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Transcript
Amanda: Take me down to Book Island Depository City, where the drinks are strong, and the children are really mouthy. Welcome to the Afterparty, everybody. Hey, hi. hello.
Eric (as Orlando): Oh, won't you please take me home?
Eric: I'm so sorry, I don't know where that came from.
Julia: I don't know.
Amanda: Incredible.
Eric: Amanda says, fixing my peak.
Brandon: I was gonna do that too, but I didn't want to— I didn't want to overtake Amanda's good--
Julia: It was happening.
Eric: Oh, no, you go ahead. I'm sorry if I stepped on you—your Axl Rose.
Brandon: No, no, it's fine. I think you did a perfect one.
Eric: Okay.
Amanda: TORONTO! LISTEN!
Julia: Listen! Listen!
Eric: Nice.
Julia: Anyone out there want to get licked?
Brandon: You know, the famous Axl Rose quote?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Definitely the same band.
Eric: Guns and Roses and Kiss are the same. I don't know what you're talking about.
Julia: Yeah, you see them and you're like, man, those are the same men.
Amanda: The two genders, Julia, that's right.
Eric: Maybe it's a Jekyll and Hyde situation, where like Axl Rose and Slash are just walking around and then their bodies configure to have the—the face paint on?
Brandon: Those are— you just added a third band, to Eric.
Julia: Very quickly though, because Amanda made a good joke. What gender is everyone? Guns and Roses or Kiss? I'm Kiss.
Amanda: I'm Kiss.
Eric: I think I'm also Kiss.
Brandon: I'm Guns, oddly.
Julia: Oh, interesting.
Amanda: Yes.
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia: Texas.
Amanda: You can take the guy out of Texas.
Julia: Can't take the gun out of Texas.
Amanda: But you can't—can't take the gun Texas out of Brandon. Yes, that's what I always say.
Brandon: I bet you added a third person, not a third band, Eric.
Julia: That's alright, I'll allow it.
Amanda: Guys, we got a lot to cover today.
Julia: We do.
Amanda: And this podcast—
Eric: No, you—you don't want to talk about this more?
Amanda: —this podcast keeps getting—
Julia: Listen!
Amanda: —better with age. Unlike the final touring act of Kiss, which is happening this year. In the year of our Lord, 2023.
Eric: Oh, no.
Julia: Amanda, that's very rude, and I don't appre— I don’t appreciate this Kiss slander on the podcast. That's all I'm saying.
Eric: I'm now imagining a 70-year-old man in makeup and it's really making me upset.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: I know.
Brandon: We—you know, the older we get, the more we need makeup, Eric.
Eric: That's true. That's true.
Amanda: That's not wrong. That's not wrong. Yeah.
Eric: I know. It's just funny that Gene Simmons looks like, like every Jewish boy when he was 13—
Amanda: Yup.
Eric: —with the curly hair. Not all of them had a long tongue, but I guess that that's like a thing that's on Fox News right now.
Amanda: That’s fair. Yeah.
Julia: Interesting.
Amanda: Really fun.
Eric: I—it's a New Jewish rumor I'm gonna start. All Jews have seen for a long tongues.
Amanda: Speaking of Jekyll and Hyde, you recently joined a new social media app and got bullied immediately. Would you like to just talk about that here?
Julia: What happened, bro?
Amanda: It has not much to do with Join the Party, but it is topical.
Eric: Sure.
Julia: Oh, Eric did you join Bluesky?
Eric: I did join Bluesky.
Julia: Gotcha.
Eric: That's the app where you talk about Blue's Clues and Bluey only.
Amanda: Yes like the Blue skidoo—
Eric: Is it—
Amanda: —glasses, we'll get to it.
Brandon: You got bullied by Blue?
Eric: Yeah, yeah—
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: It wa—Paprika is a motherfucker, I’ll tell you that. Yeah, I went on Bluesky and the— and I finally had an opportunity to like post for the first time. I had the opportunity. So the first thing I said was, “I'm on Bluesky, and I know exactly what to say, that Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel are the same guy. It's a Jekyll and Hyde situation.” And immediately within two minutes, a guy said, “Ha-ha, good joke, but that doesn't make any sense because they've totally different sounds in musical, musical qualities.” And I'm like—
Julia: So why would you say it's a good joke, random man on the internet?
Eric: Oh, he—because he was being mean. He was being rude, he was being a rude man. And I'm like, “Oh, no.”
Brandon: Less bullied, but just like stupid at— at—
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: You got stupided at?
Julia: Yeah, and I'm like, oh no.
Julia: You got mansplained.
Eric: You got—and I was like—
Amanda: Yeah, he did.
Eric: —you got me. I didn't know what I was talking about when I wrote this. Nuts.
Julia: Yeah. I don't even know who little Stevie Van Zandt is.
Eric: Little Bluesky Van Zandt. He was on the Sopranos, right?
Julia: Yeah, yeah.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: So my sort of masterful hosting strategy here just to like peel back the curtain here and just— just you know, is to say, hey, Eric, was that experience at all like ours dealing with Book Depository adults and this last three episodes?
Julia: Was it?
Amanda: Are there any book depository adults maybe wearing some like heteronormative bullying t-shirts on— on Bluesky, or here at Book Depository Island.
Eric: I think on there, someone did ask if we had any other like slogans that were on Book Depository shirts.
Julia: Oh, we sure do.
Amanda: Always.
Brandon: Yup.
Eric: So if anyone wants to share any of them that they've seen, or maybe they've bought or some vintage ones they found on eBay, like please go ahead.
Brandon: Well, there's definitely some upcoming in the future— future episodes, so—
Julia: Oh, I forgot.
Brandon: —get ready for that.
Julia: We have some more.
Eric: Oh, that's right. Yeah.
Julia: So is that a who can say?
Eric: It is a who can say. There is one I saw this on eBay, it's from like, ‘86. And it's, I wish Bookie was my husband, but I guess I'll settle for this fucking bug.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah. Mine is um, we finish each and then the other person said other sandwiches. That's a real— that's a real a Disney couple t-shirt that I just found out on the internet.
Julia: That is the— that is a quote from a Disney movie.
Amanda: Yep.
Julia: Uh-huh.
Eric: We finish each other's books.
Julia: There you go.
Amanda: Oh, that's good.
Eric: And someone is just wearing the word book.
Amanda: Yep. Here's another fun Disney couple shirt, one says Broke and one says Spoiled. And I want you to guess which one's for the man and which one's for the woman.
Julia: Well, obviously the man is spoiled, Amanda.
Amanda: Yeah. Women are—are the breadwinners here.
Eric: They're doctors, they're Pirate Queens.
Amanda: Yeah, come on.
Julia: This is Verda Stello.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Exactly. No, but guys, it has been so fun getting to know the Book Depository and this whole ecosystem here and not to mention, there's a whole other half of the parking area by the way that we haven't even touched yet. But there have been so many things happening in the Book Depository. We were separated that was wild.
Julia: That was.
Amanda: At Crimson Exchange, just the whole ecosystem of its own. So players, how did you feel about our first kind of foray into the Book Depository in Episode Seven, as we met Bookie and Piney and searched the big room?
Brandon: My shirt says, “I want a divorce.”
Amanda: Good.
Julia: Okay.
Amanda: Good.
Julia: What is your partner's shirt say?
Brandon: “Okay.” I like—
Julia: Shit.
Amanda: Damn.
Eric: Fuck. Wait, that’s fucking awesome. And then the, “Okay.” is in a book. Like, it’s open.
Julia: Shit.
Brandon: My new headcanon, I'm sorry to distract. My new headcanon is that instead of getting engaged at Book Depository, like at Disney World, you get divorced at Book Depository, like that's the thing that you ge— you go to— you go to Book Depository, you get divorced. It's like a thing people do.
Julia: Right. You take your child there to explain that you're breaking up.
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Great.
Brandon: How do we feel about the things—
Amanda: Just like my dad did in the corporate cafeteria of the building where we both worked.
Julia: Wow. Didn't know that fact. Ouch.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: On your way out of the cafeteria, you went to the gift shop and got a T-shirt that said, “My dad just got divorced.”
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
[awkward silence]
Julia: So what's so great about Book Depository Islands? Very cool concept. Eric, I love that you could buy two of my favorite things, which is being a Disney adult and also books.
Brandon: Books. I was shocked, confused, dismayed, discombobulated, forlorn, excited about getting kicked out of the room.
Julia: Yes.
Amanda: Yes. But Brandon, we had a whole episode before that even happened, where we of course, here in the subheader that Eric has titled Shark Week in our Afterparty Agenda. Because we— we had a whole encounter with the book sharks before we even, Troy got swallowed up by the sea and Umbi had a face allegations of sleeping with a married avocado.
Julia: I super liked the whole like aspect of okay, this is a theme park, you're meeting the like, quote-unquote “theme park characters, the Mickey-esque Bookie.” And the part that I feel like we almost forgot about because Book Depository Island is so interesting, is the whole like, hey, there's resurrection magic happening.
Brandon: Yeah, I—
Amanda: Yes.
Brandon: —literally just read my notebook to prep for this Julia, and I had that note. I was like, we didn't do anything with that. Fuck.
Julia: We did not do anything about that. I have a feeling and because we in the podcast haven't gotten to the Lake Encounter, I have a feeling that maybe those two things might be connected, but I'm not sure, and I can't say yet. The real who can say?
Brandon: There's a version of Bookie that's just Jesus Christ resurrected.
Julia: That is possible.
Eric: Julia, I do— I do want to say that this is your fault.
