0:03

Are we rolling rolling? Okay. How

0:07

long can we sit here and do nothing before

0:09

people just like close the podcast

0:11

and walk away? Do we ever do anything?

0:15

I think the answer is whatever our longest

0:17

episode is, that's how long so far

0:19

we can do nothing. That's our record. You

0:21

know, we can do is a food heist. Oh, are

0:24

you excited? I am excited because you know, the

0:26

fans they haven't had you for two weeks. I

0:29

know. Right? Wasn't it three? We did

0:31

two scars with scar. We did two a scar

0:34

to two a scar. I don't know if this will

0:36

be the next one. But I mean,

0:38

it is the next one we're recording. So

0:40

I think they've been without food heist for too long.

0:43

Well, I have an amazing

0:45

one. This was sent

0:48

in by alert reader

0:50

or listener. Oh,

0:53

it's a Brazilian name. So I'm gonna say it wrong. Joe,

0:56

I'll pin hero

0:58

that might be Portuguese might be Brazilian

1:01

boy. That sounds like how I try to pronounce. Yeah,

1:03

I don't know. You're supposed to be better at this.

1:06

I

1:06

haven't been to Portugal in like 12 years.

1:09

So sorry.

1:12

Okay, but this is a very fancy,

1:15

classical food heist. Okay.

1:18

Getting very ritzy. We're also getting very

1:21

like stuck up here. I'm gonna start

1:23

by saying the poet Homer

1:26

described olive oil as liquid

1:28

gold. Olive

1:31

oil is incredibly expensive and

1:33

in Greece. The

1:36

most recent harvest has been abysmal.

1:38

So prices have risen more

1:41

than double. Wow.

1:43

And so this is a story just from last

1:46

Saturday as of time of recording. People

1:48

have been stealing olive

1:51

oil all over Greece. And

1:53

in particular, there were two that

1:55

got hit like the same

1:57

day. Somebody stole

2:00

from a high-tech security

2:03

portal in Messinia 100 kilograms

2:09

And it ends high tech, huh even yeah,

2:11

so they're like Tom cruising into this place somehow

2:14

carrying off 100 kilograms

2:17

but outside of town in

2:19

a place called and I don't speak

2:21

Greek either so polygyros polygyros

2:25

they stole 37 tons

2:28

of

2:30

Olive oil

2:32

Wow, this was not a high tech.

2:34

Yeah, it was described as a battered iron

2:37

door in polygyros and a high-tech

2:39

security portal in Messinia 37 tons

2:43

from one and a hundred kilograms from the other one

2:45

That's quite

2:47

a bit of olive oil. Yeah, I mean liquid

2:50

gold when I was in Spain last

2:53

time I did a food

2:55

tour you ever done one of these I've done

2:57

one in Jamaica. Oh Yeah,

2:59

so our listeners haven't ever done one of these

3:02

I recommend it it was great so

3:04

we met at a square in

3:07

the middle of Madrid and then

3:09

a person walked us from like Restaurant

3:12

to store to restaurant to store to

3:14

even behind the scenes and like here's some local

3:16

cuisine And you know, we've prepared this thing

3:18

for us. You get a little taste of it It's not like you

3:20

have a meal at each one. You just get a little bite

3:23

So we went you know, we tried like 30 different

3:26

olives. We went to the

3:28

local Chip maker that was making

3:31

potato chips and they were stirring them in the vat They're like

3:33

they dumped some out and said here's some potato chips for

3:35

you We went and tried various desserts

3:37

at various places and one

3:39

stop along the way with the olive oil store

3:42

where

3:43

They gave us olive oil shots like

3:46

four of them to try their different olive oils And

3:49

this is the only thing on the tour that I was

3:51

like

3:51

Like drink the olive oil

3:53

shot just they're like, oh, yeah, it's fantastic

3:56

olive oil. It'll taste really good. And I'm like

3:59

go right through you. Yeah, and I'm like, really?

4:02

And like the other, a lot of the other

4:04

people on tour are like, oh yes, this one, this one. I

4:06

mean, I like olive oil on my food and stuff.

