Donut County

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to The Other Castle.

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The Other Castle, I'm Andrea.

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And my name is Tom.

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And here on The Other Castle, we do the plot, lore, and more behind all your favorite video games, even if they're indie darling cozy games, like this week.

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Yes, this week we are doing Donut County.

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I'm so excited.

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Yeah, or you can also just join our Discord and we can bully Tom about onions.

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Why are you constantly promoting bullying?

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Is that toxic?

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That is super toxic.

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Well, I'm kind of a cunt.

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If we're being 100 about it, I'm not a great person, but I'm kind of funny, so people listen.

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Well, we're going to bully you into covering bully.

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How's that, then?

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Honestly, I've been wanting to play that, so that actually works out for me.

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You know, it's just one of those games that's so many hours that, like, I don't have the time to dedicate to it, you know?

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Well, we're going to bully you into it.

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All right, deal.

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That's fine.

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We're going to get you to get a fucking tramp stamp.

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Not happening.

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It's going to happen.

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So, like Tom mentioned, this week, we are covering Donut County.

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Now, I have not heard of this game prior to you selecting it.

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You haven't heard of it at all?

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Not at all.

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Oh, it's so darling.

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It looks cute as hell.

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It's just the sweet, silly, cozy game.

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And I fucking love a cozy game.

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To the point of, like, bully, this is, like, a two-hour run.

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I think you can speed run it in about 30 minutes if you know what you're doing.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so this is like an untitled Goose Game-style game.

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Oh, down to, like, the art-looking, like, untitled Goose Game.

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Okay.

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You have no idea.

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So Donut County comes from the mind of American video game creator Ben Esposito.

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We know him on this show for being the lunatic mind behind 2016's Tattletale.

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Oh, okay, so we have covered Ben Esposito before.

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Yes, and he was also on the game design team for 2017's What Remains of Edith Finch.

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Oh, goodness.

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So he's been working with Anna Perna for a minute.

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Yeah, and I constantly get messages of like, why do you hate this game so much on What Remains of Edith Finch?

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You know what, it wasn't for me, and maybe I should redo it, because I probably was just a little bishy about it, but I wanted to shoot something.

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It's not violent enough for me, I think, is the issue.

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Anyway, Ben Esposito, not a violent man.

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He's just this sweet boy who loves Enya.

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Enya?

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The musician Enya?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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He moved to LA, and when he got his first apartment, he was terrorized by a pack of neighborhood raccoons, which is something I can fucking relate to.

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I was gonna say, your first apartment in Los Angeles wasn't raccoons, it was possums.

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Yeah, so when I was 19, I moved from Oakland, where I grew up, was born, all that good stuff, to LA for college.

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And my first terrible apartment was like $7.50 a month.

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And it showed, because there was a tree right in front of my fucking door.

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It was like a motel set up almost, it was like two stories, and it kind of like went around the middle part, like courtyard.

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Yeah, like one of those little courtyards in the center, very motel.

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That's a good way of describing it.

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Yeah, it was clearly a converted motel.

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It fucking sucked.

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Anyway, there's this tree directly in front of my door, and a possum lived there who fucking hated me.

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This fucking possum would like crawl on my windows and hang on to the actual window pane and stare into my apartment through the cheap shitty blinds that never actually closed all the way, because again, terrible trash apartment.

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And his glazed over eyes that looked dead into my soul would just watch me every day.

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He would scratch at the windows and the door.

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He would wait for me to come home drunk as shit in the middle of the night, or sometimes the morning, it happens.

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And he would scamper over my feet and like hiss and yell at me in his fucking little possum world language.

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I fucking hated it.

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He would take tiny shits around my walkway, like knowing where my foot patterns were.

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Oh my God.

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He enjoyed toying with my fear and threatening me with my own mortality.

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For me, being terrorized by a woodland creature was hell.

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For Ben Esposito, being terrorized by woodland creatures inspired one of the best indie games of 2018.

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If only you had been equally as inspired by that little possum.

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It inspired me to drink more than to create.

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If you recall, that's near when we met.

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I was going to say, those times when you were stumbling home drunk, it was usually from my apartment, which happened to be across the street.

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Do you remember the one time I blacked out and sleptwalked home?

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I think I left my shoes at your place and you're like, I don't know how the fuck you did this.

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Not a clue in the world to this day.

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This wasn't safe.

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So development on Donut County started in early 2012 based on a game jam that Esposito found on Twitter.

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Now, a game jam is a sprint with developers to create a game very quickly based on a very specific theme or prompt.

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There's a really great video from Polygon on a game jam based around the great Gatsby that I'll drop in the Discord.

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It's fun.

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Okay, cool.

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The prompt for this game jam was, you play the role of a hole.

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You must move around an environment, making certain elements fall into correct targets at the right time.

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That was posted on Twitter on January 4th, 2012.

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I feel like I've seen this as like a mobile game.

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This is a mobile game.

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Like, I feel like I see that ad on Instagram all the time.

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Of like the hole?

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The hole that gets bigger and bigger and like starts swallowing entire cities.

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Okay, well, spoilers.

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Oh, okay.

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The original form of Donut County started as a little game from the jam called The Pits.

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A hole moves around an environment and stuff falls into it.

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Pretty much just nailed the prompt there.

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Yeah.

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One element that Esposito brought into the game jam here was something that he's called a reverse Katamari.

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Where in Katamari, the ball increases in size with progress, the hole in the game increases in size with progress.

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Oh, okay.

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Bigger hole means more shit can fall down into it.

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Just ask your mom.

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Come on, we've gone over this.

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You can't make your mom jokes to me.

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That's your mother-in-law.

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Legally?

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That was a general, your mom.

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Literally, all there is to make an in-law is legally.

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Exactly.

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I'm not talking shit on Sharon.

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The pits evolved into a game called Kachina.

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Kachina is a spirit that embodies nature in Native American lore, which I think feels like really ominous with this kind of structure.

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No, I'm very familiar with Kachina dolls.

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Oh, cool.

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As Kachina evolved as a game, the setting became more and more inspired by the boss, Bruce Springsteen.

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Oh, that boss.

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Not the boss of the game.

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The boss of, I think, music?

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Yeah, apparently he is.

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Ben Esposito has said that Springsteen's songs are always about hyper-specific places, like the New Jersey Turnpike or Asbury Park, places that are super rich in meaning to him.

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So with that and the raccoon terrorists in his mind, Esposito was like, you know what?

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I'm going to be inspired by my surroundings as well, with his current surroundings being Los Angeles.

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So why a story about holes in Los Angeles?

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Gophers are fucking everywhere.

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When asked, Esposito has said simply, Los Angeles is full of holes.

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Yeah, potholes.

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LA holes.

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To elaborate, he said, there are some literal ones caused by earthquakes, but the hole is any process of erasure.

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It swallows up places and things.

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What about people, cultures?

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What are some of the forces that cause groups of people to disappear?

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Los Angeles has a history of rapid expansion, which causes a lot of people to be displaced, and you can bet it's the people with the least amount of power, people who are systematically oppressed.

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Oh, yikes, wait, let me backpedal for a minute.

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I love donuts.

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What?

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So he's going on this entire tangent about gentrification purely.

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And donuts.

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And then just switches gears to donuts.

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Just to take it down a notch, to make it not too much of a bummer.

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But this is about systematic oppression.

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Yeah, no shit.

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This very real world commentary on gentrification and capitalism is constantly balanced by the effortless international charm of donuts.

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So I feel like we should explain what gentrification is, because that's actually a word I didn't even know until I met you.

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That is so telling that you're like, I didn't know this word existed until this lady started screaming about it.

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So I'm from Oakland.

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Yeah.

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And like Tom's mentioned, we met in LA in 2011, but we both moved there about a year or two prior.

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And gentrification is simply, you know, there's a neighborhood, and then other people move into that neighborhood because it's cheap.

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Perhaps it has lower resources or is farther away from large landmarks, like airports and highways, shit like that.

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Because of this influx of new money, new people, new opportunities, the people that were in the area originally end up getting displaced.

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They get priced out.

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They are unable to sustain the lifestyle they had because of this migration.

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To their area.

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So I grew up in Oakland.

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I can't shut the fuck up about it.

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I will never be able to afford a home in my hometown.

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They are million-dollar homes.

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My parents bought their house for $150,000 in the late 80s, and they sold it for nearly a million dollars.

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That's insane to me.

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A couple of years ago.

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Yeah, it's absolutely insane.

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It's been great for them.

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They are very happy about that, because of the recessions, inflations, and, like, specific to Oakland, the boom of the social media world and Silicon Valley and just everything about Northern California that brings people in has forced the original people that live there out.

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Like, my best friends pay an exorbitant amount of rent just to stay in the city, to be with their families, and be with their friends and their culture that they love so much and grew up with.

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But they really, it's so fucking unaffordable to be there.

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That's really wild.

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We had a terrible, snake-infested apartment, and I'm not being hyperbolic.

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There were fucking snakes in that building, and I would take pictures of them and send them to our landlord, and she'd be like, well, just don't touch them.

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And I was like, bitch, I wasn't fucking planning on it.

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And those apartments easily more than double what we paid maybe six, seven years ago for them.

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Yeah.

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Which is fucking crazy.

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Ugh, gentrification is horrible.

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The rent is too damn high.

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It is, and you know, you lived in San Diego for times of your life.

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Yeah, I grew up in San Diego County, and that is a place I will never be able to afford to live again.

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Absolutely.

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It's just so wild to me.

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Right?

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And it's not all just inflation.

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It's a lot of just migration.

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It is, yeah.

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Which sucks.

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It's just when there's a lot of money that's brought in, it raises the prices of everything.

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Exactly.

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Anyway, back to the game about a donut.

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Exactly.

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So Esposito has expanded on Los Angeles' donut culture, saying, When I moved to LA, what struck me the most was that there is a different donut shop on every corner, and they're all independently owned.

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This was really weird to me coming from New York, where there's a Dunkin Donuts on every corner.

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New York City has been going through this process of gentrification for a while now, but I didn't really connect that back to donuts until I learned that Dunkin Donuts is now about to move to Los Angeles.

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I was next door to the first Dunkin Donuts in Los Angeles working next door to it.

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And I'll tell you, I went there every fucking day once it opened.

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Ah, trash.

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I know.

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I'm sorry, but...

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You're the worst.

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You Ben Affleck motherfucker.

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I know, but he's not wrong.

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The donut culture of Los Angeles is insane.

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Yeah, and you know what?

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If you're in LA listening to this, the best donut shop is Fantastic Donuts at Vermont and 11th.

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And you can tell, Lily, you heard about it from us.

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I fucking love that shop.

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California Donuts is in K-Town.

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They get a lot of clout because of social.

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Fantastic Donuts wipes the fucking floor with them.

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Every time, I'll die on that fucking hill.

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You can see that, again, the culture of the donut in Los Angeles becomes so, like, competitive.

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I'm like, I'll kill for them.

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And it's funny, too, because just in LA specifically, one of the most iconic donut shops aside from California, which I've mentioned is just all over social, is Randy's.

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Oh, Randy's.

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You see that in Iron Man 2.

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Is it in the second one?

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I think it's in the second one.

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When he's having an emotional crisis.

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Yeah, he's, like, sitting in the donut.

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Yeah, Randy's Donuts is kind of all over LA.

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I actually talked to my dad about this last weekend when I saw him, and he was like, Randy's is a great shop in terrible neighborhoods.

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Always.

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They're not in gentrified areas.

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Probably soon to be gentrified areas.

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But if that's any indication, Randy's is a shop.

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There is one store where you could drive through the Big Donut.

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I don't remember which one that one was.

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I think that the one that's an Iron Man is the one that's...

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Yeah, yeah.

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And it's, again, not a great neighbor.

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I think it's near Inglewood, like on the border of like Segundo, Inglewood area.

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God, we haven't talked like LA holes in so long.

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We're sounding like that Californian sketch right now.

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Just go down to 405 and get off at Randy's.

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You'll see the Big Donut.

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Yeah.

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Wait, wait, you know Randy's because Iron Man sat in the Big Donut.

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It's this massive, what is it?

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Probably 30-foot tall donut that says Randy's.

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Yeah, and it's been in so many other things other than Iron Man.

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That's a pretty iconic shop.

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Oh, yeah.

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The first iteration of Donut County saw the light of day at IndieCade, which is an international indie game festival, in October of 2012, just a few months after the game jam.

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At 2013's GDC, Esposito brought the game to an experimental gameplay workshop, and it was received really well, getting cheers and applause from the crowd.

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In 2014, the game was an official selection of the Fantastic Arcade Indie Game Festival in Austin, Texas.

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And then 2015 was a huge year for the project.

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During GDC that year, Esposito gave a developer update on the game, which really started getting some interest in the property.

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It also won Best Story and World Design at IndieKade 2015.

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Really?

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Yeah, and then at the Independent Games Festival, it was a finalist for Excellence in Visual Art and became an overall honorable mention for the entire show.

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This little game about donuts and what, fucking raccoons?

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Yeah.

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Okay, all right.

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And gentrification and capitalism.

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Like, I'm not imagining this game is going to have much of a story, but apparently it's going to have one of the best stories.

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I mean, it's fine.

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It's fine.

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It's no last of us.

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Like, give me a break here.

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Well, for an indie game.

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Two years later, in August of 2017, publisher Annapurna Interactive released an announcement trailer for the final game called Donut County.

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This came a few months after the release of What Remains of Edith Finch, showing that Esposito has a really great relationship with the mighty Fringe publisher.

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The video was published with the caption, Is a hole a thing or is a thing holed?

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Get the whole story in Donut County coming 2018.

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Okay.

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The video links to the Donut County website, which has the call to action, meet the locals, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

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This is so feral off the fucking bat.

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Yeah, I was going to say, this already feels like fucking Goose Game.

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Just in like the charm of it.

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Yeah.

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I fully see you.

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Terrorizing a town.

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The sweet woodland creature terrorizing a neighborhood.

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The announcement trailer itself has a beautiful created by Ben Asposito title card and goes to footage of a raccoon posing the philosophical question, what is a hole?

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We see the raccoon is in a place called the Donut Lab and then is perhaps inevitably swallowed up by that hole.

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We see some chaos and the voiceover declares that you, the player, controls the hole.

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The more you eat, the bigger you get, just like in real life.

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You are the hole, whatever a hole is.

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The game garnered some modest traction commercially and some respect critically.

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Across the board, most reviewers gave the game a 7 or 8 out of 10, mostly calling out how charming and cute the game is.

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It's a satisfying cozy game, but it's also just a very quick run, like it's fast.

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It was really generally enjoyed by reviewers and players alike.

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So much so that this raccoon-based cozy game attracted copycats.

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Oh, okay.

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Meanwhile, in France, mobile game developer Voodoo was founded in 2013, months after the first iteration of Donut County was publicly viewed.

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They pushed out a few games, and in early 2018, they secured a $200 million investment through a VC at Goldman Sachs.

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I fully play a Voodoo game on my phone almost daily.

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I'm going to tell you some stories then.

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Let's see if you will by the end of this episode.

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Just a few months before Donut County launched, Voodoo launched a game called hole.io, a free-to-play game described as a game where players will absorb everything into your black hole.

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You play as a hole and get things to fall down the hole.

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On June 25, 2018, two months before Donut County's official launch, Ben Esposito addressed the knockoff on Twitter.

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He starts his statement with, Didn't think it was possible, but there's a clone of my upcoming game Donut County on the App Store called hole.io.

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It's published by Voodoo, who published cheap free-to-play versions of indie games.

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Esposito does admit there are differences, saying that Donut County is a story-based puzzle game, and hole.io combines the premise for Donut County with the IO King of the Hill formula.

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He admits the pain, saying, It stings a little after five-plus years of convincing people a game about a hole in the ground is a good idea.

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But I can't do anything about them stealing my thunder, really.

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I'm going to focus my energy into finishing Donut County.

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He concludes with, Ultimately, I think there's enough room for both games on the App Store.

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I spent the last five years creating Donut County's unique charm, sense of humor, and painstakingly handmade levels.

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You really can't rip that stuff off, in my opinion.

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It's a labor of love that I'm excited for you all to play very soon.

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While hole.io did manage to make it to the top of the games app category for both Google Play and the Apple Store, it didn't take the wind out of Donut County.

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As Mark Twain once said, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

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It launched on Switch and Xbox One on December 18, 2018, and then came out for Android on December 1, 2020.

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I love this as a Switch game, and I think I got it for under $4.

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It's an incredibly affordable, joyous ride.

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Yeah, this also makes it the first main series game that's like a pure mobile game, too.

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Yeah.

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Donut County would go on to win Apple's iPhone Game of the Year for 2018, and then South by Southwest Gaming Award for Mobile Game of the Year in 2019.

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hole.io does not have any notable accolades other than being noted as a shitty ripoff of Donut County.

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Fuck you, hole.io.

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All my homies hate hole.io.

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And here's why this game came out on top, even with sloppy French knockoffs.

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This is the best iOS mobile game of 2018.

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The same year PUBG Mobile and Among Us were released.

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We do know the history of Among Us from our Patreon episode that, like, it took a while to get traction with that game.

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Oh, yeah, but just for context, come on.

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But still, this is Donut County.

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The art of Donut County is incredibly similar to Goose Game, with bright, vibrant, friendly colors and warm backdrops that always feel a little familiar.

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This world is more shape-based than realistic, which makes it really charming.

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The inhabitants of this world are mostly animals.

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It's very Bojack Horseman, which is also LA.

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Hell, yeah.

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These animals are big and they function in society.

