422: Lore Iceberg 2: All New Vegas Wild Wasteland Events Explained (Part 2)

[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the Fallout lorecast. [SPEAKER_02]: The podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of Fallout. [SPEAKER_04]: that that's used to be a nice neighborhood before the old light is starting to move it in. [SPEAKER_02]: That's right. [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back to the fallout forecast.

[SPEAKER_02]: We are continuing our look at all of the wild wasteland events and things that can happen in New Vegas. [SPEAKER_02]: We covered the first half of the main game wild wasteland events last week. [SPEAKER_02]: And this week we are following up with the rest of the main game once. [SPEAKER_02]: There's even more in the DLC.

[SPEAKER_02]: So this is going to be a three [SPEAKER_02]: You might recognize it if you are a Monty Python fan. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, there's more than just one Monty Python reference in Fallout New Vegas. [SPEAKER_02]: You might remember the classic sketch Hell's Grannies from Monty Python, of course, where the crew, the team, the group, got dressed up as a bunch of old ladies.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they walked around the city harassing regular people as if they were some sort of... [SPEAKER_02]: The gang of Nerdy Wells who were just, I don't know, picking on people because they have nothing better to do. [SPEAKER_02]: So what is the equivalent thing that happens in Fallout New Vegas?

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it is called Mods Muggers. [SPEAKER_02]: You see, if you head over to free side, you might hear some of the locals talking about some gang. [SPEAKER_02]: They might call it Granny's gang or Mods Muggers. [SPEAKER_02]: And if you head over to Serelian robotics, you might run into three old women.

[SPEAKER_02]: They each have interesting names, and they carry rolling pins, or switch blades, they are aggressive, and they will attack you, and their names are interesting. [SPEAKER_02]: I rate Ida, rankarist, Ruth, and Malefic mod, and clearly their names are meant. [SPEAKER_02]: for uh, I don't know, synonyms for being upset or pissed off or volatile.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's sort of thing. [SPEAKER_02]: And they're running around in these dresses. [SPEAKER_02]: They look all nice. [SPEAKER_02]: They have older lady faces with the gray hair. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's obvious that this is a reference to Hell's Grammys from Monty Python. [SPEAKER_02]: Now as I mentioned on the previous episode, there are some of these that I think probably would have worked in the main game and people wouldn't have complained about as being too weird.

[SPEAKER_02]: But this next one I feel like has a lot of obvious cultural references especially for the time that this game came out and people were more aware of these things. [SPEAKER_02]: It's the lines that you get for Mr. New Vegas. [SPEAKER_02]: When you're listening to radio new Vegas, you get a variety of different lines from Mr. New Vegas.

[SPEAKER_02]: And there are three in particular that do not show up unless you have wild wasteland enabled. [SPEAKER_02]: The first one is just kind of a joke. [SPEAKER_02]: It probably could have passed, but the second two are references, and we'll hear. [SPEAKER_02]: Here's what they say. [SPEAKER_02]: The very first one is during the intro.

[SPEAKER_02]: Where Mr. New Vegas will say, you know, I tried to measure my charisma on a automatic vigor tester once, the machine burst into flames, haha, right? [SPEAKER_02]: It's a joke, and that I feel like it could get a pass, but these next two are obviously references to pop culture stuff, a character from a movie and a musician.

[SPEAKER_02]: The next one, stay classy new Vegas, is clearly a reference to the film Anchor Man, the legend of Ron Burgundy. [SPEAKER_02]: And if you haven't seen this somehow, this is a will-feral film. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a classic where he plays an anchor man and he's a total idiot, of course, like so many of his characters and wackiness ensues, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: So the news organization that run burgundy works for is based in San Diego and his sign off for every single news cast is stay classy San Diego or in a more run burgundy sort of way stay classy San Diego something like that. [SPEAKER_02]: So this movie came out just a few years before New Vegas was released, which means it was definitely on the minds of the developers while they were working on it, and this line made it into the game, which, you know, it's fine.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think this would have been obvious to most people back then that this was a pop culture reference and therefore fits firmly in the wild wasteland. [SPEAKER_02]: But the other reference here is something that Mr. New Vegas says during story outros. [SPEAKER_02]: He'll say, [SPEAKER_02]: Mojavemo problems am I right?

