The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Podcast with Jack Black, Benny Safdie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Keegan Michael Key, Chris Pratt, Charlie Day and Donald Glover

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I was at Applebee's enjoying a solo Appletini at the bar and a mysterious stranger winked at me. Next thing I know, I'm getting woozy. I wake up, I'm inside of a statue. What? I'm in a statue around. Oh my God. And then that statue gets shipped here and then they bust me out and I have no idea who's behind it. No, yeah. Today, yesterday actually, I noticed an item of mine was missing and some of my hair was missing too. What? And then all I remember was there's like, there's been CCTV footage of me running like the weapons kids and I weapons all the way over here. You weapons to cross the Pacific Ocean? I weapons to cross the Pacific Ocean. Wait, so that's where we are? Across the Pacific Ocean? Yes. Did you did you not go outside? No, I I took me four hours to get out of the box to be fair. I only knew that because when I was running across the ocean, the word specific ocean were on it. Right. It's kind of amazing. You see them like globe and you think that's just a label, but no, it's in fact a geographical feature. Yeah. Are you telling me that the three of us are in Japan? We're in Japan. We're in Japan this week on Get Played. Welcome to Get Played Kyoto Edition, your one stop show for good games, bad games and every game in between. Get Played and Oh, Gekandizio. I'm your host, Heather Ann Campbell, along with my fellow host, Tiger Weigher. Boku wa Nick Tiger Weigherdess alongside Game Son, Maddapadaka. Konnichiwa, minasan. Is that right? Yeah. Konnichiwa, minasan. Konnichiwa, minasan. And welcome back to the premiere of Video Game Podcast where this week, I don't know how it happened, but the three of us are in Kyoto at Nintendo headquarters. And with that intro and the way we set up the show on the cusp of being problematic, we're begging to be canceled. No, we're just we're, you know, we're very excited to be here. This is a surprise for you. I'm sure it's pretty surprising for us. They flew our dumbasses out for the Super Galaxy movie Japanese premiere for some reason. All I can infer is that someone at Universal is trying to get fired. I said it earlier. I'm going to be sincere for a second. This is this is cool. This is cool. I but somebody did make a somebody fucked up. So we made a huge mistake. We spent today. Yes. At the Nintendo Museum. Right. In Kyoto, where we got this tour. We got to see all of the history of Nintendo. I mean, you you hear that the the company was founded in the 1800s. Yeah. But until you actually see the memorabilia from that era, it doesn't really dawn on you that it's a hundred plus year company. Yes. Yeah, because it's so associated with consumer electronics, which is something we think of in the post war era, but they existed for a long time as a Hanna Futa company, Hanna Futa Card Company and then a Western playing card company. Right. We got a lot of that history as well as their initial dabbling into what would become video gaming with some of their, you know, the their just analog toys and then electronic toys over time. We learned how to play Hanna Futa and we painted our own Hanna Futa cards. Yeah, we learned how to play Hanna Futa and Heather fucking mop the floor with me. Yeah. I won the first match and I was like, I said to Matt, I put Heather in a toilet and then I went on to just like wax me in two in a row. And I just need you to know, listeners, he said that in a group of people, there were other people around. So this is this is the thing. We're not here alone. No, there's there were a bunch of other people playing Hanna Futa. Yeah. I just heard me say I put Heather in a toilet. Also me not not knowing what our relationship is. We are recording this now at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto after seeing the Super Mario Galaxy movie last night and having some time to chat with the cast earlier today, which will come later in the show as such. Our episode is a little bit different than a usual get played. We think in a good way, but also feel free to complain. Any change to the show is probably a good one. Yes. Because there's only we can only go up from here. Our listeners disagree. Our listeners want the exact same thing every week. Any slight deviation in format is just like throws them off of their rhythms. Well, it's only a matter of time before you both annoy me. So I'm sure they'll get exactly what they want. I will say, you know, we we traveled, right? Yeah, traveled across the world. Yes. Together. We've not ever done that before. We've never been to another city together. I've never crossed a notion. Yeah. I don't know why I would say famously, but a thing I've talked about on this podcast and elsewhere is that I am someone who is very afraid of flying not because of the risk of crashing, but because of my claustrophobia. Right. And so the idea of being in a capsule for 12 plus hours, which was the length of the flight from, you know, we flew up to SFO San Francisco and then we flew from there direct to Osaka was terrifying to me. But I got over that existential dread at you. Y'all's urging. Urging. We said we would be happy no matter what you do. Yes, I guess. Yes. There was there was like, there was encourage. There was encouragement. You know, you know, at no point like like, like, like felt at no point, it felt like you were pressuring me to go. You're saying that it was fine, whatever decision I made, but you thought I would enjoy myself. And you know what? I'm having a blast. And you had, you had, you know, the flight sure, an arduous part of traveling, but you got out there on the wing of the plane and gave somebody a scare out there. You had a nice time. They got to do it. You got to do a Twilight Zone to someone. Got to Twilight Zone somebody. But no, I was like, this is the most time the three of us have spent together. Yeah, we've only eaten dinner together, I think, three times previous to this trip. And now we are eating every meal together. Well, not in the studio, I will say like, like, like, like you mean we've gone out to dinner three times. Yeah, outside of that. But no, we eat in the studio. I guess I bring this up to say, I feel like we're all doing pretty good and nobody's no, well, unless it's me, I don't think anybody's being annoying or bad. We're all doing, we're all, we're, this is a good travel crew. We're doing great. I felt myself be very annoying, including the interviews we did earlier. I think that's also inherent to my personality. I think this has been, this has been a dream. It's been very pleasant and it's an honor to be here with both of you. Yeah, yeah, I will say, and we have seen the movies I mentioned, and we we're going to get to spoiler countries. No, yeah, it's not out yet. It's out. First, this one. I don't want to hear the bit. Put your hats and glasses away. You do not need them for spoiler country. Put them back. Well, I mean, you could if you're wearing hats and glasses, you don't need to secure them. I take them off. You don't need to take them off. You don't don't. You don't take them off in your drawer. Put your hats back upon thine rash. We should mention the part of like, I'm being annoying now. Yeah, well, this is you're definitely being annoying. But this is the thing like because our blood producer, Rachelle Shan Ranch was not able to make this transcontinental journey with us. We're instead here with a great crew that is helping us out and I'm sure is absolutely baffled that are not. What the fuck are these guys doing? We're number seven in leisure. It's just good information to have. Yeah, do with that. What you will look for the premier video game podcast. That's right. That's right. And I heart award nominated. That's right. Yeah. But I want to go back to something real quick. Yeah. Ranch. We miss you, but ranch. We miss you. We miss you. Ranch. I think Heather misses you most of all because she'd have someone to talk to who wasn't us. I'm so alone. You know, I've been doing and this is this is also at your encouragement, Heather, while we've been here in Japan, I've been speaking Nihongo Japanese, my elementary knowledge of it to as many opportunities as I could and just try to pick up new things, asking what Japanese words are to two native speakers. And it's been a great way to get immersed in the culture. I will also say if you certainly hear about the reputation of the French who are very protective of their language, if you try to speak French, French to them in France, they will tell you to speak English instead. They will to ride your, you know, accent or what have you here. Everyone is so excited just to hear a white man attempt anything. Well, I think it's a star everywhere we go. I think that's because like the people in America, everybody here is just scared of you. That's why you're getting that treatment. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Good job. Is it my size? Is it the buzz cut? Is it my dead eye stare? Yeah. Is it that my driver's license resembles Jeffrey Dumber's mugshot? Pretty much one to one. It's more that you're walking around like this. Well, it's also been adopting like a wolf man sort of walk. It's a classic universal monster like lurch. I think less people would know about the Jeffrey Dumber mugshot thing. If you didn't have it in your pocket, it's a great thing to bring out because people people will say like, no, you don't. And then I'll show it to them like, oh, yeah, I guess you do. Yeah. You know, if you if you want to get rid of the piece of paper, I got a new tattoo idea for you. I don't want to tattoo of Jeffrey Dumber's mugshot. It's only so many levels of irony. If I can go to commemorate a horrible murder, of course, I'm just here's the thing. He was a bad guy. He was going on the record. We're not a fan. I got to just get to get out in front of this. I don't think he was very good. I think he was actually probably pretty bad. I'm going to say the opposite. And then I show a very long apology when I quote, find out who he was. I didn't know. So we have seen the movie, the Super Mario Galaxy movie, as I mentioned. And I'll say this, I'm just speaking for myself. I'm a huge elimination fan. I love the minions. I thought the first Super Mario movie was well constructed. It had the, you know, the thing of any sort of first entry in a series. It's got to set a lot of stuff up. And, you know, I understood why it was a divisive movie. I love the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Right into it. It looks so dazzling. It evokes so many things from the invoke so many things from the game. Canon that you know, but it's also really accessible to someone who doesn't know these things. I just