Dead Air 31

[@tjimicole2677]

They're back! Lovely. I thought this podcast was gone forever, which made me very sad. Keep em coming!

[@Kacpa2]

Yeah i missed Dead Air too

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

More coming soon

[@chenzenzo]

Missed you guys! Thanks for the 12 days of Christmas posts. Happy to see you back! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@toverkleet]

Nice to let us a peak into the household :) impressive videos over the past year. Keep trucking on!

[@Justin-wk5mi]

Good to see you two back again, missed these weekly vlogs. Please keep going if even once a month

[@three_seashells]

I don't mind doggo at all. Lovely, ambient sounds. 42:05 through to the end had me weeping, I love his dramatic antics.

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

Thank you! Maybe we will do the next one with Mr Massive Pupper as well

[@zalibecquerel3463]

Great to have you back! Please include any Damian Bucket Toilet news.

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

I talked to Damian recently about a sans hosen idea. Coming soon, poor lad works too much

[@weeningproductions945]

Absolutely glad to see this back I was missing it! Disco Elysium is a genuine masterpiece, I can definitely wait to see how Amazon destroys the show adaptation.

[@LeonardLeoneFilms]

Oh my god they're back again!!! Happy New Year 🎉 Now we just need a fan art episode with Damien 😂

[@wangtoriojackson4315]

Pretty cool that you guys watch/play so much stuff based on our recommendations. Gotta throw Silo out there again. Season 1 was soooo freaking good. Season 2 is airing right now, and it's not quite as good as 1 but still really good.

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

We watched the first episode and weren’t super into it, but we’ll definitely try it again soon

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

We watched the first episode (cause of you guys and your suggestions) and weren’t super into it, but we will try it again!

[@wangtoriojackson4315]

@@GeorgRockallSchmidt Fair enough. It does take a couple episodes to really get going, because the first book in the series it is based on is a "fix-up novel" that was made from combining several short stories. The first episode covers the first short story. Episodes 2 and 3 is when it really starts getting into the meat of things. I wasn't hooked until after episode 3 tbh.

[@Arley42]

If I had called a cat Max then discovered it was a girl, I like to think I would have changed the name to Furiosa.

[@Luis-qe8el]

😂

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

That would be a great name for her. Bit of a twat. Cute one though.

[@seamussc]

I had a boxer who passed away in the summer of 2023, elderly by boxer standards. Something about seeing another big boxer never acknowledging their size while trying to sit in your lap like a small cat really brought back vivid memories or her time with me like nothing else has in quite some time. It often annoyed me when she did that, but I have missed it quite a lot since she passed.

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

I’m sorry about your boxer. I’m sure you were a great owner and she loved you very much ❤️

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

Still thinking about this comment a lot. Send me a message on Bluesky if you can.

[@seamussc]

@GeorgRockallSchmidt Sure thing, did earlier today

[@TurtleShellProductions]

Happy New year to you both, lovely to see you again and see another episode, I love to listen to these while I work ❤

[@seth5362]

Glad to see that georg is seeing his therapist again, I was really worried he was finally taken to the asylum and his handlers were releasing previously recorded videos.

[@KoRMaK1]

severence and abiotic factor being discussed in such close proximity got me thinking about how severence has kind of a half-life vibe

[@StevenSeagull123]

A hug a day, keeps the bourgeoisie away!

[@stianh6164]

Good to see you again 😊

[@Robbielockstock]

Boxers are the best 🐕

[@-xirx-]

This here Boxer has gotten huuuge

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

Find yourself a woman that looks at you the way that Christina looks at Georg.

[@GoldenToiletAngel]

or don't, that's also fine.

[@vitorafmonteiro]

With a nicely amused at you but somewhat vague unphased gaze, you mean? Not judging, that's how I am with my significant other most of the time too, lol.

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

@@vitorafmonteiro She almost never takes her eyes off him, and she usually has that subtle smile while she's looking at him. She stares at him like a shy girl with a huge crush.

[@vitorafmonteiro]

@@KnuckleHunkybuck As I said, I was joking and I see nothing wrong with it, I wouldn't say it is the ideal or everyone should in this way, but that subtle casual "Yep, I'm real cool with you" thing is what I would do myself, lol. I don't know if I'd wish all did that, but it's nice personally.

[@str8andalert]

There was no chance you wouldn't like Disco Elysium. Glad now you too enjoyed it!