[SPEAKER_02]: And clearly that's a reference to the notorious BIG. [SPEAKER_02]: His song, Mo money, Mo problems. [SPEAKER_02]: It was a banger. [SPEAKER_02]: It was a hit. [SPEAKER_02]: People knew it. [SPEAKER_02]: And the main dilemma here is that Mr. New Vegas wouldn't have known these lines from this film or the song because they wouldn't have existed in the fallout world.

[SPEAKER_02]: And if they did, then that breaks canon. [SPEAKER_02]: And that seems to be [SPEAKER_02]: Alright, talking about movies, the next one coming up is a Star Wars reference. [SPEAKER_02]: This makes sense, their Star Wars references and everything. [SPEAKER_02]: It's clearly one of the most influential IPs, most influential series of movies to have ever existed, especially when playing sci-fi or fantasy games and things like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: This one is Owen and Beru. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, as soon as I say those names, you probably, if you were a Star Wars fan, you probably are thinking about Luke's aunt and uncle and what happens to them on Tatooine and how their lives are ended in a fiery death. [SPEAKER_02]: Luke returns home to find their bodies.

[SPEAKER_02]: have been burnt. [SPEAKER_02]: And you find basically exactly the same thing in New Vegas. [SPEAKER_02]: The next time you're in Nippton, look around for one of the ruined buildings. [SPEAKER_02]: And there's a Mr. [SPEAKER_02]: Gutsy but like to the right of the town hall. [SPEAKER_02]: This is the general area you're going to be in here.

[SPEAKER_02]: And right next to that. [SPEAKER_02]: are two skeletons, and if you look closely, it could be a male and a female, and if you walk up to them and get close enough, then the names that are revealed are Owen and Baru. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Luke's and Uncle burned here in Nippton, not on Tatooine.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, by the time this game was made, Star Wars, specifically Star Wars Episode 4, the very first one that was released in what was that? [SPEAKER_02]: 76, 77, something like that was like... [SPEAKER_02]: 30 years old, so not a recent reference, not like the last few I talked about, that seemed very obvious and very timely.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is a older reference, but with the popularity of Star Wars, especially like I said, among the kinds of people who play these types of games, they would have noticed. [SPEAKER_02]: So this one gets my seal of approval for fitting firmly in Wild Wasteland because it probably would have broken.

[SPEAKER_02]: the the lore or whatever because again people wouldn't have known that movie that movie technically really shouldn't have existed in the fallout universe but here we go. [SPEAKER_02]: Wait a minute, the transition music was different. [SPEAKER_02]: Did you recognize where that came from?

[SPEAKER_02]: Because I did, well, I'm also doing the research on the episode and actually doing all the editing. [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, that's the music, that's the disco music that plays with the Pimp Boy 3 billion. [SPEAKER_00]: Outstanding, you have no idea how much this means to me. [SPEAKER_00]: But I think this little beauty will give you an idea.

[SPEAKER_02]: Then man is she a beauty. [SPEAKER_02]: She's got like diamonds and gold. [SPEAKER_02]: She's she's a pimped out pit boy, which feels like a pun and they just were decided to run with it. [SPEAKER_02]: That's mix voice from Micken Ralphs and the way you get this is an unmarked quest where Mick sends you to figure out why the the omeritas are no longer trading with him and this is the reward.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now in the game [SPEAKER_02]: comment. [SPEAKER_02]: Let me know if this is a go-to thing for you when you play new Vegas and you go back and you get the pimpoi and you put it on your wrist and you keep it there. [SPEAKER_02]: You can swap it back out if you talk to Mick later so you don't have to keep it if you feel like it's a little too gutty.

