WEBVTT 00:00.250 --> 00:03.630 No way. I came here to duel and I'm gonna duel. 00:23.250 --> 00:31.794 Hello and welcome to our weaver there yet in exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan. 00:31.922 --> 00:34.642 I'm an anime expert, dana hollander. 00:34.786 --> 00:37.778 And I'm brenda mccullough, your anime millennial. 00:37.954 --> 00:40.790 And I don't know why I'm here. I'm Griffin Puatu. 00:43.950 --> 00:55.178 We are joined by a guest this week. You've heard him in River City, girls. kengan, ashura and Mobile Suit gundam narrative. We're here with Griffin Poatu. 00:55.274 --> 00:55.920 Hello. 00:57.170 --> 01:05.342 Yay. We're trying to stack the deck with any anime professional that will return our call. 01:05.476 --> 01:10.738 Stack generator. That was a good joke if you meant it. 01:10.904 --> 01:11.614 Oh shit. 01:11.662 --> 01:23.240 I didn't. It's already deep in my brain. This show hasn't left my psyche since 2004. 01:24.810 --> 01:29.446 This show I feel like we should at least say what the show is is in the episode title. 01:29.478 --> 01:37.290 But yes, this week we are watching the classic, the inevitable, the ultimate yugio. 01:40.050 --> 01:44.670 I don't think you quite said the title right. I believe it's yuga. 01:48.370 --> 01:51.114 Screamtops. 01:51.162 --> 01:54.880 The rest of the episode is just all of us yelling that for an hour. 01:55.490 --> 01:59.330 We're just going to take griffin's clip and just play it every time we mention the shooting. 02:00.070 --> 02:01.220 Oh God. 02:01.590 --> 02:06.682 Every time we say the word dual, we have to remix it. So it's dual. 02:06.846 --> 02:10.226 That sounds like too much work for the editor. 02:10.338 --> 02:12.854 He's the one doing it however he wants. 02:12.892 --> 02:18.920 That's me. I will punish myself because it's time to do. 02:21.770 --> 02:22.802 This show. 02:22.956 --> 02:33.930 So yeah. Griffin, these nerds have told us their anime history. What's your introduction to anime? How did you get into the genre? 02:34.090 --> 03:31.214 So, definitely as a kid, pokemon and yugio were the two really big shows at the time. But as a kid, I didn't really know what anime was. I didn't know there was a difference between anime and regular cartoons. I kind of watched them and thought they were the same thing. It was only until maybe I was in middle school that I got into anime proper. The first show I watched was a show called gundam Double O. And that's what really got me into anime and into voice acting as well. I started picking up on oh, this character. And this show is the same voice as this character in this show. And then about three years ago, three and a half years ago, I got the opportunity to be in a couple of anime shows. And that sort of started my career in voice acting. So I've been doing all sorts of voice acting, including anime, for the past three years now. 03:31.332 --> 03:32.282 That's cool. 03:32.436 --> 03:58.940 Nice. Yeah. I also similarly had the background of not being able to distinguish just cartoons. And I just always thought of anime as like pointy cartoons since everyone's faces is much more angular sharp. So yeah, just throwing them on back to back going like, yeah, SpongeBob then yugioh, then code name Kids Next Door. It's all the same. Right? Exactly. 04:02.270 --> 04:06.620 Which really stands out is just an abomination amongst them all. 04:08.670 --> 04:13.934 There are some listeners who are going to take umption with that, sir. I am not one of them. 04:13.972 --> 04:29.970 I'm just saying I don't think anime fans are that vocal online anyway, so yeah, yugio. In particular, was this something you watched a lot? Was this a regular show you would watch or just like, whenever it came on? 04:30.040 --> 05:07.594 Oh, yes, it was definitely a regular show. I was a huge yugio fan from the age of, oh, I don't know, five till now. It's gone through phases. But yeah, I watched the original show a ton as a kid. I got back into it during the five ds era and I started actually playing the game competitively. So, yeah, I was super into it. And I also was really into the Bridge series on YouTube. So, yeah, I would say I'm a fairly big yugio fan. 05:07.722 --> 05:38.940 Yeah, if you played the card game beyond like, 2004, yes, I will say you're a fan. Yeah, that's another thing that comes into this, the merchandising of the card game. I was late to this. I finally caved and bought a deck as everyone at my school was like, getting out of it. And I was like, but I want to play. Please just play me real quick before you throw it away. 05:39.390 --> 05:41.660 It's time to duel. Right, right. 05:42.350 --> 05:43.900 Did I miss the time? 05:45.470 --> 05:46.700 Don't leave me. 05:51.550 --> 05:58.798 So yeah, Brendan and dana, were you fans of playing it? Did you just watch it? Where do you stand with this? 05:58.964 --> 06:17.240 So I didn't watch it, but when I was a sophomore in high school, I had a boyfriend who played it. So he made me a deck and he taught me how to play. I think I played once. I liked it, it was fine, but I just never played again. 06:19.370 --> 06:47.246 I was to no one surprised. I was all in on this. I watched it from the beginning, got all the cards. Then then when I had other responsibilities, fell off a little bit. They got real back into it in high school for fucking no reason. There was like just a weird resurgence within a few kids hung out with and we were playing in study hall in high school, and even the teacher made fun of us a little bit. 06:47.428 --> 06:50.720 I mean, good, because it was like. 06:51.410 --> 07:04.980 It was a solid, like eight or nine years after its prime and it just came back up for no reason. We're just like, oh, hey, I found this in my garage. Want to play again? And I quickly found out how absolute trash my deck was. I never won. 07:05.750 --> 07:20.620 Yeah, when I was in college, one of my roommates had a resurgence and just got really into just going online and buying all the cards from his childhood. Regardless of quality of the card. 07:21.150 --> 07:36.298 It's so expensive. It's such a terrible habit. Like, I've talking with some friends. We found out recently all the loot box controversies with games. Like making you buy packs and not knowing what's that's just cards. That's just what card games have been doing forever. 07:36.394 --> 07:37.038 True. 07:37.204 --> 07:52.260 Yeah. Like, regardless of genre, if they're baseball or actual competitive games, it's just well, we're going to give you seven shitty dirt field cards. And here's an okay dragon thing, I guess. 07:52.790 --> 08:21.180 See, that's if you're like a plea, but if you're up in the game oh, man. You know the websites to go to to buy individual cards? You know how to barter for those cards. I remember. And again, my yugio fandom has gone in phases. So I played, like, my first year of high school, like, non stop, and then I just stopped playing. And then my first year of college, I was like, oh, I have money now. Oh, I can spend it on whatever I want. 08:22.670 --> 08:23.830 I'm an adult. 08:23.990 --> 08:57.398 I spent $20 and completely completed my deck. Made it the coolest, most powerful thing I could. And I don't mean to brag, but I still have it to this day, and I still win all the time. And I bought a bunch of rare cards for not even that much. Anyway, sorry. I guess I'm showing my nerdiness a little too much. We should have a card. This is the podcast. If this had visuals, we would have a card joke counter up in the. 08:57.404 --> 08:57.990 Corner. 08:59.930 --> 09:04.454 Just a little ding every time someone makes it. Or like a really bad rim shot. 09:04.582 --> 09:09.818 Oh, God. As I edit it, I'll try to go through and give us a tally at the end. 09:09.904 --> 09:10.490 Perfect. 09:10.640 --> 09:11.340 Great. 09:11.950 --> 09:18.762 You just have a little token sheep pop up. Isn't that a card where it's like five sheep you used as just fodder? 09:18.826 --> 09:25.140 Oh, my gosh, yes. If we want to do this right, we have a token counter, and then we can sacrifice five of the tokens to summon Blue Eyes. 09:26.870 --> 09:27.620 Perfect. 09:28.630 --> 09:40.646 I got so many very specific cards popping into my brain, like, as we talked about it more. I don't know why I remember that one. I didn't even have it, but that pops up. Oh, boy. Let's get into it. 09:40.748 --> 09:46.466 Shall we get into it? We're going to watch the first three episodes of the og yugio. 