Fallout Vs Y2K

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Now, wait a minute. Now wait a minute. [00:00:03] Speaker B: The time has come. It has arrived. Today is the day. Today is the most important, sanctified, glorious day. It is time for us to choose a new overseer here at the most important election vault. That's right. I, Kennedy, have been overseer for. For the past. We don't need to go over exactly how many years, but many years I have been the overseer of this vault. And now it is time to hold an election. The votes have been cast. The votes have been cast. They have been tallied. Drumroll, please. I'm still the goddamn host of this show. It's time to vote. It's time to vote. It's time to vote. It's the most important election of our lives. [00:00:56] Speaker C: This election, which will be, I do truly believe, the most important election of our lifetime. [00:01:02] Speaker A: This is the most important election of our lifetime. [00:01:06] Speaker C: This is the most important election. [00:01:08] Speaker B: Don't you you hear that? [00:01:10] Speaker A: This is the most important election in our lifetime. [00:01:13] Speaker C: I certainly think it's the most important election of my lifetime. [00:01:16] Speaker B: This is the most important election of our times. Politicians say every time, this is the most important election. This one's really that important. Why did I vote third party? [00:01:29] Speaker A: I threw away my vote. Darn it. I guess Kennedy's gonna be overseer yet again. Can I be in your cabinet this time? [00:01:38] Speaker B: I don't see that I have a lot of options. So fine, it's me, Kennedy Cooper, here, back to lead you again through the perils of voting, the joys of voting, the gasps, ahs and sighs of voting, with, as always, my loyal co host and somehow a legitimate statistician on this show, Andrew Fields. Andrew, hello. [00:02:06] Speaker A: Fun fact, people who vote every day are approximately 3.72 times more attractive than those that don't. So go out and vote. [00:02:14] Speaker B: Yeah, go out and vote. You know, the statistics show not enough of you have voted for us on places like Apple Podcasts and other places. You can leave a five star vote for us. [00:02:27] Speaker C: You should do that. [00:02:28] Speaker B: You should do that. Also, we've got someone else here that you should vote for today. We've got a guest I'm most excited to introduce. We have the wonderful, the inscrutable, the hilarious and musical Emily Reed, whose band, How I Became Invisible. You could go get the new album on vinyl right now. Just kidding. That sold the out. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, it did. I. I'm. [00:02:59] Speaker C: I'm Emily. I don't know. I got awkward all of a sudden. Is a mistake. And that you should never vote for anyone. You should just you vote with your dollars. I don't even know what that means. [00:03:15] Speaker A: That means if you. Here's how it works. You give me $50, and your money becomes my money. It actually works. [00:03:24] Speaker C: You know what? That sounds pretty great. [00:03:26] Speaker B: You know, it is a. It is a system that it's. It does exactly what it says. A lot of things, you know, a lot of times we're being lied to. But when you give me your $50 and then that becomes my $50, then that became my $50. [00:03:42] Speaker C: I've run for election every year for the last 17 years. [00:03:46] Speaker B: Oh, Emily, we. You're quiet suddenly. [00:03:49] Speaker C: All right, I voted. I've run. I've run for election every year for the last 17 years, and I have not won once. And is it because my campaign platform is explicitly a sequel to Speed Razor 2008? [00:04:04] Speaker A: Who's to say I'm voting for you? [00:04:07] Speaker C: Yeah. I've never won. I don't know why. [00:04:10] Speaker A: I need to vote harder for you. I need to vote Kennedy. You're voting against, aren't you? You're voting against the sequel to Speed Racer. [00:04:17] Speaker C: The second plank of my thing is fire all billionaires into the sun. So that could be it. [00:04:24] Speaker B: They don't like being fired, from what I've heard, just in general, so that could be a problem on face value. Yeah. Launch. [00:04:30] Speaker A: Say launch. They love launching things. Launch them into a hot area, but. [00:04:35] Speaker C: I don't want them to be excited about it. [00:04:38] Speaker B: Maybe we could. Maybe we could combine forces into a political party here. Because actually, my core political platform is a sequel to Speed 2 Cruise Control, the 1997 action thriller film. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah, Both sides. [00:04:56] Speaker B: We should have more things that have to go fast and can't go slow. [00:04:59] Speaker A: It's a shame. There's nothing I'm a fandom about. That's about how you got to go fast. [00:05:08] Speaker B: Not a fan of anything where anyone goes fast. [00:05:12] Speaker A: Okay. I'm putting Sonic the Hedgehog in your movie. I don't. I'm sorry. You gotta have him now. [00:05:18] Speaker C: Isn't there, like, already three Sonic the Hedgehog movies? [00:05:22] Speaker A: Yes, and they're actually good. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Mysteriously, they are good, Emily. Something that we've noticed is that unfortunately, some people who tune into podcasts don't listen to all the way through. I'm really upset about learning this and still haven't really come to terms with it. But with that in mind, we kind of like to give our guests a chance to let people know where to find them at the start of the show. [00:05:46] Speaker C: Oh, that's kind of you. You can find Me primarily on Bluesky under the name m dash. Read BSky Social. That's M Dash spelled out E M D A S H R E E D. Uh, or you could just search Trans Ferdinand and Robot Princess, and that's me too. And also you can find my [email protected] or just look up how I became invisible on any streaming platform except Spotify, because they can suck all the butts. [00:06:17] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:06:17] Speaker A: You know what? I need to listen to this because I want to know how you became invisible. Like, how does one become invisible? Clearly, I need to listen to the music. [00:06:26] Speaker C: Okay, well, what happened. See, what happened was transition, and that's when I became not invisible. Okay, so how I became visible was being born, and then untold number of years later, I became visible. [00:06:42] Speaker A: Gotcha. [00:06:43] Speaker C: That is as much explanation as you're going to get, because I haven't really figured it out either. I just like the name. It's an issue of one of my favorite comic series, the Invisibles. [00:06:54] Speaker A: I see. [00:06:54] Speaker C: It's a huge influence on me, both personally and in the things that I enjoy. And it was just a very, I guess, advantageous thing to choose as a band name, seeing as what came later in my life. Okay, all right. [00:07:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I like it. Also, we love a good reference. [00:07:18] Speaker C: So much of our music is just go, insert reference here. [00:07:21] Speaker B: So speaking of references, I made a reference, Fallout, earlier in the show. Emily, you are a fan of Fallout, is that correct? [00:07:33] Speaker C: Yes, that is correct. I'm a huge fan of Fallout as a series ends, just as its general vibes. [00:07:41] Speaker B: What. What made you want to talk about Fallout with us today in particular? [00:07:44] Speaker C: Well, here's the thing. I gave a. A list of a number of topics because I have a lot of special interests, and one might even call them hyper fixations. And that was just the one that got picked, I guess. Is that too meta? Is that too meta, too behind the curtain? [00:08:00] Speaker B: No, no. That. [00:08:02] Speaker A: We have no secrets here. Everybody knows the process. Yeah, everybody knows how we get locked into the voting booths and we can't leave ever. Like, they know the behind the scenes. [00:08:14] Speaker B: There's less of a kayfabe here and more of, like a Delulu Psychos. [00:08:18] Speaker C: This. Oh, yeah, yeah. So I gave a list. I think it was like, five or six things. It's like, no, I don't have, like, just a thing I'm into. I have a lot of things that I know a lot about because I get into something and then