Bobby's Dream Guest, Stardew Valley Creator Eric Barone (ConcernedApe)

Stardew Valley’s Eric Barone (ConcernedApe) Joins the Pod! Bobby goes full fanboy as he meets the mastermind behind Stardew Valley. It’s the ultimate crossover—The Slept King meets the Chill King. Cozy chaos, pixel dreams, and one very special BONUS BELLY. Pre-order the new TigerBelly 500 merch and collectibles HERE https://tigerbelly.myshopify.com/?shpxid=af566c67-4e38-42ab-a20a-e1631a53b3f8 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 1:05Bobby Lee?

  You guys, we have Tiger Belly merch. Guys, I have a cassette tapes. I have GarageBand and I play, I do loops. I make loops.

• 1:11Speaker 00

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• 1:11Bobby Lee?

  It's amazing little loops. They're simple, very lo-fi. But purchase some of my music. We have this, which is a Tiger Belly 500 episode t-shirt.

• 1:22Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 1:22Bobby Lee?

  Right, and look, who's on it?

• 1:24Speaker 00

  It's all of us. Jaime, what?

• 1:26Bobby Lee?

  What? Jaime is here as a pinata.

• 1:29Speaker 00

  For real?

• 1:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:29Speaker 00

  Why is that?

• 1:30Bobby Lee?

  What else do we have? We have these hats. I love these hats. I've been wearing them on stage.

• 1:34Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:34Bobby Lee?

  We got Tiger Belly hats and is that it?

• 1:36Speaker 00

  Yeah, we got the hoodies.

• 1:37Bobby Lee?

  Hoodies.

• 1:38Speaker 00

  The t-shirts.

• 1:38Bobby Lee?

  T-shirts.

• 1:39Speaker 00

  Guys, if you like that merch and you want to get one of these cassette tapes, it's gonna be Bobby's music. And guess what? There's probably a bonus track with George singing at the very end. So make sure you do that. Check out that hat George is wearing, because we've never done a trucker hat before. And also Jaime, hold up that hoodie one more time. Check that out. Jaime's a pinata. We're all on there.

• 1:56Speaker 02

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• 1:57Speaker 00

  Swing, swing.

• 1:58Speaker 02

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• 2:01Speaker 00

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• 2:30Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god dude.

• 2:32Speaker 00

  Wait, this is your first one?

• 2:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Oh my god, oh my god dude.

• 2:37Speaker 00

  Well, I've done like zoom stuff.

• 2:39Bobby Lee?

  Zoom. But we're, you know, we're, I'm a, dude, you have to understand. Well, that's, are we on?

• 2:45Speaker 00

  We're on.

• 2:46Bobby Lee?

  Turn everything on, right?

• 2:47Speaker 00

  On.

• 2:48Bobby Lee?

  You have to understand, you have to understand. You have to understand, you're like Denzel to me, Washington. Anyway, um, that was bad, but, um, I'm a huge fan. And, um, let's begin, so, um, do I need to introduce everyone in the room or no?

• 3:05Speaker 00

  Introduce the room. I guess so.

• 3:06Bobby Lee?

  Can we, can we, may we?

• 3:07Speaker 00

  Sure, yeah.

• 3:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Have you heard, have you met Mexicans before?

• 3:11Speaker 00

  Uh, yeah, once or twice. Only twice?

• 3:13Bobby Lee?

  Twice, yeah, yeah, me two or three times too. This is one, we got this one out of, uh, Texas. Yeah, and he's a hard worker.

• 3:20Speaker 00

  I am.

• 3:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. And then we have a Filipino, have you met a Filipino before?

• 3:23Speaker 00

  I have, yeah.

• 3:25Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. This one, we call Juliana. Yeah. And she is, uh, in college. And she, um, lives in this house currently. And she's like my niece, Eric.

• 3:36Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 3:36Bobby Lee?

  Okay. My name is Bobby Lee. Um, I'm a comedian of sorts. I've done a variety of different work on television and film, but mostly online lately, you know? I have a podcast this one, I'm so nervous, this is how, have you ever seen me this nervous?

• 3:50Speaker 00

  He's actually very nervous.

• 3:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I'm very nervous dude, okay?

• 3:53Speaker 00

  Eric, you pull the mic a little closer. Oh, yeah.

• 3:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you talk to him in a different way? Eric, can you pull the mic a little closer? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 4:01Speaker 00

  Is this good?

• 4:02Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, that was great.

• 4:03Speaker 00

  Ooh.

• 4:03Bobby Lee?

  Well, see, what he just did, dude, that's concerned day, bro.

• 4:06Speaker 00

  Is this good?

• 4:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. So you have to understand, Eric, um, I've had many people on this pod, okay? Uh, to say, you know, Judd Apatow, George Lopez, David Spade. Jordan Peele, we've had many people on this pod, right? We've had some very glorious women as well.

• 4:21Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 4:21Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean? Like Whitney Cummings, who else?

• 4:24Speaker 00

  Lisa Gilroy.

• 4:24Bobby Lee?

  Lisa Gilroy, et cetera, et cetera, but you, you're the, you're the one that I'm actually, um, the most starstruck on.

• 4:31Speaker 00

  Well, I'm honored.

• 4:34Bobby Lee?

  But is that, do you feel weird?

• 4:35Speaker 03

  No.

• 4:36Bobby Lee?

  Okay, good.

• 4:37Speaker 03

  I know, I've heard that you're a big Stardew Valley fan.

• 4:40Bobby Lee?

  Oh, not just big, dude. I'm like, it's my life. Like, all the rules of life I've learned from Stardew.

• 4:47Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 4:47Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean? It's like, you know, you can't get red car habits the first year, so you can only get it in the second year, right? But you can get it through the merchant, and sometimes there's drops at the Skull Cavern that you can get it.

• 4:59Speaker 03

  Right, right.

• 4:59Bobby Lee?

  This is how deep I am.

• 5:00Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 5:00Bobby Lee?

  Okay?

• 5:01Speaker 03

  Good.

• 5:01Bobby Lee?

  I tried to do the [bleep] community center the first year. I'm one of those.

• 5:05Speaker 03

  So have you done it?

• 5:06Bobby Lee?

  Yes.

• 5:06Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 5:07Bobby Lee?

  Every time.

• 5:08Speaker 03

  Have you reached perfection?

• 5:09Bobby Lee?

  Yes, I have. I've been to the summit. Of course I have.

• 5:11Speaker 03

  So you've done everything?

• 5:12Bobby Lee?

  No, not every-

• 5:13Speaker 03

  You still play it?

• 5:13Bobby Lee?

  I still play it, yeah, yeah. Because you discover more things. But so let's start. Okay, let's start from the beginning, okay? I'm so sorry.

• 5:20Speaker 03

  Can I give you-

• 5:21Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love gifts, I love gifts.

• 5:22Speaker 03

  Okay, so I, I don't know if you already have this.

• 5:24Bobby Lee?

  I don't have anything.

• 5:25Speaker 03

  Okay, it's the Stardew Valley Cookbook. I also wrote a little message to you.

• 5:28Speaker 00

  Oh my god. He's gonna, he actually, that's his pride phase. That's his real pride phase.

• 5:34Speaker 03

  It's his pride and his-

• 5:35Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god, what? Oh!

• 5:37Speaker 03

  Can you read it to the audience?

• 5:38Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, oh, Bobby. I'm really happy you love Stardew Valley. Thank you for having me on your show, Eric. Oh my god.

• 5:45Speaker 03

  We'll put it on.

• 5:45Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're gonna put, this goes in my bedroom, dude.

• 5:47Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 5:48Bobby Lee?

  When I'm [bleep] dude, when I'm [bleep] this is gonna be Stardew. All right, right? I'm not gonna be thinking about you.

• 5:52Speaker 03

  Whatever you want to-

• 5:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm thinking about Penny or Harrow.

• 5:57Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 5:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you for that.

• 5:59Speaker 03

  Now, this is a, kind of a secret gift. I don't know. We could open it now.

• 6:03Bobby Lee?

  Uh, can I open it?

• 6:04Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 6:04Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, thank you so much, Eric. Okay, so, um, this is a magical-

• 6:08Speaker 03

  It's, it's a little bit wacky.

• 6:10Bobby Lee?

  It's wacky. Now, this bag, can I have the bag?

• 6:13Speaker 03

  Uh-

• 6:14Bobby Lee?

  Or you want the bag?

• 6:14Speaker 03

  I'd prefer to have the bag.

• 6:17Bobby Lee?

  All right, all right, all right, all right.

• 6:18Speaker 03

  He's like, relax, dude.

• 6:19Bobby Lee?

  Oh, relax, relax, Bobby. All right. All right, so here we go. Oh my god, what? Hold on.

• 6:28Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god.

• 6:30Speaker 03

  Do you like Sam?

• 6:31Bobby Lee?

  I love Sam a lot, but why is he naked?

• 6:34Speaker 03

  Uh, I'm not sure.

• 6:37Speaker 03

  This was, this piece was entrusted to me by a fan who loves Sam. I think they were from Korea.

• 6:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah?

• 6:45Speaker 03

  But, uh-

• 6:45Bobby Lee?

  I can have this?

• 6:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:46Bobby Lee?

  Are you real?

• 6:47Speaker 03

  I'm real, yeah.

• 6:48Bobby Lee?

  Can you sign, at the end, can you sign the buttocks?

• 6:51Speaker 03

  Yes, I can, yeah.

• 6:51Bobby Lee?

  Okay, thank you so much. Oh my god, now-

• 6:53Speaker 03

  I've spent several good years with him and I'd like to entrust him to you so he can see more of the world and-

• 6:59Bobby Lee?

  It's, it's, I'm gonna worship it.

• 7:02Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 7:02Bobby Lee?

  I'm gonna worship. Now, Sam, if you don't know in the game, right?

• 7:05Speaker 03

  What game?

• 7:06Bobby Lee?

  Stardew, okay, let's start from that.

• 7:08Speaker 03

  Let's just get it.

• 7:08Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, right.

• 7:09Speaker 03

  Some fans don't know about-

• 7:09Bobby Lee?

  Thank you so much, thank you so much, thank you so much, thank you so much. Calm down Bobby.

• 7:12Speaker 03

  Calm down.

• 7:13Bobby Lee?

  Calm the fuck down, calm down, be cool, dude. You're a fucking headliner, dude.

• 7:16Speaker 03

  Take it easy. You're a TV star.

• 7:17Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I'm a TV star, I've done shit, dude, alright, here you go.

• 7:22Bobby Lee?

  Okay, um, hello. Welcome to the podcast, I'm Bobby and wow, we have an extraordinary person, a very good person here. I got it, dude, alright? And, um, so, um, many years ago, my brother's, um, at the time, um, somebody he was seeing, goes, "Have you played Stardew Valley?" Cause he, she knows that I know, I like simulation games, okay? So I go, "Oh, I'm interested in that." I played it and, um, I think I played it for a hundred hours. The first of all, I mean, it was like, non-stop, because you would uncover and discover things. It's not, here, guys, listen. Stardew Valley isn't just a simulation game. It's much more and that's why it's unique, okay? It's an RPG. I think it's an RPG, okay?

• 8:07Bobby Lee?

  So, and it was so, um, when I played it, I go, it would make me like, put goosebumps in my body because I would go, "Oh wow, that was so like, um, he thought of that." You know what I mean? It, it's, it's a game that's completely thought through. So Eric Barone made the game by himself, right?

• 8:24Speaker 03

  That's right, yeah.

• 8:25Bobby Lee?

  Wait, what year?

• 8:26Speaker 03

  I started working on it in 2012 and it came out in 2016.

• 8:30Bobby Lee?

  Wow. And so you, um, were working at, um, other, what, developing companies or what?

• 8:36Speaker 03

  No, no.

• 8:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, what were you doing?

• 8:38Speaker 03

  I was working part-time as a theater usher.

• 8:41Bobby Lee?

  So, the theater that I played.

• 8:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, the Paramount.

• 8:44Bobby Lee?

  The Paramount. You worked there, right?

• 8:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 8:47Bobby Lee?

  So, when I was backstage, they go, "Eric Barone used to work here." And I went ape shit. I go, I went ape goo goo crazy. Like, what's, where's the seat he sat in? Where did he ro- I'm not kidding you, dude. I was like, "What the fuck?", right? So, you played, you worked there?

• 9:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 9:03Bobby Lee?

  At the Paramount?

• 9:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:04Bobby Lee?

  Beautiful theater, by the way. What a great acoustic. Anyway, and so then, um, you met your girlfriend, and let me guess, at, you know, it was... I think I have it. Was it a, um, pretzel place?

• 9:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's right.

• 9:17Bobby Lee?

  Or Auntie On's?

• 9:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:18Bobby Lee?

  Dude, bro. Look at me, dude.

• 9:21Speaker 03

  What's your order?

• 9:22Bobby Lee?

  What, Auntie On's? On behalf of him?

• 9:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:24Bobby Lee?

  Um, pepperoni and jalapeno on the fucking thing.

• 9:27Speaker 03

  Wow, okay, okay.

• 9:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, with a fucking cheesy sauce, dog.

• 9:29Speaker 03

  That's a special one.

• 9:30Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, with jalapeno's cheese sauce, right?

• 9:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 9:33Bobby Lee?

  You have that, right?

• 9:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, spicy cheese, they go. Dude, spicy cheese.

• 9:36Bobby Lee?

  Spicy cheese. Alright, so you, you worked there?

• 9:39Speaker 03

  Right, right.

• 9:40Bobby Lee?

  And then, um, you developed the game, took you four years?

• 9:43Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 9:43Bobby Lee?

  Right, and you just locked yourself in a room?

• 9:47Speaker 03

  Basically, yeah, I mean, I was working probably, on average, like, 12 hours a day. It was just working on Sardi Valley, you know, seven days a week, and then sometimes going and working at the Paramount Theater. But, it was, uh, it was a ton of work. I was totally locked in.

• 10:02Bobby Lee?

  I can only imagine. And also, you did the music?

• 10:06Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 10:06Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow. All the music in it, and it's, they're good songs, dude. Like, if Radiohead wrote it, I'd be like, "That's a good Radiohead song, dude." You know what I mean? Not really, but you know, you know what I'm saying, yeah.

• 10:16Speaker 03

  Maybe you can pitch a song for the next one.

• 10:18Bobby Lee?

  Maybe, maybe, because maybe, do you have all the music written for Haunted?

• 10:21Speaker 03

  Um, not all of it.

• 10:23Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 10:24Speaker 03

  But some of it.

• 10:25Bobby Lee?

  I have some gripes, but I'm gonna say that, I'm, I'm gonna tell you later about them.

• 10:28Speaker 03

  Sure.

• 10:29Bobby Lee?

  It's not really your fault, but there's some, I've had some anger moments. Right, but let's start, let's start from the beginning first, okay?

• 10:35Speaker 03

  Sounds good.

• 10:37Bobby Lee?

  I've had some rage moments dude, you know, there were some times I wanted to tweet, but I didn't. Okay, so here's the deal, okay? Four years, and then what happened there? After, you knew you were done?

• 10:49Speaker 03

  Well, kind of. I mean, I just decided I had to be done. I needed to release something.

• 10:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 10:53Speaker 03

  You know, and that's why I've like been working on updates ever since, is because I never was like, you know, I'm totally finished. There's always more I could add. So, I mean, when the four years were done, it was basically just like, okay, I've been working on this for four years. What am I doing with my life? Like, I don't know what's gonna happen. People were like, getting worried about me because, you know, I was like, four years behind everyone else.

• 11:15Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 11:16Speaker 03

  Who graduated at that same time, and

• 11:18Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 11:19Speaker 03

  I had nothing to show for it, but I was like, I need to release something.

• 11:21Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 11:22Speaker 03

  And I felt like the game was at a point where it was okay.

• 11:25Bobby Lee?

  Hmm.

• 11:25Speaker 03

  So I was like, alright, I'm just gonna pull the trigger and release it.

• 11:28Bobby Lee?

  Let me guess, so the game originally, because there's been so many great updates. See, the original game was the farm, obviously, the communities, all that was stuff. Um, JoJo, Marco, you know, um, there was no island then, um, but the desert was there.

• 11:42Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:43Bobby Lee?

  Desert was there, the casino was there.

• 11:44Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 11:45Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, and then, um, what else? And then, you know, Willie Beach, all that, yeah, so all the standard game was there.

• 11:52Speaker 03

  Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, there wasn't a night market.

• 11:55Bobby Lee?

  Oh yeah, no night market.

• 11:56Speaker 03

  No night market.

• 11:56Bobby Lee?

  No night market, that's right. Let me guess, what else wasn't there? The extra pavements of, you know, like, cut, cutting corners, like, you know how Robin, and you can open up other ways to get through places, like, from um, Leah's Cottage to the beach, you can get through the-

• 12:11Speaker 03

  The community upgrades.

• 12:13Bobby Lee?

  Am I a nerd?

• 12:14Speaker 03

  I don't know what's-

• 12:15Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm crazy, but you know what I'm saying? We have, this is why I wanna talk to somebody that knows what the fuck I'm talking about, because it's all I talk about.

• 12:23Speaker 03

  He talks about this, like, after every podcast, I'll just like-

• 12:26Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, Arsenal FC, and then this is what I'm into, okay? So, um, that was a new thing, and then I have another question for you.

• 12:34Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 12:36Bobby Lee?

  Are these characters in it, people in your life?

• 12:40Speaker 03

  Um, there's one character that is basically based on one of my friends.

• 12:46Bobby Lee?

  Uh huh.

• 12:46Speaker 03

  Uh, but most of them are not directly someone in my life. They're just kind of like archetypes of people, I guess.

• 12:53Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I see, I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. So you know a Penny, similar to Penny, but like, yeah.

