S03E9 - A Carnival of Chaos: The Journey of Jimbo and Friends
Welcome to a whimsical yet chaotic gathering, where the essence of camaraderie and storytelling intertwines. In this episode, we delve into the unpredictable world of tabletop role-playing games, exploring the nuances of character creation and the intricate dynamics of gameplay. Our esteemed guest, Joe, the carnival keeper from the Dice Circus, illuminates the trials and tribulations of crafting narratives that both enthrall and challenge players. With tales of unexpected triumphs and hilarious blunders, we unravel the art of improvisation and the significance of forging connections within the gaming community. Join us as we navigate this vibrant tapestry of imagination, laughter, and shared experiences, ensuring that each roll of the dice brings forth an adventure worth recounting. The episode delves into the chaotic yet engaging world of tabletop role-playing games, drawing on the experiences of the hosts as they navigate the unpredictable nature of gameplay. With a focus on the unique contributions of their guest, Joe, the Carnival Keeper from Dice Circus, the conversation highlights the intersection of creativity and strategy inherent in TTRPGs. Throughout the discussion, the hosts share anecdotes of memorable moments, particularly emphasizing the impact of unexpected dice rolls that can lead to both triumph and calamity. The episode's dynamic banter encapsulates the essence of camaraderie found in gaming, resonating with listeners who appreciate the blend of humor and serious reflection on the role-playing experience. Moreover, the hosts explore the thematic richness that TTRPGs offer, from horror elements to comedic interludes, showcasing how these games serve as a canvas for storytelling and character development. The narrative flows seamlessly between personal stories and broader insights into the gaming community, making it an engaging listen for both seasoned players and newcomers alike. The episode concludes with an exploration of the ongoing journey of Dice Circus and the exciting prospects that lie ahead, inviting listeners to partake in the adventure while embracing the delightful unpredictability that comes with rolling the dice.
Takeaways:
- In the realm of tabletop role-playing games, the importance of clever improvisation cannot be overstated, particularly when players successfully navigate challenging scenarios without adhering to the predetermined script.
- The evolution of community interactions within tabletop gaming fosters a unique camaraderie, as evidenced by the hosts' discussions about their experiences and the bonds formed through shared gameplay.
- The transition from casual gameplay to a structured, business-oriented approach can be fraught with challenges, yet it can also yield exciting opportunities for creative expression and audience engagement.
- A humorous anecdote regarding unexpected character deaths highlights the unpredictable nature of tabletop gaming, serving as a reminder that sometimes the most memorable moments arise from unforeseen circumstances.
- The hosts emphasized the significance of player agency in shaping narratives, illustrating how the choices made by players can diverge from intended story arcs, ultimately enriching the gaming experience.
- Incorporating thematic elements from popular culture into tabletop campaigns can enhance player engagement and enjoyment, as demonstrated by the hosts' references to beloved franchises and their influence on game design.
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Transcript
One shot, one fight no heart, no lie, no guns, no fight.
Speaker A:Just chaos and hate.
Speaker A:Roll for inside one we get a one.
Speaker A:Laughs are high, the stakes are dumb we'll come to chaos, we just beg.
Speaker A:This is Chad.
Speaker A:One and done.
Speaker A:Chat One and done.
Speaker A:Legends fall and rise for fun One bad robot we don't run, we fight through fire and the setting sun.
Speaker A:Chat One and done.
Speaker B:Welcome to Chat One and Done, the only podcast where we ask one question, derail, and then we call that content.
Speaker B:Today we have the carnival keeper herself.
Speaker B:Directly from the Dice Circus, we have Joe.
Speaker B:Joe, how you doing today?
Speaker C:I'm doing good, thanks.
Speaker C:How are you doing?
Speaker B:I'm doing great.
Speaker B:Been better, been worse.
Speaker B:Guys, how are you doing?
Speaker D:Well, I'm here.
Speaker D:I've had a ton of fucking laughter and yeah, pretty damn good.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Just for content, like context, we had maybe like a bonus episode worth of conversation before we started recording.
Speaker B:We had like a good hour conversation before I was like, oh my God, so far.
Speaker B:I was like, should we probably start this at some point?
Speaker D:Dante, how are you?
Speaker E:I'm alive, I am grand and I'm moving across the world.
Speaker E:So you know, things.
Speaker B:All right, Joe, just for the people that I want to say, they don't know who you are, but we've already had you on for an episode in season one, which is by far one of my favorite episodes of season one.
Speaker B:If you just want to go ahead and let them know what you do over on Instagram and just in general what you do.
Speaker C:Yeah, no worries.
Speaker C:So, yeah, I'm Joe, the carnival keeper of the Dice Circus.
Speaker C:We are a predominantly UK based ttrpg, Chaos sl, Horror sl really messed up stream.
Speaker C:We've had a few hiccups just with casts and things like that.
Speaker C:But we are now finally settled and we are excited to finally launch.
Speaker C:It's been a long journey, but it has been something that I've been working on for a good few years now.
Speaker C:So it's really nice to see it start to come into the light and, you know, let other people see it and join the freak show.
Speaker C:It's, it's, it's a D and D show.
Speaker C:Slightly different where the audience has a lot more say and you're part of the world building.
Speaker C:So we've been focusing a lot on that.
Speaker C:Again on Instagram, all socials.
Speaker C:I'm pretty sure we're the Dice Circus live.
Speaker C:I did change it because I forgot about it.
Speaker E:So.
Speaker C:So it was different names on different things.
Speaker C:So it is the Die Circus live on all social media and then My personal one is just Carnival Keeper and I don't post a lot on there, but you will hopefully see a little more content starting to come out now that we are actually due to kick off.
Speaker D:Hell yeah.
Speaker D:I know.
Speaker D:I actually have notifications on Twitch turned on for when that happens.
Speaker C:Yay.
Speaker B:I've been seeing like all your like your posts pop up like, oh, meet like the characters, meet this.
Speaker B:I've been seeing them and I was like, like I was like, hell yeah, we support the homies here.
Speaker C:Hell yeah.
Speaker B:But I've been seeing like all the stuff that you've been putting out.
Speaker B:I think it was just a little while.
Speaker B:It was a while back when I had seen like the first like the scissor, the sizzle.
Speaker B:It's been kind of a long day here, kind of like introducing everything.
Speaker B:I was like, oh my God, this is so amazing.
Speaker B:Like the quality on it was just amazing.
Speaker C:Oh, thanks.
Speaker C:It took me a long time.
Speaker B:I was like, I'm gonna see.
Speaker B:We have to reach out to be like, hey, can you make one for chat one?
Speaker B:It's just Dante's just spouting nonsense.
Speaker C:I mean it was, it was hard work to do the actual trailer intro because I was a one man band at that point trying to get everything together and we tried to not use a lot of AI for things, so that was fun.
Speaker C:I have zero editing experience.
Speaker C:I have never edited anything in my life.
Speaker C:Barely even knew what my computer could do besides watch YouTube and D& D. So when I learn how to edit things, I was like, oh, I'm not going to pay so much money to do this.
Speaker C:I'm going to make it myself and give myself more work to do.
Speaker C:So yeah, it took about three months to do just because yeah, it was a lot to put together plus managing a full time job.
Speaker C:But we did it, we got there in the end and I'm very happy with it.
Speaker C:I'm looking forward to creating more.
Speaker C:We do have our actual intro for the cast and everything coming out, but I can't take any credit to that.
Speaker C:That was Jack and Mandy in Evercast.
Speaker C:So shout out to shout out to them for, for creating that for us.
Speaker C:So you'll get to see more of that on Sunday.
Speaker C:But yeah, we're just trying to get as much content out now that we actually have content to put out.
Speaker B:Yeah, I've been saying, I was like, damn, this is so cool.
Speaker B:Like I'm so excited for you when you guys like start.
Speaker B:I was like, this is going to be so cool because I know from like Season one, when we were talking about it, we're like, oh, they were going to do this and this and this and this.
Speaker B:The process we're in right now.
Speaker B:And just to see, like, from the point the last we talked to now, it's like the growth is like exponential and it's like, amazing that you guys are going to be like, up and running pretty soon.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's crazy how, like, it feels like it's taken forever.
Speaker C:Like, for me, it's been a few years trying to get this to really work and trying to find a cast that gel together and, you know, we were trying to have it UK based only, but we just, we didn't want to limit it to that because we had so many.
Speaker C:Like, we met some really cool people from everywhere, so we wanted to include a bit of diversity into it too.
Speaker C:So we did.
Speaker C:That was something that we wanted to try and bring in.
Speaker C:And we've officially.
Speaker C:I can't remember if the last time I told you guys, but we had registered it now as a full company.
Speaker C:We did finally get that registered.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's all registered.
Speaker C:We are D Circus ltd, which is crazy to think about.
Speaker C:I'm like, oh, my God, I'm.
Speaker C:I sure was owning a business.
Speaker C:This is scary.
Speaker C:I. I'm still a child.
Speaker C:Stop it.
