[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome everybody to the robots radio spring host crossover special.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll just call it that I don't have official names for these things and you might be tuning into whatever podcast you're listening to going hey Who's this guy?
[SPEAKER_05]: What is going on?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, this is a very special episode We do these quarterly now at robots radio and the show you're listening to is part of the robots radio network
[SPEAKER_05]: And I am Tom, I'm the guy who set up the network.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do all the running the network stuff, but I also host my own shows like the Fallout Lorkast, the Elder Scrolls Lorkast, the Lord of the Rings, Lorkast, and Retro Recall.
[SPEAKER_05]: And with me this week, we have a host of other hosts.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's kind of redundant.
[SPEAKER_05]: But joining me, we've got Jeremy or Void, who had to step away for a second, he'll be right back in a second.
[SPEAKER_05]: But then we have Sergio, Sergio, go ahead and introduce yourself and what shows you do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my name is Sergio.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am the host of the Dungeons and Dragons.
[SPEAKER_02]: Laura cast.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am also the co-host of the 616 files and unofficial history of the Marvel Comics universe.
[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome back, Sergio.
[SPEAKER_05]: So good to be here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, these are super fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, and I didn't mention what we're doing this week, so I just want to throw that out there before we get too far with the intros.
[SPEAKER_05]: We are playing a game of, I'm calling it hero versus hero, but some of these might be villains.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everybody's going to bring a character from one of the things they talk about, and it's going to be against another character.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you want to do something that's typically mundane, and we're going to have some fun arguments to pick who's going to be the best at that mundane thing?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, planking, or something else.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll get there.
[SPEAKER_05]: But next on our list is Jessica Star.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jessica is so good to have you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey Tom, great to everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm Jessica Star, a host of the Star Field Lorecast Voice of Sophia on the Modest Files.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also host the Fallout feed stream at Jessica Star XP.
[SPEAKER_01]: YouTube with the Waceland Theater Company, under Jessica Star.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do a lot of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Super have to be joining y'all today.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, lots of Fallout and Bethesda stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that's fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, welcome.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then we have Austin.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin's joining us.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hello everybody.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hi, I'm Austin and from Drumberscape you'll probably know me most from the library Halo lore cast.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's good to have you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Good to see.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, there's too much stuff that I'm involved with so jumperscape.com Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Much of Halo stuff and other things.
[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, go check that out Austin.
[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then also we have Sam joining us Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is we have we have two Sam's we're going to call you Sam too, but welcome to show.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, excited to be here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Again, my name is Sam for this instance Sam too.
[SPEAKER_06]: I am host of Bay Kild Kenny South Park Retrospective Fairly New Year the robot robots radio landscape, but I excited to be here today and excited to get to know everyone So good to have you and then closing us out Sam and seven legend Sam
[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Sam too.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who too?
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to blame joke intro.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so also known as in seven legend.
[SPEAKER_03]: I host the Mass Effect Lorquest and, you know, Tom and I host it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The critically acclaimed Xbox Game Pass show.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I didn't last forever.
[SPEAKER_05]: I also with all the craziness about Xbox lately.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's probably a good thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: We did that after one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Probably for the best.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good times though.
[SPEAKER_05]: But welcome everybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: So this is the way this is going to go for our audience.
[SPEAKER_05]: Each person is going to be pitted against another host and they are going to name a character from the IPs, from the games, from the books, from whatever they talk about from the TV shows, they're going to pick a character and they're going to stick with that character for that argument and they don't know what the character is going to be competed in.
[SPEAKER_05]: competing in.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've got a list of 20 different things.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to pick one at random and then they're going to have to each give us their best argument for why their character would win at that thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it doesn't matter if it doesn't make any sense like from just like a conceptual standpoint.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like you pick a magical space dragon and then all of a sudden he has to
[SPEAKER_05]: Baker pizza or something like they're still just gonna have to make it work.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's part of the fun And then the other hosts are going to vote on or will first they'll ask some questions Discuss this a little bit, but then they're each gonna vote on who they think won the argument So it's less about the character that you have.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's more about your ability to argue why that character would win that competition
[SPEAKER_05]: and then we'll just continue moving.
[SPEAKER_05]: Whoever wins will continue on to the next round and we'll just see where it goes before the end of the episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: It should be a lot of fun and I've got all sorts of fun things on this list, so I'm ready to get to it.
[SPEAKER_05]: But we're going to kick this off with Sergio versus Jessica, Sergio, which character are you going with?
[SPEAKER_05]: You going with the Dungeons and Dragons character or something else.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I was going to use Dred Stewart from the Dungeons and Dragons realm.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could also use Spider-Man from the 616 files, the Marvel Universe.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you got a bunch of Marvel characters.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a bunch of Marvel characters.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to go with Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, Spider-Man, always popular.
[SPEAKER_05]: Against Jessica Star, Jessica, who are you, you do, you do the Starfield Lordcast, but you also do fallout stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like it's fair for you to pick any of those characters in any of those.
[SPEAKER_05]: Either of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you were going to assign characters, so I am woofly unprepared, and yet I hopefully I know the characters well, let's just go with Starfield.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's most appropriate, and I will pick Andraja.
[SPEAKER_05]: Andraja.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so one of the companions from Starfield and other fairly, I mean, I guess you're the main character, but you can't go with yourself, because you could do whatever you want in the game.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Quite possibly the most popular companion from House of Arun, she's mysterious, she's deadly, and she's ready to take on Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: So the competition is those two together and Jeremy is joining us again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jeremy, you, you didn't get to introduce yourself.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let people know who you are and what you do on the network.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hi.
[SPEAKER_07]: My name is Jeremy Geiser or Void on Discord and I run the Dungeon and Dipschitz live play D&D Adventure podcast.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Also, we're starting out with Sergio and Jessica here and since you just sat down, I'm going to have you give me a number between one and 20 to determine what they're competing at.
[SPEAKER_07]: One in 20, uh, well regarding my D&D nature.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna roll you a D20.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Roll it.
[SPEAKER_05]: But when it's points if you get it in the mic, if the mic can hear the roll.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, give me a second then.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think I heard it a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Here, put a closer roll again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, there we go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Foley work.
[SPEAKER_05]: 12.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, here we go.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is where it's starting.
[SPEAKER_05]: Spider-Man versus Andraja.
