301: Monster Cereals

In this episode, Professor Mouse, the Cosmologist, and Teddy discuss the theme for Monstoberfest and talk about monster cereals. 

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Is This Just Bad?
Is It's Just Bad? The best podcast You've ever heard
of it? I'm your host, joined as always, Buy the
Sea be Cosmologist and Teddy and a ghost that I
bought from Ald that has led in it that is
hanging right now in my living room because I'm getting
serious about Halloween.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yes to snap, Professor.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Woo o.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
I did, so this was If she hadn't done this before,
this would have been a very scary moment. So I
hang this ghost that I got for like three dollars
at Aldie up in the living room and I turned
the lights on, and Munchie's reaction is to point out

(01:23):
and go oo like a fucking ghost. But she does
that oftentimes when she wants to play with something.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
That's awesome. She's got it down. You're showing her the
right kinds of films, getting her prepped. She's ready to go.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's more of a of an interested like uh interjection
of like, uh, I need you to know. The other
thing that she does this is another noise she makes,
which means that I'm interested in what you're eating, although
I don't know what it is is. She will go, oh,

(02:05):
that's adorable.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
I know exactly what that means.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
And I'm like, how are you learning this stuff?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Bro?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
We don't do this, yeah, so we are, you know,
on the verge of Monstoverfest. It's one of the very
few serialized things that we do. H one of our traditions,
our routines. We've done vampires in our Nospharacto, We've done
and we did an entire sort of like D and

(02:35):
D role playing month last year where Teddy set us
on a different trajectory that began to pervade her entire
campaign and was really cool and gave it this sort
of like dark gothic thing. So this October will be
no different, except it'll be different.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
And so we got to pick a flavor for our
serialized theme. Are we doing Count Chocula? Are we doing Frankenberry?
Are we doing I don't know the other ones?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
You just you just came up with the A plus idea.
We're viewing like a monster theme. Shit, Okay, that's kind
of that's kind of badass.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's great. There's a U. There's an interesting theory that
was created by uh the the skin to Pen, the
person who created the art for our D and D
like the different characters for the cosmologist Teddy Prince Me
for all that he is a theory that all of

(03:45):
the serial mascot monsters are a queer friend group. And
when you hear the theory, you slowly like look at
like Fruit Brute and Count Chocula and you're like, oh, yeah,
I see it. So I one hundred percent think reviewing

(04:05):
Monster shit works very well.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
That's awesome. I feel like I've seen this theory on Tumblr,
probably just parallel development, but yeah, every friend group has
to have the chocolate Vampire, the fruity were wolf.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
There there's a Wikipedia page dedicated to monster cereals and
it has listed count Chocula, Frankenberry, Bloberry, the classics. Also
fruit Brute, which I believe has been discontinued or did
they bring it back?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
They did a special bring it back, but it was
discontinued for a long time.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yummy Mummy, and it's the scariest cereals, and there's a
new there's a new I mean maybe, yeah, you don't.
There's a new cereal introduced in twenty twenty three called
Carmela Creeper.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Oh what's the creature associated with that?

Speaker 3 (05:05):
I'm scrolling and trying to find out.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
A latinx DJ who is kind of spooky.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, just a goth girl like cyber Witch or just
like I don't know if that counts as a monster,
especially because it's just like a oh she's green, Okay.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
She is green. There's also a snake, which isn't necessarily
making you a monster.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Unless she's like a gorgon.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
What is.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Around Carmela Creeper. She kind of just looks like a
green I mean, she does have a cut. Is she
a Frankenstein.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Like a bride of maybe? Well, it kind of looks like, uh,
like the anthropomorphized weed.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Well, there's definitely there's definitely an.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Answer to this. Is she just a zombie?