Speaker C:So it's.
Speaker C:It's scary, but it's.
Speaker C:It's really exciting and hopefully it brings a lot more opportunities because we have.
Speaker C:We have so many things that we want to do and we're trying to, you know, we're trying to be a little bit different.
Speaker C:We're trying to give.
Speaker C:Trying to give people a little.
Speaker C:A little freak show to get their freak on, you know?
Speaker E:Get your freak on.
Speaker C:Get your freak on.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, I understand, like, the, the business part of that, like, because it could be terrifying.
Speaker B:Just like, start.
Speaker B:Because when we started originally we had started on NAT1, which was our actual play podcast.
Speaker B:He was like, we're gonna want to protect ourselves.
Speaker B:We're gonna want to have like, this and this, this.
Speaker B:I was like, I don't know what that any of that means.
Speaker B:And just like, all right, sit down there, lava lamp, and I'll handle it.
Speaker B:And because I'm pretty look at, but I'm not all that bright.
Speaker B:So cj, he legitimately, dude, he saved everything.
Speaker B:He, like, handled everything.
Speaker B:He did like, all, like, what do we have an llc?
Speaker B:I don't even know.
Speaker B:I'm just.
Speaker D:Yeah, it's an LLC that.
Speaker B:Yeah, we have that.
Speaker B:And then we have like all the shows we have.
Speaker B:Because we have this one.
Speaker B:We have a paranormal one where we just talk, like, paranormal cases and, like, true crime and.
Speaker B:Yeah, just everything under one.
Speaker B:And I was like, dude, I don't know any of this, and I'm scared.
Speaker B:He's like, yeah, I'll handle it.
Speaker B:Don't worry.
Speaker B:I was like, thank you, cj.
Speaker B:I appreciate that so much, man.
Speaker C:It is scary, though.
Speaker C:Like, you don't realize, you know, we had.
Speaker C:We had a few business scares when we started talking about turning the Die Circus into a business.
Speaker C:A lot.
Speaker C:For protection.
Speaker C:Really, like, to keep the name and, you know, things like that so that no one could take it.
Speaker C:That was a big one.
Speaker C:But also because we have people from everywhere, we wanted to make sure that it was represented for each person.
Speaker C:Obviously, because I'm based in Scotland, it falls under Scottish law and stuff like that.
Speaker C:But there was so much I had no idea about, you know, about having to have people agree to use their faces in streams.
Speaker C:Like, I'm like, but you chose to be here.
Speaker C:I don't get it.
Speaker C:So there was, like, so many things that I hadn't even thought of until, you know, we had a little hiccup.
Speaker C:Things got a little messy with a couple of members that were in it for the money, and that was it.
Speaker C:We had no money.
Speaker C:We have zero money.
Speaker B:Like, how are we going to split the profits?
Speaker B:I was like, my guy, we've made a dollar off of sales.
Speaker C:I'm like, we're not even affiliated.
Speaker C:What are you talking about?
Speaker C:Where's the money going?
Speaker E:8 cents, and I want it now, damn it.
Speaker B:Like, if you want, with inflation and taxes, you get about 2 cents now.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's it.
Speaker C:Like, can I claim back on, like, emotional damage?
Speaker C:Like, is this.
Speaker C:Like, was there a need for that?
Speaker B:So you made me cry last episode.
Speaker B:I'm gonna take half of your paycheck.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's the crazy thing, because people are like.
Speaker B:I was like, yeah, we're gonna.
Speaker B:Like, we're gonna make so much money off of this.
Speaker B:I was like, my guy, this is, like, slow process.
Speaker B:Like, it's.
Speaker B:We're on season three, and just now we're getting people like, oh, like.
Speaker B:And, like, I've been listening to this.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker B:Like, I didn't even know anybody was listening.
Speaker B:I was like, thank you.
Speaker B:But I was like, it took us till season three to start.
Speaker B:Like, fans coming up.
Speaker B:And like, oh, this, this, and this.
Speaker B:I was like, that is so cool.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's cool, but it's slow.
Speaker C:And I think that's the thing that people don't realize about, like, especially starting something within, like, the TTRPG space because they automatically pin you to things like dimension 20 or critical role.
Speaker C:And as much as they are incredible, they are professionals with backing teams and, you know, like, they didn't start off with nothing.
Speaker C:They had some sort of experience, some sort of, you know, funds to be able to do certain things.
Speaker C:Whereas, like, just random people sitting in all over the UK and everywhere else, it's like, where are we gonna get, you know, that kind of stuff.
Speaker C:So when things get brought into, people get excited and I think, you know, you have to.
Speaker C:People want to run before they can walk and they think about all the money that they're going to make.
Speaker C:You know, I'm like, dude, no, I have not made a pro.
Speaker C:I'm the only one with any kind of financial investment in this.
Speaker C:You guys have paid nothing.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker B:Like, they're like, oh, it's gonna take off.
Speaker B:It's like, no, it's gonna slowly start to take off.
Speaker B:We're gonna have to put a lot more money into this than what we're gonna get out of it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And like, oh, a critical role in this.
Speaker B:I was like, would you forget is like, they were voice actors with, like, literally, they had money to throw into this.
Speaker B:I was like, we work nine to fives.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:We ain't got nothing to give.
Speaker B:Y checked.
Speaker B:I wasn't driving a Bentley anywhere.
Speaker D:And I've put a ton in for equipment.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's the biggest thing, like, equipment.
Speaker B:And then like, the programs that we use just monthly, like, it's.
Speaker B:I was like, it's a lot to put in, but it's just.
Speaker B:It's basically doing it for the love of the game.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:To play pretend with my friends.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker D:The.
Speaker D:The portable podcast thing that we have.
Speaker D:Well, we have two of them.
Speaker D:We have a small form one which we use for, like, paranormal shit and investigations.
Speaker D:That one when I got it was like 450.
Speaker C:Damn.
Speaker D:The big mixer I have that can have, I think, eight different mic inputs, something like that.
Speaker D:Yeah, it was like 700.
Speaker C:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker B:Just like the audio thing and then just like the small mixer.
Speaker B:He's like, oh.
Speaker B:Because when we started recording, it was like.
Speaker B:Like I said, it was the live play.
Speaker B:And he's like, I got an extra microphone you can have.
Speaker B:Just invest in a mixer.
Speaker B:And I was like, dude, I don't know any of this.
Speaker B:I have my laptop.
Speaker B:Does that work the first couple episodes from that one?
Speaker B:I think it's somewhere up still on Spotify.
Speaker B:I was playing with my gaming headset, and the audio was just fucking terrible.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And he's like, just invest in a fucking mixer, dude.
Speaker B:It's like 40 bucks.
Speaker B:I was like, okay.
Speaker C:I recorded my.
Speaker E:On my Samsung Smart fridge,
Speaker C:my Nintendo DS, 3DS, if you want to be really fancy.
Speaker D:I have a modded 3ds XL.
Speaker D:And I have all the Dragon Quests, all the final fantasies.
Speaker D:And I'm a Pokemon nerd.
Speaker D:So, yes.
Speaker D:All the Pokemon.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Hell, yeah.
Speaker B:It's Mr. Moneybags.
Speaker B:Oh, you're Mr. Richie Rich.
Speaker D:Hey, hey.
Speaker D:No, I had the DS before the prices spiked.
Speaker D:I've had this thing sitting in a tote with packets so moisture doesn't damage it for fucking.
Speaker D:Like.
Speaker B:That's nice.
Speaker B:I have a Dreamcast that I strapped the DVD player to.
Speaker D:I have one of the.
Speaker D:I have a Dreamcast.
Speaker B:God damn it.
Speaker B:Of course you fucking would, dude.
Speaker D:I'm a huge game nerd.
Speaker D:I have a PS5.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker D:A PS3, a PS2, a PS Vita, a GameCube, a Wii, a Switch.
Speaker D:A Switch to a game boy advance sp.
Speaker D:A pokemon special edition yellow game bo color.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker D:A ds.
Speaker D:My 3ds xl.
Speaker D:A. I can't remember if I have that one, so I won't say it.
Speaker D:An Xbox and a gaming PC.
Speaker B:I have one.
Speaker B:I have an Xbox.
Speaker B:What is it?
Speaker B:The Xbox One.
Speaker B:And then I have a.
Speaker B:No, what is it?
Speaker B:What is it?
Speaker D:You have the Series X. Yeah, Series X.
Speaker B:Then I have an Xbox One that's in, like, a military bag somewhere in here that I just don't plug in.
Speaker B:I was like, I upgraded.
Speaker B:Why do I need this?
Speaker B:And it's just sitting there staring at me like, how could you?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Did all the special moments mean nothing to you?
Speaker C:Sorry, baby.
Speaker B:You gotta upgrade.
Speaker B:You weren't streaming fast.
Speaker D:Oh, I. I do have a 360 that I plan on modding, and of course you do.
Speaker B:You have three consoles that came out yet.
Speaker C:That is insane.
