Speaker 1: 0:05

Welcome to Realm Jumpers. I'm Andrew and this is my co-host, jordan.

Speaker 2: 0:09

Hey everyone. We're here to dive into the worlds of fantasy and anime, bringing you epic stories and unforgettable adventures.

Speaker 1: 0:16

We'll be talking world building, unforgettable villains and everything that makes these genres legendary.

Speaker 2: 0:22

So let's jump into the realm and everything that makes these genres legendary. So let's jump into the realm. Welcome back to Realm Jumpers. We just returned from the real-life Hunter's Exam, and it was an event inspired by Hunter x Hunter, and we're here to share our thoughts from intense challenges to unexpected surprises. We're breaking it all down. Let's get into it. How you doing, buddy?

Speaker 1: 0:42

Bad man Doing good. I definitely have a lot to talk about from the hunter's exam. I'm sure you do as well. We didn't really compare too much notes, um, on the way back, so I think this is a good time to get into it.

Speaker 2: 0:55

What an experience, man. That was a really, really interesting. Uh, that was a crazy, crazy thing, dude, yeah, no it was it.

Speaker 1: 1:02

It. It had its ups and downs, but it was a lot of fun, um, overall, you know. But uh, let's start with the vibe check. Like how did you feel about the event? Like overall, what was the? What was your overall feeling about the event?

Speaker 2: 1:15

my overall feeling was I would say that it was a success, because anytime someone tries to pull off a first-time event and I don't know the background if there was like a ton of planning and stuff, but it seemed like there was a lot of volunteers and you know there's a lot of bumps in the road, but you know first time events, man, it's not easy. So for me I would say vibe check is good and I feel like it would just get better over time, I hope. What about you?

Speaker 1: 1:43

yeah, man, I agree, um, overall, it's passed on. The vibe check, um, it was, you know, fun, family friendly environment. Uh, they, I mean, there was plenty of people out there with families and you know, they had their kids, which was great to see, because I you weren't sure what to expect at an event like this to begin with. You know, um, it could have been all cosplayers, all adults, um, but no, it was nice to. You know, um, it could have been all cosplayers, all adults, um, but no, it was nice to see, you know, families show up with their kids and, like everybody, for the most part, stay pretty respectful and pretty chill.

Speaker 1: 2:14

Um, you know, like you already said, every, every first time event is going to have its ups and downs, and any event period, whether it's been going on you know that's the first time or it's it's 15th time Any event is going to have some small hiccups, but they're always going to be, you know, a little bit more visible in that, in that first event, and I think that's what we caught the tail end of. But I would say, let's probably maybe save, like, the criticisms for, you know, like the end, after we've gone through all the phases.

Speaker 2: 2:39

Yeah, it's a good idea.

Speaker 1: 2:41

And then we'll, you know, we'll dive into that stuff, that's kind of why, yeah, sure. Because, overall, you know, like I think it was a positive experience and I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 2: 2:48

Yeah, it was definitely cool, and mad respect to anybody who dressed up or put face paint on and ran Absolutely and did this because, dude, like phase one, I mean let's just jump right into that, right? So first phase is a straight up eight mile cross country course run. Um, and thank God the weather was like breezy and cool Cause if it would have been like really hot, dude, can you imagine? No, dude.

Speaker 1: 3:16

Uh, we were talking about that. It was supposed to get up to 82 that day and it was supposed to have rained that morning and I'm so glad it didn't. Um, not just for the spectators, you know, for the competitors, for anybody that was out there running that course, because when we say cross country, do you mean that it was very hilly? There definitely were a lot of low spots where, if it had rained, they'd have been running through the mud If they wanted to, you know, if they wanted to stay on course.

Speaker 2: 3:40

But you know it was wild.

Speaker 1: 3:45

It was wild, the course. So do we want to just go over all the phases now or talk about like let's do was for let's.

Speaker 2: 3:53

Let's go through. Let's just say what all the phases are, so that everyone knows, and then we can go back to phase one and talk about it, because that one was a brutal off the jump man.

Speaker 1: 4:02

That's true all right, so go ahead with phase two yeah, phase two was an assassination game, which you know. Obviously we're in the real world, so this was basically a a pretty intense game of capture the flag. I think we can say intense. We'll come back and cover that, but intense is the right word, I think, to use that.

Speaker 2: 4:20

Yeah I agree it was. Uh, it was. Yeah, I agree it was pretty physical, but again, we'll jump back in. So phase three was Labyrinth. So what this was is it's pretty much like a ninja training course situation, with a half-pipe wall that you have to get up. That was timed.

