421: Lore Iceberg 1: All New Vegas Wild Wasteland Events Explained (Part 1)

[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Fallout lorecast. [SPEAKER_00]: The podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of Fallout. [SPEAKER_00]: So you may have noticed that I've been bouncing around a few different types of ideas recently. [SPEAKER_00]: We've been continuing the pre-war business stuff because that is fun and interesting.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I also recently revisited Fallout 76 talking about Vault 63 and have started a series on Fallout 3 to get ready for the remaster. [SPEAKER_00]: And, well, we don't know exactly when that's going to come out. [SPEAKER_00]: It might come out sometime this fall. [SPEAKER_00]: Probably not.

[SPEAKER_00]: My guess is sometime in the spring. [SPEAKER_00]: So we're still waiting for that. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll be dipping my toes back into each of those as I rotate through some different topics, but this week we're taking on another new project because this is something that I've been wanting to do for a while and have been doing on the Elder Scrolls lorecast.

[SPEAKER_00]: going to be taking on a fallout lore iceberg. [SPEAKER_00]: And if you aren't aware of what these are, they've been working their way across the internet a lot over the last, I don't know, five or six years. [SPEAKER_00]: And people put together these lists of all the different things that they think are interesting from the smallest little things that most people know about all the way to the deepest levels of the lore.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the stuff that not everybody knows, things that are highly speculative, things like that. [SPEAKER_00]: So a lore iceberg is fun because it gets more and more interesting as you go down the list. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we'll be doing. [SPEAKER_00]: And let me paint the picture of the plan for this.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what has been working on the Elder Scrolls lorecast. [SPEAKER_00]: I will be taking somebody else's iceberg. [SPEAKER_00]: The largest one I can possibly find. [SPEAKER_00]: And there are a lot that exist out on the internet, so we're going to find the biggest one that we can find.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to start at the top and we're going to discuss every point down the iceberg. [SPEAKER_00]: And what's interesting and fun about this on this type of show is that I'm not just going to be reading their descriptions. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be digging further into every single thing on this list.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you might have some questions like, well, what about the topics that you've already covered on the show? [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_00]: Some of those things will come up. [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them will get re-addressed. [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them will be taken in with a brand new perspective and some new ideas about those [SPEAKER_00]: Strangely enough, after almost seven years of doing this, we'll be things that I haven't talked about on the show, maybe because they are minor little details, maybe because they were part of something else that was tangentially related, but didn't get its own episode.

[SPEAKER_00]: There is a lot of room I've discovered in doing this over on the Elder Scrolls lorecast for filling in a lot of the gaps and learning and exploring about things that I haven't covered yet. [SPEAKER_00]: It also helps us realize just how detailed and fleshed out a lot of these pieces of the lore are, because the writers and the creators of these games over the years have done a really incredible job of filling these games with all sorts of really cool details.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, some episodes will just focus on one thing because there might be enough information about that one thing to devote entire episode to. [SPEAKER_00]: Some of these episodes will cover multiple things. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll just roll with it as we go and as we dig deeper and deeper into the fallout lore iceberg.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I hope that makes sense to everybody you understand what we're planning to do here and let's introduce the fallout lore iceberg that I have pulled. [SPEAKER_00]: I've found the largest one I could possibly find on the internet. [SPEAKER_00]: This one was made by 7777 Villain over on Reddit.

[SPEAKER_00]: They posted a big picture. [SPEAKER_00]: Other people have commented on this. [SPEAKER_00]: People have created videos about it. [SPEAKER_00]: but I'm not using their perspectives on this. [SPEAKER_00]: I am looking at only the document created by 7777 villain and then I am researching each of the points as we go down this iceberg and bringing you even more information than what is here.

[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you to 7777 villain for putting this together. [SPEAKER_00]: This is a lot of work I know, but let's get started and we're going to start off with tier number one. [SPEAKER_00]: This is the very top and villain has described this as well known Easter eggs and references. [SPEAKER_00]: So these should be things that should be familiar to people.

