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32:09 - The Tainted Cup
38:40 - Lies of P
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Hey everybody. It's onscreen offscreen. We've got one more episode this week. Let's hear about the sportsmen.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay, so Formula one is what I'm gonna start with. We had the China Sprint race weekend.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Mm-hmm.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Oh, to be a Ferrari fan is so heartbreaking. If you watch this weekend, you would understand what it means to be a Ferrari fan for all time. So sprint weight race weekend happens. And guess who's on pole position? Guess who gets to start from the front of that race? My man, Lewis Hamilton?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Guess who won that race? Showing extraordinary speed and skill. Lewis Hamilton.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Ooh, there we go.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:And was there Drama and good racing in this? Sprint race, absolutely. There was. Then we have regular race guests who had the most embarrassing showing out of every team on the grid.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Ferrari. Okay. What happened?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Uh, they showed that they had speed and ability in the sprint race, and then they raced and could not pass anybody, and was fourth and fifth, and then got passed by Max and then got disqualified at the end.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Why'd they get disqualified?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Uh, LA Claire's car was under weight and Hamilton's car was too close to the ground, so his plank on the bottom was too thin. So he got disqualified.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:interesting. That sucks.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:must be measured by like millimeters.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Mm-hmm.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Wow. Wow.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:To be a Ferrari fan, ta-da. You had a great little beacon of hope immediately destroyed from you bad strategy calls, and then disqualified at the end, and now you're a Ferrari fan. Woo. It
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:that sucks, man. That sucks.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:does.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:the, the actual race?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Oscar pry.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:What? Who does your race for?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:McLaren
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay, so that's Louis left McLaren, right?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Lewis left McLaren to go to Mercedes and then last year he left Mercedes to go to Ferrari.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Is Mercedes well at all now or are they
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:like.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Uh, George Russell took third last week in Australia. Third or fourth this week. And Kimmy started 17th last week and ended fifth. And started seventh and finished seventh this week.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh, does this say that Lewis has lost it at all?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:No.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:No.'cause he did have the sprint race. It was his first ever sprint win. Um, Ferrari showed that they had pace, right? If they didn't, they would've finished fourth, fifth, like really solid result. Um,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:And sprint race versus long race. Like how, what? What distance are we talking? What's the difference?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:sprint race is one third distance and there's no pit stops.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:so. a sprint race is all, all the cars on the track going. They usually pick the tracks with the most overtakes.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:there's exciting racing going on and then long races, full distance and has pit stops one mandatory.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:like better?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:the sprint or the race or what? Track
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:long. Or the long race
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:the long race
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Long race is better. And then is there a consensus on, on fans, on which tracks are the best?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yes.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Which ones are considered the best of the best?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Coda, which is the Austin Track
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:here in the United States. Uh, San Paulo is a common favorite. Spa is a common favorite, and Silverstone is a common favorite
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Do you have a personal favorite?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:spa, or not spa. Uh, San Paulo is my personal favorite, and Coda is my number two.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay. More overtakes or what? What
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Exciting racing. I love the track layout. It's well, really well balanced. It's an actual track. I'm not a big fan of the street circuits. Um, you usually always get exciting races at these tracks because there's not like a clear benefit to just being fast or just being good at cornering. There's a good balance between the two, so that's why I like them. Plus, in my sim when I was doing that, they're fun to drive. They're not boring at all. Some tracks are boring.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:of all of the different skill sets, so you're really gonna see what the drivers are capable of.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. And it, it makes it more balanced. So like it's at San Paolo, my favorite. There's enough tight s's that some cars excel. During tight turns, so they might overtake.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:but the actual car
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah, right. So your car might be extraordinarily good at fast speeds and mine just might be extraordinary at cornering. So we'll be going through the tight sections and I will be so much faster than you. It's ridiculous. But then it might still be hard to pass you because we get on those straits and you just take off and go far and there's no clear which one is best, which who, whose car might be best, who, which driver might be able to do the best with what they've got and all that kind of stuff. Um, so
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Cool.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Very very cool. stuff. Uh, it was a very good race weekend. I really enjoyed it. Um, red Bull's a whole big mess, which I am loving. It's so great.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Is it that bad?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. So Max First happenin has been third place and fourth place.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:two races that have happened so far, his teammate Liam Lawson, has been 17th and 20th.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh wow.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. So he's doing so bad that my choice to take that seat. Yuki Sonota is rumored to be taking the Red Bull seat in the third race.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Which is this next one. Right?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Mm-hmm.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's cool. That's cool
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:So they're imploding. And my favorite part about Yuki driving the Red Bull, no matter what happens, red Bull looks stupid and I love it
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:because should have been in that seat already.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:because if Yuki does well, everybody who said Yuki should have gotten the seat was right. Red Bull's incompetent for choosing Liam like not just stupid, completely incompetent. For choosing Liam in the first place. If Yuki doesn't do well, then the Red Bull is an undrivable piece of garbage. And it's the car, not Max. Well, it's Max And the car combined. So it takes away from Max's pedigree a little bit from being so dominant
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:because it's, it's basically like saying we built the perfect car for Max, but no. other driver on the grid had the perfect car for them. So Red Bull made a completely undrivable car except by one of your drivers. Stupid. Max got the perfect situation where he just happened to get his perfect car. And Red Bull is stupid and I like rooting against Red Bull'cause they're so stupid. They're so incompetent and they suck.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:And anything that makes Red Bull looks dumb. We're going for, I freaking love it.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Uh,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I hope that he races in this next race. That'd be sweet.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I hope so too. It's pr it's pretty close to confirmed. So a week and a half from now, Yuki Is probably gonna be in the Red Bull. Liam's probably gonna be in the racing Bulls stupid naming scheme seat again. What does that do for Liam's? Uh, it's the, junior team. What does that do for Liam's mentality of your team bet on you and then gave up on you in two races. Maybe he's been, he'll, he's relieved because he's getting the easier car to drive. Maybe it feels like you're just a sack of meat to these people and you're never gonna succeed. And I am. For it.'cause Liam also sucks as a person. Um, Kimmy Antonelli, the Mercedes driver, the rookie, he won driver of the day in uh, China. And there was a valid, very funny dialogue between Kimie and Total Wolf, the team principal, about why he won driver of the day.'cause Kim was like me. Why? I started seventh. I finished seventh. I didn't do anything in this race. And Toto wolf's like, I think it's'cause of your looks and, uh, insinuated that a bunch of girls have a crush on him. So they all voted for him. Uh, I voted for him because first place was in first place the entire race and didn't do anything extraordinary. Second place was in second place the entire time, didn't do anything extraordinary and had break failure. So they kind of had a down race. Third place, same kind of thing. Fourth place, same kind of thing, fifth place, same kind of thing. Kimmy as a rookie has been a great, and for, you know, his second race, which is at a track, he never raced that before. And they only got one practice session because it was the sprint weekend. So he did a great job. So I voted for him as,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Are there that many women that watch F1?