[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly Competition, a podcast discovered the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my coast and best friend, Cody Lena. Discuss various pop culture topics and narrow it down to truly the best of all time.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Or as we like to call it, the boat. Before he gets step foot on the boat, we put him into a sweet 16 style tournament. We argue each round till we decide a winner. Nick, what criteria do we use? We decide he steps foot on the boat.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want some what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Absolutely. We went into the past, and then when we were in the past, we went to the future, and we took the stuff from the future to the past to show the past people the future stuff, but we have it in the present. So we went back to the future to put the stuff back. We just stayed because that's where we were from. We're talking about that.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
In retrospect, I feel like we could have just brought them to us. Done kind of like a one trip thing.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought that I was saying that while you were planning the trip, but you were so excited that I just didn't want to jump in.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: I was like, we got to take these video games and show them. Let's bring it. And you're like, dog, I don't even know if the electricity is going to. All right, man. Whatever.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: You were just really into it. I didn't want to yuck your yum, so I want ride or die, baby.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: It was pretty exciting. No matter what. At the end of the day, when you can show 17th century peasants a dishwasher.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. I played Mario 64 with a kid, and he died.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: Just visually died.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: Visually.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Well, when the cart went off the Rainbow Road, he assumed his own. He had a heart. Like, he was like, oh, shit, I died. And so he died.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: Stupid.
[00:01:51] Speaker B: It's hard out there. First of all, the kids are dumb. They're so dumb.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: So dumb, dude. You're like, it's just a video game, man. You can't die in the video game.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: We were watching a movie of a train, and when the train came, they started screaming and ran out of theater. So fucking stupid. Idiot.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: Because that's a real story that actually did happen, and that actually did happen when movies were first invented. Can you imagine the director? Was the director, like, yes. That's exactly what I wanted to have happen.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: No, you got to be.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: Or is he just in his movie? Like. And y'all dumb as hell.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: I know we've talked about this before, Nick, but if a movie is directed so well that if it's a horror movie, it's so scary that someone dies in the theater watching it, that's a good thing.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: Yeah. And I agree. So you have to assume then, that when the train was barreling down the screen, it's such a new technology. I get it. I get that there's some things they didn't know, but the fact that their brains were like, okay, this flat 2D Surface, which so far, any other movie I've seen on this, nothing has ever come out of the screen.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Okay. All right.
We build a time machine. We need to go back in time to that showing of that train movie, right? The one that's famous for everybody. And we replace that movie with Transformers by Michael Bay. And I want to see what these fucking people do, man. Explosions everywhere, cars turning into. They don't even know what the cars are.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Could you imagine if we just showed a big boom? They'd be like, we're all dead. They blew up the theater.
[00:03:21] Speaker B: Oh, God.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: Fucking idiots.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: So stupid.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: I can't wait.
I wonder what the thing will be in our time like that when people look back on us 100, 200 years later, they're like, these dumb asses really thought this.
[00:03:36] Speaker B: It's probably AI stuff.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, probably deepfakes. Everyone will be able to catch a deepfake from a mile away.
And, yeah, we're still here. Like, I mean, is Obama Doja Cat? Pretty sure.
When did Obama dress up like Doja Cat and do all these rap genius videos?
[00:03:55] Speaker B: Well, I've been saying for a while, since at least 2016, that Obama is the devil. He's a bad little bitch and a rebel. He could be Doja Cat.
[00:04:08] Speaker A: Hey, I got some videos to show you that pretty much conclusively prove he is Doja Cat.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: Let's go, baby. I mean, send me that. I need to do some Research, folks. And that's what we're talking about here.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: We are to tell you about the things that we want to give thanks to. We appreciate how wonderful these items are. We also appreciate Carl for sending us this list, and then you motorboaters out there for helping us fill it out a little bit. But here we have. We took that list of 16, sent it to our bracketologist. They randomized it. We're going to go through each group at a time. So here in Group A, we have the one seed video games going up against 16 seed, quick cooking, your air fryers, your microwaves, your instant pots. And then we have air travel, the eight seed going up against the nine seed dishwasher. Cody, where do you want to start?
