Ep. 94 - Spooky Table Topics! [Transcript]

Jan 29

William (00:01.422)

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Alex (00:06.309)

I'm in danger. Little Simpsons reference there, you like that?

Dallas (00:08.37)

Hahaha.

William (00:12.854)

I don't know, I'm not 50 yet, I'm not allowed to watch it. My mother said that I'm allowed to watch Simpsons when I'm 50.

Cody (00:16.145)

I'm out.

Dallas (00:17.086)

Ha ha ha.

Cody (00:20.015)

I'm going to have a... No, I think she told me- Did she tell both of us that or did she tell me that?

William (00:24.082)

Yeah, she told both of us that. That we are not allowed to watch The Simptons until we're 50. And I have decided to arbitrarily in my adulthood apply that rule to my life. So, easy, easy.

Alex (00:33.368)

you're getting closer by the year, but I mean, if we add both of your, I about said scores, you got that. If we add both of your life scores together, you add up to 50 life points, you know, like that's pretty good. You're even at 60 life points, you know, like good job.

Dallas (00:37.606)

True.

doors.

William (00:41.579)

scores

William (00:45.326)

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Cody (00:50.535)

We're actually at our 60s now.

William (00:54.062)

Cody, I will wait until I am 54 and you are 50 and we'll have a Simpsons watch party together.

Cody (01:00.581)

I would love to have a Simpsons birthday party.

Alex (01:01.976)

At that point, they'll be on season 273 and-

Dallas (01:06.074)

Yeah, they're going strong.

William (01:06.455)

Right? Because that's how time works. Well.

Cody (01:11.585)

I wonder if any of the main cast dies, do they just stop? Like, do they just-

Alex (01:17.692)

Heck no!

William (01:18.102)

Also, hold up. I found out today probably from a reel that Alex had sent me, and I'm just going to go ahead and give him credit for it because if it was a reel that he sent me and I don't give him credit for it, he'd be like, I sent that to you literally today. Jeremy Irons in Be Prepared had developed some sort of like laryngitis, and so the voice of Winnie the Pooh sang the second half of that song.

Alex (01:24.3)

What did you found out today?

Alex (01:47.536)

Yep, Jim Cummings. Which you can actually tell the difference, because halfway through you get the gravel of Jeremy Irons, and then you're like, wait a second, that's got a little tigger, maybe a little, what do you mean the po— Yeah, like you can pick up on it if you're—

William (01:47.914)

in the Lion King movie. Jim Cummings.

William (02:04.167)

It's gone from lion to little.

Cody (02:06.647)

Another, another fun fact.

Alex (02:08.866)

Lions, tigers, and bears. Oh my.

William (02:11.582)

Oh my. Bravo, sir.

Cody (02:12.703)

Another fun fact, Ian McDermand had a cold. Ian McDermand, the voice, the Emperor Palpatine himself, had a cold when they were filming the, have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? And George Lucas loved that voice so much that he's like, yeah, it's just you become an evil. You're transitioning to your like full on Sith self. But he had a cold that entire time.

Alex (02:16.501)

Thank you.

Alex (02:29.824)

really played into it.

William (02:39.696)

Air gone, air gone.

Alex (02:42.664)

And this just goes to prove to all our female listeners that when men get sick, it really is worse for us. Harvard did a study that it is actually worse because it lowers our testosterone and then our response is worse, but it can actually make us completely turn to the dark side. So, you know, just science.

Cody (03:06.265)

To quote you from the recursion episode, I'm not going to touch that one with a 10 foot pole. Just so you know.

William (03:11.598)

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Alex (03:11.66)

I didn't say 10-foot pole, and if the court reporter reads back my remarks, they'll see I have not perjured myself.

Dallas (03:17.842)

Heh. Gross.

Cody (03:20.205)

I bring up the problem of evil, you bring up slightly sexist science, you know. It's just he-

William (03:20.366)

Well speak.

Alex (03:24.696)

It's not sexist science, it's called hormones.

William (03:25.238)

Well, speaking of court reports and hormones, tabletop is tonight is Halloween themed. Woo! Well, guys, welcome. This round's on me. A doctor, a lawyer, a pilot, a professor have all walked into a bar. And tonight's a little bit of an easy breezy episode, unless it gets really deep and philosophical, which we never do. Ever.

Alex (03:33.36)

Ha ha ha!

Dallas (03:34.071)

What?

Alex (03:36.472)

So spoopy. Spoopy, spoopy, spoopy.

Dallas (03:52.73)

Never ever.

Alex (03:54.525)

Easy Breezy Cover Girl.

Cody (03:54.683)

How do you feel about evil?

William (03:58.912)

Tonight is a round of Table Topics and since this episode is coming out on Friday the 13th and it's in October, we thought about doing a round of spooky Halloween themed Table Topics. Are you ready?

Alex (04:15.092)

No, I'm scared already.

William (04:16.842)

You're not, so I was reading through some of the questions that I had prepared for this and I kind of want to answer as well. So I will throw the question out and we will go around the horn and we'll answer these. I think this is.

Alex (04:27.02)

Oh naturally, you absolutely get a chance to reply, you know? Let's not let him reply guys. Cut him off.

Cody (04:28.047)

Naturally.

Dallas (04:29.458)

Well, yeah.

William (04:31.758)

Okay.

William (04:36.762)

Alright, so this one... Uh... I...

Dallas (04:37.298)

So this is the end of the episode everyone, goodbye.

Cody (04:37.575)

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Alex (04:40.618)

Yes! Play it along!

Dallas (04:41.828)

Yeah

William (04:44.082)

Okay, I want you to recount a nightmare. One that has stuck with you to this day. Now, I am going to put out a caveat on here. This cannot involve the peril of a family or friend. Because I think when you step into the role of husband or you step into the role of dad, like when you are a caregiver to someone else,

Sometimes their peril can plague your dreams tapping into some

Alex (05:15.424)

Now, when on this episode have we ever related to being a parent and the emotions that brings on? When would we ever do that on this show? I mean, come on.

William (05:23.986)

Never. So I want you to recount a dream that woke you from sleep with your heart racing and a cold sweat that did not involve, you know, the peril of someone near you.

Dallas (05:25.074)

We've never done that.

Alex (05:41.264)

Well, ever since the accident, all I can think about is ladders. It's just pretty bad.

William (05:45.535)

Hahahaha

Cody (05:49.615)

Alright, so this is the most Cody Murphy nightmare imaginable. I was in law school.

William (05:52.917)

Ooh, okay.

Cody (06:04.187)

And, uh, we were studying in contracts, what was called a, so I'm actually bringing up legal knowledge for once. What's called termination for convenience clauses. And it's a concept where, you know, at what point can one party just unilaterally breach a contract? I, I have a dream that night.

I was studying for so long and I am in my contracts class and my professor, professor Steven Rice, if you're listening, this will be the first time you've heard this one, he comes out of, he comes out of the carpet like a liquid metal terminator. Like what was funny.

