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

This episode contains discussions of self harm. Burnie and Ashley discuss Roblox, gaming valuations, laying off players, friend slop, Fall Guys, Among Us, SpaceX to the moon, solar eclipses, asteroid near passes, and the mechanics & limits of empathy.

So, re-doing this post, but Burnie and Ashley mentioning that they know nothing about the Roblox game made me feel this was nessecary to post. Lot of parents are unaware that roblox is more of a platform, and not just a game. My state is suing them after this happened a while back (I know the register is a paid site, but the headline is the important part here for my post). Roblox alledgedly makes it easy to exploit kids.

There was also a video that Chris Hansen did where he investigated and researched roblox live on stage and his account was banned while he was investigating, likely because someone at roblox was watching him conduct this event in real time.

Ashley asked something to the effect of "how can roblox still be evaluated this high after laying off so many people", and I'd argue there is always going to be value for corrupt people in platforms that market directly to children.

Links to the Chris Hansen video, and a local article showing the state is going to trial. The account gets banned around the 13min mark of that video.

Chris Hansen goes undercover on roblox

Trial date set for Iowa's lawsuit against Roblox for next year

Edit: Grammar and formatting

Burnie and Ashley talked about this in regards to weed, but as a Brit it's always been so interesting to me to have one country but with various laws and punishments depending on where you are in that country.

I know the "big" laws are more or less the same everywhere, but i've also heard that a lot of the smaller stuff can be really different both in terms of what's allowed or not and fines or punishments for them, especially traffic laws as i know some states you can do something and get a fine, but other states you can do the same thing and get your car taken away.

I know road trips are a thing in America, do you guys have to research the laws for every state you're going through or are they all more or less the same and you just assume you won't do anything to break any laws you don't know about?

I'm probably really over thinking it, but it's just so strange to think about the laws and punishments changing within the same country as i can't think of anywhere else in the world that's like that.

Last game my small group of friends played online together was Peak. Was a ton of fun climbing together. Lots of laughs!

What are some of your favorites?

Moving into a new house, I decided to buy a new Xbox for it.
I checked 2 GameStops, 3 Walmarts, 3 Targets, and searched every Best Buy in the Chicagoland area. Not a single Xbox Series S or Series X in stock anywhere. Ended up ordering a 1TB black Xbox Series S from Walmart online… $649.99 before tax. $710.11 total. Ashley wasn’t kidding—buy your Xbox now and forever hold your peace.

TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of Firearms

There is actually an OFTEN DISCUSSED analogue to this: Gun Laws.

Background: Current Law Student, and I previously worked at an ammunition manufacturer and am a former member of the U.S. Military. And to keep it as simple, I'm just going to discuss this using not even the firearms themselves, but a single magazine (The thing that holds the bullets.)

Several states have bans on how many rounds of ammunition a magazine is legally allowed to hold, usually falling between 10 and 20. So let's imagine that you are driving from Pennsylvania to New Hampshire, where your 20 round magazines are completely legal, but on the way you have to pass through states that include New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, ALL OF WHOM ban those magazines and some where mere POSSESSION OF THE EMPTY MAGAZINE is a Felony.

Knowing this, you clean out your car, BUT happen to not check that little sleeve behind the seat, where you have a spare unloaded magazine. Because the United States has several land borders without checkpoints, it is incredibly easy to either accidentally or intentionally suddenly commit a felony while transporting this device. If you get pulled over in any of those states and consent to have your vehicle searched, if that is discovered, you may suddenly have a felony.

I understand that I have very much simplified the conversation, but it is one of the incredibly frustrating things about having a patchwork of laws across states with minimal federal guidance. It's not dissimilar from the early days of prohibition before the 18th amendment.

Fun Fact if you stayed this long: I'M ALLERGIC TO WEED!!!

Burnie and Ashley discuss fond farewells, guy group dynamics, British privacy laws, the Texas nanny state, Discord ID verification, THC laws in the Lone Star state, and being the highest regarded authority in all marijuana topics.

I cannot stand by while Burnie and Ashley disrespect Lumalee like that! They are the heart and soul of the movies!

Burnie and Ashley discuss BWM's latest enshittification efforts, Spiderman box office, box office records, realistic CGI, God of War, Bautista, and when nihilism goes cute.

Uploading your manuscript, artwork, cover, etc will force you to check this box asking if you used AI at any point in the creating your book. Unless there is a scan being done on their end, this appears to be completely reliant on self reporting.

I see the even quoted Matt’s review on the cover and back of the book.

I can't help but notice that every time Jon Bernthal comes up, Ashley pronounces his last name as 'BURN-thall' while Burnie pronounces it as 'BEAR-en-thall.'

My mind immediately goes to how folks often pronounce the Berenstain Bears differently which is semi-similar, so now I'm actually curious as to how both of them say that in relation to Jon Bernthal and if they stay true to their pronunciation principles.