Dice Shame - 2-83 | 'Above the Law'

Episode Date: March 28, 2024

Imagine your best game of D&D. The shocks, the twists and turns, the moments that can’t be caught because you just had to be there. That’s Dice Shame.Join our DM Jo, her husband Harlan, their brother Alex & their best friends Rob and Alex as they experience those unmissable, gut-wrenching, heart-aching, joy-filled moments.This legendary AP releases a brand new episode every Thursday morning at 1:20 am!Content Warning: animal death, swearing, violence, claustrophobiaPart of the Rusty Quill Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm gonna stop talking. Hey, that makes sense. Can you spare it, Red? Maybe you could try running ahead a little bit. Suckin! That kind of Cheshire cat shit is this. It's so hot, Red. I don't know.

I need some more jerks. They don't carry weapons, but they're gonna tell the guards if they see us. I want to, wow! Dorian and I have been practicing cartography. I think we can map this out. It's always the sewer every time. There goes our best friend that we never got to meet. It's a game of wits.

God, damn, he's good. With two idiots. One of you is an idiot. Welcome back to This is Season 2 Episode 83 Above the Law MVP this week is Rache

Rache is a big Jack Stan Probably the biggest And she's just shared some amazing Jack art that she created So thanks for sharing Rache We like you a whole lot. Hells, yeah, we do. You're this week's MVP.

As soon as you become a red stand. All right, shall we do this? Yeah, let's play some D&D. Woo! Happy Easter, everybody. So, so when my cousin, when she was small, the first holiday she, like, recalls going to, was Easter and everybody said happy Easter

and it was great. The next holiday comes around everybody's around the table. Happy Easter again because that's what you say at a holiday and so then our family at every holiday at my whole growing up, every holiday was happy Easter because of something my cousin did when they were small. That's pretty cute. That's the way child minds work.

But that's happy Easter night just. Oh no, she was 25. Yeah. She was smaller than she is now, but Happy Easter. My grandmother had this giant stack of like Christmas cards. I don't know where she got them. I want to say some charity or something. And she was like, why would I buy more cards for other holidays? I already have a stack of Christmas cards. So you would get before your birthday, you get a card. And Christmas would be crossed out. And then like birthday would

be written in. So I still have. That's rationing for you. I still have. That's classic. The generational trauma of being poor. I have one. I have one still. I love it because it's like a winter wonderland scene, and then it says, like, thinking of you this birthday season. That's excellent, awesome. I love it still. I'm all about that, though. I mean, honestly, overall, I kind of think cards are kind of stupid sometimes. I mean, it really depends.

How do you really feel? Don't let your wife get. Well, I mean. I mean. But you know what I mean? And that's why I didn't get one for Valentine's Day. You wrote me a beautiful Valentine's Day thing. Oh, listen.

But it wasn't because I think they're stupid. Doesn't mean I'm an idiot. It wasn't on a card. It wasn't a poster. It was a big poster. No, it was gorgeous. It's like a 3D bouquet and I wrote a little thing. Listen, I know how to pull up the stops, okay?

But I don't know. I also think, I don't know, card, like, card giving is kind of weird. I feel like for most people half the time, it's an obligation to be like, yeah. All right, I'll do. You know what I mean? Like, sure. There are definitely moments, maybe for some people, it's a higher percentage. There are definitely moments where you're like, I really want to put my thoughts on a paper.

And I think for that is great. Yeah. But the obligation. aspect of it, it kind of sours the rest of it, you know what I mean? Because when you write this meaningful thing for an anniversary, and then you got to give a fucking card for like Arbor Day, you're like, ah, man.

Fucking Arbor Day cards. Merry Christmas, cross it out. I like to get a card, okay? And any card I give, I always write, like, a nice note in it. Like something hard-felt. Even if it has, like, a heartfelt note in it. But I'm sure you all have

people in your lives that will buy a card and just put their name Oh, yeah. I never understand that. I don't understand. And that's kind of my point. That's like the biggest piece of the newspaper, put your name on it. Like, the fuck is the point of this.