thought it was an absolute audio visual spectacle. And it's got so many deep cuts in Easter eggs. And I'm not just saying this because they traveled us to Japan and also bribed us with a bunch of free stuff. Yeah. I mean, there is it's like you made this great point last night that it's just like it's nonstop momentum. Never stops going up. And it's just like new things are happening constantly. And I was delighted by all of it. It was great. I was shocked. It wasn't just the deep cuts. It was like the specificity of cuts. Like so, for example, virtual boys not in the movie, right? No. But there are things adjacent to that in the movie where I was like, oh, that parts for me. Yeah, there's a character who gets a headache. I feel like we're you know, we're on we're on home turf. We're on home turf. But in the, you know, we'll get to talk more about we are bought and sold. Paid off by Universal and Nintendo. We have a sack with a dollar sign on it in each of our hotel rooms. Wait, what you do? You do? You have this? Holding on all three sets. But we'll get we'll get more into the museum of it all later. But they're very candid about the things that work and didn't work in in their long storied history, which I think is really not. Yeah, that was that was really cool. We were when we're on the tour. I think we should just talk about it whenever we want. Yeah, when we talk about now. Well, I'm saying that we should do it later because I didn't like I don't have like a segment segment for later. You don't mean we don't have a segment segment for like something. I think we do segments for like. Well, that's what I was sort of thinking. But then I was thought I thought that we would do the more normal stuff. And we'll leave this in. We'll do the more normal stuff at the top of the show. And then like the second half of it is like our experience at the museum. OK, OK, sure. I don't know. This is your like producer hat coming on. I thought so. This is I'm learning this on the episode. I thought you were doing a in either or segment. What was your idea? I will I thought of something, but I didn't I didn't do it because I think it was too nervous. It was just too much work, I think. It was a good idea. I'll do it someday. Yeah. What was it called? It's a me or it's a you. Yeah. But I was like, I don't have time to prep facts about everyone. What's the premise of it's a me or it's a you? So I would read a fact about a guest or like you guys or something. But I would I would not include that it's about you. So if we were just playing this together, it would be it would be like I'm from Chicago where I lived until I was an adult. Yeah. And then it's about having it's a me. It's a me. It's a me. When would you ever say it's a you? Well, if I then read one that's about me and then I say and then I would say it's a you. So I guess the way you could possibly be tricked up is if Matt read a fact about himself that also pertains to me and that would like. Oh, yeah. Or it could be about or vice versa. He this this guy was raised in Southern California. Right. That could be either of us. Right. Then that would be the confused. But is it but the specific it would need some layer of specificity. I were figuring this out. We're for real time. I think it's a good segment. I like it's good. I do it. I also would like I would love to feel so stupid if I said it's a you and it was something about me. Yeah. Like that if you can actually have that thread that need all that would be a delight. I think that would do psychic damage to you actually. Whatever I can take it at this point. Look, we can do anything. I could prepare a segment right now while we're talking. I can figure something out. I think we're OK. OK. So we're like our segment will be a museum discussion. Yeah, I thought so. Because like there's things we couldn't take pictures of anything we'd have to describe. Can I name the can I name the segment? Yeah. The segment's called It belongs in a museum. Great. It belongs in museum. That's the segment in the back end of the back end of the episode. Great. I'm sorry that I didn't communicate this earlier. No, I'm well. I'm living. I think I think it's going to leave. He go back to the hotel. He's going to slowly saunter into the ocean at an angle. And the bottom of the ocean floor. Yeah. And then reemerge back home. Hey, buddy. So spit out a seashell. A fish cup flops out of my pants. Sleep is so important to me. 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I want to talk about, I guess I could save it for for for a segment that we usually begin the show with. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Because we normally start, we have a little bit of bullshit up top. And we and then we usually branch into a different segment. I don't think he made it across the ocean with us. No, I don't think so. I hope not. Yeah. I mean, you know, I think a lot of podcasts, when they book a huge celebrity would, as we have several in this one, yes, would want to put that at the forefront of the episode. Right. I want to front load it, but we're like, we're saying no, thank you. We're still doing our normal stuff. We're still taking, we're still rambling for 30 minutes before we get to the meat of the show. There's a good chance that like people are going to listen to this one. Maybe we should do it a little bit different. No, actually, no, no, let's do it. Get out of here. Same old us, baby. I like the idea that a listener might listen to the first half and be like, they're lying about being in Kyoto until the guests are on the show. Look at the clip. Look at the clip. Yeah. So there is a question we ask. That Heather was dancing around each and every week here on the podcast. That question is for everyone who is sitting at a microphone, all three of us. The question is, what are you? What are you? But I just mean that we're in an evil merchant. And I don't know where you guys are, but you're not in America. Yeah, resident evil merchant. I think it's maybe like kind of a, you know, I'm not sure where your connection is. I'm not sure if you're on Wi-Fi. If you're doing Wi-Fi calling, I'm not sure if you're on. I'm on a VPN. You're on a VPN. OK, yeah, nobody can know where I am. We can hear you, though, loud and clear. We are out of the country or you're not in our normal head gum studio. So what have you been up to? I'm just here with ranch. You have to let it go. What do you mean you're here with ranch? I'm hanging out with ranch. You're hanging out with there? What do you mean by that? Yeah, I'm hanging out with ranch. It's impossibly late over there right now. You need to get, yeah, there's a 14 hour time gap. You need to explain what you mean by hanging out with ranch because it sounds like it could be a hostage situation. Ranch is on the sofa and I'm at the door. OK, so I don't think that's quite hanging out with someone. That sounds like you're stalking them. Also kind of new ranch lore. Ranch sleeps at head gum. Well, I think she had somewhere to go, but I said you guys would be around any moment. Got it. Yeah, I think there's a there's a whole thing with just going some place uninvited and then just like staring at a person or you're staring at her. You obviously have her within. I was waiting until you guys showed up. And I mean, you can try to buzz in and see if ranch will respond. Yeah, just hold up a photo of my face to the camera, I guess. Yeah, there's facial recognition to be on the studio now. I don't think you're in the system, Resident Evil merchant, but yeah. It's not that hard. You were a cloak and stuff would be difficult. But you can try to dial into ranch and see if you can see if she'll pick up. She's thinking. I think she doesn't want to be alone with you, understandably, because you are a very strange, hulking man. Well, I guess I'm going to ask you a question over the phone. I just have to point something out real quick. I think I have to point it out. What? She grew me a moto. Just walk by. I completely missed it because I'm looking in the opposite direction because of our podcast setup. He looked over here. Perhaps the. I wish I was there. You can see me. Sheeran Miyamoto. I bought me back in a game. Perhaps the single biggest artistic influence on my life, at least among people who are living and was in on proximity. And we're doing the dumbest bit on her. It's great. What a life. But all. The listener must know I'm telling the truth. And I swear I swear on my family. It's true. He's you know, he's definitely been here today. And it is kind of the most starstruck one could possibly be as a gamer. Yeah, just it's it's wild. I'm going to. Don't get it. Yeah, go ahead and ask. Maddox, where are you playing? Thank you so much, Resident Evil 4, my dog, let you go because I'm going to I'm going to assume. I got my miniature up. Yeah, I think you should. I think you should go home. I think ranch has probably got it covered from this point. So yeah, just just go home to wherever you're staying. That ranch where you're wrapping up. Yeah, I think she's she's fine. She's going to be fine. Yeah, she's going to be OK. Look, I packed. I brought a lot of stuff with me because we were on a long flight. Yeah, I brought my switch to I brought a 3DS. I have Bellatro or Balotro on my on my iPad. That linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive. Yeah, I think both are valid. It both are valid. You know what I'm talking about. We know what you're talking about. If I say the wrong. That's the whole thing. Yeah, linguistics. If you understand what somebody is saying. Yes. Correction need not be issued. Yes. But I packed so many things. I have I had analysis paralysis. You I watched you on the plane when I was awake. You watched like six movies. I went nuts. You had games. Yeah, I had movies. Yeah, but I'm you know, I'm thinking about this as a, you know, it's a gaming trip, of course, we're going to do this. But it's like we haven't quite, you know, made our way to too many gaming stores yet, but I have a Grail item that I'm hoping to to acquire while I'm here. Because when I tried to buy one at home, I've kind of felt like it's too expensive for what it is. But if I got it on vacation, it's like I can justify it because it's like a special vacation thing instead. If it's in the same price. Sure. Mm hmm. I'm on a hunt for a Game Boy Micro. I love it. I love this for you. Yeah. I'm so excited for a Game Boy Advance Micro about, you know, what's the what would you say? It's larger than a credit card in terms of length, but not in terms of height. Right. Yeah. And I just want, I just want one. That's kind of like the main thing. That's like the main thing that I want. Okay. Can I say the thing I said to you, which is I wish there was a running thing where I talked about you having a small hog on the show, because then I would be like the Game Boy Micro, you