• 12:58Speaker 03

  I've known Pennies.

• 12:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've met Pennies too, though. You're right. There's some Pennies out there.

• 13:04Speaker 03

  Right.

• 13:04Bobby Lee?

  And then Haley. Yeah.

• 13:07Speaker 03

  I went to high school with some Haley.

• 13:08Bobby Lee?

  Really? Yeah.

• 13:12Bobby Lee?

  Out of all the people you can marry, you think, who do you think the top woman is?

• 13:17Speaker 03

  Um, in terms of like, me, or people generally?

• 13:19Bobby Lee?

  In general, you think?

• 13:20Speaker 03

  In general, I think it's actually either Leah or Abigail.

• 13:25Bobby Lee?

  Oh, Abigail. We love Abigail.

• 13:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:27Bobby Lee?

  Well, you know Abigail?

• 13:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 13:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 13:29Speaker 03

  Can you describe for the audience?

• 13:30Bobby Lee?

  Well, when you describe Abigail for us.

• 13:33Speaker 04

  She's like the opposite of, no, the same. She's like the girl version of Johnny the emo girl.

• 13:39Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 13:40Speaker 04

  The emo boy?

• 13:41Bobby Lee?

  The emo boy, Sebastian.

• 13:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, emo boy. Oh, Sebastian. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 13:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're embarrassing me, dude. Oh, Johnny Depp. Maybe it's Johnny Depp is what you're thinking.

• 13:51Speaker 03

  Johnny Depp.

• 13:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, that's the connection, right.

• 13:52Speaker 03

  Well, if there's ever a movie, I feel like Johnny Depp would be pretty good, yeah.

• 13:56Bobby Lee?

  We can talk about that later, but, um, so, yeah, so, um, you think Abigail and, um, Leah. Do you know why Leah though?

• 14:04Speaker 03

  It's just based off of like, you know, what I've seen from the community, uh, and like polls and stuff.

• 14:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 14:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:10Bobby Lee?

  Um, I know why Leah, because she has her own pad.

• 14:12Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 14:13Bobby Lee?

  Don't you think?

• 14:14Speaker 03

  Probably. I mean, yeah, she might be like, you might bump into her more too, that's the thing.

• 14:18Bobby Lee?

  Right. In the, she's always everywhere.

• 14:19Speaker 03

  Hanging out by the river.

• 14:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. She's painted somewhere, like she's in the beach, you know what I mean, painting?

• 14:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:24Bobby Lee?

  That statue's beautiful, by the way, that she gives you the friendship statue.

• 14:27Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 14:28Bobby Lee?

  I really like it. What's so funny?

• 14:30Speaker 00

  It's amazing.

• 14:30Bobby Lee?

  It is amazing. That statue's great. And when she comes to your house and gives it to you, it gives me goosebumps every time. Thank you so much for that. I really appreciate that.

• 14:37Speaker 03

  So who do you usually go for?

• 14:39Bobby Lee?

  Penny.

• 14:40Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 14:40Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, because, um, she's poor.

• 14:45Speaker 03

  That's the leading.

• 14:46Bobby Lee?

  No, I just feel like, here's the thing, I feel like, you know, I can more impress Penny with my legit farm. Like, she needs to get out of the house, I think.

• 14:54Speaker 03

  You wanna save her from Pam?

• 14:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, save her from, her mom's a little Alky, Alky-like. Drinks a lot, I think, you know what I mean? Hard worker, right?

• 15:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:03Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bus driver, one of the best bus drivers in Stardew, I think.

• 15:06Speaker 03

  Oh, she's great.

• 15:06Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, she's great, yeah, yeah.

• 15:08Speaker 03

  No, I mean, I love Pam.

• 15:09Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, and then Haley, I don't know why. I like photographers, I think.

• 15:12Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 15:13Bobby Lee?

  And she also seems hot.

• 15:14Speaker 03

  Yeah?

• 15:14Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the one girl I haven't married is Haley's sister.

• 15:20Speaker 03

  I see, how come?

• 15:21Bobby Lee?

  It's too hippie-like for me. With the parrot.

• 15:25Speaker 03

  You should give her a chance.

• 15:26Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, I'll tell you why I won't, because she's into things I don't like, like crystals and rocks. Right?

• 15:32Speaker 02

  Who's her sister?

• 15:33Bobby Lee?

  Haley.

• 15:34Speaker 03

  That's...

• 15:34Bobby Lee?

  So Haley, also Emily is, Emily is Haley's sister. Also, do they have the same parents? I don't think they do, dude.

• 15:41Speaker 03

  Well, you know, it's unclear.

• 15:44Bobby Lee?

  It's unclear.

• 15:44Speaker 03

  It's a little weird, dude.

• 15:45Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, so Emily, she's also, um, really into fashion, like clothing.

• 15:50Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 15:51Bobby Lee?

  Right? She has that little fashion show at the, um...

• 15:53Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:53Bobby Lee?

  Let me guess his name, um... What's the fucking mayor's name, um... What the fuck, dude?

• 15:59Speaker 03

  This is brilliant, but, come on.

• 15:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, just, no, give me the first initial.

• 16:02Speaker 03

  Uh, L?

• 16:04Speaker 02

  Mayor L?

• 16:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, ma- mayor, um... Oh my god, I can't believe I don't know the mayor!

• 16:11Speaker 03

  He's right here, dude.

• 16:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I forgot, I forgot, I forgot, so...

• 16:13Speaker 03

  Mayor Lewis.

• 16:13Bobby Lee?

  Lewis, Mayor Lewis, Mayor Lewis, of course, Mayor Lewis, Mayor Lewis, I love Mayor Lewis. Good guy. You know what I mean? You gotta put the beets in his fridge. For one of Q's little, like, you know what I mean?

• 16:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:23Bobby Lee?

  Tunnel, you know what I mean, where you put the battery in the tunnel thing, right? Am I not right?

• 16:27Speaker 03

  You're right.

• 16:27Bobby Lee?

  I can't even tell you what you put it, to get that, to unlock that. You gotta put the ten beets in the fucking, um, uh, Lewis's fucking fridge. Right? You gotta put one of those fucking blue things, shell things, what's it called, uh... The blue shells that only come out in the winter on the beach?

• 16:42Speaker 03

  The rainbow shell?

• 16:43Bobby Lee?

  Rainbow shell, right? You gotta put that in the, um, where the train station thing is, in that little thing in the, right? And then you're gonna put a fucking, with the solar essence, in the mouth of the fucking skeleton dragon, is it?

• 16:56Speaker 03

  You got it.

• 16:56Bobby Lee?

  Exactly, right? Those are the three things you have to do, right? Dude, I could win any fucking Stardew fucking trivia thing, dude. Do you, do you believe I'm a fan now, bro? You're a believer, right? I'm a believer, dude, right too, okay? So, um... What's up?

• 17:10Speaker 03

  You're explaining the game to the crew.

• 17:14Bobby Lee?

  Because I want to prove to him that I'm in.

• 17:15Speaker 03

  I think he believes you.

• 17:17Bobby Lee?

  Do you believe now?

• 17:17Speaker 03

  I do.

• 17:18Bobby Lee?

  All right, but all the things that I know, but anyway, you know what I mean? You don't even know that much, right?

• 17:22Speaker 04

  No, I just started last year.

• 17:24Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, you just started last year. But you know what, some people, they don't, you guys, some people don't play it the right way.

• 17:30Speaker 04

  You are like obsessed.

• 17:33Bobby Lee?

  No, I play it the right way.

• 17:35Speaker 04

  But also obsessed.

• 17:37Speaker 05

  Eric, is there a right way to play it?

• 17:38Speaker 03

  Is there a right way? No, I don't, I don't think so. I'm sorry, Bobby.

• 17:42Bobby Lee?

  Eric, oh, I'm sorry, there is a right way to play.

• 17:44Speaker 05

  Well, let's hear how Jules plays it and see if it offends the creator.

• 17:48Bobby Lee?

  Okay, can I ask, no, I have another, I have a, I have a different fucking analogy for you.

• 17:52Speaker 02

  I just have a quick question.

• 17:53Bobby Lee?

  I, I, I know you do. Hold on, stop for a second. Jaime, shut the fuck up. Ask the question, ask the question.

• 17:59Speaker 02

  Like a breakdown, how come these are people are non-marriage candidates?

• 18:04Bobby Lee?

  Because.

• 18:05Speaker 04

  They're old.

• 18:06Bobby Lee?

  I can explain, I can, I can explain it to you if you may.

• 18:10Speaker 03

  Go ahead, please. I want to hear your explanation.

• 18:12Bobby Lee?

  All right, because I think.

• 18:13Speaker 02

  What's wrong with Clint? He's a good-looking guy. The Beatrice?

• 18:17Bobby Lee?

  Well, Clint is sort of an incel.

• 18:20Speaker 02

  Oh, okay.

• 18:21Bobby Lee?

  Come on, let's be honest. Let's get real with this shit right now.

• 18:25Bobby Lee?

  Let's get real.

• 18:25Speaker 02

  A little bit.

• 18:26Bobby Lee?

  If Clint was in the Stardew, he would be like doing some crazy shit out there, like, you know what I mean? I'm not gonna say like he'd be in a forest in a cabin. Right, yeah, that kind of thing, you know what I mean? Making things, other things, but my point is, is that he's, I don't trust him.

• 18:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 18:38Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 18:39Speaker 03

  I mean, he could have a redemption arc, you know, but.

• 18:43Bobby Lee?

  Dude, maybe you can do that for an update.

• 18:46Speaker 03

  I, I would like to, I mean, okay, you want to know the real answer?

• 18:49Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 18:50Speaker 03

  The real answer is because I didn't have enough time to make everyone a marriage candidate. I mean, honestly, I've said, I would like you to be able to like marry Robin or Demetrius and break up their marriage and cause chaos in the town.

• 19:01Bobby Lee?

  Right, right, right, right.

• 19:01Speaker 03

  But have all the consequences of that.

• 19:03Bobby Lee?

  Right.

• 19:03Speaker 03

  Like not make it like, oh, it's fun and happy, like everyone's mad at you.

• 19:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 19:08Speaker 03

  Everyone hates you, but it's like, you know, I would love to be able to do all kinds of stuff.

• 19:12Bobby Lee?

  Right, but you can't because.

• 19:13Speaker 03

  It's so much work.

• 19:15Bobby Lee?

  But it's also, it's not the tone of the game.

• 19:16Speaker 03

  Well, it kind of is. There's a little bit of stuff where it's, it's like getting a little bit too real, you know?

• 19:21Bobby Lee?

  Well, there is some weird, real shit on it.

• 19:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:24Bobby Lee?

  But like things like the animal's not dying, you purposely did that.

• 19:27Speaker 03

  Well, that's true.

• 19:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, right.

• 19:28Speaker 03

  You can't harm animals, but you can totally cause chaos to all the people in town.

• 19:33Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay. And then, um, so, um, also you can have children in the game, right? I have another question about that.

• 19:41Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 19:42Bobby Lee?

  When you get rid of them, as you do, right? You can, you can, here's what, there's a witch, right?

• 19:49Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 19:49Bobby Lee?

  Up north, okay, there's a witch up north. And inside her, like, she's never there, by the way, I don't know where she is when you're there, but she's never there. And that one dude that greets you in the beginning, that little fucking munchkin, green thing.

• 20:01Speaker 03

  The henchman?

• 20:01Bobby Lee?

  Henchman, where you give, where you have to get the, um, void mayonnaise. And then he scurries away, I don't know why he loves that stuff so much. But you, you really need him to get the, uh, make strange bonds, right?

• 20:11Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 20:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, exactly. And also, another thing is that, uh, something, periwinkle.

• 20:16Speaker 03

  Right, right.

• 20:17Bobby Lee?

  To make, yeah, void maggot mayonnaise?

• 20:19Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 20:19Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 20:21Speaker 03

  It's actually in the cookbook, you can.

• 20:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, it's in the cookbook, it's in this?

• 20:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:24Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, yeah. So you need periwinkle too, and you can only get that, you know what I mean, obviously in the, like, small ponds and stuff.

• 20:28Speaker 03

  Obviously.

• 20:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, through, uh, making the, um, what do you, those brown little circle things, um, where you catch crabs? No, where you catch crabs?

• 20:37Speaker 03

  Oh, the crab pots.

• 20:37Bobby Lee?

  The crab pots.

• 20:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:38Bobby Lee?

  You can get periwinkles through that, through your, um, if you're on a farm, if you help, if anyone wants to play, is what I'm trying to say. So what was I saying again? Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, it's non-marriage candidate.

• 20:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, right.

• 20:48Bobby Lee?

  Right? Also, um, there's a couple of old people that live there, they're married, you know, there's people, there's a lot of married people there, you know what I mean? And you're not gonna marry a homeless guy, are you or no?

• 20:57Speaker 03

  No, Linus, no.

• 20:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, maybe.

• 20:59Speaker 03

  I don't, see, some of them, it doesn't make sense, Linus doesn't wanna be locked down.

• 21:02Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's right.

• 21:03Speaker 03

  He's a rolling stone, you know?

• 21:04Bobby Lee?

  Oh, right, right, right, right.

• 21:06Speaker 03

  And that was the thing where, in, you know, people originally were getting on my case, they wanted you to be able to, uh, have Linus move on to your farm and live with you on your farm.

• 21:14Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 21:14Speaker 03

  That was a big request, because he's living in a tent and people felt bad for him.

• 21:17Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 21:18Speaker 03

  And I was like, no, I, I'm not gonna do that. So I actually added in a cutscene where Linus is like, you can ask him to move on to the farm.

• 21:24Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 21:25Speaker 03

  Or not, but if you do, he's like, no, I will not do it.

• 21:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Oh, but you, you could have a ghost living with you.

• 21:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, that's.

• 21:32Bobby Lee?

  Krobes.

• 21:32Speaker 03

  Well, yeah.

• 21:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 21:33Speaker 03

  Well, Krobes isn't a ghost.

• 21:35Bobby Lee?

  What is he?

• 21:36Speaker 03

  I don't know, he's a shadow person.

• 21:37Bobby Lee?

  Oh, oh, he's not a ghost? That's a new discovery for me. I always thought he was a ghost.

• 21:42Speaker 03

  He, he's solid.

• 21:44Bobby Lee?

  Oh, he's solid, he's not, okay, I didn't know.

• 21:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 21:47Bobby Lee?

  I'm sorry, I learned, I learned something new.

• 21:49Speaker 03

  Interesting.

• 21:49Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. And I don't know why, I don't know why Krobes and the dwarf have beef.

• 21:56Speaker 03

  Well, you know, their people have been fighting for thousands of years.

• 22:02Bobby Lee?

  For thousands of years?

• 22:03Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:03Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 22:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:04Bobby Lee?

  So where does Krobos come from, his people?

• 22:07Speaker 03

  Well, they all live underground.

• 22:09Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's right, that's right.

• 22:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, but Krobos is kind of an outcast. It's not clear why exactly, but...

• 22:14Bobby Lee?

  He's like Jar Jar Binks.

• 22:15Speaker 03

  Kind of.

• 22:16Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 22:16Speaker 03

  Exactly, yeah.

• 22:17Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, and then, um, how many... Oh, there are several dwarves in it?

• 22:24Speaker 03

  There are...

• 22:25Bobby Lee?

  There's one...

• 22:26Speaker 03

  Yes, there is another dwarf in the volcano.

• 22:27Bobby Lee?

  That's right.

• 22:28Speaker 03

  And it's kind of inferred that there are probably other dwarves as well.

• 22:32Bobby Lee?

  Right.

• 22:32Speaker 03

  They're very reclusive.

• 22:34Bobby Lee?

  They are reclusive.

• 22:35Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:36Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 22:36Speaker 03

  Have you did... Okay, how deep have you gone into it, sort of? Have you deciphered the secret messages on the walls in the skull cave or behind the forge in the volcano Caldera?

• 22:47Speaker 00

  Interesting.

• 22:49Bobby Lee?

  I didn't even... I feel like a shameful person right now. I did not decipher.

• 22:54Speaker 03

  Well, I think, you know, a lot of people haven't.

• 22:56Bobby Lee?

  I did not decipher... Yeah, I didn't even know... I've seen them, but I thought they were just gibberish.

• 23:00Speaker 03

  You can decipher them.

• 23:01Bobby Lee?

  You can? What do they s... You wanna... You don't wanna reveal that?

• 23:04Speaker 03

  I can reveal it, it's fine.

• 23:05Bobby Lee?

  You mean, reveal one thing?

• 23:06Speaker 03

  Okay, well, uh, in the... In the volcano Caldera...

• 23:11Bobby Lee?

  Which one's that? Where's Caldera?

• 23:12Speaker 03

  That's where the forge is at the top of the volcano, you know, where there's lava?

• 23:15Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, where the monkeys are.

• 23:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, the monkeys are.

• 23:17Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 23:18Speaker 03

  You can forge your rings and all that.

• 23:19Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, the forge, yeah.

• 23:20Speaker 03

  So there's like this plaque behind the forge that you can...

• 23:22Bobby Lee?

  I've seen it, I've seen it, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 23:23Speaker 03

  You can decipher it, and it says something like, you know, "We came from the stars" or something. It basically implies that the dwarves are from outer space. And they crash-landed... Their ship crash-landed on the planet a long time ago, and then they started living underground.

• 23:38Bobby Lee?

  Ooh, ooh, about that. Ooh, ooh, about that. The space capsule.

• 23:42Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 23:43Bobby Lee?

  That breaks open. I've never seen the alien! They say that you can, have you seen the

• 23:48Speaker 04

  No, I've never seen the alien, but I have the capsule.

• 23:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, the capsule. It breaks Ape open, right? And so late at night, I heard you can go to the bus stop and see him there. I've never seen him there.