4:09

It tasted like oil. I

4:12

could not tell the difference. I mean, the four special

4:14

olive oils that were fancy and

4:16

expensive when I was just maybe this, you

4:18

know, Luddi-dise is me. I

4:21

mean, I'm sure I could taste a difference

4:23

between a good olive oil and a bad olive oil on food,

4:26

but just taking it as a shot. It

4:29

didn't work for me. It was a little

4:31

gross. I'll be honest. Gross. Well,

4:34

I'm sure that there are people

4:36

out there screaming that you missed a

4:38

beautiful experience. Yeah, I didn't miss it. I did

4:41

it. Oh, I tried it and did it.

4:43

I mean, they weren't full shot. Yeah, they were little

4:45

tiny things, but yeah, I did it. I

4:48

tried them all for right. We specifically

4:50

chose a food tour that did not have any

4:53

fish. That's not my thing. So

4:55

we did try several various hams and

4:57

things like that. But because that's

5:00

a big thing in Spain is their ham. And

5:02

yes, Spain and Italy both produce

5:05

more olive oil than Greece does. But

5:08

Greece, 82 percent

5:10

of it is considered ultra high quality,

5:13

extra virgin olive oil. They have the best

5:15

olive oil. I've just offended

5:18

all the Italians and Spaniards, but that's

5:20

what this article says. So I'm going to say I'm

5:22

the one who's like Spain. Your olive oil

5:24

is olive oil was uninspiring.

5:28

I again, just it was like saying,

5:30

you know, you like cookies, right? Here's some

5:32

flour. Try these different kinds of flour

5:35

and just take a spoonful

5:37

of it. Didn't really click with me. So

5:40

so when my oldest son

5:43

graduated from high school, he

5:45

wanted to go on a senior trip. Yep. And

5:47

so I'm like, sweet, let's go to Mexico.

5:51

So I took him to Puerto Vallarta, which I love. And

5:54

we did one of these tours where they take

5:56

you out and do stuff. And this being

5:58

Puerto Vallarta. That's part of

6:01

the region of Mexico where tequila

6:03

comes from. So they took us to

6:05

this old, awesome

6:08

family run middle of the

6:10

jungle tequila place and

6:14

everyone else was sampling it while my Mormon

6:17

son and I just kind of sat there twiddling

6:19

our thumbs and they kept saying,

6:21

are you okay? This is free. You

6:23

can have it. We're like, no, we're fine. Do

6:27

you want to describe for our listeners

6:29

what Adam has created? Yeah,

6:31

so Adam sits in the back and

6:33

while everyone else is working, he

6:36

just asks Mid-Journey to create images

6:39

of whatever we're talking about. And this one is Tom

6:41

Cruise pulling a

6:43

jar of olive oil out

6:46

of, I

6:47

don't know.

6:48

It's like he's stealing it, but it's

6:51

coming from the ceiling just kind of magically.

6:53

Yeah. Maybe it's falling

6:56

out of the jar. Oh, you know what

6:58

he's doing? He's milking the

7:01

olive oil producing. That's how you

7:03

get olive oil. You milk the olive oil tree, the olive

7:05

tree. The tree. Yes, you milk the tree. Okay.

7:08

Yeah. He just put up another one that is really

7:11

disconcerting because Tom Cruise is staring directly

7:14

at my face. The other one, he's looking

7:16

dramatically off to the side like scouting

7:18

for danger. This one, he's just looking at me and

7:21

I know he's going to try to give me that olive

7:23

oil. Or he's going to punch me and

7:25

run off with it. So you mentioned

7:28

being the Luddites that weren't drinking, not

7:30

like the tea toddlers that

7:32

weren't. It's not a Luddite to not drink.

7:34

It's a Luddite to not appreciate the olive

7:37

oil. When I was in France as

7:39

a teenager, it's interesting

7:41

because I stayed with a host family

7:43

and they were delightful. I think I may have told you

7:45

that story. And the father was

7:48

great, but he had the

7:51

French accent. He laughed.

7:53

Ha, ha, ha. He did that. Right?

7:56

Like I thought that that was just a straight

7:59

up stereotype. and things and I was like, oh,

8:01

but then he's there. He's like, oh, like he

8:03

just did it. And I'm like, are you doing this

8:06

to joke with me? I don't think he was. So

8:08

you did a student exchange program with

8:10

the chef from Little Mermaid. Yes, I basically

8:13

did. He kind of looked like chef

8:15

Louie, right? But in a cop's uniform

8:17

because he was a policeman. Yeah. And one of the

8:19

last days I was there, they knew I didn't drink.

