Hello, and welcome to episode 609 of the Geek Box, your every other week-ish podcast

for all the Nintendo stuff, all the Mario's and Super Smash Bros and Pokemon and all

those other things they make, and all the other video games too that aren't Nintendo. This is

the podcast for the week of October 4th, 2021. It's scary Halloween season. I'm your host, Ryan

Scott. With me is Ryan Higgins. Boo. Justin Haywald. I'm your friendly neighborhood, Justin.

Wow. That's pretty impressive. That's somebody watching Spector Gadget and Adam Fish.

Dr. Clark. That's eSports, XMLG, Mova Expert, Adam Fish.

Well, I think we should probably just get into the biggest, biggest news of this week, and that is

that you guys have started playing Pokemon Unite. It's all your fault, it's all your fault,

Joseph. So to be fair, this was a complete joke. So Adam messages us like every day, for a while,

he was messaging us. We have a group chat and he's like, hey guys, we want to play Final Fantasy 14,

and he asks it like 4 p.m. when two of us are busy with jobs, and Ryan Scott is doing

Ryan Scott things. He's still sleeping. Ryan Scott is waking up in breakfast.

Ryan Scott, who has a schedule that he can set for himself, and Higgins and I, who are at the

whim of other people. So I think you guys just didn't respond for a while, and then there was a day

with Final Fantasy 14 was down, and I was like, hey guys, you want to play Pokemon Unite because

it was like the day after Pokemon came out on mobile, and I was 100% joking. And then I try to

match. I was like, you know, I will actually play it like it's on my phone now. It's a lot

easy. There's a lower buried entry. I tried it. I thought, oh wow, this is really fun. I messaged

it in the chat to get Higgins to play. I thought the only person who would play this is Higgins,

and then Higgins tried it out. It is really good. I played one or two matches, and Higgins started

playing. And then Higgins, and then Adam and Ryan Scott became professional players in the course

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