finally have a screen that can show your dick. Yeah. Yeah. But the problem is we don't have that established. No. It's lore that you're like a guy. Like, and for all I know, it's not true. It's Schrodinger's hog. Yeah. We don't know what's going on. It would be perfect for my other show. Yeah. That's like been a running thing. Oh, unfortunately. I'll sell you the premise. You can, and then you could take it over. So I can bring it over and just be like, hey, here's a Game Boy Micro. Yeah. And then by the way, this is all a long con to make fun of your small penis. Yeah. My favorite part of this is there's a crew of strangers watching. Yeah. No, this is as big of a nightmare for us as it is for you guys. Yeah. But then I thought. It's definitely worse for them. Oh, yeah, for sure. But I also saw a thing that I don't know if I'm going to get, but I can't stop thinking about it. And Heather keeps reminding me that I let it go. Well, that's because I wanted you to get it. Yeah, I should have got it when we were there. It would remind us of the name of the store. So this is Mondorake. OK. It is a chain of used goods stores that's primarily like anime and video game. Yeah. Manga related, some pop culture stuff. But it goes all the way back to like the 1940s and 50s. Right. Like you can see like Shoah era figurines. It's really, really cool stores. Some of my favorite stores in all of Japan. We went to the one here in Kyoto and Matt, you saw. I saw a Switch 2 controller with that is themed for Resident Evil Requiem. But of course, here in Japan, it's under its original title, Biohazard Requiem. And it says instead of Resident Evil on it says Biohazard. And I feel like a gosh darn fool for letting it slip through my fingers. Yeah, I mean, but I understand it's like it's tough because you got to bring this shit home. Yeah. And you only have so much space in your life. If I bought everything that I've seen that I've wanted here so far, I'd have to live here. Yeah. Right. I mean, too, it'd be too much. I'd have to get a shipping container sent back home. Yeah. A man can only buy so much hentai. And we're going to put all this stuff. Well, and here's the thing. I tried to buy all of it they had and they ran out. Yeah, because we got there first. We are going to do a episode in the future behind the paywall that will be all about our time spent in Japan. We will record that after we're going to spend the next few days. We're going to take the Shinkansen to Tokyo and then see what's going on over there. Again, Matt and I have never been. Yes, Heather has been an able guide throughout this, by the way, Heather. Yes. I deserve so much. It feels like you've been very anxious about this whole experience, but you've been such a such a helpful, just kind of like ringmaster, a chaperone for every experience that we've had in Japan. Well, the tour part, the like going around part, I'm not anxious about it. It's talking to human beings. That's a hard part for me. You've been doing great with that. I'm like, you know, proud of you for for even getting over here. You faced a huge fear and I know that like has like stopped you from doing things like that before. So I'm just happy that we were here for that with you. Yeah. Oh, what a thing to say. And I'm happy you were able to make it. Hey, I mean, I was I was going to come no matter what. It would the alternate reality where you come solo. I think you would have been you would have crashed. It would have been very fun. I would have been because I think that was the original idea. Well, it would have only been you because I wouldn't have gone and Nick wouldn't have gone. Yeah, that would have been solo. Well, for sure, Ben, you know, if it was one person, OK, that's the only way. I would and I would have happily done it, but I'm glad you guys are here because I wouldn't have known what to do. Nick, Nick, what are you playing? Wow, Heather, thank you so much for asking. So as we as I mentioned earlier, I'm going to belabor this, but I'm very claustrophobic and I needed a way to occupy myself on the plane. This again, more than a half day voyage. I've been playing Slay the Spire 2 or an early access on PC and just enjoying the shit out of it. It's so, so fun. It's such a great design, even at its current development stage. On this flight, I'm stuck in a middle seat and, you know, I'm comfortable, but I'm just like I'm again, someone who's like doesn't like being trapped. And then I feel like I've got every people surrounding me in a in a closed space. But I had Slay the Spire 1 on my iPad and basically just locked in on that. And I was like, I'm feeling OK doing this. And so I pretty much played for 12 straight hours. I completed both runs. I was having a great time. Yeah, I was unlocking a lot of things. A game is such an impeccable design. I will say a guy in front of me, the row in front of me was playing Slay the Spire 2 on his steam deck and totally mocking me. I just felt like completely. Yeah, I know. Wow. Oh, yeah. I had no idea. Like I got this like, you know, chunky iPad port of like, it's very playable, but it's just like not a great frame rate. It has moments where it slows down. I'm like, he's got this like silky smooth, like 120 FPS sort of the depth of play is capable of on a steam deck. And then just like the the art design and the character models look so sharpened and Slay the Spire 2. So I definitely felt some envy there, but I was really glad to have Slay the Spire 1 in front of me. Did I see you tap him on the shoulder and ask, can I play? He asked me for my wife's phone number and they gave it to him. No, it was Alpha's hell. But yeah, that's what I've been playing. Heather, what are you playing? Well, I brought my Switch to on the Nintendo trip. I was playing disco Elysium on the plane. Yeah. But I had a little bit of sadness about like, oh, I wish that I had brought a retro system with me. I was thinking really hard about bringing my analog pocket, because I feel like I always end up buying retro video games when I'm in Japan. And lo and behold, the same Manderake, where Matt passed up his biohazard controller. I saw the Game Gear Micro, a Sega release from the year 2020, which is as large as a key chain, but plays for complete. Game Gear games still runs on batteries. Two double batteries. Yeah, two AAA batteries, two AAA batteries, which I was like, you know, of course, it's going to be USBC rechargeable. It would be insane for it to run on batteries. What a nice nostalgic treat to see that I will still have to put batteries into a game gear. Right. The one I got has both Sonic and Outrun on it as well as two other games. So I'm super excited to try it out. But in the meantime, I'm doing Pokopia. Yeah. I'm doing Pokemon the card game pocket. I am doing disco Elysium and I am taking a brutal week off of a very promising start to a Fortnite season. Oh, yes. Yes. You can play it on the Switch, too. No, you can't play it if you're on Wi-Fi. No, not really. You're such a disadvantage. Yeah. Now, look, earlier today, like I mentioned, right here at the Nintendo Museum, we sat down with the stars of the Super Mario Galaxy movie. We had three separate interviews with eight cast members total, and we're going to roll that now. So go ahead and take a listen. Yeah, I do want to say if you're listening and you thought this was fake, you're about to be proven so wrong. And I feel sorry for you, actually. Yeah, go on. This is real. Go on Instagram. It's real. It's real. We're tricking with you with AI. Well, let's be honest. I'm just going to say I was a blow to the really. We're tricking you with AI. It actually happened. We had everyone was super nice. Everyone was very generous with their time and, you know, universal and Nintendo were very gracious in terms of setting this up. And the crew who is patiently sitting through this bullshit has been absolutely delightful. So we had a great experience and we had some great conversations and we're going to roll that right now. 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Our show is a huge waste of your time. So thank you for your time. Is that actually the name of the show? You know what? Huge waste of your time. It's get played, but a brand. Yeah, get played, call in a huge waste of time. The relationship between your characters really drives the movie. How did you develop this neglectful father fail, son dynamic? Oh, failed son. I would. Wait a second. Son, I feel like there's. Wait a second. I kind of build that spaceship. Yeah, I mean, that one just went right on my head. Failson's an unfair. I do a lot. To be fair, he's just a kid. He's just a kid. He builds an entire. Yeah, the inventions that this guy thinks up. Yeah, the planet, the planet has. It literally makes his dreams come true. Yeah, he's like, you know, the Oppenheimer of the Nintendo universe. OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, building mega weapons. Yes, everything over the world. Universe. Yeah. I retract my invocation of fails. Listening and learning. Strike it. Strike it from the record. Yeah, you'll get a no sap apology. Yeah, very soon. So the sequence where Bowser is tiny had me wondering, would you want to be tiny? Oh, man. You know, being tiny, it has roots in some of the literary lore of yesterday. You think you know what comes to mind first? Alice in Wonder. Sure. Oh, yeah. Gulliver's Travels. This cook exactly. Travels. Been there. Done that. And it was maybe the funnest part of this movie for me. It was playing tiny Bowser. Wow. Because when you're shrunken down, everything you do is a little bit funnier. Yeah. What I like about tiny Bowser is he's he doesn't realize he's tiny. He's the best one. So when a tiny little dog is like trying to talk to a big dog, you're like, you can't do that. He's like, dogs don't know. They don't know anything. I mean, I'm deeply afraid of my own tiny dog. There is something funny about a big dog who thinks he's a little dog. Yeah, so it goes both ways. Dude, when tiny Bowser blows flames, yes, it's so sweet. It's so cute. That would still hurt. Yeah. Tiny Bowser would still hurt. A small amount of fire still burns. Tiny Bowser, like the wind is I was saying earlier, I think about it once a day. If this movie came in, came out in the 70s, it could be like a lighter, like a tiny, tiny, light. Oh, there should be a tiny Bowser lighter. Yeah. Who do we tell? I mean, I don't think Nintendo would say. And Nintendo doesn't want to tacitly endorse smoking. Well, it's the light candles. It's like candles. Yeah, it's a candle. Enjoy. Actually, for tranquility. Yeah. Benny, I have a question for you. You obviously an acclaimed director in your own right. And now you've been doing you've been acting in some things as well. I'm curious when you're when you're on set and you're doing stuff and you get a note from our director, are you sort