Not Another D&D Podcast - D&D Court: Sphere and Ear Theory

Episode Date: April 14, 2023

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Justices, Murphy, Axford, and Tanner, joined by, of course, the Loll loly loly loly loly, you know what, this time, just loly, Baylif, Jake. All right. This is one loly. Just one loly. It was like four or five loly. Okay, yeah.

Right, yeah. But normally I do nine or ten. It hurts worse hearing it like that because it makes it less of a bit and just more of an insult on mom. Yeah. And you do go to the DMV and change your name every time, right? Yes. Yes.

So now I have six middle names, which is my treatment. That's really the punishment. Maybe we should just adapt that to our own. Still not an organ donor though, right? Not me, never. No one's getting these lowly, lowly, lowly organs. You can pry my liver from my cold dead weight. No, you can't, I'm keeping them, bury me with them.

Oh no, he's slowly, slowly, slowly, lower intestines, they've been ruined. Here you, here you, crit is now in session, the honorable Supreme Crit, justices, Axford Murphy and Tanner, presiding. Hi. And our first case comes from, did you just say hello? Hi.

Well, Merke gave a tiny high. I gave a tiny high and I made it a thing. She made it a thing. That's the decorum of a courtroom. Everyone rises, robed, figures walk in, and they go for it. They give just a little week the high. And whichever judge is the one who DMs for the rest of them, like everyone kind of follows their lead. Right, exactly.

Yeah, and you got to like stretch it out so that the last hay comes and when you're least expecting it. So much gravitas, just undone with a word. Yeah, continue. Okay. Farah writes, hey, most noble crit justices, and also the bailiff whose name and description will be chosen by Murph right now. I think we're going six lovelies.

Just six lovelies, yeah. I bring you the case of the selective shatter. May it please the court. In a campaign with a party of all orcs, I play an orc cleric who hands out pamphlets written in Orcish to convert people to the religion of court. We're finding a group of orcs from the army we defected from and one of my party members got surrounded by multiple enemies and went down. On my turn I

asked the DM if my party member had gone unconscious and had fallen to the ground to which she replied, yes. I said that I wanted to cast Shatter at a point above the group so that it would only hit the standing enemies and not my prone party member. She did not want to allow me to do it with that level of accuracy, and after some light-hearted back and forth, she agreed to let me do it just this once, but said in any future combat, I would hit my down party member and give them minus one death save. I humbly asked the court, did I use this bell correctly and should I have been allowed to keep creative freedom with my rad readieces,

or was my DM correct, and I was indeed committing a geometric grievance. Okay, let's look up Shatter here. So Shatter says, a sudden loud ringing noise painfully intense in a rubs from a point of your choice within range. Each creature in a 10-foot radius sphere centered on that point. A sphere Must make a constitution saving throw, and then you do your damage from there. So it is, I mean, it's kind of there plainly in writing. You pick a point that creates a 10 foot radius sphere. So you can just pick it higher than the unconscious player

who is down low. You've literally hit the deck. Okay, so this gets tricky though, because if it's a 10 foot sphere, the radius is down low. You literally hit the deck. Okay. This gets tricky though, because if it's a 10-foot sphere, the radius is 10 feet. You have to dip the sphere into the ears of the people that are standing above the fallen person, right? So you're sintering the point like above them,

but like just low enough that it's gonna touch their ears, but the sphere isn't gonna be low enough to touch the person that's on top. You describe that in such a complicated way. It's just the person on the ground to say, sphere in ear. I don't know what's wrong. It was that a bit.

It's just, it's the, it was perfectly clear. You have to dip the sphere to the ears. Okay, we're just right. It has to be a bit. That was a bit. It has to be a bit. God, and God, that was a complicated bit. I wish it was a bit.

I'm sorry. Okay, it wasn't a bit. It was a bit. Yeah, okay. We're doing Dr. Seuss. I see that. But no, no, no, I think that's like over complicating it saying like hitting the ear like it's just one person's on the

ground or laying down so it doesn't hit if the sphere is a foot higher right? Exactly. Yeah, fear though. Okay, just a follow-up Because call well and I share what's the internet saying? We share a brain. One brain cell. We share a brain cell. Yeah, you guys are both beautiful. I'm gonna follow, I'm gonna follow call well here.

Okay. What? And say if you picked, let's say you picked a spot five feet in the air, 10 feet in the air. Would a sphere have a spherical shape though? Yes, so I'm saying like if somebody's standing, but if you're on the ground, it doesn't matter. Someone on the outskirts.

Oh, yeah, it's not, yes. We're not debating whether or not the person on the ground could have a state. That person's in the clear in the sky. Could have escaped the spear like shatter. Okay. The spear like sphere of the shatter, we're the shatter. I think all we're saying is that there might be The spear like spear of the shadow were the shatter.

I think all we're saying is that there might be some people on the outskirts that were also saved by the ship. The bottom point, okay, let's see. They were not saying spear because we're somehow getting very confused. Imagine if you will a basketball, okay? It's just a fucking basketball. The outside, the wide end of the basketball does it dip lower Okay, okay, let's follow your basketball metaphor, okay?

We're following I regret bringing a basketball. Okay now imagine I wanted great Imagine there was jello that I wanted to just why no I'm more stuff It's a basketball Give me a chance to do it. Okay, go ahead. Imagine there's a tray of yellow that I want to fuck up with this basketball, right?

Great, yeah, cool. The basketball, it's a radius, right? It only reaches it's a full width at one specific point of the basketball. Totally, yeah. It gets skinny at the other ends of it. Wait, because of the curvature. It gets, okay.

Like, okay. But it's still, it's just completely irrelevant. Okay, my point is, my point is, if I bounce to basketball, I could bounce to basketball. No, no, no, listen to me, listen to me. It was important. Where can you let go? Yeah, where can I move these?

Where can I move these? Murf, try to'm listening, yeah, I'm listening. I'm listening to her. Murph, try to pay attention because Emily's making a point. And I think she offers you the same level of respect. This is so far away from the game. What, like, much like a basketball, I passed Emily and this is just slam dunk. So this is so important and really fun.

And really well. Emily, take your time. Emily, take your time with it. There's a Jam Jam. Really well that a square tray of jello. Okay, I gotta be square if I were to bounce I would have Balanced okay. Yeah, you're about to bow it about to not what this player is doing go out about the

Delta great great. Yeah, you would fuck up the gelatin true. I'm gonna take your time but what? See, I don't even know that you know the question time. Let's let her finish. You're saying you'll be most fucked up like in the movie. I'm crying because science brings me to tears. Science is fucking happening. This is definitely science.