Speaker C:Like, I just have.
Speaker C:Well, I have PlayStation 5, and I have an Xbox 360 that, again, is also collecting dust.
Speaker C:And then I have my XBO Series S, I think, just because I didn't want it to take up any more space.
Speaker C:And then I have my gaming PC, which apparently is meant to be, like, a really decent PC, but I don't use it for anything else apart from this, so I don't really use it for what it's meant to.
Speaker C:It runs Baldur's Gate fine.
Speaker C:And that's all I needed it for.
Speaker C:And I don't know if it runs a stream really well yet, but we will find out.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I think I'm pretty close to having to upgrade my laptop because I have it just for this.
Speaker B:And I was like, it's touch screen.
Speaker B:And she's like, well, what about this?
Speaker B:Can I run this?
Speaker B:I was like, it's touch screen.
Speaker C:It has a cool feature.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And the sad part is I don't even use the touchscreen because it leaves fingerprints.
Speaker B:So I just used it regularly.
Speaker B:I was like, I don't know why I paid the extra $200 for this.
Speaker B:Like, CJ warned me about this.
Speaker B:I should have listened.
Speaker C:Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker D:I actually forgot, too.
Speaker D:I have a retro emulation handheld and a retro emulation PC in my living room with about 8 terabytes worth of games.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:I'm coming over to your house.
Speaker C:Like, no, I want you to adopt this.
Speaker C:Yeah, can we all.
Speaker D:I will live with you.
Speaker B:Like, I will adopt you all.
Speaker B:He's like.
Speaker B:He's like, you guys can play, but you're only gonna play Resident Evil.
Speaker C:Say less.
Speaker D:No, I mean, I have.
Speaker D:I have what, the entire PS1 library?
Speaker D:The entire.
Speaker D:What was it?
Speaker D:Genesis library, Nintendo Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Game Boy color, Game Boy advance library.
Speaker B:I have the Oculus or the.
Speaker B:Was it the Meta Quest 3 too?
Speaker B:I got so scared because he.
Speaker B:When he had.
Speaker B:It was a while back, he had bought the Exorcist game on the VR and we played around each.
Speaker D:Oh, that was so fun, bro.
Speaker B:I almost karate chopped his wife.
Speaker B:I was like, I'm sorry, man.
Speaker B:I'm just terrified.
Speaker B:Which is crazy because I love, like, scary movies.
Speaker B:I think I like being scared more than I actually enjoy the, like, the movie.
Speaker D:Being in the scare.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It's this control thing.
Speaker B:I play, like, scary games with daughter.
Speaker B:And then I.
Speaker B:It was like, one of them's like, you're working at a kebab shop.
Speaker B:You have to, like, do these certain rules or something.
Speaker B:And then something popped out at me, and I almost Frisbee my controller at my tv.
Speaker C:There's.
Speaker C:There's something so different about, like, either watching a scary movie and playing it.
Speaker C:Like, I love watching my partner play scary movies.
Speaker C:Like, I will be like, here, look.
Speaker C:This really creepy scary movie.
Speaker C:Like, a game that I really want to watch and play.
Speaker C:And my partner, like, I don't want to play that.
Speaker C:Like, that's scary.
Speaker C:I'm like, I don't care.
Speaker C:You're gonna sit and you're.
Speaker C:I'm Gonna sit and watch you.
Speaker C:So when I think it was like Resident Evil 7.
Speaker C:Is that the one with the big hot booby lady?
Speaker C:Is that her?
Speaker C:Yes, that's her.
Speaker C:Right, her.
Speaker C:When that came out, I was like, you're, you're gonna play that?
Speaker C:I'm gonna sit and watch.
Speaker C:So I like, I am notorious for watching games.
Speaker C:Like I love to sit and watch my partner play games.
Speaker C:Like I will sit quite happily like just staring at the screen like watching them play.
Speaker C:But when it comes to like horror games or you know, those like choice games where it's like timed and it's like you have to save, like you have to jump over this thing or you're gonna die.
Speaker C:I can't remember the name of them but there's like the.
Speaker C:Oh, it's like a choice based thing and they're really creepy and different.
Speaker C:I can't remember the name, but they're really freaking cool games.
Speaker C:Dark pictures.
Speaker C:That's what they're called.
Speaker C:Sick games.
Speaker C:The stories are amazing.
Speaker C:But you can play with multiple people and like multiple friends and you all have like different roles and you kind of until dawn and you can play like with your friends and stuff.
Speaker C:So I've played multiple times with friends sitting in their house.
Speaker C:And when it comes to like, like you pass the controller to each person and you have to do your scene, I'm always the person that has to escape something or run away or like do the heartbeat thing.
Speaker C:And I fail every time because like I can't do it.
Speaker C:It freaks the hell out of me.
Speaker C:Like I'm happy to sit and watch things, but I just don't hand me it.
Speaker C:Don't make me in control.
Speaker C:I will yeet that sucker so damn.
Speaker C:Like, don't make me do it.
Speaker B:Same thing.
Speaker B:Like I like scary stuff because I like being scared.
Speaker B:But the only thing I love more than that is watching other people be scared.
Speaker B:And it, I always find it hilarious.
Speaker B:Like we're watching scary movies and CJ's kids are like, can we watch movies with you?
Speaker B:They sat down and just his son's like, yeah.
Speaker B:And then same thing with my lady.
Speaker B:She loves being scared, but she's chicken.
Speaker B:It.
Speaker B:She's scared of everything.
Speaker B:We went to go watch that movie.
Speaker B:Was it Tarot?
Speaker B:That came out like two years ago.
Speaker B:A year ago.
Speaker D:Oh yeah, that was.
Speaker B:We were watching it in theaters and she's like, I'm scared.
Speaker B:Can I hold your arm?
Speaker B:I was like, yeah, sure.
Speaker B:I gave her my arm.
Speaker B:And there's a part of the movie where like they're in a train station.
Speaker B:And like, this creature, like, bum rushes the like.
Speaker B:And she jumps up and she dislocates my shoulder.
Speaker C:Holy.
Speaker B:I was like, oh, oh, yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker B:Like, like, I had, I think for like, two months I had my arm
Speaker D:in a sling and she was Peter Griffin.
Speaker B:And I didn't go to the doctor because I didn't know what, like, had happened.
Speaker B:I was like, I thought I slept on it wrong.
Speaker B:I was like, I just slept on it wrong.
Speaker B:And then, like, I couldn't move it.
Speaker B:I was like, seizure.
Speaker B:I think I'm up.
Speaker B:My guy.
Speaker E:That is the most elaborate cover up story for domestic violence I've ever.
Speaker C:I was just, I was thinking it, but I'm like, should I say it?
Speaker D:You know, anything goes here.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:Guys, stop.
Speaker B:She's listening.
Speaker C:It's okay.
Speaker B:We're just making.
Speaker C:Need help?
Speaker C:Oh, man.
Speaker D:Tavern is not PC.
Speaker B:You guys are see me in two arm slings.
Speaker B:Yeah, but she popped my shoulder out of my arm and I didn't want to make her feel bad, so I was like, no, I think I just slept wrong.
Speaker C:I would feel really gilly.
Speaker B:That's why I didn't tell her, like, after I already healed.
Speaker D:Honesty is the best, Paula.
Speaker B:Then, like, afterwards, after he healed, I was like, yeah, you know you popped my shoulder out of its socket.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Oh, my God, I'm so sorry.
Speaker B:I was like, yet.
Speaker C:Are you, though?
Speaker B:I don't think you really are.
Speaker D:If we go to a movie, you need to sit five feet away from me.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Pick a different stage.
Speaker B:I want to do a scary movie marathon where it's just CJ's kids, my lady, and then CJ's mom, because they're all going to scream and be terrified the whole time.
Speaker B:So listeners send us movie recommendations.
Speaker D:When are we doing this?
Speaker B:I don't know, man.
Speaker B:We got to wait for like a full moon or something.
Speaker D:That reminds me.
Speaker D:I, I, that that was actually a fun.
Speaker D:So we used to do a podcast where we would review movies after watching them, but we were hammered.
Speaker C:That's amazing.
Speaker D:It was drunken movie reviews, the best.
Speaker D:Yeah, that one was a hoot.
Speaker C:That's such a great concept.
Speaker C:Like, just drunken movie reviews.
Speaker C:Like, that is so freaking good.
Speaker C:I love that.
Speaker D:It was an interesting one.
Speaker C:I can imagine.
Speaker C:Yeah, I'm not into, I'm not into, like, well, to be fair, recently, since, like, Christmas time.
Speaker C:So I.
Speaker C:Over Christmas, my.
Speaker C:To be fair, I've been asking my partner for a cat since, you know, the eight years that we've been together.
Speaker C:And the answer's always been no.
Speaker C:However, let me get rats.
Speaker C:I don't.
Speaker C:I don't.
Speaker C:Anyway, so for Christmas just passed.
Speaker C:I did get my kitten.