09:46.578 --> 09:47.286 Yes. 09:47.468 --> 09:48.310 Yay. 09:48.650 --> 10:21.170 It's time to watch. We're back from the banishment to the graveyard. We are here, and we are ready to discuss some bullshit. 10:22.070 --> 10:28.450 I don't know what you guys are talking about. I thoroughly enjoyed my my trip down memory lane. 10:28.790 --> 10:34.470 Oh, it it's still excellent, but for a lot of different reasons. 10:35.530 --> 10:40.380 Yeah, I had a great time. This show is good, actually. 10:42.110 --> 10:43.100 Sort of. 10:43.870 --> 11:06.110 There's an idea there. Look, I took notes. I was fully for as you do. Look, school never leaves you or you never leave. School never left me. And I just want to throw out a couple of my favorite notes just real quick. We don't have to go into them. Let's see here. wevil voice WTF. 11:08.690 --> 11:11.430 Followed I have a note of a similar vein. 11:11.530 --> 11:47.520 And then followed quickly by Rex voice WTF. Right after another in that second episode, because I was like, oh, wow. Like, the voice acting is, like, much better than I I would have assumed because this was the four kids era and the voice acting was bad. There was just a specific style of it. But all the main cast, even joey, who has the accent, like, I'm buying it. I'm like, yeah, you know, it's not terrible. And then we get to the battle with weavel, and he's got that voice where it's like, I'm going to treat my trip, guys. I'm like oh, stop. This is going to get old quick. 11:47.890 --> 11:52.160 You can tell I'm a little shit that we'll get into some shenanigans later. 11:53.410 --> 12:11.960 And then I think like, okay, what about this Rex guy? And then he's just like, I'll trade my card. I can't even do it. And I looked up, who is that? It's Sam regal from Critical Role. I was like, oh, my goodness. Next time I see you, I'm bringing this up. 12:12.570 --> 12:28.234 I have not seen the cast yet. I need to pull it up, see who the notable alumni are from this. But yeah, let's get into it, shall we? We'll start right at the top. 12:28.432 --> 12:57.202 Episode one starts right away with the entire backstory, just the big old lord dump right up front because we don't feel like getting into it in the main plot of the show. So long story short, ancient egyptians did some shit. All that evil is contained in millennium puzzles. And now they're back, I guess, for some reason. And boom. yogi finds a puzzle. And now he's possessed by a pharaoh. 12:57.346 --> 13:01.880 Every now and then they share the body. It's a time share. 13:03.130 --> 13:12.202 It's when he needs he taps them out, tag team. And he's like, oh, I can't reach this jar on the top shelf. Let me tag out the pharaoh. He's got like four inches on me. 13:12.256 --> 13:22.170 You know, I will say Yugi is really short. I forgot he's got the stumpy little arms and the big handy. 13:22.990 --> 13:30.400 One of my notes is like, he's tiny. He's wearing all blue because of school uniform, a lot of spiky hair. He's Sonic. We got Sonic on our hands, guys. 13:31.570 --> 13:34.000 We got a sonic boy. It's done. 13:34.930 --> 13:35.630 No. 13:35.780 --> 13:46.230 So then we go into the actual opening and I forgot it's a genuine box. Oh, it's so good. You play that right now, that's some solid edmunds. 14:22.770 --> 14:27.394 You know, my finger was on that volume up rocker when it was playing. Yes. 14:27.592 --> 14:29.730 Oh, hell yeah. That heavy bass. 14:30.550 --> 14:31.394 So good. 14:31.512 --> 15:06.358 So then it opens with Yugi teaching joey how to play dual Monsters, which is the actual name of the game. It's not actually called yugio, so I like how they had to differentiate the names of the game and the show it's based on. And this is also a very convenient way to teach the viewers of how the basic functions of the game work. And for anyone who has not seen it or has not seen the memes or the jokes about yugio, joey's got the thickest Brooklyn accent from this side of Queens, so it's just endlessly entertaining. 15:06.374 --> 15:10.080 When he's, you know, he sounds like joey tribiani from Friends. 15:11.250 --> 15:26.742 I wouldn't be surprised. They've done so many accents of characters or actors and other four kids things. I would not be surprised if they're like, yeah, we can make this kid joey will make it interesting for us. 15:26.876 --> 15:29.590 His name is joey. He's joey. 15:30.490 --> 15:55.440 I will say, though, the accent is thick, but for some reason, I buy it. I've heard some real bad accents with acting in anime that I just like, oh, my gosh, what are they doing? Why did they pick that one? But for some reason, maybe it's my nostalgia goggles, but I'm kind of on board with the accent. Yeah, I don't mind it. I don't either. 15:56.050 --> 16:01.962 It is well executed. It's just a strange choice to go in that direction. 16:02.106 --> 16:18.982 Like, it stands out when everyone else in the gang talks because he's the only one with anything kind of like a recognizable accent versus, like, the sailor Moon. W watch where it's like, oh, there's a few people who just had weirdly Brooklyn accents, but Joey's the only one even in his own family, four kids. 16:19.036 --> 16:32.540 Is very bad about making a character have an accent and then following yeah, the family would also likely have this accent. They're like, no, the kid is from New York. The rest are from the midwest. Sure, okay. 16:33.310 --> 16:44.958 And then we get the gang talking a bit and we hear Yugi say, oh, we can go see my grandpa. He owns a game shop, and I get all my best cards from him. Yugi nepotism is not okay. 16:45.124 --> 17:00.126 Also, they just firmly established in, like, the first 5 seconds of the show, hey, if you want to win at this card game, go buy better cards, kids. And, like, very much just want to sell the game to Americans. 17:00.238 --> 17:14.760 Oh, they slip that in so good. I'm watching the first three episodes, I'm like, oh, wow. They're kind of explaining the rules and they're telling you which cards to buy, which ones not to buy, how to organize your deck. I was like, oh, yeah, good job, konami. Good job. 17:16.490 --> 17:31.260 They could have learned those lessons from when they tried to force the dice. Monster game in later season did not go anywhere. So they go to the card shop, and I love that it's just called the game shop. 17:31.950 --> 17:35.340 Not even the game shop. It's just game shop. 17:36.030 --> 17:40.334 There's a later scene where yogi picks up the phone, it's just like, Game shop. It's like, wow, just you know what? 17:40.372 --> 17:41.070 That's it. 17:41.220 --> 17:42.926 You're right, yugi, you're right. 17:43.108 --> 17:58.200 You're right. That's what it is. And when they were talking about his grandpa owning a car shop, yugi says, like, oh, my grandpa's got this really rare car. And then we see kyva, like, reading a book because he's also in class and he's also a CEO of a company, right? 17:58.730 --> 17:59.480 Yeah. 18:03.290 --> 18:15.062 And we're not even, like, super clear of his middle school or high school. I'm assuming high school, but I don't know if they specifically mention it. So they might just be like, twelve, but look like they're 25, like most anime. 18:15.206 --> 18:16.470 Except for yugi. 18:16.550 --> 18:18.714 Except for yugi. He's clearly seven. 18:18.912 --> 18:19.660 Yeah. 18:20.670 --> 18:39.410 So when they go to the card shop, they're talking to the grandpa. And that's when kaiba kicks open the door. And it's like, I heard there's a special card, and I got my eyes on it without even knowing what it is. And when he walks in, Grandpa's showing the special card. He's showing it to the Yugi and the gang, and it's the blue eyes, white jacket. 18:41.750 --> 18:44.606 Wow. coveted. 18:44.718 --> 18:45.646 The coveted. 18:45.758 --> 18:46.878 So rare. 18:47.054 --> 19:20.110 There's only four in the world, and this is one of them. And Kyva's shocked because that's the card he wants. And he's kind of dismissing, like, Joe and the gang like, Get out of here, you plebs. I'm here to buy cards and make money. I forget exactly what happens. cavus is talking shit in general, and joey gets mad, and he goes he says, maybe you'd like to settle this with fist instead of cards. And that is the only time that is suggested. And it would work every single time. Later. 