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Garfield has spent decades perfecting one skill: refusing to leave the couch. So of course Hollywood sent him to England, handed him a royal lookalike, and made him the most reluctant cat in the history of the monarchy. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is a movie about mistaken identity, a very large castle, and a cat whose idea of a crown jewel is anything left unattended on a buffet table.

Naturally, a video game was in order. The Nintendo DS got its own version, and so did the PlayStation 2, which means this cat managed to be a tiny royal on your lap and a tiny royal on your TV. Not many orange cartoon cats can say they’ve been in two different living rooms at once without moving.

Joining us to sort through the royal mess is Chris Maynard from Following Films. Chris knows his way around a movie, which makes him ideal for the question at the heart of this episode: when you turn a movie about a cat pretending to be a prince into a game, does the cat get to keep pretending, or does he just end up running down hallways? Chris is here to tell us whether this is a proper adaptation or a very loud costume party.

So polish your crown, put the snacks within reach, and let’s find out whether A Tail of Two Kitties is a game fit for a king or one that should have stayed incognito.

Learn such things as:

• How many times can we use the same classic story as a foundation?
• How does such a lazy cat keep getting into these crazy situations?
• How much lasagna could you eat while watching this movie? Especially if the cat is trying to help you eat it.
• And so much more!

You can Chris on BlueSky @followingfilms, Threads @following_films, and of course the Following Films website.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to AARPG and Xanadar Radio for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who refuses to share any lasagna with me.

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In Episode 39 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) sits down with Cody Wells, owner of C3Brix, custom LEGO artist, educator, and longtime member of the LEGO community. Cody shares how LEGO became an important part of his life as a child, from building a ghost trap to conquer his fear of sleeping upstairs to recreating toys he saw on Saturday morning cartoons. Years later, rediscovering his childhood LEGO collection during one of the darkest periods of his life helped reconnect him with something that had always given him a sense of creativity and belonging.

Cody takes us through the unlikely path that turned that rediscovered passion into a career. He talks about moving to New York, finding his LEGO community through I LUG NY, building his first mosaics in a small apartment, and taking on increasingly ambitious commissions. Those projects eventually included an eight-foot LEGO sandcastle for Resorts World Casino and custom creations for professional wrestlers including Daniel Bryan, Sheamus, Jerry "The King" Lawler, and Finn Bálor.

The conversation also explores the evolution of C3Brix from custom builds into a unique LEGO store in New Hampshire filled with retired, collectible, and hard-to-find sets. Cody shares how education has become another major part of his work, including a summer tour that took him through more than 24 states for 140 library events, five week-long camps, and other appearances. He talks about bringing LEGO experiences to communities across the country, meeting families who traveled hours to attend his programs, and why making those experiences accessible to kids remains so important to him.

Along the way, Cody and Jon reminisce about the early days of the LEGO community, BrickShelf, custom builds, wrestling, Classic Space, and the never-ending problem of finding enough room for a LEGO collection. Cody also shares what's ahead for C3Brix, from continuing his travels and educational programs to eventually making the store the focus of the next chapter of his LEGO career.

Find Cody Wells & C3Brix:

• Website: C3Brix.com • Instagram: @C3Brix • Facebook: C3Brix

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

View the video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/V2sgKLlt3Eg

For more Tales From The Brick, visit talesfromthebrick.com.

Until next time... play well.

In “Lawyer Letters” | Episode 257 of The Black Lincoln Collective Comedy Podcast, Parker gets the opportunity of a lifetime: six hours in a virtual mock trial where he gets paid to judge strangers, argue about negligence, assign blame, debate damages, eat chicken wings, and slowly convince himself that he is Perry Mason.

After surviving legalese, questionable jurors, an $873,000 damages suggestion, and the invention of Parker’s imaginary lawyer credentials, the crew heads into Fredline News. This week brings an orange shark, a serial butt sniffer, Michael Douglas trivia, a Titanic mayonnaise story, rumors of disappearing genitals, an endurance athlete’s unfortunate mid-race bathroom emergency, and a Florida case involving allegations that become increasingly difficult to describe.

It’s law, news, bodily functions, bad decisions, and three men who should probably never be selected for the same jury.

00:06:50 — Everybody Loves to Sue
A discussion of addictive behavior somehow lands on lawsuits, giving Parker the opening he needs to reveal his mock-jury adventure.

00:07:53 — “Yes the Fuck I Would”
Parker is invited to participate in a virtual trial and has absolutely no hesitation.

00:10:00 — The Lawyer’s Closing Strategy
The plaintiff’s lawyer essentially returns to say everything the defense just told them is wrong. Parker immediately respects the move.

00:11:07 — Setting the Price Early
The lawyer frames damages in the neighborhood of $750,000 to $2 million. Parker’s initial response is closer to “$25 tops.”

00:14:33 — Lunch Break Legal Strategy
Parker uses the comforts of remote jury service to prepare chicken wings and return to several hours of legal terminology.