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:to me. Honestly,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:no.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:surprising.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:since drive to survive, uh, the market share from men to women and Formula One has gone to from like 10% to like 55% women?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh, so like more women watch it than men. I.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That is shocking to me. I genuinely really surprised.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:It's between 45 and 55. It's really close to. If not just slightly skewed one way or the other. It's, it's been massive. Like Formula Academy is happening. A lot of people are getting really into that, which is women driving Formula three cars, formula Two cars. I'm not sure which one, but it's all women drivers. Uh, we also have our first ever female, uh, engineer to score points in Formula One, which is very exciting for that.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's cool.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:there's a lot of beef going on between people about whether women or not can drive Formula One cars. Um, some of the,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:be able to, I.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:uh, the big argument is the neck muscles that the physical takes of those G-Force take on a body. So there have been women in Formula One historically,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:so if we got a woman driver, it wouldn't be the first, but none of them have done well. Stand Formula one, but that was also at the time where there wasn't power steering either.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:So there was a lot more physical of a toll and clear physical advantage for men. Whereas now the only physical difference would be the neck muscles because power steering is there. The cars are so aerodynamic, it's, it's just the G forces on the neck area,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay. I, I believe that there are women jet fighter pilots, and I would assume the G-forces would be similar or
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:completely different error like jets and C cars both use GForce as they're measuring, but they're different G forces.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Interesting. Tell me
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. So like in a jet, if you go to 10 Gs, it's. Uh, I forgot what the word is, but in a car, if you go to 10 Gs, it's Newton something, whatever the G stands for. So they're different actual measuring sticks and 10 Gs in a plane is very different than 10 Gs in a car. Even if you were to measure them the same because in a plane, you're in space, right? You're, you're, you're fighting against air and gravity, but there's a lot less gravity'cause you're 30,000 feet in the air
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:and a car, you're stuck to the ground. Literally those cars stick to the ground and you've got a lot higher gravitational pull.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:So the effects on the drivers are actually higher than on pilots, it sounds like.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:It depends, right? Because like a pilot is pretty much always experiencing.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Geez.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Gs.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:to 10 Gs, right? Depending on if they're turning or banking or braking or whatever. In a Formula one car, when you're driving in a straight line, you get the acceleration, which is like half a G, and then you're in a car, right? You don't feel that anymore, but when you're going through a current, a turn at 90 miles an hour, then you feel high pressure GS again. But they're also lateral. They're not vertical. Whereas in a jet Or a rocket, it's vertical and lateral. So it's, it's just a different. experience. It's not fair to say one is better or worse or harder than the other. They're measured differently. They're experienced differently. They're just different.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Or just different. That's very cool. I didn't know that. That is interesting. Hopefully this next race will be great. Um,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I hope so. Hope. Ferrari can pull their head out of their ass and at least put together a strategy worth something.'cause right now they're losing to kick in the Constructors championship, which is just embarrassing. That is the worst car on the grid and you're losing to them
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:losing to that one. Come on. Hopefully they
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:step up
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:together. Um, with that, what about March Madness?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:such a good week of basketball. Oh my gosh, so many great games. We got buzzer beaters, we have tight games, we have blowouts. We have so much good basketball going on right now, and I'm sick of all the negativity going into March Madness this year because there's no Cinderella story that the March madness is bad. No, you have great teams. Ready to engage with each other and create great basketball. That's what you have.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:No Cinderella story. What are you talking about?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:No, 11 through 20 uh, rankings have made it into this part.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I see
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:There was only one number 10, the rest are like six and lower.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:beat St. John's and that was like a major, major upset. BYU was an upset.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:No, it wasn't.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:upsets.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:BYU wasn't an upset.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I am pretty sure Wisconsin was favorite to win that.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:BYU was favored. Wisconsin was the lower ranking, which is just talking bad about BYU. Like BYU should have been higher,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Mm-hmm.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:BYU was favored to go in. They led the whole way and they won the end. The commentators picked BYU to win.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:said BYU was gonna win.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:BYU won. Now we'll talk about BYU. BYU won. In spite of such terrible officiating. I have never been so mad at officiating while winning in my entire life.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Really?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yes, the joke online right now is BYU was playing five on eight because of how egregious the officiating was in favor of Wisconsin.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Wow. I've even seen the Wisconsin thing that you, we were talking a little bit before we started recording about Wisconsin saying they favored BYU. I've seen that and I don't even care that much.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:There are a few people who say that the officiating favored BYU because there was no call at the end, which that wasn't that call. I'm sorry. I know there was contact, but contact doesn't mean foul. That's a play through kind of thing. They let it play. He air balled the shot BYU won in spite of the officiating. Okay. That's a very small minority. I've gotten onto some, uh, TikTok arguments with people who said Wisconsin had the harder job with the refs. And I literally was making comments like, what game were you watching? Because everybody who's a BYU fan was mad at the officiating because they were favoring Wisconsin so bad. Everybody who was a neutral fan was mad that the reffing w so bad and favoring Wisconsin. And even some Wisconsin fans acknowledged that they were favoring Wisconsin. So this minority people of diehard Wisconsin fans who think that it was against them are just wrong. Officiating was terrible. I acknowledged it was bad officiating. Um, I made the joke during the game. That. Wow. I really hope BYU wins in spite of this reffing thing, because it really feels like the refs are doing everything they can to keep Wisconsin in this game. That's how bad it felt to me. It Really? felt to me like they were saying, we don't wanna blow out, get Wisconsin into this game. That's how it felt to me.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's how, wow. That's how egregious it felt.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. Now I got, I've had some time to breathe and I myself have been a ref before, and I know that it can be difficult. So here's what I'll say in favor of the refs. It was a very chippy game where it was very emotional and both BYU and Wisconsin were crossing lines. There was a point where a Wisconsin player stepped out of bounds to get into A BYU player's face, and the BYU player shoved him off and then passed the ball in bounds. I had an interaction with one of my basketball friends about this and I was like, that doesn't look good for BYU Wisconsin absolutely crossed the line because if he had just stayed inbounds and been pretending to defend the inbound play and BYU pushed him not great, you could have still talked to trash, but Wisconsin stepped out of bounds to get into the BYU player's face and then BYU pushed him. So it was a very chippy, very physical, both player, all players involved were very emotional. Right. It's a very chippy game, and I can see the refs calling some of those calls, not because they were calls, but because it could have been and because they're trying to take control of the game and not let it get out of hand. Right. I could see them saying, we can't let this keep going. We have to take control. Fair. However, there were points where BYU was defending hands straight up stepping to the side. The Wisconsin player fell to the ground and they called BYU for a foul.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's ridiculous.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:There was the ejection, which is absolutely ridiculous. because, um, BYU player inbounds the ball game is incredibly close because the refs made it be that way. He is double teamed. He is twisting and pivoting and trying to keep the, uh, the defender's hands off the ball like you're supposed to do. He twists the Wisconsin player, hits him, he hits the other Wisconsin player in the below the belt area as a reaction and not in his control. The refs reviewed it and called it a flagrant two foul because they can't prove it was unintentional and ejected him from the game. He made a basketball move in a basketball situation, and the only reason it happened is the Wisconsin's player hit the BYU player. You can't get more unintentional than that,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:No, you can't. That's ridiculous.