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Dungeons and Daddies is a rowdy, horny, violent podcast for grown-ups. Content warnings can be found in the episode description. Dads and sports. I'm watching! Welcome sports fans to another episode of Dads and Sports. I'm Eddie, the rock star, rock man. Coming at you live, and that's my co-host, Brock Braxton. It's not just sports here. We also have our families and how much we love being dads. Speak for yourself. I fucking hate my wife. Go!

That's me, Larry Snapple. I've got a chronic hacking cough. Did not get vaccinated. Hey, it's me, Trip Trigger, the handsome single dad with two beautiful kids. I'm a widower. Let's get on to the topic of the day. The game between Aaron O'Neal's trees and these teens that seem to come out of nowhere. You guys catch this?

I thought everyone had a great hustle out there, really rooting for them to save our world from what appears to be like a lot of bad stuff going on. And I really like that trick play between Scary Marlo and Lickedly Wilson. They had a lot of synergy going on there. What an upset. You know, look, look, I was talking to my bookie, Frank. I had money on those kids losing for sure, but they pulled it up. Hey, you're still betting, dude?

I thought you got that under control, man. It's just like every so often on games that I feel like I have a good like inside. No, man. You know, let's go to let's go to the ads. And when we come back, we'll do a little session of dad therapy about that. All right.

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Welcome to Dungeons and Daddies, not a BDSM podcast. Instead, this is a D&D podcast. Not one who'd say it like that. Wow. Humpa, humpa. Where four teams from our world are sent back to our world to fix our world from the mess that our world caused when our grandparents, and maybe kind of the same way,

kind of like Henry's whole family line fucked up. Anyway. What the fuck? What? Jesus. Shit. What? Are you kidding me? I'm just saying. Look, I know that Anthony gave me a special piece of paper this episode and you guys didn't get any and I get to open it and you don't, but don't take it out on me. Spoilers. Well, my name is Freddie Wong. I play Taylor Swift, the anime loving, stealthy, cool, That's my name. I'm going to say boo now for you. Why? It's like the gas for scary, but we don't like you. Mean and shitty. Yeah.

Taylor gets booed. Norwell gets...

Link gets aww. Taylor's teen fact for this week. Taylor, of course, has ordered off of Amazon a series of wetting and sharpening stones for the various blades that he keeps at his disposal. And like, despite watching probably like 30 hours of like how to sharpen your knives, YouTube videos and his recommendations is just like knife YouTube. And.

every time he sharpens or attempts to sharpen his blades, they get duller. He can't do it. He just doesn't know what he's doing wrong. But every time he tries to be like, time to bring the old katana to the whetstone, it just ends up slightly duller than it was. It cuts his hand somehow. He has a set of band-aids nearby. He tells him, hey, mom, I'm going in the garage to sharpen my blade. She's like, don't forget to bring some Neosporin.

I sympathize. We got really nice, like, kitchen knives from Japan. We bought whetstones for them. It's like, hey, they're getting dull, Matt. You should sharpen them up. Totally right. Let me do this. It's like, they're all worse now. Like, every time I do it, it's just they don't get sharper. I'm bad at whetstones.

Hey, everybody. My name is Matthew Arnold. Matt at Whetstones. My name is Matthew Arnold again. I play Lincoln Lee. Oh, no. We're on the time loop. I play Lincoln Lee Wilson, a schooled-at-home soccer kid who's the productive valedictorian of the group. A really quick fact about Lincoln, his entire relationship with...

with Daryl, his grandfather, is just predicated on the fact that they both think it's really funny that football means football and soccer. That's the only thing they share in common. It's just nothing but jokes. Like, Daryl will be like, all right, kid, ready to play some football? And he's like, of course. And he pulls up and he's like, ah, not that football, grandpa. He's like, just kidding. I got this football. Psych, that's another

football. Oh, it's just that. That's the only thing they share in common. And then they always end up just like either kicking a soccer ball or throwing a football. That's it. Wow. They also both hate liberals. Anthony, this is my family.

And Daryl has complicated feelings about the liberals. But Lincoln is Gen Z. One of the few conservatives in the United States. The heir to Ben Shapiro's throne.

The link's not even Gen Z. We just say Gen Z as a generic catch-all word for anyone younger than us because we're old now. I know. I like how anytime somebody says something about millennials, we're all like, uh, millennials are 40 now, but we're just like, Gen Z? Everything's Gen Z. Hey, everyone. I'm Will Kieffos. I play normally Oaks Wallace Garcia, a mixed-up mascot kid trying to make his way in a strange world and find himself. And aren't we all really? All right.

We all. My fact about Normal this week is that before all of this began, like the week before, he decided, you know, like just as a backup plan, just in case like, you know, being a cool mascot didn't work out, his second step to get everyone to love him would be to set again his book of world records. Yes. And he's like, you know what? I bet I could chew a piece of bubble gum longer than anybody on the planet. So this entire time, Normal's had a piece of bazooka Joe in his mouth. Huh.

It's just back there. You know, he's found this one spot to kind of stick it to so he doesn't have to chew it all the time, but it's in there and he kind of chews it whenever he's not talking. He lost one tooth, but he refused to fill it. He just keeps the bubble gum in there. No, he had a filling fall out and he's got it in there. He's like, this is my script. But so every day after everyone goes to bed, he takes a picture of it to prove it's still in there. And that's why he refused to go to the dentist because the dentist will find it. This isn't a tooth!

This is just gum. He's dreading that day because he has a dental checkup coming up and he's like, I'm going to have to convince the dentist. Listen, doc, this is for the book of this guy's book of world records. You just said my parents, everything's cool, okay? You got it? Real quick, if you just start flossing two weeks beforehand, you can fool your dentist. I love flossing. I floss twice a day. I floss a lot too. I'm just saying that if you're, you know. I floss every day. Fortnite. Nice. You know what? That's okay too. My name is Beth May. Jen's ears love that joke. Oh, like the dance.

Oh, okay. My name is Beth May. I'm going to leave the podcast now. Goodbye. And I play Scary Marlow, a goth punk seeker of darkness who is not like the other warlocks. Fun fact about Scary. You could really hear the letters in that one.

It's spelled that way. Fun fact about Scary is I, Beth May, am still in my injury era, my sprained ankle era, to say it in Taylor Swift terms. I said last episode that Scary had never been hurt playing soccer, which is true. The worst injury...

she's ever had is slamming her finger in her locker when somebody called her Terry at school. So this is pretty recently and it's still a little sticky. It clicks. It clicks. The old finger clicking. I'm Anthony Burch. I'm your dad.

Hey, Dad. My dad fact is, or teen fact rather, I guess. I realized the other day that I accidentally still have all the lyrics to the theme song for the Weird Al Saturday Morning Kids show on CBS. I still have all that memorized and I didn't even watch that many episodes of

Whoa. Give us all a taste. It means a long song, but so this is a story about a guy named Al who lived in the sewer with his hamster pal. The sanitation workers didn't really approve, so he packed up his accordion and had to move to a city in Ohio where he lived in a tree and he worked in an anti-congestion factory and he played on the company bowling team and every single day he had a reoccurring dream where his brain leader was an innovator's algorithm, but it's really not important to the story. The very next year, he met a dental hygienist who had a special attitude on her arm and he didn't keep in touch and he lost her number and he got himself a job at a tater tot farm

Oh!

Wow. I didn't even know we were going to have a show. I'm sure it was that Anthony or Eminem rap guy. So many memories of holding my loved ones that will be lost to the ether. Just to make space. Before the final light goes out. That is the only thing you remember on your deathbed. Then it'll be a life well lived. Aww. Aww.

You take a deep breath, and for a second, you feel a lot of relief to not be underground, but the freshness of the air is counteracted by the fact that you are once again looking into the horrible underside of the doodler. Oh, man. It's not great. That's too much running. I flop down on the ground and start panting. Grant pulls you into a hug. He's looking at all of you with a great deal of pride, and he says, you guys...

That was great. You guys did a great, great job. We do it for you, mister. I don't accept that pride. Don't nobody give him the sun because he wants to use it to blow up the whole. I'm sorry. I'm really tired. And I brush off the hug. I go, it's not hugging time right now, dad. That's his personal space, please.

Oh, no. Okay. And he puts his hands behind his back and he stands up and takes one step back and he goes, I do want to talk to you about what happened in there, though. How are you feeling about the tree that you killed and that we took the sun? Oh, I mean, I don't feel great. I don't know. It's a tree. It's sentient. I don't know. It's a lot to think about. I'm just happy we're out here alive with like, yeah. Okay. Not feeling great. I'm not. I'm feeling pretty bad. Okay. Okay.

Okay, good. Good, great, good. I mean, it's not good that you feel bad, but I'm glad that you didn't get, like, you didn't feel like an adrenaline rush, like, like anything like that. No. Hey, man, he said to back off. Yeah. Like, give him space. Okay. Seems like you're doing okay, though. I mean, last time you talked to me, you were like, oh, I should die. I hate myself. Well, yeah. Which is, like, pretty rough. And then I saw you.

