Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are joined by DKMatt for a hilarious and awesome bonus round! Matt is a great friend of the show and former professional wrestler so what better way to compete than a video game character draft! The goal: To draft the best wrestling team made up of video game characters! Whether you love wrestling, gaming or both, this is one gaming packed episode you don’t want to miss! Check out DKMatt on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dramakingmatt Check out the Rebooked Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5tvMLRps8IVCUcpAusbxZ1?si=d13cafeba6af4775 Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the introductions for the hosts?
Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Some of the best parts of gaming aren't the boss fights or the platinum trophies, but the fun and silly conversations you get to have with your friends about gaming. There's few hobbies that can be so fun and yet so stupid at the same time. Well, today we're leaning into both. But first, some introductions are in order.
I am your host, Josh. And joining me, he always kicks out on the count of one. And his special move is getting pinned.
It's Ryan. Ryan.
come on man you're gonna do me like that one of these days i'm gonna have a really nice intro for you right and then you're gonna be like well i know i i've got to learn to expect it but i still am always like come on man i thought we were bros we we are that's why i can do this to you man yeah that's true All right.
And joining us, he's a gamer, a podcaster, a streamer, an announcer, a retired professional wrestler, a singer, and perhaps most importantly, great friend of the show.
It's the drama king himself, Matt Rehwoldt. Hello. Hello, hello, hello. And hey, Ryan, you know what? Don't feel bad. Kicking out at one is a sign of strong style. It is very respected. You know, you don't sit down for that two count and everything. No, you're right up at one. So that's good.
See?
You hear that, Josh? I'm a professional, man.
I tried to tell you it was a nice intro, man. And then there you go, assuming the worst. Yeah, whatever.
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Chapter 2: What is the purpose of the video game character draft?
I don't know. I don't know. I, you know, normally Ryan, we kind of have the upper hand with like the gaming part of something where we're like, dude, we're gamers, man. We got Matt. You're a gamer, buddy.
Yeah. I mean, it goes back a ways, man. I mean, I'm not in as in the weeds as some, but a lot more than others. Uh, especially I'm an OG PlayStation guy through and through. And then I've been a PC guy ever since, uh, 2020 and just gone off the rails in that department. PC master race or life.
Yeah, it's really tough, man. I mean, it's one of those things like, you know, consoles have a special place in our hearts, man. There's always something about sitting on a couch playing consoles. But once you go PC, man, it is really hard to go back.
Yeah, it was. When I first got into streaming is when I was introduced to it because I was like, all right, I think it's a better setup for that and everything like that. So I got one and I was like... But as someone who's literally, I'd never touched a PC for a video game, more or less, it's always been a controller between Nintendo and then PlayStation.
Keyboard and mouse, like, was so disorienting. The first time I played a shooter, I was like, how do you do this? Within a year, it's the opposite. I went back to try to play an FPS on a controller and I was like, how do you do this without as much control as you have with a mouse and everything? It's wild.
I can't I love a controller for some games I'm a huge fan of like Rocket League like some games you absolutely need a controller but if it if it's a shooter mouse and keyboard is second to none man I honestly it's one of the main reasons I prefer like PC gaming over console gaming is I just feel like I've got much more.
control over what i'm doing aim is way better on pc that kind of stuff so that's the thing the a the aim is there the hard part for me is always the movement like i feel like i get so much better movement with my controller than i would uh on wasd you know on the keyboard but but the aiming you can snap aim on somebody's head so much easier with with the mouse than you can with you know this little thumbstick
If I ever have to drive anything, a spaceship, a car, oh, mousing keyboard is rough sometimes.
Like, oh, man.
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Chapter 3: How do the hosts choose their video game characters?
Starfield, I remember I was spinning around about 15 times before I got my bearings.
No, no. Driving and flying is our two very, very controller oriented tasks for sure, man. So. All right. Well, listen, we we're going to get into this draft, man. I am super excited about this. We do have a little bit of housekeeping. And you know what, man? I mean, this just makes us feel our warm and fuzzy inside.
