In true Japanese drinking fashion, the Buddies tie one on with the assistance of two bottles of good sake. They drink wayyyyyyy more than usual, and by the end… out come the awkward prom date stories.
That being said, go ahead and file this episode under “educational.” What? Drunk AND informative? How can this be?! S’mike, a certified sake expert, shares tons of info about making and drinking sake, including drinking rituals, types of rice and even who pours when. Also, he explains the exact way that gas prices are calculated.
Neeeeeeeeerd alert.
The Buddies then dig into Mike’s Shoebox of Detritus, left over from high school and college. Hint: he liked knives as a younger man.
Other topics covered include booze for giant monsters, the douchey archaeologists who dug up the fabled buried Atari cartridges and S’mike’s drunken rant about poor industrial design. Seriously, never has a pencil sharpener received such a tongue-thrashing.
Somehow, the Buddies find time for comedy as well. It’s a longer episode than usual, but you can turn this into a drinking game- just take a drink every time Mike flubs a word!
Give yourself a little more credit, Mike. There was NOT a 7 to 1 girl to guy ratio at Geneseo, at least in your graduating class. It was more like 3 to 1. You know this, so stop saying 7 to1!
the videogame crash happened because anyone could produce a game for the atari 2600. this meant that horrible bootlegs and just shitty games could be made and sold without ataris knowledge. then nintendo came by like and put a lock out chip and intense quality control into their systems, saving videogames. makes you wonder how a terrible game was ever made for the nes.
i hope those punk archaeologists included this in their article because even though you sent it to me i could only make it about 2 paragraphs in before my brain turned everything i was reading into white noise.