Post-it notes. Especially the ones, and the irony is when the ones are blank on the inside, too, and it's like a heart on the outside. You open up, it's just like, Joe. To or from. Depending on who it's going to, like, Rachel and I have started giving each other cards, not lining up with the holidays so much as like when you see a card that inspires

somebody, where it's like, Oh, that one made me think of you. I'm going to grab that and find an occasion to, you know, hide it somewhere in the house. Just because it was like a... Hallmark has got you by the short and curleys. Buying all these cards for random events for no reasons. I love cards from people.

If there's something nice in them, if it's just like what Rob's talking about. If it's like a weird... It looks like you spit on the paper on this one. Oh, my God. This is just a death threat. Good Lord. It looks like someone wiped their ass with this.

The big black spot. I guess the pirates are coming to me. What? the message in the card doesn't have to be the all of it if it's not just generic art on it and there was something like oh this one because I thought of you for this reason and there's some other association

a hundred percent and that's like the circumstance where I'm all in for them because to me that's no different than like a gift as well it's like sometimes it'll be like oh I was walking to the store or whatever let's be honest I was on Amazon and I found something that reminded me of you so I got this for you

my parents are not online shop really, so they'll always buy their cards in person, but they're also so codependent that they don't really do anything not together. And so they've gotten into the habit of instead of buying each other cards, they'll just pick out cards from the aisle of whatever store they're in and show them to each other and say, this is the card I would get for you, and then they just put them back. That's so, that is brilliant, really. It is, but you're missing the other part is that they're really cheap. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, cute, but knowing them

you're also like, I kind of get why this was also appealing. Yes. Because it's like, but we can also save $5 here. The cards these days are $7 a piece. That's what I mean. You're missing the like the whole conversation that happened. And we need to get two of them? Absolutely. What if I wrote on one side and you run on the other and then we ran the other side?

Joe's mother is the kind of woman who like writes down the price of the gas at the gas station. In a little book. And keeps the book to know whether they've gone up or down and like well additionally that's a new level track of the mileage on the car so she calculates the dollars per gallon that the car is getting to be able to find it whether the like engine is I mean I appreciate the hustle but it it needs a spreadsheet well yeah no she would never like I want a fancy graph though

I just want to put the data in for today and have my updated graph I love the woman and she's amazing and I sincerely mean it. Oh, but now I'm pro cards. And I love the idea that you and Rachel are giving cards to each other when they seem appropriate. It seems really cute. I went through a phase. It was a fairly quick phase, but I think I'm going to go back to it where I was picking out like kids

cards for my friends and just adding numbers. Oh yeah. Yay, you're three 30. Yeah, three, man. And then just add the seven in there. One of my friends, she got me as a joke that she got them on sale somewhere and it's all these like

1980s like nudie cards but they're all these dudes and so but here's the problem she didn't think of i just keep giving them back to her so happy birthday christine here's another naked man from the 80s excellent just keep going back and forth you fool my alma she became computer literate i guess about 20 years ago um to a certain extent and and she decided to use their word processing software to create cards and did that until the day she died. And she added whatever kind of clip art she felt was appropriate for the occasion and picked out the wildest font she could think of. Curls?

I always, yeah, so many curls. My grandmother, late in life, also came into like a computer and getting word processing. But every letter she ever typed you was all caps. There was no such thing as a lowercase. It was just every letter. Well, they show up as capital letters on the keyboard. I don't know why that aesthetic appealed to her, but it was, it was the, it was her jam. I remember, I mean, I remember for a lot of birthdays and stuff, we would go on the computer and print out cards for each other.