[SPEAKER_02]: Also, it looks like golden diamonds. [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like if you rolled up anywhere with this thing on your wrist, people would be gunning for you because they would think it's extremely valuable. [SPEAKER_02]: But now that I think about it, when they just do that for regular Pippboys 2, any amount of technology that they could sell would buy the more food or whatever.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: It's one of those little things that crosses my mind every so often playing these games is like, I clearly look like I have some valuable things on me. [SPEAKER_02]: Why don't people just kill me more often? [SPEAKER_02]: But that's neither here nor there.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Pippboy, it's clearly breaking the lore of the game because, [SPEAKER_02]: The use of the word pimps feels more 1970s, the disco music feels more 1970s, the whole pimps aesthetic comes from the 1970s and onward. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, of course, that's not to say that pimps didn't exist before the 1970s, but they're clearly pulling from those cultural details, which are again a little bit later than the regular stuff they pull from in the lore of [SPEAKER_02]: does break reality and firmly fits in the wild wasteland category, according to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_02]: But what about the ROUSs? [SPEAKER_02]: Rodents have unusual size? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they show up in Fallout New Vegas, surprise. [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know, this feels like a less common reference, but anybody who's a fan of the Princess Bride will remember the swamp scene where they're trying to navigate the swamp, and then they get attacked by giant rodents.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yup, that's a thing. [SPEAKER_03]: Firstly, what about the ROUSs? [SPEAKER_01]: Rodents have unusual size? [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they exist. [SPEAKER_02]: So where do these show up in New Vegas? [SPEAKER_02]: Well, Lady Jane mentions them, and you can run across giant rats in places like Vault 11, the Brock Flower Cave, the New Vegas Sewers also have some, and this is not a, well, [SPEAKER_02]: Let me explain, this isn't just a movie reference because giant rats do show up in Klamath in Fallout 2, so they have been in the series.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the use of the acronym ROUS rodents of unusual size that is the reference to the Princess Bride. [SPEAKER_02]: And interestingly enough, in Fallout 2, they use an acronym that's very similar, but they just don't use the O-R-U-S, which feels kind of like another nod to the Princess Bride.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Princess Bride came out in the 1980s, so it would have been something that the developers of Fallout 2 and New Vegas would have known. [SPEAKER_02]: So this one's kind of a fun little puzzle. [SPEAKER_02]: Is it [SPEAKER_02]: being referenced in both games and it's just in the wacky wasteland part of New Vegas, or was that acronym just simplified and used in Fallout 2 without even thinking about the original reference, that feels less likely for Fallout 2.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, I don't know, let me know your thoughts on that, but the use of ROUS in New Vegas is clearly a reference to the movie. [SPEAKER_02]: You might have thought we were done with the Monty Python references, but we're not. [SPEAKER_02]: And this one is not from the Holy Grail. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not from the Flying Circus and their sketch comedy stuff.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is from the life of Brian. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, you may be familiar with some of those other things, but not the life of Brian. [SPEAKER_02]: It is not the most popular thing that they've ever done. [SPEAKER_02]: But the life of Brian was a film where they... [SPEAKER_02]: did a parody of the life of Jesus because in the film you have a character who is mistaken for the Messiah but isn't actually the Messiah and there is a scene where that character writes some graffiti on a wall and the graffiti that they write on the wall shows up in [SPEAKER_02]: New Vegas, but it totally makes sense when you think of the context of ancient Israel, and what was going on during the life of Jesus with the Romans and the connection from Romans to the Legion, Kaiser's Legion, and here's what he writes on the wall.

[SPEAKER_02]: He writes, [SPEAKER_02]: Romannus Aunt Domus. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, my Latin is terrible. [SPEAKER_02]: I took a year of it in college, and I didn't do great. [SPEAKER_02]: But turns out that this is incorrect. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not proper Latin as described by the movie. [SPEAKER_05]: More sister.

[SPEAKER_05]: Romannus Aunt Domus. [SPEAKER_05]: People call Romannus. [SPEAKER_05]: They go the house. [SPEAKER_05]: It says Romus. [SPEAKER_05]: Go home. [SPEAKER_05]: No, it doesn't. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, if you haven't seen the scene, the joke here is that he's actively creating graffiti on a wall and gets caught by one of the legionaries who then corrects his grammar instead of punishing him for blatant anti-Roman graffiti.

[SPEAKER_02]: Here's the rest of the scene. [SPEAKER_05]: Aunt, what is Aunt? [SPEAKER_05]: Go! [SPEAKER_05]: Conjugate the verb to go. [SPEAKER_05]: Here, here, here, here, here. [SPEAKER_05]: It must, it is Aunt. [SPEAKER_05]: So, Aunt is... Third person plural, a present inductive. [SPEAKER_05]: They go, that Romans go home is an order.

