This is Too Real, Man | Hunter: The Parenting Audiologs, Big-D Goes Shopping Reaction, Part A

[@CommissarMitch]

"The customer is always right" is a shortend version of the actual quote: "The customer is always right in what they want."

[@ALJ9000]

To further correct, the quote reads as “The customer is always right in the matters of taste.”

[@NobleKnight_Games]

Be sure to drop us a line if you come for a visit so we can give you a tour through the back! We promise, no giant pits. ... Probably.

[@CommissarMitch]

Airier's reaction for Noble Knight Gaming is a massive mood.

[@Airier]

My wallet is crying. 😅

[@OnDavidsBrain]

@@Airier You have no choice.

[@Airier]

THAT'S THE PROBLEM!!! 😅😁

[@NobleKnight_Games]

YOU HAVE NO CHOICE 😇

[@flycraps2456]

@@Airier the fact that noblekight games commented on this video is perfect now you have to buy something from them.

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

The Hale-bop thing was a direct reference to the heaven's gate cult. They believed that they would ascended to a new level by "releasing" their souls to journey to a UFO following the commet Hale-Bop.

[@akumakami64]

"People live there willingly!?" Proceeds to be tempted to willingly move there.

[@marmyeater]

The 99p Store is giving me MAJOR Pentex vibes. Also, I'm starting to wonder how much Big D knows about Pentex, because he doesn't seem to have any major misgivings about the hypnotic plastic smells. (Yes, that is actually a thing they do, along with weirder stuff.) Edit: 4:50- Yes, it's the werewolves. They are Gaia's protectors, and Pentex serves basically the god of physical, mental, and spiritual pollution.

[@EvilDMMk3]

Pentex gets name dropped in the ads. Assuming they are fully canon Big D knows NOTHING of them.

[@EvilDMMk3]

8:00 The gospel of Jesus thing is actually from real life. The first English translation was published in 2006. It is, of course considering a noncanonical gnostic Gospel

[@marmyeater]

@@EvilDMMk3 wow, two comments, one that adds nothing, and the other has nothing to do with anything I said

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

Two things: Giles (aka Brok) is saying that it would be too expensive for the store. Also, THEY MOVED PAST THAT RIGHT AFTER, YOU CHAOTIC GREMLIN!!

[@gokbay3057]

Pretty sure he is Spit, one of Broklaw's goons.

[@Mare_Man]

That's Git, the reverse-drinker

[@HORRIOR1]

I KNEW you would be planning a road trip to Noble Knight Gaming once you saw this episode. CALLED IT ON DISCORD! I hope you will finish this despite the PTSD from customer service, since the ending is actually pretty plot significant...

[@Airier]

Definitely gonna finish it. No way I'd ever willingly drop something Alphabusa did. 😁

[@gokbay3057]

10:20 the Advertiser is voiced by Alfa. (And the Radio Channel is the same one as the last inclusion of the radio and the hobbyshop advertiser)

[@Skywolfhd20]

and the radio man is vouced by speaker d who played vect among others

[@mollymcallister1671]

'bit expensive in'it?' I think what he means there is that a blender is an item that would be too expensive to offer at a 99p shop.

[@uncle_simonous]

Wisconsin mentioned by alfabusa my life is complete

[@akumakami64]

I've never left the US, but from all the commentary on redits and other sites, apparently being loud and social with strangers is more of an American thing.

[@brigidtheirish]

As someone born and raised in the States, it's *very* much an American thing.

[@KazeTheCursedOne]

Seeing you witness the GLORY of Noble Knight for the first time is a thing of beauty. I like in New Zealand aka the ass of the world and even I can shop there and get cool limited editions and out-of-production minatures. I love it!

[@LongfusedbombasticBarbarian]

Oh boy was I waiting on this one consider spirits lifted the very fact that Big D can be completely wise optimistic and uplifting while at the same time being utterly insane is I think very relatable for a lot of people you just add dark secrets and a huge pile of megalomania on top of it

[@akumakami64]

The Gospel of Judas is a real thing, kind of. Its debated if its authetic, but it does exist. After it was discovered, it was eventually translated in early 2006, so yeah, people probably were talking about that in this time period. Might be plot, might be setting.