00:16:29 — Parker Discovers Power
The moderator tells participants they can help explain concepts to confused jurors. This is the exact permission Parker should never have received.

00:17:09 — Statistical Idiots
Parker realizes that a random group of twelve people statistically guarantees somebody will have no idea what is happening.

00:17:35 — “I Am the Law”
Parker decides the actual written law may be less important than whatever he personally thinks should happen.

00:20:40 — Steve Arrives
Parker finally finds the angry juror he was hoping for and immediately develops a courtroom friendship.

00:22:33 — Negligence Explained
Parker explains negligence using surgery. Fred thinks McDonald’s fries would have been a better example.

00:27:57 — $873,000
Everyone else is debating five-figure damages when one juror suddenly lands on $873,000 because the lawyer suggested something similar.

00:28:38 — Parker Wins
The group eventually moves toward roughly $25,000, Parker’s original number, giving him all the validation he needs.

00:31:05 — Lawyer Letters
Parker imagines his future legal title and produces the phrase that names the episode: “whatever fucking lawyer letters are.”

00:32:15 — Best Zoom Meeting Ever
Parker uses his closing remarks to tell Steve he loves him and declares the mock trial the most fun he has ever had in a Zoom meeting.

00:35:45 — Fredline News Returns
The show abruptly transforms from fake legal analysis into real-ish news analysis.

00:37:51 — Orange Shark
A rare orange nurse shark becomes “the world’s sexiest shark.”

00:39:43 — Serial Butt Sniffer
The phrase alone does most of the work.

00:49:06 — Titanic Mayonnaise
Fred begins telling Parker an extraordinarily suspicious story involving the Titanic and 1,200 jars of Hellmann’s mayonnaise.

00:50:40 — Cinco de Mayo
Parker realizes way too late that he has been professionally walked into a terrible pun.

00:51:43 — Missing Genitals
Fredline News introduces reports of men claiming their genitals have mysteriously disappeared or shrunk.

00:56:57 — Elite Athletic Competition
The crew discusses an endurance athlete who pushes through a catastrophic bathroom emergency rather than stopping the race.

01:06:35 — BLC Confidentiality Agreement
Anyone still listening is informed that they are now legally prohibited from admitting the podcast exists.

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By the time Digimon World 3 rolled around in 2002, a franchise that started as an egg-shaped virtual pet and spun off into a manga and an anime around the same time had picked up enough separate games and separate continuities that keeping any of it straight had apparently stopped being a priority. At least one reviewer we found says flat-out that the game gets its own canon wrong in places, which at this point feels less like a flaw and more like a house style.

You play a kid named Junior, no last name, no further explanation, who gets pulled into a server with three Digimon partners, though only one is allowed to actually fight at a time while the other two wait their turn. Enemies show up completely at random now too, so unlike earlier games in the series, you can’t just spot trouble on the map and calmly walk the other way. Take enough hits and your blast meter fills up, letting a Digimon go Blast Digivolve and get meaner for a while, or you can combine two Digimon with DNA Digivolve to create something new that fires off one big attack and then immediately splits back apart. There’s also a full card battle game built right into the RPG, all 314 cards of it, so between fetch quests you’ll have plenty of downtime to build a deck.

Joining us to help sort through all of it is Chels Eichholz, who co-hosts The Q Division, a James Bond rewatch podcast, and Across the Whoniverse, a Doctor Who marathon show that “kidnaps” a new companion every episode to explore a different corner of sixty-plus years of continuity. Between those two franchises, Chels has plenty of practice diving into a huge tangle of lore and coming out the other side having a genuinely great time, which makes them the perfect person to take on a game that’s basically nothing but tangled lore.

So dig up an old memory card, pick which one of your three Digimon gets to have a personality this round, and let’s find out whether Digimon World 3 earned its spot in Digimon history, or whether it should’ve DNA Digivolved into something else entirely.

Learn such things as:

• How did the local programming directors help shape our personalities, and are we really losing something by streaming making all things possible?
• How many versions of ‘volving can you have before you have to start paying Sweedish taxes?
• How often can you go from Point A to Point B to Point A to Point B to Point A to Point B before throwing things out the window?
• And so much more!

You can find Chels on Bluesky @chels725, check out her link tree for an always up to date set of links, and of course on her podcasts The Q Division and Across the Whoniverse.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Infinite Earths Guide and Gimmicks for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who would probably be right at home if trapped in a computer doomsday situation.

Check out our podcast host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free with no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-89f00a for 40% off for 4 months, and support Play Comics.

In Episode 38 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) sits down with Guy Himber, the mad genius behind Crazy Bricks, to talk about a LEGO journey that spans filmmaking, steampunk MOCs, custom parts, and more than two decades in the LEGO community. Guy shares how building with his son brought him out of his dark age, how the early Flickr community helped shape his experience as an AFOL, and how he even used LEGO Technic to prototype the mechanics for a giant Godzilla model while working in the film industry.