of like, yeah, I know. I try not to. You know, I try to be like, all right, here I am as an actor, I'm going to give it my best from that point of view. I don't want to like step on any toes that way. I don't want to make anybody feel uncomfortable like that. Because then I don't think that would be nice. Do a different job. Yeah. And if I and if but if you want something and it and it makes sense. Yeah, well, we can get in it together. It's a fun thing. It would be funny if you said that to Christopher Nolan. I know. A little bit. Oh, you want me to stand over there? I'm standing here. Matt's question is basically, are you an asshole? Exactly. Yeah. And the question asker is a dumb guy. You know what? I'm going to do whatever I want. I'm on many. Hold it on the notes. One for me. Benny gets his take. Oh, did you say something? Because I wasn't listening. Speaking of being dumb, Matt and I collaborate on a question we think it's pretty good. Oh, yes. This is also for Benny. When we first meet Bowser Jr., he's piloting something one could describe as a smashing machine. Oh, not bad. Yeah, not bad. That took the brains of two guys. I could which what part did each of you? It's also not structured as a question. There's no way to reply. You just had words. There's not a question. Ultimately, I think we just wanted to say. Yeah, yeah, I came up with the second half of it. We work backwards from the second half. Right. Something with smashing machine. Yeah, that's what you were doing at the hotel till like I was up all night. This is a debacle. So we have a segment we do on the show called the question block where listeners send in their questions for us and our guests. The issue is we couldn't announce this in advance. We weren't allowed to. So we each instead came up with some fake questions we think our listeners might ask knowing them very, very well. Does that make sense? That does awesome. Great. So can we just now pretend that the listeners did ask them? 100% listeners. What did you have to say? It's time for the question block. Darth Vader Ginsburg writes, I couldn't get my controller to connect to the movie. It was a skill issue. They thought it was a game to play sexually the movie. Well, no, you know, that's like one of the that's like what you say to I have two two boys and sometimes when the other one is not allowed to play the game and the other one is playing the email, oh, you're connected and they're just playing the demo. Sure. So maybe that's something like that where they're you can just say, oh, yes, it's you, you know, playing along with the controller. What were you just in? This one's from Mark Grape and it's for Jack. Jack, you have a song called Video Games and you obviously have appeared in other video game adaptations. Is there a game that you're very into that you'd like to see adapted? And if so, like, would you like to like pitch yourself for the the the adaptation now? I'm really into this. This game lately called Balotro. Oh, Balotro. Yeah, absolutely. Balotro. You know, I thought it was Balotro, too. Yeah. Until I heard I can't remember who it was. It was one of those content creators who was like, it's Balotro. Wow. It doesn't sound right. Correct. I know Balotro sounds better. It sounds more Italian. Balotro. But I've been I've been schooled. It's Balotro. OK. So you want to play a card in a movie? Is that what you say? It doesn't sound like there's an obvious cinematic translation of this game into a movie unless it was like killer clowns from outer space where there's like 150 different clowns that have different superpowers. And so either they're evil or they're good. I don't know yet. It's not writing itself, but that's the game I'm playing lately. No, this is great because there's jokers in the like each of the Joker could be a character in the movie. Let me just remind you recently there was a movie called Joker made a billion. Wow. Like a hundred times better than that because there's so many jokers in it. And if you take like Joker and Joker two and combine them, they made like a billion and fifty thousand dollars. Huge franchise. I wasn't asked this question. Please. But Untitled Goose Game. Oh, OK. Oh, he knows ball. We covered it on the show. What a good it is. An awesome game. And it's really funny. And I just think that. How would you address that? Like, would we felt would the goose be the main character? Yes, it would. The goose would be in there and you'd be in the internal monologue of the goose. And I think you go from goose point of view. And then all the the humans are like kind of like a kind of thing. I have zero cloud, obviously, but Hollywood make that happen. Hollywood. And also we should try to get geese to do the soundtrack. Oh, yes. Natural fit. Yes. See, this is like we're going hard. We have like a pitch meeting here, but we're making. Yeah, yeah. That's why that's why we're here. We're also in Japan, so we're not like following US copyright law. So we can't just steal your ideal. Yeah, that's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Feel free to run with it. I've got a question here from Grizzle Slurper. Mario has demonstrated his athleticism in both the movies and in the Olympic games. Do you think he could have survived the sinking of the Titanic? Oh, yeah, probably he could fix the leak. He could. Wow. Oh, my God, fix the leak. No, you're right. That's a great insight. That's a plumber. He's a plumber. That's his fundamental skill. Oh, my God, you're right. Iceberg big deal. Yeah, easy, easy work for Mario. That's lateral thinking. He throw a he throw a fireball at the iceberg, melt it down. It's gone. No issue. Here am I thinking about him? I'm thinking about him getting the frog suit and swimming to safety. But no, it just fixes the leak. So you think he's going to leave everybody behind? Yeah, no, no, he's a hero. Why would he do that? That should be the third movie. If they make a third Mario, it should just be Hollywood. The third Mario is Titanic with Mario. All I could actually just think of when I said that was there's like a Buster Keaton short where he's underwater in a boat. Yeah, I think it's the funniest thing in the world. And he's in the boat and there's a leak that comes up and he takes a piece of wood and he puts it up over the leak and then he takes the hammer and nail and goes to hammer in the leak, but he's underwater and then more holes remain. This is really bad. Hey, good. I hate to say. He sounds like a big idiot. What's kind of fun of it? Oh, I see. Yeah. Like you. Yeah. Well, I don't know if it's as fun as that. Girl Fieri writes, I had to take a long bathroom break, so I must have missed something. How does Bowser know Bowser Jr.? Well, first of all, I feel when you invoke the name Guy Fieri, was it Gil Fieri? Girl Fieri. Girl Fieri. I just feel like she's making fun of my shirt right now. Because this is such a Guy Fieri shirt to be wearing. Yeah. And believe me, I thought about that before I put it on. But then I was like, no, I'm going hard. I'm leaning into my Guy Fieri. Do I got only flame shirts on this whole junket. But what was the question? You lost me at Fieri. No, this is great. How does Bowser know about Bowser? No, Bowser Jr. Bowser Jr. How does Bowser know Bowser Jr.? Yeah, they've had some good times together. Yeah, no, there was there was magical. There's a gap. Yeah, there's no question. There's a gap. Right. You told them stories, bedtime stories. It's son. How does he know him? How do you forget? Who's asking these questions? They are idiot. Listen, like us. You know what's dumb is that I took the question so seriously. And really, she was joking all the time. That was Bowser. No, Bowser Jr. I am so dumb. I know. I know. I think it was more about the fact that there was. Yeah, there was she was focusing on the gap years. Here's the problem. I don't have a part of my brain that knows when someone's joking. Earlier today, someone said, when you're checking out the the Nintendo Museum, where we're shooting this right now, check out that corner over there, because it starts in 1890. And I was like, Nintendo's that old? And he said, B.C. I was like, what? Did you get me to say? Are you telling me that there was Nintendo? Like the family goes back to before Christ. And it took me so long. It took me so too long to realize that he was joking. That's OK. You're in good company here. It's OK. So our show is called Get Played. We end every episode by telling our guests they got played. And usually what happens is they get mad at us for this Super Mario Galaxy movie episode. We thought it'd be fun if we did that to Bowser and Bowser Jr. If that's all right. Yeah. All right, great. Jagged Mini, thank you so much. Thank you so much. So much for your time. It's so funny. We have Ania Taylor Joy, Princess Peach and Keegan-Michael Key, Toad. Thank you in advance for dealing with our nonsense. Oh, yes. Hi guys. You're both returning to the first film. How did you react when you found out the sequel would be like a space movie? I mean, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but basically every time I got into the booth, the directors would say, and now this has happened. And I was like, cool. For sure. Absolutely. Let me imagine. OK. Yep. I'm in the scene. So it was thrilling. It was really fun. It was it was really exciting to find out how expansive it was going to be. Yeah, I annoyed. I'm like, wait, so the so. Wait, I'm sorry. Wait, where are we now on the what landscape of the where? And what just happened? Wait, yeah, it was really it was really, really fun to hear that it was going to be this space movie and that it was going to have all these different worlds that we were all of the characters were going to be contending with. It was it was great. And so much lore. Yes. The lore is deep. We're suckers for lore. She and I are we've been learning that about each other. Yeah. Do you think you guys have I mean, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to put the cast against each other or anything like that. But do you guys have a special kinship with each other because you both have you both go by three names? Yeah, yeah, we've been talking about this today. I think I think we are bonded. We're bonded through school trauma. With our names. Yes. Hyphens run deep. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, the feeling of yes, we do. Yeah, it's growing and growing as we speak. You're watching it happen in real time. I feel it. It feels good. When you're in the booth, speaking about like being told, like, oh, you're in this location or you're in that location. How much of how much of how much of your dialogue gets to be improvised or is it a really strict script process? We get to improvise a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. We get to try. Yes, we get. Yes. One has one has one has in the movie. You get attempts and every once in a while, something sneaks through. And it's glorious to when you when you go to a screening and go, oh, my God, I got in there. Yeah. Yeah, that one got in there. But most of it not strictly scripted, but pretty close. Yeah. Do you ever do anything like because I made up that you, and you were a crown in the booth. I was like, what if that was true? So would you be willing to lie? Yes, honestly, the thing that like throws me the most, but it's kind of the most fun is that I'm I've been lucky enough to be constantly working whilst voicing Peach and all of my other characters are pretty bloody and dirty and in like some intense situation. So I really like being able to like rock up after a night shoot and be like, OK, now we're clean and we're princess. So that's pretty clean. I like to wear a crown. I'm kind of bummed. Yeah. Where was my crown? I don't know. They should have provided you the crown. You should just do it. Probably. Yeah. Why don't you could just wear and do it? Yeah. Yeah. Let you do it. Thank you. In Nintendo lore, when there's a bad version of you, it's like the Wah version of you. Like Wah Luigi or Wario is the opposite of Mario. My Wah version, Wah Heather would love the beach and hate spaghetti. What would your Wah version speech and what's the opposite version of you? What would the evil you be? Oh. OK, so Wah Keegan. It's funny that you said the thing about the beach. That's also a city. Wah Keegan. Yes. Yes. Very. Very nice. Wah Keegan, Illinois. That's correct. Yes. That's so funny that you say that because then I just thought to myself, I know where Wah Keegan is because I love geography. So Wah Keegan would not have a passport. OK. OK. Nice. OK. That's good. Would not have a passport and would hate the beach. Wow. Would hate the beach since I actually live on a beach. Would hate the beach and would not have a. Because you know. Yeah. What did I do the other day on the plane? What was the thing when I walked up to you? We played a game. We played a geography game. Yeah. Wow. We literally. Yeah. He knows every geography. Oh, is it? Every flag. Geo guessing. Wow. No, it's called World Quiz. OK. Yeah. So yeah, he would not have a passport, which is to imply would care nothing about the most I said worst dreadful isolationist person in the world. And hate beaches. You're describing me before this trip. Anyhow about you? What would the Wah Anya be? Wanya would hate animals and love direct sunlight. I was we were talking about this earlier today. I don't get claustrophobic in any kind of situation. You can put me in the smallest box possible. I will not care. Direct sunlight on exposed skin is not for me. Yeah. Not for me. But they keep putting me in the desert for all of my movies. You know, there's a lesson there. It's funny you describe your other characters as like bloody and rough and tumble. But like Princess Peach could maybe mop the floor with all of that. He's like if they did the live action version of this, that's the thing I would be most excited about. Oh, yeah. The choreography that Princess Peach is rocking is insane. But you know, you were you'd get her with another character. If she had to go into the club in last night, so I think she I think she could get the better of me. Well, maybe not. Maybe not. I'm going to think about that one. But I just thought to myself, you know, you want to make where you didn't have to be. Yeah, that's true. In the sun. Yes, yes, yes, yes. A movie hypothetical for the ages. Exactly. And last night. We've all been wondering. We have a we have a segment we do on the show. It's our video game, Would You Rather? This we call it Would You Blathers? So this is Would You Blathers Mario Edition. OK, let's go. Let's get into it. You didn't you do the blathers noise. Oh, right. You get self conscious. I forgot that I do it. Yeah, it's Would You Blathers Mario Edition. That was so good. All right, so I'll read and hype with that. I love that. That's it. Wait, can you guys talk to each other in that way? No, Heather's the only good one. So I'll read a hypothetical. You tell me which option you'd pick. First up, Would You Blathers always have a mostly red wardrobe like Mario or a mostly green wardrobe like Luigi? Cool. Oh, interesting. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm an Aries. I might have to go for red. Oh, OK. I think I might have to. Yeah, do that. I just enjoy green so much. Oh, great. I would have to go with it. Together or Christmas. Oh, 16th of April. Oh, 16th of April. OK. Me and my husband. All right. Same birthday. Yeah. Wow. But you guys are late Aries. Late Aries. Same birthday. You guys got the same parents or? Luckily, no. We're full for that one. All right, how about Would You Blathers eat a mushroom that doubles your size or be transformed into a baby version of yourself? Oh, I have to. I go mushroom. I go mushroom. I it's like that baby that was already. I want to be I want to be huge. Yeah, I want to be huge. Why do that again? Yeah, right. I want to take a step and cross the mountain. You know what I mean? That'd be great. There's something about appealing about being like bigger than Victor Wemba and Yama being like the biggest person in the world. Yeah, but I would choose baby myself. Oh, really? And asked. Yeah, because like I'd love to be a baby with an adult brain. I feel like I could do it right. Oh, wait. No, wait. Wait a second. That sounds like hell. The best part about being a baby is that you are not aware. You're completely ignorant. You're profoundly ignorant of the world. Yeah, we also don't know that babies aren't in like constant pain. That's communicating that stuff with us. And baby Mario and baby Luigi don't seem to know what's going on. So imagine you have all of your thoughts, but you can't talk. Oh, that's a prison. Right. That's like you now. I have one here. Would you blathers be stuck in a warp pipe or at the top of a flagpole? You're stuck either way. If I'm stuck, if I'm stuck either way, I'd rather be stuck at the top of a flagpole, because at least I have the view. Oh, right. At least I have the view. Yeah, I'm like you. I'm not super claustrophobic, but I'd rather have the view. Yeah. Yeah. I can cry. What's that? As a flag. And as a flag, I could tell you, I'm like, oh, this is the mushroom. There's also the third iteration of the flag destination. They change it in 1941. Your flag knowledge is admirable. Like genuinely, it's impressive. Yes. I do have a favorite flag. Well, my favorite flag is the. There's two. I have two. It's amazing. I do. I have two favorite flags. OK. One. There's one wrong answer. Yeah. Go. You got it. Only flag in the entire world that is neither a square or a rectangle is Nepal. Oh, so they have their own special little flag has two little little little tally things. The other flag I love. Liberia. Liberia's flag is a blue field with one star and the American stars and stripes. Because when all of the former slaves left America in 1841 and sailed across the world to Africa and moved to Liberia, it's called Liberia because it's their liberation. Wow. That's awesome. The capital of Liberia's Monrovia after James Monroe. And so they made an American flag with one star. Beautiful. Why? I'm going to tell you about your knowledge. This hour show. I'm going to show you what you have. You won. Telling us cool stuff. The most interesting thing anyone's ever said on the show. Switch formats to fly. I didn't even get to know the food. I didn't even get to know the food about how Nintendo's from. Oh, yeah. That was great. Anyway, Anya. Who would you answer? So we're going to cut that. We're going to cut that. We'll get that. Liberia. Yes. Was I hypothetical? Oh, stuck in a warp pipe or stuck on the top of a flagpole? And you must answer. I'm kind of scared of heights. OK. So yes, but I agree with you on the view thing. So maybe I would go on top of the flagpole because then I would have to get over my fear. And I feel like I would grow. That seems, that's on brand free. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. I choose the growth. How about would you blathers have a mushroom for a head like toad or bear the burden of absolute power like Princess Peach? Oh. Oh. Oh. I mean, that's really not. Oh, no. I mean, gosh. It's the way you worded it. Because I want to say, I mean, what's wrong with absolute power? Bear the burden of absolute power. I'll get for absolute power to insolidarity with my girl Peach. But I do love a mushroom. So having a mushroom head would be kind of great. Mushroom head never hurt anybody. I mean, we don't know. We actually don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't have time for this. But there's like an entire conspiracy theory about mushrooms that actually they're like an alien species. And they're here. And the Mycelium Network. So maybe having a mushroom for a head actually means that you do have absolute power because you're connected with the universe. Yeah. Wow. That's my conspiracy theory. That's a great answer. I like that answer. That's very avatar-friendly. Yeah. Thank you guys so much. Thank you both so much. Thank you. Anya, Taylor, Joy, Keegan, Michael, Key, anything you want to plug? Our movie. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Comes out on April 1st. Wow. In the United States. Yeah. And this is not an April Fool's Day thing. It's actually coming out on April 1st. Yeah. So look for that. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. Thank you. This was fun. Y'all were great. That was awesome. That was a blast. That was so fun. That was a blast. We are here with Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Donald Glover, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi, the Super Mario trifecta. Thank you for doing our shitty, shitty show. No, not real. No, no, no. Get yourself some credit. This is a kids' film, by the way. So let's go ahead and watch it. These are the most beautiful mics I've seen in a podcast. So give yourself some credit. We didn't bring these. This is nice on accident. Oh, OK. OK. The first movie is burdened with the hard work of setting this universe up. With the sequel, you're already in the Mushroom Kingdom, and then bam, there's Yoshi. Anyway, my question is, what did you get on the plane and the flight over? I have an answer to that, because it's sort of a funny thing. We were all flying together, and we were flying at 8 AM, and they had some food on the plane. But the only thing they had was ravioli. That was it. That was it. I don't know if they thought that's a Mario themed food, but they were like, they're going to love this. Here's the menu. And I thought, oh, it's nice. The menu can pick your stuff. And I was like, this is just, oh, this is what we're having. Yeah, it's like the chefs. You know when the chef chooses food? Yeah. Yeah, it was like that. Was it ravioli omakase? It was a morning ravioli. And the airline was from Iceland, so it was all very. Have you had Icelandic ravioli? Very good. You haven't lived until you've eaten an Icelandic ravioli in the sky for breakfast. So we're gamer focused. We're watching this with a deep knowledge of the Mario games. I have played and finished every mainline Mario entry, except for Super Mario Galaxy 2, which is my great shame. But there's just so many references in this. There's so many deep cuts. Not just like, hey, this was in this game, but you had to really play this game deeply, into the end game to experience this. Well, I would say that if you, like yourself, have played a ton of these games and you have an intimate knowledge of all of these various worlds, there is a special level of enjoyment for you, a bunch of Easter eggs, things that you'll be able to pick out. But I don't think it's a prerequisite for enjoying the movie. Anyone who's ever played a movie would be able to watch it. No, for me, though, I'd be seeing things in the movie. And I'd be like, well, I think I've experienced that. But I don't think I've played that version of the game. And so I was like, did I? Was I at some kid's house once? And I was playing that, you know, coming back to the front. Because you'll see the movie. There's all there's too much stuff to pull out. You have to see it a couple of times. You probably digest all of it. And he's having, I think you have anything like that's kind of got a lot of iconography in it. You just kind of have to play. I hesitate in calling it like fan service or whatever. But it's like something where you're like, I have to let people, people who know it will enjoy this. Yes. But that has to be second to people who have not ever. Because like my youngest is like not aware of like all of this. I think he's enjoying it still. You know what I'm saying? Right. You never finished Super Mario 2? Galaxy 2. Super Mario Galaxy 2. But you finished Super Mario 2. Oh yeah. OK, got me. In your opinion, do you think that Yoshi has two eyes or do you think he has like one large eye with kind of a crease? Because they're in the middle. That's, you know, like this is one of the great character design questions of all time. Are like, are these eyeballs touching? Or are they one big? I think I think they're touching. It's like, I think it's like, you know, like a butt. When he looks, then you, he feels the movement of the eyes. That kind of goes. That's gross. It's kind of gross. But I think it just works that way. I don't know. It has to be two eyes. It has to be. I think just evolutionarily, anything with just one eye would be eaten and the two. You have to have two eyes. You have to have two eyes. You wouldn't say a chance. Do you think that the shell on his back is his saddle? Or do you think it's part of his body? Like is the shell dinosaur part? Or is that what somebody rides on? I have Yoshi exclusive. I thought you said he was like, does he poop? And if it does, does it come in an egg? Or do you think, can he get in and out of the shell? Yeah, like some rails can. Or is the shell just something that's put on Yoshi? Because he's a dinosaur. Right. He's a dinosaur. They don't have like turtle shells. They don't have turtle shells, typically. But maybe in this. We don't know for a fact that they didn't. That's true. That's true. They're changing what they look like. Yeah, they drop feathers on us. Way late in the game. Like you can't do that. You can't do that. You can't do that. Too many movies. Too many featherless movies to all of a sudden say that the T-Rex is covered in feathers. I love how everybody though was like, no, we're sticking with these featherless. Yeah, so there could be shells. OK, so Chris's question is for you. Donald and Charlie played green guys in the movie. Do you feel left out at all? Well, I like you. Yes, I feel left out. I noticed that they both have green Nikes on. Yeah. So yeah. You and I kind of, we didn't get the memo. I'm also a lone wolf on this trip. That was really passive aggressive, Matt. I didn't mean to exclude anybody. I was just asking. The way YouTube did. Yeah, I was like, I don't like YouTube. Clarify that. Luigi wears green, but isn't a green guy. That's true. It's an incredible point and all I can do is apologize. She just brought up a lot of questions about Yoshi where like maybe he is a green. I don't know. Yeah. Any more. Yeah. We were warned we couldn't spoil any of this movie. And again, you know, as someone who's played these games very, very much, there's some things that are very, very spoilable. But would you like to spoil a different movie instead? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bruce Willis is dead. The whole time. The whole time. He's a ghost. He's a ghost. Wow. They should do a sequel where Haley Joel Osmond is grown up. Yeah. And he's the therapist now. And that's a spoiler for Hudson Hawk. That's a great pitch. Good one. That's right. That's right. That's right. Here's a spoiler. Haley Joel is grown up. So spoiler alert. He did grow. He did grow up. He's fully grown. Lovely man. And a great actor. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. You want a spoiler? A spoiler movie? A spoiler movie. He's a ruin movie. Ruin movies. Ruin movies. For people on the show. I'm trying to think of some good ones. That the Ruin movie. I mean, you could like cause or so say things. But do you really want a Ruin movie? That's a tough one. For people. Yeah. You don't want a Ruin movie. If you haven't seen the usual suspects by now. Yeah. I mean a lot of kids. I mean like who's what's your demo? What you guys just down? No. No. No. It's all. Who? Why? That's anyone. Listen. I haven't seen it anymore. I'm sorry. OK. Well, I don't know his name in the Shoshank Redemption, but he gets out. There you go. Oh, there you go. There you go. He gets out. That's vague enough to not really be a spoiler. Andy Defrain. Yeah. Yeah. Andy Defrain. There we go. Yeah. Should we do a segment? Yeah. Let's do a segment. Oh, we'll do a little segment. I got a segment here that I'm going to call Eat It or Beat It. The way it works is I'm going to name an item that might be a power up from a video game. If it is, you tell me Eat It. But if you think this isn't a power up from a video game, then you tell me Beat It. OK. So if I said like Mushroom, you guys would say Eat It. Right. Because it's from Mario. But if I said Dish Soap, you'd probably say Beat It. Beat It. Great. You probably said Beat It. Simple rules. Also, there's no way to win or lose. So we'll start easy. Flour. Eat It. Eat It. Very good. Flour is a power up from Super Mario. Dog food. That feels like a Beat It. I think it's a Beat It. Dog food is a power up? No, there's no way. Right? It's got to be. Is there a power up that turns you into a dog? Where you're a dog? Come on. It's got to be one. But is that power up? Is it a power up, though? It's like from Mario? I'm just saying, dog food, eat it or beat it. I'm going to say Eat It. Eat It. I'm beating that. Beat It. Beat It. All right. Two Beat It's. The Beat It's. Lose the Eat It wins. Which game? Wolfenstein 3D. You eat dog food to power up. Why? Do you remember that? A person or a Wolfenstein 3D? Yeah, they're protagonists. A German wolf? No, a human man. A wolf of unknown origin. Wolfenstein. Wolfenstein. Let's make that one. There's got to be one video game where you're a dog. It's funny odds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, Nintendo. Yeah, yeah. Nintendo. But it's interesting, dog food is in Wolfenstein, but you are a human. Yeah, you're a human man. Who eats dog food. But when you say Wolfenstein does sound like a portmanteau of Wolfman and Frankenstein, like some sort of, you know, abomination. You're putting way too much thought into this. I don't know. You also drink portmanteau on us, which is a great word. A plain piece of prison bread. A plain piece of, well, that's so specific. I think Eat It. Eat It. A plain. So that would imply that in this game, if you eat prison bread that has like, you know, jam on it, it doesn't do anything. But if you eat it plain, it does something. I'm going to say beat it to that. That's too specific. I'm going to say beat it. All right. The answer is Eat It. It's the power up from Yakuza like a dragon. Which I totally knew. Should we do one more, two more? Yeah, let's see why. Well-pickled turtleneck. Well-pickled turtleneck. Hmm. Again, my brain goes to, so if you eat the turtleneck and it's not pickled enough, you don't get the power? I'm going to help everybody out just for a second. It's not the piece of clothing. It's not the shirt. It's the actual neck of a turtle. It's a neck of a turtle. It's a turtle's neck. For the record, I had forgotten about the piece of clothing I was thinking about an actual turtle's neck. I just wanted to make sure nobody thought it was the type of shirt. Yeah, you wouldn't pickle an actual turtleneck. You couldn't pickle a shirt. So let's say eat it. Let's say eat it. Yeah, let's say eat it. I guess just to potentially, you said there's no way to win or lose, but I want to win. So I'm going to say beat it that way. All right. The answer is eat it. It is a power up in Elden Ring. I was going to say it sounds very Zelda-ish. Yes. But if it's important to you, Chris, you win. All right. And first of all, I want to thank Guff. Here he goes again. I really couldn't have done this without him. Wait, wait. Are you playing me off? Are you playing me off already? Thank God for smiting my foes. We really had a blast watching the movie. There's just so many treats in there for people who love video games and for all audiences. So thank you so much for being here. Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Donald Glover, Super Mario Galaxy Movie. There you go. Go check out Super Mario Galaxy Movie. April 1st. Only in theaters. In movie theaters. In movie theaters of all places. And for those of you who loved playing these games, growing up, or even play them currently, and for kids who have never even maybe met some of these characters, it's a really great family film. And for me as a dad, it's a way for me to bond with my kids over something that I loved when I was a kid and still love as an adult. So it's a really great thing for families to go see. There's only a handful of movies that come out like this. And you got to see it on the biggest screen possible because it's truly a visual spectacle. I mean, it rivals any live action film. It's freaking awesome. And so go check it out. Gonna eat that. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. It did happen. So thank you to everyone at Universal, especially Tara and Alex who toiled to make this happen. Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I hope you don't regret every second of it. Tara said we did a good job and I have to take her word for it. Do we live here now? We live here now. Yes. Yeah. About time. Gotta get out of America. All right. Should we do a segment? Yeah. Let's do a segment. What did you call it? It belongs in a museum. That's right. It belongs in a museum. We are going to talk about our experience here at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, which began with a guided tour from Nintendo representative, delivered the presentation in Japanese and there was an interpreter who was giving us, conveying in English everything that was being said. What this, what presentation was was, I was just like kind of amazed by the pace of it. Yes. It just kept moving. It was basically an hour and we got in with the whole history of Nintendo from its time, its founding is a Hanifuta card company to its initial forays with things like a toy bat that would. That was designed by Gunpei Yokoi. Gunpei Yokoi, the father of the Game Boy and the Virtual Boy and the creator of Metroid. His introduction to the company is like a major event that is given a lot of gravity in the presentation. Yes. He works in the warehouse and he starts using the, because they're manufacturing toys in I think the 60s and he starts using the manufacturing to create his own, his own local interior toys. And somebody sees it, the first thing he makes is like a mega claw. It's like a telescoping set of suction cups that you can use to grab a ball or an object. And then they turn that into an interactive game in the exhibit itself. Which I was horrible at. You were not good at it, Nick. Well, to be fair, we were also really bad at it. The game is hard. Who, me? You did, you did better than me. You did better than me. I think I only got like two or three. No, you got more than me. I did, huh? I don't know. Anyway, you learn the history of the company, you learn the major intersections of fate. Where like somebody has an idea, everybody runs with it and it makes Nintendo a bunch of money and they chase that for a while. And like, I guess the big intersection is when he's riding the subway and he's like the main toy designer, main interactive designer, and he sees a guy playing with his calculator on the subway. Just to pass the time, just pressing the buttons idly. Pressing the buttons and he's like, oh, we could use the internals on a calculator to make Game and Watch. And then that becomes a massive success. And they have a whole wall of all of the Game and Watches. So many Game and Watches. I just am like, when I heard that, I was just thinking, I'm so different. Because if I saw a guy playing with a calculator, it'd be like, look at this dipshit. What are you doing? It's for counting. I'm like, I'm a calculator guy in my group chat. Yeah. One of the things that I want to say is that there aren't any photos really of the actual Nintendo Museum because the entire second floor of the Museum, you're not allowed to take pictures. And I think that, Matt, you said that sort of like keeps the mystique real. Yes. I have had friends who come here and they say, oh, it's great. And I see like four photos and it's of like the toads in the lobby. Or like the pipes outside. And I've always been like, it kind of doesn't look that fancy. But then you get here and it is dense and packed. There's like original hand drawn pieces of paper with like the Zelda maps. That's the most amazing part. Because like it begins with a tour of Nintendo's history. And then there is a point in the tour. And I believe that for most people, it is self guided. It is just like this vast open space that has these landmarks to tell you what era you're in, what console is being portrayed. But there's also a separate room that is both an art gallery, which you have a bunch of just different interpretive art on the wall of various video game franchises in the Nintendo library and then also a bunch of original design documents and concept art from games stretching all the way back to Donkey Kong. Yeah, you you you saw the original sketch work of what Link might look like. Right. And it broke my heart. It was so beautiful. Yeah, I was like, how can this be a sketch? The pencil drawn world map, the overworld of the legend of Zelda screen by screen is just presented as a giant grid. And it's like, that's the game. That's the game I play. Yeah, there's a notebook with a sketch of what looks to be the first draft of World One in Mario 64. Yeah, like a sort of isometric view of what that world might look like. Just like a rough sketch. It's not it's not like a detailed draft, but there are detailed like drafts of, you know, blueprints, essentially of some other levels. And then there's also things like Samus's jump and then land animation. Yes, shown on paper as they kind of worked it out by frame by frame in terms of what the animation was going to be. And then it gets rendered digitally, what it becomes a sprite. Just seeing that the painstaking work that went in in an analog sense before any of these things were playable is just kind of amazing. And it's also like I will say to someone who used to do level design myself. When you have a GUI, you have you have an environment where you can kind of like mess around with things and test it in real time. It is nice for iteration. But there is something about having to do the step of like, I got to figure this out on paper first. Yes. And that was just a limitation of the era is that their development tools were so crude, a lot of this stuff had to be hand coded. They didn't have unity. They didn't have Unreal Engine. They didn't have some way to kind of craft these things that's user friendly at all. They had to kind of just figure out the technology from the ground up and also figure out how games worked in general. Like these are like pioneering efforts and just sort of see like a level from Super Mario Brothers or to see again, like like the map from the Legend of Zelda just presented to you as a paper concept. But down to the pixel, because it's on graph paper, is just really, really dazzling. Another literal prototype of this era of Nintendo was the wall of prototypes of all of the systems. Yes. And you get like multiple iterations of the we controller. You get multiple iterations of the N64 controller. Right. My favorite is the original Wii U is just a screen with two Wii joysticks taped to the side of the screen. That was like really nuts to me because I just remember I was saying this when we were looking at there was a prototype of a Nintendo DS there. And I guess the DS is very special to me because I remember reading about it and seeing like concept art of it when I was a kid. And seeing the actual prototype from the concept art made me want to cry. Yeah. And then there was a couple other things. I mean, I was like moments away from crying for a lot of it because the other thing that was really great about the level is that there, you know, we talked about going through chronologically. But each display has like games from the era, like the key releases and then like games that were released internationally and then games that were released in some in some territories. But then there's also like pristine pristine gameboys, like just like mint like consoles. Like I just like I don't know when you go see when you see a retro console like in a store like like, you know, like in the stores that we're going to and stuff, they're all like kind of dingy. Yeah, a little scratched, like even if even if they've been lovingly taken care of, they're not brand new. No, there was like a brand new Game Boy pocket. And I was just like, this is beautiful. Gorgeous. This is gorgeous. And like just like just that alone, it was just great. And, you know, I feel like this is OK to say, you know, we're here. There's a lot of other press people here, but we're like, I think the like video game show. Yeah. A lot of a lot of presses like general like media, legacy media, entertainment, entertainment sites, you know, influencers, we represent the losers, the gamers. Yes. And this was made very clear when after the tour, we were given an opportunity to go back downstairs and do the interactive stuff. Everybody went and did that. We stayed upstairs for another like 20 minutes. Yeah. We were there up. We were there alone. Yeah. I felt like we weren't supposed to be there. And maybe we weren't supposed to be there. No, we were. We were. We were we were granted permission. But we were just like wondering and just like lovingly like we were together and we were all like like looking at things and talking about them. Like here's the first issue of Nintendo Power. Right. I didn't know there was a Game Boy magazine. Yeah. I didn't know that the original iteration, like one of the iterations of the original Game Boy was landscape mode. Yeah. Like it looked like a game gear. Yeah. And and then they were like, no, no, no. That's never going to succeed. Yeah. Let's let's not do what Sega will inevitably do. It's the so it's so far the only museum where I give a shit about about any of the stuff inside. Right. That's not true for me, but it was also a really good museum. No, I'm with Matt. Natural History Museum. Take a high. I guess those bones back in the goddamn dirt. Don't that's not. Wait, that's not the. Put them back. It's not the viewpoint of the podcast. So there's also the the ground floor, which we saw later and that has a bunch of interactive exhibits, some of which are guided and some of which are you just discover on your own, including like, I think in a bespoke shooter, like light gun shooter, we're using the Nintendo Zapper and the Super Scope. Yeah. Like like you're using that, though, those peripherals. Oh, that was another thing that we saw that I had no idea about was that the light gun predates the NES. Yes, right. There was a duck hunt. There's a duck hunt light gun like a regular gun. And then there was also an interactive light gun toy that was like a Rockham soccer robots style puppet, like a little cowboy that would be on a on a stand. And if you shot him with the light gun, he would collapse. And they showed the commercials over the items. And I was like, this is this is amazing. It was really, yeah, really, really well done. So they have like a shooting gallery game with like a bunch of you're basically shooting Splatoon paint at a bunch of Nintendo characters that are represented as what would you call that thing? The carnival sort of like, you know, you. I was thinking of moving targets. Yeah, moving targets. But they're but they're but they're like, you know, they're representations of it. They're like a Koopa flying flying through. No, you're not shooting. I know she Koopa, you know, that's that's that's part of this on. It's like a Paper Mario version of these characters. But but they're not even animated carnival context. Yeah. Yeah. And so you're seeing all those. And then there's also like, yeah, the grabbing game we mentioned. There's a batting cage of all of these different living room setups, like a little tiny batting cages of different representing different areas. Yeah, representing different areas where you got to play the baseball game that was built by Nintendo in the 60s or 70s. And that was incredible. Matt, Matt is a baseball player. You're on a baseball team. Yes. You were, I would say, definitely like, like you taking some cuts out there. You were you were putting the ball in the play. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Heather Heather was so in the zone. Yeah. And absolutely just like just hitting Dinger. It was unbelievable. Well, because I saw what you were doing is you're kind of like Ted Williams. It Ted Williams in it, you know, like, like, like each year. Oh, you're kind of like just like, like, like trying to figure out where the ball was and kind of like, OK, can hit it over here. Can hit it over here. Heather, every single attempt was a grand slam. It was just swinging with full force. I was thinking too much. And this is like, I was thinking too much about my stance. Right. And I then at a certain point was like, this is not real. I don't have to do that because like I've been working on. I've been when I play baseball, I've been thinking about my stance because I have a hard time. You're only supposed to you're supposed to stay completely still. Like you're supposed to plant your feet, but move the top of your body. I have a hard time not moving my entire body when I'm moving. I have to move all of it. Yeah, I get that. I used to love playing softball. Yeah. I never played baseball because they wouldn't let women. Yeah. But boy, oh boy, you said you said that at me like I made the rule. Wait, I didn't do it. They told me as a kid, there's going to be a guy named Maddox. And this rules for him. Yeah, he made these rules. Yeah, yeah. Just to touch on the other things, there is a vending machine that has water and you are only allowed to drink it in proximity of the vending machine. Yes. So if you want to like crush like a bottle of water or long to water trip, you know, it's been a trip full of I brought my refillable water bottle because that's what I usually do on trips and there's been no place to fill it. Yeah. Yeah. The toilet. The toilet. Yeah. The toilet, which are which are incredible. We can do it is a total. It's an absolute mind like it's unbelievable. It's mind blowing. We use the restroom at the airport when we got off the thing. And you know, the airport restrooms back at home are where you run the high. The nightmares there. And the idea that we walked into on it was not only clean, but didn't smell was unbelievable. Yeah, I'm used to walking into like Arkham Asylum. And then I walk into this and it's like so pristine. And then also every toilet is the nicest toilet I've ever used at the airport. Like it's like there's there's one restaurant, I know, in LA that has a toto inside of it. Yeah. And it's like the standard toilet in Japan is like a tier above that toto. Yeah, I just kind of can't believe how ubiquitous it is. So that's great. That's that's certainly a win. But back to the museum. There is a there is a exhibit with a bunch of oversized Nintendo controllers that were quite mandate two people to use them. Yeah. And so I tried these and it was failed horribly debacle because there was we played the Super Nintendo one and I was on the D pad and that was on the four face buttons. Yes. And so, you know, again, this is kind of oversized. Like it takes it takes a full force of one of our hands to depress one of these. And we just absolutely got our ass kicked in late to the past. Yeah, I it was absolutely humiliating because also Heather watched us and then roasted us. I filmed you. Yeah. But it did sort of answer a question that we asked earlier. Yeah. Because like, you know, we asked Jack and Benny, I think, if they would want to get if they would want to get tiny. Yeah. So far, in my experience, being tiny compared to the controller, big no for me. It's really tough. It's really tough. I would not like to be that size. No, no, no. There would be advantages for sure. But that would that would not be one. There was another thing that they had that they had down here that was like a what was it called? It was called the Love Tester. Yes. So real real quick before we get to that, because I want to end on that. OK. There's also a section that has a bunch of different, you know, all the Nintendo consoles from different eras and then ways you can just free play a bunch of selection of games. Yes. Or there is a there is a competitive the kind of like an NES remix section that's kind of like a WarioWare set up with a bunch of different NES games that you play in a gauntlet and then try to achieve various tasks. So like like Donkey Kong, NES pinball, which I'm really not that familiar with balloon fight. Help me out, Heather. Super Mario Brothers is the last one and there's one more pinball. No, I'd said pinball. Super Mario Brothers. No, that one's the last one. Balloon fight. Balloon fight. I said all of these. There's one more. Regular Mario Brothers. It is regular Mario Brothers. Thank you, Heather. We got there. Yes. That's the other one that's on there, which is just which is a really tricky game to play. Balloon fight. Balloon fight. Yes. You're right. I was like, like, I was kind of fun to play these games. You killed me in that, though. We played next to each other and you you destroyed me. Well, here's the thing. I was really frustrated because I wasn't clocking the timer and I'm really good at Donkey Kong, but I was just playing conservatively because I just don't want to die on the level. And I was like, oh, my God, I have like 13 seconds left to get through this. I had no idea it was on the clock. I just wasn't even paying attention. And then for some reason in pinball, I did incredible. I just got on like I get a run and I racked up my score. That's where I basically won the match. But it was nothing like Heather just absolutely wrecking me in Hanafuda. Anyway, then then finally, there is the love tester. Now, here's the thing. This is this is a two person experience. Heather and Matt decide to do it together. But it's also based on a device. It's not just a random thing in the Nintendo Museum. It's based on a device that was built by Nintendo back in the day before the NES. Back in the Yamaha Uchi era. It's like a like a like a love tester that you might see at the back of a bar or at a carnival or whatever. Yes, Mo famously has one at the at his bar in Springfield. Yeah, they're typically like a lever that you squeeze. Right. To see. And I believe this was one that required to like, you know, use your thumbs, these are sort of like palm sized pucks that you that I had one hand and Heather had in her hand. So it requires two people and we didn't realize that a big part of it is the two people are holding hands. Yeah, Heather had to hold my hand. Now, Matt and Heather are both married to other people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't like to hold the hand of anybody. Yes, right. Like I can barely hold my own hand. I'll just say I was so glad it was not me and Heather because that would have been the nightmare scenario because we both have the same issue. At least Matt is something approximating a normal human being. I was completely fine. I was happy to do it. I my hands started sweating so bad, I had to wipe my hand off on my pants multiple times. It was sweaty to you was not sweaty to me at all. I was I was perfectly comfortable. I was totally fine. If Heather and I started holding hands, we would both instinctively just walk into traffic. I was going to ask you. You don't tell my wife about this. She doesn't listen, right? Actually, no. There you go. But yeah, we we played a game where you you held hands the entire time while also holding what was like a Scientology device. And you had to move your hands while a screen told you what you were like, it would play a mini game on the screen. Like move your hands as if you're cleaning a window. Move your hands as if you're catching rose petals or cherry blossoms. And and we had to do those things, which improved our love meter. Yes. From 60, our initial rating. To one hundred and fourteen over one hundred percent. Our final rating. So now I am in love. That's right. It's that's the power of teamwork. Yeah, that's Nintendo. Nintendo made us get married. They should put it on. They should like do it for Switch, where you like have to hold a joy car. That's pretty good. It's pretty fun. Well, anyway, this whole incident is going to make the podcast a lot more awkward and also both of your long established relationship. Yeah, we're ruined. It's absolutely ruined. And any of the any final thoughts on the Nintendo Museum? I thought it was great. If you're in Kyoto, absolutely worth seeing if you're in that. So grateful to have been here. Yeah, truly. Yeah, in honor to have been invited and to get the tour. And everyone here was so lovely. The staff was so nice. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. And we ate burgers. We eat burgers. Yeah, the burgers were great. Yeah. I got the wasabi burger wasabi burger. I also got the burger because I'm a bit of a heat seeker. And I will just say it was more onion than wasabi. It was more onion than wasabi. But that's the only strike. It was still it was still really. But hey, I like onions in this context. We got to talk to a bunch of people all day. I don't want onion breath. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, I've been burping all day. And it's a nightmare. Also don't give me whatever we can. It was a user error. We didn't have to. You think it was a skill issue on our part. We didn't have to get the stinky one. Yeah, I didn't know it was going to be stinky. I just thought like it'd be more wasabi than onion. It's fine. It would be normal amount. There were little cartoon characters for each of the ingredients. Yes. Which one did you get? Yeah, there's so many mascots here. I got plain cheeseburger. How was it? It was very plain. There you go. Hey, that's this week's Get Plainer producers, Rochelle Chen, ranch twitch.tv slash yard underscore, underscore, sorry. A special shout out this week to Head Gums, Ali Khan, who did a ton on the headgum side to facilitate the logistics of this trip. Well, it really would not have happened without Ali. Thank you so much. Thank you. Ali, you're the best. Music is by Ben Prunty, Ben Prunty, music.com, artist by Dekbergate Design, Dekbergate.com. And there's a bonus episode every Wednesday on our Patreon. Get Played DLC. We will have that Japan visit episode coming real soon. But what's up this week? Oh, God. I don't even remember. 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