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Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 2 Chaos, Pokémon FOMO & Childhood Tech Nostalgia · My Third Place Pod

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  I want to rock right now. I want to rock right now.
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  It takes 2 to make a thing go right.
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  It takes 2 to get it out of sight, It takes 2.
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  It takes 2. It takes 2.
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  Oh man. Rest in peace.
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  Yeah, anyway, that's how I'm going to start the show.
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  That's how I'm going to start the show.
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  All right, I'm by myself today. It's all good, no worries.
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  Welcome back to my third place. Not home, not work, but that
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  familiar in between where nostalgia stories and late night
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  conversations always seem to find their way back to the
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  porch. Tonight I'm I'm good, I'm
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  alright, I'm by myself, it's all good.
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  I'm just out here hanging on the porch, just chilling by myself.
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  But tonight feels like the last week of school before summer
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  break finally begins. You remember that feeling.
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  The backpacks barely mattered anymore.
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  Teachers were rolling the TV cards into classrooms.
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  Everybody was counting down the date until freedom officially
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  arrived, and every conversation sounded the same.
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  What do you do in the summer? What are you doing?
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  What's going on this summer? What are we doing?
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  Getting laid in the shade. I love when freaking kids used
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  to write that on my yearbook. Have fun this summer.
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  Get laid in the shade. Here's my phone number.
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  Totally forgot about that. You know once late May hit, it's
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  it's done over with. Especially in the 80s, nineties
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  and early 2000s, you can already feel summer waiting around the
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  corner, longer days, bike rides and basketball games until the
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  street lights came on, random late night hangs with your
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  friends and somehow turn into stories you still talk about
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  years later. Me talking about that years
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  later, that feeling like life was about to open up again.
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  That's the energy on the porch tonight, Episode 297.
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  And tonight we've got a solo episode hanging out on the porch
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  together. No giant production, no huge
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  team, just one of those classic pull up a chair, let's talk.
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  Kind of nice, kind of like Captain America put in the chair
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  of Brown and just putting. So we're doing this episode by
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  ourselves. All right, pull up a chair,
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  let's talk. That's all I said.
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  That's I love saying that. These usually end up being some
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  of my favorite episodes. Anyways.
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  Tonight we're diving into the current obsession that's
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  completely taking over stores, wallet, and social media
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  timelines again. Pokémon hunting, the FOMO, the
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  chase, the singles, the feeling of walking into a store hoping
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  today's the day you finally find the product.
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  Everybody else already cleared off the shelves.
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  All the scalpers took. If you ever stood in an aisle
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  debating where to buy or just one more pack, you already know
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  the struggle. That's me, I can't, I can't
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  wait. Just one more pack, I have to
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  buy them all. We're also checking in on Marble
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  Rivals Season 8. How's it going so far?
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  The current vibes around the game, Diving into some devil
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  dinosaur lore, because honestly, that giant red dinosaur deserves
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  more respect. Everybody keeps saying it's
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  stupid, it's dumb. No it's not It's fun, it's
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  absolutely fun. I love it.
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  Door is still my main. RAR the Pod deck questions are
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  back tonight, and these they unlock some childhood memories.
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  What childhood toy gave you PT and Z?
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  Every generation has at least one toy that looked harmless but
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  somehow turned into a full blown hazard the second you touched
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  it. Yeah, and another question that
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  immediately transports you back in time.
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  What was the first piece of tech that made you feel like the
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  coolest person alive? The first Walkman, the first
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  flip phone, the first MP3 player, the giant desktop
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  computer that sounded like it was booting up NASA every time
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  it turned on. That moment where technology
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  suddenly made you feel futuristic.
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  But the bulk of tonight's episode, that belongs to one
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  dungeon crawler. Carl.
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  We're talking about everything from the DIY cars that I made,
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  the graphic novel, finishing up Book 2, recapping the chaos, the
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  emotional damage to ridiculous moments, and unofficial
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  preparing ourselves to head into Book 3.
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  At this point, the series has become part of book club, part
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  therapy session, and part What the hell is happening right now?
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  I'm completely locked in. We're all locked in everybody's
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  locked in. So what are you here for the
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  nostalgia, the Pokémon hunting chaos marble rivals or another
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  trip into the madness of dungeon crawler Carl.
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  Dungeon crawler Carl DCC pull up a chair there's episode 297 M3
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  podcast let's get into it. It is the truth.
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  It is the truth yes yes it is. How was my week been?
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  It's been OK also ended up getting this today.
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  The y'all know what this is right?
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  The orange envelope that I usually get every month, the 92,
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  which is nostalgia by itself already so let's open it up.
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  You don't know the 92 check out the 92 it's a newsletter.
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  It was a newsletter at 1st and then it just became like this
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  whole snail mail project where the guy that invented it said
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  let me send you guys some stuff. And so he did.
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  He started sending you stuff. I got the authentic 1999 and
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  Sync photo card. It's a sticker, by the way.
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  There you go. Where can you guys see it?
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  Like for real? Check out the 92.
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  Here's another sticker. It's a dunkaroo.
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  Another sticker. I'm going to put it on my
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  computer right now in a few after I'm done with this
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  podcast. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to
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  Red Ranger fun All right, here's the 92 gold club mini boxes.
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  The mini fun boxes filled with 90s fun, authentic collectibles,
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  premium merch, nostalgic fun. The gold club is a new quarterly
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  membership option in addition to these envelopes.
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  Go ahead and do the thing right there if you like if you are
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  invested in this already like I am if you if you're if you want
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  to if not, that's fine. Also another sticker.
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  He loves sending stickers. Apparently this one is of a CD
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  compact. This for all those people that
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  don't know what this this way before streaming.
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  So summer break 98 mix. He has Viva forever.
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  I don't know. That is everybody's probably and
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  Backstreet Boys #3 song #3 getting jiggy with it.
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  Song #4 Barbie girl song #5 Iris.
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  Yeah. You know what?
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  I'm gonna add these to my Spotify summer break 98 mix #12
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  Show me love, baby. If you want me, you got to show
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  me love. Heart breaks and promises.
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  She was. I love that song with people
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  forever. Do we know #2 Backstreet back,
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  everybody #3 getting jiggered with it, King jig with it #4 is
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  Barbie girl. I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie
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  world. 5 is Iris. What's that?
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  And I don't want the world to see you.
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  Is that it? I don't fucking remember. 12
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  Show me love. 11 I want you back trying to say I'm sorry, no.
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  Is that In Sync #10 Waterfalls don't go chasing waterfalls.
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  Please stick to the rivers and the that you used to.
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  Number 9 is honey. We all love that honey mix.
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  Mariah Carey #8-A song that we shouldn't be able to singing
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  back then when we were too young.
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  Semi charmed life. Why?
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  Go read the lyrics. Go read the lyrics.
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  Doo Doo, Doo, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo, Doo, Doo Doo #7A song
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  that, you know, got to be made fun of because I sang it back
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  then in high school. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
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  It was by Hanson. They're fucking awesome, dude.
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  I don't know why everybody had a fucking big ass problem and
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  those same people are listening. That made fun of me for
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  listening to Hanson and bop. I'll probably listen to them
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  right now as an adult, you know the kids, you know?
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  Number six, give me one reason. Give me one reason to stay here.
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  Is that it? I went the wrong way, Iris.
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  Number six, give me one reason, give me one reason to stay here
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  #7 Bob #8 semi charmed life #9 honey #10 waterfalls #11 I want
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  you back #12 Show me love. I'm going to add these to.
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  And I'll. Turn right back around.
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  All right, give me one reason to stay here and I'll turn my back
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  around. I'm going to add these to the to
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  the playlist because sure, it's a summer break.
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  See. Even he's all like summer break
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  time. What is this?
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  Barry B Wilde invites you to Squeeze it Summer Bash 97.
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  Squeeze the fun out of it. Remember Squeeze It 6797.
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  Oh hell yeah, save a dollar on any pack.
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  This is hilarious. Remember the summer bashes?
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  Like everybody would go to a Hot 97 summer bash.
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  Whatever, Whatever it was, whatever it was called.
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  I don't understand why this dude decided to send me a picture of
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  Joey Fatone. All right, Sure, why not?
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  That's what I want. I'm going to put him right up
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  there. What?
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  Why do you have a picture of Joy Fatone?
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  Why not? Why not?
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  Is it a picture? Oh, my.
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  It's one of those. It's an actual picture.
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  It's like the ones that you get from the store after you.
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  Yeah, Joey Fatone just chilling in my freaking thing right back
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  there. Whose picture is that?
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  Is Joey Fatone. That would be a poster in a
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  girl's room, probably. Yeah, it would.
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  It would be. That's like one of those, like,
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  why? They're like, so fucking spread
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  apart. I don't want to see this be
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  like, look, look, oh man. What?
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  Throwback crosswords. OK, and it's a whole thing of
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  throwback cross, a crossword puzzle.
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  See if you can guess it without, you know, it's the answers in
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  the back, but still like, you know, try not to look at the
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  answer kind of thing. I'll probably do that later, All
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  right? Like usually, this guy usually
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  has like a pamphlet and I want to read it to you.
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  Why not? We're you 15 minutes in?
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  Just. Pops, might as well.
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  All right, Who cares? The 92 Club, Dear founding
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  member. I've been convinced we 90s kids
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  all share the same childhood. Yeah, we'll do trivia later.
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  We'll do trivia later. It's OK.
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  I'm convinced we 90s kids all share the same childhood.
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  Fact number one, we saw that quicksand would be everywhere.
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  Why? Because something happened to a
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  horse. How dare you?
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  The muted triangle basically in our own backyard.
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  Yeah, things would get lost in our backyard.
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  Stop, drop and roll. A daily occurrence.
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  Bigfoot waiting to snatch us right off our rollerblades.
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  I I'll come back to rollerblades in a few like old our old friend
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  Chucky Fenster. We were afraid of a lot growing
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  up Chucky. Ah, but reading this is proof no
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  matter what creepy crawlers were under our bed.
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  We made it. Long live the 90s.
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  Grant. That's the dude that has the 92.
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  Also check out the 92.com. I'll leave the the link in the
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  show notes. It says here.
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  Oh, the pure magic of trip to the elementary school computer
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  lab. Remember that we happily placed
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  our fingers on this home row keys before dominating Mavis
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  Beacon at 11 words per minute. Oh hell yeah, dude, this is
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  elementary stuff. I forgot all about it.
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  Fun and game. Forgotten fashion.
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  I don't remember any of this. Do you guys do?
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  Do you guys remember any of this snap bracelets?
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  Yes, swatches. Reptar hat.
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  What are these? What are those?
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  I'll put it closer to you. I'm sorry.
• 15:42
  They're butterflies. What are those?
• 15:49
  This is Ninja Turtles headband. That's probably a headband.
• 15:54
  I already know this was just movies from hair clips.
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  Those are hair clips, all right. I already know what this movie
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  is from where the whole outfit is that headbangers, I want to
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  say Adam Sandler, Brandon Fraser and who else?
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  Airheads. Airheads.
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  Airheads. Airheads.
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  I'm sorry. It was, it was not airhead.
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  Steve Buscemi is the third one guy on there.
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  But the fact that, yeah, it's the same, I think I just knew
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  what it was. I just didn't know the name of
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  the movie. But yeah, that's him right there
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  and all that stuff. Best of 90s people.
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  Best of 90s people. Will Smith.
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  Yo Holmes, smell you later. God.
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  French. Bread of Bel Air mills of Joan
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  Hart. Clarissa and Sabrina are
• 17:05
  criminally underrated. Clarissa explains it all and
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  Sabrina, like the reason I watched Sabrina was because I
• 17:11
  watched Clarissa. I knew about Clarissa Robin
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  Williams, a good comedian, even better man and even better
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  nanny. Hello, because we love we love a
• 17:21
  good mist out fire reference in here.
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  Of course. Right.
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  Amanda Bynes bringing in the dancing lobsters.
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  I have no idea what that means. I've only seen one movie of
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  hers, and that's she's the man. Eddie Murphy.
• 17:40
  That's Doctor Ludl to you and me.
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  Yeah, that's fine. And then we have choose one to
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  play forever. Oh, this one we could have
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  freaking played with Greg. Mario Kart 64 versus Double O 7.
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  Which one would you play? Choose to play forever?
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  And on that note, I'm doing this next week.
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  Mario Kart 64 versus Double O 7 by myself.
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  Double O 7 all day, Golden Gun everything with friends.
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  Mario Kart 64, because why not? Where in the world is Carmen San
• 18:24
  Diego? And this is on a computer and a
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  desk. Where in the world is Carmen San
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  Diego versus Kidpix? Which one would you play
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  forever? I'm going to go with Where in
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  the world is Carmen San Diego? I don't know what Kidpix is.
• 18:38
  And finally, Crash Bandicoot versus Pokémon.
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  And that's just Pokémon. It's Pokémon bread on the Game
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  Boy PlayStation. Crash Bandicoot versus Pokémon
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  Red on the Game Boy. I am going to go with Pokémon
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  Red. I love Crash Bandicoot.
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  I played it already, but I'm going to go with what I like.
• 19:07
  Trivia quiz time. All right, so here we go.
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  Question #1 Which network originally aired Dexter's Lab, A
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  Nickelodeon B Cartoon Network or C Disney Channel?
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  Lock in your answers. You ready?
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  Got it in The answer is B Cartoon Network question number
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  2. When playing Pogs, what was the
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  heavy disk called? A.
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  The spiker, B the slammer or C the crush master?
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  I don't even know this because I I only played it once.
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  I know what they were doing. Locked in your answer.
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  You good? You guys ready for the answer?
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  The answer is B the slammer just and my brother lost all his pogs
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  he did. #3 which old school music platform is 100% made-up?
• 20:23
  A lemon drop, B Limewire or C Napster?
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  Who do you think it is? God locked in your answer?