[SPEAKER_00]: But as usual, I'll be pulling in any extra details I can find, any real-world references, inspirations, and asking you some challenging questions as we get through these. [SPEAKER_00]: But this first one is interesting because this is what they wrote. [SPEAKER_00]: The topic is Wild Wasteland Easter Eggs.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wild Wasteland is a trait in New Vegas. [SPEAKER_00]: It adds a bunch of Easter eggs to the game at the expense of losing some scene content. [SPEAKER_00]: While I could list off every single Easter egg, that would take too much time. [SPEAKER_00]: So you know what we're going to do? [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to list off every single Easter egg.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this might take more than one episode. [SPEAKER_00]: So buckle up. [SPEAKER_00]: Here we go. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I love this topic because, well, most of us have probably played Fallout New Vegas a number of times, but this is one of those things that I cannot play the game without. [SPEAKER_00]: Wild wasteland is a feature I always turn on because I am down for the wacky and the weird and the wild.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so, I'm not so familiar with the things that don't happen in Wild Wasteland, but a lot of these details are things that take precedent over something else that would have happened like this first one. [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to go alphabetically through the main story wild wasteland events.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are, of course, some for the DLCs, but we'll see how far we go before we hit the end of this episode. [SPEAKER_00]: The very first one is ain't nothing but a hound dog. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is about Cass. [SPEAKER_00]: your companion who you can bring around of course with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when you go to free side, well, the kings, they seem to like cast and they will hit on cast. [SPEAKER_00]: And cast isn't too keen about this. [SPEAKER_00]: So she will give them a nice report. [SPEAKER_00]: Now in the main game, she'll say something like somebody's asking for a boot in their fuse box.

[SPEAKER_00]: but with wild wasteland on, she will say, ain't nothing but a hound dog. [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's not the weirdest thing in the world, but it is a distinct change. [SPEAKER_00]: And the reference here is clearly the song, Hound Dog, which was made popular by Elvis Presley, originally written by Big Mama Thornton, and you might be thinking, [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, why is this an Elvis thing going on with the kings?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it clearly it makes sense. [SPEAKER_00]: It's the kings, right? [SPEAKER_00]: She's using an Elvis line back to them because they all are dressed up like Elvis. [SPEAKER_00]: That's very clear But the bigger question then becomes why is this a reference that shows up in new Vegas?

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is something I had to dig into, because I had always assumed, okay, new Vegas. [SPEAKER_00]: This was a popular place for people to go on vacation, for big shows and concerts and things like that. [SPEAKER_00]: By the time of the 1960s and 70s, when Elvis would have been an icon, somebody that everybody would have known about, it turns out that Elvis played a lot of shows in Las Vegas.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd always assume that this was the case, but here, get this. [SPEAKER_00]: Between the years 1969 and 1976, this was his residency in Las Vegas. [SPEAKER_00]: Residencies are things that artists will often do when they don't want to be touring the country anymore when they're in the [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, the later stages of their career, and honestly, it wasn't really that much into his career if you think about it, because he really got big in the mid 1950s.

[SPEAKER_00]: So 15 years later, he takes a residency in Las Vegas. [SPEAKER_00]: He performs two shows a week, which amounts to 636 sold out shows. [SPEAKER_00]: So you put the pieces together and clearly there's inspiration here for not just Elvis being a popular character that the kings were mimicking but that he spent seven years playing shows twice a week in Las Vegas and here we are now in Fallout New Vegas and Cass is using one of the lines of one of his songs to tell the kings gang members that she's not interested that they ain't nothing but a hound dog.

[SPEAKER_00]: Next on the Wild Wasteland list, we have a detective with a name that changes depending on if you turn Wild Wasteland on or off. [SPEAKER_00]: If you go to the Ultra Lux, home of our favorites, we'll just call them foodies. [SPEAKER_00]: There's a quest called Beyond the Beef. [SPEAKER_00]: And during this quest, you find a dead body and investigator who was killed in one of the hotel rooms.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, without Wild Wasteland on, the character's name is Jay Barnes. [SPEAKER_00]: He's wearing a trench coat and a hat. [SPEAKER_00]: He's really isn't anything fancy about him, and I can't tell if the name is a reference to anything I don't think it is. [SPEAKER_00]: But with Wild Wasteland on, you find an investigator named Crusoe, C-R-U-S-O-E.

[SPEAKER_00]: The character model is different, it's a man and a suit with red hair, and he doesn't have a hat. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you look this up online, it'll take you to the wiki's end. [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people who will reference what the wiki says. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the fandom wiki, which is one of the most popular ones on the internet, but not always the one that's most correct.