Speaker 1: 4:38

Yeah, they had a long run at the end.

Speaker 2: 4:40

Yeah, pretty rough, Difficult man for sure. What was phase four? This, I know this is the one that you were talking about earlier.

Speaker 1: 4:46

Phase four was the deception phase, which is basically a game of werewolf and for anybody that hasn't heard of the game of werewolf, it's similar to, you know, to mafia. The objective is villagers try to eliminate all the werewolves, while the werewolves are trying to eliminate the villagers, to take control. So you know, you know, let's say you have a group of 15 playing this game, you know you'll have like 11 villagers and maybe three or four werewolves.

Speaker 1: 5:13

And then you'll have somebody like designated as the doctor, and so you have a night phase. You know the game master will call OK, it's. You know it's nighttime, everybody go to sleep, you know. You just close your eyes and then the werewolves will choose a victim who they're going to kill. And then you know whether you're using like a seer or a doctor. You know they get to choose somebody to save in the next like part of that round.

Speaker 1: 5:36

So you might luck out in the seer or the doctor could choose the person that the werewolves chose to eliminate. Also, it could. They could just randomly, you know, say like I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure my friends stay safe, so I'll choose them. And then you know the werewolves can work their way through that. So then it moves on to the day phase. After that players discuss, uh, you know, accuse everybody. But basically you know the tldr. There is that, like the people that are the werewolves are, you know, doing a big game of like pointing at everybody else and saying no, I'm not the werewolf, he's the werewolf yeah absolutely yeah, and the villagers get to choose to eliminate somebody after voting on it, and obviously you know, if they don't choose a werewolf, they won't know, uh, immediately and you know.

Speaker 1: 6:21

Then you have just the elimination. The cycle keeps repeating until one team wins. You know, basically, either the werewolves take over the village or the villagers cop on and figure out who the werewolves are and eliminate all of them uh, it's a great game for for deception man, that's right. Yeah, it's a lot of strategy, a lot of bluffing, just just a lot of lying in general, but it could be very fun. I've played once. Um, I mean we played it as a drinking game, so it was.

Speaker 2: 6:48

It was definitely pretty fun yeah, yeah, that'd be way more fun for sure. Then a high stakes you're gonna get tossed out of this exam after running eight miles right and surviving all these different things, and then what? The last one is one-on-one combat, which I wish it could have been like an mma situation, but it's uh, the waivers for that yeah, that's a little much.

Speaker 2: 7:09

So it was, uh, you know, pushing someone off balance type situation. Um, and yeah, that was the five phases of this. Uh, you know, inaugural hunters, you know, exam hunter, exam all right.

Speaker 1: 7:21

So we've already talked about the uh, you know the vibe check for a little bit, but how did you feel about, you know, phase one? Like what was what was going on during phase one? What were your impressions?

Speaker 2: 7:31

so for phase one, you know it was, it was a long run, like every. You know well. How many competitors was it 700? How much?

Speaker 1: 7:40

yes, they started, so we're going off of the numbers that the hunters association was providing in like real-time updates, and they said it was about 700 people that took took part in phase one, okay, which so that's a brutal amount of people to be trying to run around yeah, dude.

Speaker 2: 7:57

So there's, you know. So think about it right 700 people. They blow the air horn go, they start running and it was two laps around this enormous property. That's like four miles dude four miles and then you can see. You know it was cool, it was hilly. You can see the mountains out. There's like a fence line and they're going and it was pretty intense like start to this because they had a truck. That was the pace you you know pace character where they had to stay right.

Speaker 1: 8:27

and remember those two guys, dude those I'm telling you, man, if those roads hadn't been paved, I just swore they were on like skateboards or something. Uh, oh, I know you know what I mean, because that's how fast they were moving. They were jamming behind that pace truck, I think when they what did? I what I say it was, I calculated when they finished. They finished in like 51 minutes, so it was like a 615 mile or something like that. Yeah, and it was what?

Speaker 2: 8:50

yeah, the one and two ran together. And then the third was what? 15 minutes behind them?

Speaker 1: 8:56

something like that yeah, five to ten, twelve.

Speaker 2: 8:58

Yeah, that's behind them so they were really cooking um, but we got to talk about the shortcut.

Speaker 1: 9:04

Oh, dude, we gotta. We have to talk about the line cutters, because the line I I felt a little certain kind of way about that because you know, I think in the hunter's exam you have to encourage or maybe not encourage but not completely outright eliminate people for cheating. So there was a deep bend and in one it was almost off the jump street.

