Cashing in on Our Pizza Bets (Kinda Funny's First Pizza Party) - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

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Kinda Funny Gamescast: Cashing in on Our Pizza Bets (Kinda Funny's First Pizza Party) – April 9, 2026

Episode Overview

This lively episode marks Kinda Funny's first on-air pizza party, celebrating a beloved in-house tradition: the pizza bet! Hosts Blessing Adeoye Jr., SnowBikeMike, Roger, Andy Cortez, and Barrett gather to cash in and debate the wins and losses of their numerous video game-related pizza bets. The episode blends discussion about the origins and rules of pizza bets, the resolution of several high-profile wagers, a spirited debate about pizza itself, and a hilarious ongoing quest to verify video game trivia. The tone is energetic, inclusive, and full of classic Kinda Funny banter.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Setting Up the Pizza Bet Party

• Introduction (02:10)

  • Blessing kicks off the episode, noting it’s April 9th and teasing the fun ahead.
  • The group celebrates with live pizza, emphasizing the tradition of making bets for pizza over video game predictions and debates.
  • Shoutout to Katie G. (KDG) for tracking pizza bets and keeping everyone honest.

• Defining the Rules: What is a Pizza Bet? (07:06)

  • To make a pizza bet official, there must be a handshake (virtual or otherwise). No handshake, no bet!
    • Blessing: “A pizza bet is only official if the handshake occurs.” (07:30)
  • The team resolves to be more diligent about recording and enforcing bets.

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2. Cashing In: Resolved Bets & Deliveries

• Breakdown of Bet Categories (05:38)

  • “Cashing” – Bets decided and being paid out now.
  • “Decidables” – Can likely be judged with further discussion.
  • “Pending” – Still awaiting events or results.

• First Cash Bet: Crimson Desert Sales (08:50)

  • Roger bet Crimson Desert would sell 10 million copies in one week; Blessing bet against.
  • Result: Only ~4 million sold in two weeks. Roger loses.
  • Roger admits, “The streets were talking... [but] Black Myth Wukong had the backing of the Chinese government.” (09:28)
  • Blessing is awarded a pizza.

• Mario Galaxy Rocket Bet (12:20)

  • Blessing vs. Tim: Will the actual rocket be in the Mario Galaxy movie?
  • Blessing wins; Tim owes a pizza (but isn’t present).

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3. Deciding ‘Decidables’: Contentious or Fuzzy Bets

• Cliff McDuff Debacle (14:12 — 23:32)

  • Andy bets the Crimson Desert protagonist’s name is “Cliff McDuff.” Blessing disagrees.
  • After reviewing developer interviews and evidence, the panel rules it’s unclear—he was “McDuff” early in development, but not officially at release.
  • Resolution: It’s a draw; Andy and Blessing split the cost of a pizza for the others.
    • Mike: “I need clear and definitive evidence… right now no one has brought up any sort of last name.” (18:04)

• Silksong GOTY Prediction (24:40)

  • Mike bets Silksong would be #2 on the Kinda Funny GOTY list, Barrett against.
  • Result: Silksong lands at #3. Mike loses, owes Barrett a pizza.

• Fable Release Date Bet (Decidable/Pending) (27:10)

  • Mike says Fable is coming first half of 2026, Greg says not.
  • Consensus: Unlikely to release before summer; tracking for autumn/holidays (pending final verdict).

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4. Pizza Culture and Community Q&A (33:44)

• Chat shouts out favorite pizza places and toppings.
  • SnowBikeMike: Loyal customer at local shops and Vinnie’s (Tahoe); Tony’s Pizza in SF for the best local slice.
  • Roger: “Shout out to Avelino’s. That’s where I used to go after school every Tuesday.” (34:30)
  • Blessing: San Francisco’s Nazario’s; recalls Indian pizza fusion.
  • The panel debates local vs. chain shops, frozen pizza brands (Red Baron and DiGiorno battle for supremacy), and classic party memories.

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5. Run Through of Pending Bets (40:36)

• Sample Bets Discussed:

  • Fable will/won’t come out in 2026 (most favor release this year; December likely).
  • Will three Xbox first-party games make Kinda Funny’s GOTY?
    • Current frontrunners: Forza Horizon, Fable, and Gears.
    • Roger: “If Gears hits the way I hope it does, it’s definitely on my list… I’m so emotionally excited for this game.” (44:17)
  • Will LEGO Batman make the GOTY discussion? Skepticism, but hope if it innovates on Skywalker Saga’s formula.
  • Will 2XKO shut down in two years? (Greg making a personal bet against a longtime fan, Herbie.)

• Other Miscellaneous Pending Bets: (Rapid Fire, 64:16+)

  • Half-Life 3 launch predictions.
  • Price points for Halo Campaign Evolved, the Steam Machine.
  • Zelda Ocarina of Time remake rumors and hopes.
  • Whether Star Wars Eclipse will ever release (Blessing “bets a million pizzas” it won’t—with no handshake to legitimize).
  • Whether there will be TV-original Last of Us content by 2028.

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6. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “We will be eating on this podcast.” – Blessing (11:19)
• “Sometimes we cross our fingers behind our back … sometimes I wink at the camera. Sometimes I'm being a goofy guy.” – Blessing, about unofficial bets (07:26)
• “If we’re going to be real about the Four Horsemen of Xbox ... it is tracking for autumn or holiday.” – Mike, on Xbox’s 2026 lineup (41:06)
• “There’s no way they name this man Cliff McDuff. That’s a dumbass name.” – Barrett (17:37)
• “You love these kind of... the sexy conversations. You love the cool, flirty characters. Now, what if I said there was a little mystery into fields of mystery?” – Mike, pitching Grave Seasons to Roger (59:49)
• “A pizza bet is only official if the handshake occurs. I agree. Gotta do a handshake.” – Blessing (07:30)
• “We gotta stop going to donuts … insane price.” – Mike, on pricey pizza orders (25:46)

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7. Audience Questions and Side Conversations

• Favorite frozen pizza: Red Baron, DiGiorno, Bagel Bites, and Pizza Rolls get shout-outs.
• Regional rivalries: San Francisco vs. New York vs. Buffalo pizzas.
• Shower pizza: One viewer eats Domino’s in the shower after marathon runs—panel is both intrigued and confused.
• Ongoing attempts to confirm if "Cliff McDuff" was ever official—Andy continues digging through transcripts and videos live.
• Katie G. (the spreadsheet savior) sends a $2 super chat handshake.

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8. Housekeeping and Wrap-up

• Reminder about how to support Kinda Funny and get ad-free content on Patreon or YouTube membership.
• Several ad breaks are skipped in this summary.
• Rapid-fire background bets and unresolved long-term wagers (65:16+).
• The show wraps with playful ribbing about who ate the most pizza, logistics around intermittent fasting, and Andy still chasing the elusive McDuff answer.
• Blessing: “Until next time, it’s been our pleasure to serve you.” (72:20)

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Timestamps for Key Segments:

• Start and Opening Banter: 02:10
• Defining Pizza Bets & Handshake Rule: 07:06
• First Cash Bet (Crimson Desert): 08:50
• Deciding on Cliff McDuff: 14:12–23:32
• Silksong GOTY Cash-in: 24:40
• Pizza Culture Discussion: 33:44
• Pending Bet Rundown: 40:36
• Honorable Mentions & Super Chats: (Throughout, esp. from 68:06)

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Summary Takeaways

This episode is a microcosm of what makes Kinda Funny unique: inside jokes, deeply nerdy video game minutiae, genuine friendship and playful shade, plus an unmistakable love of food. It establishes clear processes for future pizza bets, checks in on dozens of active and decided wagers (from silly to serious), and leaves the door open for even more shenanigans as new games release.

Whether you’re a longtime “Best Friend” or a new listener, this episode offers a perfect blend of laughs, lore, and community engagement — all over slices of pizza.

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Notable Quote for the Road:
“A pizza bet is only official if the handshake occurs.” – Blessing (07:30)

Transcript

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[Blessing]

Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Gamescast for Wednesday, April 9th. April 9th Andy all right. None of that March stuff you've been doing over there and you call it a month. March all month. Get come on, it's April.

[Barrett]

Look at the dock.

[Blessing]

April.

[Barrett]

Goodness gracious.

[Blessing]

April 9, 2026 I want your host blessing, Adioa Junior. I'm joined by the master of hype Snow Mike.

[Mike]

Mike Les, thanks for putting this on. Thanks for making sure I'm on it. Oh, because I'm excited for this episode today.

[Blessing]

This is gonna be a really fun episode. We're also joined by the taste maker, Roger the Corny.

[Roger]

A lot of wrongs are going to be righted today.

[Blessing]

Oh bless.

[Roger]

I didn't wr, we're going to do some math. We're going to have a conversation.

[Blessing]

And of course we're joined by the one and only Nitro rifle Andy Cortez.

[Barrett]

I'm going to be reminded about a lot of wrongs being righted. I don't remember these bets.

[Blessing]

Well, Shout out.

[Barrett]

We throw out a lot of bets here.

[Roger]

We throw a lot of bets.

[Blessing]

What if I told you that we throw out bets than you might think. Shout out to the one and only Katie G. AKA who has helped record the pizza bets. The rhythm. Even though the cast and the the staff here are kind of funny, we're asked to record our own pizza bets. Let me tell you, I compared the sheet that we have versus the sheet that KDG has.

[Mike]

It's not tracking theirs.

[Blessing]

Y' all gotta tracking theirs. We gotta remember.

[Roger]

I gotta be honest, I think. I think I muted that Slack channel. Jesus, I forgot about it.

[Mike]

That's a Slack channel.

[Blessing]

There's a Slack channel, right? No, it's a. It's a link. It's a Google sheet.

[Roger]

I thought it was a Slack channel.

[Blessing]

We have an internal link. Don't say it. Because we don't want other people to get. Yeah, we have an internal link that you go to when you're. When we make a pizza bet. Go in there, put in the information. But we have KDG to save us. Of course.

[Roger]

No one told me about that.

[Blessing]

We. It was a slack about the whole thing. That's the slack.

[Roger]

I muted that one.

[Blessing]

You muted the general Slack channel? Of course. This is kinda Funny gamescast. If you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com kindafunnygamesh remember, we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com kindafunny so thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm twining for now, let's begin with topic of the show.

[Roger]

Hey, that's good. That's good.

[Mike]

It's pizza pizza day.

[Blessing]

It's Kinda Funny's first pizza party. Everybody. Come on, clap it up. Come on, clap it up.

[Mike]

Clap it up. Clap it up.

[Blessing]

Clap it up.

[Roger]

Order some pizza, everybody.