Speaker C:I got him on Christmas Eve.
Speaker C:He is the light of my life.
Speaker C:I have turned into those really annoying cat moms that everything is about my son.
Speaker C:But we.
Speaker C:We became like obsessed during that time because it was really cozy and things like watching actual like older movies.
Speaker C:So we watched the.
Speaker C:A couple.
Speaker C:We're watching Primal Fear just now.
Speaker C:It's not really a horror movie, but it's.
Speaker C:It's a really old movie.
Speaker C:But it's really freaking good.
Speaker C:But the movie that we watched, I think it was a few nights ago.
Speaker C:Have you guys ever heard of video drama film?
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker C:Oh my God, yes.
Speaker C:I'm so unwell after watching that movie.
Speaker C:That is the most.
Speaker C:Like, I get the concept, but it's so freaking on.
Speaker C:Like it's so unhinged with what it is that it took me so long to understand the plot.
Speaker C:So basically it's like what is it like a.
Speaker C:About the.
Speaker C:How the effect of social media or like.
Speaker C:Like I don't know TVs and can have on you.
Speaker C:So like this guy literally like the only thing I remember from it is this guy starts inserting video like VHS tape shapes into his stomach, like into his belly button.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's a whole thing.
Speaker C:But it was like low key about sex and also not.
Speaker C:It was so freaking weird that like my brain was about to like combust because I did not know how to process that any shape.
Speaker C:Yeah, it was stranger.
Speaker E:That tracks.
Speaker C:It's very.
Speaker C:It's very.
Speaker C:So we've been watching stuff like that.
Speaker C:We watched the game.
Speaker C:It's kind of been like a thing on Tick Tock recently.
Speaker C:That's a.
Speaker C:If you've not watched that movie.
Speaker C:It's really old.
Speaker C:But it's a really good like it's so good.
Speaker C:Like the ending just had me like I'm.
Speaker C:I hate endings of movies.
Speaker C:I never watch the ending of any movie ever.
Speaker C:It just infuriates me.
Speaker C:Like I love a movie.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's a whole thing.
Speaker C:Like I hate endings of movies.
Speaker C:Like until I got with my partner, I never watched the ending of anything.
Speaker C:Like I would deliberately like get to a point in the movie that I enjoyed and I would turn it off because I knew that I was gonna
Speaker B:hate it ends there.
Speaker C:I'm like, that's it.
Speaker C:Because I know they're gonna ruin the movie ending.
Speaker C:And I have never been wrong so about it or in general actually.
Speaker E:I don't think it's worse.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I'm like, this is not.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:So, yeah, I've always turned them off, but that movie was the first movie, I think, in a very long time that I gasped at the end and I was like, holy.
Speaker C:Like, it's.
Speaker C:It's a bit of a slow burn in the beginning.
Speaker C:But, yeah, if you.
Speaker C:If you want something to watch that's really kind of like psychological horror and really messed up, watch the game.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's really.
Speaker C:It's really freaking good.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:I'm.
Speaker C:Yeah,
Speaker D:I enjoy movies like Terrifier, Silent Hill.
Speaker B:I. I like scary movies, but I hate gory movies.
Speaker E:I love gore.
Speaker E:I hate jump scares.
Speaker B:I like jump scares.
Speaker D:I love it all the.
Speaker B:I was like, a lot of these movies are not, like, scared, like, recently.
Speaker B:A lot of them haven't been scary.
Speaker B:I'm like, that's an all right movie.
Speaker B:But, like, the one movie I watched, like, re.
Speaker B:Well, not recently.
Speaker B:It was a while back that freaked me out was Bring Her Back.
Speaker E:That was pretty good, dude.
Speaker B:That one.
Speaker E:I was like.
Speaker B:I was, like, legitimately scared.
Speaker B:I was like, I don't.
Speaker B:I don't want to do this, cj.
Speaker B:Why are you making me do this?
Speaker B:And I was watching this, like.
Speaker B:Like at 4 in the afternoon.
Speaker B:I was like, CJ, can we, like, open a window?
Speaker D:It was great, man.
Speaker D:That's why.
Speaker B:Dude, it was gory, and it was, like, terrifying.
Speaker C:I was like, it's messed up.
Speaker B:I was like, I don't want to watch this again.
Speaker B:Like, it was a great movie, don't get me wrong, but I don't ever want to watch this again.
Speaker C:Yeah, I don't deal well with, like, jump scares.
Speaker C:Like, I do prefer, like, the psychological horror things or, like, thrill.
Speaker C:Like, I'm a thriller gal.
Speaker C:If you ever want, like, a really good Scottish movie to watch, that's really crazy.
Speaker C:That's not, like, Outlander, but it's really freaking cool.
Speaker C:It's called Caliber that I also get the ick watching anything that's Scottish.
Speaker C:Like, because it's always Scottish actors that are not Scottish and they have to put on an accent, and it just.
Speaker C:I can't listen to it.
Speaker C:But Caliber.
Speaker C:Caliber is the.
Speaker C:Probably one of the most incredible, like, movies I've ever watched.
Speaker C:It's about two guys from Edinburgh.
Speaker C:They go up to the Scottish Highlands for, like, a weekend hunting trip, and then, yeah, something goes tragically wrong.
Speaker C:So I definitely recommend it.
Speaker C:It does not go where people think it goes.
Speaker C:Really cool.
Speaker C:It's A really cool movie.
Speaker C:But, yeah, we've been really into, like, watching old thrillers and weird.
Speaker C:There's just really weird things.
Speaker C:We watched.
Speaker C:It was this again.
Speaker C:My partner had control of the TV remote, so it was not my choice, but it was like the great.
Speaker C:Was it the great Scottish porridge contest called.
Speaker C:If you look it up, it's called the Golden Spurtle.
Speaker C:Oh, it is?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:The Golden Spurtle.
Speaker C:It should be an insult, actually.
Speaker C:It's kind of a cute insult.
Speaker C:It's about making.
Speaker C:Making porridge.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker C:Just.
Speaker C:Just how we make porridge in Scotland.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker C:I was like, thank you for making me watch this.
Speaker D:Is it bad that I've never understood porridge?
Speaker C:I don't get it either.
Speaker C:I don't.
Speaker B:I don't see the appeal of porridge.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker D:But I had it in China.
Speaker D:Not good.
Speaker B:What.
Speaker E:What actually is it?
Speaker E:Is it like.
Speaker E:I just picture cream of wheat or oatmeal or something, but same dude.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's basically like rolled oats, like Quaker oats.
Speaker C:We have two ways of making it here.
Speaker C:The savory option and the sweet option.
Speaker C:My grandma traumatized me with the salt version, so it's meant to be like a sweet breakfast.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:She used to put salt, like, pure salt in it.
Speaker C:And that's all I could taste was just like, salty, soggy, kind of like rice pudding.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:Oh, it was so gross.
Speaker B:Sorry about that.
Speaker B:I thought it was muted.
Speaker B:So that's like the version of grits we have here where there's, like, a salty and then a sweet version of it.
Speaker B:And either way, it's bad.
Speaker C:Either way, it sucks.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's really terrible.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I've heard people talk about what even is grits, because I hear people say,
Speaker D:oh, shrimp and grits.
Speaker C:Like, what is it?
Speaker E:I feel like it's all the same stuff, just different variations of mush.
Speaker C:Fair.
Speaker C:Fair.
Speaker C:And this is a question I had, and I've never actually had anyone answer it.
Speaker C:When I've heard people say biscuits and gravy, this makes me so uncomfortable.
Speaker C:What is it?
Speaker B:It's like, just a biscuit.
Speaker B:It's exactly what it sounds like.
Speaker B:It's like biscuit, and then they have, like, sausage gravy.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:So it's.
Speaker D:It's called or referred to here as a country gravy.
Speaker D:Instead of being brown, like your typical gravy, it is white with, like, sausage and stuff in it.
Speaker D:It.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, it's so good.
Speaker D:It is.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:But the biscuit.
Speaker C:What is.
Speaker D:What is the biscuit, it just adds to it.
Speaker D:Like it soaks up the flavor.
Speaker D:So you have a, a nice buttery bread basically that you're putting.
Speaker B:It's like a flour biscuit, like a bread scone.
Speaker E:A non sweet.
Speaker C:Oh, okay.
Speaker C:I got you.
Speaker C:I got you.
Speaker C:Okay, okay.
Speaker C:I see the appeal.
Speaker D:And, and all grits is.
Speaker D:Is coarsely ground corn and then it's turned into a thick porridge.
Speaker C:Oh, I don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker B:It's gross.
Speaker D:And it's typically with like butter and cheese or shrimp.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, I've heard of the shrimp.
Speaker B:Like, it's so good.
Speaker B:I was like, first off, grits itself is disgusting.
Speaker B:Adding shrimp to that, I don't think it's gonna save it.
Speaker C:That it doesn't sound appealing like at all.
Speaker C:I did try corn, like cornbread for the first time.
Speaker C:Loved it.