William (06:48.91)

Whoa, exclusive.

Dallas (06:57.063)

What?

William (06:59.541)

Oh my.

Dallas (07:01.382)

These contracts have been terminated.

William (07:03.33)

Uh.

Cody (07:03.843)

What was funny was, was that the case involved a carpet manufacturer.

Dallas (07:09.542)

Whaaaaat?

Cody (07:11.495)

And he, in his liquid metal self, serves me with papers for contempt as a human being.

Alex (07:18.756)

You've been subpoenaed by the carpet company.

William (07:23.366)

I...

Cody (07:24.568)

And I wake up in a cold sweat, and then the moment that I calm down, I go, that dream had nuance, that dream had symbolism. I'm not even mad, I'm impressed. I don't have many nightmares, honestly. If I do, I don't remember them.

William (07:45.038)

Oh my gosh.

Cody (07:49.755)

But that is one that I served with story. I have told that story enough that I will never forget it. But yeah, yeah.

Alex (07:59.276)

I feel like I'm in your same camp where it's like, I don't have many nightmares, but I remember when I was really young, and I don't know if any of you all are familiar with night terrors. Do you all know what night terrors are? So if anyone listening doesn't know what a night terror is, it's unlike a nightmare in the sense that you don't have a clear recollection.

Dallas (08:11.142)

being young, yes. Oh yeah. I know what they are, yeah, yeah.

William (08:14.817)

Oh yeah.

Alex (08:27.032)

And it's generally in young children. Like it's just this sense of dread. Generally it revolves around like big life changes where like that, the underlying stress will, you know, cause children to just flip their lids at night. There is no calming down because they're not even aware of what's going on. And I remember...

being very young and having them because you'd wake up. But the only way that I, looking back, the only way that I can really describe what it's like is how many of you remember the scene where, in SpongeBob, where Squidward teleports into a void? I know that sounds absurd. Do you all know what I'm talking about? SpongeBob, yes.

Cody (09:20.172)

It's spongebob. It's spongebob

William (09:21.561)

No.

Alex (09:24.396)

Squidward gets in this time machine, he goes back in time, he meets Neanderthal versions of Patrick and SpongeBob, then he gets back in, he goes into the future, everything is chrome, and then he accidentally transports into just this white void. And I don't know how else to explain what it was like being in a night terror, except that there is no anything.

It's just a void and you're afraid of something. There is no discernible thing to point a finger at. It's like a video game where you are being hunted by something and you don't have a weapon and there's nowhere to hide. There's no way to fight or defend yourself. You're just scared and there's nothing. And it's very freaky. Now that sounds

William (10:16.15)

Huh.

Alex (10:21.98)

that's very depressing and sad. One of the funniest scary dreams that I've had was actually about two weeks ago, and there's a group of friends that we go to hockey games with, and we are in the car together, and we are, for whatever reason, I am being hunted by some contract killers, and we're driving down the road, and Allie and these two friends, they are just...

laughing and chuckling, blissfully unaware that I'm being hunted. And I'm like, drive faster! They're behind us! Why are you in such a hurry? The game doesn't start until seven! No, go faster! They're gonna get me!

Cody (11:06.952)

You know what this means is, Ali is the one who hired the killer. Um.

William (11:11.275)

No.

Alex (11:11.296)

Oh yeah, I knew that long time ago. She had a dream one time where it was me and my best friend here in North Carolina, and we were all in a building. The building starts to flood. I die in her dream, and my best friend saves Allie, and that's where the dream ended. And I was like, do I need to be worried about what's going on here? Why am I getting murdered in your dreams? And she's like, we don't know, we couldn't find you.

Dallas (11:11.695)

Yeah.

William (11:33.294)

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Dallas (11:34.578)

Cody (11:35.227)

Ha ha ha!

Alex (11:40.836)

I was like, thanks for killing me off. You were face down and with a pillow over your head and my fingerprints. No, so that one night. But yeah, that's a funny one where I was just like, go faster.

Dallas (11:41.314)

Yeah, the bathtub flooded and somehow you died.

Dallas (11:49.682)

There's nothing we could do.

William (11:49.934)

William (11:58.498)

Dallas, what about you?

Cody (12:00.179)

Dallas, I feel like your dreams are more like, I live a normal office job, have a mundane life, because your real world is more wild than dream reality.

William (12:06.85)

Hahaha!

Dallas (12:11.706)

Right? Hahaha.

Alex (12:13.66)

Ah, no, not a nine to five.

Cody (12:16.984)

Hahaha!

Dallas (12:17.17)

I do have a recurring nightmare now that I teach that I walk past a classroom with students in it. And I'm like, oh no, I was supposed to been teaching that class for months and I haven't been. But in my dream, it's never like, why have they been coming to class with no professor for three months? But that's that dream. Right, yeah. It just, yeah, and there's like the impending doom of like, I'm so fired because I haven't taught this class.

Alex (12:33.36)

because it's an easy A. They just, they get an automatic A if you're not there.

Cody (12:39.407)

Oh.

Alex (12:43.536)

Hahaha

Dallas (12:45.818)

But the real scary dream, and it's probably dumb. I mean, it is dumb now, but whenever I was little, I had this dream that I was walking down a hallway and there's this thing standing at the end of the hallway and it slowly turns around and it's Dracula from the 1931 Dracula. I'm like, he's, yeah. Yeah.

Alex (13:12.172)

Like Nosferatu, like super spoopy. Love it.

William (13:14.186)

No, it's fraud. Peter in the basement of what we're in the shadows. Yeah.

Dallas (13:16.214)

And... Yes! And I wake up... And start to scream... And scream and scream and scream... And my closet door opens... And it's him again. Yeah, I got incepted by Dracula. Yeah. And...

William (13:29.78)

A dream within a dream!

Alex (13:32.224)

Are you Chris Nolan? You have now become my coolest friend. Can you teach me the power?

William (13:33.646)

William (13:38.35)

Hahaha!

Dallas (13:39.194)

Then I really woke up and I...

Cody (13:41.199)

He ju- okay, wait, hold up. Hold up. He's just now your coolest friend? Like, let's be real. He's everyone's coolest friend.

Alex (13:49.084)

Cody, I would never confirm nor deny that. You know what? To scare you further, I'm gonna exercise my Fifth Amendment right here to scare you even further.

Dallas (13:53.617)

I need...

Cody (13:53.993)

Oh no, I'm saying the fact that you now know Dallas and he's not your coolest friend.

Dallas (14:01.874)

Hehehehehe

Cody (14:03.745)

No, you've known Dallas for three years, and he's not your coolest friend by this point. That's... shame. Shame. He's the coolest in of anyone's friends.

Dallas (14:10.662)

Hey everybody, spin a top right now. Spin your tops.

William (14:14.019)

Once I introduce people to Dallas, I fully succeed to second place at least. In Coolest Friend Reggae.

Alex (14:19.205)

You're like.

Cody (14:20.188)

Agreed!