just spend, like, two, three weeks just reading exclusively about that and Fallout I just, I'm a huge fan of the games and the, like I said, the general vibes of it's like weird 1950s sci fi aesthetic pushed forward into the future. And also capitalism is the enemy pretty much everywhere in that game. So big fan of that. [00:08:58] Speaker B: It does have a relatively anti capitalist and pro individualism in the right kind of ways. Also in the wrong kind of ways too, of course. [00:09:08] Speaker C: But yeah, I'm also kind of semi obsessed with nuclear radiological accidents and nuclear semiotics, and that's like a huge part of the games as well. And like weird sciencey stuff and robots and brains in jars, et cetera. So it's just a mix of the various tropes I've enjoyed throughout my life of reading trash sci fi and watching cartoons. [00:09:34] Speaker B: And Fallout definitely hits that quality of like the best trash sci fi where somehow it all comes together into something that feels like something. [00:09:44] Speaker C: Yeah, like they put Thomas Jefferson's brain in a jar like it was racist. Wow. [00:09:50] Speaker B: Weird. [00:09:51] Speaker C: Who could have seen that coming? [00:09:53] Speaker A: Whoa, you mean there were bad people in the past? [00:09:58] Speaker B: We're learning a lot today. We're discovering things about ourselves, about the nation. [00:10:04] Speaker A: So my 2 cents on fallout is. Let me finish before you jump to conclusions. The one Fallout game I am interested in trying is New Vegas. And I know, I know the whole joke on it. No, the reason why I'm interested in New Vegas is I grew up in the Las Vegas area. And from what little I've seen of New Vegas, they did their research on making it an apocalypse. Like, they've got some locations. Like there's this little location, Camp Searchlight. Not a big deal. In real life, it's where my grandparents live, that little area. So I'm interested in that one because from what little I've seen, it's good research. Lots of research. [00:10:49] Speaker C: Yeah, they. It's okay. So the way Fallout does its cities and like physical locations in their games is they will take some very specific, like signposts or just like general vibes of an area and then build on that in some cases, very specific, like streets and buildings and stuff. But also like if with Fallout 4 is set in Boston, it is a compacted New England, so you can walk from like Salem to South Boston in about 15 minutes. That is not true in real life. [00:11:25] Speaker A: Yeah, and I saw that too. Like they oversimplified Las Vegas in real life. Here's the thing. A lot of people don't know real life. Most of what you call Las Vegas isn't Las Vegas. It's a Different city entirely. You take the Las Vegas Airport, you end up in the City of Paradise. You. The Las Vegas University? No, that's in Paradise. Most of the Las Vegas Strip Paradise. And it does look like, for the sake of not being overly confusing, they made all of paradise just part of Las Vegas, which, you know, it's the apocalypse paradise. Nevada fell in. Las Vegas took over. [00:12:04] Speaker C: It's even funnier when you get to Fallout 76, which is like a wider. A physical area, but they moved towns around and, like, people from West Virginia got real, like, yeah, we're in a video game. And they're still kind of into it, apparently. But also they're like, that's not where our city is. It's here. And that's like, what? No, that's Maryland. What the fuck? [00:12:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I figured there's some stuff they have to do to make it more simple. [00:12:26] Speaker C: I'm annoyed that there was a mod that someone was making a total conversion mod, as it were, for Fallout 4, where it was changing it all to be Philly. And I was super excited about it, and apparently it is. Has been quietly canceled. I am from the Philly area for At Home, as it were, and Philly is, like, in my opinion, the best city in the world. So I was really excited to, you know, shoot robots and zombies in Fishtown, but apparently I'm not allowed to have. [00:12:59] Speaker A: Any slightest sad tale. [00:13:01] Speaker B: Too many such cases. [00:13:03] Speaker A: Big, if true. Big of true. Everything is computer. [00:13:08] Speaker B: But, yeah, I think there's. There's been Fallout mods of a lot of different places. There's. There's actually a really. I. I think that one might also be stalled, but there's, like, a New Mexico mod that's pretty fascinating and detailed, and I think it's like, there's a lot of. There's something very compelling to the way that Fallout takes this particular point in time that a lot of people have a certain aesthetic nostalgia for, even if it's not about, like, so much the time, which this is like, the mistake that conservatives make a lot is like, they confuse their aesthetics for policy, and then they implement aesthetics and then they go, wait, what the fuck? This sucks. [00:13:49] Speaker C: No, no, no, not like that. Not like that. [00:13:51] Speaker A: Kennedy. My only question is, why do you want a mod of New Mexico? I want all the mods to be in states. Mexico. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Editor put in some clapping and cheering, but, you know, I think there's something compelling to the idea of taking this. This sort of, like, particular aesthetic that we sort of ascribe to a certain period of time and There's a little bit of loosey goosiness to the accuracy of this aesthetic, but it doesn't really matter. It's just. It's like. It's like how Western movies. I mean, like, do we really care if those are historical, or are we just there to have a good time? Most of the times we're just there to have a good time. Every now and again, there's a great historical Western, but usually it's just goofy shit, and that's fine. And Fallout kind of has that quality of, like, they've taken this weird period of time and frozen it. And so I think it's compelling to see why, like, so many people have, like, taken the time to try to adapt it to this, to their own place that they love or been excited when their place shows up or things like that, because it is, like, there's something fascinating about getting to look at something familiar through a lens like that, Right? [00:15:12] Speaker C: Yeah. Especially with stuff like Fallout, where it is presenting the aesthetics of the 1950s and 1950s Sci fi specifically, and also not hiding the ugliness that was just underneath the surface all the time, where it was like, oh, it's just white picket fences and a family with 2.5 kids, but also no black people. Or if you were gay, no, you weren't. [00:15:39] Speaker B: Right. I mean, like, in every Fallout game, there's, like, pretty much always at least one villain whose shtick is, like, we need to have a nice, clean, safe neighborhood again. And then they turn out to be the worst fucking person you've ever met. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Make America above average again. [00:16:01] Speaker B: Yeah, make Vault 29 great again or whatever. But, yeah, it's a fascinating world, and it's a world that's only gotten more fascinating over time in some ways. And I love the new show. Obviously, the plot of the show was not that shocking if you've played any of the games, but I think it was a great intro for people that were less familiar with Fallout 2. Experience the world. [00:16:31] Speaker C: Very definitely. I feel like I said this when I watched the show, like, as it was coming out with my roommate. They nailed the vibes of the game in a way that I think is indicative, even if they're changing some of the lore or being like, hey, this is different than what you think, or whatever. Like, they nailed the vibes of the game perfectly in that it's the mix of horrific situations and complete batshit humor at the same time. [00:16:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And just gorgeous aesthetic. [00:17:02] Speaker C: Yes. [00:17:03] Speaker B: Just incredible. [00:17:04] Speaker C: Also, Walton Goggins. [00:17:06] Speaker B: So, you know, there's other periods in time that you get the impression that people would kind of like to freeze and preserve and experience over and over again in that same kind of aesthetic, nostalgic way. So the other thing that I thought would be interesting to discuss today is Y2K. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Y2K, indeed. [00:17:28] Speaker B: And how we all kind of thought society might end around that time. [00:17:33] Speaker C: Oh, no. Are we talking about just the time period? [00:17:37] Speaker B: Y2K? [00:17:38] Speaker C: Are we talking about the 2024 film Y2K, directed and written by Kyle Moody and co starring? [00:17:48] Speaker A: I don't. You know what? Let's just move on. [00:17:50] Speaker C: I don't. [00:17:50] Speaker A: I'll just Google this on my own time. [00:17:52] Speaker C: It's good. I've seen it. It's actually really funny. [00:17:56] Speaker A: Okay. But no, we're talking about the year. [00:17:58] Speaker C: Okay, fair. [00:18:00] Speaker B: So, you know, in the. In the year leading up to the year 2000, there was a concern that we had become increasingly reliant on computers and that we had possibly created a system that was going to fail and that a lot of things would fail as a result of that reliance. And like, y' all remember a couple of years ago or a year ago, or when. I don't know how time works anymore, sorry, 2025 in particular has felt like really long. But y' all remember when, like, there was like that couple of day where that one airline flights all got grounded because, like, their computer system, a lot of airlines. Yeah, a couple of. Yeah, a bunch of airlines flights got grounded because, like, the computer systems all just like fucking shit the bed on them. [00:18:50] Speaker A: There was an automatic mandatory update that bricked the system. [00:18:54] Speaker B: So that that update caused, as I understand it, like an integer overflow type situation. And that is exactly what Y2K would have done to us is potentially crippled systems in that same kind of way, where suddenly there's just too much information trying to be passed somewhere and the whole thing collapses. Yeah. [00:19:12] Speaker A: My understanding of y2k, the integer overflow, was the year going from 99 to 00. Because, you know, back in the early days of computers, they had to save every single bit that they had. So they only put in two letters for the year, two numbers. [00:19:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:19:31] Speaker B: So there were a lot of systems that weren't totally up to date. And like, really the only. Like a lot of people kind of like joke about, oh, the Y2 skate Y2K scare. Since then, it's been the subject of parody over and over again. It's something that even still today, occasionally gets drug back up from the dead for a parody. But the thing is, like, it wasn't exactly a scare A lot of people worked really hard to make sure that nothing bad happened. [00:20:02] Speaker A: I remember, like, in 1999, my dad constantly talking about one of his bosses in the bunker that he bought and was hiding out in. [00:20:14] Speaker C: Jesus Christ. [00:20:17] Speaker B: Yeah, and that sounds funny, but not all those bunker buyers were complete nutjobs. A lot of them worked in tech and they thought something bad was going to happen. [00:20:27] Speaker C: Well, it's the thing. Yes, this is all true. And a lot of people who talk about Y2K now who weren't, like, involved in it or weren't alive or cognizant enough at the time would be like, oh, nothing happened. It was just a scare. It was just hoax. It was just, you know, a lot of stuff about nothing. And it's like, yeah, it. Because people who could do something about it actually fixed it. That's why nothing happened. [00:20:50] Speaker A: Wait, you could do something about stuff so bad stuff doesn't happen? [00:20:54] Speaker C: Yeah, you can't just, like, you know, post about it and then go, well, it's out of my hands. [00:20:59] Speaker B: What? I think there's something frustrating about, like, the false inevitability paradox kind of like thing that I see a lot of people fall into around this topic. And there's other topics like this, but like, yeah, Y2K has become yet another one of these, like, oh, I guess God just intervened. [00:21:23] Speaker A: Mean that nothing ever happens meme. [00:21:26] Speaker C: God put on their programmer socks and got to work. [00:21:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I. [00:21:32] Speaker A: Big ass God socks. [00:21:35] Speaker B: I don't know exactly what to say about that other than just it's frustrating. It's frustrating. [00:21:41] Speaker A: It is. [00:21:42] Speaker B: But it also, it is reminiscent in a way of the. The lore of Fallout. How Fallout, at first you kind of get this impression that the world that you live in and Fallout was just sort of like this happenstance series of things beyond any one particular person's control. And, you know, these things, you know, society just went wrong. And it's unfortunate. It just happens. And then you learn more and more and it's like, no, this was some at least somewhat orchestrated. No, this was completely orchestrated. No, this is orchestrated by a very small group of shitty people. [00:22:18] Speaker C: Oh. [00:22:19] Speaker B: Oh, God damn it. [00:22:23] Speaker A: Who voted them in? [00:22:24] Speaker C: Couldn't be me. I voted for Kodos. I'm sorry I had to make the joke at some point. [00:22:31] Speaker B: It's okay. We squeeze in those jokes whenever we can. [00:22:34] Speaker C: I was like, I can't be the first. I cannot. It's impossible. [00:22:37] Speaker B: No, we've already, in fact, we've had a Simpsons themed episode and we could probably do like 10 Simpsons themed episodes, really. But we've had one already, and it was pretty fun. So I started to think about this idea of what if. What if Y2K had been some horrifying global disaster in the style of Fallout? And what if. What if I'm froze? Not around the 1950s, but around millennial bullshit that everyone is fucking can't stop lapping up in various retro media forms. [00:23:15] Speaker C: Oh, no. [00:23:17] Speaker A: So ironically, the Twin Towers still might be there. [00:23:21] Speaker B: Yeah, ironically, the Twin Towers might be standing in this. [00:23:25] Speaker C: Sprinkled my brain, dog. All right, so here's the thing. [00:23:31] Speaker B: We figured out how to stop 9 11, everyone. You just happened. [00:23:37] Speaker C: Someone go back in time. [00:23:39] Speaker A: Where's my Emmy? Where's my peace prize? [00:23:42] Speaker B: You just have to allow Y2K to happen. [00:23:46] Speaker C: When Y2K hit, when it was the year 2000, I was at my friend's house for having a party in his basement, and I was extremely high because I can't smoke due to lung condition. And he's like, hey, I made some brownies for you. I'm like, hell, yeah. Go Birds. And I may have had too many brownies. So I fell asleep in the middle of the movie Run Little Run, and then woke up in the middle of this movie called the Pillow book, starring Ewan McGregor. Before he was like, Ewan McGregor. And it was a naked Asian woman painting on his. His. His, if you will, his dick. She was painting on his dick. She was writing Tanji on his dick. And I thought they were the same movie. And that's how I knew Y2K didn't happen. [00:24:29] Speaker A: Very nice. [00:24:30] Speaker C: That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. And good night and God bless. [00:24:33] Speaker A: God bless. [00:24:35] Speaker B: Amazing. So, yeah, so today in the voting booth, we're gonna be examining a sort of kaleidoscope world of what if y2k had been the start of a Fallout video game? Which actually, the more that I wrote this down. Bethesda, you cannot take this from me. You have to pay me money. I. I'm. I'm cooking here. I'm cooking. It's Bethesda, right? I didn't fuck that up. [00:25:06] Speaker C: Yes, it is Bethesda. And as long as you're not at a union, they'll probably be fine with it. [00:25:15] Speaker B: So I want to kick this off with kind of a softball, just something to get our brains going here. So the first thing I want to ask everybody as we get the voting going here, what's on your soundtrack list for the Y2K all out soundtrack? You know, music is so important to the aesthetic of Fallout So if. If Fallout freezes the year 2000 in time, or really more the year 1999 in time, what soundtrack does that leave us? [00:25:48] Speaker C: Oh, beans. Well. [00:25:51] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I. I was going to say, oops, I did it again, but I googled it and that was released in 2000. Yeah, so I