Again. Oh, well, that's a lot of pressure to put on. Yeah, that's a lot of pressure. Well, I'm being honest. I can't. My defenses aren't really up. My brain's going this way and that way. I feel weird, but like, it was nice to see you. I do sort of deserve to die. That's not a big deal. It happens. No, that's not. It happens. But you don't deserve to die because you didn't feel good when you killed the guy. So, hey, good for you. You're great. I'm so proud of you. I think you're having big feelings right now, and it's not the time to discuss it. I think we both need to just process it.

what's happened and then we'll have a conversation soon. I agree. And Mr. Grant said, I'd just like to add that as a warrior on the path of Bushido, it's often unclear what I'm supposed to feel. And I think it's supposed to be nothing all the time. Grant turns his back to you and continues talking to his son like you didn't even say anything. Oh,

Oh, hey, you listen. Yeah, really quick while we're here, mister. This is something you can do. I want you to apologize to these three wonderful friends of mine because you told me not to hang out with them and they were dangerous. But you know what? Right now they're like, they're my family. No need to apologize. I am dangerous. Yeah, I am dangerous. Yeah, we're all dangerous. And I'm your family and I hug Lincoln. It's open personal space. Sorry, sorry, sorry. No, no, you just ask beforehand. Can I hug you?

Yeah, of course. All right. Yeah. Bro? Are we all bro that brother? Brothers?

Yeah. We're like brothers now. You said we're family. We're like brothers. Yeah. Hello, dad. I shake Grant's hand. He immediately wipes his hand on his shirt. Luke looks jealous just for a second. Like he's calling him dad. Grant says, yeah, no, we all did a great job and I think we're good to go home now. So let's, if you give me the sign and then we can head back through the portal and then we can deal with whatever's happening back there. Yeah. I don't think.

We're not going to do that, though, right? No. Keep the sun away from this loser. Yeah, we got some information from another source that said that the Church of the Doodler was an interesting place to go. And maybe we could find out something there that would help us, you know, come up with a less bad plan than the one that you and our dads came up with.

And that shouldn't be too hard because your plan sucked. Okay, do you want me to come with you to the church of the doula? Because we can go together and you can see that there's nothing there because I was there. There's nothing there. Ah, you know where it is. I mean, you do too, right? I think you guys have a map. Just because you have a map doesn't mean you know where it is. It's hand-drawn. You never know how accurate it is. Sure. One second, Dad. I need to talk to my bro, my brother here one second. Just give us a second here. He goes, oh God, you're talking to me when you said Dad. So, Link,

What's up? Do you want to bring dad along? Your dad? I feel like I'm rushing into this, but like, it feels like you still maybe have some stuff to say to him or not. What do you guys think? If anything, he will be good cannon fodder. Look, I'll be honest. I more or less kind of just followed, you know what my dad said, but I'm not really trusting them. So like maybe you three can like, you're like my new, not my new dads, but just like whatever you guys say, like we're a team. So like, what do you guys, what are you three?

buddies think we should do. Yeah. Who's your daddy? It's me. Scary. All right. Scary's dad number one. Yeah. Scary. That's right.

What do you think we should do, Scary? Oh, shit. See? Natural leader. Well, maybe we could get some more information about, like, whatever happens with Grant around. But on the other hand, he might try to steal the sun back when we're not looking. He might try to get under our defenses. Try to, like, I don't know, be so edgy and cool. Like, oh, I'm Grant. I'm depressed. Whatever. I'm depressed. So suck it. Wait. I turned to Grant. Go home. Marco, it's been weeks. There.

Dad misses you. What are you doing here? Dad misses you too. Oh shit, he's got you there. Yeah, well, we're trying to save the world. Yes, which is why I'm trying to say we're all trying to save the world, which is why we should just go back now. If you want, I don't want you to go to the, it's just going to waste time, but I'll go with you. If there's nothing secret there, I don't want you to see. It's just boring. But dad can not have both of us. At least one of us got to go home. That seems like a good idea.

That seems like an arbitrary. No, I'd be sad if you both die in a car crash. I'd be less sad if one of you did. I'm not saying I want, but like. That's a wild thing to say. You should be home. What are you talking about? Right now, Marco has no family. I thought I was losing the high ground as the parent here, but you just said that. And now I feel like I can say confidently that that's a little bit buck wild, son. Right now, Marco has, dad has nobody. Dad doesn't have nobody. Dad has us in the same way that I had you and we weren't near each other. We love each other. It's fine. But yes, we do need to get back to.

quickly as I can. I agree. We should all go back now. I do a insight check on Grant. I'm trying to suss out if he knows more about this place, the church of the doula than he's letting on. Good idea. I cast zone of truth. Yes.

Okay. Zone of truth is just something that the family does. They create a little circle and they say, you can only tell the truth in here. Yeah, it's not even a magic spell. It's just something you always agreed that like, no matter how bad it got, you could zone of truth. What did my roll tell me? Let's start there. Sure. Ooh, I got a 20. With a 20, you can tell that he is not explicitly hiding anything from you other than some possible emotional trauma.

There are not plot things that he is hiding from you to be nefarious. Yo, how rowdy do you want to get on your dad right now? I feel like he's telling the truth and that there was nothing there, but like, I think there's some there, there, and that nothing there. Do you know what I mean? Like, I think, I think there's some blood in the water. So it's like, you know, I don't know how real you want to get with him or what all you want to learn about him right now, but you know, well, we need to go there. Right. I'm just going to say it. Once you knock him off that pedestal, there's no putting him back, you know? I know.

This is our dad we're talking about. I can't lose another father figure, Link. I'll be down three. I get a free one with my punch card. No, in the Wilson Lee family, we're all on the same level. There's no pedestal. But we sit at a round table. Every sequel.

The real question is just us as a group. We need to go to the church, right? Yeah. We got to go to the church. We need to investigate all the leads. You know your dad better than anyone. Can we trust your dad to not screw us over or pull some move or try to steal the son because he thinks he knows better than us? Like, should we give him the boot or should we bring him on? Maybe three weeks ago that we were together.

The answer would be yes, but not now. Here, I got... Yeah, here we go. All right, well, then you know what to do. I'm going to cast Zone of Truth. Grant hears Zone of Truth, which is not a spell the way that your family does. It's just something you agreed upon as a societal thing that you will always tell the truth once Zone of Truth is invoked. Yeah, the Wilson Lee family. Yeah, the Wilson Lee family. So he goes, okay, Zone of Truth, Zone of Truth. And he says, yes. Okay, he puts his hands up and he says, ask me whatever you want, Link.

it's probably helpful to have you come along to the church with us. If that's what you want to do. Cause you know, more the better in terms of trying to survive. I mean, you're here to help us. We're not here to help you. So if you come along with the, with us, are you going to betray us? Be mean, do bad things, things that would get you a timeout, anything like that? Everything that I do,

have done has been to try to protect you and everything I will do will be to try to protect you. That said... That's some lawyer talk, sir. I wasn't finished. Hey, I'm talking. This is the truth. I'm telling you my truth. This is my truth. My truth is I may do some things you don't like, but it will all be for the purposes of protecting you when we go. Sounds like your truth sucks balls. You know what? I'll make a compromise because you talked all about Henry Clay and the power of compromise. I would suggest...

that I won't betray you. I won't try to get the son until we're halfway through the Church of the Doodler. So you're telling us when you're going to betray us. I'm telling you when I'm not going to, which is the first half, and I might not in the second half. I appreciate the honesty. I'm going to talk to my team here for a second, and then we'll decide. All right, guys, you heard it. My dad's definitely going to betray us at some point. I might.

He says in the distance. As much as I think that having cannon fodder is going to be helpful for anything that we might encounter along the way, I don't trust anybody over the age of 30. I say we dump his ass. Yeah. Okay. I think so, too. Okay. Yeah. This is going to be a little hard. So if you guys could just. Yeah. Why don't we take this? Why don't we talk to dad together? Okay. Are you okay? Normal? Yeah, I'm fine. I'm great. Okay.

Like uncle or like any number of things. Like why is that? I mean, why would he be my uncle if we're a family and we're brothers? So yeah, I know. Yeah. Why'd you talk to him? I feel like I gotta, I gotta think about some stuff. I'm going to just go sit over here. Dad and I have always been on kind of a rough patch.

Dad, yes, son, we appreciate your offer of help, but the team and I feel that it would be best if you went home, spend time with dad and, you know, help out over there. There's some weird stuff going over there. And yeah, you know what? No, you said you betray us. I just can't. I needed my space.

Not just hug space, but like you space. And I think you need space because last time you talked to your son, you said some rowdy stuff. And you should think about that. Roll persuasion with advantage because you're in the zone of truth. Eight plus three, 11. So it's an 11. He goes, I may not like it. I may not agree with it, but you said it in the zone of truth. You told me your truth. So I will. I will accept this. OK, fine. OK, well.

I'm OK for a hug now if you want. You know, it feels fitting. I would like that. And he goes in for a hug. OK, I give him a hug. How strong is this hug? It's a good hug. You know what? Actually, you can tell Link that it's weaker than the average. His whole heart's not in it. He's a little disappointed too. Yeah, just a couple. Just a couple of hover hands.

just a weird like couple people at a comic con talking to somebody who was in Buffy just like with a bit of really hot and very touching. Just like light contact, brief incidental contact. It's like an obligation. It's like never go to bed angry, never say goodbye without a hug. He shakes his head and like whispers to Scary, that's not a good hug. What would you know about it? Fuck Scary? God.

