Hey, Listen! - Vol. 4

David and Kady dive into a giant stack of listener feedback from across the seasons! From nostalgic stories to controller hacks, gameplay opinions to top 10 suggestions, this episode is a celebration of the amazing AZP community. With plenty of laughs, heartfelt shout-outs, and a little chaos, it’s the perfect way to hear what fellow Zelda fans have been thinking, and what might come next.

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David Geisler

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Host

Kady Roberts

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David Geisler: 00:22

Hello, and welcome to another Zelda podcast. I am your co host tonight with my co host, Katie Roberts. I said it for you. Switching it up. Oh my Getting crazy.

David Geisler: 00:31

We are here tonight to it's gonna be a kind of a fun episode tonight Katie. What do you think we're doing tonight?

Kady Roberts: 00:37

Reading listener feedback. I just not doubt what we're doing right now.

David Geisler: 00:44

That is it in a nutshell. Yeah yeah absolutely.

Kady Roberts: 00:48

Hey listen.

David Geisler: 00:49

Yeah we have an episode series called hey listen where we take a whole episode just to read a whole bunch of listener feedback and what is cool about it is it's always fun to do a little bit of listener feedback at the top of our episodes, but an episode like this allows us to potentially dig in a little deeper on some comments if we feel if we want to or not, and and actually just just it's just a nice way to to have a conversation with our listeners, and those who choose to, or care enough, or choose to reach out to us, it's a way for us to continue that conversation.

Kady Roberts: 01:21

Yeah, how dare you not care enough to leave a comment.

David Geisler: 01:23

I know, as I was saying that, was like, that is a little passive aggressive to word it that way. That is not cool.

Kady Roberts: 01:29

No. We appreciate anything that you leave. However, just listening in general is always nice as well. So thank you guys for being here.

David Geisler: 01:37

Yeah. Most definitely. Most definitely. We season seven's off to a really great start here, I'm really pleased with it. Some of these comments go all the way back to season six.

David Geisler: 01:44

Our oldest comment is from almost exactly a year ago, I noticed. When we hit it, it was like February 2024, or something like that. And so we'll just kinda get into it. What we won't do is listener feedback first, because it's just gonna be all listener feedback, Katie. But one fun fact, we haven't done a hey listen episode.

David Geisler: 02:07

AZP has not done a hey, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. A hey listen episode since like season three. We actually did two in season three. And so all of season four, all of season five, all of season six, we never did one of these. It's about time.

Kady Roberts: 02:21

It's about time.

David Geisler: 02:22

It's about time there, I'll tell you. So how are you?

Kady Roberts: 02:27

I'm good. I'm having a grand old time. We we were so a little behind the curtain. We've been recording for

David Geisler: 02:36

Since 3PM.

Kady Roberts: 02:37

Half the day. Yeah.

David Geisler: 02:38

Half the day. It's seven 07:45 right now. We've been recording since 3PM.

Kady Roberts: 02:42

Yeah.

David Geisler: 02:42

This is our third episode we're recording today.

Kady Roberts: 02:44

Yeah. It was it's been really fun though. We had a little bit of a pizza before this, which was great.

David Geisler: 02:49

Yep. Dinner break.

Kady Roberts: 02:50

Yeah. No. I've been playing a lot of Wind Waker still. I'm assuming by the time this comes out, I'll still be playing Wind Waker.

David Geisler: 02:58

This one's coming out close to April.

Kady Roberts: 03:00

Oh, never mind. I'll probably have moved on to like Majora's or Phantom Tracks. I'm I breezed through these games. I know we were talking a little bit off the mic, how you take your time with games, and that's wonderful. I

David Geisler: 03:11

I think it was on mic. I think it was last time it on Okay.

Kady Roberts: 03:14

I, on the other hand, rushed through everything. I just I like, for instance, last night Majora's, I sat down and I played probably for like five hours. And then I was like, oh, it's 3AM. I guess I should go to bed.

David Geisler: 03:24

I mean, playing for five hours, I don't know if that's rushing. That's like, you spent five hours playing that game.

Kady Roberts: 03:29

That's Yeah. I just like, I I will be done with that before like this next week's through, I would assume.

David Geisler: 03:34

Sure. Sure.

Kady Roberts: 03:36

But yeah. I'm going to Japan soon.

David Geisler: 03:39

I'm super Yeah. With your brother, think. Right?

Kady Roberts: 03:41

Yeah. With my brother. And I'm really excited. I'll try and find something to bring you back to add to your collection.

David Geisler: 03:46

Oh, a Zelda thingy? Yes, I'll put it right here on the shelf so everyone can

Kady Roberts: 03:49

see it. I'll see if I can go to the

David Geisler: 03:50

Nintendo No, good. Keep it small. Keep it secret, keep it safe. No, keep it small and simple. Yes, that'd be so cool.

David Geisler: 03:57

That'd be so cool. Yeah, that's great. When is that coming up? Is it a couple months from now?

Kady Roberts: 04:04

Like March 5.

David Geisler: 04:06

So you might have already gone by the time this episode posts.

Kady Roberts: 04:09

I'm very excited.

David Geisler: 04:10

It's really Probably amazing. It was probably amazing.

Kady Roberts: 04:15

It was probably amazing. All I know is I fed some deer.

David Geisler: 04:18

Wow. Wow.

Kady Roberts: 04:19

Because we're going to do that.

David Geisler: 04:20

Yeah? That's cool. Oh, that's great.

Kady Roberts: 04:22

How are you, David? I haven't seen you in forever.

David Geisler: 04:26

We're not good at faking this.

Kady Roberts: 04:28

Well no, that's true. Other than the two episodes recorded earlier today. Yeah. Before, when I first walked in today, I haven't seen you in forever.

David Geisler: 04:36

Oh this energy level. This is good, I like this. We are up. Yes, no it's true. Yeah we haven't seen each other for a couple months.

David Geisler: 04:44

And no, don't know, I've just been hanging out. Been working my butt off. School starts next week as of this recording. Very excited about that.

Kady Roberts: 04:53

Excited. Is that a woo or is that a aw?

David Geisler: 04:55

No, I'm happy about it.

Kady Roberts: 04:56

That's I just wanna get

David Geisler: 04:57

through school. I wanna get through it. And I got two good classes. I'm doing podcast document podcast documentary. Mhmm.

David Geisler: 05:03

I don't need to create a documentary podcast. I'm already doing that with returning student. But I will need to make three, I guess you could say fake episodes of a podcast, so three assignments will be like what would hypothetically be a single episode in a hypothetical I'm sure the kinds of things we're gonna be exercising is finding stories, finding interviews, putting it together is a cohesive piece, and that's right up my alley. So I'm looking forward to that class quite a bit. And then another class that I'm taking that is part of the podcast major, I feel like maybe we already talked about this too, maybe in a previous episode, is the other class is truth and lies in the digital age.

Kady Roberts: 05:41

I think magical swords people might have seen that.

David Geisler: 05:44

Is that what it Yeah. Yeah, sure. So truth and lies in the digital age is basically a class for pod in the podcasting major to make sure that you're kinda fact checking and that you're, you know, telling if you're doing a journalistic style piece of content that you're, you know or maybe that maybe it's also gonna I imagine it might also help us discern if the information we're getting is truthful and factual too, which I think is really important these times and very cool.

Kady Roberts: 06:09

Yeah, well that's awesome.

David Geisler: 06:11

So I think those will be two great classes, I'm excited to get started. They're both on the same day.

Kady Roberts: 06:15

Oh, that's nice.

David Geisler: 06:16

So I got a nine, I think it is nice, I've got a 09:00 with, it'll be with Matt for the podcast documentary Very

Kady Roberts: 06:21

cool, Matt.

David Geisler: 06:22

I know, I know. I've interviewed him three times for Returning Student now, and he's gonna be interviewed a fourth time. He's almost becoming like a recurring character on

Kady Roberts: 06:29

that He's lovely.

David Geisler: 06:31

Yeah, we're building a bit of a relationship. I really enjoy him quite a bit. Yeah, absolutely.

Kady Roberts: 06:35

Did he ever talk about me?

David Geisler: 06:37

He did talk about you. Oh really? In the most recent returning student interview, he was talking about this one student and who you know has gone on to work over at iHeart and stuff like that, Katie. He was talking to me about it. And I said, oh Katie Roberts, yeah she's my co host for another Zelda That's

Kady Roberts: 06:51

so funny.

David Geisler: 06:52

And he was like, what? That's awesome. And then we talked about how you auditioned and all that stuff. Yeah. I said, she's been doing it for almost a year or two with me now.

David Geisler: 06:58

And it was a fun little Yeah. Little connection. He's No, cool. He brought you up organically. He was bragging about, you know, a fellow student working at iHeart.

Kady Roberts: 07:06

That's so sweet, I love Yeah

David Geisler: 07:08

yeah, it was really nice. So I guess that's enough of that. Vibes are up and they're a little goofy.

Kady Roberts: 07:16

They're a little silly.

David Geisler: 07:17

They might be perfect for reading listener feedback tonight. I don't know. Do you wanna go first? Should I go first? Let's, let me, we're gonna do a thing here.