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:and they ejected him. They gave Wisconsin two free throws that put them within two points of the lead and the ball, which they went down and air balled. And if BYU had lost this game, I would've been livid because throughout this entire game, it has been entirely Wisconsin favored by the refs. It's so lop lopsided. It's ridiculous. Like I said, even neutral fans between these two teams are acknowledging how terrible this officiating was, and most of them acknowledging how in favor of Wisconsin it was throughout this entire game,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:that officiating, is there any consequences for the refs at all besides people being mad at them?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:uh, some will lose their jobs.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. There's stories of refs who, uh, lost their jobs or had to go to ref a different conference because they were so biased. Um, namely in football is what I know of from where a PAC 12 referee was caught betting and heavily favoring certain teams in his officiating. So he had to go ref a different conference because it was so egregious and obvious. Uh. There is a side storyline where there was a seven figure bet on the BYU Wisconsin game in favor of Wisconsin at halftime within 50 feet of the referee's room.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Whoa, whoa.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:there's some questions being raised there. We
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Who made the bet?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:don't know.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:only thing we can know is that it came from the arena within 50 feet of the officiating rest area.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's pretty, uh, it's pretty rough. That's a big bet.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:That is a big bet.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's a big bet.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:from a very suspect position in a very suspect game that had very biased officiating.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:With someone who lost a lot of money,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yep.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:a lot of money.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Wow.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:one of their games were really great the last week.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:All of them.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:All of were
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:All of them were really great. Michigan won Duke. I mean, some of them were absolute blowouts, but uh, I forgot what it was. The Colorado State game that came down to a buzzer beater. It has the big argument of, was it a travel, wasn't it? Here's my take on that. Was it a official travel according to the rules of the game? Yes. Has that been called a travel ever? Well, not ever This year or the year before that, or the year before that. In college basketball or the NBA? No, it has not been called to travel. Not in the NBA probably ever.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:So by rule, was it a travel. Yes, but you can't call it in that situation just because it's a nailbiter, you have to call it through the entire game, through the entire season, or not at all,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Which they don't.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Which they don't. So play on good win. Colorado State lost sucks for them because they were the Cinderella story hope, and they kept it like that should have been a blowout against Colorado State. They absolutely fought for it. They were winning. They probably should have won. But it's more than just that one call and it's more than just that one moment.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Of the games coming up, which ones are you most excited for?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:BYUI have three brackets and one is my delusional bracket, which BYU wins it all. And then I have a mid-tier delusional one where Michigan wins it because they're kind of been the. Underrated kind of team
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:where they made it in, but kind of just barely. But they were kind of on a hot streak towards the end. But you know, so I was like, man, if they win it, that would be cool. And then a third bracket, which is just practical, duke is gonna win it all because it's them, or it's Ted, or it's, I forgot the other team.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:You just think
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:But yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:win.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. Everything, everything. If you watch Duke play, they're just so freaking good. And BYU would have to beat them to get,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:they're in the same, they're both in the east, so if, if BYU wins and Duke wins, they're gonna fight. They're gonna battle each other in the Elite eight.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Literally. So if BYU wins, which would be from what I've looked at, they're not favored to win, but it's possible. It's not that much of a spread to beat Duke. Would it be like, this is a miracle? Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:it would be such a big miracle if BYUB Duke, now If BYU wins and Duke loses, we have a much more favorable matchup coming up.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:If there's a. Upset this week with Duke.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. Which can, always happen in March Madness, which is why it's always so great. Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:would be awesome.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That would
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:And I
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:cool.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:get to find out tomorrow,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:You do
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:so excited
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Duke, the Duke games tomorrow too. Cool.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:East Plays tomorrow. I'm so excited.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:exciting,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:good, so excited.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's exciting. It would be cool if it's BYU, uh, even BYU versus Duke would be cool. I, uh, looked up B'S record they won in like the fifties, but since then, this is the farthest that they've come and that's,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:is our first time in Sweet 16 since 2011.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:since Jim.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yep.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:pretty cool. That's
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:And Jim was at the games. It was cool.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:that is cool. I saw
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Um. Then it looks like with Jim, or this is as far as they went too, like they didn't get to
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. They lost in the, Sweet 16, but it was a very, uh, iffy kind of game and, uh, close one. So it was kind of like, what could have been kind of moment for BYU.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:like they, they got blown out in 2011. So,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Hopefully they can pull off, uh, top eight. That'd be sweet.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I mean, the, the point, the point spread is like two points in favor against BYU. But so far, commentators, sports analysts and everybody have picked BYU
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Really?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:for a few. Yeah, they've picked BYU to come out on top. They've just been really, really hot.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:it's BYU versus Alabama. Alabama is a very high percentage shooting team. BYU is also a very high shooting percentage team. So basically it's like saying we're having two teams phase each other. Neither of them are very good at defense. It's gonna be who can make more threes is what this game is gonna come down to.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Guess who set the March Madness record for offensive play in their last game?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I'm guessing BYU,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:BYU did. Which is why they were able to win. In spite it's measuring a lot of different statistics. So basically saying nobody has had higher. Field goal percentage, 3%, point percentage, three points made offensive points made assists like nobody has had that combination or higher in history of March Madness.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:There have obviously been teams that have had higher three point percentage or higher field goal percentage or more free throws made or whatever, but nobody's had that absolutely dominating combination, which speaks to how the officiating was in this game because how did BYU only win by two with that dominant of a performance if the refs weren't so heavily favoring Wisconsin? I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna try and get over it because we won and I really should be the soar of a winner of a band That officiating was really, really bad and I'm so glad that we're not doing those, that officiating crew anymore.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I'm excited. Find out tomorrow. Hopefully we IU wins. That'd be sweet.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:It will be great. I'll be a happy, happy, happy person.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That'll be sweet. Well, man, I'll go to my topic. Um, mine is a book, it's The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. I honestly haven't read that many mystery novels. They're haven't been my thing.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:They're also usually not very good.