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Hello, am I on?
Yeah.
Am I on?
Welcome.
Hey, hey Sonja. How are you?
Good good, I'm excited to have you by and.
It's great.
It's cool to be here.
And, and Bley does this too.Right?
Yeah he is here as well.
Yeah, man I do this too.
Sonja and I get along great.
I don't know what it is
but we just have a certain great chemistry
and energy.
Yep.
And play one day,
if you and I hang out for maybe 50 more years,
we will have the same feelings about each other.
As long as you're here,
let's put you to work.
Do you mind, like, can we just get your thoughts
on a very popular game right now.
Yes as everyone knows
I don't know a lot about games
and I'm not good at games
but I love having a lot of opinions about games
and sharing those with people
in the legitimate gaming world thus infuriating them.
So please tell me what you got
and I will render an incredibly unfair and invalid opinion.
Alright.
So here's, I'm gonna show you.
It's called Among Us.
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Oh my God wait, I know about Among Us.
I'll tell you why my son had his birthday the other day
and I guess he and his friends love Among Us.
And so he got this gift that completely baffled me.
A friend of his went on Etsy
and had someone crochet him
his favorite character from Among Us.
And so he took this thing out of a box
and it was this little Blip Blorp
like a little purple Blip Blorp.
And he was like, Oh man, I can't believe it.
This is so funny.
And my daughter was jumping up and down
and they were both high fiving each other.
And he was laughing
and saying, I can't believe it.
It's Gleep Gloop.
And I was like, I don't know what's happening?
Again I don't know what the name of it was.
He said the name,
but I often tune out
when my children are talking to me about video games
or how they feel about things.
So I probably wasn't paying attention.
It was a purple
and it had like this white panel on the front of it
and they were all very excited.
So, I have no idea what it's about.
My guess is it's a bunch of crochet Blip Blorps
and Blorp Blips that live together.
And whoever whoever's yarn holds up
for the longest time is the winner.
That's the closest,
I have no idea what it's about.
It's pretty close.
You're basically on a ship
with a bunch of other people as Blip Blorps.
And you're trying to get the ship going
and get out of there before imposters,
which are among your crew members
try to kill you before.
And you have to try to figure out
who the imposters are
and kick them off before it happens.
So basically, you just find out who out of your friends
are the best pathological liars.
Is this a game that you can play on tablets?
Yes.
Okay.
Okay wow.
My kids were having like a socially distance.
They were outside and they were playing this game
and I guess they wanted someone else to come.
So they got me.
This is,
I don't know, this is like a month and a half ago
to come outside
and they handed me a tablet
and yes, I guess it looked like
we were in some sort of machine room
and we were wandering around
and I didn't know it
but apparently, I was the murderer
or imposter and I just got near somebody
and they, it said I killed them
but I didn't push any buttons or do anything.
And they said to me, the kids were like
"you're really good at this game".
And I didn't know what I was doing.
They afterwards said,
Oh yeah you didn't know what you were doing,
you killed two of us.
And I said, I wondered from room to room
and got near one of you and you died.
And then I got another near another one of you and you died.
And I didn't even know that I was the problem.
Any game where an idiot
can just jump in for fun and win
it's like our presidential election.
Any game where an idiot can jump in just willy-nilly
and suddenly rocket to the top and triumph
that's a problem with that game.
I'm glad you're just a natural at this game.
I feel like we should own that.
You should own that.
That's creepy that of the game
that rewards a soulless pathological liars
is something that I can just jump into
and immediately, I'm very good at it,
and I don't even know it.
But you know what?
I've been working in show business for 30 years.
And so maybe that prepared me for this game.
It all came to this.
Final verdict on Among Us.
I have to tell you, my kids..
Oh.
Go crazy for this game.
They really love it.
My son now has a crocheted.
Whatever that thing is
he'll probably treasure it for the rest of his life.
I don't get it.
I played it once briefly
without even knowing I was playing it.
And the fact that I was very good at it instantly
without even knowing I was playing.
Yeah, that worries me.
(laughs)
So that's I have technically,
yes, I didn't know it was called Among Us
but I have played this game
but had no idea what I was doing.
Absolutely no idea what I was doing,
and I was confused.
And yet this says something about the game
afterwards, they were like, you're badass man,
and high-fiving me.
(laughs)
That means it's a bad game.
Judgment rendered.
Well, thanks for stopping by, I appreciated.
I'm not going,
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm gonna stay here
until I've ruined everything about this podcast.
Oh, oh gosh.
This is the ultimate payback Bley.
Sonja, I'm sorry you had to become the crossfire
but I need to destroy this podcast now
because it's something that might help Bley
and might give him some joy.
So what you did,
Sonja, is you hitched your wagon to a dead star.
That's what I'm here for.
We'll find you something else.
Oh, thank you.
At least I'll be placed elsewhere.
In the giant Conan evil empire.
Yeah.
Great.
Bley, I'm sorry to have to do this to you, you know.
It's Okay.
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