EA Completes Acquisition, Studios Brace For Layoff Bloodbath - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.05.26

**Tim Gettys** (0:00)
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What's up, and welcome to KindOfFunny Games Daily for Wednesday, August 5th, 2026 Of course, I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by the one and only Andy Cortez.

**Andy Cortez** (0:44)
Good morning, Timothy Gettys.

**Tim Gettys** (0:47)
How are you?

**Andy Cortez** (0:47)
Great to see your smiling face.

**Tim Gettys** (0:48)
I feel like me and you haven't hung out in a while.

**Andy Cortez** (0:50)
In that great body. I don't know why.

**Tim Gettys** (0:53)
I guess I've been sick. I've been out. There's been a lot of just, I haven't been hanging out with anybody.

**Andy Cortez** (0:57)
Yeah, I mean, you went sick and then your whole body went into panic.

**Tim Gettys** (1:00)
Yeah, I'm good now though.

**Andy Cortez** (1:02)
Try to.

**Tim Gettys** (1:02)
As of today, I'm back.

**Andy Cortez** (1:04)
Okay.

**Tim Gettys** (1:05)
I'm feeling so good about that. Yesterday was my first glimpse at like, wait, I'm starting to feel better. This doesn't suck. And now today I'm like, oh, I'm just back.

**Andy Cortez** (1:13)
Okay, that's great to hear.

**Tim Gettys** (1:15)
And I say I haven't hung out with you. I hung out with you for 12 hours playing Halo on Friday.

**Andy Cortez** (1:19)
Yeah, what the hell? Which I believe that VOD is still processing in the back end on YouTube.

**Tim Gettys** (1:25)
It's a big one.

**Andy Cortez** (1:26)
Well, it's a long VOD, but we're hoping to do one of those Saturday premiere things. I like that. Put it live at like, here's what I'm going to propose right now. Let's make some company decisions right now. I would propose we put it live 7 a.m. Pacific time.
That way it starts for a lot of people in our country and then overseas. It's starting right at like, you know, put the kids to bed for 4 p.m. I like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Tim Gettys** (1:53)
Nice, sweet 4 p.m. that time.

**Andy Cortez** (1:55)
Johnny, go to sleep. It's 3 p.m. You know what I mean?

**Tim Gettys** (1:57)
It's Halo time.

**Andy Cortez** (1:57)
It let me and the missus we're going to sit down and we're going to watch this squad play. I love that. And then maybe they fully watch it all the way through until, you know, 3 a.m. or whatever. Yeah.

**Tim Gettys** (2:07)
Little forerunner for play.

**Andy Cortez** (2:08)
I'm think about that. I mean, I like that a lot.

**Tim Gettys** (2:11)
Also, I'm so proud of us for actually finishing the game in one video. Like, I thought for sure we're going to have to break it up in some way. But we finished the whole game and the bonus missions. Yeah, that is going to be a fun watch on Saturday.

**Andy Cortez** (2:23)
Really blown away. I do want everybody to...
You know, there was that awesome clip out of you just really shitting the bed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Really unfortunate.

**Tim Gettys** (2:32)
I will say, I will say, all of you guys gave me a lot of shit for that. I gave myself a lot of shit for it, too. But the reality of it is, Bless didn't know what was going on. All right? I don't think Mike was really paying attention. You were the only one actively giving me shit. I was more giving Halo shit. Because I stand by, I haven't said this, because I didn't want to get to it on the content. I don't think I did anything wrong.
You said get out. I got out and it did that Halo bounce thingy.
I didn't expect to get out of the Banshee and have it throw me fucking back 10 feet.

**Andy Cortez** (3:08)
Are you sure?

**Tim Gettys** (3:08)
My bad, but I hadn't been in a Banshee in 10 fucking years, Andy.

**Andy Cortez** (3:13)
It's like riding a Banshee.

**Tim Gettys** (3:15)
The war dog, I know exactly how I'm getting out. The ghost, I know exactly. That Banshee just fucking tossed me.

**Andy Cortez** (3:19)
Are you sure it wasn't a panic press jump when you landed?

**Tim Gettys** (3:24)
I guess.

**Andy Cortez** (3:24)
We'll go back and check the input.

**Tim Gettys** (3:26)