This is so beautiful, the way that math is science. It's so beautiful. Oh, God. It's more than just numbers. If I were to just really, if I had leaves or like precision, can I bounce it right to the center of that square tray, then there are parts that would not get messed up yet. Yeah, okay. Bravo.

Some for a great bravo. Well done. Anyways, for anyone. Some phrase, bravo. Well done. Anyways, for anyone who's at home listening to this, being like, wow, I thought Emily was a big dumb idiot. Like it's okay to admit you were wrong. Like because right now, you're grappling right now. Right now, you're grappling with like my preconceived ideas about this woman have changed. Dr. Emily Axford, what do you guys think about that?

Yeah, I think I just got a PhD. Okay, for actually, if I could just interrupt for a second, I did just receive word that you are this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Thank you. Wow, congratulations. Okay, my. Yeah, the thing, okay, and I love started my... Wait, hold on, she's doing an acceptance speech. Okay, I'm sorry thing, okay. And I had to say when I started my... Wait, hold on, she's doing an acceptance speech.

Okay, I'm sorry. She's giving an acceptance speech. I just, okay. You don't just, you don't just hand somebody a Nobel Peace Prize and then they just like walk off. You know, they have to accept it. I'll give this speech. I have to say, go ahead.

This was unexpected. Uh-huh. But not unprecedented. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. If there's... Bravo! You're here! There's one thing I can say about being a really smart Sit on to it. If there's... Robo! You're here!

There's one thing I can say about being a really smart person who also promotes peace. It's that I was not able to do this alone. No, in fact, all of my geniusness and peace promoting comes from my husband. Right? Wow, Bet you weren't expecting that when you tried to interrupt it, Merv. Without whom I could have never come up with a theory of bouncing a basketball in a jet lap.

Thank you. I don't know that I miss early. Also, I hope this is a cash prize. Thank you. Now you are allowed to make a speech as well. I have to make a speech. Yeah, I'm up on stage. Hi, I just wanted to kind of bring it back to the case because the case didn't really say anything

about bouncing a basketball or anything we got where if you're losing we just got super far into the ball thing I've never seen anyone boo with a Nobel Peace Prize speech but it's about to happen I'm sorry I it's just that the it's the sphere right so you just have the sphere a little bit higher which is what the player did and the players the players right everyone It's just that it's the sphere, right? So you just have the sphere a little bit higher, which is what the player did and the players, the players right, everyone. Please don't ruin me.

I agree with that. Please stop booing me. Well, if you got the Nobel War prize. That one, we're starting to war. That's like the Wario to the Mario of the Nobel Peace Prize. Okay, okay. So I tried to follow call well as a of Reasoning and made it so much worse. But I think that we should still adjudicate this case.

Correct. I personally think that you could keep that person safe on the ground. Of course, yeah, yeah, we're all on a business there. Yeah, you literally like, it's something's coming at you. You duck, you hit the deck, if a person's on the ground. There's even, I believe if you're shooting at somebody with an arrow in D&D, there are mechanics for you get,

you usually get advantage when you're using a melee weapon, I believe you might get disadvantage if you're using a bow. I would say this is also specifically based off of the wording of this spalsam. For example, you couldn't throw a fireball and be like, no, no, no, I threw it 10 feet above them. I don't think that you can do that. Maybe.

You probably could. Yeah, I'll see why not. Maybe you could, so maybe you could. But I'm saying that when I haven't read fireball in a long time, but when I read this, being able to choose that point means you can be strategically exclusive. It says specifically on fireball.

It says, imagine if you will will that there was a plate of orange Jello under the fireball Depending on how much you want to cinch the Jello I mean the fireball would fuck up that Jello Yeah, it would just be on it. Is Jello even flammable? I mean yeah, it just melt right does that mean it's flammable see I'm just way too distracted picturing somebody using an actual basketball for their spells when they play with the tabletop next time. Right.

Yeah. I mean, think about like, if you use like a battle grid or something like that, you can definitely be like, oh, my dude is surrounded here, but I want to shoot something in area of effect thing. So I'll do it like a square behind them. So it just hits these people. And there's usually like a cost that comes with that,

where like maybe you don't get everybody that you want to get, but you get most of the people. But let's look at Fireball though. If this person said their prone and the other people are standing up, I want to throw a fireball and miss the person prone. I would bet that the language of Fireball wouldn't allow you to do that. I think the language of this does allow you to do that. I think it depends, I think it literally depends on

what it is. So a sphere would mean in all directions, because it's a sphere. So it's like, you know, it's not a flat thing. You know what I mean? I think maybe a fireball, I don't have it right in front of me, but like depending on what the radius is, it could need to be like on a singular level.

It is a 20 foot radius sphere, so it is also sphere rules. So yeah, you can even play it that way too. Put that sphere wherever you want. These are both totally above the board, but still in Jello. Wait a second, is the sphere of it? Is it a flat sphere? That's a disc.

You're thinking of a frisbee, not a basketball. I was thinking of a flat sphere. It's a flat sphere. What do you mean it a flat sphere? That's a disc. You're thinking of a frisbee not a basketball. I was sure it is. It's a flat sphere. It's a flat square. What do you mean by a flat sphere? I think you know it is spheroid. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know these things. None of us know anything. All right. I guess I'm just gonna shut up for the next episode. No one shut up.

No. We're all smart and good. We're all prize winners now. Okay. We're all gold scholars. Can I suggest a punishment, though? Yeah. For who? For the DM, right? I guess for the DM. Right, and the DM isn't correct. Yeah, normally we promote like good dice rolls. You, we suggest pickling them.

Uh-huh. That's what dice Christ wants. But the opposite of that, Jello, those things. It's, of course, to cook them a Jello. Yes. Oh, wow. We so careful and don't accidentally eat it.

Yeah, don't eat your jello. Right. Don't eat your dice, rather. It's a jello mold. It's just decorative. Yeah. Take a photo. Do not eat it.

Yeah, yeah. Take a photo. Well, the de-force is the smallest one, but it's pointy. That's the show. Yeah, I'm saying, yeah, no, none of those are good. If you're going to eat one, eat a D6, you think so?y. That's the show, yeah. I'm saying, yeah, no, none of those are good. If you're gonna eat one, eat a D6. You think so? Yeah.