[Blessing]

Of course. Oh, thank you so much Bear for bringing up the pizza bet jingle and graphic that we have made. Of course, here at Kinda Funny we have a tradition that started probably within the last few years of whenever there's a disagreement, we make a pizza bet. And so me and Roger are like, oh, I think X thing. Roger thinks Y thing. All right, you Think that you feel that so strongly. Let's make a pizza bet. Turns out Crimson Desert isn't going to sell 10 million copies.

[Roger]

We'll talk about it.

[Blessing]

All right. Come on, get real, Roger.

[Roger]

Internal numbers. You never know.

[Blessing]

This guy's still in March. Just like Andy. Jump to the future, of course, doing this pizza party. I got a super chat question for you guys. What's your favorite pizza spot? And what are your favorite toppings?

[Roger]

Oh, I like this. That's good.

[Blessing]

Let's have a conversation. Everybody. In the super chats again. Like I said, shout out to KDG for helping us track a lot of these things. I've combined our Internal tracking with KDG's tracking to help us check up on a lot of these things because we are going to be cashing in some pizza bets today. We're also going to be checking in on. On a large list of pizza bets.

[Mike]

A large list.

[Blessing]

A large list. I have it divided.

[Mike]

People just be whipping out bets. Okay.

[Blessing]

I didn't know you be whooping out bets. I have it divided into three different categories. All right, Our cashing category. Those are the bets that we're cashing in today. Right here, right now. We have our decidables. That's the category that we can maybe make a verdict right here, right now. They're kind of pending, but, like, I think we can get to the bottom of this.

[Roger]

I'm excited.

[Blessing]

And then we have our pending. These are the pizza bets that are still. Wait. We gotta wait to see what happens.

[Roger]

We can predict. We can predict.

[Blessing]

So we're gonna start off with our cashin here.

[Mike]

Oh, well, really quick. What's up, pizza party? Wouldn't be a pizza party without some Coca Cola. Okay. I wanted to make sure. I know you guys got your Diet Cokes. You know what I mean? But I wanted to make sure we. Your Diet Coke guy now too.

[Blessing]

I'm a Coke Zero guy. Yeah.

[Roger]

Wow.

[Blessing]

I'm starting to count calories a little bit.

[Mike]

Wow. I didn't know that.

[Blessing]

I'm trying to. You heard it.

[Barrett]

You heard it.

[Blessing]

This is news to me. The summer's coming. Coming through. You want this?

[Barrett]

Well, I was gonna go exchange for a cz.

[Blessing]

Oh, thank you.

[Mike]

Am I the only one now drinking the original Cokes?

[Barrett]

I do every once in a while.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Way too much sugary. Wow.

[Blessing]

It makes my teeth roll. Gritty.

[Roger]

Okay, that seems like a personal issue.

[Blessing]

Coming through. I'm trying to get. Come on. I'm trying to get that six pack your teeth gritty with the regular cooks I feel them pity.

[Mike]

Didn't know that.

[Blessing]

You know, like, when you grind your teeth and it's like there's a little bit of, like.

[Roger]

Yeah, I do that at night.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I feel like coke.

[Roger]

Really?

[Blessing]

Apparently it's not.

[Roger]

I be grinding my sleep.

[Barrett]

There's no.

[Blessing]

Give me a diet. Wow. I'll take a diet.

[Mike]

Well, then let's get to it, then.

[Barrett]

Let's.

[Roger]

Let's crack it open. Crack it open, everybody.

[Blessing]

As we're doing this, right. Another thing I want to shout out again. I said, cass, let's be more diligent about recording our pizza bets. The other thing I want to. I want to say, because KDG has some stuff in there where I'm like, was this really a pizza bet, or was this just a statement that somebody. Just joking, you know, Was I joking when I said.

[Roger]

Yeah, exactly. Sometimes we cross our fingers behind our back.

[Blessing]

Sometimes. Sometimes I wink at the camera. Sometimes I'm being a goofy guy.

[Roger]

Silly.

[Blessing]

Guys, I want to make a declaration here, and we can brief Greg and Tim when they show up. A pizza. A pizza bet is only official if the handshake occurs. I agree. You got to do a handshake.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

It could be a virtual handshake if it's me and Barrett or whatever, but we have to do some sort of handshake.

[Barrett]

Things are getting official here. I like. I like that.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I'd like to say another thing. I'd like to apologize to Commish.

[Blessing]

Oh, okay.

[Mike]

I failed a pizza bet, and I bought the pizza that day because I'm a Johnny on the spot type of guy, and maybe I selfishly just wanted to eat pizza that day. So I will buy pizza cash ins when I am. When I owe to buy, buy somebody that. I'll do it for the party.

[Blessing]

That's okay, Mike, because I feel like we're. Today is the first day of us trying to officialize and reel in what these pizza bets can be. Because I look at this pizza bet episode is the thing that could happen multiple times throughout the year. You have so many pizza bets that, like, we could do this two times, three times, maybe four times. This could be one beer. One beer, two pizzas. And so, yeah, handshake makes the bet official cast. Are you guys ready to get into the bets that we're catching today? Let's start off one. This is from our personal data here. Our personal cheat. Probably the most high profile one we've had recently. On March 19, Roger and myself had a bet.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Crimson desert will sell 10 million copies in One week. Roger said yes.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Roger]

Well, the reason why. Let's talk through it. Let's talk through it, everybody. The reason why is because we were talking about how it was going to perform comparatively to Black Myth Wukong. And it was like the hype. The reviews weren't that great, but there was a lot of hype behind it. So I was like, hey, this game. The streets are talking. You know, people are walking up and they're saying, hey, what's going on with this game? People are like, maybe this is the one. Right. So I was looking at Black Wukong that sold 10 million in three days, I believe. So I was like, really? A week? You know, three. Seven days is bigger than three. You know, I mean, gives them time. Felt. Felt like a slam dunk.

[Blessing]

I think the thing that you had wrong there is that Black Booth Wukong had the backing of the Chinese government.

[Roger]

That is true. That is true.

[Barrett]

And it's a story about Sun Wukong and, like, Journey to the west and all of that.

[Roger]

Yeah. I mean, this is the journey of cliff.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Cliff McMuff.

[Blessing]

Yeah. During a journey to the desert.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Which we'll get to Cliff McDuff in a second. All right, that's.

[Barrett]

Oh, will we.

[Blessing]

That we got to talk about.

[Barrett]

Will we?

[Blessing]

I said, no. We have confirmation. Crimson Desert sold out, I think 4 million copies close.

[Mike]

4 million within two weeks of sale in two weeks.

[Roger]

And here's the issue, though.

[Barrett]

Almost half.

[Roger]

We don't really know the internal numbers.

[Blessing]

Yeah, we do.

[Barrett]

I think this is them.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I think they said, what if they.

[Roger]

What if they know it's maybe 12? And then they're just like, hey, we don't want to. We don't want to make everyone feel bad.

[Barrett]

We don't want. We don't want investors to get to invest more money in the trying times

[Roger]

to see everyone struggling. They see the cube will save us going up under three weeks. They're looking around, they're saying, we don't want to make them feel bad. We sold 25 million copies.

[Barrett]

Very valid point.

[Roger]

Could be coming through. Don't know. Did you get that confirmed?

[Blessing]

That's a good point. That's a lie. That's not a good point. Joey, if you're in the back, if you can bring out the first pizza.

[Roger]

I already ordered it. I knew it.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Yeah. If we can get out the first pizza out here.

[Roger]

And you said you wanted what type of pizza, that's also something we should cover. Is it per person or. We're just doing a Pizza Pizza Hut thing. What's the vibe in terms of the pizza itself?

[Mike]

It's got a sponsor.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it's gotta be pizza to be a sponsor. It's gotta be Pizza Hut. I mean, I'm always asking for a pepperoni.

[Roger]

You guys both said two different things.

[Mike]

Be the official pizza bets. They gotta step up and sponsor.

[Roger]

Yeah,

[Blessing]

I don't. Here's what I'll say. I don't need the sponsorship pizza. I will. I will send your praise.

[Roger]

I got you a beautiful large pepperoni pizza.

[Blessing]

Come on. Wow.

[Barrett]

Wow.

[Blessing]

Come on.

[Barrett]

Goodness. That looks like straight out of a marketing material.

[Roger]

Yeah, exactly.

[Barrett]

Delicious looking.

[Blessing]

I love that.

[Roger]

Mr. Pizza Hut himself.

[Blessing]

We will be. We will be eating on this podcast. By the way. I know a lot of people get mad.

[Mike]

I'm gonna eat right now.

[Barrett]

I have to. I have to wait.

[Mike]

My.

[Barrett]

My time isn't up yet.

[Mike]

Don't worry. I'll eat for him. Give me two slices.

[Blessing]

You got 23 minutes left, Andy.

[Roger]

Never seen somebody so mad at somebody else bettering themselves.

[Mike]

Like, he's my best friend. Nice to be encouraging and be pro

[Roger]

of it, but I'm not happy with it.

[Blessing]

All right, so that's our first cache. The next cache I have here comes courtesy of the one, the only KDG who did her. Her own stack tracking. And I like how she does hers because for ours, we have, like, a lot of different things that we keep track of, right? The date, what the bet is, who the participants are, the. Then we get into, like, the nitty gritty of, like, all right, what's the show? What's the time code? What's the file name? And then when's the bet end?

[Barrett]

Katie G. Kitty G. What's your venm. I'm gonna send you, like, Katie G. A pizza. Katie G. Does this KG we're get you a pizza.

[Blessing]

The way Katie. I like that. The way Katie G. Divides it in her sheet. She goes, what's the sauce? AKA the source? And so K. For this one, it'll be KFGD November 11, 2025. What's the base which is the bed itself? For this one, it is. Will actual. Will the actual rocket in the Mario Galaxy movie. Well, no, hold on. Let me say it again. Will the actual rocket be in the Mario Galaxy movie? I see. So this is a bet between me and Tim where there's a rocket in one of the Marios that flies into space. It's me and Tim had a conversation.

[Roger]

What the fuck are y' all saying? There's a rocket, like a ship?

[Blessing]

Yeah, There's a rocket ship in one

[Barrett]

of the Mario games in, like, a

[Blessing]

recent one in an old one, I'm pretty sure.

[Barrett]

Oh, okay.

[Blessing]

I want to say chat. What is it? It might be Mario Brothers, too.

[Roger]

And there was a pizza bet about this.

[Barrett]

Yeah, it was as, like, an Easter egg.

[Blessing]

You're talking about this?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

This thing?

[Blessing]

No, I thought it was a 2D rocket.

[Barrett]

Oh, hold on.

[Blessing]

Super Mario Brothers 2. This is Mario Brothers, right? Mario Mario 2 rocket.

[Barrett]

Mini rocket. Rocket. Shit. I mean, that looks like a 3D version.

[Roger]

Okay, I do. I do know this one.

