Threedom - Cross That River

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

Scott, Lauren, and Paul discuss the ET video game, conventions, and the muffin man before playing Dumb Over Under.  Send Threetures and emails to [e-mail] us a voicemail asking us a question at hagclaims8.comFollow us on Instagram @ThreedomUSA.Listen ad-free and unlock bi-weekly THREEMIUMS on cbbworld.comGrab some new Threedom merch at cbbworld.com/merchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Lauren. I'm Scott. I'm Paul. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Let's bring back Entourage. I should rewatch Entourage soon.

Why? What about us? I do my yearly rewatch. What? Yearly? Of the entire series. No, but I do rewatch it every couple years. Really?

Really? What can I say? I love Ari Gold. What an indelible character. Honestly, I like it. I know my most toxic traits. I've talked about it a lot. I've talked about it a lot. I've talked about it a lot. I've talked I love Ari Gold. Was that show? What an indelible character. Honestly, I like it. I know my most toxic traits. I've talked about it before.

Was that show a half hour or an hour? Would it surprise you to learn it was a half hour and not three hours? Yeah, it's a half hour. Yeah. I remember that the Entourage movie, which I saw at the Santa Rama Dome on Saturday morning, it premiered on September 11th. 2001? No, no, no.

It was the Entourage finale. Oh, okay. It was on 9-11. Not the 9-11. Oh, okay. Not the famous one. But the anniversary of 9-11. Sure. And it ended with

Two planes heading for New York City. No, it didn't Todd Levin pointed that out to me. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah Wait, what is this gonna air? Okay, I have a last minute change This is our onourage recap podcast. Yeah, everything worked out. The end. Well, also famously, I thought Aquaman was a character they made up for that show. Sure. Oh, that's right.

No. Yeah. Did you? Wouldn't you? Right. It's a fake superhero. Aquaman is just as clever. I think I learned about it on newcomers. I was like, oh, it's a real guy. I'm sorry. He's a fake superhero. Aquaman is just as clever a title. I think I learned about it on newcomers. I was like, oh, it's a real guy. Oh, I'm sorry.

He's a real guy. They're cowards for not getting him to play Aquaman when they actually made the opening. Yeah, really. You got the guy right here. He has experience. That would have been cool. It would have been a company. It would have been like the fourth wall breaking.

Vinny Chase as Aquaman in real life And he's billed as Vinny chase. Yes Why is it called chase Vinny chase because he chases women You're saying why do they name him that? Yeah, he's chasing his dreams. He left Queens. Oh, I am Queens Boulevard Although he is Queens Boulevard. Yes. Yes. Well, he can't always he never leave because it's always within his heart That's right suit something you'd never understand suit That guy no, he was the director like the cool director. Oh that guy. Yeah, you kept referring to he is We love it, of course Of course our good friend handjob man. Hey, are you watching the studio?

Loving it. I watched the first three I've never seen. Apple TV. The latest one. So good. I'm loving it. And it's well, it's like, it's got some entourage bits that I enjoy such as Hollywood behind the scenes.

It's Hollywood behind the scenes. And you know, it's full of people with foibles. They are foibles. And in real life, there's full of people with foibles. They're foibles. And in real life, there's full of people with foibles. I'm really enjoying it. Life, if we could get rid of the foibles. Wouldn't that be great? I would love to get rid of the foibles. Yeah. Boy, oh boy.

I met Jeff Goldblum once when you just quoted that. You met him once when I just quoted that. No, because you just quoted him. So I wanted to say I met him once and it was, it was lovely. And I was like, I met him once and it was lovely. And I was like, I basically could barely eke out that I was in Jurassic World. He didn't care. He loved me just as much as any other stranger.

Yeah. Real forearm toucher. I have a great picture. What the fuck was I going to say? About entourage. No, I don't want to talk about it. Cause this is an entourage podcast. Oh. Who's in your entourage? Who's in your entourage? Who's say about entourage? No, I don't want to talk about it. Cause this is an entourage podcast.

Oh no. Who's in your entourage? Who's in your entourage? Who's in your entourage? Yeah. Tall John probably is in my entourage. And then what character does he relate to? And which character do you, are you?

Or am I the most like? Well you're E. You think I'm E? Yeah, I'm probably E. In your entourage, are you E? I mean, we'll say we were the entourage. You put yourself as the not main. Say, say...

Some might say he is the main. E, because he's handling all the deals. Yeah, he's our POV character. Is he? He is our POV character, yeah. I guess. But if, say we were the entourage, who would we be? Who do you most relate to, Lauren? Are you Turtle? I'm Vinnie, obviously. Getting all the babes.

No, I'm drama. I feel like I'm a Johnny drama. You're drama. I'm turtle. No one's Vinny. We need a Vinny, that's the thing. We do need a Vinny. Do you think that's Richard Kind?

HJO is our Vinny. I wish it was gonna be Paige, what's her name? Paige Davis. Paige Davis. Yeah, it's our Vinnie. Reggie Miller. Reggie Miller. Reggie Miller.

I can't believe all these people that we've sent out the fourth signal. Paige basically said she would. She was on that cameo. It was a cameo. You can't believe anything people say in a cameo. Yeah. Yeah, you've lied in a bunch of those. They don't know. They don't give a shit if it's your birthday.

You know what I mean? They don't. I do care when our fans' birthdays are. But you don't do cameos. No, I care when our fans' birthdays are. You don't do cameos. No, I won't do cameos about it, but when I hear one of our fans has a birthday,

I get very touched. Well, like today, I wanna just say happy birthday because I know that a few listeners' birthdays are today. I don't know if their names listed right here. No, no, I remember. I think today it's like the... How many listeners have a birthday today? Probably like 75, I think.

I think 75. I remember Margaret had one. Yeah. Yeah. John and Amanda. Patrick had a birthday. But I just want to say, like, I'm talking about the birthdays, of course, the day that we're recording. Yes, not the day. I'm also talking about the birthdays, the day that it comes out, which is Sarah and Matt.

Right. That's part of the problem is when we record episodes, we have birthdays on the day we're recording and the day it comes out. And then we have some people who just are listening today, whatever day it is. Whatever day it is, we have to that's Laura's birthday. Yes, exactly. I would love to know if there was a day of the year that's nobody's birthday. It's not possible. I think it's possible. No, it's not.

I think it is. I think we could get there. How many billion people are in the world? I think people, as they start to die off. I think from now on, we should set it, we should cordon off a day and say, this is nobody's birthday. It should be like that movie New Year's Eve where they're trying to get it born.

Yes, they're trying to find a reverse. A reverse New Year's Eve where we're like, if your baby is born on this day, we, I don't know what happens. That's my favorite Seth Meyers movie. Yeah. Yeah. You've said that before and I, that's how I know. I'll die on that hill. That's how I know it's true. I think it's, I think it's the best movie Seth Meyers has been in. That's great. Has he been in other movies? I have no idea.