Right? No, D20. I think we need the lawyer to come in again and say, that's funny. We said, we, that pot does not allow, does not suggest anyone actually eat a D20. But if you're gonna eat one, yeah. But, yeah, I think you're right.

If you had to, I think D20. It's a little sharp, but if there's only one way to solve this, this is you're right. I think you had to 12 I think do 20 Buddy, there's only one way to solve this is to it Don't eat any dice. No one eat any dice at all. Yeah, if you've already put it in your mouth spit it out We're holding out our metaphorical hand like you're a dog who got into something that they shouldn't have and like you're a dog who got into something that they shouldn't have. I'm saying, drop it. Drop it. Drop it.

Drop it. But yes, we are going to need you to go ahead and jello your dice. Yeah, and dm your dice. We are on the player's side here. You can move that sphere to a point. You can see. Make it one of those really funky 1950s jellos.

It's got like slices of ham baked into it too. Oh, okay. One apple on top. All right. Now that's actually a punishment. Oh, okay. One apple on top. All right. Now that's actually a punishment. Yeah, that is so gross. Yeah, they used to get real creative

with Jello in the 70s. There was nothing else to do. Yeah, you just make Jello. Okay, our next case comes from Mateo C. Mateo writes, man, please everyone, but especially, Merv, who I hope is doing well.

Whoa! Whoa! I mean, it's one of the Nobel Prize winners. Glad tidings. Which is interesting because a lot of people were mad at me last week with a Patreon episode about or not last week, two weeks ago, the last D&D core because there was a player character named Sex Panther,

which is a reference to Anchorman, and I had the gall to make fun of quoting Anchorman 20 years later, and man, the Anchorman stands fun of quoting Anchorman 20 years later. And man, the Anchorman stands came out. Anchor stands. The Anchor stands are out. I'm a hater. I don't know what to say.

I didn't even think you went into that heart. You were like, it's a good movie. It's not as good as everyone's. First, I really relate to this because when I went after water, whoo! I had a lot of that. I think I like water more than I like quality anchor man. Well, I'm still in opinion. I think that's the thing about

that it's not even anchor stands. It's anchor quote stands because I didn't say anything bad about the movie. I haven't seen it in 15 years. Okay. So I get to talk about this. I'm gonna get in trouble. Mateo C was asking who says, I hope you're doing well, Murph. It seems like you're not. I'm not. I'm fired really,

because I don't know what, if people are gonna get mad at making fun of a quoting anchor man, what can I say? I don't know. Okay, this is- It's probably asking after you because they went at you super hard in the comments. Yeah, that's, I bet.

Oh, I love that. Okay. I think your only option is to just forget about them and get back on the good side of the water stands. Yeah. Whoa. Don't weaponize my haters against me, Murph. Just because you're shaking, don't have the nice water stands against me.

It's a water stand, I've got the anchor stands. OK, Jake, please continue. I want to know the question so that I can drop more scientific facts. Yes. Should we rebrandes an educational podcast? Yeah, I love it. Yeah.

I can change the tags pretty easily. I want to get this flagged. But I like to see you. We're the only educational podcast with expletives that has to be just us. I come to you with the We're the only educational podcast with expletives that has to be just us. I come to you with the case of the forced name change. We are starting a new campaign and one of my players has come to me

with the character name, like L-Y-K-E after his grandmother's surname. I didn't think much of it, but we quickly ran into a small problem. Being the native Los Angelino, my fellow word is like, pronounced the exact same way. So we have run into scenarios where I say,

so like you go like down to the bar and you see this girl who has like this big hat with feathers. I asked him to change his name and he says I am railroading his creative choice. Oh, damn. Your honors, should I make like, change his name or do I have to like, just deal with it? Oh, someone who says like a lot,

I do agree that this is tough. Why not just come up with a nickname? Like the character's name is like, but you have like a special way that, you know, like, you call him L or. Yeah, or lick. Or like, you, I don't know, you come up with something to call the character that is outside of it.

Like, Calliope is Calli, Calliope. I mean, Saul is Swag Daniels. Off it. Yeah. As you play, there's so many opportunities to call somebody something else. It's also a good way to get a rise from a character in game. Is to call them by another name or something like that. I think that they want to be called, that they want to be called by their, it was their grandmother's maiden name.

Their grandmother's surname. That complicates things. Look, if they're the ones who are getting confused, then it's like they're on board for that, right? And but maybe there's not even any confusion. Maybe you're, it's just making you in your head. Yeah. And maybe this is a problem doesn't even need to be solved I will say I don't like the attitude

Up on this request being thrown back in the face by saying you're railroading my Yeah, I There's some real strange talk You know what I hate the slander of railroads in general. Like trains, really cool. Love a train. Every time I see that freaking Pacific surf liner, just rolling by, I love rails,

heading up Santa Barbara, love to see that. Love a chuchu. I'm watching train videos every morning, folks. Okay, I have a suggestion. The character's name is like, just be like, cool, can we keep it like, can you give me what your character's surname is so I can say Mr. and Mrs. whatever you,

however you wanna be referred to? Uh-huh. And then the surname. But also maybe even ask them, is it even confusing them or is it just putting you in your head? Yeah, because it does seem like the sort of thing

that I'm doing it right now. The people at the table would kind of laugh out a little bit. It's kind of slightly funny and it's maybe just like a recurring joke that's throwing you off your game a little bit, but I don't know if it's actually messing with anyone. I have bad advice. I have bad advice.

Oh, great. You have bad advice. You go to the other player characters and you say, hey, I'm struggling with the fact that I say like Conversationally, it's sort of like a word lubricant. I enjoy it. I'm not trying to lose it I'm not buying into some weird grammatical superiority against it. Yeah, I am struggling with the fact that this character's name is like Can the rest of you try and come up with a nickname?

can the rest of you try and come up with a nickname? Next time that like does something noticeable be like, ha ha, you're a fish guy now. And then you just think it's so funny you run with it and then they're forgot. But that's where I'm gonna get accused of railroading likes crazy. I know, I said it was about to. Yes, I started it.

I do like it though. Yeah, it's just a word you say a lot is the problem. It's interesting because I feel like I think the DM is facing the same problem that I'm having internally in my head right now, which is like it's this mine field where the player wants to be named after their grandma's name. So I'm kind of like, is this very important to them? Did their grandparent pass away? Do they have a strong connection to their grandparent? is this very important to them did their grandparent pass away?

