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Why have we asked our contractor we found on Angie.com to be our kids' legal guardian? Because he took such good care when redoing our basement that we knew we could trust him to care for our kids. Ballade of them. Should something happen to us? Are you my dad now? No, sorry, I do basement. Connecting homeowners with skilled pros for over 30 years, Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. If you're tackling a home project, check out Angie.com. From roofing to remodels and everything in between, Angie connects you with skilled pros who do such a good job, you might trust them to do other things. Like pull out your tooth or be your kids' godfather. Don't actually ask them to do those things, just let them get the job done well. Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. Find a pro for your projects at Angie.com, that's ANGI.com. Zootopia 2 has come home to Disney Plus.

Let's go! Get ready for a new case. We're the greatest partners of all time. New friends. Give it this night. And your last name? This night. Dream team. Get new habitats. Zootopia has a secret reptile population. You can watch the record breaking phenomenon at home. Zootopia 2, now available on Disney Plus rated PG. Here right now you can get Disney Plus and Hulu for just 499 a month for three months with a special limit to time offer ends March 24th. After three months playing auto-renews at 1299 a month, terms apply. Limp? From Limp? To firm. Okay. Okay, fuck it. First up best thought. Samwise Gamji. Yes. When he says, Mr. Frodo. Oh. Hello everybody and welcome back to the break room. Sometimes when you're at work, you don't want to work anymore and you just want to

play games with your friends. So that's exactly what we are going to do today. For today's game, we're going to play wavelength. The rules are simple. Every round, one of us will give the rest of us a clue and that clue lies somewhere on a spectrum. For instance, from hot to cold, cute to ugly, round to point deep, stuff like that. Where on the spectrum we need to guess is randomized and all the guessers have to agree on where our guess will land. The more accurate we are, the more points we get. Let's meet our players. She's so deep in the pitch, she might as well be a doctor. It's Gina E. Palino. It's the pit of despair though. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not trying to escape. There's doctors in the pit of despair. Oh, that's true. That'd be doctors. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he's pulling all the levers that make break room not break. It's Brian Kim. People. People. This is just a representation of what I do at the break room. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Make things work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who's good? I get it. I get it. Where are our friends getting here to play? Okay. Harsh. Harsh. Now, normally this game is a team versus team game, but because there aren't enough players, we are going to turn this into a collaborative game to see how and sink the three of us are. Each of us will give three clues, which means we'll be playing nine rounds total with a maximum possible score of 36 points. Close to 36 points, we get the better. And I might argue that even getting half the points is going to be quite the challenge. The first time we played this, we got nine points. And the second time with Brian Abby and Eric, they only landed six. So the bar to clear is very low. You guys have never played with me. That's true. Maybe it's not. Also, I feel like there's two people in the office who have the most shared life experience. It's probably in between the two of them.

Yeah. I grew up on the East Coast. Yeah. It's like similar family structure. There's going to be some clue where it's like conservative to liberal. And Gina's going to go, gaba goal. And I'll be like, oh, we're right there right in the middle there. Oh, wow. I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know. That's the gaba goal. It's all day to sweet. And he's like, gaba goal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, sure. First clue. Yeah. We'll do that. Okay. Okay. Gina, don't, don't peek. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Make sure you look away. Twiddle, twiddle my thumbs. Twiddle them good. Look at our, look at our energy. Choose. Look at our giant pen. Yeah. Okay. So it is from. Looks like a person to doesn't look like a person feels bad to be on this side. Okay.

So I want to put bird together with their eyes closed. Yeah. It tracks with a lot of personal experiences of that over the years. Uh, I will say, you know what, pretty, I think pretty easy. Uh, I'm going to go with the Cree. Ooh. Oh. The Cree look like people. Yeah. Right. Like Jude Laws Cree. Jude Laws like. Yeah, but he was like the one. And he was like, Jude Laws like. Yeah, but he was like the one exception weren't the rest of the blue. Yeah. So pretty people like. So like, okay. They're still blue. Like they look like people, but they look like blue people. But they, yeah, right. So like, so if we've got like, you know, looks like a person, they look more like people than not like people. Right. They have eyes and nose. They have a lot of people, people, things. Yeah, yeah. So like, maybe like mostly looks like people, but little bit doesn't look like people. That's exactly what I would agree with. I think that's right. Yeah. Okay. Gina, if you're ready to lock it in, I'm ready to reveal. I say lock it in.

Okay. I got to hold this in my camera. Or Brian, you do the review. You give the clue. You get to have the fun part. All right. Okay. We go. Three points. It's right on the line. I think three points. I think we get three for that. Okay. Three for Cree. All right. Where you think, well, now you're looking at it more closely than I. If it's two, it should be two. I don't want to cheat. It is right on the line. We'll give it to us. We'll give it to us. We'll give it to us. We'll give it to us. We need some. We need some boost from the beginning. I will say, like, hell of a clue right off the bat. Yeah. It's a good morale. Yeah. We're already halfway to last time. I was going to say. I'm going to come for those. All right. All right. You give the next clue. Okay. So yeah, just put that in the back. Or in the front. Just toss it in like the well. Just put it in the back. Yeah. All right. Let's see. All right. All right. All right. Thank you, Amy. Ooh. And here's the first item that we have. Respect the integrity of the way of length.