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Try that much. I think this one is a good mystery novel. It is definitely the Sherlock formula, but they do something interesting and they doesn't ever say this, but it it highly, highly clues in that the Sherlock character is autistic. She, a, it's a woman. has a hard time with all the sensory overload. So the Watson character has this, it's, it's in a fantasy setting. It's a high fantasy setting. The Watson character has this ability to perfectly recall things. the Sherlock character will send Watson out. He will go and collect all the information. He'll see the place, and then he will go back and describe everything in detail to the Sherlock character who then these mysteries. The main premise behind the book is you have a wall. Is holding back these leviathans, it feels very much like an attack on Titan kind of aspect. And these, there's engineers that create better weapons and make sure the wall stays standing. Somebody has poisoned engineers and caused these tree branches to explode out of their body and that digs into the wall, weakens the wall, and weakens their ability to face these leviathans. Along with that, there's a very large leviathan that is getting brought into the wall and they don't know why this is happening. So you have the Watson character that has dyslexia, but perfect recall. And then you have the Sherlock character that has autism type symptoms and together their different aspects work really well together. Um, Watson, who has this perfect magical recall. Is able to mimic things with his body perfectly. So he mixes up the letters, but when she asks him to write, he can perfectly, he can protect, he can trace the letters, and then he can do that again for her with languages, he doesn't even know the languages that she is aware of because of her incredible memory and, and personality. I liked the way how, the way this book integrated facet fantasy the mystery setting fantasy is very important. his magical powers of recall are done in a very specific way. is formulated. There's reasons for the, for why the magic works the way that it does. Sherlock character without her disabilities wouldn't be able to do the magic in the way that she does. It's very well thought out. The mystery is thought out. Well. But it's also fairly predictable. It's an enjoyable experience, but you kind of, you kind of guess where it's going to go. It's not something that's super shocking, but it's well done and each piece makes sense as you go along the journey. This magic land that you're a part of makes sense. It's very well written. The epic fantasy and the scope of the leviathans is very compelling and it makes you care for the people that are involved. Even though you are more of a contained story, you're dealing with the people inside. The threat of this larger creature outside makes the entire experience more believable and, and you, you buy it in more. It's a, it's a book series that I think is a good, good book for a first book. I'm excited where it's going to go because there's a lot of compelling aspects and the good outweighs the bad significantly.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:So what would you rate this on a scale of one to 10?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Um, 7.5 is probably around where I would put it.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Very solid book. Good mystery. I really like the characters, especially the Sherlock character. It's, it's good and room for improvements'cause there are some weaknesses, like being able to kind of tell where the mystery is going to go. Um, the side characters that aren't these main two are a little shallow. There's, there's a couple little weaknesses there that drag it down that he can address for the next book and make something that's truly great.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Is there any big mysteries at the moment?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Uh, this, this is a fairly self-contained story. So most of the mysteries of this book are taken care of in this book. You have some mysteries about like, what actually happened to the Sherlock character, what's the magic? Like, what, what did she actually go through? You don't know that completely. Um, how is the, the king of the area involved? What is her position in the court? Like? There's, there's a couple of different mysteries there, but mostly it is self-contained to the story.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:So what is your faith level in the second book? Being able to deliver.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Pretty high actually.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:He has a good, he's built up the character well, I think writing allows you to write better so he can spend a little bit more time on some of the side characters for whatever mystery he does next, and have those be a little bit more elevated. then you have a more compelling narrative.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Cool.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah. It's one that I would recommend to you just knowing you like mystery. I think it would be worth your time. I think you would enjoy it if you do guess where it's going to go.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Fair enough.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah. Anyway, that is the tainted cup. talk about the next thing. Lies of PI like bloodborne better than this game. Um, bloodborne is just, it's just fun, but I think lies of p is maybe the best souls, like as far as design goes. the reason that I think that is because it has everything. You have the blocking aspect and the timing of the blocking aspect. Like something of chiro. You have the health gets diminished. Oh, what? Go ahead.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I just want one clarifying question. Are you counting souls games as souls likes?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:yes.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay, go on.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:You have the aspect of your health gets lower and then you attack and your health comes back like you do with bloodborne, the really cool caveat of having to block to get this effect. So with Bloodborne, you just kind of attack. And this one, it requires more skill because you have to be in front of them and you have to block to be able to get the health back. It has the perfect pairing, it has dodging, so you both block, you have the perfect block and you have the, the dodging and it's all required. The dodging is very smooth, like it is with Bloodborne. I feel like Dark Souls isn't quite as smooth that way. It still works, like you learn the timing, but it's not quite as smooth. one is very smooth. have, character growth. You actually have like a skill tree in this one, which is very cool. You have a more filled out story where you're not just reading through dusty books to figure out what is actually going on. There
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:You still have to do that.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Um, you have, you just like have all the aspects of a really good souls, like all in one platform. And then something that I think was very smart when they designed the game is you have your healing capabilities. Like most of these games have, you have some health pack that you can use you run out of health packs. can attack and you can earn yourself another health pack. So it requires you to be one careful two
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Aggressive.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:attacking, which is a really, it's a smart a smart choice. You have a very interesting narrative going on. You have a very interesting land. You have the atmosphere of something like a bloodborne. You have all of these different aspects that are done extremely well in one game. So while I like bloodborne better, I, I, I've often said, why read Tolstoy when people read Tolstoy and then they improve on Tol? Tolstoy? I still kind of believe that. I
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:What?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:so Tolstoy is a, a great author. He's a very fam famous author. I think you improve on science. So somebody creates a phone and then they create an iPhone. Like science just improves. And I think writing is a form of science. So people learn from great writers and then they improve on that great writing and make things even better. People disagree with me on that, but that's kind of what I think
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:That's'cause you're wrong. Continue.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:lies of PI think they took all of these different souls likes. They took a lot of the ideas. They combined'em together. And the combination is a better imple implementation of the formula than what has been done before. I
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:why do you like bloodborne better?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I just have the most fun with it, and it's the first one that really grabbed me. The, the world grabbed me, the atmosphere grabbed me, and honestly, I just grasped it better. with Bloodborne, it's a very fluid game. Like, and everything is dodging. You're just dodge do, do dodge, Dodge. You really don't have to perry that much. You, you're, you're saying you have to, I had to Perry the, what's her name? Um, the boss and the DLC the girl Maria. Is that her name?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yes. Anyway, I had to Perry Maria, and I, I re I, I fought those three bosses that you beat for me the first time. they help if you perry them, but you don't have to perry them. is the only time that I felt like I had to pair in the entire game.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:just
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Other than Kero, there is no game, no souls game where you have to, anything
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah. And with one, I do think it requires some pairing to it through. Are you just dodging stuff?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:dodging and blocking,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I don't carry ever.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:then I just suck'cause I feel like to pay it. I, this game is feeding my trash. Like it's, it's, it's
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Blocking is so overpowered on this game.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:You think so?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. So I. think this falls into the trap of a dark souls of an Alden ring. Where you are, right? You have all the different things available to you. I think you have all the things available to you in Bloodborne too. Save for blocking. It is the only one that says, well, you just can't block. And if you use the shield in that game, it makes fun of you. Um, but in lies of P it has, well, you can do this and you can do that, and you can do that. But if you do this, it's the way we intend you to play it, and it's the best way to play it, and it's significantly easier, and it's just the best way to play the game, right? So Dark Souls does that too, where it's like you can dodge and you can Perry, but if you just get a big shield and a pointy stick, that is the easiest, best way to play this game.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:that is a problem with dark souls for sure. Yes.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Ed ring. It's the same way. It's like, you can do this and you can do that, but if you get a big shield and a pointy stick, it's the best way to play this game. It's actually magic in that game, but that one's magic is so overpowered that real souls fans don't even call that playing. But like the next best thing is big shield pointy steak.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:This is the same. It's like, Yeah. you can Perry, but if you block and dodge it's just best. It is just objectively the best. Have you fought the White Lady yet? I don't think you have.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:no,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay. That is my biggest argument for, it's just best to To block a dodge.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:it's because of her.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:So considering what I just said, maybe I, maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm playing it wrong'cause I am getting my ass kicked. Is where would you rate this in the