Great guy Seth. We love you if you're listening. Rest in peace. No. What? We don't know what's gonna happen when this comes out. We are taping this very far in advance. 50 years. 50 years in advance. We're putting it in a time capsule.

Yeah. This is a special episode on a CD. Yeah. That we're just sharing with one listener. Yeah. Wu-Tang style. Martin Shkreli. Paul, what did you do last week?

Cause I know you were, since we recorded, Paul, you went out of town. Since I recorded. Yes, I went to Chicago. Why'd you go there? To answer the question, is that your jacket? And did you find out? I did.

Good. It is your jacket. Good. I did some Thrilling Adventure Hour shows. Oh, that's right. It is the 20th anniversary of Thrilling Adventure Hour. Two whole decades. We started doing it 20 years ago.

And what's really funny is that on the posters, well, just wait, don't jump the gun. I thought it was funny on the poster. On the poster, we noticed this as we were signing them that the year is off. And on the poster says, we started doing this show in 2005. And it says on the poster 2004 2024

and that escapes the notice of many people. Oh but it's actually 2005 2025? Yes that's correct. Because this year is what 2025 you're saying? This year is currently is 2025. Wow. Wow. Honestly today I was just going I was just remembering something from the past and I

went that was 20 years ago. That's insane Washington crossing the Delaware. Yes. I remember a while I just remember we were like crossing a fucking river used to be a big deal like come on Go paint in a battle. Why don't you I can cross the river like four steps. I could cross the river in three steps cross that river river in three steps. Across that river. Jamie and I, this year in October, will have been together for 20 years. Wow.

Yeah, yeah. That's crazy, man. That's amazing. Hey, man. Good for you. Hey, man. Happy anniversary, man. We are.

I believe this is coming out around Cool Up and I's anniversary of dating 26 years ago. Whoa. 26 years ago? 26 years. Do you feel you learn new things about your partner? No. I learn old things. You relearn things you already knew?

Yeah, we got to do a refresher course every year. I'm reminded of things that I forgot. You know the preacher we do where we take the quiz about each other? Yeah. Yes. That's what we do. Honestly, it's one of the hardest quizzes I've ever been given.

I have no memory of anything that's ever been said. But do you feel that you learn something new every so often? Like, oh, I didn't know you felt that way. Yeah, I think so, yeah. I feel like honestly, just from your podcast, I've heard you have a go, oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. It is funny when you've been you have a go, oh I didn't know that. It is funny when you've been with somebody a long time.

Long ass time. Thank you. After 20 it's long ass. And you stumble upon a story or a fact that you've never told them. Yeah. It's like that episode we did where we mentioned I auditioned for the dating game and Lauren you were auditioned for America's game and Lauren you were audition for America's next You were like how has this never come up? Yeah, that actually is weird because those are pretty big ones. Yeah took a long time

Took a long time took a long lonely lonely lonely Left yeah without a dope beat to set to it But I feel like I learned a lot when Cool Up made her documentary. Oh, I'm sure. Because I know I had heard, you know how when you first start dating someone, you learn a lot about them, but it's in such a short amount of time that you just can't retain all of that information. Right. So a few times I've been like, what's your last name?

And how do you say it? Pardon me, honey, but could you refresh my memory about this aspect of your past, you know, or something like that? But watching her movie, I was like, oh, I'm seeing all of this in kind of the proper context instead of like split up in many conversations. Yeah, it's cool, it's like you have it fully in order.

Yeah, so. Every couple, one of the people should make a movie about themselves. Yes, every other year. Yeah. Like, you know how James Bond movies used to come out every odd year? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A job. They came out every odd year. It was like, if it was an odd numbered year, a James Bond movie was coming out. Why was it like that? Because they took two years to make, I guess. So they were just like, don't worry, there'll be one in the next odd year.

Yeah, James Bond will return in the next odd year. And you just knew that? You just knew it. Yeah. How many are there? It sure as rain as wet. How many James Bond movies are there? Official or also the unofficial?

There's official? Yes, there are unofficial. Official full? I guess any way you slice it. Do you wanna guess? I mean, if it's every other, every two year, every odd year, every other year. They stopped doing it that way, by the way.

Okay, I guess I would say there's 60. You wanna take a guess, Paul? One. Okay, price is right. You're right, Paul. There's only one James Wan movie. Was the first one in 1960, Dr. No? Was that 60? Probably, yeah. How many are there?

I have no idea. Oh, I thought you knew. No. It's not good to have that information in your head. I don't want to have it. People say we should do that on new cameras. I know, it's very sad. He has that sickness. I think if we do that on newcomers, that's like, I don't think I can handle that.

It's a lot of jobs. Some of them are long and drawn out. Unless they just picked like 10 for us, because I mean sometimes it's what we do. There are 25 apparently. Dang. I said 60, that's way too many. And then some are sort of repeats, like when Daniel Craig took over. I mean it's only been 60 years since they came out.

No, it didn't make any sense once I did the math. Didn't make any sense at all. But I thought there were just way too many, you know, it just't make any sense once I did the math. Didn't make any sense at all. But I thought there were just way too many, you know, it just seemed like they- They should pair it down. 25 is a lot. 25 is a lot if you're talking about like Mission Impossible. There's like other types of things. Mission Impossible has what, eight or nine?

If you did 10 episodes, you could probably, it could probably be kind of fun. Okay, fine, we'll do it. I think if you pick the best 10, I think you could enjoy it. That's the thing, I think anytime they make a new one, they need to just delete one of the old shitty ones. For sure. Well, I think that about podcasts. We should honestly, I think any podcast that only has like two episodes should just be deleted. We just need to clear space. We need data to be cleared. I just imagine it must be very clogged out there.

I think they should take all the one or two episode podcasts where people are like, oh, it turns out I don't want to do this. I think they should- I have a great idea for a podcast. Put them all on a hard drive and throw them in a landfill. Like the E.T. video game. Why are we saving them?

What, I don't know that. There was an E.T. video game that was so bad. It was so shitty that they, the story is that they bury, literally buried them. Literally, yeah they did. They just like took them out of the store and they were like, let's just get rid of these. Yeah.

Whoa, that's crazy. And now they're really difficult to find. I think they're very rare or something. It's like so bad. It's also very hard to play. But why, were they room. Were they embarrassed? Like, why do they get rid of it? They have red faces and everyone was constantly like,

why is your face so red? It should just be your finger. You're ET after all. It was so they could say that it never existed. ET embarrassed. People would be like, you made the ET game and they're like, there's no such thing. No, that didn't happen.

Go try, go find one. Go try to go find one. Show it to me right now. Oh yeah, go dig in the land. What were you saying about it? There was a green room on the tour, on the Bang Bang Tour last year that had. The E.T. video game?