Speaker 2: 9:26

It was probably within the first half mile yeah, uh, in the beginning there was a group of people that made a deep cut around this bend and they all got eliminated and that and the announcement did the announcement of hey, uh, we can't really tell them while they're running, but if one of your friends or family member, uh did, did a deep cut, you need to call them and tell them just to drop out because they're wasting their time. They're done. Yeah, because there was a drone that was watching everything they had.

Speaker 1: 9:51

Well, they also had uh volunteers out there oh, so they got pointed out.

Speaker 2: 9:56

So here's the brutal.

Speaker 1: 9:57

Here's the thing, though, man like yeah, no, definitely brutal, but like early on in the stream, because we were trying to watch it and, and you know, participate in the you know in the event, hang out and have a good time.

Speaker 1: 10:08

Um, but I had the stream up and early on, after they first made the deep cut, like the announcers were all like, oh, that's a good strategy, and they were talking about what the racers should do for that second lap. And you know the the one guy was like well, now that you know the people have done it, I think everybody has to make that deep cut coming into the second lap because otherwise you're just not going to make the 51%. It's probably a good thing nobody racing could actually listen to the stream.

Speaker 2: 10:34

Can you imagine they would have just been like then. Next, you know they go. What do they say? Like yeah, nevermind, they're all limiting.

Speaker 1: 10:41

Yeah, that's exactly. They said. We just got a note. Yeah, never mind, they're all eliminated. Yeah, that's exactly. They said we just got a note, they're all going to be eliminated.

Speaker 2: 10:46

And we're like, oh man, but we respect the hustle. I mean this is yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1: 10:50

I mean Killua skateboarded through the whole thing.

Speaker 2: 10:53

Yeah, there's like a hoverboard guy too, like come on.

Speaker 1: 10:56

Let him make a cut.

Speaker 2: 11:05

He's still got to run. You know, seven miles. Well, the like. The most impressive thing about the whole thing is they did straight up cut what 51 was out. If you hit 51, you were done. They threw a line up, and if you didn't make it, you which. There was a couple guys that they were like I was the 54, you know, they were so upset about it that was which I?

Speaker 1: 11:18

yeah, they were like I'm running up and they're pulling the line across the road I'll be so, so mad about that. Yeah, I'd be pretty irritated.

Speaker 2: 11:25

You got to do it.

Speaker 1: 11:26

Yeah, for sure. I mean you have to, because they clearly said they said ahead of time that 50% of the people weren't going to make it out of the first phase. And for an event like this you have to make some deep cuts early on, because otherwise it just doesn't work.

Speaker 2: 11:46

Well, talk about the kids who made it through. Yeah, there were a couple of teenagers, young teenagers, I you know, probably 13 to 15 I don't know he looked 13 to me, but I mean he could have been 14 or 15 I guess, dude, to make it through that first round is already a win, like, yeah, absolutely, I have so much respect for you to be able to finish that as a kid, because you know the adults are just struggling, man for sure I did see, dude.

Speaker 1: 12:11

There was a lot of military people in that early group though of course, because they were used to it yeah, no for sure they're like.

Speaker 2: 12:18

This is what we do on tuesday but it was, it was really cool to be at the finish line and, like you know, see them come across. And yeah, you know, it was really cool to be at the finish line and see them come across and it was a pretty. You could just see and people's families, like you said, were out there cheering for them. And where are they at, trying to watch the live stream from the drone, trying to see where their person was. It was very fun. It was a really interesting phase one for sure, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And phase two o know, phase one for sure, yeah, yeah absolutely.

Speaker 1: 12:48

And phase two. So, yeah, here's where we kind of and I do want to say this again iterate like all the props to the Hunters Association for putting this on. I think you guys put together a killer, a killer event and I think that would be a joy to come back to again later. But everything that we're going to talk about now like even you know some of the things that we think could have been could have been better I'm sure everybody that organized that was are thinking the same thing right now. They've probably already got a list of things that they're like yeah, we need to change these things to make this viable for, you know, future, future events.

Speaker 1: 13:27

So yeah anything we say that seems negative right now. Um, this isn't us throwing shade at the hunters association. This is just us pointing out, for you know those of you who couldn't make it to the event what it was like.

Speaker 2: 13:40

So yeah, I mean, we were there. We have to be honest about it. Yeah, you know, but yeah, it's phase two. Phase two kind of went off to the side a little bit.