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They all live in tandem with humans, and outside of the animal inhabitants, there are also occasionally regular animals that we see, so don't think too much about it.

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Just like Bojack Horseman.

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Exactly.

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Our opening screen shows a donut shop with a big donut sign that is literally a 20-foot donut over a small donut shop, obviously inspired by Randy's donuts.

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Iconic imagery.

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The shop underneath the donut itself is shaped like a coffee mug.

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The donut says the title of the game, Donut County.

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Inside the mug, there's a window counter with a small raccoon running the shop.

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Perched inside of the big donut, just like Iron Man, is a girl.

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Her name is Mira.

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She's cool as shit.

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We love her.

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She's the baddest bitch.

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Hi, Mira.

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The shop is right off of a winding freeway.

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The freeway is punctuated with palm trees, and the skyline of the city is off in the distance.

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It's LA as fuck.

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The gameplay begins at Mira's house, a small bungalow-inspired single-story home surrounded by a chain-link fence.

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Mira's busy doing hot girl shit, just rotting in bed while on her phone and her laptop simultaneously while she and her dog eat snacks.

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Her hot girl shit is interrupted by the raccoon we saw in the donut shop, BK.

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He texts her saying, Mira, when are you coming into work?

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She says, be quiet.

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I've died.

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I'm dead.

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Please have some respect.

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Calling out dead today.

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I know, right?

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He says, LOL, why are you dead?

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She tells him that the honking man woke her up at the honk of dawn.

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She pets her dog while she texts BK.

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BK says, that's honking unbelievable, but don't worry, I'll revenge you.

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They chat a bit, and BK tells her to come to the shop because he's bored.

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She agrees, and she's like, I'll be there in five minutes.

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Through the window, we get the title card for Donut County near a goose who is parked on the street on his Vespa scooter.

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A goose, I love it.

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As soon as we're like, this looks like goose game, there's a fucking goose.

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The goose on the Vespa sits and has donut boxes on the back seat behind him.

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A small hole appears under him.

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The hole rolls around and eats the words from the title card.

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The D, the O, the N, you get the whole deal.

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With each letter that falls into the hole, the hole grows a little bit bigger.

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The letters fall down in the hole one by one.

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The C, the U, the N.

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The whole letter set goes down.

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Quickly enough, the hole is big enough that the goose falls down, Vespa, Scooter and all.

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The scene cuts back to the donut shop we saw earlier.

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BK is in the back room of the donut shop playing a game mindlessly on his phone.

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We get it, we've all been there.

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He gets a text from Mira saying, dude, the honking stopped.

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Did you actually do something to the honking man?

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BK texts back and says, yeah, don't worry about him.

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I just delivered him a donut.

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Smiley face.

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Mira goes, um, okay.

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And BK tells her, hey, guess what?

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I'm level nine now.

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At level 10, I get the quadcopter.

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A quadcopter is like basically a drone.

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Right.

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Mira says, oh, that's sick.

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BK says, we're going to buzz around like kings.

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Mira's like, hell yeah, I'll see you soon.

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The holes only get deployed when someone orders a donut delivery from BK's donut shop.

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That's how he gets their coordinates and deploys the donut.

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So instead of getting a nice sweet treat delivered to their door, BK is actually delivering deployed holes.

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What the fuck?

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We get a black title card now.

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Six weeks later.

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In a new scene, the world is in darkness.

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Oh no.

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What the fuck has happened?

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It's a deep cavernous world, and in the center, there's a small fire with a handful of townsfolk surrounding it for light and warmth and the last bit of community left in the world.

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There's structures, power lines, and broken shit everywhere.

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We can see the pipes and the sewers above the townsfolk.

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We see the coffee shop and the Donut County Donut sign.

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They are in deep wherever they are.

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And we see now, through a title card, that they are 999 feet below.

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Oh goodness, the power go to the raccoon's head.

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BK looks down at a crashed drone, the quadcopter, which has clearly just been destroyed.

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BK looks up at Mira, confused and sad.

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BK asks how Mira could smash his quadcopter.

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Mira says, who cares about your stupid quadcopter?

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How could you destroy the town?

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The scene cuts back from framing Mira and BK to the townsfolk around the fireplace.

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BK addresses the crowd saying, I never destroyed anything, I'm kind.

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Mira, his best friend, says, oh my god, you used that app to open up holes all over town and now we're all stuck underground.

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He was the only one using it, come on now.

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But that's the whole ass premise.

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The app that BK is playing with earlier is basically the gameplay in Donut County.

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So he is playing the game IRL.

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And it's happening IRL, in Los Angeles.

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On BK's app, he's able to deploy a hole and the hole sucks everything up, including the honking man.

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And that's what he's been doing to the whole town the last six weeks.

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Oops.

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BK tells everyone, everything here looks fine to me, except my quadcopter.

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I'm the victim.

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Annoyed and violent, Mira looks out and says, will someone please back me up here?

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She gestures to the circle of displaced town folk at the fireplace.

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A dog named Potter backs her up saying, BK, it's obvious you did it.

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I got swallowed up by a hole right after I ordered a donut from your shop.

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BK looks directly into Potter's eyes and says, what does that have to do with Mira smashing my quadcopter?

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He just has this one track fucking mind.

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He's a raccoon!

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Mira, who is desperate to get the town together and on track, asks Potter, what happened to your son?

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Potter says her son, Pup, must still be up there somewhere.

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Back on the surface, a hole pops up at Potter's rock.

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It's a very desert inspired area where the hole eats up cacti and clay pots.

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We see Potter, the last time she was on the surface, working outside on a spinning a clay pot, while her son, Pup, looks on from inside their home.

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As more of the yard gets swallowed up by the hole, Pup makes it to a hot air balloon to hide from the hole.

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In the upper left corner of the screen, there's a tiny circle where we see that BK is playing around on his tablet, navigating the holes.

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The hole BK is driving swallows up the pottery kiln, and the heat aids the hot air balloon in taking off, securing Pup's safety from the hole.

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The hole continues to eat up Potter's rock until it swallows up the mountain range and the home itself.

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The screen shows Potter falling down the hole, eventually landing 999 feet below.

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As she does, we see BK's XP bar fill up as he levels up from level 9 to level 10.

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He just won't fucking quit.

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He wants the quadcopter.

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And for BK, this is a game, and the more stuff he gets into the hole, the more XP he gets, and the closer he gets to earning his quadcopter.

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In the current and in the below, Potter says sadly, she just wanted to surprise Pup with a donut.

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She starts to cry as she realizes now he's just out there, floating and alone.

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BK says, no, he's not.

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If you got swallowed first, how do you know he got in the balloon?

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This story is full of holes.

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Mira cuts him off and says, your brain is full of holes.

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And so is this entire town, thanks to you.

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BK says proudly, I'm just doing my job.

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He then realizes what he just said is probably a legal confession and backs it up by saying, wait, no, not true, I'm innocent.

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A beaver at the fireplace named Helen says, wait, Pup isn't a hot air balloon?

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I saw a hot air balloon float by my ranger station.

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Helen is in full park ranger gear, hat included.

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Potter's eyes light up, and she asks which way the balloon was going.

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Helen says, I don't know, I got distracted.

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I had just ordered a donut.

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I get hungry when I'm anxious.

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Myriah asks why she was anxious, and Helen tells her, it was because of the snakes.

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Helen looks into the raging fire, and the scene shifts to the day she ordered a donut to the ranger station.

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Helen is way up in a ranger station, like very fire watch about it.

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And below, here on the dry ground, there are a whole mess of snakes.

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Unfortunately for Helen, instead of the donut showing up, the whole shows up.

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Why did it have to be snakes?

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It goes through this dry patch of land and starts eating up snakes and rocks and cacti all around.

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She sits up at the ranger station and watches as the snakes seemingly disappear into the nothingness.

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Fueled by snakes, the whole grows bigger, and bigger, and big enough to swallow up the entire ranger station.

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Oh no!

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Helen included.

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Back in the below, BK says, Well, it sounds like you should be thanking me for solving your snake problem.

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Helen catches this and is like, So it was you that opened up the holes?

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BK says, What?

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No.

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But whoever did do it did you as solid.

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He's probably a really cool and nice guy.

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Also, all these people survived this thousand foot fall.

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999.

00:30:46.650 --> 00:30:47.070
Okay.

00:30:48.770 --> 00:30:51.110
Mira asks if anyone else here saw a pup.

00:30:52.030 --> 00:30:54.850
A pair of mice, Salt and Pepper Pipe Up.

00:30:55.130 --> 00:30:55.790
They're brothers.

00:30:56.410 --> 00:31:01.990
Salt says he had seen pup through Peter's telescope, and he was down at Mint River because they were currently fighting.

00:31:02.890 --> 00:31:09.710
Salt had been admiring this bird and moved his trailer down to watch it closer, but he got hungry and decided to order a donut.

00:31:10.530 --> 00:31:11.690
Then the hole came.

00:31:12.850 --> 00:31:19.430
At the riverbed, Salt is sticking his head out of the top of a trailer, watching a bird through a telescope, exactly as he described.

00:31:19.930 --> 00:31:22.190
The river is small and there's only a few fish here.

00:31:22.770 --> 00:31:26.150
Once the hole arrives, there's marginally less of everything here.

00:31:27.410 --> 00:31:32.630
The bird Salt is watching is this gorgeous big blue bird who's protecting three smaller blue birds.

00:31:32.830 --> 00:31:34.690
And I kind of get it, that bird is cool as shit.

00:31:35.710 --> 00:31:40.230
Unfortunately, Salt doesn't get to watch for long and doesn't get his donut.

00:31:40.690 --> 00:31:40.930
Oh.

00:31:41.050 --> 00:31:42.010
You know, because of the hole.

00:31:42.950 --> 00:31:48.310
The three small birds are perched on a ledge and are spared, but the big blue bird falls victim to the hole.

00:31:49.430 --> 00:31:53.950
Down below and deep past the fireplace, we actually can see the beautiful blue bird in the distance.

00:31:55.330 --> 00:31:56.530
BK goes, wow.

00:31:57.370 --> 00:31:59.550
So are you saying you're in love with a bird?

00:32:00.770 --> 00:32:01.930
Salt says, yeah.

00:32:03.070 --> 00:32:05.230
BK asks, is that legal?

00:32:05.950 --> 00:32:07.450
Mira says, it's not about the bird.

00:32:07.470 --> 00:32:08.570
Oh, my gosh.

00:32:08.590 --> 00:32:10.430
And don't be against interracial relationships.

00:32:11.050 --> 00:32:14.670
In this Bojack ass world, it's okay to do shit like this, you know?

00:32:15.550 --> 00:32:18.790
So each one of these different stories that's going on, is that the gameplay?

00:32:19.090 --> 00:32:19.650
Yeah.

00:32:19.670 --> 00:32:25.210
It's just not fun for me to be like, you have to swallow up the chair before you swallow up the fucking thing.

00:32:25.230 --> 00:32:28.630
It's a story-based podcast, Tom.

00:32:28.630 --> 00:32:28.930
I get it.

00:32:28.950 --> 00:32:29.370
Exactly.

00:32:29.370 --> 00:32:32.310
I just wanted to make sure that's when the gameplay was actually occurring.

00:32:32.330 --> 00:32:38.010
Yeah, these are all the levels, and then these interstitials where they're at the fireplace talking, that's not gameplay.

00:32:38.030 --> 00:32:39.510
That's just kind of clicking through dialogue.

00:32:39.550 --> 00:32:39.890
Okay.

00:32:40.990 --> 00:32:42.650
So Mira's like, it's not about the bird.

00:32:43.490 --> 00:32:45.230
Pepper corrects Mira and says, you know what?

00:32:45.230 --> 00:32:46.250
It is about the bird.

00:32:46.970 --> 00:32:50.290
BK reiterates this and is like, yeah, it's about the bird, Mira.

00:32:50.890 --> 00:32:52.610
Mira tells BK he is hopeless.

00:32:53.370 --> 00:32:57.470
In the middle of this fight, a tent right behind the fireplace starts to shake.

00:32:58.050 --> 00:33:01.890
The group is startled and turns to see that Coyote is sticking his head out of the tent.

00:33:02.150 --> 00:33:02.910
Oh, hi, Coyote.

00:33:03.110 --> 00:33:05.330
He is named Coyote and he is a coyote.

00:33:06.590 --> 00:33:08.710
Coyote says, hopeless.

00:33:09.410 --> 00:33:10.710
We're all hopeless now.

00:33:12.430 --> 00:33:16.030
Coco, a crocodile in the circle, is surprised to see him at all.

00:33:16.450 --> 00:33:19.470
He says, Coyote, I thought you moved to the desert.

00:33:20.290 --> 00:33:21.390
Coyote says he did.

00:33:21.550 --> 00:33:27.010
It's just that BK over here must be targeting people who are down on their luck, gentrification.

00:33:27.030 --> 00:33:27.830
Uh-oh.

00:33:28.270 --> 00:33:33.550
Mira, ever the detective, confirms that Coyote was the original owner of the Donut County shop.

00:33:34.370 --> 00:33:39.050
Coyote says, yep, that was me, but it went out of business when the raccoons moved into town.

00:33:39.810 --> 00:33:43.090
He ended up having to sell the shop to the raccoons and moved out to the desert.

00:33:43.830 --> 00:33:46.590
Mira's like, damn, that sucks, I'm so sorry, Coyote.

00:33:46.750 --> 00:33:48.170
And that's gentrification, kids.

00:33:48.770 --> 00:33:49.370
Entirely.

00:33:49.850 --> 00:33:52.310
Coyote is down and says, can't be helped.

00:33:52.830 --> 00:33:55.510
A coyote's life is like a sad country tune.

00:33:55.530 --> 00:33:58.550
I made a modest living selling vegetables.

00:33:59.250 --> 00:34:01.630
Suppose it was my way of giving back to folks.

00:34:02.430 --> 00:34:07.010
The scene shifts to a desert campground with a little off-road station for selling corn.

00:34:07.070 --> 00:34:10.650
You know, you see them on like long trips sometimes in like farming areas.

00:34:10.710 --> 00:34:12.550
Yeah, those little corn stalls.

00:34:12.750 --> 00:34:13.670
Corn stalls.

00:34:14.590 --> 00:34:21.950
The Hole manages to swallow up a fireplace and corn and shoot cooked popcorn off through the Hole, which is a really fun effect.

00:34:21.950 --> 00:34:22.950
I like that a lot.

00:34:23.630 --> 00:34:27.690
It's fun until you remember that the Hole is displacing this entire community.

00:34:27.710 --> 00:34:28.830
I mean, there's that.

00:34:29.290 --> 00:34:32.270
Including Coyote, who gets eaten up by the Hole.

00:34:32.890 --> 00:34:40.910
Coyote tumbles down to the below as the XP bar gets to about the one third mark towards level 10, towards the quadcopter.

00:34:41.090 --> 00:34:41.530
Yes.

00:34:42.150 --> 00:34:45.330
Coyote concludes to the group, well, that's my sad story.

00:34:46.290 --> 00:34:52.770
Furious at all the displacement and horrors, Mira looks at BK and says, BK, don't you have something to say to Coyote?

00:34:53.630 --> 00:34:54.590
BK says, yeah.

00:34:55.470 --> 00:34:56.730
Vegetables stink.

00:34:58.470 --> 00:34:59.190
Damn right.

00:34:59.550 --> 00:35:04.350
Salt, the bird fucker, pipes up and says, yeah.

00:35:05.070 --> 00:35:09.190
Mira laughs and then corrects herself and tells BK to fucking apologize.

00:35:09.510 --> 00:35:10.410
They don't say fucking.

00:35:10.410 --> 00:35:11.710
I say fucking, but you know.

00:35:12.110 --> 00:35:14.610
This is very family friendly for what it's worth.

00:35:14.630 --> 00:35:18.430
I'm sorry for all the time that I say fucking cunt in this, but you know what?

00:35:18.450 --> 00:35:18.870
No, I'm not.

00:35:19.310 --> 00:35:20.830
Yeah, it's some flavor text for you.

00:35:22.110 --> 00:35:27.390
BK manages to say to Coyote, I'm sorry that you think vegetables taste good.

00:35:28.710 --> 00:35:32.410
Mira is gonna kick his fucking teeth in.

00:35:32.850 --> 00:35:35.870
Coyote sadly says, maybe they do stink.

00:35:36.690 --> 00:35:40.690
I suppose my sweet tooth was feeling lonesome, and that's why I ordered a donut from y'all.

00:35:41.170 --> 00:35:43.870
He looks so fucking sad.

00:35:44.510 --> 00:35:51.330
BK looks at Mira and says, see, why should I apologize for delivering this pathetic vegetable eating Coyote a donut?

00:35:52.210 --> 00:35:55.870
Mira reminds BK that he ruined his business twice now.

00:35:56.410 --> 00:35:57.870
And stop saying you delivered donuts.

00:35:57.890 --> 00:35:59.030
What do you think donuts are?

00:36:00.290 --> 00:36:04.170
You know, because at no point has anyone actually gotten a fucking donut in this game?

00:36:04.290 --> 00:36:05.190
No, not once.

00:36:05.230 --> 00:36:08.730
Like, we keep talking about donuts, but we're really just talking about the hole in the center of a donut.

00:36:08.750 --> 00:36:11.890
Yeah, like we're fucking Benoit Blanc in The First Knives Out.

00:36:13.790 --> 00:36:18.490
We have a hole with a donut hole that has another hole inside the donut hole.

00:36:19.150 --> 00:36:22.370
He's the greatest detective known to man.