[00:04:58] Speaker B: Video games versus quick cooking. Video games are the number one entertainment product in the world, Nick. They've surpassed movies and television and all that stuff. Video games are a way of life. I'm out here on my grind. You know this. I've caught all the Pokemon, right? I've done it. I built my village in Animal Crossing. I do it all. Yeah. I would say that quick cooking came around because people needed more time to play video games.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: I mean, the fact that I feel like the hot Pocket exists is the proof of this.
That there were just kids were like someone, some entrepreneur saw their child playing video games, and they're like, damn, this is going to be the future. But this kid's got to eat. But he can't eat with two hands.
He's got a game Idea.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Let me run this by you. I'm the CEO of Hot Pocket. I want to increase sales by 1000%. This is all you got to do, baby. Keep the hot pocket the way it is. But in there, I want a little bubble that my teeth can bite through that makes it like a juicy filled gusher kind of Red Bull. Put Red Bull in that. Now I never have to stop gaming. I can eat my pizza. Pepperoni hot pocket. I'm getting a shot of Red Bull. I don't even have to wash it.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: Question obviously. Once again, the science is perfect. It does not melt. It does not break into the hot pocket. It is its own separate special gusher shot in the middle.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like a gusher egg yolk of Red Bull. Yes.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Does it? But it has to be hot, right?
[00:06:23] Speaker B: It's going to be so hot.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: There'S no way. I wanted to give you some mythical quality that it's like. But it would stay cold, obviously. But because of hot pocket, no way.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: But what if. Okay, but maybe. No. Because a Red Bull would freeze in the freezer into a perfect ice cube. So this is perfect. Now it'll fry and it'll melt when you microwave it, but that it'll melt to the point where no longer is the hot pocket so insanely hot on the inside it hurts you. It's the perfect crime. It solves all the problems.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: You might have figured it out.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: TmTmtmtm. Hot pocket. You can buy that idea from me for a Billy.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I hope they do. I hope big hot pockets. Listening, Mr. Pockets. And he's just like, God damn. Why didn't we think of this first?
Red Bull. A little shot of Red Bull right in the middle there, and they can just.
Oh, man. Yeah. Okay, here's where I'm at on this, because I understand the importance of video games to modern society, and it's only going to get bigger. It's only going to become with each generation. And as these games get better and better, it's only going to get more ubiquitous. But have you ever made French fries in an air fryer dog?
[00:07:44] Speaker B: Yeah, dad changed the game. We don't even use our oven for that shit anymore.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: No.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: I'm trying to find new and exciting ways to cook everything in the air fryer dog.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: I just made fucking chicken parmesan in the air fryer, dude. It was insane. It's crazy to me that I can take a wet. Like, the fries make sense, right? The fries are dry when you put them in, and then they're just getting heated through. And it's great. But I'm saying I put wet stuff in there and it cooks it, and I'm like, how? It doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm so excited. I'm like a child every time. Like, put something in that's new, and when I can finally open it up and take it out, I'm like, can.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: I bake in the air fryer dog?
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Kellyanne loves doing. Just buying those, the cookie dough balls or squares or whatever. Fucking toss a couple of those in that bad boy for yourself, like, five minutes later. It's so fast, too. That's the thing.
[00:08:43] Speaker B: Changes everything, dude.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: So much faster.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: Okay, I get it. I love that we can quicker. We got instant pot. We can make rice fast, even if microwave, to get those leftovers ready to go. But I think I've spent more time. Maybe this is the problem. Quick cooking is so fast because I know I've spent more time playing Mario, dude. I spent more time. I have hundreds of hours just in Final Fantasy seven, bro.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: So, like, I understand that, but that's the point. The whole point of quick cooking is exactly what you said. It allows you the ability to get back to the things that are that. Oh, no, I'm just saying now they're more important, though, aren't I?
[00:09:19] Speaker B: There. You did? Is that a Freudian slip? Did you figure that out?
[00:09:22] Speaker A: Is this a catch 22? Is this what the whole book was about? Or am I more in a catcher of the rise situation?
[00:09:28] Speaker B: You catching something, bro? I don't know.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: Just keep just saying AP English books that I had to read, that I.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: Did it, that you clearly didn't understand.
[00:09:37] Speaker A: Sparks noted. I'm like, oh, man, this is we certainly got ourselves in a to kill a Mockingbird situation, don't we?
