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The tragedy of Gary Bowser.
That's a real name, yes.
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Let's get into this.
So this is, I've seen this on YouTube by a lot of people talking about it.
And I just, I recently read the article.
Yeah.
Pretty much a couple hours ago.
It's on IGN.
It came out on the 20th and it was, oh no, it came out on the 18th and updated on the
20th of April.
So it's very, fairly recent.
So the title is, Nintendo hacker Gary Bowser released from prison, still owes millions.
Oh God.
Yeah.
Basically, so here's the whole story.
This guy named Gary Bowser was part of a group called Team Executor and they were a mod team.
They would create these little chips that would allow you to mod your pretty much a
prison break.
I think that's what it's called or no jailbreak.
Yeah.
Your switch so it can play pirated games on it.
Right.
And they made millions on this and Gary reportedly from a different report said that he only
made about 300K over like seven years doing this.
He was, he said he had a smaller role than the two main guys, that he was just a marketing
and PR manager.
And of course, Nintendo being Nintendo, they went after the whole team.
Right.
Because they don't want them jailbreaking their Nintendo switch.
Yeah, but God, Nintendo is so fucking ruthless in general.
Nintendo is a brutal man.
You can't mod, you can't promote, you can't stream.
You can't talk about it, you can't look at it, you can't.
And their hardware usually is a, not even like, it's years behind of everything.
Well you've heard that story about the, the Wii, whenever they got that, whenever they
first made it, it was just, whenever they, when they sent the stuff to developers, it
was only a modified GameCube.
The Wii was just barely a GameCube?
Yes.
It was a modified GameCube.
They didn't even have the hardware of the Wii when they sent it to developers.
Oh, that's fucking stupid.
It was a concept of the Wii.
It didn't have wireless controllers.
It had wired controllers at the time.
It didn't have, it was literally, it had GameCube controller plugins inputs for the developers
to use.
And if you have an original Wii from whenever it first came out from Japan, underneath the
outside cover on the top, if you take it off, it's got GameCube controller inputs.
Oh, that's why that was there.
Okay.
I wonder what the shit that, what that fucking stuff was.
They were GameCube inputs.
So Nintendo's its own.
Nintendo don't give a fuck though.
No they don't.
They got so much money coming out of Pokemon.
Pretty much.
They're like, oh, whatever.
I'm somewhere behind.
We're still winning.
I mean, it's like with Konami, isn't it?
Yu-Gi-Oh for Konami.
I think, yeah.
Cause in the back it says Konami.
Like they're still making money off of that.
Yeah.
So, okay, so the Nintendo came down on the entire team.
Right.
And let me go through this article here.
Where's the part?
So back in, this happened back in 2020.
So three years ago, Bowser, Gary Bowser, like of all the names you could be named and of
all the games you could be monetized or, you know, systems you could be messing with.
It had to be the one with the actual mascot.
So that's probably another reason they went after him.
Or his asshole open cause his name was Bowser.
But I had to change his name.
Yeah.
Like I said, that's probably why they went after him.
It's like, oh, he's got the last name too.
Huh?
Okay.
So I'm about to sue him for his name.
Jesus.
That's what I'm saying is ruthless as Nintendo is.
So he was indicted along with Max.
I'm a butch.
He bought these names.
Match Luron and Yao Ning Chen.
They were part of the, he said that they were the main guys.
Right.
And but they couldn't get either of them.
Bowser was the only one that was indicted or convicted.
Right.
Chen was a Chinese national so they never arrested him.
And Luron was, it wasn't extradited to the US.
So they just got Bowser.
He was charged with 11 felonies.
Fuck.
Including wire fraud, conspiracy to circumvent technological measures, trafficking and circumvention
devices and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
But he only pleaded guilty to two of them.
But money laundering?
I don't know.
I don't know what that, I guess because you're getting money off of illegal goods.
But hey man, I don't work for Nintendo.