Speaker C:It was freaking great.
Speaker C:Trying to find any kind of cornmeal here in the UK Though it.
Speaker C:I went to like four different stores to try and find freaking cornmeal or corn flour or whatever the it is.
Speaker C:I couldn't find it anywhere.
Speaker C:We drove around for ages trying to find somewhere that had it.
Speaker C:We finally found it and I made it for the first time and I was like, I saw southern.
Speaker C:This is so cool.
Speaker C:It's just me and my cornbread.
Speaker B:That was not in my bingo card is.
Speaker B:We're doing a southern accent.
Speaker B:We're gonna have to send you like a kind of like care package, please.
Speaker E:Jiffy mix.
Speaker B:Yeah, that.
Speaker B:And then like chicken fried steak.
Speaker C:Oh, God, that.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:I love snacks.
Speaker C:So I'll take a care package of any.
Speaker B:That's a full meal right there.
Speaker D:O.
Speaker D:Some.
Speaker D:Some tahin.
Speaker B:Yeah, just like care.
Speaker B:We're going to send you two care packages.
Speaker B:One's going to be southern food and then the other one's going to be like Mexican candy.
Speaker C:Great.
Speaker C:I've had.
Speaker C:I've had chamoy and what's it called?
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:With the peach rings.
Speaker C:I've had that.
Speaker C:That's great.
Speaker C:Love that.
Speaker C:10 out of 10.
Speaker C:That's really good.
Speaker B:Put it on fruit.
Speaker B:Put it tahin on fruit.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:Delicious.
Speaker C:That was good.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker C:That was very good.
Speaker C:That is.
Speaker B:We talked about everything but D and
Speaker C:D. We have not.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker B:This is gonna be a fun.
Speaker B:This is D.
Speaker C:Oh, God.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:But we're gonna have to figure out a way to get you some snacks over there.
Speaker B:There.
Speaker C:Please send.
Speaker B:Send some Scottish stuff too.
Speaker C:Oh, hell yeah.
Speaker C:You will be so disappointed.
Speaker B:You'll be so disappointed.
Speaker C:You'll open like e. But I. I have.
Speaker C:I will package.
Speaker C:But you have to film the reactions to eating anything.
Speaker C:Because that's my favorite thing.
Speaker C:My favorite thing to watch.
Speaker D:I would be down to figure out a way to.
Speaker D:Well, I mean we can.
Speaker D:Because we do have a.
Speaker D:A discord.
Speaker B:I like how you just shake.
Speaker D:We could always.
Speaker D:Well, no, because we could always.
Speaker D:I was thinking we could.
Speaker D:Oh.
Speaker D:Set up like a live private like twitch live thing.
Speaker D:And we could just do it live with my camera.
Speaker D:And then I was like, wait, why do that?
Speaker D:We could just do it on discord.
Speaker B:Yeah, we'll do.
Speaker B:We'll do a Dice Circus Times Chat 1.
Speaker B:Just a random snack.
Speaker C:Snack reveal.
Speaker C:Mukbang.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker E:International mukbang.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:That would get so much attention.
Speaker C:Like I love watching.
Speaker B:I got Mexican candy.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker B:You guys, we got haggis.
Speaker C:You got haggis and black pudding.
Speaker E:We'll make Rudy record like a theme for it.
Speaker E:But.
Speaker E:And bagpipes.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's a must.
Speaker C:And you have to wear a kill.
Speaker C:No, I'm kidding.
Speaker C:Unless you can find one.
Speaker B:I don't know, man.
Speaker B:I got cabs for a kilt.
Speaker B:I got some strong goddamn calves.
Speaker E:Goddamn trunks.
Speaker D:The Dragon Ball character, we have to
Speaker B:send her the pika fre.
Speaker B:It's like.
Speaker B:Yes, it's like a gummy candy on the center and then it's like enveloped in like tahin.
Speaker B:Not tahin, like tamarindo candy.
Speaker D:So white Tahin
Speaker C:Cajun.
Speaker B:But the pika fresas is basically like a spicy strawberry candy.
Speaker D:So good.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker B:They're really good.
Speaker B:But if you go down to Mexico, they have like, like the big coin sized ones.
Speaker C:Oh, I'm down.
Speaker B:I said we make a care package.
Speaker D:We can.
Speaker D:Next time.
Speaker D:Next time mom goes, can ask her to pick us some up or we
Speaker B:go to the really super sketchy dulce that's by your house.
Speaker D:Oh, that's fine.
Speaker B:They have all the same.
Speaker B:But you're risking your life every time you go down that way.
Speaker D:Hey, but you know what?
Speaker C:I would like to get the package.
Speaker C:I don't want you guys to, you know, die before I get it.
Speaker B:We'll film it and it'll be a whole.
Speaker B:We can turn into a mini campaign.
Speaker E:We'll send you a package from there and then you send us one from Glasgow.
Speaker C:So like that's.
Speaker C:I'm no longer talking to you.
Speaker E:The risk to reward ratio.
Speaker B:Oh no.
Speaker C:Did not just hit me with the Glasgow.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker C:You're no longer allowed to live in my backyard.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker B:You Dante, what I heard is there's a big coffee.
Speaker B:What does rent look like?
Speaker B:Is it rent controlled?
Speaker B:No, I think Rudy's the only one
Speaker D:that didn't catch it.
Speaker E:That's because he's a Chernobyl.
Speaker B:How dare you.
Speaker B:All right, so I'm gonna ask you a couple more questions.
Speaker C:Go for it.
Speaker B:I'm telling you, it was literally the intro.
Speaker B:We ask one question, we derail for the whole episode.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:How did you meet some of my players?
Speaker C:How did I meet some of my players?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So the OGs are me, Jack and Zavian.
Speaker C:So we were.
Speaker C:Me and Jack in the old group that we were with, which was Dice by the Sword.
Speaker C:We were with them for a while and then we disbanded, and me and Jack stayed and wanted to create it again, so he.
Speaker C:He stuck around.
Speaker C:So I met him through that group and I see him as a little brother, so I. I adore him.
Speaker C:Drives me insane, but I adore him.
Speaker C:So he.
Speaker C:He very.
Speaker C:He's kind of been around since the start and really believes in the project.
Speaker C:And then Xavian is.
Speaker C:I. I have no words to describe me.
Speaker C:He's just.
Speaker C:When you're having a bad day, he's the person you want to call.
Speaker C:He's just.
Speaker C:He's such.
Speaker C:He just makes you laugh.
Speaker C:Like, there's nothing.
Speaker C:There's nothing that phases him.
Speaker C:He's.
Speaker C:He's just pretty down to earth and he always makes people laugh.
Speaker C:So he's.
Speaker C:You know, we call him the personality hire.
Speaker C:So he's there for that.
Speaker C:And then we did kind of like an interview basis thing.
Speaker C:So I'm kind of.
Speaker C:I was against doing.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's how I met Z.
Speaker C:And he started playing in my games.
Speaker C:So I had a paid game at one point, so he started playing in that.
Speaker C:And then we just became good friends after that.
Speaker C:And then when it came to actually getting people into this show, we had to do the interviews because we were kind of against doing interviews because we didn't want people to feel like they had to perform or do those kind of things.
Speaker C:But it got to a point where we just kept getting really weird people.
Speaker C:So we were like, this is not great.
Speaker C:So we got a good bunch of people.
Speaker C:So it was really hard to narrow it down to who we got.
Speaker C:But at the end, that's how we kind of met them.
Speaker C:And then ever since then, we've been kind of bonding and doing games nights and trying to catch up.
Speaker C:We actually, just before I came on with you guys, we were playing Jackbox, and it's the best way to get to know people.
Speaker C:And yeah, it got pretty dark pretty quick.
Speaker C:And I'm like, I have found my people.
Speaker E:I love Jackbox Box.
Speaker C:So much fun.
Speaker C:It's so fun.
Speaker C:It got pretty, pretty dark pretty quick.
Speaker C:And I'm like, yay, I belong here.
Speaker C:So, yeah, it.
Speaker C:That's how we kind of started getting to know each other.
Speaker C:We did have.
Speaker C:My previous cast were all boys, so it was nice to kind of vary up and have two other gals join me.
Speaker C:So I've got Mandy and I've got Nick, and Mandy's from the US and Nick is from here.
Speaker C:So it's nice seeing how everybody kind of gels together.
Speaker C:But, yeah, they're a great bunch.
Speaker C:So far we've been talking non stop, and it's nice to see people with the same kind of passion for the dice circus that I've had for many years.
Speaker C:So it's nice seeing the idea start to be what I thought it would be.
Speaker B:Yeah, that sounds awesome.
Speaker B:Just to have everybody.
Speaker B:The compatibility, because that's kind of how we started too.
Speaker B:Like, I met C.J.
Speaker B:at work, and then he ended up marrying my sister.
Speaker B:Not cool, bro.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker D:You're the one that set it up, man.
Speaker B:Like, bro, let's hang out.