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  Answer is 3 for a lemon drop. I love it.
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  I'm gonna use this for next week when I'm playing with Greg.
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  Awesome. So I'll put these back.
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  I'm taking forever to put these back.
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  We're still in the intro. I love it.
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  No, we're not. No longer in the intro.
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  Joy Fatone. That's crazy.
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  I love. That he's there, I'm going to
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  put him. I'm seriously going to put him
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  as a just because why not? Why not?
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  He deserves to be played. He deserves to be put up.
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  Not every like you, you know, a lot of people are going to say
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  like, my favorite is, you know, Justin Timberlake, JC judges,
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  Lance Bass because I follow him on TikTok, like the only guy
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  that ever followed from **NSYNC that I've been following since
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  2020 since I joined the Players. So yeah, he's one of my
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  favorites on there. Any answers?
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  Usually shows up when I tag him. Usually.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Where are we on this podcast We are on?
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  How was my week? My week was fine.
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  Currently dealing with fucking FOMO right now.
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  I am like I want to go out there, remind me to go back out
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  and come back in through your share later winter load.
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  Oh my goodness, OK, I'm glad I sent it to you with the
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  everything with the FOMO and I get it.
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  I already got these cards. Currently, what's out right now
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  is what's it called? Chaos Rising And like this isn't
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  Chaos Rising, it's the same, but it's Ninja Spinners, the
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  Japanese version, Korean version or Japanese version of it.
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  So two months ago, a month ago I think when it came out, I went
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  and got these only there was like at least fifty of them that
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  I got and I opened them and everything and you know, I got a
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  bunch of hits. I got a bunch of stuff to go
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  with that and then and you know, everything was fine.
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  I just kept saying I was like, I got them first before you guys
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  did everything, you know, like OK, cool.
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  I also got perfect order and I bought them at ETB.
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  I've first ever ETB box and it's probably going to be the last
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  time because you know, I just wanted to see how that was end
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  up getting a bunch of stuff in the ETB box.
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  It's like, you know, I still have a whole box that's not open
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  yet. I want to wait till episode 300
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  so I can open it on live on the episode because that was
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  supposed to be my gift to myself as episode 300 hit.
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  I got a bunch. Of cards though, like, you know,
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  there's these I bought, I got, I bought a whole 30 pack of
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  Japanese ones for Twilight Masquerade and it's fine.
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  You know, that should take care of it.
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  No, And then obviously there's the ones at Walgreens that, you
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  know, the smaller ones and still nothing.
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  So this past few weeks when this past week when chaos rising hits
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  and I'm just like, oh, I want one.
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  I want one because everybody else is like, Oh my gosh, look
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  at this pack, look at these packs, look at these packs.
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  And I'm sitting here like I already got these.
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  Why am I hitting? Why am I getting so much FOMO
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  out of this? Why am I, like so worried?
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  Because there's a different, there's a Japanese version,
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  which nobody usually gets into the American version, which
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  everybody's celebrating over it. And I'm just like, I want to do
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  that. I want to be there.
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  But you know, I can't. I'm looking around.
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  I'm going out there and I'm just like, you know what?
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  No, I'm not going to let it get to me because this Friday,
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  Friday, what happened yesterday, Friday, Dark Abyss, the next one
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  that's coming out in a few June. I believe it's going to come out
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  in June. So I'm going to go get those.
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  I'm not dark Abyss, but the Japanese version of it.
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  And I'm just sitting here like, well, if I can't get chaos
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  rising now, I'm going to go get dark Abyss because it just came
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  out. But I'm just like, no, wait
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  until you have money, then go. Right now just feels like you're
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  doing it because I'm doing it because, you know, other people
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  have this and other people have that.
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  I'm just hitting with the phone just like I just want stuff and
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  I already have stuff. So.
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  It's like getting to me, but same time it's it's working.
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  I'm telling myself calm the hell down, you got this, you're OK.
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  You need to worry about what you have right now.
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  And plus, you know, the reason why I made the the Marvel Rivals
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  cards for the binder is so I don't have to be like, you know,
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  trying to grow, buy something else when I'm doing already
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  something on the side that's DIY.
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  So I, I, you know, I said, OK, let me calm down then.
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  It's fine. It's fine.
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  So no, no Pokémon hunting until a few weeks from now, maybe next
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  weekend, maybe in a few weeks. And then episode 300, of course,
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  I'm going to open up a box that's already out there and
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  it's the Mega Evolution box that which has like 4 or 5 packs in
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  there. Yeah.
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  So, so we're good. We're good on that.
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  We're good. And if there's no hits out of
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  that, it's fine because it still was open on on episode 300.
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  So it's all right. What else?
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  Yeah, I think that's about it. That's how that's how my week
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  went. That's how my week is going.
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  I ended up buying. Oh, so we ended up, I ended up
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  reading the ending of Book 2. I'll talk about that later.
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  Ended up cleaning up, getting another binder because I wanted
• 27:23
  to take out all the cards from all the bulk that I have in here
• 27:27
  and look through them and, you know, some of the artists are in
• 27:31
  there and I'm putting them in, in the binder itself.
• 27:35
  Like new stuff to do with the cars.
• 27:37
  You know, maybe I'll start another binder that has to do
• 27:41
  with, I don't know, my favorite cards.
• 27:47
  Maybe springtime, summertime, summertime, summertime stuff.
• 27:51
  Yeah, that'd be great. OK, let's shift the gears.
• 27:56
  Let's let's get out of Pokémon stuff.
• 27:57
  Let's go, let's go straight into Marvel Rivals.
• 28:00
  Season 8 came out last week. Finally, I bought the bottle
• 28:04
  battle Pass. And not only that, within the
• 28:11
  week, 'cause I had a bunch of gold units leftover already from
• 28:18
  like every week, I end up like putting in $10 worth of gold
• 28:23
  units in the account. So it accumulated up until this
• 28:28
  past week where I'm just like putting in like, all right, let
• 28:32
  me get these. And I bought all the battle
• 28:36
  pass. It's done.
• 28:37
  All the, all the skins are gone. I'm done with the skins.
• 28:41
  I'm done with the pick, the what is the pictures, the gallery
• 28:45
  cards. All I got to do is the blue
• 28:49
  units or the units for the accessories page.
• 28:56
  And we and we all know there's a limit to the blue units.
• 29:00
  So I'm just going to play until it's tell me I can't anymore.
• 29:05
  I can't buy it. Yeah, I'm not for ranking
• 29:14
  placement matches. I did it.
• 29:16
  I ranked up. I'm currently on Gold 1 and I'll
• 29:23
  probably wait until Tuesday because Memorial Day is on
• 29:26
  Monday. And you know how all these high
• 29:30
  school kids and all these kids are at school And some of these
• 29:34
  kids, you know, some of the people I play up against are
• 29:38
  either either have jobs or, or they're in school.
• 29:45
  So I usually do it during the weekdays in the, around the
• 29:49
  afternoon, mornings and afternoons and rank up so that,
• 29:54
  you know, I have that, that, that little chance to get up
• 29:58
  there. And I'm still using White Fox.
• 30:01
  She's amazing. I love her kid.
• 30:03
  I love how she's like I, I don't think I can play anybody else as
• 30:07
  a strategy anymore. They're going to be out soon.
• 30:10
  I know they are going to be out soon.
• 30:12
  That's why I'm trying to climb up again.
• 30:16
  I'm going to still climb. I'm going to still climb.
• 30:20
  So White Fox, I can't play any other strategy because I tried
• 30:25
  playing as with her face, their faces, cloak and dagger, but I
• 30:33
  kept pressing the same buttons as I do for white fox.
• 30:38
  Same with Luna, although when Luna I've it was a little bit
• 30:42
  better because I am, I was like, all right, you know, this is so
• 30:46
  much better. The reason I was playing with
• 30:52
  Luna is because I originally had White Fox.
• 30:57
  There was a another person who was like, you know, can I have
• 31:00
  her, please? I was like.
• 31:03
  Dude, no, let me play with her. Geez, first come, first serve,
• 31:06
  right? You know, blah, blah, we were
• 31:09
  dying and all this other stuff. And then I'm just like, you know
• 31:12
  what? Yeah, let's go.
• 31:13
  Let's switch. So she switched to the white
• 31:16
  fox, I switched to Luna. We we switched back and forth
• 31:20
  and then we just went with it and we won that game.
• 31:22
  It was awesome. It was great.
• 31:27
  What else happened? Also on this battle pass, we
• 31:29
  have a new character. Well, not new for Marvel, but a
• 31:34
  new for me, because I've never met him.
• 31:35
  I've never seen him. He's one of the weirdest.
• 31:40
  Cooler than most unexpectedly wholesome characters and Marvel
• 31:44
  has ever created a giant red Tyrannosaurus Rex named Devil
• 31:47
  Dinosaur. DD for short.
• 31:52
  I'm calling him DDI don't care what anybody says.
• 31:55
  But DD could also mean Daredevil.
• 31:57
  I don't care. DD which one Devil Dinosaur
• 32:06
  Cause it's like, I don't know, there's like a lot of people
• 32:11
  fighting back and forth. Didi does Didi that?
• 32:14
  I was like, why don't you just call him Dino?
• 32:18
  Don't tell me what to do. Who is devil dinosaur?
• 32:25
  Devil Dinosaur first appeared in 1978, created by comic legends
• 32:29
  Jack Kirby and Steve Gerber. And only Jack Kirby could look
• 32:33
  at comics in the late 70s and say, you know what?
• 32:35
  Marvel needs a giant red dinosaur best friend, and it
• 32:40
  worked. Devil Dinosaur comes from a
• 32:42
  version of Verse called Dinosaur World, basically a savage breed
• 32:45
  historic realm where humans and dinosaurs still coexist.
• 32:50
  But this wasn't Jurassic Park displaced with brutal.
• 32:52
  The story goes that Devil Dinosaur was originally a normal
• 32:55
  dinosaur hatchling until a tribe called the Killer Folk attacked
• 32:59
  his family. The fire from the attack mutated
• 33:01
  him, turning his skin bright red, increasing his intelligence
• 33:04
  and making him stronger than the other dinosaurs.
• 33:07
  He. Survived, but barely, and during
• 33:10
  all the cast he met a young bull cave boy named Moon Boy.
• 33:15
  Marvel's version of Tarzan mixed with a caveman inventor crossed
• 33:20
  with a tiny, chaotic sidekick. Moon Boy and Double Dinosaur
• 33:24
  became inseparable. Not owner and pet, not rider and
• 33:27
  mount. Best friends.
• 33:31
  That friendship was the core of the entire character.
• 33:35
  For years. Devil Dinosaur was mostly viewed
• 33:37
  as a weird cult character. Then Marvel started connecting
• 33:40
  him to bigger stories, multiverse adventures, time
• 33:43
  travel, cosmic events, and then we get Moon Girl.
• 33:49
  And. Around that at time and Devil
• 33:51
  Dinosaur became mainstream, he formed a bond with Lunella
• 33:54
  Lafayette. That's who Moon Girl, one of the
• 33:57
  smartest characters in Marvel history, A young genius from New
• 34:01
  York who accidentally swapped minds with Devil Dinosaur
• 34:03
  through Cree technology. That comic exploded in
• 34:07
  popularity. Suddenly, Devil Dinosaur wasn't
• 34:10
  just a weird Kirby creation anymore.
• 34:12
  He became emotional, funny, protective, and surprisingly
• 34:15
  lovable. A giant red murder lizard with
• 34:19
  the soul of the golden retriever.
• 34:23
  So Dinosaur World is a savage prehistoric reality where
• 34:26
  dinosaurs still world the Earth. Primitive tribes fought for
• 34:28
  survival and the evolution never fully progressed the way it did
• 34:32
  in the main Marvel Universe. This wasn't just Earth in the
• 34:36
  past. Marvel later hinted this was
• 34:39
  potentially another dimension, another timeline, part of the
• 34:43
  multipurse itself of which fits perfectly in the Rivals multi
• 34:50
  versal storyline and everything you know.
• 34:53
  The Killer Folk were brutal humanoid tribes that haunted
• 34:56
  dinosaurs, used weapons, control fire, and acted like prehistoric
• 35:01
  Raiders. They're the reason Devil
• 35:03
  Dinosaur became who he is. When Devil was still hassling, a
• 35:07
  killer Folk attacked his family using fire.
• 35:11
  Most dinosaurs fear fire, but Devil survived it.
• 35:14
  The flames mutated him. The fire transformed him from a
• 35:18
  normal predator into a legend. He can spit fire from his mouth.
• 35:25
  Moon Boy wasn't just originally accepted by his own tribe.
• 35:28
  He was smaller than everyone else, different, more curious.
• 35:31
  The tribe viewed him as weak but deviled dinosaur some something
• 35:35
  else. The two became outsiders
• 35:37
  together and over time, Moon Boy protected Devil Devil
• 35:42
  emotionally while Devil protected Moon Boy physically.
• 35:47
  Their relationship became one of the earliest examples of in
• 35:49
  Marvel of found family, loyalty and survival to companionship,
• 35:54
  which is why a long time Marvel fans love these characters their
• 36:00
  their stories actually wholesome as hell.
• 36:05
  Over the years, double dinosaurs started crossing over into time
• 36:08
  travel stories, alternate realities, and cosmic Marvel
• 36:12
  events. Because once Marvel introduced
• 36:14
  multipurge concepts, a giant red dinosaur suddenly became useful
• 36:18
  everywhere he's appeared, alongside the X-Men, Spider Man,
• 36:22
  The Avengers, Moon Girl, and even variant other variants of
• 36:25
  heroes. And because Rivals already
• 36:28
  played with timeline collisions, Devil Dinosaur actually makes a
• 36:30
  ton of sense canonically. So Moon Girl Luna Lafayette is
• 36:38
  considered one of the smartest people in comic history.