Julia: Yup.
Eric: Because you decided, like a fucking genius to attach olfactory things to Cammie's magic. And originally, I set it as a joke. And then I'm like, oh, wait a second, that's— that's awesome. And I think it's something that like knowing that all of your magic has a smell, is something that's pulling forward, and something that can be easily identified. I think that's a really wonderful thing that shows up in a lot of my favorite fantasy, that like magic is tangible and know about it, and associating types of magic with certain things has been really fun to think about. So this is your fault for being detail-oriented and creative.
Julia: You know what a peek behind the curtain, that is a running joke in my home campaign with friend of the pod, Mischa?
Eric: Oh sure.
Brandon: That's you're detail-oriented and creative?
Julia: No. Well, that's you, but thank you.
Eric: Yeah. Mischa, Mischa and I are always dunking on Julia, telling her how detail-oriented she is.
Julia: That's true. It's a fun fact about Eric and Mischa. But—
Eric: Why don't you go get a planner you fucking nerd.
Julia: Man. But I made a joke once like, oh, does this like certain planar things smell like the plane that it's on, right? And so I thought that would be a funny thing to do. And it really works for Cammie because like the smell of tea is something that like is very identifiable. You can tell a green tea, from an herbal tea, from a black tea, from an oolong, etc, etc.
Eric: For sure.
Julia: Just from smelling it. So it makes sense that Cammie's flavor of magic or I guess, sense of magic is olfactory. So I'm glad we could incorporate that, it's very fun.
Eric: Also, to think about olfactory, you know, the olfactory senses being tied to memory so close.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: I think makes sense for and magic. Depending on how you feel about, you know, magic in your life or in your magic system. I think it totally makes sense.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Now, Brandon, this is a question, it wasn't addressed to you by MalignantSloth, but—
Brandon: It address at me.
Julia: Yes.
Amanda: It was, you know, I think it implicates you in a way.
Julia: Damn.
Amanda: Because the question is, do the PCs regret not using their appetizer from the freebie tickets? What kind of apps was the exchange serving? And I just as a follow up—
Brandon: FUCK!
Amanda: — appetizer connoisseur.
Brandon: FUCK!
Amanda: I just— I do have to just sort of address this failing.
Brandon: Shit, man. We fucked up.
Julia: We were just so into the drinks, you know?
Brandon: I know. I was too excited by the Researcher's Delight, and the Bear Heads and everything. Damn it. We should have got some fucking nachos, man. What are we doing?
Julia: Should we all like, say the appetizer that we would have gotten if we had ordered from Crimson's Exchange?
Brandon: On the count of three?
Eric: I do want to say though, this was for like an appetizer at one of the food stalls. So it wasn't in— it wasn't supposed to be like in a thing. You—you got like a get-one snack for free out on the Promenade.
Julia: Gotcha, like a churro.
Brandon: I reject your official canon, sir. And insert my own.
Julia: We could have gotten food there.
Eric: No, you could have gotten food there. I'm saying the free ticket was for that.
Julia: Oh, okay.
Brandon: Oh, okay, okay.
Eric: That's the VIP package.
Julia: That's on us.
Eric: I'm not telling you, you couldn't have bought nachos? What kind of DM would I be, where I say, no, you're not allowed to buy nachos!
Julia: No, they don't sell nachos here.
Eric: They have a liquor license, but you—they ca—they don't have a kitchen in the back, they don't.
Julia: They have a microwave at least.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah. I'm saying for this exercise, they have carts in the promenade that you got one, that was in the VIP package.
Julia: Right. So it would have been like a Bookie Churro or a cookie shape.
Brandon: A Bookie bar.
Eric: Yes, exactly.
Julia: A Bookier bar, a Bookie-shaped pretzel.
Amanda: Yes.
Julia: Etc, etc.
Amanda: I would have really liked some Bookie Dippin Dots, would be the thing that I will be most excited about.
Brandon: Some Bookin’ Dots.
Amanda: Exactly
Julia: Bookin’ Dots.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Now we—
Amanda: Maybe it's like little shreds, like shaved ice or like, you know, coconut flakes like—
Julia: Okay.
Amanda: —instead of the dots?
Julia: Like a Halo-halo. Yeah.
Brandon: Oh, shut up, it's rolled ice cream.
Julia: Ohh, yeah, like books.
Amanda: Cute.
Brandon: Like books.
Eric: Brandon, I'm concerned that Umbi is doing a lot on you. Because this is a count of two NPCs you shed shut up to immediately. And now you're doing it in the Afterparty. I'm concerned that Umbi is a bad influence on you.
Brandon: Look, y'all—
Julia: That's possible.
Brandon: —we all decided to do a pirate campaign. You knew the stakes, I was going to become rude.
Amanda: It's true. He bought a hat and everything.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: But I have to say it's creeping out of hat time. And you know, it's just—it's a neutral observation.
Eric: He's not wearing a hat.
Julia: No.
Eric: I'm just pointing it out.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And let's say that child was not aggressive and held two knives until Umbi said shut up to him. What's—what happen?
Brandon: Eric, is that why, literally why you pull off an knife?
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: I didn't say shut up to the kid. I said shut up to my colleagues.
Julia: Oh, well.
Eric: That's insane.
Brandon: I—because the kid said, the kid said something about like, I forget what he said. But he brought up something exciting. And so Amanda and Julia were talking and we're like—
Julia: It was bar trivia.
Brandon: Oh it was bar trivia.
Eric: Oh you were talking about bar trivia.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Brandon: I was like shut up. Bar Trivia. So that's hilarious.
Eric: Ohh, I love that— I love that child deeply. You know, we get inspiration from all places, so I think—
Julia: Orlando's the greatest NPC you've added to the campaign so far.
Eric: I love Orlando.
Brandon: And so true to real Orlando, just full of kni—kids with knives.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Yep.
Eric: And they think that someone's saying shut up to them and make fucking start something.
Julia: That was me as a child.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: It's not wrong,
Eric: Julia, I will show you 200 people who do this in Nassau Coliseum parking lots right now.
Julia: Well Eric, that's where I would tell full ass adults to shut up. So.
Amanda: Yeah, we're like at a hockey game and then Julia turns around and goes, “Don't curse you motherfucker!”
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Basically.
Brandon: Like before she checks on one of the audience.
Julia: Hmm.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: A 7 years old.
Eric: Pulls out a two knives that has Mickey Mouse's face on them.
Amanda: Yeah, one retracts, one does not. You want to figure out which?
Eric (as Orlando): I got one of these from set. And I'm not gonna tell you which one.
Brandon: New Jersey roulette.
Amanda: Yeah, right.
Eric (as Orlando): My uncle brought this back on the set of The Sopranos. I'm not gonna tell you which one it is. Christopher Moltisanti used this.
Amanda: Exactly right. But listen guys, we—we can't get sidetracked here by the Crimson Exchange. We gotta get through the Word Sharks and of course, the separation first, before we talk more about bar trivia and the Researchers Delight, and Especially Researchers Delight, and the glasses got so much so—
Julia: Yes, yes, so much.
Amanda: Grace Robisheaux wants to know, “Eric, how exactly do the word sharks work?”
Eric: Good question. So the word sharks work because they are a reskin bullet, which are land sharks from the official Dungeons & Dragons monster manual because I didn't think this was happening this episode.
Julia: Well—
Amanda: Oh, really?
Eric: No, I don't know what I was thinking. I really thought you were gonna spend more time in the promenade. and I was like, oh yeah, I'm just gonna riff and make up some carts and make up some— some stands that you can go to. Maybe you'll end up going to the Crimson Exchange, which I had prepped at by that point. But you ended up going immediately towards the Book Depository that I wasn't anticipating.
Julia: Well, Eric, everyone knows when you go to a theme park, you do the high–
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia: –volume attractions first, and then you do food and like wandering around and stuff like that. Gotta get on those lines, even if we got VIP.
Eric: No, I thought it was like the Hall of Presidents, the Book Depository, like the actual one.
Julia: Oh, interesting.
Amanda: Not for Troy, baby. For Troy that’s his Kingda Ka.
Brandon: I think you've trained us too good. Every time you like put something in front of us that's exciting, we're like, no side quest, let's go straight there.
Eric: I guess so. And so I kinda like bided my time with Piney. I knew that I wanted to have like a person at the front. But I kind of just like, I have this NPC list to make sure that I'm using different like plants and bugs and so not just like doing fruit all the time. Which I'm realizing is like my—the thing that I lean on the most. So I'm just like pine tree, let's come up. I like full shag pine, I want to thrive through on the silk like blind sense and then we just kind of went from there. I also wanted to create an NPC who I thought was helpful because I feel like I either intentionally or unintentionally, or maybe you—you three are just annoyed at NPCs a lot, that who's not helpful so I wanted Piney to be able to do that. And then I'm like oh, they're really gonna go into the big room. And then it just kind of— I just had to do it on the fly. Yeah.
Amanda: And Eric before we get deeper into the word sharks, Julia, Brandon, what were your initial reads on Piney? Because they took an interesting sort of arc over the course of these three episodes
Julia: I—listening back to the episode, I realized how much we were just like honing in on Piney and like trying to nitpick everything that they said. Anytime they were like, what—how are you going to read? Were like, what are the ways are there to read? Oh, my goodness, what's going on? Piney, give us all the information. And they were just like, no, I just like, if you're gonna read different, just let me know I guess, I want to help. And we're all like suspicious.
Eric: I'm a concierge, I don't know what you want.