Dallas (14:20.908)

That's not true. They just assume you're my handler at that point because they're like, No, this is true. This guy's crazy.

Alex (14:23.023)

It's just...

Alex (14:31.764)

Oh you ran the insane asylum, okay Dallas. When does he go back?

Dallas (14:34.697)

Yeah.

William (14:35.422)

So Dallas, it's interesting that yours had some sort of fantastical monster because mine, this is one of the most, this one is, so yeah, Cody, Newt's Boggart turning into a desk because the thing he feared most was an office job. I'm sorry, that's where my brain goes. Like Dallas is Newt, is every episode, yeah. I mean, if anything, I'm consistent. So.

Alex (14:42.52)

and where to find it as well.

Cody (14:58.711)

Every episode. Every episode.

Alex (15:01.224)

Ahhhh...

Alex (15:04.46)

Oh, I know our next topic. Now you've, hold on to it.

William (15:05.228)

I had this dream.

Well, I had this dream. I was in high school and dad had said we were having some sort of Dad hosted a lot of like campouts for different organizations on our property that they used to live on And for whatever reason he was hosting this camp out and it was all happening down in kind of like the valleys We could like look over the hillside and see the lights and tents, but we were driving the top of the hill clear night

we need to go check on the horses. So he pulls out into the horse pastures and kind of arcs the car to the left and the headlights fall on what I can only describe as, hang on, you all have, well, you had to watch Hercules for our movie bracket, but do you remember the Frost Giant?

Cody (16:04.272)

Hehehe

William (16:05.418)

kind of very, very lupine werewolf-y features. Yeah, here you go. So the frost giant. But imagine that instead of being made of ice, it was an actual like, no, it was made of wolf, but 20 foot tall, had one of our horses in one of its claws feeding on it.

Alex (16:05.617)

Yeah.

Alex (16:14.597)

Yes.

Alex (16:18.933)

made of horse. Is that what it is?

William (16:33.218)

and no one else, we were in a Jeep, we didn't know Jeep, but we were in the Jeep and no one else could see it. They were all looking over, like the side, out the windows, and I try to scream and nothing is leaving my throat. And as I am desperately trying to draw attention to this thing, it turns and looks and starts galloping towards the Jeep that we were in and I woke up and that is the most...

visceral like I jolted awake, like clinging onto the sides of the bed takes me 30 solid seconds to gather my bearings that I'm not about to be eaten alive. And that one, that one has always stuck with me as the most terrifying dream that I have ever had.

Alex (17:26.864)

Interesting. So.

William (17:30.346)

We need to get like some sort of dream psychologist on here to be like, well, this is an indication of some sort of past trauma that you have not worked your way through.

Dallas (17:33.393)

No.

Alex (17:42.888)

So you are going to love me for this, William, because here's what I want our next topic to be. What would everyone's personal Boggart be?

Cody (17:43.78)

Mine was just...

William (17:47.295)

Okay.

William (17:51.683)

Okay

William (17:57.25)

Huh.

Alex (17:58.444)

See, I am playing into the Harry Potter, but it's also spooky. What would the Boggart be for each of us?

William (17:59.947)

Oh.

Cody (18:06.671)

the Willy Wonka boat scene.

William (18:10.006)

I know exactly what it is.

Alex (18:11.688)

Do you? Well, they'll lead the way. Dallas, a boggart is a creature. Yes, yep. It's a creature that changes its form, it shapeshifts to appear as the viewer's greatest fear. Now, a lot of times it's a...

Dallas (18:21.458)

thing in your nose.

Dallas (18:25.616)

I'll show you.

Alex (18:41.072)

more of like a concept, and so it conceptualizes its shape. And then the way you attack a boggart is with humor and you turn it into a sillier version. So transform it into something silly after the fact.

Cody (19:03.015)

The next year, Prisoner of Azkaban Magic Month will be coming in July of 2024.

Alex (19:10.368)

August 2024. Right?

Cody (19:12.155)

August 2024, July 31st 2024. Um, okay. How much unpacking of therapy do we want to go down? Like, okay. A snake frog, like a horde of like snakes and frogs.

William (19:24.13)

Heh.

Alex (19:24.725)

Nah, let's keep it light.

William (19:32.592)

snake of friends no but

Alex (19:33.724)

Snakes. Why does it always have to be snakes?

Cody (19:37.219)

My two, I like, I'm double dipped. Like if like Indy's children have like a singular fear in all of their adventuring, like Sean Connery was afraid of scorpions, Indy was afraid of snakes, Shia LaBeouf was afraid of rats.

Alex (19:54.336)

And you're afraid of the most adorable creature of all time, a frog.

Cody (20:01.731)

I hate frogs. No. No, no, no. No. What am I?

William (20:03.175)

I can confirm that he hates rocks.

Alex (20:08.172)

So a snake frog comes at you, and now you cast your magic charm. William, what is the charm? What's the spell?

William (20:17.99)

Ridiculous.

Alex (20:19.108)

ridiculous because you're turning into something ridiculous. Very creative, Joanne. Cody, what happens to your boggart? What does it turn into?

Cody (20:32.412)

Ugh, okay. Ugh.

Alex (20:33.24)

Yeah, see? I'm making it harder now.

Alex (20:40.827)

It's a snake frog.

Cody (20:40.923)

don't like a weird snake frog hybrid out of my nightmares um

Alex (20:47.876)

Right, right, right. So what does it turn into?

Cody (20:52.439)

Oof. What would I find just hilarious on site? I don't know.

Alex (20:59.14)

Well it doesn't, you're just turning it into something else that's docile.

Cody (21:04.503)

into something... into something silly. Umm...

Cody (21:13.199)

Oh, let me think on that one and let the other guys go for the ballgarts. I am like my brain is just like, I don't know. I don't know.

Alex (21:20.774)

William?

William (21:25.275)

So you said not go deep.

Alex (21:27.628)

Let's not go so deep that it's like, let's still keep it light and fun, you know?

Dallas (21:29.49)

William (21:34.29)

Okay, I will speed through the blog art and go straight to I've cast the spell.

Alex (21:40.673)

No, you can't skip over that.

William (21:43.75)

Okay, here you go guys, get your bingo cards ready. It's incurable.

Alex (21:52.527)

Oh dear.

William (21:54.57)

Yeah, I am being perfectly honest. I've been told I've...

Dallas (21:59.983)

No, that's good.

Alex (22:00.72)

But then you say ridiculous and it turns into a bunch of balloons or what like

William (22:05.322)

No, it's so there's a doctor standing there with all of the reports and like it is indeed incurable. And I cast Ridiculous and Ashton Kutcher runs in through his side door. He'd be like, haha, you've been punt! And I haul off and punch him right in his stupid face. And he falls over and I laugh.

Alex (22:19.228)

Ha ha!

Alex (22:28.56)

Do we make him make another apology video after that?

Dallas (22:32.914)

William (22:34.315)

No, I mean, you asked and that's where my brain went and that's the low level anxiety that I do carry with me.