It had a cabinet, you know, video game console. Oh right. And you could play a bunch of different games. And E.T. was one of the games. And it was very hard to play. Yes, I read an article about it a few years back. And yeah, I don't know what was so hard about it, but it was like impossible to win and also had no kind of connection to ET because it was set on the ever use the phone. It was set on his planet. I think he's so cute.

What's his actual name? I wonder. I feel now we're doing CBB crossovers because this came out recently. Maybe his name is Glorb. You don't think it's ET or his initials? It could be Edna Trigonosis. Edna Turnblatt. Edna Trigonosis. Edna Turnblatt. Edna Turnblatt.

From Hairspray. Eric Tunney. Oh. That's probably what it is. Hairspray, did anyone ever make that joke of like, ha ha ha, you're like ET, Oh, hairspray. Eric Tunney. Oh. That's probably what it is. Hairspray, did anyone ever make that joke of like, ha ha ha, you're like E.T., a thing that's going to come around in 20 years? Ha ha, you will be like E.T. I think they did make that, yeah. That's cool.

Yeah, it was cool. They're so cool. Baltimore is obsessed with E.T. I loved the movie Hairspray as a kid, the one with Ricky Lake. Sure. That was like a favorite. I watched it all the time. Wait, is that the one?

Okay. Was Hairspray a non-musical that got turned into a musical? Yeah, it was more of a diagetic. Yeah, it was. And then they shot the musical. It was like a producers. What that means? Like there was just music in scenes?

Yeah, exactly. Like that they're actually listening to. Yeah. And then they made the musical on Broadway and then they... Then they shot the musical with Mr. John Travolta. Yes. The wickedly talented. You know what?

Pune Travolta. I don't know if this is totally true, but this past year I went, wait a second. I don't know if I ever actually understood that he was referencing Wicked. Because I think I was just so focused on how he said the name wrong. Right. And how weird it was how he said wickedly and I was like, why is he doing all this? And I almost didn't even put together. She's from wicked, cause I was like, who's a deltazine?

It's a lot like being someone for 20 years, you'd learn new things. It's so packed with meaning. You learn new things. You tied it all back together. Yeah, I did. So fast. Yeah, let's end this episode right now.

So I was in Chicago and something happened to me. Oh! Because it was C2E2, the famous convention. Oh, it was during C2E2. What's C2E2? I went once. C2E2. C2E2.

C2E2 embarrassed. E.T. mortified. It means Chicago to E2. But what is E2? I have no fucking idea. It's a comic convention. E2 Foo-hoo. Thank you.

Yes. I don't think I am aware of this. Guys, did you hear that I said E2 Foon-Hoon? No! You didn't mean to say it? You gotta point it out so it can be the title. I said it on purpose. E2 Foon-Hoon. E2 Foon-Hoon. E2 Foon. E2 Brutay. E2 Brutay.2 Brute? Yeah, yeah, I was trying to get here.

What if he liked it here? Yeah. He loved it. He just wanted to call his home. He just wanted to say, I'm okay. Yeah. I live with his family. So it was a comic convention. Yes. And it was happening, but you didn't go to the comic convention? It was just happening around you? No, our events were happening. At the convention? We did a panel and we did an improv show that were all in convention halls. Thrilling Adventure Hour?

Yeah. And so we were walking around and I realized I really love cons. Wrath of... I mean... The rest. Genghis. I really, in that capacity of like being there for a thing, for a purpose.

So you get like walked through everything. Yeah, yeah. I love looking around. I love seeing how creative people are and all the costumes. I will say I've been, I've probably been going to cons for a while now. I'm recognizing less and less of the costumes. I will say I've been, I've probably been going to cons for a while now. I'm recognizing less and less of the costumes. Oh, well there's more and more.

There's so much stuff. And then you're gonna still like, anime world, I have no idea. There used to be only so much history. That's what I've always said. And now, they keep making it. When you started learning about music, like you guys, like there were only so many decades of music.

And then every year you had to learn more and more and more. But now the kids have to learn all the way back. And then all the new stuff. Beethoven to now. Much like content, let's start deleting history. Oh, I would love to. If we could just go like, it kind of just starts and ends with tears for tears.

Seems like no one remembers history anyway. Come on, Paul. We're doomed to repeat one remembers history anyway come on Paul we're doomed to repeat it Paul come on sweat dripping down his forehead my favorite my favorite cosplay that I saw was a guy dressed as John Hammond from Jurassic Park I mean this is the perfect type of costume because you just put throw on a hat it's comfortable yeah yeah he's wearing like a linen shirt like very nice like you can pull that off very nicely. Oh I could and I will yeah But this okay, so this is what happened to me. We did wait. We still don't know what happened to him

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We're back. Paul, I gotta know what happened to you in Chicago. We did our panel. Hell yeah. That's great story. What a great cliffhanger. Wait, there's more. What? Okay, I thought that was it. No. Oh, because it is a great story. And that is what happened to him. Yeah, we did. So at the panel, a great thing happened.

When do we get to hear what these things are? You're going to hear them right now if you'll shut the fuck up. So the last, so we did a panel and then people asked questions. There's a mic in the aisle and people come up. The very last guy to ask a question said, yeah, hi, I have no idea what this podcast is. I've never heard it. I just came because I'm a fan of Paul and Janet. And I guess my question is how long have Paul and Janet been part of the podcast?

But like, why did you stand up? It was so, I think he was kind of on the spectrum. Okay. But he was very, he was- If you're listening, maybe you're not, we don't mean to say something about you. Look, you're not qualified to offer a diagnosis. Is that right, Paul?

No, but I am willing to. But he was, cause he was weirdly, it was, he was not being rude. He wasn't being rude, but he was saying very plainly like, I don't know who any of you are. Right, right, right. It's kind of a funny bit also if you're just. Absolutely. Just stand up at a panel and go, I don't know what this is. I don't know who you are. I

don't have any questions. The fact that he was the very last person he waited the whole time. Yeah. But then, so we're relieving and I'm wearing I'm wearing a Black King Tut outfit. Yeah, of course That was a stab in the dark I have to tell you what I'm wearing because of the story I'm wearing a black suit white shirt. I have a Stripe tie I'm wearing purple tinted glasses. And

I have a scarf around my neck because it was a little chilly in Chicago. And so we pass by a woman who's sitting at the door to one of the great oppression. I'm just trying to add some sound effects. She's working the convention and she's sitting on a chair in front of a closed door. There's like an event going on in there. And we make eye contact and she says, are you sure you're not actually him? And I stopped and I said, who? And then she started laughing. And I said, wait, she thought you were in costume. Then she started laughing. And I said, wait, who do you who are you talking about?