I'm respecting the integrity. So hard. This integrity is so goddamned. Uh. Crap. Oh, and also Gina, we didn't mention this before taping. Once you give the clue, you can't give any other hints. While we're guessing. You can't like steer. Okay. You can't be like, whoa. Got it. unstable to stable and I am going to say in actor during pilot season whose name has appeared in deadline many times. Unstable. Unstable. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I feel like that. Well, because well, actually, well, hang on now, no, no, no, I'm feeling less confident. So an actor during pilot season, during there, he's also like way to go. We haven't had a pilot season since like 2010, they're bringing them back, they're bringing them back. Please, they just do up front, Willie Newell, Netflix feels like having us a dumb event.

They're just doing it. CBS is like, yeah, we got a new show. So an actor during pilot season is at at their most unstable because this is this is the time of year where they have the biggest chance at having a break, you know what I mean? But the qualifying thing was the name of this appeared deadline many times, this is like a super famous, like doesn't necessarily that's true, that's true. You can get your name in deadline just because you got a good PR person, you know what I mean? And sometimes your name appearing in deadline many times means you've been through the rigor before. So maybe that puts you more on edge. That's true. I think this is this is my guess. I think pilot season fundamentally puts us on the unstable end, but an actor whose name has appeared many times is going to be slightly less unstable for sure than one whose name is appearing for the first time. I think I agree with that. So like I would say like even more this region maybe, I don't know, even more unstable.

How many times has been mentioned? Yeah, because like, man, once your heart's broken, it doesn't get fixed real easy. It doesn't get fixed real easy. Is it like a, you know, I think you're down there at this is going to be some real enzyme baseball shit. You're down there at Allison Horn cast and going like, please, Allison, please. Like you're you're you're you're at the air at the end of your rope. Um, but yeah, I think I think this is this is pretty good. Gina, would you like to do the review and special camera here? Walking it in. Do the reveal bam right in the middle, I really, I really, that was my fault. I thought like, I thought like, yes, just a random actor would be nervous. Yes, but I, but I, I feel like if they've appeared in deadline, they're, they're natural darkness is offsetting the neuroses and somewhere right in the middle. That's fair. I think I, yeah, I assumed that initially that it was like someone, it must be like a famous, like popular or famous, but really, really, oh, maybe he's like just always barely

cutting it. So the more deadline articles he has, actually, the more unhinged he's getting. The way I was thinking of it was like deadline, like deadline mentions makes everyone cocky. Like if you're sure. Yeah. Yeah. So like, so the, so the sort of like, yeah, yeah, up and all right, I've been in deadline five times this month. Maybe this is clearly, we all bring our own context to these clues, right? That's what the interpretability is. It's me going like, no, then they know you've failed before. I don't know if that's it. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. You're right. I should have, I should have. That was my bad. All right. Let me pull it out. Okay. I've got a, I swear to hold this one at random. Okay. Hang on. That's the edge. I gotta fix it. Okay. The spectrum is limp to firm, okay. And I want, I want this clue to be family friendly. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. I recognize that might be impossible. I don't know. I don't know. To do a bed can be firm, so can a biscuit. No, that's the other end of the spectrum. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. First off best thought. First off best thought. Uh-huh. Samwise Gamji. Yes. When he says Mr. Frodo. Oh. Oh. Okay. I think that's, well, I mean, I think that's, well, I think that's very firm because usually he's saying, like, I'm going with you, Mr. Frodo, right? Right. He's like, he's, he's right. He is like set in his ways. I'm sure there are some times when he says it when it's limp, but I think it's, it's like, it's like him walking through the water after him. It's true. I'm coming with you, Mr. Frodo, and there is no room for debate. That's true, that's true. That's true. That's true.

I would definitely lean more firm than limp, because yeah, he's not saying it limply. No. I think he's saying it very firmly. Okay. I think, I think you're right. Yeah. I think that's not a firm. Are we thinking? I think like he's pretty firm, like, I think like there. Pretty firm. Yeah. If someone said that to me, like, if someone was like, you have to stop coming into this Arby's misipolido. What do you mean if someone said that to you? I won't say it every time they said to me. Yeah, the time. All right, all right. Every time they do that, I think you have to find a new Arby. Yeah. I think there's no room for debate. That's so funny. I think it's pretty firm. There's no room for debate. He's going with you, Mr. Frodo. I think you're right. I think that's, that feels pretty good to me. Yeah. I just don't imagine it being limp. So I think you're totally right. We're locking it in. Lock it in. Locked in. Now, this is my fault. Uh-oh. Because I told you, I told you out loud that I was trying to make this clue family friendly.