Speaker 3 (06:15):
She could be a zombie. Let's get to the bottom
of this, let's find out what Carmelo Creeper's fucking deal is.
But I will say that the cereal itself that looks monstrous.
It looks honestly kind of fucking nasty.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
It is a.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Caramel apple flavored corn cereal bits and marshmallows cereal.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
And she just.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah kramel. Well, you know, like in the way that
Apple Jacks got am I actually chilling Apple Jacks. Now
it's just like cinnamon, but like vaguely apple.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Not until they sponsor the show.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah right, all right, Apple Jacks Jess as zombie dj Okay, Yeah,
I was thinking Green is often a shorthand for reanimated dead.
Some of these other images of her make it clearer
that she is a walking corpse.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
I we don't have to do this, but we could
do a week on each of these cereals, which would
be kind of funny. I definitely am going to try
the Carmela Creeper cereal because that's I haven't I really
haven't even heard of a new cereal in a really

(07:33):
long time.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
General like monster brands. Okay, I would be if these
are all actually uh still like purchaseable and not like
you know, eBay for something that's a decade old, and
then I would be interested. Oh, I'm so curious to
like the the animation, so this is a very like

(07:56):
time capsule kind of animation style because they look very
much like docking and bowl ankle creatures in it's like
late seventies kind of that sort of flat animation style
versus the what are we calling it now cal arts
style that's sort of more modern flat imaging. So it's
really interesting to me to see a new IP, I

(08:21):
guess created in a retro style because Carmela, especially her,
she's a little bit she's got slightly different angles to her,
but you can tell it's somebody attempting to be faithful
to that design language but also try to like make

(08:43):
it modern, which I think that's fascinating and especially as
these characters get rebooted, if you will, like, how far
can you push them to modernization without them losing their identity?
You know, like the Frickin' Rice Crispies Elves, you know,

(09:03):
there's a certain you know, or the Keebler elf. You
can't tweak them too far where you know, it's like
drastic redesigns of things like I don't know, Tony the
Tiger or something. So yeah, I'm always fascinated by that
kind of design language, and especially when it comes to
animated characters, and because some of them are really stuck

(09:24):
in a certain era. July twenty ninth, twenty twenty five,
Jim Henson Company's seventieth anniversary rolls around, and so they
get puppet versions of the mascots, which feels they don't
look any different because that design language is also from
the seventies.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, how do you feel about this? Monster's Frightful Friends
is a cereal that combines all for General Mills Mons
stir cereals in one box.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
So it has the crossover, the whole then Dark Universe
all in one ball.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
It is the It is the closest thing we have
to the Dark Universe. They introduced it last year. It's
released seasonally on in October, and it has a count
chalk Acount Dracula, Count Chocula, Frankenstein's monster a ghost, and
the bride as a zombie DJ so she also is

(10:33):
functioning as the bride of Frankenstein.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
That's fascinating. She gets just a whole like polycule in
the bowl here, which.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Is a does but doesn't it sound gross?

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
It does. I mean I think there's a world in
which it could be very tasty. It would be in
altered states of consciousness, but I think there's world in
which it's true.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Do you know what I have never done and I'm
just realizing this, I have never mixed a cereal with
another son. Really, I've never done that in my life.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
That was like a big thing that I still do
to this day of mostly for textual components and also
because for a long time I wasn't drinking milk, but
like mix it either having them dry or mixing them
with yogurt and so that they wouldn't go soggy. So
the texture made a much bigger difference. And so you have, like,

(11:36):
you know, something cheerio shaped with something else that's like
a flake or a square and you get a whole
sort of polygonal granola thing going. I highly recommend it.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
What are what are some of the good combos.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
I like doing? Flowers of checks? Oh, sure, go for it.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, I want some wild Yeah, get some, give me
some wild ones.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Okay, honey nut cheerios specifically, and and not uh what what?
What's not that raisin brand? The yeah, raisin bran weirdly
work very well together, like the raisin and the like

(12:23):
the brand flakes because they're still sugared, they give different sweetnesses,
so it's like texturally kind of odd, but it also
still works. Count Chocola and Captain Crunch peanut butter crunch and.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Apple jacks huh awesome, that sounds crazy again.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
We were just you know, applejacks with like a little
applely cinnamon. Did you ever put peanut butter on apple slices?
It's like a snack.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah? Yeah Nah. Though that last one we made, uh
it didn't work because marshmallow fluff doesn't make actual the treats.
But I think that cut last combination would make some
weird a really good but weird rice crispy treat without

(13:19):
rice crispies, but with other cereals like cereal bars, would
be very good together.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Mm hmm, definitely.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
I'm liking what your combinations because they generally have different
shapes in different textures, which I think is important when
you're mixing. I've started to as I've gotten a little older.
We'll just have like a super sweet one with something
basics like cheerios, plus something to cut the sweetness in half,