David Geisler: 07:26

We have a whole bunch of listener feedback in a single folder on a Google Drive folder. We don't know, there's probably like 30 or 40 things in here. Mhmm. I think as we read them, the most, the best way to keep things organized so that we don't get slowed down with like, oh wait, did you read that one already? What about this one?

David Geisler: 07:41

I think what we do is we read it, and then for the sake of the Google Drive folder, delete that screenshot. Yeah. And that's why we won't like double read.

Kady Roberts: 07:48

Sounds good.

David Geisler: 07:49

What do you got first?

Kady Roberts: 07:51

I have on Apple Podcasts.

David Geisler: 07:55

That is Apple Podcasts.

Kady Roberts: 07:55

Okay. We have a five star review, thank you. Apple Podcast reviews are the best, if not one of the best ways to help the show out.

David Geisler: 08:05

They are most influential metric in the Apple algorithm, is leaving a positive review for the show.

Kady Roberts: 08:12

Yeah. So this is from Jack Attack one zero eight. J a c a, tack one zero eight. It says, another review on AZP. I still love the podcast.

David Geisler: 08:25

Oh, I think this might be I think Jack Attack has reviewed us before, and maybe they've updated their review. Because I recognize the screen And to say still, let's see where this goes. I apologize I interrupted you.

Kady Roberts: 08:34

No, no, it's good. I still love the podcast. The fact that you are getting so many guests in your episodes amid crazy to me. I'm guessing it's supposed to be a

David Geisler: 08:43

big crazy think we have read this one before. Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 08:44

I am still working on Tears of the Kingdom. I am almost to the end though. Mhmm. I also got Link's Awakening remake like you suggested. An amazing game, both of them.

Kady Roberts: 08:53

Tears and the Link's Awakening. Although, I would say surprisingly, I think I enjoyed Link's Awakening more than Tears.

David Geisler: 08:59

Is this what the review says right here?

Kady Roberts: 09:00

No. No. It was just me talking. Yeah. It ended with remake

David Geisler: 09:04

like you suggested. You have to change your tone. No, I'm just joking.

Kady Roberts: 09:07

I I think I like Link's Awakening more personally. Mhmm. Is probably a really hot take.

David Geisler: 09:15

Both of Link's Awakening is is pure bliss for me. I love it. I've actually had a little bit of fun. Sometimes when I'm playing Echoes of Wisdom I can't help myself and I drop back into Link's Awakening.

Kady Roberts: 09:26

Really?

David Geisler: 09:27

Yeah. I'll be playing Echoes and I'm enjoying it but I'm kinda like, oh, just need a little Link's Awakening right now.

Kady Roberts: 09:31

Yeah, I just wanna play Link just

David Geisler: 09:33

a little Tears is cool. Tears was amazing. It's interesting, I still haven't beat it. Really? No, I can't get myself motivated to do the Goron stuff.

Kady Roberts: 09:42

That's fair.

David Geisler: 09:43

And I don't think I really care about the final I don't think I care in Tears of the Uh-huh. I really like the game and I actually think it's monumental and amazing. I think the ultra hand system is just one of the coolest things that's ever happened in video games I can only imagine the years of development it went in. But, and I'm so pleased with Tears as a sequel to Breath, and it's not rinse and repeat, there is a lot of extra stuff, love the sky stuff, love the dark stuff

Kady Roberts: 10:09

The depths.

David Geisler: 10:09

The depths. I think I like the depths even more than the sky stuff, but I've spoken to that already. But at the end of the day, when I go into tears, with Breath of the Wild, the coolest thing about Breath of the Wild is that it was like, oh, it's the first time in a Zelda game where the story is your story.

Kady Roberts: 10:32

Uh-huh.

David Geisler: 10:32

When people talk about playing Breath of the Wild, they talk about how they did a thing.

Kady Roberts: 10:35

They're Mhmm.

David Geisler: 10:36

It's almost like a D and D game. It's like it's the own story, it's the way they've decided to move through the Breath of the Wild game. Yes there's cut scenes, yes there's there's you know, flashbacks and stuff like that. Mhmm. And with Tears, I've enjoyed all the little cut scenes, but while I'm in the game, it feels more, and I like this, but it feels like it trends more sandbox y than it does narrative.

Kady Roberts: 11:02

I would agree with that. I think that's also why I had a hard time getting as into it as Breath. I would also just thinking about it now, I'm a very big fantasy person, and I don't really care for sci fi too much. There's some sci fi things I've grown to love, but I feel like Breath feels more fantasy and Tears feels more sci fi Yeah.

David Geisler: 11:19

A little bit.

Kady Roberts: 11:20

Which is also why I had a harder time. I still think it's a great game, but I agree. Didn't stand out to me as much.

David Geisler: 11:26

I think, I mean it it it's yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. It's I think it was a triumph and and pretty impressive and pretty exciting.

David Geisler: 11:32

And and you know, some people talk about how the ultra hand mechanic could be its own game entirely. Yeah. And I agree. It's so cool. But I guess when I go into tears, I usually go in to play around with Ultra Hand and build something.

David Geisler: 11:44

Or to go like, just kinda walk around for a little while. Mhmm. When I go into tears, I'm not when I played Breath, even though you could go anywhere you wanted and like go look into a valley, always had that pressing kind of like, yeah but Zelda's in the castle and alright I gotta take, you know, it's building up in the you get one laser from one divine beast and another laser and before then you get the four lasers and maybe it's time, maybe am I good enough, am I strong enough to go get Ganon? And and and not I was almost just gonna say for better or for worse, but for for neutral, I just don't feel that when I play Tears of the Kingdom. Mhmm.

David Geisler: 12:20

I really love playing Tears of the Kingdom. Yeah. But like I don't, I'm not like, I'm not So it's like when I'm in Tears of Kingdom I'm kinda like, well I could go to the Gorons and I don't know, solve their problems or I could you know, just kinda go make this cool thing. Yeah. And I end up making the cool thing instead.

David Geisler: 12:36

But anyways, but I do also like sim games and creator games and stuff, so maybe I just more that way, and there was less of that in Breath of the Wild, so you kinda play it a different way. I digress.

Kady Roberts: 12:45

Yeah. Big I definitely didn't use Ultra Hand as much. Mhmm. And I think that's why I didn't benefit as much from Tears because I don't really care for that kinda thing. Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 12:54

So I didn't really use it as much, and that's like the main mechanic of the game.

David Geisler: 12:58

I really think it is. I really think it is. But that's that's okay. Anyways, Jack Attack, I think Is this Jack Attack, right?

Kady Roberts: 13:04

Yeah.

David Geisler: 13:04

We might have read that review before, but I'm perfectly fine with it. I've got one right here. Oh, so the way what we're doing here is the way we do this, the way we do all of our listening feedback, I was actually supposed to say this before we started reading, is listeners, they can leave us reviews on Apple Podcasts, they can leave us reviews on Spotify, they can actually leave comments per episode on Spotify now, which is super cool. They can leave comments per episode on YouTube, which is great. We always check those out.

David Geisler: 13:34

And then of course we have all of our social medias. We have our X and our blue sky, and our Instagram, and oh there's one or two others in there, I can't really remember

Kady Roberts: 13:43

You website?

David Geisler: 13:44

We got the website another Zelda podcast where you can actually leave literal comments on episode posts if you sign in, and we do have people do that from time to time. We always see those, I get an actual email sent to me when those get inserted, so that's always nice. I usually don't miss them. And so this has just been really great. So we do our best as we are scrolling through our business media suite, meta business media suite to see all the comments and messages, or if we're scrolling through Apple Podcasts or our Spotify, Spotify for Podcasters app or whatever, we just try to take screen grabs basically is what Katie and I do, and then we dump them into a Google Drive folder, and so that we can kind of share them.

David Geisler: 14:21

So we are literally reading screen grabs tonight. And that's great. That's the mechanic here. This is an Apple. In no particular order, it's a little bit chaos.

David Geisler: 14:29

We didn't really curate the order of these, so here we go. Oh that was Jack Attack. Did you delete it then after Yeah,

Kady Roberts: 14:36

I think I have to like refresh.

David Geisler: 14:40

Well okay, in the meantime, here on Apple Podcasts, five star review. Back 02/23/2024, the psycho, the size co '1, the username, left a review says greatest legend of Zelda podcast out there. By the way, this username spelled t h e p z y c h o o n e.

Kady Roberts: 15:05

Zero n e. Oh yes, you're right, you're right.

David Geisler: 15:08

This show is legend, wait for it, dairy. Keep up the awesome work, love you guys. Five green heart emojis.

Kady Roberts: 15:16

Couldn't have said it

David Geisler: 15:17

better myself. Think it was one. Thank you so much for that, we really truly appreciate it. What do you got next, Katie?

Kady Roberts: 15:21

I've another Apple podcast. I got a five star review from Zelda guy space four. This is back oh, I'm gonna count my months. January, February, March, April, May. This is back in May 2024.

Kady Roberts: 15:35

It's titled a month ago. I I started this podcast a month ago and have caught up. One, two, three, four, five, six green hearts. By the way, to top 10 shrine quests.