[SPEAKER_05]: Doing their taxes by themselves.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so Sergio, so you're going to start us off.
[SPEAKER_05]: You've only got explained a little bit about the character.
[SPEAKER_05]: Explain why they're going to win this competition then Jessica is going to respond try to keep it short just two or three sentences in your in your explanation and then you're going to get a chance as you started first you had a disadvantage because she will know what you have said.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you will have the ability at the end to refute with just one sentence.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, okay, go for it.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, couple of sentences.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, you can just introduce your character just in case somebody doesn't know who Spider-Man is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, well, Spider-Man is a man with the powers of a Spider.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, uh, yes, so, Spider-Man out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Peter Parker.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would say he was really pretty good at doing his own taxes, one because he like many of us is a freelance worker.
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't actually work for the daily view goal.
[SPEAKER_02]: He merely supplies photos for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so he wouldn't need to be able to know how to put that into his taxes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably as some kind of, I was a term I'm looking for a contract
[SPEAKER_02]: And he would have to do it himself because Peter Parker is historically not well off.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's always in financial strates, he's always eating, you know, ramen and, you know, mustard sandwiches.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so he would be adept at doing his own tax because he simply couldn't pay someone to do them for him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jessica, your turn.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so my character is Andraja of House for Roon, and you may say, wait, she's not local.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's filing taxes with the UC, how is she doing that?
[SPEAKER_01]: She's not familiar with the laws, but here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Andraja has trained for years to be a spy, to work undercover.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's worked as a smuggler.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's worked both below the law.
[SPEAKER_01]: and above the law and trained on how to interpret and understand these laws.
[SPEAKER_01]: Additionally, she has been studying for this since she was a child, extensive schooling, very good with mathematics.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think she would have no trouble with her own taxes.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, solid arguments.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sergia, you get one sentence to add a little bit more or refute something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Someone who operates beyond the law isn't concerned with taxes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, that's those are the statements the rest of us you guys have any questions any thoughts any feel free to chime in you can ask them questions.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can just talk amongst yourselves What do you think Hmm I guess it depends on the time period of these taxes Are they modern day taxes?
[SPEAKER_05]: Are they?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, let's say it would be whatever taxes they have to do for their environments and where they live when they live any of that stuff so
[SPEAKER_07]: So with Spider-Man, it's modern day with Andentraja, I think it's a few hundred years in the future.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to be honest, I can imagine both of these characters getting arrested for tax evasion.
[SPEAKER_06]: one be one willfully and the other kind of like I don't know what I'm doing like what's going on incidentally okay yeah okay any other thoughts or questions I guess I would say it feels like uh it'd be like a side plot for Peter Parker to basically try to fumble to get his taxes together uh you know like a
[SPEAKER_06]: a fast time period basically.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, and where is it?
[SPEAKER_06]: And Dre, I could see her maybe just get an robot, you know, as an assistant to be pooping, get it done before.
[SPEAKER_01]: She would be incredibly prepared.
[SPEAKER_01]: No doubt she always plans ahead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sam, you were talking about the time period and I was thinking about extensions and then I realized, you know what?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think Peter even makes enough to have to file taxes.
[SPEAKER_03]: You might not.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can relate to that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he might not, he might be something that's completely foreign to him.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I mean, he does have his own apartment that he does keep.
[SPEAKER_05]: So he has to make enough to cover that in New York City.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: In New York City.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I mean, he's Peter Parker has also been known pretty much multi-versally to be incredibly intelligent.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, true.
[SPEAKER_03]: Isn't he also scientists?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All the real like the legitimate jobs he does, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: He's paid under the table.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, naughty boy, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Jay Jones and James and probably just gives him a stack of 20 years.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, give him a car on the loop.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, just Applebee's gift cards.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's all he pays him in.
[SPEAKER_01]: In some iterations, he is a dependent as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: That could complicate matters.
[SPEAKER_05]: OK. Well, I feel like we're running out of time here for the discussion.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we got to make a vote.
[SPEAKER_05]: These are some good observations.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, everybody think everybody, the four of you,
[SPEAKER_05]: you have your huge jeopardy music all right so here's what we're gonna do who thinks spider man raise your hand we got Austin and Jeremy and then it seems like it's split okay so does that mean Sam and Sam you guys are on Andraja
[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think Sam is team in Brazil.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, uh, some of your own arguments actually swayed me to team in Dresha as well because Peter, but he actually have to do taxes.
[SPEAKER_02]: He might be something that he's never done before and the thing about
[SPEAKER_02]: The Spider-Man and Peter Parker is a character why he has endured since 1962 is how relatable he is to the leader.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so to your credit, who pointed out that could be like a side plot that he's trying to fumble about getting his his taxes done.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, who who amongst us like they like, oh, it's April 15th already.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my gosh.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, the watch was to be the sinister sixes for some reason after him and preventing him at every right.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're too busy attacking the city.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: God has somehow gotten hired at the IRS.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, Jessica won this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: So here's how this is going to work.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jessica is now against Austin.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're next on the list.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: So in Jessica, you don't have to stick with the same character.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can mix this up.
[SPEAKER_05]: because you don't know what the competition is, so it's still gonna be kind of random.
[SPEAKER_05]: So if you wanna pick a different character, you can.
[SPEAKER_05]: But Austin, you go ahead and you go first because she's the incumbent here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so I'm sure everyone is immediately guessing what my character's going to be, given them the Halo guy.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna subvert them egg entirely.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm keeping him very, very particular for later.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna go with his, one of his favorite friends, Sergeant Johnson.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sergeant Johnson.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, so what do we need to know about Sergeant Johnson?
[SPEAKER_04]: This man is a is a cigar chomp and marine who has fought alongside the master chief and other Spartans for years.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's been in three count them three whole halo games.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe four if you like ODST and think that firefight is valid.
[SPEAKER_04]: And otherwise the guy is all around.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, he looks like he's 50, but he's like 75.
[SPEAKER_04]: Black don't crack.
[SPEAKER_04]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just who are you going with?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to mix it up to Paladin dance of the Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout 4.
[SPEAKER_05]: Paladin dance dance revolution, alright?
[SPEAKER_05]: Paladin dance?
[SPEAKER_05]: What was his name, Sargent?
[SPEAKER_05]: Johnson?