8:22

They'd never tried to give me much wine. They'd

8:24

asked just to see. But the last day was there, they

8:26

got out the champagne and handed me a cup and I'm like, guys, I

8:29

don't drink. And he's like, bought it champagne.

8:32

It's yeah, it

8:34

wasn't wine. I'm like, I'm drinking like, well, it's champagne

8:37

and was baffled, just genuinely

8:41

baffled. Because in his head, that

8:43

was like Henneby Sprite, right? Yeah, that

8:45

wasn't alcohol. That was champagne,

8:47

completely different thing. So

8:49

and, you know, I'm 17. So

8:52

there's multiple reasons that I don't want to be having

8:55

my first drink. But yeah,

8:57

I will say for olive oil, before

8:59

we leave this topic, a chef in

9:02

Spain, very nice man who runs some

9:04

very nice restaurants and happens to be a fan of the books, gave

9:06

me some of his olive oil. And

9:08

I put it on food and it was delicious. I

9:11

didn't try to drink it. Yeah, right. So, you

9:14

know, Spain does have good olive oil, his olive oil

9:16

was really good. It was like four varieties.

9:18

And I could taste the differences when I put it on the food. There

9:21

was like a lemon infused one and some things

9:23

like that. But yeah, okay. So

9:25

I'm not completely worthless. But

9:28

shots of olive oil, maybe not my thing.

9:31

So the year before the

9:33

pandemic, it might have been two years before

9:35

I went to the Guadalajara Book Fair. Okay,

9:37

which was awesome. And I loved it.

9:40

I love Mexico. But Guadalajara

9:42

again, it's like where tequila comes from. And

9:44

so everywhere I went, I

9:47

did school visits, I did interviews

9:50

with people, pretty much everyone

9:52

I met gave me a bottle

9:54

of tequila or rum. Right. And

9:56

I don't drink. And so I wanted to

9:59

make sure that I was incredibly gracious

10:01

and thank you so much. This is so kind of

10:03

you, you know, because it is yep, a really

10:05

heartfelt and genuine gesture. And I didn't

10:07

want to be the jerk who's like, I don't drink.

10:10

So I took them all and

10:13

just had like a row of 20 bottles

10:15

or whatever it was in my hotel room and ended up

10:17

just giving them to the hotel staff.

10:20

But yeah, I think the last bottle

10:22

of wine I was given I gave to Mary Robinette. Oh,

10:25

well, there you go. We were both at a convention

10:28

and I'm like, she

10:30

has experience with being a wine connoisseur.

10:32

Maybe she'll find that this is good wine. Yeah. Yeah,

10:35

I did have a teacher in high school find

10:38

a student who was going student mentioned

10:40

that she was traveling to Mexico and

10:43

asked her to bring him back a bottle of tequila.

10:47

This is like a 15 year old. Yeah. He

10:49

was coincidentally my French teacher. And

10:51

he was a native speaker who maybe did not

10:53

understand American ways

10:56

of doing things. He got fired. Oh,

10:58

for that. Partially for that. And

11:01

nothing. He didn't do anything terrible like but

11:03

there were multiple instances like that. Like he him

11:06

crossing boundary crossing boundaries. He came to school

11:08

and was selling jackets that his cousin had

11:11

like shipped into the US at cheap.

11:13

And he's like selling jackets to students and take

11:16

asked students to bring him tequila. And

11:18

this is when you were in high school high school. So,

11:20

you know, yeah, he is asking

11:22

me 911. You could just bring bottles of whiskey

11:25

onto planes. Yeah, but he cared. And so like,

11:27

but, you know, asking a 15 year old to buy

11:29

you a bottle of tequila and bring it to you at

11:31

school. Yeah. Yeah. So all

11:34

right. Well, speaking of people giving people

11:36

things, you see these big

11:38

boxes that I have? I see these big boxes. I

11:40

have heard. I've heard rumors. Yes.

11:43

Of what's happening here. First of all, I

11:45

apologize. You

11:48

sent this to me, dear listener.