Remember Alex? And like dad and mom would be like the little banners. What was that? Yeah, the banners. What was that? Software color. But there was definitely like a. software that was like just pick the template but you know it's it's reignited kind of a joy out of that

you know i would love i mean it would be so much better uh around any holiday for henry to like get to make a card you know for a sister for you for me what i was just going to say i mean i i really i don't find that buying a card is like that sincere that's why i always put a message in it like a a nicely worded thought out message because i don't feel like buying a card is sincere and with the kids that the fact that they can't really write a whole sentence like yet i i i will get them to make a card so mother's day it's like okay kids you know we're going to do this on like a tuesday before the mother's day where we get together and make a car yeah that's fair that that that has you know their love and well because you know what it is i think i think more

than the card more than anything and and this is kind of what rob and rach do it's being thought of. It's not really about the card. It's about, hey, I took a second. And to me, this is gift giving in general. Like, to me, the best part about a gift is that someone thought about you. Even if it's for five fucking seconds, they were like, you know what? Maybe you'd like this. This harkens back to a thing you said to me a year ago. This harkens back to a memory that we shared. This is something that I've seen you, you know? To me, the ultimate gift is just something that you took a second to think about somebody. And that's what a card is meant to represent. think. But so many people kind of just do it as like obligation. I just put a

post-it note that says from Alex. So you know that I don't want to write a card. Good look. Why even use the post-it note? Just write it right on the gift. Yeah, just like an oil pencil or something. That's true. That's the way to do it. And the other thing that bothers me in this same vein is a wrapping paper. Like it just kind of bothers me the fact. Now here's where I deviate, because to me, there are a few things more satisfying than tearing off the paper on a present. Well, hold on, but let me, let me digress. Why can't you use? Would you? Why can't you use? What if we said no? Have you heard of goose paper? What? What? Newspaper? Do you know what a newspaper is? No, goose paper. This is an acronym. My son came home. Are you just saying newspaper

weirdly. Goose paper is good on one side. It's like, you know, if you're looking for something to draw, oh, grab some goose paper. It's like the fax paper. And on the one side is like fax confirmation on the other side. It's just good. It's like blank, right? Or either that or newspapers or magazines.

Yeah, but what's your point about goose paper? I just thought that was a funny acronym. But my, I guess my point is like, hold on, let me say, you can still rip me. No, no, hold on. Let him cook. Let him cook. You can still rip and tear. No, I'm just saying you can still rip and tear and have that effect using...

I love rip and tear. Pre-used paper as opposed to going out and purchasing wrapping paper. I'm not advocating for necessarily the purchased paper. But I also think that like a present, like a good meal, you eat with your eyes first. You know what I mean? Like a nice looking present is always the first step to utter, you know, orgasmic joy. I want a dissent on wrapping paper. I hate it for two years.

reasons. One, I think it's incredibly wasteful, but also two, I am so bad at wrapping presents. That's a you problem. That's not, you can't be like, it's wasteful and I'm bad at it. You know what? I want, I want a fucking bag. I want a bag so that I can put it in the closet and use it again. But be honest. I don't want to wrap shit. Be honest, though. When someone is giving you a present and they give you a lovely wrapped present. Don't care. Versus a bag. I don't prefer bag. Really? I don't want a mental note.

I'm on you get something to Terry the. I'm prime team bag. I have about. Whoa. You know what? This is a us thing because we have a million bag. Like as a suburban married couple with children, we don't need any more fucking bags. Do not give us a gift bag.

Give me my goddamn gift and I'll leave the paper here. Put it in a plastic grocery bag. Exactly. Over a gift bag. My friend once did that. She wrapped a gift for me in her coat. when you were in like we were in grade seven and she wrapped it in the only thing she had which was a tim horton's bag with a grocery bag wrapped around it and there were still crumbs in the

present when i got it oh no i will reuse that grocery bag much faster than i'm going to reuse it as this shuck loose the memory of i forget who it was around christmas when whoever got a present in a bag is like do you want that bag oh i'm going to take the bag so i can have all the bags that nobody wants was that at our christmas party or somebody would do that oh not your christmas just like an old one that I just have this memory from... Okay, can we at least all agree that the worst fucking gift givers on earth are the people that make these joke wrapping

where they screw two pieces of plywood and cover it and tape and duct tape for miles and then they throw it in the fucking lake and they chain it. I hate that. I find that so cringing. There's a limit to that, right? Because you can't lose the rhythm of we're unwrapping presents now

and we're having a fun time. But you do, you always do. Ruin the rhythm of Christmas morning trying to. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just regular rapping. But Harlan, are you against box inside a box?

