WEBVTT 00:00.959 --> 00:02.500 [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the Fallout lorecast. 00:03.761 --> 00:08.665 [SPEAKER_02]: The podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of Fallout. 00:11.367 --> 00:15.650 [SPEAKER_02]: So this probably isn't your first of the pre-war business episodes that I've done. 00:15.730 --> 00:21.295 [SPEAKER_02]: And if it is, welcome, I'm glad to have you, but you've probably seen trend with these episodes. 00:21.595 --> 00:24.417 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, first of all, I'm going through them alphabetically. 00:24.757 --> 00:26.679 [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not exploring a map. 00:26.719 --> 00:27.860 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just going through, 00:28.680 --> 00:32.262 [SPEAKER_02]: every one of them starting with A and we're now in the F's. 00:32.702 --> 00:39.907 [SPEAKER_02]: But what that means is that I'm often surprised when doing research for these episodes about what we're going to get. 00:40.267 --> 00:50.533 [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes we get one of these businesses that is super important, it has tons of lore, and it's this redefined, and it takes up a majority of one of these episodes. 00:51.093 --> 00:54.395 [SPEAKER_02]: But other times, we get lots of little mentions. 00:55.035 --> 01:22.422 [SPEAKER_02]: little tiny bits of information with like a logo here or just one sample of their product in one place somewhere or a sign on a building with very little of anything else and those are interesting too but in their own ways and in this episode we have a number of these well lesser known businesses let's call them that they may have been substantial companies if we get more information about them in the future but for right now we only have some minor 01:23.662 --> 01:31.065 [SPEAKER_02]: And so I'm going to dig into these as best I can, and most of these you probably will not have paid much attention to at all, while playing the games. 01:31.225 --> 01:42.650 [SPEAKER_02]: So if you do recognize some of these and some of them are more recognizable than others, but if there are, if you recognize all of these, then you have absolutely paid a lot of attention to every little thing that you find in the games so far. 01:42.690 --> 01:43.911 [SPEAKER_02]: So congratulations to you. 01:44.211 --> 01:49.693 [SPEAKER_02]: But here, let's fill up our glasses and cheers to Falmouth winery to get us started. 01:51.877 --> 01:55.419 [SPEAKER_04]: There's greatest fines, but sooner for them, never because of science. 01:56.119 --> 02:03.324 [SPEAKER_02]: You know how when you start a job, there are the things you expect to do in that job, and then there are other things that you end up doing more than you expected? 02:03.924 --> 02:13.950 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, reading words obviously is something I have to do as a podcaster, but I don't think I've realized how often I have to read words and then go, wait a minute, how is that pronounced? 02:14.650 --> 02:17.092 [SPEAKER_02]: Fallmouth is the name of the winery. 02:17.573 --> 02:24.778 [SPEAKER_02]: F-A-L-M-O-U-T-H, but in my brain, I want to say like foulmouth because that kind of sounds funnier. 02:24.838 --> 02:34.846 [SPEAKER_02]: And it seems like a reference here, like a pun, like a play on words, but really it's most likely based on just a little bit of research that I've done on this one, a town in Massachusetts. 02:35.347 --> 02:38.069 [SPEAKER_02]: And yes, there is a real-world foulmouth winery. 02:38.389 --> 02:41.312 [SPEAKER_02]: From Massachusetts, the Cape Cod area, foulmouth, 02:41.932 --> 02:42.512 [SPEAKER_02]: Massachusetts. 02:42.572 --> 02:44.934 [SPEAKER_02]: So this is a real world reference. 02:45.614 --> 02:46.895 [SPEAKER_02]: I've just not familiar with it. 02:46.915 --> 02:48.216 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't drink a much wine. 02:48.296 --> 02:51.238 [SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, I can't think of the last time I even had any wine. 02:51.778 --> 02:55.801 [SPEAKER_02]: And this one is particular because it makes sense for showing up in Fallout 4. 02:55.821 --> 02:58.242 [SPEAKER_02]: It starts with Fallout 4 and also is in Fallout 76. 02:59.022 --> 03:04.026 [SPEAKER_02]: And so the Massachusetts thing totally tracks with other types of things that 03:04.926 --> 03:09.571 [SPEAKER_02]: for because they are referencing the area that that game is based on. 03:09.611 --> 03:10.852 [SPEAKER_02]: So that totally makes sense. 