11:50

And it's been like a month and a half.

11:52

And that's because I was not here

11:55

last time we recorded. And so this

11:57

has had to wait. Basically, somebody

11:59

watch. the episode where

12:01

you were opening all the cool Magic the

12:03

Gathering Lord of the Rings stuff and

12:06

felt bad for me so

12:08

he sent me a bunch of stuff to

12:10

open in front of you. This

12:13

is my just desserts. This is absolutely

12:16

appropriate way to approach this. Yeah.

12:18

Yeah. So Dawn has already gone through all

12:20

this stuff to make sure that

12:22

there's nothing like perishable in it or

12:24

I'm not gonna pull out a bunch of porn or whatever

12:27

but I have no idea

12:29

what's in any of these things. This

12:31

is definitely a box but

12:34

I don't know. What are we gonna talk about

12:36

while I open this? I can tell you my

12:39

kids like I

12:41

have kind of in some ways ruined

12:43

them because

12:46

you know I like a good dad joke. I

12:49

like the even the oh oh. Fast

12:53

and the Furious Highway Heist board

12:55

game. A cooperative

12:57

strategy game. So of

13:01

course it's cooperative because we're family.

13:06

Oh man Dan you need to

13:09

read the rules of this not right now but I

13:11

want you to return and report to us. Oh this is

13:13

amazing. If they have rules for how

13:16

being superheroes of a car is involved

13:18

right like can you take

13:21

less damage if your character falls

13:23

onto a car? Well it looks like the characters

13:25

are cars. The little thing

13:28

on the back just has some cars

13:30

on a board. Now I see

13:33

human catapult and

13:36

oh my gosh you're right. And words right there.

13:38

So humans are involved if

13:40

they're being catapulted and I mean

13:43

that's a good sign that if you land on a car

13:45

after you've been catapulted that maybe

13:47

your human will not die. Okay so

13:49

the first sentence of the description on the back is

13:52

get ready for an exciting new mission

13:54

playing as Dom, Brian, Letty,

13:57

Roman and the rest of team Toretto

13:59

on a a harrowing high-speed

14:01

heist. That's not bad. No,

14:04

that is not good. The person needs to write headlines

14:06

for people who steal hot dogs. Hmm. All

14:09

right, but you were saying you've

14:11

ruined your kids for something. I've ruined my kids because

14:14

I like dad jokes, right? Mm-hmm. They

14:16

all make dad jokes now. They're not supposed to.

14:18

They're supposed to hate them, right? Yeah. That's

14:20

the whole thing about dad jokes. Have we talked

14:22

about this? We talked about that. Yeah, I think we have. We talked

14:25

about the idea that dad jokes

14:27

are training wheels jokes to help

14:29

kids understand the concept of puns

14:31

and things like this. And I really like that, you

14:34

know, ten years ago the idea of dad joke

14:36

became the term for it. It's a really good term because

14:38

it really is, you know, dad's making

14:40

jokes to get their kids

14:43

understanding jokes. You have to make them really obvious.

14:45

Mm-hmm. Then as a kid's age, you

14:48

realize that they start to get the jokes

14:50

and they laugh at them and then they move into the this is a

14:52

bad joke. But it was deliberately a

14:54

bad joke because you had to do something really obvious to

14:56

get a five-year-old to understand you're telling them a

14:59

joke. Yeah. And then dads naturally

15:01

fall into the, and I'll say, moms

15:03

can give dad jokes too, so parents, uncles

15:05

can give dad jokes, you know. Those who interact

15:08

with children learn that as the kids

15:10

find them funny as they age, they

15:12

then start to find them annoying, right? Yeah.

15:15

But my kids have started to make

15:17

them and one of the big ones that I

15:19

used to do when they were really little, nope,

15:23

there we are. My little semi truck. My

15:25

semi truck. What

15:28

do you call a truck? Do you call that a semi? I

15:30

call that a semi, yeah. Call it a diesel? Nope,

15:33

I don't call it a lorry. I just call it a

15:35

semi truck. Helicopter

15:38

on a little stand. This is turning

15:40

into a commercial for whoever made

15:42

the Fast and the Furious board game. Funko

15:45

games. Oh, it's fun. By

15:48

definition. So,

15:51

anyway, one of the ones I did when they were really little is

15:53

they would give me a gift. I would take out

15:55

the wrapping and I'd say, it's a box!