But then the clue I had in my head was not family friendly. And you interpreted it in a family friendly way. That is my responsibility. And I take full ownership over the fact that I think when, is he Samwise Gamji says Mr. Frodo, he is limp on his way too hard. Oh. Oh. So is Mr. Frodo? Oh, I see. That's the laundry eyes. I thought it would be. There's a couple of Mr. Frodo's and I assume that was the, uh, this is happening, Mr. Frodo. That's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the Frodo. Okay. But I will, even if it was that, I would have interpreted closer to it. As soon as you guys started talking, I was like, fuck, they're right. As soon, as soon, like, just within seconds, I was like, I agree, 100%. What? This clue was bad. Like, like, it didn't, it, you guys convinced me so quickly and I just, I just had to say

you're kind of given like the daffy duck eyes to the camera. Um, so that's, that's on me. That's on me. Wow. I was real confident. Yeah. Hey, you can't win them all and I certainly lost one. It's okay. We're going to bring it back. Yeah. Three points. Yeah, so many more routes to go through. Yeah. I'm going to off the bat. So all right. I mean, look away. Speak another way. Look away. I respect the integrity. Today's episode of the break room is sponsored by Factor as the weather warms up and my shape is determined less by my bulky jacket and more by the food that I eat. I'm looking for ways to eat healthy more frequently. Factor makes that easy by delivering fresh meals to my door and helping me plan out my week. Factor's chef crafted, dietician-approved meals are as tasty as they are healthy and you can literally go from opening the box to eating in two minutes. It's great for hungry people like myself. Factor can help you feel your best all day long with wholesome smoothies, breakfasts, crab and go snacks and more add-ons. A few days ago, I had a shredded chicken taco bowl that was only 550 calories and it was

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All right. So it is requires look on this side, it requires skill. Oh, all right. Yeah. Like that one. Okay. Angie. I hope Brian's clue is something like looking this good. Maybe she's born with it, maybe a little bit of a philosophical question. It's like, do you consider being smart, hard to work or is that luck, you know what I'm saying? Or like not crap in your pants. Or yeah. Yeah. It's lucky. Yeah, yeah. Is it skill or just being younger than third? Age is a skill issue. Just be younger. Yeah. Just be younger. Be better at being younger. This isn't like anything specific, but I'm going to say broadly being able to a premonition,

the ability to have due premonition. Like you know what's coming next. Go which, which doing a premonition or cross it out, just premonition, just premonition, just premonition, just premonition, just premonition, just premonition, just premonition. Well, I mean, this is an interesting question because if this was like a CBS series, it would be like, oh, that guy's so lucky, but he's really like noticing tiny little microchanges in everything around him to be like, oh, in a second, this thing is going to happen. It's like Cumberbatch is sure a lot, like that's a skill. Yeah. Cumberbatch is sure a lot is a skill or it's, but there's also, I mean, even those dogs that like know, know how to count who are reading their, reading their owner's body. Literally. I'm reading a book right now. It's one of the Cambridge elements, philosophy of minds, intros by Marta Halena about comparative cognition that a whole chapter about Clevver Hans and this horse in Germany who can count.

And how he was watching people's tension in his shoulders. Yeah, and when you get to it, like, yeah, there was like an unsolved mysteries about that where like his owner was going like, like, ever so slight tip of the head, and they learn until to be like, oh, that's when I stopped, yeah, I think this is a skill-based thing. You really have a premonition, or I guess maybe it's right in the middle because I think it would be right in the middle. I think it's probably pretty close to the middle because you have to even get lucky with the stuff you do notice, you know, like that's certainly a skill you can work on, but like, you know, there is a certain element to like, you know, thinking back to like that first episode of Sherlock when he meets Watson and he's like, oh, you got your phone, that's not your phone. It's like an alcoholics phone because there's like all the scratches from plugging the USB cord or whatever. You know, like, there's a little bit of luck involved in having the phone having been out to be able to like, figure that out, you know, like, there is, there is some luck,

but I do think being able to put those lucky observations together in such a way where you can draw a narrative out of it, extrapolate with that hypothesis and then have it be right, that's definitely skill, right? I mean, I think this is a right in the middle type of thing. You think it's like a high-noon? Yeah. I do think that. I think, I think we've got to give it a little bit of a little bit more skill. A little bit of skill. I don't feel about that. Okay. Yeah, that's good to me. That looks good to me. All right. Brian? Mr. Frodo? Yeah, Mr. Frodo. Oh, my God. It's so warm with it. Is this going to be a Mr. Frodo situation? Well. This is Mr. Frodo. Is this Cree? It is. It is. It is. Oh. I tilted it towards luck. Okay. I tilted it towards luck. All right. All right. We were very close. Yeah. Premonition of a- We did go, like, fully back and forth. Yes. Yeah. A person who, like, can notice things. But I was thinking, just a magical Premonition, like, someone's like, I have a vision. I didn't burn an iron boat, like, so logical about stuff, that even on those, like, shows