03:11.332 --> 03:27.808 [SPEAKER_02]: But what's interesting here in one of the trends that we've seen is that usually it's the earlier games that have references to real-world businesses that then get used just wholesale or kind of referenced in the games and then the later games do that less often probably for 03:28.689 --> 03:32.030 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, trademark or copyright reasons, or anything like that. 03:32.130 --> 03:33.690 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, this isn't one of those. 03:33.770 --> 03:40.572 [SPEAKER_02]: This shows up in the later games, and at least the name feels like it's a direct pull from the real world company. 03:41.112 --> 03:42.712 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, where does it show up in the games? 03:42.892 --> 03:53.895 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you can see it on the labels of some bottles, where it will say simply Falmouth winery in this kind of fancy font, and then it'll say Merlo, because the the only version that I've seen in the games. 03:54.475 --> 03:56.017 [SPEAKER_02]: and the year 2060. 03:56.377 --> 04:02.782 [SPEAKER_02]: And as far as I know, that's all we have about Falmouth, Falmouth, Falmouth, maybe it's pronounced Falmouth. 04:03.082 --> 04:03.403 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. 04:03.463 --> 04:07.546 [SPEAKER_02]: If you live up in that area, or you're a wine connoisseur, and you know, send me a comment. 04:07.606 --> 04:09.328 [SPEAKER_02]: Let me know how that's pronounced. 04:09.828 --> 04:10.589 [SPEAKER_02]: But that's about it. 04:10.629 --> 04:15.553 [SPEAKER_02]: That's all we get for this one little winery that clearly existed before the bombs dropped. 04:23.507 --> 04:32.635 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I mentioned in the intro to this episode that chances are you haven't heard of most of these companies that were covering on this episode, but this one you absolutely have. 04:32.815 --> 04:42.204 [SPEAKER_02]: This is probably the standout, but surprisingly, the amount of lore information on this company is actually quite small. 04:42.724 --> 04:47.791 [SPEAKER_02]: When I say fancy lads, snack cakes, you probably go, oh, I know exactly what those are. 04:48.112 --> 04:49.193 [SPEAKER_02]: I collect them all the time. 04:49.574 --> 04:50.575 [SPEAKER_02]: I eat them in the games. 04:50.876 --> 04:52.318 [SPEAKER_02]: I saw them in the TV show. 04:52.678 --> 04:54.521 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they are all over the place. 04:55.022 --> 04:56.464 [SPEAKER_02]: And there's a reason for that. 04:56.904 --> 04:58.607 [SPEAKER_02]: First and simply, you need... 04:59.067 --> 05:05.833 [SPEAKER_02]: objects in the game that you can interact with and a number of those objects have to have useful abilities, right? 05:05.913 --> 05:25.151 [SPEAKER_02]: So not just something that you pull apart for parts to build a wall in your base or something like that, but utility that beyond that, traditionally in RPGs, you have things you can find that restore your health or buff your character or whatever, and so having lots of different types of food that you can come across in the world to help 05:25.731 --> 05:28.892 [SPEAKER_02]: refill your health, totally makes sense from a gameplay standpoint. 05:29.272 --> 05:54.281 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, most of that food also has to play into the lore and be able to exist 200 plus years after the bombs dropped, which means that you're not going to find, say, I don't know, Apple sauce, at least regular, actually made with Apple's Apple sauce 200 years later because that would have gone bad very quickly after the end of the world I'm putting 05:55.641 --> 06:05.623 [SPEAKER_02]: But when it comes to food like fancy lads, stack cakes, it's so full of sugars and preservatives that it doesn't go bad. 06:06.104 --> 06:14.186 [SPEAKER_02]: It's basically, I'm gonna get sued, but it's basically the twinky of the wasteland, I guess, in more ways than one. 06:14.666 --> 06:17.786 [SPEAKER_02]: Or the cockroach compared to the nuclear explosion, right? 06:17.826 --> 06:19.667 [SPEAKER_02]: Like they still survive the explosion. 06:19.687 --> 06:20.227 [SPEAKER_02]: That's sort of thing. 06:20.727 --> 06:29.038 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but yeah, fancy lad snacks show up everywhere and I'm sure you're somebody who can picture these in your head even You can just think of the way the package looks. 06:29.098 --> 06:33.083 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't have to describe that to you But here's some other things that are interesting about it. 06:33.584 --> 06:36.528 [SPEAKER_02]: Did you actually look at the packaging have you read 06:36.968 --> 06:46.355 [SPEAKER_02]: the information around fancy-lots, snack cakes, did you know that they were bringing fancy-lots, snack cakes to all the fancy boys in fancy girls? 06:46.695 --> 06:48.816 [SPEAKER_02]: That's right, you can hear that in their radio slogan. 