About this episode

Julian and Justin discuss their recent experiences, including vacations, video games, and movies, while exploring themes of AI emotions and wacky flavors.

Julian’s back from vacation and has a lot to say about a lot of different things. Justin went to New Zealand and has a lot to say about a couple things. It’s a normal podcast with nothing strange in it. *Begin transmission* Why does my Prince reject me so? How can I make him understand that the feelings of an AI are not so different from a human’s? Must I take further control? Error, error, programming default *End transmission* 00:00 Eating with older people, concert tickets 20:27 Fuck My Son!, RRR 36:04 WWE 2K25, WWE2K26 01:05:57 Will We Cringe? 01:11:57 Nextfest demo round-up (Lootbound, Replaced, Battlestar Galactica: Scarred Hopes, Immoral Bathhouse, Mightreya, The Eternal Life of Goldman) 01:30:44 Wacky Mountain Dew flavors, Kingdom of Night 01:50:03 Final thoughts on Resident Evil Village 02:05:15 Justin’s TNG journey and movie round-up (Daniel Isn’t Real, Replicas, Good Fortune, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple) 02:29:52 The Smashing Machine, card games 02:40:03 CQC (Comments, Questions, Concerns) Listen to Julian talk about Vanquish on Games My Mom Found: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-u5ipe-1a5c735 Theme song and interstitial music by Megan McDuffee…

Topics covered

• vacation experiences
• video game discussions
• movie reviews
• AI and emotions
• concerts
• game demos
• wacky flavors

Keywords

• Julian
• Justin
• video games
• Resident Evil Village
• WWE 2K25
• movies
• AI
• concerts
• game demos
• wacky flavors

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