No, no, no, no, no. Let me be crystal clear. And we all know this type of person. It's the... What's a win? They're the worst. They're filming it while they're doing it. And they're going to the...

They're screwing on all these bolts and they're, like, I've seen some people like soldering the fucking bolts into place and shit. It's a psychopath. I remember giving it. giving dad a pocket knife when we were young, and I wrapped the hell out of it in tape, like, like so many layers of tape. And the irony was that I was giving him a knife, so he needed a knife to open it. And I remember wrapping presents that you would get, I think I probably

did it for you, where you have a cardboard backing and then you wrap it at the bottom so it looks like a toy, like a GI Joe toy, but you open it up and it's like something small at the bottom and you're like, yeah, that's fine. I'm talking about the people that make it about them and the way that they wrapped it. I find that so annoying. If someone, if someone honestly got me something and wrapped like that, I would look at it,

look at them, be like, nah, I'm good. And I would just fucking walk away. I don't need this bad. I don't care what it is. If I ever want to keep something,

I know what to do. I'm not your monkey. Genuinely, genuinely, genuinely, I would. And they're like, oh, but it's an iPhone. I'd be like, cool.

Get it out and return it then. Because I'm not fucking unwraping that shit. Okay. But if you had to, if you had to unwrap a gift, like that or eat a tall burger what the fucking fuck a tall burger I hate a tall burger um well you know we're not going to give the audience any presents or cards but we can give them the gift a tall burger we can give them the gift

it's just one of those like a thing that annoys harlan fact back in my brain somewhere we're just like a hundred percent I can't stand it I'm not a fucking snake it's too tall you know what I forgot about that which I appreciate and I would eat the burger but I would deconstruct no you know what I would look at the burger again I'd say take it back. That's not a burger. That's a fucking pie. So for Harlan's birthday,

we are going to go to a restaurant and give him gifts that are like totally, totally overwrapped, overscrew, like everything's done to them and tall burgers only. It's just ruin his birthday. What we're learning is that Harlan needs convenience.

No. Yeah, actually. No, you know what? There are two different things. They're two different things because the wrapping aspect to me is like a me, me, me, me, me thing from the person gift giving.

They want you to kind of pay attention and it's very like no. The burger thing is like a trend. It's like too trendy to the point where it's like I don't need a knife and fork to eat a hamburger. I want a nice flat. I want a hamburger. It looks like someone sat on it on the bus.

That's kind of a burger. I want a burger, not a meatball. Somewhere in between. I mean, I don't want a tall burger, but I also don't want a sat on burger. Sorry. I want a sat on burger. That sounds so good. I want a Smash burger. I would say, smash burger. As long as it has the

adequate amount of pickles on it. I'm fine. Slap anything on that burger. Sort of like our D&D campaign. Yeah, it's a smash burger. That's right. How many pickles do you need

in your D&D campaign? I don't think we've had any yet, have we? Time for the pickle. All right. It's a pretty good pickle. Murray strikes me with somebody who'd be doing canning. Well, maybe we haven't had any pickles,

but we've certainly been in a pickle. Oh, there it is. Like we're in this episode. Shall we do it? Let them cook. Let's play. let's do it we got there

so he's a professional we had the perfect segue and then we ruined it good job guys here's a segue reds rovers have been making their labored way towards Doreen Iron Fist's home

within Scarborough seemingly thwarted at every turn by guards working under direction of Gautier with the help of the owner of Gorgon's town the crew traveled across the city to the Engineers Guild, where they made their next plan with the help of a sooty little alley cat.