Speaker B:And he's like, I'm gonna marry your sister.
Speaker B:I was like, huh?
Speaker B:And Dante, we found him playing on a harmonica at a bus stop.
Speaker B:Kind of like sinners.
Speaker C:Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker B:But, yeah, it's cool that you were able to find, like, a group to kind of gel and then that's the biggest thing.
Speaker B:You can't have people kind of like, butting heads and be like, no, this, this.
Speaker B:It doesn't work.
Speaker C:No, it's.
Speaker C:It doesn't.
Speaker B:It's got to be copacetic.
Speaker B:Everybody's got to work together.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker B:So I'm pretty sure I asked you this last time you were on, but I want to re.
Speaker B:Ask you the question.
Speaker B:So since you're going to be taking off, like, Ice Circus is about to be launched.
Speaker B:I mean, by the time this comes out, I think it's already.
Speaker B:You guys will probably have a couple sessions already played and recorded.
Speaker B:If you had to add, like, an intro song for yourself, what would that intro song be?
Speaker C:Oh, that's a great question.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Oh, so I have two.
Speaker C:You know the song that's like that because it plays in my head constantly.
Speaker C:Like, it's like my elevator music.
Speaker C:Like, it's just me constantly every day.
Speaker C:That and the happy birthday song.
Speaker C:I sing that in my head a lot.
Speaker C:I don't Know why?
Speaker C:But yeah, you know.
Speaker C:You know when someone's like, oh, okay.
Speaker C:Sing a song right now.
Speaker C:I just.
Speaker C:I'm like, happy Birthday.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker D:Why?
Speaker C:Why did I do this?
Speaker C:Like, all day?
Speaker C:Like, I wake up randomly in the middle of the night, and I'm like, happy birthday.
Speaker C:Whose birthday is it?
Speaker C:Why am I singing this?
Speaker C:Stop it.
Speaker C:I'm.
Speaker B:You should do that.
Speaker B:But like, a slowed down, terrifying version.
Speaker B:Like, you know how movies, they get, like, super creepy?
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:They get, like, old songs and they make them, like, super creepy.
Speaker B:Like, slow it down.
Speaker B:Just.
Speaker B:Happy birthday.
Speaker B:Just do that.
Speaker C:I'm gonna try and do that in the campaign.
Speaker C:I'm gonna try and, like, there's a
Speaker B:Jordan Peele movie that came out.
Speaker B:It wasn't the.
Speaker B:Wasn't the one where it's called Us or something like that, I think where they have, like, the red jumpsuits.
Speaker B:Oh, man.
Speaker D:The red jumpsuit apparatus.
Speaker B:No, not that.
Speaker B:Definitely not that.
Speaker B:I think it's called Us or something like that.
Speaker B:But, like, the whole preview trailer was that Lunez song.
Speaker B:I got five on it.
Speaker B:But it's just, like, super slowed down and creepy.
Speaker B:I was like, that's a great song.
Speaker B:Why'd you guys do this?
Speaker C:That's good.
Speaker C:That.
Speaker C:That's good.
Speaker C:You know, there's that and the other song that keeps like, that people say should be like, song.
Speaker C:When I walk into anywhere the eye of the tiger because I'm tiny and always ready to fight someone.
Speaker B:That's just the final countdown.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker C:Just always ready.
Speaker B:I'm always ready because I'm ready to fight.
Speaker B:I was like, I got so many other songs for that nook.
Speaker B:If you book.
Speaker C:I need a list of these.
Speaker C:I need a list of songs that are now going to be like, my intro songs.
Speaker D:Scared.
Speaker B:Wu Tang ain't nothing to with.
Speaker C:That's what I need.
Speaker C:I need a list of, like, walking songs.
Speaker C:Because my nickname used to be 5ft of fury, which was like my DM name everywhere before.
Speaker C:But I'm not 5ft.
Speaker C:I am 5.2ft.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:So, yeah, I need to include, you know.
Speaker C:Yeah, five feet and two inches.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:The two inches is.
Speaker C:It makes a difference.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:I said just for, like, your next intro thing for the dice.
Speaker B:Let us handle the music for it.
Speaker C:Do it.
Speaker B:Let us score the the game.
Speaker C:I want it, like, give me a whole thing.
Speaker C:Like, do you know how long it took me to figure out and, like, curate an actual playlist for the Die Circus?
Speaker C:It took me so long because I have so many different, like, vibes.
Speaker C:Because the group Keep changing the vibe.
Speaker C:Like, do they want horror?
Speaker C:Do they want fun with some horror?
Speaker C:Do they want, like, traumatized?
Speaker C:And I'm like, we can't stream that.
Speaker C:Stop it.
Speaker C:Fun, light hearted things.
Speaker C:So I have a variety of songs, but yeah, it's the first thing if someone says, sing, sing me a song that you know all the words to the Happy Birthday.
Speaker D:We're going to find a local artist
Speaker B:to just wrap that, please.
Speaker D:For Rudy.
Speaker D:It's that Apple Bottom Jean song.
Speaker C:That's a good song.
Speaker B:You got to slow it down and distort it, though.
Speaker B:Yeah, you got to get Nine Inch Nails to cover it and then maybe
Speaker E:play it backwards on a record.
Speaker D:Only if.
Speaker D:Only if they do the video style too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:CJ's is just the middle, like, interlude of Free Bird.
Speaker B:Just a little guitar solo.
Speaker C:That's sick.
Speaker E:I learned it on harmonica just for him.
Speaker B:I learned it on kazoo.
Speaker D:Guys, I'm not that patriotic.
Speaker D:Come on now.
Speaker B:All right, so we're gonna move on to the next segment.
Speaker B:Hold on.
Speaker B:We're being flagged out by producer.
Speaker B:Real quick, Dante, who's pissing off the guy in the robe.
Speaker B:Are you gambling again?
Speaker B:Cuz we're not paying your tab and anymore after last time.
Speaker E:No, no, no.
Speaker E:This sorcerer here is just demanding a paternity test after a fire elemental called him dead.
Speaker D:Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker D:What can that even happen?
Speaker E:Apparently after one experimental summoning night and a whole lot of poor decision making.
Speaker B:So is it actually his if the
Speaker E:kid breathes fire, rolls his eyes just like him and sets things on fire when he gets emotional?
Speaker E:I mean, mean, probably.
Speaker D:So what does the mom say?
Speaker E:She said he knew what he was doing when he lit the candles and said the safe word wrong.
Speaker E:Well, now he's gonna be paying child support and charcoal.
Speaker E:And apologies.
Speaker B:Anyways, back to our regularly scheduled program.
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Joe, do you got a D4 on you?
Speaker C:I do indeed.
Speaker B:All right, go ahead and roll that and let us know you get.
Speaker B:For the new people listening, this is the part of the show where we have our guests play a head to head game against our hosts.
Speaker B:And then if by the end of the season, CG has more wins than losses, I gotta take him out to dinner.
Speaker B:But if he has more losses than wins, he has to take me out to dinner.
Speaker B:And right now he is sitting not so pretty at four wins and six losses.
Speaker B:Season's getting awfully close to ending.
Speaker B:I want me that sashimi.
Speaker B:Sashimi.
Speaker B:All right, what did you get?
Speaker C:I got a three.
Speaker B:A three.
Speaker B:God damn it.
Speaker B:A three gets you 30 second backstories.
Speaker B:No, this is CJ where he excels.
Speaker C:He.
Speaker B:He's really great at this game.
Speaker B:So the game is.
Speaker B:I'm gonna give you guys the name of a character, the race of the character, and then the class of the character.
Speaker B:You guys have 30 seconds to come up with the backstory, and then at the end of it, I'm gonna decide which one was the best story.
Speaker B:And we award points accordingly to that, of course.
Speaker B:Okay, are you guys ready?
Speaker B:Ready.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker B:Okay, so the name of the character is Jimbo Crumbum.
Speaker B:Jimbo Crumbum.
Speaker B:His race is a fur bolg, and his class is a Blood hunter.
Speaker B:Are you guys ready?
Speaker B:And begin.
Speaker B:I forgot.
Speaker B:The awkward part of this game is just the silence in the middle, so I'm just gonna.
Speaker B:I'm gonna just start rifting here, guys.
Speaker B:Nobody's told me to stop yet, so I'm gonna just.
Speaker C:Just sing Happy Birthday.
Speaker B:For some reason, my brain blanked on that, and I don't remember the words to Happy Birthday.
Speaker B:I'm gonna just do weird voices until we get to the 30 seconds.
Speaker C:Did I sound.
Speaker B:Did I sound like Prince?
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker B:All right, that's definitely way past time.
Speaker B:Sorry, I was really getting into my.
Speaker B:My Purple Rain era.
Speaker D:No, you're fine, man.
Speaker D:And I'll go last.
Speaker B:No, now you're going first.
Speaker B:C.C.
Speaker C:d.J.
Speaker E:I'll go first.