[@Airier]

😯

[@crimsonfucker4167]

@@Airier Basically all the other disciples are fools who don't even worship the right god, only Judas is the one who understands Jesus. Summary of the Gospel of Judas.

[@brigidtheirish]

@@crimsonfucker4167 Yeah, it's basically bad fanfiction.

[@crimsonfucker4167]

@@brigidtheirish If you come from what would eventually become orthodox of the Christian faith. This was when nothing was set in stone yet.

[@brigidtheirish]

@@crimsonfucker4167 There were *some* things set in stone right from the start.

[@darg2902]

and yes people live in wisconsin willingly and no were not honorary canada, were to belligerent for that

[@viyhexe131]

11:32 Hey! Don't you dare call those cheese munchers honorary Canada! I'm from Minnesota, the state between Wisconsin and Canada. If there's any honorary Canadians in the U.S. , it's us!

[@randomdoomer8549]

Yeah he's gonna love Noble Knights indeed.

[@woaddragon]

Yes, Noble knight games look kind of awesome

[@CommissarMitch]

A sack of turnips, or any root fruit (Potato, Carrots... etc.) are generally quite heavy.

[@Airier]

Makes sense. 😁

[@manosbouzoubouzou1386]

LETS GOO,I've been waiting for this! Keep up the great work mate!! Also yes you're the only one who caught Giles from the previous AL

[@akumakami64]

Dialect, and yes, it is fickle. Giles meant that it would be expensive for the STORE to sell it for 99p.

[@DracoMaverick]

The swedish guy is actually Alfa himself.

[@Airier]

😯

[@thebluecloak7273]

Err...one thing about Noble Knight Gaming. And I'm sorry, Airier. They recently had, and have to have, an Employee Strike, or they formed a union, for the sake of employee welfare. From what I understand it wasn't the nicest place to work at all until recently, which should be better, so if you're interested, best to be interested while informed. Thank you again for your incredible reactions, looking forward to more!

[@Airier]

Glad to hear it's a better place to work now. But dang, having it get up to a strike beforehand is pretty bad. 😯

[@NobleKnight_Games]

@@Airier Hi! No strikes have taken place here, the Union was recently formed, and recognized, and bargaining begins soon!

[@wishcoincrab7096]

11:19 Thanks 🙃 Also yes Wisconsin has an abnormally large amount of game shops for some reason lmao

[@NobleKnight_Games]

We think it might be weather (read: temperature) related. Also, it's the birthplace of D&D!

[@thorveim1174]

dont worry, i too had a nerdgasm with noble knights. Except I'm in france, but yeah seems like another world next to my local store

[@tudormuresan2055]

vNot claiming superiority in being religious, just liking this sorta obscure stuff. Gospel of Judas might be about the non-canonical book. As we know, the Bible is composed of multiple books and works considered to be true. Meaning there are parts that are considered "non-canon". The Gospel of Judas is from the Gnostics. Now personally, I have my reservations about gnosticism. And this gospel has some implications that flip the situation between Judas and Jesus in such a way one is tempted to call it fanfiction (or Heresy if one were to be into classic terms). Sorry if I offended anyone if this is read, but really, sometimes i cannot help but see gnosticism as trying to feel more special and deviating from the Path. Rant Over.

[@woaddragon]

Well.... (You know I had an some explanations of the book of Judas and gnostics in general, but I realized that what I know is from summarized forms various pieces of media" of banned books of the bible" and obscure cult of Christianity, such as Adrian, Coptic and Gnostics. Given that everything I might say is should be taken with a grain of salt. You can talk further to what I know or ignore it. I just want to say my two cents).

[@afqwa423]

As an anti-theist, I regard it _all_ as fanfiction. What is right and proper is a matter of etiquette or societal expectation. This is probably just some homegrown evangelical radio station out of Florida. There is absolutely nothing abnormal about any of this. Religion is freestyle and anybody making claims about canonicity are just expressing the personal biases of their sect/denomination/whatever. Insofar as anything is a norm, it is because it is dominant. I've recently been reading about Skinwalkers and the mythology around them just reminds me of the way Christian evangelicals are terrified of Satanists. They're equal amounts of absurd, it's just that one moral scare is considered more socially acceptable or "normal" than the other. As an outsider to both, it's patently obvious that they're just scapegoats and bugaboos that people made up. Because of if you think about it rationally a "religion of evil" doesn't make much sense. (The members of such organizations would be easy to track and destroy and would be wildly unpopular and shunned. Virgin blood sacrifices or shamans with the eyes of a beast and wearing the skins of predatory animals would be highly noticeable.) Most Christians do not know or care about what they believe or where it comes from. Much of the idea about the end times has no 'canonical' textual support and comes almost entirely from the _Left Behind_ and a lot of the popular conceptions of hell come out of works like _Dante's Inferno_ or _Paradise Lost._ The idea of a horned red man or a lake of fire may not even make sense metaphysically if you buy into the Christian worldview, but it's how popular culture frame those concepts. Of course, since this is the World of Darkness, a sect of Skinwalkers or a dark unorthodox Gnostic cult wouldn't actually be unexpected either.