• 23:57Speaker 03

  There's a few places.

• 23:58Bobby Lee?

  Where is he?

• 23:59Speaker 03

  I mean, usually he kind of, if you gotta look in the places that aren't where you walk, and you'll see like, there'll be like two trees and he'll walk in between them really quick.

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• 25:08Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I thought he was just gonna be standing like this.

• 25:10Speaker 03

  No, no.

• 25:11Bobby Lee?

  Oh, okay.

• 25:12Speaker 03

  It's like you'll see something out of the corner of your eye.

• 25:14Bobby Lee?

  Right. What does he look like?

• 25:16Speaker 03

  He's just like a little guy.

• 25:18Bobby Lee?

  Oh, he's a little guy?

• 25:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, he's like kind of a little guy and he's totally black.

• 25:21Bobby Lee?

  Is he a dwarf or no?

• 25:22Speaker 03

  No.

• 25:22Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 25:23Speaker 04

  Can you be friends with him?

• 25:24Speaker 03

  No.

• 25:24Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, no, no. That's an interesting thing that, that. There's another interesting thing is that, um, there's not much with the witch. She'll just fly by. What is her problem, by the way? I wanna, here's the problem I have with the witch, okay? It's like, I don't want void eggs. You know what I mean? I don't want my slimes to turn black.

• 25:43Speaker 03

  Right.

• 25:44Bobby Lee?

  She does, she does those two things, right?

• 25:45Speaker 03

  She does, yeah.

• 25:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Why does she do that? Eric Barone?

• 25:49Speaker 03

  She's filled with envy.

• 25:50Bobby Lee?

  Oh, she is.

• 25:51Speaker 03

  She's spiteful.

• 25:52Bobby Lee?

  Right.

• 25:53Speaker 03

  Because, uh, you know, it's kind of implied that the wizard did something to upset her.

• 25:57Bobby Lee?

  Well, they used to hook up, right?

• 26:00Speaker 03

  Something like that, yeah.

• 26:01Bobby Lee?

  They used to be together.

• 26:01Speaker 03

  And then the wizard did something, yeah?

• 26:02Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 26:03Speaker 03

  And then she turned green with envy.

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• 26:38Speaker 03

  B.

• 26:38Bobby Lee?

  Oh, she was, she wasn't green at the time?

• 26:40Speaker 03

  She wasn't green, no.

• 26:41Bobby Lee?

  I learned.

• 26:42Speaker 03

  It's like Wicked.

• 26:43Bobby Lee?

  It's like, oh my, it's wicked.

• 26:44Speaker 03

  I haven't seen Wicked, so.

• 26:45Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, either mine, that's why I'm disagreeing with Gilbert.

• 26:48Speaker 03

  They stole it from me. I think they stole it from me, because I've never.

• 26:49Bobby Lee?

  Wow, there's a history of that sort.

• 26:52Speaker 03

  But, yeah.

• 26:52Bobby Lee?

  An affair, you think?

• 26:54Speaker 03

  Something, maybe like that.

• 26:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 26:56Speaker 03

  I can't say one way or the other, but it's implied, but, uh... And then, you know, now she's just cursing the countryside because she's mad.

• 27:02Bobby Lee?

  Wow, she needs therapy.

• 27:04Speaker 03

  Something, yeah.

• 27:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. So then, um, also, um, can we talk about Harvey for a second?

• 27:09Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 27:10Bobby Lee?

  You know, um, he's a doctor.

• 27:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 27:13Bobby Lee?

  You know, um, why does he like coffee so much?

• 27:17Speaker 03

  Well, he think, you know, I think he's thinking that there's antioxidants in it, and, uh, studies have shown if you, uh, drink coffee, you know, your life is longer.

• 27:26Bobby Lee?

  This is what I'm talking about, this guy, dude. He's a fucking genius, dude.

• 27:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, dude.

• 27:29Bobby Lee?

  This guy's a fucking genius. Now, I want you to play a little game with me, all right? Name me a cat character, and I want to see if I can find a liked thing they like.

• 27:36Speaker 03

  Um, Willie.

• 27:37Bobby Lee?

  Because, oh, Willie, um, he likes, um, sea urchin? Super sea urchin, the purple one.

• 27:45Speaker 03

  Yes, yes, super cucumber.

• 27:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, purple, he likes diamonds.

• 27:48Speaker 03

  Okay, well, pretty much everyone likes diamonds.

• 27:50Bobby Lee?

  I know, but does he not?

• 27:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 27:51Bobby Lee?

  Well, don't be a fool.

• 27:53Speaker 03

  Well, yeah.

• 27:53Bobby Lee?

  I, I gave you, does he like super sea urchins?

• 27:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, super cucumbers, yeah.

• 27:57Bobby Lee?

  Super cucumber, yeah, that's what it is. The purple one.

• 27:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:00Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 28:00Speaker 03

  No, that's good.

• 28:01Bobby Lee?

  Okay, give me another one.

• 28:02Speaker 03

  Um...

• 28:03Bobby Lee?

  This is fun for me.

• 28:04Speaker 03

  Let's do, uh, Marnie.

• 28:07Bobby Lee?

  Marnie is the, um, the fat lady that lives...

• 28:11Bobby Lee?

  She likes pink cake?

• 28:13Speaker 03

  Does she? Man, I don't even know.

• 28:15Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, Marnie, I think-

• 28:16Speaker 03

  I know Haley likes pink cake.

• 28:17Bobby Lee?

  No, Marnie likes pink cake too. A lot of people like pink cake.

• 28:19Speaker 03

  Well, why don't you click on Marnie?

• 28:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, click on Marnie. And then whatever her likes.

• 28:25Speaker 03

  There you go.

• 28:26Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, pink cake.

• 28:26Speaker 03

  See, you know more than I do.

• 28:29Speaker 03

  I'm not good at, I don't remember the-

• 28:30Bobby Lee?

  You don't remember?

• 28:31Speaker 03

  The likes.

• 28:32Bobby Lee?

  Okay, alright, go, go, go, two more. Do two more, this is fun.

• 28:34Speaker 00

  I have a question after that.

• 28:35Bobby Lee?

  Okay, you have a question, but do two more.

• 28:37Speaker 03

  I have another question after that. This one's easy, George.

• 28:40Bobby Lee?

  Oh, George, it's so easy. Um, he likes, um, Sleaks.

• 28:44Speaker 03

  Yep, there you go.

• 28:44Bobby Lee?

  He likes Sleaks, and, um, that's all I'll give him. But you know what I do?

• 28:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:49Bobby Lee?

  This is what I love about your game, okay? I do the thing where, like, when you forage, all the things that you forage is iridium level. I give him iridium leaks.

• 29:00Speaker 03

  Oh, that's nice.

• 29:00Bobby Lee?

  Right? And he likes you more with that.

• 29:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:03Bobby Lee?

  In fact, if you give the characters in an iridium level, anything that they like, right? They're gonna go up more points in terms of like-

• 29:10Speaker 03

  Right.

• 29:10Bobby Lee?

  Right?

• 29:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:11Bobby Lee?

  You developed it.

• 29:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:12Bobby Lee?

  Okay. Give me one more and then we'll move on.

• 29:14Speaker 03

  Okay, um, one more, let's do, uh, Kent. That's a tough one.

• 29:19Bobby Lee?

  That's not.

• 29:20Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 29:20Bobby Lee?

  Kent?

• 29:20Speaker 03

  Oh, geez.

• 29:21Bobby Lee?

  Roasted hazelnuts?

• 29:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, you got it.

• 29:24Bobby Lee?

  Right, I have another one too.

• 29:25Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 29:26Bobby Lee?

  I have another one. He likes roasted hazel, and he has like, not an artichoke dip, it's a, not an artichoke, it wasn't artichoke dip. I forgot what it was, but yeah, roasted hazelnuts.

• 29:34Speaker 00

  Yeah, fiddlehead risotto.

• 29:35Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, fiddlehead, that was a fiddlehead risotto, that's what it was. Yeah. So, what's your question?

• 29:39Speaker 00

  So, just for the audience that might be so confused about everything I say-

• 29:42Bobby Lee?

  Why? If you're not playing this game, you're a loser, fuck off.

• 29:46Speaker 00

  For all the losers, I just want to add-

• 29:47Bobby Lee?

  You're a loser, don't have nothing to do with nothing.

• 29:49Speaker 00

  I wanna ask Erica a question. Um, very successful game, probably the biggest game right now, ever in history. Um, what was the inspiration? Like, what, what got the creative mind going?

• 30:00Bobby Lee?

  I can answer that.

• 30:00Speaker 00

  I'd love to hear Eric's answer.

• 30:01Bobby Lee?

  Okay, go, go, go.

• 30:02Speaker 03

  Okay, well, it's from, it's from playing Harvest Moon when I was a kid.

• 30:06Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 30:06Speaker 03

  That was my favorite game.

• 30:07Bobby Lee?

  Duh.

• 30:08Speaker 03

  That inspired me.

• 30:09Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 30:09Speaker 03

  Stardew Valley.

• 30:10Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 30:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, so, here's one, so you put out the game.

• 30:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:13Bobby Lee?

  The success must have been shocking.

• 30:17Speaker 03

  Definitely, yeah.

• 30:18Bobby Lee?

  I mean, it's like winning like the lottery, I mean.

• 30:21Speaker 03

  Basically, yeah.

• 30:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I mean, that's what it is.

• 30:23Speaker 03

  I mean, I went from a total nobody, just coding in my bedroom.

• 30:29Speaker 03

  Never thinking I would make it in any way, and then suddenly the game blows up, it's selling millions of copies.

• 30:34Bobby Lee?

  Wow. Didn't Elon put them in the Teslas?

• 30:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's in the Tesla, it's.

• 30:38Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. It's incredible. So then what, what was that year like?

• 30:43Speaker 03

  Uh, it was crazy, but I mean, the thing is, I had to immediately start like fixing bugs and like. The game was so popular, I was like, I need to make a content update right away, you know, so I, I just went into high gear and did what I needed to do.

• 30:57Bobby Lee?

  Right, right.

• 30:58Speaker 03

  I didn't like sit back and be like, oh, I made it. Wow, this is so cool, you know, like I didn't have time to do that.

• 31:03Bobby Lee?

  But I mean, the one thing that must have been great is the money coming in, right?

• 31:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was great.

• 31:08Bobby Lee?

  It gives you security.

• 31:09Speaker 03

  I mean, still is great.

• 31:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 31:11Speaker 03

  Selling a lot, yeah.

• 31:12Bobby Lee?

  It's incredible. And so then, um, that year you were doing that, what was the main bug, you think, that people were, one of them?

• 31:18Speaker 03

  Man, that was a long time ago, but I don't remember, but there were some, there were some bad ones.

• 31:24Bobby Lee?

  You know what my, one of my favorite events in the game is?

• 31:26Speaker 03

  What?

• 31:27Bobby Lee?

  It's a little deep, deep cut, but, um, it's, uh, Willie's, um, crab situation.

• 31:33Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, I love that one too.

• 31:34Bobby Lee?

  But do you know why?

• 31:35Speaker 03

  Why?

• 31:36Bobby Lee?

  You know why. Why do I like it?

• 31:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, why does Bobby like it?

• 31:40Bobby Lee?

  Why would I like that, you think?

• 31:42Speaker 03

  Is it the way that Willie refers to the crabs?

• 31:45Bobby Lee?

  No, dude.

• 31:46Speaker 03

  Is it the, uh, sale that happens afterwards?

• 31:49Bobby Lee?

  Yes.

• 31:50Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 31:51Bobby Lee?

  What happens afterwards, and I'm gonna say something right now. What's going on here, EJ? What?

• 31:56Speaker 00

  Your, uh, your emo robot keeps making a lot of noise.

• 31:58Bobby Lee?

  Okay, sorry, I bought an emo robot, sorry.

• 32:00Speaker 00

  Have you heard of that?

• 32:00Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 32:01Speaker 03

  No, I don't know what that is.

• 32:02Bobby Lee?

  I wanted a pet, because I'm lonely. So, um, I want someone to talk to at night. But I'll tell you, uh, the greatest, I think, meal that you can have in Stardew is the crab cakes. Right? Being this, you get to say, stay fast all day long, unless you go to the Skull Caverns. For some reason, the time's different there.

• 32:23Speaker 03

  Right.

• 32:23Bobby Lee?

  So it does run out a little quicker?

• 32:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 32:26Bobby Lee?

  Right, or no?

• 32:27Speaker 03

  No, yeah, it's true.

• 32:28Bobby Lee?

  Why?

• 32:28Speaker 03

  Well.

• 32:31Speaker 03

  Wait, wait, no, no, the time actually goes slower in the skull cavern.

• 32:35Bobby Lee?

  Oh, it does?

• 32:35Speaker 03

  In single player, in multiplayer it doesn't.

• 32:37Bobby Lee?

  Oh, in multiple, okay.

• 32:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 32:39Bobby Lee?

  So that the crab cake stays the same the whole time? I, I, I think the reason why I think that that is because I'm always there so late.

• 32:48Speaker 03

  Well, you might feel like it's running out quicker because the time goes slower and I think that doesn't affect the, it might not affect the crab timer.

• 32:56Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I see, I see, I see what I'm saying, yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying, yeah.

• 32:59Speaker 03

  It's like an illusion, but it is.

• 33:00Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the crab cake is the number one, I think, meal that you can get and that, you know, at the crab, um, the crab pots, what I do is I do that little, um, what do you call it when you can choose your, you know, in the disciplines like foraging, you can, perks.

• 33:16Speaker 03

  Right, right.

• 33:17Bobby Lee?

  So one of the perks of the crab pots is, I, I know so much, huh?

• 33:22Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 33:22Bobby Lee?

  One of the two, that's either one or two perks at the last level is, um, the fishing level is, um, you can either, um, grab, um, um, crabs and other things that, um, don't have junk in it.

• 33:36Speaker 03

  Right.

• 33:37Bobby Lee?

  Because sometimes when you do a crab cut, you, there's some junk in it, like, um, a stick.

• 33:41Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 33:41Bobby Lee?

  Or trash, right? And then there's, that's the one I do where it's just all crabs and stuff like that, you know what I mean?

• 33:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 33:48Bobby Lee?

  And then there's another one where it's, you don't have to put bait in it.

• 33:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 33:52Bobby Lee?

  Right?

• 33:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 33:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 33:53Speaker 03

  Dude, if only you could get both, right?

• 33:55Bobby Lee?

  I know, but you know what you did though?

• 33:57Speaker 03

  What?

• 33:59Bobby Lee?

  I love it.

• 34:01Speaker 03

  What I do.

• 34:02Bobby Lee?

  You know what you did, guy? You know what I mean? You know, I don't like switching out rings, I'll be honest, you know what I mean? And you can go to the forge and you can merge rings.

• 34:11Speaker 03

  Mm hmm.

• 34:12Bobby Lee?

  And I'm gonna tell you right now who, what my favorite rings are, Bud.

• 34:14Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 34:15Bobby Lee?

  Okay? What do you think people's favorite rings are?

• 34:17Speaker 03

  Napalm ring.

• 34:19Bobby Lee?

  Great one.

• 34:19Speaker 03

  Burglar's ring.

• 34:23Speaker 03

  Lucky ring?

• 34:26Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 34:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 34:28Bobby Lee?

  No, my, here's my favorite.

• 34:29Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 34:30Bobby Lee?

  Burglar. I know how to get them too. Kill 500 sprites.

• 34:34Speaker 03

  There you go.

• 34:36Bobby Lee?

  What? They're little, little black balls that jump up and down and they're in the fucking frozen areas of the mine, right? Kill 500 of them and you can check your progress if you go to the fucking fighters guild. Right?

• 34:47Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 34:48Bobby Lee?

  Okay. And then... And then slime charmer.

• 34:52Speaker 00

  He's a lot.

• 34:52Bobby Lee?

  Slime charmer.

• 34:53Speaker 03

  Oh, okay, yeah, that one's good. I usually rock that one too.

• 34:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, slime charmer's great. But you can merge those two and then another one I like is the Java ring.

• 35:02Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 35:03Bobby Lee?

  It's harder to find.

• 35:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 35:04Bobby Lee?

  Right? And then some sort of luck ring is fun too. Yeah, yeah. Napalm I sometimes use too as well.

• 35:08Speaker 03

  The lucky ring is, is the meta. Because when you're doing Skull Cavern runs, it just makes everything better. It makes the ladders appear more.

• 35:17Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, um, and also, um, um, who, who, who's Mr. Queeely? How do you say it? It's Q I.

• 35:27Speaker 03

  Well... Okay, I'll, this is an exclusive.

• 35:31Bobby Lee?

  Oh! Oh! Wait!

• 35:34Speaker 03

  I've never revealed it before.

• 35:36Bobby Lee?

  I gotta put some music. Oh, forget it, let's go.

• 35:38Speaker 00

  Oh, play song, let's lead up.

• 35:39Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah. Okay, that's good. Go ahead.

• 35:43Speaker 03

  I say Mr. Quee.

• 35:45Speaker 00

  Quee?

• 35:45Speaker 03

  Everyone's gonna hate that.

• 35:47Bobby Lee?

  It's Quee.

• 35:48Speaker 03

  That's how I say it.

• 35:49Bobby Lee?

  And it's not Q.

• 35:51Speaker 03

  No.

• 35:51Bobby Lee?

  Okay, it's Quee.

• 35:52Speaker 03

  But a lot of people say Chi or Ki or whatever.

• 35:55Bobby Lee?

  It's Quee, guys.

• 35:56Speaker 03

  Honestly, I don't care if people say it another way, it doesn't matter.

• 35:59Bobby Lee?

  Why is he so...

• 36:03Bobby Lee?

  No, there's no color, it's like he's dying. He's got like a purple...