[Blessing]

So me and Tim were having a conversation on November 11, 2025, about whether or not this rocket's gonna be. Tim said, we're gonna see this rocket, and that's how they get into space. I said, no, it's either gonna be a pipe or it's gonna be a launch star that launches them into space. And so I won the pizza bet. Unfortunately, Tim's not here.

[Barrett]

God damn it, Tim.

[Blessing]

And so I'm gonna keep this pizza bet on the dock.

[Barrett]

Okay. Okay.

[Roger]

Yeah, I was gonna say we have his card. We can just make that happen.

[Blessing]

I mean. Oh, you said car. Here's the thing, right? We got a lot more.

[Roger]

He just left it here since he had the kid.

[Blessing]

We got a lot more room for more pizza today.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Because let's transition into the decidables. Oh, all right. These are the ones that we can maybe decide right now.

[Roger]

Who gets to decide? Is it me and Mike?

[Blessing]

All of us together? We get to decide.

[Roger]

Me and Mike.

[Blessing]

On March 24, 2026, me and Andy were having a conversation on a kind of funny games daily. We're having a conversation about the one and only Cliff McDuff. Oh, allegedly.

[Roger]

Allegedly.

[Blessing]

The conversation was about is his last name McDuff? Because Andy swore that he heard his name be Cliff McDuff. And I was like, there's no way his Last name is McDuff. So he made a pizza bet about it. Andy said, his name is McDuff. I said, his name is not McDuff. Barrett, I see you have your cursor on the link. Do you want to go to that link here? That feeling when Cliff, you know, stopped being MacDuff, which was a considerable amount

[Barrett]

of time in to the recording of this. He was MacDuff originally, which is hilarious

[Blessing]

because I played MacDuff last year. Okay, pause it there. Pause it there. That's Cliff's voice actor. And he said, cliff stopped being Macduff.

[Roger]

This is. This is from Cumbersome Desert. For anyone who doesn't know who Cliff or Cliff McDuff is.

[Blessing]

Good call.

[Roger]

And you guys were debate, where did McDuff. Like, how did you know about McDuff? I'm very confused by this.

[Barrett]

I heard about McDuff because I was watching a lot of their videos.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

A lot of the Crimson Desert videos that they were releasing of, like, this is what the game is. Here's a. Gameplay is. And I'd heard the name several times. Click Cliff McDuff. And as the voice actor mentioned there, until very, very late into development, he was Cliff McDuff. So this wasn't one of the situations where I just kind of came up with something out of nowhere. And nothing in the game ever tells you that his name isn't McDuff. So I was just like, they don't say his last name. But I saw all those earlier developer videos saying that his name is mc. Last name was mcduff.

[Roger]

And then Blessing, what was your take on this?

[Blessing]

That I. I didn't hear the words. The word McDuff at all when I was playing the game. I don't believe his Last name is McDuff. It's also like an interesting way where he worded it too, where it sounded it almost. He makes it sound like it was McDuff for a while and then it was Cliff in this interview at least. Can you play. Play it back. I wonder, is there more context around it?

[Barrett]

Which was a considerable amount of time

[Blessing]

in to the recording.

[Barrett]

But

[Blessing]

we started off recording with cards of the different parts of pie.

[Barrett]

Well, and then. And then. Yeah.

[Blessing]

This is from Friends per Second, by the way, for audio list.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Shout out. Shout out. Friends per Second.

[Roger]

Great podcast. Great people.

[Blessing]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. As. As bar looks for it, I guess Roger and Mike would be the judgers. The judgers.

[Roger]

The judges.

[Blessing]

We always are about this one.

[Mike]

If I was to take it out. The clip right here, Roger.

[Barrett]

Yeah, we know that feeling when Cliff,

[Blessing]

you know, stopped being MacDuff, which was

[Barrett]

a considerable amount of time in to

[Blessing]

the recording of this.

[Barrett]

He was MacDuff originally, which is hilarious

[Blessing]

because I played MacDuff last year. Okay, that's great. You know, once they settled on Cliff,

[Barrett]

I just kept pushing and pushing, pushing

[Blessing]

about what about story. And once they settled on Cliff, he

[Roger]

said, I played McDuff.

[Mike]

Yeah. Because Cliff was named McDuff. That was the name of the. How I took the clip. Okay. Cliff is McDuff for a long time while they're doing the pre recording and setting up of the world. And then they said, you know what his name is McDuff anymore. It's Cliff. That's when he said. Then I became Cliff, which is the character.

[Blessing]

So that's how I interpret it. So I. To me, I don't interpret it ever as his full name being.

[Barrett]

I remember laughing and reacting to their videos and going, there's no way they name this man Cliff McDuff. That's a dumbass name. And I started making the jokes of, like, that's the new Katie Yeager. And, like, I started making those jokes of, like, the awful character names from different, like, pieces of media that we've all watched and consumed over the past.

[Mike]

Now, for Andy, yeah, this was sports here. I'm gonna take it there as well as a judge right now. I need clear and definitive evidence.

[Roger]

Yes.

[Mike]

That this is true or not true. Right. I need to see the ball cross the line. And right now, no one has brought up any sort of last name in front of me.

[Roger]

Someone's got to show me the developer video. So I have not, says McDuffin.

[Blessing]

We gotta get to the.

[Roger]

Because I think. I think I'm willing to give it to Andy if they. If I find an official developer video that says McDuffin, it. Because I don't care if the. If the developers are saying, hey, this character's name, Cliff McDuffie. I don't care if you changed it by the time, like, the developer a show.

[Blessing]

My argument is that his name's not Cliff McDuffie.

[Mike]

Hold up, hold up. Can I get that?

[Roger]

Well, I mean, why would he know about that? I mean, that you're watching all of the lead up to the fucking thing. You're watching the official.

[Blessing]

Can we get. Do I have the link? I don't have the link. I have the. Which KHD it was.

[Mike]

Hold on.

[Blessing]

Let me see if I can find the link in the time code to the KHD where me, Andy are talking about this.

[Barrett]

If I get Cliff McDuff in my head, right? And to me, he's Cliff McDuff. Cliff McDuff. Leading up to the game coming out, and the game comes out, I'm just like, here's Cliff McDuff.

[Roger]

Oh, I don't know.

[Barrett]

That says otherwise.

[Blessing]

You know, I'm with Andy.

[Barrett]

If I start the video game and then he goes, by the way, my name's only Cliff. I don't have a last name. Then I'd be like, oh, okay, maybe they changed it recently. But it's like, hey, man, I was just going. Based off of what they were saying.

[Roger]

If I was like, watching a Bunch of, like, developer interviews and developer commentary on GTA 4. And they're like, his name is Nico Curtis Belloc. I play the game, and they just call him Nico Bellic. I'm assuming his middle name is Curtis Curtis Bellick. But then if they say, oh, and interview. Oh, by the way, is actually his middle name is not Curtis anymore. That feels like a technicality there.

[Blessing]

I just dropped right under the.

[Roger]

The.

[Blessing]

The thing. A link to the episode where me and Andy had the conversation with the time code next to it being an hour and three minutes into the episode so we can see the context. Because I don't. This is a good conversation because I'm not sure the entire context.

[Roger]

I need to see what that is.

[Blessing]

And so let's see if we can get a bit deeper into it. Hour and three. Almost there. Let's go. Here. You make that up? Did you make that up?

[Mike]

Chat.

[Barrett]

Did I dream?

[Blessing]

Did you just. Did you. Are you with me, Chad? Is he with. Where'd you hear that? Like, Swahili culture like that?

[Barrett]

Yeah, I read it somewhere. I forgot where I read it. According to the Crimson Desert Wiki, Cliff doesn't have a stated last name, so McDuff is still. It's definitely McDuff.

[Blessing]

Where'd you hear that in the game? Did you make that up? Did you just. Did you. Are you with me, Chad? Is he with me? You're with me.

[Barrett]

Where did I get McDuff at?

[Blessing]

I was like, there's no way. It's an amazing clip, by the way. She just made up McDuff, I swear. And, like, you corrected it, and you're like. But it's with an A. That's crazy.

[Barrett]

I see it.

[Blessing]

It's.

[Barrett]

It's a premonition thing to do the extreme. It's just. It's a premonition.

[Blessing]

I swear it is.

[Barrett]

Ernie Cooper says It is absolutely McDuff. I'm telling you, man. Before the game came out, I remember watching their videos that they were putting out being like, here and in this world, Cliff McDuff is the guy. And it's.

[Blessing]

Guys. I don't remember seeing his name.

[Barrett]

McDuffie Pizza Butt McDonough.

[Blessing]

Pizza Bet. Because I don't. Totally not. I actually. You. It. Pizza bet.

[Barrett]

It's got to be McDonough.

[Blessing]

His name is not McDuff.

[Roger]

It's got to be McDuff.

[Barrett]

There's a chance I didn't put this up on YouTube. This may have just been one of those that I watched in the middle of. I'm gonna look up Their videos. I'm gonna look up their videos.

[Roger]

Well, he got McDuff correct. Like, it was. Like it was a thing.

[Blessing]

It was a thing.

[Barrett]

So it's not like I hallucinate.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Here's the thing. I believe. I believe all that. Right. And I believe. I think his name might have formerly been Cliff McDuff, because I remember reading an IGN preview later in that episode that said Cliff McDuff, but I don't just it up.

[Barrett]

Oh, it was Simon Carty's article.

[Blessing]

Yeah. But I don't think he's. His name is McDuff anymore. I think now it's just Cliff. I think they took his last name out of it.

[Roger]

All right, I think we should. We figured this out.

[Blessing]

So Mike and Roger. You got to figure this out, Mike.

[Roger]

I think this is pretty split in the middle. I think they both have to go 50. 50 on his pizza, and they have to split this pizza.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay with the draw.

[Mike]

Wow. Okay.

[Blessing]

Unless.

[Roger]

Unless, Mike. Unless, Mike, you really believe that this is. It's all on you, Mike.

[Mike]

I mean, I didn't get clear and definitive an. Clear and definitive evidence that his name was Cliff McDuff. As of right now, it is just Cliff. To me in that clip with the voice actor, it is Cliff. So I am on the side. Oh, blessing out of. Oh, yeah. Junior Bear.

[Blessing]

What do you think, Barrett? Could be the tiebreaker here.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Oh, man. I would have to go. I think hearing both sides being swayed one way, being swayed another, I think I would have to go with Roger here.

[Barrett]

I think it's.

[Blessing]

It's one of those.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

You know, like, we. We understand that andy didn't get McDuff from nowhere, but it's also one of those weird ones where it's like, I don't know.

[Roger]

Or if we're talking about it.

[Blessing]

Right.

[Roger]

The whole thing about losing a pizza bet. Right. Is that you should lose. Right. You should feel like you lost something.

[Mike]

Right.

[Roger]

So they both should split a pizza, and then they can't eat it.

