[SPEAKER_05]: So here's a question you've probably never considered before.
[SPEAKER_05]: What happens when Nick Valentine from Fallout 4 competes with Master Chief from Halo to help an old woman across the street?
[SPEAKER_05]: Who wins?
[SPEAKER_05]: This is our quarterly spring special from robots radio where me and the other hosts get together and debate these things and it's going to be a blast.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know this is different from the regular episodes but I think you're going to have a lot of fun and I'll be back next week with a regular episode so the show's not going anywhere.
[SPEAKER_05]: I hope you have as much fun as we did and I'll see you on the other side.
[SPEAKER_05]: welcome everybody to the robots radio spring host crossover special 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 what is going on well this is a very special episode we do these quarterly now at robots radio in the show you're listening to as part of the robots radio network and i am tom i'm the guy who set up the network i do all the running the network stuff but i also host my own shows like the fallout lork cast the elder scrolls lork cast the lord of the rings lork cast and retro
[SPEAKER_05]: And with me this week, we have a host of other hosts, 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]: My name is Sergio.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am the host of the Dungeons and Dragons lorecast.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am also the co-host of the 616 files in unofficial history of the Marvel comics universe.
[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome back Sergio.
[SPEAKER_05]: So good always a pleasure 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 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, like planking, or something else.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll get there.
[SPEAKER_05]: But next on our list is Jessica Star.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jessica, so good to have you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey Tom, great to everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm Jessica Star, a host of the Star Field Lorecast Voice of Sophia on the Modest Files.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also host the Fallout feed stream at Jessica Star XP.
[SPEAKER_00]: YouTube with the Waceland Theater Company, under Jessica Star, do a lot of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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, and then we have Austin.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin's joining us.
[SPEAKER_04]: 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 good to see.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, there's too much stuff that I'm involved with so jumperscape dot com.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Much of Halo stuff and other things.
[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, go check that out Austin welcome.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then also we have Sam joining us Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is we have two Sam's.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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 news of the robot robots radio landscape, but I excited to be here today and excited to get to know everyone.
[SPEAKER_05]: So good to have you and then closing us out to Sam and seven legend Sam.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'm Sam too, if you do, I'm one of the lame joke intro.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so also known as in seven legend, I host the Mass Effect Lorquest and, you know, Tom and I hosted 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 late late.
[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]: Oh, 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 bake a pizza or something.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like there's still just going to have to make it work.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's part of the fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then the
[SPEAKER_05]: 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 going to vote on who they think won the argument.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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?
[SPEAKER_05]: You do, you do the Star Field 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_00]: I appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought you were going to assign characters, so I am woofly unprepared, and yet I hopefully I know the character as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just go with Starfield.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's most appropriate, and I will pick Andraja.
[SPEAKER_05]: Andraja.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so one of the companions from Starfield, another, fairly, I mean, you, 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_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quite possibly the most popular companion from House of Arun.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's mysterious.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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 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 Dungeons 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 twenty to determine what they're competing at.
[SPEAKER_07]: One in 20, well regarding my D&D nature, I'm gonna roll you a D20.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do it, do it, 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]: Oh, give me a second then.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think I hardered a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Here, put a closer roll again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, there we go, fully work.
[SPEAKER_05]: 12.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, 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_05]: Oh man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: So Sergio, so you're going to start us off.
[SPEAKER_05]: You've only got explain a little bit about the character, explain why they're going to win at this competition.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then Jessica is going to respond, try to keep it short, just two or three sentences in your explanation.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then you're going to get a chance, as you started first, you had to 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 couple of sentences.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, you can just introduce your character just in case somebody doesn't know who Spider-Man is well Spider-Man is a man with the powers of a spider.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, yeah, so Spider-Man, Peter Parker.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would say he was beauty pretty good at doing his own taxes.
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't actually work for the Daily Vehicle.
[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 worker.
[SPEAKER_05]: 1099 workers.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[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_00]: Okay, so my character is Andraja of House for Rune, and you may say, wait, she's not local.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is she filing taxes with the UC?
[SPEAKER_00]: How is she doing that?
[SPEAKER_00]: She's not familiar with the laws, but here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Andraja has trained for years to be a spy, to work undercover.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's worked as a smuggler.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's worked both below the law.
[SPEAKER_00]: and above the law and trained on how to interpret and understand these laws.