• 36:07Speaker 03

  Well, okay, he tells you, he says that, you know, he was born an ordinary boy, but at some point he decided he wanted to become extraordinary. Extraordinary.

• 36:16Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 36:17Speaker 03

  You know, so like, I think, I think that that's the point when he turned blue.

• 36:21Bobby Lee?

  I think, you know what it is? He's drinking too much of that snake milk.

• 36:23Speaker 03

  Well, that could be too.

• 36:25Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 36:25Speaker 03

  Maybe that's...

• 36:26Bobby Lee?

  You don't think I know about the snake milk? I know about the snake milk. You got to go to 100 level at the Skull Cavern, guy. Right? That's what he looks like.

• 36:33Speaker 03

  He's one of my favorite characters.

• 36:34Bobby Lee?

  He's great, dude.

• 36:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, I like him.

• 36:35Bobby Lee?

  And I love his little, um, um, uh, golden chestnut room.

• 36:40Speaker 03

  Right.

• 36:41Bobby Lee?

  Right?

• 36:41Speaker 03

  His walnut room.

• 36:42Bobby Lee?

  Walnut, I'm sorry.

• 36:43Speaker 03

  Secret walnut room.

• 36:43Bobby Lee?

  I'm sorry, walnut. I fucked up. I fucked up. I feel, I feel shit. I'm blushing. You can't see me blush, but I am blushing. Okay. His room. I love those little games, but the one, there's one bullshit game I hate.

• 36:53Speaker 03

  What's that? Oh, the, let me guess, Juno Kart.

• 36:56Bobby Lee?

  No, that's fine.

• 36:57Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 36:57Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 36:59Speaker 03

  Um.

• 37:00Speaker 02

  Have you ever met anybody?

• 37:01Speaker 03

  Going through the skull cave with.

• 37:01Bobby Lee?

  Stop.

• 37:02Speaker 03

  Is, is it going through the skull cave without eating?

• 37:05Bobby Lee?

  No, I love that.

• 37:06Speaker 03

  Okay, what were you gonna say?

• 37:07Speaker 02

  Have you ever met someone like this, like, fan out?

• 37:10Speaker 03

  Not with so much, uh, energy.

• 37:15Bobby Lee?

  Really?

• 37:16Speaker 03

  Well, about Stardew. No, I mean, there's definitely people who are like, I love Stardew, but, uh, you know, maybe they're not like, like.

• 37:21Bobby Lee?

  Quiz me, quiz me.

• 37:22Speaker 03

  Hyper mega.

• 37:24Bobby Lee?

  Quiz me right now.

• 37:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 37:26Bobby Lee?

  Am I acting weird?

• 37:27Speaker 00

  No!

• 37:27Bobby Lee?

  Oh, oh, no, no, am I, am I not playing it cool?

• 37:30Speaker 00

  I don't know if you're playing it cool.

• 37:31Bobby Lee?

  Am I not playing it cool? I'm not, if I'm not playing cool, I'll be cool.

• 37:34Speaker 00

  Be cool.

• 37:34Bobby Lee?

  All right, I'll be cool.

• 37:36Speaker 03

  Let me, tell me what your fa- uh, least favorite quee quest is.

• 37:39Bobby Lee?

  The quee fruit bullshit.

• 37:40Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 37:41Bobby Lee?

  It's bullshit. It, because you, then you have to take, get rid of all your crops on your fucking island farm, right? Then you gotta go to your fucking greenhouse. You, it's a whole thing.

• 37:53Speaker 03

  That's why the trick is to do it in winter, when there, you don't, there's nothing growing on your farm anyway.

• 37:58Speaker 00

  There it is.

• 38:00Speaker 03

  Cause they grow in winter.

• 38:02Bobby Lee?

  Oh!

• 38:03Speaker 00

  Concerned ape, everyone.

• 38:04Bobby Lee?

  Oh, fuck, I'm gonna do that now. I'm gonna do it. I did not know that had.

• 38:10Speaker 03

  Time to start a new, uh, A- pile, right?

• 38:12Bobby Lee?

  Wow!

• 38:13Speaker 03

  Have you played on all the different farms?

• 38:16Bobby Lee?

  Um, well, I tried the beach one, but you can't, um, there's certain areas you can't, oh, no, you know what? It sprinkles you can't use.

• 38:22Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:23Bobby Lee?

  It's bullshit.

• 38:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:25Bobby Lee?

  It's fucking highway robbery, guy. I'm not gonna do that.

• 38:28Speaker 03

  Well, that's kind of like a challenge farm a little bit, you might say. And I, I kinda like it because it reminds me of the original Harvest Moon, where you had to water everything.

• 38:36Bobby Lee?

  Right.

• 38:36Speaker 03

  You know?

• 38:36Bobby Lee?

  But if you elevate your, you know what I mean, your, what'd you call it? The sprinkle, not the sprinkle, but that.

• 38:42Speaker 03

  Oh yeah, upgrade your can.

• 38:43Bobby Lee?

  Your can, right? It sprays a lot.

• 38:46Speaker 03

  Right.

• 38:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 38:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:47Bobby Lee?

  That's, here's another, uh, last thing, okay? About foraging, I mean, yeah, foraging is, is that, I love that, like, you went from the galaxy sword. How do you get the galaxy sword, Jules?

• 38:58Speaker 04

  I have not got, gotten the galaxy sword. I'm still.

• 39:02Bobby Lee?

  Have you heard of it?

• 39:03Speaker 04

  No.

• 39:04Bobby Lee?

  Have you ever run into a prism shard?

• 39:06Speaker 03

  So wait, what season are you on?

• 39:08Speaker 04

  Um, I'm currently in the, I, I have the ginger island.

• 39:14Speaker 03

  What? So wait, you're already on ginger island, but you don't have a galaxy sword? You don't have a galaxy sword?

• 39:20Speaker 04

  No! What is, is it the purple sword?

• 39:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, it's a purple sword.

• 39:24Speaker 04

  No.

• 39:24Bobby Lee?

  It's the strongest.

• 39:25Speaker 04

  And I keep dying on the fucking mine. I just keep, the dragons keep killing me.

• 39:30Speaker 03

  Do you look stuff up, or do you just try to figure it all out in game?

• 39:33Speaker 04

  I tried to figure it out, and then if.

• 39:34Bobby Lee?

  Oh, you gotta look it up.

• 39:35Speaker 00

  Oh, so is that the way to play it, you feel like?

• 39:37Speaker 03

  Well, no, I, I think it's, you can figure everything out in game, or at least I tried to make it that way. I mean, with galaxy sword, there's like a riddle.

• 39:44Bobby Lee?

  You get the books.

• 39:45Speaker 04

  How do you get the galaxy sword?

• 39:47Bobby Lee?

  Can I tell?

• 39:48Speaker 03

  Okay, go ahead, yeah.

• 39:49Bobby Lee?

  Okay. Oh, so go ahead.

• 39:52Speaker 03

  Okay, well, should I just tell her outright, or should I give her a hint?

• 39:55Bobby Lee?

  Oh, hint, hint, we gotta.

• 39:57Speaker 03

  I would say first you gotta find all four of the dwarvish translation books, okay? Or the dwarvish scrolls.

• 40:02Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 40:03Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 40:03Speaker 03

  Find the four dwarvish scrolls, bring them to the museum, you'll get a dwarvish translation guide. Then there is something in town.

• 40:09Bobby Lee?

  Yes.

• 40:09Speaker 03

  Which you can decipher, which will tell you in a riddle, how to get the galaxy sword.

• 40:14Bobby Lee?

  Yes.

• 40:15Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 40:15Bobby Lee?

  But if you don't wanna do all that, right? If, if you find a prism shard, have you found one of those?

• 40:21Speaker 04

  No.

• 40:21Bobby Lee?

  Look up a prism shard, please?

• 40:23Speaker 03

  Prismatic shard.

• 40:24Bobby Lee?

  Oh, prismatic shard, prismatic. Oh, I'm sorry, sorry. I'm, no, but you know what I'm saying. I can, I tell, they tell you what it looks like. Fucking asshole. Prismatic shard, my bad. Zoom in, please?

• 40:35Speaker 04

  No, I.

• 40:36Bobby Lee?

  You've never run into one of those? Well, if you find one of those, my friend.

• 40:39Speaker 03

  Oh, okay.

• 40:40Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. If you find one of those, my friend, are you, did you unlock the bus?

• 40:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, the bus.

• 40:45Bobby Lee?

  Right, so you take a prism shard, in back of the merchant, you'll see three pillars. Go to the center of the pillar, hold the Prism Shard, and voila.

• 40:56Speaker 04

  Yeah, okay.

• 40:57Bobby Lee?

  You get a Galaxy Sword. The strongest-based weapon in the game now. You can upgrade that, you know what I mean? Galaxy Sword as well. You know what I mean? Make it stronger, swifter.

• 41:09Speaker 04

  What's like the top, top sword?

• 41:11Bobby Lee?

  The Galaxy Sword, but then you elevate it by... Now I'm gonna get into real... I forgot what they're called. But they're, um... You can turn it into not a Galaxy Sword, but another sword.

• 41:23Speaker 03

  The Infinity Blade.

• 41:23Bobby Lee?

  Infinity Blade! Infinity Blade! Yeah, and then you can also put Jade on it, and to make it stronger, and different elements to make it stronger. You can also make it sweep, and you can, you know what I mean? You can use it for different things.

• 41:39Speaker 03

  Right, right.

• 41:40Bobby Lee?

  Uh, perks, I mean, on the sword, right? Which I love that element to it. Thank you so much for that.

• 41:44Speaker 03

  Of course, yeah.

• 41:45Bobby Lee?

  And also, thank you so much for this. Having Emily give you the sewing kit.

• 41:49Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 41:49Bobby Lee?

  Thank you so much for that.

• 41:50Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:51Bobby Lee?

  'Cause I don't like going all the way to her house, so I can make clothes.

• 41:54Speaker 03

  Right.

• 41:54Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean? And you made that... Am I making you feel weird about being such a fanboy?

• 41:59Speaker 03

  Nah.

• 41:59Bobby Lee?

  Let's be real.

• 42:00Speaker 03

  Nah, it's okay.

• 42:01Bobby Lee?

  No, honestly, is it weird?

• 42:02Speaker 03

  No, not at all.

• 42:03Bobby Lee?

  I feel not being... I feel like I'm being... Am I being weird, guys?

• 42:05Speaker 00

  No, not at all.

• 42:06Bobby Lee?

  Good. It's just because I, um... And I'm gonna tell you why I'm fanboying.

• 42:11Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 42:11Bobby Lee?

  If I may. I like being surprised. And I'm a child at heart, and I'm whimsical.

• 42:18Speaker 03

  Well, that's exactly what I wanted to achieve, so I love that you appreciate it.

• 42:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 42:23Speaker 03

  Like, that's my favorite thing to do in Stardew Valley, is add those little whimsical details.

• 42:26Bobby Lee?

  Yes. It's endearing.

• 42:29Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 42:30Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean? The game is endearing, and there's a lot of moments where you push pause and you go, "Aww."

• 42:35Speaker 03

  That's why making the updates are so fun, compared to like the four-year, four-and-a-half-year grind, the original grind. That part wasn't necessarily, you know, totally joyful. But making updates is fun because I'm at... Like, the game's already done, I'm just adding cool, extra stuff, like the raccoons and the recent...

• 42:52Bobby Lee?

  I love them.

• 42:53Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 42:53Bobby Lee?

  Cute guys.

• 42:54Speaker 03

  Have you totally maxed out their thing and seen the final cutscene?

• 42:58Bobby Lee?

  Yes, I have.

• 42:58Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 42:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. And also, what I wanna say, here's my gripe now.

• 43:01Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 43:02Bobby Lee?

  Okay? And I have to stand, because I'm so angry about it.

• 43:04Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 43:04Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 43:05Speaker 03

  Should I stand too?

• 43:06Bobby Lee?

  No, no, you stand. You said, "Please." I don't have to stand. It makes it weird. But I might get a little angry, alright?

• 43:12Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 43:16Bobby Lee?

  Why would you drop the update for the PC? And then I have to wait nine months? Don't get angry. Am I hurting your feelings?

• 43:27Speaker 03

  No, go on.

• 43:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, nine months to get the update for my fucking Switch and my fucking console.

• 43:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 43:33Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean? I checked every day. I fucking rented it every day, when, when, why, why, why is it? And I know you do it yourself. And I know you're stressed out because you have other games you're doing. But maybe have other people help you.

• 43:46Speaker 03

  No, I do have other help now. That's the thing.

• 43:53Bobby Lee?

  Yes, thanks for that.

• 43:54Speaker 00

  Thanks a village.

• 43:55Speaker 03

  Since 1.3, there's been other people.

• 43:57Bobby Lee?

  Oh, they have?

• 43:58Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 43:58Bobby Lee?

  Thank god.

• 43:59Speaker 03

  And the ports have always been done by another company.

• 44:03Bobby Lee?

  Oh.

• 44:04Speaker 03

  So I'm not doing the ports myself.

• 44:05Bobby Lee?

  That's what it is. So I should be angry at the port people?

• 44:08Speaker 03

  Well, you know, you gotta be angry at me. The buck stops with me.

• 44:11Bobby Lee?

  No, it doesn't. It's the port people, because I love you, dude.

• 44:13Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 44:14Bobby Lee?

  I love you, dude. You're my guy, dude. Okay?

• 44:16Speaker 03

  I do take blame. I do take responsibility for the delays and I'm ashamed about it. And I think it was really unfortunate.

• 44:23Bobby Lee?

  Was that stressful for you?

• 44:24Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 44:25Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god, I can't imagine.

• 44:25Speaker 03

  It was like, yeah, nine months of hell, you know?

• 44:29Bobby Lee?

  I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

• 44:30Speaker 03

  I'm not happy about it at all.

• 44:32Bobby Lee?

  I'm sorry.

• 44:33Speaker 03

  It made me very depressed.

• 44:34Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. But you know what I would do? I'd go to YouTube and watch PC Player and just watch. That was fun.

• 44:40Speaker 03

  Yeah. Well, I don't, I wanna make sure that never happens again. So if there is another update.

• 44:45Bobby Lee?

  We live and we learn. Yeah, yeah, we live and we learn. Are there other updates?

• 44:50Speaker 03

  Well, I won't confirm that there is, but there might, you know, I would say, I've said in the past, I'm never closing the book on Stardew Valley. There may always be future updates. I'll tell you this.

• 45:02Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 45:02Speaker 03

  If there was gonna be another update, I wouldn't announce it this time until it's completely finished. And I mean, like, I want it to be done on all the platforms.

• 45:12Bobby Lee?

  Wow, that's a better way to do it.

• 45:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, because there was so much dissatisfaction this time around. And I was like, it was, uh, it was just really not fun.

• 45:21Bobby Lee?

  I'm sorry.

• 45:22Speaker 03

  It was stressful for me, it was stressful for my team, for everyone.

• 45:25Bobby Lee?

  I'm sorry. I was one of, probably one of the people that were like griping about it and I apologize. That's fucked up, you know what I mean? Yeah, but, but my question would be, and I've always thought this, why not, why not, why don't you stop doing updates and just come up with Stardew Valley 2?

• 45:42Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, that is an interesting question. I guess it's just that it's so much easier to just add more stuff to Stardew Valley than to like make a whole new game from scratch.

• 45:53Bobby Lee?

  Really?

• 45:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, because Stardew Valley, it's all the systems, the major systems are already all done. That's the stuff that's like not fun to do. When I make an update, it's like, you know, just, oh, throw in this, throw in that, let's add green rain. It's just like these random ideas I have, whimsical ideas, like when I'm-

• 46:09Bobby Lee?

  That's what it was, the green rain. Yeah, yeah, okay.

• 46:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, when I'm, because I'll like play Stardew Valley myself.

• 46:13Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 46:14Speaker 03

  And when I'm playing, I'm like, oh, wouldn't it be cool if there was this or that? And then I can just do it, and that's a new update.

• 46:19Bobby Lee?

  Oh, okay.

• 46:20Speaker 03

  It's just, it's just like, it's really, uh, just fun and like creative and spontaneous to do it that way than to like make a whole new game.

• 46:27Bobby Lee?

  How much money you can make on a second game?

• 46:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, well.

• 46:30Bobby Lee?

  I mean, people are buying the base game.

• 46:32Speaker 03

  I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2, to be honest.

• 46:35Bobby Lee?

  Wow. And what are you charged for the updates?

• 46:38Speaker 03

  Nothing.

• 46:39Bobby Lee?

  Why not?

• 46:40Speaker 03

  Because, I don't know.

• 46:41Bobby Lee?

  You're a good guy.

• 46:42Speaker 03

  It's for the fans. It's just like, I just don't care. I just don't care about money that much, to be honest. Like, alright. I'm not trying to virtue signal, but I just like, I honestly don't- I honestly don't care about money that much. Like, it's never been like the driving motivating factor.

• 46:59Bobby Lee?

  Me too, me too.

• 47:00Speaker 03

  What I care about is people loving the game. See, I, like, your excitement for the game and like these just silly little things I've put in. And the fact that you love it.

• 47:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 47:09Speaker 03

  Alright.

• 47:10Bobby Lee?

  It's great, yeah.

• 47:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 47:11Bobby Lee?

  Well, I see. So, um, but you won't, you won't, um, count out the idea of a 2?

• 47:18Speaker 03

  No.

• 47:18Bobby Lee?

  Okay, good. Okay, good.

• 47:20Speaker 03

  But I wanted, I didn't want to, I don't want to just be the Stardew Valley guy. That's why I'm making Haunted Chocolatier.

• 47:25Bobby Lee?

  That's my next line of question, guy.