Do they have a strong connection to the grandparent is this actually important to them? So I'm kind of like I don't know how to say don't do that You know what I mean? It just feels like it's hard It's hard to just be like don't name your character after your grandma. You're not allowed Yeah, and yet I do understand why it is hard to do. I mean, we've all edited podcasts before. You hear yourself say the word like so many times. You're not saying like so much. Let's, okay, because I think that ultimately

the path forward is going to be learning to how to work with like, let's brainstorm all conversational lubricant sort of kind of in essence. Right, in essence, perfect. Yeah. Oh, you know what's a good one is fucking. I feel like that's all Doing you this thing and they're fucking So a comedy this character by changing your vernacular to say Fucking

Yeah to say. You guys are just fucking up. Yeah. In essence. Yeah, there's a girl over there. She's wearing fucking. That's fucking gang that. And in essence, fucking. And in essence, fucking.. The fucking, the fucking, the fucking, the, the fucking you. In essence. Essentially. Essentially, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Yeah, it's kind of an answer and a punishment because this DM is going to be punished to lose like and Like with fucking and in essence Yeah, I think I don't want to you're losing like from your vocabulary even though I think it's a perfectly fine thing to have in there But for the sake of this you are gonna trade yourself to say fucking and in essence Okay, fucking and innocent. In the time that you would have said like. Yeah, as somebody who says like a lot

and has edited themselves and realized how often they say like, I do very much feel for you. I do think that and maybe people at home will have more time and think differently, but I think I personally don't see how you get around letting someone name themselves after their grandma. I think they unfortunately pulled the land right now from under you and I don't know how you get around that.

I don't know how you get around it either. Yeah, just what do you do? They kind of pulled two trump cards on you. They're like, my grandma and your railroading me. Well, no. Railroading makes me mad. Is that the case? The railroading is them cheating to try to win an argument.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. But we're going to ignore that and just focus on like, maybe, maybe this. Leave the same as out of this. I think that ultimately it's maybe throwing you off, but I think if you just kind of first off, in essence, fucking, that's your new kind of thing. That's your thing.

Apparently presently as you. Hey, consider, consider asking the other PCs or looking for a moment where you can just really impose a nickname. A nickname. A nickname that I just a real sticky one. Keep an eye out. The next time they eat something, just have an NPC be like,

wow. This guy loves the fuck. What's up? This guy loves the stew, hey stew. He doesn't just like it, he loves it. Yeah, he's loving it. But yeah, but I think in all seriousness, you are probably thinking about this

obviously more than they are. Yeah, if I would. If you're describing something and you're like, like you guys go into this like tavern and like, and their alarm bells are going off and they're thinking that they're being called on. That's kind of their thing to navigate. But they didn't bring it up.

You brought it up. You're here and yourself. You're like guessing so. And I think you're good to go. Yeah, I think unfortunately, you can't stop someone from naming themselves after their grandma. That's just, that's probably an I think you're good to go. Yeah, I think unfortunately you can't stop someone from naming themselves after their grandma. That's just, that's probably an argument you don't want to have.

So we punish you to change the entire way that you speak and have spoken for your entire life. Yeah. In essence, fucking. I hope you're not a kindergarten teacher. Yeah. Yeah. Because unfortunately, in essence, fucking you are going to

have to say fucking. All right. So that is in essence, in essence, fucking, you are gonna have to say fucking. All right, so that is in essence. In essence, fucking order. That's all for the rest of the episode, try to say in essence, fucking, instead of, instead of, like, we should practice what we punish. We've got, all right, Benjamin L. writes,

hello to the honorable judges, and I guess Jake is also there, yes I am. My party and I ended a war between deep gnomes and dorgher, and we decided to stay in the town to make sure that the peace stayed. Our paladin decided to set up a church to their god, and I agreed to help. When it came time to level up, my DM said that I could only take a level of paladin because I had joined a church. I talked to the DM about not wanting to do this, and he said that I had spent more time

in the church than in nature, so I had to take a paladin level, not a druid level. Oh my God. My druid did not want to do that, so I ended up quitting because of this. Was I in the wrong? PS love the show, just got a paw paw tattoo. Oh, two Benjamin.

It's as fun as you know. They drop in the end, they drop in the end, that you are also a druid is so funny You're already committed to the entire thing. You got a pop on tattoo. What if we went We just leave it off on you. I need to say it up front I Go back to the chat you are back to the little speech bubble that says I'm shocked Haven't say I love Palo Ramirez, that's my God.

I also make me think of like I studied religion, undergrad and the idea that I have four years of religious studies means that I have four levels of pallidine. Yeah, you can't smite though. Yeah, I think this could be a fun thing if the DM offered it as a fun thing was like, hey. You have to.

You could take a level and hey, you have been spending a lot of time at this new church. You could maybe take a cleric or paladin level. That might be kind of fun. And then that leaves it in your hands to decide. Why some DMs consist of making fun things, not fun is so bad going to be fun. Was Jake was cleric on the table or was it hard

Paladin hard paladin It's really strange It's just strange stuff. I was not like helping helping someone set up their church Seems like a nice Interfaith thing to do what did the DM want you to say no and you go out into the woods? Yeah, you helped on that sculpture. So now this is your god. Listen, you are being party focused instead of going off into the woods by yourself. So you don't get to play anymore. Listen, your tomato garden looks like shit.

Yeah, you forgot how to talk to animals. If you sincerely took that though, it would be so funny to take that and then but like have your character to be as baffled as you. So the first time you smite, you're like, what the fuck was that? I'm a freaking bear shape after that. I said that one church and now I have fucking holy fire coming out of my chalela. If that's all it took, then yeah, I would just throw a lot of the kid. I can't, it's my for sure. Yeah, that's, again, just, there's a lot of

DMs out there that just have like fun ideas and then try to force people to do their fun ideas. You know what I mean? Do you think this is the case of, you know, how some people they call themselves forever DMs and so they wanna have more PCs. And do they meddle in people's PCs? I actually don't think that they do live on people's PCs.

I think it's the idea that this DM had an initially cool idea, which is, whoa, they've been around this religion now, they could potentially do this. And instead of offering that as an option, they forced the player to do it, which is a bad idea. Paladin Druid is such a funny.

Yeah, their inner monologue is like, oh, that's a cool idea. That's actually a really cool idea. That's actually the only idea. Let's say, yeah, exactly. So in, like, campaign one, if while you guys were in Glade Home or something like that, if hard one was really spending a lot of time at the university, and I was like, hard one, you could switch lot of time at the university and I was like, hard one, you could switch to like, eldritch night if you wanted to and like learn a couple spells.