[@Felix_Schmitz]

Disco Elysium is this tragic miracle because almost none of the creators are still at ZAUM. Because greed. Games like Disco Elysium are being made by the members of the original team though

[@EggBastion]

Clyde Mo? Clydemo? ... either way he's lookin super handsome!

[@ptonpc]

Welcome back!

[@collinvauk1937]

I played disco elysium over the break as well and holy shit the writing. Every writer should be forced at gun point to play that game

[@jacquiecotillard9699]

What a pleasant surprise! i thought this show was… over.

[@HeretixAevum]

Disco Elysium is remarkably good, I loved it. I do disagree with calling it a point and click adventure game, though, which is what everyone seems to call it for some reason. It's a RPG through and through. Best written game I've ever played and the way that a particular, seemingly unrelated side quest ties itself in directly to the ending of the main story was one of the best twists I've seen in any piece of media.

[@louiep777]

When will the next Boisterous brothers be?

[@lifeisstr4nge]

Boisterous Bros, GRS Show, Sans Hosen - anything like that, I'm also interested

[@TurtleShellProductions]

Damien Benedict has feelings you know.

[@kshizzle_bizzle]

Happy New Year

[@Chust]

I've just finished Abiotic Factor this weekend, it is such an amazing game! If you don't go to the toilet, you'll eventually take a dump on the floor. You can then pick that up, as long as you have some plastic scrap in your inventory ;)

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

Ahhh I knew I should have been shitting my pants from the beginning

[@Moozeooze]

wow i fucking love your dog

[@Felix_Schmitz]

7:48 Yes yes, John Turturro is good. Do you know Fading Gigolo? John Turturro directs a film in which the main character (played by John Turturro) is a florist who by chance also is a romantic and great in bed with Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara. Also Liev Schreiber as a policeman with Sidelocks and.... Woody Allen not ever shutting up

[@dixonj41]

Did you ever see the film about Turturro's side character from the Big Lebowski? I never saw it, because I don't hate myself

[@Felix_Schmitz]

@dixonj41 Goodness, he directed that too didn't he?

[@dixonj41]

@ he did in fact. Very strange decision to try constructing a movie around a blink-and-you’ll-miss side character who’s also a convicted cho-mo

[@MrBritishNinja]

Id love to see a video on DE, what with you being one of the more prominent, approachable critics of our neoliberal hellscape on YT

[@NSGrendel]

It's weird seeing you happy, but not entirely unwelcome. Presumably the usual diet of unremitting bleak cynicism will resume shortly. A small amount of cheer is festively appropriate. Thanks for all the free stuff.

[@SaminHam]

There is nothing more disgusting than joy. Unsubscribed. 🤮

[@srmiii90]

Only 11 minutes in, I also looked at when the last podcast was and I don't think I missed one; but what is the story behind the dog?

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

We’ve had him a little over four years. He’s shown up a couple times, but not often. Too hyper, and he tries to push buttons on the recording equipment when he wants attention. There’s a Georg Complains called “Dogs” where you can see him as a puppy.

[@spfnapwergfapg]

Ay Caramba!

[@raystephens9550]

I am a cat person, and in Australia. I know what is required to be a responsible cat person. Cats love the close security of boxes, and a house is a big box with lots of smaller boxes inside it. Both gender live longer and healthier lives desexed and INSIDE. So unless you have a cat breeder's licence or the proper responsibility and means to home the kittens. (I had myself desexed, to make it fair, but you don't have to.) PS. Desexing people for ZPG should have been paid for by bonus back around 1970. $10000 vasectomy and $15000 tubal ligation bonus (more invasive surgery). Accepting this is probably proof you ought not have kids, and would only apply to the childless (maybe less than 2). No point if they already have more children than the replacement 2. Gelding for some blokes would not be out of place now, but vasectomy is a human convenience. Vas deferens can grow back and reconnect in cats and dogs, Too short. Horses of course are gelded for another reason. The same reason selectively bred sheep for fleece and cattle for dairy require male lambs and male calf to be butchered for effing Xmas turned into effing Easter! (Vegan philosophy). We truly are brutal to our resident aliens. The cost of our living is too often their extinction.

[@lifeisstr4nge]

RIP Original Dead Air - i.e. Sans Hosen...