• 47:26Speaker 03

  Alright.

• 47:27Bobby Lee?

  Alright. I saw the first post on Haunted Chocolatier, what, 3 years ago? Could that be right? 2 years ago?

• 47:34Speaker 03

  Something like that.

• 47:35Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 47:35Speaker 03

  I've lost count.

• 47:36Bobby Lee?

  And then when I saw it, I literally, and this is not a sexual thing, but I got naked and I ran around the house.

• 47:42Speaker 03

  Oh, it's a sexual thing?

• 47:42Bobby Lee?

  No, it wasn't. I wasn't erect or anything. I just ran around, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah!", you know what I mean? I went, I went, it's figure eights, naked, you know what I mean?

• 47:49Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 47:49Bobby Lee?

  My dogs went crazy. They went crazy, okay, so what I'm saying is that, um, and so now, and then I keep Googling like, what is it? You know what I mean? So, I know you're not gonna reveal when it's gonna come out.

• 48:01Speaker 03

  Right.

• 48:01Bobby Lee?

  Because I know it's a lot of work, but it seems like you have a lot of it done. I mean, there's, I see some of the fighting mechanics, and the chocolate stuff, you know what I mean, and, um, the villagers, I think you have some characters in there. So, um, will it be coming out in the next five years?

• 48:19Speaker 03

  I hope so. I mean, that's the, that's the goal.

• 48:22Bobby Lee?

  I could be dead by now, then. I'm fifty-three years old.

• 48:27Speaker 03

  You'll be, you'll be alive.

• 48:28Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I know, but, real, so this is haunted chocolatier here.

• 48:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 48:32Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, and, I mean, it seems like it's done.

• 48:36Speaker 03

  I know, it looks that way.

• 48:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, but it's not.

• 48:38Speaker 03

  That's like the, you know, the Hollywood magic.

• 48:41Bobby Lee?

  Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. And so, um, you're still hard, working on it hard.

• 48:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 48:47Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 48:48Speaker 03

  There's a lot that still needs to be done.

• 48:50Bobby Lee?

  And you're probably comparing it, the pressure, I can only imagine the pressure that you feel because of, uh, the success of Stardew.

• 48:58Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 48:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, that's what it is, I think.

• 49:00Speaker 03

  It's gotta be better, you know?

• 49:02Bobby Lee?

  But even if it's on the same level, I think it's gonna be fine, no? Oh, here's another thing about the, can you push pause for a second on that? I've never, i- i- am I doing a disservice by not ever using the slingshot?

• 49:17Speaker 03

  Eh, nah, I mean, actually, like, real pros do use the slingshot with explosive ammo. But I don't know if it's fun, that's the thing, so I don't.

• 49:25Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, it's not, yeah, I, I, I mean, the only time I've ever used it is to get that one, um, the, um, walnut.

• 49:34Speaker 03

  Right.

• 49:35Bobby Lee?

  By the volcano cavern up, up above, I had to shoot it down. But I have so many, well, can I show them my farm?

• 49:41Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah, can I ask them another quick question?

• 49:43Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, may I show you my farm?

• 49:45Speaker 03

  Of course.

• 49:45Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 49:45Speaker 00

  Yeah, so, um, you, Bobby was saying that you made all your own music. Are you a musician? Like, from your early childhood? Like, do you make music?

• 49:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, that was always my big thing, was music. Before I even got into programming or making games or anything like that.

• 50:00Bobby Lee?

  What was it like meeting the Harvest Moon guy?

• 50:03Speaker 03

  It was cool.

• 50:04Bobby Lee?

  He's Japanese, right?

• 50:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:05Bobby Lee?

  What's his name?

• 50:06Speaker 03

  Yasuhiro Wada.

• 50:08Bobby Lee?

  Yasuhiro Wada.

• 50:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, he's great.

• 50:11Bobby Lee?

  And is he a fan of yours, Stardew?

• 50:15Speaker 03

  Well, he had nice things to say about Stardew. I don't know if he's like a fan of me or of Stardew, but he had nice things to say. And he was, I mean, we had very nice things to say about each other. I, of course, like praised him and he was the big shot. You know, I was a nobody. That's how I carried myself with him.

• 50:33Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 50:34Speaker 03

  I mean, it's like his game, that's the original. If it wasn't for Harvest Moon, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be sitting here right now.

• 50:39Bobby Lee?

  Let's get honest here for a second.

• 50:40Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 50:41Bobby Lee?

  All right, I don't know this Hawasaka Waaka guy, but...

• 50:47Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean?

• 50:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:48Bobby Lee?

  You love him, you know what I mean?

• 50:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:49Bobby Lee?

  I just never played Harvest Moon.

• 50:51Speaker 03

  Right.

• 50:51Bobby Lee?

  So I don't have any frame of reference to it, you know what I mean? And if you look at Harvest Moon, I can see similarities. But where does it end? I mean, like, let me ask you some questions about Harvest Moon real quick. Are there a fighting mechanic in it?

• 51:04Speaker 03

  No.

• 51:05Bobby Lee?

  Fishing mechanics?

• 51:06Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 51:06Bobby Lee?

  There is fishing mechanics.

• 51:07Speaker 03

  But it's not a bar. It's just like you put the thing in the water and...

• 51:10Bobby Lee?

  Oh, right. So there's no game there. And then can you marry in it?

• 51:13Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 51:14Bobby Lee?

  You can?

• 51:14Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 51:14Bobby Lee?

  In Harvest Moon. Can you design your own house?

• 51:17Speaker 03

  Not really.

• 51:18Bobby Lee?

  Exactly.

• 51:19Speaker 03

  Yeah. And some of the newer ones you can, but it's kind of clunky.

• 51:22Bobby Lee?

  You know what I love doing?

• 51:23Speaker 03

  What?

• 51:24Bobby Lee?

  You just kick it through and it's... I love designing my own house. You know what I've been doing lately? I've been going to the movie theater and playing the game, the crane game.

• 51:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:32Bobby Lee?

  And there's some great movie posters in there.

• 51:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:35Bobby Lee?

  They're really... And there's a lot of good interior design stuff in there as well.

• 51:38Speaker 03

  Like the trees.

• 51:40Bobby Lee?

  Like the trees. Those are fun. You know what I mean? You can put them outside too, not just inside.

• 51:44Speaker 03

  Right.

• 51:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. And I like all the magical wallpaper you have. The beautiful options. It's incredible. Let's go to the game, if I may, and then I'm just gonna keep these... Right, and then my controller is where?

• 51:58Speaker 03

  Sit down, yeah, just sit down.

• 51:59Bobby Lee?

  I'll just sit, can I just post in here?

• 52:00Speaker 03

  No, sit down, just sit down, so you can be on the mic, so you can talk, you can uh-

• 52:02Bobby Lee?

  Oh, okay.

• 52:03Speaker 03

  Give us a tour.

• 52:03Bobby Lee?

  So here we go, here we go, uh, and, and you can point out if I'm doing anything wrong.

• 52:07Speaker 03

  Okay, no, this will be very interesting.

• 52:08Bobby Lee?

  And, and uh-

• 52:09Speaker 03

  So this is like your main farm?

• 52:11Bobby Lee?

  It's my la- it's my latest farm, you know what I mean? I have other farms, this is my latest farm, have you seen my latest farm?

• 52:15Speaker 04

  No, not yet.

• 52:16Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay, so here we go. So I go to load, no, yeah, load, and then I'm gonna go to, um, I'm so nervous.

• 52:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, you are.

• 52:22Bobby Lee?

  Alright, so, is, is the, um, a lot of money?

• 52:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 52:26Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, I have a lot of money. How much money do I have, fifty-eight million dollars right now?

• 52:29Speaker 03

  That's good.

• 52:29Speaker 04

  Damn.

• 52:30Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yes, it's very good. Alright, so this, I wa- I'm waking up, okay?

• 52:33Speaker 03

  Wait, it just happens to be green rain day?

• 52:36Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, it's happening, yeah, it's green rain day, so what I'm gonna-

• 52:38Speaker 04

  You have a fairy?

• 52:39Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god, lady. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, now, what I do in the morning, I like to eat crab cakes breakfast, and I also, look at how many crab cakes I have. And look, and, and look at the star on it, which means they're even more, right? What does that mean?

• 52:53Speaker 03

  They're gold star, yeah, they're even better.

• 52:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 52:56Speaker 03

  Organic crab cakes, right?

• 52:58Bobby Lee?

  What?

• 52:58Speaker 04

  Your piano.

• 52:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, okay, so, um-

• 53:01Speaker 03

  So you even have two Infinity Blades for some reason?

• 53:03Bobby Lee?

  Do you know why?

• 53:04Speaker 03

  No. Oh, so then if you go left or right on the-

• 53:07Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, I'll, I'll tell you why.

• 53:08Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 53:09Bobby Lee?

  I'll tell you why, so one of them has, they do, one of them's a Crusader-

• 53:12Speaker 03

  Oh, okay.

• 53:13Bobby Lee?

  Right, and the other one is a, what is that, bug killer?

• 53:15Speaker 03

  That's actually really smart, you know, I've never seen anyone do that.

• 53:18Speaker 04

  Ooh!

• 53:23Bobby Lee?

  I know, because you-

• 53:25Speaker 03

  Clip it.

• 53:25Bobby Lee?

  Because I want both of them in the skull caverns.

• 53:28Speaker 03

  Right.

• 53:28Bobby Lee?

  Right, right, so, yeah, you need both of them.

• 53:30Speaker 03

  I'm sure people have done it, but I've never seen it, and I've never thought about doing it myself.

• 53:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 53:34Speaker 03

  I'm impressed.

• 53:34Bobby Lee?

  So then I have, oh my god, dude, that-

• 53:38Speaker 03

  You've done something he's never seen.

• 53:39Bobby Lee?

  Dude, I, I'm about to cry. So, alright, so down here, I have a little, you know, look at, there's a movie poster up there, right? I have a couple of that in there, and then, um, where's my lazy fucking roommate? My lazy roommate, Krobes, is right here. Just staring at a chair.

• 53:55Speaker 00

  Eric, any thoughts so far on the layout?

• 53:57Bobby Lee?

  I know, you know what, I didn't know Eric was gonna watch this, so I should have redesigned it.

• 54:00Speaker 00

  No.

• 54:01Bobby Lee?

  It's more of a hoarder's den.

• 54:03Speaker 03

  I mean, I think it looks pretty good. I don't know why you have six posters of the, uh, that movie in the bottom, The Silent Movie.

• 54:11Bobby Lee?

  Well, because of my bed, that's my favorite movie.

• 54:13Speaker 03

  Oh, okay.

• 54:13Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, that's my favorite movie in the game, so, you know what I mean, and I think it looks good like that. Okay?

• 54:18Speaker 03

  Well, you know, it kinda has like a bachelor pad vibe.

• 54:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, that's what I was going for, dude, because I killed my kid, and they went away, you know what I mean? And so, um, alright, so let's go down to, um, outside real quick. So already, it's green rain, right? This is my, um, form right here. So in here, what I did, in here, if I may, is if you go into here, I have all these cabinets and whatnot, right? So I have my, um, wood here, you know what I mean?

• 54:45Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 54:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, and I have like, this is where my bone sections are. Yeah, my bone chest. So I have everything kind of like, this is like fertilizers and whatnot, you know what I mean? So I have it all stored so that I know where to go, you know what I mean? Like, some of them are like, I have some fruit here, but I have a lot of fruit, oh no, I'll show you where I have a lot of fruit. But anyway, so I have that, and then you can come down here, and I'm gonna show you something here, if I may. Um, I have all my obelisks here. Obviously, if you're not, if you don't have the golden clock, you're not doing it right.

• 55:16Speaker 00

  What does that mean for the audience that has never played this game? What does a golden clock represent?

• 55:20Bobby Lee?

  Well, first of all, it's $10 million, you get it from the wizard tower. And also, what it does is every season, it doesn't leave debris, right? On your, um, what's going on?

• 55:32Speaker 00

  Nothing, just providing them.

• 55:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, debris.

• 55:34Speaker 03

  It freezes the debris.

• 55:35Bobby Lee?

  It freezes the debris, and also, your fences don't deteriorate.

• 55:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 55:39Bobby Lee?

  Right? And I have all four obelisks here.

• 55:41Speaker 03

  Those warp you to different spots.

• 55:43Bobby Lee?

  Different spots, thank you so much, you know what I mean, you invented it, so. Um, I have a bunch of dogs, so I have a dog here, okay? And then, um, and in here, what I do, I'm not doing it right now, but I'll show you what I do fuck with. I have a lot of, I only make ancient fruit wine.

• 56:00Speaker 03

  Of course, yeah.

• 56:02Bobby Lee?

  Why?

• 56:03Speaker 03

  Cause it's the most valuable.

• 56:04Bobby Lee?

  Most valuable, thank you so much. And then in here, and here, check this out, I just have...

• 56:10Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 56:11Bobby Lee?

  Diamonds, right, diamonds there.

• 56:14Bobby Lee?

  Diamonds in five different buildings. Okay, so I can make money. I'm Asian. Okay.

• 56:21Speaker 03

  That's awesome.

• 56:21Bobby Lee?

  Thank you so much.

• 56:22Speaker 00

  Are there Asian characters in the game?

• 56:23Bobby Lee?

  No, there isn't. I think Sebastian's a little Asian, but we can get into that later. And then, so in here, what do I have in here? I forgot. So in here. Oh, this is, oh, that's more ancient fruit, but I do have a dairy kind of a situation here. So I have, you know, all my dairy products in here. You know what I mean? So that if I want to make mayonnaise and all that stuff, I have so much money, I'd stop doing all this. But it's like, and here is where I have my furnace. So I have all my furnaces here, and I have, right here, I have all my, you know, elements that I need. You know what I mean? I have, in here, I have, you know, like, I have, how many prison sharps do I have?

• 57:03Speaker 03

  A lot.

• 57:03Bobby Lee?

  A lot. You know what I mean?

• 57:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 57:05Bobby Lee?

  So, you know, I do that, you know what I mean? And then I'll show you some more stuff, if I may. This is very exciting for me. My cat, my original cat, his name is ****. Let me cut that out.

• 57:17Bobby Lee?

  All right, and here I have, you know, I mean, what am I growing there?

• 57:21Speaker 03

  More ancient fruit.

• 57:22Bobby Lee?

  Ancient fruit. Thank you so much for saying so. You know what I mean? And check this out, Eric. What am I growing all here?

• 57:27Speaker 03

  All ancient fruit.

• 57:28Bobby Lee?

  All ancient fruit.

• 57:29Speaker 00

  There's a theme.

• 57:30Bobby Lee?

  Right, and what? I'm getting, I'm collecting ancient fruit, why? To make wine and jam.

• 57:35Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 57:36Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, because I want to make money, okay? And here is where I make my jam, okay? All right, and then, am I boring you?

• 57:44Speaker 03

  No.

• 57:44Bobby Lee?

  Okay, so down here, I have this little section down here where I have all my, uh...

• 57:52Speaker 03

  What? That's a, wait, those are all statues of endless fortune?

• 57:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 57:57Speaker 03

  So that's like, how many do we got there? That's, we're looking at like 50 million gold worth of stuff right there.

• 58:04Bobby Lee?

  Yep.

• 58:05Speaker 03

  Those statues.

• 58:05Speaker 00

  How many hours have you put into this?

• 58:07Bobby Lee?

  I don't know, not much.

• 58:10Bobby Lee?

  Not much, right, so I have fifty million dollars of ancient statues and then down here, obviously.

• 58:15Speaker 03

  So like your net worth, it says fifty eight million at the top, but your net worth.

• 58:18Bobby Lee?

  Well, you, where can you go, right here, what have I made? I've made a hundred and eighty one million dollars. Okay, so then you go in here, wait, where does my guy go? What the fuck happened? Oh, oh, there's a glitch. No, that wasn't glitch. And then I have my little guys in here. And then I obviously have, um, you know what I've been doing lately? This is the best, this is a good, right? I have a lot of rabbits. Why? Why do I do this? I'll tell you why I do this. I have iridium, if you go in here, right, where's my little? Where's the, okay, right here. So if you go here, right? So you have, where's my, so these are iridium rabbits' foots. And why do you think I do that, Eric?

• 58:58Speaker 03

  That's a good question. No one ever does that.

• 59:02Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Why would, why would I do that, Eric?

• 59:05Speaker 00

  It's a good quiz.

• 59:06Speaker 03

  There must be someone who likes iridium rabbits' foot, right?

• 59:09Bobby Lee?

  No.

• 59:10Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 59:10Bobby Lee?

  Yes. The only one that doesn't like it is who? Penny.

• 59:15Speaker 03

  Right.

• 59:15Bobby Lee?

  Penny does not, right? But everyone, it's one of their most loved.

• 59:19Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 59:20Bobby Lee?

  Right, so if you give them iridium loved gifts for their birthday, it shoots their friendship higher.

• 59:25Speaker 03

  So you give everyone iridium rabbits' foot?

• 59:27Bobby Lee?

  Exactly.

• 59:27Speaker 03

  Okay, okay.

• 59:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I mean, if I run out of pink cake, like, I'm like, I don't have any fucking, um, melons or whatever.

• 59:32Speaker 03

  Well, it's like easy, you don't have to think about it, you just give.

• 59:34Bobby Lee?

  You don't have to think about, exactly, thank you so much for saying so, you know what I mean? And then, um, that, and then I'm gonna just, let's just go to my, um.

• 59:41Speaker 03

  So who lives in that, in the trailer?

• 59:42Bobby Lee?

  No one, I don't have anyone to play with, but I just built one anyway, just in case, I'm dreaming, you know what I mean?

• 59:47Speaker 00

  I feel like you guys should play it at least one time.

