**Please note: this transcript was automatically generated. We're working on going back over this to clear up misspellings as we have time ... but as we all know, there is precious little of that**


Chris: You know, not really a lively spirit, but an echo of s*** that happened.

Travis: Oh, we're gonna get into it, though.


Travis: We're gonna get into it.

Travis: First of all, how does Dunkin'Donuts not have chocolate donuts ready? What the f***?

Chris: F***.

Other Chris: Oh, my I'm mad on your behalf.

Other Chris: I don't even know about this, but God d*** it.

Travis: Hello, and welcome back to Rtfb.

Travis: This is Travis.

Travis: And today Chris.

Travis: Other Chris.

Travis: Danielle and I are going to talk about Kenneth Branagh's latest hercule pro roe movie, a Haunting in Venice.

Travis: We're also going to talk about the Poirot book.

Travis: It was based on Halloween party.

Travis: And fair warning, we're going to spoil a fair deal of both of them.

Travis: So if you are planning on seeing the movie this weekend, you have our permission to dip out and come back after your screening.

Travis: Same thing with the book, if that's your style.

Travis: Or both, if you're going to do both, I guess, since neither of those spoil each other, but I've confused myself.

Travis: Anyway, once you're ready, let's get back to my conversation with the Chris's and Danielle already in progress.

Danielle: They don't have any because that's all my kids want.

Danielle: So just cancel the whole order then.

Danielle: I don't want any of it.

Chris: Well, you have to cancel it on.

Danielle: Your Dunkin'Donuts is like, oh, well, we have four.

Danielle: It's like, okay, well, if you have four, I'll take those four, and you can replace the other two chocolate that I was going to get with Glaze.

Danielle: But like, my God, if you don't have, like that's what my kids want.

Chris: That's the only donut to be getting.

Danielle: Those should be the ones you make the most of.

Danielle: Somebody whoever's running Dunkin Donuts, they need to do a better job.

Danielle: Whoever's up at the top, you need to get rid of them.

Danielle: Bring someone else in that knows.

Travis: Surely somebody from Boston should not be happening.

Chris: Just not.

Chris: I will say Delta CEO Ed Bastion.

Other Chris: Because brought to you by Delta Airlines and Dunkin Donuts.

Chris: It's only they made some changes that everyone on Reddit has been f****** blasting.

Chris: Their sky miles is now sky dollars.

Chris: Essentially, they're taking away all of the you're not going to earn status through miles traveled anymore.

Chris: It's dollars spent, and you only earn a qualifying dollar for, like, every $20 of real money you spend.

Chris: I don't know.

Chris: So all the people Delta in my whole life oh, I was exclusive to them for the past few years.

Travis: Good to know.

Chris: Because Delta was comfortable, at least and ran on time and didn't lose my luggage until this year.

Chris: Then that started changing a little bit, as the last two times I have flown, my flights have been delayed.

Chris: And when I made it to Texas because of that big a** delay, my bag came later.

Chris: So they're not so reliable for my experience anymore.

Chris: Yeah, you were there.

Chris: They had to come deliver it.

Danielle: You got to start putting air tag, too, because I don't have an iPhone.

Chris: So I can't get an air tag.

Chris: I guess I could get a tile.

Chris: I mean, Delta knows where my bags.

Chris: Are pretty much all the time.

Chris: They just don't have to get them there with me because we were so late leaving Winston that I only had 20 minutes to make it to my next plane in Atlanta, which after the bathroom was really like 15 minutes.

Chris: And I had to go from across the airport on the plane train, which made I got there.

Chris: I got to my gate.

Chris: Like I made it on the plane, but my bag did not make it with me because you need at least like 40 minutes to an hour for your bag to make it, right?

Danielle: As long as they covered it, that's on them.

Danielle: Bring that s*** to me.

Chris: Yeah, they totally did.

Chris: They covered all, um I will not be waiting.

Chris: So all the Delta loyalists now and rightly so, are like, what's the f****** point of being loyal to Delta?

Chris: Because a lot of them who are talking to stuff are like business travelers.

Chris: While their company probably covers the s***, they get to use their Skymails number and crap like that.

Chris: So they've been earning the status.

Chris: And that's what it is because of the credit card bonuses and status matches and crap during COVID and s***.

Chris: There's way too many people with platinum and diamond medallion status according to Delta.

Chris: So they're basically just kicking everybody out essentially through spending requirements and only keeping the really special people.

Chris: But it's like, well, what's the incentive of being a Skylemiles loyalist if there is none?

Chris: No, you get cool bag tags.

Chris: I've heard that's what you get when you hit silver.

Chris: You get some luggage tags that say your silver medallion.

Travis: Do they have a GPS locator in them?

Chris: So when they get zero, that probably comes with your diamond medallion ones.

Chris: But people are like, we could live with that.

Chris: But they're also getting rid of lounge access for people.

Chris: So, like, I had a Delta credit card for a little bit, but now it turns out there wouldn't be any good reason to have it because I had the platinum Delta Amex, which is like the gold regular Amex, essentially.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: But you could pay a day pass.

Chris: Rate to get into the sky clubs.

Chris: Which are fully, really nice.

Chris: When I had it was like $35.

Chris: And then they jacked it up to $50.

Chris: So that's kind of not worth that kind of gets in the territory of, hey, where are you flying and how long are you laid over for?

Chris: Right when it's $35?

Chris: Sure, every time.

Chris: Like Atlanta.

Chris: No biggie.

Chris: That's like a meal I'm going to pay for anyways at the airport for you in there.

Chris: And beer, like free alcohol, all that kind of s***.

Other Chris: You know, last time we were at the mall, we saw an offer for Victoria's secret credit card and I was wondering, what Victoria's Secret free underwear?

Chris: Well, I don't know.

Other Chris: They're basically addressing they let just anybody into those.

Chris: No.

Chris: So they mixed that for the platinum card holders.

Chris: So then you have to have the Delta reserve, which is like $600 a year.

Other Chris: You've thought about this way too much.

Chris: Oh, because I wanted airplane status.

Chris: Because I wanted status, Chris, so I could get into lounges interested in I don't want to wait around with all the other players with the riff raft.

Chris: Have you been to Atlanta?

Chris: You know how crowded that s*** is.

Chris: Like, come on.

Chris: And there's like 20 sky clubs in.

Chris: Every terminal in Atlanta.

Chris: But only sky clubs.

Chris: Yeah, so they got rid of that.

Chris: The reserve was unlimited sky clubs to.

Chris: Now they get like ten per year.

Chris: Which I guess for a leisure traveler would be fine.

Chris: Yeah, but the people who have the reserve are not leisure travelers, so they need more than ten.

Chris: And then you used to be able to get in with the regular American Express Platinum card if you were flying.

Chris: On Delta, like unlimited time.

Chris: So that was helpful.

Chris: That was a really good card if you wanted lounge access.

Chris: Also expensive.

Chris: But if you can use the credits, then it evens out.

Chris: But they limited them to six visits a year.

Chris: So people are like, what's the f****** point?

Chris: I'm like, Well, I don't know.

Chris: None now, I guess.

Chris: So everyone's like, fine, we'll just f****** fly on whatever's the quickest to get us there.

Chris: Or the cheapest.

Chris: And everyone's like, actually, that's the way it should go because the airlines have all kind of f***** over their miles rewards program the last few years.

Chris: There's really no point anymore.

Chris: Right.

Chris: So it's like, just go with whoever you want to go with.

Chris: We'll get you there the quickest.

Chris: Right?

Chris: I'm like, all right.

Chris: That's probably how it should have been.

Travis: Well, the creepy thing was when all the Delta CEOs started showing up dead.

Chris: With splashes on their back.

Chris: Yes, exactly.

Travis: All the sky miles of latest hate Delta CEOs now.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: We'll have to find Poirot's grandson to.

Chris: Come solve this, please.

Travis: Oh, and also we should have said.

Chris: At the beginning, shanah tova thank you.

Travis: Happy shofar season.

Chris: Yes.

Travis: Did you blow a chauffeur recently?

Chris: They did in synagogue yesterday.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: I can't do it very well, so I don't do it yet, but maybe I could have had I gone to the practice session last Sunday based on all the people who were there yesterday.

Chris: I'm like, oh, I probably could have done that except the super long one at the end.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Because they have to buz your lips like a trumpet.

Other Chris: That sounds like a super event to me.

Chris: You're supposed to yeah, but I don't really know how to do that.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: So I figured out how to do it using like, with the small I have a small kudu horn one.

Chris: But you're supposed to to be able do that just, like, straight out, like a trumpet.

Chris: Right?

Chris: But apparently I took it last year and I didn't end up doing it.

Chris: But Rabbi looked at it.

Chris: He's like, yeah, it looks like the hole's a little small, a little tight.

Chris: It's like, you should talk to Leia Mikhail, his younger daughter, about it.

Chris: And I didn't do that, but I figured out how to make it work by using the side of my mouth.

Chris: But, yeah, I could do most of them, I think, if I practice.

Travis: But not the long horn would be pretty small, right?

Chris: No, they're about full size ones are super long.

Chris: Mine is dictic.

Chris: A smaller one, I just like saying dictic.

Chris: D***, d***, d***, d***.

Chris: They're pretty cool, the Kudu horn ones, because of the length and they have the nice curls.

Chris: Yeah, because traditionally, like, in the Middle East and Europe, they used ramshorn ones.

Chris: Right?

Chris: And they still do.

Chris: You can still get ramshorn showcars.

Chris: But the Jews in Yemen, in that part of the world, like, oh, we don't really have rams.

Chris: We have these we we have some sheep.

Chris: We don't want to kill them off.

Chris: Unnecessarily for like, we have these Kudu things running around that we hunt.