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Second best.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:games second best. Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. I think objectively bloodborne is better. It's it's level design, right? Like let's pull them apart. Level design.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:What was that? Sorry.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Level design
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I think it's, there's,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:bloodborne,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:it's
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I think it's heavily bloodborne is better. I think there are moments, right in oped have some, Really? cool level design aspects,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:but it also does the thing in Lizza P that Dark Souls does, where you loop back and you're like, oh, I just discovered a shortcut,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:and then it immediately nu and voids the shortcut. So you never use it.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Because you never go back to that area anyway. You're just going forward.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:You're just going forward. It's linear, but like you discover a shortcut and then you immediately go to the next turn with zero enemies between you and them and discover the next resting point,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh, I see.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:right? So lies of P does that. Whereas in bloodborne, you're like that first one up on top of the ladder, you loop back to it and you're like, oh my gosh, thank you, thank you. I don't have to go through all that crap again. I was, I love you. you're so great. Right? And then you use that point to go off and go fight the next section,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yes,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:right? It's so clever and it's level design in the way that it's so intricate and not just that base level, base aspect where you're like, this level is cool. The whole world and the way it connects is cool, right? So.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:fair point and that's a good point
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Level design on a grander scale.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:do more of the dark souls aspect.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. And it's not a bad thing. It's just like I, I. think the bloodborne way of doing it is super cool.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Right. And the levels themselves, right? If you wanna talk about levels, yeah. They're fairly comparable, but in level design and the way it all connects, bloodborne is clearly better,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:right? Aesthetic wise, right? So if we don't look at like graphics and textures and things, but like the environment bloodborne is cooler. It's
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:think those are fairly
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:very cool. I think if you take into,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:very comparable.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:if you take into the factor of like, bloodborne is an older game, has less good textures, like why a p is a prettier game.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:It is a prettier game, but they both, I, I feel like aesthetic wise and atmosphere wise, that the at p is pretty close. pretty close.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Kind of, but lizza P'S too bright.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Like it gives you a lantern that you never have to use in Lizza P.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:do you use the lantern really in bloodborne?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. It makes all the difference in the world,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh yeah. You're right. You're right, you're right. That's a good
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:right? When you can buy the lantern that you put on your hip. Oh my gosh, it's great. Right? So the, atmosphere, right, like lizza peace should darker, um,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:The dark could make a big difference. That's a good point.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:darker. Yeah. Uh, story wise, right? Like, and both of them You have to read item descriptions to get full, stories. And both of them you have to,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:a story
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:you get a story Lies a p you're right.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:compelling story. Like I, I like the story.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Me too. yeah. But it's also kind of a rip off of. Original Peno, so don't give the writers too full of credit there. Uh, but it's still very good. It's still absolutely. I I would give Lizza p the, the touch there.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:aspect.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Right. Uh, but like gameplay elements, bloodborne, uh, uniqueness, bloodborne, uh, right. We talked about the ability to attack and gain your blood back in bloodborne. There's an explanation for it. While I think that this one is cool for doing a similar thing, there's not really like an explanation for it.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I didn't know there was an explanation on bloodborne. What is that?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:You're taking the blood from what you're killing the blood is what heals you. You're attacking, you're getting blood on you and in you and you're, you're regaining like,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:you're bloodborne that.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:yeah,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:blood.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:sense.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Makes
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Um.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:With this one, it's just the aspect of the combat, which I actually, maybe I'm playing it wrong, but it does seem like the combat technicality is better in lizza. B
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:No. Uh, the, the fact that you can like, change your weapons in bloodborne, they all have like two modes is, so cool.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:The two modes is very cool.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Right? You get the gun to Perry, which is just awesome. Uh, right. Like I, I Very much prefer the bloodborne way of doing It Save for the one aspect you mentioned where you can recharge your final health fast, I think is brilliant because you, go into every fight knowing it's not quite over yet.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:if I go to Bloodborne and I poke my head around a corner knowing that there's a safe point, I just haven't hit yet. I get ambushed. I'm like, oh, it's over. I'm not gonna win this. Whereas in Liza P I'm like, oh man, if I can, if I can hold out and I can get just enough hits in, I can get a health. Like I think that is so important. That is so good.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I agree.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Um, yeah,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Completely.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:but Liza p is my, is my second favorite souls. Like,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay. That's a
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I I, it, it is so, so good. It is so clearly better that Dark Souls, all three of'em, that's not even close. Uh, you could make arguments of Elden Ring Andro. And what was I thinking of? I was gonna say something else. Uh, anyway, you can make those arguments, but I would argue depends on your personal aesthetic wise.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Like, it depends. Like if you like magic and fantasy and whatever, then Elting ring's probably your favorite. If you like Japanese stuff and Perry Secur is probably your favorite.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Um,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I partly just suck at the whole pairing thing, like. This is a separate game, but Guitar Hero is very rhythm based. Like you're pressing the buttons, you're going with a rhythm, and I suck at that. Like I'm terrible. Genuinely terrible. I'm the worst person at Guitar Hero that you have ever met in your entire life, period. I'm horrible. Andro kind of feels like a rhythm game, but with combat, that's kind of what it feels like to me and I am terrible at it. Um, so I don't, I'm so bad at it. I don't know if the hit boxes are off like I think they are,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:they're not,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:or if it's just
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:you egregiously overestimate how bad the hit boxes are.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:But with lies of PI don't feel like even when I'm doing the perfect pairing thing, which isn't the exact same as Kero, but there's a level there, I feel like it's always fair. Even when I miss it, I don't feel like I just got hit. Out of absolutely nowhere when I'm completely behind you and then you like chopped and hit me anyway. It seems ridiculous. Um, I feel
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:is fair in lies of p along with the timing. Go ahead. What
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:What about from the other perspective?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:do
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Your hit box. How many times in lies of P have you said, dang, that should have hit me?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Um, n never