15:58

Oh, thanks. I need these a lot. I need to put

16:00

gifts in them and I need to stack things.

16:03

And you know, the kid being like, oh, dad,

16:05

look what side they start with. No, no, no, no. Look

16:07

inside the box. There's more because as a kid,

16:09

they like boxes. Yeah. It's not just a

16:11

box. It's something else. And then they move into,

16:13

oh, dad, not this

16:16

dumb joke again. My kids do it every

16:18

time they get a gift. Now, every

16:20

one of my three children, they get a gift, they take

16:22

out the wrap and they say, it's a box. And the other two are

16:24

like, it's a box. Yay. They've gone

16:27

back because they

16:29

make the joke. So you were saying, you know,

16:31

it's a box. Well, it's a box.

16:33

It's a box. All

16:36

five of the little player cars are

16:38

different designs of cars. Hey. And

16:40

I don't know what cars look like. So I

16:43

have no idea which designs of cars they are. There's

16:46

a purple one.

16:47

Well,

16:47

that's a very thoughtful gift. It's a very

16:50

appropriate gift. You are quite the fan of board

16:52

games. I am. And

16:54

I love them. You love heist. And

16:57

we have indeed talked about Fast and Furious

16:59

many times on our podcast. So last

17:02

year, actually exactly

17:04

a year ago, cause it was at Dragonsteel. Yeah.

17:07

I announced that I was

17:09

going to do a big board game retreat. Oh

17:12

yeah. And that happened earlier this

17:14

July and it was awesome and we loved it. So

17:16

we decided that next year in 24, we're

17:19

going to do two. And we

17:21

posted those about

17:23

a week ago on Friday. And one of them

17:26

sold out by Sunday. Okay. But

17:28

I will absolutely take this to those board

17:31

game retreats. Yep. I expect

17:33

a full report on how good a game it is and how

17:35

ridiculous it is. Cause if it's good, but not ridiculous,

17:38

I'll be disappointed. I don't

17:40

know when, because you don't have time.

17:43

Becky's right there. Schedule a time

17:45

when I can make him play the Fast and the Furious

17:47

board game. I've

17:50

told you before, I was pretty disappointed in the Discworld

17:52

board game. It was a good design

17:55

and a good game, but it wasn't funny.