And she's just laughing, like waving like, I can't, I can't, I can't. Yeah. And then she goes and she just squeaks out like, I've seen a lot of cosplay. And then she keeps laughing. I never found out who she was talking about. I was. What was the costume? I mean, what was your outfit again?

Black suit. Apple bottom jeans. I know it's all like a picture, but I love your apple bottom. Thank you. I've never heard of it. It's a delicious apple. White shirt.

I'm wearing a- Wait, wait, wait, you're wearing a black suit, white shirt. A necktie with purple and green stripes. Okay. Purple tinted glasses. Okay. A gray scarf around my shoulder.

Yeah, this is like an outfit I've seen you wear. Yeah, I think you're Prince from the Bat Dance video. Does she think you're you? Some people are positing that and I'm like, no. She thinks I'm cosplaying as me? No. Or that you're somebody else. That someone is being Paul F.

Tompkins. Yeah. She's like, what a great Paul F. Tompkins costume. No. She obviously thinks you're someone. Yes. The purple tinted glasses do take it to another place.

Exactly. So then I'm like, okay, the Joker? But it's like as a man. You can't, you can't be the Joker if you don't have makeup on your face. That's what I mean though, the Joker as a guy. Like the Joker before? Do you think the Joker dressed like the Joker before he fell in the vat of acid or whatever? I think he wore, well, like in Batman 1989, Jack Nicholson is wearing a purple suit, like

a purple tweed suit. Yes, a more muted, of course. Like a real- So you think he wore those colors, he was like in autumn or whatever, and he likes to wear those colors, but he amps it up once he becomes the Joker. He's like, well, then my face is so white.

Yeah, you gotta have a brighter version. Maybe this will distract everyone if I wear this. I love that movie. That's like my favorite batman. I haven't watched it in such a long time. That's one of my favorite batman. One of the creepiest things is when he puts the regular makeup on to cover his white face. It's so creepy. He's still got the crazy mouth. I know. Have you seen his son? I just Googled. I have seen his son. He has the same smile. So cool. Because he's in Smile 2, right? Right. That's yeah. Now, because somebody, I don't know, somebody posted about him. I was like, Oh, I don't know if I've ever seen

one. Have you seen Christian Slater? Have I seen him as a guy? Yeah, like, yes. But not as the Joker? I have seen him. I've seen Christian Slater not as the Joker. That would be bold to cast him as the Joker. I was gonna say, do you think they ever approached him to do it? Michael, what if you did?

Well, you know, Robin Williams almost got the Riddler. That story is horrible. Iler that story is that story? What's that like they basically leveraged? him against Jim Carrey like oh He what he didn't get to have the part. It was just kind of fucked up I mean you probably describe it better. I was like they they were like they were like hey Jim Carrey Robin Williams is gonna do this Yeah, so yeah, you should take it basically or whatever. And he like stole it from him, but he didn't steal it.

It was just more of a thing. Like from Williams is willing to do it. Yeah, then he was sad that he didn't get to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. But I think we can all agree, Jim Carrey's performance as the Riddler, we think about it all the time. And he was also, I feel like that there must have just been that he was like

such the height of his fame right then. So that was- Yes. Yeah, he was. I cannot sanction your buffoonery. I love that story. I just saw him telling that on Instagram. Who are you talking? Oh yeah, Al Gore's ex roommate.

He came up to him at a restaurant and sat down and what's his name? I'm so excited to do this film. Tommy Lee Jones was like not into it. I cannot sanction your buffoonery. He just started with goofball. That's like something that would sit on the Senate floor when they would beat each other with canes.

Yes. They should bring that back. Beating with canes. 100%. Oh wait, so here's the King Tut related thing. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm backstage waiting to go on. You're nervous.

You're pacing. I'm freaking out. I have a long time before I have to go on. You're nervous. You're pacing. I'm freaking out. I have a long time before I have to go on as does my castmate Janet Varney. We're both backstage. Who else was there by the way? Was Padgett there? Padgett was not there. Oh no. But you got Mark Evan Jackson. You got Autumn Reeser. You got Amy Stapp course from... Busy Phillips. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. That's correct. Was she in it? Yes.

What did she play in it? Some spy or something. Really? To be honest, I did not notice her in the film. This is recently on Scott Hasen Seen, so I did not notice her in the film and then was surprised to see her in the credits. You watched that movie for Scott Hasen Seen? Why yes, Paul. Feel free to listen to the episode. You watched that movie for Scott has unseen why yes Paul

Feel free to listen to the episode it is two hours and 20 minutes long Surprise you learn Connor Ratliff is involved That's Rocky and Bullwinkle. Oh, you mean with that? Selecting that film. Yes so we're backstage and I was reminded of this as I often am out of nowhere. And I turned to her and I said, do you remember when they found that like mummy throat

and they reconstructed it? Oh my God, I love that video. So we could know what a mummy sounded like. And then when they finally did, it sounded like, huh! All right. And then we laughed until we, it sounded like, huh, all right. And then we laughed until we had tears in our eyes. Yeah. That was really funny.

It was one of the greatest things that ever happened. Because the way they're, and the build up to it, like, scientists constructed this model after 14 years working on a way, huh. It's so good. But it wasn't a joke. It's no, it wasn't. They were like, this is what it must have sounded like.

And they had to play it off like, this is fascinating. Yeah. But what they were saying, if a mummy could talk, this is what he sounds like. This is what they must have sounded like. Or what ancient humans sounded like. I think the idea was, we're gonna push some air through this

so we can hear, you know, this mummy's voice. That's so stupid. Some things are really not necessary. That's my question though. Is it, hey, we're doing this because this is what people thousands of years ago sounded like or they just wanted to hear what a mummy would sound like if it could talk? They wanted to hear what if they, I believe if memory serves, they had this actual hunk of person

and they said, we're going to, we're going to make it talk. So it's not, it's not like reconstructing what people, cause that, then you're getting into the Neanderthal guy. One, two, three, that guy who is incredible. His voice by recreating his mouth and vocal cords with a 3D printer. It allowed them to produce a single sound. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

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It allowed them to produce a single sound. Ah! Why is he getting hit in the solar plexus? Why is he screaming? Ugh! Ugh! What? Oh, I love it. Oh, it's so good.

That's really funny. We were fucking, we were crying. Crying, laughing. Yeah, Oh, it's so good. We were fucking, we were crying, crying, laughing. Yeah, no, that's really fun. Oh, Jesus H. I have a, by the way, for your previous story. What are you famous by the ways? By the way, I was once at San Diego Comic-Con with a friend who-

Bill W. Yeah. Bill W. Yeah, Bill W. Who has a gap in their teeth. And someone not sure about where this is headed. Someone came up to us and said. I like your costume to them and not wearing anything, even approaching cosplay. And he goes, what?