Brandon: We are in a world in which there are many kinds of appendages and senses. And so Eric threw a bone out that was like, oh, yeah, what kind of way do you want to read? And I want to know, what are some ways that he's al—was also trying to pull some—some improv out of Eric, of course, but—
Julia: Of course match.
Brandon: But yeah, I was genuinely like, or I don't know, like with cilia or water tension or something. I don't know, you know?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Well, you can see now, now that the Blue Skidoo glasses were revealed. Is that if you were in the VIP, and I think this is something maybe that I've learned from all of like the scam documentaries that I watched with Amanda? We're like on a Delta V ends up going to like the plaza and the concierge is there like, hey, what's going on? And then they're like, oh, no, I shouldn't give them the full package, and I really shouldn't. Where like, they threw that out there, Piney threw that out there, and then you three were like, what is that? And then Piney's like oh.
Julia: Oh, you don't know you're I—never mind.
Eric: Nevermind. I—I'm discrete, I can't tell you, you have to tell me. And that's where that, that conversation went, because Piney's you know very good at their job, and they kind of tried to navigate that situation. And I think throwing the word sharks out there, hopefully, would have gotten your attention, which I think it did.
Julia: It did. Oh, boy, it did. The minute you're like there's word sharks, I was like, yes, bring me to them.
Brandon: In my defense, I think I kind of know the episode. But I did stop for a second and ask Eric, am I pushing too hard on that thing, it doesn't matter. Please tell me.
Eric: Right. I mean, that's the thing is like the answer is no. The answer no, you weren't pushing too hard. It's just like the charisma rolls you did to figure to, to get it, it's like you cannot unlock this. This— this thing as—
Brandon: Right.
Eric: —it was not open to you. So I think that was— the answer was no, but I'm not going to tell you anything else.
Brandon: Right.
Eric: Unless you—you do something else or you— you decide to just take Piney at their word.
Julia: Right.
Amanda: Yeah. Troy's impression was like doing their job. Nice. Moving on. You know, and mine—mine as well as a player was like, yeah, it seems like somebody who's sort of doing their job but is not going to, you know, necessarily say a bunch of things and offer a bunch of things that we aren't specifically citing, because that's not what you do. Like you make the customer happy with the demands they asked for, but you don't offer more shit that makes your life or day more complicated.
Eric: Exactly.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: Also shout out to Lance Reddick as the concierge—
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: —in John Wick, that was also something I was pulling from and how good he is doing that. And RIP to an absolute fucking legend.
Amanda: I couldn't KELP myself wants to know, since they're word sharks, are their internal structures made of verbiage?
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: I see you there.
Eric: Yeah, yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: It's like a—it's like a Schoolhouse Rock cartoon, where We're learning about verbs that is like, here's a word shark, they move because they have to, and they're filled with words that are actions.
Brandon: [sings] I'm just a shark. Oh, I'm only a shark.
Julia: I thought you're gonna do, I'm just a shark and life is a nightmare, which like, okay that too.
Brandon: [sings] I'm just a shark and life is a nightmare.
Amanda: Julia, you got some stuff you want to work through?
Eric: [sings] you want to be a—you want to be a Greenfolk idiot.
Brandon: Now was that the Broadway version or the uh—
Eric: No, it's the original one—
Brandon: —Radio.
Eric: — by Green Day and there's
Julia: It's obviously the Broadway version.
Eric: No, they're still called Green Day at Verda Stello.
Amanda: [sings] I think Jimmy's coming now across the alleyway. Alright, Malignant Sloth has a bunch of great questions. What was the disengage mechanic that you were using in this encounter with the word sharks?
Brandon: It was like a move that the sharks had, right?
Eric: Yeah, it was the splash thing. So the bullet sharks in the monster manual can just like dive, they're frightened deserts. I think it's kind of like giant worms sort of thing if we're talking about dune. So they can just like dive and they make a big splash. So I use it as a— as an excuse to disengage because we're like, vaguely in an issue. We really weren't an initiative as Troy and Cammie, we're just kind of on guard. So I was kind of just like threading that stuff in between, but that was a move that I haven't yet— y'all can just look up a bullets in the monster manual.
Julia: I am right now.
Eric: Yeah. So it's fun. I mean, they're— they're CR5 and I kind of— I think I kept it. I didn't really change all that much. I just like said they were word sharks and made out of stuff. But um, you know, that stuff out there for free and I didn't buy it, so I'm fine with it. Making it—
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: —I'm making it fit in our campaign.
Julia: Hell yeah.
Brandon: Are they called bullete sharks or just bulletes?
Julia: It's B U L E T T E.
Brandon: Aaahh.
Eric: They're like land sharks, it's like—
Julia: Bulette.
Eric: —it's Bulette. If it was a Pokemon, it's called the land shark Pokemon.
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: I was just imagining the—what do you call the bullets from Mario, you know?
Eric: Bullet Bills, yeah. Bullet Bills.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah. That's what I thought you meant when you said that. I was like, oh, it must be like a third party that like converted—
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Mario villains into D&D characters, which is kind of neat.
Eric: Unrelated if anyone knows that, just send it to me.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Unrelated. That'd be dope as fuck. Malignant also asked, are the word sharks native to the book sea or did someone bring them there? Are the books their home, or were they conjured by whoever built the Book Depository? Maybe Tessie?
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: My impression was that they were an invasive species, right? Because Piney wanted to get rid of them?
Julia: I think at some point, I also said, oh, I don't know if this is their natural habitat, but I would hate to remove them. And then immediately it's surface dead and I was like—
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Oooh, what's that?
Amanda: Uh-oh.
Eric: It was so funny.
Julia: That was very good, bro. It was a great joke.
Eric: It was fu—I thought it was so funny. This is related. Michellespurgeon asked about like, what is the book sea look like?
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: Like, what's the bo—what's the book water made of? Is it like water or books about the sea? Or is it just like damaged books? So you know, if we can all go back to like fourth grade where we were learning about the rainforest? How like the floor of the rain forest has like a lot of stomped on leaves, and, you know, trees that have fallen down and all kind of just like meld together. Which is the second reference to rainforests that are used for these three— for these three episodes.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I thought it was like that, how the things you were walking on were books that no one had. Like wanted for a while. It was very also like Scrooge McDuck's Gold Depository. There are mountains and there are valleys and stuff and you can just find things. So like the book sea to me was they were stomped on and just kind of like pushed down. And yes, I thought that the word sharks were an invasive species that Tessie put there for sure.
Amanda: Nice.
Julia: Ohhh.
Eric: Even if Piney was like, sorry, oh, nothing I can do. There's just word sharks.
Julia: I feel less bad about killing it now.
Brandon: I did feel less bad about killing them because they were bloodthirsty, but then Eric made that sound of a hurt puppy when a word shark got shot and I wanted to die so.
Julia: I felt incredible.
Eric: Oh you meant this one, [crying puppy]
Brandon: God damn it, Eric.
Julia: Oh, no.
Eric: Well, maybe you should think twice before hurting animals.This episode sponsored by PETA. PETA, we're not doing it right.
Brandon: Give me that one clean, and I'll put it on the Discord soundboard.
Eric: Absolutely not. No, I refuse.
Amanda: Alright. Um, Kazy wants to know, Eric as someone with a horrible fear of sharks, are you also afraid of them and working through some stuff? Or sharks just so awesome you can't help but use them? And related, Moritz wanted to know if the word shark was 4DS at a time shark. And Duran said, who would win in a fight, word shark, or time shark?
Eric: First of all time shark, time shark is mythological being, and the word shark is just kind of a shark. No, sharks are tight. Sharks are tight.
Julia: Sharks are cool as fuck.
Amanda: Sharks are very cool.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: I'm really excited that we get to work with marine animals because I think that they're underrated and a lot of them are tight and just being able to like surface them. The pun absolutely intended from just being like rare things. I think it's fun, and it's been really interesting working with like these mashed-up marine animals for the campaign so far.
Brandon: Don't surface them. They have to stay under the water Eric or they'll die.
Julia: Not of all them.
Amanda: That's right, that's right.
Julia: Not all of them.
Eric: Alright, but here's the thing in this fantasy world, they can be wherever I want. Like blob fish just look like that, it's not a pressure thing.
Amanda: Brandon, I want you to know specifically that I'm thinking about the book sea as a badly managed compost pile, where the bottom just like really compact in, and then there's some invasive species in there. And like the hot zones, not hot enough, you know.
Brandon: I love that.
Amanda: You know it.
Julia: I love that.
Amanda: CherylRosback says, where's Troy? It was a beautiful moment of realization. Was that natural to the players or worked out in editing? Oh, no, Eric just ended the session that way. And then we all have to say—
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Okay, hanging up now.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: We might have said like something in between, just like off-handed, so I might have cut that, but like, everything else was normal, was natural.
Eric: With that, yeah, cause that saving throw was Umbi's uses old man strength to hold on to the journal. And then Cammie was surfing, right?
Julia: Yes, because I rolled a Nat 20.
Eric: Cause you rolled a Nat 20. So then you were—we were too busy like, whoa, hang 10 Cammie. And then Julia was like, ah, hahaha, well, where's Troy? And I'm like, yeah, Troy's not there. End of Episode.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: And were all like, ugghhh.
Julia: Which, like, I think we kind of knew to a certain extent, because I remember Amanda, you didn't roll well.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: And I had a feeling that— that was going to be the case. And so that's why I kind of worked it into whatever Cammie was saying, because I was like, oh, blabla, Troy?
Amanda: Yeah. No, that's great.
Eric: Can we all just wonder where Troy is like, Troy?