Speaker 1: 13:50

Phase two. Phase two went a little bit wild and I think you and I are probably going to have slightly differing opinions on what should happen with phase two in the future.

Speaker 2: 13:59

I think so too.

Speaker 1: 14:00

But so phase two, the capture the flag event. First, there was still about 300 people left that made it through phase one, you know. So to have 300 people play capture the flag, that's not really optimal. They had to break it up into four groups, so they did four sessions of capture the flag. Each session lasted 15 minutes and similar to the um arc in, you know, in the real hunters exam in the show, the real hunters exam in the hunters exam in the show, similar to the arc.

Speaker 1: 14:31

You know they they had to capture the badges. Their badge was worth three points and they needed four points to exit the round. So that was where they deviated a little bit, which I get for time constraints. You absolutely probably had to do it that way. So if you kept your badge and all you had to do was collect one other flag, you could immediately be out, like you could run to the safe zone and be out. Obviously, if you lost your flag, then you would have to collect four additional flags, which good luck on that that's.

Speaker 1: 15:02

Yeah, good luck that was. I don't think anybody managed that, do you?

Speaker 2: 15:05

no one. No, I watched that. I didn't see anyone with multiple. The most I saw was two. Maybe there was someone, but I didn't see anyone with multiple. The most I saw was two, maybe there was someone, but I didn't see anyone right.

Speaker 1: 15:13

So, um, immediately when we get into phase the, the first round of capture the flag. You know they start the music from hunter, hunter oh, wait, wait, wait, before you jump into that.

Speaker 2: 15:25

Yeah, we gotta, we gotta point out how long it took to get to that part I because, okay, I was gonna go there later, but yeah, for sure we have to do it because that's the start affected it affected our participation in the rest of the event too.

Speaker 1: 15:37

So jordan's right, um, you know, due to technical difficulties and some other things, again first time event probably not enough volunteers. They probably needed about a hundred more volunteers than what they had.

Speaker 1: 15:49

Yeah probably you know. So that way you can stage, stage events and start getting one thing ready as the other, you know, as phase one's going on. But yeah, so the time in between I think it was about an hour and a half, Was it? Was it about that long? It was about an hour and a half between finishing up phase one and getting started for phase two.

Speaker 2: 16:10

And the announcements were 20 minutes. 20 minutes, yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:13

The announcements were like hey guys, it'll be another 20 minutes and I kind of get it right there. You hit a certain point and you can't guess. You can't guess how much time it's going to be and you don't want to say we have no idea when this thing's going to be ready, please just stand by. You kind of want to give people an approximate time limit. I'm not even sure what the issue was. I would imagine that they were having problems verifying that the people that were left were the people that actually. You know the numbers that they scanned.

Speaker 2: 16:40

Well, scanning, yeah, it has to be the scanning yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:44

So that's gotta be it. But there also could have been other things, I'm not sure. But there also could have been other things, I'm not sure. But there was a long period of time, um, where everybody was just kind of sitting around, which well you know, you know what it could have been, you know, I just realized.

Speaker 2: 16:58

I just was thinking about it is remember, in the beginning they're like, hey, if you haven't been scanned yet, we really don't care, unless you pass the first level yeah, yeah so maybe what it was. If everyone would have been scanned before the first phase, second phase would have been scan, scan, scan, done, but they're probably scanning people and having to enter all their information. That could have been what it was, for sure, maybe, and that's where you know that leads me back to.

Speaker 1: 17:23

They needed 100 more volunteers. Yeah, absolutely, because I think they needed a hard deadline. You know, for this to work in the future, I think you need a hard deadline for the competitors to say you have to be here by X time or you're out. Yeah, that way they can have everybody signed in, scanned in, and then the only before we start or you're checking in. Are the spectators after?

Speaker 2: 17:44

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 17:45

So I think that is part of the problem, I agree. So yeah, there was an hour and a half between phase one and the start of phase two and which spectator wise, you know we're not in it, but it is time, you know.

Speaker 2: 17:57

But if you were a competitor, you were. You were pointing it out that day. Like you're kind of now, your muscles are cooling off, you're losing, your adrenaline's crashing off. You know, you just ran eight miles or whatever you know. So you know, yes, you probably need some rest, but maybe an hour and a half might have been too long to kind of get out of it. A lot of people were stretching and jogging in place trying to like keep their heart rate going, if you, you know, I saw a lot of that going on and stuff yeah, I saw a lot of like energy gel and, um, you know, just quick sugar snacks to try to keep the energy up.