[00:09:44] Speaker B: It's been a long time, but this definitely is the heart of darkness. That book sucks so bad. Okay, this is tough because I love the games. I think I can lock in vegans. I think I stay true to my heart. I can't even pretend to lock in quick cooking. First of all, I don't cook enough, okay? I eat everything cold, so I don't even need to warm it up.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: Okay?
[00:10:03] Speaker B: I'm a bad person for this.
[00:10:04] Speaker A: I do think a metric. Yeah, that's pretty gross. I do think a metric that we need to think about is, like, if you were to show this to someone, let's 17th century it up, okay? Assume that they have the electricity, the grid system, to make the electricity work.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: Okay? From now on, it's 1776. Everything we need to pitch, we're pitching at the Constitutional convention.
[00:10:31] Speaker A: I know you guys are working real hard.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: We've got all the nation's greatest minds, and they're working really hard. But I need to show you this air fryer real quick. Okay?
[00:10:40] Speaker A: Hey, how many do you have right now? You have two of the amendments. Yeah. Fuck that. I want to show you guys. So this is called an Xbox Series S. And here's what I can do with it. Let me show you guys some shit, okay?
[00:10:54] Speaker B: I think if we showed them an air fryer, they'd be like, oh, it makes the food hot. Well done. Barely. But if I showed them an Xbox, they'd be like, dog, we got to fucking get these bitches. They'd be already picking up the sticks, start fragging nerds left and right in their spirit.
[00:11:09] Speaker A: But then to that point, then, Nick.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Nick, Nick, they're already racist. They're going to love Xbox. They're going to love Call of Duty.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: Wait, I can just say whatever I want to anyone in the world? Yeah, dog. It's wild.
[00:11:22] Speaker B: It's fucking bad out here.
[00:11:24] Speaker A: It's not great, man. They're like, no, this is exactly what we wanted.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: This is.
[00:11:28] Speaker A: Freedom of speech is exactly what we wanted. You're like, yeah, that's the problem, is you all didn't think it through.
I get it. It's important, and I love it, but at the same time, this is what it led to, was Xbox Live fucked this up.
Okay? Do you think if they would have had the video games back then, what would we not have gotten to? Because I think that's the thing right now. There's, like, the big idea with all these video games and VR eventually we're just going to end up living in these worlds versus creating in our own world.
How much progress would have slowed? Would it have come to a screeching halt? Because at least with fast cooking, if we could give it to them, they would have been like. Like you said, it's pretty obvious what to do with it, but at least you have more time. Maybe we would have gotten more amendments. Bill of Rights. We're not just doing ten of these bad boys.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: We're going to 30.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: Yeah, easily. And maybe we'll flush.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: We didn't even have to take a lunch break, dude. We threw these fucking hot pockets stuffed with Red Bull right into this air Fryer, and we were ready to go, dog.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: I think just bringing Red Bull to them, they'd be like, the fuck is this?
We got to get them drink.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Boys, boys. We go get some amendments written today. Crack open one of these.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: The Bill of Rights. 127 things towards the end, she's like, and fuck. No more British accents. Fuck you guys.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: They wrote a bill of wrongs. What is that?
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Yeah, you guys, we're thinking about this all, dude, we're thinking about this backwards. We want all the things that we want. We need to tell them how fucked up they are.
[00:13:06] Speaker B: No, we're being a schoolboy, bitch. Ben, I'm looking at you, Franklin.
I got a lot in video games. It's just sometimes you got to go back to the old ways of cooking. And also, here's the thing. If we got rid of fast cooking, we could still cook. We got rid of video games. What am I going to do? Talk to people?
[00:13:22] Speaker A: Actually, I will say that was probably the most salient point is, like, you're right. I love this stuff.
I might die for my air fryer. If someone breaks into my house and I see them start grabbing all my shit, they grab my TV. I'm like, that's fine. I get it. TVs are great. But if they grab my air fryer, I'd be like, hey, my guy. Please take.
Please take anything else, but not the air fryer, please.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Exactly. Take the dog. I'm not utilizing my air fryer to its full extent. I know that, and I need to get better about it. But I still got to lock in these video games, dude. I just. 100% in Mario Wonder. Okay.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: Congratulations.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: I'm just saying, if you're just making fries in the air fryer, you are utilizing it just as well as anyone else. Fries and leftover pizza, which I know you eat cold because you're a psycho, but for the rest of us, if you're doing fries and leftover pizza, you are utilizing it to the best of its capabilities, easily. Tater tot dog. Tater tots.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Yeah, those rule.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: How are ovens so bad?