Julia: Troy?
Eric: Troy?
Amanda: Troy?
Brandon: Troy? What are we doing?
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Eric: Yeah, no that, Brandon—
Amanda: Exactly.
Eric: —you participated, you’re good.
Amanda: Exactly right.
Brandon: Okay.
Julia: You do.
Eric: There you go.
Amanda: So now, of course, we get into Episode Eight, which is fabulous. And I gotta tell you that when Eric said, Amanda leaves the room, and I said, what, that's exactly how it went. And Brandon, I want to commend you for really making that trade-off, and going in and out feel as like, unexpected and like kinetic as it did, actually playing it in the edit. I loved the inclusion of the Google Meet noises.
Eric: Yes, I love that.
Brandon: Well, I want to commend you, Amanda, for being the first to be kicked out of the room and not be like, what the fuck did I do? Oh, my God!
Amanda: I did take a fun selfie from just outside the studio of me looking slightly like a caged puppy. So I'll make sure to post that today.
Eric: Yeah, no, those sounds were great. I think something that we can definitely do as a podcast is that we get to like, put fun sounds in and sound design. And that also means like enhancing the gamesmanship, I think of what we're doing here and what we do in Join the Party, as opposed to other actual plays. So I was—I was super stoked on that.
Julia: I thought it was really great Eric, because for me, that's an experience that is more something you can do for an in-person game.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: And a lot of my games that I play are over the computer or via Zoom or whatever. And so it was really, really cool to have that experience of being quote-unquote, "at the table" and being told, okay, I'm going to take this one player aside, or the rest of you relax, while me and this person go outside to talk about something.
Eric: Yeah, you have to do it in a different way. I think we've been doing this for a little while in terms of like doing one on one episodes. But like, it's never a secret. It's always like, oh, there's a recording time, so I'm going to bring you in one at a time. But that was the first time I think that it really felt like someone was being excluded for narrative reasons. And I'm like, you know, I was kicking around how we were going to do this, you know. Like, I want the feeling of having to get Troy, but then Amanda is going to be like, oh, here I am, I'm down here the whole time. So I really wanted to figure out a way to make this a little scarier. And also to like, look around and try to discover things. The funniest thing was Umbi doing the Bear Grills spiral.
Julia: Yes.
Eric: But it's li—I like that because it's like you don't know. You — a 100% don't know. And I wanted to try to reinforce that and let the gamesmanship like double down on that.
Brandon: It's Jessie Krebs.
Eric: Oh, I'm sorry.
Brandon: Just to give credit where credit's due.
Julia: I think my favorite part of that episode was finding out that Brandon on a flight, chose to watch a Masterclass.
Brandon: Julia, can I tell you?
Amanda: I didn’t hear this.
Julia: Oh, yeah.
Brandon: Can I tell you, Julia? I've watched this thing three times now.
Julia: Why?!
Amanda: What are you talking about?
Brandon: So on Delta, they have a couple of Masterclasses that you can watch for free like, on the back of the seat, you know?
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: They have like a really great one on gardening by the way that Amanda if you’re ever on one you should watch. And I like Masterclass like they're fun, but there's one by a survivalist named Jessie Krebs.
Amanda and Julia: Krebs, Krebs, Krebs, Krebs.
Amanda: I thought you were joking.
Brandon: But no, their last name is Krebs. And yeah, I watched it. The first time I watched it I was like yeah, I had like 23 minutes or whatever till the end of the fight. So I was like, I—there's nothing I can watch, so I'll just try this. And that I got sucked into it. And now every time I Delta—I'm on a Delta fight, I try to finish it because it's so good. And then I sometimes I rewatch it because I'm like, I want to remember this.
Julia: So Brandon told us this Amanda, and we were like, did your phone die? Like, did they not have any other things available on the flight? Like, are you okay?
Amanda: It's amazing.
Brandon: Maybe I just have a fantasy of like getting lost in the woods or something and surviving--
Amanda: No, it's true. I mean listen, Julia knows all about this—all about the fun guy you can be like that— that's good to know. But yeah, I had no idea like Mell118 asked what I was doing when I got kicked out of the room. Like I sat down to start recording at, you know, noon, or appointed time and like, had my stuff set up, and my—and my you know my water and my tea and my dice. And Eric's like, yeah, Amanda get out here. And I'm like, wait, what? So I was just sitting out there listening to Bruce Springsteen, you're about to see him in concert. And I'm like, I should brush up on more than the top five, I guess, and waiting to be brought back in.
Eric: Uh, the other thing about this, is that I was having trouble figuring out how to start the episode because I really wanted to set the scene and then kick Amanda out. And that was like, I had also had like, the narration for each group of characters. The one I was going to share with Umbi, and Cammie, and the one I was gonna say to Troy. There, but it didn't have like the first, first thing. And I'm terrible at starting the episodes. So everyone was like, oh, yeah, Eric's gonna try to figure it out. And I'm like, oh, they don't know I'm gonna kick them out—kick them in and out of the room in a second.
Amanda: That's great. It was awesome.
Julia: It was very, very cool. I liked it a lot. And then Brandon and I just talked about Star Wars when we were not in the call.
Brandon: It was fun. It was a good time.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: It's fun when you go back in the edit and you like sync everything up. And then you get to like the second part and it's like wire is just— just a ton of Star Star Wars talk overlapping with the game.
Julia: Because we didn't know how to turn it off at that point. We didn't know how it was gonna go down.
Eric: It's funny.
Amanda: That's very funny. I wanted to know actually, Julia and Eric, how did you guys think about the like Nonny searching mechanic? Because from my perspective, you know, Troy's kicking around, Nonny comes over and you know, helps guide me more directly to where I have to go. But I wonder if that's something that you all talked about, or that was sort of baked into Nonny's stats before we needed it.
Julia: So that's baked into the familiar stats already, is basically you can use a familiar to see and hear through even though you can't speak through it. And you can also cast spells through the familiar with the which class in particular.
Amanda: Right.
Julia: And so that was something that I knew I could do without putting Cammie's physical body in harm's way which I was a little concerned about. And so yeah, it was just like a —this is the best thing I can do. There was like a moment of panic at the beginning of the episode where Brandon and I were looking at each other, we're like, what can we do to find Troy? Do you have spells for this? I don't have spells for this. I can help you look. I can send Nonny in, but I can't really do much. So that was the biggest thing.
Brandon: I was gonna ask about that too actually, Amanda. Because I was curious if does that leave Cammie's body vulnerable when she's doing that?
Julia: Yeah. So if Cammie is basically worging through, Nonny it leaves Cammie blinded and deafened. So I think I remember, I believe I cast sanctuary on myself which would just mean that the word sharks would have had to do a wisdom save in order to attack me.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Which I don't imagine the word sharks were super wise, but I also wasn’t sure.
Eric: No, I failed that, I failed that twice.
Julia: Alright. Cool.
Brandon: They are great sages of our time.
Julia: Yes.
Amanda: There's women in the—in the books man, they got to know all of it by now.
Brandon: Yeah, exactly.
Eric: Think about how much those word sharks osmosis that knowledge.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah dude, the main words.
Julia: Bro. So yeah, that was—that was like my theory was like, at least Nonny who has a swimming speed can get down there and look for Troy, and not be too concerned about breathing and stuff like that. Like I was concerned about Umbi and Troy in particular. It was a very anxious-inducing episode. I spent a lot of time being like, okay, if I'm not with Umbi I have to make sure that like when we're in a scene together he's gotten back up to get some air or something like that, and—
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Absolutely.
Brandon: Now Amanda let me know when at—at what point during this Afterparty can I ask, what the fuck, why did you shoot me in the ass? Let me know when that time.
Amanda: Yeah. No Brandon, that's a great—that's a grea—I'm glad you brought it up, it's important for us to talk about. And Zach, the CragDad said, Brandon, can you walk us through your headspace when Eric Slacked you, what's your AC with no context, when you were just hanging out on your own?
Brandon: I wonder if I still have those messages? Let me look back real fast.
Amanda: Yes, that would be great. But no, the thing is, Troy was fine. And that's the— that's the thing that was making me worry Julia during this episode. Is I was like, oh no, I'm—I'm fine. Like Troy is fine. He's got high HP. Like he's got a cool necklace. Like lo—lots of good stuff is happening to big T over here. And everybody else is worried about him. And so Brandon, that was my logic is like I have to—I have to like let Umbi know that he doesn't have to go back down because I could see us getting into a situation where I'm fine and now you're imperiled. And I have to further imperil myself trying to bring you back. So that's the closest I got and let me— let it be known, I did not say the butt, I did say the foot. Other people said the butt and other people said the pants fell down. And it was— it was a not how I intended it going.
Julia: I don't remember that.
Brandon: You know, that's fair. You didn't pull off my pants or hit me in the butt. I will give you that Amanda, but you didn't also think feels like—like, rope or like—throw a rope at me.
Amanda: No, I did not. I did not.
Eric: No, it was awesome. Especially because Amanda expended a risk die to do it.
Amanda: I did. I did.
Eric: So you need extra—he was— he was supposed to pin you to the wall, so you would stop running.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: Ohh, I know.
Eric: There's no way to take all the pain away. It was a beautiful one—one HP hit.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: What those messages look like?
Brandon: I looked back at my Slack and I just— I just said 13. But I think at the time I was definitely like what the fuck? I mean, I definitely thought you know, there was a word shark situation or something but—
Amanda: Not friendly fire, Brandon?
Brandon: The bigger jumpscare was when I came back and it was all three, you all at the same time. What—Give me a wisdom roll!