00:36:22.390 --> 00:36:23.570
I love The Knives Out movies.

00:36:23.730 --> 00:36:24.870
They're fucking wild.

00:36:25.810 --> 00:36:30.470
BK tries to divert the conversation by pondering, well, what constitutes a donut?

00:36:30.790 --> 00:36:32.890
If a donut is still a donut without the hole?

00:36:33.650 --> 00:36:36.570
Coco reminds him that a donut without a hole is still a donut.

00:36:37.050 --> 00:36:40.590
Mira agrees and is like, yeah, man, jelly donuts, fritters, we get it, donut holes.

00:36:40.810 --> 00:36:41.190
Yeah.

00:36:41.610 --> 00:36:44.350
BK goes, wait, donut holes don't have holes?

00:36:44.770 --> 00:36:46.670
Coco tells him, no, they don't have holes.

00:36:46.690 --> 00:36:47.590
They are the holes.

00:36:48.390 --> 00:36:50.130
BK goes, wow, that's pretty deep.

00:36:51.470 --> 00:36:53.230
This fucking stoner raccoon.

00:36:53.390 --> 00:36:53.710
Right.

00:36:54.570 --> 00:37:00.650
Mira gets everyone back on track and moves on to a pair of elderly rabbits who had actually just moved to town to retire.

00:37:01.330 --> 00:37:03.850
They've been married for 40 years.

00:37:04.750 --> 00:37:08.350
One of them had just gotten a new phone, so they ordered donuts to celebrate.

00:37:08.530 --> 00:37:09.230
Oh, Jesus.

00:37:09.730 --> 00:37:12.550
Which is like the most tender fucking thing on earth.

00:37:12.970 --> 00:37:16.950
The scene shifts to Hopper Springs, their carrot-shaped home.

00:37:17.570 --> 00:37:24.370
It's clearly a family home with many bunnies all around, and the elderly couple cuddling and watching their family grow.

00:37:25.510 --> 00:37:30.870
You know, until their home and everything they know and love, including each other, gets eaten by a fucking hole.

00:37:30.890 --> 00:37:31.690
And all the bunnies.

00:37:31.950 --> 00:37:32.470
Yeah.

00:37:32.990 --> 00:37:37.050
The rabbits hold each other as they descend into the depths of the below.

00:37:37.070 --> 00:37:39.410
Like the old couple in fucking Titanic.

00:37:39.450 --> 00:37:41.610
Like the old couple in fucking The Notebook.

00:37:41.630 --> 00:37:42.370
Like they are...

00:37:43.490 --> 00:37:47.630
Yeah, they're just holding each other like, this is it, babe, I love you, it's been real.

00:37:48.950 --> 00:37:57.630
With each round of hole madness, as the town folks are drowned in the depths of the hole, the game brings up an inventory of everything that came down the hole.

00:37:58.010 --> 00:37:59.810
This is called the Trashopedia.

00:38:00.450 --> 00:38:04.870
It shows off every item that came down individually to show off all the trash that got swallowed up.

00:38:06.090 --> 00:38:10.650
After checking out the Trashopedia, a logo comes up saying, have a garbage day.

00:38:10.670 --> 00:38:11.910
I love that.

00:38:11.930 --> 00:38:15.670
I wish the garbage man left a little sign for us every time they came and collected our trash.

00:38:16.070 --> 00:38:18.150
I wouldn't want like an inventory though.

00:38:18.170 --> 00:38:22.170
It would be like, you had like 18 KitKat wrappers, and I'd be like, I know.

00:38:22.190 --> 00:38:25.670
Yeah, I don't want that much information on my trash at all.

00:38:26.350 --> 00:38:27.510
That would be a bummer.

00:38:28.430 --> 00:38:31.050
Mira says, it's really sweet that they're so in love.

00:38:31.330 --> 00:38:36.490
Probably because she's just so fucking full of rage because her best friend BK is being a butt hole.

00:38:37.310 --> 00:38:40.590
The rabbits say, day and night belong to love.

00:38:41.610 --> 00:38:43.710
BK says, that is extremely gross.

00:38:44.910 --> 00:38:47.430
Mira says, BK is gross and loves trash.

00:38:47.650 --> 00:38:50.010
BK argues that everyone here loves trash.

00:38:50.030 --> 00:38:51.950
Otherwise, why would you make so much of it?

00:38:52.630 --> 00:38:55.390
Mira says, is everyone's home just trash to you?

00:38:55.410 --> 00:38:57.670
And he's like, yeah, I'm a raccoon.

00:38:57.790 --> 00:38:59.110
Yeah.

00:38:59.550 --> 00:39:02.490
One man's trash is literally a raccoon's treasure.

00:39:02.510 --> 00:39:03.230
Exactly.

00:39:03.970 --> 00:39:07.730
Pepper, who's Salt's brother the mouse, says, hey, don't call my trailer trash.

00:39:08.430 --> 00:39:10.350
Mira says, hey, what happened to your trailer?

00:39:10.770 --> 00:39:19.690
And Pepper says that after he and Salt split up after that fight, Salt moved out to stock a bird, so he took his trailer out to Joshua Tree for some peace and quiet.

00:39:19.830 --> 00:39:20.990
Fucking Joshua Tree.

00:39:21.050 --> 00:39:23.750
It's what a lot of LA holes do to reset, in all fairness.

00:39:23.950 --> 00:39:26.370
They go out there, do some mushrooms, then come back.

00:39:26.710 --> 00:39:27.030
Yeah.

00:39:27.870 --> 00:39:31.110
But plot twist, you can do mushrooms fucking anywhere, guys.

00:39:31.550 --> 00:39:34.710
You don't have to drive out to the Palm Springs Joshua Tree area.

00:39:35.610 --> 00:39:45.730
Back in Joshua Tree, the hole arrives and starts eating up the desert around Pepper's trailer, including trees, cacti, a picnic table, all sorts of camping shit.

00:39:46.630 --> 00:39:56.530
Unfortunately, Pepper also left his grill out, and the hole manages to start a fire and catch a bunch of actual Joshua Trees and the trailer on fire.

00:39:57.810 --> 00:40:00.350
Which is so much worse than just falling down a hole.

00:40:00.350 --> 00:40:02.230
It's like fire damage is crazy.

00:40:02.250 --> 00:40:07.330
Yeah, this is to represent the constant wildfires that Los Angeles County seems to have.

00:40:07.330 --> 00:40:10.950
Yeah, with seemingly no start of just like, oops, everything is on fire.

00:40:10.970 --> 00:40:11.870
Yeah, again.

00:40:12.490 --> 00:40:21.430
The hole continues to grow after swallowing the flaming trailer with Pepper still inside, and starts swallowing the rocks and the landscape and a nearby pickup truck.

00:40:22.010 --> 00:40:30.750
The trajectory and the speed of falling down the hole managed to extinguish the flames, but Pepper continues to fall to unknowingly reunite with his brother Salt.

00:40:31.550 --> 00:40:37.390
With this act of destruction and displacement, BK's XP bar is about halfway to the quadcopter.

00:40:38.570 --> 00:40:43.950
BK accuses Pepper of allowing Joshua trees, which are hundreds of years old, to burn.

00:40:44.450 --> 00:40:45.890
But Pepper is like, you know what?

00:40:46.250 --> 00:40:47.710
I was fucking busy, okay?

00:40:47.790 --> 00:40:50.090
I was writing an apology letter to Salt.

00:40:51.130 --> 00:40:54.390
Pepper missed Salt and was sorry for smashing Salt's lava lamp.

00:40:54.950 --> 00:40:57.170
And then he probably shouldn't have eaten all the lava inside.

00:40:57.910 --> 00:40:58.650
Oh my god.

00:40:59.070 --> 00:41:00.850
Salt forgives him, saying he gets it.

00:41:01.010 --> 00:41:02.170
Lava is the best part.

00:41:03.030 --> 00:41:04.490
That's just wax, you guys.

00:41:04.830 --> 00:41:05.890
It's the best part.

00:41:07.330 --> 00:41:08.030
They're mice.

00:41:08.050 --> 00:41:09.030
They eat weird shit too.

00:41:09.050 --> 00:41:09.790
That's true.

00:41:10.570 --> 00:41:16.750
As they find forgiveness in the darkness, BK takes the credit and says, he brought feuding brothers back together.

00:41:17.530 --> 00:41:23.710
He also credits himself with helping a civil servant with her serpent problem and gave a child the gift of flight.

00:41:24.210 --> 00:41:26.650
BK crowns himself a hero.

00:41:27.170 --> 00:41:29.190
BK then brings his attention to Morsel.

00:41:29.690 --> 00:41:35.550
Now, Morsel is kind of just a green jelly bean where everyone else has been like mirrors a person, everyone else is an animal.

00:41:35.810 --> 00:41:36.170
Okay.

00:41:36.310 --> 00:41:37.570
He's kind of just a weird thing.

00:41:37.970 --> 00:41:40.870
It's definitively unclear what he's supposed to be.

00:41:40.970 --> 00:41:43.950
Like plankton and fucking Spongebob Squarepants.

00:41:43.970 --> 00:41:46.190
Well, plankton's like a real thing.

00:41:46.190 --> 00:41:47.790
A real plankton, but like that size.

00:41:48.290 --> 00:41:49.690
But no, he's big.

00:41:49.870 --> 00:41:50.510
Oh, he's big.

00:41:50.510 --> 00:41:51.890
He's big, but he's a weird shape.

00:41:51.910 --> 00:41:53.990
He's just a big green amorphous blob.

00:41:54.070 --> 00:42:00.670
Yeah, and he's also got like a cool rockabilly haircut with like a cool guy black button up and his legs in a cast.

00:42:00.950 --> 00:42:02.970
Okay, so he's like a living amoeba.

00:42:03.210 --> 00:42:05.150
Yeah, but he's like a punk rock amoeba.

00:42:05.190 --> 00:42:06.750
Okay, like amoeba records.

00:42:07.010 --> 00:42:07.730
There you go.

00:42:07.810 --> 00:42:08.190
Okay.

00:42:08.490 --> 00:42:13.110
BK doesn't know morsel very well, and he's like, hey, morsel, what do you even like do for a living?

00:42:13.690 --> 00:42:16.150
Morsel says he sells explosives.

00:42:17.050 --> 00:42:17.330
Oh.

00:42:17.570 --> 00:42:20.070
Fundamentally unclear what this thing is supposed to be.

00:42:20.790 --> 00:42:24.070
He works with fucking Cobra in Dave the Diver.

00:42:24.150 --> 00:42:24.870
Exactly.

00:42:25.350 --> 00:42:26.150
He's his plug.

00:42:26.150 --> 00:42:26.510
Yeah.

00:42:26.810 --> 00:42:29.750
BK says, oh, sweet, but you know, that could be unsafe.

00:42:30.150 --> 00:42:33.870
Concerned citizens could want your explosive stand blown up for safety.

00:42:34.830 --> 00:42:38.170
Morsel says, oh, no, no, no, I run my business completely above board.

00:42:38.230 --> 00:42:40.810
I have the most permits in Donut County.

00:42:41.310 --> 00:42:44.990
Playing with fireworks is safer than driving a car, which I don't think it is.

00:42:45.010 --> 00:42:46.310
That cannot be true.

00:42:46.370 --> 00:42:47.490
It doesn't feel true.

00:42:48.810 --> 00:42:52.270
The scene moves to morsel's beachside fireworks stand.

00:42:52.670 --> 00:42:57.270
It's a gorgeous day, and morsel has his fireworks set up in a parking lot right on the beach.

00:42:57.570 --> 00:42:59.390
And I don't think that's legal in California.

00:42:59.410 --> 00:43:00.070
Not at all.

00:43:00.090 --> 00:43:02.010
No, only on like native land.

00:43:02.570 --> 00:43:06.110
Oh, so on sovereign land where it's like a different situation, they can do it.

00:43:06.130 --> 00:43:09.450
But yeah, I mean, like we mentioned, we live in Las Vegas.

00:43:09.530 --> 00:43:12.710
There are certain times of the year you can sell fireworks.

00:43:12.730 --> 00:43:14.890
I think it's like a certain period of dates.

00:43:15.150 --> 00:43:19.770
Yeah, and in Las Vegas, you can't have fireworks, but just outside of Las Vegas, you can have fireworks.

00:43:19.810 --> 00:43:27.330
So people drive over to like a couple towns down like Perump, where they can shoot off fireworks and like drink wine, which also sounds like a terrible idea.

00:43:27.990 --> 00:43:34.130
But growing up in California, if you had fireworks, it was like a sparkler you could buy at a grocery store or like something a little illegal.

00:43:34.450 --> 00:43:34.970
Yeah.

00:43:35.590 --> 00:43:37.470
But with this one, they're like, fuck it.

00:43:38.630 --> 00:43:46.410
Morsell and his entire fireworks stand fall into the hole by the beach, and the earth rumbles as the entire scene falls in.

00:43:47.470 --> 00:43:50.850
In the below, BK says, boom, I'm cleaning up the neighborhood.

00:43:51.270 --> 00:43:52.670
Who else has a gripe with me?

00:43:53.410 --> 00:43:55.150
Fully admitting to what he's doing now.

00:43:55.250 --> 00:43:59.170
Yeah, kind of giving up the ghost on, I'm innocent, I'm a victim.

00:43:59.230 --> 00:43:59.630
Yeah.

00:44:00.750 --> 00:44:04.050
Coco the crocodile says, well, I have a gripe with Mira.

00:44:04.510 --> 00:44:07.330
BK is like, hell yeah, you're in for it now, Mira.

00:44:08.530 --> 00:44:09.330
Order a donut.

00:44:10.110 --> 00:44:16.950
Coco has Mira tell the group, he's like, you fucking say it, that she knew that the raccoons were making the holes.

00:44:17.710 --> 00:44:19.490
She said she knew the whole time.

00:44:19.890 --> 00:44:21.770
The whole time they were making the holes.

00:44:22.290 --> 00:44:24.590
Collectively, the displaced community gasps.

00:44:24.750 --> 00:44:26.810
She was complicit the whole time.

00:44:26.990 --> 00:44:28.210
The whole time.

00:44:28.630 --> 00:44:31.310
The scene moves to Gecko Park, where Coco is.

00:44:32.330 --> 00:44:33.910
Sorry, Gecko Park, that's really good.

00:44:34.690 --> 00:44:35.530
What's the joke there?

00:44:35.550 --> 00:44:36.870
There's Echo Park.

00:44:38.150 --> 00:44:40.330
Oh, wait, I didn't get that.

00:44:41.590 --> 00:44:43.430
Oh, fuck, I played this game twice.

00:44:44.890 --> 00:44:49.730
I ran through it once for the mechanics, and then I ran through it again for the text and the story.

00:44:49.950 --> 00:44:50.710
Fuck me.

00:44:50.730 --> 00:44:53.190
Okay, so Echo Park is in Los Angeles.

00:44:53.870 --> 00:44:55.030
It's a beautiful park.

00:44:55.050 --> 00:44:56.870
It's actually very lovely to walk around.

00:44:56.890 --> 00:44:59.270
There's always fun little food stands and shit.

00:44:59.550 --> 00:45:00.170
Damn it.

00:45:00.210 --> 00:45:01.670
Oh, I'm so mad.

00:45:02.390 --> 00:45:03.250
Fuck me.

00:45:03.730 --> 00:45:06.510
Yeah, that's a very Bojack Horseman joke, too.

00:45:06.510 --> 00:45:08.330
It is a very Bojack Horseman joke.

00:45:08.350 --> 00:45:09.910
Yeah, Gecko Park is perfect.

00:45:09.930 --> 00:45:11.150
You don't watch Bojack Horseman at night?

00:45:11.170 --> 00:45:11.790
We're going to have to.

00:45:11.810 --> 00:45:12.150
Okay.

00:45:13.410 --> 00:45:18.930
Sorry, we're in Gecko Park, which I now understand is much funnier than I ever gave a credit for.

00:45:19.930 --> 00:45:23.210
And Coco is laying out, napping in the sun in his garden.

00:45:23.870 --> 00:45:30.070
He wakes up to a text from Mira saying, just out of fucking nowhere, how many snakes would it take to defeat you?

00:45:31.970 --> 00:45:34.150
I think that's a great first date question.

00:45:34.190 --> 00:45:35.010
They're just homies.

00:45:36.650 --> 00:45:40.490
She's just like, I wonder how many would take to kill Coco.

00:45:40.630 --> 00:45:42.050
You want to keep a dude busy?

00:45:42.590 --> 00:45:43.550
Ask him that question.

00:45:43.650 --> 00:45:44.970
That's the Roman Empire.

00:45:46.490 --> 00:45:51.370
Coco, text back, clarifying if they're big snakes and if they're venomous.

00:45:51.690 --> 00:45:52.330
Exactly.

00:45:52.350 --> 00:45:53.770
This is why it's going to keep them busy.

00:45:55.330 --> 00:45:59.070
Mira says normal size, but you have to fight in a tiny room.

00:46:00.650 --> 00:46:03.310
Coco takes this in, thinks about his answer.

00:46:04.370 --> 00:46:05.550
What would you answer to that?

00:46:05.550 --> 00:46:06.310
I don't know.

00:46:06.330 --> 00:46:07.890
I'm fucking terrified of snakes.

00:46:07.890 --> 00:46:09.550
Also, poisonous snakes.

00:46:09.930 --> 00:46:10.430
Venomous.

00:46:10.570 --> 00:46:11.390
Venomous snakes.

00:46:11.410 --> 00:46:12.150
Yeah, exactly.