(13:47):
just so that it's not totally overwhelming.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
That's interesting, I think. Yeah, I think this speaks more
broadly to my my my lack of interest in customization.
I like to order a specialty pizza. I don't build
my own, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Like I want I want to get the Jersey Mike
sandwich the way that it is listed on the menu.
I don't want to build a sub because I do
not trust myself. I feel like it make some nasty cereals.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
But you cook, but when you're cooking some of like
wonderful seasoning blends for the meats that you make. Is
that following your father's recipe or are you yeah? Yeah,
playing with those.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
I do it.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
I do it the same every time. Okay, and somebody
got it. Somebody has to like teach me how to
do it, either a person, well, it's always a person,
it's never a rat. It's either it's either in person
like my dad just showing me how to do something,

(14:58):
or like a YouTube video and then I will literally
like eat something for years that some random person on
YouTube made once and I will make it the same
way every time, just because it's like predictable, and uh,
there's the authority associated with that person that random person

(15:20):
made on Hugo. I'm like, they know what the fuck
they're doing, and now I've made this and I cannot
besmirch their.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Recipe by tweaking it. That's fascinating. Yeah, I think with
all of my sort of journey through food intolerances and
Mall's allergies customization and also thinking about like how can
I make this, especially with seasoning blends, I'm like, yeah,
I can buy this in a bottle or I can

(15:48):
read the ingredients, and like, I have all of these already,
but I'm gonna need to tweak it for stuff I
can and cannot eat. Sort of by necessity has led
us to customization, and we've talked about also the like
starting with like a packaged base and I really like,
you know, taking a can of Campbell soup and then
messing it up.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, I do do the Ramen customizations, but I also
do them based on TikTok per, so doing it first
that the This also speaks to something that is that
at least one person found peculiar. I was having a
conversation with somebody about my shellfish allergy after the whole

(16:30):
like Mexico debacle, and they were like, I mean, man,
you grew up in this place where they have all
this like great crab and stuff like and crab cakes,
Like how like, how are you? Is there a way
you could do like imitation crab to like to make
a crab cake or something like that. And it was

(16:50):
such a bizarre comment to me because in my mind,
when I found out it was allergic to shellfish, I
was totally at peace with the idea of I'll never
eat another crawcake. It just like is now the way
that I live, Like, I'm not trying to customize a
different version of a crab cake that is that I

(17:11):
can eat.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
You know.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Yeah, And I'm with you on that because there's some
like the sort of to furky trend and like, oh,
you know the various imitation meets. It's its own thing.
And I think if you come to those things understand
trying to meet them where they're at as a separate food,
you can appreciate them. I think you are always going

(17:33):
to run into disappointment with like this is supposed to
be a one for one equivalent. Imitation crab is made
of what pollock or something some other fish, and it
is its own thing, and it has a very distinct
taste to the point of like certain sushi places in

(17:54):
Japanese cuisine, like imitation crab is its own thing, and
like you are expecting a certain flavor from that that
doesn't mesh with other things the same way real crap does.
So going in that direction, and so Teddy, I'm curious
about your thoughts there, because you are often substituting ingredients.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
When it comes to the substitutions, I look at it
and much more like what will also taste good, but
not what it's always from a place of huh, this person,
if they eat it, they will either have an upset
stummy stomach or go to like the hospital, you know,
So it's it's it's sometimes a place of obstinence when

(18:41):
I'm like, I bet it would taste better this way,
I think honestly though, Yeah, I mean when it comes
to the customization of food and making all of these ingredients,
and it really has to come from like this. I'm
about to say something weird, but bear with me. The

(19:03):
sense and the sense nature of them really do contribute
to how all of the food would be put together,
Like how will this taste? What is the texture going
to be when you're making it? What is it going
to sound like? And that's a weird, weird one, but
like you begin to get to know, like, all right,

(19:26):
if you have this flower ratio for one of the
white sauces. So I learned how to do the five
French mother sauces right nice? Yeah, And one of the
things that helps with differentiating because when I first approached it,
I'm like, they're all flower based sauce. What is that
it'll know? But then once you actually get into it,

(19:48):
you're like, oh, this consistency makes it work with these things,
this texture, this, this base will make it work better
with something. So it becomes and the reason I bring
those up, then that starts informing some of the substitutions
you can do like I was able to based off