[SPEAKER_00]: As with pointed out in previous episodes, says this is a reference to TV series, CSI Miami, and more specifically it's main character, Horatio Kane, played by David Carruso. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the character does have red hair, so that does make sense. [SPEAKER_00]: CSI Miami is a crime drama with detectives and all of that, so that totally makes sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think there's more going on here, because the name Crusoe in the game is actually very similar to another name of a very famous detective. [SPEAKER_00]: Inspector Cluso, CL-O-U-S-E-A-U, yes, from the Pink Panther. [SPEAKER_00]: And CSI Miami is, as a fun reference, it's probably referencing both, but that's a much more modern show.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not something that would be classic and of the time period of traditional fallout references. [SPEAKER_00]: Inspector Cluso from the Pink Panther, absolutely is. [SPEAKER_00]: There are a number of films starting in 1963, and the original series ran into the 1980s, and then was rebooted with Steve Martin as the main character Detective Cluso in the 2000s.

[SPEAKER_00]: So this was originally a 1960s reference, which plays more into the vintage nostalgia thing that Fallout does, and it could be a reference to both of them. [SPEAKER_00]: It might just be a play on words that's neither one or the other, and kind of just referencing a investigator detective kind of name that shows up in both of these series.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a double whammy. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's fun because it's something you may not even notice because if you didn't play it without, while wasteland, on you would have known that that character was different. [SPEAKER_00]: Or it's just a minor character, it's just a dead body on the ground.

[SPEAKER_00]: You may never have noticed. [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a quick little one. [SPEAKER_00]: We're going back to the Kings and if you play the Quest Kings Gambit, there is a dialogue option when talking with Ambassador Crocker about Pacer. [SPEAKER_00]: Pacer was one of the Kings. [SPEAKER_00]: He had a heart condition.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's addicted to jet. [SPEAKER_00]: And during the conversation, the Ambassador can reply, damn it, I'm an ambassador, not a doctor. [SPEAKER_00]: You'll have to find some other way. [SPEAKER_00]: which is clearly a reference to Star Trek and bones, the doctor because we would often say things like damage him, I'm a doctor, not a physicist, there needs to be another way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Other than that, there's not much more here, I mean this one's pretty obvious, but it is worth mentioning that Star Trek originally was a 1960s and 1970s TV show with its first episode airing in 1966. [SPEAKER_00]: which continues to show that a lot of the references in the games are older content even when it's something like Dr. Crusoe which could be interpreted both directions.

[SPEAKER_00]: But let's move on to the next one. [SPEAKER_00]: So do you remember talking with the fiends? [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, remember, motor runner, and he's got that, I don't know, that skull on his head with the ram's horns, looking thing, and two dangerous dogs, bone Nash and Nash bone, wonderful names.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they aren't always known as bone Nash bone, if you have wild wasteland on. [SPEAKER_00]: He calls them Donnie and Marie. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this might be another one of those references that you just kind of didn't notice. [SPEAKER_00]: It is interesting, though, because when you look in the game files, there is a script that is not used.

[SPEAKER_00]: That seems like it might have, at some point, been something they were considering and decided to turn off or just forgot to turn back on or something that would have changed their names to Donnie and Marie, not Bo Nash and Nashbone when you look at them and you see [SPEAKER_00]: And this is funny if you get the reference.

[SPEAKER_00]: Donnie and Marie is probably one of those things your parents or your grandparents would remember. [SPEAKER_00]: This is another one of those 1970s references and Donnie and Marie Osmond were some of the biggest young pop stars and then TV stars of the 1970s. [SPEAKER_00]: They were a sister and brother duo.

[SPEAKER_00]: They both had found success with music earlier that decade, and eventually by 1976, had their own TV show called Donnie and Marie. [SPEAKER_00]: And they were so young when they became popular that by the time the TV show aired in 1976, they were still only 18 and 16 years old, respectively.

[SPEAKER_00]: So referencing two very dangerous guard dogs as Donnie and Marie is ironic in the sense that Donnie and Marie was something that was very wholesome. [SPEAKER_00]: It was a wholesome family entertainment with these children's stars and that sort of thing. [SPEAKER_00]: And now they're guard dogs for the one of the most dope-to-out leaders of a raider group in the wasteland.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so let's head back to free side because there's some wackiness going on. [SPEAKER_00]: Some wild wasteland wackiness going on with the secure trons because if you head to the North Gate of the strip and you, well, make them angry at you and they start attacking you, then you get a line that they normally don't say without wild wasteland on.