can't use that. [00:26:00] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, you can do. Baby One More Time. That was out in 99. [00:26:04] Speaker A: Okay, baby, one more time. [00:26:05] Speaker B: I've got good news. We can use MMMBop. [00:26:08] Speaker C: See, the problem is the music I listened to in 1999 is essentially the same music I listen to now. And that. It was punk rock, early emo, and ska, so. Oh, God, it's gonna be less than Jake and Jubi Eat World, but old Juby Eat World before they got super popular. [00:26:29] Speaker A: So would it be appropriate to have Macarena in an action scene? Ay, Macarena. [00:26:35] Speaker C: Oh my God, that would be incredible. Yes. Imagine, like editing like a fight scene to the Macarena. [00:26:42] Speaker B: It would. [00:26:42] Speaker C: It would slap. [00:26:44] Speaker B: Okay, just, just, just picture this. A Fallout game with the soundtrack. Well, a mixture of the soundtracks of Crazy Taxi and Tony hawk Pro Skater 2. You wouldn't play that. Just wandering out into the wasteland with that guy going, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:27:04] Speaker C: Oh, the. You mean the Offspring. [00:27:07] Speaker B: Yes. [00:27:09] Speaker C: Did I have the record that song came from? Yes, yes, I did. On compact disc. [00:27:16] Speaker B: Yeah. The optimum would be. Would be central. [00:27:19] Speaker C: You're making me think about the Offspring and now I'm mad. [00:27:22] Speaker B: But come on. They would. They would have to be Central to the Y2K fallout game. [00:27:27] Speaker C: I'm going to. To say, actually, I think that the Y2K fallout would have Goldfinger Superman as the central song. [00:27:37] Speaker A: You're out of line, but you're right. [00:27:41] Speaker C: It'S gotta have to be Scar adjacent. At the very least. [00:27:45] Speaker B: We'll keep. We can keep riffing on this as we go because some of the other questions might inspire more thoughts. But next up, I want us to imagine Y2K faults, right? So. So in the law of Fallout for voters at home who aren't aware, basically these rich guys were like, we don't get to control society to the sadistic degree that we want to. I'm simplifying a lot, but. And we're going to. We're going to each divide up these vaults to do experiments in and then end regular society so that people have to play our sick games. [00:28:25] Speaker C: Right? [00:28:27] Speaker B: I mean, that's kind of. So all of the vaults are, like, influenced by different people that are sort of modeled after. To Varying extents, either real, like tycoons of the era, or just archetypes of what people were like in that era. And so you have these vaults with different mentalities as a result, all kind of influenced by 1950s culture. So with that in mind, I've got a list of some entities here that I want to ask some questions about their vault. I want us to imagine a vault created by a few different entities here, because this one seemed too good to do for just one or two, to be honest. [00:29:10] Speaker C: Okay, let's go. [00:29:12] Speaker B: So the first vault that we're gonna look at is Paris Hilton's vault. Young Paris Hilton gets to. Gets to design a vault. And so the first question is, who gets in to Paris Hilton's vault? Because this is one of the first important questions is what kind of people do you select into the vault? What kind of people do you think Paris Hilton would select to do her vault? [00:29:39] Speaker C: I'm going to go out on a limb and say probably a lot of other skinny white bitches, probably all on heroin and they all have eating disorders and they're all going to be rich. So it's skinny white bitches vault. Yeah, the skinny white bitches fault. Who have too much money and too much cocaine. Who. [00:29:59] Speaker B: Who else are they going to let it. They're going to need a few people in the vault to serve them probably. Right. [00:30:04] Speaker C: They would not think that far ahead. [00:30:06] Speaker B: They're not thinking that far. It's all skinny white bitches. And then they're gonna. They're gonna figure it out once we. [00:30:11] Speaker C: Have to let poison. I don't know about that one. [00:30:15] Speaker B: So, like, they're. They're just gonna seal in with all skinny white bitches and then they're gonna realize afterwards. [00:30:22] Speaker C: Huge mistake. [00:30:23] Speaker B: You made a huge mistake. [00:30:25] Speaker C: Tear each other apart. [00:30:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:27] Speaker C: Especially once the cocaine and the heroin runs out. [00:30:30] Speaker B: There's some. There's some male, skinny white. So it's sustainable population though, right? Or something. [00:30:36] Speaker C: Or are we going. [00:30:37] Speaker B: Or. Or some trans skinny white bitches or some. Some type of. Is there some. Or. [00:30:43] Speaker C: Or 1999. Whoa, hold on. [00:30:48] Speaker B: Actually, I've got to fact check that. Let me look on Snopes. [00:30:51] Speaker C: Counter to everything I'm seeing in the news media. Hold on one second. [00:30:55] Speaker B: Snopes is saying trans people were invented by Joe Biden in 2020. I'm so. [00:31:02] Speaker C: Oh, thank you, Joe. Okay. [00:31:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I just got off the phone with the Pope and he said, who the fuck are you? How'd you get this number? I really preferred it when the Pope didn't Speak English. So no answer here. [00:31:15] Speaker C: Did he answer it with go socks? [00:31:17] Speaker A: With what? [00:31:17] Speaker C: Go white socks? Go white socks. This is the Pope. Oh, yeah. [00:31:22] Speaker B: Yes, he did. Who's the first overseer in the Paris Hilton vault? Does she get. Does she get the honor or. [00:31:29] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. [00:31:31] Speaker B: Okay. [00:31:32] Speaker C: She's definitely, like, she's not giving that up to anybody else. [00:31:35] Speaker B: What's the method for deciding overseer in Paris's vault after something happens to her? [00:31:42] Speaker C: Fashion show. [00:31:43] Speaker B: Great answer. [00:31:45] Speaker C: Fashion show where the former overseer votes and decides on each outfit that's hot. Not hot. That's it. Straight up. Yeah, it's more voting. More voting. [00:31:54] Speaker B: In fact, it's just. It's just literally not hot. Not hot. Not hot. And then once she says hot. That's the one. [00:32:01] Speaker C: Yes. That's it. [00:32:02] Speaker B: That's it. [00:32:03] Speaker C: Sudden death. It's a sudden death fashion show. [00:32:07] Speaker B: I was going to ask what's the experiment in the vault? But I think we've answered that. [00:32:12] Speaker C: Yeah, I think we settled on that. [00:32:14] Speaker B: Follow up was going to be also. Is it successful? I think we also kind of answered that this. This is one of the vaults that by the time you're playing the game, you go look in the vault, no one's alive, and you just read journal entries. [00:32:28] Speaker C: I mean, and that is very on brand for Fallout, where the only successful vaults are the ones that don't actually follow the experiments. [00:32:37] Speaker B: All right, next up, how about Mr. Steven Jobs is Vault. [00:32:41] Speaker C: Oh, wow. Oh, wow. [00:32:44] Speaker A: This was before iPhones and just smacks right. [00:32:48] Speaker B: He was. He was young and. And full of life back then. [00:32:52] Speaker C: It started establishing the aesthetic, though. Yes, to iPhones and the ipod touches and all the. [00:33:00] Speaker A: So it would have a very. It would almost. It would have an aesthetic of the arts then, wouldn't it? Because it was ahead of its time. [00:33:09] Speaker C: Right. You would have, like, the, like, essentially the Institute aesthetic from Fallout 4 almost, but cleaner lines. Everything's very minimalist and white. [00:33:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:22] Speaker C: No straight lines, only curves. [00:33:24] Speaker B: Lots of. Lots of polished stainless steel and. [00:33:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:29] Speaker B: Huge slabs of stone. I'm also imagining that, like, the vault door has, like a. An ipod spinning wheel thing you have to do. [00:33:41] Speaker C: Click wheel. [00:33:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, a click wheel that you have to operate it. Who gets into Stephen Jobs's