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In this engaging podcast, a dad and his two sons explore their personal interests while rating a variety of alcoholic beverages. They dive into discussions about nerd and geek culture, travel experiences, and an array of intriguing topics that pique their curiosity. Join them for a fun and lighthearted conversation filled with laughter, insights, and, of course, plenty of drink reviews!
Welcome back to the 3 hamster boy podcast, boys, podcast. This is episode number 6.
Jeff:Hard to believe.
Alexander:I was just about to say it is kind of weird to think about that this is the 6th episode of this series.
Nick:Half a dozen.
Alexander:I know. Yeah. Soon Almost at a 100. I was gonna say, Blinken will be at a baker's dozen, but, yeah, we could we could jump that far. So I think before we get too deep into this episode, obviously, looking at the title, you can see that today we're gonna be talking about, we're we're gonna be talking about media and, like, iconic deaths, from characters, both good, bad, whatever.
Alexander:I think a lot of what we talked about on this podcast has kind of related to media, whether that's video games, movies, TV shows, anime, things like that. And I think this is another extension of that. I will say when I pitched this idea, we were in the car, and our dad went, like, JFK?
Jeff:I was like, are we talking media? Are we talking about real you know?
Alexander:Yeah. But with that being said, it is hard to have an impactful death of a character in media without there being some sort of connection or some sort of plot driven force. So this is your warning right now. There will be heavy spoilers included in this episode. We're gonna do our best to kind of give you a a forewarning.
Alexander:We'll say, like, this is from this show, this movie, whatever. And if you haven't seen it and you are planning on watching it very shortly, that's your cue to kind of skip it, move
Jeff:it mute. Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. Or just, you know, we'll see you in episode 7. Really, what you wanna do.
Jeff:Yeah. I mean, I think from the reason that these are impactful is usually because it's either unexpected or it comes in a way that's unexpected.
Alexander:Yeah.
Jeff:And so or the character that dies does it in a way that's not expected. So that's the only way it's really impactful.
Nick:I don't I don't know if unexpected is is, like, the way. I think I think it's just it does happen. And, like, no and you you are connected to the character. Right. I I think unexpected deaths certainly have a place, but, like, I think the character itself, you like when you really feel for them or the other people around them in that moment, I feel like that's when you, like, get the the the thick of it.
Alexander:Yeah. You get get into that mind space. But before we get too deep into this talk, let's start drinking here. So this week, I actually got to join the other 2 for the first time. It feels so
Jeff:We were we were slamming, so Yeah. We got them along.
Alexander:Oh, my gosh. We went out to Star Hill Brewery, which is a local brewery. They have a couple locations near us, so we were able to go to the distillery.
Jeff:So this was old home week for me.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah.
Jeff:So the the main distillery is in Crozet, Virginia, which nobody knows where that is. But I moved to Crozet
Alexander:now.
Jeff:When I moved to Crozet in 9th grade after moving from Chicago. And it was a 1,000 people in this unincorporated town area. So, going back there and seeing this and seeing how it's changed is just very strange. The building that the distilleries in, both of my parents have worked in that building.
Alexander:Not in beer creation.
Jeff:Not in beer creation. Before it was a before it was a a distillery. So it was very strange to be in that town.
Alexander:Yeah. And so we we thought it was fitting.
Jeff:Are you
Nick:trying to take my job?
Alexander:Oh, yeah.
Nick:Actually, sorry, Nick.
Jeff:What is this? Go ahead.
Nick:I'm the alcohol guy.
Alexander:Yeah. I was like, I was here this time. I could actually do it
Nick:just because just because
Jeff:Just because we brought you along. Doesn't mean that you couldn't
Nick:usurp me
Jeff:in this. Alright, Nick.
Alexander:Give me give us a rundown
Nick:Alright. So this week, we tried a variety of things at Star Hill, just because, you know, we were like, oh, let's try a few things and and, like
Jeff:And we were impressed. We thought it was really good.
Nick:Yeah. We weren't we tried a lot. We weren't disappointed with anything that we had. But the the stuff that really called out to us, they all conveniently happen to be lagers. Yeah.
Nick:So this whole, you know, assortment of of beers that we're having, they're all lagers. But they they're
Jeff:2 of
Nick:them are at least, like, very unique sounding. We haven't had them, but very excited. And we're starting it off with, it is called Murphy's Gold, lager, which is a from from what we understand, it's a fairly typical lager on their list, but it, it smells really good
Jeff:as soon
Alexander:as we pour it.
Nick:And we had a few of their other lagers, and they're they're very clean, so I'm expecting something very similar.
Alexander:Alright. Yeah. Alright. Cheers. Cheers.
Alexander:Yep. Skull?
Nick:Prost. Kumpai.
Alexander:Yeah. That's exactly what I expected. Yeah. It's good. There's nothing crazy.
Alexander:Like, there's no, like, extra hints or notes that I'm like, oh, wow. This is awesome. But this is just a a good good clean bun lager.
Jeff:This is an afternoon drinking with burgers and fries Yeah. Burgers and
Nick:vodka. It's like a solid choice. Like Yep. If you're drinking this, you're like, oh, easy. I made the right choice.
Nick:Yeah. You're not gonna be disappointed with it. It's very clean. It doesn't, like, stick to your tongue anywhere. It just, like, drink it, and it's good.
Nick:Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. Alright. So on to character deaths. We'll do this in a way. So, dad, I'm gonna have you go first here.
Alexander:Say what it's from. We'll we'll have a short pause and then talk about character, talk about the relevance.
Jeff:Alright. So mine is from Infinity War, you know, the second of the final two movies of the 1,000 movies that were the Marvel characters.
Alexander:Of the MCU. MCU. And although You probably have seen this then.
Jeff:Well, you probably seen it. Now Very popular, Julius. The the other two characters I picked was because it had impact on characters around you. This one I picked because I made it through the 16 movies beforehand to get to this movie. So you feel like you deserve I deserve this.
Jeff:And so yeah.
Alexander:Did you want this character to die?
Jeff:No. But I I I Think about that. But, no, I wanted I wanted something I didn't want it just beating the bad guy. I wanted there to be more to it. And so the the character I'm picking is, of course, Tony Stark, who at the end of it, kills Thanos.
Jeff:He evolved as a character, and this was a final act for him because he he he he he had when the snap occurred and they were 5 once again, spoilers. Yeah. The 5 years that they were have to species were gone, he evolved into a different character than he was in the beginning. Mhmm. And then at the end of it, he did this final act.
Jeff:And so, once again, this is more of a choice because of all the movies I sat through to get to that point, which which, you know, it it was a great a great scene, great point, and, you know, it was also kind of the climax of a great fight scene. So, that's why I picked that one.
Nick:I agree. I think I think it unfortunately, the MCU is stuck in a formulaic, sort of product.
Alexander:Yes.
Nick:And seeing, like, a superhero actually give up something, like, especially their life, it's unfortunately a rarity from my point of view. I think I think sacrifices are so important. Right. And I think I think Tony Stark I mean, it's it's a classic scene. Like, you can picture it.
Nick:Like, he says, I am Iron Man. Right? Like Yeah. And then there there's so much weight to it. Right?