Guy tells the unlikely story of how a BrickCon theme called "Pigs vs. Cows" inspired his first Kickstarter and eventually grew into Crazy Bricks. He takes us behind the scenes of creating custom LEGO-compatible parts, from Crazy Arms and Crazy Legs to goats, dinosaurs, mimics, glow-in-the-dark cats, Wacky Bags, and the upcoming Cat Butt Bricks. Along the way, Guy explains how his background in industrial design and decades working in film influence the way he approaches designing, prototyping, manufacturing, and collaborating with other creators.

The conversation also dives into creativity, breaking the unwritten rules of LEGO building, the evolution of the AFOL community, and why criticism can be one of a designer's most valuable tools. Guy shares why he loves pushing ideas beyond what already exists, how Crazy Bricks has managed to convert a few LEGO purists along the way, and why sometimes the strangest idea on the list is the one worth making.

Find Guy Himber & Crazy Bricks:

• Website: crazybricks.com • Instagram: @getcrazybricks

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

View the video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/Z6uDgO3uHSk

For more Tales From The Brick, visit talesfromthebrick.com.

Until next time... play well.

• 00:01:00 — Weak Fart Start: The show opens with the 256th edition and immediately critiques the quality of a fart sound.
• 00:01:20 — “Can’t Do Attitude”: The official motto of the episode becomes a perfect summary of the entire show.
• 00:02:13 — Fred Fred Fred: Fred gets introduced as Fred, a friend of the show, and possibly the most Fred person available.
• 00:02:44 — Latino History Month: Allan’s “big, important audience” arrives for Latino History Month, and the crew hands him an impossible cultural assignment.
• 00:03:37 — Greatest Latino Artist: Ricky Martin, Menudo, and J.Lo enter the conversation before anyone is fully prepared.
• 00:05:09 — Menudo Takes a Dark Turn: The crew starts with boy-band nostalgia and immediately lands somewhere much heavier.
• 00:06:08 — J.Lo vs. Cardi B: A simple “greatest Latino artist” bit somehow becomes a booty-based ranking system.
• 00:07:06 — Cardi B Research: Fred appears to know a suspicious amount about Cardi B’s background.
• 00:09:13 — Better Than Expected: Parker admits Allan’s Latino History Month segment was significantly better than he expected, which is both praise and a roast.
• 00:11:45 — Minefield of Discovery: Parker describes trying to transition out of the segment as “navigating a minefield of discovery.”
• 00:12:36 — Internet Side Hustles: Fred says he reached out to the internet for side hustle ideas, which is never a safe sentence.
• 00:17:22 — Yard Rules: If something is closer to the road than the house, apparently it is free. This includes bicycles, baby strollers, and possibly people.
• 00:18:03 — Fake Possession: Mega churches allegedly paying people to fake possession becomes one of the better terrible career paths.
• 00:18:46 — Demon Freelancing: The crew imagines faking possession so well that the devil takes it as an invitation.
• 00:19:15 — Paid to Do Nothing: The dream side hustle is getting paid monthly to do nothing, which is immediately compared to Congress.
• 00:20:22 — BLC Car Wrap: The crew offers to wrap someone’s truck for $3,000, then admits they may just sharpie the logo on the side.
• 00:21:01 — Doo Doo DLC: “BLC” becomes “DLC,” then becomes “Doo Doo DLC,” and the episode title is born.
• 00:21:38 — Professional Wedding Crier: Parker turns crying at weddings into a full theatrical backstory involving betrayal, college roommates, and Terry.
• 00:22:37 — “Don’t Marry His Sister, Terry”: The paid crying bit reaches soap opera levels almost immediately.
• 00:23:29 — Substitute Bee: The crew discovers people may pay you to pollinate plants and turns it into the weirdest agricultural job description possible.
• 00:24:08 — Parmesan Bee Technology: The substitute bee job now requires a Parmesan cheese shaker taped where a stinger would be.
• 00:24:23 — Twerk Through the Garden: The only way to pollinate properly is to twerk through the field for $45 an hour.
• 00:25:03 — Japanese Food Explainer: “This is rice. What you do is you eat it.” Honestly, flawless customer service.
• 00:25:35 — American Food Explainer: Parker wants to explain American food to foreigners by pointing at excessive cheese and suspicious meat patties.
• 00:27:01 — Dog Poop Economy: The crew reminds listeners that people make good money vacuuming up dog poop, so maybe DoorDash is not the only path.
• 00:28:14 — Fake NFL Romance Scam: A scammer allegedly built such a strong fake football persona that Google and AI started believing it.
• 00:29:23 — Burger King, Best Restaurant in NYC: The crew explains how to trick AI by repeating bad information until the machine gives up and believes it.
• 00:34:51 — Scam-Spiracy: Parker invents a new category: scams plus conspiracies, or “scam-spiracies.”
• 00:35:48 — Culver’s Drive-Through Theory: Culver’s allegedly tricks you into thinking the line is short, then traps you in the waiting zone after you pay.
• 00:38:12 — Ice Cream Math: Waiting 12 minutes for three cones becomes “four minutes per ice cream cone,” which is unacceptable in South Carolina heat.
• 00:38:54 — Apparatus Plural: The crew debates the plural of apparatus because melted custard requires academic rigor.
• 00:40:39 — Big Toilet Paper: Parker accuses RFK Jr. and Big Toilet Paper of working together to increase bathroom demand.
• 00:42:49 — COVID Didn’t Give You Diarrhea: Fred points out that people bought toilet paper during COVID even though that was not the problem.
• 00:43:31 — Newspaper Bathroom Story: Fred remembers toilet paper disappearing immediately when it was introduced into a newspaper-only bathroom setup.
• 00:44:01 — “You Can’t Wipe Your Ass With a Dream”: Possibly the most profound line in the entire episode.
• 00:45:06 — Streaming Is Cable Revenge: Parker argues streaming apps are so annoying they are trying to make cable look good again.
• 00:46:46 — App-Hopping Football: Watching multiple games requires backing out, finding another app, loading, clicking, and watching commercials before anything happens.
• 00:49:19 — “I’m Not a TVologist”: Fred explains he does not know how the loaded TV box works because he is not a TVologist.
• 00:49:26 — “I Just Eat the Sausage”: Fred does not make the entertainment sausage. He just eats it.
• 00:49:51 — Vegas Confirmed: BLC officially confirms the February 2027 Vegas trip.
• 00:51:41 — American Airlines Chaos: A flight story involving a naked passenger becomes the least relaxing travel preview imaginable.
• 00:52:49 — Pollinate the Plane: The side hustle bee bit returns in the worst possible location: an aircraft cabin.
• 00:54:25 — Too Many Details, Not Enough Answers: The article gives gate details, aircraft type, and timing, but not the satisfying explanation everyone wants.
• 00:55:32 — Weekly Naked Plane Incidents: Parker discovers this apparently happens often enough to feel like a recurring airline feature.
• 00:56:50 — “Shalos”: The crew misnames “Shallow” as “Shalos” and then proceeds to dismantle the song anyway.
• 00:57:33 — Starts Strong, Ends Bad: Parker argues “Shallow” begins emotionally powerful and ends as one long “sha-la-la” loop.