19:20.180 --> 19:21.470 Kick Kyva's ass. 19:21.620 --> 19:26.962 Later. There's episodes where it's like, the fate of the world testing. It's like hit him. Don't play card. Hit him. 19:27.016 --> 19:28.578 Punch kaiba in the face. 19:28.744 --> 19:30.510 What are your cards there's? Guns. 19:30.590 --> 19:48.790 Oh, I don't think you guys remember. There's a scene where kaiba just, like, flips and kicks and gets on a motorcycle and is driving on a broken down highway. I don't know if it would work. kaiba's got I don't know where he got it from, but he's got mad skills. 19:50.490 --> 19:58.380 It's just always entertainment. We have to settle this through a card. You can just hit them. I don't know. Maybe that's just me. 19:59.150 --> 20:02.330 Just use violence, kids. That's a real lesson. 20:02.670 --> 20:31.320 But it hits the stake of the world anyway. So kaiba sees the blue eyes. He's like, I must have it. I'll trade you all of these cards for it. Grandpa's like, no, I literally run a card shop. I don't need more cards. Why would I want this? I was like, Fine, then I'll pay any price for it. Grab was like, no, it's got sentimental value to me. It was given to me by a friend. It's got a special place in my heart of card. Heart of the cards. wink. Get it? 20:31.850 --> 20:34.950 No, not at all. 20:35.100 --> 22:03.490 So kaiba leaves all pissy because he couldn't get his card, but he'll have it one day. And then we over here before the commercial break, we over here. kaiba talking to someone's goons, saying, like, I want that car, go get it from that old man. So the next day, we see the penguin from Batman show. He's like, Master kaiba, what I could do with you. It's just like, oh, okay. Grandpa went from like, no, I'm not giving you to my car, to rolling up his sleeves like, I'm going to teach this little shit a lesson. Like, I'm ready. So he accepts the dole, and it's like, I'm going to teach kaiba not to mess with the heart of the cards. And he gets a shit kicking head a little. So the gang shows up to the shop and finds Grandpa's not there, and it's empty. And kaiba calls and tells Yugi like, your grandpa came over and not feeling well. You might want to come over and take care of them. And it's so you're in high school. Your classmate who's the CEO of his own company, breaks into your shop, kidnaps your grandpa, and just beats the shit out of him. So it's like Wednesday, the usual stuff. And when the gang gets to kaiba Industries, which I think it's actually called, that kaiba Corporation. caba Corporation. Thank you. They find Grandpa just, like, sprawled out on the floor. Doesn't look physically injured, but he's like, exhausted and pleading. Like, oh, yogi, I got beat so bad. 22:03.640 --> 22:06.562 He was so good. I can't take it. 22:06.616 --> 22:12.850 My old heart, my brittle bones get whipped by his cards. 22:13.350 --> 22:19.442 And I'm just like, what happened? It was a card game, but he looked like he got the shit kicked out of him. 22:19.516 --> 22:21.498 You ever play poker so bad you. 22:21.504 --> 22:26.086 Have to go to the hospital? I bet the house, and I lost. 22:26.118 --> 22:26.860 It all. 22:28.670 --> 22:30.490 Getting into the icu. 22:30.910 --> 22:32.778 So Kyva's gloating thing like, oh, I. 22:32.784 --> 22:37.018 Beat intensive card unit. Sorry. Okay. 22:37.104 --> 22:59.410 Anyways, kiva's pointing out, I beat him in a duel. We bet our most valuable card, and he'd lost. So now I have his most valuable card. Which is the blue eyes, white dragon. Rips it in half, and he's like, now it will never be used against me. And he won it in the duel. It's his now. 22:59.560 --> 23:00.726 Why did he rip it? 23:00.828 --> 23:01.558 Keep it. 23:01.644 --> 23:02.038 Yeah. 23:02.124 --> 23:08.630 Well, if you know the rules to you geo, you're only allowed three copies of a card in your deck. 23:09.130 --> 23:16.940 Oh, man. But still lock it in the vault for the inevitable. Like barbecue sauce spill on one of them. 23:18.670 --> 23:20.586 My cards are all sticky now. 23:20.768 --> 23:24.460 Oh, man, I really goofed this one guy. 23:29.570 --> 23:39.538 So we'll get into the rules because I know we don't want to get too bogged down with them. I do not issue I got at least one issue. I got one issue. We will get to yeah, we got. 23:39.544 --> 23:46.390 To at least get the structure of the game. We don't need to get bogged down with the individual card properties. 23:46.810 --> 23:47.558 Sure. 23:47.724 --> 24:50.210 So after he rips it, still look at it. Yugi's. Grandpa gives Yugi his deck, and he's like, here, take my deck and duel for me. I taught you everything I know about the game, so just establishing it. Grandpa got his ass kicked. He gives yuki his cards he just played with, and also all the information Grandpa knows, just chances are yuki's also going to lose with this knowledge and deck that just lost, so and then the gang offers, like, Yugi, duel them. We'll take your grandpa to the hospital. And taya at this point, which still doesn't like, their names weren't addressed yet, it's like, oh, wait, but before you go, yogi, put your hands in, and just draws a big smiley face on everyone's hands, like, collectively. And it's just like, this will be a reminder of our friendship, and we can overcome anything. And I imagine at this point, Kyva's just poured himself a nice scotch because he just can't handle this shit anymore. Because it's just like, he's a teenager. He's, like, 27. 24:50.300 --> 24:55.830 Let's not pretend he infiltrated the high school to get that blue eyes white dragon. 24:55.910 --> 25:01.786 If they said that, if that was a subplot, I would absolutely believe that more than he's an actual student with. 25:01.808 --> 25:07.600 A the stress of running a major corporation just really ages him. 25:08.850 --> 25:32.754 He sleeps with his face in the pillow, and he smokes a lot. So they're like, all right, we'll do this. And joey, I'd rather note joey points out, like, Yugi, with your deck in that Millennium Puzzle, you can do anything. It's like, do they know what the Millennium Puzzle are? They just casually like, hey, you got that ancient Egyptian relic hanging around your neck all the goddamn time. I don't know. It's weird to me that no one really just addresses you have this just magical artifact. 25:32.882 --> 25:41.338 Yeah. It's never addressed. And no one they don't we'll get the transformation in a sense. No one ever explains it or yeah. 25:41.424 --> 25:49.290 It takes almost a full season for them to be like, hey, you ever notice that Yugi kind of changes when he battles? 25:49.890 --> 25:52.106 He drops, like, eight octaves. 25:52.138 --> 25:53.274 He gets taller. 25:53.402 --> 25:58.590 He gets more like the basketball team aerodynamic. 26:00.610 --> 26:26.114 The yellow in his hair also goes up into the purple into his hair. So we get all the unimportant characters going to the hospital with Grandpa, and they say, like, no, joey, you're a main character. You got to go into the battle and support Yugi. Got it. So tristan and taya go to the hospital. Grandpa, which also hospital tristan tristen, literally does nothing ever. He's the most useful. 26:26.162 --> 26:29.160 He turns into a robot monkey. How dare you? 26:32.010 --> 26:34.230 Excuse me. Stop the podcast. 26:35.230 --> 26:46.538 Season three gets pretty out there. We had a lot of fun. We don't remember most of it, but we had a lot of fun. I can't remember, but yeah, he's a robot monkey. 26:46.554 --> 26:47.294 I don't remember. 26:47.412 --> 26:49.434 You got to get your robot monkey fact straight. 26:49.482 --> 26:50.080 Yes. 26:51.570 --> 27:03.538 Oh, God. So we come back. kyva just is on this pillar and saying, like, oh, yeah, I just built this entire virtual arena to play cards in. It's like, Jesus, we get it. You have money. 27:03.624 --> 27:04.866 While you were saying goodbye to your. 27:04.888 --> 27:33.166 Friends while they say goodbye, he built it immediately. And then when they get up, he's like, oh, this is all holographic. So when we play cards, the monsters will appear in front of us because otherwise the show would be boring. A shit to watch. And he's like, oh, so that's how you beat my grandpa. And I was like, how does holograms clearly show how his grandpa lost? Like, how did the holograms epileptic seizure that'll do it? 27:33.188 --> 27:36.640 You threw a dragon in an 80 year old man's face. 27:46.130 --> 27:57.682 So to begin the dull, Yugi screams out his name, but he just screams yugio. So it's not his name, really? And this is when his magical girl transformation into the ancient pharaoh. 