Nick:He's he's the the tip like, basically, the first Avenger. Right? He he was the one who kicked off in the MCU. Right. And I think it it did have a lot of impact.
Nick:And, you know, it was incredibly made. It was, you know, fun movie.
Jeff:And I think at the end of it, when they're they're having his, like, funeral ceremony, They brought all these characters back from all of the Iron Man and all the past Avengers, because there's, like, in one scene, I see this guy and I'm like, who is that? It was the guy from Iron Man 2, the little kid that was now 10 years older. Right. So it was all these characters from his movies. And it was I I think that it was a nice way to bring it all together and tie it all together.
Alexander:You know, this might be slightly off the rails. But admittedly, when we're talking about, like, the MCU and, like, Infinity War, not the Tony Stark is not the character I think about. I I think about, Peter Parker. I don't feel so good, mister Stark. Yeah.
Alexander:Just because of how how memes that got and how in, like, the media and, like, on, like, social media specifically It was true. All over the place. Alright. That's that's a fun one to kick us off. Nick, what about you?
Alexander:Where where
Nick:are we headed? We are heading to a similar time commitment, sort of experience. Mike, it is from 1 piece.
Jeff:Oh, yeah.
Nick:If you have not gotten past episode 320
Alexander:Here's your mark. Your warning.
Nick:If you have, oof, you know. So so this this, you you watch the television series with us. Yeah. This character is named the Going Mary. Oh.
Nick:The boat. Right. Wait. This is a boat? My character is the straw hats boat.
Alexander:Is is this a I have only seen a couple episodes of 1 piece. Is this, like, a sentient creature? Yes.
Nick:Oh. So, on one of their islands, they they hear this story of if a ship is taken care of and tended to, a spirit will begin to form, around it. And the spirit will start taking care of the ship a little bit and also connecting with the people that, they're on, like, who, they travel with. They they don't really see the the spirit too often. There's only, like, one crew member that actually, like, sees it and hears it.
Nick:Okay. But it is it's a core sort of member of the crew. Yeah. Right? Because they're you're they're always with it, wherever you're they're going.
Nick:Like, if there's any downtime, they're on the Mary. They're traveling with the Mary. Right. And they're repairing the Mary, and the Mary's getting hurt, and they're, putting chicken wings on the Mary and flying it up a a, you know, a waterfall. Of course.
Nick:They're they're doing, like, outrageous things, and all of this time, you know, you're you're seeing the ship, and then there there comes an arc, water 7, where, they're like, they're a bunch of shipwrights, and they're like, we can't repair
Jeff:it.
Nick:The the ship is totaled. Mhmm. The the hull is going to break at any moment. Yeah. You need to get a new ship.
Nick:Oh. Right? And and, a lot of the crew is like, okay. Yeah. I guess we have to.
Nick:And then Usopp, who's the one who who knows the spirit, who's who's seen and heard it Yeah. Fights basically back against the entire crew. Being like, this is a member of the crew, and, like, I don't want to abandon this ship who's carried us all, like, this whole way. Yeah. And it it builds and builds, and, like, there's there's a lot of stuff.
Nick:And then there's there's a moment in the arc right after it where they they go from this one island, and they they go to a navy base, and there's, like, of extremely dire situation. They they rode something called a sea train over to it, which is basically a railroad built on the ocean. Okay.
Alexander:Wait. That's actually a cool concept.
Nick:Yeah. It's pretty it's pretty cool. And they were they're basically entirely surrounded by, like, navy warships. And, like, Luffy just got finished beating up a guy, and he's like, everyone on the crew was basically pushed their limbs. They could barely move.
Nick:Yeah. And, like, the the base around them is cracking and, like, falling apart, and then they hear a voice on the wind. Let's go. Let's leave. I'm here to pick you up.
Alexander:Oh god.
Nick:Right? And and You losers. And, basically, they just they all, like, like, fall out, like, over this, like, ocean, and the Mary is there to pick them up. Because it it, like, traveled over to this base by itself. And it gets, like, halfway, and then, like, oh, they they see their friends who they made at, like, water 7 to pick them up on, like, another ship.
Nick:Yeah. And as soon as they're, like, on the horizon, Mary splits in half. Oh. Right? And and you're like, dang.
Nick:That's really tough. Yeah. And then there's, like, this incredible scene where Luffy takes a torch, and he says, I don't want you to be alone at the bottom of the ocean. Dang.
Alexander:So if he lights the ship on fire
Nick:So it's Luffy lighting the ship and his entire crew behind him. Oh my gosh. Oh. I cried so much. I cried so much.
Jeff:That is crazy. New.
Nick:There there's a lot of jokes on the Internet. It's like, oh, you know, one piece is a joke until you start crying over a ship. Right. But, like, it's so real. And there's unfortunately and fortunately plenty of, like, really impactful deaths in one piece.
Nick:Yeah. But that one is, like, the first one that, like, really makes you it you're losing it's the first straw hat you lose. Yeah. And I think that's, like, so impactful because, like, they've been there since, like
Jeff:320 episodes? Basically.
Alexander:Yeah. Like, episode
Nick:6 or something. Oh, gosh. Wow. Long winded. Yeah.
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:It was like,
Alexander:that that one's pretty good. Don't worry. Mine is, pretty quick, honestly, before we get to our drink. I apologize. Yeah.
Alexander:It's okay.
Jeff:We were both long.
Alexander:Yeah. We were I I was enthralled. Yeah. If you've gotten this far in the podcast and you haven't sat down and watched the original Die Hard, what are you doing? Yeah.
Alexander:I feel like you mentioned it every single episode, and it won't change now. So this is a spoiler from Die Hard, the original. You you probably know what it is. Obviously, Hans Gruber, the main bad guy played by, Alan Rickman. A incredible performance all around, but, you know, his death scene of being shot and just falling off the edge of the the hotel down below with, like, that beautiful camera shot of of the angle of him falling, it just it kind of encapsulates everything, and we've been talking about it over dinner, but, there were rumors on the wind that that scene was not, was obviously scripted, but when they were shooting the last take of it, they were, like, 3, 2, and pulled them instead of, like, giving him the actual countdown.
Alexander:So that's a true look of fear and terror on his face as he is falling backwards.
Jeff:Now he was falling onto the the the mattress to catch him.
Alexander:Yeah. But, like, either way
Jeff:Well, they they were joking about it that they made that the last scene that they were filming for the whole movie.
Alexander:Right.
Jeff:Because he was so mad when he hit the bottom. Yeah.
Alexander:I mean, I'd be upset too.
Nick:So when you look at that, it's both Hans and Alan Yeah. In a in a face of betrayal and fear.
Jeff:And disbelief Yeah. That I'm actually gonna not make it. Right.
Alexander:And I think, you know, that that's, like, perfectly encapsulates Hans' character because he's like, oh, man. I got this stupid American Yeah. Which, again, is, like, a part of the movie too in the good old red hot blooded patriotism, fighting against the Germans.
Jeff:Yippee ki yay.
Nick:Yeah. Exactly.
