Episode 198 - Kicked Out Of Six Flags

This week's episode of HWIDG is HOT HOT HOT! With the west coast fires burning out the last remains of the 4chan /pol/ anarchists, we are born anew. Let the fires blaze and wash over us to absolve us our sins. Like the Phoenix we will rise again and form a new country: NeoU.S.A. Our new cyberpunk futurecountry will be the pinnacle of human civilization. Neon-soaked streets and flying cars will give way to the transhumanist movement, giving us sick blade-arms and turbo engine piston legs. The only downfall will be the typical cyberpunk future problems: corruption, violent anti-government protests, terrorism, and gang violence. See?! Totally different.

* Gimmick Burgers
* Tom Cruise
* Rob Schneider
* Battle Royale Games

First we take 100% Dutch beef that has only been fed butter its whole life, and turn that into 5 half-pound patties. We cook those on our one-of-a-kind Giant Easy-Bake Oven for approximately 75 minutes. Then we slice open our in-house made English muffins and slather them with a horseradish and chocolate aioli. Add a couple slices of moldy government cheese and stack everything a mile high. It's nasty, impossible to eat, and was invented by a 5 year-old spinning a wheel of ingredients, but boy will it get you 1.5 million views on Instagram.

Tom Cruise is crazy, we all know this. He does insane stunts every 2 years for his own enjoyment, then gets a movie director to film it and come up with a new Mission Impossible around it. He had the whole couch jumping bit that was all the meme rage of 2005. There's that video of him berating a guy for a prank. He runs like your favorite action figure come to life. He's a manlet, and maybe worst of all he's a die-hard Scientologist, praise Xenu and all of it, and those people are bad people. But SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, he's still Hollywood royalty and likable! He hasn't gotten canceled, and those Mission Impossibles just keep coming with his dazzling smile and him jumping a motorcycle from a plane onto a tower or something and he's almost 60!

On the other hand, Rob Schneider is just the worst.

Oh Koushun Takami. If you could only see what your book hath wrought. You could never predict how 21 years later, you'd have a successful manga and film adaptation, even getting a sequel film, and influenced both of those mediums for years to come. Maybe even more surprising is the millions of teenage girls that fall in love with the pared-down American rip-off. But video games? In the late nineties you couldn't fathom what you would do to them. The most popular game in the world and the spawn of a new genre itself. Hundreds of millions of kids begging their parents for imaginary currency so they can buy a virtual dance. All from a book about middle-school kids' heads exploding.

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