. We prayed, we prayed, we got connected.
Speaker 2:We're here, shake a hand. We got connected. We're here, shake a hand, hug a neck, kiss a forehead, a wife. Yeah kiss a wife, shake a hand, slap a Democrat no.
Speaker 1:It doesn't have to be your Democrat, but it does have to be your wife.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
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