Alexander:Yeah. And I think that was kind of, like, that obviously, Die Hard was a big part of I I wouldn't necessarily say our childhood, but, like, our young adult life as, like, that action movie that has really kind of, I think, formed Nick and I's kind of love of action movies. Yeah. And so Hans Gruber hung Hans Gruber's death scene kind of really, was like that perfect cap on on the end, of the movie.
Jeff:And he played it so well. Yeah. You know, he was serious, but there was always parts when it wasn't so serious.
Nick:Yeah.
Alexander:He's like one of those villains that you, like, love to love. You don't even, like, hate him that much.
Nick:Yeah. You're like, man, you're kind of a bad guy, but you're kinda doing it good. Yeah.
Jeff:If I worked for him, it'd be cool to hang
Nick:around with. I I think, like, also with his death scene specifically, throughout the entire movie, he's like he's been thwarted over and over again. But, like, you always feel like he's got a plan. Right? Yeah.
Nick:He's like, oh, a setback. But, like, plan f.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. Next plan.
Nick:We're moving on to it. And I think yeah. Like like we said, when he's falling, he doesn't believe it himself.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah.
Nick:Because he's planned for everything. He it would have been impossible for end up for him to end up in this situation. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that adds to it.
Nick:Like, and him actually, you know, dying is
Alexander:crazy. Yeah. Although it is kinda crazy to me. They're stealing, like, Bond notes or whatever. And, like, thinking back as an adult, John McClane's just, like, killing these guys.
Alexander:Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, just kind of like a wild concept to me. Yeah.
Nick:That's true.
Alexander:But, yeah, anyways, great great first round here. We'll be back with a little bit extra alcohol, and, we'll see you in a second here. Yep.
Nick:Hey. Great to see you. We missed you.
Alexander:Yeah. Hope you enjoyed that little break.
Jeff:Back for round 2.
Alexander:Back for round 2. Nick, what do
Nick:we got here? Alrighty. Continuing our lager journey, we have the last leaf by Star Hill, which, is a maple lager, which definitely caught our eye, like, almost immediately. Yep. And as it was being poured in front of us, it looks like a stout.
Nick:It smells very maple y.
Alexander:Mhmm. Very excited. I yeah. The color is totally different. Obviously, Murphy's gold had a beautiful gold color.
Alexander:This is this is like an an amber, kind of like a darker red. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even know how well this is showing up on the camera.
Jeff:I mean, it looks like a red ale
Nick:a lot like that. Yeah. It's true. Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. And I I will say before with the Murphy's Gold, when we poured it, there was a bit of a head that just kinda disappeared immediately. This has
Nick:got more of like that
Alexander:classic head. Yeah.
Nick:A little more foam.
Jeff:I don't
Alexander:know what happened to yours. It just got a little extra.
Jeff:Yeah. I'm a little extra. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Alright.
Jeff:But it well, to say the the sweetness that you smell in the air is very different than a normal lager.
Nick:For sure. You can the maple is prominent,
Alexander:you know. Cheers. Cheers.
Jeff:Oh. Oh, you
Nick:made a weird face.
Alexander:I didn't taste it at first, and then it came, like, later.
Jeff:Yeah. So you you taste the lager first. It's a really dark lager.
Alexander:Mhmm. Yeah.
Jeff:And then you get this pancake maple syrup taste at the end. Right?
Alexander:Yeah. No. Yeah.
Jeff:And and because with the malt, it gives you that the breadiness also.
Alexander:Yeah. Do we classify this as a breakfast lager? Is that what you're saying?
Jeff:I drink it. Yeah. I mean, I the because of the maltiness and the grain and the maple syrup, it just just tastes like pancakes and maple syrup.
Nick:It's pretty good. I'm not gonna lie. That's that's pretty solid.
Alexander:I don't even know what to do.
Nick:How are you feeling?
Alexander:I don't know what to make of it. I feel very on the fence about it. I don't know. I don't think I love this one. I think Murphy's is still kind of, I think I like that one a little bit better.
Alexander:But this is definitely weird, and I like that it's so unique and strange.
Jeff:I definitely am am more into, like I I mean, I I really like dark dark beers.
Alexander:Yeah.
Jeff:But if it's not dark, then I want it to be really unique. And if it's unique and dark
Alexander:You're like a ding ding
Jeff:ding winner. It's like we had we had one that was like a cherry chocolate ale one time that was just fantastic.
Nick:So Yeah. Yeah.
Jeff:Yeah. But, yeah, this is good. I like this one.
Alexander:Yeah. Alright. Well, hopefully things we like. Nick, what's next on your order here?
Nick:Of course. So my next death moment scene, however referring it to I'll leave both. It is from The Walking Dead series, specifically the Telltale game, season 1, the the very first one that was released. So
Jeff:The game, not the series. Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. The the the telltale is the the, like, the game. It's the
Jeff:game. Yep.
Alexander:I I will say this is 2 for 2 on things that dad and I have not seen or played. Yep.
Nick:Yeah. So So I'm you don't know where it's going. Exactly. So that's where it's from. Spoilers.
Nick:The victim, however, the the focus, is the main character, and his name is Lee. And, The Walking Dead is a zombie game. Clear you know? And, basically, throughout it, you're making choices. You're you're deciding whether to shoot someone, whether to take someone's life, whether to, spare them and see if, you know, you might be able to tend to their wound if, you know, it if it isn't isn't for a zombie one.
Nick:And throughout the game, you have a companion, who you picked up, and it's a little girl named Clementine. And she was basically, her parents disappeared, and you're just taking care of her. Sort of Last of Us.
Alexander:Right.
Jeff:Last thinking.
Nick:Definitely the same dynamic. Mhmm. Like, Lee is a very, like, knowledgeable person, kinda rough on around the edges because he the game starts with him in the back of a police car. Oh, of course. Handcuffed and, like, you know, you can be, like, a kind of a jerk with these dialogue options to the the officer.
Nick:But throughout the game, you you're basically, like, together. You're inseparable. You're, like, saving her and she's saving you, like, around a lot of corners, and you're spending a lot of time with them. So, obviously, there can't be happy endings, in these kind kinds of games. And, basically, in the the last, like, final moments, you're with, Clementine.
Nick:You're you've been separated from your your main group, and you're you're doing your stuff. You're, you know, doing all that good stuff, and Lee gets bit. And he knows this. And he's like, I can't. I'm not gonna make it.
Nick:Every everyone we've seen doesn't make it. I know what I know what needs to be done. So he handcuffs himself to a radiator, and he's like, Clementine, you gotta you got 2 options. Dang. And and you you basically because it's a choice matter game Yeah.
Nick:You tell her which one to take. Woah. Like, either kill him or, like, leave, basically? Yeah.
Jeff:Yeah.
Nick:Yeah. I chose to tell her to kill me. Mhmm. And I feel like that one made the most sense. Yeah.
Nick:And also was super impactful. Traumatized her. It
Alexander:yeah. Basic
Nick:yeah. It's it's a it's a very tough scene, and and you're basically walking her through being, like, you're gonna be good. You're gonna be safe. Like, everything you've learned from me, don't forget it, and all this stuff. Oh, my god.