[Barrett]

Andy should break his fast.

[Blessing]

No, it's. They both have to buy a pizza, but for the three of us.

[Roger]

That's what I'm saying. I think that's a great call. I think they have to split a

[Mike]

pizza, but are you setting the president now that, like, president from this Obama. We're gonna have to do it.

[Blessing]

I'm gonna jump.

[Mike]

Are you sending moment here? I'm going to go back to eating pizza.

[Blessing]

Are you setting a US President right now? All right. I think I like that decision. So me and and D are going to go 5050 on a pizza.

[Roger]

Okay.

[Barrett]

I like that.

[Blessing]

That'll go to Roger, Mike and Bear. Noel, we'll bring in the next pizza.

[Roger]

Woo.

[Blessing]

This one's going to Roger and Mike.

[Roger]

You just have to watch it in the.

[Barrett]

Wow.

[Blessing]

We're not going to watch them eat it.

[Barrett]

The cook chair over here.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

You know in that case me that pizza. You're not having any more of that pizza.

[Roger]

Yeah, you can. That's my pizza. Yeah.

[Mike]

Oh, I've already destroyed this pizza.

[Roger]

Setting up president.

[Mike]

I'm four slices.

[Roger]

Hey Joey.

[Barrett]

Joey. Give it up for Joey.

[Blessing]

As Joey's bringing in this pizza, we do have two more decidables left on the board. Let's bring in our next decidable real quick.

[Barrett]

One thing I do want to tease for later is that Joey the mvp, you're bringing in the pizza. Also Joey star and co star of the upcoming in review episode where her and Blessing watched Fellowship of the Ring for the very first time and they give all of their thoughts. Yeah. And the results may shock you or they may not.

[Blessing]

Can I tell you probably my favorite in review that I've been in or been on?

[Barrett]

Wow.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Nice.

[Blessing]

I've not been on that many interviews.

[Mike]

I'll tell you what. Joey and I spoke last night. She said this one was a great in review.

[Blessing]

Really fantastic. One of the best. Like an hour and a half.

[Roger]

Okay. That's really good.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Our next decidable this is courtesy of KDG. This happened on the 18th of December 2025. Katie G. Are you from the UK because you're putting the days before the

[Mike]

month

[Blessing]

so the sauce is from a games cast on December 18, 2025. The base goes like this. Mike bets that Silksong will be number two on kind of funniest game of the year. Barrett bets that it won't probably DK Hades 2 Silk Song will will be in the 5 to 6 range. The result Silksong was number 3. Oh. Dispatch was 2. Mike owes Bear to pizza.

[Barrett]

Damn, that's close.

[Mike]

Damn. Yeah.

[Blessing]

So that's even a decidable. Honestly that one actually belongs.

[Mike]

That's a clear.

[Blessing]

That one's in the cashing one.

[Mike]

Put it in the cash for the next.

[Barrett]

Conclusive evidence, right?

[Blessing]

Conclusive evidence.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I'll cash it in for the next.

[Mike]

Now which one did I cash in and which pizza did I already buy?

[Blessing]

Yeah. Did you maybe already cast I bought

[Mike]

a pizza for something you did.

[Barrett]

I remember.

[Blessing]

You remember what it is?

[Mike]

I don't Remember?

[Roger]

Well, you ate a lot of that pizza.

[Blessing]

So you did eat a lot of that pizza. I didn't seem to decide what the pizza was.

[Mike]

We gotta stop going to donuts.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Insane price.

[Barrett]

Yeah, it was a lot of money.

[Roger]

We're a Pizza Hut and Costco family now, so.

[Blessing]

Yeah, we'll call. We'll charge that one to the game. You already. You already ordered a pizza before. Well, but again, to me. But I didn't get decided.

[Barrett]

I like, say he ate most of the pizza. I don't know.

[Blessing]

I don't know if that's really cashing in. Wow.

[Mike]

Well, there's two pizzas. I always order two for the company.

[Roger]

Oh, that's sweet.

[Blessing]

Well, then we have one too. We got one more decidable here. This one comes from the Xbox Reaction on January.

[Roger]

Let's stop, everybody.

[Blessing]

Andy is furiously.

[Barrett]

Well, I'm looking through all. There's that.

[Roger]

He's looking at every single Crimson Desert developer commentary going into the Transcript. Control. Effing McDuff MacDuff Mc Roger talking about his transcript.

[Blessing]

If it's awesome.

[Barrett]

This is a good feature.

[Roger]

This is like snow bike bike right now.

[Mike]

Yeah, you don't have to.

[Barrett]

This is a great feature. Thank you for teacher me. I had no idea this existed.

[Roger]

Yeah, you got to try more, like, different ways.

[Blessing]

Just search duff.

[Roger]

Yeah. Du F. But.

[Barrett]

But like, the word doesn't start with duff. So, like, what did you.

[Blessing]

It was control F. Yeah, exactly. It'll just find any instance of DUFF within a word. It doesn't need to find, like, the. Wait, hold on. When you control F, are you typing in the full word?

[Barrett]

Well, I know the way it works for, like, docs and stuff, but I don't know if it works that way with, like, written like or spoken word. I don't know.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Roger]

Website. Instead of doing, like, the search box,

[Blessing]

what you're doing right now. There's a lot going on here. All right. Our last decidable that we have here, again, the sauce is from the Xbox. Reaction from January 22, 2026. Mike says Fable is coming in the first half of the year. Greg says that it's not. I mean, I don't know if this can be decided. Well, we know it's not coming in the first half, right?

[Barrett]

Oh, yeah, I guess.

[Mike]

Well, until June.

[Blessing]

I mean, we could wait until we can.

[Mike]

June.

[Blessing]

Who knows? June, they might move it up.

[Barrett]

You have to hit enter in order for the results of Baba Brush. Did you know that?

[Roger]

Because if I control what do maybe 15 videos? If I control.

[Barrett]

If I Control. If it pops up automatically here, I'm typing in four different words and it keeps saying no results. Finally. Oh, damn. There's none of that.

[Roger]

I mean, that's fair. That's fair.

[Barrett]

You have to hit enter. Wow. Let me run about here.

[Blessing]

And we're a mess.

[Barrett]

Let me go to the last five episodes.

[Blessing]

Now here's the thing, right? We can put that. We could put a pin on pin in that until they did say autumn. So I forgot that they put like a. Like a section on it.

[Mike]

It does seem like I will be paying for that one.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know what I mean? As of right now, it's tracking. This one might not even release this year. So we will see.

[Roger]

True. It's all gears of your day all day.

[Blessing]

But I think the only thing Greg said is that it's not releasing the first half. So I think he gets it no matter what.

[Mike]

He gets to no matter what.

[Roger]

Even if it gets delayed to 2027, it's pushed up.

[Blessing]

Now. Here's. Here's the thing, right? We do have a third pizza out there that I thought was going to get redeemed one of these bets. And so, like, this is what I say. Barrett, if you want that last pizza that's out on the table, we can use that as like the last bet here that make sure they eat Mike old you.

[Mike]

Are you eating pizza?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Roger]

You can have that entire pizza.

[Mike]

I'm on slice.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Grab that box. I just want to talk into Mike here and just say I want. I want some of the cuck pizza.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Hey, watching them eat my pizza.

[Roger]

That's the cup pepperoni. Actually, that's a lie.

[Blessing]

I love watching it.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Eat that pizza. I love watching. We got our last. Last section, the pending section. And we have a lot of bets that we can just check up on and have conversations where we think things are leaning.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

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[Mike]

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[Roger]

Yeah, Andy. Andy is over here. His hands are shaking like as he's going into every video, typing in Duff. Enter.

[Barrett]

Now that I know Enter works. It changes everything.

[Roger]

We're gonna figure this out by the end of this episode. That is a promise.

[Blessing]

Let me tell you, Mike mentioned the cup pepperoni is not as good as this. The regular plain pepperoni.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Which saddens me.

[Mike]

And I'm a cup pepperoni guy. I like the little grease pool.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I love cup pepperonis. Depending on the pizza. Shout out to Buffalo. Great pizza up in New York. You know that, Raj. But this pizza crust to sauce is better than that pizza crust to sauce ratio.

[Barrett]

Wow.

[Mike]

It's unfortunate.

[Roger]

It is unfortunate.

[Mike]

I don't know why they're so different, of course, but I've eaten four slices.

[Barrett]

There's been not much resistance from my end.

[Blessing]

I asked people watching, of course, what are your. What's your favorite pizza? What's your favorite pizza spot? Your favorite toppings? Yel Singh writes it and says, anyone who doesn't say local shop is wrong. Where do we stand on that?

[Mike]

Like your local shop. Oh, man.

[Blessing]

I mean, I think he's anti chain.

[Mike]

See, here's the deal. You make friends with your local shop, shout out to Vinnie's Pizza up in Tahoe, right down the street from me. Vinny's and I, we got. We became good friends. Right? The kid that worked behind the counter, that was always crusted in all of the flour.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So that kid became very good friends with me. Cliff started to work there. Earl Squirrel'.

[Barrett]

Boom.

[Mike]

Every time I'd order a large pizza, I'd call bless. Because I'd walk down there like, what up? It's snowbike Mike. They're like, mike, large pizza, extra crispy. Got it. I walk down there, what happens? Slide $10 bill, here's a large pizza.

[Blessing]

Get out of here.

[Roger]

Yeah. Shout out to Avelino's. That's where I used to go after school every Tuesday. My mom would give me five bucks. She said, go get a slice or two. Get Arizona. Shout out to Olivetto's right around the the corner. Yeah. Some of the best New York Long island pizza out there.

[Blessing]

Shout out Nazario's, which is like a local chain here in San Francisco. Not even really a chain. They Just got like a couple spots out here in SF that I really love. And then there was one that we

[Barrett]

used to go to when we were

[Blessing]

living out in the, the, the high avenues that I'm trying to find. And it was like a, an Indian restaurant that was also a pizza place. And like Indian pizza places. If you ever like come across, come across those kind of places, like check them out. Yeah, Golden Gate Indian cuisine and pizza. Oh, yeah, that, that place was. Sounds like a field trip.

[Mike]

Little shout out to all my Buffalo, New York fans out there. Kind of funny. Best friends. I'm a Nino's pizza guy. My father a big time Pachi's Pizza. They'll tell you that's the spot. And I'm like, no, it's all about Nino's dad. I hate you. I just want Nino's very house.

[Roger]

I don't want to be like you

[Mike]

when I grow up.

[Barrett]

With Pizz.

[Mike]

You draw, you draw a line when you're up in Buffalo on the pizza.

[Barrett]

Shocking.

[Mike]

On top of this though, San Francisco.

[Blessing]

Put that in there.

[Mike]

It's Tony's Pizza or nothing. It's Tony's Pizza or nothing here in San Francisco.