[SPEAKER_00]: Additionally, you know, she has been studying for this since she was a child, extensive schooling, very good with mathematics.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she would have no trouble with her own taxes.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, solid arguments.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sergio, you got one sentence to add a little bit more or refute something.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, that's those are the statements the rest of us you guys have any questions any thoughts and you have feel free to chime in you can ask them questions 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 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 Anandraja.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's a few hundred years in the future.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, 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 here so definitely okay yeah okay any other thoughts questions I guess I would say it feels like a it'd be like a side plot for Peter Parker to basically try to fumble to get his taxes together you know like a
[SPEAKER_06]: eat a fast time period basically.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, and where is it?
[SPEAKER_06]: And Dre, I could see her, um, maybe just get in a robot, you know, as an assistant to be pooping, get it done for her.
[SPEAKER_00]: She would be incredibly prepared.
[SPEAKER_00]: No doubt she always plans ahead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sam you're talking about the time period and I was thinking about extensions and then I realized you know what I don't think Peter even makes enough to have to file You might not I can relate to that He might not he you might might be something as completely foreign to him.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I mean he does have his own apartment that he does keep
[SPEAKER_07]: So he has to make enough to cover that in New York City right in New York City.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and I mean he's Peter Parker has also been known pretty much multi-versally to be incredibly intelligent Yeah, it's also a scientist.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, all the real like the legitimate jobs he does right he's paid under the table
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, not he 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, he's giving her a envelope.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, just Applebee's gift cards.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's all he pays in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: In some iterations, he is a dependent as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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 and Brasia.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, uh, some of your own arguments actually swayed me to team and Dresha as well because Peter, but he actually have to do taxes.
[SPEAKER_02]: You might think it might be something that he's never done before.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the thing about
[SPEAKER_02]: Spider-Man and Peter Parker is a character why he has endured since 1962 is how relatable he is to the leader That's true.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like and so to To your credit, so who pointed out like that could be like a side plot that he's trying to fumble about getting his his taxes done 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 Texas because they're too busy attacking the city.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, God says somehow gotten hired at the IRS.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're 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, so in Jessica, you don't have to stick with the same character.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can mix this up because you don't know what the competition is So it's still gonna be kind of random.
[SPEAKER_05]: So if you want to pick a different character you can but Austin you go go ahead and you go first because she's the the incumbent here
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so I'm sure everyone is immediately guessing what my character's going to be giving them the Halo, okay?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to subvert them entirely.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm keeping him very, very particular for later.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to 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, maybe four if you like ODST and think that Firefight is valid.
[SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, another wise, the guy is all around, I mean, he looks like he's 50, but he's like 75, black don't crack.
[SPEAKER_04]: Got it, cool, cool, cool, all right, Jess, who are you going with?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to mix it up to Paladin dance of the Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout 4.
[SPEAKER_05]: Paladin dance dance revolution.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, Paladin dance, what was his name, Sergeant Johnson?
[SPEAKER_04]: Sergeant Johnson.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I'm going 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]: All right, so we got to pick a number between one and 19, Sergio, you were the one who just, unfortunately, lost the last round.
[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.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin, you're starting us off.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is the competition.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who would win or be better at?
[SPEAKER_05]: 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_00]: I don't think we're out there getting our Warthog license.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we're talking alternative vehicles, Paladin Dance is incredibly experienced.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can fly vertebrates as a member of the Brotherhood of Steel.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is conversant with all sorts of forms of technology and because of his semi-secret background to the synth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry for the spoilers.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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_00]: very few.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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 highly into 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, um, press with Sergeant Johnson's driving technique with the way my halo driving goes with those warthogs flipping around all day 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 going to go with Sergeant Johnson specifically because dance has never driven a like roadworthy 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_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: 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
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean we see over in the fallout in the fallout show we saw Lucy get the hang of that pretty quick
[SPEAKER_05]: That'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]: Sergeant Johnson.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Austin.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin's not teaching the class, but he's he made the argument.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we got three for Sergeant Johnson.
[SPEAKER_05]: You Jessica.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know about yet because you're competing.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I'm going for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's fair.
[UNKNOWN]: Thanks.
[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.
[SPEAKER_05]: South Park Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're the new one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who are you picking?
[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]: We're ready.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bring that bell.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, basically the worst kind of person you would ever meet manipulative, uh, arrogance, 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.
[SPEAKER_04]: But we're gonna see the pays off Cortana, the AI herself, who has been iconic as a partner to master chief in all of his endeavors, and subsequently also straight up Empress of the Galaxy for a little bit there.
[SPEAKER_04]: But we're not gonna worry about that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jessica, give me a number between one and 18.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go with.