And you might think that's cool and you might not think that's cool. And either way, that's fine. But this would be like me being like, you actually have to change your subclass from champion to you. You were in a library for too long, yeah. You were in a library and you looked

like fucking more on your smart now. I also can't help but just like, You were in a library for too long. Yeah. You were in a library for too long. You were in a library for too long. You were in a library for too long. You were in a library for too long. You were in a library for too long. You were in a library for too long. You were in a library for too long. You were in a library for too long. You were in a library for too long. You were in a library for too long.

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I think in essence, fucking, they thought they had a good idea for the story and forced it into a character's mechanic. Okay, so this could be fucking a solution, is this person could, in essence, go to their DM and be like, hey, sorry, be fucking in essence, sort of like, sort of fucking in essence. Kind Kani no air go air go. Hey, do you have a reason? Yeah, that you want this so bad. A reason in the future that you have something that you're trying to set up that me taking this palette and level means.

And also I mean, I guess the DM's probably, why do you want me to do this? DM's probably just being a hard ass. I think this is either DM had a story idea and wants to put the story idea into the character's mechanics even if they don't want. It's probably not the case. Callwell gave that generous read and I got swept up in the generator.

Right, that we're closing the generous read. We're going to the generous read. That's the generous read. Even then, it's stupid. Like, it's even a bad idea. It's marginally better than what I think it might actually be, which is just hard-ass DM like we get people in that'll say, um, yeah, um, me and my wife had a baby.

And so we missed the session on the day of the delivery. We missed the session with our DM and he said we didn't get to level up because we missed one session. Yeah. We get cases like that where it's very obvious that the DM's just being a hard ass for no reason. So you either got a hard ass DM or you've got a DM that is actually railroading you.

Not to say that, yeah, see, that's the thing is that I was thinking, well, you know, if you really to say that, yeah, see, that's the thing is that I was thinking, well, you know, if you really are feeling that your DM wants this, maybe you could explore it and look into Cleric because Cleric and Druid, wisdom is your main thing. Like, there could be some compatibility there. I agree with you, story wise, it really doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean it doesn't.

The player already got out, the player quit, which is great. Yeah, we always say get new friends and I think you're you've done. Yeah okay so we have to punish the DM. Yeah do they have to build a church okay. Oh they have to build a church in honor of the PC that left. Ah that's really really good. Yeah, so I guess, I mean, it would, because they were a druid, so maybe be more of like a community garden. Yeah! Start a commune. That's good.

That's good. Not a cult, just a commune. Do you wear matching clothes? Yes! Sometimes. Do you grow corn? Yes! Are you allowed to leave?

That's the boss! Fucking ordered. Our next case comes from Tristan B. Tristan writes, may it please the justices and gently tickle the bailiff? Thank you. All right. All right. Where are you most ticklish, bailiff?

Let's not get into it. I present. OK, that is a little too informative, right? Yeah. Even just putting up that blur lets us know a couple regions of probably. Yeah, there's a nuclear zone. And for that reason, I will answer, it's under the arms, okay?

I'm serious. So it is like a fetish thing. No doubt about it. Actually, he didn't. Let's just cut it. It spliced in me saying, I need a good reaction me saying, oh it's under my arms.

And then you guys just kind of light up and some of that. We'll go quiet, we'll go quiet. And you get that clean. So it does not matter. I'll need a minute again. Like it's a fetish, you know. What's like the non-sexual area that like if you got tickled, it would make you laugh normally. My fucking brundled you.

Ah! Okay, Jake, I gotta be honest. You messed that one up. You didn't get what you wanted. Yeah, can I take that again? I feel like I said, I feel like I said Grundel instead of underarms. Yeah, so you did, Jake, yeah, you did that.

Yeah, I said Grundel, because I was like, I think I just, I lost myself. I was like, yeah. And you said it in sort of a purview place. Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel like, yeah, I I lost it because I was like, I just answered truthfully, but I want to make sure that out there, people are hearing under my audience.

And why don't you, why don't you team up this time? Okay, yeah, yeah. Oh, bail up. So just a fun side question. What is the non-arrogant as part of your body in which you're the most ticklish? My freaking GOOGE BAM! Shit, did I say I feel like I would have missed so many times. Yeah, there was like a almost like your eyes rolled back at your head and a different voice

came out. And we also said non-arrogentous and they didn't say your armpits, which exactly do sexually enjoy getting armpit. Yeah, you still have yet to say armpits. Successfully. Okay, yeah. Let's try to, you want to just get it one time. You can grab it, yeah, yeah.

Nice and clean. Hey Jake, if you were to get tickled in, I love to get tickled on my freaking taint. I fucking love it. I think one of those three will work. That'll work, that'll work. One of those three will definitely work. You can just jump thing up and we'll get back to it.

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group of close friends over roll 20. During combat last session, our level five bare folk moon druid was knocked out of wild shape. When I asked for the AC of his druid form for the villain's second attack, he said it was a 20. This confused everyone, and when we asked what armor he had on, he stated leather. Curious of how he had such a high AC, I took a peek at his character sheet. His stats were as follows.

Christmas 17, wisdom 20 20 intelligence 17 con 23 decks 23 Khan 23 decks 26 strength 24 Cool a bear god am I am I wrong 20s the high? It's all impossible. Yeah, well for classes, when you get to like really high levels, like, for very- This is a level five. I know, I know. I'm saying it is impossible, yes.

Yeah, it's a level five. They're fully cheating. OK, OK, let's hear the explanation. Let's get to the bottom. I was shocked as this had never come up as he was typically in wild shape during combat using creature stats. I ended up subtracting 10 from his contacts and strength and let him shuffle those stats around as he was typically in wild shape during combat using creature stats. I ended up subtracting 10 from his contacts and strength and let him shuffle those stats around

as he pleas, deeming those stats still good but more balanced. The player protested heavily, stating that everyone else's stats were better than his causing the rest of the players to turn on him. Why? The worst part was with his new decks, the attack that had missed with an AC of 20 now hit,

knocking his character out and causing the player to become visibly upset, and accused me of punishing him for not understanding the game. This was session 22 of our third campaign. Was I wrong for handling this mid-combat in front of the rest of the party? Was there another solution rather than axing his stats right then and there? I humbly lay myself at the mercy of the court. This is just for all DMs, you gotta take a little peek at your players' character sheets before you begin. Especially if you're playing online.