27:57.746 --> 28:04.470 Yes, I was going to say Yugi is just a magical girl. Yeah, this is a magical girl animal. 28:04.970 --> 28:07.030 It's card captor Yugi. 28:09.210 --> 28:29.390 And kaiba reacts to it so he can see that you used. Like it's not just like the viewers see it like kaiba can tell he's different. And so the duel starts. kyba summons, the cyclops appears because of the machines. Sorry, I jumped around my notes a bit. And so joey runs back in and he's just like, oh wow, real monsters. 28:30.290 --> 28:32.750 I believe he was real monsters. 28:36.230 --> 28:40.594 And then kaiba's little brother runs in because he needs someone on his side sharing for him. 28:40.632 --> 28:42.494 Mokuba mokuba. 28:42.542 --> 28:43.666 I was trying to think of it. 28:43.768 --> 28:46.930 He has two lines. We never see him again. 28:47.000 --> 28:49.010 No, weird. 28:50.490 --> 28:53.330 He'll be kidnapped and used as a plot device in later episodes. 28:53.410 --> 28:56.230 Oh, yes, I'm sensing a theme. 28:57.530 --> 29:29.026 So at one point, the monsters fight. kaiba summons and like, clown monster, and it equips them with a magic card that like, powers them up. And Yugi's mind is fucking blowed. He's like, oh, wow, this is going to be difficult. I wasn't expecting him to equip a magic card. And so despite Yugi being a card genius, he's very impressed by literally the most basic moves in the game. He's very astonished that kawa would make such a bold move. That is literally his only option. 29:29.208 --> 29:36.900 Yeah, it's like he used about a third of his deck. What? You can do that. 29:37.690 --> 30:08.794 And so the monsters are fighting out for a little bit, and kyba is crushing them until Yugi summons gaia, the fierce knight, and kind of pushes backs against kaiba. And this forces kaiba to play his hand and play the blue eyes white dragon that he already owns. And this is the first hang up I have with the rules. It requires two so many monsters to summon a monster at that level, that high of a level. And he didn't sacrifice any, and neither did Yugi. 30:08.842 --> 30:12.266 Gaia also requires two monsters to be sacrificed. 30:12.458 --> 30:15.154 Does it? I thought gaia was no seven, maybe one. 30:15.192 --> 30:16.162 He's a level seven. 30:16.296 --> 30:17.938 Level seven. Okay. You're right then. Yeah. 30:18.024 --> 30:21.060 Is it too late to stop talking about. 30:23.670 --> 30:23.986 You? 30:24.008 --> 30:28.782 Also missed earlier. He put sangen down in face in face down defense position. 30:28.856 --> 30:30.374 When he went to the graveyard, he. 30:30.412 --> 30:35.586 Should have added a level four or lower dark type monster with 1500 or less attacks. 30:35.618 --> 30:39.590 So thank you for joining us this week. This is an architect. 30:41.770 --> 30:43.350 So happy graffiti. 30:45.150 --> 30:47.260 Someone has to nitpick for no reason. 30:49.150 --> 30:50.026 Oh, man. 30:50.128 --> 31:04.830 So immediately, first episode, they've already broken the rules of the game they've established. So then we get a random shot of Grandpa, and the hospital would be like, don't give up. yogi and yuki's like, I won't give up. It's like, what is they got some weird psychic connection. 31:04.990 --> 31:14.020 You talk through the cards, hearts of the cards. Speaking of hearts, I think the Grandpa had a heart attack. 31:17.190 --> 31:45.360 So Yugi's losing. He can't get anything good. He's fighting against his blue eyes and can't get it. And he keeps just getting these pieces, cards, which is just like an arm and two legs, and it's just like, I can't do anything with this. And then we get a big flashback sequence of Grandpa telling him as, like, a Force ghost. Like, you got to use these pieces to make this ultimate creature called exodia. He says, no one has ever summoned exodia, ever. I refuse to believe that. It's only five cards. It's not hard. 31:46.610 --> 31:50.400 I watched, like, five kids in fourth grade do this. 31:51.410 --> 32:35.280 It's not difficult. So Yugi keeps playing. He summons Dark magician, which is, like, a very famous card that requires two summons that he didn't use. And then to fight this, cavus summons all three of his blue eyes. And he's just like, I'm going to fuck you up. I own all the blue eyes in the world. And that's when Yugi finally pulls out exodia and plays them and wins instantly because it's a bullshit card set. And we just get, like, a hyper realistic not hyper realistic, but just a very detailed shot of kai Paul being blown away by the energy, and then tosses up some hands and opens kaiba's mind and shatters his evil personality and sends that to the Shadow realm. And then Grandpa, that's what happens. 32:38.130 --> 32:39.870 This is all subtext. 32:40.450 --> 32:42.030 That subtext. 32:43.730 --> 32:51.246 Apparently, the original, like, in the Japanese, the Shadow Room is just showed up like death. So when he sends people to the Shadow Room, he just should have killed. 32:51.278 --> 32:53.060 Them right in this. 32:53.510 --> 33:00.306 Because kai beams like a main character, he sends, like, the evil, corrupt part of kaiba's soul to the shadow. 33:00.418 --> 33:11.370 First of all, they're not playing a shadow game there. It's just a regular game. Unless he's, like, last minute, he throws them in. And then second of all, kyba is still a dick for the rest of the series. 33:13.470 --> 33:26.080 He's still a dick, but not evil. But you see, he goes from the glossy eyes to a detailed eyes, and that's kind. Of like, his clouded mind being I don't know. It's episode one. There's some bullshit in here. 33:26.850 --> 33:28.080 Sins away. 33:28.770 --> 33:31.146 He purifies him. He's called Jesus. 33:31.258 --> 33:33.150 Yeah, he just got baptized. 33:34.230 --> 33:36.210 He's born again. Kaiba. 33:37.830 --> 33:47.470 We get the last shot of the episode of a guy telling Lord pegasus that Kaiba, the ultimate champion of dull monsters, has finally been defeated, and that's where it ends. 33:47.630 --> 35:01.818 Wow. All right, and let's we will pick up in the second episode. There's a lot of bullshit we'll just gloss right through, so this will go pretty quick. But we are at school, we're seeing taya and joey battling, and Joey's like, hey, I got all the tough cards. You see, I stacked my deck with all the coolest raddest monsters. And taya is like, hey, you idiot, actually learn how to play the game and handle. He beats him, like, five times in a row. So he joey's talking with you. He's being like, I I don't know what's going on there's. I have all these cool monsters, yet I keep losing. And yugi's like, yeah, you have to play the game and not just throw some strong looking big, dumb idiot, you fucking hey, let me take you to Grandpa's, and he'll show you what's what. And Grandpa basically signs him up to be in full on yugio card boot camp. 35:01.984 --> 35:04.106 Hell yeah. We've all been through it. 35:04.128 --> 35:05.786 I think he hits on a sword. 35:05.978 --> 35:08.430 He's got a kendo like wooden sword. 35:09.330 --> 35:14.590 Yeah, it's intense for a card game. You play casually between glasses. 35:15.650 --> 35:17.454 Grandpa need an excuse to hit children. 35:17.572 --> 35:37.190 Let them have this. Damn, got to get my rage out. I couldn't hit that other kid because I don't know him. But you, you're my friend. I can wail on you. So we then go to Doug Dimmedome's dual monster. Dual dome. 35:38.090 --> 35:38.802 Yes. 35:38.956 --> 35:40.460 That's what I thought. 35:41.630 --> 35:59.950 We have, like, a grand tournament, which also very much confused me, as this was a very firmly established end of the tournament that everyone is watching, where they have the holographic monsters that Yugi was confused about in the last episode. 36:01.090 --> 36:06.610 Continuity, maybe the first time they used them because it was the finals. 36:07.590 --> 36:12.980 Yeah. But no one was like, holy shit, there's a dragon. Everyone's like, yeah. 36:14.470 --> 36:22.546 Because Yugi took kaiba's evil away, kaiba released his technology to the League. 36:22.658 --> 36:30.090 He does actually do that. Like, it's his company that runs the holographic stuff, and that's where a lot of the money comes from. weirdly. 36:31.950 --> 36:33.930 My brain. I'm so smart. 36:34.750 --> 36:36.346 You did it. You beat you. 36:36.368 --> 36:36.954 I've done it. 36:36.992 --> 36:40.220 I cracked the I fixed yugio. It's fixed, right? 