David Geisler: 15:51

Oh, did an episode about the top 10 shrine quests in Breath of the Wild.

Kady Roberts: 15:54

To watch out for. The flowers just use her volley's wind and glide in.

David Geisler: 15:58

And glide in. I like that. We talked about, yeah, Breath of the Wild, the lady who's very particular about her flowers.

Kady Roberts: 16:03

I'm just gonna guess. I'm gonna say this is 50 green hearts.

David Geisler: 16:05

Sure. Yeah. Zelda guy, thank you so Zelda guy four, thank you so much. How did you get into that shrine with the lady who was very protective of her flowers in front the wall?

Kady Roberts: 16:13

I like walked around in like belittle maze.

David Geisler: 16:15

You did careful walk? Yeah. Careful walk?

Kady Roberts: 16:17

I thought it was a good time. I did step on them purposefully a few times though to see what she would do.

David Geisler: 16:22

Does she get more mad each time?

Kady Roberts: 16:24

Yeah. And then I think she like actually takes some of your hearts away.

David Geisler: 16:27

Oh my goodness.

Kady Roberts: 16:28

I think she actually attacks you.

David Geisler: 16:30

Alright, over here there's another Apple Heavy on the Apple Podcasts right now, I know we definitely have some I saw some Spotify comments in there and stuff like that, but here we go. Back in April, brent underscore '2 '3 '1 said, great podcast plus a controller recommendation. Oh, this gets me excited. I'm a lifelong Zelda fan, and have been listening to your podcast since at least 2020, possibly earlier. That's wonderful.

David Geisler: 16:55

I think we did our first episode ever, like November of twenty seventeen. And so really we kinda started in 2018.

Kady Roberts: 17:03

Do you me to say something that will make you feel crazy? Yeah. I graduated from high school in 2021. Is that crazy?

David Geisler: 17:15

I thought you were I thought you I figured you were gonna say graduated from high school, but I thought you were gonna say like, in 2018. Uh-huh. Twenty twenty one. Uh-huh. Yeah.

David Geisler: 17:22

That's fine. That's cool. It's cool cool cool. At least 2020, possibly earlier. Really enjoy the content, and I especially like top 10 favorite top 10 favorites episodes.

David Geisler: 17:32

Well, we just did one a few a few episodes ago, which was a ton of fun, and we'll certainly do more. A re Oh, hey, brent underscore two three one, if you wanna message us and give us an idea for a top 10 episode you'd like us to do, well, I'm all ears.

Kady Roberts: 17:46

Oh, yeah.

David Geisler: 17:46

Alright. A recent caller on the Skyward Sword characters episode was asking about controller options for the Nintendo Switch Online 64. This might be George who we were talking about, George Ogilvie, I think we talked about on the last episode. I don't know if I said the last name right. Skyward Sword character, Switch Online games.

David Geisler: 18:06

I had similar difficulties, but found an easy solution that I wanted to suggest. Oh gosh, I'm so excited. I recommend getting a GameCube controller for the Switch. Yes. They're pretty cheap.

David Geisler: 18:19

Just about $20 or so at Walmart. For me, it's worked pretty well for 64 games on Switch. The control stick has a similar feel to the Nintendo sixty four controller. And when playing Ocarina time, you can assign weapons to x and y buttons, which correspond to the left c, c left, and c down. The biggest drawback is using the c stick to play the Ocarina.

David Geisler: 18:42

Yeah. Copy. But I found it manageable with a bit of practice. It's a little bit almost like you're playing the Ocarina with your C stick the same way you conduct the wind in Wind Waker, I I I would guess. The biggest drawback, okay.

David Geisler: 18:57

With minor adjustments, it is similarly compatible with other games. So I wanted to share another option to help others enjoy classic 64 games on the Switch. I am lucky enough to have the USB to GameCube adapter. I bought it a long time ago for my Switch for Smash Brothers. I'm gonna plug my GameCube controllers in tonight and give that a try.

David Geisler: 19:17

That is awesome. There was also on the GameCube, there was an Ocarina of Time disc that came out, and they mapped the c buttons to the c stick and things like that, and it worked pretty well. I wonder if this would be similar. But but you're also absolutely right. There's a lot of like GameCube style controllers that are made by third party companies, and even some of the ones that you can get, I guess at Walmart, and maybe there's like a third party that makes them.

David Geisler: 19:41

Brent underscore two three one, I'm sorry it took almost a year to reply. But thank you so much, that's awesome. April 8, this was two days before my birthday last year.

Kady Roberts: 19:51

Happy very belated birthday.

David Geisler: 19:54

Oh Brent that's awesome. I can't wait to try it out. Yeah that makes so much sense.

Kady Roberts: 19:57

Yeah. Now that I am working at the used video game store, I wanna get some of those to plug into the Switch to play some of the older Zelda games that's on the online subscription. Some, like, older controllers.

David Geisler: 20:11

Old controllers plug in the Switch. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah.

David Geisler: 20:13

Absolutely.

Kady Roberts: 20:15

The next one we have is from Jay Timburg Timburger. This is

David Geisler: 20:23

This is a Spotify comment.

Kady Roberts: 20:24

Spotify comment. There we go.

David Geisler: 20:26

Yeah. I think from an old Hey Listen episode, wow. Oh no this is from an old Well Excuse

Kady Roberts: 20:35

Me So

David Geisler: 20:36

this is interesting because this is from Well Excuse Me Princess part three but we've just recently, just two episodes ago we also had the Well Excuse Me Princess part four episode. Oh. So Jason messaged this before that part four came out, of course.

Kady Roberts: 20:51

Okay. So it says listening to this episode currently, and it clicked that non repeatable actions in kid cartoons makes total sense because when I was six ish, nineteen ninety question mark, I was in the woods playing Ninja Turtles with some neighborhood kids, and one kid wanted to be Leonardo. The leader kid who might have been eight or nine pushed him and said no. I stood up for my buddy and got smacked in the forehead with what my parents tell me was a small piece of gasp pipe slash lead pipe that we apparently found in the woods. I came back to the house, bleeding profusely, but quickly was calmed as the bleeding stopped.

Kady Roberts: 21:30

My dad came home to find me playing the OG Super Mario on NES bandaged and iced.

David Geisler: 21:36

Yeah. I hear you, Jason. Yeah. Absolutely. Wow.

David Geisler: 21:38

That is interesting. Katie, you and I have never talked about this, I don't wanna get into it too far because I could probably spend twenty minutes on it. But in kids, especially in the eighties and nineties, and I think it's probably still true today, in kids' media that is intended for children, It's very important, and it's expressed in different ways. Different companies express it in different ways. But in general, it's really important that so like violence in a video game

Kady Roberts: 22:06

Mhmm.

David Geisler: 22:06

Or a certain rating level, a G or an E, or certainly violence on in a TV show. It needs to be something that a kid We were talking about Link. Mhmm. And Link has his sword in the cartoon. He never ever stabs anybody or hits anybody with his sword, never He always has full hearts and basically zaps them.

David Geisler: 22:30

And so he's

Kady Roberts: 22:30

like, ka ching,

David Geisler: 22:31

zaps them. And when it zaps them they pixelize and they don't even die, they go back to like an orb in Ganon's castle where they get respawned. Uh-huh. Right? And I think at one point someone said something like, he doesn't even use his sword.

David Geisler: 22:46

And that is 100, I don't know this from study, but I just know this from experience. 100% because a kid's cartoon can't show a character doing a violent action that is technically repeatable in the real world. And so because those kids could emulate that. Know even the Ninja Turtles was a trick. Know he was talking about playing Ninja Turtles with his friends.

David Geisler: 23:08

I loved Donatello.

Kady Roberts: 23:09

Yeah.

David Geisler: 23:09

And I remember taking a broomstick.

Kady Roberts: 23:11

Oh we had a broomstick too that we We took

David Geisler: 23:13

the broomstick, you untwisted, and I even put the tape around the middle, like electric tape in the middle. I thought it was so cool. But I had a freaking weapon, you know what I mean? And so a lot of times what you'll see is they have to heroes have to do things that, even the bad guys, any kind of violence, they have to do something that you can't actually pick up a lead pipe per our comment here, and actually like hit someone with.

Kady Roberts: 23:34

Yeah. Mean it was also a thing back in the day with like Lilo and Stitch, they had that scene where Lilo climbs into a dryer Yep. To hide from Nani, I believe her name was. Yep. And they since had to change it because kids started doing that.

Kady Roberts: 23:48

They had to change it to look like a pizza oven which I don't think is any better.

David Geisler: 23:51

I don't know if was a pizza oven, it was table and then she used a pizza box to be like the

Kady Roberts: 23:56

Oh okay. But yeah, so the same kind of thing.

David Geisler: 24:00

Yeah. Yeah, totally right. Yeah, I'm sorry sorry that happened to you there. Was it Brandon? No, Jason, sorry.

Kady Roberts: 24:05

Part of being a kid, I don't know.

David Geisler: 24:07

Well, I don't know. That seems pretty rough to get smacked in a pipe by a pipe with a local friend or something, maybe not a friend.