where it's like, oh, just someone in the audience have a dead relative. I'm like, well, that is a- Yeah. It's like- A lot of- Humans have a relative. It's the name starts with Jay because John and Joe are the most common names. Well, it's like, you know, like, G night, I know you play chess. Yeah. I don't, I think it's for nerds. Yeah. But, like, out-guessing your opponent is the whole game, and that's pure logic. Right. If I go here, I'm going to go here. There's, like, zero logic. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I saw Queen's game, and I know how it works. You take a bunch of Kwei Ludes, and then you're going to chess. Exactly. I've been trying to be good at chess all night. All right. Guys, now there's some Kwei Ludes. I'm running low. Yeah. There you go. It's so funny that you guys went straight to logic, though. I was like, oh, if a god gives you a competition. I think it's very accurate to how bargain I think. It's very funny. Now I know. I'm understanding. All the millennials don't believe it. We can't buy houses. Yeah. Okay. Gina. Yes. The score for the team right now is three. Okay.

Halfway to the previous call. You have the opportunity with a good clue. And being received by two of the brightest minds at New Rock stars. Yeah. To get us up to seven with a total success. Right. If we don't get it, it's your fault. It is your fault. We're good at it. Yeah. That was the undertone. Yeah. How much does Gina was right carry weight in wavelength? Okay. The categories are bad super power. Wow. Good super power. Oh, damn. Okay. Great. This is going to. Damn. All right. I am going to go with super smell. Super smell. Not. Great. Yeah. Right. Like no one's like at the bar last call. Go like, no way. I would choose smell over flight. Yeah. 100%. But. But.

That could fall into the category of super powers. That it's like, man, you give that to somebody really smart. Who knows how to use it. But also if we're watching like, if like a character shows up on the boys with like. I love it. While you were talking, Brian made an executive decision. What we do. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. That's right. Like it's not terrible. Right. There's a reason detectives use bloodhounds. I'm saying. There's a usefulness to it. There's usefulness to it. But like no one's like, if you, you know, if you went to like, like, you know, invisible woman and we're like, trade your for smell. Like, like, who, who says yes to trade your for smell? Whatever it is. Especially as a, I mean, this wasn't clarified. But as a human, I think that's even like, a dog's like, we're looking like smells. Yeah. And like, appreciate smells that are really bad. But if I can smell like nasty, like if I smell a fart over there. Yeah. And like, it's intense and it's super. And it's over there. It's over there. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if that is what it is, but I will have a helpful. In in the first, maybe even the pilot episode of X-Men the animated series.

Wolverine smells infrared lasers and helps them get into some compound where they're making sentsamos. And remember very clearly, East Dr. Henkeloy saying Wolverine, you can sense the infrared spectrum visually and Wolverine going, nah, I can smell them. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like, you know, it's not like, you know, if Wolverine has it, it's automatically a little cooler than just like, you know. Yeah, because, you know, someone's like, what's that? It's not immediately bad. It's not bad. It's a great superpower if you live near a bakery, otherwise it's a little tough. It's true. No, like, I only live in a city. You live above a cinnabon, you're loving it. Okay, okay, Gina, you wanted to do the reveal. You feel good about the placement? Right, you do the reveal. I'm, I'm, uh, yeah, I think it's more bad than good. Yeah, I think that's pretty good. I think that's pretty good. I feel pretty good about that placement. I think it's all good. All right. Let's do your head. Oh, two points. Two points. Two points. Two points.

Tell you, on the board. Nice work. All right, we're up to five. It was more, a little bit more good than bad. A little bit more good. I can see that. I accept that. I accept that. Yeah. You know, not, not great. It's not, I'd rather a super strength, but also you could probably do, you could probably do a lot of stuff with a, with a super smells. Yeah, I think if you knew, you know, it's like being stretchy isn't inherently great. Yeah. But like in the comics and not first steps, Reed uses it creatively, you know, we're at five points. Five points. Five. Let's see. I might be able to get us to our all-time high with a good clue here. Okay. Okay. How excited is what? What? Nine? We can get up to nine with a good clue. I covered it in this group. However, my last clue was Mr. Frodo. So, anything can happen. Say that for every clue from now. Every clue is Mr. Frodo. Why have we asked our contractor, we found on Angie.com to be our kids legal guardian? Because he took such good care when redoing our basement,

that we knew we could trust him to care for our kids. Ballade of them. Should something happen to us? Are you my dad now? Uh, no, sorry. I do basements. Connecting homeowners with skilled pros for over 30 years. Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. Find pros for all your home projects at Angie.com. Why have I asked my electrician I found on Angie.com to bury my pet hamster nibbles in our yard for me? Because I was so moved by how carefully he buried my electrical liars. I knew I could trust him to bury my sweet nibbles after his untimely end. Nibbles. Gone too soon. May he scurry in peace. Hey, sorry about your pet, but I just wire stuff. Nibbles would have loved you like a brother. Connecting homeowners with skilled pros for over 30 years. Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. Find pros for all your home projects at Angie.com. Why have I asked my age back guy I found on Angie.com to change my grandpa's trachea tube? Because I was so amazed by how quickly he replaced our air ducts.