[SPEAKER_04]: Sargent and Johnson, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've wanted to make sure I got the actual clap, like the level of military correct, because that just fell out of my brain for some reason.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alright, so we got to pick a number between one and 19, Sergio, you were
[SPEAKER_05]: Go with number two.
[SPEAKER_05]: Number two, all right, this will be fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: These are all, these are great.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, so here's the argument, all of a sudden you're starting us off.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is the competition.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who would win or be better at being a driver's ed teacher?
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, Sergeant Johnson is perfect for this.
[SPEAKER_04]: This dude was a drill instructor, created the militia that eventually fought the covenant, this alien conglomerate for the first time.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's been a special operative for like 30 years, most of his life has been spent in the military even before that as a special operative.
[SPEAKER_04]: And plus, he was a mentor for the Master Chief himself, come on, he's born to be an instructor.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, Jessica.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we're out there getting our Warthog license.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we're talking alternative vehicles, Paladin Dance is incredibly experienced.
[SPEAKER_01]: He can fly vertebrates as a member of the Brotherhood of Steel.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is conversant with all sorts of forms of technology and because of his semi-secret background to the synth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry for the spoilers.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has subconscious knowledge and muscle control beyond that of many normal humans.
[SPEAKER_05]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, Austin, you have one sentence that I heard the comment about the Wardhog.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let me clarify here.
[SPEAKER_04]: This guy loves the oldies.
[SPEAKER_04]: He talks about how much he loves old music.
[SPEAKER_04]: He would know about old cars.
[SPEAKER_04]: He would know about how they work.
[SPEAKER_04]: He'd be able to get you to drive manual or automatic period.
[SPEAKER_04]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_04]: Good arguments.
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you all think?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do cars even like are there any operable cars in the fallout universe?
[SPEAKER_01]: very few.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are some, but the majority of of tires have been long rotted out.
[SPEAKER_05]: There is a car in fallout too.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: So they're having that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like a drill sergeant would give me anxiety.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I'm like a hapless 15-year-old trying to learn to drive.
[SPEAKER_06]: fair.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got to say I wouldn't be to, um, press with Sergeant Johnson's driving technique with the way my halo driving goes with those warthogs flipping around all day long.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now is this another situation of like within universe drivers and teachers?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you have to you have to assume that they're in the context that they would be in somehow.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, then I'm just going to go with Sergeant Johnson specifically because dance has never driven a like road worthy vehicle.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, the lack of vehicles in the fallout universe is kind of an hindrance for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a tough, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It makes it tough.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: It sounds like you guys are coming to a conclusion.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are all like these.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a theoretical exercise.
[SPEAKER_02]: But imagine yourself behind the steering wheel of a car.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like what's a car?
[SPEAKER_02]: What is a car?
[SPEAKER_06]: What is a refrigerator?
[SPEAKER_06]: Do we think in universe, it's easier to drive a car than it would be to drive a basically operate a power armor?
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean we're just all in the fallout show.
[SPEAKER_06]: We saw Lucy get the hang of that pretty quick
[SPEAKER_05]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's do a vote.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think we've had enough discussion here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's do a vote.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who thinks Austin wins?
[SPEAKER_05]: Sergeant Johnson.
[SPEAKER_02]: Austin.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin's not teaching the Casper.
[SPEAKER_05]: He made the argument.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we've got three for Sergeant Johnson.
[SPEAKER_05]: You Jessica.
[SPEAKER_05]: You don't vote yet because you're competing.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I think it's all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think fair.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think fair.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sam too.
[SPEAKER_05]: You would be with Jessica on this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would be.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sergeant Johnson.
[SPEAKER_05]: Congratulations.
[SPEAKER_05]: You win.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jessica, you won one.
[SPEAKER_05]: But you lost this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin moves on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Congratulations.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now it's Austin versus Sam too.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll do South Park Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's one South Park Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin Sam, Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're the new one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who are you picking?
[SPEAKER_05]: What character?
[SPEAKER_06]: Alright, I'm going to go with one of the most iconic South Park characters, Eric Cartman.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cartman.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, Cartman versus, do you want to add more about Cartman?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: Go ahead.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're ready.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're in the ring.
[SPEAKER_06]: Bring that bell.
[SPEAKER_05]: How would you describe Cartman's personality?
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, basically the worst kind of person you would ever meet manipulative, uh, arrogance, home racist homophobic, but when it comes to competition scene, he knows how to get a leg in those.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, all right, Austin, who are you going with?
[SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna go with, this is a little bit of a gamble, I'll admit, but we're gonna see the pays off Cortana, the AI herself who has been iconic as a partner to Master Chief and all of his endeavors, and subsequently also straight up Empress of the Galaxy for a little bit there, but we're not gonna worry about that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, all right, Jessica, give me a number between one and eighteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go with 12 again.
[SPEAKER_00]: 12 again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, things move around because I pull them out of the list and the numbers change.
[SPEAKER_05]: So 12, I hope this is the hot dog eating contest one.
[UNKNOWN]: Ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_05]: So this one is who would be the best at?
[SPEAKER_05]: The game that we're playing right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, the little meta there, a little meta.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, Sam, Seth Park Sam, what's your argument for this one?
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, I guess are we assuming these characters have their own podcast?
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, well, the idea would be that they would be naming a character and making a good argument for why that character would get it something.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I guess I would say we know Eric Hartman engages with a lot of different media throughout the show.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's always up to date on whatever current events are going on, what movies are out, what shows are big, what video game is the next hot thing to play.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think he's able to read people very well, even if they're going to be imaginary characters.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: That would be my argument for Eric Cartman.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, Austin.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cortana is an AI that's operating off of a chip that is using a data crystal shard.
[SPEAKER_04]: That data crystal shard has petabytes of storage space on it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ons of information, it has been well documented over and over again.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cortana has knowledge of the entirety of human history, its media, and if she doesn't know what already, which is very unlikely, she can access it very easily.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think there's a single reason why she wouldn't be able to come up with any reason possible for any character to win any situation, even if we can't think of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sam?
[SPEAKER_05]: Final thought?
[SPEAKER_06]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_06]: Basically, he made a really good point there.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't dispute that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, but, you know, I'm sticking behind my choice, uh, and now it's up to the people.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's open this up.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you all think?