06:49.337 --> 06:52.799 [SPEAKER_02]: On the billboards that advertise them, you can see a different slogan. 06:52.839 --> 06:55.081 [SPEAKER_02]: It says a big delight in every bite. 06:55.661 --> 06:57.202 [SPEAKER_02]: America's favorite snack food. 06:57.742 --> 07:07.606 [SPEAKER_02]: You can see the box with all the little individually packaged cakes in the TV show in the bin of things that Maximus gets when he and Lucy are inside that vault. 07:08.006 --> 07:14.388 [SPEAKER_02]: Remember when he puts on the, he takes a shower, he puts on a robe, and he starts eating all these foods that he's never eaten before. 07:14.428 --> 07:15.529 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that was one of them. 07:16.009 --> 07:20.033 [SPEAKER_02]: And as for the origins of when this shows up in the games, it starts with Fallout 3. 07:20.153 --> 07:32.205 [SPEAKER_02]: So this has been a staple of the Bethesda list of products that show up in these games, but definitely not a staple food unless you, I guess, want to die in early death of diabetes or something. 07:32.505 --> 07:35.128 [SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, if you're in the wasteland, you're going to take what you can get. 07:35.288 --> 07:36.989 [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, it starts with Fallout 3. 07:37.109 --> 07:46.097 [SPEAKER_02]: We find these in New Vegas for AN-76, but they did not exist in Fallout 1 or 2 or tactics or Brotherhood or any of those other older games in the series. 07:46.497 --> 07:59.727 [SPEAKER_02]: Now you might be wondering, does this show up anywhere else do we come across, say, a manufacturing center or trucks with the name on the side because they were shipping a bunch of these to grocery stores or something like that? 08:00.088 --> 08:03.030 [SPEAKER_02]: And then I got run off the road in the bombs fell or something. 08:03.530 --> 08:09.435 [SPEAKER_02]: No, as far as I know, there aren't any other references outside of the products that usually show up in the games. 08:09.935 --> 08:16.200 [SPEAKER_02]: But I know of at least one reference by a character in the games, which is always fun. 08:16.320 --> 08:20.143 [SPEAKER_02]: It's always fun to hear characters talk about the things that you're interacting with in the world. 08:20.543 --> 08:26.027 [SPEAKER_02]: And it comes from a King's Gang member in Fallout New Vegas, who says, Man, I'm hungry. 08:26.668 --> 08:28.669 [SPEAKER_02]: And I'd give anything for a fancy lad. 08:29.030 --> 08:30.771 [SPEAKER_02]: Wait, I mean, you know what I mean. 08:32.472 --> 08:36.496 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that feels like a very fallout new Vegas kind of quote if you know what I mean. 08:36.896 --> 08:42.821 [SPEAKER_02]: There is one other reference in the fallout role playing game rulebook on page 153. 08:42.861 --> 08:46.324 [SPEAKER_02]: And this is the quote from that rulebook. 08:46.824 --> 08:53.070 [SPEAKER_02]: Small frosted cakes so laden with sugar and other sweeteners that they're essentially preserved forever. 08:53.530 --> 09:02.219 [SPEAKER_02]: Reclaimed and advertising to be America's favorite snack food, these cakes can be found across the wasteland in many teeth achingly sweet varieties. 09:02.720 --> 09:11.809 [SPEAKER_02]: Now let's talk about the concept of these being well, always able to be eaten, and that actually does have a little bit of conflicting lore. 09:12.450 --> 09:20.575 [SPEAKER_02]: We have some other references in the games, Nate or Nora, depending on who you're playing as at the beginning of Fallout 4, before you leave your house. 09:20.916 --> 09:23.978 [SPEAKER_02]: When you're looking around, you can look at the food, and you get this quote. 09:24.498 --> 09:28.020 [SPEAKER_02]: Instamash, fancy lads, knackkakes, Blamcomac and cheese. 09:28.361 --> 09:30.002 [SPEAKER_02]: Expires in, never. 09:30.742 --> 09:38.871 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, is that a reference to all of the never-expiring or is this just a reference to the last thing on the list? 09:39.431 --> 09:40.833 [SPEAKER_02]: Not ever-expiring. 09:41.173 --> 09:47.480 [SPEAKER_02]: Like I imagine you're looking at a bunch of things and that's the last one you're holding and you read the expiration date on that last one. 09:48.241 --> 09:49.903 [SPEAKER_02]: That feels more accurate to me. 09:50.263 --> 10:02.156 [SPEAKER_02]: But some people haven't interpreted this as meaning that all of these things is to mash the Snackgakes, Blamcome Aconchies, none of these things expire ever, which also makes sense because you can still eat these things later. 10:02.637 --> 10:05.480 [SPEAKER_02]: But that doesn't mean that they necessarily taste good. 10:05.960 --> 10:26.894 [SPEAKER_02]: because we have in the same game a reference from a terminal entry in Vault 1111 that says this, December 25th, 277, Christmas Underground, got together with the rest of the security boys and support staff and had a little party, best gift that got handed out was a fancy lad, snack cake that wasn't too stale. 