Speaker 1: 18:28

Uh, yeah, which that's hard to do? You know just quick sugar snacks to try to keep the energy up, yeah, which that's hard to do, you know, and it's hard to stay warm in an hour and a half break. So for the competitor, not just the spectators, but from the competitor's point of view as well, that's a that's too long of a break, yeah.

Speaker 2: 18:40

Maybe like half an hour Dive into like this fast paced action.

Speaker 1: 18:44

He run capture the flag stuff. That was wild, that was wild, that was wild, super wild.

Speaker 2: 18:54

so I dude they played the music, they got this thing hyped up and it, freaking, went nuts man and they learned real quick what two rounds we had the music.

Speaker 1: 18:59

They played the music for two rounds in that second round. The first round was intense, the second round was super intense and then I was like they gotta cut that music. And uh, you know I'm saying it like people are taking my advice. But no, they did cut the music and I started laughing my ass off because I was going into the third round. But you know no music and it's it's not the right move for that, you know?

Speaker 2: 19:21

um, I mean as a spectator, I love the music, but as a competitor it's just out of control. Everyone is dialed a freaking 100 at that point with the, the no 110 with the music. Like you're, you're ready to go? Dude, right, and there was a lot of, because they weren't allowed to touch at all. That was the thing they kept saying do not push, do not hit elbow, because I will, you will get kicked out. And dude, you got grown. Military dudes, yeah, running at each other full sprint trying to get these flags.

Speaker 1: 19:49

Man yeah, it adds to the adrenaline factor. Um, the the music adds to the hype, it adds the adrenaline factor and that's not somewhere where you want the extra adrenaline factor and I I know that our opinions are probably going to differ on this, but I think, if you want this to continue to be like a, a fun, safe event, or mostly safe event, um you gotta you gotta get, you gotta get rid of the capture the flag.

Speaker 1: 20:14

You gotta do something more like think, like tough, mudder, like obstacle course, like that, um, or something else.

Speaker 2: 20:22

I don't think, yeah, I don't know, man so like the way that for me, dude, for me I, I'm I disagree with you just because as a spectator is it is really a truly one-on-one thing, although we did see teams happening yeah which in one of the rounds.

Speaker 2: 20:38

Survive if you didn't have a team wait, but it was like eight guys on the second. You know there's a lot. There's like 10 dudes or whatever, and they were just running through. Now, my only thing about this is and I guess it's again it's crazy that teenagers got through the first part, to be honest. But when you're in the second part and the only part I agree I agree with you on you can't do capture the flag if you're gonna have kids in there, dude, because we saw some.

Speaker 2: 21:03

It got a little crazy and there were some mighty collisions bro there were some collisions and if you were a grown dude and you slam into a 15 year old like concussions nobody had pads like this could have got really sketchy and it did get really sketchy dude that it did in the middle of the field yeah, but at least it wasn't a kid, it was too too grown dude, very true, but even that girl, though I mean she, was getting dude I'll talk about that bad.

Speaker 1: 21:29

That could have been really bad. Talk about that, by the way, because I had mad respect for that girl and I, you know, obviously I didn't get a chance to talk to her because I didn't see her again after that phase. But like, yeah, dude, she was breaking dudes ankles out there, but she was also getting targeted and like yeah, eight guys running at her flag Like come on now.

Speaker 2: 21:49

Just some of them, yeah.

Speaker 1: 21:50

Yeah, no, it was wild. Energy was amped to 11. Oh yeah, energy was amped to 11. I don't know. There was definitely, at least there were, multiple accidents, but there was definitely the one serious one where that dude split his eye open in that collision.

Speaker 2: 22:05

Yeah, blood everywhere had to be rushed. They did have a medical team there just in case, which was very important. Thank God they did that, but as a spectator, that probably was the best visual part of a hunter exam.

Speaker 1: 22:20

Yeah, dude, I mean it's okay, so it's like football, right.

Speaker 2: 22:23

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 22:24

You want to see the collisions, but they're wearing pads and helmets, and even with the pads and helmets in football, that's probably one of the worst sports for brain injuries.

Speaker 1: 22:34

So take away the pads and the helmets and what do you got? You got a bunch of amped up, non-trained people that are running at each other and that's what's going to happen Somebody is going to get hurt. So yeah, like I think, as it currently stands, the capture flag event has to go. I enjoyed it. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the hell out of watching that. It was fun, I had a blast. It was great to watch you get to do the oohs and the ahhs with the rest of the people.