Damn.
They like, they went after him hardcore, didn't they?
They sentenced him at first to a $4.5 million fine.
Oh my God.
Then later they added an additional $10 million fine plus 40 years in jail.
No, no, sorry.
40 months in prison.
Did I say 40 years in jail?
Fuck.
They're really, it's like they wanted to lock Bowser up.
Here's my thing, right?
Either find me an unbelievable amount of money or put me in prison.
Don't do me both.
Don't do me, don't do me on either, both sides.
And you said a 40 month?
They gave him the split roast.
Jesus.
A 40 month stint?
Yeah.
But he got, he got out early for a good behavior.
Good behavior.
And I keep my head down if I don't.
40 months, so that's almost three and a half years.
So that's, he got, he barely got out earlier this year, I think.
So he pretty much just did his little stints anyway.
So now, so he owes him $14.5 million.
You're never going to pay that off.
And in prison, he had a job at the library, the prison library.
He was making like enough money to pay him back and he paid him back $175.
They're never going to get that money.
They don't want, they don't give a damn about the money.
No.
It's all about the message.
It's like, it's like Joker.
It's not about the money.
It's about the, what did he say?
What did he say when he had all that pile of money?
He said it.
You're talking about the pile that he burned?
Yeah.
It's not about the money.
It's about sending a message or something like that.
Yeah.
That's pretty much, that's pretty much Nintendo.
God, that's, you know, you probably don't know who he is, but Alex Jones.
Yeah.
He, they were trying to take him to court at one point earlier this year, I believe,
but they, the court ruled against him for billions.
Amen.
Like, bro, he ain't got no money.
How the fuck?
He paid more, like they ruled more against him and that than like Pfizer even got.
It's like, how the hell?
Amen.
I give me something.
You got to hit him hard.
I guess.
Unless you're Bill Gates.
Even Bill Gates would be like pulling on his fucking, God on his collar, like, God, thanks.
You got Elon.
He's like, damn, that's a lot of money.
The worst part is, okay, okay.
So he owes him money.
Right.
And he knows he's never going to be able to pay it off.
And he's out of jail now.
He's got to find a job.
They are now, they're allowed to deduct from his paychecks, 25 to 30% every month on top
of taxes.
God.
That's almost like having a fucking kid.
Not even having a kid.
So he's like, his life is done.
And it's in perpetuity until he pays it off.
Right.
God, I hope not.
If Nintendo goes after their kids too, how brutal would that be?
Say, well, your dad's dead, but guess what?
Nintendo's here.
God.
So that's, that's his math.
Like he's going to have to start working under the tables at some like.
Well, that's the only way, that's the only thing he's going to do.
Yeah.
To make some extra money for himself because.
I'm not going to come down on him for that because.
God, Nintendo just.
So yeah.
So basically you got the 25, 30% being taken, right?
Yeah.
Plus whatever taxes is, which is usually another 25 to 30%.
So you're losing half your paycheck that you already made.
More than fucking half.
Yeah.
Like 55, 60 almost.
Yeah.
So you're like, that's like.
And if you're working on like McDonald's or something.
Shit.
Like 57 hour shifts.
Cause he's what?
Got a felony at this point.
Oh yeah.
He's a felon.
So.
Like 11 of them.
So I mean, unless you got like a, some kind of connection to work at a big company.
Yeah.
So you're fucked.
Where you can like make a decent amount of money that it's not that big of a, but I mean,
I mean, how do you tell your kids like, Hey, you guys wanted a Nintendo switch for Christmas?
Well, yeah, I can't afford one now.
You know for a fact, he's never going to buy that shit.
Hey man, Mario games are still good.
We pirate in.
You better not.
I don't want to fuck them over in the first place.
He'll go, he'll buy one of those emulators.
The one I'm mad about is that the other two guys.
They're never ex, they were never extradited.
They're scot-free.
Cause they're Chinese nationals.