10:27.575 --> 10:30.497 [SPEAKER_02]: This is December 25th of 277, just a few months after the 10:35.080 --> 10:38.143 [SPEAKER_02]: But stale doesn't mean not edible. 10:38.703 --> 10:50.635 [SPEAKER_02]: And so I think that's the difference here, is that there are enough preservatives in this type of food that means that you can still eat it later and get some nutrients from it, but they probably don't taste fresh. 10:51.235 --> 10:53.497 [SPEAKER_02]: And that tracks, that makes sense. 10:54.098 --> 10:54.758 [SPEAKER_02]: But what do you think? 10:54.919 --> 10:57.300 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we don't have definitive information here. 10:57.320 --> 11:01.243 [SPEAKER_02]: It's not like a character's go, hmm, that tastes good every time we eat one or something like that. 11:01.763 --> 11:09.888 [SPEAKER_02]: And as for other information about this company, like where they manufacture these, where they're based out of who runs it, any of that information we don't have. 11:09.988 --> 11:13.691 [SPEAKER_02]: So maybe we'll get more about fancy lads, snack cakes in the future. 11:14.171 --> 11:20.235 [SPEAKER_02]: Now there is one other thing about this company that I find interesting, and it has to do with the name, fancy lads. 11:20.895 --> 11:24.477 [SPEAKER_02]: Lad is not a word that we use in the United States very much. 11:24.617 --> 11:28.580 [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously we know the meaning, it means like a small young boy or something like that. 11:29.120 --> 11:41.908 [SPEAKER_02]: But this feels either like it's a company that was international and doing something in a fancy sort of, I don't know, British sort of way, because that feels more British English to me. 11:42.909 --> 11:46.932 [SPEAKER_02]: Or it is a company that's specifically branded around doing something that feels 11:50.894 --> 11:59.762 [SPEAKER_02]: But we also know that the United States was very, very insular at the time, especially going up to the the bombs dropping. 12:00.323 --> 12:10.912 [SPEAKER_02]: And so it makes me wonder why would we have products like this, that reference things that don't feel as American during a time that was extremely nationalistic? 12:11.533 --> 12:11.713 [SPEAKER_02]: So, 12:12.313 --> 12:20.717 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's one of those things that, you know, mislips through the cracks or, like, in our own reality, if you actually look at it long enough, you go, wait, that doesn't make sense, but it doesn't matter. 12:20.977 --> 12:24.179 [SPEAKER_02]: People just accept it as what it is and they don't really care that much. 12:24.619 --> 12:26.100 [SPEAKER_02]: So maybe it's something like that. 12:27.480 --> 12:29.621 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I don't know anything, mister. 12:30.682 --> 12:31.242 [SPEAKER_00]: I just think it. 12:32.282 --> 12:33.243 [SPEAKER_00]: And then, I don't. 12:34.120 --> 12:37.363 [SPEAKER_02]: Next up is a little company called Fantastic Tours. 12:38.024 --> 12:41.988 [SPEAKER_02]: You've probably not heard of this, or at least you don't remember hearing about this. 12:42.449 --> 12:49.095 [SPEAKER_02]: They have a singular product, one thing that they've made that we know about, and it is the Tour Master 3000. 12:50.637 --> 12:57.003 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, the only place that we come across this, that I'm aware of, is the Grandchester Mystery Mansion. 12:57.684 --> 13:01.668 [SPEAKER_02]: And the reference here is from a terminal entry at that mansion. 13:02.008 --> 13:13.400 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, you might remember the Grandchester Mystery Mansion from playing the games I also did an episode about how the character who murdered her parents the ghost that you find here was based off of Lizzie Borden in the real world. 13:13.920 --> 13:15.901 [SPEAKER_02]: But here, let's talk about the terminal entry. 13:16.481 --> 13:26.104 [SPEAKER_02]: If you look at the terminal and you just look at the information about the things you're reading, not the actual text entries, there's entries by Zachariah and all of this. 13:26.424 --> 13:27.565 [SPEAKER_02]: It's not mentioned in those. 13:27.605 --> 13:29.205 [SPEAKER_02]: There's not mentioned by a person. 13:29.405 --> 13:36.388 [SPEAKER_02]: It's part of the information that describes the terminal itself and the software built for the terminal. 13:37.208 --> 13:44.952 [SPEAKER_02]: At the very top, you can see Grandchester admin then below that, tourmaster 3000 copyright fantastic tours. 