17:58

Yeah. Right. And. And I can maybe

18:01

see their problem. Discworld

18:03

being one of my favorite book series of all time,

18:06

lots of adaptations of Discworld have problems

18:09

in that if you remove the Pratchett from

18:11

Discworld, it just becomes weird. And

18:13

the board game had the same problem. It was just

18:15

weird rather than funny. But

18:18

you know, you don't have Terry to write stuff for you. I

18:20

can see just being like, well, we're just going to do it about the world

18:22

and the characters. But then that just doesn't

18:25

quite work. Without the wit and

18:28

without the heart. But

18:31

a lot of Pratchett adaptations are

18:33

like this. The only good Pratchett adaptation is

18:35

Good Omens. And you had the

18:38

co-creator of the story

18:40

there as the showrunner who knew how

18:42

to get the humor in. Did you

18:44

watch the second season of Good Omens? I haven't

18:46

gotten to it yet. I

18:49

won't say what I thought about it. Because then maybe

18:51

we can talk about it at some point. Did

18:54

we talk Good Omens on this? We have talked about

18:57

it. We talked about how you

18:59

thought that the ending was better

19:01

in the show and I thought the ending was better in the

19:03

book. I don't think there's

19:05

been a full

19:07

length episode though. Because some

19:10

of the stuff they added in there to

19:12

just show what's in the books was

19:14

so good. Probably

19:17

glaring at the plants and making them shiver

19:19

and stuff like that. Just really nice. Anyway,

19:22

what do you got? So first of all, here's the gift

19:24

receipt. This is from Dallas and

19:26

Sheila. Dallas and Sheila. So

19:28

thank you. First we

19:31

have little

19:33

kid Donatello from

19:36

the mutant mayhem movie of Funko

19:38

Pop. They've done

19:40

all their shopping at Funko apparently. Well,

19:43

I love it. He's gonna have to join like

19:45

Shallon and Adolin back there and

19:48

hang out. You can sit back there with

19:50

the Klingon teddy bear. Do your kids like

19:52

Funkos? My oldest son,

19:54

the one I was talking about earlier, he used to collect

19:57

them. Right now they are all

19:59

and still. like pristine in the boxes

20:01

because he's a collector player. They're

20:04

all in my garage because

20:06

now he is married and lives on his own

20:08

and they don't have room. But

20:10

he has a pretty extensive

20:13

collection and I go

20:15

out of my way when I go to a Comic Con

20:17

or something to see if I can find

20:19

something awesome for him. My

20:21

kids like them and have been grabbing

20:24

them. They aren't collectors, they just want to have the thing

20:26

out. They want to play with them. We

20:28

went to a family vacation in

20:32

San Francisco a few years ago. This

20:34

would have been

20:36

probably 16

20:37

maybe. Okay. No,

20:39

it was 17. I know because my movie was

20:41

already out because we went to Borderlands Books

20:44

and they wanted to do a signing and then

20:46

we all watched the movie together. So that was

20:48

either 17 or 18. Anyway, while

20:50

we were walking around, there's

20:53

all the little Chachki gift shops

20:56

all over downtown San Francisco. He

20:59

found one that was one of these

21:01

giant ones that's one of

21:03

the Titans from Attack on Titan. He

21:06

was so excited. It was a really

21:09

good deal on it. He bought it and

21:12

we put it in the bag and hung it on the back of

21:14

the stroller because we had a baby. Then

21:18

we had taken the baby out to eat lunch or something

21:21

and a huge gust of wind blew

21:23

the stroller down and just windmill

21:26

slammed the bag with the Titan

21:28

into the ground. It's

21:31

no longer pristine and pretty and he was not

21:33

happy about that. I'm

21:35

sorry. That's a tragic

21:38

story. Tragic story of loss. I

21:40

know. Yep. Timeless tragic

21:43

story of loss. My son did just get,

21:45

it wasn't a Funko Pop, it was one of these other things.

21:47

He got a little plushy, I

21:49

think, or figurine of the turtle pope from

21:52

Elden Ring that I dressed up as last

21:54

year. So nice. Okay,

21:57

so this looks like another Funko. Okay.

22:00

Based on the I hope it's the rock.

22:02

It's not okay, but it's amazing.

22:05

Okay This is one of those

22:07

like specialty ones. Is it the burglar?

22:09

It is Dia de los Muertos

22:12

Batman. I Didn't

22:16

know they even made these that is

22:18

so cool Wow, I currently have

22:20

seven skulls in my office

22:23

upstairs This will look wonderful

22:26

next to them So yeah, cuz the

22:28

only funco that I have actually went to

22:30

Emily It's a funco of me

22:32

because you can do custom ones Oh you can

22:34

buy a blank funco and then do your own Customization

22:37

funco sells those and so they made a brand

22:39

in funco Okay, I'm holding a little

22:41

cosper book They meaning like the

22:44

fan who bought it some oh the fan who

22:46

bought it gave it to me at a convention bought a blank

22:48

one And made a brand in funco. That's so cool.

22:51

Mm-hmm. I I actually

22:53

have to cuz someone made me a zap also a

22:56

zap. Yeah, that sounds a drum light

22:58

archive Yeah, I love it. If

23:00

you're listening whoever gave me the brandon and

23:03

or the zap funco. Thank you Okay,

23:05

here's one more funco and this

23:08

might be the greatest funco pop ever

23:10

created It is a ding

23:13

dong With

23:15

legs and a face and

23:18

a bite out of it Wow, okay

23:21

Okay, oh My

23:25

goodness how many times am I gonna accidentally

23:28

try to eat this in my office and

23:30

here I lied to you I just remember to have a third funco

23:32

you have a third funco. I have Jace the mind sculptor.

23:35

Oh From magic. Yeah.