OK, you drive back, I assume, to the portal. Yeah, we're going to drop him off. OK, cool. We're becoming more dad like every single day. OK, he points the direction to where the church of the doodler says it is. And he just says, just keep going down this road. And then it's basically it's going to slowly turn into a hill and get like almost vertical. But just keep going. And the church will be at the top of the hill. And good luck. You'll be fine. There's nothing. I mean, good luck.

I love you very much. And he jumps out of the van. Oh, dad? Yeah. Sorry. He doesn't jump out of the van. Just quick. Yeah. I love you too. Weird question. Do you love yourself? He jumps out of the van. And you lose sight of him. Oh, I assume you drive to, to the church. We're listening to take me to church by Hozier. Yeah.

This song means a lot to me right now. I wish I could go to church. That's great. Yeah, that's right. Link's a homeschool kid who really loves church. You can draw whatever consequences you wish from that.

Okay, so you drive to the Church of the Doodler as described by Grant. It is down a long, lonely road bathed in darkness. A boulevard of broken dreams, if you will. You only slowly start to realize that you're rising in elevation as the ground gets steeper and steeper beneath you, but the cat has no problem.

dealing with that. You find things a little bit harder to breathe because you must be up actually pretty high and the shape of the doodler is getting closer and closer to you and it's having a worse and worse effect on your mental health. It is getting more and more anxiety inducing as you feel the undulating scaly but slimy but furry but indescribable exterior of the doodler's ass. Alright guys, gear up. We all pull out fidget cubes. laughter laughter

Guys, this is having a really bad effect on my mental health. I just thought y'all should know I'm not doing well. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Scary. Jeez. Try fidgeting harder. Take my fidget cube. I can just grit out my anxiety and I give you my fidget cube and I just clench my fists and cry my teeth. Yeah, cool. Now mark that you were twice as mentally ill as Scary is. God damn it. No. The idea that Scary would be pissed off by that is very good. Yes.

I've been dethroned. Scary just going, no, while she spins too, Fidget Spins. The cat comes to a halt outside of what looks to be like an old cathedral whose spire is so tall that it looks to be piercing the flesh of...

of the doodler itself. But the place where the spire meets the doodler's flesh, you can't focus on it too hard because it makes you nauseous and because it doesn't make sense. It's not close enough to pierce it, but it definitely is, but it's not, but it is. And it's very upsetting. It's like a magic eye. Oh,

As you approach the door, you see a plaque on the front of it that is over the closed door that has the symbol and acronym of the Department for the Acquisition, Destruction, Deployment, and Investigation of Extra-Normal Stuff on it. And it has a note that says, it's closed. Ha ha!

Oh, gosh. That's wrong. Oh, guys, we're late. Some guy named Ron closed this place. As you say that, you hear like the sound of buttons clicking behind you. And what looks like a kid in like a soccer tee playing what looks to be like a single player version of Fortnite on a phone walks past you and he goes, move, son. And he moves you aside, Link. And he just touches the door and the door opens. And he goes, oh,

as he looks down at his body and realizes that this is your dad, Grant, and he is reversed to the age he was. Because there's a lot of like,

extra psychic energy like i mean you see you know right and he points at you look look at yourselves and as you turn to look at each other you see things that do not make sense when you look at link you see a large beer gutted baseball cap wearing stay-at-home sports dad with a beer when they look at scary they see a mustachioed no pants having businessman and

Don't look at me, I'm hideous. When they look at normal, they see a crunchy, munchy granola druid dad. When you look at Taylor, you see a rock and roll bard dad. What about Hermie? When you look at Hermie, you see a creature wearing a fedora who seems slightly non-Muclidean to your eyes.

And then he goes, "Yeah, what's going on everyone? You guys all look old." As you say that, as you say you guys look old, some of the memories of what's happened in this location begin to seep back into your brain. And you remember being Daryl Wilson, Link Lee Wilson's grandfather.

You remember coming here with your friends, Ron and Glenn and Henry, coming here to try to close this place off. All the hope you had that this could be the final stand where you would defeat the doodler once and for all. You hold those memories in the same brain with which you hold your current identity as young Lincoln Lee Wilson, and as all of you do. The memories of your grandparents being in this place hover within the soup of your mind as the doors open and you see the interior of the Church of the Doodler.

And you were filled with both the sense that everything is going to be all right and the sense that, eh, not today. There was a time when you could read between the lines, you know they never brought you down. They never brought you down.

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And you look like Glenn. I mean, nobody recognizes the person they're looking at because they don't recognize. The fucking cool middle-aged man in the room. Yeah, when you say younger, do you mean like I'm Daryl as like a teen or Daryl as like the age of season one? Daryl is in the age we ended season one on plus a few years. Okay. Like when you saw your granddad, your granddad looked like a granddad, like an old guy. So he's like 6'3 now and he's like 140 fucking built. So he lost an inch.

He's in a supermodel phase, if I remember correctly, is what we had talked about. Sure. Yeah. Next to each of you, you see spectral forms of figures that reach up about to your chest or maybe a little bit higher that look to be ghostly images of your own dads when they were teens. So Lark, Sparrow, Nick, and...

Except for Grant. Grant is corporeal because Grant's actually here. Yes, and the rest of them are like ghosts. Are like golden, shimmery ghosts. When we talk, what do we sound like? When you talk, both voices come out in this moment. Whoa, who are these guys? So Grant hears both Ron and Scary's voice come out of this version of Ron Scary that he's seeing. And he goes, oh, right, there's a problem. There's a way. Wait, I want to see something too. Yeah, I guess you two sound pretty similar. Right?

I always told you guys, I sound a lot like my Grandpa Henry. Wait, scary, is that you? Are you in there? Yes, loser, it's me. This is going to be really hard to edit with all the crosstalk. That's why Grant goes like, oh yeah, we stashed something last day we were here. So he puts his Fortnite phone away and like still slouched over, walks over to a loose brick on the outside of the church and yanks it out and he pulls out what looks like a thermostat. He goes, okay, this is the time-a-stat. We built this, let me see. And he turns...

He holds it out to you. Probably me. Probably you. Yeah, his son. Son father. So yeah, so he hands it to you. He goes, here, son, dad, dad. Thanks, son. Sorry, dad, son. Sorry, son. Yeah. Dad. And he hands it to you and he says, you twist it forward, you'll turn into yourself, you twist it backward, you'll get to access the memories of your grandpa, my dad. And you can sort of switch back and forth between them as you want. So I'm E, and now I'm Daryl.

Me? Daryl. Stop, you're freaking me out. It works for everybody as a group. Oh, sorry, everybody. Woo-hoo-hoo! I'm turning back and forth. Yeah, you see yourselves get really big, really small, really big, really small. I turn back to where all us. Define us. Season two us. Season two, okay. There's literally little dials. There's one and two on it. Wait, Dad, where are you? Are you Dad? Yeah, so when you turn into two, Grant turns into your adult dad, Grant. So he gets bigger. Yeah, he does.

He goes, he gets smart. He gets smart. It's like, uh. Almost throws up and the piece of gum falls out of his mouth. No! Save it! It's still good. There's a fly in it. It's still good. It's still in my saliva. It's still good. Let it go, man. Let it go. Indiana, let it go. So Grant says, yeah, sorry. When you tried to drop me off at the, uh, I just.

Snuck back on. I did a roll and I rolled really well and I snuck back onto the pussy wagon. Okay, well, great. So you start this adventure with a lie. Cool, yeah. Like nothing we could have done would have prevented you from doing that. That's great, yeah. I could have rolled worst. Your dad's a real loose cannon. So wait, what does this do? Like why when we turn this, we turn into grandpa? The church is a lot of really powerful, nascent psychic energy from its connection with the doodler. A cult built this a while ago and we sort of infiltrated it because they were talking to the doodler. It's the foul taint of the war.

Kind of. And basically, you can use the thermostat to try to filter out some of those psychic energies to focus on just what's happening right now or to focus on the things that happened here long ago. So it's like a little psychic energy tuner. Yeah, basically. You can sort of re-experience, re-remember, relive the events that happened here back when I was a kid.

as your grandparents you told us there was nothing here this is not nothing this is basically nothing i rolled an insight check and i was not told that there was a cool thermostat that would turn me into my grandfather only here though it's only gonna work here it's not that useful i consider this nothing yeah i mean this guy wasn't even my grandpa this guy's like my step step grandpa that's true how do you feel about that i don't know i heard he died really

Well, I mean, I guess that happens to everybody. I mean, it's not like someone you know, so I guess it's not that big of a deal. I'd say I'm sorry. But you've been kind of mean to me lately, so I'm not really feeling like I need to extend a lot of, you know. I think you should be sorry for me. Like, who knows? He could have been a really great guy. By the looks of it, he wasn't, but like he could have been cool. And now I'm really hurting. So thanks a lot, Norm. Oh, no, I'm sorry.

Slowly turning the thermostat so you can do it turning into your grandparents as you're talking. I feel like, as a note, the sound design should be the THX noise every time we do this. And it goes backwards and forwards depending on which direction and time we're going. All we know is that there's something in here, maybe, that Mr. S. We haven't told you about the guy. There's something in here that can help us. So let's go check it out. Oh, yeah. But first, why? Why?

