Tetris Saloon (Day 3384 - 3/1/19)

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The vlog starts out with Stephen talking about how they got some things in the mail and that they were going to open them outside of VlogMail. Stephen says that one thing that they get regularly in the mail is Oprah magazines. Mallory said that those magazines were a free T-Mobile thing. Stephen said that they received a vertigo survival kit from Paula, Brian, and family who are patrons on Patreon. The survival kit consists foods that help with an upset stomach, some for dizziness, and they also sent some dark chocolate sunflower seed butter cups for Mal since Mal is allergic to peanuts. Stephen mentions that they also sent some Lemonheads which is one of Stephen's favorite candies and he says that he really likes that there are a lot of them in a single box.

Mal said that a watercolor painting of a blue jay painted by Paula and Brian's daughter was also in the package and she had already hung it up on the wall. Stephen says that blue jays are one of his favorite birds and that they don't see them often. Mal interrupts him and says that they do see them often and that she sees them once a week. Stephen disagrees saying that he looks out the window all the time and all he sees are wrens. Mal says that they also see a lot of tufted titmouses and that they are cute because they have a little spike on the top of their heads. Stephen mentions that Paula, Brian, and family also sent a package for Stephen's parents ,so Stephen and Mal went to give it to them. He says that his parents don't always want to be on the vlog especially when it's late and they are already dressed to go to bed.

Stephen then says that he also wants to thank Calvin and Bich (patrons on Patreon) for the package they sent back in December that also included a package for his parents. The package for Stephen's parents consisted of a taco shell holder. Stephen said that at one point on the vlog they were eating at a Mexican restaurant with his parents and he mentioned that his parents didn't have a way to hold their taco shells when making tacos at home. So, Calvin and Bich ended up finding it online and sent it to Stephen's parents. Stephen says that his parents have been using the taco shell holder very often. He says that before they had the taco shell holder, his parents used to make a taco shell holder out of tin foil which fell apart every time they made tacos.

Stephen then talks about the discussion he and Mal had on Breakfast Stream the other day about Team Hard Drop vs. Team Soft Drop and Tetris 99. They also discussed about wanting to play Puyo Puyo Tetris on stream and directly compete against each other. Stephen says playing Tetris 99 involves competing against the whole world and it has variables that are constantly changing like people attacking you by sending you blocks. So Stephen says that in order to find the true "Tetris Master", they have to battle each other. Stephen mentions that someone named Patrick Tracey sent them 2 copies of Puyo Puyo Tetris. He said that they were probably going to practice on their own first and then play the versus mode for the first time on stream. Stephen then says to Mal "Let's see how well your soft drops do against hard drop man!" while pointing at himself. Stephen then says that they have working really hard to prepare content for when they have to go on their trip in April. He thanks all the Patreon Producers and runs the Patreon ticker where all the names scroll by at the bottom of the video.

Stephen then talks about how he had originally wanted to make an April Fools video or some other kind of video to announce the international trip that they were taking in April. However, they have been so busy preparing for the trip that he doesn't have time to make that kind of video. Stephen says that this is going to be their first international trip since last year when they went on a trip to Canada. Stephen and Mal then discuss with each other about international trips they have taken. Mal says they were in Ensenada for a short amount of time. Stephen said that they were only there for a cruise, so ti wasn't really a trip. He said that he was thinking about the trip where they went to Greece. Stephen then says that they also only went to Canada for Make-A-Wish for a short amount of time, so that also wasn't really a trip.

Mal then says that she is trying to figure out whether their trip to Japan was before their trip to Greece 4 years ago or not. She then remembers that they have travel albums for each of their trips and takes them out. The album titles show that they went to Ireland in 2013, Greece in 2015, Japan in 2016, and Arizona in 2017. Stephen then sarcastically says "Oh Arizona! That was the last "international" trip we took. Good ol' Arizona!". He then says that Japan was the last international trip they went on based on the dates on the travel albums. Stephen says since they were going on the trip in April, he was worried when he suddenly got vertigo. He was worried whether or not he would be alright to ride on a plane. But, he says that he is feeling well enough to ride a plane now, so in a month he should be feeling even better. He said that the ENT told him that he should be fine to ride a plane.

Stephen then films Mal holding Sagan. He then says that both he and Mal have seen how much people have liked the Kit-Kat Challenge based on reading the comments. So, they decided to include a bonus Kit Kat that wasn't a part of the 45th Anniversary Kit Kat Box. Stephen says that the bonus Kit Kat is a Tokyo Banana Kit Kat. He says that this box of Kit Kats was also sent in by a patron on Patreon named FoSxDream who also sent them the 45 Anniversary Kit Kat Box. Stephen mentions how it is strange that text on the Kit Kat wrapper is presented vertically instead of horizontally.

Kit Kat Flavor Tried:  Tokyo Banana Kit Kat

Stephen said that the Kit Kat only smelled slightly of banana. They both ate the Kit Kat and said that the banana flavor is really strong. Stephen said that he kind of likes it. Mal says that she likes it, but it's because she likes banana flavored things. While, Stephen doesn't like banana flavored things. Mal said that she knows he doesn't like banana flavored things because she always gets to have all the banana runts, which is great, whenever they have a quarter and use it to get runts from the small red candy vending machines. Mal says to get a significant other that likes the opposite kind of food flavors that you do. Stephen says that he eats bananas. Mal agrees and says that he eats a lot of real bananas. Stephen says that he just doesn't like the artificial banana flavor. He mentions how there is a whole history about why we don't have bananas from 100 years ago.

Stephen then says that something about the banana flavor combined with chocolate made the Kit Kat taste good. Mal said that it's because chocolate and bananas go well together like in chocolate covered bananas. Stephen then says that he has never tried a chocolate banana before. Mal then mentions Chunky Monkey ice cream. Stephen replies asks what Chunky Monkey ice cream is which Mal tells him is an ice cream that consists of a combination of chocolate and banana. Stephen then talks about how he is definitely going to beat Mal in Puyo Puyo Tetris during the versus stream and convince Mal to learn "hard drops". He then says that the alternative scenario is that Mal learns T-spins and completely beats him at Tetris to the point where he can never show is face in another "Tetris Saloon" ever again.