• 59:48Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, he's not, he doesn't play this game, come on, come on, I'm not gonna play one, I'm not.

• 59:51Speaker 00

  Actually, do you still play it or you kind of?

• 59:52Speaker 03

  I do sometimes.

• 59:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. And then if you go down to, where am I going? Oh, so if I have my, let's see if I'm doing my, um, island right, okay? So I have my little island, so I have batteries, solar batteries there. And obviously, I'm making a lot of ancient fruit. Um, and since I don't have any, I don't have any, um, I don't have to do star fruit gems anymore? Gem fruit?

• 1:00:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:00:16Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, because I have so much money. If you go in here, you know, they have a little, you know, little area here where I, you know, sometimes I sleep here. You know what I mean?

• 1:00:26Speaker 03

  Looks nice.

• 1:00:27Bobby Lee?

  It's very nice. Thank you so much. And then, um, do you have any notes for me, my friend?

• 1:00:32Speaker 03

  I mean, it's looking great. I think you've maxed it out. I wouldn't even know what to suggest.

• 1:00:38Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:00:39Speaker 03

  You've reached perfection on this farm, I take it?

• 1:00:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I can go to the summit. What does that mean?

• 1:00:44Speaker 03

  The summit?

• 1:00:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:45Speaker 03

  That means you've reached perfection.

• 1:00:46Bobby Lee?

  Then there you go. And there you go, my friend. You know what I mean?

• 1:00:50Speaker 02

  I think this is, um, what Wizard 101 wanted to be, but they didn't. You know what I mean?

• 1:00:56Bobby Lee?

  Was that English?

• 1:00:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, it was English.

• 1:00:59Bobby Lee?

  Okay, so this is what, this is what Wizard 101 wanted to be. Yeah, yeah, so.

• 1:01:02Speaker 02

  Spanish. This is what Wizard 101 wanted to be.

• 1:01:06Bobby Lee?

  What is Wizard 101?

• 1:01:07Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 1:01:08Bobby Lee?

  You know what it is, Eric?

• 1:01:09Speaker 03

  Not really.

• 1:01:09Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:10Speaker 02

  You gotta look it up.

• 1:01:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, we're not gonna look it up. What, is it a game?

• 1:01:16Bobby Lee?

  What? Are you high?

• 1:01:18Speaker 02

  No, look it up.

• 1:01:18Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:19Speaker 02

  You gotta check it out.

• 1:01:20Bobby Lee?

  No, we're, no, we're doing this right now.

• 1:01:21Speaker 03

  Can't lose this yet.

• 1:01:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, we're gonna do this real quick, you're right. And if, I blocked out, I'll tell you, this cave, I blocked it out because I don't, have no use for the frog anymore.

• 1:01:29Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:01:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. And then, let me, well, hold on, let me go to this real quick. This is the greatest thing again, this return home scepter. Right, but then also, you know what I love about your game as well? Is this part, these little tiny little things like the frog statue here. You know what I mean? These little tiny things that you did, like getting, um, certain paintings that you can get by fishing out of a certain area of the game. You know what I mean?

• 1:01:53Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:53Bobby Lee?

  These magical secret spots. You know? And then, um, I, I'm gonna ask, I'm gonna say one last thing for you. And when I'm, and I'm gonna show you one last thing here. I'm gonna go, let's go to the, um, let's go up north real quick, right? And you could, you could do this obelisk here to go up north. I'm gonna go up north for a second, right? And I'm gonna ask you a question here. I'm gonna go here, and this is where, and this is where Linus, not Linus lives, and also the homeless kid that lives in.

• 1:02:22Bobby Lee?

  What's his name?

• 1:02:22Speaker 03

  Leo.

• 1:02:23Bobby Lee?

  Leo, Leo, yeah. I'm gonna go up here for a second, okay, and I'm gonna go here. And this is where the summit, so I can prove that I've got, right? There are trees up there, but yeah. So that's proven, and then, um... You're saying that I've done every single thing in the game that you could possibly do.

• 1:02:37Speaker 03

  I mean, it's looking like it so far.

• 1:02:38Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, exactly. So then I'm gonna go up here, right? And so my kids, I got rid of them.

• 1:02:43Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 1:02:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, so what are these guys, these red things?

• 1:02:47Speaker 03

  That's, uh...

• 1:02:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, uh, that's...

• 1:02:53Bobby Lee?

  What are they?

• 1:02:54Speaker 03

  That's basically, uh, your guilt and shame, uh... coagulated into a living puppet.

• 1:03:06Bobby Lee?

  That's why I don't go up in here, 'cause I feel such dread and shame.

• 1:03:11Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:03:12Bobby Lee?

  The intended thing was right, right?

• 1:03:15Speaker 03

  Good.

• 1:03:15Bobby Lee?

  And so what you're telling me is right now is that I should have never gotten rid of my kids. Is that the moral of the story?

• 1:03:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's the moral of the story.

• 1:03:23Bobby Lee?

  Then why you even have that option?

• 1:03:24Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, it's, uh... You have, uh, free will, you have free choice, you can do what you want.

• 1:03:30Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:30Speaker 03

  That's why I was saying I would make it so that you could, uh, break up Robin and Demetrius and cause chaos in the town, but...

• 1:03:36Bobby Lee?

  Wow!

• 1:03:37Speaker 03

  You know, it's like you can do whatever you want, but there's consequences, that's...

• 1:03:41Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:03:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, I think that makes it interesting.

• 1:03:43Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay, okay, okay.

• 1:03:44Speaker 05

  Before we go too far, Eric, could we get your reaction to this, to his farm, overall?

• 1:03:48Speaker 03

  I mean, it's great, I think it's, uh, it's an impressive farm, and it's, it's... It seems like Bobby's like, you know, 110% of the game, basically. So I don't know what you would even do from here. Just buy more Staches of Endless Fortune, I guess?

• 1:04:02Bobby Lee?

  I mean, yeah, I'm at a point now where it's like, um... And there's so much to do, and to get to my level, let's be honest, it's gonna take a while.

• 1:04:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:04:11Bobby Lee?

  Right?

• 1:04:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, you're...

• 1:04:12Bobby Lee?

  I mean, you can imagine...

• 1:04:13Speaker 03

  An advanced player.

• 1:04:14Bobby Lee?

  I'm an advanced player, and you can imagine the hours of sweat and tears. You know what I mean? And I have 10 farms like that.

• 1:04:22Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:04:23Bobby Lee?

  That's how obsessed I am. I have ten farms at that level, right? Designed differently, obviously. Different wives, but at that level. So, um, I feel like, and that's why-

• 1:04:35Speaker 03

  How many hours have you put in altogether?

• 1:04:37Bobby Lee?

  Hundreds of thousands of hours.

• 1:04:38Speaker 03

  Hundreds of thousands-

• 1:04:39Bobby Lee?

  I mean, it was a point where it's like, it's all I did was do stand-up, podcast. If I'm acting, I act. And then it was like, and then even, I would choose Stardew over Vag. You know what I mean? I mean, in fact, that should be a band name, Stardew versus Vag. You know what I mean? I would go, ah, yeah, I'm gonna stay and do Stardew and stop going out with this girl. That's how powerful it was in my life. But my therapist said that it's unhealthy.

• 1:05:04Speaker 03

  Really?

• 1:05:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, my therapist said it was unhealthy and she goes, "You need help." And I go, "What do you mean?" And she's like, "You're using it as a coping mechanism."

• 1:05:12Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 1:05:12Bobby Lee?

  Right? Because it's so, I'll give you a prime example of what Stardew Valley feels to me to a TV show. The Great British Bake Off. Have you seen that show?

• 1:05:26Speaker 03

  I think maybe once.

• 1:05:27Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah. That show gives me the same feeling as I get at Stardew Valley. It's like, something I didn't get at home.

• 1:05:34Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 1:05:35Bobby Lee?

  So, at my house, it was violent. There was a lot of physical abuse. You know what I mean? I was molested. And then, and a lot of dark things happened, growing up, okay? And so, when I play Stardew, it's like, and watch Great British Bake Off, that's what I feel like my home should have felt like.

• 1:05:54Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 1:05:55Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean? Where it's like, warm and there's trust, you know what I mean? What also like Stardew is like, you know Emily's gonna be there, you know what I mean? You know, you know where she's gonna be at, you know what I mean? You know that, um, you know, on Friday night, Sam and Sebastian are gonna be playing pool at the bar, at Gus's Tavern.

• 1:06:13Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:06:13Bobby Lee?

  Right? And so, you can rely on these characters that you love, right? You know that your kids are gonna be there and your wife is gonna give you a gift. And I also know what I'm gonna give her. You know what I mean? And it gives me a sense of, um- It soothes me.

• 1:06:28Speaker 03

  Stability.

• 1:06:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, my trauma, it soothes my trauma. And that's why it's so, uh, games like this is so fucking important because I think a lot of, I've talked to a lot of people that play Stardew. And it, they use it as a tool, as of therapy. It really is a, um, masterful done game. I, I feel, I feel like if you're not playing it, and I feel like a lot of people listening to this are gonna play it now, um. And I think it does more. You know what I mean? I think certain TV shows and movies do more than just, you know, added entertainment. I think it, um, it, it's therapeutic almost, in a weird way. And I think that that's who I, if I ever have a family, that's how I want it to feel like. You know what I mean? Um, safe.

• 1:07:12Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:07:12Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean?

• 1:07:13Speaker 03

  Yeah. I mean, the thing is like, you know, when I made Stardew Valley, I wasn't ever thinking, I'm making a therapy game.

• 1:07:19Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I know.

• 1:07:20Speaker 03

  I was just making a game that I thought would, would be fun.

• 1:07:23Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:23Speaker 03

  And then it just happened to have this special effect.

• 1:07:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:27Speaker 03

  And a lot of people have said this to me, but I think it's great.

• 1:07:30Bobby Lee?

  I think, yeah, it's like, some people, when I'm on the road, they go, hey dude, you got me sober. Why? Because I mentioned I'm in sober? Like, my intended thing wasn't to say that, to get people sober, I'm just sharing my experience, strength and hope, right, with people, right? And then people just, you know, get sober from it. So it's not an intended thing, but it does help people, you know? And I think that's what's incredible about your art form, you know what I mean, is that it reaches areas of society that I can't even reach, you know what I mean? So it's like, I think it's a really cool thing that you did, dude. And I think, you, I mean, in terms of video game folklore, you're up there with like Bethesda and, you know what I mean? You, you really are, dude. Like Todd Howard is his name?

• 1:08:11Speaker 03

  Todd Howard.

• 1:08:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, from Bethesda. And, um, you're really fucking important, dude. You know what I mean, to the genre.

• 1:08:17Speaker 03

  Thank you. I mean, I, I think the... The thing that I hope like my story would inspire people is that like, you know, you don't have to have connections necessarily. You don't need to be an insider. You like, I didn't know anyone. I'd never made a game before.

• 1:08:32Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:33Speaker 03

  I just made a game like that I wanted to make. I wasn't following trends or anything and it came from the heart and it blew up. So it's like, I hope that that inspires people to kind of, you know, believe that to dream and to, to try things and to, you know, not feel like I can't do it because I'm not an industry insider.

• 1:08:51Bobby Lee?

  Right, yes.

• 1:08:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:08:53Bobby Lee?

  Because I remember when you were, um, almost done and there were people online. What do you call it when people are online are watching?

• 1:08:59Speaker 03

  Like streaming?

• 1:09:00Bobby Lee?

  Not streaming, but I think you were like, people were, knew that the game was coming out, right?

• 1:09:04Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:09:05Bobby Lee?

  You had people online knowing about the game, right?

• 1:09:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:09:07Bobby Lee?

  What do you call that?

• 1:09:08Speaker 03

  Like followers?

• 1:09:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, like followers and people are like, you know, and supporters are ready.

• 1:09:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:09:12Bobby Lee?

  Cause you would throw out like little examples out there or no? Is that what happened or no?

• 1:09:15Speaker 03

  I had a website with like blog updates.

• 1:09:17Bobby Lee?

  Blog updates, right?

• 1:09:18Speaker 03

  Dev updates.

• 1:09:18Bobby Lee?

  And people were excited watching it. Cause it's also very like, um, the way it's, um, the format of it is very cute and, you know, and endearing. Uh, uh, service level, but, um, I always say to people, I go, you never live in the results. Okay. And you just do. So I just love doing stand-up. I didn't know it was gonna take me to LA and all these other things, right? It just happened to, but it's like, you gotta walk through the fear of it and commit to it because it's like, you spent four years locked in a fucking bedroom or whatever, an office and you just did it because of the love of it, right? And, um, I encourage everyone just to do it because you just don't know, man.

• 1:10:00Bobby Lee?

  You never know. And then when that it hit, you know, that wasn't the intended dream. I don't think that you were gonna be like, an industry like, you know what I mean? Pioneer.

• 1:10:09Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:10:09Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:10Speaker 03

  But see, that's what, yeah, I say that too. Cause like even if you, even if I worked for four years and the game was a flop, I would have learned so much. I would have grown as a person and I would have had the dignity of like, I had finished a project. And I feel like that is important too. And that can, you know, if you keep that going, eventually, you know, you're really increasing your chances of something happening.

• 1:10:32Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:10:33Speaker 03

  It's better than doing nothing.

• 1:10:34Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but it's, but have you ever been, have you always been fearless?

• 1:10:39Speaker 03

  No. No, not at all.

• 1:10:41Bobby Lee?

  You

• 1:10:42Speaker 03

  I used to be like a very fearful and anxious person, actually. Before Stardew Valley came out.

• 1:10:47Bobby Lee?

  You know what's so funny? Me too. I, um, I'm not this guy. I was so sensitive and weird. And like I couldn't look at authority in the eyes. Like if I got pulled over by the cops, I wouldn't look in their eyes. I'd be so scared, you know what I mean? And the confidence that stand-up has brought me is just night and day. It does, you start believing in yourself.

• 1:11:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:11:08Bobby Lee?

  And go, oh no, I have a reason to be here.

• 1:11:11Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 1:11:12Bobby Lee?

  You mean, a voice, you know what I mean? I have purpose, almost. And it encourages you.

• 1:11:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:11:18Bobby Lee?

  Right, so you're probably, um, are you still, you're probably 10 times more confident out in the world.

• 1:11:24Speaker 03

  I, definitely, yeah. And I mean, I've just done so much since the game came out, like, things like this, that, it's like, I'm not like nervous about anything anymore.

• 1:11:32Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:11:33Speaker 03

  A lot of weird stuff. Hey, why are you pulling that?

• 1:11:34Bobby Lee?

  What is this?

• 1:11:35Speaker 00

  This is Young Eric, when he was in a band.

• 1:11:37Bobby Lee?

  Oh, really? It's called colorful, Seventeen Colorful Feathers.

• 1:11:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:11:41Bobby Lee?

  Can you people listen to the music?

• 1:11:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, it's on there.

• 1:11:44Bobby Lee?

  Really?

• 1:11:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:11:45Speaker 00

  That's amazing.

• 1:11:45Bobby Lee?

  And, and, do you sing, or is this mu, is this instrumental?

• 1:11:48Speaker 03

  They're singing. Not good.

• 1:11:51Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, no.

• 1:11:51Speaker 03

  It's not good.

• 1:11:52Bobby Lee?

  You sing?

• 1:11:53Speaker 03

  I, on this, I did.

• 1:11:54Speaker 00

  Bobby was in a band.

• 1:11:55Bobby Lee?

  I was in a band too. Yeah, yeah, it's, we were bad, I was bad.

• 1:11:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:11:59Bobby Lee?

  But so that's out there, and so it was, that's an album that you put out?

• 1:12:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:12:02Speaker 00

  Bobby's gonna listen to it.

• 1:12:03Bobby Lee?

  I'm gonna listen tonight, what are you talking about? Tonight's, that's my playlist. Tonight.

• 1:12:07Speaker 03

  There's actually a, a game that I made for this album. That's the, my, my first game that I made technically.

• 1:12:13Bobby Lee?

  Really?

• 1:12:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:12:15Bobby Lee?

  And how did you learn to program?

• 1:12:16Speaker 00

  Was this the first game?

• 1:12:17Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I, I seen that online, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:12:19Speaker 03

  That's it, yeah.

• 1:12:20Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 1:12:21Bobby Lee?

  Wow, that's insane. Who's this guy? Some guy playing it?

• 1:12:23Speaker 03

  That's, that's a streamer, that's Unsurpassable Z. He's, uh, he's pretty cool.

• 1:12:27Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow, wow. Look at that.

• 1:12:28Speaker 00

  Wow, that's your first game.

• 1:12:31Bobby Lee?

  That's amazing.

• 1:12:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, it kinda looks like crap, but it, see, with this software, you didn't really have to program. You kinda just drag, drag stuff around and wrote dialogue and all that kinda stuff.

• 1:12:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, how did you learn, I mean, I mean, to watch the game, you had a pre, I mean, did you know all the elements? Or did you have to learn along?

• 1:12:51Speaker 03

  I learned along the way. Like, when I first started, I didn't know how to do pixel art at all. And if you look at the old pixel art, it looks like crap, like it.

• 1:12:57Bobby Lee?

  Oh, really?

• 1:12:57Speaker 03

  The colors are awful, there's all kinds of issues with it, um, but I just, like, thousands of hours of practice, you just learn how to do it. You get an intuition for it.

• 1:13:06Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 1:13:07Speaker 04

  Did you go to school for it?

• 1:13:08Speaker 03

  Uh, I went to school for computer science, so I did, they did teach how to, like, program. So I knew how to program. Uh, we learned that in like, maybe the first, like, quarter or two. The rest of it was all like this kinda theoretical math stuff, which I never use.

