Welcome to the Wizard and the Bruiser.

Welcome to the Wizard and the Breuser.

I'm the Wizard, Holden-McNeely, and, uh, ooh, Kung Fu, I'll put a spell on you.

No, not magic karate.

Yes, I learned magic karate over the weekend.

That's the worst kind of karate.

It's a mean karate.

So much mana has to be used.

So much of it.

And you got to get your, um, really shitty cards out up top and then you build up enough

later on in the game to put the really good cards out.

But then you throw that one card so hard right in the eye socket and it goes,

boom, boom.

Are you the bruiser?

I guess I'm the bruiser, Jake Young.

And this is your weekly guide to the history of the various cultural touchstones, the foundations that has laid out nerd culture. Now, I asked Jake what episode he wanted to do next. And he said, you know what I'd like to do? I think I'd like to do an episode on The Gorillas. And I was like, ooh. And I was like, oh, of course, they have a new album coming out that makes sense. And at the same time, like, is that, does it count? Does it make it in to the wizard and the bruiser, you know, ethos? And then it was like, I did maybe the first five seconds of research. And it was like, oh, this is like totally works. Oh, their music video premiered in America on Tuneami. Yeah, they're for fucking nerds.

Hey, what if someone did, they might be giants, but then they, like, had a cool trip-hop friend.

And the whole band is virtual.

Yeah, it really super duper works, especially everything we're going to be talking about,

including, I don't know, like Tank Girl and everything that reaches all the way back to 2000 AD, the British, including, I don't know, like Tank Girl and it reaches all the way back to 2000 AD, the British comic book magazine and so many good things, this world that exists in.

And it was just a great excuse to listen to all the awesome music that I was listening to back in college.

Yeah.

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