Magic: the Gathering vs Void Stranger

Woolie Versus (0:00)

Versus Wolves time.

Eyepatch Wolf (0:03)

That's the opening, that's the opening. Versus Wolves, Versus Wolves time. Oh, I feel it.

Woolie Versus (0:09)

Yeah. It's the energy.

Eyepatch Wolf (0:12)

It's the, yeah, yeah, a jauntiness even.

Woolie Versus (0:17)

Imagine a stage, imagine curtains pulling back and then... Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.

Eyepatch Wolf (0:27)

This week, Versus Wolves will be a cartoon from the 1930s.

Woolie Versus (0:32)

Hey, people have been waiting all month for this. They're very excited to click play right now.

Eyepatch Wolf (0:37)

Yeah. And you know what? Happy to have them here.

Yeah. So anyway, Woolie, um...

Woolie Versus (0:49)

I'm... I'm Woolie Versus?

Eyepatch Wolf (0:53)

my hair. I got a hair cut.

Woolie Versus (0:55)

Oh.

Eyepatch Wolf (0:56)

You did?

Woolie Versus (0:56)

Oh.

Eyepatch Wolf (0:59)

Okay, it's dead. It's dead.

Whatever jovialness we started that podcast with, it's gone. I'm Eyepatch Wolf.

Woolie Versus (1:07)

I trimmed my beard for the first time. This is shorter than it ever usually is in over 10 years. And I'm... You know what? You know what, Woolie? I'm edged up over here, and I'm retwisted up here, and crisp, and you have said nothing about that.

Eyepatch Wolf (1:22)

I said nothing because I was intimidated by how handsome you look.

Woolie Versus (1:29)

Roll the goddamn picture. And I know it's not the other way around! I'm Woolie Versus...

Eyepatch Wolf (1:37)

I'm Eyepatch Wolf, and we are...

Woolie Versus (1:56)

Wow, that was quick. That was flaccid. Can we just... Look, energy. We've got to get the energy back up.

Eyepatch Wolf (2:02)

We've got to get the energy back up. Woolie, I think I can get the energy back up. I want to tell... No. No, we're done with that. I want to tell you a little story about being Irish, Woolie.

I don't know how closely you follow the world of mixed martial arts.

Woolie Versus (2:23)

Not that close, but close enough from...

Eyepatch Wolf (2:25)

Well, you'll know that we have won Conor McGregor, who for a couple of years, it was like, yeah, Conor McGregor's Irish. That's pretty cool. And then, increasingly not so, to a ludicrous degree in all directions, you know?

Woolie Versus (2:42)

In all, in all directions.

Eyepatch Wolf (2:43)

All omnidirectional shame.

Woolie Versus (2:46)

In directions I didn't even know she directed.

Eyepatch Wolf (2:49)

Yeah, it's like down there.

Woolie Versus (2:51)

Really? Under the rocks.

Eyepatch Wolf (2:55)

You know, for a long time, it's been a shame because, like, you know, fighting is a big part of Irish history, and, you know, that we are the fighting Irish, all that kind of stuff, and, like, it kind of sucks that, like, we have a world-class MMA fighter, or formerly world-class MMA fighter, who we can't really get behind, you know? And so, for years, the Irish people have been praying for a new world-class MMA fighter, Woolie.

And, oh, the monkey's paw curls, it's Notion Watch. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Woolie Versus (3:38)

Oh, boy. Okay.

Okay. So, so, so, there is a floor, a stage has been set for a new Pride of Ireland.

Eyepatch Wolf (3:50)

Yes.

Woolie Versus (3:51)

The step up.

Eyepatch Wolf (3:53)

Enter one Ian Gary, who a couple of months ago had a world title fight against Islam Makhtieb, who many consider the modern day goat. Some consider the all-time goat. And Ian Gary didn't win, but he did put on a hell of a show. He went five rounds, did not get knocked out. Some say he won the fight. Those people are lunatics, and that's okay. He has incredible striking, just very frustrating fighter. The wildest wrestling defense. It's just so hard to take him down.

But the dude's got some notions about himself. Okay, look, none of this is me criticizing Ian Gary.

This is just me applying the Irish standard to him. Okay?

Woolie Versus (4:42)

Now, okay, now let the record show, of course, that whatever these notions may be, the bar is currently in hell with Connor.

Eyepatch Wolf (4:51)

Okay, Connor does have notions. Connor's also just a gigantic piece of shit, and I don't want to conflate those two. Because I will get, and we will return to that. We will return to that specific point.

But, and Ian Gary, nowhere near that, but he does have a tattoo that says, love the life you live, live the life you love.

Woolie Versus (5:23)

Un-ironically, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, there might be a really good story behind that.

Eyepatch Wolf (5:31)

There probably is, there probably is.

So, Woolie, I want you to identify where the notions come into this next part, okay? In an interview, he spoke about the fact that he cries at Disney films.