00:46:12.170 --> 00:46:15.090
Am I going to bite them and die, or will they bite me and die?

00:46:15.110 --> 00:46:17.690
Why would they die if you bite them?

00:46:17.890 --> 00:46:19.050
That means I'm venomous.

00:46:21.270 --> 00:46:24.310
Well, Coco says 1,000 snakes.

00:46:24.730 --> 00:46:25.630
A thousand.

00:46:25.650 --> 00:46:26.690
A thousand.

00:46:27.010 --> 00:46:31.170
Oh, can you imagine having to kill a thousand snakes with your bare hands?

00:46:31.230 --> 00:46:34.330
In a tiny room?

00:46:34.410 --> 00:46:35.230
No, I couldn't.

00:46:36.330 --> 00:46:39.150
You're like, maybe one if I have a shovel and a gun.

00:46:39.230 --> 00:46:39.690
Yeah.

00:46:41.570 --> 00:46:43.770
So my friend Michelle, I love her dearly.

00:46:44.050 --> 00:46:52.990
She went to college in upstate New York, and one time she was driving from her, like, someone's house back, and she's driving kind of through the woods in upstate New York, right?

00:46:53.010 --> 00:46:54.170
It's like actually wooded.

00:46:54.190 --> 00:46:55.150
It's not like Manhattan.

00:46:55.930 --> 00:46:59.010
And she's driving by herself, looks down her passenger seat.

00:46:59.290 --> 00:47:00.290
There's a garden snake.

00:47:00.850 --> 00:47:01.390
Stop.

00:47:01.410 --> 00:47:03.870
Sitting on her passenger seat.

00:47:03.890 --> 00:47:05.070
I wasn't even planning on telling the story.

00:47:05.090 --> 00:47:06.410
Oh, my God, no.

00:47:06.530 --> 00:47:13.890
She sent me pictures because she obviously freaked out, pulled over, got out of the car, and was taking pictures through the windows and shit.

00:47:14.250 --> 00:47:17.110
And just was like, I didn't know what to do, so I called my dad.

00:47:17.130 --> 00:47:19.250
Yeah, what the fuck do you even do?

00:47:19.570 --> 00:47:21.170
And she's like, it was so small.

00:47:21.190 --> 00:47:26.090
There was no way it was a harmful snake, but I don't know how long it had been with me.

00:47:26.630 --> 00:47:31.110
And are you allowed to just kind of let them free into the wild, or is that dangerous?

00:47:31.130 --> 00:47:31.810
Just fuck him.

00:47:31.950 --> 00:47:33.310
I was like, fuck the ethics.

00:47:33.470 --> 00:47:33.790
Yeah.

00:47:35.610 --> 00:47:38.630
You take your shoe off, and you like swat it out or something, you know?

00:47:38.650 --> 00:47:39.790
Like, you don't put your hands on it.

00:47:41.230 --> 00:47:43.090
Would you cry immediately?

00:47:43.110 --> 00:47:44.830
Because I think I would just cry immediately.

00:47:44.850 --> 00:47:46.610
I think I'd call an Uber and abandon the car.

00:47:48.190 --> 00:47:49.370
Fuck this Volkswagen.

00:47:49.390 --> 00:47:49.830
I'm out.

00:47:50.010 --> 00:47:50.670
Yeah.

00:47:50.690 --> 00:47:51.490
Holy shit.

00:47:52.490 --> 00:47:55.610
So ask Coco's like, I could kill a thousand snakes.

00:47:57.070 --> 00:48:00.650
There's a beat, and then he's like, hey, Mira, have you looked into the disappearances yet?

00:48:00.670 --> 00:48:05.330
Which is such a fucking like hard right turn from like, I could kill a thousand snakes.

00:48:05.610 --> 00:48:07.070
Do you know how our friends are missing?

00:48:08.650 --> 00:48:14.450
Mira says no, and then Coco worriedly texts that, hey, you know, Salt hasn't answered his phone in a few days.

00:48:15.250 --> 00:48:21.290
He brings up that ever since the raccoons moved into town, folks have been disappearing, and she works at their donut shop.

00:48:21.930 --> 00:48:28.110
Mira truly is complicit, and she's like, I don't know, the raccoons treat me really well, and BK is my friend.

00:48:28.490 --> 00:48:31.050
And Coco's like, yeah, well, I just ordered a donut.

00:48:32.250 --> 00:48:34.730
Worried, Mira asks Coco, why?

00:48:35.570 --> 00:48:37.590
Coco says, he want to know how they taste.

00:48:37.610 --> 00:48:39.110
I want to see what all the hype is about.

00:48:39.130 --> 00:48:40.330
We've been over this.

00:48:40.510 --> 00:48:41.950
Mira is like, oh my God, I have to go.

00:48:41.970 --> 00:48:42.690
I'll talk to you soon.

00:48:43.450 --> 00:48:52.010
Coco rests his eyes and falls back asleep in his garden as the whole is delivered and inevitably eats him up and everything he holds dear in this world.

00:48:52.030 --> 00:48:52.890
You dumbass.

00:48:53.730 --> 00:48:58.450
Reunited in the below, Mira apologizes sincerely to Coco.

00:48:58.830 --> 00:49:01.370
She's like, it is my fault that Coco was put in the hole.

00:49:01.970 --> 00:49:03.890
She regrets taking the job with the raccoons.

00:49:04.590 --> 00:49:07.430
BK is like, excuse me, I thought we were friends.

00:49:07.810 --> 00:49:08.310
Yeah.

00:49:08.650 --> 00:49:11.550
Mira goes, I thought we were, but you ruined the town.

00:49:12.530 --> 00:49:14.270
BK is like, what?

00:49:14.710 --> 00:49:16.150
I tried to help.

00:49:16.310 --> 00:49:21.490
I got a catapult upgrade for the holes, even though I didn't want to waste my points and you fucking made me do it.

00:49:22.170 --> 00:49:23.670
You do not want to waste your fucking points.

00:49:23.910 --> 00:49:29.410
Mira is like, you told me the catapult upgrade would help launch everyone out of the hole, yet here we are.

00:49:29.430 --> 00:49:31.330
In the hole!

00:49:31.350 --> 00:49:38.930
A round farmer looking animal named Jellybean is holding a chicken and tries to get BK to kiss the chicken.

00:49:39.890 --> 00:49:44.430
BK refuses and Jellybean says it's the least he could do after the hole stole all the eggs.

00:49:45.270 --> 00:49:49.550
Jellybean talks about how he was going through a tough time and had to sell his prized rooster.

00:49:50.310 --> 00:49:54.830
The scene moves to Jellybean's egg farm, which is obviously getting eaten up by the hole.

00:49:55.570 --> 00:50:01.290
Before the barn gets eaten up, the scene cuts to BK, who's sitting on the shitter playing on his tablet.

00:50:02.350 --> 00:50:03.130
Jesus Christ.

00:50:03.250 --> 00:50:07.330
He gets an angry text from Mira saying, why did you sell a donut to Coco?

00:50:07.910 --> 00:50:10.670
BK goes, oh, lol, he fucking ordered one.

00:50:10.690 --> 00:50:11.590
What's your problem?

00:50:11.670 --> 00:50:12.150
Yeah.

00:50:12.790 --> 00:50:14.130
Mira says, this is too much.

00:50:14.130 --> 00:50:15.310
It's gone too far.

00:50:15.530 --> 00:50:18.870
You have to get the catapult hole upgrade and fix all this shit.

00:50:19.670 --> 00:50:22.870
BK is like, I don't want to spend the points on the catapult.

00:50:23.790 --> 00:50:26.110
I'm saving it for the quadcopter.

00:50:26.890 --> 00:50:29.450
Mira screams to do it and that he promised.

00:50:29.930 --> 00:50:33.050
BK says, oh my god, fine, I'll fix everything.

00:50:33.170 --> 00:50:34.670
You owe me a damn quadcopter.

00:50:34.950 --> 00:50:36.470
Bitch, I'm going to get my drone.

00:50:37.390 --> 00:50:47.310
BK closes the text app and then goes to the whole app store where he buys the catapult upgrade, wasting 99 in-game dollars when he should be saving for the quadcopter.

00:50:48.310 --> 00:50:55.170
This upgrade introduces the game mechanic where certain things can fall down the hole and then can be shot back up through the hole.

00:50:55.470 --> 00:50:55.910
Oh, nice.

00:50:56.290 --> 00:50:59.090
The scene shifts back to the hole, which is still the egg farm.

00:50:59.570 --> 00:51:03.810
Now the hole can pull levers and shoot shit into the sky to unlock parts of the level.

00:51:04.330 --> 00:51:10.950
The puzzles will get more challenging and engaging as the hole grabs chickens and catapults them back up around the barn to get the hole to grow.

00:51:11.370 --> 00:51:18.190
It's genuinely really fun as shit and was cool that this deep into the game, we got a different mechanic for the hole and the puzzle solving.

00:51:18.210 --> 00:51:20.430
The fact that the hole has so many diverse uses.

00:51:20.810 --> 00:51:26.810
Right, it's not just drop shit in there, it's we have to get to this size so we can drop this, and now we can shoot shit back up.

00:51:26.970 --> 00:51:27.670
That's pretty cool.

00:51:27.830 --> 00:51:37.470
Yeah, and you know, it's really cool, and eventually it helps the hole get big enough to suck up cars and the barn itself with jelly bean in it.

00:51:38.170 --> 00:51:41.890
In the below, Mira yells that BK wasn't even trying to help.

00:51:42.250 --> 00:51:45.130
BK says he was, it's just hard to use the catapult.

00:51:46.030 --> 00:51:52.930
Eventually, BK says he used the hole to save Bearclaw, and we move over to Bearclaw, who sits across the fire from BK.

00:51:53.510 --> 00:51:56.770
Bearclaw is a bear in a full beekeeper suit.

00:51:57.070 --> 00:52:00.250
So like the hat, the fucking full white suit, a whole deal.

00:52:00.310 --> 00:52:01.170
A bear that loves honey.

00:52:02.050 --> 00:52:03.190
Groundbreaking, right?

00:52:04.650 --> 00:52:06.570
Bearclaw goes, you saved me?

00:52:07.010 --> 00:52:08.770
You humiliated me.

00:52:09.290 --> 00:52:12.510
BK says, yeah, Bearclaw, you were getting hunted by bees.

00:52:12.690 --> 00:52:13.630
I'm a hero.

00:52:15.090 --> 00:52:21.650
In retrospect, Bearclaw is like, yeah, but it's suspicious that you said you deliver donuts out to the middle of the forest.

00:52:22.010 --> 00:52:23.210
But look, it's a hard job.

00:52:23.330 --> 00:52:24.710
Sometimes you get hunted by bees.

00:52:25.770 --> 00:52:30.410
The scene shifts to the middle of the woods, where Bearclaw is tending to a bunch of bees at a bee farm.

00:52:31.010 --> 00:52:36.730
Bearclaw is hanging on to a tree branch and swaying up in the sky as bees circle them.

00:52:37.030 --> 00:52:42.170
They are sweating profusely, and are clearly terrified because, you know, the bees are hunting them.

00:52:43.330 --> 00:52:57.470
The whole puts off saving Bearclaw for last, though, which is kind of funny, and goes through eating up the entire beehive first, eating up bees, honeycombs, like beehives, and then a frog that was also there and was completely innocent in this situation.

00:52:58.230 --> 00:53:02.430
And this is one of the animals that's, like, not anthropomorphic.

00:53:02.450 --> 00:53:05.110
This is just a normal ass frog that goes, like, rivet and shit.

00:53:05.130 --> 00:53:06.870
A little bullfrog just got eaten up.

00:53:07.510 --> 00:53:08.310
Aw, poor guy.

00:53:08.650 --> 00:53:12.730
Mortified, and eventually, bearclaw falls down the hole into the below.

00:53:13.550 --> 00:53:17.830
The XP bar is showing really, really close to level 10, though, so there's that.

00:53:18.130 --> 00:53:19.850
Ooh, almost gonna get that quadcopter.

00:53:20.390 --> 00:53:21.970
Are you rooting for the quadcopter?

00:53:22.050 --> 00:53:22.790
Kinda now.

00:53:24.250 --> 00:53:25.730
You know it gets smashed.

00:53:27.910 --> 00:53:29.030
Which means he's gonna get it.

00:53:33.110 --> 00:53:39.930
Across the way, outside of the fireplace, a sad cat dressed as a chef interjects, as cats often do.

00:53:40.830 --> 00:53:42.350
They say, what about me?

00:53:42.570 --> 00:53:45.950
No one ever asks about me, which is also very much cat behavior.

00:53:45.970 --> 00:53:47.350
I was gonna say, that is such a cat thing.

00:53:47.770 --> 00:53:50.770
The chef accuses BK of ruining their restaurant.

00:53:51.170 --> 00:53:56.950
They had been dealing with what they call a very tiny bug problem and ordered a donut to cheer themselves up.

00:53:57.610 --> 00:54:03.230
The restaurant was called Cat Soup, and the building itself is shaped like a soup pot with a ladle in it.

00:54:03.730 --> 00:54:04.950
Oh, okay, so not like ketchup.

00:54:05.410 --> 00:54:06.970
Yeah, just cat soup.

00:54:08.050 --> 00:54:10.530
And you know, it's not undergoing a small bug problem.

00:54:11.270 --> 00:54:13.950
These fucking roaches are as big as the cat's head.

00:54:15.350 --> 00:54:19.570
They're undergoing a huge bug problem, and it's disgusting and terrifying.

00:54:19.590 --> 00:54:23.490
And even though it's done in this very cute art style, I was still, like, peeved out by it.

00:54:23.610 --> 00:54:24.910
Now, how many of them are there?

00:54:25.090 --> 00:54:25.870
So many.

00:54:25.890 --> 00:54:29.450
Oh, okay, because I was gonna say, if there was like six, that is a small, big bug problem.

00:54:29.710 --> 00:54:31.270
No, this is a big bug problem.

00:54:31.290 --> 00:54:33.090
Big, big bug problem.

00:54:33.930 --> 00:54:54.790
The whole starts outside Cat Soup and works its way inside to eat the entire kitchen of the restaurant, then to the customer's seating area to eat that whole area as well, and then all the cars in the parking lot and the palm trees outside, the neighboring businesses and the actual business itself, and then the neighboring skyscraper.

00:54:55.070 --> 00:54:56.390
The skyscraper.

00:54:56.410 --> 00:54:59.650
Like, I could understand taking out the neighboring businesses.

00:55:00.430 --> 00:55:01.010
You're like, that's...

00:55:01.230 --> 00:55:01.870
I get that.

00:55:01.890 --> 00:55:03.290
That's just eliminating the competition.

00:55:04.150 --> 00:55:06.730
No, this is taking off like two square blocks in LA.

00:55:07.130 --> 00:55:07.810
Oh, no.

00:55:08.470 --> 00:55:14.250
With the chef falling down the hole, we see that the XP bar is now completely full.

00:55:14.510 --> 00:55:15.070
Hell, yeah.

00:55:15.090 --> 00:55:17.290
We are now at level 10.

00:55:17.310 --> 00:55:18.290
Fuck, yeah, we are.

00:55:18.410 --> 00:55:27.930
And as level 10 is unlocked, BK's whole deployment app gets a notification that they've unlocked the quadcopter and a report to Raccoon HQ for training.

00:55:29.170 --> 00:55:32.470
In the below, Morsel says he got food poisoning in cat soup.

00:55:33.010 --> 00:55:33.670
More than once.

00:55:34.970 --> 00:55:37.790
Coco says he used to work there, and it's pretty disgusting.

00:55:37.810 --> 00:55:39.650
Probably because of all the roaches.

00:55:39.730 --> 00:55:40.890
Probably, yeah.

00:55:41.450 --> 00:55:45.270
BK sees this as a win, and that he helped everyone in town with this one.

00:55:46.050 --> 00:55:50.970
It's hard to argue that logic, where you're like, oh, you took down a restaurant that was making people sick, honestly?

00:55:52.230 --> 00:55:54.210
Maybe you shouldn't have taken out all the competition.

00:55:54.290 --> 00:55:59.230
This could have solved Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, in Act 1.

00:55:59.310 --> 00:55:59.670
Right.

00:56:01.430 --> 00:56:05.910
Salt has his back on this one with BK, and he's like, yeah, Mira, maybe this one was a good thing.

00:56:06.930 --> 00:56:12.010
Mira shuts everyone up and is like, okay, we all know Cat Soup was a hole before it even got holed.

00:56:13.330 --> 00:56:15.110
Which is so cute and clever on her part.

00:56:15.470 --> 00:56:17.430
But let's get back to the real problem here.

00:56:17.770 --> 00:56:20.770
BK is like, yeah, the problem is my smashed quadcopter.

00:56:21.570 --> 00:56:26.150
Salt, who is for some reason now on Team BK, is like, yeah, Mira, why'd you smash it?

00:56:27.270 --> 00:56:29.950
She says, I didn't want to smash it, but I had to.

00:56:29.990 --> 00:56:31.490
He's a fucking monster.

00:56:32.790 --> 00:56:37.370
The scene cuts back to the same shot of the Donut County donut shop we've seen before.

00:56:37.930 --> 00:56:43.090
But instead of this being a scene cut just for our view, it's the POV of the quadcopter.

00:56:44.410 --> 00:56:48.950
Like, so that when you see drone footage and it's that beautiful, like, sweeping shot, that's what we're looking at.

00:56:50.370 --> 00:56:57.330
The quadcopter comes down through the landscape of Los Angeles and descends on BK and Mira standing outside of the donut shop.