Alex (22:37.456)

Hey, no, that's fair.

Alex (22:48.236)

Okay, all right, hey, fair. Dallas, what about you?

Dallas (22:53.35)

It's either going to be a ladder because I'm now afraid of heights for some reason, even though I'll go off a cliff if other people are holding the rope. But you put me on a ladder and it's over after the surgery because narcotics and the eighth floor of a building didn't do great things for me. Or it's that student shows up who has been like, where have you been for the last three months? And I'm like, oh no.

William (22:58.003)

Uh...

Alex (23:00.862)

Hahaha.

William (23:12.418)

Hmm

Alex (23:17.24)

Hahaha!

William (23:20.622)

Dallas (23:22.138)

I've been teaching a class! One of those two.

William (23:24.502)

Dallas, I have the inverse of that dream. I have a recurring dream where it's like, exactly, no, I have the recurring dream where it's like middle to end of October and I realize that I've been enrolled in this class that I've never gone to.

Alex (23:29.764)

I'm on the ground all the time. I'm so scared of lows, not heights, lows.

Dallas (23:33.714)

Alex (23:42.704)

That happened to me in real life, so I mean, like, you know.

Dallas (23:43.502)

It's the same one.

William (23:47.756)

Uh!

Alex (23:48.88)

But we can talk about that at a later time.

Cody (23:52.116)

Uh huh. It from... I've had that dream, but it's like a math class. And I've had it both where I was the teacher and the student. Obviously when I'm the student, the teacher is Kathy Bulmer and she's very disappointed in me. And it just...

William (23:52.151)

Ha!

William (24:00.229)

Oh.

William (24:06.307)

Oh, that's gut wrenching enough.

Dallas (24:10.106)

Forget math class, math isn't real. Get out of here with that crap. So I-

William (24:12.974)

Cody (24:16.044)

My high school math teacher is like a Professor McGonagall level of BA, and so like when people badmouth her in school I'm like, you do not dis the good name of Kathy Bulmer or so help me. But anyways.

William (24:32.924)

You walk up to them like Molly Weasley and like, Not my teacher, you! Weee! Waa! Punch him! Just punch him!

Cody (24:37.351)

Hahaha

Alex (24:41.956)

You know you can say whatever you want, because we can bleep it, right?

William (24:45.87)

Yeah, I don't know. There's still a little rule following 13 year old in my head that's like, no I can't cuz, cuz Jesus can still see me.

Alex (24:55.552)

Wait until you learn the history of what bad words are, but then that'll change your perception.

Dallas (25:00.422)

That's a Netflix show.

William (25:02.126)

Hahaha

Cody (25:03.099)

Hahaha

Alex (25:04.305)

Yeah, those stupid Germans coming over here with their different language and now we rich fancy English people don't like German. They say words funny. That's a bad word now. Jesus doesn't like German. Like that's exactly what happened. But you know, that's a conversation for a later day.

William (25:20.155)

Cody (25:24.36)

not gonna touch that one with a 10 foot pole.

William (25:24.946)

Okay, what's your, all right, next one. What's your favorite, wait, did you, okay, sorry.

Alex (25:27.286)

Uhhh... Boggart?

Alex (25:33.041)

Me? No?

Dallas (25:34.594)

I didn't get to turn mine into the opposite, the anti-booger. Anti-booger.

Alex (25:36.652)

Yeah, neither did Dallas. The Murphy brothers are like, we're done, we did our part. No one else gets to talk now, like goodbye. Next.

William (25:37.867)

Ridiculous!

Cody (25:44.667)

Here's a reason I married a therapist, guys. Like, there's-

William (25:47.214)

Hahaha

Dallas (25:49.853)

Mine would turn into a frog snake, I think. That would make it funny for me. Yours, yours, your scary one would mutate over into mine and then it would be funny. Yeah. I'll play with its tail. I'll be like, okay.

William (25:55.217)

Yes.

Alex (25:55.74)

Oh no, it's gone full circle.

Cody (25:56.057)

Great.

Alex (26:01.784)

as a funny one.

Oh man.

Cody (26:08.383)

I would probably do something like the frog snake turns into like Barney or just something been completely benign and innocent. Just not necessarily funny, but just like sweet and wholesome because I could hum the I love you song before I could talk. And that is a true story. Yeah.

Alex (26:16.377)

Okay.

Dallas (26:16.527)

There you go.

Alex (26:20.24)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

William (26:28.02)

This is true.

Dallas (26:31.187)

What was yours?

Alex (26:32.836)

Oh, you know what I hate more than anything, and I... It makes me a really bad husband. Uh... I hate house centipedes. Not to be confused with silverfish. House centipedes.

Dallas (26:46.99)

Oh yeah, you unlocked, that's the one thing, yeah that's the one animal that I'm like, nope, get it away.

Alex (26:52.256)

I hate them. They're fast. Those little guys are fast. They are slinky. They are spooky. They come up the toilet. They come up the drain. They come up the sink. If there is water... Well, I mean, welcome to the Midwest and South. They just, if they can get in, they will.

Dallas (27:07.77)

You might have an infestation if that's going on. I bl-

William (27:19.894)

This feels like, this feels like if you were like filming a spider running across the floor and the video glitches and the back end of the spider stays still but the front end keeps running. This feels like a time lapse of a spider running and I hate it.

Alex (27:26.138)

Uh-huh, yeah.

Uh huh. Yeah.

Dallas (27:34.138)

Yeah, I blame the Matrix for why I don't like-

Alex (27:34.181)

Yeah, yeah.

It's awful. I hate them. They... more than... like spiders I go, oh you serve a purpose. No, I don't want you on me or in my bed or you know like if I can get a spider out of the house peacefully with no violence, I will. Because I respect spiders. I don't love spiders. I don't like them. But I respect them. How centipedes are kill on sight? No mercy.

Dallas (28:06.939)

Yep. Yeah.

Alex (28:07.024)

squished. And so now this giant 10-foot house centipede, not even a regular centipede, is like, but that's an extra special level of no thank you. And I, my room was in the basement when I was growing up, and finished, a finished basement mind you, and still they found their way in. Um, so that would be it.

Dallas (28:24.178)

same.

Alex (28:31.92)

But I guess if you're going to make it something ridiculous, it would probably, if you turned all of the... It's got a very long body, wide spindly legs. Probably turns into like a model train. Maybe Thomas the Tank Engine. Something very silly.

Dallas (28:44.282)

Huh.

Dallas (28:48.342)

the matrix for why I don't like centipedes because of that thing they put in his belly button. So when I see one, I warn everybody, I'm like, everyone cover your belly buttons. This is how it happens.

William (28:52.47)

Yeah!

Alex (28:55.346)

Yeah.

William (28:57.55)

Dallas (29:01.181)

They were invented to just cause problems in the matrix.

Alex (29:04.284)

Did you see the woman in the red dress? Well that means that you now have a house centipede in your belly button. Adios, like goodbye.

Dallas (29:11.563)

You do. Yep.