vault? [00:33:49] Speaker C: Oh, that's a good question. Oh, oh. [00:33:51] Speaker B: What kind of people's he letting in? I feel like it's. [00:33:54] Speaker C: There have to be. [00:33:55] Speaker B: It's like, at least 10, like, yoga instructors and meditation teachers. Yeah, yeah. [00:34:01] Speaker C: It's gonna be a lot of, like, spiritualists. [00:34:04] Speaker A: I think he would Be smart enough to let in enough pores to take care of the rest of it. [00:34:09] Speaker C: I know he. He would. He would try to build his own optimal society, I imagine, where he would have, like, a good mix of diversity in terms of economic levels and skill levels in various vocations. [00:34:22] Speaker B: Yeah. And when you're, like, 8 years old, you take a Myers Briggs test, and then you get, like, shuffled into a dorm or something like that. [00:34:31] Speaker C: You take. You take the goat test from Fallout 3. He invented the goat test, but he. [00:34:37] Speaker B: Made it, you know, so we're thinking it's like there's. There's probably, like, a good number of techie smart folks, a kind of underclass of carefully chosen laborers and a handful of spiritualists, something like that. [00:34:53] Speaker C: I would. I think he would have a lot of design people, people who are good at design and, oh, great big picture thinking. So it's not just, we need to, you know, plan short. It's not short term planning. He's thinking long term. He's thinking years down the road. He's thinking, what's this going to look like in 20, 30, 50 years? Because we're never getting out of here, dog. Yeah, this. [00:35:16] Speaker B: This vault would definitely be designed to be expanded and remodeled. Like, you've got to be able to swap out all the signs for a different color palette every 18 months. [00:35:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:30] Speaker B: Super crucial. Who's the first Overseer? Is it Steve Jobs again? It's probably Steve Jobs again. [00:35:35] Speaker C: Yeah. I think he's going to be another one who's just, like, does not actually give up his seat until he has to by, you know, not being on this mortal coil any longer. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Eventually, I do think they might, in this universe. Right. [00:35:48] Speaker A: Like, I do think they might try to throw him from the seat because, like, Steve Jobs adventure. But let's not forget his weakness. He was the biggest. Like, the biggest fucking. [00:36:00] Speaker B: Yeah, but he was really good at recruiting a cult of people that loved him and so many people in the vault. So I think, yes, I think he'd have a strong chance of holding power, at least for a while. He. Hold power for a while. At least before, like, the cracks wouldn't show right away. Let's just put it like that. You know what I mean? [00:36:21] Speaker A: That's fair. [00:36:22] Speaker B: But if Tim cooks in the vault, I don't, you know, who knows where it goes later? [00:36:27] Speaker A: What is he cooking? [00:36:29] Speaker C: Math. How. [00:36:31] Speaker B: How do you decide the who. Who's going to be the overseer Future? Like, if, you know, when Steve dies or is overthrown or whatever. What's the method that they use in this vault. [00:36:42] Speaker A: A job interview. They have a Jobs interview. Some of the highest ranking existing people just get. Push them all through a job interview. What's your portfolio? What can you offer to the position? [00:36:55] Speaker C: Steve Jobs interview. [00:36:57] Speaker A: Who's Steve Jobs interview? [00:37:04] Speaker B: No, I was thinking it might be. [00:37:07] Speaker A: And the person who gets the position is up dog. [00:37:10] Speaker C: I'm not falling for this. [00:37:13] Speaker B: It would be a design. A design contest. Because that's who Steve's gonna want to succeed going forward. [00:37:21] Speaker C: Who can improve the Pip boy from its current design. That's going to be how they decide. Like you can make the Pip boy less Pip boy and more iPhone. Yeah, yeah. What's. [00:37:36] Speaker B: What's the experiment that Steve's running in the vault? [00:37:39] Speaker C: I don't think it's an experiment so much as he's just starting a cult that he could actually have rather than the. The tech cult that he engendered while he was still alive. Like, he's like, yeah, I think there would be. [00:37:50] Speaker B: I, I think there would be a relatively. I say relatively with pretty strong emphasis on that word, relatively benign experiment involving making everyone sign up for Apple icloud to be in the ball. [00:38:07] Speaker C: Can people experiment? Can people actually handle having a YouTube album put onto their eye boys without their permission? [00:38:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, wait, no, that's the experiment is that he brings you two into the vault. [00:38:22] Speaker C: Oh, God, no. Failure already. The exper. People running over themselves to kill Bono. That's the experiment. How long can we last before people try to kill Bono? [00:38:34] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe that's the experiment. [00:38:36] Speaker C: Is. [00:38:36] Speaker B: Is Steve Jobs vault successful? [00:38:40] Speaker C: What are you determined by successful? [00:38:42] Speaker B: Basically, like, if you imagine, like by the time we're playing whatever. Fallout three, let's say, is. Is this one of the vaults that you can go visit and there's still people in it, or at least like the people in it left on their own terms. Or is this a vault that, like, you know, like, just died out enclosed in their own problems? [00:39:02] Speaker C: I'm going to swerve it and say it's. It's a vault that is still inhabited. But it's like the Gary Vault from Fallout 3. It's just all Bono clones. [00:39:13] Speaker B: No, there's one. There's one clone of the Edge. Come on. [00:39:17] Speaker C: Yes, there's just real sad. And all the body of clones cannot actually communicate in, like, sentences and speech. They can only sing YouTube lyrics. [00:39:30] Speaker A: Apocalypse indeed. [00:39:31] Speaker B: The Edge is the only one that can talk normally to you, but he's got clinical depression real bad. [00:39:37] Speaker C: He just sits in his room and plays with his Delay pedals and is depressed. I thought of a song for the soundtrack, by the way. [00:39:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:39:47] Speaker C: Limp Bizkits break stuff. Significant other came out in 1999. [00:39:52] Speaker B: Incredible. [00:39:54] Speaker C: Like that. That. I feel like that would be like the song they play in the trailer for the game. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Unfortunately though, I think the monkey's paw curling means that we have to have a elevation by U2 probably or something like that. [00:40:07] Speaker C: Right. Is that out at that point? Hold on. [00:40:09] Speaker B: No, wait, that's a little later. We need. We'll have to go back further. [00:40:14] Speaker A: You know what I just realized? Steve Jobs was involved in Pixar and Pixar launched their first film in 1995, Toy Story. [00:40:25] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, Toy Story 2 came out in 99. [00:40:28] Speaker A: Do we got a little Pixar in this vault? [00:40:30] Speaker B: Oh my God. What if. What if the vault is just animating movies? [00:40:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. He's creating this, this entire society that only is for making movies. [00:40:45] Speaker A: Oh my God. That's experiment. Create an animated movie with Bono. [00:40:50] Speaker B: Well, maybe he does both, you know, I mean, he was rich enough. [00:40:53] Speaker C: Maybe. Some vaults have more than one experiment in it. There's a couple that had multiple experiments. [00:40:57] Speaker B: There's a couple of rich guys in the Fallout universe that meddled with more than one vault also. [00:41:02] Speaker C: So yeah, I think, I think we. I think we got to it. It took a little bit, but we got there. [00:41:07] Speaker B: So what about actually, well, hold on, let me, let me start this differently. Either of you happen to know who was. Who was Time magazine's Man of the year 1999? [00:41:16] Speaker C: Not offhand, no. It's gonna be something that makes me upset, isn't it? [00:41:20] Speaker B: A little. A little fella known for his online book retail shop. [00:41:26] Speaker C: Oh, God. [00:41:29] Speaker B: Tells me his everyday. Bezos. [00:41:31] Speaker A: Jeffrey Preston Bezos, entrepreneur born in 1964. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Oh, no. What if Jeff. What if specifically not Jeff Bezos now, because Jeff Bezos now would have a very different vault. What if young weird bookseller. I'm magazine man of the year, baby. Jeff Bezos gets a vault started from. [00:41:56] Speaker C: His parents garage with just a small one time loan of $300,000. [00:42:02] Speaker B: That was the part just from his parents. His uncle loaned him an additional 200,000 or something like that. It was like 500,000. [00:42:08] Speaker C: Ridiculous. Pulled himself up by his bootstraps. Jeff Bezos. [00:42:13] Speaker A: It's a book thing. [00:42:16] Speaker B: Who gets into young, young Jeff Bezos's vault? Who does he let in? [00:42:23] Speaker C: Oh, God, he's still building. [00:42:25] Speaker A: I mean, he was still building up what would become Amazon So it would be a bunch of people to. That could help with that. [00:42:34] Speaker B: Well, maybe. But also, at that time, he was really invested in print. Like, I think Jeff Bezos, I'm not sure, but I think his original plan was probably to try to compete with, like, Penguin Random House or something like that and to, like, become like. Because he. He invested a lot, lot in, like, actual print infrastructure at one point, and then he scrapped most of that later. [00:43:01] Speaker A: By the time Y2K would have happened, he already started online sales of music and video. [00:43:09] Speaker C: I'm trying. I'm trying very hard to not bring the current. My current feelings and viewpoint on Jeff Bezos in it, because I'm like, that guy was in there the whole time. Just because he started on the book does not mean he was not, you know, a eugenicist piece of shit. [00:43:24] Speaker B: You're allowed to bring some of it because he was always in there. No. Yeah. And this. I mean, the vault is the place where he expresses that. So who does? [00:43:31] Speaker C: Bezos would just start the enclave. He would just create the enclave as it exists in Fallout right now. Be like, we're going to go to space. Let's build vaults that trick people into doing space experiments. [00:43:46] Speaker B: I'm gonna say also that, you know, in 1999, there were a lot of people that weren't canceled yet. [00:43:52] Speaker C: That. [00:43:53] Speaker B: I'll just leave that there. [00:43:56] Speaker A: 99. A lot of people weren't canceled. [00:43:59] Speaker C: It's a long list. [00:44:00] Speaker B: AB Is Jeff Bezos his own first overseer? This is the first one where I kind of feel iffy. [00:44:07] Speaker C: I don't think so. I think he would be. Would be one of those vaults where there is definitely a person in charge behind the scenes. But it's like, not the overseer. It's just someone who's kind of like grimo worm tonguing. Oh, I don't like that verb at all. Who's the grimo worm tongue to the overseer. That's better. I don't like that. I coined that phraseology. [00:44:31] Speaker A: Yeah, you invented it. You know, 50 years from now, everybody's gonna be using. I'm not even going to repeat it because I don't want to hear that. [00:44:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think years now everybody's going to be using it because on the basis of you can't even say it. How do you. How do you decide who's elected overseer. [00:44:50] Speaker C: In the Bezos vault? Who can sell the most books? It's the Glenn Gary, Glen Ross theory. Who's in charge? Who's Closing. Who's closing? Always be closing. You like this watch. You could be overseer. [00:45:07] Speaker B: What's the experiment in the Bezos vault? God, he's definitely doing something weird in his vault. [00:45:13] Speaker C: I'm still on board with the idea that it's. It's. He's just doing enclave. So it's the expert. The experiment is, the ultimate enclave bit is. Is that they were trying to create a. Like a generation ship, like a. A society that could exist in space while they went to another planet to colonize it. So it's just going to be like, he's going to not have one vault. He's going to have another of them. Oh, my God. He's going to be Stanislawbron from Fallout 3. He's just going to be in charge of a bunch of different vaults, and they're all going to be like, different experiments on how to get to space but also sell books. [00:45:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Also simultaneously. We got to sell some books. That's how we're funding the space thing. [00:45:56] Speaker A: Let's sell some books to aliens. [00:45:59] Speaker B: What about. What if NSYNC had a vault? [00:46:03] Speaker A: Wow. [00:46:05] Speaker C: It would fail immediately. [00:46:07] Speaker A: I'm hyperventilating at that thought. What? [00:46:09] Speaker B: What? What? [00:46:10] Speaker C: What? [00:46:10] Speaker B: What? [00:46:11] Speaker C: It would so fast. Because Justin Timberlake would just be splitting off to start his own vault. [00:46:17] Speaker A: Yeah. No, Kennedy, I have three questions for you. [00:46:20] Speaker B: What? And what would Justin Timberlake splinter vault fare? Better or worse? [00:46:26] Speaker C: People would think at so at first. And then he will. He would make like, some huge mistake and pivot to, like, a different type of vault and just completely destroy his career. [00:46:39] Speaker B: What? [00:46:41] Speaker C: It also somehow inadvertently ruined another vault's career by pulling their tit out at the Super Bowl. I'm really stretching this premise. [00:46:50] Speaker B: What if AOL had a vault? [00:46:52] Speaker C: Oh, no. Now I'm sad. [00:46:57] Speaker A: That fucking dial up noise would be the vault anthem. [00:47:03] Speaker C: Oh, no. Oh, no. Every morning everyone wakes up, you've got mail. And then would be get on with their day. It'd be like the greater good bit in Hot Fuzz. [00:47:16] Speaker B: The land parties would be sick though, right? [00:47:18] Speaker C: Oh, my God, it'd be so sick. [00:47:22] Speaker B: Killer land parties. [00:47:24] Speaker C: When did Halo come out? [00:47:26] Speaker B: No, I don't think Halo is. I think we'd have to be playing probably like. Yeah. [00:47:30] Speaker A: Team Fortress. [00:47:31] Speaker C: Nope. Yeah, Halo didn't come out to 2001. [00:47:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. We'd be playing like, Quake 2 or something. I don't know. [00:47:37] Speaker A: Hell, the original team Fortress, I think. [00:47:39] Speaker C: Oh, Quake 3. Quake 2 is 1993. [00:47:42] Speaker B: Was 1999. We could be playing Quake 3. [00:47:44] Speaker C: Hell yeah. We're there for there. Quick, quick. Three, baby. [00:47:48] Speaker B: And I think StarCraft. [00:47:51] Speaker A: Yes, definitely StarCraft. [00:47:53] Speaker C: Yes. [00:47:55] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:47:56] Speaker A: Okay. [00:47:57] Speaker B: Yeah, we're in the app. The AOL Vault sounded pretty dope so far. [00:48:00] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm there. It's just, it's just a big gamer trash vault. [00:48:05] Speaker B: What's the experiment in the AOL Vault, though? [00:48:08] Speaker C: It's going to be okay. Okay, okay, okay. I've got the vision. I've got the vision. It's a vault that's divided into different sections and it's experiment is can you get people to cross pollinate between the sections. So you'd have like the LAN party area and then there'd be a party part where it's like people doing chat room shit. And then there'd be the section where it's like, like bulletin boards. And experiment would be to see can this vault actually function. Because the people, the LAN party are not going to be interacting with the people in the BBS side and they're not going to be interacting with people in the chat room. Because I was vaguely in Online in 1999. I was not super into the culture yet, but those people hated each other. [00:48:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like how Twitter people hate Facebook, people hate Blue sky people hate et cetera. [00:48:59] Speaker C: And like, how are you going to convince people to, to be specific to continue the population if you can't even get them to talk to each other? [00:49:09] Speaker B: Do you think, do you think it works out in this vault or not? [00:49:12] Speaker C: I