Nick:And then and then she's, like, I don't wanna do it, just you're gonna be safe. Right? And and you're basically like, just close your eyes.
Alexander:Oh my god. And it
Nick:it ends with her pulling the trigger.
Jeff:Oh. Oh.
Alexander:Well, I I can't play that. The The Last of Us, the first one, like, killed me. And I know what happens in the second one, and so I refuse to play the second one.
Nick:Supervowel. Supervowel.
Alexander:And then that just sounds like, oh my oh my god.
Nick:But it when we were talking about the ideas, I'm like, I immediately thought of Lee.
Alexander:Yeah. Like,
Nick:that scene is just so heavy, impactful. The writing is so good because it's like prime telltale. Yeah.
Jeff:You know, we've we have never talked about it here, but it's really something to bring out is that part of what makes games progress and get better is that the writing for a lot of these games has just been incredible. Yeah. Because when we we watch God of War Yeah. A playthrough on that.
Alexander:And that It's like a family evening activity to to watch some people play God of War Ragnarok.
Jeff:But that dialogue for both parts Mhmm. Was just remarkable. Now the actors were incredible also. Yeah. But Boy.
Jeff:Boy. But it's remarkable because, you know, 20 years ago, it was all about just trying to get the characters to move and shoot each other. Other. Yeah.
Nick:It's true.
Jeff:The the story was not as impactful. Sad. Yeah. With with there wasn't really an impactful story.
Alexander:I I feel like there there were. I just don't know of any.
Nick:It's, like, harder to find. Yeah. Because I yeah. Like you said, it wasn't the priority. How good
Alexander:was the Spyros the Spyros story?
Jeff:I don't I don't remember it. It wasn't.
Alexander:Someone was capturing the dragon. Mister Moneybags.
Jeff:But, you know, Uncharted, I thought had a a pretty good story. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And so I think that that was kind of where I lean toward when I watch these things. Because when he was younger, me and Nick would just watch Alexander play these Uncharted games.
Jeff:Yeah. But yeah. So I I it's it's remarkable, the storytelling now.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. I think it's awesome. I have a video game one, but I really wanted to save that one for last. So I will save it for
Jeff:the last. Yep.
Alexander:It's a bit tough to follow-up that because I I haven't even played the game, let alone, like, seen gameplay of it. And, like, you just described it
Jeff:as hell. It's heart wrench.
Alexander:Oh my god. Absolutely brutal. Mine, my next one is from an anime. It is a show called the Akame Ga Kill. If you know this show, you probably know actually, you probably don't.
Alexander:You're like, what is he referencing? Which one? Yeah. If you're unfamiliar with Akame Ga Kill,
Jeff:Spoilers.
Alexander:It's a rough one. Lots of spoilers. It's kinda one of those shows where you know everyone's going down. You just don't know how or when. When.
Alexander:Yeah. It's but I think it was one of those first shows that kind of opened me to the idea that they are were not afraid to, like, take the protagonist's armor off. I think a lot in anime, like, I think of Luffy, and I'm like, he's never gonna die. I think of, like, Dragon Ball, and I'm like, dude, they're gonna kill Goku, and he's just gonna, like, rez. Like, he's just coming back.
Alexander:Yeah. Like, there there is not really a lot of anime where you're like, oh, this character that I've been watching and, like, forming a bond with, he'll be fine. Like, I I'm not worried for his safety. The the bad guy seems super bad. Oh, no.
Alexander:He, like, might get him. And then, the main character stands up. And with the power of friendship, they, you know, take take down the bad guy.
Nick:Someone's monologuing. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
Alexander:And I know there is a an argument to be made to say that Akame is the main character. The show is named after her after all. But I feel like for a majority of the show, you are following Tatsumi. And I think in my mind, at least when I watched it, Tatsumi was the main character. And to see Totsumi die, which of course is like an epic battle.
Alexander:He's got, like, his they all have, like, special weapons and his weapon is like a spear that turns into, like, a mech suit that he's, like, fighting another giant mech suit in. And, like, it seems like he's victorious and he's beaten this other massive overwhelming force. And then the mech that he the this big giant robot that he's fought against is falling towards people in this city that are, like, getting the wounded from, like, the aftermath of this big battle, who are, like, collecting the the wounded and the injured in this area, in, like, this town square area. And Totsumi sees that and he goes, I can't let this happen. And so he like pushes himself to catch this robot and kinda like stop its path from from hitting these people.
Alexander:And he has the show does a good job of kind of like glorifying his death in a way where it's got these beautiful frames of him just, like, sitting there, like, half alive holding this giant robot from from hitting these people. And for me, I was, like, they wouldn't. Right? Like, the whole time, I'm, like, he's bleeding out of every orifice possible, but, like, he wouldn't die. Right?
Nick:A lot of other people have died, but
Jeff:he Yeah.
Alexander:You wouldn't. But not him. And then you have, like, Akame walk up and he's like, I'm sorry. I can't keep my promise and dies. And you're like, what?
Alexander:You're like, what? And it it doesn't even, like, really hit you until they have, like, a little, like, time skip a little bit with Akame holding Tatsumi, and the bad guy walks up and goes, Tatsumi's dead? Like, this can't be right? And I'm like, even the bad guy thinks it. And, like, for me, that's, like, that moment where I'm, like, they would they would do that?
Alexander:They full sent it. He's not coming back.
Jeff:He's not coming back.
Alexander:There's no Dragon Ball Syndrome. And, that was, like, the first time I was, like, oh my god. You can kill the main character, and it can be a really cool moment Yeah. That also leaves the audience member going, what? Why would you do that?
Jeff:But then there's no season 2.
Alexander:Well, I mean Okay.
Nick:So Technically, it It's called Akamai or Akumeya, because she's one of the few survivors. Yeah. And there is a continuation.
Jeff:Oh, there is.
Alexander:But, I mean, it's anime solution, not a season 2. Yeah.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah. Hard to get one of those.
Jeff:So just so you get some context around this, they joke about anime. So they watch anime on a regular basis, and then they select the anime that they think my wife and I are ready to see.
Alexander:Yeah. We we look for family friend family friendly anime, a limited, you know, fan service. You know?
Nick:Not too much. Stuff that we'd feel okay watching with them.
Alexander:We don't want it to be super awkward. Yeah.
Jeff:We have definitely progressed into more
Alexander:Yeah. We we've gotten a
Nick:bit more bold with our choices.
Jeff:I think so.
Nick:Just because, like, we really like some. Yeah.
Jeff:And we're,
Nick:like, you should watch this.
Alexander:I I made the mistake of starting you all on Delicious in Dungeon, and I heard it gets a little bit more risque, a little deeper into the anime.
Jeff:Oh, we like it. It's it to us, it's just it's fun to watch.
Nick:Yes. Yeah. They haven't gotten that far.
Jeff:They haven't gotten that far. You weren't only in episode a 100 or something.
Nick:Yeah. We're only
Alexander:on episode 5 for Delicious and Bad Maid.
Jeff:Anyways, alright. So, I am gonna pick one that is more of a sentimental one. So Yeah. We talked about when we, talk about our favorite movies that there's a genre that I love, which is the military movies. I do like those, but more specifically, my dad was a huge John Wayne fan.