00:56:58.050 --> 00:56:59.370
BK says, check this out!

00:56:59.650 --> 00:57:02.450
And the quadcopter comes down to eye level with Mira.

00:57:02.790 --> 00:57:05.610
He points out how the propeller spins super fast.

00:57:06.450 --> 00:57:09.030
Mira's kind of unimpressed, but is like, hey, that's cool, man.

00:57:09.030 --> 00:57:09.630
Can I see it?

00:57:09.650 --> 00:57:11.170
Finally got your fucking copter.

00:57:11.690 --> 00:57:13.970
BK says, sure, and lands the quadcopter.

00:57:14.530 --> 00:57:17.090
Mira picks it up, and BK tells her to be careful.

00:57:17.770 --> 00:57:22.970
And she throws it to the ground as hard as she can, smashing it into a million little pieces.

00:57:23.350 --> 00:57:27.290
Bitch, you know how many fucking buildings we had to destroy to get that thing?

00:57:27.470 --> 00:57:28.590
All of Gecko Park.

00:57:31.370 --> 00:57:34.670
BK screams, freaking out, and he tells Mira she's acting psycho.

00:57:35.310 --> 00:57:37.810
Mira is like, yo, what the fuck?

00:57:37.970 --> 00:57:43.230
How can you care about this stupid toy when you got it by destroying our friend's homes?

00:57:44.150 --> 00:57:48.950
BK justifies it by saying, they ordered donuts, I give the people what they want.

00:57:50.510 --> 00:57:52.690
You didn't give a single fucking person a donut.

00:57:52.810 --> 00:57:53.610
Not once.

00:57:54.170 --> 00:57:55.770
Mira says, you know what, this is pointless.

00:57:55.790 --> 00:57:57.650
What's the password to your fucking hole app?

00:57:58.530 --> 00:57:59.990
She now has BK's tablet.

00:58:00.330 --> 00:58:05.090
BK says the password is bonkykong, and Mira logs in.

00:58:05.950 --> 00:58:08.350
She asks BK if he knows what's at the bottom of the holes.

00:58:09.470 --> 00:58:12.170
BK doesn't know and is like, well, Mira, what are you doing?

00:58:13.170 --> 00:58:15.470
Mira says she's teaching BK a lesson.

00:58:16.590 --> 00:58:21.030
Mira deploys a hole and starts making everything around BK disappear into it.

00:58:21.690 --> 00:58:25.690
He stands on top of a car watching his surroundings fall deep into the below.

00:58:26.250 --> 00:58:33.410
The hole gets big enough that it can eat up the car BK is sitting on, and he finally falls down the holes he's created the whole time.

00:58:34.550 --> 00:58:38.870
The hole does get so big, it also swallows up the donut shop and Mira along with it.

00:58:39.010 --> 00:58:43.410
If you're willing to fuck around with a weapon, you gotta be ready to have it used against you as well.

00:58:43.510 --> 00:58:45.050
Especially if you're in a video game.

00:58:46.250 --> 00:58:48.130
And that brings us down to the below.

00:58:48.970 --> 00:58:50.850
Mira tells the group she had to do it.

00:58:51.150 --> 00:58:53.250
There was no other way to get through to BK.

00:58:53.890 --> 00:58:57.310
That she tried to teach BK what it felt like to lose something beloved.

00:58:58.370 --> 00:59:03.530
BK says he guesses he understands even though all anyone lost is their weird trash houses.

00:59:04.630 --> 00:59:10.790
But he is the one that took them away by doing his job, which in this case was evil.

00:59:11.190 --> 00:59:15.050
It's also giving like Fern Gully or Avatar kind of shit, you know?

00:59:15.510 --> 00:59:16.610
I'm just doing my job.

00:59:16.630 --> 00:59:19.910
They're like, yeah, but you're just placing others, you motherfucker.

00:59:21.370 --> 00:59:22.590
Mira is like, you know what?

00:59:22.610 --> 00:59:25.650
That's probably close enough to an apology as we'll get, so we'll take it.

00:59:26.670 --> 00:59:30.990
Mira earnestly asks BK if he will help get everyone out of the hole now.

00:59:31.750 --> 00:59:33.450
He groans, but he agrees to it.

00:59:34.510 --> 00:59:39.510
Potter reminds them that her son Pup is just out there in the wild in a hot air balloon, and they have to find him.

00:59:40.290 --> 00:59:44.550
She figures, wait, if we can find him, then we can use his hot air balloon to get everyone out of the hole.

00:59:45.370 --> 00:59:48.230
Mira is like, oh, my God, finally someone has a good idea.

00:59:48.330 --> 00:59:48.970
Thank you.

00:59:49.290 --> 00:59:51.050
Okay, we just have to find Pup.

00:59:52.850 --> 00:59:55.910
Coco says that, hey, you know, Possum might be able to find Pup.

00:59:55.990 --> 00:59:57.810
And Mira goes, absolutely not.

00:59:58.210 --> 01:00:00.010
Possum is too fucking weird.

01:00:00.750 --> 01:00:01.590
You hate Possum.

01:00:02.990 --> 01:00:04.590
I also hate Possum.

01:00:05.250 --> 01:00:06.430
I'm here with Mira on this.

01:00:07.030 --> 01:00:08.230
Mira is the baddest bitch.

01:00:08.250 --> 01:00:09.550
I fucking love Mira.

01:00:09.570 --> 01:00:10.990
We are one on this one.

01:00:11.590 --> 01:00:12.210
We need help.

01:00:12.230 --> 01:00:12.930
How about Possum?

01:00:13.150 --> 01:00:13.930
Fuck Possum.

01:00:13.950 --> 01:00:15.570
Nope, I'm going to stay down in this hole.

01:00:17.550 --> 01:00:22.250
Coco's like, yeah, I know you think he's weird, but come on.

01:00:23.830 --> 01:00:28.010
BK tells them that if they know where he is, he can get them, you know, with the hole.

01:00:28.770 --> 01:00:35.450
Coco tells BK to deliver a donut, quote unquote, to the abandoned house because that's where Possum has been staying.

01:00:36.030 --> 01:00:39.330
Mirror's like, Jesus, of course he lives in a fucking abandoned house.

01:00:39.470 --> 01:00:40.790
It's a weird ass Possum.

01:00:42.070 --> 01:00:49.650
The hole arrives at an abandoned house with boarded up windows that is completely dark, except for some candles and some like weird shit throughout.

01:00:49.670 --> 01:00:51.930
Like there's like masks and weird shit all over.

01:00:51.950 --> 01:00:53.130
It's a weird fucking place.

01:00:53.290 --> 01:00:55.750
Like a whole ass like eyes wide shut situation.

01:00:56.250 --> 01:00:58.530
There's not an orgy going on.

01:00:58.870 --> 01:01:00.650
It's just creepy shit.

01:01:00.670 --> 01:01:01.770
I mean, there might be actually.

01:01:01.790 --> 01:01:02.610
I don't fucking know.

01:01:02.610 --> 01:01:03.730
Yeah, I mean, it's animals.

01:01:03.750 --> 01:01:04.430
It's LA.

01:01:05.870 --> 01:01:09.310
The hole grows and swallows up everything, including the house itself.

01:01:09.850 --> 01:01:14.170
In the below, Possum lands and is like, Holy shit, I knew the earth was hollow.

01:01:14.270 --> 01:01:14.890
Oh my God.

01:01:15.290 --> 01:01:18.570
Mira cuts the chase because she does not want to like waste time with this weirdo.

01:01:18.790 --> 01:01:20.030
He's so fucking dumb.

01:01:20.430 --> 01:01:22.830
She's like, Hey, Possum, can you locate Pup?

01:01:23.390 --> 01:01:29.210
Pup says he heard the raccoon cops talking about a dog in a hot air balloon, which is a fantastic lead.

01:01:29.870 --> 01:01:33.570
Possum needs a raccoon police scanner to triangulate the location.

01:01:33.910 --> 01:01:35.830
And Potter is like, Oh, thank God.

01:01:36.050 --> 01:01:37.610
We are so close to finding my son.

01:01:37.630 --> 01:01:38.590
This is fucking great.

01:01:39.530 --> 01:01:46.230
BK is like, Oh, you know, the raccoon police chief is at Raccoon Lagoon today, which is the happiest raccoon place on raccoon earth.

01:01:46.690 --> 01:01:49.290
It's the home of the fun flume, which is fun for raccoons.

01:01:51.570 --> 01:01:53.270
He's kind of a raccoon lagoon adult.

01:01:53.330 --> 01:01:53.750
Yeah.

01:01:54.370 --> 01:01:57.130
Meera is like, All right, you have no choice.

01:01:57.510 --> 01:01:58.690
The flume is doomed.

01:02:00.250 --> 01:02:06.410
BK begrudgingly agrees to destroy Raccoon Lagoon with a hole so they can get the raccoon police scanner so they can save pup.

01:02:07.410 --> 01:02:17.330
Raccoon Lagoon has a large castle inspired by Bavarian King Ludwig II's castle, which I've been to, and has also inspired other fairy tale castles.

01:02:18.010 --> 01:02:18.710
You know which ones.

01:02:18.890 --> 01:02:22.430
So you're very not heavy handedly saying, this is Disneyland.

01:02:23.150 --> 01:02:27.070
I mean, yeah, I'm just not trying to get on a radar or on a list.

01:02:27.590 --> 01:02:28.890
They got some fucking lawyers.

01:02:28.910 --> 01:02:29.850
Yeah, that's true.

01:02:30.110 --> 01:02:32.890
And Ben Esposito made the illusion, not me.

01:02:33.810 --> 01:02:40.430
On the terrace of the castle is the raccoon police chief who's enjoying his day and eating donuts.

01:02:41.890 --> 01:02:48.390
This motherfucker is a cop, and he's the first motherfucker in the entire game who's actually eating a goddamn donut.

01:02:50.530 --> 01:02:57.130
With the hole deployed, BK starts on destroying the Fun Flume, which is kind of like Tyana's Bayou Adventure.

01:02:57.650 --> 01:02:58.110
Okay.

01:02:58.150 --> 01:02:59.550
Or former Splash Mountain.

01:02:59.690 --> 01:03:00.670
That's so outdated.

01:03:00.670 --> 01:03:01.290
Oh my God.

01:03:01.930 --> 01:03:04.130
Or the Jurassic Park right at Universal.

01:03:04.910 --> 01:03:05.670
Jurassic World.

01:03:06.270 --> 01:03:06.950
Got you there.

01:03:06.970 --> 01:03:08.150
Damn, is it Jurassic World now?

01:03:08.170 --> 01:03:09.050
It is Jurassic World now.

01:03:09.110 --> 01:03:09.650
My bad.

01:03:10.190 --> 01:03:10.910
All right, fine.

01:03:10.930 --> 01:03:11.470
We're even.

01:03:13.510 --> 01:03:20.070
Once the Fun Flume is holed up, the Hole moves on to destroy the Ferris Wheel by shooting water up and into it.

01:03:20.310 --> 01:03:22.030
The catapult's so fucking fun.

01:03:22.730 --> 01:03:30.410
The water makes the Ferris Wheel fly off its hinges and launch directly into the Raccoon Lagoon Castle.

01:03:30.970 --> 01:03:36.290
With all of the park in pieces, the Hole makes fast work of Raccoon Lagoon.

01:03:37.370 --> 01:03:38.890
You just like saying Raccoon Lagoon.

01:03:38.910 --> 01:03:39.890
Oh my God, it's so fun.

01:03:41.850 --> 01:03:47.550
Down in the below, the Raccoon Police Chief is laying on his back and not moving after this great fall.

01:03:47.590 --> 01:03:50.170
Finally, somebody's fucking hurt from this fall.

01:03:51.130 --> 01:03:53.850
Mira looks over and is like, is he still alive?

01:03:54.090 --> 01:03:56.130
And everyone ignores this and they move on.

01:03:56.150 --> 01:03:58.730
And I'm gonna tell you right now, we never see the Police Chief again.

01:04:01.470 --> 01:04:02.930
There is not mention of him.

01:04:03.190 --> 01:04:04.670
He doesn't say anything.

01:04:04.690 --> 01:04:07.070
We're just like, we move on from this point.

01:04:07.090 --> 01:04:08.110
Man down, man down.

01:04:08.130 --> 01:04:08.390
Man down.

01:04:09.730 --> 01:04:11.770
Possum gets the Police Scanner.

01:04:12.250 --> 01:04:17.930
BK is like, look, I can get into a lot of trouble for this because we just kidnapped the raccoon Police Chief.

01:04:18.230 --> 01:04:19.210
May or may not have killed him.

01:04:19.310 --> 01:04:21.430
May have probably killed him.

01:04:21.450 --> 01:04:24.310
And the trash king could take away my tablet if he finds out.

01:04:24.330 --> 01:04:25.190
Not the trash king.

01:04:25.610 --> 01:04:29.650
Mira rolls her eyes and is like, oh no, are you gonna get grounded?

01:04:30.290 --> 01:04:31.090
What's he gonna do?

01:04:31.090 --> 01:04:33.450
Drop you and your friends into a fucking cave?

01:04:34.170 --> 01:04:35.530
BK is like, okay, shut up.

01:04:35.550 --> 01:04:36.310
I get it.

01:04:37.370 --> 01:04:46.370
Possum reports that the scanner is showing that there's trouble at Raccoon HQ, that they're on day three of protestors, and all the protestors have custom shirts now.

01:04:46.630 --> 01:04:47.130
Oh no.

01:04:47.950 --> 01:04:53.390
Donut County Donut Shop is missing, and there's an active investigation for a raccoon named BK.

01:04:54.110 --> 01:04:55.630
BK is like, all right, turn it off.

01:04:55.750 --> 01:04:56.350
This was fun.

01:04:56.370 --> 01:04:56.990
We're done now.

01:04:57.770 --> 01:04:58.930
Oh, really now?

01:04:59.590 --> 01:05:04.850
Then Possum gets a message on the scanner that the team is requesting backup on the 405.

01:05:05.450 --> 01:05:08.650
Due to a low flying hot air balloon causing a traffic jam.

01:05:09.310 --> 01:05:10.650
Potter goes, oh my god, that's him.

01:05:10.810 --> 01:05:11.830
That must be my pup.

01:05:12.350 --> 01:05:16.190
Okay, first off, the 405 is always a traffic jam.

01:05:16.210 --> 01:05:17.870
Yeah, it has nothing to do with the balloon.

01:05:17.890 --> 01:05:20.010
The 405 just fucking sucks.

01:05:20.990 --> 01:05:25.790
Mira tells BK to step on it, and to stop freaking out, she'll visit him in raccoon jail.

01:05:26.350 --> 01:05:27.910
But first, we have a delivery to make.

01:05:28.670 --> 01:05:32.950
BK does not like this because she just reminded him he could totally go to jail for this.

01:05:33.770 --> 01:05:34.690
But he's down.

01:05:35.750 --> 01:05:40.350
The scene shifts to the 405, which is literally just the 405.

01:05:40.370 --> 01:05:42.110
The worst freeway in America.

01:05:42.170 --> 01:05:43.310
It's genuinely the...

01:05:43.470 --> 01:05:49.230
I would drive miles out of my way to not be on the 405, and it would still save time.

01:05:49.490 --> 01:05:50.090
Entirely.

01:05:50.150 --> 01:05:50.830
It's awful.

01:05:50.850 --> 01:05:54.190
The coolest thing is that you can get to the Getty, and that's it.

01:05:56.110 --> 01:06:03.350
So we're at the 405, and the cars are at a fucking standstill with a hot air balloon flying low and blocking some lanes.

01:06:03.890 --> 01:06:08.870
The top down shot of the 405 shows that there's two palm trees on fire around the freeway.

01:06:09.890 --> 01:06:11.570
This actually happened to Ben Esposito.

01:06:11.670 --> 01:06:13.130
So he said...

01:06:13.150 --> 01:06:14.930
I was going to say, this is not out of place.

01:06:15.030 --> 01:06:16.290
No, this is completely normal.

01:06:16.310 --> 01:06:17.270
That's why you didn't even react.

01:06:17.290 --> 01:06:19.110
You're like, of course they were on fire.

01:06:20.130 --> 01:06:29.590
He said that once he was stuck in shitty traffic on the 405, and completely unrelated to the traffic jam, there were two palm trees just straight up on fire.

01:06:31.050 --> 01:06:32.810
And if you've ever seen a palm tree on fire...

01:06:33.190 --> 01:06:34.370
It's horrifying.

01:06:34.390 --> 01:06:36.170
It's one horrifying and two beautiful.

01:06:36.710 --> 01:06:43.430
It's kind of a candle because it's usually just the top part of the palm tree that's on fire, not typically the entire length of the tree.

01:06:43.770 --> 01:06:46.350
For some fucking reason, I don't even know how that shit starts.

01:06:46.370 --> 01:06:51.710
I guess the stalks are really dry up there, but like rats live in palm trees sometimes, like they're fucking terrifying.

01:06:51.990 --> 01:06:53.850
But yeah, they look like giant candles.

01:06:55.210 --> 01:06:58.630
So Ben Esposito was like, there is no better flavor text than that.

01:06:58.690 --> 01:07:04.630
So unrelated to the holes, there are two palm trees actively on fire in the sequence.

01:07:05.850 --> 01:07:12.170
The hole appears and starts picking up small items, then small scooters, then small cars, then big cars.

01:07:12.230 --> 01:07:15.950
Honestly, the hole is some of the most effective traffic busting I've ever seen.