Chris: So can we use those horns?

Chris: And the rabbis are like, sure, yeah, they'll work.

Chris: So let's introduce the kudu.

Chris: They're pretty neat.

Chris: That's pretty much all everybody uses now because they look cool.

Travis: I had a TikTok on my for.

Chris: You page of some guy who like.

Travis: When my corgi is babysat by my Jewish grandfather, helping them blow the chauffeur.

Chris: Nice.

Travis: It was very cute.

Chris: The only problem I have is the f****** MAGA people have taken our chauffeurs.

Chris: They have them and they use them at their stupid rallies because they're Christian nationalists.

Chris: So they like to take s*** from us and use it from our culture and our practices because they think they talk to God the most or something.

Chris: I don't know.

Danielle: No, they're just fake religious and Trump.

Chris: Is sent by God.

Chris: And these are supposed to be the trumpets used at their end of days belief.

Danielle: Trump isn't going anywhere after he dies.

Chris: No, he's going to a golf course.

Chris: A very hot one where he never wins.

Travis: No, I mean, right next to his.

Chris: Ex wife, according to those Christian people.

Travis: So that his kids don't have to pay taxes on his burial or whatever.

Chris: Well, right?

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: That's been weird to see.

Chris: There's pictures from January 6 of people with those.

Chris: I'm like that's.

Chris: Not yours.

Chris: You shouldn't be doing that.

Travis: Well, they don't care.

Chris: They don't.

Chris: They're like we like Jewish people.

Chris: We like Israel on the wall.

Chris: And like, we like Israel.

Chris: Some of us bought our chauffeurs there, so it's okay.

Chris: I'm like, no, it's not.

Chris: Not for what you're doing.

Travis: Sorry to make a terrible segue.

Travis: This is a problem we probably face.

Chris: A lot, given the format of this.

Travis: Show, but you know how you get.

Chris: Like, a book and the COVID has.

Travis: The freaking thing that's like, oh, now it's a.

Chris: Ruined.

Chris: I wonder what that one's like.

Chris: Ruined this movie.

Chris: Oh, man.

Travis: So it's another Agatha Christie book, but it's, like, nothing at all to do.

Chris: With the movie so much.

Chris: I mean, a little.

Chris: I heard it was very much an adaptation.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Anyway, did anybody else get a chance.

Travis: To read the book?

Chris: I know, it was kind of a weird schedule.

Chris: I did not.

Other Chris: I almost did, and then I was too tired.

Chris: There you go.

Other Chris: I really thought about it, though.

Travis: Okay, cool.

Other Chris: I was like, oh, man.

Chris: Well, great.

Chris: And then fell asleep.

Travis: The thing about this one is it.

Chris: Was super boring, this book.

Travis: I don't know.

Other Chris: You're not selling it?

Travis: I'm sorry, but I was hoping someone else would have read it because I'm like, help me remember what even happened in this book.

Chris: There we go.

Other Chris: Okay, so first of all, was Poirot in it?

Chris: And what's he inventive?

Travis: Poirot was in?

Travis: Let's let's go over what I remember of this book, I guess.

Chris: Okay.

Chris: Okay, so the book is called Halloween Party.

Chris: Instead of A Haunting in Vegas, it.

Travis: Was one of the last Poirot books.

Travis: Oh, a haunting in Vegas.

Travis: That'd been a different movie.

Chris: That would have yeah.

Chris: There is a Venice in Vegas.

Other Chris: Oh, my gosh.

Chris: There we go.

Other Chris: The haunting in Vegas.

Chris: Venice.

Travis: That's a Venetian, right?

Travis: The canals go, like, half a football field.

Chris: Yes, but there's still canals.

Chris: That's true.

Chris: You could still drown in them if you tried.

Travis: So it's one of the last Poirot.

Chris: Books that she wrote.

Travis: It was written in 1969.

Travis: So that's like, 32 years after Death on the Nile.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: And it seems kind of take place around then.

Travis: They never really date, check anything, but.

Chris: Yeah, just some of the notes that.

Travis: She has in there about how the men are dressing, like very Austin's Powersy.

Travis: Some of the vocab she uses describes.

Chris: People as wanting to look sexy, which.

Travis: I don't remember them using something like.

Chris: That back in the no.

Travis: Um, but decidedly not set in Venice.

Travis: Like, this is some random town in the English countryside at, like, a boarding school set around a boarding school.

Chris: Okay.

Travis: But one of the things I read.

Chris: Was that they suspect Agatha Christie was.

Travis: Maybe suffering from dementia when she wrote this because there's, like, plotlines that sort of start and she forgets to go back to.

Travis: And there's kind of a lot of.

Chris: Retreading of the same kind of ideas.

Chris: Like, she never really I don't know.

Travis: The impression I got was she hadn't.

Chris: Quite figured out how to make it.

Travis: A show not tell situation.

Travis: So there's a lot of Poirot just kind of thinking about it being, like, man kids and murders bad and.

Chris: But.

Travis: Yeah, so it does still have Ariadne as, like, a analog for her, like, a murder mystery writer.

Travis: She's staying with like a PTA leader.

Chris: Lady who is Rowena Drake.

Travis: They're hosting a Halloween party for the kids in the school.

Travis: And Poirot's not there for it.

Chris: But.

Travis: After the party's breaking up, they find one of the girls, Joyce, is like, drowned in the apple bobbing tub.

Other Chris: Oh, f***.

Travis: After having earlier in the day, told everyone like, well, I saw murder once.

Travis: And they're like, no you didn't.

Chris: Shut up.

Travis: She's like, yeah, I totally did.

Travis: But I didn't know it was a.

Chris: Murder at the time.

Travis: So the whole thing is they suspect somebody heard that she had seen a murder.

Chris: And they're like, uh oh, better shut her up.

Chris: Right?

Travis: And then there's just a lot of Poirot walking around town and talking to.

Chris: People and then being like, man, that Joyce girl lies all the time.

Chris: He's like, okay.

Travis: But also, what about this one girl that went missing in the past?

Travis: Like, oh, well, her too.

Travis: And then what about this other murder?

Travis: Like, yeah, that like constantly rediscovering these past women who have been killed or gone missing.

Travis: It's weird.

Travis: And to kind of spoil the rest.

Chris: Of it, the principal crime is like.

Travis: There'S an amendment to a will of a local lady who was very rich where she was going to leave all.

Chris: Of her money to her pair, which.

Travis: The kids didn't know what that word was.

Travis: They called her the opera lady instead of the lady.

Chris: Oh.

Travis: And.

Chris: The pair was named Olga.

Travis: And she was going to inherit all this money.

Travis: But the gardener for that lady was having an affair with Rowena Drake.

Travis: They wanted to inherit the money so they could make a really fancy garden.

Travis: So they made a fake amendment to the will that said the same thing.

Chris: As the real amendment to the will, but did it.

Travis: So, shittily, they knew lawyers would be.

Chris: Like, this is fake and we can't use it.

Travis: And filed that instead.

Travis: So they didn't get the money.

Travis: And then they killed Olga and threw.

Chris: Her in a oh.

Chris: Oops.

Travis: And one of the local kids had actually seen that happen and told her friend Joyce.

Travis: And Joyce wanted to be edgy and cool.

Travis: So she told her friends it was her who saw it.

Travis: Rowena Drake heard her say that.

Chris: And so she drowned her in the thing.

Chris: Whoops.

Travis: Then Joyce's brother Leopold either saw that happen I don't remember, or figured it out on his own and was going to blackmail her.

Travis: So she's like, blackmail me?

Travis: I kill you.

Chris: Also like, f****** kid can't blackmail me.

Chris: I'm bigger than.

Chris: So then the neighbor kid, they figure.

Travis: Out it was her who actually found.

Chris: It or saw the murder.

Travis: And they're going to go sacrifice her.

Travis: Like to convince her they need to.

Chris: Sacrifice her, like Olga to make the.

Travis: Garden pretty or something.

Chris: But there's some last minute heroics, which.

Travis: Is unusual for these kind of murder mysteries to me, at least, where they save the day, stop someone from being actively murdered instead of solving someone who's already dead.

Chris: But right.

Travis: I don't know.

Travis: It wasn't very long, but it was very confusing and, like, not really it.

Chris: Doesn'T sound like a poor rogue novel.

Chris: No.

Travis: Well, a lot of his investigation is.

Chris: Just talking to people, which is not.

Travis: Unlike his other investigations, but kind of.

Chris: Missed that driving force of, like, we.

Travis: Actively have to discover this, instead of.

Chris: Like, oh, well, it's weird that this happened, and we'll just think back through.

Travis: Past crimes and stuff.

Chris: Right.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: So it was weird.

Chris: Sounds like it.

Travis: But it did put me in mind.

Chris: Of something like it where they have.

Travis: All of these disappearances and murders in town and everyone's kind of like, we.

Chris: Just don't talk about that.

Travis: That's too hard to think about.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: So yeah.

Chris: Interesting.

Chris: So, yeah, there did seem to be.

Travis: Like, nods to the book in this movie.

Travis: Like, some of the character names were used, of course, but the principal plot was completely different.

Travis: Although they did come back and kind of do an homage to the plot with that last guy who was talking.

Chris: To him at the end.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: He's like, I need help.

Travis: He's like, Actually, it was a fake coda still to your will or whatever, and we'll figure it out.

Chris: That was the whole thing.

Chris: Okay.

Chris: That makes sense.

Travis: Anyway, so although I think it was a little boring, like, it would be interesting to go back and read it just because it is so different and.

Chris: Seeing a completely different story.

Travis: Since they changed it up so much for the movie.

Travis: I didn't really know.

Travis: Are they going to keep the same killer?