Jeff:And so I grew up watching all the John Wayne movies. And as he got later in his career, he got cancer and it was inevitable that his he saw his death, his real life death coming to him. So he made some movies at the end of his at the end of his life and end of his acting career in which he died. So he died in very few films throughout his career. But near the end, he died in a couple of of movies that were really him kinda saying goodbye to his fans.
Jeff:So one of them was The Shootist, which had Ron Howard in it, in which he's a a gunslinger that gets cancer and dies.
Alexander:And But he's, like, really kind of, like, applauding.
Jeff:So and there and and all these actors are ones that had active Jimmy Stewart was in it, Ron Howard was in it as the newcomer, Eli Wall, because it was a bunch of but then there was another movie that had a bunch of unknowns in it, and a lot of these younger guys in the movie end up going on to do further careers along with his sons who were in it. Mhmm. And that was a movie called The Cowboys. And, basically, he's a rancher, has cattle. He's trying to drive it to market.
Jeff:These guys show up to help him out with cattle hands, and they're mean, and he he just doesn't like them. And so he says, I'm not gonna hire you. And these guys are like, you have to hire us. There's nobody else available to drive these cattle. And he goes, no.
Jeff:I'll find someone. So he gets, like, I think it's 12 or 14 young boys, and they're like 12, 14 years old. And he takes them on this cattle drive. And so it's about a group them growing up and taking on this responsibility to do this cattle drive. And they're about to get to where they're gonna cash in the cattle, and these guys have been following them.
Jeff:That he didn't hire the whole time. But they came in, they they snuck in, they got the kids. So he came back from being on the cattle and they're like, you know old man, you should have hired us from the beginning. Mhmm. And then they shot him.
Jeff:And so John Wayne died and these kids and they took the cattle. So these kids are left with nothing but a dead John Wayne. And so they bury him and they go, what are we gonna do now? And the youngest kid goes, well, we can just go home, I guess. The guy's like, no.
Jeff:He didn't bring us this far for us to go home. Let's go get our cattle. And it's about them growing up, getting the cattle back, and taking it into the town.
Alexander:And becoming rodent, basically. Becoming rodent.
Nick:Our shogun has passed. Yeah. We must have ventured to death.
Jeff:You know, it it is that kind of theme, you know. It's I mean, look, it worked. Yeah. And it and it's repeated. We see it in westerns.
Jeff:We see it in sci fi. We see that kind of theme all the time going over and over again. And I think that theme is always a great theme.
Alexander:Yeah.
Jeff:And when you add on to it that it's a a movie that, you know, it's near John Wayne's end of his career.
Nick:Yeah. True.
Jeff:You know? And and it was it and it's it also represents my dad because he loved John Wayne movies.
Nick:Mhmm.
Jeff:And he he like I said, he he died in very few movies. And so near the end when he's he he died in these two movies, it was really kind of a it it was kind of a a bittersweetness to it because she he he realized where what was going on.
Nick:It adds him, like, it makes him, like, more special. Yeah.
Jeff:There's a lot of opinions about him and whatever, but, you know, I know that my dad just really, you know, liked him as a character.
Alexander:Yeah. I I mean, he he's like the the American cowboy.
Nick:He is the American cowboy.
Jeff:Yeah. He he is the American cowboy, you know. Yeah. Red or blue shirt. That's what, you know, that's what everyone knows and a little handkerchief around his neck.
Jeff:Yeah. I mean, I I
Alexander:think it's really interesting the connecting the art to your life and kind of exploring more into that, especially when you realize that your mortality is is around the corner. And then also, like you said, kind of playing with the fact of, like, passing the the torch artistically
Jeff:Mhmm.
Alexander:Onto possibly the next generation of actors and, like, you know, seeing a generation that probably grew up watching your stuff and being, like, what's next for me after like this legend is gone? Yep. Well, that was sad.
Jeff:Yeah. We're gonna take a quick break. What was it? Well, it's just about that. Yeah.
Jeff:We're we're gonna have
Nick:a, you know, the the vibes are gonna be a little bit lower. Yeah. Because we're talking about death.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. But we'll be back. We'll get another drink, and, we'll see you soon.
Jeff:Right.
Alexander:Hey. Welcome back. We are here with our 3rd and final drink. I think that's what you're doing. Yep.
Jeff:Round 3. Wait. We gotta do European one.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Round 3. Here we go.
Alexander:Nick, what are we drinking here? This has a a very different look and smell than the others.
Nick:I highly doubt we you'd be able to see it on the camera. But this is the Hey Girl Hey, which is a rose lager, and it was it was told to us that it was soaked brewed Aged. Aged. Cast.
Alexander:Distilled. I don't know.
Nick:In a, rose cask.
Jeff:The the the rose barrels. Yep.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah. And as we were pouring it, it had, like, a pink hue. It's it's a little less noticeable now. We're we're not golden, but we're not as dark as the the previous one.
Nick:This is like a this is honestly more of like an amber color.
Jeff:Yeah. And it's got, the smell is, as I was pouring it, you got a kind of a rose sweetness coming off of it. So I'm not sure how much of the grape is gonna come through. So we'll see how
Nick:we can do it. Find out.
Jeff:Yep. Alright.
Alexander:Without further ado Cheers. Okay.
Jeff:Okay. This is what I'll say about it. After tasting that very heavy and dark maple, I think this came off comes off as a little bit light.
Alexander:I agree. No. I I do. I think I think it's light. I I think, I don't really know where to place the taste.
Nick:It tastes like a rose.
Jeff:It does. It has it has a rose kind of taste to it, then you get the, the maltiness at the end of it or the the hops at the end of it.
Nick:It's very odd.
Jeff:It is very odd. It's, I would like a stronger flavor. Interesting.
Nick:Maybe we did the drinks out of order.
Jeff:I think we did. I think that this would probably be better as the first one or second one. And the maple should be last because that's definitely the strongest one. I think we had no way way of knowing. We had no way of knowing.
Jeff:Yeah. We had no way of knowing. But yeah. Yeah. Well,
Alexander:I mean, we we we could've there was definitely a debate on whether or not we keep the sanctity of trying these drinks before we brought them into the studio or leaving it as a mystery. And I love that it's a mystery.
Nick:I think either way, I'll I like it.
Alexander:I I feel like our reactions to the creamsicle were very honest. Yeah. And I mean, like, oh
Jeff:my god. Yeah. Yeah. 1, 2 weeks ago. Yeah.
Nick:I think it's more fun going in blind.
Alexander:Yeah. No. I I agree. But I I think this is good. I think you're right.
Alexander:This is definitely a lighter, especially coming off of the maple one, which was definitely darker.
Nick:Much heavier. Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. This is fun. I like this.
Jeff:Yep. Once again, just think about this. It's ice cold. You're having a fish dish with some vegetables that are grilled, it would just go right with that.
Alexander:Right. I mean, we already had dinner, but, like, I wanna eat again.
Nick:Alright. Let's kick us kick
Jeff:us off for
Nick:part 3, our 3rd and first placement. We didn't really mention it, but I'm pretty sure we're going in order 3 to 1 to 1.