Kady Roberts: 24:13

Not a friend anymore.

David Geisler: 24:15

I get it. Alright, let's see here. I've got a comment, we're moving over to Spotify now, on our Music of Link's Awakening episode, Katie, that's what you and I did I

Kady Roberts: 24:25

love the music episodes.

David Geisler: 24:26

And Braderkeys, b r a d r,keys, or it could be yeah, I think it's Braderkeys, said, the best Zelda podcast I have ever found. PS, can you guys play Phantom Hourglass? Keep making these great episodes, and then a whole bunch of green heart emojis. We were talking about Phantom Hourglass earlier today.

Kady Roberts: 24:47

Yeah. I was going through David let me look through the Zelda encyclopedia. You have the, like, ex I don't know, exclusive version, I guess, where it looks like the cartridge.

David Geisler: 24:57

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Is kinda The

Kady Roberts: 24:58

golden one. It's really cool. I've been playing stop me if I've said this before. I've been playing through Wind Waker. And I've been having a good time.

Kady Roberts: 25:07

But I was asking him all about Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks because I didn't realize that those were sequels to Wind Waker. And that Spirit Tracks then comes after Phantom Hourglass. That's probably what I'll be trying to play after I finish Wind Waker and Majora's.

David Geisler: 25:22

Phantom Hourglass is, was available on the Wii U. And I actually have Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks on my Wii U as virtual console downloads. And the way you do it is you hold your Wii U controller vertical, and you play on the bottom half of the screen, and so both screens are represented on the Wii U controller, and then you can use the R buttons. It's amazing. I'll show you sometime, but I don't think that's how you'll be able to play it because virtual console doesn't exist for Wii U anymore.

Kady Roberts: 25:49

I know, they got rid of the store because they hate us, David.

David Geisler: 25:52

I don't know, I think it kinda tracks. Mean at a certain point, it's all in the It's in the numbers. Absolutely. At a certain point it costs more to keep the server up than it does for what the sales are.

Kady Roberts: 26:01

I like to complain, but I completely understand why they did it.

David Geisler: 26:04

I hear you, I hear you. It's all of that, all stores are inevitable in that way. The thing that some companies can do, just as a side note that would be nice, is if like purchases can move forward into other stores. And Nintendo did a little bit of that. When they went from the Nintendo Wii to the Wii U, you could buy virtual console games that you already bought at a reduced rate at least.

David Geisler: 26:24

Mhmm. Because also capitalism, and they don't actually really want you, they actually want you to have to buy the product over and over and over. But I digress. So it's available, but we also have it. I have a couple cartridges, but maybe over at the exchange you can find a Phantom Hourglass cartridge.

David Geisler: 26:38

We have not done any DS review game, you know, any DS game reviews yet.

Kady Roberts: 26:43

Really?

David Geisler: 26:44

We haven't reviewed A Link Between Worlds, we haven't reviewed Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks. We did a Minish Cap, but that was Game Boy Advance. So I think it's due, I think we're due, maybe this season.

Kady Roberts: 26:54

We gotta get on that.

David Geisler: 26:55

And maybe it starts with Phantom Hourglass, I love it. So. Thank you, Brad or Keyes.

Kady Roberts: 26:59

Thank you. Give me a new game I gotta start playing. So this one is also from Spotify and it's also from Music of Link's Awakening. This is from Maggie. Maggie says, wow, just a great episode.

Kady Roberts: 27:12

Always looking forward to a new one, my favorite Zelda podcast with three green hearts.

David Geisler: 27:17

Thank you so Yeah. That's great, Maggie. Obviously, these comments are a little quicker because they're just a quick comment underneath the episode, but I love it so much. Oh, Katie, have another comment over on Spotify. This is the Gerudo episode that you and I did.

Kady Roberts: 27:27

I loved that episode.

David Geisler: 27:28

Season six episode 24. We actually had a bunch of comments on this one, so we might kinda push through them. Soldmeboy says, unfortunately Twilight Princess is over a hundred bucks used. Sad cry emoji. Also, it's more than likely Zelda and Link don't live together.

David Geisler: 27:46

Actually, there's a really good theory on YouTube that makes way more sense.

Kady Roberts: 27:51

I was probably talking about In Tears of the Kingdom and we brought it up.

David Geisler: 27:54

Yeah yeah, totally. Well, SaladMeBoy, I'm interested. If you wanna reach out to us, I'd love to see it. Twilight Princess Used, I totally believe it probably is over a hundred bucks. I visit the exchange along with other used video game stores here in Chicago, and most Zelda games are super jacked up.

David Geisler: 28:13

Yeah. Just because the demand is there. It's hard to find a game that's less than 50 or 60, even a Game Boy game now. Mhmm. I'm really grateful that a couple years ago I was able to find most of the games that used video game stores and put them at decent But,

Kady Roberts: 28:26

yes. Yeah, that was one of the things, again, I talked about this a little bit off mic, but when I was playing through Wind Waker last night, was looking for just some Zelda type music. So I was looking for fan songs just to play in the background while I was playing. And I found out one of my favorite YouTuber musicians back growing up, and I still really enjoy him to this day, was Nate Wants to Battle. And I found out he created a whole album for Ocarina of Time, which is fantastic.

Kady Roberts: 28:54

But it came out in 2016, and I was listening to it. And I was like, if I heard this, if I found this back in 2016,

David Geisler: 29:00

I would

Kady Roberts: 29:00

have gotten into Zelda so much sooner.

David Geisler: 29:03

While you were in grade school.

Kady Roberts: 29:05

Yeah.

David Geisler: 29:05

No. I'm joking.

Kady Roberts: 29:06

A little bit. I mean, yeah. No. I I I don't know. It was just one of those things where I was listening to it and it's you see in your head like a whole different path that could've happened.

David Geisler: 29:14

Yeah. Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 29:15

So I

David Geisler: 29:15

hear you.

Kady Roberts: 29:16

It was cool.

David Geisler: 29:16

I think you should grab this next Spotify comment.

Kady Roberts: 29:19

Yeah. From the Gerudo episode of This is from Davey Boy with a silly face.

David Geisler: 29:26

That is that is their their handle. Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 29:29

Did you guys hear about the new Zelda game? What are your thoughts on it? Personally, I'm very excited to play as Zelda, but I'm kinda bummed that I don't get to play as Link. I wish I could play as both.

David Geisler: 29:41

As both. Okay. So obviously this was a comment way before Echoes of Wisdom Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 29:45

Announced. Because Daisy Boy, do I have news for you? You can play as both, and it's great.

David Geisler: 29:52

You can play as both, kind of. Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 29:53

You can play as both, yeah. It's a great time. I love I mean, get me on the record, I loved Echoes of Wisdom. I think it's like in my top Zelda games now. I breezed through it.

Kady Roberts: 30:04

I think I played through the entirety of it within a week, if that. Yeah. I love Echoes of Wisdom. I think it was so fun.

David Geisler: 30:14

How do you feel about how they handled the the Zelda Link playable relationship? I will say before you get going, I'm sorry, I did not expect any version of Link in there at all.

Kady Roberts: 30:27

Me either. I was shocked to see that I could play as Link. And it was kinda cool because the way I like really found out about it was when they were coming with, like, the TikTok ads for it. Where it would, like, show you a scenario of, like, a cobbling coming up, and it would stop and it would give you two different options and be, like, fight with wisdom or fight with courage. And then you would press on which one you wanted, and then it would show you a clip of either, like, her doing it with, like, her echoes or her turning into, like, the link form and fighting it.

Kady Roberts: 30:55

And that's how I figured out about it. Yeah. I was like, this is so cool. That being said, I didn't use the link form too often. I started using it a lot more in the later part of the game when I would like summon an echo and then quickly switch and then also hit it.

Kady Roberts: 31:10

Yeah. So that was fun.

David Geisler: 31:12

I just did the Deku Dungeon last night and I found myself using the echoes to, I guess, trigger the bosses. Yeah. And then when the weak spot would be revealed, then I'd go to link mode and then like hack hack hack.

Kady Roberts: 31:27

That's exactly what I did. I can't wait for you to get to like the ending of that game and talk about the ending with me. I can't

David Geisler: 31:32

wait. We'll do a proper review episode at some point. I also noticed last night that if you z target something and release an echo

Kady Roberts: 31:40

Oh it goes after it.

David Geisler: 31:41

Immediately it goes

Kady Roberts: 31:41

after it.

David Geisler: 31:42

It doesn't just kinda like hover around until it finds something.

Kady Roberts: 31:44

Yep.

David Geisler: 31:45

Alright, here's the next one. More more Gerudo episode over on Spotify. This is from Lexi underscore or I mean hashtag ASC. She says, hi, I really like your pod and it even got me to play Breath of the Wild. What does t y

Kady Roberts: 32:02

Thank you so much.

David Geisler: 32:04

Cool. For making this pod. I think it would be cool if you make an episode about Phantom Hourglass again. What is happening? But thanks for having an amazing pod, you know, about nine green heart emojis.

Kady Roberts: 32:17

We gotta do it next.

David Geisler: 32:18

We gotta put it on the list.