Travis: Is it going to be Tina Fey instead?

Travis: Who's going to be the blame here?

Chris: But anyway, what did you guys think.

Travis: Of A Haunting in Venice?

Chris: Danielle I quite enjoyed it.

Danielle: I thought it was going to be more scary, and I was like, I don't really like scary movies, but it really wasn't very scary.

Chris: So it was good.

Danielle: Although I will say it was not long, but it kind of felt long.

Travis: It was much more horror inflected than.

Chris: The other ones have been.

Chris: Yeah, that was supposed to be a theme.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: I think there were a lot of people at my movie theater who thought it was going to be a scary.

Chris: Movie.

Danielle: The way that they marketed it.

Danielle: They showed all the scary type stuff.

Danielle: I was like, this is going to be scary.

Danielle: I don't know if I can do this one.

Danielle: But no, it wasn't.

Chris: Not at all.

Chris: No.

Travis: Well, yeah.

Chris: Story in there.

Travis: Well, the change title didn't help, but I didn't even realize it was supposed.

Chris: To be a Poirot novel until later on.

Travis: Like, even the trailer, the first one I saw, I'm like, oh, this is weird.

Chris: The first one I saw in it.

Travis: Be like a scary medium lady in this.

Travis: Oh, and then he's and then it's Kev bronner.

Chris: Okay.

Chris: Right.

Other Chris: There he is.

Travis: There he is.

Travis: Mustaches and Dutch angles.

Travis: The.

Danielle: And I feel like they filmed it on maybe, like a tripod or something, and they kept moving it around.

Danielle: It was shaky sometimes.

Travis: Yeah, it was a shaky well, there were a couple of scenes where they had the thing where it was, like.

Chris: Attached to the front of him so you could see kind of him kind.

Travis: Of desperately running around.

Chris: Right.

Travis: A little bit shaky that way.

Chris: Well, it turns out know poisoned the whole I did I didn't guess the.

Chris: Source for that, but I did guess that the honey was not honey after when it was mentioned.

Chris: Oh, this doesn't taste I'm like because I was thinking, what is Poirot had?

Chris: That could have been a vector for something, because I'm, like, either got hit on the head really bad or he's hallucinating because he's been drugged somehow.

Other Chris: Probably the linen closet, because that's where.

Chris: It got hidden by the how keeps.

Other Chris: Honey in the linen closet.

Travis: Nobody stash it there the day that what's her name killed herself.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: And the police get rid of the evidence, put it in the closet, and.

Other Chris: Who digs through linen closets looking for stuff?

Danielle: The housekeepers throw that s*** out.

Danielle: Like, why would we save it?

Travis: There's a danielle right there.

Chris: Danielle.

Chris: Because the only one who knew was the mom, and she wasn't going to implicate herself by being like, oh, this is not just normal was.

Chris: I figured that part out, but I didn't know where they came from and what they were used for until Poirot went into it at the end.

Chris: But I liked it.

Chris: I thought the setting was really fun, and it felt very intimate, even though it's like, the same amount of main suspects you usually have.

Chris: It felt really more intimate to me.

Chris: I think it's because we're just in a house doing stuff like, it wasn't as fun adventure to me as Death on the Nile was, but it's hard to kind of beat that location and going to the different places and doing that while we're solving a murder.

Chris: But I liked it being in Venice.

Chris: I liked it being, like, over one.

Chris: Night, and it just felt, like, really.

Chris: Fun and old and detective, and the theme was great.

Chris: The whole Halloween theme and the tale of the children's curse and all that just really made it a lot of fun, I thought.

Chris: But, yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of confused people who left that movie theater being like, this wasn't scary at all.

Chris: Who's this funny guy with pretty that's.

Other Chris: Pretty normal for marketing, especially around this time of yes.

Chris: Right?

Chris: Well, it did seem like a kind.

Travis: Of Adam Sandler esque move to be like, well, we'll set this in Venice, and we'll hang out in Venice for a couple of months and shoot this movie.

Travis: But I wasn't mad at him.

Travis: It looked really cool.

Chris: Yeah, it did.

Travis: I liked all the shots of the canals and stuff, so I thought was creepy and cool.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: And they have a lot of those in Venice that are big and neat looking from like the 15th through 18th century.

Chris: But nobody can afford to keep them up, really.

Chris: Especially not then, because most of the families with money didn't have money anymore or after World War II.

Chris: But it was weird to me because I'm like, I've been to Venice, but it was when I was 13 in 1996.

Chris: And I'm like, oh, this movie is set in 1947.

Chris: So I went there, like 49 years later and I'm like, wow, man, times have changed.

Chris: Because the 40s is not that close anymore in time.

Chris: But it was in the 90s.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Kind of got really neat, especially with the storm making the canals too choppy and rough and banging on things.

Chris: And it was pretty cool.

Travis: Yeah, that was a cool visual.

Travis: Although I did think to myself, like, well, we can't get a gondola out until morning, or whatever.

Travis: Could you walk, though?

Travis: No, there's streets and stuff.

Chris: You can walk, but there's also, like, little island groupings.

Chris: And depending on where the palazzo is, you may not be able to walk to it directly.

Chris: You could walk to it after you got to the little island place it's on, but if you can't get the gondolas out, you can't get to it.

Chris: So it could be there.

Chris: Because not all of them are linked.

Chris: Especially not I think they might all be now, but most of the bridges that they had still had in the from the 15 hundreds and stuff for the most part.

Chris: So they might not all be linked because you had gondolas going all the time, so it didn't really matter for people.

Travis: I liked that they changed the time period to the end of World War II instead of the late 60s.

Travis: Let them kind of dive into stuff about PTSD and the Holocaust, the doctor being shaken up from having that liberated.

Chris: That concentration would f*** up a person.

Chris: Yeah.

Danielle: So I couldn't understand all of what he was saying.

Danielle: Did he kill a bunch of people with milk?

Danielle: What happened?

Chris: Yes.

Chris: Accidentally, because the people were so starved that you couldn't give them anything.

Chris: And the first soldiers and people who showed up did.

Chris: They gave them food and people died from that.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Like, refeeding is a thing that can happen when you've been severely malnourished.

Chris: And they were for a long time.

Travis: They just die.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: It's a shock to their system.

Danielle: They had to burn down a camp or something.

Danielle: Is that what he said?

Danielle: Because of it, they got, like well.

Travis: The ones that got typhus.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: It was really the only way to stop it from spreading.

Chris: Sterilize the building, essentially.

Chris: Yeah.

Danielle: Like murder all the people.

Chris: No, they weren't in there.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Okay.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Well, I thought that probably after the typhoon blew through and killed who was going to kill.

Chris: Right.

Chris: So then they would have done that with all the bedlinens and crap like that in there, too.

Chris: Right.

Chris: And it was just a horrible know.

Travis: Don'T need to preserve it, really.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Only a few camp, but I thought.

Travis: That story was a cool parallel with Olga, like taking care of what was her name?

Travis: Alicia, with the honey tea or whatever.

Travis: Both unintentionally.

Travis: Doing a lot of harm just by giving them something they thought they needed.

Chris: Right.

Travis: I thought it was smart to maybe not have every murder be a kid in the movie, too.

Travis: That was a good change, thankfully.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Have the kids die off screen if you have to.

Travis: Although I don't know if it's better to be like yeah.

Travis: And then we killed them by lock them in the basement, letting the plague take them.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: I didn't have to see it, though.

Other Chris: Oh, child murder.

Chris: Yeah, we got to see.

Chris: What are you going to do, little dollies?

Danielle: What do you want them to do?

Chris: Yeah, it's called quarantine.

Travis: Just give them like a Robotussin.

Danielle: Yeah, it was like quarantine for life.

Travis: For the rest of your life.

Chris: You're quarantined in the 40 days hence.

Chris: The quarto part.

Chris: Italians developed that.

Chris: We got that from them, and it was for 40 days.

Chris: And if you survived, if you were still alive within the 40 days, you obviously weren't sick anymore.

Chris: But you also had to have someone bring you food and s***.

Chris: And if you had known to do that, you would probably die.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Either way, they stopped the disease transmission.

Travis: There one way or the other.

Chris: This disease will not spread from that location.

Chris: Yeah.

Danielle: We clearly have learned nothing with our diseases.

Travis: If we locked everyone in the basement to die.

Chris: I mean, we did used to do that.

Chris: There was an island in New York that was the quarantine island for Manhattan.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: For a bunch of diseases.

Chris: Until, like, the 60s, they had people staffed like they just lived there, and then they'd send people there who had, like, tuberculosis and some other crap.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: And if they survived and made it, then they got to go home, and if not, well, then they didn't spread it to anybody else.

Danielle: Survival of the fittest.

Danielle: That's how they do it.

Travis: I guess so.

Travis: Herd immunity.

Danielle: We've gotten so soft.

Chris: No, we did the right thing.

Travis: We need to start working out our immune systems better.

Chris: We don't like to live with plagues spraying people, but that's what I felt with COVID I'm like, oh, plagues are back.

Chris: Great.

Chris: We had a nice 100 years.

Chris: We don't have to worry about it.

Travis: We had a nice run.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Now we got to deal with the plague again.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: But kind of going back to what we were talking about at the top, that's always kind of the idea.

Travis: I've had with literary hauntings at least, is like, that's a way for people to process guilt and grief.

Travis: Like, I know I did something wrong, and now I'm going to torture myself by thinking, like, my kid is haunting the place, or all these kids we just left to die are going to come back and get our revenge.

Chris: Right.

Danielle: As they should.

Travis: Well justified, right?

Danielle: No one would blame them.

Danielle: I don't blame them.

Chris: Justice for the innocent.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Although it was weird for them to be like, we f****** hate doctors because.