William (29:16.646)

Alright, for a bit of levity, what was your favorite costume you've ever worn?

Dallas (29:21.38)

A house-synopeed note.

William (29:23.088)

Hahaha!

Alex (29:23.984)

Probably a frog snake.

William (29:28.232)

I'm out.

Cody (29:31.918)

I-

um, Kylo Ren, um, for our Christmas photo. That, that was fun.

William (29:39.99)

Ah, okay, interesting twist, but I'll allow it. Go ahead.

Dallas (29:40.087)

Oh yeah!

Cody (29:43.995)

I Kylo Ren for Christmas photo and or if we're talking Halloween, because I when we when we were pitching this like spooky, I was like, can we just make it like fall themed? I don't really Halloween and I haven't since I was a kid. I haven't really Halloween since I was a kid. So there was one time, William, you had a costume party and I came as Clark Kent, which was just me.

William (29:48.041)

And or.

William (29:59.618)

same.

Alex (30:00.036)

Yeah.

William (30:08.566)

Yep.

Alex (30:09.272)

And no one even recognized you, Cody. They were like, who's this random guy that got invited? He's wearing glasses? So no one recognizes him.

Cody (30:18.804)

And I just was in a suit, but I had my shirt unbuttoned and there was a Superman shirt under it and I was wearing glasses. I was going as a full on Clark Kent. So.

Dallas (30:31.154)

I did that once, but it was September and it was for a sociology experiment.

William (30:31.169)

Love it.

Alex (30:35.464)

I'm gonna go.

Cody (30:36.133)

Hahaha

William (30:36.66)

I was there!

Dallas (30:37.956)

Yeah.

weird day.

William (30:41.796)

Uh, Alex, what about you?

Alex (30:45.076)

Let's see here. I could go really douchey and talk about the time that I bought a Top Gun flight suit that said Maverick on it and wore that in college because I was in flight school and I was like, heck yeah, I'm the hottest thing since sliced bread. I think though if I really think about my favorite, like favorite thing that I ever wore as a costume.

Cody (30:55.126)

I remember that.

Alex (31:13.452)

was when I was very young. I wore an army uniform that had been loaned from some friends who had, I guess, served in Vietnam or something. Like one of my dad's old friends. I mean, it's like old, old retro camo. And yeah, I was a kid.

Dallas (31:38.682)

When you were a kid?

Alex (31:40.856)

It was way too big for me, like huge. I was swimming in it, but I felt like the coolest thing because it was real, it was authentic, real fatigues. I was like, yeah. So that was a fun one. Now it was before I had gotten into airsoft, so there wasn't even a weapon involved. But I was gonna be the guy that took on the Vietcong right there, just me and the Charlies going at it.

Dallas (31:48.839)

Right here.

Alex (32:13.613)

I got it hands down by myself.

Dallas (32:17.315)

Where people are like, that's a weird Forrest Gump costume that he's got on. That's Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant Dan ice cream. Kid knows the line.

Alex (32:21.163)

No, I had both legs.

William (32:25.214)

What?

Alex (32:29.988)

You know, they should have just given me a ping pong paddle and it would have been hilarious. They're like, look, you're already borderline on the spectrum. We're fairly certain. Here's a ping pong paddle off to the races with you. You know.

Cody (32:36.647)

One of-

Dallas (32:44.795)

Heh heh.

Cody (32:46.207)

One of the grandest costumes I have ever seen though, was my friend DJ Widimore. He went with a necklace of bread around his neck. He has the gingest of ginger hair. And so he was the gingerbread man.

Alex (33:01.819)

Oh no.

Dallas (33:02.802)

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Alex (33:05.928)

Bravo DJ, bravo.

William (33:06.244)

Yes. Well, mine actually happened last year. It was last Halloween and it was a bit of a family costume, but it was when we went as into the Spider-verse.

Dallas (33:20.347)

Yeah!

Alex (33:24.592)

That was a solid, solid group photo.

William (33:29.994)

Ed Christed was Dr. Olivia Octavius. I was Peter B. Parker, because the only one I felt like, the only one I could feel like I could pull off was the one in his mid-30s washed up a little bit and loaded down on his luck. And Genevieve was Ghost Spider, who was already one of her favorite superhero characters. And I said, Genevieve, superhero landing, because I was timing the photo, and this is what she dropped down into.

Dallas (33:30.084)

was.

Alex (33:36.073)

Oh great, it's Liv.

William (33:59.246)

unguided, unprompted. Yes, you little queen, yes.

Cody (34:01.287)

Dallas (34:03.506)

She knew the mission and she did it. She did it.

Alex (34:07.356)

Brava.

William (34:07.862)

But that one, yeah, I'd say. So this year she says that, she says she wants to be one of the super kitties from Disney's Super Kitties. By day they are adorable kittens and by night they are super kitties.

Alex (34:32.364)

Is this just like what Air Bud has devolved into? Are they related to the Air Buddies?

Dallas (34:32.432)

Ha ha ha.

William (34:36.522)

I just, it's, there's one named... No. There is one super kitty named Jenny spelled with a G and s- so...

Cody (34:41.468)

It's a Disney Junior show. We'll just say that.

Alex (34:47.736)

Wait, so they... They... Is it like... Are they related to any superheroes? Or are they just their own... Okay.

William (34:56.962)

Nope. They're just their own thing and everything is cat puns all the time. It's all possum and perfect and...

Woof. And she has not deviated from that line.

Cody (35:11.555)

Can you... can you not change your mind to go to Bluey? Because I would love to see you as the Bluey dad.

Dallas (35:12.37)

Bye-oh.

Alex (35:15.516)

Definitely no wolf, William.

William (35:19.746)

As bandit healer, I mean, listen, our cousin had blue healer puppies for sale. And it has taken everything within me to not get a blue healer, mainly because I do not have any sort of enclosure to hold it. And I'm pretty sure if I brought another animal into this house, that our existing cat would die, she would just, she would just give up.

Alex (35:42.528)

cease to exist.

Dallas (35:42.974)

The super kitties would come and kill the dog.

William (35:46.496)

Save the day. Okay, next one. What is your favorite scary movie?

Cody (35:46.588)

Ha ha ha!

Alex (35:50.14)

There's a cat, she's in danger

Alex (35:58.352)

Favorite scary movie?

William (35:58.57)

What is your favorite scary movie? Interpret that as you wish. Yes!

Cody (36:03.035)

legally blonde. Ha ha ha!

Dallas (36:06.031)

hahahaha

Alex (36:06.512)

We knew it was coming.

Alex (36:15.21)

Actually though?

Cody (36:16.044)

Oh, no, no.

William (36:17.531)

Yeah, actually.

Alex (36:19.48)

Alright, more childhood trauma. So when I was eight years old, I spent the night with my nana at her house and my cousin Ben. My cousin Ben is nine at the time. And

William (36:37.631)

You pop in the VHS of Ray Stevens, I ain't sitting up with the dead no more. That was it.