Speaker 2: 23:00

No fights, though there was no fights, which I was very impressed with that.

Speaker 1: 23:06

I was also impressed, but it was close a few times yeah it got a little close a few times.

Speaker 2: 23:10

He's holding the flag. He's holding the flag. He's cheating, they're cheating.

Speaker 1: 23:13

And not just that dude. I mean dude. People start colliding into each other and you're going to get you get angry. Yeah, and justifiably so. You know you're amped Like it's. Yeah, I don't know. Again, this isn't shade at the organization for the way they put it together. I just think they probably learned that lesson as well, like this event probably needs to change in its structure on how they do it.

Speaker 2: 23:39

We got lucky. No one got really injured, though yeah. I know there's waiver signed. But that's not a good look if somebody breaks a bone or concussion or something crazy, or some kid gets trampled on because you know it was, intense is the good word. But here's the problem. Right, it finishes up cool. Hey, we're gonna start phase three soon. And you know another. It just took too long, man, it was 20 minutes, so it was another 20 minutes 20 minutes.

Speaker 1: 24:07

And then he said he said, hey, um, you guys should probably go ahead and eat. It's going to be at least another 20 minutes.

Speaker 2: 24:14

Yeah, and that's when.

Speaker 1: 24:16

Jordan and I kind of. So Jordan and I had a four and a half hour drive, so we had to bow out at that point because we looked at the time limit for when it was supposed to, for when it was supposed to end, which was supposed to have been 5 pm, and we could have done that. You know, we could have made that drive 5 pm back, but we both had obligations the next day and you know we looked at that time limit and we said is there any point in staying longer if we can't make it to the end? You know the answer to that was no and it's unfortunate because we were having a blast, I was having a blast and yeah, it was really fun man seeing.

Speaker 2: 24:48

Uh, yeah, and you know, everyone was really good natured, though, like you know, they were cheering for people and stuff. Like it was a really good crowd. That's probably the family element that you're saying. Um, but it was, uh, you know, we had to drive back and then I had like another hour and a half. After that, too, I had to go to my house. So we're like, look, I'm not gonna get home till late if we stay till.

Speaker 2: 25:07

We both knew it wasn't gonna be five, it's probably gonna be like eight when it actually finished, just because of it was 8 so yeah, so we were watching, we were checking in on it as we drove and I think we found out it was yeah, it ended at 8 o'clock. We would have not been home till 2 am 7, 45 was when they cut that stream bro dude. Yeah, I really wanted to say that, I really wanted to see the end, but it just. It's a long day, dude. It's a long day and you know there's a couple food trucks, you know some porter potties middle of the field. You know it's just getting.

Speaker 1: 25:42

It's just getting a little too much to to make it back in time those were the things that I actually thought weren't going to be as well organized right. I didn't think there was going to be enough restroom facilities and I didn't think there was going to be enough restroom facilities and I didn't think there was going to be enough food provided which they had it.

Speaker 1: 25:56

First of all, the competitors brought all their own food. It seemed like every competitor had a backpack full of food. So they knew what was up, they knew the deal, um, you know, they knew the score and they were prepared. Kudos to every single competitor out there, um, and it didn't look like the lines for the food trucks were very long either. So for the rest of the you know the families that I saw, it looked like most of the families had also brought like picnic blankets and their own food and stuff. So the food trucks weren't backed up. Good organizing, you know.

Speaker 2: 26:23

Yeah, and good parking too. Plenty of parking, which was great, yeah, no absolutely.

Speaker 1: 26:27

They had parking organized better, dude, they had parking better organized than Disney World organized better, dude, they had parking better, better organized than disney world.

Speaker 2: 26:36

Yeah, yeah it was. It was smooth, it got right out of there.

Speaker 1: 26:37

Yeah, no, problem very quick.

Speaker 2: 26:38

Getting in and out was not bad no, it was uh, it was great and and it was uh. I'll say I mean again, like we've been saying there, we met a guy, uh came up from florida to do a stunt. Nico, you're the man, and he came from Florida and you know he did great. He passed the first one and second. I'm not sure if he got to the. I don't know if he passed the third or not.

Speaker 1: 27:00

No, he didn't. He didn't pass the third.

Speaker 2: 27:02

He just got short of time. I mean he, you know people are coming from other states. You know it wasn't just you, there's people probably from all over the place. So it's really cool to see that people would come this far for this. You know, and the first time you know it's a risk. Who knows what was going to happen?