I knew I could trust him to change poppups too, while I was on vacation. Make a quick young man. Ah, see? Poppup trust you. I think we should call it doctor. Connecting homeowners with skilled pros for over 30 years. Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. Find pros for all your home projects at Angie.com. Okay. Okay. Conventional wisdom. Oh, fringe beliefs. How interesting. Okay. Conventional wisdom. So yeah, it's like it's like common. Because fringe belief, does that indicate like it's not real or just that no one believes it? The fringe belief is like conspiracy theory, Scientology. Sorry, Scientologists. Man, this is really fucking tough. Conventional wisdom is like washing your hands. Oh yeah, because it's like reduces germs. Fringe belief is in Beck Ivermatch.

In Beck Ivermatch. But what if it's like something true, but no one else knows about it? It's also it can also be fringe. No, I think fringe belief is like the net cakes that are that are like interesting. You're vagina to get out toxins. And I tried it. It doesn't work. Yeah. It might. By the time it is activated. Oh my god. Okay. The first season of ex files was a siop to cover up actual ex files. Okay, it's not that's not I don't know if that's conventional wisdom. That's for sure. I don't know if that's what everybody thinks. I think this is a very specific type of online conspiracy theory that falls right about there. Yeah, I think. I think so. But it's so funny. Unless it's a refine out that like bird thinks it is. Yeah, this is one of students. Like bird is like you guys obviously that's already been proven. Yeah, I don't know how have you heard this theory before?

I have heard it in like in like very in very like like I you know, I read an article one time that was like oh here's here's a thing about like oh Aladdin is really set in the future and all of this magic that's laying around is discarded tech. So in that same way. Yeah, I think it's definitely on the fringes side. It's pretty on the fringes side. Not as fringy as the show fringes, which was very much like the ex files. Now they all want street. Oh, love it. Go watch it. It's great. So good. I think I feel yeah, I feel pretty good. Yeah, I feel pretty good. Great. Okay. Fringe believe we'll get we got to see what bird thinks. I guess it's not my fault. You two are so ignorant. I want points, but I also want to find out that this is a thing. I'm saying okay. Are we ready for the reveal? Yes. Here we go.

Four points. Let's go baby. Oh my god. Hell yeah. Oh, I'm making up for Mr. Froy. I'm making up for Mr. Froy. I'm making up for Mr. Froy. You should have just like really doubled down and been like, uh, uh, uh, the Frodo. We're in a romantic relationship. We're in a trouble with one of the Jews. Yeah, they used to cook here. Like all of my clues have to be like about like Sam Wise's various Kings and Longings, you know, like, uh, uh, uh, yeah. So I don't think there is any evidence that ex files was a sia, but I feel like back, back in like the early aughts when all the conspiracy theories were like, mock man. You know, like, I do think there was a certain sector of conversation online that was like one shade less crazy than the chemtrail people. Right. Yes. That would be like, no, it's like, it's just a couple of episodes in there,

were things that the government had covered up. Right. And they put them into the public as an ex file, so people could say you just saw that on ex files. And it's, it's, it's similar to the current theory that uh, Steven Spielberg will be given the knowledge or how he's going to see the blue project blue book. He's going to be available. Yes. And that's why he's been sort of like laying alien movies throughout. Yes. So that when it's revealed, he, you know, like the, the public has been primed. Yeah, I'm buying into it. Oh my god, you're right. That's what it's like. Yeah, like, you know, it's, it's right, but anyways, a very, very, what a relief that you guys guess. If you both have been like conventional wisdom, okay, great. We're at nine points. We are currently, currently tied, currently tied for the lead with former versions of ourselves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this is, this is exciting. Now, the Abby one was a six. Wait, Abby was there for the six. It was, the nine was me, Brian and Jess. Okay.

The six was, uh, Brian Abby and Eric. So this, this team right now is currently in the lead. And we're only like halfway through. All right. Wow, we're crushing it. We're crushing it. So many more, uh, Samwise pinks ago. So many. Okay. Uh, uh, choking yourself with, with Lumbus spread. Okay. And so it is, has a good reputation and has a bad reputation. Samwise has a good reputation. That's true. He's an upright individual. Berg is good reputation. Gina is bad reputation. Here's going back to the premonition thing. Another thing I read in this book last night is there, this is a phenomenon that has been studied and documented well enough to be like replicable. Uh-huh. If you ask someone to think of a number, then watch their eyes and their eyes dart to the left. Uh-huh. They're thinking of a smaller number. And if their eyes dart to the right, they're thinking of a larger number because the way we can see numbers is on a number. You're right. You're right. At least, at least in the West, it might be different.