(20:10):
of one of the rue that I learned how to do.
I went, oh, I can replace certain things with oat milk,
and I just have to adjust the timing and the
flour recipe a little bit. And that's how I was
able to make a really good non dairy sausage gravy.
So once you're able to start picking those other sense

(20:34):
things up, the replacements start kind of filling in themselves,
like when you start trying to cook for vegan folks,
going all right, how do I think about this? And
then you start thinking, oh, yeah, A lot of South Asian,
a lot of East Asian, certain well some Ethiopium, but
not all. Certain cuisines lend themselves to it, so then

(20:56):
you can go, Okay, this technique is going to go
well here here.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
In here, gotcha. Yeah. As we're talking about this, though
we only have one months overfest uh idea pitched and
it's food based and the first thing I thought about
was like, how long can we possibly talk about cereal? Uh?

(21:20):
And we've just been talking about it for forty minutes,
so it's feasible. But Teddy Teddy teased that. Uh, he's
got an idea in the chamber and he's going to
blow our heads off with it. Uh, Teddy, what what?

Speaker 1 (21:41):
What?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
What were you thinking?

Speaker 1 (21:43):
So long ago? We had a few episodes back I
think four or five. Uh, we had talked about some
T t RPG drama and we were thinking, oh yeah,
we had talked about a little bit of Well, why
don't we test drive it and see if it lives
up to the hype. This is referring to Candela Obscura. Now,

(22:06):
my pitch to this is because I and the idea
for here is Candela Obscare would be a completely I
don't do any of my normal home brewery stuff. We
just do out of the boxing, the playing a session,
pre gen characters. I'm happy to run it because I've

(22:27):
been running these things and see if hey, are these
folks just like bemoaning something or is there something to
oh how is this game feeling? So that's one part
one of the pitch. Part two is going, well, you
can't really do a test with just a control group,

(22:50):
So I would propose we actually try and do two
different games as one shots and then compare them as
how do these horror games stack up? Next to each other,
specifically call of Cthulhu and there and do something similar

(23:12):
with pre generated, pre generated characters and a module that
isn't a classic module, but one that I think would fit,
but it it's like one that would fit a one
shot instead of a Oh no, oops, we've done an
entire season of another show. So that's the pitch playing

(23:35):
two different games and one episode is one game, one
episode is another game, and then another full episode is
we compare them.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Can I pitch on that pitch?

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Please? Do?

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Can I be Carmela Creepers?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
We can one hund make some of these. Uh do
you want to play the serial mascots? Because we're gonna
make it.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
It would be I think it would be fun to
combine the ideas and to play. I would love to
see causes to personally on count Chocola, to fight Theru, fight.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
There are there is a monster mascot mummy, so we
could do a little bit of exposure therapy fas.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
I appreciate you. Okay, this is a cool idea.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Sure we also have to eat the cereal yea. And
I know and I know you said no homebrew mechanic,
but could there be I.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Can I can Yeah, we we can be a little
lax on. I got that. Yeah, no, we we we
got this. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Or maybe we can integrate it into the dice system,
like you roll three green pieces and one white piece
of Carmela creepy creepers or something wild. So we're just
like the most psychotic people on Earth, just screaming in

(25:17):
monster voice at a table with dice and boxes of
open cereal.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Amazing.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Sure, yeah, okay, we could make it.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
I could. I could turn all of these cereals into
cereal bar like I could just make rice crispy treats,
but of these monster cereals.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Oh that sounds really good.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, irrespective of what we end up doing, that sounds
good anyway.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
That sounds good anyway. Absolutely, I'm here for those cool
I was thinking the other thing that's coming up, So
Guillermo's Frankenstein adaptation will be getting a limited release in
theaters and then also be on Netflix and online. I
realized that I probably have not seen much of his

(26:13):
other work, and I didn't know, and so because I
was toying with the idea of like doing a Frankenstein
at Adaptations Month, but that would be probably boring and
difficult to get through since they're all generally terrible. But

(26:33):
maybe like watching Chronos and I don't know some of
his other horror stuff, leading us to kind of get
a deep delve into his style before we hit up
his Frankenstein adaptation. So maybe we weave that in and
just sort of have that in the background throughout the
fall of some of his other work, or at the