Facially with first timers. Yeah, that's tough. I think that here's the deal. Guys, they were straight up either cheating or had a wild misunderstanding of the game. What do we think the misunderstanding was? Maybe they were being like super generous. Maybe they didn't drop the... Yeah, maybe instead of being like roll for a drop one, maybe they were doing the super generous thing of roll five drop two,

but this person just rolled five. A theory that is also partially a dice-crime confession, which is that I did not understand how proficiency worked for like basically the first arc of our campaign. We know. Yeah. I was just kidding. I think I don't think I did either. So I think there's maybe a chance that they added their proficiency to their constitutions

that. So like it's baked in that number. Oh, there's two. Level five is level five plus three or plus two proficiency. But still, that doesn't. Level five, that would still be like plus two. You'd still have to like plug in those numbers though. Whatever it is, it seems like it has to be a mistake

because the player got so mad. I feel like if you get caught cheating, you're like, I'm caught. Right. No, no, no, no. I feel like the anger makes it seem more like cheating. Right. You think you're trying to make it worse than that? Because if I genuinely did something wrong,

and then someone was like, how do you have this high up stats? I would be like, oh, well, I rolled 2D20s and added it. Is that not how you do stats? Yeah. And then they said, no, that's insane. I would be like, somehow that's so funny. I don't know where I came up with that.

Let's take this person out their word and think that they did it by accident. The feasibly they could have done it, what was the highest average? 26, what did I do? Yeah, I believe it was 26 for Dex. You'd have to roll four sixes and have a plus two modifier to get anything.

There are lowest was Christmas 17. But it's so cartoonish that if you're gonna cheat, like they must have just fully drawn thing. That's why they have to be a mistake. Yeah, they also, on roll 20 and they're like, let me see your character sheet. If you had cheated that bad, wouldn't you not show the character sheet?

Yeah, quickly change it. When you're right, if you rolled four sixes, then you could have. 2020. Oh, okay, as you were saying. Oh, if if you did and then you had a modifier of plus two But I don't think this person if someone said roll four drop one and they didn't know to drop and they just rolled four Correct, then they might roll But 24 but that's still the odds of them all sixes

I think it's more likely that they just used a different system that they didn't understand I'm trying to think of how to salvage the situation. I don't know why. Rollin' this that. I think that's the only way to say it. So here is where, so this person is either completely misunderstood the game. I really want to know what they did. Or cheated. So I think that's not your fault. You're probably going to check out the paper, but it's also not on. The DM is ultimately there to play as well. So I think that's not your fault. You're probably gonna check out the paper, but it's also not on.

The DM is ultimately there to play as well. It's not for them to do, like they've got enough homework. Players gotta kind of keep their corner of the table tidy. Argument for them not cheating is the fact that they did stick to using the wild chip stats. Oh, yeah. Though usually,

I must have been sitting there being like, why are all these animals so fucking weak? I'm so much dead I'm a fucking guy. Is this this month? I have more I'm so much HP 26 Yeah, that's crazy. Um, yeah, so they're either cheating or they really misunderstood the game I do think that just taking although I do agree that and away from just a bunch of them is a little bit of a sloppy way to do it Yeah, I think that might be why we roll your stats. Yeah, I think that just taking, although, I do agree that- I can't tell away from just a bunch of them, is a little bit of a sloppy way to do it. Yeah, I think that might be why. Re-roll your stats.

Yeah, I think, I think it would've gotten people to mad at that though, because that's putting them on a pedestal of shame a little bit, being like, all right, we're gonna take a break and you're gonna re-roll your stats. Yeah, I think in the middle of combat though, I mean the answer would've just been like,

okay, what is the highest possible number you could've gotten? Yeah. Like, you could have gotten? Yeah. Like you could have gotten an 18 on your roles. I believe a bare folk probably isn't getting a plus to deck. So 18. So we'll say your AC is. That is a good call that like maybe for the sake of combat,

you should have just been like cool footnote. Let's talk about this later. We're gonna revisit this. We finished out combat. It's insane. And then at the end, although if I were another player, I think I would be laughing.

So, yeah. And it would kind of just be like, they said all of the other players turned on him. I think that's why the player got so mad is because they were clearly hitting Razz by everyone else. And we're not taking it well. You know what though?

With leather armor, no, no, no, no, it's studded leather armor that has a max of That you can only add to to your whatever And like dnd beyond tell me what I'm supposed to be yeah, I think that um it was a little sloppy to just Subtract 10 from everything you probably could have just been like let's just say your AC is 10 from everything you probably could have just been like, let's just say your AC is let's be very kind and say it's 17 or 18 for now put a pin in it and have you rerolled that later would have probably been the best way to do it But this person so

Acre justly cheated that We're going to roll with you, right? Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah It's fair for you to treat this however you want, given the breach of conduct. And for future cases, I feel like putting a pin in it and coming back to it is always better than like dressing someone down.

Coming up with some. Yeah, we're taking the temperature of the room because if I'm at that table and assuming we're friends, we probably all have a laugh about it. And then there's a fun. All right, let's reroll real stats now. And also this will take that long to reroll stats. Like people take real long turns sometimes.

Yeah. On your turn reroll all your stats is pretty fun. It's also so funny though of this person to get mad that then they're weaker than everyone else because they literally had 22 sessions of being a dadded better than any D&D character I've ever played. I've never played. But I think that's why there's a little bit of a flaw to the minus 10 idea. Because then you take this, let's say this player just had a huge misunderstanding of how the game worked,

which they might, because they did send their Dex 26 paper to the sheet to their DM. So they may have just been innocent and not known the game. It does suck to because you didn't understand the game. Suddenly having your character be a lot worse than they would have been. The easiest thing has just been like, let's put you all on even playing field. These other characters rolled their stats, you roll your stats, let's do this correctly.

Didn't we find out at a live show that hard one had rolled his AC incorrectly? Yes. How do we handle that? There's precedent here. I think we laughed. We laughed. Yeah, I think the precedent.

Everyone laughed at me already. The precedent is having a good time. You said your AC was like 22, I laughed and said no it's not. And we lowered it and moved on. Yeah, but it was 21 just so everybody knows. Because I think that I think hard one had gotten a new fighting style later, but we do level for live shows. So I think like whatever level he got,

he maybe added defense. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It was like, he shouldn't have had it at the live show. Right, it was an honest mistake, and I didn't yell at Murph when he told me that he wrote it. Yeah, he only potted backstage afterwards, which I think is the mature response.