Kady Roberts: 32:18

We gotta figure it out. Gotta

David Geisler: 32:19

do Phantom It's be next official one. I'd I'd be happy to play that game again.

Kady Roberts: 32:23

Ugh. I'm so excited. I know nothing about it. I'll be going in straight blind and it'll be awesome.

David Geisler: 32:28

Keep an eye out at the store if you see the cartridge and if not, I can I can lend you a cartridge?

Kady Roberts: 32:33

Nice. So this one is also from the Grudo episode on Spotify.

David Geisler: 32:38

Yeah, I know. It was a whole batch.

Kady Roberts: 32:40

No, that's alright. That means that we did good. We did our job, David. It's just by Will. It's Will.

Kady Roberts: 32:47

It says Hudson the construction guy is Hudson with two exclamation points.

David Geisler: 32:52

Do you remember this? We couldn't remember his name. Yeah. We were like, is it Bison? It's Biden?

David Geisler: 32:57

Not Biden. No not Biden or something. No we were thinking of the guy with the handkerchief

Kady Roberts: 33:02

on

David Geisler: 33:02

over his head. But we just couldn't remember.

Kady Roberts: 33:05

Hudson, yes. Thank you Of

David Geisler: 33:06

course, so embarrassing and thank you Will. You're one

Kady Roberts: 33:08

of We Hudson.

David Geisler: 33:10

Eyes rolled deserved. Moving on to the next one here, okay here we go. Another Gerudo comment. Oh my gosh, I love this. So I I guess the screen name?

David Geisler: 33:22

I think the screen name for this person is I'm gonna do it all the way. Greenheart Greenheart, AZP, Greenheart Greenheart, Zelda is life, Greenheart, Greenheart, AZP, Greenheart, Greenheart. I think that's the person's screen name.

Kady Roberts: 34:37

Amazing.

David Geisler: 34:38

It says here, amazing. Love this pod? Keep up the absolutely amazing work. And then like 1,000 Greenhearts. Thank you so much, Green Heart, Green Heart, AZP, Green Heart, Green Heart, Zelda is life, Green Heart, Green Heart, AZP, Green Heart, Green Heart.

David Geisler: 34:52

We truly appreciate you.

Kady Roberts: 34:53

I love it. Thank you so much for loving us enough to make us your name. That's wonderful.

David Geisler: 35:00

Alright. I've got an Apple Podcast review coming up next with you.

Kady Roberts: 35:04

Oh, yeah.

David Geisler: 35:04

And maybe we'll go to break after this.

Kady Roberts: 35:05

Cool. So I'm from Apple Podcast.

David Geisler: 35:07

Oh, this is a special one. This is Gallutrad.

Kady Roberts: 35:10

Gallutrad?

David Geisler: 35:11

Yeah Gallutrad's the host of another Pokemon podcast.

Kady Roberts: 35:13

Gallutrad, hi. This is for the music of Link's Awakening.

David Geisler: 35:18

I gotta tell you, gotta tell you, I know this about Gallutrad from previous interviews and just knowing him personally. He plays Link's Awakening about once a year. He loves the game and it also has a little, it has like a special place, I guess you could say in his heart, in his history. Think a little bit like me, I think he also had it at a young age and played it a lot. But anyways,

Kady Roberts: 35:37

so Gallia Tread, what's your favorite Pokemon? Let me know in the comments because my favorite's Totodile.

David Geisler: 35:42

Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yes. Absolutely.

Kady Roberts: 35:46

Or Mudkip. Or Mudkip.

David Geisler: 35:47

I don't think you've listened to any other Pokemon podcast yet. Not gonna put you on the spot. No I haven't They're doing a great job over there.

Kady Roberts: 35:53

Oh, I'll have to check it out.

David Geisler: 35:54

Yeah, think you should. I really think you should. Okay. So So this Gauditred says.

Kady Roberts: 35:58

Gauditred says, with a five star, so nostalgic. Link's Awakening is my favorite video game of all time. I usually play through it at least once every Oh, boy,

David Geisler: 36:08

it is.

Kady Roberts: 36:09

Hearing the music along with y'all and your thoughts was so much fun with a green heart.

David Geisler: 36:13

Yeah, that was a great episode that you and I did. It was our season finale episode last season, season six. And you might recall, we listened to the original songs from the Game Boy, and then we compared them to the twenty nineteen versions. It was a big long episode, was like two and a half hours long.

Kady Roberts: 36:27

Yeah, I will say music episodes are always my favorite. I just love them.

David Geisler: 36:32

So full disclosure, total transparency, they're absolutely one of my favorites as well. Really? And the only reason we do them sparingly is because they take about three or four times the amount of time to produce. I Like in post production and stuff like that to get everything lined up, to get stuff set up ahead of time, to get it recorded, and then the post production actually does take quite a bit of time. So we have to kind of pepper them in sparingly where the production schedule allows.

David Geisler: 36:56

Mhmm. Otherwise, we would just be like every I mean, we would just have a Legend of Zelda podcast, or Legend of Zelda music podcast.

Kady Roberts: 37:02

Yeah. But if you guys have a idea for what you want the next one to be, whether it's Breath of the Wild music part two, or an Ocarina music, Majora's, Phantom Hourglass even, let us know.

David Geisler: 37:12

We should do Phantom after we play it. It's yeah. It's interesting. 100% in Echoes of Wisdom has to happen, but maybe it's next season. Because we gotta, you know, space it out a little bit.

David Geisler: 37:22

Because we're gonna do our Echoes review. I think so you've done Ocarina. Well, you did an Ocarina time music episode. I don't know.

Kady Roberts: 37:30

Wind Waker?

David Geisler: 37:31

I did one with a special guest, Mallory Kuhn, last semester, last season. What about I mean, we still have more breath. We only did our one.

Kady Roberts: 37:40

Yeah, I gonna say, I really early for you I. Was really and

David Geisler: 37:43

it was like, it was basically the music for towns and areas?

Kady Roberts: 37:46

Yeah. It was the day and night cycle ones.

David Geisler: 37:47

We could do Breath of the Wild music for like specific events and stuff like that. I don't know.

Kady Roberts: 37:53

That would be fun.

David Geisler: 37:54

Alright.

Kady Roberts: 37:56

Did you wanna go to break there?

David Geisler: 37:58

Yeah, think it's a reminder. Yeah. Oh, loose episode. I'm kinda into it. Yeah, let's go to break and we'll see y'all on the other side.

David Geisler: 38:04

Maybe, just maybe, the ads are dynamic, but I think I'll probably try to put in another Pokemon Podcast ad. Hoo. Thanks so much, Gally Trad. Alright everybody, we are back. And boy, it's good to be back.

Kady Roberts: 38:37

Yeah. First try, and got it instantly.

David Geisler: 38:42

Yep. That definitely wasn't the third take of coming back into the show. Alright. Here we go. The next one I've got is an Apple Podcast review, five stars.

David Geisler: 38:50

Amazing podcast by oh, the screen name is, they wanted a nickname. And it says here, I've been listening to you, the LOZ Lorecast, and Hello Hyrule. Oh those are all wonderful shows. You all go so well together. Oh yeah, I like that.

David Geisler: 39:09

Thank you for all the great work. I love all the random topics, green heart emoji. So excuse me podcast. Oh wait, wrong show. Okay bye.

David Geisler: 39:18

Oh I love it, that's great they wanted a nickname. Yeah we've had some communications back and forth with Hello Hyrule, we consider them friends. And the LOZ Loor cast is super cool too, we have never had any communication with them but it's really nice. There's a good, there's like eight good Zelda shows out there right now. I listen to many of them and it's really cool to be part of all of that.

Kady Roberts: 39:37

Yeah, it's nice that there's like a lot of communication between all of them. Or like a lot of them I should say.

David Geisler: 39:41

I it's that Zelda community you were talking about.

Kady Roberts: 39:43

Know what I mean? It's just so sweet. I don't know what this next one is on. It looks like YouTube to me.

David Geisler: 39:48

This is Is it the share a comment?

Kady Roberts: 39:50

Yeah.

David Geisler: 39:50

Yeah. So this is a comment on an Instagram post.

Kady Roberts: 39:53

Instagram. Thank you. So this is wim underscore the underscore green keeper. Hello, a z p. Did you say hello just because for funsies or are you from across the pond?

David Geisler: 40:04

H a l l o?

Kady Roberts: 40:05

Uh-huh. Love the podcast and all the great stuff you guys do. The music episode of Link's Awakening hit me so hard. I felt like a little kid again hearing all of that eight bit goodness. Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 40:16

Thanks for this feeling and keep up this wonderful show, Green Heart.

David Geisler: 40:20

Yeah. And it got two likes too, actually. That's really nice. Yeah, this was a Instagram post of just a quick Link's Awakening cartridge, and thank you so much Wim the Green Keeper. Yeah, that episode took a lot.

David Geisler: 40:32

You know, said just before the break that a music episode usually takes, you know, two to three to four times the amount of production time. That one took like five or six of the amount because it was like, it was, it ended up being 60 music files that had to get synced up and all of that. But it was an absolute blast and completely totally worth it. I also enjoyed kinda going back and listening to the episode after the edit. Yeah.