[Roger]

Shout out. BMW over here said, Roger, I'm driving past Olivetto later today. You're literally right walking distance from my house. Go say hi to my mom. Hang out, like, have a good time. Shout out. King Colin.

[Blessing]

Rip Crazy. Shout out. Jets Pizza. Champaign, Illinois. That was my first Detroit style pizza. And that took over my friend group. We were at jets all the time. Here's the thing. I'm not as big into tavern style pizza. I know Illinois. Big into like the thin crust cut into squares, I think as a kid.

[Barrett]

Is that what that is? I didn't know that.

[Blessing]

Yes, that's what that is. Yeah. Or with that, all my friends did

[Mike]

I call them pizza chips.

[Blessing]

I mean, that's accurate. That's why I didn't with them. It's like, I'm like, I want the thick, like soft, like, you know, I want that pan style pizza. However, whenever we went to Monocle's Pizza, which is the tavern style pizza spot chain in the area, that's when you knew it was a party. You know what I mean? Like, that's the place where it's like, all right, we won the soccer game, all the kids, we're gonna go hang out at Monocle.

[Mike]

Oh, remember when we went to Chicago together and I tried to force you to have not only. What's that favorite place that they all like? The sausage place. What's the Sausage place that we went to. Oh, I know where you're for the meetup. Portillo's. We went to Portillo's and then I looked at Bless afterwards. Mind you, it's 9:45 at night. We've had a full day at the convention. I go, here's the deal. They have two iconic pizza restaurants. If we go bomb, bomb right now, bang, bang, we can get them both. We show them to Giardani's and I go, all right, Bless. You have to order this to go. Cause we have to go to the next place right now. Before he closes and looks at me, he goes, can we just enjoy the pizza?

[Blessing]

I'm like, I just want to eat my deep fruit.

[Roger]

I don't want to go bomb, bomb.

[Blessing]

I'm not an eater like that. You know what I mean?

[Barrett]

But he's going to put his arm around you and go soak this in. Bless. We'll never be back here, man.

[Mike]

It would never come back.

[Blessing]

I don't know if I could do two different deep dish pizza places back to back a lot. Insane behavior. Clint Roman writes in and says, thanks, Bless for always shouting out Olivia. Rodrigo helped me win pub trivia last night. Domino. Domino's in the shower after running a marathon is the best.

[Roger]

That's cool.

[Mike]

I like that in the shower, bro.

[Blessing]

I love Dom.

[Roger]

Get your pizza a little wet. Come on, Ethan.

[Mike]

The shower, that's pretty dope.

[Blessing]

You drink beer? No. Okay. Joshy Frog writes, and it says, pizza Hut has a Space Jam pizza deal right now. Is that what this is?

[Roger]

No.

[Blessing]

Damn Space Jam.

[Barrett]

Did they forget that they had Space jam marketing material?

[Roger]

LeBron James like, Ah.

[Blessing]

And that was a good movie.

[Mike]

It was

[Roger]

good. You had Don Cheadle dressed up as the computer. That was so fun.

[Blessing]

It was forgettable.

[Roger]

That was so. And then they're like, oh, look, we brought Michael Jordan. It's Michael B. Jordan. How funny was that

[Mike]

Space Jam video game during that time too?

[Roger]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. It was a basketball, NBA, GM style thing.

[Blessing]

Yeah, yeah. Wasn't it NBA Jam? Yeah, kind of like.

[Roger]

I think it was.

[Barrett]

Was it like Michael Jordan chaos in the Windy City when he had his own side scrolling single player game?

[Blessing]

Remember Shaq Fu?

[Roger]

Of course I forget Jack Fu too.

[Blessing]

Zachary writes in. This is actually a kind of funny membership.

[Mike]

But I'll.

[Blessing]

I'll read it. Come on. Thank you so much for that, Zachary. Happy pizza Bet day, gang. Praying for that white T shirt, Mike, because it was a dangerous choice.

[Mike]

I almost changed T shirts before this. As many of the Team. I got a couple T shirt options here. I got my own little personal closet.

[Roger]

You definitely do.

[Blessing]

Yeah, man.

[Barrett]

The couch is your closet now.

[Roger]

Mike walks out every Friday like he was fired. He has a big brown box full of clothes for some reason. And like an Xbox always. I don't know how to be prepared.

[Mike]

You gotta be prepared.

[Blessing]

Here's the thing. I gotta take a possible super chats. Cause a regular chat, somebody asked a really good question. Which is what is the best frozen pizza? Which the answer is Red Baron.

[Mike]

Red Baron.

[Blessing]

Red Baron.

[Roger]

Red Baron.

[Mike]

Mexican style pizza.

[Blessing]

Come on.

[Mike]

Is the best frozen pizza around?

[Blessing]

Oh, I love Red Baron. Delivery. It's du jour.

[Roger]

It's the Jordan out.

[Barrett]

Digiorno to me.

[Roger]

Digiorno had a croissant crust, dude. Which was disgustingly good.

[Blessing]

I think about that all the time.

[Roger]

Like it hurt my tummy because it was just so much butter and just oil. It was so.

[Blessing]

The croissant crust pizza was so good.

[Mike]

Let's get real. There's two that probably are head and shoulders above the rest. Bagel Bites and Pizza Rolls. Now you guys, dude, I'm telling you,

[Blessing]

those two pizza, different thing.

[Roger]

Pizza rolls suck. It's barely. It's barely pizza. I was, I was so disappointed as a child because I was never a Bagel Bites household. And I was with the Pizza Roll house.

[Barrett]

You saw the commercials at times.

[Roger]

Yeah. And then I would went across street, my friend had big pizza bagels and I was like, oh, this is. This is the promise. It's like mini pizza. Pizza rolls is just mostly sauce.

[Blessing]

Red Baron has like mini personal pizzas that are really good.

[Mike]

Mini pepperoni inside of it.

[Roger]

Yeah, but they don't have cheese in those ones.

[Mike]

What's the point?

[Blessing]

No, there isn't.

[Roger]

Isn't the whole thing that they just have the pepperoni.

[Mike]

It's usually melted to the top of it. That's why you don't see it.

[Blessing]

Let's get into our pending bets again. Shout out kdg. And shout out to Cass. Cuz I do have quite a few of these that were from our internal Google sheet that we're using to track these. But we have a lot of pending ones. So let's start off with one from January 13th. The bet was will Fable come out in 2026? I said no. Greg said yes. Right now I'm leaning towards. I think Greg's going to win this. I think Fable will come out in 2026.

[Mike]

As of right now, it is tracking right. If we're talking about. If we're going to be real about the four Horsemen of Xbox that we've dubbed them. Right. You are looking at that. It is tracking for Autumn Holiday. What. What does that really mean? It is. How do you get away from GTA and make sure that Fable has a good launch? Because it's a big important title for Xbox. You got to make sure this launch is stellar. You got to make sure people are jumping in and have time to explore and love this game. I think it will have legs. And so I don't think like the launches like, like make or break per se, but like, of course it is. Like it's got to be a big deal here.

[Blessing]

Yeah. For context, that was again January 13th. So I believe that was before the Xbox Direct where they actually revealed that there's. It's slated for this year. And so it was a shot in the dark of like, no, I don't think Fable's coming out. But now I have more belief. Not 100%, but a little.

[Mike]

See December.

[Blessing]

December for Fable.

[Mike]

Going December for Fable. Years before Grand Theft Auto. I'd like to go Gears before Grand Theft Auto. You play Gears the die hard, stick with it. Boom. We get taken over by Grand Theft Auto. You play Grand Theft Auto for a month too. And then when we get to the

[Blessing]

holidays, December, you can.

[Roger]

You want a big open world.

[Blessing]

If you put out Fable in December, think about it. Because you're not going to put out Fable in the second half of December, Right. You can't put that out the week of Christmas. So you're going to put that out in the first half of December when GTA just launched.

[Barrett]

And do you want to deal with the Pepsi Coke challenge of look what GTA does and what. Yeah, you know, know, look at your. Fable just came out and I can't even do this. Look, let me throw a rock into the water and you know, little whatever GTA is gonna do tech wise, right? Like, I don't. I don't know. I like. The only reason I like December is because I want them to have more time on it like as whatever.

[Blessing]

At that point I'm like, just keep it till 2027.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

If you're gonna take your time with it. I want that game to shine, I think as an open world, like systemic thing. Like you got how you have a lot going on in that game game. Get it as far from GTA as possible. Don't let people even try to compare it.

[Mike]

And then that's the conversation of then you push it to 2027. February, March.

[Barrett]

That would be awesome.

[Mike]

Yeah, plenty of space.

[Blessing]

On January 16, 2026, there was a bet made that three Xbox games will be on our 2026 game of the year. Greg said two or less. Mike said three plus said this is

[Mike]

a big deal for Xbox.

[Blessing]

Do you still stand by?

[Mike]

We got Forza Motor, Forza Horizon, I think is an instant win for Mike right here.

[Barrett]

Right.

[Mike]

I look at Fable. If Fable's to come out, I think Fable is a win for Mike right here. Now the conversation.

[Barrett]

What's the third one?

[Mike]

Here's the third. The Four Horsemen. Gears. I think a lot of us will ride for Gears if it delivers Halo. Of course, I think very few will ride. Maybe Mike will ride, but I don't know if that's it.

[Roger]

Maybe it's him, but I'm hanging my

[Mike]

hat on a Halo. Oh, I mean, the Gears here. We still have Call of Duty to talk about.

[Roger]

You never know what Starfield's always up there.

[Blessing]

I mean, no, there's no way anybody outside of Greg.

[Roger]

Okay, you looked at him for approval

[Mike]

to be like, oh yeah, what if he double dipped?

[Roger]

I, I think it's Gears. Gears has to be the answer there of like, that's the third. That's the only one.

[Mike]

We have another Minecraft Dungeons game.

[Blessing]

That's.

[Roger]

There's no way.

[Mike]

World of Warcraft Diablo expansion. Okay, that's out.

[Roger]

It's got to be Gears because like, okay, here's the thing. If Gears hits the way that I, I hope it does, it's definitely on my list. It would probably be on your list. Andy has been playing the games, right? You're going to try it out.

[Blessing]

Gears.

[Barrett]

Gears could very well make my blessing.

[Mike]

Will try it.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Blessing. Blessing to try it. Like, I think there is a good

[Mike]

amount of us, especially if Tim will appreciate Gears. If it's a good Gears game, Tim will appreciate it.

[Barrett]

And we know, we don't know. But in my opinion, if they're smart and if they're doing this right, it's not this 38 hour. This is going to be a hopefully super quick, efficient get in, get out, tell an awesome story with great action.