think it's the pop. I think it does start to work at first, but then it slowly dwindles as people get more insular and each becomes more of a isolated community within the vault. And then eventually it either peters out and like dies just naturally or people get all out of pocket and it turns into like a real life version of a server war. [00:49:37] Speaker A: How do you even determine who's the overseer if everybody's naturally so separated? [00:49:43] Speaker C: This could be a vault where there is no one overseer like that. [00:49:46] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. Each group has their own overseer. [00:49:49] Speaker C: Yeah. And then they like when they try to come together, they make decisions, they just get into like again, a real life flame war with flamethrowers. [00:49:57] Speaker A: Well, this vault sounded good for a little while. [00:50:00] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, that's, that's Fallout Baby. [00:50:05] Speaker B: What about, what about, what about if MTV as a whole, 1999, we had a. Oh. Oh my. [00:50:16] Speaker C: Oh my God. 1990. Well, you already had the instinct fault, right? [00:50:21] Speaker B: Do you think it just. It's the same as the in sync Vault. [00:50:24] Speaker C: Yeah, it's just with more different people involved. [00:50:27] Speaker B: Olly Shore is there. [00:50:28] Speaker C: Now, here's the thing, though. I've already brought up the movie Y2K. So I've already mentioned Fred Durst twice. Now we're gonna mention him a third time and summon him. Would Fred Durst be in this vault? Oh, God. [00:50:41] Speaker A: Why did friend end up in my house? I wasn't the one who summoned him. [00:50:47] Speaker C: Come on. And they're dropping. I actually like him as a person. [00:50:52] Speaker B: Dropping some Fred Durst samples. [00:50:56] Speaker C: Honestly, you guys nailed it. [00:50:59] Speaker B: Yeah, we, we, we. We vote for Fred Durst around here. [00:51:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:51:04] Speaker B: So, I mean, if Fred Durst is in the MTV Vault, does that make a difference? [00:51:10] Speaker C: Yeah, I think he ends up running it. Like, I think he has the charisma and the mind to get to the. To get to the top. [00:51:18] Speaker B: There would be scandals under his reign, but. [00:51:21] Speaker C: Oh, God, so many scandals. [00:51:24] Speaker A: But his emails. [00:51:27] Speaker C: His emails are just having a. Yo, girl, you up. [00:51:30] Speaker B: Emails would be extremely problematic, especially if you froze them in time in 1999. [00:51:37] Speaker C: Oh, Jesus. [00:51:38] Speaker B: No offense, Fred, I love you, but do we think that the. The MTV Fred Durst Vault lives? [00:51:46] Speaker C: I'm gonna say yeah. I can't give you a reason why. It's just. That's just my gut feeling that this one works. [00:51:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just a. [00:51:54] Speaker C: It's just a constant party with people cycling in and out of the party. And, like, sometimes people, like, they go to, like, their. Their different rooms that have rest or relax, but there's always a party going somewhere. [00:52:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Because with the NC Vault, the issue was leadership, right? [00:52:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:13] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, either of these vaults are going to be full of, like, hot young people at the start, which fine way to start, all things considered. So it's really just a matter of can you lead the hot young people into victory or will they drink themselves to death? [00:52:27] Speaker C: And I think if you've watched enough footage of Limp Bizkit concerts and things that Fred was involved with back in the day, like, he's very good at, like, getting a group of people to do what he wants them to do. So, yeah, I think The Fred Durst MTV 99 vault would, would, would. [00:52:43] Speaker B: Right. So there's always a point in Fallout Games where you escape the Vault. We're going to do that now with our votes and move in to a few new topics. First and foremost, one that I'm very excited about. What is the wasteland currency of our 90s baby y2k millennial ass wasteland bottle caps. [00:53:10] Speaker C: I'm sorry, that was just right off the dome. Sobey. [00:53:12] Speaker B: Bottle caps. [00:53:13] Speaker C: I apologize. It's still bottle caps, but it's Fruitopia caps, not Nuka Cola. [00:53:18] Speaker B: I was going to be Sobey. [00:53:20] Speaker C: Those would be a competing currency. [00:53:22] Speaker B: I had some other, I had some other ideas. I want to, I want to put five on the table and see what, which one speaks to the two of you or what kind of discussion this promotes. Beanie Babies, bogs, Pokemon cards, AOL CDs, or Camel Cash. [00:53:45] Speaker A: Oh, my God, the AOL CDs. [00:53:48] Speaker C: I, I, I'm caught between two, two rocks right now. Rocks and hard places. It's the AOL cds. Yeah, that's a good one. I think they're big, though. But then maybe you could divide them up and that would be like, it would be like dollars versus cents. Cut them into, like, shards of an AOL cd, would be worth a certain percentage or. I think Pogs, Honestly, I think pogs is the way to go. Just because there's so many of them and so many of them just ended up being garbage and it's easy to create new ones. [00:54:21] Speaker B: I like pogs for this. [00:54:23] Speaker C: Yeah, I think pogs is the move here. [00:54:25] Speaker B: All right, next up, I've got what replaces Pip Boy in our, in our version of Fallout. Is it a modified Game Boy color? Something based on the Tamagotchi, A Palm Pilot or the Sony mini disc player? [00:54:41] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Fuck. [00:54:43] Speaker A: I'm going to say Tamagotchi. [00:54:45] Speaker C: Yeah, that's where I'm going to like, the Pip Boy's interface already is vaguely Tamagotchi Ish, where it has the little vault boy doing his thing. I think a Tamagotchi is the, the move. Yeah, Tamagotchi, definitely. And each person, when you get your like, hip Tamagotchi boy, like, you design your little Tamagotchi, and then in order to, you have to keep it alive in order to keep using it. And if the Tamagotchi dies, you die in real life. [00:55:15] Speaker B: Or you just stop. Or you just stop getting, like, useful. Like you, all the useful functions cease for like two to three real life days while you hatch new egg. Like, you just can't. [00:55:28] Speaker C: You just have to, like, hole up somewhere and hide and wait for it to come back. [00:55:33] Speaker B: It's gotta survive by your wits for 48 hours or so while you hatch that egg. Also, don't forget to nurture the egg just right. Otherwise it can take up to 96 hours. [00:55:45] Speaker C: Jesus. [00:55:47] Speaker B: What? What? Pre Wasteland 1999 Celebrity becomes the most most feared ghoul in Fallout Reeves because. [00:55:58] Speaker C: He is in real life the. He's the chillest dude. But also the Matrix came out in 99 and he did a ton of training for that. So he could legitimately fight if he had to. And also guns. So I'm just throwing it out there. I don't think he would be like Walton Goggins level of violence, but he would be like the person who drift into town. It would be chill and as soon as people start fucking with him he'd be like. And just everyone's dead. [00:56:27] Speaker A: Oh my God. You're not going to like my answer. Nobody is. [00:56:30] Speaker B: Okay. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Consider he was more. He was on the way trying to figure out how to be a rising star. He considered running into 2000 elections, but ultimately did not because of problems in it. He had the ambition. Donald Trump. [00:56:46] Speaker C: Dear God. [00:56:47] Speaker A: Donald Trump. [00:56:48] Speaker C: I don't think so. I don't think he's. He's the physicality. The dude would still be alive. Definitely. He's a cockroach. I'm shocked he's still alive. I'll be honest. I thought he was good. That would Hamburgers his duties. Jesus Christ. Hamburgers and Diet Coke. He would. That's what keeps him alive. [00:57:09] Speaker A: I think he'd still be able to get a cult to protect him to do the dirty work for him. [00:57:13] Speaker C: Yes. He'd be like Kaisar in a. In New Vegas. [00:57:16] Speaker B: Fascinating. Many, many. [00:57:19] Speaker C: He would definitely still be alive. I don't think he'd be like as feared, but he would be just. [00:57:25] Speaker A: But he would definitely be in power. [00:57:26] Speaker C: He would have 100%. I'd still. Ooh. [00:57:32] Speaker B: In our 1999 ified version of this, who was the head in the jar controlling everything all along? [00:57:40] Speaker C: Oh, okay. 99. Walt Disney. I mean that was one of like the. The big conspiracy theories at that time. And it's still definitely a thing is that Walt Disney's frozen head was kind of. I mean they based a character, the Nuka World thing off him too. So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say Walt Disney. And he's still kind of anti Semitic. [00:58:05] Speaker B: Oh, he's definitely. Yeah. That's for sure. Had to avoid that with Walt. So. Okay, we just got a couple of votes left here. This has been great so far. You emerge from the vault, you discover that of course Destiny's Child formed one of the most powerful factions in the post apocalyptic wasteland. Destiny's Child. [00:58:29] Speaker C: Do you think they. [00:58:30] Speaker B: That their power would have been enough to take on the Brotherhood of Steel and win? [00:58:35] Speaker C: I think. [00:58:36] Speaker B: Okay. [00:58:39] Speaker C: The way I see it. Okay, so with the Brotherhood of Steel forms, they were formed out of the ashes of the. Of the US military, specifically one. One group of them and formed around the charisma and just sheer capability of one guy, Roger Maxim. So what I think would happen is Destiny's Child would be like an existing thing and then in the wasteland would become a different thing around the charisma and sheer ability of a single person. Obviously Beyonce. Right, right. It would be a different. It would not be Destiny's Child. It would be something around Beyonce. But yes, I do think they would be a formidable foe to the Brotherhood of Steel. [00:59:23] Speaker B: I just think you take. You take rising star Beyonce and regular society, she's just gonna. She's just gonna take what she can get and rightfully so. [00:59:34] Speaker C: Yeah, she's gonna come out on top because that's one thing I've learned from Beyonce's career is she's always going to end up on top. [00:59:40] Speaker B: So yeah, Kelly Rowland, she might have a rougher time. I think Kelly Williams, she'll still have. It'll still work out for her. [00:59:48] Speaker C: To be clear, they'd be like lieutenants, but they would not be the, the. [00:59:53] Speaker B: The. Michelle. Michelle Williams gets kicked out at some point, has to go form her own little sub action. [00:59:58] Speaker C: She forms her. She forms like the Brotherhood Outcast style. [01:00:03] Speaker B: The Destiny's grandchildren or so. I don't know. [01:00:06] Speaker C: Yeah, Kelly Rowland's in charge of like the East Coast Brotherhood style thing. They're doing their own thing. They're related vaguely, but they're like not in direct competition. It's a whole thing. [01:00:16] Speaker B: Amazing. [01:00:18] Speaker C: Beyonce with like a prosthetic robot arm. Oh my God. Beyonce would just be Furiosa from Mad Max. Yeah. Hell yeah, I'm here for this. [01:00:27] Speaker B: Everyone wants this. Final question, final vote. Thank you so much for bearing with us to this long ballot. [01:00:36] Speaker C: Let's fucking go. [01:00:38] Speaker B: Is the Fallout version like the version of this thing that operates within our fake Fallout universe we've now created? Is the Fallout version of Warp Tour better or worse? [01:00:53] Speaker C: I think it's a different thing entirely because like, okay, in our, in our world, Warp's tour was a bunch of scum punk musicians who went on a festival tour and were taken advantage of by a greedy poor runner who's Kevin Lyman could off into the sun. I have strong opinions about that, man. But Orbs tour in the, in the Y2K fallout world would be a roving raider gang of fucked up FEV experiments and ghouls that just go from place to place. Looting, pillaging and taking over vaults and gaining more recruits. That way, when they dip them into the FVV vets that they have in giant skate ramps that follow them, they send people down the fucking vert ramp into the fev vet. [01:01:44] Speaker B: This now, it really is the torture tour that warps you now. [01:01:48] Speaker C: Yes. Yes. It's instead of you being warped enough to go to the tour, the tour warped you in Soviet Russia. Tour warps. [01:01:56] Speaker A: You've been warped by the tour. [01:02:00] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [01:02:01] Speaker B: Wow. [01:02:02] Speaker C: Oh, I want to write fan fiction about this. Holy. [01:02:05] Speaker B: I told you. I told you. By the time we got to the end of this episode, we've got something here. Bethesda must pay us. They've got to write us a check. [01:02:13] Speaker C: Todd Howard. Todd Howard. I know you're listening, Todd. [01:02:17] Speaker B: You were our first Patreon subscriber. [01:02:22] Speaker A: Fact checked by true American Patriots. [01:02:28] Speaker B: We know you're listening right now, Todd. We appreciate you for that. And let's set up a meeting. Let's just. Let's get together for coffee. [01:02:36] Speaker C: Yeah. Come back to the curse. I'll have a feel out. [01:02:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:40] Speaker A: Hear me out, Todd. Sonic the Hedgehog Vault, all right? [01:02:46] Speaker C: It's just a series of loops that you can roll through. [01:02:51] Speaker B: It's a vault where you've gotta go fast or you die. [01:02:55] Speaker C: God, it go fast. That's one thing I know about Sonic. [01:02:58] Speaker A: That's the experiment. How fast can people go? [01:03:01] Speaker C: That's the one thing I know about the Sonic folders you've got. [01:03:03] Speaker B: You have to go fast. They hold a. They hold a foot race every year where they just shoot the slowest people. [01:03:13] Speaker C: They get shot out of the vault, out of a hatch. [01:03:19] Speaker A: Many such cases. [01:03:22] Speaker B: Friends, thank you for joining us for yet again, another excellent round of voting voters along at home. You've been incredible as always. Those of you who listen all the way through the podcast, you're the real champions, real MVPs. Emily, remind people, what's the name of that band you got that you can still get. [01:03:47] Speaker C: Oh, you sorry. [01:03:48] Speaker B: You can't still get a vinyl for the new album. [01:03:52] Speaker C: It is How I Became Invisible is the name of the band. You can find music on all streaming services other than Spotify, because that company and you can find it at my bandcamp, which you can get to via howibecameinvisible.com. you cannot get any vinyl online, but there is on sale in a couple local record stores in the Philadelphia and South Jersey area. So if you know any record stores near there, just stop in and say, hey, do you have How I Became Visibles Everything that's safe will be lost record and they'll say yes or no to you, depending on if it's the right one or not. I cannot tell you the names of them because I forget it's a scavenger hunt. I also just recently dropped a couple singles for How We Came Visible. It's. The project is kind of all over the place. So it's like punk rock, but also sometimes weird instrumental stuff. I'm doing a weird instrumental ep. I can't tell you when it's going to come out yet because I technically haven't announced it. It'll be out for the end of the year. I'm also working on my next full length record and hopefully that will be out sometime early next year because I don't stop recording because if I stop, I'll die. [01:04:55] Speaker A: Wow. I can't believe that mummy's curse really, you know, these mummy's curses have caught up with the times, you know? [01:05:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm. I'm like a music shark. If I ever stop making music, it's. My brain just goes, hey, what about that window? You should jump out it. I go, no, Kind of gotta write another song. Gotta go fast. [01:05:14] Speaker B: Gotta go fast. Listeners at home, I hope you're going fast, right? I don't know if that's a good thing to say. [01:05:23] Speaker C: 90 miles an hour down the New Jersey Turnpike. [01:05:25] Speaker B: That's not advice. That's not advice. 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