Yeah, the cat's got a point. If we can fit into those chimney tunnels, which I think we should be able to, then we've pretty much got a straight shot to my mother's place. We'll come right down basically behind her home. Hey, that makes sense. I always wondered why all these forge fires and stuff in dwarven cities didn't just clog up the ceiling with so you're saying they literally got chimneys that drive all of the smoke up and out absolutely oh yeah let let's go up and doran starts to race up and hang on and she

turns back to the little cat and goes dorin pauses are any people up around there any people in the tunnels some people dwarves no noms guards anyone like any of us The cleaners The cleaners Doren, there are people in the tunnel There's going to be cleaners Other dwarves in there Oh

That would make sense I didn't I never considered that Huh Well that's okay I mean cleaners aren't going to be interested In turning us in necessarily And plus

They're not going to have seen the wanted posters Probably Is um Mari is the Is the cat Is the cat telling you That there's cleaners up there? The cat is like

finishing up the last scrap of jerky and is like licking their face and pause and sort of getting ready to slink away. I wonder if we could coax it with some more of that jerky to kind of do a bit of a scout ahead. Oh, I'd be happy to. Red slowly reaches for his bag. Can you spare it, Red? Of course. If we want, do you think it has more to tell us? Red continues reaching for his bag. Maybe you could try running ahead a little bit. Did you check ahead if we'd want a scout who's not me as a spider Oh yeah

Would it be willing to scout for us for more jerky He says Jerky? If we give you a little more jerky Would you be okay going and checking for any cleaners for us? The cat just licks its lips and looks at you

piercingly. I can't speak animal Mari, what did it say? Red I think I need some more jerky. All right and Red reaches into his bag. Oh no. And it pulls another He's jerky, and he winks at Jack. Because unbeknownst to Jack all the time, he's seen Jack put it back. And Red's really just kind of been playing a meta game with Jack.

They've both been playing with each other on top of each other, where every night Red will take that piece of jerky out, replaces it with a slightly different piece of jerky. It's a game of wits. God, damn, he's good. With two idiots. One of you is an idiot. Two steps in.

The cat. The cat. The cat. She breaks off some more pieces for the cat. Sure. Yeah, the cat takes one, and then without saying a word, just turns tail and heads up the stairs. Let's go! All right, well, either it's going to help us or it's just going to take that jerky and leave, but let's hope it actually helps us. It's a win-win. My jerky's delicious.

It's a win-win. There's less jerky. Yes, less jerky. Red winks at Jack. As you ascend this winding staircase up, up, up into the upper reaches of the engineer. Guild, and then beyond, the air around you begins to get hotter and hotter. I'm not meant for this. I might boil. Oh, wait, then we'd all boil. We all have water in us. Yeah, but I'm damper, more water? Yeah, we have 70% water. You're at what, maybe 90, 80? I don't know.

I don't know. I think Doran and I are kind of built for this, right, Dorn? Built for steam? Yeah. I mean, I don't know much about dark. Dwarves, Doren, we're good with steam, right? We're steamproof? I wouldn't say proof, but definitely some tough. Some tough, and the tougher you are, the tougher, the less tough

this is not healthy for us. Oh, come on, guys, there's nothing wrong with this. Red breathes in deeply. I'm going to stop talking because this is hard on the lungs. It's so hot, Red, I don't know. Oh, the heat's annoying, but the smoke doesn't bother me. My whole family was smokers.

Oh, no, God. Red's lungs are pitch black. Oh, fuck. Come on, guys. Mari's, like, tied her hair into a bun, and she's cast, shape with water to turn it into and, like, turn all the water in it into ice. So it's, like, cool in the back of her neck. Oh, there you go.

She freezes the back of Jack's, like, hood or, like, the cloak or whatever, so that any sweat on it is frozen now. Well, better than it was. Let's get moving. Now I'm wet and hot. Yay. The party ascends these steep stairs all the way up to the upper ventilation shafts of Scarborough. As the temperature increases, so too does the level of soot on the walls, the floor, everything you touch.

Anytime your cloak brushes the surface, you begin to just accumulate dirt and ash. I'm a new jacket. The cat is almost immediately lost. to your sight, Mari, but moments before you are emptied out into the upper tunnel, you hear a tiny voice from one of the side tunnels saying, farewell, and be careful. Oh, that's ominous. Ominous. That kind of Cheshire Cat shit is this. I'll just have you guys know that the cat is gone and also a little creepy. I'd buy that. You are. In a very large main tunnel or master tunnel, I suppose, about every 10 to 20 feet, side tunnels branch off and down those, smaller tunnels branch further.

