Chapter 1: What makes the perfect game night?
Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. There's nothing like the memory of that perfect game night with your friends, or maybe it's solo diving into one of the greatest games ever made. Usually those memories go hand in hand with the perfect snack and a cold, refreshing beverage. On this episode, we'll be going head to head to draft the ultimate game night.
But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host Josh, and joining me, he's the guy that thinks there's nothing wrong with eating hot wings while playing his PS5, it's Ryan.
I am the opposite of that dude, there's a rule in the house too, you know, you're touching food, you're not touching the controller, so you gotta have like a wet towel or something.
Oh, man. I know there's crazy people out there that eat hot wings while they play games.
I've seen some controllers online. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Shame on you people.
Yeah, absolutely. And joining us, he asked if we had a limit on how far back we could go when choosing food and games and asked if 2015 was a little too far back in history. It's Ace.
Now you listen here, Sonny.
That was a prime year for gaming. I should have gone. What I should have done is leaned into the old man thing and then been like 1908. Yeah, I got a little bit further back.
Also, I was instantly disgusted by the chicken wing thing. Just the thought.
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts draft their ultimate game night games?
That's a good one.
Oh, yeah. I mean, it's always enjoyable, too, just to get together with everybody. Yeah, and current, so... Yeah, you know.
All right. Ace starting off with Marvel Rivals. All right, Ryan. Okay, so... I can draft from anything right now. I can do snacks. I can do anything. Okay. You know your boy's going snacks. I'm going to go with the numero uno, the best thing in this whole draft. I'm going with pizza rolls, baby. Dang it!
No! No!
Pizza rolls are the number one video game snack. It's whole pizza encapsulated in this delicious little nugget, and you can even eat them with chopsticks.
I freaking love pizza rolls. You don't need chopsticks. They're not messy.
You can. You just pop the whole thing in there, man. I'm just saying, if you're really OCD about the germs or contaminants on your controller, that's an option. I just pick them up at the corners, you know, and boom.
You just got to be careful not to melt your mouth.
Yeah, that was good. That's how you got to do it. You got to do the bite test. You bite the corner, and then you see how much steam comes out. Oh, man.
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Chapter 3: What snacks are essential for an epic game night?
I at least get the one thing that I wanted more than anything in this draft, and that's Mountain Dew, boys. There is no other beverage that is associated with gaming more than Mountain Dew. When you think of any sort of iconic game night, iconic list of food or drinks that goes with gaming, it is the amazing, the delicious, the energizing, refreshing Mountain Dew.
It is also, I don't drink much soda, but Mountain Dew is legitimately my favorite soda. Maybe that's because I've been a lifelong gamer. I don't know. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? What flavor? Baja Blast is the best by far, dude.
I don't know. It's Baja Blast or Code Red for me. Code Red is- I don't like Code Red. Code Red was my like- Really?
That was mine. Dude, Code Red is so far down the list for me, man. Really? I don't know why.
That is sacrilege to be a gamer who doesn't like Code Red.
I get it, man. I get it. But I am Baja Blast and then just standard old regular Mountain Dew. And then you get into like there's the new purple kind that they've got. And I really want to try this mango one that's only available at freaking Little Caesars.
Oh, it's so good. Oh, man. It looks amazing, Bloomberg. Why Little Caesars? Have we fallen this far, Mountain Dew, that you have to pick the worst pizza place in the world? They know their market. Hey, wait a second there, buddy boy. You're not going to besmirch Little Caesars with me around. Oh, man. Ace is like, I'll have none of this. No besmirchment of the Caesar.
Ace, about two weeks ago, was talking about how bad he wanted the nacho cheese pretzel crust Little Caesars heart attack special, and I was just like, I had a slice of that. It's delicious, but I literally felt myself dying with every bite, too.
I've had two since then.
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Chapter 4: Which drinks pair best with video games?
What a guy. What a guy. All right. So that is both of mine. Ryan, we're back to you, buddy.
Back to me. So this one, I'm going to go with a game. I'm going to go with a game that is, you know, fun. It's it's inclusive. You can have a lot of people playing and it's just a good old fashioned 30 year long standing party game and parties in the name. I'm going with Mario Party.
mario party that is a good one man that's a good game night those rounds take a while they do usually about 45 minutes to an hour how to lose my friends 101 right play mario party with them what's the what not the best mario party game but you know how it's you can do like 2v2 it's every man for themself or you do the 3v1 which which like which format of game is y'all's favorite
I've always really liked the, like, free-for-all where everyone's, like, against themselves.
Running around like crazy. Yeah, yeah. Like the boxing one where everyone is just punching, you know, randomly all through there. Yeah, I like the free-for-alls.
You got to draw, like, a shape out and everyone's trying to do it at the same time.
I like that one, too. Yeah. There was the one, believe it or not, the one that I was absolutely just baller at was the time one where it's, like, you have to count down, like, eight seconds and stop the stopwatch, like, as close to eight seconds as possible. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bro? I don't know what it is, but my brain can keep track of seconds, man. I have no time memory.
I can't tell you what happened yesterday versus a week ago. But, dude, I can keep track of some seconds in my brain for some reason. Yeah, and I know Paul was the one with the spin the joystick around until it burns a hole in your hand.
Yeah, and you're like, oh, man.