Julia: You're like, Julia, I have to? I'm like, yes!
Brandon: Or whatever it was a dodgeball or whatever, but yeah.
Julia: Ohh, that's so funny.
Eric: I think the best part of this speaking of, I knew for a fact that Cammie was defenseless and couldn't see or hear anything. Because Cammie jumping out coming back into her body and an old man screaming at her.
Amanda: I know.
Eric: What's my—what's my absolute fa— actually no. My favorite part was Umbi versus Umbi. But my second favorite part—
Julia: So good.
Eric: —was a man scream—screaming—
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: —that your friend cuckolded him. First thing that happens that you come back to your senses.
Julia: I also truly loved the timing and this is just tooting my own horn. I love the timing of this old man yelling at me, and Cammie goes tell me more and then works out immediately.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Incredible moment, Julia.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: You are—you are welcome to too toy.
Julia: I will to toot.
Eric: Yeah. Someone said on Tumblr that they found like a bad RPG hooks or something Tumblr, that was like, oh, make sure one of your characters has the ability to roll and then maybe they'll see that like an NPC is actually someone they know. And I'm like, oh, we do this. It's a— it's called a— it's a background feature for one of our characters.
Julia: I will look it up right now, hold on.
Eric: Also Brandon and I establishing that both— that all old people can do this— is was very fun.
Amanda: Amazing.
Julia: Extremely funny.
Eric: Doing a contest of it was very, very interesting.
Brandon: Yeah. Cause you— you initially thought to do a contest. And you were like, oh, can I do this? I was like, fuck yeah, you could do it. Let's go!
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: So this was a post from Probably Bad RPG Ideas. And they said the quote-unquote, “I know a guy mechanic, but you can't just make up a new NPC to help, instead you can once per session point at an established NPC and say aw shit, that's my ex.” And shout to yeehawpoorcryptid on Tumblr who said Join the Party does this, and it is absolutely not a bad RPG idea.
Brandon: Nice.
Amanda: There you go.
Julia: Which I agree.
Eric: Very good.
Brandon: Hey, Editing Julia, can you—this is serious. Can you cut out that toot toot that you just said, so I can use it for the Discord soundboard—
Julia: Too-too.
Brandon: —please, thank you.
Eric: Too-too.
Julia: Too-too-Tootie.
Amanda: And folks before I go ahead and refill our Nacho platter, Sarah, Purple People Eater wanted to know, was there a list of cool books the PCs could have found in the book room? If so what are some of the ones they didn't find?
Brandon: I'm gonna guess no, because we caught you off guard, right?
Eric: I mean, you could have said if you were looking for a book, you gotta roll for it.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I just think that like, I kind of structured again, because I didn't— I had to make up all these game mechanics on the fly. You were looking for a specific one. So that's why Umbi and Nonny were able to like dig and— and Cammie and Troy were on guard. So I kind of like structured the whole mechanics around that. But if you were looking for something else, I think that we've done this before, I just would have asked like, what are you looking for, what do you want?
Amanda: Book about barrels.
Eric: And I think— and we would have just—
Julia: Book about barrels.
Eric: —and you would have done an invest—a different investigation check, which also would have been hard because you're looking for a needle in a book stack.
Brandon: Bookstack?
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: We got there.
Eric: It would have been difficult to find something specific, but you know, yes, there's no list, but if you wanted something, it would have been there.
Brandon: There's a list in your brain because you're an English Major!
Amanda: If you stay right on to get ready. That's what Eric always says.
Julia: True.
Amanda: Alright, folks, I'm gonna go refill the nachos. Sometimes you get to the bottom and they're nachos with no things on it, and he just like go ahead and put another layer of toppings and then just kind of like rebroil. So I'm gonna go through that real quick and I'll be right back.
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Julia: The key is to just do a single layer of nacho cheese.
Amanda: It is. It is.
Julia: Everything has some sort of topping on it.
Brandon: Or you do a layer, cheese, a layer. Rest of toppings, cheese rest of toppings.
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: Oh, that's interesting.
Brandon: You double-decker.
Amanda: Like— like movie popcorn.
Brandon: Yeah, of course, of course.
Amanda: Necessary.
Brandon: Well, how do you do that with movie popcorn? How do you take it out of the—
Amanda: Well Brandon, when you order it, you say can you lay the butter in there? And then go yes, ma'am. you're a discerning customer. And then they filled up halfway. Either give it to you to self-serve the—the butter oil which by the way, as a former vegan, that's not butter at all, that's simply oil.
Julia: Coconut.
Amanda: And you could be lactose intolerant like me and eat it. And then you give it back to them with a final layer and then you put more on top.
Eric: Oh workers are skilled worker.
Amanda: So true. Alright, let's talk about a skilled worker who absolutely thought that we were too intense. And that's Chaz, the bartender, the bamboo with the skinny jeans.
Julia: I have qualms with the way that you framed that. I thought I was wonderful, and I tipped Chaz as well, and I engaged him in good conversation.
Eric: I mean, he was enjoying it. He works at a bar at a theme park. Chaz is a—
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Do you— is just fucking dealing right now.
Julia: He's doing his best.
Brandon: Yeah. I'm sure he was making six drinks at a time trying to talk to us, you know?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Oh, especially With managing the research ex—that's what— the thing was, is that he's waiting for the Researchers Delight bell to go off. That's why he was so distracted, and he was trying to like fit in small talk around the crush, which you ended up seeing.
Amanda: Yeah. And process-wise, as we were listening to Brandon's draft with episode nine. I was like, hey, um, all the times that Chaz is sort of like saying the sentence three or four times before he gets a sentence out, was that like, is that like, Eric, did you want to do that? Like Brandon, did you want to leave that? And you're both like, yeah, yeah.
Eric: He's like, imagine he's shaking a cocktail shaker the entire time he's talking—
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: —to Cammie.
Brandon: I don't know if you—anyone here are listening has like, you know, tried to have a conversation. Like, think of like TV and movie when people have like a dinner party, and they're like, able to like chop and saute and like cook while they're like, entertaining their guests beautifully. And try that in real life, and you'll quickly realize it's hard to multitask.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Gonna burn yourself.
Eric: Yes. So Chaz was like, I don't know. There's—the Lake Encounters there. I don't really see Tessie. She's my boss's, boss's boss. I don't know what you're talking about. I suppose I could tell you I have to serve these drinks.
Amanda: No, it makes total sense now, but at the time, yeah, it just— it didn't occur to me. But yeah, Chaz, I am obsessed with and I had so much fun talking to him. And I'm sorry that Troy didn't get to do more small talk with him, as I did myself sort of side quests.
Julia: You know what, Troy you got to do some fascinating other stuff. So it's okay to talk to the NPC.
Amanda: It's true. And I— listened I felt a little like self-indulgent. And I—I gotta say that, you know, at the end of the episode, when we are talking to Piney and I had a legitimately chilling moment of Piney kind of calling us to the side and interrogating the fact that I absolutely stole something valuable. Like Julia and Brandon didn't vote on what Troy did. And like as a player, and as a party member, I didn't want to like, you know, endanger the whole party for a thing that I thought was cool. And listen, I had a you know, I thought it was really cool. I thought it would be very fun for us to take. I happen to be in the room when the—the bear was singing and like saw the item there. Like all of that was amazing. But I felt so bad that I was like using our Amber's and putting us into potential danger at the end of this episode. So I don't know. Like thanks for indulging me guys. But I you know, I think the glasses are going to be an interesting thing for us to have.
Julia: You know what Amanda, like we're a pirate crew. I think that this is probably a thing that happens a lot where someone like wanders off and like comes back with cool stuff, and we're like, oh, cool, awesome.
Brandon: Yeah, yeah. And there's no situation in which me or Julia would be in that situation that you had and not done the same things, so.
Julia: Exactly.
Amanda: Fair.
Eric: Yeah. I mean, listen, your players are gonna go do stuff. The—it exists, there was a thing there and had to happen, I'm glad you did it. It was a really interesting moment and you put yourself in a really interesting spot. So I am absolutely all—I'm absolutely all about it.
Julia: And I appreciate that Troy did that because I know as player Julia and also as Cammie, we were both hyper fixated on getting that specialty cocktail. So that was like, you were not dragging me away from that bar until I got the Researcher— the special Researchers Delight.
Brandon: Same.
Amanda: Yes. And can you all three who are more versed in Tiki and Disney lore, talk about some of the inspo behind the Researchers Delight world and cosmology?
Julia: Eric, go nuts.
Eric: Sure. I actually learned this at PAX East. We ran into two friends Andy and Luke from Outside Xbox, where Andy is a big Disney guy. So he told me about like this—this drink at Trader Sam's that I hadn't heard about. And I also had been fascinated about Trader Sam's in general, because I thought it was cool that like the different things on the wall sang when you've got different things. I just thought that was really sick. And I wanted to put that in our game in general. And it's given me a very interesting opportunity to put it in. So when Books Depository Island turned into a theme park, that's when I realized I could put it in there.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: Have you not been to Trader Sam's?
Eric: Oh, no.
Julia: Oh, we got to take you next time. It's gonna be great.
Eric: I—listen, I'm not a Disney person for sure.
Julia: Okay.
Eric: I only— I go for Julia— for Julia-related events only.
Julia: Yay.
Brandon: I don't think you need to have– do you need to have a ticket to get into the resorts?
Julia: No, because it's just the Polynesian Hotel, so you could just go there casually.
Eric: Oh, cool I didn't know that.