• 36:42
  Smart and Tony Stark, Bruce Banner and even Reed Richards in
• 36:46
  some storylines. You can hear it even here on the
• 36:50
  in the in the dialogue in marble Rivals where she says she's
• 36:56
  smart or he says she's smart and somehow her best friend is still
• 37:01
  a dinosaur. So they're bond formed after
• 37:05
  creative ice accidentally linked them together.
• 37:08
  The what made the comic special was the contrast that super
• 37:12
  genius little girl and the giant primal dinosaur brings an
• 37:15
  instinct science and chaos and it was it's that feels very more
• 37:21
  rivals. People underestimate DD the Dino
• 37:28
  because he's a dinosaur. Devil Dinosaur has fought giant
• 37:33
  monsters, survived explosions, tanked futuristic weaponry,
• 37:38
  battle cosmic level dress and visually overpowered and hands
• 37:42
  enemies. He's basically Godzilla in
• 37:43
  Marvel Universe right? He's Hulk level, durable, and
• 37:53
  terrifying momentum. Imagine getting charged by fully
• 37:57
  armored T Rex the size of a bus. Now imagine it's marked.
• 38:01
  That's double dinosaur. He's one of the he's one of the
• 38:10
  best, the most fun characters to use on marble rivals right now.
• 38:17
  He's a vanguard, but everybody like, you know, like it's a fun
• 38:22
  character. And if people had a problem
• 38:24
  with, you know, playing as a vanguard, he has a a dinosaur.
• 38:30
  He's a dinosaur or are he's a vanguard and if people had
• 38:35
  problems playing with Vanguards, they don't know because it's
• 38:39
  like, oh, you're gonna you're gonna play a dinosaur because
• 38:42
  he's so fun. Yeah, go for it.
• 38:43
  It is fun. He has bike grab tail sweeps.
• 38:52
  I love the tail sweep. I can just at the same time as
• 38:55
  just the regular button. That's both times you can do it.
• 39:01
  Roar environmental destruction moon girls for gadgets and
• 39:08
  Stampede rush attack as his old he's.
• 39:11
  Fucking. Amazing he's freaking awesome.
• 39:12
  I love it Potentially his skins. Imagine like savage land skin
• 39:19
  that's already there right Yeah, Mac dinosaur we have that
• 39:24
  already, but imagine a symbiote dinosaur your side on on Jeff.
• 39:31
  Why can't double dinosaur habit? A zombie dinosaur?
• 39:38
  Rare even worse Christmas sweater dinosaur?
• 39:48
  Spider verse inspired variant? Double dinosaur with a spider
• 39:54
  man mask on? Sure, why not or better yet, I'm
• 40:00
  I'm sure they're going to do this.
• 40:01
  I'm sure going to do this because they've done much other
• 40:05
  things as well. Devil dinosaur in the summer
• 40:08
  Summer skin would be him and Jeff dinosaur exact.
• 40:12
  Oh dinosaur, Jeff and then Jeff Dinosaur, yes, but summer skin
• 40:18
  dinosaur with a. Donut around his body and just
• 40:28
  going off with some glasses as well, even though he doesn't
• 40:31
  have ears, but just put some glasses on him and something.
• 40:38
  And yes, like people love weird marble mascots.
• 40:46
  Look at Jeff, look at rocket. It's like, you know what?
• 40:50
  Let's do with the same thing with the Diamond Sword.
• 40:52
  Don't. Ever allow him to twerk?
• 40:56
  No, don't do that. Change his color, change his
• 40:59
  skin so many times, but don't, don't overdo it.
• 41:02
  Don't overdo it like you do with Luna or Psylocke.
• 41:06
  Let him have a little bit like he's already a meme character.
• 41:10
  He's competitive tank and like people pay money for that.
• 41:16
  So yeah, so season. Eight.
• 41:18
  I love it, I'm climbing up the ranks.
• 41:22
  I can't wait for Seaton 8.5 with Cyclops when Cyclops comes back
• 41:25
  when it comes in finally. Eventually I will talk.
• 41:31
  About it when Cyclops gets in there see how he's playing Devil
• 41:35
  dinosaur is fun to play with There was a match where I was
• 41:41
  there is the IT was the what's it called the hydro station the
• 41:47
  best of three and what's it called the the contain.
• 41:56
  I forgot what what they're called but the first one, the
• 42:03
  first match I went 25 and O which was crazy and I even
• 42:08
  questioned it. Are you guys bots?
• 42:10
  Because what is it about and. Like, no they're not.
• 42:17
  Bots. But they're like, you know, they
• 42:19
  got pissed off because they gave me 5 losses in the next round
• 42:24
  and then we lost that match and then like we come, we came back
• 42:28
  in the third round and like went. 35.
• 42:32
  More 37 more, something like that, but it was fun.
• 42:39
  Don't compete against the other dinosaur, Just keep going.
• 42:47
  Keep going after the squishies first and then go after the
• 42:51
  other ones because you know that double dinosaur, the other
• 43:00
  double dinosaur will want all right, I want to fight you, I
• 43:04
  want to fight you. So they're going to go after
• 43:06
  you. Meanwhile, your team is right
• 43:09
  back there fighting him. So while it was five against one
• 43:16
  me versus the other team and me taking them out at 25 and 5 and
• 43:20
  25 and O and then five against. One against.
• 43:25
  From my team against him and they were kicking his ass.
• 43:31
  Some of them there he was doing. Something, something to them.
• 43:34
  But it was fun. It was fun to do, it was fun to
• 43:35
  play. So yeah, that's so far.
• 43:39
  Season 8 is freaking awesome. I love it, even though I'm
• 43:43
  already done with the skins and everything.
• 43:47
  But yeah, I, I can't wait for a seat at 8.5 now.
• 43:50
  Like, I guess I'm not done playing and I can still like
• 43:53
  mess around because I'm still in the, the vampire stuff that I
• 43:59
  want to do to play with everyone with Squirrel Girl.
• 44:02
  So I'm gonna keep doing that one and then I'll come back and tell
• 44:04
  you guys how that one went. All right, let's switch it up.
• 44:10
  Let's do some projects. I asked these questions this
• 44:18
  past week. What childhood toy gave you
• 44:20
  PTSD? That's the fun toys we're
• 44:22
  talking about, the ones that somehow cause pain, fear, chaos,
• 44:26
  or emotional damages growing up. The toys that pinch your fears.
• 44:30
  The toys that pinch your fingers, launch pieces across
• 44:33
  the room, made terrifying noise in the middle of the night, or
• 44:35
  became accidental weapons during playtime.
• 44:39
  Maybe it was stepping on them barefoot.
• 44:42
  Maybe batteries dying made them sound haunted.
• 44:44
  Or maybe 1 bad childhood memory permanently changed how you
• 44:47
  looked at that toy forever. Every kid from the 80s,
• 44:50
  nineties, and her 2000s had at least one toy that felt more
• 44:53
  dangerous than the entertaining. Maybe it's the?
• 44:56
  70s. So what toy gave you childhood
• 45:01
  PTSD? Drop your answers and stories in
• 45:03
  the comments, Liana says. Skip it.
• 45:07
  Because, you know, skip it. Skip it.
• 45:09
  Like try skipping and. I can just imagine.
• 45:13
  Because I've did it, I've done it once too.
• 45:15
  I played with the skip it when like as an adult to see if we're
• 45:19
  like, oh, that's cool game. I used to play when I was Logo,
• 45:23
  so I would do to skip it and then like, Oh yeah, you have to
• 45:26
  have a stamina and be faster and I wasn't fast enough because it
• 45:32
  hit my freaking ankle. Oh man, it was rough.
• 45:38
  So yeah, ankles hurt just seeing them.
• 45:40
  Exactly. They do they do.
• 45:43
  Angie Linderman, 546, said Teddy Ruxpin.
• 45:46
  However, it's spelled Teddy Ruxpin.
• 45:48
  Was it? Doesn't have to hurt you.
• 45:52
  Physically, it doesn't. Have to hurt you physically.
• 45:57
  It can. Haunt you give.
• 45:59
  Give you PTSD emotionally. I know what Teddy Ruspin is.
• 46:04
  I haven't seen one in such a while.
• 46:06
  But the ways I think eyes move and you know it.
• 46:15
  The reason why? There was a.
• 46:17
  Chucky movie that Julie Gammage says Lawn darts and clackers.
• 46:27
  Clackers, I get it. It's the it'll hurt your man.
• 46:38
  It's the long dart that like, why would you?
• 46:42
  Why is that a game? I get the whole thing is to.
• 46:48
  Like is that a bar? We just like have darts and
• 46:52
  throw them in a contained area that.
• 46:56
  Nope. That everybody's.
• 46:57
  Back there behind you and nobody is and there's just a.
• 47:02
  Wall right there. Right.
• 47:04
  Long darts. I just saw what they look like.
• 47:06
  And I'm like, who would do that? Who would just say, hey, this is
• 47:10
  a great idea. Let's have you know cornhole.
• 47:14
  Is that what it's called? Cornhole, where you just throw a
• 47:16
  sack into a hole? Let's do that with lawn darts,
• 47:21
  with darts, but make those lawn darts bigger.
• 47:25
  It's like. Lawn darts are.
• 47:29
  Crazy, diabolical, just wild. Silly little.
• 47:37
  Redhead, says Sky Dancer. It's a small fairy Barbie toy.
• 47:41
  You would pull a string and it would take off flying across the
• 47:43
  room while spinning. This often would hit other
• 47:47
  children or the same child. Oh my God.
• 47:51
  Fucking love it. It would.
• 47:53
  It would hit the other child. Or the same other children as
• 47:55
  well. And it's like if you, if people
• 47:59
  went watching and you were just outside and you did it and it's
• 48:02
  like, like a little helicopter. And then it was just like
• 48:06
  you're, you're like, you aim that way.
• 48:09
  And then it goes that way and hit somebody over the head with
• 48:14
  it, and they're looking at you like, I aim that way.
• 48:18
  I am this other way. Not my fault.
• 48:20
  This whole thing, just gravity, you know?
• 48:25
  So yeah, exactly. Menace says I.
• 48:32
  Say Legos and jacks. Legos late at night, not late at
• 48:42
  night. Like you're walking around and
• 48:46
  barefoot and you step on those suckers Lego bricks, Yeah.
• 48:55
  It's it's not fun. Worse Jax who it has Jax out
• 49:03
  there in the open like that Why what and it and this whole thing
• 49:08
  the Jax one that reminds me so much of home alone when.
• 49:15
  Who's Merb? Harp.
• 49:17
  Who's Harp? Marb they hurt.
• 49:22
  So bad, the tall guy. Marb.
• 49:29
  When Marb sneaks into the window and steps on the stars.
• 49:36
  That's what Jax remind me of every time I see that.
• 49:41
  Oh damn dude. They hurt, they hurt, they hurt.
• 49:45
  It was just like, you know, they hurt, Jane says.
• 49:48
  Clowns. Because why would you?
• 49:53
  Have. Clowns as a toy.
• 49:59
  Why would you have clowns? A toy?
• 50:01
  Yeah, that that that would give you PTSD for real.
• 50:09
  Like but if you grow. Up with.
• 50:12
  Clowns. Then hey, you're a different.
• 50:16
  Person now. Twisted Lady Wolf says Operation
• 50:21
  again. It doesn't have to hurt you
• 50:24
  physically, it can hurt you emotionally.
• 50:27
  In this case Operation what? I used to get porcelain dollars.
• 50:33
  Gift. They freaked me out now.
• 50:39
  Operation is this. I I feel like she's talking
• 50:43
  about when. You mess up on.
• 50:46
  Something and you hear that beep sound.
• 50:50
  Beep beep fucked up. So Nah, yeah, possibly.
• 50:54
  That mayor on Elm Street says I felt using a poker ball and
• 50:59
  never used one again. The poker ball.
• 51:07
  Bad enough we had Pogo sticks. Where we can, just think we can.
• 51:14
  Bounce up and down with them Pogo sticks and like.
• 51:20
  If you were good with a Pogo. Stick.
• 51:21
  You were damn good with a Pogo stick.
• 51:24
  And then your friends came over and they saw they could use the
• 51:27
  Pogo stick too. And then like, how do you do
• 51:29
  this? You only you only bounce once
• 51:32
  and then you fell. Thank you for posting.
• 51:38
  Bad enough there was poker sticks now.
• 51:39
  You want to put a ball? In the middle of a.
• 51:45
  A disc and see if we can like balance no, what's that about
• 51:55
  the? Taylor Family.
• 51:56
  Says this doll right here with his creepy glowing face and
• 51:59
  pitch black room staring straight into your soul.
• 52:01
  Post a picture of a doll and like I I zoomed on it and it's
• 52:07
  like I was never the same again. That was horrible.
• 52:11
  That was rough. Mine nunchucks.
• 52:16
  'Cause I would always play with. Nunchucks.
• 52:20
  And you know. I saw Michelangelo in.
• 52:25
  Ninja Turtles. Play.
• 52:28
  With nunchucks. And I wanted one.
• 52:30
  I ended up using it and it would hurt me instead, physically and
• 52:35
  emotionally because actually it was hard.
• 52:38
  That was rough. There were other toys as well
• 52:42
  that man, it was rough using them.
• 52:50
  The skateboard. Skateboard, roller skates,
• 52:52
  that's what it was. Roller skates.
• 52:54
  No, for roller skates, I'm sorry, I can't.
• 52:56
  I can't roller skate, even as an adult.
• 52:59
  I can't. I tried once.
• 53:02
  I foul a face first. And then, as an adult, I tried.
• 53:08
  Again thinking that I could do it and I fell on my ass.
• 53:14
  It's even worse when. It's one of those rollers case
• 53:17
  where it just like makes a lot of noise like clack clack, clack
• 53:20
  clack clack. It's like, are these even safe?