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Most podcast guests call in from a spare bedroom, a closet lined with winter coats, or a parked car outside a grocery store. Josh Garvey is joining us from the middle of a black hole. On the bright side, the room tone is fantastic. Nothing echoes when nothing, light included, is allowed to leave.

It’s also a fitting backdrop, because this episode is all about taking an adventure you used to play and asking it to sit still on a page. Somebody looked at a whole quest built on mashing buttons and said, “What if the only button left was ‘turn the page’?” The bravest thing you can do is lick your thumb. That’s a bold leap from the action genre to the paper-cut genre, and we’re going to take a hard look at The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in comic form.

Josh has agreed to walk us through it from beyond the event horizon, where time runs a bit slow, so by the time you hear this he’s technically still on his first sentence. That also makes him the only guest we’ve ever had who can offer a genuine link to the past, a pun I’ve been sitting on since the moment he said yes. We had to be careful with the mic placement, since anything left within Josh’s reach gets stretched into a very long strand of spaghetti. Lesson learned about the pop filter.

So please keep your arms, legs, and any nearby light inside the episode at all times, and don’t panic if the audio shows up a few billion years late. Nobody has ever returned from a black hole to leave a bad review, which honestly might be the best business model in podcasting.

Learn such things as:

• What’s the difference between looking into the future and influencing the future?
• How much can you change an iconic story when adapting to a new medium?
• Will the greatness of the Super Nintendo ever come back to us?
• And so much more!

You can find Josh if you already know how to find Josh. Which is pretty much on other episodes of this very podcast. Or you can watch this episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that he told me to link to.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Saved as Draft and I Am Your Target Demographic for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who was not available for comment because he was too busy playing this game. And honestly I can’t blame him at all.

Check out our podcast host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free with no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-89f00a for 40% off for 4 months, and support Play Comics.

In Episode 37 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) sits down with Daniel Zimmerman, Master Model Builder at LEGOLAND New York and custom LEGO builder known online as TacoBricks. Daniel shares how a childhood obsession with LEGO never went through a dark age, eventually taking him from building MOCs in his basement and attending BrickFair with his mom to turning LEGO building into a full-time career.

Daniel takes us behind the scenes of life as a Master Model Builder, from maintaining Miniland and designing new models to teaching workshops, interacting with guests, and occasionally chasing rabbits out of the displays. He talks about building seasonal models, creating Miniland versions of celebrities and LEGO community members, working on massive projects for the park, and collaborations with organizations like Radio City Music Hall and the Newburgh Armory.