I mean, we have an amazing community of people, you know, people that support the show that sign up to support the show are the ones that keep this going, you know, year after year. So we have a special thank you. Dude, we have four people to thank, plus another for a first-time event ever for us, too. Yeah. So thank you to Grant Bacon for signing up for Rare.
Also, your last name is amazing, dude. I kind of wish my last name was Bacon, dude. I know, right? Dude, I'm hungry now. I know. So thank you, Grant, for signing up for rare status. And then we have not one, not two, but three new epic supporters.
Yeah. Oh, my goodness.
So thank you, Tubster000, Hypnotic Pyro, and Dalton Newell for signing up for epic status, keeping this podcast going to the world. You all rock. Thank you. And then... We, Ryan, we have our first gifted sub. What? We kind of didn't even know this was a thing. I'll be honest. It's one of those things where we had a very long time listener of the show. Awesome member of the community.
This guy, I mean, this is the guy that introduced me to Star Citizen where I went, dude, I don't believe that this is a game. And he said, dude, you know what? Let me prove it to you. It's real. It's real. Yeah, so Disratory, we know you're listening, buddy. Disratory is awesome, dude. I mean, just not only because of the gifted sub, but just as an awesome person.
But Disratory saw somebody in our community today mentioned that they were saving up to help support the show. And he just went, I got you. I got you, buddy. And so he gifted a sub there too, which is incredible. And now that we know that that's a thing, like, I mean, if anybody else out there wants to get to some, you know, multiplayer squad dot com is apparently where you can do this. All right.
And then I did promise this person that I would read the review because they messaged me and they said, hey, did you get my review? And I said, yeah, dude, we're so far behind on reading. We are legitimately like I think we have like 15 reviews to get to. So but this one. This one comes in from Shark the Fart, which... Good name. Solid. Great name. Love it.
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Chapter 4: What are the ground rules for the draft?
Okay. Okay. So Ryan's. Oh, oh, we did not mention. All right. There is one other rule. Matt, why don't you take this? Because this was your idea and I love this idea.
I'm glad that we did this rule.
This ties into actual wrestling. So what was the thing that you said on this one?
So one of the few ground rules that we laid, because we wanted it to be open. I didn't want to limit it too much. But if you do watch wrestling, if you don't, you know it's very theatrical, kind of physical storytelling and stuff like that. And we often will have what we call a baby face and a heel, a good guy and a bad guy. It's pretty classic, conniving bad guys and righteous good guys.
It's very old school, but I'm like, you know what? I think that should be a rule that if you decide to go one way, you got to stick with that because in wrestling, very few, if ever you see teams, especially these large teams where it would be like one heel, two baby bases, another heel, it's usually all good guys versus all bad guys.
So one ground rule was whatever way you decided to go, everybody on your team had to be like an antagonist, a villain, a bad guy, or on the opposite, a good guy, a hero, et cetera. All right.
So shocker, shocker, I'm going bad, guys.
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Chapter 5: Who are the first picks in the character draft?
Man. All right. Bowser, Ryan tips his hand right away.
He's drafting the heel team. The little Mario grabbing by the tail and swinging me around. I've learned from my mistakes. Bowser's not going to get that again. Yeah, he has. He's good. So now he can defend anything.
What does it say about Bowser that he can get picked up by his tail and slung around, though? By a plumber.
He's been stomped by a short Italian plumber a lot for a large mythical being. But okay. Yeah. You do you, Ryan. You do you.
Yeah. I mean, I never want to promote somebody's pick, but Bowser would be hard to pin because he's just going to teeter-totter on that shell, man.
That is true. Yeah. Maybe there's more strategy to this than we thought. Yeah. Yeah.
All right.
That's all you get.
That's the only like shout out you get from me, Ryan. That's the only help you're getting on this one. I treasure it. I treasure it. That's making up for your mean intro. I mean, you're really nice intro with your one count, man. That's right. All right. Matt is the wild card on this one, dude, because I... He even told us before we started recording, he's like, I got some really good picks.
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Chapter 6: What strategies do the hosts discuss for their character choices?