You grabbed me and threw me up against the wall, but you didn't yell at me. Yeah, I kicked over a trash can. Manessingly said, don't do that in front of anyone ever again. Right. Well, everyone remembers the show in Brisbane where everybody came out for like 10 minutes and I saw a backstage. It's like a It tell you finally coaxed me on like a scary kitten.

Yeah, we all got a little finger under your armpit and you warmed up after that Very nice. All right, so I think we need to I think we said does the person with 26 23 about all those crazy stats. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we have to yes, that's the player. Uh-huh Um, I mean, maybe they just need to play a commoner for a while Like minus 10 all stats my actual minus 10 to all stats your characters dead I need I need to stop pitching it But every time someone asked me to do something I'm always like I just started out there. I would play a commoner Tens across the board

I just play a commoner wouldn't that be kind of funny. Yeah What surprisingly no one's taken me up on it. You also I work at a car wash I feel like I've heard you say before I just know all the spells. It's hard to pick new ones the idea of you being Entertain just being like you don't know how to do anything. It's hard to imagine Just sounds kind of fun. Yeah to, to have nothing. So I guess, yeah, this bear can have fun while shaping into a nondescript NPC with plus zeroed everything. You work at the tavern now, you clean the toilets. Oh, you could have some sort of anti-druidic, okay, you're not going to do this.

Again, this is a bad suggestion. But in order to have them have to be a commoner for three sessions, you have some sort of superzealous religious sect that's against nature and druids and they like throw some iron binding chain onto them so that they have commoner stats until they release themselves. That's kind of nice in findings, yeah. Yeah.

I mean, we could also just like, you had to throw a basketball at some Jello. Oh! Yeah, it's your living room. Yeah, triple your basketball in their Jello. Yeah, I think that that was where basketball went wrong, is initially it was like peach baskets up there, and then they put holes in the bottom of the peach baskets.

They should have kept them baskets, just filled them up with jello. We were real satisfying to eat more. Oh, yeah. Yeah, peach jello every time you get a dunk. Yeah. You slam dunk or you go in and then you get a little scoop of jello as you're a reward for your dunk.

I'm just figuring the driveway just covered in jello from everyone going out and playing horse. That's actually pretty smart, dude. I bet they would have to pay basketball players a lot less money if it was Jello because everyone would enjoy playing so much. We'll be rude, you know. Sort of explored this in the movie Flubber. Mm-hmm.

Yes. Basketball, but you can't play heavily into Flubber, right? You can't hit it. You hit the Flubber, though. Somebody eats Flubber in the movie. I think the villain does and he farts, and he farts so hard that it goes through his pants. Interesting.

So like, be careful. It's been a while since I've seen flubber. Why? Don't. Don't eat your dice. Don't eat flubber folks. Whoa. Did that.

I didn't know that. This is a really important thing. We need to be sure with people. Don't eat flubber. You can't eat this outside. All right, guys, boil to be sharing with people Tony flubber is getting his out there Oh guys, the bad guy eats flubber in parts Why would he eat it? He's like he's yelling at Robert Williams And the flubber jumps in because flubber is the little bit of a bouncy little mischievous fellow

Why does Because Bob and Williams does not Wait, flubber is tension? Yeah, he's still the guy He's kind of fun He's kind of fun tension. Yeah, he's still a little guy. He's kind of fun. He's kind of fun. Uh-huh.

He's for sure a little guy with Flubber. And again, this is one of the most entertaining things of our show is us trying to remember movies that we saw three years ago. Yeah. Everyone loves Flubber talk. If I remember, Flubber is the game to the Flubber corner.

Robin Williams. The Flubber player. Does not play. Does not play a basketball player. No, no Science is like this flubber. Why does he play basketball in the movie because he works for the he works for the college I thought he just goes to the game now He works for the college that the basketball players are playing for and they're really bad And I think maybe it's like does he put it on their shoes? He put on their shoes. It's holy shit

Robin leaves not dunk at some point in that movie though? Maybe like during- Probably he's probably doing it some kind of test I bet. I think that's what it is. Yeah, he's like showing it. You killed it. I'm out flubbered. Have you seen this movie?

You're just like writing this on a spot. I'm just assuming. Holy shit. That's where I would put it. You could rip over too. You can't. Because you can't put flubber on the ball to give them an advantage because everyone touches the ball.

Because everyone can use it for all your shoes. You for all your shoes. But they did put it on their palms of their hand so they could dribble really fast. Really? Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. Murf, can we have flubber in our game? Also, I just feel like it's such a classic movie moment. Robin Williams, by, is he in the movie or saying? Of course he's a neat. Yeah. Okay. So again, I'm hearing all this. I assume that the guy in flubber was Bill Pullman. So I definitely didn't see the movie because I was thinking of Bill Pullman.

But Robin Williams, you're assuming he's working late at the college, and you can see him being like, let me give this a shot and then dunking, but all by himself. Yeah, that feels like a cinematic moment. Yeah, there's a chance maybe his love interest is there or it might just be his little robot pal. There's a lot of little pals in this movie.

Robots? There's a robot. I don't remember robot. This is, I don't remember flubber. I mean, I remember the, I kind of remember the basketball scene. I think you're all criminal for an hour. It wasn't all about basketball, right?

It was about something else. He puts flubber in his car too and his car can fly. So it's, in it's about, I would say it flub American. It wasn't all about basketball, right? It was about something else. Um, well, he put the flubber in his car too, and his car can fly. So it's, and it's about, I would say it flubber. It's about flubber. It's about flubber. It's about flubber. It's about flubber.

It's about a man discovering a, um... Discovering flubber. Yeah, an alternate power source. An alternate power source. There's, rather than a bunch of utopia in this film, there's a lot of different sort of story telling archetypes, right? So there's man versus himself. Yeah. There's man lot of different sort of story telling archetypes right so there's man Versus himself. Yeah, there's man Verse nature verse nature. Uh-huh. Then of course there's man verse flubber. Yeah

Yeah, and then there's flubber verse man and then flubber verse man Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then that's kind of why flubber made that guy fart Anyway, okay, let's wrap this up. Yeah, his English is really Dicecrice concession shall we? And if you got a if you got a flubber one Jake throw that up there. Please. Yeah Okay, let's wrap this up And if you got a if you got a flubber one Jake throw that up there, please yeah, yeah, uh shit There were a couple flubber ones, but I didn't choose them initially Anchor man, but we love flubber people only get The thing is I didn't say anything bad about anchor man I said but you said but you say such glowing stuff about flubber you said such glowing stuff about the front stance

It's and it's really good point actually you make a really good point. I wanted to name their character flubber I would make fun of them and then I'd get attacked by the flubber that I would make fun of them. And then I'd get attacked by the flubber stands. They'd be like, you have to understand that I love flubber. And I think anchor men is probably fine. I don't remember. I haven't seen it in really long time. I'm just, please stop at me.