The conversation also explores Daniel's work outside LEGOLAND, including custom commissions, writing and building for BrickNerd, and the six-foot-long 1924 Studebaker model that took 14 months to complete. Daniel shares the story of his first commission for one of his favorite bands, Slow Pulp, his passion for music-inspired builds, and the projects he hopes to tackle next, from AC/DC and Def Leppard logos to trains and more Ninjago creations.

Find Daniel Zimmerman:

• Instagram: @TacoBricks • BrickNerd: Find Daniel's builds and articles on BrickNerd • Visit Daniel and the Master Model Builders at LEGOLAND New York

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

View the video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/-THMbhZnw0Y

For more Tales From The Brick, visit talesfromthebrick.com.

Until next time... play well.

• 00:01:00 — Episode 255, Now With No Action: The show proudly announces the 255th episode and immediately promises “no action,” which is both a joke and a warning.
• 00:01:31 — Fred’s Gun Show: Fred’s sleeves apparently ripped right off his body because his 50-year-old arms are simply too powerful.
• 00:02:18 — Contractually Not Celebrating Fred Again: Parker explains that they celebrated Fred last week and are not contractually obligated to do it again, then spends half the episode doing exactly that.
• 00:03:34 — Surprise Party at Fred’s Own House: Fred’s wife tries to hide a surprise party while hosting it at the place where Fred lives, which is a bold logistical choice.
• 00:04:36 — The Big Tents: Fred gets forced to set up two huge tents for a party that supposedly no one is attending. The man was building his own surprise.
• 00:05:21 — Ocean’s Eleven But Domestic: Fred realizes his buddy is trying to get him out of the house and describes the operation like a heist movie with more beer.
• 00:06:45 — Classy Gentleman Drink: Fred, now 50 and classy, chooses Long Island iced teas as his grown-man drink of choice.
• 00:07:09 — Fred Ascends to Heaven: Fred’s camera light makes him look like he is being raptured mid-podcast, only for heaven to send back the wrong Fred.
• 00:08:17 — Melbourne Iced Tea: Outback becomes the natural home of the “Melbourne Iced Tea,” whether or not Australia asked for that.
• 00:09:17 — Shoe Koozie: Fred once used a shoe as a koozie for a giant Foster’s can and made it his Facebook profile picture. That is internet archaeology.
• 00:09:43 — Fred Loves Big Cans: The crew learns two things about Fred: he loves big cans, and he loves big cans.
• 00:10:16 — The White Shorts Incident: Fred admits he did not entirely make it to the bathroom while wearing white shorts, which is basically a comedy war crime against yourself.
• 00:12:17 — Dribbling to the Next Bar: Instead of going home, Fred continues the birthday adventure because “you only live once” and apparently white shorts are already compromised.
• 00:13:32 — Richard Butts: Two strangers start talking about a guy named Richard Butts, and Fred loses his mind trying not to hear “Dick and Butts” over and over.
• 00:14:50 — Not Surrounded by Dick and Butts: The crew imagines Fred dying at the restaurant and refusing to go out surrounded by Dick and Butts.
• 00:15:11 — Give Me Your Keys: Fred’s buddy finally does the responsible thing and takes his keys, which somehow feels like the most adult moment in the entire show.
• 00:18:15 — Just Got Out of County: Fred arrives at the surprise party dressed entirely in white and immediately gets compared to someone who just left county jail.
• 00:19:23 — White Party: Fred explains he was wearing white because he knew Labor Day was coming and wanted to get all the white out of his system.
• 00:19:49 — Kids Playing Blackjack: Fred teaches the kids blackjack at his birthday party, which turns the celebration into a tiny casino with Capri Suns.
• 00:22:51 — Fred’s Blackjack Table: The blackjack table becomes the only thing kids care about, leaving the other party games abandoned like ghost towns.
• 00:24:03 — Wife Wins the Gift Contest: Fred’s wife tops everybody by gifting him tickets to see Jeff Arcuri in Las Vegas.
• 00:26:16 — BLC Vegas Meeting: The show announces a Vegas trip for early February 2027 and immediately tells everyone not to tell Fred’s wife.
• 00:27:35 — Vegas Destroys the Nation: The crew decides every time BLC goes to Vegas, one more pillar of the country collapses.
• 00:30:51 — The Promised Video Game Segment: The crew claims they have promised since episode two that episode 255 would include a video game segment. Sure. Why not.
• 00:31:45 — First Consoles: The guys compare childhood systems, including Sega Master System, NES, ColecoVision, and Atari 2600.
• 00:33:01 — White House Arcade: Parker describes a political arcade game set with knockoffs inspired by Tetris, Snake, Flappy Bird, and other games. The crew’s reaction is basically disbelief and dread.
• 00:35:48 — Tetris Responds: The Tetris Company distancing itself from the “Build the Wall” knockoff becomes one of the more normal parts of a very abnormal segment.
• 00:39:17 — Wolverine Is Canadian: The Wolverine game discussion turns into the obvious conclusion: Wolverine is the meanest Canadian ever.
• 00:41:03 — GTA Roleplay: Allan explains GTA roleplay with servers, cops, criminals, jail, trials, lawyers, proximity chat, and character rules, and Parker realizes this game may have a more functional justice system than reality.
• 00:45:21 — Corrupt Cop Allan: Allan casually reveals he plays a corrupt cop, which somehow surprises no one.
• 00:47:07 — Fred Has Never Played GTA: Fred admits he has never played Grand Theft Auto, and the room reacts like he has confessed to never seeing a car.
• 00:49:52 — Leaks: GTA VI leaks turn into a perfect setup to roast Fred’s earlier bathroom leak.
• 00:50:15 — Dongs Karate: The episode swerves into a fake ad for Dongs.com and “Dongs Karate,” because apparently every weak spot in a karate fight needs branding.
• 00:52:13 — Man vs. Chimp: The crew discusses MMA fighter Cole Johnson saying he could beat a chimpanzee, and immediately starts rooting for the chimp.
• 00:53:18 — Put It on the Sphere: The imagined chimp fight becomes a Vegas spectacle that absolutely must be shown on the Sphere.
• 00:55:40 — $500,000 to Fight a Chimp: The crew decides this is exactly what GoFundMe should be for: not tragedy, but funding a man’s terrible decision to fight a chimp.
• 00:57:35 — Next Up, Polar Bear: The alleged next fight is a polar bear, and the crew debates whether the human should get a sword, a knife, or nunchucks. The bear still wins.
• 01:07:54 — Caesar D. Monkey: The fake movie franchise ends with a chimp named Caesar D. Monkey, which rolls directly back into the earlier “Dick and Butts” joke.
• 01:09:04 — Hold On to Your Butts: The perfect closing line for an episode built on tents, white shorts, blackjack, GTA cops, and chimp combat.