36:41.250 --> 36:43.200 I put all the pieces back together. 36:44.050 --> 36:54.030 So, yeah. This is where we see the fabled Weavel. underwood, the bug brawler and Rex raptor the dino tube. 36:55.510 --> 37:03.330 You've attacked your way into my trap. But then how could your tiny dinosaur brain know when an enemy attacks? My vortex activates. 37:03.670 --> 37:04.498 Oh, no. 37:04.584 --> 37:09.910 It's a trap guard, which totally traps your King Rex in its inescapable embrace. 37:12.090 --> 37:57.010 They have their specialized decks, and we watch the gang watch the tournament. They're all just at home. joey is exhausted from his rigorous training. And Yugi is like, hey, actually watch these people play because they know what they're doing, and you just keep throwing strong monsters out. So we see Rex throws out a big King Rex, two headed dinosaur. And Wevil throws out a bug thing. Joey's like, hey, dinosaur beats the bug any day. 37:57.080 --> 38:15.660 I know physics real quick. Rex points out he brags that the two headed King Rex is his strongest card in his deck. And it's a 1601 200. That card is horseshit. Rex is terrible at this game. 38:16.510 --> 38:30.106 I think they're just starting small scale, so there's room to go for the series finale when it's like a 2 million point monster versus a 2 million point monster. 38:30.298 --> 38:33.040 Even guy in the fierce night was stronger than this. 38:35.270 --> 39:14.638 I don't draft the tournament. So, yeah, the bug has some magic cards that modify it, that make it extra strong, teaching joey the valuable lesson to learn how to play the goddamn game. And he Weavel wins. And the president and the creator of the monster dueling card game, Maximilian pegasus, of course, yes. We have a brilliant, beautiful four kids name. 39:14.724 --> 39:17.278 It is great. I love it. 39:17.364 --> 39:23.390 He presents him the prize and invites him to a special tournament in the duelist kingdom. 39:25.430 --> 39:33.758 I happen to notice weevil is very flushed when talking to pegasus. He's blushing a lot, sweating a lot. He's very into pegasus. 39:33.854 --> 39:35.458 Look, he's a beautiful man. 39:35.624 --> 39:36.434 Look at him. 39:36.552 --> 39:37.454 Have you seen him? 39:37.512 --> 39:39.590 I don't doubt. I don't deny it. 39:39.660 --> 39:44.034 It's just like, beautiful, long, flowing silver hair, red, total asshole. 39:44.162 --> 39:47.590 Just like type 9ft tall. 39:49.930 --> 39:54.730 I feel like this is just the most character development we ever get at Weavel of like, oh, there's someone in there. 39:54.880 --> 39:55.580 No. 39:56.190 --> 40:20.158 Sorry to jump in again, but season four, Rex and Evil are main characters. Oh, yes. They have gone from serious threats to comic foils in a matter of seconds. And now that they're being possessed by darts, the villain of season four, who is trying to take over the world with the seal of ori calcos. 40:20.174 --> 40:20.514 Oh, God. 40:20.552 --> 40:23.140 This shows a lot than I remember. 40:24.870 --> 40:26.210 Saying it out loud. 40:31.130 --> 40:46.460 Anyway, back in episode two, we have a mysterious package delivered by Grandpa to Yugi. He opens it up, and the very timely vhs tape is inside. 40:47.710 --> 40:48.730 Excellent. 40:49.890 --> 40:58.560 They put it in the TV, and they see the man on the TV, maximilian Vegasus. He's talking to me. 41:00.210 --> 41:03.146 He's talking to me. Oh my goodness. 41:03.338 --> 41:06.720 Little ow. Me. I don't battle for real. 41:08.370 --> 41:10.738 Sure not talking to tristan. No one is. 41:10.904 --> 42:37.406 No one. So, yeah, we get a message from Maximilian being like, hey, idiot, you beat the champion. And that's some horseshit. So I'm going to battle you. And this vhs tape is going to transport you into the magical realm of the Shadow realm. So everyone freezes except Yugi. And this image on the TV that is actually Maximilious, it's not very magic. So he's battled to a 15 minutes time limit game, and whoever has the most health points at the end wins. pegasus is like, I'm so skilled and so good that I'm like 18 steps ahead of you at any time. I can see your move before you know what you're going to do. So we get into it, they start playing. They allude to it later on as if it's like a big reveal. But he has one of the Millennium Item relics for an eye piece, so clearly he's seeing through the cards. I don't know why they're being coy about it. 42:37.508 --> 42:46.050 Well, he's not seeing through the cards. He's seeing through yuki's eyes. Who's seeing the cards? So it's not just X ray. 42:48.470 --> 42:52.770 Okay, got you. So even more horseshit. Okay. 42:52.840 --> 42:53.460 Yes. 42:55.510 --> 43:25.962 They'Re doing that. They talk about the Egyptian backstory of the game because everyone thinks Maximilian invented it, but he's like, oh, no, I just harnessed the power of the Egyptian pharaohs game, where they would actually play with real monsters and almost destroyed the world. So they had to lock away all the magic and seal the vault with the Millennium Items. So we get that going on in the background. 43:26.106 --> 43:33.754 And here we get a shot of the dark magician of chaos fighting relinquish, which is a deep tease for much further in the season. 43:33.882 --> 43:34.894 Don't spoil it. 43:34.932 --> 43:37.940 God, it's all gibberish. They've tuned out when I talk. 43:39.030 --> 44:27.058 Yes. I don't listen to him anymore anyway, so they keep fighting. Yugi is always a step behind, but when he realizes that Maximilian can see his cards, he decides, oh, what I'm going to do, so I can trick them, is just play a card directly from the deck that even I am not seeing. So it's a little play to put mystery in the field and at least not get counter moved every time. So we get some dark magician out playing millennium plays, his faceless mage and an illusion card. 44:27.144 --> 44:31.410 That millennium. You called pegasus Millennium. 44:33.190 --> 44:34.430 Maximilian. 44:34.590 --> 44:44.040 I was going to let it slide, Patrick. You said I was so invested in the shit. And the puzzle is the key to unlock the secrets of this. 44:44.410 --> 44:49.194 It's fun to watch. It is so boring to hear talked about. 44:49.392 --> 44:56.700 It's like explaining a dream to someone. Yeah, and then I made out with the thing, and then what happened? 44:58.510 --> 45:02.720 Sure, yeah. I'm doing my taxes in my head. Cool. 45:03.650 --> 45:07.294 Guys, we can't undercut what a podcast is that's what we're doing right now? 45:07.492 --> 45:08.698 Fair shush. 45:08.874 --> 45:10.240 They can't know. 45:11.490 --> 45:14.000 They shouldn't know that this is bad content. 45:15.010 --> 45:16.142 No, stop. 45:16.276 --> 45:47.782 Now. You've said the words, so yeah. Maximilian with the Millennium Item I he's playing the illusion card that captures the dark magician to turn it against Yugi. And just as the match is about to end, yugi has a monster. I forget what it was called summons skull. summons skull. 45:47.926 --> 45:48.522 Yes. 45:48.656 --> 45:49.434 Thank you. 45:49.552 --> 45:51.902 It makes a sound effect of a pissed off cat. 45:52.036 --> 46:28.726 Yes, it is delightful. So, yeah, just as that card is about to attack and make contact and win the game for Yugi, the time limit is reached and everything vanishes. So the win goes to Maximilian and dang. It foiled again by TV, by them monologuing for so goddamn long that Yugi could have easily won if he just played it without being like, I see through your ruse, old man. Let me explain your plan back to you. 46:28.908 --> 46:34.074 That's what I thought. He had 9 seconds, you know, started talking and I was like, Yugi kind. 46:34.112 --> 46:48.382 Of genius of pegasus to explain the whole history of dual monsters or whatever, because it lasts a good two minutes. And yugi's like invested too. He's like, oh, really? I don't believe that. But tell me more. It's like, I will oops, times run. 46:48.436 --> 46:59.138 Out because there's a 15 minutes time limit, but they have maybe a collective like eight turns between the two of them. If that so that wouldn't have taken up 15 minutes. 46:59.304 --> 47:30.650 Yeah, just the last round. Yugi just had to be like, okay, fuck you, I win, and just put the card down. But no, he had to be like, I see through your plan. Oh, you took over my magician. Well, this is how I'm going to counter that. I draw your attention to this diagram I drew. Instead of just playing the card and winning. So Maximilian wins, Yugi loses, and as punishment, the Millennium Eye steals the soul of Grandpa. 