And I point straight to my dad. Did you come here? You said there's nothing here and you're supposed to go back? Explain to me, sir, what are you doing? Why are you back here? Link, toggle the thing so that you have advantage over him. Yeah. I get tall. I turn into Daryl.

I think the way it works is- He gets small, right? Yeah, he gets small. When you do that, he gets small and you get big. Yeah, look who's the big guy now, huh? Does it send us back in time or does it just turn us into- Okay. It just turns you into a virgin. Basically, the memories are floating around in the ether like motes of dust in the light. It's like a Assassin's Creed. We're inhabiting the body, but if we get too far from the memories, perhaps-

will go away. Yeah, it'll desynchronize. You have to restart the mission. It's weird that when I get older, I get shorter. I feel like such a loser. Ew! And you also, yeah, you have access to the personalities and memories of your grandparents when you were in grandparents. Son or dad, there's too much actual love and happiness for you in this body, so I'm going to turn back to me because I'm still...

I'm still angry at you. Wait, no, no, no. I was talking so cool. Okay, as you turn back, Normal, in Henry's body, realizes that Henry was chewing a piece of gum on this adventure. And as he turns back, he spits it out of his mouth and then, as Normal, catches it and puts it in his mouth. He's like, I've been chewing this piece of gum for 30 years.

You already won. Yeah, you win, man. So why are you here? Grant goes like, why am I here? A, to protect you, obviously. And then, I mean, to, you know, get the son back. What? He said to get the son back. We heard it. Okay, well, then why'd you ask what? Okay, well, maybe he meant like son like you. Like, oh my God, I'm like doing the dumb thoughts that this guy has.

I'm saying all the dumb things that come to my mind. Son, son. I feel like I'm two people at once and my memories are merging and I'm so cool.

I'm so cool. Yeah. Whoa. Grant says like, yeah, I mean, if you want to find there's a nexus point where you can feel the doodlers thoughts that they basically built the church around that point. It's like a little throne in the center of the church. You can go see that. You can see there's nothing here and then we can bounce. What happens when you sit on it? When you sit on it, you can sort of see into the doodlers mind for a second and it hurts a lot and it can drive you crazy. Last time I was here. I mean, well, you'll see when we go in so I can show you rather than tell you.

Dang, I forgot. Grant worked as a video game writer and knew good environmental stories. Sounds like some environmental story. Yeah, you might find some audio logs inside. I mean, if you want to go in, you can go in. I'll come with you. Or I can wait in the car, whatever you want. Yeah, why? Because the cult of the dude that was not a lot of cool people. Somebody might have found a way to get back in or there could be dangerous things in here. Like, I thought you might need help. Hey, Teen Huddle. Yeah, all right. What's up? Yeah, we'll do a Teen Huddle. Teen Huddle. Teen Huddle.

I don't really trust my dad right now. Like, should we just send him back? I mean, he's the only one who knows really what's going on, which is probably an argument to keep him around. But we need to believe what he's saying. But Will is back there and like the other dads are there and he's going to try to take the son. And like, I've got an idea.

All right, hear me out. So for one, I do think he's not trustworthy, but sometimes it's better to keep an eye on someone you don't trust than to, you know. Yeah, keep your enemies close and your friend, I don't remember. Yeah. We can keep an eye on him for one. And then here's what I think. I think we tell him we're going to leave the son back at the cat bus, but really we bring the son with us in my backpack.

And that way, if he runs away to go steal the sun, we'll still have it. Okay. Yeah, he's pretty smart. I think he's going to know we have the sun, but we can try to. What do you think? I was just thinking we should just kick his stupid mean butt back home. Wait, wait, wait.

I happen to have a certain companionship with our feline mode of transport. What if we have the cat hold him under its paw the whole time? Oh. Like a mouse. Okay. Yeah, sure. That's true, because if we let him go, like, then he's probably just going to sneak back. We know we can't trust him to go leave if we tell him to go leave, and I'm not going to go all the way back to drop him off myself. That said, he might have, like, contacts about whatever we see in there. Not that I believe him or anything. Hmm. Yeah. Okay, we'll do this. Dad.

Uh-huh. Okay, so here's what's going to happen. After this conversation, this is going to be the last time I talk to you for a bit. Whoa. Well, yeah, you didn't respect my space. I said you needed to go home and we need space, but it seems like practically it's useful to have you here. And I'm part of a team now. That's right. A different team, a different family, you might say, that respects each other and listens to each other and follows the rules. Is that what you do?

Yeah. Yeah. We were. Hey. Okay. Sorry. I didn't mean, I didn't think I would say that out loud. Sorry. I didn't mean to. Some of my nascent teenage self coming through there. So, so you're going to come along with us. I'm only going to talk to you through normal. Okay, great. Yeah. And I can talk to my dad. You're bad. I get to talk to a dad. Good luck with that.

And yeah, I hope you respect my space because you haven't recently. Not now. You're not going to get the sun. And if you try to get the sun, I mean, we don't believe in time out in our family, but we'll you're going to be in trouble. Dad, your son, me, Link. Sure. Said all that stuff that Link just said. OK. And, you know, maybe you should tell Link that you're proud of him. Maybe he'd like to hear that. Link, I am. Well, sorry. A normal. Could you tell Link your brother?

That I am proud of him. Link, Grant said to me, I am proud of you. Okay, well, I want you to tell dad. Oh my God. I know, I know, this is annoying. Just tell dad, one, of course I know he's proud of me. It's not like a single fight changes that. Two, stop using positive reinforcement to try to change the topic. And then also tell him not to indulge you in your fantasy of being his actual son. I look at Grant and say, thanks dad. And I tell him, no, no, no.

Where we're going, do you think we should, we all like look like big old mean adults? Well, I look taller when I'm like this. Okay. But I guess I feel like I,

I don't know. There's something about me that felt like a strong businessman or something like the other. I say we roll in like this. We come in fresh. If we need the wisdom of our ancestors, we can switch over. That's true. We always use a cool, we go into one room and come out as adults. Like, whoa, what happened to them? Who would be saying that? Well, I don't know. There's maybe somebody in the church. I'm just saying we keep our tricks up our sleeves. Ah, you're saying that we have a multiple identity if we need, yes, a do-over possibility as older people. That's true.

That's true. We can essentially buy a lottery ticket twice. We double it. You're right. Holy shit. Is there a place we can buy a ticket? I walk towards the dungeon. I walk towards the tower. Okay, so you open the door to the Church of the Doodler, and we all look like Aragorn doing it. Yeah, all of you line up side by side next to the door and try to do the Aragorn push, which doesn't work because some of you are going to be on the edges, so you can't put your arms out that far. All right, let's all do it one by one.

One at a time. Yeah, okay, so one by one, you Aragorn push open the door. Yes. Roll performance. Yeah, if you want to roll performance, see how good it looks when you Aragorn. That's a 12. Pretty middling. Not bad. I got an eight. Not great. I got a seven. Even worse. The worst one yet. Scary gets her pinky caught in the door again. I got a 19.

Oh, shit! The spitting image of Viggo. Oh, no. The spitting Viggo. I'm so tall that the other three are stumbling underneath my wingspan as I do it. Yeah, the camera pans down. Yeah, it turns out you got a little help. Yeah, you look like Gandalf of the Hobbits. So when you enter the church, immediately you get dizzy because the ceiling is way too fucking high for how big the church is. Oh, finally a ceiling tall enough for this guy. Ha ha ha!

You cannot see the terminal point of the ceiling. And the inside is much like a church that you might have experienced, you know, in your childhood, if any of you went to church, which I kind of doubt. They had to exercise me. Whoa, really? I was so badass.

No, I'm lying. Did you vomit pea soup on? I wish. You'd still do that. It's just like a church except there are black sort of tendrils, slimy tendrils coming down from the very top that sort of slowly seem to be snaking down and dripping viscous fluid onto the ground. Just like the Bible says. I don't know, I've never read it.

as you continue through the foyer of the tentacles, we know what they mean in anime. You see some corpses littering the ground. Oh God. Oh God. Some basically people in robes, some gray robes, wild looks in their eyes. I was going to poke one of these with his finger. All right, go ahead and give me a,

perception or investigation or poke 19 plus 5 24 so you can tell these corpses have been here for at least 20 years if not more Miller like leans over and like just he turns to the group and he's like these corpses have been here for at least 20 years or more this is one of the skills I've developed is I can smell corpses until the time of death I've been training this as a child ever since well as a child and then I find dead things and I smell them and I can tell how old they are

Wow. Metal. Hey, Norma, can you ask my dad if maybe if we turn the dial, if we would see how these people died or something like, is that how this thing works? Hey, Grant. I mean, dad, if we turn the dial, will that mean that we can see how people died? Is that how this works? I said that right. Right. Yeah. That's good. Cool. Yeah. Let me know what he says. Okay.

Link, yes. Yes, that's how it will work. We'll zoom back. Just walk here. Link, yes, that's how it'll work. We'll tell dad we can zoom back in here. Here, just watch. And he leans over and just... Nope, nope, it's in my pocket. Excuse me, sir. Tell him, tell my dad to keep his hands...

I can see them, but not reaching towards me. Cause I saw that, but I don't just don't touch him. Tell you, Link says, keep your hands where he can see them. I heard him. It's okay. Okay. Everybody get ready. I'm going to, you want to see what happened to these fools? Sure. Okay. I'm like slowly turning the dial.