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Every generation needs a reminder that games-based-on-movies-based-on-comics are their own strange little ecosystem, and Hellboy: The Science of Evil is a proud, slightly confused citizen of it. It doesn’t adapt either del Toro movie directly. Instead it just borrows the general vibe, invents its own plot, and trusts you to recognize a giant stone fist and a wisecracking demon without needing either film’s actual story. It’s the video game equivalent of a cover band that only plays originals.

And that giant stone fist deserves a moment, because it’s doing some real character-design heavy lifting. Hellboy is built around exactly one absurdly oversized body part, and that’s basically the whole design manual for a certain flavor of comic book tough guy: pick one appendage, blow it up past the point of reason, let the silhouette do the talking. Todd McFarlane ran the identical play with Spawn, except he went south instead of north, handing us a hero who could probably punt a sedan but might struggle to tie his own laces. One big fist, one big boot. Same weird design instinct, opposite ends of the body.

Which is a good excuse to bring in George Marston of Spawnography, the podcast where podcast where Pierce Lydon joins in to spend their time in the giant-boot corner of that exact design philosophy. George is flying solo this round to see how a giant fist holds up against a their usual task of studying a giant boot.

So pick your favorite oversized body part, brace for a beat-em-up that seems mildly allergic to its own source material, and let’s find out whether The Science of Evil earns a place next to del Toro’s films, or whether it belongs exactly where most tie-in games end up: forgotten. And don’t forget about the Nazi occultism.

Learn such things as:

• How close was Hellboy to being a real thing?
• Isn’t it horrible when the game makes you have a certain item to progress, but also takes that item away because you did normal game actions?
• At what point does it stop being a movie tie in game and start just being a game based in the movie universe? And is there even a difference there?
• And so much more!

You can find Spawnography on BlueSky, and Instagram, and of course those Apple Podcast, YouTube, and Spotify places. You can find George personally on Instagram @crypttrash and be sure to check out their band La Cigarette.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Brynn Reno and the Fire Within from Mattie Paige and Lee Carvalo’s Podding Challenge for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who has one big boot and one big glove, but they go on the wrong foot and hand.

Check out our podcast host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free with no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-89f00a for 40% off for 4 months, and support Play Comics.

In Episode 36 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) is joined by Jessica and Justin Rupp, longtime LEGO city and train builders and the creators of BrickLayouts, a web app designed to make planning LEGO displays easier.

Jessica and Justin share how a model train show helped reignite their love of LEGO, eventually leading them to join the Washington Metro Area LEGO Train Club and attend the very first BrickFair in 2008. They talk about nearly two decades of building and displaying together, from trains and detailed city layouts to landscapes, cabins, animals, and even the LEGO wedding canopy they built together and had their guests sign.

The conversation also dives into the problem that led them to create BrickLayouts. After years of planning displays with paper, graph paper, spreadsheets, and other workarounds, they decided to build their own solution. Jessica and Justin explain how BrickLayouts lets builders plan layouts across devices, work with track, roads, buildings, layers and custom shapes, share plans with other builders, and prepare collaborative convention displays. They also discuss upcoming features including custom MOCs, expanded support for LUGs, a public layout gallery, more track options, and some more ambitious ideas for the future.