[SPEAKER_05]: So, you must use the... Yeah, take this. [SPEAKER_05]: Which is... Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, [SPEAKER_02]: So if you're looking for this in New Vegas, you'll find it on the north wall of the Cottonwood Cove headquarters, and it clearly says Romanus Aunt Domus, which as the thing just described, and I don't know if you could, the accents and the poor sound quality from that old movie don't do it any justice, but what it actually translates to is people [SPEAKER_02]: which is hilarious because that doesn't make any sense.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's really trying to write Romans go home, and this implies that there's somebody in New Vegas who's trying to use Latin to communicate with the Legion and tell them to go home, but he does it incorrectly. [SPEAKER_02]: Now in the movie, Brian, the character who is mistaken for the Messiah, has to scroll this a hundred times on the wall as his punishment, kind of like an old school kind of punishment, [SPEAKER_02]: with the threat of the legionary coming over and finding him in the morning and we'll just say two of his managed parts.

[SPEAKER_02]: We'll just leave it at that. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think this is pretty clever because there would be people in the new Vegas area that were anti-legion that wanted them to leave that would be leaving things like messages on wall. [SPEAKER_02]: So totally tracks. [SPEAKER_02]: But the fact that it's a direct reference to this movie, which again was the 1970s, is a little bit late for the fallout timeline, so it fits firmly in the wild wasteland category.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I also find it interesting that they didn't make, I don't know, a quest where maybe not a quest, but a scenario happen where you come across somebody who's scrolling it. [SPEAKER_02]: This on the wall and then there's a legionary next to them that's reprimanding them for their incorrect Latin.

[SPEAKER_02]: that could have worked out that way, but instead they just put a message on a wall and then just hoped somebody would notice. [SPEAKER_02]: And so that's what you get in the game. [SPEAKER_02]: I guess it's more subtle. [SPEAKER_02]: So I feel like that works. [SPEAKER_02]: If you haven't noticed yet, there are a lot of movie references in Fallout.

[SPEAKER_02]: We went over in one of the earliest episodes, a lot of the movies that inspired the series at the very beginning, but clearly they still are inspiration for New Vegas because we get the lines, dead or alive you're coming with me and your move creep from secure trons during the side quest beyond the beef.

[SPEAKER_02]: So let me say that again, dead or alive you're coming with me, your move creep, you know [SPEAKER_02]: I think back to the 1980s, 1987. [SPEAKER_02]: And we've got a secure tron who's has kind of a robotic voice, secure tron's were supposed to be a form of security law enforcement. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we're getting there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Robocop, that's right. [SPEAKER_02]: These are lines that Robocop would say in the movie. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, if you remember the film, Robocop isn't fully robot, he's mostly robot, but he was a actual person, and the actor plays the role in a kind of stiff, kind of stilted way, the similar to the way that Secure Trons would talk.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I can see the connection here. [SPEAKER_02]: And again, this is a 1980s reference, so it firmly fits in Wild Wasteland because it breaks the lore. [SPEAKER_02]: So in my mind, unless you are a huge Robocop fan, these lines kind of feel natural for Secure [SPEAKER_02]: I know that I've never noticed this connection when playing New Vegas and I had to look this one up, so maybe you didn't either, or maybe you're just a huge robot cop fan.

[SPEAKER_02]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_02]: So this next one is interesting because it feels very different from a lot of the other ones. [SPEAKER_02]: It up in the northwest section of the map, the Devil's Throat, you can come across an unexploded bomb. [SPEAKER_02]: And as far as I can tell, [SPEAKER_02]: there's no reference here.

[SPEAKER_02]: This isn't referencing a specific film or or anything else. [SPEAKER_02]: It's called the one. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a bomb that is embedded in the sand and on the display on the bomb there's a readout that says 9999. [SPEAKER_02]: There are super mutant masters nearby. [SPEAKER_02]: There's like four of them next to the cave nearby and they will cause problems if you try to get close.

