263. Drafted Into The Applebee's Wars


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Nov 04 2024 69 mins   33

Lords:




  • Xalavier

  • Brianne



Topics:




  • Why do movies about contract killers skip over the good part of negotiating in excruciating detail the contract and clauses present?

  • Are fictional characters greater role models than real people?

  • The new Zelda game talks too much and I'm okay with that

  • Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish


  • Should every person be forcibly drafted into a customer service job, like the military.

  • The horrible things I would do in the Criterion Closet, if given an opportunity.




Microtopics:




  • I Am Your Beast.

  • Making 50 games in 7 years.

  • A co-op Kaiju horror cooking game

  • The Name of the Rose meets Godzilla meets Lethal Company.

  • Power couples in games.

  • Moviegoers who want to know about contract law.

  • Search and replacing "murder" with "unalive" so that a contact killer can safely sue the client for breach of contact.

  • Pedantic legal contact killer law every week.

  • Lowering the bar so that we can all raise it later.

  • Doctor Odyssey.

  • Disheveled Detective.

  • The Autistic Coded Detective.

  • A ahow about autistic people written by neurotypical people.

  • Making a weekly podcast and scoffing at the TV shows that can only manage 24 episodes a year.

  • Asking google for the "podcast with the fewest episodes" and google just assuming you meant the podcast with the shortest running time.

  • Sending children to the sharps dump. (Because the kid asked for it and the parent signed a waiver.)

  • Desperately knocking on Google's door and beginning them to tell you where the furthest Denny's is.

  • The Waluigi-owned Denny's in the Andromeda Galaxy.

  • Role Models happening accidentally.

  • Donald Duck becoming a sex pest after edgier writers take over.

  • A form of self to aspire to.

  • 300 Rorschach Guys in a discord server.

  • An epic story that FromSoft will continue to plunder of its biggest plot elements for the next 30 years.

  • A character that you relate to and then you realize that's bad.

  • What do you do after you get what you want?

  • Leading a horde of ninja at the dictates of an Eldritch god.

  • Getting what you've been looking for and realizing that you're no longer the person who wanted that thing.

  • Role-playing a princess who has to talk to a litany of insufferable people.

  • Swinging your sword through grass to reveal rupees.

  • Zelda's Got an Onus.

  • Who you're thinking about as you pay your water bills.

  • Those who are nursed by clouds.

  • Shakespeare beeves.

  • GettingTikTok Mad.

  • The Death of Arthur.

  • Impacting media literacy for generations because you want to make a sassy pun.

  • Slipping into Belgian because you don't have enough mana to speak French.

  • The red phone in every publicly traded franchise restaurant that connects the customer directly to a random shareholder.

  • Working a Black Friday at a retail job and being awarded a purple heart.

  • Working a Best Buy Geek Squad tour of service to earn your citizenship.

  • The Criterion Closet.

  • The level of stardom you need to attain in order to remove movies from the Criterion Collection.

  • Supermarket Sweep.

  • Asking someone who took one year of high school French what you call someone who owns a closet.

  • I would not be normal and they would not be safe.

  • Landed noblemen who are super into Amontillado.

  • Where to lock the insufferable friend who went to film school.

  • How many Miami Vice episodes ended up in the Criterion Collection.

  • The movie that you remember the least.

  • Forgiving the insufferable film school attendees in your life because you can't think of a good punishment for them.

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