Julia: Yeah. So next time we're in Orlando, we'll go. But the drink that you're referring to is called the Polynesian Pearl, which comes in this kind of pearl-shaped glass. It like opens up as we're talking about the interactive experience of Trader Sam's. It's like a big clam opens up and reveals the drink, which is really, really neat. And every one in 100 of those Polynesian Pearls is a Black Pearl. So it comes in like a specialty Black Pearl glass. And that is apparently very rare. It is something that if someone like gets that, while you're in the bar, it's like a big deal, and people will try to pay you like $100 in order to get that like specialty cup, which is wild. And that was the inspiration I had for selling the specialty Researcher's Delight.
Eric: It's so good.
Amanda: So smart.
Brandon: You know, they do that with black kyber crystals at the Disney parks or the Star Wars Land too, so that's pretty genius. Maybe we should do something with JTP merch world. One in a 100.
Julia: One in a 100.
Amanda: Yeah, well just like—
Brandon: 100 joken is like actual chrome or something. I don't know.
Eric: It's actual gold. It's like squishy.
Amanda: You can—you can bite it.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah, that's good. Like our— like our twitchy moat, where they're just the golden Chad. Maybe you know, every—
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: —we ever bring back the Chad dice, which I don't know, the thing people want if you let us know. We can you know, we can have like a assigned sticker in there.
Brandon: I was thinking as I was falling asleep last night or two nights ago. I was like, you know, maybe telling people on the podcast like, you know, the only way we grow is if you tell people. Maybe it's like the only way you get fucking merch, is if you get more people into the show.
Amanda: I mean, listen, it's true.
Eric: We—you need to bring 100 of you, need to sign a petition and tell us what merch to make and we will make the merch.
Julia: It's called a Kickstarter, bro.
Brandon: No, no, no see, so the only way we can make, let's say jokens, right? So we need X amount of people listened to the show to guarantee we sell X amount of jokens. So the only way to get the jokens is if you bring in more listeners, so that's up to you y'all.
Julia: Now this is starting to sound like a pyramid scheme.
Brandon: Julia, shh, shh.
Eric: So tell your downstream to listen to Join the Party.
Amanda: You don't have to listen, the downstream master listen and then you get the joken.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: You already listen.
Amanda: Rah_rah wants to know, as a team how many times and how much money would you Have spent for the rose bear drink?
Julia: Like I said—
Brandon: All of it.
Julia: I would have been there the entire time until we rolled it.
Brandon: All of the time all of the money.
Julia: It would have been a three-hour episode of just me being like, alright, I do my strength saving throw. I order more drinks. Let's go.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I a 100% was prepared to do that because that was the damage. Like I wanted it to get to a point where maybe one of you pass out or there was an issue. I also 100% did this as truthfully as possible. I came up with like a 1D— I forgot with 22—
Julia: 22.
Brandon: 27.
Eric: Yeah, I made a one D22 digitally and it did come up as 22.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: When you rolled it. So I did it as truthfully as I could because I wanted it to go on forever.
Amanda: Oh yeah.
Julia: Right. And it was the perfect timing too because you had Troy in that other room when the—
Eric: I don't want to say too much, but it was literally perfect timing. It was— that was serendipitous. The game wants what it wants. Theirs I can do— I can only do so much.
Julia: The dice tell a story.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah, I do appreciate Brandon that you left in where I was like, that yeah, Troy's gonna leave and you guys are like look at the barrel!
Julia: Look at the barrel.
Amanda: Look at the barrel, look at the barrel!
Julia: Please.
Amanda: Listen, we can all laugh at me playing a himbo, but you know it's Troy just have to look at the barrels at a certain point. And you're right like being a pirate, you know, you just— you smash and grab and it's a— it's a really good you know, kind of impulse to have playing a character.
Julia: Amanda, we love Troy, we love every decision you make as Troy—
Amanda: Thank you.
Julia: —so it's fine.
Amanda: I'm enjoying playing Troy as well. Only_the_best_boy wants to know, was the tiny rosenear thought of when the Researchers Delight was come up with?
Eric: Yeah, I mean that was the thing. Is like the pink rose bear sings its falsetto, everyone looks at it, and then you can put stuff into the bass-singing bear. That's the—the moment.
Brandon: Yeah. So in fantasy, it's glasses, in real life it's kilos of cocaine?
Eric: That's right.
Amanda: Yeah. So that is what the bouncers were doing, the Tessie people who are not really doing crowd control, and also didn't stop me from going into the storeroom.
Eric: Right.
Amanda: Fascinating.
Eric: They have others—yeah they had other stuff to do.
Amanda: Amazing.
Julia: Interesting.
Amanda: Moritz wants to know, what are the flavors of the Researchers Delight? I know a couple of other people wanted to know like, what's another drink on the menu at the Crimson Exchange, and specifically, Our friend g wants to know, did the different layers have different properties. Like does the drinker of the pink layer get some kind of magical effect?
Brandon: Can I suggest you watch our streams every Thursday at 12 PT, 3 P—3ET, and maybe we'll make a Researcher's Delight?
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Maybe. Who can say?
Amanda: Oooh, I like that.
Eric: I think one is grapefruit, but that's it.
Amanda: Okay, just a little palate cleanser.
Julia: Cool, cool, cool.
Eric: Yeah, no drinking a Researchers Delight mechanically, like in the— in the game that we played, it's just a drink. But I don't know. I didn't— I didn't. I literally just thought of the colors. I didn't think of what they were flavored. So I don't know.
Julia: I love it.
Brandon: One of the weirdest and not like good things, but like fun things to eat at the Star Wars Cantina in Disney World is they have like, it's like a petri dish, but it's like a jello shot with like—
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Oh, that's cool.
Brandon: — with like Pop Rocks and some other like cool textural things. So maybe, maybe something along. Maybe it's like a— like a dirt cup, you know, with like Oreos—
Eric: Sure.
Brandon: Or gummy worms, but like alcoholic somehow.
Eric: Yeah, I did definitely want. The rea—the whole reason why it's separated is that you're supposed to access them in any order. And like if you stir it, even if you stir it like the densities make them real reassigned, so it's totally up to you. You're supposed to drink it however you want. For sure.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: Nothing about making an adult-like boozy pudding cup with like crushed Oreos, and then like, gummy worms soaked in vodka.
Brandon: Well, you could just make like a jello shot gummy worm, right? You could just mold the jello—
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: —shot into gummy worms.
Eric: Oh, that's cool.
Julia: Hmm, that's a good point.
Amanda: Oh, it's true.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: A boozy pudding cup is my drag name.
Amanda: It should be. Jaya, Tokyo drifting pizza guy wants to know, Eric, how do you come up with these cool things to make NPCs out of? A square of grass? A cube of water that's a cranberry-- a Cranberry Bog? Holy shit!
Brandon: I don't know man. I get it.
Amanda: All of us said, damn Eric, this Cranberry Bog best ever, best ever. Like all of us in the moment—
Julia: It's so good.
Amanda: —we're like good God. And the high shorts? Amazing.
Julia: Incredible.
Eric: I know. I just stuck to dad. I just used this NPC as a dad.
Brandon: I aspire to be that Cranberry Bog when I'm older.
Amanda: Seriously.
Julia: Same.
Eric: I get the thing. I'm just trying to do different forms. I was getting a little tired with myself of either being like head is the thing, and then humanoid body. Or whole body is the thing with little arms and legs. I was trying to get out of that. so Piney, I was trying to push myself, and the Cranberry Bog I was trying to push myself. And I was also inspired by the— the square of grass as well which I thought was—which was really fun. So I'm just trying to put different shapes in as— as Greenfolk.
Julia: Hey man, doing a great job.
Eric: Thank you.
Amanda: Oh yeah.
Eric: I'm trying. Shout out to my list.
Brandon: Yesterday, was the Cranberry Bog on your list?
Eric: Cranberry was on the list, but then I was like oh let's do this— let's do the—the bog.
Amanda: So cool.
Julia: Great steaks, brah.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: So cool.
Eric: Yeah, and then like the shorts that—because the shorts were good and I also had a little bit more time because Ju— Julia's great idea. So I had some time to think about what—what I wanted to do and that was nice.
Julia: Hihihi.
Amanda: Speaking of Julia, the question surgeon, Michelspurgeon would like to know, how disappointed were you that the bar trivia wasn't trivia, but indeed a roll of the dice?
Julia: You know, I don't expect Eric to run an entire bar trivia for me in Cannon. Was I disappointed, a little bit, but I shouldn't have expected more. So that's fine, you know. That would be an insane thing for you to do, Eric.
Eric: Yeah. I want to say that before we recorded that day, Julia was like, I hope this place has bar trivia. And I'm like, now there is.
Julia: Now there is one.
Eric: So I came up with Craaaig with three A's.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: On the spot.
Julia: Craaaig.
Eric: Craaaig who's a pumpkin. So I had—
Amanda: With a goatee.
Eric: Yeah, with a– we have pumpkin with a goatee. So I had to—I had to fill that in. So no, I didn't— I didn't—no one else knew.
Brandon: Would have been really funny to like, do like obscure sports trivia, but Verda Stello-fy it. Like who won the Heisman in 86, you know, it's a—
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah. Corncob Johnson of University of Tennessee.
Julia: Uh-huh.
Brandon: Exactly.
Julia: Classic. Classic.
Amanda: Rchldebruin says, “How stinky was Umbi after he got trampled that first time at the bar?”
Brandon: Shut up!
Julia: So much peppers. So much peppers.
Brandon: It's not stinky, it smells—do you think green bell peppers smells stinky?