Alex (36:44.717)

No. So he had been allowed to see a few other movies that were, I don't know, probably a little advanced, but also at the same time I was a little sheltered. So, you know, there's that extreme on both ends where he's allowed to see things on one end of the spectrum and I'm on the other end of the spectrum of what I'm allowed to watch and see. And so he brought

he brought a copy of The Mummy, which, it's a great movie. It's an amazing ride. It is a fun romp. It's PG-13, and it earns that rating. It is PG-13. So eight-year-old Alex is watching this movie where a guy gets his tongue cut out, and he gets embalmed.

William (37:19.734)

It was a great movie.

Alex (37:41.408)

And now magic beetles can crawl inside your skin and eat you from the inside out. And there's nothing you can do about it except die. And I had already seen a couple beetles in Nana's basement that night. I did not sleep a wink. I was terrified. I had nightmares. Hey, bringing a full circle! And...

Dallas (37:56.105)

Ha ha ha.

William (37:59.374)

Heheheheh.

Alex (38:09.816)

My dad wasn't too happy with my uncle, but he had to track down the special features of the mummy that he had seen on an airplane while traveling to explain like, no, it's a rubber tongue. No, no, like no one actually died. It's special effects. I didn't buy it.

and I was scared of beetles. Yeah, yeah. So, The Mummy was it for a long time. Now as an adult, honestly, one of the scariest movies I've seen that made me go, ooh, that's not how I wanna go. Maybe Nope by Jordan Peele. There's a couple scenes in there, no spoilers, but there's a few scenes that I go, yeah, no, nope.

Dallas (38:38.953)

That documentary was real.

William (38:58.838)

Woo.

Alex (39:06.897)

is earned. Nope. No thank you.

Dallas (39:08.572)

Ha ha!

William (39:09.294)

Mm-hmm. Sarlacc pit. Yeah.

Alex (39:11.536)

Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm talking about. You know exactly what scene I'm talking about. Not how I wanna go, thank you.

William (39:13.671)

Mm-hmm. Yep, yep, yep.

Cody (39:17.827)

Nope, nope, nope. I'm, I don't like scary movies. And I have not seen, I have not seen very many scary movies in the scary movies I have seen. I'm like, I, no, just, I, I've like seen scary movies by like, you know, osmosis, like they're on in the room.

Alex (39:23.9)

Same.

Alex (39:36.74)

And I'm going to say this, and I may offend a bunch of people, but most scary movies are gore porn. I'm sorry, they're not actually scary, they're just jump scares, which that's not scary, and it's fake blood. And I go, what was the point of that? So yeah, I'm with you. I don't like scary movies, because they're not.

Dallas (39:45.298)

Oh yeah.

William (39:56.046)

Thank you.

Cody (39:56.679)

So, so, I will have to say the one scary thing that I can tolerate, it's not a movie, it's an episode of a TV series. And that's Blink from Doctor Who.

Alex (40:12.52)

Ohhhhhhhhhh Yeah, psychological horror is so much better than... Gore porn, yeah.

William (40:13.23)

Ooh, okay.

Cody (40:15.163)

Yeah.

William (40:18.739)

Yep.

Cody (40:19.495)

Don't blink and you're dead. That was the episode I introduced Dr. Who to William with. And like that's made him hooked. It says I made him hooked. Yeah, I just scary movies. Yeah, scary movies. I don't like being scared. No, no, no.

Alex (40:29.144)

It's a solid premise.

William (40:37.602)

I mean, I'll accept that as your entry if you want. Yeah.

Alex (40:40.232)

Now that's great.

William (40:45.938)

And Alex, I'm completely in the camp with you there. Like, the scene was motionless and the sound was quiet. Then there was commotion and there was loud noise. And my reflex system in my spinal cord activated to get me away from loud noise and fast motion. Great. OK, my reflexes are intact. I was not scared. I was startled.

Alex (40:57.752)

Yes? Yes.

Alex (41:10.315)

Yeah, I'm not scared.

William (41:15.362)

Difference sorry there was a lot of conversations about that whenever I was in high school, but

Alex (41:15.841)

Yes.

Yes. Oh, I mean, we went to a, uh, we went to a theme park called Carowinds down here in North Carolina, South Carolina. It's down near Charlotte. And they did Scare-ow-ins. And I was like, guys, I don't like haunted houses because they're not scary. It's just people jumping out at me. And I'm just like, I don't want to spend money, but it's at a theme park. So I was like, all right, I'll go along because I can still do rides.

and we go through this haunted maze because Ali's like, please come along. And some scare actor is like on the ground in this corn maze, jumps out at foot level and my entire reflex system went boom with my foot. I kicked the shit out of some poor scare actor and immediately went, dude, I am so sorry. He's like, it's fine. And he crawls back into the corn.

William (42:07.284)

Alex (42:18.716)

But I'm like, what the heck are you doing? And after that, I was like, no. So I had my Fitbit on and I looked down. My heart rate was 160 beats per minute. I get out of the corn maze. We go on the fastest and tallest roller coaster on the, it's Fury or something like that is what it's called. It's awesome, great ride. And I said to Allie, my heart rate will be lower.

William (42:19.106)

Hahaha

Dallas (42:21.714)

Dallas (42:31.314)

Boom.

William (42:49.115)

On this roller coaster. Yeah

Alex (42:49.172)

on that ride. We take that, we go on that roller coaster and I get off and she went, oh yeah, show me. 72 beats per minute.

Dallas (42:59.922)

fun game I used to play when I would work armed security at the movie theater is there if there was like a jump scare horror movie that came out I would go into the theater and wait till like you know when they're coming because it's like dead quiet and you can almost count to five and know when the jump scares coming so I would sit stand right behind like the most scared person in there and it's super quiet and I would just go

Alex (43:12.87)

No.

Alex (43:16.444)

Yeah.

William (43:31.48)

Hahaha!

Alex (43:32.36)

Dallas (43:32.598)

And they would turn around and they just see this giant person standing there Then the jump scare happens and they lose their mind and then I cackle and leave the theater Because I don't care. I've never seen these again and that's a game I would play sometimes because I'm like I might as well get some laughs out of this

Cody (43:40.591)

You're right.

William (43:52.834)

Well what, Dallas, what is your favorite scare movie?

Dallas (43:55.75)

So, I'm not, I'm kind of like you guys, I'm not a huge fan of scary movies because they're just not scary. Like you see what's coming, you know what's about to happen. And usually it is like, how many, here's seven guts. Is that, was that doing it for you? Tomorrow there will be eight guts. Like, that's not scary, it's just effects. But as a small child, my, The Nightmare Before Christmas had just came out.

William (44:03.831)

Mm-hmm.

William (44:11.246)

William (44:24.654)

Dallas (44:26.955)

And my cousin had it and I went to stay all night at her house and she's like, let's watch the Nightmare Before Christmas. It's a cartoon. And I was like, sure. And so we watch it and she immediately falls asleep. So I watch it and I, yeah, I'm alone and I'm scared and I don't know how to work her VHS player. And back in the 90s, what happens when a VHS quits? It just kicks off and the TV goes.

