ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Local gamer and ‘Fallout’ player Jeffrey O’Toole has found a new way to bond with his grandfather Brian via their shared taste in music, which is exactly alike, confirmed sources.
“It’s been great to find something we both love,” O’Toole offered in a statement to the press. “I feel like for most of my life we never really connected very much. But then I started playing games like Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4, and I got so hooked on their soundtracks. Music was just better back in the 50’s and 60’s, man, I tell ya. When Pop Pop found out that I like to listen to tracks like The Wanderer, I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire, Big Iron, and even Mr. Sandman, well, he just had a big ol’ smile on his face the likes of which I’d never seen before. He started talking to me about where he heard each of them for the first time. It was…really nice. Sorry, I’m uh, just getting a little emotional thinking about it.”
When approached for comment, O’Toole’s grandfather Brian had the following to say about his newfound connection with his grandson:
“Ya know, for a long time, I just wrote those darn game thingies off. Bunch of malarkey, if you asked me. But when Jeffrey told me they’d been introducing him to some of the greats, like Bobby Darrin and Nat King Cole, I thought to myself ‘I suppose it ain’t all bad.’ Those songs were the soundtrack to some of the best moments of my life: kissing Susie Jenkins in the Oldsmobile after prom, a big ol’ fudge sundae down at the malt shop…boy howdy, listen to me ramblin’ now. Well, anyways, we sat down on the couch at my daughter’s house and Jeffrey showed me these new-fangled things. I must say, I did enjoy the big suit of armor. It was pretty cool.”
Jeffrey’s mother Christine expressed both happiness and bewilderment at the new development in the family.
“Well, first let me just say, I think it’s amazing that my dad and my boy are finally sitting down and having long conversations. It’s just a joy. I just never thought it would be a video game that would do it. Between you and me, though, I always thought those old jazz and pop songs were kind of lame. I’m a classic rock girl – give me Pink Floyd or Zeppelin any day.”
At press time, Jeffrey and Brian were seen laughing together on the couch, genuinely enjoying each other’s company while they watched Walton Goggins gruesomely kill people and forming lifelong memories that will stay with them forever.