David Geisler: 40:52

Alright, let's see here. The next one is oh this was a story. Oh yeah, so I when I got so one of the things we're doing this season, I'll be teaming up with Hokey Bricks who's a Lego builder on Instagram. And he actually lives, just moved to Kenosha, my old hometown by the way. I think it's okay to say that.

David Geisler: 41:13

And we've been going back and forth about a team up episode where he's going to build the, He also has the Deku Lego kit.

Kady Roberts: 41:23

Uh-huh.

David Geisler: 41:24

I also have it. It's behind the screen right now, over there. And I'm gonna do a little YouTube series of building it, but I'm gonna do the Ocarina of Time when he's gonna do the Breath of the Wild one, and we're right here Oh I already said this, we're right here gonna put the the Deku trees

Kady Roberts: 41:37

Uh-huh.

David Geisler: 41:37

On the table and have an episode. And so, just as a little hint, when I got it in from wherever it was delivered from, I took a quick picture as a story, and to that, this person here says I don't have a screen name for this person. In fact, look, screenshot is covering some of the words. Oh, is the worst screenshot ever. Built mine on the weekend, and it's so much fun building all the Easter eggs.

David Geisler: 42:03

Oh, there's Easter eggs in it. Hope you have an amazing time as I did. As an amazing time as I did. Love the show, love the lore you dig into and the context you give to a lot of it. Big, I'm gonna say love, three green heart emojis.

David Geisler: 42:17

Well, I don't have a screen name and I actually covered up part of the message there, but thank you so much, you, who also built LEGO.

Kady Roberts: 42:26

So the next one I have What?

David Geisler: 42:28

Gallytrad's coming Gallytrad. Gallytrad.

Kady Roberts: 42:33

Is for your AI plug.

David Geisler: 42:35

Yeah, is, we don't have to read this one. Are you sure? Yeah, this is for artificial podcasts. This is Rob. Hey, we

Kady Roberts: 42:39

could do a little plug. Could do an AI plug.

David Geisler: 42:41

No. He was doing a bit because he also wrote the review with AI. Aw. It's okay. It's okay.

David Geisler: 42:46

It was great. But

Kady Roberts: 42:47

Alright. We'll go on to the music of Link's Awakening. This one over on Spotify. Mhmm. It's Oh, did this one too.

Kady Roberts: 42:56

No, we didn't. This is just also by Solid Me Boy. Hey, Solid Me Boy. Hey, what's up, man? We talked to you just earlier in this episode.

David Geisler: 43:02

Hanging out.

Kady Roberts: 43:03

So it says, I loved this episode. There's so many good songs throughout the series, but I really feel like this one is so consistent with the with its tunes. Could be nostalgia, but either way, also, all the Akira, Himikawa, Zelda manga are amazing. We were just talking about that.

David Geisler: 43:22

Dude.

Kady Roberts: 43:22

Also, Totaka's song. Yeah. Totaka's song.

David Geisler: 43:29

Totaka's

Kady Roberts: 43:29

song. Me go through so many Nintendo games over and over to find the theme. Just an amazing episode here. Thank you, guys.

David Geisler: 43:37

Yeah. Thank you so much, Soldier Logan and Kiera.

Kady Roberts: 43:41

Oh yeah. So we were just talking, again I think this might have been off Mike.

David Geisler: 43:46

Yeah yeah. But I mean the magical sword people I think heard.

Kady Roberts: 43:48

Yeah magical sword people. Hey, become a magical sword person. You will hear more. But little plug there. But we were just talking about which manga we have for the Zelda series and talking about maybe reading through it and doing a review episode or like a dive into the manga.

David Geisler: 44:08

Yeah. I was wondering if we should do Ocarina of Time first or something like that. Because it's a decent read. It's a it's a good thickness. The Twilight Princess one is super cool, but it's like 10 volumes.

David Geisler: 44:16

Yeah. We should do it eventually. Oh, and also you haven't played Twilight Princess yet. Mhmm. The Twilight Princess one's interesting.

David Geisler: 44:22

I feel like it's better read after playing the game.

Kady Roberts: 44:26

Okay.

David Geisler: 44:27

It fills in a lot of holes Uh-huh. In a way that doesn't disrespect the game. So it almost it's like you play the game and then you read the the manga, And I also learned on break that I've been saying manga wrong. Or I've been saying manga wrong. I've been saying it as manga, oh my gosh.

David Geisler: 44:44

So so Midwest, I'm so embarrassed. No. But it's a nice compliment. Okay. Let's see.

David Geisler: 44:51

Moving forward, Over here on the Gerudo on Spotify. Brighter keys. We did this one already. Wow. We're getting some doubles.

David Geisler: 45:00

We gotta watch out. Over here then, Corey Beard says, I found you guys on YouTube the other night. Two days later, found you guys on Spotify. Now Facebook. I love y'alls conversations.

David Geisler: 45:11

My brother and I are big Zelda fans, keep it up. Well Corey Beard, this was over at this was a message, this was a direct message on Instagram. Oh I think

Kady Roberts: 45:18

this is a messenger, isn't it?

David Geisler: 45:20

Oh, I'm sorry. Yes it is. Absolutely, that's what that icon is. Cory Beard, thank you for the message and thank you for listening. And what You and your brother, do you have the same favorite Zelda game or do you have different favorite Zelda games?

Kady Roberts: 45:34

I do fight about that all the time.

David Geisler: 45:36

Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. This one this one's crazy. This is a comment on an on an old Instagram post actually from like season three.

Kady Roberts: 45:45

Yeah. This is by matt the w w I e b e dot music. So maybe it's supposed to be like Matt the weeb music. Matthew.

David Geisler: 45:56

E w. Right?

Kady Roberts: 45:57

Oh, you're right. Matthew weeb dot music. I bet. It says, just finished going back and listening to these episodes. Loved the behind the scenes content and interviews.

Kady Roberts: 46:07

This is setting up first booth for Midwest Gaming Classic.

David Geisler: 46:10

Mhmm.

Kady Roberts: 46:10

Great work, David and team.

David Geisler: 46:13

Yeah. Way back in the day, was season two or something like that, we so in the early days of the podcast, Katie, we were pretty aggressive about going to conventions and having booths at different things. I'd love to return to that someday. It just kinda hasn't fit in with our schedule.

Kady Roberts: 46:27

Yeah.

David Geisler: 46:29

The Video Game Summit was a very kind host to us for a good two, three years. And then we also went to the Midwest Gaming Classic, where for three days we had a full booth set up and everything like that. And we ended up producing three episodes, a part one, part two, part three, where I spoke with one of my business partners at the time. I also did an episode where I spoke with the gentleman, Alex Sheehan, who kinda ran the booth with me. And then, by the way, Sunday, the final day of the booth, I had my nieces come literally to Midwest Gaming Classic and help me run the booth.

David Geisler: 47:02

Uh-huh. And so they were out there handing out, I know there's all the podcast postcards to people in the aisles they were walking by, and all of that. And so I, you know, in my opinion, cutely spoke to about what their experience was. But yeah, there is a bit of behind the scene content in those three. Just just talking about the process in those three And Matthew Wiebe, I I appreciate that you enjoyed it.

David Geisler: 47:22

I miss the conventions a little bit. They're they're a good high. They're they're cool, they're exciting, it's nice to like get into the physical space. It's kinda fun to see your podcast actualized in a physical way. Uh-huh.

David Geisler: 47:34

And I think that I would be keen to return to that kind of stuff, but it might have to be after I'm done with school.

Kady Roberts: 47:41

Yeah. I remember when I first joined on, you were like, oh yeah, like, we might go to do conventions or 21 bar places or whatever to do this, are you cool doing that? And I'm like, I'm not old enough.

David Geisler: 47:52

I'm not 21 yet.

Kady Roberts: 47:52

I'm not 21 yet.

David Geisler: 47:54

And then

Kady Roberts: 47:54

you were like, oh okay, we'll figure it out as

David Geisler: 47:55

soon Yeah. And it's kinda working right now. We're staying a little bit more digital right

Kady Roberts: 47:58

Yeah. And I'm 21 now,

David Geisler: 48:00

so it seems to Well you know, it's been a while since we've done a good trivia episode and stuff like that. And think all of that needs to come back. But we've also played around with the idea of doing like meet ups in the city. It's just quite frankly, don't mind saying it. I actually really miss it and I loved doing those things.

David Geisler: 48:15

I don't have the bandwidth in my personal life right now to do that just because of school and all the rest. But you know, give it a year.

Kady Roberts: 48:22

Yeah, it'll be here eventually.

David Geisler: 48:24

Cool. Alright. Music of Link's Awakening, we got three comments in a row here over on Spotify. I'm gonna burn through all of them. Here we go.

David Geisler: 48:31

Ariel Rutowicek Rutowicek? Rutowicek? Says, amazing episode. It's amazing how listening to the soundtrack again can make you go back into the game and remember and relive it like the first time. Thank you for bringing back those beautiful memories.

David Geisler: 48:47

PS, now I appreciate eight bit music a lot. It helped me discover a new game to be honest.