23:37

Okay. Someone gave me that as well. That's

23:40

not It's not a ding

23:42

dong, but it's now pretty awesome. I'm

23:45

I'm kind of shocked That

23:47

they were able to target you so well with things

23:50

you've talked about on the podcast and or

23:52

interests of yours clearly they Knew

23:54

me they saw me coming. Well, and

23:56

also clearly there

23:59

are a lot more kinds of Funko pops

24:01

than I thought because there's

24:03

ding-dong Funko pops Who

24:05

know? Well, it's cuz you

24:08

don't search the Funko pop things

24:10

at Comic Con zone I don't last

24:12

one I bought for my son again was Tupac

24:14

and The

24:17

same line has a

24:19

biggie, but I haven't been able to find the biggie

24:21

anywhere But we

24:23

have a Tupac Shakur Funko pop Alright

24:27

looks like there's Two more

24:29

things in here, okay? Thundar

24:35

the Barbarian on Blu-ray

24:40

and The thing that's exciting about

24:42

this is that Peter

24:45

Yes, his kind of big

24:47

online nickname that he used to use all the

24:49

time and I think he still does I've seen him use

24:51

it on a vision is Ookla the mock. Yes,

24:53

though It's not based off of Ookla the mock the

24:55

character from thundar the barbarian

24:58

It's not it is based off of Ookla the mock the

25:00

filk singing group Who

25:03

based their name off of Ookla the mock

25:05

that's the most Peter thing. He's several

25:07

generations removed Okay, Ookla

25:09

the mock carrying on yes, so

25:11

yeah that is Ookla the

25:14

mock right there Yeah, it's kind of

25:16

Chewbacca guy riding a horse yep,

25:18

and they're not really a horse But a

25:20

filk group called Ookla the mock I actually

25:23

know that because in college he sent me

25:26

Links to a bunch of Ookla the mock songs so

25:29

so that is the most Peter thing ever mmm-hmm

25:32

Yeah naming yourself after a filk group.

25:35

That's named after a What

25:37

was thundar the barbarian was that like a minor

25:39

niche cartoon? Was it I remember

25:42

watching it want to say it was same group

25:44

of space ghost Or something

25:47

like that same era okay before

25:49

but way before space no no you're

25:51

thinking of space ghost the character Oh, you're right.

25:53

I'm thinking of coast to coast coast to coast so space

25:55

ghost was revived And they use the

25:57

old animations from as old

26:00

Hanna-Barbera. Is this Hanna-Barbera?

26:03

It's Warner Brothers, so probably.

26:05

So I want to say it's like the same, like

26:08

it might not have been actually,

26:10

but some of these episodes would have like

26:12

two cartoons, that's Thunder the Barbarian

26:14

and something else like Spig Ghost or you

26:17

know, sometimes it would be like a DC

26:19

thing. It'd be like Wonder Twins and Thunder

26:21

the Barbarian. Yeah. 15 minute

26:23

episodes that they probably made

26:26

for some other reason and then repackaged to make a children's

26:28

TV show out of or something, but I

26:31

did see Thunder the Barbarian episodes.