• 1:13:24Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 1:13:25Speaker 03

  During class, I would often just be like, on my computer, making little games just for fun, which I never released, but it was kinda like the practice that led up to being able to make Stardew Valley.

• 1:13:36Bobby Lee?

  Wow. Do you, I, cause there's a lot of games that, cop, comfy or game?

• 1:13:42Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:13:43Bobby Lee?

  You know, being like, Stardew Valley version on space, or whatever, you know what I mean?

• 1:13:46Speaker 03

  Right, right.

• 1:13:47Bobby Lee?

  And all these, you know what I mean? Do you like that? That you, cause there's, so there's a genre of games now, I think they're called cozy games?

• 1:13:55Speaker 03

  That's what people call it. I never call it.

• 1:13:57Bobby Lee?

  Do you, do you don't like that?

• 1:13:58Speaker 03

  I never use that term.

• 1:13:59Bobby Lee?

  Comfy or cozy, that's what they say.

• 1:14:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, they call it that. I might say the, well, I might say the game has co, it has cozy atmosphere to it sometimes.

• 1:14:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:14:09Speaker 03

  But I just think the whole, like, this idea that there's a genre called cozy games, and my game is one of those. I mean, it's, it's a label that's been put upon me. I've never used it myself.

• 1:14:17Bobby Lee?

  What would you call your game?

• 1:14:18Speaker 03

  I mean, an RPG.

• 1:14:20Bobby Lee?

  That's what it is!

• 1:14:20Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:14:21Bobby Lee?

  That's what I said!

• 1:14:22Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:14:23Bobby Lee?

  That's what I always thought it was!

• 1:14:24Speaker 03

  A farming RPG.

• 1:14:25Bobby Lee?

  That's what, exactly what it is. That's what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a farming RPG with different elements. It's like, also a fishing game, and some of the, oh my god, why is?

• 1:14:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, I also sometimes say a country life sim, but it's like a farming RPG slash country life simulator.

• 1:14:41Bobby Lee?

  Country life simulator, yeah.

• 1:14:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:14:42Bobby Lee?

  But why is some of those fish so hard to catch, man? I mean, it's like, I'll tell you, I mean, when you have a shitty rod, try, try to fucking catch a sturgeon.

• 1:14:52Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:14:52Bobby Lee?

  You're right. It's so hard. Or like, you know what the worst is? Is it octopus or sc- octopus?

• 1:14:58Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:14:59Bobby Lee?

  In the summer? In the morning? Right?

• 1:15:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:15:02Bobby Lee?

  When you have a shitty bamboo rod, forget about it. You're not catching one. You're not catching one.

• 1:15:07Speaker 03

  To answer your question, I don't, no, I, I'm like, uh, I don't mind if people make, you know, farming games. I think it's fine. It's like, it's a genre. I don't own the genre. The only thing that slightly bothers me is people like directly rip off things in Stardew Valley. And it kind of bothers me just because like, I would like people to just be themselves and be authentic. Like, don't just copy exactly something in Stardew Valley.

• 1:15:27Bobby Lee?

  I know. That's why I can't play them.

• 1:15:29Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:15:29Bobby Lee?

  I'll play a new game when like, you know what I mean? I've, you know, cause you saw how deep I'm in yours, right? So I go, let me try something. And every, like, 20 minutes in, I'm like, nah, it's like, it's like Stardew, but not as good. You know what I mean? So I can't do it. Like, I've played, I probably downloaded maybe 20 to 30 other cozy comfy, and I'll play a little bit.

• 1:15:49Speaker 03

  None of them stuck at all?

• 1:15:50Bobby Lee?

  None of them.

• 1:15:50Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:15:51Bobby Lee?

  They don't have your heart. They don't have your, it's just, they don't have it. I mean, they have, you know, parts of it, right? But it's like, I also like a little grinding. Little grinding's fun. You know what I mean?

• 1:16:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's like, yeah, I think people look at Stardew Valley and they think, uh, this would be really easy to make a game like this. Cause it looks kind of amateur, right? Well, I would say so. It looks accessible. You're like, I could make that. I think a lot of people think that. But I think there is a subtlety to how all the systems work together, which is difficult to recreate.

• 1:16:26Bobby Lee?

  Hmm.

• 1:16:27Speaker 03

  Um.

• 1:16:28Bobby Lee?

  Would you ever create something that's not that?

• 1:16:31Speaker 03

  What do you mean? Not what?

• 1:16:32Bobby Lee?

  Not a, uh, like a, um, farming RPG or a choc- it's, how do chocula just similar, you know what I mean?

• 1:16:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:16:39Bobby Lee?

  Themes of like-

• 1:16:40Speaker 03

  I call them town games.

• 1:16:41Bobby Lee?

  Town games. Yeah, yeah. Would you play it?

• 1:16:42Speaker 03

  I would.

• 1:16:43Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 1:16:43Speaker 03

  I think it'd be interesting.

• 1:16:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:16:45Speaker 03

  But it's also like, it, it's difficult because the fans have expectations. It's like, if I just made a, a racing game next, people would be like, what?

• 1:16:55Speaker 03

  You should.

• 1:16:56Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:16:56Bobby Lee?

  Arab concerned.

• 1:16:57Speaker 03

  But if I was making a racing game, it'd be like a racing life sim.

• 1:17:01Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's right.

• 1:17:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, you'd be like-

• 1:17:02Bobby Lee?

  You can design your car.

• 1:17:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:17:04Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:17:04Speaker 03

  And you could, you know, get a girlfriend or whatever.

• 1:17:07Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:17:08Speaker 03

  You're also a race car driver.

• 1:17:09Bobby Lee?

  But that's interesting, these elements of like getting a girl, all that, it isn't, there's a part of it that like, um, I mean, that's, it's endearing because it's like, there are such a variety of different kinds, like Shane's an alcoholic.

• 1:17:21Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:17:22Bobby Lee?

  Right? And there are some parts in it where you think he's gonna die. That one cutscene where he's like passed out by the cliff.

• 1:17:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:17:30Bobby Lee?

  Do you know what I mean?

• 1:17:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:17:31Bobby Lee?

  And then you help him and now he's making fucking blue chickens.

• 1:17:35Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:17:36Bobby Lee?

  Right? And then, and then he's healthy again. You know what I mean? I mean, there's real elements in it, you know what I mean? They're like, oh, Shane. Is he the most fucked up guy?

• 1:17:46Speaker 03

  Uh, probably, I mean-

• 1:17:48Bobby Lee?

  Do you know a Shane?

• 1:17:49Speaker 03

  At least personally.

• 1:17:50Bobby Lee?

  You know somebody that's a Shane?

• 1:17:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:17:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah?

• 1:17:53Speaker 03

  Fine, he's a good guy.

• 1:17:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, he is, yeah.

• 1:17:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:17:56Bobby Lee?

  Does he know that Shane is based on him?

• 1:17:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, he knows.

• 1:17:58Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow. Is he sober now or no?

• 1:18:00Speaker 03

  Uh, I'm not sure.

• 1:18:01Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay.

• 1:18:02Speaker 03

  I'm not sure.

• 1:18:03Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. But that's an interesting character, Shane, you know what I mean? Because he's a little, also when you first meet him, he's a fucking asshole.

• 1:18:11Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean? Like, get out of my way, or, you know what I mean, or whatever.

• 1:18:13Speaker 03

  Okay, so the real life Shane is a lot nicer of a guy.

• 1:18:16Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay.

• 1:18:16Speaker 03

  It's like, I cranked it up a bit for the, for the game to, yeah.

• 1:18:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:18:21Speaker 03

  But, um, yeah.

• 1:18:23Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:24Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 1:18:24Bobby Lee?

  And Evelyn and George, they don't die?

• 1:18:27Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, no, it's a video game.

• 1:18:30Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, okay.

• 1:18:31Speaker 03

  There's, there's video game logic, you know?

• 1:18:33Bobby Lee?

  Okay, because when you play 20 seasons, you're like, that's still-

• 1:18:35Speaker 03

  Alive?

• 1:18:35Bobby Lee?

  Alive? Yeah, it's crazy.

• 1:18:36Speaker 03

  But anyway, yeah, to, to speak on the like real stuff, it's like, I guess what I like to do is kinda, I'm trying to break through the screen, you know? I want to reach out.

• 1:18:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:45Speaker 03

  And like, grab you at some point.

• 1:18:47Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:47Speaker 03

  It's, it's just, things like, you know, that are like a little bit shocking, I think, can some, that's why also people often talk about how, I'm always talking about how characters are sweaty.

• 1:18:55Bobby Lee?

  Uh.

• 1:18:55Speaker 03

  Notice that?

• 1:18:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:18:57Speaker 03

  And they think I have some weird, uh, sweat fascination.

• 1:19:01Bobby Lee?

  Oh, you mean the cutscenes?

• 1:19:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, like there's-

• 1:19:03Bobby Lee?

  Like when, when Haley falls off the cow?

• 1:19:07Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:19:07Bobby Lee?

  Remember that?

• 1:19:08Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:19:08Bobby Lee?

  And then when she wins, there's sweat there, right?

• 1:19:10Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:19:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:19:11Speaker 03

  Well, it's kind of like dirt.

• 1:19:12Bobby Lee?

  Oh, dirt too, yeah, dirt.

• 1:19:13Speaker 03

  But there's a lot of times where like people are talking about how they're sweaty or whatever. But see, the reason why I do that is because I feel like talking about sweat or smells, they kind of like force you to think outside of the screen a little bit.

• 1:19:27Bobby Lee?

  Ah.

• 1:19:27Speaker 03

  You have to like.

• 1:19:28Bobby Lee?

  Interesting.

• 1:19:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, envision the like actually slickness on the skin.

• 1:19:32Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:32Speaker 03

  The feeling of it and the smell.

• 1:19:34Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:19:35Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:19:35Bobby Lee?

  Or when Leah, you have to grab that apple from that tree with Leah, right?

• 1:19:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:19:40Bobby Lee?

  She helped me with the apple. And then you guys fall over or what happens? I remember, I don't remember.

• 1:19:45Speaker 03

  Uh, something like that. Something like that, yeah.

• 1:19:47Bobby Lee?

  It's so strange. I gotta get a life, I think.

• 1:19:49Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:19:50Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I know. I think doing this podcast, having you on, made me feel like a freak.

• 1:19:56Bobby Lee?

  No, I feel like a freak of nature. I really do. And I'm so sorry about my fandom.

• 1:20:01Speaker 03

  No, no.

• 1:20:01Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I'm, um, I'm so, sir, around you, it's, I'm like, I feel like everyone's like royalty here, but I don't know what he does. But sir, I'm so sorry about my fandom, you know what I mean? I have, I have, I have a real problem and I'm a freak of nature and I gotta figure it out. But I'll tell you this, dude, I'm gonna play the fuck out of Haunted Chocolateater. I will play the hell out of that.

• 1:20:22Speaker 03

  I hope you like it. Do you like Skull Cavern runs in Stardew Valley?

• 1:20:25Bobby Lee?

  Are you crazy? That's all I live for.

• 1:20:26Speaker 03

  Alright, you'll like Haunted Chocolateater.

• 1:20:27Bobby Lee?

  I mean, I go there with red bombs, you know, black bombs and little bombs, you know what I mean?

• 1:20:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:20:32Bobby Lee?

  I, I, I, you know, with the caverns, I'll bring 400 red gigantic bombs. Because all you need is, um, solar essence, that other black stuff, and then like, um, you need golden ores and you can make a bunch of, uh, you know, big bombs.

• 1:20:47Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:20:47Bobby Lee?

  Right?

• 1:20:48Speaker 03

  Of course.

• 1:20:48Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, no?

• 1:20:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, no.

• 1:20:50Bobby Lee?

  You remember, you made it.

• 1:20:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:20:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:20:51Speaker 03

  Oh, you gotta have bombs.

• 1:20:52Bobby Lee?

  Last question.

• 1:20:53Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:20:53Bobby Lee?

  No, I have so many more. One, last thing. Yeah, there. What's that?

• 1:20:56Speaker 03

  Oh, just ask your question first.

• 1:20:58Bobby Lee?

  Okay. Oh, you, okay. So, um, oh, yeah. So, um, does luck affect gambling?

• 1:21:05Speaker 03

  Uh, no.

• 1:21:07Bobby Lee?

  I knew that. I would, I would eat Lucky, the Lucky Meal, right? And I would have a ring on.

• 1:21:13Speaker 03

  Although, actually, I think maybe in 1.6, I did make it affect some things to a very limited degree. Cause I thought it was weird that it didn't.

• 1:21:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. And I, I think I might be missing, no, I don't think so. The, what's, not Starfruit, but it's the, um, fruit where there's like six of them and you elevate your energy.

• 1:21:32Speaker 03

  The Star Drops?

• 1:21:33Bobby Lee?

  Star Drops, yeah. There's like five or six Star Drops, right?

• 1:21:37Speaker 03

  There's, uh...

• 1:21:38Bobby Lee?

  Four?

• 1:21:39Speaker 03

  Six, I think.

• 1:21:40Bobby Lee?

  I think six. I think you get, I think your wife or husband gives you one.

• 1:21:43Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 1:21:44Bobby Lee?

  Right? I think that the, um, you put the Solar Essence in the, no, I know what. You put a, um, a start, not, a gem fruit in the, the...

• 1:21:54Speaker 03

  That's right, that's right.

• 1:21:54Bobby Lee?

  The statue in the Hidden Forest.

• 1:21:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:21:56Bobby Lee?

  Right?

• 1:21:58Speaker 03

  You gotta finish the museum.

• 1:21:59Bobby Lee?

  Your museum, and also the, Hugh gives you one at certain level of the caverns, or the last level of the first cavern.

• 1:22:06Speaker 03

  Uh, level 100 in the regular mines.

• 1:22:07Bobby Lee?

  That's it, that's it, there's a Star, yeah, okay, a Star Drop. Anyway, what are you gonna show me?

• 1:22:11Speaker 03

  Oh, I'll ask Eric about, um, this tour. The Stardew Valley Symphony of Seasons. What's that all? Yeah, this is our, so did you go to the first Stardew Valley Concert Tour?

• 1:22:22Bobby Lee?

  No.

• 1:22:23Speaker 03

  Well, I gotta get you, I'll give you tickets to this one. Look, do they play live?

• 1:22:26Bobby Lee?

  Wait, wait, okay, where is, where do you do it?

• 1:22:29Speaker 03

  It's, it'll be in LA.

• 1:22:30Bobby Lee?

  Dude, can you, can we all, oh, wait, hold, push pause for a second.

• 1:22:33Speaker 03

  I'll probably, I can get everyone.

• 1:22:34Bobby Lee?

  Let me, let me ask you something.

• 1:22:35Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:22:37Bobby Lee?

  And I, I, and you could say no.

• 1:22:39Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:22:39Bobby Lee?

  Okay? But I promise I won't harass you.

• 1:22:43Bobby Lee?

  I promise you, I will never text you.

• 1:22:45Speaker 03

  Can I have your number?

• 1:22:46Bobby Lee?

  Can I have your number?

• 1:22:48Speaker 03

  Of course.

• 1:22:49Speaker 05

  This is the one guest I would, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know.

• 1:22:52Bobby Lee?

  Really?

• 1:22:54Speaker 05

  You will, you...

• 1:22:55Bobby Lee?

  I am not, well, I already know the game, right? So maybe a year from now, I'll text them, "How is Haunted Chocolate coming?"

• 1:23:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, there you go.

• 1:23:03Bobby Lee?

  And that's all I'll do. On your birthday, I'll go, "What's up?"

• 1:23:05Speaker 03

  I'll tell you after, after.

• 1:23:07Bobby Lee?

  Afterwards, yeah, yeah, so, um, so you'll text me when LA happens, I will go.

• 1:23:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, there you go.

• 1:23:11Bobby Lee?

  Do you go to everyone or no?

• 1:23:12Speaker 03

  No, but I'll go to LA.

• 1:23:14Bobby Lee?

  Oh yeah, come to LA, please, we go together, okay? So here we go.

• 1:23:16Speaker 03

  But, so anyway, yeah, we had the first concert tour and it was a big success.

• 1:23:20Bobby Lee?

  Hmm.

• 1:23:20Speaker 03

  And it was cool. Um, so we're doing a bigger and better one here, this, the first one was the, uh, Festival of Seasons and this one is the Symphony of Seasons.

• 1:23:28Bobby Lee?

  Okay, so which one, okay, what, give me the tour, when's LA?

• 1:23:31Speaker 03

  You better mark this out.

• 1:23:32Speaker 00

  There it is.

• 1:23:33Speaker 03

  Two nights.

• 1:23:34Bobby Lee?

  Two nights. September, that's my birthday week. The seventeenth is my birthday. That's my birthday week, on the thirteenth.

• 1:23:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:23:41Bobby Lee?

  And then, will you go, it's sold out!

• 1:23:44Speaker 03

  I still think-

• 1:23:45Bobby Lee?

  No, it's not. It's, it's tickets available.

• 1:23:47Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:23:47Bobby Lee?

  Okay, good.

• 1:23:47Speaker 03

  Cole, we can get, we can get everyone in, right? You think so?

• 1:23:50Bobby Lee?

  Please get me in. I'll wear a suit. Do you wear a suit? What happens?

• 1:23:54Speaker 03

  You don't have to wear-

• 1:23:55Bobby Lee?

  I'll just wear what I'm wearing.

• 1:23:56Speaker 03

  You can if you want.

• 1:23:57Bobby Lee?

  Alright, so-

• 1:23:57Speaker 05

  Do you want the other dates, just for our audio listeners?

• 1:23:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, what else we got?

• 1:24:00Speaker 03

  What other dates do we have for people?

• 1:24:01Bobby Lee?

  Well, it's a lot of sold out here.

• 1:24:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's, the tickets are selling fast, you gotta get on it.