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: It's musky.
Brandon: It smells like green bell peppers.
Julia: Hmm.
Brandon: I would use that as an air freshener!
Julia: Really?
Eric: But you got in a taxi--
Julia: It was a pepper.
Eric: It was a pepper. It's a tree. But it all–
Amanda: Pepper cut in the shape of a tree.
Eric: Yeah, it's like a weird green.
Julia: Oh, boy. It's funny.
Amanda: I was essentially picturing a Fab air freshener when you describe Piney, by the way.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: That's fine, Piney's a flapper dress just a full person.
Brandon: Yeah, yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: And closing out the Crimson Exchange here. Katie Morris says, “Words cannot describe the level of delight I felt and hearing the words that's right motherfucker in the voice of a small child. Now I just have one very important question. How do I go about adopting this small knife-wielding child? Is there a form I need to fill out? Are there fees?”
Eric: No, you can take him.
Brandon: You can't adopt a force of nature.
Julia: It's true.
Eric: Just take Orlando, just take him.
Julia: He’s a legend.
Amanda: I love that his name is Orlando. It's so good.
Julia: It's so good, Eric.
Eric: It was— it was funny. The first question I was like, where do you want to sit? And then you—and then the three of like fucked around for five minutes, like alright, we're here.
Brandon: No, that's happened, sir.
Eric: It's like we're here. No, let's flesh it out. We're fl—we want to spend time having the situation, let's flush it out.
Brandon: No. What happens is that where you want to sit, and I said are there barstools and you said of course there's barstools and I said great. And then I was going to tap on a younger person shoulder and say hey, do you mind if I borrow your seat, I'm an old man. And then you were like it's a four-year-old and then I told my colleagues to shut up, and you thought I'm telling the kid to shut up, so you pulled a knife.
Eric: Like I said, we wanted to spend more time—
Julia: We fucked around a little.
Eric: Figuring out the chair situation, so I fleshed it out.
Amanda: And Brandon without your great accidental invention here of this situation, Troy would not have a book depository souvenir knife in his inventory.
Brandon: That's true. That's true.
Julia: Yup.
Amanda: It's great.
Eric: On the kni— the knife bookie looks like the— looks like Cuphead.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: You know?
Julia: I love that.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: hi_miss_allyss wants to know, how many marriages has Umbi ruined?
Julia: Not including his own.
Brandon: You know what, here's the reality. Umbi doesn't remember either.
Julia: Oh, no Umbi.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: The number could be one, it could be—actually could be zero. It could be ten.
Brandon: In ages it— look, age is a number— number of broken marriages is just a number, you know.
Eric: I feel like marriage is in also in Overstock. Some of them are like common law or just vibes.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: So it's like—it's like—
Amanda: Checks out.
Eric: —what is a marriage?
Julia: I bet that's true in the Crags, like it's just like, yeah, you know, they've been together for a while, they're married now.
Eric: Yeah. Oh, this woman who hunts with me.
Julia: She's quote-unquote, “my wife.” Umbi has the real energy of like the guy in a retirement community that is on his like, sixth marriage?
Brandon: Oh, absofuckinglutely, Julia.
Julia: Yeah, okay.
Amanda: Forgets their names. Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: And then it's the guy that you walk in and someone tells like whispers that in your ear, and you're like, that guy, what the fuck?
Eric: Yeah. Or—or—
Julia: How?!
Eric: —or it's like, hey, you see—you see that guy sitting near Umbi, that's his FBI caseworker.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Also that.
Eric: Yeah, he blew up some buildings in the 70s.
Brandon: But now they're married. They're together.
Amanda: It's fine, yeah.
Eric: 30 years younger, it's—it's wild.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Charisma.
Amanda: Smells like green bell peppers. I know it's time.
Julia: It’s an aphrodisiac.
Eric: It's pheromones.
Amanda: Kkbug02 says, if there are TVs are there also things like radios and on the mainland, operator telephones? I gotta tell you this shookt me, more than almost anything else in these three episodes.
Eric: Yeah, I think operator telephones. Here's the thing I was thinking about just because I kinda speed some stuff up. Was like on One Piece, they have like cars and stuff. But the way that they communicate is through a snails. There are the snails that they use as like long-distance communication devices, which I think was really fun. But I also have like mass radio, they have newspapers. They also have like some TV. So I just thought it was just to kind of move it along. Obviously, there's not like mass media necessarily, but I thought it was just like to illustrate things a little bit easier for when we understand in our modern world and just figuring things stuff out. Like the puppet show makes sense to me. I know it's ridiculous, but I think it's also funny that it's like you— how do you get news? Like a bird drops off a big thing, or a boat drops off a big thing of newspapers that are a week old. Or people act them out for each other based on their experiences? I think that totally makes sense.
Brandon: Well, I think you also— like listener, you also have to think about like, there might be some common things that like different societies in different planets or different worlds, whatever, like develop. Like the written word, but like the form they take might be different, you know what I mean? So like, yeah, we— everyone might have some sort of like, written mail that you know, gets passed along. But yeah, someone might use snails. Someone might use dogs, you know, whatever it is. Yeah.
Julia: Great.
Amanda: Speaking of which had a really interesting question from Lefty. The mention of language made me curious. And now I'm wondering, is it possible that different Crags rulers speak different languages, and the palace guards that lived through all the ranged end up being polyglots? They're different dialects spoken in each country, but everyone's also taught the equivalent common or is language universal on all of Verda Stello.
Julia: Well, as we've established, French is a canonical language.
Amanda: Yes, France exists, that's for sure.
Julia: It’s a Crag-ish language, I still think.
Eric: There has to be like a Quebec equivalent on one of these countries.
Amanda: Yeah, right?
Eric: I think that's what it is. But no, I love that. That's tight. I love language. I love language history. Yes, the answer is yes.
Amanda: Yeah, I was reading an article recently, that friend of the show, Ivan sent me about speakers of Yiddish in Scotland and how the Scots language and the Yiddish language have like that CH sound in common. And there was actually a lot of intelligibility between the two languages. So especially between the 30s and 50s, there was like a real just like there is you know, Judeo Spanish and all other kinds of ways that like, you know, Jews and Diaspora learn and kind of blend languages where they end up that there was a kind of like Scots Yiddish hybrid happening in Scotland.
Brandon: That's cool.
Eric: That's tight.
Julia: That's right.
Brandon: That's really cool.
Amanda: Yeah. There's a poem of it, it's great.
Julia: Ooohh.
Amanda: Mell18 and a few others also said, so they don't know what a salmon is, but they do know what a shark is?
Brandon: No, we know a word shark.
Eric: Again, they know what a word shark is. Remember, we are using Avatar The Last Airbender rules. Were the— a salmon on its own, they don't know what it is. But as long as it's a combination between a plant and an animal, or an animal, and some cool concept, it counts. So they don't know what a salmon is, because it's just a salmon.
Julia: Yes.
Amanda: There you go. Not a salmonberry, that we know.
Brandon: If it were Lox, we would know what it is because lox are smoke and salmon mixed together.
Julia: There we go. There we go.
Eric: That's true. I su—I gotta change this to talking Lox as the old man, as the MacGuffin in this campaign.
Amanda: Yeah right. And Kazy actually asked, what are the gang's best guesses at what the salmon actually is? Like the character's thoughts themselves?
Brandon: I saw this question. I'm trying to think about it. I don't know.
Amanda: I don't—I don't think Troy even has a guess. He just like, oh, that's the thing we have to look for. Like it's— it's not, you know, the form of it isn't even important.
Eric: At some point. I do think there's gonna be a scene where like the three of you and some of—maybe some other people are sitting under fire and this question is going to come up. So I'm very interested to see what everyone's thoughts are.
Amanda: Who can say?
Eric: Like someone smokes some fantasy weed and then asks this question.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Gandalf's there.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Julia: Cammie makes edibles for everyone?
Brandon: Of course, Gandalf's there, he's just Umbi. Yeah.
Julia: Oh, yeah.
Eric: No, Gandalf is like, is like who is this?
Amanda: Abbyzammit said, “Is there a JTP Campaign 2, (Greenfolk Version) comic book, in the Book Depository?”
Julia: Ooh.
Eric: I'm sure.
Julia: Maybe.
Eric: I'm sure there is.
Julia: Who can say?
Amanda: Sound fun, I like that.
Eric: If you dig —if you dig deep enough, there's actually a mirror underneath all that stuff, so.
Julia: Gasp.
Amanda: Oh, and actually, Cora said, can everyone understand Nonny? In my head this has sort of been yes, but what do you think, Julia?
Brandon: Oh, I don't think so.
Julia: I think it's like droid language in Star Wars, where it's like, kinda.
Brandon: It's binary. But—
Amanda: Get—get her meaning with the gesturing and science, yeah.
Brandon: Yeah, in Star Wars, the jury speak binary. And some people speak it and some people don't. So like—
Julia: Right.
Brandon: I don't think Umbi understands Nonny besides just like, you know, general gestures and movements and stuff, you know, but—
Julia: I think it's like-- Jake and I have been watching a lot of Star Wars Rebels lately. And I— in my mind, it's like a normal person listening to Chopper talk, where it's like—
Brandon: Sure, yeah.
Julia: —I get the vibe, I know what's going on.
Amanda: Yes.
Julia: I can kind of hear the words that you're saying, but I don't know the exact words you're saying.
Amanda: Like me visiting Quebec.
Julia: There you go.