Eat flubber, you dick. I can't. It'll make me fart. Go on. Our win are rights. Forgive me, Emissaries of Dice Christ for I have sinned. May Dice Christ have mercy. Can you, do you mind,

would you mind just as we were talking about, Flubber, would you mind anything that starts in an F will you add an L so it's Flur, give me? That's, yes. That actually, that makes a lot of sense. Of course, Flur, give me emissaries of dice-cress. Flur, I have sinned. May dice-cress have mercy on my soul.

I was playing as a druid, and our party was flaced with an underwater tunnel that some of the party did not have enough constitution to swim through without drowning. I wild-shaped into a giant octopus and wrapped them in my tentacles and used my swim speed to get everyone through much to the DM's delight.

20 minutes later, I realized that the challenge rating of a giant octopus was too high. Floor me to be fleasable. Aww. Aww. I immediately dropped my wild shape so I wouldn't benefit from it any longer. But my sin is that I kept quiet and did not tell the DM because I flelt like too much time and past to undo it. Was I wrong to not confess to my mistake to the DM,

I humbly await your judgment in the eyes of dice Christ. Much like the main character in Flubber. It probably wasn't legal to use Flubber in the basketball game, like if the basketball was doing a lot of that. I was thinking that I was, you guys were telling that. Yeah, that was cheating. That was cheating. That was cheating. That was cheating.

Yeah. They cheated. Yeah. The scientists cheated in that movie. You could easily do a sport to be about the team that went up against them. And octopus. And oh, I was talking about flubber. Sorry.

You do not know how many times I have to apologize in my day to day. Sorry, I was thinking about it a while ago. I'm so sorry, I was actually talking about Flutter. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. This is me at my therapist. Someone tells you a story and you say that's so funny. And you're looking past somebody that you're not shaker and go sparrows to keep up flutter. Um, I feel, I actually like that this person is like, they know, they, they

realized they were wrong. They know that that's not the infraction. Right. And that's not the infraction. The infraction is you didn't tell the DM. Yeah. Yeah. You know what?

It's never too late to tell him. It also, I think you didn't repeat it again. So you never, you learned from it. I think you know, this is, this is something that happens happens to everybody and the fact that it sounds like your DM, that you have a good DM because they were happy that you all solved the puzzle. Yeah. There are DMs that would have just been like, wait, no, there's a wall that your octopus can't get by or something like that.

You're a paladin now. Yeah, you have to take a paladin level. You were near a church. Yeah. Um, so you're, I don't think your DM would have been mad that that happens literally it has happened on our recorded show that We edit that we have gotten abilities and stuff wrong before. Yeah, this is all very normal I think in the future if you want to mess up. It's fine again I also get the rubber rule you can admit to have you use flubber because

it's gonna make the world better. Yeah, I know what the most important thing is that you didn't do it in the future. That's the real accountability. You didn't even hurt anyone's feelings. It's not like you own an apology. Yeah. So you're fine. You're doing it. Yeah, in the future, you can fast up. Everybody makes mistakes with these. But you don't have to apologize to them or whatever. I'm not going to make you do it. Right, no. You wrote in our show, we absolve you.

You're good. You're absolved. You're good. You're absolved. Jayscrases judges you based on how you have changed going forward after that mistake. Right. And you did.

Yeah. Yeah. And I would imagine if Flubber 2 were to have happened, they probably would have just gotten better at basketball, having been inspired by Flubber as opposed to using the Flubber. That's a really good scene watching those college athletes having to play a game without Flubber. So think of that. That's a really good scene watching those college athletes having to play a game without flubber. Yeah. And then realizing our skills of atrophied, we got two dependent on flubber. Let's get back. Let's get back to the port. Let's back to the game. But you need flubber for a little bit, right? Because you have flubber

there. It becomes like a D1 team. You start recruiting. You get better players. Flubber just be the confidence. No. Yeah. Here's what happens. Oh, we, Fl start recruiting, you get better players through school. Lovergives you the confidence. No, yeah. Here's what happens. Oh, if Lovergives you the reputation. Yeah, this school, it are the villains of another sports team. Yeah, and then you have a movie in a few years.

Obviously, they get kicked out of the league, they're in an outlaw outcast league, and who do they come up against? The fucking Airbud team. Who's gonna win? Wow. Who's gonna win Airbud? Well, Airbud has blubber on his paws.

Shit, everyone got blubber. It's the flubber league. That's Flubber 2 folks. I'm a Flubber. I'm a fine Airbud 4 Flubber 2. Wow. Cause there was a lot of Airbud How many earbuds were there so many? People's talk about this.

Finally, the sequel to movies I haven't seen. Yeah. Well, it'd be like a three-quil for, I think, there were so many earbuds. Because there was airbud, there was airbud to Golden Receiver. Sure. Where he played football.

Yeah, he played baseball on one. Did he really? Probably. I know there was airbud buddies where air butt had babies. Yeah. And there were puppies that played basketball? I believe. Yeah, they played all sorts of sports.

That's a lot. Let them be children. That's a lot. Yeah. They just want to go to the park. Yeah, we'll talk more about air butt four slash flubber two over on the short rest, we'll do some bonus cases.

Thank you all so much for listening. Does anyone have anything they'd like to plug? Check out Flubber and of course, the absent-minded professor, which is the original movie that Flubber was based on, and then after that, you're gonna wanna check out Son of Flubber, which is the actual sequel to Flubber. Is there a sequel to Flubber?

Yeah, it's from like the 1950s, I think. Oh, okay, so they didn't remake the sequel. There are three Flubber? Yeah, it's from like the 1950s, I think. Oh, okay, so they didn't remake the sequel. There are three Flubber movies. There's Abs and Mind Professor. Great. And then, or wait, no, is Abs and Mind Professor and Nuddy Professor shit, hold on, I'm too deep in the rabbit hole. Yeah, you know what, we don't have to look at stuff at all.

There was a little conflict. We can be wrong about Flubber. You know, we don't have time, and it doesn't matter. So let's... Flubber may or may not be based on another movie. We don't know, and it doesn't matter. So let's. Love or may or may not be based on another movie. We don't know. And ultimately, it doesn't really matter.

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