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:All the time.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:happen.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:All of the time. It is so egregiously bad. Did you fight the big Titan robot thing in the factory?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Its hit box on you is so ridiculously favoring you. It's ridiculous. You honestly didn't notice that
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:No. I really felt like I had plenty of space. You would do the stomping thing? I would walk all the way back. Cool. When they did the spinny arm things, I was in the middle. Like I really didn't think the hit box, I was so far away from wherever they would hit me so far
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:okay. Maybe you were just a lot better at that fight than I was then.'cause like there was a number of times where I was like, that should have hit me. That should have hit me. That should have hit me. I did not dodge that in time. There's no way. And not just that fight. And like most of the fights I feel that way.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Hmm. The only fight where I felt that way is the mini boss that's in the basement. I can't remember his name. The survivor, I think is what it's called. Did you do that one? Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I have no idea what you're talking about.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay. It's a guy who's going crazy in the bottom who has to like prove himself.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Oh, yeah,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah. That's the only one where I felt that way.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:yeah. I, I feel that way. all of the time and I get that we have different play styles and my play style is very much to get very close to being hit. And your play style is very much like, keep the hitting away from me as far as possible. And that kind of can create that difference of feeling, but like insecure, I admit there are times where you're like, I should have hit him, but there's not many times where I feel like I got hit out of nowhere or whatever. Whereas in lies of p where I'm cutting it so close all the time, there's so many times where it's like I just got out of that. I just got out of that. There was one time in Lizza Pete where I clipped through the floor and the floor blocked for me on something I didn't see.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:oh, that's funny.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Like I get that that was a glitch. And not just like poor hit box, but gotta wonder like, you know, how many times is this favoring me as a player? Right. Um, which goes to my next really high point with Liza P is it's a lot more approachable in that I don't feel like it's just impossibly difficult at any point in time. Right.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I agree.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Like you're, you are stuck on this bus right now, right. The
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I am
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:church dude guy. Do you feel like that's unfair? Do you feel like it's just egregious or is it just such a fun challenge?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:yeah, everything feels super fair in this game. Everything feels fair. I don't ever feel like I'm getting, I don't feel like there's anything where I've felt like I'm just kind of ches it that I can think of and I don't feel like the bosses are ever cheesing it. Like everything feels skill when I die. I am like, didn't time that. Right. Dang it. That's my bad. Let's do it again. Yeah,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:genuinely suck because I suck and not because the game's unfair.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I agree with you completely. 100%. I agree with you.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Uh, just, you know, in, in table, in measures of quality, right. I just think that bloodborne is so clearly superior, And yes, I am far, far biased because bloodborne is my number one all time favorite game. So of course I see that. Um, but you're absolutely right about everything you're saying. It's a fair game. It's a fun game. I never feel like I cheese anything in Lizza P There was a couple of fights in bloodborne. where you kind of cheese it. Um, but at the same time, I, I don't count that the same as like getting away with a poor hit box thing.'cause like in Lizza P it's not like, oh, I found this weakness in the thing. It was like nine times out of 10 this hit me, but this time it didn't.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:That's what I mean by being that close is like, I feel like I get away with some stuff in Lizza P that I wouldn't get away with in other games. Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Very cool.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:What are you playing Lizza P on?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Playing what?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:what? are you playing it on?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Uh, pc?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay. Your Main. Pc? or laptop.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Main. Pc?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay. Your main PC vehicle lead. Glorious screen. It looks so much better on that, honestly. Okay. Your main piece
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay. It looks gorgeous.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:is your build. What? What weapon are you using?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:It's a dex build and I am, I combined the ax that you find at the, uh, at the right
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Factory.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:yeah, yeah. ax handle with the original dexterity blade. That's what I'm using right now.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay. Do you use any elements?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Uh, sometimes I'll throw the electricity bottle things, but no, that's about it.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Okay.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Do you
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:my advice to you I'm doing an all elemental build this time, so. For our listeners, I have played Liza p once ish before, never completed it. Uh, in my first play through, I almost finished part one in this play through, I just finished part one, um, which is the game that I talked about in our previous episode. The one that I played all day yesterday, literally all day. I didn't do anything but play. Liza p uh, my friends got on hell Let Loose and I stayed playing Liza p That's how much fun I was having. But I surpassed my original self in one play through and uh, or in one sitting. And I'm now at the end of part one. Uh, this time I'm doing an all elemental build, uh, for your fight that you are on. My advice to you is start using fire.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay. Helps a little bit.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:That's a lot.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:That boss is very weak to fire. And since I have the fire sword, a dagger. I've kicked this trash man,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:You just pour it apart.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Uhhuh
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I'll have to do that'cause I am so stuck. Like I'm getting my ass handed to me. I.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:blocking and fire. Like you have the ability to with your weapon, fuse it with fire. That's what I. would do. So you still have your high damage output.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I wouldn't switch to the fire dagger like I was using.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay. you, are you doing a build with the basically arcane stat in this
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yep.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay, cool.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I've put,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:arcane.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I've put points into health points, carrying weight, stamina and the arcane. I've put Nothing into technique or motility.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Nothing into tech or motivation or whatever it's called.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah, nothing. So
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:not my.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:your, do you think it's better this time, like your bill is better this time than
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Oh, absolutely. Not even close. Yeah, because? Because the elements all use the same buildup. I'm using two weapons. I'm using the electrical thing that you buy from the merchant
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:and that destroys dolls, and I'm using the fire Jagger, which destroys everything else.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:So you just wreck them.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah, I have two plus six weapons currently,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Wow.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:and I only have to use one skill point to get them both better.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's cool. That's a good point.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:so like I told you, the Mad Clown is the one that my previous game run through I was stuck on.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:That was just a Dex Build. Fair warning. Fair, fair warning for you get to, I still stuck on it on that play through. I haven't gone back to it,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh, you're
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:but man, on my first play through, I got to the mad clown
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:yeah, yeah, yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:and I could not beat it. So I stopped playing the game.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Because you were that stuck.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I started playing again yesterday,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:got to that point and I was like, oh yes, I remember now. This is where I was. And it was still very frustrating and a very difficult boss for me. Hopefully you don't have as big of a challenge with it as I did I've told you this, I think that like I'm not better than you I think that just like the way we play favors, different bosses versus other ones, so like my play style helped be the cathedral guy. You seem to be struggling with it, but you're probably gonna get to the magic clown and go, why did Josh struggle with this so much? That was so easy. It took me two tries. Just like father gas coin, a little wad, you know, like, but man, I really, I'm so glad I'm beyond that point. So glad