[SPEAKER_02]: But [SPEAKER_02]: I can't come up with any specific reference to this bomb, because I mean, think about it. [SPEAKER_02]: There's lots of movies where you have bombs, atomic bombs, unexploded atomic bombs. [SPEAKER_02]: Heck, there's even an unexploded bomb in Fallout 3, which came before Fallout New Vegas.

[SPEAKER_02]: But this one doesn't have a settlement built around it. [SPEAKER_02]: There's nobody worshiping it. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just up here in this kind of remote section of the west side of the map. [SPEAKER_02]: And in fact, it is exactly the same model as used for the bomb in Megaton, so this isn't out of place, it's not like they've haven't established that some of these bombs don't explode already in the cannon, but it doesn't appear unless you have wild wasteland selected.

[SPEAKER_02]: And there's even a little bit of a bug, sometimes you could have wild wasteland selected, and it still doesn't appear. [SPEAKER_02]: But we know that it is referred to as the one because that shows up in the game code. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's specifically designated, and I don't know if this is a reference.

[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, I think it's probably not a reference to anything in particular. [SPEAKER_02]: It seems to be just one of those things that shows up with wild wasteland selected, and that wasn't, and why it's not already just included in the base game. [SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't tell you. [SPEAKER_02]: It feels like it fits.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a mystery. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you got some theories about that. [SPEAKER_02]: Let me know what you think. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I'm probably older than, in fact, I've seen the stats. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm older than most of the audience that listens to this show. [SPEAKER_02]: And I remember a time growing up when I was a kid, where people would make jokes about the old TV series Lassie from the 1950s, which I'm not that old, definitely not that old.

[SPEAKER_02]: But the jokes were still around decades later, where kids would joke about Timmy falling down the well and that sort of thing. [SPEAKER_02]: And I know that's still kind of in the culture, but I haven't heard this reference in a long time. [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm guessing a lot of you may not even know the reference.

[SPEAKER_02]: So in the 19... [SPEAKER_02]: 50s TV series, Lassie was a dog and she was a colleague and she would help out people in town and she was a good dog. [SPEAKER_02]: And there's one classic episode where Timmy has to be rescued because he falls down a well and Lassie's the only one who notices and barks at the well.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the same thing happens in New Vegas with Rex. [SPEAKER_02]: If you have Rex with you, at some point, you might get an a rule and then you get a location on your PipBoy that Rex is trying to get you to go to. [SPEAKER_02]: This is east of New Vegas. [SPEAKER_02]: It's underneath the overpass if you can kind of picture that in your mind.

[SPEAKER_02]: And there's a well there. [SPEAKER_02]: And if you climb down the what's fairly wide, it's not like an old timey small well. [SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty big. [SPEAKER_02]: There's a ladder. [SPEAKER_02]: You can climb down. [SPEAKER_02]: And when you get to the bottom, unfortunately, you find a skeleton.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's fall out, right? [SPEAKER_02]: You're not actually going to find a boy. [SPEAKER_02]: You find a skeleton. [SPEAKER_02]: There's a mole rat down there. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe the mole rat killed him. [SPEAKER_02]: but the boy also is or probably was wearing a cowboy hat because you find it on the ground next to the skeleton and next to a BB gun 200 BBs and a super Stimpack.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why the kid didn't use the Stimpack, but I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: What a Stimpack save you from dying of [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, malnourishment or dehydration or something like that, I'm not really sure. [SPEAKER_02]: But this is also weird because there was already a Lassie reference, almost exactly the same reference that happened in Fallout 2.

[SPEAKER_02]: You end up looking for a boy named Johnny and his dog, Laddy, is the one who lets you know that he probably fell down well. [SPEAKER_02]: In that quest, there's the assumption that he was killed by a mole rat, dropped a BB gun, but it turns out that the kid actually is alive and you can find him alive later in the game.

[SPEAKER_02]: So this is a weird double reference where New Vegas is referencing not just Lassie from the 1950s, which does make sense in the Fallout timeline, which doesn't have to be a wacky wasteland thing, but it's also referencing its own reference in Fallout 2 to that same reference. [SPEAKER_02]: I know.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's crazy stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot of fun and definitely go look for this. [SPEAKER_02]: Go find Rex. [SPEAKER_02]: Have them find view the well and you can put this all together yourself. [SPEAKER_02]: Would you believe it or not? [SPEAKER_02]: We have not yet finished all of the Monti Python references in New Vegas.