[00:14:24] Speaker B: I don't know. I can make cakes in there, I.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: Guess, but I'm shocked.
I think I got to move video games on. I agree with you, Wild.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: You don't even have a system.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: I don't. But at the end of the day, I mean, I got my little phone and I play my little Marvel snap game on there. That's a video game.
I'm not going to sit here and call myself a gamer by any means, because Lord knows I don't need to hear about it on Xbox Live. And people be like, you don't really game, dude, not a gamer. Maybe I should start twitch.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: I would actually watch that. A man who knows nothing about games finding his way through the classics, you.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: Could get some followers on that, probably.
Yeah, because people just yell at me and hate me for it.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Hey, that's the Internet, baby.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: Do you think they'd be more mad at me or just any general female who is actually competent at the games?
[00:15:19] Speaker B: Oh, it's the females 100% still. Are you kidding me?
[00:15:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a hellscape. And we'll get back to that when we go back to video games. But all right, next up, we got air travel going up against the dishwasher. Could you imagine if we go to 1776? We're like, hey, boys, you all done writing your big old document? And they're like, yeah, man, it's so sick. We're like, cool, why don't we take on over to England right now? They're like, oh, I mean, it's going to take months.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: We're going to hand deliver this shit.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: It's like, no, dog, come outside. Let me show you something. Show them a G Six, boys. Come on, get in. It's fully stocked. We're about to party, dude. We're going to drop this shit off on their doorstep, dude.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: Hey, Benjamin Franken, George Washington. This is my friend, the Far East. Moving in. The cataracts allow them to play their hit single like a G Six featuring Dev. As we get onto this plane and we're going to hand deliver that shit to the Queen, what do you think.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: Would be more surprising, seeing Asian people rap or seeing a plane they've never.
[00:16:20] Speaker B: Seen rap at all.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: This is a very serious question. Did the Founding Fathers ever see, like, do you know? I mean, this genuinely. No, bits, I'm just now realizing, I'm like, would the Founding Fathers have met an Asian person?
[00:16:36] Speaker B: I think so, yes.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: You think in Europe before they came over, because there's no way they were in America, obviously, that was indigenous people. So you're assuming that in Europe somewhere along the way, because we would have had the Silk road for a while, right?
[00:16:52] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm saying there's probably definitely Asian people living in Europe. And some of them definitely came to the United States, I'm sure, on the original team, maybe on the third string, maybe not the OG boat, but they came over pretty early. Doug. It's people. People be living on this world.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: I understand that, Cody, but I'm just saying it feels like we were pretty well segregated until things like air travel, where it became easier to get to places and anyone could move about the country, the world more freely.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: I think the plane and the air travel would be more exciting to them. But also, dog, if we showed them a dishwasher, like, it's a motherfucking world's fair. There's love dent stuff. Well, actually, I don't think it wouldn't actually affect the Founding Fathers, but their wives. Their wives love it, dog.
[00:17:35] Speaker A: It's not even their wives.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: I know. Who.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: Another thing.
It's the one thing they didn't want to talk about in the Constitution. That would have been super dope.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: Didn't even address it. Okay. No, I think this is hard because I like to travel, as we all know. But the dishwasher saved my life. See? Okay. I don't think I can go back.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: Can we have a real conversation?
[00:17:56] Speaker B: Yes. There's something distinguished about traveling on a boat or on a train. And I get there and I take off my bowler hat and I say, good day, Mom. I've traveled many a month to get here to Jolly old England.
[00:18:06] Speaker A: It does show your commitment to getting there. The fact that you were like, no, I really wanted. Man, I've flown to Chicago on, like, a whim. You know what I'm saying? I've been like, I don't know, man. Let's just get to Chicago. Tickets are, like, $50 and then just land in Chicago. Like, what y'all do here? What do we do here? What y'all do in Chicago, man? And they're like, you're the one who came to us. Why are you asking us? You flew herE. I'm like, I know, but I didn't really think it through. It was $50.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: Think about how air travels ruined vacations. If I went to my boss today and was like, hey, I'm taking a trip to Japan. That's two weeks off, right? Yeah, I took two weeks, went to Japan. I was there. If I went to him and we didn't have air travel, hey, I'm taking a trip to Japan, bro. That's six months off paid. They got to keep paying me for it.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: You think that in a world where we didn't have air travel that we would have been like, well, people do deserve leisurely travel.