Chris: The doctors and the nurses ran the place and they just locked them up and left.

Chris: Yes.

Chris: Clearly, it's the children's curse because they're kids, and they can't differentiate between the specific ones who were there and all of them.

Chris: Right.

Chris: Because they're angry ghosts, too.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Hashtag not all doctors.

Chris: Right.

Chris: Don't go to that palazzo just to be safe.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: I wouldn't go to that palazzo in the daytime.

Travis: It was all right.

Chris: I would.

Chris: It looked pretty cool.

Travis: It was pretty creepy.

Chris: It's just old and decrepit.

Chris: It just needs some work.

Travis: A lot of work.

Chris: But I kept thinking, you know what?

Chris: Maybe I have to look and see if Venice has any old palazzos that need some work.

Chris: I would totally get one and then have a really b*******, like, mansion on the canal that just have to fix it, help get some money, fix it up.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: And you could invite the neighborhood orphans over to terrorize them until global warming.

Other Chris: Puts it all underwater.

Chris: Yes.

Chris: Well, hey, no, they've got their solution to that, Chris.

Chris: So they've got their things that fill up in the lagoon that block off the water when there's storm surges.

Travis: Solved forever.

Danielle: Forever.

Chris: Or for, like, maybe 50 years, and they could do it again.

Chris: Solved forever.

Other Chris: Okay.

Chris: Or they could do what they've always used to do, and you stop up the stuff for a bit and you drain the lagoon in Venice, and you clean up the canals and make sure your s***'s not sinking and you just kind of, like, recock crap and make it okay for, like, 20 years and you do it again.

Chris: But then they haven't done that for, like, 100 years now, apparently.

Chris: I don't know.

Chris: They used to do that regularly.

Chris: They told us when we were in Venice.

Chris: Venice is a neat place, actually, because of how they built it.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: And then they used, like, impermeable stone for the stuff that's supposed to be underwater, which not all of it is now because of sea level rise.

Chris: Yeah, but that's been that way for a while.

Chris: So you go to a lot of the older places, and they have, like, what was a landing on the water is now, like, underwater.

Chris: Right.

Chris: And what was a dry area is now their water entrance.

Chris: Right.

Travis: Well, what are you going to do?

Chris: But then the slightly newer ones were like the one we saw where they have the boat parking.

Chris: Right.

Chris: Your boat come in and stuff, and you just get off there and go to the house from there.

Travis: Yeah, that was pretty cool.

Chris: But that one also had a water like a door on the water, too, depending, I guess, on how people are arriving and deliveries and s*** like that.

Travis: It'd be pretty sweet to have your morning pastries delivered by boat.

Travis: It would be dock.

Travis: Yeah, it would be.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: I fully support you going and fixing up a plaza somewhere.

Danielle: Yeah, let's all go.

Chris: Let's all go.

Chris: Okay.

Chris: Right.

Chris: We'll do that.

Danielle: It looks big enough for all of us.

Chris: It is.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Those pilots are definitely big enough for.

Chris: All of.

Danielle: My citizenship.

Danielle: And then it's.

Chris: You actually should because you get it, and then your boys get it and Travis can get the I'm a Spouse residency.

Danielle: Yes.

Chris: Do it.

Travis: It could be Palazzo della Danielle or however you say that in Italian.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: And there's regional to make it some.

Chris: Really great regional specialties in the Veneteau there.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: And there's some really great specialties in the Veneteau region there between Venice and then it's like there's some city not too far away on the land.

Chris: That's pretty cool, too, that they kind of vibe for power.

Chris: And Venice controlled them for a long time.

Chris: We can open an really cool regional stuff there.

Chris: There you go.

Travis: Tourists will flock.

Danielle: Yes.

Travis: Learn how to make the Gnocchi in the oh, yes.

Chris: That would be amazing.

Travis: I should also note that in an actual sense, hauntings are usually carbon dioxide leaks.

Travis: So keep in mind, if you buy an old place and fixing up and start seeing things, probably carbon dioxide.

Chris: I will make sure there's plenty of ventilation.

Chris: Right?

Danielle: Yeah.

Travis: So, yeah.

Travis: I thought Michelle Yao was awesome in this movie.

Chris: Yeah, she's awesome.

Travis: She murdered it.

Travis: It was really good.

Danielle: She just looks so she does not age.

Danielle: She looks the same every time.

Danielle: She's got no wrinkles on her face.

Danielle: She doesn't even need makeup.

Travis: She is a treasure.

Chris: She is, yeah.

Danielle: I wish that she had been in it more because she was the most likable.

Chris: Yeah.

Other Chris: I have to remind people to go back and watch what was it?

Other Chris: Police Story Two.

Chris: Where she jumps a.

Other Chris: F****** motorcycle onto a moving train.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: There we go.

Other Chris: Just f****** awesome.

Other Chris: Yeah.

Chris: She can do anything.

Chris: Yes.

Chris: Anything.

Travis: But I guess she was more like the same.

Chris: She wasn't in it longer.

Travis: The one you're supposed to be like, oh, something's up with her.

Travis: Oh, she's dead.

Chris: Oh, f***.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: I was hoping she was going to at least get another seance and then something might happen.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: No, I like that seance scene a lot.

Travis: Especially when Paro is like, yeah, shut up.

Travis: Come out of the.

Chris: Come out of the chimney.

Chris: And the guy falls out.

Chris: Nicholas, it's a fake.

Travis: Was in the chimney.

Danielle: Yeah.

Chris: And then how is she spinning?

Chris: Oh, other tricks?

Chris: I don't know yet, but we'll figure them out.

Travis: Just like a spinny chair.

Chris: I don't.

Chris: A it looks like it was on a turntable somewhere.

Chris: We didn't see.

Chris: Had a very thin wire that went to it so you wouldn't see it.

Chris: Yeah, that got pulled, so it's fine.

Chris: Yeah.

Danielle: Lady brought this s*** on herself.

Danielle: She knew she was guilty.

Danielle: She should have just let it go.

Chris: Yeah, she did.

Danielle: Why was she trying to have her speak to her again?

Chris: What was the thing to find out who was blackmailing her for sure.

Travis: Did she just not expect the kid someone to tell her that it was murder instead of just dying?

Chris: She did, but she was going to play it off that it was the ex fiance.

Chris: That was the plan.

Travis: That's right.

Chris: Because they don't like each other.

Travis: The M on the typewriter.

Chris: Yeah, they don't like each other.

Chris: And he's kind of physical sometimes.

Chris: And she could play it off.

Chris: He snuck in to try to get her back.

Chris: And she said no.

Chris: And he killed her.

Travis: Yeah, for like half of his screen time.

Travis: I thought Maxime was Rowena's ex husband.

Travis: I didn't catch who the h*** he was.

Travis: Kind of weird.

Travis: Oh, no.

Chris: He was the daughter.

Chris: Yeah, Maxime.

Travis: Yeah, Maxime.

Chris: And he did truly love her.

Chris: Yes, he was out to make money from his marriage, but no, he loved her enough.

Chris: He was going to come back for her, but mom wouldn't let him.

Travis: Mom wouldn't stand for that.

Chris: No, sir.

Travis: No can't do it.

Chris: What?

Chris: She couldn't live without her daughter.

Danielle: She was totally a helicopter parent.

Chris: She needs to get over.

Chris: Yeah, she was.

Chris: Well, think about she needed her daughter to justify everything in her life.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Well, you know, Munchausen syndrome.

Chris: Right.

Chris: I'm like, or you could have been nicer to the fiance and you all could live in that palazzo together.

Chris: Yeah.

Other Chris: So there's another theme in this movie is parents being dependent on their kids.

Chris: Yes.

Danielle: The creepy kid.

Danielle: I really wanted it to be him.

Travis: Well, it kind of was creepy.

Chris: It kind of was.

Travis: He at least pushed, but he was.

Chris: Also kind of like I was just testing a theory, and it turned out to be true.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: I didn't think it was going to lead to my dad getting killed and all this other s***.

Danielle: Yeah, he didn't seem all that sad for a kid that just left his dad, though.

Danielle: Like, oh, I got to go.

Chris: He was sad when it happened.

Travis: Yeah, well, and shock is a real he was sad.

Chris: Yeah, he was pretty sad right after it happened.

Chris: But he's been the adult for a while.

Travis: Yeah, you could tell.

Chris: So he's trying to keep himself together.

Travis: He was riding off into the sunset, and I was like, oh, so Leopold, you're just going to be f****** creepy the rest of your huh?

Travis: He's like, just so you know, ghosts will come back.

Travis: My dad will be here again.

Travis: Didn't we just disprove all this?

Chris: That's kid thinking, though.

Chris: That's actual evidence of kid thinking in the situation from him like, oh, no, he'll be back.

Chris: That's the way this works here.

Chris: And yeah, he is probably going to ride off and finally be a kid again for a little bit.

Chris: As tragic as his life has been, he doesn't have to worry about other s*** right now.

Chris: It's been resolved negatively, but it's been resolved.

Travis: Speaking of riding off into the sunset, I'm sure we annoyed our seatmates when they're like, we're going to escape to St.

Travis: Louis, Missouri.

Travis: We're like, I know that place.

Danielle: And I said, don't do it.

Chris: I tried not to make a big deal, but then when they're like, we're going to go live on the street.

Chris: I'm like, there is no such street in St.

Chris: Louis.

Other Chris: They're going to be so disappointed.

Travis: Was it in that play, though?

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: See, maybe the second half of the movie was like, oh, there isn't a.

Chris: Street name that they never would have.

Chris: Watched all that movie, like together.

Chris: Yeah, I need to yeah, I mean.

Chris: It'S a good movie.