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's basically the worst person you could possibly think of versus AI.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, if recent events are any indicator, the former wins, debates, anyway, so no.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I guess that actually kind of like goes to the heart of like, what does it mean to win a debate to present a more logical argument or to convince other people?
[SPEAKER_03]: If it's the latter, I feel like Cartman wins that one because as horrible as he is, he is kind of a populist.
[SPEAKER_05]: there are a number of times in the series where he has convinced them to do some pretty terrible things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah and Sam mentioned like hey he's very manipulative and so he would definitely like start tugging on hard strings, start you know just being manipulated, manipulating the audience and to believe in what he thinks and you know Cortana would use logic and reason and who wants
[SPEAKER_01]: How is she on empathy and appealing to people?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, in your experience, Austin, you can answer that, bud.
[SPEAKER_04]: She is extremely, really well-versed in it, because her brain is built off of one of the most manipulative people in the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mmm, there you go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Solid other point.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait, she's based off Eric Hartman.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's all coming together.
[SPEAKER_04]: Close enough.
[UNKNOWN]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: If he was given billions of dollars and also did horrible things, but like, really, really, I think worse.
[SPEAKER_05]: We keep on bringing up current politics guys.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_05]: You were talking about a fantasy world.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay Any other questions or thoughts before we get the votes?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's who thinks cardman wins, raise your hand
[SPEAKER_05]: See, I see two votes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Does that mean the other two are voting for Cortana?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, okay, Jess.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Jeremy, voting for Cortana.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, no, I have to break this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hmm, hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I'm gonna give it to Cortana, because as manipulative as Eric Cartman is, I think that she has both more of a background, both in the information and the ability to convey that information.
[SPEAKER_05]: So Austin, congratulations, you're moving up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sorry Sam, it was close.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was real close.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's not close battle.
[SPEAKER_06]: I could see Eric Hartman like, you know, talking on those hard strings when he came, but in the end, probably pissing off everyone on his side to the point that they, they're with Cortana.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't in the loss.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The end of every every episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, all right, time to move on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin, you are carrying forward against N7 legend Sam, let's see.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who are you going with us as to go to N7?
[SPEAKER_05]: N7, we'll character you people.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna pick Admiral Stephen Hackett.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I have no idea what competition this is gonna be, so it could prove extremely fruitful or horrible.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hackett from Mass Effect and explain to people who haven't played what Hackett is like.
[SPEAKER_03]: So hack it in in Mass Effect is like your grizzled old uncle who hits you up when he needs favors done.
[SPEAKER_03]: He has he's he's like supposedly 45 or 50 but he looks like he's 70 like it's a rough 50 yeah he's also been through like special training for a special ops training and he
[SPEAKER_03]: basically the most important military officer in the entirety of Mass Effect.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, and then Austin, who are you going with?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to try to make the odds even here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to go with Captain Cutter from Halo Wars 1 and 2.
[SPEAKER_04]: The one of the most integral captains in the entirety of the UNSC and was able to singlehandedly use his one single ship, his single ship, to take down an entire army that could have easily leveled most other fleets.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we've got Hackett versus Cutter, Sam 2 or South Park Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: Give me a number between one and 17.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, when I earlier and we were rolling those dice to get our number, I had to go and get one of my own D&D dice.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we're going to go that route as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll make sure we can hear it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good, Foley work.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine, nine.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, here we go.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry if that was loud.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, you're good.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're good.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, the competition is in seven and seven.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're going to start us off.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who's the best at robbing a bank?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Old age and corruption beats youth and beauty every time.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, if there's one thing that Hackett knows it's how to get out of a sticky situation, there have been numerous sticky situations that Hackett has been in charge of, not the least of which involved, blowing up an entire solar system effectively, and then covering it up so the alliance didn't get any more than a slap on the wrist.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd say that flagrantly breaking galactic law and basically getting away with it, it constitutes being able to pull off a bank robbery with minimal repercussions, okay?
[SPEAKER_03]: Austin?
[SPEAKER_04]: My friends already opened this conversation by saying that this guy has already had the experience of solving complicated problems, especially in that of fighting massive wars, which of course is much, much larger than just a bank robbery.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's be real about this.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, let me tell you, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
[SPEAKER_04]: And his son is one of the most famous insurrectionists ever.
[SPEAKER_04]: The insurrectionists, despite the fact that humanity is on its last legs about to go out, are constantly trying to bring down humanity for some political or corrupted reason.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I gotta say, even though Cutter isn't entirely approving of it, his son thinks just like him.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I think in the right circumstances, with the right assets, with the right tools,
[SPEAKER_05]: Alright Sam, you got the final response here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, if I'm putting together a team to roll a bank, I want to be able to trust everyone.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if I know that one guy's got ties to like a prominent insurrectionist, I might leave him behind.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, let's open it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Questions, thoughts?
[SPEAKER_01]: So in both cases, we're considering these characters to be the mastermind of the heist when they're putting the team together, essentially also being as a mastermind.
[SPEAKER_05]: That could be the case, or they could simply be just doing it themselves.
[SPEAKER_05]: It could be a smaller little, just like, you know, grab some cash and leave.
[SPEAKER_05]: But whatever that situation is, we'll go with their arguments for the way they framed it, because either thing could technically be robbing a bank.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so we have hack it, not kind of master mining the Beterian situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like how you reference that Sam because that was a really sticky situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we have the other.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, yeah, I think the obviously it's not one to one, but the planning and strategy that went into handling the Beterian situation, I think that's going to give them a leg up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if movies have taught me anything, robbing a bank, it's very tricky.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jeremy, do you have any thoughts?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I was going to say robbing the bank is not the hard part.
[SPEAKER_07]: Surviving and getting away is the hard part.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, I mean, I guess my question would be, what would be their getaway plan?
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, can we, In just a few words?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's possible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, Sam wants to get away plan for years.
[SPEAKER_03]: right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we can just go right back to the arrival DLC and say that Hackett is used to high-risk extractions.
[SPEAKER_03]: And in that case, it involves Commander Shepard.
[SPEAKER_03]: But even if Commander Shepard, even if Commander Shepard doesn't do it, aka you didn't play the DLC, Hackett still pulls it off with a different team of Marines.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's too far on the way.
[SPEAKER_03]: who are by the way, not Commander Shepard.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it proves that Hackett is used to both black ops and high-risk extractions.