[@gokbay3057]

@@afqwa423 Surely some of it is original fiction?

[@riverroth3688]

I 100% am sure the 99p store is a subsidiary of Pentex

[@georgemarsden4226]

We have a similar sized game store in Cardiff (Wales) called firestorm.

[@Airier]

😯 Oh my.

[@Kingjder02]

I live in Wisconsin and haven't heard of this store... until this audio long. Also again I think I found a place to sell all my old Yu-Gi-Oh cards. And if they're reading this I don't care how much I'm getting I want to get rid of them.... ALL OF THEM

[@NobleKnight_Games]

We'll happily take them off your hands, and pay for shipping if you don't want to make the drive!

[@SpoonieMcspoonington]

Is it bad I've been hyped for airier to react to the ad at the start?

[@arcwolfreaper4593]

I have heard the phrase in its longer form being that "The customer is always right in matters of taste". This would mean customers are right to like something.

[@BBP-OMO]

Honestly in most of Europe the heating/gas issues are not nearly as bad as the news would have you believe

[@toryumau6798]

… “Most”. >):^/

[@BBP-OMO]

@@toryumau6798 I mean that is the truth

[@Skywolfhd20]

really? cause electricity prices have sky-rocketed since politicians decided to virtue signal

[@BBP-OMO]

@@Skywolfhd20 im not going to go into an indepth exploration of economics and politics so in short. Yes most people can still afford heating

[@harrari]

I believe the sponsor guy is Alfa Busa himself.

[@themalcontent100]

If u are going, make sure you stream it. Right it off as a business expense.

[@bigboyart1]

I remember hearing about the gospel of judas. It ain't in the normal bible. It's from a very old group that had a version of the bible where god is actually evil. I don't know much about it at all. That little tidbit of them talking about it on the radio feels VERY plot important

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

6:57 Y'know, Airier my man, I got curious too since, speaking as another Catholic, the Bible tends to have a lot of missing work, like the Dead Sea Scrolls or Book of Enoch (depending on the version) so I checked it out. Turns out the Gospel of Judas is a real thing. It's apparently a collection of conversations between Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot that was written by Gnostic Scholars in the Second Century AD. So why is it on that radio broadcast, you might be thinking? Well, the British Museum added it to their collection WITH a full English translation around 2006. There's some debate around it, given how it apparently claims that Judas was Jesus' trye desciple and the Betrayal of Judas was supposedly one of Jesus last orders. The debate is upon the book's legitimacy, since there's some speculation that it could've been a "parody" about a "demon" Judas by Sethians.

[@chameon378]

Waaaay simplified. The Gospel of Judas is actually a heresy that was attempted to be annihilated in the pre-catholic Christianity, it's a pantheistic variant of pre-Christian beliefs, which holds that Jesus dying actually released a wise god to eliminate the stupid, foolish god of the Jews, who had imprisoned the wise god in Jesus. In this belief system, Judas was Jesus' favored disciple, being the only one to understand enough to view this as doctrinally necessary and helping him die. This particular belief system has no resurrection accounts, if I recall correctly.

[@shayfarrelly6789]

maybe its just a coincidence, but doesnt the christian radio guy sound kinda like vect from tts? havent checked the voice actors but i feel like thats intentional

[@Baldwin-iv445]

11:26 AS SOMEONE WHO SPENT OVER SEVEN YEARS IN WISCO I RESENT THAT!!!

[@GenericProtagonist118]

I'm assuming a 99p store is like a Dollar Tree in the US.