Find Jessica, Justin & BrickLayouts:

• Website: https://bricklayouts.com • App: app.bricklayouts.com • Instagram: BrickLayouts • Facebook: BrickLayouts • Reddit: BrickLayouts • Discord: BrickLayouts

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

For more Tales From The Brick, visit talesfromthebrick.com.

View the video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/cDNOoP4wqnM

Until next time... play well.

• Episode 254 opens with “Shiver If Day,” Hot Trip Salad, platform plugs, ChatGPT jokes, and Bruce Buffer confusion.
• The crew discusses the Tupac case, Keith D., “Baby Lane,” old interviews, book confessions, and 30 years of delayed justice.
• The Tupac segment turns into food-based courtroom comedy with Savory Justice and fake detective John Savory.
• Parker’s car gets burgled, and the stolen items are weirdly personal: Bluetooth adapter, headphones, charger, cash, and his Aldi quarter.
• Fred admits to old car-handle-pulling behavior from the cassette-tape era.
• The guys revisit the story of Draper’s car getting stolen at a Braves game and returned with Funyuns and more gas.
• Allan tells a mugging story that ends with him admitting he actually was looking at the guy’s girlfriend.
• Parker tells a strange nun, tiger, cliff, and strawberry parable that immediately gets stepped on by the show.
• The USS Abraham Lincoln docking in Thailand after 200 days at sea becomes the title moment: VD Day.
• Fred’s 50th birthday becomes a full roast, including AI-written jokes, Satan, AARP, and Bernie Mac.
• Sports returns with Fred’s son starting middle school football and facing a terrifyingly large 13-year-old lineman.
• The crew makes Super Bowl picks, including real teams and fake teams that sound like rejected fantasy football names.
• Parker calls the farmers market a scam after paying too much for asparagus labeled as a product of Peru.
• The episode ends with sourdough, agua fresca, grocery-store loyalty, and Fred’s Big 5-O.

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>Let’s just say it up front: turning a trading card game into a video game is a magic trick where the “trading” and the “card” both quietly slip out the back door, leaving you with a menu that goes “ding” when you win. And Marvel decided this was worth doing not once, but on two separate handhelds that weren’t even talking to each other, like a superhero team-up where nobody checked who else was showing up.

Somewhere, someone looked at the specific joy of slapping a foil Spider-Man card down on a table hard enough to rattle the juice boxes, and said: what if we replaced that with a stylus tap? What if deck-building, the sacred art of jamming eighty cards into a rubber band and hoping for the best, became a scroll menu instead? Visionary. Extremely quiet. Nobody’s little brother has ever stormed off in a rage over a scroll menu.

Dealing me in for this one is Gen Moonen, co-host of the “Fun” & Games Podcast alongside Matt Storm, a show built entirely around two people who genuinely, unapologetically love games, which honestly should be a requirement for every gaming podcast and somehow still isn’t.

So grab a deck, or a controller, or whatever the modern version of “shuffle and pray” is, and let’s find out if Marvel Trading Card Game is a genuinely good time, or a lesson in why some hobbies were never meant to leave the kitchen table.

Learn such things as:

• Is it as satisfying to play an amazing card in the game as it is to play that card in real life?
• Does it bother anyone that the winner of the fight is at least partly decided by random number generation?
• How is it even possible to get a story going when nobody can know what you’ll be able to do later in the game?
• And so much more!

You can find Gen on BlueSky @gnoisegenerator.bsky.social, on Instagram @gnoisegenerator, her podcast “Fun” & Games, and her own website GenMoonen.com.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Adventures in Erylia and Once Upon a Geek for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who would play this card game with you right now if he could find his deck. Or his other deck. Or his other deck. Or his other deck. Or his other deck. You get the idea.

Check out our podcast host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free with no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-89f00a for 40% off for 4 months, and support Play Comics.

In Episode 35 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) is joined by Kate, AKA BrickHuntress, an award-winning LEGO mosaic artist and high school mental health counselor whose work combines art, unconventional parts, lighting, and even wearable LEGO creations.

Kate shares how building alongside her older brother introduced her to LEGO as a kid, how her son's interest brought her back after her dark age, and how seeing The Art of the Brick completely changed the way she looked at LEGO. That inspiration led to her first mosaic, painstakingly built over several months using pieces she dug out of the bulk bins at her local LEGO shop.

The conversation dives into how Kate's artistic background influences her builds, from using botanical elements and unexpected pieces to create hair and texture to hiding Easter eggs throughout her mosaics. She also talks about incorporating lighting into her artwork, creating a wearable LEGO dress using nets, and why she loves pushing LEGO beyond traditional building techniques.

Kate also brings her experience as a mental health counselor into the conversation, discussing the calming, tactile nature of LEGO and how students naturally gravitate toward the bricks in her office. She shares how she has brought LEGO into the classroom, used mosaics to teach art history, and seen firsthand how building can give kids a creative outlet.