You suppose every home, every chimney is serviced by one of these tiny chimney lits. Chimlets. This really is like a reverse sewer. It's always the sewer every time. Yeah, but it's like a skyward. So is it presumed that we're kind of in the large stalag tight? I mean, Doren, you have a pretty good sense of direction, even when underground, and you're talking about getting back to your mom's home from a...

And that way is definitely north. There you go. So if that helps you. We're going weist, though. We want to go weist. Well, no, I understand. But you can... Dorian and I have been practicing cartography.

I think we can map this out. That's right. We just need to find a service hatch for this chimlet down here. You begin to hear a terrible roaring sound. Uh-oh. Oh, no. That says terrible. They're firing up this shit furnace.

What? I thought this is not a sewer. That's the last thing I want to hear before I die? The air begins to sizzle and singe with heat. Oh, all right, quick. I think we got to move. And then you see a light coming from down the tunnel. as fast as an arrow.

Holy shit. Everybody rolled dexterity saving throw. Oh, Christ. Suck in. What everyone get? 16. 19. I rolled a 13.

Ellister rolled a 14. 10. Anyone who rolled a 12 or lower, you are caught in the end of a fireball. Holy crap. Hurdles down the tunnel towards you. Elister manages to to throw himself into one of the side tunnels.

I dash right behind him. Yeah. Mari throws herself straight into the next opening. Everyone succeeded except for Red. Red just like, I what the wow! And the fire just like outlines him. Like an anime, like, you see like the black, ashy outline of fucking red caught in the fireball. Red, you take 32 points of fire damage.

Holy shit. Whoa. Thankfully with the I'll ruin, I take half. that but red is still scorched as he like i love the fireball like passes and then you just see like an all blackened charred like wily coyote version of red like limp around the corner and hold up a sign and it says ouch he falls over holy crap oh my don't get caught in a fireball oh boy red you okay okay lesson learned twice today dorn sucks in real tight just be Barely misses the fireball.

Nice. Finches his belly. All right, quick. We need to make our way quickly to the next service hatch. And try a scamper out as deceptively as possible. Yeah, let's go. You move quickly down the tunnel system, taking a left, a right, based on Doran's directions. You hear a sound coming from down one of the tunnels.

Oh, God, is it another? the fireball. I don't think so. Oh, good. From the darkness, a squeaking noise. Cheese bites. Somebody needs oil. Stevie?

No, it's not your rat. Is it like the sound of like wheels? Yes, it is. Cleaners. Oh. Less deadly than a fireball, right? Less deadly, but possibly more deadly. Have you ever dealt with the cleaners before Doran?

Should we hide from them? What? Do Dwarven cleaners carry accents? Or just like big mops. Battle mops. Is there anywhere to hide? Yeah, you guys can like dodge down a different tunnel. This is kind of where Doran was directing you to go.

Let's hide. They don't carry weapons, but they're going to tell the guards if they see us and they, and anybody caught in the tunnels is probably not supposed to be there except for their sweepers. So, shut up and hide them. Red ducks and hides down one of the chimlets. As everyone ducks down a chimlet, you... Ducks down a duct? Nice.

And wait for the cleaners to pass. The entrance of this duct is scrubbed, almost clean by a wiry body that moves in an undulating fashion. This is the worst kind of zamboni. Underneath you see legs. It's almost like a woolly caterpillar, but gigantic.

Its huge body occupies almost the entire tunnel all the way up to the top. Cool. It's a zoom bony. Behind this crawling pipe cleaner, a tiny little contraption with a gnome perched on essentially like a little bicycle. Oh, cool. Driving this moving critter down the tunnel passes through. where you are all waiting. Picture I'm like concentrating so hard on making sure that the path ahead of him is so clean

that he doesn't pay attention. Exactly. As you look out from your hiding place to the left where this cleaning machine animal hybrid past you, you see it wait patiently at the junction of the giant tunnel to allow a fireball to pass through and then it crosses the large tunnel over and, to another set of smaller tunnels. I feel like we all just kind of walk out in awe and stare down the tunnel after it.