I would be fucking pissed.
Oh yeah.
It reminds me of my cousin and all his friends went out to some, uh, backwoods out in the
city to go to see them gone in town and they, they stopped at, they got lost.
So they stopped at this like abandoned gas station and this 16 year old was like, man,
I'm gonna kick this door in.
He kicks the gas station door in, right?
Then the fucking police roll up and arrest everybody, but the guy that kicked the door
in cause he was underage.
I was like, it's basically that.
So Gary, Gary Bowser is just getting raked over pretty much.
Yeah.
Well, let's be fair.
The people that live in China probably don't have much better with just Chinese in general.
Man.
And if that was his meme, uh, well, hang on.
I'll take that back.
If China finds out that they were pirating stuff from other countries and we're on the
internet when they weren't supposed to be, they might have it worse than Bowser.
Hey man, you never see these people again.
Sometimes that's what I'm saying.
They may have not been extradited, but God bless America.
Or you just owe money, but not your life.
Yeah, brother still be at least at least see if I'm alive, right?
Like I'm broke.
I got a shitty apartment, but I can go see the Mario movie.
Well, I'm sorry, Gary Bowser.
We're laughing at you.
But come on, man.
What were you thinking?
You can't go, but you can't go over against Nintendo or Disney.
All like those two.
Yeah.
Those two you do.
Oh my God.
Be funny.
It would have made it worse if he was, uh, pirating Disney games on the Nintendo switch
and I both fucked him up.
I read it in Mickey Mouse.
Yeah.
They would have tore his asshole open.
Winnie the Pooh since they make so much money.
God, Winnie the Pooh is like number two under Pokemon.
God, I forgot how much, like $72 billion.
I know.
Fucking Winnie the Pooh.
And uh, does he at least get free tickets out of the Mario movie now?
He's paid him already.
Probably not.
He's probably barred from going to see him.
Like the one movie he can't see.
I heard that movie is fucking galled.
I wish I didn't work seven days a week.
I go see it.
You'd be like, I'd be star like, he's my hero, bro.
I'm short.
He's short.
Mario.
He's a man.
So, uh, it reminds me of a meme.
How cold Nintendo is.
I don't know if the story, like, it could have just been a made up story.
This little kid, uh, well it is a made up story.
I don't know if the, like what the kid did is real.
I know the part of the Nintendo didn't happen.
There was no way.
But it was saying this little kid, you know, from a poor family really wanted a Nintendo
Switch.
That was his only dream.
So he decided to make one and a cardboard for himself.
Right?
That was, that was like the first panel to the meme.
Yeah.
And then like on the, and I'm like, and Nintendo saw this was what it said next.
And they sued, they sued him for intellectual property or something.
Was the meme at the bottom.
You know, to be honest, I would not doubt it.
I could see Nintendo doing that.
Like that's like a type of story where you see like the kid that gets a Nintendo from
a Nintendo, like they gave him a Switch, but the opposite them doing that in which more
believable than the other one.
They're so well known for suing for stupid shit.
Well, I guess if we get sued, you want to see this fucking video.
Well, it's almost like, have you heard that story about monster?
No.
Where monster is suing.
I kind of started swearing.
I forgot.
I'm trying to cut down on swearing.
He's trying to make himself a swear jar.
You were saying?
Monster energy is suing a game on steam, I believe that has the name monster in it.
Why?
They don't own the word monster.
Well, they're trying to sue because they think that they do.
Well, they're going to find out.
Apparently they've sued a lot of people.
Really?
Multiple times trying to like cease and desist letters and stuff like that.
It says change the names of stuff because it says monster.
Then like monster ink like crack their knuckles like come get it then.
But apparently they've done it a lot.
And every time for the most part, it's like the judges, I'm assuming it's like, are you dumb?
Like you can't own the word monster.
He just looks at the monster lawyer.
It's like, are you guys dumb?