[SPEAKER_00]: 12 again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think some things move around because I pull them out of the list and the numbers change.
[SPEAKER_05]: So 12.
[SPEAKER_05]: I hope this is the hot dog eating contest one.
[SPEAKER_05]: So this one is who would be the best at the game that we're playing right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, the little meta there a little meta.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: South Park Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's your argument for this one?
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I guess are we assuming these characters have their own podcast?
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well I guess I would say we know Eric Cartman 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 Hartman.
[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, here it is, but, you know, I'm second behind my choice, uh, and now it's up to the people.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, all right.
[SPEAKER_06]: 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_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: If recent events are any indicator, the former wins, to bates anyway.
[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 into believing what he thinks and you know Cortana would use logic and reason and who wants any
[SPEAKER_00]: How is she on empathy and appealing to people, like in your experience?
[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome, 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]: Hmm, there you go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Solid other point.
[SPEAKER_06]: 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]: I'm a way to win it.
[SPEAKER_05]: You were talking about a faintest 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 Eric Cartman wins.
[SPEAKER_05]: Raise your hand.
[SPEAKER_05]: See, I see two votes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Does that mean the other two are voting for Cortana?
[SPEAKER_00]: 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 on.
[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_00]: The end of every every episode, we turn against him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, all right, time to move on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Austin, you are carrying forward against in seven legends, Sam.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's see, who are you going with us?
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go to in seven and seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: What character are you putting on?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna pick Emerald Stephen Hackett.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: So.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have no idea what competition this is going to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it could prove extremely fruitful or horrible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, hack it from Mass Effect and explain to people who haven't played what hack it is like so hack it in in Mass Effect is like your grizzled old uncle who hits you up when he needs favors done and he has he's he's like supposedly 45 or 50 but he looks like he's 70.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, it's a rough 50.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's also been through like special training or a special ops training.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he is the admiral of an entire fleet.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's 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]: One of the most integral captains in the entirety of the UNSC, and was able to single-handedly 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]: We've got Hackett vs. Cutter, Sam 2, or South Park Sam, give me a number between 1 and 17.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, when I earlier and we were rolling those dice to get our number.
[SPEAKER_06]: 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_06]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll make sure we can hear it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good fully work.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sorry if that was well.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, you're good.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're good.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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, old age and corruption beats youth and beauty every time, but that's, 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, you know, 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, 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]: All right, Sam, you've got the final response here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I'm putting together a team to rob 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]: All right, let's open it up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Questions, thoughts?
[SPEAKER_00]: 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_00]: Okay, so we have hack it, not kind of master mining the Beterian situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like how you referenced that Sam because that was a really sticky situation and then we have the other.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, yeah, I think the, the obviously it's not one to one but the planning and strategy that went into handling the Beterian situation, I think that's gonna give them a leg up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if movies have taught me anything,
[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, what's the getaway plan for yours?
[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 run by the way.
[SPEAKER_03]: who are by the way, not Commander Shepherd.
[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]: 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.
[SPEAKER_04]: 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 managed to be, it basically takes the 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've both Sam, kind of, you both didn't hear you were bottled.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, you got to get so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: So basically, the question was about the five o'clock.
[SPEAKER_03]: 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, uh, 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, um, so robbing a bank does not typically involve like,
[SPEAKER_07]: large aircraft already being at their disposal.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, um, disregarding large aircraft.
[SPEAKER_07]: How are we now?
[SPEAKER_07]: How are we feeling?
[SPEAKER_07]: Start with saying this one.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it's fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: I honestly go ahead.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's extremely comfortable.
[SPEAKER_04]: 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.
[SPEAKER_04]: He has some of the best ones even, and also just plenty of ground operations that he's led personally that have all gone without a hitch.
[SPEAKER_04]: He almost has no failures on his record whatsoever, after many, many years of service, even before he was a captain.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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, 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 will 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_00]: Oh, I mean, you're an argument, got me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, we've soon brought up our fans.
[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, 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]: Um, 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... in those gay being a very uh... animalistic character who kind of just does whatever he wants and then back who 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 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... tenacles it's writing tenacles 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 seven.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, this is my example at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who's better at planking?
[SPEAKER_07]: Jerry, let's start.
[SPEAKER_07]: Grendel has a strength of 21 in D&D turn.
[SPEAKER_07]: A lot of strength.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that is very well above average.
[SPEAKER_07]: 10 being the average.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he's cut.
[SPEAKER_07]: There have been times where Anne and he has a special power that when he rages, his strength goes up by five.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So in total he's getting a plus 13 to strength.