(26:53):
very least talk about his Frankenstein adaptation. But and we
should watch it and eat cereal bars is what we do.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
So you're proposing mont Stoverfest colon Octuro, Yes, exactly. Cronos rules,
and it's been a hot second since I've seen that.
I like, well, God, they're all good ideas. The thing

(27:23):
about Frankensin is you're right, and I've seen a lot
of those Frankensigin movies and they are kind I don't
know how much mileage there is.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Yeah, I don't think there is. It's mostly like, is
this faithful the source material? Is it not? I've seen
most of them are bad. The one that I'm going
to get in on is this like three hour, two
part Hallmark movie Randomly, which is like the only faithful
adaptation that's ever really been done. So, dear listener, Professor

(27:53):
mess just did a double take, like a cartoon Scooby
Doo double take on camera.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
You just described to me, like what it must have
felt like when another cave man told another caveman that
fire existed, Like just the that what you said, why
does that exist?

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Unclear? But it sort of makes sense because that film
leans into the gothic romance, which is what that story
really is more than it is, like it's not about
jump scares anyway. So I'll report back on that. I'll
send you all the link to it too. And I
saw I think one early preview take on Del Toros

(28:39):
Frankenstein that said something along the lines of it's not
scary enough. Why is there so much like melodrama and
romance in it? Which like perked my ears up, going, Oh,
maybe he gets it and that's what it's supposed to
be about. So we'll see.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
But what did you think of Lisa Frankenstein. I feel
like maybe we have talked about this before.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
I hated it. I thought it was r I had
a violently allergic reaction to it. I'm very frustrated because
I love Jennifer's body so much. It felt very much
to me like a Disney Channel trappings of spooky without
any like meat on the bones.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'm sorry, I selected Can I pitch on that pitch?

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, go for it.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
So broadly speaking, the month is oriented around Frankenstein's Yes,
because I think we should do Giromo Little Toros Frankenstein. Uh,
Frankenstein is essential to the goddamn monster cereals. H what

(29:51):
what's the company? General Mills verse? Yeah, and these are
horror systems, so we could do a one shot, we
could do an episode dedicated to the Frankenstein Del Toro.
We just have to make sure that the that the
month is Frankenstein forward.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Sure. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
And if there's a way to lean into the you know,
reanimated engineered horror, I don't know that that is, if
there's like a campaign within lean on that side rather
than like cosmic horror, than just kind of going in
that direction would be great.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
And speaking as Carmela Creepers, who is like kind of Frankensteini, ish,
I approve.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
I just question.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
I just need it to be known that I will
be playing her if we do this.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, I'm one hundred percent down. I want to double
check tone wise do we want to go full cereal
mascot goof or do you want me to put on
my horror hat.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
I think that the more horror hat you put on,
the better it will be to counteract what will invariably
end up being a little goofy, because I don't know
that we're capable of playing any other way.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Well, well, Teddy, I'm playing a zombie DJ that is
largely based on a cereal So it's gonna be it's
gonna be hard to get into that headspace. I mean
if you establish the tone fully willing to go, like
full never after kind of.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Like yes, I will, yes and all of it that.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
You know, it's very funny cause do you think you
would would you prefer to play Frankenstein?

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Hmm?

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Monster or Doctor either?

Speaker 4 (31:58):
It is also interesting, Yeah, that's very interesting. Let me
think on that, because they each come with a with
a very different style of the egotistical melodramatic doctor versus
the egotistical melodramatic Monster, but in a different way.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
So do you all want to do just the straight
up call of Cthulhu and test Candela Obscura later or
do you want to still do the game test between
the two Call.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Of Cthula, I feel like is so much more oriented
towards horror. It's established. Maybe yeah, maybe we just do that,
and you're and you said, there's already kind of a
Frankenstein module in Call of.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah, one of them is just they don't call it
Frankenstein's Monster, but it's yeah, that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Well, you should tell us then, you know, if it
is more useful. I guess for the setting to have
a player character be closer to Victor Frankenstein or a Drogger.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
I will, yeah, let me get back to you, let
me reread the module and then get back to.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
You, or if you want both, because I'm sure that
Prince B would play Frankenstein or Frankenstein's Monster probably be
better at playing Actually I'm not sure. I was gonna
say Frankenstein's Monster. But Prince B is kind of like
very verbose in a way that might lend itself to