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Chapter 5: What strategies do the hosts use in their game night draft?
What do you dip them in?
Oh, usually, like, I have a Chipotle ranch I like to dip mine in.
Yeah. I was going to say, sour cream is good because they just kind of – I like sour, but a ranch is probably even better.
Oh, yeah, especially if you get, like, the shredded chicken and cheese ones.
Ryan's like salsa, man. Yeah, salsa. Salsa's messy. You're talking about being messy. You want salsa dripping on you while you're trying to game?
Dripping? What kind of salsa do you eat? The kind in a jar that you get from the supermarket? I don't know. What other kind is there? And the trick with the taquitos is if you mush the end a little bit, it kind of flattens it out so that you can scoop more salsa.
Ryan's making spoons out of taquitos, man.
I love Mexican food. I know all the ways.
He's like, let me teach you boys how to make a taquito spoon so you don't drip nothing on you.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts feel about their snack choices?
I don't think he will pick one of the games that I want. But I'm a little worried on the other one. So I am going to say for my ultimate game night, I want to go back in time a little bit, man. I want to recapture those college days of playing Goldeneye with the boys all night long, man.
Fully expected that one.
Look, I know you youngsters out there are going, Goldeneye, what? But my goodness, boys, was Goldeneye in its heyday the game that everybody wanted to play? And if you were at your buddies playing Goldeneye together, you were having the time of your life, man.
Man, I wish they'd remake this one already so I could experience.
The problem is, is like there's so many good shooters now that I don't I legitimately don't know that you could remake Goldeneye and have it be what it was, man. You have to change the formula so much that it just wouldn't be Goldeneye anymore. but like you can't not make it where people can look up and down either.
You know what I mean?
Like there was no up and down looking in GoldenEye. It was just side to side, man. Like, so how do you capture this like old jankiness? I don't know. I don't know how they would do that. But GoldenEye to me, like when I think about my ultimate game night, bro, Mountain Dew, Cool Ranch Doritos, and GoldenEye is like perfection to me so far.
Do that for about a year, and then Perfect Dark comes out, and then you got Superior.
Look, I know Perfect Dark was a great game. I am not slandering Perfect Dark, but the golden age of GoldenEye, there was no golden age of Perfect Dark.
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Chapter 7: What are the final picks for each host's ultimate game night?
Oh, yeah. On nachos? So the trick is you take a dishcloth or like a kitchen rag, and then you just wet the end of it. So then you can just wipe your fingers off on the wet end, and then your can's good for a controller or keyboard.
okay that's a lot of nachos nachos are one of my favorite foods oh they're the best like i i love nachos like few other things in the world and i get out of here with these individual nachos that restaurants trying to serve you where it's like they're pre-made and they like circle around the plate bro if in a heaping mound of just slop thrown on there And the more stuff, the better, dude.
Beans, corn, like, meat, like, whatever. Throw it all in there, man.
Just pile it on.
Yes, exactly. Exactly. Now, I will say, on nachos, chili or meat? Gotta have meat. For sure.
But I don't like chili. I've never had chili on nachos.
That sounds weird. If I go to a restaurant and I legitimately have to ask them, is this chili or do you guys do the shredded beef or chicken? And then they're like, it's chili. And I'm like, nah.
Nah, shredded chicken for sure, man. Yeah, you got to get some sort of shredded meat. I like beef, you know, typically. If I'm doing nachos, I'm going to – Exactly. And then just the best and most amazing cheese or that plastic slop that's out of a pump. Like, I don't care. I'll eat any nachos. Well, the cheese doesn't matter as much to me, to be honest.
It's just kind of like the glue that holds it all together so that the toppings don't fall off.
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Chapter 8: How can listeners participate in the game night vote?
It is the perfect game, man. Solo play? Works great. Yeah. Play with friends? Works even better.
Even better. It's great. I love it. It's so good.
I need to make Ryan play this because Ryan is going to lose his mind, dude. Probably will. Ryan, I am so confident that you will absolutely love Remnant 2 when you play it that I will be willing to bet a lot. Well, we got some dead time this summer, I think. Yeah, maybe. We'll see.
Especially after how you reacted to Night Rain, you're going to love Remnant 2. That's my guarantee.
Bro, listen, for all the people out there, Remnant 2 blows Night Rain out of the water, in my opinion. I'm not slandering Night Rain, because Night Rain is great, and I love Elden Ring, but if you're talking about a game that is just pure fun with your buddies and masterfully done, Remnant 2 is it.
all right yeah well i guess pick ace oh my goodness i love your draft buddy you have the best draft right now thank you thank you i know applaud me more but uh i guess all i got left now is my drink and drink you definitely took the 101 for me i just didn't think anyone would think about it because i know neither of you really drink that much soda So I was like, oh, maybe I'm safe.
The one soda I do drink is Mountain Dew, buddy.
Yeah, I was like, oh, maybe it's safe, but no. Nope. So I guess the thing I'd do second after a Mountain Dew would be a monster. Having a monster would be perfect for me. Especially because I have trouble staying up nowadays to play games.
Yeah, that's what happens with old age, Ace. You started getting tired earlier, so... yeah monster's a good pick it actually was on my list if i didn't get mountain dew i had one other one that might be ahead of a monster but then i don't drink energy drinks anymore man i
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