Jeff:I think
Alexander:we're all kind of going in order. Keeping that pattern. Yeah. I will kick us off. Like I promised before in the last section, this will be a video game one.
Alexander:So spoilers, this is from the video game Infamous 2. I think a very decisive definitive game in my young life.
Jeff:Another one that we watched you play.
Alexander:Yes. Yes. I think what made Infamous really interesting was it was in that time period where I think, like, open world games were not as oversaturated as they are right now. And it also came with a, like a a moral system sort of.
Nick:The alignment scale. Yeah.
Alexander:It is. And, like, an alignment scale of of if you do more, like, good aligned activities, you your powers look more like this. And if you do, like, more bad, quote, unquote, bad aligned activities, your powers look like this instead. And each of the, like, alignment side basically had, like, a a character or, like, a champion that was, like, trying to urge you in one direction or the other. But I think what was really interesting is by the end of the game, these characters had essentially switched.
Alexander:So, like, originally, your bad your, like, bad choices or, like, bad powers were coming from Nyx and, like, your your good choices were coming from Kuo. And, like, near the end, they kind of switch alignments Yeah. For various reasons. And, like, Nyx is kind of arguing for you to do the right thing, and Kuo is kinda arguing for you to do the wrong thing.
Jeff:But both of them are coming from, like, the same moral stance, I think.
Alexander:Sort of.
Nick:Sort of, kind of.
Jeff:Yeah.
Alexander:I think the the big moral, like, question is kind of something similar that you we have in, like, things like X men, where it's like, where do people with powers fit in the world? Right. And Infamous kind of goes further than that and says, like, there is a plague that these people with powers, these, conduits aren't affected by. And so it really kind of gives you that big choice of, like, do we align with the beast, which is, like, killing potentially millions of people? Or do we, like, basically eradicate all, all of these, like, super powered people using this device?
Alexander:So either way, it's like the trolley problem except, like, it's a bunch of people on the tracks.
Nick:Yeah. And, like, everyone you know is a part of it, including yourself.
Alexander:Yeah. Exactly. And going down the evil route, I think I actually recently saw a a comment about this on YouTube Mhmm. Where, like, the hardest boss in video game history is Zeke from Infamous 2. Your, like, best friend, your you play as Cole McGrath.
Alexander:Your best friend is this guy Zeke who does not have powers. He's just a regular dude. He's like your guy in the chair. You know, like, everyone has to have some sort of guy in the chair, some sort of, smart sciency guy who's gonna help you. I think Zeke kind of, like, bent some of those classic tropes by kind of have more of a southern drawl and kind
Jeff:of being like, oh, hell. You know?
Nick:Yeah. The 3 b's. Yeah.
Alexander:And at the end, if you choose the evil, choice, Nyx and Zeke will team up against you to try to stop you from making the choice of killing almost everyone who doesn't have powers. And, like, the basically, the final boss fight is you fighting against Nyx, and you kill her. Like, the game is not does not shy away from it. You kill her.
Nick:Yeah.
Alexander:It's kind of brutal. But immediately after that, Zeke kinda takes this device, and is like, you know you know I gotta I gotta try at least. And he knows he knows he has no no conceivable world where he can actually stand up to you. You are like end game Cole. You have, like, superpowers.
Alexander:He is a normal dude with a revolver, with a 6 shooter. And it is oh, it kills me. Oh my god. The way they did it too is, like, Zeke has his gun. He takes one shot at you.
Alexander:You shoot electricity at at him, and it's it's not even a fight. It's like Zeke
Nick:It's over.
Alexander:Yeah. Like, Zeke is just trying to, like, get out from being electrocuted the first time, and every time he, like, raises the gun, the game is like, r one. Kill him. Hit him again. Hit him again.
Alexander:And, like, you just hit him again. And he goes down again, and he he's, like, struggling to stand back up. Hit him again. He's struggling to stand back up, hit him one last time, and he's done. It, kills me.
Alexander:Oh my god. Just thinking about it is so rough. It made me feel like I've made the worst choice in video game history to take the evil route. Of course, this is after I've already completed the game on the good route, but it's like, why would anyone do this? But, again, it it was so emotional, so impactful, And, oh, my God.
Alexander:Yeah. The the writing for that, whoever whoever chose that, so it was it was a it was a great choice. Yeah.
Nick:I think it that's one of the characters or the dynamics are so important in that moment. Yes. Right? It's like, he's been with you the entire Oh, yeah. You know, we didn't play the first game, but but he was there with, like, day 1 on on Infamous 2.
Nick:Yep. He's there. He's supporting you. He's giving you cool weapons. He's he's, like, infiltrating the resistance, you know, either or the militia
Alexander:is what they're called. Yep.
Nick:He's, like, he's doing so much for you. He's, like, he he I'm getting shot at, you know, he's just a random guy, and he's, like, he's basically, like, all in on supporting you. Even if you're, like, making, like, not the best choice.
Jeff:Not the best choice. Yeah. From his
Nick:point of view, he's, like, don't worry, Cole. I I got you. Yeah. You know? And and there there's a there's, like, a back and forth quote that they they say, which is, he said Zeke says half as long, and Cole says twice as bright.
Nick:Oh. And, like, it they're or he and yeah. I don't know. Zeke has so many good quotes, because he's like, he's like, I don't call you brother because it sounds good.
Alexander:Yo.
Nick:You know, and he he's like, yeah. That that's a that's a death scene that's just, like, heart wrenching. Oh my god. Because it's it's so brutal and so emotional, because you're the one having to
Alexander:do it. You know? I think it's made worse because immediately after that, the beast goes, I can't do this anymore, Cole. And you're like, bro, what did I just do that
Jeff:for nothing?
Nick:Yeah. What a yeah. The e learning is just a roller coaster.
Alexander:They no. They did a great job with that. You felt like you made the wrong choice.
Nick:Yeah. For sure. Alright. I'm next. Yeah.
Nick:Yeah. Do it.
Jeff:Alright. So going back to what I said in the second round is that I really love military movies. And I there's a connection that I have from my dad being in the military, me being in the military. So as soon as we said this, this was the character I thought about. Yeah.
Jeff:So, the movie is Saving Private Ryan. A lot of people die in that movie.
Alexander:Which also not to take away from you for a second, but we just found out today. I I found out today that half our family has not seen it. You and I are the only people who have actually seen this movie.
Jeff:When I was working, the person I was working with was in the air force, and his wife wanted no no he did not wanna go to it. So me and his guy went there. And the scene that I'm gonna tell you, both of us were crying.
Alexander:I believe it. Yeah.
Jeff:Because the very first scene, the d day scene, we're hearing the bullets. We were like, that sounds real. Mhmm. That's what it's really like. And in the end or near the end
Alexander:to be fair, you're not old enough to have been at d day.
Jeff:Wasn't in World War 2, but, yeah, but but we we had heard gunfire because of other things we'd done. Yes. So but at the so the if you you've probably seen it. The premises is that this platoon is gonna has gone through landing in Italy, landing in North Africa, and has just survived d day. So this platoon has a mission of of getting the 4th brother, because the 3 other brothers have have died on the same day.