He's got Cortana popping out, spitting advice to everybody too. You know what I mean? Calculating the odds of absolutely everything.
I'm feeling motivated already, man.
I know. I'm like, I want to join your team. I want to wrestle. That's right. That's right. So I believe Master Chief is somebody everybody on that team would lay down their very soul for if necessary.
So that's your manager?
No. No, no, no. I'm doing, for what it's worth, I'm doing manager last. I have my reasons for each pick, so I'm starting with the leader, kind of like the team captain, if you will.
Gotcha. Okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Master Chief is a great pick. No, I mean, that's a team captain, that's for sure.
I freaking love him. And you're right, dude. I feel like all it would take is just some very short, because he's not a man of many words, but just this really inspirational thing that he says. Yeah. That's all I can say. Try to suplex Bowser. That's all I got to say.
Finishing the spot. Yeah.
I'm also not going to look up how heavy the power armor is, you know, because picking up Master Chief might be tough.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts react to each other's picks?
Let's just add another beautiful bald bearded man to the mix on this one. I mean, there's two of us already. Why not add a third? I'm picking Kratos for my team. Now, now I know there's people that are going to go, but Josh Kratos is a good guy, right? No, he ain't. Have you seen what Kratos did in God of War 1, 2, and 3? This man has slaughtered towns. He killed his own wife and child. Okay.
Spoiler, by the way. So I'm leaning into the fact that Kratos was a heel in the early games. Now, you know, part of the why I love the God of War 2018 so much is maybe he turns, maybe he's trying to turn over a new leaf. But man, you can't erase your past. He's the heel back then. And I'm leaning into it. So I'm taking Kratos with my first pick. I mean, this guy's strong. He's buff.
He doesn't wear a shirt. I mean, he's basically making, he's the perfect wrestler, you know?
I love that he said he doesn't wear a shirt. That's right. Not wearing a shirt, that's plus 10 strength.
Look, this is Rastafari. It's an aesthetic business. It's a TV business. It's about looking the part, too. That's right.
All right. I got Kratos for my first pick. And then... Another, I got a theme going on here, guys. So another character that a lot of people would go, but no, he's a good guy. No, he's not. If you go back to the very first game, this character was a complete jerk. He stole somebody and you spent the whole game trying to climb up them little ladders while he's chucking barrels at you.
I'm taking Donkey Kong for my pick. You talk about strength, agility. I mean, personality. All right, maybe Donkey Kong doesn't have the best personality.
I could only stretch it so far.
Yeah, but I'm taking Donkey Kong as my second pick. He was a heel in the earlier games. Okay. And you know what they say, man? The strength, the strength of a gorilla is second to none, man. He's a gorilla, right? Is he a gorilla? Yeah, I mean, right? I don't know. We'll call him a primate.
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Chapter 8: What are the final thoughts on the draft and characters?
I was taking Goro literally next, dude.
yeah on my pick yep so there's our first night there's the snipe that's that's uh that is the best part ladies and gentlemen about the drafts is you can steal other people's picks and they get angry and it makes the pick that much better we love it i have two characters left on my list that i really want and if if you take another one i might need to start scrambling a little bit here buddy so well well i got one more here
I'll tell you one thing. I'm going to go for my next pick. It is going to be my manager. So I'm just going to take it out early. It's one that I think is going to go well. It is a brilliant genius scientist, someone that knows no bounds. I'm going to go with Dr. Robotnik. Okay.
Okay.
That is Mr. Eggman, the one, the only, vengeful, vindictive, angry, crazy, and also played by Jim Carrey. So that just kind of maybe swayed me a little bit there. But, man, how can you go? Who else would you want to be your manager? Oh, not him. Not him. Numerous other characters.
I got a way better pick for mine. It's villains. It's villains. What do you mean? Yeah, he's smart. I mean, he is a genius. But what's he going to do for you, man?
What do you mean, what is he going to do? He's going to set everything up.
If I just knock his fat butt out of that little flying machine, he's done. No. What is he without his little...
Yeah. He's going to bust out the wristwatch thing, and then he's going to do all these kind of little calculations, and you're done.
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