[@vitorafmonteiro]

On "Squid Games", I was never much of a fan because from the material of 1st season, it gave me the impression that if they ever actually got down to portray an unprising next, that that following phase of the show would suffer from the fault of much left-leaning but mainstream fiction, of having this sort of fable or fairy tale quality when revolt is shown, in that most of the story would be the struggle, and then it would end with the system just falling and end before showing what new world would be birthed, with a vibe of "And they lived happily ever after" (like Zizek put it, I'd like to see "V for Vendetta 2" on people actually setting the better non-fascist system after the cool uprising of the previous one, and that's something I think most pop leftists are afraid to try to write). In terms of South Korean class warfare critiques, I prefer stuff like Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" and even him (this important only because although "Squid Games" is "the baby" of Hwang Dong-hyuk, Bong Joon Ho advised on its creation and you can really see the influence) seems to have that flaw of tendency to that "fable"/"fairy tale" quality in his allegorical scifi dystopia "Snowpiercer" which maybe it's just my taste, but seems a bit lacking in comparison. Might just be me, but I think they would just start the fall of the system and cut to black with the insinuation of triumph, or have a major action killing some central command and use "you kill the wizard, so all things he magicked authomatically end" logic (which really isn't how things would transpire). On your "there has to be South Koreans involved on the games" point, rationally there would be, but the 1st season leaned too much on pervert American whites in animal masks being behind it, I don't know anything on the specific view of Hwang and little more of the specific views of Bong aside his socialist anticapitalism and what else we can get from his work (again, he is technically not directly involved, but he has been a big inspiration for Hwang and it shows, it has a style comparable to Bong distopia like snowpierder), but having in mind he is a known supporter of "anti-North Korea progressive" (i.e. they are South Korea patriots and not pro-Korean unity leftist, and anti-North-Korea), unless he doesn't subscribe to that part of its ideals and just does to the economic part, maybe he just has a worldview in which he wouldn't really admit South Korea's role as a developed power house and somewhat westernised country and will put all the blame in the US and try to portray the Koreans as "people of colour" hence victims of capitalism and never accomplices, despite criticising the local elite (again, I might be wrong, since I don't deeply know his individual thought, but my educated guess is if this show tackles all the ins and outs of the system, it will be mostly be blamed on English-speaking white furry perves, and the fact all those people go missing would not be realistically explained by "the local government took care of that legally" but handwaved with "western mighty white magicked all into being because they can do anything" since the show is more about the general allegory/critique and the character drama).

[@borislugosi54]

Possum are surprisingly large. Porcupines also

[@tomfoolery5680]

How many buyers do I need under me to hit level 2-1b Hiptang Overlord?

[@Cathal.]

Have a peaceful and prosperous year ahead, George and Christina.... and Sylvester.... and.... Clydemo? (who is a very good boy). If you liked Disco Elysium, think about giving a game called "Pentiment" a look-see.

[@GeorgRockallSchmidt]

Thanks, I’ll check that out!

[@mitchdouglas9844]

Hate to break it to you, but Disco Elysium 2 is never going to happen. After the game came out the entire group behind it basically imploded in spectacular fashion. We're talking accusations of fraud, team members being ousted, claims of humiliation and attempts to steal IP, only for the company to drop about a 1/4th of it's staff at the beginning of 2024. All in all an absolute car wreck of a company, and ironically as Disco Elysium as it's possible to get.

[@noahasencio8589]

Hi 👋

[@PunksterOS]

The only thing I enjoyed about Series 2 of Squid Game was the first episode when he was up against the Recruiter (Train to Busan guy), that was great but as soon as he was back in the games, it got boring, fast. Everyone seems to love the last episode, I didn't, it was predictable, simply due to who was involved. There is a severe writing issue going on with it, I believe, the same issue within current western writing.

[@BogBagBobble]

could the writing issue just be that it's a bit rubbish

[@fatmo2258]

When is sans hosen, when.

[@jensaggergren4666]

I literally just figure out that the intro speak says "dead air" and not "they're here.."

[@fumaku9726]

About time, you lazy so and so's! : )

[@brianhotaling5849]

She’s a Yank? (or Canadian)

[@joshsmith-mb5le]

you need to blur clydes junk

[@tonebenderx]

Wormy cat. Ick

[@pawel8365]

I tried my best to like disco elysium but it's the most pretentious shite I've ever encountered. Thank god for steam refunds.

[@portmanjohn1]

Nearly first