Huh. Ah! There goes our best friend that we never got to meet. I want to pet it. Look, after this adventure's over, I want to come back and talk to that guy. Looks cool. Where's the cleaners bar?

Where do they hang out at the end of the day? Yeah. I guess the guild, right? Yeah. That's the cleaner's wife. The giant thing. Nice. Yeah.

They make a great couple. Beautiful, beautiful interspecies couple. I wonder if they're into the kind of stuff that Torn and Jack's chest reveals. Oh, no. Let's go, Doren. Come on. All right.

You continue down the tunnels following Doren's lead, finally making your way to the stalactite that culminates in a point in the center of Doreen's neighborhood. And as you descend, you hear the small sounds of dozens of litters of kittens all being kept warm by this sooty, smoky ventilation system. Oh. Uh-huh.

That's why they're all sooty. Yeah, that's why, though. Yes, you solve the mystery. Well done. Cats live here. And finally, you come to the bottom. of the spike, there is a small opening.

Yes. And with the opening of the steel trap door, the party is finally at Doreen Iron Fist's doorstep. Almost. Just five more yards. That's right.

Only three more blocks. Third and one. But the house has been pulled from the city. It's being suspended in demonic tentacles. No, we'll never meet Doreen. Seven hundred guards outside.

They built a wall. You in one hungry, hungry cat. Across the street, Doran, you see the familiar sight of your childhood home. Thank you. Patrons Adam Frye Afflicted Adina Isu Yuckei Alison Wrights Merlin

Anne Athologov Axel Barry Ginette Casey Cetall Lee Wilson Sherry Rose Anderson Christopher

Colin Burckhart Crow Daniel Dippity Flynn Gareth Bradshaw Hayley Haley

Hap of the Mox J.D Joy Robinson Julie Holderman Jury K-R-K-M-Kade Lasagna Last Ruth on the left

Leader J. Liz Lorelei Feldman Mander Pants Merrick's Moon Matilda Rushing Melinda Curley Moon Oakland

Quill Bennett Regan Ren Scottie Shannon Waldner S Ray 96 Tegan T-Kettle

Tony Pepperoni Trin Waffle 427 Xander Morning Dove, Zach House, and Zephyrus. Thank you so much. So how's everyone doing? Excellent. Good.

Good. I finished my kimchi water. Ew. So gross. It was quite nice. I don't believe you. Kimchi water? I don't believe you.

I mean, interesting. Maybe I could buy interesting. If you're like, it was interesting, but I'm not going to go. I can't. It's kimchi water. Yeah. They also do the pickle water and it's great. Yeah.

Well, maybe we get different things in the water. Not pickles. It's just the one. Like, to me, yeah. My brain is broken. We, and I am aware of this. That's okay. You also hate oatmeal, so it all evens out.

It's not good. On the spectrum of drinking weird things and not liking normal things, it's a nice, smooth middle ground. It feels like it's balanced somewhere. The belt, yeah, the bell curve gets way. Yeah, you guys can enjoy the oatmeal and I'll be over here with my garbage water. I wouldn't say garbage. What I'm saying is you said it was good and I don't, I would be hard pressed to believe it was good. Interesting, exciting, quirky, like, like maybe like, neat to try.

We absolutely believe that you liked it. Yeah, I'd buy that you liked it. I wouldn't argue that it's good, though. That is a statement. The station, though, right? It's like, oh, man. I just want you to know where our expectations are at. Yeah, you're like, it's not that I don't believe you.

It's just that I don't want it. No, it's like saying, oh, you know, the Terminator films are good movies versus I liked. I still know what you did last summer. You know what I mean? It's like you can have a preference versus one arguing it's good, you know? I don't know my Terminator, but it pops in my head. It's the kimchi water of films? No, still no, what you did last summer is the kimchi water of movies.

And I also like that movie. That's why I use this as an example. Specifically, I used it for you.