• 53:23
  No, they're not safe. You really want to learn N
• 53:27
  skating. You should.
• 53:28
  You should definitely like you should I, I know I'm, I can't,
• 53:34
  I'm not, I'm not stable enough. I don't have the right balance
• 53:37
  for it. Skateboards.
• 53:40
  I just say skateboard bike. There's so many.
• 53:46
  Stuff that I fell on off of bikes, roller skates,
• 53:49
  skateboard. Scooters, scooters, scooters.
• 53:55
  Yes, those things. The skin, the scooters, My.
• 54:01
  Goodness, dude. The scooters were bad scooters.
• 54:06
  Especially if you like. People would do tricks on them
• 54:09
  and like, you know, swing them around and everything.
• 54:11
  And then you'd think like, you can do the same thing and it
• 54:14
  caught you on your leg and you're hurt and now you can't
• 54:17
  even perform right. So you just walk home, walk it
• 54:21
  off, walk it off, you're good. It's all good.
• 54:26
  Fucking love it. But I hated scooters.
• 54:29
  Everything about them don't hurt.
• 54:36
  Did I say toys? Toys.
• 54:39
  Dolls? Since they mentioned dolls, I'm
• 54:42
  going to say the the wrestling buddies story time me jumping
• 54:52
  from the couch on to my wrestling buddies and hurting my
• 54:58
  arm, my elbow and my mom playing no yelling at me like taking me
• 55:07
  to the hospital. Oh.
• 55:12
  Shit. Yeah, that was me.
• 55:14
  Hey, story time. Yeah, that wasn't me.
• 55:16
  That wasn't me back in the day. It happened to me.
• 55:19
  I did the thing, and I don't regret it at all.
• 55:26
  Your trauma makes you who you are today.
• 55:30
  Basically, you know everything about everything, about
• 55:34
  everything that's ever been done to you.
• 55:36
  It gives you character. I.
• 55:42
  Once stood in front. Of someone riding a bike and it
• 55:45
  freaking knocked me down and I woke up in my tub.
• 55:55
  I will. I love the fact.
• 55:59
  That Jackass is coming out with a with a final movie and all I
• 56:03
  can think about, I was like, yeah, I remember those times,
• 56:06
  good times. And but I'm just like, we were
• 56:09
  doing that way before they did that when we were kids.
• 56:13
  We were jump jumping into sayings and fought, getting into
• 56:17
  creeks, walking into them and all that other stuff.
• 56:23
  And you know the way before that.
• 56:27
  The skateboard situation, all that stuff, the fact that I
• 56:31
  knocked out and. Woke up in my tub.
• 56:39
  Because I had tire marks all over my body and that's all I
• 56:43
  remember. And then the next day my friend
• 56:46
  told me it's like, yeah, you stood in front of her, fucking
• 56:48
  bike and all. This stuff and.
• 56:51
  Then his friend was the one that knocked me out and he came over
• 56:55
  and he's like, hey man, you OK? I'm sorry.
• 56:57
  It's like, I don't remember dude, don't worry about it.
• 56:59
  It's all like shit, OK, fine. As ever since then he's just
• 57:04
  felt bad. And this was like when I was
• 57:07
  like 8 or 9 or 10 around there, around there around that time.
• 57:12
  I just remember some some things that happened to me while back
• 57:14
  then, which is weird and crazy because I don't usually remember
• 57:17
  things. OK.
• 57:21
  Traumatic event, core memory unlocked.
• 57:24
  Yeah, that's what I meant to say.
• 57:28
  All right. Next question, What was the
• 57:30
  first piece of tech that made you feel like the coolest person
• 57:32
  alive? Before smartphones, Wi-Fi, and
• 57:34
  streaming, there was that one piece of tech that made you feel
• 57:37
  like the coolest person alive. Maybe it was your first Walkman
• 57:41
  portable CD player, Game Boy beeper, flip phone, MP3 player,
• 57:46
  camcorder, family computer, or the giant stereo system in your
• 57:51
  room. Back then, getting a new piece
• 57:53
  of technology felt like unlocking a whole new world.
• 57:56
  You showed off to your friends at school, you carried it
• 57:58
  everywhere and for a moment you felt unstoppable.
• 58:04
  Growing up in the 80s, nineties, early 2.
• 58:06
  Thousand men technology felt exciting in a completely
• 58:09
  different way. Every gadget came with memories
• 58:12
  attached to it. So what was your first piece of
• 58:14
  tech that made you feel like the coolest person alive?
• 58:17
  Drop your answers in the comments.
• 58:21
  Danny R says Game Boy. JD Well, let's let's go back to
• 58:26
  Game Boy. I love the Game Boy.
• 58:27
  I get that like you know that you had a Game Boy and
• 58:31
  everything. It was like the coolest person
• 58:32
  alive. My brother had one and he was
• 58:35
  just like, every time I need new batteries, I need new batteries,
• 58:39
  I need new batteries. I'm just like, dude, mom, why'd
• 58:43
  you buy him that? Batteries cost a lot, like back
• 58:48
  then. JDJDJ today, today, today,
• 58:52
  whichever. JD Nano baby.
• 58:59
  This. I want to say it was like the
• 59:05
  Tamagotchi, but it was like, if you can take care of a pet
• 59:09
  Tamagotchi, like a little pet thing, then hey, yeah, you're
• 59:13
  cool, you're good. But they went ahead and said
• 59:16
  let's see if we can take care of a baby and then parents.
• 59:33
  My baby died, are you? Fucking kidding me.
• 59:36
  What? My nano baby died.
• 59:40
  I was like, can you please tell us that instead of just the
• 59:42
  baby? Because I gotta go feed my baby.
• 59:47
  Hold on. I gotta give her some some
• 59:49
  stuff. I gotta play with my baby.
• 59:51
  I'm like, are you kidding me with this whole thing with the
• 59:54
  normal baby and. Yeah, it was fun.
• 59:57
  For them and but I don't think it was like this how you become
• 1:00:01
  parents, you know, you practice doing this.
• 1:00:04
  No, that wasn't even the case. They had to.
• 1:00:08
  Reset and everything. Do they still sell this?
• 1:00:13
  I don't even know. Pause 19711-A spell checker.
• 1:00:20
  Hell yeah, why not? And I think I know which spell
• 1:00:24
  checker they're talking about. Fracture.
• 1:00:34
  Fracture. In in red, I don't know what it
• 1:00:37
  says. It is a lot of words in there.
• 1:00:39
  FWR forward Ray Turing SD back phone in my car.
• 1:00:47
  OK, Durst responder says Atari and Walkman.
• 1:00:52
  That is Atari. That's that's old school tech
• 1:00:58
  right there. Walkman also he loved me doing
• 1:01:02
  he loved me a Walkman, Jason Baxter says a Motorola pager.
• 1:01:08
  Yes, the pager. The pager was fun.
• 1:01:14
  You know how? Old these people.
• 1:01:15
  Are once you like realize that their first stuff is this user
• 1:01:20
  6074329198470 says Sega Genesis. Oh yeah, Trish says.
• 1:01:31
  Motorola Flip phone made me feel like I was on Star Trek.
• 1:01:36
  Now early 2000s. Awesome blue stitching this man
• 1:01:41
  better than a Walkman. It was for CD's.
• 1:01:45
  But can you record on? That CD's, ma'am.
• 1:01:50
  Can you? Can you?
• 1:01:52
  Record on those C DS. No, no, you can't.
• 1:01:55
  So it's not better than a Walkman.
• 1:01:57
  With the Walkman, you know what I did?
• 1:02:00
  You know, you want to know what I did?
• 1:02:02
  I listened to my cassettes. And I paused it.
• 1:02:08
  Rewinded it, changed it to the other side when my.
• 1:02:13
  Favorite song was. Some of my favorite songs.
• 1:02:17
  And then, you know, if you have blank cassettes, you know, you
• 1:02:21
  could record you and your friends having fun talking to
• 1:02:23
  each other and doing all kinds of crazy stuff and then singing
• 1:02:27
  to OVP. Yeah, you know me.
• 1:02:33
  Yeah, can you're. Just men do that.
• 1:02:37
  Can it can't. Can it like record you and your
• 1:02:40
  friends having fun? No, it can't.
• 1:02:42
  No. So it was never better than a
• 1:02:46
  Walkman. Two.
• 1:02:47
  There are four, no. I love you guys, you tell.
• 1:02:53
  Him, I'm telling him right now, Miss Mr. Silly Juice, Mr. Silly
• 1:02:58
  Juice says my first boom box. Hell yeah.
• 1:03:01
  Walking around with that saying on your Eagle M13 Walkman.
• 1:03:07
  See. Not just me.
• 1:03:10
  Packers Fan Medic 3. 610 anyway. I did that.
• 1:03:17
  Me and my friend Jessica. Recorded it yourself doing all
• 1:03:20
  the time. Yes, it's me, Jessica Eagle, M13
• 1:03:25
  Walkman Packers fanatic. I guess I have no idea what this
• 1:03:28
  is. I'm about to look it up.
• 1:03:32
  It's called the A. NSQS 26 CX sonar I was trained
• 1:03:38
  to use and worked on in the Navy so.
• 1:03:44
  This guy didn't have anything. Until he became an adult.
• 1:03:49
  Oh. Damn.
• 1:03:51
  And it was just a solar, so it was like a.
• 1:03:56
  Bad boy. Freaking adult tech that is.
• 1:04:06
  I love that. That's that's awesome.
• 1:04:10
  Good on you. On with the Navy stuff.
• 1:04:13
  Victoria C4 my calculator I get people saying.
• 1:04:22
  Lol. At the end of these comments,
• 1:04:26
  because you know, it's silly, ha ha.
• 1:04:31
  But it's the. Right answer.
• 1:04:33
  You're doing fine. You you.
• 1:04:35
  Yeah, I know it's silly, but you know, here's my calculator.
• 1:04:40
  Yeah, that's what I was trying to ask.
• 1:04:43
  What was your first tech that you ever used being your life?
• 1:04:46
  Your calculator. Awesome.
• 1:04:50
  On your phone or? Real calculator, you know, that
• 1:04:55
  would have been great to know, Nikki.
• 1:04:57
  Handheld satellite TVI. Would bring in my backpack and.
• 1:05:03
  Watch literally anything it picked up in class.
• 1:05:05
  Lots of Jenny Jones, that's one. 90s That's the 90s, that's the
• 1:05:12
  90s right there because there's. When was Jenny Jones handheld
• 1:05:22
  satellite TV? That was an Emerson ET 707,007
• 1:05:34
  inch portable TV. Yeah, those, those were.
• 1:05:39
  Expensive back then, now it's just.
• 1:05:43
  Like $70 you. Can buy them.
• 1:05:54
  But yeah, watching Jenny Jones for.
• 1:05:55
  That it was an after school show for sure.
• 1:05:57
  Yeah. I'm thinking you know what they
• 1:06:00
  were probably. Watching recap episodes.
• 1:06:06
  Re not recap repeat 'cause they would, they would play repeat of
• 1:06:12
  Jerry Springer during the daytime of the night before.
• 1:06:16
  Like anything, you know, Ricki Lake, the the, the, the BIG4
• 1:06:22
  back then, Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones, Jerry Springer and Maury.
• 1:06:26
  Or was it Maury or was it the other guy?
• 1:06:32
  It was Maury and we're. Back when Maury.
• 1:06:36
  Didn't just do paternity test but like actual actual stuff.
• 1:06:42
  Yeah, Ralph says. My record player, it was Maury.
• 1:06:46
  OK, yeah, record player. That's great, Bone Man 88 says.
• 1:06:51
  I remember as a kid when the Game Boy Advance came out and I
• 1:06:54
  was the first in my friend group who had one.
• 1:06:56
  It was Arctic white. My friends still had Game Boy
• 1:06:59
  colors for another week or so. I felt very superior.
• 1:07:03
  The advance was just. Fucking.
• 1:07:07
  Hell, I love it. Oh, you have a Game Boy.
• 1:07:11
  What kind is it? Game Boy Color.
• 1:07:12
  It has color. Well, mine's a Game Boy Advanced
• 1:07:16
  Boy. You know what that one does?
• 1:07:22
  That's the flip phone. That's the flip phone.
• 1:07:27
  Version of the freaking Game Boy where like the Game Boy was just
• 1:07:31
  this and then you had a color this color the screen was
• 1:07:33
  colorful. You got to see like actual color
• 1:07:37
  like having a color TV now. No, the Game Boy advanced like
• 1:07:42
  hold my phone. Hello, that's a flip phone
• 1:07:48
  released in intent by Nintendo in 2001.
• 1:07:51
  Known for its rich library games, ergonomic horizontal
• 1:07:54
  layout, and backward compatibility with earlier Game
• 1:07:57
  Boy titles, it remains highly popular today for both
• 1:07:59
  collectors and, yeah, that one. Meanwhile, Game Boy Color people
• 1:08:06
  get to play with the game board Color games, while Advance gets
• 1:08:10
  to play with anything that came before it.
• 1:08:15
  Yes, ma'am, Yes. Sir.
• 1:08:23
  I love this and he's very superior.
• 1:08:30
  Redneck trans dude says Walkman. Hell yeah, Walkman.
• 1:08:37
  Oh, first computer class. Available in high high school,
• 1:08:42
  first computer class Yeah, so. Did you not have computers?
• 1:08:48
  In junior high or? Was just like, hey, we have.
• 1:08:54
  Ourselves a computer technology. Yay.
• 1:08:56
  High school, Jen. A disc player.
• 1:08:59
  That's great. Cockter and balls.
• 1:09:01
  Palm Pilot. Fox, the TCG.
• 1:09:06
  Hunter we he's one of those Pokémon TCG guys that's great
• 1:09:12
  and Nintendo Entertainment System awesome.
• 1:09:15
  Joel Areano, my OGNES system great.