That makes sense. Well, also there are, there are like people, you know, like if you've ever gone to the magic castle, one of those magicians will always be like, I can say, I will know the word you're thinking of in just like five questions. Yeah. And where I know exactly what number you're thinking of in just like three questions or something. Well, Brian's trying to think, I'm going to flood nerd riot. Okay, yeah, that's a good idea. Catch the riot with nerd riot. If you're, that was a phrase, when we first started, that was that was the phrase. If you are, yeah, if you are someone who would like to support our channel and you feel like getting your hands in some sweet merch, please go to nerdriot.shop. Buying a T from nerdriot.shop is one of the best ways you can support us here at Breakroom and New Rockstars. We got designs for all sorts of cool stuff. Brian's wearing a Breakroom hoodie right now from nerdriot.shop. We have designs for everything from the pit to Doomsday to Daredevil Born again. So please, please, please, click the link in the description below. Head to nerdriot.shop, pick up a hoodie. And hey, if you can't afford one, just like the video, that helps too.

Like you can, you can support us or free these things exist. Also, if you live in a hoodie climate, good for you. Yes, congratulations. 80 degrees here in Los Angeles. Yeah, we're about to wear a hoodie. I didn't get to wear any of my good flannels. Yeah, it really, really the winters are getting shorter and shorter. And my hoodie collection keeps getting a lot larger and larger. Really got to move. Yeah, I'm here to wear hoodies and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of bubble gum. Oh no, did they raise tariffs on bubble gum? Good bubble gum terms are too high. You know what? I'll, I'll go. This is when we find out Ryan loves Trump. Yeah, thanks. President Donald Trump. He's the other Christine Replication. He's building an incredible ball. That their clue is just Brian says his own name. Yeah, what are you guys saying? That's so funny. There's definitely way to answer this. That's actually so funny. You should have done Billy Honest with him. No, I'll say. People remember the Christmas party, and not fondly. Anakin Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker.

Anakin Skywalker isn't interesting. That's an interesting specimen. If you ask the sand people, not a great reputation. But also like when you say Anakin, right, like you're referring to like the best parts of I know, but he still killed all those younglings. I know. I know. How about the sand people? God, yes. Like are we talking like prequels Anakin? I know, because if it's like little kid Anakin, everyone's like, hey, that's the kid that saved their problem. Or even then like, yeah, little kid Anakin, great. But like if you're if you're talking like, you know, whatever the third prequel was called, I refuse to keep their names. Was that Revenge of the Sith? Yeah, yeah. Third prequel like bad Anakin. But if you're talking like, you know, end of last Jedi, that's like slightly redeemed Anakin. Well, I guess if you're talking prequels, there are three movies with Anakin. Yeah, and only the last like 30 minutes of the third one. Well, that's not true. He was he was paling on how do we know he's not thinking of a different Anakin Skywalker?

I mean, could be any one. No, no, no, no. Here's the name. Yeah, my neighbor. That was three. And you are across the galaxy. And you say Darth Vader, they're like, back guys got a bad reputation. If you say Anakin Skywalker, most people would be like, who? I guess he's probably. I think so I think fundamentally like Anakin is more good than bad, but definitely not like all good, right? Like, oh, he's definitely not all good. I was thinking more bad than good. You think you think Anakin is like more bad than good? I think we're I think we're in this gray area with Anakin instead of dark. He was still Anakin when he killed those young. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He only arose as Darth Vader at the very end of the at the very end of the movie. Yeah, that's true. No. Yeah, nailed it. Dude, it's so good. It's so good. It's a bad reputation. Yeah, I'm good with where that is. Because the reputation is not as bad as Darth Vader's, but it's not as good as Obi-Wan's. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'm happy with that. Confident. All right. But like, still way better than Brian. Yeah, absolutely.

Right, like. You would have never done that before. Oh, my reputation. Yeah. Okay, don't tell them about that. Okay, that's so funny. I'm going to reveal. Is this a Mr. Frodo moment? Was this as a bad reputation? Okay, I think that's a valid. That is valid. It's so bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't, well, maybe I did it too. Because like, I want, I feel like Darth Vader was pretty bad. Yeah, yeah. But maybe Darth Vader would have been in that zone. Yeah, but yeah, I think you're right. I thought the differentiation between Darth Vader and Anakin was like, Darth Vader's all bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's like, not all bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's fair. He killed all those young people. But that was saying, like, he did kill all those young people. No, thank you. He did kill all those young people. I'm about to say, killing Palpatine, I did the poor moral math of being like, he killed one Palpatine that redeems him. Oh, yeah. But Gina is the next point. He killed a lot of kids. Yeah. And not a lot of people. I don't know how many kids as you want, as long as you evened out by killing one. The one people. No, what? You know what? Yeah, how many years of life did you,