[SPEAKER_07]: So pretty solid.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sam.
[SPEAKER_03]: The elusive man is only seen not sitting in his chair, one scene, 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 stage 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_07]: The abs on this guy are incredible, like it's not just like a six or eight pack, 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]: That's questions.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, Tom, I need to 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_04]: So any given time?
[SPEAKER_05]: You're going to go back like a decade or whatever.
[SPEAKER_05]: This was decade plus.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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...
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't see why the elusive man would ever think that it would be necessary to plank.
[SPEAKER_04]: Grandal on the other hand would probably take it as a damn birthright.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow, how's he's fired up with his grandals class he is a barbarian.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, I'm going to have Yeah, I'm not as already made up, but so when we're talking planking we're talking about social media style planking not you know hard workout planking.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, this is like, oh, there's 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]: Maybe the elusive man used to reaper stuff like a pop-up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Reflect that was a good point for me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Grendel 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 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 the elusive 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_00]: I'm not sure if that speaks to the challenge, but okay, so the elusive man is known for unbending will, not really unbending body.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do you think he keeps it tight?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm plan to think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry about the implants.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the Reaper implants and the endless supplies of cigars and and bourbon.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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]: And then negative characteristics, smoking, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: In the Mass Effect universe, all negative health benefits, or 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_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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!
[SPEAKER_07]: Did he roll a net one?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm the diet to three, so that's a 16 if he's raging.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, that's still okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're the okay roll, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's not too bad for you guys.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, well let's vote on this.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is a fun one.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you, what do you want to think?
[SPEAKER_05]: Who thinks?
[SPEAKER_05]: Grendel.
[SPEAKER_05]: All four of you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wow, Grindel Wins.
[SPEAKER_05]: Those are some, yeah, I agree.
[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_05]: What kind of Sergio who are you picking?
[SPEAKER_05]: We, since you're the new guy, then this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dungeons and Dragons.
[SPEAKER_02]: Laura cast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go with
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... i'm gonna have to go with my 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 renown throughout the forgotten realms for his uh... simotars uh... uh... i seen death and twinkles uh... and i think he's
[SPEAKER_02]: He is a hardly ever beat in combat and one-on-one combat.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, Jeremy.
[SPEAKER_07]: So Void is originally was a very inhuman warlock.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so he woke up in a barrel as a shadow.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you do, I mean, 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.
[SPEAKER_07]: 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?
[SPEAKER_05]: Sam?
[SPEAKER_05]: That's seven?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think you had to say.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, there you are.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need a number between one, 15.
[SPEAKER_05]: 15.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who would be the best at running a zoo?
[SPEAKER_05]: Sergio.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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, and he would run part in my friend, or one hack of a zoo.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Void, 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, he cannot win the game.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think he could.
[SPEAKER_05]: He could, he could.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mel's horrible.
[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, well, Sergio, congratulations you win.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're the best.
[SPEAKER_05]: I default Dritt's dwinds, that means that you are now going back against Jessica.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a rematch, rematch, rematch, Jesse.
[SPEAKER_00]: You literally a ranger.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yeah, you had it with that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, Jess, who are you going with?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm going to go with Barrett.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to stick with companions in the Starfield universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll go with Barrett.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Barrett, and describe Barrett briefly.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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 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 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_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, D4 and D10.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: So here we go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jessica, you're going to start us off on this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who is the best at seducing a sugar daddy or mama?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, my goodness.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Barrett, he's known as incredibly seductive.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he is basically the very white of the Starfield universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he will put on the tunes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, he has all the tunes.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has all the stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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_00]: So he is swath, he is ready to swing, and he is 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, one 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_00]: Money doesn't buy everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some billionaire playboys' reputations precede them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, all right, questions, thoughts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is cooking involved in this production?
[SPEAKER_03]: That could be, that could be.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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_02]: Is this business deduction or pleasure's deduction?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it seems like the connotation here of a sugar daddy slash mama kind of implies a little bit of both Okay, okay Now this line I was gonna say this might hurt my My chances, but I will be the first would admit that Tony starts being a billionaire He probably would wouldn't be apt to need a sugar mama or daddy
[SPEAKER_02]: He would be right for your daddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he can probably just be just a dozing for love of the game, honestly.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't see, because the sugar daddy sugar mama situations and herent power dynamic there, I cannot see Tony Stark accepting conditions or terms or any kind of direction from a sugar daddy or mama.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, like you know, having to put his hand out and say, money, please.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, that makes it a little bit rough.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I mean, I mean, I think he Could he is absolutely capable of doing so, but would he?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the that's the argument to be made.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, and any other thoughts or questions?