William (44:41.642)

Alone.

Dallas (44:56.982)

And so I'm just sitting on the couch and I'm like, I don't know what to do, I'm so scared. It's pitch black in here, the TV's making white noise sound and I'm too afraid to figure out how to use the VHS player. And it was terrifying. But also I think.

William (45:03.147)

Uh huh.

Alex (45:09.068)

and then a scarab beetle comes in and eats you from the inside out. That's real terror.

Dallas (45:13.21)

hahahaha

William (45:16.278)

Alex, have you ever ridden the mummy ride at Universal?

Alex (45:20.344)

One of my favorite rides at a theme park, like I love that. I had, I've lost a pair of sunglasses on that ride and I'm very angry about it.

William (45:30.478)

Because the whole premise is it's Brendan Fraser filming the mummy. And then all of a sudden they realized that the mummy was actually real.

Alex (45:36.46)

It's not real. Yes it is. One of my favorite Easter eggs is that in the interior of the queue, the line, there's a place where you can place your hands on this big box. And if multiple people are touching it, it will complete a circuit and all the lights will flicker in the whole building and nobody realizes that that's what they're doing.

Dallas (45:40.146)

It's your nightmare come true.

Alex (46:05.284)

Yeah, and I had Josh Solomon, who's a friend of the show. He used to work for Universal. And I remember the first time I went on the ride with him, he was like, all right, now you get a different experience if the ride conductors stick their thumb out and then turn it down instead of up, you know, thumbs down. And he was totally pulling my leg. Like, that's just a thing they do. I was like, so what's the other ride like? And he's like, nah, I was just messing with you. And I was like, that's, what?

Dallas (46:27.804)

Heh.

Dallas (46:32.604)

Ha ha!

Cody (46:37.315)

I will close this part of the conversation with a movie recommend- Oh, sorry, sorry.

Alex (46:39.344)

Wait, did William get to say his scary movie? Golly, you Murphy brothers are just like, I've said my part, onward, onward.

William (46:47.992)

So that I Alex I agree I really

Alex (46:50.14)

Frozen 2, the scariest movie.

Cody (46:55.411)

Scary for another of therapeutic reasons.

William (46:56.402)

short cake.

Alex (46:58.812)

The Barbie movie, but not like the Barbie movie like all the other Barbie movies Yeah, yeah, that's like

William (47:05.078)

like Barbie in Unicorn Fairyland or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, so you said psychological thriller. I completely agree. The gore. Okay, the jump scares. Okay, great. I'm glad to know that my reflexes are all intact. Okay, sure, great. Psychologically for me, I found out in 2015 that I was really severely claustrophobic.

Dallas (47:08.998)

We have all.

William (47:34.998)

I think it was kind of triggered during a stressful event, but I guess. Yes.

Alex (47:37.964)

Is it the movie with Ryan Reynolds where he gets buried underground? No, yeah that got me too! That got me too!

Dallas (47:43.227)

Yeah!

Cody (47:44.103)

Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

William (47:48.154)

Yes, the entire thing happens in a box, buried underground with one actor for 90 minutes. I hated it, but if I'm having to pick a favorite scary movie, like that is a movie that I would have looked at my FitBit at the time, or were we in the FitBit era when that came out? I don't know. My heart rate would have been through the roof, and it-

Alex (47:55.328)

I love that I hate it. It's so good bad.

Cody (47:58.82)

Never.

Alex (48:08.08)

Yeah

We're still technically in the Fitbit era, they never went away.

William (48:14.578)

It clung to me for months and I have never watched it again. And I think that's a hallmark of a good scary movie is that it scared me so bad, it triggered all of the wrong wrinkles in my brain that I'm like, Nope, Nope.

Dallas (48:22.578)

Yeah.

Alex (48:30.814)

Hahaha.

Cody (48:33.804)

There's an episode of Smallville where Lana Lane gets buried alive and when an episode of Smallville freaks you out. Nope, nope, nope. I'm not going to watch a good movie based on that.

William (48:43.338)

You might be claustrophobic too! Welcome to the club.

Dallas (48:46.912)

This CSI did like a movie length episode of the same thing.

Alex (48:48.26)

Ho ho ho! Stop it Patrick, you're scaring him! Ho!

William (48:53.486)

Cody (48:56.571)

Oh, like, but I'll close. Can I cut?

William (49:00.798)

Well welcome to spooky season everybody!

Alex (49:03.24)

I don't know, honestly, video games can scare me way more than movies. And that's because I have to be in control of it. In a movie, I am like a layer removed. I am an observer. You know, I go, ah, yes, that's a dumb thing to do. But there are certain video games that I don't think either of the Murphy brothers have played, maybe Dallas has, that are so terrifying.

Dallas (49:03.666)

Hehehe

Alex (49:32.252)

that it was like, there were some that were so terrifying that I'll never play again, and some that were so terrifying that I would love to play again. One was a Silent Hills trailer called PT, and it was basically, it just dropped on PlayStation out of the blue, and people were like, what is this? And you are going through a loop. You guys should look up a video of the playthrough.

But it's just a loop in a house. You wake up in this dungeon of like maybe a back room and you start walking down a hallway and there's a radio report about a murder and then as you're just going in a circle, every time it restarts. And it restarts. And this was actually when they first put microphones in the controller. There were certain points where you would have to like speak to a ghost. Or there was

This is gonna be a little intense, but a fetus was in a bathtub and it was talking to you. And I mean, it was just, but it was all telling a story and it was designed to be the trailer and the main character was gonna be Norman Reedus from The Walking Dead, who plays Daryl. And people lost their minds and then the game was canceled and they deleted the trailer.

Cody (50:37.429)

Ugh.

Cody (50:43.887)

Yeah.

Alex (50:59.332)

And so it's one of those like, wait, what? It's like lost to video game history. Well worth looking it up. Exactly. Now there's another game, Dallas, you'll probably know which one I'm gonna talk about. It's called Outlast.

William (51:06.346)

The movie with Sinbad called Shazay.

Cody (51:08.539)

Ha ha ha!

Dallas (51:17.074)

Oh yeah. Yeah.

Alex (51:17.868)

and you are a reporter who shows up at an insane asylum and you are being hunted by a psychopathic murderer who's borderline monster and you have no weapons. All you have is a camcorder that has night vision and you have to hide while you are being hunted. And it is.

Exactly, exactly. There were friends who were like, oh come on, you're a wuss, and I'm like, and? What of it? I don't wanna play this anymore. I wanna play the game where I'm the hero, not some scared child in this closet over here. Yeah, yeah.

William (51:51.086)

Dallas (51:51.858)

Cody (51:52.279)

I'm sorry.

William (51:57.066)

I wanna sleep tonight. I want dry underwear. No.

Alex (52:02.704)

Yeah, that is far scarier than any movie I've ever seen, I will say.