• 1:09:18
  Heather Jane Sega Game Gear again that that's.
• 1:09:23
  The the equivalent. Of a game Go Boy Advance, Jane
• 1:09:28
  says, getting my hands on the Nintendo game and watch Donkey
• 1:09:31
  Kong Junior after one of my older siblings.
• 1:09:34
  Oh, we love a good Hockey Kong game.
• 1:09:37
  Yes, love it. Voted for me and you my.
• 1:09:42
  Little professor calculator Leanna says, though talking with
• 1:09:47
  kid, It was a good computer game that you had to put cardboard
• 1:09:50
  cards in to play the game. It was so popular because I had
• 1:09:53
  it until one of my competitors. Until one of.
• 1:10:01
  Her what? Was it called?
• 1:10:05
  Frenemies. Are we saying frenemies?
• 1:10:10
  It was so popular because I had it up.
• 1:10:11
  Until one of my frenemies had to be better than everyone else.
• 1:10:15
  Friends mom got her a real computer.
• 1:10:19
  What was her name do? You remember her name?
• 1:10:26
  Say her name. Say it.
• 1:10:29
  Mandy. Fuck.
• 1:10:30
  Mandy. Well, Mandy.
• 1:10:37
  Your spoiled rich ass. Luck, Mandy.
• 1:10:42
  Nobody likes a spoiled girl, OK, Mandy?
• 1:10:46
  No, no, Mandy, we don't. Nobody likes a spoiled girl.
• 1:10:48
  You, you go buy your own stuff. Go I.
• 1:10:54
  Want it too? No, and it's not.
• 1:10:56
  It's never going to work out like that.
• 1:10:59
  I hope, Mandy, I hope you get hit with karma one day.
• 1:11:02
  And if you have kids, I hope they'll be like I wanted to.
• 1:11:05
  I got restricted. Fucking love it.
• 1:11:11
  I love it. I knew it.
• 1:11:14
  I knew it all right? Cool, cool, cool.
• 1:11:16
  We're going to stop right there. It's still going on the podcast,
• 1:11:20
  but we're going to stop right there with Mandy.
• 1:11:22
  Sorry, Mandy. You know what, Mandy?
• 1:11:24
  It's all good, but no, I hope that happens one day.
• 1:11:32
  Mark says it recorded for my TV hat, She says.
• 1:11:37
  The other says I have to search for her house.
• 1:11:38
  If you start a night. I went once to scrub floors.
• 1:11:41
  What the hell? If you had to do chores at her
• 1:11:48
  house. If you stay the night, what kind
• 1:11:51
  of. Shit is that?
• 1:11:52
  Why you want to? You want to spend the night
• 1:11:58
  here? You got to.
• 1:11:59
  You got to, you got to work for it.
• 1:12:04
  Make your daughter do it. What?
• 1:12:05
  Are you doing? You're a guest, ma'am.
• 1:12:09
  What are you doing? No.
• 1:12:11
  Yeah. We ain't going.
• 1:12:13
  We don't. We don't.
• 1:12:14
  We don't appreciate that. Mandy.
• 1:12:15
  No way. Mandy.
• 1:12:17
  No. That's not how you treat a
• 1:12:19
  guest. That's not how you treat Leanna.
• 1:12:21
  OK. That's.
• 1:12:23
  Not how you treat. Leanna all right, all right, all
• 1:12:29
  right, Mark says. I recorded for my TVVCR.
• 1:12:34
  DJ Raymond live says 8mm video camera.
• 1:12:38
  I will tell him 8 millimeter 8mm video camera.
• 1:12:43
  I guess freaking I have one of those too.
• 1:12:48
  Barb bar bands 73 says Walkman, the West and Atari.
• 1:12:53
  Gordon Brown 765 says 70s. I operated one of my first
• 1:12:58
  computer phototype setters. I was a bombed today.
• 1:13:00
  I came and worked my XM radio. I get that I get that no, no,
• 1:13:04
  no, no, no, no, no. We get we get that we get that
• 1:13:07
  like you know, you used to you used to be the shit back then
• 1:13:11
  like us. I mean we.
• 1:13:16
  When Myspace. Happened when we, we operated,
• 1:13:20
  we, we knew how to code. You know, this is like 10 years
• 1:13:25
  ago. Stuff now we.
• 1:13:27
  Learned how to code. We learned how to do all kinds
• 1:13:29
  of stuff 10. No, this is 20.
• 1:13:32
  Years ago, wow, time flies by. 20 years ago we knew how to
• 1:13:38
  code. 20 years later we're like, how do you do a video for
• 1:13:43
  TikTok? Huh.
• 1:13:45
  What? Can't even do that anymore.
• 1:13:47
  'Cause people get upset, especially TikTok.
• 1:13:53
  Anyway, so yeah, 70s I operated one of my first computer
• 1:13:58
  phototypes that are that's great, Richard 81, says my TI-33
• 1:14:02
  calculator school buff slot says we grew up for my dad cleaned
• 1:14:06
  rental cars for a living. He'd always come home with a
• 1:14:08
  back filled with random stuff he found in cars.
• 1:14:10
  One day he came home with this. I've need to go check out.
• 1:14:17
  My life was never the same. I would show up to my 4th grade
• 1:14:19
  class with this feeling like the ultimate hot shit.
• 1:14:22
  I think it was the Game Boy Advance.
• 1:14:25
  Also, it was the Game Boy Color. I love that it was a Gameboy.
• 1:14:35
  Color. They're cool.
• 1:14:41
  Infamous Pharaoh daughter. Says a beeper lol.
• 1:14:46
  Lisa B, says a beeper. Kitty meow, meow. 112.
• 1:14:50
  One my Sony Walkman to it was the real deal and so tiny and.
• 1:14:58
  Yeah, they they just. Started becoming very tiny.
• 1:15:01
  They're just like and that's when to become the M3P player,
• 1:15:07
  MP3 player, Oracle dot Eric, says.
• 1:15:11
  My Hayes 9600 baud modem, $600 a time.
• 1:15:16
  I was the king of the online world.
• 1:15:19
  A barrack says. Portable CD player George on
• 1:15:22
  Long Island in the late 80s. I had electronic rolodex with an
• 1:15:26
  LCD screen that plugged into my phone line.
• 1:15:28
  I saw that was so cool at the time.
• 1:15:32
  Lanny posted a picture of a. Boombox Sunshine Girl, a free
• 1:15:35
  solar powered calculator in junior high and I'll come back
• 1:15:40
  to that one, Lala Gunning, says Boombox Oracle Eric says my
• 1:15:44
  Hayes 9600 baud modem. I already said that Fido
• 1:15:48
  Fiddledo I scan at a data center when they first came out.
• 1:15:52
  Liz a Calculator, Mega Menace, A Sega Game Gear, APJA, Walkman,
• 1:15:58
  George and Long Island. No.
• 1:16:03
  Sunshine Girl a free solar powered calculator in junior
• 1:16:07
  high. And of course that didn't last
• 1:16:08
  long because the minute I got up from my desk it went back to it.
• 1:16:11
  Someone stole it. Piece of shit POS.
• 1:16:18
  I took off tik. T.O.K, you know, because I get
• 1:16:23
  that I. Get that like.
• 1:16:24
  People are don't take shit to school, you know, because.
• 1:16:30
  Then. You run the risk of that
• 1:16:32
  happening to you so. I responded.
• 1:16:39
  With. Oh, it's one of those.
• 1:16:46
  Comments that were hidden. No, I get that because in high
• 1:16:53
  school. My.
• 1:16:56
  My stuff. Was stolen also.
• 1:16:58
  So my Walkman and my cassettes that I, you know, I made from
• 1:17:08
  all. That from the radio.
• 1:17:13
  That I recorded so. Usually I took it to school and.
• 1:17:19
  All this thing, then next thing I know they're stolen and I'm
• 1:17:22
  just like, well that sucks. So then.
• 1:17:29
  Weeks later I saw this guy like rubbishing through his backpack
• 1:17:35
  and like he was pulling stuff out also as well.
• 1:17:39
  And I saw a cassette being pulled out and I looked over and
• 1:17:42
  I was like, I saw. Because it was one of.
• 1:17:45
  Mine had my ticket, my handwriting on it.
• 1:17:48
  I know my handwriting is horrible.
• 1:17:50
  I have horrible handwriting, still do so.
• 1:17:53
  My handwriting is. On there.
• 1:17:55
  So I'm like like, OK. And he had my Walkman in there.
• 1:18:02
  Too. So I'm like.
• 1:18:05
  That's. Fucking asshole that sucks.
• 1:18:11
  Didn't think much of it, of course.
• 1:18:14
  Like I'm like looking around and shit.
• 1:18:16
  And then he goes to the bathroom, leave his stuff here
• 1:18:18
  and by the class, I go through his stuff, grab my cassettes,
• 1:18:24
  leave the Walkman there, take out the batteries, walk out,
• 1:18:29
  take him, take him with me. I left the Walkman.
• 1:18:34
  Like if you're going to steal my stuff, I'm be petty about it
• 1:18:36
  too. So as he's.
• 1:18:41
  Like going through his stuff, he's looking for his stuff and
• 1:18:44
  everything. And then he's looking for his
• 1:18:45
  cassettes, for the cassettes that I have now in my
• 1:18:48
  possession. And I'm just like, what are you
• 1:18:51
  gonna do, tell him that you I stole your stuff when it has my
• 1:18:54
  handwriting all over it? And just admit that you stole my
• 1:18:59
  stuff. OK, so he's like looking for it,
• 1:19:03
  and then he has a Walkman with him and it's just like, what am
• 1:19:06
  I gonna do with this? Not only that, I got the
• 1:19:09
  batteries. Also, what are you gonna do with
• 1:19:11
  it? It's like he ruined the entire
• 1:19:13
  day. I ruined his entire day.
• 1:19:15
  He ruined my life. I ruined his day like a night.
• 1:19:18
  Even my life. He didn't ruin my life.
• 1:19:20
  I bought another Walkman and since then I had like disc and
• 1:19:23
  everything. Yeah.
• 1:19:26
  Let him pay for expensive. Batteries and let him pay for
• 1:19:28
  new cassettes. Meanwhile, I'm taking the
• 1:19:35
  cassettes home. And recording over them because
• 1:19:38
  that's what I usually did. I don't like this song anymore.
• 1:19:40
  I'm a record over it. That's what we all did.
• 1:19:43
  That's what we all did with the with the video cassettes too.
• 1:19:46
  We recorded over the stuff like, all right, this movie sucks.
• 1:19:49
  Now I can just start, hey. And that was it.
• 1:19:51
  That was all of it. I just finished book 2 of
• 1:19:53
  Dungeon Crawler Carl Carl's Doomsday scenario and the series
• 1:19:58
  went from funny apocalypse dungeon RPG to one of the most
• 1:20:01
  emotionally devastating in the horror field things I've read in
• 1:20:04
  a while. Before we get into the member.
• 1:20:11
  Of fights, the reality TV satire, the RPG mechanics and
• 1:20:15
  that ending. I'm going to answer big
• 1:20:18
  questions. So what surprised me?
• 1:20:22
  What surprised me? Was the horror.
• 1:20:25
  I, I wasn't expecting. I went from the first book, you
• 1:20:29
  know, like this is fun, this is funny stuff, to the second book
• 1:20:33
  being straight up horror. Like he leaned very.
• 1:20:39
  Hard into the horror genre. Grimaldi Circus was ridiculously
• 1:20:45
  insane. Serena Signe, the girl that was
• 1:20:51
  like Maui. Inspired I.
• 1:20:53
  Think I wouldn't say inspired what I say inspired.
• 1:20:57
  Maui inspired with tattoos moving around 'cause Maui from
• 1:21:02
  you know, with Maui's tattoos were moving around has the bear,
• 1:21:07
  that poor bear. Miss Quill, the sky fouled.
• 1:21:14
  Remix, the last boss, whatever that thing was, the whole floor,
• 1:21:19
  the entire floor. Floor 3 was just crazy in
• 1:21:23
  itself. It felt like the horror floor.
• 1:21:28
  What surprised me of the most was the atmosphere.
• 1:21:31
  The atmosphere, how, when it became, it wasn't.
• 1:21:34
  Just fight monsters. And level up, it felt like
• 1:21:37
  walking through a haunted House of haunted a haunted freaking
• 1:21:44
  asylum designed by people, designed by aliens.
• 1:21:49
  Because they don't know us, they don't know the world, they don't
• 1:21:51
  know Earth, they don't know humanity.
• 1:21:56
  On this circus especially felt disgusting in the best way
• 1:21:58
  possible. Body horror, psychological
• 1:22:02
  horror, twisted performances. You slept with a whole chapter.
• 1:22:08
  The dungeon suddenly stopped feeling like a game and started
• 1:22:11
  feeling dangerous on a completely different level.
• 1:22:16
  I mean it had its. Moments there, but I was just
• 1:22:19
  like a request and even when I'm playing video games, I'm doing
• 1:22:25
  my side quest. They don't even, they're not
• 1:22:27
  even this horrifying at all. They're just like, alright, this
• 1:22:32
  was easy for this book. It was just like describing the
• 1:22:37
  most unpleasant stuff ever. Serena Signet, the circus, the
• 1:22:48
  bears, the the lemurs. Oh, the lemurs.
• 1:22:53
  The lemurs with the skull. The giraffe the.
• 1:23:00
  Bears again. Everything.
• 1:23:02
  Everything about this was completely crazy.
• 1:23:11
  And I think that's why I. Became a fan of such of the book
• 1:23:14
  of the second book because the. First book I said it this.
• 1:23:18
  Before the first book. We go from monster to.
• 1:23:23
  Monster to monster, The monster, You know, neighborhood bosses,
• 1:23:28
  neighborhood boss monsters and basically gave us candy.