Speaker 1: 27:19

you know yeah, I agree, um, overall. Yeah, though it was good at a blast. Hisuka was great. I can't believe his face paint stayed on that long.

Speaker 2: 27:30

You know what did he use? Because that guy and he wasn't, he was in character. He wasn't like talking that much, although I did see him talking to the going guy, which is hilarious. Um, how many guns. Three, four. You saw how many lorios only one of a dude.

Speaker 1: 27:48

At least three, at least three lorios and one with the briefcase that you know what? Right there, let's back that up to phase one. The guy that ran with the briefcase the entire run legend, legendary legend. Yeah, no, that was that's beast mode stuff right beast mode man.

Speaker 2: 28:05

There was a lot of them, man. There's a good amount. I think there's more him than anyone else, to be honest, and the goan did have the jacket. Yeah, the one gone had the jacket, the others were just, and the goan did have the jacket.

Speaker 1: 28:13

Yeah, the one goan had the jacket. The others were just wearing the white tank top with the green shorts yeah, which is still fine, I get it. You don't. You know you don't want them. Yeah, you're running eight miles, right, right, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: 28:22

And even even the guy with the jacket he took his jacket off to make the run, but I yeah dude looked like going like yeah, he had the hair and everything right, yeah, he had that nailed and there was a, although one of my favorites was, uh, the, the wings guy dude, oh, yeah, did you ever figure out where he was from?

Speaker 2: 28:40

dude. No idea, this dude had giant silver wings, like silver wings, and then when he went to do the you know he would wear him. And then when he went to run he put on these little red wings and the dude was, he made it through. Uh, I know at least the two phases. I don't know about the rest, but he definitely smoked the two. He did the flag. In what 10 seconds? He was out 10 or 15 seconds, yeah, dude he snapped someone's thing, it was out of there.

Speaker 1: 29:05

Yeah, he immediately went to the safe zone. He was the second one. That cowboy fellow was out in like five seconds flat dude, that man was a terminator.

Speaker 2: 29:13

I saw him waiting for the buzzer it goes off and he just sprinted and I don't know if he had a lot targeted somebody. Oh, but, that dude dude snatched that flag and was out, and then even the uh volunteer people were like you know what?

Speaker 1: 29:29

I couldn't believe it was out. Yeah, he's like yeah, count it yeah, he was, he was.

Speaker 2: 29:33

Uh, if he passed the whole thing, I would not be surprised.

Speaker 1: 29:36

No, neither would I.

Speaker 2: 29:37

Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, we didn't see the last few phases there and we've been, you know, hawking on their Instagram or on their social media, trying to see who got the cool hunter license that's out there, but so far we haven't seen it yet.

Speaker 1: 29:54

Yeah, I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, I haven't seen it yet, but if I find out, I will definitely post it up yeah, we have.

Speaker 2: 29:59

I mean, they have to announce it right.

Speaker 1: 30:01

I would imagine that it's a huge deal the competitors would announce it.

Speaker 2: 30:05

Yeah, we're gonna have to do a deep dive this week and see if someone posted a video or something you know, maybe that'll be in realm rumors next, next week.

Speaker 1: 30:11

We'll see.

Speaker 2: 30:12

Well, yeah, at some point we'll update as soon as we get something to talk about, although I will say there were some competitors talking on our uh tiktok there, so that's pretty cool, yeah, yeah, that they found it.

Speaker 1: 30:23

He was like hey, that was me at 105, I got, yeah, yeah, I got cut I made it, but after two.

Speaker 2: 30:28

But yeah yeah, it was fun, guys. I mean, check out our videos and stuff because it's cool and you know we'll probably post a few more. We may have a bunch of videos that we're able to take. Yeah, of the fun of the running and the flight. Dude, the flight was crazy.

Speaker 1: 30:42

Yeah, the capture of the flight was nuts.

Speaker 2: 30:44

It was really fun, for sure.

Speaker 1: 30:45

Fun as a spectator, but for longevity of the event.

Speaker 2: 30:49

Probably needs to morph into something else yeah, I mean, I wish, yeah, I kind of wish you would have saw maybe the live stream of the last few phases to see how it played out.

Speaker 2: 30:57

You know, if there was any dude, we couldn't get any service on the way back dude nothing driving through uh country yeah, yeah yeah guys, amazing event and super happy we're able to go and check it out and video it and just see. You know, know, the first ever of that, you know. Hopefully there's many more and one day we'll go to the tuning one right In Japan.

Speaker 1: 31:19

Oh dude. Yeah, I think it said it was in Japan. You know the real life tuning exams we got to.