Chris: I don't think I kind of sad because they leave.

Chris: From what I understand, they have to move.

Chris: Yeah, that's where you get that.

Chris: Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas song or something from I think is that it?

Chris: Yeah, I think yeah, it's one of those famous Christmas songs comes from that which Judy Garland at her height.

Chris: So you can't really go wrong with.

Chris: Yeah, I thought it was funny.

Chris: I wanted to get up and be like, I'm from St.

Chris: Louis.

Chris: But I didn't.

Chris: That would have been awesome.

Travis: It was like, shut up.

Chris: They were like, fine.

Chris: Well, you know what?

Chris: They probably wouldn't have welcomed change.

Chris: All these f****** 20 year olds, like whispering throughout the whole d*** movie, including right next to me.

Travis: Oh, that was that guy.

Chris: I kind of got p*****.

Chris: Like, I picked my seat to not be next to people.

Chris: Yeah, but there was just two left next to me.

Chris: And I figured I was hoping no one picked up.

Chris: But no, some little couple.

Danielle: Did people want to sit next to us?

Travis: Yeah, we're always I don't f****** know.

Danielle: Go away.

Chris: Why did you pick a seat where you could clearly see someone had chosen one right next to you?

Chris: Right?

Chris: Like, why did you do that?

Chris: And then I had to hear about how she got some f****** drink for free after she had to come back and get her boyfriend's card or Pin number or something to try to get cash out.

Chris: And she had to go wait.

Chris: And somehow she got this drink for free.

Chris: Like, they just gave it to her, but she didn't get charged for it and do all this other stuff.

Chris: So here's like $8 back.

Chris: Wow.

Chris: You had like, oh my god.

Chris: They were right next to me.

Chris: I'm like, come on.

Chris: I was about to put like, can you be quiet?

Danielle: She was not interested in the movie.

Travis: No.

Chris: I'm sure she expected it to be scary, and it wasn't.

Travis: Yeah.

Travis: She needs to go see The Exorcist three or whatever.

Chris: We got a couple things.

Chris: When Four Row was like at the height of his hallucinating, there was some ghosts around, but that was yeah.

Travis: So this is a complete diversion, but do you guys have Maria Menounos at your theater before the thing starts?

Chris: Yes.

Other Chris: She gives always I always get there too late.

Chris: Yeah, I usually do, but sometimes I.

Other Chris: Catch the sale at the very end of it.

Chris: Yeah, same here.

Travis: There's another person who's ever aged.

Chris: Yeah.

Danielle: Maria.

Other Chris: If we go to the other theater, then we just get the f****** Marcus guy.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: I don't know who that is.

Danielle: I sort of miss the autistic cat.

Chris: I've never been to a theater, the Marcus Theater as just a Marcus.

Chris: I did go to a couple of times when it was Marcus Warrenberg when.

Chris: They'Re still making a werenberg.

Chris: But I haven't been to any of those because they're more expensive.

Chris: Right.

Chris: They got pricey.

Chris: And so I just stuck to AMC.

Other Chris: They still do $5 Tuesdays.

Chris: Oh, do they?

Chris: Well, that's good.

Danielle: Wow.

Danielle: I've been to Missouri lately.

Danielle: We saw like the Lyle Isle crocodile there with mom.

Danielle: And I think it was a Marcus one right, in midrivers Mall.

Danielle: That's Marcus.

Chris: I think so.

Chris: Yeah, possibly.

Chris: I think that's what I saw when.

Danielle: I was it's really expensive in AMC.

Danielle: I think it's also really expensive.

Danielle: I think ours marks are the cheapest out of all of them.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Mine, the grand is more local, so it's cheaper.

Chris: But my ticket last night for regular was like $14 because they had it in regular seating or in IMAX.

Chris: And I'm like, I'm not going to pay, but maybe I should have because the sound in my theater was kind of s*****.

Chris: So some of the speakers were broken or something sound like it was coming through a tin can.

Other Chris: Yeah.

Chris: So their prices are usually around that for new movies at night.

Chris: Their daytime prices, like their matinee is like $8.

Chris: That's not bad.

Chris: So these days, unfortunately, $5 would be better.

Danielle: You get like 25% off concessions and.

Travis: Tickets are all only like $70 for food instead of $100.

Chris: Like cheese is cheese.

Danielle: But when we went and bought all the stuff at the Marcus Theater, I was like, I can't believe that we just paid this much for popcorn and it wasn't in our theater.

Danielle: It's like half the price.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Anyway, well, that's how they make their money.

Travis: Anyway.

Travis: Maria Menounos is another person who's never aged.

Travis: But I was going to ask, like, do you think that's her laugh?

Chris: Does she really laugh like that?

Other Chris: Or is that just like carefully cultivated?

Travis: You will remember me more if I laugh like a f****** idiot.

Chris: Yeah, it's probably her showbiz.

Chris: Laugh.

Travis: Probably her fake makes her memorable when I have to talk to celebrities just.

Danielle: As much as we hate to listen to.

Chris: Probably.

Chris: Yeah, probably.

Other Chris: So there's a class or something, right, where they teach you to laugh?

Other Chris: It's kind of like when you develop a signature or something.

Chris: Yeah, probably.

Other Chris: It's part of being famous.

Other Chris: You learn your laugh, you learn your signature.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: It's like your clown's face paint.

Chris: Like it's unique to you.

Travis: Was anyone else expecting the parrot to have been the one that was, like, making all the kid voices in the background?

Chris: I actually did.

Chris: I expected them to figure out at some point that the parrot was singing.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Not even all the noise, but like the singing the song and stuff like that was a song.

Chris: That what's her face sang.

Chris: If it was going to be the parrot.

Chris: But it never was.

Other Chris: Yeah, but nobody else heard it.

Chris: The little boy.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Then that happened.

Chris: Yeah, he heard it.

Chris: So I thought maybe the people were just like ignoring it or not hearing it well enough.

Chris: Yeah, but then that didn't turn out to be the case.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Or is that that certain frequency that.

Chris: Only kids can hear could be quarrero.

Chris: Like they were hearing a kid talk or hearing her voice, but then it would have been the parrot.

Chris: But that never happened.

Travis: No, never did.

Chris: And what happened to the parrot left in the palazzo?

Travis: It went with Leopold.

Travis: They was on the gondola.

Chris: Was it on the thing?

Chris: Okay.

Travis: Yeah, the cage was there, at least.

Travis: So either he took the parrot or.

Chris: He took the cage.

Danielle: Yeah.

Travis: F*** you, parrot.

Chris: You're just going to live in this palazzo.

Travis: I'm going to go pawn this out.

Chris: I'll leave a window open so you can fly out and get food.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Do we think that using the hallucinogens to figure out the crime, was that.

Chris: Like a nod to Sherlock Holmes?

Travis: Because usually parrot's, like, very like, I'm just going to use all my brain power to figure this out, and I'm going to make my but he couldn't for a while stepped through it.

Travis: But with the hallucinogenic honey or whatever, his brain processed stuff he hadn't figured out consciously yet.

Travis: Yeah, like Holmes would do.

Chris: Right?

Chris: Even talks about that.

Chris: I was getting signals from my brain before my rational part could process.

Other Chris: That happens.

Chris: Yeah, it does.

Chris: Absolutely.

Travis: And I saw some discussion online, people being like, well, was there really a ghost, though?

Travis: Because I think there was a ghost.

Travis: I'm like, I'm pretty sure it was definitively not a ghost.

Chris: No, because other people couldn't see s***.

Chris: So it's just poor tripping balls, right?

Danielle: No, she pulled her mother down in the water.

Chris: Did she, though?

Chris: No, she didn't come with me.

Travis: Was anybody seeing her mother?

Chris: Wouldn't we were it's like her mother wouldn't sink into oblivion.

Chris: Those canals aren't that deep.

Chris: They're deep enough, but they're not so deep.

Travis: Well, they're deeper now than they were in the 40s.

Chris: Only by a little bit.

Travis: We just talked about this.

Chris: You could go down there like, a diver could go down there and get her.

Chris: But I guess they did because there were three bodies at the end.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Also, was that plaza tall enough for her to just die when she fell off of there?

Chris: No, but I think the implication remember we saw the scene where the storm made some of those posts sink yeah.

Chris: Come off and say I think the implication is she hit her head on that.

Travis: I guess so.

Travis: That's right.

Chris: She had it coming even though she didn't.

Chris: But they recovered her.

Chris: But I'm thinking that's kind of what the point of that was.

Danielle: She was covered in the ship as.

Chris: Well as having the one bang into the window thing.

Chris: But I think that it's supposed to be like she kind of hit some of those, I guess, because that's not.

Chris: Really how that it's what?

Chris: Three stories.

Chris: Like, you're probably not going to die if you hit fall out of the.

Chris: Window off the balcony or the I.

Travis: Guess if you hit wrong, you could.

Chris: Get, like knocked out or something.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: And then drown.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Do they have a current?

Travis: I guess they have a bit of.

Chris: A current lagoon that's attached that goes out into the ocean.

Chris: So they get current.

Other Chris: They have tides.

Chris: They get tides.

Chris: Pretty strong tides.

Travis: Some of those dolphins I've seen in there like come.

Chris: I don't think they go in the canals, but they're in the lagoon.

Travis: Well, they did during COVID Did they?

Travis: When everything was talking about that?

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Okay.

Other Chris: When there weren't people around.

Chris: I will say the Venetians liked that.

Chris: Like, the people who live there, the few who are left, because it's mostly like airbnbs now, apparently.

Chris: But yeah.

Chris: The lagoons were like the clearest they'd been in like a hundred years.

Danielle: Were there, like dolphins in them, too, because they were so clear?