• 1:23:32
  He gave us candy and it hyped us up.
• 1:23:37
  It made. It made us just like, oh.
• 1:23:40
  I love this. Oh, you know, and once the book,
• 1:23:42
  too comes out, where's that candy?
• 1:23:48
  Like oh shit, these are. Monsters, monsters these are.
• 1:23:51
  This is a horror. It's like you're giving now
• 1:23:55
  you're not giving. As much as candy.
• 1:23:56
  But you're giving us some good stuff.
• 1:23:58
  You know, you're giving us the, what's it called, the adult size
• 1:24:06
  candy on Halloween. You're, you're, you're spoiling
• 1:24:12
  us. But now you're doing it in a
• 1:24:16
  completely horrifying way. Favorite moments?
• 1:24:22
  My favorite moments honestly weren't even the bigger fights.
• 1:24:25
  They weren't the fights at all. It was character interactions.
• 1:24:29
  Those were my favorite moments. The desperado club.
• 1:24:33
  The desperado club scenes were awesome as hell.
• 1:24:38
  Weird. Found family energy in the
• 1:24:40
  middle of a complete chaos. It's Donut getting drunk and
• 1:24:49
  muttering about how she could take out and see a Mars dogs and
• 1:24:54
  somebody like I don't know if people outside of it could watch
• 1:25:03
  and what was going on inside or somebody like filmed the footage
• 1:25:07
  of her saying it because then you heard you saw it on the
• 1:25:11
  recaps episode and. Lucia.
• 1:25:15
  Maher responds with bring it. Come on, let's.
• 1:25:19
  Go. The whole thing was like comedy
• 1:25:25
  and then it became tension. It it just felt ridiculous.
• 1:25:34
  What was the? Name of the.
• 1:25:36
  That they buy stuff from posture posture, posture.
• 1:25:42
  The hobgoblin with the with the with the wart and the pus coming
• 1:25:48
  out and all the Unicorn and she saw talking seductively and
• 1:25:54
  everything. And then they have a sidebar
• 1:25:58
  chat. They have a side chat with
• 1:26:00
  everybody in in the crawler. All the crawlers have side chats
• 1:26:03
  or they can just talk to their group and nobody up there for I
• 1:26:08
  can't hear you, nobody can hear you, nobody can see you and.
• 1:26:13
  Instead of using that. Donut whispers it and says Oh my
• 1:26:17
  God she's ugly and. The posture.
• 1:26:25
  The hobgoblin says I can hear she has better hearing, she has
• 1:26:28
  good hearing and it's like wait what?
• 1:26:32
  Well like this old time donut is just mocking her and talking bad
• 1:26:37
  about her and everything and posture saw like yeah no.
• 1:26:43
  And then Donut says. Over someone who's.
• 1:26:44
  Had who has a who works for you know blowing stuff up for a
• 1:26:52
  living. You sure Are you sure do have
• 1:26:54
  excellent hearing and postures are like yeah, I know that was
• 1:27:03
  like those kind of things were fun Donut just like having so
• 1:27:06
  much fun in in these books. Hikla asked.
• 1:27:14
  Them both. Hey, can you take in one of our
• 1:27:17
  members, one of our team members so that you can, you know,
• 1:27:21
  increase her stats as well so she can be in your group?
• 1:27:24
  Our group has so many people that, you know, we can't, you
• 1:27:29
  know, all that stuff. So the Carl's about to say no,
• 1:27:34
  but Donut instance like, yeah, we can do it.
• 1:27:36
  Yeah, sure. Why not?
• 1:27:37
  Not a problem. We got you, we got you.
• 1:27:39
  You know, Donut's trying to be trying to do the social thing,
• 1:27:42
  trying to have friends and everything, and Carl's just
• 1:27:45
  like, can we just get this thing done already?
• 1:27:48
  He's a physical guy. Donut is the social 1 so.
• 1:27:55
  They meet Heckler. They meet heck.
• 1:27:57
  Pekla is the one that's, like, asked, like, hey, can you do
• 1:27:59
  this for us? And she's like, yeah, So Heckler
• 1:28:02
  sends in one of her girls, Katya.
• 1:28:07
  And even then, it's all like, this is so cool.
• 1:28:10
  You know, they have a third member now for a little while.
• 1:28:12
  For a little while. I don't know.
• 1:28:13
  How about third book yet. What emotionally hit?
• 1:28:19
  So towards the end. Towards the end of the book,
• 1:28:23
  the. World basically collapsing
• 1:28:24
  around. The apocalypse is happening in
• 1:28:27
  that that final floor. That final floor, Yeah, that
• 1:28:32
  final floor. The final moments of the floor
• 1:28:34
  where everything is about to blow up and everything.
• 1:28:40
  Donut finally admits. To Carl, you know she knows
• 1:28:46
  she's dead. She didn't say her.
• 1:28:49
  Name. She didn't.
• 1:28:50
  Have to say her name. We all know her name, who she
• 1:28:53
  is, the way she said it, the way she just like breaks down and
• 1:28:57
  says it. We all just assumed.
• 1:28:59
  We all just knew. She knows she's dead.
• 1:29:01
  Means Beatrice, her person, her human.
• 1:29:06
  And. It was from book 1 to the point
• 1:29:11
  of this book. We all hate her.
• 1:29:17
  Because you know of what? Was said what was, what she did
• 1:29:20
  and all that stuff. That part, yeah, that part.
• 1:29:25
  And we all, we all hate her because of what she did and all
• 1:29:28
  that stuff. But at the same time, be Donut.
• 1:29:34
  That's Donut's mom, you know? Like she's all she's a.
• 1:29:40
  Fricking asshole towards Carl but same time she's a great mom
• 1:29:45
  to donut unless. Carl was going to say.
• 1:29:50
  Tells her like hey you're about to replace with a new model but
• 1:29:56
  she didn't tell he didn't tell her that and we didn't like
• 1:29:59
  we've glazed right over that we didn't know you know we OK
• 1:30:03
  that's right. It's true she was going to get
• 1:30:05
  you a new bottle but never happened so Dona just like
• 1:30:15
  having funny. Moments funny.
• 1:30:19
  Moments, funny moments, and then at the very end, towards the
• 1:30:21
  end, she breaks down and it just breaks.
• 1:30:25
  You got this little baby cat is just like I know she's.
• 1:30:29
  Dead, I know. She's gone.
• 1:30:31
  Miss Beatrice is gone and it hurts because you realize Donut
• 1:30:37
  has been in denial this whole tire this entire time.
• 1:30:42
  She. Has she doesn't.
• 1:30:43
  Want to accept the fact that she's gone.
• 1:30:46
  She doesn't want to accept the fact that she's a horrible human
• 1:30:49
  being. Like she tells Carl.
• 1:30:53
  About her three other boyfriends he tells Carl about the daddy
• 1:30:58
  tax she. Tells Carl.
• 1:31:01
  About all this stuff and doesn't think anything is bad about that
• 1:31:05
  at all Like to us the readers were just like, no, that's bad,
• 1:31:11
  what are you doing? But she's my human so I gotta
• 1:31:14
  like protect her and like that's my mom but to.
• 1:31:18
  US was just. Like no, no.
• 1:31:20
  And then to us reading that part where Donut admit that, it's
• 1:31:24
  like, oh honey, I'm sorry. All the attitude, all the.
• 1:31:30
  Ego, all the drama, all the vanity.
• 1:31:32
  That was armor. She was using her armor.
• 1:31:35
  She was using her defenses, She was using her wall.
• 1:31:42
  She had a wall up there and she didn't want to admit to that.
• 1:31:46
  She didn't want to. Accept that her old.
• 1:31:47
  Life was gone forever and. Carl.
• 1:31:51
  Says at the very end like, yeah, come here.
• 1:31:53
  So he hugs her tight, he hugs her tighter.
• 1:31:56
  And that just like if you didn't feel any type of reaction to
• 1:32:00
  that part, I was like, what's wrong with you?
• 1:32:04
  And that's the moment where the series.
• 1:32:05
  Stops being the dungeon for me. It became about grief.
• 1:32:09
  It just. We all do sometimes.
• 1:32:12
  Yeah, and the epilogue might have hit even me even harder
• 1:32:19
  that. Point right there and.
• 1:32:20
  Then Carl sitting. Alone in the.
• 1:32:23
  Bathroom naked with toilet paper wrapped around himself.
• 1:32:28
  Why? Because he took off his.
• 1:32:29
  Pants. He took off his shorts to run
• 1:32:32
  around naked. And.
• 1:32:36
  That was that also was funny and I forgot to mention that, but
• 1:32:41
  you know, he did his his his shorts were magic.
• 1:32:47
  He had. Magical shorts.
• 1:32:48
  And they had to take off anything that was magic.
• 1:32:53
  Donut took off her magic stuff, and I'm not going to spoil it
• 1:32:56
  for you. What she took off.
• 1:32:59
  But Carl had to take off his pants, his boxers, because they
• 1:33:04
  were magical and he was running around naked.
• 1:33:06
  He was free balling, as the song said in the being in the sing.
• 1:33:11
  And then like he was checking in on people.
• 1:33:15
  He was helping people and they're like questing in as well
• 1:33:18
  as like, why are you naked, bro? What are you doing?
• 1:33:21
  He tried helping up this one guy and he's all like, dude, get
• 1:33:24
  your balls off my face, please. Like what?
• 1:33:27
  Like fucking hilarious stuff. It was.
• 1:33:32
  It was. Some funny dialogue in there
• 1:33:35
  when he was naked. The whole apocalypse is
• 1:33:37
  happening. This man is naked and the
• 1:33:40
  narrator is just the author narrator, He Carl's narrator.
• 1:33:45
  The author is just like while the the whole apocalypse
• 1:33:48
  happening. Here's this man naked running
• 1:33:51
  around. Yeah, have at it.
• 1:33:55
  And I sit on the on the live too.
• 1:33:58
  We're not going to get to see that.
• 1:34:00
  You guys are not going to get to see that.
• 1:34:01
  You're going to get to get to see some butt action.
• 1:34:04
  Whoever plays Carl has to have, I'm not going to say I'm not
• 1:34:12
  going to say it, but has to have a good butt, you know, at least
• 1:34:15
  for the lady eye candy out there.
• 1:34:22
  So, yeah, and. Like you have two years to
• 1:34:25
  establish that or three? Years depending on.
• 1:34:29
  Where the situation goes and to me it's funny as hell because at
• 1:34:36
  the end of the day and he came and put on the shorts too
• 1:34:38
  because after he gets out of the this whole mess after he goes
• 1:34:43
  into floor into the. Door to go.
• 1:34:47
  To the next floor immediately he is transported to the show, the
• 1:34:52
  after show of that show and. He's naked.
• 1:34:57
  Still, so he he goes to the bathroom and he puts, he just
• 1:35:03
  wraps toilet paper around his entire groin area and body and
• 1:35:07
  everything and he looks like a fucking mummy and he's just
• 1:35:16
  sitting there naked, emotionally wrecked after everything that
• 1:35:24
  happened that you know, it wasn't.
• 1:35:30
  It that felt. Real that there was no
• 1:35:33
  explosions then, not the boss fight, not the explosions, is
• 1:35:37
  the exhaustion of doing that afterwards.
• 1:35:42
  And the same thing happens. To us as well, gamers, like all
• 1:35:47
  vulnerable. Yeah, he was vulnerable.
• 1:35:49
  The same thing happens to his gamers as well.
• 1:35:51
  Where like I know. Me.
• 1:35:54
  And when I'm playing Rivals or Final Fantasy and I get to the
• 1:35:59
  final boss, Sephiroth for instance, or ranking up and.
• 1:36:09
  Going from Gold 1. To platinum 3 and having that
• 1:36:13
  moment less sigh of relief and saying OK I'm done I'm going to
• 1:36:17
  put this game away and just chill and just.
• 1:36:25
  Sit there and like. Take it all in and like you just
• 1:36:29
  accomplished something. And it was so exhausted doing
• 1:36:34
  that with Captain America back then when I was mating him and
• 1:36:40
  having. All his.
• 1:36:41
  Punches, you feel that through your through the the remote
• 1:36:48
  because I felt whiplash. While I.
• 1:36:51
  Played him and I'm just like, yeah, I'm never going to play
• 1:36:54
  him again in months later. I did.
• 1:36:57
  And just like, yeah, Nope, no, we're gone.
• 1:36:59
  We're well, I don't play him anymore.
• 1:37:03
  So that that's how that captured the survival aspect of it, which
• 1:37:12
  shocked me, the manipulation. The hidden agenda with Heckler.
• 1:37:17
  Planning Katya with Carl and Donut just to eventually
• 1:37:19
  separate Donut from Carl. I want her on my team that was.
• 1:37:26
  The hidden agenda, basically. I I hated that shit.
• 1:37:30
  That's why you wanted to send Katya in to get the enemy.
• 1:37:33
  You know all that shit. I'm just like, you guys are
• 1:37:36
  horrible dude. Completely changed how I view
• 1:37:43
  anything at all. Now you realize you can't trust
• 1:37:46
  anyone like dirt. They have a strategy of their
• 1:37:51
  own. So they're like, you know, I'm
• 1:37:54
  going to put Katya in and like you get to Katya's going to tell
• 1:37:59
  talk to Donut and do all this stuff and then be like, hey,
• 1:38:03
  Donut, you want to come with us now?
• 1:38:06
  Because Donut has the. What's this thing called?
• 1:38:12
  Artist Alley and. Like it comes with the territory
• 1:38:19
  of having, you know, she can, she can charm you.
• 1:38:26
  So Heckler wants that. This thing that really shocked
• 1:38:34
  me with the rankings, I didn't know about the rankings up until
• 1:38:36
  later. At the very end of the book.
• 1:38:43
  They. Give out a.
• 1:38:44
  Ranking to the top 10 crawlers. So the the leaderboard.