Cody (52:08.439)

I will close this part of this conversation with a movie that is more my and Michelle's speed when it comes to these things in Halloween. It's an old movie. Oh yeah, we spent over a year on our Disney bench trying to get to the Lion King because she wouldn't want she wouldn't want to does she didn't want to watch Mufasa die. And she's just like, Nope, nope, not doing it. But she watches this movie every year. It's an old Cary Grant movie.

William (52:14.22)

Okay.

Alex (52:16.412)

The Lion King.

William (52:18.638)

Hehehehe

Cody (52:38.363)

called, Arsenic and Old Lace.

Dallas (52:41.146)

Yeah, I just watched that for the first time this year, and I'm gonna show it to my class.

Alex (52:45.72)

I've never heard of that. I'm gonna have to.

Cody (52:48.6)

I will read you the synopsis so that the audience can look up this movie. Oscar winner Cary Grant stars as a drama critic whose life is turned upside down when he discovers that his two spinster aunts have taken to poisoning their gentleman houseguest and burying their bodies in their old Victorian home.

Alex (53:11.644)

It sounds like a Twilight Zone episode and I love it already.

Dallas (53:15.51)

It kinda reminds me of Twilight Zone.

William (53:17.28)

Yeah.

Cody (53:19.45)

And it's hilarious They have a it's hilarious. It's a comedy

Alex (53:23.644)

Hilarious.

William (53:26.989)

I know it's one of her favorite movies. I didn't like it.

Alex (53:30.48)

Hey, you know what? I'll watch it because I also watched Clue, and I hated it. So... 2 plus 1 plus 1 plus 2 plus 1, and 1 plus 2 plus 2 plus 1 means that I'm gonna watch this movie. Arsenic and Old Lace or something like that?

Cody (53:30.723)

Cody (53:38.445)

Okay.

Dallas (53:39.548)

This is very...

Cody (53:45.551)

Well, this is a-

William (53:46.158)

Okay, I like your maths. Arsenic.

Dallas (53:46.19)

Ha ha!

Cody (53:49.007)

This is a... Yep, this is a Michelle pick. It is $12.99 on your digital platforms of choice. I have no idea which...

Dallas (53:49.094)

Yeah, our snicking on lace, yeah.

Alex (53:56.172)

Oh, that's too expensive for me, sorry. I can only afford $30 4K Blu-rays, sorry. Bummer.

Dallas (53:59.442)

Huh. Heheheheh.

Cody (54:01.955)

399 rental if you want to just rent it. I don't know what streaming service it's on So yeah, of course Yeah, it's a fun movie. It's a real fun movie so oh We're talking Yep, yep, so It's one of those like old

William (54:02.254)

I was like...

Alex (54:10.052)

Nah, give that a go, that sounds fun.

Dallas (54:14.962)

It's an old movie, right? Like it's old, old.

Alex (54:17.464)

I just looked it up, 1944.

Alex (54:24.324)

And it's not rated. Oh man, it must be so dirty.

William (54:29.854)

Yes, Cary Grant and Spinster Ants. Yes, it's.

Alex (54:30.372)

Awesome. Guys night. We're gonna watch a dirty, unrated movie, guys. Let's do it.

Cody (54:36.727)

That honestly that honestly would be a good commentary like commentary episode for us Yeah, what

Dallas (54:36.871)

Heh.

Alex (54:41.923)

Nah, I'm good.

William (54:44.863)

Uh, no, I'm good. I'm good. But guys, thanks. Thanks for a night of spooooky table topics. I, I mean, I predicted at the beginning that, you know.

Dallas (54:52.518)

Yeah, I'm not gonna be able to sleep for a week.

Alex (54:53.356)

I'm scared now, yeah. It's a good thing these come out at 8am in the morning because, whoof, our listeners wouldn't be able to handle it.

William (55:01.638)

I don't want to really say. What was it? Was Spielberg producing something for Quibi that was only going to be watchable after 9 p.m. so you had to watch it in the dark? There's so many things in that phrase that date all of everything that I just said.

Cody (55:12.667)

something like that.

Alex (55:16.504)

And then somehow, you know... No, it wasn't gonna be a funny joke. I'm just gonna stop while I'm behind. And then Scorsese came out and said, that's not cinema, that's Quibi. And...

Cody (55:22.011)

Quibi.

Dallas (55:23.622)

Ha ha.

William (55:25.285)

Well, I'm going...

Cody (55:25.415)

Quibi, rest in chaos.

William (55:31.438)

Cody (55:31.765)

Quibi, rest in chaos. You do not deserve peace. Ha ha ha.

Alex (55:36.388)

Old man yells at clouds. Another Simpsons reference, oh no.

William (55:39.262)

Well, I'm going to go put on a couple episodes of Ted Lasso as a nice little palette cleanser from Spooky Table Topics. So thanks for making it this far. This round is on me. You can find us on your preferred social platform at Dr. and Lawyer. That should get you there. And if you are feeling froggy and want to support the show and help us actually produce it, patreon.com slash Dr. and Lawyer. We've got a lot of fun perks over there. We've got our Christmas boxes are going to be going out.

Alex (55:45.456)

Hahaha

Alex (55:51.845)

Yes!

Alex (56:07.132)

Feelin' froggy, but not snake froggy.

William (56:10.898)

Exactly not snake froggy. No too far too far Well guys

Dallas (56:12.434)

Too far. Yep.

Alex (56:12.6)

Woof. Too far. You'll scare Cody. Don't do that.

Cody (56:18.587)

There were 500 frogs on that beach. 500 frogs.

Dallas (56:24.846)

Ha ha ha.

William (56:26.596)

Well guys, I'm gonna hop out of here. I'm William

Dallas (56:28.998)

Oh!

Alex (56:29.188)

Hop out, no you're triggering him, stop it.

Cody (56:34.187)

audible blink, audible blink, audible blink.

Ha ha

Cody (56:44.943)

But with that, I'm...

William (56:46.866)

I said, I'm William.

Alex (56:46.936)

You didn't... Oh, you did? No, none of us heard that. Do you wanna try it again, William? Yeah.

Cody (56:48.335)

Oh, I did not hear you. We, no one of us heard that.

Dallas (56:48.462)

Oh, I didn't hear that.

Dallas (56:53.01)

I heard hop on out of here and that was all I heard.

William (56:55.84)

Well guys, I'm gonna hop on out of here. I'm William.

Alex (56:59.089)

Boo.

Cody (56:59.099)

Boo. I'm legally blind.

Dallas (57:01.594)

Dallas.

Alex (57:03.82)

and I am scared of all of what's happened here.

William (57:03.886)

You're legally blonde.

Cody (57:10.395)

Don't blink. Don't blink, blink.

William (57:10.451)

Aren't we all? Bye!

Alex Christian

Ep. 94 - Spooky Table Topics! [Transcript]

Ep. 93 - Book Club - Recursion [Transcript]

Ep. 95 - Choose Your Own Adventure S2E2: FOLLOP [Transcript]