• 1:24:06Bobby Lee?

  Do you get a cut of this? Please tell me you do.

• 1:24:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, we get a little bit.

• 1:24:09Bobby Lee?

  Okay, good, good, good. Because you wrote the music.

• 1:24:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:12Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, you're the guy.

• 1:24:13Speaker 03

  Well, it's just that, okay, with these live shows, it's like, the, the margin of profit is like, very small, you know, like-

• 1:24:19Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:24:20Speaker 03

  Because it costs, you have to hire the musician.

• 1:24:21Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's right. Well, how big is the symphony?

• 1:24:23Speaker 03

  There's like, I think, Cole, do you know off the top of your head? Uh, the first set was fifteen or so people, but this one's probably bigger. So the first one was fifteen, and this one is like, I think, I don't know, forty or something like that?

• 1:24:34Speaker 00

  I mean, it's massive.

• 1:24:35Bobby Lee?

  Would you ever imagine this, making the game? There's no way you could even imagine that!

• 1:24:40Speaker 03

  Auntie Anne said this.

• 1:24:41Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. Are you bored?

• 1:24:43Speaker 03

  Bored?

• 1:24:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:24:44Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 1:24:46Bobby Lee?

  No, no, what you just did there was so fucking ang- made me so angry.

• 1:24:50Speaker 02

  What?

• 1:24:50Bobby Lee?

  You put money, you're putting your mouth- You're like, when is this over? Yeah, yeah, fuck you, dude. It's a legend, respect him, dude. Don't fucking chew on my fucking show, dude, again.

• 1:25:01Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:25:02Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, go ahead. What do you have in your mouth? I want some. What is it?

• 1:25:06Speaker 02

  It's a beef jerky from Texas.

• 1:25:07Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:25:10Speaker 02

  Um, no, so I never played this game, because, um, I have a job, but, um-

• 1:25:16Bobby Lee?

  Wait, wait, wait, stop, stop, stop. What, what the fuck you just said?

• 1:25:20Speaker 02

  Like, I have a job, like, that I don't have time to play games, but it looks interesting to me some.

• 1:25:24Bobby Lee?

  Um, can I say something? I know your job? You have the time.

• 1:25:29Bobby Lee?

  You're not busy.

• 1:25:30Speaker 02

  Okay, I play Halo then.

• 1:25:31Bobby Lee?

  I'm busy. You think you're busier than I am?

• 1:25:34Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:25:35Bobby Lee?

  And I still put hundreds of hours. Alright, so fuck you dude. You're being disrespectful.

• 1:25:40Speaker 02

  Okay, I play Halo but...

• 1:25:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not the same.

• 1:25:44Speaker 02

  I know it's not the same.

• 1:25:45Bobby Lee?

  I need to play some?

• 1:25:47Speaker 02

  Can you play some?

• 1:25:48Speaker 00

  I don't think we want to get flagged, but...

• 1:25:49Bobby Lee?

  Okay. Well, can I?

• 1:25:51Speaker 00

  Can you, can I have, can I suggest something?

• 1:25:53Bobby Lee?

  Sure.

• 1:25:53Speaker 00

  Since, um, I'd love for Bobby to do your best Stardew Valley song and maybe have Eric listen that it could potentially get into the next game.

• 1:26:01Bobby Lee?

  No, I can't do it now.

• 1:26:02Speaker 00

  Hey.

• 1:26:03Bobby Lee?

  I, I, I...

• 1:26:03Speaker 00

  I'm trying to wingman you right now?

• 1:26:05Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no. Here's what I'll do.

• 1:26:06Speaker 00

  This is your chance.

• 1:26:07Bobby Lee?

  This is what, this is what we will do, okay? I will give him, because I have GarageBand.

• 1:26:11Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:26:11Bobby Lee?

  Alright, and I have GarageBand music, right? I will send you GarageBand music, right? But you don't have to use it, no, it's, I'll tell you why he won't use it, and I wouldn't want him to use it. I'll tell you why. It's like him writing me five jokes.

• 1:26:25Speaker 00

  I think he can do that.

• 1:26:26Bobby Lee?

  I know he can, but I don't, I don't want it because I want, I want it purely my voice.

• 1:26:29Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:26:30Bobby Lee?

  And I think it's even rude that you would even set this up, okay? So what I would do, what I would do Gilbert, is I'll just give him, "What do you think of my new song?" Or whatever, right? But that's it dude, and don't do this. Right, right now, okay? I don't want to disrespect you, because your music is off the charts dude.

• 1:26:45Speaker 00

  Thank you.

• 1:26:46Bobby Lee?

  It gives me, you know, most games, I turn the music off, dog.

• 1:26:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:26:49Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I think I turned the music off here, on my, my game anyway, but, um, after a while I kind of turned it... But, you know, because, but sometimes I have the, you know, little radio, the little jukebox and stuff. Really good stuff, you know?

• 1:27:00Speaker 00

  Thank you.

• 1:27:01Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:27:01Speaker 00

  So do you, do you play any other games, or just Stardew Valley?

• 1:27:05Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's a good question. I probably put as much hours into Skyrim.

• 1:27:10Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:27:10Bobby Lee?

  I think I put as much hours into Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and also Fallout 4.

• 1:27:17Speaker 00

  Red Dead Redemption.

• 1:27:18Bobby Lee?

  Red Dead 2, I, all the, you know, main stuff, and then, um, so when I like a game, I go all the way. But I haven't played a game in a couple of years that's got me hooked at all in any kind of way. You know, it's, um, I think, sorry, Ozempic burp.

• 1:27:34Bobby Lee?

  When you have a zimp egg, you just burp a lot. It's fucking weird. And you feel nauseous. I'm not gonna vomit, but anyway, um. I look pretty good, though. But anyway, let's move on from that. Um. Yeah, you, you know, you, you set a bar, dude. You fucked it up for people.

• 1:27:47Speaker 00

  Eric, what do you play?

• 1:27:48Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, what do you play?

• 1:27:49Speaker 03

  Uh, I play all kinds of different things. I mean, the most recent indie game I played is called, uh, Nubby's Number Factory. You guys heard about it?

• 1:27:56Bobby Lee?

  I'm gonna write that down.

• 1:27:59Speaker 03

  I don't know if you'll like it. It's kinda like, uh...

• 1:28:01Bobby Lee?

  No, Nubby, if you play it, I'm gonna play it. Nubbies? Hold on.

• 1:28:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, Nubbies Number Factory. That's the last game I played.

• 1:28:08Bobby Lee?

  Okay, Nubbies Number Factory. Okay? What else?

• 1:28:13Speaker 03

  Um. I've been playing like some Warcraft III custom maps.

• 1:28:19Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow. That's Nubbies?

• 1:28:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's Nubbies.

• 1:28:21Bobby Lee?

  Uh huh. And what is it do- well, it seems fucking insane.

• 1:28:25Speaker 03

  It is.

• 1:28:26Speaker 00

  It's not...

• 1:28:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, what, I'm not gonna do that?

• 1:28:28Speaker 00

  It's not cozy at all.

• 1:28:29Bobby Lee?

  I mean, what are you, what are you doing there?

• 1:28:31Speaker 03

  You're just like throwing a ball down and then it hits these numbers and you get points. And then you get like upgrades, which give you more points in different ways.

• 1:28:37Bobby Lee?

  But is there a skill evolved, or is it chaos?

• 1:28:40Speaker 03

  It's mostly chaos.

• 1:28:41Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay.

• 1:28:42Speaker 03

  It's kinda like, it's almost-

• 1:28:43Bobby Lee?

  Oh, my god!

• 1:28:45Speaker 03

  It's like you're rolling the dice almost.

• 1:28:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:28:47Speaker 03

  Cause it's so random where the ball's gonna go.

• 1:28:49Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:28:50Speaker 03

  There's like, you have one action you do.

• 1:28:51Bobby Lee?

  Oh, my god.

• 1:28:52Speaker 03

  Aim the ball.

• 1:28:53Bobby Lee?

  Oh, my god.

• 1:28:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, and it's like-

• 1:28:54Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:28:54Speaker 03

  There's all these like sound effects like brrrr. And you're getting numbers.

• 1:28:57Bobby Lee?

  Wow, wow!

• 1:28:57Speaker 03

  You're like stimming, you know?

• 1:28:59Bobby Lee?

  This feels like my mind! Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my mind. Wow!

• 1:29:02Speaker 03

  But I, I have a weakness for these kinda games.

• 1:29:05Bobby Lee?

  Why?

• 1:29:06Speaker 03

  I don't know. I think it's the same reason why I was able to work on Stardew Valley for 12 hours a day for four years.

• 1:29:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:29:11Speaker 03

  It's like I have some kinda like, my brain is wired that way, like dopamine centric. Like, I can really-

• 1:29:16Bobby Lee?

  That's what I have.

• 1:29:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:29:18Bobby Lee?

  I have that too. Could you, you think you could design like a, um, what do you call those kinda games? Like, um, um, Candy Crush? What, what do you call those, that style of game?

• 1:29:27Speaker 03

  Bubble games?

• 1:29:27Speaker 00

  Bubble games?

• 1:29:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:29:29Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:29:29Bobby Lee?

  You think you could design one or no?

• 1:29:30Speaker 03

  I probably could.

• 1:29:31Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:29:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, I would. But I feel like those are like, it's the equivalent of, you know, eating like a bag of Skittles. Whereas like with Stardew Valley, I'm like trying to make, you know, like a, a- Cozy, like a cozy, uh, home-cooked meal, you know, like that grandma made. Whereas like, yeah, making one of those Candy Crush games, it's like, you know, eating them.

• 1:29:52Bobby Lee?

  But if you made a Stardew Valley Candy Crush-like game and put it on your mobile devices, you could make probably, I think it could make twenty, thirty million dollars. I mean, it would kill it, dude. Because you have a brand now.

• 1:30:05Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:30:05Bobby Lee?

  You know?

• 1:30:06Speaker 03

  I'm not utilizing it to its full.

• 1:30:07Bobby Lee?

  It's, you know what, but that's one thing, what I love about you right now.

• 1:30:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:30:10Bobby Lee?

  Is that you don't charge for your shit, right? You're, you're really working on hot, like, most companies are like, this is the date and we're gonna put it out. Like, there's Assassin's Creed every year.

• 1:30:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:30:21Bobby Lee?

  Right? And you don't do that.

• 1:30:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, most, I mean, I could milk Stardew Valley so much more than I am, but I think it would lose a lot of its soul if I did that.

• 1:30:29Bobby Lee?

  That's right.

• 1:30:30Speaker 03

  That's kinda why I'm like averse to making a movie, to be honest. There's been a lot of, like, interest.

• 1:30:36Bobby Lee?

  In, I've thought about it too.

• 1:30:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:30:39Bobby Lee?

  What would a Stardew Valley movie look like? Or TV show?

• 1:30:42Speaker 03

  Don't you think it would cause, like, it would kinda ruin the characters, though? Cause then they have this set, they have a voice, and they're doing, it's like, right now, the game is so, like, it's in your own head. You can kind of interpret it in your own way. It's personal.

• 1:30:53Bobby Lee?

  Well, I mean, like, the Fallout game, I thought they did a good job.

• 1:30:55Speaker 03

  TV show?

• 1:30:56Bobby Lee?

  The TV show.

• 1:30:57Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:30:57Bobby Lee?

  Right? And I think Todd, you know, being involved with it helps. I mean, if you sign a deal where you say, I have to have these things, like, you know, I mean, real creative control. Right? I mean, I'm not gonna do the story, I mean, you can get a writer, you know, I mean, and a director, because, you know, I mean, but you can say, you know, I mean, this doesn't feel authentic. And have that kind of.

• 1:31:16Speaker 03

  Though. It'd be a lot of work.

• 1:31:18Bobby Lee?

  It would be, I think, you would also lean, I know it would be, but not really.

• 1:31:22Speaker 03

  Well, because I'd have to make sure everything is, like, I'm okay with it all.

• 1:31:26Bobby Lee?

  So you read a script.

• 1:31:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:31:28Bobby Lee?

  You give it notes. Does it, this, this doesn't feel right? You know what I mean? Sam wouldn't say this, right? And then, you know, they, they, they'll rewrite it, bring it back. So that process would be, but then it's like, um, in casting, you could be in the room. How fun would that be? Scarlett Johansson walking in. You know what I mean? And playing, you know, I mean, Lea, or whatever, you know what I mean? I think the characters, like Sam, you know, I mean, Sebastian, all the, they have to all be the same kind of age. And I think that their ages are like, what, early twenties, mid twenties, you think?

• 1:31:58Speaker 03

  Something like that.

• 1:31:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, mid twenties. And then, um.

• 1:32:00Speaker 03

  Who would you wanna audition for, if you had?

• 1:32:02Bobby Lee?

  I couldn't be in the movie. There's no one in there.

• 1:32:04Speaker 03

  Oh, Crowbus.

• 1:32:04Bobby Lee?

  You know what? I could be Crowbus in the outfit, dude.

• 1:32:09Bobby Lee?

  Dude, can I be, or can I be the nom- I could put, you know what I mean?

• 1:32:12Speaker 03

  I think you'd have to be something.

• 1:32:14Bobby Lee?

  I have to be something, either Krobas, or...

• 1:32:18Speaker 03

  Bobby Lee is as Krobas, dude?

• 1:32:20Bobby Lee?

  Dude, please. I'll wear outfit, you wouldn't even see me. I just wanna be in the suit, and say things, you know what I mean? I'll come up with a, you know, whatever.

• 1:32:29Speaker 03

  You could be Linus, maybe.

• 1:32:30Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, no, Linus.

• 1:32:31Speaker 03

  Okay, is this a live action, or it's an animated?

• 1:32:34Bobby Lee?

  Oh, you're thinking live action or anime?

• 1:32:36Speaker 03

  No, I'm asking.

• 1:32:37Bobby Lee?

  I'm thinking it's live action.

• 1:32:38Speaker 03

  Live action, okay.

• 1:32:39Bobby Lee?

  I think it's live action. I think I should be Krobas.

• 1:32:41Speaker 03

  Then you could be Krobas, but if it was like an animation, and it was just a voice, I feel like maybe, I'm thinking you could be Linus.

• 1:32:47Bobby Lee?

  Maybe.

• 1:32:48Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:32:50Bobby Lee?

  Alright, so, alright, so, okay, this is gonna be, I know, I know it's been a little long here, but I wanna do Dreamcast. Let's go through some of the characters, and who would be the Dreamcast? This'll be fun, dude, alright? So let's go to, alright, so, we have to know a lot of mid-20 actors and stuff, though, right?

• 1:33:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't know anything.

• 1:33:12Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, me either, so, I mean, I can already throw people in the thing. Who's the girl that played Furiosa?

• 1:33:18Speaker 03

  Oh, Anna Taylor Joy.

• 1:33:20Bobby Lee?

  Anna Taylor Joy has to be in it. And I think she should play Penny.

• 1:33:25Speaker 03

  Penny, huh? Yeah, that could work.

• 1:33:27Bobby Lee?

  What do you mean, no? You're not casting it, you fuck.

• 1:33:30Speaker 02

  I'll give you.

• 1:33:31Bobby Lee?

  You also don't, what?

• 1:33:32Speaker 03

  Also be Lea, maybe?

• 1:33:33Bobby Lee?

  Maybe Lea, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:33:34Speaker 02

  Alex can be Timothy.

• 1:33:36Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, so Alex could be Timothy, right? Dude, I just worked in a movie called New Year's Rev, with this kid named Mason, he's in the, he's in the live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon, he's the star. Look him up. And this kid is so talented, and so handsome, live-action version of the How You Train Your Dragon. Yep, and then, I wanna show what Mason looks like. And Mason can either play Sam, I think he could play Sam. So, I think, for Demetrius, you know what I mean?

• 1:34:14Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:34:14Bobby Lee?

  Michael B. Jordan.

• 1:34:16Speaker 03

  Okay. Yeah.

• 1:34:17Bobby Lee?

  Why not?

• 1:34:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, why not?

• 1:34:19Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, Michael B. Jordan, okay? And then for, I think Jody could be Scarlett Johansson, I think she is the right age for Scarlett Johansson, right?

• 1:34:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:34:28Bobby Lee?

  We're gonna cast him.

• 1:34:28Speaker 03

  It looks like it.

• 1:34:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then what's your dream for Clint?

• 1:34:32Speaker 03

  Clint?

• 1:34:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. That's a hard one.

• 1:36:28Bobby Lee?

  One time I was doing a movie called The Dictator.

• 1:36:32Bobby Lee?

  Sacha Baron Cohen movie. I played the Chinese guy in it. And I was staying at a hotel and I got in the elevator and Thierry Henry, I don't know, you don't know him, but he, one of my favorite soccer sports teams is Arsenal. Arsenal FC and their biggest star legend is Thierry Henry. He's a French football player, soccer player. He walked in the elevator because at that time he was playing for the New York Red Bulls. And I could not talk. You know what I mean, there's like, I could be, you know, I just did a movie a couple of years ago with Kate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis. I was around all those guys, not really that intimidated by them, you know what I mean? But there's certain people that just, that's stuck in my psyche, you know what I mean? And he, Thierry is one of them.

• 1:37:17Bobby Lee?

  And you're one of them, I felt the same, you know? And I don't want to make me feel real, because as our relationship grows, I'll feel more comfortable. You know what I mean? And then we'll just make fun of each other, you know, make fun of your face and whatever. And I'm not there with you yet, you know what I mean? But anyway, it was one of those kind of encounters. So I just really appreciate you with the gifts and you finding time to do it because I've been wanting you for years. And I'm so glad that we finally made it happen and thank you so much for doing it and you were great. And how about a round of applause for Eric Barone? Give him a round of applause.