how many years of good life did you remove from the galaxy? And how many years of Sith evilness did you do? Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. What's up? I hate you in the dark. How about a few more turns? So he didn't even do. Yeah, man, what does the job point? Well, he didn't even do a good job on that. Yeah, he fucking showed up on the island. He's a louper. And the other thing is, I don't know people even, even if Anakin is the one who like did the final blow, I don't think Pete the world knows that. That's why like reputation is so, it's so, that's a great point. That's a great point. He's on like people's opinions. So that's why I was like, if you're going across the galaxy and you're saying, hey, what do you think of Anakin Skywalker? I guess we'd be like, I don't know the guy. Yeah, Luke certainly isn't going around like, you know, in like six, in seven, eight, nine, being like, hey, this Anakin guy really did turn out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's so far. What a reasonable, what a reasonable expectation. Oh, hi, oh, like a rural suburb of Ohio. He's like, hey, do you like carol counting? They'll be like, I don't think I know that. You know, that's a fair point. Yeah, you're on the way to Crossroads. Let's go to the giant eagle.

All right, let's get real specific here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In our country road, 44, we're on Thunder Road. Okay, we are going with Bad Candy this way. Oh, okay. And Good Candy that way. Now, if I recall, this was one of the original tier rankings on Bravery Road. It was, it was, I almost destroyed the company. I will try not to use any of those. For what it's worth, I don't remember any of them. Honestly, all I remember is that I disagreed with S tier. I am going to go with circus peanuts. It's bad circus. Circus peanuts, fuck it's a little foamy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's pretty bad. Oh, pretty bad. Oh, I mean. That's so funny. Oh, okay. Well, so that was Good Candy. This has bad candy. I was saying, oh, because I got Brian didn't understand it. Oh, no, no, no. I thought you were like, oh, I love this. No, no, I went on to explain what it was.

And you were like, yeah, I know. Because your initial reaction told me, oh, oh, shit. Brian doesn't know what this is. Oh, yeah, you're thinking like actual like. I was thinking of a circus, which are top tier. Yeah. No, yeah, circus peanuts. I think they're like, if you're a kid and someone gives you a bag of circus peanuts on Halloween, you're like, fuck this house. We're making them next year, right? Like, you know, like they're not, I'm a chocolate candy guy. I've developed more of a sweet tooth as I got old, which is weird. But like, circus peanuts are just like, they're not even like in the category of pure sugar, like a cotton candy or like a pixie stick. Because they've got some weird kind of like citrusy. Classic, yeah. You know, right? Like, they squeak on your teeth. They're like, holumi minus the fun of being at a Greek restaurant. That's true. I don't think I ever, in terms of candy, it's just,

I don't even know if that's in the real house of what I think. It's not, it's a marshmallow candy. If someone asked you to name 20 candies, would you get to circus peanuts? I mean, circus peanuts is not even near. If you surveyed a hundred people and said name 20 candies, you'd have people going like, hot tamales before circus peanuts, you know, like, Mike and I, you know, you'd get all those weird little gummy pills or whatever. I think that's bad. Definitely towards the bad. I don't think it's the worst. No, I thought, because you've still got like black licorice out there. Yes. You know, which is like, egg or myster, but bad. You know, you still, but I think it's, I think this is like right around like super smell as a superpower territory. Yeah, I feel it. Like I, I guess it's sugar. Well, I guess I would do, I'd say like, really even more bad to fox circus peanuts, because like how the fed, it's not,

I think it's been, I don't even remember, I think I've tried circus peanuts a couple of times, but bowl of circus peanuts in front of you. And the other option was just to not eat candy. You would not eat candy. I would not eat candy. You would not eat candy. I'd be like, no, I'm good. That's so fun. That's so fun. Okay, I, I went to slide. I went to cut in the middle. All right. Slightly bad. This game's about kindly buys and working together. We're getting together. I'm okay with this. Tore's bad. All right, that's what we're saying. Gina. It shows how wrong we were. Gina. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Ah, are we, are we, are we on the tour? I think you're real. You're, it's definitely on the two. Okay, that's on the two. That's on the two. I'm in burger. I think they are. I would rather have no candy. I should have, I should have let you. I should have let you just go with it. That's so funny. Yeah, if someone was like, do you want a circus peanut? I was like, in what world would I want a circus peanut? And why do you have them? Like, I was really stoned. Yeah.