All right, and you feel your body slowly morphing, and you see spectral versions of the corpses on the ground. The corpses on the ground in front of you are corporeal, and you see these golden shimmering sort of spectral memory versions of them sort of almost like reversing up from death, like you're scrubbing through a video timeline. One of the cultists on the ground, because again, you're going from reverse, sort of leaps onto your back and is trying to choke you from behind. Link Darryl. Ah! I stop it! Is it frozen in midair? Have you like finished? No, no, I'm like halfway through. Once he jumped on me, I just like paused.

Okay, so yeah, you pause it, and then yeah, you sort of reach at it, but your hand goes through nothing because this is the memory of it. Oh, that's freaky. Yeah, it's not real, man. Okay, well, yeah, you didn't get jumped at. I have memories of this ride where there's ghosts, but they're not really ghosts, and you get on like a doom buggy. Yeah, it's like one of those. Is it real? Yeah. One could follow us home. I keep turning it.

You keep turning it. You see one of the cultists gets back up and is facing away from Ron scary, not seeming to realize that Ron scary is there. You see another one stand up and vines basically come up from the gun and start attacking it and constricting in place. While you see normal Henry extend his arm towards them. You basically see the middle of a fight in reverse motion. And when you complete your turn all the way to the one on the thermostat for season one, uh,

In that moment, you remember being in this fight as Daryl and Glenn and Ron and Henry. You remember these cultists attacking you as you tried to peacefully negotiate with them to get through and the fight that ensued. You can just describe what you did. You don't have to roll for you. Just describe it.

Henry turns to Daryl and says, Daryl, you had to just go in swinging again, huh? You just had to get in there. You know, I had him on the ropes. I was going to tell them, you know, that we should all get along. I had some great Deepak Chopra quotes ready to go. Daryl just tosses his second axe to Henry and just ignores him and just keeps swinging. He's like, hey, not now, buddy. We can talk about the way that this should have happened when we're done with this. I hear you. Feedback appreciated. But now's not the time. All right.

I'm swinging. You cleave through one of the cultists with ease. One jumps onto your back. Henry, watch out! He's about to get killed and Daryl saves Henry's life. An axe over his head. Hey, buddy, we can do an argument next time. Whoa, Glenn! And another guy's about to kill Glenn and Daryl goes another axe and goes over Glenn's head and

And I look at Ron dead in the eye and go, Ron, Voltron team up? Sure. And then Ron, watch out for that cliff! And Ron stumbles and I reach my hand out and I pick up and I grab Ron. No one except for Matt has to roll to describe what you do.

Ron jumps on my shoulders and we form like a, essentially this part in RRR where they're all standing on each other's shoulders. Yeah. And we're doing just, we're doing all of that. Like I'm leaning back and swinging Ron around. And Ron's like, Ooh,

Flinging business cards like ninja stars. And then Henry just smiles and he's like, my boys. Henry, in negotiation, there's supposed to be just half way and I cut a guy in half. So you see a line up against the wall. Also, you see your kids, Grant and Lark and Sparrow. I turn the bleeding battle axe and on one side of the battle axe is a picture of Carol and Grant.

And he goes, I'll be back soon. Well, no, they're against the wall. They're with you there physically. I turn around and I'm like, I'll be back soon. I know. And you turn to Grant and Grant is strangling one of the cultists. He goes, yeah, I know, Dad. I've got it handled. You don't have to say you'll be back. I'm watching you. And the fucking cultist's eyes are bugging out and Grant just completely heartlessly just fucking closing his windpipe. And then Glenn looks over and calls out to Grant. It's like, I taught him everything he knows. And then Ron shouts, I taught him everything he knows.

And Terry shouts out, I taught him everything he knows. You sure did, kiddo. Love you so much. I'm emotionally available now.

And while cleaving through three cultists simultaneously, I go, I love that you three friends helped teach my son everything he knows. I appreciate you guys. That's right. It takes a village. It takes a village, Daryl, to raise a family. Now let's get back to killing this village. And let's get back to killing this whole village together. This is literally my worst nightmare. Oh, my God.

That we would spend a half a second with these dads and be like, whoops, season one was way better. Oh, no. They've also turned into killers. You successfully kill all the- I thirst for blood. You successfully kill all the cultists. Your kid's a little bit older than when the doodler was first revealed on Earth. I used sneak attack. I used it now. Yeah.

You got the extra damage die. You fucking slid a cultist's throat with ease. Did so much damage to him, he died. Terry's like, great job, Ron. Thanks, buddy. Love you so much. I'm emotionally available now. Yeah, you can stop saying that. You say it all the time.

What's kind of like his catchphrase, you know? It's a weird catchphrase. Hey, you don't get to pick your catchphrases. You really do. Glenn, that'd be a great catchphrase for you. It is my catchphrase, actually. I'm trying to work on one where I'm just like, nice. Glenn points to a shirt on his back and it's a quote. It says, you don't get to pick your catchphrases underneath Glenn Close. Daryl goes, good parenting, Ron. And he tosses you a brew that is Ron and Daryl's brewery that they started together. It's called the Sneak Attack IPA. I go, this one's for you. The Sneaky Goliath or whatever. The Sneaky Goliath.

six pounds of hops. The only beer you can chew.

This is an IPA, an interesting person award. Idiot. Wait, what happens to Hermie? Anthony's playing with the Hermie figurine and it's reminded me that Hermie's in this. You don't see Hermie. You see what looks to be a slightly non-Euclidean form that's wearing a fedora with pointy ears and it's going, whoa, you guys got real violent real quick, didn't you? That's my boy.

I love my boys. Say, how's my boyfriend doing? Have you called him recently, Glenn? My boyfriend, your brother? What? What?

And your phone rings and you look at your phone, Glenn, and it says, King of Hell. It's got a picture of your brother, Jody. Oh, I'm sorry, guys. I gotta take this. Jody's Satan now. Jody runs hell. And he's dating Scam Actually. And Hermes is their offspring. Hermes is their son, yeah. Holy shit, so much canon being established right now. And I pick up the phone and I go, this is, uh...

David Jones answering for Glenn Close. Jody goes, hey, what's up, idiot? Please hold for Glenn. Yeah, I know it's you, Glenn. Hey, hey, what's up, man? That was my assistant. Oh, right, your assistant. Yeah, ha ha, impersonation. Oh, look at you, Bards. Look at you go. Look, have you gotten to the center of the cult yet? Did you figure out what the doodler wants? More importantly, how can we kill it? Glenn's doing that thing in like a Zorro movie where it's like the person's swinging a sword and he's like dodging each one. It's like, yeah, we're kind of in the

Busy, uh, fighting off some of the cultists right now. What? Okay, fine. Look, just call me back when you're done killing those cultists, okay? You know what? Actually, I'll call you back, because if you do kill them, they're just going to pop up here anyway, all dead and shit. Oh, and do me a favor. Tell Scam, actually, that I love him. Hey, Glenn. Wait, is that Ron? Ask Jody if he still wants to go in on our business, ACAB beer. All cops are beer. LAUGHTER

Knowing Jimmy, Jodi would probably be like, I don't fully believe that all pops are bad. I'm a highway patrolman. It's somehow slightly different. Somehow, I guess.

Okay, so yeah, you dispatch the cultists. I turn it back. Okay, so you immediately, your bodies morph again. Your dad gets bigger. You get bigger also because you're so tall. And immediately the corpses go back and your memories are back to just being yours and not that of your grandparents. Well, our grandparents were cool as fuck. Yeah, that was a lot of violence. I don't know. They did all this. Grant's like, yeah, they had a much clearer sort of goal. They

And their archetypes were a lot more clearly defined. Yeah, they seem to like know themselves in a way that I never will. They felt like really one-dimensional, just kind of swinging things around and killing people. Yeah, people seemed to like that, though. They had a lot of friends. The way is pretty much open to the throne of the doodler. So what were you guys trying to do here? Like, what were you attacking? We knew that these cultists had found a way to communicate with the doodler, and we thought that if we could sort of get inside the doodler's head, we could find out a way to kill it or what it wanted and a way to get rid of it.

And did you? Well, you could see what happened if you want to zip back because you're not going to believe me because my own son thinks that I lied. Well, I mean, I did lie to you a couple times. You all ready to go in again? Let's go in. Yeah. All right. You zoom back. There's a closed door that you open after killing the cultist. So now that door is actually open in both timelines.

In current timeline, season two timeline, you see a baby. Not unlike the baby that you initially met slash fought slash ran away from when you first got inducted into Daddy's. It is standing there with upright adult posture, its hands behind its back, just waiting. Other than the fact that it's wearing a diaper and a mask covering its face, it seems to just be waiting patiently for you. Hello!

Hey, little guy. It's just a baby. Like the T-1000 starts sprinting towards you, its meaty, wet, baby, disgusting feet flopping and hitting the ground. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Close the door. Close the door. Close the door. Normal narrows his eyes and says, we meet again, old friend. And I charge straight at it.

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All right, so it leaps onto you and it opens its mouth. And you see that the mask is like a Batman cow where its mouth is still exposed. So it opens its mouth. It's bright, shining, glittering teeth. And it leans in and it bites you on the chest as if it's going to nurse. And you feel its teeth rip through your flesh. And then you hear a suckling noise. Oh, yeah. I want to see what happens to the baby if I turn it. You turn the time a stat and you go back to looking like your grandparents.