And they go, Alfred E. Newman and walks away. What? They said it like that? Yeah, it was so fucking rude. They were just trying to make fun of the fact that that person had a gap in their chain. That's rude. Yeah.

That's rude. That's insane. That's not the Comic-Con spirit. That's a lot of extra effort. Comic-Con is a wonderful- To go out of your way to insult somebody. Comic-Con, or at least what Comic-Con used to be, was a wonderful grouping of people who,

from all across the country, who found common interests and who formed these wonderful little cliques of, wow, we all like this together and friendships that have lasted lifetimes. There's still a mean person mixed into a larger group. People invented new ways to sweat that they didn't know existed before. And they're like, what if I put this material on?

It makes me sweat a lot. Did I tell you about the one time, you know, the bath, the public bathrooms at Comic-Con are kind of bad, but, um... What are they not in a building? They're in the convention center. Oh, okay. I've been there, but I didn't, I wasn't able to spend much time... In the bathroom?

I want to clear my calendar for the afternoon. I just feel like I don't even really have a strong memory of what the environment was that. There's usually lines to get into them. And I went into one and was waiting for the sit down stall. And there was a line. Don't tell us more about that, please. But there was a line and I finally got up to the front person of the line

and someone came out of the stall and looked at me so embarrassed and like hurriedly washed his hands and went out of there. And I just casually went into the stall and it was filled with shit and so gross that I did, I did essentially, you know, that Homer meme where he walks into the thing and then turns around and does a 180.

It's grandpa Simpson. Sorry. Grandpa. I thought it was Homer when he walked back into the bush. Oh, that's the Homer where he just backs up into the bush. This is grandpa Simpson comes into a room and then, yes. So I did the exact same thing and then dry heaved into the sink next to him.

Now you're looking at him! Yes! That's insane! He was washing his hands fast enough. Yeah, I just went doop-a-doop-a-doo and then went, Oh! Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr That makes me want to throw up. Why wouldn't he flush the fucking toilet? Because it was broken. It was broken.

Because it was broken. Oh, God. I mean, I feel bad for him. I was. I feel bad for me. Who do you feel worse for? The guy. I went to the bathroom at C2E2

and I was washing my hands. C2E2. E2 food. The guy, a young man next to me, said as we were both washing our hands, hey, can I get a picture with you? No. And then he said, outside, of course. Oh, that's nice.

That's fine. That's nice. And then his dad took the picture and he was like, but please don't zip up. He said, the dad was Irish. He was like, geez, he asked him to take a picture in the bathroom. And I said, he did say, he did specify outside. He's like, oh, you asked him to take a picture of that in the bathroom. And I said, he did specify outside. He's like, oh, thank God for this. I think these types of interactions are so prone for.

Prone for? Prone for, am I saying that correctly? No. What am I saying? Lying down for? Prone to? Prone to. Prone to being. Prone to being. Prone to? Prone to! Prone to being

Prone to home to They're prone to later on, you know, it's so easy to like, sit there going like oh, was this awkward? Was this oh, I feel like I, you know, it's like let's make it easy that sounds like a wonderful interaction is what I'm trying to say

It was, yeah, he was a nice young guy I was very touched by how many people in costume approached me, like that recognized me. It was very sweet. Like somebody... You were one of them. You were dressed up as whoever you were dressed up as. I still want to know who that is.

Yes, and if you... It made her laugh so hard. If you have an idea, please don't tell me. Honestly, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Can we get rid of just you look like this guy posts for all time? Honestly, go ahead and do it. Just don't include me. I don't get anything out of it.

Yeah, I really only say- Of course, go ahead, post it. I only say it if the person, like I've said it to here, the reason I'm saying this, I've said that to two women in the past couple of weeks that they look like somebody. But were they hot as hell?

But they're beautiful celebrities and they do look like somebody. But were they hot as hell? But they're beautiful celebrities and they do look like them. And I'm like, there's nothing, that's not gonna make you feel bad. No. You have like an Emily Ratajkowski in the Entourage movie kind of vibe. Someone looks like.

Did she act in that film? Rachel McAdams. I think so, I think Haley Joel was like trying to bone her in that movie. We made fun of it on the Bang Bang TV show, that was his, in our entourage episode, that was his subplot. I have not seen the film.

You haven't seen the film? No. Yeah. You didn't entourage episode. Did you say Rachel McAdams? My friend, I realized my friend looks like her. Right. I like who I've been friends with for years,

but I was like, oh my God, I just, that's who it is. And she's like, someone has, she has been approached, people think that she is her on the street, even though she's like much taller than her. Do you mind introducing us? Creep? Creep? It's not a creepy thing. No, no, I just want to be the latest.

It looks like a beautiful. I just need new friends. I just need new people. She sounds she sounds really great. So she sounds like an interesting person. Gave no details about her. You said she's your friend. Sure. That makes me like her.

Sure. There was a young lady that came up to me dressed like, she was like a sort of silver blue elf. Silver blue elf. Although wearing like kind of regular clothes. So I'm trying to figure out like. Wait what does she look like? Her face was like a silvery blue.

Okay. Pointed ears. Okay. And but then she's just wearing like a t-shirt and jeans or whatever. Yeah. So I don't know if that's a specific character. Or that's just fine makeup. Yes.

Yeah. But she came up to me and it's, it was really good makeup too. And you know, we, she said, she just wanted to say hi. She didn't ask for a picture or anything. And, and then later she tagged me on Instagram with a picture of herself as this elf creature and said, you know, something like, not me crying because I met Paula F. Dawkins. Oh, not like, not me crying because I met Paula.

Not me as an elf crying. Exactly. That's cute. I like the fact that she, she had her interaction with you and then turned her and turned away and just started. She turned her a, she turned her a around. Said, look at this. Watch this walk away. I don't have to leave.

You take a picture. I don't need one of you. You feel like getting your camera out. It was very nice, though. I do miss going to the Comic Cons. I mean, San Diego just got to be too. Nothing ever changed in it for the past 10 years, I feel like, you know, like I used to love the hunt of trying to track down things that you wanted to buy that before

online shopping made everything so easy. You know what I mean? I used to love that aspect of it, but now it's like, I don't know. All your bobble heads. Yeah. Yeah. How do you like them all by the way? I mean, do you tap them all every day?

Yeah. Yeah. Because they're, they're all going right now. Yeah. I mean, this must be fun during an earthquake. Come over here. Oh, there was that earthquake announcement yesterday. I missed it completely. We were I didn't receive the earthquake. I was saying the middle of it and none of us felt it. No, but they don't always send an alert.

So I was like, how did they got an alert? No, I know. I mean, they sent the alert, but I'm saying, oh, shit, alert. Usually, even if I feel it, I don't always get an alert. Yet that one I didn't feel and I didn't get an alert either. I like a two notification system. I like an alert. I like feeling it. Yeah. I like the earth notifying you and you hitting the ground. Yeah. All right.