26:33

But the other thing you got to remember out there,

26:35

listener, is that this is like early

26:38

80s. Yeah. So if you

26:40

didn't happen to catch every

26:43

episode because you were home at the time it

26:45

aired, you haven't seen all

26:47

of Thunder the Barbarian. No, you have not. So

26:49

I've seen five or six episodes

26:51

of it. There's 21 episodes

26:54

and I now own them all. Is it Thunder

26:56

the Barbarian also in space? Like isn't it

26:58

a science fiction barbarian show? It's

27:01

like a post apocalypse show. Oh, that's right. Because

27:03

the moon is shattered in half, right? Yeah,

27:06

that's what it is. So it is science fiction,

27:08

but it's post apocalyptic. It

27:10

there's yeah. So it's fantasy,

27:13

sci-fi combo. No

27:15

surprise at all that you

27:17

and I and Peter all exactly the same

27:19

age grew up watching this thing and

27:22

geeked out about it. So awesome. Thank

27:25

you for that. This is what I'm going to

27:27

make the staff watch with

27:29

me in the Wind Runner Theater. Our

27:32

next movie night is going to be Thunder the

27:34

Barbarian. We haven't done a bad movie night. We

27:36

have not since Yo Yo

27:38

Girl Cop. I think that Yo Yo Girl Cop

27:41

was so bad that

27:43

we haven't needed any

27:46

more of that flavor in a while. We have done several

27:48

good movie nights. Yes. But we

27:50

haven't done a bad movie night. You and I

27:52

have been planning for I don't

27:55

even remember how many months to see

27:57

our to watch our our when am I

27:59

watching that now? You told me I'm when I'm watching it next

28:02

month next month week before Dragon's

28:04

deal before I don't know exactly which day We

28:06

just have to be that's been decided get it on my schedule

28:08

so I don't schedule something on top of it. Yep So

28:11

was there one more thing you said there was one more. There's one more

28:13

thing in the box, but what?

28:25

That could be you they could that could be good.

28:27

Yeah I mean if

28:29

you get me on I'll have watched it. Mm-hmm. So

28:31

that can be our live episode I don't know we

28:34

get live a little even

28:36

extra silly Yeah, and maybe

28:39

our isn't the best thing to discuss

28:41

live when we're you know When

28:43

we're going off topic at the slightest

28:45

provocation Yeah so every year at

28:48

the convention I do a movie night where people

28:50

can watch a movie with me and We tried

28:52

to get the rights to our RR this year and we

28:54

couldn't yeah Which you probably

28:56

go because it's a three-hour movie. Yeah, what

28:58

are you watching? We are gonna watch sing

29:01

Street Which is an indie Irish

29:03

movie. Okay. I have

29:05

never even heard of it. It's awesome

29:07

It's about a kid who in order

29:10

to impress a girl He pretends to be in

29:12

a band and she calls his bluff

29:14

and then he has to actually form a band in

29:16

order to keep it Going and it's

29:18

wonderful. I love it All

29:21

right one thing left in here It

29:25

is fast and the furious

29:28

Legos Wow

29:30

Mm-hmm. Okay. So

29:33

this looks like the same Black

29:36

car that is in the board game That's

29:39

a black car. So whatever kind

29:41

of car this is a Dodge. Is it a charger?

29:44

It is. It's a Dodge Charger

29:46

so

29:47

Then there's a little Lego guy of Dom

29:50

nice Dom in his charger.

29:53

Well, that was very cool. This

29:56

was honestly way

29:59

more thoughtful and insightful than I thought

30:01

it would be. I was really hoping for

30:03

ridiculous dumb things, and it's actually just

30:05

full of cool stuff. Yeah. I need to come up

30:07

with a dumb one to send you myself. Hahahaha!

30:11

Ooh! Should we do that one live? We

30:13

could do that one live. I'll make a bag of stupid

30:16

stuff for you, and you make a bag

30:18

of stupid stuff for me, and we'll open them. Okay,

30:21

okay, I can do that. I can do that. I might

30:23

enlist Ben's help, so you can't do so. I've

30:25

already called Ben. Okay. Ben's my second for

30:27

the duel. You called Ben.

30:29

Okay.

30:31

We could do the beard handoff live too.

30:33

Mmm. I'm not

30:36

gonna hand off the beard until I have to. Okay.

30:38

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yep.

30:40

So.

30:42

Wonderful. So, speaking

30:44

of Fast and the Furious. Yep. It is

30:47

important that our listeners know

30:49

that you went on a writing retreat. I

30:51

did. And you were trying very

30:54

hard to be responsible and write, and you did write

30:56

a bunch. I did. And it was a very successful

30:58

retreat. It was. But I, partially

31:02

as a bid to distract you and

31:04

ruin your writing retreat, I wrote

31:06

up a bunch of magic,

31:09

the gathering mechanics for

31:11

a hypothetical set based on

31:13

Fast and the Furious. Did

31:15

that steal any of your time, or did you just

31:17

go, I will look at this later? I did. I will look at

31:19

this later. Since I was on. So,

31:22

I haven't even looked at it yet. Oh, still? Still

31:24

haven't. I will. Well. But I haven't yet. Suffice

31:27

it to say that it is brilliant. Well,

31:31

very good. Thank you to

31:34

Dallas and Sheila for these surprisingly

31:37

thoughtful gifts. I have made

31:40

Brandon feel as small and

31:42

unimportant as he made me feel

31:44

when opening all his presents. How's

31:48

that, Ben?