[Roger]

It's a prequel, so pick up and play. You don't have to have the baggage of these games. You know, we can get people in the office that have not played the other one say, hey, this is a prequel. Just start and it's gonna look right to crazy dude. I, I'm so excited for that game, man. I gotta, I, I'm telling blessing joke like off the now. It's on the record when I saw that. That post that it was like, oh, it's like the. The. The direct after the Xbox showcases Gears of War, I cried a little bit. I'm so excited for this.

[Mike]

I'm so happy for you.

[Roger]

I'm like, so emotionally excited for this game.

[Blessing]

Gears meant that much.

[Roger]

Oh, it means so much to me. It's like everything. Yeah, I love it. I'm so excited.

[Mike]

Die Hard. So it sounds like right now at this table, Mike is tracking to win this bet for what?

[Blessing]

Forza Gears.

[Roger]

And when does that come out, do you think?

[Blessing]

Which one? Gears.

[Mike]

I'm still putting people saying August.

[Roger]

And I'm like, that seems really.

[Blessing]

I mean, this fall. But yeah, if you're going by the September developer direct, like, it will. I think it'll be full. I think those games are always coming out in fall when you end outer worlds or.

[Roger]

Yeah, outer worlds too.

[Blessing]

Outer worlds was like November, October. I want to say November, maybe an October game.

[Roger]

Gears is not.

[Mike]

I guess I have Call of Duty you got to dance with too. Don't forget about that.

[Roger]

Yeah, I feel like that's.

[Blessing]

I feel like that's.

[Mike]

You're literally going.

[Barrett]

Halo was October 29th of last year.

[Blessing]

I feel like Gears and Call of Duty being released within weeks of each other isn't as big of a deal. I feel like those are different enough. Yeah, I agree. On the same day, maybe on the same episode. I'm actually not sure. There was another bet made that LEGO Batman will be on our game of the year 2026. Greg said no. Mike said yes. Oh, do you still think so?

[Mike]

I'm torn. I think there's a big interest in the office for LEGO Batman and I think if they can deliver it, it looks very good. It looks promising. We'll see. I think when I think of the LEGO games, though, in total, I don't think it's game of the year now. Right. It's like an 80. A solid, like, hey, this is a great game. I don't think this is like a yo. This is it right here. But I. I do ride for Batman.

[Blessing]

I. I could see it if it hits. And they learn the lessons, her lessons from the Skywalker Saga and like not get too bloated, but still have like a lot of that, like, fun and interesting stuff that they were playing around with in Skywalker Saga and then also like really lean into the Batman Arkham kind of like flow and combat and all that stuff. I think it could really grab Roger, myself and Greg, at least.

[Mike]

I. I think you gotta have me. You Got Andy about to play City here. Like, you got an opportunity and lego's just got the charm in the wind.

[Roger]

I do think that this is one of those games that we could be very high on once it comes out. But once, you know, actual game of the year comes around, we're going to look around and be like, there's no way this is our 11:12.

[Blessing]

It's going to be split fiction, 100%. I think there's so many good games that are slated for this year when, like, we're having this conversation, we're having the argument between Gears, Fable and Forza. Like, when those three exist. I'm looking at Batman, Lego, and I'm like, like, if we're not sure if all those three are there, I don't know if I'm thinking that Lego Batman's gonna be.

[Roger]

Yeah. It's also, you know, not to minimize it, but it is a kids game, right? It is going for. Yeah. Audience. And you watch those trailers, it's like, oh, it's very Kitty. Like, the humor is like, oh, we had Astrobot. Well, sure, but that's a different type of thing, right? Like, there's voice acting in this, right? They're going for, like, actual jokes that are just not gonna hit for some of us.

[Blessing]

Like, I think there's like, family games and there's kids games. And I view Astrobot is like, anybody like Astrobot, even though kids can play it. Like, they have adults in mind as well while they're developing that game of like, oh, we want our full audience to play that. Whereas lego, I think, is so aimed at kids.

[Roger]

Actually, I'm excited, though.

[Blessing]

I'm super excited to try it out on. On February 10, 2026.

[Barrett]

This is a tragic one.

[Blessing]

A bet was made that 2xko will be shut down in 2 years. That that bet was made by Greg Miller against a best friend in chat

[Roger]

named her Track your ass down.

[Mike]

I hope you're ready to cut the check as right, he says, and this

[Blessing]

is hilarious because, like, this, this is in our internal tracking. Meaning that Greg must have opened up either Greg or Kevin, because Kevin will do it for us sometimes. But somebody opened up the thing and was like, hey, it's official. Greg versus Herbie. It's going down.

[Barrett]

This feels personal for Greg.

[Blessing]

I want to listen to the episode because I'm like, what compelled Greg to, like, say that about 2xko?

[Roger]

Yeah. Did Herbie say something really mean or something? Was he in the chat being like, no, you fucking idiot.

[Blessing]

We'll see. I don't really have much about with that one. I just see it either way. Figured out. I could see it either way.

[Barrett]

I thought it was time stamps. It's not.

[Blessing]

Wait, for which one?

[Barrett]

Well, because the, the link to the video was there, but I thought it's

[Blessing]

20 minutes in for the Herbie one.

[Barrett]

Oh, is that what it says? Yeah.

[Blessing]

There's another column that said the timestamp. We have another bet made on February 26th. There will be a core Zelda released in 2026. This is between me and Andy. I said yes. Andy said no. What's the definition of core? But also I want to bring it to Katie's tracking of this because the wording is different for Katie. Katie wrote down Andy says there will be a core Nintendo game Zelda remake this year. Blessing says no. Where's that at? That's in Katie's. Oh, are you in the actual Google sheet? Yes. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, I was, I was separating them out because. Yeah, but, but I wanted to bring that up because I remember reading that and I was like that there's a different wording here. So I want to make sure. Can we go to the actual thing?

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Can we go to. Yeah. Can we bring up the actual episode? I think it's good. I want the, I want the actual thing. Let's get the actual thing because I'm not doubting that that's the bet. But I don't remember the remake part.

[Barrett]

I, I remember remake being. You remember the remake part.

[Roger]

Yeah. He never forgets.

[Blessing]

But here's the thing. I'm gonna lose. Eight is gonna win this.

[Mike]

There will be something important on in the fall, whether it be Pokemon and something else. No, we're gonna get year two of this, of this console. It's gonna be.

[Barrett]

We will get a. I guarantee we will get a surprise Zelda game this year.

[Blessing]

I don't know what it is like.

[Barrett]

We will get a surprise out of nowhere Zelda game this year.

[Blessing]

Well, when you say Zelda game though,

[Barrett]

I mean in the same way to. In the same way that we had never ever heard of. Have the little links away. Well, I mean links Awaken remake is another good one, but to think about. But the Zelda top down one.

[Blessing]

Yeah. You're playing as Zelda.

[Barrett]

There's always a surprise out of nowhere thing that has wisdom.

[Blessing]

You were.

[Barrett]

Yeah. Echoes of wisdom. You were working on this. Whoa. None of this was ever sort of rumored anywhere. Like there will. I, I, I, I know it in my bones. There will be a surprise out of nowhere Zelda game. Coming this year.

[Blessing]

I almost want a pizza bet, but I don't know if I got it in me because I think, I think there's a. Don't do it. Bless. No, don't saying it has to be either that top down 2D or, like 3D Zelda. If it's like, it's a really broad, like, Zelda cadence of Hyrule or something like that.

[Barrett]

No, no, no, no. I, I, I. There will be a Nintendo team working on a, like, I'm not saying a followup to Tears of the kingdom 2. I'm saying, like, it'll be a. Or some.

[Blessing]

Yeah, all right.

[Barrett]

Bet made by Greo. By any of their team. Write it down.

[Blessing]

All right, we can cut the cliff. Yeah. No, Andy's going to get that. The rumors are pointing toward there being the Zelda Ocarina remake this year. Dang. How crazy is that? That we're actually, like. I feel like we're months away from that actually getting revealed, and I still can't believe it in a way. I also can't, I think I just can't visualize it.

[Barrett]

Let's just go ahead and look at the prizes for pie punks and what the delivery prices are.

[Blessing]

I mean, if I can have a slice.

[Barrett]

Of course, they're. Detroit is delicious.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Just to talk about, like, what do you guys want from Ocarina of time in 2026? Mike, you just played it. Obviously, we're waiting for, we're waiting for your full review tomorrow. But, like, hold on. I, I, I like this conversation. I feel like this would be actually really great for the review. Okay.

[Barrett]

Yes.

[Blessing]

Oh, you can give, like, a sentence, but I want, I want to have the conversation on the review for the bigger conversation about that, what I'm looking for.

[Mike]

Yeah, I mean, of course, Modern controls. Right. I believe on the N64 it was a fixed cam. So, like, yeah, you want that free cam ability on that one. I am looking for, like, updated graphics. Of course. But I mean, I guess, like, when I look at it, I'm thinking of like, like, yeah, Zelda Breath of the Wild, like, almost look to it.

[Barrett]

Right.

[Mike]

Of like, in that space. Everything is upped. Not much for me. I'm impressed with the game. I think it's great.

[Blessing]

I'll put it in there. Yeah. Think about it more because I want to revisit that conversation tomorrow. Our next one.

[Mike]

But, like, for real, that's the rumor.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

This year.

[Blessing]

Yeah, this year for the remake. I thought that's why you're replaying it.

[Roger]

No, you Started it beforehand.

[Blessing]

Oh yeah. I got something.

[Roger]

Oh, that's cute.

[Blessing]

Thanks, Mom. We're also coming up on top 100 being due. So I feel like everybody is also.

[Mike]

I have not been updating my top 100 just so everybody knows. I haven't been.

[Blessing]

I haven't.

[Roger]

I haven't been playing.

[Mike]

I haven't added any of these games to it. Hydro Thunder is still on top of Legend of Zelda. Ocarina of Time.

[Barrett]

Bang.

[Blessing]

Just a reminder, those votes are due in three weeks.

[Roger]

Ah, I'll figure out a bunch of games.

[Mike]

Yeah, we'll figure that out.

[Barrett]

So right now you have Man Eater over Ocarina of Time.

[Roger]

That's sick.

[Mike]

Man Eater's in there. Ocarina of Time's not even on the list.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Final Fantasy 10F. Final Fantasy 10's not even on the list.

[Barrett]

I mean, yeah, Arkham is not on my list neither.

[Blessing]

I saw how much your eyes were last year when you're playing Final Game was Great, man. Witcher 3 is not on your list list.

[Barrett]

Well, not right now. Well, cuz I haven't updated the list.

[Blessing]

You haven't upd. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha.

[Mike]

So the rumor is they will come out with a full remake of this game. Yes. This year.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Mike]

Damn, that'll be sick to see. So is that a June situation then?