[SPEAKER_00]: Normally those say things like targeting, engaging, things like this, right? [SPEAKER_00]: with wild wasteland on they will repeat exterminate exterminate and if you're a fan of doctor who then you get the reference because this is a reference to the daylix and doctor who a series that launched in November of 1963 so another one of these old [SPEAKER_00]: 1960s references.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the Daleks look like these big robotic things. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they've got that old timey robot style, which inspired a lot of the robots like Secure Trons in Fallout. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the Secure Trons in the Daleks don't look identical, but they're similar enough to make this reference, and the fact that they talk and say something.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great place to stick the exterminate line [SPEAKER_00]: Then make another reference to one of those old timey TV shows that, well, I guess it's still around, is it still around? [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't checked it out recently, but there you go. [SPEAKER_00]: Daylix Secure Trons X-Terminate.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there's a fun aliens reference, the aliens movie, of course, 1986. [SPEAKER_00]: So not as old as some of these other references, because if you're listening to the NCR emergency radio during the battle of Hoover name, the final battle. [SPEAKER_00]: then you're going to get the lines, they're coming out of the walls man, they're coming out of the damn walls, and also game over man, game over, which is clearly the reference to Bill Paxon's character, William Hudson in the movie Aliens, because he says those exact lines in the movie.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now there's the earlier part where they're inside the hive fighting them, and then afterwards when the ship crashes. [SPEAKER_00]: And I love how his voice goes into full set out there, so he's so panicked, so good. [SPEAKER_00]: And here's one everybody who has your legit nerd cred should know.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a reference to Monte Python in the Holy Grail because when you go to the search light east church, you will find on a table three holy frag grenades or holy hand grenades which would be what they were referred to in Monte Python in the Holy Grail. [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're not familiar with this, go watch the movie right now because it's a classic, also from the mid-1970s, so another one of those older references, but you might be wondering, why are they located at this one location?

[SPEAKER_00]: This is camp search light, it's an NCR location, and this is a church, the church, this is a holy hand grenade in a church, that tracks because King Arthur was on a quest from God. [SPEAKER_00]: and of course all of the devs are super nerds like all of us and absolutely new this reference and probably just couldn't keep themselves from renaming three of the grand grand grenades, three of the frag grenades, holy frag grenades.

[SPEAKER_00]: But here, here's the reference from the movie because it's always good to go back and listen to the actual lines. [SPEAKER_00]: Here you go. [SPEAKER_02]: We have the Holy Hengranade. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, of course! [SPEAKER_02]: The Holy Hengranade of Antioch. [SPEAKER_02]: This one of the sacred relics, Brother Maynard, carries with him.

[SPEAKER_02]: Brother Maynard, bring up the Holy Hengranade. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yes, Lord, we're going to skip the song, because that part takes a little bit. [SPEAKER_02]: How does it work? [SPEAKER_03]: And I know, by the least. [SPEAKER_03]: Consult the book of armaments. [SPEAKER_03]: Armaments chapter two, verses nine to twenty-one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now explaining the joke is always, I don't know, a poor taste, but just in case you want some explanation here, they have a book of armaments and they are a holy group going on a holy war, which is funny because it points out the contradictions between belief that everybody's a child of God and all of that and then except for those people over there.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so we're going to murder them and then you put that into an actual document that the church keeps because they need to have armaments for war. [SPEAKER_00]: There you go, there's the joke. [SPEAKER_00]: And there's more to it. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna play the entire clip, but there is the point that, uh, well, the counting, the counting of three and all of that, which I'll play that part, which does correlate with the fact that you find three hand grenades or frag grenades in this case.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the Lord speaks saying, first, shut the take out the Hurley pin. [SPEAKER_01]: Then shut the count to three. [SPEAKER_01]: No more? [SPEAKER_01]: No less. [SPEAKER_01]: And the number of the counting shall be three. [SPEAKER_01]: Four shall doubt not count. [SPEAKER_01]: Neither count thou two.