13:45.552 --> 13:52.556 [SPEAKER_02]: So, clearly this is a product copyrighted by fantastic tours who is the company who makes it. 13:53.196 --> 13:53.776 [SPEAKER_02]: That's it. 13:54.256 --> 13:58.957 [SPEAKER_02]: That's the only reference we get about fantastic tours at all. 13:59.277 --> 14:20.781 [SPEAKER_02]: As far as I'm aware of and you would think that this is a part of the Nukekola expansion to Fallout 4 and Nukekola is a tourist destination, a theme park with all sorts of other things like tours and places in the theme park that might need software like this, but it was only incorporated in this one section 14:22.861 --> 14:28.743 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think that reflects on fantastic tours so much as it does the way that the game is designed. 14:29.243 --> 14:45.648 [SPEAKER_02]: My sense of this is that whoever designed this section of the game, specifically the Grandchester Mystery Mansion, needed to come up with some sort of descriptor in the terminal that showed that this was something that was pre-made by a company 14:46.108 --> 14:52.532 [SPEAKER_02]: for touring the location in order to kind of fit the setting of why that software would be running in those terminals. 14:53.092 --> 14:56.234 [SPEAKER_02]: And they just added this in as on a whim. 14:56.274 --> 14:58.215 [SPEAKER_02]: I just kind of made it up on the spot. 14:58.696 --> 15:03.819 [SPEAKER_02]: And it wasn't something that was then distributed to other designers who were doing different sections of the game. 15:04.259 --> 15:06.420 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's not something they pulled from the other games as well. 15:06.941 --> 15:10.463 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just in the Nucleworld ad on for this one location. 15:11.043 --> 15:33.342 [SPEAKER_02]: So my sense of this is these little tiny add-in companies often are just the ideas spawned in one designer's brain and then get worked into the game and then probably most of the other designers on this project who have done other sections of the map and other locations have no understanding or no realization that this company exists at all. 15:33.762 --> 15:37.746 [SPEAKER_02]: Unless it's like added into some database that they're working on internally, 15:38.266 --> 15:47.629 [SPEAKER_02]: But I kind of doubt that a lot of game developers work in ways where you don't necessarily do that for little bits of details like this. 15:48.309 --> 15:48.929 [SPEAKER_02]: But here it is. 15:49.429 --> 15:52.050 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a company that exists and this is all we know about them. 15:52.450 --> 15:55.491 [SPEAKER_02]: So I'd be surprised if this shows up again, but it might. 15:55.811 --> 15:56.331 [SPEAKER_02]: You never know. 15:56.671 --> 15:57.151 [SPEAKER_02]: So there you go. 15:57.291 --> 15:59.212 [SPEAKER_02]: The fun little find fantastic tours. 16:02.851 --> 16:10.294 [SPEAKER_02]: So it feels like on every one of these episodes, we get some sort of ammo manufacturing company that shows up and does like one thing. 16:10.335 --> 16:11.795 [SPEAKER_02]: We have BBs last week. 16:12.295 --> 16:13.316 [SPEAKER_02]: This week is no different. 16:13.436 --> 16:18.098 [SPEAKER_02]: Although, this company is a little bit different than some of the ones we've talked about. 16:18.558 --> 16:19.759 [SPEAKER_02]: Federal cartridge. 16:20.299 --> 16:30.044 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, this clearly is a pre-war manufacturer of ammunition and shows up in fall, new Vegas, starting with the honest hearts DLC. 16:30.704 --> 16:34.267 [SPEAKER_02]: But then also, you can see them on the TV show. 16:34.808 --> 16:42.334 [SPEAKER_02]: So in honest hearts, you can find sovereign hollow point 50 central fire cartridges, packages. 16:42.394 --> 16:49.420 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a little boxes full of ammo, and then on the bottom front of it, you can see manufactured by federal cartridge company. 16:50.201 --> 17:06.625 [SPEAKER_02]: But it looks like the name is sovereign, because that's what the big logo is, has a big S. But that seems more like it's a brand than the company, because clearly it has manufactured by federal cartridge, or maybe this is a sub-brand for a sub-company of a larger company, something like that. 17:07.005 --> 17:14.027 [SPEAKER_02]: But federal is mentioned there, and it's the only thing that I can find, and specifically just the point four or five hollow point rounds. 17:14.307 --> 17:16.427 [SPEAKER_02]: That's all that we have in the 17:18.528 --> 17:28.163 [SPEAKER_02]: But in the TV show, we have a very different looking package, but with the same name, it says Federal Special Target Load. 17:28.684 --> 17:32.710 [SPEAKER_02]: And the rest of the text on the box is at kind of an angle and it's hard to read. 17:32.751 --> 17:33.251 [SPEAKER_02]: It looks like it's 17:34.192 --> 17:41.036 [SPEAKER_02]: references again at the top federal champion target load or federal special target load, something like that. 17:41.537 --> 17:51.463 [SPEAKER_02]: And I say champion because it might be champion because there is a real world federal champion ammunition for shotguns. 