• 1:38:49
  At the end of Part 2, at the end of Book 2, Lucia mar #1 level 29
• 1:38:59
  #2 is Hekla. At level 28 #3 is Prepotente.
• 1:39:06
  At level 27 #4 is Florin. At level 24 #5 is Miriam.
• 1:39:11
  At level 27 number. 6 is Carl number. 7 is donut, they're both
• 1:39:16
  at level 27 and 26 if Fetchy at level 18, Lee June at level 25
• 1:39:22
  and Ellie Mcgibbs, old lady Ellie Mcgibbs, she's still
• 1:39:25
  alive. She's at level 13.
• 1:39:30
  The old lady that was flirting with Carl and, you know, talking
• 1:39:34
  about Barry when she was young, The 98 year old women.
• 1:39:39
  Yeah. So those are the top 10.
• 1:39:44
  At the end of the book. They and they were like numbers
• 1:39:48
  attached to it as well. So Carl asked like, what is what
• 1:39:51
  is the 1000? And.
• 1:39:55
  I'm both myself and Donut represent and Odette tells her,
• 1:40:00
  tells them those are bounties. Those are how much?
• 1:40:06
  You're worth. So the CMR is worth $1,000,000,
• 1:40:12
  and I'm not going to say $1,000,000.
• 1:40:14
  Like, yeah, OK, you know what? We're 1,000,000 hecklers worth
• 1:40:18
  500. And then we go down the list.
• 1:40:22
  Carl and Donut are worth 100 each.
• 1:40:33
  Many more questions are asked. Who collects these bounties?
• 1:40:36
  Do other crawlers collect these bounties?
• 1:40:38
  Does Lucia Marr get 100,000 for? Taking out Carl.
• 1:40:47
  Does Carl get a million for taking out Lucia Marr or are
• 1:40:54
  these only for the other crawlers that are not in the top
• 1:40:58
  10? Are these?
• 1:41:00
  Other are these for the. NPCS Do NPCS get in on the
• 1:41:03
  action now? Non playable characters?
• 1:41:05
  Hey you know, maybe Mordecai? I guess to get in on the action.
• 1:41:10
  How about factions? Do Carl and Donut each share
• 1:41:14
  $500,000? After taking out Lucia Mar.
• 1:41:19
  Guess they're in a little thing that whole that whole question
• 1:41:25
  was like, OK, that what? What's happening?
• 1:41:30
  Because it was true, and thus the dungeon just became way more
• 1:41:33
  dangerous. Here's why Book 2 works so well.
• 1:41:40
  It's not just a dungeon. Crawl anymore.
• 1:41:42
  It's horror, it's satire, it's psychological survivor,
• 1:41:46
  streaming culture, commentary, RPG chaos and emotional trauma.
• 1:41:49
  It was traumatic from start to finish and it happened all at
• 1:41:54
  the same time. The series constantly,
• 1:41:57
  constantly, every time, mocks reality TV culture.
• 1:42:01
  Like I just kept saying. Why does this remind me of the
• 1:42:04
  challenge? Why does this remind me of
• 1:42:06
  Survivor? Why does this remind me of
• 1:42:09
  reality TV? Kardashians real.
• 1:42:15
  Housewives, all that stuff because they were going on
• 1:42:18
  reality, they're going on talk shows.
• 1:42:20
  After everything that went on, it's like, alright, so this is
• 1:42:24
  happening. The crawlers.
• 1:42:27
  Are now celebrities? Their rankings, fan reactions,
• 1:42:31
  recap sponsors, production manipulation.
• 1:42:34
  The apocalypse was sponsored. It's just like the Apocalypse is
• 1:42:38
  being sponsored by a Twitch chat.
• 1:42:45
  And people aren't just trying to stay.
• 1:42:46
  Alive anymore, they're just trying to stay relevant.
• 1:42:54
  There's there were some memorable.
• 1:42:55
  Fights and moments, of course. The undead Circus Carl becoming
• 1:43:00
  an actual walking bomb threat. It's like dooms.
• 1:43:06
  Carl's Doomsday. Scenario head of the Bear.
• 1:43:09
  The Desperado club was amazing. I loved the Desperado club and I
• 1:43:13
  hope they like make it. When the whole TV show happens,
• 1:43:16
  they turn it into this whole segment of it.
• 1:43:24
  The Soul Crystal. Catastrophe.
• 1:43:28
  What the? Phrase Carl's doomsday.
• 1:43:29
  Scenario really means. Like every like.
• 1:43:34
  So let me go back to the book. Hold on.
• 1:43:37
  What it really meant was. And he didn't get a celestial
• 1:43:51
  either. So ASMR Carl's doomsday
• 1:44:00
  scenario, what it really means was it was an unstable custom
• 1:44:05
  explosive, and his effect is an explosion large enough to rattle
• 1:44:08
  the teeth of God. Explosion.
• 1:44:11
  Eminent status created by a man who murders babies and steals
• 1:44:16
  rare collectibles from his elders.
• 1:44:18
  There, he's not. He's never going to get away
• 1:44:20
  from the fact that he accidentally, you know, hit the
• 1:44:24
  babies, the goblin babies back then.
• 1:44:28
  Because Donut. Oh, yeah, there's babies in
• 1:44:32
  there. Forgot to tell you.
• 1:44:36
  Oops, this device is powerful. Enough to love the entire city
• 1:44:40
  and all the suburbs around it is created by combining A massively
• 1:44:42
  overloaded soul Crystal in a shell Glass Reaper case.
• 1:44:46
  Warning, this item can no longer be stabilized.
• 1:44:52
  So yeah, everything about that is just that was Donut's fault.
• 1:45:00
  Everything. Changes by the end of the book.
• 1:45:03
  Book choose where dungeon crawler Carl stops feeling like
• 1:45:06
  a gimmick, starts revealing how deep, dark, funny and emotional
• 1:45:10
  brutal this universe really is. And there's the point where the
• 1:45:13
  crawl officially guys hook onto me where I'm just like, yes, I
• 1:45:18
  love this book that I'm I'm set, I'm I'm I'm all in, we're good,
• 1:45:26
  I'm and after. That.
• 1:45:29
  After this book, we're done. When we I finished the book,
• 1:45:33
  guess what? #3 is next number. 3 The
• 1:45:44
  Dungeons Anarchist cookbook. So yeah, that was next.
• 1:45:50
  And it already starts off wild. Crazy.
• 1:45:55
  Can't wait to talk about this on the next episode.
• 1:45:59
  Probably a month later. In about a month, if I'm still
• 1:46:03
  in the book, in about a month, maybe I'll do like a 3.5 where I
• 1:46:09
  say like artist, what's going on at this moment?
• 1:46:15
  So yeah, this. This is this is such an awesome
• 1:46:17
  book. Besides that, I.
• 1:46:25
  Got my hands on the graphic novel.
• 1:46:30
  And for? It's not even book one.
• 1:46:35
  It's. Half a book.
• 1:46:36
  One book this ends at. The Shamancas, Rory and Lorelei
• 1:46:45
  this end. During the whole altercation
• 1:46:48
  with Rory and Lorelei so. It's fun.
• 1:46:53
  And then it's like you realize, oh, it's done.
• 1:46:55
  This is like half a book 1. Like not even that.
• 1:46:58
  It's probably going to like end that book too.
• 1:47:02
  But the reason I got it, of course, is the like FOMO hit me
• 1:47:06
  on that one because everybody had it.
• 1:47:09
  Everybody was just talking about the book the first Saturday of
• 1:47:15
  May May. Second I went.
• 1:47:19
  To my LCS, my local comic shop for.
• 1:47:23
  Free Comic Book Day. Because they.
• 1:47:26
  Said they were giving out. Some dungeon crawler Carl stuff
• 1:47:29
  and I go there like late, obviously couldn't get there on
• 1:47:32
  time and they're there. They were out of dungeons,
• 1:47:36
  crawler stuff, Carl stuff, DCC stuff, and the guy that was
• 1:47:41
  like, that works there was just like saying I'm just like you
• 1:47:45
  guys out of Carl crawler stuff. And it's like, Oh yeah, dude, we
• 1:47:49
  ran out early and I couldn't get 1 here.
• 1:47:52
  And I'm like, oh, that sucks. But you can get a grab the
• 1:47:56
  graphic novel when it comes out if you just give us your name
• 1:48:00
  and all that stuff and you know, we'll have it.
• 1:48:04
  We'll have it here for you. We'll save it for you.
• 1:48:06
  Yeah, yeah, for sure. So I gave him my name and
• 1:48:09
  everything and forgot to give him my number.
• 1:48:10
  She didn't ask for her number. Of course.
• 1:48:14
  It was her fault. The next week, I go there again
• 1:48:19
  to buy some Pokémon cards to get some Pokémon stuff, and they're
• 1:48:23
  like, hey, while you're here, you know, we forgot.
• 1:48:26
  We forgot to get your phone number.
• 1:48:28
  That's my bad. But still, we forgot to get your
• 1:48:30
  phone number. So yeah, I thought about that
• 1:48:31
  too. That's why I came in today
• 1:48:33
  because I figured, hey, I forgot to give you my phone number.
• 1:48:37
  So, you know, I gave my phone number and everything.
• 1:48:40
  So I was going to wait until they called me so I can go get
• 1:48:45
  the book instead. You know, being scrolling around
• 1:48:50
  and looking at the at the hashtags for your favorite book
• 1:48:57
  and everything and then watching all these people just like do
• 1:49:02
  freaking. Content with the book.
• 1:49:03
  And I'm sitting there like. I don't have it.
• 1:49:08
  I don't have it. I don't have it.
• 1:49:11
  I don't have it. You know what?
• 1:49:12
  I'm just going to go to 2nd and Charles and I did went to 2nd
• 1:49:17
  and Charles got the book because it was there the whole time.
• 1:49:23
  Went to 2nd and Charles got. The book came home like.
• 1:49:27
  Like what make? Content I did I have.
• 1:49:29
  I've been making content with the book.
• 1:49:35
  And it's a great book. I love it.
• 1:49:38
  So while that's happening at the same time.
• 1:49:45
  We we're visual learners. We want to know what they look
• 1:49:48
  like, right? So you all seen my my.
• 1:49:54
  Marble. Rivals binder where I just like
• 1:49:58
  make make cars out of by marble rivals season one season 0
• 1:50:03
  season 1 season 2 and then I changed it all up to you know,
• 1:50:11
  purple and what a actual Pokémon card would look like if it was
• 1:50:16
  marble rivals. So I.
• 1:50:20
  Went ahead and did the same thing.
• 1:50:21
  For this book for dungeon Carl or Carl?
• 1:50:25
  So I started looking online. Looking at some of the what's it
• 1:50:32
  called? Looking at some of the.
• 1:50:37
  Fan. Art because that's.
• 1:50:38
  What they are, they're like, what's the fan art and.
• 1:50:48
  And like I printed them. Out and I just like cut them up
• 1:50:53
  and I posted them. I taped them.
• 1:50:56
  I super glued them on top of the the energy cards of Pokémon
• 1:51:00
  cards that I don't need because I'm not using them so whatever.
• 1:51:04
  So here they are. So I'm going to go through them.
• 1:51:08
  I can't. Go through one because it is
• 1:51:11
  obscene. I can show you some of it, but
• 1:51:14
  like, not all of it. All right, here we go.
• 1:51:19
  Here's Carl. This one has donut.
• 1:51:24
  Also Carl and Donut Princess donut goblin on a motorcycle
• 1:51:33
  trying to does the first book chapter in the book where
• 1:51:38
  they're trying to like get get it get at him.
• 1:51:40
  Proceed with caution. Proceed with caution.
• 1:51:44
  Here is Mordecai the NPC the the tutorial guy for Carl and
• 1:51:52
  Doughnut. This is the first floor.
• 1:51:56
  Every floor he changes into something different.
• 1:51:59
  The first floor he looked like a splinter, but he's a rat in
• 1:52:03
  here. A second floor, he was a
• 1:52:05
  bugaboo. That's what a bugaboo looks
• 1:52:07
  like, I guess. So is this like so?
• 1:52:12
  Weird looking at third floor. I'll show you later what he
• 1:52:17
  looks like. Here is the the hoarder, the
• 1:52:23
  first boss that he meets. I'm gonna say the second boss,
• 1:52:27
  The first boss, I think where the where the hobgoblins, the
• 1:52:30
  goblins, But this is the first boss, boss the hoarder.
• 1:52:36
  Here's a bad llama. That's the second boss hits bits
• 1:52:40
  lava, bad lava llama. Bad lava llama.
• 1:52:47
  Zeb. She is she works for Born
• 1:52:50
  Company, the one that runs the entire place.
• 1:52:53
  And I got to put this down to show you the other one.
• 1:52:57
  And this is the Dungeon crawler world person.
• 1:53:03
  This is the debt. Damn it.
• 1:53:07
  OK. So here we go.
• 1:53:08
  This is the debt. I can only show you that.
• 1:53:10
  That's it. Sorry.
• 1:53:14
  That's all I can show you I don't want.
• 1:53:15
  To get kicked out. Anyway, there you go.
• 1:53:18
  Those are the Shamancas Donut names them Rory and Lorelai from
• 1:53:26
  that one show Gilmore Girls she. Donut also.
• 1:53:30
  Named a couple other people as well and I think there was
• 1:53:34
  another reference and it was Max and Caroline from 2 Broke Girls.
• 1:53:41
  And then her is. That we.
• 1:53:43
  Yeah. Donut loved all this stuff.
• 1:53:48
  I forgot what they were called the juicer.
• 1:53:50
  This is a a Dino lizard bro. Yeah.
• 1:53:53
  Lizard bro. It's a lizard bro.
• 1:53:57
  Where am I? There you go.
• 1:53:59
  Every word out of his mouth. Every other word out of his
• 1:54:01
  mouth with bro. And they're just juicers.