[SPEAKER_04]: Interesting, Austin.
[SPEAKER_04]: In Halo Wars 1, we have a very important scientist get kidnapped by the covenant, this massive religious conglomerate.
[SPEAKER_04]: And with very little hesitation, because he's only concerned about the crew and his ship, he goes after this woman.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he devices a whole operation.
[SPEAKER_04]: with every single person on board part of the plan.
[SPEAKER_04]: He sets up this perfect situation in which fighting unknown forces, because he fights against not only the covenant, but he runs into the flood, if anyone knows anything about the flood, the fact that he beat them is astounding, a massive, galactic, wide infection, basically that can't be beat, gets temporarily defeated by this man.
[SPEAKER_04]: And not only succeeds, it cripples the Covenant's fleet because they've managed to be based basically, to fail to put together a massive fleet that would have actually decimated the entirety of the human race, all of that, basically by himself.
[SPEAKER_05]: If somebody asks you for one because you unfortunately, you both stand kind of you both And I hear you rebuttal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you got to get so good So basically the question was about the five oh and How would this person make sure that they can get away from the law enforcement presence that would be swarming
[SPEAKER_03]: hack it somehow manages to avoid the entire reaper fleet during the invasion and mass effect three and we're talking about sentient, you know, psychotic starships that are swarming the entire Milky Way.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't think that getting away from a local police department would be too much of a hassle.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we get we're getting down to it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can I ask?
[SPEAKER_07]: So robbing a bank does not typically
[SPEAKER_07]: large aircraft already being at their disposal.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, um, disregarding large aircraft, how are we now, how are we feeling?
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's start with saying this one.
[SPEAKER_07]: I honestly go ahead.
[SPEAKER_04]: uh... he's extremely comfortable he has tasks for task forces for basically every ground operation namely let's say three Spartan twos which are the best Spartans in the operation he has some of the best ones even and also uh... just plenty of ground operations that he's led personally that have all gone without a hitch he almost has no failures on his record whatsoever after many many years of service even before he was a captain okay sam
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, Hackett is the most decorated officer in the entire system's alliance, and he didn't get there just by patronage or some other kind of nepotism.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was an orphan and avoided street gangs by joining the special ops force for juveniles in Buenos Aires.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think he's probably fine getting around on his feet.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, we've got to get a vote in.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's see who, a little start with Sam since he's the new guy who thinks and seven the legend has the better argument.
[SPEAKER_05]: See, one hand, two hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I mean, or an argument got me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, we've soon brought up orphans.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, so it looks like Sam wins.
[SPEAKER_05]: It looks like Jeremy's the only one who voted for Austin, but the other three of you voted for N7 legend.
[SPEAKER_05]: Congratulations, Hackett, you're the winner.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, we're looping this back around to Jeremy, so we've got N7, the legend versus Void or Jeremy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jeremy, who are you going with?
[SPEAKER_07]: So, because I run a D&D podcast, it's gonna be one of the NPCs that has its own player sheet in his name is Grendel.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, fellas, my name is Grendel.
[SPEAKER_07]: If anybody here watches anime, he is a mix between Enosuke and Bakugo.
[SPEAKER_07]: uh... and those gay being a very uh... animalistic character who kind of just does whatever he wants and then boku go being like you can't kill me i'm going to kill you first uh... this character is extremely low intelligence and things that he is the best in the world and things that he knows everything awesome awesome sounds very cool all right uh... sam
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to go the opposite end of the spectrum, just for fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll go super high intelligence, so we'll say the elusive man.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, for those of you who are not familiar, the elusive man is the leader of a human supremacist organization named Cerberus, which has it.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... like an uncanny amount of resources at its disposal apparently and has its uh... tentacles its writing tentacles involved in everything from you know biomedical research to arms manufacturing to assassination attempts and political scandals you name it uh... it's all about influencing the galaxy how the lucid man wants all right sounds good uh... austin give me a number between one and sixteen
[SPEAKER_05]: Seven seven seven.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, this is my example at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who's better at planking?
[SPEAKER_07]: Jeremy, start Grendel has a strength of
[SPEAKER_07]: Twenty-one Indian deter lot of strength a lot of strength.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that is that is very well above average 10 being the average So he's he's cut like There have been times where and and he has a special power that out when he rages his strength goes up by Five I think okay
[SPEAKER_07]: So in total, he's getting a plus 13 to strength, so pretty solid.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, Sam, the elusive man is only seen not sitting in his chair one scene.
[SPEAKER_03]: One scene in Mass Effect 2 and one scene in Mass Effect 3.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you imagine how stiff this guy is?
[SPEAKER_03]: He's sitting down the entirety of both of those games otherwise, not to mention his advanced age and his implanted Reaper tech that the Reapers could always assume direct control if it appeared that he was going to lose any kind of competition.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alright, Jeremy, one more thought for me.
[SPEAKER_07]: The abs on this guy are incredible.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, it's not just like a six or an eight pack.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just like you see every muscle fiber in him.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, solid arguments.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's open this up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thoughts questions?
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, Tom, I need a clarification.
[SPEAKER_04]: What are they planking on?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just planking in general.
[SPEAKER_05]: It would be on anything.
[SPEAKER_04]: Anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: So when you're in planking, you're gonna go back like a decade or whatever this was decade plus, it's been a while, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Remember all the videos people have posted.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it was just like something that was like on a kitchen counter across railroad tracks at the grocery store.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like planking across everything all the time.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just...
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, then I know exactly what my thinking is here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't see why the elusive man would ever think that it would be necessary to plank.
[SPEAKER_04]: Grendel on the other hand would probably take it as a damn birthright.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow, how's this fired up with this?
[SPEAKER_07]: What is Grendel's class?
[SPEAKER_07]: He is a barbarian.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, I'm going to have to.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was already made up.
[SPEAKER_06]: But so when we're talking, planking, we're talking about social media style planking, not hard workout planking.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, this is like, oh, there's a, I don't know, a ladder over there.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can plank on the ladder, you know, like something else we have to take in mind is like,
[SPEAKER_06]: the spot which they plank you know where it's cool like you know a bark park bench or you know between two cars would grendle be able to find something cool like that or would
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, maybe the elusive man used to reaper stuff like a pop-up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Replicate, that was a serious point for me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Grandadendo can definitely find like two boulders.