[SPEAKER_02]: This next one is called Witch Witch. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, if in free side and this is probably [SPEAKER_02]: We'd try not to play the game, hate it, or vilified, but if you go to freeside with that status, one of those statuses, they will say things like which, which you should be burned for all the people you've turned into nudes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I know a lot of us will have multiple playthroughs and we'll try doing an evil playthrough. [SPEAKER_02]: And I know for a lot of people, that's even hard to do. [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people quit out of it, but give it a try because you'll get this line. [SPEAKER_02]: And this is another reference to [SPEAKER_02]: I'll play a little bit at the beginning of the scene because there are a bunch of peasants who claim that a woman is a witch and clearly they dress her up as one.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is how it plays out. [SPEAKER_05]: Come with us! [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, wait! [SPEAKER_05]: We are found a witch by weebun! [SPEAKER_05]: Bad! [SPEAKER_05]: Bad! [SPEAKER_05]: Bad! [SPEAKER_05]: Bad! [SPEAKER_05]: Who do you know she is a witch? [SPEAKER_05]: She looks like a witch! [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, [SPEAKER_06]: That's a way type, not a witch, but you are just as one.

[SPEAKER_06]: They address me up like this. [SPEAKER_06]: And this isn't mine, I was just a false one. [SPEAKER_02]: This scene is a lot of fun, but I'm not going to take up all of your time just playing out the whole scene. [SPEAKER_02]: This is the most important line. [SPEAKER_05]: What makes you think she's a witch?

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, she turned me into a newt. [SPEAKER_05]: A newt. [SPEAKER_02]: Then there is a long pause. [SPEAKER_05]: We got better. [SPEAKER_02]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_02]: The witch isn't actually turning anybody into nudes and neither is there a witch in free side. [SPEAKER_02]: That's turning people into nudes, but it is clearly a reference to people who are crazy about the thing and dream a fantastical reasons for why that person is.

[SPEAKER_02]: who's evil. [SPEAKER_02]: But in this case, in New Vegas, if you are vilified by the people of Freeside, then you probably did some legitimate things more than trying to turn people into nudes. [SPEAKER_02]: So again, this is a reference to a 1970s movie, firmly fits in the Wild Wasteland category.

[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I can't think of anything else going on in Freeside that would make people think about witches. [SPEAKER_02]: Is there a reference or a line of character says that just doesn't occur to me right now? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not really sure that [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't feel like there's anything, but again, if I'm missing something on this one, let me know, but I think this one basically comes out of nowhere and is a fun reference to the movie.

[SPEAKER_02]: So here's another reference that I think a lot of people aren't going to get. [SPEAKER_02]: Do you remember either the TV show or the video game where in the world is Carmen San Diego or where in the USA is Carmen San Diego? [SPEAKER_02]: There's a whole series of games from the late 80s that you were fun.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you had to play detective and put the... [SPEAKER_02]: Puzzles together in order to figure out what country Carmen San Diego went to. [SPEAKER_02]: And it taught you a lot about geography and that sort of thing. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, there is a reference in Fallen, New Vegas by Captain Curtis, where he says, you're getting to close Shamus.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, this is a line in where in the USA is Carmen San Diego by an NPC that's indicating that you're getting close to capturing the criminal Carmen San Diego in whatever country you've tracked her down to. [SPEAKER_02]: for those of us who don't know too many early 20th century slang is an expression for private detective and therefore was used in that game series and also a Captain Curtis as you are trying to figure out who the mole is in the quest line I put a spell on you.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it all kind of makes sense in that reference, but it's another one of those references that I'm pretty sure most of us in less you were super familiar with the video game and I don't think he even came up [SPEAKER_02]: the TV show. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you remember they're using this specific line in the TV show, but I think it's just a reference to the game.

[SPEAKER_02]: So a super subtle reference, and being that this is from a 1989 video game, it makes sense that this is in the Wild Wasteland category and not part of the base game, because again, it breaks the lore. [SPEAKER_02]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_02]: Those were all of the main game Wild Wasteland events or encounters.

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