And you see that back when they came in here, they were also fighting this same baby. Whoa. Except this version of the baby is not wearing a mask. And it just like what happened in the present tense, it attacked and leapt onto Henry and started clawing at Henry and biting at his chest. I always told Mercedes-O Garcia I wish that I could breastfeed our children like she did, but this is much more painful than I thought it would be. Ow, ow, ow.

I turn it back to so there were teens again. And then I want to charge and kick the baby off of. Okay. Give me an athletics or an attack roll or whatever. Kick it in its baby back ribs. That's great. What's incredible is that, Matt, you can choose. If you want to do like foot based attacks, you should be young version. And if you want like throwing football based attacks, you just switch around. You're sort of an army of two. Damn. Solo army of two. That's not funny.

Will! Will! Incredible. It doesn't matter which sort of attack I was doing because I rolled a one. Okay, so you... Wait, go back in time and re-roll the attack. So you just kick normal in the face really fucking hard with your cleats. Oh, God! Ow! Why would you do that? Yes, please.

One damage. Okay, so it didn't hurt that much, but you definitely take some fucking... It hurt emotionally. Some skin off his... Yeah, he feels like you were brothers, and then you immediately turned on him and kicked him in the fucking face. So this is what it's like when brother fights against brother. Scary help! Maybe I'll have some cooler weapons as the other dude. I toss it to you. All right, this seems like a good idea. I'll give this to Beth to control. To Beth?

Too scary. I tossed you the time-a-stat. I go zoop back to Ron. Oh, that's great. There I have my intense fish-o-rama fishing reel that can grab people and pull them away from things. So I'm just going to cast that. Get it? Yeah. Okay. And then I'm going to roll. Yeah, give me a roll for that. No, I'm rolling on the ground as Ron. In a very cool way. Okay.

I got a 15. Okay, so the 15, you hook your fishing rod into the back of the diaper of the baby, kind of like a Coppertone girl. You're the dog. And you pull the baby away and it's still got its teeth hooked into Henry's chest. It like stretches a little bit. Its teeth are fucking holding on tight. Finally, I know the pain of motherhood. The baby's just getting fucking pulled back. It rips off and some of the fucking chest flesh comes with it.

But it is separated. And now it's running towards you and chasing towards you. Normal vividly remembers that one time when he was at the pool with Grandpa Henry and he asked Grandpa Henry why he only had one nipple. And then like Grandpa Henry just went real dark for a second and then just like shook his head and changed the subject. It's like the rap kids. Wait, wouldn't the baby be dangling from the like a fish? Well, I mean, it's pretty heavy. Are you holding it? I'll roll it in. I'll hold it. Wow, this one's a fighter. You got a big one.

one. I'm going to wrap my hands around Ron's arms and help reel it in just like old times. Thanks, Glenn. Okay, go ahead and roll something animal handling. Can I roll it as Glenn though on my character sheet? Sure. Is the animal handling Ron? Are you handling Ron or are you handling the baby? The baby. I got a natural 20 so it doesn't really matter. So you get to describe what happens. I reel in the baby and the baby is chomping and then I take a fishing photo with it because I also have a camera.

This is the four dads with beers and there's like lawn chairs out. You got the big fish. Yeah. Okay, great. So yeah, it seems to be for the moment suspended and the fishing rod can't do anything. And Grant, after finishing off the cultist, he comes up and he's like looking at the baby dangling from the fishing rod. He's like, we did something to like...

Stun it for a while that like calmed it down for a bit so we could do some of it. I'm trying to remember what it was. What did we do? Oh, I know what you do to fish. You just slap them against a rock. Oh, I forgot it's a baby, not a fish. Same physics probably applied. You still slap them. Oh, grand buddy, what did we do? I'm trying to remember. So it's wearing a mask in the future over just the top half of its face. What did we do? Oh.

I can't remember. I don't know. This is just like in God of War 2 when your son gives you hints to do the puzzle. No, in God of War 2 they'd be like, hey, you should do this thing! Father, what if you got a different angle on the torch? And you're like, I haven't even started solving the puzzle yet. I wrote most of it. And people are like, we hate these! I'm like, yeah, no, that's fair. Well, I know one way to calm a baby down when it's hungry is to stick your finger in its mouth so it can suckle on it. I'm speaking as a father now. I know there's certain things you do to calm a baby down. Why don't we spray it with poison?

What if I sprayed the child with poison glow? It's one of Mother Earth's creatures. Even if it's that vicious, I'm not going to... Hold on, hold on. Daryl, what if we sprayed the baby with poison? Just hand it over here. Daryl dips his finger in the six-pound IPA and then puts his finger in the mouth, just like a little bit of alcohol on a baby. It bites your finger off. Well, I should have seen that one coming.

With a horrible crunch, the baby just like has it in its mouth now like a stogie. It's just like the fucking baby Huey from Roger Rabbit. Daryl just grimaces like, all right, buddy. Yeah, that's right. You just suck on that pacifier there. Why don't you? And then I start rocking a rock. Goodbye, baby. It's still feral, still clawing at you, still pissed off. Got my finger stumped. Hey, Daryl, you want to cauterize that wound on my body? Because I'm red hot. If you could cauterize it, that'd be great. And I hold my hand out. Oh, I have nothing.

Nothing for you. Henry gives a rueful sigh and casts a healing spell to grow your finger back. I have regenerate. Yeah, okay, yeah. So your finger comes back. I should have used this on Walter's legs. I don't ever know why I never did. Is this a puzzle, Anthony? It's a little combat puzzle. Proposal. When he asked him for the wound to be cauterized, I have fireball. I could just cast it and then splash damage the baby accidentally.

Okay, if you want to. That's not solving the puzzle of this girl to kill the baby? Well, the puzzle is the baby has a mask on, so we did something to the face of the baby. You think we disfigured the baby?

That's where my mind went. That's what I thought. That's a wild solution to the puzzle. Wait, wait. Just so you think, though. You thought Anthony designed this where the solution to the puzzle was we just figure a baby's face? And it's so ashamed that it puts a mask on. It's so ashamed that it wears a mask in the future. I get it. I get it. I've got it. They want us to play peekaboo with the baby. So we put the mask on the baby and we're like, where's the baby going?

We're the babies. I love it. And I grab the thermostat and I crunch it back to the future. Where's the babies? It's still, it's dangling in the air for a second off of a fishing rod from the past. But then once you go to the future, the fishing rod disappears. It drops it out on the ground and then starts crawling up. Scary's body. Turn it back. Okay. So I do. I rolled her. Grab. Yeah. Give me a slight hand. 70. I'm rolling.

You really are. So you snatch with Ron-like reflexes the mask from the baby's face. Is it disfigured? Is it horribly burned? Yeah, it looks like a Phantom of the Opera. No. No? It looks like a normal baby butt. This baby's been giving me singing lessons for months. Wait, his face is a butt? No, his face is not a butt. Its nose has two big bruises around either nostril. Oh.

I just start punching the nose of the baby. Pretend to take its nose. Ron, what are you doing, Ron? Don't punch the baby. This is scary right now. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm jumping to the future. Well, you got the mask. I slam the thing back to the past. Oh, I got your nose. And I'm going to get it in an aggressive way, even though I'm saying it like this. Ron, put that nose back.

man you got it i got the nose and i i do the thing with my fingers where it looks like okay well you're holding the mask so you still have to reach forward and take the baby's nose from it okay you know to convince you took its nose but his mouth is chewing on my finger yes his mouth is chewing on your fingers actually you don't have to roll for that yeah and it's slightly sleepy because he's drinking a really strong ipa it's like 20 abv yeah like your oatmeal yeah and then and then glenn cast programmed illusion which is a spell that makes an illusion just happen

That's a hell of a spell. So yeah. It's an illusion of an object and yeah, it's the nose. It looks like the nose on a little sleight of hand. So yeah, you reach out, you do the got your nose and the second you do that, the baby like looks at you, its face goes white and it looks at you and tears and goes, and it's just clawing at its own face. Like, and it feels the nose because the nose is still there but it's like, no, no,

It's reaching out to you and then just goes... And I'm not gonna give it back. And it goes... And it just freezes in shock and just sort of stays that way, just frozen in fear. And you feel in the past that that was exactly what you needed to do to get past the baby. And you stunned it. And it was not willing to do anything to you so long as you held its nose hostage. Damn. All right, well, just put that in your pocket and maybe we'll give it back to you, little guy, when we're done. Put this nose in my pocket. It steps forward and is like, I'm...

Oh, this hits different as a dad. Okay, so yeah, you've solved that in the past at the very least. Oh, we got to do this in the future. Oh, yeah. Wait, no, I don't know that. I don't know anything about the future. Well, we did it. Good job, everyone. All right, so with the baby sitting there unable to move while you have its nose, the path forward to the throne of the doula that they built is open.