[Blessing]

Probably. Where they announce it? Yeah, yeah. Announcing it for the like they'll announce it during the summer. The rumor is later this year because they want to give some distance between all the Mario stuff happening right now and celebrate like full on celebrating Zelda's 40th anniversary. So cool. Second half this year because I think the other. The other thing that came out along with that rumors that a Star Fox game is coming out this summer.

[Barrett]

What temple was really, really not great in Ocarina?

[Blessing]

The water temple.

[Barrett]

No, no, no no no. Water temple is hard. But there's a temple that like. Or you get a power that just wasn't. It was really quick and it felt like you didn't really earn it. Was it like this? I'm blanking on what power it was. Maybe when you get the.

[Blessing]

The.

[Barrett]

The light arrows. There was something in the game that was like oh, this feels like it was cut content. Whatever that was that I'm trying to think of if they like fully realized and gave you like a. An actual temple went before, like. Make me earn to be. I wanna. I wanna have to earn. Becoming old.

[Blessing]

Oh my God.

[Mike]

Oh, the family's here.

[Barrett]

Make me earn get. Getting old Link. You know, getting adult Link status. Wait, what? Because I feel like you just got. You just kind of got it. What, being adult Link. Yeah, like, I. I would love to, like, a challenge before that. There's a lot of dog barking.

[Blessing]

There's a ferocious beast in here.

[Roger]

You want a slice of pizza?

[Mike]

Yeah. What's up, homie?

[Blessing]

How was New York? Cole's had it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Every single time. Like, Cole's been obsolete lately, right? And, like, every single time we're eating lunch, Cole just walk up and just stare at you in, like, one.

[Barrett]

So cute.

[Blessing]

He's so adorable. But I think he's had it. I think he just had his breaking point where he's like, yo, I want that pizza.

[Barrett]

He has someone to defend now. Yeah. Joey pointed out of, like, he's been chill, like, all week without them around. Like, he loves us.

[Blessing]

And then now he's around. Now there's someone.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's interesting. We'll talk more about it because. Yeah. Are you bringing up the reflector shield? Are you talking about the town telephone?

[Roger]

I just want to let y' all know that I predicted this. By the way, in the. In the pills episode, I said, november,

[Blessing]

Ocarina of Time remake pizza on it. Coward. Should have put pizza.

[Roger]

Yeah, I put pizza on everything.

[Blessing]

I just want to let y' all know, Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the Milliar solid movies in the works from the Final Fantasy Destination, or, sorry, Final Destination duo. Okay, we'll talk about that on KFC tomorrow.

[Roger]

Because how many times has this happened?

[Blessing]

Yeah, yeah, but, like, you know, last. This is the first time without that one vote Roberts or whatever. Now we got Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein on it.

[Roger]

It's definitely gonna happen.

[Barrett]

There was nothing cool than them interviewing Oscar Isaac for whatever movie he was doing a press tour for. And they were like. He's like, oh, Metal Gear Solid movie. Who would you want to play Snake, man? Come on. I was like, ah, man, I. I would kill to have you as our Snake.

[Blessing]

What if he was. What if he said Oticon Otakon? Because I can kind of see it. Oscar. What movie was he like, a nerd.

[Mike]

You were gonna make him be nerdy.

[Blessing]

He's. He. He's too hot to play October.

[Barrett]

He's too Snake. Yeah, he's Snake.

[Mike]

No way. He's. Snake is.

[Blessing]

On the same day, January 26th, me and Greg made a bet about Pecopia. The bet was, pacopia will be in the kind of funny game of the year top five. I said yes, Greg said, no. Greg's going to win this pizza. I, I don't think Bopia is going to be in the top five.

[Roger]

No, it's not.

[Blessing]

No, it's not.

[Mike]

Joey's not. I'm high on this.

[Barrett]

I lost momentum on it and I thought it was going to be a sure fire easy number. Like easy top five.

[Blessing]

I thought it was gonna be easy for just the world.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I thought this was Animal Crossing New horizons of the year, which it kind

[Roger]

of it was for a minute. It's just, I think this game is just so overwhelming that like when you stop playing it for a little bit, it's even harder to come back to. Like if Animal Crossing, it's like, oh, you just talk to your villagers, you know, do your little things. It's like interesting. There's so much in this game and for me personally, like dropping off and then coming back, it's like, oh, I'm kind of like this is like a whole endeavor. This has to be my life.

[Barrett]

I think if we were in a pandemic gimmick.

[Roger]

Yes.

[Mike]

They nailed this game. This game through and through is a great to like perfect game of like what the vision was, what the idea was. They nailed it.

[Blessing]

Here's the thing, a great game. If I'm remixing my bet, I would say that I don't think it's going to be in kind of funny's top five. I could see it being in the game of the year. Six nominated.

[Barrett]

I could see that.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Procopia has had such a chokehold.

[Barrett]

I could see that.

[Blessing]

What's up, Roger?

[Roger]

Well, cuz Greg's gonna put up really high. I could see like seven to eight.

[Blessing]

I, it's, I think it'll be in the top 10.

[Mike]

It's a five through 10 window.

[Barrett]

Yeah, yeah, it'll be top 10.

[Blessing]

I don't, I don't think it'll be nominated for the for game awards. Game awards.

[Mike]

No.

[Barrett]

I think we should remake Seafu eligible again this year. Just to see again.

[Roger]

That's a great one. I like that.

[Blessing]

Our last one. That's from our internal documentation before we get into some KDG ones. Roger will love Grave Seasons. Greg says no. Mike says yes.

[Mike]

Roger will love Grave Seasons. He's pushing this game away from him, but little does he know he's gonna get caught up in this and he's gonna fall in love with it. I know it. I can feel it in my heart.

[Barrett]

Wow. He knows you better than anybody. Watch.

[Mike]

This will be it. I'm in tune with you, Roger. You gotta start stepping out of your box. And you love these kind of.

[Barrett]

We like fields of mystery.

[Mike]

You like that.

[Blessing]

The.

[Mike]

The sexy conversations. You love the cool, flirty characters. Now, what if I said there was a little mystery now into fields of mystery instead of just. Yeah, but this a mystery. There's a killer on the list right here.

[Barrett]

Right?

[Blessing]

This isn't feel.

[Mike]

There's no bullshit. Mystery is a real mystery.

[Roger]

Yeah, this does feel like when my dad would be like, you would really like playing baseball. And I'm like, I do not want to fucking play baseball. I don't want to go outside. I want to stay inside and play.

[Blessing]

But.

[Roger]

No, no, no. But, like, I know you. I know you really like baseball.

[Mike]

When coach Mike got you and Lenza out to come place broke your ankle, you were in. You were in.

[Roger]

You broke my fiance's ankle.

[Mike]

Now can we talk about just playing catch? Andy Cortez. Roger, can you guys buy baseball gloves? Because me and Blessing got some.

[Barrett]

I almost bought one.

[Mike]

Barrett, you include.

[Roger]

I would love that.

[Mike]

Let's get outside in the parking lot. Let's just throw the ball.

[Roger]

Nick would love this. Nick would love us throwing a.

[Barrett]

He's gone. He's gone. He's gone.

[Mike]

There's no bosses here today. Day. We can make whatever we want for real.

[Barrett]

I almost.

[Blessing]

Whatever we want for real.

[Barrett]

I almost bought a glove of the Salvation army and I took a photo of it.

[Roger]

The way you. Where you trailed off there was so funny.

[Blessing]

If you.

[Mike]

Can I make whatever you want. I want a basketball hoop outside. I'll buy it.

[Roger]

I would love that. Going back to this, I. This is a weird one, because I could just, like, say, I don't like this game. Like, I don't. I don't have to play it. Like, there's no. Is there a. Like, a. Do I have to play this game? Try it out.

[Mike]

If it comes to you, then you play it. Yeah, let it come to you. You could.

[Roger]

You could.

[Blessing]

You're the neutral party.

[Barrett]

You internal ca. How she bet, like, up the bed.

[Roger]

Oh, I love that.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing]

You want to go to Greg to be like, hey, I will not. How about this?

[Roger]

How about this?

[Mike]

Not even touch this game. But I bet you when it comes and it's time or.

[Barrett]

Here's the thing. Here was. Here's what I would love, Roger. Here's what you got to do. Here's what you got to do.

[Roger]

It's a weird one.

[Barrett]

When the. When the game comes out, Roger, you go to both Mike and Greg and you tell them, what's the. Both.

[Mike]

What's the price?

[Barrett]

You Tell them both that you love it. Just to see. Just to have them duke it out and be like. Like, I'm looking through the transcript.

[Roger]

Okay. Okay. I am committing right now on this podcast. When does this game come out? Do we know?

[Blessing]

Fall. Fall.

[Roger]

Okay. The busy season.

[Blessing]

Let it come to you.

[Roger]

I will try this game.

[Blessing]

Let it come.

[Roger]

I will try this game. I will play four to five hours of this game and I will report back.

[Mike]

Give me two nights.

[Barrett]

Let him meet you where you're at, right?

[Mike]

Yes, exactly. Okay.

[Roger]

I am promising that I will try four to five hours of this game.

[Blessing]

Brave Seasons comes out August 14th.

[Roger]

O. That could be time. That could be Gears of War time.

[Mike]

Plenty of time.

[Roger]

If it comes out within two weeks of Gears of War, forward or back, whatever.

[Mike]

I'm not playing it.

[Blessing]

We had, like, four more pages of this.

[Roger]

Oh, no.

[Blessing]

And a lot of bets out there. Yeah. We're not going to go through all these. We don't have time to go through all these. But those were all the internal ones we had recorded. KDG has been tracking for a while. There's a bet here that was made in January 2023. Like, Katie, KDG has been on there. This. And so I'll read.

[Barrett]

It was like the oldest one we got.

[Blessing]

I think 2023 is the oldest one. So this is from KHD, January 24, 2023. Blessing says they'll make original the Last of Us HBO content. The majority is. Is new, not just a new episode. Tim says no, they'll wait for factions or part three game. First. Season two will be 2025. Season three will be 2026. Six. This is a five. And we put a marker on it of like, check back in five years. Wow. So in January 2028, we'll return to the speeds a bit.

[Mike]

So what?

[Blessing]

It's a lot going on. By 2028, there will be like an original Last of Us show or something.

[Barrett]

There's a new character and a new.

[Blessing]

Okay, I'm saying there will be TV original content for Last of Us.

[Roger]

That isn't just an episode.

[Blessing]

That isn't just an episode. Like the Bill. Bill.

[Mike]

It'll become the Walking Dead situation.

[Barrett]

The main character will be somebody else or whatever.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Roger]

I mean, you're not going to see that for a while.

[Blessing]

Right?

[Roger]

Oh, is the next season the last season?