(33:31):
being like a doctor character.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
It's kind of yeah, Mary Shelley's Monster also never shuts up,
so it could be.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah, but but but Prince B's not sad boy.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
That's true. Yeah, I could lean into sad boy, and.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
I'm just gonna be spinning fucking records.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
You know what I mean, I'm paying the tunes.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
I can't believe I I'm not. I'm not joking with you.
I love this character. I'm already like googling merch. I
want a Carmela Creepers shirt so bad.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Like just fell in love.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
I really did. It's such a cool it's such a
cool thing. I don't know. And the cereal looks gross.
So this is great. So we at the very least
we've settled on we are gonna Frankenstein monst Overfest, uh.
And I think everybody's happy with that. I kind of

(34:31):
wanted to do Frankenstein. I think we pitched Frankenstein before,
and I think we ran up against the same problem,
which is like we're gonna have to fill out the
weeks with other shit. So maybe we do like just
draggers and then have like four weeks dedicated to different
types of draggers. But I think the first week establishing

(34:56):
sort of a kind.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Of uh.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Baseline will be important for talking about Frankenstein. So maybe
we do, like the the best sort of screen adaptation
of Frankenstein that exists. We could also talk about the book.
I read the book eons ago, I think I read
the book in high school.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
We've talked about the book here and there on this
show in passing many times. I'm also going to see
a new play. After having that terrible experience with an
addition of Frankenstein, I'm giving it another shot with another
Mary Shelley ish play in a graveyard. So I'll report

(35:44):
back and see how that. But you know how that goes?

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Okay, Yeah, well let's do it. We still got a
couple of weeks to figure it out. But I mean
the listeners don't know that actually monstoverfestor Price starting next
week as they're listening to this. But yeah, it should
be fun, and I think that, uh yeah, I think
we got to give Frankenstein his due, both the doctor

(36:10):
and the monster, and we should. We should probably try
to play We should probably try to play it a
little straight. I mean, Franken Sion is a tortured soul.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
And I like the So again, yeah, Teddy, get back
to this. But I'm feeling I can lean into the
mad scientist, disgraced grad student and see what and I
think that'll play that tortured self pity will play nicely
against the undid DJ. And I'm real like zest for

(36:48):
on life.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
I guess see you all we're saying this, and now
I'm like, I feel like y'all would really like Monster
Hearts too, because zombie DJ and mad scientists are actually
character anyway.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Okay, well fair enough.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, but I think with Call of Cthulhu, I think
we're I have some pregen pre generated character sheets that
the background will be good flavor for, and I think
it'll be good for learning the rules with the pregen
of just being like work with these numbers to feel
like to see what they do.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
Okay, that sounds great?

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Cool?

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Are we doing it?

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Excited? This is gonna be fun.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Like the like the eighteenth century setting? Or are we
gonna do.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Like a You're gonna be like spinning wax cylinders for
your teaching.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Well, that's what I'm asking. I got to figure out
what my music's gonna.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Be, so they generally call it Cuthulhu games tend to
be in like the twenties, so like twenties to thirties.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Oh I got that.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
So we could do like you could do if you
want to go full.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Like Rattinger ragtime pianist.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Oh yeah, hell yeah, Okay.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, fuck Yeah, I'm gonna be just a fucking just
a regular Scott Jenkins ragtime pianist, like just absolutely tickling
the ivories.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Uh, this is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
Yeah, but but one week does have to be dedicated
to a serial taste test discussion, and then one week
we'll have a one shot and then one week we'll
do Geramol del Toro, and then we will figure out
the fourth week. Uh wherein maybe we don't have to
establish a baseline. Maybe Frankenstein is kind of just like, uh,

(38:48):
you know, no pun intended, kind of evergreen. We don't
need to We don't we don't need to get into
like the nitty gritty mythology of Franken that backup.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's totally shocking.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
But we didn't do this last episode, so let's do
it this episode. It's time to get wrecked.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Good wreck.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
I have a wreck right off the bat. This is
you know, kind of a normy wreck. But it was
a good movie and it made a whole bunch of
money and everybody loves it and it is talking really
well about it. H Honey, don't just kidding. I saw weapons, Honey,

(39:42):
don't is fucking so boring. I saw Weapons and Weapons
fucking rules. It is a great movie, and it's probably
the best movie I've seen in twenty twenty five. Zach
Creiger was like highly anticipated after Barbarian. I saw Barbarian