Speaker B:All right, Dante, go ahead and go first.
Speaker E:I feel like I've mucked up a couple of his wins, so, you know, I should take one for the team, right?
Speaker B:You know this isn't a team effort, right?
Speaker B:You guys play separate.
Speaker B:It's not a 2v1.
Speaker E:Well, you know, like, if he wins and I'm nice to him, maybe he'll slide me a little bit under the
Speaker B:table, kind of up Mortal Kombat ass.
Speaker B:Kumate, do you think I'm running here?
Speaker B:All right, man, go ahead.
Speaker A:Well, howdy, y'.
Speaker C:All.
Speaker E:Pleasure to meet y'.
Speaker C:All.
Speaker E:The name is Jimbo Crumb Bum.
Speaker E:Now, I live out here in the swamps with my buddy, also Jimbo, but, you know, his last name ain't the same, but we ain't going to talk about that anyway, so me and Jimbo here, we.
Speaker E:They call us the Jimbo brothers.
Speaker E:We're out here hunting all the time.
Speaker E:I have been told that I am what is called a Blood Hunter.
Speaker E:I could not tell you what that means specifically, but basically, we get out here, we get these varmints, and we get it done.
Speaker E:So if you got a problem album, you hit Up.
Speaker E:The Jimbo brothers.
Speaker B:God damn it.
Speaker B:The whale.
Speaker D:Howdy.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker B:God damn.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:He set the bar pretty high, guys, on this one.
Speaker E:So literally though, what are the like mechanic type deals?
Speaker E:What is a Blood Hunter?
Speaker B:I know it's sounds like it's, it's.
Speaker D:You're basically a cursed like monster hunter runner and you can sacrifice your own blood and it makes you stronger.
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah,
Speaker B:I just imagine just two guys, big guys named Jimbo, just catching rabbits.
Speaker B:Like not even monsters at this point, just like tiny little creature.
Speaker B:They're in a swamp, you know.
Speaker B:Actually a swamp probably has alligators.
Speaker B:You know what it.
Speaker B:I'm in.
Speaker B:You sold me.
Speaker B:All right, Joe, would you like to go next?
Speaker C:Okay, seriously.
Speaker C:Called me Jimbo Crumbum, the Blood Hun.
Speaker C:And I, well, you know, I'm just a humble little cleaner.
Speaker C:I clean the local hoarder's house and she, well, she's just a delight, this lady, she gives me tea, she gives me crumpets and the occasional rat that I may find in the walls, you know, And I, I have prided myself on becoming the world's best crumbum eater around.
Speaker C:And this woman pays me a good fine, fine salary.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:And, and as I was saying, and then he like morphs into like a freaking weird ass rat.
Speaker B:I'm glad I've muted myself because I went in the middle.
Speaker C:Now I have to make him an npc.
Speaker B:You have to tag us when he comes out.
Speaker B:That's awesome.
Speaker C:I have to make him.
Speaker C:I have a whole idea now.
Speaker B:Oh my God, that's awesome.
Speaker B:All right, cj, you're last man, go ahead.
Speaker D:Well, Dante and I had the same idea, so I'm just gonna make it so you, Dante.
Speaker D:I'm just gonna make my voice a little deeper and that'll be the differentiator, I guess.
Speaker E:Well, so he's the other Jimbo in the Jimbo Bros. Oh, okay, all right,
Speaker B:all right, nice try.
Speaker B:The Jimbo Bros. Is actually three Jimbos.
Speaker B:That's what people don't expect.
Speaker D:Well, I don't know what the hell's going on, but I've been hearing some shit.
Speaker D:And the shit I've been hearing is that there's some other impostinator trying to say he's Jimbo Crumbum talking about finding and killing vermin.
Speaker D:He doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.
Speaker D:Now the only thing I'm hunting is whoever, whatever, or even kind of wherever you pay me to be.
Speaker D:Do you want them cursed?
Speaker D:Do you want them gone quick?
Speaker D:Or do you want them going good old.
Speaker D:Good old yeehaw style, you know, because we can do any of the above, but that impostinator is no Jimbo crumbum.
Speaker E:Now, when you got varmints up your
Speaker B:ass, you're gonna wonder why.
Speaker D:You know what?
Speaker D:You fake flaky.
Speaker B:Oh, no.
Speaker E:Hey, hey.
Speaker E:Oh, that costs extra.
Speaker B:Oh, God.
Speaker B:I'll call him old crumb bum for nothing.
Speaker B:Oh, man.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:I thought it was gonna get darker at the end of that, dude.
Speaker C:I was waiting on it.
Speaker B:He dropped his voice.
Speaker B:Like, if what you ever.
Speaker B:You need done, I was like, oh, no.
Speaker B:Oh, man, that's a.
Speaker B:That's gonna be.
Speaker B:That's a hard one.
Speaker B:But I'm on.
Speaker B:I. I gotta give Joe the win on this one.
Speaker B:For the simple line that she said the best crumbum eater around.
Speaker B:I was like, what the does that even mean?
Speaker C:Hey, it's up to interpretation.
Speaker C:That's the whole point, you know?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker E:When Dice Circus launches its merch line, you need to put that NPC on, like, a Trapper Keeper or something.
Speaker C:I have to.
Speaker B:This is eraser.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:I need to Trapper Keeper that.
Speaker C:That's gonna be it.
Speaker C:Mandy, if you're listening, who's our art queen?
Speaker C:Get it done, girl.
Speaker C:Get it done.
Speaker B:That was a great one.
Speaker B:I love that one.
Speaker B:That's awesome.
Speaker B:All right, cj, that puts you now at four wins and seven losses.
Speaker B:I know, because at some point in the season, he gets me to like or, like, guess.
Speaker B:Like, yeah, let's do double or nothing.
Speaker B:And then he pulls through.
Speaker B:He did that last season.
Speaker B:I was like, I should not have allowed that at all.
Speaker B:All.
Speaker E:Don't call it a comeback.
Speaker B:A dude.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker B:The greatest comeback story in history.
Speaker D:It was bound to happen.
Speaker B:When he was down, like, three points, like, the last episode of the season,
Speaker E:he said, I hear no bail.
Speaker B:If he dies, he dies.
Speaker C:If he dies.
Speaker C:Anybody.
Speaker B:Anybody else got any more obscure references?
Speaker D:Just one and done here, Bob.
Speaker B:All right, let's move on to the final segment of the show.
Speaker B:It is one rule to rule them all.
Speaker B:You know, Stop it.
Speaker B:You know what this is?
Speaker E:You know what we forgot?
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:God damn it.
Speaker B:No, no.
Speaker B:Stop it.
Speaker B:Don't do it.
Speaker B:No, don't do it.
Speaker C:Joe, what is happening?
Speaker B:They're raising their hand to open the queue.
Speaker B:Every time we play a game, I do that.
Speaker B:Like, oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Who has an answer?
Speaker B:And then they do it, like, 55 times.
Speaker B:That's what the little beeping thing is.
Speaker C:Oh, that's what that is.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:All right, so we're gonna move on to the next part.
Speaker B:One rule to rule them all.
Speaker B:Joe, you know what this one is?
Speaker B:Is basically when you tell us when a nat 20 handy and then that one has thrown your plans up in the air.
Speaker B:But usually when we talk to DMs, it's usually the other way around.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker C:I was gonna say the natural ones are my favorite, to be fair.
Speaker C:Okay, so I will start with the Nat20.
Speaker C:That ruined my entire day.
Speaker C:I was running a one shot was a Christmas one shot.
Speaker C:Basically it was like Krampus style.
Speaker C:Again, I love horror, but I also hate it.
Speaker C:So we were playing a Christmas one shot, basically where Santa was definitely not coming to town.
Speaker C:And the players had one job, one job only one job was to go and thaw Santa out from the ice cave.
Speaker C:That's all they had to do.
Speaker C:So they go into this ice cave which is guarded by a plethora of liches and all these things that should not be there.
Speaker C:And instead of being able to, you know, my whole plan was to start a combat to, you know, maybe kill one or two of them off.
Speaker C:No, no, didn't happen.
Speaker C:They were extremely clever about navigating the ice because one of the players actually went to Antarctica and did one of the.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:The sea.
Speaker C:What is it called?
Speaker C:Like the.
Speaker C:The cruises where they go through, like, was that Antarctica, somewhere cold where they do that thing?
Speaker C:And he knew all about climbing ice and he hit me with a Nat20 and all this damn freaking knowledge about ice and physics of ice.
Speaker C:And he found a way to maneuver himself into the cave and thaw Santa out without having to kill anyone.
Speaker C:Anything.
Speaker C:Anything at all.
Speaker C:And I would.
Speaker C:I had no words.
Speaker C:It was just.
Speaker C:I couldn't argue with them.
Speaker C:And I like to argue.
Speaker C:I couldn't argue.
Speaker C:That upset me.
Speaker C:I mean, no, I mean, it was great for them.
Speaker C:It's great.
Speaker C:It was great.