Jeff:So the the the movie kind of opens up with the mom getting these three letters of their 3 of her sons dying. And the 4th son is with the airborne units that went in behind the line and got dropped in d day. So they have no idea whether the 4th son is alive or not. So this platoon is is to go with it. And Tom Hanks, once again, plays a a magnificent role.
Jeff:He's the lieutenant that's in charge of the platoon. And as they're going to find this guy, the platoon just starts dying 1 by 1. Yep. Alright. And then they get to the town where they are, and they're like, look.
Jeff:We've come to get you. We're taking you away. And Matt Damon is is the 4th brother goes, I can't leave my brothers. These are my brothers here. And it's an airborne that's under under an undergunned because they got dropped in, and they're protecting this town or whatever.
Jeff:So Germans do an attack on them. And they're fighting, and the rest of the platoon is getting wiped out 1 by 1 as they go to it. And really, it's the last person of the platoon is Tom Hanks, and he's been mortally shot. And he's sitting there leaning against the wall, and this tank is coming toward him. So he pulls out his 45 and starts shooting at this tiger tank.
Jeff:And you're like, that's crazy. And all of a sudden, the tiger tank blows up. And then you see this fighter go overhead, and so the reinforcements came up too. So Matt Damon runs over to him and goes, are you okay? And he go and he only thing that that Tom Hanks says is, make this worth it.
Jeff:And then Matt Damon's face morphs to where he's an old man. And he's sitting in he's standing in France looking at the headstone for the lieutenant. And he turns to his wife, his kids, his grandkids, and said, did I live a good life? And I'm telling you, me and this guy next to you because you when you join the military, you you do it because you have this sense of duty about it, that you know that this is always a possibility. Yep.
Jeff:And that the reason you're doing this so that the people back home are gonna live that life that they wanna live. And so for me, this was beyond impactful because it touched me personally and what my dad had done and what I had done. And so there wasn't gonna be another testing that had more impact than that one. Right. And the the the and like I said before is when I look at these movies, there's always a part of it that's true, which is just it makes it more impactful for me.
Jeff:Yeah. So once again, I'm bringing this down with the Yeah. I know.
Nick:The energy is, you know, as expected.
Jeff:Yeah. But but that that's that's probably my top guessing that I've ever seen.
Alexander:I think going into this, we kinda knew that it would be a bit of a heavier episode Yeah. Because I think you while we can talk about, like, cool anime death scenes or, like, characters dying, at the end of the day, you know, art reflects reality. And it is, I I think, almost impossible to talk about character death scenes without talking about our own mortality and our own connections and, like, our own reflections that we see in media like this. And, obviously, I don't see myself as a person with electric superpowers who is, like, fighting on the rooftop. But in a way, I think all of these have some sort of reflection and some sort of, like, talk about our more mortality.
Alexander:I think war movies are a lot more of, like, a clear kind of distinction where we can really see our own mortality. And whether it's in, like, our troops who are going out there and fighting or, like, us at home seeing those people die and getting those letters back.
Jeff:Yeah. I mean, I I don't think it has to be a person because one of the other death scenes I thought about was the Terminator at the end of the movie getting destroyed. Okay? Now
Alexander:Yeah.
Jeff:It's just a robot dying. Yeah. But why is that impactful? Because you built a connection to it. It doesn't have to be a human connection.
Jeff:It's just that connection.
Nick:It's my first moment was a boat, man.
Alexander:I get it. Yeah. Yeah.
Jeff:Yeah. Very true. Very true. You don't gotta pitch it to me.
Nick:I I know, man.
Jeff:I know it doesn't have to be
Nick:a person, man.
Jeff:Exactly. You're
Alexander:right. I think a couple of my runner ups were deaths that the media tells you in the beginning, and you have the entire form of media. Both of them that I was thinking of were anime. You have the entire 12, 24 episodes to reckon with that death because the anime goes, hey, they're not making it. And I I'm telling you that that's what's gonna happen, and it's not unexpected, and it still hits like a truck.
Jeff:Alright. I'm done. Your turn.
Nick:Okay. Yeah. Finish the song. I will say for my for my last one, it's it's a different tonal shift. Okay.
Nick:I didn't I didn't choose one Just clown guy. I didn't I didn't choose one where I was, like, man, I'm I'm broken up, or, like, I wasn't crying for these. The other 2, I was, like, emotionally, like, oh. Yeah. The this one, this death scene is just so impactful and crazy.
Nick:So so this one is from an anime called Code Geass. This is a this is a big one. This is a really big one. If you haven't seen it, just, like, stop listening. Except for these 2 who are now in my clutches.
Nick:So
Jeff:Just so you know, I've never seen it.
Alexander:Yeah. The I've never seen it.
Nick:The death that I'm going to be talking about is the death of Lelouch V Britannia, the main character of the show. 48 episodes, 16 hours of your life. Incredible incredible time spent. So, rough, you know, overview of the show. We are in an alternative timeline of the world.
Nick:Great Britain is now the, like, Royal, Britannian Empire, and they basically have conquered the world, and they just have, districts of the world labeled. Nice. And, it takes place in Japan, which is called, like, district 11 or something. It's a very Hunger Games high.
Alexander:I was about to say Hunger Games.
Nick:And it's, about this guy, Lelouch v Britannia, who's from the the bloodline of it. Obviously, since, you know, they're keeping the sort of royal whatever whatever theme. It's, like, it's full, like, bloodline.
Alexander:And they all have hemophilia.
Nick:And, basically, he he starts off as, like, a very, arrogant, charismatic genius, but is powerless. Right? He's like, there's no way to fight back, and there's, like, a resistance around, but, like, it's not doing too much. It's like a little bit in the future. There's, like, some mechs and, like, some future technology, but nothing, like, really crazy.
Nick:But then one day, he, one way or another, finds himself in front of this this character, and she says, hey. Make a deal with me, and I'll give you powers. And this is where the whole keyos comes from. It's basically this alien power, that, is different for every single person that, they they make a deal with.
Alexander:Are they, like, alien devils? Is that what it is?
Nick:Sort of. Kind of. Woah. Yeah. They're very weird, and there's, like, multiple.
Nick:They're, like, everywhere.
Alexander:This show is, like, a classic, but I've never heard anyone describe this show. It's very weird.
Nick:But he he gets the power of of control. So if someone looks at him in the eyes, he can give them one order, and they have to follow it. Dude, it's command. Yeah. Basically.
Nick:So it starts off with, he he finds himself in in front of, like, a squadron of, like, soldiers after just acquiring this power. And he's given, like, the rough rundown of how it works, and he goes, okay. I get it. And they're like, oh, we have a unknown indent individual in front of us. We have to kill him.
Nick:And he goes, look at me. And they they he he uses his power on them, and he goes, now kill yourselves.
Alexander:Oh my god.
Nick:And I'll go, oh, by your order, my lord, and shoot themselves in the head. And that's the first episode. And, basically, the whole series is him creating, like, this uprising to kill his family. For one way or another, he is super against it because him and his sister were thrown out as, like, perceived as useless. And as he's, like, building up this giant army, basically, lying to everyone, he's going by a different alias.