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:How many
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I don't have to do it again.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:time?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Eight, nine.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's still not, that's not bad. I have, I've fought this last guy so many times. I don't even know how many times, like so many times.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah. Try using fire. I bet you're gonna just like wipe the floor with him and go, oh, why was I struggling with that so hard before?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:And then I'll change my whole bill to be a, our gain bill.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Cool. Well, with that, let's go to our final topic. The first season of from, I think this show is great. Um, I don't, I don't like it as much as you. That doesn't mean it's not great. I, I do think the two Phil shows we, we both like, you like the one a lot. It's your favorite one.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Haunting Ville House.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Flanigan, yeah. HA haunting of Hill House the one that I love that, I don't know why I can't think of right now. I think both of those are better, but that doesn't mean this isn't great.'cause I think it is. The writing is very good. The mysteries are extremely compelling. The horror aspects are very well done, especially the part where they're in the communal house and the guy is consistently talking to that girl outside and he lets her in. The aspect of everybody just going along with their party while there's a monster inside the house was so good. Them switching sweaters and having her with that yellow sweater when she dies and he finds her in the room. And that's a little bit of a trap. So good. Absolutely excellent town and everybody is finally feeling calm, and then the madness starts to come. And the madness is coming from multiple different angles these voices that are talking to people and driving them crazy and driving them to kill other people. The scene where the mom is shooting up the town and he has to shoot her because he, he, he, she's hearing the voices is fantastic. The question of did we die in the rv? Is this all a dream? Is this a nightmare? Are we in hell? Is so well thought out and discovered in this show. There are a lot of really, really, really good aspects in the show. Um, yeah, it is just, it's really good. It's very well done. My one thing that I don't. There's a couple things that are not best, but the one worth talking about is the kid. I don't actually think he's a very good actor. Um, I think he takes it down some I, I can't tell if it's the writing or his acting, but he feels like he's younger than he is. It feels like this is written for like a 6-year-old, but he's 10 it doesn't match the kid, in my opinion. And that might be the way he acts it or that might be the writing and I can't tell.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I think that's just you.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:You didn't
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:at all.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:no, I agree. He's not the, best actor. I don't think he pulls it down at all. Um, his relationship with the creepy guy so intriguing. It is so good. And like the fact that he,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:is just very intriguing.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:the fact that he got stuck in this town at the age where this kid is, right? I mean, and they bond because they communicate similarly. I definitely don't think it's the writing. Um, I think that this, I think the kid is just probably not the best actor, but I still think he's like an above average kid actor.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:especially given the fact that he is in a horror town playing a child. Right. Like not too easy to, like, that's, that's a difficult. Thing to tackle and I think he's doing a fairly good job with it. Um, my issues with season one, you haven't even brought up, so that's great.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:were they? Because I had a few other minor things, but most of them are minor. Some of the mysteries I, I, I mean, they're, they're mysteries, so I can't really have a nitpick towards them because they're mysteries and I don't have the answers yet. Um, I mean, I think everyone else does a too. Good job with the acting. Like the mom to me is fine. She's passable. She's good enough. not great. The daughter I think is very good. Um, main sheriff guy does a really good job. The, of the standouts is the, uh, the priest. I think the priest does a fantastic job. The tech billionaire guy is fine. He's passable. Like
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I think he, I think he absolutely nails the tech billionaire thing.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh, really? I feel like sometimes he's too unnatural.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I think he 100% is natural.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Like, that is the reaction of somebody who used to get high all the time
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:and found a place in this world. Like,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I think he does a good job with that first, first section. It's actually later in the, in the, like, second half of the show,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:uh, I think he,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:fine.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I think he, he does a great job with his role and accepting that this is real. Or at least that the experience is real and that it's not a get out game, and that it's not a big elaborate trap or whatever, and all this kinds of stuff. Uh, so season one ends with the bus arriving.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yes.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:How'd you feel about that?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:It's fine. It was a fine ending. I didn't really have a problem with it. It was fine.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:You, you, it was not like a holy crap. What are they gonna do about this now moment?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:No, not for me. crap moment for the biggest holy crap was when they got up to the top of the hill and there was a lighthouse there. I was like, what the hell? Why is there a lighthouse that is like a lighthouse Lighthouse? That's
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:What about when he was talking on the radio?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I know. That was also a, what the hell? That was a what the hell moment? of those were, what the hell? When she called, she goes through the floor and he's just in that space and there's these drawings and this is the place where they sleep. That was a, what the hell moment? The spiders biting his skin was like, oh, uh, no. Uh uh. Didn't like that Uhuh. Um, there were some good, what the hell moments? The bus was fine. It was fine.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:It. I agree with you. It wasn't like the biggest like shocking thing, but I do think it was like, holy crap, this is gonna add a whole nother element to season two.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Right. So my, my issue with season one was the lack of communication. That's what really bothered me. Specifically the lighthouse. Like why did the sheriff not mention the lighthouse when He, got back to anybody? Why was he, not like there's a fricking lighthouse in the middle of a forest.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:he hasn't gotten back yet.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yes, He did.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:He literally went through the tree in the last episode and then he is like in a chimney thing, and that's, that's where they end the end. His character arc for season one.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Oh, you're right. Okay.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:he doesn't say there's a freaking lighthouse in season two, that's stupid, but we're not there yet.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:okay. Sorry about that. Uh, but like they've established with the sister girl who killed her brother, that like, people have weird connections to this world, this town, and yet nobody talks to each other. Nobody's like, Hey, I had this super weird dream last night that felt kind of real and kind of about this place. And even she's not like, Hey, I'm hearing voices telling me this thing, And Right. Like,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:yeah, she doesn't even tell her brother that this is going on.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:yeah, like there's.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:that you're going to die if I don't get rid of these people. Something
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:And like
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:enough.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:she, she handles it fair, but after she's caught, right? The fact that the entire town won't be like, okay, you hear voices, it's a proven fact that you hear voices and that the place is communicating with you. Maybe it's communicating with other people too. and so when tech guy starts experiencing these symbol things, why are they all not just like, what the heck? Like, does anybody else see the symbol? What's going on with this symbol? Where is this symbol at? Creepy guy? You've seen this symbol before. Tell me about this symbol. Mom, check. You've seen this symbol, like all the things that are going on and nobody is talking to anybody else about them. That is my big pet peeve with season one is it's like communicating about these things is not going to take away from the mystery. It's not gonna suddenly, like sometimes a character has such an important piece that it's like, yeah, if they connected that it would give everything away,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:but all these characters have such tiny little pieces of whatever this puzzle is