(40:04):
and I did not vibe with the twist in that
movie or like the second act kind of weird reveal.
I thought it was bizarre, and I thought that that
tonally it shifted that film into being kind of meandering
and sort of anticlimactic. But it had so many like

(40:30):
interesting ideas, and it was clearly a new voice and
all this stuff. I was excited for Weapons. It was
really hyped, and I think it's one of those movies
where you watch it and you're like, all this hype
was very well deserved. Julia Garner is excellent in this,

(40:54):
upcoming actress Josh Brolin, Old Wiley Veteran excellent and it.
Benedict Wong excellent in it. The acting is fantastic, the
writing is intricate. It's told through a series of perspective
vignettes that that orient around one person around similar times.

(41:16):
I'm loving the career renaissance of Alden Ehrenreich, who was
sort of eliminated from Hollywood after not being a good
Han solo was an Oppenheimer got critical praise in this
movie is showing you know, that promise that he showed
that got him that role. Great movie. A creepy ass

(41:39):
movie as well, very extremely creepy, and it the the
ending of this movie is all very similar to the
ending of Barbarian. Zach Kreiger has some kind of unresolved
trauma with old people. I'll say that, Uh yeah, it's

(42:02):
just like he just I guess he just doesn't like
them that much. But yeah, and I should should mention
this anytime you bring up Zach Gregor. He's just like
a film director who is now you know, people are
bidding tens of millions of dollars on his movies. He's
directing a Resident Evil reboot that's going to be like

(42:23):
faithful to the Games and supposed to be extremely good.
He was initially and this is how we got to
start in Hollywood, a cast member of the sketch comedy
group The Whitest Kids you Know who had a very
short lived Comedy Central show. And it is so bizarre

(42:45):
that a sketch comedian, that multiple sketch comedians are now
the sort of like vanguard of prestige horror in the
United States. It's weird, but it kind of does make
sense when you consider, like the the basic and fundamental
building block of a good sketch is heightening and playing

(43:08):
with viewers expectations, and so it's a similar muscle applied
into different contexts. But like him and Jordan Peel and
like Josh Rubin, like so many fucking comedians are incredible
horror directors. So yeah, weapons rules, watch it. It's fun,
it's a good time.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
That's fantastic. I'm gonna do sort of a general food
recommendation I guess, which is go find a nice Greek
place and go eat there. I was traveling recently and love,
you know, checking out a Greek restaurant for me is
usually like for dietary wise, a safe bet. It's big

(43:52):
sort of chunks of meat, clear ingredients, so you know,
you can really know what you're gonna eat. Most of
the time, I always order saganaki, which of course comes
with a big theatrical production of well, and they light
the cheese on fire and it's a big deal, which
I think is wonderful, and it's important also to call
out when you are lighting something on fire and bring

(44:14):
it to a table. My mother flinched every time, like
throughout the whole dinner, every time it went, oh bah,
somebody else is getting the flaming cheese plate. She's freaking out,
not because she thought she was gonna get set on fire,
just the loud noises, I guess which. But again better
to be aware that that's coming. I had a chicken

(44:35):
dish with a coffee carrot sauce, which two ingredients I
did not expect to get have go together, and they
tasted It was incredible. And also you could taste both
ingredients in parallel. They didn't really meld together like this
bite of food tastes both exactly like espresso powder and

(44:58):
also like a carrot at the same time, which was
a sort of mind melting experience. To continue, then I
had eat teeth whole thing. But you know, coffee glazed
carrots is like a dessert. It speaks to I think
Professor Mouse's a fascination with coffee, sorry, with carrots as
a dessert item. I if you are not having your

(45:20):
carrot cake with a big cup of coffee, maybe you should.
It was excellent.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
That rules all right in terms of my wreck I
am going to see now. I feel like I just
want to co sign that carrot as a as a
dessert item, but I'm going to actually do a quick

(45:47):
wreck for going out and buying that just random sets
of dive from your local game store. While Amazon is convenient,
there are people out there who want to make their
living uh allowing you to play games. So you can
support them in small ways. Uh, go out and buy

(46:07):
some pretty dice and uh dicets.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Huge coaside. Love a dice, love a fucking dice, love
to slang them things. Uh, that'll do it for six
episode of is it is just bad? We'll see you
on the next one. Boo, it's just an ad.

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