[SPEAKER_01]: Accepting thou then proceed to three. [SPEAKER_01]: Five is right out. [SPEAKER_00]: And of course there's a running gag where King Arthur for some reason can't count to three. [SPEAKER_00]: He always counts one to five and then they have to correct him. [SPEAKER_03]: No, man. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, man.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: One, two, five. [SPEAKER_02]: Three, the three. [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_00]: And there was a lot of that that I had to cut out for those of you who don't know the references that that was as fun as it was for me, but go go back watch the movie. [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's it's great.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's clearly a reference and again from the 1970s. [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_00]: So if you travel up to the Horowitz Farmstead, this is in the middle of the map and the very far north of the map, and you continue just a little bit more north. [SPEAKER_00]: You can come across what is called the hovering alien ship or the hovering anomaly.

[SPEAKER_00]: And again, this only shows up in Wild Wasteland. [SPEAKER_00]: This is the exact same ship. [SPEAKER_00]: The Reconcraft Theta from Fallout 3's Mothership Zeta expansion, and this is exactly the same ship as just hovering here, and there are like broken pieces around. [SPEAKER_00]: You can see some like cables and tubes and things hang in down from like the hatch underneath the ship.

[SPEAKER_00]: And three aliens. [SPEAKER_00]: One of them has an alien blaster, the captain of the aliens. [SPEAKER_00]: So you can kill them and take it from them and then get also 100 alien power cells and you can set yourself up. [SPEAKER_00]: Now this region is not a clearly a hovering alien ship, unless you have wild wasteland enabled.

[SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, it is just a regular mercenary camp. [SPEAKER_00]: And you can find four people there, four mercenaries, and they will fight you and you can take their stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: But it is not nearly as cool as killing the aliens and seeing a hovering ship on the map. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, clearly, this was a reuse of an asset as a lot of things a new Vegas are from Fallout 3 and in a kind of fun and creative way.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it makes me wonder why something like this was not included in the regular game, and instead was relegated to the wild wasteland. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's not that weird. [SPEAKER_00]: They already had the Fallout 3 DLC where you were on an alien ship. [SPEAKER_00]: Aliens have been a big part of the series from the original games, and they are a little bit weird if they're a little bit wild and out there, but especially with a DLC like Mother Shipseta, they are canonized.

[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes when the weird stuff shows up with the wild wasteland stuff shows up, I think, well, okay, they remove this because they didn't want people to not take the game seriously. [SPEAKER_00]: But when it comes to something like this, it's a little bit harder for me to justify why, why remove it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe it had to do with people's response to the mothership Zeta DLC when it came out. [SPEAKER_00]: There were people who said, this is a step too far. [SPEAKER_00]: This is a little bit too silly. [SPEAKER_00]: This is a little bit too out there for what I want in my fallout game.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so maybe they were just being more careful when they came to developing new Vegas. [SPEAKER_00]: So this next one is the first time we're doing a reference to something a little bit more current. [SPEAKER_00]: This is an internet meme, and it's based around this character that you can find.

[SPEAKER_00]: Johnny five aces. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is during the Barton the Think Unmarked Quest that you get from Barton Thorne. [SPEAKER_00]: He tells you to go south of Good Springs and investigate the section of the map that has an overlook. [SPEAKER_00]: And as you come across this location, you will see a dead body next to a table and a chair.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a camera, there's a trap, there's an ammo canister. [SPEAKER_00]: There are four oranges, reddish, orange kind of balls laying on the ground. [SPEAKER_00]: There are four aces on the table. [SPEAKER_00]: One on the ground next to the body. [SPEAKER_00]: And the body just is a guy, it's a guy wearing what looks like patched together, blue gene outfit of some sort and she's got some glasses on and sometimes you can actually the body will fall down the cliff and so he won't be laying right here, but that's basically it now this is a reference to the xiborne clock game I'm putting this in quotes that was never released and became an internet meme.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if we head over to noyourmeem.com, we can learn more about it. [SPEAKER_00]: It says the Xibon Clock is an abandoned game project proposed by members of the something awful forums. [SPEAKER_00]: The concept as well as the storyline was mocked incessantly by members of the forum since the idea was posted.