Speaker 2: 31:25

Dude, that would be. The dream is to go see that.

Speaker 1: 31:35

We would stand out like crazy, but it'd be worth it. Yeah, all right. Well, we uh. Even though we're doing a bonus episode, I still say we got to do a hot take so are you ready for this?

Speaker 2: 31:40

yeah, yeah, go ahead. What is it?

Speaker 1: 31:41

who would be the worst character?

Speaker 2: 31:43

to take the real life example, oh, well, I, I, I'm old, uh old clown boy over there. His soak would be the worst, dude. You're either gonna get murdered, you're gonna get taken in the woods, and who knows what's gonna happen to you, dude, he is going to destroy everyone around him in that, and if you are a poor soul who had to go with him and try to pass it when he was doing it, you ain't making it out, dude. You give him a weird. Look. Good old bubble gum, go and take your head off, it's a wrap I don't agree I would what's yours pick.

Speaker 1: 32:17

I would pick hisoka to compete with. If that, if that question were the opposite, I'd be like I want hisoka yeah, that's who's yours immediately, leorio bro why?

Speaker 2: 32:29

why would you say this?

Speaker 1: 32:30

and I love the.

Speaker 2: 32:31

I love.

Speaker 1: 32:32

Leorio as a character, but in that real life exam Leorio ain't hacking that.

Speaker 2: 32:37

Yeah, how did he get through it, dude? I don't even go. Good friends, the power of friendship. The power of friendship, because, yeah, homeboy didn't do much, did he?

Speaker 1: 32:47

No, no, I just yeah the real life Hunter's exam. He wouldn't have made it past the phase two, that's for sure.

Speaker 2: 32:54

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, he would have been done in the phase two for sure, yeah.

Speaker 1: 32:58

At least with Hisoka going up against him or, you know, taking the exam with him. You know you got the chance to team up. Maybe, but it doesn't matter, it's still a chance.

Speaker 2: 33:09

True.

Speaker 1: 33:15

True, true, true chance. True, true, you have a slim chance to get through it. He still didn't have a problem with anybody, really, except the the idiots that were trying to track him down in the swamp bad move yeah, stupid move don't do stupid, move what do? You don't call attention to yourself, you moron yeah and yeah talk.

Speaker 2: 33:27

Wait. Side note how many, uh, big old spiders did we see on people's backs out there? That?

Speaker 1: 33:33

was quite a few.

Speaker 2: 33:34

That was they had a lot of uh shirts and dude I I you didn't see it, but there was a dude with it was a legitimate tat of it yes, you tried to point it out and I immediately looked and I'm like where, dude, I want to see this dude his whole back, like literally his entire back awesome. Yeah that was, that was epic. I don't know how far he made it, I hope. I hope he won with that.

Speaker 1: 33:55

Now dude, after the phase two, I was going for the cowboy guy and yeah, friend friend Nico the stuntman.

Speaker 2: 34:01

Yeah, yeah, dude Stuntman, I wish he would have got it. Yeah, he'll probably go back. He'll go back.

Speaker 1: 34:06

That's what he said in his post he was like we'll be back next year.

Speaker 2: 34:10

He's, but he's gonna you know when we were talking to him I, you know.

Speaker 1: 34:13

We asked he's like hey, did you do any training? And he's like no, not really outside any of the training I already do for the job. And then that's where we were like what do you do your job? He's like I'm a stuntman yeah, you're like all right.

Speaker 2: 34:25

Yeah, you're fine, you're gonna be all right, you're gonna pass this. We have to ask him what happened on that last other phase. I want to hear his side of that, see what he? Says so. So what thursday we're back to regular scheduled program, huh yeah, thursday's back to regularly scheduled programming.

Speaker 1: 34:43

Um, wow, that sounded lame. Yeah, so no, we'll be. Thursday will be still launching our evolution of superhero fantasy and the anime overlap episode oh, that was a good one that was really kind of wordy. I'm pretty sure I'll have a different title by the time that actually comes out do?

Speaker 2: 34:58

uh, yeah, we need to do like superhero verse anime. You know something short and sweet, who knows?

Speaker 1: 35:02

something something, something like that well, guys just write a lot of words you're, you're, you're a wordsmith, sir.

Speaker 2: 35:10

Well, appreciate everyone listening and, uh, yeah, check out the uh the hunters association and their social media, because they have some cool videos on there for sure yeah, all right, everybody, have a good night later.

Speaker 1: 35:22

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Speaker 2: 35:33

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