Chris: Yeah, I think so.

Chris: They were just saying that there normally wouldn't have been because they don't want to deal with the gondolas.

Chris: Right.

Chris: They weren't even doing that.

Danielle: They went on a vacation, those little dolphins.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: So I did want to kind of go through the nods to the book, at least the ones that I caught.

Travis: And I'm sure there's more that I'm like.

Chris: I just completely missed him because does.

Travis: Seem like they either just took the idea of there being a Halloween party and then did whatever, or they maybe mixed some other books in there that I've never read before because there's again, like a billion of them.

Chris: Right.

Travis: But Ariane was more or less the same.

Travis: Like, she was the author.

Travis: Although she wasn't involved with anything as.

Chris: Far as plotting in the book.

Travis: She was just chapping to be there.

Other Chris: And she knew she was just hanging out.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Although I thought I liked that better.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: An interesting twist to be like, no one likes my books anymore, so you have to do something so I can write about it, please.

Chris: Right.

Chris: Because I'm going to use you again to get to refamous myself.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Rowena Drake was in it, although, again.

Chris: She was more like a PTA pirate.

Travis: Than an opera singer.

Chris: Yes, I liked her being an opera singer.

Chris: Yeah, that was neat.

Travis: She didn't have any kids that I remember, but I could have just missed it.

Chris: I don't know.

Travis: Olga was in it as a completely.

Chris: Different person, so I was more like a name.

Travis: Olga was the one who was killed originally that the kids saw, instead of the former nun who was taking care of Alicia, who wasn't in the book at all.

Travis: Diapold was still in it and he was still creepy.

Travis: So maybe a little more creepy in this one because he's like, I don't know, young Vincent Price or whatever, because.

Chris: He'S a kid who's being an.

Travis: Mrs.

Travis: Reynolds.

Travis: I tried to go back through.

Travis: I don't think anyone was named that in the book, but there was a person, like a local lady who came.

Chris: To the party, dressed up as a.

Travis: Witch and told people's fortunes.

Travis: Like, she had that kind of, like, soothsayer medium set up.

Travis: So that was more like, I don't know, an adaptation than a direct nod.

Travis: And then again, there was still a garden, although the garden in the book was, like, huge and sunken.

Travis: And the whole point was the guy was going to buy a Greek island with the inheritance and make his own version of the Garden of Eden with Rowena when they got away with it.

Chris: Geez.

Travis: Yeah, it was weird.

Chris: That's a plan.

Other Chris: It is certainly a plan.

Travis: Something you could do.

Travis: I wouldn't advise it, but you can do it.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: And again, the book plot was basically thrown away at the end where he's like, here's what's actually happening with your friend.

Travis: Anyway, so surely there's like a hundred more Faabro books.

Travis: Do you think Kenneth Braun is going to keep going?

Travis: Like, is he going to make one, I don't know, in Hawaii or something like Puerto?

Chris: I hope he keeps making them interesting.

Travis: Are you starring Jennifer Aniston or is he going to follow the approach?

Chris: Kenneth Brandon?

Chris: I think he'll make these till he like he's made all the Shakespeare's practically right.

Chris: So I think he'll keep making them once every few years until he doesn't want to, which would be good for us because it's a great character and it can introduce a lot of people to poirot who aren't going to read the books, aren't going to read the obscure ones, all that kind of stuff.

Chris: Right.

Travis: Is he going to run out of.

Chris: Famous friends to be in it?

Other Chris: I don't think so.

Travis: The burning through actor is, like, at a steady clip here.

Chris: No, he's one of those guys that knows, like, everybody everybody.

Chris: So they'll get people eventually.

Chris: Channing Tatum will be in one.

Other Chris: I want to see that one.

Travis: I didn't know he was a sir.

Travis: Sir Kenneth Brana.

Chris: Yes, he is.

Travis: Do you think Huaro will ever fight.

Other Chris: A giant Channing Tatum?

Chris: No, he can get a knighthood, but he won't be able to use the title.

Chris: Can't use it with honorary ones.

Chris: But you can put the stuff behind your name.

Travis: Just has to do a service to the crown.

Travis: And he'll get it.

Chris: Well, he'd probably get an Order of the British Empire first.

Chris: And you can get that by just being famous.

Travis: Oh, I want one of those.

Chris: And making good movies and yeah, but yeah, to get some of the higher grades, you have to be a little more directly connected to make a lot of movies in the UK or do something a little more special or do something that benefits.

Chris: Probably if he did stuff that benefited, like UK children a lot, they would.

Danielle: Give him Gildroy Lockhart.

Chris: Yes.

Danielle: And he did the Harry Potter, too, the second he directed all again, thought he was different now Tatum tatum should.

Travis: Be in Harry Potter.

Travis: Agreed.

Chris: Well, when they were going to remake it.

Danielle: Sorry, I'm reading about I thought that was him, but he doesn't look like him anymore, obviously.

Danielle: He's much older.

Chris: Yeah, not much older, but he's older.

Chris: Well, it's been 20 years since he played Gilroy Lockhart.

Travis: That's not that long.

Chris: Old enough for, like, a 40 year old to then become a 60 year old and look older type of deal.

Danielle: Oh, the Haunted in Venice.

Danielle: And the nun too tied.

Travis: That would be a weird double feature.

Danielle: Yeah, sure would.

Danielle: I don't want to see that nun.

Chris: No, I want to.

Chris: Creepy.

Danielle: God, looks terrifying.

Danielle: Don't even show me the preview.

Chris: I hate it.

Travis: Would he ever branch out and start do some Miss Marple instead?

Travis: Maybe, like, let Tina Fey do a spinoff and she could do the Miss Marple as Ariana, whatever her name was.

Other Chris: That'd be great.

Travis: She could take on Miss Marple instead.

Travis: Yeah, I like Tina Fey a lot in this.

Other Chris: Yeah, I did, too.

Travis: I was glad they just made her American, because I don't know if she could have pulled off a British accent the whole time, but she had that cool, like, mid Atlantic accent going on.

Other Chris: Yeah, exactly.

Chris: Right.

Travis: And she looked very fashionable, which I appreciated anyway.

Travis: So would you recommend this?

Chris: Oh, yeah, but I like these movies.

Chris: Yeah, I've enjoyed them all.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Which makes me wonder if I could enjoy the books.

Chris: But it's just reading is hard to do these days.

Travis: Yeah, try the audiobooks.

Travis: I liked the audiobooks a lot.

Chris: Okay.

Travis: That's how I did Murder on the Orient Express.

Travis: Kindle or audible?

Chris: Has audible.

Chris: I got a few credits.

Chris: Maybe I'll get one.

Chris: I think I got death on the Nile, actually.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: I just haven't listened to it yet, so I'll try that out.

Chris: See what I think.

Travis: Although it is easy to get lost in, like, who the h*** was that person?

Travis: I don't remember.

Travis: Whatever.

Travis: Not taking notes about who was who, but danielle, would you recommend this?

Danielle: Yeah, it was good.

Travis: Better than Murder on the Orient?

Danielle: I didn't like Murder on the Orient Express, like, at all.

Danielle: So, yeah, this one was better.

Travis: Better than Death on the Nile?

Danielle: No, I think Death on the Nile was better.

Travis: Death on the Isle is certainly more yeah, certainly more fun.

Chris: Cool.

Travis: All right, well, Daniel's got a heart out, so I'm going to ask you first.

Travis: Do you have anything else that's good?

Danielle: I'm negative for COVID now, so that's right.

Travis: Jealous?

Danielle: That was real awful.

Danielle: Yeah.

Danielle: Travis had it before me, allegedly.

Danielle: He tested positive for it.

Travis: I had the first positive test.

Danielle: Yeah, and he still was testing positive yesterday, but mine's negative.

Travis: I'm just lucky, I guess.

Danielle: But I had, like, worse symptoms because totally messed up all my smell and my taste for a while.

Chris: That sucks.

Danielle: Yeah, it was not fun.

Danielle: But it's better now.

Danielle: We still have, I guess, three, because Travis is still technically positive.

Danielle: Three in the house with it.

Chris: Yep.

Chris: Yeah.

Danielle: Speaking of, if I had a basement.

Travis: I'd already be dead.

Danielle: I'd be locking you in there.

Danielle: She will feed you, but alas, we have no basement.

Chris: Leave you plates of food outside the door.

Travis: She did confine me to the upstairs for a while, although it didn't yeah, right.

Chris: Apparently.

Chris: Are you asymptomatic Travis?

Chris: Is that why it's sticking around?

Travis: I mean, I had been for a while, but then I had, like, a rebound case.

Travis: He's just got kind of at least yesterday.

Travis: Like, I had a very runny nose and I don't know, when I finally went to bed, I felt a little feverish, but I feel like I heard.

Chris: I feel good now.

Chris: The pill for it.

Chris: That can happen.

Danielle: I heard that.

Danielle: It can just happen anyway.

Travis: Yeah, well, who knows?

Travis: Because we don't know who has pill.

Chris: Suppresses your symptoms and s*** while it's trying to treat you after you take your course.

Chris: You could have a day or so where they come.

Chris: Like that happens a bit, right?

Travis: Once it's kind of worked its way out of the system, but you're not quite over it.

Travis: Yeah, but, like, the kids both have it, and Levi has had no symptoms, really, so maybe he had it first.

Travis: Who knows?

Travis: Reinfecting each other?

Chris: I don't know.

Chris: Could be.

Danielle: Just don't give it back to me.

Danielle: I'm negative.

Danielle: I'm good.

Travis: I'm trying my best.

Danielle: I'm going out today.

Danielle: Blow this joint.

Other Chris: Yeah.

Travis: Anything else?

Travis: Aside from, like, sleeping for a week straight?