Let's take a break. We'll be right back. OK. Okay. King of the impossible. I have a question for you. Okay. I hopefully have an answer, but if I don't, I'm just going to run out of the room really quickly. Okay. I mean, I would say take another guess if you want me to just hazard a guess.

Just leave. Yeah. Okay. Well, let's hear the question. I might just leave. Okay, here's the question. You know when a new shirt just becomes your go-to? Oh god, bye! Oh, he's gone. He left a hole in the wall shaped like himself.

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it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and it's I don't do it. I have this. I got a I got a telegram. You better not. And it it has a word that I'm unfamiliar with. Oh my God. S.T.O.P.

Does anyone know what that is? I don't get it. Yeah, I don't get it either. I don't get it. I mean, we're not going to be able to solve that. Yeah, it's too bad. Oh, here's another word, though. Three turn. Yeah, I don't get it either. I don't get it. That's what I mean. We're not gonna be able to solve that. No, it's too bad. Oh, here's another word though, three-chir.

Oh. What is it? So it's like a, Bustero. Yeah, no, Laura, you're right. Oh yeah. That's exactly what it's like. Okay, yeah.

Well, it's time to play one. A Bustero. So you know that it's something you play. No, I know a Bustero, yeah. Oh, okay. You know how to play a Bustero. Um, because the telegram just says it's three two times stop. But do you know the Muffin Man? The Muffin Man? The Muffin Man.

Do you know the Muffin Man? What is that song about? He's been three years dead. You're quoting John Lithgow in Shrek. Do you know the Muffin Man? To bring this full circle, John Lithgow. Was he the mean little guy? Mm-hmm Good for him based on

Michael Eisner, haha Is there anything less funny than inside Hollywood jokes? Hmm Try to think nope this show All right, we're gonna play something called Over Under. We played this a few times. Yes. It was submitted by Michael Bliss. Read out them rules. Aka Michael Ignorance. Michael, how do you like that?

I think we mentioned that last time. Yeah, Ignorance is. How could you not? Michael's middle name is Ignorance is. Ignorances. Ignorances. your, you and your ignorances. All right, so give us the- Well, there's two, we've played this two ways and I don't know which way is best.

Let's play Mike's way. Sure. Tomatoes, lettuce. Is that in there? Oil, vinegar. It is Michael Bliss. So we are playing it Mike's way whether we like it or not.

That's cool. What's interesting is when we play it one way, I think people complain and when we play it the other way, people complain. Oh, how interesting. It's like you can't please people. Yeah, it's almost like that. But I mean, let's play it the way we like to play it. Well, that's that's my question to you.

The two ways we played it are one person comes up with a question like this. We were reminded to play this because of our James Bond conversation earlier where it was like, Hey, how many James Bond movies are there? Right. And then the two people guess and whoever is closest gets a point. But, but the question is you say that's one. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. The other way we play it is two people come up with a question to ask person three and then person three locks in the answer and then persons one and two play over under. I think they are over...

There are over this many movies. I feel that they are over under. So meaning meaning. But with what person three thinks is the answer. I don't know whether person three reveals the answer. That's the part that's not in this. It says person three locks in their answer before any other discussion occurs. They cannot alter their answer.

Persons one and two now play over under with what they think person three locks in their answer before any other discussion occurs. They cannot alter their answer. Persons one and two now play over under with what they think. Person three thinks is the answer. Right. So does person has person? No. Yeah. Person three is not revealed. This is what's so confusing.

This is not, I mean, Michael ignorance. Can you just call us right now and just tell us? When we first played it, I feel like we made guesses. I think this is the exact conversation that we had last time. No, of course it is. These directions are not clear. But I'm trying to remember, I think that when we first played it, we did have access to the real thing. First we guess. Yes, I think it's like, say I'm the person. Yeah. You guys come up with the question of how many lakes there are and you look up the answer. I write down my guess and I keep it secret. Then you guess whether you think I am over or under based on you know the correct answer. Right. Right? And then I reveal and whoever is right

about being over or under gets a point. Yes. Let's try it that way, because I don't think that I've. I think also who cares about the points? I think it's just fun to guess. That's true. That's true. And we're, yeah, guessing weird things.

Okay. Okay, so do you want to? You want me to come up with a thing? Yes, and I think it, share it between the two of you. Yeah, share it. What do you mean, share it? Meaning you both know the answer and I don't, and I'm the one guessing.

We each take a turn guessing. Okay. Okay, I'm gonna say the question or the... And it has to be a number question. Right. How many episodes of the Brady Bunch are there? Okay, great. And then share that information between the two of you. So I'llunch are there? Okay, great. And then share that information between the two of you.

So I'll look that up. Oops, sorry. And I'm going to write down my guess of how many episodes of the Brady Bunch are there. And then I will not reveal that and you will guess whether I'm over or under. I'm okay if you never reveal it. Yeah, so am I. Because that's your business. So am I. Honestly, like what I think of the Brady Bunch

is private. I'm gonna show Paul. Don't look. Okay. Wow. I am, I have my number locked in. All right, now knowing what you know about me, am I over?

And what you know about the correct answer, am I over or under? I think you're going to be going to be I think you're going to be under. I think you're going to be over. Interesting. Can you reveal how many episodes of the Brady Bunch are there? No, you reveal first, I think, right? Yes. Okay, it's more fun if you reveal first. I've guessed 83. I was right. The answer is 117. They made it to syndication,

of course. I was the original residuals. The original residuals. That burns me up. They've done seven more than the comedy bang bang TV show. That burns me up. Yeah. So. Well, you can go back and make seven more. Make eight more. I'd like to. Yeah. Make eight more to beat him. You sure we don't wanna do points? I do wanna do points. Yeah, no, we don't wanna do points.

Okay, good. I got a point now. All right, Lauren, you got a point. All right, now we'll go clockwise, so I will come up with a question and share the answer with Paul. Okay. I'm Paul. I'm gonna say, how many, I'm Paul. I'm going to say. How many?

OK, this has got to be something we can also look up. I'm going to say how many OK, how many issues of detective comics starring the aforementioned Batman are there. Detective comics. This is where Batman premiered. Starring Batman. Is it still going? Yes, it is. To this day. Okay, that's interesting information for me. Yeah, I mean, they never got rid of him. How many comic books does Batman have now? Probably like on the rag? Yeah. Monthly, or regularly I think three at least. And what about on the rag?

On the rag, that's one a month. What about on the rug? That's when he makes an accident in duty. He does, he's a bat. He can't control it. Guano. He makes guano on the rug. He makes guano on the rug. I made guano on the rug.

So... She teaches you to say that. I will. I will. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to say, so you're saying how many comics... How many issues of Detective Comics, which is where Batman debuted, are... And considers his home. He loves it there. I have a guess.