[SPEAKER_06]: I guess uh could bear it look past The memory of his dead husband in this situation or would it be too much for him to to move on?
[SPEAKER_00]: 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.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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 challenger that's a good word for in 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_05]: Yeah, oh, it's both.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so I have to break this Sergio, I think you're right.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Tony Stark doesn't need a sugar daddy or sugar 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_02]: 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?
[SPEAKER_05]: 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 that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: yeah and without the qualifier i'm any you know any random person i would have voted for tony star yeah there you go 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
[SPEAKER_07]: uh... my character is the gremlin uh... he's basically the party snail uh... and it will find them anywhere anytime and uh... and we're trying to always tell them nice or it seems to have one of those voices it doesn't get angry and sound like gallum 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, yeah, a bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he's in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, miracle.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, Sergio.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so I'm going to stay with the Marvel Universe and we are in season two of the six one six files in 1963.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I'm going to pick characters that we have currently covered and I'm going to go with Bruce Banner aka the incredible Hulk got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jess.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to keep jumping around.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go back to the Fallet University to keep that representation.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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 uh... randy marsh randy marsh all right cool let's go all right and then i can already want to vote for randy if you have this 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 1 and 13.
[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.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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 to void.
[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_00]: 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_00]: He'd walk across and call her sweet heart at the end.
[SPEAKER_05]: You guys are really good at framing these arguments, it sounds like you all are running for office or something, which is great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sorry, we're not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is this not for president Roba 3D?
[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 street, who cares if a bus hits him.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's the Hulk and the bus, I'd 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_07]: No, no, no, why did the chicken cross the road?
[SPEAKER_05]: I get it, but is she going to eat the chicken or is he might?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, I'm not in that old chicken.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not for my offer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just wanted.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jeremy?
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, well, shook at their very quickly, because the grandma 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 for, 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 gonna 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_05]: You're gonna vote for Gremlins?
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, you didn't vote, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he's got a problem.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got a problem.
[SPEAKER_05]: How is that helpful?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's six of you, no 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_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I loved everybody's characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're 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 still 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]: Are you going to have an existential crisis now?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm in seven legend.
[SPEAKER_03]: I host the Mass Effect lore cast.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also streamed a twitch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Most of the time, I'm streamed Mass Effect, 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 Fallout.
[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 a new virus.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I am live with the Mass Effect
[SPEAKER_03]: So if that is your jam, come stop on by.
[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome, awesome.
[SPEAKER_05]: South Park Sam, where can people check out your stuff?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, you can check me out at robotsureo.net or Spotify podcast is they killed Kenny South Park retrospective where we examine everything from the show and it to its writing, its characters and cultural context that shaped it as it went along.
[SPEAKER_06]: I 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 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 Hill Award 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.
[SPEAKER_04]: 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, and if you want to get a little bit outside of Halo, we also have a hell diver's 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 jumberscape.com.
[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_04]: Jessica?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, I'm Jessica Star, and again, I host the Starfield Lorecast, the Fallout feed podcast of several other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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_00]: Next, I feel Lorecast should be a deep dive with a Resilute Cartographer on System Designations, Geography, and Statistics.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the C3 Bethesda modding convention, I'm working that with Elianora and a few friends coming up on March 14th and 15th.
[SPEAKER_00]: So depending upon where you'll see this, check out the C3 convention's gonna be Saturday, Sunday.
[SPEAKER_00]: From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., we're covering Skywind, we're covering Skyplivian.
[SPEAKER_00]: I were doing a bunch of Starfield verified creator panels, and I'll be showing follow-up state the fanfilm.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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 lorecast 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 Hammel author of Cosmology of Monsters, the
[SPEAKER_02]: uh, Solomon Kane uh, suffer the witch.
[SPEAKER_02]: 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.
[SPEAKER_02]: 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 ready and 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_07]: I might have a project in the work spent.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like so many of us here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like oh, all right Yes, we're gonna do this other thing
[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 just go to RobotsRadio.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 lorecast, the Elder Scrolls lorecast, the Lord of the Rings lorecast, and Retro Recall, where we go back and play games.
[SPEAKER_05]: We haven't played like 30 years to see if they still hold up.
[SPEAKER_05]: And also just...
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, roll around in the nostalgia for a bit.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks for being here, everybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: Have a wonderful night.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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.