Danielle: It's not 110 degrees anymore.

Chris: There you go.

Travis: It felt chilly because it was only 80 degrees.

Danielle: I know, right?

Danielle: We don't know how to handle this.

Chris: Right.

Chris: Yeah.

Danielle: That's all, though.

Chris: All right.

Travis: Chris, do you have anything else?

Chris: That's good.

Chris: Just busy.

Chris: Got yom.

Chris: Kippur starts next weekend, sunday night.

Chris: Which reminds me, I have to tell them I won't be there that Monday.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Whoops.

Chris: Well, I should have told them before school started, but trying to figure see what all our Disney travel dates are, and I finally got that from Brittany, so now I can tell.

Travis: When are you going to Disney?

Chris: November.

Chris: November 6.

Chris: Nice.

Chris: We're going to catch the end of Food and Wine.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: And then we have tickets for Mickey's, like the first or second night of Mickey's Christmas thing or something.

Chris: Nice.

Other Chris: Sweet.

Chris: So we planned it to overlap with those two.

Travis: I want to go to the Food and Wine thing one day.

Chris: It's going to be great.

Travis: I hear it's really good.

Chris: Like, we've been watching videos about it because it's going it starts in July and goes till November.

Chris: Right.

Chris: So we watched some videos from some people who went, and I'm like, that's going to be pretty fantastic.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: But it won't be a million degrees or it should be like, in the over there.

Other Chris: Nice.

Chris: So we're basically going to do s*** we've been seeing for years.

Chris: So we're going to hit up probably we're not going to do Animal Kingdom, we're going to do Magic Kingdom one day.

Chris: We're going to do food and wine with Epcot.

Chris: We're going to do Star Wars s*** at Star Wars land.

Chris: Then we're going to take a day in there.

Chris: We're going to go to Universal so I can finally do the Harry Potter stuff.

Chris: Nice.

Chris: Then we have a couple of days in there where we plan not to really do much of anything because we're.

Travis: All like, that's a good idea.

Chris: Late thirty s.

Chris: And we'll probably put some rest.

Chris: Some rest days.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: That sounds like a lot of fun.

Chris: Yeah, it should be.

Travis: We would tend to be there for like the marathon weekend, which is in January, so we get the other side of the Christmas stuff.

Travis: All the decorations still up, but the crowds were down.

Chris: Right.

Travis: That'll probably be cool.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: See all the lights and stuff.

Chris: Nice.

Chris: It should be good.

Chris: Cool.

Chris: I'm trying to look forward to it, but I'm also trying not to because it's still like two months away.

Chris: It'll be here before you got some time.

Chris: Yeah, it will be.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: The way time good.

Travis: Other Chris, what else is good?

Other Chris: So we watched a few episodes of Poker Face.

Travis: OOH.

Chris: How is that?

Other Chris: It's really good.

Travis: I've heard good things.

Other Chris: Speaking of murder mysteries, I guess the way it's formatted, it isn't as much of a mystery because they kind of tell you within the first five or ten minutes basically what happened.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Okay.

Other Chris: And then the fun of it is really mostly just Natasha Leone being Natasha Leone.

Chris: Right.

Other Chris: And her going through and figuring it out and dealing with all of the characters and everything.

Chris: Yeah.

Other Chris: Cool.

Other Chris: But yeah, if you like Natasha Leone and I do like this show.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Nice.

Other Chris: That's how it goes.

Other Chris: And the murders and everything, they're well crafted stories, and the amount of tension, I guess, is very carefully calibrated through the whole thing.

Chris: Yeah.

Other Chris: So it's a fun time.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: And her whole thing is like, she can always tell when people are lying.

Other Chris: Right.

Travis: Like, they all have a bad poker face to her.

Chris: Yeah.

Other Chris: Basically.

Chris: Nice.

Other Chris: What was it?

Other Chris: Yeah, sort of the way it starts off.

Other Chris: Like, they they give kind of her backstory, and I guess she was using this ability as a poker player to just fleece people for a good long time before the mob caught on, essentially forced her to stop doing it.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: They're like, no, you're f****** up our thing.

Travis: Yeah, that sounds cool.

Other Chris: Now she travels the country and solves murder.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: It's like one season so far.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Okay.

Travis: On like hulu or peacock.

Other Chris: I think it's on peacock.

Chris: Pecock.

Other Chris: Yeah.

Other Chris: The one that nobody has.

Chris: I have it on peacock.

Other Chris: Oh, well, then you could watch it.

Chris: Okay.

Chris: I will have to.

Chris: And I'm used to her being on Netflix for cool, edgy shows.

Chris: I have it I got it for Brave New World when they first came on and never got rid of it.

Chris: They have shows every now and that are interesting.

Chris: Also watch 50 or 30 Rock and.

Travis: The Office on Peacock.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: I think that's part of the reason we kept it, too, is because Brittany really likes The Office, and she used to watch it a lot on Netflix.

Chris: And it left.

Chris: Yeah, you have to watch it on Peacock unless you have a VPN and you can still get it on Netflix in England or something.

Travis: Does she watch season nine or no, I don't.

Travis: Oh, I just turn it off.

Travis: I hate that season so much.

Chris: Brittany likes to rewatch shows that she likes a lot, so I just kind of ignore whatever she has on.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Unless it's something we're all watching together.

Chris: Because that's how it goes sometimes.

Chris: You're not always into each other's favorite background noise shows.

Chris: Right.

Chris: This year we'll have to watch Friends again because she didn't make us do it last year.

Travis: A whole year.

Chris: She's a very big Friends fan.

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: I pretty much only watch that when I'm like, I'm going to also play a video game on the switch or something, but I need the extra light or whatever in the room.

Other Chris: Man.

Other Chris: I don't know how people can do that.

Travis: What, just, like, have a background noise show?

Other Chris: Yeah.

Other Chris: I'm not a person that has background noise, I guess.

Chris: Got to be ones I found that you know very well.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: So it doesn't matter where you get caught in attention again.

Chris: Like, for me, it's usually Star Trek of some sort, right?

Other Chris: Yeah.

Chris: I usually end up watching it eventually, but then I also like, oh, if I want to look at other stuff or need to attend to something, I don't feel bad about leaving it.

Chris: I know what's happening.

Other Chris: Right?

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Otherwise yeah.

Chris: It's like, no, I have to pay attention.

Other Chris: I just don't though.

Other Chris: I don't understand the need for it, I guess.

Chris: Yeah, well, I've learned a lot of people are uncomfortable in silence.

Chris: Right?

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: That's what Danielle would say if she.

Travis: Was still here, because her thing is not a show, it's Food Network.

Travis: So it's whatever is going on.

Travis: Like the sound of people pluto is good for that.

Chris: You'll put on, like, prices right, or something.

Chris: Right.

Chris: She really is not going to be in there, but she won't need some like, can I switch it?

Chris: You've had prices right on for a while.

Chris: But I got comfortable with silence in social work because they teach you how to do that because sometimes you're with people who just don't want to interact with you at the moment.

Chris: Right.

Chris: That's fine.

Chris: We can just sit here.

Chris: It's cool.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: We don't have to do anything.

Chris: And it's just quiet.

Chris: And you're like, all right.

Chris: But other people are like, oh, then I start thinking about stuff too much.

Travis: I'm like, well, right, you're going to.

Chris: Have to deal with it eventually sometime, so why don't you do it now for me and then you can enjoy the silence later.

Chris: Yeah, exactly.

Travis: For me, it is like a stress response.

Travis: When I'm really stressed out, I'm like, I'm going to have all the stimulants I can possibly have, so listen to a podcast and play a video game in the room while someone has a TV.

Travis: Like, I can't possibly think about the thing that's stressing me out, but okay, I got you.

Chris: I tend to focus on stuff too much if it's stressing me out, so I get it.

Chris: Right.

Other Chris: I just think about it.

Chris: Yeah, well, I will go through you.

Travis: And your emotional maturity.

Travis: Like, come on.

Chris: I'll go through a catastrophe cycle where it really overwhelms me.

Travis: Right.

Chris: Then I have to go like, oh, well, everything's just going to go to s***.

Chris: And then that eventually goes away.

Chris: And I'm like, okay, well, that's not really going to happen that way, and we'll be fine.

Other Chris: Yeah, but I mean, the thing is that as long as you know that that's what's happening, it shouldn't affect you as much.

Chris: Right.

Other Chris: Like, I am just dealing with this the way that I deal with it.

Chris: I know what's happening as much as I don't want to experience it.

Chris: Yeah, I know that.

Chris: I just have to let it run through, as uncomfortable as that will be.

Other Chris: My thing is, I don't know, on Wednesdays when I go to the office or if I go to a party or something, if I'm surrounded by people, I'm kind of in my element there, weirdly enough, am kind of an then.

Other Chris: And the same thing happened when I was in Iowa last week.

Other Chris: Surrounded by family, surrounded by people, constant sort of activity.

Chris: I guess.

Other Chris: And then all of that goes away and I just feel f****** awful.

Other Chris: I am more alone now than I ever have been in my entire life or something.

Other Chris: Every single time.

Chris: Right.

Other Chris: So it's like I just have to deal with that for a day or two afterwards, right?

Chris: Yes.

Travis: There's probably not much else you can do except just deal with it.

Travis: Yeah, just everyone come back over.

Chris: Come on.

Other Chris: Yeah, exactly.

Other Chris: No, please.

Other Chris: I need to be surrounded by people at all times.

Other Chris: No, I can't really do that.

Travis: Yeah, well, and that's kind of the thing for me also is a lot of time, the thing that's stressing me out is like something I'm going to have to do at work and the only thing that's going to stop it stressing me out is to do it doing the thing.