01:07:17.830 --> 01:07:24.770
Using the catapult, the hole swallows up some raccoon cops and shoots them up at the hot air balloon with pup in it.

01:07:25.170 --> 01:07:36.070
The raccoon cops fly up and hang on to the hot air balloon, which weigh down the balloon and it safely brings it down the hole without popping the balloon or fucking up like the basket part.

01:07:36.170 --> 01:07:37.550
Okay, so they're hanging on to the basket?

01:07:37.790 --> 01:07:40.850
Yeah, it's really clever that they did this without fucking up the balloon.

01:07:40.870 --> 01:07:45.350
I was going to say, because I thought what was going to happen was they would jump up, grab on the balloon, and then pop it.

01:07:45.530 --> 01:07:46.070
Oh, no.

01:07:47.290 --> 01:07:54.810
Once the balloon is down the hole, the hole has gotten so big, it can swallow three lanes of traffic all at once.

01:07:55.190 --> 01:07:56.050
Oh, that'd be so nice.

01:07:56.170 --> 01:07:56.870
So it does.

01:07:58.470 --> 01:08:03.270
From the below, we see Pup in the hot air balloon gently float down to the fireplace.

01:08:04.030 --> 01:08:06.610
Potter is ecstatic to see her son is safe.

01:08:06.970 --> 01:08:12.690
And before they can even hug, BK pops up and yells at Pup to get out of the hot air balloon.

01:08:13.330 --> 01:08:15.210
I have to use it to save everyone.

01:08:17.550 --> 01:08:20.470
Mira checks on him and is like, you are not doing this alone.

01:08:20.490 --> 01:08:23.930
You're just gonna go punk out and you're gonna run away, and I'm going with you.

01:08:24.530 --> 01:08:30.990
Possum, being the one who is actually making any fucking progress happen in this entire thing, is like, I'm going to.

01:08:31.230 --> 01:08:33.150
And he's like the one person nobody trusted.

01:08:33.250 --> 01:08:35.410
Yeah, and Mira and BK are like, absolutely not.

01:08:35.430 --> 01:08:37.190
You're not coming with us.

01:08:37.930 --> 01:08:39.770
Mira is like, he's fucking weird.

01:08:39.790 --> 01:08:41.470
I'm not letting him in the goddamn balloon.

01:08:42.310 --> 01:08:45.330
And BK is just like, I don't want anyone in the goddamn balloon.

01:08:45.350 --> 01:08:46.670
I don't want any of you with me.

01:08:47.090 --> 01:08:48.970
Possum's like, I have hacking skills.

01:08:48.990 --> 01:08:52.690
If we get up there, I can hack into the mainframe with my dark web skills.

01:08:52.710 --> 01:08:55.410
And they're like, yeah, that's why you're not coming, dude.

01:08:56.350 --> 01:08:58.590
Because you fuck with the dark web.

01:08:58.650 --> 01:08:59.830
You're not invited.

01:08:59.850 --> 01:09:02.790
Anybody who says the mainframe, I don't want to fuck with.

01:09:02.850 --> 01:09:03.710
Oh, I know, right?

01:09:04.190 --> 01:09:05.390
That's not a real thing.

01:09:05.410 --> 01:09:06.230
Shut the fuck up.

01:09:07.170 --> 01:09:08.890
Coco asks what the plan is.

01:09:09.070 --> 01:09:11.730
And BK is like, I'm going to go talk to the leader of the raccoons.

01:09:12.270 --> 01:09:12.990
Trash king.

01:09:13.970 --> 01:09:16.930
BK is like, we're going to do a big boss fight, and I'm going to kick his butt.

01:09:17.430 --> 01:09:19.830
He actually says, like, I'm going to do a boss fight.

01:09:19.850 --> 01:09:20.070
Nice.

01:09:20.070 --> 01:09:20.830
OK, that's great.

01:09:21.070 --> 01:09:22.410
Mira is horrified.

01:09:22.430 --> 01:09:25.830
And as she says it, BK always screws up the boss fight.

01:09:26.190 --> 01:09:27.850
And she's like, you need to follow my lead.

01:09:29.190 --> 01:09:34.330
Coco says, hey, maybe you should try talking to him first, you know, rather than jumping into a boss fight.

01:09:34.810 --> 01:09:36.130
And Mira goes, I guess I'll try.

01:09:36.150 --> 01:09:36.590
Whatever.

01:09:36.850 --> 01:09:38.310
We're probably going to get into a boss fight.

01:09:40.010 --> 01:09:47.910
Mira and BK take the hot air balloon up and out of the below, and we see the full scope of Donut County and what's left of the skyline.

01:09:48.610 --> 01:09:51.890
The entire county is filled with large, large holes.

01:09:52.390 --> 01:09:56.530
The valley is vast with few buildings left after the holes have ravaged the land.

01:09:57.670 --> 01:09:59.990
Mira looks down and says, wow, this is eerie.

01:10:00.210 --> 01:10:02.150
It's like they all got replaced by raccoons.

01:10:03.390 --> 01:10:06.650
BK says he feels bad, but he can't undo what he did.

01:10:07.510 --> 01:10:14.630
Mira, his best friend, says, yeah, you feel guilty, but I don't blame you for everything the raccoons do.

01:10:15.390 --> 01:10:18.050
BK asks Mira if she still wants to be friends.

01:10:18.990 --> 01:10:25.070
Mira says she does, but also if you want to be friends, don't make your guilt my problem.

01:10:25.630 --> 01:10:26.390
Damn straight.

01:10:27.050 --> 01:10:28.190
Also, wash my car.

01:10:30.050 --> 01:10:31.250
Also, give my dog a bath.

01:10:31.930 --> 01:10:33.150
And do my laundry for a month.

01:10:33.990 --> 01:10:35.490
Mira's just like the baddest bitch.

01:10:35.510 --> 01:10:36.410
I fucking love her.

01:10:37.290 --> 01:10:39.090
BK thinks about it and says, deal.

01:10:39.590 --> 01:10:43.330
And as friends, they take off to Raccoon HQ.

01:10:43.450 --> 01:10:46.690
Now, is this a real dog or like an anthropomorphic dog?

01:10:46.710 --> 01:10:49.250
Okay, yeah, so the beginning Mira has a real dog.

01:10:49.270 --> 01:10:50.630
She's like scratching him.

01:10:50.650 --> 01:10:51.630
She's feeding him snacks.

01:10:51.670 --> 01:10:52.010
Yeah.

01:10:52.030 --> 01:10:52.670
It's not her Mr.

01:10:52.690 --> 01:10:53.170
Peanut Butter.

01:10:53.290 --> 01:10:55.510
Right, but also like Pup and Potter are dogs.

01:10:55.850 --> 01:10:56.550
Yeah, exactly.

01:10:56.570 --> 01:10:57.970
That's why I had to like clarify.

01:10:58.210 --> 01:11:00.830
Yeah, don't think about it too hard.

01:11:02.090 --> 01:11:08.150
Raccoon HQ is at Griffith Observatory or for our GTA 5 girlies, Galileo Observatory.

01:11:08.230 --> 01:11:08.670
Oh, yeah.

01:11:09.210 --> 01:11:13.570
Mira says, it kind of looks like a big trash can, which it actually doesn't.

01:11:13.670 --> 01:11:15.490
I guess so, yeah, a little bit, yeah.

01:11:15.890 --> 01:11:17.950
BK goes, oh my God, I know, right?

01:11:19.250 --> 01:11:23.950
As they approach the observatory, Mira says, oh my God, it smells so bad up here.

01:11:24.790 --> 01:11:29.470
BK takes a big hardy inhale and says, home sweet home.

01:11:31.670 --> 01:11:35.970
Mira tells BK to call the trash can, but BK says, oh my God, that would be really weird.

01:11:35.990 --> 01:11:36.870
I'm just going to text him.

01:11:37.210 --> 01:11:38.190
Honestly, who calls?

01:11:38.210 --> 01:11:40.190
He's a millennial, not Gen Z.

01:11:40.210 --> 01:11:42.890
He's like, do not call me, please text me.

01:11:43.470 --> 01:11:46.470
BK texts him going, hey, TK.

01:11:47.410 --> 01:11:50.670
Like hey, with like a bunch of y's, so you know he's about to do some dumb shit.

01:11:51.310 --> 01:12:00.650
If I get a text that says, hey, I know someone's going to ask me to do some dumbass shit, so he knows, and Trash King looks at this, responds with, who is this?

01:12:02.430 --> 01:12:03.430
Now hold on a second.

01:12:03.570 --> 01:12:07.810
You just said something, and I'm hoping this comes around and I might be jumping the gun.

01:12:08.070 --> 01:12:09.910
Trash King, he shortened to TK.

01:12:10.850 --> 01:12:12.290
What is BK short for?

01:12:12.310 --> 01:12:13.010
Oh, I don't know.

01:12:13.050 --> 01:12:13.770
Oh, you don't know?

01:12:14.170 --> 01:12:15.030
Bonut King.

01:12:15.150 --> 01:12:17.410
But it is implying that he is the king of something.

01:12:17.850 --> 01:12:18.590
Ben King?

01:12:18.810 --> 01:12:19.310
I don't know.

01:12:20.530 --> 01:12:21.290
Butthole King.

01:12:22.090 --> 01:12:22.870
Bestie King.

01:12:23.370 --> 01:12:25.750
BK goes, hey, I'm BK.

01:12:25.770 --> 01:12:26.570
I'm a raccoon.

01:12:26.590 --> 01:12:27.330
I work for you.

01:12:27.350 --> 01:12:33.610
I was wondering like, is it possible to undo some of the holes and give people their trash back?

01:12:34.510 --> 01:12:34.950
Maybe.

01:12:35.370 --> 01:12:37.010
Trash King leaves him on red.

01:12:37.710 --> 01:12:38.010
Oh.

01:12:38.510 --> 01:12:41.950
And BK texts him, like, triple texts him going, okay, never mind.

01:12:42.290 --> 01:12:43.190
No problem.

01:12:44.410 --> 01:12:47.190
BK looks up at Mirror and goes, it didn't work.

01:12:47.210 --> 01:12:48.570
I think Trash King is mad at me.

01:12:49.990 --> 01:12:52.870
Mirror says, hey, BK, you know what would be fun?

01:12:53.690 --> 01:12:58.170
BK, being her bestie, says, opening up a hole and wrecking this place.

01:12:58.810 --> 01:13:01.110
Mirror goes, lol, yup, let's do it.

01:13:01.130 --> 01:13:03.190
I like that she's encouraging you now.

01:13:03.350 --> 01:13:03.770
Yeah.

01:13:03.870 --> 01:13:07.270
BK laughs and says, okay, one hole coming right up.

01:13:08.150 --> 01:13:16.470
So from floating above in the hot air balloon, BK deploys a hole, but isn't able to get it big enough to really cause some serious damage, which kind of sucks.

01:13:16.710 --> 01:13:17.770
BK goes, damn.

01:13:18.850 --> 01:13:19.670
Well, we tried.

01:13:19.790 --> 01:13:20.170
Oh, well.

01:13:21.270 --> 01:13:23.790
And as they're like, fuck, that was our last plan.

01:13:24.270 --> 01:13:29.450
From the back of this very small hot air balloon basket, Possum shows up.

01:13:31.750 --> 01:13:33.550
He's been here the whole time.

01:13:33.930 --> 01:13:35.410
Possum says, I can help.

01:13:35.930 --> 01:13:38.650
And Mirror goes, ah!

01:13:38.670 --> 01:13:40.710
Possum, oh my god, you're here.

01:13:40.730 --> 01:13:42.010
We told you to stay with everyone.

01:13:42.410 --> 01:13:43.870
He's so weird.

01:13:45.050 --> 01:13:51.290
He uses his tail to loop underneath the fucking basket and then just climbed up like a little fucking weirdo.

01:13:51.310 --> 01:13:52.350
You know they do that too.

01:13:52.370 --> 01:13:55.110
You've been to my apartment that was overrun by the possum.

01:13:55.650 --> 01:13:57.210
I feel Mirror on this shit.

01:13:57.230 --> 01:13:59.410
The possum should not be there, and they're always there.

01:14:01.250 --> 01:14:02.970
Possum is like, okay, word.

01:14:02.990 --> 01:14:06.210
You did tell me to stay behind, but I read between the lines.

01:14:08.050 --> 01:14:13.210
I can help you hack into the Raccoon HQ security system, and you can sneak a hole inside that way.

01:14:14.050 --> 01:14:14.950
Into the computer?

01:14:15.350 --> 01:14:16.530
Through the security system.

01:14:16.550 --> 01:14:17.390
Okay, fine.

01:14:17.810 --> 01:14:23.790
Possum is able to hack into the system easily and deploy a hole inside of Raccoon HQ.

01:14:24.730 --> 01:14:26.390
So fuck you, Mirror, we got this.

01:14:27.050 --> 01:14:35.190
The hole wrecks a house through Raccoon HQ, starting with an employee bathroom, then the security room, and then into the biology lab.

01:14:35.570 --> 01:14:36.070
Oh no.

01:14:36.690 --> 01:14:43.390
Inside the biology lab, Trash King is on a video call watching some new recruits on board in the biology lab.

01:14:43.650 --> 01:14:48.210
He tells the recruits that Donut County used to be home to many rude, screaming beasts.

01:14:48.710 --> 01:14:51.990
No one knows why LA is still filled with all these rude, screaming beasts.

01:14:52.010 --> 01:14:52.270
True.

01:14:52.970 --> 01:14:54.870
The animals were just outside.

01:14:55.190 --> 01:14:58.910
He tells them it's our job to figure out the purpose of these nude creatures.

01:14:59.690 --> 01:15:03.370
I'd also like to note that Trash King is only wearing a crown and nothing else.

01:15:03.650 --> 01:15:04.910
If he's wearing anything, he's not nude.

01:15:06.830 --> 01:15:09.770
But would you consider a crown an accessory or clothing?

01:15:10.830 --> 01:15:11.770
Eh, yes.

01:15:12.070 --> 01:15:13.270
Okay.

01:15:13.290 --> 01:15:14.130
Depends on how you wear it.

01:15:14.190 --> 01:15:15.370
Hey, it's a fucking raccoon.

01:15:15.390 --> 01:15:16.450
Don't think too hard about it.

01:15:16.470 --> 01:15:17.650
Yeah, he's the Trash King.

01:15:18.290 --> 01:15:22.490
In the lab, there are two raccoons looking at a snake and vigorously taking notes.

01:15:23.090 --> 01:15:25.670
There's other cages with other animals we've seen before.

01:15:25.770 --> 01:15:27.490
Bunnies, chickens, stuff like that.

01:15:28.310 --> 01:15:30.850
But not for long, because here comes the hole, bitch.

01:15:31.670 --> 01:15:37.150
From his screen, Trash King watches on as a mysterious hole destroys the biology lab.

01:15:38.010 --> 01:15:41.050
As it gets worse, Trash King tells the recruits not to panic.

01:15:42.030 --> 01:15:43.970
It's just a rogue hole.

01:15:44.450 --> 01:15:46.530
This is literally very normal.

01:15:47.870 --> 01:15:55.290
The lights in the room start to flash red, and Trash King tells the recruits that he turned on the emergency lights because it's fun.

01:15:56.250 --> 01:16:00.590
He thinks for a moment, then tells the recruits to fill out their security waivers in the next five seconds.

01:16:01.150 --> 01:16:01.650
Oh, God.

01:16:02.490 --> 01:16:06.710
In the hall outside of the biology lab, the bunnies from the lab are now running feral.

01:16:07.530 --> 01:16:15.030
BK gets a rogue hole into the anthropology lab, a big white room with several raccoons studying a trash can that's on fire.

01:16:16.030 --> 01:16:20.710
Above the lab, the recruits have moved on to this room and are observing from above.

01:16:21.230 --> 01:16:24.150
Trash King is also observing this lab from a video call as well.

01:16:25.050 --> 01:16:33.250
Trash King addresses the recruits observing the anthropology lab, saying that, before raccoons, the people of Donut County produced a wide variety of trash.

01:16:33.830 --> 01:16:37.770
We believe each piece of trash has special significance.

01:16:38.490 --> 01:16:43.630
Our scientists study this trash round the clock so that we can learn to create our own someday.

01:16:43.970 --> 01:16:45.090
Let's see what they're up to.

01:16:45.250 --> 01:16:48.670
Like, he's fucking announcing, like, we love trash!

01:16:49.450 --> 01:16:57.230
The raccoons studying the trash fire wiggle their fat little tails while they look on, but a rogue hole ruins their research.

01:16:57.670 --> 01:16:58.550
And their lives!

01:16:59.530 --> 01:17:00.890
The hole eats them right up.

01:17:01.850 --> 01:17:06.830
The hole actually ends up triggering the fire alarm, and then everything really goes to shit in the lab.

01:17:07.430 --> 01:17:09.550
Trash King says, nobody panic.

01:17:10.330 --> 01:17:11.350
Everything is fine.

01:17:11.610 --> 01:17:12.530
Don't panic.

01:17:12.790 --> 01:17:15.650
But to whomever is driving this hole, please go away.

01:17:15.670 --> 01:17:18.910
At least he knows somebody's controlling it.

01:17:18.990 --> 01:17:19.530
Yeah.

01:17:20.270 --> 01:17:23.710
The hole uses water and fireworks to short circuit the lab.

01:17:24.270 --> 01:17:26.550
Trash King starts getting angry and impatient.

01:17:26.570 --> 01:17:29.050
Says, well, that concludes the tour.