Eric: I mean, I'm certainly aping the best familiar of all time, Paw Paw from NADDPod Campaign One, which is— it's just a fun joke, I just love it.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: So I'm just enjoying this—
Brandon: What was that joke?
Eric: Whatever. The Paw Paw was just very expressive.
Brandon: Oh, okay.
Julia: He goes, [squeals]
Eric: And then he was a lawyer for a while.
Julia: Every once in a while they would be able to talk to him via like, speak to animals and stuff like that. And he would have, was it like a very fancy accent when they would speak to him?
Eric: Or it's like super deep or something. I can't—
Julia: Yes.
Eric: —remember what it is. Yeah, but no—
Julia: It would be like [deep voice] young one.
Eric: Yeah. He was just very—he was just very expressive.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And that was always fun to do. And like because Murph would just go rarara, and then I— me going [Nonny burbles] it's just—it's just nice being able to–
Julia: It's the equivalent, I like it a lot.
Eric: Yeah, lean on something like that. Yeah, for sure.
Amanda: And finally, Julia and Brandon, again, mea culpa I did activate your trap cards, and Jennine wants to know, what are your favorite chartreuse cocktails?
Julia: The Last Word. The Last Word is my favorite cocktail of all time, and it also has green Chartreuse in it.
Eric: What is it, I've never heard of that.
Julia: Oh, so it's gin, Green Chartreuse, Maraschino liqueur, which is sometimes difficult to get, but delicious regardless, and then lime juice. And sometimes they'll do it, or they'll do a Absinthe wash in the glass before constructing the cocktail. So it's ugh.
Eric: Yeah. I did an Absinthe wash when I was 20. I raised a lot of money for cancer research.
Amanda: Oh nice, good job.
Eric: That's for Habitat for Humanity.
Julia: Okay.
Brandon: I mean, there's a lot of cocktails I like that aren't in like a classic cocktail book, but um—
Eric: Something like let's say 101 Cocktails You Can Make For Other People?
Brandon: Yes, exactly.
Amanda: Just a little wet, little sticky.
Brandon: Yeah. But I also love The Last Word, as well as bijou, which is really good, which was like a stirred all-liquor drink, which is really good. But yeah, anything with chartreuse is going to be tasty. So you should—you should get it.
Julia: True Facts.
Eric: I want to give a shout-out to all green drinks in general because it usually means they put tomatillo in it, and then it's going to be absolutely bang, and I've never had a green cocktail that I did not absolutely love.
Brandon: I agree with that actually.
Julia: Fuck yeah, dude.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Very true.
Eric: Either like it's super herbaceous or there's tomatillo in it, so it's gonna be like a spicy, interesting Mezcal Margarita, or both.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: I like nice. Alright, good.
Julia: Tight.
Amanda: Alright, folks, It is time to spoil the plank. Are we ready?
Brandon: Argh.
Julia: Argh.
Eric: Yar.
Julia: Avast Ye!
Amanda: Librarychick says, with French being a Crags language, does that mean aubergine is from the Crags? Will Troy have a clue to Aubergine’s backstory?
Julia: Who can say?
Amanda: Unless we lock that— unlock that in the skill tree, yeah.
Julia: That's my theory currently, but things could change.
Amanda: Alright. Alright.
Eric: Alright. I'm gonna have to write down separatist—separatist county in the Crags, question mark in my notes.
Amanda: ASDJKatie says, did the mysterious hand mean to give the glasses to Troy? Or was it a right place, right time situation? And less of a question more of a comment. So if you have the reading glasses, does this mean if they find a book about the Infinite Lake, they could be transported into it? Or what about a Goldenrod story?
Julia: Ahhhh.
Brandon: Oooh, a Goldenrod story that would be fun.
Julia: Those are all very good theories.
Eric: Oh, we didn't even get to talk about Goldenrod at all.
Amanda: The respectful raider, oh my god, I love that rhyme. That limerick is my absolute favorite.
Julia: It was so good
Brandon: There's an episode of Star Trek Next Gen because we're watching it right now. Where they go into a Robin Hood basically story. So that's what I'm imagining.
Julia: They love doing that.
Brandon: Some imagining happening here.
Amanda: I do just want to call for fan art of Golden Rod the Respectful Raider.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: So funny, loved his wife, what a great—
Julia: What type of Greenfolk was he again?
Eric: He was golden. I think he was a flower, he was Goldenrod.
Julia: Excellent. Sounds good.
Brandon: You made that up, right Eric?
Eric: What?
Brandon: The limerick?
Amanda: The rhyme.
Brandon: The rhyme?
Eric: Oh yeah, no, I spent a lot of time coming up with raider rhymes
Julia: Good. Good.
Eric: I’m just on Rhymezone writing it out.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: You said it so casually that I was like did he make this up on the spot? It's way too good to be made up on the spot.
Julia: Yeah you know, Goldenrod the respectful raider, bla bla bla, bla, bla, bla, bla. I'm like, oh, what? What?
Amanda: Love his wife. I love Goldenrod.
Eric: I know.
Julia: I also want to shout out to the incredible Crimson Exchange, Zoom Golly, Golly, Golly, song.
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: Yes. That is a— that's like a old Jewish folk song that people used when they were like de—headed out into like the desert and then creating like the kibbutz and stuff.
Julia: Cool.
Eric: It's like one that they sing so, I knew that for a long time. So I thought that was just fun to— fun to include.
Julia: Hell yeah, dawg.
Amanda: Lives in my head now and as— in the background. Kazy says, this may have been answered, but do the characters know each other's backstories? Will Cammie ever talk about their past? Who can say?
Julia: [sings] Who can say where the wind blows?
Brandon: I mean Umbi mentioned he was a senator and everyone was like, what? And that's offensive to me and Umbi, so.
Julia: Why? You haven't told us your past.
Brandon: You should know your senator, be engaged in politics.
Julia: We're not from Overstock!
Eric: Nothing is funnier than it— this is like someone going over to their friend's house. It's like, oh, yeah, my grandpa was a senator in the Balkans. And they're like what? He's like, yeah, he's Slovakian Royalty, how did you not know that?
Julia: Because we're not from Slovakia.
Amanda: Eric, I know what my brain filled in when you said you go to your friend's house and then—
Eric: What?
Amanda: —my grandpa invented zip-locks.
Julia: Do you know someone who invented zip-locks?
Amanda: No.
Julia: Okay.
Brandon: Steven Ziplock.
Amanda: Just to say. Sorry, I'm really—I'm really on the edge of the plank here. I gotta—I gotta back up a few steps.
Eric: That's real, Gretchen Wieners’ life.
Julia: My father, the inventor of the Toaster Strudel.
Eric: Thank you, Julia. Yes, that's exactly what that is.
Amanda: Alright. Alright. Couple more questions here in spoil the plank. Malignant Sloth says, what wasn't that one weird barrel? We'll goo—we're never gonna know, we're never gonna know.
Julia: Eric, tell us what was in the barrel, we're not gonna go back.
Eric: I'm not gonna tell—
Julia: Tell us.
Eric: No, I'm not gonna tell you what's in the barrel.
Amanda: Nooo.
Julia: Tell us.
Amanda: Shit. Michellespurgeon. Do you think you're off the hook for the glasses, or do you think they can be detected as well as your lie?
Julia: Who can say?
Eric: Who can say?
Amanda: Who can say?
Julia: We paid good money though to Piney, so.
Amanda: We'll see. And finally from Malignant Sloth. Wait, was fun Mandy Potash on Crimson Larceny Ship? Does someone put on the glasses and watch their pranks? I can't wait to see more about those glasses.
Brandon: Who can say?
Amanda: Who can say?
Eric: I don't know.
Julia: Who can say?
Brandon: [sings] Who can say where the plank go?
Amanda: Amazing.
Eric: I can— I can't say. You're just gonna have to tune in and find out.
Julia: I mean you can, you're just choosing not to.
Eric: No Julia, I am. I intentionally knocked myself out using a Batman bat-erang every single time so I—
Julia: You say, oh you memento disease yourself. Gotcha.
Eric: No. See, that's an affliction that is passed out from generation to generation that I've avoided.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: So no, I have to physically hurt myself using something from Batman's toolkit.
Julia: Sure. Makes sense.
Eric: Yeah. So that I don't remember. So I don't even know what you're talking about.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Well, listeners it is up to you to unlock jokens and Chad dice restock and perhaps a golden Chad one in every 100 Chads, maybe we can make a gold. You have to let your downstreams know. Recruit 10 people, who then recruit 10 people.
Julia: We can't make a pyramid scheme.
Amanda: And all of a sudden we have 111 new listeners Join the Party, I'm just saying.
Brandon: I—it's got legal as long as we don't charge them money, you know? Like—
Amanda: Yeah, you don't have to mail us money in order to become a Join the Party affiliate.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: But you— you can text 10 friends and have–
Brandon: We could do a Ponzi scheme without—if they just listen.
Eric: And then they text 10 friends, and then they text 10 friends.
Julia: But we say that on the podcast.
Amanda: And then— then ellipses, profit
Brandon: Exactly.
Eric: I mean something that we—we have a whole article on the Multitude website about the gospel of prosperity. And that's how we're gonna make it happen.
Amanda: Shit. Amazing. Well, thank you everybody for joining us for this Afterparty. And I gotta tell you the next three episodes slap even harder than these three. So you know we are —we are rolling ever onward.
Eric: Bye.
Brandon: Byee.
Julia: Later.
Amanda: May your rolls trend ever upward.
Julia: [whisper] Like a pyramid.
Julia and Brandon: [gasps]
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Transcriptionist: KA
Editor: KM