[@DM-Oz]

So, after watching this episode, i came to the conclusion that you perhaphs had a point in underestimating Big-D in the previous reviews

[@Airier]

I want to ask, but I still need to finish the episode later today after work. 😶

[@PM-ov9sg]

Ok the gospel of Judas is a real thing though it like a dead sea scroll thing, where it does exist as a document and is from the write time period but it is not part of the bible and is not recognized as being part of proper Christianity.

[@Shideous]

If you think this part is bad you have not got to the worst part yet. The most horrible position in every store. Brr

[@Myuutsuu85]

Okay, this is something I just caught now: D tells Giles that he has potential. Later on, Giles is seen holding his ground against Kitten. Big-D was entirely correct. Again. Also, I love how there is always a bit of foreshadowing once you know how to notice the clues.

[@darg2902]

i actually live an hour away from noble knight, they not kidding about the size

[@thezodiacfoundation153]

He was making a joke about cults like the Manson Family

[@bulshock1221]

Honorary Canada?! But why don't I have Canadian Healthcare then!?

[@Jesus_Offical]

No the Gospel of judas is an ancient document in the real world

[@NicoBabyman1]

It’s one of the Apocryphal Texts.

[@Jesus_Offical]

@@NicoBabyman1 indeed it is very Apocryphal

[@brigidtheirish]

For a certain value of "ancient."

[@EvilDMMk3]

24:48 talking? To people? In public? Loud enough for others to hear? What new level of American depravity is this?

[@marmyeater]

7:06- It's not a game thing. It's a very poorly written blaspheme IRL. Like Wendigoon said: 'You don't even get to go up there with the other blasphemes'. It's like some medieval guy wrote a "My Immortal", but used Bible characters to do it.

[@akumakami64]

Garg-O doesn't SEEM to be real? Can't find it easy on the net, so either made up or a UK brand that went under before it could get on the internet.

[@benjaminschollnick4051]

Dialect.

[@cerberus0225]

I assume this is the case, but this is part A, right?

[@Airier]

Yup

[@gokbay3057]

34:50 I mean, is it not it? Jesus was a Roman. Born, lived and died in the Roman Empire and everything. And anyway the sentence isn't about considering Romans and Jesus similar in general, just saying that they were both ahead of their time. (Thought of course it was an Iron Age fort, Giles messed up by saying Stone Age and while D said "Cave-Romans", so not really correcting him)

[@marmyeater]

Um, no? Jesus was a Jew. Jews were basically only considered Romans for tax purposes.

[@gokbay3057]

@@marmyeater Jews were Romans by being born and living in the Roman Empire. Anyway, that isn't even the main point. The point is that "those cave-romans were sure ahead of their time" and "like Jesus" doesn't even imply Jesus (or Jews for that matter) were Romans. (Also come to think of it again, I think the "like Jesus" from Giles might have simply been an exclamation rather than a statement of similarity.)

[@themalcontent100]

And if you could react to Ssethzeentach dwarf fortress or space station 13 that would be good. Also fiveish minute lore by the Old man is cool

[@kirkcasteel7070]

Hey I got two words for you road trip. And as far as customer service been there done that that's why I'm a truck driver now cuz I don't do it well plus I was that one that would allow customers come to that realization on their own

[@AreaAziroth51]

The Gospel of Judas is a read gospel from an early religious sect that tried to install their own religious views in the Christian doctrine that wasn't entirely defined yet. Long and short of it, the gospel claims everyone besides Judas was jesus' true disciple because he found out everything, he said was a lie and that the jewish god is a lie too. More a warden over a prison in a dimension of reality. It's more in the lie of Neo-Platonist thought and completely falls into the lines of heresy cause it ignores what the central figure's message is and also is more fanfic theology trying to hook fledgling followers into their camp. So, unless you read it and know the contents of the gospel, you freting over if the name drop means anything is really too esoteric for you to figure out. Besides late 90's-early 2000's I believe that's when they did find the old record. Or I'm wrong. I don't know.

[@hussainalmahfoodh7413]

airer "Dies of cringe"

[@ShadowoftheMask]

Radio show host is pretty jerk if he is making casual jokes about suicide cult, so maybe swedish guy barking in was karma :'D

[@flaskhjertako]

Boop

[@marcusmiller1451]

1st

[@marmyeater]

Actually, it looks like you were beat by Minty's boop.