Kady Roberts: 48:53

A new genre.

David Geisler: 48:54

A new genre to be honest. Well that's great. Yeah, my dyslexia came No,

Kady Roberts: 48:58

you're fine.

David Geisler: 48:59

No, please. Thank you for the correction. And then may underscore chan said, Link's Awakening is one of my top Zelda games of all time. The 2019 remake was my second Zelda game played. I love Maybe it was Breath of the Wild than that one.

Kady Roberts: 49:12

Mhmm.

David Geisler: 49:12

Which is, you know, right in line with how they were released on the Switch. I love how you compare the music between versions. Brought depth to the episode and a bunch of green heart emojis. Yes, Mae, thank you so much. I mentioned previously that it was a little bit extra work, actually.

David Geisler: 49:25

A lot of extra work to do that and it was my pleasure to produce it and to have you appreciate it. Carrie Simpson here says, hi my name is Carrie and I'm 10. You are my favorite podcast and I love listening to you before I go to bed. Oh I love it. Good job keeping up the great work and then about 20 green heart emojis.

David Geisler: 49:42

Carrie, love it, you love it.

Kady Roberts: 49:44

You're so cute. Thank you for listening.

David Geisler: 49:45

Wonderful. Leave us another comment. Maybe if we can catch it maybe with a episode request. We'd love to we'd love to satisfy something that you might be looking for. Alright.

David Geisler: 49:55

Over here on the Gerudo, Katie, why don't you take that one?

Kady Roberts: 49:58

So I have the Gerudo. This is by beck dot m o r r o w, Beck Morrow. Hey guys, love the show. Keep up the good work. I've played All of Tears and A Bit of Breath.

Kady Roberts: 50:11

Oh, that's interesting. All of Tears and A Little Bit of Breath. And you've made me wanna play more. Thank you for making me a Zelda nerd with like 10 green hearts.

David Geisler: 50:21

Owner of Bec Morrow got introduced to Zelda with Tears of the Kingdom. Yeah. It was seven years between Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Seven years. It's easy to forget that.

Kady Roberts: 50:29

Well, that's awesome though. I'm glad that you got into it through Tears and you're starting to go back and play Breath and some of the other ones because that's basically what I did. I got into with Breath and now I'm going back and playing the other ones and it's great. You'll have a great journey, man.

David Geisler: 50:43

Yeah, for sure. Oh, this is Amy Boner again. Or Booner?

Kady Roberts: 50:48

Bon Boner.

David Geisler: 50:49

Boner? Over on characters of Skyward Sword, Amy says, OMG, yes, I loved Gruce's character development. He went from annoying to mature, funny, respectable, and really likable. I love how he gets more depth as the story goes on. Katie, you had a similar reaction.

David Geisler: 51:07

What are your thoughts?

Kady Roberts: 51:07

Oh yeah, Amy, we're gonna be best friends here. Alright. Because I exactly agree. And it's what I said in the episode, I'm sure. Groose was one of those characters that you just start off and you're like, gosh, I just do not like this guy.

Kady Roberts: 51:20

And he's like your stereotypical anime bad boy persona character. But as he goes along and as you play the game and then he joins you on, like, the mainland and whatever, he just gets to be such a likable character. He has so much growth and so much character development. And I was not expecting to see something like that in, like, a Zelda game like Skyward Sword. So I was really pleased to see like the full arc of his character.

Kady Roberts: 51:47

Yeah. That's all. Yeah.

David Geisler: 51:49

I liked it too. I I thought it was great. And I think one of his real moments when he was when he kinda actually tells Link, go for it, I found my spot, is is really special. Over in our characters of Skyward Sword episode, Zonai, screen name Zonai said, Malice, Breath of the Wild Gloom is called Malice. Do you remember this Yeah.

David Geisler: 52:08

We couldn't remember. We were like, look at the Gloom, and what is the gloom in Breath of the Wild? Of course it's called Malice, thank you very much. So nice. You know sometimes you talk it and you just, you know, there's a lot of things to remember.

Kady Roberts: 52:20

Yeah, and same thing when we were talking about Hudson, you know.

David Geisler: 52:24

I mean there's all it's it's it's alright. It's all good. We we appreciate, we we love the the help and all the rest.

Kady Roberts: 52:30

So I have one from characters of Skyward Sword. This is another Hyland Poke Nerd, also D and D. Oh. Love D and D as well. We were actually, again, off mic talking about David's campaign that's going on right now.

Kady Roberts: 52:44

He's been doing some awesome stuff with it.

David Geisler: 52:45

I'm a I'm a DM for the first time. I'm loving it.

Kady Roberts: 52:47

Yeah. I I am also a huge D and D nerd. But anyway,

David Geisler: 52:51

We're gonna have guest appear in my campaign as a guest character. Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 52:54

I can't wait. Another Highland Poke nerd, also D and D, said

David Geisler: 52:59

You almost just

Kady Roberts: 53:00

I almost slapped I'm so sorry, Schrodinger. I love you. Anyway, oh my gosh. They say, love this pod so much, keep up the great work with about a hundred green hearts.

David Geisler: 53:12

Yep, absolutely, absolutely. Also on our breath to tears episode.

Kady Roberts: 53:18

Amy Bonner was back, yeah.

David Geisler: 53:19

That was you and I did. Oh really, Amy Bonner? Amy, wow, just laying it down. We appreciate you, thank you for this. I would love there to be another Maybe this is back when it wasn't reality yet, two months ago.

David Geisler: 53:33

I would love there to be another Pokemon podcast. Well, there is, Amy. Let me tell you. I love listening to this podcast and Pokemon is my special interest, so a Pokemon version sounds amazing. While I love Zelda, I play Pokemon a lot more.

David Geisler: 53:46

Autism and dyspraxia means I find the coordination and reaction time needed from Zelda hard and easily can get overwhelmed. Sometimes this can cause me to become very emotional, dysregulated, Pokemon be being a simple, a special interest and easier and less reliant on those things makes it more accessible. Amy, I totally get it, a %, that's awesome. Is probably before another Pokemon podcast posted. Hopefully you're listening to it and enjoying it.

David Geisler: 54:15

They're about halfway through their first season right now. An absolute blast.

Kady Roberts: 54:19

No. Absolutely go check it out, Amy. And thank you for listening and hanging out with us over here. Yeah. No.

Kady Roberts: 54:25

That's that's really cool. I feel a similar way about like Pokemon and Zelda games. For me, I like playing Pokemon when I just needed time to, like, relax, not have to be because it is that turn based combat style. It's just a whole different kind of game. It's really fun getting to kind of if you get tired of one game style for a little bit, then you can flip over to the other style.

Kady Roberts: 54:49

It's really good.

David Geisler: 54:50

Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. We've got top 10 locations to live. That's right.

David Geisler: 54:55

We did do that episode.

Kady Roberts: 54:56

This is from Zonai.

David Geisler: 54:58

Mhmm. Zonai's back over. We got a lot of Spotify representation here and I love it.

Kady Roberts: 55:02

Yeah. Fun fact y'all, in Zoro's domain there's like on top of where you enter Varuta, there's a little platform thing that has a bed that you can sleep in for free.

David Geisler: 55:12

Yeah. I think I know where this is. I think I found it myself. Mhmm. It's it's true.

David Geisler: 55:16

It's cool. Okay. Here we go. I feel I'm not sure where we are on the list here. Are just flying through these things, but let's just keep it I

Kady Roberts: 55:23

read this next one. Love the pod? Let's flip through. Yep. Love the pod.

David Geisler: 55:30

Okay fine, I like Breath of the Wild. We did. Yeah we read that. Oh we read that a few episodes ago. Okay cool.

David Geisler: 55:35

Alright. So over here on Apple Podcasts back in October, mister Gentas One said, the title of the review is Well Done. With five stars. Listened to the Link's Awakening music episode. It was a very well put together show.

David Geisler: 55:51

Well done folks. Well thank you mister Jentsai. I've said twice now in this episode that it took a little extra effort, and I'm so happy that you enjoyed it. Makes me wanna go play the 2019 remake again, having just completed Echoes of Wisdom. Yes.

David Geisler: 56:04

Did I say it in this episode or a previous episode? I've I sometimes, I'm playing Echoes of Wisdom right now, and I'm very pleased with it. But once in a while I'm kinda like, I think I'm gonna go dip back into Link's Awakening for ten minutes.

Kady Roberts: 56:15

I do. Think they did a really smart thing by making it run on like the same platform look very similar. Because one it made it a little bit easier on them, but then It's

David Geisler: 56:23

the same engine.

Kady Roberts: 56:24

Yeah. It also makes you wanna go back and replay Link's Awakening. So, yeah.

David Geisler: 56:28

Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Alright. What do we got over here?

David Geisler: 56:30

Instagram message, direct message perhaps?

Kady Roberts: 56:33

Yeah. This is palm tree jutsu.

David Geisler: 56:37

Mhmm.

Kady Roberts: 56:38

And they said, I recently discovered your podcast and another one, Hello, Hyrule. Love it. It's a travel guide adventure throughout the chronology and have been binging it since November. I'm up to season three. I really love MIDI music, and I need to know what is that music out MIDI tune you have at the end of season one and two?