Did you say something, by the way, that the other kids are here? Yes, your kids are here. Okay. And that's just like memories of them or what is it? Yes, it is spectral memories of them. They were here, except for Grant. None of them is here corporeally. Okay. But the memories that when you did this, you were doing it with your kids. You can see actually outside the open door that you just came through the Odyssey building.

is there, and it's just full of what seems to be monster-hunting weapons and X-Files-ass, like, you know, devices for finding weird shit. It looks to be like the origin of Daddies was probably in the back of the Honda Odyssey. You built this out of your garage. I'd like to volunteer a detail, and when you look...

it looks like it's moving like the wheels are spinning but in fact it's because it has 20 inch spinner ribs that are continuing to go so it has the illusion of movement at all times very cool great that definitely got you out of a couple scrapes where some people rolled some bad perception checks about how to aim their shots they're like how much do we lead it but look at the

wheels look at how fast the wheels are going hey grandpas you want to go uh move on i guess see what's behind this door so behind the baby now that the baby has been dealt with there is just two very big large wooden doors that you can once again if you wish to air a corner open but this time we're the dads yes currently you're the dads yeah we yeah daryl we should definitely keep going but before we do and then normal kind of shakes off henry and cranks the thermostat up back to season two and turns to her he says her me why how are you what

what's going on? Are you, did you, I don't even know what you're like a what? He just has two dads, man. Like, why are you weird about that? Yeah. No, Hermie is actually looking at you even despite his Joker makeup more pale than usual. And he goes, but I'm not,

I don't know who any of these people are. Am I adopted? I can't be adopted. Talk to me, Herm. Oh, my God. My parents. The ultimate performance was the one my parents have done my whole life, telling me that they were my biological parents. Who am I? Who is Hermie? So you never seen that guy, that weird hell guy or the weird fedora guy in your life? You don't know who either of them are? No, I've met my grandparents and it's not these people, so I have no idea. It's almost like I feel like I got scammed. Oh, my God.

Man, that sucks. And I was so ready to be all Poison Ivy sexy and stuff. And then this happened. Now I don't even know which way. You can still be Poison Ivy sexy if you want to. It touches you on the nose. He goes, I know. Whoever happened back

It doesn't change what your life has been so far. And what happened to you in the past. And just because your parents are total losers doesn't mean that you can't be the coolest person ever. Yeah, also join the club. You think I'm the coolest person ever? No, no, no. He flips a coin and he goes, you just got on my good side.

You want to know how I got this confidence? No. Girl complimented me once. You know what we're going to do, Hermie? We're going to put this in mystery, this adventure. This is going on the list, too. This is going to be like a side adventure that we try to solve while we're solving the main adventure, okay? So we're going to figure out what the deal is here. Okay. All right. I mean, I'll deal with it myself. I'm going to go internal now. I'm going to do the Stanislavski method. I'm going to... No. No. Hermie.

You need to embrace this. You don't need to be the Joker or Poison Ivy or Two-Face. You don't need to be any of those characters. You can just be you. It's okay. I also got hit with a cone of cold, so I'm kind of Mr. Freeze. Okay, well, you don't need to be any. Just be yourself, man. You can just be yourself. Who is Hermie? You see what you said hit him like a physical wave. Who is Hermie? And he just goes, who is Hermie?

Who's Hermie? And he looks down and keeps just muttering it to himself. Who's Hermie? Who's Hermie? He's not really there. You can be Mr. Freeze if that's going to get us through this. That's cool too, Hermie. It's going to be a cold night. All confidence comes back to him. Let's just go through this door here. Hey, Dad, before we open this, is there anything we should know before we open this door? No, I don't think so. Okay. Do you guys want to open this door as us? Oh, I remember there was kind of an argument that happened. It was awkward between us.

Between Lark and his dad. So I guess be prepared for that. Oh, so if we want the cool drama, we have to switch back? All right. Scary, go ahead. Yeah, I guess. Okay. All right, guys. Lark, Sparrow, come on. You stop goofing off. We're here on official daddy's business. So come on, boys. Hey, and dads, real quick. Hey.

I saw this movie once where this guy pushed through the door. I know we didn't do it on the first set of doors, but like maybe this set of doors we can push through like Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings movies. Look, we can all admit that Aragorn is really hot and sexy. Okay, Glenn. But like, I just feel like there's been a lot of silliness going on and we're here on a mission. Okay. Daryl. Daryl Link is like leaning down towards Grant. He's like, I got suspicious. Look, he goes, Hey son, make sure whenever you have a son, you let me eat ice cream at dinner.

Just like look around like, I wonder if that worked. You said that to Grant? Grant, who is still your adult dad in a kid's body, is like, do you want me to give you more ice cream when we get home? Isn't this the past? It's still me. I'm still really here. It's still me. Yeah, you didn't give me any ice cream. I don't remember you giving me more ice cream. Henry Normal looks at Daryl Lincoln and is like, no, look, it's time traveling. It's just like that movie Primal.

And that's how Daryl died of a heart attack. All right, let's open the door. Okay, so you open the door and you see... Only Glen Aragorn pushes in. Yeah, everyone else just walks in. You see rows and rows of pews hastily constructed out of shitty wood and rusty nails. And in the back of the church, at the other end of the church, which is currently empty, you see a throne sitting on it. The nave?

Sorry. The nave? That's what that area's called? The nave. Okay, so yeah, you enter and you see the nave of the church. It's very big. The central part of a church. Central part of a church. Hey, Daryl. Hey, Daryl, check out the craftsmanship on the pews of the nave. Pretty nice. They have the church just got here. Well, minus the craftsmanship on these pews, huh? Yeah, a little wobbly. Take a seat. But they feel good on the behind. Right here, the word of God. She's got a great ass. Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!

Henry, but not normal, gets advantage, gets inspiration. You feel psychic energy of a very chaotic... As you do in direction. As you do, yeah. Of a chaotic and disturbing nature coming from the throne. Scam actually goes...

I'm getting a lot of doodler jizz coming out of that throne. Oh, no. We haven't talked about this. We have kids around. Oh, sorry, sorry. Doodler semen coming out of that throne. I'm so sorry. Thank you. You're welcome. Sitting in that might be awfully dangerous, but it seems like that's what we're looking for is a way to look into the doodler's mind. I could give it a shot. Mm,

I mean, I know you've been... Oh, what? Is it because I'm a little scamp and you're worried I'm going to do something untoward? We just can't trust that scamp. You know what they say? Fool me 73 times. Shame on you. Fool me 74 times. And I've been keeping track and this is the 74th time I could have been potentially fooled by you. Because there were a lot of crazy scams you pulled. Fool 74 times, your head detonates because we've programmed you just like the Suicide Squad. Actually, this is all the time.

Daryl says that Daryl holds up a detonator. You know what's crazy? You know what's fucking insane? As I was literally about to say that. I was literally going to have Scam actually push up his fedora and go, well, actually, since you put that explosive inside my skull, I can't fuck you over that badly without risking detonation. So I'm pretty sure it'll be okay. I can give it a shot. And if not, you can always pop my head, as we like to say. Okay. So Scam actually sits in the throne and he goes, hum.

And he goes, aw. And he stands up and he goes, I don't feel a connection to it. I think it's looking for something simpatico, something that it's connected with in terms of its doodler DNA. So I guess it's going to be one of you oak boys. Not my beautiful boys. I'll do it. Lark goes, no, I can

I can do it. Lark, I'm not going to let this crazy dangerous. I'm not going to let you do that. And Lark goes, I know it's crazy dangerous. So the last time that we saw Lark as an audience, you know, he was a kid. Now Lark walks towards you with a little bit more of a bowed angle to his spine, bags under his eyes. It doesn't dress himself that well. His hair is kind of messy in a way that is unfortunately very attractive to people of his age. I can figure.

Yeah, exactly. And he goes, no, I'm going to do this. If it's going to put you in any more danger, it's going to be me. Like the end. No, Lark, I can't. No, buddy. Come on. It was kind of his fault that this whole thing. Shut the fuck up, Ron. Jeez, come on. He's right. Ron's right. Okay. I fucked over everybody and it's my fucking fault. Maybe it's your fault for not stopping me. I don't know. I'm going to fucking do it. And he just starts walking forward. I step in front of him. He hits you in the face. He turns and he punches you in the face and he goes, this is my fault.

No!

I'm not going to let you do this, Lark. I grab him and I'm literally trying to hold him back. He punches you again in the stomach and the wind gets knocked out of you. Daryl steps. He's not getting involved, but he's going to step in between the throne and this happening in case he does get past.

Henry, as you double over with your stomach hurt, he goes, if you've been a better father, I wouldn't be like this. This is my fault, but it's your fault too. You fucked this up. We fucked this. I don't know. This fucking needs to happen. And so the note I gave you early on in the episode is my thoughts for how Henry might react to this. And if you want to follow that, you can. If you don't, you don't have to.

Lark, I'm sorry, man. Like, I can't. This is okay. Okay? It's all right. You're a kid. You were an even younger kid when this all happened. This isn't your fault. Okay? And if you're blaming yourself, I forgive you. All right? We're all in this.

together and this is too dangerous you know we know what this thing can do and this you're right it is my fault it is my fault that we were that all of this happened and if anyone is going to get up there it's gonna be me I know that you have all these pain and I have all these feelings but I can't watch you get killed I can't watch something else horrible happen to you you have to let me do this okay Lark

looking at you for a second and he's not moving and he's not even emoting at you and it's very confusing and then for a second he shimmers and Daryl behind you I was about to say I was looking for Sparrow damn it yeah Daryl behind you you see that Sparrow was the person who was fighting your dad is the one who sneaks around and goes sorry and

and he sits down in the throne and immediately his back arches with pain and darkness shoots out of his eyes and he begins to bellow in pain for what actually is a couple seconds but feels like minutes. I run up to him. I'm going to try to pull him off the throne. The second your hands touch him, you feel, in order, love, confusion, betrayal,

sadness, and deep anger. And the heaviness of those emotions make you feel like you can't even move. And Lark can't even move. I'm obviously trying to help Henry, but I'm assuming... Yeah, same kind of vibe hits all of you as you touch. There's just no way to get him off there. But after a couple seconds, the darkness fades from his eyes and he... Oh my god, are you okay?