01:17:29.370 --> 01:17:31.530
Attention, hole driver, meet me in my office.

01:17:31.550 --> 01:17:32.030
Thank you.

01:17:34.370 --> 01:17:38.950
I love the confidence that he's just like, I'm going to demand this hole driver to show up in my office.

01:17:38.970 --> 01:17:41.670
Yeah, I'm going to assume that I have this power.

01:17:41.690 --> 01:17:44.250
I am the trash king.

01:17:45.330 --> 01:17:49.070
From the security room, we see the anthropology lab explode.

01:17:49.090 --> 01:17:55.230
BK takes the hole down the main hall, all the way to the trash king's gold-trimmed office.

01:17:56.050 --> 01:18:01.350
The doors to the office open and there's a grand hallway, showing off trash that BK had sucked up through the game.

01:18:01.950 --> 01:18:08.070
There are totems from each of the community's homes, like Bearclaw's honeycomb or the toilet from the bathroom just now.

01:18:09.970 --> 01:18:16.550
The hole makes it to trash king's office, and as it enters, a cage is formed around the hole, trapping it.

01:18:16.810 --> 01:18:17.290
Oh no.

01:18:17.530 --> 01:18:19.770
Which, you don't think too hard about it.

01:18:19.810 --> 01:18:21.570
I was going to say how, but all right.

01:18:22.710 --> 01:18:28.630
On a monstrous, two-story-high pile of trash sits the trash king.

01:18:30.350 --> 01:18:35.450
Trash king looks down at the trapped hole and says, BK, please report to my office now.

01:18:35.930 --> 01:18:38.810
I am opening up direct access for you alone, BK.

01:18:39.570 --> 01:18:41.070
We have urgent business.

01:18:42.130 --> 01:18:45.990
Back outside in the hot air balloon, BK says, whoa, he said my name.

01:18:47.270 --> 01:18:49.170
Mira is like, this guy stinks.

01:18:49.230 --> 01:18:50.670
Are you sure you can do this alone?

01:18:51.450 --> 01:18:54.450
BK agrees that he stinks, but he's got this.

01:18:55.430 --> 01:18:59.530
BK says he thought about what Mira said, and he agrees that this is his mess to clean up.

01:19:00.230 --> 01:19:02.870
Mira says it is, but you can always call me for backup.

01:19:03.370 --> 01:19:06.110
BK looks at her and says, I appreciate it.

01:19:06.710 --> 01:19:07.350
Wish me luck.

01:19:07.810 --> 01:19:08.770
They are best friends.

01:19:08.970 --> 01:19:09.830
They really are.

01:19:10.030 --> 01:19:13.170
Mira is so ride or die, and she's like, you're a fucking idiot, but...

01:19:13.690 --> 01:19:14.850
You're my fucking idiot.

01:19:14.870 --> 01:19:15.750
Yeah, but you're my fucking idiot.

01:19:15.770 --> 01:19:21.490
That's the kind of energy of like, you are literally the dumbest motherfucker, and you've ruined all of Los Angeles.

01:19:22.250 --> 01:19:23.770
But I love you, you dumb dipshit.

01:19:23.790 --> 01:19:25.290
And I'm gonna stick by you to the end.

01:19:25.310 --> 01:19:25.790
Yeah.

01:19:26.930 --> 01:19:31.510
BK takes a rope down from the balloon to the ground and enters Trash King's office.

01:19:32.190 --> 01:19:34.770
The Trash King offers BK a pickle from a jar.

01:19:35.410 --> 01:19:37.130
His paw is already in the jar.

01:19:37.490 --> 01:19:38.150
It is stuck.

01:19:38.850 --> 01:19:39.090
Oh.

01:19:39.670 --> 01:19:43.110
BK stays strong and says, no, I'm here to get you to reverse the holes.

01:19:43.790 --> 01:19:46.910
BK demands that the Trash King bring everyone back.

01:19:48.450 --> 01:19:53.550
Trash King says, did you know you're the highest rated hole driver in Donut County?

01:19:54.150 --> 01:19:55.450
You're famous, BK.

01:19:56.410 --> 01:19:58.430
BK says, oh my god, me?

01:20:00.470 --> 01:20:02.050
Trash King offers BK a job.

01:20:02.570 --> 01:20:04.830
He offers them the opportunity to go full time.

01:20:05.290 --> 01:20:06.190
Company stop.

01:20:06.770 --> 01:20:11.810
He promises that the company will take care of everything for him, even wipe his butt.

01:20:12.690 --> 01:20:15.390
BK says, I hate wiping my own butt.

01:20:15.690 --> 01:20:16.450
Who doesn't?

01:20:16.990 --> 01:20:17.730
We have a bidet.

01:20:17.750 --> 01:20:18.370
I don't fucking know.

01:20:18.390 --> 01:20:19.570
Yeah, I don't wipe my own butt anymore.

01:20:19.970 --> 01:20:24.950
Trash King says, if BK joins, he'll let BK play with the real big boy toys.

01:20:25.970 --> 01:20:29.910
Trash King then shows BK the King quadcopter.

01:20:30.670 --> 01:20:32.890
Oh no, not another quadcopter.

01:20:32.910 --> 01:20:33.990
This is his weakness.

01:20:34.210 --> 01:20:37.690
This is a quadcopter the size of a real life helicopter.

01:20:38.070 --> 01:20:42.110
Oh, so he could use it to like fly around better than the fucking hot air balloon.

01:20:42.170 --> 01:20:46.470
Yeah, it has a cement cannon for tough construction jobs.

01:20:47.470 --> 01:20:49.810
It's like the pickup truck of quadcopters.

01:20:50.370 --> 01:20:54.070
BK just looks at it in awe and goes, Oh my God.

01:20:55.050 --> 01:21:02.210
Just sparkles in his eyes, and just like a halo and angels start singing when he sees it.

01:21:02.210 --> 01:21:06.630
A full power boner of like, I could have the King quadcopter.

01:21:07.430 --> 01:21:10.130
Trash King says, he has one more thing to show him, BK.

01:21:10.590 --> 01:21:11.170
Follow me.

01:21:12.590 --> 01:21:19.450
Outside, about a dozen drone-sized quadcopters, regular ones, are descending on Possum and Mira in the hot air balloon.

01:21:20.430 --> 01:21:22.270
Mira goes, Hey, Possum?

01:21:23.510 --> 01:21:24.550
Do you have a bazooka?

01:21:26.270 --> 01:21:26.750
Maybe.

01:21:26.870 --> 01:21:29.250
Or something that could blow up a bunch of quadcopters?

01:21:30.350 --> 01:21:33.350
Possum says no, but he can check the dark web when they get back.

01:21:35.990 --> 01:21:38.910
Mira says, Never mind, maybe they're just here for fun.

01:21:39.970 --> 01:21:45.770
Lights from the quadcopters flash on the hot air balloon, as Mira quietly says, Hurry up, BK.

01:21:47.690 --> 01:21:52.810
Inside Raccoon HQ, Trash King has shown BK where the holes come from.

01:21:53.590 --> 01:21:55.470
BK is mind blown.

01:21:56.770 --> 01:22:00.850
Trash King looks at BK and tells him those nerds in the hot air balloon are holding him back.

01:22:01.470 --> 01:22:02.670
He has to learn to put himself first.

01:22:03.570 --> 01:22:07.010
His paw is also still stuck in the pickle jar, as we're like seeing Trash King.

01:22:07.270 --> 01:22:09.470
And raccoons have tiny little claw hands.

01:22:09.610 --> 01:22:10.170
Oh, yeah.

01:22:10.170 --> 01:22:11.530
How the fuck is it stuck?

01:22:12.250 --> 01:22:16.530
Trash King gestures to BK and says, You gotta reach in and get the pickle.

01:22:17.570 --> 01:22:20.770
BK says, What if my hand gets stuck like yours?

01:22:21.690 --> 01:22:24.510
Trash King laughs it off and says, It's not stuck.

01:22:24.530 --> 01:22:26.050
I can get it out whenever I want.

01:22:26.250 --> 01:22:27.630
It's meant to inspire you.

01:22:27.790 --> 01:22:28.630
This is a metaphor.

01:22:30.190 --> 01:22:34.090
Sign this, and Trash King pushes a contract over to BK.

01:22:34.430 --> 01:22:37.430
BK reads that it's an offer to be branch manager.

01:22:38.390 --> 01:22:40.910
BK is amazed because this includes health insurance.

01:22:41.330 --> 01:22:42.290
He's such a millennial.

01:22:42.310 --> 01:22:44.030
He's like, Oh my God.

01:22:45.070 --> 01:22:49.190
Trash King says, Yep, and it includes a brand new quadcopter.

01:22:50.250 --> 01:22:52.770
BK looks up at him and says, Hand me a pen.

01:22:55.170 --> 01:22:56.470
The company quadcopter?

01:22:56.610 --> 01:22:56.950
I'm in.

01:22:57.490 --> 01:23:02.650
No, we don't want him to fall to the dark side of capitalism and judgefication.

01:23:03.130 --> 01:23:04.330
Be so good at it.

01:23:04.950 --> 01:23:09.290
Outside, the king quadcopter has descended on the hot air balloon.

01:23:09.750 --> 01:23:12.070
This is the really big one with the fucking cement cannon.

01:23:12.090 --> 01:23:12.510
Yeah.

01:23:12.750 --> 01:23:15.050
Possum tells Mira, They have to surrender.

01:23:15.070 --> 01:23:16.830
That thing can easily pop the balloon.

01:23:17.390 --> 01:23:17.930
It's over.

01:23:18.950 --> 01:23:21.250
Mira says, Not if we blow it up first.

01:23:21.450 --> 01:23:22.330
We're going to use a hole.

01:23:22.350 --> 01:23:23.270
Oh, shit.

01:23:23.770 --> 01:23:29.010
Here, we enter the big boss battle, where finally Mira takes control of the hole.

01:23:29.070 --> 01:23:29.810
Hell, yeah.

01:23:30.230 --> 01:23:38.290
The king quadcopter uses the cement cannon to create a maze that the hole has to travel through to evade the king quadcopter bomb attacks.

01:23:39.770 --> 01:23:45.750
Mira navigates with precision and uses the catapult to hurl bombs back up at the king quadcopter.

01:23:45.890 --> 01:23:46.790
Take that, you fuck.

01:23:46.850 --> 01:23:48.270
Again, she's the baddest bitch.

01:23:49.370 --> 01:23:54.790
Mira is able to break down the king quadcopter enough that it retreats and rejoices with Possum.

01:23:55.090 --> 01:23:57.670
She's like, haha, we did it without BK.

01:23:58.050 --> 01:23:59.730
I'm better at this than BK is.

01:23:59.770 --> 01:24:00.210
Right?

01:24:00.330 --> 01:24:02.990
She's like, I also can't believe he abandoned us.

01:24:03.710 --> 01:24:08.570
Possum says he sold us out, but he's not surprised because BK is a true capitalist.

01:24:09.470 --> 01:24:10.570
That's from the game.

01:24:10.570 --> 01:24:12.830
Like, it's not even just my injections.

01:24:12.850 --> 01:24:13.490
It's so good.

01:24:14.230 --> 01:24:16.930
Mira says, yeah, I'm going to kick his butt.

01:24:17.530 --> 01:24:17.890
Good.

01:24:18.190 --> 01:24:21.730
She says she's going to fix his quadcopter and then break it again.

01:24:24.090 --> 01:24:27.410
And then the ground under them rumbles.

01:24:27.570 --> 01:24:29.250
Possum says, what was that?

01:24:30.130 --> 01:24:36.830
And then the king quadcopter flies up again from behind Raccoon HQ, but now it's been upgraded.

01:24:37.610 --> 01:24:41.790
Mira clocks this, looks up at the king quadcopter and says it's back.

01:24:42.430 --> 01:24:45.410
And then she realizes it has a bazooka.

01:24:46.130 --> 01:24:48.170
How did they fix that thing up so goddamn quick?

01:24:48.230 --> 01:24:49.670
They have a lot of raccoons there.

01:24:49.690 --> 01:24:50.290
That's true.

01:24:50.590 --> 01:24:52.050
Mira goes, not fair.

01:24:53.330 --> 01:24:56.210
Possum begs, don't blow us up.

01:24:56.730 --> 01:25:01.430
Mira and Possum face imminent death at the hands of the capitalist raccoons.

01:25:02.170 --> 01:25:04.390
And other things I've said on this podcast.

01:25:05.770 --> 01:25:09.510
Trash King laughs and says, you thought you could use my holes against me?

01:25:09.930 --> 01:25:11.230
I'm the trash king.

01:25:11.250 --> 01:25:12.550
I rule.

01:25:12.910 --> 01:25:14.250
I designed this app.

01:25:14.550 --> 01:25:18.770
Sorry to burst your bubble, but your friend BK took the pickle.

01:25:18.950 --> 01:25:20.770
Which is not a reference, they understand.

01:25:20.950 --> 01:25:21.370
No.

01:25:21.790 --> 01:25:22.650
Later, nerds.

01:25:22.930 --> 01:25:23.890
Have fun.

01:25:24.690 --> 01:25:27.830
Then the doors of Raccoon HQ burst open.

01:25:28.590 --> 01:25:31.390
BK comes rolling out saying, sorry I'm late.

01:25:31.930 --> 01:25:33.570
I didn't take the pickle.

01:25:34.230 --> 01:25:35.910
Still don't know what that means.

01:25:36.370 --> 01:25:38.210
They're like, what the fuck is the pickle?

01:25:38.230 --> 01:25:39.550
Is that raccoon slang?

01:25:39.570 --> 01:25:40.730
Going on with the pickle, guys.

01:25:41.470 --> 01:25:46.570
BK has Possum's hacking device in his paws, the one that they use to get in the security system.

01:25:47.230 --> 01:25:49.470
Mira yells out to BK to hold still.

01:25:49.770 --> 01:25:52.270
I'm gonna catapult you into the King Quadcopter.

01:25:52.490 --> 01:25:56.970
We'll use the hacking device once we launch you up so we can take control of the King Quadcopter.

01:25:57.750 --> 01:26:00.250
Also, you should dodge the bazooka.

01:26:02.330 --> 01:26:03.990
We should all dodge the bazooka.

01:26:04.010 --> 01:26:05.570
Yeah, that's just good life advice.

01:26:06.090 --> 01:26:07.050
Thank you, Mira.

01:26:07.650 --> 01:26:08.930
BK says, hell yeah.

01:26:09.390 --> 01:26:10.810
Wait, don't let me get blown up.

01:26:11.530 --> 01:26:16.810
Mira sucks BK up in the hole and then shoots him up directly into the King Quadcopter.

01:26:17.390 --> 01:26:23.250
While up there, BK places the device and Possum is able to hack in using the King Quadcopter bombs.

01:26:23.670 --> 01:26:29.430
Mira sucks BK up in the hole and shoots him directly up into the King Quadcopter.

01:26:29.870 --> 01:26:37.190
BK places the hacking device in there and Possum is able to hack into the King Quadcopter and release all of the bombs.

01:26:37.810 --> 01:26:45.770
Mira uses the hole in the ground to destroy the King Quadcopter by sucking up the bombs and shooting them back up, but also not killing BK.

01:26:45.870 --> 01:26:46.510
Of course not.

01:26:47.190 --> 01:26:51.750
The King Quadcopter falls to pieces on the lawn of Raccoon HQ.

01:26:52.230 --> 01:26:59.650
Then the hole eats up those pieces, and it gets big and strong enough to start eating up Raccoon HQ itself.

01:26:59.770 --> 01:27:00.330
Hell yeah.

01:27:00.550 --> 01:27:09.510
Mira drives the hole around the campus, breaking the building apart piece by piece until it's nothing but dust on the side of the Raccoon Hollywood Hills.

01:27:11.290 --> 01:27:15.910
BK climbs back up the rope and gets into the hot air balloon with his friends.

01:27:17.150 --> 01:27:20.510
Trash King is left standing where Raccoon HQ once stood.

01:27:21.370 --> 01:27:25.030
He looks up at the hot air balloon and says, You guys ruined everything.

01:27:25.590 --> 01:27:26.730
Eh, it's his fault.

01:27:26.990 --> 01:27:31.810
He sighs and he says, I guess raccoons just can't cut it in Donut County.

01:27:33.190 --> 01:27:37.570
From the hot air balloon, Mirror shouts down, More like you can't cut it, dude.

01:27:38.870 --> 01:27:41.510
BK says, Yeah, dude, your company stinks.

01:27:41.530 --> 01:27:42.730
You ruined the neighborhood.

01:27:43.890 --> 01:27:47.310
Trash King looks up at BK and says, It's not about the company.

01:27:47.890 --> 01:27:50.350
Think about all the innocent raccoons that moved here.

01:27:51.370 --> 01:27:54.630
Mirror rolls her eyes and says, Oh my God, give me a break.

01:27:56.170 --> 01:28:00.010
Trash King pleads saying, The truth is, We're running out of trash.

01:28:01.170 --> 01:28:04.190
We first came to Donut County because the trash was plentiful.

01:28:04.790 --> 01:28:08.370
Now we have to open up more and more holes for less and less trash.

01:28:08.770 --> 01:28:10.610
I was looking out for us, dude.

01:28:11.450 --> 01:28:13.390
BK says, No, you weren't.

01:28:13.870 --> 01:28:15.430
You were just looking out for yourself.

01:28:15.450 --> 01:28:16.610
You didn't run out of trash.

01:28:16.630 --> 01:28:18.550
You ran out of people to steal from.