Nick:Like, no one knows he's part of this family, and he's becoming, like, the realist resistance leader of the world, Doing crazy stuff, killing a lot of people. A lot of, like like, indiscriminately to a degree where he's like, so long as I get my goals, I will become the worst person you could imagine. Hold on. And he he's doing it, and he keeps saying, I will destroy the world. That is my ultimate goal, and he's basically throwing out his life for it.
Nick:Yeah. And it gets gets to the very last episode, and he has finally killed, like, the emperor. And he is doing it from the perspective of, I'm now the usurper, and I'm now in control of the empire. He, like, easily he announces himself. All of these foolish resistance people have followed, Britannia for my own goal to take over the empire is how he says it.
Nick:Oh my god. And he basically, like, put, like he creates a giant parade, and he, like, has, like, all of his, like, resistance leaders, like, on display, like, in front of the world. And he has his, like, sister, like, locked up because she's, like, blind and stuff. Oh my gosh. And Really uplifting.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's really crazy. And he's, like, he's got he's, like, sitting on this giant throne, and he's, like, I'm now the the king of the world, I'm the emperor, I have I am the greatest.
Nick:Right? And then, all of a sudden, his, like, alternative persona that he's been using named 0, he, like, wears a mask. Right?
Jeff:Mhmm.
Nick:Shows up, and everyone's like, oh my gosh. It's it's 0, our our hero. Yeah. And he he runs up and, without any, like, fighting back, basically, Lelouch gets stabbed through
Alexander:the heart. He kills Lelouch. Did he plan this from the start where he, like, set up this person to be, like, the good guy and he would make himself look as, like, evil as humanly possible and then be killed or vanquished by this hero? Basically.
Nick:Oh my god. So he so he gets stabbed, and he, like, slides down this giant ramp down to his sister Mhmm. Where she's being held, and she's like, you didn't. You didn't do this on purpose. And he coughs the blood, and he's like, there.
Nick:I've destroyed the world. Oh,
Alexander:what? That's crazy. I kinda now that I know the secret, I still kinda wanna go back and watch it.
Nick:Oh my gosh. Even if you don't know it, I highly recommend it. There's so much stuff that happens.
Alexander:Oh my god.
Nick:Characters are crazy. Like, there's so much he's he's such a stellar character. He's definitely, like, top 10 anime characters. Like, ever, He he is he's such a force. You know he's a bad guy, but he's doing it all with, like, I must rip out my heart in order to do this sort of, like, mentality.
Nick:Like
Alexander:like, he knows Well, that's, like, the Machiavellian way.
Nick:Yeah. Basically, he he is so compelling, and and, like, he he he especially cares about his sister so much that he does this all to, like he's, like, I'm the true evil. Don't pay attention to anyone else in my family now so that she can live peacefully.
Alexander:Can live peacefully. Oh my gosh.
Nick:No. It's it's so good. But, yeah, that that one is, like, it's not it's not emotional, like, oh, I'm gonna cry, but it's, like, all this work. Like, you've done literally the impossible, and you even planned for your own demise in this very moment. It's like he's orchestrated it since episode 1.
Nick:As soon as he got these powers, he could foresee the end is how it felt.
Alexander:That's crazy.
Nick:It's so impactful. So good.
Jeff:See, this is why they don't show us all of the anime.
Alexander:Well, dude, this is a commitment for
Nick:48 episodes. 48 episodes. It's 224 seasons. It's you'd you know, we'd be sitting down for a minute.
Jeff:Yeah. We we we would
Alexander:sit down for a while. And also, like, finding a good, like, platform to watch it off of on our TV. Anyways, yeah. Wow. That was a great one to end on here.
Alexander:Well, I'm just kinda like shell shocked here. While while I'm processing this, tell me, out of the 3 drinks we had, which one were your favorites? Dad, I'll start with you, and then we'll go to you, Nick.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah.
Jeff:I like the Hey Girl. Yep. To me, it's one of those ones you have with dinner.
Alexander:Yeah. Sure. Yeah. I feel you mentioned dinner for all of them.
Jeff:Well, no. Yeah.
Alexander:No. Sorry. The maple one, the the leaf, that was a breakfast one. That was
Jeff:a breakfast one. That was one you have with, pancakes.
Nick:You have to pick a meal.
Jeff:Yeah. I love dark ales. I love dark beer. So I think I'm gonna go with the last leaf as my favorite.
Nick:Alright. Yeah.
Alexander:I mean, it it was a good one. Not my favorite, but I get it. I liked it. It was definitely different.
Nick:It's super unique. Yeah. Yes. You know, honestly, I think trying, like, the the novel ones, like, the the rose one, super fascinating. Not what I expected.
Nick:Yeah. And the maple one, kind of what I expected, but still, like, a fun little treat. But, like, I don't think I was especially wowed, like, floored by either of them. Yeah. I think I'm gonna go with the Murphy's Gold just because, like, it's such a a clean lager just fits with so much, and it's like the one I foresee, like, oh, yeah.
Nick:I could pick this up at any moment and drink it. Sometimes they hate how similar we are. Which means you got good taste.
Alexander:Yeah. For real. I agree. I I did like the hey, girl, hey. I think no one was, like, definitely nipping at, that first place.
Alexander:But, again, I think part of it was when we picked them up, it was like we knew that we wanted the hey girl hay. We knew that we wanted the last leaf. We didn't know what we wanted the third one to be. So I had no expectations for the Murphy's. And I think you're right.
Alexander:Like, I literally just, like, I can drink this anytime.
Nick:Yeah.
Alexander:And it goes down easy. It's nice and good. You said burgers and fries, and I was sold. I mean, it
Jeff:it it it's a perfect kit, cookout kind
Alexander:of Oh, my god. Yeah.
Nick:Yeah. That's exactly what
Alexander:I was thinking. Like, sitting outside, like, around a pool or, like, a campfire just having some burgers and dogs. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
Alexander:I agree.
Jeff:Or or was it ravioli over the fire? Remember when you guys went to the, oh my god. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Alexander:For a quick context, Nick and I went to a rock festival that got rained out. But one of the nights we just made like 12 cans of ravioli. Yeah.
Jeff:Because you guys were wet, you tired.
Alexander:Yeah. We we were camping out. We had like a little like portable stove. We literally just Dump cans. Dumped cans into a pot.
Alexander:And then our neighbors were like, hey, is that ravioli? And we're like, yeah, here. Come on. Get a plate.
Nick:It sucks outside. Come
Jeff:on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Alexander:I think, oh man, they had like lost a bunch of stuff too. Because of the the rain. Like, it was like a hurricane. It was like a micro hurricane. Yep.
Alexander:Anyways, thank you all so much for sticking by.
Jeff:Thanks for watching till the end.
Alexander:Watching. Yeah. I promise next episode will be a bit more upbeat, happy, and we won't be focusing so much on our our own mortality or the mortality of other people. Back.
Jeff:Yeah. Exactly. Alright. Take it easy, guys. Bye.
Jeff:Bye.