Well, I'm going to share the information with Paul. Have you written down your guess? Oh, no. Well, do that. Okay. Do that shit. Do that shit. Do that shit. Do that shit. Do that shit. Do that shit do that shit all right I'm going to shy text it to you Paul you just show me if you want okay it's on the laptop I don't think you should say damn I I said moodang moodang great. What about him or her?

Why is it damn why do you think she's met Batman in the comics? I hope so All right, so now Now we are going to guess over under basing based on what we know about Lauren Who day does do dangerous for you and I'm gonna guess first. I'm gonna say she is under. I'm gonna say she's over. Okay. My answer is 850. Oh. How many?

1097. Not a bad guess. Not bad. But I was under. Yeah, you were under. I get a point. I don't. All I was under. Yeah, you were under. I get a point. I don't. All right, Paul, you're, you now.

The points Nazi says no points for you. You now come up with a question. Is this right? No, I'm supposed to guess now. You're supposed to guess. Yeah. So. So. I shouldn't have come

up with that question. What? No, I'll share one. Yeah. Oh, whatever. Yeah. Whatever. We truly fuckers. Honestly, it doesn't matter. Can we apologize to the listeners? Yeah. Fucked up. Oh, they're going around in a I got punished. No, you hit your knee. Yeah. Okay, the question is, how many, have we done this before? How many teams are in the NBA? I don't think we've done that. I don't think we've done that. Because I certainly don't know.

Okay. So I'm gonna look it up. Have you written down your guess? No, I haven't, I'm thinking about it. Let us know whenever your thought process ends. I will. All right. I think I have a guess.

All right. Do you want to? I guess. I guess we, yeah, doesn't, you don't have to write it down. Why do you have to write it down? No. Yeah, exactly. I can't cheat.

Right. You can't because you reveal it. Because you go first. Yeah, exactly. I can't cheat. Right. You can't because you reveal it. Because you go first. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to say Paul is going to go over. I'm guessing over as well. Paul, what is your guess?

Thirty-five. Whoa, it's thirty. Is it really? Yeah. Wow. That's a good guess. I think I would have said way more. I don't think I have.

But then at the same time you go, how many teams are there? When I first thought about it, I thought way more. I was like, no, it's not like every single state has a basketball. Well, the NFL is like 32 or something like that. So it stands to reason it would be around there. So 35, I thought was a really good guess. It's a shame. Every state should have a team. They should. Even Rhode Island.

And then some would suck. Biggest little state in the union. And I think they should be proportionate to the amount of people in the state, like the players on the team. Is there anything for the East? So Texas, there should be like 80 people on the team. All of them at the same time. Is there anything, any team representing the like East side besides Boston, like up in

that area? Of basketball? Yeah. Boston, Celtics. But like, there's like nothing for all those little states. So sort of like New England? Like New England. Oh that's a football team. Like Maine doesn't have a basketball team. Yeah. Why is it weird? Those little states can't afford the big arenas because I think an arena, like a basketball arena is as big as Rhode Island. You gotta have an arena like a basketball arena is as big as Rhode Island. You got to have an arena.

A basketball arena is as big as Rhode Island. Yeah. Yeah. Having just been in Providence, I think that's true. The population of Rhode Island comfortably sleep in the ask crypto dot com arena. All right. So now I'm going to come up with a question. But Paul hasn't gotten to come up with it. I know, I know. But that's because we fucked up. I'm going to come up with a question for Lauren. OK. And share the question. I know, I know, but that's because we fucked up. I'm going to come up with a question for Lauren. Okay. And share the information. Why don't I come up with a question? Because now we're now we've reset to back to where it needs to be. But it does make sense if

he does it. But it won't. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Sorry. You do it. It's going to be very hard to keep track of if we do it that way. Okay. I'm scared. Speaking of populations, what is the population of Texas? This is for me? This is for Paul. Oh, shit. Right? No, did you just guess? Yes, I did.

No, it's for Lauren. I said it's for Lauren. This is for Lauren. I'm going to... Can you imagine listening to the show? No. Yeah's for Lauren. I said it's for Lauren. Yeah. This is for Lauren. I'm going to. Can you imagine listening to the show? No. Yeah, I can. OK, have you guessed? What was the question again? Population of Texas. God, this is going to this is going to be one where one thinks I'm like crazy.

Like when I guess there were like two lakes or something and everyone's like, there's five million lakes. That was a classic. That was a classic. That was a classic episode. How many people live in Texas? Yep. Jesus Christ, I have no fucking clue. I'm going to say a crazy number. Wait, wait, don't don't say it out loud. OK.

OK, do you know I'm not going to say a crazy number, I'm going to say the correct number. Hold on, let me think. OK, but keep it to yourself strategy. OK, fine. Got it. You got it. OK, I'm not gonna say a crazy number, I'm gonna say the correct number. Hold on, let me think. Okay, but keep it to yourself. Good strategy. Okay, fine, got it. You got it? Okay, I'm gonna share it with Paul. I'm gonna guess under. I'm gonna guess under as well.

60 million. God damn it. Wow. What is it? 31.29 million. Oh, I guess way over. I almost said over and I was like, well, I've been wrong every time.

Yeah, all right. God, you guys were so disappointed. All right, Paul, it's your time to shine. I'm also disappointed there's that many people in Texas. I mean, there's a lot. It's your time to shine. Okay. You come up with a question for me.

Okay. All right, why don't you guys talk? So I'm trying to look for. OK. Hi, Lauren. How are you? I'm well. How are you? I'm doing fine.

Well, we're out of things to say, Paul. Now we kind of covered everything. I caught up on everything I need to know. When was the last time you were on a swing? That's a good question was it not sex swing Oh that changes my answer if I was on one with me Because it feels reason yeah, so it must have been Like in the last year cool. What about you?

Just a couple of days ago. A couple days ago. But I was getting like sick, trying to pump. You know, you pump and you go up and down. You were pumping while I was pumping and I. I just felt nauseous from the from the I. You know, it's this weird thing that I've gotten over the like in recent years. Or like, for example, if I throw like laundry down the stairs or like something down

the stairs that is going to land, I get like a pit in my stomach, like before it lands, like, like I feel almost like I'm not gonna, I don't, I feel something about it flying in the air. And then I feel that's when I'm on a swing, that I'm in the air and I'm like, oh, it gives me a pitch. Are you imagining you're the laundry and you're falling? I think there's part of that. Like it's like sort of like a weird, like I'm falling.

Or like you, the sort of physics of you throwing it, you might actually. I don't think it's that. I think it's just more like the way that it's flying in the air and then it's going to land. Something about it makes me feel like just a pit in my stomach. It must be something. I don't know what it is. Are you afraid of heights at all? Yeah, yeah.