[00:18:55] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: But, well, goddamn, all we have are these boats and these trains. So, yeah, man, I guess we'll give people six months on, six months off so you can go see some shit.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. So maybe we ruined that. Back in the day, everyone was vacationing hard. I read the Pride and Prejudice. They were all over the place.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it was not unheard of that. Yeah, man, we're just going to not do this month. Hey, this month, nothing. Go travel. Go see stuff. It's going to take you a minute. You got to hop on a horse.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I got to visit Nicki, Minneapolis. I'll see you in three weeks.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: Can you imagine arriving somewhere on horse? Like the dedication that shows that you're. No, no, I wanted to be here, so I got here on horse to see you. That's romantic.
[00:19:39] Speaker B: Our generation doesn't care enough about anything to do that.
I would just never see you again if the only way to get there was to ride a horse. I love you, bro. I ain't riding a horse. To Minneapolis, dog.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: It would mean the world to ain't.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: Bitch, you ain't riding one to rap or suit Falls.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: Okay, but do you agree with me that if I knocked on your door and you're like, Nick, I wasn't expecting you, and then you look just like. You look right around me and there's fucking apples. My horse. Apples in me.
[00:20:09] Speaker B: Yeah, dude.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: And you're just like, is that a horse, Nick? Did you. You're telling me a tear wouldn't fall from your eye when you realized your boy took a horse to come see you?
[00:20:22] Speaker B: No.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: I think.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: No, it'd be beautiful. It'd be a beautiful moment. There would be hugging, for sure. Do I want a dishwasher over air travel, though?
[00:20:29] Speaker A: Okay, here's my question. Can I ask you about dishwashing and your household policy? Because in my house I do all the dishwashing samesies, but my wife is a big, like. Basically, it feels like I already wash the dish mostly off by the time it goes in the dishwasher.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: Oh, Doug, no, we spend stupid money on one of those Bosch dishwashers. That's like, fuck it. Put a full lasagna in. I I. The most I do is scrape the plate, and then I put it in there.
[00:20:59] Speaker A: That's the way I want to live my life, Cody. But every time I try, my wife's like, no, you got to wash that dish. And I'm like, then why do we have this? Why is this beautiful machine here if it's just getting me through the last 10 meters?
I feel like it's, like, for sterilization more than is anything else at this point. Because it's just going to blast.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: That's all it is.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: And I'm like, that's not what I want, though. You're right. I'm like, let's just put this baked ass lasagna in here and see dude, do its job.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: Mine's got, like, a food processor in there, so if it gets clogged to the bottom, it just grinds it up. Get out of here.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: I know we have a nice dishwasher, but it's just like my wife's like, it almost feels like she feels bad for the dishwasher. She's like, you don't make it do all your work, okay? It's not its job to do your job. And I'm like, its name is the dishwasher. That's what it does.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: It craves lasagna.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: It needs it to survive. Babe, please.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: I think I got to lock in air travel, my brother. This is hard, though.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: I know. It's so much more ubiquitous.
Shout out. Do you think it was just some husband who was just so sick of washing the dishes every night that he was like, there's got to be a better way.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: There's got to be some sort of wet box I can put this in.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: He just starts with his first one. Just like a wood box that he just puts them all in and just like, shakes the dishes.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: Yeah, he puts one of those sprinklers underneath it. That's a wave motion. All right, that'll do.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: We're getting close.
I feel some promise here. Babe, come check out my. Look, the dishes are clean. She's like, no, they're fucking not. Put those shit back in the sink and get to scrubbing, bitch.
[00:22:42] Speaker B: Get in the river.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: I'm going to get you.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: Okay, so a lot of people say the best way to learn and best way to experience new things is to travel to see the world, right? It's a quick way to open up your horizons and teach you a lot of things you couldn't otherwise know. And to them, I'd say math Blaster. Yeah, I learned math that way, bitch. The only way I know all those typing games. You know why I'm such a good typist? Because I play games hard about typing. Yeah.
[00:23:05] Speaker A: And I destroy it. And I made my race car go so fast, I typed so fast that my race car just zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. It was great, dog.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: Everything I learned, I learned from video games. Dude, I think I'm out here learning. I'm breeding Pokemon. I'm learning biology.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah, you want to use that as the biology lesson we give to children now?