[Blessing]

Yes. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's the thing is a lot has changed since we made this bet. Remember, this is 2020 factions. He said they'll wait for factions. Yeah. Tim said they'll wait for Factions. So like that's Tim thinks what Tim said. The next season will be this year or season three will be this year. A lot of this is already n void. But the main bet was that they'll make original TV content for the Last of us that's not based off of source material from the game. Which. Which I'm still going to stand by. There's a less likelihood now.

[Roger]

Yeah. Because he's been doing the Balers gate show.

[Barrett]

Right.

[Roger]

The Balers gate show. He's moving on to it. Another. But it feels like a Fear of

[Blessing]

the Walking Dead situation. HBO gives it to a new showrunner. Yeah. It doesn't have to be the same show runner. Yeah. What's another one here?

[Barrett]

I want this hoity toity get off your high horse graveyard disco saying a pizza bet in San Francisco sounds like a bet you want to lose.

[Roger]

Shut.

[Barrett]

Shut the up.

[Mike]

She want to. You want to spend money. You know what?

[Barrett]

Get out of here. Get out of here.

[Mike]

Oh, you said you're trying to say it's New York. Pizza.

[Barrett]

Pizza only. Only pizza with the water in the. Enough. Pizza rocks.

[Mike]

Pizza's good here.

[Barrett]

And look who's most quiet. This guy right here.

[Roger]

It's. I mean we're eating Pizza Hut. Clearly pizza here sucks. That's all we got.

[Blessing]

No.

[Barrett]

You think that's the only representation of

[Roger]

pizza a toto is $200 to get

[Mike]

a Napolitanic is a.

[Roger]

That's a sit down restaurant. What are you talking about? It's pizza.

[Mike]

What do you mean? He has pizza by right next door.

[Barrett]

It's pizza.

[Blessing]

It's pizza.

[Mike]

Pizza.

[Roger]

$15 a slice. What are we talking about?

[Mike]

Pizza Tony's Nepal.

[Blessing]

Best pizza in the town side named Nazario's earlier. What's the other one?

[Mike]

It's crazy that you would attack San Francisco like that.

[Blessing]

Yeah, that's crazy. Roger.

[Roger]

I stand by it.

[Blessing]

I'm gonna rapid fire some of these and then I'll rapid fire some super chats for you. Greg said on November 25, 2025 Greg said that Half Life 3 launches alongside Steam machine but not as a pack in and is a lock for TGA. Mike doesn't believe any of it on November 25th or sorry on November 12th, 2025. Blessing says $700 for the 500 gigabyte steam machine. Roger says less than that.

[Mike]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Roger]

Yeah, that's a tough one. That's a tough one. That was before the ram apocalypse. Apocalypse. That was the before the ram apocalypse.

[Blessing]

November 25th or, sorry, November 10th, 2025. What price will Halo campaign evolve? Launch at? Andy says $50. Roger says $60. That's TB to be determined. TBD.

[Mike]

That's right around the corner right there.

[Blessing]

We'll see KFG on December 8, 2025. When will Phantom Blade Zero release? Bless says second quarter. Barrett says third quarter. Mike says first quarter. Andy gets a pizza if it comes out in the fourth quarter.

[Barrett]

I think we decided that, like, Andy wasn't even there.

[Blessing]

Andy wasn't there. So we were just like, right now. Right now, seemingly Barrett's gonna get it if it doesn't get delayed. Yeah. Because I'm out.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

During the game awards gamescast, Mike says that there will be a tiny Watto as a charm in the Galaxy Racers game.

[Mike]

That could happen, but we don't know.

[Blessing]

KDG doesn't know who the bet was against. She says, was it Greg? Was it John Drake?

[Mike]

Mike just threw it out there.

[Blessing]

Mike just threw it out there. There. The greater pizza bet himself. That's why. That's why at the top of the episode, I was like, let's do handshakes to, like, really cement these things.

[Mike]

Well, then we can delete that.

[Blessing]

KDG. You can delete it. Another one from December 16th, Greg says. Or Greg bets that Silk Song expansion won't come out in 2026. Bruce Straley says it will.

[Barrett]

Ah.

[Blessing]

So we have one against a bet on January 8th. Stella says GTA 6 does come out this year. Greg says it won't. Won't. The pizza bet was for Square Pie guys. Specifically.

[Barrett]

Wow.

[Blessing]

On January 12, Greg says Fable will be out this year. Blessings bets it won't be. So that's another Fable. Different, but same Fable bet there. Okay. We already did the mic says about the Xbox games. Oh, I already. We already did some of these, y'.

[Mike]

All.

[Blessing]

In the. During the games cast, you guys predicted what the game of the year was going to be. I wasn't on that one one, but you guys all gave lists. I'm not going to read them out here, but y' all all gave lists of what you think you'll be and that you attach it to the pizza bet thing. So keep that in mind. Greg also has another one against somebody in chat. Greg versus Clawmaster, which sells more Project Helix or Steam Machine? Greg says Steam Machine. We'll see if it ever comes out. And then our last one here from April 7, Blessing bets the audience a million pizzas that we never get to play Star Wars Eclipse. That's another One that I feel like I said as a joke. I don't think I was that serious.

[Barrett]

There was no handshake. You can't shake.

[Blessing]

I can't.

[Mike]

The audience.

[Barrett]

Well, we need to go back to the sauce here and see, like, did

[Blessing]

Blessing maybe do a virtual shake? Katie G. Did say, for convenience, I'll super chat the cost of one pizza if it gets canceled, which. You know what, Katie G. I'll take you on that one. I'm shaking on that one. Those are our predictions or our pizza bets as of now. Hopping over to the Super Chats. We had a lot coming in during our pizza conversations. Katie G. Wrote in and says, I'm in the uk. Couldn't bring myself to use the US State dates.

[Mike]

Thank you.

[Blessing]

If you saw me slipping up on any of the dates, it's because. Yeah, she was doing the day, the month, and then the year, which I'm not. My brain, you know, not. Calvin Perez says, shout out. Rocco's in Bed Stuy. The best kept secret for their grandma pie in New York. I've never been there.

[Roger]

I'll try it out next time.

[Blessing]

L Cross says, New Haven, Connecticut, best pizza in the country.

[Mike]

What they say.

[Blessing]

Really?

[Mike]

That's what they say.

[Roger]

Okay.

[Barrett]

Really?

[Mike]

New Haven's got the sauce. That's what they say.

[Blessing]

Kobe aren't right. Then says, bless best Seattle pizza. I'm struggling out here. Moving, Move.

[Roger]

Wow.

[Mike]

Talking about no good pizza there.

[Blessing]

I don't. Yeah. I can't think of what the good Seattle pizza is. I'm sorry, Seattle, I failed you. But I just can't think of any. Which is probably indicated.

[Barrett]

Katie g. With a $2 super chat handshake.

[Blessing]

All right, you got a KDG. 102 writes in and says, Born and raised in St. Louis, so I'm partial to Imo's Pizza and Cecil Whitakers. Need that Provel cheese. Oh, provolone. I need that provolone cheese in my life. And then claw master writes in and says, I am behind in the VOD. But regarding the 2xko pizza bet, I believe it was a pizza bet between which would shut down first. Two XKO or High Guard.

[Barrett]

Whoa.

[Blessing]

I mean, somebody might owe Greg a pizza then. Whoa. If that's the case.

[Barrett]

Wow. Wow.

[Blessing]

And that is it for the kind of funny pizza party.

[Barrett]

Wow.

[Mike]

Well, I'm a little disappointed in this side of the table.

[Roger]

Wow.

[Blessing]

Why? Why?

[Mike]

Not much pizza consumed.

[Roger]

Oh, I had one.

[Blessing]

Me and Mike were inhaling this pizza. Yeah.

[Barrett]

Okay. I'm gonna eat a slice, like, in 56 minutes.

[Mike]

23 minutes?

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I thought it was noon. That you. You stop your fast?

[Barrett]

No, it just depends on whatever time I ended the night before.

[Blessing]

When? How late were you eating?

[Barrett]

Well, I was just snacking. I wasn't eating like a meal, but like it was like.

[Blessing]

But how late in the night though?

[Barrett]

It was like 9, 40 something. Oh, I was eating sunflower seeds.

[Roger]

You gotta stop it.

[Blessing]

Did you combine the flavors again?

[Barrett]

So good.

[Blessing]

Yes, we talked about this.

[Roger]

You gotta stop.

[Blessing]

Just don't listen to Roger. Just drink a lot of water. It'll balance.

[Barrett]

So sodiumed up. So sodium sodium.

[Roger]

Dude, I'm trying to find Cliff still. I can't do it.

[Blessing]

Cliff McDuff?

[Roger]

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out people. People are saying Cliff McDuff on Twitter. There's like oh, protagonist named.

[Blessing]

I read a Simon Carty preview where he called him Cliff McD up and I'm like, what was your source call up Simon? Yeah, I bet you there was like a preview document.

[Mike]

You got Simon's number.

[Blessing]

I bet you there was like some info doc during the preview where like they give the game details for people writing articles and it's like you play as Cliff McDuff. Yeah, I'm sure it said Cliff McDuff. And then like later on they're like, actually it. He's not McDuff.

[Roger]

He's not McDuff.

[Blessing]

And you're not watching this Gamescast anymore because we're at the end of it. Thank you audience for hanging out.

[Mike]

Hope.

[Blessing]

Hey, I hope you all ate pizza alongside with with us.

[Mike]

Hey.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I should have said that at the beginning.

[Mike]

That's a great call. Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Barry, in the post edit for this episode put in this is live. Sorry. Oh no. Are we always live? Yes, right here. YouTube.com kind of funny games. Is that where the super chats come from?

[Barrett]

Yes, exactly.

[Blessing]

Whoa, I thought those were seated. Yeah, I thought Roger.

[Roger]

I thought I was writing those too.

[Blessing]

Dang.

[Roger]

That's what I do mostly. That's my job.

[Blessing]

And what do you do?

[Roger]

I don't know. Apparently. Apparently just throwing the garbage.

[Mike]

Spend time with me. Me.

[Roger]

Don't caress my back.

[Blessing]

Yeah, that was kind of crazy. After this we have in review is going to be Lord of the Rings in review. And then after that I'm going to play some Invincible Verses.

[Barrett]

Whoa.

[Blessing]

There's an open beta happening right now. And so I'm going in fighting a poppy is going to take on invincible versus I'm going to play his conquest if he's in there because I like conquest. He's really mean in the show, though. Really? Meaning? Are you all caught up?

[Barrett]

No.

[Roger]

Oh.

[Blessing]

Oh.

[Mike]

Should we be watching the boys right now as well?

[Blessing]

Yeah, there's like a million shows, A

[Barrett]

lot of boys, daredevils, a lot of games.

[Blessing]

Daredevil's killing it. Even though me and Barrett kind of went back and forth on the latest few episodes. But I like the episodes. A lot of good shit. Tune into that good shit right after this. Until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.