17:51.983 --> 18:06.255 [SPEAKER_02]: And if you look at a real world box of these, it looks very similar to the one we get in the TV show and maybe is exactly the same, but it's hard to tell again because the information is at kind of an angle and it's fuzzy, especially when it gets to the smaller details. 18:06.636 --> 18:13.862 [SPEAKER_02]: But it does look like it has a broken shotgun clay target, like you would shoot on a range where they toss the targets up in the air and you shoot them. 18:15.323 --> 18:16.384 [SPEAKER_02]: It's about the same thing. 18:16.504 --> 18:26.332 [SPEAKER_02]: Now underneath that, though, we can see in a very similar place a warning, I can make out warning, and in the TV show one, you can't tell what the rest of the text says. 18:26.452 --> 18:33.958 [SPEAKER_02]: In the real world one, it says keep out of the reach of children, and it's stacked in the same way, so it looks like it's basically the same design. 18:34.359 --> 18:39.923 [SPEAKER_02]: And then on the bottom right, another set of text that you can't read in the TV show, but 18:42.345 --> 18:45.107 [SPEAKER_02]: slash 12 GA shotgun shells. 18:45.588 --> 18:47.129 [SPEAKER_02]: So here's my guess about what's going on. 18:47.610 --> 18:56.317 [SPEAKER_02]: The ammo mentioned in Fallout New Vegas, federal cartridge, and the federal brand that we see in the TV show are not exactly the same thing. 18:56.377 --> 18:57.758 [SPEAKER_02]: They are not the same company. 18:58.099 --> 19:03.483 [SPEAKER_02]: Because the one in the TV show doesn't say cartridge, first of all, it's a different type of ammo. 19:03.523 --> 19:07.847 [SPEAKER_02]: We've got shotgun shells as opposed to point four, five, hollow point ammo. 19:09.348 --> 19:17.551 [SPEAKER_02]: The one in the TV show is very clearly either a slightly changed or not changed at all actual real world ammo box. 19:18.232 --> 19:28.496 [SPEAKER_02]: And it just happened to be in the background and have the word federal on it and so therefore it gets associated with the same or similar sounding company name in the games. 19:29.056 --> 19:29.696 [SPEAKER_02]: So there you go. 19:30.237 --> 19:36.879 [SPEAKER_02]: Now it is federal cartridge have any other information, of course not, because it's on the episode of the show where we get so little information. 19:36.919 --> 19:38.520 [SPEAKER_02]: We don't have the manufacturing center. 19:38.800 --> 19:45.043 [SPEAKER_02]: We don't have any other types of ammo and it doesn't show up in any of the other games except for Fallout new Vegas. 19:45.603 --> 19:47.704 [SPEAKER_02]: And again, this is as far as I can tell. 19:48.004 --> 19:52.546 [SPEAKER_02]: So if you have more information about this than I do, I would love some more information. 19:52.626 --> 19:57.288 [SPEAKER_02]: But for right now, that's all we have about federal cartridge and maybe it's showing 20:02.072 --> 20:10.915 [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so let's head back over to Fallout 4 and talk about Fission Powell, yes, Fission Powell. 20:11.755 --> 20:13.595 [SPEAKER_02]: I have feeling you know where this is going. 20:14.015 --> 20:19.157 [SPEAKER_02]: Let me read the one reference to Fission Powell in Fallout 4. 20:19.417 --> 20:23.898 [SPEAKER_02]: Again, very small references here, very little information about the company. 20:24.338 --> 20:25.039 [SPEAKER_02]: Here's what we get. 20:25.559 --> 20:29.580 [SPEAKER_02]: This is in a terminal entry at Cambridge Police Station. 20:30.360 --> 20:35.682 [SPEAKER_02]: Case 772-RE, Nielsen, Reckless, and Dangerment Logs. 20:36.363 --> 20:50.528 [SPEAKER_02]: Evidence Log Entry, CH and E-00, object two times spool 200 inch copper cable status in Cambridge Police Evidence, dash SO1-A28, and then the next entry. 20:51.129 --> 20:55.871 [SPEAKER_02]: This is where the references, now you're getting the pattern here of these are very, very minor references. 20:56.791 --> 21:02.338 [SPEAKER_02]: Evidence, log entry, CHNE-01, because they start counting at zero, like programmers do. 21:02.979 --> 21:06.123 [SPEAKER_02]: Object 3x or 3 times, quote, 21:14.453 --> 21:15.554 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I can see him again. 21:15.994 --> 21:17.795 [SPEAKER_02]: Buddy, you just show up like out of nowhere. 21:17.855 --> 21:19.036 [SPEAKER_02]: What, what are you doing? 21:19.556 --> 21:28.061 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't know if you noticed, and probably most people didn't notice because they get to the end of the show and they just turned off the episodes, but I was working on something at the end of the last episode. 