[SPEAKER_07]: He grew up under one.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's interesting you bring up the reapers, though, because as zero gravity.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he wins that one if you're competing against someone who's not in zero gravity anyway.
[SPEAKER_03]: But they lose some man's a master of deception anyway.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like depending on how the judges were viewing the planking competition, he could probably just hack the feeds and make it look like he was planking endlessly.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure if that speaks to the challenge, but okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the lose man is known for unbending will, not really unbending body.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you think he keeps it tight?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm playing to think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, the implants.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the Reaper implants and the endless supplies of cigars and and and bourbon.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's already hollow because I have a mummy already.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I would say one thing against the elusive man's.
[SPEAKER_06]: to argue against him would be, yes, all that smoking he does, but from what I understand in the Mass Effect universe, there are no negative benefits.
[SPEAKER_03]: The negative benefits are the most smoking right in the Mass Effect universe, all negative health benefits, negative health repercussions have pretty much been mitigated.
[SPEAKER_06]: but then in grandals are given against grandals, I would say we need a D20 roll to see what we land on.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, if it's a, if it's a, if it's a, if it's a one, it's a failure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's saving throw.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you get?
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me, let me get it on the desk so you can hear it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know, did he roll a net one on the diet to three so that's a 16 if he's raging?
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, that's still this still okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's okay roll.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's not too bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're good.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, let's vote on this.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is a fun one.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you want?
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank who thinks?
[SPEAKER_05]: Grandal
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll four of you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wow, Grindel wins.
[SPEAKER_05]: Those are some, yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was solid.
[SPEAKER_05]: That was solid.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's keep this going.
[SPEAKER_05]: We've still got some time on the show.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jeremy, you are against Sergio now.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're going back around to Sergio.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's your Sergio?
[SPEAKER_05]: Who are you picking?
[SPEAKER_05]: Since you're the new guy in this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dungeons and Dragons.
[SPEAKER_02]: Laura cast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go with Drits.
[SPEAKER_02]: Drits?
[SPEAKER_02]: And he says, let's not do do warden.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do warden.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do warden?
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, then the Jeremy?
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... i'm gonna have to go with like dm character of void void oh your dm character interesting okay what can so let's go back to surgeo what can you tell people briefly about about it is a drought dark elf master swordsman renowned throughout the forgotten realms for his uh... simotars uh... uh... icing death and twinkles uh... and i mean he's
[SPEAKER_02]: he is hardly ever beat in combat and one-on-one combat.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, Jeremy.
[SPEAKER_07]: So Void is originally was a very and human warlock and so he woke up in a barrel as a shadow.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you do, I mean, yep, we've all been through, you know, and he basically woke up in a barrel and went through the campaign, disappeared came back with his
[SPEAKER_07]: Second consciousness in quotes named nightfall and Nightfall is basically venom, but a little cooler in my opinion.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, cooler than venom.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is an interesting matchup.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: So Sam, are you here Sam and seven?
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't just.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, there you are.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need a number between one 15 15.
[SPEAKER_05]: 15.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who would be the best at running a zoo?
[SPEAKER_05]: Sergio, go first.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, if you are familiar with the Dritz sword, and you know that he has an animal companion known as Gwynever, a black panther that lives on the astral plane, and because of this, he is very adept at animal handling.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as a follower of my leaky, he would be very much attuned to the animal kingdom.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he would run part in my friend,
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Void?
[SPEAKER_02]: Tell us about Void.
[SPEAKER_07]: Kit, is it possible to just give it, because Void, Void being me and having had this character for years?
[SPEAKER_07]: I know immediately he would get too annoyed.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's not possible.
[SPEAKER_07]: He cannot win the game.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think he could do anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: He could do anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: It smells horrible.
[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, Sergio, congratulations you win.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: The default drizzed wins, that means that you are now going back against Jessica.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a rematch, a rematch, a rematch, just so you're literally a ranger.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, you had that.
[SPEAKER_05]: So Jess, who are you going with?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm going to go with Barrett.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to stick with companions in the Starfield universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll go with Barrett.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Barrett, and describe Barrett briefly.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... he works with a constellation he's an advanced uh... engineer uh... he's known for being incredibly charismatic he's a great cook he he he he if the kind of guy that get in a situation he can be a hostage situation and when you find him he's there chatting with his captors completely free of bonds just you know sharing a hogey yeah he's he's super charismatic he's got one of those voices that he's just like a home in this guy yep all right surdu
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to switch it up, go back to the marble universe, and I'm going to go with one Tony Stark, aka Iron Man.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, Iron Man, Tony Stark, void give me a number between one and 14.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it, are you rolling again?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, D4 and D10.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so here we go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jessica, you're gonna start us off on this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who is the best at seducing a sugar daddy or mama?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, my goodness.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Barrett, if he's known as incredibly seductive, you know, he is basically the very white of the Starfield universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he will put on the tunes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, he has all the tunes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, all the stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he's also, you know, as a bisexual man, he is, you know, he will step up to many situations that may come in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he is swath, he is ready to swing, and he's gonna seduce them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: And this is gonna be tough.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, Sergio.
[SPEAKER_02]: When one thinks of the phrase billionaire playboy, going automatically thinks Tony Stark.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's beyond genius, devilishly handsome, has a rapier's wit, and can get into anyone's drawers that he puts in mind too.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, Jess, one more thought from you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Money doesn't buy everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some billionaire playboys' reputations precede them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, all right, questions, thoughts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is cooking involved in this production?
[SPEAKER_05]: It could be, it could be.
[SPEAKER_01]: It certainly should be, because I mean, obviously we know the way too many people's heart is through their stomach and bear is very prepared.
[SPEAKER_04]: Are they doing this as part of a task or are they just doing this for pleasure?
[SPEAKER_05]: Is this business deduction or pleasures that I shouldn't Mean it seems like the connotation here of a sugar daddy slash mama kind of implies a little bit of both.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay Now this slide I was going to say this might hurt my My chances but I will be the first would admit that Tony Stark being a billionaire He probably would wouldn't be apt to need a sugar mama or daddy
[SPEAKER_02]: he would be right shot at him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he can probably just be just deducing for love of the game honestly.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't see because the sugar daddy sugar mama situations inherent power dynamic there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I cannot see Tony Stark accepting conditions or terms or any kind of direction from a sugar daddy or mama.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, like having to put his hand out and say, money is please.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that makes it a little bit rough.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I mean, I think he,
[SPEAKER_02]: could he is absolutely capable of doing so but would he that's the uh that's the argument to be made alright any other thoughts or questions?