• 1:54:07
  If you know what juicing means, Yeah.
• 1:54:11
  Here is Frank Q Frank Q He was one of the crawlers as well.
• 1:54:17
  And he was, he snucked in a bathroom to get to Carl.
• 1:54:24
  And that's his partner. That's Maggie My who also was
• 1:54:28
  trying to get that Carl there is Kirk, Karen Kraken, name is
• 1:54:35
  Karen. It's a fairy.
• 1:54:38
  Yeah, there's Rory and Lorelai again, just because I want to
• 1:54:45
  use this one as well. Heckler.
• 1:54:47
  She's an Amazonian. She's like, she's involved in
• 1:54:50
  the book. She's the one that convinces
• 1:54:53
  Carl to take in Katya to like, you know, as a, I'm going to say
• 1:55:00
  a Trojan horse. Who knows?
• 1:55:04
  Here is. I forgot what they're called.
• 1:55:11
  They're. They're they're this is the
• 1:55:14
  group that Carl meets up the letter mark.
• 1:55:17
  Letter mark, letter mark. Let the Leto.
• 1:55:21
  Yeah. Some metal.
• 1:55:23
  Mark Meadowlark. Meadowlark.
• 1:55:25
  I said it the other way around. Meadowlark, The Meadowlark
• 1:55:28
  group. So that's the group leader.
• 1:55:31
  Brandon, his brother Chris, Imani and Yolanda.
• 1:55:37
  Don't fall in love with them, please.
• 1:55:39
  Not good for you, Brandon. There's the Maestro.
• 1:55:45
  He's in an ass. I don't know why he's on that
• 1:55:49
  part. There's Yolanda, There's Imani,
• 1:55:55
  old lady Mcgibbs Mcgibbons, who's in a wheelchair.
• 1:55:59
  She's 98 years old. She's a very big.
• 1:56:04
  Part of that story is she's hilarious and funny and she
• 1:56:08
  wants Carl to herself. Even though she's 98 years old.
• 1:56:13
  She don't care. That is Agatha, crazy old lady
• 1:56:18
  with a shopping cart full of stuff.
• 1:56:20
  She is a plant according to us. Our theory is that she's a plant
• 1:56:25
  because she has she started a fire that took out everybody and
• 1:56:31
  she has some crazy stuff in there.
• 1:56:35
  Carl put her shopping cart in his inventory.
• 1:56:38
  You got to you got to read the book to understand what that
• 1:56:40
  means. The ball of swine, That's the
• 1:56:43
  neighborhood. Boss, it was.
• 1:56:45
  It was a crazy deal. The elemental rage.
• 1:56:49
  Somebody peed on the floor when you're not supposed to anymore.
• 1:56:51
  On the walls. They peed on the walls and the
• 1:56:54
  Boring Company sent out this monster to take out some people.
• 1:56:59
  Who's that? The Cobols on dogs on top of
• 1:57:03
  dogs. That's all I can explain how
• 1:57:04
  that boss works. Mongo.
• 1:57:08
  We meet Mongo. Mongo is special.
• 1:57:11
  He's a he's a little dinosaur. He's a pet.
• 1:57:16
  He's a fun pet. Lucy Amar and her dogs.
• 1:57:20
  She's a 12 year old kid. And she's in the she's in the
• 1:57:23
  dungeon running amok. Carl, Carl and Donut Prince.
• 1:57:30
  Of donut. Posed as absolute Batman,
• 1:57:35
  inspired by absolute Batman. I wish I you know what I thought
• 1:57:41
  about this later on like I should have just gotten the
• 1:57:44
  names of the creators that did this, the fan art and just put
• 1:57:49
  them on here as well so I can like read them.
• 1:57:51
  I'll look into them as well. Again, that's Katya.
• 1:57:56
  Yeah, that's what her face looks like.
• 1:57:58
  At the beginning of book 2, that's Desperado Club.
• 1:58:01
  I'll have more Desperado Club picks later.
• 1:58:05
  Mordecai and Four Three. He's a succubus now, and he gets
• 1:58:10
  drunk and he has a little part of his own.
• 1:58:15
  Mongo when? He gets bigger his name.
• 1:58:22
  Was Ralph? And Carl stepped on him.
• 1:58:29
  There's a lot of for cosplayers when they're dressed as Carl,
• 1:58:35
  they have this little plushy toy of this and they put them on the
• 1:58:42
  floor and they squish them with their feet because the AI has a
• 1:58:45
  sandwich feet. You got to read a book.
• 1:58:48
  That's Grimaldi and the circus, I'm telling.
• 1:58:53
  You I have more stuff. That's the circus animals, the
• 1:58:56
  lemurs on top of the giraffe. Those are the villains.
• 1:58:59
  That's Head of the Bear villains again.
• 1:59:05
  Serena Seigne with tattoos. Yeah, Serena again.
• 1:59:14
  Daniel Batista. He's a swashbuckler pirate.
• 1:59:18
  That's he's an ally. He fist bumps.
• 1:59:24
  Carl, Carl he had. Like a few cousins and sisters
• 1:59:27
  in his group, they all got taken out by the lemurs and Carl went
• 1:59:34
  ahead and looted the bodies and took a necklace out of one of
• 1:59:37
  them and gave it to Donut and he didn't want to tell Daniel.
• 1:59:43
  That you know. I have your sister's necklace.
• 1:59:49
  Hey, fair game, fair game, Finders keepers, whatever the
• 1:59:52
  hell that means. We meet him later, but in book 2
• 1:59:57
  he was supposed to be doing a side quest.
• 2:00:00
  That Carl ended up the messing up and then the fist bump, and
• 2:00:06
  that means if you have physical touch, you're automatically
• 2:00:09
  added into the chat in the chat to the group chat.
• 2:00:12
  All right, Sky file. This is what the villains look
• 2:00:18
  like at the end of the book. Miss Quill, the other Sky files,
• 2:00:25
  and that's what the last villain looks like.
• 2:00:28
  Remix. That's Sky, Miss Quill's
• 2:00:32
  husband. Yeah, I think so.
• 2:00:34
  Right. And then that is the final ten,
• 2:00:39
  the group, everyone in there, the top ten in the leaderboard.
• 2:00:45
  They all have bounties. On their heads.
• 2:00:48
  So yeah, Well, not all. Of them Katya.
• 2:00:51
  'S in there for some reason, or I think that might have been
• 2:00:54
  Hekla, who knows? But yeah, everything's cool all
• 2:00:58
  right. Yes.
• 2:01:02
  And then we have. The dungeon itself, yeah, for
• 2:01:05
  now I'll have more, but yeah, so I with that, I'm going to use,
• 2:01:11
  I'm going to make I'm going to buy another binder and put them
• 2:01:15
  in there and just those was serious one of my binder,
• 2:01:19
  serious 2 is probably going to take place for book 3 and 4.
• 2:01:25
  So yeah. That's about it.
• 2:01:26
  That's it. Guys, that's all.
• 2:01:28
  That's all the stuff. Oh my God, we're at two hours.
• 2:01:31
  I love this. I love talking about this.
• 2:01:33
  Whatever. Or I do anything else?
• 2:01:38
  Before I do anything else, this right here, my reaction, my face
• 2:01:46
  before I start book two, book 3, OK.
• 2:01:52
  I'll come back in a month. Or two, depending on how far.
• 2:01:57
  Into it I read it. And you're going to see a
• 2:02:00
  different reaction if book 2 didn't like already traumatized
• 2:02:05
  me with the whole stuff, like, Oh my God, book 3 is just going
• 2:02:09
  to be like, whoa, OK, I'm I'm completely OK with this.
• 2:02:14
  I I am. I love it.
• 2:02:22
  All right, who's ready to go? Y'all ready to go?
• 2:02:27
  Y'all ready? To head out.
• 2:02:31
  Yay, all right and just. Like that, another late night
• 2:02:36
  conversation here at my third place come to a close.
• 2:02:39
  Tonight really felt like one of those old school port episodes.
• 2:02:42
  Just sitting back talking nostalgia, chasing Pokémon cards
• 2:02:45
  like we're searching for treasure maps.
• 2:02:47
  Because I already am. I always am.
• 2:02:49
  Revisiting childhood tech that made us feel unstoppable and
• 2:02:52
  somehow unlocking memories about toys that absolutely should have
• 2:02:55
  come with warning labels. Are you still holding on to your
• 2:02:59
  ankles? Because I am, I'm holding on to
• 2:03:04
  my. Knees that hurts.
• 2:03:09
  And of course, another trip deeper into the madness of
• 2:03:12
  dungeon crawler. Carl sure am.
• 2:03:15
  From the DIY cars to the graphic novel, to finishing up book 2
• 2:03:18
  and preparing to dive head first into book 3.
• 2:03:25
  Before this series has visually. Become part of the DNA of the
• 2:03:27
  porch. At this point, I love reading.
• 2:03:30
  This is like me reading on the porch, me reading a story to all
• 2:03:33
  the kids out there and everybody that's in the chat, just like,
• 2:03:36
  OK, this is we're on chapter 1 now, let's go.
• 2:03:42
  We're. OK with this, right?
• 2:03:43
  We, we, we love doing this. We, this is the thing that to do
• 2:03:46
  now. Thank you to everybody who keeps
• 2:03:49
  showing up every week, sharing memories, answering pod que, pod
• 2:03:52
  deck questions, turning these up into something that feels more
• 2:03:55
  like a late night hangout than just a podcast.
• 2:03:58
  That's what make this place special.
• 2:04:00
  And don't forget, we'll be right back here for episode 298 next
• 2:04:04
  Wednesday as we continue to Rd. toward Clash in Italy, which
• 2:04:07
  also means we're getting just a few more step closer to the big
• 2:04:09
  one. Episode 303, hundred trips to
• 2:04:12
  the porch. That still feels wild to say out
• 2:04:14
  loud. Wow.
• 2:04:17
  After the 300, I'm definitely opening that thing up there.
• 2:04:21
  So yeah. We still got a lot more.
• 2:04:25
  Nostalgia coming your way to more pod deck questions.
• 2:04:29
  Like what kind of celebration did you after the graduation
• 2:04:31
  ceremony? Did you hit a party with
• 2:04:33
  friends? Go out with family?
• 2:04:35
  Take one last late night drive before summer officially
• 2:04:37
  started. Those nights always turn into
• 2:04:40
  stories people remember forever. We also have more physical media
• 2:04:44
  recommendations to close out the month of May Plus, we'll start
• 2:04:47
  setting the table for June with Father's Day questions, more
• 2:04:50
  nostalgia conversations, and more movies, shows, and
• 2:04:54
  collectibles worth adding to your shelf.
• 2:04:57
  And before we head out, don't forget to check out the YouTube
• 2:04:59
  channel too, not just the podcast episodes, but for the
• 2:05:03
  gaming streams like Marble Rivals and hopefully soon,
• 2:05:06
  hopefully soon, Lego Batman, Legends of Dark Knight, because
• 2:05:09
  I can finally get my hands on it.
• 2:05:13
  And I'm going to have to. Because last night I was on
• 2:05:17
  Twitch and I was getting my, I was trying to get my Marble
• 2:05:21
  Rivals drops. And then I go into someone
• 2:05:25
  else's Twitch account, watch their stream and they're playing
• 2:05:32
  Lego Batman. And then I realized that they
• 2:05:35
  have drops for that. And now it's all over.
• 2:05:38
  It's on, it's on my stuff, it's there.
• 2:05:42
  I just need to. Get the game now.
• 2:05:44
  And sign myself up for it so I can get the drops.
• 2:05:49
  So I can the drops can be illegal, so drops can be can
• 2:05:54
  actually. Work, yeah.
• 2:05:56
  That that's about it. That's it right there.
• 2:05:58
  So hopefully that works out and then I'll do, I'll do streams on
• 2:06:02
  Lego Batman. Why not?
• 2:06:04
  That'd be fun, right? Yeah, you know.
• 2:06:07
  I'm like, you know? Take a break from our arrivals
• 2:06:10
  and play Lego Batman because why not?
• 2:06:13
  Plus late night hangs the ongoing dungeon crawler.
• 2:06:15
  Carl, Book 1 read through. Yes, we're still on that.
• 2:06:18
  Me, I'm analyzing the shit. I'll go through it real quick
• 2:06:22
  again so we can get into book three once we get in there.
• 2:06:27
  And now the continued journey into book 3 as the chaos somehow
• 2:06:31
  keeps getting bigger. The port doesn't really stop
• 2:06:33
  anymore once the episode ends, it just changes locations for a
• 2:06:36
  little while. All right, before we really go,
• 2:06:40
  are you all with me here still? Take a breath with me.
• 2:06:43
  Hold on to the memories that made you smile tonight.
• 2:06:47
  Take a little bit. Of the summer, it's.
• 2:06:48
  Almost your energy with you into the week ahead.
• 2:06:51
  And don't forget to make some new memories worth revisiting
• 2:06:54
  later. Thank you for.
• 2:06:56
  Spending this time here in. My third place, not home, not
• 2:06:59
  work, to the space where we show up, tell stories, and leave the
• 2:07:03
  light on on the porch for whoever needs it.
• 2:07:08
  Take care of each other, take care of yourself.
• 2:07:10
  This is the M3P podcast where community, creativity, and
• 2:07:14
  nostalgia always have a seat on the porch.
• 2:07:18
  We'll see you next time. Peace, take care, you will not
• 2:07:25
  break me. What do you say at?
• 2:07:28
  The end I forgot I. Totally forgot what Carl says at
• 2:07:30
  the end. All right, here we go.
• 2:07:35
  I got a perfect one. Let's go.
• 2:07:37
  You guys ready? You guys ready for this?
• 2:07:39
  Because, you know, let's go. All right.
• 2:07:41
  Time to pay the daddy tax, baby.