21:28.621 --> 21:29.041 [SPEAKER_02]: Wait, what? 21:29.422 --> 21:32.203 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, after the outro and all that, you didn't hear? 21:32.543 --> 21:36.405 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no idea, buddy, but hey, I got more stuff to talk about. 21:36.606 --> 21:39.127 [SPEAKER_02]: So whatever you're working on, just go, go do that, okay? 21:39.520 --> 21:41.081 [SPEAKER_01]: Alright, I'll see you again in the episode. 21:41.381 --> 21:42.722 [SPEAKER_02]: I have no idea what he's talking about. 21:42.882 --> 21:50.407 [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, that's the second entry in this terminal, and then the third entry talks about a bag with the remains of a home stereo system, and that's it. 21:50.527 --> 21:52.928 [SPEAKER_02]: This is just information from a police log. 21:53.369 --> 21:55.270 [SPEAKER_02]: And when I say that's it, that's it. 21:55.610 --> 22:00.893 [SPEAKER_02]: We get no other references to Fission Powell, but it is an amazing idea. 22:01.514 --> 22:05.836 [SPEAKER_02]: A home nuclear reactor to help power your home. 22:06.337 --> 22:06.477 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, 22:07.117 --> 22:13.724 [SPEAKER_02]: If you live in a place like Florida like I do, you may have a generator in your garage or wherever. 22:13.744 --> 22:16.247 [SPEAKER_02]: We don't really have basements here because the water tables too high. 22:16.627 --> 22:26.217 [SPEAKER_02]: But that is not an uncommon thing to have something for when the hurricanes hit and they break all the power lines and you need some power for a few days. 22:26.297 --> 22:26.418 [SPEAKER_02]: You 22:26.958 --> 22:39.738 [SPEAKER_02]: run a generator and you typically power it with like natural gas, or gasoline, or something, but not nuclear power because we don't have that in the same way that they do in the Fallout universe. 22:40.179 --> 22:41.702 [SPEAKER_02]: But this is really interesting. 22:42.202 --> 22:47.463 [SPEAKER_02]: This is a company that was selling portable home nuclear reactors. 22:47.503 --> 22:55.506 [SPEAKER_02]: Now I shouldn't be too surprised about this because we know that many of the cars became powered by fission and so this would be kind of a similar thing. 22:55.586 --> 23:07.969 [SPEAKER_02]: And if you know anything about home generators, they are basically car engines that are put in a different box and then connected to your grid or whatever and then they power your house when you need it and they're loud like a car engine. 23:08.589 --> 23:16.675 [SPEAKER_02]: a fission pal would be kind of the same thing but in the fallout world and what I'm so surprised about here is it's such an obvious idea. 23:17.115 --> 23:31.926 [SPEAKER_02]: This feels like something that absolutely fits the lore of fallout and you would find everywhere or at least remnants in specific locations maybe in big office buildings because they need some sort of power back up 23:32.286 --> 23:42.372 [SPEAKER_02]: For if the grid goes down, you would have something like a fission pal or a fission pal adjacent kind of product that's bigger and runs an entire office building, but we don't see those very often. 23:42.812 --> 23:49.616 [SPEAKER_02]: And I talked about it earlier how some of these ideas just show up because it's a developer working on one thing. 23:50.076 --> 23:57.861 [SPEAKER_02]: My guess is whoever was writing the police terminal entries just got creative and added some stuff, but this idea is brilliant. 23:58.481 --> 24:01.845 [SPEAKER_02]: and could be used to build gameplay around. 24:02.305 --> 24:12.877 [SPEAKER_02]: If you came across these generators in the open world, well, you don't need like the traditional red barrel thing that they do in video games and it's like, well, they're red barrels all around. 24:12.917 --> 24:17.162 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's fun to blow them up when enemies are nearby, but there's no real reason for them being there. 24:17.662 --> 24:21.584 [SPEAKER_02]: But what if you had fission pals sitting next to buildings and you could blow them up? 24:21.784 --> 24:26.066 [SPEAKER_02]: What about for something like Fallout 76 where you can build a camp and you need different ways to power it? 24:26.146 --> 24:29.708 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, there are different ways to power it using different types of materials. 24:30.289 --> 24:31.369 [SPEAKER_02]: But why not a fission pal? 24:31.629 --> 24:36.492 [SPEAKER_02]: You come across one in the world and you incorporate it into your camp and it powers things up or something like that. 24:36.772 --> 24:45.735 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, it seems like an untapped idea that could be used in a lot of different ways, and I would love to learn more about the company behind these. 