[SPEAKER_06]: I guess uh could bear it look past um the memory of his uh dead husband in the situation or would it be too much for him to to move on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Barrett could bear it in the game can actually move on with the player character if certain things are right So yes, if the star field aligns he definitely would Good question.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good question.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's get a vote What do you all think Jessica is is the what's the word for the person who's competing?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's the person who's the incumbent the Challenge challenger that's a good word for it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jessica's a challenger who do you think Jessica who thinks Jessica and Barrett win?
[SPEAKER_05]: See two hands the other two you guys are going for Tony Stark and Sergio.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, it's both.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I have to break this Sergio.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think your right.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Tony Stark doesn't need a sugar daddy or sugar.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mom right and I think that's probably the difference both of them are super swath Extremely capable if it was just Seduction was just a question.
[SPEAKER_05]: It'd be a toss up right but the yeah the qualifier.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's it's for the sugar mama or daddy So yeah, yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_05]: So, I think Jessica, you win this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Congratulations.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: We are getting close to the end of this fun little game.
[SPEAKER_05]: We don't really have a final round or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: But here's what I want to do.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who would like to be in a final round and make an argument?
[SPEAKER_05]: We could do two people.
[SPEAKER_05]: We could do three people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who would like to, who has another character?
[SPEAKER_05]: They're like, oh, I really love to have this character.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, Austin.
[SPEAKER_05]: I see Austin.
[SPEAKER_05]: I see N7.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we also want to join in on this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: It can be more than just two people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Boyd.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's do the Battle Royale.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: But then here's what's going to happen is that you are also off the going to have to vote.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you might be voting against your character.
[SPEAKER_05]: In fact, you can't vote for your own character.
[SPEAKER_05]: You have to vote for some pieces.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, honestly, I would have voted against Tony Stark out last one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fair enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: I kind of already made myself out of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And without the qualifier, I'm any random person I would have voted for.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tony Stark.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_07]: that was a really good matchup for that question like that that was really cool all right so let's just go in order just name your character gives a really brief description void uh my character is the gremlin uh he is basically the party snail uh and it will find them anywhere anytime and uh we're trying to always tell them nice all right since
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, this is about his voice is pretty intimidating when he turns red.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's kind of halfway between like Elmo and Gollum.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, a bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, there's a little reason there.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Miracle, all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sergio?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so I'm gonna stay with the Marvel Universe and we are in season two of the 616 files in 1963.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I'm going to pick characters that we have currently covered.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm going to go with Bruce Banner, aka The Incredible Hulk.
[SPEAKER_02]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jess?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna keep jumping around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go back to the Fallet Universe to keep that representation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll go with Nick Valentine Detective from Fallout 4.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Austin?
[SPEAKER_04]: I of course have to bring out the big guns.
[SPEAKER_04]: The one and only the master chief himself.
[SPEAKER_04]: A man who has not only demonstrated his humanity and done a good job of being there for his teammates and those who need him, but also the decimator of two separate armies in one day and continues to do things like this.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's my man.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sam?
[SPEAKER_05]: South Park fan.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I'm going to be going with a Randy Marsh, Randy Marsh, all right, cool, let's go, all right, and then I can already want to vote for Randy, if we others and seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to go with Legion.
[SPEAKER_03]: Legion from mass by Legion, the first death that we meet and evidence that the death are sentient, even though they are high-mind.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, all right, here's how this is going to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need a number between one and thirteen.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, that's Roll and Dice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Roll and Dice for me.
[SPEAKER_05]: I got one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Go for it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, seven, seven, and all these middle numbers.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, here we go.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think this is a good one for this competition.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, this needs to be super brief.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just give me like one reason, why, and we're gonna start and go backwards.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll start with then seven.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we'll go all the way back, it's avoid.
[SPEAKER_05]: One reason, why your character would be the best one to help an old woman cross the street.
[SPEAKER_03]: instant threat identification.
[SPEAKER_03]: The death are not human.
[SPEAKER_03]: They have insane computational powers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: South Park's hand.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I got to say Randy would probably just leave the woman in the middle of the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: He get distracted by something.
[SPEAKER_06]: But let's say he makes it across.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, he does know how to, uh,
[SPEAKER_06]: No, no, he's not good with old people.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_01]: with the brains of a police officer, with a long career from the 2000s, to the heart and soul of a character who has lived 200 years, Nick Valentine respects the elderly and has excellent manners.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'd walk her across and call her sweetheart at the end.
[SPEAKER_05]: You guys are really good at framing these targets.
[SPEAKER_05]: It sounds like you all are running for office or something, which is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, but you're not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is this not for president or robots radio?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he's the incredible Hulk.
[SPEAKER_02]: He would pick this old lady up, put her over his shoulder, walk across the street, who cares if a bus hits him.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's the Hulk and the bus, I hate to be the bus hitting the Hulk.
[SPEAKER_02]: No matter what Ross is his path, that old lady's making it with that chicken.
[SPEAKER_05]: Which she has a chicken?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, the one that can also cross the road.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is that like food or is it like a pet?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no, why did the chicken cross the road I get it, but is she gonna eat the chicken or is he might I don't know I'm not in that That's where chicken I'm not her man Okay, okay, I just wonder Jeremy Well should get there very quickly because the dream lemon will just pick her up and throw her
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, all right, so I didn't say safely, it just had help.
[SPEAKER_05]: Help an old woman across the street.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I guess that counts.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, so we've got, again, we've got the Gremlin Bruce Banner slash the Hulk, Nick Valentine, Master Chief, Randy Marsh, and Legion.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, now we need some votes here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who?
[SPEAKER_05]: is voting for Legion.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anybody?
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, no votes for Legion.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who's voting?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, did you vote for Legion, Jess?
[SPEAKER_05]: I am switching my colors to Legion.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, vote for Legion.
[SPEAKER_05]: One vote for Legion.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, I'm going to mark this down.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, what about Randy Marsh?