Speaker C:I was really happy for them.
Speaker C:Really happy.
Speaker C:Anyway, I don't talk to them anymore.
Speaker D:Happy.
Speaker C:What a great day.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:The NAT one that was just.
Speaker C:It was just beautiful.
Speaker C:Beautiful, in my opinion.
Speaker C:I had a group that were wanting to play a really dark one shot.
Speaker C:You know, the ttrpg, I think it's called Cult.
Speaker C:I think that's what it called.
Speaker C:It's really dark.
Speaker C:Don't look at the trigger warnings before you look at it.
Speaker C:So we.
Speaker C:I said, okay, it's a really, really heavy kind of game.
Speaker C:Let's break it down.
Speaker C:And they were like, no, we're all in.
Speaker C:So I was like, okay, say less.
Speaker C:Your trauma, not mine.
Speaker C:So basically there Was this whole scene set up where it was kind of like Fallout 4 vibes, where one of them got infected, but they didn't know that they were infected.
Speaker C:They were basically covered in radiation.
Speaker C:And they walked around with the players like, absolutely fine.
Speaker C:Everything was okay.
Speaker C:And then there was a part where they had to cross a threshold into a different part of town.
Speaker C:But anyone that flagged in the kind of radiation meter that was in that town, there was a guard standing by that would detect these things would be murdered on site.
Speaker C:Now, my only ask for the only was they had to roll a D100 in order to survive.
Speaker C:All of them, all of them succeeded, apart from the one player that had the radiation poisoning and was completely unaware of it until that very last second when I told them that their skin was a slightly greenish color compared to everyone else.
Speaker C:And at that point, they rolled the gnat one and they watched this guard take out out his gun and placed it to his forehead and just let it rip.
Speaker C:And this was a character that he had had.
Speaker C:You know when you make a bag story and it's like 15 pages long because you love this character so much?
Speaker C:No, I felt terrible, but I'm like, dude, it was D100.
Speaker C:I did it on purpose to be nice.
Speaker C:And you roll a NAT one.
Speaker C:Are you kidding me?
Speaker C:You got a one death save to the head shut straight out.
Speaker C:Because the damage on it was way more than.
Speaker C:Than his.
Speaker C:Like, way more.
Speaker C:They weren't even supposed to go into that town, to be completely honest.
Speaker C:They were supposed to go the opposite way.
Speaker C:But players will be players and do the opposite of what you want them to.
Speaker C:So he had to make a whole new character.
Speaker C:He didn't talk to me for a week.
Speaker C:That was.
Speaker C:That was fine.
Speaker C:I'm like, I'm so sorry.
Speaker C:It was your fault.
Speaker C:I didn't roll your dice.
Speaker C:But those.
Speaker C:Those have been recent.
Speaker C:The most recent ones that I have seen seen that still stick with me.
Speaker E:A Fallout D and D game sounds.
Speaker C:It is my freaking favorite.
Speaker C:Like, I love anything fallout.
Speaker C:Fallout 4 vibes.
Speaker C:Like, that kind of stuff is that Last of Us stuff like that.
Speaker C:I really want to run like a.
Speaker C:Like a mini campaign that is all Fallout 4 vibes.
Speaker C:There is an element in the Die Circus where each continent is kind of themed off of stuff I like.
Speaker C:So Fallout, there's a part where the players may or may not go because it's an entirely open sandbox game.
Speaker C:So whatever they choose to do is up to them.
Speaker C:I am just the narrator, so it's entirely their story.
Speaker C:But if they do go to that one place, a lot of it is built off of the whole ecosystem of all of the fallouts combined, which.
Speaker C:It's just.
Speaker C:It's one of my favorite things.
Speaker E:And you know who should be the bbeg for that region?
Speaker C:Who Crumb Bum Crumbum is going to be.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker C:I. I need it.
Speaker C:Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker E:Make sure they don't listen.
Speaker D:It's Mr. House and Crumbum.
Speaker C:He's gonna make an appearance, guys.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker C:It's canon now.
Speaker C:He's gonna be there.
Speaker A:Crumbum.
Speaker B:Just somebody runs up and stabs them like, who was that?
Speaker B:Who.
Speaker B:Who could do such things?
Speaker B:They just turn around like you do me, Jimbo Crumbo.
Speaker B:And just runs off.
Speaker C:Poor Jimbo.
Speaker E:But you know who could take care of that varmint?
Speaker B:Jimbo Crumbo.
Speaker E:The Jimbo Bros.
Speaker D:The Jimbo Bros. Impostinator.
Speaker B:Imposta.
Speaker B:Nator.
Speaker B:You make pasta.
Speaker B:All right, guys.
Speaker B:All right, guys.
Speaker B:Well, that's pretty much all the time we have for this episode.
Speaker B:Want to say a very special thank you to Joe from Dice Circus for being on.
Speaker B:It's been a blast.
Speaker B:It's always a great time when you're on the show.
Speaker B:Show.
Speaker C:Thanks for having me.
Speaker B:If you got anything you want to
Speaker C:plug, just tune in to our next streams.
Speaker C:We stream every Sunday over on Twitch at 6pm GMT.
Speaker C:Don't know the conversion.
Speaker C:Don't ask.
Speaker C:I always get confused.
Speaker C:But yes, 6pm GMT every Sunday.
Speaker C:We will be live.
Speaker C:So grab your tickets, grab your popcorn, and come check out the show.
Speaker B:Awesome.
Speaker B:Can't wait to get our tickets for that, guys.
Speaker B:We're gonna get tickets.
Speaker B:Tickets, tickets, tickets.
Speaker C:Yeah,
Speaker D:I'm already following and got that little bell check, so I'm ready.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:Appreciate it.
Speaker D:Are lagging then.
Speaker D:That's on YouTube.
Speaker B:You need Carnival barkers because, you know, we're loud as hell.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You might have to come in as, like, featured NPCs and, like, be part of the.
Speaker C:The circus act.
Speaker B:I was gonna say just.
Speaker B:Just a small part of the continent where it's just like the tavern part and it's just us.
Speaker B:Like, grill until one of them quits, please.
Speaker B:I would hold them hostage and interview them.
Speaker C:The best thing.
Speaker D:Imagine that as a trap, though.
Speaker D:Like, oh, they.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker D:The longer they stay, the more they drink.
Speaker D:You can add checks to it and like, the more enticing we are, could at disadvantage, like, the more we get them laughing.
Speaker B:You just have Dante belly dancing.
Speaker E:They're never.
Speaker E:They're never going to Leave belly dancing with a harmonica.
Speaker B:Right, boys, let's fire up the band.
Speaker B:It's just.
Speaker B:It's just a drum set in a kazoo.
Speaker E:The little keyboard that makes cat noises.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:The best.
Speaker B:We only play 80s, Joel.
Speaker B:All right, guys, so we want to say a very special thank you to our sponsors for this episode.
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Speaker B:If you want to hear more from me, Dante and cj, check out all of season one and two.
Speaker B:Part of season three is out now.
Speaker B:And if you want to hear more of the nonsense that me and C.J.
Speaker B:got going on, go ahead and check us out at coffee and dnd.
Speaker B:Cj, take it away.
Speaker D:Sorry, I thought you wanted me to sing.
Speaker D:Well, that was a decent outro.
Speaker D:I appreciate that.
Speaker D:I gotta try and one up it now.
Speaker D:Thanks.
Speaker D:So I think with that, travelers, we'll go ahead and draw the curtains and dim the carnival lights for tonight's show here at the Tavern.
Speaker D:But we couldn't have done it without our amazing guest, Joe, the Cryptic carnival keeper of Dice Circus.
Speaker D:Yeah, right.
Speaker D:I thought Cryptic added a little bit
Speaker C:of I like it.
Speaker D:Shenannery.
Speaker C:Keep doing it.
Speaker C:Keep going.
Speaker D:You shall forever be the Cryptic carnival keeper.
Speaker D:I don't know what accent that was supposed to be, so I apologize.
Speaker D:But we do greatly appreciate you taking time out and away from the big top, pulling up a chair and sharing some awesome stories under the striped 10 of chaos and clattering dice that we got here in the Tavern.
Speaker C:Thanks for having me, guys.
Speaker D:It's always a pleasure.
Speaker D:I know we greatly enjoy it.
Speaker D:And if you guys enjoyed the ride, make sure you go show some love to Dice Circus every single place you can find them.
Speaker D:If you.
Speaker D:If you don't, we will be saddened because, I mean, this is all about, you know, meeting new people, listening to new things, and having an awesome time.
Speaker D:So we're trying to throw you guys a line out there, but I think with that, we'll call it a night.
Speaker D:So until next time, may your tickets be lucky, may your dice roll kindly, and may your path always lead you back here, even if it's when the carnival closes.
Speaker D:And we'll see you next time.
Speaker A:We came till the battles won, day one and done.
Speaker A:You can break our dice but you'll never, never break the bond this is more than a game this is the one and.
Speaker A:Sam.