Can we please get on with it? Oh, you're suddenly ready. All right. Wait, what was the question? Here's the question. Oh, he hasn't come. How many astronauts have walked on the moon? And the question is for Scott.

Yes. Okay, show me the answer. Walked on the moon. Yes. Okay, show me the answer. walked on the moon. Okay. All right. I have my number. I think he's gonna say under. Hold on a second. I just want to make sure. Yeah, because there was some specific about that. That makes you wonder if there was something else about that.

Also, don't ask AI. I'm not asking AI. Not walked on on the moon but been to the moon been to the moon oh that's that would be different because yes exactly some of them don't I just want to make sure yeah okay you think everybody would get a turn oh they don't go out come on come on so the question is been to or walked on been to and the same answer that you showed me? Yes. Okay, then I'm gonna ask more. Because I think for every person who's walked on the moon,

there's like one or two. 100 you can't see. There's one or two who go up and go, I'm good. So I'm gonna guess, okay, I have my number. Okay. And Lauren, you've seen the answer. Under? You're going to say, I'm sorry,'m sorry, you're going to go over. I'm going to go over. I think you're going to go under. Okay, my guess is 63. Whoa, it's 12. Only 12 people have been to the moon. They kind of stopped doing it, didn't they?

They kind of were like, yeah, we saw it. It was a very brief period. And then we were going to do it again. And then we didn't do it. It's been 56 years. Why haven't, why don't people go up there like every other day? Yeah, I had, I really don't know. I wonder that I said you would say over. So Paul gets a point. Yeah.

You said under. You guessed 63. Oh, sorry. You said under. Yeah, I did say under. So Lauren gets a point. Wait, did I say under? You guessed 63. Oh, sorry. You said under? Yeah, I did say under. So Lauren gets a point. Yes. Wait, did I say under? You did. Or you said? Who knows? I don't know what I said now. Paul gets a point. Who cares? Points don't matter. Points don't matter. Okay. So now,

Lauren, you come up with a question for Paul. Okay, let me see if this is a Googleable question. Okay. So I just have a thought. Hi, how are you doing? I'm fine. Good to hear. How are you?

I'm well, thank you for asking. When's the last time you were on a swing? Well, it's been quite some time. I don't think I can even recall. Perhaps 2002? Hmm. What happened in 2002? Oh, yes. How many gallons of water does a llama or alpaca drink in a day? How many gallons?

gallons. Okay. This is and then who's guessing? Paul is, so I need to see this number. Well, we'll say llamas because they have different answers. So how many gallons of water do llamas drink in a day? And the answer is? Gotcha.

Paul, do you have your answer? Okay. I am, okay, Lauren, you guess first. No, I think he's going to go over. I think he's going to go over. What is your answer? Two. You're correct. Because I was like, I don't think they're famous for drinking a lot of water and aren't

they sort of related to camels and stuff? Are they also dromedaries? What are they famous for? Like having two L's to start off the, that's the most famous thing I can think of. See. Yeah. Yeah. Alpacas, of course, sweaters.

Yeah. You get a nice alpaca sweater. Yes. Okay, one more round, and this is me coming up with a question for Lauren. Okay. Ow, why do I keep doing that? There's like a thing that juts out there.

Yeah, it's the power. Can I say this about your dining table upstairs? Yeah. When we played the Traders game, I noticed that the legs sort of, they have a weird curve to them, where there's a point, right where you wanna put your knee a lot of the time.

I didn't notice that. Believe me, my knees, my neck, my back, my pussy and my crack. They're all aware of that. They're all aware of this. It's an interesting design. It is interesting, isn't it? It's quite, it's of interest to me. It's interesting.

How many... Roads. Roads. Must a man go down. How many countries are in Africa? I think we've done this. We've done. Do something else. How many countries aren't in Africa?

That's actually interesting. I'd like to know the number. Okay. How many countries are in the world? Oh God. Oh, man. Wow. Actually, as I've said before, we did study this during the pandemic and we did try to learn all the countries. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right.

All right, I- I wish I'd done one fucking thing during the pandemic. I know. We honestly, I had memorized- I wrote a sex script. I memorized where all the states were. You wrote a sex script? A sex script, yeah, it's about my sex swing

that I'm currently on. That one was really good. All I did was drink wine. That was my pandemic incident. I made cakes. Don't worry, I gave up on like every other thing I was trying to do. That was the one that we kind of just got into over them with.

You did one thing, I did zero things. Yeah. So I could have used that time for so many, so many, oh. What'd you end up doing? I have a guess so many, oh. What'd you end up doing? I have a guess. What's that? What'd you end up doing though? Getting drunk every day.

I mean, that's kind of like, you know, we're on this rat race, you know, we're like, oh, we're doing all this stuff and it's so hard to fit things in our schedule. It was nice to take a year off. Nice to take a year off just to devote to damaging my body. I'm going between two numbers. Okay, but don't say them out loud.

Remember, I'm going to share this information. And let us know when you have your number, but don't say it out loud. I guess I'm just going to stick with my first thought. First thought, best thought. All right. I'm going to say she is over. I'm going to say she is over. I'm gonna say that too. What is your number?

86. Wow, I'm wrong again. Is it 115? It's 195. Shit, I was going with the hundred. I immediately put out of my mind that you... That I what? That you actually had tried to learn this.

I know, I know. During quarantine, so you would have a more informed guess. But it was still not informed enough. I was still a hundred under. I would have guessed more. I would have guessed more. I would have guessed three million. I know, exactly.

Oh, okay. So it's like- Everything gets to be a country now. So you thought my guess was still reasonable because it was like not- Yeah. It was like three million. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going like, okay, wait, let me think.

Like America's pretty big and that's one in Australia. You know, and then I was going, so then it's a lot of little ones in these places. Africa, by the way, has 54, which I would have said more probably there too. Yeah, 115 was my better guess, but 100, I was 195. I wanna remember this, 195. Crazy.

Well, Paul, I don't think you got a point. Nope. I got two, Lauren got three, supposedly. I guess I won. Yeah. I guess you did. I guess that's how the cookie crumbles. I guess.

That's our episode, if you can believe it. Paul, are you anywhere in the world? Let me tell you exactly when this comes out. We're in the world is Carmen Sandiego. We are. God, I wish I knew. Oh, no. OK, this is May 22. Oh, May 22, I'm at home, baby. I had a wonderful run at the beginning of the month and then I'm gearing up to go to Fairfield, Connecticut,

Westerly, Rhode Island, Homer, New York, Albany, New York, Portland, Oregon, Seattle and Vancouver. Wow. Yeah. And people can get information about that Oregon, Seattle, and Vancouver. Wow. Yeah. And people can get information about that at pauloftomkins.com. Pauloftomkins.com. Pauloftomkins.com. Paulcomtomkins. Pauloftomkins.com slash varietorpia.

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