[00:23:25] Speaker B: Hey, dude, it makes sense to me. Put a boy and a girl the same type, they make an egg.
If they both be stronger, then the egg be stronger, too.
That's biology.
[00:23:37] Speaker A: I'm just thinking of replacing middle school biology with Pokemon and just being like, here you go, kids. I think that's what, when Republicans are like, is that the world you want? Is that what you want? Your kids just in school playing a video game to learn? And then it's like, sounds kind of sick. I got Pokemon first period. I got God of War, which is my history class.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: I got math Blaster, third least favorite.
[00:24:02] Speaker A: Can't wait for AP Assassin's Creed. Going to learn so much.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: There it is. I got city planning. You just play SimCity. There you go.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: All of our architects are from.
What school did you go to? Sim 2000.
Yeah, so I feel pretty good. It's an established program.
I feel very confident I can put this building together. If you give me a shot, I'd hire them.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: They got the gumption.
[00:24:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
That's what I need in my architects, not formal training. I need that gumption, big guy.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: So when I'm laying on my deathbed, I'm looking back at all the lives I've lived. Do you think I'm going to reminisce about my trip to Japan? About how wicked awesome the ending to the Resident Evil Four was?
[00:24:45] Speaker A: I wonder this so much now. I really do spend time thinking about, like, when people are like, I saw my life flash before my eyes. It's like I saw my family and my kids and all this, and I'm like, I really think there's a strong chance I'm going to end up seeing Avengers Endgame as the scene when Captain America gets much, like, how much media we consume now versus back then. You would use that time to, I mean, you'd be in the fields, but your kids were there at know you're teaching them how to do wheat and, yeah, yeah, but at least you were with your family. And now I'm like, nah, man. I spend so much time watching how I met, like, to this, like, there's no way that some of my last images aren't of Ted and Marshall sword fighting.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: Oh, my God. What if you do get how I met your mother? But it's like the ending of it and you're like, that's what? Remember? No, no.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: On the way out, seeing the light.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: And I'm like, oh, man. Everyone's like, oh, shit, he must be going to hell. He just has to rewatch how I met your mother at the end of it.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: Yeah, he just did it. He just did it so many times. It's all he knows. It's all he knows. Yeah.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: So rough. Because part of my heart really wants to lock in air travel because I love traveling. But games have been there for me through thick and thin. When I was at my poorest, I wasn't going to Europe when I was poor, but I was playing video games. Final Fantasy nine, it's basically Europe.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: I mean, I think with video games, especially as we think about what are we thankful for? What's really giving us something? And I think about at this point, Air travel is kind of what it's going to get. We're never going to get, like supersonic. We tried it and it's just not great. It's not a good flight experience, so we're not going to really do that. BUt, like, video games, we have so much future.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: I'm scared we haven't got to VR yet.
[00:26:34] Speaker A: What my kids are going like, what is going to be PlayStation Eight? Is it just going to be a capsule? And I just put that in my kids bedroom. They're just in their little PlayStation Pod playing their stuff. What is it going to be? But also, is there something to be said about, like, do you think that imagination is being ruined or improved by video games? Right, because one argument would be. Because I would say the argument saying it's not is that you're not creating any of this in your mind anymore, right? You're just taking it in. But the flip side of that coin is like, yeah, but you would have never imagined fucking Eldon ring.
[00:27:09] Speaker B: Imagination is just you taking all the stuff you've seen, which is why travel is important, to get out and see the whole world and then mashing it together in new, exciting ways. And you can get that by playing a lot of video games, too, stealing all those ideas and mashing them up. That was basically my teens. Everything I created.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: The negative, though, is like, yes, you took some of the stuff you saw, like you said, like playing Resident Evil. You talked about in one of our brackets about that you made your own. Your own imaginary world was kind of post apocalyptic. Obviously, some of that's coming from playing Resident Evil and stuff. I wonder, do children nowadays, are they just like, now let's go play video? They don't even spend time in imaginary world. I was walking my dog and I saw kids. They had a ball, a noodle, like a pool noodle and a bat. And they were coming up with their own new sport, and it was so quaint, and I was just so proud of them for being outside and coming up with a new dumb game that they're making up the rules on the fly, and then they're yelling at each other for breaking the rules as it happens.