[SPEAKER_00]: So this comes from 2003 in the something awful forums where users began to draft up this concept of a game. [SPEAKER_00]: The game revolves around the concept of time travel. [SPEAKER_00]: She.org has archived script drafts and fan art so if you want to go look this up you can. [SPEAKER_00]: The entire game was planned to be completed in less than a year, however, only one person on the team had previous game development experience as a professional developer.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was banned from the project for criticizing it. [SPEAKER_00]: Now to get a little ahead of this, this never manifested as a game. [SPEAKER_00]: It was never put out there, but this meme and the concept of the game stuck around for years. [SPEAKER_00]: In February of 2008, YouTuber Dr. Doug Beach uploaded a game trailer, which you can still look up.

[SPEAKER_00]: The video game gained over 113,500 views in 11 years, so on November 8th of that year, YouTuber B-A-S-D-F, don't know how to pronounce that. [SPEAKER_00]: Uploaded the Zeiborn Clock interview, which you can also still look up, and that has over [SPEAKER_00]: 26,000 views and like 11 days.

[SPEAKER_00]: So back back in those early times of YouTube, those are pretty high numbers. [SPEAKER_00]: The article goes on and says, as the topic became more and more popular users start posting fan art and fan fiction featuring the game's characters and main concepts, all of this gets super wacky.

[SPEAKER_00]: On April 4th of 2012, an AMA post a title that I was the lead level designer of the Zyborn clock before it turned into a huge meme from something [SPEAKER_00]: And then, of course, it shows up in all these other places, including as a wild wasteland thing in Fallout New Vegas, and the character specifically is one of the characters mentioned in the game designs and conversations that happened at the time, Johnny Fiveases.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as you can tell, the body here in New Vegas has fiveases and next to him on the table. [SPEAKER_00]: But what about the other symbolism going on here? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it turns out that the balls [SPEAKER_00]: point in a direction. [SPEAKER_00]: That's a weird statement to say. [SPEAKER_00]: The orange looking spheres that are laying next to the character actually point to another wild wasteland moment that you come across and it's the refrigerator with the bones in it, which we haven't talked about yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: So why don't we just do that right now? [SPEAKER_00]: This one comes up every so often. [SPEAKER_00]: It's something we've referenced on Patreon chats before and that sort of thing. [SPEAKER_00]: This is a clearly a reference to Indiana Jones. [SPEAKER_00]: Specifically, the fourth movie, Indiana Jones, and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was pretty new at the time of Fallout New Vegas and the ridiculousness of Indiana Jones.

[SPEAKER_00]: surviving nuclear explosion by hiding in a refrigerator and I think the point here is that it was a lead line refrigerator because old-timey refrigerators back in Indiana Jones time were lined with lead and that lead would keep out the radiation from the explosion but the way that the [SPEAKER_00]: The scene is showed in the movie is clearly something that nobody would survive because the actual refrigerator itself gets blown around.

[SPEAKER_00]: It flies through the air and tumbles on the ground and all of the force would have killed anybody inside regardless of the radiation. [SPEAKER_00]: So it is a ridiculous scene and they're kind of making fun of it here because you can come across just southeast of Good Springs, this refrigerator with a body in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And to make it even more clear, just in case you weren't sure that this is actually referencing Indiana Jones, well, there's a hat, a swav gambler hat, which looks to be modeled after a fedora, which is the classic style that Indiana Jones wears, and everyone else after those movies decided to wear too, but if you're not as handsome as Harrison Ford, then maybe just stick with the baseball cap.

[SPEAKER_00]: No judgment, just that the reason why the look looks good and cool on Harrison Ford is because he's freaking Harrison Ford and he's one of the most classically attractive men in Hollywood, so there you go. [SPEAKER_00]: There's really not too much else to dig up about that one. [SPEAKER_00]: The movies clearly go back into the 1980s with the beginning of the series, and so this is not another one of those older references, although it is a classic series of films and hasn't spired lots of other stuff [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.

[SPEAKER_00]: We got halfway through the main game wild wasteland stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully we could knock out the second half next time, and then we'll go on to the DLC and all of that, and then we'll continue down the iceberg. [SPEAKER_00]: There is so much to discuss. [SPEAKER_00]: We're only getting started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we've got coming up some really cool stuff with Fallout 76 with the Pintsize Slasher event and some other cool things you can get from that event. [SPEAKER_00]: I was tossing around an idea to talk about the Pintsize Slasher this week instead, but I think I might hold off on that for, I don't know, we're getting close to creepy season, like, you know, Halloween month and all of that.

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