Kady Roberts: 56:59

Also, I know how fond you guys are of mispronouncing Zelda baddies. Here's one for you. I like to call choo choos chuckle, chuckles. Chicaloos? Chicaloos.

Kady Roberts: 57:11

Chicaloos. Especially electric chookaloos. Electric boogaloo. Yeah. The turn of the chookaloo.

Kady Roberts: 57:19

Think of cuckoos and the pronunciation will come. Sorry, I was like thinking about it in my head. No worries. Again, love your show. Can't wait to make my way through the catalog.

Kady Roberts: 57:30

Okay, bye.

David Geisler: 57:31

Yeah. Thank you David. Thank you so much. The file title, I've so we've had multiple requests for this song. It's weird.

David Geisler: 57:41

Uh-huh. I had a little it was like a little bit chiptune, free, you know, free music archive, chiptune, royalty free piece of music that I put in the beginning of season one and two, or at end rather, of season one and two. It's a it's a it's a jaunty little it it kinda rips. And over the years, I then I changed it to something else. And we have had so many requests for that song to come back.

David Geisler: 58:08

Everybody's asking. I think it's called like Let's Just Go or something like that, is the file name. I could probably find it here in a second. Maybe when you're reading the next one, I'll see if I can find it. But it's just a royalty free piece of music, and it's awesome.

David Geisler: 58:21

It kicks. It's eight bit eight bit music, and it's so good. So much so, that maybe you've already noticed this David, but brought back by popular request, and really the catalyst was both both of the another Pokemon podcast hosts were like, where's that song, what's up? And I said, oh man, I keep hearing about it. So it is now officially our closing song again this season.

David Geisler: 58:43

Yeah. And it's so much fun to hear it every time. It's a really cool little song. Let's Let's Start Out Slow, I think is what it's called actually. And it's just like some some royalty free file.

David Geisler: 58:54

It's all it is. Hey. It's nothing fancy. Wish Sometimes people pop off. You know what I should do is I should at least just go find the artist who made it still, and still mention them real quick here.

David Geisler: 59:02

But I can't do it right now, but anyways, that's what it is. Let's start out slow, it just came back in my memory. Thanks, I'm so glad you like it David, I love it too. Wish we wrote it, but it's amazing. Alright.

David Geisler: 59:13

Over at Apple Podcasts. Apple Podcasts, I guess it's you Katie.

Kady Roberts: 59:17

Oh do want me to read this one too?

David Geisler: 59:19

Oh did I Wait you did the last one? Yeah. I'll do this one. The podcast to end all podcasts. I'm getting like cross eyed.

David Geisler: 59:23

We're going

Kady Roberts: 59:23

we're No you're good. We're through this so much. This is our last one.

David Geisler: 59:26

Oh really? Uh-huh. Oh it is. Okay. Well that seems pretty good time wise.

David Geisler: 59:30

The podcast to end all podcasts. MHCWolfy, m h c w o l f y. Get the flum in there. Says five stars. Hi, my name is Elijah.

David Geisler: 59:43

I am nine, and I think that your podcast is incredible. Zelda is one of my favorite video games. I have listened to every episode, and I really like the way that you talk about the game. That is all. Keep up the great work.

David Geisler: 59:57

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12 green heart emojis.

Kady Roberts: 01:00:03

Thank you Elijah.

David Geisler: 01:00:04

Elijah, thank you so much, thank you so much for listening. That's such a special treat that we get to end the episode here with your review. Thank you for reviewing us on Apple Podcasts. That's very very kind. And I wonder, what game are you playing right now?

David Geisler: 01:00:18

Or if there isn't, Elijah, if there isn't a Zelda, if there's a Zelda game you haven't yet played but most want to, I'd be interested in hearing what that is.

Kady Roberts: 01:00:25

Yeah, let us know so then if I haven't played it yet, I know I need to play that one next.

David Geisler: 01:00:28

Maybe we can sync it up. Maybe we can sync it up.

Kady Roberts: 01:00:30

Yeah.

David Geisler: 01:00:32

Katie, that was a More of a sprint, actually.

Kady Roberts: 01:00:35

That was a sprint. I feel like we zoomed through.

David Geisler: 01:00:39

We're a little we're a little light on the second half here. We're only about twenty two minutes in, but I mean, so be it, I guess. Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 01:00:45

No no use of just trying to fluff for time, I guess.

David Geisler: 01:00:49

Yeah. No, that was great. Thank you everybody. We truly truly appreciate. We try to screen grab and we we read all the comments, we try to screen grab as much as we can, and anything and yes, it's a podcast, but it's also a conversation.

David Geisler: 01:01:04

You know what I mean? And that is just really the most the most rewarding and special thing is hearing thoughts and opinions and recommendations and experiences from our listeners, because that's the kind of community we're looking for.

Kady Roberts: 01:01:17

Yeah. It's always been cool since I started out here, because I've always been on the other side of the listener. So getting to be the person kind of where the listener is talking to, I guess, has been really cool. And I love reading all the different comments. I love hearing people's opinions and what they think about things.

Kady Roberts: 01:01:36

I love whether they agree with me or if they disagree with me. I like hearing about all of it.

David Geisler: 01:01:41

Well, it just makes you a better person because it expands your mind. Right?

Kady Roberts: 01:01:44

Absolutely. And it's one of those things too. Like, we had like two or three comments today about Phantom Hourglass. Or yeah, Phantom Hourglass. Yeah.

Kady Roberts: 01:01:51

And so now, that was a Zelda game I haven't even thought about. Because it's one you don't hear too much about, I feel. So now I'm like, I guess I'm playing that next. Like that sounds great.

David Geisler: 01:02:00

I think we should officially play. We should officially try to get a Phantom Hourglass review in this season, think for sure. Yeah. I'd be willing to have that be the next one that I sit down and play. When we do these reviews, yes I've played all these games before.

David Geisler: 01:02:11

Mhmm. There's like two. I haven't fully finished Oracle of Seasons, and I haven't fully finished A Link Between Worlds. Those are my two like games, my claims to shame or whatever. But every other game I've played, but whenever we do one of these review episodes, I absolutely start to finish play the game all over again, just to try to play it in a new context.

David Geisler: 01:02:33

And I'd be more than happy to play Phantom Hourglass going forward.

Kady Roberts: 01:02:36

Yeah.

David Geisler: 01:02:37

As the next one. Maybe let me poke around in Echoes of Wisdom a little bit more.

Kady Roberts: 01:02:41

Uh-huh.

David Geisler: 01:02:41

And maybe wrap that up, but I think that's the one we should prepare for.

Kady Roberts: 01:02:45

Absolutely, I love that.

David Geisler: 01:02:46

Cool. Well Katie, there's that. Everyone, if you wanna reach out to us, you can obviously do it through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, you can leave us reviews, we truly genuinely appreciate it. We're on all the social media platforms, anotherzelda podcast, And if you want links to any of those things, you can actually go to our website, anotherzeldapodcast.com, where we have links to some blog posts that people have written.

Kady Roberts: 01:03:09

We have Discord.

David Geisler: 01:03:10

All of our episodes, our Discord link is there. The Discord community is almost self sufficient at this point. Yeah. There are so many people on there just kind of living and talking. I dive in when I can.

David Geisler: 01:03:21

We have a couple moderators on there, Hazel, Shane Kelly helps out a bit, and it's really nice to have that activity over there. As well, over on our main website, you can explore some of our extended options too, like our Patreon account, or we also do YouTube subscriptions now too, by the way, Katie.

Kady Roberts: 01:03:38

Ah, see, don't know none of this. David's like the the front facing man. David does all the technical stuff and I just smile and wave.

David Geisler: 01:03:45

No. No. No. No. You you you bring it.

David Geisler: 01:03:47

I mean, that that Kakiri episode was awesome and it's I just I'm I'm really pleased this season, Katie. I feel like we've kind of like found a nice nice nice path Yeah. I'm pleased to be doing the show with you. So thank you everybody for listening. Thank you, Katie, for taking time out of your life to do this kind of stuff.

David Geisler: 01:04:01

I I think you like it.

Kady Roberts: 01:04:02

Yeah. I love it, man. Where can they find you?

David Geisler: 01:04:06

Oh, me? Raptor Paint on all the things. I'm Raptor Paint on all the things. Instagram and all the stuff. Raptor Paint.

Kady Roberts: 01:04:12

You can find me instagram at katie stargazing or my website katieroberts.com, k a d y. You can always forget about yourself.

David Geisler: 01:04:20

I know. I I'm starting to forget lately these days, but it's alright. I don't we don't actually know what our next episode's gonna be. Mm-mm. Because we've had a few of them banked up here for a while.

David Geisler: 01:04:30

Oh, it might be the Hokey Bricks episode. It might be it might be the LEGO episode. If if the it's all about how quickly we can build this thing and how quickly he and I can coordinate. Otherwise, I'll see you next time for another episode, Katie.

Kady Roberts: 01:04:42

See you.

David Geisler: 01:04:43

Bye.