And he looks at you with just a lot of fury in his eyes, a fury that is very familiar to you over the past couple of years of a tiredness, a sadness and a self-hatred. And he says, we just got to fucking kill it. We got to kill it. I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about what I saw. We're going to fucking kill it. We're going to kill it. OK, I love you in that moment.

As you say, I love you. The memories all kind of end and freeze. And this is as much as the Church of the Doodler remembers in this timeline. So if you want to switch back to the current timeline, you can. Let's cut scenes over. We got to flip it. Hey, Ron, you want to? Oh, yeah. Sorry. It was scary. Yeah. Oh, wow. Really? You really get in your own head there. Yeah. Intense. Normal kind of just kind of takes a step back and just his eyes are welling with tears. I was like, oh, my God.

You know, right, buddy? Yeah, I mean... So in the present tense, the throne is still there. Mm-hmm. You can do what you wish. Well... Holy shit. I gotta see what he saw. No, no. I start walking towards the... No, I'm sorry. No, let me do this. I start holding... I don't have a twin to rope-a-dope you with, man, but we need to know what he saw. No, but... Because we need to know how to beat it. You're like my brother now, though. You just said, like, you can't just... You just saw what happened. I just saw...

The answer they got was the bad answer. Like, let's not, we don't need to know what's in there, dude. But he, man, there's so much I don't know about my freaking family, man. Like, I'm going nuts over here. I don't know why they hate me so much. And maybe something in there will tell me what I need to know to be at peace with them. Man, this is like, you've

Let me fucking understand this, okay? You don't understand. You need to back off. Okay, you're not my brother. You guys aren't my family. That's my family. This is all this whole fucked up thing, and we need to know what's going on, and we need to know what they know, so just let me do it. The answers are here with us, dude. Like, no, I'm not your brother, but I'm your friend. I can't let you do that. Guys, help me out here. I try to hold him. Grant just sits there and sort of watches and is like, this is what I was worried would happen.

And I, Lark never told us what he saw. I asked him a million times. He never told me what he saw. So if there is something in here, maybe,

I mean, Lark didn't die. Maybe normally I'll be fine. Whatever happened, we need to know everything we can to stop this thing. I can't live with this in my heart anymore. Come on. I think deep down, I've always known the only reason my dad couldn't, you know, feel the way that dads are supposed to feel about me is probably he knows that I got to inherit all this horrible shit someday. So you just gotta let me do this, okay? Okay. Okay, man. Like, you do what you have to do. We're here for you. But I don't... Well, I don't know about... Actually...

Yeah, I guess we are. I guess even if you're not related to this thing, it still comes back to haunt you. What I'm about to do is so fucking goth and so metal. I wish it could be you. I wish it could be you because I know that you would think this was super cool, but one of us has to do it. And I think it's got to be me. So then I guess rock on, Norm.

Link, Taylor, Hermie, Scary, Grant. I'm just listing people in the room because I'm scared now. I love you all. Be aggressive.

Be aggressive. And I start chanting that as I go towards the thing. Each step, like, yeah. Hermes starts stomping and clapping his hands. We've got spirit. Yes, we do. We've got spirit. How about you? And I sit down on the throne. In that moment, your mind explodes with possibility and space and time. You immediately feel yourself zooming through the consciousness of a creature that is older than time and more intelligent than... Than Jordan Peterson. David Mamet. No, no, no.

Jordan Peterson. Imagine this. Oh my God, we need to clean the doodler's room. Imagine he's...

Imagine the intelligence of Jordan Peterson combined with the sex appeal of Jordan Peterson. Oh my God, stop it, Anthony. And the Kermit-like voice of Jordan Peterson. You look into the doodler's mind and you can feel all of its memories stretching out from birth to now. And you feel yourself being drawn toward the very, very first memory. You can go in the direction of finding out what it wants or what it fears. Which do you want to go for?

I'm going to go for the real video game moment where I'm like, am I going to get to do both? You'd like to quick save? Save a version of this podcast. I'm going to seek out what it fears. When you think of the word fear, you...

Zoom to a memory from the middle of its lifespan, and you feel yourself inside the body of a quick-talking newspaper gal. Great-grandma Hildy, I wrote a book report on her in sixth grade. She is being quietly, insidiously, and subtly gaslit and insulted and abused by her son, Bear.

Barry, who is tucking her into bed and taking away all of her agency and all of her resources and all of her money and is smiling the entire time that he does it. And you feel, as the doodler, the sense of pain and hate. This little brat can't do that to me. I want a fucking bullet, sir. Yeah. You feel that resentment and then you feel from Barry that sense of quiet, loathing and selfishness. What would you say?

What gets you more than anything is the feeling of once he leaves the room, Hildy is in Oakvale, this beautiful forest, but she is completely alone in her bed. And there is no one that she loves around her. And she feels completely and utterly and totally isolated as she dies. And when she dies, you feel your consciousness shift into Barry. And the fear goes away because...

to be afraid of losing something you love, you have to be able to love really hard. And so that fear sort of goes away. But the fear that you found was that fear of loneliness being Hildy on her deathbed. Okay. I would like to now circle back and figure out what this thing was. Great. Yeah, this is a telltale game. You get to do both. Yes.

So to find out what it wants, you go all the way back to its very, very first memory. First, there is not just darkness, but the absence of darkness, the absence of anything, the nothingness of nothingness. And then very suddenly, there's a bright light, and you hear the sound of a film reel going, and you look around you, and you see lots of glowing rods on the walls. You see a really, really handsome Asian actor that gives you untoward thoughts. You see...

a young stuntman in a newsy cap it gives you untoward thoughts you see a cowardly line producer holding a script and you see who you will eventually join with the image of the lady journalist and you feel confusion but awe and wonderment at what surrounded you all these feelings all these sensations all these new people then you find yourself getting bigger and bigger wanting to

interact with these people and you hear the people screaming and you hear fear from them and you see the line producer reaching out his hand to shake your hand as his mind leaves him and you try to embrace him but as you do so you feel his bones getting crushed under your might and your weight and you accidentally murder him and you suddenly feel very very scared and very sad because you just all you wanted to do was hug him and say hello and then you see the stunt man looking down into you as you get bigger and bigger to try to hug him as well maybe and say sorry for what you did to his friend and you end up

consuming him as well and hurting him. And the one person who remains living in this group, the journalist, you try to join with and you decide not to hug her, not to show your love because your love hurts people so much. You decide to instead go inside her and hide yourself and join with her. And...

As the years goes by, as you sort of very quickly speed read through almost the rest of his memories, you see the doodler glimpsing Ron and Willie. You see a boy almost getting drowned in the water and you reach out to try to save the boy, but the boy leans back and the father goes in instead and you accidentally grab the father who was trying to drown the boy and you join with him. And the second that you join with him, you feel his indifference and his hopelessness and his spite and his selfishness and it inhabits you. And then you feel being inside

Two young boys, Lark and Sparrow, and all the excitement and all the wonder and all the love in the world. But then you feel the sting of betrayal from both having your back stabbed by your son and being your son in that moment. And in that moment, you feel the resentment grow from within Lark towards himself. You feel that resentment for everyone and everything. You hate it. It's your fault. Everything is bad. Every time you try to love someone, every time you try to touch someone or reach out to someone, they hurt and it's bad.

and you just want more than anything to make it all go away, however you can. You don't want to be alone, but you don't want to be near anybody else. You want to destroy all of this stuff, and these emotions and these feelings that you're feeling are so strong and so terrible that you decide you want to live without them, and you calcify these emotions and feelings into anchors, into physical objects, and you hide those across everything.

the many planes of existence, hoping that their absence from your body would allow you a freedom from those emotions. But they're too strong, and even the radiation of those emotions still allow you to feel them as if they were right here. But you know in this moment that the anchors are the thing keeping...

the doodler here. Even though the doodler doesn't realize it because it is, at this point, basically a child lashing out at everything around it out of confusion and self-loathing. Its anchors are the things that are allowing it to maintain a foothold in all of these planes while it tries to

reach out and alternately get humanity to love it and punish it for not loving it and all the complicated feelings they're in. And in a sense, it looks at humanity as its dad and it deeply resents its dad, but also deeply loves its dad and wants that validation. But in this moment, you feel if you could go find those anchors and destroy them, the doodler would not necessarily have anything keeping it here and could maybe pass back into that darkness from whence it came.

And in that moment, the darkness leaves your eyes. You hear a really loud noise sort of come into your ears and you realize it's the sound of you screaming. And slowly that stops and your throat stops hurting. And you are back in the world. You know now what it takes to get rid of the doodler. You know what it's scared of and you know what it wants. Normal staggers out and he drops to his knees sobbing and he looks at his friends and he says, we have to help it.

Not today, no, not today.

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