Travis: And it's like, I can't do it right now.

Travis: So I'll shut every other emotion off right now.

Chris: Thank you.

Travis: I'll overload the system until I can deal with it, but not saying it's healthy.

Travis: It's just my coping mechanism.

Travis: But anyway, I had a couple of things I was going to bring up for what else is good.

Travis: So one is this game called Sea of Stars okay.

Travis: Which came out not so long ago.

Travis: I think it's for pretty much every system.

Travis: It is kind of an homage to the 16 bit RPGs.

Travis: It's like a pixel art, kind of like Chrono Trigger or secretive evermore style battle system where you wander around and see the enemies that you're going to have to fight and then your positioning can have something to do with it.

Travis: When you're actually using attacks and stuff, it's really cool.

Travis: It's very pretty and it kind of wears on its sleeve that it's an homage to all these types of games.

Travis: They even lifted the guy in the mountains.

Travis: One of the stages you're running through in the mountains, you talk to a guy, he's like, Mountains are nice, this is the life.

Travis: And if you keep talking to him, he gives you whatever.

Travis: Not a speed tab, but whatever.

Travis: So like direct reference.

Travis: Other games I appreciated.

Other Chris: Nice.

Travis: But it's pretty and it's interesting and it kind of takes away the need for Phoenix Downs and that kind of stuff.

Travis: Because when you're in battle, if your people get knocked down, they have a counter and they'll just get back up if you can stay alive that long.

Travis: And there's like nice, a dynamic where you can see what the enemies are going to do as far as an attack.

Travis: And if you perform certain actions, you can disrupt them and keep them from doing it.

Chris: So nice.

Travis: It's kind of like planning your moves and your energy expense so that you can keep them from murdering you.

Chris: Cool.

Travis: It's really cool.

Travis: And it's on.

Travis: Game pass.

Travis: So if you've got like PlayStation Plus or Game Pass, I think you can get it for free.

Travis: So worth checking out.

Chris: Yeah, we got Starfield because Matt has game pass.

Travis: I'm not playing creepy looks in space.

Chris: He started it.

Chris: I don't have time to play games anymore.

Chris: I mean, I do, but I just get home and I don't have the energy.

Travis: Yeah, well, this one's good for that because you can go through and play.

Chris: An area and then like, okay, I'm done.

Chris: That's cool.

Travis: Or just jump in and play the mini game that they've got, like, a tower defense mini game called Reels or whatever.

Travis: But the other one hold on.

Chris: I'm going to go grab it.

Chris: All right.

Other Chris: Grab.

Chris: Wah.

Travis: The other one is I got a new to me, at least tilly Walden comic called Spinning.

Chris: Oh, cool.

Travis: So I've brought her up a couple of times on the podcast already she did on a Sunbeam.

Travis: And are you listening?

Travis: I gather this was, like, the original.

Travis: This is like a memoir of her time when she was doing competitive ice skating.

Chris: Okay.

Travis: And when she had to move from, I should remember Massachusetts, I think, down to Austin and, like, the culture change between the ice skating scenes there.

Travis: But it's really good.

Travis: All of her stuff is good, but it's, like, not like the kind of memoir where it's like, and then this happened, and this happened, and this happened.

Travis: And that's the whole point.

Travis: It's kind of like an emotional memoir where she's just kind of capturing here's the frustrations I had with my team or dealing with going to competitions and my parents not really getting it, or having my first girlfriend in Austin, Texas, where people were still kind of, like, not cool with that kind of thing.

Other Chris: Right?

Chris: Yeah.

Travis: So I can highly recommend it's.

Chris: Really good.

Travis: And you could see some of the DNA of some of her other stuff in there, like on a sunbeam is kind of like feels to me like the idea of her going to this new private school where in that book it's like a new private school that's in space, that floats around and does stuff.

Travis: But there's some of that aspect there or her book about the road trip they take and are you listening?

Travis: Kind of dealing with abuse that she suffered and processing why her parents might.

Chris: Not have known about it, that kind of thing.

Travis: And of course, my favorite topic is Covered, which is, like, s***** sports parents who are way too into it and getting on her case about not paying for the time on the ice even though it was already paid for by the team and that kind of stuff.

Travis: Right.

Travis: It's interesting because I can't think of too many other sports stories like that where they're kind of like, you have to keep doing this.

Travis: What the f***?

Travis: When she finally decides to quit her parents is like, great, fantastic.

Travis: Saving money.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: But it's really good.

Chris: Cool.

Travis: Really good.

Chris: Anyway, I got this one I haven't read yet.

Chris: Oh, yeah, say it.

Travis: Because we can't read that on the podcast.

Chris: We can't?

Chris: No, I mean it's the boy, the Mole, the Fox and the horse.

Travis: What is that even about?

Chris: I've seen it, but life advice.

Chris: Yeah, really?

Chris: But it's like some guy, I think, started it during the pandemic and then he put it into a book.

Chris: So it has these pictures like that and it gives life advice.

Chris: Yeah.

Chris: It's set up as a story of these boy and these animals walking around talking about stuff.

Chris: But it builds up to things like this one.

Chris: It's like, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Chris: Kind, said the boy.

Chris: And he's sitting with the I guess it's the mall on a branch and it's raining.

Chris: He's got an umbrella over him.

Chris: And then they're talking about so what do you think success is?

Chris: Asked the boy.

Chris: To love, said the mall.

Chris: And there's like, a cake.

Chris: Do you have a favorite saying?

Chris: Asked the boy.

Chris: Yes, said the ball.

Chris: Well, what is it?

Chris: If at first you don't succeed, have some cake.

Chris: I see it.

Chris: Does it work?

Chris: Every time.

Other Chris: Nice.

Chris: So stuff like that just a tiny taste and there's like the mole eating a bunch of cake kind of builds up Winnie the Pooh a little bit.

Chris: The people who reviewed it said it kind of has that vibe of Winnie the Pooh, especially the Dow of Poo, stuff like that.

Chris: So I got one of the more famous, more well known parts I was just paging through, and it's like, well, sometimes I don't want to be here, or things like that.

Chris: And they talk about things like that and I'm like, here's one further on.

Chris: When have you been yet your strongest?

Chris: Asked the boy.

Chris: When I've dared to show my weakness, said the horse.

Chris: Asking for help isn't giving up, it's refusing to give up.

Chris: So stuff like that.

Chris: I got you.

Travis: The boy wasn't like, Holy s***.

Travis: A talking horse.

Chris: No, he's not surprised by any of this.

Chris: Okay, sometimes here's one.

Chris: It's like sometimes I worry.

Chris: You'll all realize I'm ordinary, said the boy.

Chris: Love doesn't need you to be extraordinary, said the mole.

Chris: Yeah, we all need a reason to keep going, said the horse.

Chris: What's yours, you three?

Chris: Said the fox.

Chris: Getting home, said the boy.

Chris: Cake, said the mole.

Chris: So I've discovered something better than cake.

Chris: No, you haven't, said the boy.

Chris: I have, replied the mole.

Chris: What is it?

Chris: A hug.

Chris: It lasts longer?

Travis: Depends on how big the cake is, I guess.

Other Chris: Yeah, good little like it's one of those Costco cakes.

Chris: Oh, my God.

Chris: Yeah, costco cakes.

Chris: Sorry, kids.

Chris: Hugs are great, but Costco cakes are better.

Chris: That is the only kind of white cake I like is a Costco one because it's a really good moist, even though people don't like that word, like cake with that good buttercream layers in there and s***.

Chris: Like, it's amazing.

Travis: Well, that seems like a great place to end.

Chris: Agreed.

Travis: The secret to happiness costco.

Chris: Costco cakes.

Chris: The end.

Chris: It's a little thing you can do for yourselves.

Chris: I'm hitting stop.

Travis: Okay, that was our session for today.

Travis: Homework for this time is, if you're so inclined, get in the comments and let me know if we missed any other references to the Poirot books.

Travis: Like, it feels like this was maybe a hybrid of a few books.

Travis: Surely someone out there already knows.

Travis: So if that's you, let us know.

Travis: Regarding on second thoughts, today, personal apologies to Agatha Christie on my behalf.

Travis: One should not speculate on someone else's medical or mental conditions just based on some Internet comments.

Travis: And look how many best selling books I've ever written.

Travis: Zero.

Travis: Were she still with us?

Travis: Even if she were deep in the grips of dementia, even her most boring mystery ever would still have a better twist than I could ever dream of.

Travis: So, yeah, all respect where respect is due.

Travis: Stay hard.

Chris: Agatha.

Travis: Today's episode was loosely based on Agatha Christie's book Cat Among the Pigeons.

Chris: I mean, it could be.

Travis: You've never read it.

Travis: And it was adapted by chris.

Travis: Chris Ham.

Travis: Chris Other.

Travis: Chris Jacobson.

Travis: Danielle neither.

Travis: Chris Rowe.

Travis: It was edited by me, Travis Rowe, and was sponsored by no one in particular.

Travis: Until next time, keep f****** reading.

Chris: WAM.

Chris: It's me.

Chris: It is you.

Chris: You think curses aren't real?

Chris: They're not.

Chris: What?

Danielle: I don't think they're real either.

Chris: What?

Danielle: I also don't believe in ghosts.

Chris: F*** that.

Travis: But didn't you say how all those doctors just died?

Chris: But we know how that happened.

Travis: No, it was the ghost.

Chris: No, it was not.

Chris: It was sad people who've been highly traumatized and one who was freaking the f*** out because she didn't know how to live without her daughter.

Other Chris: The end of the end.

Travis: All right, that's the longest.

Danielle: All right, we did it.

Danielle: Real time.

Travis: Record time.

Chris: All right, stop it.