Would I be like, let me taste this and see if it's like, what I remember and then I'd be like, I'm good. I think the situation which I most likely eat a circus peanut is on a dare. You know, like, I think that someone like goes like, you're afraid to eat a circus peanut. I'm like, I'm not afraid. And then like, I get egg done and then I eat a whole bad field. I don't, I don't like the mouthfeel. I'm like, homie. It's not like, like, if I want something squishy, I want like a gummy bear. Yeah, I don't want whatever that is. That tastes like I'm eating the inside of a mattress. Yeah, that's fair. It's so good. That's fair. But we get two points. We do get two points. We're at 11. We are setting world record. It goes up to 11. So wait, is this, have you both given three clues? Yes. So I'm the final clue. Yeah. This is, we have better make it good. We have a chance to hit 15. Yeah, but this is another Mr. Frodo situation. That's the question. Do we get Mr. Frodo Berg or X-Files as a conspiracy theory book? That's where, you know, there's no in between. That's like, you know, uh, it's like waiting for a Targaryen Emperor to find out if they're crazy or good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're like, how in bread am I? OK. Just a little, just a little. OK, so the, the spectrum is low brown. Oh, crap. Too high brown. Oh, no. I'm going to say, um, this is really going to expose how not fancy any of us are. I know, right. Well, I'm trying, I'm trying to keep it within, within Geekdom. Lowbrow to highbrow. Fuck, um, I'm going to say, uh, the James Mangold film Logan. Oh, oh, I mean, here's the thing. That is, that is, that is the, the superhero nerds, like, pinnacle. Yeah, I never said, uh, so I would put that way more of the highbrow.

It's for sure in the highbrow side. But like, being a superhero, it's still, it's still like, but I think, I think it's the one that, like, convinces even, even the Scorseseist of critics that say, and also, everyone loves Mangold, uh, yeah. I think I put it a little bit, uh, a little bit higher, but yeah. Yeah, because I'm wondering, like, what other, yeah, it's pretty high. I mean, I can't really think of another superhero movie that, that people consider as sort of, as that level. So, especially among superhero movies, in his pinnacle of highbrow, uh, but I guess once you factor in the normies, who are like, no superhero movie, can be considered highbrow. Yeah, yeah, because, yeah, I guess I, I guess I agree, with you. My inclination would be to put it slightly higher, but I think, I think Bird probably knows that there's some normies out there who are like,

it's an X-Men movie still. Is it like more to the highbrow? Yeah, also, I guess like, as long as German cinema exists, it's still not the highest of highbrow. Yeah, I agree with that. I agree with that. Seems pretty like it's, it's high, but not crazy high. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even the critics, even the critics love it. So, yeah. I accept. Yes, we're locking it in. If we're about to win a million points. Oh, my God. I love Logan. Yes, I think it's a phenomenon. Uh-oh. I think we're wrong. However, there are a lot of normies out there. I thought it was like way further on. I thought it was way more in the middle. You just got to try and do it. I thought you had a top chef on it. I genuinely thought you guys missed it. That's so brilliant. I genuinely thought you guys missed it. I was like, fuck, they're making good points. But yeah, three points. Hell yeah. Top chef does you son of a bitch. Hell yeah. He did it. I'm so sorry. But you'll be suspicious. Oh, nice. 14 points. Yeah, 14 points.

It's pretty good. It's hard to beat. Oh, 100%. 100% to beat. 100% to beat. Great. Wow. The adrenaline is running fresh through our veins. Let's go. Give us the most important, Gina. What were your highs? What were your lows? My highs were when you talked in detail about a Frodo bean gangbang. That's how I remember it. That is what happened. That's how I want to do it. Yeah, yeah, on a furry foot fetish website. Also, yeah, Frodo's on a corner of 4chan that even 4chan disavowates. Wow. Also finding out that Ryan believes in every conspiracy theory including that we are all lizard people. Immediately. It's true. Yeah, without hearing it. I was hearing it. Uncritical exception. Those would be the highlights for me. I'm just open minded. I'll pull your stuff out. All right. Brian, what about you? What were your highs? What were your lows? I like to, I think overall, I like the, this, I think most of our problems are pretty like, we had solid hits. It felt like, it felt like even the times we were wrong.

We were wrong for reasons that the clue giver would be like, yeah, that's like it's understandable. It was like, what are you talking about? After the middle of pilot season being more unhinge than the last season. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a suit like on the Mr Frodo clue. As soon as you guys start talking, I was like, they're in the right, you know, like it is, it is me who is in the room. Now Brian, can you make us a super cut of every time he says, Mr Frodo and we can see? Yeah, that's true. It's Mr Frodo. Yeah. Every Mr Frodo. Sometimes it is firm. Sometimes it is firm. And you are not doing this alone. I wonder now how much I'm picturing an actual Mr Frodo from one of the 14 hours of the film. Or my sister making fun of him. He's a Mr Frodo. Well, this is why. This is why Brian's about to watch the 14 hours or the content. Well, there you go. Yeah, fine. This is for you guys. It's a fortune. It's a fortune, Frodo's. Okay, you guys, well, thank you so much for joining us here on the break room. Make sure to like and subscribe. Cost, you know, I think helps us quite a bit. Give us a follow on Twitch where Brian's been doing some BTS

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