Happy Hour #170: The Night After

After all the excitement of something you're anticipating is over, how do you feel?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and Macky stuff. I
never told you.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Production by Heart Radio, and welcome to another edition of
Happy Hour. As always with these, if you're choosing to
drink or whatever you're choosing to do during a happy
hour time relaxation time, please do so responsibly. Samantha, are

(00:33):
you slipping on anything?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm keeping with a bubble of water. All right, I
have had a lot of coffee, but yet my eyes
are still sleepy.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Happens. It happens sometimes.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, I am drinking red wine, and I'm gonna be
honest with you, this is actually interesting that this happens.
But I was telling Samantha I had a panic attack
this morning, and we are going to very briefly be
talking about the Last of Us. But I talked about
how when the first season came out, I was having

(01:07):
a lot of issues with like panic and anxiety.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
So I don't know if it's related.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
But here's another data point, and the next data point
will be two years from now, I guess for season three.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Wait, yeah, is that confirmed that's gonna be two years
from now or are you just assuming?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm just assuming because it took two years between one
and two and I think three is going to be
longer than one.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, we'll see whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
But we're not really doing any spoilers or anything about it.
But I thought it would be fun to do a
mirror of the episode I did on excitement or of
anticipating something, because we had that happy hour I was
talking about, like, you know, the moment before I almost
loved more than the whole thing is because it can

(01:59):
be anything I wanted to be and it's so exciting
for me. And so today we're kind of talking about
the like after, and I just want to say, I
feel fun. It's okay, but it is kind of a

(02:19):
it's kind of a like coming down because I've been
so excited and I've every week I'm trying to think
of like what will they do and how will they
do this?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
And what will it look like?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
And you know, and hanging out with you and our
friends and talking about it and getting yeah, it's so fun.
It was something to look forward to and I just
love sharing stuff like that with people.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
And even like people I don't see who were texting me.
It was just a.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Really it gives me me like a jazz almost, like
it makes me so yeah, and I just like talking
about it. And so then you get to the end
and it's over, and especially if people haven't played the game,

(03:18):
and you're like, oh no, I can't talk about what's
to come.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
And I know you're mad, but I need you to
like bear with me here. But it is. I get.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I've always been like this, this is not a new thing.
It's just not a last of us specific thing.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Even when I was a kid, like the day after
a thing, I would just be in a funk. I'm like, oh,
well that's over. What do I do now?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, And especially because if if it does take two years,
how old am I going to be when this ends?
And I need people to know how it ends so
I could just talk about it. My heart's content. Oh yeah, yeah,
but I I've a lot of friends have contacted me
and said they feel the same way. Don't Downtrodden is

(04:13):
a word I've gotten a lot great word? Yeah, yeah,
and it is. It's kind of I have this. I'm
very excited to. I want to do a whole watch through,
and now that it's all out, maybe I'll play the

(04:34):
game again. Like there's things I'm excited about right and
there's no absence of that and my friends either who've
communicated that to me, but it's just sort of you know, well,
then it's done. All that anticipation, all that excitement I
was feeling before, now it's gone.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I'm gonna say with this specific series, it was so short.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
It was so short, and then I had, like we
I went away for one week, so making like a
thing that was usually you would think would be more
all of a sudden it was over, and it feels
even more like shocking.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, and it's a shocking ending. But I used to
be this way about. You know, when you play a
game yep, well not all games, but games like The
Last of Us, games that are kind of RPGs are longer.

(05:33):
You put a lot of time and emotions sometimes into
that game, and no matter like how much you love it,
you get to the end and it's over, and then
you watch the credits and I get so sad and
because I just put in all that time and it's over,

(05:54):
and so the Last of Us too, I'll just like
let the credits roll all the game and then I
get to the opening screen and I just stare at
it sadly.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
I've seen this.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's so I've seen this.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I've witnessed this. I've also witnessed the moment that you
just start yelling.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Joel yeah really loudly during this scene. These are all
real things I have.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
I have witnessed these crying and pie in front of
that scene.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
One time I had have played the cheese at the end.
I got to the end credit, so I was just
crying eating this cheese. Sometimes I'll just put it on
because it's actually kind of a soothing credits.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Like right, Although definitely when we prep to do these episodes,
I find different scenes that people have used to make,
like music ten hour long, yeah music too, not music
to just I guess like sinsory. Yeah music, and I
play that and I think one of them. One of

(07:02):
them is the window, which yes you the first one,
and then I think the boat and I bought you
a sticker with that boat scene. I believe with the
yeah because I know you love it so much.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I do love it, but it is it's like you.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
You get to the end and you're like listening to water,
but you just feel so afloat.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
But I used to do this with other games. It's
it's not like a real sadness in my my heart
that aches.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
It's series ends like Supernatural, which the ending as a
whole debacle in itself, but you do feel a little empty.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, it's an emptiness. It's an emptiness, and it is
something where even games that don't end the game doesn't
even have to be sad, like Kingdom Hearts. I used
to that in credit scene. I would just listen to
the music and be like, well, that's.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
It, that's the thing, Okay. So it has nothing to
do with my like love or.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
I love all these things I'm talking about, but it's
just I think it's the coming down of all the
excitement I had before, and then when you get to
the end, you're like, ah, all right, and I actually
am someone who loves it good that gets over. I
think probably one of the reasons this is a tough
one is because there's season three and I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
When it'll come out.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
But still, I do think video games are interesting because
you put so much, like actual playtime into it, and
I'll be like, oh, well that's that, okay, can't I
can't change the ending of whatever that was. And I
put in thirty hours too, like way more. But all

(09:02):
this being said, I loved it and I had a
great time, and I look forward to it again. It's
just kind of a funny thing I know about myself
as I have this.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, the up and the down, and the up and
the down and then testipation.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
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