01:28:19.550 --> 01:28:21.870
Trash King says, What am I supposed to do now?

01:28:22.710 --> 01:28:24.210
I have nothing now.

01:28:24.630 --> 01:28:25.050
Good.

01:28:25.550 --> 01:28:28.050
BK tells Trash King to bring everyone back.

01:28:28.450 --> 01:28:30.750
Mirror says, Yeah, all our stuff, too.

01:28:31.790 --> 01:28:36.250
Trash King drags his feet and says, Oh, it's so much work, though.

01:28:37.690 --> 01:28:42.290
Mirror and BK laugh at him because his paw is still stuck in the pickle jar.

01:28:43.410 --> 01:28:45.170
He's the one that chose the fucking pickle.

01:28:47.410 --> 01:28:48.610
It's like a metaphor.

01:28:48.690 --> 01:28:50.510
Yeah, but he still hasn't explained.

01:28:51.570 --> 01:28:52.590
He's a raccoon, you know?

01:28:53.850 --> 01:28:54.730
It's full of holes.

01:28:54.750 --> 01:28:59.510
Is it stuck because he's literally trying to pull it out lengthwise and it's just getting stuck that way?

01:28:59.530 --> 01:29:05.050
Oh yeah, it's the monkey, this hand caught in the vase thing or whatever.

01:29:05.070 --> 01:29:13.310
Trash King does follow through and creates a big catapult for the hole to restore all of Donut County and its residents.

01:29:14.210 --> 01:29:20.290
The hole in the catapult goes all the way down to where the fireplace was, where the community came together in the below.

01:29:21.370 --> 01:29:26.970
Mirror and BK organize the community to go up one at a time back through the catapult and up to the surface.

01:29:27.870 --> 01:29:28.530
They go up.

01:29:28.870 --> 01:29:30.550
First, Potter and Pup.

01:29:31.350 --> 01:29:35.310
Then Helen, who asks for them to not send any snakes back up if possible.

01:29:35.370 --> 01:29:36.430
Yeah, just leave those down here.

01:29:37.010 --> 01:29:40.870
Then Salt and Pepper, who forgive Mirror, but not BK.

01:29:41.750 --> 01:29:44.590
I imagine Salt and Pepper don't want anything to do with the snakes either.

01:29:45.890 --> 01:29:46.990
Right, as mice?

01:29:48.030 --> 01:29:54.310
Then Coyote, and as he goes up, BK offers him a job at the new donut shop after promising to go clean.

01:29:55.130 --> 01:30:01.510
Coyote accepts, so he doesn't have to sell vegetables anymore, on one condition, that he's the boss and he runs the shop.

01:30:01.850 --> 01:30:04.290
How do you trust any donut shop after this?

01:30:04.330 --> 01:30:04.970
Girl, right?

01:30:04.990 --> 01:30:07.030
Wouldn't you be a little off donuts by this point?

01:30:07.810 --> 01:30:09.110
Then the rabbits in love.

01:30:09.570 --> 01:30:13.210
Then Morsel, along with his explosives, because you know that's his business.

01:30:13.610 --> 01:30:22.450
And as he goes up, he kind of lightly threatens Mirror and BK to not snitch on him to the cops, or he'll snitch back on BK and the holes and the destruction.

01:30:22.450 --> 01:30:24.850
So let's just be cool, okay, guys?

01:30:26.670 --> 01:30:32.330
Then Jellybean and his chicken, who, once again, he tries to get fucking BK to kiss for some fucking reason.

01:30:32.490 --> 01:30:33.010
Okay.

01:30:33.490 --> 01:30:36.310
Then Bearclaw and their beehive and their frog.

01:30:36.550 --> 01:30:41.130
And Bearclaw's like, you know, I actually really enjoy this frog now, so I guess thanks for that.

01:30:41.750 --> 01:30:43.690
Oh, he gets a pet frog out of the whole thing?

01:30:43.710 --> 01:30:48.230
Yeah, they get to kind of hang out with the frog that they've been trapped down under with.

01:30:48.270 --> 01:30:49.170
That's beautiful.

01:30:49.190 --> 01:30:49.630
It's cute.

01:30:50.730 --> 01:30:59.270
Then Chef Kat, who invites Mira and BK to cat soup while admitting they're not going to get rid of the bugs because that's kind of their, you know, secret ingredient.

01:30:59.350 --> 01:31:02.550
No, you should definitely still get rid of the bugs.

01:31:03.810 --> 01:31:04.810
Then Possum.

01:31:05.410 --> 01:31:09.150
And Mira apologizes for doubting Possum, who says, it's okay.

01:31:09.350 --> 01:31:11.250
Don't trust anything from anyone.

01:31:13.890 --> 01:31:15.750
Full blown conspiracy theorist still.

01:31:16.190 --> 01:31:19.610
I like that it's not flat earth theory, it's hollow earth theory.

01:31:19.670 --> 01:31:21.470
Oh yeah, and they're like, I was right.

01:31:22.130 --> 01:31:22.790
I knew it.

01:31:23.270 --> 01:31:25.850
And they also go, especially don't trust BK.

01:31:25.910 --> 01:31:26.310
Yeah.

01:31:26.750 --> 01:31:27.690
Then Coco.

01:31:28.210 --> 01:31:29.950
And then Mira and BK.

01:31:30.610 --> 01:31:38.090
BK steps on the catapult platform with Mira and thanks her for being so cool about everything and showing him how to be good and for her patience.

01:31:39.030 --> 01:31:42.930
Mira asks BK to press the launch button, and BK agrees.

01:31:43.950 --> 01:31:50.590
But then Mira goes, ha ha, too slow and slams the button down as it launches the two friends back up to the surface.

01:31:50.890 --> 01:31:53.310
I love that they use the catapult to get out.

01:31:53.670 --> 01:31:54.590
I know, isn't that great?

01:31:55.910 --> 01:32:00.490
Back on the surface, we see Donut County from the perspective of the quadcopter again.

01:32:01.350 --> 01:32:04.010
The neighborhood is working on being restored.

01:32:04.690 --> 01:32:09.070
The end credits float in the air as we see everyone back to where they should be.

01:32:09.110 --> 01:32:17.190
So as you're flying the quadcopter, you can fly it all through Donut County, and it's created by Ben Esposito, and here's the music people and the art people and stuff.

01:32:17.210 --> 01:32:18.630
And you can control the quadcopter?

01:32:18.650 --> 01:32:26.050
Yeah, you can fly it around and see all the scenes and the vignettes of people putting their homes together, like potters back to making a pottery and stuff.

01:32:26.230 --> 01:32:28.170
Now compare this to Los Santos.

01:32:28.850 --> 01:32:29.870
It's real small.

01:32:33.270 --> 01:32:34.650
It's a real small game, Tom.

01:32:34.670 --> 01:32:35.690
They made this for the phone.

01:32:38.470 --> 01:32:41.050
Salt and pepper are surrounded by the birds they want to fuck.

01:32:41.510 --> 01:32:47.250
Morsel is actually setting up a bootleg tech booth with like shit that got excavated out of Raccoon HQ.

01:32:47.330 --> 01:32:48.330
Hell yeah, bootlegs.

01:32:48.810 --> 01:32:50.750
Coyote is setting up the donut shop.

01:32:51.010 --> 01:32:52.870
An order is restored.

01:32:53.730 --> 01:32:55.550
And that was Donut County.

01:32:56.370 --> 01:32:56.990
Wow.

01:32:57.310 --> 01:33:00.050
I mean, that feels like the LA riots there at the end.

01:33:02.250 --> 01:33:03.130
What the fuck?

01:33:03.150 --> 01:33:07.910
Flying over in a helicopter, looking at all this town just rebuilding itself after all the destruction.

01:33:08.150 --> 01:33:10.570
Yeah, palm trees are still on fire.

01:33:12.050 --> 01:33:22.410
In the Netflix show You, there's an episode in season two when they're in LA, and he's like, there's totems of being in LA, and one of them is, you're not a true Angelino until you've seen a palm tree on fire.

01:33:23.350 --> 01:33:24.450
Which, like, valid.

01:33:25.670 --> 01:33:27.730
But, ah, I really enjoyed that.

01:33:27.750 --> 01:33:32.730
I think it'd be really fun if you ever want to run through it, like, when you're waiting for a flight or something.

01:33:32.770 --> 01:33:34.010
Oh, it sounds super fun.

01:33:34.030 --> 01:33:41.390
And also just, like, now I can play it and not have to worry about that fucking mobile app game that's always popping up and, like, ooh, does that look fun?

01:33:41.410 --> 01:33:44.930
No, this sounds way more fun than that fucking mobile app game ever has looked.

01:33:44.950 --> 01:33:46.570
Yeah, fuckhole.io.

01:33:46.650 --> 01:33:48.490
Yeah, fuck that game entirely.

01:33:48.510 --> 01:33:49.830
And fuck Voodoo, I'm sorry.

01:33:50.090 --> 01:33:53.110
Yeah, like I said, I have a fucking Voodoo game on my phone that I play.

01:33:53.450 --> 01:33:58.270
It's that lame-ass one also that you probably see on Instagram all the time where you're, like, fucking carving a wood figure.

01:33:58.290 --> 01:34:02.610
It's fun, but, like, it's just a time killer.

01:34:02.770 --> 01:34:05.990
And you know it's backed by Goldman Sachs now.

01:34:06.650 --> 01:34:06.850
Oh.

01:34:07.170 --> 01:34:11.170
And Donut County was made in Ben Esposito's, like, bedroom in between projects.

01:34:11.190 --> 01:34:16.290
Like, he worked on this through the entirety of, like, working on What Remains of Edith Finch and stuff and Tattletail.

01:34:16.430 --> 01:34:19.310
And I like that Annapurna went on to do Stray after this.

01:34:20.370 --> 01:34:22.450
They love their charming animal game.

01:34:23.170 --> 01:34:26.990
Do you think there's a world where the cat from Cat Soup is the cat from Stray?

01:34:27.010 --> 01:34:28.050
I would love that.

01:34:28.070 --> 01:34:29.270
Or at least a descendant.

01:34:29.550 --> 01:34:33.590
No, yeah, I was going to say no because of the time, but there's something there.

01:34:33.650 --> 01:34:36.310
That's how they built the hole for all the fucking robots.

01:34:39.190 --> 01:34:41.310
Ben Esposito has a secret producer credit.

01:34:41.330 --> 01:34:44.470
But now, I really enjoy these.

01:34:44.510 --> 01:34:54.790
And similar to Undertale with Toby Fox, Ben Esposito did like 90% of the work himself with a couple different people popping in for help here and there, but it's mostly his brainchild.

01:34:54.850 --> 01:34:55.930
Oh, wow, very good.

01:34:56.830 --> 01:34:58.310
Which is also very similar to Tattletale.

01:34:58.330 --> 01:35:05.010
I think that was split maybe more 70-30 with another person, but he's really brilliant, and I love his sense of humor.

01:35:05.030 --> 01:35:09.410
He brings such delightful levity to the world, and it just makes it fun.

01:35:09.430 --> 01:35:12.470
And despite all the fucks again, this is a very G-rated game.

01:35:12.490 --> 01:35:13.930
You can play this with a whole family.

01:35:14.350 --> 01:35:15.290
It's super fun.

01:35:15.350 --> 01:35:17.510
It's satisfying as shit, too.

01:35:17.530 --> 01:35:22.330
I think the thing with Voodoo is they want to make satisfying games just to kick off some serotonin.

01:35:22.630 --> 01:35:23.890
Yeah, just to fill it with ads.

01:35:23.910 --> 01:35:25.090
Honestly, that's all Voodoo is.

01:35:25.110 --> 01:35:26.390
It's an ad fucking machine.

01:35:26.990 --> 01:35:30.970
I mean, again, I think I got this for maybe $3.75 on the Switch.

01:35:32.210 --> 01:35:33.130
Absolutely worth it.

01:35:33.150 --> 01:35:35.490
That is the price of a fucking mobile game.

01:35:35.590 --> 01:35:36.870
Yeah.

01:35:36.910 --> 01:35:43.810
I would pay $3 for a mobile game that is satisfying, brings me joy, and I also know that my money goes to supporting Esposito.

01:35:43.830 --> 01:35:49.730
And when you spend money on an indie creator, it's not money spent, it's money invested.

01:35:49.890 --> 01:35:50.230
True.

01:35:50.250 --> 01:35:56.510
Because you're lining that person's pockets with the reiteration that what they do matters and what they do should continue.

01:35:57.090 --> 01:35:57.950
Wow, that got...

01:35:59.750 --> 01:36:04.090
You can hear the punk rock politics come through me real deep right there.

01:36:04.110 --> 01:36:05.010
Vote with your wallet.

01:36:05.070 --> 01:36:08.830
Absofuckingly, my dad always said that it boils down to vote with your wallet.

01:36:08.850 --> 01:36:16.590
If you want to see more mom and pop shops, if you want to see more family restaurants, spend your money there instead of going to chains and big conglomerates.

01:36:16.610 --> 01:36:18.550
They don't need your money, but these people do.

01:36:18.810 --> 01:36:24.670
And I feel proud to support this game, and I'm very proud to bring this game to other people.

01:36:24.690 --> 01:36:34.270
And I hope that even though I've completely spoiled the entire plot, you guys check this out because it is genuinely very fun, very satisfying.

01:36:34.430 --> 01:36:41.010
And you supporting this game supports other creators like this and only reiterates, like, fuck the voodoo's of the world.

01:36:41.030 --> 01:36:42.470
Fuck these multi-

01:36:42.510 --> 01:36:51.570
I mean, I'm sorry, Tom, but fuck these like multi-million dollar VC backed bullshit ass clone producing studios.

01:36:51.810 --> 01:36:53.610
Let's get some cool indie producers out here.

01:36:53.630 --> 01:36:57.270
Let's get some unique voices and let's get other games like Donut County made.

01:36:57.890 --> 01:37:03.010
And another way you can support independent producers, you can go to our website, theothercastlepodcast.com.

01:37:03.030 --> 01:37:04.970
That's the othercastlepodcast.com.

01:37:05.030 --> 01:37:10.050
And over there, you can sign up for our Patreon, where for just two dollars a month, you can support us.

01:37:10.690 --> 01:37:13.150
And let's see who helped make this episode happen.

01:37:13.230 --> 01:37:13.670
Yes.

01:37:13.830 --> 01:37:16.030
So people who have been supporting us are...

01:37:16.050 --> 01:37:19.810
Amber, you are my little lion friend.

01:37:19.910 --> 01:37:24.210
Also Berserk Panda, Andrew and my chunky boy.

01:37:24.550 --> 01:37:25.390
I'm not singing it.

01:37:25.410 --> 01:37:28.630
So we got AJ, Paul, Omar and Aaron.

01:37:28.970 --> 01:37:32.610
Cyrus, unuseful, I think you're pretty useful.

01:37:32.950 --> 01:37:34.430
Molly and Krisha.

01:37:34.750 --> 01:37:37.830
Molly Mock, Jackie, Jacob and Alan.

01:37:38.850 --> 01:37:40.030
I think I'm a little loopy.

01:37:40.050 --> 01:37:43.490
I had a donut right before this because I thought it would be thematic.

01:37:43.730 --> 01:37:45.170
No, I'm just getting weird.

01:37:45.170 --> 01:37:46.210
But thank you all.

01:37:46.490 --> 01:37:49.150
This show is made possible by listeners like you.

01:37:49.210 --> 01:37:49.570
Yes.

01:37:49.590 --> 01:37:50.410
Thank you so much.

01:37:50.410 --> 01:37:55.650
And don't forget to come over and hang out on our Discord, where we'll be talking about this game and every other game that we cover.

01:37:55.730 --> 01:37:56.030
Yes.

01:37:56.050 --> 01:37:58.850
Again, I'm going to be dropping that Polygon video on Game Jam.

01:37:58.870 --> 01:37:59.930
I really love Polygon.

01:37:59.950 --> 01:38:02.970
If you guys aren't checking out their videos, I think they're wonderful creators.

01:38:02.990 --> 01:38:04.050
They're through Vox Media.

01:38:04.070 --> 01:38:08.210
So unfortunately, they've gone through some staff cuts, but I think the quality is still there.

01:38:08.230 --> 01:38:10.530
And that's where Brian David Gilbert really popped off.

01:38:10.550 --> 01:38:11.770
And I love BDG.

01:38:12.130 --> 01:38:12.810
He's crazy.

01:38:13.070 --> 01:38:13.650
He is.

01:38:13.670 --> 01:38:14.910
He's a wild creator.

01:38:14.930 --> 01:38:15.910
I love him so much.

01:38:15.930 --> 01:38:18.310
He's doing great on the Dropout Universe right now, though.

01:38:18.330 --> 01:38:18.970
Oh, I know.

01:38:19.530 --> 01:38:21.330
I'm actually like, oh, that's so good.

01:38:21.350 --> 01:38:22.190
He's so good.

01:38:22.230 --> 01:38:23.850
Anyway, thank you all very much.

01:38:23.890 --> 01:38:26.090
I hope you get a donut and not a hole.

01:38:26.430 --> 01:38:26.770
Yes.

01:38:26.790 --> 01:38:28.790
Thank you Goombas so much for listening.

01:38:29.450 --> 01:38:31.250
And this is Tom and Andrea reminding you.

01:38:31.670 --> 01:38:34.070
If you see a palm tree on fire, it's good luck.

01:38:34.650 --> 01:38:36.070
And don't skip the cutscenes.

01:38:36.750 --> 01:38:36.870
Bye.