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:together.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:and none of them do it. And the tech guy even has a line, I think it's in season two, where he was like, I feel like I'm staring at a puzzle, but I don't have all the pieces and there's nothing to measure to, and I don't have edges or corner pieces. Like maybe you should go talk to some people about what the freak is going on. Maybe. Huh? Ever think of that one? Genius. I'm Mr. Genius man, but I'm not gonna talk to anybody'cause they're gonna think I'm crazy. Like holy crap. Freaking communicate. Talk about like, I honestly feel like at the end of season one, even if everybody laid any everything out on the table, we would still have no idea what the freak is going on.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:No, you wouldn't,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:But like, they don't even communicate effectively about like where they were before they got here. Like there was a point where the mom in season one was questioning things like, how'd you. get into town? Where were you before that? Because I started in my mind when she started asking those questions of like, maybe this place is not like random in that where on the map it goes, maybe it's random in like it takes people who are trying to escape from something I. Maybe it's picking up people who have certain personality traits or elements or like they're trying to get somewhere or do something, right.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Mm-hmm.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:were you? Why were you going? What were, you know? I thought that's where it was gonna go. And they straight up just like, don't do that at all. Like that was my problem with season one, but I still absolutely love season one. It is so freaking good. I'm so intrigued into the mystery. I'm so invested in it. I absolutely wanted to know what was gonna happen in season two. You obviously don't care about the bus, but for me, I was like, who's on this bus and what the freak are they gonna do about it? And I'm super interested because creepy guy who's been here for forever is saying things like, last time this happened, everyone died.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:At the same time you have the wife finding her bracelet that she gave to her husband.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Fascinating.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:is this like a time loop? Are they going through it multiple times? Is it connected? Like, I'm so fascinated, I'm so curious as to why you say like midnight mass and haunting of Hill House are clearly better, right? When those are both one season shows and this has built like such great content for a season to build another one and like.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:For me, midnight mass, both of those shows really didn't have very many weaknesses. They were just Where this one did have some weaknesses. It had some acting that I thought was a little bit below par. Um, and some of the issues that you brought up that are very, very good points where. Those shows didn't, I think those shows are like Upper Echelon, best of the best kind of shows where this is just a very, very, very good, very competent show or just different levels of show if that. Does that make sense?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I get what you're trying to say. My question is like were, was it your expectations though?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:It could
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Was it because of my such glowing excitement that you were just expecting more?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:was that and just how many times I've heard about this show. But, uh, these are like minute, um, problem min minute issues. This is still a very great show. Like this is a great show even with these minute problems, minute.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah, because like for me, I went into this completely blind. I'd only heard about it once before. It was recommended, like it was like a common thing. Didn't even know the show was a thing. Got put on my list because of who recommended it. I kind of put it towards the end of my list and then we were talking about shows to watch and I was like, I guess this one, why not this one? I've kind of been going through the horror stuff lately. let's give this one a shot. Why not?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:shot.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:And then I was like, holy crap, this is so. Good.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Interesting.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Whereas you probably expected good. Um, so maybe, maybe that's the problem. Maybe I was just overreacting to it because I was expecting nothing
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:it's possible,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:and it surprised me so bad. But like, and to be fair, I wanna be clear, like this is still too be determined for me.'cause I truly don't know how they're gonna land on some of these mysteries.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:what? After watching season one. My thought was even without anything that you said, is absolutely going to be a loss. There is no way they're pulling this off. If they do, I will be very pleasantly surprised, but I don't, I don't think it will be pulled off. I don't, but I'm hoping, fingers crossed. I'm hoping they can.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I would say my hope level for this is about the same as severance.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay. Okay. Um, my hope level would've been about the same for as severance until they actually gave me an answer that I was really happy for, for Cold Harbor and the numbers, and now my hope level for severance is significantly higher
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I still have a lot of doubts. I'm with you. I agree with you. This one is slightly below severance now, because the numbers were so well explained, cold Harbor wasn't really well that. explained, so
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:The number, the numbers
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:the numbers aspect was so clear. Like that's, that's a great explanation. Like I said, I called it from episode one, but so my severance, severance is here from, is here,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:right?
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:So
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Um,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:two didn't drop it for you. It still feels compelling
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:there are things that they do on season two that I absolutely love.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:that you absolutely love. Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I don't wanna say too much more than that.'cause I already said the other thing and it was
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:I
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:of me to say,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:season two this week'cause I am very interested and hopeful. I am hope, I hope they can pull it off. The lighthouse thing was an absolute, what the hell? Like I can't even. I up with a theory on why there's a freaking lighthouse in the woods. I don't know. And then him possibly talking to his dead wife or his dead wife talking to her. interesting. Like there's, there's just a lot of questions that are interesting.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:there's a ton that's really interesting. And they, there's more, more of it. They start explaining a little bit, but not a lot. So I'm still very confused about the town and everything I.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:they do answer if that's actually the wife or not
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh, they do. Cool.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:too.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:That's cool. Uh, the one other thing that's like a small thing, but they had the, um, the radio, the antenna that they were putting up on the roof, and they're like, that thing's gonna fly right off. And I was sitting there like, you have nails? What? What are you doing? Nail
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Now, my big problem with the radio thing was it wasn't gonna fly off. My big problem with the radio thing is that they set it up outside when they needed the power from inside. So that was only done for the dramatic effect of the storm, and any practical person would've installed an inside and been like, Ooh, a storm.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yep. I thought that too, but like if you were gonna put it outside, bracket it to the roof. What are you doing? That's stupid.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:They did.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh, I didn't
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:they showed them nailing it to the roof.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Oh, they did? Okay. I
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Yeah,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:that part then because I
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:No,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:through, what are you doing?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:yeah, no. They put it up, they established it. The fact that it flew off the roof was like a weird thing. But yeah, stuff starts to happen in season two and it's so good. It's so, so, so good.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:season two better than season one? Just as good. Where? Where would you mark it?
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:I would say not as good as season one, but
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:to be fair, uh, season one was asking all the questions and that is the exciting part of these kinds of shows.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Um,
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:And season two is answering and asking some more, I'm assuming. All
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:so establishing is just much more exciting. So with season one, I was like, next episode, next episode, next episode, next episode. And I was still that way with season two, just not as much like. I said this, I don't think it recorded last time, but like I had to force myself to stop watching after season one'cause I thought we were gonna talk about it. I just started season three. I'm like one episode in maybe, and I'm like, I'll get to it.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:Okay. It's not as gripping. Was season two that way for you too? Like I have to watch the next one,
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Well, I. watched all of season two in a night. We wrapped up recording and I jumped onto my TV and I was eating food and watching season two. And then I took a little nap and then I finished season two.
konlin-gappmayer_4_03-26-2025_182504:that's cool man. That's cool. I'm gonna, I'm gonna dig through it. Well guys, if you haven't seen from it is absolutely worth watching. If you like horror, mystery, any of that kind of stuff, it's, it's a worthwhile show. guys will like it. I think that that's our episode. We appreciate you all watching tuning in. If you have anything that we can do better, let us know. We're grateful for you. Hope you have a good week. See you guys. I.
josh-dietrich_4_03-26-2025_142511:Bye.