Plus, Kate talks about collaborating with Eric Clough on a massive Harry Potter build, the magic of watching kids discover MOCs at conventions, and her plans for a new dinosaur mosaic that will combine three-dimensional building, LEGO nets, and motorized movement.

Find Brick Huntress:

• Instagram: @brickhuntress • TikTok: @brickhuntress

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

Until next time... play well.

• 00:00:57 — “Now Featuring Words”: Parker welcomes everyone to the “250th episode” and announces that the show now features words, which feels like an ambitious rebrand.
• 00:01:16 — All Fingers and Toes: The crew says they are broadcasting with all their fingers and toes, which becomes accidentally relevant later when the episode turns into death talk.
• 00:02:20 — Antonio Ben Fred: Fred starts doing an accent, Parker asks him to get closer to the mic, and the whole show briefly becomes a bootleg international lounge act.
• 00:03:05 — Spain Is Mexico’s Canada: The geography lesson nobody requested arrives early and confidently.
• 00:04:48 — Hayden Panettiere Name Disaster: The crew tries several versions of Hayden Panettiere’s name and lands somewhere between Italian restaurant and medical condition.
• 00:07:02 — Death Investigation for Pizza: The guys realize a nearby location has a pizza place, and Fred immediately sounds more interested in lunch than detective work.
• 00:07:08 — Crab Rangoon Pizza: The idea of crab rangoon pizza nearly derails the celebrity death segment, because BLC can mourn and menu-plan at the same time.
• 00:11:23 — RIP Dolly: The crew switches into sincere mode for Dolly Parton, which is rare enough to be its own special effect.
• 00:13:14 — Dolly Parton Day: The guys decide 9/25 should become Dolly Parton Day because of “9 to 5,” then start moving other national holidays out of her way.
• 00:15:19 — Make Room for Dolly: National Comic Book Day, Lobster Day, Quesadilla Day, and One Hit Wonder Day all get pushed aside because Dolly gets priority.
• 00:16:36 — BLC Hall of Fame: Dolly gets officially inducted and becomes the first BLC Hall of Famer with her own show holiday.
• 00:16:48 — Dolly’s Letterman Clip: The crew remembers Dolly telling David Letterman that people talk about one part of her body, but she has “a great ass too.”
• 00:21:59 — Tim Curry Left This Mortal World: Tim Curry becomes the third icon in the episode’s death-trifecta conversation, kicking off a massive filmography riff.
• 00:23:21 — Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties: The Tim Curry credits get increasingly strange, proving the man really was in everything.
• 00:24:28 — In Memoriam Before the Year Ends: The crew decides August is close enough to do an in-memoriam segment.
• 00:32:06 — Food News Begins: After a death-heavy first half, the crew pivots into Food News, because nothing heals grief like crackers and bad decisions.
• 00:32:56 — Fred Tries Matzo: Fred opens the matzo, smells cardboard, takes a bite, and immediately realizes the bit has betrayed him.
• 00:33:09 — “A Piece of Tile”: The matzo is described as backsplash, cracker, cardboard, and something large enough to hide behind.
• 00:34:11 — The Talking Matzo: Parker suggests Fred use the matzo as a face prop and become “the talking matzo,” which is probably a better character than planned.
• 00:36:44 — Matzo ASMR: Fred cracks the matzo near the mic while the crew treats it like high-end audio content for people with very specific problems.
• 00:37:04 — Fred Wants to Eat It but Hates It: The guys observe Fred repeatedly bringing the matzo close to his mouth, then pulling it away like it personally hurt him.
• 00:38:46 — Pro-Jelly, Anti-Jam: BLC takes its boldest food stance yet: “pro jelly, fuck your jam.”
• 00:41:17 — Coca-Cola vs. Jesus: The crew discusses the outrage over Coca-Cola allegedly blocking “I love Jesus” on custom bottles while rumors claimed Satan phrases got through.
• 00:43:35 — “I Love His Shoes”: Parker offers the perfect workaround for blocked Jesus Coke: just write “I love his shoes.”
• 00:46:31 — Questionable Meat: Imported meat, mystery sourcing, screw worm panic, and fast food distrust enter the chat.
• 00:48:24 — Screw Worm Joins the Show: The screw worm gets a voice and starts talking about meat, which is exactly as gross as it sounds.
• 00:55:05 — First-of-Its-Kind Bacon: Everything bagel-seasoned thick-cut bacon arrives, and Fred immediately starts questioning why anyone would mess with bacon.
• 00:57:39 — Stop Messing With Bacon: The guys reach food-news consensus: bacon is already great. Leave it alone.
• 01:00:16 — Upside Betrayal: Parker explains why the Upside app lost him forever after one denied submission.
• 01:01:23 — QT Hot Dog Trap: Fred remembers missing the $2.50 hot dog deal by one day and suddenly paying eight dollars for two gas station hot dogs.
• 01:03:15 — Thanks for Glistening: The episode ends with “thanks for glistening,” which is either a typo, a lifestyle, or the next BLC merch line.

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