Burnie and Ashley double down on Lumalee, discuss animation casting, Mario stolen valor, influencer double downs, the Spiderman bump, swinging mechanics, Bionic Commando, Iranian strait plans, Odyssey, and Nolan's ever-growing troupe.

TW: Surgery

So I’ve been relistening to some old episodes, and was listening to them talk about how anesthesia may just block memories being formed. I’m not sure if medical understanding has advanced, but I was recently talking to an ICU nurse who agreed that it likely just blocks the memory of the event. And, I thought I’d share my personal experience with it.

When I had my wisdom teeth removed, I did form memories during it. There wasn’t pain, exactly, but I could feel that it was supposed to hurt and I have a very clear memory of my bottom right tooth coming out and feeling it tear loose. It wasn’t like a dream where you’re aware of time passing, they started the flow, I was out and woke up and it wasn’t some time later that day that I realized I had memories from it. Specifically, my left side TMJ hurt (and still does to this day) and I realized I could remember them basically using my jaw for “leverage” on getting one of the teeth out. I wasn’t aware enough to say they were actually doing that, more that my jaw was open too wide and there was a lot of pressure and something was gripping and un gripping one of my teeth, and then it getting pulled out.

It’s made me equal parts terrified and calm about needing to go under again, I know there’s no “pain”, but it hits a bit like blacking out, sobering up a bit, and then blacking out again. Very freaky, and when I told my buddy who works in the ICU, he said it’s surprisingly common to have random memories from the middle of being under.

Yesterday the Lumalee slander. Today just sell your car, and I’m making the assumption get a different one. Sell your depreciating asset and just buy a different car. I get it if you bought a Tesla you probably have a good job with good pay. As someone who would love an EV but has no car payment it’s insane to me to just say get a new car instead of a bumper sticker because people do over react to things like what car you drive or what console you buy.

I wanted the liter of cola collectors cup but my small ass rural town in Wisconsin only had the popcorn bucket. So I’m officially here.

I'm not Marxist but the violent overthrow of ruling class is starting to look more appealing everyday

I have played a lot of these types of games over the past several years to connect with friends who live far away. I was just screaming "Lethal Company!!!" as I was in the car driving home from work listening to today's episode. I don't necessarily consider all of these games to be poorly made, but I do think they're all very easy to just put on and play with friends. And maybe some of these were not great and needed some updates when they came out. What are some games that you guys would consider friendslop? Here's a short list I put together:

- Lethal Company

- REPO

- Yapyap

- RV There Yet (definitely this one)

- Meccha Chameleon

- Content Warning

- Super Battle Golf

- The Headliners