[SPEAKER_05]: Any votes for Randy Marsh?
[SPEAKER_05]: No votes for Randy Marsh, Master Chief.
[SPEAKER_05]: One vote for Master Chief, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nick Valentine.
[SPEAKER_05]: three votes for Nick Valentine, oh boy, Bruce Banner.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think that's every, I think everyone's voted.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think that's, yeah, everyone's vote, that's five votes.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I didn't vote, I was gonna vote for Gremlins.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're gonna vote for Gremlins?
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, you didn't vote, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he's gonna vote for Gremlins.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's gonna vote for Gremlins.
[SPEAKER_05]: How was that helpful?
[SPEAKER_05]: He's 60 of you, not five of you.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's throwing it all women.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, throwing it all women does not beat Nick Valentine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Congratulations, Jessica, Star, you are the winner of our competition today.
[SPEAKER_05]: You have the best arguments and the best characters for doing all sorts of random things.
[SPEAKER_05]: Congratulations.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I loved everybody's characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was awesome to hear.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, this was super fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: I love all the different creative answers.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I also love with some of you were just like, nah, my character sucks at that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_05]: The honesty was very nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: But everybody, thank you for being here.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're just going to recap real quick.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll go back through.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's just actually go backwards this time from N7 through.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who are you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Why should people check out your shows?
[SPEAKER_05]: What are they?
[SPEAKER_05]: And also, thanks for being here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sam, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who am I?
[SPEAKER_03]: Who are you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Can I have an existential crisis now?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm in seven legend.
[SPEAKER_03]: I host the Mass Effect, the Lord cast.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also streamed a Twitch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Most of the time, I'm streamed Mass Effect.
[SPEAKER_03]: But lately, I've been streamed a lot of fallout.
[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of tales of two wastelands mod, if you know that one.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is a game called Fallon?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, this is a game called Fallon.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think any of us are part of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, I'm at the mod specifically, but it combines Fallout 3 and NVIDIA split.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I am live with the Mass Effect Lourkest every week on Tuesdays.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's at 9 30 PM Eastern Times, 630 Pacific.
[SPEAKER_03]: And right now we're covering some very little known lore around the virtual aliens.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if that is your jam, come stop on by.
[SPEAKER_05]: Where can people check out your stuff?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, you can check me out at robotsureo.net or Spotify podcast is They Code Kenny, South Park Retrospective, where we examine everything from the show and to its writing, its characters and cultural context that shaped it as it went along.
[SPEAKER_06]: Only got a few episodes out, but I'm hoping to get the next one out soon.
[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, go check that out as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know you've got a bunch of stuff, which stuff do you want to rip?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to do my best to just consolidate it down to three.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hi, again, I'm Austin from Jumperscape, producer of a lot of different things.
[SPEAKER_04]: Primary thing, of course, the library heel of lore cast.
[SPEAKER_04]: Every Thursday joined me and three of my friends to talk about Halo.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've been going for 150 episodes now and it's cooking, like we're cooking with avocado oil.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you want to tune in some of the other things that we do, we also have Chattern at Daily Halo Radio with 14 unique hosts going live every single day, every morning, so if you get your day kicked off.
[SPEAKER_04]: And if you want to get a little bit outside of Halo, we also have a hell divers podcast called Legal Broadcast, which will give you a little bit of news in universe.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's a good little time.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you want to see all of that, just go to www.jumberscape.com.
[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_04]: Jessica?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I'm Jessica Starr, and again, I host the Starfield Lorecast, the Fallout feed podcast of several other things.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can follow me on Twitter and BlueSky at Sleep is 4T, that's at Sleep is 4, the letter T. If you want to know what's coming up, exciting things in the works.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next, I feel Lorecast should be a deep dive with a Resilute Cartographer on System Designations, Geography, and Statistics.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the C3, because of the modding convention, I'm working that with Elianora and a few friends coming up on March 14th and 15th.
[SPEAKER_01]: So depending upon where you'll see this, check out the C3 convention's going to be Saturday, Sunday.
[SPEAKER_01]: From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. we're covering sky when we're covering sky oblivion.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're doing a bunch of star-filled verified creator panels, and I'll be showing follow-up state the fanfilm.
[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of stuff happening.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice, that sounds great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sergio?
[SPEAKER_02]: name is Sergio, host of the Dungeons and Dragons lore cast each and every week we're diving into the lore behind the world's most popular role-playing game and also the co-host of the 616 files where every other week my co-host and I Sean Hamill author of Cosmology of Monsters, the
[SPEAKER_02]: Solomon Kane suffer the witch all novels you can buy on Amazon or your friendly local bookstore And we talk about the history of the Marvel universe starting all the way back in 1961 nice nice and then Jeremy
[SPEAKER_07]: Hi, my name is Jeremy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I run the Dungeons and Dipschitz.
[SPEAKER_07]: I play D&D podcast here on the robots radio network.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can find me in discord.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've got a blue sky Instagram And yeah, that's about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I might have a project in the works, but yeah, yeah, yeah, like so many of us here like
[SPEAKER_05]: Speaking of projects in the works, if you'd like to join us and be part of this wacky crew, then you can always sign up and join us and be part of the network.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can join the Robots Radio Rocket Club and go to theRobotsRadio.net.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a section on there that explains how to do that, and you can launch your own show.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll help you out, get you started, and then help you with hosting and some advice about making sure that your show is successful and all of that.
[SPEAKER_05]: But thank you everybody for joining me.
[SPEAKER_05]: This has been super fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm glad you enjoyed my silly game.
[SPEAKER_05]: You made some wonderful arguments.
[SPEAKER_05]: This has been a great time.
[SPEAKER_05]: And thank you for listening and being a part of this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Again, I'm Tom or robots.
[SPEAKER_05]: I run the network and I also do the Fallout Lorkass, the Elder Scrolls Lorkass, the Lord of the Rings Lorkass, and Retro Recall.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We haven't played in like 30 years to see if they still hold up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks for being here everybody, have a wonderful night and until next time, I don't know, help old ladies cross the street.
[SPEAKER_05]: Think about running a zoo, practice your planking, rob a bank, don't actually rob a bank.
[SPEAKER_05]: Play the games like this, teach drivers and do your taxes because it's that time here.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, we'll see you next time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bye, everyone.