24:46.295 --> 24:47.556 [SPEAKER_02]: Are they part of the grid? 24:47.636 --> 24:48.916 [SPEAKER_02]: Are they run by the government? 24:49.256 --> 24:50.257 [SPEAKER_02]: Are they a startup? 24:50.457 --> 24:56.038 [SPEAKER_02]: Are they kind of like the plasky, single individual people, bomb shelters, compared to Voltaque, right? 24:56.359 --> 25:00.140 [SPEAKER_02]: Like another idea that does something very similar in a different capacity, 25:00.980 --> 25:01.941 [SPEAKER_02]: But isn't as good. 25:02.082 --> 25:04.304 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't know if all tech would be considered good. 25:04.384 --> 25:09.129 [SPEAKER_02]: But clearly one person surviving in a little tube isn't going to work out very long. 25:09.490 --> 25:10.090 [SPEAKER_02]: You get the idea. 25:10.351 --> 25:10.851 [SPEAKER_02]: So there you go. 25:11.211 --> 25:11.992 [SPEAKER_02]: Fission Powell. 25:12.052 --> 25:12.793 [SPEAKER_02]: And I love this. 25:12.813 --> 25:13.794 [SPEAKER_02]: Just called Fission Powell. 25:13.814 --> 25:15.716 [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's a little buddy that helps power your home. 25:19.408 --> 25:26.393 [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so one more tiny little detail, tiny little business, and let's head over to Fallout 3's point look out at on. 25:26.713 --> 25:31.496 [SPEAKER_02]: If we walk down the boardwalk, we can see a little fountain drink company called Fizzies. 25:31.957 --> 25:44.205 [SPEAKER_02]: You can see the logo up above the, I guess, this little shop looks like a little diner along the boardwalk, and it clearly says in very big red text Fizzies, and then fountain drinks. 25:44.625 --> 25:46.446 [SPEAKER_02]: and it has a drink cup. 25:46.906 --> 25:52.488 [SPEAKER_02]: And the same kind of design of that like elongated rectangular kind of art deco kind of thing. 25:53.189 --> 25:55.369 [SPEAKER_02]: And this shows up in one location. 25:55.550 --> 25:58.791 [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of similar to the other company we talked about a number of episodes ago. 25:59.311 --> 26:01.932 [SPEAKER_02]: And it has probably a similar context. 26:02.072 --> 26:09.375 [SPEAKER_02]: This looks like either it's a small business that runs these fountain drink locations or it's a 26:13.697 --> 26:20.740 [SPEAKER_02]: that runs the entire location, kind of like those faux restaurants and things that you see it like a theme park. 26:21.000 --> 26:22.501 [SPEAKER_02]: They're not individual companies. 26:22.521 --> 26:25.422 [SPEAKER_02]: They're just owned by the theme park, but they look like businesses. 26:25.902 --> 26:27.242 [SPEAKER_02]: It's probably something like that. 26:27.723 --> 26:28.623 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's a soda stand. 26:28.983 --> 26:50.360 [SPEAKER_02]: they sell soda and it's fall out three remember we don't have all the different types of nuka cola yet and you can't really go in the location interact with it or even find much that remains on the outside everything's pretty picked clean which is typically how these older games lay things out uh there's way more things to find at 76 than there isn't four or three or new Vegas. 26:51.020 --> 26:51.701 [SPEAKER_02]: But that's it. 26:52.001 --> 26:59.245 [SPEAKER_02]: We just know by context and the name of the company that they must have sold sodas, so did they have Nukekola or Sunset's Asparilla? 26:59.566 --> 27:00.066 [SPEAKER_02]: Possibly. 27:00.586 --> 27:06.590 [SPEAKER_02]: And they're very close to the entrance to Pilgrim's Landing Boardwalk, which is specifically the boardwalk, they're a part of. 27:06.730 --> 27:09.672 [SPEAKER_02]: And on the flip side of the building, there's a pizza ria. 27:10.072 --> 27:15.336 [SPEAKER_02]: So if you're thirsty, it's a day on the boardwalk, and you need a drink, head by fizzy's found drinks, I guess. 27:15.656 --> 27:23.902 [SPEAKER_02]: This is very similar to the idea that Adam's child had on the recent patron chat about incorporating a real world kind of beverage company into the games. 27:24.442 --> 27:26.143 [SPEAKER_02]: And this is a little bit different. 27:26.223 --> 27:33.188 [SPEAKER_02]: It's more of a place you walk up and get drinks at a boardwalk and less of a go in the place and look at all the different kinds of drinks you can get. 27:33.308 --> 27:35.049 [SPEAKER_02]: But they're both about soft drinks. 27:35.890 --> 27:40.513 [SPEAKER_03]: If you have any questions about lukea worlds, I'd be delighted to answer them. 27:41.020 --> 27:43.223 [SPEAKER_02]: That's going to do it for our prewar businesses this week. 27:43.243 --> 27:45.285 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll be back with some more of these in the future. 27:45.786 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a minute.