47:34.450 --> 47:38.800 Literally awful. That's like an actual bad thing. 47:40.290 --> 47:43.570 Grandpa's dying again. He dies every episode. 47:45.190 --> 47:58.310 It's common, it happens. So the soul of Grandpa is stolen and Maximilian is like, I'm going to get that puzzle box from you too, you idiot, and disappears. 47:59.370 --> 48:00.310 Idiot child. 48:00.380 --> 48:03.762 He just steals a puzzle box instead of his grandpa. 48:03.906 --> 48:05.302 I don't know. 48:05.356 --> 48:08.550 Why does everyone have to hurt yugi's grandpa? 48:09.290 --> 48:11.782 He likes hitting kids. They like hitting him also. 48:11.836 --> 48:19.146 Why can't yeah, he's just passed out on the couch. He's just laying there, but he's not even passed out. 48:19.168 --> 48:22.394 He's dead. Like, his soul has left his body. 48:22.512 --> 48:23.894 Holy gold. 48:24.022 --> 48:28.030 There's no way. The doctor is like, we'll keep him on life support. There's no life to support. 48:28.100 --> 48:30.810 He's dead, he's gone, he's empty. 48:30.970 --> 48:34.670 We see this at least once a week. Just a soulless husk. 48:36.770 --> 48:37.822 Shadow, right? 48:37.876 --> 48:39.954 Shadow gaming. Once a week. 48:40.152 --> 48:42.210 You ran into old peggy. 48:44.550 --> 48:45.780 Not this again. 48:46.630 --> 48:48.820 But yeah, that's where we end episode two. 48:49.450 --> 48:57.270 Great. Episode three is fun because there's no dueling in it. It's just backstory. 48:58.890 --> 49:03.020 One duel in the background of the characters we don't care about. At this point. 49:03.550 --> 49:14.490 There is one duel, but it's not a big dramatic one. And I'm about it. So here we go. We start off and Yugi is doing some dramatic school roof standing. 49:15.790 --> 49:19.470 Got to lean up on the chain link fence and look over the city quick. 49:19.540 --> 49:20.266 Yeah, bingo. 49:20.298 --> 49:29.220 Cart, check. Yugi lives as a grandpa, so assumably dead parents, check. Now his grandpa's gone. So it's a high school or living by himself. inexplicably. Also check. 49:29.670 --> 49:32.894 It's not inexplicable, though, because his grandpa is dead. 49:33.022 --> 49:42.070 I mean, you can tell the cops that my grandpa soul got stolen by this billionaire through it's going to be weird. Officer, please, please arrest this tape. 49:45.530 --> 50:48.970 But so he's just being upset about his grandpa's soul being stolen. And then we see joey at home. And he has also received a videotape, but it's not a sinister because it's from his little sister's Serenity. And she's like, I've missed you since mom took me away from you. And then there's a flashback of them crying and yelling. And then she says she wants to see him one more time. So I'm like, oh, God, this little girl is dying. We find out later that that's not true. But that's true. Yeah, it's for the drama. And then Yugi, he goes home to the game shop and he has an envelope with some cards in it. And the cards, they spell out an invitation and the details of a tournament in the duelist kingdom. So he has to do it so he can rescue his grandpa's soul. 50:49.550 --> 50:50.620 We're on board. 50:52.830 --> 50:56.826 And that's the weird thing. Everyone is playing for grandpa's soul. 50:57.018 --> 50:58.426 Everyone loves grandpa. 50:58.538 --> 51:02.400 Everyone's like, I don't know who this old man is, but I guess I'll play to win. 51:03.910 --> 51:12.110 He needs his soul back. The tournament winner also gets $3 million, apparently. 51:12.190 --> 51:13.060 Hell yeah. 51:14.230 --> 51:33.420 Which is a lot of money. And joey is like, money, make me go see sister. And it was at this point that I was like, wow, I didn't think joey would have some dramatic, sad storyline. He just doesn't seem like the guy. 51:34.510 --> 51:44.320 Yeah, he's the hot headed sidekick. He's not the, like, sympathetic I'm doing this for Family Guy. I said the word family guy. I'm so sorry. 51:45.330 --> 51:47.680 I think we all do it for Family Guy. 51:49.330 --> 51:52.190 Doing it for me, familia in spite. 51:54.390 --> 52:16.950 I do it for Bob belcher and his family. Okay, good family. So Yugi and joey are sitting up on the roof and they're reminiscing about when they met. And Yugi, he had the Millennium Puzzle and he wished for real friends. And then tristan and joey came and they were not friendly. 52:19.130 --> 52:22.570 Only I had some friends. Look, some bullies. 52:24.030 --> 52:27.980 Maybe I can change them, I can use them. 52:28.430 --> 52:30.250 I can fix you, joey. 52:32.850 --> 52:56.510 So they took it from him and were like running away and they were like, hey, shorty, can't get it. And then joey was like, yeah, we were just teasing you. We were preparing you for some real bullies. But the irony is that Yugi had to protect tristan and joey from a bully. A bigger bully. 52:56.590 --> 52:57.554 A Joe just character. 52:57.602 --> 52:58.200 Yeah. 53:00.970 --> 53:08.946 This is a large boy. And he beat up Yugi instead of tristan. And joe? 53:08.978 --> 53:13.340 Well, he had already sort of beating them up. Like he just added him to the list. 53:14.030 --> 53:20.794 Yeah. And because Yugi is obviously a child that got the big bully expelled, this. 53:20.832 --> 53:23.506 Bully is literally like four times the size of yogi. 53:23.558 --> 53:28.030 He's like one of those super seniors. They can't graduate. 53:28.770 --> 53:29.918 He never left. 53:30.004 --> 53:31.600 He's a full adult man. 53:31.970 --> 53:36.660 He doesn't even go there. All of his friends are in high school. 53:37.030 --> 53:41.940 He got a football scholarship. He's going to go play for the NFL next year. 53:45.770 --> 54:15.926 After that happened, joey apologized for being a butthole and then they became bffs and they're like, we have to save grandpa together. And then we jump to the ship that all of the people who are invited to go to the Duelist Kingdom are going to board. And there are some big security men on the ship talking about how they were all picked because they're talented players. 54:16.118 --> 54:24.994 Nothing strange about eccentric millionaire inviting a bunch of kids onto his private ship to go to his private island to play a game he invented. Nothing weird at all. 54:25.192 --> 54:27.042 I don't like that show. 54:27.096 --> 54:31.390 Came out right around the time of the Michael Jackson trials. Not related. 54:31.470 --> 54:33.170 Just saying. Not related. 54:35.930 --> 54:43.160 This is the good world where things didn't go bad, right? Things started getting bad. 54:43.530 --> 54:47.270 I'm just waiting for the documentary leaving Duelist Kingdom. 54:54.330 --> 54:58.140 Wow, does love cartoon character. I'm just saying. 54:58.830 --> 54:59.830 Stop it. 55:00.000 --> 55:31.954 Stop it. So while they're waiting in line to get on the boat, they have like these star chips to prove that they were invited. joey is found trying to sneak on and then Yugi is like, what's going on over there? And then everyone gets distracted. And then we're shown taya and tristan and they're like, now's our chance. And then they sneak on the boat and I guess Yugi has two star chips, so he gives one of his star chips to joey so then they can both get on the boat. hooray. 55:32.002 --> 55:33.510 That's real friendship. 55:36.170 --> 55:43.210 And so each of them only have one. But I wasn't completely clear on what these things do at all. 55:43.280 --> 55:44.300 Yeah, they don't. 55:45.150 --> 55:45.900 Great. 55:46.670 --> 55:52.206 Yeah, isn't it? Basically once they're on the island, they battle for each other's starships and they. 55:52.228 --> 55:55.760 Got to collect a certain amount to make it to the final round. Yeah. 55:56.530 --> 56:05.374 Okay, cool. So there's a pretty blonde lady walking past and she overhears them talking about how they each only have a fully. 56:05.422 --> 56:09.170 Grown adult woman among twelve year olds. 56:09.590 --> 56:12.098 That everyone is instantly horny for. 56:12.184 --> 56:18.100 And she suggests them for their, I don't know, room keys. Yeah. 56:20.650 --> 56:58.530 I love her. So she goes up to them and Joey's like, hi pretty lady. And she pretty much tells Yugi like, I can tell this guy's a chump. You should dump him, just leave him. And she was like, you either win or you get crushed. And then joey says, crush me. And that is ahead of his time. It's totally ahead of its time because my God, incredible. And also completely inappropriate, but also for a child's show. 56:58.680 --> 57:06.390 Yeah. Rated TV y seven. And they're like, Step on my throat, daddy. 