Well, they there the game was called Phoenix Rising, I believe, or something like that, where it's gods and monsters or something like that.
But the word monster like bro, go for well, companies will do anything nowadays.
You know, if it was Nintendo, they would probably win.
Sadly, they make Japan a lot of money, though.
So, man, if Nintendo and Disney make a partnership, right?
Oh, don't even.
They'll be they'll be more powerful than the United States government.
Yeah, yeah.
They would be a dystopian country or world where corporations rule.
Ever since ever since the Nintendo Disney merger, the world was a waste.
It became a wasteland.
Like Disney bought out.
What have they bought out Marvel?
They bought out.
Yeah, they're like, we can't make good movies.
Hey, what you guys got?
Exactly.
They bought Pixar.
They bought.
What you guys got?
Like, literally, that's what they do.
They buy out other companies.
If we can't do, we'll buy.
Pretty much.
That's their motto.
And fuck everything up that they make after.
Like all the remakes and stuff.
It's funny that they lost the rights to Winnie the Pooh.
So that Winnie the Pooh horror movie came out.
I swear, I think it's called Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey.
It is.
OK, I thought so.
Just just call it Xi Jinping.
He won't like that.
That's fine.
He looks like Winnie the Pooh.
So that's cool.
You guys never see us again.
Xi Jinping sent somebody for it.
Imagine if he was just like these motherfuckers.
Some obscure ass podcatcher just fucking ruined his day.
It just piss them off for no reason.
Man, I can't imagine.
Like we're new to this, right?
Being on a public platform.
We've never had heat with anybody, but I can't imagine
what it would be like.
It would be fun.
You think?
I think so.
Guess we'll find out.
Just know that whatever I say on this podcast, I will tell you to your face.
It's full.
It's not the big deal.
Just put me in a room with him.
I would.
I would look him in the eye and say, Hey, Winnie, how are you doing?
Like a potty.
Like a shot.
Guess we'll find out.
But that's it.
This guy's life is officially in the moral of the day.
If you're going to pirate stuff, do not pirate.
Do not steal from Nintendo.
Do not look Nintendo in the eye.
Do not whisper its name three times in front of a mirror.
We'll see for that.
Nintendo.
That right there.
That's right there.
If I ruin the video.
Nintendo.
We're gonna knock on the door.
And it's just like a fucking the guy that gives you the cards.
I just like, who, who, who you go.
Moral of the day.
Don't don't fuck with Nintendo or Disney.
Pretty much.
Especially Disney.
I think out of the conversation, it's like, it's sad that Nintendo is this bad, but Disney's worse.
Yeah.
I can't even imagine what Mickey Mouse does behind closed doors.
Well, for Disney, I remember that they sued.
There was a dude that was making Loki shirts, but not Marvel.
Like the mythical.
They were trying to sue saying that they own the word Loki.
You don't own a mythology.
They watch and watch and watch them own it.
I think they lost that one.
They did lose that one.
They go, they buy Norway.
And you can't use it now.
We own Sweden, Norway, all the Nordic countries.
We win.
We win again.
Man, can't imagine.
The only place they can't win is Florida right now.
They cannot win that one yet.
They tried a few fights, but they're getting, they're getting trunched.
I'm just happy to see the big company like Disney and I want to see Nintendo lose at least one.
One time.
Just one.
Hey man, we were pretty persistent.
Maybe they'll lose us.
It's just one time for the people.
And if I ever get sued by Nintendo, you can guarantee I'm a come in looking like Mario.
Wahoo.
Just like War, War Luigi.
Yeah.
Come in there like Princess Peach.
Do anything just to get under their skin.
Just to piss it off.
I piss them off and make the news at the same time.
Yeah.
It's game on.
Literally.
So that's it.
That's everything for today.
You guys see us on the news.
You'll know why.
We're getting sued.
We're getting a shit suit out of us by Nintendo.
But we'll see you guys on the next one.
Bye.