[00:28:18] Speaker B: Yeah. And I love it.
[00:28:19] Speaker A: But what is that? You don't have that if they're just inside playing video games. Right. But then again, you have Minecraft, so they're building their work. I'm trying not to sound like an old fogey, but there is a part of me who's like, is there something to be said about, like, go touch grass, get out in nature. Don't spend the whole nature. Can't be in a VR set.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: A question about if. Okay, you said post apocalyptic, and it made me think about this. If New York City was taken. Like, not taken over. A zombie infestation started in New York City. Terrible. Many, many. Most of New York died. Destroyed, right? Yep. But we contain it to New York City, and everyone else is just like, well, I guess we just don't go there anymore. Is that the apocalypse? Because, I mean, it's zombies, but we're just still vibing.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: If it was truly contained. And we just all know that it's like, bummer about New York, though.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: That sucks, right?
[00:29:09] Speaker A: Like, the people that are there, we won't let them out. Like, we can't trust you.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: Like, sorry, fuck it. You guys are trapped.
[00:29:14] Speaker A: Hey, man, we'll have Domino's fly over in a helicopter and just drop pizzas every day, but that's kind of the best we can give you.
That's a fantastic question. Damn, dog.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: Because to the people in New York, yes, most definitely, yes.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: Not to bring in too much of current stuff, but how many times do you hear about the atrocities that happen across the country and you're like, damn, dog, that's rough.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: Damn, bro. That'd be damn.
[00:29:43] Speaker A: That's that's tough. But I imagine that's just like, what if people in Paris, if they heard about the New York zombie apocalypse, but they're like, oh, it's just happening there, and it's not affecting us in any way, and it can't. All right.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: Sucks for them.
[00:29:57] Speaker A: I guess we can send them some baguettes. I guess that would help.
[00:30:01] Speaker B: No, we're already dropping pizzas. Don't worry.
[00:30:04] Speaker A: We got them covered.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: What are you lucking in, dude? I'm going air travel. I think I do love these games. You got to get out and see the world. That's, like, my favorite thing I've ever done.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: I do think I got to go air travel as well because I just think with how small it makes the world, I just think, like, that's the even I mean. But once agAin, you could say that about video games. How many people have friends that they're like, oh, I've known that dude for ten years. Oh, do you guys hang out? Do you guys go to football games together? Do you guys go see the movies? Oh, I've never met them physically.
[00:30:32] Speaker B: No. We've just been playing league legends for ten years.
[00:30:35] Speaker A: Ten years. But I know that dude. And you're like, wait, what? What am I most thankful for? It's got to be thing I actually use. I'm very thankful for video games because it is one of those things where if it went away tomorrow, if you tell, like, hey, man, PlayStation, Microsoft, Nintendo all have folded. There's no more video games. Dude, I feel bad for all my friends.
[00:30:56] Speaker B: I think I would be, like, a heroin addict. I think I'd be, like, coming out, like, what do I do with my hands?
[00:31:02] Speaker A: I don't know if that happened. How many plays would just become, like, there would, like, on Broadway? Just be, like, people watching, like someone reenacting Mario.
Just some guy jumping up, and everyone's like, I miss it so much.
All right, air travel. We're good.
[00:31:22] Speaker B: Yeah, air travel. Do it. All right, air travel.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Moving on into the final four, we'll go up against the winners of Group B, C, and D, so listen to those as they come out. But thank you all so much for listening to this episode of Friendly competition. If you want about your boys, a few things that you can do, as always, share with your friends. Tell your friends. Give us those five stars where you can. It helps out more than you'd ever know.
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[00:32:00] Speaker A: Send a dove or send a plane. Send me a G six. Send me now. I already forgot the rap group's name, but send them to me as well.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: It's a Far east movement.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: Send the Far east movement to tell me what you want to talk about. And, dog, we will do it right. I will call Cody up. I don't care what he's doing. We'll be like, all right, we'll make this happen right now.
[00:32:19] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: As always, shout out to Charizard for that intro music. You want to hear more of their stuff, head over to Bandcamp. Type in Charizard, replace the vowels with sixes. That's going to be it for us. Folk Group B going to drop up on Wednesday, but until then, I've been Nick Carey.
[00:32:33] Speaker B: And I'm Cody. Lena. See you on the boat.