57:08.730 --> 57:13.640 Maybe not that far, but ruin me, mommy. Okay? 57:14.810 --> 57:48.980 Her name is My. Did I say that? She introduces herself. Yeah, this is my and then joey, they're like, inside. And Joey's complaining about the rooms. And then Wevil and the Dino boy come in, and they're like, weevil is like, hey, you're Yugi. And weevil wants to beat yugi because yugi beat Kaiba. So that means he's the best. And it was at this point that I wrote this note. We will's. Voice is insufferable. Oh my God. 57:49.910 --> 58:00.760 Once he was established as a real character and not, oh yeah, we're going to watch a bullshit tournament game and never talk about it again, it's like, oh no, you're committing to this. 58:04.250 --> 58:06.694 I think he's just that I will. 58:06.732 --> 58:10.310 Know what you're talking about. I'm going to beat you, yuki. 58:10.650 --> 58:13.900 Yuki, I'm going to beat you with my insect card. 58:17.630 --> 58:18.902 I have a cyther. 58:18.966 --> 58:21.740 For some reason that's not even the right name. 58:23.470 --> 58:53.442 Come caribon. And then they briefly mention more rules that come into effect while they're on the island, and then they don't talk about them. And I was like, honestly, thank goodness. And there are people on the ship, they're like, swapping cards, trading cards, getting stronger decks, but they're also getting an idea of what the competitors decks are like because they get to see some of their cards. 58:53.586 --> 59:05.226 Hold up, here's another complaint I have. Okay, we see his hands, like, as they're trading cards. One of those kids has the fucking right arm of exodia. He's got exodia in his hand. 59:05.328 --> 59:09.340 Listen, the assets were limited. They didn't want to pay for. 59:12.750 --> 59:20.334 Every card that is shown in this show is like it's detailed. They're real cards, and I can appreciate that. 59:20.452 --> 59:23.342 Just put the swing guardian dragon to the fortress or whatever. 59:23.396 --> 59:31.698 Why the heck be so like, you probably have the assets from, like, later episodes. Just show something we haven't seen yet and we'll come into play later. 59:31.784 --> 59:35.170 Imagine if we forgot a blue eyes white dragon. 59:36.230 --> 59:40.680 It's the same level. It's supposed to be super rare. So it's like, why has he got it? 59:42.250 --> 59:51.590 But so then we're shown May complaining to someone about how her room doesn't have a shower, to which I said, wow, maya is such a Karen. 59:52.570 --> 59:56.646 I mean, if I'm on a shift, Rick God knows how long with a bunch of kids, I want to shower. 59:56.758 --> 01:00:47.306 I guess so. But she was like, Call your supervisor. And I was like, wow. And the dino boy hears her complaining about her room, and he's like, oh, well, pretty woman that is probably as old as my mother. I have a luxury room because I'm a winner. mommy says I'm a winner, and she goes with him. And then tristan and taya are on, oh my gosh, I forgot because nothing comes of this. They're on the deck and they see a kid with white hair come out and they're like, oh, hey, isn't that bakura from school? And then I just realized for the rest of this episode, like, I forgot that this happened because they don't talk about him again. 01:00:47.408 --> 01:00:48.380 For now. 01:00:49.550 --> 01:00:51.642 For now. Obviously he's important. 01:00:51.696 --> 01:00:54.726 Just sowing the seeds for Battle Island. 01:00:54.838 --> 01:00:56.800 This is peak riding, guys. 01:00:58.050 --> 01:00:59.054 I do like this. 01:00:59.092 --> 01:01:01.198 This is how to foreshadow in the. 01:01:01.204 --> 01:01:07.986 Previous episodes when they're playing in class. You do see pakora in there. So it's not just like a throwaway. I just like that detail. Yeah. 01:01:08.008 --> 01:01:11.010 Everyone knows the rule of checkoff's. Background character. 01:01:14.630 --> 01:01:34.826 Then we're in the luxury room and my she's like, wow, nice room, child. I'll tell you what, I'm going to duel you, and if you win, you get a kiss. And she doesn't say this in this scene, but if she wins, she gets the room. 01:01:35.008 --> 01:01:36.300 Shitty trade off. 01:01:37.070 --> 01:01:40.702 Well, he's a child. He doesn't know any better. 01:01:40.836 --> 01:01:43.198 That's all he knows about sex so far. 01:01:43.284 --> 01:02:16.550 Just kissing in a room alone with a girl, that's sex. And then joey shows Yugi the cards that he traded for, and Yugi gives him a card also. And then we're shown back in the luxury room, they're using my deck to duel. And after they shuffle it and cut the deck or whatever, she already knows the order of the cards. And it is at that point that dinoboy is like, I made a mistake. 01:02:17.450 --> 01:02:18.690 I got hustled. 01:02:18.850 --> 01:02:31.898 Yep. And then we'll come out and joins Yugi and joey on the deck. And Wevil is like, I heard you have the exodia. What is it called? 01:02:31.984 --> 01:02:34.098 The exodia. The forbidden. 01:02:34.294 --> 01:02:42.878 I heard you have the exodia cards. May I see them and hold them in my two hands like ruby little claws? And yugi is like, yeah, sure. Do you? 01:02:42.884 --> 01:02:44.000 Of course I don't see. 01:02:45.730 --> 01:02:46.058 Them. 01:02:46.084 --> 01:02:48.930 Who already threatened to kick my ass through cards? 01:02:50.390 --> 01:03:04.360 Of course you can hold my most powerful cards. And he gives them to him. And then we'll walks off to the side of the ship and tosses them into the ocean. Of course. 01:03:05.530 --> 01:03:11.130 Who would have suspected that from someone with the name Weavel, which sounds like a combination of weasel and evil. 01:03:11.870 --> 01:03:13.850 He's just an evil weeb. 01:03:16.270 --> 01:03:17.850 Shit. Am I the Weavel? 01:03:18.910 --> 01:03:21.258 You know what, Brendan? I hate to say it. 01:03:21.424 --> 01:03:24.860 I mean, you might be if you have to ask. 01:03:26.590 --> 01:03:35.890 And I lost my mind at this. joey just jumps off the side of the ship to grab these cards that were thrown into the literal ocean. 01:03:37.110 --> 01:03:38.286 It's ridiculous. 01:03:38.398 --> 01:03:46.750 And he's pretty much like he's like, I have to get the cards. I have to get them so yogi or me can win and I can see my sister's Serenity. 01:03:46.910 --> 01:03:51.606 I also like that, name one kid joey. One kid serenity they knew that she. 01:03:51.628 --> 01:04:00.970 Was going to do good things. They looked at joey. As soon as he was born, he opened his mouth and said, hey, Ma. And they said, oh, shit, Joe. 01:04:02.670 --> 01:04:09.398 He's destined to work at a delia. 01:04:09.414 --> 01:04:18.320 And tristan, luckily, they're still on the deck, and they see what's going on. Oh, Yugi also jumps in the ocean. Just solidarity. I don't know. 01:04:18.770 --> 01:04:19.978 He's drowning. 01:04:20.154 --> 01:04:24.050 Oh, yeah. Well, he starts drowning after Yugi jumps in. 01:04:24.120 --> 01:04:25.060 True. Yeah. 01:04:26.550 --> 01:05:03.260 And so they toss down a rope ladder, and then they come up. Thank goodness. And then we see Dino Boy has lost the room because of course he did. And then joey feels bad because all he got was three of the cards. And he gets all dramatic and sad about his sister. And it's at this point we find out that she's not dying. She just has bad eyes. And soon she's going to go completely blind. And he says that there's no more surgeries they can do, but there is one operation that if they do it, it will fix it. 01:05:05.150 --> 01:05:18.302 Also, I need to go back to the tape that she sent because she sent a videotape of her saying, so you can see me one last time, which doesn't make sense if she's going blind. 01:05:18.366 --> 01:05:25.634 I thought it was so I can see you. Did she say see me so I can see you? I was hoping I could see you one last time. 01:05:25.832 --> 01:05:32.406 See her one last time. Because it was just a videotape of her. She would not see him through that. 01:05:32.508 --> 01:05:38.426 No, I'm saying I wanted to see you one last time. Come visit me. I thought that's what she said. 01:05:38.528 --> 01:05:39.642 We'll have to check. 01:05:39.776 --> 01:05:51.200 Yeah. I don't remember specifically. I thought it was just, I see me, like, here's my face before I'm dead. It's like, no, that's not how blindness works. 01:05:51.570 --> 01:05:54.954 I don't know why she wouldn't just call him on the telephone. 01:05:55.082 --> 01:05:56.750 No, tapes are easier. 01:05:57.890 --> 01:06:14.498 Mailing it. But yeah. So he needs the money from the tournament to pay for his sister's operation. And then all of the buds, they're like, we're going to do it together. We're going to win. And that's episode three. 01:06:14.664 --> 01:06:31.338 I do want to point out that from the boat deck or like the balcony they're on, it seems like they just threw into the ocean. I was like, oh, no. There are a few people us now in the ocean. And then when they jump, that's like seven stories. They should have died when they hit water. 01:06:31.504 --> 01:06:34.858 Oh, yeah. That water is like cement when they hit it. 01:06:35.024 --> 01:06:39.100 Yeah, it's way up there. yuki is a small boy. 01:06:39.630 --> 01:06:43.530 He got brittle bones. He inherited them from his grandpa. 01:06:44.670 --> 01:07:03.426 All right, well, okay, hold on. Wait. Back in the episode, I got to see what she says we're going to find so you don't forget your little sister's face. It seems like I'm running out of time. And then she says, I was hoping to see you one more time. But she does say, don't forget your little sister's face because they haven't seen. 01:07:03.448 --> 01:07:05.540 Each other in, like, years, obviously. 01:07:05.910 --> 01:07:06.514 Interesting. 01:07:06.632 --> 01:07:07.770 Joe is also going blonde. 01:07:07.790 --> 01:07:08.262 Obviously. 01:07:08.396 --> 01:07:09.510 It's jeanette. 01:07:10.090 --> 01:07:13.190 Anyway, thank you for clarifying. 01:07:13.690 --> 01:07:19.020 You're welcome. Anything for you. Do get well, I don't know why I said that. 01:07:19.710 --> 01:07:21.290 You heard it here, folks. 01:07:21.790 --> 01:07:22.490 Anything. 01:07:22.640 --> 01:07:28.406 So you're helping me move next week. Already I have the audio recording. It's a verbal contract. 01:07:28.518 --> 01:07:29.690 Oh, gosh. 01:07:30.750 --> 01:07:31.210 Oh. 01:07:31.280 --> 01:07:32.346 Ten years from now. 01:07:32.448 --> 01:07:39.680 And hey, I know we haven't spoken since the incident, but I need to bring you in for one last job. 01:07:41.010 --> 01:07:42.202 Oh, my goodness. 01:07:42.346 --> 01:07:42.830 All right. 01:07:42.900 --> 01:07:53.700 For anyone playing along at home with the bingo card, the ribbon quest made, we almost got bingo. We were just missing the gay that would have gone the full webo card. 01:07:54.390 --> 01:07:55.250 Dang. 01:07:55.910 --> 01:08:04.310 What we need to do, we need to remix that bingo card so we each have a different one so everyone has a different chance at getting bingo. 01:08:04.810 --> 01:08:05.670 That's a good idea. 01:08:05.740 --> 01:08:06.520 Good idea. 01:08:07.870 --> 01:08:12.490 Well, that's the show. How are we all feeling? 01:08:14.830 --> 01:08:28.910 I'm just a tiny bit tempted to keep watching. I'm like, look, it's all on Netflix. You've got nothing going on in your life going downhill from here. The world's on fire outside my door. 01:08:29.490 --> 01:08:31.120 City is literally on fire. 01:08:31.730 --> 01:09:21.514 Might as well go out swinging. It was a lot better than I thought it would be. Like thinking retroactively, I was like, it's probably not as good as I remember it, but I was pleasantly surprised that they did a pretty good job. In general, the music and the sound effects are all really striking. I mean, not just the intro music, but a lot of the card game sound effects, like the life point meters and the summoning and all that. It was really well done. I don't know if those are the original sound effects or that's what four kids did with them, but I really enjoyed that. Most of the acting is really good, and all the strange ones are just because the voices are a little out there. Wevil we got a lot of characters. 01:09:21.562 --> 01:09:23.338 To fill looking at evil. 01:09:23.434 --> 01:09:44.920 But surprisingly, like, for all the monologuing there is in the card fighting, they do keep the pace moving faster than some other long running anime series I've seen. There are just some episodes of, like, naruto or one piece where you're like, God, just please kill me or get on with it. At this point, I don't care. 01:09:45.690 --> 01:10:11.630 Honestly, it works really well with this because it is like a turn based card game. Because when they stop the action in people fighting and being super powerful and swinging swords at each other just to be like, so for my next attack, I will do it's like, no, just attack, idiot. But for this, it works to be like, okay, I need to strategize. I'm working through my moves. Let's talk this out. Opponent. 01:10:12.290 --> 01:10:22.420 Yeah, they do hit a point where every monster has some sort of effect. Or how they have to explain everything. But once they get enough of the ground rules down, the matches do flow a bit better. 01:10:22.870 --> 01:10:41.878 Yeah. You could tell they were still in the tutorial phase of teaching the game to the kids of like, okay, this first one just monster verse monster episode two. We get introduction of trap cards and magic cards and the other modifiers and stuff. So they're still ramping up the teaching aspect. 01:10:42.054 --> 01:10:48.060 Didn't even get to field cards or ritual summons or fusions or synchronous so much. 01:10:49.390 --> 01:10:51.070 There's so many cards to buy. 01:10:51.140 --> 01:10:57.742 Kids buy them all, spend money. dugan, are we there yet? 01:10:57.876 --> 01:11:35.226 Yes. So as we're talking about four kids and if I would watch this as a child, I'm already there, baby. I watch so much up as a kid. This is one of the shows I actually remember full episodes of like in the back of my brain. I specifically remember I'm sure between the two of you, the knowledge is in there somewhere. They're like fighting through a cave system with an illusionary opponent or like siblings of illusionary people. 01:11:35.408 --> 01:11:44.714 Yeah. At the end where they fight the monks that lie and tell the truth and they have to fight the gate guardian with the labyrinth. 01:11:44.762 --> 01:12:22.140 Yeah, I think so. Yeah. That's the only full episode I remember of TV that isn't like spongebob or something I watched 10 million times just being like, oh, this stuck in my brain for some reason. So hell yeah. I love it. I honestly forgot it started in everyday world. I just remember when they get to the island, the island and everything has sort of like a wild, not quite post apocalyptic, but like everything's like battle thing set up in nature. I only remember that aspect of it. 01:12:22.590 --> 01:12:30.918 Yeah, it gets crazier with other series because it gets into the future. And I think they're playing on motorcycles at one point while riding. 01:12:31.014 --> 01:12:31.722 Oh boy. 01:12:31.776 --> 01:12:34.030 Just seeing it gets nuts. 01:12:35.810 --> 01:12:38.240 Well, this was fun. I had a good time. 01:12:38.770 --> 01:12:54.420 This was a blast from the past. I very much need to restrain myself from looking at cards because I know I have the addictive personality that will just fully invest hundreds of dollars into building a deck again. And I will never play. 01:12:56.650 --> 01:13:01.400 That's why I left mine at my parent house. I can't have that temptation near me. 01:13:02.330 --> 01:13:12.338 You got to know your own control. Well, thank you Griffin, so much for joining us and sharing your yugio knowledge. 01:13:12.514 --> 01:13:19.820 Oh, yes, I mean, I was glad I was able to provide all of the info you didn't need to know. 01:13:21.970 --> 01:13:29.422 Well, where can people find you online? What new stuff do you have coming out that you can talk about? 01:13:29.556 --> 01:13:56.566 Yeah, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at griffin. Puwatu. That's Puatu. G-R-I-F-F-I-N. I'm glad I gave that in reverse. I have two shows streaming right now. You can watch Esakai cheat magician tuesdays at twelve Pacific on crunchy Roll. And you can binge watch all of ultramarine Magmail on Netflix. I'm the lead characters on both those shows. And yeah, nice. 01:13:56.748 --> 01:13:57.362 Excellent. 01:13:57.426 --> 01:14:17.786 And if you have a show you would like us to watch, including one of those that Griffin stars in, you can send animate recommendations to areweevariat@gmail.com. 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